Youtube comments of Jack Haveman (@JackHaveman52).

  1. I'd feel safer at a Trump rally while wearing a "Vote Biden" t-shirt and hat than I would at a Democrat rally wearing a MAGA hat.....and it's not even close.
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  2. "They don't love the poor....they just hate the rich" Rather sums up Marxism quite well.
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  3. "A far right Nazi furry". My dad told me about them and how they were the shock troops that invaded his province in the Netherlands in WW2. He tells of how he and his brother, hid in a ditch, as Nazi furries goose stepped by, singing Nazi furry marching songs. It was the stuff of nightmares.
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  4. Bye Joe. I'm not going to miss you.
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  5. Who thought that being a communist could be a business plan? Brilliant.
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  6. If only Harvey Weinstein had decided to run for the presidency as a Democrat, a few years ago. He could have avoided all this conviction fuss and still be a "respected" member of society, today.
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  7. She was all in about giving her opinion on book censorship and the censoring of specific authors but when he asked about the White House demanding censorship, suddenly it's up to the courts. Suddenly, her opinions didn't matter anymore.
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  8. Those migrants came to Paris to find a better life.....and they didn't find it. They're living in the streets and turning the destination of hope into the destination of despair. Just showing up doesn't guarantee a better life.
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  9. "I can do panic much better than you. I could make you seem like a minor leaguer." Hilarious.....
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  10. I'm in my late sixties. I'm from the generation that this video is talking about where men are supposed to be strong. Yet, I have friends, close friends, a couple that have been friends since my early teens. We know when we're hurt but we don't talk about it unless the hurt person wants to. We're just there for each other. We sit, watch a hockey game, have a beer, talk about work, make fun of each other and we know, deep down, that what we're doing is what we need. It cures the loneliness. I can't talk my problems away. I have to live them away. All I ask from my friends is for them to be there...nothing more. When I had tough times in my life, they were there, not talking about the tough times, but just there and I appreciate that they were there, more than they could know. I try to do the same for them. Sometimes it feels as if I'm failing but every once in awhile, they do the little things that let you know that they appreciate what you, too.
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  11. My dad lived through WW2 in the Netherlands. He saw lots of Nazi soldiers but never even heard a gunshot, let alone a battle. Apparently, that proves that WW2 was a "mostly peaceful" war.
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  12. I live at what the government says is below the poverty line, retired and living on a fixed income. Strangely though, I probably have a more comfortable life than that rich woman who wrote that travel journal in the early 18th century. Couldn't even imagine what it would have been like for the poor people of her time. She travelled, on horseback, which must have been tough on the back, battling the weather and bugs. A rich woman. Here I am, a poor retired guy, and last year I flew to the Caribbean and then a couple of months later, to Europe. I complained about having to wait around the airport and how slow the lines were moving. 21st century complaints. Going to Cancun in January. I'm a poor guy, worked in construction, factories and tended bar all my life. I'm sitting here comfortably, just finishing a grilled cheese sandwich and watching the end of Monday Night Football on my 42 inch, flat screen TV. I'm one lucky guy when you compare me to those that were living 200 years ago.
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  13. How anyone in Hawaii could vote Democrat, in the future, is astounding.
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  14. My dad came to Canada in 1951. He says that it was a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family...THEN. He now says that if he'd known what was going to eventually happen to this wonderful country, he'd have never have immigrated here. That's a terrible indictment of what this country has become.
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  15. I have never, in 4 minutes, heard as much deep wisdom as I have in this video. I was nodding and smiling through the entire thing.
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  16. I will sleep better tonight, knowing that Antifa is out there protecting us from little old lady Nazis. LOL.
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  17. The company that I worked for brought in a "diversity" expert. We had to go to a "safety" meeting, that's what they called it, and this stranger started to tell us how our habits were harming our relationships with those who were different than us. I got up and went back to work half way through his presentation. About 1/2 an hour after the presentation was over, the HR guy called me into the office, angry that I left. I told him that I was hired to make toilet paper, that was actually my job, not to be told what a bad person I was by someone who didn't even know me. If I wanted to be told that I was a rotten person, I'd call my ex-wife. She loved that kind of thing. He let me go back to work. He wasn't very happy but he knew that I was going to retire soon and that the plant manager had already offered me a straight day job as a skills trainer and set-up man. This "diversity" program convinced me to retire.
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  18. Having grown up on a farm, I know, for a fact, pigs do NOT like to lay in their own excrement. My brother and I used to clean the pens and the pigs would sleep in one spot and poop in another. We would clean the pens and put the straw bedding in their "bathroom". Every pig, in that pen, would immediately push the straw, with their noses, over to their sleep area. Once they have a designated bathroom, they will refuse to sleep there. We tested it out multiple times. Cows, on the other hand, will do their thing and lay right down in it. They have no designated sleep area, nor do they construct a comfy bed like pigs do with the straw. I know this from first hand experience.
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  19. "They corrected it by admitting that he lied". She was losing the argument and admitted that he lied by deflection and then hurriedly moved on. So, Vance was correct. Thanks Dana.
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  20. I remember, not that long ago, lefties would smugly say that if you wanted free speech, start your own platform. So Musk does just that. He kinda wiped the smugness right off their faces. I'm getting some satisfaction out of that.
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  21.  @jkavilleintellectual6338  The "little old lady" insurrection? The "selfie" insurrection? LOL. The "stay inside the velvet ropes" insurrection? You are a nut....you know that, don't you?
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  22. "I'm not saying that she's lying but she's facing jail time for making a false police report". The New York Times Okie dokie.
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  23. I once worked with a guy who spent his twenties as a petty thief, burglar and drug dealer. He said that if questioned by the police he followed these three (3) rules. They were.... "Rule #1.....Deny Rule #2.....Deny Rule #3.....Deny" Then he followed it up with "Deny, deny and deny". Apparently, he went to the same school as the Democrats.
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  24. I'm with Candace. I wasn't afraid of Covid. I didn't want to catch it. That would suck....and if I died....THAT would really suck. However, if I live my life afraid that I'm going to die, I'll forget to live my life. That's a death in itself.
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  25. When we were kids, back in the early sixties, we had to learn "In Flanders Fields". I think all Canadian kids did back then. In a recent survey, they found that 80% of all Canadian kids could still correctly identify that iconic poem. I'm glad.
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  26. I'm in a small town in southern Ontario, about 100 miles from Toronto. We have to wear masks and show vaccine passports but the town is so small that after one visit to any establishment, you don't have to show it anymore. So life just goes on, except for the mask thing, as normal. However, I've been to Toronto and Ottawa over the last few months. What a bunch of self righteous do gooders. Those cities have been taken over by a bunch of hypochondriacs and hall monitors. We're being policed by ordinary citizens, who revel in the power the state has given them. That's what is at the heart of every tyranny. It's the tyranny of the elites, who give pieces of that power to those that support them. The average citizen becomes the tyrant with the support of their government. The cities in Canada suck....horribly and it's due to the flexing of power from our fellow citizens and they love it.
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  27. Peterson's "Cain and Abel" metaphor was an extremely powerful vision of their violence. The darkness of the human soul.
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  28.  @RobRock1978  The school is a mess but she should have known that something was wrong a long time ago. It means that she never ONCE looked at his report cards or grades. The school failed but she failed her own son by not paying attention to what her son was up to. She went to school. She knows what goes on there and she chose to ignore it.
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  29. No one is saying that you can't decide what your kids are allowed to read. You can get those books and give them to your kids for their birthdays or for Christmas. What we're saying is that we don't want YOU to force it on OUR kids in school. We all have different belief systems. We don't force your kids to read the Bible at school. Why would you force our kids to read books that we find inappropriate for OUR kids? Whoopi.....logic is not your friend.
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  30. If Oprah becomes president, will I get a new car?
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  31. I resolve to not have sex with Alyssa Milano until.....well..... forever. I feel so good about myself, now....like I've taken a stand for the cause of humanity or something. I might even go out for a celebratory beer.
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  32. I'll never stop being astounded that this is even an issue. Hershel lays it out perfectly and the "journalists" still pretend that they don't get it. The world has gone insane.
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  33. Ana Navarro should learn about William Ellison, a black slave owner in South Carolina. When Ellison was 10 years old, his master apprenticed him to a cotton gin maker. Ellison used those skills to make enough money to buy his freedom and later his wife's and children's freedom. He bought a farm and raised cotton and became very successful, expanding his plantation and buying slaves to the point that in 1860, the census showed that he was the largest slave owner in South Carolina, out of total of 171 black slave owners in that state. Ellison died just before the Civil War started but his sons carried on, giving large amounts of money to the Confederate cause. All this from the skills he learned as a cotton gin maker when he was a slave. Skills that benefited him and his family. Seems as if the claim that black slaves learned skills that could benefit them is true. It benefited Ellison enough to enslave his fellow black Americans.
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  34.  @maxfalconi6995  That Austrian painter that he was referring to, isn't German, either. He is of German stock, just like Klaus Schwab. Whether that's relevant isn't important. What's important is the mindset of control that they both have.
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  35. Her fear of gun violence is NOT the reason that she didn't go out for the 4th of July. She believes that she's too good to be out there with the riff raff. She just thought that she may as well use the "violence" trope to signal to the world her virtue.
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  36. When the government grants welfare to the poor, they will only give them enough money for them to remain poor. It doesn't fight poverty, at all. It entrenches poverty as a lifestyle. They don't have to work and they get just enough for a roof over their heads, some second hand clothes and enough (barely) to eat. It's not easy but neither is menial labour. Then, if you reward them for having children, it will guarantee that they will never rise to any economic prosperity. Is that what LBJ secretly wanted or was this just the unintended consequences of good intentions. I'm leaning to the opinion that LBJ didn't want success for black American.
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  37. I first heard AOC's dire prediction of the 12 year deadline, over 2 years ago. So, it's no longer 12 years to go till our demise is irreversible. It's less than 10 years. It was 14 years ago that Al Gore predicted that parts of Manhattan and Florida would be underwater within 15 years and many islands nations will have disappeared. We have 1 year to go. This should be one hell of a year. Polar bears were supposed to be extinct or nearing it by now, as well. Damn polar bears are refusing to go. They just keep increasing in numbers but Shhhhh!!!!. We're not supposed to know about that.
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  38. When this clears, Trump might take all 50 states....even California and Oregon. I don't think the average American fully grasps what's going on in their country. The Democrats, obsessed with their hatred of Trump, has turned to the Devil for help, to use an analogy. They've turned to extremist groups like BLM and Antifa who don't care about American politics, at all. They want to institute, in America, a system without politics, of complete control and they'll destroy everything that you own to get it. If you don't vote for Trump, as flawed an individual as he is, you're going to get WORSE than him. BLM and Antifa aren't going to stop just because the Democrats are in power. In fact, that's just another step in their process to power.
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  39. I don't get why my tax dollars are being spent to paint rainbows on crosswalks and buy rainbow flags to put on every government flagpole. We have real problems to fix.
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  40. We call it "misinformation". Can't have any of that going around. Another weird thing that just happened is the new narrative that it was the Republicans that wanted to defund the police, last year. That was a big "WHAT??!!" moment for me.
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  41. "Amplifying his message" Another form of Orwellian speak. "Free press is Censorship". Well......
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  42. When you demonise your political opponent, comparing him to Satan, I'd say that YOU are the one with hatred in your heart.
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  43. I'd say that Serena Williams is, without a doubt, the best female tennis player of all time, with Venus Williams coming in as second best and Martina Navratilova in third. They are the elite. Yet, they know that they can't touch the top men's players. Only the weirdo far left, who don't even know what end of a tennis racket to use, would argue against this.
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  44.  @timbarnes2259  Yes. After my mother died, I went away for 3 weeks. A chance of venue helped me to get me back into a better place emotionally. Some people handle grief differently than others and need different ways to deal with it.
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  45. That woman that was being interviewed at the 4 minute point of the interview exemplifies exactly why this problem exists in the first place. She's not helping because of some vague excuses of how it's not their fault and therefore they shouldn't have to fix it. Like Jordan Peterson said. First "Clean up your room". It's so simple, yet so brilliant. Start small and work your way up to bigger things. In the end, if you're diligent and keep at it, you'll make things better for yourself and the edges of that better world will intersect with the edges of others who started small, just like you did, and improved their world a room at a time. This woman is like a 6 year old that's doesn't want to clean her room. Time for her to grow up.
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  46. Well, I'm stumped. Why would a politician do a political stunt? I can't figure it out.
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  47. This woman has nailed it perfectly. European leaders have let their countries down. It's heartbreaking to watch. Unfortunately, it's happening here in Canada as well. Western nations needs more people like her and less like Trudeau and Starmer.
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  48. Here's a government worker who's too lazy to write down "I did nothing last week" 5 times in a row.
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  49. I was walking down my street and I happened upon a woman trying to back her car with a small trailer into her driveway.....without any luck. So, I did the proper thing as a man. I started laughing, shook my head, ruefully, turned and went on my merry way. I didn't want to insult her by showing how inadequate she was. That would have been rude. Of course, I offered to back it in for her. I'm an old farm boy and we learned the trick of it when we're in our young teens. She was extremely grateful, fairly gushed with gratitude and even offered me a drink. A few weeks later, I was walking by and she called me over and introduced me to her husband, saying that I was the guy that helped her out. He thanked me and offered me a drink and this time, I accepted. It seems that there are people out there that just don't know how to behave in a civil society.
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  50.  @williammorris3815  It was to be for export but does that mean that thia oil could NEVER be re-purposed? "We can't touch it because.....we just can't". That's nonsensical. Also, cancelling that pipeline means that production was halted because they had no way to ship it. That means that there's less oil on the world market, a sure way to increase oil prices. Tens of thousands of people lost their job over this cancellation. It did more harm than good and the Democrats cancelled the pipeline over ideological reasons, not for the good of society.
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  51.  @Kevin2432  Florida did things differently. They were bashed continuously for not following the mandate protocols like NY and California did. When they opened the beaches, the media lost their minds. However, Florida, with the 3rd highest population, had the 3rd highest cases and 3rd highest deaths, exactly where they should have been. Those mandates made little to no difference and only caused misery for the entire country. In fact, for the world. The UN said that over 250 million people have fell back into abject poverty around the world, since 2020. Abject poverty is making LESS than $1.90 A DAY. A DAY!!!!! That happened after 20 years in which more people came out of abject poverty than in other time in human history. That's what the Covid response has done to those people and to hundreds of millions of others in 3rd world countries.
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  52. How can one person be so nasty. Instead of finding ways to help DeSantis and the people of Florida, she wants to lay blame, as if DeSantis's opinions on climate change actually makes one bit of difference to Hurricane Ian. It's a foolish argument and completely irrelevant to the crisis on hand.
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  53.  @CCisRight  I live in Ontario and our health system sucks. There's not enough doctors. I waited over 20 years to get a family doctor. Last July I was scheduled for a cat scan on Jan 7th. On Jan 5th I tested positive for Covid and was forced to re-schedule. Now I have to wait till April 29th. It's BS. When the government becomes the only health insurance allowed, they can do anything that they want.
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  54.  @benisrood  The government has all the cards. The power is in the hands of the government. The minute the protesters lash out, the propaganda machine will go to work and the protest will be over. They will crush them. The protesters have to win the propaganda war. If they do nothing and the government tries to crush them, the average Canadian will be faced with a choice. Does he help crush the peaceful truckers and behave like Gestapo henchmen or does he decry the violence of the government? THEY CAN'T WIN IF THEY USE VIOLENCE. The average Canadian will not stand for it. The truckers would be no different than the guy who resists arrest, thinking he's going to beat the police. It's hopeless. They have to win the propaganda war or the protest won't work.
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  55. This is what always happens when you place ideology over truth. Science has a process in which one can discern the difference. If you don't test the idea, you can't know it as truth.
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  56. They want to make using the wrong pronouns hate speech. I'm thinking that this would enforce compelled speech, wouldn't it? That Jordan Peterson......acting like some kind of prophet or something.
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  57. Today would have been my son's 50th birthday. Seeing this had me bawling like a little kid. Trump even took the time to acknowledge his sister. I liked it a lot.
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  58. I was having lunch at a favourite tavern and the owner pointed at me and told the waitress that I was a big reader. At her break, she sat down with me and asked what I was reading at the moment. It wasn't anything controversial so I had no qualms telling her but she was one of those young girls that was covered in tattoos, had piercings in her nose, lips and eyebrows and her hair style was unconventional. However, she told me that she was reading Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" and loved it. Then she told me that she was a psychology major so I recommended "Maps of Meaning" figuring that it would be right up her ally. She said it was next on her reading list. She also told me that 2 years ago she was one of the howling woke mob and showed me a tattoo that read "I killed the old me". I guess it's true that you can't tell a book by its cover.
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  59.  @trogdirtheunburninator2037  I once worked for the Post Office. I happen to know that there have been Postal workers, NOT contractors, who have said that they've thrown mail into dumpsters and ditches. Being an employee of the Postal service doesn't magically bestow integrity upon a person. People will break the law whether they're government workers or not.
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  60.  @sandyh5873  The assertion, that you made about Joan of Arc, isn't true. She was arrested for heresy, claiming that she heard voices from Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine. The English dominated tribunal, the English were the ENEMY, claimed that this was heretical and burned her at the stake. Why would the French rally around her when she was wearing men's clothing? It didn't seem to matter then. It was only when the English got involved that her life was in jeopardy and the reason is obvious. The English didn't want her to inspire the French into strengthening their resolve against the English. Also, you treat the Indigenous people of the Americas as one big monolith, all believing the same thing. "Acceptance varied from tribe to tribe, however; while some gender-variant individuals were culturally integrated and held roles that contributed to their communities, others were rejected and ostracized." Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/berdache In fact, I find the idea that ALL native Americans were all the same to be rather offensive. They had different beliefs, customs, languages and even HATED each other. The Iroquois committed genocide against the Huron of southern Ontario in 1649. Don't lump them all into one group. It takes away from the richness of their separate cultures and heritage.
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  61. My grand daughter wants to be a chef. While in high school, she worked at McDonalds for 1 and 1/2 years. For the last 4 months of school, she worked at a deli, waiting tables and helping in the kitchen and still worked a day a week at McD. She wants to go to culinary school but doesn't want to go into debt so she's taking a year off to save her money. One week ago, she was offered a full time job in the kitchen at a retirement home and will start next week. She's going quit the job at McD, work a couple of days a week at the deli and go full time at the home. She's already saved about 1/5 of her tuition costs and is positive that she will be able to get out of college debt free. Plus, she'll have the experience to step in as a chef in even a better employment situation. McDonald's was a stepping stone for her. That's a reality that the woman in the panel doesn't get.
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  62.  @ecgameplayer  At least you're in court and not SIX FEET UNDER. Tackle the problems as they arise. What a ridiculous comment.
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  63. "Hey....Teacher! Leave those kids alone" Rings truer now than it did 40 years ago.
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  64.  @fiddleDdee  2012....Trayvon Martin. 2016....Michael Brown. 2020....George Floyd. As if there were no incidences in 2014 or 15 or 18. There were but it wasn't the right time to use them. Incredibly callous.
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  65.  @CastleMc  His position is to protect the group that supports him. The teacher's union. He's misrepresenting the position of the parents and parents FAR outnumber the teachers. He tied his horse to the wrong wagon.
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  66. What I saw was...."Trump cheated. He's a pawn of the Russians. He's not my president." just to name a few. Humbled? I saw rage. As someone that didn't want to see Trump win and supported the Democrats, I was shocked at their reaction. Since then, I've gotten so I wouldn't vote for the Democrats ever again. Not that Trump is so wonderful but all the Democrats had to do was be better than him. How hard could that be? Pretty hard, apparently.
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  67. She basically called Dave a murderer and Dave didn't say a thing. He says that under every progressive is an hysterical authoritarian and somehow that's sexist? I hope that she's not suggesting that men can't be progressive.
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  68.  @black-redpill3  Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". It's been around for 60 years and it's an inspiration for a lot of left wing radicals.
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  69. "Is the president glad the Confederacy lost?" This so called journalist has an opportunity to ask deep and insightful questions, so to inform the public, and this is the stupidity he comes up with. She was polite when she said it was an absurd question. I'd have been tempted to call him every name in the book.
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  70.  Owen Marble  Anonymous polls don't take into account what their understanding of rape actually is. Is unwanted touching rape? What about a lewd proposition? Or even a proposition that's isn't lewd but suggestive? Or misread signals? There have been a lot of different interpretations of rape over the last few years. It's not as cut and dry as it once was. The understanding that was once the prevalent mode was one of physical and aggressive assault where the woman was forcibly restrained, against her will and submitted to a sex act. Now, making a pass is considered rape. That definition is extremely important and must be expressed before a poll has any value.
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  71. "Doesn't it feel intuitively correct, though?" Sowell: No. Brilliantly succinct. Sandra Day O'Connor basically told us that discrimination is the way to defeat discrimination.....and she's sitting on the Supreme Court of the United States. She made a ruling based on feelings over the Constitution of the US, ignoring basic American law. Not what I would call a great legal mind.
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  72.  @jahhebrew4968  Then, why don't you enlighten us? Just one will do. If there are 8 impeachable offences, why aren't the Democrats leading the charge to impeach? I would really like to hear this and I would really, even more than hearing it, I'd like to see the evidence. What are you waiting for?
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  73.  @jamesmason2228  That's another problem that we have in the west. Don't agree with me, I'll call you names like homophobes and transphobes. That's the tactic to smear those who would add different perspectives to issues so they can be dismissed. It's not dialogue or coming together to find common ground. It's designating people as less than and evil and deserving of disdain. You are doing EXACTLY what you're accusing others of doing. When you're ready to discuss without the name calling and smearing, I'll talk to you. Otherwise, stay away.
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  74. White privilege has become a term favoured by Marxist. It justifies their desire to appropriate the property of what they see as the oppressive class. They refuse to accept the idea that hard work is a key to financial success. They feel that success can only be achieved through an unjust system and that gives them the right to tear down that system and rebuild it as one that is more fair to them. Basically, even redistribution of wealth. Been tried before and failed miserably every time.
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  75.  asia  Aztecs lived in Mexico. They have NO claim to land in the United States. Just because you're a native of Mexico, that doesn't mean you can walk into Michigan and claim this as your homeland. They couldn't do that 600 years ago. The natives, of Michigan, living 600 years ago, would have called you an invader and would likely have you killed. Those who are coming from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and others are NOT from Mexico and have no ancient tribal claim to land in the United States. Also, the times have changed. The people of the United States have a distinct nationality now. That's all of them, no matter their ethnicity. This is recognised around the world and even by Mexico. It's the reality of today. The citizens of the United States have the right to limit the number of people coming into their country, just like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Try it. Get on a plane and try to enter another country without a passport. It's NOT going to happen. To top it all off, they're not being told that they can't come in. They're being told that there's a process and that they have to follow that process. That process has still allowed Mexico to be the number one source of new immigrants.....BY FAR. Grow up.
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  76. I'm sure almost everyone would agree with me. Almost everyone of us "racists" would stand behind Carol Swain as the Harvard president. It's not about race. It's about quality and integrity and Gay just doesn't have it.
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  77.  @bpavilion8994  Maybe this woman was just driving down the street and inadvertently happened upon a protest. The protesters approach her, start beating on her car and making all kinds of threatening gestures and she panics. The news is filled with videos of drivers being assaulted and even shot by "peaceful" protesters. Panic and fear may well be a normal response for these circumstances. My question is this. Why do these protesters find it necessary to approach this car and try to stop her progress? Part of garnering respect for your cause is to respect the rights and position of others. Those protesters had no right to get in that driver's face. They don't know her or what her ideals are.
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  78. The idea that Neanderthals were dull brutish animals has not been a part of academia for years. Most people in the know have realised that they were very intelligent and had an elaborate social structure.
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  79. There are those who can't tell the difference between an embargo and a blockade. Explains a lot.
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  80. What does Donald Trump's guilt or innocence have to do with the investigation into Biden's alleged corruption. It's another example of "Well, Donnie did it, too". When I tried that, as a kid, I was doubly punished. One bad act doesn't excuse another.
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  81.  @jonnio69  Yes, he has a lot of difficulties. That's what happens when you've been abused as a child. That's why so many of us are so angry about the sexualisation of children, even in our schools. It's a recipe for disaster. You're making our case for us.
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  82.  @desarrollo8997  For you. Someone's paying for it, though. Pfizer isn't giving it away.
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  83. People just don't understand this simple truth. Poverty is the default. That's the way humans started out. 35,000 years ago, the richest person would marvel at what a person, who's living in the inner city, has now.
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  84.  @wqv5423ln  I'm 72 and Trump is 78. I'm embarrassed at how Trump is showing me up. I wish that I had 10% of his drive and I was known as a hard worker before I retired. He may be a different man 4 years from now. Life can catch up with rather quickly but Vance is quite capable of filling his shoes.
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  85.  @rishikantsingh7659  That is such an in depth and insightful comment. I've learned so much from just those 3 words. "You are clueless" I've never had it explained in such a clear and succinct manner. You should write a book. I think you may have to expand on it a little, though. A one page book may not sell.
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  86. @Jesus loves a Shovelhead That old trope again. There are pharmaceuticals that have helped people live normal lives. That's a given and has been shown to be true. You take one aspect of his life, a failure, no doubt about it, and then you automatically dismiss the things that he's discussing in this video. If you want to dismiss the things that he and Fry are talking about....discuss the things that he's talking about. Don't tear down the person and then claim proof of tearing down the ideas discussed. That's not a very academic or intellectual stance. 2+2 still equals 4, no matter who says it. You can't say that since the messenger is a drunk, therefore it must equal 5. The message is NOT the messenger. Don't equate the two entities.
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  87. Trump: I don't want there to be a panic. Democrats: We don't care if people panic. We're locking them up and they're not going to do a thing about it.
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  88.  @seanmcintyre131  Of course it is. It's always been better to complain, accuse and commiserate on how awful things are. "It's YOUR fault"....."No it's not. It's YOUR fault".....like 2 kids arguing over a broken window. When someone arrives and says "Get along you guys and lets fix that window" It's word salad. Your comment is the comment of a loser....always staring at the broken window and blaming someone else. In the end, the window doesn't get fixed unless you fix it...but, go ahead and complain. It's a lot easier than doing the work. Negativity should keep you warm in the winter when the window still isn't fixed.
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  89.  @airdoo  She supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund who bailed rioters out of jail. She lent her name to that group to solicit funds to help the "peaceful" protesters with their legal issues stemming from the riots. Now, she's named the governor, who refused to call out the National Guard, until 3 days of destruction had passed and the central core of Minneapolis was completely destroyed. Do you know who lived there? The poorer people of that city, including blacks who lost everything to the rioters. That's who you are supporting. 2 people who supported destruction.
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  90.  @BallisticTip  This guy was doing crowd control AND putting his knee on Floyd's neck at the same time? You do realise how foolish that sounds.
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  91.  @ottoseer7513  I like to picture them as Dachshunds. Wiener dog Nazis.
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  92.  @DaTooch_e  I don't think that Abbott would rather break the law. He'd rather that the Federal government uphold the law that requires them to protect the border. The Feds are refusing to do that so Abbot is sending the guard to do it for them. There are even Democrat mayors and governors who are now calling out the Feds for how they're handling the crisis at the border. This may well cause the defeat of the Democrat party in the next election. What is a responsible governor to do? Abbott has millions cross the border into his state and it's costing hundreds of millions to deal with the needs of these illegals. Something has to give and Abbott is trying to stop the bleeding. The Feds are betraying the entire nation in how they're handling this issue. Good on Abbott for trying to do something about it.
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  93.  @jmac4466  I think it's a tongue in cheek comment. It's suggesting that Eve lied about the snake in an effort to shift the blame from herself onto something else. Since there were no other people to blame, she tried to convince Adam that the snake talked to her and that's what convinced her to eat the apple. It's not what the Bible says but it is an amusing interpretation. It's an argument to human nature.
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  94. @Joel Smith I don't want you to misunderstand my meaning and I don't intend this as a criticism but you are the reason that you live in a shithole world. I live in this world, too and I don't see it that way it all. It's a tough world. That's incontrovertible, but that's what makes it worth living in. There's satisfaction in the fight to succeed and there's joy in seeing the wonder in the world and there's so much to wonder at. It's the attitude you carry with you. It's not the world at all.
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  95.  @MehEmail  Medieval Europe comes to mind. People had it really good in that fossil fuel free Utopia. LOL.
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  96.  @13muller9  What does the orange man have to do with the terrible job that Brandon is doing right now. Your comment is like a childish retort. "Oh yeah....well Orange Man BAD!!!!" You sure solved last year's problems. LOL
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  97. @Unbroken It's a troll. You'll never get an answer from him.
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  98.  @aussie_rosie_longleg_lisa6886  I'm scared of dying. A little pin prick is a small price to put that off.
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  99.  @lillypatience  The surrogate is still a woman. She used the term "person" as a term to erase the existence and special status of women, a status that has been a given for thousands of years and not always to their benefit. However, to recognise that women may not have had equal rights we have to acknowledge that they exist and that they have a unique place in society. Refusing to acknowledge or even define what a woman is, eliminates who women are and what they contribute to the lives of all of us.
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  100.  @redwater4778  I knew that someone would try to deflect the blame onto someone else. I'm sure those Swedish Khmer Rouge supporters would have sent food....food that would NEVER enter the mouths of those who were really suffering. It would satiate the appetites of the Khmer soldiers, though, who needed their strength in order to do their horrific work quickly and efficiently. There is only one group to blame. Pol Pot and his minions are the guilty ones. Their supporters, outside of Cambodia, have to take a lot of the responsibility as well.
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  101. Someone who understands George Orwell because she lived it. Every educator, that teaches socialism and progressive thought, should read her book and be ashamed of themselves. Ms Park comes here and fights the radical left because she KNOWS real oppression, not the phony stuff the left are forever talking about.
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  102.  Amy h  To assume that it's permanent, when you're 13, is not only shortsighted, but just plain wrong. A person's body goes through great hormonal changes through puberty and the teenage years. To apply a permanent solution, during those years, would just as likely, cause great physical turmoil causing conflict between the artificial changes and the normal, natural development that we all go through. Allow your body to do what it is supposed to do and if that doesn't alter the urges towards dysphoric feelings, THEN seek medical solutions. That would be the common sense way to proceed.
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  103. Someday these kids are going to look at these tapes and just melt away right into the floor out of embarrassment. And I thought I looked foolish when I saw pictures of me in bell bottoms. LOL. I got nothing on these kids. What a bunch of nutballs.
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  104.  @dh5380  Free speech also involves not imposing your speech on others.
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  105.  @antclerfont8478  This happened under the Biden/Harris administration. Mace even showed pictures of HER (the sheriff is a woman) with both Biden and Harris. So, I have no idea why you're criticising the MAGA who isn't even the president, yet. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂
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  106.  @michelyannakopoulos8924  They'll be sued and they'll just up the tuition fees to go there. Then they'll petition the government for more funding under Title 9 or some such nonsense and the school and those, who run the school, won't suffer one bit. A lawsuit is a good start but it won't be enough. We have to insist that those, who took part in the violence, face criminal charges along with those who allowed it to happen. We have to show them out for the bullies and criminals that they are.
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  107.  @DutchDread  Which is why the educational system has been putting a wedge between students and their parents. "Don't tell your parents what we've been talking about" is what they tell the kids. By the time the parents find out about it, the child is already prepared for anything the parent might tell them.
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  108. It's women as well. I can give you a list of women, teachers, who've been found guilty of sexual misconduct with students. I even know one. Female predators aren't as well known but they exist and there are more of them that you could imagine. Child predators gravitate to where the children are, including women. Those predators don't all wear trench coats. Some of them wear dresses and have even had children. Trust is important. Blind trust is naive.
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  109. @Kwildcat13 You could look at it that way. However, it was also a time for children to learn how to get along with each other, a time of socialisation. That's something that all people have to learn as they grow into adulthood. Let's take a time before school. What did the 4 and 5 year old kids do back then? They played with one another. Dad had dad things to do, hunt for food, protect the group or tribe and mom had to care for the smaller ones, the babies and prepare good homes and environments for the family. While their parents were taking care of the things necessary for a good community, the kids were learning to live with another, how to cooperate while playing, in practice to when they grew up and they'd have to cooperate in order to live. That's what our education system should be doing when they're at the kindergarten stage of life. Not forcing them to sit quietly and direct every socialising moment of the kid's lives. It should be a time of exploration for the kids, their first step to adulthood.
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  110.  John Jourdan  Self responsibility and accountability. Don't try to change the world when you can't even control the negatives in your own life. Find a purpose in your life and then pursue it with strength and dignity. Understand that life is a struggle for all of us and it's not going to be easy. There's a few for you. If you couldn't get these things, you're either not watching his videos or you're so filled with negativity that you couldn't get it, anyway.
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  111.  @kairidon3363  He was held in solitary confinement when he had NOT be convicted of any crime. That's illegal.
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  112. The reason that people support BLM is due to the name. A lot of them can't see that they're engaging in a type of Orwellian "speak". They believe that Black lives matter and it's conflated with the organisation "Black Lives Matter" If they knew what BLM was all about, they wouldn't be as supportive. It's likely why they took down their page that listed their mandates. If that group had called themselves anything else, they wouldn't have the support that they do. It's a Marxist word game and the left are falling for it.
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  113. What kind of logic says that an election is the end of democracy? The end of democracy would be when there is NO election.
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  114.  @ricanraikage4297  A bunch of activists came into the town, where they lived and worked, burned, looted and destroyed the place for THREE days and NO ONE did a thing about it. All because the police shot a man, who was wanted for sexual assault, who resisted arrest, who had a knife and was about to leave the scene with 3 small kids in a car that didn't belong to him. 25 businesses, completely destroyed, and others damaged and the very people who were elected to protect that community did NOTHING. So some of the citizens stood up and said "ENOUGH!!!!" and stood up to these thugs and bullies. Yes, they're heroes. A bigger hero than you'd ever be, cowering in your home, waiting for someone else to protect your community unless you're one of those thugs. Then there's not much I can say to you.
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  115. What that Muslim said is at the heart of Islam. There are still Muslims who say that Spain is Muslim land and that it was stolen from them. They want their flag to fly all around the world and they have no problem going to war to realise that dream. What's happening in France was predictable and inevitable.
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  116.  @ollehkacb  The people of Gaza were living free of Israeli power for 17 years. Do you know how I know that? There are NO Israelis or Jews living in Gaza. Not a one. They all left 17 years ago because Israel left the land to the Palestinians living there. Also, Hamas built all those tunnels, hundreds of miles of them, without any interference from the Israeli government or military. Then, on Oct 7th, Hamas sent people into Israel and they slaughtered hundreds of Israelis. Not military....just ordinary unarmed civilians including children. The terrible situation for Gaza isn't Israel...it's Hamas.
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  117. You're correct. He's the scapegoat and the rest of us are supposed to be too frightened, by the example set, to ever talk back.
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  118. Florida handled it differently, Neil. Florida has the 3rd highest population of the 50 states. They came in the 3rd in cases and 3rd in deaths. Their mandate period lasted 2 months and then got basically back to normal. They didn't do any better or WORSE, by population than any other state in the union. We HAVE the examples. People just HATE to hear about them.
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  119. The left has gotten so crazy that you have a Black man criticising BLM and CRT and a Gay man criticising LGBQ (or whatever) on this show. I thought that these groups and ideas are supposed to be helping their select groups. Apparently, not everyone concerned believes it to be so. Great show Dave and a great guest.
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  120. "employees are tired of policing masks" Ain't that the truth. I was a bartender and when bar restrictions were lifted, I retired. Not only because I didn't want to wear a mask, I didn't want to be a Covid cop. Wear that mask right!!!! Only 4 to a table!!!! Can't sit there!!!! Stay away from the bar!!!!! Too many people...you can't come in!!!! Pool table is closed!!!! Walking around spraying behind customers as soon as they got up. I've got enough headaches dealing with customers without the added stress of being a health inspector.
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  121.  @afarissar  "Believe all women". That was the cry not all that long ago. Now it's "Believe all women except Tara Reade".
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  122.  @bobshenix  He's not disappeared. In fact, he's been slowly coming back and has been giving interviews, made some internet videos and is writing a book.
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  123. Jahleel Sayers I've worked in the service industry for years. I've told many people to leave the establishment and most often they were white. You're just enamoured with a specific narrative and that's all you want to hear or see. Brandon Tatum was once a police officer and he would have been the guy I would have called to have people removed and have called. Not him specifically, but his counterpart. He's said that he's answered this type of call numerous times and I don't doubt for one minute that he has. Try to talk to police officers sometime. They'll tell you the nonsense they go through every day dealing with clowns like those two at Starbucks and I guarantee you that clowns like that come in every shade of colour known to man. Try and be a little honest and find out for yourself what really goes on.
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  124. It's the attitude and beliefs those students, at the Christian school have, that gives them the drive to be better scholastically. They've been taught to feel gratitude for what they have and that if they work hard, they're giving themselves a chance at a better life. However, like Job, it may not come but they know that in the gratitude they'll be rewarded by a place in heaven. Secular kids don't see that reward. Life is hard and then you die. That's depressing and can only lead to nihilism. Once you reach that point, what's the difference whether you work hard or not and they're not as prepared as the one who's grateful for their lives and opportunities.
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  125. Biology isn't science, anymore. Science is feelings, according to Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
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  126. It's not just about transgender ideology. It's about showing any explicit material to young children, although the weirder stuff is inspired by the transgender ideology.
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  127.  @glenmartin3938  "I'm not a loser". Well you sure voted for one.
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  128. Mike Rowe showed a poster that was in high schools all across America. This poster showed 2 men. One in an expensive business suit and the other in a hard hat and work clothes, his hands covered in grease. The caption read "Work smart....not hard". It implies, to American students, that those who work with their hands aren't smart. They sell the dream of big money that can be had with a college degree. It's a sales pitch....nothing else.
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  129.  @bobshenix  UN-approved guru. UN is about globalisation, the government will take care of you. Peterson is about individual responsibility, looking after yourself. His short dabbling with the Socialist Party in Canada, convinced him that Orwell was correct. Socialists don't really care all that much about poor people. They just hate the rich. Now, if you could show me how he was guru for the UN, through evidence, and not bold assertions, you might have something. Until then, I've read his books and watched hours of his lectures. I've never seen anything that would make me think that he's mouthpiece for globalisation.
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  130.  @mon_avis2978  The parents allowed it because it was 1966 and they were poor, uneducated and desperate. They didn't know that the person that they were turning to for help was such a monster. Back then, Doctors were treated with reverence because of their education and ability to save the lives of their fellow humans. I have to agree with you about Oprah, though. She used them just like John Money did.
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  131.  @dnycebushton5008  No...you're in charge of your OWN life. If you're pulled over, do as the cop asks. It's that simple. Take your fine, like an adult and stop with the 4 year old temper tantrums. The guy in this video caused his own problems. He decided to drive away, knowing that the police would chase him. If he hurts or kills someone, even himself, it's his own fault. He knows the rules and the consequences of his actions and refuses to accept them. It's as foolish as it gets.
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  132.  @dr.wolfstar1765  NO....he's saying that, as a donor to a person who is the political rival of the defendant, he should have recused himself. It means that the appearance of impropriety should be avoided at all cost and that this policy has been a major application of the law for as long as the United States has been a country. Also, his daughter has worked and IS working for the SAME rivals of the defendant. It would be no different than going to court and finding out that the judge is good friends with the guy that's suing you. It's a conflict of interest.
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  133.  @crucifiedthief  Her parents were blackmailed into going along with it. They were told that if she wasn't allowed to go through with the transition, she'd likely commit suicide. "Better to lose a daughter to transition than a child to suicide" That's what they were told. The parents were terrified into going along with it even though they had strong doubts. There's nothing worse than losing a child and it's the number one fear that all good parents live with.
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  134. @Who Cares What's with all the negativity and hatred? This legal immigrant talks about nothing about the love he felt from fellow Americans and how great his new life, in America, has been, and all you have are sneering remarks. "Speak out boldly and without malice". You could sure learn something from this guy. Apathy will suck the life out of you, Who Cares. Maybe if you learned to care, you wouldn't sound so bitter.
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  135. "hand-grenade of outrage" I really like that. I'm tempted to steal it.
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  136.  LeJon Brames  NO!!!! He was a man that was a product of his times. Our ancestors did terrible things because of the realities of life as they had to live it. Not just Columbus but YOUR ancestors as well. It's not written down in history books because your ancestors, like mine, didn't do anything extraordinary, never changed the course of history in great leaps like Columbus did. However, if we were to get into some kind of time machine to examine what our ancestors have done or believed, we'd be amazed to find out just how horrible they were at times. This young man hasn't even began to live his life, yet he sits in judgement over those that he doesn't fully understand, that none of us will fully understand. What he's doing is exactly what some of the worst of moralists have done. He's dismissing people as evil when he has no right to do that. Also, he's taken the first step in dismissing that individual, Columbus as an example, and wanting to erase that person from history. That is the intermediary step to the one where we erase those, who are living today, that we feel might share similar views and lives to the one we've vilified in history. That's how the horrors start. It is the attempt to eradicate the evil around us when the evil that we should be eradicating is the evil that lies within us. Recognise that and you recognise the lessons of history.
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  137.  @arkamukhopadhyay9111  They knew advanced astronomy but the other side were sailing across oceans. This is a childish game. We're human beings and we're all different. Sometimes we can be good, moral people and other times we can behave horrifically. It's not a game of one up man ship. They're just events of our past. Learn from them instead of repeating the same "my side is better than your side" arguments.
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  138. Cyden One He was handling a belligerent customer. He told her to leave and when she didn't, he called the police. He knew he was being filmed by her and understood the implications of this action and, apparently, it might have scared him.....but he did it, anyway. As a manager, that's exactly what he should have done. His fear has appeared to be justified. It's now a media event and he may lose his job over it. Who has the power here, anyway? This "black" woman used her race to browbeat and threaten a white person. This man's "white privilege" is failing him.
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  139. You're wrong. They did the right thing. Had they fought back, this would be all over the mainstream media, portraying Elder as a brute and a woman beater. Don't fall into their trap. It's what they always do. They attack you and if you retaliate, they suddenly scream in pain, pretending that they're just innocent people, exercising their right to protest. When the media is doing your campaigning, you have to show restraint. It might take awhile but eventually people will begin to see who the real violent authoritarians are.
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  140. Killing 3000 people by flying hijacked planes into a building....EQUALS.... entering the Capitol Building, illegally for a couple of hours, killing no one, and then going home. That's one great legal mind. (sarcasm if you're unable to recognise it)
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  141. I never knew that being pregnant was unhealthy. Learn something new every day.
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  142.  @GrySgtBubba  I don't like Trump all that much either and I don't have TDS. However, I would vote for the guy until there's a better alternative. I've weighed all options and Trump is significantly better than Hillary or Biden and even Obama. Would I vote for some else who's shown that he would be better. Without hesitation but so far, that person hasn't shown himself. When you only have 2 real choices, you vote for the best of the 2. You, most definitely, don't vote for the one that is doing all the things that you're complaining about.
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  143. It gives more control over the banks to the Federal Government. That will enable the government to force the banks to introduce even more ESG into their banking policies and even set the standard for those policies. This is another step towards fiscal chaos.
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  144. Diversity, equity and inclusivity. They're the ones who want it. We should give it to them.
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  145. I told a friend about it and he didn't believe me. So I showed him via the internet. Now he thinks I'm being hyperbolic. His words. Apparently, the facts are hyperbole, now.
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  146.  @andrewprindiville119  I think that the point was that the lyrics were horrific which reflected the mindset of those who sang those songs. That Swedes can understand Swedish is NOT the point. The point is that they knew the lyrics of those songs and supported them. THAT is the point.
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  147.  @Supportingtruth8258  So is going to church, visiting your neighbour and going to restaurants. Burning, looting, throwing objects at people is NOT legal......TROLL.
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  148.  @july6949  What a delusional comment. The Soviet Union was using Socialism as the path to true Communism. That was their ultimate goal, except they just couldn't figure out how to implement it without things devolving into chaos. Also, Russia, in the nineties had economic problems, not because of a failed application of capitalism. It was because the rule of law wasn't implemented to go hand in hand with their changing economy. Capitalism without the rule of law can't work. Without a strong and vibrant legal system, you will get tyranny as people will always use self interest to get ahead. If you don't respect the law, you won't respect others and you will, most assuredly, abuse both the law and people.
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  149.  @nicholaschristophorou3087  How to dehumanise generations of people that lived in those times. "Real humans"....Wow. Those "free" hunter/gatherers lived a life where they were in constant contact with the animals they painted. They hunted them, and them carried them back to camp where they skinned, eviscerated and dressed them. Of course they knew what those animals looked like. Lions hadn't lived in Europe for thousands of years if indeed that's what it was. The witnesses only had a few minutes to see and describe it and like the narrator said, most people would have been familiar, through pictures, of the long maned male lions and not even realised that females didn't have that mane. You're so wrapped up in hate, you can't even make a comment about an anomalie of those times without bringing your own twisted vision of human history.
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  150.  @dough556  I'm Canadian and although I'm not a big fan of Trump, the individual, if I were American, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. Any party, whose leader thinks that Antifa is an idea and is benefiting from censorship, I'm talking about Biden, would NEVER get my vote. The entire media is against Trump and anyone who actually fact checks their claims know that they are all lying about him. In spite of the trade deal, which hurts us, Canada needs a Trump win to expose the authoritarian ideology of the left. Like the people in the rally are saying....stand up for freedom.
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  151.  @eohrefare7346  So what if they inherited it. Envious are we? The green monster will eat your heart out with resentment and anger. Do what's best for you and yours. The size of someone else's pile will only blind you if you stare at it for too long.
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  152.  @sthubbins4038  There's a reason that when we breathe that we exhale more forcefully than when we inhale. It's to clear the bad air away from our face so we can breathe clean fresh air. In fact, there's even an interval between exhaling and inhaling, to allow that exhaled, bad air to dissipate before we inhale. Notice when we inhale, we exhale immediately with no such interval. A mask prevents the natural breathing process, which evolved over millennia, to occur. It holds that bad air close to our faces, forcing us to inhale air that we've already rejected. That's why long term mask wearing is bad for us and why calling it a muzzle can be an apt description.
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  153. She may have a point. Obviously, she didn't get her money's worth. She studied economics and she knows nothing about economics. I'd be pissed if I were her, too.
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  154.  @hamie7624  Jews may not like it and say so but what will the followers of Mohammed do? We both know what would happen.
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  155.  @LilLamb-headquarters  It shouldn't work at all. Period. Hiring based on skin colour is discrimination and it's against the law.
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  156. The left: We must allow the "dreamers" to come into our country. Immigrants: Thank you, we've come to fulfill the American dream. The left: There is no American dream. Immigrants: But America is the greatest country in the world The left: It's not. It's racist and corrupt. Immigrants: So, you think that we shouldn't come. The left: No.....we want the dreamers to come. It's the most circular logic imaginable.
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  157.  @bpavilion8994  First, you're assuming that you know what she's thinking. She may go this route everyday and just happened upon this crowd not knowing who or what they were doing. While driving, things happen quickly. Also, why wouldn't they just allow her to pass? Why stand directly in front of her car so she has to stop? Why approach her from the side and begin to pound on the car and yell things at her. It's a road and it's built for cars to use. She has a right to use it. That's the problem with a lot of protests. They believe that their cause supersedes all other agendas and it gives them the right to treat people any way that they wish. Also, what idiot would stop for someone who's forcibly trying to make you stop? I wouldn't stop. It's a good way to get yourself killed, be the victim of a carjacking or kidnapping and possible rape or suffer a beating. People that are trying to stop your car, forcibly, don't have your best interests at heart, especially if your a woman. Only an idiot would feel perfectly safe when approached by a mob. Also, it's telling they don't show how the confrontation started. We have no idea how long that car was surrounded or what was being said to her. It's a clip taken out of context.
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  158. Not only has Walz lied about his military service, he's invited Iman Assad Zaman, to speak at functions with him. This Iman has praised the Austrian with the funny moustache because of his policies concerning Jews. Funny how the legacy media ignore this.
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  159. "I'm not a doctor" Do you mean the same doctors that prescribed oxycontins and started the current opioid crisis? Those doctors? I would hope not.
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  160.  @viktorkc1154  Orwell was a socialist until he fought in the Spanish Civil War. Right after that he wrote "Animal Farm" which was a strong voice against socialism. 8 year later, he wrote 1984. This is one of the most powerful works on the dangerous aspects of socialist thought. His take on the idea of Newspeak, is brilliant and is now being demonstrated by modern universities who actually have guidelines for what is acceptable to say and what isn't. Control of the individual by control of speech. The more verbal infractions that are introduced the more control they have over you. Not just in the way they speak but the way they think. Orwell realised this about socialist thought. Socialism can't work unless everyone is onboard with the idea. If not, they must be re-educated or rejected outright and the methods of rejection become more strident the more control the socialists gain.
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  161.  @GregorPQ  Liking him has nothing to do with it. Is he telling the truth....that's the important question. Truth is NOT contingent upon whether I'd have him over for a barbecue or not. Truth stands on its own and the personality of those who speak the truth is completely and totally irrelevant.
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  162. @davidclark573 I find it difficult to laugh at homelessness, high inflation, high taxes, increased crime stats, open borders, increasing addiction problems and the way we're educating our young, especially those who live in the inner cities of America. It's weird how you laugh at those who show concern for those problems because, in reality, those problems aren't funny at all. Do actually like the high taxes, high energy costs, high housing and food costs and the crime and homelessness of states like California? I find that hard to believe. The only conclusion, that makes any sense, is that you're a troll.
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  163.  @flowerpink724  I'll tell you why. He makes you think. He isn't always right but he challenges your brain. Great thinkers make YOU think. He does that more than anyone else that I've ever encountered. Too many are just out to debunk. Cynicism stifles thought and innovations. If you want to gain any value from his work, you have to follow what he's saying and then challenge yourself to see how you can counter or confirm what he's offering. I wish he'd been around 30 years ago when I was young. Just the inspiration to read and comprehend his reading list and then construct my own would have brought such satisfaction to my life. Not because I agree with what he says but because he's opened my mind to so many new ideas.
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  164.  @battlebuddy4517  Not the bad one, necessarily. The most dangerous one. That doesn't mean he's bad. It means he's not one to be taken lightly.
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  165. And in other great news......President Trump signed an executive order requiring U.S. colleges to protect free speech or face funding cuts. It's about time.
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  166.  @mustang607  They usually are but it was on the front page of their website, as well. They took it down after receiving too much backlash.
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  167.  @Don-mi6zl  Is this Jeff? You sure sound like him.
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  168.  @RustyShackleford-kd9it  LOL. Did you provide the noose or did they bring it?
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  169. Democrats in 1860: Who's going to pick our cotton? Democrats in 2025: Who's going to cut our grass? As my sainted mother used to say. No matter how much things change, they stay the same.
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  170.  @joelmaharry3697  The guy who used the word "save" when he should have used "saved" is lecturing someone about spelling mistakes and then dismissing what he's saying based on that spelling mistake. What hypocrisy. Also, you glossed over the part where he said "medical field did more good than harm" which acknowledges how medicine has been very good. You pretended that he didn't say this in an attempt to prompt others to reject his main point. That point being that good intentions don't always end with good results and when those bad results do happen, human nature will tend to ignore the evidence for it in order to absolve themselves of blame. "If people don't know then I'm not guilty".
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  171.  @bobshenix  He was asked to join a Canadian team to study world ecology and climate change. He wasn't even paid to do it and it took 2 years so he had to keep working while he was doing it. Have you ever heard what he said? It's not the kind of thing that the modern left likes to hear. He said that fisheries rejuvenate rather quickly if you don't over fish and things aren't the disaster you always hear about. He says that the burning of coal actually helped Carbon emissions because people were no longer burning wood, a much dirtier fuel. He said that there are more forests today than there was 100 years ago, in the northern hemisphere. Try and say these things, today, on a college campus or even on CNN. You'd be vilified, shouted at and cancelled. These things aren't the things that globalists want spread around. They want you to think that coal is poison. Biden wants to eliminate ALL coal mining. They want you to think that the forests of the world are almost all gone and the oceans are near dead. Say these things on your Facebook page. They'll be all over you. You're doing what so many do. You make an accusation that's vague and innuendo with nothing specific. "He was there for a bit so he's that type of person....a really bad one" How shallow is that? That's not how a deep thinker assess issues or people.
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  172.  @SteveShivik  And these women chose to be used as shields. They're not the classic "hold a gun to their head" type of shield used by bank robbers on TV. They've chosen to do this. That makes them just as guilty as the ones that they're supposed to be shielding.
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  173. That broke me up. I was watching Morgan Freeman speak and I thought "What a great human being" Then Lemon spoke up and you don't want to know what I thought. Lemon just babbles the talking points that's sitting in front of him at the time. Not an original thought ever comes out of his mouth.
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  174.  @billquigley6556  I'm vaxxed, as well and I support those truckers. I'm vaxxed because it was MY choice, not because the government or anyone else told me too. CHOICE....you buffoon....CHOICE. That's what we want. If you want to be vaxxed go for it. If you don't want it.....don't. CHOICE. Treat us like adults. I also voted AGAINST Trudeau and voted for the People's Party, the only party in Canada that stands for individual freedom.
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  175.  AII Iives Matter Unity not Racism and Division  George Floyd stuck a pistol into a pregnant woman's stomach while his buddies ransacked her home. Now that woman has to look at t-shirts and posters, all over the place, of that man as if he was some kind of saviour of mankind. Unbelievable.
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  176. It concerns them because the left is always accusing them of being alt-right. In fact, anyone that disagrees with the left is deemed to be alt-right. Call me a Nazi and I'll deny it, full force and vehemently. My family suffered too much in WW2 for me to have anything to do with them or any of their ideas. Call me a conservative and I'll agree with you. Hard work and personal responsibility are at the core of a strong human being and a nation. My work ethic and willingness to accept blame when I'm wrong allows me to grow as a man and a human being. That's doesn't make me a Nazi or alt-right.
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  177.  John Jourdan  Life is a struggle for all of us. That would include Jordan Peterson. That's not irony. That's a fact of the human condition. More than that, it's a fact for all living creatures. If only the perfect human is allowed to voice an opinion, no one would be allowed to speak......except you, I guess.
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  178. She describer herself pretty well, too.
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  179.  @musiopath  That's not true. Free will came from God. He placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and then told Adam and Eve not to eat of it. Don't eat the fruit or suffer the consequences. It was their choice. Just because Satan talked them into it, doesn't negate the choice they had before them or the one that they took. God gave them the choice. Satan influenced Eve to make the wrong choice.
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  180.  @sthubbins4038  If we had a dictator in this country, do you think that they'd let a loony, like you, stay on the internet?
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  181. Kamala is like a 10 year old kid. "Clean your room" "I will!!!" "I told you 3 hours ago and you're still on the couch playing video games" "Quit picking on me". She has no intention on doing a thing.
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  182. Then you're part of the problem..........Just kidding. You're actually a reasonable individual. We could sure use a lot more people like that these days.
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  183. Mystdragon He was talking about the early explorers that came to what is now the US. They landed in what is now South Carolina. Those same deforestation techniques were used all over the US. The Mound builders and their ancestors did the same all through the interior. Those first settlers couldn't comment on the whole of the US, only the part they were familiar with. It took centuries to discover and map the continent. Those settlers had no idea of the existence of tribes like the Comanche, Sioux and Blackfoot.
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  184.  @barefootjakejake7765  I don't know how much they're in cahoots. I'd sure that there some Republicans that are a part of the swamp but I don't like to make accusations unless I know the individual personally or have facts that will substantiate those claims. I do know that I don't like the political philosophy of the Democrats and I also know that there are Rinos that make the bureaucracy so corrupt. However, I think that Trump really upset the establishment and that was why the Dems, the Rinos, the media and big tech lost their minds when he was elected. They didn't expect that and they pulled out all the stops to get rid of him. How far they went is hard to know, to accomplish that, sitting here in my apartment but they lied like I've never seen American politician lie before and they've always been liars. Also, the new progressive movement scares me. One thing is certain, we have to respect our Constitution or we stand for nothing. We'd be no better than what they are.
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  185. Unbelievable. If they sent everyone to jail for being in possession of a counterfeit bill, most of us will end up in jail at some time in our lives.
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  186. Great comment. So many of them are doing parodies of women, not the real thing, at all. I compare it to doing black face. I feel as if they're mocking women but we'd better not say anything because "hate speech".
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  187.  @zafarrancho9555  I'm retired so I have the time to waste. Besides, I'm not wasting time if I'm having a good time with it.
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  188.  @bobshenix  The climate change and earth ecology was what he was involved in. That's what that UN commission was all about. Also, he was disgusted with Justin's Trudeau's cabinet appointees which Trudeau picked to check off his equity list. JP thought that this was a terrible way to hand out those posts. You're making associations without evidence and on what you think he's about. He's always talked about merit and he's been quite outspoken about race and group quotas in filling job positions. His interview with Cathy Newman, a British Television host, particularly outraged the "woke" mob. He dismantled her feminist claims, completely obliterated her when she questioned him on what she called offensive speech. The New York Times wouldn't even put his book on their best sellers list even though it was the top selling book in the English world. He's positively hated by the left and progressives. They think he's a Nazi and now you're saying that he's a globalist. You can't be anymore opposite than that. I don't know where you're getting your information from but you're a long way off.
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  189. The irony is incredible. Either they're to thick to get it or they're just using the indigenous people as a tool to further their own demented agenda.
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  190. That's right. They've been organising for a long time and they've got people in almost every American institution. The right, basically the conservatives and even the moderate Democrat supporters, have been just living their lives, trying to build something for the future, oblivious to the threat that was growing. They're ready and we're not. I started to see it coming with the fiasco at Evergreen College and I consider myself early to the game. Most Americans would not approve of what is happening but they either don't see it yet or they don't believe it....yet. We may all have to start believing it very soon.
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  191.  @linguaphile42  Every poll worker should be heavily instructed to look at name, date of birth and address. It should be stressed that checking all 3 is as close to mandatory as it gets. If that's already being done, it's laziness on the poll workers part. If this isn't being stressed, it's either laziness or ineptitude on the part of those who are looking after how voting is done. This shouldn't happen.
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  192.  @Soshi701  At the moment of crisis, she WAS a villain to her daughter. It's the role that she must take if her child insists on doing things that are harmful.
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  193.  @davemccue9229  The new minimum wage just becomes the new poverty level. It really changes nothing.
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  194.  @guyfawkes8384  You deal with it as it comes. If a kid says something, ANYTHING, that's inappropriate, no matter what it is, you call them out on it and explain why you don't talk that way. Then you move on. You don't make a big deal about that specific incident. More, you don't create potential incidents and then attribute the behaviour to one demographic. That's what's happening in schools which use CRT as their teaching guide. Bad behaviour is the default for white kids and they must realise that attribute (whiteness) that sets them aside as the reason for their bad behaviour and then show remorse for that existence. That sort of guilt would have been considered appalling 25 years ago. It's arbitrary and can be applied as the applicator deems to be correct enough to validate an agenda. It's not just ethically incorrect. It's completely wrong on every academic scale.
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  195.  @tookiejones9765  A pop psychologist that has B.A. in political science, a B.A. in psychology, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at McGill University, one of the most prestigious Universities in the world and then went on to teach at Harvard, another world class University, as an Associate Professor and took part in clinical research. He then gain a full tenured position as a Professor at the University of Toronto, while maintaining a clinical practise. On top of this, he's read most of the greatest writers of philosophy, religion, science and literature ever written. Yeah......pop psychology. Instead of attacking him, why don't you try to discuss the topics that interest him. You know, use the intellect that you're supposed to have been born with. Doesn't take much intellectual thought to attack people and call them names. I did that in the school yard when I was 8.
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  196.  @sthubbins4038  Insurrection.....what a laugh. A bunch of nuts, walking around in the Capitol Building, taking selfies and then going home. LOL. Does that really scare you???? How much of Washington was destroyed in those "horrific riots"? LOL. One night of "peaceful protests" in Minneapolis or Portland have caused more damage, injury and death than your "insurrection". Grow up.
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  197.  @M69256  It's now an Olympic sport. I guess we'll have to release all those guys in jail.
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  198.  @sid2112  I love dogs, but dog owners? They can be a pain in the butt, sometimes.
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  199.  @majuli8420  " yet seems woefully inept to run his own private life" So we don't take advice from anyone until you meet the perfect human? Do you know such a creature? Maybe we should be looking to the skies for the return of Jesus. He's been described as the perfect human. Maybe he's to be listened to BECAUSE he IS human...that's he's just like the rest of us (except you, I suspect) bumbling along, screwing things up and trying our best to work out from under our mistakes. Working towards, usually quite inadequately, becoming a better person as we grow up, which never stops. It's funny how some people aren't listening to what he's saying and just seek to smear and destroy the man and then believe that this is an intellectual endeavour. If you want perfection....trying talking to God. If you want to solve your problems....have discussions and try to understand the human condition. That's what Peterson is doing. All you're doing is tearing him down by pointing out his humanity and ignoring the discussion. That's a really easy game to play and a rather mediocre way of discussing ANY topic.
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  200.  @allday2772  Maybe he did. He was there to speak truth. The truth hurts but causing pain isn't his agenda. It's truth....the noblest goal that anyone can aspire to.
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  201. Self hate. That can be the only answer.
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  202. Jahleel Sayers Confused about what? I'll bet you my next pension cheque that he'd never get kicked out of a coffee shop and he knows why. It's because he knows how to conduct himself as a mature and responsible adult. He does not abide making excuses for himself and has the awareness to understand how to behave in a civilised society. How is that confused?
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  203.  @wagomus4323  So let's just dismiss the entire video. If we pretend that it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist....right??? Problem solved. There is no homeless problem with addicted and mentally challenged people. "Head in the sand" politics and social justice.
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  204. Dyson is just a mean mad Black man.
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  205. "You can't make this up" she says as she making things up. It astounds me how all those "journalists" could unashamedly lie like that.
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  206.  @happytwolaffs6454  The insurrection....LOL. This is the right, the supporters of the 2nd Amendment and open carry, who had an insurrection and NO ONE thought to bring their "sacred" guns with them. NOT one gun was brought into the Capitol Building during this "rebellion against democracy". It's been 6 months and there still has been no leadership or chain of command revealed, no real "battle" plan or methodology of a takeover....nothing at all. But they did find a lot of selfies and have arrested a lot of people, including little old ladies who were walking around, inside the building, honouring the velvet ropes that are there for tourists. The current administration has used, the stupidity of a bunch of hotheads, to further whittle away the rights of people by increased surveillance of those who may have tweeted things or made Facebook comments which might indicate right wing or conservative support. Political surveillance to keep a lookout for political dissenters, including the police and the military, ostensibly to ensure loyalty to the party in the armed forces. This was the lamest insurrection in history. To put it bluntly, the administration and the MSM used the actions of a bunch of upset and stupid people to spin a narrative to further their own agenda and YOU'RE falling for it.
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  207.  @maui5867  Of course it exists. People are sick of living in fear and being locked away from their loved ones. They're willing to take the risk of catching it and the 1% chance of dying from it. First they're afraid of Covid. Then they're afraid of the vaccine to prevent Covid. Fear and then more fear. They said 2 weeks to flatten the curve so hospitals won't be overwhelmed. 9 months later and we're still under sever restrictions. If you're afraid, quarantine yourself. Stay at home. Don't visit with anyone. We'll see you in a couple of years.....if ever.
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  208.  @lameduck3105  Of course Fry would be intolerant of religious leaders who call for the death of homosexuals. It goes against the principles of human rights. Basically, the right to believe and live as one wishes as long as one isn't depriving others of their right to believe and live as they wish. It's the law of tolerance. You tolerate others until they insist of taking away your right of tolerance.
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  209.  @georgeliss4015  I HATE that when people tell me that I voted for Trudeau. I DIDN'T VOTE FOR TRUDEAU. In fact, Trudeau did NOT win a majority. He made a deal with the NDP and they threw their seats together to make a majority. It's called a minority government. That's our system of government here. If you don't understand how our politics work.....don't talk about it.
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  210.  @A_Jeff  Those "potato" people are the ones growing the food that you eat. Not just potatoes, but all kinds of fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat products. The "potato" people don't work, YOU go hungry. You'll have to eat your little dog. You elitists never cease to amaze me.
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  211.  @Why_so_salty  If you've ever been involved with a family and sat through the reading of a will, you'll find that there are family members, who you care deeply for, who are all about the money. This isn't just a "black" thing. It's a part of human nature. Greed is universal.
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  212.  @tbriecheese  Or maybe, they don't have children or their children are abusive, drug and alcohol dependent or don't have the medical ability or time to care for an elderly parent. Some elderly have no other choice but to go to a retirement home. Is solitary confinement the answer for them? To repeat. If solitary confinement is considered torture for criminals, why is it just fine for the elderly? Try and address that question.
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  213.  @JeffreyRoseland  Anyone who says that they'll go through your locked doors to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you're conducting your affairs is saying EXACTLY who she is. An authoritarian who doesn't care about your rights. Those are words right out of her mouth.
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  214.  @elseach6005  The same ones that call them "Oreos" and "house N.....", that's who. It's the sin of envy (I'm not religious but it fits) and it's reared its ugly head over and over in history. The Armenians in Turkey, the Pakistanis and east Indians in Canada, the Lebanese in Nigeria, the Japanese in Peru, the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore....it goes on and on. These are the middlemen, who work hard and become financially successful. In the Soviet Union and Mao's China, it was their fellow citizens who were successful. There are those who hate their own failures and direct that hate towards the successful.
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  215. I strongly believe that you mean well but this isn't about women's rights or feminism. It's about human rights. It's wrong to do that to another human being, no matter their gender, race, religious affiliation or sexual preference. They have a right as humans, to be themselves without interference. When you make it about group identity, events like Oct 7th, will be the result. You've fallen to the hierarchy of oppression, in which horrific action against one identity takes precedence over action against another identity. In this case, they have weigh perceived oppressions and have decided that oppression against Palestinians outweighs oppression against women. Facts won't even matter. It's about the group. Actions must be weighed on an individual level not on group identity. It's either wrong or it's not. The group, that the participants claim as their own, is irrelevant. In this case, Islamophobia is worse than misogyny. The hierarchy of oppression has spoken. Do NOT question it.
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  216. That's a BIG for sure.
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  217. I used to watch the NFL regularly. Then, when Colin refused to stand for the anthem, I quit watching. It felt like a purity test to me and I didn't like the implication or the divisiveness. As for the NBA, I find it astounding that a guy like LeBron James, net worth, 450 Million dollars, babbling on about how life isn't fair because he's black and then showing support for the Chinese, who treat their minorities, as part of the law of the country, like dirt. The man, and the league are a bunch of hypocrites. These pro athletes are the most fortunate people in the world and they act like that. Hockey is my favourite sport and they've been rather quiet about this woke stuff although it pissed me off when Don Cherry was fired. If they go overtly woke, that's 60 years of loyalty to the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs that will no longer mean a thing. I watch sports to relax. If I wanted to be told that I'm an evil person, I'd call the ex-wife. I'll let you guess how many times a year I call her.
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  218.  @Bewefau  He was in office during the biggest upheaval of society since WW2, the Covid epidemic, and Florida came out better than ever. One term? Well, it was one hell of a good one.
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  219. How anyone could watch Question Period for half an hour and still vote for the party that has Trudeau as its leader is mind blowing. I have a feeling that too many Canadians vote by party loyalty and substance is completely overlooked.
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  220. I love how this video starts out about the violence against those people in san Jose but ends trying to make it sound as if Trump was the problem here. I'm not defending Trump but Hillary should have stood up, loud and clear, and condemned those rioters. Had she done that and similar, she'd be the president right now. Instead, she tacitly supports the radical left violence and hateful rhetoric. She, and the rest of the Democrats, made me ashamed of my left wing beliefs.
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  221.  @ankavoskuilen1725  She got quiet because she's a coward.
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  222.  @jamestaylor3805  Yes...the WORLD is overpopulated but US birth rates are 1.7%. That means that US population is in decline, that is it would be if it wasn't for the insane immigration policies of the Democrats. In fact, population rates are in decline in almost every country in the world except Muslim countries. In the western world it has all been done voluntarily without demonising newborn human beings or parents who might want to raise a child. Her rhetoric is completely unnecessary, irrelevant and pointless.
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  223.  @EytanKoch  When did I say that rape was okay. I NEVER said it once. Never.....EVER. That's something that YOU made up. If Israeli soldiers are raping Palestinian women....THAT IS WRONG. Israelis have no more right to the hierarchy of oppression than any other group. Hamas organised an attack on innocent civilians. They didn't attack a military installation. They attacked a music festival and the homes of sleeping civilians and intentionally opened fire on them, killing as many civilians as possible. There wasn't an Israeli soldier in sight. Hamas declared war and when videos of the murdered civilians were shown, they celebrated. They cheered and danced with joy which implied that they'd even be happier if MORE civilians had been killed. Now, that they're losing the war, that THEY started, they're crying victimhood. If you don't want to get beat in a fight, don't start one.
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  224.  @kairidon3363  I never advocated for reforms. I'm saying that the law was broken when the authorities held him in solitary confinement for over a year when he hadn't even been convicted of a crime yet. That's already covered under the law. In fact, under the Mandela Rules, solitary confinement for over 15 days is considered a form of torture. Worse, they withheld videos from his lawyer that may have helped Chansley in his trial. THAT'S illegal as well and it's ALSO covered by law. We don't need reforms. We need our authorities to abide by the laws that exist.
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  225. I heard about this petition years ago and I'm not ashamed to admit that I didn't know that dihydrogen monoxide was water. However, I would NEVER have signed a petition until I found out, for sure, what it was. If you don't know, you don't know and don't be afraid to admit it.
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  226. $330 million and he's railing at others for indulging in "pure greed".
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  227.  @catherinewilliams9680  So it's a good thing that we're finally fighting it with....RACISM. Things have sure improved. Now it's being taught. Never been taught before. If they're going to do misogyny and racism they might as well do it correctly....right?
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  228.  @abc33155  He is being asked these questions so we will ALL know what his political beliefs and agendas are. That has EVERYTHING to do with his job and Cardona knows it. That's why he keeps answering questions that haven't been asked. If he was being honest he would answer the questions that are being asked and let the chips fall where they may. That's what a person of integrity would do. Also, his bathroom policies are indirectly influenced by his political ideology. The reason why he wouldn't answer it is because he supports the progressive bathroom policies but he't too embarrassed to acknowledge that he would support a policy that would allow a man to expose himself to his daughter under the guise of transgenderism. If he would support that, we can surmise what his progressive policies ARE relevant to the proposal at hand. It's no different than the assumption that a Fascist will do as a Fascist does. Cardona will do as HIS ideology does.....and I'm NOT calling him a Fascist. It's a comparison of ideologies, that's all.
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  229.  @brooksroth345  No....they don't but the company broke the law. The same thing happens if the kitchen isn't maintained up to code. They close down the kitchen. Or if they serve alcohol to minors. It may not be the fault of the staff but the management knew the consequences and now they must pay the price. A company that I worked for was secretly dumping chemicals in the woods. They were fined heavily and lost some government contracts. I lost my job over it and I had no idea that it was going on. They had to do something. 2 people went to jail for their part.
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  230.  @brianstansfield4367  Then why would they take Trump's passport? It wasn't on the warrant.
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  231. Please get rid of Juan. All he does is create anger and frustration. He's everything that's wrong with the media today.
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  232.  @redcygne  It has NOTHING to do with being emasculated. It's about controlling speech. It's telling me that I MUST use the word that's been designated to be used at the insistence of a ruling body, the government. It's limiting expression and the freedom of how we communicate. You cannot tell people what they must say under threat of judicial retribution. That's goes against everything that our country stands for. If the government can force me to use government approved language, they will also begin to force me to believe government approved dogma. We fought HARD against that in WW2 and in the Cold War. Now we have to fight our own government who wants to tell me what I must say. The way we express ourselves is how we think and use our brain. Limit that and you limit yourself in ways that only the authoritarian mind would approve of. Also, women ARE included. They even have a word for a partner who happens to be a woman. That word is "wife". You're advocating the elimination of your own identity. I WANT to see women to have their own agency and to do this I want to see them recognised for who they are.
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  233.  @donpietruk1517  She left her diary behind when she moved away. The diary held some extremely unsavoury entries, including that her father, the president, would take showers with her. She stated, in the diary, that she thought it highly inappropriate. I more than agree with her. It sounds awful. If that diary was so important to her, why'd she leave it behind? Why didn't she realise that it she'd forgot and take immediate steps to secure it to a safe place and retrieve it as soon as possible. Why would you leave something like this lying around for something to see. It's like leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition in the worst part of town. It's still wrong to steal it but you have to admit it's your own fault. That's how it is with Ashley Biden.
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  234.  @randyb1022  So, you're saying that if I stripped, down to my nothings, and I took a stroll through town, I wouldn't be arrested? That if I walked past your squad car, completely naked, you'd just nod and go about your business. I don't believe that for one minute.
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  235. Gutfield is such a great guy. I enjoy his brand of comedy and common sense. Not a lot of it around these days.
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  236.  @anguscampbell1533  If the assertion was that Canadian soldiers were shot by American soldiers and it could be proven by exhuming those bodies then......YES. I'd want that known as a fact that couldn't be denied. A YES with capital letters. An emphatic YES. We don't even know if they are actually graves and if they are graves, who's buried there. If they are native Canadians, we don't know how they died. That means that the claim that they're children who were murdered by the native school system has not been proven. The claim is no better than gossip and will remain so until proven to be true.
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  237.  @JohnnySmartway888  Yes we do. "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain. It takes a lot of courage to admit when one is wrong. Like the woman in this clip, who will lose a lot of friends for her integrity. No one likes it but they must if they want to remain human.
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  238. I'm not surprised that Sanjay has never had a conversation with anyone for 3 hours. Who'd want to talk to him at all.....the lying PO..... I know that I wouldn't. Kudos to Rogan for putting up with him that long.
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  239. Did she ever meet with them? I'd liked to have seen that. 2 people don't like this video. 2 people don't like these unfortunate women who have lost loved ones to illegal criminal migrants, who sneaked into the country because they knew that no one would want them as neighbours.....except the naive left wing Democrats in California.
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  240. A well used Nazi poster proclaimed this. "Behind the enemy powers: The Jews." This as been considered vile Nazi propaganda for years. Maddow......."Behind OAN and Trump's right wing power: The Russians." Both, the Nazis and Maddow identify the enemy of the people and then denigrate them to the nth degree. One took it to its logical outcome, the other.....well....not yet(?). Hyperbolic, probably. However, when you present opinion as fact you're flirting with disaster and tragedy.
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  241. That transgender runner looks like David Bowie.
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  242.  @JohnCarterRocks  I took off my tin foil hat and listened to a speech made by Klaus Schwab. I realise now, that the tin foil hat prevented me from hearing what he had to say. It's not pleasant and but at least I'm listening. That's something that you should try. You may not be as sure of yourself as you think. In fact, you may be the crazy one here for not listening.
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  243. She seemed genuine, too. She may not even agree with what he's saying but she appeared interested and allowed us to see Mad Max as a person. Most interviewers are just part of the opposition debating team. You don't learn a lot about people that way.
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  244.  @gevansmd1  If a person can't fulfil the academic obligations that a university requires, for ANY reason, they shouldn't be taking spots from those who can. Study harder and try again next year. If they are capable, they will make it. If not, there are always other options. Community college or trade schools can give you the background to have a good successful life. You're NOT a failure if you can't go to Harvard. Qualifications first, anything and everything else is not to be considered and shouldn't be.
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  245. Boris B That's not an example. That's an observation on how some people draw conclusions from little to no real evidence. You just slotted Peterson into that group of people and not assert that it must be true because Feynman is a high profile source. It's an appeal to authority. Human behaviour is not an exact science. Ten different people can respond in different ways to the exact same stimuli and, unless one has previous information on the personality traits of each individual, one can't know what their response will be. Instead, you make observations and try to establish trends in behaviour and try to find why these behaviours are the same and different. That's all that social sciences can do. Peterson has talked about male and female traits and has referred to statistics that show trends in their respective behaviours which overlap and differ. It's not an exact science because one can't accurately predict how a specific person will behave. One can make assumptions on statistical traits that have been extensively observed, but that's as far as one can go. That's not pseudo-science if you declare the inaccuracy rates and acknowledge the limitations of you data. Another example is how a doctor can predict death rates of an outbreak of a disease by saying the approximate percentage of those who will die. They'll base it on data gathered from previous outbreaks. It gives a ballpark figure, but one can't really know for sure. There is always room for error when your only source is data and variables are so varied that all can't be accounted for in a prediction. Now, back to a solid example of Peterson's preaching. One that refers to Peterson.
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  246.  @johnnyfavorite1194  If you're vulnerable, like I am, 70 years old, somewhat overweight and diabetic, STAY HOME. I don't expect you to protect me, although it's nice if you do, because I can do what's necessary, and recommended, to protect myself. I sit outdoors, in my backyard, to maximise my intake of vitamin D. I'm eating better and exercise to lose some weight. I'm self isolating and I've fully vaccinated. I've done everything possible to protect myself from Covid. I've done that so the rest of you can go about your lives as normally as possible. Go to work, support your families, enjoy the life that is so fleeting and precious and don't rob our young of their youth. It'll only happen once and the fact that I'm elderly and facing my demise....as we all will, doesn't mean that YOUR life is over as well.
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  247.  @XBLHAX  Back to grammar class. It says the governor AND the mayor are gutless. That's 2 people. The governor, Polis, AND the mayor, Coffman, are gutless.
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  248. What a great accomplishment. What a shame that this comment section will be filled with those who can't appreciate how wonderful it was.
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  249. A "Civil Rights Lawyer". I guess we know what he's going to say before he opens his mouth.
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  250.  @jackspenser22  What? It's her daughter that's rejecting her mother over politics. Only the daughter's feeling count but the mother's feelings mean nothing. THAT'S what cults do. The mother wants her to come for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's the daughter that's acting with anger and hate. It's her daughter that saying that she cannot be around her family over ideology, NOT the other way around. The mother isn't isolating her daughter. It's the daughter who's actively distancing herself from her parents. That is cult like behaviour. Isolate yourself from all those who don't see the world as you do. It's why Jimmy Jones took his group into the jungles of Guyana. No outside influences. They're ALL evil. The daughter is doing the same thing except not quite to the extreme that Jones did. Anyone, who might influence her beliefs, must be avoided. They're too evil.
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  251.  @carlyellison8498  Instead of ad hominem attacks, why don't you discuss the points that Peterson is making? Not in mocking terms but from the eyes of one who really wants to understand what he's saying and then outlining why you find problems with it. You're behaving like one that dislikes ideas that throw into doubt you're view of the facts. Your ideas, that are so rigid that discussions that might counter them must be flagged and reported. Are you that weak that you can't even abide the thought that someone might disagree with you on an issue? That's incredibly sad. Also, Peterson has to be the worst cult leader in history. His is a cult that values personal sovereignty over a collective mindset and personal responsibility over group think and action. He's says we should all come to our own conclusions on what is important to our lives. That's one funny way for a cult leader to act or to advocate for.
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  252. My uncle was in the Dutch military. He fought some "mostly peaceful" battles when the Nazis invaded. Lots of Nazis and Dutch soldiers were "peacefully" killed in those "mostly peaceful" battles. "Nothing to see here, folks".
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  253. Rob Smith says that coming out as Conservative is almost as tough as going to war. That says a lot about the "tolerant" left.
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  254.  @TA-tb4yh  Poland went through a lot of turmoil after communism. Corruption and extreme poverty due to a struggling economy made life very difficult for most Polish citizens. It took years to rebound from communism and then the long rebuild to some semblance of stability. So...your quip about the truth isn't as applicable as you might think.
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  255.  @xxxhoodooxxx  What? Trump has opposed the corporate oligarch's use of cheap labour in China. They HATE him for wanting to bring the jobs back to the US. Same as big tech. They hate him and have openly said so. They're the biggest corporate oligarchs in the world. Look at all the big corporations that have gone woke. Gillette, Nike, General Mills, Google, Facebook, the NBA and other huge sports leagues. They're all supporting the Democrats and they're all corporate oligarchs.
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  256. This is the dream of Marxism. It doesn't work. It can't work.
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  257. Environmentalists: We have 12 years to live. Techies: I have a machine that can add years to your life. Environmentalists: NOOOO.
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  258. If these bully students are abusing their teachers, what are they doing to their fellow students? I'll bet that there are students who are scared to go to school and they feel that dread every day.
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  259.  @SkedgyEdgy  That's not the point. Not paying support doesn't put the lives of random people at stake. Driving while intoxicated at high speeds is extremely dangerous for anyone on the road or even pedestrians. That's the point of the comment. The danger level is what's important. He's not excusing people who don't pay child support. He's comparing risk to life for the crimes. Some crimes are more dangerous than others.
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  260.  @socialish1520  I don't like Pelosi one bit and I detest what she did over the stimulus bill, but when you make a claim, ALWAYS be prepared to back it up. It's been the mantra of CNN and MSNBC to say "Sources say....." and then never give the source. We don't want to be them. We want to be better. If her husband invested in wind and solar, I want to know how he knows this. A claim without evidence is gossip. Brett Kavanaugh's accusation agaist him is proof of this. Pure gossip.
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  261.  @Torres-tw3ic  Maybe we should be taking the splinter out of our own eye before attempting to take the splinter out of someone else's. Being blind to our own faults would also make one blind to their neighbour's.
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  262.  @SS-rp7wp  I AM the working class and NO!!!! it is not the same. The working class are the nuts and bolts of society. The ones that build your homes, make your shoes, cook your pizzas and fix your roads. These are things that I did over my working career and I'm now comfortably retired. I loved the work that I've done and am proud of it. I did it knowingly and willingly and I resent the implication that I was used and spit out. These jobs had to be done and thankfully there are those you can and will do it and don't care what people like you think. In fact, shame on you for denigrating my contributions to my family and community and for implying that I haven't the brains to know that I've been exploited. What a condescending attitude.
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  263. Only a server would think that way. I know that I would. Trump's a customer and I'll guarantee you that he'd tip better than Biden or Harris. Tips are why I do the job.
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  264.  @narcodium  Hatred will never be gone. It's built into the very fabric of all humans. What we must strive for is a culture the reviles hatred, no matter who is the target or why. I'm not even Christian but the adage "Love thy neighbour as thyself" is what we should ALL follow. There are no qualifications, no exceptions....only caring for ourselves and those around us. If you read his comment, he said it was ALMOST gone. That meant that American culture, at that time, was more accepting and we had greater caring for each other. That was his point. However, the socialist manipulators had to create unrest in order to realise their socialist revolution which would eventually lead us to a socialist Utopia.
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  265.  @promethiac2641  Isn't that something. YOU condemn religion. So what would you suggest? Making religious beliefs against the law? A "Final Solution" for all religious people? You've just showed yourself as someone who's just as bad as any religious person that you're accusing. You see a problem, you point a finger at those who you feel are responsible and then you condemn them. It's just as frightening as the Holocaust, Holodomor, the Chinese cultural revolution, the genocide in Rwanda....none of which were inspired by religion. They were inspired by radical socialist ideologies or pure ethnic hatred. You've just found someone new to hate.
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  266.  @JohnCarterRocks  I'd like for my senator to able to speak to me and my fellow constituents once in awhile and understand what we're saying. You sound as if you'd vote for a ham sandwich as long as it had a "D" after it's name.
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  267. That was my ex-wife. When she was pregnant, I wasn't allowed to have a beer with my neighbour. She couldn't drink so I couldn't either. That was her thinking. Notice....she's my ex-wife.
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  268. "Absolute psychopath" Gotta love that Lauren Chen. I was thinking POS but this fits the guy, perfectly.
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  269. Poor Karinge has to lie to cover up the lies and gaffes of Biden and Kamala.
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  270. De Gaulle was quite the self serving jerk. Before D-Day, he told Eisenhower that he was uncomfortable about having "foreign" troops on French soil. I guess he didn't think the Nazis weren't foreigners. Canadian troops were among those landing in Normandy on D-Day. De Gaulle showed his appreciation for their sacrifice in 1967, by shouting in a speech in Montreal. "Viva le Quebec Libre" which translates as "Long live free Quebec!". Apparently, the fact that Quebec was against fighting in the war and French Quebec stood strongly against the draft in WW2. Canadians died to free France so he could one day be their President but he stuck his nose into Canadian politics and attempted to break up our country. He's no hero to Canadians. As far as we're concerned he's a back stabbing jerk.
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  271. Because its irrelevant. Those fires will eventually start as the undergrowth thickens. If its not those radical idiots, then it will be something else. It doesn't solve the original problem. If the original problem were dealt with, radical idiots wouldn't be able to set these uncontrollable fires. Solve the real problem and you solve the problem of radical leftists setting fires. It's the same with "defund the police" mentality. To solve the problem of negative police interaction with the public, especially within the black community, solve the crime problems within those communities. Solve that and negative police incidents go away. Leftists aren't smart enough to realise that solving the symptoms doesn't fix the actual problem.
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  272. BLD Lightpainting Although Sweden is set up as a secular nation, it's roots are deeply entrenched in Christianity. This has to affect the way people think and react to how a government is run even if they claim to be atheist. The US is a secular country as well, whether you like it or not. The separation of church and state is a core tenet of American politics. That doesn't mean that a person's religion will not affect his political beliefs and his voting habits but it does mean that one religion isn't favoured over another. This came from the incessant religious wars of the Reformation in Europe. The American founders wanted to be sure that no one religious sect or belief system would take control of the government or the people and allow them to dictate government policy. That means it is exactly like Sweden, in spite of the rhetoric of saying it is founded on Christian principles. The only difference between Swedish and American politics is the declaration of the existence of God. There are still lots of churches and you're still free to worship as you please. Besides, what does it matter if your neighbour believes in Jesus or not? As long as he allows you to believe, all should be good. Your salvation does not depend on the salvation or belief system of your neighbour.
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  273. @Jesus loves a Shovelhead In other words, your problem is with psychology NOT Jordan Peterson. I'm not going to say whether you have a point or not. That's not what I'm talking about OR what this video is about. Also, at this moment, Peterson isn't all that keen about that drug that nearly killed him. His story should be a testament to the dangers of some drugs and one to demonstrate how easy it is to be a victim of things that are supposed to help you. Instead, you don't use it in a positive way. You use it to denigrate. If you were to ask Peterson about what he thinks on that drug NOW, he'd be, and is, outspoken on its negative effects. You could use his life example to influence a better approach to these drugs but instead...you try to silence him. Not the best use of his story. Now....let's get back on topic. Fry and Peterson exchange a lot of ideas that are interesting and worth talking about. None of them have anything to do with psychiatric drugs.....no matter how hard you try.
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  274.  @bernardjameswilson  He didn't just wake up and said "This country now sucks". This was a process that started about 30 years, or so, ago. Where, at one time, life was free and you could work and reap the rewards, more and more restrictions were placed on our lives. It became harder and harder to get good medical care, in spite of the advances in medicine. Laws and more laws became the norm. Insurance and government regulations became more and more intrusive. People expected more and more from the government and that meant more taxes and more laws. If you didn't live the change, you can't understand it. As an example. We live in a small town of 1800 people. We had 3 doctors and they were all available at any time of day. Now there's none. 7 service stations. Now there's 1. He operated a small farm and he did maintenance on his own equipment. Now it's impossible because it's all electronics and you could lose your warranty if you even tried to work on it. We had a landing at the back door, made of cement that replaced a wooden landing back in 1966. 7 years ago, his insurance company told him that he would no longer be covered if he didn't put a railing on it, so my brother and I did it. This rule was mandated by a government agency. We didn't lose our freedom to a marching army, like he saw from invading Nazis. Instead it was a slow encroachment of government controls, regulations and mandates and EVERY time it was an assault on his wallet and freedom. He's now 92 and it doesn't matter as much to him because he's at the end of his days but he's not blind, either. We're losing our freedoms, one law and regulation at a time and the slow relentless of it doesn't hit like tsunami. We're more like frogs in boiling water. I've seen it because I'm 70 years old. My daughter hasn't seen the change but she knows something is wrong. The way things are going, my grandchildren will never be able to afford their own homes. I feel so bad for their futures....even their present but the regulations keep coming, tying our hands in a tighter and tighter grip. They will never live the lives that my dad or even I've had. That freedom has slowly evaporated away. It isn't that we had it so good. It's that the good that we had is being lost and the ability to work hard that allowed to build good lives from nothing, has been taken away from those who have to live today.
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  275. A lot of people have an irrational hate for Trump and that's a big problem. When you base your decisions on extreme emotion, whether it be love or hate, you'll make irrational decisions. I've never seen such severe hate, for one person, in all my 70 years of life.
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  276.  @scoobynoddabot..3163  Go away, troll.
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  277. Pausen Think Told it to who? The neighbour? The local police? A newspaper maybe? I like judging people from my couch, too. She was born into a bad situation and stuck with it. It's too easy to condemn how a young person reacted to an overwhelming tide of autocracy and tyranny, some 70 years ago. It's over now. The war is over. Time to move on.
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  278. That's because most people don't understand what science actually is. They can't get that science is a methodology and not a set of facts. The Theory of evolution is a result scientific rigour and not fact even though all the rigour indicates that this theory holds true. However, one repeatable experiment can change that theory so it has to be either revised or abandoned. That's how science works. As for the Theory of Evolution, it doesn't appear that any science will force us to abandon that theory....just in case someone out there still doesn't get what I mean and starts to call me a creationist or something.
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  279.  @zimbabwexx1589  Tough one. The best advice that I can give is to seek the truth. Not YOUR truth, or the popular "truth" or what you want to be true, but real truth, whether it hurts or not. It's not easy because you have to look inwards and you have to honest with yourself, as much as you should look outwards, but it's worth it. You can't make a decisions in life, that will have any value, if you haven't sought out ALL the information available to you. Be true to yourself and to others and you'll have given yourself the best opportunity to have a meaningful life. Life can be pretty tough and there's no magic bullet to prevent the bad things from happening. All you can do is arm yourself with a desire for honesty and that will help you through the bad times because they will come. That and to work hard and take responsibility for what you do, good and bad. No excuses. It's not easy but it's the best way. I didn't find inner peace until I made those things my way to live.
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  280.  @sthubbins4038  I saw the videos.....all of them. I saw them fighting with security and then busting in. I saw Ashli Babbitt being shot by a Capital officer. I seen the footage of security opening doors for the "insurrectionists" and then watched them wander around the building, taking selfies. What I didn't see were fires and wanton destruction all over Washington. I didn't see the National Guard or troops go in and arrest the "insurrectionists" and clear the Capitol Building. In fact, most were arrested AFTER the "insurrection" was over. Your "MAGA" supporters have ONE bad incident. That's 1, one more than ZERO, and that's all that people, like you, talk about. Portland had 131 days, IN A ROW, of rioting. That's just one city!!!!!! There were riots in Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Provost, Chicago, Detroit, Louisville, St. Louis, Dallas, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bakersfield, Boston, Columbus, Denver, Des Moines......do I have to go on??? There's LOTS more and all in one night!!!! "Yeah but..but....insurrection". You're delusional.
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  281.  @sthubbins4038  I've read that audio that you've spammed all over another video. Bannon was only saying what he thought would happen. It's not proof. You're only reading into it what you want to read.
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  282.  verdammt23  Keep thinking that and someday, when the far left has taken over the Democrats, they'll win an election. That's when the US will really start down the same road that Venezuela did. These far left socialists are a new thing in the Democrats. They'll destroy the country if given the chance. Vote for anyone, but whatever you do, NEVER vote the current crop of Democrats into power. They would tear the country into pieces, maybe even worse than the Civil War did.
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  283.  @50tv70  Muslims make up 18.1% of the country we call "Israel". That doesn't include Gaza, which is 100% Muslim. That means that Palestinians DO live in Israel and they have the SAME rights as Israeli Jews. They can vote, run for office, own their own homes and businesses, join the military and police forces, just like Jews can. In fact, it was a Muslim judge who sentenced Ehud Ohmert, who was once the PM of Israel and a Jew, to prison in an Israeli court, for 16 months for corruption. The UN can say what it wants but that doesn't make it true.
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  284.  @jberrocalucf  He's NOT intersex. He has XY chromosomes, which means that he's male. He may have a condition in which his genitals don't appear like it should. However, the rest of his body is a male body. Also, testosterone isn't the only difference. The genetics of having XY chromosomes would give that person greater bone density. Their stance would be different due to a woman's need to have a pelvic region that would safely accommodate child birth. That would add extra leverage to throw a punch. The shoulders are different as well which means 50% greater shoulder strength to the male, according to the National Institute of Health. This has been programmed into the very genetic differences between men and women. The testosterone may add muscle strength but the physicality of the male, denser bones, pelvic and shoulder differences, greater lung capacity, bigger hearts.....all add to the advantages of one that is born with XY chromosomes. To add, Ali had greater boxing skills than Foreman but Ali also had the advantage of having the bone density, the shoulder strength to counter punch, the leverage of his male stance, male lung capacity and the strength of his larger male heart to offset the muscle size of Foreman. The Italian boxer doesn't have any of those advantages over her XY opponent to offset the testosterone advantage. Genetics is exceptionally important and as for the outrage? I have 2 grand daughters who play rugby. This scares me and I have every right to be afraid and outraged if this happened to the girls that I love.
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  285.  @kooh301  He didn't know. He heard the rumours. What could he have done, anyway? "A guy, that I play basketball with, told me. I don't have any other evidence than that." I've heard lots of rumours to accuse people on gossip isn't an ethically way to behave.
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  286.  @insuchaway  A politician? You bet and he wants to be elected and that's why he's doing these things. However, he moves and speaks so easily and freely with those employees and has a way of coming off as genuine. That's something that Biden and especially Harris can't seem to do. It's a gift.
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  287. Every time the leftist media does something like this, they enlarge the Trump base. It's as if Trump is paying them to act that way. When are they going to learn?
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  288. Which is an identity.....a biological identity. Biologically, I identify as a man. Why, because my biology has set the parameters of male identity. You can play all the Orwellian word games that you want and I'm still a man.
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  289.  @ShadowKatt  And you WON'T debate it. YOU'RE correct and should never be questioned, challenged or disagreed with. People are still individuals, EVEN your children. They will think, do and say what they will as part of their struggle to assert their newfound maturity. I know of a family where 6, out of 7, of the kids are all hard working, some a little religious and have raised wonderful kids. One daughter, the second child of the 7, has had drug and alcohol issues, been in and out of jail, worked as a hooker, has been in religious cults, and the rest of the family looks on in complete confusion and dismay. I know that they had good parents because those parents are my parents and that sister is MY sister. One of the cruelest things that you can do when parents are going through hell, with their children, is to tell them that it's ALL their fault. It's a blanket assumption and doesn't look at individual situations. It's so easy to sit in judgement of others, even when you don't know them.
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  290.  @thistime757  A world wide pandemic is the reason for the recession, NOT Republican policies. If you watched the video, the states hardest hit by the recession are all Democrat states. So, if I understand you correctly, this recession is NOT the doing of the Republican party. In fact, if the Democrats were in power, the US would be in a worse recession than it is right now.
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  291. I believed the hype around Russian collusion....at first. But after noticing that EVERY bombshell revelation went nowhere, I started to have doubts. Eventually, I knew that they were lying. The Mueller report verified it. Now the transcripts are showing just how deep this stuff went. You don't have to like Trump. That's not the issue here. You have to be honest......THAT'S what's important, and honesty was forgotten by the Democrats and their left wing propaganda arm.
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  292. kai sanders You tip because if you don't, they'll have to pay them a decent, living wage. That means your food bill goes up to cover the cost of increased wages. Tipping keeps that increased cost an option and NOT forced on you if the service is bad. Tipping also encourages the server to try to do everything possible to make your meal a pleasant experience. You don't have to tip poor service and, as a server myself, I would encourage you to not tip a bad server. It's how they make their living and if they see that others are making more money, they will either be forced out of the business or change their attitude so they can do better. You don't have to tip. It's still up to you. Enforce a no tipping rule and what used to be covered by tips will be hidden in your final bill and it will leave no incentive for a server to be the best that they can be. In the end it will cost you MORE money to get poorer service.
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  293.  @blankname6629  It's not a contest. Sandman didn't just go through a hard time. He was maligned by a press that intentionally printed falsehoods about him. Those falsehoods caused a huge flood of hatred and threats (punchable face and throw him into a woodchipper) that hasn't gone away to this day....your comment being proof of that. If a kid, any kid, is abused, the abuser should be held accountable. Sandman was abused by a MSM who claim to have the trust of the people. Instead, they used that impression to abuse a 16 year old kid. Those liars should be held to account. What has happened to others is irrelevant to Sandman's case.
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  294. I spend most of my time, while watching The Five, preparing to cringe when Juan opens his mouth. He never fails to disappoint.
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  295. Good for you. If you don't want children, don't have them. However, there are many women who chase a career and then find that they want children when their best child bearing years are behind them. That can lead to a heartache that someone, like yourself, may not understand. Anyway, we welcome all cat ladies to vote for Trump.
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  296. I'd comment but I've already been banned for giving my views on this war. It would appear that supporting Israel goes against their guidelines or something.
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  297.  @mmhmm9271  The question is really, do YOU believe that non-human life has moral value. If a mosquito is sucking blood out of you, do you swat it? Do you live on land that was once the home of a wild creature, displaced because YOU needed a home? Are you willing to admit that you have life because non-humans have lost their lives and homes to make room for you? Would you take a medicine to kill non-human life living within you? Where does your sense of morality begin and end? Do you really know? I just did the same thing that you did. I questioned YOUR morality instead of my own just like you questioned HIS morality instead of YOUR own. You're not going to fix him. You can only fix yourself.
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  298.  @Diana-yn2ho  Style over substance. My Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is like that. Looks good, says pretty things and does NOTHING. Who cares what he looks like? Let's see what he can do.
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  299.  @scoobynoddabot..3163  Instead of whining about bots, why don't you explain why so many Democrats backed up the "defund the police" movement? You can't and you won't because you're a troll.
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  300.  @1i11ies8  She said "LOCKER ROOM". In a locker room, people are changing from street clothes into athletic wear and part of the ritual, after the sporting event, is to shower off the sweat and grime. If they're naked, you will know. Your argument lacks logic. It's like saying that if someone hides a camera in a locker room or bathroom stall, it's just fine because you won't even know that it's there. It's okay for a trans person to make teenage girls uncomfortable and frightened, because you won't even know that they're there. If a male goes into a locker room where my daughter is showering and changing, I WILL go after him. I don't care if he "claims" to be transgender or not. As far as I'm concerned, he's no different than the sexual predator who's pretending to be a Catholic priest. I protect FIRST. Everything else is secondary, including the "feelings" of someone who may, or may not, be hiding behind a transgender mask to satisfy a sexual urge.
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  301.  @cshelley5658  I watched that video a few years ago. They wanted to discredit her....really bad. When a satellite image shows North Korea as a black outline amidst of sea of light, you know that there's a big problem here. There are so many reasons to know that North Korea is an horrific place to live, yet you center in on the one video and decide that THIS has to be the truth. You're either deluded or a liar.
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  302. I know people that watch it religiously. If you tell them that CNN is full of it and maybe they should start fact checking their stories, they get mad and call you a Trumpster. You can't tell them that this has nothing to do with Trump and that's it's about the facts. They're hearing what they want to hear and nothing else.
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  303.  @TheRealSamPreece  So you cook pork thoroughly, killing any parasites that might exist. However, domestic pork is generally parasite free as they are treated against parasites. You do the same with wild game. You cook it through because wild animals are generally suffering from parasites.
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  304. "Doing the devil's work" is just a phrase. It's something that you say when you believe that someone is doing wrong. You don't have to be religious to appreciate the meaning of it. Ukraine is a democracy. Zelensky was elected as the president of Ukraine. That's a democracy. They do have serious corruption problems. There's no doubt of that. Don't dismiss the entire message because but certain phrases don't sit well with you. If you're waiting for the perfect message, you'll be waiting forever.
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  305.  @erichufnagel3474  They didn't go broke. They are being FORCED to stop farming. The Netherlands was one of the most productive farming nations in the world and farmers were prospering and were 2nd, in terms of finances, in food exports. It's ideology that shutting those farms down. Also, for the rest of the farms to remain profitable, food prices will have to go up, affecting the poorest people of the nation. As this "food" ideology spreads around the world, food production will go down and prices will go up. It's basic economics. That will have a HUGE impact on the 3rd world. Sri Lanka tried the same thing as the Netherlands are now and their food production went down around 30%. That's devastating for a poor nation. Inflation went from around 5% to over 130% in 2 years. You're doing what you're doing on your own choice and at your own pace. If it doesn't work, you can slow it down or reverse those choices where it hurt you, financially, the most. Dutch farmers aren't given that option. As a world wide practice, this could spark outright starvation. The Covid epidemic lockdowns have forced over 250 million people BACK into abject poverty. Abject poverty is earning less than $1.90 A DAY, American. Not an hour....A DAY. They make LESS in a week than the minimum wage per hour in California or where I live, in Ontario, Canada. If you force food production down...how many MORE people are going to be facing that kind of oppressive poverty and starvation. These are UN numbers. All this to appease the idea of "responsible eating" as described by Klaus Schwab of the WEF.....a millionaire elitist who believes that he knows how to "reset" the world in his own image. He's convinced all his fellow elitists and industrialists that this is the way to go and it's going to destroy the most prosperous economies this planet has ever seen. The prospects are horrific.
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  306. He should have asked her this. "I'm a man. Can I get pregnant?" She could really tie herself in knots trying to answer that one.
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  307.  @pmcguinness3041  If you played with matches, at your house, and caused fire damage, don't come to my house and play with matches. That's what he's saying. Some people can't make that link between cause and correlation. They refuse to admit that they may be part of the reason that things are going so badly in California by their voting practises. Please don't come to our state and burn it down, too.
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  308.  @michealjr5352  And if it was YOU sitting there with your wife and small child and this big guy was standing right in your face, screaming at you, how would you know that he wasn't about to kill you? Are you saying people don't get killed or physically assaulted on the subway? You are one naive individual. That crazy man was capable of anything.
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  309. Nailed it.
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  310.  @colby6608  Do you know what? I'm glad that Trump is gone and I'm extremely unhappy, that Biden is the new president. People seem to have this idea that if one person is bad, that every person that opposes him is good. Just because Hitler was a horrible man then, because Stalin fought him, Stalin is a good guy. I don't buy that. I think that Biden is another corrupt swamp creature in Washington and his past record validates my assessment. You can gloat, all you want, that there's another swamp creature in the White House, but Biden is NOT a good choice for president. No more than having Trump as president.
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  311.  @abrasionequation4632  Or are the agents of chaos those who, in their Socialist zeal, saw Trump as their enemy and they CREATED the chaos to get rid of him. One of his major objectives was to loosen China's grip on the American economy. That wasn't going to sit well with the big corporate executives or with bureaucrats. The tariffs that he imposed, the trade war with China, hurt them all in their big offshore bank accounts. So every time figures came out that this was helping the blue collar worker, the corporate media, the Democrats and the Rinos went all in to dispel that news as a fabrication. "What about the farmers" they'd cry. It was the same with all the BLM and Antifa riots. "Mostly peaceful protests" they'd say. "Antifa is a myth, an idea". It was a coordinated attack against a populist movement, the "deplorables" of middle America. If he was the agent of chaos, the Democrats were his "Number One", the ones pulling his strings.
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  312. Well....if you make a good plate of spaghetti sauce, I'd be proud have you make me some and to culturally inappropriately sit and eat a plateful with you. I'll even bring the wine, inappropriately Italian, of course.
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  313.  @BST-lm4po  Hate speech doesn't apply to white men.....although.....some say he may be Hispanic.
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  314.  @humanactivated1017  There you go. You say nothing of value. All you did was insult Peterson and anyone who would agree with him in any way. It's a smug, elitist attitude, one that's driven without any intellectual insight or logic. It's a "cheap shot" attitude towards people and ideas.
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  315.  @sdowdsd  You're absolutely correct. Racism is alive and well and you're the prime example of one that's perpetuating that abhorrent behaviour. Too bad that you're racial obsessions will never allow that blindfold to lifted from your eyes. "dude's probably upset because his daughter is kickin it in Harlem with the "brothas" and he can't stand it" Way to go. You're managed quite a few racial stereotypes in that short sentence and threw in a big assumption as well. Typical of one obsesses with skin colour.
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  316.  @travisfoster1071  So no judge has EVER signed an unlawful warrant? That has NEVER happened? Wow....them judges must be saints.....and ALL of them. Anyone that has a warrant to search their premises and doesn't have a lawyer go over the warrant, is an idiot. Why? Because there are such things as unlawful warrants and only the most naive would think otherwise.
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  317.  @Honorablebenaiaha  While you're being thankful, thank Biden for resuming the war in Syria. Nothing says "grateful" like killing, maiming and war. After all, they sure do need that oil pipeline to Europe....but NOT the one that brings oil to America. People, like you, are only good for making stupid "Cheeto" remarks.
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  318. They changed the language of the opinion piece because they wanted language that would prompt prejudice against the writer. It's their, no so subtle, way of saying that she's wrong and they want the reader to feel that way, too. They manipulated her opinion to reflect their own opinion on what she wrote. Disgraceful.
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  319.  @CaesarCassius  Copying and pasting the same thing over and over again isn't much of an argument and leaves no room for discussion. Endlessly, repeating the same statement is another form of mindless chanting. You should be a thinking, mature human being not a drone.
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  320. I half expected him to say "What about Jan 6th huh!?!? But you don't want to talk about that, do you."
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  321. If the Democrats want unity, the first thing they would do is to ensure the integrity of the elections. That would make so many Americans happy but I don't think it's going to happen. They'll feel that it would be an admission of election fraud and they won't do that.
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  322.  @M.J.212  If the Federal government was doing its job, the state wouldn't feel forced to take matters into their own hands. It's easy to sit in an office in Washington doing nothing but complaining. Not so easy, to live along the border, while thousands of foreigners are trespassing on Federal and Native American land.
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  323. So....holding the severed head of the president is a crime. When is that woman going to be arrested.
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  324.  @patriotpastor59  What would you suggest he do? Do something? Do what?
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  325.  @annep6723  You know this...HOW??? Let's hear this "inside" information that you seem to have.
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  326.  @bornyesterday1895  "From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free" If that happens, there will be almost 7 million Jewish refugees, if they're lucky enough to be alive. No matter what, as long as this slogan lasts, there will be refugees, you beauty.
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  327.  @adambrocklehurst4211  We're not talking about Trump. We're talking about a situation in Seattle. The "Well, Donnie does it, too" excuse is about as childish as it gets. The problem in Seattle is this. Were these people allowed to show their beliefs or not? Is the mayor and those, protesting these Christian worshippers, violating their right to free speech, the first Amendment. Pointing towards Stalin, Mao or even Trump is irrelevant to what happened here. Also, the world doesn't revolve Donald Trump. You might find it more useful to expand your interests beyond the obsession with Trump. It's rather one dimensional. You're probably just a troll, anyway.
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  328.  @alostsoul68  If we looked up every person in history, we'll find out that every one of them had issues. It's not so much that historical figures, modern ones too, were flawed, it's the journey that took us to where we are today that has to be remembered. Not just the saints, because in reality that perfection doesn't exist, but especially, ESPECIALLY, the flawed saints. We have to remember them because that's who we are. Flawed human beings. "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis
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  329.  @wickedwood04  Maybe you should read the Time Magazine article about how the 2020 election was "fortified" to ensure the proper outcome. How the Democrats, Rinos, Big Tech, the Corporations and the media all worked together in their hope to get the right results. Explains why twitter, Youtube and Facebook wouldn't allow the NY Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop to appear on their platforms. How unsolicited ballots were sent through the mail, approved by state government edict, which is against the Constitution. How any attempt by Republicans to ensure that votes were properly accounted for would lead to accusations of racism and vote tampering. Imagine, supporting the idea that a voter shouldn't have to present an ID to vote. Yet it's the Republicans that are cheating? Okay....if you say so......?
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  330.  @whumanbard  He was just telling us what his grandfather and others had told him. What's wrong with that? There are all kinds of stories surrounding past events and we should learn them all. I'm NOT supporting the Klan, either. I'm just saying that we all have a right to tell our own life experiences. We may not like what he's saying but that doesn't change his impressions or even the truth of the circumstances surrounding his family and the Klan. It's just ONE story. It doesn't justify the violence that the Klan perpetrated while trying to support the Democratic party. It doesn't even justify the existence of the Klan. Quit with the emotional reactions and grow up.
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  331.  @afarissar  They NEVER said that. It was "Believe all women". You're changing the mantra to suit your own agenda. Dishonest as it gets.
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  332. I'm sure that he's scared but he doesn't let that stop him. That's the true test of courage.
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  333. I remember that, too. If you were doing wrong, the last people you wanted to see were people from 60 Minutes. Now, they're just a bunch of talking bobbleheads.
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  334.  @RichardMack-r2h  Then watch the entire meeting and show us how Zelensky did nothing wrong. It should be easy if you're correct. However, all you did was attack Megan. She had NOTHING to do with this meeting and is irrelevant to the situation. The meeting is there for anyone to see. I didn't see Megan there and I didn't know that you were there, either. It's all on the video of the entire meeting. So....use THAT video instead of attacking someone who you obviously dislike.
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  335.  @TheProphet49  You can criticise them all you want. You just can't celebrate the murderous attack on innocent civilians. That's horrific and pure evil. The minute you take, what appears to be a lifeless teenage girl, who's completely naked, place her on display in the back of a truck while people spit on her, you've shown yourself to be the heart of evil and anyone that would approve of it must be JUST as evil and disgusting. If you would approve of soldiers, opening fire on teenagers and young adults at a music festival, then there's something wrong with you. This isn't about criticising them. It's about the horrors of pure violence and hatred and anyone that would do that deserves no sympathy.
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  336.  @bobshenix  Yes, I was aware of it. So what? Lots of people have worked with the UN from all types of different ideologies. That doesn't mean that they're UN mouthpieces. Hell, I was once married to a woman I thought the world of. Now, I wouldn't give her the time of day. Also, it didn't go over my head. I thought it that trivial and inconsequential that it wasn't worth mentioning unless you went there, specifically, which you did.
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  337.  @ktcarroll4723  He was more likely some ideologue, thinking that he was fighting for his leftist cause. He thought his presence would reflect on the integrity of the protesters. A weak and stupid man, seeking glory for his new socialist world. There's a lot of nuts out there.
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  338.  Yedolf  If they can take away Trump's rights, they can take away YOUR rights. You'll laugh about it now because it's against someone that you don't like but when they go after you and you push back, there will be those who will laugh at you because they don't like you. I stand for both YOUR rights and Trump's rights. You would only stand for your own rights and those who align with your beliefs. Everyone else doesn't matter. This has been the way in ALL tyrannical systems.
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  339. If only the people here in Canada would see what's is store in our future. It'll be the same as the chaos in Europe if we don't smarten up.
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  340. If only the victim had been transgender. AOC would be happily weeping for this poor woman. I know that I'm being cynical but this stuff is so maddening. I wish I'd have been there and in a position to save this woman. I'd gladly do time so she could be whole and healthy, again.
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  341.  haseeb2167  Can you show me a time, over the last 100 years, the maximum life span of almost everyone, where there was no war going on? I can't think of any time where that happened. Why is THIS war so divisive? Could it be due to an ideology which will always villainize those of Jewish heritage? I'm going to say that's exactly why some people are so pro-Hamas. It has nothing to do with decrying violence. It has to do with group identity and the hierarchy of oppression. Israel is a rich country and Gaza has urinated away all their money and opportunities, spending it on a huge tunnel network and the production and purchase of weapons of war. The successful are always that bad guy, according to this ideology. They want everyone to fail equally.
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  342. Had me in tears. What a damn good show.
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  343.  @zakofrx  The day Trump says the this is bad and to get ready for country wide quarantines, that's the day the country goes into full blown panic. You're not going to like the outcome. Take it easy. I've bought extra supplies so I can last 4 to 6 weeks, if necessary, locked in my home. I replace those supplies as I consume them. I'm at a loss to understand why everyone doesn't do the same.
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  344. The one thing that modern "liberals" can't abide is when people decide to form their own identity and then invite others in who believe in the identity of self and the freedom to believe, express and live their lives in that freedom. They're extremely intolerant of that group of individuals......individuals being the central theme of the group.
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  345.  @A_Jeff  And WHAT does that have to do with refusing service over political affiliations. That's against the law. You're allowed to screech every day of the week for decades....centuries if you want. That's a freedom of speech issue. Even YOU can screech your nonsense without being censored or discriminated against. That's a human right.
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  346.  @maxbrazil3712  The "Stop Oil" crowd have been disrupting traffic, spray painting buildings and damaging property for years and you're all upset over one noise maker. Wow. Funny how the rules only apply one way.
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  347.  @gabepizza  The media is, by proxy, slamming all those who are fighting the virus. Jim Acosta, going on about lack of PPE's and masks and that he heard if from "un-named" administrators is slamming FEMA and Army Corps of Engineers, all the top medical people like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Brix. It's not only asking why Trump didn't act sooner. It's asking why the good Doctors didn't use their influence and expertise to expose the lack of caring from Trump. Why didn't Acosta frame his questions differently. He could have NAMED an administrator that was having problems getting needed material and asked what this guy should do to help in acquiring things that is needed. Challenge the president to offer solutions. Trump said that they had the needed equipment. Have him show the chain of procurement and how it works. Ask the president, POLITELY, what department this administrator should contact. Instead, he leaves the impression that he never did talk to any administrator and this entire dialogue was engineered by Jim Acosta as vehicle of denigration, bereft of facts and unfounded allegations. If Trump would have come through, Acosta would have done a good turn by helping people in dire need. If Trump had failed in any capacity, Acosta would have shown where Trump was failing. No conjecture. No vague allegations but a real time line of events. However, Acosta would NEVER do that because if Trump came through, THAT would counter the news picture that Acosta was trying to paint. It's not about the news or the facts, it's political theatre and that has nothing to do with being a Trump supporter or not. Acosta is a journalist...not the opposition party. You can apply that same weakness to almost all the MSM.
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  348.  @BurntToast502  If the current system is facilitating child trafficking, there needs to be a large investigation. If these allegations are found to be true, the system DOES need an overhaul and there may even be need of prosecution. As it is, our current system sounds awful and the only way to fix it is through transparent scrutiny and a whole new way of handling the problems that these entities are supposed to solving. The system sounds awful already.
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  349.  @473kittycat  Of course you had problems. Do you know why? There's no such thing as a problem free life!!!! You do the best you can with the situation at hand and try to mitigate the effects of the problems that you're facing. It's how we handle the problem of life.
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  350.  @lao8006  HUH????? We're talking about an athlete and here you're going on about Trump. What is with this obsession? I say "peanut butter". You say "Trump" I say "Legos" Again...you say "Trump". Is it even possible for you to speak on a subject without going on about Trump? But if you want to play that stupid game.....how long has Hilary been claiming that she actually won? That she was cheated? Funny how that was different? So if you want a record holder for taking a fit over losing.....Hilary Clinton is WAY ahead of Trump. It's people like you that made me swear that I'd never vote Democrat again. The lack of self awareness coming from that party and its supporters is insane.
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  351.  @seanmcintyre131  Hello from Canada. I've been waiting 7 months to see a nose, ear and throat specialist. Haven't heard work ONE from them. Add that to the 14 years that I've had serious sinus issues and I didn't have a doctor to refer me to a specialist. I'm getting close to 15 years with constant sinus pain. I finally, after 23 years of no family doctor, found one last December. That set me on my next wait to see a specialist. I know a woman who waited 16 months to make an appointment with a hearing specialist. They finally called when she was at work. At break, she checked her phone and called the specialist right back. The receptionist said that it was too late, the time slot was filled and she'd have to contact her doctor to schedule another appointment. When my friend complained, she said "sorry" and hung up. We have serious health care problems here and we're not going to fix it by continuously comparing ourselves to the United States. Stop worrying about their system and start fixing what's wrong here. This "out of pocket" stuff about the US doesn't help us one bit. We need to improve OUR system, not their's.
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  352.  @Treespiritofficial  Normally, you'd be correct but because of the identitarian nature of CNN, it deligitmises them even more. CNN has placed themselves in a their own little bubble and the more people, that are supposed to identify with their narrative, that call them out, the deeper the hole they'll dig for themselves. She did the right thing by using their card against them.
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  353.  @pavango3812  If they're working to pay bills and put food on the table, that means that they have a JOB. Do you know what every citizen of the United States that has a JOB possesses? A Social Security number. You have to have it to pay income tax and to file your income to get a tax return. A Social Security number is all you need to apply for a mail in ballot in Georgia. So your "working to pay bills and put food on the table" trope is pure nonsense.
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  354. @The Real Joe I don't accept cheating. PERIOD. If you support those phoney women competing and beating real women, then you support cheating. Also, you're engaging in identity politics and bias. Not ALL women support this stuff. You'd quite happily allow young women athletes to lose scholarships and negate all their hard work to excel, because you want to believe that these young women "want" this. I've yet to meet a woman that thinks that this is ethical. Stand up for what is right. It's what "men" are supposed to do.
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  355. Eventually, those burn victims will be told to stay home because their appearance will trigger people. It has to be the logical progression of this mindset. These people will make someone else's horrific injuries about themselves. That's as narcissistic as it gets.
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  356.  @raymond3803  Since I'm 20 years older than what you are, I will say that this is the worst I've seen in my lifetime. Yes....there's always been terrible events in history and the Vietnam era was a turbulent time. I remember watching TV, with bated breath, to see how the birthday draft went ad breathing a sigh of relief when my birthday came up late. I knew people that came back from Vietnam physically and emotionally scarred for life. However, it pales with what's going on now if you look at it objectively. We are in a era where there are serious talks of the United States breaking up. That shows just how divided the country is. The most serious threat to the Union since 1860. It will turn the world upside down. The Hunter laptop story would have dwarfed Watergate 30 years ago, but now the media either lies about it or ignores it. This is the worst time, for the US, that I've seen and I've seen a lot.
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  357.  @dangreene9846  45% of those, infected with Covid, in my district, are 100% vaccinated. Another 5% have 1 vaccination. It's almost as if getting vaccinated makes a big difference. This entire thing is what hypochondriacs live for.
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  358. An austere Muslim scholar.
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  359. I hope that it doesn't happen. Keep to your principles and the best to you.
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  360.  @Fredman5551  So what. The truth doesn't have an expiry date.
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  361.  @AvengedKittyLP  It's NOT the sentence. It's the fact that they want her to say that she did something wrong when she was being attacked. She's drawn a line in the sand, saying that she will NOT have that on her record and I don't blame her. Don't take the easy way out. Fight those who would force you to lie. Keep your ethical standards as high as possible. If everyone had the integrity that she has, we wouldn't be in the mess that we're in now.
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  362. Boris B Give an example of how he is preaching.
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  363. James Biggar No one should threaten the life of another over a tweet, but this woman is not a novice at social media. She knew full well that this type of comment would generate a reaction. Of course, she had no idea what the extent of the reaction would be, but she knew that reaction would not be positive. This was not a mistake. This is clearly what she believes and she's using this tragedy to elicit the responses expected to achieve notoriety and to demonstrate just how nasty the white male Canadian really is. I'm of the mind that this response is, for her and others of this mindset, a validation of her original tweet. To her, the response to her shows that the Canadian outpouring to this tragedy is motivated by Canadian racism and white male privilege. No one is perfect. That's undoubtedly true but this was not a mistake. It's a calculated move on her part and that makes it intentional. 2 plus 2 equals 5 is a mistake. However, this is a her honest conception of why so many were so strongly affected by this accident. Only the most insensitive, boorish person would basically go into what has become a national funeral parlour and insult the mourners that are showing their respects. It's a shameful display.
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  364.  @samualcrocket1405  I'm only allowed to vote in one district. Maybe it's because I'm a Republican. I can't be taken to fault for what suburban moms are voting for. I'm a country boy and we ALL vote red. I'm extremely suspicious of a Party that thinks that showing your ID when voting is racist and wrong. I think that it's common sense and so do most countries around the world. At least the countries that have elections believe that.
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  365.  @andrewbolingo  The Reimers were uneducated blue collar workers, just like my parents were at that time. Good hard working people but I had more education when I was in grade 8 than what either one of my parents would EVER have. They depended on the abilities and knowledge of doctors because they had no access to information like we would today. Even reading was a problem for them. Now, YOU sit in judgement of people, who lived in a time, where learning these things were near impossible unless you went into post secondary education. That's NOT guilt. That's the reality of life before the eighties for most adults. If you had asked my parents to define the term "critical thinking" back in 1965, they would have given you a blank look and shrugged their shoulders. It just wasn't something that the average person would know in those times. It would be like asking a Viking to define "airplane". It was way beyond them. That doctor took advantage of naive, uneducated and desperate parents, with little to no recourse but to go to someone that had the credentials to help them. Unfortunately, the man, who was being touted as a genius in academic circles and on TV, was no better than Dr. Mengele. The blame rests ENTIRELY on the shoulders of Dr. Money, no one else. He was an ideologue, eschewing scientific processes to find fame and glory. Someday, he will be remembered as a Mengele clone.
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  366.  @shak9558  I never said that it wasn't true under certain circumstances. I did say that they do it when not given a choice and maybe when the heat is that excessive that they do it as a survival instinct. That means that I do agree that it can happen. However, in MY experience, they don't normally do it and have demonstrated to me, a guy with nearly 20 years experience, that it's not normal practice and that they will intentionally avoid it, for the most part. The exception is not the rule and you don't make rules of behaviour based on the exception. That's not that hard a concept.
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  367. Yes they do get arrested. I've had them arrested. I had one couple arrested and the guy told me he was a cop from out of town. I told him I didn't care if he was the Pope and she was the Virgin Mary, they were leaving. They refused and they were arrested and they were white and dressed quite well. Break the rules and you'll be required to leave. I can't answer for what happens in South Africa but here that's the way it is.
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  368.  @lenellmarshall6595  I'm not a religious guy but that's both prescient and extremely hilarious. I'm going to use it to laugh at my leftie friends. I'd say "laugh with them" but they lack a sense of humour and I doubt that I'll hear any laughter from them. It could explain why the left hates Christianity so much, though.
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  369.  @shawnski001  When people find out that you're watching Rebel Media, they lose their minds. I don't agree with everything they say, on principle, but they show me things that I need to hear to get a full perspective. The regular media, in Canada, might be worse than the American media and it's awful. When a retired bartender, living in a basement apartment, in another country, can find the real clip of the Covington kids in ten minutes, proving that CNN and their ilk are lying.....NOT WRONG, but lying, that proves that the media, in both countries, are completely corrupt. Thank God for sites like this and Rebel Media.
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  370.  @laurakrajnikburick2731  Every poll worker should be heavily instructed to look at name, date of birth and address. It should be stressed that checking all 3 is as close to mandatory as it gets. If that's already being done, it's laziness on the poll workers part. If this isn't being stressed, it's either laziness or ineptitude on the part of those who are looking after how voting is done. This shouldn't happen. Also, this has NOTHING to do with MAGA. This could affect BOTH parties. If you think that doing things the correct way is the MAGA way, then you should be voting MAGA. Why would you support the party who would excuse doing things the incorrect way? My last name isn't a very common name, yet I had to go all the way to the number 52 to get my YouTube handle because there were that many who have the same name as I do. There are over 38,000 James Smiths in the US. Duplicate names are extremely common and all poll workers should go through the procedure when checking IDs.
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  371. That's exactly what's happening. A Black life gone during a police action and it's tragic and despicable. Thousands of young black men murdered in the inner city....that's a statistic. Great use of a quote, Ellie.
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  372. Implying that she'd make sure that she would always be in the right place. How anyone could say that is astounding and appalling. She disgraced the entire LA fire department by saying that.
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  373. I shingled roofs for 20 years. I would carry 60 - 85 pound bundles of shingles up a ladder countless times a day, many times up a 40 foot ladder. I have YET to see a woman do that. I have friends who are in the Toronto fire department and these guys are built. I'm fairly strong, 5'10" and 185 pounds with very little fat, but I'm quite comfortable saying that there's no way that I could compete with these guys and I'd be embarrassed to even try. I'll freely admit that. Why can't these women? There's no shame in it. Be good at what you do and have the courage and integrity to admit when you can't. That's what a person with a sense of honour would do.
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  374.  @user-qm9ub6vz5e  If you're from the northwest, everyone right of Mao is a white supremacist.
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  375.  @gobbletegook  Even if he spent years in his mother's basement, he was FREE to leave at any time. The door wasn't locked. That, DAG G, is the issue not your mocking description of his life. It was obvious that he was free to leave that basement because he showed up in Washington on Jan 6th.
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  376.  @darkdaddydirty2504  What does Trump have to do with this? Can't you look at any issue or news event without invoking the name of Trump? What's with this obsession? People, like you, sound so irrational.
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  377. Dragrath1 He knows this the same way I know things. I sit here on my couch (I lay sometimes) and I think. Think big thoughts. After a lot of thinking, I know. Once I know, I get on the internet and tell people what I think and know. It's an easy process......and you thought going to school was the only way. Think about it. Go over to your couch and think.
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  378.  @Zurround  So you've NEVER known a woman who was vindictive or vengeful. That's an impossibility. Also, it's NOT the conversation that's the problem. It's whether that woman has the vindictiveness to claim that the conversation was something nefarious when it wasn't. A woman doesn't have that threat with other women. A man doesn't have that threat with another man. It almost always happens in a male/female interaction and it's always one way when it does. It doesn't even matter if it's rare. Once accused, a man's life could be destroyed. His wife might leave him. His children might become angry with him. He could lose his job. He might even be prosecuted and all because one woman, ONE woman because that's all it takes, made a claim that wasn't true. Why would a man take that chance?
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  379.  @TheMaverickq  Zelensky needs help from the United States. So he goes to the US, hat in hand, right to the main office of the president of the US, and picks a fight with him as if he's entitled to the money and arms that he wants. He's not entitled to ANYTHING. This has to be the dumbest possible way to ask for help when you're in a war that you can't win alone. It's a complete lack of decorum in someone else's "house". The next time you go to the bank for a loan, start yelling at the loan officer after he gives you a deal which would guarantee that loan. You'd might find yourself escorted out the door and asked to never come back.
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  380. John Deckenbach They've been helping low income families for decades now. What they've found was that they're not working their way out of that low income bracket. When you go to a National Park, they'll tell you not to feed the wildlife. They tell you that so the wildlife doesn't become dependent on human handouts. There's lesson there somewhere, if you want to take the time and think about it. Help them yes. Help them to help themselves. Give a man a fish and you feed him for that day. Teach him how to fish and he'll feed himself for a lifetime. That's true help.
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  381.  @soldierofmisortune4413  Trudeau is gone unless the people in Ontario and BC haven't learned their lesson, yet. I'm in Ontario and I'm shocked at how people still support that guy. They complain about the cost of housing and they can't realise that when you bring in 4 times the immigrants than you have housing starts, housing costs will go up drastically. You can explain it to them till your blue in the face and they'll keep saying that the government has to do something but NOT that.
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  382.  @blackquiver  Your comment sounds contradictory. If the oppressed have no voice, haven't they lost the means, free speech, to Liberty? Your comment is quite baffling. You'll have to dig a little deeper than that because I'd really like to understand your point.
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  383. We have no choice. She's now coming to our side and it does no good to remind her of it continuously. Then we'll be no different to those lefties who chastised her for being upset at her for saying something about her assault. Their behaviour caused her to leave the left. We don't want to throw her back. We need all the help we can get to rid us of our horrific Democrat administration.
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  384.  @erenjaeger1738  But it's also the land of the Aztecs who would cut your heart out and sacrifice it to their gods. I'm pretty sure that "buddy" knows this and is glad that he doesn't have to worry about a neighbouring nation, invading and using him as a sacrifice. Much better to live in a Christian NATION, that won't cut your heart out, than to live as a "nation tribe".
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  385.  @jadedspades  "I was wrong and I will say it". If you'd have watched the video, you'd know that she said this. People make mistakes and she reported on what she knew or thought she knew. It's not so much that she made the error. It's what she does when she realises that she was wrong.
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  386.  @thesean3194  There was a subway car FULL of witnesses and they all said the same thing. Neely was having a bad episode and that they were ALL terrified for their safety and lives. Your "you were there?" question is ridiculous.
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  387. It's not the federal government. It's the state and local governments. Policing is mandated down to the state and that's how it's handled all over America. The Federal police, the FBI, only handle matters that cross state lines. Maybe you don't remember or don't WANT to remember, but it was the various municipalities that wanted to defund the police after the George Floyd incident.
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  388. @Xavier E The article that you recommended said nothing about ID policies. It as about Gerrymandering. If that strategist engaged in the illegal rigging of voting districts, we should find out who helped him. Illegal acts should be punished. Also, every western nation requires an ID to vote. It's normal procedure and just plain common sense. Arguing that because a Republican did something wrong therefore we shouldn't be required to show ID to vote is not just illogical, it's rather foolish. And pretending that this article has everything to do with ID policies is dishonest.
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  389.  @garypatton9720  Really? Until Covid the US had the best economic numbers in history. This is a Democrat state, with Democrat policies. Why isn't the government and the mayor doing something about it? A lot of these people have drug, alcohol and mental issues. It's not because they need a job. It's because they either don't want the job or they can't hold onto one. We're a nation of crybabies, sitting around waiting for the government to do something. That's why there are so many homeless. The homeless are sitting around waiting to be rescued and the left is yelling at the government to rescue them. Time for people to grow a spine.
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  390.  @charmian1962  Better that she was back in jail. It doesn't matter that she's a changed woman, that she's trying her best to be the very best that she can be....she's black and she should act like it. Right? No individual agency. No self worth. Black and she'd better act it. What I've just described is the very soul of hate and racism. She was pardoned because she deserved it, not because she's black.....and another thing. All Americans should be your people, not just those with a specific skin pigmentation.
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  391.  @jalander8817  You've NEVER heard the term "Islamophobe"? I'll bet that you have and you've even used it on those who would criticise the religion of Islam. I wrote a piece about why I would never convert to Islam, back in 2006 or 7. Even that was enough to get me called an Islamophobe. Even back then if you had the nerve to say that Islam is NOT a religion of peace, you'd get a huge backlash. The left has been very protective of Islam and has been for a long time, now. It was part of the Trudeau litany against the protesting truckers last winter. "White supremacist, misogynist, homophobic, Islamophobic, fascist" that's the go to argument that you get from the left wing and has been for over 10 years now.
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  392. "They should have been able to bake that bread. We gave them the flour. We may have to discipline the worst of those bakeries. Put them out of business. That'll give the remaining bakeries the incentive to work harder" That's been the recurring theme in all socialist nations. My brother was in the USSR in the late seventies. He was in a cab in Moscow when it started raining. Every vehicle stopped dead and the drivers got out of their cars to fix windshield wipers in place. When my brother asked for an explanation, the cabbie explained that there are only so many windshield wipers made each year and they always run out. So people will steal wipers any chance they get. To prevent that, people were taking the wipers off the car, when it wasn't raining so the wipers aren't stolen. That's socialism for you.
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  393.  @linguaphile42  He shouldn't have had to go through this process to be able to vote if the person who checked his ID checked the ENTIRE ID. It's not just the name. There are 38,000 James Smiths in the US. However, not all of them have the same birth date and if 2 of them do, which is probable, it's highly unlikely that they live at the same address. This guy had to go jump through hoops just because the person who was trying to "help" didn't help at all. To "try" implies failure. As soon as the poll worker was told by the guy that he hadn't voted yet, he should have dug deeper into the identification to match them up. That poll worker either didn't do that or that information wasn't available to him and THAT'S a failure of the system. The American voting process is a disgrace, especially with the technology available today.
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  394.  @jberrocalucf  Elevated testosterone. So, it would be okay for other female boxers to ingest testosterone to reach the same level as this Algerian boxer. I'm sure that the Italian boxer was browbeaten and bullied until she apologised for her "antics". Also, one can be a good boxer, one who has been trained in the art of boxing, and still lose to a mug who has a hammer for a fist and greater bone density that would allow them to absorb the punches of their opponent that doesn't have that advantage. That means one good punch from the bad boxer could defeat the good boxer. The one that the Italian boxer said is that she'd never been hit as hard as she was in that match. That would be explained by your vaunted "elevated testosterone levels". It's also why the boxing association disqualified the Algerian, last year, in the world's in India.
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  395.  @Caitgreenham  They were bullied into a situation that had never happened before and they were completely unprepared. Everyone of us has been in similar situations, not as high a profile a situation, but I can bet that almost everyone has changed their route home to avoid a bully. It's a natural progression of maturing over our lives. She was lied to, gaslit, bullied and it was rammed down her throat. She was still a VERY young woman who always tried to do the right thing and even questioned her own beliefs. She tried to understand and then realised that there was nothing to understand. Now, she's gone public and willing to take the consequences no matter what they might be. It takes some people more time to find their courage and strength. It took her awhile but she found it. Unless, you're trying to smear her because you don't like her stance, you should try to understand what she had to go through and applaud where it took her and the position that she's now taking.
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  396. Good question. My sister lived in the US for years, illegally, before she was finally caught and shipped back to Canada. She's a red head and as white as can be. Skin colour was not the issue at all. She didn't go through the proper channels that we ALL have to go through. It's really strange how you and I can know that but the media types don't seem to get it. Anyway, don't go to the US. You're a lot better off here in Canada.
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  397.  @MikeBrown-go1pc  No....the right respects the Constitution, the law and the Democratic process. They are adult enough to accept a setback and move on. Only children obsess over a loss. Adults know that setbacks are a part of life.
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  398.  @alanguages  The KKK were intimidating black voters, in the south, to prevent them from voting for Black Republicans. There were NO Black Democrats, in those days. It's the same thing that the Democrats are doing today. Look the other way while their groups, the KKK back then and Antifa and BLM today, wreak havoc. Sickening.
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  399. @No1 Talk about a genius. Taxpayers don't give the value of their own property so to assess their tax bill. That goes to a tax assessor. If that were the case, EVERYONE would undervalue their property to avoid taxes. I've bought and sold 3 homes. Every time I was TOLD what I had to pay in property tax. Also, the bank won't give out a loan on property if they don't know the value of the property. Deutsche Bank has done business with Trump on different occasions BEFORE these loans and this bank had a good idea what his property was valued at. If they don't know, they hire a real estate appraisal firm to assess the value of the property and then inform the borrower if he overvalued the property. They do NOT call the police. That's ridiculous. They refuse the loan or will only agree to loan a portion of what was asked for. Deutsche Bank even sent representatives to the court who testified that they were satisfied with the application and said that they'd have given Trump the loan even if his assessment were HALF of what he actually gave. Letitia James saw a man that she hated and then went looking for a crime. If they can to it Trump and get away with it, they can do it to YOU. The precedent will have been set. What ever you do, do NOT piss off a neighbour, friend or even family member who might be a DA, a prosecutor or an officer of the court. You might find yourself in court over nothing. Malicious prosecution is a real thing. Look it up for yourself.
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  400.  @faikawilliams8694  She's jealous? LMAO. What a foolish comment.
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  401.  @AllAboutMusicMovies  Why not? He may have some interesting points to consider. Why do people want to dismiss things from one sentence? You don't even know the person.
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  402.  @anacc3257  He won't have to pay up, though. Not one of them would dare to set foot in Gaza, let alone start protesting as members of LGBTQ. They'd prefer to be brave on an NYU campus.
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  403. Ignore them and that'll just piss them off. They'll escalate because they want people to take notice. "Pay attention to me!!!!" They'll set a building on fire and if that doesn't work, they'll set 2 buildings on fire and continue until a fire runs out of control and people get killed. Then we can't ignore him, anymore.
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  404. "Segregation today. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation FOREVER!!!!". Those were the days, weren't they?
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  405. @Fact Checker Are you saying that, in another 8 weeks, it will be 40 million dead? That's the logical and mathematical conclusion of exponential growth. There will be more deaths, but it won't be exponential. It's impossible. Pandemics run a course. It always has throughout history. Once enough people, a percentage of the population, have been exposed to the disease, in a given area, the new infected cases decrease dramatically. The flattening of the curve is designed, not to decrease overall exposure, but to spread that exposure over a longer period of time so hospitals aren't driven to over capacity. That's what would have caused higher death rates. So far, the US has been very successful at keeping cases below the capacity line and flattening the curve.
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  406.  @HollyMoore-wo2mh  They'll get a talking to for not turning off the mic. That's all.
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  407. No they wouldn't agree that the child has a right to live. If that were true then you wouldn't be able to find anyone that would carry out the abortion. They don't care about the life of the child. They care about themselves. "Me first...everybody else, second".
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  408.  @StrawHat83  Chomsky's a great socialist and an even better capitalist. LOL.
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  409.  @marcgrundfest1495  I don't know about that. There are lots of men cutting off body parts and calling themselves women, too. Doesn't sound rational to me.
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  410. LOL. That's 18,001 lies, according to the Washington Post. Isn't it time they changed the name of their newspaper? Washington was a slave owner and they honour him by calling their paper the W...... I can't say it. It's too horrible. I'm going to my safe space.
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  411.  @Behindthecurtain-s1o  You can't even spell "lieing" correctly. It's "lying". What are you? A 13 year old troll?
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  412. That's not the problem. The problem is a bloated bureaucracy that will do the bidding of those obnoxious Karens. Karens will always exist but we've let our government grow to the point that they can now respond to the whims of Karens without having to justify it. There's a rule for everything. That's why we have to vote for the movement that wants to pull back on that bureaucratic over reach. Going after the Karen only treats the symptom, NOT the real problem.
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  413. @Donald Thorpe If it's not your job to inform us or make us care, then shut up. Leave us alone. Why would someone who doesn't care keep mouthing off, anyway?
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  414.  @noobandfriends2420  Says the woman who has the money to live in a gated community watched over by private security. She's the one with Privilege, with a capital "P". She lives in LaLa land, in a make believe magic kingdom. She has no idea what the rest of us live through.
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  415.  @mikiandfriends1820  No one passed on anything to those young people who worked hard and became old. They did it for themselves. My parents had NOTHING. They didn't whine because no one passed on to their generation. When you're willing to get out and work the 60 to 70 hours a week, you'll have something to make bank on, too.
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  416.  @sonofizzy  It's a bot. It posts this same message all the time in FOX YouTube comment sections. Pay no attention to it. I've been reporting it as spam but apparently YouTube doesn't mind annoying bots.
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  417.  @mr2_mike  But you do understand.....right? That's the way of the elitist. "I will show you. You cannot possibly have the know how that I do. Follow ME". Get off your high horse.
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  418.  @akram379  Why? Because he doesn't like being associated with pedophiles, when it's not true. I don't blame him. I'd be a little pissed myself.
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  419.  @brentiers  It's the law. She was breaking the law. It's so simple that a 4 year old should be able to understand it. All she had to do was put her hands behind her back and accept that she was under arrest. She'd be alive right now. Pissed off....but ALIVE. Instead she resists and pulls out a gun. Everyone knows NOT to pull a gun on a cop. It's stupid beyond comprehension. Fight the charge in court and you LIVE. Pull a gun and you DIE. Please stop giving people stupid advice.
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  420.  Sophie Blessed  So what if he is? I'm a recovering alcoholic and I haven't touched a drop of liquor in 9 years. Are you going to sneer at me, too? Why don't you grow up.
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  421. In the late sixties, I let my hair grow longer, like the hippies were doing. My dad told my I looked ridiculous and like I was a druggie or something to that effect. I didn't like it at the time but by the time I was 21, I got over it. By the time I was his age, 35 years old, I'd have been embarrassed to even talk the way he did about his parents. My parents are human and of course they made mistakes. However, they housed, fed and clothed me till I was old enough to look after myself. That's all that anyone really needs to know about them. The rest is just superfluous noise. He's a crybaby, a synonym for victim.
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  422.  @johnkendall9831  The Covid relief package shouldn't have been anymore than 50 pages long. It should outline which Americans need help and how much they should get, how to better protect the vulnerable and the rest of the nonsense shouldn't be there. I don't care who supports what I just outlined, whether it's Trump, Paul, AOC or who it is. This is a COVID RELIEF PACKAGE. Whatever Rand Paul voted for, in the past, is irrelevant. Is this a good package or not? PERIOD. If you think that we need to study Pakistani gender issues, start your own damned foundation. We're facing a serious health and economic crisis. Let's deal with that. Adding riders to a bill like this is no better than blackmail.
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  423. @Henry James You can go everywhere else to hear that. If there was a person there, at this round table, that was a proponent of critical race theory, it would turn into a fiasco of arguing and accusations. It wouldn't be a discussion. I would prefer to hear their ideas on how this is hurting us without someone interrupting and calling them racists over and over again.
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  424.  Sophie Blessed  There you go again. You're so eager to denigrate but you never give any examples of what you're talking about. It's just more "tis too" type comments. You sound like an 8 year old.
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  425.  @bt9704  Any reasonable person arrives with appropriate skepticism about any statement made no matter who says it. It's the basic tenet of academia. "Test the claim". That statement by Fox's lawyers is a "DUH" statement. Anyone who puts out a statement and then doesn't want anyone to validate that statement is hiding something. Even Tucker admits that he gets carried away and lies. He doesn't want to but he's human. So stop with the name calling. If he says something that you disagree with, point it out and gives evidence to prove that he's wrong. Name calling means nothing. Don't argue "people". It makes no sense. Argue ideas. People are complex and unpredictable. Ideas are foundational and are to be discussed and validated. That's how the mature academic approaches people and life.
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  426.  @EytanKoch  I'm saying that the hierarchy of oppression is the excuse, the reason, why those silent feminist groups ARE silent. They believe in that hierarchy of oppression....NOT me. When I say "The hierarchy of oppression has spoken" I'm not only mocking them, I'm saying that this is what they believe. They've weighed Palestinian oppression against misogyny, the oppression of women, and the Palestinians sit higher on the ladder of oppression than women do. That means the Palestinians, to those silent feminists, had EVERY right to rape those Jewish women. The hierarchy of oppression has spoken and the silent feminist groups are obeying. It's why they're silent. I thought that I was being quite clear but apparently my message isn't getting through the way that I hoped it would. I guess I'm going to have to improve the way that I express my ideas.
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  427.  @zonatedspore97acamas  I have yet, in all my 71 years of life, been told by a person in the hospitality field, to do something religious or else. I can't think of one instance where that happened. Never been told to pray or sing a hymn. Never been told to praise Jesus. I've never been able to tell what their religious affiliations were, except by the way they dress and even then, it's NEVER come up for discussion. A religious person can have their delusion. I don't care. However, this actor wants us all to share in his delusion or else he's going to start trouble for us. That's the difference.
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  428. Which begs the question.....Why was Hunter given the use of Air Force 2 to go to China for a business trip? Isn't that plane reserved for official government business for the vice-president? Does that mean that Hunter was acting in behalf of the government when he went to China? It's starting to get a little tangled isn't it.
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  429. "There is no right or wrong. There is only the cause. If it helps the cause, it's right. If it hurts the cause, it's wrong". That's at the heart of Marxist thinking.
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  430.  metalshredmetal1  You don't know what a strawman is. This is sarcasm, a form of humour. When a building is engulfed in flames and a reporter is standing in front of it, saying that things are peaceful, and it happened TWICE, it opens a door to overt sarcasm and mockery.
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  431. Which didn't happen, anyway, because Trump sent Cuomo the ventilators that were needed. In effect, Trump bailed him out.
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  432.  Ryan Lee  Most of us like to eat. Right now, Tesla, even though their car market is less than 1% of the world market, is having problems getting the raw materials for batteries. What are we going to do when everything goes to electric? We will transition but it has to be done through the market economy, where the consumer and the producer can match need to availability. If we try to force it, it will be a disaster, both economically and environmentally.
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  433. When art has an end goal, it's no longer art. Goodbye Hollywood. I loved you in the Golden Age. Now, you're like a bunch of televangelists trying to be artistic.
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  434.  @carlyellison8498  So.....what's wrong with cleaning your room? Since when is that a bad idea? You're not going to tell me that you don't realise that this is also a metaphor for cleaning up your life. YOU can't make my life better or happier. Only I can do that. That's what he's saying. Cultish, I know, but it's the cult of me and the cult of you. Using our own strengths to make a better person.
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  435. @Robert Lewandoski Therefore, I'm going to burn all the cars at the local dealership in Fenelon Falls, Ontario. That should put a stop to it. Sorry for the sarcasm, but this rioting makes no sense, does nothing but create hard feelings and adds to the chaos and I don't get the logic of it.
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  436.  @jonnyjohnson369  You do. You care enough to be here and say something nasty. It shows that you care a lot.
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  437.  @pavango3812  So what you're saying is that a little voter fraud is okay by you. Did you know that there have been elections that were tied? Or won by only 1 or 2 votes? Wouldn't "a few cases" of voter fraud have effected THOSE elections? Both Canada and Mexico require voters to show ID as do countries in Europe. Are they suppressing votes? Weak arguments for something that every adult already has. Everyone has ID and the new laws will allow you to get an ID, in Georgia, FREE. If you don't have the ambition to get that ID before 2022, that's YOU'RE OWN FAULT.
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  438.  @bethbartlett5692  I've read his stuff, years ago, long before Joe Rogan's podcasts. I found it interesting but I dismissed it because he offered no real evidence. Being open minded doesn't mean I have to accept all new ideas. It means being willing to listen, to evaluate and from that come to a conclusion to the veracity of those new ideas. That's my experience with Hancock. Interesting ideas but until there's real evidence to support them, that's all they are...ideas. An idea is as good or bad as the evidence behind it.
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  439. My brother is 23 years younger than I am. I was already married and had an 8 month year old son when he was born. The 2 of them hung out all the time as they grew up. He felt, at times, more like a nephew than a brother but that didn't mean he wasn't my brother. Some of these wokies are as weird as they get.
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  440. It's an analogy. She's saying that all the information surrounding Flynn should be brought out into the light of day where we can all see it. That this light will be the disinfectant that will expose and heal the rot that has taken root in the FBI. I can't believe it has to be explained to you.
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  441.  mariocrivera1000  And then Castro said, "Hold my beer" and started doxing individuals. Not ONE Democrat came out and condemned this action. NOT A ONE. He's a political bully, hiding behind his position to intimidate people.
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  442.  @stuwest3653  She didn't work for that non-profit organisation. She was only on their advisory committee and helped them in their organisational efforts. Sounds like work to me. She told Grassley that she didn't work for them. I remember working at the food bank. I didn't get paid for it as it's a charity but I remember slugging more boxes and bags there than I did at my paying job. Well, I better get back to work mowing my lawn. I'm not getting paid for it but it sure seems like work.
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  443.  @JohnCarterRocks  Huh? Matt Walsh asked questions and the DEI people answered them. They were the ones doing the "discussing". Matt never once made a claim. He just let them talk. I'm guessing that you didn't see the movie.
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  444.  @michaelwilliamson4759  It's still the Holy Land whether it's under the control of Jews, Muslims, Crusaders, Mongols or Romans. Christianity and Judaism have their roots there and Islam also has roots there. Ishmael is known as the father of the Arab people who was the son of Abraham, the father of the Jews. You can't GET more holy than having the world's 2 largest religions having their roots in the area we now call Israel.
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  445.  @PROVOCATEURSK  The Bible isn't allowed in school. Once again....make sense.
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  446. It's like asking a fireman why he's here to rescue me. If he says that he's doing it for the money and a great pension, I'll tell him to "git" and send someone who will rescue me for the right reasons.
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  447.  JblueT  It was one chapter of the Proud Boys with a chapter of BLM. It was an attempt to see if they could ever come together. It doesn't mean that they're allies. Neville Chamberlain talked with Hitler and then said that there would be peace in Europe. You know how well that worked out. Don't be too one dimensional in you outlook on specific events. It may not mean a thing.
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  448. I've been vaccinated and I'm against vaccine mandates, especially when you've already had Covid and have natural immunity. That doesn't make me anti-vaccine. It just makes me pro- common sense.
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  449.  @Erhudreamer  If it was our nature, the organisers wouldn't have to stress that being peaceful is important. The fact that they've emphasised it means that they've thought it through, which implies strategy.
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  450.  @JohnSmith-zo6ir  If you go in guns ablazin, you'll lose. They HAVE the bullets, just like you said and they'll mow everyone of them down if the protesters start acting violently. Worse....the average Canadian will approve. We can't win by outfighting them. We have to outsmart them and by what I've seen and heard, they're not armed with an overabundance of brains.
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  451. Exactly. They didn't do any follow up or fact checking. Never talked to the kids. If they did watch the 2 hour video, they'd lied about its content. Worse, they said that the Black Hebrew Israelites were reading Bible passages. That was a flat out lie. They're not journalists at all. They're social engineers and they're trying to form a society based on their ideology.
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  452.  @xxyes8879  Very few of them go into swimming as a career. It's a vehicle to a free education. If they speak out, they'll be ostracised and brought before the diversity and equity board. If they insist on speaking out against transgender males in women's sports, they'll be kicked out of school as transphobes and bigots. Goodbye free education and their goals for a future and good luck trying to get into another school as a student. It will follow them throughout their academic career. So, they dive into the water and accept their free education. No 100,000 dollars school debts like most students. It's well worth the hard work of training for your sport.
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  453.  Greg Bors  All the Democrats have to do is be better than Trump. That's it. You'd think it would be easy, but look at all the Democrat cities. They're all in a state of decay. San Francisco...the poop city. Portland....3 years of riots. Los Angeles......thousands of homeless. New York....what a mess that is now. Chicago....crime up over 200%. Minneapolis....gutted. Seattle....home of Chaz or Chop or whatever that fiasco was. Atlanta....more violence. Austen, Louisville, St. Louis, shots fired outside the White House in Washington. Baltimore....what a mess that it. Detroit....that's been a hellhole for years. EVERYONE a Democrat run city, some of them for over 100 years. Everyone of them allowing "peaceful" protesters to loot and burn. .....and what do we hear from the Federal Democrats? It's all a myth and white supremacy is the problem. Give me one time during the Trump presidency when white supremacy ran havoc through the cities.
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  454.    Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain have a combined population that's smaller than the United States. Yet they have 23,000 more deaths combined. GET THAT 23,000 MORE than the United States. In fact, Germany only had 10,000 deaths so that means that those 4 countries with almost 100,000,000 fewer people STILL has 13,000 more deaths. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California.....ALL DEMOCRAT STATES....put Covid patients in nursing homes. IN NURSING HOMES. The most susceptible to dying from Covid. The Commissioner of Health in Pennsylvania issued this order and then took her own mother out of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel. You'll ignore all this because...hey.....ORANGE MAN BAD.
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  455. I played hockey. If my heart was broken because someone called me a bad name, I wouldn't have played 2 games. How do you play such a physical sport, like hockey or football, and not be the target of verbal abuse? It doesn't even make sense. I'd rather they called me names than drive the butt end of a hockey stick, which someone did, and crush my left cheek bone. Since when did petunias start playing these sports?
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  456.  @VictorLugosi  Didn't you watch this video? There was a clip of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King referred to Russia and China, of that period, as totalitarian countries. Both countries were bastians of communism in the sixties. If you're going to make a comment, at least watch the video. It'll save you from looking rather foolish.
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  457.  @MarkLewis-l3f  That earthquake happened over 10 years ago. These Haitians have arrived, in Springfield, over the last 4 years. Where were they all this time and why did 15,000 of them suddenly decide to go to Springfield, Ohio all at once? That's just plain bizarre. You can quote government stats all you want but that doesn't explain why this huge influx happened to a small declining mid-western town. I'm sure that they didn't cross the border with Springfield on their mind, unless they thought that's where the Simpsons lived. There's more to this than meets the eye but you wouldn't acknowledge it even if I could prove it to you.
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  458.  @ViralVenom  I graduated high school in 1970 and then went to college and graduated in 1989. We actually learned stuff like Math, English, History, Geography, Science....you know stuff that you can use and helps you to think logically. They weren't about self loathing back then or blame. They'll never get me to hate my own grandchildren, no matter how many of them come along. I accept life as it happens, fix what I can and don't sweat the rest. Although I'm not Christian, I really like this prayer. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." I wish that more people would live their lives by this.
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  459. I agree. I'm going to start a petition to no longer allow bouncy castles anywhere in Canada. Are you with me?
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  460.  @pjmacdaddy124  You're saying that the president should have no time off. Every waking moment should be spent at work. Not an hour of free time. What a ridiculous idea. How many pictures and videos have we seen of Biden at the beach or bike riding? How many times have we went weeks without hearing a word from Biden. Yet, you won't even give this president 2 to 3 hours every few days to play a round of golf on a course just outside his home. It's as foolish as it gets.
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  461.  @4649773  I will agree that there is a lot of hypocrisy here but it's not only from the Trump supporters. Worse, this was bound to happen, eventually. How long were BLM and Antifa going to riot, loot and burn, before there was a major pushback? This was a manipulation by the multinationals, using the corporate media, to downplay the riots all summer and to anger their opponents to the point that it reached last night....and doesn't CNN love it. Their ratings suddenly skyrocketed. This is EXACTLY what they wanted and hoped for.
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  462.  @organicmagic8822  Is that all you see? A Mexican? The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  463.  @biancawilloughby9980  I never allowed my 13 year old kids to drink or smoke or do drugs. Did that make me a tyrant? "It's my body, Dad. You have no right to stop me from doing crack". I never ONCE told you that you couldn't do what you wanted with your own body. However, I will tell you that it's a mistake and patently wrong to intentionally put foreign substances into your body when you're still a child and you haven't developed into an adult yet, both physically and mentally. You think that I'M MAD???? To make the argument, that you just made, like a petulant child, just shows how immature you actually are. If you want to go through gender processes when you're an adult(?), go ahead. You're an adult(?) and you have that right....but to say a 13 year old has the maturity to make that decision....THAT'S insane. Quit acting like a 13 year old....unless of course you're still an adolescent. Then you're saying exactly what I would expect a teenager to say.
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  464. "I don't want there to be a panic" When the lockdown came.....there was a panic. Not me, though. I watched Trump issue a travel advisory, offer a CDC virology team to China....which was refused, initiate a task force to fight the virus, issue the travel ban to China, talked about the virus in the State of the Union Address....the one that Pelosi ripped up, issue travel restriction to Europe, yet allegedly downplayed the virus. I thought that there was a contradiction here. It didn't take long for me to figure out that Trump knew that this had the potential to be bad and he was trying to prevent the "toilet paper" panic from becoming a reality, just in case the outbreak didn't happen. I thought to myself that he was being optimistic, hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. I decided to do the same. When the "toilet paper panic" did occur, I stayed home, smug in the realisation that I didn't allow my dislike of Trump to rule my perception of reality.
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  465. I had someone send me a comment about a transgender athlete, a biological woman, who competed with men and was ranked in the top 15% in the nation. I laughed out loud at this person. Men's world records are consistently 10% and higher than women's world records. Some as much as 18 and 19% higher. This transgender is a good female athlete but she's almost maxed out competing against men. 10% doesn't seem like much but it's HUGE in athletics. It means that it's almost impossible for them to beat the men. It just doesn't happen.
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  466.  @thekingsdaughter4233  I couldn't agree more. I grew up on a small farm with 6 siblings. We started doing small things to help on the farm at a very young age. Yet, we were allowed a lot of freedom to play and do the things that we wanted, even needed, to do. We learned independence. The only thing that hampered our freedom was if we did something that was overtly wrong or harmful. Then we would "catch" it. Yet, most of those rules weren't forced on us. We learned them, sometimes the hard way. Years later, I started working at a paper mill. I was in my mid-fifties. About 6 months into the job, a guy who'd been there for years, asked me if I was an old farm boy. I hadn't lived on the farm since I was 19. I asked him why he would ask that question. He said this..."Just by the way that you do things." All those years later, that childhood was still being reflected in a positive way. It's a shame that kids are unable to have that kind of childhood anymore.
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  467.  @cheesewithxbread  Found the Democrat. Interesting that you've named 2 of the favoured destinations of those leaving California because of conditions in that state. Maybe sneaky is a better word.
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  468. Apparently the people of California believe that their elected officials ARE doing their jobs. Why else would they keep voting them back to office? It's not just the politicians. It's the stupidity of the majority of Californians. They have their heads in the dirt and because they truly believe that the MSM wouldn't lie to them. It's the culture that the left has cultivated and it won't change until the people of California change. I don't see that happening. Too many snobby elites just don't care.
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  469. I think she said this because of the backlash from those who thought she shouldn't be in science because she was a woman. They weren't interested in facts or truth. They just wanted to discredit her and that's not science.
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  470.  @seththomas9105  Nice one. "I know you are but what am I" Haven't heard that one since public school. The Democrats are the party that's ruining California, that wanted to do away with the California Civil Rights Act, who support the idea of fighting racism WITH racism, who have a growing number of supporters who identify, OPENLY, with Marxism, who tried to paint parents as domestic terrorists, who went on and on and ON about Russian collusion but couldn't prove it then went crazy with dismay when the Republicans thought that the voting system has serious issues. I could go on and on. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  471.  @taoriq3632  I was the whiz kid on geography and history in school and this was something that I'd never ran into before and I read entire encyclopedias for fun. 50 years later and I'm still learning and not afraid to admit it. So, step away from your arrogance and accept that this isn't common knowledge for a lot of people.
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  472.  Almighty Black'Man  What are going on about? No one wants illegals to die. They want them to apply for entry and wait until that application is approved. They DON'T want them to sneak in and then claim the same rights as those who are real citizens or who came here after waiting to enter legally. That's what they want. Have you ever heard of a passport? Try to enter another country without one. They'll send you home right quick. I've done a lot of travelling, Europe, Central and South America, and I've ALWAYS had to show my passport. You can't even get on a plane without it. Yet, for some strange reason, these lefties think that the US is bigoted for doing what EVERY other country in the world does. It's ridiculous.
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  473.  @Omega_Sauce  She's familiar with the tactics. She didn't say it was exactly like China. She said that this was exactly how the Chinese authorities behaved during the cultural revolution. The degree may not be the same but the methods were. Why is it that people like you can't understand simple concepts like that?
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  474.  Bob Down  I didn't realise that a company could take away your rights as a term of employment. My right to faith and to express that belief can now be dictated by my employer. I never knew that. No Muslims allowed in my factory? That should go over like a lead balloon.
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  475. Man.....do those guys ever hate white people. I don't know for sure but if you hate someone due to the colour of their skin, isn't that the "R" word? It's bad political strategy. Calling a huge segment of the people, that you want to vote for you, names, isn't the way I'd go.
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  476.  mariocrivera1000  It would seem that you like bullying. That's why you're tacitly supporting Castro's doxing of individuals who donated money to Trump's campaign. That man gave their names, addresses and the names of the companies that they work for for the express purpose of hurting them financially and professionally. That's a rotten thing to do....mean spirited as it gets. That's bullying and it wasn't Trump doing it. It was Castro, a member of the Democrat party. Why don't you comment on Castro's bullying and how YOU support it.
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  477.  @caseydecocker1  He should have told his wife to take the child and leave that car while he stood up to him and try to prevent him from following them.
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  478.  @TheJeffL  First, it's against the law to refuse service over political ideology. Second, they're customers. It's my job and duty to serve everyone who walks in the door unless they came to do harm to the business or people in that business. I'd even serve YOU, even though I disagree with almost everything that you've written on Tim's videos. You're a customer and I'd serve you with the same courtesy as anyone else. People have opinions and that's their right. Disagreeing with someone has NOTHING to do with morals. Hating someone over political differences, to the point that I wouldn't get them a cup of coffee is immoral. It's immoral and refusing service, over politics, is illegal. I'm there to do a job and I have no right to impose my political beliefs on customers or harm a business that I've implicitly agreed to try my best while on the job. That's how moral human beings behave. If I can't do that, then the only ethical option is for me to quit.
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  479.  @dough556  Failed? LOL. A man who has a net worth of 2.5 billion dollars and is now the president of the most powerful nation on the planet, maybe the most well known person on earth.....is a failure? Wow. What's a guy got to do to succeed, in your world? Maybe you should think out your comments before you post them.
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  480. Having been a teenager back in the 60's, in small town Ontario, all I can say is, that if this pandemic would have happened in 1972, good luck trying to impose lockdowns, social distancing, small gatherings and masks. We wouldn't have put up with it and our parents would have been furious at being told that they couldn't go to work. We sure have changed.
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  481.  @TheNewsInASL  I don't care if 2 guys want to get married. It might seem weird but it's none of my business. However, this is about biology and scientific facts that a certain group refuses to acknowledge. Males, who identify as women, should not compete with women in athletic competition. Basic science shows that there ARE biological differences and only those who have no integrity or sense of fair play would advocate for it. In fact, I know gays who agree with me. You're mixing apples and oranges and it makes no sense.
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  482.  @lapatrie6568  Give me a break. Do you really think that Trump wanted the Confederacy to win? What kind of delusional world are you living in? He'd be president of half a country and being from New York, he'd be president of the north, NOT the Confederacy. You don't make sense. Trump wants to bring the troops home out of Afghanistan and the Democrats are criticising him for it. Even if this bounty is true, and I doubt it, the bounties wouldn't be much good if there were no troops, in Afghanistan, to collect a bounty on. It's the Democrats who want the troops to stay there so it would be the Democrats who would be putting troops in harm's way. Funny how Trump announced how he wanted to bring the troops home and then a few days later the NY Times come out with this story about the bounties, from unnamed sources. Really funny. Time to use your brain for once.
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  483. @igen vagy nem When I was going to school, starting in the fifties and ending in the early seventies, parents paid little attention to what was going on in our schools. My parents hardly knew my teacher and would visit once maybe twice in a school year. I think my generation, I know that I did, acted in the same way. We thought that they were being taught, like we were, the basics, math, English, history and the rest and that, in our public schools, there was no such thing as indoctrination. There wasn't when I was in school and started when my kids were there but it wasn't that prevalent, yet. Participation awards seemed stupid but harmless. It was at the turn of the century that it really started. These are the ones in primary school, then, that are now in their twenties and are the hotheads in universities now. It wasn't that their parents didn't care. I don't think a lot of them didn't realise that this kind of thing was even possible. There's been no precedence in American schools of this type of thing. We were ALL naive in how dangerous this could become. It was way beyond our comprehension where this could lead to. If you tried to tell me, in 1984, that this was going to happening today, I wouldn't have believed you. I mean, hundreds of genders.....that's crazy, and everyone alive back then would have said the same thing. We under estimated how stupid people could actually be.
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  484.  @Yes-yp5nn  You were just shown an edited clip from CBS that changed how an audience might view Governor DeSantis and you rail about Tucker. Why are you even here? You have nothing to say about the topic being discussed. You just attack the news anchor. It would be different if you had some insight into why the clip was edited but you've got NOTHING. You might as well have done what a 5 year old does. "Well, you're just stupid". That's the mentality of your comment broken down
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  485. @TimPoolWithoutTheBeanie Then what the hell are you doing here? Do something useful, John, aka Jeff or Yeo-something. Do something useful for a change.
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  486.  @Amehdion  If you can prove that the leadership organised the protests, with the knowledge and intent to have them devolve into rioting and intimidation, then the RICO Act will come into play. One thing is certain, the leadership and founders of BLM, have yet to put out strong condemnations of the violence and killings in their name. If anything they have encouraged it. The leader of the New York chapter said, straight out, give us what we want or we will tear the system down and then added that we can take that literally or figuratively....our choice. They'd better be careful. They could still be charged with aiding and abetting and inciting violence. The ordinary citizen of the US isn't going to stand for it, forever. We need to feel safe in out streets. The Democrats insist we must be safe from Covid. It's as if they're trying to scare us into staying home by supporting the rampages of BLM supporters.
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  487.  @cryonix2069  Because Don Lemon was the one who said that he's black and only HE, of those 3, could talk about all things black and insinuated that he was speaking for the "black" condition. Then he refused to allow anyone else to speak. Had he not kept rudely shouting over his guest and had a real discussion and using his "blackness" to give him the right to verbally override his guest, we wouldn't care. HE was the one to set the tone....NOT any of us.
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  488.  @Mortified42  What's wrong with a woman in her mid "30s"? Besides, maybe she looks that age to you and not to others. You're smearing a person over the way she looks. I thought we shouldn't be doing that. Looks and age have very little to do with competence. Are you saying that I should be judging solely on looks? Think of the implications of what you're saying.
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  489.  @r.farciert  Why are you Democrat supporters so filled with hate? I don't get it. Castro doxes people with the intent of hurting them financially, socially and professionally then here you are, along with other lefties calling people names and being just plain nasty. Lighten up and show a little kindness and respect.
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  490.  @rocklandstone5475  Explain what? That crime has gone up, radically since 2020? No...he was looking for excuses and the excuse that he came up with was "It's better than 10 years ago" which he's using to overlook the raising crime rates of the last 3 years. All I heard him say is "Let's ignore the increased deaths and destruction over the last 3 years. I want to focus on how good it was in 2013". A real problem solver, that guy.
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  491.  @nikolasirovica3250  If you want to keep the region historic, don't let in millions of immigrants. The reason that housing is needed is that the population is growing not because of new births but because of the highest immigration rates in the world. If you support immigration, you have to support new building to house them and provide the infrastructure for economic development. I'm not being anti immigration, either. I'm stating a point of fact. You can't have one without the other. The very people that are objecting against development in the area are the same people that scream discrimination and encourage the influx of more immigrants, both legal and illegal. Explain to me where these new immigrants are going to live if you don't build new homes for them.
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  492.  @theScotian24  They may not care but every time someone refutes them in this way, it'll get people to thinking. That's the Democrat kryptonite. They can't have the people thinking or exposed to facts. Liars give off an odour that people don't like.
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  493. You can't build back better if you don't tear it down first. Part of that is food shortages.
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  494. Tim......have you ever attended math class? I can say I'm 40 even though I was born in 1952, I'm still not 40. I can pretend that I am....but I'd be LYING. Do you get that? It isn't true. Years have a specific length and mathematics still applies. If he wins and tells a woman that he's 20 years younger, he's still LYING. His health could go down hill quite rapidly in 5 years and he would have mislead that woman about his age. That selfishness.....pure and simple. He's not thinking about the woman or any children they might have. It's all about him and him alone. The world is going crazy......really, REALLY crazy.
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  495. A wise man once told me "A woman's not happy till they're not happy".
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  496.  @Seldonlair  They'd call him an Uncle Tom and worse. The left are a disgusting bunch.
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  497.  @theespionageact5249  Armed??? Just how many have been charged with bringing a weapon into the Capitol Building on Jan 6th, 2020? There's was only one shot fired and that's the shot that killed Ashlii Babbitt. They definitely broke the law and should face legal action but the stuff coming out of your mouth is just hyperbole....word salad to us a common expression. The guy in Atlanta shot a police officer and these lunatics are shocked that the police shot back. No one shot back when Ashlii Babbitt was shot. You're engaging in partisan politics and it makes you blind to reality.
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  498.  @EytanKoch  No problem. I made the assumption that you were supporting the actions of the Palestinians on Oct. 7th. At least, we worked it out and I thank you for that.
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  499.  @martymethuselah  Huh???
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  500. I agree. Tell her and the danger of leaks increase exponentially. Trump did right in not telling her.
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  501.  @chrissysvideos  Acosta always amazes me. He's got the ear of the president if he wants it and he's too stupid to take advantage of it. If I owned CNN he'd be down the road kicking stones. Trump handled him perfectly.
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  502.  @el1tubito  I don't need to understand all the workings of my car in order to know how to start it. Put the key into the ignition, turn it and away it goes. It might be of benefit to know but it's not an imperative. Am I right or am I right? I like the Yogi Berra quote that YYY-GUY just gave. "It's Ok if you're not smart enough to understand the truth, just don't be stupid enough to believe the lies." We're just not capable of knowing everything. We have to understand that and adjust so we will know when something is BS or not.
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  503.  @Nyet-Zdyes  I couldn't agree with that statement more.
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  504. I sometimes can't help but feel as if this has been the Democrat agenda every since they failed to stop the Civil Rights Act. They lost the fight to keep slavery so they introduced Jim Crow. When they lost Jim Crow they took on a new tact and a clever one. One where the minorities will gladly and willfully accept apartheid back, in the US, but in a new form. It's just a nagging suspicion that won't go away.
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  505. Who cares? It's a name that we all used for centuries. It's not derogatory nor does it carry some kind of deep meaning. It came as a result of the mistaken idea that they'd reached the East Indies and it stuck. People do the same thing to Europeans all the time. People keep referring to the Netherlands as Holland, which is just one small area of the country who took power for themselves. 200 years later, most of us, who are "Dutch", could care less. People gotta quit the nitpicking and concentrate on what's truly important. The nitpickers are the ones that tear communities apart.
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  506. CNN technical advisor, Charlie Chester, told us that climate crisis would be the next scare tactic. "Fear sells" those are his words. The vaccination program is in full swing with over a billion vaccinations already given. This signals the end of this crisis. They're lining things up for the next crisis and combining it with racism to enact control over our lives.
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  507. LOL. I like this one, too. Tucker Carlson: "Who are you???"
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  508.  @aaronross6545  You forgot to add what Jesus said next. "But for God, ALL things are possible." Also, when asked who was worth of the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus replied "No one." That would include everyone, not just the rich. Once again, the message being "But for God, all things are possible.
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  509.  @jamescole3152  Talk about nonsense.....what weapon did Daniel Penny have? You don't need a weapon to severely injure or end the life of someone else. Grow up and be a man.
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  510.  Jack Richardson  You're just unbelievable. Beyond it. How is it possible that a person could be that intentionally obtuse as to call Andy Ngo a Fascist. You don't even know what it is. Antifa stages riots, in Portland, for over 120 days in a row....that's FOUR MONTHS of continuous rioting. Patriot Prayer shows up for one day and it's the end of the world for people. You really don't have a clue. Now, before you accuse ME of being Fascist, I'm not a big fan of either Patriot Prayer or the Proud Boys. They're playing silly games. However to equate them with Antifa and their violence is so stupid that you have to be lying about it. I have to add that REAL Fascists nearly starved my mother to death during WW2 and put my uncle in a Jewish detention camp, until they found out he wasn't Jewish and put him in a POW camp until the war ended. I have no love for Fascists. Also, do you know what the East German government called the Berlin Wall? They called it the "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall" which translate to English as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". Antifa is short for "Anti-Fascist". The East Germans would stand on that "Rampart" and shoot to kill any East German that tried to leave East Germany. You see, they thought that EVERYONE in the west was a Fascist, exactly what the members of Antifa in the US believe. Everyone, that's not them or doesn't believe in their Marxist agenda, is a Fascist. That's almost EVERY American. You're either a Marxist or you're as delusional as they get.
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  511.  @raystory7059  Empty weight of a B-25 bomber is about 10 tons. The empty weight of a 737 is about 45 tons. The bomber was flying slowly, around 200 mph, because of the fog and he didn't want to hit anything. The planes on 9/11 were travelling twice as fast and wanted to hit those buildings as hard as they could. The Empire State Building had a different basic support structure and facade than the Twin Towers. These factors could easily account for the differences in the final result. Do you know what other buildings weren't hit by planes on 9/11? WTC3, 4, 5 and 6, yet these buildings were also demolished that day. Do you know why? Tens of thousands of tons of debris crashing into them from the falling towers. Building 7 also suffered massive damage from thousands of tons of debris. Check out this picture of the damage at one corner of WTC7. http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/images/articles/911-images/wtc7-side-damage1.jpg A huge cut, into the bottom of the building, 10 stories high, that's 1/3 of the height, and 1/4 of the way into the building......GONE. I'll bet money that you wouldn't live or work in that building if it didn't fall. Do you know why? You'd be afraid that it wasn't structurally safe or secure and you'd be correct. Only a fool would have taken residence there. It was only a matter of time before it did fall. How do I know that it was hit by debris from the falling North Tower? Video of the collapse shows it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEgPNNcdtu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSq663m0G8 Watch these videos. They show how much debris hit building 7 and how it didn't need to be hit by a plane to be structurally compromised. Listen to this fireman talking about the burning building 7 BEFORE the collapse and how it was leaning and there was nothing they could do to stop it from collapsing. He even said that this was because they couldn't put the fires out and the flames added to the structural damage of the building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSq663m0G8 You're making a superficial argument with no real evidence except for your incredulity. "You can't tell me" isn't evidence. It's a defence for a statement of conjecture and that's all you've done.
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  512. I'm glad that he did. Don't be afraid of people like that. He handled himself perfectly and it really showed how absolutely terrible they are. It's time we faced them down on their own turf and beat them with facts and logic.....just like Cruz did. Do it enough and the message will get out to those that only watch shows like this.
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  513. I know I'm a dirty old man but I like the sex appeal. Also, I'm afraid that the left will riot no matter who wins. They've lost all sense of reason or logic. I hope that I'm wrong.
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  514.  @alilover9020  So what? This speech was so moving. It showed what was happening in Israel at that time and it was heart breaking. That people were cheering the slaughter on, as it was happening, makes me sick to my stomach and all that seems to affect you is that you think that he's full of himself. Get over yourself. You're not much different than what you're accusing Murray of being.
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  515. They're getting control with fake altruism. "Don't you think racism is wrong?" Well of course I do. They establish themselves as the good guys this way. Pretending to have big hearts....sort of like a used car salesman.
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  516.  @Pfsif  Because all this stuff is under the jurisdiction of municipal and state governments. None of this is Federal. Every one of those cities that are having issues with violence are run by Democrats. I mean EVERY ONE of them. The Constitution of the United States is tying the hands of the Feds. They can't do a thing until the states ask for help.
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  517.  @t3mpl3tw3  The book "Gender Queer" is one. It's even mentioned in the video. It's described as a graphic memoir of an adolescent into adulthood. It received a great deal of attention when a school in Alaska said that it was too graphic for minors and had it banned. Maybe you should be paying more attention, especially if you have family members who are minors.
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  518.  @boterberg278  As soon as you used the "racist xenophobe" trope, you lost me. That's NOT a political argument. It's a smear job. It's how a gossip operates.
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  519.  @stuwest3653  So, interns don't work? They're just fooling around? I'd say that "representing" this organisation shows a greater commitment to their cause than merely collecting a paycheck. Who would "represent" a charity that they didn't believe in? You might take a paycheck from an organisation that you didn't believe in because you need money to buy food and pay rent but you're not going to give up valuable time, for no compensation, for something that you don't believe in. I think that you're engaging in semantics, just like this woman was. She could have been forthcoming, had she any integrity, and told Grassley of her relationship with that organisation but she omitted it intentionally. She was being dishonest because she was afraid that her involvement might reflect badly on her.
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  520.  @stuwest3653  Integrity revolves around being honest, not disingenuous. She knew why she was being asked this question and she dodged it and she had a reason for her lack of candour. You're using word games to excuse her lack of true honesty. It's everything that's wrong with politics and, apparently, the legal system. It's a rationalisation for being insincere.
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  521.  Jango 129  Hockey, my favourite sport, has been holding back on this but if they start, I'm out. 65 years of being a fan and I'm ready to tell them to get lost. I watch sports to relax, not to have them tell me what a jerk I am. If I wanted to hear how big a jerk I am, I'd call the ex-wife.
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  522. @ I'm just happy if the person next to me is doing their best and will ask for help if things aren't going well. There is no one worse than a person who doesn't care and the worst of them are the ones who have the ability but use it to undermine the efforts of others. I've worked with that type and they're a poison to what the rest of us are trying to accomplish. A good manager will know how to best place a person who may not be the most competent but tries their best. There's nothing that can be done with someone who doesn't care and who's complaining all the time, except to show them the door, if possible.
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  523. @ I wouldn't do it. My attitude is that I was looking for a job when I arrived and I failed and am about to continue my search. It would be the same if someone came in and forced us all to wear the Toronto Maple Leaf emblem on our sleeves. I'm a big fan of the Leafs but don't tell me that I must be one or else. What I think or believe in my personal life is none of their business and is against the law.
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  524.  @kokoskokso  Gawd.....you're something else. Quit making assumptions about people. He was asking questions and she'd answer. You're engaging in gossip, the realm of those with weak minds. Don't do it.
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  525.  @gevansmd1  You make it sound SO nice. However, it's complete nonsense. Harvard is a school for the best minds in America. Period. If they add spots, it's called increasing enrollment and they still should go to the best minds that apply. When you add a spot and say it's ONLY available to a certain race, you're discriminating against ALL other races. That goes against the Civil Rights Act and that Act is explicit on what constitutes discrimination based on race, religion, gender, etc. If schools are failing in their education mandates....FIX it. Don't discriminate based on race in education. Do what's necessary in those schools, so the children can have as good an education as others do. We force our kids to go to school and then refuse to give them all same academic environments. Support the political candidates who would do that. Our primary and high schools are at the heart of discrimination based on race and you're proposing to fix it by discriminating in universities and not bothering a failed education system. What a horrible way of doing things.
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  526. Boris B Your reference to Feynman was an appeal to authority. He's a very high profile scientific figure and his opinions carry weight. It's not as if you used Joe Blow down at the hardware store. You went to a Nobel Prize physicist who gave an opinion, then you placed Peterson into the category that this physicist talked about. That's the very definition of an appeal to authority. "I've thought about this for many years, and, though it's very hard to explain, I really believe it's true" What's this? A professor is NEVER allowed to give an opinion? He even implies that it's an idea that he's formulated. "I really believe it's true." That's not declaring it as fact. That's admitting that it's only him that believes it to be true. He does use statistics but he uses them as they should be. He has used them to show how personality trends differ in men and women. For example, he talked about asking, about a random woman and random man, which of the two would be the more aggressive and if you picked the man, you'd be correct 60 percent of the time. Then he added that 40 percent of the time, you'd be wrong. Why? Because that aligns with the statistical data. He didn't definitely say that men are more aggressive, period and end of story. He said that an assertion could only be applied correctly, 60 percent of the time. He then uses it to say that it means that the outliers of aggressiveness would tend to be overwhelmingly male and says that the facts do bear this out, for example, the predominance of the male population in prison. Peterson has declared himself to be a nominal Christian but he doesn't use those Christian beliefs as absolutes in his lectures. He uses them to show religious archetypes and tries to show how archetypes are developed in literature and religion to reflect and explain how humans have developed emotionally. He uses Christianity the most because that's what he's most familiar with, but he also uses other religious idea in his attempt to understand human psychological development. He presents it in such a way that a belief in a specific religion is necessary to understand how religious thought was a big part of human evolution of cognitive thought. Religious beliefs are not necessary to understand his ideas of archetypes in religion and it's not an exact science because he does use the phrase "I've thought about it a long time" continuously in his lectures. Psychology is a work in progress at all times and those in the field are trying to grapple with things that are difficult to nail down. Peterson is grappling with the psychology of religion and morality. There are no "Eureka!!!" moments in these disciplines. No definitive test tube results. There are indicators, like the Miller-Urey experiments that show that certain processes in the formation of life CAN happen naturally. It may not be the correct process but it does show the possibility to be true. You still haven't shown me an example of his preaching. Just because he became emotional when remembered some of the horrific cases that he's dealt with from his clinical practice, doesn't mean he's a preacher. It could just mean that he's human and has typical human emotions. It's an assertion that you have no way of proving but you like it because you've decided that you don't like the guy. Understandable maybe, but not exactly a valid assertion. A real example of his preaching. I like Michael Shermer and his ideas, a lot, but you're not showing me how they apply to Peterson. You see, that's where an actual example of what you're claiming would come in. That's how you show that you have something that might indicate what you say has a least some merit. It may not eliminate ALL that he's said but then again, no one is correct 100 percent of the time. One incorrect idea doesn't NOT invalidate everything a person says. We'd have to dismiss every assertion made using that as a criteria. Even Einstein made mistakes and offered claims that proved to be incorrect.
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  527.  @repealthepatriotact  That's a misleading deflection. Priest are NOT doing things to little boys. It's not a monolith. Some priests were guilty of it. So are SOME coaches, scout leaders, teachers, Hollywood personalities. They all did it to get access to kids. Priests just took advantage of the sanctity of the confessional which these other groups couldn't do. That's what was the unique problem in the Catholic Church. Also, the seven deadly sins, in Christian terms, is analogous to saying the seven deadly vices. Horace, a Roman writer who lived BEFORE there even was a Church said...."to flee vice is the beginning of virtue and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom." This isn't a Christian invention Vices are the actions that will tear your life apart. A Christian might call them a sin but they're the same thing. Also, I'm NOT a Christian so don't bother attacking me that way.
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  528.  @d.castillo9495  I've seen her being interviewed on ALL the networks. She's a politician and wants to be seen as much as possible. Let's try talking about what she's talking about instead of trying to smear her. "“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” Eleanor Roosevelt. Be a great mind.
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  529.  @curtissharris8914  "Thinking critically and being able to entertain alternative viewpoints" That's what smart people do. Stupid people don't question the narrative. Smart isn't about what you know and stupid isn't about what you don't know. It's about thinking critically and being able to entertain alternative viewpoints. It's a behavioural trait. If you think over an issue in a critical manner and you still don't understand it....say so. Don't just fall for it because some alleged smart person said so. That would make you susceptible to lies and THAT would be stupid.
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  530.  @naturalwitch1359  These people are teaching the kids to hate and she's not to expose them to the school board? "All cops are bastards"???? Really???? But don't tell anyone which teacher is telling the kids that. That's against the rules. I just love how teachers can say and do anything that they want and no one is to find out or speak about it. I suppose if a teacher slapped your kid in the face it would be against the rules to tell the school board about that, too. What a pathetically spineless position to take.
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  531. Connor Barnes As what was mentioned earlier, by your comment you have shown that you do NOT understand the meaning of the word "theory" as it is used in science. In science, a theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world which is substantiated by a set of numerous facts from different areas of science. All these facts are examined and a logical model is created that explains why a phenomenon, such as speciation, is being observed. From there, new tests are devised to test certain aspects of the theory to see if that theory will continue to stand. Thus far, for over 150 years, tests from numerous disciplines of science have shown the theory of evolution to still be a viable explanation. These are tests involving chemistry, biology, physics, genetics, geology, embryology and more and after all the tests that have been completed, there still are no tests that have shown the theory of evolution to be a false explanation. This video is just a part of the tests and experiments that have been done. You say that this is your opinion. That is not how science works....at all. Science works on a body of evidence. If all the evidence supports a theory, the theory will stand as a viable explanation. Until tests or experiments are done that arrive at conclusions that would show that evolution to be impossible, then that theory will fall. It hasn't happened yet, in spite of what some hardcore creationists like to claim. There are still aspects of the evolutionary process that are still not understood. That doesn't make evolution wrong. It just means it's not understood. 30 years ago, science had no idea if the genetic code would support evolution. The code had not been mapped yet. Since then, it has been mapped and everything that they predicted that must be true in genetics for it prove evolution to be correct has turned out to validate evolution. They'll keep searching, just like they have for 150 years, to understand it better and if history is to be an indication of what to expect, the search will continue to validate evolution. I know you won't change your mind. You've decided that your OPINION is the arbiter of science. I'm afraid it's not. No one's opinion is.
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  532.  Sinjinbin 64  Here, I'll tell you this again, in case you missed it the first time. Bravery because they're standing up to those who won't help the president prevent a future where even MORE women would be crowding into that room. They've faced their loss and now their fighting those who don't want a wall, support sanctuary cities and think that vetting immigrants is racist. I've lost a son, not to this, and I know how hard it would be to do what they're doing. So yes.....they are brave and tough.
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  533.  @A_Jeff  Don't be a troll. That woman would throw you in jail for years for smoking a joint, while she's puffing on her own blunt. If you had evidence that you're weren't guilty, she bury the evidence so you'd still have to serve the time anyway. She's done it before and she'll think nothing of doing it to you. That's the trouble with being a troll, John. You'll troll yourself until it kicks you in the backside. Be careful what you wish for.
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  534.  @TT-qo9dv  Then don't scream out "LIAR" repeatedly. Talk with decorum, make your point, with facts if you have it, and then allow the other person to defend themselves. 2 people screaming "LIAR!" at one another accomplishes nothing. That's not dialogue. That's chaos and chaos offers no solutions except an escalation into violence. All that screaming and I still have no idea what he was supposed to be lying about. They could even be correct but it doesn't matter. They didn't elaborate and we're just as ignorant of the facts as we were before they started to scream like demented children.
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  535.  @mamabazzz  He had a knife at a high school track meet. He sits in a tent set aside for another high school team instead of at his own school's tent. He knew what he was doing. He could have left but he chose not to and automatically went into his bag to get his knife. This kid had issues and was the architect of this entire situation.
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  536.  @shak9558  My experience tells me that they only lay in their own excrement if they absolutely must. I would suppose that would also mean to cool themselves, as overheating might be a death sentence. That would mean it's a survival tactic NOT a preferred choice. It's like a human drinking urine. They don't normally do it but will, if they must, to survive. If given a choice, a pig will not sleep in its own excrement. 20 years of cleaning pig stalls has validated this. In fact, my brother and I would amuse ourselves, when we were 10 to 12 by watching them move the bedding from their "bathroom" to the sleep area. They would do it EVERY time. Pigs also like to sleep right next to one another. I would assume that would be for warmth at night and they grow up as part of a litter. Another thing, if you throw some of their food, like whole stalks of corn, into their excrement, they will eat it but they'll only do so when all other food is gone. It's a last resort, which would be a strong indication that they don't like it but will if forced to. You can always go to the rule of exception but exception are not the rule and that rule of exception doesn't explain the behaviour that I've witnessed all my life.
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  537.  @shak9558  What???? You're comparing my experience as a farmer to RAPE? LOL. Man....that's WAY out there. LMAO. I can't stop laughing at this. I gotta go. This conversation has devolved into the ridiculous.
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  538. For all those who've been harping on the Judeo part of Judeo-Christian, Christianity had its roots in Judaism. You can rewrite history, as Orwell demonstrated, but it doesn't change that fact. Judeo-Christian or Abrahamic or whatever you want to call it, those two religions are inextricably tied together. And to forestall anyone wanting to call me a religious nut, forget it. I'm not religious in the least.
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  539.  @UntakenNick  That's a whole different argument altogether. People get scholarships for all kinds of achievements, some academic, others in sports. It has to do with training for a future professional life. And yes, it is meritorious if you earn that scholarship by being the best athlete in your chosen field of athletics. I would be ashamed to take advantage of anyone that way, male or female, if I knew that I had an unearned advantage. It's a matter of integrity and it says a lot about society that this is even an issue. What's particularly galling is that the ones, who push this agenda, are claiming the moral high ground. They have no idea what morals or ethics are about.
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  540.  @queent3343  How does not talking to 5 to 8 year olds about sexual topics, legislate the LGBTQ community out of existence? When I was in school, the teachers would have gotten fired for what some teachers are talking to the kids about now. The LGBTQ community has done nothing but grow and has become more acceptable since then. You can be a part of that community all you want and NOTHING will happen to you. If you start talking to a 6 year old about sexual topics, EVEN IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, that isn't acceptable. I'll have to repeat this because people, like you, don't seem to get it. EVEN IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT, you can't talk to young children about straight sex in the schools. Why is that so difficult to understand? I'm saying that you DO understand it but you just don't like it.
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  541. It's a reward. That's not even close to being a promotion. A sad state of affairs.
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  542. Rhonda Fleming.....I was expecting a redhead. LOL To be serious, good for her for standing up for her rights even if she's in prison. It's disgusting that she was FORCED to be housed with men. Trump should pardon her or at least commute her sentence because of what she was put through and for her fight for women's rights.
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  543. A woman is an adult, HUMAN female.
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  544.  @paimei7143  Socialism, as a general ideology, existed LONG before Marx came up with his ideas. Socialism is a social constructionist ideology and it has many facets on how it should be done. Marx advocated for a workers revolution, in which the workers would seize the means of production. Nazi stands for "National Socialist German Workers' Party". Notice the word "Worker's" party. The Nazi party is the worker's party and when the Nazi took power, that meant that the workers were now in control of the people of Germany and it's economy. The economy is the means of production and the German workers, the Nazis, were in control of the means of production. That's EXACTLY what Marx advocated for. Communists and Fascists see the path to socialism differently but in the end they're both socialists. They hate capitalism, the market economy, that allows the individual to choose what he wants to buy and from whom and the means of production reflects those desires. The state has very little to do with the market and then only when laws are broken. That's freedom. Fascists and communists don't believe in a market society and the means of production is controlled by the state. Fascists and Marxists are both socialist ideologies just like German shepherds and Yorkshire Terrier are both dogs. They're different but still belong to the same group.
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  545. It's definitely OUR biggest problem that he's in the White House.
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  546.  @juniorleslie4804  He's still correct. Groups do need discipline in their members but they also have to get along. If you're constantly telling that group on how some members oppress other members, you will foster a atmosphere of resentment. No company wants that.
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  547.  yourcringe-8  Almost 100% of 15 year old males have engaged in self love. By those statistics, YOU are the weird one. What's really weird is that the same people who say self love is natural are now calling Vance weird for doing something that is natural.
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  548.  @Leester-70  My dad told me about the utter sense of defeat that they felt when the Nazis marched by their farm in northern Holland. He said it was as if the world had come to an end. The oppressive fear was that palpable. Yet, 5 years later, he watched those same Nazis run like hell from the Allied forces. As long as you're alive and you have hope, they haven't won. The only way they'll win is if you let them......"they've already won". You've lost before you've even started. These racist jerks aren't going to win today, either. They may have their victories, to start, but just like the racist Nazis, they will be defeated. We just have to stand up to them.
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  549.  @makeytgreatagain6256  Just because the Mali Empire was gone, that doesn't mean that the slave trade disappeared with it. The area called Mali still exists to this day. Just because there are automobiles in Mali, it doesn't mean that there were automobiles in the Mali Empire. If slaves were being sold to the Arabs, during the Mali Empire, those slaves were chattel. The official definition of chattel is: an item of property other than real estate. (from the online dictionary) If you sell a person, it's recognised property and fits into the definition of chattel. You're sugar coating the practice of slavery. I'm not sure why one would do that.
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  550. Genetic correlation is always an important factor in human relationships. Duh!!! Blood is thicker than water. That's true when you're the king or a princess or when you're living, as a miner, in a small mining town. Your loyalties and social relationships will ultimately be driven by family....who you're genetically linked to or even who you're family has married into. When you meet someone new and you start talking about your backgrounds, the conversation always picks up when you find familial links to one another. That's a natural function of social relationships.
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  551.  @RonnieHarperMA  Ooooh.....what an original comeback!!!! LOL.
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  552. To the left, anyone that doesn't agree with them 100 percent is a white supremacist. We all know it's the far left, Antifa and Socialists that are behind it. If you hear someone claiming that it's white supremacists doing the rioting, you can bet that he's a radical leftist.
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  553. @Bobby Fett They have special tax exemptions and you know it. It's those special exemptions, exemptions that people like you and I don't have, that are being revoked. Disney has no special right to those exemptions just because of their status as a big corporation. You'd think that the Democrats, who are for the little guy, the victim, would welcome this blow against corporate power. Apparently, they're not as staunch a defender of the powerless and marginalised as they claim.
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  554.  @viktorkc1154  You can't have socialism without authoritarianism. He may have believed in socialism but he didn't have the political experience to see that socialism will always end in tyranny. Stalin himself declared the Soviet Union as socialist and that it was an intermediary to a full communist state. Capitalism is defined as " an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state". Online dictionary. This will be verified by any other source that you could name. There is no way the Soviet Union's economy way held and controlled by the private sector. The economy was centrally planned and the goal was to abolish all private property. Socialism requires the co-operation of all. It is the rule of tyranny as every citizen is compelled to make sure no other citizen isn't taking advantage of the system. Capitalism allows the individual to make his own decision on his economic life and financial future. Socialism doesn't. This is Socialism as defined by the online dictionary. "a political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." The community being the state. No private sector. The community controls the economic system and is regulated by the state. An individual cannot build his own business or make decisions on how that business should grow. That is authoritarianism and it is the default position for socialism.
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  555. @Alexis Massey He can speak on anything that he wants. It doesn't make him right and it can be just plain stupid. Comparing an NFL player, who's making more money in an afternoon, then the rest of us do in a year, to a slave is stupid. He has the right to say stupid things and we have the right to tell him that it is stupid.
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  556.  @Syrnian  LMAO. You'd be just the kind of person that I'd never hire to do a simple job. If a balloon defeats you, there's nothing that I'd trust you doing.
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  557. Unfortunately, we'll not wake the students until the leftist teaching staff has been largely replaced. The universities have become the lair of the ideologue professor and they lay in wait for eager young minds to corrupt.
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  558.  @upcycle.outdoorsman9629  It's a subtle revelation into her belief system. She's revealing the mindset of cult of the collective. We this and we that instead I this or that. No personal responsibility at all. If she says something that's wrong, it's not just her, it's all of the "we". Comfort in numbers and hatred of the dissension of the individual. It's why she hasn't said anything of substance. It's all been sneering and mockery. Her thinks that her behaviour is unimportant because she supporting the collective.
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  559. Drake Doragon Yes.....all those negative things are still happening but that's not the point. You're applying individual narratives and then applying it universally. Pinker's point, and he has data to back it up, is that things have been getting better over history and particularly over the last 50 years. He didn't say that things are now PERFECT. He is saying that for the overall planet, things are getting better. As bad as the Korean War was, it's still not nearly as devastating, for the entire planet, than WW2. It's a matter of scale. Hopefully, those things continue to improve over the next 10 years so that the number of people being bombed, tortured, abused or whatever else is LESS than what it is, today. That would be a good thing. Just as it is that the number of people being bombed, tortured, abused or whatever is less than it was 50 years ago is also a good thing. Only the most abject pessimist would say that it's not a good thing and only the most abject optimist would say that things are perfect. Both are seeing thing though a lens of their own making and are refusing to deal with reality.
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  560.  @lisahardy9707  Lying is for those with little to no integrity. You can window dress it all you want but it's still a lie and dishonest.
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  561. "I'm a professor ethics and I think that some races should die off and I will tell you which one should go first" The "Joseph Mengele" of ethics.
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  562.  @remo27  It's about the optics. If I take someone else's kids anywhere, I would make certain that they won't end up in a place that might offend the beliefs of their parents. It's about respect for the the families and what their personal belief systems might be. There are places that are appropriate for 12 year old children and there are places that are not. People have religious and personal beliefs that should be respected. I have friends who are Muslim and I know for a fact, that they would be outraged if their children, especially their daughters, were allowed in such an atmosphere, even if it was closed for adult entertainment at the time. I may not agree with their religious beliefs but I'm not about to encourage their children to do things that might be against their religion. That's just common courtesy, tied in with common sense.
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  563. They think that using the word "critical" makes it sound real sciency.
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  564. I'm not a Christian but I do believe in Truth. I like to say that God is a metaphor for truth but I digress. Kevin Sorbo is a very honest and intelligent human being and I approve of this video.
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  565.  @Bawld_Eegle  I'd lose sleep over it. Any normal person would. However, I'd do it again if it was warranted. Sometimes you have to do unpleasant and horrific things to achieve a positive outcome. Doesn't make it any less horrific, though. In fact, I'd worry about the guy if it didn't bother him.
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  566.  @coop-nr6nm  There isn't a big gap between communists and fascists. Both use central planning as a governing tool with complete control over all aspects of society, including the economy. The only real difference is the fascist fascination with nationalism and they do allow private property even as for business ventures. However, all business is under the control of the ruling entity. Nazis even got rid of the unions in work areas with many employees and placed Nazi officers to take over the roles of the unions. After all, why would you need a union when Nazis are the National Socialist German Workers' Party? You'd have two entities representing the workers and that would be redundant. Also, Antifa is doing the same work for the left as Hitler's Brown Shirts did for the Nazis. People argue with me but Fascists are left wing....NOT right wing.
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  567. I know people that ended up hooked on the opiods that their doctor prescribed for them. Doctors that they've had for years and trusted implicitly. Some are dead now. You have to trust experts to a certain extent but to trust without question is stupid and dangerous.
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  568.  @holthogan5562  Yes it was an emergency. How the media reacted though was appalling. Florida, with the largest elderly population in the US, didn't have the casualties that New York did. Why? Because the governor of Florida understood who was the most vulnerable and then made a concerted effort to protect that demographic. And it worked. Not New York though. First, it told everyone that this was nothing, go out, have a good time, go to the Chinese New Year's Parade, because the Chinese travel ban was racist. Then, when everything went south, they panicked and locked EVERYTHING up, but refused help from a religious group, told Trump they didn't have ventilators, hardly used the facilities set up or the medic ship and then put Covid patients in nursing homes. All this and the media pretended that Cuomo might be a good candidate for the presidency. Then, only 5 days after calling people insane for going to a pool, they called the BLM protesters, good Americans, even after it led to tens of millions of dollars damage, destroyed lives and businesses, people ended up dead and injured and buildings burned to the ground. Hey, but those protesters, that "stormed" the Michigan legislature were thugs and white supremacists and just plain detestable people even though not one punch was thrown, one shot was fired, no windows smashed, no stores looted, no buildings burned and they cleaned up the legislature before they left. Like one store owner said. There were thousands of protesters walking shoulder to shoulder past his store but he wasn't allowed to sell anyone of them a t-shirt because the Covid threat was too dangerous. That's what we're upset about. The insanity of how it was dealt with. "Shame and blame" just like Chris Cuomo said. That's what you got from the media and the left and he was proud of it.
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  569.  @Ryooken  What you said could be true but that doesn't mean that what's being reported of FOX isn't true either. These are all factors and you'd be extremely naive if you don't think so.
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  570.  @tennesseepatriot1950  They're like children that hold their breath in a fit of rage. It makes no sense because it's illogical. They may live here but they've not advanced past the mentality of that red faced toddler. That's why they're so violent and unreasonable.
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  571.  @lillypatience  You're splitting hairs by focusing on the very rare exceptions. We all know what a mother is and we all know that ONLY a biological woman will act as a surrogate mother. That term "surrogate mother" has a recognised meaning and it goes as follows. 1. a person or animal that takes on all or part of the role of mother to another person or animal. 2. a woman who bears a child on behalf of another person or a couple, typically via artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization. : the online dictionary. That means that the words "woman" and "mother" are interchangeable for the purpose of this discussion. The use of the term "pregnant person" is being used as a signal of support to a specific ideology and that does deny the existence of specific group designations that we all know as "mothers" and "women".
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  572.  @manco828  Of course. All kinds of people, crowding onto leaky boats, singing hymns and chanting slogans, as they battle the dangers of the deep, on their way to the Utopian countries of Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. Good old Cuba is letting them in, too. How absolutely delusional the left wing university students have become. They don't have a clue. Like that kid who praised Lenin but didn't know a thing about him. It's insane.
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  573. This is more than a fight for women's rights in sports and personal spaces. It's a fight for truth and reality. I support Riley Gaines 100%.
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  574.  @squidikka  I just asked a question. Don't assume what I think. I just asked a question. What I do know is that I saw a naked teenager, held down in the back of a truck, unable to tell whether she was dead or alive, and people were cheering and spitting on her. It was the most sickening spectacle that I've ever seen in my entire 71 years on this planet. Apparently, she was one of the young people that was attacked at a music festival. I find it difficult to criticise those young people. They were just standing around, dancing to music when they were fired upon and she was probably killed. If you support those who cheered this on, I've not a lot to say to you. The hatred that would drive someone to take part in such horror isn't something that I would EVER support, no matter who it is or who they're against. It's as vile as it gets.
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  575.  @A_Jeff  Both of those acronyms are the brainchild of huge corporate banking systems and investment firms and corporate human resources departments. Are you a shill for capitalist corporate America? I'm not understanding your point.
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  576.  @mnguardianfan7128  You still can't use a bogus charge to get someone who you believe to be corrupt. They just showed an empty 2 acre lot that was being sold for 2 hundred million dollars. Yet, Mar-a-lago, at 17 acres with a huge ballroom and hotel, swimming pool, multiple tennis courts, gyms and other buildings is only worth 18 million? They declared him guilty, without trial and no defence and demanded he pay 350 million in fines. How is that even possible? Hatred is a powerful drug.
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  577. @Florida Violets Have you ever been to Ukraine or the Sudan? If not, does that mean that you don't care about the wars there and the thousands of innocent people that have been killed? YES, I have been to a girl's sporting event. My sister, daughter, grand daughter and a girl friend's sporting event. An incredibly ridiculous statement.
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  578.  @balahkaye  What surprises me is that the government and the CDC isn't blanketing the media with calls for a healthy lifestyle. A proper diet, exercise, fresh air and vitamin supplements, especially Vitamin D, would go along way to prepare you to fight Covid if you do get it. All they say is "wear a mask, get vaccinated and stay home". No calls for treatment or preventive measures via a healthy lifestyle. It's no wonder people are suspicious of them.
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  579.  @R14-m4z  First....that's something that would fit in with the book "Mein Kampf". Second, there's a lot of people of Jewish last names who are strong against those rulers. Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro, to name a couple. What you're doing is looking for the Jewish names and when you find one, that appears to fit, you sit smugly back and feel vindicated. I can do the same thing. Klaus Schwab is German. Now I'll look for German sounding names and I will prove that it's part of a Fascist ideology that has allied itself with the Jews. I'll find those German names, too. I've given myself parametres that will guarantee that I will be correct.
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  580.  @gorkyd7912  An 8.3 BILLION dollar requisition bill, signed by Trump to fight the coronavirus. Trump restricts travel to China in January, followed by Italy, South Korea and Japan. Biden calls it xenophobic. Sets up task force to fight disease and, to show how serious he takes it, he names the vice-president to lead it as administrator and liaison. People say it's full of old white men. Visits CDC to show the public the steps being taken. Washington State tells 2.2 million people to stay home and not to go to work and closes schools. Nothing being done???? You're a grown adult, at least I would hope so. When I heard about this virus, I went and bought extra goods so I could stay home for over a month and could survive a quarantine. I didn't NEED Trump to tell me to do that. I don't HAVE to go to public events. It's a choice that I can make. Not going to a concert or a hockey game isn't the end of the world for me. I'll get by. In what magic world do people live in where, if they make poor decisions, it's the president's fault. GROW UP. Take your life into your own hands.
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  581.  @OpinionFactChecker  It's subjective huh. That's the easy out for those who do evil. "I don't think what I'm doing is evil" as they smash windows, loot stores and threaten people. "I'm stealing for a good cause". Evil is in the eye of the beholder....what a great excuse when destroying the property and lives of others.
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  582.  @sonyso1235  She does care whether her constituents vote for her in the next election. She wants the power behind being an MP. It could well be that her constituents are forcing her into this position. She may not like it but she'll do whatever's necessary to hold onto power. Making your voice heard to your MP does have an effect.
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  583.  @thisismyname3928  Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. It's subjective. i like broccoli. My girl friend hates it. I think she's wrong. She thinks that she's right to hate it. In reality, neither one of is right or wrong. I think that Leavitt is a 10. You think she's an 8. You're not wrong but neither am I. It's an opinion and we all have one.
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  584.  @sapphirelane1714  Of course they did. They managed to escape the "acting white" and "Oreo" slurs in your idyllic school setting. Maybe you should explain the secret of this great achievement. At least give us the name of this school so we can use it as a blueprint to success for ALL students. That would be exceedingly helpful.
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  585.  @jjgreybeard  It says that not everyone, in the big cities of Oregon, are wrapped up in far leftist thinking. It just seems that way.
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  586. Read the books of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali, who was appalled at how Somali and other Islamic groups, behaved in her new country, the Netherlands. When she tried to expose it, she went into hiding for years, due to death threats. The Dutch government financed a body guard and the money that would enable her to be constantly on the move to avoid detection by the Muslims who would do her harm. She finally had to leave the Netherlands and moved to the United States. The threats started in 2003 and she's still very careful to not let her exact whereabouts to be known. That's what that ideology does to those they don't like and they don't like anyone but fellow Muslims.
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  587.  @50tv70  I never said that what the UN says is unimportant. I said that this resolution is based on a false premise. That's a HUGE difference. Even if it was approved by every member of the UN, which it wasn't, it still doesn't make it correct. The truth isn't accepted through a popular votes. Truth, or right/wrong, is reflected and accepted through facts and facts only. What you're doing is appealing to authority, which is known an illogical fallacy. Human history is filled with instances of the majority oppressing the minority. Majority is tempered with a thing called a "Constitution" to make sure that the majority doesn't oppress the minority. Majority rule doesn't necessarily mean correct.
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  588.  @skknireeker9073  And that's the logic that's can't be argued against. I say that the transgender has biological advantages and you say "But they're women". I say that they weren't women a year ago so their bodies still have male qualities that give them advantages and you say "But they're women". I point out that it's telling that a transgender absolutely SMASHES the women's weightlifting record in their first year of eligibility and you say "But he's a woman". I say 2 transgenders, who couldn't make the boy's high school track team last year, break the girl's state high school track records and you say "But they're women". They're are no facts, no anomalies, no sudden amount of women's records being broken by transgender athletes that will ever make you stop and think about the implications. All you'll keep repeating, like a demented parrot, is...."BUT THEY'RE WOMEN" This is unbelievably lacking in intellectual discourse or logic or any consideration for fairness. No human being, with even a modicum of integrity, would EVER claim bragging rights, by wearing an Olympic medal, when they've went form a category of sports where they were mediocre at best, to one where they're now the superstar. Integrity would demand that this should be a source of shame. We have weight classes in sports for a reason. We don't just say "But they're all women" and call that a reason to do away with weight classes. Calling them women does not negate the fact that they're also transgenders, something that a lot of the women's athletes cannot claim. To your mind, all transwomen are women. You'll never admit that not all women are transwomen and that this could be where the REAL problem lies. You only want to examine YOUR side of the coin.
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  589.  @chaseme9860  But discrimination is illegal. The Civil Rights Act says so. Back in the sixties, we were all so proud of that legislation. Now, it's an annoying talking point for far right agitators. California Democrats even tried to get rid of their State Civil Rights legislation but fortunately they failed. I'm sure they'll try it again under another guise.
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  590.  @mariecameron9592  NEVER too late!!!!! Instead of giving them crap, welcome them to the fight. We need everyone...NOT just the ones who recognised the problem right away. Get off your high horse. You're doing EXACTLY what the woke crowd is doing. Looking into a person's history and then attacking them for things you find wrong or offensive. If they change their minds for the good, be glad. We're not going to get rid of this insidious ideology if no one changes their mind.
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  591.  @dracotaz  I'm not really sure what that means....preach politics. People have opinions and they're allowed to have them. However, the Constitution demands the right to express yourself, no matter what that idea might be. If a university doesn't allow that freedom of expression, guaranteed by the Constitution, then they're breaking the law. You can preach politics all you want. That's what's happening at universities. However, you don't attack and quash the rights of others to disagree with you, like they're doing with conservative groups on campus. If a religious institution does that, don't allow them the funding, which is what a tax exemption is. The right to free speech is paramount, even if it's religious in nature. It's suppressing that right that goes against our civil rights. THAT is what he's saying. You seem to be missing the point.
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  592.  @makeytgreatagain6256  Do I have to show you the definition of "chattel" AGAIN. Here you go. I'll make it as it pertain to slavery. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: an enslaved person held as the legal property of another. If you SELL someone, as a slave, they're chattel. It's what the word means. There's NO such thing as NICE slavery. You're either a slave or you're NOT as slave, free to leave or FORCED to stay. When Bulgarians sold Slavic captives to the Turks, they were chattel. The Turks, in turn, sold them all over the Middle East...as chattel. It wasn't nice. It wasn't friendly and NOT ONE SLAV went willingly. Slavery was legal, in some Middle Eastern countries till very recently. In fact, the slave trade was held quite open in Constantinople until 1908. It was then that the trade of Zanj women, who came from the coast of Eastern Africa, and the Circassian women, from north of the Caucasus, was abolished. These women were forced to travel thousands of miles to be sold. Oman abolished slavery in 1970. In MY lifetime. I remember it being in the news. Slavery in Saudi Arabia and Yemen was abolished in 1962, due to pressure from the British government. Not "nice" slavery, either. REAL slavery. In China, it was finally abolished in 1910 after thousands of years of legality. You think that somehow being FORCED to work in the salt mines of Mali was much better than picking cotton in Alabama. Both were awful. While I think that slavery is appalling no matter where it is, YOU seem to think only certain types of slavery should be demonised. If you're held against your will, forced to labour with no pay or used for sex against your will....YOU are a slave. It doesn't matter if you're the only one in town or if there are hundreds of slaves there, it's appalling when the state or ruling class allows it under the law and that has happened all over the world for thousands of years. You want to use the slave trade, of the past, as a rationalisation for your hatred. I want to use that history to show that we're ALL human, given to the excesses that is a part of all humanity. Also, my family originated in Poland. We weren't known for engaging in the trans-Atlantic slave trade although we were likely to trade our fellow citizens to the Turks and other middle easterners. A terrible time in our past but there it is. It was a terrible time in human history....unless you find it important to hate certain demographics. Then we'll just keep pointing fingers at one another till we finally destroy each other.
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  593. ​ @moniquemonet6476  Actually, I didn't see one word about himself in that comment. He was pointing out the hypocrisy of this woman cursing and hating on people that like the Christmas season and its traditions. It's not that it isn't true. She sure wasn't being nice. He didn't curse her, or wish something calamitous on her. He just pointed out that she is what she condemns. Almost like you're doing. Calling him "nimroid" is rather mean spirited and you have no reason to call him "self righteous" as he never ONCE said that he was an example to follow or that he was perfect. In fact, you're much more like this librarian woman than Mooshkajoe is.
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  594. @Cat Poverty in 3rd world countries means that there's a strong probability that you don't get to eat every day. A smart phone is out of the question and you've never set foot in a bank. That's more than "sometimes". It's the norm. You should be grateful that you live in the west
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  595. That's astounding. I had to discover these writers on my own as I'm not and never had been a university student. I actually thought that I was reading the things that I was missing because I never went to university. I assumed that's what you'd be talking about in those hallowed halls. Not as hallowed as I thought.
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  596.  @dasa7921  BS. UK didn't bomb Poland. That was Germany in 1939 and this started WW2. I'm from the Netherlands. My country announced that they were neutral and did NOT want to take part in the war. The Nazis invaded the Netherlands, anyway. Nazi soldiers would go door to door, taking private property from Dutch citizens, food and anything made of metal, to help in the war effort. My mother, because her father had become an invalid, almost starved to death. 25,000 Dutch citizens starved to death and it would have been greater but for Allied food drops. Don't piss on my leg and call it rain. Nazis improved the world.....what nonsense.
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  597.  Dr.HLecter  Sorry. I get it now. You're a troll. Strike my last comment.
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  598. It's similar to how Kyle Reese described the Terminator (Schwarzenegger) to Sarah Connor. It also brings to mind "The Borg".
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  599. Come on. Let me be offended for you. I need my social virtue points to prove what a wonderfully kind person I am. You wouldn't deny me that, would you?
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  600.  @1133saginaw  I'm afraid that politics has been added a long time ago. Almost every question that certain media types are asking are designed to GET the president. They never ask questions designed to help the situation, only as talking political points against the president. Example....Jim Acosta saying "Doctors and hospital administrators say they don't have the necessary equipment. What do you say to that?" It's not a question at all. It's a jab. If he was smart, he would have offered the name of an administrator and where he was from and then asked if there was someone, within the task force, that this specific administrator could get in touch with to resolve his problems. He could do this in and earnest manner. That would have challenged Trump. He would have shown the task force for what it was, honestly and openly, whether it be good, bad or a complete sham. He could have exposed it.....but he's not smart enough. Instead, he offers the same old "un-named sources", nothing specific at all. It exposes nothing and only invites anger from both sides of the political spectrum. He's a horrible journalist and the rest aren't much better. The old correspondents, of fifty years ago, would been embarrassed to what happened to their profession.
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  601.  @bean-spiller  What does that have to do with the migrant crisis? Did you not watch this video? Hundreds of migrants, sleeping in the streets of New York with no where to go but Trump said something stupid about Covid. Okay......problem solved. You're a genius.
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  602.  toronto daddy  The lunatic lefties don't really know what they're supporting.
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  603. @@ryanreed2992 She doesn't think that she's riff raff. She's positive that she's better than most people. That's why she can come on TV everyday and point fingers at others. She believes that she's better than them and that's what gives her the right to be so critical of others. When someone pushes back, she hides behind her skin colour and continues with the finger pointing. Pride and arrogance at its worst.
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  604. When are they going to march in support of the good people in the inner city who are terrorised by the murderous street gangs. Thousands more get killed by these thugs than by the police.
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  605. Not until the election. I just hope Canadians don't vote NDP, the party that has allowed Trudeau to do the terrible things to Canadians by not allowing a vote of non-confidence. The NDP liked the power that it gave them and couldn't care less whether it hurt Canadians or not.
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  606.  @biancawilloughby9980  But would it have been the wisest decision to make? Could there no be consequences, to your physical health, when your body, acting in an evolutionary framework, is trying to do one thing and you're forcing it to do another by blocking its natural course? That's a question that has never been resolved. Whether you like it or not, all the advance creatures on the planet go through a maturation process. Cats, dogs, butterflies, mosquitoes, lobsters and humans all have an inherited process that guide their bodies through maturity. It's been there for millions upon millions of years. It's a basic part of life. Now you're going to change it all by trying to stop the process that has been embedded into our genetic make-up for tens of millions of years. We've been struggling with the affects of chemicals now, in our food and water and the very air we breathe. Now you want to inject MORE chemicals to change the very heart of your genetic blueprint. That sounds like an awful risky proposal to me. I would NEVER recommend it to a 13 year old. You can wish your life away if that's how you really want to spend the only life you have. That also seems like a waste of the only life that you'll ever have.
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  607.  Kaiser Soze  Troll
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  608.  @norman6694  The autopsy said that there was no evidence of asphyxiation. Asphyxiation is "the state or process of being deprived of oxygen, which can result in unconsciousness or death" online dictionary. If he wasn't deprived of oxygen, then he wasn't asphyxiated which means that kneeling on his neck or what appeared to be his neck, was NOT the cause of his death. However, the autopsy did show lethal quantities of Fentanyl in his system. So if there was no signs of asphyxiation but there is evidence of lethal amounts of a poison....Fentanyl, to be specific, we have to assume that it was the drug that killed him and NOT the kneeling on the neck That means that Chauvin isn't guilty of the death of George Floyd. Floyd inadvertently killed himself.
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  609. He's not just bored. He doesn't care.
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  610.  @nsbd90now  In those shows, the drag angle was a joke. In drag shows that we're protesting, it's offered as a way of life. That's the difference. It's not up to teachers or school administrators to tell our kids that this lifestyle is good OR bad. Morality is NOT the purview of our government institutions. It's why religion isn't taught in our public and government funded schools. It's considered an ideology and our schools shouldn't be in the ideology business.
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  611.  @mountaineerbear3122  Sort of like Rashida Tlaib. A socialist senator of Palestinian descent, who just LOVES Israel and its Zionist ways. (very deep sarcasm)
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  612. Deplorable Mike. That is the problem and it's happening all over the West. There is a left trend that wants to impose their political ideology on others and they use shaming and victimhood status to impose their beliefs and lifestyles on others. They're turned freedom into a morality hierarchy and have clear lines in where we all should sit on that hierarchy, white cis males being at the lowest of the morality scale. It's a recipe for authoritarianism.
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  613. @UCmJwUpTCG5GPKN7yGNk5RqQ Women tend to live by emotions and empathy. Showing empathy, even love, can be a good thing but it can be destructive if you don't use logic as a counterpoint. However, pure logic can be just as destructive if you don't apply emotions as a counterpoint, too. When you lose balance, you're risking falling off the tightrope. The Democrats use that emotional draw to attract support and it's not in anyone's best interest.
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  614.  @DVG-nd3qj  You're not surprised about that. You're just being disingenuous in order to score, what you think are, political points. It makes you sound childish, though.
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  615. Thanks for the information. I've never heard of him and this topic fascinates me. I went, I saw and I subscribed.
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  616.  @A_Jeff  It doesn't say that it's being censored, Jeff. Read it again without your biased glasses, this time.
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  617. @Jesus loves a Shovelhead And YOU don't seem to understand that this video isn't about drugs. YOU'RE changing the subject of the video and then using the change to, somehow, denigrate that substance of the video at hand. It's a logical fallacy that YOU can't seem to comprehend. When talking about chickens, you don't insist on referring to leprechauns. One has nothing to do with the other. Your attempts at character assassinations are irrelevant to the topic at hand. Get this simple concept. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT DRUGS!!! THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT JORDAN PETERSON AND DRUGS. YOU ARE. You're talking leprechauns when the discussion is chickens. Stick to the topic. Also, don't dismiss the topic by using a smear. It's the lowest form of debate. Also, whatever Peterson knew or didn't know, at the time, is irrelevant. He DOES know it now and has been outspoken about his experiences and how horrific it was. Quit living in the past. It's over. Talk about the Peterson of NOW....if that's possible for you. God....you must be a real hoot and inspiration at an AA meeting. You'd be continuously castigating the members for how stupid they are.
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  618. I looked her up. In her Wikipedia page it says, in the first paragraph, that she was "both the first female and first openly lesbian officer to lead London's Metropolitan Police Service". As if that was some kind of accomplishment. WHO CARES!!!!!. That doesn't reflect ability, experience and accomplishments. Those should be the criteria for the job and ONLY those. Identity politics is completely irrelevant. Why is it that you and I can understand this but not the progressives.
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  619.  @mrgrimreaper94  Anyone, who lives in the hood, can leave anytime that they want. There's nothing to hold them back but themselves. That's the ONE big difference between the hood and El Salvador.
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  620.  @NiaLaLa_V  I was five years old and was circumcised due to a severe infection. It was extremely painful and such a relief to, even though it was also painful, to lose that piece of infected skin. However, the pain was not near as bad as the infection and I was almost back to normal within 3 days. I do NOT feel as if I've been mutilated at all. In fact, my member is no different than any other uncircumcised member when fully erect. NO difference. I'm not recommending circumcision as a routine procedure but to compare it with what they're doing in those gender clinics is disingenuous, irrelevant and is dismissive of how serious gender affirming care can be. It will affect those kids for the rest of their lives, quite possible severely shortening their lives. I'm now 72 years old and have suffered no complications from that procedure. If you're going to fight the fight, don't use me or my supposed "cosmetic improvement" as your weapon. My experience has no comparison to the horrific affects that gender affirming care has inflicted on many children. It's like comparing a hang nail to chopping off a finger.
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  621.  @donaldobrien9171  I'll bet that a lot of those immigrants have spouses and are working with family members to improve the lives of all of them. A stepping stone to the future just like my dad did when he immigrated. He worked as a farm hand to start, took on a better job 8 months later, bought a small farm 6 years later and is now 92, living on that same farm and satisfied with what he has accomplished. He didn't start out with a farm, bought and paid for. He worked his way there along side my mother and when we, myself and my 6 siblings, were old enough we pitched in and did chores around the farm. It brought meaning to all our lives.
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  622. Reporter: Do you agree that we could redirect the funding. Biden: Absolutely. I have a couple of accounts that the funding could be redirected to.
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  623.  @Fordo007  That's what you're supposed to do with a "race traitor" isn't it. Isn't it strange that the left that has appropriated that insult from the KKK. I can hear the Grand Wizard saying it but the virtuous left? I guess they're closer in ideology than they'd like to admit.
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  624.  @wiseonwords  Of course they applauded her. She planted about 30 members of her entourage in the audience, had them crank up the applause machine and VOILA.....she's instantly brilliant.
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  625.  @ebonylove2846  You're correct on your assessment on the right being more logical and adept at problem solving. That's why, when this country was more religious and therefore more to the right, the country was growing and flourishing. You can't solve the everyday problems of running a business, farm or household with emotions. It takes thought and logic and the left is all about emotions. They play to those emotions and once it becomes the norm, you can see the country deteriorate. The right will want to fix it through hard work and wise decisions. The left will want to fix it by advocating for equity, fairness, inclusion and the like. However, that doesn't make the potatoes grow. Only hard work, knowledge and the application of common sense can do that.
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  626.  @titaniusanglesmith6177  Me: My dog just got sick. Titanius Anglesmith: According to the evidence, Trump doesn't have a dog, which could indicate that he hates dogs and their owners. Why is it that some people can't have a conversation without interjecting Trump into the discussion? It gets a little monotonous.
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  627.  @MrTachyon  Why do the Spanish call the people of the Netherlands "holandés". Why are the Spanish trying to erase correct Netherlander roots, words and spellings. We resent the Spanish colonialism of our language and their past attempts at colonisation of our land. Is that what you want to hear? It's called language. We say it in our language and others say in theirs. Nothing sinister about it.
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  628.  @bobdavidson9770  It seemed to count when Rudy Giuliani was elected. He set standards on how crime should be dealt with and followed up on those standards. The result was a HUGE down turn in crime in NYC. You're is another "do nothing" comment reflecting a "do nothing" attitude. Go shrug your shoulders somewhere else.
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  629.  @strategery101  Of course they're worried about their 401Ks. It's the culmination of their life's work and savings. Their 401ks are a vehicle out of poverty for them and their families, a way out of oppression so yes......their 401Ks are important.
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  630. They don't allow Penthouse in the schools. By their rules, that would be banning books but they, quite oddly, just clam up and pretend that they don't understand and that this is different.
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  631.  @ft4903  Hundreds of millions of us grew up with the meaning of gender being what you call "traditional". If you want to describe a new phenomenon that isn't traditional, find a new term. Gender has a specific meaning and has for all our lives. We do lend gender to inanimate objects and ideas. It's called personifying or anthropomorphising. We do it all the time and it follows grammatical protocol. To deny that is illogical and is tending to being intentionally obtuse. In fact, entire languages revolve around gender being either masculine or feminine. Also, gender is NOT based on appearances or experiences. If the remains of a person is found 400 years in the future, the autopsy would show the gender being either male of female. That would be the genetic assignation. In the very rare instance it might show it to be intersex but that is a genetic anomaly, not a true description of human sexuality or reproduction. It wouldn't matter if that person had lived a transgender lifestyle or not. Their genetics would show gender in the "traditional" and scientific meaning of the word not the alteration of that meaning as a social construct.
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  632. I'm neither proud or ashamed. It just is. I'm not proud or ashamed of having blue eyes, either or that my hair is curly. It just is. This obsession with skin colour is the most hateful and divisive thing that I've seen in my lifetime. It's going to destroy this country.
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  633.  @shyman99  Huh????? You're giving him a hard time for being on this platform???? YOU'RE on this platform!!!!!!!
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  634. It's not hilarious but it is humorous. I chuckled a bit and It's 7:45 AM. No one is chuckling at that time of day.
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  635.  @elscorcho4158  Sorry buddy. I know people that have had the virus. It's real. However, they're overreacting to the threat. The curve has been flattened. Time to ease the lockdown and get back to work.
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  636. Are you talking about a whistleblower?? LOL. I guess we'll NEVER know who that is, will we. The Dems are really in some hot water. It serves them right.
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  637.  Sophie Blessed  I don't praise myself for it either. But would you get me some credit for quitting? Besides, Peterson took the drug as a prescription, on advice of a doctor. He didn't go downtown, to a back alley, to find a drug dealer. His situation was much different than mine. Alcoholism kind of sneaks up on you. You don't realise it until you're in the throes of it. I still want a drink but I don't go for it because I don't want to go back down that route, again. One of the worst parts of dealing with addiction or mental health is having to deal with the self righteous and judgemental. They're always SO smart, SO willing to cut you down, to look down their noses at you. So many people have declared that Peterson has had a positive influence on their lives but all, people like you, do is cut him down. You won't accept that he has a message, a message that not easy to follow, but one that can be so very helpful to people. You'd rather see them suffer than allow them to get their lives together. It's almost as if you pleasure in their troubles and that it's how you validate your own lives. It gives you a sense of superiority....that your better than they are. You have no idea just how mean you sound.
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  638.  @sthubbins4038  Almost no conservatives supported what happened on Jan. 6th...and it wasn't an insurrection. It was a group of protesters who got carried away. It's a poor insurrection that has NO guns, NO command structure and no short term, let alone long term, goals. The term is "insurrection" is being used for political gain. It wasn't NEARLY as dangerous or destructive as last year's BLM riots or the actions of Antifa around the country.
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  639.  Andrina-fl9ef  I would say that most Republican women want to have it as a choice, to live their life as they want and not be denigrated for those choices. Candace can do as she wants just like every other person in the United States. She has the freedom to limit her hours, unlike most American women who are required to work a 40 hour week if they want to work. She has said that she feels bad for women who are in that position and must also take care of small children. That can be quite exhausting.
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  640.  @MrLizardDude1  Troll.
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  641. Of course Twitter didn't restrict their employees from expressing their views. Twitter wouldn't hire anyone that had unacceptable views. If an employee did slip through the cracks and posted something that Twitter didn't like, they'd claim that this employee was creating an unsafe workspace and fire the errant employee. In other words, they'd didn't censor their employees because they knew that nothing would be said that could be censored.
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  642.  @rhuttrho88  LOL. I'll bet this guy lives in a nice home with a decent pension. Worked hard all his life and did what was right for his family and community. He represents what we should all aspire to be. Humble, wise with an inner strength and determination. If all Americans were like him, there would not be any ghettos. There's too many like you, filled with anger and resentment and totally lacking in wisdom or comprehension.
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  643.  @arthurbutt4589  Jordan asked a specific question. When will Americans get the freedom back. Fauci responded that it will happen when numbers are down. Jordan asked when that would be.....what is the criteria. THAT was the question that Fauci declined to answer. What is the goal to strive for, the number that tells Americans that they've beaten the worst of this thing and they can go back to living like we did 2 years ago? Right now, there's nothing. Rumours and conjecture and dire warnings of variants and the "new normal". I didn't work my butt off for 50 years to spend my "golden" years locked up in my home, living in fear of a disease that shouldn't even affect me. It shouldn't affect me because I've been vaccinated. Yet, here I am, looking out my window, watching people walk by wearing masks.....outdoors for Pete's sake. We want some kind of goal line...a place where success has been attained instead of waiting for King Fauci to bless us with his pronouncement of freedom to the masses.
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  644. I checked it out and the clothing law hasn't passed yet. If passed, it will go into effect in 2023. Also, only companies with over 500 employees will be affected. Still.....it's insane and just another reason why California is so expensive. The homeless laws are a nightmare in California, with each district having its own ordinances and policies on how those ordinances are policed. If your contention that this homeless camping law is statewide, please give a source. I couldn't find one.
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  645.  @solveigvan808  Any doctor that performs that kind of procedure is DEFINITELY part of the problem. "I was only following orders" was deemed an illegitimate defence at Nuremberg. That doesn't absolve those at the top but it surely doesn't let the ones that are wielding the scalpels innocent, either. Every person, that's supposed to be a medical professional, is responsible for their own actions in these issues. Even turning a blind eye makes one ethically responsible even if it's a grey legal area.
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  646.  @cdrtej  I learned that in college computer science back in the eighties and it's still applies.
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  647.  @mudgebauer  I don't know who you hang out with but I most folk I know use toilet paper. I worked as a winder, making toilet paper, for almost 10 years, until I retired 3 years ago. Everybody I knew, and I mean EVERYBODY I knew, asked if I could get them a case. Lots of people were fired for stealing cases and selling them to neighbours and friends. I've worked in a lot of factories but that place was the worst place I worked at for pilfering products, even though we were allowed to take a case of seconds once a month. The demand is still extremely high and I don't see baby wipes taking out the market anytime soon.
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  648.  @MusicismoreImportant  The Palestinian leadership, eighty years ago, didn't want that. They wanted one nation, which they controlled. No separate country for Israel. They're rejected that idea numerous times.
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  649.  @sunnymitra6372  True, although it hadn't yet morphed into the ideology that we see today. They hadn't advanced that far past "class" as the main identifier. As bad as Lenin's advocacy was, it may just pale beside the multiple group identifiers we see today. More group identities, the more chance for conflict. However, that still remains to be seen but the signs are there that the threat is even worse today.
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  650.  @AsraNomani  Keep it up Asra. The world needs more people like you.
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  651.  @LilLamb-headquarters  You sound reasonable but I can't see any scenario in which DEI would work. I've tried different approaches but it always boils down to a system where race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and more, becomes a deciding factor. No matter how you slice it, that goes against the Civil Rights Act.
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  652.  @jagsfanrick  GM workers make minimum wage? Since when? I know people retired out of GM and they're doing great. I'm thinking that you don't know how the world works.
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  653.  @trudolfschwab7954  Of course they can make pyramids, today. All they have to do is pile rectangular stones in a pyramid shape. The cell phone or computer that you're using to send this comment, is a far greater technological feat than any pyramid and a lot more accurate. Why would they build a pyramid out of near solid stone today, anyway? It would serve no purpose. It would be a lot of expense to build something that would just sit there. Look at Mt. Rushmore. This was carved out of the side of Elk Mountain. The carvings are 60 feet high and each head is about 25 ft wide and so accurate that you can see, at a glance, who those carvings represent. It would be nothing to carve out same size rectangular bricks, out of stone, to build a large pyramid with. Maybe you could talk Elon Musk into building you one. He's have no problem doing it if he set his mind to it.
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  654.  Jay Blake  Peterson has also talked about other Marxist regimes as well. Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim family, Castro....every Marxist regime that has ever existed has a history of killing of its own citizens as a tenet of that ideology. Wolff doesn't offer any defence of Marxism, he goes off an a tangent about Christianity, as if the fact that Christianity has problems that this is a negation of Marxist deep set faults. It wasn't just Stalin. Even Lenin thought that the intentional starvation of Russian citizens was justifiable if it brought about the true Marxist state. Wolff should defend Marxism, if possible, not start pointing fingers in every other direction. At best, it shows that Wolff isn't that much better than Peterson and true to his Marxist ideology he would offer up his derision of anyone having financial success.
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  655.  @itsmorphed6416  I wanted to understand the mindset of Adolf Hitler and his German followers. So I read all kinds of material about the man, the times and what he said in his speeches and his book "Mien Kampf". Unknowingly, I was following that old adage that advises us to "Know your enemy" an idea originating from Sun Tzu. Just because he studied Trotsky, that doesn't mean that he admired him, if that's your point.
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  656.  @Gnolomweb  Rubin has all kinds of ideas and beliefs, some of them a part of the leftist lexicon. He's a Libertarian. He believes in what makes sense to him. He doesn't believe, and this is important, in the collective principles of the left. That is the defining belief of the modern leftist.
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  657. I was just saying to myself "Please don't make me listen to that harpy" and you put her on. I almost hate you for that Tucker.
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  658. @Bobby Fett So what? That's not what people are complaining about. They're complaining about a HUGE corporation that has special tax privileges while taking part in the political process. Corporations have NO right to govern and no special right to preferential treatment when it comes to taxation or any other government function or requirement.
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  659. A lot of them just don't know. I was at a friend's the other day. He hates Trump so I started asking him a few questions. I asked him if he ever heard of Evergreen College. He hadn't. I told him about the "Day of Absence" and he was kind of shocked. I asked if he ever heard of Andy Ngo. Again a negative. He watches MSNBC and CNN all the time. He didn't know about the craziness in Portland over the last couple of years. It was day 46 of continuous chaos, and he didn't know and of course he never heard of the attacks on Andy Ngo. He'd never heard of post modernism or intersectionality. Yet, one of his heroes in Noam Chomsky. I asked him if he had heard about the cancellation petition that Chomsky signed. Again a no. A guy who watches the news all the time and he's never heard of these things. We have a big job ahead of us.
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  660. I agree with what you're saying but I've always said the BLM and Antifa are the updated versions of the KKK. That's why you hardly hear anything from them anymore, except when it's the left accusing the right.
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  661. I knew one little boy that was definitely trans. That was in the early 60s. At 4 years old, he was extremely feminine. My brother, who was 6 at the time, was freaked out by his mannerisms. He said to me that he couldn't understand why this little boy would act like a little girl. That was the days when trans was rare and overtly obvious. You'd think that all the people that I grew up with, in this modern atmosphere, would all be transitioning. I don't know of any. I know that some are gay but not one trans except that little boy. I have to ask why it's so pervasive in our schools today. Apparently, that question is transphobic but I'm going to ask anyway.
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  662.  @royalspin  So that means he's wrong? That he should never voice an opinion? Man....that's kinda shuts all up then. Let's see your war record so we can decide whether you can voice YOUR opinion.
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  663.  @dtklamf7457  Because the jerk would have had him charged. He could have ended up in jail and lost his job and end up with a criminal record. Yeah....he would have showed that jerk, alright.
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  664.  @waynejohanson1083  And insurance rates will go up and up and you, the customer, will pay for those premiums. Insurance companies aren't going to pay and pay and go bankrupt. In the end, it will always be YOU that pays. How anyone could be that naive is astounding. You might think that you're sticking it to the man but you're sticking it to yourself and that's as dumb as it gets.
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  665.  @ldjman1  Maybe that's why they call it Sky News. All the relevant news under the sky. I'm in Canada and I've noticed that we have a sky here too. I guess he's talking to me, as well. I must be because this video is about Biden talking to WORLD leaders. Nations, under the sky. Quite relevant....unless Australia doesn't have a sky. Also, you don't seem to understand the concept of "fake news" It's a term used to describe news stories that are intentionally false....you know, they're LYING. Presenting international news isn't lying. Telling a falsehood...THAT'S lying or "fake news". It's kinda surprising that this has to be explained to you.
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  666.  @jabarimutabaruka365  She was sent out to open that hallway door. She put herself at risk. The kids were safer in the apartment. The gunman could have opened the door to his apartment and started blasting at anyone in the hallway. It would have been a better that they stayed in the apartment while the mother opened the door to let the police in. Then when the hall door was opened, the kids weren't standing in the hall, waiting for the mother to open the door and waiting for the police to verify that she wasn't the threat. Once the door was open, the kids could make a beeline for the door, which they did, and be quickly shuffled off to safety. I would have done the same.
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  667.  @theonealien5245  She did but this was clipped from a much longer interview.
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  668.  @pavango3812  I know that this is going to sound redundant but.....a BIG BUT......you need ID to work. You need a social security number. If you don't have one, you can't file your income taxes. You could have thousands of dollars owing to you and you can't get it because YOU DON'T HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. What kind of an idiot would do that? If you're working and you don't have a SS#, you're working illegally. You can't pay taxes. A drug dealer or a pimp doesn't need an SS#. A clerk at a 7/11 has one. If you want a drink, just one, you need ID. You need it to buy cigarettes. You need ID to open a bank account. To pick up a package at the Post Office, YOU NEED ID. If, for some weird reason, like you've never worked, had a bank account, have never smoked or drank alcohol, never travelled so you don't have a passport, don't have a driver's licence, never had a student card, never applied for welfare, have never needed to see a doctor, never had a Credit Card, never used food stamps or have NEVER, in your life, had to prove who you are....you can STILL get an ID, FREE of charge, from the Georgia government. If you can't get a FREE ID before the 2022 election, then I'm sorry to accuse you of not wanting to vote all that badly. This idea that needing to show ID suppresses voting is the most spurious argument that I've heard in a long time and deep down you know it. This is all about tribal politics. In fact, the claim that showing ID to vote is the real racist claim. Black people aren't little children. They do the same things that everyone else does. They're cops, doctors, teachers, mailmen, nurses, store clerks, government workers, carpenters and accountants.....JUST LIKE WHITE PEOPLE. They're adults. Quit treating them like children.
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  669.  @11kravitzn  You are sorely misinformed about the histories of the Democrat and Republican parties. The Republican Party formed in 1854 to fight against slavery, specifically the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854. The act was to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and would repeal the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery to part of those 2 territories. This act was drafted by Stephan Douglas, a Democrat Senator. This started a series of conflicts against that act and the idea of allowing slaves in the new territories. The Republican Party was formed to fight against that act that allowed slavery. When the Civil War started, there was no Republican representation in the Southern states. None. After the Civil war, segregation was enforced by the Klu Klux Klan, an arm of the Democrat party. It was a Democrat, George Wallace, that delivered the famous line "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in 1963. Wallace ran, in the presidential primaries, through the 70s, as a Democrat and as a staunch supporter of segregation. He fought against Civil Rights and against the integration of blacks and whites students in public schools. I don't know where you got your information but a simple google search will confirm everything that I told you. Blacks started to vote Democrat in the 1930s because of Roosevelt's "New Deal", for the first time in American history. Before that, they'd always voted Republican and the Republican Party had grown in the south after the Civil War because of the Black Republicans. The New Deal was the big shift in black politics, yet it was mostly Democrats that fought against the repealing of the Jim Crow laws thirty years later. Don't believe me. Learn about American political history. These are facts that Democrats like to keep hidden and one can hardly blame them for that. It might be time to stop pointing fingers and to take responsibility for ourselves as individual human beings instead of aligning ourselves into groups who will say anything to malign their opposition.
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  670.  @55fixcom  Oh stop it. 3000 architects and engineers.....pfffftt. There are millions of architects and engineers in the world. Read their member's list. Some of the engineers have nothing to do with building structures. Computer, electrical and civic engineers. What would they know about the structural integrity of high rise buildings? I could build you a house and have done so for others, in the past. I wouldn't even know where to begin to build a building as big as the WTC. You're the one that said "View every signatory". View their area of expertise. Not as impressive as you'd like it to be. It's an appeal to authority and that's a logical fallacy. In fact, the Empire State Building refutes one of the main arguments against the inside job conjecture. The hole left by that plane was only 18 by 22 in size, yet the plane was over 100 feet across from wing tip to wing tip. Truthers say that there's no way a huge plane could leave a small hole in the Pentagon the way that it did, yet it happened in 1945 and this video verifies it. Precedence invalidates that contention.
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  671.  @OfLaSoul  I've watched countless hours of Peterson's lectures and tours. I will say, with all certainty, that he supports the right to free speech, to protest and to be protected from police brutality. If you watched any amount of his talks or read his books, there would be no doubt. I can't speak for Rex but from what I've heard, in this talk, at his heart he believes the same. That doesn't mean that he'll always be correct. No one ever is but this is the biggest crisis, in Canada, since WW2. Nothing else compares.
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  672. I say she should apologise for her bigoted assumptions. Her finger is pointing in every direction except inwards.....where it belongs. Someone should tell her that ending racism and bigotry starts at home. That applies to everyone....no exception.
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  673.  Federal Reserve WOLF TheFedWolf  Notice how people, like you, have nothing to say about what the video is about. Just smear the talker. Call him names and pretend that you've made some kind of point. A real deep thinker.
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  674. The left doesn't like southerners, either. They're the "basket of deplorables", the irredeemable racist hillbillies that they love to sneer at. They're elitist snobs.
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  675. Good one. "The Blind Spot" might work, too.
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  676.  Rinky Dinky  She's prepared and Acosta is so dense, he can't see it coming. In other words, he's NOT prepared at all. He's a droning zombie. I'll bet they had a pool going, betting on how long it would take for her to present that headline in response to a stupid question. I wonder who won?
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  677.  @DM-dk7js  Their power isn't in that they're tough or hard to defeat in a fight. Their power lies with the Democrat refusal to take them seriously as a domestic terrorist group. As long as they're protected they'll go after the weakest of our society. A 6 year old, with a gun, can kill the toughest of us all. They're 6 year olds, living in adult bodies.
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  678.  @jackelswick8200  Atta boy. We need more Brown Shirts in America. Maybe you should start a chapter in your town.
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  679. Pornstar story time. That might have changed my library attendance when I was 12.
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  680.  @oshen506  Why don't you try discussing an issue where she lied? This generic "she's a liar" is incredibly simplistic, almost to the point of childish. Discuss the issues not the person. For example, in the clip shown, why didn't any of the press ask about the incredible spike in shootings? Why didn't they ask about that poor little girl that was shot by BLM supporters? That was horrific. They'd rather ask, over and over again, even though they've heard the answer, over and over again "Why does the president call it the Wuhan flu?" No substance whatsoever. All fluff and superficial posturing.
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  681.  @joem61  It could have been worse but I was in a unique position. I was at retirement age but being offered a promotion to stay on. After this incident, I decided not to take the job offer and I was honest about why. The plant manager expressed his disappointment because there was talk of expansion which meant hiring new unskilled labour. He didn't want to lose his most experienced people. Unfortunately for him, that's exactly what happened. Most of their top people ended up resigning.
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  682.  @randylachance  Trump was being sarcastic when he wished her well. He was saying that she didn't end up like Epstein. Dark humour. That's why Fox didn't report on it. It's not newsworthy. If Trump was as corrupt as you say, you'd think he'd get the Feds, Bill Barr and company, to back off Maxwell. Instead, it's full steam ahead and now there's even more Clinton involvement. If the Democrats were so concerned with the Covid crisis, you'd think they'd discourage tens of thousands of people, in every city across the US, from marching arm in arm for weeks on end. Instead, they encourage it and then tell others they can't open their small businesses. You can march, throw bottles and bricks, fight with police officers, but go to the gym....that's dangerous. The biggest problem concerning Covid is the absolute refusal to work together. That's not the fault of Trump. It's the Democrats who take the opposite stance no matter what. They brag about their border barrier in 2015 and when Trump says he want to build a wall, that's racist. It's how they approach everything concerning Trump. He bans travel to China, that's xenophobic. He puts together a task force....they're just old white men. He mentions it in the State of the Union Address, Pelosi tears it up. He restricts travel to Europe.....that's not going to work. He says the HCQ might be useful in fighting Covid, it's now poison and some governors tried to outlaw it. The media even made a big deal of a couple that took fish tank cleaner because it had a form of HCQ in it. Fish tank cleaner ffs. Trump calls for a lockdown and New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California lock down Covid patients in nursing homes. The Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania made that decision and promptly took her 95 year old mother OUT of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel. If the Democrats weren't so busy hating on Trump and would just sit down with him to find a solution, the country wouldn't be in the mess it is in now.....but they refuse. No matter what Trump does, they do the opposite. On everything. I'm not saying that Trump made good moves all the time but with a pandemic raging, you'd think the Democrats would reach out to try and solve this crisis together. NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. They'll fight him no matter what he does.
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  683.  @martypeterson9214  You may not be able to prevent fires, floods or hurricanes but you can put the infrastructure in place to mitigate the damage and allow for a rapid recovery. Florida has been doing that to deal with their hurricane problems which they know will come. They do a stellar job in mitigating damage and rebuilding after the storm has passed. When you cut the budget for the Fire Department, allow equipment to break down and not be repaired, don't clear the dead debris or what the fire sees as fuel, and don't bother to collect every drop of water when the rains and snow melt does come, the rest of the country starts to resent bailing out your do-nothing attitudes. California wastes tax money on the ridiculous and does nothing about the danger that lurks in the reality.
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  684. Same as me. We were relatively poor, coming out of WW2, no birth control so our family was large. No modern conveniences, no fast food and our parents worked long hours. It was a part of our job, not just to do household chores but to make sure that we weren't a burden on our parents who had enough work to do looking after 7 kids. Cause a disruption to their already heavy burden and there was hell to pay. It was more important to eat, have decent clothes and a warm bed than to be coddled 24/7 and we felt shame if we were continuously pampered.
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  685.  @perlefisker  The west left Germany, Italy and Japan largely unpunished after the war because they determined that the Allied reaction after WW1 was a determining factor in the rise of Nazism in Germany. The Treaty of Versailles was a crippler to Germany and a destitute population was ripe for the picking for a movement like Nazism. They weren't going to let that happen, again.
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  686.  @tacitus6384  People do change. I did. If you knew me 30 years ago you'd see an addicted mess, angry at everyone and blaming them all for my misery. I'm not like that at all now and I support Trump 100%.
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  687.  TheAstrius  They're angry. That's all.....and they're being manipulated by the multinationals.
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  688.  @erenjaeger1738  The "my atrocity is not near as bad as your's" argument. That's a great one. I'll bet if faced with the choice of having your heart cut out or going to a school, you'd choose school EVERY time. Why can't we just admit that people can be horrible to one another instead of turning it into some kind of contest. The one thing that you've learned from history is that you've not learned a thing from history.
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  689. Well said. His election was the triumph of the Civil Rights movement. It felt as if all the years of racial tension could now be put behind us. It took Obama 8 years to undo it all. Riots, BLM and the beginning of new rounds of racial tensions not seen since the early nineties. And here he is, perpetuating the myth of "Jim Crow two point 0". Instead of bringing the country together, he's tearing it all apart. He didn't just disappoint us. He betrayed us all.
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  690. It is ruled as a fabrication. That's a lot different than a forgery.
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  691.  @JohnSmith-zo6ir  There is one major difference. The German people allowed Hitler to seize and maintain power until the only option was for other countries to end it violently. The elites don't have complete power, yet and the people, those truckers and their allies, are standing up to them before their power is too strong to challenge. That's why this could be so crucial. Those truckers have to win the support of the majority of Canadians. They'll never do it with violence. The elites have to be the ones to react in fear and anger. Trudeau is showing how afraid he is by turning tail and he's not well liked as it is. If he overreacts and tries to clean the streets by force and the truckers become victims, the entire nation will be appalled. In fact, the calls for the military might backfire, if he resorts to that. If it does, they're defeated. If the military does come in, we've lost. The elites will be able to do as they wish. We can't stand up to the might of their weaponry. It's a fool's errand to try. That's why I say that we have to outsmart them and from what I've seen, that might not be that hard.
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  692.  @ricardokojin7  He did nothing wrong and he needs the support of all of us that believe that. It's the woke progressives that are in the wrong. Don't kick good people off our ship over a misstep. That's what THEY do.
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  693. Will Cumming You're not seriously comparing the masked Antifa types and university "safe space" crybabies to Rosa Parks, are you? Rosa Parks was living in a time of true, institutionalised racism where sitting at the back of the bus was just a part of how blacks were targeted for bigotry. She challenged an unjust law. She was actually charged for not giving up her seat to a white passenger. What unjust law are these wailing banshees protesting. These modern activists create artificial crisis events so they can show the world how enlightened they are. The craziness at Evergreen college is the purest example of how they can create a crisis out of absolutely nothing. They have nothing in common with Rosa Parks and you denigrate her sacrifice and the real bigotry of those times by pretending that these placard carrying, hat-vagina mouthpieces have anything in common with what she did.
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  694.  @johnqpublic407  I'm from eastern Canada and I don't like it. I don't like Trudeau, either. I didn't like his father and dislike Justin even more. This is going to affect Canadians all across the country. I have friends who live here, in southern Ontario, and fly out to work in the oil fields of western Canada. You're right though. It is the liberals that were against that pipeline deal.
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  695. Also, we don't live in our parent's basement, or have a big trust fund. We don't get an allowance from our families. Deeper than that.....we refuse to live that way and that irks these adults toddlers to no end.
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  696.  @bobwoods1302  You're point is what??? If our future does hold food shortages and people go hungry, how is it wrong for "Tucky" to say that this is a horrific prospect. You do realise that this could even affect YOU, don't you? And here you are complaining about a messenger instead of an administration who's policies are the reason for YOU going hungry. "Tucky" doesn't set policies. Are you so ideologically obsessed that you'd insist on maintaining the course out of loyalty even if you can't find food or can't afford even if you do?
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  697. No.....there is no law but if I were in a position where a police officer has it within his discretion to charge with something or not, I'd be polite. Answer all the questions and be co-operative. They're going to find out, anyway. Might as well do it in a pleasant fashion as in a jail cell after being dragged around. Catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
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  698. A therapist that needs trigger warnings. That's like a pilot that afraid to fly, a surgeon that's afraid of blood or a roofer that's afraid of heights. Makes no sense.
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  699. White woman: "Why don't you start?" Have you not been listening? She's doing it at that moment, she has started. The absolute lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  700.  @eq7161  It might stop mass shootings, to a point but those killers would just find other ways to do their evil. I'm not going to outline the other ways but some of them are as bad or WORSE than using guns. It's a mental health issue and guns are just the most convenient method to enact their revenge on society. It might seem as if gun control is the best way to fix it but it won't go away until we deal with the psychology of the perpetrators.
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  701. Who would have thought, 30 years ago, that Eastern Europe would become the bastion of freedom. Good for you guys.
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  702. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." His disciples then asked who then can be saved. Jesus answered that it would be impossible for this man but with God anything is possible. This is one of the most misused passages in the Bible. No one ever completes it and the lesson that was trying to be taught needs the entire context.
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  703. I don't expect any party to improve my life. What I do expect is that their policies don't stop me from improving my own life. Don't over regulate or over taxate. That's it. Real simple. I'm a big boy. I don't need them to look after me. I can do that myself.
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  704.  @TTOCSSMITH  What exactly is Trump's crime? I've never been exactly sure what it was.
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  705.  @phd1313  If a male high school athlete saw competing in women's sports as an avenue for a scholarship, do you not think that he might just take it. He could get an education, free, and not be in debt for a good part of his adult life. It's a lottery that's too good for the unscrupulous to not take advantage of. Don't be naive.
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  706.  @Jimmy-yu9xy  You're supporting a country that has put 1.5 million people into interment camps because of their religion. This is who YOU want enforcing your Covid guidelines? Man....you're delusional. You actually believe what the government of China is telling you? I don't believe my own government let alone one that has re-education camps for its own people.
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  707.  @Midwest-hx8wf  They deliberately spread false news and then doubled down even though there was a video that was available that showed them to be completely wrong in their assessments. They did this, in spite of the calls for violence against the boys, especially Sandmann, and all the horrifying vitriol that went with it. This wasn't just reporting the news. This was supporting a hateful reaction against teenagers because they didn't like what they saw as political opponents. It was the MAGA hats that instigated their distortion of the news. That's why CNN is next. They had a panel, after all the details were out, and still said, flat out, that the MAGA hats were triggering, implying that those boys deserved any retribution that was coming to them. They were throwing gasoline on a fire and then hiding behind the "just reporting the news" defence if any one of those kids did end up dead. It's a disgusting display of ideological moral bankruptcy.
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  708. As a Canadian of Dutch descent, I'm also appalled. Maybe she wants to be an honorary Dutchman.
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  709.  @bolt4694  No fathers because years ago, LBJ and his great society, made it more profitable for women to have children and not be married. This led to father apathy and it encouraged the "stud" attitude towards procreation. If you created a situation in which it would be financially better for those women to be married, you'd see that attitude slowly change. However, it will take a couple of generations just like LBJ's great society policies took generations to get where we are now. If you nurture a "no father" culture, don't be surprised when children start to run wild.
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  710. @Henry James It was an example. Don't be intentionally obtuse. It's NOT a good look. When someone is allowed to speak, without interruption, that person is setting out his case, unfettered so their ideas are completely exposed, to all of us, in the best way that they know how. That is also an exchange of ideas. Ideas, born in their brain, verbally expressed, so I can allow it to enter into my brain. That's an exchange of ideas, too. If I wanted to hear two people yelling over each other, and even see people stomping off in anger, I'll watch MSM where you hear nothing but anger and the only thing that enters your brain is a cacophony of noise. Not for me. I want the ideas to be expressed articulately, without interruption and rancour, just like this video was. I don't even have to agree with them but at least I know what I'm disagreeing with.
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  711. So what? He had a choice and took it. It may not be the right choice for you and you may not want to take the jab. I don't think that you're making the right decision but so what? It's NOT MY DECISION!!!! It's yours...just like it's not YOUR decision on what Dr. Drew or me or anyone should do. That's the thing about choice. Each person gets to make their own decision. They don't get to make YOUR decision or make the decision that YOU like for themselves. You're being no different than Dr. Fauci and the rest who want to make decisions for you. Let him do what he wants to do.
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  712.  @MrKGatl  It was the company that Biden's son was working for that was being investigated. Specifically the founder of the company, Mykola Zlochevsky, who had fled the company in 2014 and was living in London. He was Hunter Biden's boss. This guy had 23 MILLION dollars frozen, in lieu of the results of investigations into his activities. Strangely, shortly after this prosecutor was fired, that 23 millions dollars was released. The following year Zlockevsky was cleared of all charges and he returned to the Ukraine. Next thing you know, he was accused of graft, the result of telephone conversations he had with the current president of the Ukraine at the time. He was also accused of giving out bogus licenses to his own companies when he was Ecology Minister back in 2012. He's left the country again and is now living in Monaco. You have to ask yourself why Hunter Biden was working for an energy company in the Ukraine. He had zero experience in energy, was drummed out of the American military for testing positive for drugs, he couldn't speak the language and his boss benefited from the firing of the prosecutor by his father. That final point might be the only reason he was worth the 63,000 dollars he was making a month as an executive there. Even Marie Yovanovitch was briefed on the poor image of Hunter Biden working for a man who was suspected of corruption. That was revealed in her testimony. It was also mentioned by George Kent in his testimony and was reported on by Politico 3 years ago. The Obama administration wasn't comfortable about this situation, at all, so why wouldn't Trump want to look into it. Especially, with the video available where Joe Biden brags about telling the Ukraines that he was taking his money home with him if they didn't fire this specific prosecutor. Maybe it WAS all innocent but if it had been Donald Trump Jr. working for Burisma and a corrupt owner, would you be so forgiving? I doubt it.
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  713.  @mateoruddock3056  No....that's not what you do. You find out what the leader of the other country wants. He has a right to do what he believes is best for his country. If that leader thinks the border between our nations is causing problems, you sit down with that leader and find ways to tighten that border. We don't issue threats. We negotiate. You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar. Danielle Smith has the idea. You talk it out. War, whether literal or through trade helps no one.
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  714. Rules number 1 through 3 for the habitual criminal. 1....DENY. 2....DENY. 3....DENY. Now you understand the criminal mind.
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  715.  @shanecorning5222  I'm Canadian and we celebrate Thanksgiving. It's about being grateful for what we have, the opportunity to be free and to better our lives. It's giving thanks for the harvest and for the people in our lives that matter to us. That's what it means to me. I WILL celebrate Thanksgiving. I will NOT allow politics to stop me from feeling gratitude for my life, on Thanksgiving or another day of my life.
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  716.  @DaneMorgan2U  Democrat Roy Cooper won't criticise the Federal Democrat administration. Call me surprised.
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  717.  @johncooper7663  I have to be honest with you. I read every comment and I never saw the one in which you claim that you listed the lies. I'm not saying that you didn't post them, but I don't see them. Also, calling something names, like "toxic Trumpisms" isn't a viable argument or case. It means NOTHING.
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  718. Well...she is. She shows exactly what motivates the Democrat Party. I don't like it. Inexplicably....others do.
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  719.  @Silllywalks  I've read my comment a couple of times and nowhere have I even implied that anything was accidental. All I said was that there needs to be an open and transparent investigation and then to deal with any wrong doing if necessary. If they're doing wrong, they know it and they'll cover it. That shows that there's nothing accidental about it.
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  720. The new protection rackets should keep us safer. We've seen how that's worked in the past. "Pay me hard cash, or we'll let criminals rob you blind" and then they'll send their own guys to rob you into compliance. It'll be really safe as long as you comply.
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  721.  lisa schneider  They still said wearing masks didn't work. That came from the World Health Organisation. Just a fact. You can't change it by calling people stupid and constant denigration and dehumanising tactics. Also, health care workers are being laid off. LAID OFF!!!! In a world wide health crisis. We went into a lockdown so the hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed with patients. IT WORKED. Hospitals are sitting idle. Even in New York, the emergency hospital and the hospital ship are empty. Are we really going to sit at home, waiting for a vaccine that might take up to 2 years to develop? This has nothing to do with Fox news. This is reality. Worse, the United Nations have dire warnings for 3rd world countries if economies aren't opened soon. Google "Famines of Biblical proportions". You'll see it's been reported by CNN....not Fox, if that helps.
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  722.  head hunter  Come on. It wasn't Trump who told the people of New York to go out as usual and to make sure they attended the Chinese New Year parade. It wasn't Trump who told the people that the subways were safe or put Covid patients into nursing homes. This is a stupid game of finger pointing and it's serves absolutely no purpose other than your own ego.
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  723.  @AeroMetalRush  He's punching down at the reporter from DEADSIN....a man worthy of ridicule.
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  724.  @Reezys-f2q  Watch the film of Biden bragging about threatening to keep $1,000,000,000, that's BILLION, dollars unless a special prosecutor was fired. The prosecutor was fired and shortly after, Hunter Biden's boss had 23 million bucks that had been frozen, released. 6 months later, all charges were dropped against the guy. If you don't find that disturbing, I don't how much money used to threaten and bribe foreign would bother you. A TRILLION bucks? If we're going to drain the swamp, let's drain the entire swamp, not just the ones we don't like.
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  725.  @TheJeffL  He did? Are you saying that Cohen's lawyer lied about him? Did Stormy lie to Bill Maher when she said that this was NOT a MeToo incident and that it was mutual? Is a non-disclosure agreement illegal? If so, show me the statute that states that it is illegal. Exactly what law did Trump break and show it to us all. You won't. I've yet to see you offer a real reference that would back up your claims.
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  726.    Trump didn't hold up a aid package for Americans because he wanted carbon neutrality for airlines by 2025. He didn't hold it up to get cash for the Kennedy Centre. He didn't hold it up to try to force corporations to show diversity on their corporate boards. People were getting sick, hospitals are overwhelmed, people were even dying, others were losing their jobs and small businesses and Pelosi help up aid to get money to PBS and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Maybe Trump doesn't care. I don't know but he was ready to sign that bill the second it was passed. Pelosi held it up. People needed that aid and the comfort it brought and Pelosi held it up.....NOT Trump and for reasons that had NOTHING to do with the crisis at hand. It that doesn't bother you, you have to get your priorities straight.
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  727.  @lindahandley5267  I don't think that it is off topic. It reflects the personalities or temperaments of conservatives as opposed to a more left wing state of mind. That mindset manifests itself in a lot of the liberal endeavours.
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  728.  @johnbrown4627  If you follow the simplicity of Sarah Izzo's comment, you have morality broken down to its most clarified form. It's no different than the Christian way of breaking down the law. Love God (truth as a living metaphor) and thy neighbour as thyself. Do that and all morality falls into place, no matter what the ideological affiliation.
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  729. I've heard teachers claim that they are co-parents of your children. This is inherently wrong.
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  730.  @hybridh9702  People can do bad and good. I don't bash the human race because of what the bad people do. That's the same for corporations. Tim Pool's been criticising the corporations that bend the knee to woke ideology. That doesn't mean that they're ALL doing it. In both cases, it's not people or corporations that are bad. It's the specific person or corporation that is wrong. That also applies to the free market. It's not that the free market is bad or that my freedom to choose is a terrible thing. It's the actions of specific people, using the free market, that can be bad. When you look for perfection in any system or group of people, you're going to find it. That doesn't mean that every system or group is intrinsically bad. Your stance is illogical.
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  731.  @carlyellison8498  If you only would GIVE a viewpoint, I'd discuss it. All you've done is denigrate both Peterson and those who say that he's been a big help in their lives. You've not discussed one thing he's said in this video and offered a cogent point that would add to the discussion. Mockery and denigration is much of a viewpoint. It's elitism.
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  732.  Cubano Castro  Trump isn't the president. Biden is. Haven't you heard? It would appear that Biden's son was up to a lot of corrupt shenanigans and his laptop seems to prove it. Biden is also implicated in that corruption according to some of the information on the same laptop. That's the situation RIGHT NOW and you're still trying to fix yesterday's problems. Maybe you think it's ok to have a corrupt president as long as it's not Trump. You seem to have a selective code of ethics.
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  733.    Once again....we have an insulting voice whose only goal is to incite division. Now's the time for cooperation with all Americans, not just for the ones that you like. Be an encouraging voice and quit being the pebble in our shoe.
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  734.  @Zurround  I had a girl who was continuously flirting with me although I showed no reason for her to think that I was interested. In fact, I was dating another girl at the time that I really liked. One day, she saw my girlfriend sitting by the water in a park. She went to my girlfriend and told her that we were secretly seeing each other. It wasn't true and I had already told my girlfriend what this girl was doing. My girlfriend tried to leave but this girl tried to prevent her from leaving, yelling at her and threatening her. Some teenagers got in front of this psycho so my girlfriend could leave. Fortunately, my girlfriend didn't believe her but what if this had happened in a work environment. I could have lost my job. There are crazy women out there just like there are crazy men. Women are a little more subtle about it, while men are more up front and it manifests itself differently but they're both equally damaging.
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  735.  glenn embanks  NO.....we don't want them eliminated. We ask that they respect the rights of others and to stop forcing others into some kind of weird cult. Being a hippy was fun, back in the sixties, but when Monday came around, it was off to work. That's how the normal people lived. In the end, that's how these Chazites have to live as well. Those businesses and buildings don't belong to them. They have no right to force the owners to comply to their will.
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  736.  @babajaiy8246  There are 2 million Muslims living in Israel. They can vote, join the military, become policemen, run for political office, own a home and run their own businesses. They aren't being forced to leave. It's those living in Gaza, who are being held hostage by Hamas, who cause trouble and then hide among the innocents of their country.
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  737. "To be unburdened by what has been" Sounds REAL smart.
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  738.  Lysander  You could listen to that harpy that was yelling at that guy for bouncing a baby on his lap. If that's more your speed. She looks as if she got it together.
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  739. ​ @Wilma__Dikfit  We didn't see pictures of sex acts or read depictions of sex acts written in provocative ways. They didn't teach us how to access dating sites when we were 12 years old. There are dozens of videos, on YouTube, that show parents reading from this material at school board meetings and those parents were told to stop because the material was offensive to minors who were there. Yet those same board members wouldn't take those SAME books out of the school library. That's the ultimate display of hypocrisy.
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  740. @Cony Budding You're joking.....right???
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  741.  @petemclovins9166  I know a guy who tells me that he has the same problem working in the Canadian Arctic. He's forced to hire the indigenous, of the area, but he has to hire someone to actually do their work, as well, because the indigenous do nothing. Everyone knows this is going on but they all turn a blind eye. It's not true of all of the indigenous but it is for the majority. There's nothing that can be done about it.
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  742. Wait till the celebrities and MSM pundits find out that the leftists are communists and don't believe in private property. Those lefties will be coming for them and they'll take their property for redistribution. Then they'll be crying. Just like Chris Palmer did. They'll be lucky if they're not designated as enemies of the revolution.
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  743. I don't even want graphic depictions of heterosexaul acts being shown to grade four children....even if it's between husband and wife. It's pornography and not suitable for children.
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  744. @samirdoncic6395 I care. That's my daughter, my grand daughters, my sisters. I'm a man. Part of being a man is protecting those who are important to my life and that includes the women in my life. By the sounds of it, to protect them from people like you.
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  745. Ed Silmon They targeted non-Muslims because they knew that, after years of success, that this was the way to not face prosecution. They were using racism as a blocking tactic. It was the fear of being called racist that kept them safe from the police. In Toronto, a young girl claimed that someone tried to pull off her hijab while she was walking to school. By noon, it was the leading story on TV and on the front pages of the newspaper. The Prime Minister, that afternoon, cried that "racism is alive and well in Canada". A few days later it was discovered that the girl lied and it never happened at all. This tells me that if it had been white English men that had targeted Muslim girls, the outrage would have been deafening and rightly so. The MeToo movement would be screaming the loudest about toxic masculinity and the white Patriarchy. They're not hardly saying a thing about those Pakistani gangs though. Why? Race is why. The Pakistanis are the wrong race to criticise. There is something in Pakistani culture that is at the root of this attitude. I believe that Islam is at the centre of it. Islam is quite outspoken on how non-believers are lower than animals and do not deserve respect. That is what makes the Pakistani grooming gangs a not too surprising phenomenon. They have no respect for non-Muslims and women in particular.
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  746. I don't see that happening. I know people that are terrified of Covid. One guy, that I know, won't leave his house. Sits at home and is so paralysed by fear that he's suicidal. Fear is an emotion that should be used as a tool for survival. We should USE it, control it so to control what threatens us and to maintain control of all aspects of our life. When fear rules us, we lose control of our lives and is it ever showing. Everything is spiralling out of control.
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  747.  @Mordalo  Isn't that something. I gave you dates, writers and historical events to show you that there ARE sources, at least 2000 years old, that refer to Jews living in what is now modern Israel, that go back to that period. I did in response to your claim that there was no source, outside of the Bible and Torah, that say that modern Israel was inhabited by Jews, historically. Then you went on about altering reality and playing silly games and how I'm hilariously simple. What does ANY of that have to do with your original claim? Why don't you address what I told you about Tacitus, Cyrus the Great or Josephus? These are all sources which indicate that there were Jews in the Levant back then, sources that are NOT the Bible or Torah. Talk about it. Don't talk about me. That makes no sense.
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  748.  @mrharpable  Good one. I'm gonna use it...if you don't mind.
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  749. "The first Latino to hold that post" Who cares? Can the person do the job and is he/she an American? That's what's important. When I think of a Latino, I think of someone living in a Latin American country. I'd want a competent American for the job. That their heritage might be Latino means nothing to me.
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  750. It's not easy to come up with a believable cover story. You'll find that the story that they finally settle on won't be all that plausible but the Media will advance it anyway. The more they tell it the more truthful it becomes. It's the Democrat way.
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  751.  @jefferydraper4019  That's what reasonable people do. Too bad we can't convince others to do the same.
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  752. Of course it's real. Can't see it, touch it, point it out but you can shout about it on the rooftops. The biggest millstone around a black person's neck or anyone's neck, is the idea that someone else has a privilege that they don't. Whether they do or not, it's irrelevant to you. You are what you are and you work with what you have. Dave Webb, the guy in this video, did that and so have millions of other blacks. It's the culture of envy that will hold you back. You, yes.....YOU....are you're own worst enemy. A bigger enemy than any white man with his privilege will ever be.
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  753.  J D  No...we don't need a "white people" party. That will just keep us where we are right now. Identity politics. It's the same thing as BLM except it WLM. This craziness will never end until there's a final solution. My parents lived through that horror. My uncle spent 6 weeks in a Nazi detention centre because it was close to where he lived and was only transferred out because he wasn't Jewish and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. Once you use any identity as a criteria, you'll find that boundaries shifting about until YOU'RE no longer in the correct identity.
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  754.  @Anne_Onymous  No, it's not. Most people want to be themselves and not be forced to be a stereotype of their identity group. I believe and do what I want to do and not because of my skin colour, or gender, sexual preference or ethnicity. No one wants to forced to toe the identity line under the threat of being kicked out of the "group". That might work for a teenager but I'm adult and I've put away childish things. I'm hoping that you'd want to do that, as well.
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  755.  @tommyanomaly6193  Baloney. Florida has been the destination for seniors and snowbirds for 60 years. My dad went there for 20 years, stayed just outside Tampa Bay and NEVER went to any of the Disney attractions. I spent a winter there myself and drove by Disney World a number of times and never went in and this was YEARS ago, long before any of the controversy started. Florida is a big state. They don't need Disney World to survive.
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  756.  @elchapoalv650  Why should they? They're here illegally. I was in the Netherlands a few years back. I paid all kinds of sales taxes. Does that mean I can now apply for pension benefits, subsidised housing, free education, get to vote and the rest? Of course not.....and I was there legally, as a tourist. When you're live in a country, with a work visa, you pay taxes. If you're in that country, with the idea of earning full citizenship status, you pay taxes towards a future that will be to your benefit in the future. If you're in that country, illegally, they have no idea what you're intentions are. Maybe you're there for a short time to make some quick cash, maybe you're there hoping you'll never go home but think it's better than the place you left, maybe you're there and you're a criminal, but you're there illegally. Until you attain legal status, you're not a part of that country. At best, you're homeless. Go home and apply for legal status that will put you on a road to full citizenship. Millions have no problem doing it the right way. Illegals think only of themselves and have no respect for those who did things the right way or for the country that they're sneaking into.
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  757.  @Razorokc  Crime statistics go down when you stop convicting people of crimes. When a judge throws your case out of court, that no longer counts as a conviction. So, while theft and other crimes go up, statistics say that it's on the way down because they're not being counted. Theft under $950 is no longer a felony in California. It's only a misdemeanour. A misdemeanour is not considered a crime. When they made that decision, crime stats went down. However, that doesn't mean that theft went down. Theft went up because a person can now steal and not end up with a criminal record. Theft, under that amount, is no longer a crime.
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  758.  @lordzallen  At this moment, in the US, the Christian fundamentalists are NOT rigging the court system. The possibility might be there but it's not happening these days. The threat, RIGHT NOW, is the leftist, Socialist ideology, that doesn't believe in evidence or a fair trial. In fact, our judicial system, came from a Christian heritage, of personal responsibility and accountability. You're inventing a threat that doesn't exist to rationalise a threat that does. It's as if you're deflecting as a way to somehow support leftist views. This is the result of a law, Title 9, that the left supports and the conservative, largely religious right, abhors. Stick to the problem and quit trying to accuse others of what a certain group is doing.
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  759.  @bobshuwab1988  All those things you cited, medical care, schools, libraries.....are not part of the economy. The economy has to do with the means of production. If I go to a financial counsellor and we asses my financial position, he will never ask my health or education or whether I have a library card. That has nothing to do with economics or how wealth is created or distributed. That's where you're making your mistake. You have to have a strong and free economy in order to support strong social programs. As soon as you take away the ability for the individual to build their own economic portfolio, you take away innovation and advancement. You force the individual to adhere to someone else's vision of how their economic situation should develop and stunt their growth and innovation. Without that strong and innovative economy, you have no social contract, either. You take the freedom of the individual to buy and sell at their own behest and leave it to a centralised body who tells you what it is you want or produce. It is the economy of permission, of the bureaucrat who tells you what it is should have. That's why the first Soviet athletes that travelled to the west were astounded by the incredible array of products in our stores available to the average person. Each product produced by and through the desires and decisions of the individual. Each product taxed so that tax money could be used to support medical care, education, roads and so forth. That's why the capitalist countries were the richest and the socialist countries the poorest.
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  760.  @jynxmangrove1769  The best teachers are also the best thinkers. You can't learn unless you think and a good teacher is one whose life habits and abilities inspire you to emulate their path to learning. You won't think and from there you won't learn from a dullard, someone you can't respect.
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  761.  G  Yes they can. People that don't smoke have lung issues, as well. People that don't drink have bad livers. People that watch their diets still have diabetes. I'm not sure what your point is.
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  762.  @dogpatch8266  Wow.....election denying in the 2000 elections. It seems that this denying stuff isn't just a Trump phenomena.
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  763. Nik Kingman The big difference is that these veterans were willing to put the lives on the line for something to believe in for a minute fraction of what a NFL player earns. Of course, they deserve to get paid. They have to live, don't they? However, many, I'll say most, do it due to their convictions. I'm sure you've heard of Pat Tillman. He left the NFL to join the military and was killed in the line of duty. He didn't have to leave his lucrative football career but he did out of sense of duty, knowing full well of the dangers involved. Comparing what a professional athlete does to that of a military combat veteran has done is beyond ridiculous.
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  764.  @Dexxtre  My 1987 Webster's Dictionary defines phobia as a "intense dread of anything. Used primarily as a suffix." No dislike mentioned. Johns Hopkins Medicine says: "A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity. This fear can be so overwhelming that a person may go to great lengths to avoid the source of this fear. One response can be a panic attack. This is a sudden, intense fear that lasts for several minutes." No dislike here, either. That's 2 quite reputable sources. Phobia was added to the word "homo" to form "homophobia" as a form of gaslighting. They're trying to say that there's something wrong with you, that you're being irrationally afraid of homosexuals. That you probably need mental health care. It was later added to gaslight those who might criticise Islam or transsexuals. They did it to the female swimmers at Penn State. If you're not comfortable with transgenders in the locker room, we can provide mental health care to fix that irrational fear. It's classic gaslighting and they've convinced a lot of people into being afraid to voice their opinions.
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  765.  @markjohnson4053  The United States is a constitutional Republic that uses the democratic process to select its representatives. However, when a law is enacted, using the democratic process but contravenes the constitution, it must be struck down. The majority cannot vote in legislation that violates constitutional law. It is law by Constitution and THEN the democratic process.
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  766.  @bigbubba4314  I live in a small town in Ontario. Even here, it's surprising how the people are gripped in fear of the Covid. It overrides all logic and common sense. They can't understand why they just don't get vaxxed. In their minds, it's so simple. Do what they government wants and everything will be fine. That's what we're fighting. I have a friend who will see the logic of my argument and then stubbornly cling to the narrative, anyway. It's frustrating as hell. That's how deep and insidious the propaganda has been. In spite of the fact that they all hate Trudeau, they'll still back him because of the science and some stereotype they've been fed of the white supremacist boogeyman from out west, or the north or somewhere. They're slowly coming around but not nearly fast enough. That's why the truckers have to play it smart. Any gains they have made in turning the hearts of Canadians would be lost in one stupid move.
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  767. They're winning the propaganda war. That's how we have to defeat them. We have to expose them for what they are. Share these videos and any information that you have on these guys. Don't worry about showing good stuff on these guys because there is no good stuff. Confront our politicians, continuously. Don't let them off the hook. Same as the media. We have to win them back. Until we do, any direct confrontation will be used a propaganda against us. We have to outsmart them and by the look of their mugshots, that shouldn't be all that hard.
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  768.  @perihelion7798  It's not YouTube that I worry about. It's the entire mindset of the Democrats and the left. Is the government working with YouTube to flag misinformation as well, same as Jen Psaki said they were with Facebook? What about the media? Are the Democrats reaching out to NBC, CNN and other outlets, to ensure the only information that gets out is "their" information? The entire country should be outraged at this, especially at what Psaki said openly and honestly. They're not, though. In fact, I know people that think that this is the right way to go and that conservatives are what's wrong with this country. We might end up whispering "Screw them" to ourselves, in a dark closet late at night, because this isn't just misinformation.....it's proof that we're insurrectionists. The journey on the road to hell starts with one step. Don't let them take it.
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  769.  @ft4903  For years, gender meant the distinction between male and female. That changed a few years ago. How do I know this? I consulted a Webster's dictionary which I purchased in 1979, the year I started college. This is what it said. "sex, male or female. (Gram) classification of nouns according to sex (actual or attributed) or animateness." It would appear that the actual sex is important when assigning a grammatical assignation. The personification of an object (calling your car Betsy) attributes a female sexuality to your car. That is not an actual fact. So, if I, a male, want to be known as female, I'm attributing a gender that is not in fact. If it was is would say (actual AND attributed) instead of (actual OR attributed). The change is the meaning of the word "gender" is, in, fact the social construct. The current and fairly recent understanding of the word did not exist 50 years ago.
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  770.  @ft4903  You're equating scientific fact with perceived experiences when you're using the heliocentric example. The real scientific fact concerning gender is that a DNA analysis will show either male or female and will NEVER show the myriad of genders that is claimed to exist. It is the myriad of "genders" that is the social construct. Science isn't about opinions or experiences. It's about fact and it doesn't support your version of gender. What you're describing isn't scientific fact. It's an emotional reaction based on a life experience that is unquantifiable, therefore can't be described scientifically. DNA shows male or female. I can't help that. I can't wish it away or wish it true. It just is. This can't be changed unless you use the O'Brian method. Tie a cage of rats to the heretic's face and then force the heretic to declare that 2 plus 2 equals 5. Not scientific but effective in a socially constructive way.
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  771. I'm so grateful that this black lesbian and her family made it out of Florida alive. For next year's spring break, I'd recommend Saudi Arabia or Iran. Afghanistan seems nice too. Black lesbians are all the rage in those countries.
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  772.  @walterpierce6061  Who cares what colour you are. I judge you be the content of your character. I'm afraid that I find it lacking. A person, who has a good character. isn't obsessed with skin colour and doesn't use that obsession to make negative judgement on people that they don't even know..
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  773.  @percyblok6014  Read his comment. He works full time. I'll repeat it for you. "FYI - I live in my vehicle, and work full time.". Since he's NOT paying rent, he has LOTS of money for a phone. That means that he has access to the internet.
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  774.  GoldenState  The thing is that there are those who criticise Trump as a knee jerk reaction. The same ones that bragged about providing money to build a fence for border security at the Mexican border are calling him "racist" for wanting to build a wall for security. The inconsistency has reached the point of being ridiculous. Trump has just signed a prison reform bill with support from a great many Democrats but the MSM hardly reports on it. Trump signs into place an initiative to get involved in a UN effort to help women entrepreneurs around the world and MSM say nothing because it doesn't fit their "misogynist" narrative of the guy. MSM has hardly even mentioned his 800 million dollar economic opportunity zone initiative because that flies in the face of their "racist" claims. However, he gives the college football champs pizza and hamburgers, they act as if he poisoned them. They refuse to give him any credit for stopping the nuclear testing by the North Koreans and either ignore it or spin it so as to denigrate the guy. That's why the strong defence that his defenders are showing him. If they don't MSM would drown him in their hate. That doesn't mean he's always right, though. He has made proposals to cut SS and Medicare. I don't like that. I'm nervous about his support of the new government claims in Venezuela, as well, and worry that he may get involved militarily in their political mess. I don't like that idea at all. Trump shoots off at the mouth and will say the most embarrassing things. We all know that but we also know that he's been the most accessible president in modern history so we put up with his bombastic rhetoric. Guys like Acosta and Lemon just criticise continuously and can't even formulate a question to ask the president that isn't couched in a criticism or an attempt to trap him in some kind of inconsistency. Acosta could have the president's ear but he wastes his time attacking instead of asking. MSM wants to demonise the man and don't care about the issues and will use anyone to tear the guy apart. The prime example of this are how they treated the Covington kids. They could care less about what really happened. They saw an opportunity to use them against Trump and the consequences to those boys didn't matter. MSM has disgraced itself in how they report the news around Trump. A little honesty is all we ask for and they refuse to provide it.
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  775.  @_Stormfather  Back in the seventies, I bought a 1973 Dodge Colt. I'd never heard of that model of car before. Within a week, they were everywhere. Either every one of those Colts were bought in the last week or they were there and I never noticed them. Quite often you see what you're looking for.
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  776.  @PaulvonOberstein  It was NOT a Muslim ban. It was a ban against 7 countries who were at odds with the US. Five of them were Muslim, including Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Pakistan. The other 2 countries were Venezuela and North Korea and they're NOT Muslim countries. Of the top 10 countries with Muslim populations, only THREE of them were on that list. Making a backhanded comment with erroneous facts doesn't help credibility.
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  777.  @futurereflections4097  In 1948, there were around 150,000 Arabs living in Israel. Today, there are around 2 million Arabs in Israel, including the West Bank. That has to be the worst genocide in history.
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  778.  @burgerman8308  So, it's okay then. I see. We have liars, bullies and rude people on BOTH sides. I guess we'll have to concentrate on the issues then. Issue ONE....just to start. Why is it, after 53 years of Democrat rule, Baltimore is still a mess? You'd think that they'd have done something about it. I guess if they improve the city, it would be gentrification so best to leave it rotting as it is. Great strategy that.
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  779. It has never occurred to the media that a person who would engage in vandalism might also be the type of person to lie about engaging in vandalism.
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  780.  @tallwaters9708  I think what Peterson is saying is that those limits shouldn't exist. There are differences in what you're allowed to say from country to country and maybe that idea is completely wrong.
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  781.  @cardigan7726  Trump is going to win because the Democrats have gone off the rails. That crazy "Green Deal" that will cost trillions, lying and pretending that they're not violent but the right is. They look down at the "flyover" people as deplorables. They alienate 62 percent of the voters with the anti-white rhetoric they like to use. They approved of late term abortion and the killing of infants after they're born as described by the governor of Virginia. Stupidity like the harassment of those Covington kids and the covering up of incidents like this one and the beating up of 2 Marines of Hispanic heritage by Antifa thugs while calling them racist names. I could go on and on. Trump didn't win the last election. Hillary handed it to him on a platter and the Democrats are worse now then they were then.
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  782. What a bunch of doom and gloomers. How do even get out of bed in the mornings? I'm going to assume that you're Americans. You're living in one of the greatest times in history and all you can do is whine. My parents lived through the great Depression and then seen their country over run by Hitlers Blitzkrieg. People died by the millions. Before that a flu epidemic that killed millions in less than a year and another huge war. Through every century of our past, it's been war and famine, disease and being forced to live in hovels by aristocratic lords. You guys don't know what hardship is. You're just self proclaimed victims of your own insipid imagination.
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  783.  @sthubbins4038  Racist troll.
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  784.  @deannewilliams6897  Or maybe he's a troll. I won't call him a bald faced liar but he's not using his real name so he can never be called out on his little story. He may never have been on any set in his life.
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  785.  @Max-jm6md  My point is that when you believe that life is hard and then you die, is that you're not looking at the good things in life or that things can get better. The religious believe that implicitly but the secular have to believe it through their own nature and personality. The secular that believe the life is hard aren't feeling any gratitude for the good things in life. There are secular folk, ME INCLUDED, that love life and see hardship as a normal part of our good life and prospects but it's not integrated into a social belief system. It comes from within. That's the one thing that Christians do and Muslims do it too. They express gratitude for their lives, no matter how hard, through prayer. Gratitude is the big difference and the secular can have it, too. "Life is hard and then you die" is nihilistic and it offers nothing. To say "Life is hard but it's good" that's what allows one to work towards prosperity. Every person that I ever worked with that carried a negative attitude were always unhappy and quite often mired in debt. Be grateful, whether religious or not and you'll find that you're life will be happier. Also, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The complainers are the ones that are heard and it's unacceptable to complain in a religious setting. However, the secular complainers are encouraged. That's what's happening now with all this talk about oppression and privilege. It's complaining that's actually being propagated in a lot of our schools. It's a complex topic and it needs a lot more attention than I can give in a YouTube comment section. I was only hoping to start people to thinking about why they're so upset about their lives so maybe they could work towards fixing it.
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  786. Saying that this student doesn't belong in this school is strongly implying that she believes that this is what the school supports. Why else would this teacher say this?
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  787. "All lives matter" should be the default. Not following that axiom is what got us here in the first place. When "All lives didn't matter", it lead to the idea that "Especially those lives don't matter" and then to the ultimate "we can make slaves of those lives that don't matter." "All lives matter" should be what we all strive for.
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  788.  @Aanthanur  Would you stop. We're talking about teaching our kids through a racialized lens. The idea that our race is the only thing that defines us as human beings. That ideology has risen to the forefront, to disastrous results, in the past. I will let you guess when. This has nothing to do with Trump. Quit obsessing over one individual who was so against this racist driven education that he enacted an executive order against it. Whites only meetings.... my God. Doesn't that remind you of whites only bathrooms, fountains, swimming pools and the rest of Jim Crow? It should and all you can say about it is "Orange man....he's bad". How myopic can a person get.
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  789. Even a look into the future of a Warren presidency or just about any Democrat presidential hopefuls. These people validate the old axiom "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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  790.  @makeytgreatagain6256  You're too vested in anger and hatred to even have a decent conversation. They're NOT my people. I wasn't alive then. In fact, my ancestors were just dirt poor farmers who couldn't afford a slave had they wanted one. Those times are over. The American slave trade is dead. We're all one people. The native guy, down the street, is my people. The NBA players are my people. YOU are my people, if you live in the same country that I do. It's like my dad used to say about the Germans. He lived through NAZI occupation yet he's not holding a grudge. The WAR is over....he says. Time to shake hands and move on. However, it's important to you, to keep up the divide, for some reason. "YOUR people. YOU did this". I know people that still HATE the Germans and they can give all kinds of horrific stories about what the NAZIS did to them and their families. Even my parents have quite the stories. However, like my dad says....the WAR IS OVER. If you spend your life in hatred, it sucks the life out of you and hurts you as much or MORE than it does the person that you hate. The transatlantic slave trade is over. Quit acting like the ships are still in the harbour.
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  791.  @leafs900  I don't live in America and customers can behave badly here as well. This isn't an American thing. It's a human thing.
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  792.  @ramencurry6672  "in a group"....terrific. Sounds safe to me. My brother has done mission work in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Maybe because we live in a rural area in Canada, but we do NOT call that safe. I've been to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic and we were told to stay inside the resort compound. They said that it was extremely dangerous and that there are places that are so bad that the chances of survival aren't that good. Both countries have a long way to go before I would call them safe. Women walk alone at night where I live, a town of around 20,000. At our family farm, we don't even lock our doors. THAT'S safe. We don't have to travel in groups.
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  793.  @sugarcookiecube  Who cares? His sexual life is his own personal business. Your comment says more about you than it does about Mr. Scott.
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  794. My mother had a Dutch accent (RIP Mom). Bette Midler's mocking of Melania felt like a shot at my mother. What an arrogant and jingoistic remark coming from a supporter "equity and inclusiveness". Elites are gonna "elite", I suppose.
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  795.  @chriscampbell7895  If that is your primary drive in how you vote, then don't vote for her. However, there will always be things that you're not going to agree on. You have to examine the entire package and assess if the good overpowers the bad. As Thomas Sowell once said "There are no solutions...only trade-offs" In judging candidates, you can't vote blindly. You have to determine what you're willing to trade-off in order to get what you want out of your chosen leader.
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  796.  @i.p.freely5974  Big deal. You're lucky to be in America. Try being black in central Africa or in the Caribbean. In the US, poverty comes with a cell phone. Quit your whining.
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  797.  @justintime41776  Living it up in the Hotel California. The needles are free. I'm stoned as can be. (I don't know how to do the "music" icon" LOL"
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  798. If that was my kid, she'd get a blast from me. I'd be upset with the police, too, but that's not way for anyone to behave, including a 9 year old.
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  799.  @milliefee8194  "march peacefully and patriotically" I know that riles me up enough to attack police. LOL.
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  800.  @skyisreallyhigh3333  I worked in retail and I KNOW some of those "desperate victims". They can't hold down a job. They have drug and alcohol problems. They have no sense of right and wrong. Also, calling me names and insulting me doesn't prove you right. Without the resources that large companies have, we wouldn't have the items that we take for granted. They bring it all together and then arrange for it to be sold to those who want it and do so at affordable prices. If the average person can't afford it, it doesn't get sold and the company takes the loss. You don't understand economics and you're online demeanour shows just how angry and resentful you are. You're the type of person that ran Venezuela into total bankruptcy and its people into extreme poverty. They took more than what was being produced and they can't understand the mathematics enough to know why. If there's enough people, like you, in a country, that country will degenerate into a chaotic mess. The sad part is, you'll just keep blaming everyone else.
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  801.  @seth5394  Maybe he could call it "Idiocracy".
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  802.  @tbrcc636  It's called "due process". It's how we behave in a country that believes in the rule of law. Those rioters engaged in violent and destructive behaviour. Kamala should never have shown her support for violence by bailing them out.
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  803. However, the Democratic process is enshrined in the Constitution. That makes the US a democracy within the bounds of the Constitution. Every citizen has the right to vote except within certain specifications, such as age limitations and or if one is a felon. The United States is a democracy but a Constitutional Republic first. To give an example. We're human but we're also bi-pedal except under certain conditions. We're both just like were a Constitutional Republic which gives us democratic rights. Lose the right to vote and our Constitution, the document that enshrines our rights, isn't worth the paper it's written on. We also have the right to free speech. Take away that right and we're no longer a Constitutional Republic.
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  804.  @leviammundsen2604  I went to a community college. You don't have to go to an expense Ivy League university. I worked part time, stretched my schooling over 5 years and left school 5500 bucks in debt to school loans. Paid it off in a year and a half. Those students are suckers and now I have to help bail them out of their stupid decisions.
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  805.  @foreverlearn3866  They've been saying that ever since Trump announced he was running for president in 2016. They've really amped it when he said that he was going to run again. Now he picks his VP and it's the same thing all over again. Pay attention.
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  806.  @tomservo4president61  I know that but I don't want his comment to stand, either. He's angry and he's bitter and all he has is his bitterness and the name calling that goes with it. I would like the casual observer to see the difference, between the left wing trolls, the new immigrant and those who expressed how happy they are that things are working out for him. I'm hoping that people can see the differences between the hope and caring of some people and the anger, bitterness and negativity of others, if I point it out to them.
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  807.  @henrytep8884  When you expand the parameters for what constitutes a hate crime, yes....hate crime will expand. A stupid sign saying "It's ok to be white" is now a hate crime. Smart ass kids with a spray can drawing swastikas proves hate and is deemed a hate crime. A lot of those kids don't even know what it stands for. They're just being provocative like kids have always been. My highschool son came home with a swastika drawn of his binder and I sat him down and explained the significance of this symbol and how it had affected our family. He just didn't fully understand it. He thought it was a cool looking symbol. He was the third generation removed from those times. I didn't tell him to remove it. He did it on his own. That's not to say that there are no hate crimes but I'll bet you that they didn't call this harassment of a MAGA hat wearer a hate crime. They are very selective about what that is. I'll bet a bunch of black guys shouting racial and homophobic slurs at a bunch of kids wearing MAGA hats isn't a hate crime, either. However, had it been the other way around.....you guessed it. Hate crime. Expand the definition to suit an agenda and you'll get the desired results. More hate crimes. It's a self fulfilling agenda.
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  808.  @shaneclarke329  Of course we care. However, it's a pandemic. Over a million have died all over the world. In fact, if Democrat governors, in a least 5 states, didn't put Covid patients in nursing homes, there'd likely be 30,000 less dead. However, in the end, it's no one's fault. People get sick. It's the way of life since people started walking on this planet. The strong at heart don't dwell on it. They keep on going because if they don't, the entire system will collapse. As it is, WHO and the UN has stated that world poverty will soon double due to the lockdowns. That means starvation, social unrest, maybe even civil wars. You don't want the cure to be worse than the disease.
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  809. Never noticed that but you're absolutely right.
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  810.  @Skeleton-bs7zy  It's because making them feel like a woman is making them feel like someone that's not them. They're men. They want to be men, not because they feel better than women but because being who they are makes them feel better about themselves. Try to change who they are and they feel alienated from themselves. That's what they're talking about. It would be like forcing you to become a Christian or Muslim or atheist if that's not who you are. The pressure will cause a great deal of stress and unhappiness.
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  811. If he said that Rowling was transphobic, to a great many of university teachers, they'd pat him on the head, tell him what a good student he was and give him an A on his next assignment. No one would ever state why they think that because they don't have to. Dogma is to be repeated not to be discussed or induce thought.
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  812. The media is the party and the party is the media.
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  813.  @Honorablebenaiaha  A racist is a "hatist". I've read enough of your comments to know just how filled with hate you are. You may not hate (or at least you think you don't) due to race, you're still no different. You're just hating based on another criteria. "Love thy neighbour" means nothing to people like you.
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  814.  @biancawilloughby9980  You have some wonderfully deep and well thought out arguments. You're really good at this....LOL. I'm triggered so that proves that 13 year olds should be allowed to take puberty blockers. I didn't know that I had that much power. You should take that argument to Congress.
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  815.  @biancawilloughby9980  It's good that society is more accepting of trans people. Don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with giving puberty blockers to children. Puberty is already flooding them with natural chemicals and there's no way of knowing how those will affect a child, especially those who've just announced their dysphoria right of the blue. I grew up with a guy who's trans and we knew it from before he started school. I also grew up with tomboys who would now be pressured into making radical decisions because it's the new social affliction. Two of them are gay and a couple of others are married and appear to be quite happy as they are. My niece had a kidney transplant at 16. It was a life and death situation and it had to be done. There was nothing elective about it. She's now married and a mother of one. I've also had a surgery on a strangulated hernia. It had to done or I'd have died of gangrene of the intestines. Sometimes you have to place trust because the options are that or death. However, I've also a healthy scepticism of the medical profession and the money behind it. Not that I'm a conspiracy guy, no anti-vaxxer and such but I've already mentioned those that I've known that died from the opioids that doctors were handing out like candy. I also know someone who has born with a deformed arm due to her mother being prescribed Thalidomide. Trust is one thing. Blind trust is another.
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  816.  @Man-vs-Metal  How could we know if the prosecution withheld his identity. The defence had no chance to examine the guy to find out if that testimony COULD have changed things. That's the issue here. The defence has the right to ALL evidence.
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  817. It's more than a debate. These people are ideologically obsessed. That means when their new "religion" is challenged and holes are poked into it, their entire world view is shaken and it's rattles them to the core. That's why they're afraid to debate and why they become so angry when you even have the NERVE to question them.
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  818.  @JustMe-em7hl  What actions? He stood on the first step to the Lincoln Memorial and didn't move and never said a word to that native elder. The elder walked right up to him, beating his drum, until the drum was inches from his face. That kid still did nothing. He just stood there with an awkward smile on his face. Not a word or a peep out of him. I'd love to see your reaction if I walked up to you and started beating a drum just inches from your face for no apparent reason. I'll bet that would be different though. You wouldn't be wearing a MAGA hat and that would put ME in the wrong. Your sense of reality is way off of skew.....or you're just a troll. Either way, you have issues.
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  819. Even Schumer laughed at that one.
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  820.  @beckydoesit9331  You didn't know that it was a remake? Give me a break. Are you from a planet in a galaxy far, far away? Your "copy and paste" comment isn't all that credible. Go back to the drawing board and try again.
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  821.  @53lyric1  If she did go on CNN, they'd attack her and Trump, insinuate the she's a race traitor and never let her speak. None of the information that she gave in this video will be allowed to be presented. They don't want you to hear what she has to say.
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  822. @K33N4N Even if every word of your comment is true that doesn't negate that Chansley was held for 1.5 years in solitary confinement even though he'd never been convicted of a crime. Then prosecution did not give his lawyer all the video footage, concerning his client, which is required by law. Would it have made a difference in the end? Who knows. That's up to a judge and jury to decide. However, every American, no matter who he is or what he's accused, of has the right to a fair and speedy trial and Chansley received neither. There was no need to withhold the rights of Chansley. He may have still been convicted of committing a crime on that day but the prosecution made sure the evidence was stacked against him. That's a violation of a prisoner's rights and those responsible should be held to account.
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  823.  @youtriggeredbtch7845  Not yet. Are you seriously saying that one should wait until you're hurt, when you're being stopped by a mob, before you leave? They're surrounding her car, yelling at her, stopping from letting her go anywhere and she should sit there and take it and hope that they don't attack her. Smash out her window or drag her out of her car....is THAT when she should get out. I'll bet that's what you'd do...right? Sit there calmly and think, "They're nice people. Pay no attention to the threats, to the person banging on my car, the one standing in front, trying to stop me from leaving. They actually like me. You're one naive person is you think like that. I make it a rule of thumb. If a car is approaching, I don't stand in front of it. It's bigger than I am and I'm not going to get into shoving match with it. These BLM protesters think that they can do whatever they want and when someone objects, they outraged. Don't stand in front of a moving car and don't look down the barrel of a gun.
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  824.  @OfLaSoul  Another thing. I was never ONCE concerned about my bank account being spied on and possibly seized under Harper. Our rights were NEVER taken away through an emergency act placed by Harper. I might not agree with how he handled those protests but that's NOTHING to what Trudeau has just done. He's suspended the civil rights of ALL Canadians. ALL of us have lost our rights and then he lied about the swastikas and vilified all those who had strong doubts about the way the pandemic was being handled. You just aren't grasping the horrific reality of what Trudeau is doing. And worse, he's suspended Parliament. There's no debate over that emergency act. He just DID it. Why you're even bringing Harper is beyond me. The most tyrannical move in Canadian history and you're playing whataboutism.
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  825.  @ISirSmoke  You just made an assessment of his "smart" neighbour, who's a stranger to you. However, you're making a statement that implies that Batman shouldn't assess you because you're a stranger to him. Not too logical.
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  826.  @darrenuk  The law also states that a non-citizen cannot vote. So....do we arrest every non-citizen AFTER the election if they vote? Arrest and deport them? Is THAT your solution?
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  827.  @chrisbayridge23  Are those 66 million working class people starving to death? Are they, as the woman in this video describes it, fish food at the bottom of the sea in their attempt to find a place where their lives are better? Capitalism provides hope. It's the hope that one can create products that bring wealth to the individual. Socialism creates handouts. That monthly wait for the government check. It creates nothing. No products to sell. No income in exchange for that product produced. No hope to build your own future. Just waiting for the next pay check from the government and the hope that they don't change their mind about giving it to you.
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  828. @RexLapin73 Poor comment. No reasons given for why you think it's poor choice or who those "better options" would be. Might as well said nothing.
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  829. Anytime that someone starts calling you a racist, transphobe or whatever, it's time to leave the conversation. They've just shown that they have no argument of substance and are resorting to ad hominem attacks.
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  830. ​ @damagar8  She brought her entourage of about 30 followers. That's who was applauding so loudly when the applause sign lit up. It doesn't take a lot to make a lot of noise.
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  831.  @357maximum4  It's always the same. The comment makes a vague claim and then tells you to do the research. Just ONCE, I'd like to see a person make a specific claim, one that has substance, and then show us where to find the evidence to back up that claim. From your comment, i don't even know what it is I'm looking for.
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  832.  @Mordalo  So what if the story of the Exodus isn't true? The story's setting was around 1250 BC. The Jews were known to be in Judah around 500 BC. It's known that exiled Jews were allowed to return to their homeland by the Persian King, Cyrus the great, in 538 BC. That implies that Cyrus KNEW that this was the Jewish homeland for quite awhile BEFORE that. Split the time of the Exodus, which may not be true to the time of the return from Persia and we're looking at a time of at least 900 BC in which the Jews lived in what is now known as Israel. After the Babylonian exile, the Jews were there from the time of Cyrus, 538 BC, to the Jewish diaspora that took place during Roman rule, from 70 to 135 AD. Also, the modern Palestinian problem is ALL about religion. If the Jews all converted to Islam, the problem would be solved. All the other religions in the area, the Christians, the Druze and the Jews are all good with the state of Israel. It's only the Muslims that have a problem with it. That's how the lines of conflict are drawn. You've skipped a HUGE part of their history.
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  833. In spite of all the "killing" on Jan 6th, not one person has been charged with murder. That's bizarre. There isn't even any suspects. All that video and still not one person has been pointed out as a murderer.
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  834.  @PROVOCATEURSK  Make sense, bot.
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  835.  @oreli2556  Apparently, I do and I have a reason for it. I like to point out how their tactics of deflection and simplistic near monosyllabic comments have no value. Changing the topic doesn't say a thing about the topic other than the fact that weirdos and trolls are uncomfortable speaking on what is being discussed. So they try to steer things into their comfort zone. It's "Don't look here....look there". I'm letting you know that I'm not falling for it and neither will most of us that aren't afraid to stay on topic.
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  836. @RicoHooverTrump Pirro isn't running for president and she's not the topic of discussion. Stop with the deflection.
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  837.  @MonkyPocks01  If you have too many people visiting at your house, they'll rip you out of it. We now have snitch lines. Sort of what they used to have in the Soviet Union. Your neighbour is now your enemy.
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  838.  @UnendingAbyss  Government institutions have always been in place. That's been the default ever since we left the hunter/gatherer mode of life and it slowly became more deeply ingrained as time went on. What the Constitution does, is take back that freedom that our forebears had as a part of the natural process of life. At least, that's what it's trying to do. We are a part of society but we should have personal agency as well and the Constitution makes it more than a topic of discussion or a philosophy. It grants it to every individual and it's written down as a force of law and a natural way for every human to exist. Of course it had to be ratified through political machination. It's the ONLY way for it to happen and those freedoms, as are codified in the Constitution, have to be upheld through force, simply because those who want to take away that individual freedom will do so through violence and force.
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  839.  @LikeGod_ButBetterLooking  So, when Obama and Hillary Clinton claimed that there was election fraud, back in 2005, they were either Nazis or enablers of Nazis? When the Democrats claimed that the Russians and Trump, committed election fraud, they were being Nazis and Nazi enablers? You can't have it both ways. By your logic, Obama is, at best, a Nazi enabler as is Hillary, Adam Schiff, Pelosi and Donald Trump. In fact, the majority of our government are all Nazis. A poorly thought out argument.
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  840.  @LikeGod_ButBetterLooking  So, if you think that election fraud could happen, THEN you're a Nazi. LOL. I guess all you have to do is find one discrepancy in circumstances and you're off the hook. A really fined tuned set of rules you have there. Hillary STILL hasn't accepted the results of the election in which she lost. A sign of true Nazi. She was all in on the election fraud claim in 2005, so it seems that she had a justification to claim fraud in place. She certainly knew of the possibility and had stated it. However, there has to be something different in her claims than Trump's claims. Maybe it was the volume or loudness of Trump's claims that make the difference. He certainly is a lot louder than Hillary. Man....are you splitting hairs. I'll bet it's because you're so politically and ideologically obsessed that you can't see or don't want to see, the contradictions in your stance. The truth is, this election fraud claim is nothing new. It's just louder now, but not by much. The Russian collusion, started at the moment the Democrats realised they lost. They had fraud in their heads and then went looking for the evidence to back up their claim and they haven't given it up even though the Mueller report turned up nothing.
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  841.  @danporath536  However, history has taught us that people are corrupt and they will try to get away with doing the wrong thing any chance they get. Therefore, due to this history, the simplest answer is that there likely was some fraud. That's the norm in human behaviour. The question is, was there enough fraud to change the results. The Democrats may have won without cheating. They may have cheated because that's what people do. In fact, the Republicans could have cheated, too but not enough to win. No system is perfect. To ensure that the elections ARE as close to perfection, as possible, you make the election process as simple as possible. The greater the uniformity in the process, the less opportunities to cheat. Not much uniformity in the American election process this time.
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  842. You clearly do not understand the Canadian electoral process. We have elections every 5 years. However, an election can be called at anytime before those 5 years are up. Canada had our last election in Oct. 2019. That means that there will not be another election until, at the latest 2024 unless there is a vote of non-confidence or the sitting majority calls another election. They voted to suspend the right to CALL an election until the Covid crisis is over. That would include a vote of non-confidence. However, in 2024 there MUST be an election, as is scheduled and as proscribed by law. I've simplified it quite a bit but that's the gist of it. Canadian election procedures are a lot different than in the US. Believe me.....I don't want to see Trudeau as Prime Minister for 1 more minute but what you're saying just isn't true.
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  843.  @John-gx2ry  It seems like such a wise thing to say but in reality things don't work that way. First, you're making this about the English. This is bigger than that and his comment reflects that. You're interjecting a bias into what he was saying. Also, using Nigeria as an example, the Igbo and Yoruba tribes, who were the impoverished groups during slavery, went after the education, to learn all they could about math, science and literature. They quickly became the most prosperous in Nigeria. The Fulani rejected that education and, to this day, are the most impoverished people of Nigeria. You can make the choice to accept or reject the values of hard work and an education. That's the choice of any individual. However, if you do nothing, don't expect good things to come of it.
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  844.  @robertjsmith  We've seen the Islamist colours since the 7th century. Expand and conquer. Why would they change now.
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  845.  @sthubbins4038  I wonder why you're changing the subject.....oh, maybe because you know that Smollett is guilty and realise that the corporate media knew it as well.
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  846.  @Behindthecurtain-s1o  I really going after you for your automatic accusation of "liar". That's how kids behave on a school yard. Mature adults don't do that unless they're going to follow it up with facts. The fact that you can't spell "lying" just adds to my impression of you being a kid in a school yard.
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  847.  @noklarok  That's fair but as one, who has gone through the procedure, I can tell you that's it's not that big a deal and to say that I'm "mutilated" is a HUGE exaggeration. AND....to compare this to cutting the entire thing off, inverting it and then putting it into a gash so it's supposed to be a vagina, is ridiculous. It changes nothing over the life of a circumcised child and it's NOTHING compared to what a trans surgery, a major procedure, forces a child to go through for the rest of their lives. The dilation, the drugs, the infections, the loss of sexual function......it's not even close. I repeat, it's like comparing the act of removing a hang nail to chopping off the entire finger. A tempest in a teacup.
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  848.  @markrandall3747  As long as they weren't wearing MAGA hats. Wear a MAGA hat and you're automatically guilty.
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  849.  @coop-nr6nm  That's where I disagree. They were extremely to the left as far as economics go. Not so much as communists but the Party would mandate in what direction the economy would operate. The owner of any company was at the command of the Party and all aspects of business was handed down from the Party. What to produce, how much, where to get raw materials, who to hire and the owner and his management staff answered to the Party officials who were put in place in lieu of union officials. If the owner of a company failed at his duty to the Party, the company would be confiscated. It was all about Party control. Economically, China uses almost the exact same methods as Nazi Germany did. The only reason that people think right wing, when talking about Fascism is because Germany was Fascist and they were also obsessed with nationalism. Italy was fascist as well but their nationalism wasn't as strident as it was in Germany. Nazi Germany did NOT have a free market system, which means it wasn't a capitalist country, like the US. A centralised economy is socialist, a lot more socialist than Sweden or Denmark, which practise a free market economy. Socialism is left wing and Germany's Party called themselves the National Socialist German Workers' Party. They even double down on the Socialist label by adding "Workers".
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  850.  @herzl67  I think that he's braver than Robin Hood and his cause and methods are more just.
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  851.  @tw3235  The high wages of California. The Socialist Democrat state that refuses to look after their homeless. They have all that money and people are living in tents on the sidewalks of their major cities. Apparently that higher education doesn't make them any more altruistic, does it, or smart enough to help those people.
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  852.  Jorge Briln  Radical? Are you kidding? If I complain about the policies of my school board....I'm a radical? Every parent has the right to ask the teachers and the school board on what they're teaching their kids. Only a beaten and downtrodden sycophant would keep their mouth shut. Why is it that the very first response is "radical white racists". I saw a woman of Chinese heritage and another of Indian heritage talking. Didn't you see these 2 women? Or are you so steep in racially charged rhetoric that all you see is "white".
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  853.  @d.castillo9495  She served in the military and had to take part in American military forays into other countries. Did she agree with those actions? NO....but she did it because it was her duty as a member of the military. Lots of soldiers go to war feeling that way. I'm against war myself, in principle, but I sure do appreciate the soldiers who fought against Fascism in WW2. That doesn't mean that I support war as a great way to settle international differences but sometimes the world and life leaves you no choice. Tulsi wanted America out of Afghanistan but not the messy way that Biden withdrew from that country. She understands that there's a wrong way and a right way to do things, even if the goal is the same.
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  854.  @d.castillo9495  A lot of generic accusations. No details, no context, just general accusations. Like taking money from the defence industry. From the entire defence industry? Every defence company just gave her money for her endorsement? Let's be specific here. What company? What was she asked to do in return? Was she working for them? What exactly was her role. I worked for a shoe company that made boots for the military. Does that make me a war monger? Make a case that's specific and makes sense. If you can do that, I'll accept it. Blanket statements with no evidence is no better than gossip.
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  855.  @frasertones8519  Read my comment to bernardjameswilson in this thread. It's not just about the things that you're talking about. It's about our freedom. It's slowly eroding away. If you haven't lived to see the erosion, you may not understand what I'm talking about. Freedom isn't only about affluence. It's about so much more than that.
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  856.  @maxpayne7419  Tell that to my 22 year old grandson, and others his age, who's faced with the knowledge that he may NEVER be able to buy his own home. I did it 45 years ago, when I was 24, but it's almost impossible for him and others of his generation.
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  857.  @carlyellison8498  I won't speak for him but I support common sense support for the law. If the laws are broken, including gun laws, do what must be done to the lawbreaker. Besides, there are a lot of gun control laws in place. It isn't complete chaos out there. I'm not a big fan of the NRA but I do support the 2nd Amendment. I know that this sounds counter intuitive to one that is all about the collective but life is about nuance, not rigid application of ideas and thought. Besides, what does this have to do with Jordan Peterson.
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  858.  @JohnDoe-ff2fc  I doubt it. They'd go bankrupt, the NFL could fold and those responsible would blame white supremacy, Covid, white band-aids and Donald Trump.....anything but their own racism. That's what happens to the ideologically obsessed. They'll never get it
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  859.  @hester234  That's she's reached adulthood in such a stable mindset is a good thing. Hopefully, that continues. You can ascribe that to her strength of character, surrounding herself with good people or even the power of the infinite. I understand the undertone of your point but you're denigrating an idea of good intention to pick a fight. It's rather nasty. If I'm wrong, explain why and I will take it back.
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  860.  @thetheoreticaltheologian2458  It doesn't necessarily mean that at all. When the ice age ended, ocean levels rose around 350 feet. That's would cover a lot of territory. Also, and we've ample evidence of it, melting water was held back and formed huge lakes by glacial dams. When those dams burst, there would have been HUGE floods and a rapid rise in ocean water levels shortly after. Even a 10 foot rise, over a month, would have been devastating in some areas. It would have resulted in flood stories from all over the place. That is just as viable a reason for the flood stories as your Biblical narrative.
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  861.  @bobshenix  Off you go again, making all kinds of negative pronouncements that don't even make any sense. Peterson was an ordinary professor in a Canadian college when a law was passed that could have FORCED people to say things against their will. He spoke out against it on campus, not against trans people as people but the idea that they could make up a set of pronouns and then force, under the guise of bigotry, people to use those pronoun, using the law as their cudgel. He didn't ask for the students and staff of the University of Toronto to become so outraged that they threatened physically and professionally. It was thrust upon him. I doubt it was his intention to lead the world in the fight against woke progressiveness. He just gave his opinion and people started to listen. His apparent lack of success at stopping the tide of leftist takeover, doesn't negate what he's saying. What kind of logic is that. It's like saying that the Germans that objected Hitler's rise to power are nothing but cultists and losers. It's illogical. He's taken a stance against an ideology that many find attractive. The negativity and rancour that you exude, in every one of your posts, belies a personality type that has always puzzled me. You don't really discuss things. You just attack, denigrate and sneer at people. There's nothing positive about anything that you say. You seem to wallow in misery and find joy in tearing people down to your level. What a sad existence.
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  862.  @TrickyRicky747  Sign your ticket when you buy it.
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  863.  @PEPSEP  So you're the guy that Peterson was talking about. The guy that throws out Nietzsche's book because he disagrees with one or two things written in it. Quite the small perspective. Always looking for the imperfection and then judging the world or people on that. No wonder people want to tear their own country down. They expect perfection and when they don't find it.....DESTROY. "Let he who is perfect, let him throw the first stone". It would appear that you have a pocket full of stones, all ready to be thrown from your perfect little hand.
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  864.  @keepingitreal8245  EVERYONE wants to open the economy. The question is when can it be done safely and how to do it. Is it wise to tell people in Fairbanks, Alaska, to not work until New York is clear? That's what we have to consider and what the criteria will be. Trump has NEVER advocated for opening the economy without any consideration to health safety. If you think that the Party that wanted corporate board equity to be tied to the aid package, you're fooling yourself.
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  865.  @Arctc-zh6rg  Dave Rubin, Blaire White, black Republicans are right wing but they're NOT extremists. They believe in conservative principles, which is a set of ideas which has nothing to do with skin colour or identity. They believe in personal responsibility, hard work, individual sovereignty and a winning attitude in life. To suggest that they can't have a set of beliefs, due to their group identity, you're the one assigning agency upon a person and taking away their ability to think, believe and act as individuals. That's the very think that we hate. We're individuals and we judge one another on the content of our character. Group identity means nothing. It's the left that would call someone, like Candace Owens, a porch m.....y, an Oreo, an Uncle Tom and worse. I find that despicable and it's not coming from the right. It's racist to deny individual agency and to malign those who would exercise their right to their own thoughts. Their not robots. They're human beings.
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  866. msc14111990 You're now resorting to gossip, huh. Well, this historian you speak of, Niall Ferguson, separated from his wife in 2010. He then started dating Ali. One year later, they got married and they have a son that was born in December of 2011, long after Ferguson had split up with his wife. If you're a Muslim, divorce is perfectly acceptable and allowed as well as getting remarried. So, all you're doing is engaging in gossip, the activity of the small and mean minded. As for being a coward. She spent years under threat of murder from Muslim radicals. She had to go into hiding and still has to be careful about making her whereabouts known to the general public. If she ever went back to Somalia, she'd be killed and YOU know it. That's not being a coward. That's being smart. As for helping people, she's wrote books showing that a religion, culture, skin colour and gender shouldn't stop a person from becoming their own person, an individual with freedom of thought and expression. When she took an aptitude test in the Netherlands to see what she was best suited to work at, she was told that she should become an office worker. She didn't want that and said that she wanted to study political science. She was told that she would only get funding if she studied secretarial type jobs and if she wanted to study political science, she'd have to pay for it herself. So she did just that. She worked and studied and attained a degree in Political Science. Then she became a member of parliament in the Dutch government. Your problem is rather obvious to see through. You're a Muslim and you're one of those who think that any criticism of Islam is blasphemy and should be punished, even killed. If not a Muslim, one of the extreme liberal left, who isn't much different. The kind that thinks that anyone who doesn't agree with them 100 percent is a despicable person and shouldn't be allowed to speak and you'll use any means possible to denigrate including childish gossip.
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  867. I watched Trump for awhile but the moderator just pissed me off. Then I tried the Hunter, I mean, Joe Biden show. That put me to sleep.
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  868.  Ryan Lee  Well, we have a president who's brokered four, like in FOUR (4) peace deals in the Middle East and the Balkans and has made inroads in dealing with North Korea. If you don't like the bombing, you may have to think about voting for this guy.
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  869.  @alexjoneswasright11  Except George was already complaining that he couldn't breathe, LONG before he was forced down. He told the police that he was claustrophobic and that he couldn't breathe. One officer assured him that they'd open the windows a bit and turn on the AC. When he went into the back seat of the police car, he started kicking and swinging, causing the police to back off. George sat up, feet on the street, and then said that he needed to lay down and that's what he did. That's when the police tried to cuff him and he resisted and he was held down and and started repeating that he couldn't breathe, something that he'd already SAID when he was still standing. The autopsy showed that he had over the lethal limits of Fentanyl in his system and that he died of hypoxia. The number one cause of death, in a Fentanyl overdose, is hypoxia. The police could be accused of not recognising that George was having severe drug reaction, something that they're trained to spot and respond to but they didn't until it was too late...but they didn't murder him. In fact, George may well have died without any physical reaction with the police. There's even more to this story that shows that George was the architect of his own demise but I'm sure that you don't want to hear it.
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  870.  @Andrico77  "Leave the legal stuff to lawyers" says you....right after explaining the law. It's laughable how you don't see the irony.
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  871.  @charlesjohnson3625  Eating meat is a part of our diet and has been for hundreds of thousands of years, probably millions of years. We're not the only ones that are carnivores. However, we've developed a social understanding that ALL human life has value and that human has been granted equal rights and opportunities under the law. We either apply that principle to ALL human life or we might as well through the idea of human civil rights out the window. When we try to expand that principle to all life, we going to run into convoluted legal issues that it would be impossible to solve.....because where does it stop? Could I be charged if I kill a mouse, maybe that deer fly that just bit my ear? I know that if I eat an eagle's egg, right after it's been fertilised and laid, I will do jail time but I'm allowed to kill a human egg right after it's been fertilised. How does that even make sense.
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  872.  @daisycloverbee6353  I'm a grandfather and I was appalled at what my grand daughter was telling me. My daughter is hooked up with a socialist and she's a bit wishy washy on it. She wasn't taught these things and I most definitely wasn't. What's worse, my grand daughter, at 13 years old, has all the arguments down pat and, being young, can't comprehend that she may too young to understand the problems with what she's being taught. I wish I'd known but this wasn't a problem when I was young or when my parent's were in school or before that. This is relatively new and we're all been caught by surprise....and near horror.
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  873.  @Kaspertube513  I'd have given him the finger and walked out the door. I've done it before and I have no problem doing it again.
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  874.  @popweaselcrunch  The point is, there should be no secrets kept between children and ANYONE that's directed at the parents of those teachers. Also, that song, by Dolly Parton, that was banned was NOT at the insistence of parents. It was the principle of the school that told the kids that they couldn't sing it in a pageant. Not parent motivated at all and that's what this video and discussion is about. Keeping information from parents. I can also counter with a school board that told their marching band that they couldn't sing the hymn "How Great Thou Art" So banning doesn't just come from "conservatives" There are standards that they try to maintain because they are dealing with CHILDREN. Have you seen the pictures in the book "Gender Queer"? If I showed those pictures to a kid at the local splash pad, they'd arrest me. I won't even describe what those pictures showed. It's not appropriate for minor children. Another book meant for 7 and 8 year old kids is called "Not My Idea". This book shows a contract that implies that white people made a pact with the Devil to gain land, riches and power. It's being held by a being that has a cloven hoof and a tail. It's in the schools. It's CLEARLY a divisive idea, meant to make white kids feel guilty and defensive and any minority children react with resentment and anger. There is also a part where a 7 year old calls her mother a liar. Why is it necessary to tell 7 year old kids that their parents could be liars? Could that not cause a rift between a child and their parents? I don't want this being read to my children and I'M NOT RELIGIOUS AT ALL. I repeat. I'm NOT religious. So quit assuming what people think or believe based on your narrative of a certain demographic. That's an assumption built on your own biases and it sucks. Once again......I'm NOT religious.
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  875. Everyone has their favourite cause. Your's might be Assange. Mine is the economy and the border so that's what I concentrate on. It doesn't mean that you're wrong or that I'm right. It's that we all have different priorities. If it's possible, why don't you put yourself in a position that you can ask her for yourself? You may find that her position, on Assange, lines up with yours. It just that she has other things that take priority.
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  876.  @stuartdriedger  Depends on what he means by the word "system". Did you read the book or are you responding to a description that you've read without ever digging deeper into what he's really meaning. If you see everything as political, then you'll see his rule as political. He may not be meaning "system" in the political sense, at all.
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  877. Let it be known.....I appreciate your work. Your welcome.
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  878.  @Sylvertaco  If you DON'T read the Constitution, then you'll never understand it. Everything is open to interpretation and nothing will EVER be perfect. That's the nature of the universe. The Constitution is an attempt to make lives bearable for all, giving each an opportunity to live their lives to the fullest. Like every document made by men, it is flawed. Since we are flawed, we have to understand it it in the spirit in which it was written. Douglas understood that and that was why he defended it. He defended it, not because it was perfect, but because it attempted to bring the dignity of life to everyone and was the best attempt he'd read until that time. I'd say it's still unmatched and I'm not American.
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  879.  @nikolasirovica3250  You've just mentioned cities that have housing problems in Europe. Guess why? Eventually you have to build more housing but you can't because of the laws prohibiting that building of homes. So you have problems. Then, countries like Germany and Sweden, allowed untold numbers of refugees in. Now you need MORE homes and still those laws are in place and the problems get worse and housing becomes even more expensive. Europe will have to come to a balance, just like California, where you understand that nothing lasts forever. You can't have unfettered immigration and keep everyone of those historical buildings. Fortunately, birth rates in Europe and America are so low that populations would go down if it wasn't for immigration but cutting back on immigration seems to something unthinkable to many progressives. So, what do you do? Right now, nothing seems to be the answer in those European cities and California.....and the problem gets worse. Don't get me wrong. I've been to Europe and those cities are beautiful but you have to consider one thing. Of what use are those cities if they're not built for people? It's why they exist in the first place. Now, it seems they exist to please the aesthetic values of those who can afford it and the rest can get lost and find another place to live.
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  880.  @Aanthanur  So you're good with schools that teach racist ideologies. Good. I guess Hitler was on to something with his Hitler youth, after all. Get enough "private" schools teaching segregationist policies and we can bring back the glory years of the fifties. Every race gets their own drinking fountain. You do know that excluding someone from a meeting, due to the colour of their skin, is against the law, don't you. "Whites only" How nostalgic.
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  881.  @glennwatson3313  I was that age during the Vietnam protests. I will validate what you're saying. Some of them were all about love and peace and then would go to the airport to greet American soldiers coming home from a tour of Vietnam and they'd screech at them and even spit in their faces. College age students have always been out to lunch. Not all but enough to make it school uncomfortable.
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  882.  @jjboss7896  OK. Still suffered....huh. So, as a gambling man, I guess that you'd be better off NOT following instructions. Those are the cards that you should stick on. Good luck with that hand. That's as dumb as it gets. Also, the jail time issue has nothing to do with a police officer at a traffic stop. Either the safest course is to follow instructions, at a traffic stop, or it's not. I'll tell you what. I don't care what colour you are, refuse to follow instructions the next time you're pulled over and let's see what happens to you. I'm going to listen and I'll guarantee you that my odds are way better than yours. I'd take that one to Vegas.
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  883. I've asked a lot of people what it was that Trump did, as president, that was so wrong. They always say that he's a liar. That he lies all the time about everything. My response? "A politician that lies? Say it ain't so!!!!"
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  884.  @kulturfreund6631  "Well, spend a thought on the fact that the wealth/gains on one side are the poverty /losses on the other side." No...it's not. In fact, the reality is just the opposite. The US has more millionaires than all of Africa and South America combined and I can guarantee you one thing. There are no American refugees heading to those 2 continents looking for a better life. Refugees are all going the other way. I can also guarantee you that most people don't want to live the way they do in those 2 continents and their dream is to live as we do in the industrialised west. The statement you just made highlights one huge fallacy. It's the fallacy that suggests that there is a big pile of money that's available and we're all in a game of "grab the cash" that's sitting in the middle of the table. It's not how accruing wealth works. Wealth is accrued through the creation of end products of value, from raw materials that have no initial value. This is converted into a cash value, a system that makes exchange a much simpler way of distributing the wealth that has been created. The more produce that one can create that has value to others, the more wealth that he can accrue, but he has to be able to sell it. People have to want it. That makes is a free exchange. The customer looking for a product and a producer providing him with the product that he wants. A free and open market. From that system, some will do better than others and some will fail but those that fail, miserably, those drug addicts and mentally challenged street people of LA, as an example, have removed themselves from that open market. Not through any fault of their own, but they're no longer contributing to society and they're not reaping the rewards that the others do. Even the simplest cave dweller has to go out to hunt in order to eat. It's a reality of life.
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  885.  @Havanorange  They've been donated. It's a stop gap measure until all internet services are restored.
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  886.  @daled8894  Funny how didn't mention the entire Russian collusion fiasco. What do you think that was all about. It was the Democrat claim that Trump had somehow committed election fraud. They spent 2 years and almost 35 million dollars, in their quest to prove it, and came out empty. Yet, Hillary, Schiff and others STILL hold onto that claim. In fact, Hillary, Obama and other Democrats, claimed fraud in the the 2004 elections. They tried to discredit the voting machines. Sound familiar? More to the point, Raquel Rodriques was just arrested, in Texas, using the mail-in voting system fraudulently, in the exact manner that Trump, and others, had said was possible under the mail-in voting system. So don't pretend that this is a uniquely Trump thing. This has been going on for awhile and it's the Democrats that don't seem to be interested in improving the integrity of the election process. The rest of the free world is astounded at the idea of not using identification as a aid to maintain election integrity. In fact, I hold it to be condescending and arrogant to assume that minorities don't have access to obtaining an ID and it's racist to ask them to produce it. They're not children. They shouldn't be treated as such.
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  887.  leolion25  Did Desantis put Covid patients in nursing homes? First I heard that. Send us a link to back this up. If true, this is huge.
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  888. I wonder if I painted graffiti on Ted Wheeler's car, he would defend my right as a protester. I have a feeling that he only approves of selective protesting and that I'd be in big trouble.
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  889.  @samflynn3670  If you believe that Trump told people to inject bleach, then you've just proved the point made in the original comment. He never said that. He asked whether if there was any kind of research surrounding the use of a disinfectant. It was a question. So...either you're a liar, dumb as a rock or you're easily manipulated.
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  890. When Professor Peterson was mentioning how you could anticipate the responses of the ideologically possessed, I thought of Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. It explains why she finds it so easy to anticipate the questions of those reporters.
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  891.  Sinjinbin 64  Bravery because they're standing up to those who won't help the president prevent a future where even MORE women would be crowding into that room. They've faced their loss and now their fighting those who don't want a wall, support sanctuary cities and think that vetting immigrants is racist. I've lost a son, not to this, and I know how hard it would be to do what they're doing. So yes.....they are brave and tough.
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  892.  @cameronh7229  The victims of bullies will quite often say what they believe their oppressors want them to say. Just because the kid gave the bully his lunch money, it doesn't mean that he really wanted to.
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  893.  @stuffthetunic  The criminal conspiracy, in the report was collusion. They found that Trump had done NOTHING wrong or illegal. If he had colluded with the Russians to rig the elections, that would have been illegal. Trump will not be indicted. That implies that they have no evidence that he did anything illegal. You're playing word games and the only reason you'd do that is because you refuse to admit that you may have been wrong about Trump and collusion. So, like a petulant child, you play semantics and then say, in spite of NO INDICTMENTS against Trump, that he's guilty. Very mature.
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  894.  @Silllywalks  The very reason that they have the job is to end child exploitation and abuse. When it ends, they no longer have a job. It's in their best interest to never fulfil their end goal. That means, "don't look at what we're doing and above all, don't look at how we're doing it."
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  895.  @yankee5572  Previous president would't let this happen? Are you on glue? What about Ferguson riots on a made up "hands up, don't shoot" narrative? What about the riots in Baltimore, New York, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Dallas? What about the police executions, egged on by BLM, including that of a 32 black female officer, shot in the back of the head while sitting in her squad car by a man who admits being inspired by BLM and the "Pigs in a blanket" slogans. The economy way going great until covid struck and Democrat led states have insisted on total lock downs lasting months. It's in these states that people are facing eviction. They don't have jobs. As for the numbers dead, there are 10 countries that have higher per capita death rates than the US. That means that if they had the same populations as the US, those countries would have MORE deaths that what the US has now. i can prove this, too. The racial justice is another left wing tactic. It's so vague that you can't show it, you can't only give vague references and then it's on to the "racist" accusations. I expect it to be used on me right now just for my opinions.
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  896.  @ermac6466  If you really did that, there'd be a few things I'd call you and not one of them would be a woman. LOL.
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  897.  @poutine57  People aren't illegal but they do commit illegal acts. Many of the people that he's talking about are in the United States illegally. That's an illegal act. Stop using word games to make your point. You KNOW what is meant by this expression yet you pretend ignorance. Don't feign ignorance to make a point. It's dishonest.
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  898.  @mantistoboggan5171  You just watched a video, hosted by a gay Jew and who is married to a man. He believes in abortion rights and equality and yet he's friends with many people who are Christian and Conservative, like Mike Huckabee. He's even been to his place for dinner, with his husband. Huckabee....a very conservative Christian. Yet Dave Rubin isn't the only one. Charlie Kirk, another Conservative Christian, who said that his religion tells him that homosexual behaviour is wrong, yet he still loves and respects Dave Rubin as a human being. Then there's Blair White, who's a trans Conservative. Broadcaster and lesbian, Tammy Bruce.....another Conservative and gets no flack for being a lesbian. That's the big problem with people like you. You can't distinguish between an act and a person. I can believe that drinking, to excess, is wrong without hating someone who does just that. You're of the opinion that I have to hate the person and that there is no separation between the person and the act. You do EXACTLY what James Lindsey said. You make assumptions based on what others have told and never have sat down and tried to have a conversation with those who you paint as demons. It's as if the left fears being contaminated with conservative words. Yet, all through human history, people have honoured the past and their ancestors. Now all we hear is how evil they are.
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  899. It's still bad and violence should be used only as a last resort. When your first reaction is to tell people, who are expressing opinions, to shutup, you are on the way to using violence for all the wrong reasons.
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  900.  @blank-vj1mc  No, they're not. They're being facetious. So you understand, they're making fun of the fact that climate change activists are conflating weather with climate by using their own weather phenomenon as an example of a fact leading to a ridiculous conclusion. "I see an ice age starting. Lol". Notice the "Lol". That is the indication that he knows it's a stupid statement and he's saying to reflect the stupidity of AOC claiming that tornado sirens are proof of climate change.
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  901. I'd do the same. I'd go to the training session and the minute something is said that has ideological overtones, I'd get up and walk out and go back to work. If I wanted to be told how terrible a person I am, I'd call the ex-wife.
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  902.  metalshredmetal1  You really thing that a media source would say this? LOL. Worse.....do you really think that anyone, any sane human being, will believe that a vehicle can protest peacefully? Now wonder they say that the left can't meme. You seem to lack the ability to recognise humour. IT'S A JOKE!!!!. He's making fun of the "mostly peaceful protests" rhetoric. That this has to be explained to you would be comedic if it wasn't so sad.
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  903.  @ljnv  Vance is a career politician? Really? He's only been a politician for 2 years. TWO YEARS! That makes for a career politician? Biden has been a politician for 51 years. Now, THAT'S a career politician.
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  904.  @WaluigiMangione  So if you were drowning, you wouldn't allow a billionaire to save you? That's too bad.
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  905. @UnShackledinJesus You could have made the same point without alienating people by talking down at them. Many of us aren't Christian and it turns us off and we'll dismiss you. I know that you're trying to tell us to forgive and welcome those who might have made mistakes. That's all you have to say. That redemption is possible for us all. You're hurting your cause more than you're helping it.
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  906.  @thefallenslavesusall1857  Of course he had to mention that the woman he helped was black. It was the whole point of the story. Also, no one knows who he is. You can't even send him a dinner for two gift card for his chivalry. As a matter of fact, he might not even be a "he". She could be a "she". That's how little we know about this person. What good is virtue signalling if you're identity is hidden. Rather lame.
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  907.  @1133saginaw  Did it ever occur to you that Acosta might be the Joseph Goebbels of the Democrat party? Goebbels wasn't always in power, you know. Besides, it wasn't Dan Rather that brought down Nixon. It was Woodward and Bernstein and they did it by solid journalistic work, acting on a tip and then not reporting on it until it was verified. That's EXACTLY what I'm suggesting Acosta should do. Instead of vague allegations from doctors and administrators, who may or may not exist, he should be naming them and challenging the president to help them. He should be doing journalism , like Woodward and Bernstein did, and give REAL examples instead of giving the impression that he's doing it out of an agenda. I don't see how this is such a difficult concept to grasp. What Acosta is doing is no better than gossip. Making accusations without proof is just that and Acosta should be doing better than that. In fact, he should be doing WAY better than that.
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  908.  @ohwell2790  It's not only rich people that would be affected by a Wall St. tax. Every American and even a lot of foreigners would see it. It would depress actions and growth on Wall St. and that affects everyone. If you're a factory worker, you may have a company pension. Pensions rely on Wall St. for growth. Even a modest bank accounts depend on the markets. That's how the banks can afford to pay interest. They use that money for investments and the better return on that money, the better it is for the customer. Remember the last bank crash? Banks went bankrupt and people lost life savings. This is the craziest idea yet. Any hope that anyone might have, especially the lowest of the economic scale, for any kind of retirement savings, depend on a strong stock market. Even modest investments annually in 401K can have great results over the years. Don't take that away by depressing investment climate. It'll hurt everyone.
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  909.  @randomhuman2595  Wow. You found a good one. What about all the Pakistani leaders who aren't saying a word. They vastly outnumber the ethical ones. It's either fear that's keeping them quiet or religious ideology.
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  910.  @AllAboutMusicMovies  Now you're making a weird extremist remarks. Trump let it spread? Did Trump rule the world? In fact, the disease started in Italy and was the spreading there BEFORE it did in the Us. Also, I don't live in the US. I'm Canadian. That's another assumption that you're making. She said one thing about the guy and from that you're assigning the appellation "extremist" to him/her. Another assumption. Why is the concern that the fear may have greater implications, over time, than the virus. It has to be a serious consideration. And where did I say that YOU were afraid to live? I was talking about a thought that I've had. You're the one that extrapolated that thought to include yourself. Also, I didn't say that I was afraid. In fact, I said the exact opposite. I said that I REFUSE to be afraid or to let fear rule my life and I know people that are allowing that to happen to them. My neighbour spends most of the day watching the news. I sit outside under a tree, reading and enjoying the day and he's continuously going on about the newest outbreak and how these guy did this and those guys did that and no wonder they're all sick. I smile and nod and go back to my book. You have an amazing capacity to write your own narrative and then asserting that as the truth, on exceptionally little information.
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  911.  @carlyellison8498  I'm going to add that if you claim that someone is a member of a cult, there's a strong implications that you believe that they're a mindless bot, without the ability to think for themselves. It's a harsh dismissal and a very elitist way to relate to people. Worse, you've negated their claim that Peterson may have helped them overcome life problems by saying that it's impossible as they're incapable of self reflection or a viewpoint unless spoon fed to them. That's an extremely harsh criticism and comes across as a sneering attitude. Not once have you expressed any hope or satisfaction in the idea that their lives may be better. You just attacked them. Not nice, considering that some of them might have been at horrifically hopeless stages in their life.
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  912.  @tj1492  The only time a party was mentioned was one Republican in Houston. No other corrupt official's party affiliation was ever mentioned in this video. The guy also made sure to mention, at the beginning of the video, that corruption came from "both sides of the table". Was that because he didn't want us to know that the corruption was heavily weighted on the Democrat side?
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  913.  @Behindthecurtain-s1o  Fooled you how? What did he do that fooled you so badly that you'd want him to go to hell? I'll wait for an answer but I don't expect one.
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  914.  @PuppetXeno  They're banning it as part of the curriculum. If a student, in grade 1, asks about it, it can be discussed on a one to one basis and the parents should be advised that the discussion was had. That's not government over reach. That's an acknowledgement that most kids of that age have no idea of this stuff and that it shouldn't be brought up until a child would be starting to ask about it as a part of their normal development. Parents are worried that this is being discussed with their young children before they're ready to hear it and the government is responding to those concerns. You don't teach calculus to a 7 year old, UNLESS, that child expresses an interest. Even then the teacher should contact the parents to let them know that the child seems to know what calculus is and that he/she might be ready to be taught advanced mathematics. No different than when it comes to sex education. The only difference is that sex can be a vehicle to abuse. Mathematics is not.
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  915.  @baloo1522  I agree. Not everyone that landed at Normandy, fighting the Nazis was a saint. I'd say that they were all flawed in one way or another. However, that's not the point. It's not that we're flawed, it's our efforts to try to defeat our flaws and the evil that's around us. That's why those who landed at Normandy are heroes. It's because, in spite of their flaws, they risked their lives to defeat a truly evil regime. That's what makes them heroes.
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  916.  @josiekaposie5783  The reason why there's a conflict is because Palestinian leaders refuse to accept a 2 state solution. Every time it was offered, the Palestinians turned it down, including in 1947, right before Israeli independence. It could have been a Palestinian independence Day as well but they want it all or nothing so the only independent region was the Gaza strip and the Israelis just let them have it. Apparently, the Palestinians don't want it.
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  917. I agree but you don't go from 100 mph to 0, instantly. If you can drop this much every month, that's not only good, it's great. Let's see what the next few months brings so we can really assess whether it's working or not.
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  918. I've said this in another comment thread. It was blown way out of proportion. It's just an argument between two people. A good police officer would have smoothed it over and sent them on their way. Wisdom is in big demand but in short supply these days....that's the real problem.
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  919.  @Codekidable  I was just told by my 12 year old grand daughter that we need Indigenous studies in primary school because white people murdered natives. How do you tell a 12 year old that to reduce a person's history to a power struggle is both demeaning and racist? This is Marxist inspired post modernist ideology. I wonder where she got that from. It couldn't be her teachers.....could it? When I was a kid, we studied history. Now it's grievance studies. It's as indoctrinating as teaching religious studies in public schools.
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  920.  @captainmordrum  That's your evidence? He's lying. Is that how you handle all information that you don't like? Don't you think that some evidence would be more useful than just saying "He's lying". That might be helpful when you're 8 years old and in a school yard but this is US law. Also, Chansley was held in solitary confinement for over a year. Under the Mandela Rules, which is international law, solitary confinement for over 15 consecutive days is considered a form of torture. Chansley has also suffered from mental illness and to place such a person in solitary confinement is also unlawful. This isn't about being a patriot. It's about the law and the truth and how that law and truth are used and established. People screaming "liar", at each other, over a metaphorical line, is NOT how American judicial system works.
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  921.  @michaelccopelandsr7120  Name calling isn't pity.....and I'm NOT your buddy.
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  922.  @bluemax92  What is with this obsession with Trump? "Donnie is doing it, too" wails the 8 year old. Even 8 year olds know how to deflect. They caused over 2 billion dollars in damages, that's only the insurance claims that were honoured, people were killed and injured, businesses lost and owners bankrupted and now we see people gave their hard earned money only to see it disappear....and all you can say is "Donnie did it, too". Shouldn't you be doing your homework?
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  923.  @gr33kb0i  Anyone can call someone else a liar. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence or skill. What you haven't done is tell us where the lie is, why it's a lie and then back it up with evidence. Until you do that, you're just so much noise that means nothing.
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  924.  @TAGGdinc  He should have resisted Pelosi. His loyalty should have been to the American people, NOT Pelosi.
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  925.  Brutal Noodle  Instead of being so insulting, why don't you explain to him what the situation is? He's asking a legit question. A reasoned out and logical answer would have been welcomed. All you did was turn a prospective ally into a person that will start to think that all Democrats are nothing but insulting elitists. It's why Trump won the last election. Get off your high horse and discuss the issues instead of talking down your nose to people.
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  926.  @jacky5768  For YEARS this has been going on. Why? Because no one wanted to talk about it. If we'tr quiet about it, it isn't happening....that's the attitude. We have to acknowledge what happened and then discuss what to do about it. If we don't, the abuse continues. The victimisation of young girls will only stop when the truth comes out. For that to happen, we have to talk about it. This isn't for the faint of heart. We have to be strong and kudos to the victims who ARE talking about it. Without them, this will go on forever.
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  927. You Suck The American public voted a Black man for President for the first time in history, a Democrat, and what happened? Race riots....for the first time since the sixties. How is that possible? Obama should be standing as a beacon for all young black people to show that anything is possible, even for them. Why didn't it happen? Why did a group, BLM, rise with such strong influence? Why wasn't Obama telling his black constituents that they could do it? You'd think that the blacks in Chicago would have been proud of their native son but it didn't seem that way at all. Chicago has been led by Democrats for decades and it's been horrible there for the blacks. Obama talked about change. Well.....it didn't happen. It's worse now than it was before he was president. Keep voting Democrat. Apparently, you think it'll change things. By the looks of it you're right. Obama's last year in office had the worst race riots in decades. That's a change all right but not one I'd think you'd approve of. You are right about one thing. Trump is an idiot.
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  928.  @eddyf4426  I don't get what you mean. Could you give us an example of what you mean. I'm not even sure how Peterson could have any control who goes on Rogan's podcasts. Does Rogan have to call Peterson to make sure any guest meets with the approval of Jordan Peterson? Your comment doesn't make sense. At least, not as it stands.
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  929. From a theological perspective, it could have been a sudden drop in blood pressure, commanded by Jesus, to demonstrate what happens when you allow arrogance to overtake your lifeview. The B/P dropping could a body response to a command issued from the Big Guy in the sky. So many perspectives. It could be any one of them......or not.
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  930.  @KevinHammond1  I don't get it. What symbolism and what does it mean. Enlighten us.
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  931.  @LikeGod_ButBetterLooking  However, when you own the technology that controls communication and it becomes a monopoly, you have the ability to throttle free speech. It brings with it, the ability to control the political sphere and become the arm of a political faction. This is why monopolies are inherently anti-freedom. They set the rules and those rules will inevitably involve the suppression of basic freedoms. Right now, big tech has chosen a political side and they've gotten in bed with a political faction to the advantage of that faction. They've crossed the line. They've become an arm of those who want power.
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  932.  Jeremy Shaffer  What does it matter? When Trump says that the possibilities for cheating are too high, he means from BOTH parties. He has no control over a Republican in Omaha or Boise, who decides that if the Democrats cheat so will he. If there is a chance for corruption, people will be corrupt. It's human nature.
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  933. Conservatives, especially the moderate right, don't say what they believe. No matter where you're talking about, Australia, the US, Canada, if you say that you like the right wing candidate, lefties lose their mind. They start to turn red in the face, begin to mock and quickly lose all control and the anger starts. The right just doesn't want to deal with the insanity so they say nothing. When asked they just shrug it off but they will give their opinion in the ballot box where no one can see. The left fool themselves into believing they're in the majority and can't realise that they're the ones to blame for the surprise. If they'd stop trying to intimidate the right, maybe those conservatives would speak up when asked. I know I'm not often in the mood to be gang attacked by an outraged left mob.
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  934.  @maxand.1462  Not too likely, unless they were protesting against him. Racists don't want to hear about the negative consequences of identity politics and Peterson is only to ready to criticise racial division.
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  935.  @redwind5150  Maybe he is speculating but there's not one thing that comes out of Acosta's mouth that isn't a negative. I have YET to hear him say ONE positive thing concerning what is happening. Trump asked him who said that they didn't have the necessary things and he never had an answer. All he said is "doctors and administrators". Nothing tangible, no one, that Trump or his team, could contact to see what it is they might need. Just vague references to people that we can't even check on to see if they exist or not.
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  936.  @rickeybakerbaker8915  Another generic comment. No substance at all. Explain to me what was wrong with the clip that was shown in this video. Present a reasoned and well thought out critique of Kayleigh's comments in the video. THEN, you'd have something that I could respect. Your expletive is just another school yard insult.
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  937.  @hsuyaarchives2526  There were all kinds of wars in ancient India. There's the Battle of the Ten Kings (c. 14th century BCE). The Kurukshetra War which is the foundation of Bhagavad Gita. The Kosala-Kashi war (c. 650 BCE). The Kosala conquest of Gaṇasaṅgha (c. 600 to 550 BCE). Gandhāra-Avanti war (c. 575 BCE). Magadha-Anga war (c. 535 BCE. There's lots more and this is LONG before Christianity or Islam. Then there was the horrific caste system that was alive until the British tried to outlaw it but its remnants still remain. Then there was Sati, the ritualistic burning of widows whether they liked it or not.....something else the British succeeded in outlawing. The Sanskrit Laws of Manu of the 1st century bce describes slavery and slaves were the lowest of the low, right beside the untouchables. My point is that the people of India are people just like people anywhere else in the world. They loved, killed, built and destroyed, just like any other group of people. That's the legacy of humanity. Viewing history should't be a contest, to see who's the worst and conversely, who's the best....sort of like an Olympic sport where we hand out gold, silver and bronze medals. The bronze medal winners in warring is no better than the gold medal winners. They wanted to win just as much as the gold medal winners, but for some reason, they just weren't as successful. That doesn't make them any better. It makes them human.
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  938.  @gregporras1845  You might. I didn't go to school to be a bartender but I still did it for almost 15 years. I worked around 30 hours a week at 9 bucks an hour but I would make 2 to 300 in tips of Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. My best night was $580 in tips on a 9 hour shift. I know a guy who bought a house, on the water, with his bartender wages. That's all he did for years. It's a tough job and until a person has done it, they really can't understand how tough it can get. Tough but the money can be really good.
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  939.  @LovingPrinceTamayuki  What a complete misunderstanding of collectivism. Haslam is a Christian, a man that believes in personal redemption and responsibility. That's the deepest part of individuality. However, we still have to work together, to cooperate to accomplish the things that are important to us. That's the "we" that is being referred to here. It's individuals, with their own ideas and beliefs, working together for a common goal. Collectivism insists that there is no individual responsibility and redemption, that you cannot decide, as an "I" to cooperate. That this isn't up to you and must be mandated by the collective. That every person must be of the same beliefs and ideology or they're outsiders. That's completely outside what Haslam and the right believe in.
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  940.  @Johnny_Doe  UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! You're going to shrug off up to 2 million Uyghurs being held in concentration camps because of their religious beliefs because of you don't like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib? Those millions of Uyghurs appreciate your support....OF THEIR JAILERS!!!!! There are 40 detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Do you get that? FORTY people against over 1 million. As for Abu Ghraib, 17 people were charged with various crimes and even got extended jail times for them. It should have been worse but that doesn't take away from the fact that ALL of America was appalled by these crimes. So, because of crimes, that were prosecuted in court, and 40 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, you don't care about over 1 million Uyghur inmates in China, held in concentration camps, for the same reason that Nazis held Jews. I can't even laugh at the hypocrisy, it's that disgusting. No wonder you use a fake name. I don't blame you for not wanting anyone to know who you are. I'd be ashamed, too.
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  941.  @SvendleBerries  I'm not that enamored of the Republicans, either but at least they're not trying to force me to believe that I can menstruate if I want. They're not trying to fight racism by being racist....that's the claim coming from the Democrats. Republicans aren't allowing shoplifting like they are in California and they're most definitely against any repeal of the Civil Rights ACT. Those, and a lot other whacky stuff, like asking for IDs to vote is racist, are why I rag on the Democrats and not the Republicans as much.
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  942.  @mathewlee5712  You're actually using a corporate power's political machinations as proof that the protests aren't peaceful? Do you know how autocratic you sound. A big business don't like it so they must be violent. You really are indoctrinated into the corporate cult. The painter from Austria would just love you.
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  943.  @sthubbins4038  Is your sister still with us?
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  944.  @aofnyc  She's an American. PERIOD. Only the bigoted would add descriptives to that fact.
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  945.  @A_Jeff  I don't see how a double standard even enters into this. The guy, in the video, which I doubt you watched, implied that Trump, even if he's not guilty of any crime, it doesn't mean that he's innocent. There's no double standard here. The guy in the video said it. The opposite of the word "guilty" is "innocent". To say that Trump is "not guilty" means he's innocent. It's illogical to say that he's "not guilty" but he's "guilty". Innocent is the opposite of guilty. Look it up. Also, the presumption of innocence is the cornerstone of the American judicial system. Every time that you went to court, Jeff (John) the presumption was that you were innocent until the prosecution proved that you were guilty. You'd be outraged if they didn't make that presumption. You'd be guilty and the trial is pointless. However, you don't care. You're just trolling.....throwing out your typical BS.
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  946.  @maggiesmama757  I don't think using the word "snaps" is overly egregious. DeSantis interrupted him with a "Whoa, whoa, whoa" and a look mixed with disdain and frustration. In spite of it being rather ill-mannered and that it breached protocol.......he did the right thing by setting that race baiter straight. That reporter was only trying to cause trouble and division where there wasn't any.
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  947.  @lillypatience  What part of the definition of surrogate MOTHER do you not understand? It quite explicitly says that it's a mother, describing a specific type of mother. ...NOT person. "The role of the mother " NOT person. That woman used the word "person" intentionally to display her personal beliefs and you know it. You're being intentionally obtuse.
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  948.  @spicecrop  He may be a "dumb fuck" but he's still alive. Not like the idiot in this video. That makes him a lot smarter than this idiot. If you're one to follow the example of this idiot, you might just end up dead, as well. That would make this "dumb fuck a lot smarter than you, too.
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  949. "I stand behind you Ju-Ju" - Mark Ruffalo
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  950.  @AnnOnTheFloor  I can pledge allegiance to my country without relinquishing my allegiance to God. In a classroom, my religious beliefs may not be shared by all but what does unite us is our country. I want to show my commitment to ALL my fellow students as children of God and that's what the pledge of allegiance is all about. “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's”. Mark 12:17. This verse shows that you can give to both and that it's appropriate to do so. It's up to you to decide which is more important to you and to act accordingly.
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  951.  @sthubbins4038  So says the voice of corporate tyranny. Still a fan of the painter from Austria?
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  952. We also don't take the exception and try to make it the norm to invalidate all others. We try to understand the why of the exception, not to validate or invalidate but to add to our understandings of life and science.
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  953. Carole Sanchez I'm not getting this post at all. What do the Republicans have to do with this? The guy is a Democrat and it was his fellow Democrat that forced him to leave his office. Not one Republican was involved.
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  954. Fknmando ! Then why don't you enlighten us? All I see are a bunch of ifs and maybes. If you have some information, let's up it. He was also criticised for defending a family friend who was a police officer. This officer chased a car involved in a drive by shooting in which two people were shot and eventually shot an occupant in that car. Salvas had known that police officer since he was a small child and publicly defended that officer's character. That also impacted Salvas's position. So, I guess you're right. There is more to the story. It demonstrates just how ridiculous the Democratic Party has become. Thanks for given me a chance to point that out. The extenuating circumstances only put an exclamation point on the intolerance of the "tolerant" party.
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  955.  @phillybeccio2782  "nobody"??? Are you sure about that??? If you have ancestors, immediate ancestors, who were native American, then YOU have native ancestry heritage. Do you know what? WHO CARES!!!! It means NOTHING. He's a fellow human being. His ancestry is fascinating, yet incidental and only a part of who he is. Quit obsessing about ethnicity and how that is the ONLY defining quality for a human being.
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  956.  @chucksmith9008  I grew up on a farm. Everyone that I knew had a gun of some kind in their home. EVERYONE. My dad shot a rabid cow and then hired a backhoe to bury it. My neighbour shot a rabid coyote in his backyard. We would shoot rabbits, ground hogs and crows that were in our gardens because we depended on the garden for food all winter. The nearest police station was 1/2 hour away and when a local bank was robbed, the robbers crashed their car and took off on foot into the countryside and it turned into 24 hour manhunt. Police were going door to door, this is in farm country, looking for the 4 men. A lot of people put signs on their doors saying things like this...."uninvited people will be shot" or similar until the fugitives were finally caught. We didn't feel like "big men". Our guns were tools we used for protection from the real threats to our lives and livelihoods and served a purpose no different than our tractors, hoes, hammers and screwdrivers did. My dad is now 90 and he still lives on the very secluded family farm and keeps his rifle accessible in case there is an issue that might threaten his security. He keeps it clean but he hasn't fired it in over 10 years. Quit stereotyping gun owners and pretending that this caricature, that you've created, proves your own moral superiority.
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  957. Can A Desert Be Reclaimed For Human Habitation? I might suggest a trip to Israel. Transformed over a human lifetime through hard work and commitment.
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  958.  impactofredemption  That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why, in God's name, would the Israelis want a Marxist revolution in the US. The left HATES Israel and are sympathetic to the Palestinians. Look at Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar....both Democrat Senators and both Anti-Semitic. Israel gets all kinds of support from the US. Why upset the apple cart and take the chance that a new regime will cut them off? Your Antisemitism is has short circuited your brain.
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  959.  @Arctc-zh6rg  Why would white supremacists want to have inferior people in their club? It makes no sense. Also, I'm not the one playing identity politics. It's those who see Fascists behind every tree and who are calling everyone that might question them a racist....kind of like what you're implying about me. Identity politics is about a stupid as it gets. I don't judge you on your group identity. I judge you on the type of person you are and I want to be judged by the type of person I am. If my characteristics are immutable, because of my skin colour, I can't do anything about bettering myself as a human being. I don't believe that my efforts, to be a better person, aren't doomed to failure. That means that group identity plays no role in those efforts.
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  960. It was not a decision. Gabriel left the band. They were forced into looking for a new singer. They even advertised and auditioned quite a few singers before deciding to move Collins from the drums to the mike. It worked out well for them financially. It might never have happened if Gabriel hadn't gone solo.
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  961.  @PirateRemy  A troll. Anytime I see these short comments that do nothing but call people names or make accusations, I know that we're dealing with a no mind troll. If you can't take the time to make a coherent comment that explains your position, you really have nothing to say. Any fool can say what you just said. But, you won't answer this, anyway. I'm talking into a howling wind.
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  962.  @Kefka2010  There are an estimated 12 million illegals in the US. If you put them all in one state, it would be around the 75th most populated country in the world. That's more people than Hungary, Belgium, Greece or Portugal. It is a serious problem. Also, Germany did not do that. They never had an immigration problem and they weren't looking for people that were living in Germany illegally and then deporting them. They stole everything that legal citizens of Germany possessed, put them in work and concentration camps because they were of Jewish heritage. My sister was a white Canadian, living illegally in the US. She was stopped by a police officer and had nothing that showed she was in the US legally nor did she have a passport. She was subsequently deported and it was the right thing to do. She couldn't hide behind the fact that she wasn't the right colour, didn't speak the language or any other excuse. The officer is a Border control agent. That's his job. What's the point of having immigration agents is they're not allowed to do their job. He let them go as soon as he verified that they weren't illegals. He did his job.
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  963.  @SLJShortt  I just watched this video. Could you please be kind enough to let me know what it was that he said that is BS. I would really appreciate it.
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  964.  Joe Biden is Your President! Get Over It!!!  I'll say it again. Covid relief should NEVER be in an Omnibus Bill. It should be a specific bill, targeting a specific health crisis. Then there will be no way people can play political games. You know what's in the bill, No money for gender programs in Pakistan, as an example. That argument can't be used to defeat the relief bill. It's just a Covid relief bill, nothing else, and that's it.
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  965. I know. Mike Lindell, the pillow guy, says he has evidence on how the election machines could be rigged. They won't even look at it. The media treats him like a leper. 40 years ago, this would have been a journalist's wet dream. If it turned out to be true, that journalist would be able to write his own ticket. There'd be movies made about him and books written describing his journey into corruption. Now...they turn away, literally.
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  966.  @jrooksable  She's a Democrat because the Democrats are more in line with Socialist ideology. Socialists know the difference. They don't like anyone that might have the money and influence to usurp state power. Bernie Sanders is another socialist and a Democrat. So is AOC. They're using the Democrat Party as a springboard to authoritarian Marxism. It's called infiltration.
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  967. That's the one consistent aspect of the guilty. They will consistently cry innocence and virtue.
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  968.  @classiqueliberal8576  We're all different and she may be quite happy with her life when that time comes. It's normal to wonder about it though. Life and attitudes change. She's not the person now that she will be 15 years from now.
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  969. @Haunted Tree If it has never been isolated or identified, how are they going to make a vaccine? How can they even test for it? How can they even come up with a figure of 99.9% survival rate if they can't even tell you if you've had it or not.
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  970.  @JoshBeards  Dismiss the overall malpractice, of what happened, over a mistake in details. No matter the branch of service, those American service personnel didn't need to die. THAT is the over arching point that he was trying to make. That's NOT using them as a political tool. It's a transgression against those who were in service and needlessly died and we should acknowledge it. It's a transgression to ALL Americans.
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  971.  @scottishbanjo  By refusing to do a national enquiry, it seems that Labour party is disputing. Remember, silence is violence. Starmer says you're right wing, implying that you're a Nazi, if you want to just discuss it, let alone want a major investigation into it. Please, try to keep up.
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  972.  @johnmccain7076  Trump didn't use the FBI, DOJ and CIA because that would mean that he would send American agents into a foreign country to investigate that country's possible corruption. You can't just go ahead and do that. It's a jurisdictional issue. Nothing strange about it. Also, if the Biden's are involved with corruption in another country, it has to be investigated. You don't hold back on an investigation because it might hinder the political ambitions of someone you like. If that were the case, Democrats should NEVER investigate Trump. He's their political rival.
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  973.  @darkdan3379  What you mean is that she never heard a press conference that the MSM televised. They knew that televising then would hurt the Democrats. It was just like the Trump Covid daily press briefings. At first they televised them, but when Trump's popularity went up in the polls, they quit televising them and started showing edited snippets of those conferences. If you watched MSM, you WOULD think that she never held a press conference.
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  974.  @MichaelSheffield-ox8yd  I have always said that those who refuse to defend their beliefs or claims, usually have nothing to defend them with. You don't have to argue. All you have to do is state your case and why you believe that way. Name calling is meaningless and should be abandoned after one graduates from primary school. It's the tactic of the school yard bully.
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  975. The whole world is going crazy it seems. Our Prime Minister, Pretty Boy Trudeau, just said that during oil pipeline construction, male construction crews move into small towns and this is problematic for the citizens of those towns. He went on to say that this had to be a consideration in the decision of these types of construction projects. I'm paraphrasing but you get the point. What kind of bubble does this guy live in?
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  976.  @gerbo8018  Why weren't you ready for the second wave? I'm just some dumb yokel in Canada but I knew the second wave was coming. There should have been mobile hospitals and medical teams at the ready so if there was a huge spike, they could handle it. In fact, back in April, when the daily case count was less than 2000, the death count was around 300. Now, the daily case load is around 20,000 the death rate is less than 140 per day. 10 times the cases and half the deaths. The disease can't be stopped but it can be handled. That's what almost every government has being doing wrong. They think they can stop it. It will run it's course. What they have to do is to be prepared to handle the case load and keep the economy running at the same time. Very few countries seem to want to do that.
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  977. "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day." That's the Democrats. "Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." That's the Republicans. Sometimes a person may need help to get through the day but if you teach him how to get through the day on his own, you give him life's greatest gift. Self reliance and self esteem.
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  978.  @anahernandez4043  You hold them accountable by not voting for them. Every time a violent offender is released on bail and kills someone, we should be decrying that crime 24/7, including the judge's role in his release. When there's enough corpses laid out maybe the voting public will start to take notice, of these crime facilitating judges, and do something about it. That means publicity and lots of it. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Good Americans have been doing nothing for too long.
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  979.  @TheFaveteLinguis  What you think doesn't matter. I met my ex-wife when she was 15. I was nineteen at the time. It didn't matter what she wore, men, and even some women, couldn't help but stare at her. She was always very sensible about it, though. We started dating when she was 17 and I was 21 and she told me then, that it really bothered her to be that noticeable when mentally she was ready for it. Fortunately, she worked her way through it without letting it affect her negatively, not so that you'd notice anyway. So don't be calling people liars, in a back handed way. You don't know that person and you have no right.
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  980. It's just a knife fight between a couple of overly spirited girls. What's the big deal?
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  981.  @nikolasirovica3250  Except they're not building any housing.....not cheap housing anyway. Also, California has declared itself a sanctuary state so it's not the legal immigrants that are going there but illegals, especially the criminal types. There are countless cases of illegals breaking the law and being released because they refuse to call ICE to have them deported. Also, it isn't the working class that are leaving. It's the middle class and business owners, the ones who pay the bulk of the taxes. They're closing shop and leaving the state in droves. The super rich don't care so that's what you have left. Super rich living in their elitist neighbourhoods and the poor, barely getting by and living in subsidised housing or on the streets. New housing isn't being built because of regulations that force builders to pay exorbitant fees and meet untenable building codes. Why do you think housing and rents are so high? Why is the homeless problem so prevalent? It's due to the stranglehold the municipal and state governments have on every type of business across California. Government interference in the economy is destroying the state but socialism is wonderful.
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  982. They're silent because they don't want to be fighting ALL the time. I'm a bartender and I see it. Say anything positive about Trump and at least 4 or 5 people lose their minds. I've never seen such hate in my life. They just lose their minds. My boss insists that we have CNN on ALL the time. Every time Trumps face appears, even though you can't hear him, people's faces turn into a snarling mass of pure and abject hate. It's almost otherworldly, as if there's a demon inside them, taking over their bodies for an instant. I wish I was making this up but I'm not.
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  983.  @acutiepieb2011  NO.....that's not what he's saying. He's saying, at least that's what I believe, is that the left is placing ideology OVER character or integrity. That this will ALWAYS happen when you place an ideology over personal responsibility for your actions, in this case the ideology of group identity politics, which places the responsibility on the group and NOT the individual. That implies that a person can do no wrong if he believes he's doing it in the name of group. The leftist slogan "By All Means Necessary" demonstrates this perfectly. The right rejects that entire premise, emphatically.
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  984.  @MarkLewis-l3f  What business is it of mine? Maybe because it's happening here as well but not to the same degree....but it could start. It could happen in your neighbourhood as well. Also, they ARE crossing the southern border. Remember when border guards were supposed to be whipping Haitians, from horseback, at the southern border? They were Haitians. Haitians have been encountered 53,900 times in 2022 and 76,100 times last year with no numbers this year available. So, YES they are crossing the border. Why would they do that? It's because they're NOT legal immigrants. They arrived at the border, from Mexico and declared that they were coming in, just like the millions who've came in the last 4 years. Even if you fly or sail into the United States, you're still crossing the border. We need better immigration policies. What we have now will tear this country apart. It's pitting Americans against each other, against the immigrants and even immigrants against one another. Look what it's doing in Britain. It's going to come here. Why would ANYONE want this.
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  985. "I'm gonna have to talk to my doctor's about that". That's it, everybody. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR. Follow the president's example. Wearing a face mask will protect you, as well. It's harder to touch the most vulnerable parts of your face with a mask covering it. It's not foolproof but what really is.
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  986.  @andrewcogger7586  It may not have been his call but the Ukraines didn't know that. Not fully. When they called Biden out on it, he told them to call the president and see what would happen. He used his position and influence as the Vice President to fire a foreign prosecutor, the man who had investigated the guy that owned the company that Hunter Biden worked for. That's not just inappropriate. It's deemed as an illegal political act. What's particularly strange is that the MSM has never called for Biden to step down as a presidential candidate. All Trump did was ask to look into it. Biden can't hide behind a potentially illegal and corrupt act because he has political rivals.
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  987.  @liquidrockaquatics3900  You think that she should move so she can be treated fairly? You don't think much of California, do you. California is in the United States and is subject to our nation's laws and especially the Constitution. Maybe California should be forced to change to ensure that it's citizens are treated without discrimination. They're breaking the law.
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  988.  @kulturfreund6631  I suppose West Germany wasn't devastated either. Did you see the big difference in the seventies between East and West Germany? Or do you only see what you want to see.
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  989.  @kulturfreund6631  A person would have to write a book to refute the things that you commented on. Your comment covers too much ground to give adequate attention to. It all sounds so true, but there are a lot of problems there and the Venezuelan predicament is a prime example. One thing is certain. When you align your economy with an authoritarian regime or trading partner, you will get burnt. If you practise open, fair and free market economic policies, you'll do a lot better. This is why South America and Africa don't do so well economically. They have imposed economies by authoritarian regimes and they just don't work.
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  990. @Artillery Horse Wow.....and they say Trump supporters are racist.
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  991.  @lovegrace3719  Not everyone is going to be saved. That's a fact and you still have to live with them in a civilised manner. "Love thy neighbour" doesn't have qualifications. It isn't "Love thy Christian neighbour". You love your neighbour and if he disagrees with you about issues, you still love him, in spite of the disagreement. You're not obligated, by God or anything else, to change that neighbour to what you believe he should be. You offer yourself up as the best representative of God and hope that your example will inspire them to know what it is that makes you a unique and loving person. I don't see that in you, at all. I see a judgemental and smug individual who thinks that they are morally superior to others. Remember, no one is worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven. Not me, not the Jew, Dennis Prager, not Candace Owens and NOT YOU. Best you live your life with that humility in your heart.
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  992.  @willzresurreccion6745  What is it that drives trolls like you?
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  993. I said it out loud and I'm sitting here alone. "Look at the expression on his face" I said to myself and then I started to laugh, while shaking my head. I wonder how many journalists feel the same way and are only saying what they're told to say. They can't ALL be that dense that they support Kamala.
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  994.  @notleftvsrightnationalismv4666  You realise that you're not funny, huh? You're a troll and a waste of space in this comment thread.
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  995. She's tossed out men, out of bars, who have used these words against her? Yeah right. She means that she got bouncers, MEN, to toss them out for her.
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  996.  Marco Polo1  Worse than that. I know Trump haters that say that it was Trump policies that had those kids put in cages. When you show them multiple links that prove that those pics were taken in 2014, they refuse to believe it, at least I think they do because that's when they refuse to talk about it. When I tell them that it was Trump that put a stop to putting kids in cages, they get mad and say that Trump is separating kids from their mothers. They just change the narrative and refuse to admit that their heroes, the Democrats, could do no wrong. They've lost all reason, even their sanity.
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  997. Liberalism isn't the problem. The problem is that there's a group of people who CLAIM that they're liberal but don't follow the tenets of liberalism. Liberalism definition: "Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech." Online dictionary. In no way, is the left wing usage of liberalism accurate. They believe that those freedoms only apply to them and when they voice their opinions, those opinions must be accepted. A liberal will listen, evaluate and come to a conclusion concerning the veracity of what was said. A liberal is also willing to say that I don't know. I've yet to hear that from the radical left, the ones who "call" themselves liberal. They're the farthest thing from being liberal as it gets.
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  998.  @nathansmith7153  It's NOT an opinion. If it is, then EVERYTHING is an opinion. I know a dog when I see one. A moose. A mosquito. I KNOW what they are.....and I know a girl when I see one and so does the doctor and SO DO YOU. If there is a doubt and it sometimes happens, there are protocols for that until the sex, of the child, is determined and that is based on biology, NOT opinion.
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  999. You've seen the pictures of the emaciated, starving inmates at these concentration camps. Anyone that would do that to anything, let alone humans, is a monster. You don't even need the stories. Those pictures and film clips say it all.
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  1000.  @iamahorsenut7541  Yeah right. How about an uncle that was there and told us about it. Sent from Westerbork to Bergen Belson and then sent back home because he wasn't a Jew and it was all a mistake. Then he spent the rest of the war at POW camp in the Frisian Islands. And then my dad, his brothers and my grandfather, burying food so the Germans couldn't take it. I've heard all them stories. There's a reason that the Dutch STILL celebrate liberation day with passion. They went through hell and I've heard all their stories. I was born shortly after the war and there's no way they all consistently "lied" about what happened. You're rationalising and it's pathetic.
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  1001.  @Yupster2501  Why did the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks oppose one another in the early Soviet Union. Both followed Marxist principles yet the Mensheviks were eventually legislated out of existence. Being a Menshevik would become illegal. Fascism and Communism have deep Marxist roots. They differ in details, therefore the antagonism, but full social and economic control lie at the heart of both ideologies. That's why they are so similar. Their differences are NOT that big.
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  1002. And at the lowest levels, as well. There is no strata of society that's safe from these predators. The elites are better at protecting themselves and each other from justice.
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  1003.  @drdonna4915  That's just wild. Even when they do the right thing, they're wrong. Yet if they did the wrong thing, they'd STILL be wrong. That's some weird logic.
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  1004.  @tonytucker948  MAGA is printed on ball caps, not hoods. I have yet to see huge brigades of MAGA hat wearers, setting fire to crosses and lynching citizens of the US. The last known lynching was in 1981. You lefties are sure fond of hyperbole.
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  1005.  @matthewcurry3565  LOL. Another one that has lots of denigrating things to say about the speaker yet never bothers to engage on the topics that the speaker is talking about.
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  1006.  @ramencurry6672  Nothing has happened to you yet, so it must be safe. Gotcha.
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  1007.  @talldavid30  Explain Daniel Shaver. See....2 can play at that game. You're making a point made on an emotional level. Now try doing it on an intellectual level.
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  1008. @AmericaFirstMapping They're served by monopolies. No one is going to ban Facebook from their servers, like they did with Parler. A few big tech companies allow those that they approve of and if Facebook doesn't toe the line, they're gone too. Show me one big tech company that supports conservative views. There aren't that many so you should be able to find one rather quickly. All a political machine has to do is court big tech and between them they can and have throttle ALL opposition voices. It's EXACTLY what a Fascist government would do. Control the means of communication and you control the narrative and the rabble.....INCLUDING YOU.
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  1009.  Jay Blake  Apparently, you've not heard of the great famine of 1921, one of the worst disasters of the 20th century. https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/great-famine-of-1921/ http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1988/458814.shtml I may not know much about Russian history but, at least I know about that. Marxist thought took on many forms and interpretations. Pol Pot based his ideas on those of Communism, the ideology that sprang from Marxism. He joined the French Communist Party while he was studying in Paris and became the Communist Party secretary when he returned to Cambodia. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pol-Pot https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/pol-pot All you're doing is dissecting all Socialist thought and then attempting to claim only one TRUE Marxist ideology from all the many ways that people have interpreted his work. It's all based on his work and variations of Marxist thought.
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  1010.  @MONSTER-hl2yi  "Man is born in sin" Funny how that's morphed into "White man is born in sin".
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  1011.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  Scream and yell, then hold your breath till you turn blue. The sign of a true adult. You're doing EXACTLY as Jon is doing and exactly what every authoritarian in history has done. "DO IT MY WAY OR ELSE". Act like a child and people will treat you like a child.
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  1012. @ There is no war in New York City. No genocide, either. The war that your talking about is 5,700 miles away and the racism isn't about race but about religious ideology. The protests are exhibiting there ideological hatred of another religious ethnic group. You're trying rationalise behaviour that has nothing to do with the people of New York and specifically university students who have no skin in that war 5,700 miles away. If they want to voice an opinion, go ahead but don't disrupt or threaten the lives of those who aren't involved.
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  1013.  @sthubbins4038  Kids don't die if you don't put them in a seatbelt. They might die if they get into an accident. What a seatbelt does is lesson the odds of death or serious accident if you do have an accident. I grew up in a family of 7. There was no such thing as seatbelts in our cars in those days. We all lived. In fact, not one kid in my school, of around 150 kids, died in car accidents in all 8 years of primary school. What you just said is beyond ridiculous. You have to get into an accident FIRST, before the seatbelt does any good and even then, it's not a guarantee that you'll die. It just lessens the odds.
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  1014. @Man Dingo That doesn't address the point that he's making. He's saying that private companies generally do a better job than a government agency and gives an example. New Orleans is below sea level and has been for a long time. It was the actions of the Army Corp of Engineers that caused the breach and flooding. Besides, 26 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level, including one ENTIRE province. It can be done if done right. It wasn't done right in New Orleans.
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  1015.  @talldavid30  You gotta be a troll. No person, in his right mind, would believe this.
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  1016.  @cortical1  We don't have to imagine. Anything to do with Trump is magnified, exaggerated or fabricated and it's always to make him look bad. Throws a bit of fish food into a coy pond and they lose their minds. Takes a extra scoop of ice cream and it's the leading story for 2 days. A kid, in a MAGA hat just stands there while a guy beats his drum in his face and they have to close his school for a week out of fear of violence against the school and WAPO and CNN are sued and PAY out in a settlement. Imagine? Let's be real. We KNOW what would happen if Don Jr. had done this and SO DO YOU.
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  1017. A friend of mine's son was caught shoplifting at a Canadian Tire store. My buddy was at the store with him and the kid was 12 or 13 years old and while his dad was at the service counter, his son went over to the fishing tackle section and pocketed a couple of lures. His dad told the store to call the police and hold his son in a small office. My buddy waited outside to wait for the police and then told them to take his son off to jail and he'd be there in about an hour. Some 25 years later, his son is a grown man and a police officer.
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  1018.  @captidgas  However, if Biden is guilty, wouldn't it be in every American's best interest to find out about it and wouldn't asking the Ukraine president to look into his actions be the right thing to do? What kind of "shrug it off" president would Trump be to just ignore it? The media hatred for Trump runs so deep that even if someone else called for that investigation, they would have just called that person a Trump stooge. That he was paid to do it. It's as if every Democrat thinks Biden should have a free pass, so long as it's the road to getting rid of Trump. Right or wrong is just as meaningless to them as they accuse Trump of being. It's all political.
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  1019.  @rinzler9775  Manufactured through force.
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  1020.  @almosthuman1398  I've never had a problem posting a link and when I make a claim, I will always try to give references to back it up. No one has to beg me for proof. I don't make claims if I can't prove it and I never, EVER, ask anyone to prove my claim for me. It's MY claim and if I'm going to make it, I'd better be able to back it up. I believe that it's an obligation to do so. For some reason, and I can't figure out why, some people think that making a claim is proof enough. I'm proud to be able to back up a claim. I'm lost on why others don't feel the same way. So I went to find out about this Beattie guy and lo and behold....he was born FEMALE. He underwent a double mastectomy but retained his reproductive organs but called himself a man. However, biologically he's NOT a man. He was STILL a woman. In fact, if you did a DNA analysis of the guy, the DNA would show him to be a woman. This "assigned" at birth stuff is just playing at silly Orwellian word games, changing meanings to fit an ideology. Beattie was born a woman, with all the parts that make him a woman. He (I'm calling him that out of courtesy) can call himself anything he wants, convince others to call him that but when the rubber hits the pavement, he's still a woman. Word games don't change reality. It's no wonder you didn't want to give me a link. I'll do it for you, though. It's not that difficult to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beatie
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  1021.  @TheSkala9  Liberal definition: willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise. We've poisoned the meaning of the word "liberal" over the last few decades. There are basic differences between conservatives and liberals but both have NOTHING in common with the far left. They're Marxist in nature and are fighting for revolution in order to build a new Utopia from it's ashes. More and more, liberals are starting to see that the left has lost it and find themselves agreeing with conservatives on more issues. Bill Maher is just standing up for what is true in that Education Bill. It has nothing to do with a stance on gays at all.
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  1022. Be strong. You can and will get through this. I'm going to guess that you'll find out just how tough you really are before this is all done. All the best to you.
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  1023. But Sowell is correct. Education is vital for a strong and affluent society. That doesn't mean that there are people who won't succeed unless they're educated. It means that the entire nation is better off with a strong education. Would you want an uneducated doctor operating on you? A grade 9 engineer designing the plane that you're about to fly in? Of course not. Also, the more information that one has at their fingertips, that they can recall instantaneously, they better they will be able to converse intelligently or operate in a logical manner. How do you know if they're well informed or not? You test them. If I need a new roof, I call a contractor and then I interview them, basically testing them on their knowledge, ability and integrity. When you're applying for an engineering job, you'd better know your stuff or you won't be hired and a test is one of the ways to tell if you have the knowledge to do that job. There are other ways but a novice has no other option but to prove that they have the capability to do the job. It's not written in stone, of course but it's definitely important. You do a disservice to those who are young by telling them that an education is unimportant and you doing a disservice to our country by supporting an uneducated population.
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  1024.  @Cupid-Stunt  Another angry, bitter individual who has nothing positive to say. Cheer up, buddy. Life isn't so bad.
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  1025.  @carlyellison8498  All viewpoints are equally valid for discussion, that doesn't mean that they are equally true. Also, it isn't about arguing a point it's about considering facts and assessing them. When a viewpoint remains rigid, in spite of the facts, that's when arguments ensue. What you've just done is assert that all viewpoints are valid and then sneeringly dismissed any viewpoint that you don't like. That's contradictory. Either a person's viewpoint is valid and doesn't deserve mockery or criticism or it isn't. You can't have it both ways. Also, I have read both Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky but not very much of Nietzsche. What I've read of the former 2 has been enlightening and adds to the things that I've read and learned and Peterson has read them as well and uses the material in his lectures all the time. We all have our own perspectives on what they wrote. It's not about conclusions that should never be challenged. Their work should raise questions, encourage discussions and offer differences of viewpoints and experience. One should never use any work as an absolute truth.
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  1026. fullmetalchamploo Baloney. When Poland was invaded, no one said Europeans invaded Poland. It was Germany. Specifically and undoubtedly. These grooming gangs are from Pakistan. To say that they're Asian is not just inaccurate, it's obfuscating to the point of lying. You've just lumped in the Japanese with them and the Chinese and Tibetans and Malaysians and Turks, yet they aren't the ones that are guilty. I'm at a loss to understand why you wouldn't want to be more accurate, to name the perps. Why would you even insinuate a different perp by expanding the profiles of the guilty? I'm at a complete loss to understand your logic. It's as if you're taking it personally.
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  1027.  @Patrickf5087  28 murders so far this year when it was over 300 per year only a few decades ago....in HIS district. That's a 90% decrease and you STILL won't applaud???? What's it gonna take to impress you? You do realise that even if the areas, out of his jurisdiction, still have high crime rates, that makes those numbers even MORE exceptional. A safe haven surrounded....the safe space that some college kids are always going on about.
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  1028.  @jillionairess  Maybe you should google Abigail Shrier. She has some incredible stories to tell. It will take you to instances of activist teachers taking part in some terrible things to students regarding sex change and stuff. Not every teacher is an activist or even close to it but all you need is 1% and you've got a problem that has to be addressed. This didn't come out of nowhere.
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  1029. "When the people realise that they can vote themselves money, that will be the end of the Republic". You need votes, buy them.
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  1030. Watching the Hodge Twins is always a high point of my day. They're smart and funny as hell.
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  1031.  @cathyg6811  What troubles me is that even Trump has more respect for women than he does. There's a saying which goes "The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference". This guy wants to see women eliminated as a unique part of humanity. Even Trump doesn't want to see that. You have to acknowledge their existence in order to show disdain. This guy looks right past women because to him, they don't exist. They're non-existent. That goes WAY beyond disdain or even indifference.
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  1032.  @zackk4969  Typical troll. Call people names and thing that's a victory. What a small mind.
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  1033.  @LordsofMedia  Where did I say to give them a pass? I've reread my comment and I didn't see it. If you think a radical might want to burn down your house, don't leave a can of gas and a lighter on the front porch, overnight. That's what I'm saying. If you don't want idiots stealing your car, when you're downtown, don't leave your keys in the ignition. If you don't want radical idiots setting huge forest and brush fires, don't let those areas become such an entangled mess of dried up tinder, that he can be successful. It's just plain stupid to allow the place to get to that state and then wait and see if you can catch the guy that want's to light a fire. It's too late if the fire burns a couple of towns to the ground. You've caught the guy but your town has been destroyed. Good thinking.
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  1034.  @biancawilloughby9980  Then explain to me the sudden rash of young girls who want to go through the transformative treatments. This is unprecedented, especially when gender dysphoria has been a male dominated issue throughout history. You paint a rosy picture of the medical field when handling the dysphoria issues. However, I know lots of people that suffered and are now either dead or going through pure hell because of the opioids prescribed by medical professionals. I'm not that enamoured by the medical profession as to trust them to effect such drastic measures, especially when it can be ideologically or culturally driven, like it is quite often these days. This isn't something that should EVER be decided by a 13 year old and done on their say so. Those blockers could have serious consequences on a person's future both on their physical and emotional health.
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  1035.  @mr.x5495  I just said that the dysphoria wave has strong cultural forces behind it. The term "social contagion" would describe it. Other social contagions, in history are the anorexia explosion, the sex abuse scandals in pre-school, the cutting outbreak among teenagers....even Beatlemania can be described as a social contagion. It's a cultural mania that affects those who are going through emotional upheaval and puberty is a time when it's extremely common. I'm not here to get into a religious argument.
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  1036. @Onikage5555 I think Beto has a brilliant campaign strategy. Tell the voters that they're all evil racists. They'll all repent and then they'll vote for him. I don't know why anyone hasn't thought of it before. OH...Wait. Hillary tried that. She called a large demographic "deplorables". That one went over well, didn't it? Yup.....thems Democrats....theys the smart ones.
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  1037.  @williamwilson6499  The governments will keep writing laws until everyone is in violation of some kind......even YOU. This isn't your garden variety criminal. He broke a city ordinance and he paid the fine and destroyed what he shouldn't have built without a permit. Funny how he has to pay for his own prosecution but if I rob the local 7/11, I won't have to. The prisons are full of criminals who've never been billed for their own prosecutions but a guy, a hard working American, makes an error in judgement and they go after him in spades. Only in the bureaucratic maze of government and corrupt lawyers would it cost over 20 thousands dollars to send a notice of violation. You're a slave to the bureaucracy if you actually believe this to be ethical or legal.
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  1038. They've managed to turn racism into whiteness, to white supremacy and Fascism, and now to multi-racial whiteness. They finally have a label for anyone that disagrees with them.
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  1039. It's ok. He's transgender. We can't charge him with a crime that is specific to humans...or something. I'm not sure of the logic but it's all I could come up with.
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  1040. They want to weaponize it. Had that "karen" been black and the guy been white....he would have been demonised. "Poor black woman attacked by white supremacist". They don't care about black or white people. They want power through chaos and Americans, all of us, from every ethnic background, are their tools, targets and ultimate victims.
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  1041. As a person, I think Trump is a loudmouth and a braggart. As a president, I find little fault in the job he's done. As for Biden, he's been around too long, he seems to be degenerating, he has no policies except he hates Trump, he's associated with the movement to defund the police, that is obsessed with race, that makes excuses for rioting, is more about cosmetics (political correctness) than with real substance, wants to change long standing practices like the electoral college and the voting system, has no real stance on extended wars, seems to support globalism, specifically unbalanced trade with China, increased taxes, and have a whishy whashy immigration stance. So, the choice seems easy to me. Biden, and the Democrats, just aren't fit for the job. They need to retool the party membership and rethink their political position and ideologies before I'd even consider voting for them. My vote goes to the loudmouth and braggart.
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  1042. That would have been funny. Put their masks on in a panic and then move their chairs at least 6 feet away from the cougher and then they all sit and glower at the guy who coughed.
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  1043.  Modern Caveman  I want people to see the other side of the story. If we let them take over the platform, it's all people will hear. I want them to hear a different perspective. I, especially, want them to consider what might happen if they're caught in this situation and they decide to sit there and let them intimidate you and possibly do a lot worse. Drivers have been shot, dragged from their cars and beaten and have had extensive damage done to their vehicles. I'm hoping that people won't be so naive as to think that these people have their best interests at heart. I don't care who you are, what beliefs you have. If you surround my car, threaten me, bang their fists on my vehicle and stand in front of me.....I'm leaving. I'm not going to wait until they lose a nut. Mob mentality is unpredictable. I'm not going to depend on that unpredictable tendency to save my life or safety.
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  1044.  @monsieurdorgat6864  He did NOT start out saying that Marxism is inherently anti-Semitic. He said that people claimed that Fascism was anti-Semitic and then showed how 1/3 of all Italian Jews were members of the Fascist party, which kind of proved that this wasn't true. The first time that Marxism was mentioned was to say that Fascist Italy wasn't as deadly towards its own people like the Nazis in Germany were OR the Marxists in the Soviet Union. To their own people, NOT Jews. Socialism definition: "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." This is from the online dictionary and it's defining socialism TODAY not some socially constructed evolution of the word. "owned or regulated by the community as a whole." That indicates that it's NOT owned or regulated through capitalist or market pressures. It's regulated by the state and something that both Mussolini and Hitler both advocated for and were central policies of their regimes. Companies in Nazi Germany had party representatives present within the company to ensure that ALL employees followed Party protocols. A company owner could NOT refuse that party presence. Companies even used the government to procure slave labour and businesses earmarked as essential were closely run and monitored by the Party. No one goes against the Party. The party rules everything, that's something held in common in Fascism, Marxism or the Nazism of Germany. It's an inconvenient truth that socialist sympathizers don't like to admit. They don't want to admit that Fascism is just another form of Socialist ideology. You don't have to take it with a grain of salt. Just fact check what he's saying. If there are erroneous facts, point them out and give references to validate your findings. A lot of people support Fascist ideas and don't know it.
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  1045.  @lolwtnick4362  What about Uvalde? These officers wanted in to do their job. The police at Uvalde did nothing but cordon off the section where the shooter was and wouldn't allow parents in to see if their children were safe. The police didn't confront the shooter for 1 hour and 14 minutes. THIS time, it was the principal and the secretary, who wouldn't allow the police in to go in.....the EXACT opposite. They wanted to do their job and she wouldn't let them in. Your Uvalde comparison makes no sense.
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  1046.  Jack Richardson  If you have the truth on your side, you don't have to call people "fools". In fact, you've just created resentment, instead of fostering a thirst for the facts. A much more effective method would be to give a brief explanation of solar irradiance and what it means to our climate and how it might affect increased greenhouse gases and then offer a link to a site that would explain it in a deeper manner. You attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Screaming into the void accomplishes nothing but give the impression that you're the one that's losing it.
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  1047.  @july6949  What I'm saying is that no society can function without the rule of law. It doesn't matter what economic system is in place.
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  1048.  @Man-vs-Metal  Thanks. I won't be flying United then. I have no problem with women or POC pilots but I do have a problem with discrimination, not matter who's the target. I hope they lose their shirt.
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  1049.  @Spiritof_76  All I know is that the day that Matt Taibbi was to give testimony, on the Twitter files, the IRS showed up at his door. That's the height of villainy if you ask me. It's against the law to intimidate official witnesses. Yet, no Democrat called out that move.....NOT one. When a ruling party can't define what a woman is and mandates that men, who claim to be women(even though they don't know what a woman is), can take part in women's sports, I'm thinking that they've lost their grip on reality. How can I trust the judgement of any person or group who are that illogical? I can't.
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  1050.  @iputthemeinmediocre  Do you know how they perform a late term abortion? They inject the infant, while in the womb, so it dies and then induce labour so the mother can give birth to the dead child. They induce labour because natural birth is still the safest and most practical way to get the child from the womb. If the mother is unable to give birth naturally, they perform a c-section. So why cause the child to die to extract it from the womb if they can bring it out alive? I've asked this of many people. Under what circumstances is it absolutely impossible for a mother to give birth to a child in the late stages of pregnancy? I'm not getting it. They can get the infant out dead but NOT alive? That doesn't make sense to me and if I'm wrong show me how I'm wrong.
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  1051. Ed Silmon Rotherham, Telford, Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Oxford, Bradford, Manchester, Rochdale, West Yorkshire, Oldham, Peterborough, Aylesbury, Keighley, Bristol.....is that enough? I can name more if you like. Incredibly, almost all members of these gangs were all of Pakistani origin. Some have even said that if the victims of grooming had been from good Muslim families, they would not have been abused because Muslims would not allow their women to run wild like non-Muslims do and therefore would not be in a position to be abused. The police and social services allowed some of the gangs to operate for 30 years, knowing that it was happening but were too afraid of being called racist for exposing the fact that they were Pakistani and Muslim. A Times reporter broke the story using boxes and boxes of official documents that showed just how long it was known. Worse, the media insists on calling them "Asian" gangs, painting all Asians with the same brush. These are all facts. A google search will get you all kinds of information on it. The rapes themselves were not racially motivated buy the bigotry and racist attitudes of these Pakistanis are on full display. There is no excuse for any of this or for pretending that this isn't happening.
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  1052.  @annteve  My parents came from the Netherlands after the war. We feel the significance of the Canadian war effort a little more directly than the people of Ukraine would. Canadian soldiers stayed in my grandfather's farm and used it as a base to look for pockets of German soldiers. Many people of the Ukraine have their own reasons for remembering the fallen soldiers of that war. It was a terrible time in history. It's good to hear that those Remembrance services helped to form your identity as a Canadian. What's sad is that Don Cherry wants new immigrants to learn the history that we both honour and he was fired for it. It's sad that there are people in this country don't feel the same way that you and I do. A country without a history can't be a nation. It becomes a region of disparate people, without a feeling of a bond or unity. It becomes a source of division. What's amazing is that 2 people, from such different backgrounds, Ukraine and the Netherlands can come to this country and become as one people. That's what this poem means to me and I'm feeling that you believe the same.
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  1053.  @deker0954  If these books are age inappropriate, then ONE book is too many to be checked out. That's as relevant as I can get.
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  1054. I remember when it was said that the cities of Florida had 365 vagrancy laws. One for every day of the year. There were a lot of drifting hippies on Florida streets. However, you never saw tent encampments and you didn't see them pooping on the streets and, although there was drug use, it was kept hidden because, no one wanted to go to jail. That's what's wrong with California.
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  1055. Arkroyal How true. The idea that you shouldn't have to work hard yet you should always get paid to the max, is at the root of their socialist attitudes.
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  1056. I'd like to hear how he feels today about that comment. Reality can have a way of making one face the truth. Also, the one thing about the concept of hell, at least in Christianity, is this. There is a hope for redemption and it's offered to all. It would be great if Maher would rethink that stance because it, most definitely, quite reprehensible.
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  1057. They don't care. When Trump honoured the man who was killed by a released illegal immigrant and offered condolences to his brother in attendance, the Democrats just sat there with scowls on their faces. They couldn't put their hatred aside long enough to feel that man's pain and honour the man who had to die because of one illegal who could care less about the law or American lives. It was a disgrace.
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  1058.  @Mordalo  The history of the Jews and Cyrus the Great is also spoken of in archaeological evidence and the writings of Greek and Roman historians. Tacitus, the Roman historian in 116 AD, mentioned that Christians followed a man named Christus. He was talking about the burning of Rome at the time of Nero, where he blamed the Christians which, at the time, were known as a Jewish sect. THAT was NOT in the Bible. Also, Jewish historian Josephus, mentioned the Jewish sect of Jesus around 95 AD when he recounted the story of Mosada. The Roman army fought the Jewish sect known as Sicarii. Sicarii held out for 7 years until they were defeated in 73 AD. All about the Jews in the Levant. So your "zero, zip and nada" doesn't hold water.
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  1059.  @Mordalo  Here we go. The ad hominem attack. How predictable.
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  1060.  @oreli2556  The comment is about the video. It's absurd to allow men to compete with women in sports. If you're willing to believe in that type of absurdity, you may well be open to committing atrocities and rationalise those atrocities using absurd logic points. There's your topic. I'm amazed that it has to be explained to you.
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  1061. "Those who can convince you to believe in absurdities, will also be able to convince you to commit atrocities" Voltaire.
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  1062.  @TheHeninhardenne  The predator would accept her invitation. It's what a predator does. They will take advantage of their victim, who may be suffering from social, familial or mental issues and then cry that THEY were the ones lured by the victim. No responsible adult would have accepted her invitation. The temptation to commit immoral and illegal acts are always present. Those who try to live within the bounds of morality, always resist the temptations, no matter what that temptation should happen to be. You don't clean out someone else's wallet just because it was left unattended on a coffee table, no matter how tempting in might be. You don't sexually assault as 12 year old, even if that 12 year old initiates the contact. When you do wrong it's ALWAYS you're fault.
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  1063. If your clothes aren't clean after you wash them, with those rules in place, you'll just do the laundry a second time so that they ARE clean. It makes no sense.
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  1064. Cyden One As was pointed out, he was not the one that asked the customer to leave. Also, we have no idea what the customer said, if she threatened him or how serious the threats were. We have no idea of how much experience this manager has and whether this was his first confrontation of this type. You're basing an assessment on a very, VERY short video clip. Since, you're engaging in personal experience as a call to authority, I'll do the same. I worked for 14 years as a bartender and though I'm in my late sixties and retired, I still get requests for my services on a part time level. This would indicate that my abilities, as a bartender, are respected. I'll tell you one thing, though. I hope that there's no video clip of my first confrontation with an irate customer. I know that it wasn't all that flattering on my part. I got over it and not all people do. It was a new experience in my professional life and it's not easy. That doesn't mean that your unease can't be overcome. I guarantee you that if you watched a clip of my first encounter and decided that this indicated a pushover, you'd be sorely mistaken. I mean that in both a figurative and physical manner. I've even had a customer claim that I had declined service because he was black. He didn't get far with that claim. Even if that manager isn't suited for that job, and that's quite possible, that doesn't have a thing to do with the behaviour of the customer and how this is being turned into a racial incident. No dispute should be settled using the colour of a person's skin as the deciding factor, alone. The facts are the issue here and that's all that counts. Worse, I'd hate to think that a business should ALWAYS acquiesce to a customer's demands. That sounds like a recipe for fraud without consequence to me.
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  1065.  @eastcoasterner  Then tell me, what was wrong with that speech that she made, besides the inappropriate word. Was it the speech that you object to or just her. I'm going to put my foot out and say that it wouldn't matter one bit to you what she said. It's all about your dislike of her. To you, politics is about personalities not about what's best for the country.
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  1066.  @jakerazmataz852  There are certain books that won't be allowed in the library. The book that she was referencing is one of them. Extremely explicit material and even this woman was appalled when she saw it and said that it shouldn't be allowed....UNTIL....the name "Ron DeSantis" was brought up. Then she walked away, apparently quite willing to leave that book in the school library now. This demonstrates, perfectly, that this is political and has nothing to do with the kids. It's bad until her political opponent says it's bad. Then it magically becomes good.
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  1067.  @davidr2299  What does that even mean? How does empty shelves translate into personal responsibility.
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  1068.  @slaaneshnurgle3720  Are you seriously saying that the coordinated attack on Poland wasn't all that bad? That invading Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, all neutral countries, is acceptable? There was no war until Hitler made a deal with Stalin and then invaded Poland. Hitler was quite open on his goals to expand Germany's borders. Had Germany stayed within it's own borders and built up a strong economy and a better life for Germans, there would not have been a war.
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  1069.  @kevlivinginabox  Can't talk about the topic on hand so you just call people names. Are you EVER going to leave the school yard?
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  1070.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  Discrimination is the way of the future...right? "Judge a person by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin" Not any more. Look at his skin colour and then make decisions about, and for, that person based on that skin colour. You should have given us your skin colour so I could judge on whether you're correct or not.
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  1071.  @manifesting.inner.g  True history, huh? l learned all about slavery in school. About Jim Crow, the drinking fountains, the Poll Tax, Dredd Scott, the KKK....learned it all in school. That's history and it's true history. I learned it in the sixties. I also learned about the abolitionist movement, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War that finally abolished slavery and I know the Civil Rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King are also taught in school. So your comment is all just plain nonsense. Also, it's DEMOCRATS that are supporting CRT and Republicans that are against it. Why would Republicans be against "true history". The Republican Party was formed specifically to end slavery. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and Jefferson Davis was a Democrat. It was Democrat president, Andrew Johnson, that ended Reconstruction after the Civil War and the first black Americans elected to office, were also Republicans. Democrats fought to save slavery, voted against allowing blacks to become American citizens, didn't want blacks to vote and when blacks were able to vote, the Democrats were the beneficiaries of the thugish behaviour of the KKK who used fear to discourage the blacks from voting. The Democrats initiated Jim Crow, the Poll Tax and fought against the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, LAST YEAR, California Democrats wanted to repeal the California Civil Rights Act. Democrats did this. If anyone wants "true history" betrayed, it would be the Republicans. Yet they oppose CRT. Do you know why? Because, what the Democrats want taught and what CRT teaches, works to minimise the Democrats negative contributions to the history of black Americans. In other words, CRT is NOT "true history". It's an ideology, that's borne out of Marxism, that teaches perpetual division and it leads to the hatred and vitriol of the guy that's threatening that audience with a 1000 man army. That would seek to divide the family, of that woman, into racial camps....THAT'S your CRT. We don't want that division. That's why Republicans are against CRT.
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  1072.  @roborob767  He lacks courage? He's talking about it right now. I first heard about the laptop from Tim Pool....NOT the MSM, Facebook or Twitter. He was the one that I first got the information from. He wants to look as if he's unbiased, that he's being fair to both sides. The way the MSM is behaving right now, that's highly unusual. "Joe Biden is corrupt"......that's a direct quote from Tim. What more do you want from him?
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  1073.  @southernbellnc6241  Parent/child relationships are unbelievably complex. This does include all kinds of arguments and family strife. Good people understand this and incorporate forgiveness in their lives. However, the narcissist, like Kaepernick, uses the difficult times, to advance their own agenda or line their pockets. He went through nothing of real consequence except being raised in an affluent home with parents who loved him (his words). That's what he went through. The rest is nitpicking about little things of no significance that only a spoiled first world child would complain about.
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  1074.  @madD8845  Everything is "problematic". All you have to do is go and look for the problems and you're bound to find them. Kaepernick is an opportunist and he's working modern cultural pressures to make himself a buck or two. Embarrassing your parents, before the entire country, is something that an ungrateful spoiled teenager would do. It's time for him to grow up.
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  1075.  @MrThelittleguy903  How can you debate someone who claims to be a woman and then tells you that they don't know what a woman is? Me: "I'm a mugwump." Them: "What's a mugwump?" Me: "I don't know" How could anyone take me seriously? How could anyone take THEM seriously?
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  1076. Just what I, as a parent, want to see happen at my children's school. I want people, that I barely know, to recommend sexually explicit material to my children. "Hey Johnny....wanna see some fun stuff? Don't tell your parents, though". Do you know how the kids will react? "My teachers are so cool and my parents suck." Exactly what I intended my kids to react and conclude during their educational journey. (can't help the sarcasm)
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  1077.  @exaltedone2799  The problem is simple. A lot of people want to start as the heavy equipment mechanic and make lots of money. They don't want to take those steps that you went through. Those steps are the testing grounds that buys you the opportunity to make it to the final step. If you can't succeed at the first step, washing dishes in your case, you'll never take the second step and so on. You have to prove to yourself and others that you're worthy of climbing to the next step. We've created a society of entitlement and forgot that merit should be the determining factor.
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  1078.  @dislikebutton6269  It doesn't matter if he did or not. Some people believe that it will help them so they get it. Others are like you....so THEY don't. Big deal. The point is that the government shouldn't FORCE you to do it. That's the stand. We all deserve the freedom to choose. That's what freedom is about and what the convoy is about. We all have to stand together against government overreach and tyranny. That's the point. Nothing else matters like our stand for choice and freedom.
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  1079.  @scribbler60  "Thou shalt not commit adultery" The Ten Commandments. “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." Matthew 18:6 That's a direct admonishment to anyone, in the church or outside of it, to not hurt a child, especially a child who a part of the Church of Jesus. That's a part of the Christian faith. I'm NOT a Christian so don't start with the Christian slurs. It would be irrelevant.
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  1080.  @TrumpCoronaryCountdown  You were never "one of us". If you did, you'd know that we're not concerned about ourselves here. We're concerned about the most vulnerable in our society....our children. No conservative, even one who claims not to be one anymore, would know this.
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  1081.  @gevansmd1  Then FIX the political system that seemingly REFUSES to improve the quality of education of the inner city schools. Don't discriminate against those, the Asians as an example, who are not at fault for the discriminating attitudes of those who are in charge of education. Your plan is to fix discrimination, based on race, is to discriminate based on race. Asians are wealthier because they study and work harder and make wise life decisions. Japanese Americans lost everything, during WW2, yet they worked their way back to success within a generation, even though other Americans hated them because of what Japan did. Now, people, like you, are chastising them for working hard for success. American students of Nigerian and Ghanaian heritage are doing extremely well. Should Harvard discriminate against them, too?
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  1082. Kind of makes him the slave owner, doesn't it? I'll bet he'd love to hear that.
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  1083.  @singalongwrudy8690  That's just a stupid comment.
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  1084.  @Baconing-Again  I've been saying that for years.
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  1085. Fknmando ! Wow. Since you obviously have trouble comprehending the situation, I'll repeat it for you. There was a drive by shooting. That's where a citizen drives by in a car and shoots people on the street or in their front yard. Apparently, this is against the law. This time 2 people were shot. Salvas's friend, the police officer, was called to the scene and was involved in a police chase involving the alleged car that took part in the shooting. The occupant of that car, a person strongly implicated in that ILLEGAL drive by shooting, tried to get away and was shot. You see, the police officer was pretty sure the guy had a gun in his possession. It's difficult to commit a drive by shooting without a gun....maybe even impossible so I'd say it was a pretty safe assumption. If the person was willing to shoot people on the street, he would likely be willing to shoot a police officer, as well. I don't know that for sure, of course, but....you know. I'd still go with it for safety reasons. Salvas knew the police officer and knew him as an honourable guy. He may not be but when you couple that with the circumstances of the shooting, I'd say he has a right to feel that way and to express how he feels. So....lets tie that in with the standing for the flag. I'm sure you've heard of Colin Kaepernick and the big kerfuffle over kneeling for the flag. This had to do with the police shooting of black youths and the belief in systemic racism in the legal system. Salvas said that he made that statement a year earlier, when this was big headlines. Now, I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. One year after saying that he stands for the flag, Salvas defends a police officer, a family friend, who was involved in a police shooting of an man allegedly resisting arrest. Maybe his Democrat "friends" might have let him off the hook for defending his friend but I don't know. However, his saying that he stands for the flag, might indicate that he sides with police officers in a police shooting. Defending the police officer in a real shooting validates his stance of police shooting. That is what prompted the "that's insensitive" criticism. I've tied this up in a neat little package for you so you can fully understand what is happening here. Sorry if I'm seeming a little sarcastic (a lot, actually) but I have a feeling that you're being intentionally obtuse about the whole thing. You've implied that the alleged shooter in the drive by deserves to be declared innocent until proven guilty but the police officer shouldn't be given that right, given your statement that you don't know what a person is capable of when referring to the police officer. I'd say that's correct, to a degree. That police officer didn't know what that alleged shooter was capable of but he definitely had reason to believe that he could be extremely dangerous and that his own life was at stake. I guess the only way to know just how bad this guy actually was is to allow him to shoot the cop. Then we'd know for sure he was a bad guy. Makes being a cop rather hazardous though, don't you think?
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  1086. It didn't take long. There were American bombings in Syria, yesterday. Doesn't it feel good to be back to a normal American government. Who wants peace in the Middle East, anyway?
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  1087.  @frasertones8519  He came from the Netherlands.
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  1088.  @jacobuszwanenburg1629  It was just starting at that time. Farmers were forced into marketing boards. Dad had given up milking cows about 10 years earlier because the milk marketing boards kept coming up with more and more rules and requirements that the smaller farmers just couldn't afford to do. By 1978, it was beginning to become impossible for a young person to start a dairy farm because the "milk quotas" were becoming so expensive. Dairy farms became bigger and bigger as the number of farms shrank. No innovation were allowed because the milk marketing boards had such a tight grip on the dairy industry and it became mandated by law. It was great for the millionaire farmer but for no one else.
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  1089.  @A_Jeff  You're the one that used the denigratory term "potato people". Why would you do that? It isn't very respectful.
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  1090.  @j_jones_  What ethnic group are you talking about? Please clarify.
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  1091.  @petyrbaelish1216  "It might take some creative destruction but it will be worth it." And that what makes you the most dangerous type of person there is. Show me one country that has flourished after it has been destroyed through ideological destruction. People, who's goal is destruction, are not builders. Hundreds of thousands will die, maybe millions, including people that you care about. That should bother you but I have a feeling that you really don't care about anyone but your own self interests. It's pointless to even bother trying to get through to you. Anyone who's goal is destruction is pure evil.
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  1092. Strawberry 93 It's a "huge problem" because there may be over 60 cities across England affected by Pakistani grooming gangs. In the city of Rotherham, alone, there are up to 1400 girls that have been abused by a Pakistani gang in the last 25 years. The "huge problem" is that it is almost exclusively Muslim Pakistani and the authorities looked the other way due to a fear that they would be accused of racism and that they were centring on Muslims. It was the fear of the backlash from the left wing that protected the grooming gangs. I'll give you an example just how biased the left media has been concerning Muslims. In Toronto, a young girl claimed a man tried to pull off her hijab on the way to school, one morning. By noon, all the press were at the school. It was the leading story on TV news and on the front page of the daily newspapers. By 2 o'clock, the Prime Minister publicly said that "racism is alive and well in Canada". Now, compare this with Rotherham. 1400 underage girls were sexually abused by Pakistani men and for 25 years NO ONE said a word. NOT A DAMN WORD!!!!! Now it's out in the open, more and more cities have been found with these gangs, almost exclusively Muslim with victims that were exclusively white and Sikh. Telford has almost 1000 cases......AND IT HAD BEEN REPORTED TO THE POLICE AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN MOST OF THOSE CITIES. Thousands of young girls sexually abused for years and there are still people accusing those who are outraged by it of being racist. Yet, one girl, ONE MUSLIM GIRL, says someone tried to take her hijab and it's news across the country......and do you know what. SHE MADE IT UP!!!!!! It wasn't true. Hollywood stars are crying about MeToo and the trauma they had to live through to make millions but do you hear them speaking out about those poor white and Sikh girls in England? I'll bet you every cent I've ever made that if 10 members of the EDL had raped a couple of Muslim girls over a weekend, it would have been headlines everywhere and I say this with confidence. Remember the little girl in Toronto. That's how I know that the left wing are only being selectively compassionate. It's disgusting.
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  1093.  @victormature344  Yes.....creepy vibes. It's not evidence that he is creepy but we all have felt that way about someone.....unless you're a sociopath. One should take that feeling and watch closely to see if the object, of that feeling, has the personality that would warrant that initial feeling. Emotions are a useful tool to guide one through life. A tool, NOT evidence. Just an important tool.
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  1094. You don't have to be an economist to have common sense. AOC studied economy but without common sense, she still knows nothing.
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  1095.  @bloodlove93  That's what upsets me. He's speaking for me, as my PM, but NOT at my behest. He has no right to do that. He's an elected official and there were lots of us that voted against him, well over half the voters in Canada voted against him and his party. If he wants to lecture someone, he should never claim to speak for ALL Canadians because he doesn't and he can't. He's not our dictator. He should speak for himself and let that stand in order that we can all decide on whether he's going in the right direction or not. That's been his biggest problem. He thinks he can speak for me and that I must approve of what he's doing and saying. I do not have to support that.
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  1096.  @clifffowler2581  I read "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" about a year ago. A great read. I have a few others of his to read but they'll have to wait for a couple of months. Just too much good stuff to read and not enough time.
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  1097. Here's a couple more... He increased funding for Sickle Cell Anemia research. He set up a funding program for traditional Black Colleges, like Grambling and Tuskegee, so they'll have money for the next 10 years, instead of being forced to go looking for cash every year. He's getting rid of Critical Race Theory programs in the Federal government so, at least there won't be as much racial strife in Federal agencies. These are just off the top of my head to add to the list given. Great list...by the way.
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  1098.  poligney1  Grow up. If there's something that you're not buying, tell us what it is and give us the evidence to back it up. Florida is middle of the pack when it comes to deaths and cases per capita. If they're doing the wrong things to protect its citizens, why aren't they leading the pack? Answer the question and don't start calling me names.
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  1099.  @bruceconstuble4603  Then fill us in. Saying that it isn't true means nothing to me.
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  1100.  @Arctc-zh6rg  Is that sort of like all the Jews in the Nazi party? Afro-Cubans are now filling the ranks of white supremacy groups. Apparently, they're not all that stringent in their membership qualifications. Then there's all the buildings that have been burned down by the Proud Boys. I'm going to count them off for you. AHHHH......zero? I can't think of any.
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  1101.  @georgebailey8179  Just another troll....or maybe a bot. Comments like this are all a part of the rot that this video is talking about.
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  1102.  @lisagoldberg5178  They had indigenous chefs come in and cook the tofu over open campfires......just like they did in the olden days.
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  1103. ​ @tonyelliott7734  The guy's a bot. This has been posted on numerous websites, for at least a month. Pay no attention to him.
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  1104.  @djpickle68  They're forcing you to do it California....sweetie. No new gas powered vehicles allowed to be sold by 2035. That includes lawn mowers. Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon,Rhode Island and Washington have also initiated similar bans of gas powered vehicles. So, SWEETIE, if the government bans them, they're forcing you to buy what they want you to buy or go without. If they're such a big advantage, they shouldn't have to pass laws to get the public to buy them, would they, sweetie.
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  1105. You're absolutely correct....but, Pakistan is a Muslim country and Islam is a very instrumental is constructing the laws of the country. If Islam was dead set against it, it would not be done. However, the Islamic leadership turn a blind eye to it. This allows the practice to go in Pakistan. If it is to stop, Pakistani Islamic leaders will have to be the ones to stop it. If they don't, it will continue. That applies to the Indian Sikhs as well. It is up to the Sikh leadership to step up and condemn it. Just because Sikhs are guilty of it as well, doesn't make the practise acceptable in Pakistan. A false equivalency. Don't allay guilt by pointing out the guilt of others.
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  1106. 7th Day Calvary Baptist church Because we live in a civilized country where we care about one another....that's why. You could wake up tomorrow, walk out the door and collapse with a brain aneurysm and spend the next three months in hospital with a coma. Then its medication and rehab and surgery and multiple doctor visits and spend the rest of your life in a wheel chair...but it's fuck you...look after yourself. That's not the kind of country I want to live in and it's part of my investment in a comprehensive health care system that looks after all of us, not matter who we are or what happens to us. Don't think it can't happen to you. It happened to my brother in law, a brick layer and a healthy, incredibly strong young man. If it does happen, hopefully not, would you have the integrity to refuse the help of your fellow citizens because it goes against what you believe? I'd rather doubt it. It has always amazed me how the right wing Americans profess their Christian values and yet are so miserly about helping those in need.
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  1107. ***** If he gives his name, he's not believed and harassed.  If he doesn't give his name, he's not believed.  If he's a nut, he's not believed.  If he's a shill, he's not believed.   If he provides pictures, he's not believed. I think you can see the common thread here.
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  1108.  googlenazicompany5935  He's fighting the Ontario School of Psychiatry and the Canadian government so he can say and think as a free individual. If they're trying to suspend his medical licence, because of what he believes and for expressing those beliefs, he's fighting for free speech....which makes him a freedom fighter. Why don't you want the freedom to say what you believe to be true? Don't you think that your ideas are worth expressing? Or are you unable to think? Why are you so against your own freedom? I'm not getting it.
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  1109.  @christopherreichle6670  Anyone who thinks that someone else is going to make them happy, be it the government, their employer, or even the people around them, are going to spend their lives very sadly and end up disappointed. It's up to me to find meaning and satisfaction in my life. Besides, being happy is the end of an Utopian rainbow. It doesn't exist. The way to a good life is in the ability to freely pursue that good life. Blaming others for what's going on in your head will get you nowhere. We are living in the most affluent times, for the average person, especially in the west, in human history. Yet, we still complain. I'll send you back 300 years. You'll be crying to come back to 2022 within the week. Furthermore, do you really think that if you dismantle capitalism, that working in a factory will become somehow....exhilarating? That it will lead to life of deep happiness? Good luck with that. Someone's still gotta make your shoes. There will still be a boss and he'll still expect you to get the job done, except now you'd be an enemy of the people if you don't show the expected enthusiasm. You're looking for happiness in all the wrong places.
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  1110. She screwed up. She knows it. Now she's telling us NOT to do the same. We need to hear the consequences of decisions like this and she's letting us know from first hand experience. However, if we listen to you, nobody would ever hear about what could go wrong and that ALL is wonderful in woke trans world. Everyone that had ever made this mistake would be silenced. How to go, leftie. I hope no one falls for this trick.
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  1111. @Donna Chump - DRAFT DODGER Where did you come up with that? Is that the standard reply to everything? Instead of name calling, why don't you address one of the points I made. I know that would require a little thought and name calling is so much easier but using the brain isn't going to hurt you. Honest......it won't.
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  1112.  @SeekerOfTruth-b2i  Don't be a troll. Show a little ingenuity in your comments. Any parrot can say the same thing over and over again.
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  1113.  @wahoo8238  It might surprise you to know that Ellison wasn't the only one who went from slave to slave owner in the United States. It wasn't an everyday occurrence but it did happen.
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  1114.  @wahoo8238  I think that 3000 black slave owners sounds a little high but maybe not. In 1860, there the census showed that there were 171 black slave owners in South Carolina so it could well be true, especially if the number was low in that state. Ellison's grandson fought for the south. The story of slavery is a lot more complex that they would have us believe.
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  1115.  @wahoo8238  If your source is Thomas Sowell, then it's probably correct. He's one of the most brilliant Americans that the US has ever produced and I'm a great admirer.
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  1116.  @ofiasdfnosdf  That's exactly what it is. It's the grab for power, by a socialist left, who are using pollution issues and the fact that the climate has been warming as their vehicle to take over all our lives. It's perplexing that so many people don't mind handing over their personal sovereignty to all encompassing central power. I guess George Orwell was talking about a bad central power as opposed the "good" one they want to impose. The "not real communism" argument.
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  1117.  Robert Miner  Who said anything about attacking the homeless? This is a social problem that the government in Oregon refuses to face. Worse, this is a problem that homeless aren't working on, either. There's lots of work out there, if you really want it and, with a little ingenuity, there are decent places to live. They're just not doing what they have to do get there. If you live a life, without hope or integrity, you end up in a tent beside the road. That's a fact of life.
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  1118.  @Andrico77  You explained the law and then told him to leave the legal stuff to lawyers. Unless you're a lawyer, you're doing the same thing that you're telling someone else not to do. What's ironic is that you don't seem to see the comedy here.
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  1119.  @Ryuksgelus  Those trans people and their supporters, that drove Daphne to suicide, should feel guilt. They talk about the struggles that the trans community faces and then bludgeon a person, who's had his own issues with being trans, to the point he commits suicide. It's horrific if a straight white guy does it, but just fine when THEY do it, apparently. They get one hell of a rush of power when they cancel people or drive them to suicide. It's an addictive dopamine bolt and it must be fed and it doesn't matter who gets hurt or dies.
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  1120.  @johanvanderpants9363  Murder is a crime of intent. They did NOT intend to murder the guy. They came to arrest someone who had already killed someone else and the police were afraid that any attempt at an arrest could potentially end in the suspects resisting arrest and using violence to escape from the police. They'd already shown their willingness to kill. You want a guarantee that the arrest will ALWAYS go smoothly. You're not going to get it. It's an impossibility. Everything that you're complaining about is due to a narrative that police are hunting black men. Had this been a white or Asian guy, you'd never even heard of it. You're being manipulated by the press who love the controversy and you're own seething hatred based along racial lines.
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  1121. I'm one of those grandparents and I don't even have a TV. 70 years old and I watched the "debate" with Trump, online. However, I will say that a lot of people that watch TV are older, like you said, and are accustomed to watching the news on the MSM. A media that is in "HATE" with Trump. It has to have an effect on them to not see anything that exposes the MSM narrative.
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  1122.  @justajawausingwifi4642  Nooooo.....logic is needed for all occupations. Just like an athlete who exercises their muscles in order to excel at their chosen sport, students exercise their brain so they can excel at their chosen vocation. If you don't challenge that brain, it turns soft, like the muscles of a potential athletes who refuses to challenge their muscles. If you're not taught to think logically, you're less apt to use logic in making basic decisions in your life and vocational choices.
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  1123. Russian Bot, Inc. You don't have to be a racist to think that this guy is a POS. His behaviour was totally uncalled for and she deserved to be defended from that jerk. All you're doing is going for the lowest common denominator in an attempt to defend such incredibly bizarre behaviour. If someone talked to your mother like that and you defended her, would that make you a bigoted racist as well?
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  1124.  @kevintunaley5079  Those damn Russkies. They turned off my power 2 nights ago. Right in the middle of a thunder storm, when I needed it the most.
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  1125.  @Orange-Jumpsuit-Time  Is this some kind of "expert fallacy"? "Economists say". Okay, if it's economists, we gotta fall to our knees and pray at the feet of those experts. Then you go to the ad hominen attack....another logical fallacy. You comment is meaningless.
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  1126. If that were true, every 38 cents per gallon, would be put into a special account that was earmarked ONLY for highway maintenance. I'll bet no such account exists.
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  1127. I remember. One of my teachers said that it didn't matter that we disagreed so long as we could make a reasoned and cogent case for our stance. That attitude has seemed to go by the wayside lately.
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  1128.  @one-sidedrationalization1091  He sounded quite rational to me. What I find unbelievable is how you don't understand his point. Basically...it's this. You'll never win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket. Life isn't a lottery but it's an analogy, something that I'm sure you won't get, either. With no attempt at success, you won't find it because it won't come to you without effort. The harder you try, the more you work, the better the chances to get out of poverty. He didn't say that it was a guarantee but you up your chances. It's an extremely simple concept.
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  1129. And I remember spending hours and money, trying to get a fake ID, so I could go to the movies and buy beer or get into clubs. I'll bet lots of these people did the same. Now they're saying that minorities don't have the smarts that they did as kids. Not even smart enough to get a legal ID. If they only knew how condescending they are.
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  1130.  @donschwartz8341  Trump was non-stop on Twitter, much to the dismay of a lot of the Republicans. He kept it up until Twitter banned him. Did you ever watch his press conferences? They didn't want to hear what he had to say. They just wanted to argue with him. He was on the networks, everyday in the early days of Covid. Then the MSM would cut away when he was saying something that they didn't like and interpret what he said to make him look bad. Eventually, they didn't even bother to show those daily press briefings on TV, except their edited versions, and Trump quit doing them. However, he would stop and talk to the press ALL the time. Not in formal press conferences but in "off the cuff" responses to the press questions.
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  1131. When I was a kid, back in the early sixties, we had our own versions of "Karens". I remember one old busybody, who would stand outside the movie theatre, and report church members, who were going to see movies, that were deemed inappropriate (to them of course), to the church leadership. Another one who would call the police when we played football in a school yard on the weekend. Now, we have the busybody Karens crying online. Like my dear mother used to say "There's nothing new under the sun".
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  1132. But, WE will be left with a pittance and they'll bleed the pennies out of us, which, when put in a big pile, is still a big payday for the individual politician. We'll be looking at a new version of the Feudal system, where EVERYONE is dirt poor and there is one rich guy at the top, taking what little the poor can dig out of the dirt. Little fiefdoms all over the country.
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  1133.  @BrownBrown-h7c  There is only one bakery on Staten Island that makes that pastry. Everyone knows that on Staten Island. It's easy to figure out for the locals. That's how everyone knew what bakeshop it was.
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  1134.  @warrior-xd2xn  I should refer you to a previous comment that I made. Instead, I'll just copy and paste it so you won't have to search for it. "There was a guy, who phoned reporters from the Washington Post, disguising his voice so they called him "Deep Throat", that brought down a president. Why? Because those reporters thought that IF Deep Throat's allegations were true, this would be a HUGE scandal and they went full bore into investigating the veracity of those allegations from this mysterious source. That scandal was Watergate. Now, there's a laptop filled with videos and e-mails, a group of whistleblowers, a business partner, around 150 reports of suspicious bank transactions from 11 different banks, a video of Biden bragging how he threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars from Ukraine if they didn't fire a prosecutor, a guilty plea of tax evasion and a gun charge, a gun charge that resulted from that information from that laptop.......and the SAME newspaper that broke the Watergate Scandal, won't investigate ANY of this stuff. THEY WON'T EVEN INVESTIGATE!!!! The entire MSM is ignoring all this stuff." And YOU'RE talking about Republican logic? What about the "head in the sand" tactics that Democrats are using. They won't even investigate. I think that we BOTH know why.
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  1135. I keep buying lottery tickets in the hopes that I could, one day, join the oppressed and buy me a yacht and drift about the Greek Islands. Maybe I'll invite Obama on board and we can be oppressed together instead of separate yachts. I could invite Oprah, Whoopi, Reverend Al and Lebron and we can all wallow in our oppression. Nothing like a pity party to cheer us up.
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  1136. @Henry James Actual debates....yes. I participated in them when I was in college. However, this hasn't been the case on most social forums on TV or the internet. Most devolve, rather quickly, into chaos. It's not my cup of tea. Besides, this wasn't a debate. It was a discussion between like minded people, with different perspectives. Rubin has stated often that his isn't a debate type of show. It's informative discussion. It's what he wants and there's a market for it. I like it. I don't like adversarial learning. It's counter productive and I don't learn a thing.
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  1137.  Matt Clark  It's not that I disagreed with Trump. I agreed with a lot of what he tried to do. He's just not the right guy for the job right now. We need someone that people find likeable.
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  1138.  @silverwitch1  "Russia....Russia.......RUSSIA!!!!!!!" cries the bot.
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  1139. @Toronto Rangers Wow. You've just explained why Trump won the last election.....and you approve. Well, Trump is rooting for your attitude. He'll win again. Bigotry is not the way to beat him. I'd thought you'd realise that after the last election. I guess you don't have to be in flyover America to say dumb things.
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  1140.  @Chris-n2f9m  BOT.
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  1141. They make sure that there's no one there to shout over them like they do when they invite a conservative guest on. They just prattle on, unopposed, and the rest of them just nod their heads in agreement. A bunch of bobbleheads.
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  1142. It's not just a paycheck. They get top notch benefits and a pension that most Americans can only dream of. I'm guessing that the average wages and benefits would be well over $100,000. It's time that they showed their worth, just like most of us have to do in the private sector.
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  1143.  @kulturfreund6631  You can't destabilise a country if that country hasn't the mindset that allows destabilisation. The hatred has to be in them to be used against each other. It's a weakness of the nations that you say are prey to the destabilisation and all it does is lay blame upon blame upon blame and it's ALWAYS the other guys fault. For once, it would be nice if one of those countries would just say that they're not going to fall for these machinations. Just say that they're responsible for their own actions and not everything is someone else's fault. Until they look within themselves and say "We can change our future" they will always be prey to dictators and outside interference. It's like an abused child. It's the fault of the abuser that he's abused but it's his own doing if he can't rise above it as an adult. Also, the Middle East was held for only a short time by European interests. It was the Ottoman Empire that controlled the area for almost 400 years until they lost WW1 in 1918. Most of the area was held for only 30 years by Europe before they all became independent. That includes Iraq. Also, if corrupt governments allow corporate interests to break the law, that's not the fault of Capitalism. It's the fault of corruption and the lack of respect for the rule of law. The US is NOT a fascist state. Fascist states are rooted in nationalist socialist ideas and a one party system, ruled by dictators and supported by his henchmen. That's NOT the US. There are problems but there's not a nation yet conceived that hasn't had it's issues. It's a problem of humanity. Overall, the people living in the Capitalist west, the US, Canada, western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong have the best living standards in human history. A standard that is the envy of the world and we should be encouraging other nations to follow the same work ethic and ideas of free markets and the rule of law. It's NOT perfect but nothing ever will be. It's the best that we've ever had, though and the only way to improve on it is to encourage the respect for the law and hard work that brought us the living standard that we have now. Isn't it strange that the only country in Central America, where things are half decent, is a country that has had stable government and there is a strong commitment to the law and free enterprise. That's Costa Rica and they're very proud of how they've avoided the pitfalls of the countries around them. Like I said, you don't have to fall prey to corrupt corporations and politicians if there is a social mindset that rejects it. It only flourishes when you allow others to tell you who they should blame.
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  1144. @Escalated-p4o Es ist mir egal, ob es Gesetze gegen die freie Meinungsäußerung gibt. Ich verwende Ihre Gesetze als Beispiel dafür, warum ich nicht möchte, dass MEINE Regierung in meinem Land dasselbe tut. Does that suit your German sensibilities, my Fuehrer? Unlike your country, I'm allowed to give my opinion.
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  1145.  @dlpoe11  When I was growing up it was true to a certain extent. However, ideology has gotten hold of the medical establishment. I was from a small town and the police weren't as corrupt as they were in the big cities. Attitudes have changed and the new ideology can be extremely destructive.
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  1146.  @bigglyguy8429  It would take one generation. In 1960, the pill came onto the market. The generation, that were the parents at the time, had large families. However, their children, who were already born and later became adults, they had much smaller families. In fact, were it not for immigrants, most of those countries would be seeing their populations go down. As long as those poor starving people remain poor and starving, they won't have access to the information or the tools to make the choices to have small families. We have to raise their standard of living, out of abject poverty, which is 1.90 American per day. When that's done, their children will have smaller families and the impact will be felt when those, who were once starving, become senior citizens. In other words, it will happen in their lifetime. Instead, Covid, according to UN numbers, has seen people go back into abject poverty. Over 250,000,000 of them. Bill Gates supported the lock downs, which was the reason for this surge in poverty, yet he knows that this poverty will increase birth rates in 3rd world countries. For a smart guy, its amazing how he doesn't see the contradiction here.
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  1147.  @muellersgame8001  Maybe Biden did win the election, but how does that allow intimidation in the election? The residents of Wayne County deserve to have THEIR candidate chosen through a fair election. NO ONE should EVER be intimidated into doing something that they didn't want to do. Threatening someone's children is appalling and anyone who does that should go to jail, plain and simple. I don't care who you voted for, if you have any kind of integrity, you'd insist on a criminal investigation. It doesn't matter if Biden wins or not. You should NEVER allow you name to be associated with that kind of thing. EVER!!!!! If you do, you're giving the green light to terror tactics. Also, even if right wing people are shooting up schools, how does that make voter intimidation the good thing to do. You object to this kind of thing because it's WRONG, horribly wrong, and it doesn't matter who does it....Republican or Democrat.
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  1148.  @darthmalagus  They won't have to work if they take on those jobs. All they have to do is repeat the same talking points. You don't have to be brilliant or hard working to do that. A clever parrot could do it.
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  1149.  @sorceress1986  Walt Disney, the founder of Disney. He died in 1966, therefore he's dead. Now, the corporation, that he left, is also dead. Now, to Mariah Pacheco, the Disney Corporation is just as dead as Walt is actually dead. Does it make more sense, now?
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  1150.  @MarcusC-pn5zr  You're correct. What we have is a left wing movement who believes that right and wrong is subjective and fluid, basically saying that right and wrong is undefinable. There is no right or wrong, for them. There's only the cause. If it helps their cause, it's right. If it hurts the cause, it's wrong.
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  1151.  @tvandang3234  How do you know that she still votes for him? Kind of a big leap you've taken.
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  1152. Before Columbus, natives would burn off land to attract grazers to the succulent new grass that grows after the burn. It could be that the hunters, of that period, realised that burn offs would attract the smaller grazers, which would be more numerous and not as dangerous to hunt as the really big animals. One mammoth might be a windfall but a hundred bison might be even better. This video suggests that this may have happened. Get rid of the forests and bring in the smaller grazers. You can see the herds for miles away on the grasslands which wouldn't happen in a forest setting.
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  1153.  @ChienaAvtzon  LOL. It appears that MLB would prefer to see white people in the stands over black Americans.
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  1154.  @makeytgreatagain6256  There are reasons for the size of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. For one thing, huge plantations were being opened up in the Caribbean, the southern US and Brazil. They wanted a labour force and for the first time in history, huge numbers of people could be moved, quickly and cheaply, for thousands of miles. With the size of the new ships that the Europeans were now building and the new technology never seen before, they could just float them over the ocean with little effort. Trying to march 100 slaves, over the desert was a daunting task and not near as easy as using a shipping lane. Couple that with the demand for labour on 2 opening continents, you had the perfect storm for the biggest slave movement in history. It was opportunity and circumstance that drove that trade, not because Old World slavery was "nicer" and more compassionate. The transAtlantic trade was that much easier to use as a trading medium for slaves. Not that it was a good thing. It's just a fact. It's easier and cheaper to move 100 slaves across the Atlantic on ship than it is to walk them over the desert to Egypt. A LOT easier. It doesn't make one slave trader a better person than another.
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  1155.  @makeytgreatagain6256  You've called me names. You've insisted that these were "my people" as if I have something to feel sorry about. I gave countless reasons for why the slave trade, in the Americas, evolved the way that it did but you haven't even talked about one of the points that I made. All you do is capitalise the same rant over and over again. "YOUR PEOPLE CONDUCTED THE WORST SLAVE TRADE IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY AND TREATED THEIRS THE WORST" They're NOT my people. They were people that lived over 200 years ago and none of them were even related to me. Even if they were, it means nothing. We all live in one nation, now. Everyone that lives in this country are my people. If you want to divide the nation, that's on you. I will NOT accept that some people, in my country, are not among those who are my people just because they have a different skin colour. That's YOUR domain. Quit dividing us into groups. That's what started this, according to YOU, in the first place. We either stop it or we continue babbling about "YOUR people" and "MY people" and the nonsense will never stop.
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  1156.  @DM-dk7js  He didn't say that Biden was Stalin. He said that Biden handles the press in the same way that Stalin does. I like my eggs cooked the same way that Stalin does. That doesn't make me Stalin. It's just something similar about the 2 of us. You have 2 legs, just like Hitler. Now, you're Hitler? It's a stupid game.
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  1157.  @Alex-pt5no  Yet, Grosskreutz carried a weapon, in a riot, that he was in support of. He approached Kyle, with that weapon drawn, and pointed it at Kyle. That's when Grosskreutz was shot....ONLY then. Also, Kyle was NOT a vigilante. He was there to PROTECT businesses and to offer medical aid to ANYONE that needed it. He put out a fire and this brought on the ire of the rioters, particularly Rosenbaum, who said he would kill Kyle if he caught him alone. He was on his way to help put out another fire when Rosenbaum chased him down and tried to grab his gun. A man, who threatened to kill him, was grabbing at his gun. What would any reasonable person assume would happen if Rosenbaum had actually succeeded taking that gun away from him? Any reasonable person would assume that Rosenbaum would use that gun to carry out his previous threats. Kyle, among others, should not have had to be there that night, but their town was being burned by rioters and looters and the elected officials were doing NOTHING to protect the community. So, what do you do when criminals are destroying everything that you own and the people that you've elected to protect you, turn their backs on you? Do you turn tail and run? That's exactly what the German people did when the Brownshirts smashed windows, set fires and threatened people. Their government did nothing and they acquiesced to one of the most murderous groups of ideologues in human history. In Kenosha, they smashed windows, set fires and threatened people. The local governments, city, state and even Federal governments did NOTHING and you want the people of the Kenosha area to back down and let the rioters destroy their town. That strategy worked really well in Germany. (deep sarcasm) Had only the people of Germany stood against the Brownshirts....but they were cowards. Their cowardice ended in over 50 million deaths before that ideological base was finished.
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  1158.  @Jerahzz  He NEVER said that he wasn't allowed to say it. He SAID that he hoped that he's gotten over his negative obsession with Trump. You took one giant but illogical leap with that comment.
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  1159.  @RetroRocketReview  The reason could be that humans can have an innate affinity for brutality and that's been manifested all through human history. Why have there been wars? Why is this a story throughout human history? I'm finding it difficult to understand what it is you're getting at.
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  1160. "Chaz police killed a unarmed black kid, wheres CNN?" There....fixed it for you. Thanks.
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  1161.  @anneanne9009  What you don't understand about the United States is that it is an aggregate of 50 states, each with its own ability to make its own policies and laws. That's part of the American Constitution, the agreement between the states to exist separately under one cooperative. If Trump were to intervene, he could only do so at the behest of all the states and to show that this state has transgressed the agreement between the States, or the Constitution. That's a process that is imposed by the president only under unusual circumstances and that imposition is extremely rare. The most famous imposition being the Civil war. This is a state's rights issue and must be settled on a state level first. If that fails, it must be brought before the Supreme Court, the court of the United States, which is sworn to protect the Constitution, NOT the president, Donald Trump at this moment. Trump does NOT have the power that you think he does.
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  1162. I never thought that I would understand woke logic, but I get it now. Thanks.........for nothing. LOL.
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  1163.  @kairidon3363  That's the dumbest response yet. What does it matter how often it happens when it shouldn't happen at all. It's against the law and it is EVERY time it happens. You're accepting of taking away someone's rights because it's happened before. That's NOT the approach that we should be taking. We should be saying that it should NEVER happen, that the law should always be adhered to. That's what we should be saying. Instead, you turn into group politics. I don't want to EVER see it happen. You seem to think that it's okay, because it's normal to take away a person's civil rights, that it's a normal way for a government to behave. I've never advocated for taking away any civil rights from anyone. If a person's civil rights are being violated, be it Democrat or Republican, it's WRONG. PERIOD. Now, let's uphold the US Constitution in every case, including this one.
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  1164.  @larkrake1  If the "traitor" senators are gaslighting, then why ask them anything? Why don't they ASK THE BORDER PATROL AGENTS????? They know what's going on. I can't believe the stupidity. They just ask the same senators the SAME stupid questions, over and over and OVER again. And now here you are.....calling them liars. If they're liars...WHY TALK TO THEM???? Ask the border patrol agents what the truth is. Pretend that you care about the truth because those reporters don't care....and I'll bet you don't care either. You're no more brighter or honest then those reporters are.
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  1165. Grenell is a Republican, therefore a Nazi, appropriately the ambassador to Germany. My progressive leftie logic at work.
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  1166.  @warlorddk2070  I will say that the Democrat leaders refuse to call out the radical left. Even Trump has called out the alt right, numerous times, but Biden says that Antifa is an idea and Nadler calls it a myth. BLM protests are mostly peaceful, in spite of the hundreds of millions in damages, all the arrests and all the injuries and deaths. People are associating this stuff with the Democrats and it's a large reason why the Democrats did so poorly in the election. The voters have rejected Trump but they've also rejected the Democrat Party. If they continue on the path they've chosen, they will lose in 2024. The riots, the cancel culture the politically correct posturing, critical race theory (weirdest racism I've ever seen) and the pandering to China will not sit well forever, especially if the Republicans get a candidate that isn't as abrasive as Trump.
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  1167.  @GoodwillWright  It's a joke. A hypothetical. I'll bet you'd be fun to have a few beers with. LOL.
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  1168.  @diegojines-us9pc  The school makes money from sports so they can use it to help finance other activities. Is it hypocrisy to use the extra cash to build a chemistry lab? Of course not but for some weird reason it's hypocritical to use this extra money to support women's sports. I'm not getting your point at all. You just sound bitter to me. No logic....just the emotional response of one who is filled with resentment.
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  1169.  @mensuddevic8983  What country occupied that area? The dumbest accusation that I've ever heard.
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  1170.  Jonny goy  So you like the riots? You like that small businesses are losing everything? You like all the racist rhetoric over white privilege? You like that criminals are being released but business owners are being arrested for trying to work? You like that if you don't say EXACTLY what the left want, they'll dox you, even try to get you fired from your job? You like that anyone can sneak into the country and get a job while Americans are being arrested for working? You like that murder rates are going up because Democrat are defunding and abolishing police? That's a conservative mess? You really haven't been paying attention.
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  1171. Yet, the natives maintained the forests for thousands of years. They lived and knew the dangers and used natural processes to mitigate those dangers. Elitist city folk think that they know better.
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  1172.  @jimmysandoval1885  I've been called stoic and emotionally tough but seeing all those young girls and the big warm smile on Trump's face......I felt tears welling up. The world is starting to feel normal again. I'm so grateful.
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  1173.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  You know fully well that this comment isn't about Israel or Israeli cities. It's about the Middle Eastern Muslim countries with their strict dress codes. A belly shirt could get a woman arrested in many of those countries. That's the point and you know it.
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  1174.  @julielenchner7257  The dog is NOT a member of the family but that's NOT the point. They didn't show any emotion until the dog was shot. "NOT THE DOG!!!". There was no cry "NOT THE LITTLE GIRL". That's the point. When there's a choice, the child or the dog, you ALWAYS choose to save the child first.....ALWAYS. If you don't believe that, you have your priorities completely skewed.
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  1175.  @KrisTomich  She's NOT a biologist. She can't give a personal identity unless she has the expertise to make that identity. I heard this in Congress. You can't argue with that, can you?
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  1176.  Ryan Lee  You can hire all you want but if you have to subsidize the new tech, you're paying your salary with your own salary through your taxes. That's not sustainable economically. I never ONCE said that there shouldn't be a transition. What I said was that it must be done through market pressure and a solid supply chain. If Tesla is having problems getting raw materials for batteries, what's going to happen when the entire country needs those raw materials. Once again, we have a president that hasn't started any new wars and has, in fact, negotiated peace deals in the Middle East. Out of one side of your mouth you like and then from the other side you're complaining. I'm starting to think that nothing would satisfy except your own Utopian vision of the future. Good luck with that perfectionist mirage.
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  1177. It seemed to me that he was more engaged in this interview than in others that I've seen him involved with. He was watching Peterson's face as he asked the questions and almost forgot that he had an audience out there. As tough as it was to hear, it actually added to the depth of the interview.
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  1178. "as funny as an ingrown toenail" LOL. I've had them and it's NOT funny.
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  1179.  @matthewpatrick7263  I worked with a guy, whose first name was Adolf. He was in his early twenties in WW2 and began to ask people to call him Al. He was the oldest son and was the fifth in line of consecutive oldest sons named Adolf. He named his oldest son Albert, to keep up the tradition as best he could.
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  1180. Pierre was also a great admirer of Castro. I'm not a big fan of the guy and I'm going to make sure I don't vote for his son this fall either.
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  1181.  @almosthuman1398  It was such big news that a google search produced NOTHING. Maybe you'd better post a link to this claim.
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  1182.  @danielbaxter3713  Ok. Answer this question. Has anyone born with XY chromosomes ever given birth to a baby? Just one example that can be verified. Not someone who's transitioned from a woman to a man, but a person who has XY chromosomes and who has given birth. I will wait for the answer. If you don't have an example, don't ignore me. Admit it, although I don't expect to hear from you.
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  1183.  @macman6107  I wasn't disagreeing with him. I added to what he was saying. She may be riff raff but she doesn't believe that she is. She thinks that the riff raff are all out there. They can both be true. She can be riff raff and also think that the REAL riff raff is everyone else.
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  1184.  @sneezyfido  Same as BLM. It's not about equality or racism. It's about gaining power and using the weak minded as their foot soldiers to get that power.
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  1185.  @AllAboutMusicMovies  This person may not be an extremist. Too many people are riveted in fear and he may be having this conversation with multiple people at different times. The commenter, being a friend, may be present during those conversations. I've said this many times to different people. "I'm more afraid of "not living" because of a fear of the virus than I am of dying from the virus" I don't think that I'm an extremist. I just believe that a life of fear isn't much of a life. A life paralysis induced by fear can only lead to regrets. I want to keep regrets to a minimum. What you can't tell from his comment is what else the guy is saying and maybe this is only the meat of the conversation. He could be running a lot deeper than that.
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  1186.  @nicolaipedersen6269  No one is being excluded from sports. Lia Thomas swam, as a male, at UPenn and wasn't all that good. She could have stayed on the men's team but nothing fails like failure and being a relatively poor swimmer, I'm sure there was a lot of frustration for her. Since she was "assigned" male at birth, she swam as her assigned gender. However, and this is by your standards, she swam as a male even though she was transgender, which is fancy talk for "not a woman". Since she DID swim as a male, she wasn't being held back from participating at all. However, she was held back from WINNING because she wasn't good enough to swim at an extremely high level. She could have kept right on swimming as a male but she chose not to. So your claim that she isn't allowed to participate in sports is bogus. She swam for most of her collegiate career on the men's team. You're intentionally muddying the waters because you know damn well that this isn't about not being allowed to compete in sports. It's about whether it's fair for a biological man to compete as a woman. Argue on that point and don't make up issues that do NOT exist.
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  1187.  @The_JohnnieWalker  Aren't you funny. There were 2,332 military deaths and 7000 wounded in that invasion which lasted only one week. In total 17,000 of the Dutch military were killed in the entire war. Total civilian and military deaths were 301,000, which included 25,000 civilians that were starved to death. My mother was nearly one of those. An uncle spent the entire war in a POW camp. So, your joke doesn't really sit well with me and shouldn't with any decent human being.
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  1188. It's crazy isn't it. My granddaughter is white blond with brown eyes. A strange and rare combination. The reason for that is simple. Her fraternal grandmother is full-blooded Mohawk. They were always very close and her grandmother has given her numerous family heirlooms that reflect her heritage. I had people, on the internet, tell me that she shouldn't wear these heirlooms in public as that would be cultural appropriation. I point out that my granddaughter is Mohawk by heritage, as well as Dutch and English heritage. I was told that since she is blond, she cannot acknowledge her Mohawk background and they even told me that if they'd ever saw her with these things that they'd call her out on it. How absolutely asinine.
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  1189.  @timwood225  The "think for yourself" admonishment. I read this ALL the time in comment sections. Rather ironic isn't it. The guy, who tells us to "think for yourself" is regurgitating the same tired old rebuke that so many others hand out. LOL. Maybe if you'd write your own material, we'd be convinced that you're the one showing us the way to "think for ourselves".
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  1190.  @jillionairess  I'm NOT talking about ALL teachers. It's like crime. I'm not talking about all citizens when I say that there should be laws against crime. This law is put into place to protect against that small percentage that are abusing their positions. MORE than that, it codifies when it is age appropriate to begin sex education as part of the curriculum. That's it. Most parents are uncomfortable with strangers talking about sex to their 5 and 6 year old. This assures them that this can't happen until the time is right. Now they know. The NEC, America's top teacher's union, voted to keep teaching CRT, even if it's against the law to teach it. First they deny that it's being taught. Then they vote to continue teaching it. If you want to understand the perils of CRT, listen to James Lindsay's "New Discourses" lectures on YouTube. More so, if you want to hear about how far left ideas have permeated into schools, watch Karlyn Borysenko here on Youtube. It will introduce you to some of the things that this law is supposed to cover. I doubt very much that you'll bother though. You prefer your happy cosy little world where ALL teachers are wonderful. Don't, for one minute, think that I'm against teachers. That's being hyperbolic and intentionally blind. My brother and his wife are teachers and some of my teachers have been absolutely wonderful. However, there has been an influx of far left ideologues into our schools, media and governments that no one should ignore. If you want to ignore what could be happening...that's up to you but don't expect the rest of us to put our heads in the sand with you. The information is out there and if you're not lazy you can find it. I've given you 3 sources to start with but it takes work and a curiosity to find out what it is that we're concerned with. I can lead a horse to water but I can't make it drink. You have to be thirsty enough to find out what the concern is. You don't want to find out the hard way.
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  1191.  @joshanonline  I won't dignify their smears by trying to explain or rebut their ad hominem attacks. I tell them to stick to the topic that my existence or beliefs are irrelevant to the facts and that their attempt at smears prove that they are incapable of sticking to the topic at hand and are lacking in facts and logic.
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  1192. @s Since you're flooding this comment section with this single post, I'm going to assume that you've got the evidence to back it up. So, lets hear it. Until you do, I'm calling BS.
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  1193.  @garethjordan840  Fortunately, "peaceful" protests are the new vaccine. It's a good thing that DeBlasio told NY citizens that they should go out on the town, that the subways were safe and they should ALL go to the big Parade in the middle of February, AFTER we all knew that Covid was so contagious. He kept this rhetoric up until the middle of March, when his own staff told him they'd resign if he didn't stop. Good thing that New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in nursing homes. That kept the most vulnerable safe, didn't it? It was really a good thing that the Democrats were telling us how racist Trump was when he restricted travel to China. Kinda of strongly suggested that the travel ban was stupid and that Covid was wasn't much of a threat. Then, on Feb. 4th, in the State of the Union Address, Trump told us how they were attempting to work with the Chinese government in studying this new virus, Pelosi did the only thing that could help the new threat. She tore up the speech, telling everyone that everything that Trump had said, in that speech, was a lie.....which would INCLUDE the part about the coronavirus. When the virus was raging in Europe, it was a smart move for Biden to tell us all how a travel ban to Europe wasn't going to work. That sure made it seem that social distancing was important. What better social distancing than the Atlantic Ocean, huh. It sure kept the Indigenous people of the Americas safe from European diseases like smallpox for thousands of years. Not for Biden and all the Dem supporters though. They said it was dumb. Funny how the Europeans don't think it's dumb now. See how easy the blame game is? I can keep it up if you want. I have LOTS more. Like how it would take the total populations of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway to equal the population of the United States YET....they have a total of 164,166 deaths.....23,000 MORE than the US. SAME POPULATIONS.....23,000 MORE DEATHS THAN THE US. Wow....numbers can sure be used to make a case can't they? Just about for anything you want to prove.
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  1194. That's why every Republican vote has to be done, in person, at the polling stations. That way, if it is a landslide, there will be no chance that the mail in ballots can total more than the total of all registered voters. They can try to cheat but 2 + 2 does NOT equal 5, no matter how hard they try.
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  1195.  @jackarnold6755  It's Orwellian. War is peace. Chaos is order. Incoherence is logic. That's why you can't talk to these individuals. Nothing makes sense.
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  1196.    You do realise that not everyone has that innate ability to get an education that the rest of us take for granted. They have perception difficulties that makes it almost impossible to learn to read and write. My brother in law is one of those people. Yet, he built his own roofing business. Then the government got involved. They kept setting up requirements that he was forced to take part in. He was fortunate. By the time, they started on him, he was getting older and he decided to retire early. There will be no more young people, with his learning afflictions, that will follow in his footsteps and still succeed, in spite of these problems....and it's people, like you, who are taking it away from them. They're shoeing horses. Let them feel the pride and earn their dignity without the government leaning over their shoulders, monitoring EVERY DAMN THING they do. Just a little common sense would be enough. I'm sure they'll all thank you, every month, when they get their welfare cheque.
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  1197.  @AskAW  What does it matter? Learn for the sake of learning. If your mind's ability to grasp new concepts improves, it will eventually be reflected in how you live your life. It's the journey NOT the destination that counts.
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  1198.  @EricaL2024  Like most of us, your uncle isn't as good a man as he thinks he is. That's true for most people. Unfortunately, most people won't even acknowledge that this might possibly be true.
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  1199. @Nicholas What????? You're really that dumb. He could sit back and not worry a bit about oil prices but he's not doing that. He openly felt bad for those who can't afford it. Just because you can walk, does that mean that you don't feel bad for those who are paraplegic? Are you spitting in the face of all those confined to a wheelchair??? Does going for a jog make you arrogant and are you bragging when you tell someone that you like to go for a run??? What kind of weirdo logic is that???
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  1200. My parents were Dutch immigrants and we lived in a community that had a large Dutch immigrant population. They live their life exactly as you described. My dad will be 90, this month, and you could have been describing him. He still lives on the family farm, alone, although my brothers live close by. Even though he has a difficult time walking, he still does everything for himself. It's a mindset that facilitates success and the Germans and the Dutch seem to have made it a part of their cultural identity. It explains why the locals jokingly refer to us as the "Dutch Mafia".
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  1201.  @RaPr-c3z  You spend too much time staring with envy at the pile of money that others have. There's a reason why envy is one of the deadly sins. It'll tear you apart. Look at your own pile, figure out how to best grow it. Work hard, make wise decisions with the money you make and be grateful for what you do have and you'll do fine. You'll never be financially better off by obsessing about what others have. And one more thing. Don't expect the government to help to better your life. All they'll do is add more and more taxes and regulate you into a standstill. Like I said....poverty is the default. Humanity started poor. Our ancestors were all poor, living day to day on what they could hunt or gather. Be grateful that's not how we have to live today.
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  1202. He's seen the threat to his bank account. That can be quite "illuminating".
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  1203.  @Charles-d8i8z  That doesn't prove that God exists. It proves that outer space exists and there are things so small that we can't see them with the naked eye. You're describing a feeling of awe when you observe these things. That's not science and that feeling doesn't necessarily apply to everyone. Feelings aren't science, either. Also, belief in God is about faith. Faith operates outside of science.
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  1204.  @jeffsmeff5792  Permission??? Then why did the Capitol Police tell them to leave, that they had no business being there? There are protocols and the building security staff told them to leave which implies those protocols were not followed. The Jan 6th rioters should not have been in the building and neither should they. The rules apply to everyone, MAGA supporters and Democrat supporters. If they were kicked out, they had no permission....it's rather simple.
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  1205.  @DgardsGaming  That's the joke. She's so caught up in the mask hysteria that she'll put it on in spite of the fact that it's unsanitary.
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  1206.  @karatedog  You're "positive" that the generators are cleaner than on moving vehicles. Why is that? And why aren't they putting those clean filters on moving filters, anyway? Also, if diesel tractors and trucks have greater power and are more efficient than their electric counterparts, wouldn't that eliminate the environmental advantage of those diesel generators? While the electric truck or tractor is out of commission for hours every day recharging their batteries, the diesel counterpart is still out there working. No matter how you add it up, food prices will go up and the poor are the ones who will suffer the most. Sri Lanka went green a couple of years ago and crop yields went down by over 35% and inflation went from 5% per year to 135% the following year. The poor were the ones that went hungry. The rich never suffer or have to deal with the results of their policies. When farmers are no longer able to keep the groceries on our store shelves, the government can promise the poor all the financial help they want and it won't help a single person. You can't eat dollar bills and you can't buy groceries that don't exist.
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  1207.  @sexylove60405  I even love those who come here illegally but....GO HOME. They're allowed to visit but this isn't where they live.
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  1208.  @bpavilion8994  A picture. One picture doesn't always tell you everything that you need to know. To conclude that she expressly went there to run people over, in a short video and a picture, isn't exactly great forensic science. You're concluding intent on very little evidence. In fact, you're asserting intent based on an outcome. Any judge that would conclude guilt, on what little evidence that you've given, should be disbarred. There hasn't even a solid defence given, especially since you still haven't answered why these "protester" surrounded her car and impeded her right of way on a public street. The Constitution does not allow for unlawful detainment. The protesters had no lawful reason to detain her or to even stop her, especially in the forcible manner in which they were doing it. Being a protester does NOT give you the right to stop or harass anyone...EVER. Also, would you say the same thing if it was the Proud Boys who were surrounding her car, impeding her progress and threatening violence?
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  1209.  @OpenMawProductions  I think that she should sit down and think, deeply on what just happened and how it was possible that she could have misread the situation so badly. Then, she should talk to David Webb again and listen to what he is actually saying to understand why he disregards the effects of racism of his career to the extent that he does. This would do more than any apology she could ever give. Apologies are actions or rote, done out of expectation of ritual action without any real personal demands of the action of self introspection. An honest attempt to assess and understand herself is the true apology.
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  1210. I wanted to scream at my computer when Vaush said that...."BECAUSE TRUMP IS NOT AN AUTHORITARIAN FASCIST, YOU KNOB!!!!!" The lack of self awareness, on his part, is astounding.
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  1211. He's talking about the intellectuals, NOT the neo-cons. The intellectuals have supported Communism to this day. Sowell mentioned Duranty and Bernard Shaw. They were the ones that downplayed Holodomor (if you don't know what that is....look it up) and that was almost 100 years ago when the US was isolationist. Marxist thinking is what's causing the big divide in the US right now. They've changed one major factor. Instead of making it about the class struggle, like the early communists did, they made it about identity groups, especially race and gender. They're cultivating a divide so they can instigate a revolution, just like they did using class in the early days of Marxism. It's the same playbook but using different players and it's being led by the intellectuals.
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  1212.  @macdonaldmaurice  It's a combination of luck, hard work and strong decision making skills. If you depend of luck, you've bought a lottery ticket and are hoping for the big win. I can attest to 40 years of lottery ticket failure but have done quite well with hard work and making sound decisions. When you believe it's all luck, you've already set your life's course to a dead end.
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  1213.  @sgashner397  When I was six, I had an infection and had to be circumcised. I took one look at it, after I got home from the surgery, gave a little laugh, shrugged my shoulders and watched some cartoons. It's absolutely nothing. The infection hurt worse than the surgery.
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  1214. @Muneeb Iqbal That cost is for the prototype. Prototypes are always way more expensive than those built in an production environment. Also, these machines would ADD to what trees are doing, not take away from it. Trees have other uses than just as nature's filters. They have economic and environment value as well so it's still in our best interests to support tree growth. These machines take up very little space in comparison to the 40 million trees needed for just one of them. It would seem the most prudent plan would be to use BOTH of these methods in cutting carbon in the atmosphere. Eventually we're going to exhaust raw carbon fuels and we're going to need the cheap carbon fuels of today to help finance the new energies needed in the future.
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  1215. If Goldberg was such a concerned citizen, he should have contacted that group immediately, with fears that others, without clearance were also contacted so that this chat couldn't go on with insecure and dangerous people listening in. But he didn't. He used it to further his own career and national security be damned until he got out of it what he wanted and needed to further is own career goals and political agenda. He wanted the worst possible outcome of this breach to maximise his own career. That's my conclusion and I don't think that I'm too far off the mark. He shouldn't have waited no longer than 10 minutes to report the problem to the proper authorities. After the breach was sealed, THEN he could have publishes his story.
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  1216.  @1594simonsays  It's not normalised??? I live in a small town of 15,000. Even our crosswalks are painted in the pride rainbow. The flag hangs from city hall and on top our local "mountain". There's a whole month commemorating the "gay" life as if being gay is an accomplishment or something. There's isn't even a month for those who lost their lives fighting the Nazis. Try using the wrong pronouns. You could get cancelled, lose your job and maybe be paid a visit by the police. It's become the domain of the self obsessed and I have gay friends that agree with me. There are gay and trans pundits, Dave Rubin, Douglas Murray, Buck Angel and Blaire White who've expressed their distaste for the spectacle that it has become. Grown men walking and simulating sex acts in front of small children.....that's not something anyone should want normalised but say that on the wrong platform and you'll be kicked off, like Laurence Fox did.
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  1217.  @martyconroy3786  They're the same thing. Communism just sounds more ominous. Both are roads to hell.
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  1218.  @kippy657  Except for the guy that threw a fire bomb in Washington state or the one who hit the old man in the head with a bike lock. Maybe beating up Andy Ngo is a nuisance or putting an innocent Hispanic marine in the hospital, with head injuries is inconvenient to him, his family and the Marine Corps. In fact, the shooter in Dayton Ohio has demonstrated Antifa sympathies on his social media....but, you know....other than that, they're not a problem. Also, what those Antifa thugs did to that elderly couple is known as harassment. Intimidation through bullying. I'm not sure what I'd call the act of screaming into the face of another person in order to intimidate them, but inconvenient isn't a word that comes to mind.
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  1219.  @genegarren833  What does transitioning children have to do with climate change? Stay on topic.
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  1220.  @nikwweld5219  Trump. Trump. Trump. trump. trump. trump. TRUMP!!!!!! And Trump and more Trump and TRUMP!!!!!! Have you been watching the news??? TRUMP IS NO LONGER THE PRESIDENT!!!!! Joe Biden is. If there's an issue concerning Federal taxes TODAY, you address the guy that's president TODAY. People like you are obsessed. You're living in the past, man. Time to update.
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  1221. This is so reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the sixties and seventies. That's what it was like in the universities in China by the staff and the students. Incredibly brutal. The book "The Cowshed Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution" by Ji Xianlin, a professor at Beijing University gives a chilling description of what it was like. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Hard to believe that this is happening in America.
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  1222.  @MildlyAmuzing  I wonder if the water was bottled by Fanta.
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  1223.  @Mordalo  Of course not. You can't. You know that you're full of so of course you don't want to play. I wouldn't if I were you either.
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  1224.  @snarkloaf  Now, I'll ask you. Please show me where in the transcript of that phone call where Trump did anything illegal. I'd really like to see it.
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  1225.  @jesusenki8509  I'm not American. Those that I know, that have gone to San Francisco, aren't American, either. They're either lying to me and people are staging these videos of tent's on the sidewalk, discarded syringes, people defecating on the street in broad daylight, garbage everywhere and businesses in trouble due to vagrants sleeping in their doorways....OR.....there's truth to it. I'm going with the evidence.
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  1226.  @Qilue  Great stuff and more like it. When I get into internet arguments, almost always with the left, I like to post all kinds of links to validate my claims. They usually disappear when they see the links. I'd rather the acknowledge them but it rattles their cognitive bias.
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  1227.  @darkopz  We all have biases but you still have to learn about the ideas of those who you may disagree with. I like to dig deep and it's why I've read everything from "Mein Kampf" to the Bible and Quran, Rousseau, Billy Graham, the post modernists and more. If you don't, you end up like Cenk, misrepresenting the ideas of others and formulating arguments and ideas based on those falsehoods. I'm baffled how anyone could even listen to someone like Cenk, no matter what their belief system is, who show NO knowledge of what they're talking about, whatsoever. When you argue out of emotion, you'll invariably neglect facts. They'll only get in your way.
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  1228. "I've been involved in academia, and I've been involved in theatre, and know the character of academics, professors and actors." An appeal to authority, which is a common logical fallacy. Your professional status or world experience does NOT guarantee that your position gives merit to an argument made. You then, quite effectively, make the argument that the appeal to authority is fallible when referring to Sowell's work. It would appear that you feel that your credibility is validated through your credentials while Sowell's is not and you do this in quite adeptly. So what is it? Are credentials of value, when giving an opinion, or not?? Then out come the accusations....without any evidence, mind you. You basically called him a puppet and a slave and you have nothing to back up that claim. At least not any points to anyone who would use critical thinking as their guide. You've not touched on the topic of the video or any other thing that Sowell might have said in the past. It's all a smear on his character, his credentials and his intelligence. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people". Since you haven't discussed ONE idea or event, it leaves us with one conclusion.
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  1229. I'm 72 and I've always thought of myself as a liberal. I'll look into any and every idea and claim, research it deeply, to see if that idea has any merit, and adopt or reject it based on the evidence that I turn up. That, to me, is a liberal. Now, people think that a liberal is someone who accepts and supports every new proposal that's put on the table, depending on who's putting it there. That's not a liberal. That's an acolyte, a disciple to those who they feel are their betters. I get what you mean about realising how foolish we were when we were young. I've had some weird ideas. Fortunately, I was liberal enough to reconsider those ideas and not cling to them like some mindless barnacle. It sounds to me as if you're like that as well.
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  1230.  @JRLB38  If your school is failing the students, you should have the freedom to take them to another school. If that school is a private entity and it's failing the students, move on again. However, why would you take your kids out of a public school to place them into a private school that doing no better? You wouldn't. You'd enroll your kids in a school that has positive, demonstrable results as an educational facility. THAT'S what any parent would to. Throwing your hands up in the air and saying "Most private schools aren't any better though" is about as defeatist as it gets. It's the JOB of the parent to prepare their kids for the future and to do it to the best of their ability. Defeat should not be an option.
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  1231.  @Carly-zl8do  Why would Trump do that? It doesn't even make sense. It'd never pass Congress and anyone who'd vote in favour of doing that would be committing political suicide. I'm calling your comment "fear mongering". Actually, it makes your side look bad.
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  1232.  @marshallmatters1526  That's why the Democrats want mail-in voting. If Trump wins, they'll cry mail fraud. If he loses, it proves that mail-in voting works. That's why they like to keep the poll numbers for Trump low. Bad polls but a ballot box win is evidence of fraud. The best thing Trump voters can do is to vote in person. Not ONE of them should use the mail. Live voting has worked for 200 years. It'll work this year as well.
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  1233. I'm fully vaccinated, have been since April, and I'm just fine. So my anecdotal story negates yours. However, if you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice. I'll back you up fully. Also, I'm far from a leftist. I've never openly supported Trump but I'm called one all the time because of my views. I'm also going to tell you that the Biden presidency is, BY FAR, the worst presidency of my lifetime and I'm 70 years old.
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  1234.  @jmn1209  How would you know that? There's never been a man with menstrual cramps. You have no control group to study. Also, it's not just men who think that they're the opposite sex. Teenage girls are claiming transgender status more than teenage boys do these days. This isn't a contest. It's plain science. Nothing else.
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  1235.  Captain Danger  The name Black Lives Matter is a good example of using a form of Orwellian doublespeak. It's a trap to find guilt in anyone they might turn against. Once caught in it, you'll find it near impossible to get out.
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  1236. Don't be fooled. This is more than just about racism. These are Marxists that are using identity politics to divide and conquer. If they ever achieve power, they'll turn on the blacks as well. Marxism is an even more evil brand of Socialism than Nazism. No one is safe, not even their most ardent followers, when their leaders start to consolidate power.
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  1237.  @A_Jeff  No one can force me to like what I don't like. If you make a good product, I'll buy it. Watching this woke stuff is like watching a religious movie. They're preaching at us. We don't appreciate the moral superiority, whether religious or woke. We go to a movie to be entertained, not to be told what to believe, say or think. You really don't understand this phenomenon at all. It only works with the truly pious. The rest of us don't care or want to lectured at. Also, YOU are the one that made it about us. You told us that we like things because we're told to. You made it about me, about all of us. Are you really that lacking in self awareness?
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  1238.  @NazisAreHomos  Trump might well be a turd but it isn't him that's holding up relief money because the Democrats want racial equity in corporate board rooms, money for PBS, tax cuts for solar panels, money for the Kennedy Centre....need I go on? They want this or NO relief money. It's like going to the hospital with a stroke and the doctor refusing to help you unless you agree to sell your SUV to improve your carbon footprint. Right now, I prefer the turd over this Democrat nonsense. This isn't about supporting Trump. This is about Democrats using this crisis as a vehicle to force the country into their own vision of America. We have to defeat the coronavirus crisis, not put solar panels on your house.
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  1239.  @tiko722  I'm Canadian and I hardly ever watch CBC news. They have a way of annoying me.
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  1240.  @conspiracyoccultilluminati6512  Why do you guys ALL sound the same?
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  1241. AUmapathi1 Columbus didn't invade anyone. He went west to establish trade routes with India and China because the lucrative silk and spice routes were cut off by the Turks and Muslim nations. To cut out these middle men, the Portuguese went around Africa and Columbus thought that there was even a better way if he went west. He didn't know that there were 2 continents in the way. No one did. After that, history went as it had always went for thousands of years before that. People fought each other. They fought over land, trade, ideas and to settle grievances. They also built things, made new discoveries in science and technology. Columbus changed the path of history. He didn't advocate invading the Americas because he didn't even know it was there. He made that most innovative of changes in history by sailing west and then returning and telling people that it was possible to get to Asia by sailing west. You're assuming that the entire history of Columbus and the world since then is only about war. It's about so much more than that. War is only one aspect of it and it act as if it all there was an nothing else only serves to advance the rancour that has always preceded human strife and suffering. It lays BLAME, the most horrific motivation that humanity has ever come up with. BLAME is what motivated the Nazis to kill the Jews and the Bolsheviks to kill the Bourgeoisie. Columbus is celebrated for his innovation and changing the history of humanity. War is only one part of it.
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  1242.  @EQ2snorkle  First I was warned and told that I'd violated the community standards guidelines. However, they never told me what it was that I said even though I e-mailed them and asked. So, I waited a few days and I repeated what I thought my transgression was. Half an hour later, I received notice that I wasn't allowed to comment for 24 hours but they STILL didn't tell me what I said wrong, even though I asked again. I'm pretty sure what it is though after that 2nd test. By not telling me where I went wrong, it's almost as if they're trying to trap me into saying something similar again so they can ban me from speaking for good. I never called anyone a name or suggested harm on anyone. Everything I said was true but apparently truth isn't important. I'm of the wrong ideology.
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  1243. He wasn't just a former Socialist. He was a Socialist until the day he died. National Socialism was just the way he expressed it.
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  1244.  @gevansmd1  "The accident of birth should not determine a child's future". That's correct. Being born Asian shouldn't determine that person's future. We finally agree on something.
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  1245.  @craftywolf666  Trump is NOT the president. Remember? The fairest and most transparent election in history? Biden is now the president and he's the one, OUR president, that is showing corruption. Nixon was proven to be corrupt, too but what does that have to do with the Biden family? Do you actually support corruption in the White House, to the point that you won't even talk about it or want to know? That's pretty corrupt in its own way.
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  1246.  @larrydanadavid2435  "Excellent weather, great culture and delicious food everywhere." I have a feeling that you make great money. High taxes, high energy costs, high housing costs, homelessness and the crime that goes with it, all these things don't affect you because you have the money so these won't affect you. All you see is "Excellent weather, great culture and delicious food everywhere." You don't care about the little people who are struggling to keep up. Either that, or you're a troll.
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  1247. I've been married. I know what it's like to pay for female companionship.
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  1248.  @Fredman5551  Who cares if it was "a few" years ago or 20 years ago? It doesn't change the meaning of what was said. If you want to end racism, quit talking about it. Is it a valid statement or not?
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  1249.  @jonathanburton3866  What the Hell?????? The Mueller Report found NOTHING. The Mueller hearings confirmed it. Adam Schiff NEVER told us what his "incontrovertible" proof was and now the Durham Report is telling us that the Clinton team PAID to spy on Trump and to link him to Russian collusion. You're like the kid who's stuck in grade 1, year after year. You never advanced to the point of knowing the rest of the information.
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  1250. Andy is a great journalist but has to be one of the most boring speakers that I've ever listened to. His message is so important and I wish that his public engagements were as good as his writing. However, I agree. Tim should get him on his show.
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  1251.  @johnnygeorgopoulos4072  I would do the same. I was hired to do a job. If I wanted to be told what a horrible person I am, I'd call the ex-wife or go to church.
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  1252. I have a feeling that the reporter didn't think that there was a way out for DeSantis. I'm sure he thought that DeSantis would embarrass himself and was quite surprised when DeSantis had a good answer for him.
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  1253.  @Torgonius  They'll try but everyone knows about the stimulus bill and who blocked it. MSM can spin all they want. They've just lost more supporters to Trump.
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  1254.  @erenjaeger1738  The Spanish were horrified at the way the Aztec solution for the small pox epidemic. The Aztecs slaughtered tens of thousands of their own people, if you count all natives as one people and I don't, in sacrifice to their gods. The Spanish found the tradition of the Flower Wars to be rather horrific as well. Don't assume that I've never read about those times. I've been a voracious reader for over 60 years. You gather a lot of information over that span of time. It's how I realised that humans can be extremely barbaric and that barbarism has nothing to do with ethnic identity. We all come from the same stock, like it or not.
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  1255.  @COD4JESSE  Boy.....did you ever miss the target. It's almost as if you're facing the wrong direction. Where did he say that drugs were good? I didn't read that. He did say that he was an addict and that he tries to longer worry about the past, the past being something he has no control over. This is significant because that worry was causing him self-harm....his use of and addiction to drugs. Drugs aren't good or bad per se. It's how you use them and he acknowledged that he was using them in a destructive way. That's what he was saying. I'm sure that he looks at rape and murder using a variation of that same perspective but I'm not going to assume how he looks at it. At least, not in the way you make assumptions.
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  1256.  Masson H  I'm sorry. I didn't know that I was responding to a bot. How many times have you posted this fake comment, today? You'd better start deleting them because the Dow rallied today, the highest rise in one day in it's history.
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  1257.  @bobdavidson9770  I know you didn't say anything about Rudy. I DID. YOU said " If voting counted, we wouldn't be allowed." I'm saying that people voted for Rudy and he performed a miracle with the crime situation in NY. It was my of saying that voting DOES make a difference. It would appear that you think that it's immature for one to challenge or disagree with anything that you might say. A rather "mature" way to self validate. LOL. I hope to get a lot older but at 70 years old, that may not happen.
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  1258. Huh???? They're talking about their school district. I think that you're commenting on the wrong video.
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  1259.  @Rosegoldshawwty  Except for the known fact that the oceans were over 300 feet lower just before the ice ages ended. Could you imagine if the oceans raised a mere 25 feet in a couple of years, today. I doubt that it would be a slow creeping rise. A lot of the movement would be the results of hurricanes and the huge storm surges that come with them and levels would not go back down to pre-surge levels.
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  1260.  @obviousmaths4368  I notice that you never mentioned the bathroom once even though she did include bathroom in her comment. All you kept saying was that it was the locker room, a space that is monitored by coaches and teachers. Who is monitoring all the bathrooms? Also, the girls at UPenn, Riley Gaines has described it along with team mates, Lia Thomas entered the girls locker room, without any of the females being informed ahead of time. Riley turned around and there was a fully grown man standing there looking at her while she was fully unclothed. That WAS scary for her and other girls. I still have to wonder why you didn't include bathrooms in your response. Why would you do that? Were you worried that somehow this was bad for your position on this issue? What is the real problem?
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  1261. @CANADIAN REBEL Even if you do that, there's no infrastructure, no strong chain of command, no weapons and no money. They control the banks, the communications, transportation, the industrial complex, everything needed for any kind of conflict. At best, they'll be a guerilla militia, forever in hiding and being betrayed by a Canadian public who don't want a civil war and who just want to live in peace. The protesters are in no position to even consider that kind of confrontation. Which leaves us with one option. We have to be smarter than them. We have to expose the foolishness of their propaganda. We have to show their thirst for power for what it is. We have to force them to be the fascists that they are because, deep down, most Canadians don't trust them. We have to show the Canadian people that their mistrust is valid. They can easily defeat that small crowd in Ottawa if that crowd wants to fight. They can't defeat the majority of Canadians, who may not want to fight, but will if the government oversteps their bounds. That's how we defeat them. We expose them. It's the only way.
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  1262.  @Harassed247  Huh??? Someone said that we should imagine a fossil free world. So I did. I called up the Middle Ages. I did call it a "Utopia" but I didn't think that I had to explain the sarcasm. The Middle Ages sucked...for everyone, even the richest of the rich.
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  1263.  @lunaflamed  He has references, for every claim that he makes, that backs up those allegations. Just saying that it's not true and a lie, isn't proof of anything. Look up those references, find information that counters it and THEN let us know what it is that you found. "Liar, liar, pants on fire" isn't much of an academic endeavour and it sure isn't anywhere CLOSE to proving your case.
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  1264. A woman, alone in a park, being accosted by a strange man, who wants to give her dog a "treat"....doesn't that sound like the opening scene to a horror or police thriller movie? Apparently not to some people.
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  1265. n52nimbus I cannot imagine any circumstance where I would talk to a woman the way that puke did. You can babble all you want about "cut and paste" but this guy said the horrible things that he did. There is absolutely no way that you can make an argument that will excuse that guy. None. He's a POS and if you can't see that, you're no better than he is.
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  1266. How any Canadian could watch Trudeau for 10 minutes on Question Period and still vote for him is astounding. The guy doesn't answer questions. He just repeats formulated statements. He makes me want to throw my remote at the TV the minute he opens his mouth.
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  1267.  @TheJawesomeOne  I've seen roadside Trump rallies and when cars honk, they cheer and wave back. That's the optimism of the conservative spirit. When Democrat supporters hear cars honk, they cower in fear and assume that they're being attacked. That's the pessimism of the left. I don't know about others, but I prefer to live without fear.
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  1268. It's because people are pre-disposed to believe in something. We built a great nation because of our belief in God, hard work and loyalty. We gave it up because we thought that God didn't exist and that's a viable belief. However, we replaced it with "insane progressivism" because we all need some kind of belief system. It's part of the human condition. Like you said, it happened because we've replaced our faith and religion with a new faith and religion and now we're seeing the consequences of the new "religion".
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  1269.  @davethompson5438  Good thing you weren't the principal in that school. You'd be paying out 25 grand. A sure sign of the left wing intellectual. Generic insults.
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  1270.  @crabbypapa3862  However, the ONLY reason she hit the first lady because she was angry at a woman with brown skin who was openly conservative. She didn't go after the other conservatives. She specifically targeted the woman who had the dark skin. By left wing logic, it's a hate crime and I think that's what she should be charged with. It would be the perfect way to get her to look deep inside her heart to understand why her thinking is so badly twisted.
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  1271.  @topof9th1  If you're going to be a troll, at least make some sense.
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  1272.  @maulressurected4405  Some of the more fanatical progressives, on the left, want to see the country destroyed. They're quite open about it. They vote Democrat because they see that party as the one that would be the more likely to bring destruction for America. The US needs a third Party and the Democrats have to go the way of the Whigs.
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  1273. I'm not really angry. I could care less what that harpy thinks or says. However, if asked what I think, I will say that her behaviour is quite disgusting. She wants the world to look at her but just being a part of the Royal Family and doing the duties that come with it, possibly fading into anonymity, wasn't going to do that. She decided to become controversial, hoping that this would bring her into the spotlight....and it worked, unfortunately. She's using Prince Harry for her own narcissistic purposes.
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  1274. It's an alien scouting ship. The mother ship is actually Pluto. It's why it's no longer a planet. It's the Death Star. They'll tell us the truth when we're mature enough to handle it.
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  1275.  @skippersthepenguin3591  That's why Trump is here talking to the black leaders. That's why he started the economic opportunity zones, initiated prison reform and the first step program. That's why he supported traditional black colleges, school choice for blacks, research for sickle cell anemia, brought the best employment numbers for American minorities in history. Trump is trying to build communities. Progressives are destroying them. If they truly wanted to help the black communities, why wouldn't they help to do those things? NO...it's better to yell and chant slogans, point fingers and accuse everyone of racism then it is to one day's work building something constructive.
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  1276.  @Max_Mustermann  NO.......It was a riot. They are being charged for and SHOULD be. That has NOTHING to do with assaulting that guy and destroying his sign. Doing the wrong thing and breaking the law shouldn't be politicised. If they break that law, they should face the consequences. Quit making it about your side against the other side. WRONG IS WRONG.
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  1277.    What's wrong with you? He's not commanding anyone to go back to work. He's saying that the economy has to start up again. The United Nations has already warned that if the economy doesn't pick up soon, 30,000,000 people will be facing a famine of Biblical proportions. Those are people from 3rd World countries. The longer these lockdowns last, the greater the number of those facing starvation in the 3rd world. This is a serious situation and has bigger implications than someone's stock portfolio. You have no real understanding of how important a strong economy is and that it's the poor that are affected the most......NOT the rich. Rich people may not be as rich as before. Poor people die of starvation or the children that don't die are affected by the ravages of severe malnutrition for the rest of their lives.
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  1278.  @robbrown9337  Maybe, but I know one thing. This transgenders in girls sports issue would not have been a thing 40 years ago. We would have laughed at the suggestion of it. Johnny Carson would have had a field day making fun of it. Now, late night talk show hosts are afraid to even talk about it in a negative light.
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  1279. That's where the difference between irrational and rational fear exhibits itself. Rational fear is conducive to adaptation. Irrational fear is crippling and induces stagnation.
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  1280.  @Kefoo_  How is he exalting Vladimir or Kim. He's meeting with the heads of State of other nations. He's the head of State of the United States. That's his job. I suppose you'd prefer to be in the situation with North Korea that we were in 5 years ago. Nuclear escalation. Missile tests that were setting off air raid alarms in Japan. That was great fun, wasn't it? The people in South Korea and Japan sure must miss those days.
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  1281.  Sophie Blessed  I just love how you're squirming out of having a real discussion on how he's hurting people and how he's a cult leader. I figured as much. You've never read his books or watched his lectures and videos. You're just repeating talking points that you've heard others say about him. I deal with people like you, on the internet, all the time. Great with claims and insults but lousy when it comes to anything substantial.
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  1282.  @Remixthisgaming  How about we don't eliminate anyone? Any person even considering, such a thing, has to be evil right down to their very core.
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  1283.  @Michael-yl2iq  If they win the election, you'll really see the destruction. They'll push the US into becoming the updated Venezuela.
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  1284.  @CalebTrask  Try it yourself. Go to your local theatre and when the movie starts playing, pull out a bullhorn and start screaming into it about the right to free speech and refuse to stop. Just keep repeating it. Let's see what happens.
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  1285.  @DSpurlin215  How can anyone deny your "blackness". It's insane. It's like denying my "blue eyedness" or my "big feetness". It's a visual description of who you are. The entire accepted view of racism, as it stands today, infuriates me. It takes away from the person that you are and turns you into a stereotypical vision of what they think you should be. Good on you for standing up for yourself.
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  1286.  @arguescreamholler  Doom and gloom.
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  1287.  @haifutter4166  Are we going to have trains to every house? You sound as if you've never been to the country in the US or Canada. It's MILES into town and our stores are in areas that are designated for retail. We have to get there to buy our food and then get that food home, where we live and eat. We can't take the train. We can't take the train to work, either. If you lived here, you'd know that. Get out of your bubble and face reality.
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  1288. @@ronjones8696 I suppose North Korea is a good example. You can't destroy something that's already destroyed.
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  1289.  @venusdistorted5170  That's true but this guy put "Eagle Man's" reaction on video so we could all see what a loser he is. Kudos to that guy as well as sentry mode.
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  1290.  @d.h.jefferies2191  When the Keystone Pipeline was cancelled so was oil production in Canada. Now...repeat after me. Lower supplies means increased prices. GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!!!! That means when oil production is cancelled, available oil supplies, worldwide, goes down. Lower supplies means increased prices. Basic economics which you learn on DAY ONE in economics school. Also, getting an oil lease doesn't always parlay into drilling. In fact it very seldom does. One of the main issues are regulatory bodies which are reluctant to give out permits and how state and federal governments don't want pipelines to transport oil. Another thing, why would these oil companies not cash in on near record oil prices. If I owned a drilling company, I'd be working 24/7 to make as much money as possible. These windfalls don't happen very often. Yet, it isn't happening. What would be the reason for that? Neither you or I can answer it but it's at the heart of the issue. It defies all the oil company greed logic. We need a more in depth look than a babble about whose the best president. We have to talk to those oil drilling company executives and find out WHY they're not drilling when they took out leases.
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  1291.  @auraglasswerks4900  You have no idea how economics work. They've spent decades forcing laws restricting the building of new homes. That means that the homes that exist becomes more and more valued as populations rise. More people trying to get into fewer available homes. That will result in a situation in which those with the most money will be able to offer more money to get those diminishing homes until the rents become so high that they're completely out of line with costs in the rest of the country. It's the demand that is driving the housing costs up not the cost of building a house. Are building supplies that much more expensive in San Francisco than Des Moines? If that's true, buy building supplies in Des Moines and take them to San Fran. but that's not the problem at all. It's the snobbery of those with money who don't want to see change and who like to feel good about charities and initiatives that band-aid solutions but don't solve the problem. They don't want to see the neighbourhoods change, yet their lack of foresight is doing just that and it's not pretty. This isn't a problem that will be readily fixed. Housing costs will only come down when the available homes closely align with the number of those seeking them. That is a conundrum that isn't easily fixed.
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  1292.  Rip Cord  It's the Trudeau strain of coof. Very deadly to politicians.
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  1293.  @randycooper3940  I can't do any worse than the last person named to the Supreme Court. She doesn't even know what a woman is.
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  1294.  @shaniajackson7864  I never said that there was anything wrong with authority. What I said is that Conservatives value individual freedom, which includes freedom of thought, speech, belief and the press. This means that if want to be a Mormon, good for you. That's your choice. You're given your freedom as a birthright, even as a gift from God. That freedom is yours unless you infringe on the freedom of others. That is where law and order comes in and the authority that necessary that allows everyone that freedom from those who would tell us, forcibly, how to live and believe. That's the authoritarianism that I will not stand for. If Lauren believes that gay marriage should be allowed, that's her right and freedom.....as long as she doesn't force me into believing it against my will. If she does that, she has betrayed her belief in conservatism. She has taken away my right as a sovereign citizen.
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  1295. You've completely distorted what Peterson means by equality of outcome. He's talking about the Marxist principle that does not allow one to have more, as a reward for hard work and ability, than a fellow citizen. He's saying that we don't know where that line is drawn where we will say that you're going to far and your forcing your country to the point that the Soviet Union, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia or present day Venezuela reached. Peterson is Canadian and he comes from a country that has a state funded medical program. He doesn't disapprove of that at all and has never said that. Same as making sure no citizen starves. You're making an argument that was never made by Peterson and is definitely not what he means at all. One equality of outcome that he has spoken against is the idea that people must be categorised in the specific groups and that it is imperative that the demographics of any social entity must reflect, equally, the demographics of the public at large. As an example, a company must have 50 percent female mechanical engineers because that is the demographic of society. He believes, and he's right, that this deflates the value of merit and ability and it would hurt the future success of a business. It takes the right of a business to set its own standards of excellence and may force them to accept, as employees, those who may not have the ability they need or want. Not all people are equal in ability and he thinks that employees should be judged as individuals and NOT on their belonging to a demographic. That is inequality of outcome. Not your claim that he doesn't like feeding the hungry or providing health care for all citizens. That is being so intentionally obtuse that it would almost seem intentional.
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  1296.  @jerryguerra8708  What is WRONG with you? Grow up.
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  1297.  @TheRed02151  Believing in something is not a character trait. If he "used" to believe that Obama was an immigrant and his birth certificate was a fake, that would imply that he doesn't believe it now. Being able to change your mind, without prejudice would say something about his character. If you can't tell the difference then it's going to rather difficult to explain anything to you.
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  1298. They had another problem. The tsetse fly. Europeans found that out the hard way. Even if they'd developed the wheel, the animals needed to pull the carts would have died. Ancient Egyptians had the wheel. They also were controlled by the Nubians, for a time, who took advantage of the wheel, while in Egypt. Nubia is right next to Ethiopia and the rest of Africa. The Arabs had the wheel and they went down along the entire coast of eastern Africa, yet they never used the wheel to make wagons to easier transport out the ivory, gold and slaves of the interior. The tsetse fly killed the draft animals. Just as malaria prevented European slavers from going into the interior to get slaves. Any European living longer than a year, in the interior of sub-Saharan Africa, was an extremely unusual person. It just didn't happen. Africans caught the slaves and brought them to the coast and sold them to the European and Arabic slavers.
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  1299.  @aorg9793  They ignore their children. They continuously fight with their spouse. The cupboards and fridge are devoid of nutritious food. They can't hold down a job. They have no sense of responsibility or don't aspire to live a life with high standards of ethics and integrity. They live narcissistic lives, placing their own wants (not needs) ahead of their family requirements. These are all great indicators of a lack of maturity and the entire family structure suffers because of it. All you need is one parent who isn't interested in living a life of being the best person possible and it drags everyone within the family into uncertainty and chaos. Is that a good enough explanation for you?
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  1300.  @aorg9793  Sometimes the love that a child brings to your life forces you to act in a way that see the child needs must take priority. When that call to sacrifice is answered, you can't help but to act in a more mature manner. If you think it important to be at home with your kids than to out satisfying your personal whims, that's when mature responsibility really starts to shine. That love brings out the best in you. If you're incapable of that love, you'll continue to act in your own self interests, first and that's a narcissistic way to live a life. "Me first" is usually quite damaging to any society.
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  1301. @Wait Whet I'll say it again. Greta, intentionally, went to the US, made a big deal on how she got there, stood up at the United Nations and made broad sweeping allegations and put herself on the world stage. Nicholas Sandman did NO SUCH THING. He went on a school trip and was randomly approached by that native who beat a drum in his face. Ten minutes earlier, Sandman had no idea that he was about to be thrust onto the world stage. It was NOT his choice to be vilified or praised or be put into the position. Greta MADE that choice. She got up, in front of the world, said her piece, made her accusations and then, according to you, no one is to say anything about it, unless it's praise and adulation. You're comparing apples to oranges.
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  1302. His jaw dropped because this guy said it out loud and on video. It's one thing to know someone is guilty. It's another to hear him brag about his guilt. The boasting is what's so jaw dropping.
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  1303. He hasn't changed one bit. His hypocrisy was evident from day one. He said that he had a "level of admiration" for China back in 2013 because they know how to get things done. He's shown that he's quite willing to follow the CCP's authoritarian ways since then.
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  1304.  @daphneanneblake7684  I'm Canadian and I paid into our Canadian Pension Plan, our version of Social Security, for my entire working life, 48 years of it. Now I'm retired and I'm drawing from that plan that I paid into. I've also a personal pension plan, that I've paid into since I was 25 years old, that I draw from. I've paid into both. I should be able to draw from both. Also, for tens of thousands of years, when our ancestors started to age, the young looked after them. It was a respect and a payment for all the years those elders had taken care of them when they were children. That's life. That's what our pension plan is doing. Nothing hypocritical about it. You've just demonstrated exactly the mindset of so many socialists. You don't discuss. You insult.
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  1305.  @Liadara  You could be correct on that. If we tell our kids that they're never wrong, the converse would be that they're always right. How can anyone criticise or make fun of someone who's never wrong? It could be why they become so angry when you contradict them. Only the deeply narcissistic would react that way.
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  1306. No one is saying NOT to defend yourself. That's a lot different than burning, looting, smashing random heads because you're angry. If you want to DO something, talk to your local politicians, tell them that you won't vote for them if they don't strongly object to what's happening. In the case of the nursing homes, it doesn't matter if you live in Nebraska or New York, get the information on it and TELL everyone you know about it. Hand of leaflets in front of political offices, colleges campuses, shopping malls and street corners. You go at it with a shotgun, they'll send the militias with machine guns. Use your brain NOT you muscle because, in the end, it will be the smartest that wins and they're winning right now because they're using their brains through relentless propaganda. Do it better than they do. Acting like a meathead will only be fodder for their propaganda and you will LOSE. WE WILL LOSE.
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  1307.  @recline69  It's not "their" area. It's the area of what happens to be there, including you, if you decide to go to that spot. NY City is also their area. So is Jackson, Mississippi. It's also "our" area as well as the north woods of Minnesota. Animals don't recognise property rights like we do. It's theirs to steal and protect when they can and as they see fit. I have every right to protect myself from them when I encounter them as they have the right to protect myself from me.
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  1308.  @TheDJanssen  I can turn my TV off or change the channel if I feel the material isn't age appropriate. I'm NOT at school when my kids are there. I can't follow them into the library to see what books they might be reading. I have to trust the school officials to ensure that what my kids are exposed to is age appropriate. However, I'm not going to blindly trust them. I want to know what's in the library and what is a part of the school curriculum. Keeping that from me will ultimately create a rift between me and my children, with the school system aligned with the kids against me, expanded to being between kids and school against the parents. Also, the PG gives me an indication that I might not want my kids to see it and that I should look a little closer at the material before I make a decision on whether to allow my kids to watch these programs or not.
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  1309.  @BIZNINK  There could have been all kinds of things in those boxes. They should have inspected the contents and took the articles that were relevant to the warrant. If the warrant expressly said certain boxes, then why were they there for hours? Why were they in Melania's wardrobe? A lot of it doesn't make sense and those questions would be answered with the presence of a special master.
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  1310. Hatred makes people do inexplicable things. They lose all objective logic and reasoning.
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  1311.  @Molari  So....taking a man from Africa, and selling him/her in the slave markets of the Middle East is "nice" slavery. WAY different than taking him/her to the Americas and selling them in the slave markets there. I can't see the preference but maybe I would after being castrated in Egypt or Yemen. Those slaves, that had their hearts ripped out in religious ceremonies in the Aztec Empire, sure had it good. I'm sure that we'd both prefer that over picking sugar cane in Jamaica. You're turning it into a contest, a totally unproductive exercise. The truth is that Mauritania was the last country to abolish slavery, in 1981. An African country. However, they didn't pass a law to prosecute slave owners until 2007. I'm sure it was the "nice" slavery that you're alluding to, though. (big time sarcasm) Most debt slaves involved people from the same group or nationality. Slaves of Roman citizenry could be debt slaves and would have rules in which they could work their way out of slavery. Captured slaves, from northern Europe and Africa were not accorded that privilege. That was common with almost ALL slaves within countries or Kingdoms. Maybe you should check out the timeline of slavery, around the world, on Wikepedia. Even the Hawaiians had a slave culture, known as the ancient Hawaiian kapu. This isn't a contest to see which one is the worst. Be grateful to those who sacrificed to end slavery and quit the blame game. All it does is beget resentment, anger and retribution. It, not only doesn't solve anything, it tears us apart.
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  1312. "You can take the bus. You just have to sit at the back. That's not segregation. I mean we're both on the same bus. What's your problem, Rosa....I mean Mrs. Parks? That's a really nice seat at the back".
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  1313.  @americangraffiti6192  Great comment. I agree fully. If you don't like Trump, don't vote for him. I don't like him either but right now, he beats the heck out of anything that the Democrats have. I'm going to set my personal feelings aside and try to assess what he's doing instead of disliking him and then declaring him guilty of every accusation out of that intense dislike. That's bias and it appears that most people don't realise that.
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  1314.  @kulturfreund6631  So what do you think socialism does. It bankrolls EVERY business, big and small. Every business is owned by the very top....the government. A socialist country is a one owner economy. A monopoly, where the people have no say on what it is they want or can have. They get what the monopoly produces. Also, do you really think that those who are running that big monopoly aren't reaping benefits that aren't available to the average citizen or worker? If you believe that, you must also believe that every Soviet citizen had a home in the city and a dacha in the country....just like the top Party officials had. Right now, the US has a per capita millionaire rate of 1 in 18. That's 1 person in 18 Americans are millionaires. I wonder what the per capita rate is in any of the Socialist countries. I'd bet Cube would be hard pressed to show 18 millionaires in total. Other western capitalist countries have similar numbers. The countries that don't have those numbers are socialist and the corrupt 3rd world countries. Bailing out billionaires? You don't have a clue what you're talking about or have any idea of economics. Do you know who's getting bailed out in Venezuela? Maduro and his cronies and Maduro is the one doing that bailing. Great system that.
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  1315.  @kulturfreund6631  "Key industries are nationalised" That's my biggest concern about socialism. If you want to screw something up, let the government look after it. Their currency is votes. Business currency should be profits.
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  1316. You mean the logic where when you shut down the economy that 3rd world countries will suffer egregious hardships to the point of starvation and that would weaken their ability to fight Covid. In truth, I'd rather die of Covid than starve to death. Worse, children are the most vulnerable to the ravages of hunger. World poverty will soon double due to the economic lockdowns but at least we're safe from hunger.
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  1317.  @kingkee1880  They didn't TELL HER MOTHER. Her mother didn't know that her daughter was being transitioned or bullied. Also, the mother told the school that her daughter had emotional problems when she enrolled her daughter in that school. After that, the school encouraged a mentally challenged girl to transition into a boy, yet weren't there for her when she was bullied and threatened with rape. She couldn't tell her mother and she couldn't take the bullying, which was being done at school, so she ran away. The school did NOTHING to help her when she was bullied. Also, you can't know the extent of the girl's emotional problems or why they existed. You can't always affirm mental health away and pubescent children and teens need acceptance from their peers. Parental support is important but bullying at school happens and kids can be extremely cruel. The school should have been aware of the bullying and threats and should NEVER have tried to transition her behind her parent's backs. Then that jerk who put her in a male juvenile facility where, of course, she was raped. Of ALL the horrific decisions to make.
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  1318.  @sallychristeon2840  Well said, Sally. If you can't use facts to rebut a comment, just call them names. I'm surprised you didn't call him a "racist fool". The "racist" appellation is usually the go-to insult. I suppose that you've got it sitting in waiting. Maybe I'll get to be called the "racist fool".
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  1319.  @zepher664  What a horrific argument. It's emotional blackmail...no different than the clinging spouse who threatens to end it if their partner leaves them. It's abusive.
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  1320.  @sthubbins4038  Joe Biden has already said that the next election will be fraudulent. He's seen the polls. Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff are STILL calling the 2016 election a fraud and that Hillary had the presidency stolen from her. Doesn't sound as if ANYONE respects the elections, does it?
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  1321. It would but it's so difficult. Those kids have such a small window in which to compete. If they refuse to compete, they may close that window for good. We want them to martyr themselves for a just cause. What a horrible position to put them in. They're just kids.
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  1322.  @365Comedy-1  Instead of the generic accusations of lies, lies...LIES!!!, why don't people, like you, centre in on a definitive issue, outline the problems that you see with it, offer solid reasons why you think she's being misleading and draw conclusions from the evidence that you're presented. I never hear that. All I hear is the accusations of a spoiled child. "Liar, liar". No substance whatsoever.
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  1323.  @prav6673  “I’m not a racist I have a black friend” energy "I'm not a racist and I have NO black friends" energy "I'm not a racist and I don't know any black people" energy "I treat people on the content of their character racism" energy. "No matter what I say or do racism" energy "Everyone is a racist" energy You can't win. If they call you a racist, that's enough. It's the none crime that allows them to attack you. It's perfect for Marxists, even better than the "enemy of the people" accusation that so many Marxist dictators have used.
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  1324. My neighbour is a thief. He's been charged multiple times for break and enter, theft and burglary. However, I've seen him buy beer. He even has a job and uses that money to buy groceries and going out on the town. So....BLM could have squandered the money away but legitimately spent some on fundraisers. Being a crook doesn't mean that EVERYTHING that you do is illegal. The converse is also true. Just because you do something that's legitimate, that doesn't mean that you're not a crook. At NO time did Tim say that BLM wasn't doing things that were illegal. He just said that this ONE thing may have been legit. That's it.
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  1325.  El-ahrairah  What? Are you kidding? When was the last time that there were demonstrations at universities where a Democrat or one of their supporters were scheduled to speak? It happens all the time to guys like Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Dennis Prager....... If you want to hear about real craziness, check out the stories of knitting blogs, yes, f....g knitting blogs, and how left wing activists started to cancel and threaten anyone that appeared to be right wing or a Trump supporter at online knitting sites. Psychologist Karlyn Borysenko talks all about it. It's representative of how left wing activists have been behaving.
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  1326.  @veradark5066  I think that most of us don't like rude people. "Do you want a medal" is a nasty thing to say and quite rude. The original comment is a guy recounting an experience in his life. There's no reason for that nasty response. I think that rude people should be mocked although it won't help these internet trolls to change their behaviour. They're just nasty to the core.
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  1327.  @lisahardy9707  Could you, PLEASE, address the topic at hand!!!!! Should we be "aborting" babies after they've been born?
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  1328.  @joethestrat  NO. The carbon isn't the energy. Carbon is a side product of the production of energy through the burning of coal. This process takes this side product, namely carbon, and instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, separates it and allows it to be stored back where it was found.....in the ground. It does use some of the energy produced to separate the carbon to be buried but there's still lots left over to be used by the general public.
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  1329.  @JN-tw7xs  Did you watch the video? These politicians told people to go out in public, even go to a parade. In March, the Mayor of New York told people to go out even though everyone KNEW about the dangers. Are you so blind that you can't see how this could have been the genesis of the crisis in NY? Do you know where else the same thing happened? In Florence Italy. The day after Italy closed its border to China, along with the US, the mayor of Florence said that this was a racist move and told the people of Florence that they should hug Chinese tourists to prove that they had no ill will towards them. That, in spite of the fact that the first 2 cases, in Italy, were tourists from Wuhan. So what did the good people of Florence and the surrounding area do? They hugged Chinese tourists. They had to or they were racists. Can you not see the problem here? And can you not see the parallels between New York and Florence Italy? It was the mayors of those 2 cities that are at fault for the scope of the outbreaks in their respective regions. No one else. Well over half the virus cases, in the US, are in the New York area. Thank you Mayor DeBlasio and your crackerjack staff.
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  1330.  @kpal2946  That's how they operate. They make up some nonsense theory. When the rest of us can't follow their logic, they smile knowingly at one another, sending their silent message that they're ideas are SO brilliant, so sublime, that only the super-intelligent can follow their brilliance. They all get together in buildings called "universities" and tell each other how incredibly gifted they are.....and we agree because that's what universities are for. Smart people and these academics are teaching the smart people. How could that NOT be brilliant?
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  1331.  @dootdoot1867  You "think" that she is more competent. That's the problem. You don't KNOW.
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  1332.  @rmadara  When did Trump commit sedition? I remember him saying to march "peacefully and patriotically" but apparently some of his followers didn't listen to him. Unless, of course, "peaceful" means burning and looting, throwing Molotov cocktails and bricks. We sure have a weird way of defining words these days.
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  1333. So, invading another country is GOOD??? Threatening to use nukes isn't a bad thing to do??? Attacking Chernobyl is to be applauded??? Hundreds of thousands of war refugees is to be shrugged off??? I'm not getting your argument at all. I'm getting the impression that you're more vested into American internal politics than you are the reality of a war that should not be happening.
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  1334.  @VeritasEt  "The ambassador of Israel has more power over the Western world, than Trump could ever dream of posessing" There we have it. A conclusion based on bigotry instead of logic and reality. I should have guessed it.
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  1335. I've met people like Walz. Overly ingratiating, always laughing too loud at things that aren't funny, always trying to impress, never saying at thing that has any depth. Nothing about them that exudes confidence or competence. He's like the weasel, underling in old movies. It shows how much things have changed that he would actually impress anyone.
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  1336. I watched that entire press conference and I agree with you. I understood it the same way that you did. I'm astounded that anyone could read it differently.....unless they're flat out lying.
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  1337. @Agrigator If you watch him closely, when he's speaking, you'll see a hand, behind his back, that's moving his mouth to make him speak. He's a hand puppet.
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  1338.  BigBad BULL  Funny thing is.....Epstein was a friend of Clinton's too. Oh yeah, didn't Clinton settle with Paula Jones in her sexual harassment case against him. You're playing a foolish game that will get you nowhere. It didn't in 2016 and it won't in 2020.
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  1339.  @davids.2703  Who is forever talking about racism? Who supports identity politics? Who supports employment based on skin colour, sexuality, claimed gender and other equity based criteria? It's not Trump. These are programs that separate, segregate and make your identity a defining principle on who you are, whether a job is open to you, takes away educational programs if you don't have the correct racial or identity appearance and may even decide who your political candidate should be, once again based on their preferred identity. Could even tell you where you must live. Must have even representation in all neighbourhoods so if your identity group is under represented in a poor neighbourhood, you may be the one chosen to provide identity equity, whether you like it or not. School choice? Not if you're poor. Trump doesn't think that being poor should take away your choice but Biden, and his supporters, don't want you to have a choice. You go where they tell you and if the school is violent, the teachers are incompetent and your child is bullied and unhappy, too bad for them. That should make the poor feel a division between haves and have-nots, shouldn't it? I have never, in all my seventy years, heard so much about race and other identity group profiling and it's all from the left and hardly any from Trump. His "Garden of Heroes" include people like Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony and Jackie Robinson. Sounds real divisive doesn't it? As divisive as tearing down the statue of Frederick Douglas in Rochester NY. It's Democrats that support tearing down statues so tearing down the statue of a great American statesman like a man, who was once a slave, must be Trump's fault. But why would he want that same man, Frederick Douglas, in his "Garden of Heroes"? Your logic is baffling.
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  1340.  @julieb737  He's advocating for breaking the law. The first step. Robespierre was a Pacifist. Yet, he was the one that initiated the "Reign of Terror" in France, using those peace loving guillotines. He had to do this, of course, to save France from its enemies. This guy has even a bigger cause. He's saving the planet. How much is TOO much law breaking when you have such a noble cause. Yeah....I listened and I heard. History has taught me a lot about people like him.
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  1341.  @lisahardy9707  Have you ever BEEN to a Trump rally? Until you have been....be quiet.
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  1342. That's the plea of the childish at heart. "How come Johnny has a bigger one than me?". We live in an era where people are falling over one another to prove how oppressed they are. The oppressed are the heroes....not the strong, fearless and determined. Just prove your oppression and then insist that you need help. It's time to grow up and grow a backbone. If you don't make enough an hour, work longer hours, cut back on expenses, plan a budget, DON'T DO DRUGS. There are ways to get out of it. The poorest people alive today are richer than more than 95% of the people that lived 150 years ago. They have better healthcare, better and more abundant food, even better shelter. What am I talking about. I have better healthcare, better and more abundant food and shelter and I make below the poverty level on a senior pension and that's it. We're happier complaining than we are working towards solutions. Until we change that, as a society, things will get progressively worse. That's how progressivism works.
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  1343. I had a friend tell me that Trump would institute a dystopian society. What can more dystopian than "Please don't hurt us"? What can be more dystopian than a party that supports this type of intimidation and a national media that refuses to inform us that it is happening? I'm not getting how a person could let their hatred of ONE man allow them to approve of this violence, carnage and intimidation of ordinary people.
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  1344. Anyone could look up athletic records in men's and women's sports. For an example.....men's Olympic 10 kilometre swimming record is 1:48, the women's is 2.03 hours, a 25 minute difference. So, Neil is wrong and I'm not a swimming expert and I've never been to the Olympics. Neil had the opportunity to give facts on this but instead he made something up. I went to the facts. Anyone can do it, even a retired bartender like me.
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  1345.  @stefanyellowcurry1011  Not any more they don't. We're producing 2 million barrels a day LESS than we did in 2020. Then when you consider the amount of oil that would have flowed from Canada through the Keystone Pipeline and you have a Democrat orchestrated hike in prices. I can prove it to you if you'd care to see the evidence. I just want to see if you're interested. If not, I'll know that you're more interested in the narrative than in facts.
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  1346. Random Thoughts So, it's that easy. A cop says he's going to arrest you and all you have to do is say no and you're off on your merry way and he can't do a thing to stop you. That's nice to know. LOL. If you resist arrest, expect to be arrested forcibly. If you physically try to resist arrest, and she did, expect to arrested with enough force to subdue you. That's the law and it makes sense. Do ask the police officers ask and you'll be fine. The more you resist, the harder it will go on you, just like this drunken numbskull.
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  1347. I always said that if you can spot the laziest guy in the shop, you've also found the shop stewart. I'm right more often than not.
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  1348. Envy is a powerful drug. There's a reason why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Ten Commandments. It's one of the most destructive forces in history. Sunny Hostin is one who benefits from "pretty" privilege. It's all she has. I have yet to hear anything brilliant or inspiring come out of her mouth. It's all resentment, anger and a deep hatred of others.
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  1349. @Bobby Fett They were "given" that right?? That means that it can be taken away from them, as well. Those special exemptions aren't written into the Constitution, you know. That means that it's NOT a right. If Disney had those special conditions and they became partisans in the political process, that's implies a conflict of interests....their interests over what may be best for the state of Florida. Of course, if you're for big corporations ruling the land, you'd be upset at them losing special privileges. Long live the corpocracy.
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  1350.  @stuckgrenadepin.225  You're correct. People don't know what treason means just like they don't understand Fascism.
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  1351. "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." - Joe Biden 2007 about Obama
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  1352.  @gen_z_hippichikk  What actions....troll? Prove that you're not a troll by giving us examples of Trump's horrific actions. I'll wait but I'm not holding my breath.
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  1353.  @Independentmusician  I guess you don't believe in redemption. Of course you don't. You're perfect. There's blood on every flag. It's a curse of being human. What's important is that those who flew their flags tried to better themselves as a group. The flag is an homage to the struggle of your fellow citizens. You talk about the slave ships but people, under that flag, fought a devastating war that centered around the issue of getting RID of slavery. Funny how you don't acknowledge that. Slavery was an institution that's been a part of humanity for thousands of years and it took the United States 80 years and one bloody war to end it in their country. Let's overlook that though because......well.....HATE!!!!!!
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  1354.  @viktorkc1154  He supported democratic socialism and at the time there was no real example on how that would actually fare if applied. What history has shown is that if the economy is controlled by the state in a democracy, political candidates will use the revenue garnered by the state run enterprises as a carrot to get votes. Businesses need that revenue to maintain equipment, train employees, invest in research and innovation. Without it, they stagnate and the economy runs into difficulty and eventually the state will be forced into tyranny in their attempt to stop the bleeding or their economy. No true socialist state has avoided it and when reading Orwell, the signs that this is inevitable are all there and that's how Peterson came to his conclusions on Socialism. Orwell showed him, inadvertently, that it couldn't work. Orwell said he was a democratic socialist but his books told a different story. In fact, he was a great supporter of British traditions and those traditions don't reflect socialism, either. Yes....the owner or CEO of a company can move his business elsewhere and dismiss his employees if he chooses. It's his company. It's my choice, as an individual to work for him and I can leave if I want, as well. That's freedom of the economy. If I force him to hire me and tell him that he can never fire me, I'm placing my authority over his. The owner of a business's first priority is to the survival of his business. If he doesn't do that, he's given up his responsibility to the company, his buyers, suppliers and his employees. If I build a better mousetrap, I have every right to profit from that mousetrap. It was my idea, my effort, my money and my risk to go into business. Any employee I hire, doesn't take the risks that I did and he has no right to the things that I purchased with my money in order to produce my product. There is no way that anyone would allow a person to walk in off the street and then claim that property as his own and that the owner is now subservient to him. That's theft and if you'd ever owned a business, you'd see that right away. What entrepreneur, in his right mind, would ever start a business under those conditions. A healthy economy depends on the freedom of it's entrepreneurs to have full autonomy of their own enterprise. If not, I might as well walk into your house right now and take what I want. You've just claimed that ownership is irrelevant and you have no right to ownership of anything. That takes us to the authority of the law. That's NOT authoritarianism. That's a societal agreement that we will abide by certain rules and laws which are limited by a Constitution which specifically lay out the rights of all citizens as individual, autonomous beings. You either stop me from taking your stuff, by force or authority, or we devise a civilised way to handle it through a system of laws and protection. The rule of anarchy will only result in the rule of the guy with the biggest fist, club or gun. It's still authority driven but rather uncivilised.
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  1355. The question is this. Did that Manifesto influence Mangione to the point that he committed murder due to that influence? Also, were these ideas central to this group or was it just a matter of interest? That's not horrible. I read Marx, Engels, Marcuse and Gentile. I read it out of interest in the socialist mindset as intriguing ideas. I find those ideas dangerous and destructive. Others read it because it's something that they fully believe in and admire. If I ever commit a serious crime, it would be quite appropriate to go through my reading material to see if it's consistent with the reason why I committed that crime. Nothing unusual about that.
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  1356.  Tomasino Romano  Tiffany Trump appeared numerous times, campaigning for her father, in 2016 and 2020. She also spoke at the Republican National Convention in both years. If she feels abandoned, she sure has a weird way of showing it.
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  1357.  Tomasino Romano  She's a lawyer. She doesn't need his money. Also, she's doesn't even have close to the scandals surrounding her that Hunter Biden does. I'm just pointing out facts. I don't know how that makes me a fake patriot. In fact, you have no idea what her personal life is about. You're just making things up. She's Trump's daughter....fact. She's a lawyer....fact. She's campaigned for her father.....fact. That she needs or wants her father's money....speculation. Neither one of us knows.
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  1358. His example was an ad Hominem. They were in a discussion and all she could come up with was to attack him, thinking that this would invalidate every point he would ever make. A dismissal, not based on the truth of an argument, but on a preconceived notion of the person she was talking to.
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  1359.  @colorin81colorado  He's a troll. He's not going to respond to anything you say.
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  1360. The defence lawyer says that the old prosecutor was tough. He hasn't seen tough yet. I'll bet Lopez will show him what tough is. Congrats to her.
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  1361. She's blaming Trump for her own hatred.
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  1362. Look....I have been fully vaccinated against Covid. I believe that they do help me fight the disease. However, I will FIGHT, with everything that I have, a government that FORCES people to take it. That's the same position that Tim is taking. I believe in choice, what we like to call freedom. If the vaccine scares you, don't take it. I'm not about to tell you what to do. You may be correct that the vaccines might cause issues down the road. I don't know but I don't think so. That's MY right and to act on it. It's YOUR right to disagree and to act on it, as well. We'll both have to live with the consequences of our decisions.
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  1363. But I love my echo chamber. It's like looking into a mirror and smiling at that great looking guy smiling back at me. The mirror tells me how handsome I am just like the echo chamber tells me how smart and virtuous I am. I don't even need to talk to others. All I need is a tape recorder where I can record all my beliefs.....kind of like a sound mirror.
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  1364.  @cortical1  Are you seriously trying to tell me, after the examples I just gave, that if Don Jr. had done the things that Hunter Biden is accused of, the press would ignore it? Come on, man. You don't have to support Trump but at least be honest about this. You know for a FACT that the MSM wouldn't shut up about it. I don't care what word the original comment used. The record shows that the MSM has done this since the beginning. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't have done the same had this been the situation. At least be honest about it. This doesn't say anything good OR bad about the Trumps or the Bidens. It does say something that's quite negative about the MSM. You don't have to carry water for them, too, you know.
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  1365.  @19infreg  What happened to making your own way in life? Socialism. Socialism and the entitled attitudes that come with the socialist mindset. Things start to lose value under socialism. Your education, your family, your integrity, your drive to succeed, it all falls to the socialist mindset that things aren't fair and society must make sure that everything is fair. Socialism is one of the most destructive force on the planet.
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  1366. I can't say too much about Dutch politics. However, I will say that I'm Canadian of Dutch heritage and grew up in a fairly large Dutch/Canadian community of farmers and construction workers. Hard working individuals. I also grew up on a farm. However, I was not prepared for just how amazing the agricultural sector in the Netherlands actually is. On my first visit, I couldn't get over how neat those farms were and how it seemed that every square inch is used to its fullest. It kinda made me proud. I'm even prouder that they're standing up to the autocracy of their social engineering government. Keep it up you guys....from a proud Canadian citiizen.
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  1367.  @MrMartinSchneider  Then why is the victim's sister voting for Trump? Why did she tell that reporter that she wanted nothing to do with his story? Also, Laura NEVER said that Trump refused to pay the bill. She said that the cost were covered by the Army and other private donations. You just lied about that. They didn't NEED Trump's money to cover costs. Once again, your comment is a flat out lie and an insult to the victim and her family. Had you any integrity, you'd apologise.
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  1368. They'll say "That wasn't REAL Socialism in California. We'll do it better in our new state". Then they'll proceed to destroy it as well, except faster because they'll believe that they've "learned from their mistakes" They're delusional.
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  1369. I just came from a news....I don't know what to call it, really.....from MSM, where Candace Owens, Michael Dyson and a moderator, spent eleven minutes yelling over each other's voices and interrupting one another. I lasted about 3 minutes. It was insane and pointless to watch. That's why people like Dave Rubin. He brings the people on and you get to hear them talk. There's no shock, no "gotcha" moments or debunking going on. He lets the guest talk so you know exactly what they're about. You can listen and understand what it is they're trying to say. You don't have to agree with them but once you understand what it is they're saying, you can make an informed and coherent case for how you think. It's learning. True knowledge isn't just about things you agree with. It's about all ideas, good and bad. Dave Rubin gets it. The Young Turks don't. They want to make a contest of it. Competition is great, in some cases, but when knowledge becomes dogma, the indoctrinated are highly tempted to cheat. That can't end well.
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  1370. Don't let any of them decide. Children can wait till they're 18. Give them the support that they might need but be emphatic that they must wait till they've gone through puberty and we can see what the natural changes in their bodies have done. If their belief is legitimate, they can wait that long because it really isn't that long at all. Especially right now when transgender claims, in some places, have gone up 4000% in ten years, most of them young teenage girls. We can't allow our children to be taken by social contagions. This may end up, in 20 years, to be looked at in the same that we now see the Satanic ritual craze in schools of the eighties. This all happened too fast and to too many children.
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  1371.  @thecountofmontecristo8280  If I didn't know it for sure before, I sure do now. Although I will be even more sure tomorrow than I was sure yesterday. You can be sure of that.
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  1372.  @conjam86  I'm an idiot at 70 but I get your point.
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  1373. Imagine being that screaming woman in green who's now THE symbol of left wing insanity. I wonder what she's up to these days. LOL.
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  1374.  @bhok1971  They're going to try a Great Reset. Doesn't mean that they will be successful. You may be ready to roll over and accept it, in your life, but I'm not. I'll still live my life in the way that I always have which is that I'll never stop trying to become the best version of me possible. No "Great Reset" can change that.
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  1375.  @nayrtnartsipacify  That's better than the externalised racism of the left.
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  1376. @TRUMP TRASH Who is causing the riots? I don't expect an answer. Trolls don't have conversations. They just mouth off.
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  1377.  @OneNewHope  Jim Crow has been over since 1964. Jim Crow was the brainchild of the Democrats and was ended by an 80% of the Republicans. George Wallace, the Democrat governor of Alabama, was the one, and I remember it clearly, who shouted from the podium "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation FOREVER!!!" He was cheered on by Democrats, some of them who were in the KKK, a group that was formed by Democrats to stop the black voters for voting for Black Republican candidates. So don't give me this Jim Crow is a Republican creation. It's a well known fact that it came from the Democrats. If I go to a doctor with a problem and for 50 YEARS and that problem never goes away, WHY would I go back to that doctor for 51 years. That doesn't make sense. The inner cities haven't improved since I was a kid, back when Jim Crow was real. We called them the ghettos back then. If NOTHING changes in 50 years, you really think that if you vote for the same party in year 51, things are going to change? That's the definition of insanity....doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. It's like flipping a double headed coin and expecting it to somehow come up tails. Like turning the ignition to start your car, when the battery is dead, 50 times and thinking that the 51st time you'll get the miracle. Talk about critical thinking!!!!!! LOL. When you do something for 50 years and nothing ever changes, maybe it's time to try something else.
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  1378.  @blackintellwilliams5488  May well be true but it's still improving under Trump. In fact, the unemployment improvement has accelerated under Trump. That's a fact that YOU won't face.
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  1379. They are using gang stalking to recruit those who have that mental syndrome. The internet has made it easier to find and unite those types. It's a despicable tactic.
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  1380.  @truetech4158  What are you on about? The topic is gender dysphoria. You're nothing but a troll, the lowest form of life on the internet.
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  1381.  RESPECT MY AUTHORITY  Quit your yelling. It's making you look like the nut job.
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  1382.  @ldjman1  I don't know whether each story is true or not. I have to do some fact checking. If it ends up that there are things being said that aren't true, THAT'S when I make my decision on THAT story. I don't go in calling it a lie. That would negate the need for fact checking, first of all, and it also assumes that everything they say is false, which means if a story is true, I'd be going around thinking the opposite, on some kind of illogical principle and assumptions. I only call a story untrue when I have the evidence that backs me up. Otherwise, I remain SILENT. If there's something in this story that you disagree with, let's talk about it. Specifics....that's what's important, not your "fake news" allegations. And why would you assume only "domestic" news sources tell the truth. I've heard our own national news network, the CBC, tell some amazing whoppers. I know that they are whoppers for one reason. FACT CHECKING. I didn't assume it to be false. I fact checked and the facts told me that they were either wrong or worse....lying. That's the logical and honest way of deciding on the veracity of news stories.
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  1383. Why would you completely trust anyone? That baffles me. The one thing about a person that waffles is that he may not be sure on what to do but, like Dr. Drew says, he's going to be honest about information. If he's honest about information and then tries to force you into something, THEN you bite back. So far, from what I've seen in this video, he's supporting the idea of presenting facts openly and honestly. I have to agree with that. Tell the truth, at least to the best of your ability. I don't see what's not to trust in that.
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  1384.  @jillionairess  My 10 year old granddaughter announced that she was bisexual. Her 7 year old sister teased her by calling her trans. She became indignant and said that she was proud of being a woman. Indoctrinate.....I don't know. Bizarre....without a doubt. They were taught this in school. A year later, there was a controversy about teaching Indigenous Studies in school. I asked her what 8X7 was. She didn't know and said that she didn't like math. I told her that maybe she should learn basic mathematics before she went onto such a specific area of study. Once again, she got all indignant. She asked me if I knew that they put Indigenous kids into schools and beat them. White people did that. I told her a friend of mine attended one of those schools. Apparently, her teacher told her class all about that too. I asked her if she knew about Indigenous religions, the foods that they developed, the wars and how the Iroquois completely wiped out the Huron nation. Did she know that the American founding fathers borrowed ideas of forming a union from the Iroquois Federation and that the Iroquois outlawed cannibalism after they formed their union. Apparently, these were never discussed. I told her that what she was talking about was known as "Grievance Studies" Of course, she had no idea what that meant. She was only 11 at the time. Indoctrinated....I still don't know. However, this is stuff that is rather inappropriate in a primary school setting, being taught by a person that her parents barely knew. None of this was taught to my kids when they were in school but that was in the 80s and 90s. I'm not going to say that your experiences didn't happen but just because it hasn't been your experience, it doesn't happen at all. I've never been sexually abused but I'm willing to bet it happens. By the way, my granddaughter is now 16, she's shaved her head bald and wears the most bizarre makeup in some kind of androgynous display of self identity. Was it because she was indoctrinated in school? I can't say but I know her older brother just shakes his head and rolls her eyes at her and says that this specific teacher, that he also had, is a kook. Does that ever set her off.
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  1385. @douggraves4482 You might doubt it but you don't know it. Save your criticism for those who you KNOW are keeping silent.....like the Prime Minister.
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  1386. Expressed differently.....we are to stay out of their bedrooms while they invite our children into their boudoirs.
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  1387. If you're not sick, are you actually sick if you test positive? Is the sickness in the loss of health or in the testing?
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  1388.  @OOPS2468  What's next? Go after registered Republicans, holding down government jobs? Can't have people, who don't share the administration's views, working for them. We're getting closer and closer to a one party system.
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  1389.  @sthubbins4038  So, you think it's okay for Iran to meddle in American elections because Trump thinks Obama forged his birth certificate? Your logic is out there. Let's stick to the subject. You make no sense....not even a little bit.
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  1390. A lot of Jewish people are liberals but liberalism is a mindset, NOT an ethnicity. I can convert to Judaism, just as a white person can become a liberal and take on the destructive nature of modern liberalism, in the way that Malcom X seen it. It's STILL the same ideology, whether it's held by a Jew, Dutchman or an Englishman.
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  1391.  @GS-ni9wb  21% adverse affects? Are you kidding me? Could you imagine the chaos, at a vaccination site, where 1 in 5 would need immediate medical attention? It would never be approved at that rate.
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  1392. That's true but then again, I must have the same look on my face every time I watch news segments from CNN and MSNBC.
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  1393. If you go to the 8:55 mark, where Joe says that he won't keep Trump's tariffs, you can see just how far he has slipped since 2020. He was already slipping then but it's gotten do much worse, since then. Americans, in fact the entire world, should be concerned about Biden's mental state. It's sad when this happens to people, including Biden, but facts are facts. We can't wish Biden's health to improve.
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  1394. If the parents don't allow it to happen, the state will take their children away from them. There are some parents who supported the gender thing but a lot of them do not. Some cases end in divorce and the parent that refuses the gender treatment lose all access to their children. Other parents aren't that sophisticated and are emotionally blackmailed into compliance by the state and medical "experts". They tell the confused and unsuspecting parents that their child will commit that life ending procedure on themselves if they don't get gender affirming care. "Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter". Having lost a child, I know how devastating that though could be. Suing parents should go by the circumstances of each case and how deeply the parents were into gender ideology. Being made to feel forced to sue their parents may deter many from taking any action against the medical people that should know better. Only those parents who actively sought this treatment should be sued. Suing ALL the parents may be the worst thing that you could do.
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  1395. OJ never did find out who it was. God knows that he tried.
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  1396.  @pavango3812  The topic is Georgia's new voting laws. Also, my ex-wife didn't have ID because she never worked. However, when we got married she had to dig up a birth certificate to prove who she was when we applied for a marriage licence. I'm sure that there are 3 million Americans that have never worked but if you are working, you must have a Social Security Number because you MUST pay income tax. It's the law. You can't pay income tax without that SS# or you can't fill out your income taxes. That's against the law as well. You have to file for income tax, if you work, or face legal repercussions. There are reasons that a person might not have an ID but, and a BIG BUT, if you can't get an ID, something that would be useful anyway, before the next election, almost 2 years away, voting isn't all that important to you. If fact, you've probably spent more time arguing with me than the time it would take to apply for a valid ID in Georgia.
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  1397.  @pavango3812  You don't feel like it because you have no real argument and you know it. Did you also know that 80 million eligible voters didn't vote in 2020? About 80 million voters out of 233 million eligible voters. That means that 230 million of those voters have ID, using YOUR numbers. If you don't have ID, you don't want one. If 230 million eligible voters can get ID and I'm sure that the rest of the 330 million Americans have ID, as well, the 3 million that don't have it are living outside the American experience. WAY outside and I refuse to believe it's because they're oppressed and you've done nothing to prove that that they are.
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  1398.  @pavango3812  Also, there's now talk about getting a vaccine ID so you can do ordinary things like going to concerts and ball games or even to go to the store. Are you going to fight that, too if it becomes mandatory?
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  1399. He called them fake but he still talked to them. He didn't have a list so he'd only get "safe" questions. He had some epic battles with Jim Acosta and only had him banned from press conferences after Acosta got into a fight over the mic with a female intern. That's the difference.
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  1400.  @garretdrake2347  Don't be a child.
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  1401.  @mochithepooh5368  The point is that these celebrities are always the first to criticise and cancel people for having "unacceptable" views. Ben Affleck and his rant at Sam Harris, which didn't even make any sense, are an example of this. They take a stance, point fingers at others and then flout the rules that they've set for others. You don't know what those in the stands believe in so you can't accuse them of hypocrisy. However, those celebrities are quite often the first to virtue signal. They're the ones that will squeeze out those who have views that they don't believe in. You hardly ever hear about conservative celebrities and no wonder. They end up without work, like what happened Gina Carano. She didn't fit in, ideologically, so she got fired from the Mandalorian.
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  1402.  @JJRM8  You're going to have to choose between the two of them, like it or not. Assange will NOT be the leader of our country and he's NOT going to be able to deal with the crisis at the southern border, the inflation, the issues in education, the problems in the Middle East and Ukraine, the deficit, the corruption in Washington, the energy issues and the loss of manufacturing jobs for the blue collar workers. You don't have to love these guys, or emulate their behaviour but you should decide which one would be the best candidate to tackle these problem. "eff em" doesn't solve a thing. It just makes you a part of the problem.
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  1403.  Arminius  Nazis are not really all that funny to me. My mother nearly starved to death in wartime Holland and my uncle was sent to Westerbork, the Jewish Detention Centre, and was almost on the train to Bergen Belsen, before they realised he wasn't Jewish. I'm no lefty that calls everyone a Fascist but I still hate Nazis. George Lincoln Rockwell was a despicable human being. You may be joking but I can't know that. All I know is I dislike anything to do with his ideology and I'm not bashful about saying so.
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  1404.  @VirtualHolocaust  Huh???? I think you're on the wrong video.
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  1405.  @remo27  I have to wonder at the mindset of the school administrators, who's first reaction would be to SUE the person that told on them. Would they have threatened to sue if they'd revealed that the kids were at the symphony and showed pictures of them sitting there watching the musicians? I doubt it. There's an element of doubt, even shame, involved here that prompted such a visceral reaction. Had they just admitted that this was bad judgement exercised here and made a public apology, I might feel a little differently about it. However, what they did is reveal that they have no problem operating in secrecy, that they'd prefer to do just that. That's my ultimate problem with the whole thing. What else are they doing in secrecy?
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  1406. So....for thirty years, Jorge didn't break the law.....except for that illegal immigrant thing. He didn't break the law. So what? That's what you're supposed to do. You don't get brownie points for doing what is required of you. You do it because it is the right thing to do and is how we all create a civilised society. When he filled out the forms, incorrectly, he should have gotten another lawyer, did what was asked of him, and he could have been an American citizen, right now. Instead, he ignored procedure (would that be breaking the law?) and basically procrastinated, until the law and fate finally caught up with him. Suddenly, it's Trump's fault that he didn't follow procedure. Maybe he should take a good look at himself. Had he done the right thing when he reached adulthood, none of this would be happening. He'd be happily blowing leaves and plowing snow in Michigan right now. Sorry, Jorge. All you have to do is follow procedure. There are 45 million people in the US that were born in other countries, living legally in the US, right now. If 45 million people can follow those procedures, so can you. You created your own problems.
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  1407.  @DjWellDressedMan  You're one of those guys that don't like freedom, huh. Perhaps a Fascist country, like China, is more your type. Or maybe North Korea. Since when is a teacher ranked up there with psychologists and doctors. Does their teaching certificate give them those skills? That's the first that I've heard of this. That sounds like a quick and cheaper way to practice psychology. A LOT cheaper. This is a medical and family issue. Not ONE teacher has ever visited my son's grave in the last 30 years and he died while in high school. I'm even going to say, with great confidence, that they haven't lost one minutes sleep over it. When they've gone through the hell that my wife and I have suffered over the last 30 years, then I'll give them the autonomy to act as a third parent. Until then, teach the kids how to read and write and how to do math without a calculator. That would be extremely useful to a child's future.
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  1408.  @morriganfey6079  It's a far left ideology. Central government, doled out from the top and working down. State and municipal governments are subject to the head power. They support a globalisation monstrosity to rule over us all. They don't accept the bottom up sense of responsibility that the west was built on. Personal responsibility to yourself, your family, your community, state, country and the planet, if it gets that far, all in that order. They reverse it and it's authoritarian. It can't help but be that way.
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  1409.  @teslafreak  I agree that it's quite dangerous. I know that people make mistakes, even those that work in big companies. However, when they obfuscate, refuse to answer questions, hide behind lobby influenced government policies, you know that helping others is no longer the company mandate and has been replaced by helping themselves.
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  1410. Against what group, exactly. Are there videos which show him hating on specific group? If so, care to share the worst one? I'd appreciate it.
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  1411. So you don't have any examples. Thanks for backing up your claim.
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  1412.  digitalprowler  Until Trump came along. That's why they hate him so much. He's put the brakes on the Chinese gravy train. They'll do anything to stop him.
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  1413. Although I don't like what happened to George Floyd, David Dorn deserves a statue, 10X more, than Floyd does. Mr. Dorn served his community. Floyd was drain on it. He didn't deserve to murdered but he's no hero.
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  1414.  @potcrak1  I need that class. Those KKK guys have been riding around here, on their horses, burning crosses and lynching people every night. It's been horrendous. LOL. I need a class to react to those Viking raids as well. Any suggestions?
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  1415.  @LogicalMuzikmixer  No matter what one says, it's proof of white supremacy. So, who cares, any more. People are going to think what they will. Simple minds draw simple conclusions.
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  1416.  @bclark28100  It sounds like the threat I've been hearing all along. If you vote for Trump, and he wins, there will be riots. Vote Democrat or else. There's no reason to think or hope that this violence and destruction will spread everywhere in the US. I live in a small town and almost everyone I know hates it. Cities are collection points for the best and the worst of American society. These rioters are the worst of them.
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  1417.  YoutubeManagement  Grow up!!!!
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  1418.  @jabahboyyy1991  They weren't talking about RG3, in this clip, because the topic was about men in women's sports. You asked about RG3 and his firing and "mritalianhillbilly" told you why he was fired. RG3 mentioned that he wasn't voting for Harris and they fired him for it. THAT is what Harris had to do with it. Are you really that thick or is it that you're being intentionally obtuse.
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  1419.  @strategery101  If Brandon ever gets the idea to do the same thing, as the NM Governor tried, he'll know exactly what he will be up against. This affects the entire country. Besides, what good is it focusing ONLY on Brandon when others are picking away at our Constitution. People, like this governor, will take away our rights and that will make it easier for Brandon to finish it off on a nationwide scale.
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  1420.  @LetsReinharder  Of course it's worth saving. Everyone country is. If we all try to live a strong and ethical life, working hard and making wise decisions, we can transform the nation. It has to do with how we apply our strength and will to do right. If we just give up, like your suggesting, America is lost and our future will be pure hell. I refuse to work towards a hell. That's for losers.
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  1421.  @Man-vs-Metal  Who's doing it for pilots? Is it the airlines? Is it United Airlines? Delta Air Lines? What about American Airlines or Southwest Airlines? Maybe Air Canada. I'd like to know what airlines are doing it so I can avoid them.
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  1422.  @csmidt2885  It's not so beautiful in cities like San Francisco, LA, Oakland or Sacramento. Why would the medical association stop having their conventions in San Fran? They said it was because of the homeless drug addicts and the mentally unsound. The crime, the garbage, the abandoned needles and human feces on the streets. That's why, according to them, they moved their annual convention to Vegas. Of course, these things aren't happening in the country. It is most definitely beautiful there but that's not the problem. It's what's happening in the cities and how they're ignoring the problems there. Sort of what you're doing now.
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  1423. I'm sure that being on the same team, as the famous Douglas Murray, would have added to his humility. I like his humble manner. He says what he means to say calmly, rationally and succinctly. It's the only way for a decent human being to act.
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  1424.  @jamesbarnett6772  It's my job to protect my wife and daughter. If I don't do that, I may as well pack my bags and move on. If a trans athlete ruins my daughter's chances at a scholarship, I'm going to say something. I can't fix everything but I do know one thing. If I don't fight this movement, I'll be letting my daughter and any eventual granddaughter's down. I'll be letting myself down in the process, as well. If you don't fight for what's right, you're allowing what's wrong to win and it will only get worse. You can give up if you want and try to live in some bubble but eventually your bubble is going to burst. That's when you'll realise that you should have fought right from the beginning instead of waiting till it was too late.
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  1425.  @sherryh7485  What's maddening is that adopting is a process that can take YEARS but any crack head can get pregnant and deliver a baby. I have a sister and brother who have adopted children and they both have stable marriages, good jobs and nice homes. However, the hoops that they had to jump through to adopt those kids were beyond believable. 2 of those kids are now married and have started their own families. Being adopted was the best thing that could have happened to them. If a woman is fertile, breed away no matter how stable your life is. However, young women, who have fertility problems, have to prove their abilities and their moral character, in triplicate, before they're even considered to adopt a young child in dire need of a stable home. What a weird system we have. I'm not suggesting that we restrict the rights of women to get pregnant but why is it SO difficult to give their children a good home if the mother doesn't want the child. I'll never understand it.
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  1426. After spending years in home renovations, the one thing about experts is that they have the expertise to lie and swindle others. I would always advise my clients to get 3 or 4 estimates and opinions. Do the research, then make your decisions on the advice of multiple experts and any relevant information that they can find. Experts are human and, as such, they often have their own agenda.
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  1427.  Brutal Noodle  You've just reinforced on what Middle America believes that the left and the Democrats feel about them. Call them names and then are surprised and horrified when they don't vote for them. It has to be the worst political strategy in American history and people like you keep making the same blunder over and over again.
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  1428.  @JiNxeDiAbLo5  Thanks. What's strange is this. I wasn't supportive of Trump at all in 2016. Yet, I didn't like the way the Democrats were talking to the voters of middle America. I kept telling my friends and others that this would backfire on the Democrats if they wouldn't stop but, like you, they just started calling me names. "You're just a Trumpster". I heard this numerous times and nothing I could say would sway them. Now Trump is the president. Am I vindicated? Somewhat, but what really surprises me is that the Democrats haven't learned a thing. This "Brutal Noodle" guy exemplifies their attitude and it's giving the left a terrible reputation. Everything is "racist", "sexist", and every other "ist" in their repertoire. No discussion....just more name calling and calls for censorship. They're destroying a party that was once a viable party but they're not the Democrats that I grew up with. That's a shame.
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  1429.  @eveharris30  Abigail is a trans woman. She said that they don't speak for her. I said, in corroboration, that NO one speaks for me, just like these people can NOT speak for Abigail. Only she can do that. My point is that no matter what group that I belong to, white male in this case, other white males cannot presume to speak for me. Abigail said the same thing and I will quote. "As a trans women I am disgusted by the behaviour of activists who claim to speak for me but do nothing of the kind." Either English is your second language or you're intentionally ignoring what she said.
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  1430. When did he try to silence social media critics and journalists? I'm have trouble thinking of even one example.
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  1431. It's not the kids that are at the root of the problem. It's those that are indoctrinating them.
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  1432. tom paine Getting a conviction against a person who has asked around to hire a contract killer is almost impossible. That's because it can be argued that the intention is vague and that the direct threat of harm has not been specified. It's not until the hiring is complete, a contract has been reached, that a crime has been committed. That's when the target has been specified and details worked out and a conspiracy is in place and intention to commit harm can be established. It's wasn't the speech that's the crime. It's the completion of a contract that is the crime. It's the "shouting fire in a theatre" argument. In that case, the speech has been weaponised, used as direct means to cause harm. It's similar to the crime of inciting a riot. Speech is used to directly incite violence against person(s) or property. The ability to speak is something that is inherent to all and to use it freely is an absolute right, unless it is the weapon to cause direct and imminent harm. No different that owning a baseball bat. We all have the right to own one and to use it to see fit. However, we cannot use it as a weapon. Our right to free speech is no different than our right to a baseball bat.
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  1433. kai sanders If the restaurant is keeping the tips, they're being dishonest and may even be breaking the law. I'm a bartender and I will guarantee you that almost every server will fight hard against taking away their tips. Although it's against the law now, I know of places where the servers made their living with NO wage and people would do anything to work there. It was the do gooders that insisted that they got an hourly wage. I know some places will put the tip on the bill and I don't like that practise. However, most places don't do that and it's a customer option to tip and serving staff make an excellent living on the tipping practise. Take away tipping and they make minimum wage.....that's all. If that doesn't bother you, that's fine but the people that depend on it for a living will strongly disagree. I know for a fact that EVERY server I know will tell the woman in this video to mind her own business and leave it alone and that will include minorities, as well.
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  1434. gwanael34 You could pay us, like anyone else, but most of us would take a substantial drop in pay. This has to be the only occupation in which well meaning people actually want to take away money from a working class and disguise it as empathy towards their plight. We're not asking for this change. If YOU don't want to tip, DON'T. My life won't change that much if you, as an individual, don't want to tip me. You'll save some money and you can blame poor service, lack of funds or even some kind of social conscience. Just don't tell us what is good for us. We can figure that out for ourselves.
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  1435. I grew up in southern Ontario, on an small farm. Bears still get into the bee hives, now and then. They're only black bear, but 250 pound black bear can do a lot of damage to this 220 pound man. I still go camping on the farm in summer, though.
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  1436.  @Mordalo  What did you actually say and how did I alter reality? You have do more that just make that claim. Why don't you try to refute what I said? That would have some value. All you did was imply that I was lying. Now PROVE it.
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  1437. Boyd Before you start on anything, I think Trump is friggen meathead. However, he's not a white supremacist. It's his second year as president and what has he done that directly affects ethnic groups in a negative way? What laws that says blacks or any other is group must be denied their civil rights? Trump is a big enough buffoon that you don't have to make up things about him. When you do that, you begin to sound like a liar and one not to be trusted. That only serves to direct people to lay their allegiance with Trump and not where you want it to be. Be reasonable with your claims. It was your kind of wild allegations that got him the presidency in the first place and if those on the left keep doing it, he'll win the next election as well. Straight facts, not this "Trump is a Nazi" BS. That's school yard politics, not something a mature adult should engage in.
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  1438.  @eddyf4426  You've made some good points. However, I'm not looking at people as perfect human beings. We ALL have our flaws. I got the vibe, from your comment, that because you've found his flaw, that's grounds for his dismissal as an intellectual leader, that we shouldn't listen to him at all. Your comment back was more nuanced and is not so dismissive. I might not have said a thing had your original comment been as nuanced as your second one. Sort of along the lines of appreciating his contributions but not being comfortable with this aspect. I tend to agree with you on that. I've always been critical of the tyranny of the expert. Experts have caused a lot of problems over human history and one of them has been their insistence that only THEY are knowledgeable enough to offer opinions and dispense information.
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  1439.  @JOHNNYCFC18  When I was young, it was used as a slur. It meant that he was a little odd and that it likely had something to do with a person's sexuality. It implied that you had to be careful around them. I think that it's "queer" that the gay community embraced that word instead of being offended by it, like they do with almost everything else.
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  1440.  @younggeezer8232  I'm going to assume that you're young because of your YouTube name "younggeezer". When we were young, I'm talking boomers, it was a slur. We'd say "He's a little queer" while doing that wavering motion with our hand, meaning that he's just not right. It was most definitely meant as a slur, in those times.
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  1441.  @oreli2556  You may not realise it but you've become right wing. Destiny was just kicked off twitter for saying the same thing. Trump doesn't think men should compete with women in contact and physical sports, either. You agree with Trump. Welcome to the dark side.
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  1442.  @dixiecyrus8136  A troll. It may not even be human. It leaves the same comment everywhere.
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  1443.  @jesusenki8509  "City life isn't for pussies"??? I always thought it was for civilised folk. I guess I'm wrong. I grew up on a dairy and beef farm and our barns were cleaner than the streets of San Francisco.....and you're proud of that? I think you're just trolling. No one is that foolish.
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  1444. These are the tracks of the Hamosaurus. It is the distant ancestor of Ken Ham. This Hamosaurus was sent by God to walk across this mud flat in anticipation of the evolution controversy that God knew would come in the END TIMES. God knew his faithful would be sorely tested by the lure of evolution theory so he sent the Hamosaurus to Texas, the Bible Belt, to leave its tracks so the faithful Americans would know that he does indeed exist. This is why Ken Ham, so many years later, felt compelled to leave his native Australia and come to America. He knew that God had left a sign for him to see and to share the joy of the good news. It's all coming together, folks. You'd better be ready.
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  1445.  @W.J.M.  It's no different than knowing that you're going to pass away someday. You don't like it but t's a fact of life.
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  1446. @Jesus loves a Shovelhead And now you're doing it again. Another attempt at a smear using a logical fallacy. The fallacy from authority. Since I don't know anything, YOUR assumption, about addictions, etc, I have no business talking about the content of this video. That's now twice that you've tried to use that fallacy and you're either not bright enough to see it or bright enough to argue any other way. You've yet to explain how Jordan's recent problems have ANYTHING to do with what Fry and Peterson are discussing. I have a strong suspicion that I know the reason why. You haven't watched this video. You don't have a clue what this video is about. You're here to smear Peterson....that's it. That's one mighty high calling. LOL. I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible.
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  1447.  @chazw3x  There is one issue. She was found in a motel room with a student. That should be enough to have her fired. No administrative leave, no nothing. There's no way that she should be in a motel room with a student. EVER. Even if she never touched the student while there, it's still as inappropriate as it gets and this is something that would be against school policy. Innocent until proven guilty is a legal manner. People get fired all the time for doing things that aren't illegal but against the policies of the company or institution. This should be one of those things.
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  1448.  Alfonso Padron  What are those other guys doing looting, burning, threatening people with bodily harm and destroying people's businesses and homes? A small town with around 25 businesses completely destroyed and the mayor and state governor do NOTHING. Kyle worked in Kenosha, volunteered to clean graffiti that the rioters painted on walls, offered medical aid to rioters, protected the businesses that were left unprotected and even put out fires. He would have stayed home had the political leaders, that were elected by the people of Kenosha, done their job. He was protecting the town. The people, that attacked him, were gleefully destroying it. Once again, if the people that you elect refuse to protect their community, should we all just allow thugs and criminals burn it down? You're the lamb who willingly walks to the slaughter.
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  1449.  @DM-dk7js  You don't get it? I'll explain it to you. The Capitol Building is HUGE. People can't even SEE the people on the other side of the building. So, the violence took place on ONE side and the people on the other side didn't KNOW that it was happening. For some reason, the security on the other side of the building of the violence, opened doors and let people in. They just LET THEM IN. Other people, like Ray Epps, were telling to attack the building and was THERE when it started. For some reason, he was not arrested, even though he spent one day on the FBI wanted list. However, Alex Jones, who was never went into the building and was telling people to not go in, was arrested. One video showed a cop saying that he didn't approve but supported their right to protest. One person's charges were dropped because video evidence showed that a police officer opened the door for him. If security allows you into a building, you can't be charged with trespassing. Anyone that took part in actual violence or was inciting violence, they should be charged. I repeat....anyone who took part in violence or incited violence, they should, most definitely, be charged. If they just walked in, through doors that were opened by security and no violence evident, they should be dismissed on a case by case basis. Those doors should never have been opened by security and why they would open them is truly mystifying. I'll agree with you on this. If those cops did what is alleged, they should be charged. We also have to find out why they did this. Did they do it because they agreed with the protesters or did they get orders TELLING them to open the doors. If so, who was it that told them to do that and what was their intent. No matter whether your Republican or Democrat, we have to know what went on, FULLY and not just to punish or exonerate people. If this was a partial set up by a group who were supposed to be in charge of security, we must find out about it.....because next time, it could be YOU that is arrested for something you didn't do at the machinations of a corrupt government.
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  1450. She's turned into someone who's mean and nasty. Assigning traits, based on identity groups, is just plain bigotry.
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  1451. I like your style. Glad you got out.
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  1452.  @LovingPrinceTamayuki  Let me try this again, seeing as that you seem to relish in being as thick as you are. Collectivism is about being of one mind, that we operate as metaphorical drones in a beehive. That our group identity defines who we are, how we think and what we believe. People, like Haslam, are not collectivists. They believe in individual agency, that we CHOOSE to cooperate or even to opt out, as we choose as individuals. That our group identity is NOT who we are and it does NOT define us. We define ourselves. We work together, as individuals of our own free will, each one having the freedom to decide the depth of our cooperation or even to freely opt out, without recrimination BECAUSE we are individuals and not forced into being a part of the hive. The individual is the priority. In collectivism, the group supersedes the individual....ALWAYS.
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  1453.  @300mphmartyr  I've only one life. I'm not going to spend it angrily complaining and destroying the property of people I don't even know. I will work to make my life, and the lives of families and friends, the best that it can be. That's not rhetoric. It's my philosophy in life. Appreciate what I have and work hard to be better tomorrow than I am today.
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  1454.  @mbnall  In 2005, Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, claimed that there were problems with the voting machines, helping the Republicans to the 2004 win. In 2016, Hillary and the Democrats claimed that Trump colluded with the Russians to get HIM the win, invoking the compromised computerised voting machines, again. Now, with mail in voting and the lack of confidence is the voting machines not addressed, we have a large majority of Republicans claiming election fraud concerning those SAME voting machines and the enhanced mail-in voting process. Now, we have the Democrats wanting to add Puerto Rico and Washington DC to count of the states in election and possibly doing away with the electoral college, something that has been in place since the beginning of the US. This isn't gerrymandering? Worse, the Democrats don't want voters to produce their IDs to vote, saying that it's racist. The entire free world is laughing at that nutty idea. I'd say fix the entire system, including any appearance of gerrymandering, mail-in voting, the vote counting machines and the way votes are verified. If almost every election has claims of fraud, then have a thorough investigation those claims and propose ways to regain confidence in the system. The way it's being done now is ridiculous.
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  1455.  @hsss1  I'm Canadian and I might do the same. I know it would be easier if I just crossed the border, which is about an hours drive away, but my sister was deported from the US and she didn't even commit a crime. So, Mexico it is.
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  1456.  @ponygirl1624  There will ALWAYS be problems, no matter where you go. That's life. What's important is the overall picture. Best economy, best education, people flocking to live there. People are flooding across the Mexican border, into the US, because of the scope of problems in their home countries. People in the United States are leaving their home states and going to other states for the same reason. Populations in California, New York, New Jersey and a few others are going down because of people and businesses leaving. Populations in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Idaho and others are going up. Logic says it's because the problems are worse in some states than in others. You figure out why that would be.
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  1457.  @yummybubbles194  So proving that so called scientific journals were using extremely poor judgement when printing materials is the wrong thing to do? Of course, he used his position as a professor to get those papers published. They wouldn't publish papers from a plumber. To expose those journals, he had to use his credentials as a professor. To add, since when does the administration have to approve the content of an academic's written work? Wouldn't that administrator need the credentials to even judge whether the paper had merit? I'd say that Portland U had a bunch of bigwigs that didn't like to see their ideology mocked. I tried looking for material that said that Peter Boghossian believed in a flat earth. All I could find was a time where he attended a flat earth convention and tried to use reason AGAINST that idea and failed. He believes that you can't convince some people of erroneous beliefs through facts and reason because their beliefs are faith based and don't rely on facts OR reason. So you'll have to back up that claim with some evidence. That goes for the climate denial stuff and Occupy Wall Street. No point in even my looking for it if your first example, the flat earth, turned up nothing. Back up your claims.
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  1458. Who's got the most to lose if Trump wins? Why would it even matter to Russia who wins. It's China that has the huge market in the US and will love hundreds of billions of dollars if Trump brings back manufacturing. What will Russia lose?
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  1459. He's said that a lot of them tested positive but were hardly sick. He also has said that he got it the worst and that Ian had a tough time with it, too.
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  1460.  Carlos Perez  "Conservatives show no purpose." That explains the Antifa mindset right there. You talk about hate from other people but your entire comment is seething with it. I'll bet you didn't even watch the filmed discussion that was being protested. To hear those protesters, you'd think the conference was about killing off everyone that wasn't white. It wasn't anything like that. It was a discussion about the free exchange of ideas and showing respect for the idea that we all should be allowed to formulate and express our opinions. Those masked thugs don't want any of that. You agree with them or else. That's tyranny. If they ever achieved any kind of real power, that "or else" could end up lethal or the institution of new Gulags and re-education camps.
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  1461.  @lonewolftech  Threatening a jury is grounds for appeal. That lawyer must have felt quite comfortable in uttering those veiled threats, unless they were HOPING for an appeal, for some reason. However, none of that matters. It's against the law to threaten a jury and it was done in this Civil case. What happens in other court cases is irrelevant. We fix corrupt systems one case at a time by acknowledging each case of corruption to be abhorrent. In this case we have all the evidence we need for an appeal. The lawyer that uttered those threats, also let it be known that this was her last case, implying that she didn't care if she lost her licence to practise law or not.
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  1462.  @LD-pt5ur  I never liked the smells emanating out of my hockey bag either.....even though it was ME that I was smelling. Imagine how bad the hockey dressing room smelled. I know that when I sweat, I smell. So, I shower. It's one of the tribulations of life.
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  1463.  @ShellymanStudios  Yes it was and I was mistaken on that but the BLM riots kept up until 2016 and they supported Democrats in that election. After that, they were involved in demonstrations but they seemed to leave the news stage until this year. Suddenly, they're all over the news, again and Democrats and the MSM are behind it all the way. They gloss over all the violence and murders and allow BLM political messages painted onto public streets. It's a not too subtle way Democrat campaign strategy. You can't criticise them either. That's racist. Imagine, a political campaign where you're not to criticise their major campaign supporter.
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  1464. ​ @AlfredofWessex1  No it doesn't but he should have complied. You're not helping yourself by further pissing off cops that are already WAY too aggressive. He was outnumbered and should have "yes sir" and "no sirred" his way out of it. It may not have made a difference but you give yourself the best chance to get out of this alive or not badly injured.
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  1465. Modern journalists have all, seemingly, graduated from the Goebbels School of Propaganda. I have to admit, they're quite similar to Soviet journalists, though.
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  1466.  cindybin2001  I know exactly what you mean. I tried to tell a few people about the grooming gangs in Britain, and they said, disdainfully, that I must be listening to Breitbart. When I said that this story was broke by a London Times reporter and that there were hearings, available on Youtube, involving local officials about why they never did anything about those grooming gangs, they just sniffed and dismissed me. When I insisted that the information was available from top notch sources, they changed the subject. Facts are meaningless to these people.
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  1467.  @Schill1993  "You don't understand". You're making me laugh. You offer a nonsensical argument and then when someone can't understand that nonsense, you use it as proof of your intellectual superiority. It's bafflegab over gibberish.
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  1468.  @hanshansen3885  There will always be explanations. What I can see is that New York has had draconian lockdowns through this crisis. They had riots, businesses gone bankrupt, people leaving the state in droves, crime and homelessness on the rise. None of this is happening in Florida. The governor and the rest of the politicians if Florida treat the citizens like adults and believe in them. Cuomo thinks that the citizens of New York are a bunch of idiots that need his protection or they'll die. Authoritarians always believe that. They know what's best for you. That proposed Bill A416 exemplifies that attitude. They want to be able to hold you, without due process, for up to 2 months.....and the spineless New York sycophants will just bow their heads and accept it like the little children that they are.
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  1469. No she didn't. She made a statement that was supposed to be an apology but then she doubled down on her statement by implying that TP embraced those Neo-Nazis. That's why they had to give the apology, AGAIN that you just heard in this video. If she was a stand up person, she would have delivered this apology herself. She was the one that gave the tainted apology. She should have fixed it. That's what a stand up person would do.
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  1470.  metalshredmetal1  Why would you want to be a troll? It's the lowest form of life on the internet. Is it just the attention? Didn't your mommy love you enough? Grow up.
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  1471.  @perlefisker  Another reason the Soviets were stigmatised after the war is due to their covert actions that allowed them to develop nuclear weapons. Stalin and Khrushchev still advocated the idea that communism would take over the world and no one in the west wanted that. The Nazis were defeated. The war was over. There now was a new enemy and they were quite open about what their ultimate goal was. Why would the west of that time rail on about a defeated enemy when there was one who was quite clearly threatening them at that very moment.
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  1472.  @SM-by1od  There will come a time when the left will start condemning Dr. King. Every leftist should hear King's stand on violence. They'll ignore it until it gets too loud to ignore and then Dr. King will become a traitor to the black race.
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  1473.  @MrYakub-il4zq  I'm 67. Not really old and still hope I have lots of time to learn but it would have been nice to have that type of inspiration when I was young. I said 30 years ago but 45 years would have even been better, but, no regrets. I'l check that Macdonald reference out. Thanks.
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  1474.  @steven5054  This isn't a contest you know. "If he's not the greatest, he's not worth listening to kind" of dismissal academics. Peterson wasn't even born until Ellis was 39 years old and he earned his Ph.D when Ellis was in his late seventies. Sort of had a head start. None of that is irrelevant, however. For thousands of years, our ancestors were deep into ancestral worship and veneration, conservatism to the core. They weren't a bunch of illiterate troglodytes and there is a lot to learn from them. They did learn to survive in a hostile world and helped to build our civilisation to what it is now. The past isn't our enemy. There's a lot to learn from it, including why religion has been the driving force in human history, all over the planet in every culture that we've ever heard of. Unless you believe that they were a bunch of trogs. Not a very insightful belief, however.
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  1475.  @beyamoth  Such an easy claim to make. "He don't know s--t". Then pack up and go home. The comment of the internet dullard.
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  1476.  @beyamoth  His book "Maps of Meaning" is a very comprehensive look at how people have used myth and emotion and combined that with psychology, philosophy and evolutionary science to try to show how people have tried to find structure in their lives. This comes from a lot of different inspirations and it's a different way of looking at the human psyche. I haven't read the book but I have listened to most of the lectures and he has some fascinating ideas. I will read it this summer and I'm sure it will be more fascinating than the lectures. He's had both good and bad reviews on it in top psychology magazines so even his some of his contemporaries find it interesting.
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  1477.  @JDT64  First.....we've lost ONE year of construction so we can't even put an extra push on construction to speed up the completion process. He's put us over a year behind and there's no plan to restart construction so there's no relief to be expected there at all in any immediate future. Alberta Premier, Jason Kenney, says that it could still be completed by early 2023, if they went back to work and made it an international priority. It would increase, on its own, oil production by 900,000 barrels per day. Had Biden not stopped the work, it could have been completed by this fall. Second....if oil shortages from Russian embargoes are causing a dramatic rise in world wide energy costs, wouldn't the extra oil that the Keystone project add to the oil supply and drive DOWN energy costs?? Finishing the pipeline and encouraging domestic production would solve the shortfall that didn't exist one year ago. Biden is doing neither. You're making excuses for bad policy decisions and the result is increased inflation and an announcement of probable food shortages. Doing nothing isn't going to solve those problems.
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  1478.  @Pihlalorjoone  There was a way to keep your mother from cleaning your room. Clean it yourself. If there's nothing to clean, she won't bother to clean it or at least not as often. That's a lesson hardly any of us learn when we're kids. It's the lesson of self reliance and sufficiency. I didn't figure it out until I was in my mid twenties.
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  1479. If anyone would know it would be you.
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  1480.  @futuromusicent  Another one of those guys that thinks that ALL white folk are white nationalists. Sort of like Michael Moore, who thinks that 2/3 of white are dangerous. Moore must be crisscrossing the street in fear, so much, that it must take him all afternoon to walk around the block. Does that dummy ever think about what he says?
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  1481.  @curtissharris8914  " I feel like you made my point." Of course you do. I was just elaborating on the point that you made. Adding detail, so to speak, except I don't find the use of those words polarising. Smart people use critical thinking. Stupid people don't. Smart people are filled with facts. They understand how to gather facts and use them and are flexible in how they think. If I use another word besides stupid, I'm still saying the same thing. I'm just trading in one negative word for another one.
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  1482. Of course he won't. The Democrats knew that there was evidence that the Wuhan lab might be responsible and they didn't do a thing. Biden ran an entire presidential campaign and he never mentioned it. Over 3.5 million dead, and counting, and he, basically, covered it up. I'm not one to call pure evil but this is getting damned close.
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  1483.  @madinkan  Read my reply to bernadjameswilson. It'll give an introduction to what I'm talking about.
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  1484.  @erenjaeger1738  How do you exaggerate an atrocity. Is it in the numbers? Like the Holocaust deniers who claim that 6 million is an exaggeration, as if 500,000 thousand victims makes the perpetrators less guilty. Just because some Aztecs were convinced that it was an honour death, doesn't make it any less horrific. The Spartans would abandon, what they saw as weak babies, in the mountains to die. It really doesn't matter if 100 were abandoned or 10,000. It's the mindset that allows it to happen that counts. There is no rationalisation for atrocities. You can use statistics, religion, the times....it doesn't matter. It's still an atrocity. These atrocities are happening today and we're still rationalising them, turning the events into contests to gauge which ethnic group is the worst. It won't stop until we stop the rationalisation.
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  1485. He ran a presidential campaign from his basement. Why not international diplomacy?
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  1486.  @theaccelerateddragon2017  Issues? Like getting control of the borders? Deregulation? School choice? The Abraham Accords? Economic opportunity zones? Bringing manufacturing back to the US? These are just some of the things that Trump worked on when he was president. Maybe if you listened over your inherent dislike of the man, you'd know about those issues and more.
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  1487. I'd like to see that teacher in a real world construction site. He's be a disaster.
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  1488. Yet restaurant owners, in the fifties, were picketed for exercising their "private company" rights. Not defending them but it does seem to go one way, doesn't it.
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  1489. On the farm, when the well ran dry, we went digging new wells, in hopes of striking water. In town, we call the city and complain until THEY do something. In the country, there is no "they". Ultimately, it's going to be up to you to fix the problem. You can ask for help from your neighbour but you're still the one responsible.
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  1490.  geezusispan  What are you talking about? They had fireworks and a parade and the leader of the country gave a speech. People had a good time. That's what you're supposed to do at fireworks and a parade. Only the most miserable Scrooge could complain about that. What do Russians have to do with this, anyway? Is your hate so blind that you see Russians behind every tree?
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  1491.  @freedantheeternal  He's a troll. You'll never get an answer out of the guy. I've even heard that he may have multiple accounts to make it look as if his ideas are popular and valid.
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  1492. Yes....these stories have been recurring periodically. However, I'm thinking that most people thought that these stories were aberrations, that it would be straightened out because it was so ridiculous. The fact that it was in the news was evidence that it would be addressed....and it never was because it was more than just the story. Couple that, with the normal human reaction, where people think that it's happening "over there" where the crazies live. It's so ludicrous that average, normal people just couldn't take it seriously. Incredibly, I know people who haven't heard about this particular story involving Lia Thomas. They're too busy working, raising their kids and trying to live around the Covid stuff to be following the news that carefully.
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  1493.  @bobshenix  And those character flaws are spilling into their everyday lives and making them extremely unhappy. Telling them that if they start small by "cleaning their rooms" they will find purpose in their lives, something that is a positive. It's small and simple, one that can easily be accomplished...but it's just a start. Some of those lazy, unmotivated and unhappy individuals have taken him up on it and found that it wasn't all that difficult. So they expanded that initial mandate by doing a little more. So many have changed their lives by starting small and simple, because they didn't see the value in it, until JP pointed out how it could have some value. If these people are grateful to JP for pointing it out to them, why would you crap all over it. It obviously has value to some people....the ones who've grown up never having to do anything for themselves, thanks to their helicopter parents. This is something that their parents SHOULD have shown them when they were preschoolers but had to wait until a guy like JP told them that a good way to get out of their miserable existence was to take some responsibility for their own lives. Like cleaning their own room instead of waiting for the maid or their mother to do it. If a person can do that one simple task, they should be able to handle 2 simple tasks and then 3, expanding outward until their lives take on a semblance of order. It's too bad some adults have to be told the value in this but that's the way it is. Some folk just don't get it.
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  1494.  @bobshenix  How is it his fault that someone would use what he's saying to further their own agenda? That's our his control. What's more, you've not shown me how they're using this to further radical right wing causes. It's meant to help individuals who are having problems dealing with life. He helps people and now somehow you link it to right wing extremism? If you make the claim, you should be able to make a logical case to show the link AND to show how this was JP's intent. That I haven't heard, yet.
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  1495.  @bradleyweiss1089  After millions of years, a tree had a cone that was just a little bit different and couldn't release it's seeds because the seed was sealed in too tight within its cone. A fire came along and the seed container came under pressure as will happen to a sealed container. It exploded and the seed was released and fell to the ground. The seed wasn't readily flammable and survived the fire and later germinated. This new tree carried the genes that would produce sealed seed containers. This type of manipulation can be done by humans rather quickly. Left to the processes of nature, it would take a lot longer.
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  1496.  @TheRealTburt  Some schools ARE better. That's not the problem. It's when they rest on their laurels to the point of becoming too lazy and then feel that they don't have to work to keep up that reputation. Add to that the presence of ideologues and you'll end up with mediocrity. Nothing stays the best for long. To do that, you have to work hard. That's something that very few of us are willing to do.
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  1497.  Oliver Von arx  I would only do that judiciously. The last thing I want is to give the appearance that I'm as unhinged as they are. I'd say that to you but in mixed company, I want to come off as the sane one. That's how you capture those who are uncertain of what to think or believe. That's how you beat them at their own game. Screaming and calling them names, gets you nowhere. "You're a Fascist" "No....you're the Fascist" That's the game of 6 year olds. Let them play it.
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  1498.  @jharvey62778  Maybe not, but one day a mentally challenged individual will follow his example, thinking he's doing a good thing and he'll kill an innocent bystander. The rhetoric that validates this behaviour has to stop before a grieving mother has to bury a 6 six year old child
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  1499. She can't let him talk. Her worldview would be torn to pieces if people were allowed to hear what Rufo had to say.
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  1500. Will Cumming Scorn and dismissal is a tactic that is used, quite often, by those who oppose a viewpoint. It's tactless and does not address any issue or topic that is put on the table and is a negative aspect of human nature. Assertions of self evidence is not evidence that an assertion is true. Hard and sterile facts are the proofs that judge an assertion's validity. The American constitution provides that all people within in the US have equal rights under the law. Forcing Rosa Parks to get up so a white person could sit violated her right as a citizen of the US. That was a tangible event, a violation of a constitutional right, that could be demonstrated and proven and that's why it's a high water mark for human rights in the US. What these activists are championing are vague issues, nothing tangible, but floating in the murky waters of accusations without any specificity. It's asserting that speech and beliefs are the same as actions and those who question aspects of their beliefs as violence and deserving of judicial sanctions. I have the right to believe that Rosa Parks' ethnicity should be the criteria for her to give up her seat. I do not have the right to force her to get up. That belief makes a jerk, the enforcement of that belief makes me a criminal and that's when the law should step in. A belief is what I think. An action is what I do. You cannot control my thoughts but you can, under due process of law, control my actions.
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  1501.  @RagaSHOT  Wow. Hate much? Doesn't it concern you that Joe Biden threatened to not give 1 billion dollars of American taxpayer money UNLESS the Ukraine government fired a high level prosecutor? He actually bragged about it and it's on video. That doesn't bother you? You'd think you'd be outraged by it. Instead, you rant about Trump, calling him names and making vague accusations about his corruption. You may even be right about Trump's corruption but why would you be so upset about it and then just shrug off Biden doing the EXACT same thing? You're not being very consistent and it makes me wonder if your vitriol has more to do with personal hatred then it does a big concern over corruption. Any and ALL corruption should upset you but that doesn't seem to be the case, at all.
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  1502.  @BenSamuel-d6l  What did he say that wasn't true? Crying out "LIAR" doesn't make him a liar. Only facts can do that. Convince us with facts.
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  1503.  @dancarter482  Maybe it went over YOUR head but I've some bad news for you. You're not "everyone".
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  1504.  @CK-jd7wo-test  I was circumcised when I was 5 due to a severe infection. The relief, from the pain, was almost instantaneous. Once healed, life went on as before, except my penis now had no foreskin covering it when it was flaccid. It didn't change my life one bit. Not like it does for those who have these radical surgeries done in order to appease their troubled emotional state. From the moment that this surgery is completed, they will be subject to a life long series of drugs and corrective surgeries to maintain, not just their original procedure but to their life. It's horrific.
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  1505.  @melgillham462  If it's that case, then the baker didn't discriminate against a gay couple. They were quite willing to bake the cake but they refused to write something, on the cake, that they didn't believe to be true. That would violate their freedom of expression. However, they even submitted the names of other bakers who would be willing to do the decorating. Let's turn this around. If I went to a bakeshop and I knew that the owners were LGBTQ+ activists, could I force them to decorate my cake with "Men can't get pregnant"? I would say "No, I can't force them to express themselves in ways that they don't believe to be true". I might not agree with them and I don't, but it's their right to believe as they wish and express themselves accordingly. Now, if they told me to get out and that they refused to bake a cake for me because of my beliefs, THAT would be discrimination.
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  1506. What did the people in authority think would happen? They bring in millions of immigrants who espouse a completely different ideology based on politics and religion working in tandem and claiming that they were going to take over Europe, and no one is going to push back? The governments and media have lied, covered things up and minimised the message that many Muslims were saying. Immigrants that were violent, abusive towards women, refusing to work or assimilate and demanding that Europeans change their lives to accommodate their religion have driven these people to take on desperate measures. It's incredible that this isn't even more prevalent. If the governments don't take notice and change their rhetoric, it's even going to be worse. All that's required is honesty and I doubt that they're not capable of it. There are regions in Europe that have a grim future and there is no one to blame but the EU mentality.
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  1507. Called out by one of the people that he claimed would most negatively impacted by male construction workers and he bails. Kudos to that young woman and shame on Trudeau, who couldn't even carry her work boots, let alone wear them. That man is a joke.
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  1508.  XWriter100  LOL. The number of people voting Democrat will exceed the population of the US.......but nothing suspicious about that.
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  1509. 7th Day Calvary Baptist church Our free health care sucks? Maybe to those who have lots of money and think their miserly ways should be the law of the land. Most Canadians, myself included, realize that there will never be a perfect system. However, it is comforting to know that every citizen can visit a doctor and not worry about how they are going to eat tomorrow and never have to forego a visit to the doctor for their child because they don't have the cash.
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  1510. +jaggafeen You're the one obsessed with sex and making extremely descriptive suggestions of bizarre sex acts. Get your mind out of the gutter and stop acting like a randy teenager. Is sex all you can think about?
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  1511. I'm going to argue against Tim on his claim that social media is the cause of the woke culture. Socialism has been growing for decades in our universities. Those academic socialists didn't call themselves woke, of course. However, they cultivated a culture that would lead to what we now call progressive woke. The socialist academics would only appoint those to academic posts who were avowed radical socialists. They would recommend them to educational positions in primary schools, who in turn, when they got the power, would only hire fellow socialists to teach or become part of the administration. That's when they had the ability to shape the minds of the young into their socialist philosophy. It's how Hitler shaped the minds of the youth of Germany. Get them when they're young so when they become adults, they become fervent foot soldiers for the cause. Who are the most constant and influential users of social media? The young. They're on it all the time and when they use social media, they're drawn to those who share the values that they've been taught in school. The same ones that were taught by these socialist academics for over a generation. The academics know that to control the populace they have to control the media. They've done it in the legacy media, in Hollywood and in the personnel departments of our large businesses, changing the name to "Human Resources" It all started in the hallowed halls of higher education. Had these people not existed, there would be no woke culture. Social media is there new propaganda tool and it's been very effective.
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  1512. Some people will not listen if the words are too graphic because the kids might be within earshot. You have your standards. Others have theirs. However, the way Tim presents it, everyone and anyone can listen and that's a good thing. The more that hear about this deviant behaviour, the better. I'm smart enough to understand what it is that Tim is talking about and it doesn't change how disgusted I am.
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  1513.  @Alex-pt5no  He said "the press" and it's not just the right that's expressing fear of the vaccination. I know lot's of leftist followers who are saying that they're waiting to see if there are side effects. Quit bringing politics into it.
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  1514. As if Trump is the only super rich guy that does it. You name the rich guy and I'll show you an army of accountants trying to save him money through his taxes.
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  1515. I would like you, Officer Tatum, to ask your kid's school for their curriculum. If they give you a hard time, show the rest of us. In fact, I think every parent reading this should do the same. Put the pressure on.
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  1516.  @rosmarin2438  It would make no difference to him anyway. He won't know where he is, anyway. His entire life, due to his dementia, is a prison cell. He's going through one of the worst afflictions of getting old. It will be the agent of his demise and that's not to far into the future.. 10 years ago, yes, he should have been imprisoned but what he needs, right now, is to give up the presidency and spend the rest of his life being cared for. Our prisons aren't suited to care for Alzheimer patients. It's over for the poor guy and Joe's retirement is what's best for all of us, including Joe. Who does need to go to prison are those who are pushing this country to accept a man suffering from dementia so that they can rule us from behind the curtain. That's the true crime right now.
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  1517.  @Kefka2010  I'm Canadian. There are a little over 35 million of us. We have a tacit agreement that we will work together under certain principles and guidelines to build for ourselves a better life. Part of that is setting policy for immigration that would best suit our Canadian association so that it benefits all within that association. Without guidelines, immigration could run amok and a country could be overwhelmed socially and economically. Worse, we'd lose control over you would enter and if their intentions were good or bad. That's why we insist on applications to immigrate here, a resume, if you will. That's all we ask. That's all the American government asks. However, illegals don't want to apply. They just want to enter. It'd be like a new employee insisting that he doesn't have to submit a resume. Just start working and get paid, whether qualified or not. They want to come and we have to provide them with the means to survive until they get on their feet.....if ever. What a great idea. Also, I have been to the States and have had to show my ID, a number of times. I had to show my passport and once I left it behind and my dad (he had his) had to go to the place we were staying and get it for me, before they'd let me go. Why were we detained? Ontario plates. I had my Canadian driver licence but that wasn't good enough. It was inconvenient but it wasn't the end of the world. Half hour later I was on my way. It wasn't the end of the world for these ladies either. All they had to do was show their ID and away they went. Not that horrible. They just made a big deal about nothing.
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  1518.  @al6r725  You should have watched Tim Pool and Jack Dorsey on Joe Rogan. Jack Dorsey was the head guy at Twitter and Tim went at him hard and Jack just sat there crestfallen and handing out excuses and denials. He's said, for YEARS, on how he has to watch what he can say on YouTube or they'd demonetise him or completely ban him. There's a lot of things that I disagree with Tim one but he's been quite open about how he feels about big tech censoring.
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  1519.  Sejez  I believe that BLM is a racist group. Any group, who's sole focus is on one race is racist. PERIOD. They have no goal but to eliminate racism against them and that can never happen until there is no one left to be racist against them. The final solution. They're no different than the KKK. Support for one race only.
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  1520.  @davidhowell1415  That applies to the band "Rage against the Machine", too. In the nineties, they were all about fighting the status quo. Now, they are the status quo, carrying water for the swamp. Weird how that happens. I saw the same thing happening to the hippies of the sixties. A lot of them came from upper class families, railing against the establishment, peace, love, drop out and tune in. In the eighties, a lot of them became the establishment, making big money working for the very corporations that they hated 15 years earlier. The Clintons are a great example of this shift. Activists in the sixties, while at college, bit in the swamp by the nineties.
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  1521.  @jimmcloughlin  Estimates for the deaths of the famine, brought on by collectivisation in China, put in motion by Mao, run as high as 55 million. That's in the fifties, NOT WW2. Then there was the cultural revolution that started in the mid sixties and lasted 10 years. Add that to the famines, and it may be as high as 70 million. These are deaths, not due to wars, but to the disastrous policies of the Chairman Mao and his associates. Then there were the disasters of Stalin and Lenin. Once again, not due to WW2, but to the famines caused by collectivisation of farms and the horrors of their police state. These are deaths brought down on their OWN people. Then the famines of the Soviet Union, brought on by the same communist policies under Lenin and Stalin. Around 5 million in 1923 and maybe as many as 7 million in 1933, including around 3.5 million Ukrainians. Then another 1.7 in the Gulags. Who knows how many millions have died in North Korea in the 20th century. Another 2 million in the killing fields of Cambodia by the communists there. Around 1 in 4 Cambodians died because of Pol Pots great agrarian society. These are just the numbers from the main communist powers. We have no idea on the numbers in the Iron Curtain countries of those times, or Cuba, Zimbabwe and other socialist regimes. These are all deaths NOT through foreign invasions or wars. These are deaths caused directly from the policies of the communist governments. I have references for all of it. All you gotta do is ask.
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  1522.  @forcedanonymity1791  We didn't realise the ramification of our dirty industrial revolution. We do now and I don't believe that China has to go that route. Technology has advanced enough that they could do better but they don't want to.
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  1523.  @brandonsmith9860  I'm sure that you won't read this but I'll repeat a comment that I made earlier. "With a stroke of the pen.....6 trillion bucks added to the Federal deficit. That's 6,000,000,000,000 dollars. That's over 18,000 dollars for EVERY man, woman and child in the United States. Since only half of America is of working age and paying taxes (potentially), you can double that to 36,000 bucks for every working American. That's if there are no cost over-runs.....and there's ALWAYS over-runs when the government's involved. This is an insanity that's never been seen before in American politics."
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  1524.  @cyberbetica  Might know the Dutch would come up with a project like that. LOL. My parents grew up in the Netherlands.
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  1525.  @tepacety7602  Your comment is incoherent and I have no idea what your point is. All I'm saying is that they only do it when necessary. In the wild they will defecate outdoors and their waste will never gather enough in one pile that they could lie in it even if they wanted to. That only happens in the artificial setting that we impose on them by not looking after them properly. That's on the human caretaker. We looked after our pigs and gave them the space they needed and so they REFUSED to lay in their own excrement. That's normal pig behaviour.
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  1526.  @denniswakabayashi4199  Not for long. I would imagine that there are a team of leftie scholars scouring through the history books and records of Amerigo Vespucci right now, looking for something to discredit the man. They will find it and that will be the end of America as a name. The United States of Social Justice will come into existence.
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  1527.  @Max_Mustermann  MY point is that this is NOT a partisan issue. If you break the law, you should be charged. You're softening what that guy did by bringing up other incidents and every incident you bring up, belies a political leaning. You're using a slanted logic instead of facing what is the issue being discussed. That man should NEVER have assaulted and his property should NEVER have been vandalised. I don't care what happened at a Trump rally. It's completely irrelevant to this incident.
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  1528.  @Max_Mustermann  You seem to ignore the "peaceful" protests by BLM and Antifa in which over 25 people were killed, including a little girl, hundreds of injuries and billions of dollars of damage done and that our current vice president, Kamala Harris donated money to help bail out the rioters. Where President Biden's staff did the same. If you want to talk about partisanship, I can play that stupid game. This is a game in which there is NO winner. Just losers. You're picking only one side when you cite hypocrisy. There's enough to go around but you only want to see it through your own biased lens.
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  1529. It's like that Nadler character. He tells Candace Owens that she not to call a member of Congress "stupid" when she didn't say that at all. That's how the Democrats are behaving now. No sense of judgement or reality. That's who the CNN sycophants are seeing current events, these days. Through the same lens that Dems like that are seeing. Distort the facts and then present it as truth.
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  1530.  @jedw9983  It shows you what you know about Canada and our relationship to the queen. We have a Charter of Rights that supersedes any power that the queen has over us. That means that we are an independent nation that maintains strong ties to Britain. The power of the Charter of Rights has been affirmed and signed by the queen, herself. You are living in the past.
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  1531.  @jamietabaha4081  I assumed that she was American. Why would an American be offended by that remark? I don't get it. Am I supposed to assume that everyone that looks like her is Chinese? I was under the impression that assumptions, based on physical characteristics, is racist. She's American. No qualifiers, no descriptors. Only a racist would assume differently. She's just looking to make a story and to make this all about her. A journalist reports the news. They are not THE news.
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  1532. Indigenous doesn't apply to white people. Surely, you knew that. The Netherlands is my homeland. I once commented that I was a Dutch aboriginal. Man...the flack that I caught for that. You can be an aborigine in Australia or Canada, but not in the Netherlands and I'm supposing Scotland as well. We really are living in weird times.
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  1533.  @A_Jeff  Enlighten us. What is the trial all about?
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  1534.  Sophie Blessed  You've said absolutely nothing. If you want to be taken seriously, tell us what he said and how it could hurt you or better yet, how it's hurting people right now. Also, one of his top axioms is to take responsibility for your own life. When he says to "clean your room" that's exactly what he's talking about. It's a metaphor that's telling you to start small, get that under control and keep expanding outwards from there. That it's up to you to change your life and that no one else is going to do it for you. If that's being a cult, then it's the worst cult in history. Personal responsibility is poison to a cult.
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  1535.  @stueyapstuey4235  So there's no one that believes that gender is a social construct? That's news to me. News to my dog, too. To my grand daughter too. She wanted to name my dog, Cindy, but I told her it was a "boy dog". She told me that she wanted it to be a girl and that she hates boys and stuck her tongue at her older brother. Watch this video. Tell me none of this stuff isn't real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mV2pANrmk This is all nutty stuff based on post modern and intersectional ideologies, which evolved from Marxism. A woman was shot in the head and killed in Indianapolis because she had the temerity to say "All lives matter" to a BLM activist. The book "White Fragility" is a blueprint for this racist nonsense, advancing purity tests that no one could pass. The author has been giving seminars at "woke" companies to white folk so they will admit their unconscious bias and the company is forcing you to attend. It's nuts. There definitely is a radical left wing that has wild ideas. You're either too brainwashed to see it or you support it and are as crazy as they are.
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  1536.  @jerrybumstead2654  Drugs for kids, when I was in school was unheard of. They just didn't exist. As for the authority part, culturally, life was so much different back then. Right from early childhood, we were exposed to a much stricter set of rules and a more regimented lifestyle. This was the norm, no matter where you went. Prayer before and after each meal. If you're sitting in a highchair, mom reached over and held your hands down while the prayer was being said. This was expected. Everyone did it. The little ones were actually proud to do the things that the older ones were doing. At evening meal, there was also a Bible reading and you were expected to sit still, quietly and listen. This wasn't just at my home, either. It happened everywhere I went. By the time a kid went to school, sitting still and standing in line was nothing. Our classes were quiet. If you stepped out of line, you got the strap. I got it lots of times. No big deal. In spite of this strictness, we had way more freedom that kids do now. We were out, at the neighbours, riding bikes, we never told our parents what we were up to. No helicoptering parents. We played hockey, soccer and baseball with no supervision. Fishing and swimming, building forts...but be home in time for meals or you didn't eat. I remember being blocks away and hearing my mother yelling my name to come home at 7 and 8 years old. You had the freedom but don't screw up. You got in trouble with the a neighbouring adult and he cuffed you across the head, you don't tell your dad. He'd cuff you a couple more times and tell you to stop being a troublemaker. I was talking about this with my siblings a couple of weeks ago. We all agreed that life was a LOT more fun for us than for kids these days. Not even a close comparison.
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  1537.  @ericmatthews8497  Destroyed MY world???? LOL. There are all kinds of beer out there. I don't HAVE to drink Bud or I could not drink beer at all. However, Bud does have to sell beer to maintain a profitable business. Right now, life goes on for me without Bud. Can Budweiser say the same? It doesn't appear so.
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  1538. What deals are those? I'm honestly interested.
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  1539.  @OpinionFactChecker  Good vs evil....THAT is the dichotomy.
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  1540.  @johanvanderpants9363  He was hanging out with his cousins who were wanted for murder and armed robbery. Strange how you don't seem to mind that kind of activity. What would be YOUR solution to stopping those REAL dangers to society? I would lay bets that you don't have any realistic solutions. If the police try to stop their violence, you complain. If they allow them to continued on their crime spree, you complain.....especially if YOU'RE the victim. No matter what, according to you, the police would be in the wrong. Buddy was sleeping with a gun at the ready. Who does that??? I'd say that it would be someone who knew that he was in a dangerous place, either from others seeking revenge or the police. You lay down with dogs, you will get up with fleas. You're just too possessed with hate to allow for any kind of reasonable or rational conclusion on this situation. When you allow emotion to rule logic, you'll end up perpetuating the kind of violence that these people were involved in.
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  1541.  @jdieud5379  What a shallow comment.
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  1542. He was an alt-right, BLM supporting Marxist and a Capitalist. That's the worst of them all. He's a chameleon. In other words he's a horse's Aye ss.
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  1543.  @23wtb  I'd say that it would be quite easy to find 20 wackos in the Pacific northwest. They're everywhere.
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  1544.  @kytesiridar1610  I think what he means is that this should be taught, in the schools, in the proper method, just like every other subject should be. Maybe we have to fix our schools first but that's the underlying point.
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  1545.  @Taru1blm  The moment that he did....like last night, his officers are an occupying army. He's damned if does and damned if he doesn't. Portland Oregon should be allowed to rot. No more federal funds to that state and they can secede and form their Socialist Utopia. Let them go "Venezuela". It's what they want.
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  1546.  @ReeCooks14579  Why would they close the school library? That doesn't make sense. Parents want to see sexually explicit books taken out of school libraries so they close the ENTIRE library down??? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'd need a reference to what school this is and when this happened before I believe a word of it.
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  1547.  @markwaghorn  The point being made isn't any less true because Robin Hood is fictional.
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  1548.  @pickmeasinner  They do it to confuse speech.
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  1549.  @FrancesPJohnson  I find both Biden and the MSM as disgusting as they can be. They may not admit it right now but if the circumstances were in their favour, they'd be behind concentration camps 100%. They don't have the power yet to pull it off.
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  1550.  @TheBigBigSean  If you have research that supports that claim, you should share it. There are ways to do it that won't get you censored. It's incredibly important that you do. I could spend the next month, looking around for the information that you have, and not find it. It would be a public service if you could get it to us.
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  1551.  @mortisgentem492  What a great idea, Mr. Stalin. Is the Gulag ready for them? Maybe if you starve millions of people first, it'll be easier to round them up. You know, an American Holodomor.
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  1552.  @aceboog4546  Troll.
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  1553. Cuba is the country where your doctor is also the guy that drives the taxi-cab that takes you to the doctor's appointment.
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  1554.  @georgemason926  How easy it is to call someone a liar. You don't have to have proof, just say "LIAR" and there you are. Now....if you have proof that he made the whole thing up, let us in on it. Otherwise, stop with the gossip. Gossip is the product of a weak mind or a member of Antifa. Either way, you're not painting a good picture of yourself.
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  1555. @ Ooooh.....a big word. You smart. I'm going to look up "relativism" right now. Since your assessment is relative, your assessment must be correct and mine wrong. She's an 8 and since it's ALL up to you, that's now the standard. Gotcha. LOL.
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  1556.  @briana.g.7412  It's so easy to judge the lives of those who lived almost 250 years ago. You can sit there on your moral high horse because there's no way that you'd ever be put in that position where your immediate family would ever have slaves. It's like my dad. He grew up 20 miles west of the German border. When he was 8 years old, he hid in a ditch, along with his brother, and watched in terror as thousands of Nazi troops marched by singing battle hymns, in their invasion of the Netherlands. He's now 89 and still says the it was the scariest day of his life. But what if he had been born 20 mile EAST of the German border, on the same road that the Germans used to march into the Netherlands. Would he have play marched alongside those soldiers, goose stepping along, dreaming of the day that he too, would be marching off to fight for the Fuehrer and the Fatherland. That imaginary line was all that defined whether he was a bad guy, a goose stepping Hitler youth, and a good guy, the kid that would eventually see the Canadian soldiers, sleeping in his barn as his teenage idols. You just don't know where and what life hands you. Except for you, of course. You'd be that 9 year old Berliner that would refuse to join the Hitler youth and be a hero, today. Don't be so morally self righteous.
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  1557. It is controversial. It shouldn't be but the DA made it so. That man defended himself and had to spend almost a week in jail and, due to no medical attention, his wounds festered and became infected. Now he feels forced to move because he no longer feels safe in NY. He was treated abominably. If that's not controversial....WHAT IS????
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  1558.  @xenocide1307  It's not that there aren't good teachers who want to teach. It's that the schools won't hire them. This is an ideology that has been building for years....generation after generation, starting in the universities. Those university students, who enthusiastically support this ideology, are recommended for positions in education, the media, politics and Human resources departments. In education, it doesn't matter what the specialty is, like math or literature. What matters is that it's taught through their radical socialist lens. It took years, DECADES, for this to come to fruition, slowly expanding outwards until it was everywhere. We're now seeing the results in Critical Race, Gender, Queer and Feminist theories although Feminist theory is being abandoned. It's Marxism through Praxis or practice. It has to be stopped before we fall to their Marxist plans and we lose the country that we grew up in.
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  1559.  @ronp2096  If it was wrong for Trump, it's wrong for Obama. You're just as selective as those you accuse of being selective. If you have any integrity, call them BOTH out.
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  1560.  @tehbakedpotato  I didn't hear that but does it ever make sense. It's also a pie in the sky mentality. Very few of the gifted students will help others. Their work would be done and the extra time will become a time to goof off. That's human nature.
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  1561. @Henry James They could have an exchange of ideas but I've yet to see it. I watched the Candace Owens/Blair White "discussion" and I didn't like it all and I like both of them. I'd rather have a person come on, talk about their ideals and perceptions without interruption. It's like reading a book, even one like "Mein Kampf". I don't want to be interrupted, continuously, by outrage. I want to read it, absorb it, analyse and come out with my own take on it. If Rubin has Candace Owens on, I want to hear about her beliefs and her life. If he has Jimmy Dore on, I want to hear where he's coming from. I don't want to hear an argument or a debate because very little ever gets said.
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  1562.  @sid2112  I invite you to come to a Canadian country bar sometime. We're friendly as can be until you act the fool. Ask anyone that's ever played hockey how polite we are. We also dominated the news a little over a year ago with the trucker protests. People from all over the world followed that and the protests had to be dismantled by force. We're nice people. People should be polite but don't upset us. We walk softly but we will punch back when pushed.
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  1563.  @NateO123  Since only black folk would have voted for him, the US being as racist as it is, they must have cheated. Only 13% of the country is black, so how could a racist country ever voted for a black man into the presidency? It's illogical. Obama cheated. That has to be the reason....or else America isn't as racist as they claim. Either A or B. I know which option that I'm leaning towards.
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  1564.  @pete-ex7qt  My wife is an atheist and has been at the forefront of fighting abortion. Of course, a lot of religious folk are against atheism but they're also for the idea of "Loving thy neighbour as thyself". Does that mean that because the church supports that idea that you now think that it's okay to hate for any reason that your mind might create? This isn't about group identity, specifically religious identity. It's about whether one thinks it's right or wrong. Is that fetus a living and unique human being or not? THAT'S the issue....nothing else. When you can prove that the fetus isn't human, isn't alive and growing and isn't separate and unique, then you've won the argument. Until then, the fight will go on.
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  1565.  @christopherparks4342  It's wrong when the Ukraine prosecutor that he wanted fired had investigated his son's boss. If that was his motivation, it should be looked into. Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner and founder of Burisma Holdings, had been investigated and had 23 million dollars in assets frozen. He left Ukraine in 2014. Shortly after, Hunter Biden was hired by Burisma Holdings. Less than 2 years later, Biden threatens to withhold 1 billion dollars unless the prosecutor was fired. Zlochevsky, not only got his 23 million dollars released, he returned to Ukraine shortly afterwards. It wasn't long before he was being investigated for something else, namely granting drilling licenses for subsidiary companies that he owned while he was the Minister of Ecology. This was the guy that Hunter Biden worked for. Maybe it's all innocent.....maybe not, but it sure could be helpful to have the son of the Vice President of the most powerful country as a member of your staff, now wouldn't it. Especially if you're as corrupt as the Zlochevsky appears to be. I'd say that it warrants a look see into what's going on here especially since Zlochevsky has once again left Ukraine and no one is sure where he is, although some reports say he might be in Monaco. But, apparently an investigation would be wrong because it might help Trump. In other words, it doesn't matter if Biden did wrong or not. Ethics isn't the question. It's politics.
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  1566.  Robbie Dawson  As a Canadian, I'm telling you that the big problem in Canada isn't the immigrants as much as it is left wing politicians and their adherents. They want to institute socialist ideologies, disguised as social justice and and think vetting immigrants is racist. They're the ones that are going to destroy Canada just as it was the socialists that destroyed Venezuela. It's destroying the United States too and it's the Democrats that are leading the charge with their support of identity politics and cultural Marxism. Don't blame outsiders for what your own countrymen are supporting and applying.
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  1567. I know. This health crisis is SO serious that they feel that they can fire health workers and it won't matter. They're nuts.
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  1568. Are you really saying that you refuse to listen to her message that THOUSANDS of people died due to a horrific political policy because YOU DON'T LIKE FOX NEWS???? In other words, right and wrong mean nothing to you.....only tribal politics. You sound like a really nice person. (deep sarcasm)
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  1569. Won't be much of a debate. Cenk will ask a question and Peterson will get out 5 words before Cenk starts yelling over him, all red-faced and the spittle flying everywhere, soiling Peterson's new suit.
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  1570.  @user-te9ut7ms4l  That's who I would go to. The person who's being accused of wrongdoing. They'll always tell you the truth. (BIG eye roll). That's how our courts should operate. "Are you guilty? No? Okay....you can go home now." Makes sense to me. It would save us a fortune and all the prisons would be empty is 15 years.
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  1571.  @kulturfreund6631  The Nazis thought they could destabilise the Netherlands, before the war. They supported Nazi parties in hopes that Holland would be any ally because they wanted access to the port of Rotterdam. However, the people of Holland rejected the Nazis and declared itself neutral. I have relatives who told me about the Nazi rallies in Holland but the average Dutchmen said NO. They had a culture that preferred peace over war and hard work to get ahead. Germany had to invade Holland. They couldn't subvert it from within. It can be done. It's about the culture of the people of the nation. It's a culture of discontent that revolutionaries try to foment and only a culture that accepts those ideas that will join them in their quest for power. It's why I always say to not blame others for your situation. Others will not help you get out of it. Do it yourself. It might be difficult but, in the end, it's worth it. The people of Costa Rica are living proof of a nation that has a fairly decent standard of living and, by far, the lowest crime rates in all of Central America and likely all of South America. It comes from within.
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  1572.  @lovegrace3719  "the wicked will envy" YOU? So you ARE worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven. LOL. You're really something. Humility isn't a strong part or your personality, is it. "Pride cometh before a fall". or maybe. "Blessed be the meek" I don't know who I'm talking to.....WOW. God's special servant? Nothing meek about that, or prideful.
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  1573.  @Nill757  Those who knew were ideologues and could care less.
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  1574.  @diamondsfurez7456  The point of this video and his post isn't about whether waiting tables is glamorous or not. It's about whether it's racist and sexist and that they're being exploited by not being paid a living wage. He's stating that he was paid a very good wage which flies against the claim that waiters don't make a decent wage. I've worked as a bartender for years. No it's not always glamorous and it can be a thankless job, especially for the waiters and waitresses. However, the money is excellent and you meet some great people and that's the reason most of us did it. I also worked construction. The money was good, in fact, it was excellent. However, it wasn't glamorous. It's dirty, hot one day, freezing the next, wet the day after. It's backbreaking at times and the hours are long and customers will treat you like crap and try to take advantage of you. But, the money's good and there is a satisfaction in creating a product that customers find value in. Glamorous jobs are the myth of TV movies and romance novels. Reality is a lot different.
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  1575.  @diamondsfurez7456  I'm a bartender right now and I'm going to Costa Rica in January. I'm being accompanied 3 other waiting staff. I don't own my own home but they all do. I worked with a guy that bought a beautiful waterfront home which was paid off when he retired. If you work at a moderately successful business and get in 30 hours a week, you'll do just fine and as well as any factory worker. I've worked a 7 hour Friday night shift and have taken home almost 400 dollars in tips. Right now, I make minimum wage. If you upped my hourly to minimum wage, I wouldn't make 1 cent more and if that were to take the place of tips, I would take a huge cut in pay. The biggest issue waiting staff have isn't how much they make while working but how owners won't give them enough hours. Most waiting staff are always moving around in attempts to get more hours. I could get by on a 25 hr workweek but anything over 30 is great. I don't think I know any waiting staff that get 40 hours a week which is the norm in manufacturing and construction. Hours are a constant complaint and owners use them to discipline workers or give them shifts that aren't as busy. Exchanging 8 hours of good hours for 8 hours of bad ones could cost you well over 100 dollars. This whole tip thing is just another way for champagne liberals to feel good about themselves without even having to talk to staff any more than they have to. There's a saying among waiting staff. "The size of the tip is directly proportional to the cut of the customer's clothes". What they mean is that the more expensive their clothes, the worse the tip you can expect to receive. Blue collar workers tip the best. Business types are stingy and rude.
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  1576.  @coryburns4309  There's so many questions that this reporter could have asked, in face of state emergency. Questions that might even help his audience prepare for the hurricane. Instead, he quoted someone who said something about racism, which helps no one with the emergency and may even cause harm for some. Basically, he was rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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  1577.  @JohnCarterRocks  Like what? What women's health issues would a politician want to control? Cancer? The flu? Meningitis? A broken ankle? Just what exactly.
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  1578.  @kayakuprising5914  When I was growing up, EVERY parent would have been "irresponsible". EVERY one of them. We walked to school, to the store, went fishing, bike riding, built forts in the woods, played soccer, baseball and hockey without a parent in sight when we were that age. We looked after each other and woe betide the child that caused enough trouble that their parent heard about it. I feel sorry for those kids that never have a moment to be human beings, to have every action, word or decision be supervised from overbearing parents and adults. One day, they graduate from high school and are suddenly thrust into an adult world, either to work or college and they need their hands held at every moment. You're stunting their growth as strong, independent human beings and shame on you for doing that.
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  1579.  @eoin8450  Instead, you'd have no money Marxism to ensure that no one has power.....except those who must ensure that no one has power. Someone has to do the dirty work. Then everyone reports to that elite, who are the keepers of "no power" the neighbour, who is accumulating more than his fair share, or even showing the perception of accumulated inequality. That neighbour will now be dealt with by that elite overseer of "no power" and inequality. Hobble the thoroughbred so he can't outrun the Shetland pony.
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  1580.  @eoin8450  China started out communist. Communism cannot exist without authoritarianism. However, central planning of an economy, is just too complicated for a small elitist authority. So, they allowed a decentralisation of small businesses and small market gardens. It seemed to work but it was still at the behest of the central planning authority. Since it did work, they allowed it to expand but the key word is "ALLOWED". It's expanded to the point that it is now, but it's still only allowed.....it's at the permission of centrally planned government. It's why Huawei is involved in all kinds of espionage. They exist at the behest of the central authoritarian government. If Huawei refuses, that could spell the end of the top executives of that company. That's illegal in a free capitalist country. The government cannot force you to do something you don't want to do. That's an infringement of their rights. China is somewhere between a free capitalist society and communism and it's a lot closer to communism than it is to a western style government and economy. That's why early 20th century economic pundits called Fascism, National Socialism. It's somewhere between our western style government and economy and communism.....Fascism to be precise. I came to this conclusion after reading memoirs of Soviet and Nazi era writers and realised that the only difference between the 2 was that the communist Soviets micro managed and the socialist Nazis allowed the companies to micro manage. However, both were in full control of the big picture.
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  1581.  @AskAW  Start small. Find out what your educational level is and then try to improve it. You will NEVER make it. Get that idea out of your head. It's a life journey and it's what gives your life purpose.
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  1582. "Long live the King!" Hochul and the Democrats don't know when they've been trolled.
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  1583.  @wigletron2846  I was being facetious. I don't expect to hear from him. By requesting proof I've forced his hand. He either responds and proves his claim (he can't) or he disappears, proving that he's full of it. He'll disappear. I'm sure of it.
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  1584.  @armandhammer2235  There are basic truths that we can and should all discuss no matter who we are or how old. However, we have to understand that the nuances of those truths can have profound effects on how we view things. You had world experiences that gave you insights on those basic truths that those young students couldn't possibly have. That gives your insights an air of plausibility. Then you rightly point out that your life has changed since then. You didn't have children, didn't own your home or even exercise a basic right of self protection. You've added to your life experience that gives further nuance to those basic truths. That's as it should be. You've portrayed your life as a journey to truth, never as a destination realised. That's what so deeply troubling about education these days. There is no journey to truth, these days. It already exists and they're going to tell it to you.
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  1585.  @veradark5066  I'm not going to ignore them. That's the problem. People have ignored their rudeness all their lives. What if they get upset when you ignore them? What if, to get that attention, they become more aggressive and even violent. I'm not going to pretend that they don't exist. They do and, as far as I'm concerned, a troll is among the worst of those on the internet. Telling me to ignore them and to shut up only validates their rude behaviour and encourages them to bully people even more. I have no problem with someone discussing their ideas but I will not put up with unwarranted rudeness or bullying and I will tell the bully what I think of them. It's gotten me a fat lip, in the past, but you don't pick on those who can't defend themselves or hide behind the anonymity of the internet while you're doing it. I'll take a beating defending the bullied, whether physical or through cyber bullying, if I have to but I'll not condone with my silence.
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  1586. Let's get stuck on semantics, shall we. The next 1000 years are the coming years, just like the last 1000 years are bygone years.
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  1587. Years ago, my wife and I were out shopping or something. When we got home, there was a envelope in our mailbox, naming those eligible to vote in our household. It named me, my wife and our dog, George. George Haveman....our DOG. Come voting day, we went to our designated voting station and sure enough, on the voter's list, there he was, George Haveman....our dog. Fortunately, we live in Canada and we have to show ID when we vote. Since there is no George Haveman, and our dog can't vote, George Haveman didn't vote. It wasn't tallied. However, if you didn't have to show ID, anyone could walk in, claim he was George Haveman and vote for his favourite candidate. I have to say, even though I'm Canadian and I've no say in it, Democrats are either foolishly naive or they want the ability to cheat in the elections. It's not a stretch to assume that they're not naive.
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  1588.  Joe Biden is Your President! Get Over It!!!  Then why not do a forensic audit on the Dominion machines and prove the Trumpsters wrong? Wouldn't it be great if they did the audit and it's proven that those machines are working in the way they're supposed to work and that there's no problem with them? I want to rub in their faces. Why don't you?
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  1589.  @IdahoRanchGirl  It extremely terrifying. As Voltaire once said...."Those who can convince you to believe in absurdities, will also be able to convince you to commit atrocities". Once everything is on a spectrum, it implies that morality and ethics are on a spectrum. It all depends on how you look at it. That's as frightening as it gets and it explains why the left believes that it's moral to violently protest when it's for their cause but horrific when the cause isn't their cause. No right or wrong, only the cause.
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  1590.  @burny6666  I'd like to hear one of those lies. Give me an example.
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  1591. I think I saw Donald Trump's hand going in behind DeBlasio's back and moving his mouth.....like a puppet. I'm sure that's what it is. Same as those other politicians. It wasn't them talking. Trump took possession of their bodies and made them say it. If you don't believe me....you're a racist!!!!!
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  1592.  @truthreignsfacts4997  I've been predicting that Dr. King will be vilified for awhile now. They just haven't figured out a way to do it yet without hurting their cause. Democrats in California did try to repeal the State Civil Rights Act in the last election, though. We're inching closer. One day, some enlightened anti-racists will tear down Dr. King's statue and demand that we stop celebrating Dr. King Day, insisting that he's the black face of white supremacy. That's my prediction.
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  1593.  @fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335  Can you name ONE gem, jewel or artefact that Queen Elizabeth ever looted.
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  1594.  @krisdeadlochjones7964  So....if a person isn't fluent in English, he loses legitimacy when he speaks? You gotta be kidding. It's like saying that the colour your skin should be considered over the content of your character. The intent of what you're saying or writing carries more weight than a grammar or spelling mistake. You're judging on the superficial.
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  1595. You're not thinking rationally. I still have my smallpox vaccine scar and have received countless vaccines over my life. I'm almost 70 years old now and I'm in excellent health. Our generation and my parent's generation are seeing the longest lifespans in human history and we've ALL had numerous vaccinations. Use your head a little.
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  1596.  @TheOnlyBlackInMeWasWillieBrown  Jeremy READ that it wasn't at his house and that it was at one of his properties. Didn't you watch the video?? Also, Tim has a great many employees. He's running a company. Every day he has to pore over newscasts, decide on what to cover, write cohesive and relevant pieces to cover. He has to find guests for his podcasts, arrange to get them to his studio and provide accommodations. He's NOT some guy, like WE are, sitting in front of computer, by himself, making comments on things that he happens to run across. What a simplistic view of what it takes to run a business.
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  1597.  @jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n  Why should they build more schools and hospitals? I'm not following what you mean.
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  1598. An opinion commentator with stupid opinions.
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  1599.  @reaper_exd7498  Did you even watch this video? He just went into a rage criticising the left and cancel culture. He's endorsed Trump for president. He's shown his support for Stephen Crowder. What's he's doing is telling us about the truth and trying NOT to get banned, so we KNOW what's going on. If it wasn't for Tim, there are a lot of things that I wouldn't know about. THAT'S VALUABLE. If you don't know where he stands, you're either a liar or not paying attention. If you're lying, I'm thinking I know why. You're a leftest troll.
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  1600.  Can'tStop WantStop  I'm not going to speak for black women but I know ideology when I hear it. There are white women who are doing the same thing. They use feminist rhetoric to exert control over others. The real issue of human rights is lost to women's rights. Maybe Sotomayer shouldn't be singling out Black women but, it would seem to me, that there are Black women, who are adding Blackness to the same women's rights rhetoric. It's a dimension that white and other ethnic groups can't use. This isn't about women's rights, minority rights, gay rights or any other specific group claiming redress. It's about human rights and should be dealt with as specific cases not as a group identity crisis. That's where Sotomayer is making a mistake but it's the same mistake that you're making.
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  1601. Biden's storm troopers making arrests in Portland. LOL.
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  1602. @NPC Normalcy Bias I'll bet they completely distorted the events at Charlottesville, too, like they always do.
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  1603.  @matthewcurry3565  You did? All I read was personal attacks on him and those who appreciate his work. If I didn't know his stuff, I'd never know a thing about anything that he's ever said except maybe the "clean your room" crack that you made. When I suggested to discuss his work, I didn't mean to call us hypnotised zombies. How could I respond to that except like a 5 year old. "I am not!!!". But since you brought it up, what do you think he means when he suggest that one should "clean their room". I'm not asking you to agree with him, I want to know if you understand his point. Once you understand his point THEN you show us how wrong he is, if indeed there is a problem with what he's saying.
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  1604.  @matthewcurry3565  I've read everyone of your comments on this thread. You've never referred to any specific thing that he's ever said. You've made denigrating remarks about it but that's no different than me calling you a dummy. It says nothing except that I'm kind of an arrogant SOB. If you really can't understand what I'm talking about, you're not NEAR the intellectual that you think you are. Just a simple question about what you think he meant by "clean your room" goes unanswered. Why is that? Don't you know what he means? It's easy to say that it's a silly comment but that doesn't tell me that you understand it. If I answered this question, on a high school test, the way that you did, I'd get a big fat ZERO. Actually talk about the idea, not about what you think of Peterson.
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  1605.  @ldav2006  I don't think pride or arrogance had much to do with it. It was their lust for power that kept them from letting the rest of us know the truth.
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  1606. Isn't it weird how when you're in Texas and complaining about illegal immigration, you're a bigot, but when you're in New York and complaining about illegal immigration, you're caring about the enormous social and economic costs to the nation. Just something that I find weird.
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  1607.  @Maddin1313  Not bad. Not bad at all. LOL.
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  1608.  @bologna3048  So what??? Why does it upset people so much to hear Tim talk? It's insane. Let him talk. If you don't like what he says, go away. Don't listen to him anymore. Problem solved. I know lots of people who've never even HEARD of Tim Pool yet these whackjobs are some upset at his existence that they get all pissed off about him. They're not "right" in the head. Nothing "left" in their brain.
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  1609.  @Burner377  It's nice to know that, as a nation, we don't mind inflicting, what is internationally known as torture, on prisoners who haven't even been convicted of a crime. That's puts us among the ranks of nations like North Korea, China and Venezuela. Pretty good company. You must be proud. I find it embarrassing and am appalled that anyone would openly support this kind of behaviour as a matter of law.
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  1610.  @oed706  Clinton wasn't impeached over a BJ. He was being charged with sexual harassment by Paula Jones. The Monica story was brought to the hearings to show a pattern of behaviour. When asked, UNDER OATH, if he had sex with Monica, he said "NO". He denied it and it wasn't true. He LIED under oath. That's against the law. It's called "Perjury". That's why he was impeached. That, and the fact that his actions against Paula Jones......sexual harassment. That's against the law. So, stop with the BJ nonsense. He broke the law and even had his license to practise law revoked. A BJ isn't against the law. Perjury and sexual harassment is.
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  1611.  @dpjbdpjb  Not one kid in Gaza would have died had Hamas not sent 2000 men into Israel and started slaughtering 1300 unarmed young people at a music festival. What did you expect Israel to do? Surrender? Make sense.
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  1612. I've worked as a bartender for years. Every time I hear the claim that we need to live only on an hourly salary, I lose it....and so does every other server. We do very well, financially, thanks to the customers and we like it that way. It's an incentive to do a good job and to have a friendly rapport with the customers and it's reflected in how well we do in tips. This woman is out of her mind.
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  1613.  @michaelpalmieri7335  When Obama was first elected, I did think that this was a turning point for race relations in the US. Was I right but not in the way I thought. Obama was in the unique position of being the one person who could have brought some sense to the discord after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson. Instead, he basically said nothing and let that city burn, even though it was found that the "hands up, don't shoot" was false. By the time it was done not only Ferguson was burning, so were parts of Milwaukee, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Dallas. People were marching in the streets, some even calling for the killing of ordinary and random police officers and 5 officers in Dallas and 2 in New York were brutally murdered in response to the anti-police rhetoric of the press and certain leaders. One was a young black officer, mother of 2, who was waiting in her police vehicle and was executed with a bullet to the back of the head. Obama did nothing and the reason for that was simple. There was an election coming and he didn't want to upset the black voters. Race relations have been at their worst since the sixties. That was Obama's legacy and not one that he should be proud of. I would agree that Trump should never have praised Gianforte for body slamming that reporter however he did NOT mock that reporter for his handicap. The media gave the impression that the reporter Serge Kovaleski had cerebral palsy, a disease in which the sufferer loses body control. Kovaleski does NOT have cerebral palsy so he does NOT suffer from the lose of body control that one would see if he were afflicted by that disease. He speaks quite normally. Trump was mocking his fluster at being caught in an awkward stance on a claim he made. This is Kovaleski and how he normally talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ45EsD2Gc0 These are examples of how Trump mocks people who get caught in a lie and acting flustered. He has done it many times in the past. No one is going to claim the Ted Cruz is handicapped or even himself, years before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AedzsWd-ME Maybe Trump could have handled it better when he did find out the guy did have a bad arm but he wasn't mocking him for that. He was mocking him for getting caught in saying something that wasn't true by using exaggerated antics that a flustered person might use. To say that he was mocking his handicap is being disingenuous, at best, dishonest at worst.
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  1614.  Mr X  Trump has issues but every burning city was Democrat controlled. EVERY ONE. Every city that's talking about defunding the police are Democrat controlled cities. It's the Democrat supporting media that told everyone that the protests are good, in spite of Covid. It's Democrat mayors that are going to have to deal with the fact that truckers won't deliver to their cities if police are defunded or abolished. It was a Democrat run city that is actually abolishing the police. It was in a Democrat controlled city where a Black citizen was killed in the first place. The only way you could blame Trump is that the Democrats react negatively to anything he says. This entire mess is Democratically driven and a lot of it is due to their irrational hatred of Donald Trump. They can't think straight and have proved it in how they run their states and cities. If you vote Democrat again, you're out of your mind. I'm NOT supporting Trump either. I'm saying that the Democrats have given into an ideology that is one of the most destructive in human history. I'm criticising the Democrats and doing it hard.
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  1615. "I can't read or write, add or subtract, but I'm going to change the world."
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  1616. The Left: We want all the dreamers to come to the USA. Illegals: Thank you. We want the American dream. The Left: There is no American dream. It's a nightmare. Illegals: Are you saying that we shouldn't come? The Left: You're dreamers. Of course you should come. This is the logic that we're asked to understand.
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  1617. Honest to God......did you know on Jan 22 that it was going to get this bad? Really. There was one case on that day. ONE CASE. Should he have called a national emergency then? One case is under control. 20 cases is still under control. It's when it exploded, that's when it went out of control. The potential is always there but you don't know that. On the 31st of Jan. he stopped all travel from China and Democrats called him a xenophobe. He offered to send doctors from the CDC to China and his offer was rejected by the Chinese government. He set up a preliminary task force to study the virus and the left said that it wasn't the right identity mix....too many white men. The Democrats weren't taking it very seriously either. The only mistake that was made was that they didn't see the wild spread of the virus in Europe and that's because, unlike Trump, they didn't stop travel to China, right away. This allowed people, who had been exposed, to come to the US from Europe. That was his biggest error and why the virus has spread the way it did in the US. It slipped in through the back door while everyone was watching the front door called China.
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  1618.  @reg4891  I live in Canada and I agree that we do have a higher standard of living. However, that doesn't mean that it's right. Our country is ruled by southern Ontario and southwestern Quebec. The majority of Canadians live here and the rest of the country has to live by what is decided by the voters in those 2 areas. It's amazing that our country has held together.
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  1619. @Typical J Show me a system that is perfect. Any system on the planet at any point in history. It doesn't exist. I live in Canada and Americans gush about our "free" healthcare and how great it is. I spent 30 years looking for a family doctor because of this vaunted system and we're also at the mercy of big Pharma and at the behest of the government health insurance system. I'm FORCED to use their system and I'm not allowed to find another....except if I play for the Toronto Blue Jays or the Leafs. They find doctors right away and NEVER have to wait a year for an MRI. You show me the country or system and I'll find the citizens, who live there, that complain about it. Perfection is impossible. All we do is make trade-offs and hope that we have the freedom to keep tweaking the system to improve, something that isn't allowed in our health care system.
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  1620.  @spencerhansen8374  I'm hoping that you're not being an advocate for this type of thinking. Even if what you say about the marriage certificate, that doesn't make it right or legal. Slavery was legal as well but we decided that it wasn't right and we fought to end it. Children do NOT belong to the state. We do not engage in state sponsored slavery of our children, no matter what that marriage certificate says.
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  1621.  Andy Mann  You're doing it again. "tying yourself in knots". Nice one. Am I supposed to conclude that I have no idea what I'm talking about and that I should be pitied? Oh yeah, you've already said that. I don't care what colour emoji you use. Neither does Peterson. That's why he said that he would use a black emoji and why not. He knows what people would say or react. Just like you did. "He stinks". Everything is about denigration and sneering backhanded insults. Also, I used multiple examples of the mindset of progressive politics and here you are, trying to use it on me....again. Why don't you try to address his ideas instead of your insults. That way we could have a REAL discussion instead of this nonsensical dialogue that we're having now.
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  1622.  @Markuden  People still want to be entertained. They're just sick and tired of being preached at by a bunch of elitist windbags who are living lives that most of us could only dream about.
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  1623. Dick Toles You really don't get it, do you? They're all Americans and she is an individual, a single entity that happens to be an Asian woman, just as you're a single entity that happens to be a white male. Affirmative action says that an Asian individual shouldn't have the same opportunity as another group of individuals and has assigned an hierarchy of opportunity based on group identity. It may be fair to the group (maybe) but definitely not fair for the individual. Her argument INCLUDES you because you, as a white man, are also at the bottom of the opportunity hierarchy. If she proves that Affirmative Action is discriminatory, she is also speaking for you, because it is also discriminates AGAINST YOU. She is advocating against this type of discrimination and that we should be judged as individuals, not as Asian woman or white male. It's like two people trying out for a baseball team. Do you take the one who's the best baseball player or do you take the black guy because there are already too many white guys on the team. I take the best ball player because I want the team to be the best it can be. When you apply for university, you take the application that shows the strongest potential, that manifests itself in previous achievements of scholarship and effort. You do that to prepare for the future of your society in the best possible manner. That the top minds are the ones doing the most complex tasks that are needed for a functioning society. I don't care what ethnicity my surgeon is, so long as he's the best, not because he's Latino and there isn't enough Latino surgeons. That's not only colossally stupid, it's just plain crazy.
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  1624.  @d2mini  She's placing blame on someone who's NOT the president and holds NO political office. Okay, troll.
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  1625.  @hughgasey9666  I'm sure that you're correct. I'll state it differently then. If I OWNED CNN, I'd fire everyone of those clowns and keep only those I felt could be objective in their reporting. No more "gotcha" questions, no more twisting words and events to suit the narrative. The facts, backed up with hard journalism, not this "pretty studio" crap we're seeing from them now. That's how you win respect. If Trump screws up, show it and explain why with facts that are true and as irrefutable, as possible. If he does something good, show that the same way. No more opinions on the news. No more personal causes, right or left. Let the information, the news, speak for itself. Is that better? LOL.
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  1626.  Dylan L  The United States has a population of 335 million people and have 72,000 deaths. Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the UK have a combined population of 322 million people, 13 million LESS than the US and have over 115,000 deaths, almost 45,000 MORE than the US. So, the US isn't doing more poorly than others. In fact, per capita, the US is doing better in the death count than the next five countries, other than Germany, which is way down. Things aren't as simple as you make them out to be.
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  1627.  @ge2719  It's not the US that's in danger. It's 3rd world countries that are facing the ravages of hunger over the Covid driven downturn in the economy. The United Nations has said that if the economy doesn't start to open up soon, 30 MILLION people will be danger of famines of "Biblical proportions". The longer this situation lasts, the larger the total will become, getting up to 150 million by the end of the year. Effluent runs downhill. When the big industrial nations have a downturn, they might survive due to resources readily available. However, it trickles downhill until the ones at the bottom get squeezed into horrific positions. Already, there have been riots in Lebanon because of empty shelves in the stores. That's the REAL issue here. Not that I can't get a cheeseburger. It's that someone in Africa or Asia can't get ANYTHING to eat.
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  1628. Anyone who stands up for what he believes in isn't spineless, even if I don't agree with them. Hannity says what he believes in. I don't like the guy but he's not spineless. Anyway, what has he said or done that would be bad for America? If you let me know what he's said or done, then I could tell whether that would be true or not.
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  1629. "Gender affirming care" is the ONLY medical treatment that allows the patient to self diagnose. Mental care workers are NOT to dig any deeper to see if there are any underlying psychiatric or social issues that might be plaguing the patient. If you say that you're transgender....you're transgender. Could you imagine a person, going to an oncologist, and declaring that they have liver cancer and they need treatment and the oncologist has to do it? That would be bizarre. It would be a form of Munchausen Syndrome. Yet, gender affirming cares does just that. The medical worker must affirm the patient diagnosis and then perform the medical procedures that their patient demands even if the patient is only 12 or 13 years old. I remember the Oxycontin addiction pandemic. Doctors prescribing highly addictive pain killers that were approved by the FDA and they made billions. So much for medical "expertise". This is a multi-million dollar scam and it's our young that are paying the price.
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  1630.  @dubnation5824  What incredible nonsense. Not one person in the NFL is a slave. Not one. They can leave the game any time they want and some have. They're not forced to play. Ever. They're doing what kids do in high school for fun in parks and empty lots and getting paid huge money for it so they can spend their lives in a life of ease and freedom. I see your problem. You are filled with envy. You're one of those guys that is continuously looking at everyone else's pile and hating them for having more. You're a Marxist, whose goal is to make sure that everyone has the exact same size pile and every assessment you make involves that comparison of assets. The one with the biggest pile, is automatically the bad guy. It's ideological obsession inspired by envy. You don't care about mitigating suffering, you want EVERYONE to suffer like you believe you're suffering. It's a rot that comes from within, a rot that inspires hate to the point that you believe that working hard and being of value to society is pointless because society is against you. You have no concept of the realities of life. You only see that others are better off than you and that pisses you off. It's a sad way to live and it wouldn't be so bad except it's people who live that way that have caused a great deal of suffering in the last 100 years. It's what drove the Soviet Union, Red China, Cambodia, Venezuela and the horror of what is now North Korea. Strangely, it drives you in such a powerful way that you can't even begin to see that the poor in the Western, Capitalist countries live better than people have ever lived in human history. All you know is that someone has more than you do.
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  1631.  @minkman99  And this is just like it, as this is a far LEFT ideology taking over the US. It's the same premise. Ideological imposition.
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  1632.  @minkman99  I'm afraid that you're not following this very well. The SJW stuff, the safe spaces and such, has been around for quite a few years. It was in the universities and any student who said things that establishment deemed inappropriate was called onto the carpet. It always seemed to be conservatives that were being censored and belittled. They weren't allowed to have their own speakers or their own conservative clubs. There were protests, sometimes even violent, directed against anyone that would say anything that went against the leftist dogma. This was going on before Trump became president. Books were beginning to be cancelled but they couldn't outright ban them. Not yet anyway, but some would love to do it. The rhetoric was always about race, gender, sexual preference and accusations were becoming more and more rampant. Every dissenting conversation ended with "You're racist" or "You're homophobic" or something to that effect. Now, it's in the media. Critical race theory is the new thing. People, in the work place, are called to meetings and white employees have been required to "acknowledge their white privilege". Kids, starting schools, are taught that they may belong to the race that represents racism, colonialism and sexism, that there's something inherently evil in them. Everything has become racist. Mathematics, getting up on time, working hard, street lights, milk, camping, skiing, the list goes on and on and on. University professors have longed for the demise of the white race and done so publicly, without any sanctions from the MSM. BLM have rioted, burned, looted, injured and even killed people but the MSM says their protests are "mostly peaceful". Antifa, in Portland, rioted for over 120 days in a row, last summer, all chronicled by Andy Ngo, but to Nadler, a Democrat Congressman, it's all a myth and Biden says Antifa is an idea. You should google "Evergreen College" and read about the craziness there, a few years ago. Strangely, completely ignored by the MSM. Had a bunch of conservative students done this, they'd still be talking about it. If you haven't noticed any of this, you really haven't been paying attention. The left have been taken over by a bunch of overt Marxists. A woman, who wore Chairman Mao's picture on her clothing almost won the election to become Mayor of Portland recently. You really have to start finding out what is going on with the left and how they're infiltrating the education system, the media, human resources of big corporations and the Democrat party. They will completely destroy the western world as we know it and we'll be left with a place where we won't have to worry about illegal immigrants or refugees. They won't want to come here.
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  1633.  @jaybird3651  Another one of those "inject bleach" idiots. Trump is no longer president. Quit whining about something that doesn't exist, anymore. You're like those Japanese soldiers who didn't quit fighting till 1974, 29 years after the war was over.
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  1634.  @VL1975  There are 61 airlines operating in the United States. It isn't like United has the market cornered. There are lots of options.
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  1635.  @florencedenham9395  I wouldn't call it fantasy prone. They have no experience at anything, not even the simplest ideas like "hide and seek". It's all new to them and they're still trying to figure out what's happening. They're at an age where anything is possible because they have no experience to judge it by. It's all trial and error. The "hide and seek" things brings back really good memories of my 2 year old daughter. She'd close her eyes and happily declare "You can't see me". She was so shocked the first time I said "Yes I can" and picked her up. I still smile at the memory.
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  1636. They won't say a thing. If they do, the student radicals will come after them, full force and try to get them kicked out of school. What will happen is that girls won't bother getting into sports. Women's college sports will be populated by trans women. That trend may even reach down into high school sports before it straightens itself out. By then, it may be too late "Men" will have ruined something else for women. I can hear it all now.
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  1637.  @ModularKnight  Hamas chose that life. They spent billions on building those tunnels, instead of a solid infrastructure and building a strong economy. In fact, Gaza was the first time in all of history that Palestinian Muslims had a country to call their own, even if it was small. Instead of making it a decent place to live, with all the aid that they received over the years, they bought materials to build explosives and dug untold miles of tunnels. They could have chose the path of peace but they didn't want that. That's why Egypt kept their border with Gaza closed. They didn't want Palestinians coming to Egypt and using their country as a place to hide and train. Hamas doesn't want peace. "From the river to the sea" frightens the Israelis. They have the history of WW2 that tells them to fear those who speak in this way. I can't say that I blame them.
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  1638.  Lysander  TROLL.
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  1639. An elitist buys a house in Africa. I'll bet it's gated. I wonder if he pays his staff the equivalent of 15 bucks an hour? I'd like to see him give up his entire estate and move, with 100 bucks in his pocket, to Africa. I'll bet he doesn't.
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  1640.  @saltynameredacted9117  The right to vote is, however. It's in Article 2 of the Constitution and the 15th, 19th and 26th Amendment more clearly protects the right to vote to all citizens. What do you call a country that votes for their representatives? A Democracy. We also have the right to free speech. However, as far as I know, there isn't a word that describes a country that allows free speech. America is a free speech country. However, there is a word for a country that allows the vote. We call it a democracy. We don't call it a country that votes. it's a Democracy. Democracy is just a name that describes a country that votes for it's representatives. The minute you claim that America isn't a Democracy, you've opened the door to lose your right to vote and also means we have no process, other than allowing individuals to force their way into leadership. What's ironic is that it's the Democrat Party that has suppressed the right to vote throughout American history, in spite of their claims to the contrary.
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  1641.  @Despair505  The United States is also famous for its academic institutions. People from all over the world go to the US for advanced education. All major technical advances have come from the US. The auto industry, computer tech, communication and an incredible amount of the world's academics, with more Nobel Prize winners than the next 4 nations combined. I'm not American so I have no dog in this race. I'm just stating facts and those facts say that their education system was the best there was. However, that doesn't negate the fact that they may be in trouble now and in the future.
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  1642.  @chasbodaniels1744  Another one that didn't listen to Ambassador Taylor's testimony. Taylor talked to Ukraine President Zelensky TWICE after the infamous phone call and Zelensky didn't even know the aid was on hold. Don't you have to inform your victim if you're going to bribe him? How could he act on a bribe that he wasn't informed about? Makes no sense.
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  1643.  @Arjuntheone88  No.....I don't like someone devising purity tests to see who is acceptable and who is evil. That's the role of the preacher at the service I attended Sunday morning. In the afternoon, I want to watch a football game not to be browbeat by millionaires on how oppressive and horrible we all are. A bunch of elitist snobs lecturing me isn't my idea of a pleasant Sunday afternoon, knowing I'm going back to the factory in the morning. I want to enjoy my weekend off. It's short enough as it is.
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  1644. It would be great but he may want to put this entire debacle behind him. I'm sure he's sick of lawyers and sitting in court. I know that I would be.
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  1645.  @iliporsberg6157  Americans don't care about impeachment. That's the point. If the Democrats try again, they'll tune out even more. They're sick of it. CNN and MSNBC are wall to wall going on about Trump and impeachment and no one wants to hear about it again. I'll give you an example. A couple of weeks ago, on the quiz show Jeopardy, contestants were shown a picture of Adam Schiff and not one of them knew who he was. These contestants are supposed to be smart and well informed and yet they couldn't even tell us the name of the number one Democrat figure that leading the charge against Trump. AMERICANS DON'T CARE!!!! You can rail on all you want about all this other stuff and all you're doing is demonstrating exactly why Trump is going to win the next election and why he won the last one. My God. When are the Democrats going to learn? Can they really be that stupid?
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  1646. Notice how they're calling for revenge. Isn't justice what they should be seeking? When justice becomes revenge, anything can happen and quite often it ends badly for everyone.
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  1647.  @thewholesomegrail6722  It's an expression. A metaphor. I'm not sure when things go to hell whether it'll from the inside or out but I do know that if it comes, every negative thing that I talked about, in my last comment, will become the "new normal". It happened to my parent's country, when the Nazis invaded and it happened in Venezuela when their society collapsed. In the end, no matter who they are or where they come from, there will be food shortages and all the rest of the misery that comes when the "barbarians are at the gate". Quibbling on which it will be doesn't help when we're hell bent on weakening our country so that the "barbarians" will have the power to finish us off.
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  1648.  @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler  You're a bot and a troll. Go away....if you even read the comment section.
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  1649.  @steven5054  You're the typical comment troll in Peterson videos. Nothing but sneering insults.
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  1650.  @youtube-ventura  You do realise that not everyone is on Twitter, especially older people. Get out of your little bubble.
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  1651.  @d_a_n_a.  KKK membership is down and those that are still left are disillusioned with Trump. They don't like that he's started the opportunity zones, the first step programs, have invited the young black republican leaders to the White House as well as Kanye West and Jim Brown. That his daughter and grandchildren are Jews, he's good friends with Ben Carson and this goes on and on. They really thought Trump was an ally but he's condemned racism multiple times and even the KKK and Nazis. The only reason that anyone of them would vote for Trump is because the left is a damn mess right now. This "Trump is a racist" rhetoric is only alive because the Democrats see this as their only hope to win the election next year.
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  1652. Exactly in line with my comment earlier. Just because I'm 70, somewhat overweight and diabetic which puts me at risk....EVERYONE STAY HOME!!!! Am I ever important.
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  1653.  @AKayV1  NO....you idiot. We're at war with a virus that's killing people and destroying lives. Concentrate on that and forget about you're hate, for just a little while. Trump is the guy at the helm, for better or worse. If you don't support what he's asking, you're pushing the cart in the opposite directions and NOTHING gets done and we descend into chaos. We have to come together right now. Together we stand and divided we fall. You can hate again, after the crisis is over and you're standing in the voting booth.
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  1654.  @yuki_9538  How would you know if a "hella lot of police is racit bigots" if it's not recorded. You just don't know and you can't use something that's not recorded as proof of your assertion. It's illogical.
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  1655.  @vivalarazausarmyvet4453  Is this Jen Psaki? This is so cool!!!! You've been in my fantasies ever since you became press secretary. A tryst with you and a Maureen O'Hara lookalike. That would be epic. Thank you for giving me something to look forward to.
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  1656. There is no "magic wand" to change things immediately. That's fairy tale thinking. It starts from the beginning and becomes a long journey towards a distant goal. At least they're starting the journey. You're refusing to start because you want to be at the finish line or nowhere. Well, you'll always be at the start and you'll never be at the finish line. You have to enter the race to have a chance of finishing.
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  1657.  @margueritezoe  "how on earth are they supposed to induce people into their cult of collectivism and group think?" They can't. It's an excellent point. The Marxist mindset is one of collective thinking and all their doing quibbling about which type of interpretation of Marxism is the true Marxism. Pol Pot was a Marxist. His view on Marxism was one of Agrarian Socialism but it's an offshoot of Marxist thinking. It's how they lend confusion into an argument and keep deflecting away from their commitment to group think.
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  1658.  @lisahardy9707  I just watched this video of a young woman being screamed at with obscenities and then locked in a room for 3 hours to escape the howling mob outside that room. The only hate that I saw came from the mob outside her "safe space". All Riley was doing is saying that transgenders, who were born biologically male, have an unfair advantage over women in sports. That's not hate. That's an opinion based on biology. Leah was ranked around 450th in collegiate men's swimming and then set a women's record a year later. Yet that time doesn't even come CLOSE to the men's collegiate record in that event. Riley came to talk about it. That mob came to physically attack her so that she'd be intimidated enough to NEVER talk about it again. That's the actions of hate.
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  1659.  @OneNewHope  LOL.....That's hilarious. Have you not seen the conditions in the inner cities. All Democrat run. Rampant homelessness, needles everywhere, so much human waste that San Francisco has need of a poop app, horrific school results, high crime rates, high rents, over whelming and stifling bureaucracies.....you call that benefiting the cities??? Some of these cities have had Democrats at the helm for over 50 years, some for 100 years and the locals keep voting the same bunch back in. Isn't it strange that the only real progress in New York City was when Rudy Guliani was the mayor. "No window left broken"....that's not something that you hear now. When Scott Presler went to Baltimore and started to clean up the streets, on his own time, it wasn't Democrat supporters that encouraged him. Not a chance. Democrats roundly criticised him. If it was up to them, the garbage stays on the streets. Your logical processor isn't working as it should.
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  1660.  Sophie Blessed  Typical nastiness. You don't want to have an intellectual discussion on his ideas. You just want to treat him like crap. Call him names and denigrate him. People have personal issues. We all go through them in our lives. You seem to take joy in his pain, as nasty and mean spirited as it gets.
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  1661.  @oreli2556  "The only people who are allowed to be called women these days are ACTUALLY men." There.....are you happy now. That sure made a BIG difference, didn't it....you nit picking weirdo.
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  1662.  @denisecase807  Then why isn't the NAACP in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago or Memphis helping young blacks get better schools, fighting the street gangs and cleaning garbage off the streets so black Americans THERE can live a decent life? Too much work, I'd say. More profit and prestige in complaining than there is in doing, from their point of view. From the point of view, of those in the inner city, it doesn't help them one bit. The last thing that the NAACP wants is a place where black Americans can thrive.
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  1663.  @williamhouseholder1558  We can only work with what we have. Trump seems to be our only hope. Another thing, why aren't we getting in touch with our reps and telling them where we stand and that we'll no longer vote for them if they don't change their ways. Enough people do that and they'll know that their gravy train is nearly over.
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  1664.  @ryansproviero  So what if they wanted to debate Bloomberg. He didn't qualify and the rules were changed to allow it. What kind of party keeps moving the goalposts to suit themselves, to do things that they WANT to do....or in this case, who they want to debate?
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  1665. Most Americans don't deserve the benefits that the government is handing out but that has nothing to do with giving them to illegal immigrants. If Americans don't deserve them, why would illegal immigrants get them "Don't ask what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country". Some famous president.
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  1666.  @vicious3904  LOL. He went from being homeless, for a short time, to starting his own business and having a personal net worth of around 5 million bucks. Sounds more like envy than a serious criticism of the guy. I'm not sure what your comment has to do with immigration.
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  1667.  @zwicker5585  I never heard of this. Could you link to some examples.
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  1668.  @RSTI191  Not yet, but it is hopeful that we're going in the right direction. If you really thought that June would see 100,000 arrested and July....0 arrested, then you're only fooling yourself. It has gone down and if you're responsible for that job, you'll feel as if you should keep it up. If it goes down again this month, keep it up. This isn't going to be a sudden magic stop. It's hard work and determination and I'll bet 0 will never be achieved. The idea is to get the numbers to go down, consistently, until they get to a point that is manageable.
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  1669.  @babajaiy8246  The Muslims can practise their faith any way they wish. They have complete religious freedom. In fact, even though the Jews believe that Solomon's Temple, a very sacred Jewish site, stood where the Dome of the Rock is now, they allow Muslims to still use that site as a Mosque. The Israelis still allow it to be a place for Muslims. That's a concession that has been allowed Israeli Muslims. However, in Gaza, there is not ONE Jew....not a one and there's good reason for that. If someone didn't kill them, their life would be pure hell. Jews can't live in Gaza. Why would they want to live as they did before? That area was extremely poor until the Jews came and started to turn it into an oasis in the desert. It was nothing but dirt and rock 100 years ago. If Hamas cared so much for the people of Gaza, maybe they'd do the same thing there....but they won't. Hamas is too filled with hatred for Israel to care about their own people. You're asking me to explain the mind of those filled with hate? Why did Hitler want to kill all the Jews? Hatred....that's why. Why did Rome kill everyone in Carthage and then sow the fields with salt? Hatred...blind hatred. Why did the Hutu try to kill all the Tutsi in Rwanda? Same thing. Why would Hamas, the leadership of the Palestinians, want to drive the Israelis into the sea? Because they refuse to live with them. They hate them because they're not Muslim. "The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them, till the stone says: ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.’” 2 This Hadith was reported by Ahmad and Al-Tirmidhy who said that it is a Hasan, Sahih Hadith. This is a part of the Muslim faith. Islam says that they are a religion of peace but no one who values peace would attack innocent unarmed civilians. They defend themselves when attacked but they don't start shooting at people at a music festival and they would NEVER parade the naked body of a girl, that they killed and desecrated, so the people could spit on her. That's NOT the way of peace. If anything, those Palestinians are going against the will of Allah is Islam is indeed the religion of peace. Hamas could take the money, that they've received over the last 70 years, and use it to make life better for the Palestinians. They could do that but they don't. They use it to buy guns and rockets so they could kill as many Jews as possible. There is NO excuse for what just happened and you can't spin it to make it sound justified. It's not.
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  1670.  @tommysummer8041  In 1983 or something like that, you troll. No point in responding to you, though. You won't read it anyway. A troll, smugly sitting in his room copy and pasting the same thing over and over again.
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  1671. @Ron White This is so unbelievable shallow. What you're suggesting is a chain reaction of rising inflation, rising minimum wages to catch the inflation which causes MORE inflation which will induce another round of rising minimum wages to catch inflation which will cause MORE inflation. You can't control inflation through controlling wages. Increasing the minimum wage only sets a new bar for poverty. In 1972, I made 2 bucks an hour. I make 22 bucks now and I'm worse off. In other words, more money doesn't mean greater wealth if that money becomes worthless. I don't CARE about Republican and Democrat politics. What I know is that this administration is orchestrating higher energy prices intentionally and that forcing higher wages isn't going to solve the suffering of the those who can least afford to pay for that energy Don't let politics get in the way of common sense.
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  1672. I think it's funny as hell. I think it's even funnier that people would take themselves that seriously. It must be heart warming to know that these people are looking after you. LOL.
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  1673. And when the vaccine IS developed, allow the people to decide on their own, if they want it or not.
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  1674.  @katinamarie6651  You're talking about wars that happened over 30 years ago and the people are finally fleeing NOW? As for those cages, WHEN will some of you get it through your heads that those pictures were taken in 2014, when Obama was the president and that Trump put an end to it when it became public news? This is easily accessed information and yet people keep bringing it up. I'll even give you that the US shouldn't have gotten involved in those civil wars but that was a long time ago. These people aren't fleeing those wars anymore. They're just tired of corrupt governments and the crime. If you're going to use that as a criteria for asylum seekers, Canada should be forced to take in asylum seekers from Chicago. Lots of crime and corruption there. The problem is that the people of those countries are taking advantage of lax American immigration laws and they're being told that all you have to do is show up and you can stay. The US must put an end to that idea and force those migrants to go home, apply through legal means like every other immigrant to the US. It's a disaster right now and it will get worse. If the Democrats get into power again, they'll suddenly realise it and blame Trump for the issue and try to fix the migrant problem EXACTLY the way Trump wants to do it now. This type of migrant influx can't be sustained forever. It's insane to believe otherwise.
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  1675.    Of course, you're being dismissive and missing the point. Did you not read the part where I mentioned my brother in law having his own roofing business even though he couldn't read? He only went to grade 8. It was LACK of government regulations that allowed to use his abilities to the max to succeed. There are all kinds of jobs like this, where people with learning disabilities or have found themselves in poor life situations that would still allow them to make a substantial contribution to our society....but.....no way. We must have the government interfere because they know stuff. Government will control and regulate us into poverty. California is a prime example of this. Over regulated and anyone that wants to accomplish anything ends up leaving. I'm astounded why anyone would want that much outside control over their lives.
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  1676.    You're still not addressing why the government should insist that a person should have high school to learn to shoe a horse or shingle a roof or any of these other blue collar type jobs. Babbling about "right wing tears" isn't an argument but more of an ad hominem attack. I'm not saying that ALL regulations are bad but when a government over regulates, you begin to stifle imagination, drive and vision by making it too costly to succeed. In the end, you don't have to give up. You just pick up and go where the government isn't as insistent of regulating everything that you do. That's exactly what that middle class is doing in the reference I gave....and I can give you a lot more.
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  1677. The naming of Antifa and BLM is a method of Orwellian speak that never even occurred to George Orwell. They use it to tangle a conversation into a Gordian Knot. You can see the disingenuous smirk on their faces as they frustrate those who would criticise them. I refuse to fall into that word trap.
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  1678.  @FlipperRex  They're putting people in jail for memes and cartoons. Why bother with books, which don't have the reach that they did in the thirties, when memes are the way socio-political statements are made today? They're metaphorically burning those memes AND those who post them online. You're ignorant on how to assess the way that history can repeat itself. History repeating itself isn't a point by point replication of the past. It's recognising how new political and cultural conventions can cause people to behave in the same way others did in the history. Nazis burned books. The German government now arrests those spreading memes. Both ways are to control speech and thought through the most important communication methods of the time. So yes....Germans are so afraid of Hitler and Nazism that they're bringing back the Reich.
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  1679. Sometimes the "Baphomet" (notice the correct spelling) come off as whacked as the progressive movement. They see racism, misogynism and all manner of phobias EVERYWHERE and you see Satanism in EVERY conversation, phrase, picture, song and movie. Please....come back to earth.
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  1680.  @Mattwashere2013  There is even safety practices surrounding Covid. We all do it. US unemployment is at around 15% right now. That means that 85% are working. Even if 10 or 15% are working at home, that still leaves a large percentage of Americans going to their jobs. We do things differently but we do it with a risk assessment so we can manage the element of danger. We can't stop everything. Their is even a bigger risk to that. Productivity is more important than safety, although safety is very important. It's why our ancestors took the risk to take down a mammoth. The risk was worth the reward and at times the reward was a matter of survival. We've developed safety nets, today, but we can't rely on them to provide the ultimate life of no danger. That doesn't exist.
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  1681.  @mikez4760  You've just demonstrated the very attitude that I talked about in the poor areas of the US. It's the "what's the point" attitude. Everything is about defeat and try to get as much as possible for as little effort as possible. When the citizens of a country demand too much for minimal effort, they will self destruct. That's what happens if the people don't work hard because there's no reward over the long haul and it's the people, responding to the promises of government, that is the cause of it. Sweden doesn't even have minimum wage laws and there's a reason for that. Minimum wage means a new level of poverty. When I was young, I was poor making $1.30 an hour. Now I'm poor making $15 an hour. That poverty level will eventually catch up to you. Keep government small and taxes down and you'll thrive. Create a huge and expensive bureaucracy and that bureaucracy will suck more and more taxes out of you until you can no longer function. Then you ask the government for more help so they up your taxes so they can give it back to you to supplement your heavily taxed income. It becomes a vicious cycle that spirals downward into an abyss.
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  1682.  @BG-mh6pc  Gupta probably had the arrogance to believe that he could talk circles around Rogan. Rogan.....some kind of "wrasler", or something, that smokes dope and talks on the internet. How could someone like that outshine the learned Gupta? He sure found out, didn't he. Later, he agreed with Don Lemon that Ivermectin WAS horse medicine. Gupta is a doctor who won't let facts get in the way of his ideology....or his paycheck.
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  1683. One thing that is NEVER reported is the black on Asian crime. It's unbelievably high considering the low number of Asians in American society. It's not politically correct to call out minorities.
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  1684. That's because they know that the most effective indoctrination starts at those ages. They're grooming, not for sexual purposes, but to work towards their Marxist Utopia. Their leaders are saying it. It's in their books and in their university classrooms. People have to become more informed about how insidious this stuff actually is.
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  1685.  @neondystopian  Not too likely. Andy Ngo knows them all and has exposed them multiple times. That's why they hate him so much. The defense attorney picked jurors who looked as if they could be intimidated and then did just that. I'm willing to bet that there weren't any 6'6" dudes with chiseled faces on that jury. Soft looking women and timid little bookkeeper types were what they were looking for and got.
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  1686.  @joedillyn6382  Democrats hadn't better celebrate Juneteenth because Democrats supported slavery.
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  1687.  Lucky Sport  They're not going after the "man" because they don't have the power and they know it. They stay small, slowly gaining followers, using propaganda and the education system to grow until they've got the support to challenge. They're Marxists and they've got the experience of countless Marxists groups from all around the world to use as their guide. Their danger is not ready to be realised. However it's a potential that could have no ceiling. That's why we have to expose them.
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  1688.  @WatchDog10  Who on this planet did? Did De Blasio? He told everyone to go on as normal after Trump stopped travel to China. Him and his staff encouraged everyone to go to the Chinese New Year's parade, in spite of the precautions set and Governor Cuomo supported it. As late as March 11th De Blasio was still telling people to go out. Some of his staff threatened to resign if he didn't stop. Quit looking backwards. No one won a war fighting a battle that was fought in the past. It's the battle that we're in right now, TODAY, that's important. Concentrate on that. Time enough for blame when this is all over.
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  1689.  bcstractor  What's wrong with you. The Chinese reported it at the end of December and the first cases were in China, the first death was in China and the first American case was a person who had just returned from China. If it was a bat, it was bat in China that passed it to someone in China and it was the Chinese government that tried to cover it up. These are facts that are readily available. The only reason you won't accept it is because you don't want to. Look under your pillow. The tooth fairy may have left you a quarter.
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  1690.  @michaelccopelandsr7120  Amazing. You're justifying your hate by saying pleading "They do it, too". My mother would have cuffed me on the back of my head for using that defence.
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  1691.  @juliad368  We're talking about crazy women. Crazy men are another topic and it's like Peterson said. There's a threat of violence when men get out of hand. That kind of violence, or even the threat of it, is considered socially unacceptable.
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  1692. I think he means that there's the scientific method and that there is no such thing as science as a truth. It's more of a philosophical statement than one of science as a thing to be studied. You can't study science. You use science as a method to knowledge, realising that it's a process and NOT a thing.
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  1693. Even if you have no experience, when appointed, you GET experience. You absorb all the information possible, talk to all the experts, no matter who they are, surround yourself with the top people in this field and within a few weeks you should be able to answer these rudimentary questions that Cruz is firing at him. That's what a competent person does. The world is on the brink of a major war and this guy knows nothing. He's either lazy and incompetent or he's actually taking part in what's happening in Iran and Palestine. Neither one bodes well for the rest of us.
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  1694.  @stevenwilliams1805  Matt should know better. The way he talked, I could see him with a rock in his hand, ready to throw it at the adulteress's head, but didn't, because Jesus intervened. I think that he should re-think his attitude. When you "love thy neighbour" as Jesus asked us to do, you don't insult them by calling them names. That's not love.....that's pride.
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  1695.  @ZZ_The_Boxing_Cat  Maybe, Maybe not. There's a difference between government, something we need, and the swamp or big government that we have now. Making blanket statements, like you are right now, is absolutely pointless. You're saying that there is no way that we can have a governing body that is a lot better than we have now. Instead of blanket statements, refer to what she's saying and what's wrong with it. Anyone can make sneering comments. It takes deep thought to assess what a person says or does and then give an intelligent response based on facts. Try that and maybe you could be taken seriously.
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  1696.  @Dunkiep8  That's why the United States is NOT a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. The Democratic process is engaged to pick representatives to be the voice of the people. However, those reps MUST follow a set of rules so that democratic process doesn't degenerate into mob rule. We call those rules the Constitution. It's the checks and balances of the American system. We cannot enact laws that infringe on the rights of the individual just because the majority wants it. Even if 99% of the American public wants a return to slavery and demand it because "democracy", the Constitution will not allow it. We value the voice that our democracy grants us but even that is kept in check when our vote wants to break the law.
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  1697. I'm not really sure what you mean but I'm going to say this. Of course you have a place. That's what his speech was all about. Raising a family, working hard, finding meaning in your life. That's for everyone....not just for intellectuals. This is for everyone.
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  1698. billythedog Peterson did not lie about that law. The law was Bill C-16 and it was to follow the guidelines set in the Ontario Human Rights Act. This was to be a guide, not a law, and as such was open to interpretation. There was wording in that Act that could have been interpreted in such a way that a refusal to use gender based pronoun could be interpreted as discriminatory against transgender people. Peterson said that the wording of the legislation was against a person right to not use speech that they didn't want to and if, IF, in capital letters, anyone tried to force him to use any speech, he would refuse. He then said that they could try to force him to use compelled speech by citing this law and the Ontario Human Rights Act by saying that refusal to use that speech was an act of discrimination. If, the word "if" is important here, this was used against him, he would refuse to pay any fines levied against him if that law was interpreted against him. Hundreds signed petitions against him. He never said he wouldn't use them if negotiated on a one to one basis, but he would refuse if compelled using any legislation but in particular, this one. That was enough to spark the outrage of the masses. One year later, Lindsey Shepherd was told she may have broken a law just showing a clip of a debate Peterson was involved with on an Ontario public TV station. They actually believed that was against the law. Where did they get this idea? From the very legislation that Peterson had argued was wrong. So, then......who DID lie? Obviously, it wasn't Peterson. If he lied, then why would someone think that Shepherd had broken the law by just showing a debate on gender based pronouns? It was because the Ontario Human Rights Act suggested that she was being discriminatory by even suggesting that it may be a human rights problem to compel speech. It was being interpreted in that way. He didn't lie at all and if you're really interested, I will even find the sections that deal with it and show them to you.
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  1699.  @dandare2520  The book "Gender Queer" has been in many primary school libraries. It shows drawings of individuals taking part in sexual acts. If that's NOT sexualising children....what is? This is only a small part of what is going on. You're either naive or you're a liar.....not good looks in either case.
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  1700.  @brenee1498  No...it's for publishing those names with the subtle implication that these people are too be doxed....and guess what. People started to bully them. Drop them as facebook friends and the like. That's why. But of course, if you see no problem with online bullying, then you're good with it.
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  1701. "Since when does he call out corruption". Right NOW. Why aren't YOU calling out the corruption, Cuomo? Trump just did and you're arguing against him. If they're corrupt in Puerto Rico, call it out. NOW. It's as if getting Trump is more important than the people of Puerto Rico. Self serving, narcissistic child. That's all you are, Cuomo.
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  1702.  @mannygomez7980  The equal right to act in a manner which lacks integrity. Those men KNOW that they will win. They might as well compete with little children. That's how much meaning and hollow their victories are. I mean...it's ageism to not allow me to compete with 7 year old children. It's just not fair.
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  1703. Your mother just excluded me. I'm not a birthing person and I will never give birth. I don't feel included at all. That's the problem with their ideology. It excludes to include.
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  1704.  @lv4077  Murder isn't acceptable even if it's rare, very rare or extremely rare.
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  1705. The door is open, he says, unless you're a trucker protesting his mandates. Then he won't talk to you. He'll talk at you and about you through the media. He'll call you names but don't you dare EVER disagree with him.
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  1706.  @bobbykiefer4306  Yet...I'll bet that you won't read his book. The specifics are in his book. You're no more interested in specifics than what you're accusing him of if you don't read it.
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  1707. TMan 786 My God. You're actually making some kind of argument using the Jimmy Saville case. What in the world does that have to do with this case? Is your argument the one that we should cover up these Muslim prostitution and child sexual abuse cases because of a alleged cover up of Jimmy Saville abuses. Most of us believe (the reasonable people anyway) that the Saville case should not have been covered up, either and that a lesson should have been learned then. Apparently, it wasn't and the lesson you appear to be advocating is that if covered up once, it should always be covered up for all time. Nice use of a fallacy, though.
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  1708.  @eveharris30  No one speaks for me. Only I can do that. I can't speak for Abigail. Only she can do that. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Abigail and I don't like it when people try to put words in our mouths. Our mouths belong to us.
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  1709. He will. When he's in that booth and no one is watching, it'll happen. He just won't tell anyone.
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  1710.  @radarplotextractor3168  Is that right? My dad grew up in Assen, about 15 kilometres from the the border of the province of Groningen. The Capital city of Groningen is also called Groningen and is a little over 20 kilometres north of where my dad grew up. Canadian soldiers stayed in my grandfather's barn for about a week, using it as a base as they cleaned out German pockets. After that they headed north, towards Groningen. One of the soldiers that stayed in the barn was from North Bay, Ontario, or at least he lived there in the sixties. My dad looked him up and they visited one another back in the sixties. I believe that the man's name was Kennedy. I should ask my dad. He's 89 and in good health. He was 13 when the war ended. He told me that the reason that he came to Canada was that the kids his age looked up to those Canadian soldiers like kids look up to hockey players in Canada. He made up his mind, at 13, that he was going to live in Canada. He saved every penny that he could and came when he was 19. My mom came a couple of months later. She was pregnant with me at the time.
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  1711. gwanael34 What the owner of the business I work at makes is NONE of my business. It's his business and I don't get to spend his money or live in his house. I made an agreement with him when I took the job. How much money he made never came up and it doesn't matter anyway. My agreement was that I worked for a certain amount of money and tips and that's what I do. Envy is a vice I try to avoid. In fact, I hope he does make money. It ensures that the business will stay open and I will keep a job I like.
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  1712.  @PROVOCATEURSK  It's been over a day and you've not expanded on your logic. Nice trolling, I guess.
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  1713.  @jeremiahfitzwinkle323  It's not that she's anti-mask. She supports the idea of choice. The idea that you and I are mature enough to make that decision for ourselves, as well as any other measures that we might want to take. Generally, I avoid crowded places. I'm 70 years old and closer to the high risk demographic. I still go out once in awhile because I have the brain capacity to make that risk assessment and decide for myself. That's the problem with big government. They think that THEY know it all and should have the right to tell you and me how we should lead our lives. I have a great deal more faith in my own ability to think and decide as well as others. I don't feel that I have the right to tell others how they should live or how they should combat the virus. I wear a mask because it's the prudent thing to do in high risk areas. I think it's ridiculous to wear it at the beach or in my back yard and I refuse to wear it there. That should be my right and YOU shouldn't be able to force me to do otherwise because that's basically what's happening. It's people, like YOU, telling people what to do. That doesn't mean I'm anti-mask. It means I'm pro-freedom and I'm willing to take the calculated risk to protect that freedom. Life without freedom is an existence without life.
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  1714.  @seth3189  seth included. nothing more than a troll.
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  1715.  @Donthaveacowbra  If the government would only comply, they'd go away. It's what they're telling us. If we comply, Covid will go away. Guess what, we've complied for 2 years and we're in the worst wave yet.
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  1716.  @maui5867  Precautions I get. Taking away my freedom to decide on what those precautions should be, I don't get. I'm not a child, especially not a child of the state. I'm a free person and so are you. If the state wants to give us guidelines so we're better informed, great. Once they try to force the guidelines then they're not guidelines any longer. They're tools of oppression.
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  1717. I'm reading "The Cowshed, Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution". What's happening right now, in the US, and supported by the Democrat Party, is so reminiscent of that horrific time in China. The cancel culture, critical race theory, the forced apologies for white privilege, the search through internet history to find commenting indiscretions, all things that would have been deemed necessary during the Cultural Revolution. You can't even shame them with it as many are avowed Marxists. The entire thing is unbelievable.
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  1718. Why are some people so negative? I just don't get it. His message is SO basic. Do your best. Try to make your corner of the world a better place. Try to get along with your family, neighbours, friends and expand outwards from there. He can't fix you. I can't fix you and YOU can't fix me. We have to fix ourselves. To use an old adage. To solve a problem we have to acknowledge that there is a problem. I've never understood people like you. Your comment just reeks of sneering hate and bitterness. I really hope that you can rid yourself of that mindset.
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  1719.  @bradychick6535  Always the negative. Always. He's here talking to black leaders about trying to help people make their own lives better.....and you go "Embarrassing Photo OP". When are people like you going to stop whining and get to work and build something.
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  1720. There are almost 5000 public schools in New York state sitting empty. Take 10 or 20 of those empty schools and use THEM as recovery sites for Covid patients. When the crisis is over and they need to be used as schools again, go through a massive disinfection program and then open them back up for the kids. So simple and don't go on about the danger to the kids. If that logic is true then we'd have to close every hospital that ever had a Covid patient.
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  1721.  @Quarton  Another option would be to do what, God help me for saying this, Trump suggested. Tie education funding to the child. That way if you have a trained teacher in the neighbourhood, that person could take in 9 or 10 students, and teach them in a loose coalition of education groups. It gives the parents flexibility in how and what their kids are taught. I know that there could be problems that go with this but we have HUGE problems, already.
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  1722.  @cynthiaatkins4760  No. Anyone that can't understand what Conway was trying to say is dumb.
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  1723.  @eastcoasterner  It's always a con, isn't it. Can't think the best of anyone or give them the benefit of the doubt. If she's a con about this, is she lying about the other things that she said? That's the implication. I suppose that you're the only one that's hasn't noticed that prices have skyrocketed across the board and that housing costs are through the roof. You must be among the elites of this country who never have to think about money when grocery shopping.
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  1724.  @matejebach5487  What. They did that to the Soviet Union and China, Albania, Bulgaria, Cuba and Cambodia? Those poor Hungarians, carpet bombed so much the Soviets had to invade and rescue them. Same as Czechoslovakia....and Germany. East Germany was so rich after the carpet bombing of WW2 and West Germany so poor. (big sarcasm here). Another ideologue who's vested in the politics of envy.
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  1725.  @Ambyli  She didn't say that she was fired. She said that she left. She also committed more than one "offence" She called a customer "sir" and on another occasion made a joke about being a "terf" which got her reported to HR. Why would assume that she's a liar? You have no evidence that would prove it. You just don't like her story and you really don't WANT this story to be true. So it's "guilty until proven innocent".
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  1726.  @Hillarysrevenge  "Lia" is trying to prove that men are better at being women than women are. He failed.
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  1727.  @JourneyOnLife  Some people can't understand that if you don't pay today, you WILL pay tomorrow, one way or another. When the government allows you to renege on your financial responsibilities, a lot of people will do just that. You can't keep the wolf at the door forever. He will break through, eventually and then you pay.....the hard way.
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  1728.  @bertblue9683  I think that it's unethical to "lose" your pension when you're fired. You've paid into it. It's YOUR money. It would be like demanding your wages back. You're better off refusing their pension and starting one of your own.
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  1729.  danimalcollective1  I was a teenager during the Vietnam era. Although I'm Canadian, I spent a bit of time in the US, in 1970-2. It was quite the time. Everyone should have had a class like that. I have a friend who grew up in China during the Mao era. She told me things about that life that would make you sit in sheer dread. Multiple times Party officials would show up at school and take all the kids to a type of arena to witness public executions. She was around 9 or 10 years old. There were party officials watching the kids to make sure they didn't turn their heads or close their eyes. She told me she learned to look right through it so she wouldn't have to see it. Apparently, that never stopped the nightmares, though. We are so lucky, here in North America, and I'm afraid that we're going to throw it all away. I see my grandkids and I worry for them. I can only hope that this new fascination with socialism runs its course and goes away.
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  1730.  @matthewmcghee9228  You're allowed to but what kind of lunatic shoots a person who's been sleeping. You shoot if they threaten you, putting your life in danger or stealing something of great value but to just blast away, that's barbaric.
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  1731.  @diannasalva3116  Yeah, he had the Ukraine government fire the prosecutor, who was investigating his son's boss, threatening to with hold a billion dollars from the Ukraine government if they didn't. He flew that same son of Air Force 2, an official government plane, to China to arrange equity deals in his name. He complained about school desegregation, took part in the biggest deportation program in American history, never campaigned and was STILL elected. A top Chinese official, in a speech, just said that the Chinese government could't control the outgoing president and that he was hurting all the influence that the Chinese had in the American government and bureaucracy. Not like the previous administrations, of which our new president is a part of. Imagine, a president, in bed with a government, that has over a million people in slave labour concentration camps because they don't approve of their religion. A president who said, when all travel to and from China was basically stopped, due to Covid concerns, that these restrictions were xenophobic, meaning "racist". The corruption has always been bad but now, with a Chinese approved president in place, the American financial bleeding to the Chinese government is going to resume. Oh, well.....still better than a president with orange hair.
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  1732.  @cvn6555  No....they're selling to big corporations who are buying at inflated prices. In the end all property will be owned by a very few elites and there will be no entrepreneurs left who are building a legacy for the future. We'll all be equally poor. That's equity for you....unless you're one of the elites.
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  1733. @عرشیہ They are the bad guys. This idea that there can only be one bad guy is rather naive. They were power hungry authoritarians but coming at it from a different ideology, that's all.
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  1734.  @bunyipz2040  What are you....in grade four? LOL. Do you really think that name calling shows how bright you are?
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  1735.  @cognitivedissidents4642  Men can get pregnant. That's real to a Democrat. It's Mickey and Goofy go to Washington. That's as real as it gets.
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  1736. Losing their pensions will be automatic. Not like your caps lock. You have to turn that off yourself.
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  1737.  @novinceinhosic3531  The N-word was an innocuous word which was part of the dialect or accent of those living in the south and Appalachia. It was derived from the word Negro which the Spanish word for black. There were different types of slaves at the time and using the word "Negro" meant black slaves from Africa, using the Spanish word for black. Southern Americans pronounced it as the N-word, just like "yellow" was pronounced as "yeller".....like it was in the movie "Old Yeller", yeller referring to the colour of the dog in the movie which was yellow. In the book "Huckleberry Finn" the Widow Douglas was referred to as the "Widder Douglas". "Fellow" was pronounced as "feller". The "O" sound at the end of those words were changed to the "er" sound. They didn't mean it as a racial slur at the time. It was a descriptive referring to those blacks who came from Africa. We turned it into the swear word that it is now. Same as the term "coloured people". That's bad but "people of colour' is good even though it means and used the same words to describe the same thing. You're using emotion in an attempt to validate forced language, like forcing people to use the new pronouns. Even a picture of Uncle Ben became a part of this weird political correctness. Had Uncle Ben been white, his picture would still grace packages of rice. You may think that you're fighting the good fight but you're making things a lot worse.
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  1738.  @stevekook-xw3is  Strange how West Germany did so well and East Germany was a human hell hole. One Capitalist and one not, both starting at the same time, one flourishing and the other languishing in poverty and tyranny. There may be more than just Communism at fault for the hard times in Bulgaria but it sure didn't help either. Stalin had millions imprisoned and killed. So did Mao and Pol Pot. Cuba ended up as a terrible place for Cubans and we can't ignore the difference between North and South Korea. Why is one so prosperous and the other might well be the worst place to live on the planet? You sound rather angry. Try not to be so emotional when assessing history and ideologies.
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  1739.  @changinglanes869  I suppose when he gave a huge amount of money to save the parade, 25 years ago, that was all about him, too. Can't you put aside your hate for ONE DAY!!!!!! Just ONE EFFING day. Just sit and appreciate what those soldiers sacrificed. NO....can't be done. Another way to babble politics. A salute to those veterans and respect to all those who honour them, no matter what their political affiliation.
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  1740.  bcstractor  YOU can't figure you that CNN, MSNBC, ABC and over 80% or the media is a political machine for the Democrats. I thought you'd have figured that out with the Covington Kids debacle. They had the same access to the entire video that I did, that ALL of us did, and they reported it all wrong. CNN had to settle a lawsuit, out of court, because of their deception. Why did they do it? Those kids were wearing MAGA hats. That's it. Some of the pundits on those networks even admitted it. When asked why the media would do such a thing, Joy Behar flatly stated that it was because they wanted to get rid of Trump so bad that they'd do anything. If you still trusted those networks after that, you're as gullible as a 5 year old waiting for the tooth fairy.
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  1741. Every woman would benefit from understanding these differences about themselves and men, as well. You can't "fix" the other person but you can "fix" yourself so one can understand the difference between a true problem from one that has been created in their own minds. That might help the individual woman to reach an understanding with a man who really wants to get along.
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  1742. @James Tiberius NO....He's Donald Trump. However, the scenario is similar. I'm surprised that you don't understand how comparisons work.
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  1743.  @randylachance  Yeah....the dog whistle. Only you and the woke and insightful can hear it and understand it, and Maxwell, of course. How the hell is he going to let her off? He may not even win the election this fall. There goes that power to let her off. Even if he wins, it's all over in 2024. She'll barely have started her prison term by then. You're living in a world where every news item is somehow leading back to Trump and is spun into another reason to HATE. Once you let hate, emotions really, control your life, all logic and reason disappear. Everything becomes about that emotion, in your case, hatred. No objectivity, no chance for redemption for those you hate, no forgiveness or understanding. Hate and more HATE, until rationalising for the violence we've seen the last 2 months becomes logical and reasonable.
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  1744. I noticed that too. They do it all the time at these hearings.
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  1745.  @darwinhaditbackward5899  I've not read Bell but I know who he is. His roots are in Marxism although his ideas have evolved past that. I know that the term "Critical Race Theory" was suggested by Kimberle Crenshaw, at a Marxist or Communist meeting, held in an old nunnery in Madison Wisconsin. Derrick Bell was in attendance as well as other radical socialist luminaries. I HAVE read Paulo Freire, a Marxist educator from Brazil, who's influence has taught how to teach students using his educational methods which he called Critical Consciousness. They use his methods, not to teach about CRT and the other Critical Theories, but to teach with those ideas embedded in the lessons. I do know that. I also know that CRT is just a reworking of Marxism. Instead of revolution where the working classes seize the means of production, they're using race to pit one group against another. It's an updated call to revolution....that's all it is.
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  1746.  @yummybubbles194  Except, this wasn't research. It was designed to expose the lack of integrity of some journals and academics. It would have been a little foolish to show your hand to those that you're trying to expose and DUH, of course they were angry that he exposed their lack of academic integrity. "You broke our rules by showing how gullible those who believe in our ideology can be. That makes us mad". I asked for evidence of the his positions on flat earth and climate science and you didn't provide it. Until you do, I have little to no confidence in those claims. Giving them a platform.....so what. How could I argue in favour of climate change if I don't acknowledge the argument that deniers make? It's illogical. Either show me the evidence of his positions or I'm dismissing your claims as nonsense.
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  1747.  @yummybubbles194  Except, you've made the claim that this professor somehow supports the flat earth idea but you won't give the evidence to back it up. In other words, you're not using one of the main tenets of critical thinking. You're not using evidence to back up your claims. Critical thinking, without facts, in this case Bogosian's views on certain topics, isn't critical thinking at all. It's making assumptions and then drawing conclusions from the assumptions that you can't even prove. As it stands, you're the last person that should be talking about critical thinking.
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  1748.  @flashgordon6510  I know them. I had to listen to a friend go on and on about how smart Kamala is. No point in arguing with him. He was too deeply entrenched in what he believed.
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  1749.  Roger King  First of all, it's NOT my country. The world doesn't revolve around the US. Neither did the Atlantic slave trade. More Africans were brought to the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, Venezuela, and other Southern Nations than the US. So, your 70 million does not apply to the country that you so mistakenly call "my country". It applies to the entire New World. The US is only a part of the New World. Everyone was involved in the slave trade. Europeans, Africans, even Arabs were involved. European mostly traded for slaves but it was the Africans that went into the interior, raided villages and captured slaves for the Atlantic slave trade. So there was fighting but I was not referring to that specific trade when I made that statement. Countries have gone to war for thousands of years and quite often the losers were carried away as slaves. The Romans did this for centuries when they went to northern Europe and after defeating people there, captured them to sell off as slaves back in Rome, some going into the gladiator pits. Even in the Americas, indigenous people would do the same, the most famous being the Aztecs, who would use the slaves for ritualistic human sacrifices. America became independent in 1783. Before that it was a British colony. 20 years later, the Atlantic slave trade to the US was stopped, in 1807, to be specific. The slave trade was slowly dying in the US, with strong abolitionist movements in the North and the Republican Party was a very strong Abolitionist party formed to fight slavery. It was a slow progression but it DID happen, yet you refuse to give any credit to the hundreds of thousands of European Americans that worked hard and sacrificed it all to end slavery, and 600,000 people did die in that Civil War. It was white American Abolitionists that drew the ire of the south and caused the Civil War, a war that ended slavery. No kudos from you, though for the sacrifice of the Abolitionists or the Government of the US for supporting them. You'd rather draw the line in the sand and keep up the hate. Over 90 percent of the slaves went to the Caribbean, Brazil and Latin America. Only 6 percent went to British North America. Plantations in the Caribbean were huge compared to American plantations and death rates were much higher due for the slaves there than it was in the US. Like it or not, "my country" was not the main recipient of the African slave trade. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery Read this and read it all. It gives a rounded description of the African slave trade, without the emotionalism and anger that people like you want to inject into the conversation. Also the numbers weren't 70 million slaves brought to the New World. It was closer to 10 to 12 million and 600,000 of those went to the US. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us/ Read this. It confirms the numbers given in the other reference I've given. Slavery didn't start with the African slave trade but it was the greatest in numbers and scope. Slavery had been in existence for thousands of years even mentioned in the Bible. That was long before the European settling of the Americas and even any kind of real knowledge of Northern Europe. I'm not defending slavery either. Another fallacy people like you want to make in your attempt to show moral superiority and maintain the hate in your hearts. I'm saying that slavery is a part of HUMAN history and has been for thousands of years. Pointing fingers and laying blame solves nothing. Anger and hate solves nothing. You'd think that someone who would quote the Bible would know that. "Love the neighbour". It doesn't say to "Love the neighbour except for those who's ancestors might have had slaves." There is no qualification in that admonishment.
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  1750.  @redfoxtactical8425  He called people liars numerous times within a couple of minutes. That wasn't going to be a discussion. He was using intimidation tactics and you could see it on Tim's face.
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  1751.  Real Christian.  You've just pointed out a major reason why Hillary lost the last election. She projected a major disdain for those living in "fly over" America, calling them "deplorables" and insinuating that they're nothing but hillbillies and just plain dumb. It's a terrible campaign strategy to call the person that you want to vote for you all kinds of insulting names. "Hey, you stupid Yokel...vote for me or else prove how much of a deplorable you are" isn't a winning tactic. You'd think an "educated" person would know that.
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  1752. Official bio say 6'11". Close enough to 7 foot for me to forgive him. He's tall.....DAMN tall. He can round up 1 inch if he wants as far as I'm concerned.
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  1753.  Black messiah Is king  I'm not going to say the Democrats cheated but if there is evidence that there could have been fraud, we have to look into it. That doesn't mean that they didn't win but we can't have people engaging in election fraud. It's crazy that some people don't even want to look into it or want any chance for fraud to be negated. You're not making yourself look good if you'd rather NOT investigate and let the fraud, if it exists, to continue.
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  1754. @Arafath Islam Passionately destructive, violent and hateful. They embody every element of the Satanic psyche. When your passion is to destroy, you lead an army of minions from hell....figuratively speaking. You accomplish nothing but desolation and misery. Not a passion that I would encourage or laud.
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  1755.  @johnhoran9840  Thanks for reminding us of the term "duckspeak". It's been over 40 years since I read the book and I've forgotten all about it. It does fit what I just heard.
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  1756. What a lot of weird assumptions. How would any of you know if she accused anyone of "grape"? Also, she's a beautiful young woman. She's changed her life too many of you are talking about her as a lost cause. Be happy for her. We're all sinners. You're no better than she is.
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  1757. The Feds should send an itemised bill to the City of Portland and the State of Oregon for the use of Federal officers to do the jobs of City and State security forces.
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  1758. @Stefan S Another person that completely misrepresents what he is saying. He's saying that when you're young, like university students are, or you're having deep problems, it's crazy to think that you can fix the world right off the bat. You start by fixing yourself, the individual, and that you're not much good to anyone if you're no good to yourself. "Clean your room" is as much a metaphor as it is a practical way to express the idea that you start small and from there you work your way out to help your immediate family and from there you slowly work your way out into the world. I don't even know what you mean by "deep shit" trouble we're in or how lone wolfism is how we got here. The west is the richest, most successful, society in human history. Extremely low child mortality rates, high life expectancy, best health care, education and economic opportunities in history and it is all predicated on the idea that each individual is allowed the freedom to express themselves as individuals and to set a course for themselves that maximises their talents as humans in a community. You have the attitude of one that sees negativity in everything. Life is difficult and is for every living creature on the planet and it has always been that way. Most of us, in the west, live a live style unprecedented in history and so many of us have no appreciation on how good we have it.
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  1759. We have a need for rational fear. To see our fear and understand why it exists, in context, is part of the mindset that helps to solve the issue that causes the fear. Irrational fear is the relative of panic. It lacks thought or adaptability and forces retreat and stagnation. It's important to have fear as a survival tactic but just as important to control that fear so we're not mired in paralysis.
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  1760.  @diomedes7971  It's called "integrity" You either understand it and try to live by it or you don't. If enough people don't live by their values, you end up with this nonsense.
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  1761. richard garcia He probably still doesn't get it, but maybe others might read my comment and understand what I'm trying to say. Logic doesn't mean much to the ideologically possessed.
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  1762. They sat in different seats at opposite ends of the plane. Hunter didn't even know that his dad was ON the plane. Joe didn't know that his son was on the plane. Honestly....that's the truth. Nothing to see here. You're making a big deal out of nothing.
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  1763. @BALZAR FROZNOV We have voter ID in Canada. Not a problem. In fact, anyone I talk to thinks it's stupid NOT to have it. There could be only one reason that you DON'T want voter ID and I'll leave it up to your imagination what that reason could be.
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  1764. No police to investigate them and their own personal security militia to protect them. Perfect.
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  1765.  @virginiaoflaherty2983  A bloated bureaucracy means increasing control of your life by the government and diminishing freedom for the individual. It's not that difficult to comprehend.
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  1766.  @HolyCanoley  What you don't get is that the loss of freedom doesn't happen overnight. You're not going to wake up, tomorrow morning, and there'll be troops outside, ready to force you to do the bidding of Big Brother. We'll be frogs in a pot, happily swimming about while our flesh is being seared. As for masks, there's a reason why the expulsion of our breath forces the spent air away from our faces. It's because we need the fresh air, not the air that has been already processed by our bodies. In fact, ventilators are built to include the sighing process, which has been found to an important part or respiration. We need the lung full of fresh air and to have it forcibly expelled away from our faces. Wearing masks isn't very healthy and I find it exceedingly disgusting....especially for young children.
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  1767. You've gotta be kidding. Farming, in North America, has been privately operated for all our history. They have provided us with an overwhelming surplus of food since WW2. The only reason that we're talking food shortages now is due to the interference of world governments. Farmers aren't setting the policies. The Netherlands is now setting fertiliser caps and it's estimated that this will end in a reduced crop yield of over 30%. THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT DOING THIS. In Sri Lanka, those policies were implemented 2 years ago and it resulted in over 30% loss in crops. People went hungry and inflation grew to 133%. Once again....GOVERNMENT POLICIES. Now you want the government to stick their noses into our agricultural sector? You're out of your mind.
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  1768.  Tucson Jim  Gelsolin is a natural occuring substance within the human body. It's not like introducing a foreign substance like thalidomide or Vioxx. Gelsolin is already there and obviously isn't hurting anyone. This is the one thing that's missing in your logic. Increasing levels of something that already exists in the body, naturally, would not be near as risky as introducing a foreign agent into the system. In fact, if gelsolin levels are down in the late stages of Covid-19, then it might be advisable to bring it back to normal levels. Would it really be that dangerous to have normal bodily functions restored?
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  1769.  @joshbull623  That's the problem. Too many think that equality equals compassion. It doesn't. To achieve equality, you have to tear down the competent and hard working, in order to bring everyone to the same level. It ends up going to the lowest common denominator, basically setting incompetence as the goal. No society can survive that and the net result is pure hell for everyone. That's not compassion. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
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  1770.  @nestorgonzalez6078  If you truly believe that Mexico would pay for a wall just on Trump's say so, you're fooling yourself. Only the most ill informed, uneducated hillbilly, Trump supporter actually believed that. Most of his supporters knew that it was just electioneering posturing. Surely you're not one of those hillbillies that thought this was a legit campaign promise? Would you get real. That entire argument is irrelevant and you're basing it on an intense dislike of Trump. However, the wall and whether it is necessary or not has nothing to do with Trump. The question is this. Are there criminals and drugs entering the US where the borders are wide open and should the American government do all it can to stop this. Apparently, the Democrats believe a wall would help. They approved the construction of a wall only 5 short years ago. Shumer even bragged about its construction back then. Why does he oppose it now? What has changed? I can tell you and, deep down, you know exactly what that change is. It's the fact that Donald Trump is the president and they HATE, with a passion, anything that he would suggest or do. It won't matter what it is. If he saves a puppy from drowning, they'd find fault with it. You oppose it because Trump supports it and if you had any sense of integrity, you'd admit it. Your entire comment screams that out. You don't care whether the wall is good for America or not. You don't want Trump to take credit for it. That's it and nothing else.
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  1771.  @alexleroy8498  If that were true, then why are the far left so bummed out over the Parental Rights Bill in Florida? It's only affecting 3 teachers across America. You'd probably feel a little differently if it was YOUR kids being exposed and indoctrinated by this weirdness every day. I suppose, since it doesn't affect you, you don't car.
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  1772.  @bobshenix  If only you could actually speak about any of those issues in a thoughtful and logical manner. However, that seems completely beyond anything that your capable of. He's discussing ideas, sometimes ideas that appear contradictory and he's trying to see them from all angles. You want opinions and you want ONLY those that you can agree with. You refuse to discuss ideas. Also, the simplistic "clean your room" analogy has been a great help to a lot of people who've never heard it before. If you don't find it helpful, good for you, but YOU are not the arbiter of all things intelligent or simplistic. Be glad for those who've used that idea to make their lives worth living. However, I don't see that EVER happening. You're too bitter, yet arrogant, and you'd rather tear those people down than allow someone to do something, to help people, in ways that you can't. You've not said ONE thing that's not been rooted in a bitter heart. I can do nothing buy pity you and you'll never understand why I would do that. If anyone needs to "clean their room" it's you but you'll never understand what I mean by that, either.
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  1773.  @bobshenix  Are you really trying to tell me that there are no spoiled kids who've never had to do things for themselves? Who've never had to clean their rooms, cook their own meals, live on trust funds, never bought their own car or TV with money that they've earned through hard work? Is that what you're seriously trying to tell me? Again, you've not given me ONE example of him trying to sell Agenda 21. NOT ONE. All you've said it that he worked for the UN, which isn't even technically true, as he worked, without pay, for a Canadian task force on an UN project. That's EXACTLY what I mean when I say you don't discuss things. You make assertions and them back them up with insults. You don't even seem to be able to understand what I'm talking about. It's either that or your deep set bitterness won't allow you to discuss things out of fear that you may not even be correct. Discussions are for those who have the moral courage to question their ideas and beliefs. Cowards make declarations and insult because they're afraid to challenge themselves. It's easier to get online and bluster and degrade than it is to face their own weaknesses. Grow up.
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  1774.  @bobshenix  MY GAWD....it's a metaphor. You can use it, literally, as a way to begin to change your life, but at it's root, it's a metaphor. Look up the meaning of the word if it confuses you. No wonder you have a difficult time understanding philosophical concepts.
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  1775.  @Zachary_Setzer  It wasn't that way in the seventies. I worked in a shoe factory, made great money, until our leaders decided that we needed to allow foreign shoes in. That factory, which employed 1100 people at one time, is now a retirement home. Shoes are cheaper now but are times better? I'm going to tell you that life was great in our small town back then. Now, almost every manufacturing plant is close. People are on welfare, underemployed, downtown businesses are boarded up. We may have a transition time where it prices will rise but when the factories start to re-open and competition for workers heat up, wages will go up and life will become better for all of us.
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  1776.  @clogs4956  My 12 year old son ran into the same problem with bullies, back in the eighties. He was in grade 6 and a grade 8 student was bullying him almost every day. One day he fought back and punched the bully square in the nose, causing a severe nose bleed. Apparently, he punched the bully and then ran, like a rabbit, to get away. The bully went to a teacher because he couldn't get the bleeding to stop. My son was called to the principle's office and I was called at work. They were going to suspend my son for a week. My son claimed that this kid had been bullying him and had done so for over a month. When he complained, they told him to avoid the bully, as if that's possible. The school acknowledged that he'd told them but retaliation was still wrong. So now, the bully is the victim and my son was the bad guy and was the ONLY one to getting suspended. That's when I saw the kid that my son punched. Not only was he 3 years older, he must have been a foot taller and our weighed him by at least 30 pounds, a big deal when you're 12. Yet they wanted me to believe that my son was going out of his way to bully the big kid. My son's friends confirmed that this kid was a bully and had went after them on different occasions, as well. Then I found out who the kid's father was. Let's just say that this kid never bullied my son again.
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  1777. He's going to shut off water and power which means that the person living there is forced to leave the house in search of water. Either that or die of thirst. I don't think this plan was well thought out.
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  1778. They're never wrong though. No matter how much evidence you have, how logical you're argument is, the response is always the same. "No it's not" while looking straight ahead because they can't look you in the eye. That's what happens when you operate on emotions and not logic.
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  1779. They don't care even when you show them the facts. Hatred is quite comfortable with lies.
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  1780.  @nonameissafer.8457  Should protecting your life and the lives of others be a crime? The people in that subway car were terrified of this homeless man. I suppose Penny should have let the guy have free reign to threaten the safety of the innocent people that were there. Everyone just stare straight ahead and let the insane person do as he wants. What a nonsensical world we live in.
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  1781.  John Jourdan  He's not a Messiah. He's another human being, just like any other. The "Messiah" appellation is a moniker that cynics , like you, fix onto him. You're the type of person that likes to drag all those around you down to your own level of misery and nihilism. You'd rather spew your hate and rancour than try to understand new ideas or engage in meaningful conversation. You may claim to be a Trump supporter but you're no better than all the lefties that have been hurling insults at Peterson these last few years. Strange that you don't seem to mind that Trump is a billionaire but you find the fact that Peterson is a millionaire a reason to become angry. A little inconsistent, aren't you.
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  1782. ​ Big Cheeso  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." So...you really think, from reading this, that Dr. King would approve of forcing people to acknowledge their white privilege? That they have an "unconscious bias" and it is based on the lack of melanin in their skin? That he would want one of his children to become the president of the United States based solely on the colour of their skin...no other requirement would be relevant? If you believe that, you have no understanding of what Dr. King stood for. Also, Trump was anti-war. He wanted to bring the troops home from the Middle East and even tried to negotiate with the Taliban for peace. He was criticised soundly for it. He negotiated a peace settlement between Kosovo and Serbia and then deals between Israel and the UAE, the Sudan and Morocco to normalise relations and hopes of starting a peace process in the middle east. Dr. King wanted an end to American participation in the war in Vietnam. It would seem that Dr. King had more in common with Trump than he does with the modern Democrat party.
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  1783.  @clifffowler2581  I'm getting almost all my stuff online. Our local library isn't bad but I like to go for a walk or bike ride and my tablet is so much easier to carry.
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  1784. @Gary Miller Why would Americans vote against a president who is at the helm of the best economic climate in decades? That doesn't even make sense. He negotiated a stop to nuclear and missile testing in North Korea. That's great news. He initiated prison reform and the first step program. Something that's been needed for a long time. He instituted an economic plan for depressed zones and it's been great for those who'd take advantage of it. Black unemployment, right now, is at its lowest in history. IN HISTORY!!! Also, the gap between white and black unemployment is at its lowest in history. He's the first president that has taken on the Chinese juggernaut, who've been flooding western stores with cheap products using production methods which include worker abuse, no quality control, no pollution standards, theft of intellectual property and just plain bullying of vulnerable markets. Finally, some one has had the man parts to do something about it. So the man isn't the most sophisticated man around. He's boorish and a braggart and has a penchant for saying the wrong things but he's getting things done. If only the Democrats would try to cooperate, even a little bit, the US would be even be in a better position economically and socially. Trump's biggest hurdle has been his fellow Americans, the Democrats, the far left and the MSM. They've fought him every step of the way and it's the worst treatment of a sitting president in history. And you're not helping. Get rid of the Democrats and convince them that they'd better reform and become a party that cares for the citizens of the US and their country.
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  1785.  @nitin9230  I can guarantee you that there is not a person alive that is knowledgeable in every topic or is correct all the time. You're not disproving a lack of intelligence when you go and seek out a person's mistakes or faults. By those standards no one has any brains. As a matter of fact, he has the intelligence to admit when he is wrong, as he did when Larry Elder was on his show. That takes intelligence and integrity. One thing is certain, you never learn a thing if you refuse to discuss or consider ideas. Who do you think was the most intelligent, Rubin or all those leftist chanters and whiners? Not one of them showed any desire to listen to anything but the incessant ringing in their heads implanted there by their leftist handlers. Besides, super intelligence isn't the only quality that one needs in life. It's how you use what one has no matter how limited it might be.
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  1786. The guy had serious emotional problems and he went to medical professionals for help. They didn't help him at all. Instead, they helped advance their own ideology without a thought of looking at helping him in other ways. This is how cultists gain their recruits. They go after the most vulnerable and indoctrinate them into their cult. Jimmy Jones did the same thing to his followers. He recruited people who are lost emotionally and led them to destruction. It's a recurring theme in history. I'm not saying that the doctors owe him money for their part, in all this, but they should never be allowed to practise medicine again.
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  1787. The central idea of truth in that book came when Winston was forced to see that 2 plus 2 equals 5, that truth was a construct that could be changed at the whim of the speaker. This is what we're seeing today. Orwell gave us the most absurd example that he could think of and yet so many of us don't get what it was that he was getting at. It's frightening to think that his nightmarish world is starting to become real here in the west.
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  1788.  @kdrapertrucker  Federal storm troopers? Is that what you mean?
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  1789.  @Alex-pt5no  Local Democrats will support police defunding is they think that it will help them get re-elected. Federal Democrats, running in the same districts, if they think the local voters support police defunding, will run on the same platform. Not because they want it but they'll see it as their path to winning. They'll win then do nothing about defunding the police but, at the local level, it has nothing to do with them anyway. It's the local Dems that will do it and the Federal Dems will wash their hands of it when it backfires.
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  1790.  Gerry Swaim  "the crime he committed was convincing Republicans that he is a decent human being" What???? LOL. That's a crime now? I convinced my last girl friend I was a nice guy. Should I be arrested for that? LOL. Wow, I can't get over the logic of some people.
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  1791.  @novocaine_4_payne667  You're sinking into semantics. Everyone knows and understands what one means when using the word "Hispanic". It has a generic meaning that has been used for decades.
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  1792.  Jennie Hughes  Of course she did. Just a lot smaller dose. That's the beauty of this crime. They can't prove her dosage. It's the perfect crime and the media is so intent on vilifying Trump that they fell for it, just like her husband did.
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  1793.  @obviousmaths4368  This is another example of full on gaslighting. "You don't know what you're talking about. Every one, who has a brain, knows that you're ignorant". That's gaslighting 101. If you had even a scintilla of integrity, you'd direct us to the science that backs up your belief system....but you won't. It's easier to call people names than it is to back up your claims.
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  1794.  @SamA-ho8uj  The Constitution. Ever hear of it. It outlines what our rights are. The right to free speech. That's NOT a regulation. It's what conservatives believe in. This is NOT a conservative movement. This is coming from the Democrats, and it came the minute that the Republican president conceded that he lost. If you think, that the party that fought against Chinese tariffs, the Democrats, aren't in bed with the multinational corporations that benefit from not having tariffs, then the logic part of your brain is out of whack. The corporations hated Donald Trump because he was killing their golden Chinese goose and the left are supporting big business. Even a child should be able to figure that one out.
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  1795.  @Arctc-zh6rg  No, she doesn't believe that black people should shut up. She says that if they're going to wait until others are going to step up and help the black community, you're going to be waiting a long time. The best way to help yourself is to stop being a victim, and step up and help yourself out by working hard. That means taking personal responsibility for what's wrong in your life. If a person works hard, makes good sound and pragmatic decisions, you can pull yourself out of a bad situation and poverty. Asian do it all the time. They're not complaining about their victim status. They work hard and have become the richest household demographic in America. There's no reason why a black person can't do it but it won't happen as long as they're afraid to act white, or think that hard work is a white value. Asians have proved that it isn't. Hard work is how things are accomplished. You don't accomplish anything by waiting for others to do it for you.
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  1796.  @Arctc-zh6rg  Almost everyone of those black schools are in the inner city and in cities that have been controlled by a Democrat governments for YEARS. It's the Republicans, the right wing, that are advocating for school choice and the left, the Democrats that are solidly against school choice. They're telling those black parents that they MUST go to the school that has been built for them, no matter how bad that school could be. So it's Democrats that are telling those parents to shut up and do as you're told. Also, have you listened to Candace Owens? She's a bad role model, for the black community, of someone who's supposed to shut up. Beside, that's not what she's saying. You're putting words in her mouth that aren't there. She's saying to quit thinking like a victim. Quit being silent and demanding things from others because the record shows that they're NOT GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU. Most of the impoverished inner city have been Democrat run for decades.....the party that supposed to help them and nothing ever changes. The reason is simple. NO ONE is going to help you. You have to help yourself. The capability is there. What's needed is the desire and the left keeps sucking that desire out of the black community with their promises of "hope and change". It's a false promise. I've already said it. Asians have the most affluent demographic house hold wealth. They do it through hard work. It can be done. Black doctors, nurses, truck drives, tradesmen, lawyers, lab techs, writers, police officers are doing it all the time. They work hard and they make a good life for themselves. They don't feel sorry for themselves about how much harder it is for them. They're going to do it in SPITE of the difficulty. One thing is certain, it's not going to happen, waiting in front of TV set for the government to do it for you. It didn't work 50 years ago, or 40 years ago or 25 years ago and it's not going to work today.
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  1797.  @nickrekietascrosseyedwife7166  If you live in San Francisco, you should be afraid of the homeless. Most have mental issues or have serious addiction problems. Most have lost all sense of reality. It's not because they're homeless, it's because there is no where for the mentally challenged and addicted to go to for help and they end up homeless with no hope for a decent future.
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  1798.  Jorge Briln  When you make things about skin colour, you lose sight of the message. Worse, it compounds resentment which leads to retribution. Discuss ideas not immutable characteristics.
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  1799. I am anti abortion in my private life but I think that this is something that should be a personal choice. My being a man lessons the impact of my stance immensely but I have a very close, female friend who feels the same way. She would never get an abortion because she thinks it would be wrong for her. She understands that it's a complex issue and will allow and respect those who might not feel that getting an abortion is wrong. She's against abortion in principle but supports pro-choice. We recognise that it's personal.
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  1800. The guy told you.  You have to stretch your imagination to see it.  Stretch it a lot.  To the point of breaking.
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  1801. It's because those satellites are too close to the earth for them to be able to take a full shot of the planet. Stand 5 feet away from your house and try and take a picture that shows the entire house and good luck with that. The earth is too large for a video or picture from a satellite to show the entire planet. The video in 72 was taken from a greater distance. It was not a satellite, an object orbiting the earth. It was a space ship travelling away from and then returning to the earth. Therefore, just like us taking a picture of the moon, they could take a picture of the earth. Simple really. When they say it's oblate, they don't meant that it's shape is so far from a perfect circle that you'd automatically notice it. It's only noticeable if you look closely. This is a known fact.
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  1802. If part of the question is to use common core to get the answer, then the pupil did not follow the instructions given him. It may seem inefficient but that's his instructions. If he didn't follow the instructions, he did it wrong.
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  1803. ***** Or...he may be just a guy who doesn't care whether you believe him or not.  He's just pissed that people would treat the memory of his cousin so callously and he's just venting.  No underlying motive...just a simple "Go fuck yourself, truthersf".
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  1804. Dobro Doggie I challenge you to take the insides out of a clock and put it inside a case and walk into an airport with this case and start showing people your handiwork. I'll bet that you won't do it. I'd have to wonder why and I'll bet you could answer why YOU wouldn't do it. You know full well that people might mistake if for a bomb and that you would be subject to serious repercussions at the hands of airport security and the law. American schools have been the victims of school shootings and it would be prudent for any student to refrain from bringing anything that looked dangerous to a school. Small children have been expelled for forming a pistol with their fingers and pretending to shoot fellow students. Why would a 14 year old do what this kid did? What did he think it was that he had invented. A new clock? Even after he was told to put it away, he insisted on carrying it to other classes, that had nothing to do with his "science" project and continue to show it off. I'm not going to say it was a conspiracy but I have to wonder what his motive was. One thing is certain, that project did not deserve a trip to the Whitehouse and it became a media circus only because the media wanted to create that controversy.
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  1805. Dobro Doggie Just in case you're wondering, here are some winning high school projects in Canada. Notice the high calibre of science and the depth of the projects. https://cwsf.youthscience.ca/sites/default/files/2017_cwsf_awards_en.pdf Oh yeah, that clock boy was one smart kid. If he's the best the US had to offer in their high school science classes, the US is failing it's students, badly.
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  1806.  @sportspolitics539  The insulting manner in which you spelled her name tells me everything that I need to know about your character. If you have a case for putting her in prison, just say it. Otherwise, dispense with the juvenile behaviour. Only other children are impressed by that type of nonsense.
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  1807. He looked into it. I'm going to say that he lied. The 10 kilometre Olympic swimming record is 25 minutes faster in the men's division over the women's. Had Tyson looked into it, he'd know that. That leads me to believe that he lied. That's really sciency, Neil.
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  1808.  @fredmann5019  Who really does? The one thing that parents have, at least most of us, is a love that others could ever have. That's why parents should be listened to and why they should be involved. It's telling that these educators think that parents shouldn't be involved in their children's lives and futures.
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  1809. chris daren Columbus reached the Caribbean. That's right and it's a part of North America but he didn't know that. He thought that he'd reached some islands off the coast of eastern Asia or India. He thought that because he knew that the earth was round. What he didn't know was that North and South America lay between Europe and Asia if you sailed west. No one did. There was a lucrative spice trade with India and the other eastern Asian areas in 14th and 15th century. This was monopolised by the Arabs in the middle east, so the Portuguese tried to find a route around Africa so they could go directly to eastern Asia and cut out the middle man in the middle east. Columbus thought there might be a better way if a person sailed west, not realising that the Americas were in the way. That's because no one knew that, otherwise it would have been a good way. He wasn't after gold at all. He only went after it when he was some of the natives in the Caribbean with some gold. He was after the Asian spice trade. Pizarro was the first European to reach Peru, where the Incas had all the gold and silver. He conquered Peru in 1530, 16 years after Columbus died. So how could Columbus have depleted all the gold in a decade if it took 30 years for Pizarro to reach Peru after Columbus first reached the Caribbean. In fact, Peru is 6th in gold production today. The United States is 4th and Canada is 5th. As for silver, Mexico is STILL the number one producing country, with Peru 3rd and Bolivia 6th. That doesn't sound like a depleted gold and silver resources to me. You're not very well informed on the subject at all. You're entire post is based on a dislike for white people and is nothing more that a personal bias. A simple google search could have gotten all this information, but it would appear that you like your version better because it backs up your own personal prejudices. Before you make these comments a little fact checking might help you a lot because you come off as a 12 year old and it does you no credit.
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  1810. @ How do you know that? Is there any proof? This "it's going to billionaires" trope is such a simplistic response. Trump has only been president for a month. There's hasn't been enough time for a paper trail to these billionaires and yet you know. Your responses sound like canned soundbites, the type that bots make.
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  1811.  @Alfred.E.Neuman.1  I think what he's saying is that he wants those, who are indoctrinating students in socialist ideologies, should be replaced by teachers who are teaching academics and vocational studies. He wants to get RID of those failing teachers, who aren't failing from their own prospective. They're a big success at what they want to do. That's not giving the high schools MORE responsibilities. It's changing their responsibilities from ideological indoctrination to real education.
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  1812.  @ninaenglerina  Venezuela's oil industry accounts for 25 percent of its GDP and 95 percent of its exports. The oil industry, in Venezuela, was nationalised back in the late seventies. What the politicians did was is to keep promising the oil profits to social programs to its citizens in return for votes. This meant that the oil industry didn't have the money to hire the best technicians, update its equipment, engage in research and development or to train the next generation of oil workers. Couple this with fixing the prices of goods and all the companies, both private and public, were unable to set prices for their goods so they could make a profit. That's why store shelves are empty. Store owners were buying products to sell that cost more to buy than what the government would allow them to sell them for. When the stores could no longer maintain their business at a profit, the government nationalised them and it just spiralled downward until it became the mess it is now. It's not just that Venezuela has no privately owned businesses. It's that their government sets the policies for the businesses and won't allow them the freedom to operate so they can show success in their dealings. The government may not own the business but they control them. That's why the failure of the Venezuelan economy.
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  1813.  @newshound2521  The Nazis are left wing Socialists. Hitler, himself, said it countless times. In fact, he was a foot soldier for the Bavarian Soviet Republic, in 1918-9 which was supported by Lenin and his Bolsheviks. When that fell apart, he joined the new Fascist party, a radical socialist party, called the Nazi party. When you read the works and the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini, there's no doubt that this is fact. It was the Marxist intelligentsia, who didn't want to be linked to Fascism after WW2, who peddled the idea that the Nazis were right wing. Read into it. The book "Killing History" by L. K. Samuels is a good start. Thousands of references to written works by prominent Fascists of that era that will back this up. In fact, the closest government to a Fascist regime, right now, is China, which is no longer a true communist country. It's Fascist, replete with concentration camps and everything.
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  1814.  @jameskazd9951  That's a different issue altogether and not up to the police officer to decide. It IS illegal and it was his job to uphold the law. That's it. End of story. If she wanted to fight it, there's a mechanism known as the court system. She may not win but SHE'D BE ALIVE. This is why I called it advice. Your comment was a tacit approval of her resisting arrest. Not overt approval but by saying that it shouldn't be against the law, she was correct in resisting. I'd say the result shows that she was incorrect. Even if that was only sugar in that baggie, she should still have complied. Why? Because pulling a gun on anyone, justified or not, is escalating the situation. You deal with any situation with how it is, NOT on how you wish it was.
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  1815.  @frankg6981  Exactly. If you wait for the government to look after your safety, you're putting yourself at risk and you'll end up like this unfortunate woman. The Government is a long ways away. Personal protection is right there in your home with you.
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  1816.  Optimus Prime  Liberal meanings....online dictionary. ....open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values. ....favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms. ....(in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform. I'm not really sure what's wrong with that. It implies a willingness to view issues from all angles and then making a comment on it after viewing all facts. They're not perfect but it's way better than the left wing's heavily biased media.
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  1817. Notice how Newt says that Biden made errors in his speech. He's giving the guy respect even though he's a political opponent. Had Trump made those same "errors" the left would call them lies. It really shows the mindset of the left over the right, doesn't it?
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  1818.  X D  What are you doing here then? Guys, like you, are always here complaining and making vague accusations but you never say anything of any depth or value. Why aren't you on the Young Turks and complaining about REAL far left sites that are flat out lying???
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  1819.  @terryvlunsford1610  Why do people keep saying "Why do you keep electing him" or things along that nature. It's OBVIOUS that he didn't vote for him. You're giving him a blast for what OTHER people in California did, for who THEY voted for.....not him. Why would you do that? It makes NO sense.
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  1820.  @costernocht  Wow. Learn something new every day. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? I've learned my new "trick" for today and it's only 8 in the morning. Thanks. I can relax now.
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  1821.  @oldtimer5745  That's why he's here talking to these black leaders. That's why he instituted economic opportunity zones, prison reform, the first step program, funding for black colleges, funding for sickle cell anemia research, named a black man to Hud, another as the Surgeon General and even as the top man in the Air Force. I don't expect a cogent response because there's nothing to say. The best I can hope for are insults. Nothing ever positive....always searching for the negative.
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  1822.  @ard1805  I remember the slogan "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation FOREVER!!!!" It was screamed out by a Democrat, a KKK supporter, in my lifetime. It was a Democrat governor in Arkansas who opposed the desegregation of schools in his state and supported the violent protests in Little Rock, held by the KKK and their friends. Right wing put them on the map......what a load of crap. Senator Robert Byrd, a Democratic Senator, until his death in 2010, was a member of the KKK at one time. He was also a close friend and mentor to the Clintons. Throughout the entire KKK history, they were almost exclusively manned with Democrats.
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  1823.  @rgerber  What makes you think that Snow White wasn't going to consent to a kiss that would save her life? When I was a kid and saw this movie, I didn't think XXX. I saw a chaste kiss, done out of love and caring and not out of self gratification.
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  1824. I'd say that Trump's issues are quite obvious. The man is the most open president in American history. Unlike Biden, they're trying to hide his issues but Trump will gaffe, look at it straight in the eye, and move on. That's what a leader does.
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  1825. I'm wondering how they would destroy the moon. There can't atmospheric pollution. There's no atmosphere now. How can it get worse. You're not going to render species extinct. Once again, no life on Mars. What about water pollution. We all know the answer to that. So what could go wrong? The only problem that I could see is that they mine the moon completely and end up shipping the entire thing, or a good part of it, to earth. That might be a disaster. The earth depends of the moon's gravitation as part of its life cycle. Other than that, I don't see how we could destroy the moon.
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  1826.  @RealYRM  "If you break up with me, I'll self harm, and it'll be your fault!" A perfect comparison. It's so manipulative and abusive. It's an argument that I'm going to use from now. Thank you for that.
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  1827.  @thewayofnoway  I'm not going to speak for David Evans but, YES, I was in favour of that investigation and I'm glad of the outcome. Not because I like Trump but because that's what the law is supposed to do. Investigate and indict if the evidence warrants it. No evidence.....no indictment. I'm, also, in favour of investigations into the person that broke into my car, stole my property, defecated on the sidewalk in front of my house, left used syringes on the ground so my grandchildren are endangered. SO ARE YOU!!!! I know that because if some stole your property, you'd call the police. So quit deflecting from these problems by making illogical comparisons.
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  1828.  @piteusx8440  Another illogical conflation. It doesn't MATTER if Trump disregards the law or not when speaking about upholding the law on the street. What matters is whether that person, on the street, is guilty of a crime or not. This attitude of advocating for ignoring criminals on the streets because you think the president is a criminal, is what is getting these cities in the state that it's in now. You're basically saying that you're fine with walking through sh-t, garbage and used syringes because Trump is the president and you hate that. You'd prefer to leave things that way and this is as ridiculous as it gets. The logic of the left, the Trump haters, is beyond astounding.
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  1829.  @samm9017  People have been taking it for SEVENTY YEARS. I'll say it again....SEVENTY YEARS!!!! Without ill effects. If you take it and it doesn't work......nothing bad happens. If you take it and it does work.....IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!! Do you get it, NOW. I'm guessing, no you don't. Optimism is a bad thing....right?
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  1830.  @lastjob2011  It's all I ever hear. You don't like someone, call him/her a racist and then sit smugly back and declare it a victory. That's what "hate" does for you. You, and those like you, have this weird idea that hate is just fine if you hate the right people. There's no truth to that idea but it sure makes a great weapon. Grow up and try to use an intellectual argument instead of using meaningless buzz words.
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  1831.  @amyh9512  The Machine...huh. Try to go, as a student, to almost any university, and give an opinion that doesn't line up with "machine" orthodoxy. "Men cannot get pregnant". Say it in class. Put that sentence and a public bulletin board and sign your name to it. You'll find out what the Machine is all about and it won't be you. They may let you off if you apologise. If you want to know who's in power (machine) find out who you're allowed to criticise or disagree with. In this case, one side says that you MUST say what they tell you to say and the other says that it should be your choice whether you want to to say it or not. I'd say it's the ones who FORCE you that want to be the machine or are the machine.
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  1832.  @markd1516  You're basically insinuating that you may never come to the conclusion that someone could be espousing an ideology that might not be true. That they are, in fact, wrong. I will go to the extreme on this. Would you say the same thing if I claimed that Adolf Hitler was wrong? I realise that using the "Hitler" reference is rather trite but there is a line that can be crossed and Hitler's brand of Fascism would be a good place to start. You're being very clever but that irony, that you speak of, doesn't exist in this case. One can be wrong, ideologically and academically. There's nothing ironic in pointing that out.
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  1833. Hating Trump is NOT a requirement to vote against him. Also, if you don't support the MSM's crazed depiction of Trump, that doesn't mean you support Trump or that you're going to vote for him. Unfortunately, the more the MSM and the Democrats behave in the way that they have been, for the last 4 years, the more they push people to vote Trump as the only alternative to Democrat craziness. Democrat hatred is killing their chances at winning the election.
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  1834.  @RealSteelStreet  Atta boy. Imply that the guy's lying and if he's not lying that he must have been up to no good, maybe even a crook and that he somehow deserved it. I'd bet you wouldn't say that about a black man being pulled over or maybe you would. You do seem the type to make general assumptions about people that you've never met.
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  1835.  @StarshipTrooper2050  Funny stuff....right there. LOL.
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  1836.  @johanvanderpants9363  He isn't justifying an innocent man being killed. He's saying that this wasn't a case of the police just going in and killing an innocent man for no reason. This guy was SO concerned for his safety, that he felt he had to sleep with a gun under the blankets with him. Who feels that way? Only one who knows what's going on and the dangers of being where he is. Tatum is decrying the automated response of those who would cause violence and destruction in protests. It's like I said, you want guarantees in the handling of serious criminals, that nothing would ever go wrong. It's some kind of Utopian vision of perfection and if things don't go perfectly, then you get angry. That guy had better realise that if he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of a police altercation, he'd be advised not to hang out with those who are actively committing serious crimes. Only the most naive or ideological possessed would believe that this guy didn't know what his cousins were up to. He knew and that was why he was up and, in spite of only being partially awake, had a gun in his hand within seconds. It's too bad that it happened but you either respect the law, which he clearly did not, and be careful who you associate with, or you increase the risk of finding yourself in a bad situation manifold. If you live by the sword you will die by the sword.
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  1837.  @johanvanderpants9363  You're trying to sugarcoat it and you know it. I'm not talking about 2A and you know that as well. He KNEW that he was in a dangerous situation and it wasn't his home. No, one that I know of, sleeps with a gun so readily available while sleeping and most of my friends support the 2A. You're doing everything possible to make it seem as if he was just an innocent. That meme about how he fed the poor, wanted to be minister, was turning his life around and nonsense like that. You're using the "He was within his 2A rights" as a defence, thinking that this is such a clever argument. It's not. It's pure gaslighting. They went with a no-knock warrant because they knew just how dangerous these guys were. It was all outlined in the warrant. They did it this way to prevent a neighbourhood standoff that could have killed a lot more people. They had every reason to believe that possibility and within seconds of entering the home, a gun was pulled. The officers had no time to ask who he was or why he was pointing a gun at them. They issued a no-knock warrant because they believed the situation could be extremely volatile and the first person they encountered upon entering the home did exactly what they feared would happen. However, they were prepared and the death count was held at one. Had his cousins been forewarned it could have been FAR worse. That's why the no-knock warrant. It was to overwhelm the occupants before it got to far out of control because they knew that they were dealing with people who were already out of control.
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  1838.  @johanvanderpants9363  The fact that this was a volatile situation and that the police knew it, is validated by the 16 page warrant, outlining why they felt that it was necessary. However, the police can not carry out that warrant on their own say so. They had to present that warrant to a judge, who evaluates the evidence presented and decides on whether the no-knock warrant is necessary. This is some knee jerk action by the police. It took thought, the collection of evidence, the presentation of the credentials of the police officer involved and the signing off by a judge. The police don't want to have more people involved in the arrest than is necessary. It just makes it all more dangerous for themselves and for others. He was there. The police had no way of knowing that he was there and they weren't going to tip off the suspects by placing surveillance officers in the neighbourhood. This guy had to have known what his cousins were up to. They posted a lot of it all over social media. If the police had waited until the PERFECT situation that guaranteed no problems whatsoever, who knows how many those cousins would have killed in the interim. They're in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation and the best thing to do is to nip it quickly in the bud before the suspects kill even more people. You're living in dreamland if you think that the perfect time exists at all times. Instead of moaning about how he was so innocent, you should be telling people to be careful about who they associate with if they don't want to find themselves at the wrong side of a police altercation or even a gang retribution situation.
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  1839.  @Jesusismysavior92  I'm not going to say that you'd be a cop. What if you were part of a group that wanted to kill someone in the home out of revenge. A guy is sleeping on the couch. You kick the couch to wake him up and he's gets up reaching for his gun. He's sleepy but he's got that gun. Are you going to start questioning him. "Hey buddy what's your name?". This took seconds. They didn't have the benefit, like you have, of going it over and over, in slow motion, to see if he what he was going to do. It was a split second action. They didn't have the option of stopping the action and leaving and trying the no-knock warrant over until it was perfect. Real life is a lot different than slow motion replays. I guarantee that you'd be blasting away because you don't want to be the one with the toe tag.
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  1840.  @michaeljackson8390  Will you stop. Even Christians think you're nuts.
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  1841.  @tisha3831  It wasn't Trump that made the emotional mess. It was the Democrats and the media who started all the talk about collusion and who made up and manipulated the stories surrounding Trump. They made a big deal out of the stupidest things. If you can't control your emotions, that's no one's fault but your own. Get yourself under control and you will never do that if you insist that your emotions are at the control of others.
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  1842. Of course he was a good navigator. He just didn't know that there were 2 large continents between Europe and Asia. NO ONE did. He found the islands in the Caribbean and then he navigated back on subsequent voyages. That took a knowledge of navigation. He charted those newly discovered islands and used those charts to return a couple of years later. That means he knew how to navigate. If he didn't, he'd have never returned.
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  1843.  @troyhenry6111  That's the big out. "It's happening in colleges". You have the shows, invite people of ALL ages, and then tell everyone that it's NOT happening IN the schools. Just like the time they took kids to a drag show, parents and teachers, and there was a sign there that said "It's not going to lick itself". Primary school age children were in attendance along with teachers and parents. It didn't happen at school. Why are these drag queens asked to read, anyway? In all the years that I went to school, I've NEVER had outsiders come to class and read to us. It didn't happen with my kids, either. So why drag queens? Why not mailmen, accountants, police officers or carpenters? There's a reason why they're bringing in drag queens to read. Its an introduction to a lifestyle that they would NEVER be exposed to otherwise.....what some would call "grooming". You start small and you build on it. It's incremental. They're not bringing in burlesque performers to read, in full regalia. There's a reason why it's drag queens. Even the possibility should make you recoil in horror and support the laws prohibiting it. However, I hear TOO many people fighting those laws with "It's NOT happening". All that does is allow some ideologues, in schools, to be able to do those things and then saying that there's no law against it. It's just NOT necessary. PERIOD.
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  1844.  @endlessendless2391  That's what a Constitutional Republic does. It presides over the democracy to ensure that the mob doesn't violate the rights of the individual. Leave it to democracy and there's no mechanism to reign in the excesses of democracy. A democracy NEEDS a Constitution to rule NOT the democratic process. The Constitutional is that set of fundamental principles of human rights and liberty. The Constitution rules and democracy is one of the principles of human rights and liberty.
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  1845.  @jamarehire2011  It definitely wasn't his home TV that he smashed.
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  1846.  @Asghaad  When at least 5 states put Covid patients in nursing homes, you've artificially inflated death rates. How many of those cases and deaths could have been avoided had that not been done. Hydroxychloroquine has been in use for decades for malaria, Lyme disease, some forms of arthritis and Lupus. Now, SUDDENLY, because Trump said that it might be helpful in fighting Covid, everyone went into a tizzy. Even CNN has reported on a study that says it helps. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-detroit-study/index.html I would hope that you wouldn't have to take it to the point of it being a regular part of your life. Just long enough to rid the patient of symptoms. If you take if for weeks, it obviously isn't working.
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  1847.  @Not_A_Cat  So what do they do? They attack another country....actually start a war. It's none of Russia's business if the NATO countries disband or not or even who joins them. Why would you want to join a club that doesn't want you, anyway?
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  1848. You don't have to like her but why not find fault with what she's saying in this video instead of a dismissal due to a personal bias.
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  1849.  @queent3343  Haven't you seen any of the school board meetings where parents were reading from books that were recommended reading for primary school children. Some of it so explicit that the school board members told the parents that it was too offensive to read at this meeting, yet those books were in the classroom and school library. Maybe you should see the TikTok videos about the teachers of kindergarten to grade 3, talking about their sexuality, holding pride parades for the little tykes, drag queen story time and more. Besides, even if none of this was true (which it isn't), why not make sure that teachers don't talk about sexually explicit material to little kids whether it be LGBTQ or STRAIGHT. It's just not necessary. What's really strange is that Dave Rubin and his husband have been guests of Desantis and he even congratulated them on the adoption of their little babies. Why would a man, who supposedly hates gays, do that? You're the one that so filled with hate that you won't dig deeper into the topic. You WANT the divide. It makes you feel superior somehow that you're better than those "bigots". Watch "The Quartering" here on YouTube. He's got all kinds of videos showing teachers who brag about how they've come out to their students of a very young age and how good it makes them feel. What kind of narcissism, must a person have, to find validation from 6 year olds? Why would a teacher even talk about their personal life let alone their sexual preferences to little kids? It's just plain weird.
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  1850.  @timorvet1  Please stop. We Canadians are embarrassed enough. LOL.
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  1851.  @emmawillard1832  Years ago, my dog made onto the voting list. Don't ask me how. My wife had painted his name on his doghouse and that's the only way anyone could have gotten his name. It was weird. Fortunately, we live in a small town and when I went to vote, one of the poll workers asked me who "George" was. I knew most of them and apparently they'd already been asking who George was when my dad came in to vote. He had no idea. I told them that my dog was named "George" and as we were the only family with our last name in that VERY small town, it was easy for the poll workers to spot. Of course, my dog didn't vote. It was a stupid mistake made by election workers under a bad system. The American voting system is shot. Why don't we fix it so these things don't happen. NO WAY. We'd rather argue over the ridiculous things than just fix it so it doesn't happen. Foreigners on voting lists in Virginia. Problems in Lancaster, Penn. Likely charges in Colorado and Arizona. Allegations of ballot harvesting in Detroit. A man torching a drop box. Another trying to steal a drop box. None of this should be happening but let's not fix it. It's racist to show ID to vote. Accusations of fraud in 2000, 2004, 2016, 2020 and now it's already starting in 2024....but we don't need to fix it. Let's just keep it so our elections are disputed, FOREVER. Other countries are laughing at us. They don't have those problems. In a lot of countries you get a voting registration card that's specific to you, like a bank card. No card.....no vote. However, people would start crying in America because that's too difficult for some people. It's a joke.
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  1852. I'm a bartender. This town hall thing was going on when I started this shift and it was playing on a TV in the corner all night and was finishing up as I locked up. We watched 2 ball games on the other TV while this was on. It was an all night event. Thankfully, there were the ball games.
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  1853.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  "Pro life" isn't pro abortion. Pro life advocates always choose life over death and when you terminate a pregnancy, you terminate a growing, living being...ending a life. You can't end a life and then claim to be pro life. It's illogical.
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  1854.  @asherif3893  The difference being that these pornstars, with college degrees, aren't doing it out of necessity. They're doing it because they make a lot of money. They'd make money doing "honest", good money, but it's easier and more lucrative to sell themselves. In a country like Cuba, they have nothing when they work at normal jobs. Doctors actually do drive cabs in Cuba. Others might sell themselves because that's a way to really make money, from tourists, who would pay far more than any local Cuban. Those spoiled college Marxists might think that Cuba is the communist Utopia but after a couple of months, only the truly ideologically possessed would want to stay there. Most of them would be wanting to go home within a couple of weeks.
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  1855.  @thesammyjenkinsexperience4996  You could use that argument for anything. "To buy that new home". "To pay for her BMW". "To pay for her vacation to Hawaii". Or you could ask "Why did she become a drug dealer?" "Why did she rob that bank?" Is it THE system or is it HER value system? She didn't have to become a prostitute. She chose to. She saw an easy way out and she took it. Blaming someone else for your moral indiscretions is called rationalisation and isn't a good argument no matter the system applied. Socialism seems to imply that something like prostitution wouldn't happen because everything is taken care of in that system. It doesn't seem to work out that way because there's no such thing as the perfect system.
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  1856. My buddy call it Plan B for mediocre male athletes. A retirement plan for failed male athletes is pretty good, too.
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  1857.  John Toas  Yet, Inuit have eaten almost exclusively meat for over one thousand years. So, it would seem that their bodies have evolved to, not only live on that diet, but to thrive on it, in an extremely harsh environment. It would also seem that humans lived on meat, in northern Europe and Asia for 30,000 years. Over the harsh winters of the Ice Age, meat would have been the only food source for long periods of time. They were able to live on it because their ancestors, coming from Africa, had also lived on meat, through hunting and scavenging. This has been going on for millions of years. No matter how you spin it, we've adapted to living on a omnivorous diet and it has become a legacy that goes back into the deepest recesses of human history. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that human tool building started as a method to more easily access bone marrow and developed to more easily cut meat away from the bone. Also, had humans not used the skins of their prey, they'd never have settled in the northerly regions of the planet. It's a direct result of hunting animals for food and adapting the skins of the carcasses for warmth. If eating meat is bad for you, we'd have died off, as a species, a long time ago.
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  1858.  @Louipyaps  Of course, we all create bubbles of existence for our lives. However, those on the right create bubbles that are more closely aligned with reality. Real struggles of life, not the "I need a safe space cause he was offensive" bubble that the SJWs live in.
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  1859.  @bruceellenburg429  Actually, I could care less. She did a great job at her first briefing. That's what I saw. A subjective opinion, like whether she's hot or not, really means nothing. I find her physically attractive. Others may not. So what? In the end, it means nothing when she goes to do her job.
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  1860.  @JohnCarterRocks  Moving from Florida should fix the corporate losses that they've been experiencing over the last few years. LOL. Their problems run deeper than DeSantis. A move isn't going to put people in theatre seats to see their movies. Instead of moving out of Florida, they'd be better off returning to what made them so successful in the first place. Make good movies that don't emphasise woke evangelical themes. Just make good stories that people would take their kids to see. They'll keep losing at the box office no matter where Disney World goes. They have to change their attitude.
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  1861.  I O  "Unless you have a plan you will get screwed." THEN GET A PLAN!!!! First thing that you do, no matter how difficult it is, save 10% of your wages. Always. Lock it away in some type of savings plan that you can't touch. Now, I'll wait for the excuses.
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  1862.  @one-sidedrationalization1091  Which is why I also said that you must make wise decisions. If you don't know what decisions to make, ask someone who seems to be finding success. Follow their advice if they're willing to help....AND QUIT MAKING EXCUSES. Excuses are for losers. A winner does what he has to give him/herself a chance to work out of abject poverty. A chance.....not a guarantee. Your excuses take away even that chance.
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  1863.  @one-sidedrationalization1091  The single mom phenomena has very little to do with competition. It's the culture of dissatisfaction that has taken over our society. People have this idea that they should be happy, living in a state of bliss, when life isn't that way at all. They get bored too easily, which leads to disaffection and finally to resentment. We don't understand the utility of gratitude for even the smallest things in life. It's always a complaint. People, in western societies can't understand that they're living in the best times and the best countries in human history. The poorest people, living in America, lives better than 99% of those who lived a mere 250 years ago. They eat better, are warmer in the winter, have better health care and can sit in front of a TV or stare at their phones for hours on end.....something that no one had the time to do 2 centuries ago. However, I'm pretty sure that this is all falling on deaf ears. People would rather wallow in self pity than do something about it.
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  1864.  l8nightboy  And you never even mentioned ONE thing that I mentioned. NOT A ONE. I guess if you ignore them, they don't exist....right? Maybe Trump has lied but you? You're either lying to yourself or you just don't care about those things. You'd allow anything to satiate your hatred of ONE man.
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  1865.  Bob jones  What does it matter how many were black owned, anyway? If they were looted, it was wrong. It's wrong to loot and steal. PERIOD!!!!!!! NO qualifications. NO excuses. NO ideological reason. No pretence of justice. It's theft by people using sanctimonious rhetoric as justification.
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  1866. "When Harry met Meghan".
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  1867. My dog identifies as a male. Now I have 7 puppies. That proves that males can get pregnant.
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  1868.  @rebjiii  We ALL stand against everything Jesus said and did. When asked who was worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven he replied "No one" Not any of us. So get off your high horse and stop judging him as if you're the Almighty and have the right to decide who Jesus would approve of and who he wouldn't. "Judge not lest ye be judged". I guess that applies to everyone but you. Also, Trump is right about Chicago. The city is at a standstill because no one has the courage or strength to do what has to be done. So, nothing changes. It's always everyone else's fault. The leaders and the people of Chicago have to look inwards to change their city. Waiting for a miracle isn't going to happen. You have to make it yourself.
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  1869.  @shaniajackson7864  You can't even tell which brand of Christianity is the correct one. Is it the Roman Catholic Church? The Presbyterian Church? How about Calvinism or the Amish? Millions died and were persecuted trying to sort that out. Furthermore, it's the belief in God that matters, not the ideology. Ideology is the man made construct and Christianity has splintered into all kinds of factions. We, as humans, don't have the wisdom to distinguish each facet of the teachings of the Bible and 2 people could read the same passage in their Bible and come to different conclusions to its meaning. That's was a major reason why the founding fathers of the US allowed freedoms. They wanted to avoid the endless wars and deaths that plagued Europe for centuries. Freedom of speech, of religion, of assembly, all the basic principles of the Constitution, that will allow us all our own path to live our life the way that God granted us. The Apostles never once advocated that Christians force anyone to believe in Jesus. The only thing important was faith and that was something that was lost in the Middle Ages and was slowly brought back, starting with the Reformation and culminating in the American Constitution. Also, the Kingdom of Heaven will never be attained on earth. Jesus told us that, explicitly. Any attempt to force it or say that Christianity is the only way, negates the fact that we're still human and as such we will pervert his way. That's a guarantee. The realisation will come with the Kingdom of Heaven, not by the Evangelicals, who believe that they have the right to tell me how to believe or what to believe.
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  1870. @Sylvana Baptista You just watched this young woman tell of the horrifying life that North Koreans face and you still can't feel any gratitude for how good you have it. You're still filled with a gender envy. As for the "every" word that you find objectionable, I'm going to say that EVERY person, in the west, should hear this young woman....including YOU. More than just hear her, you should LISTEN and learn. But you won't. You'll still wallow in the group identitarianism that Yeonmi talked about that was at the genesis of the rot of North Korean life. I'm guilty because of the original sin of being born a man and I'd better acknowledge that. Conversely...you can't be guilty because of the group identity. What an horrific ideology. Maybe you should watch this video instead of just going to the comment section.
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  1871.  @ValiantArcher-ob6nw  The only way to prove that zero point energy exists is to build a system that demonstrates it and show everyone, via the internet, how it's done. Making claims and accusations aren't enough. Ask everyone to share the information and keep sharing it. They can't stop it if the determination is there. Also, the general wasn't talking about zero point energy. He was talking about energy from the sun, that can be collected, stored and relayed to earth. This is the same energy that powers the earth now and is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, just like any other form of energy.
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  1872.  @WZD10016  Going after a small business....that's funny s--t, right there. I laughed and laughed and laughed. I laughed because of the comedy of watching the members of the View putting their foot in their collective mouths never gets old. I don't know how they do it.
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  1873.  I'm Your President  I have a feeling that's going to change after these riots. That's when people will be pissed over the damage and they'll begin to accept that Cuomo was better at PR than he was at being a governor. The grievances are mounting. Eventually, there will be enough people with grievances that his approval ratings will plummet.
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  1874.  @TrueManiacs  BS. Ask anyone of those Capitalists who have lost their small family businesses this year. They're now dependent on the government to support them. Eventually, we'll all be making EXACTLY the same money. Equity for all and the dream of all those who love the Marxist ideology and hate the idea of a person taking life into his own hands through his own efforts. I've had my own business. Not a big one but I set my prices, worked the hours I wanted to work, set my own quality standards and, in the end, was the master of my own destiny. That was Capitalism in its rawest sense. Now, all that is becoming more and more of an impossibility. No more small or medium size businesses. We'll all be wards of the state, working in their enterprises, buying what they allow us to buy and losing our right to personal property. Capitalism and communism is the same.....are you nuts? Ask anyone that lived in the European eastern bloc or Cuba. They'd laugh at you.
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  1875.  @chasbodaniels1744  The chaos started when Democrats supported the violence, chaos and hatred spread by BLM, Antifa and the academics spreading ideologies like CRT and cultural Marxism. When you have the state of California wanting to do away with the State Civil Right's Act, that's how you create division. The Democrats wanted to do away with the Act that ensure equal rights to all of its citizens.....and Biden talks about Jim Crow. It was the Civil Right's Act that did away with Jim Crow and California Democrats wanted to bring it all back. Fortunately, the people of California would have none of it and voted it down. In fact, Richard Spencer, the white nationalist and anti-Semite, who withdrew his support of "cheeto" because Trump wasn't creating the divided country that Spencer was advocating for. He openly supported Biden because he saw that the division and the policies of racial divide were more attainable through Democrat policies. You're allowing your hatred of one man cloud your judgement.
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  1876. I thought he was talking about George McGovern. LOL. He thought old George won and forgot how badly McGovern lost his bid for the presidency.
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  1877.  @marcusdavis5599  No one is under any obligation to provide anyone with jobs. It's up to you to go out and find that job. Any local that would live in conditions like this and is critical of that clean-up isn't worth hiring anyway. That's the problem here. All those who are worth hiring have left to improve their lives. Those that remained are the ones who are sitting around waiting for someone to "provide" them with jobs. They are the ones that let their neighbourhoods become the filthy garbage dumps that they are because of that very attitude that someone else has to do it for them.
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  1878.  @martymcfly2552  An absolutely useless response. It implies an arrogance that refuses to communicate to those you deem on an inferior moral existence. It appears to be a typical SJW response.
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  1879.  @singingstars5006  I think you just confirmed the results of helicopter parenting. You either become an SJW or an Orthodox Jew or any other extreme that happens to be the extreme of their parents.
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  1880.  @InayetHadi  Uncle Tom did work hard, as a slave. He did his best at everything he did. Modern leftists see that as a weakness of a bad thing, so they deride him for it and use his name as an insult. However, he wasn't a fool, either. He understood why people would balk at being a slave and was killed eventually killed for not talking about the underground railroad. Leftists like to use partial truths in their narratives. Uncle Tom worked hard on the plantation. That makes him a butt of their ridicule. They ignore everything else about him and focus on his work ethic and only that as if this is somehow indicative of slave mentality. They don't want to know the real Uncle Tom, only their own caricature of him. I'd say that makes them the racists.
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  1881.  @ionly6805  Rationalising what CNN did but saying someone else did the same thing. It's WRONG....always, no matter who does it. They tried to ruin that kid's life, for no reason other than for the hat that he was wearing. It was a despicable act and a misuse of media power. If Fox had done it in the past, bad on them but that doesn't make what CNN did to Sandman any less despicable. A disgusting way to try and excuse what CNN did.
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  1882.  @ionly6805  What does Trump's "fake school" have to do with CNN vilifying a teenager for saying and doing NOTHING? The topic here is whether CNN was wrong for the way they treated Sandman and his schoolmates. That's it. Address that issue.
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  1883. I wonder if the ones who disliked this video, have envy issues.
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  1884. We're ALL role models. We should all aspire to be what we admire. Hard working, loyal, honest, all the things that help us to become good people. That includes athletes. If someone can't look to me as a person that always wants to be the best possible version of me, then I've not only failed them, I've failed myself.
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  1885.  @23wtb  I have a time machine. I call him "Dad". He's now 89 and both my parents grew up in war time Holland. They know what a real Nazi is and Dad talks about their reprehensible behaviour all the time. My mother, as she didn't have a father, nearly starved to death, near the end of the war, because Nazis confiscated as much food as they could get their hands on. 25,000 of the most poor, starved to death, and if hadn't been for the Allies air dropping food, the total would have been much worse. When a political party enacts draconian measures, for an insurrection in which tens of thousands of people showed up, without guns....mind you and then go home....you're using a tactic that would make Hitler envious. Purging the military and other American services of dissenting voices is also autocratic and something that a Hitler would have done. So....spare us the sarcasm.
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  1886. @Thanos Dione I'd revise that to say "If you're not careful who you import from the third world, you will become the third world" North Africans, who left France, because France is becoming too much like North Africa, are not the problem. The problem is those, who want to recreate their homeland, in their new country, who are the problem.
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  1887.  @burtonl7239  I worked in a factory in Canada and we made toilet paper. Back in 2013, we suddenly couldn't get any raw paper. It went on for a couple of months. Finally, we heard that all the raw paper was being used to make toilet paper for Chavez because he promised 5 million cases to the people who were pissed they didn't have any. They laid off some of us due to lack of work. Hard to believe that a crisis in Venezuela affected us in Canada. That's when I first realised how badly things were going down there. It just doesn't seem possible that a country, so rich in raw materials, could destroy themselves so thoroughly. Good luck to the people of Venezuela. They're going to need it and it's going to require a lot of hard work to dig themselves out of this mess.
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  1888.  expatriate  The "hillbilly" bigotry, huh. That's what cost Hillary the election. Her arrogant bigotry against those who live in fly-over America.
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  1889.  @BanTheCrookedBlueLine  The "support racism" angle. If you have no real argument just scream racism until you're blue in the face. You do realise that you're just corrupting that word until it has no meaning, don't you. I'm getting to the point of just saying "Yeah...so what? Let's talk about the topic on hand now"
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  1890.  @RoarofdalioN  Well he's himself now.....and it's not pretty. "Himself" is NOT a nice person.
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  1891.  @zynnfindo4776  If there was malfeasance surrounding the Biden's, an investigation would be the proper thing to do. It doesn't matter who Joe Biden is. Second, they still haven't established that Trump held that aid over Zelensky's head. The phone transcript doesn't say anything about the aid. Ambassador Taylor testified that Zelensky was unaware of any delay in the getting the aid. Zelensky and his Minister of Foreign Affairs have both publicly stated that there was no condition on that aid. So far, there is no evidence that Trump did anything wrong. Lots of accusations but accusations aren't proof of guilt and hearsay evidence isn't better than direct evidence. That's just nuts.
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  1892.  @kulturfreund6631  Boyle, a left wing, anti-semitic conspiracy guy. He's one of those guys who crop up at every crisis like this and starts on about how this is all part of some nefarious plot by the powers that rule the world, invariably all Zionists. He has some points that are worth listening to, especially concerning the war in Lebanon but this video is a mishmash of "may haves" and "it would appears". If this were true, why isn't the information in the papers that he showed the highlights from, available to all and to the media at large? I'm not even close to convinced and no matter what, the plague started in Wuhan, China and spread from there. I just don't have enough information to know whether this is the only such lab in China or whether there are many more. If more, than no matter what happens, there would likely be a lab close by that would validate his theories. He just hasn't involved any other real solid voices to lend credence to anything he's saying. We need a lot more evidence than what he's presented. I don't like to engage in gossip. My neighbour, when I was growing up, was a gossip and I didn't like her one bit.
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  1893.  @lovegrace3719  "Your blessed books". Who decided that they are "blessed"? YOU? And you call me prideful? LOL. Also...did you not read the part where I specifically named myself FIRST in the list of those not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven? I live my life under the assumption that I'm NOT worthy. That my main goal in life is to better myself, NOT to better others. I have no control over that and shouldn't. I can advice people but I'm not going to offer it up as the end statement of truth. "Blessed books".....what arrogance.
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  1894.  @cr4fty-w0lf  "Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" Voltaire. I'm thinking that this is the point of all this.
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  1895.  @kingkee1880  Because we have a state bureaucracy that believes that just because the mother is upset that she wasn't told about the transitioning, that means that she's guilty of something and they should affirm the daughter's claims. That's the same bureaucracy, the school, children's aid and the courts that convinced her to go into the boys bathroom, where she was bullied and threatened with rape. Children's aid and the judicial then put her in a male detention centre where she was raped. so far. That's sarcasm. Not a very good track record but let's still let them make the decision on whether the daughter and mother should be allowed to communicate. They're done such a MARVELLOUS so far. That's sarcasm.
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  1896. It's worse than an impacted tooth.
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  1897.  @willzresurreccion6745  Get a friggen job and make yourself useful to someone. A crusade.....what are you? Some knight fighting for your own religious beliefs?? The 12th century is over.
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  1898. It is not up to Congress to demand anything. It's the job of "we the people". We elect Congress to do the things that we feel are best for out country. A Congress, or any governing body, that makes demands, without the will of the people, will become an autocratic and tyrannical state. We should be demanding that our representatives, in Congress, make the changes we feel necessary, using the Constitution as the ultimate authority.
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  1899.  @tyronescott8704  Gwen ain't going to like China. They don't like Black folk over there....not even a little bit.
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  1900.  @thesoulsnatcher7921  You bet she's exercising her freedom of speech. And so are we. We think that she's being a childish jerk and we're going to say so. She can insult Americans.....we can criticise her for doing it. Freedom of speech is for EVERYONE. You're even allowed to say and do things that are insulting and objectionable. Doesn't mean that you should.
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  1901.  @HaventheDemoness-vy9lx  She's allowed to be a jerk and we're allowed to criticise her for it. FREEDOM OF SPEECH....Foxy Lady. It's everyone's right.
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  1902.  @eoin8450  It's privatised but the owners of the company had better support the regime or they'll face all kinds of federal discrimination. It's how the Nazis operated. The owner had better be a Nazi and allow Party officials in his establishments to monitor work ethics and loyalty to the Party. When told to make military shirts, you made military shirts. You owned the company but the state ultimately controls you. That's what used to be called National Socialism. Capitalism believes in a free market system with as little government input as possible, if any. Government only gets involved when laws are broken or in a state of national emergency. That's not China. In fact, intellectuals in the thirties and forties quite often said that communism is unworkable and will inevitably evolve into fascism. I think I read that in a book by Friedrich Hayek, written during WW2.
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  1903.  @kylewatson5133  The heroes journey. For women, their heroes journey is childbirth and how this is a promise of a future. For men, it's harder to define and not confined to the wonder of birth. As for the broodmare metaphor, that seems a rather bitter way to look at it. Our survival is predicated on women's ability to bear children. In the past, a woman had to have 10 kids for 2 or 3 to survive. My grandfather had 22 kids by 2 wives. 7 of them died before their 7th birthday. 1 out of 3 died and this was around 100 years ago. I'm 70 and my dad was the 3rd youngest. Life was tough and if women weren't bearing children, our very survival was in jeopardy. Women were the "broodmares" of our species. It seems harsh but as I demonstrated with my own family, LIFE was harsh. The truth is that our ability to see almost every child reach adulthood is relatively a new phenomenon and we really have no understanding of where this is taking us. One thing is certain. At one time, a newborn child was a blessing, even in the poorest of families (my grandfather's family). Now I hear women calling their unborn child "parasites" and even wanting to end their life while in labour. I can't help but feeling a little ill at those attitudes.
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  1904.  @FordesBreakingNews  Wrong guy. She's married to Niall Ferguson, an historian at Oxford. This guy is Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College in London.
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  1905.  @kenbeasy  The "I was only following orders" defence. Always a good one. They're guidelines. Guidelines are NOT obligatory. Cuomo had options, just like deciding how to implement the lockdowns. The Federal task force had guidelines, basically suggestions, for them to use but they're were not required to follow them. The Constitutions will not allow the Federal to impose such guidelines on the state. They're there as a help but they're under no obligation to follow them. Nursing home residents are the most susceptible to dying from Covid. Everyone knows that. Pretending that you didn't have options and then blaming someone else when it goes south, is being dishonest. They had to know that it was a bad idea and they did it anyway.
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  1906.  @elizabethelias1005  In 2022, 817 women died of childbirth in the US. That's out of about 3,500,000 births in America every year. That means that 0.023% of all births will end in the death of the mother. That's not a very high percentage at all. Not high enough for women to believe that death is a very real and highly likely outcome of childbirth. Compare that to heart disease. In 2021, 310,661 women died of some form of heart disease. Childbirth isn't anywhere CLOSE to the danger of heart disease for women. Yet, we don't hear about that near as much if at all. In fact, people tend to think of heart disease as a men's disease. Childbirth is essential to the survival of humanity, if not the most important factor in our continued survival. It's importance can't be overstated. It's the hero's journey that men can never be a part of and uniquely a legacy of womanhood.
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  1907. If I change my name, it's up to me to change my ID if that's how I want to be legally known. If I don't, then I can't vote using my new name. That's NOT a trans issue. It's just common sense. I'm called Jack and everyone in my small town calls me that. If someone is looking for me around town and uses my real name, Jacob, they've made it extremely difficult to find me. When I go to vote, I use the name that no one uses because that's what's on my driver's licence, personal ID, my credit cards and my passport. There's a legal process that could change my name from Jacob to my nickname, Jack, and if I want to be legally known as Jack, I have to use that process. What a bizarre way of looking at a voter ID mandates. If your new identity and name means so little to you, that you won't even take the time to change it legally, then you're creating your own problem. Also, no one cares about gender when voting, anymore. It's irrelevant to the voting process.
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  1908.  @armandhammer2235  Thanks for reading the entire thing and then commenting. That's exactly what seems lacking these days.
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  1909.  @WeeWillyWeiner  What's so complex about the question? It's either "Yes they need help" of "No, they have the capability to do it on their own". Strange how some minorities do quite well. East Asians are extremely successful and they're a minority. Why is that? They're not asking for help. In fact, they're being discriminated against by some of the best colleges in the country and they STILL succeed. So, now I'll leave it to you. Do minorities need special help to succeed? Answer the question. Don't hide behind left or right wing politics. Give us YOUR opinion.
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  1910.  @johngenericlastname9781  Because we're peaceful people. The time will come when you wake the sleeping lion. That may not be what they really want.
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  1911.  @ouimetco  Even with the numbers that you quoted, housing start do not even come close to the immigrant families that require housing. Figures indicate that starts are half of the total immigration numbers. Even if you figure in your numbers, it's still way below housing starts. I'm not comfortable with the government dictating what a person can own. That, quite often, brings along a new set of issues or problems and not what we expected.
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  1912. She'll put on her face mask as soon as the camera is off her.
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  1913. If the US withdrew support for Israel, the nations of the Middle East would attack Israel and we'd see a genocide that would make Hitler proud. Israel has not expanded since 1967 and has even returned the Sinai to Egypt since then. That's a pretty poor expansion policy. They've controlled the west bank since 67 and although one could criticise them for the settlements that are being built, there has been no expansion in over 50 years. So that expansion argument isn't all that valid, either.
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  1914.  @joethestrat  I agree with the nuclear option but we're not going to rid ourselves of carbon based energy overnight. What these carbon cleaning machines are doing is allowing us to use the cheap carbons to finance the transition away from carbons. Carbon use is finite, anyway. Eventually, there won't be enough carbon fuel to run our economy so it will come to an end. Maybe it would be smarter to use carbon energy to grow alternative energy so we've already in transition when oil and coal starts to run out.
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  1915.  @pagerthemacaquemonkey3248  A good cop would have smoothed the entire mess over and sent them both on their way, advising her to keep her dog chained and him to never try to engage with another person's dog without their express permission, again. Instead, it became a national news story and took up valuable court time and money. Stupidity taken to a new level.
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  1916.  @A_Jeff  This isn't a movie, John. This is a messaging site. When I go to the store to buy milk, I don't appreciate them forcing me to buy a crescent wrench, instead. The reciprocal is also true. When I want a crescent wrench, I don't like it when they tell me I have to buy milk. We come to this site for a reason. We also watch movies for a reason. They're not the same or interchangeable. There's a time and place for the things that we want.
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  1917.  @stefano_etrusco  It's always amazed me why people get upset with the US when they object to countries nationalising the oil companies. Most of those companies are American oil companies that are held by American shareholders. If you're an American, that would likely include YOU. If you have a pension plan, you may own shares in those oil companies. If you have a bank account that has any money in it, the bank might well be using it to invest in them. It's how they make their money and how you're able to make interest on that money in the bank. Those countries are stealing from YOU and you don't even realise it. That's why the US objects and it should. If they were starting a national oil company that would buy out and assets that an American company might have in their country, that would be one thing but to just take it over, that's theft.
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  1918.  @burny6666  ''Mexico will pay for the wall'' That old canard again. Only the least intelligent of voters actually believed that the Mexican government was going to cut a check to build that wall. That's ridiculous. It was a slogan that covered a much larger idea that Mexico was going to pay for the wall through tariffs and border fees. Instead of giving a long winded explanation EVERY time during rallies, he would shorten it to this. You'd have to mentally deficient to think that anyone seriously thought Mexico would offer up 25 billion bucks to build a wall on Trump's say so. Also, I couldn't find anything on Trump saying ''I never met Stormy Daniels''. What I did find, numerous times, was this.... President, did you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?” a reporter asked him. “No,” Trump replied. That's not quite what you're claiming Trump said.
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  1919.  @MrApple-qf3qo  Don't be a jerk.
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  1920.  @TreeDancingCloud  Think about it, Tree. The population of the Bronx is 1,443,000. You seriously think they couldn't scrape up a measly 25,000 to go to his rally? That's only 1.7% of the population. Some people said they only went to see what went on at Trump rally. Think things through before you hit the reply button.
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  1921.  @jonathanstone4878  She said "especially" the immigrants. Why "especially"? Shouldn't we be concerned for all of them without an "especially"? Why would she even think that there might be immigrants involved, anyway? It sounds like another way to create resentment.
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  1922.  @VeritasEt  The president of the United States has been deemed the most powerful man in the world due to holding the most powerful position in the world. It's been that way for my entire lifetime and I'm 73 years old. To deny that is a denial of reality.
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  1923. It was quite impressive and the only time that she actually gave a good, fiery speech. She was in top form.....except it was all BS. She just can't get anything right.
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  1924.  @onlythewise1  You don't have to go to Harvard or Yale. A community college can get you the skills to get a decent job that pays good money. Also, you don't have to go full time. A high school graduate can get a job and take a few classes every semester. It might take 10 years but when you've get that diploma, you're still under 30 years of age. You're making excuses for not getting off your butt and going to work and getting an education is part of that work. Don't work hard and winning a lottery is all the hope that you have left. Grow up and be an adult.
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  1925. Strawberries give my hives. Anyone that would eat a strawberry is nuts. NUTS.....I tell ya!!!! NUTS!!!!
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  1926. Because the first passes are further away from earth. Just far enough away for the object not to increase it's speed. So it's captured for a time but because the orbit is irregular, on one of it's orbits, it'll increase speed because it's orbit brings it a lot closer to earth. Then, when it goes around the earth, it's speed will so increased that the earth's gravity can't hold it any longer and it's gone. Watch the video again and pay special attention to how the object travels.
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  1927.  Some Words  They've thought it through. They're using this tact to suppress dissenting voices. If they ever achieve real power, it's how they'll control the people. Dissent and face arrest. It has been the way in every Marxist country that has ever existed. It's their path to power and how they maintain that power.
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  1928.  @allo-other  You've completely missed my point. I mean you're not even close to understanding. You copied and pasted that comment, out of context, so it shredded my meaning into nothing but garble. I was talking about the hierarchy of oppression in the way that the radical left sees it.....not on who's the worst group of all. They see the Palestinian oppression as more worthy of outrage than female oppression. They evaluate the oppression of every group and then see who's the most oppressed of all, using their own measurements of oppression. Then they will support the one that they see as the most oppressed of all. You don't even get what "the hierarchy of oppression" even means.
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  1929.  @matthewcurry3565  Ok. Here it goes 30 years ago, I found out my wife was having an affair. It devastated me and I left her for obvious reasons. 7 months later, my son was killed in an accident and my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer 2 months later. I was a mess. I quit working, drank too much and was heading down a terrible road. After 3 years, I started a job at a scrap yard, which may seem like something but it wasn't that big a deal at the time. In reality, it was a place to go and drink. There was beer in the fridge at all times and if I took a day or week off, no big deal. They weren't going to fire me and they said so. I even got paid for days I took off. However, I slowly started to go to work when I was there. I got out of the office and started to do things that had to be done, much to the chagrin of my alcoholic boss. It was then that the yard was sold and things changed. I started to do the work that I was expected and supposed to do. It fell right into the pattern that I'd been slowly immersing myself into. They fired everyone, except me, and I worked alone for 2 years, rebuilding a clientele that had been lost when the old owner had it. It was a long struggle, a lot of days, in the beginning, where I never saw a soul, but it was the best thing in the world for me. I was showing up every day. I stayed later when needed. I was metaphorically cleaning my room. The drinking slowed down. I was finding peace in my life and all it took was doing the things that I should be doing. When I heard him explain his "Clean your room" trope, it spoke to me. I was lucky, though. I came from a farming background where the virtues of hard work were extolled as a virtue. It was something that I had been accustomed to. However, if a person had grown up in suburbia and the toughest thing that they did growing up was take out the garbage once a week, that idea would never occur to them, UNLESS it was outlined by someone who had the power to communicate ideas in a powerful manner and Peterson is just that. A lot of young people would never have worked their way out of severe depression because they'd have never, metaphorically cleaned their room. I reconnected with my daughter, have 3 wonderful grandchildren. I have a closer relationship with my ageing father than what I've ever had my entire life. Things aren't perfect, that's a life's impossibility but I'm contented. All it took was for me to take care of business, slowly at first, just like his "clean your room" suggested but I made my life worth living. That translated into making things better for those around me. It's small. It's simple. It's trite but it's real.
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  1930. Greatest hockey player of all time...and I've been a Leaf fan since 1961. I used to love hating him because he used to kill my team. He was a joy to watch, in spite of that.
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  1931.  @skipperx5116  Part of being a hunter/gatherer is being a gatherer. Gathering plant stuffs for consumption. That's NOT to minimise the importance of hunting but humans are omnivores....both carnivores AND herbivores. They HAD to do this because hunting wasn't always successful and the human ability to eat vegetable matter is what made humans the most successful species, maybe in all of earth history. We adapt. Which has NOTHING to do with the modern sugar diet. They didn't have marshmallow trees or Cocoa Puffs growing along the riverbeds during those "caveman" times. They had wild fruits, root vegetables and seeds to eat. Sometimes they even managed to raid a beehive for the honey. They didn't sprinkle white sugar on their wild carrots or molasses on the wild lentils that they found. They ate them as they found them. That's the reality of ancient life.
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  1932.  @MikeW-dz7ij  Nice work......troll.
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  1933.  @Ytoidzzz  Slavery has been a part of human history for thousands of years, in every part of the world with few exceptions, if any. To single out one ethnic group is like saying one mosquito bears the most responsibility for mosquito bites. It's ridiculous.
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  1934.  @Burner377  You still hand over ALL evidence. It's not up to the prosecutor to decide what evidence a defender might use or not use. Being in the Capitol building is quite relevant to his charges of being in the Capitol building and so would any videos of what he was doing in there. To add, he was charged with violent entry, sounds violent to me, and disorderly conduct and other charges. "Violent entry". That was one of his official charges. Also, calling people "scumbags" is schoolyard tactics, not what I would call a measure of one's credibility or of their cases.
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  1935. @Mr. F They'd better do their assignments because they've shown that they don't quite understand what the teacher is telling them. They asked the SAME question, over and over again and it appears that they STILL don't understand it. They gotta hit the books harder. LOL.
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  1936. He's a right wing socialist. Lenin was accused of being just that, when the Soviet economy was failing in 1921 and he allowed limited private enterprise. So was Mussolini when he advocated for National Socialism. It's still socialism. That doesn't mean that Scarborough isn't left wing. It means that there are left wingers who are more radical than what he is. Not much of a distinction, though.
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  1937.  @blackoutelite5  It's funny...really funny. It's only because there's some truth to it. It's something like "gallows" humour. A bad and desperate situation and you can still laugh at the irony. It can be a survival technique. As long as you're smiling, you're not dying.
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  1938.  geezusispan  You've never lived in a country that's been occupied by a foreign power, have you? You've never seen foreign soldiers marching down your streets, entering your homes, taking everything made of metal, food, books, magazines, radios or arresting people with no charges. Never watched your countrymen, including women and children hungry and even starving due to the brutal callousness of a foreign government. If you had, you'd start to appreciate those soldiers, who you have the temerity to call "pawns", and put their lives on the line so you can live without the spectre of horror an invading army can impose on you. It's a sad part of reality that we do need soldiers to defend our country, but what's sadder is your lack of respect for their efforts.
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  1939. I hate smoking. I won't even date a woman that smokes because I find the smell abhorrent. However, that's MY problem. If you want to smoke, fill your lungs. It's none of my business. Just don't expect me to change my ways and I won't change yours. It's called FREEDOM.
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  1940. My gender is transport. I love sports so, with my gender studies degree, I can get into hockey, baseball or sumo wrestling. If sports don't work out, I can be a truck driver. Open road, here I come.
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  1941. Utter stupidity. These people have demonstrated their acceptance of violence to get what they want by throwing rocks, bricks and putting small children ahead of them as human shields. Will this proclivity to resort to violence stop when they cross the border? I doubt it. Trump has said it over and over again. Apply for legal status, just like the tens of millions that are now living in the US, right now, that were born outside of the US. Landed immigrants, from all over the world, who follow the rules, don't throw rocks and bricks at American citizens, don't insist on getting their way and can and have shown that they are decent people and will be good citizens of the US. Decent people do NOT behave like these thugs. They don't throw rocks and they don't hide behind children.
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  1942. It's their prime way of control. Control the language and the ability to speak freely. If you can't express it, it doesn't exist.
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  1943. I know more people that have died of bee stings than I do of Covid. Now I'm walking around in one of those bee keeper's hazmat suits. One can't be too careful.
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  1944. The Emmys will come on and I'll do an eye-roll and watch an old episode of Gunsmoke. Who's more entertaining than Festus?
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  1945.  YouTubeDweller8008  Some women did. The loudmouths and complainers. There are a lot of women who do NOT agree with this or wanted it. Assigning any person with being fully in line with the identity politics of their group is group bias. I'd say that YOU should calm down. Don't blame all women for the loudmouths in their group. Blame the ones that are directly responsible.
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  1946.  CAMDRIREAMERICAN  I don't care what wing he is. So long as he's honest and tries to tell the truth. It's not the cover of the book that makes it a great read. It's the content. Pool is honest enough to rag on people that are followers of his ideology. Most people, especially those on the left, don't do that.
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  1947.  Binnaz Husain  I'm afraid you'll have to figure that out for yourself. You won't have to learn to be petty and judgemental, though. You definitely won't have to learn about being morally superior. You've got that down pat.
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  1948.  @PANCHOVILLAMATO  I was going to show the tax scale for Americans but forget it. Even if I showed you, you wouldn't accept it. You're so deep into your hatred you can't even think straight anymore.
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  1949. life with Daena It IS her job to arrest someone for breaking the law. The person has the option of going quietly when arrested or suffer the consequences of resisting. It is the officer's job to arrest that woman and if she resists, she WILL be arrested forcibly. That was the choice of the young woman being arrested. If a person can just refuse to be arrested and be allowed to leave, then it's pointless to have laws and a police force. Let anarchy and chaos commence and the toughest and most ruthless guy gets to rule. They're doing that in the Congo right now. Go there....you'll love the anarchy when you arrive.
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  1950.  @ollehkacb  Now, it's a genocide. Really? That's a word that people use out of emotion, not logic or facts. The "genocide" accusation was there even before Oct 7. and it makes no sense. Like sharonsimmons6427 said, if it was a genocide, in Israel, the Palestinian population would be going DOWN, not up as it has been for decades. Compare that to the genocide of the Jews during WW2. The Jewish population was devastated in Europe. Not in Gaza though. It's been going WAY up. They're at war, a war that was started by Hamas and they're hiding behind the people of Gaza to maintain their power. Now, Hamas is crying because they're losing that war and they're afraid of what will happen when Israel defeats them and they don't like the terms of surrender which calls for the end of Hamas. Hamas knows that they will have to pay for Oct 7 and it scares them so the people of Gaza have to suffer in order to protect Hamas.
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  1951.  @jackminehard  NO.....people that paint groups with an extremely wide brush are the problem. That think every person within that group is exactly the same as one another. We call people like that bigots and in your case a troll with bigoted tendencies.
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  1952. Imagine having a net worth of 10 million dollars for babbling on the internet and complaining how the country that you live in isn't fair. The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  1953. It's only starting. Don't start celebrating yet. We've a long way to go before things get back to some semblance of normality. We may never get there.
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  1954.  Steven Sweeden  There is a lot of hatred out there. It started the moment Trump announced his plans to run for the presidency. There is no way anyone can deny that. People actually say it. "I hate Trump". There have been numerous attacks on people wearing MAGA hats. The entire Covington fiasco was due to the fact that some of those kids were wearing those hats. The media intentionally distorted that story. Anyone that watched the original film in an unbiased way could see that those kids did nothing so why would the media portray that incident the way they did. That doesn't mean that Trump is great guy but when people refuse to even acknowledge something that he did that might be good because of the way they feel about him, that's intense dislike....or hate. When a so-called comedienne's reaction to a picture of his daughter holding her baby is to call her a feckless c---, that's due to hatred. When someone posts a picture of themselves holding Trump's severed head or say that they fantasise about blowing up the White House, it's gone way beyond disapproval. It wasn't that long ago, that I was in a bar when a guy casually mentioned that he voted for Trump in 16, and he was called an idiot and then asked to leave. That's not just disapproval.....that's hatred. When a member of Congress tells people to confront those she doesn't like when they're in public and tell them that they're not welcome....that's hatred. These people may feel justified but it's still hatred, plain and simple.
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  1955. Come on. You gotta admire and support her stance against election deniers. When she lost, it was the most gracious loss that I've ever heard. Even though, everyone told her that Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat her, she steadfastly admonished all those, who believed those rumours, by telling Americans NOT to be election deniers. You all must remember that.
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  1956. Yet, I prefer that to the attitude that the Democrats now hold. Republicans speak in this manner because they actually are the party of inclusion and respect. The Democrats are the party of intersectionality, of putting people into a identity groups in order to create a hierarchy of oppression. This gives the allowance to hate the oppressors and parse out that hate in every increasing portions as the climb the oppressor ladder. Conservatives don't do that. It's innocent until proven guilty and see the best in people until attacked. Then fight back with ferocity. Don't be like the ones that hate you. Like the Bible says "Turn the other cheek" because that's what brings order out of chaos.....and I'm not a Christian but I know wisdom when I hear it.
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  1957. That's the new attitude. I just saw Joy Reid, from NBC, ask a woman what gave her the expertise to think that parents know more than the teachers. In Canada, we're living under the tyranny of these experts and I hate it.
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  1958.  @flowergirldeb3582  Thanks...LOL.
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  1959.  @middlegroundparty9436  Yeah.....you're right. We want the guy hiding in his basement. We want the guy that's been in politics for 47 years and still has no platform. We want the guy that Pelosi doesn't want to get involved in a presidential debate. We want the guy that's represents the party that said that Jacob Blake was breaking up a fight, trying everything in their power to start racial tension.....and they succeeded. A small city, burned and looted, people killed....WHY? Because the party of the guy, hiding in his basement, didn't care to wait for the truth. That Jacob Blake was wanted for sexual assault, had a restraining order against him and was in violation on that order. Who took a woman's keys and then resisted arrest. Millions of dollars in damages, lives ruined, that's that guy we want for president. We want the guy, that represents the party, that said that the riots and looting were a myth. Riots in Portland, Seattle, Oakland, New York, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Richmond, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Austen, Louisville, Chicago, Rochester......must I go on and that party ignores it or calls it all a myth. People killed...at least 30 of them in those riots or "peaceful protests" as the Democrats and their media likes to call them. You want the guy that wants to raise taxes, denies inner city people the right to school choice while they send their own children to the best private schools in the country. The party of Mayor Lightfoot, who wouldn't send the police to quell the looting in downtown Chicago but then threatened to arrest any "protesters" peaceful or not, around her house. You want the party that put Covid patients in nursing homes. Democrat governors from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California. Yeah......you sure want the good ones, don't you. TDS is a serious ailment. You may want to get it looked after.
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  1960.  @itsmorphed6416  Now, you're putting up a good argument. In fact, you're probably correct on your assessment. Blair did oversee the politicisation of education. How much Freire directly influenced his thinking is uncertain but Freire's work is essential in how our schools have changed and not for the good. I didn't care for the way that you formed your comment and I think I made a good point on why. People can't come to a rational conclusion by that comment and it could lead to erroneous conclusions which I demonstrated. I appreciate that you came back with a response that showed that you knew what you're talking about. Too many, would have ignored me mainly because they're were pulling stuff out of their backside and they know it.
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  1961.  @skyisreallyhigh3333  What did I make up? Repeating the same thing over and over doesn't make it correct. Investors spend big money to make the products that we want and people, like you, think that they should give it away. They can't. Without a return on their investment, they go broke. Then nothing gets made and no one has power tools or what ever item that thieves covet so much. It's basic economics. Nothing is free. It takes labour, machinery, know how and capital to make any product. They supply it and they make something of value. That's how wealth is created. It doesn't just exist. Power tools don't just grow on trees. It takes a lot of effort to make them. Profit is what makes this possible. No profit and they can't succeed and the products stop coming to your stores. Then there's nothing for the desperate to steal. What a great solution that is.
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  1962.  Andy Mann  He's not upset about emojis having different colours. He's decrying those who use them to browbeat others and telling them what colour they MUST use. You're engaging in standard reductionism to avoid the truth of a situation or idea.
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  1963.  Andy Mann  This entire thing started over people complaining that the emojis were all white. That this reflects a racist mindset. That this happened is indisputable. I could care less what colour emoji a person uses but don't try to gaslight me saying that if I, a white guy, used a black emoji, that I wouldn't be accused of some kind of cultural appropriation or something similar. Peterson is all too familiar with that mindset. He said that the use of compelled speech had the potential for misuse and everyone cried "No way" until a court, in Canada, forced a man to use compelled pronouns or face legal reprisals. The same thing is happening with the teaching of CRT in American schools. "We're not teaching CRT. You're lying". Yet the largest teachers union in the US voted to continue teaching it even if it was declared illegal and contravened the Civil Rights Act. So, cut the gaslighting. We've run into your types of arguments enough to know not to fall for it, anymore.
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  1964.  Andy Mann  Gaslighting is when you try to convince someone that he or she is going insane for the things that they believe. It's based on the movie "Gaslight" starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. You want me to name someone that used those emojis as a way to denounce people, knowing full well that you've set me on an impossible task. That's the gaslighting. However, I gave you examples of gaslighting, including ones that included the way Peterson was treated over compelled use of pronouns. You pretend that my examples are irrelevant by ignoring that this is a very valid mindset. Justin Trudeau is doing it right now to validate his high handed approach to the Ottawa protests. No valid argument? No problem. Just call them racists and transphobes. Also, Peterson isn't angry about coloured emojis. He's disgusted on where he sees this going. That it's going to be used as a trap just as his claims that compelled pronouns were to be used as a trap. Lindsey Shepherd's experience at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University shortly afterwards validated that prediction. So yes, you are gaslighting me. You're trying to paint me as delusional but I'm not buying it and I see right through your gambit.
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  1965.  Andy Mann  I realise that I should have been more careful and use one more word. ONE more word and, not realising that I was dealing with a "legal" mind, and everything would be different. I should have added the word "could" so that it would have read "could be used to browbeat people". Now you, being the legal whiz kid that you are, centred in on that one misstep and are gripped onto like a dog on a bone. I've run into that legal trickery before when I had to be a witness in court. The lawyer would always zero in on one little phrase and then try to trap into saying something that would damage my meaning, somehow. I never would allow it then and I won't allow it now. Like claiming that I said the emojis were racist. I NEVER said that, NOT ONCE. I tried to further explain my original statement but that doesn't matter. One little misstep and I MUST be held to it. No wonder you're ignoring the over 70 examples that I've given in my comments and my link of how people use ridiculous things to prove racism. It doesn't matter to you what I really meant in that original statement. It only matters that you think that you have me. You're a shyster and a compelling reason why lawyers are held in such low regard.
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  1966.  @KevDuke-l6v  What does Uvalde have to do with this? There was a bomb threat. That's illegal even if it's fake. The police have to deal with it quickly, especially if it's real, but even when it's not, they need to resolve it so they're free to handle other safety issues in the community. These women could care less about the safety of students or anyone else in their community. They only care about themselves and their ability to exercise power.
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  1967.  @amazingjason455  You don't have to be exceptional like Vivek. All you need is strong work ethic and a plan for the future. It's not easy but millions are doing it every day. The problem is, the left doesn't believe that it can be done. Worse, they depend on the victim mentality of those who are at the bottom of the economic ladder. They don't tell them that they can improve their life if the believe in themselves. They may not end up doing the overtly exceptional things that Vivek is doing but they can be exceptional by setting themselves on a trajectory in which, over all, they become better every day. It's a life's journey and so many people, in the free world, are doing it. YOU can do it but not with this idea that you're not exceptional and therefore you're a loser. What a horrible thing to believe and to pass on as a legacy towards our children. An individual may not be able to change the world but that individual can change their own little spot in it. No one is going to do it for you. Our inner cities are proof positive of that. In spite of all the promises, from the left, it's only getting worse and then they use their own failures as proof that it can't be done. The Democrats do nothing but they talk a good game. In fact, they use those failures to foster anger in those communities. It's incredible to watch.
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  1968. They actually think that they'll be believed, too. Maybe by some weird, wide-eyed gullible types but anyone with a brain knows exactly why it's not going to be aired. Go woke....go broke.
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  1969.  @davidbell9857  That's because it's the ideological far left that's using the black population as their prop to a socialist restructuring of society. It's why, for the last 10 years, the left has been obsessed with racism and general bigotry. They've been stoking a target group to anger and then using and joining in when that anger manifests itself to rid the country of its freedom. It's been escalating over for 10 years, calls against free speech, anger against white supremacist and Nazis that are nowhere to be seen, cancel culture of any and all speech that appears to be conservative, schools teaching a branch of studies best described as grievance studies and demonstrating against conservative speakers quite often violently and on and on. This is the culmination of heavily left leaning news and entertainment media, using force against anyone that they see as ideologically incorrect. Witness their fierce opposition to Kavanaugh but their willingness to accept Biden's transgressions. The masses have been stoked and now they may believe that they're ready to mount the next stage. The new Socialist agenda......and the US will end up just like Venezuela.
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  1970.  @d2mini  I asked for examples. Do you know what the word "example" even means? Don't turn it back on me. YOU made the claim that Trump had a lot to answer for. Now back it up.
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  1971.  @rayray8687  The minute he started going on about the court, Kennedy knew that he wasn't going to answer his question. Kennedy asked what HE thought, not the courts, not the milkman or his grade 4 teacher. The answering process is extremely simple. It goes like this. "I think that......." and you say what it is that YOU believe. Biology isn't a matter for the judicial. A person with a mind of their own and speaks forthrightly will answer the question as it is asked. A person who's about to parrot the party lines won't say what he believes. He will skirt the issue and talk in circles. Kennedy has seen this too often to be fooled by those who are afraid to answer what's in their heart.
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  1972.  @rayray8687  Maybe it's YOU that's confused about sex and gender. I have a copy of the 1986 edition of Webster's Dictionary and it's quite clear that sex and gender are the same thing. That it's different is a new phenomena the idea that gender is assigned at birth wasn't even a thing 10 years ago. This is a version of Orwell's depiction of the ordeal that Winston Smith had to go through. Instead of 2 plus 2 equals 5, depending on how you look at it, it's that there is no definitive gender and it's all how you look at it....a social construct. It's the socialist mindset that says that there's no objective truth. Besides, all he had to say was "No, I do not believe sex and gender to be the same thing" That's it. You had no trouble saying it with your claim of it being an "irrefutable" fact. If you could do it, why couldn't he?
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  1973.  @xdsclubgold123  Bot.
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  1974.  @dubnation5824  You've destroyed me? You've called me names. That school yard tactics. "You're a deluded fool" isn't destroying anything. It's what a 10 year old does when he's reacting in an emotional manner. A debate isn't about calling the opponent names and hurling insults. It's about examining facts and using references and logic to make a point. "You don't know the troubles I've seen" isn't a debating point. It's an appeal to emotion. It's the tactic of the intellectually weak.
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  1975.  @minkman99  No wonder you can't see the analogy in the original comment. You need everything explained to you.
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  1976.  @bipslone8880  Isn't it weird when the woke needs safe spaces because "words are violence", they're not crybabies but when banking information is passed to authorities, without warrants, people lose their jobs because of words, have their businesses burned and destroyed, they're the crybabies. I'm not allowed to disagree with the woke culture, in any aspect, or the corporate media will censor you, and I'm the crybaby. My little sister used to running to mommy when I said bad words, too. I used to call her a crybaby. Funny how the world hasn't really changed. I still have that metaphoric little sister crying over my use of words and the ideas that they don't like. Are you going to have me doxxed, now?
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  1977.  @bipslone8880  You're seriously going to pretend that you don't know who "they" are, when I'm referring to those who need to use safe spaces. It's one thing to criticise people but why would you want to pretend to be ignorant and ill informed? You know damn well that there are those who've used safe spaces and you know damn well who they are. Pretending stupidity is not a good look.
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  1978.  @minkman99  Isn't it strange, that when a book is written about a extremist religious society, a certain demographic all simultaneously start nodding their heads in the brilliant depiction of a dystopian society. A dystopian society controlled by limiting their speech and actions through ideological force. However, when it's pointed out that there is another ideology that uses the control of speech and action, through the use of political correctness, you defend it to the core. I suppose it's not that imposition is wrong, it's in what ideology you follow. I repeat, I'm not a Christian. I think that one should be able to voice their beliefs, no matter what they are and NO one should limit it through religious decree or under the guise of political correctness.
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  1979.  @dmeauxoxo  "bio women ARE ACTUALLY being discriminated against by the TRANS aka bio men world" This runs against the modern perspective of discrimination and bias. It is the view of the progressives that it's impossible for a minority to discriminate. This is another ridiculous claim but it's what they say. Also, it's a mistake to think that trans men speak for biological men. They don't. I've yet to speak to any man that thinks that trans men should be competing with women. In fact, most men, that I know, look down at any man that would even consider it. This entire phenomena is a mindset that uses discrimination as tool to gain power. It's insidious and is tearing the west apart and this trans athlete "controversy" is just a small part of a bigger problem.
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  1980.  @MawcDrums  Ate their products all the time. I didn't care about the company one way or the other. I did start caring about them when certain people wanted to destroy them for the views of their founding family. I don't want to see anyone destroyed and I cared about that. Before that proposed boycott, I had no reason to "care" about them or be concerned that people would destroy them to satisfy their own political ego. Now I do.
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  1981.  yeah, right  It can't be nepotism because the presidency isn't an appointed position by the previous president. The RNC has to go through the process and they're not related to the Trumps. If Ivanka is to run for the presidency, she'll have to earn by showing that she can do it....and she just might do just that. Of course, it won't hurt her chances if Trump does a good job in his second term.
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  1982.  @bluefalconssuck5881  Who cares why he changed. He changed and good. People, in the cities, are going to change, too because the riots are now affecting them and they see, first hand, the damages are real. Good. I want them to change. Too bad it took reality to do it, but better late than never. Why turn on your own side, anyway. It makes no sense. We have an enemy that's determined to destroy the country. Centre on them. Infighting is for losers.
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  1983. @wings of a butterfly That's only because they don't lynch anymore, no matter what the Dems say. However, metaphorical lynching still happens. Just because you have new weapons doesn't mean you no longer follow your old precepts.
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  1984.  @shadowraven4221  Only an average of 850 deaths per day, much better than the death rate of 2200 a day with only 33,000 cases a day on average. Worse, the UN and WHO have warned that lock downs have doubled world poverty rates and 10s of millions are facing starvation. The lock downs could kill more people, world wide than Covid if the world economy is destroyed. In fact, if things are so bad in the US, why are they sending people, 14,000 of them, to Czechia to help with their first wave? There's more to epidemic dynamics than what we know. We just haven't had any real experience with it to know should be done.
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  1985.  @dealhunter4536  Maybe, it's because of the "brotha" culture which seems to all about loving them and leaving them. That really doesn't do the "sistas" any good and is a LOT worse for any children that might be produced.
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  1986. WHAT????? Since everyone going to die someday, every doctor is going to have patients who will die. What person, in his right mind, would want to be a doctor if they're always under the gun of being attacked, sued and on the brink of losing all that they've ever worked for. That's insane.
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  1987.  @gojobuddy  And if you sue doctors for every little thing, medical insurance will go up and so will malpractice insurance. Your visit to the doctor will go up and up and higher. A death in the family should NOT be a lottery win. Only sue if the doctor intentionally did something wrong or showed that he didn't care about his patient and did things that LED to their death. Other than that, if he tried his best and the patient dies, accept it, like a man. Doctors don't hold the power over life and death. They're not Gods. They're as human as the rest of us. The only ones who get rich on medical malpractice are the lawyers.
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  1988.  @nandy1256  He does. He set up a task force on Jan. 27th. Democrats and the media criticised him, saying it was filled with old white men. He stopped travel to China on the 31st, along with Italy, the first 2 countries to do so. Biden called him xenophobic and, if you watched the video, so did NY politicians and told their constituents to go on as normal and suggested if you didn't, you were racist. He expanded the task force and put his vice president at the helm so the task force would be close to him. He's on TV everyday, talking about the crisis. He's had conversations with every governor of the US....all 50 of them. Sure, he said, in Mid Feb. that it wasn't serious yet, and it wasn't yet, it had the potential at that time, but he sure didn't do what those politicians in NY did, and as late as March 11th. That's why NY was hit so hard. The same thing happened in Italy. They closed the borders and the following day, Mayor Nardello, of Florence, said it was racist and the good Italians should show the Chinese citizens and tourists that they weren't blaming them. That, in spite of the fact that the first 2 cases in Italy were Chinese tourists from Wuhan. The next few days people were going around hugging Chinese tourist. I don't have to tell you what happened there. The New York pandemic didn't come from China directly. It got there through Italy and both Italy and New York were cursed with stupid politicians.
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  1989. Judge Taylor thinks that his position gives him the right to judge views, as well as points of law. Sort of like Trudeau and his comment about "acceptable views". No one, including judges and Prime Ministers, has the right to force their "acceptable views" on others.
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  1990.  Herbie NYC407  Like back when Obama was president? It's been 4 YEARS since the last riot over a shooting of a unarmed man. When Obama was president, let's see, there was Trayvon Martin (wasn't even shot by a cop), Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Philandro Castille, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, and more so let's get off this "Republicans are at fault" nonsense.
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  1991. It's not about diversity. It's about power and control. That's what they want to achieve. It's impossible to write a book without somehow offending the outrage mob and that's what they want. You're guilty, as far as they're concerned. It's not IF they find what you're guilty of. It's when.
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  1992. I don't know how often I've heard and watched Tim just cringe, red-faced and angry, while saying "These people are SO evil. I absolutely HATE them". Sure doesn't sound like a fence sitter to me. I think that you're conflating looking at all sides of a story with approving of all sides of that story.
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  1993.  @musashi939  I know. We should do NOTHING. If reports from France say that they've had success with those drugs, why listen? That would be stupid. Even the good doctor, standing with him, has said that it's worth looking into but pay no attention to the guy. DO NOTHING. Don't see if there's something to it. Just dismiss it because.....you know....reasons. I don't know if it works or not but tell you what, if I were sick and that's ALL there was, I'm taking it and hope for the best. You can grouse all you want, in the sick bed beside me, but I'm still going for it. When there's nothing yesterday, a glimmer of hope today is better than what I had yesterday. If you can't see that, I really have to question why that would be. Are you always that pessimistic about everything or is this your own personal gripe about Trump? Easy to do when you're not sick, though, isn't it?
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  1994.  @abcxyz2927  I grew up with an neighbour with gender dysphoria. Not 10 years ago, or even 20. I met the guy in 1958, when i was 6 years old and he was 4. He looked like a boy, had the bowl cut all of boys had, wore boys clothes and everything, but he acted like a girl. The way that he talked and walked, the way that he moved, everything about him was girlish. He really freaked us out. His brother told me that he was always like that. His parents were embarrassed with the way he was. When he was 16, he took off to the big city and started to live as a cross dresser. Why was he like that? It wasn't his parents who dressed him as a boy and gave him a boy's name and haircut and were at a loss on what to do with him. There were no activist teachers or doctors trying to convince him that he was a girl. We were country folk, many of us religious, including his family. He did it all on his own, right from the time that he started to walk and talk. How could a 3 year old dream all this up and then keep it up his entire life? It's a mental condition, just like Tourette's and any other mental affliction. It's been well studied and it's been a part of humanity for thousands of years. It's NOTHING like the stuff that's going on now. Not even close. From what I can see, Buck Angel is the same and he's speaking out against the insanity that's going on now. If we can't even be reasonable and admit that this could be a medical problem and that the cutting and pasting of body parts isn't going to solve anything, we'll be ruining the lives of children for years....all at the behest of socialist activists. Their role is to disrupt the concept of reality and they're using children to do it. That's what socialists do. They take a real problem, that's extremely rare, and distort it to their own ends. If you don't understand it, you're falling right into their hands. Don't let them do that. You're a sucker if you do.
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  1995.  @cheryleaston6820  I'm not sure what it says. Maybe they don't want to get embroiled in a weird political/ideological screech fight over the internet. Be another victim of the J. K. Rowling effect. No matter what you say, someone will be hounding you. They have lots of money and they want to enjoy it. I don't blame them. I might be disappointed that they don't speak up but it's their choice.
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  1996.  @havok6280  Well....maybe there is a doubt. LOL. I've watched them all on TV and she always seemed the most overwhelming when she was on, hitting the ball with such power and a most intimidating force exuding from around her. Whether she was or not, not one of the players that you mentioned would beat the best men's players and that's the point being made.
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  1997.  @AwakenedRaveN  Good for you. A pillar of the community. Salt of the earth. 😀
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  1998. AND HE TOOK IT. Watch the video. He didn't feel comfortable about it but he did it. So, what's your problem????
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  1999. Their rich parents are contributing, as well. I know crackheads, who are dying on the money that their rich parents are providing for them. Never underestimate the power of spoiled children.
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  2000. Be ready but NEVER go looking for it. The left have the propaganda on their side. Over 90% of the MSM are on the left. They will twist anything you do to make you look bad. So, stay home, figuratively, and get ready in case they come after you. The main battle is election day. Trump supporters have to look as if they're complacent, to the average voter so no one can point and say that they're the violent ones. Violence has to come from the left. The right should only attack when the left has been soundly defeated, in the election and culturally and they've become desperate. Desperation will lead to them making stupid decisions and that's when we attack and put them down for good. Proud Boys....stay away from Portland. Their strong propaganda will destroy us. Accept the fact that propaganda is their big advantage and DON'T let them use it. If they can't use it, they'll lose that advantage and that will weaken them and you'll only have to fight the already defeated. Tactics is everything and that is how to beat those cretins.
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  2001.  @hershelbabymomma231  I'm not even sure what it is you're trying to say but I'll just say that no one is trying to take away trans rights. In fact, we're saying that the rights of these young girls are being lost to a woke ideology that refuses to recognise basic biological facts.
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  2002. Of course covid is bad. It can kill you. However, that doesn't give the state the right to tell me what to do. The state isn't God or our parents. I have the right to decide how I want to protect myself from Covid or anything else. It's been a long time since my mommy told me to get out of that tree. That's because I'm an adult, now. The state is NOT my mommy.
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  2003.  @almosthuman1398  " I allowed you to get there under your own steam." How magnanimous of you. You "allowed" me to do it. Sounds condescending to me. The roles of procreation has been the defining factor on how we defined men and women throughout all of human history. To carry out those roles depends on the plumbing. If you don't have the plumbing, you can't get pregnant. That means that you're NOT a woman. Our survival depends on this binary relationship. One carries the sperm. The other the egg. We need it to ensure genetic diversity to survive. So how do we describe the binaries that take part in procreation? The one that carries the sperm is the man. The one that carries the egg is the woman. Beattie became pregnant using donated sperm. That implies that he carried the egg which means that biologically he's a woman. You can dress him anyway you want, surgically remove body parts, give him drugs but his body still functioned as a woman. He carried the egg and then had full female capabilities that enabled him to carry a child to birth. That will NEVER happen to me. I'm NOT a woman. I do not and will NEVER have those capabilities. I am a man. Not because I wish it or feel it or passionately want it. I'm a man because that's what my body developed me to be. Neither the doctor or my parents assigned my manhood to me at birth. NATURE did. Biology. My role was clearly defined by how my body was designed and it defines its role in the perpetuation of my species. That's been the clear designation of gender all through history. In fact, 20 years ago people would have laughed at the ideas of multiple gender roles. The entire Beattie thing is a game of sleight of hand.
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  2004.  @freddyd17  You have no idea on how a strong economy should work. Worse, you've just exemplified what Peterson and Sowell were talking about. Envy, which morphs into resentment and ends in anger....and always directed at others. Once you've accepted the idea that it's someone else's fault, you've lost all incentive to improve yourself. You'll feel that there's no need as the fault doesn't lie with you. The fault lies with others and it's the others that need to improve and you'll be just the one to do it. This will invariably end badly and always has. Some of the worst atrocities, over the last 150 years, have been this forced improvement of others over the advancement of the self.
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  2005.  @SuperSikntired  Being aware is a lot different than being obsessed. I may take note of how a person's eyes reacts while speaking but the colour and shape are irrelevant. I might notice how a person may sweating profusely, due to the moisture on their skin, which might indicate nervousness but, once again, the colour of the skin tells me nothing about that person. I don't draw conclusions based on the colour of their skin. There's no point in even listening to that person if the natural colour of their skin is my primary assessment tool. It would be illogical to do that.
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  2006.  @lordbread2083  What a trite statement. The answer to everything. You don't even have to be smart. Just repeat the same thing over and over again. I can't take a statement like that seriously. You do realise that saying that you're against racism doesn't make you a good person. Anyone can say it....even a racist (I cringed saying that).
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  2007.  @yarazooom  I'm not sure what it was that Trump said that is a directive to kill people in a shopping mall. Maybe I'm naive but I just don't see it. The guy in Dayton Ohio was an Antifa supporter and also supported Elizabeth Warren. What did Warren say that made her responsible for the killings there?
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  2008.  @hippodinoreserve6090  What's wrong with selling sneakers? At least he's doing something that has value. I'm almost positive that you've went out to buy sneakers or shoes at some time and you went to someone who sells sneakers.
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  2009. They calling Israel colonisers and say that Israel deserved what happened on October 7th. They also call us colonisers. Does that mean that we deserve the same fate as the Israeli "colonisers" did on that horrible day? That doesn't bode well for our country if we allow their influence to take root and grow.
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  2010. @Monkeyweasel44 Trudeau is too soy to even play golf.
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  2011.  Shhhhhhhh🤫  "first sign of trouble"??? Maybe he realised that the things that he was being told, by the Democrats, weren't making any sense. Just one example. Why is it that Florida, without vaccine and mask mandates and VERY limited lockdowns, has similar Covid numbers to those states that have had the strictest lockdowns? Stores boarded up, businesses going bankrupt, people losing their jobs in those lockdown states....but not in Florida. Explain why those lockdowns are necessary when the numbers are no different. If you could explain that, without making trollish comments, you'd be worth talking to. Now, you're just a guy on the internet that lives under a bridge.
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  2012.  @ethanbernard7671  So, you're going to defend her lying but pointing at some one else. I got over that when I was about 6 years old. "Well Johnny did it too". I would whimper. My mother would cuff me upside the head and say "If Johnny jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?" This isn't a contest. If you lie, you're doing wrong. She lied and it has nothing to do with me, you, the doorpost OR Trump. She lied.
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  2013.  @darrenwendroff3441  The border problem is about what's right or wrong for the country. The US has immigration policies and that's the way it should be. It should balance immigration numbers with our ability to assimilate them into our country with as little impact on the social fabric as possible. Letting immigrants into the country with no structure, no relevant total caps, without applications or vetting will end in disaster. We're already seeing it in the big cities, like New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. There is a right way and a wrong way to do it and just letting anyone and everyone just walk into the nation is beyond wrong. Its destructive. Sowell's claims about the Democrats not supporting school choice is also true. This is indisputable. It isn't a Republican talking point. The Democrats have helped the teacher's unions fight it tooth and nail. The unions don't want non union schools. It's how unions operate. They oppose non union shops no matter the field that they happen to be in. I've seen it, personally and I have no reason, been shown no reason, to believe that the teacher's unions are any different. That our inner schools are failing so badly, is indicative of this malaise and it's wrong. It hurts us all. The students, their futures and our country. It's wrong. Nothing complex about it.
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  2014.  @bigperm3853  They've been taught the ideology all through school. It wasn't called CRT, at the time, but it was in line with radical leftist thinking. When those students were finally confronted with the idea of CRT, they were already well versed in the mindset and found that it aligned with what they learned in school. The ideas of CRT had already been planted in their minds.
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  2015.  Network Search  Unfortunately, it's not just Biden. It's the entire Democrat Party. Look at the devastation in Minneapolis. The Democrats have been in power for decades and yet they haven't done anything to improve their own city police force. However, worse than that, Democrat Ellison had possession of the body cam that showed that the police officers weren't being at all too harsh on George Floyd and refused to show it. Now they want to abolish that police force but that Democrat city council did vote themselves a personal security detail. Wow. Then the fiasco in Portland. 74 nights in a row....IN A ROW, of violence and destruction. The Democrat mayor stood right next to rioters as the shot high grade fireworks at the court house and watched them try to tear down the barrier that was put up around that building. Yet, somehow that's Trump's fault. Then, Nadler just blithely says that it's all a myth. New York, now there's another mess. Almost 500,000 people have left. They're talking a 30 billion dollar shortfall this year. 13,000 homeless people put up in high end hotels at 175 bucks a pop at the Upper East Side. Now they have people passing out on the streets, urinating and masturbating in public, yelling at people walking by. They're not wearing masks like everyone else in New York is supposed to. Crime is up in the area by almost 250% with murders more than double in the City over last year. Louisville, Kentucky city council wants to name racism as a public health threat. At the same time BLM reps are going from store to store demanding hiring quotas and forcing businesses to buy from black owned businesses or else give BLM 1.5% of the business revenue. Legalised extortion....but the Democrat leaders don't do a thing. I could go on about this for hours....non stop. So no, it isn't just Biden. Biden just represents the incredible blindness of the entire Democrat party. It's like Trump hired the entire bunch of them to make him look good and that's not an easy thing to do.
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  2016.  @AllAboutMusicMovies  I never ONCE wrote a narrative. I said that this person could have made a good point and he MAY have, that's not a narrative, just a possibility, said this because it was a concern. He may have been screaming at people about it or he MAY have said something along the lines of "I've said this lots of time but I think...." I DON'T KNOW.....but apparently you know enough about this person to call him and extremist. I'm saying that you don't have enough information to do that. Also, you've assumed that this person is American. It doesn't state where this person is from. You just assumed it for no real reason. Another narrative that you've wrote for yourself. Then I said that I don't like to live in fear and then, somehow and incomprehensibly, you asked me if I was afraid and then made an assumption that I was American. Now 2 of us are American...or even possibly 3 of us and you did this without knowing any of us. The commenter was responding to an original point about the psychological effects being worse than the disease. She says that she has a friend that says the same thing and this friend has said it multiple times. Then you come up with how afraid Americans are and how Sweden didn't have those crazy lockdowns, which kind of validates what she was talking about. That this fear CAN be psychologically worse than the disease like it is in the US. I didn't say that, YOU did. It seems as if you agree with him but I don't know. However, your statement does suggest that. Then you go on about Trump letting it spread. So I asked a rhetorical question. Does Trump rule the world......meaning does he have that much influence that the entire world is gripped with Covid and it's all his fault? The disease was spreading in Italy before it started to spread in the US...like I've mentioned and I'm sure that Trump wasn't responsible for that. Also, you're the one that brought up Sweden and Europe and there's been some severe lockdowns in Europe and some awful riots in protest in England, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. So the US isn't the only place that's living in fear. As a matter of fact, we are here in Canada, too. Now the economy is hurting. I know people that have lost their businesses. The US is in even worse shape. Another area of our lives where the fear of Covid might have consequences that may make things worse than the disease. The point made is not exactly without merit. I've not wrote any narrative about anyone else. I've laid out possibilities by using myself as an example. A possibility is NOT a narrative. It's laying out an idea. Yet, that prompted you to suggest that I must be an extremist as well. Nice leap of logic there. I'm not the one that started calling people names. That's all I can say about the subject.
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  2017.  @wifi961  He didn't mean it as a statement against Mexicans, in general. He meant it against a criminal element that is quite strong and prevalent in Mexico, just as it is in the US. He has nothing against honest Latinos, who come to the US using the legal process as set by law. It's just that the Democrats and the media distort everything he says and he has a way of saying things that are easy to distort.
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  2018. @Sagar Giri China has become a Fascist nation. They have an economy that privately owned but firmly under the control of a centralised government. No unions allowed and they even have a religious group that are persecuted and held against their will in detention camps. It's how the rose so fast, economically. It's exactly how the Nazis did it in Germany.
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  2019.  @myDickbiG  I doubt that they were ordered to kill those guards. They did it out anger and disgust at what those guards had done and it came from within. If you didn't want to kill them, you didn't.
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  2020. Jane I understand your frustration and anger and you have every right to feel that way. The politically correct media is showing their racist attitudes by trying to show us that they're not racist. It's disgraceful.
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  2021. When this program fails, they'll just say that they need more programs and they'll spend even MORE money to talk about crime.
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  2022.  @JohnSmith-yd5wq  Now that you've explained it that way, I have to take back everything I wrote. LOL. You've laid out such a fantastic case, I just can't refute it. Who would've thought that just saying "wrong" could be so deep, so cerebral, so intellectual. I bow before your philosophical mind. Honestly....I do. There's no need to explain yourself any further. There's nothing more that you can teach me on the subject.
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  2023.  @bruvlord1133  And every a-hole in the city keeps voting Democrat. Every time....for 50 or 60 years, sometimes over 100 years. What do the Democrats care? They just keep doing what they've always done. Do you think the Republicans would be any better? Who knows? The corrupt Democrats, in all those cities, have never been challenged....EVER. If they were, maybe they'd have to clean up their act, but that's not going to happen because the Democrats have them convinced that, under the Republicans, it will be worse. Like...WHAT!!!! How can it get worse in the inner city? I'm not a big fan of Trump but, my God, what do you have to lose? If you have nothing, you can't lose anything.
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  2024.  @OneNewHope  I don't own a Confederate flag and don't want one. I'm NOT Republican but I know ONE thing. If I live in a voting district, where life for certain demographics, NEVER improves, I'm not voting for the group that has been in power for decades in the hopes that they'll fix it. I'd vote for anyone else. But, go ahead, keep voting for the Democrat politicians, in those cities. Decades, in which there's been no change, is a sure sign that they'll change in the future. LOL. It's telling that you're attacking me, instead of addressing the issues that I've brought up. Homelessness, garbage, human feces, needles, high rent, a bloated bureaucracy, high crime rates, and, like this video pointed out, corruption.....you don't want to discuss that. No way. You want to talk about my hypothetical Confederate flag and the supposed lack of education. You use one of the basic logical fallacies. Engaging in personal attacks instead of centering on the real problem called ad hominem attacks. Well done.
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  2025. Good for you Megyn. We need leaders like you.
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  2026. Colbert used to be hilarious. Now he's spouting ideological drivel. It's like listening to Christian rock music. It's so tepid.
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  2027.  @LoveDogs___3  Why ask a person who just said that he didn't want her? It's obvious that he didn't vote for her.
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  2028.  @nGUNNARp  Giving free needles to drug addicts is no different than putting Covid patients in nursing homes. In both cases, you're perpetuating an affliction for those who are the most vulnerable. You're missing the entire point of the comment....OR... you're at troll. Either way, it doesn't say anything positive about you.
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  2029.  @Zurround  I'm sure that it has. Why wouldn't it? It's just one small step away from what I went through and it isn't as if I'm something special. Not all women or men, for that matter, are as reasonable as my girlfriend was. Some of them are always in crisis mode. I've always stayed away from that type of person.
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  2030. I know what you mean. I've thought about these issues for decades and have even used the Pharisees in my thoughts on the subject but I've never been able to articulate those ideas and thoughts as clearly and coherently as Peterson does in this video. A very remarkable individual.
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  2031. @GlobalMan Private Go away.....Troll.
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  2032.  @TheNordmo  Are you always this hateful or is this just your cyber personae?
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  2033.  @merrinbuchan2488  But choice does. If you don't believe what a church is teaching, why would you attend? If you don't believe what that church's college is teaching.....DON'T GO THERE. They are adults. They have the right to choose. .....and I'm a atheist that believes that everyone has a right to choose how they want to live their life, including getting a religiously centered education. No one is forcing those young adults to attend that college. Most of them already have Christian beliefs and that's the reason they go there. The religious aspect is not a hidden agenda. You know it going in. If you know it and still go and don't like it and then complain about it's mandate, that's your own fault not the fault of the school.
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  2034.  @Skitdora2010  Monsanto isn't gone. It was bought by Bayer and is now part of their crop science division. To put it bluntly, Bayer and Monsanto have pooled their resources together and are still doing, for better or worse, what they've always done.
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  2035.  @rricci  I report him every time I see that message. Someday someone will be paying attention and will shut him down. He's as annoying as it gets.
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  2036.  @jackarnold6755  There was one known Antifa member who has been charged with starting a fire. There are other stories but this is confirmed. It is unknown whether he acted alone or not or even if his fellow Antifa members approve of his action. It's without a doubt that they would if he was in town burning down a business but they haven't really said much about the fires. Wouldn't put it past them but not enough evidence to support the idea that this is an Antifa tactic or just a lone wolf Antifa member.
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  2037.  @stardust164  Just because you sue that's no guarantee of a win. This man lost his job because he complained about a person, with male genitalia, was hanging around a girl's change room. At one time, not even 5 years ago, that was considered the right thing to do. Now they lose their job and any young girl that complains, that girl gets punished. Yeah......sue them. Every member of the school staff is obligated to protect students from harm, including overt sexual misconduct. Every student should be allowed to protect themselves from harm. It may be the only way to fight back against this type of injustice. It's either that or let the state completely dominate your life. You may like being in an authoritarian state but Americans don't. The power should be with the people and threats and intimidation, from the state, should ALWAYS be resisted in any way possible.
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  2038.  @deathridernero7790  Christian don't care if someone criticises them. They believe that it's up to God to punish those who insult the Christian faith and that it's up to Christians to forgive and hopefully show them the error of their ways. That's why Hitler said that he wished the German people were more like Muslims. Christians are too passive, according to him.....turning the other cheek and loving their enemies and stuff, made Christians more difficult to mould into good soldiers of the state.
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  2039.  Anna Maric  Part of being a citizen is to question everything but it's too easy to pull random items out of the air and then say because of this item, I've now proven that Trump is a globalist. Trump was hated for NOT being a globalist. He'd been saying for years that America has been selling our economy to China. When they saw how popular he was, they were scared that he'd follow through on his threats to try and bring the economy back from China and he did the exact things that they didn't want him to do. Tariffs on Chinese goods. The corporations HATED him for it. In fact, things were going great until Covid struck. The economy was the best in years. Wages for the little guy were rising, Employment figures were the best since the sixties. As for the vaccines, I'm confused on why they're evil. Vaccinations have been in use for 200 years and NOW they're evil. That's just weird. Almost everyone in the US, in the western world, has multiple vaccinations and except for a few crackpots, there weren't any problems. I'm against forcing people to get them or the vaccine passports but I'm against lockdowns too, but not against quarantining someone who's obviously sick. People have turned into either hysterical conspiratory nuts or authoritarian tyrants. There doesn't seem to any common sense left anymore. Everybody hates everyone else. It's time to sit back and relax a bit before we destroy everything that has made life so good here in the west.
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  2040.  @clayc8115  What's weird is that this government is telling private businesses how they must market their products. That's not just weird, it's tyrannical. Another thing that makes this weird is that gender ideology is now mandated by law. It's like saying that you must sell Christian themed toys or face fines or worse. This law is not just BS and ridiculous. It oversteps the rights of business owners.
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  2041.  @numinous2506  Be careful. Wall St. will play this like a pyramid scheme. It's great when you first get in but they'll rig it so they'll win, in the end. I'd never go any deeper than what's happened already. They'll be fighting back and, unless you're willing to lose your money, they'll figure out a way to win. They have the advantage.
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  2042. If I lived in the Louisville area, I'd stand with them....and I'm of Dutch heritage.
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  2043. Love that guy. He's wasn't intimidated by that fancy suit.
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  2044.  @Selliroi  How could her mother not notice that her hair was cut? This sounds like a troll and not a very good one.
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  2045.  @billsimms2511  I'm not a psychologist but I think it has to do with the government programs which allows them to live for free without any effort. It's a welfare system and you'll see that kind of attitude from any group of people, no matter the race or culture. It's a system that rots the mind and kills any sense of pride that a person might have. That same system killed the Soviet Union. People need a sense of purpose for themselves, personal goals. No goals and they care about nothing. Mind you, that's just my opinion.
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  2046.  Leonard Chornomaz  What you're basically trying to say is that every bureaucrat, in existence, has a full and deep understanding of the law. That it is impossible for them to misinterpret the laws or use the laws to justify their position as a bureaucrat. Of course, he has to challenge what he's being charged with. Bureaucrats aren't lawyers. It's entirely possible that he's being charged by an individual that has no understanding of what the law says. It may well be that he has no idea on what he's doing. Incompetent bureaucrats do exist, you know. They exist in every walk of life. I'm astounded that you actually feel that there is no way a bureaucrat could be wrong in his understanding of the law. Just accept what he says and take your lumps. Especially after I showed you that the copyright laws do NOT require one to copyright what one publishes. I showed you the exact statement from those who uphold those laws....and STILL you insist that they MUST be correct.
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  2047.  @Hillarysrevenge  Is that you Lia? Or is this William?
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  2048. If you're a "genuine" protester and you see that your "genuine" protests become overtly destructive riots, night after night after night, you're no longer a "genuine" protester. You're a rioter. You're the guy that spars with the boxer to prepare him for the real thing. The "infiltrators" are not delegitimizing the protests. They're using the protests as a vehicle to attain their own goals and the "genuine" protesters are legitimizing the infiltrators by giving the appearance that their goals are synonymous and that these goals are a mainstream movement. If the "genuine" protests turn into riots every day, you'd have to be near brain dead not to know that you're being used. After 10 days maybe you should get a clue.
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  2049. My mother, 2 grandmothers, my wife, 4 sisters and my daughter all had children without going to a "birthing" class. The little one will come whether you have lessons or not. A general waste of time and money.
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  2050.  @RaPr-c3z  Who said that I agree with "carried interest". I never said that. If something is wrong, fix it. No problem with that. The first thing that you did was attack the rich, ostensibly for being rich. Had you said that there are problems, I wouldn't have even bothered to respond but you didn't. Your comment was an attack on the rich and that's it. Hong Kong has the most billionaires per capita in the world. They also have the 4th highest standard of living. The number of billionaires should have nothing to do with the standard of living of the average citizen.....if the system is free and the government isn't corrupt. That's the ticket. It's corrupt governments that cause social inequities not rich people. That's what Trump is trying to fix. End corruption. Don't end billionaires. You might as well say "End success".
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  2051.  @jenniferhuckleby3266  There are international conditions that are applied to whether one is seeking asylum for legitimate reasons. Severe hardships like war or starvation fit the bill. Not liking the economic conditions in your country are not grounds for seeking asylum. I can't run to Canada because I can't find a decent job in the US or because I don't like living in the inner city.
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  2052. Well said.
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  2053. I'm not even religious and I approve of this verse.
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  2054. I disagree. Although there's a place for it, if he'd done that it would have come off as preachy and it might have turned people off. Let them talk. Let them show themselves up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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  2055.  @strategygalactic  I know. The original comment mentioned that the cop doing crowd control got five years even though he didn't do anything wrong. "Ballistictip" said that he did do something wrong...that he put his knee on Floyd's neck. I told "Ballistictip" that he couldn't be doing both at the same time and that it was a foolish remark. Read it again. I think that you'll see what I meant.
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  2056.  @c.b.-11  The guys a troll. He's all over FOX youtube making ridiculous comments. Pay no attention to it.
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  2057. It's not just Biden. It's the entire Democrat party and some of the Republicans, too. Add to that the bureaucrats in Washington and the multinational corporations and it spells a tough time for the average American. What's sad is that so many Americans can't see it. China loves it but they don't have to do very much. They'll just promise the multinationals cheap labour and lax labour, environmental and quality laws and those corporate bosses will buy their way into Washington. That's why it's so hard to trace it to China. It's our own elites that are doing it.
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  2058. In depends on the circumstances. Being civil worked out perfectly for Fox. She was being a complete loony tune while he just sat there and smiled and spoke reasonably. If you want to see the lunacy, of the authoritarian left, and someone who's a freedom loving, traditional, yet rational liberal, this was it. She showed exactly how she'd behave if given the power and it's not pretty at all.
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  2059.  @bitterballs356  Isn't it strange how Trump slowed the stem of illegal immigrants so we didn't need those child internment camps. Biden gets rid of Trump's immigrant initiatives and starts reopening the camps, as described in the Washington Post, a rag that HATES Trump, and you STILL call Trump the Fascist. The one that makes it possible to CLOSE those child camps and does everything he can to discourage child trafficking is the Fascist and the one that rebuilds those camps because he's reset the pattern that encourages child trafficking is the good guy. Sometimes, logic seems rather illogical...doesn't it?
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  2060. Marxists ideologues. I remember them well from that era. They seemed to disappear but they just changed how they approached things until they were ready to try again. Apparently, they think that they're ready.
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  2061. BS. The woman said that she would have willingly done what was needed to be code compliant. All she needed was to be informed of the issues. NO ONE had ever complained before until this Shylock showed up and tried to line her own pockets over petty violations. If a disabled person has an issue with a small business over a violation, have some integrity and inform the owner of the problem. If the owner refuses to comply, then go after them. Don't allow some huckster lawyer to go searching for violations that's never bothered anyone before, just so that lawyer can make some easy cash. Compliance can be achieved through ethical means and we don't have to resort to corruption.
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  2062. It also shows the man as the property of the woman. He has over stepped the boundaries set for him by her and he is going to pay and it's going to be very expensive.
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  2063. Just because I stuck some feathers up my butt, I'm now a chicken.
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  2064.  @Acujeremy  Genocide definition: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Either you're being sarcastic and it's lost on me or......
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  2065.  @dbefore7165  It's one thing to constantly complain about the cave and another to go out and work hard to try to improve how you live. These progressives want to destroy everything so we have to go back to the caves and then they can complain their way to a better life.
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  2066.  @csmidt2885  None of what I said is "faux news" You've even acknowledged that those areas exist and I've acknowledged that the more rural areas ARE quite beautiful. However, ignoring what's going on in the cities is also ignoring that this is a terrible trend that didn't exist 20 years ago. There is also the problems of high taxes, high energy costs, high housing costs, high crime and other issues that have been driving people out of California since 2020. 2021 saw the very first time in California history in which the population went DOWN. It's never happened before and that indicates that there are issues that are prompting this exodus. When you ignore problems, you'll never fix them and THAT is the biggest problem in California, today.
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  2067.  @jesuslovesashovelhead6173  Dave Rubin put it perfectly. Peterson isn't Jesus. He's an ordinary person, just like you and me. He may have gone into a specialised field, just like I have into construction, but that doesn't make him infallible, nor does it mean that I've never made a mistake when building something. We're human. Just pray that there won't be people sitting over your shoulder, watching everything that you do and then pouncing on things that you may do wrong and castigating you for it. We're human. We'll make mistakes. Show a little compassion and be glad that he's recovering instead of gloating over his troubles. That's as low as it gets.
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  2068.  @jesuslovesashovelhead6173  Yes, I have suffered due to mistakes a "professional" made. I lost a testicle because a surgeon made an error during a minor hernia procedure. The man has been surgeon for 30 years and has saved countless lives. I hate what happened to me but I'm not going to discount the good the man has done, either. I'm saying that you're gloating because, you refuse to acknowledge the endorsements of those he has helped. You centre on the negative and that's it and this claim that you've come out, spotless, under bigger scrutiny that he has ever seen, shows me that you're using it to pat your own back. "I'm WAY better than he is. He screwed up". Which brings me this. Who are you? A guy that claims that he's undergone deeper scrutiny than Peterson who doesn't have the courage to use his own name? Give me a break. You're a nobody with visions of grandeur. Get over yourself.
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  2069.  @charlesbartlett2569  Troll. "Well, Donnie does it too" is what an 7 year old would use for their defence. Quit trolling and act like an adult.
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  2070. We need authoritarianism so I can get my way. As long as I get my way, it's not really authoritarianism, is it? Tyranny only exists when it threatens MY liberty. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Efff YOUR freedoms." He didn't say "Eff MY freedoms". There's a subtle but important nuance, here.
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  2071.  Leo Perez  Yup.....a college graduate all right. Four words out of ten that were derisive insults. Only the truly educated would resort to name calling. You must have a Masters in Public Debate or something.
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  2072.  Tom Armstrong  "It really is great when people can just interact as individuals, with no political strings attached." Your response is to attack Trump's motives? Come on, man. We're trying to set aside our differences and find common ground. This is no time to highlight the differences.
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  2073.  @obviousmaths4368  You keep saying that same thing over and over again. Why don't YOU tell us what trans people say? Or don't you know? You've spent more energy telling us to look it up than it would have taken to just tell us.
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  2074.  @LoraxChannel  It would appear that we've just found our bureaucrat. What you're seeing is enough laws that everyone and anyone is breaking the law. That's what these bureaucrats are depending on. Laws are made to stop people from abusing the rights of others. What have these people done that others would find abusive? Go green, the Democrat government of California says but when that preacher does just that, they go after him because it's not how they envisioned. It's a self reliant green and that's not what they meant. Plug in so we can know what you're doing. It's about control, not about the law or about human rights. If this was such a moral act, why was the county commissioner so evasive when questioned. This is an abuse of the rights of those citizens and they're hiding behind the law to take away their rights. Today it's them. Someday it might be YOU.
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  2075. Teachers talking to one another about teaching, instead of actually teaching. That should help Johnny learn to cipher.
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  2076.  @l.sophia2803  You're right. He is one sad speciman.
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  2077. "No.....I'm stupid" If only more of us would be willing to say that. "I'm not bright enough to infer your meaning. Please, explain further about your meaning". It not only shows that you care what the other person thinks but that you really want to understand.
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  2078.  @mattwilliams3427  A kid can even check it out and keep it in his locker and read it under a tree in the schoolyard during lunch. They can show it to their buddies and they can all have a good laugh. Then they can return the book, a week later, without the book ever being taken off school property. Why would a kid do that? Because they know that his parents will think it inappropriate and that it could set off problems that the kid doesn't want. I'm betting that some of the teachers and librarians are even encouraging their students to NOT let their parents see them. More secrets from their parents. A conspiracy between teachers and kids against parents.
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  2079.  @dereklewis4321  "as for me, in my opinion, I'm speaking for me, I would not be very patriotic." This is exactly what he said about cheering for a recession. Poofy may have paraphrased but the meaning is exactly the same.
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  2080. gwanael34 I make, on average about 25 bucks an hour, including tips. I'd never make that much working for a wage in the small pub that I work in. The place would go out of business. So, yes I do care if I make more money. No job, no money. The logic is impeccable, here. I can guarantee you that everyone that I know that works in my field, will tell you the same thing. "Leave the system alone". It's you. You don't want to make the decision on whether to tip or not or how much to tip. In reality, you think that it will lower the cost of going out to eat. You're masking it with a phoney concern for the worker but it's all about you. I'm in the field and have been for years. Don't tell me what I and my colleagues would prefer. We know. You're being stubborn and disingenuous with your attitude and I'm sure it has nothing to do with how much money I make. It's that you don't want to spend it.
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  2081. gwanael34 Now, you're assuming that I'm using guilt to procure tips. As far as I know I've never served you so how could you know that. Your making assumptions about me and all my colleagues without any knowledge of who we are. You're trying to force an idea on me and telling me that it's for my own good. Well, I like the system as it is now and I've worked under that system since 1989. I think I have a firm grasp on what my working conditions entail. I'll decide what's for my own good. I don't need someone else to tell me. "God protect me from those with good intentions." If you're "good intentions" are unsolicited and unwanted, they're not good intentions.
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  2082.  @dannyweaver7322  It shouldn't have mattered to anyone what Trump's motives were. The brother of the guy killed was sitting there. The Democrats should have acknowledged his grief and forgot about Trump for that moment. They made it into a political moment, as well. Worse, they acted as if his grief was insignificant and not worthy of their condolences. That was even MORE shameful if you ask me. They could have brought up the point that you just made later on, but in THAT moment, they should have extended their respect to the man who lost his brother. A heartless display.
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  2083.  @guaporichard  It's a way to avoid dealing with the real problems. You're either really foolish and blind and I don't think that's true, or you've got lots of money and you don't really have to live with the problems. Maybe a walk down some of the homeless camps in the big cities will open your eyes a little. Leave your car there with a package in the back seat and come back in a couple of hours. That might show what's going on.
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  2084.  @cepenica1  You're still an idiot.
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  2085.  @MichaelJMayoskyStudios  Then that would be the choice made by the people of Afghanistan. The US should not be the world police force.
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  2086.  @dw8967  Troll.
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  2087.  @archiereilly419  Look....Trump has his personal issues but the facts are clear. Operation Warp Speed was Trump's initiative. He said that this would bring us a vaccine within a year and he was MOCKED for it by the Democrats and the MSM. That's a fact. Operation Warp Speed was announced on May 15th, 2020. Pfizer announced that it would be ready to start vaccinating on Dec. 14th 2020. That's 7 months. Now, if you can't give Trump the credit for cutting through the red tape to make that possible, you're being dishonest and it's more about tribalism and hatred than it is about accepting the truth, no matter how distasteful that truth might be. To put it clearly so you might understand it, not accepting the facts, on the development of the vaccine, because you don't like Trump, is based on blind hatred. Hate is the destroyer. Don't accept facts based on emotions. That's anti-science and anti-intellectual.
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  2088.  @mbmb8397  She wouldn't answer the question!!!!!! She talked about everything else but what she was asked about. If I asked what you had for breakfast this morning, you don't tell the that Trump's wall is a joke. You tell me what you had for breakfast.
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  2089.  @CRAIGT1971  It's a troll. A big fan of himself.
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  2090. Yet.....you still hold that record. I have felt the same as you do but I look at my daughter and my grandkids and all the people that call ME a friend (that always amazes me) and I know that my life has been worthwhile and that I've made a difference. There's no point in comparing yourself with others. Compare yourself to the person that you were yesterday. That's what's going to count to those that you care about.
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  2091. It's why Jesus pointed out the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. They pretended to be good but would stop at nothing to get what they want. I'm not a Christian so don't bother calling me out on it. My point is that this virtue signalling isn't anything new and awareness of this phenomenon has been around for a couple of thousand years.
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  2092. @rgsand01 Because Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo are telling them not to get involved. Let the rioters loot and burn. They're not supporting the police, the businesses or the public....AT ALL. The police can't act on its own, no more than the military can. A Navy captain of a battleship can't just sail into a foreign city and start blasting away without orders from the top. Police officers can't start arresting people when their superiors tell them not to, superiors who are getting their orders from the Mayor. If they went against their bosses and arrested rioters, the rioters would just be let go and the police officers involved would be reprimanded or let go. Mayor De Blasio won't use force to stop the rioting criminals but he's just fine with those criminals destroying the lives and property of innocent people. He'll do that till they're at his front door. Then, just like that idiot Chris Palmer, the sports announcer, who cheered on the rioters, until they showed up at his neighbourhood, he'll call in the police and National Guard and call the rioters criminals. When it hurts him, THEN you'll see him act. The worst mayor in the US, although the mayor in Minneapolis is running a close second.
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  2093.  @wickedwood04  Where did I say "election fraud". I mentioned an article about Hunter Biden's laptop in which his father, who is on the ticket, was implicated in some crooked dealings in China and Ukraine. That does have implications in an election. And do you really want Big Tech to curtail that information. To have the government, like Jen Psaki said, to work with Facebook to flag "misinformation"? Do we now have a governmental department called the "Ministry of Truth"? Since when is it up to anyone to tell me what is true or not? I'm not like you. I don't want to be TOLD what's true. I want to see the evidence, good and bad, even fake, so I can assess it for myself, like a free thinking adult. Also, how is asking for ID making it harder to vote? Every western country requires ID to vote. Even a corrupt country like Mexico does. I know that Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Japan....I could go on and on, require voter ID when voting. It's so people can't jump from voting precinct to voting precinct to vote repeatedly. Funny how voter ID is racist but vaccine passports, that require ID isn't. Are we going to exempt certain people from showing vaccine passports because it's racist? Also, anyone can request a mail in ballot. That would give that ballot a chain of possession which is completely different than sending ballots, en masse, through the mail. If you can explain how the Republicans are making voting harder, with EVIDENCE, I'll look at it but I have to warn you. I read the entire Georgia voting bill, the "Jim Crow 2.0" bill and found nothing. That entire claim was bogus.
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  2094.  @jeffreyskoritowski4114  And nursing homes DO have large ICU wards? I'm not following the logic here. Please, elaborate and set me straight.
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  2095.  @NMemone  Thanks for that. It just didn't make sense that Peterson would be into the things that this guy claimed he was. Your explanation falls within the range of things that Peterson talks about all the time. Good work.
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  2096.  @jamesmorrow1646  Why is it no one has been charged with murder for the supposed deaths on Jan 6th. I'm NOT talking about Ashli Babbitt. I'm talking about the killings that the press secretary was talking about. Not one person charged with manslaughter or murder. Is there a reason why they don't seem to be pressing hard for those so called killers?
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  2097.  GrimIkatsui  In other words, left wing virtue signalling.
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  2098. I've always said that socialists are transgressing one of the Ten Commandments, the Big Ten, as I like to call them. It took me years to understand the significance of this commandment but it's when I began to study economic ideologies that I began to understand. Coveting inspires resentment, than anger, then rage and finally retaliation. It doesn't build, it takes from those that their rage is directed at. I'm not religious at all, but it amazes me that people, living well over 2000 years ago, understood this basic principle of the human condition. Yet, in spite of numerous examples, of the relationship between coveting and socialism, people still don't get it, today.
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  2099.  @Provocateurofendtimes  He said "many people". That indicates that others have different experiences which would INCLUDE being hit by their parents. He's talking about the kids who've NEVER been hit by their parents and their only experience of violence was in school. Don't shrug, what Malice, said off.
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  2100.  @elenawilliams32  My dad grew up during WW2, in the Netherlands. He watched Nazi soldiers march past the family farm when they entered his country. Yet, he never saw ONE Jew being arrested or murdered. NOT a one. Does that mean that the holocaust never happened? Of course not. Just because you've never seen these things happen in your school, that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen or hasn't happened. The world doesn't exist around your personal experiences. Also, NO one is blaming ALL teachers. They're blaming the system for allowing it, sometimes endorsing it and forcing teachers to go along with it if just ONE teacher, in your school district, does do it. I can give you a list of 500 FEMALE teachers, who have sexually molested students, all across the United States. I've never met one, so does that negate the veracity of that list? Of course not. You've offered a very poor argument.
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  2101. I've never heard of this. Do you have any links to prove this claim?
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  2102.  @bruconicinfernon4noplatoon317  I'm not sure what you're getting at but if you're saying that Trump is telling us to inject ourselves with disinfectant, wow....do you have comprehension problems. It's a question and a musing on what we would find if this were investigated. If you don't believe that Trump meant to inject ourselves with bleach, my apologies.
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  2103.  @DonaldTrunk23  Could be....but who cares. If you want to criticise him, criticise what he says and back it up with facts. Calling him a phoney is no different than my 5 year old son calling his older brother a "stupid head". It's childish.
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  2104.  @trh-bee4383  I WORK in a bar. I can't do that from home. My boss is afraid that her business won't survive another lockdown. Before that, I worked in a factory. My old co-workers can't make paper from home, either. It's great for all the big corporate chains. They run the small guys out of business, because they can absorb the losses, and those chains just GROW and GROW. Did you know that, since the pandemic started, that this is the first time in almost 30 years that abject poverty, around the world, has gone UP? That poverty rates have been going down, at unbelievable rates, until Covid? That our supply chain is in serious jeopardy? Inflation is on the rise, getting back to what it was in in 1980, when mortgage rates were over 20%. What happens if those days return and they will if we keep locking everything down. The tax base is eroding, yet we need more money to support people who are told to STAY HOME. We are in a spiral and we're so afraid of the Covid monster that we can't see anything else. If we have a world economic collapse, similar to the Great Depression, tens of millions could starve to death, around the world, and Covid would STILL be with us. Already the consequences are starting to rear their ugly heads and those ugly heads will get uglier and meaner if we keep stopping our economy. But at least YOU won't get Covid. LOL. As if we'll be able to control Covid if the collapse does come.
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  2105.  @Kim-sq9gp  Aah....wrong. That's what happens when you insist on huge socialist spending and use free stuff to gather votes. I worked for those "slave wages" in the sixties and seventies, a blue collar worker, for a huge shoe manufacturer and I bought a house and a cottage and have a good pension today. My father did even better than what I did. As the seventies progressed, the realisation that you didn't have to work to get money, welfare, and more and more people joined those ranks. Social causes grew and more money was needed for the masses and politicians were only too willing to buy votes by offering free stuff. The last big one was the forgiveness of college loans. “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin. That's what we're seeing today. No one, with a yacht today, has the kind of money that the government has and they got it from YOU. Then they offer it BACK to you with promises of great government programs. It's a recipe for failure and we're seeing it now.
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  2106. Death rates are going way down. I'd say by spring, the death rate will be down to about .2 or .3 percent. There's a lot of money to be made in curing this disease.
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  2107.  @4rsen454  No....math, reading and writing and when the students are proficient at those subjects, teach history, geography, literature, science, civics and the practical arts of construction, home economics and finances. The basics come first. If a child can't read or write or understand basic math, that child will be forever crippled. That's what schools were instituted to do when they were first created. That's what schools are for.
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  2108.  @D-E-S_8559  "[We have a say in our schools. We have a say in our lives.]" YOU HAVE A SAY---only if you conform to the approved form of thinking, if you don't they pass a mandate law against you.." Okay....give us an example that would support your claim that's happening in Florida. With references, of course.
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  2109. john ramsey This where academics have taken us but it was a choice made by those academics. It isn't the logical path that academics must take. One must choose to take that path. It was the left wing academic that decided to manipulate higher learning into becoming what it is today. They were the ones that actively recruited and indoctrinated instead of spreading knowledge, while the true academic lived in his specific bubble of study oblivious to what the new left academic was doing....the false academic. This is partially, due to the naive belief that those who would advance that far, would have as the primary goal to advance knowledge and scholarship and not dogma. The false academics kept increasing their numbers by only valuing those that were of a singular ideology and the true academics were disappearing through attrition. This attrition would accelerate until it reached the point it's in now and we're seeing the end result of the loss or the true academic to the dogmatic academic. Dogmatism leads to static thinking which is a nice way of saying no thinking at all. Peterson embodies what's left of the true academic in how he uses the discipline of his specialty to examine the motives of these new humanities academics and it's not pretty.
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  2110. Actually, last winter and spring, 2019, was the highest migrations in years, maybe ever. Last year was NOT an election year.
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  2111.  @Yves_Ka  These peace deals puts pressure on the Palestinians and Hezbollah. Pressure that might encourage them to change their approach to dealing with Israel. Egypt and Jordan already have deals with Israel. Now Bahrain, the UAE and Kosovo have normalised relations. The Palestinians are losing their allies. Maybe the people, living in the Gaza strip, will tire of the endless call for war, by their leaders, and pressure them to use some of their assets to better their lives. This isn't a movie, where all is resolved in 2 hours. This is real life and it's a process that will take years. Every step towards that peace is a major accomplishment...unless your hate for Trump would rather see animosity over peace efforts. What a useless waste of emotion.
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  2112.  @mamageesgospel451  What does that have to do with this woman shooting a police officer? What is wrong with you?
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  2113.  @ChristopherLeeHarper77  Are you really that insane? People are being murdered, including police officers, and you're babbling about Trump??? Are you going to talk like that if it happened to a family member?
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  2114. No one knows.
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  2115.  @dreamdiction  This video is saying that mass migration is the result of globalist and national regulations. The people lose hope and end up at the bottom of the ocean. Did you not see the part where young men were floating in the water? That doesn't look like solving problems to me. What this video is saying is to allow the economy to grow at a grass roots level. They used the example of the shoe makers to showcase how outside sources are ruining the small shoe making businesses and it's the give away programs from outside that is stifling entrepreneurship in Senegal. I think you started watching this video with preconceived notions and they were validated the minute the word "migration" was invoked. No context was needed. The word in itself triggered your response. This, in spite of the fact that the entire video was about loosening regulations to allow the average person the opportunity to become a small business entrepreneur.
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  2116.  Yedolf  Gaza was free. The Palestinians there decided to elect Hamas which took all the money donated to them and built a machine of war. They didn't work on their economy or social infrastructure. They built a huge tunnel system and then bought all the weapons that this donated money could buy. There's a reason why Israel is so rich and Gaza is so poor and it has NOTHING to do with oppression.
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  2117.  @sthubbins4038  I don't believe it. You've finally said something that made me laugh. LOL.
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  2118.  @marywallace7191  I'll try this again. When Trump gave a huge amount of money to the veterans to save the parade, 25 years ago, was THAT about himself? I'd not even heard about it until this organiser revealed it on this program. I don't expect an answer for that, at least not one that's logical and coherent and laced with invective. Can you NOT, for the love of God, put your HATE for the man aside for one day and just honour those veteran heroes? Honour them and respect those who honour them with you regardless of political affiliations. JUST FOR ONE DAY.
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  2119.  @WhyNotTruth  You're a bot. Are you a Chinese agent, too?
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  2120.  @visionbishop9517  She wasn't fired......not until AFTER she was told to stop and she continued with her crusade. Then she went after OTHERS in her news room even though the staff was told to keep this kind of thing in house. The guy made the tweet, heard the objection, took it down, apologised again and was given a month's suspension. Somnez should have been satisfied with this but NOPE....she had to have it ALL her way. She was exercising power that she doesn't have and she lost. No one needs this kind of toxicity in the workplace. If you can't see that, then there's nothing that would ever satisfy you and you just may well be the toxic element in your workplace. I don't blame you for not wanting to read the WP, though. It's one of the most dishonest news sources in the US.
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  2121.  @larrog8413  When you don't stand up for what's right, you'll get exactly that.....failed liberal policies. Your attitude exemplifies EXACTLY why the country is deteriorating so rapidly. You have no concept of what's right or wrong or you just don't care. If you allow that guy to steal from the store, he'll be stealing from YOU next. Right and wrong isn't determined by the identity of the victim.
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  2122. Most were Russians. There were Russian Jews in the leadership but as Stalin became entrenched as the Soviet leader, the Russian Bolsheviks turned on the Jews. It's why so many Russian Jews went to Israel, if they could. Life wasn't all that good for them in the Soviet Union.
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  2123.  @JetJ321  Thanks. We're very proud of her and her older brother and younger sister. Good kids. I feel very lucky to be their grandfather.
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  2124.  @Bfettrules  Those guys on CNN or MSNBC have no idea what people need or how to live on 100k a year. Also, people used to have a lot more kids than that and they didn't have near the money that they do now. Most families, in the 1930s through 50s had at least that many kids and didn't have NEAR the money that people have now. If you can't keep a family with 4 kids afloat on 100k, you're expectations are too high and you're not doing it right. I know lots of families that are getting by on less than that. You find a way.
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  2125.  @Bfettrules  That's ridiculous. If you rent or buy a house, it will cost the same amount of money to have one more person to live there. The mortgage doesn't double because there are now 2 people living there or triple because there are 3 people in that house. Same as with the heat. It costs almost the same to heat a house for one person as it does for 4. You buy food in bulk. You learn how to live. A 3 year old doesn't eat NEAR what a 20 year old does. It's quite apparent that you've never raised a family before.
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  2126.  @markdelacruz1322  What a foolish comment. What can he do? You're not suggesting an illegal act, are you? We need those, who are putting The View on the air, to rethink that decision and cancel that show. To be specific, the ABC network.
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  2127.  @westernersareuntermench2474  You don't even know what country he came from so how could you know whether that government was "American installed"? If it WAS American installed, why would he FLEE to America, the country that supported the government that wants to kill him? When you stop hating, thinking through emotion, you begin to think rationally. That's when you'll start to make some common sense.
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  2128.  @westernersareuntermench2474  Of course you think that because ALL them countries are the same....right? Somalia is no different the Rwanda with is no different than Angola or Senegal. They're all the same and not one of them is able to resist the "might" of the USA. I'll bet all the Africans involved agree wholeheartedly with your blanket assessment of the character and lack of individuality of the peoples of that continent. Speaking of hatred, it's your hatred that's infecting this comment thread. You hate America so much that you won't even acknowledge that this person is grateful for the freedom and safety that the US has provided him. Instead, you'll do mental backflips to justify why you hate America and in doing so, you paint all African nations with the same brush or to put it clearly, all them brown folk are the same. You can't even see your own lack of self awareness.
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  2129. I wouldn't take her too lightly. She may be a lot tougher than you think. The last time a Republican wasn't taken seriously, he became the President.
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  2130.  @teresaanderson8497  Pay no attention to him. He's a troll and he's been repeating this same comment for months now.
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  2131.  @sthubbins4038  He was wrong about ALL of it? Are you saying that they DON'T want to tear down statues of Washington and Jefferson? They sure do and YOU KNOW IT. Are you saying that the Mueller Report did show collusion? It didn't because they never impeached on it and had to try impeachment in another way. No collusion and, once again, YOU KNOW IT. Don't you get tired of being a troll and always being wrong? I know I would get sick of it and start keeping my mouth shut.
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  2132.  @GoodAvatar  You don't know what MLK would have supported if he were alive today. Neither do I. No one does. You're making assumptions about a man that can't speak for himself because he's gone. Like any person alive, he did good things and bad things. I don't judge him on his mistakes or even his accomplishments. I will commend and applaud his statement that we should be judged on our character, NOT on the colour of our skins. One thing is certain. BLM is all about skin colour. They view everything through the lens of race. That's NOT judging by character at all. It's a judgement of skin colour. Nevertheless, even knowing that he said this, I still can't say for certain if he'd have supported BLM or not. Neither can you. You're engaging in a pointless exercise. By the way, it was Democrat in California, BIG supporters BLM, that wanted to repeal the California Civil Rights Act. The act, based on the Federal Civil Rights Act, that Dr. Martin Luther King worked hard to put into place. No discrimination or preferential treatment based of group identity or beliefs. I'm not sure on this but I'm going to say that MLK would NOT have supported anything like this.
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  2133.  Roger King  It's not just America that held slaves. Slaves have been a part of human history, all over the world for thousands of years. Quite often the slave traders would fight another culture and take them for their slaves. That was common practise. North and South America was opening up 400 years ago and they need labour, especially in the areas that used plantations as a source of income. That happened all over the Americas not just the US. In fact, it took only 20 years and the Atlantic slave trade was abolished in the US. Within 80 years, the government of the US, using the Constitution was in the process of abolishing slavery, when the south revolted. 600,000 people died fighting slavery, mostly whites. Strange how the US government gets no credit for that.
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  2134. He'd be scared out of his mind and I don't blame him. Have a hundred people surround your home, with what's been happening, shouting and making threats and anyone would be scared. He's just to blind to see it because he's a leftist bot. Cassandra Fairbanks had her home surrounded by protesters. It scared her 10 year old little girl so badly, that she refused to go back to that house. Juan is a jackass.
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  2135.  @rigafraction1653  Ontario only voted for Ford because they were tired of Liberal Katherine Wynne. Federally, they voted Trudeau in the last election.
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  2136. 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.' Matthew 25:40 I'm no Christian but that was my guide when looking at the actions of BLM. They acted as if they were the virtuous ones but any organisation that would support the destruction of businesses, homes, vehicles and the lives of those they say that they were helping, would NEVER get my support. They went to the neighbourhoods of Black America and cheered on the loss of life, property, jobs and homes of those who lived there. They didn't have any regard for the people that had to pick up the pieces after the destruction.....the very people that they claimed to stand for.
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  2137. He's not saying that at all. He's saying that there are those who are using history to vilify western civilisation instead of using it to understand human nature. He's saying that there is good and evil in ALL of us, and that you don't assign evil traits to one group and good ones to others.
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  2138.  @davidlaroche8928  He'll be placed under special protection, just like other vulnerable prisoners. He won't be placed in general population.
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  2139. Go away but send the monthly cheque.
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  2140.  @ManfredZeroFive  That's all I want from him....unbiased news. Also, he's said, repeatedly, that he's NOT voting Democrat, this fall and that he's supporting Trump.....warts and all. That's not the same old Tim, who 6 months ago stated that he'd never vote for Trump.
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  2141.  Real Christian.  I don't see the correlation. Too broad a statement to have any relevance.
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  2142.  @jamielancaster01  Apparently, all those issues have been resolved. The SEC has approved the merger a week ago so it would seem that it's now satisfied that all regulations have been followed. Also, just because Shvartsman is guilty in his dealings in this merger, doesn't mean that Trump is guilty of anything. Had there been any proven wrongdoing on Trump's part, you'd be talking about Trump NOT Shvartsman. In other words, the point that you're trying to make is irrelevant.
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  2143.  @martinphillips4567  They don't want you to be reasonable, logical or thinking for yourself.
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  2144. I've said this about girlfriends for years. When you find yourself editing everything you say before you say to avoid offending her, yet she STILL finds a way to get angry, it's time to break it off and move on.
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  2145.  @jimmy_kirk  Apparently, you've never been to the steppe or the prairies of North America. There are no trees. So they used what was available...mammoth bones. Just like the Inuit use snow to build their homes. There are no trees in the Arctic. A rather snide remark that makes no sense.
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  2146.  @IrishSchaller  And now you've increased the need for MORE electricity, maybe even double the electricity, in the next 10 years. Are you increasing the power from renewables fast enough to cover that demand required? I rather doubt it. You're going to go the way of Cuba, Venezuela or Sri Lanka. You're living in a dreamland.
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  2147.  @keithhoss4990  Yes....and it's disgusting. We know about it and we HATE it. Just like we hate all that promote this kind of thing. It's NOT political. It's ideological, like a religion and it creeps into every facet of our society. Call it out when CNN, NBC or CBS does it. Call it out when FOX does it too. Don't play favourites. This FOX clip supports the parents. It's a good thing. PERIOD.
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  2148. JuliaJustBeauty If Patrick Brown can prove that he's innocent, then they deserve the legal ramifications of making false allegations. You're assuming that there is no way that they are being dishonest or that someone hasn't manipulated these women into saying things that may not be true. Brown has been found guilty and lost his job and reputation, not because of proved guilt, but because he was accused. These women were not even named at first and they may have been naive enough to think that they'd never have to come forward on the say so of a cunning and manipulative reporter. The media should never be the arbiter of guilt or innocence and Brown had his knees taken out from under him without even the chance to defend himself. It would be a social, political and human tragedy if this entire mess was orchestrated by a ruthless news outlet who manipulated naive women and felt they could take advantage of a metoo movement that was appearing to approve the idea that the accusation should ALWAYS be the equivalent of an indictment. That's ethically and morally wrong and belongs in the realm of the gossip rags. Journalistic integrity has been supplanted by a game of telephone and backroom mechanisations. This isn't what the metoo movement should be supporting.
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  2149. Pay someone less than what his time worked multiplied by his hourly rate and you'll find out quickly that there is only ONE correct answer. You can bet that the employer isn't going to pay MORE than what he made as well. They'll BOTH agree to that one single right answer.
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  2150.  @1133saginaw  It was the government rules that spurred the Abbot recall in the first place which led to the baby formula shortfall. The government also has rules for importing of baby formula. Since they're at root of the initial problem AND the solution (not saying the recall was the wrong thing to do) they had better work towards fixing what their policies caused. The rules against imported baby formula shouldn't have been allowed to be a cause for a shortage. The agency that oversaw the recall should also IMMEDIATELY make sure that imported formula be allowed in to make up for the shortfall. In fact, that control over the formula industry, THAT'S socialism.
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  2151.  @davidbielski3484  Trudeau is going through hearings concerning his calling of the Emergencies Act. The Act calls for hearings to start within 6 months after the Act is called to see if they were warranted. Things aren't going well in the hearings but I doubt much will come of it. They'll resolve that it was wrong to call the Act, that Trudeau should be sanctioned and then they'll demand that the Act be reviewed and changed to prevent this kind of egregious response in the future.
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  2152.  @pattidick9310  Do you even understand the comment?
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  2153.  @josemachado6942  Yes....they did. He defended himself from someone who attacked him, from behind. He was being choked and could have died, just like George Floyd DID die. He warned the guy and he wouldn't stop choking him. So he shot him...rather than face the possibility that in a couple of minutes he might be dead. Then the DA has him charged with murder and his landlord kicks him out of his building. The system was rigged against him and considering the effects of his injuries in the war, he saw no way out. The DA basically told him that he'd rather see him dead by murder than to protect himself from the man that attacked and was using a lethal choke hold against him. Yeah.....the DA, especially, was a major contributor in the destruction of this man's life.
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  2154. If Trump can lead the nation to flatten the curve of the virus and make gains in bringing troops home from Afghanistan, not only will Tim vote for him, Trump will win in a majority never seen before in American history.
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  2155.  @brianmalexander  And representatives are chosen by a democratic system. That's what this scandal is all about. VOTING and voting fraud. If the US isn't a democracy, all this is moot. The entire election is moot and pointless. The US is a representative republic which uses a Constitution to be a check on Democratic excesses or mob rule. The Democratic process is integral to the function of this representative republic.
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  2156.  @meatball4409  So, you're saying that the Democrats are supporting White Supremacists? Mayor Ted Wheeler is a Democrat. Nancy Pelosi says that the agents sent to protect the courthouse are storm troopers. According to you, the guys protesting in the streets are white supremacists. This is getting so convoluted. When you allow hate into your life, you lose all logic and reason.
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  2157. @BALZAR FROZNOV Democrats say that MAGA is terrible because America was never great because it was a racist and oppressive country won't acknowledge that it was THEIR party that supported slavery. No sitting Republican politician ever owned a slave....only Democrats. The president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was a life long Democrat. Democrats want to abolish the Confederate flag because it symbolises slavery but they don't want to abolish the party that sacrificed lives in an effort to KEEP slavery. The hypocrisy is astounding.
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  2158. I like it and just used that quote in a later comment.
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  2159.  @jasonspringer2983  I started out, 4 years ago and I wasn't a fan of Trump at all. l appreciate him more but that's not been the big change for me. I've gotten so I can't stand the Democrats. I warned Democrat supporting friends that Hillary, the Dems and the MSM were campaigning badly and that if they kept it up, they were going to lose. Since then, they've turned into lying, conniving jerks and yet die hare Dem supporters just keep up their deceitful ways. They are going to lose and lose badly next election. Worse than Goldwater did in '64. They just won't learn from their mistakes. This isn't what we need running the most powerful country in the world.
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  2160.  @generalwillwelsh7926  I think a lot of people try to do a good job because they don't want others to think badly of them. That's ego. It may not be the ideal reason to want to do a good job but it beats putting in the time for a paycheck and don't care if they do a good job or not. If Trump succeeds because of his ego....great. That's WAY better than failing.
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  2161.  Jesus Is SATAN  That statement should make life so much better for those suffering from kidney disease. (sarcasm) People like you can only accuse and complain. Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually comment on the topic of this video. It almost sounds as if you could care less about fighting for something positive, like Kidney health. Always in the negative. Always wanting to tear things apart. No objective opinions......just angry and bitter remarks.
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  2162. Don't be. The fact that you'd feel shame tells me that you're a good guy and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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  2163.  @MrTachyon  My last name is a Dutch variation of the German surname "Havemann". Am I upset about it? I don't care. Maybe you can be outraged for me. I would be SOOO grateful. A tempest in a teapot.
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  2164.  @ewrock7635  I don't want to tell anyone what to do with their bodies. I don't want them to sacrifice the bodies of others so they can have a comfortable life. They'd rather sacrifice the lives of their own children than to sacrifice, what they perceive as their future happiness and comfort. The hero self sacrifices for the good of others. The villain just sacrifices others.
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  2165. @John Balnis Trump being re-elected is a very real possibility. Everyone was so sure that Clinton would win the last election that the Democrats couldn't see where they were making mistakes. From what I'm seeing they haven't looked inward yet to see where they could have ran a better campaign. Learn from your mistakes is an axiom the Dems should pay attention to.
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  2166.  @thomasb4152  Who do you say it to? What would you say? They're almost all the same.
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  2167.  @knightone57  If you reject God, why would he protect you? A relationship with God isn't much of a relationship if you're only doing it for self benefit. That's another form of greed which is one of the 7 deadly sins and leads to self destruction. You have little to no understanding of what he's saying.
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  2168.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  What about the guys he has on his show? Don't take them seriously either? You're doing EXACTLY what Crowder was talking about. You're cancelling people, quietly and politely, and ignoring ideas and issues. This interview wasn't about Rubin or Crowder or Richmond. It's about a part of American culture that's very troubling, yet you skip right over that and attack Rubin, cloaking it with good manners, mind you, but not taking the topic seriously at all. That's the real meat of everything that they were talking about.
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  2169.  @turdferguson6157  Please stop with the talk that divides the country. It's people like you that cause the hate and dissension that's drawing the line in the sand, separating families and breaking up friendships. If there IS a reality that someone isn't getting, show that person what that reality is. You're no better than an 8 year old in a schoolyard, yelling insults and bullying those that he doesn't like. Grow up......PLEASE.
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  2170. We can't do as they do. The entire country will turn against us and it will be the end of freedom in this country. When you believe in freedom and the Constitution, you have to live by it. Without that.....you ARE them. No different. It's YOUR tyranny beating THEIR tyranny. I will fight that just as hard as I will fight them. I refuse to be a hypocrite. If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when I do it. Period. If you don't get that, you either don't know the difference between right or wrong or you don't care.
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  2171.  @bobdavidson9770  How do YOU know who I voted for? I'm pretty sure that the election didn't end in a unanimous decision. Sometimes you get who you voted for.....sometimes you don't. Rudy was the man, De Blasio sucked. I voted for the one that I liked and against the one that I didn't like. When you have a contest, that's what an election is, you have a winner and you have losers. I'm amazed that you didn't know that.
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  2172.  @bobdavidson9770  Because I challenged your statement I'm not acting 70??? LMAO. WOW. I didn't know that I was talking to a Godlike figure who's every word is Gospel. I'm so sorry. I just didn't know. Please repeat the comment so I can fawn over it so I can meet your approval. It's not everyday that I have this kind of opportunity. You're the greatest and your comment is the smartest, most intelligent thing that I've EVER read. HONEST. I'm blown away with the wisdom that you've shown the world. How's that for maturity. I'm even feeling more grown up now. It feels goooood. LOL.
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  2173. Being first isn't the significant factor except when the first human stepped foot in the Americas, it wasn't the Vikings either. What makes Columbus unique and important is that his voyage changed the world for all humans, Old World and New, in the most profound ways. The Vikings in Newfoundland didn't change things very much. Columbus set off a flurry of voyages that only increased by the decade. After the Viking voyages to Newfoundland, nothing of significance happened for hundreds of years. Things were never the same after Columbus' voyages.
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  2174.  @skootergirl22  A miscarriage happens when the baby dies due to spontaneous death and then the mother miscarries the dead child. A mother will not carry a dead baby. The miscarriage is a survival response. The what-ifs are a little tiring. Medical emergencies are a lot different than elective abortions because the parents don't think that they're ready to be parents or they want a career. That's not an medical emergency.
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  2175.  @andrewjensen8189  What's happening now is that fires are being put out immediately whenever possible. That means the undergrowth builds up so their is so much more fuel to burn when the seasons do become dry. In pre-history, the smallest fire would grow to burn off huge areas of land before the undergrowth could build. This was a natural and recurring phenomenon, so much so that the environment had adapted itself to natural fires, with a host of species depending on those fires as part of the natural cycle. Humans have interrupted that cycle. The natives would engage in controlled fires because they knew that the land would come back quickly and abundantly after the burn and it would stave off the conflagrations that we now see. We have to devise a method of forest management that reflects that natural cycle so the undergrowth doesn't build to unnatural densities. We've taken away the role of nature so we have to learn to do it for nature.
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  2176. It's sickening, isn't it.
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  2177.  I paid Stormy Daniels  What does that matter? This is supposed to be your party, the people that represent you. Doesn't that concern you? With all the faults that Trump has, all they have to do is be better than him. That's it. So simple. Yet, that demonstration they called a debate shows that they're incapable of that simple task. You can insult Trump all you want but if the Democrats don't straighten out their act, they're going to lose the election this fall and they may lose big. You'd think that would concern any Democrat. Concern them enough to stop blathering about Trump and try to figure out a way to project a better image of themselves.
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  2178.  @chancedegroat7438  Actually, it was the seventies and being a part of those times, I can tell you that it wasn't that long ago. You don't build a competent combat army to fight. You build it so others are afraid to fight you and thereby maintaining the peace.
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  2179.  @bernardallanso7397  Trolls......they're the biggest losers.
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  2180.  @dejuanrobert  The envy argument. He's a billionaire so he's a despicable person. Besides, he is spending his own money. He doesn't take a salary for being president. People are giving their money because they like what he's done for the country. It's their right. Notice how the Democrats can't get any where close to what the Republicans are getting. Why? I'd say it's because they DON'T have the approval of the average American....OR.....it's the Democrat supporters that are stingy ones.
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  2181. It should be about the DA. The judge doesn't pick his case or who should go to trial. The DA does that.
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  2182.  @RynMayhem  But if gender is a social construct, and I've been told multiple time that it is, then, logically, we should be able to socially construct a gender for anyone. If you're born transgender, then it's NOT a social construct, if I'm to follow your logic. So....are you saying that gender is NOT a social construct? I need a little clarity here.
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  2183. Why would they feel emboldened? Could it be because the new culture that insists that ALL cops are...you know....ACAB? That police departments have been defunded resulting in gangs and petty criminals having more space to operate? Could it be that local DAs are being propped up who allow these criminals to walk? People like that clown in Wisconsin, who was out on bail, who was wanted in Nevada for a bomb threat, had run over his girlfriend with his car and has actually jumped bail in the past and then ran over 60 plus people, killing 6 of them....WHILE HE WAS OUT ON BAIL. They feel emboldened because of the hatred for the police that the media and our education system is encouraging.
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  2184.  @opossumboyo  It's called the "expert fallacy". Tyson is an expert in astrophysics and now believes that this makes him an expert in biology, psychology or any other field of study. That's just not true. His ability to speak on biology is no different than yours or mine. Instead of citing the works of biologists, he's saying that how you feel is part of the scientific method. "I feel like a woman but tomorrow I might feel like a man". Feelings aren't science and he should know that.
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  2185.  Gerry Swaim  "Just because we haven't found out what happened yet doesn't mean he isn't corrupt as they come" In other words, lack of evidence is proof of guilt? Is that your reasoning. One is innocent until proven guilty. That is the basis of American law. If you have no evidence or haven't found out what happened, you can't assign guilt. He's innocent as far as we know. That's convoluted logic.
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  2186.  @toddhellyar4167  That's a issue with me. I'm rather agnostic about a God, but I see no evidence of his existence. So, I'm always on the side of the atheist in a discussion. However, I think that the discussion should go deeper than that. I've often wondered why it is that, no matter what time in history or where in the world you go, everyone had religious beliefs. Everyone. Why is that? They can't ALL be delusional. There has to be something about human psychology that almost makes a belief system important to who we are. Even the left wingers, who swear that they don't believe in God, still have their ideology that can't be challenged. They even have their own swear words that you can't say or off to the metaphorical Gulag you go. So, while I'm extremely dubious of the existence of God, I'm thinking that the belief in what our Gods represent has been important to our society, existence and even survival. I will say though that some ideologies are better than others. That's for certain. There is almost no ideology as bad as radical socialism.....except maybe one and the radical socialists seem to like the radicals of that religion for some unfathomable reason.
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  2187.  @tcrews2040  I haven't heard that before. Did you just make this up??? LOL. Just another one that thinks that repeating the same thing, over and over again, is some kind of intellectual form or expressing truth. It makes you a parrot. If you have something useful to say, something that requires thought and reason, by all means say it. Don't be the person that's yelling cliches. If I a nickel for every time I heard the word "grifter" or the phrase "conservative talking points", without any context or intellectual discourse, I'd be going to the Caribbean for a holiday this winter. Try to hold an adult conversation. It's not as hard as you think it is, unless all you have are these words and phrases. That's rather limiting, if you ask me.
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  2188.  @saeedhussain4646  Well, it wasn't 150 years ago and it is now. That is my point. Also, blood doesn't cause the land to become fertile after its been worked out for centuries. Hard work does and that's how it was done. Throwing money at something doesn't do it, either. Hard work does. I didn't mean it as a political example. I meant it as an example of what hard work and ingenuity can accomplish. It was done, whether you like it or not.
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  2189.  @TheJeffL  The law doesn't apply but the fact that she would break the law, if the time came, gives the business the right to fire her. Her comment reflects badly on the business. You can't publicly state that you'd do something that might negatively impact your place of employment and expect the business to back you up. People could refuse to go to that business over what she said and that's reason enough to fire her. Please....DO. BETTER.
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  2190.  @NicerNine  What a simplistic way of assessing the guy. It's so easy to call people names and throw accusations around. Bends to the mob.....wow. He's had people with all types of ideologies and he allows them to speak. He'll point out inconsistencies and question things that may not seem right but he's not afraid to engage with anyone. They're only mad at him because he dared to use Ivermectin to help fight Covid. They're mad because he talked to Dr. Robert Malone, a man instrumental in the development of the Covid vaccine and who has grave concerns about the mandates. Rogan allows people to challenge the powers that be and to support them if that's what they want to do. Those power elites don't want anyone to challenge their power and assertions and they will shut down anyone that attempts to do so. Rogan could have been a coward and not had Dr. Malone on his show but he did. Now he has to face the consequences of stepping out of line. It would have been so much easier had he not stuck his neck out had and invited that doctor onto his show. In other words, your concept of cowardly behaviour is incredibly skewed.
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  2191. B..b.bbbu....but the guy with the weird hair said it was aliens.
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  2192. Worse, I'll bet that DA supports the open borders concept so the drug cartels can get their drug dealer into HIS city and sell the drugs for the cartel and use his family as hostages. It's almost as if that DA is one of the drug lords.
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  2193. What they'd say is this. "Trump says that there's nothing to be worried about but he's so scared that he had himself tested even though there weren't any symptoms. What is he hiding from the citizens of the US?" Something along that line.
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  2194. @Tinja Nurtle It was meant as a joke. You're actually taking that seriously? Ffs....get a life.
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  2195. @This Guy Miko Why do you think the left have taken control of our schools? They know that the young are naive and want to be sure that they remain in the land of puppies and bunny rabbits frolicking under a rainbow, as long as possible. This fairy land slowly morphs into the land of equity and social justice as they go through high school and by the time they finished university, that naivete has produced a grown individual who's still operating with the mind of a naive 8 year old. The leftist controllers know that one of the hardest things a person can do is admit that they're wrong. Once they have their finished product on graduation day, they know that they've shaped naivete for their own purposes. Now....tell me that hasn't been happening in our educational system over the last 30 plus years. Tell me that the products of our educational system aren't in their forties now and using their numbers and influence to guide public policy. Tell me that this moulding of the naive mind hasn't made them more susceptible to the Socialist message. The manipulation of the naive and childish mind is their number one weapon against freedom in the west. That's what I'm on.
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  2196. What's even more depressing is that there's a left wing elite that won't have a clue what you mean.
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  2197.  @ALCRAN2010  By that logic, we should all stay out of politics. He saw a problem with a piece of legislation and he did what EVERY citizen of Canada has a right to do. Assess it, talk about it and criticise it. If he "should" stay out of politics, refrain from ever commenting on it, then so should the rest of us. It's not what our country is about.
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  2198. You can take a vacation to the Antarctic and even fly to the South Pole. Just google it. It can and is being done.
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  2199. I'd like to hear an explanation that shows why the days are getting longer as we approach summer. Why in northern Canada, in Alert, the sun does not set at all and it is daylight for 24 hours at this time of year, but at Christmas, the sun never comes up, darkness for 24 hours. How can you explain that with a flat earth?
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  2200.  @anna570  What????? STEM is all about logic. Math and science, thinking in a logical process. Building isn't an accidental process. It's a well thought out plan, using science as your main tool. If you don't think your way through a project, thinking logically and reasoning out all the problems that arise, you'll never complete your project. The problem with Liberal Arts is that they confuse emotion with logic. They "feel" their way through academia. There is no logical thought process using observable data and standard academic procedures. It's all about your feelings and when confronted with ideas that challenge your sensibilities, it's off to your safe places for ideological comforting. If an engineer behaved in such a manner when his ideas don't work out, nothing would ever be accomplished.
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  2201. Elhardt Contrails don't disappear if the humidity is high.  They are made up of water vapour and if the atmosphere is reaching a point of saturation, it will take a long time for the contrail to dissipate.  The one thing that none of these videos do is check the humidity rates or whether a low pressure system is moving in.  The day following a storm and the humidity rates are low, you will hardly see any contrails.  Try it, yourself.  Every day go out and see how prevalent the contrails (chemtrails) are.  Then go to the weather channel and check to see what the humid-ex factor is.  Contrails will last longer as the humidity goes up.  This could be your own little experiment that will either verify what you already believe or dispel those ideas.
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  2202. Explain to me what's so hard about building a pyramid. All your doing is piling blocks. There are lots of cranes that can pick up the 10 tons that the largest blocks weigh at the pyramid at Giza. An average American car weighs 2 tons and the average crane at a scrapyard can pick one up without any problems. Even a bad engineer could build a pyramid.
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  2203. What other countries are curing cancer?  There are a lot of us out here that not only would like to know, but absolutely need that information.  Almost cruel to tell us that and not tell us where we can go to be cured.
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  2204. The first 2 albums with Colllins as the singer, A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering, still had the same feel as Gabriel era Genesis, but you could feel a change in the style of music. However, when Steve Hackett left, it became the real Collins era band. That's when some started to cynically call them the Phil Collins Trio.
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  2205. The style of music was so different then, that it was like a completely different band. Collins was the drummer, then and an excellent one at that, and did backup vocals. This version of Genesis was the one that I first heard and the one I much prefer although Collins might have the better voice. Gabriel seemed to give more of himself and complemented what the song was trying to convey.
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  2206. Because it was meant as a descriptive, not as an illustration of reality. Like "high as a kite". A literary technique...nothing more.
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  2207. ***** He's not telling "people" to F off.  He's telling a certain group to F off.  He's not pissed at people.  He's pissed at people who don't believe that his cousin is gone.  He's pissed because that someone could be that callous and unfeeling towards such a horrible tragedy as to dismiss it by saying it's not even true.  He's pissed at people that form a special designation.  He's pissed at truthers...not people....truthers.  Truthers are people but not all people are truthers. Yours is a wonderful attempt at legitimizing the entire Sandy Hook truther movement.  It also says nothing.  It's vague, apologetic, and at the same time, quite arrogant, like the truther movement has at its core, those who can see the world through the lens of logic and reason.  Not that you've shown any logic or reason to the Sandy Hook truther logic.
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  2208. + Berry Bostwick I'll have to take your word on your naivete. It's just that it's common tactic by some when they don't have a case. They want others to prove a negative, something that is irrational in spirit and impossible to accomplish. You appeared to couch your question with your seemingly innocent remark about laziness. Worship is too strong a word. Admiration would be the word that I would use. She's has a death sentence hanging over her head but she doesn't stop doing what she believes in. Invalidating her position by suggesting that she may have skeletons in her closet is not only a cheap way to win an argument, it's a tactic that is almost always going to have a degree of success. Almost everyone on the planet has things in their past they're not proud of. Look deep enough and you'll find it and I don't care who you are. There are elements to Islam, the ideology, that are counter productive to a healthy and free society. For an apostate Muslim to point that out takes courage. It could get them killed. For that, she deserves our thanks and our admiration.
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  2209. The worst hurricane, in American recorded history, was the Great Labour Day Hurricane in 1935. That's almost 90 years ago.
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  2210.  @kronk358  Then why would Alaska or Hawaii even stay in the Union? Montana would be better off in Canada....same as Maine. Smaller population in Canada would allow them larger representation and influence than it would in the US where New York, Chicago and California would do all the dictating. It's like she said in the video. Big city voters, who have no idea on how their food gets to the table, telling the rural and agricultural producers what's important in running their business in which they're the experts. It would be no different than the population telling the expert at the local nuclear plant on how it should be run. The population should have input but they shouldn't force their lack of expertise on those that know their business. They should have enough power to mitigate corruption and apathy, though. It's a balancing act.
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  2211.  Mike  The most isolated country, in the world, is North Korea. Hardly anyone gets in or out. There are NO cases of the virus reported in that country...even though it borders with China AND South Korea, 2 countries with the highest rates of the disease. Are you REALLY going to advance the idea that letting people in that may have been exposed to the virus isn't going to up the chances of spreading the disease? Why would they have quarantines then. Also, European countries have higher rates per capita than the US. Switzerland has a 1 in 13,000 people rate of the virus, compared 1 in 310,000 people in the US. Other countries in Europe have similar per capita rates....and you want to invite them over. I think your "Trump is a moron" attitude is clouding your perception. I'm sure glad that you're not the president.
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  2212. A dead patient is a customer lost. Dead people are notorious for not paying their bills, too.
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  2213. She has just inspired me to buy her book. It'll be here by the weekend....I hope. Can't wait to dig into it.
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  2214.  @yukikodavila4907  That's the way it should be. Woke politics is just plain stupid but worse, it encourages resentment and anger.
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  2215.  @ShnoogleMan  There is only one issue that I have with your argument. There are a lot of people that didn't think that the statue of Lee should have been removed. Not Nazis, not white supremacists, but ordinary people who believe that ALL aspects of our history should be honoured and remembered, even the negative. It should be remembered because it highlights that we are all human and the fight for human rights took hundreds, thousands of years and is still ongoing. Are you seriously saying that because Nazis have their own reasons for letting that statue remain, these ordinary citizens can't have their own, separate opinions on the subject? The US is still a free country and people can believe as they want and not be pigeonholed into categories by those who would use it against them. They had every right to voice their opinion and they have every right to oppose Nazism and white supremacy, as well. You painted a lot of people with a wide brush and not only is it unfair, it's dogmatic in nature. Like that woman, described in the NY Times, who went there and was NOT a part of the "Unite the Right" rallies, she has EVERY right to feel that the statue should remain. To call her a de facto Nazi is nothing but an attempt to silence an argument that might have merit.
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  2216.  @ShnoogleMan  There were NO peaceful conservatives at the events at Charlottesville? You know this how? All those who were in favour of keeping the statue of Lee standing were all violent Nazis. That's quite an assumption and you have no way of proving that. Statues can bring about conversations and spark an interest in the time or the statue and the struggles involved. Not everyone is a reader and I've spent hours, in museums, staring at paintings and sculptures of people and events of the past, some of which I hadn't heard of before and I'm an avid reader. It brings into context history, human frailty, struggle and pain. It also helps to bring understanding instead of a pervasive atmosphere of fault and blame. History, the world and humans are complex and we need to see it from ALL angles, not just the preferred narratives of those with agendas. It's why freedom is so important. Lastly, Trump explicitly denounced Nazism and white supremacy. Whether there were good people on both sides are irrelevant if he believed that not all people on the 2 sides were there for violence and hatred. Basically saying that just because you believe that the statue must go or stay, doesn't automatically make you an evil person. Then you bring up the Nazi statue argument. My family suffered greatly under the heel of Nazi occupation. My mother nearly starved to death over the winter of 45, eating only pencil sized eel for days at a time. I went, with my uncle, to the Jewish detention camp at Westerbork, a camp he was imprisoned in for almost 6 weeks and he told me of the horrors that he endured and witnessed. He wasn't Jewish so he went to a POW camp and was forced to work in the kitchens for 2 years. However, I had to work with a man who was in the SS as did others who were wounded fighting the Nazis and lost family to them. Was it our duty to hate this guy until the day he died? The war was over and we had to lay down our arms, in reality and metaphorically. We had to work together, sit together and talk to one another and try to understand why it all had to happen. Either that or we become the executioners, open our own death camps and or maybe just stew in our hate till the day we die. The victims of those times chose to forgive and live on. Of course not all of them but the large percentage of them did. What's really ironic is that those who were the direct victims of Nazi actions are more willing to forgive than those who've never had a Nazi hand raised to them. Also, it isn't as if America invented slavery. Slavery has been an accepted part of humanity for thousands of years and endured through that millennia. The 19th century saw the end to slavery as being culturally and socially accepted. It was a terrible struggle, not just in the US, but in many other places. It might be more advantageous to offer an olive branch towards one another instead of fighting that war into eternity. Let's try to remember those that lived in those times with understanding, instead of hatred and anger. Not one of us lived their lives or experienced those times and have no right to judge them as our inferiors. Do I like Nazi ideology? No, emphatically.....NO. However, I would never show up at a Nazi rally, today, armed with clubs, mace and or any weapons, ready to fight. I might decry what they're trying to accomplish, but, right now, we're not a war and I would hope that we, as civilised humans, have progressed enough to fight them with logic and reason and not with brute strength. Reserve that as the last option. Antifa tactics are not the way to defeat ideology and I stand against them as strongly as I do Nazism.
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  2217. I have no idea what you're trying to say. What did he say that didn't make sense? I'd like to know. Generic comment doesn't make a person correct, either. You have to show specific points and give reasons for why you think that way. "He's wrong" isn't much of an argument.
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  2218.  Shackles Rustyford  Let them all out. That's a great solution. Then have huge protests and act all surprised when these criminals start a riot. Brilliant.
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  2219. Sillyman However, you're not the one advocating for legislation on something you don't even understand. I would think that understanding the issue, that you're about to make judgements on, would be a priority BEFORE you start babbling about it and make a fool of yourself.
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  2220. I remember when David Pakman got a big return on his tax returns due to Trump's tax cuts. He said he felt bad and that he didn't deserve that money. After snipping back and forth a couple of times, I commented that if he felt so bad, why not give it to charity. Now, he has the money, that would have went to the government to spend on their favorite social program, to give to his OWN favorite social program or charity. He doesn't have to petition the government to invest in solar power, if that's his cause. He can do it himself. Apparently, he wasn't very happy with my suggestion because that's the last I heard from him.
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  2221. That's funny. I had a guy tell me that Trump is a liar. He lies about everything, he said. "A politician that lies" I said, in return "Say it ain't so!!". In spite of the rough edges, I sure wish Trump was back. I never felt this uncomfortable when he was president, even during the year of Covid. Now it's inflation, high gas prices, war ramping up, illegals flocking in, trouble on the border with Canada with trucking, supply chain issues, and SPENDING. INSANE SPENDING. Biden has got to go as soon as possible.
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  2222.  @khalilfreeman7194  The question was "Can men get pregnant?" It wasn't "Can transgender men get pregnant?" The addition of the word "transgender" changes the question. Men and transgender men are two different categories. In fact, you've just confirmed it by your use of the descriptor "transgender" to show that they are different.
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  2223. The more I thought about it, the harder I laughed.
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  2224. It's not a matter of liking Trump. It's that the modern left media and the Democrats may well be the worst political faction in US history. I don't have to like Trump to truly hate the politics of the left. I'm very supportive of the efforts that Trump is showing in this fight against the coronavirus but I can see where he's not very likeable, especially to hear him speak. However, he's doing a good job and he's assembled an excellent team and that's his job. On that alone, I'd vote for him. He knows how to delegate responsibility to its maximum effect, a sign of a successful leader. I still don't think I'd hang out with him.....but I could be wrong.
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  2225. It's the lie of socialism. Socialism offers free stuff and a life without struggle but it will, invariably, lead to disaster. There is no such thing as free stuff. It has to produced, which means work. You can't look around you, right now, in your home, and find something that wasn't the result of someone's labour. It's how we survive. We're sophisticated hunter/gatherers and if we stop long enough, we will begin to go hungry. The right understands this. The left believes that altruism is infinite. It's not.
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  2226.  Ryan Lee  So, FINALLY, there's a party that hasn't started any wars....AND YOU'RE STILL COMPLAINING? You live and work with what you have, NOT with what doesn't exist. I'll take the "no new wars" and the peace deals. If you don't like that, go ahead and vote for your imaginary option.
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  2227.  @mangoose3569  I have an axiom that I've already used in this comment section. "Hatred is comfortable with lies".
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  2228.  @CD-vb9fi  So, are you one of those guys that actually LIKE the wars in the Middle East? They lied to the president and to US about withdrawing the troops. Are you not paying ANY attention? How many Americans have to lose fathers, mothers, spouses, children and family to these war mongering, lying leeches? And all you can talk about is Trump's potty mouth. I suppose, you don't want a moron, like Trump, to bring peace. It has to someone that YOU choose and like. It's disgusting and if you can't address the fact that they lied about troop withdrawals, you're as disgusting as they are.
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  2229.  @Roams_  That's a very sound business plan. Disney should adopt it as their slogan.
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  2230.  @sthubbins4038  I see you zeroed right in on the "decisive" part of the comment but totally ignored the part how Trump was holding back on his executive powers. The Democrats and the press has been hounding Trump to use his power to force companies to comply to war production status and he's the one that has held back from doing it. He's rather they do it on their own and they have. You'll ignore that, though. The TDS prevents all rational thought. Stalin.......give it a rest.
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  2231.  @Michael-te7fj  That's correct. Don't look at the stats or how the questions are crafted. First of all, when your state downgrades theft, as a crime, to be anything under $1000, then crime stats go down. They've reduced this low theft to a misdemeanour which means it's NOT included in crimes stats. That skews property crime stats. Reference the "summer of love". Billions of dollars in damages, thousands sent to hospital, businesses and homes lost and most of it not counted on the crime stats because local DAs just let them go. Call the police and they either don't show up or they take a few notes and that's the last of it. People aren't bothering to report those crimes. Blue states have basically legalised the use of hard drugs in the streets. Addicts are everywhere and they're leaving their needles on the streets, parks and people's lawns and the police just look the other way. Do that in Florida and you go to jail No wonder these states are "safe". When you don't count the crime your stats don't mean a thing.
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  2232.  @BuetifullPersun  Sheeple???? Are you from the past?
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  2233.  @babs_babs  If that step is one where we teach our young the survival skills that they'll need when they become adults, yes. That's a step that parents, even the parents of wild animals, take to ensure the well being of their young that'll last them all their lives. But I'm only guessing what you mean by your comment. I really have no idea what step you're talking about. You've said a lot of nothing and I can't help but think that's exactly what you wanted to do.
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  2234.  @brandymoore7191  He's a troll. Pay no attention to the guy.
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  2235.  @Max_Mustermann  Trump didn't incite that violence. "March peacefully and patriotically" is what he said. Also, I'm NOT outraged over that sign being destroyed but it is vandalism and it is illegal and the person responsible should be charged. This has nothing to do with Jan 6th and it's YOU that has been making it a partisan issue and you've done it repeatedly in the comment sections. If you don't think it should be a partisan issue, then stop turning it into one.
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  2236.  @Max_Mustermann  I'm saying that ALL you do is point out the hypocrisy of one side and you use it as a back door justification of wrongdoing of the side that you favour. It's the implication, on your part, that hypocrisy is one sided and only one sided. I call you out on it and demonstrate that it's part of the human condition and you sort of agree but you still defend the stance of the one sided hypocrisy. If it's wrong, it's wrong. Don't be the kid that goes "Well, Johnny does it too."
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  2237.  @Andrico77  There it is. The appeal to authority. "I'm a lawyer so that means that I'm correct." You do realise that our judicial system is an adversarial one. That means that there will be 2 opposing opinions offered and each one is based on the law. The law is interpretive. If it wasn't, we wouldn't need courts or trials. Guilt would be decreed. You'd think that a lawyer would know that.
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  2238.  @firebrand69  "Standards of care" are conclusions drawn from scientific studies. The standards are supposed to come from what the studies have shown. They aren't the studies of themselves. So, we'll have to ask again. From what scientific studies do the "standards of care" draw from?
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  2239.  @MrPojopojo  Because if you can't afford it, DON'T BUY IT. Community college will train you at a fraction of the cost.
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  2240. “‘More doctors recommend Camels for pregnant women than any other brand!” Man....you had to dig into the archives for that one. LOL. That has to be 60 years old.
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  2241.  @monkeygraborange  "was one of the most revered men of his time" Notice the end? "of HIS time". Chernow wasn't born till 150 years later. You found a reference by one person and you think that this proves your point and invalidates his. I've never heard of Billy Lee, until I read your comment. I'd say that I'm typical of most people if asked about the guy. I'd bet 95%, or even more, Americans have never heard of him. Your google search for a reference isn't as convincing as you think it is.
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  2242. I know how to fix the problems of New York. Vote Democrat. Millions of New York voters can't be wrong. Just keep trying. Never give up and they're sure to succeed......someday. There's some saying about insanity on this. I think it goes like this "The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes and believing that repeating those mistakes will guide you to success." It's something like that. Don't give up, New York voters. You're not insane. As long as you "stay the course", things will get better. I really, really...REALLY mean that.
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  2243.  @dustincrawford6783  And they replaced them with their own murderous force. Did you not see the size of those guns being brandished by their border security? What do you think those guns are for? It's just police with a different name but worse. They have no direction. You possess the naivete of a child.
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  2244.  @sideprojects5924  If you were surrounded by people, who were INCHES from your face, screaming "eff you" and one of them touched something that was in your possession, you'd react too. You'd feel that you were being attacked and rightfully so. There was nothing about putting their hand on his property that wasn't invasive or threatening. They surrounded him. He didn't surround them. They screamed obscenities, at VERY close range, NOT him. That person laid their hands on HIS property......you even said so. Everything was directed at him, all because he thought that minors should wait until 18 before getting a tattoo.... I mean, gender amputations. That's SO unreasonable that anyone saying it deserves to be verbally assaulted, spit on and have their property compromised. If that had been a bunch of Christians doing the SAME thing to someone that they disagreed with, you'd be all over them.
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  2245. Those "journalists" have just proved that they don't want to forgive, that they live in a world of hate, zero redemption and are wallowing in their lust for power. Yet, they want us to believe that they're the good guys.
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  2246.  @RealSteelStreet  Do you not understand the words "insinuation" or "implied". That's the words that I used. You used language that "implied" it. It's language manipulation.
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  2247.  @A_Jeff  Sort of like you needing the Corporate media"s take on the case. So he paid her on a non-disclosure agreement. Companies and individuals do that all the time for all kinds of reasons. I've had to sign one. The only time it's illegal is when it's in the furtherance of an underlying crime. Since it isn't about consent, like you said, then where's the crime? The entire thing is ridiculous. Why all the salacious details? It's irrelevant to the details and it's highly prejudicial. "He spanked me with a rolled up newspaper". What a weirdo....that's the response they want. "You remind me of my daughter". Yeah....right. Another talking point that has NOTHING to do with payments. It's designed to disgust the jury and nothing else. It can't be proven and the judge shouldn't have allowed it. The entire trial is like that. Worse, the judge's daughter works for the DNC. Talk about a conflict of interests. Even pundits at CNN and MSNBC are questioning it and they HATE Trump. It should be dismissed and don't be surprised if it is.
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  2248. My dad came to Canada in 1951. He didn't have a cent to his name but he did have a pregnant wife. I was born in early 52. He HAD 3 jobs. I hardly ever seen him and when he was home he was sleeping. Today he's 90 years old and worth over a million dollars. Maybe it's tough but it's the only way to do it. Lotteries isn't a good career choice. My dad, whose net worth is over a million dollars, will tell you to get to work. You may not become rich but like the lottery, you won't win if you don't play...or work in this case.
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  2249.  @lyndanorris  So being blue has been good for the poor in Virginia? You'd think that poverty would have been eliminated in all those blue states, by now. Strangely it hasn't. When I was poor, I came to this conclusion. If I wait for the government to pull me out of poverty, I'm going to die a poor man. As George Carlin used to say. "The government doesn't care about you" I don't care if you're blue or red. THEY DON'T CARE. You have to look out for yourself.
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  2250.  @sthubbins4038  Why are YOU ignoring all the accusations of election fraud in 2005 and, especially in 2016? They actually spent 35 million bucks for a commission to look into it. That's not insane. Yet, there was NOTHING. Spending all that money and saying "Not my president" is rational but, with some of the irregularities exposed by Project Veritas in Minneapolis, and the arrest of Rachel Rodriguez, in Texas, show that there were problems. Both cases showed huge problems with a blanket mail system....yet NO ONE is allowed to say nothing because that's insane. You absolutely REFUSE to discuss those things. Saying that he wanted to find the votes to win isn't illegal. It's wishful thinking at best and rather foolish at worst...but so what? I'll bet Hillary wished she could have found the evidence for collusion. Isn't that insane. By your standards....yes, but I have a feeling insanity lies only with your political views. You can't even see the hypocrisy in your logic.
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  2251.  @Symbolicliving  She won a primary election which means she will be her district's nominee to run in the election this fall. She'll have to beat a Republican, then. Hopefully, that's when she will lose.
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  2252.  @dh5380  I'll repeat my reply to someone else. "Try it yourself. Go to your local theatre and when the movie starts playing, pull out a bullhorn and start screaming into it about the right to free speech and refuse to stop. Just keep repeating it. Let's see what happens." Let me know the outcome. Our authority will be the judge's ruling in your court case.
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  2253.  @CalebTrask  "Free speech also involves not imposing your speech on others." That was my original comment. So, you replied with a mocking remark about being home-schooled, implying that I didn't know what I was talking about. So, I suggested that you try it out for yourself. Try and see if your right to free speech is absolute and that you have the right, in a public setting to disrupt a scheduled event by giving a speech, just like the guy in this video. See how that works out for you. As a matter of fact, if you were attending an event and someone started to disrupt proceedings with his "free speech" rights, you'd be upset with him, especially if you paid good cash to be there and be part of the audience....like at a movie theatre. I'm going to suggest that your "blathering" comment is fake. That you know damn well what I'm talking about but you know damn well that what I'm saying is true but you can't admit that. You're being intellectually dishonest.
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  2254. Jay Ray Are you seriously defending that mouthy creep? He's as despicable a human being that could ever exist. If you're to go after anyone it should be him not someone who would like to think he would have defended her. Maybe it is bravado but at least he can see that this guy is a complete POS. Your posts imply that you rather like this guy.
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  2255. Jay Ray You don't know whether he's tough guy or not and you have no idea how he would have reacted had he been there. He's saying how he feels and that "tool" deserves it if he did defend that woman. That's all. Also, you've not once said anything about the "too" until I call you out on it. You said that he may not be on the left, without any evidence to support it and then you go after a guy who expresses anger at the "tool". Maybe he shouldn't have said that he'd defend they way that he did, but if your first instinct is to attack those who think that guy is a POS, then we have to wonder about who you're really defending. It's an impression that you have left about yourself.
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  2256.  @georgewilson4245  No.....I don't feel stupid. I laughed at it because it IS funny but I don't see why that should make me feel stupid. I supported Trump, in the last election, because I couldn't believe that Biden was the Democrat's best candidate. You see, I don't put my "X" beside a specific party and ONLY that party. Now, THAT would be stupid. All I have to do is listen to the Democratic mayors of New York and Chicago talk about migrants and I know that I've made the right choice, even if my choice lost.
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  2257.  Brutal Noodle  The difference now is a media that's thriving on bad news and feeding panic to their listeners in an attempt to further their own agenda. They didn't do that to Obama. He was supported no matter what he did. Attitude is what drives the markets. Right now, societal attitudes suck.
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  2258.  Greg Fakerson  Instead of stopping the video to laugh, maybe you should have stopped it to do some fact checking. I remember that Democrat governor who declared "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". Strange the Democrat supporters are lauding segregated dorms and graduations ceremonies today. They've actually talked the Blacks of America into segregation and making it appear as a good thing, to them. George Wallace, the Democrat governor I just quoted, can now RIP. He's getting EXACTLY what he called for.
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  2259.  @jAZZCRU22  Did you know that the great "socialist" paradise called Sweden doesn't have a minimum wage? You're the type of person that could never start a business because you have no idea how hard it is to turn a profit. In fact, most businesses don't turn a profit for the first few years of business. You've just condemned all start-ups into failure. Pretty soon we'll have only the big corporations left and then watch the wage fixing. You're trading short term success, for the worker, for their long term failure and misery. Like FUNKOfilms said.....Nice job advocating for big corporations.
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  2260.  @m4inline  Why wouldn't he have a "chip" on his shoulders? He has family members who suffered greatly from the "socialist" regime in the Soviet Union. It's a part of his family legacy. It was Marx who said that socialism is a transitional stage to communism. Socialism may not BE communism but it is indicative of how communists feel towards all dissenters. You either go with the transition or become a victim of it. Neither a very pleasant proposition.
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  2261.  @groundupproduction415  LOL. A guy that won't even use his own name is calling other accounts fake. If you had any kind of integrity, you'd be proud of who you are and stand behind your real name, instead of a fake one.
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  2262.  @plick645  My daughter has had severe hives break out all over her body since she received the Moderna vaccine. It started the day after she got the jab. She'll be clear and it will suddenly appear within 10 minutes and is quite pronounced and the appearance is random. She's quite hesitant about a second one. She's going to see an allergy specialist but she's still not sure about getting the second shot no matter what that specialist says. She has had a history of shellfish allergies, though. As of now, she's not eligible to get an exemption for a vaccine passport. So, I'm asking for a good reason for that evidence.
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  2263.  @d.h.jefferies2191  And oil IS at 105 dollars a barrel right now, NOT 40. There's lots of money to be made. Supply and demand 101. Why aren't they making it?
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  2264.  @h.b.7104  15 to 20 million immigrants are in the United States right now. NOT immigrants who applied for and received landed immigrant status. People who walked to our borders and said that they were migrants and were coming in.....and that's exactly what they did. You're being intentionally obtuse. Either that or you're just a troll.
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  2265.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  pro life definitions: opposing abortion and euthanasia. (From the online dictionary.) Now....compare that to your comment. “Pro life” isn’t really pro life. It’s pro abortion and anti abortion It seems quite straight forward to me. I'm thinking that you're not responding because you know that you've made a contradictory statement and you can't respond in any coherent manner. If you could....you would.
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  2266.  @nigelsenchez  One photograph of him in drag when he was at Yale. No context, no idea why he did it. It could have been Halloween or some other frat thing. Who knows. I grew up watching Milton Berle and Flip Wilson do comedy bits in drag on their TV shows and everyone thought it was hilarious. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis went in drag in the movie "Some Like it Hot" and everyone thought it was hilarious. In fact, it's one of the top rated movies of the fifties. No one thought any of it was weird back then and people were WAY more conservative and religious back then than they are now. You might be reading WAY too much into it.
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  2267. Sure they do. Words are violence. Physical assault is social justice. You gotta learn "doublespeak".
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  2268. BS is full of BS. Calling him BS is brilliant. Big like for you on that.
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  2269. That's not the point. Florida, state wide, has a declining crime rate and is at a 50 year low....for Florida. States, like New York and California have rising crime rates. It's not just where we've been or are now. It's where we are going. Success is built on improving a situation. Failure is built upon conditions worsening.
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  2270.  @beejcarson  Another thing that you don't understand is that this wealth isn't in cash. It's in assets like property or stocks. This means that they'll have to sell off their assets to pay their taxes. Who's going to be able to afford to buy it? No one will want it because now THEY'LL be the ones who will be in those high tax brackets. If they can't liquidate their assets, their businesses will face bankruptcy, which means their creditors will be stuck with the loans that won't get paid off. That could mean even MORE bankruptcies and lost jobs. The rich will get poorer and this big money grab will be gone. So what will the government do? It'll lower the wealthy bracket from 100 million dollars down to 50 million bucks and start ANOTHER cycle of bankruptcies. It'll drive the economy into stagnation and then depression. All you're able to see are big piles of cash and numbers with a lot of zeros in them. You're so fraught with envy and resentment of their success that you can't see how these new taxes will impact the lives of ordinary Americans, including your own life. Please stop allowing your resentment and hatred, of your own life and perceived failures, destroy our country and how good things actually are. Things are a lot better than you think they are, as long as you don't gauge your life by the lives of others.
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  2271.  l8nightboy  So...you'd rather vote for those who're being supported by the establishment Wall St. cronies. The ones that want to maintain the sweet Chinese gravy train. If I were part of swamp, I'd vote blue, myself. No more big deposits, into offshore accounts, by big Chinese interests. No more sweet contracts in a country that has few, if any, environmental laws, quality control, worker's rights or safety standards. Those executives at the multinationals love you for voting for them to continue eating at the Democrat and Chinese trough. Voting for censorship? Why not? We don't need to know about potential corruption of the Biden family. Only if it was Trump doing it. And group identity politics....isn't that great stuff. I know I love it. Each on of us judged by our skin colour and if you dare to step outside your designated place in society, you know get uppity like this "nodding" woman, we'll set you straight. And pretending that the riots are happening. I love it. Burn down someone's business because you're enraged, "Day of Rage", what a concept, is good if you support the Democrats or at least the left. I don't blame you though. Trump says stupid things. That's WAY worse than stuff I'm talking about.
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  2272. ​ @ShiroNekoDen  If basic biology is at odds with advanced biology, which one is correct. One of them has to be WRONG. You've even implied that basic biology is correct so, by that logic, your vaunted advanced biology must be incorrect. It's like saying that basic mathematics is true, 2 plus 2 equals four, but it's incorrect in advanced mathematics like calculus. Calculus is built upon basic math just like advanced biology is based on basic biology. It's illogical to say different. It becomes what you think, instead of what you can prove.
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  2273. @Farah Facett Of course she is. Conservatism isn't dogma where everyone thinks and believes exactly the same. A major part of conservatism is the belief in the freedom of thought and speech. You don't have to agree with everything but you can still be a part of the group if you're willing to talk, in a mature manner, about any topic that rises. Freedom from government and social pressure to be the person you want to be. If you think she has to oppose gay marriage to be in your club, you're not a conservative. You're an authoritarian. That's how socialist behave.
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  2274. @Sylvana Baptista So you really think that Peterson doesn't realise that Yeonmi was raped. Of course he does but he was in a conversation with the victim and he wasn't just going to throw the word "rape" in her face. Also, I've read the book and the relationship WAS complex....oppressive yes, but she also felt gratitude for what the guy did for her. Her feelings, about the matter, was complex and Peterson wasn't going to beat her over the head with it. He'll leave that up to the cold and angry people.....like you seem to be. Of course men need sex. So do women. It's a prime directive. Without it, we don't exist. We've tried to control, what we see as the negative aspects of sex, through marriage and taboos against adultery, promiscuity and encouraging the formation of relationships based on love, respect and charity. We try but we're not always successful. And it is a basic animal instinct. It is at the heart of the survival of every animal species that we know and it can prove to manifest itself quite harshly in a lot of the species around us and INCLUDING us. Yeonmi lived a harsh reality and did what she must to survive and she often made the choice to do it. Peterson didn't want to shame her. Why would YOU?
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  2275.  @AlekseyMaksimovichPeshkov  So you don't mind paying taxes to a bureaucracy who use it to support the military industrial complex? War is peace, I guess. He's fighting climate change through his Tesla business. I thought that this is a GOOD thing. Also, he's fighting the socialism by exposing it and you're complaining that he's doing it. Make some sense.
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  2276.  @windingriver1275  It's to stop campaigners from interacting with voters and trying to influence the voter. You can drink water and eat food if you bring your own or go to the drink station provided by the precinct.
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  2277. They think that it's "justified racism". They really believe that they have the right to be racist.
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  2278. Or to even make life better for those Somalis who came to get a better life. She's doing the same thing to them that was happening to them back in Somalia.
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  2279. @Jack Reagan It is when the Democrats and the far left have taken on the ideology of identity politics. No assimilation, just stay in your little designated communities and when things go, they blame the right. America is evil, they say, so don't become an American. Then they want them to help them overthrow the government so they can take over. It's the left and you can watch them doing it.
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  2280.  @diegojines-us9pc  Unemployment benefits run out. Then it will cost nothing for the government. Also, benefits are NEVER close to what wages are while working. Had they not been laid off, they would have paid out substantially more in wages and benefits over the next year. It may have cost us double the amount.....up to 4 billion instead of 2 billion. That's a 2 billion dollar savings and a 4 billion dollar savings, overall, when the benefits run out. Starbucks wouldn't tell you to stand in line if they cut staff. They'd soon see people walking out because they don't have the time to wait. That's money walking out the door and never returning and it will show up in till receipts at the end of the day. A poor example.
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  2281. "Let's go Brandon" t-shirts on Amazon, ebay, teechip and other popular internet venues. That's funny stuff.
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  2282.  @rektaldischarge7496  I googled "voter suppression in America" and what I found was that there is a belief that it has to do with requiring a valid ID to vote. Somehow, only Republicans have ID. The US is filled with Democrats who are unable to get this ID for some unspecified reason. Why is it that only the Democrats that are unable to get an ID. Everyone that I know has some sort of government ID. I'm at a loss to understand why this is an issue.
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  2283.  @bobbykiefer4306  Yet in 2012, Obama claimed that the banks repaid every dime of the bailout. Do you know why he said that? Because he was a part of the bailout. He and McCain met with Bush and they ironed out the deal. The government had better done something back then. They allowed the banks to carry on with their crooked practices until it hit a crisis. Millions of us were going to lose everything we'd worked for after decades of hard work. Private pensions included. That didn't happen in Canada where they have strict regulations against the kinds of things the banks were doing in the US. When a government allows an entity to operate outside the law, they're just as culpable as the banks. If the government of Canada knew enough to outlaw those corrupt banking policies, so did the US government. They chose not to. I hate that those banks were bailed out but I hate the governments that allowed those banks to operate that way, too. That includes Obama, Bush and Clinton. They were all in on it. 3 of the most corrupt governments the US has ever had.
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  2284. @Henry James I figured this would devolve into you using insulting remarks, sooner or later. You didn't disappoint. You don't have a decent rebuttal to my last comment so you just start calling people "dumb". You're quite the intellectual.
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  2285. @Henry James So...what are you doing here? Looking to increase your brain power? I don't watch Rubin just to watch Rubin. He has guests...some really good ones. Why you'd be here is a mystery. Obviously you're WAY to intelligent for such low brow discussions. You'd be way better off somewhere else discussing quantum physics or the impact of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida on American political life. You know...really smarty pants stuff.
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  2286.  @theresegorski7686  There was the incident where Rush criticised Michael J. Fox for exaggerating his Parkinson's symptoms. I wouldn't call it mocking him but Rush may not have researched the topic enough to justify his criticism. That is an error in judgement, more than it is, mocking someone, but I thought I'd bring it up before someone else whose only goal is to see the negatives in people. No one is 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. Having said this, I'd really like to hear more examples of when Rush mocked people that had medical problems. Accusations are made by gossips unless backed up by facts. Let's hear some facts.
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  2287.  @Bigdogspyke  That's not a lie. Trump put tariffs on certain products and it forced Mexico to help out with border patrols and other problems with illegal entry into the US. In other words, they were paying, through tariffs but a deal was struck so Mexico is putting money into immigration issues rather than giving it to the US in tariffs. Anyone that thought that the Mexican government was going to write a check to the American government to directly build that wall, is not only a little delusional, but rather simplistic as well.
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  2288.  @BrigittePlattner  That's correct. However, he's ethnically German. Just like Hitler. He's from Austria but, like most Austrians, he's ethnically German. German is one of the official languages of Switzerland, spoken by the Swiss who are ethnically German.
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  2289.  @mneedes2  How does "ALL" designate a specific race. "All" is inclusive of everyone. If one person is left out, then "All" is no longer applicable. If one person is left out then "lives matter" isn't applicable, either. In fact "All" specifies the totality of the "lives matter" and insists that it's ALL lives not just the vague "lives matter".
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  2290. @B. Clinton Did you even WATCH this video or did you just go straight to the comment section to sow anger and dissension? The country doesn't need division right now. We need to come together to defeat this disease. Instead, you just use it to vent the rot in your soul. Hatred is a drug that will eat you from the inside out.
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  2291. @Leo Weisberger Socialism definition: "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." An economy owned or regulated by the community. That's socialism. What I described was a social program. No nation can exist without social programs. The military, transportation, a court system and more, are programs that are not best to the whims of powerful individuals but as the purview of elected officials, chosen by people as their representatives. However, the economy, should be at the direction of those same people, based on the will of a free market and those who would answer the needs of those individuals, in the market, who choose how those needs are met. Socialism, as stated in the definition that I copied from a dictionary, does not meet the standards that I just set. When Bernie Sanders said the he wanted to change the US into a socialist state, similar to that of the Scandinavian countries, the Prime Minister of Denmark informed him that Denmark was NOT a socialist country. He said it was a free market system with strong social safety nets. In Canada, we have a social medical system, as it is felt that our health has no market value. I cannot use my health as collateral to get a loan and a country does not assess its financial status using the health of its citizens as a financial asset. Assets are judged on production of market goods. If the market is controlled by the people, ostensibly, by the government as their representative, it is a socialist system. If it's a free market system, beholden only to the market itself and the rule of law, then it is NOT socialism. I advocate for a free market economy. I also acknowledge that a community must also pool together to support the areas that cannot be at the whims of a free market, the areas not involved in the production of goods that accrue wealth. I paid into my pension. It's mine, NOT the government's. I'm owed it because I paid into it, just like any other pension.
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  2292. You don't have to go to every local thing. Just go to the ones that count. Also, insist that the local media covers local news and leave the national stuff alone. That way you can keep track from home. Although limited, it will give an overview that a busy person can refer to in a quiet moment.
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  2293. @Jessica Fitzsimmons Of course she made a choice. She could kill her baby....a choice OR she could have the baby, raise it, nurture it and love it. She made the choice that included love.
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  2294.  @brianstansfield4367  In other words, they can take anything that they want. "It was in close proximity. I swear". Sounds like a clear protection of a person's rights, doesn't it?
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  2295. adamshattuck1985 There's difference in studying the Bible as academic study then as a theological truth that pertains to certain specific faiths. You can't go to a public university that teaches Catholicism as the true faith so that one can go on to become a priest. For that you have to go to a private Catholic University. That holds true for any branch of any religion. Public universities study religion and its influence on history and society and is a generic discipline.
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  2296.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  I'm not sure whether you wrote that yourself or you copied it from another source, but it's 100% spot on. Fascism is a socialist political ideology and, as such, can be extremely dangerous. The only reason that we think that Fascism is far right is because socialist didn't want to be associated with Fascism after WW2. The Socialists got this idea when Marxist called Mussolini a right wing socialist. They even said that about Lenin when his economy was failing and he allowed limited free enterprise. Marxists just dropped "socialist" off that Marxist criticism of Mussolini and it left "right wing" and it worked. Now, almost everyone calls Fascism "right wing". Another way that radical socialists use "newspeak".
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  2297.  @Heatherly3102  I think he's poking fun at these activists who have no idea of the realities of life. A bigger percentage of the world's population were starving to death 60 or 70 years ago than now, or at least before the Covid breakout. More people came out of abject poverty, in the first 20 years of this century than at at other time in human history. It took governments to put the brakes on that. It's activists, like the ones that are being profiled in this video, who will cause way more intense suffering if they get their way. You can't just change the world on a say so. They'll end up doing the same things that happened in Mao's China or Pol Pot's great agrarian society. Great intentions......horrific results.
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  2298. I'd say that this was filmed in July and scheduled for August.
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  2299. One reason is that when he asks a question, he allows the person to answer. He doesn't interrupt or try to yell over him and then dismiss them by abruptly ending the interview. You can actually learn something about the person's ideas when you watch his interviews.
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  2300.  @stevewhite3424  "You're not the boss of me" That's at the heart of childhood behaviour. Children naturally try to find the their place in the world as sovereign individuals. That means breaking away from their parents and starting to go their own way. Part of that is not telling their parents everything, anymore. If they can do these things, without interference from adults, especially their parents, they've taken a step towards becoming adults. The problem is that those, with abusive intent, use this against children to take advantage of them.
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  2301.  getawaycar  “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right” This is from Orwell's dystopian novel "1984". We're now beginning to live it. That's why we care.
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  2302. @G Bogart What is it about you anti-religious folk. A guy uses an example to make a point and you completely misconstrue the point that he was trying to make because he happened to say "God" in his example. This isn't about religion or the church or God. I surely hope you don't rail on about your bias every time you drive by a church or see a cross. That'd get old pretty quick.
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  2303.  @solveigvan808  First, Chloe was a teenager. She wasn't old enough to understand what was really going on. Then, the medical establishment ganged up on her parents and scared the bejesus out of them by showing them all these statistics about trans kids committing suicide because they didn't get the support that they needed from their parents. They're ordinary people. They depend on the expertise of those who have saved the lives of countless people over the years. They were told that it wasn't safe but necessary to SAVE the life of their little girl and then they trot out those who had gone through it and seemed to be quite happy that they did it. Even Chloe admitted that there was a honeymoon period after surgery but it didn't take long for the shine to wear off. This is something brand new. Ten years ago, no teenager was getting this type of surgery. Now, it's on the mainstream news and they're telling you that it's safe and you're a bigot if you hold your child back. They'll take your kid away if you fight too hard. Custody battles are being fought over it and the parent that's against this surgery can lose all parental rights. There's no one available to support you if you push back. You're treated like some kind of Nazi if you even have doubts on it. It's all a scam and they fell for it. Now, you want them to suffer the consequences and those greedy SOBs will continue on, KNOWING that there's nothing that anyone can do because....."choices have consequences." You're taking every weapon available away from those kids and their parents to fight back after they've been taken in so badly. Those quacks have to be stopped but you don't want to do a thing about it. I have to even question your motives.
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  2304.  @eoin8450  A lot of this is semantics. If the definition of socialism is control of the economy by the state, then fascism is a form of socialism. It's all a matter of control of the economy. Capitalism is free market, no control, except rule of law, the law which even the state must adhere to. State capitalism would be an oxymoron. It's freedom with control by the state by decree of the state with the law put down by the state. You can't have both, a free market and a state run economy. To me, it's the left/right culture description that doesn't make sense. I see freedom, in it's purest form, on the far right, total anarchy. However, that kind of freedom imposes a tyranny of its own. So, we introduce the rule of law, overseen by the state but a state subject to that rule of law. As you move further left, the rule of law loses its power and the state gathers more power and starts to control the economy, gathering each corporate board under its power until power is completely gained under a state run economy. The journey finally ends in total macro and micro control of the economy and society and we're at a communist state. To me, that makes more sense than the state in control at both ends of the left/right paradigm. No control at one end and total control at the other.
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  2305.  @whansandceros  Both sides? What other side is there? There's the thieves, who are destroying American cities, and there's those who defend them....who are ALSO destroying American cities. Unless you have another side.....or you're a troll.
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  2306.  @jasminelindros8923  Funny how, at the time of Shokin's firing, Burisma's owner and founder, Mykola Zlochevsky and Hunter Bidens's boss, was hiding in London and had 23 million dollars in bank assets, frozen by the Ukraine government, for suspected corruption. I repeat, Zlochevsky was Hunter Biden's boss. A few months AFTER Shokin was fired, the charges against Zlochevsky were dropped, the 23 million bucks were released and Zlochevsky returned to Ukraine. It didn't take long and he was under suspicion of another corrupt act and he's out of the country again, avoiding the Ukraine feds. I guess asking about the circumstances is deeper meddling in foreign politics than insisting on firing senior politicians or lose money. Party loyalty sure makes for strange logic.
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  2307.  @jasminelindros8923  Explain to me why Hunter Biden, a man that had no experience in oil exploration and couldn't even speak the language, would be hired to work for Burisma. Could his relationship with the vice-president of the US, have anything to do with it? Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the world and Hunter Biden took employment with a man who was being investigated for corruption. You'd think that with his father's position, Hunter would stay miles away from Burisma. Then there's the laptop. It exists yet no one was allowed to talk about it during the election. Zlochevshy may have returned in Feb. of 2018 but it was the prosecutor that replaced Shokin that dropped the charges. It didn't take long, 4 months actually, for him to be in trouble again and he had to flee the country, once more. His corruption was known and Joe Biden's son was involved in his company. Not a comfortable position for Joe at all.
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  2308. LOL. That would be the most brilliant political move this century.
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  2309.  @kenbeasy  The NYDH also thought that it was ok to keep going out to bars and restaurants and to use the subway system. They encouraged people to go to the Chinese New Year's parade. They kept it up until well into April. Strangely, the CDC and the task force experts were advising against it yet that didn't seem to matter to them. It's convenient to criticise experts on some instances and ignore their guidelines and then act as if the guidelines are sacrosanct when they make a blunder.
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  2310.  @markhunt575  LOL. I roofed for 15 years and I NEVER saw one woman carry a bundle of shingles up a ladder. I even worked with a woman roofer but she never ONCE carried a bundle of shingles up a ladder and she even admitted that it was too heavy for her. She wasn't a bad shingler but any guy that refused to carry shingles was usually let go or sneered at.
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  2311.  @JoseRobles-fv9zm  The US has a population of 330,000,000 people. It would take the populations of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK and Sweden, and they'd still be a little short, to match that population. Funny thing is that they have 40,000 MORE deaths than the US. Less people.......40,000 more deaths. The EU isn't all that good at this either, it would appear. It could be all Trump's fault, though. He has been to France and the UK. You've got a bad argument there.
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  2312. This is why I don't join those organisations, specifically exclusive clubs. I even left the church for that reason. I support their right to exist. I just don't want to be a part of it. I'm a member of the broad community....nothing more, nothing less.
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  2313. In order to jail someone, you have to prove that this person committed a crime. That's how the law works. I realise that Democrats would prefer rumour, innuendo and gossip but evidence is still how our justice system works. Oh......I forgot. Prayer won't get Trump into jail, either. Prayer is the tool of the truly desperate. Can't get him jailed legally so you're going for divine intervention. Sounds desperate, doesn't it?
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  2314.  @shanecorning5222  Now you're just spouting talking points. They just didn't come in and start killing and raping. That would have been impossible as they were vastly outnumbered. What did happen was that tribes made alliances with the Europeans to help them in their wars with each other. For example, Cortez would never have defeated the Aztecs if it hadn't been for the help of their Tlaxcaltec allies. Many tribes hated the Aztec because they were the local powerhouse. It's the same in North America. Champlain encountered the Huron and upon seeing the French weapons, the Huron thought that they should try them out on their arch enemies, the Iroquois. This set the tone for the history of North East America for 150 years. Also, the blanket thing is also a myth. There is only one verifiable time that it was used and that was at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh and they're not even sure if it worked or not as there was a smallpox outbreak already among the local settlers. If smallpox was already there, Natives could have gotten it from the settlers NOT from the blankets. These are just points of contention that modern day identity politics play. It's not just with the natives either. Everything is about finding grievance and being offended. I have a good friend, who is native and he was taken, as a 6 year old, an placed in a government school. However, his family lived in a remote area and they were living in extreme poverty. As bad as this practise seemed, he may not have survived had they not taken him out of the area due to the changing environment. He also told me that his great great grandparents were cannibals and not too well liked by the other tribes in the area. You see, the natives are people, just like us. No better and no worse. When you demonise a group of people, you engender hatred and that NEVER leads to anything good.
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  2315. "If he loses, he won't go. I've been saying that since before the elections". Weren't you one of the people, Bill Maher, who laughed a Ann Coulter when she said Trump had the best chance of being the next president? I'm sure you were there. It was on your show. First, he'll never get in. Now, it's he'll never leave. OK, Bill. Is saying OK a white supremacy dog whistle, or is it only when I do the OK hand gesture?
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  2316.  @nebbindog6126  If he and others like him, weren't in those schools, who'd tell us what's going on. He just put out a real time criticism of those teachers and you go after HIM???? You're something else.
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  2317.  @MathewRenfro  We can't do it without good leadership. Doing it ourselves will only result in a fractured effort, totally chaotic and may end up making things worse.
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  2318.  @MutatedPizzaBoi  Saying that he was going to be a dictator for one day isn't a joke? What is it then? What dictator strives to hold power for one day and then give it up? Of course it's a joke. You're so wrapped up in your hatred, your TDS, that you can't even think straight anymore.
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  2319.  @TheDylandProductions  People don't know the difference between anti-Islam and anti-Muslim.
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  2320. A couple of days ago, the social media was filled with memes and pictures of the White House with darkened windows, mocking the president for hiding while the country burned. Now he comes out, they mock him for looking for photo ops. Global news, YOU'RE AN OPPORTUNISTIC, PARASITIC ORGANISATION!!!!! You thrive on the misery of others. It's sickening.
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  2321. @Bone spurs are contagious You don't understand business and you really don't get what Trump was doing. He tried hard to get the manufacturing back from China so our stores weren't filled with foreign and particularly, Chinese products. Why do you think the establishment, big tech, the multinationals and the media hated him so much. It wasn't because he was a jerk or a racist. It was because all those executives and bureaucrats were going to lose those big Chinese bribes and payouts, that's why. Watch the trade war with China dissolve and the manufacturing jobs start to disappear again. And people like you fell for it.
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  2322.  @loucyphers_nightmare  In spite of all his riches, fame and success, he hates life.
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  2323.  @drinkmoresoda  Don't talk so foolish. You know damn well who he's talking about.
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  2324.  @ethicsfirst3388  What ARE you talking about? Quote who. I never accused anyone of anything. All I said was not to call people names and that it's a poor argument. How does that make me a liar? Are you sure that you meant to direct that comment at me???
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  2325.  @AshyCat  There's NOT a million people dead from it in America. It's a lot less than that....about 290,000 dead. In fact, there are 1.5 million in the entire world so your facts are not even close to accurate. How can we be expected to take you seriously if you can't even get a basic stat correct. WHO and the UN have said lock downs should be a last resort move. They're telling us that we will soon be facing the greatest humanitarian crisis since WW2 due to great economic losses. It could be much WORSE than Covid will ever be. Tens of millions are facing starvation and this time it'll be children that are the most at risk. That's also from "the experts". However, politicians can't use tyrannical powers to exercise control over the masses.
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  2326.  emsspacex  I'm no celebrity. They'd have kicked me out, too, and that means that I'd have to find a room, which may or may not be available, and pay as much as $200 bucks or more, all over a 9 hour layover. You're missing the point. It's happening to us average dudes, too but no one cares. The only reason that we know it's happening is because 2 celebrities are relating their experience. If it happened to YOU, no one would ever find out how badly people can be treated.
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  2327.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  You "don't" think. That's the situation.
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  2328. It was founded in San Francisco. I can't think of anything else to say.
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  2329.  nighttr  Trump is supporting vaccine research. He talks about it all the time. So your comparison is rather foolish and poorly thought out.
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  2330. I agree. She just babbled absolute nonsense and it's because she's so full of hatred that she's made her mind up, on what she thinks is true, before she's even looked into it. She doesn't even have to do it herself. There are minions there who could do it for her and then advise her on what to say and when NOT to say.
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  2331.  @longgone9738  I was just going to post something similar. It isn't "The Views" where people express what they think. It's The View....as in the singular. One view to rule them all.
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  2332.  @magmat0585  Because that only implies anger and people will see him as some kind of lunatic. This guy was showing despair and desperation and the average person can identify with that. The average person can't identify with a killer.
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  2333.  @fragniz  The one thing about Trump and his ego, is that his ego won't allow him to do a bad job. His ego would drive him crazy if his record as the president would show him as incompetent. Not the Dem incompetent where his lack of decorum is proof of his incompetence. I means where he lays out a policy and he fails. His ego forces him to do everything possible to make that policy come to fruition. As grating his egotistic personality is, it can be an asset if it's used in a positive manner.
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  2334.  @Rachel-gv6hw  There are reasons why doctors have used it in Italy and France. They didn't just pull Hydroxychloroquine out of the air and started to give it to patients. They looked for a drug that would target the symptoms that were the most damaging and one of them was Hydroxychloroquine and they found it to be very promising. They understand how the drug works. In fact, they used it, in combination with other specific drugs, to achieve a specific outcome. Since then, other doctors have been trying it and they've had very good results. They were using science to use it to their advantage. That's also what he meant when he was asking about bleach, which I took as a generic word for disinfectant. He meant using science to investigate sophisticated methods in the use of disinfectants. You see, I'm not a 7 year old. I don't take everything literally in a conversation. I understand it as starting point into a MUCH deeper research, not a Javex injection program. That's how a child would interpret it.
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  2335. If we need contact tracing to keep us safe from Covid-19, surely we'll need it to keep us safe from the flu. And the measles, HIV, ebola, sexual predators, thieves, terrorists, neo-Nazis, communists. So many dangerous people out there, taking away our safety. We NEED to be safe. It's the new imperative.
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  2336. Maybe it's true but I was saying BS over and over as he was telling the story. Like I said, I could be wrong but it still sounds like BS to me.
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  2337.  @voixdelaraison593  Florida has 2 million MORE residents than New York and has 1.2 million MORE senior citizens. In spite of that, New York has 17,290 MORE deaths than Florida. California has almost double the population than Florida and 20,000 more deaths. I can prove this if you want. If this is how you gather evidence, then the rest of what you're saying is just as much BS as what I've just shown you. A lot of wild and serious accusations against the DeSantis. You'd better have a lot more substantial evidence to back it up than the gossip that you're vomiting.
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  2338.  @martinbender1258  Funny.....I got the sarcasm right away. I didn't need to be told and I even missed the emoji and I still got it.
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  2339. Jojo McMudak He's mentioning that he's black because the left has this idea that being black makes him, automatically, one of them. He has to be. He's black and a victim. He's fighting a preconceived belief, a bias, of what others believe he should be. For that reason, it's more meaningful when he says that he's not a part of the obsession people have with identity politics instead of Dan Heronneau, the human being and a unique human being at that who only will allow his own being define who he is. It's what the left politics is all about.
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  2340. Can you imagine the callousness? They told her that if she didn't comply to their demands, they'd no longer feed the children in school. Worse, they actually believe that they're doing this out of love for those kids. It's so bizarre. What next? Are they going to force "no ID" policies at elections or no more school lunches? What a disgusting tactic.
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  2341. "but that's a good thing...."
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  2342. I think his point is that if you don't have the talent or drive to succeed you'll not be able to take advantage of the hand up. It can work but it seldomly leads to that top success if you don't have the ability in your specific field. That's what Weinstein did. He spotted the talent and then offered them the road to success in exchange for sexual favours. Those who didn't have the talent would just fade away into obscurity. The talented would get the success that they craved.
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  2343. The union is NOT there to protect the kids. They're there to protect the teachers. That's all.
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  2344.  @fionay2014  They also know that it will be difficult to find another job because the mandates are everywhere. It's how a Marxist country works. Everyone works for the government. Lose your job and there's only one employer, in the country, to apply to....the government. So, it's off to the Gulag with you. That's what they're doing to their own citizens.
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  2345.  @mauriciomarchena9111  De Niro said "f--k Trump" and got huge laughs and applause. Actually said it. Griffin held a likeness of Trump's severed head like a trophy. Madonna said, in a public speech, that she dreams of blowing up the White House, referring to Trump being the president. She also received applause for saying it. All this guy said was "Let's go Brandon". We know what that means but really.....he's now an insurrectionist? He, an average American citizen, should have his business destroyed, lose everything that he owns, for saying something that isn't even close to what some of the suggestions around Trump were about. Leave the poor guy alone, media and your acolytes. It was a joke, maybe in poor taste, but that's all it was.
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  2346.  @mauriciomarchena9111  So what does one want for president. A jerk who really didn't do a bad job as president, or a complete incompetent, who's been losing his faculties to old age. I'm saying this as a guy that almost as old as Biden but facts are facts. I know that it's tough but that was the decision that had to be made and the American voters FAILED. It would be nice if we could get a president who was perfect, in every way, but that's a pipe dream. We have to deal in reality and that's our reality.
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  2347.  @donaldnonconsensualpuygrab1406  You seem like a "nice" person. LOL. Much love from the freedom convoy in Canada and all their supporters. Come on up and visit us sometime. Bring a jerry can full of diesel, if possible. Us cultists will feed you and even let you use our smartphones if your phone is being charged. Freedom for all!!!!!
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  2348. My adopted niece spent 2 years in a hospital, waiting for a kidney transplant. Her kidney problems are the result of abuse from her drug addicted mother, who neared starved her to death when she was 3 years old. She finally got her kidney when she was 15. However, she's had rejection issues and it's been a struggle ever since, but that didn't stop her. She's now in her mid twenties, married and a mother, even though the doctors told her that child birth might kill her. Her little boy is now one year old and my niece refused to let her husband get up and tend to the baby in the middle of the night, in spite of her health issues. She gets up cheerfully, smiling and singing softly to her little one, saying that her husband works 50 to 60 hours a week and needs the rest. When I hear a full grown man, who has the world by its privates, carry on about hard times, I can't help but grit my teeth. He couldn't spend a day in my niece's shoes. No respect for people like him.
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  2349.  @settame1  I remember the horrors of 2019. We all had jobs, no one told us we couldn't work. We travelled, went to movies, restaurants, the beach and the gym. Riots were rare and crime was inching on a downward trend. Investments and 401Ks were doing great. What an Orwellian existence. Bill Maher said that we needed a recession to get rid of Trump. Well...he got his recession. I'll bet he never read the short story "The Monkey's Paw", speaking of reading great literature. A lesson there for him that he could have learned the easy way. We both know that 2020 is a LOT closer to 1984 than 2019 was.
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  2350.  @lisahardy9707  I may as well ask you, too. Give an example of her lying. Just curious.
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  2351.  @lisahardy9707  I don't care what date. You called her a liar. Give me an example, just one to start, of a lie that she told. You must know of one. You wouldn't call her a liar without a reason.......would you?
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  2352.  @Jianju69  She is being considered for vice-president. Even if not, she carries a lot of weight.
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  2353. I just went and looked up Passadumkeag on Google Maps and the Town Hall says "temporarily closed". I wonder why. She quit on April 7th and it's now May 23rd. It would appear that she's had 6 and 1/2 weeks time off instead of the 2 that she asked for. How's that for a hot take.😉
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  2354.  Marco Polo1  And that's where they belong. Rational people don't engage in conspiracy theories without good evidence. We'll let the left wing media look after that.
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  2355. @Eric Barlow A lot of those truckers are Americans. In fact there are hundreds of American rigs on the American side approaching the bridge. They're not "attacking" the United States. They're protesting the draconian, AGAIN....both American and Canadian, rules regarding cross border traffic and Covid. They are peaceful and both Canada's Charter of Rights and the American Constitution give them the right to do so as long as they're peaceful. Trudeau knows this so he's deflecting from the issues and vilifying them by accusing them of things that aren't true. He believes that if he can get Canadians to turn on the protesters, he'll be able to use real force to end it. He has the mind of a tyrant. I know I'm talking to a brainless bot but it has to be said.
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  2356.  @fittobetiedyed5315  The first Trudeau was the worst PM we ever had. I remember him quite well. However, his son is MUCH worse.
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  2357. On the day of Biden's inauguration, 1.2 million Americans were vaccinated against Covid. Therefore, the idea that that they held the release of the vaccine, is pure nonsense.
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  2358.  @uncledoctor6920  This IS how you fix it. Don't compete in a corrupt system. Let it rot under the weight of its own corruption. When the entirety of women's sport is populated with transgender men, it'll fall on its own and the women who refused to take part can start their own "women's only" division. Do NOT give in to them by going along.
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  2359.  @James-ll3jb  How are you going to go to any university without rubbing elbows with all types of people? I married a woman in 1974 and I thought that she was the greatest person that I'd ever met. Smart, ethical, loyal and dedicated. It took me 15 years to realise that I was WRONG. I slept with that woman for 15 years, every night I slept with her, only to find that those qualities, that I respect and want to be, did NOT describe her. Does that make me just like her? Maybe....but I don't want to be. Guilt by association isn't guilt and no one wants to judged as to the people they've known or worked with....even you. It would be easy to dig into your past and dredge up something that can be painted in a negative way and then, due to association, apply those negative qualities to you. I'm sure you'd love that.
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  2360.  @James-ll3jb  When did I say that my life was ruined? I never said that. It was a bad time of my life but it's far from being the ONLY thing about me....and that's my point. You're trying to make it sound as if you should judge JP on selected past associations. Well, anyone can do that. I gave you one of the closest associations that a person can have, and how that doesn't define who you are as a human being. She was a deceitful, selfish and vain person, all qualities that I dislike in a person but she hid it well, until she didn't need me anymore. It was tough but I won't let someone like that ruin my life and YES, I have made my bed. I do that every morning. What kind of slob doesn't do that? If you can't do the simple chores in life, how are you ever going to do the tough jobs that you're going to face? We can't build a strong functioning society without hard work and dedication. Do nothing and you'll have nothing, as an individual or a community. That's just plain common sense.
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  2361.  @makaramuss  You don't want Trump to get it because he has an ego? I didn't know that ego was a major disqualifier. How about not giving to him on the lack of merit. THAT would be a good reason. 3 peace deals may not be good enough but......ego? LOL.
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  2362.  @mtop6867  Strangely though, communism has had a history of shortages and the reason for that is simple. Centralised power base, trying to micro manage the economy. They tend to leave the market, specifically, the consumer, out of the picture. For communism to become successful, they must evolve into Fascism. This was the conclusion of Mussolini and has become the path to success for modern China. Fascism, as nasty and authoritarian as it can be, does delegate areas of the economy to the market....something that communism doesn't do.
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  2363.  @BigRonnieWho  They accused him of being a traitor. That has been a capital offence in the past and one of the biggest insults there are. I've always supported the centre left but this is getting embarrassing for me. This isn't about Trump's behaviour. It's about how the people that I've always felt a bond with are behaving. It feels as if it reflects on me and I don't like it. I fully expect the opposition to by morally bankrupt. I supported the centre left because I felt that I wanted to honest and support high ethical standards. They're letting me down. That's why I've been outraged at the way they've all been acting the last 2 years. They're doing exactly what I've always criticised the right of doing and they've been doing it in a more egregious manner. I can't be a part of that.
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  2364.  @woodenseagull1899  Cruelty isn't base on scale. When Mayans brutally killed humans is sacrifices to their gods, it was still just as brutal for the individuals dispatched. Was it in their genes to do this? Same as the Hutu, who killed Tutsi, by the tens of thousands. It's still brutal and different only in scale. Being effective in your genocidal fervour doesn't render you more brutal and most definitely has nothing to do with a genetic predisposition to commit such acts. As a matter of fact, that attitude is what generates the rationalisation to clear the conscience of those who take part in identity based murders. Better get those Germans before they get us.
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  2365.  @joelsattler8420  No it isn't. They enacted social programs so the country didn't collapse but that's not socialism. Socialism definition: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Read it and read it carefully. Show me how the Republicans are advocating ownership or regulation of the economy. If they do THAT, they're advocating for socialism.
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  2366. Ian She broke the law by sticking her head out of the sun roof. This might also imply that she wasn't wearing her seat belt, at least not in the correct manner. Therefore, the officer was doing her job in fining her. In doing that she had to get the woman's correct name. She was being argumentative and appeared intoxicated and the officer was within the scope of her job to ask her to get out of the vehicle if only to do a search. When she refused, the officer could then forcibly remove her from the car. If the young woman has a problem with police procedure, she should have complied with the officer's requests and then hired a lawyer to take the officer to task. She has clearly committed an offence and it is within the officer's discretion on what the charges should be. She can't just simply refuse to be charged.
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  2367.  @brkbtjunkie  I would agree. My point being that being an expert doesn't always mean that you will make the right decision. It helps to know more but it isn't the magic bullet to stop stupidity. Knowledge has to be tempered with common sense to be effective.
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  2368.  @Alteringrealitystudios  He's responding to the claim that says that the police are hunting down black people. That's a broad statement, too you know. What he is saying is that those who think that way should act like this landscaper does when approached by the police. Do as the officer asks and be courteous. People respond to that in a positive way. When you argue and become aggressive, people will respond in the same way. You reap what you sow.
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  2369.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  I'm sure that most of those in control had no idea what he was going to say. Also, if teachers and staff are penalising students for their beliefs, that's NOT equality. I will also add that the reason that he's leaving that school is for that very reason. He knows that this speech wouldn't make his stay at that school a pleasant one in the future. When everything becomes about race, resentment will build. It becomes a race to who's the most oppressed. Blacks will claim slavery, Latinos poor economic opportunities, natives the loss of land, Asians and how they were treated and whites......YOU shutup. It's ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!! Yeah....that should lend itself to peace and harmony in the school and society. When you base an education and a social structure on past grievances and resentment, you'll have a fractured and angry society. It's an horrific path to take and it's a path that has ended in horror throughout history.
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  2370.  Gerry Swaim  "The LYING CHEATING STEALING NARCISSISTIC BRAGGING BLOWHARD BULLY" It would seem that any information would have to get past this quite obvious and overt hatred that you have for the guy. You start out with the hatred and then filter out any information that might work in favour of your narrative. No news source would be reputable until it meets your standard of hate. Try and discard that filter and try to be a little objective. No one has ever said that you have to like the president but when one has to capitalise opinions, one is also showing that decisions and perceptions are being made on emotions, not logic or fact. As for reputable(?), I hope you're not referring to CNN or MSNBC. These are the networks that didn't even bother to fact check the Covington Kids story. Why is it that a guy like me, living in a one bedroom apartment, in a small town, could find the actual footage of the incident within 10 minutes and see what actually happened while those networks, with all their money and resources, couldn't? Maybe you should reconsider what you think is reputable.
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  2371.  @JOE-xz4kx  The worst of it is, one doesn't have to like Trump to know the facts. I related bare facts, easily verifiable to show that they're true. My personal feelings are irrelevant and so that's the way it should be for everyone....but they let their hatred get in the way of truth, logic and reason. Trump is going to win the next election and they're too filled with hate to ever understand why. Emotion overrides their ability to think clearly and they're making the same mistake that Hillary made. I've tried to warn them but it just pisses them off.
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  2372. @Draper Scott He's disgruntled because of the things that he's describing. He's telling his "lived" experience. I supposed a "lived" experience is only valid when it suits a specific agenda.
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  2373.  @lordbread2083  We all know when someone has nothing but calling people liars, "they're" projecting.
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  2374.  Martin Frink  I'm sure no one has any idea who you're comment was directed at.
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  2375. This guy's a lot like Robespierre. A committed Pacifist, until the need of violence is needed to stop the enemies of the planet....the new euphemism for "enemies of the people". I guess learning our history isn't going to stop us from repeating it.
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  2376.  @ctV837reZ  Give me an example of the fake outrage. I would really like to see it.
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  2377.  @scrotiemcb5858  Big Pharma and the multinationals are indeed a big problem. They encourage the new ideology, not just because of this transitioning nonsense but due to their big profits in using cheap Chinese labour to garner profit and power. It amazes me that the average American can't see that it's the Democrats and the Rinos who've made their beds with the multinationals not the Republicans who are more libertarian. This is another topic, albeit an expansion of the topic, but it ties in with the authoritarian takeover by the government and the multinationals.
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  2378.  @danielmackowiak1606  I don't like Trump all that much, either but between Trump and Biden? Give me a break. I'd vote Trump any time, anywhere, drunk, sober or in a fit of depression before I'd vote Biden The way that the rest of the Democrats are backing him, I'd vote Trump over any of them.....except Kennedy Jr. He's the only one that I might consider but only for a few seconds. He's too hated by the other Dems and his presidency, try as he might, would be a disaster because of the party.
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  2379. Yes....it IS about Kyle. It's his choice. You have no right to use Kyle because you want to further YOUR agenda. It's a free country, even for Kyle. Quit using people. Before you lose your mind....I'd love to see that media be destroyed. I just won't use someone, against their will, to do it.
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  2380.  @RedroomStudios  He may have been, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Serena, the best female tennis player of all time, would never win against the top men's tennis players. In fact, we may never see another female player as good as she has been....she's that good. Unless, of course, a transgender woman plays professional tennis, which could be the way that it's going to go.
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  2381.  @XeLYoutube  Humans have been eating the corpses of animals for tens of thousands of years. It's within every part of you and you wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for the eating of meat in our history. In spite of your belief in your moral superiority, it's actually a reflection of just how intolerant you really are. Pride is considered one of the 7 deadly sins for a reason.
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  2382.  Andy Mann  Another gaslight. Trying to get me to believe that I'm gullible, that I've fallen for his latest strawman. Peterson sees how the use of coloured emojis has the potential to be used as a trap. That's why he went with the black emoji. He's owning it. So you have to change your tactic. You have to convince others that what he says isn't so even though this has happened time and time again over the last 6 or 7 years. It's happening again to Joe Rogan. He had the nerve to have Dr. Robert Malone on his show, a man with top notch credentials and he was outspoken on his stance on mandates. Can't have that. Rogan is getting too dangerous. So they dig deep and they find a time, years ago, when he used the N-word in a quote. The verbal trap. Now they think that they have him. Trudeau is doing the same thing. He doesn't address what the truckers are protesting about. He just calls them all racists because of a couple of dubious pictures of a swastika. He took it so far as to insult a Jewish member of Parliament. Why did he think he could do that? The trap. He has the picture of a swastika and now he's painting them all as Nazis. Now, we have the coloured emojis. Hell, I may have already fallen into the trap by my use of the word "coloured". Amy Comey Barrett fell into the trap in the Supreme Court hearings. She said that she would support anyone's sexual preference. The trap. She said "sexual preference" and that's become offensive. What a surprise. Now, you're trying to tell me that the use of a coloured emoji doesn't hold that potential. You're trying to gaslight me with your sneering insults, trying to get me to think that I must be crazy to think these things. I'm not buying it. I've seen it way too often.
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  2383.  Andy Mann  You're absolutely refusing to acknowledge every example that I've brought up to show how words are used as traps to embarrass or browbeat people. Right from the start when I gave the example of compelled pronouns and Peterson predicted how that could be used against people. Everyone said he was wrong and that could never happen.....until it did happen. He's not going to be dragged into a mess like that again. He smells a rat and he's not stepping into the rat trap that this could possibly be. He doesn't care about the coloured emojis. He cares about how this could be used against people. Maybe it won't happen but he's not going to be fool enough to find out the hard way. If you had any kind of honesty, you'd discuss the examples that I've given and why anyone would be suspicious of motives. You won't though. You just say the same thing over and over. One question. Are the examples, that I've given true? Did they happen? A simple question that should be easy to answer.
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  2384. When people ask me where I'm from, I take it as a compliment, that they're interested in my life. People like to talk about their past and their heritage. At least, normal people do. Complainers are going to complain.
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  2385. So all Michael Jordan's or Lebron James's kids have to do is check the "black" box and they'll get in due to black oppression points. Makes sense. If we must have affirmative action, it should be based on the economic situation of the student and his family, not of skin colour. The child of a black Doctor shouldn't get to mark "black" and take away a spot of a child that suffering from the loss of a parent and the economic hardship that this has placed on their family.
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  2386.  @michaelkirkpatrick7483  So you're one of those people who think that corporations don't pass on their expenses, including tax bills, down to their customers. If they raise the tax on a business by 1 buck, they raise the cost of their product to cover it. Worse, companies in other countries don't have to pay that tax to their government so they can make their products cheaper so American companies go out of business or move operations to those countries who won't tax them as high. Then the American workers won't have the jobs to pay taxes with. Good thinking.
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  2387.  Science Revolution  God is the humanising of Truth. People have had a tendency to think in terms of anthropomorphism, taking inanimate objects or ideas and given them a human face. They felt that there was a truth that lay beyond our perceptions of truth and, being human, they had to give that truth a personality, a supreme figure and each culture had their own name and narrative for that being. When you think of it in those terms, it explains why every culture, all over the globe, had some kind of religious narrative to explain the deeper reaches of understanding. Some people are still stuck in that way of thinking. When Nietzsche said that God is dead, he didn't mean it in the literal sense. He meant that God, as the ruling arbiter of truth, has given way to science as the method to finding the truth. Religious modes of thinking might have been an evolutionary necessity in our ability to survive conscious thought.
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  2388.  @sprawlingman8277  What does he have to answer for? Give examples. I doubt that I'll hear from you because I believe that you are a TROLL.
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  2389.  @ElimEx1  So you charge someone a 33 million dollar fee because they want information? How is that investing in school infrastructure? Who can afford that? This is a fee that no one will pay. That means that the school is not getting ONE RED CENT. You're comment is ridiculous.
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  2390. You had me going for a minute, thinking that it was some kind of ad or come-on. LOL. But you're correct. We don't need story tellers in the news.
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  2391.  @carlosgarcia5458  He denied that they were doing gain of function research. Then he proceeded to describe what they were doing and it was textbook gain of function research. When he was told that his description was the definition of gain of research, he said that it wasn't and that gain of function was different than his description. I'm paraphrasing but that's what happened.
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  2392.  @lovegrace3719  What does that have to do with anything. Is the obsession with racism hurting America or not? That's the topic. 2 plus 2 equals 4 no matter who says it, Christian or not. You may have a priority belief but you can also have an opinion on the racial issues, as well. You'll not win anyone over by sounding like a mindless bot.
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  2393.  @gemkid85  It was rigged due to Big Tech and the MSM manipulating information to favour one candidate. When they refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, they were withholding information that could have affected the voting choices (more like would have). That's not the Tech's and MSM's decision to make. All information should be disseminated for all to see and an informed voting public should vote on ALL the information, not just on what's been spoon fed to them. That's how the election was rigged. The rest is just a backlash at the frustration of how those at the top were being dishonest. If they could be dishonest about the news, why wouldn't they be dishonest about election processes? Had that laptop belonged do Donald Trump Junior and NOT Hunter Biden, would it have been reported on? Answer that question, honestly and objectively, and you'll understand what I mean when I say the election was rigged through Big Tech and the Media.
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  2394.  @estherc.536  My point wasn't so much about election day. My point was that it was even rigged before that due to the propaganda tactics by and for the Democrats and against Trump. Part of that propaganda was to inculcate a voting public that believes EVERYTHING that they were told by the various media sources so when or if, the election itself, vote flipping as an example, a huge part of the population will automatically believe what the media sources are telling them. In other words, they have the answers BEFORE the question is even raised. That's what I was talking about. They rigged the election by creating conditions where asking questions is pointless because the they're already answered. That's why, within the hour of the announcement of the discovery of Hunter Biden's laptop, the answer was already in place. Russian disinformation. If we can bring back an honest media, all those other problems, including any real election fraud, will go away. The media, of today, is no different than Goebbels' media of Nazi Germany and the Democrats may be better at it than Goebbels It's a tool for the Democrats and that's why they are going to get away with any fraud. Democrat propaganda is the key. Any fraud is just a symptom of their controlled use of the media and propaganda.
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  2395.  @estherc.536  I don't know if Trump will prevail or not or how good a case he has but I do know one thing. Truth MUST prevail at all costs. If we don't address the problems or questions, the truth will die. That's the disaster that we're facing. If there is election fraud and it IS being suppressed, that's a disaster for ALL Americans, not just for the Republicans and I say that even if it was the other way around. We have to address the questions and the quick snap answers that media is providing doesn't cut it. Merry Christmas to you too.
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  2396.  @staceybryceadams9276  40 million Americans living under a social network. Do you know how many were living under that network in 1960? Zero. So...what happened? My dad came to this country in 1951. I was born shortly after. He likes to tease me saying that I cost 55 dollars to have delivered and it was a bad investments. The day after I was born, he was in a serious car accident. He was fired from his job for not showing up because he spent 2 days in the hospital. So, not only did he have to pay for my birth, he had to pay for his hospital stay and worse he couldn't even think of looking for a job because of his injuries. And guess what? NO WELFARE. He had a wife and baby, hospital debt, no job and no welfare. If it wasn't for neighbours, we have went hungry. Six weeks later, he found a job. He worked 60 hours a week. He paid off his debts, saved some money, borrowed some more and bought a farm. All without government assistance. Our welfare system is a self perpetuating system of creating dependence. Self reliance is gone out the window and along with it a culture of self respect. Sometimes people can't see the bars of the prison they build for themselves.
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  2397.  @SeasideDetective2  My parents are immigrants and now citizens. Get over your obsession with race. Deal with people as individuals...one person at a time. Identity politics is the politics of hate and ultimately destruction. Everything about your post is negative. You're "irked" and "resentful". They're "confrontational" and "always right". The world will always and always has been filled with jerks. Get used to it and if you must fight against something, fight against the ideas and only fight individuals when it becomes physical. It's identity politics that's ripping the country apart and you're dancing with it.
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  2398. And I'd make bets that the abysmal men's hockey team would STILL beat the women's national champions. Funny how that works.
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  2399.  @RÆVËNLÖRD  And it's adults who are doing nothing to stop this behaviour. Their parents, their teachers, the school system, the police, the judicial system.....none of them are doing their job. So the kids will do what people do. They will bully, terrorise, destroy property, commit violent acts and eventually they will kill someone. They need discipline and repercussions for their actions. Not the long term repercussions of failing at school and life, but immediate with a single mindedness of right and wrong. Kids are people and are subject to the same impulses that adults are. Allow them to feel that their actions have no consequences and they will become irresponsible human beings. You just seen it played out for you.
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  2400. ​ @anthonymayes7513  I'd say that it would be my responsibility to prevent someone from taking my life. I cannot assume responsibility for the lives of those who threaten me. That's their responsibility.
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  2401. When Israel hears about this resolution in Oakland, all Jews in Israel, will see the error of their ways and voluntarily leave Israel so the Palestinians can be free. When Oakland speaks, the world listens.
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  2402.  @nickporter4853  You can if the story is a flat out lie. There is NO proof that anything in that story is true. Even the sister wants nothing to do with that reporter or his story.
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  2403.  @groverg7287  My original response seems to be gone so I'll try again. They didn't need Trump to pay for the cost of the funeral. The Army and private donors paid for it. Trump offered but they didn't need the money to cover the cost. Had they asked for that money and Trump gave it to them, they would have scammed him because THE FUNERAL WAS ALREADY PAID FOR. The family, quite obviously, had too much integrity to do such a thing. Apparently, not everyone has that kind of honour.
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  2404. A major part of our Republic is that every citizen gets a say on how our country should run within the bounds of the Constitution. That means that we get to say who our representatives are in government which means we get to vote for who those representatives are. A Republic, without democracy, is tyranny.
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  2405.  @ananke2104  Democracy....a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. "No taxation without representation" is a political movement that originated in the American Revolution and which expressed one of the primary grievances of the American colonists for Great Britain. How do we select those representatives? We VOTE for them. What do we call a system of government in which we vote for our representatives? A Democracy. We are a Democracy WITHIN a Republic. Why is this so difficult to understand?
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  2406.  @theman9318  As much as I dislike JEN, there is no law against lying. If there was, we'd all be held for lying. What we CAN do is expose it. That's where the MSM is failing and we should be exposing those liars, too.
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  2407.  @daieast6305  Just goes to show what you know. This was about the rich spice and silk trade in India and the far east. The Arabs had the overland trade routes cut off and were charging exorbitant prices for those products and Portugal thought they could sail around Africa and get it for themselves. Columbus thought that if he sailed west, he could sail directly to the East Indies or the Spice Islands. He didn't know that their were 2 continents in between. To the day he died, he thought he was off the coast of eastern Asia. It's incredible that someone would post such uninformed drivel on something he knows absolutely nothing about. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/christopher-columbus-0 https://www.biography.com/explorer/christopher-columbus Slavery was part of human history for thousands of years. Why Columbus should be the villain of ALL villains is only the mad meanderings of the ideologically obsessed mind. Our history, YOUR history is filled with, what we would call atrocities, today. It's easy to be self righteous sitting in your bedroom, playing at keyboard warrior.
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  2408.  @freedmm3122  Would you relax. I gave some options on what people might believe and then I said that I was of the opinion that he did NOT help blacks and that he knew what he was doing. What did you think that entire paragraph on how bad the welfare state is for people was about? Do some research. (big eyeroll) How do you think that I came to the opinion that Johnson wasn't helping blacks and he knew it? RESEARCH. I did some actual reading. You're preaching to the choir except you're making it sound like an argument. We agree.
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  2409. You don't have to be embarrassed for us. We're embarrassed enough. I still cringe over that "dress-up" trip to India. What a maroon.
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  2410.  @DaveDahuh  The "hate the rich" argument again. The US is the 10th richest nation per capita in the world. 4 of the nations ahead of them are small, oil rich countries and the 5th, Norway gets it's high standard of living from oil as well. The US has more billionaires than all of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia and I'll bet you that you'd rather live in the US than any country in the areas that I mentioned. Do you know how I know that? Not ONE of those countries have huge issues with illegal immigrants. NOT ONE. Only the US has. Envy will destroy you. Quit worrying about how big someone else's pile of cash might be. Worry about your own pile and use it to your best ability. You can't control what others do but you do have a control over your own decisions.
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  2411.  @mymidlifeadventures4248  The reason things got better was because Chavez took the money, made by the State oil company, and started giving it to the people in social programs. Money, that should have been reinvested into new equipment and company infrastructure. He fixed prices and started make work programs. However, retailers started to find that the products they were buying cost more than they were allowed to sell it at, shortages started to appear. Slowly at first, but more and more over time. Many retailers went bankrupt and the government took over their businesses. More socialism. People became angry so Chavez gave more money from an already troubled oil company to the people. Then he started to print money and that was the beginning of the end. The falling of world oil prices was the final nail in their coffin. When the leader of a country tries to buy the affection of the people with the profits of nationalised companies, the country's economy will fail. Businesses cannot survive as a welfare system. It has to sustain itself with profits. That is the basic truth of how a business works, big or small. A socialised economy is always doomed to failure. A course in economics 101 explains why.
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  2412. Great one. You figured out a way to see the world the way you want to see it. "I liked girl drama" Yeah....I can tell. "I didn't like girl drama". You're just trying to convince me that you're not a drama queen. it's obvious that you are. Always a winner.
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  2413.  @ypcomchic  Since your eyes are already wonderfully opened, why don't you tell us what you see. You're great at calling him the devil but you never tell us why YOU think this is true.
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  2414.  @davidaughinbaugh8643  The Constitution outlines how the vote must be carried out. It tells us that the people cannot vote for or pass a law that violates our rights as outlined in the Constitution. That is the limitation on mob rule. The Supreme Court's job is to make sure that these anti-Constitutional laws can't become permanent laws. Mob rule applies to countries that have no Constitutional guidelines to limit the power of the mob. Just as there are guidelines to limit the power of the government. Our Constitution was put in place to enshrine the power and rights of the people. If we can't even elect our representatives, we have no rights or power. The reps will appointed and, as history has shown, the reps will eventually just appoint themselves. That's how we reach tyranny.
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  2415.  Kenny Bugh  How did Trump fail us? This was a new disease that no one had ever dealt with before. He called on the CDC, even formed a medical task force to deal with it. They were supposed to be the experts and these "experts" were all over the place with their recommendations and ideas. How could Trump make medical recommendations. He's NOT a doctor. Had the CDC and Fauci been more forthright and explained things as they knew them instead of playing games with the facts, we'd be better off. They were too proud to stand up and say that, in spite of being experts, they had no clue. That's why they failed us. They taught us not to trust them....the worst thing a doctor could do to their patients. It was Trump that initiated Project Warp Speed, got ventilators built that were never used, sent hospital ships to LA and NY which were never used and it wasn't Trump that put Covid patients in old folks homes. Trump restricted travel, first from China which resulted in being called xenophobic and then from Europe which Biden, himself criticized, saying travel bans don't work. It was Pelosi and Mayor De Blasio that kept telling people to go to their favourite restaurants, take the subways and go to parades. Pelosi went to Chinatown and was hugging everyone urging people to come on down and it was Pelosi that ripped up the SOTU address, in which Trump talked about trying to work with China to fight this new disease. Do you know what else failed us? China and their Gain of Function research....that's who and those in the American medical establishment that helped fund it....like Dr. Fauci.
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  2416.  @danarosesturgeon  I'm afraid that if he does and a lot of people get killed, Trump will lose the election. If he loses that, the country is screwed. Trump has to keep up the condemnation, tell the people that if they vote for him, he'll clean up any city that votes Republican. If he can do that, the remaining Democrat cities will be begging him to intervene. Trump has to keep calm. It's not going to be easy but I don't see any other way without completely destroying the country.
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  2417. Most swimmers know that there is no career in swimming or running or pole vaulting. It's a means to their real goal. A college education that doesn't cost them any money and will get them to their realistic career goals. They lose that sports scholarship and it means either dropping out of school (goodbye career) or huge college debts (who wants that). So they go along with it. The progressives understand that. Most people don't and that's why we hear the arguments of "they worked their entire lives for this". NO...they didn't. They worked their entire lives for a scholarship and they're still working for it by going along with it until they graduate debt-free. They'd race against a dolphin if it gets them a free education. So would you.
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  2418.  @greghenchin17  Where did I say that? I said that the majority, by far, of illegals are Hispanic. Completely different. In fact, illegal Hispanics account for almost 2 percent of the American population. That's 1 of every 50 people in the US is an illegal Hispanic. That's an incredibly high demographic number. 17 percent of the population have Hispanic roots, which means the 1 in 8 Hispanics in the US is an illegal. So if you ask 8 Hispanics if they're here legally, at least one of them will say no. That's pretty good odds for a betting man and it does affect the actions of those who are commissioned to find illegals. You'd do the very same if your job centred around finding illegals. It's human nature. There are certain areas where the illegal population is very high, like in Hispanic neighbourhoods. Many illegals tend to depend on the help of each other so they maintain close cultural ties with one another. Also, 2nd generation Hispanics are more likely to speak English fluently and participate in a job market requiring advanced training. So even if they look Hispanic, these individuals will be ruled out, almost automatically, as illegals. It's the uneducated that have low paying jobs and speak English poorly that will be targeted and even if they're in the country legally, they'll be more apt to be asked to show their right to be here.
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  2419.  @eazye5293  How do you know that she's an idiot, referring to that doctor that made the speech. Did any ONE of those journalist look over the medical records that she kept for her patients? Was anything she said verified? Did they even ask to speak to any of her patients? NOOOO!!! It was dismissed out of hand....and don't give me this stuff about another study. Her drug regimen may have been completely different than any study done thus far. We wouldn't know that because not ONE of those "journalists" have the integrity to see if her figures are correct. Your hatred is blinding you.
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  2420. Sure. Let's deflect the blame away from those who are actually abusing those kids. I grew up with 4 sisters, back in the sixties. My sisters didn't have to stay indoors. They were as free to go out and play as me and my 2 brothers were. Just another way to blame the victims. Take away their freedoms so abusers won't have the opportunity to abuse.....what a great idea. I have a better idea. Let's stop looking the other way and get those abusers off the streets so they can't abuse or form these gangs. Let's take away THEIR freedom instead of the freedom of innocent children. Let's stop pretending that not holding those men to account PROVES that we're not racist. It's a very shallow form of virtue signaling that only those who aren't directly impacted can afford to demonstrate to the world.
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  2421.  @AwakenedRaveN  I like "Bus". They're useful and it doesn't have that "Karen" association that the "Chads" do. "Hey Bus. How's it going?" It even rolls off the tongue pleasantly.
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  2422. Steven Baumann I offer my sincere apologies. When you used the word "garbage" it gave your entire comment an air of "knowledge" that so many YouTube scholars subscribe to. I centred on what I perceived as YouTube scholar arrogance based on the use of that word because it has been used so often by the conspiracy types. I over stepped a little....Okay, a lot. You gotta admit, I am a smart ass, though. Gets me into trouble sometimes.....Okay, a lot.
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  2423. Professor and Baptist Minister, Michael Eric Dyson, is the perfect example of what you just described.
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  2424.  @John-c3u9o  They shouldn't be funding universities that are allowing their students to have their lives threatened. The talk about not funding private universities is just flotsam. The real problem, at this moment, is the violence that these protesters are taking part in and the threats that go with it. These same universities also talk about "safe spaces" for their students but apparently those spaces are only reserved for students who the school administration approve of.
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  2425.  @LegoGirl1990  They had to sedate the baby to prevent him from moving too much. In other words, it was alive. They had to sedate the mother for the same reason. 2 people were sedated. Both are 22 years older now. I'd say that you're supporting the pro-life cause.
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  2426. Who's going to watch the news when there's nothing happening? A nation where people get along, go to work, plan for the future and fulfill their dreams. How do they get the headlines that sell advertising? They NEED civil unrest. They're the maggots, feeding off the corpses of the victims, that their machinations have caused to die. Please, don't listen to them.
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  2427.  @flacko_jody2130  Why do I need to see someone that looks like me in high places? What do I care what they look like. I care about what they do and what kind of person they are. I admire Thomas Sowell more than just about anyone that I can think of. He doesn't look like me at all and I don't want him to. To want that is about as small minded as it gets. That means that I can't admire Jesus because he's a Semite or Buddha because he's a brown skinned man from India. That's so shallow.
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  2428.  @queent3343  8.7 million hits isn't wide enough? If this is such "BIG" news, his name alone should be enough. What I don't understand is if you know what parameters I should use, why don't you just tell me what they should be? It seems that you want ME to do the work to prove you correct. This guy says that this is big news. Yet he can't even provide a link. A great way to inspire doubt.
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  2429.  @randytallman6746  Yes.......term limits for EVERYONE. You're getting it, in your own nasty way.
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  2430. @kthetallone203 Are you really that thick? They tell us that Covid is SO dangerous that we have to wear TWO masks and then they turn around and allow immigrants with the dangerous Covid into the country. Are you that thick that you can't see the contradictions here?
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  2431. I'm wondering if Bill Maher is familiar with the W. W. Jacobs' short story "The Monkey's Paw". This is a story about how a granted wish always comes with a price. Maher got his broken recession. It came at a price and he still may not get the ultimate wish of defeating Trump.
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  2432. Mr. Indelible Incredibly, the best tippers do not come from those who make the best money. It's the regular Joes, like other serving staff, cab drivers, factory workers and construction workers who tip the best. We used to say "The size of the tip is inversely proportional to the increased value of their clothes". In other words , the better they dressed, the worse the tip. And no....it's not a terrible system, except for those who are always watching every dime in their pocket. I worked for 15 years as a server and I would never have been able to get by except for this "terrible system". It's quite apparent that you've never worked in this type of industry and you're one of those you love to abuse their server, and do they ever exist and they NEVER tip. Self entitled jerks who complain about everything from "My potatoes are too hot" to "My corn is touching my mashed potatoes" and "Why do I have so much food?". The world revolves around them and complain so they can feel justified about not leaving a tip. Self righteous do gooders like Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Is that who you mean. "God...protect us from those with good intentions". That's what I say. If you tip me just to feel good about yourself, keep it. I don't need your alms that bad. Tip because I've done a good job, otherwise keep it.
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  2433. Pakistani gender program will constitute someone opening an office in Karachi, hiring a receptionist, a sign on the door that says "Allah be praised" and a one year lease. A few "gender" experts, back in the states, will have meetings in which they'll discuss gender issues and what their letterheads should look like. By that time, they'll run out of money and be back for more and the cycle will start all over again. That sign on the door should read "Pakistani gender trough". That would be an accurate description of what is really going on.
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  2434.  @giordanobruno1333  "Show me the man and I'll show you his crime" Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's strong man has said proudly. Of course, trolls don't get what that even means or implies.
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  2435. Noem just said that they were going to prosecute them. I'm willing to believe her for now. It's not going to happen within the hour.
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  2436. @Youtube Veterinarian If you're going to sit around and wait for someone else to look after you.....GOOD LUCK. It's not going to happen.
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  2437. What's really sad, for this young woman, is that her window of opportunity is extremely small and it's been taken away from her. Her lawsuit won't be able to help her situation. I'd be so angry in her place or if she was my daughter. I wish her all the best in defeating this terrible injustice.
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  2438.  @psilvakimo  She's a high school kid. She isn't old enough to vote. Besides, sometimes a betrayal is like a slap in the face. It's like a faithless wife. You believe in her until she turns on you. It's not your fault...it's her's. Same as these students. It's not their fault that they, naively, believed in what they were taught or indoctrinated by. It's the fault of those who betrayed them.
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  2439.  @axeldeblois3391  Why would they? Their populations were small and they lived in smaller groups of no more than 30 or so. They had no transportation except their feet and their weaponry wasn't that effective for mass killing. To kill one mammoth would expend a great deal of energy and could be quite dangerous. They'd NEVER spend the entire day killing an entire herd. They'd never be able to process it all and it would attract all kinds of scavengers and predators which would pose another danger. One group would be quite the mammoth killers if they were averaging one mammoth per month and I doubt that this average ever happened. The risk to reward factor just wouldn't be worth that kind of effort. Those numbers could only be reached when human populations were a great deal higher and the weapons were a great deal more sophisticated.
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  2440.  @thememo6019  Another "Bad Trump, Bad Trump, Bad Trump" comment. The topic is this. Is diversity a strength or isn't it? It's not whether Trump is a good guy or not. This is about the Democrats. You don't improve the Party by pointing out the weaknesses of the other party. You improve it by making sure that what you stand for is worth standing for and working to make YOURSELF better. Tearing others down doesn't make you better.
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  2441. LOL....somewhat a Jew.
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  2442.  @georgialanders  LOL. I wouldn't take a dime from someone that I hated. I gots integrity. LOL.
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  2443.  @PhullyNo1  What special considerations did he have? I'm not seeing it.
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  2444.  @ldjman1  Suspicious is different than calling it a lie. If you're suspicious, you have a reason to check it out. That's the fact checking. Get a story, find out all you can about it and then compare what you've learned to the story. That's how you realise whether your suspicions are valid or not. Suspicions do NOT prove guilt. The facts prove guilt. Suspicions may give reasons to search out the facts. That's what gives suspicions value. However, that's only the start of the process. A detective doesn't say that a specific person is suspicious so lock him up. He says that because that person appears suspicious, I'm going to investigate. It's the investigation that provides the facts to validate the suspicion. Suspicion doesn't validate the suspicion. You're not understanding the process.
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  2445.  @meemz7098  The very people that say "Don't judge" are just fine when you judge them in a positive way. They just don't like it when your judgement appears to be negative. Worse, they'll judge you as evil if you say or believe something that they disagree with. They only approve of judgements that make them look better and if it's done at the expense of others, those who aren't allies, so be it. "Don't be evil"....that's their rationalisation.
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  2446.  TRUTH CENSORED  A lot of the people I talk to don't even know that it's happening. They watch the MSM and aren't being told about what's really happening. That's starting to change. Instead of calling them cowards, encourage them to speak up. Explain to them why it's wrong and if they object, move on. We need ALL the help we can get and calling them cowards when they're only poorly informed, only causes them to feel they have to defend themselves from you and you don't want to do that to a possible ally. We need all the help we can get.
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  2447.  @louisliu5638  How about dishonest, dishonorable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, shameful or deceitful. There's more, if you want to hear them but this will do for starters. Changing the word doesn't change how disreputable these people are, you know. It's just nitpicking to aggravate people.
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  2448.  @kwoncherry118  I have a solution. Why don't we ban the police? Everyone of them. Then no one will die in their custody. Strange how the over 5000 black deaths due to crimes doesn't seem to bother people. Let's concentrate on the 9 deaths and look the other way when the 5000 deaths occur. You know because.......racism. Selective caring seems to rampant among the left.
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  2449.  @jalan8446  He didn't commit a crime but he's still on twitter. I can't even say that there are only 2 genders on twitter but he can tweet out a back handed call to violence. Worse, I've not heard a word from the NBA, admonishing him for that threatening suggestion. Apparently, the morality clause, in the NBA, doesn't apply to all of its players. Some players are more equal than others.
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  2450.  @bankrollguwop8593  So think this is all the American's fault. All the Venezuelans have to do is get oil contracts with China and India. How would the US stop that? They can't. The truth is when the government nationalised the oil industry, they set in place the opportunity for corruption. It came when Chavez became the president and he put his own people in place to run the state owned oil company......and they ruined it. Chavez and some of his cronies skimmed off all kinds of money and any profits had to be used to placate the people, further bankrupting the oil industry. Price controls were enacted and soon businesses were going bankrupt and the government nationalised them. Things just went from bad to worse, yet the US was their biggest trade partner, in spite of sanctions being imposed in 2015. Incredibly, you just seen the film of the military firing on ordinary people. 3 million people have already left the country, because things are so grim. Yet, somehow it's the fault of the US. You're so vested in your hate of the US, you'd quite happily let the people of Venezuela starve then see the country reset its economy and bring some stability to the lives of the average citizen.
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  2451. LOL. Mine too. I was going to post, the exact same thing, the minute he said that but you had already said it. It's a great way to start the day.
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  2452.  @Gromorca  One of the most ridiculous claims we have. It was a 4chan prank, where an anonymous poster told people to flood twitter with the OK sign and say it was a white supremacy sign. They were told to claim that the 3 fingers held up is a "W" and stands for "white" and the left fell for it hook, line and sinker. That was 2 years ago. They managed to prove just how ridiculous the SJW crowd is and now we have everyone falling over themselves trying to prove that they're not racist. What a gullible bunch.
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  2453.  @breannedixon9712  You engage in ethical behaviour for its own sake. How Trump has behaved in the past, is irrelevant. If you make a mistake and falsely accuse someone of a serious crime, you own up to your mistake, like an adult and apologise. You do it because it's the right thing to do.
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  2454.  @davidclark573  Did Lemon politicise this storm or not? He must have done it first, or Tucker wouldn't have been able to comment on it. Lemon was the one who did it first, as did McCaskill and Klobuchar. McCaskill rather insinuated that Floridians should appreciate her party for doing their jobs. They all started it BEFORE Tucker did. I watched another video where the reporter, at a DeSantis press conference before Ian made landfall, who started on about racism in the preparation for the hurricane, quoting another Democrat politician. You'd think that these "concerned" politicians would want to help instead of being there to grab some glory for themselves. I have 4 politicians being political to the one newscaster, in Tucker, who was only reacting to how the Democrats were making it political.
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  2455.  @babajaiy8246  "So create a country....dispel those already there....claim innocence and might is right - keep them out permanently according to your dictates. And complain about something you created/started to begin with." That sure sounds like you're saying that Hamas is justified in what they just did in Israel. Also, if those Palestinians wanted free access to travel to Israel, maybe Hamas should stop talking about destroying Israel. "Death to Israel" is not a chant that would endear the people of Palestine to Israel. When it was put into their charter that their goal was to destroy Israel in 1987, you can't expect the people of Israel to be receptive to it. If Israel had wanted to destroy Palestine, they could have done it years ago. The thing is, if every Israeli weapon was destroyed tomorrow, Hamas would reign terror on the Israeli people. There'd hardly be an Israeli left alive in the Levant. However, if every weapon in Palestine was destroyed, nothing would happen. That's already been proved. Israel could destroy Palestine any time they wanted....completely obliterate it. This horrific attack might just do it, too.
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  2456.  Lysander  Of course not. You'd let over 100 people, who just smashed the gate and were yelling obscenities, come marching onto your lawn, towards your home and you make them lemonade. I think you're full of it. They SMASHED a gate. YOU SAW THE VIDEO. You know it's true. They walked right past the "No Trespassing" sign. Over 100 of them. You know that this is true, yet you still maintain that these "peaceful protesters" were doing nothing wrong. Not only are you full of it.....you're a bald faced LIAR. ....or else you're a troll, one of bottom feeders of the internet.
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  2457. From what I've read in the comment sections, their is a big segment of the voting block who are convinced that there's nothing to be done. That voting block will continue to vote the way that they always have because they're not even trying to prepare for the inevitable.
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  2458.  @Joshua-gt7pz  Do you know what? Who cares. I don't live the life of the wealthy. I live my life. If I spend all my time looking at everyone else's pile, then I'm not attending to what I have. That's all that matters. What I can do. I don't need to be rich to be able to say that I've accomplished things or that my lack of money is a roadblock to getting ahead. There are millionaires who are addicts, have emotional problems even end their lives in despair. I wouldn't WANT their lives. Live your own life to the best of your ability and pursue your own path to happiness and remember, it's NOT the destination but the journey that brings satisfaction.
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  2459.  Anna Maric  I'm NOT American. I'm Canadian. Of course you won't read what I wrote. If it doesn't validate your world view, it's not worth reading and people like you dismiss it. Have fun in your bubble. It'll feel good to have people pat you on your head and tell you how wonderfully correct you are on everything.
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  2460.  @ancientlink116  Are there STILL people going on about Putin?? Mueller report....nothing. Mueller testifies.....nothing. Adam Schiff's incontrovertible evidence.....nothing. Yet, even with all that inability to come up with any evidence that Trump and Putin colluded, you still won't accept it. I suppose the lack of evidence is evidence of guilt or some such nonsense. Get over it.
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  2461.  @Wallychans  What troubles me is that these women may NOT be low hanging fruit.
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  2462. Nice use of a literary analogy.
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  2463. @Jackson Lake I just found a representative of the reason that infrastructure is so expensive in the US. No sense of irony or humour or priority. Just reflex negativity.
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  2464.  @AnthonyAbbett  Go away, troll.
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  2465. NO....NO....NOOOO!!!!! Her ancestors came to America, LEGALLY. Get that.....LEGALLY!!!! She has been speaking out against people who are sneaking across the border ILLEGALLY. Do you see the difference. One does it LEGALLY. The other does it ILLEGALLY. Why is this so difficult to understand. Listen to what she's saying. It's like saying that a person shoplifting is the same thing as someone buying the same product. Or someone sneaking into a concert while others have to pay and then getting upset when concert security kicks out the guy that sneaks in and comparing him to the person who paid big bucks to get in. One is LEGAL. The other is ILLEGAL I just don't get why this is so difficult to understand.
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  2466.  @TheRichie213  The truth of the crystal ball. Wish I had one. I could win the lottery. ISIS is not a created boogeyman. They existed and were wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq. One of Trump's main election platform issues was getting out of these wars so it might be in everyone's best interest to support that. If he goes to war somewhere else, criticise that. Don't make up a war, that hasn't even happened yet, and then make a comment on that.
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  2467. Jesus said to "Love thy neighbour". There are no qualifications to this. No "love the perfect neighbour" or white neighbour or Christian neighbour. It's "Love thy neighbour"....Period. You got a big thumbs up from me.
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  2468.  @Mike-xw4gm  Is that you, Jessica? How to use the system to up your bank account. It may not be ethical but it sure is profitable. Nice work.
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  2469.  @gunnart1305  Yes, but he's said that IF he was Italian, he would have followed him. However, he wasn't Italian so he never did follow him. My dad grew up in war time Holland about 20 miles from the German border. That made him one of the good guys. He's told me of how he and his brother, hid in a ditch, in fear and awe, at the back of the family farm and watched German troops file past for a couple of hours. They hid because they were afraid. My dad is certain that had he been born 20 miles to the east of the German border, in Germany, he would have patted the backs of the German soldiers on their way to invade Holland, goose stepping alongside of them and dreaming of the day that he, too could be marching with them. That artificial line on the map made a huge difference on how he saw the world at the time. That's what Churchill was talking about. Most people don't realise that they would likely have been Nazis had they been born in Germany and were alive during the Nazi era. We like to think that we're that intrinsically good that we'd have resisted the lure of Hitler but if we believe that, we're fooling ourselves.
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  2470.  John Jourdan  Man....you're one miserable SOB. Short enough for you? His comment isn't that big a deal that you should lose your crap over it.
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  2471.  @mistymountainhopper  Acosta asked a question that included an accusation of Trump being a racist as assumed fact. Why would anyone feel obligated to answer that type of question? It's insulting. If you want to talk about editing the film, why did this video stop short of when that intern got up to reach for the mike? Acosta even made a disparaging remark, calling into question her legitimacy as an intern. Yet CNN chose not to show her getting up from her squatting position to get that mike so we could all see exactly what he did and proving that he did, quite rudely, redirect her hand away from the mike. You may think that I'm a Trump supporter but I'm not. The fact is, Acosta was being aggressive and insulting and no one, no matter who that person is, should feel that they must allow others to treat you the way that Acosta was treating the President or that intern.
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  2472.  Leonard Chornomaz  The copyright already exists. They used to ask for a copy of the material being copyrighted when one was applying. You're under no obligation, under the law, to apply for a copyright for anything you publish. Also, if it is true, as he claims, that no other publisher has ever heard of this law, then it would seem that this guy is being targeted for some egregious reason that we're not privy to. He's claiming that this law hasn't been applied in years, decades. If you can show that this is a part of every day procedure in the publishing business, TODAY, then you'd have a case. If he is correct, then this is just the actions of an arbitrary and autocratic bureaucrat and really doesn't serve the interests of anyone but that specific bureaucrat.
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  2473.  Leonard Chornomaz  It would appear that he is going to challenge it in court. Also, I've never heard of a law that required you to copyright written material. Is that REALLY a law. We must apply to copyright everything we print? According to this, it isn't mandatory. This is a summary but it does link to the copyright law at the US Copyright Office. If that's so, then this guy did nothing wrong. https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=Do-I-Have-to-Register-My-Copyright-Claim
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  2474.  @arigold7664  I have a small amount of money invested in the stock market. My returns have been incredible. That reflects the success of the economy. Low unemployment and wages increasing at a rate not seen in years. When the employment market is near full, it's difficult to shave off more of the unemployment numbers. It becomes more and more difficult to find people to fill jobs that are going unfilled. That's a realistic fact of economics.
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  2475. Aromatherapists. They're doctors aren't they? LOL.
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  2476. Great show but please don't leave us Lauren. We need people with common sense here in Canada. Try Eastern Ontario. It's not as bad here as it is in Quebec. I'm going out for supper and a few beers in a couple of hours. Looking forward to it.
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  2477.  Red Reddington  That reporter deserved it. He asked a question designed to trap the president. If Trump had said, not to worry, that things will work out, he'd spin it into "Trump downplays the dangers of Covid-19. We need a president who will stand up and fight this disease." No matter what he said, that reporter would have spun it to trash this press conference designed to inform the public. It was a question that didn't do ONE thing to help the situation. It was a question to incite dissension and chaos, something we don't need right now. As for a disgusting person, man....do you fit the bill.
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  2478.  @gjc7993  Nothing wrong with being rich. It's when you believe that you're socially and intellectually superior when you give yourself permission to treat the others like inferiors. That those inferiors lack the capacity to lead productive and "safe" lives. That's when they become dangerous. Leftist elites showed that disdain in the 2016 elections with the way they looked down their noses at those living in "flyover" USA. The deplorables, hillbillies that can barely read or write....racists, homophobes, sexist troglodytes who must be led and not left to their own devices. "White people have to learn "this". White people have to do "that". Dirty little Walmart shoppers. That's NOT a Republican attitude. Bill Maher summed it up when he said that Middle Americans are jealous of people like him and want to be like those like him.....the elitist left wing. No conservative is included in those ranks. They're ridiculed and laughed at and when they do become rich, they're called greedy and ruthless, unlike the rich left, the woke elitists of the big cities and Hollywood. Forever preaching at the rest of America, telling them how to speak, think, act and denigrating everything that the "deplorables" value. Things like individual freedom, hard work, respect, and the value of family. I was once a left wing liberal, but I've found that something has changed. I can't treat others the way that they do. I don't think ordinary people are deplorables and I refuse to treat them that way.
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  2479.  @MeMeWeWeWe  You've not been following the news, have you. People, who come up to you, get into your face, telling you to quit doing something, when all you're doing is your job, you'd have every reason to be afraid of what he's going to do next. Crime is a huge problem in the US and delivery drivers are quite often targeted by thieves. How are you to know if these guys weren't going to mug you and punch you in the face or worse? If you're going to act the idiot, intimidating ordinary people, be prepared for the consequences. Someone will panic, maybe because of past experience, and defends himself. The poor guy was just doing his job.
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  2480.  @robforge7667  When something bad happens to you, you do feel it more deeply. I would feel horrible when someone lost a child, especially when it was someone that I knew, but I never knew how earth shattering it was until it happened to me. Also, a changing wind may end up with a person looking at things in a way that they've never done before. Once you're willing to do that, you may find that you've been wrong all along. If it happens all the time to someone, it's difficult to take them seriously but Ana has been consistent for year about her left wing beliefs. She's had to face the consequences of those beliefs and that can really change you. There's only one thing worse than lack of empathy and that is misplaced empathy. Those who feel empathy, inappropriately, do so with the blessings of their conscience and that can be very satisfying and destructive. We're experiencing misplaced empathy on a societal level and it's tearing our country apart.
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  2481. You have your reasons for thinking the way you do, others have their reasons. Doesn't make either one of you more right than the other. That you both show respect, even when optically it might not appeared to be deserved, is the important thing. You're quibbling over the details. You're talking about a value based on truth. Prager is talking about a value based on truth personified. In reality, it's the same thing.
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  2482.  @fritzvanlonden1388  Both terrible incidents. Those 2 Marines that were beaten by Antifa thugs too, and called ethnic slurs because they were of Hispanic heritage. The left news hardly covered it because Antifa is against Trump. Those Black Israelites were mostly ignored as well. It's ok if you're a minority or far left, but as soon as you show that you might support Trump, even if you're a minority, you're fair game. MSM has become a disgusting self serving ideologues. I hope Nick Sandmann sues the pants off all of them.
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  2483.  @carter_1  It's the Marxist influenced port modernist ideology at work. The hierarchy of oppression and those who are oppressed (supposedly) are allowed to fight back against their oppressor. It's how they see all conflicts. It's why they back Muslims all the time, as well. Christians are bad because they're the oppressor. It doesn't matter that Muslims have oppressed in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia for centuries. They couldn't beat the Europeans so they must have been oppressed. They always side with those they see as the loser in a conflict, even imaginary differences. It's even why they wish so fervently that this Smollett story was true. They need conflict or they have no ideology....nothing to believe in. They thrive on fomenting hate and division all the while claiming to be the champions of inclusivity. They're liars and hypocrites.
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  2484.  @sheypanadoyle46  It's the "woe is me" culture.
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  2485. ​ @XerxezsX  "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt. You're another one who talks about the man and never about what he's talking about. Hopefully, someday you'll graduate to talking about events. Ideas are too much to hope for at this time.
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  2486.  @TommyBNSF  I give up. Who said it? Who said it and when was it said?
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  2487.  Arminius  Just what we need. More authoritarians, like Antifa, roaming the country and acting like screaming banshees.
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  2488.  @supervastgut1568  He really was. He was arrested under suspicion of being in the Dutch underground. They sent him to Westerbork because it was only a few miles from where he lived and it was convenient. They started to round up prisoners to load the train and he was among them. A guard recognised him and took him out of the line. He was sent to the POW camp, in Texel, a week later and spent the rest of the war, imprisoned there. There's a big story around that camp, too. My brother went with him, years later, for his first trip back to Texel. While there, he met another ex-POW, who just happened to be revisiting for his first time. The guy recognised my uncle and apparently they had quite a long talk about their time there. My family has a lot of war stories and everyone, concerning the Nazis, were bad ones. The Nazis were hated with a passion and still are in Holland.
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  2489.  @4gma59  I think that you're correct but I know people who didn't know that left leaning women can act this way. When they realised how crazy they can get, they started to actually look into the ideas that drives us. When they heard the truth of us, they changed how they thought. So, for guys like you and I, it's in spite of them. For the guys who changed, quite often it's BECAUSE of those nuts.
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  2490.  @billbombshiggy9254  I don't see your original comment either. Apparently, we're both doing something right.
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  2491. @Fennerex V Languages ARE made up but it wasn't FORCED on people. No one said, thousands of years ago, that you MUST use these specific words or you would face legal retribution. This is what's wrong with making up words or changing their meaning, intentionally, and then demanding that everyone use them or ELSE. That's what Fascists did. Say "Heil Hitler" or face the Nazi mob and authorities. It should be a natural progression, an evolution of language that has always been the case. Force is the tactic of brutal authoritarians.
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  2492.  @lordbread2083  RACIST!!!! RACIST!!!! RACIST!!!!! That's all you guys ever yell. Do you now what that obsession got us. In Italy, the mayor of Florence said that the travel ban from China was racist and that the Italians should hug a Chinese person to show him how virtuous they are. It went on for days. A lot of dead Italians to show for it. Then in New York, Mayor De Blasio and the head of his health department said the same thing and told New Yorkers to go on as usual, to go to their favourite nite spots and ride the subways. Nothing to worry about. Trump was just racist. Then to show how virtuous they were, they told everyone to go to the Chinese New Year's parade. Not everything is racist. The Chinese government covered up how bad the disease actually was and arrested 8 heroic doctors who tried to warn the rest of the world. One of them died from the coronavirus. Most of those who are always accusing others of racism are only narcissistic and pompous jerks, who are trying to show the world how wonderful they are. They see everything through the lens of race....EVERYTHING. They're the most divisive people in the country, posing as friends of the downtrodden.
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  2493.  @carlaneal6532  Merit. Only the BEST players, in the world, get to play in the NFL. YOU HAVE TO BE GOOD!!!! Nothing else counts. Not your race. Not your sex, religion, home town......NOTHING ELSE....and they get paid millions to do it. Players, who call themselves minorities, will make more in 6 months work, than you will in your entire life. We are now living in a time where there guilt is always assumed. No matter what, it's "that doesn't mean it's not a racists league". Guilt, always, continuous and no possible way to prove innocence. You don't have to show racism. All you have to do is accuse. The accusation is the proof. It's become insane.
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  2494. Not everyone in California is leftist progressive. They work hard and believe in personal responsibility. That's who the progressive left targets. They hate those types. They hate the independents that work on their own. They want to control them and NOW they are doing just that. They're controlling the writers of that state and these independent, small business owners are out of business. These business owners don't want it, don't deserve it and are suffering for it. The happy people in California are the left. The right in California are being attacked. They DON'T deserve it.
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  2495.  @Peter7966  I've read the Antifa handbook and you're absolutely right. If you're not a Marxist, you're a Fascist and they're always on the hunt for the tiniest sign to prove that you are, indeed, a Fascist. It's a horrible ideology.
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  2496.  @eta2380  What should be done should have been done months, even YEARS, ago. Shutting the barn door AFTER the cows get out accomplishes nothing.
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  2497. I think that she's doing that every day. She's doing it right now, in this video. I'd rather have her speak out about what she knows than to have her get down on her knees and beg our forgiveness. Get over yourself. She made a mistake. It's not about apologising for it. It's what you're going to do about it. It's action.....not contrition, that will help solve our issues.
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  2498.  @michaelmacleod6517  Get over MYSELF? I'm not the one crying over some slight that you think that she committed against you. Maybe you should take some blame for it, yourself. I knew better than to support her. What was wrong with you? YOU fell for it. I didn't. What's wrong with your thinking process that you actually supported something that is quite obviously WRONG. You should have to apologise to us for YOU supported, in the past, according to your way of thinking. Your support of the Democrats harmed this country, BIG time. But, of course, I really don't believe that you should apologise, at all. I understand that people make mistakes. I accept it and move on. I don't live in the past because there's nothing that I can do to change it. What I can do is to try to do the things that make our lives better today and tomorrow. All you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face because of your resentment. It's all about you. Get over yourself. Accept that mistakes, in judgement, were made and start doing the work that will improve things.
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  2499.  @RagaSHOT  God.....you're an idiot. We don't like looting and burning down businesses. We don't like people showing up, in the middle of the night, at people's homes. He never said word ONE about Trump, you obsessed nut.
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  2500. Americans live in a Constitutional Republic that uses a democratic process to govern the country and yet is limited to the provisions set in the Constitution. So it is both, but a Constitutional Republic first.
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  2501.  @ridervillian  Yes it is. However, those elected representatives can only act within the guidelines of the Constitution. Any action, law, initiative or what have you, must be legal within the Constitution. If it contravenes and article within the Constitution, it can and will be found to be illegal in court proceedings. That's why it's a Democratic Constitutional Republic. It is a Republic first and we use the Democratic process to maintain the everyday decisions that is needed to run the country.
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  2502. It's worse than 9/11, Hiroshima and the Black Death all rolled into one. People will be talking about where they were when Congress burst into song. So epic. So stunning. "We shall overcome". So deep, too. I think I'm going to cry.
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  2503.  @tailgunner8683  What does Trump have to do with a good education or giving our children to tools to think in a logical and subjective manner? STAY ON TOPIC!!!!!! Trump isn't the president and this is a local school board issue. Man.....the Trump Derangement Syndrome has sure taken hold of your brain to the extent that's all you can think about no matter the topic at hand.
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  2504.  Mark Lanzarotta  First of all, Republicans and Democrats are American citizens, so you can't deport them. Second, what kind of traitor wants to protect the border of his own country? What kind of logic is that? Have you ever travelled to another country? Unless you present a valid passport, you don't stand a chance of entering any other country on the planet. Try it. They won't let you in. Yet, for some reason, Democrats think that people should be allowed to enter the US, no passport, no questions asked, just come on in. Come on in by the millions and give them free healthcare, welfare, education, a driver's licence and then let them work for depressed wages at the those famous jobs that "Americans refuse to do". "Who's going to clean your toilets?" Well....them foreigners, of course. Lefties want to call Republican racists but they're the real racists, hiding behind a cloak of virtue but, in reality, exhibiting hate towards anyone that disagrees with them.
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  2505.  @Clare-tea  God didn't give you a funny bone when you were born? Don't worry. You can self identify as funny and we'll all laugh "with" you. I'm LMAO already.
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  2506.  @techguy9023  My God.....is everything about Trump in your world? You gotta let go of your obsession. "It's raining" "I'll bet it's not raining in Trump's world" What's with this weird Trump fascination?
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  2507.  @Htxtonytony  If you don't want secure borders and cheap reliable energy, vote Biden. If you do, vote Trump. They have taken opposite stances on it. Now.....explain to us why secure borders is a bad thing. Tell us why poor Americans should be held down by high energy prices. This I gotta hear.
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  2508.  @mbmb8397  A real woman??? She refused to answer the question that was asked of her and there is only one reason why. If she supported what the governor has said today, she'd have to say that she approves of killing a baby AFTER the baby was born. She didn't want to do that so she talked about everything else but that. She's as dishonest as it comes and that's not being a "real" woman. It's being deceitful.
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  2509.  @J.Green-Rx  Where did I say that i didn't think that they should comply with codes? I never said that or even implied it. That's something that YOU just made up. These "grifters" are making bank off of your handicap and targeting ordinary people who are trying to better themselves. ONCE AGAIN, this woman said that she was willing to comply but she STILL had to pay a huge lawyers bill on top of the repairs. Why should this ambulance chaser get rich off of people, like yourself. I suppose that you think that it's okay to get your way through unethical means, but I don't think that the leeches, of society, should be encouraged to fleece people who didn't even realise that these changes had to be made. No one said that you should go all over looking for code violations. All you have to do is notice them when you're out and about and bring it to the attention of the business owners. If every handicapped persons did that you wouldn't have to scam good, honest people. It would be done through ethical and honest means.....which of course means nothing to those without integrity.
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  2510. I believe that religion and science, in their own ways, both constitute the search for truth. An impossible objective but necessary and laudable.
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  2511. If you don't like the terms of a bank loan, don't deal with them. It's that simple. There are other ways. Most people want the quick and easy way to get the success our grandparents worked so hard to find. Find your own way and 20 years from now, you'll be glad that you did.
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  2512. Cute saying but how does that apply to the activist teachers? That saying doesn't answer every question. Many people are swayed, heavily, by ideological rhetoric. Give them a religion, even this weird activist and progressive religion, and they'll fall into a craziness that's beyond comprehension. History is rife with examples of mob insanity and we don't ever listen.
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  2513.  @petergallo7997  Are you STILL flogging that nonsense. Those famous pictures of kids in cages were taken during the Obama administration. Easy to prove. Now Biden is opening those camps, AGAIN, in Homestead, Florida. Quit being a troll.
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  2514.  @rockyseverino9230  I grew up on a farm, about 2 miles from "podunk", around 250 people where we went to school. I am the stereotype of a farm boy, slopping pigs, milking cows, mending fences and slaving in a garden under a hot sun. I was doing this at 12 years of age. This was in the sixties. Strangely enough, there was a kid that was definitely transgender about 5 doors down from where I lived (about a mile and a half away LOL). It was obvious even before he went to school. I'm 70 years old now and he's still the only legitimate transgender that I've ever known or met. I get it but I will NEVER support what's happening now and that insanity is coming from the left and the Democrat party. This weirdness has become some kind of trademark of the left and it makes no sense to me. I have more in common with the rural types who seem to be more self reliant and expect that of others. Victimhood is seen as weakness. Stand up with head held high, do what has to be done, quit complaining and take responsibility when you screw up. It's how we find success and how we find meaning to our lives. It has nothing to do with race, gender or even your religion. It has everything to do with being a "salt of the earth" human being.
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  2515.  @catritz  Because when I'm annoyed with someone, I just avoid them. If they frighten me, I can't just avoid them. I have to hide from them. Fear implies danger and that danger may out of my control. Annoyance doesn't imply danger. I've yet to be afraid of someone that I find annoying.
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  2516.  @TheLittlered1961  I watch him for one reason. He's telling us what the mainstream media won't tell us. I know people that don't know anything about Antifa except what they've heard on CNN. He supports the truth, no matter what it is. What you do with it is up to you. He's not telling what to think. He's telling you the truth and if you were smart you'd listen and use it when you need to make a point. It's better to get the truth from a known neutral source than one that is always on one side, no matter what. I don't care about a person's political beliefs. I care about the facts. Tim Pool provides them. That's good enough for me.
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  2517.  @AndreAnyone  Ok, Justin Blackface. We know it's you. Nice try to make them look bad but we all know what's going on.
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  2518.  TheWhiteWhale  Most of us are aware of stereotypes of all kinds. However, it's not the first thing to cross my mind, even when a stereotype is invoked. I didn't think Jews when I saw those goblins. I didn't think Jews when I first saw the Ferengi of Star Trek. Once pointed out, I saw it but I still didn't think any differently of the Jews. I just not obsessed with racial caricatures to the extent many on the left are. It's as if some people are on the lookout for these stereotype depictions and other verbal gaffes and file the information away to use as a weapon in case the creator upsets them in some distant future. It's an easy game to play as almost everyone has said or done something in the past that might be seen as questionable. It's no more than a small minded tactic for small minded people.
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  2519. Calculus at 8 years old? Grade 3 calculus? In 1960, we were learning multiplication and division in grade 3, a long way from calculus or even algebra or geometry. What high school did you go to and where is it?
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  2520.  @nikkivenable3700  Life is ultimately tragic. I know that to be true because we're all going to die someday. I'd rather face it with a smile on my face and defeat the tragedy with joy and humour. I get one shot at this life and I'm not going to let the tragedy rule me. As the Reader's Digest used to say...Laughter is the best medicine.
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  2521.  @Confusion.and.Delay...  I laugh at Stelter. Who has nightmare's about a guy that makes you laugh.
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  2522. You have, at some point, start dismissing the criticism. That doesn't mean that you don't care although one may have reasons to use that hyperbole, it means that you're not going to let it get to you. You consider it, consider its validity, its source and then dismiss it or not, on its merits. Saying "I don't care" circumvents the long winded explanation I just gave and, in the end, means exactly the same thing.
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  2523.  @Superman_305  Semantics. Tomaaato....tomato. I don't see the word "activist" as a good thing. There are teachers that want to turn our kids into "activists". Activists are NOT nice people, anymore....not in my book. It's what the left and the MSM media calls them and if that's how they use that word then "activist" is a dirty word, as far as I'm concerned.
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  2524.  Ronan James  Then quit buying their products!!!!! The fact that you're on social media proves that you're one of the blind and stupid people that they're "stealing" from. The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  2525. Watch this interview. This doctor explains how the virus works and what he's been doing to fight it. He's from New York and has dealt with it. He says that the Hydroxychloroquine treatment, along with zinc and a antibiotic to stave other infections, has been VERY successful. Quite interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJdjhd_XG8
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  2526.  @Terralventhe  I'm going to guess that you tried to send a link for me to see. If that's the case, try a different angle. Do this, as an example. What about the time "Joe Blow" the journalist did (fill in what he did) and Trump tried to have him arrested? Something like that. I could devise my own search query from that information and find links for myself. I mean, Google allowed you to send me a comment in which you accused them of something I'd call unethical. Give an example without any outside links, just the basics of the story that you want me to see. That might work.
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  2527. @StrategicPrepper A lot of us don't want our dollars spent on foreign projects but that doesn't mean that we have ZERO dollars spent to help others. It's the stupid funding, like the money to Pakistan for gender studies or whatever. I'd also say that most Americans don't want to see Israel unable to protect themselves from shelling from foreign adversaries. If the American public objected strongly to this, the members of Congress would hear about it.
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  2528.  @SlayerSantiago  Florida is thriving. People are leaving the Democrat states, like California and New York and moving to Florida. They've hardly lost any businesses over the last 2 years, construction is booming, race riots were next to non-existent and Covid numbers followed population numbers. I'm not really sure why anyone would have a problem with DeSantis.
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  2529.  @SlayerSantiago  Call me a name and you win the "argument". You're quite the intellectual, aren't you. Try saying something substantial. Any 7 year old can call people names. It takes thought and logic to actually present a case that might have some value. Show us that you're capable of it.
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  2530. gwanael34 I know of places where they get no wages at all and people would do anything to work there but no one ever quits. I work as a bartender right now and get paid 12.50 and hour and that's not bad but it's not a living wage where I live. I more than double that most nights and would't be able to live if it weren't for the tips. What small business owner is going to pay 30 bucks an hour for help. These aren't all big conglomerates. I work for a small, hole in the wall pub, owned by a married couple, and it's not a gold mine by any stretch of the imagination. Even at 3 bucks an hour wage, I'd still be approaching at least 18 to 20 bucks an hour on average. Not great but not bad. Like it or not, take away tipping and we WOULD be making sweat shop wages. Anyone that would guilt trip to get tips is a lousy server. A busy establishment attracts customers and we will make up your decision to not tip over the evening. I tip cabbies quite generously as well. I live on a long driveway and this one cabbie would drop me off on the street, even when it was raining. I never tipped him. He told his fellow cabbies I was a cheap SOB and they all laughed at him and told him that it was him that was the lazy SOB and I always tipped them. Next time I drew him as a cabbie, he drove me to my door and I tipped him. I didn't know that he'd been told yet and was informed a couple of weeks later. You get what you pay for and you pay for what you get. You just don't like parting with your money.
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  2531. Prophet seven I'd say, by reading your comment, that you've never worked in the service industry for a living. I have 14 years in and I'm still there, right now and I'm leaving for my bartending job in 20 minutes. I guarantee you that everyone that I've ever worked with will tell you the same. Leave the system alone. We're doing very well with it the way it is. Notice how it's multi-millionaires, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, that are speaking on our behalf. I never asked them to and I don't want it, either. I work in a small pub and if the owners had to pay me what I make now in wages and tips, they'd be forced to, either lay me off, or shut it down. There's no way they could afford it. I'm no idiot. I see the ring offs at the end of the day and I know, approximately how much they make and they just couldn't do it. All you're doing is shutting down another business and it helps no one.
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  2532.  @ronaldo19832  Which may or may NOT be true but last year's president can't fix it. Only the current president can do that. So you're pleas to Trump are useless and get over him. It's up to Biden now. To throw up your hands and say it's all Trump's fault solves NOTHING. If Biden fixes the problem, good on him. If he doesn't, it's now HIS failure.
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  2533. Jorge Zorros Xamaica We're all so grateful that we have people like you who are willing to make those profound insights that usually get past the rest of us lowly primates. So in depth, so concise. I'll bet you even graduated high school. I wish you had a YouTube channel. That would be the boss.
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  2534.  @guaporichard  The unfortunate ones, the largest in the United States, live in a Blue state, who are supposed all about looking after the downtrodden. Yet, California has, by far, the largest homeless population in the country. Many aren't because they've fell on hard times. They're suffering from mental issues and severe addictions and the politicians aren't doing a thing about it. Even if you've managed to get by as a blue collar guy, there are a lot of people who're handicapped (mental illness is a handicap) who can't get by and the state of California won't help them or provide housing or mental health care. The fact is, California is losing population and there's a reason for that. There's no place on the planet that's perfect and there never has been, but for a beautiful state, there should be no way that people are leaving. Especially a state that's run by a party that claims to care about those who are in dire straits. It might be good for you but there's obviously a lot of people that are unhappy.
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  2535.  @lilbagel456  It's OUR fault because this is a new phenomenon that wasn't part of the mainstream culture 20 years ago. 99% of the people hadn't even considered this type of thing in the year 2000. Suddenly, if you don't automatically do as they DEMAND, you're a bigot. I'm 70 years old and in my entire life, I've only met 3 people that were legitimately transgender. It's no different for most people. You can't expect change, that drastic and not expect some pushback. It's the new ideology of group identity that's causing this. I worked with 2 transgenders and it was over 40 years ago at different workplaces. That's it. Now I'm going to be labelled a bigot because I believe that they have biological issues that are no different than my brother in law who was a thalidomide baby. Their existence is to be respected but existence is to respected as well. It's not a one way street. You can't force me to say what I don't believe to be true no more than I can force you to do the same. It's our right to have our opinions. Opinions hurt no one. Taking away their rights do.
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  2536.  @daasdasdasdasd-j5w  I believe that but that's not how they're coming off. When on stage, all they talk about is Trump. It's also telling that it's only 3 of them. If you're running for president you SHOULD have a detailed platform. It's ridiculous to run and not stand for anything. I'd say that your comment actually presents a weak argument.
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  2537.  @theeuphioanswer770  I know what it is and it's an horrific ideology. It pits race against race. No one is against building fields for underprivileged youth. We're against making it about race. Build all the fields that is needed, just don't segregate them into fields of equity where kids are excluded due to the colour of their skin. I reject the idea that we are to judge a person by the colour of their skin first and foremost. That's KKK talk. They believed in that very concept. Now suddenly, race is all we hear about. At schools, in politics, in sports, in entertainment. Race has become everything. CRT is the most hateful ideology to hit the US since Jim Crow.
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  2538. Years ago, I was severely gaslit by a woman. I didn't realise how bad it was till the relationship was over. It'll never happen again. Today, I wouldn't have had a discussion with that naked bungee jumper. "I'm out" and then I'd walk away. She wouldn't have had the chance to gaslight me.
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  2539.  rolandbcool  What the hell does that even mean?
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  2540.  @jeremiahfitzwinkle323  Brilliant.....BRILLIANT!!!!!! I'm overwhelmed. You're like a Plato, a Descartes or a David Hume. You need your own school.
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  2541.  @taekwondoguy6039  I wouldn't get mad if I was sleeping at the home of white supremacists, so afraid of the potential violence associated with sleeping there that I felt the need to sleep with a gun in my hand. It wasn't as if he was sleeping at grandma's house and the police just shot him. He was in the home of someone wanted for murder and it would appear he KNEW that there was a potential for violence. You're just another guy obsessed with their racial hatred.
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  2542.  @KelliRocks  If that woman shamed him for being an immigrant and successful, SHE is the one that should be ashamed of herself. His immigration status is irrelevant and I'd want a president who's has had great success. If that was how she behaved, it was reprehensible.
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  2543.  @jodieholmes8453  Did you hear what the governor of Virginia said today concerning abortion of babies right up to the point of labour? I don't expect an answer. I expect you to do what this woman did while talking to Tucker. You'll address everything except what that governor said and he said nothing about Roe vs Wade, Kavanaugh, Trump or Republicans. The governor said this. He believes that a woman can decide to abort a baby right up until labour begins. Then he described how this would be done. The baby would be allowed to be born and would be made comfortable. Then the mother would decide, after consultation with her doctor, whether to allow the baby to continue to live or not. If she decides to not allow the baby to live, what they're describing as abortion, he did NOT say how they would terminate the life of this baby. What do you think about this? That's the question Tucker was asking her and I'm asking you.
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  2544.  THE ONLY Johnson  No one is a true individualist. Our society depends on individuals with the right to choose to cooperate with one another. That's what conservatism is all about. Individual determinism and the freedom to determine your own destiny within the broader society. "Choose" is the operative word. It's not that we won't work in a group. As a matter of fact, we welcome that choice. The police are a collective and we, the individualists that we are, support them.
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  2545.  @GeorgeMonet  He wants, as I do, for the local governments, to do their job. Call in the National guard, arrest the rioters and prosecute them. THAT'S the way to end this violence. When you're doing 5 to 10, you're not out rioting, are you? He's railed against the local DAs releasing the rioters non-stop. That's our problem, right now. Democrat District Attorneys, Mayors, Governors and MSM, who have been sympathetic to the rioting, is what has to change. It's one of the reasons that Tim is voting Republican for the first time in his life.
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  2546. 30 thousand dollars at 500 bucks a day is 60 days or 8 weeks. Had the city sent a worker over to mow his lawn, they could have charged him the cost of the worker, I'd say around 100 bucks. That way the lawn would be up to standards and the man could have kept his house. That would be the neighbourly thing to do and what a good caring government bureau would do. Even better, they could have hired the work out to a small lawn care business who would do the work at a reasonable rate. However, that doesn't line their pockets.
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  2547.  @jesusenki8509  I've not been to San Francisco but I know people who have and I have no reason to doubt what they've told me. It validates what I've seen on TV and the internet. Also, in the last 2 years, I've been to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, the Netherlands and the Canadian Maritimes and am planning a trip to either Costa Rica or Cuba this winter. I've seen a good part of the world.
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  2548.  @greatscott9838  You couldn't pay me enough to live in any suburb of any city in the US. I can't blame Tim for leaving Philly. Those cities are rotten to the core.
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  2549. @ Once again, every Jew was FORCED to leave Gaza in 2005. There was not ONE Israeli in Gaza until, this is important, Hamas sent soldiers into Israel, killed, sexually abused and took hostages back into Gaza with them. Hamas FORCED Israelis to go to Gaza and held them there against their will. These were the only Israelis in Gaza since 2005. That is a fact and yes...facts DON'T care about your feelings. All IDF was doing was responding to an attack from Gaza into Israel on Oct 7/23 which killed over 1000 unarmed civilians. You should use logic and facts when you make a comment instead of your baseless, emotional responses. You're not a prepubescent child. You're an adult. Act like one.
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  2550.  Beaye Malphas  That's the second time that I've seen you make that claim. Now, show us how you know this. The big indicator for a solid financial future for any network is ratings. CNN ratings have been dropping quickly and Fox gets 3X the viewership as CNN does, especially in the 25 to 41 age group, the group that networks target. They can't continue to lose viewership in this manner and maintain advertising revenue. As an investor, I'd be afraid to leave my money there. They have to do better. Also, even it they revenue share is higher, it's the trend of the profit margin that is the indicator of a solid business. If you're trending up, that's good. If it is consistently moving downwards, a snap shot figure may not be telling all that is needed to indicate financial stability.
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  2551.  @elainekilgore1352  I would ask you to refrain from using gender specific pronouns except I can't keep a straight face.
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  2552. I was thinking the same thing as he was carrying on. I scrolled down to comment how I felt about listening to him and there you were, saying exactly what I was thinking. You nailed it.
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  2553.  @An.Unsought.Thought  Give it a rest. I'm Canadian. I'm also Dutch Canadian. My loyalty is to Canada and I have a place in my heart for my heritage. This isn't about heritage. It's about a government institution that's trying to vilify one of our own. If you approve of the government's actions...say so.
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  2554.  Goughs Bastard  No....you unfeeling jerk. There are women who being beaten up by their lesbian domestic partner. You may not care about them but there are those who do. The data shows that lesbian domestic violence is an issue. It's not about kinky sex. It's about violence, REAL violence. I'm right wing and I hate the idea of anyone getting beat up in a domestic relationship, including lesbians. It happens. A close friend of mine is lesbian and was badly beaten by her partner. It was horrific. However, you're implying that it's titillating. How to go.
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  2555.  @KemetledAfrica  " Sowell brings nothing new to the table" He does if you've not heard those points before....whatever those points are. I can't tell because your statement is so vague that it says nothing.
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  2556.  @DeTuks  Maybe he shouldn't have terminated that deal but all that Iran had to do is renegotiate. They didn't. All through that deal and after, Iran continually sent aid to recognised terror groups and fought proxy wars against the Saudis. When Trump terminated the deal, they became outraged and stepped up their military and financial support of those proxy wars and were met with sanctions with an invitation to sit and negotiate. Instead, they start with aggressive military action. Iran......sit down and negotiate. The invitation is open and has been publicly offered by Trump. Iran doesn't have to agree with everything that is on the table but compromise is part of negotiating.
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  2557.  @optimisticallycynical.814  "the 12 year old executed saudi arabia at 18 in saudi arabia had no gun" What does that even mean? Put down the pipe and go to bed.
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  2558.  @Somethingrandomlymadeup  His skin colour is not his doing. However, the stupid things he says is his doing. His stupidity is what makes him unlikeable.
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  2559. Where, in this video, did anyone explain the upside of slavery? This is something that you've added, that was never even suggested here.
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  2560.  @laurenhahn101  Because they're not focusing on running the best service possible. They're acting as if the personnel that they employ is more important than the customer and providing what the customer wants. Worse, it encourages the chaos and resentment that comes when the activist employee is looking for every misstep or misspoken word that their fellow employee makes instead of focusing on being the best employee that they can be. Everyone knows that the word "man" is a generic for all humans but can also be used to designate gender. They're creating a whole new list of swear words while abandoning the swear words of the past. It's telling people what to say and that's not only ethically wrong, it goes against the Constitution. That's what's wrong with it.
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  2561.  @emanuel81111  Making laws is important but quite often politicians and bureaucrats make laws just because they can. You end up with so many rules and regulations that you can't do anything because there's a law that stifles what you want to do. Micro-management is a bad business decision and that's how economies are destroyed.
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  2562.  @emanuel81111  "Making laws is important" That's the very first thing I said, before I said anything else. My point was about OVER regulation. So many laws that you will break a law everyday of your life no matter how law abiding you are. Just because I talked about too many laws, that doesn't mean I don't want any laws at all. It isn't one or the other. Why do people always take it to the extreme? Why can't we have a sensible median?
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  2563.  @Ck-zk3we  Elephants may well mourn the death of family members but they haven't reached the level of sophistication of abstract thought that humans have. They haven't tried to understand death in terms of life philosophy or why it would even happen. One could say that they're in the early stages of self awareness and that there is a difference between life and death. Humans were once at that point but as their ability to think and reason advanced, they developed new ideas to explain what the life/death process was actually about.
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  2564.  @bulletsfordinner8307  Actually, that's a myth that's told by African ivory hunters. It's akin to the myths around Eldorado or lost cities of gold. I've found no confirmation that this myth might be true. If you have a reference that counters it, I'd be happy to check it out.
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  2565.  @magicskyfairy69  Yet, the rioting and BLM started during the Obama presidency. I don't see any reason for it to stop just because Biden is the president. They started when he was vice president. Those rioters and looters could care less about politics. They just want to get them some free stuff.
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  2566.  @smurfie8412  Hello John. Being a weirdo again?
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  2567.  @quovadis7119  You're name is on public record as well. I guess I should go find it, get your phone number and your address, tell everyone on line and then imply that your political views are of the type that deserve harassment. Castro is a member of Congress. He's a leader. He's using his position, as a person of strong influence, to encourage his followers to harass people that he doesn't like. It's not quite an exhortation to violence but it's definitely one to encourage harassment and bullying. If you can't see that you're being wilfully blind and you approve of bullying people that you don't agree with.
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  2568.  Eilliw Nodrog  She was tough on crime because it suited her career. As soon as she wasn't the prosecutor, that tough stance left with her. It had nothing to do with her ideas of crime. It was all about personal ambition. She visited Jacob Blake, a man accused of sexual assault and ignoring a court order to stay away from his victim and she, the "tough on crime" ex-prosecutor, visited him in the hospital and told him that she was proud of him. An accused rapist. She provided money to bail out rioters in Minneapolis. Rioting is a crime and she helped to bail them out. Tough on crime....yeah right. She's an ambitious, ruthless opportunist, who cares about no one but herself.
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  2569.  @joe-di6zf  I'm not going to get into whether the elections are rigged or not. It's an argument that gets nowhere. The guy said something about how elections were suspended in Canada. I set him straight on the procedures. How honest those elections are is another topic. All I pointed out was how elections are called in Canada. That's my point. They guy doesn't know how elections are called and I explained it to him. The rest is behind the scenes conjecture and neither one of us knows what they're doing behind closed doors.
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  2570.  @WhyNotTruth  Once again, Twitter is NOT a private publication. It's an open online bulletin board.
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  2571.  Serafins Calise  I'm NOT American and I can tell by your other comments that your entire belief system is wrapped around calling everyone names and accusing them of being racists and bigots. One comment after another, basically saying the same thing. You really have little to say other than that.
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  2572. History? She's 29 years old. She's been an adult, if 18 is adulthood, for 11 years. How much history is that? She's only changed her political views once and being black and the political leanings that are expected of black people, she was, almost guarantied, to be a liberal growing up, until she started to learn about it, anyway. Education changed her mind. One change isn't exactly a pattern.
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  2573.  @trh-bee4383  If I go to work and MAKE money to pay my taxes, as opposed to sitting at home, not paying a cent and living off the social teat, I expect those taxes to pay for my illness, just like any other medical issue. If that were the case, people who smoke and get lung cancer, are on their own. Cirrhosis of the liver has to exclude, all those who drink, from socialised medicine. No assistance for the diabetics who are morbidly obese. If you play hockey and break your leg.....tough. You should have stayed home and watched TV, instead. If you catch your hand in a machine at work, through an error, get your brother-in-law to do the amputation. It's tough enough to get a family doctor, in Canada, so we can get health referrals and now YOU want medical tribunals to decide whether one deserves medical help from the only source of medicine that we're allowed to have. Socialised medicine sure is compassionate, isn't it?
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  2574.  @nice_sprite5285  Because killing another human being isn't something that a person does everyday. In spite of what some people think, most police officers never even fire their guns, on the job, in their entire career, let alone kill someone. Kyle Rittenhouse, even though the people he killed were scumbags, is bothered by what he HAD to do. He wanted the gun, that he used, destroyed because he didn't want people to morbidly treat it like a piece of the Cross or something. He's a decent guy that knows the life is special and to destroy a life isn't a game or an accomplishment even when it was the right thing to do. When killing becomes a source of pride, you've lost your soul.
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  2575.  @Sirxeko  My daughter, at 4 years old, needed stitches on her heel. She fought and full grown adults couldn't hold her down. They had to call for a male nurse, who weighed about 220 pounds to sit on her foot so they could freeze the heel so they could eventually put in 7 stitches. Some people watch too much TV.
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  2576.  @revavi  You've convinced me. That's the most convincing argument I've heard all in a long time. Also...I'm being extremely facetious, just in case you thought I was being serious.
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  2577.  mike a  If you compare degrees of "badness", you will have some that are worse than others. However, he still enforced his way to power and that I don't approve of. My brother went to the Soviet Union in the late seventies. This wasn't Stalin's country but it was no picnic, either.
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  2578.  @vtmerritt9987  That would be a great idea. Take the chance that the person under arrest won't lose his mind and cause the driver to crash into an oncoming car, killing all the occupants. To be fair to the arrested person.
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  2579. Sounds like a guy that can't control his emotions. He might find that professional counseling could teach a little self control.
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  2580. @Bryson Herazo He asked her a direct question and she refused to answer. This is basically the question. Should we be "aborting" babies after they've been born? This isn't a Tucker lie. It's a question and it doesn't matter who's asking it.
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  2581. @Bryson Herazo Then why are you not addressing the topic of this video. It isn't about Tucker or Hannity. It's about killing babies after they're born. That's the issue here. It doesn't matter who's asking the question. What matters is her answer to that question and she refused to answer it.
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  2582.  @abc33155  Repeating the same comment over and over again doesn't give that comment legitimacy. It will, however, expose you as a troll. I've just realised that no matter what I say, you'll never respond.
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  2583.  @JesusFriedChrist  He's definitely high on himself but he presents news stories as he sees them. I don't CARE about his opinions. Never have. What I care about is whether he's presenting his stories as truthful as possible. If I have access to the truth, I can come to my own conclusions. Sometimes I agree with Tim....sometimes I don't and it doesn't matter. I'm a big boy and people don't have to agree with me ALL the time.
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  2584.  @marisawright2224  What are you talking about? Cities are burning, stores are being looted, a man was murdered by a looter, in all 11 people are dead since these "protests" have started......and you're concerned about that? What is wrong with your priorities.
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  2585.  @roborob767  I don't call it a conflation. I don't care for Trump, as a person, all that much either. That doesn't make Biden any less corrupt. My feelings about Trump doesn't change how I feel about Biden one bit. Biden is a creepy, crooked individual. Trump's failings have NOTHING to do with Biden. Also, I'd vote for Trump, in SPITE of those failing because his strengths outweigh his bad points. I'd never vote for Biden because his strengths are not that strong and his failings, by FAR, outweigh his weaknesses. I'm not about to pretend that Trump is the greatest just because I'd vote for him. When I assess the candidates, I asses the good AND the bad, then I make the decision. NO ONE in human history is ALL good. I'm quite comfortable with that. I have to be because it's just the way it is.
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  2586. I'm not Israeli and I couldn't watch it either. I felt sick to my stomach.
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  2587.  @runtoth3abyss  Are you serious? Have you ever heard of the Russian Collusion election fiasco? The Democrats spent years calling Trump an illegitimate president, that he colluded with the Russians to steal the election. They spent 35 million on the Mueller Report and when it turned up nothing, they had this hearing where they called Mueller in to grill him on how he conducted his investigation and STILL nothing. Yet, Adam Schiff and Hilary were still going on about collusion after all this. The Dems and the media wouldn't shut up about it. Strangely, when the Democrats were accused of election fraud, the media said that was crazy, even saying that it was the most secure election in history. It would appear that the left can make those accusations and it's all okay but when the right does it.....conspiracy nuts. By the way, did you see what happened in the elections in NY City? Eric Adams, an ex-cop, who'd be a guy that the left automatically hates, noticed a problem with the numbers in the votes and the media started calling him a Trumpian conspiracy theorist. They didn't even bother to investigate. Turned out he was correct and the media just slunk away without a word. The media doesn't do journalism anymore. They're a left wing propaganda machine and people don't have the inclination or intelligence to even question them.
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  2588.  @SHREDTILLDEAD  You don't have to answer the question and he's not forcing you to. He doesn't have a gun to your head. However, if you don't want to engage with people, on the internet, don't engage with them by making comments.
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  2589.  @diegojines-us9pc  As attorney general she won't do anything. Legally there is nothing to be done when someone says something "mean". It's her job to follow the law. Imagine having the attorney general going after you because she claims that you're an idiot. That's almost as bad as going after parents for making complaints at school board meetings, wouldn't you say?
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  2590. A "no punishment" family? I've heard their defence of this. They say that punishment can only teach a child that might is right, that violence is the solution. LMAO!!!! They already know this. Every time you allow a child to hit you, you're teaching that child that violence DOES work. You're teaching that child how to manipulate people through the use of violence and that there will be a reward for their display of anger and violence. These parents keep doing the same thing over and over again and just can't fathom why the results never change.
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  2591.  @LovingPrinceTamayuki  You're taking things into the extreme meaning of the words. It's an exercise in semantics. I'm talking about within the confines of human existence. The Marxist authoritarian view of collectivism is the eradication of the individual as much as possible. The opposite is free agency, again as much as is possible. That doesn't mean that there's no way that individuals can work together. It means that there's a choice in degree of how we will work together or not. At least speak within the realm of possible human existence.
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  2592. Now she can claim that it wasn't HER that said it. Slimy as it gets.
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  2593.  @Colin22  No it wasn't. The Deep Throat tips were important to the investigation but 5 men had been arrested for the Watergate break in and they had money, burglary tools and electronic listening devices. The authorities had a crime. Those listening devices suggested some kind of plot and Woodward and Bernstein were assigned to cover that story. They were assigned to cover the Watergate break in. Deep throat gave tips to how deep this plot went. That anonymous tip implicated Nixon but the crime was already known long beforehand. There was no crime evident in this collusion investigation. A crime was alleged and then they went looking for evidence. They didn't even know if a crime had been committed, let alone who was responsible.
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  2594.  @jimmilne5549  Yes....it is a terrible thing to lose someone close to you and they have my deepest sympathy. I've lost a son to an accident and I know how devastating it is. However, it's not a reason to go completely off the rails, either. Planting a garden is NOT going to spread the virus. Common sense should be encouraged, not unbridled panic and emotional backbiting. People are supposed to have a brain between their ears. They should use them.
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  2595. @UCbp6XFXWKun_Az0p_kwZzzg Let's put it this way. Gay and lesbian people exist. It's childish to pretend that they don't. If they're going to exist and there's not a thing to be done about it, let them be like Dave Rubin and Arielle Scarcella. People who value freedom in all its forms. People who value freedom are the citizens that we need in this country and that includes those in the gay community. If you value freedom, you'll get it. If you don't....you're no different than the extreme leftists.
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  2596.  @himothydiedforthis  First of all, a nation doesn't flourish because someone gave it to them. The people have to work for it and work hard. Instead, the people of Gaza, which is an independent state, used all available cash to dig hundreds of miles of tunnels and bought all the military gear that their money could buy. Explain to me how that helps ANYONE in Gaza, other than the leaders of Hamas and arms dealers from other countries. Gaza, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, they're all examples of countries that expect success through the largess of others, instead of getting it for themselves. Envy is a powerful drug and it's completely destroyed the people of Palestine.
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  2597.  @chileanwey  If South American culture is keeping Venezuela down, then that culture has to change in order for them to grow, both economically and culturally. Why would you want them to stay down? You're dooming them to poverty and the loss of freedom and human dignity.
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  2598.  @savemoney5111  Israel has offered a 2 state solution, numerous times. They had maps drawn and even offered the Palestinians, the Muslims actually, more land than to Israel. However, the Muslims turned them down EVERY time. Now, since 2006, Gaza has been the homeland for Palestinians. Israel has assumed NO control over this strip. Gaza is now run by Hamas and they weren't elected. They've controlled Gaza ever since 2006. The Muslim leadership should have accepted the first 2 state offer the very first time, back in 1947. They would have had more land and the "freedom" that they're wailing about.....although I doubt very much that they'd have been happy with that freedom. Hamas are ruled and supported by religious fanatics and they see the Middle East as their land. They won't compel you to become Muslim, through force of law, but they will compel them to submit to Islamic law, under the Dhimmi Laws. The meaning of the word "Islam" means submission (to Allah) and we must all submit to Allah, either to their laws or as a Muslim. Even if you're Christian, Hindu or Rastafari, you must still submit to Islamic laws. That's the Islamic way.
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  2599.  @coop-nr6nm  I will add that Fascism is very complex and that they seem to be all over the map in their totalitarian grasp for power and influence. So, in some ways it is both left and right but neither at the same time. It uses ideological ideas as it needs them in pragmatic ways to suit the moment.
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  2600.  James Conway  I have a close friend who taught English in China for a number of years. When I told him that I believed that China was the closest country, today, to the Fascist countries of the thirties, he agreed quite enthusiastically. Although, we didn't talk about gay persecution in China, we did talk about the persecution of religious groups, such as the Muslims and Falun Gong. The Socialist aspect of Fascism is something the left doesn't want to hear.
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  2601.  @GRAYR189  Only because the US has gone that progressive, not yet, anyway.
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  2602.  @justcoolin5630  It is the left's fault. They spent decades preparing the young to accept this ideology, quietly and surreptitiously. Then, when the time was right, they brought it into the open and the rest of us, who didn't grow up this way, were caught completely off guard. They made sure that the culture of acceptance, of this stuff by students, was in place before advancing to this stage. It was slow, well paced and premeditated. Our fault was in the fact that we refuse to believe that the ridiculous can happen until it's too late.
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  2603.  @eazolan  Let's go to the extreme. They're ALL in school during school hours. There are no teenagers who are no longer in high school or college....nowhere. It just doesn't happen. Of course there are and you KNOW it.
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  2604.  @Bfettrules  YOU asked about living on 25,000 dollars a year. I TOLD you that I was doing it (actually less) and now you're saying that I got it easy. I have to pay rent, hydro, heat, phone and internet. I gotta eat and keep dressed and I'M DOING IT. The only reason I said anything in the first place is because I KNOW that it can be done because I'm doing it and so is my neighbour. Now, you denigrate me for being able to do what you claim that you can't. You remind me of my son-in-law, who acts the same way that you do. I told him that I would show him how to save some money but he refuses, telling me that it's impossible. They order in 4 or 5 days a week and think that it's necessary. My daughter and him are there own worst enemies.
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  2605. Actually, it never occurred to me that he would be crying tears of sorrow. I just assumed that he had to be laughing. Afterall, they were talking about Kamala.
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  2606.  @KamBB-gu3pv  Because he did something that was never done before.....EVER. He brought 2 worlds together that had never known of each other's existence except through legend. (Vikings for one) That's why he's remembered. 500 years ago, it would't have mattered who had been the first one. There would still be people that would vilify that person because of the negative results that they always zero in on. It seems to be a part of our culture to ONLY see the negative and never the positive in anything.
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  2607.  @bradleyboyer9979  It's hard to improve when you're woke and you're perfect. They'd never admit to ordinary human flaws. They're woke and know EXACTLY what society needs.
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  2608.  @williepayne7206  Of course they have an idea on who might be sent packing. A formal list? They don't need that. It's ridiculous. Like it or not, Trump is the president. He made promises to the electorate and it would seem logical that he would take on those who would try their best to help him fulfill those promises. Could you imagine if the Democrats (heaven forbid) win the next election and the new Democrat president allowed ALL the Trump supporters to stay and work for him? That would be ridiculous. The new president would dismiss all those that they thought would undermine his efforts. It's what Obama did and rightly so and what Trump is, FINALLY, doing now.
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  2609.  @johnnymematik8649  It's always to the extreme, isn't it? You either let your kids do as they want or you BEAT them senseless. Nothing in between. I see these parents all the time. Their kids are screaming in stores, throwing store property around while in the throes of a temper tantrum and their parents will either ignore them, give in to their demands or try to negotiate with them. My kids would NEVER behave that way and I didn't have to "batter" them. I'd grab them by the hand and walk them out of the store. When home, they can go to their room and sit in there for a couple of hours. Next time we go somewhere, that this misbehaving child might want to go to, they get to stay home and be told why it they don't get to go. If they take a temper tantrum, back to the room they go until they learn how to control their emotions. You don't have to BEAT kids to discipline them. You have to be strong, emotionally, and be firm about what you say and MEAN it. Good behaviour is NOT a negotiation. It's a requirement. It takes love and determination to raise a child that is a plus to the community. It's not love when you allow them to behave like spoiled brats. It's laziness.
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  2610.  @walkinlight3380  When we elected the representatives, whose party, fought Trump, tooth and nail, over a secure border. Anyone, who was paying attention, would have known that the democrats were going to open the border. As for car insurance, that's NOT a government decision. It's the insurance companies that set the rates, not the government.
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  2611. A Democrat primary doesn't include Republicans. It's designed to choose who is going to represent their district. AOC beat other Democrats to be the Democrat rep in the next election. It doesn't mean that she'll win this fall.
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  2612. @jasondt02 Exactly, what I said to someone earlier. It's brainstorming. Throwing it at the wall and hoping something might stick. Those who laugh and make fun, of questions asked, are the types of people I don't want in a meeting or on a shop floor trying to solve problems. I'd want EVERYONE to feel free to add their input without being shamed or afraid that someone would be that cruel as to shame them.
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  2613.  @stuuubbs7782  Just curious. What, in the Constitution hasn't he protected?
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  2614.  @OliverDePlace  And what about some of my friends? My buddy, with a wife and 2 kids, who just got laid off, INDEFINITELY. He wants good news for himself, NOW. NOW, you idiot. He doesn't want to hear Democrat maneuvering or your idiot claims about someone lining his pocket. His family needs that security now, along with millions of other ordinary workers. They're worrying about rich people and ignoring the poor that need their help. This is the stupidest political move I've ever seen a political party make. I've seen so many people say flat out, they'll NEVER vote Democrat again. NEVER...you idiot. The Republicans will have free rein to line their pockets for the next 20 years because the Democrats are too dense to realise that this was the WRONG time to play politics. Plane emissions.....my God. How absolutely and astonishing ridiculous....and YOU'RE DEFENDING IT. Party of the people.....yeah right.
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  2615. There's a fine line between kind and stupid.
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  2616. Columbus had nothing to do with the settling of the Americas. What he did was campaign for, organise and then discovered a new world. He brought the news of this new world back home. That news is what changed things forever. It was momentous in history. That change wasn't easy but human history isn't easy. I'm going to assume that you're from India and you know as well as I do that your history is filled with wars, disease, droughts and other human calamities. That's our history. The history of man. If you forget that it happened or not value of significance of certain events, you lose sight of our own nature and that is not a good thing.
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  2617. So what? It doesn't meant that now. When I say "I'll be there after I take my kids to school" I'm not calling them wild animals. It's changed it's meaning. Just like the word "gay". In 1900, there wasn't one person alive that would have thought that you were talking about homosexuals. They thought it meant happy or light-hearted. Now, if I say someone is having a gay time, everyone thinks that you're talking about their sexual proclivities. Language changes. You wouldn't understand a person who was speaking English in 1250. You change with the times.
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  2618.  @JohnCarterRocks  We just watched her lie on television. Is that what you call "journalism"? I don't. All she has to do is check out the current accepted curriculum in Florida schools but she didn't. She just went with the political flow. If she DID check it out, that PROVES that she's a liar. That other guy, Kindi, makes his money and reputation flogging his ideology. He knows better but doesn't care. It's lining his pockets and that's ALL he cares about. Also, you have no idea what "BATMAN for PRESIDENT" does for a living or what his professional credentials are, as if it matters anyway. Joseph Mengele had impeccable credentials as an anthropologist, in medicine and as a geneticist. Should we impressed with those credentials when evaluating his work at Auschwitz. Maybe you would but I'm not going to.
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  2619.  @jojokannanthara  Stop with the spam.
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  2620.  @small_fries7573  Why don't you tell us how wonderful you are. How you're going to be saved while the rest of us are punished forever. Maybe your pride is what's going to keep you out of paradise. Remember....."Pride goeth before the fall".
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  2621. "The fool is the precursor to the master" Somebody should have told my dad that. LOL.
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  2622.  @matthewpaul731  It's sounds to me as if he was getting in touch with those who he is sworn to protect. Creating a dialogue so there's no suspicion and rancor in his district. Unlike what's going on in so many of our cities. I've read one comment after another, from citizens of that county, expressing their appreciation of his work. I'll bet that doesn't happen in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland or New York. You sound like one bitter individual.
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  2623.  @jayabacromby675  And that's why the Democrats and the Neocons opposed Trump. He wanted to end our military involvement in the Middle East. They fought him, tooth and nail on this. In a little over a month, Biden was bombing targets in Syria. That's what the vote for Biden got you. How much longer for them to get rid of the tariffs that Trump imposed on China? More more American wealth sliding into China. If Canadian oil can't be shipped through the Keystone pipeline, the producers will look for other markets for their oil. What an opportunity for China.
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  2624. "It's impossible to rig the election and you're a conspiracy nut, that has to be censored, to suggest it" "What about Trump colluding with Russia to rig the election?" "Except that time."
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  2625.  @zwicker5585  Just that. "Don't tell your parents about your new name and pronouns.". That's what this entire debate is about. Do you even know what's going on? A court made one ruling and the Saskatchewan PM made another. The entire debate is the problem. They want teachers to withhold information about their young children from their parents. Why make that ruling if it's not happening? Please pay attention.
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  2626.  @rebeccaw68  I think we're talking in circles, in spite of agreeing with one another. I'm say, don't pay attention to the left because they're using her to say that the volunteer help is unwanted. Your saying not to pay attention to her because she doesn't represent all the people of her neighbourhood. Let's join our comments together and say this. Pay no attention to the left or this woman. They're both preaching the same illogical argument and neither are doing a thing to help the terrible conditions there.
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  2627.    What if you get it? Would he be punishing you? Maybe this has all been a big setup, by God, to get you for all the name calling and hatred that this behaviour signifies. After all...Love thy neighbour. Don't hear a lot of love in that comment of yours.
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  2628. I think you're confusing this with the Commissioner of Health in Pennsylvania. She (trans woman) ordered Covid patients into nursing homes and took her 95 year old mother out of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel. Then, she said that her mother really didn't belong in a nursing home as she was self sufficient. Then why was she there in the first place? Doesn't take away from Cuomo's reckless stupidity, though. He's still has to answer for that.
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  2629.  @avery5415  In some ways, we all are. However, I was a strange little kid. By the time I was 10, I'd read every one of the Encyclopedia Americana, at the back of my class, cover to cover, multiple times. I went to a Christian primary school, so I had learned early that there were conflicting ideas in the world so I had to reconcile between what I was being taught and what I was learning on my own. Incredibly, those Christian teachers encouraged my reading and even allowed me to leave the schoolyard twice a week to go to our local library to check out books. Most people didn't have that voracious appetite to learn things like I did and I think that it has a lot to do with wanting to know all the information available before arriving at any decisions on a topic. I found it frustrating, back then, that my friends and siblings, didn't care to do the same and would support ideas without any real knowledge of the topic that they were talking about. Still, I do find that I can get stuck in a rut about some things, so I guess it's understandable that others would as well. No one likes to hear that they may be wrong and some will never admit it, no matter what the evidence. Once you realise how information should be processed, as it appears that you have, it's difficult to turn back. Human weakness does get in the way, I know. That's the one thing the left will not realise. It's not the weakness in others that should be your prime concern....It's the weaknesses that lie within you.
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  2630.  @moestietabarnak  Where did I say that an unlawful shooting by a police officer isn't a problem? I never said that once. I can object to it but that does NOT give me the right to burn down YOUR business of home, steal YOUR stuff, because that's what looting is, or shoot your 9 year old daughter, like what happened in Atlanta. Why can't I be outraged about those things? That was a little black girl in Atlanta. I was in tears when I heard about that and it was a BLM supporter who shot her. As long as there are criminals, committing major crimes in the world, and specifically in the US, and we want the police to stop them, there will be deaths. It's inevitable. In other words, you will always have reason to burn, loot and kill. It'll NEVER go away. It will be a perpetuating rage. Also, if you really thought that HUNDREDS of riots, over 3 months, being justified by the media and certain politicians, wasn't going to finally get some pushback out of fear and frustration, you're still delusional. Also, if you can't see that burning and looting is wrong, always and is NEVER justified, then you have no moral centre to guide you. Also, I made it perfectly clear that I DID NOT ENDORSE what happened in Washington. It was wrong and they should be prosecuted. Also, the looters should be prosecuted and we shouldn't have politicians, like Kamala Harris, donating to a fund for their legal fees. That a politician, that would do that, is going to become the Vice President, scares people and they will be angry that this is happening. If you can't see that then YOU are the problem. You don't want a middle ground nor would you accept an olive branch. You want YOUR ground and will take it by any means necessary.
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  2631.  @t.g.9782  Why? Because your father broke the law for one thing. For another, it was your father....not some stranger who your father never met or at least knows nothing about. My neighbour's parents were smoking dope with him when he was 13. Why can't drug dealers go to schools then. That's your logic. We have standards for a reason. Maybe you're a well adjusted individual. I don't know but maybe you're not either. How would I know. Schools were started for a purpose. It was to teach children the academic skills so they can use them as adults to bring about the best life possible. How does going to a strip bar or having strippers in class serve that purpose. Before you start calling me some kind of religious prude or something, I was a bartender in a strip bar for 7 years. I know more about strippers and strip bars than most people.
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  2632. I can't think of any Democrat that has any real leadership ability. The Republicans have all kinds of them as long as they stay away from the old swamp Rinos. They're just Dems with an "R" behind their name.
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  2633.  @66dragonfly66  I'm imagining. Tens of millions of scabs. Some sent to concentration camps where they starved to death. Others, that were slowly starved, some to the point of cannibalism. Ritually beaten, in rites of public flagellation. Oh....wait. That was in the Soviet Union and Red China. Never mind. I confused labour disputes with Holodomor and the Cultural Revolution. My bad.
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  2634.  @peterpan8263  Well......that convinced me. You lefties have the best arguments. "Stop being a rightard" It's genius.
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  2635.  @Fredman5551  Question....Is it a valid statement or not? Answer.....youre not very bright, are you? If I were your grade 5 teacher, I'd have to dock you for answering a question with a question, for not capitalising, and "youre" should be written as "you're". And you're actually asking ME if I'm bright. SMH.
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  2636.  @spltndddpairofaces680  Answer a question with a question, huh. Nice dodge. If the teachers didn't do it, they didn't do it. No problem. However, my question goes to the point of guilt. Do you think that, if those teachers are found guilty, that they do something that was reprehensible or not? Should teachers keep secrets, from parents about their kids, to satisfy a personal ideology? Should there even be sexually oriented clubs, in schools, for minors? This is what is at the heart of this entire video. I expect you to dodge the issue, just as you've done all along.
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  2637. I was at the local pub, this afternoon, and I mentioned that I couldn't find a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes anywhere in town. No one seemed to know why. I get home and YouTube has the answer for me. Are they listening in or something?? This is kinda weird.
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  2638.  @TrilobitesRTasty  What are you even talking about? What does Biden corruption have to do with Trump? Are you trying to say that you're just fine with the Biden corruption as long as Trump isn't the president? When they were after Trump for collusion, I was all in for getting him if it was true. When they came up with nothing, I moved on. Now Biden is being centred out for overt corruption. If true, I want him to be held to account. I don't care WHAT party it is. If they're corrupt and commit crimes that can be proven.....prosecute them. No favourites. No special treatment.
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  2639.  @thisislaflaretv5250  I'm NOT a Christian so stop sticking me into YOUR pigeon holes. Also, YOU live in American society, as well, so by that criteria, you're as much a conformist as I am. Of course I pay my grocery bill. It's an agreement that I have with those who own the food that I need. No different than if you own something. I can't just take it if I want it. If you want to trade for it, we make a deal, either for cash or for like, in kind. If no one paid for their groceries, the entire system would break down and that would be the end of the society that we live in. Mass starvation for all. I don't know why infant mortality rates for blacks are so high. Maybe that's something that you should ask your government representative instead of some guy on the internet. I don't know why the inner city have such horrific education records, either. Something else you could ask your local politician. Could it be that people keep voting for the same people, year after year, yet, expecting different outcomes and improvements? Could it be that your representative FORCES you to go to the school of THEIR choice and refuses to allow you the same ability to choose that they have? Why would you vote for such a representative? Maybe you're NOT voting for them but the black community is definitely voting for the people that won't give you those choices. Sometimes you have to look inwards to fix your problems instead of waiting for someone else to fix it for you.
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  2640. More to the point, their economic system mirrors that of Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy. It's privately owned but under the complete control of the authoritarian government. Fascism is a brand of socialism where private property is only granted under the understanding that it's still under the full control of the Party.
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  2641.  Jared Keith  You know this.....HOW??? Is she your neighbour? Sister in law??? How do you know that she wasn't attacked for having an American flag? I'd like to have the proof when I'm criticising her.
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  2642.  @beyamoth  What he's saying when he's on tour are the more practical aspects of his books. He's breaking it down so it can have meaning to the ordinary person. He's not going to go deep into his "Maps of Meaning" ideas. That would only accomplish a lot of head scratching by a layman and help no one. His tours aren't meant to get deep into his ideas but there are a great many people that have the intelligence to dig deeper into those ideas and he responds in the best way he can so it is understandable to everyone. He's tied a lot of academic disciplines together and it was a road that took him years to unravel. "Maps of Meaning" took 13 years to write. It's not an easy read or easy to follow.
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  2643. He mentioned that he has business partners. It's quite likely that he's the creative aspect of the business and his partners look after the business side. The balance that he was talking about. All business stifles creativity and all creativity is bad business. Balance is the key.
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  2644. Don't EVER underestimate the opposition. That's a sure fire path to destruction. Always assume the worst so you'll be ready to employ maximum effort. Arrogance begets complacency. Complacency invariably leads to defeat. Let's be vigilant and ready for the worst.
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  2645. @D. So then why didn't he call the authorities. He's NOT the police. Had she made an illegal right hand turn, while driving, could he have pulled her over and started ragging on her? Any woman would have been terrified in that case, yet she's not supposed to be when she's alone in a park? Had she been your mother, you wouldn't be so cavalier about it.
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  2646.  @meatball4409  Here's an old prayer that I heard years ago. "God, please save us from those with good intentions" I can't even begin to comment on how lacking in awareness the second part of your post is. I will say that when you engage in hate, you lose all reason and logic.
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  2647. I will lay bets that the guy in the video, who's saying that everything is fine, is a socialist and votes Democrat. How do I know? "Stop watching FOX news". Have you ever heard of "limousine socialists"? That's who they were talking about. I'm right wing and not rich by any standards. However, I started with nothing. Not a cent to my name. I worked hard, made good decisions and now enjoy a decent life. I can't afford a fancy car, don't have a big boat or am any kind of jetsetter and I don't want to be unless I earn through my own efforts. That's what a true right winger believes in. Personal responsibility and individual determinism. I don't need you as long as you allow me the means and opportunity to do for myself.
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  2648.  @cssuntherrao  I wasn't talking about migration from those 3rd world countries that's happening today. It's not what I'm talking about at all and it's not the point that I'm trying to make. I'm saying that we're allowing our government to take away our freedoms and our institutions are suffering for it. That if we allow it to go on, we won't be the promised land like we have been. 3rd world countries have their problems because their governments are corrupt and make terrible decisions. The people want to come here so they can have the freedom to make their own lives better. If we allow our own government to become corrupt, there would be no point in coming here. That's my point. Holland was very poor after the war, no better than 3rd world countries today but they had the freedom to grow, like Canada was doing. They were the lucky ones. Most 3rd world countries are in a mess because of their government and leaders are corrupt or they have very bad ideas. Don't let that happen here. It's happening very slowly...greater government intrusion into our lives. Freedom needs eternal vigilance for one simple reason. People tend to be corrupt and are prone to bad ideas wrapped up in a pretty package. The most corrupt will enter government because they like the power and they'll tear it apart with their self serving ideas. Don't let that happen. Where do we migrate to if we allow our country to degenerate into a 3rd would country? That's my point.
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  2649.  @phillybeccio2782  Of course....let's take it to the extreme. There's never any middle ground. It's either full blood native or one ancestor 10 generations ago. No one has a parent or grandparent, who they know, live with and deeply care about, who are native. It's either full blood or NOTHING. People just want to hate, even if it's hatred at a nine year old child.
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  2650.  @EducationMorePlease  Not you again. Can't you come up with comments that are no better than Duckspeak?
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  2651. I can see how they did that. Years ago, I didn't like Trump but I didn't really pay a lot of attention to him. He was easy not to like. Then, he ran for president and I had to pay attention. He's still has that same air about him, but he's ok. The thing is, those that didn't like him, back then, won't EVER accept that they might have been wrong about him. The more he proves them wrong, the more they dig in their heels. Not what I'd call mature behaviour. His opposition have become just plain insane in their hatred. Most of the time, it's not that I'm defending Trump, I'm ragging on Democrat stupidity. Of course, their hatred won't let them see that. So, all I can say is......TRUMP 2020!! There's no way I want those lunatics to win now.
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  2652. I like how that guy uses word games to excuse his position. "I didn't want to defund the police. I wanted to re-allocate funds to other areas". In other words, take money from the police and use it elsewhere. What amazes me how I hear people actually defending this garbled logic. Taking away money is defunding. They took money FROM the police department. That's defunding. Of course they're going to use that money somewhere else. It's like the verbal dance with a used car salesman. It's designed to confuse their intended mark, selling lemons to those who are easily befuddled.
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  2653.  @bigt8877  These little snippets mean nothing to me. Why don't you explain what you mean? Be explicit. You may feel that your cryptic comments sound wise or insightful, but I find it confusing. If you can't show me the hypocrisy, you're accomplishing nothing.
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  2654.  @bigt8877  Don't gaslight me as being hysterical with your "calm down" remark. I wasn't getting your point and said so. That doesn't mean I'm out of control. Sherman's March was a military action, during the American Civil War, meant to demoralise the enemy, so the enemy would feel it necessary to admit defeat. Sort of like the bombing of Germany in WW2. It was brutal and it did help to bring an end to the war. It also caused hard feelings that lasted for decades after the war. So, how does this correlate to what Hamas did in Israel a week ago?
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  2655.  @smartbanter  Not publishing the thumbs down count is a way of gas lighting. A sneaky way of suggesting that we MIGHT be in the minority. No consequences for bad ideas.
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  2656. @Zquadfather ILLEGAL immigrants. Trump wants to stop ILLEGAL immigrants. Get that!!!!!! ILLEGAL......contrary to or forbidden by law. It is ILLEGAL to enter and stay in the US without the express permission of the US government as provided by the law. Over 1 million people entered the US last year after applying for legal status which was granted. Can you really not get that distinction? Those million plus people entered the US LEGALLY. If the US didn't want them, they would NOT have gotten this LEGAL status. Name ONE time where Trump has advocated for no more immigrants. You can't do it because he has NEVER said that. NOT ONCE. I find it astounding how people like you can't get this through your thick skulls. It's as if you don't WANT to understand the distinction between legal entry and illegal entry because honestly.....who could be that thick?
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  2657.  @buildmotosykletist1987  I think that you'd better read that comment again. He said she...SHE was classy and composed and her ADVERSARIES can't understand those qualities. There's a differentiation between her and those who are against her ideas....her adversaries. I'm lost on how you can't get this unless English isn't your first language.
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  2658.  @marthell6159  We're not talking about Trump. We're talking about a sitting president, NOT an ex-president. This current president's son has around 150 questionable bank transactions that have been reported to the proper authorities and nothing was done about it. If YOU or I have just 2 or 3 questionable transactions reported, we'd have the FBI, DEA, IRS and DHS on our necks but Hunter can have 150 transactions reported and NOTHING? And all you have to say is "Well Donnie was bad, too!!!". That's something that I'd expect from a 9 year old. Refusing to want to investigate a current president because a past president might have been corrupt is as dumb as it gets. INVESTIGATE ALL OF THEM. Why is that such a difficult concept??? Especially investigate the one that has the most significant impact at this moment....the current president of the United States, Joe Biden. At this moment, Joe Biden has a bigger impact on your life than Trump does, but you don't care if he's corrupt or not and that his corruption could have a severe detrimental effect on your life. NOPE....you don't care. Just get that guy that you hate. You're letting your hatred cloud your decision making abilities.
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  2659.  @jimmilne5549  Now, you're doing it. Vague insults accomplish nothing. Open and honest discussion, however, does just that. As long as you behave the way that you are and the way that you feel Trump behaves, there will never be a solution at the border. Just 2 groups of people yelling over a metaphoric wall of their own making. Like a bunch of children. EVERY country in the world has immigration laws and standards. EVERY country in the world insists that you go to official checkpoints to register your entry and the reason why you want to visit. You MUST have a passport to enter and then demonstrate your reason for entry and when you expect to leave. Try it, yourself. Get on a plane and go to Italy without a passport. See how far you get and how many happy tourist pictures you'll take while you're there. I'm guessing zero pictures. This isn't a US/Mexico border issue. This is an international issue and involves every country on the planet. I get why you don't like Trump and I can't blame you for that, but this isn't about Trump, because if it was, you'd be able to go to Italy without a passport....and you can't.
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  2660.  @vylbird8014  Ancient alien profanities.
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  2661.  @replysoon3216  And that's another topic. He cleaned up the crime in NY. I liked that. He also had other ideas that I didn't like. I have yet to meet the person that I agreed with on everything all the time. The topic is crime NOT the 2nd amendment. Two completely different things that some people want to blend together.
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  2662.  @bobshenix  Back to you obsession with Agenda 21. So if I think that air pollution is a problem and we should avoid it as much as possible, I'm now pushing a UN agenda? I have a friend who, as a member of the military, was sent to Ethiopia to help starving refugees as part of a UN program. Does that he mean he's a shill for Agenda 21? It's difficult to understand your anger and bitterness. Your negativity clouds every thing that you say. What's more incredible it is certain that you've NEVER read his books. If you did you wouldn't go on about how he's pushing Agenda 21. You create a narrative and then you get angry over the narrative that you've created. What a weird way to live a life.
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  2663.  @bigbubba4314  That is an option and it may work. As long as the store shelves aren't empty and the public blames the truck drivers. If the public, the majority of Canadians blame the truckers, they'll lose. We'll lose. This is a game of chess. The side that makes the right moves will win and it's all psychological. The one who starts the violence will stand the greatest chance of losing. It's all about perception, how each side presents itself. Propaganda is everything and so far, we've been losing. This is our chance to turn it around. If we misstep, they'll use it as proof that they were right about us all along and the people will buy it. The fact that we were so easily cowed into 2 years of lockdowns and mandates is strong evidence of that.
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  2664. Dillon called the 24 year old a liar to his face. Dillon has the mic so the 24 year old can't defend or explain the situation and Dillon takes advantage of it. He also uses race as a springboard for his joke AND accusation. I think Dillon was being insulting and there's no way I would find this funny.
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  2665. This interview alone has convinced me to NEVER watch MSNBC again. My question to Joy would have been this. What if a 12 year old, takes this book out of the school library, and finds himself sexually aroused by the graphic depiction of this heinous act on a child? What if the child sees himself as the abuser in this book? What if he's so aroused that he abuses his little brother or the kid next door? You're exposing a child to horrific material when they may not be ready to understand what it's about. It's appalling that MSNBC laughs it off and tries to deflect the issue by asking trick questions. The author claims that the story is about himself but he uses a different name in the book. Joy asked this question in the hopes that this might confuse the woman that she's interviewing. It's a dirty trick.
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  2666.  @Aanthanur  Of course there's a culture war. It's not with armies and guns but one of ideals. It's running quite deep and there have been many social casualties. Those who lost their businesses or jobs due to BLM riots. Those who lost scholarships due to a stupid tweet they made when they were 14 or because a trans male decided to compete with girls in high school athletics. Those who are afraid to speak up in class because it may offend someone and have to face severe backlash. Families who won't speak to one another because of who they voted for. Friends who drop you because you believe something that they don't. A media that is flogging a narrative and ignores the truth. That's the culture war and it's hurting people.
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  2667.  @ShokujiAkai  They hate big corporations but who's going to build those trucks that's bringing them food from across the country? Billy-Bob Bodine in his backyard? They have no idea what it will do if the big corporations go chapter 11. All they see is "RICH" and it drives them insane with envy. There's a reason why envy is one of the 7 deadly sins and why "Thou shalt not Covet" is one of the Ten Commandments. Envy and the desire to have what others have has been one of the most destructive forces in human history.
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  2668. This isn't about YOUR feelings. This is about a family dynamic that could be destroyed because you think that you have more rights than a parent concerning their children.
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  2669. Why does anyone hate? I've never been able to figure that one out. I can understand being against someone or group that commits or supports heinous acts but to hate them? It seems so pointless. Worse, it will rot you to your very soul.
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  2670.  @saintdominicreview  I have YET to find the person that I agree with 100% of the time on 100% of every topic. It just doesn't happen....EVER. He shouldn't have apologised but he did. I'm not going to punish him or ANYONE because I've found something that I disagree with them on. That's what the left does. That's what the Maoists did in the cultural revolution. I believe in freedom which includes the freedom to be wrong. I won't vilify or marginalise mistakes. I will, however, vilify those who want to take away our freedoms, including the freedom to be wrong. That's what they're doing to Rogan. He was wrong. He didn't try to take my freedom so I'll let him be. Until he says that I have no right to have an opinion, he can say, apologise or believe as he wants. That's at the heart of a free society and is upheld by the Constitution.
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  2671. legal canada It's hard not to be rude to people that would say such a ridiculous thing. Honestly, do you really think that people have been making the round earth story for over 2000 years. The bull headed stupidity is astounding.....and that's as nice as I can put it. It's like the preacher that said if the Bible said 2 plus 2 equals 5, he'd believe it, even though he couldn't make it fit the facts. It's not rude to say that he's being stupid.
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  2672.  H Smith  As far as I've heard, he's not been convicted of anything. You see, US law states that one is innocent until proven guilty. In fact, that's how one show treat any story about anyone. Without proof, you're engaging in gossip.....the painful meanderings of a weak mind. I know all that is a difficult concept for some but the minute you're assumed guilty and have to prove your innocence, that's the same minute that you'll begin to understand what I'm talking about.
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  2673. irishque halim A person that resorts to name calling and accusations of lies isn't really all that concerned with facts. You're the one not providing facts. You've spent more time calling people names than you have on the topic. This is the very attitude that describes the problem with dealing with Palestinians. It's all about emotion and ideology, with very little substance. As soon as their position runs into a wall, they respond in anger. Never admit the other might have a point, never compromise, just plug your ears and wail.
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  2674.  @Zanzibar_Dallax  I watch Tim Pool all the time. Sometimes he says things so dumb that all I can do is shake my head in wonder but I don't care. I figure that there's no one alive that I agree with 100% of the time on any subject. It's ridiculous to even think or WANT that. They went to a park and a good time was had by all. You weren't even there but you have nothing but negativity about the event. Why do you even care so much??? If you don't want to go....DON'T GO. But that's not good enough. Not only do you refuse to attend, you gotta hate on it online, as well. What a streak of misery you are.
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  2675. They'll blame the loss of the electoral college on Trump because its abandonment happened during his presidency. It'll all be Trump's fault and another demonstration on how Trump is corrupt. They love to spin history to suit themselves.
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  2676.  @HuwRees  Christmas isn't just about Jesus, these days. A lot of us celebrate this holiday, with family that aren't Christian. We enjoy being with family and appreciating the goods things in our lives and wishing the best for others. You don't have to believe in Jesus to wish for "Peace on Earth" or "Joy to the world". It's about love and generosity, as well.
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  2677.  @DOOMJESUS  You seem to know a lot about her. How about YOU link us to references that shows that she's a liar. I have a feeling you won't, though. Surprise me.
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  2678.  @christaber4703  That was the plan at the time. Don't you get that???? The US was energy self sufficient and didn't NEED the oil. Now....right now, because Democrat policies the US produces 2 million less barrels of oil A DAY. 2 million less barrels and, of course that doesn't include the oil from Keystone, which has never been produced. So...if we were STILL producing that 2 million barrels every day, we'd be energy sufficient or near to it. Keystone would not be needed and that oil could still be sold on the open market, further driving down the oil prices. However, since there hasn't been any work done on that pipeline in a year, they can't finish it till 2024 and probably not till 2025. Had they been working on it all along, they could have sped up the work load and maybe got it done sooner but that's gone all to hell. Biden and the Democrats, created the circumstances to allow the big price hikes and inflation. I'm NOT a big fan of Trump but I do know one thing. We wouldn't be in NEAR the mess we're in right not had Trump been the president. He'd never passed legislation to discourage drilling or work on the Keystone pipeline and the speculation would not have driven oil prices as high as they are now.
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  2679.  @dereksbooks  2 months, for a 12 year old, is an extremely long time. Ground them for a weekend and they'll act as if their life is ruined. Their concept of time is different than that of an adult. Also, 12 year olds are entering into a new phase of their life that many find very difficult and they start to depend more on their friends to help them navigate their way through this new time of life. Take that away from them, suddenly, due to a disease, and it could tear them apart. Isolation isn't easy and it can seem insurmountable to an adolescent mind. It's no accident that calls to suicide help lines have increased 10 fold and more during this crisis. If the crisis has no effect, calls shouldn't go up and they are. This is creating a feeling of helplessness and fear for the future that is unprecedented in the lives of average people. Just because you can handle it doesn't mean that others are as able to get through it unscathed.
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  2680. In a very recent interview, when asked where he thought metaphorical truth and literal truth met, he said that he didn't know. I spent hours trying to wrap my brain around the vagueness of an "I don't know" response. I had to satisfy myself by admitting that now "I don't know" either. Not easy for a "know it all".
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  2681.  @senilejoe7932  Don't act like a child. Everyone knows that we refer to South American countries as Hispanic due to the language and heritage. Being intentionally obtuse isn't a good look.
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  2682.  Barge Arse  Populist clowns, huh. The leaders that the ordinary people like. Spoken like a true elitist. I suppose you believe that the rabble shouldn't be allowed the vote. You can always tell the leftist. His arrogance gives him away, every time.
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  2683.  @saltyp7573  Not in my reality. It's 5 and if you don't agree I will see to it that you regret it.
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  2684.  @newtles7626  Republicans don't use the full force of the state because that's the very thing that they hate and are fighting against. It would be hypocritical to be for free speech and quelling it at the same time. It takes a confused mind to live in that kind of reality.
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  2685. I gave a thumbs up but I'm a boomer. I can't stand the "woke" ideology and I see it as the biggest danger to the west, today. Glad that there are young folk that can see that, too.
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  2686.  @Parrallaxatives  Everyone of your comments has been filled with contempt. Not a positive word out of you so far. It's just a continuous needling without offering anything of value that a person could discuss. Your comments give off such a negative vibe.
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  2687.  @Parrallaxatives  Now that is BS. What you're doing is offering back handed insults. I've not seen ONE comment that was offered any information or logic. You don't talk about the topic on hand. You talk about people. You don't tell me WHY the idea is bs. You just tell us that it is and we all have to smack our foreheads and declare that we've never seen it that way before. Ideas without thought, discussion and a back and forth are worthless. I don't even know what YOUR ideas are or why mine might have problems. You declare it BS and I have to accept it. Not what I would call well thought out.
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  2688.  @lisastreitfeld5806  I'm Canadian and we have this dream, as well. The entire generation, that came out of WW2, believed that hard work and personal responsibility would achieve that dream. I am a product of that generation and so many of them, my parents included, worked long and hard to achieve financial and professional success. They asked for nothing but the freedom to follow their dreams, in the way that they saw fit, and believed that this was the way to a meaningful life. This is where Jordan Peterson came from. A small rural community, where toughness and tenacity were what made one a respected individual. It may not be the "American" Dream because it's the dream that Canadians followed.
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  2689.  @JonnyBeoulve  Never mind that they were on high alert because they'd just sent missiles into American military sites in Iraq and were expecting retaliation. It's their own fault that they didn't implement measures to prevent a tragedy like this.
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  2690. For some reason Americans don't want to admit that they've been fooled.
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  2691.  @frannanderson4165  The billionaire failure who became president. Sounds more like an Horatio Alger novel to me. Rather contradictory.
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  2692. Antifa might believe that their tactics are working and are a huge part of why the left did win the elections. This may lead them to believe that more violence will result in even greater success. I'm not sure if this is what Trump meant but there is a perverted logic to this.
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  2693.  @curlywurly1767  Do I ever get the push back when I try to tell people that Fascism has its roots in Socialism. People get quite upset about it. Can't help the facts. National socialism is the natural outcome of communism. Just look at China. They came out of Marxism but found that to succeed, as a nation, they had to move to a state controlled economy instead of a state owned economy. A subtle difference but enough to mitigate the inevitable failure of Marxism as a viable economic system. Modern China is the closest country today to Fascist Italy and Germany.
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  2694. It's not just the littering. They were violent and threatening. They closed down a food cart across the street that a family had set up to use the proceeds to help the homeless in Portland. They thought that the 21 year young woman was laughing at her and intimidated customers, hurled abuse at her customers and threatened the young woman with violence. They're a bunch of useless, self aggrandising jerks that produce nothing of value and do nothing to make life better for anyone. Narcissistic little children. Check this out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEfvt-xr2no
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  2695.  @NicerNine  I said that I don't believe he should have apologised. That's not that difficult to understand. I also said that I wasn't going to judge him because I don't know all the details, implying that maybe he had an excellent reason for doing so that we don't know about. I'm not going to judge on what I don't know. As for CNN, I will judge them if I catch them in a lie. They spread the fabricated narrative about the Covington kids. I seen it on their network and it took me 10 to 15 minutes to find the original video and prove their take as BS. If I can do it, some guy living alone in a one bedroom apartment in another country, most definitely CNN could have done it. As Brian Stelter said, they have the big research department with fact checkers and "experts". They had a narrative that they wanted and they didn't care about the truth and I'm calling them liars because I HAVE the evidence. I never once said that I was Republican OR conservative. I'm not even American. Even if I AM conservative, we're not one big singular mind. We're not the Borg. We can think on our own and we're allowed differences of opinion and still hold basic values. Quit trying to put me into a pigeonhole and telling me what I should be or what I should think. I'm an individual and that's all that I want to be.
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  2696. Healthcare has always been in crisis. Things were getting better in the early 20th century. Before that, only the rich could get any level of healthcare, and that level wasn't much better than what the ordinary citizen was getting. Physicians didn't even wash their hands till the late 1880s. Bloodletting was still quite common in the 1800s. Pasteur linked disease to germs in 1861 and even that idea took awhile to become accepted. There was a time, not that long ago, where most people relied on folk medicine and life expectancy was MUCH lower than it is now and child mortality rates were extremely high. My grandfather had 23 children with 3 wives and 7 of them died before the age of 5 and this was in the Netherlands, a so called "modern" country. Healthcare is a fight against the inevitable.....our deaths. Until was solve that inevitable, which may never happen, healthcare will always be in crisis. I will acknowledge that our healthcare system was a lot better 60 or 70 years ago than it is now, in spite of the gains in medical science or social health care systems that have been put in place since then. That drop in our healthcare could be called a crisis but maybe that's because we're letting bureaucrats heal us instead of using medical science.
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  2697. @Tinja Nurtle Not much of a statesman but what's that got to do with him getting tested or not? His doctors say it wasn't necessary. It's not him that made a big deal out of it. Like that woman on CNN. She kept trying but she kept getting shot down. She's probably still looking for a doctor that thinks he should of been tested.
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  2698. I'm 73 and I don't subscribe to cable tv. It's too expensive and I've worked too hard, to earn it, to give it to those crooks. My 92 year old father thinks the same way.
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  2699. I remember when Anita Bryant spoke out against gays because of her Christian faith. People called her out and rightly so. Many decried her Christianity because of their stance of gay rights. Funny thing now, try to say the same about Islam and their stance on homosexuality. Even try to say it and you're labelled a Islamophobe. Yet, those you criticised Anita Bryant and her Christian views were never call Christianophobes. Why is that? The same goes for women's rights. The evidence is clear. Muslim women are treated as second class citizens in their religion. The Koran and the Hadiths are quite explicit in their status....how a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man's, how she must obey her husband, how a man can have four wives, but a woman only one husband, how a woman is cursed by the angels for refusing sex to her husband and so on. Even mentioning this will label you a racist. If you say one thing about the Muslim concept of Jihad and martyrdom, many will reply by talking about the Crusades and European colonialism. It seems to me if the Crusades are wrong and they're implying that they are, then why isn't Jihad wrong? I just don't get the double standard.
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  2700. + Jake Woolard How do you think those scientists were found to be mistaken in their thinking? Science...that's how. Other scientists, checking his research and continuing to try and understand the subject matter that that mistaken scientist has been studying. If wrong conclusions are being made, it will be science that will find it out. Science doesn't believe in absolutes....ever. If evidence is presented that contradict long held conclusions, those conclusions are dropped and new models are drawn. Science is not dogmatic. It changes as new discoveries are made. You even said so, yourself.
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  2701. On the flat earth model, with the North Pole at the centre, the most direct route from Santiago, Chile to Melbourne, Australia would be to fly straight north and fly over the North Pole. This means that Toronto is closer to Melbourne, as you'd have to fly right past Toronto on this trip. In reality, however, Toronto, is farther away and you make at least 1 stop on the trip, quite often in Hawaii. That wouldn't make any sense on a flat world as you'd be going off in the wrong direction on their map. The entire flat earth makes no sense at all.
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  2702. Of course, we can build a pyramid. All it takes is to stack blocks on top of one another. The making of the circuitry of your computer is much more sophisticated than a pyramid. Why would anyone go through all the expense of building a structure that you can't enter. It's a huge project, and completely pointless, except to an ancient people with a king that has an overblown opinion of his own importance, a God complex. No point to building one of those monstrosities.
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  2703. I gotta agree with you. Loved the old Gabriel stuff, myself. I went to see Steve Hackett do the Genesis Revisited tour. Really great. Recommend it highly, if it ever goes your way.
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  2704. Genesis was gaining world wide popularity with Gabriel. He decided to leave when they were at the point of really making it big. There is no way to know how popular they would have become with Gabriel. It's not as if Gabriel was a complete bust after he left. He's won Grammys, MTV, Golden Globe and more awards and nominations. The guy was a huge success on his own. And I still prefer Gabriel era Genesis. Collins era was more pop music and I might never have become a fan if Genesis had started out at the Collins period. Actually, I doubt it very much.
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  2705. DNA is not programming code. It doesn't have to be written. It is a product of natural processes and new DNA is in place with every life that's born. That's EVERY life. A new genetic code, every time a new life is formed....with no programmer. So get that out of your head. It's not programming code. To evolve means "to change". That change in life forms is quite small. You have a different genetic code than either of your parents. You've changed....evolved. Not so much that we wouldn't recognise you as a human, but changed nevertheless. That's why you can be identified through DNA testing. Your DNA is different than any other DNA on the planet and if you have children (?) their DNA will be different again. They will evolve. Those tiny increments of change and they happen, without a doubt, will become a huge change down the road. That's why your DNA and your physical and mental characteristics are so much different than your ancestor of 20 thousand generations ago. Tiny changes from one generation to the next will become a large change from generation 1 to generation 10,000. It's logical and rational and not only a belief...it's fact.
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  2706. +Daniel M. Garcia The difference here is that we don't have to accept the propaganda. We can criticize, make fun of it, laugh at it or embrace it. It's up to us. Macdonald's can bombard me all they like with their hamburger propaganda but I'm not going to eat one, because they taste like shit. I'll barbecue my own. My choice. North Korean propaganda comes from one source, no other is allowed and you'd better believe it, follow it, love and embrace it or you're screwed. Don't ever complain about the conditions. If civilian life sucks there, I can't imagine what prison life would be like.
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  2707. ***** I did give a different reasons why he would post such a thing.  He's a nut or a shill or what is also plausible, he's venting. I'm responding to a veiled suggestion that he's lying and the reason he's not answering is because he really doesn't want the nutbars to show up.  I really don't know.  I'm projecting, as someone who would know, the reason if I was in a person's shoes who lost someone in those shootings, why I might not answer. Be honest.  If you lost someone in your family, and there was this group, who claimed that that someone didn't die, never existed and is all part of an elaborate hoax,  would you tell these people who you were.  I wouldn't, even though I'd love to meet one and break his jaw.  I'd do it because I have family members who do not need that kind of grief. But.....in reality, I don't know about this commenter.   He could just be some kind of internet weirdo.   
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  2708. ***** I didn't mean to say that people wouldn't believe him.  I meant that truthers wouldn't believe him no matter what he said or did.   That entire community goes public and do you know how the truthers will react?  "Look at all the actors.  Look it, those two are laughing.  I'll bet they're laughing at us.  They think we're stupid, but we're not.  We'll never give up our guns.  Liars, liars all." No matter what the people in that community do, there will be that segment, that fringe element that will refuse to believe anything they say.   So what does you do if you're from that community.  Maybe, you'd go on the internet and tell all those truther a-holes to please...F off.  It won't make much of a difference, but it'll feel good.
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  2709.  I'd pay more for the cure than  I would for the treatment.  Then again, I have a poor head for business.
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  2710. Dobro Doggie You honestly believe that if you walked into an airport and displayed a digital clock inside a case like the one this kid had, you wouldn't have airport security all over you. You're just being intentionally obtuse. He unscrewed 5 or 6 screws to loosen up the insides of a digital clock and then screwed it back into the insides of enlarged pencil and notebook leather type case. Now that took some read genius. That's not a science project and normally he wouldn't get anymore than a C for his efforts. You know as well as anyone and don't pretend that you don't that students have been bringing weapons into American schools and killing kids. There have been talks of pipe bombs in Columbine and he made something that resembled a countdown clock for a bomb. Kids are being expelled for pretending to shoot others with their fingers and this kid makes what could be mistaken for a bomb. I don't know why he did it but I don't really know why Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people and wounded 24 more, either. People get nervous when kids start pretending to have guns and if a kid brings a contraption that might be mistaken for a bomb to school, someone will get upset, rightly or wrongly. It happens all over the US and students are dealt with harshly when they do stupid stunts like that. Klebold and Harris were one 1 year older that this kid. One year....so don't pretend that it's impossible. I'm not sure what you're rambling on about concerning public and private schools. I showed you this link to show you what kinds of real projects high school kids were doing and they are in a different stratosphere of ability and effort over some kid moving the guts of a clock from one container to another. He was told to put it away and he wouldn't. Why....who knows but he finally got called on it and it was because the teachers felt that it strongly resembled a clock mechanism for a bomb. It was the media that made a big deal of it and they're as much to blame for this stupidity, actually a lot more, as this kid is. And Obama actually added to the foolishness by pretending that this was an outstanding science project. It was a joke and the projects that I showed that other high school kids did proves it.
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  2711.  @Rapturetjmoore  This is a public access platform. Anyone can comment and say exactly what they think.....including people that aren't from our country. If we're to follow your logic then we should all keep our mouth shut about what's going on in the Ukraine. It's their country, quit worrying about them and worry about your own country.
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  2712.  Rich S  My God....that was a stretch. There's a statue of a moose in downtown Toronto. Can you come with a reason to tear that down?
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  2713.  @abbigailcarr2725  Is it fair that Lia Thomas was around 550th in his sport in US colleges and then jumps directly to 1st when he declares himself a woman? Slap a label on him and he's a her and that's fair to you???? Are you really this obtuse or is it intentional? Or are you the bane of the internet......a troll? Horrible creatures them.
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  2714.  Masson H  What do you think the CDC is you nutjob? My god, when people are infected with hate, they'll just make up stuff to feed the monster. The consummate spin master.
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  2715.  @bigperm3853  "A woman is a person that identifies as a woman". That's illogical and is called a circular definition. Google "What is it called when you define a word with the same word?". If I ask you to fetch me a frituurpan and you ask me "What's a frituurpan?", I can't answer by saying "A frituurpan is something we use when we need a frituurpan". It's a foolish answer and you still don't know what a frituurpan is. That's why saying "A woman is someone who identifies as a woman" is foolish and has no value if you want to know what a woman is. You still won't know because it's a circular definition. In school you used to get a big fat ZERO if you defined a word in this way.
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  2716.  @silentmark  And CNN doesn't represent the news media. They like to think that they're special but in reality, they're just another rag.
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  2717.  @A_Jeff  HUH???? LOL. That's about as off topic as it gets. It's so off topic that you're in the realm of the ridiculous. I know that it's important to you to make some kind of sneering remark but this smacks of desperation.
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  2718.  @merrinbuchan2488  The quote is "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil" ( 1 Timothy 6:10 KJV) Can you see the difference? If you're going to use a quote, use it correctly.
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  2719.  @mustafahasan957  Had you listened at the very beginning of this video, you would have noticed that he said that all matter was compressed into a type of soup. Matter has always existed. It existed in a different way that is does now. The universe didn't come from nothing. Next time watch the video before you try to refute it.
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  2720. How did Kushner screw Trump on domestic issues and Covid policies? I'd like to hear your perspective on this in greater detail.
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  2721.  @alexs1640  No one, but NO ONE, is required to show their taxes unless subpoenaed by a judge. That includes YOU. If a police officer knocked on your door and said he wanted all your tax information for the last 20 years, without an official document giving him that right, would YOU hand it over? I'm betting you'd say no. Of course, that would make you guilty of some kind of tax fraud, wouldn't it? There has to be probable cause and since the IRS hasn't provided any information that would give probable cause, his tax information will remain private, as it should be. As yours should be. If someone makes a claim and then recants....THAT'S transparency. If Trump says that his claim about sanctuary cities IS true....he just revealed that what he said in the first place was false. That's being transparent. I'm not sure it even happened that way but your using this as an example is illogical. I'm not saying that Trump has never lied but he turned over every document that asked for. EVERY ONE. Also, a person has the right to not take a stand and be put into a position in which he might incriminate himself. That's the law. Any lawyer will strongly advise their client to not, voluntarily take the stand. Criminal law 101.
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  2722. Protesting free speech by invoking their right to free speech. Logical.
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  2723. I'd like to know what presentation you're talking about. It sure would help to make sense of your comment.
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  2724. He should never have put himself in that position. He bent the knee to the point that there was no turning back. Had he stood up there, that day, and told the mob that he was the mayor and they weren't going to dictate how the city was to be run, they may well have torn him to pieces. This is mob rule. Nothing is impossible when the mob is unleashed.
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  2725.  @enjoyitbro  Or the attack on the White House when Trump and his family had to go to a bunker for their protection. They laughed and called him "Bunker Boy".
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  2726. It doesn't need attention. It needs the politicians in LA and California to do their jobs. This should never have gotten to the Federal level.
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  2727. If some stranger phones me and asked you I'm voting for, I'm not telling them. They're strangers and I don't want to be doxed or find a bunch of black clad nuts yelling at my home, some dark night. I'll tell the world, secretly, when I vote at my polling station.
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  2728.  @No-wt3mf  He hadn't said a thing either way because he wanted to know the full story before he made a comment. He didn't want to be like CNN and others who had made remarks and then later had to retract them. LIke when they said that Trump called immigrants "animals". Turned out that's NOT what he said. He was talking about MS-13 a street gang. When he did say something, it was emphatic. People can put their own spin on it but in the end you have to go by what he said. Besides, the first criticism of this press conference was his comment saying that there were fine people on both sides. The media told everyone that he was supporting the Nazi types when he was talking about those who came to protest the statue and weren't involved in those groups. When it was pointed out that he did condemn the Nazis, they said he should have said it sooner. No matter what, they were going to spin it to suit their own agenda.
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  2729.  @diogenesofseattle2344  That “fake” headline was an amalgamation of the implications of multiple headlines. The point that they were making is that Trump supports Nazis and white supremacists. He stated emphatically that he wasn’t. Talking about a generic headline was meant to show that PU was being dishonest. Yet, the sentiment expressed in that “fake” headline is the exact claim many were making. Now tell me that this isn’t so. Tell me that it is the NOT overwhelming claim that Trump is racist and that your video does not support the claim that Trump is a racist.
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  2730. These clowns believe that they won't be included in the "berning". They're as naive as my 12 year old grand daughter.
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  2731.  @armyman1245  I get it. You're a hater. The type of person that destroys and gets satisfaction out of it. You get a power rush from your stupidity and bullying.
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  2732.  @Honorablebenaiaha  Wow......I didn't see THAT one coming. LMAO. "Racist" Every exchange ends up with it. The "go to" answer for everything. When are people, like you, going to come up with new material?
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  2733.  Jesse Leiby  Yes, because people are corrupt. The writers of the Bill of Rights understood that and why the founders put this into print and made it a requirement of law. That's not going to stop people from trying to get around it. However, without it, you have no weapon to fight those who ignore those rights. A weapon, that might fail at times, is better than no weapon at all and leaving you with hands tied and your head a punching pad.
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  2734. @Steam fish White rice Trump has been after China for years, saying that they're bleeding us dry with the full cooperation of multinationals and the bureaucratic swamp in Washington. Filling our store shelves with cheap products by using cheap labour with no labour codes or environmental or quality standards. Everyone is this country knows that to be true....EVEN YOU. Do you know who's been defending China? Joe Biden has. In fact, the entire Democrat party and the MSM has been defending, not only China, but all the corruption that's abounding in Washington. The media and big Tech actually censored and refused to talk about Hunter's laptop. Had that been Donald Trump junior's laptop, we'd never hear the end of it. Watch all the restrictions on Chinese trade be repealed and American manufacturing start to suffer again. Watch even more Chinese products fill our store shelves at the expense of the American worker.
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  2735.  @AndiWard  It may not be the Spectator. It could be YouTube and out of the hands of the Spectator. I'd say that's likely the case.
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  2736. The fossil records shows different species living in different time frames. You will never find the fossils of birds, mammals, humans, flowering plants in the Cambrian period. Each species has its own life history within its own geological era. More significant is that the fossil record shows a progression of life from the simplistic to more complex as time goes on. As this time goes on, the number of different species increase dramatically until there is an extinction event. Suddenly, the diversity of species disappears and life becomes less diverse and simplistic. From that point on, the fossil record shows another increase in complexity and species diversity. This will go until the next extinction event and the process repeats. This has been clearly recorded in the fossil record and verified innumerable times by researchers. You couple this with other evidence from other sources, it becomes more and more apparent that the process of evolution is the most likely explanation for the verifiable fossil record. There has to be an explanation for this record and evolution appears to be the best explanation to answer this and other biological questions.
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  2737.  @MaddieAU  People are diverse but they also have things in common. Wokeness say that diversity keeps us apart. This woman is saying that the things that we have in common can bring us together. It would appear that the ones wanting segregation beat out the woman who strived for peace and understanding. She's not woke. If she was, they wouldn't have taken her down so brutally.
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  2738.  @warrenpacholzuk9190  The "OLD" wall was useless and had to be replaced. It was built by previous presidents because that's where most of the illegal traffic crossed. It made sense to replace it. There may be arguments against building a wall but if you're going to do it, you start to build where it's needed the most. The "NEW" wall will be the next step. His presidency isn't over yet so you can't say he isn't keeping that promise until he is out of office.
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  2739.  @billjones3497  Nobody thought that White people would actually fight a Civil War to end slavery, but they did. The bloodiest war in the human history until WW1. In the United States. Can't happen here....huh. Stick your head back into the sand, ostrich.
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  2740.  @atthecore4560  They're not looking to bring back feudalism. Why would they want that? It would mean no markets for the products they make. Dirt poor people bring disease, dissension, bad infrastructure and violence. Notice how there are very few wars in the richer countries. It's a great deal more prevalent in the poorer countries. This isn't an either/or question. To put it a little more clearly, not embracing socialism doesn't mean that we will be stuck with feudalism and there is no other outcome. You're not seriously saying that I've been living in a feudalist society in Canada for the last 65 years. If you believe that, you don't understand feudalism.
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  2741.  Xavier Medina  Hiding in gangs and behind women. Not exactly "John Wayne" types are they. I don't see why they're not hiding in bunkers out of embarrassment.
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  2742.    The kids were found alone so they put them in cages? Wasn't that enlightened of them. Are you REALLY justifying that? I suppose you've not heard of child trafficking, have you. Or that some of those attempting to get into the country, illegally, were using random kids as props to elicit sympathy to get into the country. Kids that they had snatched from the arms of their REAL parents, doing so in the hopes that border agents might not search them for contraband. I'll bet you've never heard of actual American citizens, who, after being caught engaging in illegal activities, had THEIR children snatched from their parents arms when they were arrested by agents sent by child protection services. Strange how crossing a border, illegally, with children, isn't grounds for temporary separation but punching your neighbour might see your children snatched and placed in a foster home, complete strangers to those children. Those parents know the risks of taking their children across the border, illegally, and they decided to risk it anyway. You're reacting emotionally, based only on a hatred for an individual. That allows you to justify the loving care shown by Obama when caging children and reviling the horrors of snatching children when it happens in Trump's term in office. It has nothing to do with the truth or reality of the situation. It has EVERYTHING to do with your lack of emotional control.
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  2743.  @Tugela60  For 36 years no one complained. 36 YEARS!!!! Suddenly it's an eyesore??? Also, what makes you say that there aren't city employees who aren't the equivalent of school hall monitors, pouring over obscure laws and then flexing their muscles to fill the city coffers and make a name for themselves to advance their careers. To add, the United States is NOT a democracy. Most laws are affected by a bureaucracy, made up of officials who are NOT elected but hired and appointed to their positions and we, the citizens, are forced to comply to their whims. I've appalled that these people have been doing this for years then suddenly get a fine for 1500 bucks, which MUST be paid and now have a driveway that is not allowed to be used. It's just sitting there. No order to have it removed. Put a vehicle on it, it's a "potential" eyesore. Take the vehicle off of the driveway and the eyesore is gone. It's arbitrary and capricious and a stupid law that any reasonable official would ignore.
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  2744.  @Tugela60  LMAO. If they build a garage they can park the car there???? This is getting more and more ridiculous. Now they have a car AND a garage. Apparently, a garage improves the aesthetics of a car. LOL. This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when the bureaucracy gets out of control. I love the anonymous complaint. Yup....sure sounds like a hall monitor to me. The "I'm telling" brigade. Hated when we were kids and STILL hated as adults. So we still might have an eager city official, trying to make a name for himself. It could still be a "grown up" hall monitor. Reminds of Jesus talking about the Sabbath. He asked if a person should allow the lamb, that fell into a well on the Sabbath, to stay there till the following day. After all, no working on the Sabbath is one of the Commandments....one of the Big Ten, in fact. It demonstrates how one should use common sense when applying the law even if it's on the books, like this law against parking a car without a garage. Some people just have no common sense or they lack a soul. I'd say both.
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  2745.  @Tugela60  Now his car is shit. Build a garage and the car turns to honey? I can't imagine how a garage can turn a rust bucket into a Ferrari. I'm looking out my window, right now, and my neighbour's car is parked in her driveway and there's no garage. I'm aghast...appalled even. She has a manure pile about forty feet from my front door. That'll drive down property values. LOL. Oh yeah, Stalin would love you. So would Mao. Self righteous informants were at the core of their regimes. You'd have fit right in. At least until someone could out busybody you, which is what happens when you think you're better than your neighbour. No wonder I've refused to live in big cities.
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  2746. You're lucky. Just in case some people will use this to support their cause, I'm going to say that just because it didn't happen to you, doesn't mean that it's not happening.
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  2747. Blaming conservatives makes no sense. Most conservatives live in rural areas. They don't want to see their homes burn. I thought that was the big argument against conservatives. They value things over lives. Now suddenly, conservatives don't value property. They're just making accusations and could care less on the accuracy.
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  2748.  MICHAEL DAMATO  I'm afraid that you're interpretation is way off from how I took it. It's about how a person allows fear to possess their minds to the point of losing control. The use of children is used as a metaphor to how adults have acted when fear has taken over their very being. The fear of witches, of Jews, of the ruling class....etc. They're no stronger or better than children, no matter how sophisticated they are and history verifies this. "Lord of the Flies" means Beelzebub, another word for Satan. It's an admonition against letting fear or its anthropomorphic character, Satan, take over your thoughts and behaviour. Fear gripped those children, in that book. The fear of the injured pilot, who went to the signal fire, and terrorised them and their horrific reactions to that fear. They were too young to use logic or reason to understand it and we see the same, all too often, in adults. "Fear is the mind killer". Like Jung said, one of the most destructive forces there is, right now.
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  2749.  MICHAEL DAMATO  But you can't leave Satan out of the equation. Not when you're talking about the Lord of the Flies. It would be like talking about equines and not wanting to talk about horses. Satan is another word for Beelzebub which means "Lord of the Flies". Satan is used as the human face of fear and the evil that comes when that fear is uncontrolled. Satan is an idea. He doesn't have to be real to express that idea. That's what this book is doing. It uses a metaphor to examine the idea of fear as a driver of evil. If you don't understand the idea of Satan, you'll have a tough time understanding the book, especially when you don't even want to discuss the metaphor used.
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  2750. What are you talking about?
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  2751.  @rosebud4387  But they did set the groundwork that allowed all people in the United States to be equal under the law. This was part of man's journey to the sovereignty of the individual. It's not as if slavery was a new idea and Americans had to decide if they liked it or not....comparable to the formation of Scientology or something. Slavery had been a part of human society for thousands of years. It wasn't going to go away with the blink of an eye, a collective face palm where everyone says "I never thought of it that way" and started releasing slaves. It was tough. Almost 300,000 Americans lost their lives fighting the south in a war that was fought largely to end slavery. THAT was America, too. So many forget that. No nuance, no historical context....just hate and anger towards people they'd never known and a time they couldn't understand. It's moral cowardice.
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  2752. I'd have a lot more respect for them if they'd have continued writing their non-fiction literature about butterflies, than I do when I read the fiction that they're writing now. No patience for BSers.
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  2753.  @garyjackson3531  Transgenderism is a mental condition. That's what a runaway social contagion is. It's the minds of children, going through mental issues, being manipulated. There are some forms of it, due to genetic conditions but this is quite rare. Like my neighbour. His female characteristics started at about a year old. This was in the late fifties. It was so weird to see the kid. He dressed like a boy, his parents insisted on it, and he had a boy's haircut and in 1960 that meant a real short haircut. But when I first saw him, I thought that this was one strange guy. He acted too much like a girl...even more of a girl than my 3 sisters. There was something going on here that was more than just a mental disorder. How did he know to act like a girl at 2? No one did that back then. This type of dysphoria does happen but it's extremely rare. Like I said, what's happening now is a social contagion, an "interpersonal process, such as imitation, conformity, universality, and mimicry." APA Dictionary of Psychology That's exactly what's happening. They're introduced to it at a young age, in the schools, and then it's spread through social media. They form a bond that includes imitation and conformity. I don't see why you think that this is some kind of junk science. If it wasn't for the schools, woke parents and social media, no one would even think about this stuff. It's something that was rarely encountered in real life but the socialists have grabbed onto it for their own agenda. My 16 year old granddaughter claims to be transgender. I looked into it. I've yet to see one woke transgender advocate who isn't a socialist.....not one. They're the ones spreading the contagion so that it's a 4000% increase in England over the last 10 years. That means that if there was 1, just ONE, new transgender sufferer in 2010, there would be 4000 new ones this year. That's impossibly ridiculous even if it was just a singular mental condition. It's MORE than that. It's the spread of an ideology using the strength of social contagions to push them in that direction. These socialists want to break the system down, to destroy it and to do that they need good socialist soldiers. They're doing it by creating a transgender class, CREATING it, as a part of the androgynous class the radical socialists have talked about for over a century. Radical socialism was all creating an androgynous society but they just couldn't get it implemented. This is just another shot at it by the radical socialists.
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  2754.  @actionman9357  What does the NRA have to do with Antifa thuggery? Even if the NRA are a terrorist group (which they're not), that doesn't validate Antifa's bullying and terrorising. If it's bad, it's bad. All you're doing is deflecting. Like a child whining "Well, Johnny's doing it, toooo." Grow up.
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  2755. Yup. No matter what he does, it'll never be the right thing. Why not take your life into your own hands, all you whiners and blamers? Why would you wait for the government to tell you what to do? I ALWAYS have enough to last for, at least, 4 to 6 weeks in case of a crisis. I'm astounded why people don't do this.
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  2756.  @goblinmoblin4869  "takes one to know one" Man....that takes me back 50 years to my childhood. I didn't know kids still said that.
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  2757. City folk perception on farming. You put some seeds in the ground, wait for the rain and then collect the big money. Easy stuff and you get to sit outside to watch the crops grow. I forgot. Lots of illegal migrants to pick the crops and rock bottom wages. You can sit and watch them pick tomatoes and cucumbers and sing folk songs. It brings a tear to my eye to think of those traditional values.
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  2758.  ong kim  Wow.....that's a great example of Orwellian doublespeak. One of the best I've ever heard. You have to be a troll. No one REALLY thinks that way. At least no sane person.
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  2759.  @dwaynewalker1186  I know that you're a troll, just by the tone of your comment. First of all, it's NOT "some" citizens. It's half the voters in the United States. That's a lot more than "some". Then you resort to name calling. Calling Trump a conman and his supporters "ridiculous", isn't a substantive argument. Most times, when someone resorts to smearing others, that someone is a troll. So...prove that you're not a troll and tell us WHY we shouldn't vote for Trump. Strong reasons, with evidence and logic. Then you could be taken seriously. I want to hear a good argument. Name calling is for bullies in a school yard.
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  2760.  @jimmcloughlin  First of all, Lysenko had no influence on the 1923 famine that killed millions. That happened because government forces took all the crops, including the seeds for next years crops, to feed the army and people living in the cities. So, those millions came as a result of authoritarian over reach and the idea that all products belonged to the state. Lysenko was starting to gain influence in the early thirties but that had very little to do with Holodomor. This was caused by the collectivisation policies, in which the farms were taken away from the farmers and farm collectives were organised. People were put to work on these farms who had no idea on how to farm. Many others were angry about losing their farms and basically refused to work. Many farmers were displaced and had nowhere to go and nothing to eat. They starved to death because the Socialist government insisted on farming collectives. Lysenko only made things worse. Yes, it was bad science but no farmer would have followed his ideas because they would know that it didn't work. It was the socialist government that forced it on the collective farms, which caused the crop failures. In fact, anyone that spoke out against Lysenko, would be arrested and sent to the Gulag or worse. It was bad science forced on the people by socialist politicians. Farmers, in a free country, would never have followed his ideas. The only reason that they were followed in the Soviet Union and China is due to the political might of the communist governments. ...and yes, China tried the same methods and those methods were FORCED on those who were supposed to grow the crops. They had no choice and the crops failed miserably. No sensible Chinese farmer would have used the Lysenko methods but the small farms were all gone, replaced by the collectives. The collectives were run by the government who mandated that the collective farms used the Lysenko farming methods. So, I'll say it again. It was bad science and that bad science was forced on the people by the communist governments. Politics forced it. That's where you've got it all backwards....and wrong.
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  2761.  @sbor2020  Fortunately, I understand what nuances were missed in those failed Marxist systems. So, when I institute the new Marxist system, it'll work perfectly. I just know it. Believe me, it will work.
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  2762.  @sbor2020  In 1980, the Muslim population of Israel was 639,000. In 2023, the Muslim population of Israel was 1.782 million, an over 1.1 million population increase. That's one colossal failure at genociding. In the year 600 AD, almost everyone in the Middle East were Coptic Christian, Jewish or other smaller religions. Fifty years later it was almost ALL Muslim. It seems that the eradication of indigenous cultures, what you call genocide, of that area started with the Muslims but I suppose that doesn't count.
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  2763. @ Ooooh....I see I'm engaging with one who likes taking part in intellectual discussions. I love the challenge. Here goes. As if the hard left needs another buffoon. Your turn.
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  2764. So, since Trump is dishonest, CNN is should proudly display its dishonest tendencies to the world as well. As long as Trump is president we can lie, cheat, throw things, smash windows and threaten people. I see that you've set extremely high standards for yourself.
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  2765. @rona4960 Trump has been president for 1 month. He's doing a huge audit of government. He's started building on the wall. He's started a deportation program. He's trying to negotiate a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. He's been dealing with the Gaza issue. What a lazy SOB. LOL. I suppose when you don't accomplish EVERYTHING in one day, you're a failure.
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  2766. The protesters have no reason to attack his house. He's one of them.
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  2767. I'm sure they have their lawyers on speed dial.
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  2768.  @Aristocratic_Utensil  Don't act like a friggin leftie. Do you agree with what he said in his monologue or what? That's what's important. We NEED everyone that we can get to defeat the Marxist maggots that are eating away at our freedoms. He has influence and you'd throw him right back into the arms of the nutbars. Not a very smart strategy.
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  2769.  @flipnotrab  She has an estimated net worth of 3.6 million dollars. That's a lot of money. More money than I'll ever see and I'm one of those white privileged guys.
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  2770.  @chadelles2586  That's quite the description the word "integrity" that you have. Accuse your opponent of being disrespectful and then use that accusation to rationalise your own disrespectful behaviour. You're never wrong that way. You're either a good person or you're not. Don't use the bad conduct of others to give licence to your own bad behaviour. That's not how integrity works.
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  2771.  @single55  It's important for her to tell us of her heritage, in this context, because the Democrats and the left would have us believe that it's impossible for this demographic to support conservative principles. We have to drown out those voices, as much as it is abhorrent, with voices from those from the African and Hispanic communities. It's not her doing. It's the doing of the Democrats who are forcing her to say that she will NOT comply with what these Democrats expect of her. The more people from that heritage that speak out against the Dems and their racially divisive rhetoric, the better. African and Hispanic Americans deserve the ability to speak out against them without being shamed.
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  2772.  @mrHoppedupford  Yup.......you're a troll.
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  2773. Pakman actually lamented the fact that Trump's tax cut saved him a lot of money in taxes. He felt that he didn't deserve it. I called him a few choice words and told him if he truly felt that way, why wouldn't he give it to a favourite charity. Set up college fund for a needy but promising student. Donate it to a child in need of specialised medical attention. I gave him a few other suggestions and told him that this tax break allowed HIM the choice of where that money would best be spent instead of letting the government choose for you. I also told him I didn't expect a response from him. I didn't and I'll bet he kept the money for himself.
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  2774.  @vodkarage8227  If you love God, you are automatically directed to love your family. "Honour thy father and thy mother". It's one of the Big Ten of Commandments. "Love the neighbour" is another. I've always thought of the concept of God as a metaphor for truth. If you allow anyone, even a family member, to cause you to abandon truth, you will end up estranged from both the truth (God) and the family. I believe that you have a good point about the government, though.
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  2775.  @madlink3495  You're misremembering it. Galileo was imprisoned for saying that the earth circled the sun instead of the other way around. The Church wanted the earth to be the centre of the universe. There was no argument on whether the earth was round or not. Newton died in his sleep when he was 84 years old.
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  2776.  @yearight5303  That's all you have left. It's like your in a foxhole and you're running out of ammo. Keep it up. When the "racist, sexist, homophobe" rhetoric doesn't work anymore, you will be out. Not just out of ammo, but out of power and you're too thick to figure out why.
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  2777. It depends on the private school. If it's a religious school, you can be a little more comfortable with what's being taught. However, even then, a teacher can say things in line with their own beliefs or a student can claim bias, at the school, for the schools's stance against some LGBTQ ideas, to political leaders. Secular schools can be just as bad or worse than public schools.
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  2778.  @sarcasticcat4982  "Brainwashed" is the tactic used by those who have no real logically point to make. "You're just brainwashed" and then the curt dismissal. It's called an ad hominem attack. It's brought on by the emotion of frustration, the exasperation of having a cognitive bias challenged. It's often used in conjunction with the charge of "racist". Both ad hominem attacks......not emotions.
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  2779. Apparently, that first guy has never heard of Spartacus. Slavery was invented in Virginia....LOL....and this guy was the governor??? People actually voted for the guy???? I can't stop shaking my head.
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  2780.  Echo Foxtrot  Communism and Fascism are 2 different sides of the same coin. China, today, is the closest thing we have to Fascism. An economy, that runs under the full control of the state. That's how Nazi Germany operated and how China operates today. Mussolini was once the head of the Italian Communist Party. He took that socialist idea and morphed it into National Socialism. That's exactly what China has done. Hitler and and the CCP took those ideas and made it their own. Of the 3 countries that I've mentioned, 2 of them morphed from Communism to Fascism. It's not a big step.
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  2781. I remember those J6ers chanting "Death to America" It was REALLY scary. I was terrified when I saw all those 6ers walking between the tourist velvet ropes, taking selfies and then going home. "Those two" are nuts.
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  2782.  @talldavid30  The Capitol was NOT in ruins. A couple of barriers were torn down, a few doors were wrecked but the building was being used the following day. Also, those Americans that are dead, all died of natural causes, except for one Trump supporter, who was shot. There were over 50 thousand Trump supporters in Washington that day. Yet only a few hundred entered the building. Also, being strong doesn't mean that you have to be violent. That's YOUR interpretation of what was said. Not being weak can also mean just sticking to your ideals and not giving up. As for being conned, did you really believe the Brian Sicknick was killed in the line of duty? Did that phony funeral for the fallen hero, killed by rioters, really fool you? He died of a stroke the following day or hasn't anyone told you yet. Did you really fall for that staged event? Who's the fool, here?
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  2783. If some pollster (maybe a pollster) calls me and asks who I'm voting for, I'm not telling him the truth. I'll lie. I saw what happened to the CEO of Goya when he said he supported Trump. That's not happening to me. I'll tell the truth when it's time to put my "X" on the ballot when no one can see and it counts.
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  2784. I read the book "The Cowshed Memories" by Ji Xianlin recently. It recounted his memories of the Cultural Revolution, as a professor, in Beijing. In it he described how his colleagues and students, who he thought were his friends and had always had a good rapport with, were the most vengeful when it came to the struggle sessions. Those sessions were simply daily public torture events by mobs of students and teachers that lasted for years. You never know just who will be taken in by ideological fervour and who won't be. We're confronting some frightening prospects in our nation. I hope it doesn't go the way that it seems to be going.
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  2785. Obama brought change....oh yeah, he sure did. By the time he was done as president, racial tensions hadn't been this strained since the Rodney King events, almost 25 years before he left office. Riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas and police officers were being executed, including a young black woman, a mother and police officer, was shot in the head while sitting in her squad car. Why? Because the shooter was angry after listening BLM speakers. Oh yeah, he brought change, alright. This country was on its way to being more divided than at any other time since the Civil war. Thanks Obama.
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  2786.  @-Free.Spirit-  He's a troll.
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  2787.  @coltondalecarmean9114  If you can show me when he said it and what he said, I'll comment on it. All you're doing is making a vague accusation about without specifics. Evidence.....that's what we need. I haven't seen it yet and I haven't got it from you.
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  2788.  @classiqueliberal8576  I think I'd have to agree with you there, although this isn't just a news story. It's a special interest story, too. It depends a lot on her motive. She may have been caught up in the conversation and even struggling with it at her age. It's not often you get to take advantage of the advice of such an eminent psychologist, after all. LOL. Over all, though, you're right about biased journalism, these days. It sucks big time.
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  2789. The only due diligence shown was how diligent they were at ignoring solid news stories.
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  2790.  @purplemonkey649  I've interacted with the cops lots of times. I didn't like it when they fined me for speeding or other infractions but it was no big deal. Millions of police interactions every day and nothing comes of it.....but when it does, don't the world go crazy.
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  2791.  @lrod8692  Mnuchin has already agreed to oversight in dispensing that 500 billion dollars. If a company doesn't need it, they won't get it. It's a loan and they're expected to pay it back. Also, it's against the law to give government money to a company owned by a politician. AGAINST THE LAW. Trump couldn't do it even if he wanted to. Your 1200 bucks is a give away. You don't have to pay it back. Millions work for these bit corporations. What a great idea to let some of them go bankrupt because you don't think that they should get a loan. I'm astounded that you don't want free money, on top of unemployment insurance because you're worried that someone might get more than you. Head shakingly stupid. Also, tell me something. Do you really think it's important, right now, in the worst pandemic and economic threat in our lives, to make sure that corporations have the right amount of women on their boards? Is THAT your priority right now? "I don't want that money unless women are guaranteed a seat on the board of some unnamed corporation". Genius move, that. The Democrats are using you and every other American to get through all their top SJW ideas. They're turning the government into universities and colleges with safe spaces and equity departments. What's even worse, from your perspective, you've just supported a democrat move that will give Trump the next election with a landslide. Then he'll do all the stuff that you're so afraid of. Families are sitting at home praying for the money to get them through until their UI is straightened out. Do you really think that they're going to vote for the party that said NO. No money until we get tax cuts for solar panels. The stupidest political move in American history.
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  2792.  @KrustyKlown  Not according to the law. You use any force to restrain a child, you're open to charges of assault. You could lose your job and might even face a lawsuit. A teacher is not allowed to use any kind of force, even to defend themselves. All the teacher can do is to evacuate the class so innocent kids don't get hurt.
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  2793.  @RealSteelStreet  My objection has NOTHING to do with the police. It has to do with the way you smeared the guy as a liar and a possible crook. That doesn't mean that the police were doing a bad job or that either one of us is implying that. He's just telling us what happened to him. It almost sounds as if you're using your assumptions due to your own history and a sort of self congratulations on how you turned it around. It's good that you did but don't put your own errant adolescent behaviour on others. We're NOT all the same. I haven't been to Alabama in years, so I'm not going to comment on everyday life there. I will leave that to you and others, like the guy that you assumed was a liar. What I can say is that your anecdotes are no better or worst than his. And please....quit patting yourself on the back.
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  2794. It's not that the Democrats are afraid of her. It's their corporate overlords that are afraid of her and the Democrats must do their bidding.
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  2795.  @alexocasio-gomez5267  I don't know about the US but here in Canada, immigrants come to this country after applying to allowed to live and work here. After a time and if they fulfil certain obligations, they can apply for citizenship. Almost EVERY immigrant eventually will take this step and become a citizen. Once a citizen, you're no longer an immigrant. You have the same rights as every other Canadian that was born in the country. My parents were immigrants and became citizens. I was born here. I was NEVER an immigrant. I was born in Canada and am a citizen by virtue of being born here. I have a friend, who was born in France, of parents, who were Canadian and were serving in the Canadian military at the time. The birth took place in a French hospital. He's having a hell of a time getting a passport because he wasn't born in Canada and hasn't been able to prove where he was born. In fact, if he broke the law in any overt way, he could be deported back to France. I know of an incident of a guy, who was born in Germany, under the same circumstances. His parents returned to Canada, after completing a tour at the Canadian Forces base at Lahr, Germany when he was 2 years old. Years later, he was charged multiple times with criminal offences and was deported to Germany as a result and died there a few years later. Germany had to accept him as he was born in a German hospital, even though his parents were Canadian, on assignment with the Canadian military. An immigrant and a citizen are 2 different entities under the law, at least here in Canada and I'd warrant it's the same in the Us.
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  2796.  @thejudge3658  I didn't know that the Republicans sided with Russia. I'd appreciate some links that would confirm that. That could be a game changer for me.
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  2797. @Pep No....the only way to fight it is through a firm belief in truth as the ultimate guide in life. Ethno nationalism is just another ideology and is EXACTLY what the post modernist left believes. Group identity struggling for power. YOU are what we're trying to fight.
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  2798.  @ramiere1412  Then all Snopes has to say is that this is a site dedicated to satire. It's supposed to be comedic. It's how humour has worked forever. If I say that "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse", that shouldn't be up for a fact check. It's a simple joke but one doesn't infer dishonesty when the joke becomes a little more sophisticated. If people start using it as a reference to facts, all one has to do is to point out that this is comedic. I'm going to say that these fact checks are put in place to prevent people from accessing satire sites because they don't like the implication of the humour being used. "Don't make fun of my beliefs". They do the same to people who call themselves comedians. Comedians don't like doing universities anymore because those, who become offended at jokes, have become violent at times. "Speech is violence" is the mantra. They're attacking humour because humour and satire has always been a way to pick away at sacred beliefs. The religious call it blasphemy. The political left calls it "misinformation", their word for blasphemy.
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  2799.  @ahtshamhussain443  So....she's risking her afterlife, too. Her afterlife is a part of her life and she's risking, according to YOU, to an eternity in Jahannam or hell. That sounds like quite a risk to me. Your comment is contradictory.
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  2800.  Kent Horvath  A president doesn't determine it. He sets the policies in place that will be beneficial or harmful to economic growth. Then it's up to the businesses and its employees to determine how well their business grows and, in turn, the economy grows. A business can only take advantage of good policies or be shackled by bad ones. A free, fair and open market decides economic growth. A president decides how free, fair and open that market will be.
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  2801.  @strongheartwoman1931  I hate that they'll never get that freedom. I take my grandkids camping and they love it. Not at a park but at the back of the family farm or to my sister's farm, by a beaver pond. My dad is 88 years old and still at the farm where we grew up. First weekend of October, we all go over and have a wood splitting party and make sure he has enough wood for the winter. We all live close by but we like to make a party our of it. The kids love to help too. Funny, when I was their age, I didn't care for it at all. LOL. Anyway....thanks for the comment. I'm glad that there are still some of us that remember what it was like.
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  2802.  @carlfaucher1543  You just tried to prove that climate change is real. That doesn't prove that DeSantis is a climate denier. How does a belief in climate change, or lack of it, impact his job on this specific hurricane, anyway? The hurricane is here and pontificating about climate change won't help ONE person deal with Hurricane Ian one bit. DeSantis has to deal with the reality of the moment, not a future reality that may not happen for years.
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  2803.  @ericlazenby5984  You didn't read it because you don't have the comprehensive ability to understand more than one sentence at a time. Name calling is your forte. A true intellectual. (real deep sarcasm).
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  2804.  @laurabusse1832  I asked 2 hours ago. My curiosity is starting to wane. A couple more hours and it'll devolve down to scepticism.
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  2805.  @danieldidonato3881  Of course I'm not good with that. Only a psychopath would be. That's why I avoid psychopaths as much as possible. His cousins were psychopaths. The arrest warrant shows just how murderous they were. The police raid at these times in order to surprise and subdue their suspects before they have a chance to retaliate, suspects who have shown that cold blooded murder is a way of life for them. He decided to hang out with psychopaths, knowing what they were to the point of feeling it necessary to have a gun within reach while sleeping. The dumbest thing a person can do. He may not have committed any crime that we know of, but he surely knew what his cousins were about and knew that they were under threat of either an arrest or retaliation. He put himself in harm's way and then escalated things when his first instinct was to reach for his gun. You'd be doing the young a better service by telling them to watch who they associate with if they don't want to end in a bad situation. If you don't want to be stung by bees, don't stick your hand in their nest. Just plain common sense.
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  2806.  @johanvanderpants9363  I wish you had a solution but right how it doesn't exist. Second guessing doesn't help and, I've said this earlier. If you don't want to end up in a situation like this, don't associate with those who invite these situations. Who's more likely to be stung by a wasp? The one who sees the nest and avoids it or the one who sticks his hand into the nest to see what's inside? The one way to lessen these unfortunate situations would be to tell people, make it a part of our culture, that there are bad people out there and to avoid them at all costs. We don't though. There is an underculture that glorifies the gangster lifestyle and then we're aghast when there are consequences for trying to live up to that glorification. It's insane and thousands are paying for it with their lives every year.
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  2807.  @dobby1359  Give me a break. You really expect anyone, whether a cop or not, to wait to see if the guy intends to shoot them or not. I'd say that your survival rate in a war setting would be next to zero. They were going in to arrest suspects that cold bloodedly killed someone else. The police were positive that these guys were capable and willing to kill them, if given the chance. It took seconds. Anyone, with any kind of survival instincts would have done what those police officers did, including YOU. In the same situation, you would have shot him because you want to live. You're either a liar or a damned fool is you claim otherwise.
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  2808.  @talldavid30  Your side looked the other way, last year, when BLM and Antifa, rioted, burned and looted to over 2 billion dollars in damage, over 25 dead and thousands injured. They stood behind the call to defund the police and now violent crime, in minority areas of the big cities, has skyrocketed due to less police protection. Also, they rioted all across the US when Trump was elected and even tried to break into the Supreme Court when Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. Hundreds were arrested because of that riot. For the first time in California history, population numbers are on the way down due to over taxation, high housing costs, homelessness, blackouts, expensive energy costs, poor fire management, crime in the streets (Poop patrols????),....yet, you want people to vote for the establishment that allowed these things to happen.
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  2809.  @sthubbins4038  Of course he wanted to "find" those votes. If they existed, he wanted to find them. Who wouldn't? Even you'd want to find them....if you thought that they existed, especially if those votes would help your cause. Isn't it strange that when Trump questions the irregularities of the election, it shakes the entire foundation of the Republic. Yet, when Obama did it in 2005 and Hillary did it in 2016.....that's legit and no problem. Especially when there was absolutely NO proof of collusion, yet Hillary STILL carries on about it and Adam Schiff, even though he claimed that he has irrefutable proof, never presented the proof and STILL claims that there was Russian collusion. The riots in 2016, against Trump, was no big deal and only righteous but the riots on Jan 6th.....horrific. The inconsistency is remarkable. And before you tell me that I'm being a hypocrite, I think that the rioters were wrong in BOTH cases and should be prosecuted. Rioting is WRONG and I don't care who does it. We live in a land that is supposed to live by the rule of law. Everyone should honour that, at all times, not only when it suits their own agenda.
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  2810.  @CalebTrask  What do you think that guy at that Trump rally was doing? People were there to hear Trump speak and he interrupts him and then refuses to shut-up, even after it was clear that no one wanted to hear him. He refused to be quiet. He was trying to impose his views on Trump and the audience, just like a guy in a theatre who starts screaming away and disturbing the audience. You can't impose yourself in that way. If Trump had graciously said "Let him speak. What are you trying to say?" That would be different but no one wanted him there. Just like that missionary at your door. If you ask him to leave and he refuses, he's imposing himself into your space. You would have the right to ask him and then compel him to leave. You do NOT have to listen to him. The right of free speech does not include FORCING people to listen to you. That's what ALL three of them have in common, the guy at the Trump rally, the one at the theatre and the missionary at your door. They're weren't invited to speak at an event or private home, yet they're insisting to be heard, in spite of the fact that people don't want to hear it and that's their right. No non sequitur, at all.
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  2811.  @CalebTrask  Then, why don't you tell me what was so wrong about what I said. I said that a person can't FORCE you to listen to them at a special event. Everyone, at that rally, went there for a reason and that was to listen to a specific speaker. This guy started yelling, disrupting the event and violating the rights of all of the people who took time and money to attend that event. He has no right to do that, just like the guy in the theatre that I used as an example. If you have a counter argument, let's hear it. Don't just tell me that I'm wrong and then leave. That's a sure sign that you don't have anything of value to say that would refute my point. What you're basically saying is this. "You're wrong and I'm not going to tell you why". What I hear is that you have no idea why I'm wrong. Until you do, I have no reason to believe otherwise.
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  2812.  @CalebTrask  It's still an event where people took the time and spent good money to go to. This guy had no right to disrupt what these people expected to see and laid down their valuable time and money for. If Trump was taking on questions, wait for the question period, get in line like everyone else and ask your question. This guy isn't anyone who is THAT special that his rant supersedes the rights of all the others in that auditorium.
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  2813. @Erin Wright Exactly. Only 1% of the US population has tested positive for Covid in 5 months. To reach herd immunity, 70%, we'll be doing this for over 20 years if a vaccine isn't developed, a distinct possibility. I'm 68, considered in the high risk category. I'd rather get this over with, get the disease and accept the risks, good or bad. I don't want to live the rest of my life this way and I'm already worried they'll do this for next year's flu season.
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  2814.  Un Hurte  Except that Christianity teaches that we should be humble and to praise God for the blessings that He as bestowed on us. That we should be like Job who, no matter how badly things got, we should still serve God. If a Christian is a doomsdayer, he's not showing God the gratitude that is demanded of him by his own religion. However, our public schools must be secular, by law. There is NO mandate set that says that we MUST be grateful for any blessings bestowed upon us in our schools. In fact, it's quite often those schools that are teaching our kids about privilege and that our country is unfair, racist and based on white male colonialism and capitalism and that all others will be oppressed no matter what they do. That's as nihilistic as it gets. It offers no hope for a future. What's the point in even trying if society is systemically conspiring against you? That's my point. It's not that you're forced to be that way but it's the standard in many of our schools. It's become a social pressure just as the Church puts pressure on Christianity to be humble and give thanks to God. Christians are overtly taught to be grateful and it's not overtly encouraged in secular institutions. That's the difference and it will show in how they deal with life.
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  2815. I've been watching the series "The Mentalist". Well over half the murderers are white women. It's as if they're compensating for past TV shows in which the bad guys are white men. See....women can be evil, too. I find it quite humourous. Actually, I like the series.
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  2816. That's right. There are no telescopes or microscopes that can see an amoeba 100 miles from where I'm sitting.....yet, I can land in Australia. Isn't that strange?
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  2817. That's what makes the "resistance" so nasty. A reasonable person hopes that the hydroxy will help to cure people. The resistance hopes that it doesn't because it will make Trump look bad. You've just exposed yourself for the jerk that you are. If it doesn't help Trump, it doesn't help anyone and people will die....but of course, as long as the right people die....right? Yeah....you're a jerk.
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  2818.  @hw-tq3qb  You are one angry, self righteous individual, aren't you? You display the same characteristics that a fanatical Christian might display. I was making a light hearted joke. Lighten up a little. It's like I said in my comment, it's impossible to laugh with the left. They have no sense of humour and then you come along and prove me correct.
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  2819. Ankit Panigrahi I don't even know what to say here. People have been in Indonesia for tens of thousands of years. Those voyages from India weren't big game changers in human history. The entire map of the world didn't change nor did the nature of human history, like it did with Columbus.
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  2820. I think that I've got this straight. If I explain why I'm not Muslim, that Allah does NOT exist and Mohammed is not the Prophet but just another warlord, I'd be committing blasphemy and be known as Islamophobic. Yet, no one cares if I explain why I'm not Christian. I can belittle the idea of Jehovah, call Jesus a fake and a grifter, and all is good. I'd never be called Christophobic. No wonder people are upset with Islam.
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  2821. THE LADIES TEES!!!! Damn. I racked my brain, trying to figure out how the lunatics could straighten out the gender crisis in golf, and the ladies tees never occurred to me. They have WAY too much time on their hands. That's what comes of living in a land of affluence.
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  2822.  @rosmarin2438  Huh??? Is this supposed to be some kind of clever put down? I'm not getting it.
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  2823.  @Shubdooba  To add to this, my dad grew up in Nazi occupied Holland. Nazi soldiers were everywhere, yet he never saw one Nazi fire a gun. Canadian soldiers stayed in the family barn and used it as a base to seek out Nazi soldiers around the countryside. Still, he never saw a battle, saw or even heard a gunshot through all the five years of the war. He went to school, helped on the family farm, went to piano lessons and to church on Sundays. You'd think that WW2 was a peaceful time to be alive to hear my Dad's experiences during the war, but millions lost their lives. Their assertion is illogical.
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  2824.  @standin4life  I have to repeat this. Don't be ashamed of it. Be GRATEFUL. The lack of gratitude is a major reason for the political chaos we have in this country. When you have a warm and dry home, lots of food in the fridge and cupboard....WHEN YOU HAVE A FRIDGE...and you still have no gratitude, you'll find yourself consumed with envy and resentment. It's that resentment that is causing the division in our country. Be grateful for every meal, for your life. That's how you do honour to those who don't have it.
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  2825.  @ReeCooks14579  Of course. "It's true but I can't prove it". LOL. I don't know you. Why would I trust someone on the internet that I've never met. I don't believe you because if it IS true, you should be at school board meetings demanding that the libraries be opened. They're behaving like petulant children or do you think that they are ALWAYS in the right no matter what they do.
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  2826. I dug out my trusty calculator and started ciphering. Given that the average truck is 50 feet in length, 50,000 trucks would stretch, bumper to bumper with no space in between them, from New York City to 60 miles short of Columbus Ohio. For us Canadians, that's from Windsor Ontario to just short of Cornwall. That 50,000 number is ridiculous. However, the Trudeau and the press went with the "fringe group" rhetoric and people believed it. Then when they found out that it was MORE than a "fringe group", they got all upset and the stories of how someone died because ER workers couldn't get to the hospital on time, started up on Facebook. In other words, they downplayed it and didn't prepare for it. Had this been an BLM rally, they would have been gloating over the size of it. Trudeau wouldn't have airlifted out and he'd be standing on the podium, beneficently smiling at the crowds who obviously (sarcasm) love him. Also, it was between 15 and 20 degrees below 0, in the Fahrenheit scale, in Ottawa. It's quite the turnout in that kind of cold.
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  2827.  @arguescreamholler  You're talking about people being thrown into the streets and some big aftermath. It doesn't sound all that optimistic to me.
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  2828. Very true. It's the same with anarchy. The first thing an Anarchist must do is to pass a law not to have laws. Socialists will always find more and more ways to protect people from themselves until we all live in a bureaucratic maze and every move we make has loves that pertain to them.
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  2829.  @filmolosophy  All of them....all at once. What a clusterf--- it always ends up being.
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  2830. There's no point to Twitter unless you like gossip and nasty dialogue. I use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. I ignore all political posts and if someone gets too political, they're deleted from my friends list. I've been on Facebook for over 10 years. It wasn't political back then and I used it the way it was back then. Now, it's gone a bit crazy but I refuse to go along. I can operate in society without being a follower and I can do the same with Facebook....although I do get your point. It can be a nasty place if you let be that way.
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  2831.  @mjones1665  You're kidding aren't you. People hack into phones and computers all the time and they can't break into this one? SMH.
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  2832.  @Djejjcjqjjwjfkckcje  I can't forget about the passports. She could lose her job, my grandchildren could be vilified as dangerous because they live in the same house as my daughter. That's their future that I'm concerned about. The vaccine, the mandates and the passports are all tied together. I can't allow them to treated as second class citizens because of an adverse reaction to one family member. This entire thing has been a cascading effect. I have to consider it all and I have to fight it all because if my daughter refuses to get her 2nd dose, extremely probable, then she will suffer the consequences of the mandates as will the rest of my family. I have to get as much science based evidence as possible and then try to build a network of people in the same position so we can pool our resources and information to work together on this. If I sit passively by and let the establishment kick her to the curb, then I'm not doing my best for her and my family.
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  2833.  @jessetorres8738  Dirt on political opponents? Joe Biden is on video bragging how he use 1 billion taxpayer dollars to force the dismissal of a prosecutor who was investigating the company his son worked for. The dirt is already there. All Trump did was ask to look into it. He also asked (the favour) the Ukraine president to look into "Crowdstrike", the server involved with the information used in the Russian collusion accusation of the Mueller report. Why wouldn't any American want to know what that was all about? It cost the American taxpayers millions of dollars but it seems only the Dems are allowed to investigate. Biden can't hide behind the "political opponent" defence. Just because he's offering himself as the candidate for the Democrats to run for presidency, he's immune from any inquiry into any wrong doing he may have done is another country. That's crazy.
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  2834.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  Why do you keep spamming these sites with this message? It isn't helping the cause. In fact, it makes you look like a mindless bot.
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  2835. He never called it a hoax. He SAID that it would be the new Democrat hoax against him, just like he called the Russian collusion story a hoax and the Ukraine phone call claims a hoax. Why would he call it a hoax when 2 days earlier, he asked for 2.5 billion dollars to fight it? Why would he talk about working with the Chinese government on the virus, in the State of the Union address on Feb 4th....the speech that Pelosi ripped up? Why would he restrict travel to China on Jan 31st? Why would he form a task force, to fight the virus on Jan 29th? There is SO much to criticise Trump for. Why would you perpetuate this stupid story which, at best, is old lady gossip, but more closely resembling a flat out lie? Why don't you actually dig something up that's worth criticising him over? This just makes you look foolish.
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  2836. Never happen. Those "comedians" at SNL haven't done anything this funny in years. Not even close.
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  2837.  @badcp455  It's not even a class issue. It's a "life" issue. It can happen to anyone. A disowned "rich" kid could find himself washing dishes due to parents that have their own psychological problems. Just because you're born into a rich family, doesn't make life easier. It may only serve to change the nature of your problems. Before anyone goes all rant on me, I'm a retired factory worker and bartender, son of an immigrant farmer and factory worker. Life was hard work and yet...satisfying. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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  2838.  @truetech4158  What does any of that to do with gender identity? Stay on topic. Talking about something else doesn't mean that you're now correct about the topic that the rest of us are discussing.
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  2839. She basically admitted that it was a biological question. Throughout all the higher species, it's quite clear what male and female means or man and woman, the definitive expression for humans. Sort of like sow and boar with swine, hen and rooster with chickens. It's man and woman for humans. It's a biological construct....NOT one of a social nature.
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  2840.  @valeriazaragoza375  Because Trump TOLD them that if you move to Mexico, he would impose such stiff tariffs that no one would EVER buy another car from them. Cars, made in Mexico, would be MORE expensive to buy than those made in the US. DO I REALLY HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU? Biden won't do that. Why is that so hard to figure out?
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  2841.  @asherif3893  Venezuela is worse. Does that automatically mean that Cuba has a good system? I rather doubt it. It's nice that they can all read but if the material that they're ALLOWED to read is limited, of what use is it? Reading has value only if you have the freedom to follow that gift where ever it might take you, to develop your interests and passions to enhance the quality of your life. If Cuba is SO wonderful, how come there aren't there hundreds of makeshift boats, overcrowded with "dreamers" heading TOWARDS Cuba, instead of leaving it? Why are there 1.5 million Cubans living in Florida and hardly, if any, American living in Cuba? Why aren't Venezuelans leaving the horrors of their country and flocking to Cuba? It's because they all know that there are lots of places where the freedom and quality of life is much higher in other, democratic and capitalist countries. That's the one thing that socialist apologists will not respond to. Why is the tide of immigrants always flowing towards the Capitalist countries and NOT the other way around? Socialists are always saying how horrible capitalists countries are but they're not migrating, in droves or by the millions, towards these socialist countries. That, in itself, has to show that maybe socialism isn't as great as claimed. That those who live under the safety net of capitalism, will only complain about capitalism but aren't passionate enough to actually go to their "Utopian" promised land. I think it's the complaining that drives them. Pessimistic people who bitch about everything but know, deep down, that they're not going to change even if they went to the socialist paradise.
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  2842. @Butter Emails Steve Crowder does a bad imitation of Trump and the "right" still loves him. They could care less about that. SNL just isn't funny like it used to be. The cast, of the past, were legendary. Most people couldn't tell you the names of the current crop of "comics".
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  2843. That has "what" to do with giving children drugs and allowing them to surgically amputate healthy body parts? Although, I think it odd, if you're an adult, have at it and do your odd thing. However, don't abuse kids and pretend you're doing it for the best of reasons.
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  2844.  @WhyNotTruth  Yet, all the riots across the country....the burning, looting, violence, throwing bottles, fireworks, Molotov Cocktails and the call to overthrow the government is ignored in this article and by YOU. Riots in LA, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Provost, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Kenosha, St. Louis, Austen, Dallas, Louisville, Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo, Washington, Atlanta..... I'm getting tired because there's lots more. That's THIS YEAR. They bully people in restaurants, they walk down suburban streets, yelling at people in their homes, they block traffic, beat on the cars of ordinary people. You sir are a bald faced ideological liar and you could care less about the end of violence. You just want the violence directed at your favourite target.
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  2845.  @WhyNotTruth  So, you're denying all the left wing violence in ALL the cities that I just mentioned? Are you denying the 100 nights, in a row, in Portland Oregon, the total destruction of city blocks in Minneapolis, the 25 businesses that were totally destroyed in Kenosha, the bulling of people in restaurants, the tearing down of statues, the thousands of injuries to police officers, the wanton murder of David Dorn during looting, the killing of 8 year old Secoriea Turner, in Atlanta by rioters, the execution style murder attempt of 2 police officers in LA, all in the last 3 months? I could write a book just relating all the incidents that were violent over that time. Are you seriously going to tell me that right wing violence has outpaced this over the last 3 months? It's happening RIGHT NOW, and over the last 3 months and you're posting things that are going back into the 1990s. I'm talking about today. Do you acknowledge that this violence is happening, RIGHT NOW, and it's being done by the left?
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  2846.  @one-sidedrationalization1091  Where did I say that you should go to church? I never ONCE said that. In fact, I haven't been to a regular church service in years. This isn't about being religious. It's about being diligent, hard working, using your brain and being thrifty. That's doesn't solely lie in the brain of the religious. You could do the same and never set foot in a church, mosque or synagogue.
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  2847.  @ConvictedFelonTrump8647  Yeah.....Trump developed the virus in his basement lab. I suppose the outbreaks in Europe, right now, is all Trump's fault, too. You don't have to regret voting for Biden but if you blame the virus on Trump, you're allowing your hatred of ONE man, rule your logic app that's supposed to be a part of your brain.
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  2848.  @5minutemajor141  That might well be true but it isn't illegal or impeachable. What I would like to see is explicit evidence of wrong doing in that phone call. That would be appreciated.
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  2849.  l8nightboy  Still not talking about the things I've mentioned OR what's going on in this video. Talk about one dimensional. "I hate Trump. He lies. It's a cult"....on and on and on. Not one word on the these clowns marching into neighbour hoods chanting slogans, in the middle of the night. Nothing about burned down businesses of ordinary people. Nothing about the media ignoring and big tech censoring all references to the Biden e-mails. Just Trump lies, hate Trump and....hate, hate, HATE. Can't you, at least, try to discuss anything else? You accuse me of being programmed by you've not left you're bubble ONCE, that I've ever seen.
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  2850. I'm from Canada. My brother in law was an invalid and then developed cancer. He fought it for a number of years and fell into a coma and his body slowly started to rot away. He had said that if he ever ended this way, he wanted them to end his life because there would be no purpose to life anymore. 2 weeks before Christmas, his life was ended. This is what MAiD should be meant for. However, it's open to abuse and people, being what they are, will do just that.
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  2851.  @Sylvertaco  They wrote the Constitution under their understanding of society of that time. An understanding that was the norm for a couple of thousand years. Many of the founding fathers were already anti-slavery but to mount a good defence against the British, they had to compromise to the states that wanted slavery. It was a bone of contention right from the get go. 20 years after independence, the Atlantic slave trade was abolished and it was a step by step progression towards the end of slavery which was finally achieved. It wasn't easy and yet, any reading of the Constitution, as it is written, had to acknowledge the rights of all humans. Those who supported slavery and were against women's suffrage, didn't go by what the Constitution actually said but by tradition and their belief on what the founding fathers meant. In other words, they didn't want to accept that Africans were men and that went against both fact and the Bible, in fact, the belief that even Africans had a soul. If they have a soul they had to except that they were also men. I'm not saying this out of a Christian belief system. I'm saying this from what is taught in the Bible and the idea that all men are created equal before God. They had to face the fact that if there was only one way to interpret the Constitution and to dispute it, they would have to accept the idea that Africans were not humans or subject to the grace of God.
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  2852. Nothing wrong with smoking weed unless that's all you do. When it becomes your life, your life is wasted on the couch, playing video games, listening to music and eating chunk food. If the entire society does that, things will deteriorate and we'll be in a third world country.
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  2853.  @almcdonald8676  Clinton is now fundraising for Biden without his presence. Not much of a step to her just taking over his position as the presidential candidate from there. What if this was the idea all along. Use Biden to rid the DNC of Sanders and then declare Biden unfit so they could inject Hillary as the last minute replacement. They were afraid that Hillary could never win a primary race so they devised a neat trick to avoid the primaries and get what they want. They figured it was close in '16. Maybe this time, with a little tweaking to the campaign and they will win it all. Anything to gain power.
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  2854.  @rashone2879  They're not protesting. They're communist activists, hoping to start enough chaos to start a full fledged revolution. They believe themselves to be a modern day version of Lenin, Che or Mao.
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  2855.  @legitimatesoul-police3033  There are 7 countries that have more cases than the US. Almost every country in Europe has a higher per capita rate, of cases, than they do in America. Switzerland has a 1 in 13,000 rate of cases compared to the US 1 in 310,000. That's 24 times higher than the US. If the US had the same rate, there's be 25,000 people sick with the coronavirus, in the US, RIGHT now. Almost every country has similar rates to Switzerland, some even worse. You're babbling through your backside.
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  2856. Josh White The goal of equal outcome is that terrible and has been demonstrated amply over history to be terrible. Equality of outcome destroys the concept of excellence. It's telling us that we no longer accept ability as the criteria for accomplishment. We allow ourselves to devolve into mediocrity. In fact, we discourage competence in favour of everyone being homogeneous in our accomplishments. How do we keep the competent from excelling? As long as they have the freedom to work as they please they will excel. That is inevitable. The only way to prevent them from rising above others is to take away their freedom to excel and they will not take that lightly. In the end, they will be disciplined for their refusal to allow the mediocre to climb the lofty heights with them and that discipline has been done quite harshly in the past. The competent don't mind if others, who are competent, excel with them but they know that for the mediocre to be equal to them they have to keep their own competence in check. That's isn't good for anyone. For humans to advance, as a group, we must allow the best of us to work at their peak level. Denying someone a place, due to demographics, hurts everyone, not just that individual, but everyone. That person will spend a lifetime being held back and that goes against a person's natural instinct and will rot him/her from the inside out.
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  2857. That's right....so vote for the Democrat politicians that are loudly supporting the violence. Makes sense to me. There are no Republican politicians in those cities that are having the violence issues. They're ALL Democrats. They have to ask for help, that's Constitutional law, and they won't because they don't want to give the Republicans the win on solving the problem.
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  2858.  Chris C  That sure adds to the conversation. Real scientific, too. A video about the virus and you're babbling on about terrorists and Republicans.
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  2859.  @TheRed02151  It was of no value to him OR he realised that he wasn't using common sense, was being careless, hadn't thought it through and maybe he WAS drawing a conclusion through prejudice. Your comments indicate that people can't change their mind or even realise a character flaw and try to change that. You're judging a person on one error in judgement and deciding that this is what's going to define his entire life. That is an attitude that says that there is NO rehabilitation for thieves, that no one will EVER change the way that they see life or could ever admit a mistake in actions, thoughts or ideas. To end....you've made this claim without any evidence to prove it true. I've ran into too many claims that were based on evidence that was twisted or misinterpreted, sometimes intentionally but definitely erroneous. I'd have to see the evidence for myself to make any judgement of what he said or meant.
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  2860.  @TheRed02151  I'm NOT a Trump fanatic so there goes THAT assumption. If you made that assumption about me, then what assumptions have you made about Sorbo. Now, YOU'RE the one being careless. I don't care for Obama, either. His "hope and change" slogan happened all right. By the end of his presidency, major cities were being burnt in a wave of racial strife. I had sincerely thought that his presidency would improve race issues but it made it even worse...by far. However, as much as I don't like Obama, the immigrant thing is ridiculous. You see, I can separate people from ideas....something that you can't seem to do. I don't like Trump but I agreed with quite a few of his programs. NOT ALL OF THEM!!!! Get that straight. Some I didn't like at all but most of all I didn't like his personality. You see, I can separate the person from ideas and I don't judge a person on single issues. Life is much more complex than that. I didn't support the Democrats in the last election but I fervently wished that it had been someone else, besides Trump, running for president. You see ....ONCE AGAIN.... I can separate people from ideas and one wrong idea doesn't say everything about a person. People are too complex to do that and only the most simplistic of people judge a person on a single issue.
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  2861.  @Techandfut  That settle it then. Brandon Blooming disagrees. We can all go home now.
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  2862.  @finster1968  We keep fighting....that's what we do. Maybe we are late to the fight but that doesn't mean that there's no fight in us. This evil madness will only succeed if good people give up. We do what this young man just did.
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  2863.  @bnbtoys  Hip hop and rap is being played because parents are allowing their kids to buy the music and listen to it. If no one is buying it, they can't make it at a profit. Ultimately, it's how those kids are being raised. They're not being raised to believe that the lyrics, in rap and hip hop, are encouraging anti-social behaviour, especially against women. You're not understanding how important good parenting is to any society. Hip hop would never have taken hold in the fifties. Parents, at that time, would not have allowed this stuff in their homes.
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  2864.  @ji8044  Why are you so determined to denigrate an entire demographic? There are all kinds of places that didn't build great cities. History isn't some kind of contest. You don't win because people in Africa didn't build the same thing as others did.
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  2865.  @jad4475  YOU have had no problems so none of this is really happening. Right on. I didn't know that the way to help these people was to ask people like you who have NO problems. Who thought that apathy would be such an effective way to ignore what's going on. Make it ALL about you.
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  2866.  @DM-dk7js  When someone FORCES me to believe something, it DOES affect me. A person can talk all he wants about how Jesus saved his life and I don't care. The minute he forces others to believe it to be true, I object an object hard. That's harassment and it's wrong.
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  2867.  @mikeemmons1079  RELAX, Mike. I think he was meaning it as a generic "our nation's" children. Or he may even be a father. I know a gay man, who has 2 kids and a lesbian woman who's a mother. If he IS a father, then he's correct to say "our children". Don't make assumptions. He's correct. Quit grooming children. Don't overthink it or start into accusations that may have no merit.
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  2868. @Henry James I think it's funny that such an obviously intellectual giant, such as you, would stoop so low as to even watch Dave Rubin. That's DEEP sarcasm, in case you don't quite get it. I don't see anything that you've said that has any intellectual value. All you've done is come up with different ways to call someone stupid or an idiot. You've proven exactly my point. If our exchange is any indication of the "debates" that you like to see, then all we would see are insulting contests. That's great stuff for the small minded but for most of us it's just that...great stuff for the small minded and not what we want to waste our time on. Now, it's time you used your great intellectual prowess to call someone else an idiot. There is nothing more to be gained by talking with you.
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  2869. @Henry James So even if he did....so what. You disagree with him on ONE thing. How does that take away from what some of his guests are saying? As a guy that worked constructions for YEARS, I get what he's saying...somewhat. Of course you have to have standards but if you've worked in that field, you know how power hungry those inspectors can be. It's infuriating. My brother in law was so enraged he chased one of them off the property with a shovel.....and he didn't come back. California is cursed with so many regulations that no one can build and the housing is price out of sight. It's killing our ability to afford to live.
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  2870.  Dan Opyd  What does any of that have to do with Thomas Sowell? Sowell has been one of the top economists of our times and all you can do is blather on about Rush Limbaugh. It has nothing to do with the worthiness of Mr. Sowell. Nothing. That's the attitude, the sneering cynicism and negativity that is so hurtful, that will be the primary reason the Democrats will lose this fall. People don't want to wallow in perpetual bitterness. Sometimes we just want to honour a man because he deserves it and show our pride in the work that he's done.
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  2871.  Matt Clark  I have to add one thing. There's too much hate against Trump. It's not even his fault. He took on the swamp and good on him. However, his personality was one that the media, big Tech and the bureaucracy, which is almost all allied with big government, could take advantage of. They did just that and those, that are easily swayed, fell for their biased and jaundiced views on him, not his policies, but him. I don't believe that there's any going back from there. I could be wrong because Biden's administration is looking to be a disaster but we'd be better off with someone that can't as easily be smeared as Trump was. Most people are too gullible.
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  2872.  @Bigdogspyke  Stupid opinions are stupid opinions and his being a black man is irrelevant. Juan is acting as if he hasn't heard about all the rioting, burned out buildings, looting and physical assaults that have accompanied some of the protests. The people of Tulsa have a right to be concerned about those protests becoming violent and Trump has a right to reassure, to those that are concerned, that those who do engage in violence will be dealt with and harshly. If Juan is acting like this is unreasonable, then he's being deliberately obtuse. I'd say the same thing if it was Chris Cuomo or Rachel Maddow saying those things. It's not the colour of Juan's skin but the content of what he is saying.
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  2873. @BlueLives Matter I don't know Juan well enough to make a life judgement on his character. However, I can comment on what he said in this video and it was totally lacking in logic, reason and as far as I can tell.....honesty. I comment on what I see. He just doesn't interest me enough for me to go on detailed search on his life's work as commentator. Had he said something that showed deep insight, I might check him out more, but this doesn't show a person that's worth that kind of effort.
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  2874.  @evonwilliams7502  Sussman spied on a sitting president while he was in the White House. That's high treason, no matter how you look at it. There's reason to believe that he did so at the behest of a 3rd party, namely Hillary Clinton. That should be investigated. This has NOTHING to do with Trump being a good guy or bad. This has to do with finding out if Hillary actually did commit a crime or not. Just because the crime is against someone that you don't like, that doesn't make it any less of a crime or should be ignored.
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  2875. @B. Clinton I didn't vote for Trump.....and don't tell me that you don't hate him. You do and that's why you didn't watch this video and went straight to the comment section. You don't care about the facts. All you care about is your hatred for Trump. I know that you're full of hatred by the comment insulting Trump supporters instead of talking about the serious issue at hand. That very attitude that you are displaying is the reason why the Democrats are going to lose the election. I said we should come together and fight this disease and you don't even acknowledge that. You just bring up more reasons to hate. People are getting sick of it and that's why the Democrats are going to lose and guys like you will never figure out why. You'll dig in deeper with your bitterness and anger.
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  2876.  @Patty-yq3zf  He's not taking rights away. He saying that the Constitution states that these issues should be handled at the state level. If the state that you live in denies your ability to abort your child, then your problem is with the state lawmakers, NOT Clarence Thomas.
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  2877.  @skylersaget2559  Says the guy that has NEVER read the book. Troll.
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  2878.  @QuietRefl4378  Is being viable the beginning of that life? Every one starts as a one-celled being. If dead, that's how it ends...a one-celled being. However, if alive, it grows and grows, until it reaches the point of being "viable". Viable is the point when it can live OUTSIDE the womb and that can even be less than 24 weeks however it's chances aren't as good. At conception, the new life is a one-celled individual with it's own DNA that determines if it's male or female, blue eyed or brown, blonde or brunette. If analysed in a lab, that one cell will be recognised as a human cell. That human cell will grow and grow, unless something causes it to die. One of those "things" that would cause it to die is an abortion. This is scientific fact. So....why is it religious morality that decides whether ending that life is right or wrong? Why can't an atheist come to the same conclusion, that it's immoral to end that life? Just as immoral as it is to end the life of a 6 year old child. If you can answer that question, you'll have come a long way towards convincing people that abortion isn't immoral. Now...try to convince me that the one-celled being isn't alive.
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  2879. @Campzzyzx Apparently, you don't know the difference between state and Federal politics. Californians, who are leaving their state, are upset about state taxes and regulations, NOT Federal ones. California has state income tax, as an example, and Florida and Texas has none. California has high energy costs due to taxes. Other states don't have as high a costs because they don't charge as big a tax on energy. I can give even more examples. The death penalty is a state responsibility NOT a Federal law. Understand civics before you talk about state and federal levels of responsibilities.
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  2880. I think Tulsi has a crush on you, Tim. She's watching your videos and forming her platform around your ideas, in the hopes that you'll give her a call and invite her over for an interview. Too bad your van can't float. You could float to Hawaii and interview her.
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  2881.  @russellpottenger8584  Fascism is a form of socialism and there are plenty of guns involved.
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  2882. @Leo Weisberger I can tell you that there's lots of problems with our medical system but that's life. There's problems with the American style, as well. In fact, I grew up with a system similar to it. My dad loves to remind me that it cost him 52 bucks to get me into this world and he wants his money back. When I went into the workforce, I remember having 33 bucks taken out of my pay each month to pay for my medical plan. It's nice to not have to worry about looking for medical insurance and to just show up at a doctor's office with nothing but my health card and it's really nice to see a medical bill of a couple of thousand bucks marked "Paid". It's no perfect, by a long shot, but it's okay. We do have our own socialists though and they're doing their best to ruin our country. I have them in my family and some of them are the laziest bunch of leeches that's been put on earth. I've always said that the best way to find a socialist is to put him to work. He'll show his true colours within a few hours.
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  2883.  @pinchebruha405  It's that person's reason for believing that men can't get pregnant. It doesn't mean that she's wrong. Men can't get pregnant. I'm not really sure why that would offend you so much. I'm not religious at all but I'm not going to come down on her because she happens to be that. Don't get caught up in ideology. We're all just trying to get to the truth.
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  2884. Sometimes it's the only way to solve an issue. It's been a part of earth's history long before humans even evolved. We're not that advanced that we know how to resolve all issues without violence. It's a natural biological function...like it or not.
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  2885. Nadler? Isn't he the Penguin's alter ego?
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  2886.  @rodneyaulridge4006  That's where Homer Simpson and family live. Springfield, United States.
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  2887. She's getting off when she gets caught. Getting caught is just the price of her job...sort of like professional fees or paying taxes. She actually has her own apartment and the judge praised her for it.
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  2888.  @djrychlak4443  So, it's okay if I steal your stuff? What does someone stealing your possessions have to do with Jan. 6th? I'm not following. Oh.....those "animals" have been arrested AND charged, as they should be. NOW....let's solve this uptick in crime. We can do BOTH, you know. You're letting your tribalism get in the way of your brain. Hatred doesn't solve problems. It makes things worse. MUCH worse.
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  2889. Who cares. We all know what he means.
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  2890. How about this and how about that? It's all so unfair!!!!! Yup. I'd say that you're only saying this because you don't like Trump.
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  2891.  @BIZNINK  They treated him "nicely" for one reason. They didn't want to overstep TOO hard because there may be negative political ramifications. They had to be somewhat careful. What's really strange is that they were at Trump's place awhile earlier and he showed them what he had. Why did they wait so long to get that warrant? They knew what he had. Did they have to find a judge who would sign that warrant and it wasn't easy because they didn't really have the grounds to get a warrant signed. They finally did get it signed, by a judge, who had to recuse himself from a case between Trump and Hilary, due to bias, a few weeks earlier. That's why they wanted a general master to oversee what the FBI and the DOJ were doing. The FBI has been corrupt for as long as I've been alive. They went really hard after Dr. Martin Luther King. We would want a political investigation of this sort to NOT be tainted by unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats wanting to get rid of their opposition. We want it as transparent as possible. That way, if Trump is guilty, all the evidence would have been gathered and inspected in an ethical manner.
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  2892.  @BIZNINK  There are all kinds of issues that have to be straightened out. For example, the executive privilege to declassify White House material or even if an incumbent president has the right to take it, which seems to be in question. Remember, Hilary had information on a private server and when asked to turn them over, she had them destroyed. She wasn't even the president, yet she hasn't had to face any kind of real judicial review into her actions. It just seems that it benefits the politicians to keep protocols confusing. It's a terrible way to run a government. Things like that should be extremely clear no matter who you are.
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  2893.  @ReeCooks14579  This isn't about age. It's about competence. Biden is suffering from a loss of mental cognisance, which is age related. Trump isn't. My dad is 92 years old and has his physical issues but he's as mentally sharp as he ever was. However, he's lost a of friends from the same affliction that Biden is going through. It's sad but it's a fact of life. It happens to some and not to others and that's a fact.
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  2894. He didn't dismantle the response team. It was reorganised but it was still existed. Also, the first American case was found on Jan 20. Trump announced travel restrictions of Jan 31st. Singapore was the first announcing a ban on Jan. 23rd. Trump was called xenophobic for that decision and Mayor De Blasio, of New York, encourage people to go out as normal and to attend the Chinese New Year's parade on Feb 9th. Also, Trump organised a preliminary response team for the virus on Jan. 29th. Dr. Fauci, the top medical expert in the US, along with Dr. Brix, has said that this early restriction saved lives. In fact, Trump imposed those bans against the advice of WHO and their medical models who said restrictions wouldn't help at all. These are facts. This is a situation that hasn't happened in over 100 years. Anyone who expects a perfect response to an unprecedented event is rather deluded. Instead of laying blame for the past, focus on the now and the future. No one can change the past but they can sure affect what is happening today and tomorrow.
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  2895. I have a friend who is full blood native from British Columbia. He told me that it was well known among the west coast natives that his ancestors, specifically his ancestors, would ritually eat members of surrounding tribes. It's a fact of life and he feels no embarrassment for it and nor should he. I think most of us have cannibals in our past if we go back far enough. It's a part of the evolution of humanity. Nothing to be ashamed or proud of. It just is.
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  2896.  @youaake  Why would they stop selling oil to the US? Why would that matter, anyway? China wants oil. So does Europe....and India. What about Japan? There are 7 BILLION people in the world. The US only has 350 million. There are more customers than the US. Besides, the US is the number one oil producer in the world. They don't need Venezuelan oil that bad. Venezuela has mismanaged it's economy for decades. They took oil revenue and used it to prop up socialist programs and any business man will tell you that this is not sustainable. Then the government fixed prices on normal household goods. Eventually, businesses, stores, were buying products for more than they could sell them and the owners went bankrupt. The government would nationalise those stores and that would be the end of them. Other areas of the economy were nationalised and they went bankrupt as well. The government does not create wealth. Their prime goal is to maintain power and they will use any wealth to appease the people so they will not overthrow them. Once your socialist government becomes corrupt, the country will rot from the inside out. Not one socialist economy is a rich economy. It has never happened yet and there is no reason to think that it should have worked in Venezuela. These conspiracy theories are just looking to blame anyone but where the blame really lies. The corrupt government of a socialist state. That's a sure fire recipe for disaster.
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  2897.  @jooosAREevil  I read it all and it's brilliant. If you read it you'll understand why you have to vote the way that you do. It's imperative that you read and understand it so you can explain our position.
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  2898.  @richardm3023  Maybe. It's almost certain she married her brother but there's no way to know that she consumated that marriage. Won't matter anyway, except to Allah (LOL), she's got enough problems.
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  2899.  @WhyNotTruth  Twitter is NOT a private publication. It's a platform, a virtual bulletin board. If you have something to say and it's legal to say it, they have no right to stop you from using their platform. Anyone can join. They can't suppress what you say, even on a bulletin board, just because they don't like what you're saying. When one party, who wants to be in government, gets control of the big tech companies and decides to use it to quell opposition, you will see only one view of everything. Their view. This is where this is going.
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  2900.  @gardensofthegods  If you're afraid of being misquoted, get it on video. Then the misquotes become your weapon against them. You're just offered the easy way out for anyone who has a untenable position. Pretend you're the victim before any wrongdoing even happens. It's a poor excuse to speak up.
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  2901.  @cadengrace5466  So you really DON'T care that her in laws died because of Cuomo's policies. You're no different than the rest of them. You think that you are, but you're not. You're quite willing to overlook the dead seniors that Democrat governors are responsible for, because of some weird political sensibility that you have. "Dead to me" My God. There are REAL dead people, senior lives that those governors just threw away and you're going on about "pretend" dead people. You sure do have your priorities on straight. You won't listen to one of the strongest voices against those who committed those atrocities because of politics. No wonder this country is in the trouble it is. No sense of integrity or ethics left. All you care about is your side.
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  2902.  @richardpreece5384  I'm going to assume that you're accusing Israel of the genocide. If so, I have one question. How did Israel convince Hamas to send soldiers into Israel and slaughter innocent men, women and children, many of them attending a music festival? Hamas must have known that Israel would retaliate. Why do it, knowing that it would lead to war? It gave Israel the perfect pretext for going into Gaza, a place that they voluntarily left almost 20 years earlier? It doesn't make sense. If I'm wrong about your stance, forget I asked.
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  2903.  @hoffinshnizle3670  They're using the money they saved, from defunding the police, to provide counselling for the guy. They may even have enough left over to pay for the removal of the dumb teardrop tattoo.
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  2904. Worst crime that there is. Ask the MSM.
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  2905. @Registered User So you really find it hard to believe that a government would build a concentration camp but call it something else? Wow, that's gullible. Nearly every large atrocity, in history was caused by governments. Wars, genocides, mass imprisonments (concentration camps) and police state overreach, were government actions. Yet, you still refuse to believe that your government has your best interest at heart. Yup.....you're as gullible as the people in 1935, Nazi Germany. "They'll never do that. You're exaggerating". Keep telling yourself that, when your neighbour rats you out and you go to jail for doing basically nothing.....Soviet Gulag style.
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  2906.  @Roger-fs5yo  Are you from the past? Tell us more.
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  2907.  @zynnfindo4776  Then why was Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma living in London and had 23 million dollars in assets frozen? He was cleared AFTER that prosecutor was fired, the following year, and he moved back to the Ukraine. Now he's in trouble for graft and giving licenses to his own companies while he was Minister of Ecology in 2012. He's left the Ukraine again and is living in Monaco right now. The entire situation with the Biden's and Burisma was suspect. Zlochevshy is known to be a corrupt politician and businessman and he hired a guy, Hunter Biden, who had no experience, couldn't speak the language and who was kicked out of the military for failing a drug test. It would seem that the only asset Hunter possessed is that his father was the Vice President of the United States.
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  2908.  @DimitriTheBarbarian  Ah.....the smear job. Always a good tactic.
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  2909.  @chinmusic2722  A man, accused of rape, is honoured by football players. What a disgrace.
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  2910. If only the rest of the party would be as tough as Jim Jordan. Then they'd have the strength to get the "woke" stuff out of our lives.
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  2911.  @xftbllplyr2091  Troll. RFK Jr. has a net worth of 15 million. You only wish to have even 10% of that over your lifetime.....TROLL.
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  2912. Do you do a Google search on names that don't appear to be Jewish? For example, is Angela Merkel Jewish? She sure seems to support the same ideas that the left supports. She must be Jewish.....right? Funny thing is, she's not. I have a feeling your google searches are geared towards self validation and not a search for the facts, at all.
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  2913.  @HPFan4Life81  A family a few years back. Why it's an epidemic!!! LOL.
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  2914.  getawaycar  "The 1619 Project" is a rewriting of history and it's being printed in the NY Times. All those statues are standing witnesses to our past. They remind of us of the past, invite discussion and bring us knowledge of the past. Take them all away, who's going to discuss it? The schools? How can they? Those figures of history, their statues will be gone. Those students won't have nothing to discuss, to ask questions about. First, it will be the statues. Books will come. "Gone with the Wind" is now problematic. It won't stop there. It's rolling faster and faster. It started slowly but it's gaining speed and it's people like you that are defending it. Here's another Orwell quote...'Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.' This is about control.....controlling you and you're just rolling over and letting them.
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  2915. You should be able to cover the cost, of the return flight, over a weekend. If you stay a week, the rest is pure profit.
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  2916.  @kamparker9726  Men love to torment their friends at every opportunity over anything that will work. If a girl knows how to change a car part and I don't, I expect to get razzed by my friends because I'd give it to them, if I get the chance. A mature and confident man, any person actually, takes it all in stride. A lot of women just don't get that. They think we're doing it out of hatred and spite when, quite often, it's how we express our fondness for each other. My buddies call each other A-holes all the time and it's meant as a compliment.
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  2917.  @lookupverazhou8599  I'm living in Canada, right now. Trudeau can talk to me all he likes. He's not going to like what I have to say, though. I doubt that he will talk to me. He'll call me a white supremacist and that'll be his rationale for not having to engage in difficult conversations.
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  2918.  @MegaWillow18  The truth is that you can't hardly grow a thing on those empty lands. I live in Canada and we're a major agricultural producer but, even still, most of Canada is impossible to farm. That's a fact. I fly over those empty regions all the time and I know for a fact that most of Canada is near bare rock with trees clinging on to this rock for dear life. These empty spaces don't just apply to the Canadian north. It stretches into Alaska and on into Siberia all the way into northern Europe. It's terrible farmland. Same as the large deserts in the world. If you want to make deserts liveable, you have to import large quantities of water. California is suffering from farming and population pressures to the point that all lakes and rivers, in the immediate vicinity, are drying up. The Colorado River doesn't even flow into the Pacific anymore. I do agree though that the WEF is an horrific institution and we should fight them without quarter.
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  2919.  @eoin8450  No....it's not state capitalism. It's national socialism or Fascism.
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  2920. I've read the entire bill and challenged critics, of that bill, to show me exactly what part of it suppresses voting. I even gave a link to a copy of the bill so they don't even have to look for it. Do you know what? Not one person has responded. Not even when, after 24 hours, I called them out on it. Nothing but silence. I'm Canadian. I've read this bill and I'll bet that Sleepy Joe hasn't. Either that or he's just lying.
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  2921.  @edwardamos6462  Except he said it, NUMEROUS times while he was still standing. He said he couldn't get into the cop car because he was claustrophobic and couldn't breathe. A police officer told him that they would turn on the air conditioner and leave the windows open a bit to help his breathing. Then Floyd, in the back seat of the car, starting kicking and yelling and then sat up, with his feet on the pavement and said it again "I can't breathe" and then asked to lay on the ground. He sure didn't look like he couldn't breathe when he was kicking and screaming. In fact, he was rather intimidating. Eventually, when the boy cries wolf to many times, you don't pay attention any more.
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  2922. @J C First of all, Trump didn't dump this on the states. The Constitution did that. He was following the dictates of the Constitution, the law of the land. If you think the Constitution shouldn't be followed, you should say that but every President has taken an oath of office to uphold the Constitution. The articles of the Constitution are interpretive and this was the way that it was interpreted. Had Trump enforced a mandate on the states, he would have faced stiff resistance from the states, especially the Democrat states. Leaving it up to the states is the best way to seek cooperation and it worked to a degree. Cuomo and Newsom, both Democrat governors, have been supportive and praised Federal action. The reopening guidelines are just that.....GUIDELINES. Guidelines are not laws and cannot be enforced, legally. If Georgia doesn't want to follow the guidelines, it's their right. If it's smart to not follow the guidelines, that's another question. The guidelines are a list of suggestions for the states to follow. Trump thinks that they're a good idea. If Georgia, or any other state, doesn't follow them, there will be people that disagree with them, including Trump. In fact, if you think that Georgia is opening too quickly, then YOU'RE agreeing with Trump. If you think that Trump should FORCE Georgia to comply, then you oppose state rights, something that the Confederates fought FOR in the Civil War. Are you beginning to see how complex this is? No matter what Trump did or how he handled the enforcement of the guidelines, he would be wrong and you'd have grounds to criticise. It's a win/win scenario for the chronic critics and I'm going to assume that you're a chronic critic of Donald Trump.
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  2923.  Damian Tirado  You've just demonstrated that you know absolutely nothing about Christianity. Nothing at all. At the very root of Christianity is the belief that we are ALL bad, that sin is the rot that lies in ALL our souls and that our search for God and truth is our only way out to salvation after we die. As long as we're alive, that rot is still there in our hearts. Before you start on this, I'm not a Christian. However, I know a great deal about Christianity and I can tell, by your comments, that you know very little.
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  2924.  @dishachatterjee6084  Till the 1800s, slavery was considered normal and there's was nothing wrong with it. Mauritania was the last country to ban slavery and that was in 1981, only 43 years ago. Morocco, South Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Oman and others all banned slavery in my lifetime, many because of pressure from western countries. Like the consent laws, people started to view such institutions and practices as an affront to the rights of the individual. Just because the law says it's okay, doesn't mean that it's ethical or moral. I'd call those age of consent laws to be no more than another form of slavery.
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  2925.  @jjrider6758  Totally agree. People have no idea what their plan will mean for them. It will be like the Hunger Games without the Games. The average person will be at the mercy of these elites, begging for their table scraps. "Please sir, I want some more" We'll all be like Oliver Twist, hoping that they will give us more of their gruel. If we don't give in to their demands, they'll tell us that we MUST do as they say or the world will end in 10 years. I took that kind of emotional and physical bullying for only so long, as a school kid. Then I threw a baseball into my tormentors face. He left me alone after that. I don't want to do this to these globalist elites but if they give us no choice, it will happen. Hungry people are desperate people and desperation will inevitably turn to violence. Their "solution" will be much worse than the problem and they don't care.
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  2926.  @shanecorning5222  They have MORE, in many cases. There is Mohawk land about 30 miles from where I live and the natives there are quite prosperous. The things that the individual Mohawks have today, would boggle the minds of the Mohawks of 600 years ago. Now if you're talking about power, no. At least not the political power they had after they joined the Iroquois Confederation. Then they were the most powerful influence of this area. If that kind of power is important to you, then you're correct. However, times change, just as it has for all of us around the world. 600 years ago, my ancestors were living as peasants, in the Netherlands, subservient to the nobility that was the way of life in Europe, of that time. They couldn't move, take part in trade or do anything that we can now, as free people. Racial identity and its importance has changed. Now, we're more about nations as political units and we try to include all ethnicities as part of the nation state. That's life in the US and Canada, in spite of some of issues involved. A kid, growing up in squalor, can become a multi-millionaire overnight. It happens all the time. People become quite affluent through hard work and dedication and race isn't the determining factor. I've worked with Native construction workers, who have nice homes, drive big fancy trucks and have a good life. It's all relevant to where the native lives and what he/she wants in life.
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  2927.  @shanecorning5222  The infamous "winners of history" meme. It's always the last resort when you have no evidence or argument. It's the guaranteed win, in the minds of those who don't want to do the real legwork to understand human history. That's what it is.....human history. Human history because we're ALL human and to understand who we are as a species you have to understand us all, not some self styled narrative designed to show off your idea of personal morality. Also, I object to your characterisation of the natives as "losers". It's condescending and self serving.
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  2928.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  Only a socialist would take that old bit of wisdom and twist it to make it look as if the ONLY way to help a person is to GIVE him stuff. Was that how our ancestors did it? Super rich cavemen, helped others to the point that the average person in North America can own a home and car, eats regular, has the best health care in history (that includes the homeless). Any jackass can cut down a branch and make a pole. I did it when I was 8 years old. What I did appreciate was the older cousin who taught me how to use it effectively. I collected pop bottles till I had enough to buy some hooks and line and I WENT FISHING.
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  2929.  Willie Baker  Trump says a good wall will help to prevent illegal border crossings. Acosta goes to the wall and shows how no one is trying to cross it and thinks that he's now proven Trump wrong and you think that Trump is the stupid one here. I'm thinking that we have another contender for that dubious honour.
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  2930.  Willie Baker  He's a billionaire, had a very successful reality TV show and is now the President of the most powerful nation on the planet....and he's a failure? Wow. What kind of metric does one use to show that one is a success? A trillionaire and Emperor of the universe? The tunnel solution. I never thought of that one. They could dig a tunnel. LOL.....and you think that digging a tunnel is just as easy as walking through open ground. That the chances of detection are nil when one stops to dig a tunnel big enough to crawl through. Lucky thing Acosta didn't have the ground collapse below his feet and fall into one of the tunnels that must everywhere at the wall. LOL. Don't you think that if there are tunnels that Acosta would have shown then to us to prove what a waste of time and money the wall is? Keep talking. You're scoring points for the stupidest person on earth contest. A couple more posts should seal the deal for you.
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  2931.  coyotewarchild  The Civil War is only playacting in the streets. The real insurrection is the battle of words that's the Oregon Democrats are engaging in, with the support of members of the Federal Party and the leftist media. That's where the real war is being fought and they're the real danger. It's a propaganda Civil War.
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  2932. You've crossed the line into becoming a racist. I've used the same argument that you're using and the response always goes to that bottom line. If you want to control immigration, you're a racist. Every Canadian is suffering for it. I'm sure that you're experiencing the same frustration that I'm feeling.
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  2933.  @ouimetco  Immigration is good for the country if the country is in a strong economic boom. This isn't the case at the moment. Canada is letting in more immigrants than there are housing starts. That's means that we have a lot of buyers and renters competing for fewer vacancies. One can say to increase building starts but we also have a shortage of skilled builders to handle the demand. Canada also demands that immigrants bring the means to support themselves if they come. That means that either they have high skills which will bring high incomes or they have the money to support themselves. Since most immigrants come from poorer countries, the immigrants that are let in are the wealthiest that those nations can offer. They go straight to the major cities and use their wealth to buy real estate at premium prices. Since market availability is low, the competition drives up the price. Canadians, who are retiring, in those big cities like Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver, get a top dollar for their homes and then move to the rural areas and will buy for much less. They sell for 1.2 million and then buy their rural home for 3 to 4 hundred thousand, putting almost a million in their pockets. That competition is now transferred to those rural areas and those trying to buy their first homes are forced out of the market because they can't afford to compete with those coming in from the city. Rents are then forced up, as well. If we could get our immigration numbers down to under housing starts, that would go along way to reducing the cost of buying homes. However, it doesn't appear that our government is willing to do that. It benefits those who've bought homes over 15 years ago and they like the increasing equity of their property.
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  2934.  @eddiehauser6661  They want the SAME money as the men get. That implies that they think that they're on par with men in skill AND popularity. Yet not ONE of them has tried out for a men's professional team, let alone made it. The women make minor league pay, the pay that men get when THEY can't make the top tier teams. This video shows the best women's American soccer players and they get trounced by men's league teams, men could never play on their national teams. Your little "if" scenario means nothing. No where does he say that women are better soccer players than men. You're changing the parameters of the argument and then claiming that you've made a point.
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  2935.  @ShortFuseFighting  I hear you. Being from southern Ontario, the summers can be sweltering and the winters freezing. I worked outdoors for years and I prefer working in the cold of winter over the heat of summer. However, I'd rather have summer weather on my days off and I enjoyed winter vacations in the Caribbean. It all depends on the situation and the person and personally, I don't envy your having to work in those conditions year round. I wouldn't like it one bit.
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  2936.  @georgemurphy2579  Candace would tie her up into a pretzel. Poor AOC wouldn't know what hit her. Yet, in her delusional mind, she'd still think she came off as the victor.....and she's the face of the Democrats. Wow. LOL.
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  2937. Kamala Harris visited a man, accused of sexual assault, in the hospital, and told him that she was proud of him. Nothing is sacred to these people.
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  2938. @Quick Thinking There were issues but it's not been as bad as it is right now for racial tension in my life. Not since the riots of the sixties. Everything is about race, today. White privilege, critical race theory, racist milk, racist crosswalks, racist math....on and on. There's a definite push to racialize almost everything. There are now segregated graduations at Harvard, segregated dorms in some universities, California Democrats even wanted to repeal the state Civil Right's Act in the last election which the voters rejected. Yes....there have been racial tensions but you'd have to have blinders on to not notice that it's gotten a lot worse in the last few years.
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  2939.  @CarlAlex2  "The fear and lothing of nudity in the US"? What? Try walking around naked in Baghdad or Mecca. It's not just the US. I'll bet it would go over really big in Shanghai or anywhere in North Korea. LOL.
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  2940.  @Kacv-dc1tx  Reality starts with a wish, a dream that one works towards. Wishes are pointless without hard work and a plan to make that wish a reality. Most policies start small and grow from there. Only those who don't work towards their goals and wishes would say that it will never happen. Those who do work towards the things they wish for, know that they can come true if they have the determination and diligence to make it happen....whether those wishes are beneficial or horrific.
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  2941.  @longboxdime  They'd better not let AOC anywhere near the presidency. The Democrats won't get a million votes if that possibility is even remotely possible.
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  2942.  @Daniel-po8eb  She's right. People don't want to fight. When you start the violence, they'll back down. We can beat them without fighting because they're not as strong or as smart as they think they are. Don't scare off potential allies by telling them they may have to risk physical harm. They won't do it. Fear rules. Covid proved that.
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  2943. Yet not ONE word about the current president and HIS crime family. Over 100 suspicious bank transactions reported to the authorities and they were never investigated. You and I couldn't go 3 suspicious transactions without facing a full investigation by the FBI and, in their case, Homeland Security. Trump has a lot of issues but the US is in a terrible state because of the current administration. He's our president and people, like you, think that ONLY one person can be the bad guy. Why can't they BOTH be crooks? I just don't get it. You'll point fingers so vociferously at one person, but will allow someone else do as they will. It's so baffling.
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  2944. I'm reading the Antifa handbook right now. A group that doesn't exist has a handbook. That's logical.
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  2945.  @rickybobby9840  Isn't that insider information? Unless Pelosi never talks to her husband. I could see that. Even if Ted Cruz does do it, how does it make Pelosi, using insider information any more ethical. If it's wrong when Cruz does it, it's wrong when Pelosi does it.
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  2946.  @leewhite6425  What does that have to do with these Angel Moms? They've lost loved ones to illegal aliens and you show your condolences by babbling on about Putin. Why couldn't Pelosi come out and talk to these unfortunate women? Could it be because no matter what she said, she'd end up looking just as heartless as you do right now. Putin and Trump's shenanigans are irrelevant to the concerns of these women. Whether Trump and Putin fixed the election or not, their loved ones are still dead and they're still grieving. Is that what you'd tell them? "Would you quit your whining and wake up!!!!! Putin fixed the election". That doesn't even make sense. Their issue is border security and safety.....and you think it appropriate to make it about Trump and Putin. No wonder people are getting sick of the left.
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  2947.  @cameronh7229  You just demonstrated another behaviour of the bully. Mock the victim. For me....I don't care. I'm not going to be facing unfair advantages because I'm 72 years old and my sporting days are behind me. I'm just calling if out because it's not fair and I've as much right to do that as you have to try to take on a mocking tone....a tone that most people have given up in grade school.
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  2948.  @danielfit577  They used a loophole in banking laws. That doesn't make banking bad. In Canada, there were banking laws against what they were doing in the US and Canadians didn't suffer all that badly. However, those loopholes have been plugged. It's not banking or Wall Street that's bad, it's some of their employees. They were unethical and making fortunes. I worked at a factory, years ago, and the company allowed us to take home seconds for family use. However, some of the employees started selling those products to friends and on the street. The company found out and discontinued that benefit. Those greedy employees ruined for all of us. That's exactly the same as those bankers giving out those loans. They were lining their pockets by getting bonuses for approving loans and then selling those loans as blocks as investments. Totally unethical. It ruined things for a lot of people. There should have been more oversight but there wasn't. You want to throw the baby out with the bath water. That would be the worst thing that could ever happen to the country. If you're going to be angry, be angry at those who took part in those get rich schemes....not the entire system, especially now that it's illegal.
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  2949.  @lorietaylor4665  Poison? Talk about hyperbolic. I still have my daughter's vaccination card. There are almost 20 vaccinations on it from when she was born until she was 17. She's had one tetanus shot since then and has had 4 or 5 flu shots. She is now 40, a mother of 3 and in perfect health. So, if she was being poisoned, they're doing an awfully bad job of it. As for me, I don't remember all the shots I had as a kid but I had a tetanus shot about 20 years ago and a few flu shots. I'm fine. Haven't suffered any ill effects from them. For something to be a poison, it has to have adverse effects on you when you've taken it. Maybe I'm immune to poison, LOL, but I doubt it. I'm thinking that vaccines aren't poisonous and that you've been reading too much quackery from those suffering from paranoia.
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  2950.  @canihave1dab724  He has no idea what it means. His intellect stops and starts at insults.
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  2951.  @Leester-70  Then I'd say that "they" are failing.
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  2952. Another one that''s complaining about nothing being done. What would YOU suggest should be done?
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  2953.  @margaretmichniewicz2849  Typical of so many comments. The message centres around the phrase "I don't like it" and it's NEVER explained what isn't liked. Now, you don't like what FOX did. Explain it. Your comment is just noise if you don't.
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  2954. She went on about segregated schools and she, either ignores the fact that it was Democrats that supported segregation, or she just doesn't know. So I will inform her. "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" George Wallace, Democrat governor of Alabama. No matter what, that type of historical ignorance prompts me to say that I find it difficult to take anything that she says seriously.
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  2955.  @mariost-onge2395  Yeah, because when you tax big corporations, they'll accept smaller profits. Are you really that naive. The cost of the products that they sell, products that were made in China, go up so they can keep up their profit margin. They have to or go bankrupt. That means that every time you go shopping YOU pay, NOT them. What is it about some people that they can't see that?
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  2956.  @SeattlePioneer  "Why should men be prevented from competing for millions of dollars in prize money" Because if women's sports didn't exist, that prize money wouldn't exist and they wouldn't be competing for those prizes anyway. There'd only be men's sports, under the guise of "people" sports, and you'd never see women athletes.....EVER. The NHL and NFL would still have 32 teams, MLB and NBA would still have 30 teams. The number of professional athletes would be at the exact number as the men's professional spaces are now. There would ZERO to a minute number of women that would make it into the professional ranks and they would always be on the periphery, competing in small localised events. "Sexual Apartheid" You know....that type of hyperbole really doesn't impress me.
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  2957.  @saltycat662  No.....I don't know whether he's sane or not. Neither do you. Martyrs have been painted as heros for thousands of years. It's the same as the guy in Tunisia that Tim was talking about. His act, whether he was insane or not, inspired the people of Tunisia to revolt. The Australian government will do well to take heed of the desperation of its citizens.
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  2958.  @glamdring0007  Hey there, Rip Van Winkle. Did you sleep through the Mueller hearings? In case you did, they had an inquiry into Trump colluding with Putin and they found NO evidence.....none, notta thing. Adam Schiff said he had incontrovertable proof put when it was time to say what that proof was, again notta word. So, now that you've been updated, go verify it. There's this thing called the internet....an amazing tool, in case you slept through that development, too.
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  2959.  @MaverickCadaverick  Quit deflecting. I underwent circumcision, due to infection, when I was 6 years old. It's such a trivial operation and, for me, a welcome relief from the pain of infection. A few days later I inspected the area, noticed that it now looked a LITTLE differently, shrugged my shoulders and thought nothing more of it......UNTIL I ran into people like you wailing "You've been mutilated!!!!! How horrible!!!!!" Thanks for being offended for me but it has been such a non-issue that you actually make me laugh. Circumcision is WAY different than life altering drugs, some of which may need to be taken for the rest of your life and the amputation of breasts, genitals, ovaries to be replaced by weird reconstruction procedures which also include consequences that may last a lifetime. 60 years later, I can confidently say that my circumcision has had NO negative consequences, and I mean none, zip and zero, since a couple of days after the operation. That is except for the people, like YOU, who keep telling me that I'm grotesque. I'm not. So lets get back to the REAL issue here and quit trying to change the subject.
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  2960. @thephenomenalone I've worked with a lot of lazy people. Spend their entire working day dodging their jobs. Can't find them half the time and when you do, they're on their phones. They can't do this and won't do that. Grievances are a daily thing. Having a job doesn't make you a hard worker.
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  2961.  @barbarafleites2253  You can't understand what he's trying to say? He's saying that even birds know when to care for their young and helpless and when to cut them lose to fend for themselves. Comprehension isn't your strong point is it.
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  2962.  @jussayinmipeece1069  Well....that should invalidate his message, shouldn't it? How pathetic. Do you know what is part of what's wrong with the world? It's those who zero in on what are insignificant errors and use it to invalidate a perfectly sound idea. It's like saying a single tree is the forest.
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  2963.  @jussayinmipeece1069  No....his tirade, if that's what you want to call it, is based on the idea that if an idea offends someone, you should never, EVER, be allowed to say it. Like that kid who was offended by the Biblical verses about love. What was his point? Was it that maybe those verses should never be discussed again because it might hurt his feelings? In other words, he and all those easily offended, only want their views discussed and encouraged. They're no different than the religious zealots of the past, the ones that forced Galileo to recant his heliocentric model. That's the "four legs good, two legs bad" slogan. They're the new ideology, the "four legs", that is so good, and the old guard, the "two legs", that's so the bad. Remember, the animals revolted against the farmer, the four legs that revolted against the two legged overlord. Also remember, that book ended with the pigs walking on two legs and the slogan was adjusted to fit that change. In other words "Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss". The American way is to allow each person the freedom to believe what they want and the right to express it without reservation and overt repercussions. That's NOT what the new SJW culture is all about. They are doing EXACTLY what the religious masters of old Europe were doing. They have their own ideology and don't you DARE say anything that might question it. The claim of offence is their weapon to shut you up.
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  2964.  @justinbennett9998  I've never heard that before but it makes perfect sense.
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  2965.  @f.arduini355  How can anyone know how big that "if" is? If they knew, none of this would be necessary. They'd either forget the entire thing or serve Hilary with a warrant. The "if" is the entire point of the whole thing.
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  2966.  Thomas Daley  I'd say that it takes a lot of guts for someone to stand up, in front of their own community, and say that maybe they've been looking at their situation in a false manner. She stands up to the vitriol that people fire at her, that she's a race traitor, a sell out, a grifter and the rest. That takes guts and I don't care who you are. Why don't you try this for a change. Instead of attacking her, try assessing her message. When I was young, a long time ago, the worst thing a parent or adult figures could tell someone is that they're losers, that they'll never amount to anything. That's the message that's been thrown at the black community for years, from white liberals and blacks, themselves. She's saying that it doesn't have to be that way and you can do good for yourself if you work hard, make good decisions and persevere. I will add that all one has to do is look to the Americans of Asian heritage. They work their talebones off and have a higher income, per family unit, than white Americans. It can be done but it will never happen if you don't believe in yourself first.
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  2967.  @Astronopolis  The point is the absurdity of Sunny's statement is as absurd as a football bat.
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  2968.  @sallyb8013  The church was just a stepping stone in our human quest for the truth. It's a part of learning, not the end or the journey.
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  2969. If they don't get the answer they like, they'll just insist that answers are racist and any answer will do. 2+2=167......prove me wrong as he puts his fingers in his ears.
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  2970. Her hatred for the rich supersedes any caring she might have for "black and brown bodies".
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  2971.  @7James77  It's something that George Orwell once said of his upper middle class socialist friends. It's the virtue signaling of the well to do. Sort of like Bernie Sanders. It used to be millionaires AND billionaires that he'd criticise. Now it's just billionaires. People like them have the cutoff point, for those they don't like, at themselves. If someone has more, they don't like them.
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  2972.  @suilfisean  You didn't even hear it......TROLL.
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  2973.  @freedahlogic8368  It's because you've made it about women's rights NOT human rights. You've given women's rights precedence over human rights and are now appalled that people don't see life through the same lens that you do. You were the extremist that you're railing against.
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  2974.  @anneanne9009  Yes, it is like a war effort but it's not the same thing. Also, neither Trump or Fox has ever advocated against State's rights or the Constitution. In fact, Trump has said, numerous times, that he will allow the states to define their own response to the virus, as is outlined in the Constitution. He has said that he disagrees with Georgia, opening too quickly, but he can't force them to abide by his guidelines, no more than he can enforce the draconian rules that the State of Michigan has implemented an he disagrees with. He cannot do a thing, except withhold funding from the Federal government, which may or may not be a good idea, given the need to help the sick, or he can wait until it goes before the Supreme Court and a decision has been made that the State of Michigan has overstepped their bounds. That's the law of the United States and the procedures that MUST be followed.
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  2975.  @jenniferwaite3219  What's ironic is that Velshi is of Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian descent. They were known for their involvement in the slave trade. His family lived in South Africa and moved to Kenya. I wonder if any of his ancestors were slavers. They were DEFINITELY colonisers and were only bettered at colonising by the Dutch and British. In other words, his ancestry is exactly what he's railing against in this video. Personally, I don't hold that against him but I will call him out on his hypocrisy.
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  2976.  @matthewcurry3565  That's what I've been trying to do. I've even offered to talk about the one thing that you did bring up. "Clean your room" as a first step to bringing order in your life. You asked if he has helped me. Not really but he allowed me to understand how I, inadvertently, worked my own way out of personal quagmire and it reflects on his "Clean you room" statement. It's a long read and I'll only relate it if you're interested. It's not book size but a couple of long paragraphs. If you're not interested in a real life testimony, fine.....although I can't see why. Learning is about listening, even to things that you don't like.
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  2977.  @matthewcurry3565  My point is that I was lucky. Not because of my internal strength and perseverance but because I grew up in a background where that was expected of a person. I lost my way but that background gave me the foundation to help me out of the mess that I was in. A lot of people don't have that background. They never grew up having to work, all day on a farm when only 13 or 14 years old. They never get the chance to even consider the idea that going to work would be the best thing for them. Work is an obligation that one does to pay the rent and eat. They don't see it as a way to improving mental health. That's where Peterson comes in. He tells them to do what I did but he does it in their world. The only world that they've ever known and for the depressed, that is their room. So it's real and it's metaphor. Start small. Fix the little things like your messy room. Then work your way out from there. Just because I did it, that doesn't mean that other can or will. Their situation is going to be different than mine. Sometimes a person needs that push that Peterson can give them. If they use that push and build on it, they can help themselves immensely. It's better than no push at all.
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  2978.  Sarah Langford  Oh really. Wasn't it Biden that said that Trump was being xenophobic when he imposed travel restrictions to China. Then he compounded it by saying that travel bans didn't work when Trump expanded the restrictions to Europe. Didn't the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in nursing homes when it was common knowledge that Coved was deadly to senior citizens. Trump sent hospital ships that were NEVER used to New York and Los Angeles. The Javits Centre was turned into a makeshift hospital, by the Trump administration, that sat empty. The Mayor of New York kept telling people to get out and enjoy themselves until some of his staff threatened to resign. Pelosi went to Chinatown, hugging and shaking hands, saying all was well and to come on down. She tore up the SOTU address, in which Trump said that they were trying to work with China over the Covid outbreak. Strange thing is, I listened to Trump as well and I decided that I'd better be prepared for this outbreak. When the great toilet paper panic struck, I was sitting pretty because I bought a extra groceries, every week, leading up to the lockdown to flatten the curve. I didn't just listen to Trump. I watched what he did and I was ready. This wasn't a failure of Trump. It's a failure of people, like yourself, who didn't get ready for what was to come. However, you'll never own your failure to act. You'd rather blame someone else.
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  2979.  @aksheezy  :20 point. "It's actually really sad". Doesn't sound like their worthless. He's saying that it's not going to be easy to get off the streets. It's going to take tough decisions for the homeless and for ALL of us. In fact, the leaders in those cities are the ones who are treating the homeless as if they've no value. They're the ones who're NOT making the tough decisions and allowing this to get WORSE year after year. They do NOTHING. Not a thing. Why???? Because they're the ones the ultimately believe that these people aren't worth fighting for. They use them to point out the cruelty of America in allowing this to happen, all the while being the ones who are the leaders who do nothing and are the poster childs of the American cruelty they decry. It's their way to maintaining political power by tickling the "empathy" of their voting base. There's nothing empathetic about how the leaders in those cities are dealing with the homeless.
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  2980.  @thunderstruck1078  I AM an individual who is a product of my ancestral heritage and my culture. However, I'm an individual first....one who is in control of my own destiny. If they want to be collectivists first, that's their own business and it's a sad way to live. I'm not good to my family, friends, community or my culture unless I'm good for for myself, first. I can't change the world, for the better, but I can change my little corner of it. If my corner touches the corner of another who's looking after his corner, that better expands. That's how the west, especially in the US and Canada, grew into such prosperity. Individuals, working as such, cooperating and becoming the majority, building their tiny personal "kingdoms" into one, and uniting to become a society and a nation. That's what took us into becoming the greatest societies in history.
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  2981.  @ACryin_Shame  That's crazy. If you were a kid today, they'd almost be forced to affirm your mother's delusions to uphold their ideology. That would mean denying that your mother even has a problem. CPS would have to go along with it, even if a specific worker doesn't want to do that. It just gets worse and worse for today's kids, who have the same family problems that you did. I'm glad that you were able to get through it as well as it appears you have.
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  2982.  @begoneshill6474  Why get so wound up? The victim status angle is a very astute observation. If a black guy had given his support for Trump, they'd have roasted him, too. Learn to relax, man.
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  2983. I think that it's worse than that. I think that she actually believes her nonsense. Nothing more difficult to defeat than ideological fanaticism.
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  2984.  @fpisa32  You've just exemplified the true bigot. You judge a person on his political affiliations, religion, skin colour, whatever the identity group you happen to link that person to and that defines him/her. No discussion, no attempt to understand, no mediation, just full out hatred. Thank's for the demonstration.
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  2985.  @rathertiredofthemess2841  Kids will seek them out just for the dirty pictures and the sexually inspired stories. I remember kids looking in dictionaries for all dirty words and laughing like crazy when they found them. Kids will do as they do. However, that does not mean that, as an adult, I will encourage this type of thing. They're not finding insight or empathy in some of these books. In fact, their finding new ways to hate others. They know that certain things are being hidden from parents and that instills an atmosphere of conspiracy involving the children and the school against their parents. A "wink and a nod" and "look how mean your parents are" and it's us versus them. Also, this isn't knowledge. It's preparing a mindset so that ideologues can more easily manipulate their students and creating an atmosphere of secrecy. If you don't think that's bad, I can show you evidence of HUNDREDS of teachers that have sexually abused their students. Keeping secrets is the very FIRST thing a child predator asks of their victims. It can lead to horrific results. Things are age appropriate. It's no more appropriate to teach sexually explicit things to a 9 year old than it is to teach them calculus at 9 years old. They're just not ready yet to take that step. It should be a learning curve that's slow and methodical, teaching kids when they have the mental maturity and awareness that goes with it.
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  2986.  @rathertiredofthemess2841  I'm NOT abdicating that responsibility if I'm here asking what material is available to my children. I'm looking at the material to see what they're being taught and what's available to them and I'm hoping that you understand my concerns for my children. How is that abdicating my responsibility? The LAW states that my children must take part in the educational process or I may face criminal charges. That's NOT me abdicating responsibility. In some ways, it's FORCING me to pass part of my responsibility to you, the teacher. You talk about not being paid enough. What about me and so many other parents? We don't get paid enough to be present at your school during the week. We have to work to pay our bills. Lastly, I'm NOT blaming you unless you're supporting the idea of age inappropriate material in our schools. Like I said, I can't be there to see what's going on. I'm trusting YOU to do the right thing with my kids, just as my parents did when I was in school. I can guarantee you that had I checked out "Gender Queer" out of the school library, when I was in school, my parents would have been at that school "abdicating" all over the place and the school would NOT have liked it. Fortunately, we didn't have that problem back then.
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  2987.  @collin4194  Even if they disagreed, why turn it into a debate? Why not discuss the differences and find common ground. Try to understand one another. Understanding doesn't mean agreeing. To counter an argument you have to understand what that argument is all about. To do that, you have to listen. Finding truth isn't about winning an argument. It's about knowing ALL aspects of the issue that you're trying to learn about. Some people have trouble communicating effectively. That will render them lousy debaters. A glib tongue doesn't make one correct.
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  2988.  @kfeltenberger  I haven't heard of that series. I'll check it out.
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  2989.  @AbstractM0use  I have a copy. Loved that movie. I was shocked when people started criticising it and calling it racist. You just can't win with the left. If you don't have minorities in your movie, they get mad. When you do have them, they're still mad. All I saw in Uncle Remus was a kindly old man. I knew that he was black but that's about it. In fact, he was the kind of person that I hoped that I would be when I got old. Unfortunately, I've been rather a failure at it, at least by my standards. It's almost as if the left hate this warm hearted character.
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  2990.  @docsavage8640  Sometimes a step backwards is necessary to advance. It's a great military strategy. Look at the profile that she would have as press secretary. Those who don't know her now, will definitely know her, especially if she does a great job and I can't see one reason why she won't. She's 54 years old and will be in her late fifties when she's done. Even if she doesn't go any further, what a great way to end an excellent career.
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  2991.  @gr33kb0i  And he probably does. I'm NOT a big fan of Trump, either. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure if I want him to run in the next election. If you read my comment, I never specified who I was talking about and it could apply to any politician, to anyone, actually. That includes Crist. You see, I care how my politicians behave. It would seem that you don't. As long as they're on YOUR team, they get a pass.
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  2992.  @ericzahn9336  I live in the country, born and raised a farm boy, and I have no problem with gender reveal parties. A bit dumb but if that's your thing....go for it. However, no "hick" would EVER start a fire, in the country, burning down everything they own or worked for, even putting their own lives at risk. These are town folk, who don't understand the danger their actions could cause and who have a skewed vision of the country and the "hicks" that live there. Town folk, who go to a country park, for their silly ritual, and then set the land ablaze, threatening the lives and property of the "hicks" that live there.
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  2993.  @dpjbdpjb  You could prove me wrong. That would be a good idea but you won't do that. No intellect or respect for understanding or truth. Just hate and you don't want that exposed. So you laugh and refuse to engage in a REAL conversation.
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  2994.  @lumendelsol  Social media was only parroting what the MSM was feeding them. It's the MSM that's the problem. I know lots of people that don't know a thing about the facts about Rittenhouse and they got that information from MSNBC, CNN and others. When you call them on it, that's their defence. "I saw it on the news last night." Then they'll tell you that you've been watching FOX or QANON types and then they go on social media and tell the world what the Washington Post has printed or what Don Lemon is saying. They actually believe this stuff because they just can't believe that these sources would lie. Ana Kasparian, of the Young Turks, is a prime example. She thought that Kyle crossed state lines with a gun. She thought that Kyle was chasing Rosenbaum. She didn't even know that Kyle was being attacked by a guy with a skateboard. WHY? Because the MSM told her these things. Now she's watching the trial and is surprised that the MSM has ignored what the rest of us....ON SOCIAL MEDIA, as well, have known all along and how little she actually knew about the events surrounding that day. I will say that the Big Tech companies are complicit as well, in the obfuscation and censorship of the facts. However, there are sources, if you're interested in the truth, all over social media and the internet. That's the rub. It's whether you're driven to know facts, that's how one finds the truth. It's the commitment to integrity that counts. MSM and Big Tech do not have that commitment.
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  2995. If you have a racist purity test which amounts to a witch trial, of course Trump is racist. So are you. So am I. There's no way anyone will pass that test. It's designed so that everyone tested will fail. I'm not sure what your problem with herd immunity is all about. If we become immune once exposed to it, eventually, we'll all be immune. Pure logic. What some people just don't get is that no matter what we do, there will be surges in the cases. It's highly contagious and it's the nature of the disease. If we lockdown until it's completely gone, we'll be locked down for good....for the rest of your life. Not a pleasant prospect. What's important is the death rate in relationship to the case rate. At the end of April, the case rate was around 30,000 new cases per day. The death rate was around 2000 cases a day. Now, the case rate is close to 70,000 new cases per day, yet the death rate is under 800 per day. Almost 2 1/2 cases more and yet a 60% DROP in deaths. That says that we're learning how to treat it and I'm going to assume that we'll get better at it in the future. Already, we have plenty respirators and fewer and fewer cases end up in the hospital in relationship to the number of cases. Even now, the new case load per day seems to be a the peak. That means, we should start to see another dropping off in the next couple of weeks. Not a guarantee but that's the pattern of all infectious diseases. The south didn't peak back in April like NY York did. Now it's their turn. That'll be the pattern in most populated areas. You can't stop it. It will happen. All you can do is try to protect the most vulnerable. I'm 68, considered to vulnerable. I take precautions. My dad is 88. I haven't seen him since late February.....to keep him safe. That should be the priority....everywhere and It seems as if we get it now. At least they're not putting Covid patients in nursing homes, anymore......a ridiculous move no matter how you look at it.
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  2996. He was close enough. Besides, we don't want this video to be hours long. The malfeasance associated with the raid is astounding.
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  2997.  Mr Schneebly  It's how the mafia worked for years. People said that the Mafia controlled neighbourhoods were the safest. It was all smoke and mirrors. It was safe until they decided it wasn't.
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  2998. Strangely, it's the Democrat run cities that are rioting and burning. Why are the citizens, who live in the 64% economy, so angry? They're the privileged ones. There's something missing here.
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  2999. Oprah, born and raised, in Africa, working her way up to become a billionaire, as the star of a talk show in Lagos, Nigeria. I'll bet that it would happen. LOL. Lebron would have to move to America to become a millionaire because he's good at bouncing a ball.
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  3000.  @fortyofforty5257  Or a terrible liar. There's no way he did the research on it. He flat out lied and thought he could get away with by invoking the "I'm the expert" fallacy. Top notch gas-lighting.
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  3001.  @thesublimelight  We just found one of the brilliant artists of Portland. Which "ACAB" is your work? I'm thinking of commissioning a painting and I need someone with talent.
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  3002. After they were done beheading King Louie and his cronies, they beheaded Robespierre, the author of the killings. Weird karma, that. Wheeler more closely resembles Robespierre. He's actively against Trump, using the "protesters" and now their after him. More weird karma.
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  3003.  @richarddefortune1329  This week's witnesses had better have more to show than the ones that gave testimony last week. They had nothing and admitted it. One week of nothing. Maybe they'll uncover something this week but I was sure they were going to get Trump with the Mueller report and that was a dud. I also little confidence in Schiff's assessment of facts. He said that he had incontrovertible proof that Trump colluded with the Russians yet he has yet to tell anyone what the proof is. I'm starting to think that the Democrats are trying too hard to wish impeachment. So far, they still haven't proved a thing. It even sounds as if you're wishing for an outcome instead of waiting to hear the testimony in an unbiased manner.
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  3004. Never noticed. They had me laughing too hard.
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  3005.  @lucid227  As long as you teach the Christian axiom "Love thy neighbour", your kids will be okay. If you hate your neighbour and by proxy, his wife, kids, siblings and friends, the logical process will be that hating a skin colour is normal because hate is acceptable. Hate is at the heart of human suffering and it doesn't matter if it's one person or an entire ethnicity. Just "Love your neighbour" no matter how difficult it can seem.
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  3006.  metalshredmetal1  There have been 107 pardons by presidents of people that were dead INCLUDING 12 people who were executed. They were EXECUTED for crimes and pardoned. Here an iconic figure, a hero to women's suffrage, is pardoned posthumously, on the 100th anniversary of suffrage, and the hatred of Trump is so intense, people figure out a way to denigrate it. You don't know how stupid that looks. What next? If Trump honours Dr. Martin Luther King, will hatred compel the left to denigrate Dr. King? I'm waiting for it to happen.
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  3007. @rgsand01 Why wouldn't I have loved to see the country open and raring to go by Easter? I wanted to see the end of the Covid crisis. Didn't YOU???? What kind of a sick puppy would I be if I wanted to see the virus keep on infecting people? There's nothing wrong with optimism as long as you don't go overboard with it and no one did. The lockdown was extended WAY past Easter. You see optimism doesn't necessitate ignoring reality. You can still do both. Some prefer to be optimistic about the future. That's me to a tee. That doesn't mean that things will ALWAYS work out the way I envisioned but one thing is certain. I hate pessimism. Pessimism breeds nihilism and surrender. I'd rather be optimistically wrong than surrender to a pessimistic view of the future. Being afraid to admit that you're wrong is the problem and since Trump didn't lift the lockdown at Easter, he was basically saying that he was wrong and he admitted it and moved on.
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  3008.  @citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936  They can do that all they want. We still got to see this clip of Trump Jr. and we'll see the clips that they want to censor, too.
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  3009. You had me until you declared yourself a black white supremacist. LOL.
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  3010. Fly her to Mexico and meet her at the border. That's the new immigration policy of the United States. The old immigration policies no longer apply.
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  3011.  @joelsattler8420  Man.....did you ever prove me wrong there. I'm humiliated. LOL. Now that I'm done laughing, show me how Trump is advocating Socialism and fit it into the official definition of Socialism that I gave. In other words, respond in a logical and reasoned manner, instead of trying to denigrate me as an individual.
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  3012. This guy isn't OJ Simpson. His name is Burgess Owens. OJ is a piece of crap. Burgess is the salt of the earth. Neither one has anything to do with Trump other than Trump is a Republican.
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  3013.  Steven Sweeden  Trying to be honest about issues is the way we should be and I feel the same way about the successes that Trump has had. Quite surprised. I realise that there are people on the right that are very angry as well but they're not nearly as bad as those on the left. The anger on the left has become political policy where it hasn't even come close to that on the right. A lot of the rancour on the right is in response to the invective thrown from the left. All the Democrats have to do to beat Trump in the next election is to show similar desire for success and showcase a more likeable candidate. They don't even appear to want to do that. Their attitude is what is going to lose the next election, just like it did in 16 but they're so caught up in their own ideological superiority they refuse to look inwards to see where it is they could improve. All they seem interested in doing is to tear down the other side. Their hatred is their undoing and they don't realise it. The Dems might win the election next year but I highly doubt. They're going about it the wrong way.
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  3014. If they want an end to hostilities, why don't they pass a resolution that would demand that the leaders of Hamas surrender. That would end the war. However, they don't want an end to the killing. They just want the end of all Jews in that area of the world. A free Palestinian state, from the river to the sea, means that almost all Jews must be deported or have their lives ended. I'm thinking that these loonies would be just fine with that.
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  3015.  @indianlarry6105  Troll.
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  3016.  @Itachipwnsnubcakes  NO....it's been co-opted by a bunch of self appointed moralists who are using it to isolate ordinary Americans. They're the self congratulatory authoritarians, who use this flag as their litmus test to see who is evil (the right) and who are the exceptionally good (themselves). They continue to come up with new symbols as soon as the old one loses its strength. The "OK" symbol, the MAGA hat, the use of banned words, all designed to exercise power over others. Not by the right but by the left. Without these symbols and words, they couldn't control the masses with their Orwellian Newspeak and the way the use symbols to demonise. Obama flew the Betsy Ross flag at his inauguration. OBAMA!!!! That was 7 short years ago. Obama was seen using the OK symbol, too. You're just wallowing in your sense of superiority and you'll use anything to show just how morally better you are than the rest of us. The worst of evil deeds are done by those who believe that they are doing good and are incapable of doing wrong.
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  3017. It doesn't matter if one swimmer complains. It has to be done as a group. If they go to national meet, they all have to walk out of the arena just before the gun goes off. It has to be a coordinated protest, planned secretly in advance, and then the meet will be completely in disarray. People will notice and it would be all over the news. It's like going on strike at a large factory. I can complain all I want about my wages and threaten to refuse to work and I'll end up losing my job. However, if the entire staff walks off the job, in protest of wages, that will have it's effect on the company.
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  3018.  @dc6418  So, what was wrong with what they said about the confrontation between that woman and the police officer. It's easy to talk in generalities but this is a specific incident. Do you really think it was a smart move for that woman to pull a gun and shoot that police officer? Or do you think that she'd be alive if she'd accepted the arrest and put her hands behind her back, like she was instructed to do? Or DON'T YOU CARE? It doesn't matter if she lives or dies so long as you have more to complain about? Stop giving people stupid advice that could get them killed.
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  3019.  @rudycenteno8176  Do you represent the Downtown Businessman's Association or something. Great strategy. I'm sure that's how Las Vegas became such a great tourist destination. It's incredible that, instead of being embarrassed by a tourist's perception of Los Angeles, you tell him to stay away and that Canada in just as big a mess as LA. You're quite the problem solver, you are.
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  3020.  @sportspolitics539  Trump sold the entire country to the Russians? LOL. Really? I hope he got more money than Seward did for his land purchase. They sold real uranium, stuff that you can carry, process and use. Russia doesn't "own" the US. That's a lot of hyperbolic nonsense. If you want people to take you seriously, don't be so melodramatic.
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  3021. @UCnl4AVS4MgdGo08l5kPHzEQ Which makes the comment all the more appropriate.
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  3022.  @bannedbycommieyoutube5time920  I'm with you on the form of substance stuff. It's turned things into a mess.
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  3023.  @paultaylor7758  I know. A native, pounding his drum in the face of a sixteen year old, is BIG news. Only in the world of the MSM.
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  3024.  @Remington-wl7jp  Remember, I said if she was my kid. My kids would be embarrassed if they saw themselves, in a video, behaving like this. Nothing embarrasses this kid. Her parents let her rule the kingdom. Self control starts as soon as possible, within the bounds of what they're capable of. She's never been shown self discipline or how to cultivate an air self respect. She has a tough life ahead of her.
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  3025.  Chris Russo  If you'd have read my comments, you'd have read that I'd be upset with the police as well. However, as my child I would hold her responsible for her behavior. The police screwed up but so did she. The police should face up to where they went wrong, but that doesn't excuse her for her horrific behavior, which is the responsibility of her parents That's one of the biggest problems society, today. No one wants to face up to their own responsibilities in life . So much easier to blame someone else. It doesn't matter how wrong the police were. If she doesn't fix her attitude, things like this will plague her for the rest of her life.
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  3026.  @viniechwani  Hunter Biden is under investigation in Ukraine. His father, the vice president of the US, tells the Ukraine administration that they have 6 hours to fire the prosecutor or they may lose 1 billion dollars. The prosecutor is fired. 3 years later, a new administration is elected, on the platform of anti-corruption. Trump, during a congratulatory phone call, says it might be a good idea to investigate the Biden affair, since the investigation into that possible corruption was forcibly stopped. Somehow, that makes Trump the bad guy. An American official may have committed a corrupt act and Trump's mentioning of it is somehow illegal. Yup....sounds logical to me.
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  3027. I just listened to Milano's rant against Devos. She's either a full out liar or she doesn't have the brains to understand why the accused should have rights, as well, or due process. I guess it's easier when those rights that she wants taken away will never be taken away from her because, being a woman, she's not subject to the things that she wants upheld.
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  3028. I know this can't be true because CNN isn't reporting on this shooting. I did a google search and not a word. Funny comment, though. Funny but sad at the same time.
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  3029.  nick m.  No.....he's saying that Trump is setting a ball in motion that may bring peace to the Middle East. When was the LAST peace deal in the region let alone who was the last one to broker TWO peace deals. This may not be peace, but it's working towards it....FOR A CHANGE. It's been doing nothing but escalate for the last 20 years. It's nice to things start to wind down. ISIS is gone, troops are leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, peace deals between Bahrain and the UAE with Israel. Instead of being bitter and negative.... maybe a little hope, for future stability, might be in order.
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  3030.  @ronxlii  I hate that argument. I'm Canadian and I NEVER voted for Trudeau. Others did and now I'm living with the consequences of THEIR vote....not mine.
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  3031.  @diegojines-us9pc  What does your question have to do with increasing crime? The point is that there are people who use statistics to lie about what is obvious....that crime is a problem in the cities. It's most definitely NOT getting better but you obfuscate with some question about working hours. Most officers work the Pitman schedule, which are 12 hour shifts, spread over a 2 week schedule. This includes nights, weekends and holidays. This is similar to working continental shifts in a factory and it's hard on you physically and mentally. Your point, whatever it might be, seems pointless and does nothing to solve the increased crime problems over the last 2 years.
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  3032. Back in the sixties and seventies, we questioned the establishment. So did the punkers that came after us and even the rappers after that. This is the first time in my lifetime that kids are actually not biting back. It's almost weird.
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  3033.  Blackis Beautiful  As opposed to street gangs and "peaceful" protesters. At least those deplorable rubes have jobs, support their families and community. How does burning down buildings and looting help anyone? How do gangbangers make the community a better place? It seems they like to use guns as well and when I say use them, I mean USE them as in murdering each other in gang wars and if little kids get in the way? Gangbanger collateral damage. When was the last time you heard of a deplorable drive by?
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  3034.  Andy Mann  I told you more than once. I don't care about the colour of the emoji. I'll say it again....I don't care. It's a non-issue. Also, regarding my first statement, how could I know if Peterson had been browbeat about it? He never mentioned it. It was a very short comment and I didn't express it the way that I wanted to. Quit playing lawyer games with me. It's dishonest. Once again, I've made my position quite clear, after that, not realising that I didn't relay my meaning the way that I wanted or should have. I just realised it and admitted it in my last comment and again now. However, you will not allow me any further explanation. It MUST be that or nothing. What's even the point in speaking to someone like you? You won't allow further explanation. You don't address the points that I've made. You won't accept that I've acknowledged an error of expression. You ignore my examples. I doubt that you've watched the video that I recommended. You keep insisting that I called the emojis racist which I never did. It's all obfuscation and verbal trickery. I realise that you're not a lawyer but that lawyer mindset has sure rubbed off on you. We're not getting anywhere in this conversation as you won't address anything that I've said. So, just go away. If you really want to talk, no problem but if you won't advance the conversation, you're wasting both our times.
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  3035.  @KevDuke-l6v  Were these the same cops? Wow. They must of been fired out of Uvalde and found another cop gig in Columbus. Imagine the odds. Now that I'm done being a smart ass, you do realise just how ridiculous you sound. Not all police officers are the same. Neither are all firemen, mailmen, roofers and cowboys. I can't believe I have to explain that to you.
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  3036.  @anonymous666951  Another Cambodia apologist was Noam Chomsky. First, he said that there were no killings in Cambodia, that it was all American propaganda. Then, when it was revealed that the killing fields were actually happening and he could no longer deny them, he claimed that it was the Americans who were behind it. He just couldn't admit that Pol Pot and crew were avowed socialist and Marxist revolutionaries and that part of that revolution was to kill all those of the ruling class. He did the same with Hugo Chavez. I'm sure that you'd have lots of stories about media personalities who look the other way from socialist atrocities because they actually approve of them. I know that I do.
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  3037. I don't get an allowance to look after my own safety. All I have is a paycheck. That's all they should have as well.
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  3038.  GlobalMan Lite  Would you quit filling up the comment sections with the SAME damn comment!!!!!! You're not making a point. You're just being annoying and it accomplishes nothing. Unless you enjoy being that mosquito that everyone wants to swat.
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  3039.  @Man-vs-Metal  They can't print money and not take in taxes. We'd have inflation at incredibly high altitude heights. They need to tax as high as possible to couch the inflation of printing money.
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  3040. A lot of us ARE stupid. I've listened to a lot rationalisations on why Biden is doing a good job over the last week. Almost all of it surrounded the "orange man bad" narrative.
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  3041. You have to go to the underground music culture to find the good artists and they do exist. Pop culture has always been bad but we were also exposed to the really good musicians back then. Now, you have to look for it.
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  3042.  @docgonzales  Actually, it's more of a cynical accusation than a strawman. They're so ready to lay accusations, it wouldn't be surprising if they did criticise. I'm sure you won't get the distinction, though.
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  3043.  @DESTRUCTIONKATCHUP  You're right. It didn't say "acclaimed scholar". It said "an austere religious scholar".
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  3044.  @47f0  Did you EVER validate my point. You said EXACTLY what a person, who wasn't objective, would say. First, you deflected the conversation and then you flog the "business disasters" rhetoric, that's just plain false and demonstrably so. Trump net worth is 2.5 billion dollars. That's 2.5 with EIGHT zeros behind it. Over 99% of all the businessmen on the planet wish that their enterprises were that disastrous. We're all failures beside that number and business success is judged on their numbers. Also, I thought that his show was a joke and I never took Trump seriously, mainly because of that show. Worse, you never answered my basic question. Would the media and Big Tech have covered that story had it been Don Trump juniors laptop, with all the implications of wrong doing, by the father, on that laptop, which were evident on Hunter's laptop? You never even ATTEMPTED to say yes or no to that. You went off on your own little tangent. Incredibly, you don't even have the self awareness to see how you validated my point.
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  3045.  @JohnSmith-sm7ez  FOX is the ONLY TV news channel that might have any appeal to a conservative. EVERY other one supports the Democrats. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, PBS....they ALL support the Democrats. One channel against ALL THE OTHER CHANNELS. Even FOX has been losing viewers because they're not as biased as you'd think. FOX news personality, Chris Wallace, at the presidential debates, asked Trump if would denounce white supremacy. He asked him the SAME question 4 years ago at the presidential debates and he didn't ask Biden that question. Biden, the guy who once came out in support of school segregation gets a pass on that. Why would he do that? Was it because he's part of the Trump propaganda machine? FOX didn't cover the laptop scandal like they should have either. It's a BIG reason why many viewers are critical of FOX. I'll bet you NEVER watch FOX, either. You're just repeating what you're hearing on CNN. Why would anyone even trust those other channels. It took me ten minutes to find the full video, on the internet, of the Covington kids story. Every one of them, except FOX blasted those kids and everyone of them WERE WRONG. 10 minutes to find it and I'm just a retired bartender, living in a 1 room basement apartment. They couldn't do it? Is it because Nick Sandman was wearing a MAGA hat. I don't know what you're talking about when you say that Saudis are shooting US soldiers. You'll have to enlighten more on that one.
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  3046.  @seanaaron94  What amazes me is how people don't see that. You've simplified it a lot but it's what's at the very heart of the problem with socialism. What's disturbing is how people don't understand what socialism actually is. Free health care isn't socialism. Nationalisation and government control of business, that's socialism and it leads to tyranny, EVERY time. The US is facing the biggest internal threat to its existence since the Civil war.
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  3047.  @dubnation5824  That was the most incoherent, rambling, profanity laced rant I've read in awhile. The grammar was incredibly bad. My 12 year old grand daughter could have written a more intelligible piece than that 2 years ago. I find it very difficult to believe that you're an academic of any kind, let alone an historian. You've done nothing but use insulting language and not one word of it presents a clear and concise rebuttal to anything that I might have said or implied. It's a rant filled with hate and vitriol and not one that one should ever be taken seriously over the internet. However, when meeting face to face, I'd be concerned due to what appears to be a personality which could be extremely dangerous and unpredictable. You're a little out there.....a lot out there, actually.
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  3048.  none of your damn business  Then you may as well say that you're a slave of life. Money is a convenient means to trade or negotiate for the things that we need to sustain us, like food, water, clothing and shelter, the very basics of life. Every high end species needs some of these things and our fragility demands that we need more. In reality, we in the west, live a life of comparative ease. The poorest of us live better than even the richest did 500 years ago. We live longer, have better health, live in homes that keep us dry when it's wet, warm when it's cold and cool when it's hot. We live in a luxury that would make people like Henry VIII and Elizabeth I gasp in amazement and envy. I'm a retired, almost 70 year old man, living way below the poverty standard for my country, yet I never worry about the basic essentials of life. In fact, I'm leaving for Cancun for 10 days in a 5 Star resort this weekend and last year, I was in the Netherlands and the Dominican Republic. I'm living a life that wasn't even a dream in medieval Europe. You want to wallow in misery and envy, that's your choice. I prefer to appreciate just how lucky I am and enjoy the only life that I'll ever have. It's not always easy and the work was hard at times, but I am fully cognisant of the special times we live in. Times that so many many so cavalierly complain about and want to destroy. They have no idea what they might lead themselves into.
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  3049.  @spikefivefivefive  I studied the same course when I was in college back in the late eighties. It was nothing like that. I'm hoping that this teacher was fired after those reviews.
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  3050.  @Honorablebenaiaha  That's why they all want to come to the US. We're racist and we will oppress them. They LOVE being oppressed. Man....you're thick.
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  3051. It was my understanding that it was the protesters that surrounded a mother and her children and cursed and swore at them and threatened the mother with violence. I could be wrong on that, though.
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  3052.  @daniellevinson6975  What did the Christian group do that was wrong?
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  3053. @Troy Hendrickson What do YOU think about the killing of gays by the government in Iran? What do you think about the killing of those kids in Nashville? What do you think about the genocide in Cambodia in the seventies? Are my questions relevant to what happened to Riley? They're just as relevant as your pointless question. Maybe you should try to stay on topic.
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  3054.  @travisbickle5984  They didn't have free elections but they did have them. However, when only one viewpoint is allowed, elections have no value. It really stretches what we believe to be fair and open elections. A narrowed and limited election process. Read the definition AGAIN. Democracy.....a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Do we vote for elected representatives or not? It should be a very simple question to answer. If we vote for representatives, we're a democracy. We're also a Republic. Both can be true. I can be short and a Scotsman. Both can be true. I can be black and an American. Once again, both can be true. America can be a Republic AND a Democracy. Both can be true. Why is that so difficult....unless you believe that the vote isn't necessary to the American way of life. I don't know what to say if that's the case. Might as well stayed with the Monarchy, then. Let them tax us without representation.
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  3055.  @dmeauxoxo  I was referring to why female athletes, in college, won't complain about bio-males competing against them. The cultural busy bodies will come after them hard and they don't want to centred out in this way. Bio women can't just create their own sports organisations. The trans men will insist that they have the right to compete there, as well, and scream "discrimination". It'll be a repeat of what's happening now. We have to fight the idea that's being put forward. That men and women are EXACTLY the same. They're not and there are biological reasons for that. We have to go back to a point where facts are culturally more important than feelings. Until then, this kind of nonsense isn't going to go away.
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  3056.  @dmeauxoxo  "What will happen is that girls won't bother getting into sports. Women's college sports will be populated by trans women. " This was in my very FIRST comment. My very first one in this comment. I'm saying the exact same thing that you are. However, I've added to it a bit. I'm saying that these trans male-bio "athletes are cashing in on their victimhood and they're not the only ones that do this. This is about more than trans athletes. It's about a mindset that has permeated all through our society and it rotting everything. That includes women's sports. Until we, as a society, change our culture to no longer deify victims, these male-bios will get away with destroying women's sports. We have to stop bending to the knee to those who aspire to sit on the throne of victimhood. If we don't change that culture, women's sports will be severely damaged and it's not right or fair.
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  3057.  @gissneric  People don't always get what they want. If you over ride your principles to satisfy a child's wants on his birthday, your living under the tyranny of 6 year old. Only the weakest of human beings would allow that to happen.
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  3058.  @gissneric  Are you going to grill me on every issue, now? This "what if" nonsense is getting old fast. What do you want me to say? That I'd build a stockade around my home and have an armed standoff with anyone coming for my stove? I'm against any such legislation and will say so with my vote. What this has to do with Disney confounds me, though. Let's stick to the topic.
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  3059.    I'm sure he's heard of him and he probably goes with the idea that it's all an alt-right conspiracy theory. Personally, I don't know a lot about Soros, either, so I couldn't give him any real, verifiable information anyway. I don't even know how true the accusations are. Not doubting it just don't know enough about it. He's kind of a shadowy figure. The other stuff I'm talking about can be easily found. There's all kinds of footage on it that anyone can watch.
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  3060.  spacedog101  No substance? Are you saying that only because she's a conservative or because you know her personally or have went through the rigorous process of learning what she's about? I'd say that it's because she's running as a Republican and that's ALL you need to know. The divisiveness that she was alluding to lives in your comment. You'll have nothing good to say about her or to do with her for only one reason and no other reason. That's true divisiveness. In fact, that's the very definition of bigotry. You don't even have the self awareness to realise that you're contradicting yourself. Trump is the first president to fight the "Made in China" only products in our stores. Yet, she's a strong Trump supporter. So, is she wrong to wear "Made in China" spandex or is Trump wrong to take on the Chinese and work out a new deal so the "Made in China" label isn't on almost every product in our stores? That entire weather map thing was a tempest in a teapot. CNN made a much bigger thing of this than what it warranted. They weren't even smart enough to see what really happened. "Hey...look at this map. Big hurricane in Alabama". Meanwhile, while everyone is obsessing over this stupid map, Trump appropriates more money, from another source, to finance the building of the wall. MSM is as much a clown show as Trump. Worse, because he's using those clown world antics against the DNC and the media and they're too obsessed with their hatred for him to not fall for it. Stop hating so much and start using your brain. That hatred lost the last election and will, quite likely, lose the next election as well.
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  3061. Shouldn't criticise the government. You don't want to end up like Sophie Scholl. She criticised her government by handing out leaflets and was executed by guillotine in 1943. She suffered the consequences of her treasonous act against an legitimately elected government. I'm sure Whoopi would agree with this judgement but maybe not. I have a feeling that you're only allowed to criticise the government of her choice. Sophie, criticising Adolf, would be acceptable. Elon, criticising Biden, must suffer the consequences. Some people can't see past their own hypocrisy. I have to add that Sophie Scholl was a true hero. She refused to adhere to the idea that speaking your mind deserves government backlash. It's a shame that we now have a TV show that disagrees with her.
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  3062.  @Viewaholicinfinity  What are you talking about? I just said that it was one of the dumbest things that Trump supporters could ever have done. Over 50,000 people were in Washington to take part in that protest march. Had they wanted to they could have ripped that building apart with their bare hands. That wasn't the plan for that day...at all. Think about it. Trump's followers are 2nd Amendment supporters. They're the "gun nuts" the open/carry advocates, "from my cold dead hands"...that's the favourite saying. Yet, NOT one of them thought to take their guns with them? They left them at home? What kind of insurrectionist revolutionaries don't bring guns along? They were just a bunch that were pissed off and got carried away. About 300 of them out of tens of thousands. One guy arrested was even an Antifa supporter who had been arrested at a BLM riot in Utah....but most were just the dummies of the huge crowd and you'll get them anywhere. Some of them were let in the side doors by security. I don't know WHAT that was about. You could see little old ladies wandering around inside, even honouring the velvet ropes for the tourists. They sure looked like scary insurrectionists....LOL. It was stupid move but the Democrats are blowing it all out of proportion....and deep down you know that's true. Look at how they went on about Brian Sicknick, claiming he was killed by the rioters with a fire extinguisher and giving him a heroes funeral. He sounded like a good guy but he died of a stroke....and you believed all their nonsense. Come on, man!!!!
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  3063.  @irocksup123  He can't type. It's all a copy and paste from a post he saw the other day so it's not even his own material. LOL. Another NPC.
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  3064.  @danielhicks1824  Desantis is killing people? How's he doing that? He just announced the procurement of early treatment antibodies to help those who are sick. That doesn't sound like he's killing anyone. Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong because I can't see how he's hurting anyone. I know for a fact, he didn't put Covid patients into nursing homes. That would be insane. Please enlighten us.
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  3065.  @JohnSmith-to5ow  Give me a break, would you? Why don't you talk about issues. That's what's important. Is the economy doing well? Are minorities doing better in a strong economy? Is the fact that 6 million people are now financially stable enough to not need foods stamps a good thing? Try addressing what Donald Jr. said instead of a knee jerk reaction that only displays your own resentment.
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  3066.  @eddieb1995  You don't even know how old Greg is. What if he's only 22 years old. That would mean that Greg would have been a child when these warnings were given. Also, you don't even know if he was complaining about it or not, years ago. It's ridiculous to tell him to stop complaining NOW, if he's been doing it all along. It's almost as if you're one of THEM, trying to get Greg to be quiet.
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  3067.  @robchamp1403  I'm all for freedom of religion but man....you sound like you've lost a few screws. You're way off topic and to make it worse, you're rambling like a wino in a back alley. You're making Christians look bad. Please stop it.
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  3068.  @robertlowe5697  I never said that voting didn't work. It does. Voting got those socialists into power in the first place and that worked really well for the left wing voters, who got exactly what they wanted. However, when things started to go south, a lot of voters saw what their votes did to their community and they voted out or recalled those left wing politicians. However, is that going to be enough? San Francisco's and California's problems are huge and it will take a lot more work to fix what's wrong.
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  3069.  @colorin81colorado  I do the same but I've no idea how many people I've reached. My comment to you was more a dig at the troll but it was also, in case you weren't aware, that you're likely dealing with a troll. I'm glad to hear that you did know and that you use your responses to point out to others how pointless their comments are. Good work.
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  3070.  @imperialamerican8209  It was aliens. REAL aliens......from the planet "Omicron". They HATE Tim. He opposes mandates.
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  3071.  @eniselmenic5056  Why are you guys SO predictable? We're talking about the deterioration of our education system and all you can think about is Trump. That's it. What's with the obsession? Can't you expand your thought processes at all? Trump isn't the only person on the planet.
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  3072. What a great idea. Let's get into a tariff war with most powerful nation on the planet. That should work out just great for all Canadians.
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  3073. I read that book, with the German title, in highschool. I will say that it was memorable but only due to how insane it was. I thought, for sure, that it was the book that he was referring to. That book was that bad. To be fair, I haven't read "White Fragility". When you've read one racially charged book, I kinda think that you've read them all.
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  3074.  @rockbandjohn  First of all, I'm being facetious. Second, I grew up on a farm and my dad still lives on the family farm and he and my brother raise cattle, cash crops like corn and oats and tap around 2500 maple trees each spring. Do you know what? They have to make money. So yeah....increase yields increase their profits. I only called them, and people like them, "elitists" because I know how ridiculous it really is and how hard they work to keep their business viable. Greater yields is of the utmost importance, even more so to them, than it is for the big GMO companies. They just want to sell their seeds. My dad and brother are the ones that NEED the bigger yield per acre. But, they don't buy GMO seeds. It's a choice and they chose not to because of the nature of the contracts that they would be forced to sign.
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  3075.  @milliefee8194  Lies like demanding to defund the police and then saying it was the Republicans that wanted it. That's a status 10 Pinocchio lie
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  3076.  @jakubbarton1770  They want to stop teachers from teaching? What bills would those be. I've not heard about this. Give us a reference to those bills.
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  3077.  @dutch9238  No, you just don't shoot him. You tell your wife to take your child and leave the car. If the loudmouth tries to follow them, you pull your gun and let him know that you'll not allow it. If you go to jail, so be it. At least your wife and kid were saved from an immediate threat. Remember, that guy stood over him and screaming and threatening him. If a person threatens you, you assume that he's a threat and that anything could happen. You do what's necessary to negate that possible danger. We know for a fact most big city politicians, courts won't do a thing to help and the police have their hands tied by the left leaning city voters.
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  3078.  @mariegarside8830  Is there something in the US Constitution that says that police can hold someone in jail even though a quick search could prove that this person is innocent of any crimes? I don't remember that part.
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  3079.  @johnbrown2163  A regular super villain, that's what you are. Sort of like Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" or Lex Luthor. You must be a blast at parties.
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  3080. No Duncan. They used public funds to paint a flag that had a political message and represented a specific group and political party. It would be like painting the Republican Elephant on the road, using tax dollars. You'd be upset that public funds were used to favour a message that had political connotations......and you'd be correct. No political entity should use public funds as a way to support or demean a special interest group and that's what painting that pride flag was doing. That is an affront to public property.
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  3081.  @crunch8484  He wants to criticise him but he can't come up with anything. So he says the truly inane. "It's too long" in his tiny plaintive voice.
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  3082. There's something that you're missing. Had you been alive, 500 years ago, you'd have been no different. You'd like to think that you'd be different but you wouldn't have been. It's the same thing had you been a teenager in Munich in 1936. Do you seriously believe that you'd have been the 15 year old that would speak out against the Fuehrer? That you'd be that special kid that refused to join the Hitler Youth? I doubt it very much. You'd be proudly goosestepping along in Hitler Youth parades along with all your buddies and classmates. I say that because you're human and as such you'd be exactly what your culture of the moment had made you. Right now, the culture demands that you vilify Columbus. 100 years ago, you wouldn't have done that. Don't think that you're better than Columbus because deep down you're not. None of us are.
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  3083.  @user-kcrpine  I just listen for the information. I don't care what Tim's opinions are. I don't know how many times that he's presented information, that the MSM has ignored, and it turned out to be true. The TRUTH is what's important....not Tim's opinion.
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  3084.  @MSBJJ  I've often said that the person that I agree with 100% of the time, on 100% of their opinions, doesn't exist. If they don't exist, then I'd be listening to no one. I expect people to do the best they can to be honest and I'll do the same. Tim Pool tries to be honest. CNN doesn't. That's why I'll follow Tim Pool and NOT CNN.
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  3085.  @_Mutto_  If he doesn't self censor, they'll kick him off YouTube. Then we'll NEVER hear about this stuff. His self-censoring is a demonstration on just how far this lunacy has gone. He keeps telling us and we keep listening. Now, we have to go to our local politicians and demand why YouTube is allowed to censor political thought and discussions. Remember, if Tim Pool is no longer on YouTube, self censoring, you wouldn't even know that they were doing this to him and others. It's more important that he keeps talking and telling us of this situation, than it is for him to be kicked off this platform.
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  3086. It's NOT the Federal government who's requiring citizens to maintain their property. That's usually the local municipality. If not them, it's the state. The Federal government has nothing to do with it.
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  3087. What? Hows that hypocritical? He's saying "Don't abort. You can adopt. I'll do my part to raise the unwanted and unloved by adopting them".
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  3088.  @nickporter4853  Another troll. Or maybe the same troll with a different name. It's hard to tell. The comments are all the same.
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  3089.  @vilecrocodile9171  It's more than just the police. It's the District Attorney and the City of St. Louis that's behind it. The police can't enter their property without a warrant and they got it from someone. This is pure politics. A political movement fueled by a leftist ideology which might even be illegal. If these politicians push this, it may go all the way to the Supreme Court. As long as the Supreme Court follows the Constitution, this will be thrown out of court.
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  3090. He may censor himself but only the simplest person on the planet won't come to the conclusions that he's pointing you at.
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  3091.  @Dunno-h8r  Maybe this person won't but there are people who will do something to stop her or her minions. The news is full of people who are willing to engage in gun battles.
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  3092. I've had a few beers (6 or 7) and then I watched this. I put my last beer down and almost threw up after watching this. This is at the root of all that is going on in schools today. Damn.....I won't be able to have another beer till at least the weekend. In spite of that, thanks for revealing this horror, Sydney. It's horribly disturbing but I needed to know that this exists.
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  3093.  @jonandivyjones  Me too. Death ain't so bad. It happens to every living thing. Why postpone it? Let's embrace the inevitable. Tomorrow. I want to finish this book I'm reading.
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  3094.  @christinepeterson8097  I already said in another post that maybe there is a doubt. I don't have to look of Steffi, though. I watched her play on TV lots of times. I'm 71 years old. All those big names I've actually watched. Still, I'm going with Serena. She was such a force when she was on. That doesn't mean that Steffi or anyone else isn't great but we're ranking and when you run a race, someone wins, even when it's a subjective race like "Who's the best".
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  3095.  @lawrence1318  Apparently, when deciding who was the best, is a very subjective endeavour. I suppose that's why John McEnroe had no reason to apologise when he said the Serena wasn't the best tennis player ever. I'm not asking you to apologise for your choice, nor should you. it's subjective and we all look at different aspects of their abilities, while making our decisions.
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  3096. Black MEGriffen Blacks "were" both. "Were" being the operative word. Slavery was abolished in the US 150 years ago after 80 years of slavery in only the southern states. In other words, slavery has been outlawed almost twice as long as it existed and when it did exist, support for it was slowly fading away. There are a lot of Blacks in the US today that are taking advantage of the benefits offered today. They get an education, get jobs and do the things that every American is free to access if they really want it. I've heard that a black man can even become president if they want and there are even blacks who are millionaires. I'd say they would be benefiting from the efforts of the Americans of the past.
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  3097.  @mynameisgladiator1933  The little guy gets hurt because they hate rich people. Good point.
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  3098.  @mynameisgladiator1933  My logic box is broken? I'm agreeing with you. The left hate the rich so they tax them but the little guy gets hurt, in the end. I'm sure that's the point that you're making. Now I'm confused.
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  3099. You know the Democrats have no communication skills. They can't get along with each other and the more extreme Dems won't even discuss. They just chant like mindless drones.
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  3100.  @seanyouknowwho798  That's especially true of the bureaucrats, who have jobs for life. Layer upon layer of management, job duplication, no communication between departments, huge benefits packages and pension plans and they're all happy to keep it that way. All the symptoms of a sick company except this is a company that is the biggest in the country with no options, like in the private sector, for average people like us. Worse, the Democrats want to increase the size of that maze of ineptitude. Something has to done about it and if it takes a boorish guy like Trump to do it, well let him go to it. Better a loudmouth than no one at all. He's been doing a great job, so far.
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  3101.  @JohnDoe-dr9ff  Some people believe that nonsense. They'll try to rationalise it by being intentionally obtuse, which is what you're saying, but it only leads them to saying things that are illogical and contradictory. That's why they get so angry and then refuse to speak to you. The rational part of them is in conflict with the ideological part and it's exploding in their brain. You can't argue with an ideologue in good faith. Their beliefs must be true and when faced with logic, they go off the deep end. It's impossible to believe in ideas that contradict with one another. It'll destroy the brain. That's why they're so angry, to the point of being violent when confronted with logic. They're being tugged in 2 directions at once and it hurts....REALLY hurts.
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  3102.  @LucasCanDrum  It has to do with culture not guns. I grew up in a country, not the USA, that had guns. Every farmer had a gun and fall deer and duck hunting was a tradition. We didn't go around shooting people and do you know why? Because we think that it's a crazy way to behave. You won't change how people behave by strong prohibitions alone. You have to change the culture. If you don't do that, the violence will just continue. Look at the knife violence in London. Take away their guns and they just stab each other. Take away their knives and they take a bat to you. Take away their bats, it'll be hammers and hatchets. It's not about the weapon. It's about the mindset of the person with the weapon.
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  3103.  @LucasCanDrum  I've been following a YouTuber name Patricia Dickson. She grew up in an all Black neighbourhood, I think in Tennessee and knew very few white folk. She did alright in high school but didn't know what to do after graduating. She announced to her family that she was joining the Air Force. Did that drive them crazy. They told her that white folk hated blacks and that they'd torment and discriminate against her. That they'd make her life SO miserable that she'd come crawling home first chance she got. She didn't listen and joined anyway. After that, every time she went home for a visit, they'd grill her and she'd tell them she really like it. They called her a liar. When her nephew started asking her about life in the military, her sister told her to quit lying to him before she ruined the nephew's life. She finally decided not to talk about her life in the Air Force at home anymore. She took classes and when she finally got out of the service, she went to college on a GI Bill. She found a good job and eventually went to England for a year to work because she loved English history and wanted to see it firsthand. She then moved to California until she got sick of the politics and went to Texas and she's made a good life for herself. Nothing spectacular but something to be proud of. You see, she didn't buy into the "everyone hates us" mentality. Even they did, that wouldn't have stopped her because she believed in herself. Yet, her own family and friends fought her every step of the way. How many of them stayed right where they were because of this same pressure. "Oreo" and "Uncle Tom" aren't just insults. They're a way to excuse your own failures and to blame it on others. There's a reason that Asian families have the highest household earnings in the US. It's their culture and work ethic and determination, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the imagined "inequality" that you're talking about. They do it and those who treat them badly can get lost. You can't do anything about what others feel about you. However, you can do something about how you feel about yourself. Don't let the naysayers hold you down. If you do.....that's YOUR fault.
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  3104.  @godzillamegatron3590  Nothing is a guarantee....EVER. Your life isn't a guarantee. We've been spoiled into believing that it all has to be there FOR us, whenever we want it and we shouldn't be expected to set standards of excellence. If you expect nothing but the best from yourself, and that applies to all the things that you've listed, skills, knowledge and experience, others will recognise that desire in you and it will eventually pay off. Not right away, maybe it never will in the way the you'd like it to, but no one finds success in waiting for it. You have to go for it and expect nothing but the best effort, in everything that you do. It's YOU that sets the standard, no one else. It took me a long time to learn that and when I finally got it, it opened all kinds of doors for me that I never expected.
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  3105.  @sv3931  I'm afraid that we're in the Apathy to Dependency stage. Half the country wants handouts and the rest don't seem to care.
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  3106.  @BoloBouncer  This was NOT a court decision. This is a provincially sanctioned governing body that does NOT decide on matters of law. That't what makes this so terrible. These are unelected government officials, deciding to take away a person's right to free speech which is guaranteed by The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Peterson now has to take this to court and if the Provincial court goes against him, he can still take it to the Canadian Supreme Court which must make a ruling based on the Charter of Rights. If he fails there, then we may as well throw that Charter out with the trash. It will be meaningless.
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  3107.  @moomoocowsly  It's his right to express himself any way that he likes. It has nothing to do with how he says it or how many people dislike it. It's his right and is guaranteed in The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This isn't about whether the majority likes it or not. It's about the freedom to say what one likes without interference from the state or state sanctioned bureaucratic bodies.
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  3108.  @SausageFingers420  I hear you. The wisest people that I've known over my 70 years had that intangible "common sense". Sowell has it in spades. Apparently, so does your father which makes you a lucky person.
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  3109.  @norbdavis2290  What was he found guilty of in those 34 convicted felon cases? I've asked and no one can tell me. Adultery, while unethical, isn't against the law. Neither is asking for a non-disclosure agreement UNLESS you're using it to cover a crime. Since adultery is a NOT a crime, what crime did he commit? No one seems to know. He's never been convicted of sexual misconduct. Civil trials don't hold to the same high standards of a criminal court. In other words, guilt is adjudicated by standards of evidence that are flimsy, at best. I never heard her defend that alleged crime or the adjudicated sexual conviction. She defended policies. A person can be wrong on one issue and correct on another. I didn't get 0 (zero), on school exams, because I got one question wrong. Government policies are the same. Being wrong on one issue doesn't mean that ALL policies are wrong.
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  3110. Someone didn't "leak". She did. She leaked and wanted people to pay to watch her.
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  3111. @Tiger Dragon Then why doesn't she go down there and prove it, then? You're making a wild accusation and you have no evidence to prove that the rancher in this video is a liar. You're engaging in gossip, the plaything of a corrupt mind.
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  3112. @Tiger Dragon What you're saying doesn't really show how effective the wall is or not and is open to personal opinion. The Democrats were openly bragging about building the fences only 5 years ago, so their objection right now doesn't seem to be one about it's effectiveness but about scoring political points. Trump has shown himself to be a corrupt individual and maybe this will have elements of corruption as well, but even that doesn't mean the building a wall is ineffective. A person can make money of good ideas and bad ideas, equally. It seems that no one has made a comprehensive case for the effectiveness of that wall as a tool for border security. I do know one thing. Other countries use barriers for border security and I was just in Playa Del Carmen in Mexico and the complex of resorts that I stayed at had a huge wall with razor wire running along the top to keep out the local intruders. These business people that owned those resorts spent a lot of money on that wall. They didn't do it for no reason. They must believe that their wall was worth the money. A wall isn't the only answer but if you combine that with added tech and agents, it may be very effective in stopping the flow of illegals, drugs and other smuggled goods.
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  3113.  @armouredjester1622  It's skateboarding. People enjoying themselves on their day off doing something that they like to do. Why would that disappoint you? If you were disappointed, don't go again. Most of us don't even care to be around people that are negative, anyway.
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  3114.  @DZ-hh5dw  Or maybe it's because Thomas Sowell is one of the most intelligent and insightful academics of our age. Now....instead of doling out sneering remarks, let's see why this quote bothers you so much. That would be helpful and could even become educational.
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  3115.  @Nightstorm-2516  Huh?
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  3116.  @thebladeofchaos  In April the caseload was just close to 30 thousand per day, with a death rate of just over 2000 deaths. NOW, the case load is 70 thousand per day with just over 800 deaths per day. That's over 2 times the cases with less than 1/2 the deaths. So the danger, when the disease was new and unknown was almost 3 times as dangerous as it is now, yet many are still in a panic. WHO and the UN has stated, repeatedly, that lockdowns may cause the deaths of tens of millions due to starvation. That abject poverty levels, around the world, has doubled since March and will continue to increase if lockdowns are strictly enforced. That means even MORE starvation, causing deaths and life altering physical damage, especially for children, who may never recover from the ill effects of severe malnutrition. People think that the economy is only important to the rich. It's important to everyone. People die from the effects of a bad economy. The cure, I'm referring to lockdowns, is worse than the disease.
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  3117. If you've ever raised children, you'd know that children are filled with rage. The 2 year old will scream, hold his breath, try to beat you, whatever's necessary to get their way. Parents that try to placate that rage, raise those children to continue to use rage as their weapon to achieve their goals, usually but not always. Parents who refuse to capitulate to that rage, will raise those children, usually and not always, to realise that achievements are earned and not given by demand. If temper tantrums work as an 18 month child, it will continue to be used until that strategy fails or the child rages to the point of over the top violence. We're getting to that point now.
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  3118. My comment is hidden. I suppose I shouldn't have used a word that is a synonym of "untruth". It's not a swear word or anything like that but YouTube doesn't like it.
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  3119.  @rs72098  Military gas masks are a lot more sophisticated than the mask that you're wearing to the supermarket. They can design a mask to handle any specific agent but there's no such thing as an all purpose gas mask. It can't protect you from all dangerous agents at the same time. It can help but there's no guarantee that it will save your life. Not even close. You have to have the correct filtration system in place or you're SOL. That's science. https://www.britannica.com/technology/gas-mask
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  3120. I'd have claimed to be allergic to cats and called animal control.
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  3121.  @giordanobruno1333  Like I said....trolls have no understanding of what I just said. You've just proved that you are a troll.
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  3122.  @wwjccsd  No one said that children aren't smart. Of course they are. For one thing, they lack life experience. They can't speak of things that they haven't experienced in life. Secondly, they should should show respect to their elders, especially their parents, due to this experience and the adults bear the brunt of taking care of their child's needs. If a child wishes to speak to an adult, they should wait until the adults are done speaking and then speak, asking their question or giving their opinion as desired. That's when the adult should treat them as human beings, explaining things as best they can what's appropriate. This is an ongoing process, starting when the child is very small so they know the protocols right from early childhood. Adulthood isn't just the passage to time. It's a ritual that's completed and a stage of life that's earned. That's why people have had the rites of passage, that the young go through, to show that they're ready to take on adult responsibilities. This has been the norm for tens of thousands of years. Letting children interrupt and blurt out whatever's on their mind is detrimental to their development. Humility is very important to human development and to living a life of contentment with courage. The "I'm important" view is only encouraging narcissistic behaviour and that undermines future relationships.
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  3123. From Canada and don't I wish the Mr. Elder could run for office here. We could sure use him as premier of Ontario or even our Prime Minister.
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  3124.  @humptyslick  So....we're all in a cult? Like the one who sees cultism in a clear and concise manner? It's like we're not in control of our thoughts.
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  3125.  @anairenemartinez165  A lot of the medicine that they have has been donated by the Canadian government. I'm ashamed to say that the Canadian government is supporting the Cuban regime and Trudeau praised Castro quite profusely. It explains what's happening here, in a country that I was once proud of.
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  3126. Adventure Society Fascism is linked to Nazism and white supremacy and YOU know it. They said it was a Fascist attack and strongly attributed the attack to the white racists that follow Trump. You watch this video and that's the image that comes to mind and what they were implying. Honesty is all that's called for. The media is filled everyday with white racism, Nazism, white supremacy, white guilt and it has been blamed for all and every discrimination that exists in America. In fact, there has even been a claim made that only whites can be racist due to their position of power and privilege. Once again, try a little honesty.
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  3127.  @donfregin8668  You could be right on that but the fact is that the worst places for homelessness is big, Democrat run cities and have been for decades. LA, San Francisco, Seattle, New York and I can go on and on. That's an observation and is easily proven to be accurate. So, if I lived in those cities, why would I vote for those same politicians? That's all I'm asking. If every time I stick a finger in a small hole, it gets chopped off, how many times would I stick my finger in that whole? If I did it more than once, I'd be one stupid SOB......but people keep voting for the same people that do nothing about the homeless problem. If every voter, in those cities, insist that their politicians do something about it or they will refuse to vote for them and MEANT it, things would improve. Either that or the elections ARE rigged and the threats to vote them out doesn't bother them.
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  3128. Money is needed for bail, court costs and lawyers and legal fees, too. Getting caught throwing a Molotov cocktail costs money, you know.
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  3129.  @iggyg1370  I don't call that pride. I call it bullheadedness. My own pride tells me to see the facts and not to continue the narrative that's so obviously wrong.
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  3130. This is never going to end until 2024, when Trump is no longer president. By that time, the people will be so sick and tired of these endless investigations that they'll react against the Dems and they'll lose to the Republican candidate. Then they'll go after him with a whole NEW set of investigations. It'll never end.
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  3131.  @Blackwell-III  No, we're not. Anyone can break free and start his own business. I know lots who've done just that and who have done extremely well. They weren't slaves and neither are you. It's a choice that you've made.
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  3132.  @Parrallaxatives  Strange how she appears so serene and confident with such a open and engaging smile, in this video. Why was so angry when she was wrapped up in the "woke" way of thinking? She cut herself off from her family. She was screaming at people who didn't think the way that she did. Now, she appears content and happy. Maybe you're perception isn't as enlightened as you think it is. If you decide to respond to my comment, know this. I'm NOT religious at all so don't bother with the brainwashed stuff. It doesn't apply.
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  3133. Or just send them off into a galaxy far, far away. It'll take BILLIONS of years to get there. They can control the climate on their station to their hearts content. Control populations through enforced birth control (one child per family, remember that), environmental management and responsible eating...all the things that they love to talk about. I'll bet they don't even make it out of the solar system.
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  3134.  @Patrickf5087  Happenstance? Some magic line that crooks can't cross. Not too likely. Its as if you don't like his methods and that you're hoping for any explanation that will nullify what is happening
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  3135. It would have happened anyway. Freedom fighters, like those at the Boston Tea party, didn't stop and say. "What's the point. They'll only invent tanker ships and diesel trucks to stop us". You work with what you've got at the time. When the driverless trucks come, they're will be other ways to stand for personal freedom.
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  3136.  @diannethomas7057  Sorry. Children have their own personalities and can even have mental disorders that are biologically driven. Also, teens want to accepted and recognised positively by their peers. Quite often, they'll separate themselves from their families, believing that their friends are more important. Most of the time, if they're well raised, it fades away as they mature.
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  3137.  @diannethomas7057  You indicated that if children are raised properly, with good values, that they'll never falter in their teenage years. I'm saying that this is simplistic and doesn't account for individualism. All people are different and react differently to stimuli. Teenagers are people and don't act as a monolith although they do share certain tendencies. There is no magic wand that turns out perfect children.
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  3138.  Michael Drake  FOOL? What brought THAT on? Where did I say that I liked Trudeau? Or I didn't like him? I'm sure I never said a thing about him. You're no different than Idjman. You're making assumptions and calling them facts. As a matter of fact, I didn't like his father and I like Justin even less. I even wrote a paper, in college, which was a strong indictment of Justin's father. So there goes your assumptions out the window. And do you know what. I'm STILL not going to call you any names and for one reason. Being a rude jerk (I guess that is a name) doesn't make you wrong or right. It just makes you a rude jerk.
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  3139.  @liamwatson5125  We just found the neighbour. Did the water leave any disfiguring scars?
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  3140.  @liamwatson5125  I was caught out in the rain last weekend. I'm suing the local church and the weather channel. I wish I could sue YouTube trolls. Tell you what. Send me a nickel and I won't call my lawyer.
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  3141.  @kylorenjr1236  Definitely a terrible situation.
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  3142.  @jokerj641  You are quite the joker, J. The last year of Obama's presidency, multiple cities were burning. It would seem that what Obama was doing wasn't working all that well, either.
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  3143.  @alexlane3  So what. Some people like it and others don't. It says nothing about her or whether she's a good person or not. Get over the superficial.
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  3144. The electrical zapper went off in her brain and she knew that she had to apologise or the pain would continue, indefinitely. We have no idea of the torture she has to endure as an MSNBC personality. The zapper has turned her hair white.
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  3145.  @jonathanp1884  That's my problem with government intervention. Every war, genocide and tyranny has come from a government. DeSantis, in Florida, let his citizens choose for themselves and, as the 3rd highest in population, they had the 3rd highest in cases and deaths. I have to wonder if that's coincidence or whether the intervention in other states was pointless.
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  3146.  @LORDNAG1  I'm from Canada and the people that settled this country were hungry, tired from endless effort to build a home and sleep deprived from working from first light till it was too dark to see and in Canada those are LOOONG days. Do you know what they did? They went back to work. Eventually, they built the country that we have now.....one of the best places to live on the planet. Quit whining. They only way things will improve is through hard work and it's tough and tiring. However, in the end it will be worth it because the alternative is to be always hungry, tired and sleep deprived. The sooner you and the people living in those neighbourhoods truly understand this, the sooner their lives will improve.
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  3147. @Dillon Duncan Way to go with the demonisation of one side. Just to emphasise how "horrible" the Israelis are, you throw in the "murder children" phrase, insinuating that killing Palestinian children is an Israeli tactic. Hyperbole like that should really help negotiations and understanding. Israel isn't going deeper into Palestine at all. They fought a war against outsiders, Jordan, Egypt and Syria with help from various other Arab countries and eventually took this land over. Israel actually gave Egypt back the Sinai Peninsula and voluntarily allowed the Gaza strip to become solely under the control of Palestinians. Did they take advantage of it? NO. Instead, the Palestinians there, Hamas and the PLO, took money, given from outside sources, and bought military goods with it and lined the pockets of top Palestinian leaders. If you would EVER get into all the times that the Palestinians were offered an independent state of their own, you'd know that they refused EVERY time. Yet, they don't need to have it. There are nearly 2,000,000 Muslims, called Palestinians, living in Israel proper. Not in Gaza or the West Bank, but in Israel. They have full citizenship, able to vote, have sat in the Knesset, joined that Israeli military and police, own land and businesses. They have every right that an Jewish Israeli has. However, the Palestinians don't want that. They want to RULE the Levant and have said so repeatedly. In other words, the Dimmi state, where Muslim rule supreme and others live there under conditions set by the Muslim leaders, the clerics. There has NEVER been an independent Palestinian state in the Levant. It has always been controlled from outside. The British, the Ottoman Empire, the Egyptian Mamluks, the Mongols, the Kurds, the Crusaders, the Arabs, the Byzantines, the Romans. The last time the area was independent was under the rule of the Maccabees, over 2000 years ago. They led a Jewish rebellion against a Greek ruler, Antiochus IV. The inhabitants of the Levant have always been diverse, including local Muslims, Jews, Christians and pilgrims from various religious orders. The Jews didn't start to dominate till after they migrated there due to persecution in Europe and other countries, starting when the Ottomans controlled the region and growing when the British had it for a short time. Under the British, the local Muslims, were offered a homeland, TWICE, but the Muslims turned the offers down both times. In spite of the fact that Jews and Christians had always lived there, the Muslims wanted complete control for themselves. This is history and the facts. Also, it seems that you've conveniently forgotten all the rocket attacks by Palestinians. Forgotten the 25,000 dollars, American, the Saddam Hussein, would give to the families of suicide bombers, who would strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up in busy shopping malls and markets. None of that counts for you or you've ignored it. I don't think that Israel should be expanding into the West Bank. They should have done with that area the same as they did the Gaza strip and allowed the Palestinians to live there, independently. However, that was a decision they made after Palestinian leaders REJECTED the offer of a Palestinian state in the region. So what do the Israelis do now? Leave the area in limbo or every Jew in Israel, all 6 million plus, get out because that's the only thing that would satisfy Palestinian leadership.
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  3148.  @somkit9102  And now you're doing it. Putting out a display of arrogance and disdain for fellow human beings. You don't have to lie to them. You treat them like human beings, instead of dumb hillbillies. It's that simple but your arrogance can't see past that. You seem to be filled with this idea that you're somehow better than they are. A politician is a salesman. They try to sell themselves and their ideas. No salesman in their right mind calls a potential customer an idiot and then asks if he wants to buy a vacuum cleaner. It's the worst sales pitch imaginable. However, you and Hillary think that this is a good approach. And you think you're the intelligent one.
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  3149. I agree. Let them talk. Look at the second debate. Trump let Biden talk and he hurt himself with his inconsistency. I turned on the Pool interview with Vaush partway through and didn't know who he was. It wasn't long before I was asking myself "Who is this nut?". Bad ideas hate sunlight.
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  3150.  trumptards must die  "Supports Q" That's so vague as to be pointless. Why don't you just address what this video is talking about? Basically stated, wouldn't you feel insulted if someone called you the consummate victim? That you can't succeed without their help? That you're nothing without them? By the way.....that's one hell of a YouTube handle you got there...Adolf.
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  3151.  @yoymon1265  Maybe a Republican cheated and that's why they won in Florida. You see, it goes both ways. Mail in voting should only be used in extraordinary circumstances. That way it's too difficult to cheat. Otherwise, show up, show your ID and vote. It's stupid to support mail in voting as the norm.
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  3152.  @27nycgirl  The 1200 bucks is on top of unemployment insurance. A married couple get 2400 and 600 for a child. This wasn't meant to be a windfall or a lottery winning.
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  3153. ​ @babajaiy8246  What am I justifying? You asked me why the Palestinians would do that? I gave MULTIPLE instances of when one group murdered another group out of pure hatred....and you ignore it. You didn't respond to one thing that I pointed out. All you did was tell me that I was justifying something and I'm not even sure what that something is. I didn't spin a thing. A few days ago, Palestinians crossed the border and killed hundreds of unarmed civilians. What they did to that poor girl is a disgrace and you don't even have the decency to respond to it. You just ignored it because to address it, you'd have to acknowledge just how horrible it was. If you don't speak of it, you can pretend that it didn't happen. Grow up and at least say what you think about that one incident. Don't be afraid to show your true colours.
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  3154.  @babajaiy8246  Then what are you saying? You're great at telling me that I'm getting it wrong but you're not correcting me. If I'm getting it wrong, what is right? It's like pulling teeth trying to figure what you're meant and you're not helping. Is there a point here? Or are you just blowing smoke? Why can't you be straight with me?
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  3155.  @Orcinus1967  The Nazis serve as the ultimate example of how NOT to behave as a group or nation. That's why it's discussed ad nauseum. Other examples are the communists of the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia and today, the socialists of Venezuela. Germany has moved on, as has those of us who lived under the shadow of the Nazis but we can't forget it. We can't forget it because we can't let it happen in our countries because that danger is just as real, today, in the rest of the world, as it was to the Germans 90 years ago. When we use the Nazis as an example, it's not just an indictment of them, it's also an indictment of the potential in all of us to be exactly the same. The problem is that the "woke" generation refuse to believe it of themselves. They think themselves immune to the lure of social superiority. We try to show them, through Nazi Germany, that no one is immune. It's not an indictment of Germans alone. It's an indictment of humanity.
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  3156. I agree with the inner monologue stuff. I go for long walks in which I discuss all kinds of things with me. I resolve nothing but it does provide new angles to discuss the next time I talk to me. LOL.
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  3157.  @darrylbaldcock  So.....quit pooping and putting your garbage out. Quit buying the plastic that made the machine that allowed you to make such an inane remark....and for God's sake.....have you ever heard of euthanasia? Start small and then....well I guess you won't be around if you start small.
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  3158.  @DennepeerRelaxation  In other words, they're railroading him in a nice way. This is a non-case and should be thrown out. Banks hire their own real estate appraisers when a borrower wants to use their property as collateral. It's standard procedure. Only a banking idiot would accept a borrower's assessment of value as the truth unless they already know the value of the property. Smiling at someone while you stab him in the back, isn't being soft. Most people have a very low opinion of someone who would do that.
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  3159. Starmer wasn't aware. That makes me laugh. I'm a retired bartender, living in a one room basement apartment (flat) in Canada and I knew about it over 10 years ago. If Starmer says that he wasn't aware, he's either lying or incompetent. No matter what, he should be ousted out of office.
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  3160. @vicky-zy4de You're not reading the comments are you? Hardly any are in support of Zelensky. Don't be a delusional troll.
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  3161.  @JourneyOnLife  Baloney. She needs to define the word "woman" as it has been recognised for millennia. When the law referred to a woman, in all of our history, they were referring to a woman as we ALL recognised it. The ERA amendment referred to women's rights, not the assignation of gender at birth as they've been claiming for the last 5 years. This is so basic to our society, to all societies all over the world, that it's only been challenged over the last few years and then ONLY by those who are in the grasp of an ideology. If she cannot define the word "woman" how is she going to be an advocate for women's rights? She can't even start to consider the nuances of "Roe v. Wade" even she doesn't know what a woman is. Words and their definitions are at the heart of how we understand the law. If the definitions of basic words become so vague that we're stuck on their meanings, how are the Supreme Court Justices to rule on the law? It's a recipe for chaos.
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  3162.  Charlie Hunt  Neither Trump or Pelosi should be in jail for treason. This isn't China, North Korea or Stalin's Soviet Union where the parameters for treason are so broad that everyone could be in jail. Differing opinions aren't grounds for treason. However, Pelosi should be voted out of office for her lack of action, her use of the crisis to advance her own agenda that has nothing to do with the crisis and to stymie the government every time it tries to move against the virus and the damage it's doing to the country. She's hiding in her mansion, ffs, while Trump and his team are in the thick of it, EVERY DAY. Name ONE suggestion that Pelosi put forward that would actually help the fight against the disease and the havoc it has wreaked on America. Instead of constant criticising others, maybe she should be out there, doing her best to put politics aside and be leading her party in helping the president.
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  3163.  @soylentgreen8795  What resources are running out? Also, wouldn't 1 billion people only serve to postpone the time those resources run out? We'll use them but our great grand children are SOL. I hope to still be alive to meet my great grand children. I think you're missing something here.
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  3164.  @debbiebann5791  So we flag and censor material by people that YOU don't like? Is that the new criteria? Ok, debbie with a small "d". Aren't YOU the important one. Kim Jong-il endorses your position.
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  3165. Weird that an ideologue would write an abbreviated Manifesto. I've never heard of such a thing. (eyeroll)
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  3166.  @goldenshark3182  Indiana Jones is the lead character in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
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  3167.  @eazye5293  If this doctor is treating Covid and has treated a lot of them, how long will it take for them to be a doctor. I know that I don't have personal access to an expert. I do have access to a doctor though and if that doctor tells me to take that HCQ regimen, I'm doing it because that doctor is the only expert I have.
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  3168.  @brachiator1  He didn't say that at all. I read his comment a couple of times and nowhere did I see that. Don't make stuff up.
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  3169.    READ my posts, would you. I, specifically, said that regulations are necessary. Capitalism works when it operates within the law. However, when you OVER regulate, you add costs, stifle creative spirit and hand cuff the entrepreneurial spirit. When a regulation serves no purpose, why would one insist on having it? Why do you insist that it has to one of the other and only the most extreme examples? Either regulate EVERYTHING or NOTHING. Is there no room for common sense? Since the topic on who's paying hasn't been brought up, why would I comment on it? Also, what does it matter who pays? If a person can shoe a horse without a high school diploma, why insist on it? All it does is give a job(s) to another government employee(s) and inflate the tax bill for all.
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  3170.    Now you're just being intentionally obtuse. I've said, at least 2 times now, that regulations are important but you just ignore that and keep insisting that I don't want ANY regulations. You're discussing in bad faith and holding onto assumptions that you've made up because that's the only way to validate your position. You don't want to engage what I'm saying so you just make up your own narrative and argue against that. It's called "creating a strawman". It's a logical fallacy. I'm arguing against OVER regulation and making rules that have no purpose other than to have rules. Is TOTAL government control really that great? North Korea has embraced that way of life. Ultimate and total government control. I'm talking about a balance. Control when it makes sense but only when it makes sense. You've not brought up one good argument why a high school dropout can't learn to shoe horses or do any of those menial jobs that require some skill and training. You've not shown how it makes sense other than some convoluted allusion to how it makes sense for the government to control EVERYTHING. It's as if you think the government is infallible. How naive.
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  3171.    ONCE AGAIN...."REGULATIONS ARE NECESSARY" That is directly from my last comment. Who do you think regulates necessary regulations. THE GOVERNMENT. I NEVER said that governments aren't necessary. You're putting that in my mouth. I'm talking about un-necessary regulations, not un-necessary government. Are you really trying to say that EVERY regulation that a government makes is absolutely necessary? REALLY? Here's a good law. In New Jersey, it's illegal to wear a bullet proof vest while committing a crime. Another one. It's illegal to have a pet rat in Montana. Or this. It's illegal in Anchorage to bring your pet flamingo into a barber shop. Yup.....we're paying politician's to sit around and come up with these laws. However, you don't think we should ever question them because.....I'm not sure why. It looks like I'll have to say this one more time. REGULATIONS ARE NECESSARY. They're necessary when they make sense. It appears that you just don't want to see this statement for a reason that I can't comprehend. Governments pass good laws and stupid laws. They're made up of human beings and people do have that tendency to act foolish at times. Let's try to keep the stupid laws to a minimum. Unless you welcome stupid laws and you believe that the government in NEVER wrong. If that's the case, I don't know what to say other than that the next time you feel the urge to criticise Donald Trump, don't. He's the government and the government is infallible. If you don't like his regulations, move to Mexico.
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  3172.    So....now it's either ME or the government in charge. Back to going into the ridiculous of extremes to making your point.. You just can't admit that the government isn't ALWAYS in the right, can you? Answer this ONE question. Do you always accept everything, that everyone in the government says, as necessary and fact? It's a question that requires a yes/no answer. I'll bet you don't answer it.
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  3173. A mask forces a person to inhale their own expended breath. When we exhale, people pause for up to 2 seconds before they begin to inhale. This pause allows the expelled breath to dissipate so a person can inhale fresh air and not their own breath. A mask doesn't allow that breath to dissipate as well and we breathe in air that should have been cleared away from our nose and mouth. Doing this for hours at a time can't be good for you. A mask inhibits the normal breathing process.
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  3174.  @elLooto  When half the world are fools, I guess we'll have to suffer them. LOL. I'm more of the Jordan Peterson type. "Always assume that the person, that you're speaking to, know something that you don't" It's not always easy but you can glean a lot from and about people by just listening to them. "Know thy enemy" might be appropriate as well. You can't know them if you refuse to communicate with them.
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  3175.  @N0xiety  No. We like to give this individual purpose, a reason to live. A purpose in life is what makes it worthwhile. Lots of people live lives of intense suffering but they don't want to end it. They have passions and people they love and care about. That's what we'd like to see. One of the saddest things to see is a person without hope or purpose. Of what purpose is death. Of course, she could always end it without the help of MAiD and maybe that's her point. If she just ended it herself, this story would never get out. Doing it this way, through MAiD, might be bringing her the attention that would dissuade others to go down the surgery route that she did. At least there's a purpose in that.
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  3176.  @jay90374  You're not hiding them from reality by limiting their internet access if you tell them why. Telling them why IS exposing the reality. What you're doing is protecting them. That's the job of parents. It's about letting your kids know that this isn't acceptable so they grow up in a culture that sets limits and becomes the norm.
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  3177.  @robinsss  Then what happened to it? If you took 2 million of that money and hired 50 able bodied people, they'd average 40 thousand dollars a year. That's 20 bucks an hour. All they'd have to do is for 40 hours a week, go around pick up garbage, clean up empty lots and do a little painting. At the end of that year, that area of West Baltimore would look clean. It's that simple.....but they won't do it. I'll leave it to others to explain to me why.
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  3178.  @stephenkrueck3247  Many want the cross border restrictions to Canada lifted. That's something that both governments could work towards. It has really impacted the independent truckers and our supply chain.
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  3179.  @mistymountainhopper  That's her job. She looks after the microphone and takes it from one journalist and brings it to the next one. Acosta didn't want to relinquish the mike. He felt as if he was deserving of more time and he had the right to usurp the mike for himself. All she did was reach for it and he pushed her hand away. That's a breach of decorum. Every journalist must follow procedure and Acosta feels that he's above that and shouldn't have to what is required of all the journalists in that room. No one, not Trump, not you.....no one is required to answer questions from anyone else. It's done on a common courtesy and no person has an obligation to answer a question from a journalist, even if that journalist is named Acosta.
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  3180.  @mistymountainhopper  I will agree with that. It's not an assault but it is rude and he's showing contempt for her and her responsibilities. He made her look inept and he owes her an apology, for starters. Also, he has the unique position of being able to ask questions of the President of the most powerful nation in the world and he uses it as battering ram until he loses his press pass. This isn't unprecedented and he knows it. Instead of looking for information, like a journalist should, he's looking to score points. Anyone would get annoyed eventually.
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  3181.  @saintsone7877  The mother is at fault if she chooses to have indiscriminate sexual relations with men that she hardly knows. That's HER choice and it's irresponsible. The mother can choose wisely when making those decisions but if she chooses not to and the father is intentionally out of the picture, that's just as much HER fault as it is the father's. This isn't set in stone, of course, but there are too many women making horrible choices when it comes their personal and sex life.
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  3182.  @100americanmade  You know, I thought that his election was going to help bring America together and was I wrong. By the time he was done, as president, cities were on fire, BLM had formed as an extremist group and racial tension had increased in ways that we haven't seen in decades and we're still suffering from it. If the man had any integrity, he'd return that prize and admit that he's done nothing to deserve it.
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  3183.  Angelus Dei  So, you HATE rich people? I though HATE was a crime. The trouble with people like you is simple. You're so busy looking at your neighbour's pile that you neglect looking after your own. Envy isn't one of the deadly sins for nothing.
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  3184.  Leonard Chornomaz  "Obviously there is a law" This is from YOUR comment. I've posted a link to where you can actually read the law for yourself and it says that you are NOT required to apply for a copyright for material that you publish. THAT is the law. Yet, you still insist that the law does exist. What am I to assume? You have no proof other than this guy is being taken to court. That's not proof. I've given proof that compelled copyright applications do not exist. All you've said that it MUST exist because this bureaucrat is charging him. I have to assume that you think bureaucrats are never wrong. Of the two of us, I have the stronger argument. Then you add what his lawyer said and all you have is the fact that the guy is being charged. You don't know the person that's behind the charge or what he's basing it on or even whether the person has the competence to understand what the law says or means or whether it even exists.
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  3185.  @pavango3812  Which would mean that have proper ID to vote would simplify any investigations, if necessary. If would also limit the opportunities for voter fraud. That's what we want. If ID is used, you can't have a political party claiming that certain people, Russians as an example, are walking in and voting and never having to prove who they are. Russians could go to a precinct, pay a heroin addicts money to not vote and then vote in their places and get away with it because he doesn't have to prove who they are.....and then DONALD TRUMP WINS. Much joy and celebrations in all KKK meetings. Champagne for all, that is, if they have ID to prove they're old enough to drink. You're making a ridiculous argument.
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  3186.  @pavango3812  Canada has ID requirements to vote. No one in Canada complains about it. They take it for granted because they believe that their vote is sacred enough to have that requirement attached to it. Canada isn't the only country. Mexico has the same requirement. The Netherlands requires ID and a voting pass. In Belgium you need voter ID and a letter from municipal administration calling you to vote. France requires a voting card, ID card or passport. This isn't unprecedented. In fact, most countries require them. Mexico has a voting ID card system that have unique security capabilities. https://www.gi-de.com/en/spotlight/identities/voting-id-cards-mexico This is in a country that is poorer than the US and is the number one source of immigrants to the US but every citizen has one. Every citizen that wants to vote, even those living abroad, has this voting card. You're going to have to come up with one hell of a video to explain it to me so it would make sense. I don't see it happening.
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  3187. Gabo LongQua "Whether you believe in the Christ or not". I'm not sure how you can't follow this simple statement. He says that you don't have to believe in God. He is using it as a metaphor in how you deal with the ordinary adversity in life. You're stuck on the use of a Christian God to make a point and it seems that it renders any ideas derived from it invalid, even if it's used as a metaphor.
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  3188. "He incited" That's the part that's important. I've asked multiple times and I've received no clear answer. What did he do to incite the riot? A simple question that should have an answer.....but I've yet to hear one. "March peacefully and patriotically." I did hear Trump say that. A cute poem doesn't prove guilt or even imply it. FACTS. Provide it.
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  3189.  @justinkirschenman2232  It's hard to judge something that did not happen. I agree that the early models were flawed, the biggest flaw being that they really had no idea of the death rate or that most people would only get mild reactions to the virus. The lockdown would have decreased exposure enough to flatten a curve. All you do is spread the infection rates out, basically extending the natural course of the disease over a longer period of time.
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  3190. ubuu7 It's the left that was furious. They were the ones that filled twitter calling him and Candace names. Apparently, they're all upset that he would support a Black conservative and that means that they're the ones taking him seriously. The right isn't thrilled that Kanye supported Candace. They're thrilled at the left reaction to that support. Most people on the right can't believe how upset the left is about Kanye's statement and personally, I find it amusing. Say one thing against any of the left dogma and they go start into the name calling. If someone with the fame and skin colour of Kanye says it, they go completely insane. They can't even think straight.
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  3191. Phil Smith Tomi Lahren got fired because she said that she thought women should have legal access to abortions. She now works for Fox and is a Trump supporter. TheBlaze is just one faction of the right and it's not even close to being representative of the right and an important part of their platform is against abortion. It made no sense for her to be involved with them after that. It would be like a Muslim saying that there is no Allah. It wouldn't make sense to call him a Muslim.
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  3192. "I think that's a little unfair how you posed that question" Imagine.....journalists posing unfair questions!!!!! Who ever heard of such a thing? Is this the state of journalism in Biden's America? Shocking!!!!
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  3193.  David Tucker  Then you don't understand God or his message. God doesn't like adultery or all sin and everyone of us is sinful. Jesus said that NO ONE is deserving of the Kingdom of Heaven. NO ONE. That includes you, me and Trump. So, who do we vote for now? No one is worthy. Before you go making religious statements maybe you should understand what the religion, in question, believes.
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  3194. You have to care about Harris says. She's the vice president and could end up as the president of this country. This could happen while you're not caring and it would be a bigger disaster than having Biden as president. If you pay no attention to her, you won't know how terrible a person that she actually is and neither will anyone else and that's exactly what they want.
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  3195.  @bintipper1243  Another left wing elitist. One of the "let them eat ice cream" crowd. I'm rather proud of my peasant ancestry, actually. They worked hard under the boot of the elitists and survived. Tougher than nails, they were.
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  3196. He was a white nationalist. LOL. Candace Owens cousin...or something.
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  3197.  @sockpastarock7082  I didn't call the ALL shamans and you KNOW it. I SAID, that if those scientists wanted to be taken seriously, they shouldn't put the names of tribal spiritualists, shamans if you will, on their scientific report as if those spiritualists and tribal elders have the credentials to speak on scientific matters. I wouldn't take a scientific report, written by a guy who owns a hobby aquarium shop as an expert on the Great Barrier Reef. Those spiritualists and tribal elders have no business lending their name to a report like that, even if there are scientists who sign off with them. It loses all credibility. Who knows how much the supposed science has been influenced by tribal traditions and I'm not going to dignify a report that blurs the lines between science and religion. If they are going to present a scientific report, they need to consult the requisite scientific experts in the field, not some mumbo jumbo traditionalists. You might as well ask the pope to contribute....but you don't want to address that part of my statement.
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  3198.  @darkdan3379  Sounds as if you're one of those racists that justifies beating and harassing anyone of a different ethnic background than you.
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  3199. It's what they want. They want the race war. Almost no sensible person does, but what's happening now was the goal of Charles Manson. The race war. Helter Skelter. We thought he was nuts back then. Now.......he's the new left culture.
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  3200.  @matthewharrison2317  I've read "Mien Kampf" when I was a senior in high school. It's the very rare primary level child that would read that book. It's actually quite boring for kids and there are no pictures to look at. However, I did learn one thing by reading that book, I was 17 or 18 at the time, and that was that Hitler was one nasty guy. Reading that book will create more anti-fascists than it will fascists.
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  3201. Excellent points. However, you might want to change "work" ideology into "woke ideology". I'm not trying to be a grammar Nazi but I had to read the sentence "Work ideology evolved from the Frankfurt school." several times before I realised that it was a typo. You're right about James Lindsay. He's great at explaining this stuff.
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  3202.  @BlueGamesInc  Why? I need my roof replaced because it's leaking. I get some quotes and I make enquiries on the capabilities of each roofing company. I hear raves reviews of the work and qualities of one of the companies that I was considering. The other companies all seemed to have complaints of one thing or another on the quality of their work. Do I then dismiss the company that does the best work and had the best reviews, based SOLELY om ethnicity? That would not only be an unrealistic, it would be just plain stupid.
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  3203. That's the problem. The Democrats don't care if you burn down small businesses. That's what happened in the "peaceful protests" and they pretended it didn't happen. If you burn down the businesses that you're trying to protect, they'll call you racists and alt-right fanatics. We just got to go back to work and dare them to come after us. Passively resist.....like Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King did. They can't put 70 million people in jail.
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  3204.  @overthenonsense4171  Didn't realise that but I'd think that they'd be better off actually protesting peacefully. Let those clowns see them every day and don't let the media portray them as alt-right violent fanatics because that's what they'll do. Make sure the protests are filmed and posted and show the world that they're, we're actually, not a bunch of Antifa BLM thugs. That we're decent people wanting our freedom. They people of America can't ignore this forever.
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  3205.  @wethepeople905  These ignoramuses are teaching our kids. You send them off to college and they come home for Christmas with blue hair, a ring in their nose and hating you for having a stocked pantry. It's not easy to ignore that.
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  3206.  @kathycoleman4648  I work as a bartender, Kathy. You just don't say anything, out loud, that might even SOUND that you might approve of something that Trump has done. Someone will go completely off the rails and the anger and bitterness is frightening. I'm Canadian as well and I don't get it. He's not even our president. This guy drove up and down the streets, in our town, with NY plates, flying a Trump flag, and you wouldn't believe the horrific vitriol. "If he comes in here, I'll show him what's up." Some of the guys said they'd beat him to a pulp and the women said they'd scratch his eyes out. It was incredible....and scary. Some of us just looked at each other and shook our heads, quietly, in dismay. In Canada. I thought we were tolerant people. Maybe we're not as wonderful as we like to think we are.
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  3207.  @phonypeeps7020  What am I doing? I'm speaking out against authoritarians and I don't care if they're Fascists or Marxists. Buddy claims that he made a joke but how would I know that. I don't know the guy and the printed word can lose it's meaning when the spoken word is accompanied by inflection, a smile or a wink. I don't like authoritarians. Period......and I'm speaking out against it. Too bad if you don't like it. I'll continue to do so until the authoritarians physically shut me up.
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  3208.  @Musicienne-DAB1995  I have always said that no one exists with who I agree with 100% of the time on 100% of all topics. It's an impossibility. Instead, I take the topic on hand, listen to what they're saying, and make my decision on that and nothing else. I go by the old adage "Keep it simple stupid" or KISS. Don't tangle one issue up with different unrelated topics. It's a pointless game. I think that you're approaching this in the way a reasonable person would.
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  3209.  @tristansuarez-perez2346  A functioning capitalist society must operate within the confines of the rule of law as dictated by the Constitution. Once businesses start to operate outside of that law, they become "outlaws" as they'd be trampling on the rights of others. People try their best to break those laws, because it can be quite lucrative, but that's not the fault of capitalism. It's the fault of those who would trample on your rights to make a buck and the Constitution has provisions that would allow you to seek redress. That's how capitalism works.
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  3210.  @willybee3056  I'm not sure what your point is but this verse isn't telling us to throw them into the sea. It's saying that they'd be better off IF we did and I agree. I'm not going to do it, though.
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  3211.  @deby3680  School choice is the priority when your 11 year old is being encouraged to declare that she's transsexual. When she's been shown for the last 4 years how to perform and enjoy all types of sex acts. When her class subjects are all interjected with sexuality and racial issues and she can't tell you what 6 X 5 equals and her reading skills are that of an 8 year old. When her teachers have asked her what her parent's political affiliations lie. They're setting up the next generation to become radical activists and they've been doing it for years. The number one reason that all those things, that you mentioned, are issues now is because the young voters have been indoctrinated so that they would vote to cause those issues. Our educational system is at the heart of what is happening to our country. If we hadn't have let this happen, those other issues wouldn't be issues.
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  3212.  @ST-ks2es  Should a woman, under the law, have the freedom to get an abortion when 15 weeks pregnant? That question was asked and answered with a definite "YES" and it was allowed for decades. It was NOT a ridiculous question. It was a necessary one to secure those rights. Now we have another question. Should a woman be allowed an abortion up to the moment of birth. The law says NO except under extreme conditions. Women cannot get an abortion, on demand, when 8 1/2 months pregnant. Should that be allowed? Yes or no. It's straightforward and to the point. I don't see why these women could not answer this question in a straightforward fashion. The only reason a person would refuse to answer that question is because they believer that they would look bad if they said "Yes....an abortion is a right, no matter what the reason would be, right up to the moment of birth".
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  3213. @Fennerex V Check all the athletic record holders in both men's and women's sports around the world. Men's records are consistently higher than women's records by 10% and higher. Almost EVERY one of them. Also, and this is quite telling, why are no transgender women trying to get into men's teams to compete? If they're THAT good, they should be playing professional baseball, soccer, hockey, football and basketball on the men's team. That's where the money is. Yet no women are trying out for those professional leagues. I can only think of one woman, who tried out for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and played parts of 2 exhibition games. One woman tried out, as a place kicker, and was injured in her tryouts. That goes for the NBA as well. No women has ever played Major league baseball although some have been drafted but played in the minors. It's not as if a top notch athlete wouldn't be allowed to play, if they were scoring 30 plus goals in the NHL. There have none that have even look good enough to play at that level. You can wish it into existence all you want but it doesn't line up with reality.
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  3214. @Fennerex V How is ANYONE going to learn all the pronouns? It's impossible, especially when dealing with the gender fluid. The use of pronouns has be the norm for hundreds of years. Then, just recently, a certain demographic just changes the rules and if you don't go along, they will FORCE you to change. Tell you what you MUST believe. If you're Muslim, you MUST adapt Your belief system because our Islamophobia is not as bad as your transphobia. We must ALL believe the same or we're ALL bigots and as such must be dealt with.....and you hide behind the guise of harassment. This IS how the Fascists gained and held onto power. It's how Stalin did it and Mao through the cultural revolution. You don't want to believe it because YOU are the fascist who wants to tell me what to believe. As for Schuyler Bailar, being in the top 15%.... YES...that's entirely plausible. If you look at the athletic record holders for men and women, you'll find that men's records are consistently more than 10 percent higher than the women's records. It's exactly what you'd expect. It ALSO demonstrates why it's unfair for men to compete with women as equals. Men will beat them by 10% or MORE. It's a specious argument. Most of us aren't mad at trans people. We're angry that it's being used to influence vulnerable children and may coerce them into doing things that they will regret for the rest of their lives. It's how Christianity spread. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov. 22:6.) This is why Christianity isn't integrated into the public school curriculum. It's because it may influence the children for the rest of their lives and it's NOT the job of the state to teach ideology or beliefs on pain of legal repercussions. Repercussions to the demand of if you don't say the Lord's Prayer, you could be suspended from school. That's what you're advocating for. You're no different than the Christian or Maoist who is SO certain that they're correct, that they will legislate against your right to believe as you will. You're just too deeply ingrained into your belief system that you're blind to it.
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  3215.  @sidecarmisanthrope5927  The book is a critique of radical socialism. You have to love Big Brother, just like the people of the Soviet Union, had to love Stalin. Socialism becomes the Cult of Personality, the idea embedded in the person until the person becomes a metaphor for the idea. Mao, the Kim family, Castro and Che......Big Brother. Without love for the person, one is always doubting the idea. Big Brother could not allow Winston to have any doubts. It would be questioning everything about the fictional nation of "Oceania", a nation that was very real to the fictional Winston Smith.
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  3216.  @WickedGaming005  Candace Owens? A Hitler apologist? You're not talking about that clip that Ted Lieu used to smear her are you? I challenge you to find where, in that clip, that she showed any kind of support for Hitler or that Nazi regime. It doesn't exist. Ted Lieu was being intentionally obtuse and then Nadler accused Ms. Owens of calling Lieu stupid, which she clearly never did and then dismisses her with a wave of his hand like she was a bug hovering over his head. It was a disgusting display, all around.......but, go ahead and try to spin her comment as Pro-Hitler. This I got to hear. I'll even post the clip for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX89pxjQeQU
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  3217.  @saulhernnadez9203  NEVER underestimate your opponent. That's the first rule I was taught when I was playing hockey. Always assume that they're coming from a position of strength. That way you'll always give it your all. To stick with the hockey metaphor. There was no way that the US Olympic hockey team should have beat the Soviet team in 1980. The Russians saw the American team as beneath them and basically mailed in their game. By the time they realised they were in trouble, it was too late and one of the biggest upsets in sports history took place. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR OPPONENT!!!!!
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  3218.  @bonfist7277  Fascists are just another form of Marxists. Mussolini was the head of the Communist party until they kicked him out because he thought that Lenin was wasting a resource by killing the management class. So he formed Fascist ideology that would blend the Marxist worker with a Socialist Managers to form a National Socialist, Workers Party. Hitler just added "German" to the appellation. They're just different visions of Socialism.
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  3219.  @marcusroca7024  How is he deflecting responsibility? Trump was one of the first to restrict travel to China. It turned out he was right to do so. Europe didn't and look at the mess over there. It's a lot worse than in the States. However, you're too filled with hate, yourself, and it's not stoked by Trump but is deep inside you, fueled by MSM's obvious bias.
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  3220.  @zwicker5585  Where did I say "all the time"? I never said that ONCE. You've created a strawman argument. Changing your name and insisting that people use a whole new set of pronouns is a big deal. It could mean puberty blockers is next, and hormone drugs and maybe even surgeries. That's serious stuff. I know a person who died from complications of an tonsillectomy. This is a lot more serious. If my child throws up in class, they'd have called me. In fact, when my grand daughter became ill and threw up in the hall, they called me because they couldn't get in touch with my daughter or her husband. They do it already.....but for some reason, they can't do it when the child wants to secretly keep girls clothes at school, purchased by someone other than the parent, and wear those clothes. That's insane. Another thing, quite often depression isn't always about relationships. It's also a medical condition and if a child decides that the reason they're depressed is due to gender issues, that's a self diagnosis. Since when do patients diagnose themselves? And if the teacher is telling her that this is the answer, the teacher is practising medicine. That's unlawful AND irresponsibly reckless. To finish, all it takes is a phone call. If they can call me, as they have my emergency number, when my grand daughter threw up, they can inform the family about her new pronoun preferences. The implications are too serious to ignore.
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  3221.  @francischimenti1374  NO....that's where you're trying to lead this conversation to. You don't want to talk about those times when a woman might lie. You want to make it about demonising feminism. I don't care about feminism. I care about the truth and the truth is that women will lie to get ahead. Not always but when it gets into court, it MUST be a consideration and NOT dismissed out of hand....and YES, it is the children that suffer the most when either the father or the mother lie about one another. When a family breaks up, the welfare of the children SHOULD be the first consideration, not the welfare of the mother or the father and, DEFINITELY, not how specific ideologies might be damaged.
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  3222.  @francischimenti1374  What in the world does the welfare of my child (hypothetically speaking) have to do with corporate ownership and viewership? I'm sure that's what every divorcing man and woman is thinking when their relationship is breaking up. I'll bet that's why their children are so upset when they can't see their father. These are issues on a micro level. How does the child best survive when the family is being torn apart. This is what Hanson was talking about. If your first priority, when getting divorced and you have children, is how this might benefit conservatives and the corporate elite, you have your priorities severely screwed up. That is NOT the time to change the world. It WOULD be the time to look after your responsibilities, to your children, to yourself and to your spouse. If your ideology comes before your children, then you may well be the type that would use your children as a bargaining chip to further your cause.
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  3223. Your father was a wise man. We're all responsible for our own actions.
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  3224.  @mamageesgospel451  HUH??? What about when the Germans invaded Poland, man? Did you ever think of that? And then that Napoleon. He invades Russia. What the hell was he thinking? And then that clown that punched the bartender down at the bar the other night. What about that?
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  3225.  @aggressivedemocrat3649  Gotcha.
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  3226. I never thought of that. I just figured the mid terms were over and it's time to distance themselves from Joe Biden. However, the FTX thing has its merits as well. Maybe the FTX thing with a dash of "goodbye Joe".
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  3227. I heard an NBC reporter complain about a plinko table, tents to keep warm, and pizza oven. The depravity of those truckers knows no bounds.
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  3228.  @JulieDevonshire  We may want to trust but that's an impossibility. It'll never happen. What Amber Rose demonstrates is the need to question, to make sure that the information that you're being fed is fact and not a narrative. Truth is a goal that's never reached but can be approached if one is diligent in that quest for truth. She challenges us all to always be ready to have our beliefs challenged. That's why her message has relevance. As for Vance, he came from nothing and has been a success at everything that he's tried. I see no reason why that should change but it could. Nothing is ever a 100% guarantee. Also, he demonstrates what Amber Rose was talking about. Don't be afraid to challenge your beliefs and especially don't be afraid to say that you might be wrong. If more people were willing to do that, we wouldn't have the division that we have today.
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  3229.  @Cool_Calm_Cam  You're twisting things to suit yourself. Black Panthers were patrolling neighbourhoods, in groups, intimidating anyone that might be in opposition to them, including the police. Reagan saw no reason for people carrying loaded weapons in public. That's not "strict" gun control. He wasn't advocating taking guns away from ordinary citizens. He was against the types of actions that the Black Panthers were doing. It would appear that Antifa might be following in the same pattern. That might be interpreted as an insurgence against the laws of the country and the citizens of the US.
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  3230.  @abbigailcarr2725  If I father a child, abortion DOES affect me. It means that I might have to pay for a child that I do not want for years. Why can't I have the option to opt out. It's all up to the woman. She can break my heart by killing the growing life within her or by refusing to allow me to see my child once it's born and still forcing me to pay.
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  3231.  @ifiwantyoutofeel  So, if the school board, or any other government agency, was doing something that you didn't like, you'd just take it because you didn't want to be seen as "whining and complaining". Dictators would see you as the perfect stooge for their regime. "Yes, your highness...anything you say, your highness. Can I get you anything?" Grow up.
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  3232. I went to school with Jim Crow. No BS. He was a hell of a good guy. He worked at the local paper mill for over 40 years. We live in Canada, though so he may not be the same guy. Come to think of it, my high school bus driver's name was Jim Crow. Didn't care much for him. I think he was drunk half the time.
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  3233. It sounds anti-white but it's more than that. It's racist towards all races. They wail about being white but that's just the perceived power of the moment. It will change when the power dynamics changes. CRT supporters pander to those who they know are susceptible to resentment and anger because of past racial difficulties. It won't work with whites but it's perfect for black Americans. They believe that they can USE black Americans to achieve power and instill a socialist regime. It's racist against white and black Americans, using one demographic as pawns against another demographic who have the numbers.
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  3234.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  You're going to have to tell me where she's been 2 faced. I don't see it but that doesn't mean it's not there. I'm not sure who it is that you take seriously but if you're referring to Trump, I took him seriously, as well. But I can acknowledge that he has a personality that rubs a lot of people the wrong way. That can be a detriment when you're trying to win the popularity contest that we call an election.
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  3235. Galileo was considered "fringe" in his day. Everything is fringe until proven correct.
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  3236. NO.....the first thing she has to do is stop supporting the Democrats. They are the ones doing it to her. She has to denounce that party and start encouraging others to do the same.
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  3237.  @LowlyEidolon  Could it be that your body produces testosterone and estrogen at different levels or stages than what in normal for the general population? That something within isn't working the way it should and it causes problems in how your body handles emotions? Maybe that's why the estrogen therapy works for you. Therefore, the same treatment may not work on others and to give children these drugs without a comprehensive medical and psychological evaluation can be extremely harmful. I'm no expert but it does seem like common sense. You're absolutely correct. Drugs ARE weird and mood altering drugs shouldn't be the default solution to how they're used. Our bodies are way to complex an entity to be treated as if they can be treated with a "one size fits all" type of treatment.
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  3238.  @july6949  Really? Neo-liberal capitalism did that? You do realise that this capitalism that you're speaking of is an idea, don't you. Ideas don't build bombs. People do. So....what you're saying is that some people, who believe in the idea of capitalism, ideologists, killed him in the name of Capitalism? That's seem hard to believe. Was this bomb blast in a western capitalist country? A country that respects the rule of law? If it did, it wasn't capitalism that killed him, it was people protecting their own self interest and they committed a crime and should face the consequences of that crime. However, I don't know the specifics of this incident because you're claim is too broad to truly assess what the motives were. Had you given the details, like location, the motive of the perpetrators and why they'd set off a bomb, we could all see how true that claim of yours truly is. Without it, I'd say it's just hyperbolic nonsense, prompted by an ideological mindset.
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  3239.  @july6949  I'm truly sorry for your loss but I strongly disagree with your assessment of capitalism and how it killed your friend. Capitalism is an economic system. It's a means of production, a way to create value through labour and creativity by allowing the individual the freedom to operate their economy within bounds. Those bounds being the rule of law. Capitalism is implemented by people and those people are bound by that rule of law. It doesn't matter under what system of production that is being used. If you do something that contravenes that law, you are now acting outside the acceptable behaviour of your political entity as enshrined in your legal code. Columbia is a western country but when I used that term, I was referring to the first world countries that pattern themselves after the type of government the US has. This would be Canada, Britain, Japan, South Korea, western Europe, etc.... Columbia is NOT included in this group. They are a developing country with a mid range economy at best. You may ask why I stress the importance of the rule of law and the reason is this. Capitalism, indeed any society, will only reach success if their set of laws are fully respected, understood and implemented. That clearly didn't happen in the case of your friend. Every person is bound by the legal code of their country. The central theme being that everyone has the right to their personal freedom as long as it doesn't impose on the freedom of others. That has NOTHING to do with capitalism, except the freedom to conduct personal economy as one sees fit.....as long as it doesn't contravene the law and principles of human rights. Owning my own company does NOT release me from any obligation to the law or the freedom of others. Your friend died, not because of capitalism, but because there were those who believed themselves free of the obligations of the law or the preservation of human rights. They killed him for personal interests, no different than had I entered my neighbour's home and killed him to obtain his property. If the government, in effect, those who are a part of the government, allows it to happen, indeed sanctions my actions, then they too are violating the personal right of my neighbour to own his property, legally attained and to his life. If the Columbian government, the individuals the run that government, allowed and sanctioned the murder of your friend, they violated his human rights. They did it for self interest. That's not capitalism. It wouldn't matter what economic system they believed in. They broke the law. Had they been socialist, they still broke the law. Had it been a huge company that sanctioned it, the law is still broken. Had they been a religious faction, Catholics, Muslims, Zoroastrians or whatever, they broke the law. This is why, in the United States, an incoming president swears to uphold the Constitution. It is vital to the freedom of individual rights. He doesn't swear to protect capitalism because capitalism is an expression of those individual rights, the freedom of the individual to create value. If the president acts against that Constitution, he breaks the law. We have laws because we understand that humans are flawed and will act in their own self interest, even if it means violating the self interests of others. Everyone, operating in a capitalist economy, is still bound by those laws. The economy doesn't rule. It is still subservient to a Constitution and the guidelines that allow human rights for all. To finish, Capitalism did not kill your friend. People, working outside the law with no regard for human rights, killed your friend.
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  3240. I asked a friend what he'd do if he turned on the kitchen tap and no water came out. The same with all his other taps. He said he'd call the town to let them know and then he'd expect the town to fix the problem. I told him that this happened a lot on the farm. However, we didn't call the town. We checked the well. If empty, we went looking for another likely spot to dig a well. Until that was dug, we'd buy water and a truck would come and fill our cistern or well. In other words, we'd handle it ourselves. That demonstrates the independence of those who live in rural areas and the dependence that urban dwellers have on the governments who supply such things.
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  3241. He is owning it. He's even said that he'd vote Trump over Biden, now that he's seen how bad a choice Biden was. No one is right 100% of the time. However, the true measure of character is admitting when one has effed up and Maher, as much as I've criticised him in the past, is "owning" his mistakes.
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  3242.  @chrisbayridge23  Venezuela nationalised it's oil industry way back in the mid seventies. No more private ownership. All revenue made from oil sales went into government coffers. Do you know what that meant to the people and those that were trying to get elected to power? It meant that the politicians had a cash cow to entice voters to vote for them. Money that a capitalist company would have used for innovation, training, refurbishing machinery and hiring the best people, was used as capital to finance the politicians promises to the people. The oil industry became less and less competitive as privately owned oil companies were able to use their profits to bolster up their ability to produce cheaply and effectively. When the oil prices dropped, it was Venezuela's national oil company that tanked because it never even tried to stay competitive. Chavez was the ultimate socialist. He used oil revenue as if there was no end to it and he fixed prices when inflation was starting to erode at the value of the people's money. That made things even worse. Also, the US didn't place any embargoes on Venezuelan products until 2015. By that time things were out of control in that country. Even I was affected by the ever spiralling inflation in that country and I live in Canada. In 2013, Venezuela ran out of toilet paper and Chavez promised to bring 5 million cases of toilet paper to Venezuela to appease the outrage. He used oil profits to get that toilet paper. I worked in a factory that made toilet paper and we couldn't get raw paper because it was all suddenly going to Venezuela at inflated prices. Some of us were laid off. Hardship in Venezuela actually brought hardship to my fellow workers here in Canada. As for the IMF and the World Bank, why would they give or lend money to a country where the value of that money would become valueless within 24 hours? They'd never be able to pay it back and it wouldn't buy a thing the following day. That's how high the rate of inflation was. There is only one reason for their troubles and that's the socialist idea that money exists on of itself. It doesn't. It's representative of tangible wealth or products that a country can produce and if you don't use the capital that these products generate wisely, you'll fail and fail horribly. It can happen anywhere and it will happen in the US if you allow socialism to take over the economy. That's not fear mongering but fact. Socialism is a recipe for disaster.
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  3243.  @johnmccain7076  What about the wall? It's being built. You didn't really expect it to be built the day after Trump was sworn into office, did you? First, they had to get funding. Rather difficult when Democrats and Rinos fought it, tooth and nail. However, he managed to get the funding to replace old walls that were failing and is on his way to having nearly 100 miles completed. By the end of 2020, they hope to have 450 miles done. Of course, he could use his magic wand and have it done by tomorrow, but what fun is that?
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  3244.  @ohhgeedead7352  YOU are missing the point. It's not that it's being suggested that it be done. The point is how would the guy like it if it was done to him. That's what is being said. We're trying to get people that approve of this behaviour to see that this is a 2 way street and that once it's acceptable to do it in one direction, it will become acceptable to do it in the opposite direction. It's like asking the school yard bully on how he would like it if we all pushed him down and kicked him. It's a method to elicit feelings of empathy from the bully, in this case, Castro, who was advocating online bullying against those he sees as political opponents.
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  3245. This has been a concerted effort by those with Marxist beliefs. It follows the ideas of a Paulo Freire, a Brazilian socialist and educator, on how to turn our schools into places of socialist indoctrination. His work is the blueprint for those who follow the neo-Marxist principles of Critical Race Theory. Get the right teachers and school board members in place to advance their cause. It was done quietly and covertly and is finally boiling over and can no longer be kept hidden.
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  3246. I knew a couple that went to Czechoslovakia in 1968 to visit their relatives. The wife grew nervous and wanted to leave early. The news was getting worse and she was near hysterical and threatened to leave by herself. Finally, her husband caved and they left. The following day, the Russians tanks came and the borders were sealed. He's been grateful to his wife ever since.
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  3247. He knows it. That's why he talked over Mr. Crews when he tried to tell him just that. Lemon isn't stupid but he IS incredibly dishonest. That's what makes him so dangerous.
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  3248. Lectric Line I'm a bartender. One might say I'm a professional party goer. Been doing it for 14 years at different venues and each time offered the job without having to apply. So, I guess I am a peach at a party. He who controls the beer is the most popular guy at the gathering.
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  3249.  @jl4018  That's why we have a Constitution. We have it to prevent the tyranny of the majority or minority. It's human nature to impose our will on others and the founding fathers knew this. They came up with a system of checks and balances and a Bill of Rights that cannot be superceded, even by a Democratic vote. All a vote does is pick representatives. Those reps still need to deal with the legislative and judicial process. There should be no executive orders except in times of dire emergency and even that's covered in the Constitution. In spite of the Constitution, our human nature still corrupts the system with backroom deals, lobbyists and bureaucratic corruption. It's something that we have to be aware of and vigilant against, even if that corruption is to our advantage.
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  3250. Nothing wrong with that.....unless you're more about opinion and ideology, like Neil is. Carl Sagan never tried to pass off ideology and pseudoscience as fact.
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  3251.  MRAnthony CJ  Yet, it's the California Democrats that voted to repeal the California State Civil Rights Act. So, who's dragging us back to the Civil Rights era, again?
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  3252.  MRAnthony CJ  I don't have to prove it because YOU just verified it. The Democrats voted to repeal it and now it is on the ballot, as required, for the people to vote on. It didn't just magically appear on the ballot. This was a proposal, offered by Democrats, voted on and accepted by the Democrats and is now on the ballot. So...it would appear that the Democrats, of California, that are dragging us back to the Civil Rights era and they're starting the process in California.
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  3253.  @steven7936  So Trump is a member of Antifa? That makes sense if you're a moron. Antifa are communists. They'd take away everything that Trump owns and they'd have him shot. Sure....he's support that. Use that pile of jello that you call a brain.
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  3254.  @tonyhoban6600  The "I don't know what you mean" defence. You know exactly who "they" are and I know this by your deflection when you criticised another one of your constructed collectives and one that you don't appear to like. Your only pretending to be stupid. I think the correct word is disingenuous.
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  3255.  @timthomson7532  1. Support the police and prosecute criminals. 2. Support parental rights in education. 3. Set clear standards in education and the policies to be able to reach those standards, successfully. 4. Cut taxes to those who are at the lowest end of the economic scale. 5. Cut red tape so businesses and developers can expand without it costing exorbitant fees needed to navigate the bureaucratic maze. There's a start and it's what Youngkins is doing.
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  3256.  @stevelenores5637  I don't call that weakness. I call that strength. It takes strength to show love and patience. It's why one prays for the strength to be patient and humble. If you give in to impatience, you've given in to weakness. Patience is when one is able to overcome frustration, resentment and anger, when you have the inner strength to NOT lash out. One needs strength of character to maintain self control. Weakness is when you don't have the fortitude to face evil. The early Christian martyrs showed us that. They didn't fight back yet refused to bend the knee to what was wrong, even if it meant their death. That's strength. The ones who recanted their faith, fell victim to a weakness in their character.
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  3257.  @voixdelaraison593  Give it a rest. Cuomo has been accused of sexual assault and misconduct. Trump has NOTHING to do with it. NOTHING. You're deflecting from the topic due to a tribalist need to ALWAYS validate those whose tribe you're loyal to.....NO OTHER REASON. You could care less about the women assaulted. You could care less about those that died in nursing homes. As long as the tribe is protected. A person of integrity wouldn't care who the person was. You investigate the allegations and prosecute if found guilty. That's it. Those who would challenge that don't care about truth or justice. They care only about ideology. Don't become the monster that you claim that you're fighting.
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  3258. There's a transgender, I believe she's 19, that has expressed regret over her transgender surgery and has gone viral all over the internet. She's been harassed and threatened a LOT more for that regret than for when she first made her claim that she was trans. If a child gets beat up by these "radicals" those radicals should face legal consequences, NOT the journalist that might express concerns about this radical surgery or the use of puberty blockers. I'm seriously concerned that this is just the start of the regrets.....but I'm not to say anything. It may upset the DOJ and the FBI. This was unheard of 10 years ago and now people can be prosecuted for wondering if this might be harmful to a child. It went from 0 to 90 real quick.....TOO quick for most of us.
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  3259.  @howardjones7370  So you've followed me to my new table and kept up the verbal attacks. Now I have 2 options. I either take a swing at you or go to option 2. Drink my beer and go somewhere else and hope you don't follow me around town and keep calling me names. You really have no idea on how to have a conversation in a courteous manner, do you.
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  3260.  @dereklewis4321  It's paraphrased. The meaning is exactly the same. Unless there is a difference in meaning, any real criticism is basic nit picking and pointless.
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  3261.  @Michael-Archonaeus  😀😀😀😀
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  3262. occupynewparadigm He's only mediocrity to those who want to impose their ideas on others, who love confrontation and anger and look for retribution on those who dare oppose them. To those who only want to hear conflicting ideas so they can identify the enemy and dispose of them. He invites free discussion without judgement or the aura of superiority. You want to know how a guest really feels, watch the Rubin Report. If you want to watch that guest be interrupted, yelled at and ridiculed, there are plenty of other forums that will do that for you. I want to hear what the guest has to say so I can formulate my own opinions on a lucid and honest presentation of ideas, not a screaming match.
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  3263.  @jwc1772  Then why don't you show us how she's was wrong in what she was saying. You're great at calling people names but not much else.
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  3264. ​ @sheyji108  A vigil for the people that committed and praised the murder of innocent civilians? Young adults, 260 of them, butchered at a music festival and they cheer for that? You want us to hold a vigil for them? You've GOTTA be kidding. If they want my respect, they'd better learn to resolve their issues through negotiations and compromise, otherwise they can suffer the consequences of their actions.
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  3265.  @Doc_Morbid  Jobs and an adherence to the law will. The law isn't being applied in Portland. Once applied, it's funny how these social/cultural issues will go away.
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  3266.  @ramonornelas8069  Maybe then you can be like California. That would be cool. Well, maybe not cool as they're having rolling black outs due to mismanagement of their energy sector and your air conditioner would be useless. You'll love the poop app though, like in San Francisco. That'll get the human feces off the streets.....and of course, the needles. There's a hazard that every American city should have. High rents....check. High taxes....check. Yeah....you'll love Biden. Maybe you could follow the lead of Democrat New York. There's some fine leadership there. Putting covid patients in nursing homes.....that's brilliant. More high taxes and 500,000 leaving New York City in 5 months. Putting 13,000 homeless drug addicts and mentally challenged people in high end hotels at 175 bucks a night.....now that's fiscal planning. LOL. Oh yeah.....Biden it is. The party that supports looting and burning. The party that's obsessed with race and gender. I'm almost 70 and I've never heard the rhetoric about racism like I hear it today, not even during the Jim Crow era, was the obsession this palpable. Democrats are nuts.
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  3267.  @dogbreath34  Sort of private citizen censorship. Maybe you should form a posse and go door to door, looking for unapproved books to burn.
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  3268.  @weehudyy  If we could only find a crime. I can't recall a time when a group of people kept looking for something, not finding it, yet kept on looking. I'd have given up by now.
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  3269.  @daasdasdasdasd-j5w  That's exactly their problem. Their trying to hard to beat Trump instead of presenting ideas that might help the country. The have no real platform other than "We gotta beat the president". It's lacking in substance. Worse, it's become a big give away program. It's almost as if they're bribing the voter away from Trump and then extolling their own generosity. It's easy to be generous with someone else's money.
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  3270.  @theeuphioanswer770  Used to be.....I think that's what you said. Used to be. Do you understand what that means? I "used to be" 4 feet tall. "Used to be" implies that I'm not that tall, right now. It's something in the past. There "used to be" a big war in Europe, against the Germans. Call me foolish but I'm not going over to fight them anymore. "Used to be" means the WAR IS OVER. It also means that sports aren't segregated anymore. That fight is over. Man.....has the whole world gone off its rocker? Damn...I used a gender specific noun. Another reason for someone to lose their mind.
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  3271.  @LifesLaboratory  Who cares when it's celebrated? The tradition is solidly entrenched in December for various reasons. Also, all customs have origins that go deep into history. There's no such thing as "stealing customs". That's ridiculous, quite churlish actually. Just enjoy it. Wish your neighbour a Merry Christmas and repeat the mantra "Peace on earth and goodwill toward all men". It's all that's needed. It's as inclusive as it gets. It leaves no one out and expresses the best for everyone. Then sit down with family, neighbours and friends and share some good food, drinks and camaraderie. If you want to acknowledge the birth of Jesus.....do it. If not, don't. Either way, enjoy and stop complaining about every little thing.
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  3272. I think that the logic has been cultivated in our educational system for decades. The specifics are new as they kept the specific beliefs as believable to the average person. They just kept moving the goalposts until they felt that society was ready for the extreme beliefs. It's what the left and radical socialist have always been aiming for.
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  3273.  @ramonrios829  Sure they're different. Biden's documents were marked "Classified" and Trump's documents were marked "Classified". That's a HUGE difference. Those right wing nuts just can't get that. Not like us smart guys.....right.
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  3274.  @bertpenney3526  That deep seated hatred that Hamas has for the Jews is real. However, they're getting a lot of outside support from those who see Jews as money grubbing profiteers which, according to them, is a major cause for the ills of the world. Without that support, Hamas wouldn't be nearly as strong or able to carry out attacks like that. That would be his point.
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  3275. @Sue Wagner How in the world can you say that capitalism is failing us. The richest countries in the world are those with capitalist economies. Every socialist economy has failed or is it's people are living in extreme poverty. It took 10 years for Venezuela to go from a decently rich country to one where store shelves were empty and another 5 years to the point where people were actually hungry. The problem is that people don't fully understand our capitalist system. Our economy is capitalist but we have social programs, like education, transportation, health care and welfare for those who really need it. However, business runs itself and is dependent on the market for survival. As soon as the government starts to run the businesses like in fascism or nationalises businesses like in communism, you have a socialist economy. The government that runs the economy will eventually fail for one simple reason. It ignores the reason why specific business endeavours succeeds or fails. It produces without reason, to keep the people happy instead of trying to increase value for their work. It will quickly pervert the economic value system and things will ultimately fail, just like Venezuela, Cambodia, North Korea or the USSR.
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  3276. He's saying it as a legislator who is trying to use the law and the Constitution to fight this coming scourge. He doesn't want to get into a Civil War and only the insane would want that....like the anarcho/leftists. They WANT to see destruction. We'd be falling into their laps and doing what they want to do. He can't do anything in Congress because the Democrats own Congress. He added that we have to get the information out so we can get back Congress this fall. It's not that far away.
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  3277.  @ShaneFpgelsanger  Sure can. We'll just print more money. It's just so easy. It's like turning the hourglass just before the sand runs out so the hour will never end. You can stop time that way.
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  3278. I knew a pharmacist, about 20 years ago, who would fill prescriptions for oxycontin, knowing how harmful it was, and there was not a thing he could do about it. He HAD to fill it even when he didn't want to. He wasn't a doctor. This pharmacist doesn't have a leg to stand on. He can't refuse a doctor's prescription because he doesn't know the particulars of this specific case.
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  3279. I'm 70 years old, somewhat overweight and diabetic, which has been a lifelong affliction. Therefore, I'm at risk of dying if I catch Covid. So, I stayed home. I've decided that, since I'm at risk and should stay home, ALL of you are going to stay home. If I'm to suffer, EVERYONE is going to suffer. No fun for me.....NO fun for you. Thank you for your mandated cooperation.
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  3280. Actually, I heard that Trump loves this guy.
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  3281.  @gerrywhelan5761  For the rich? Funny how the economy is the best it has been in decades. A good economy doesn't affect the super rich as much as it does the blue collar worker. Rich people will still be rich. They'll still live in their mansions, get chauffeured around, have big yacht parties and fly around in private jets, whether the economy is good or bad. That's why a guy, like Bill Maher, worth 100 million bucks, hopes for a recession so to ensure a Trump loss next election. He doesn't care. He'll still have lots of money. It's the poor who will suffer if his hopes comes true. So, explain to me again how Trump's presidency hurts the blue collar worker. I think you're just having a knee jerk reaction and not really putting in any thought to what you're saying.
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  3282.  @guyguyson1149  No one is going to "save" the UK or any other country. Most people don't vote for a "Messiah". What they do vote for is for a leader who will try his best to fulfil his campaign promises.....like Brexit. Most people aren't obsessed with the super rich. They have their own financial issues to deal with and all they want is a hope to be able to support themselves and their families. They don't need or WANT a "Messiah" to bail them out. They want an opportunity and the freedom to bail themselves out.
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  3283. If you watch Trump's press briefings on the virus and then watch CNN, you'll know. The problem is that Trump haters REFUSE to watch the briefings because the MSM is suggesting that they shouldn't because it's all lies.
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  3284.  @CoolPapaJMagik  This stuff harms EVERYONE. if the airline hires a pilot, based on race alone, it doesn't matter if that pilot is black OR white. That pilot was chosen on race NOT qualifications. If you only hire white pilots, you're putting ALL of the lives, in that plane, in jeopardy because you're refusing to hire on merit, the best that you can find. Merit is not defined by race. It's defined by ability. White passengers will be just as dead as the black passengers if company policies only hire white pilots. That's where the true harm lies. I'd rather have hurt feelings, if a black pilot gets hired ahead of the white guy (I'm white), due to his greater ability and record, than end up in the Atlantic Ocean.....DEAD.
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  3285.  @oreli2556  You don't know what this video is about?
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  3286.  @oreli2556  I remember once agreeing with Trump about school choice. Man, did people have some choice words for me. Their top choice, of course, was calling me a Trumpster. So, in the spirit of name calling....Trumpster. You're a Trumpster!!! Actually, I find these types of comments ridiculous. "Gotcha" quips are childish and pointless, which brings me back to your original comment. You're trying to rile up the right wing but, in reality, you're making yourself look bad.
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  3287. That's funny stuff. You put a big smile on my face with that one.
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  3288. It never does to those who're judgemental. There's always some fault to find, in others, that validates the knowledge that you're the better Christian.
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  3289.  @gabepizza  I'm 71 years old. I've watched that show and have been aware of it all my life. We only had 2 TV stations when I was growing up and my dad watched it all the time. When you have a program, whose platform is interviewing people, you can still cater those interviews so that they play to the biases of the host and writers. Any claims made, by the person being interviewed, or by how the host frames their questions, should be verified by the viewer, NOT by the host, who may or may not have their own ideas and allow the interview to reflect those ideas, and especially not by the person being interviewed. I can't believe that you'd blindly trust a host of ANY program. Listen to interview and then verify. Don't take what you've just heard as fact even if the host might imply that it is. Having said that, Meet the Press isn't that bad a show but to believe that the host can't manipulate an interview, to suit their agenda, is naive.
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  3290.  @TheStephism  A registry.....how very Fascist of you. Maybe they should be forced to wear that symbol, that they're waving so vigorously, on their sleeves. A Red Maple Leaf. Maybe we should tattoo it on their forehead. "Make your choice".....that's what YOU said. Funny, that's what the Convoy folk are saying, too. Except, they want that choice as provided by the Canadian Charter of Rights and NOT by a mob, even if that mob comprises of 90% of the population. You see.....that's why we have a Charter of Rights. It's there to protect us from the mob or, as you put it, 90% of the population. It's quite obvious that you're no fan of liberty OR freedom.
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  3291.  @DarkMatterX1  That's a good idea. Let's make fun of the victims of rioters and arsonists. These people took their hard earned money to build something that was important to them and you mock them. Really nice.
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  3292.  @syav4467  He just said "Regardless of one's political leanings," it's wrong. Why are you so obsessed with something that happened almost 2 years ago? Is that the ONLY thing that you have to use against Trump? Every comment thread seems to have at least one myopic statement about Jan 6th. Those who rioted and broke into the Capital building should face the law and be held to account. Almost EVERYONE believes that, even Republicans. So please...get over your obsession. Unless you're a bot. Then just go away.
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  3293.  @GrannySue2  I read the story. All I could find was that she said that she told her friend, from Spain, that she should try to cross the border from Mexico, since they're not checking at the border, anyway. I couldn't figure out if she was being sarcastic or whether her friend actually CAME to the US or what. I'm going to need more information than just a name. If you have more information, please give us a credible link.
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  3294.  @KraziAnnRKissed  If you can walk to where I live, they're too close. I've been to Jersey. It's a Democrat wasteland. Crazy lockdowns, anti 2A, and the rest. It's one of the states that forced Covid patients into nursing homes. I wouldn't live there.
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  3295. What facts is he wrong about? Also, where did he say that he is a victim? I don't remember hearing that.
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  3296. The thing about Chicago is that it is still in the United States. There are no borders to cross and no customs agents to bypass to get the guns to Chicago. If the laws of Chicago were applied equally, all across the US, you may not see the number of gun crimes in Chicago. It's still an availability issue. Canada has extremely strict handgun laws. It is a huge process to get handguns in this country and the handgun deaths in Toronto are not committed by legally obtained guns but by guns smuggled in from the US. If Canada didn't have that huge border with a country with such lax handgun laws, open carry which most Canadians find nuts, deaths would go way down. The availability issue expanding into Canada. I spent 3 months in the US and saw more handguns in that 3 month period in the hands of ordinary citizens, than in all the 65 YEARS put together living in Canada. That's what has been a huge influence on my attitudes towards handgun laws in Canada.
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  3297.  @HueyLewisRocks  I remember one of Trump's lies. He said the hamburgers were a mile high at a White House brunch for the College football champs. Some intrepid reporter had a minion buy a hamburger, measured its height and multiplied it by the hamburgers bought. When it didn't measure up to a mile, the reporter called Trump a liar. Friggen hilarious.
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  3298. You register as a Republican or a Democrat. It's not that hard to figure out.
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  3299.  @BraddahSpliff  This genetic study seems to dispute your claim. This study says that the origins of the Ashkenazi Jews is from a small group who have both Semitic and European roots. It would seem to be a small group of Semitic Jews moved into northern Europe and intermarried with the Europeans and they became the Ashkenazi of today. https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ashkenazi-jews-dna-diseases-20140909-story.html https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/genetic-roots-of-the-ashkenazi-jews-38580 The conclusions seem to be that some male Jews of Middle Eastern origin, migrated to Northern Europe and had children with local women. In other words, they're a mix breed.
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  3300.  @debee8795  I didn't say that it would be a piece of cake. I said that it could be done and Giuliani did it rather quickly in New York. That doesn't mean it won't take a lot of hard work and determination. It most definitely did take a lot of work to turn New York around only to have it ruined by De Blasio....the socialist. I show you a success story that offers a way out and you get all huffy. Despair is the first thing that you have to let go of before you even start rebuilding. A positive energy and optimism goes along way towards success and I'm sure not getting that from you.
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  3301.  @winsomemartinez  Leah Thomas got a trophy for tying for fifth. Why didn't Riley get one for doing the SAME thing? You're not complaining about Leah's participation trophy. Why is that? Leah's trophy good......Riley's trophy bad??? I'm not getting your argument, at all.
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  3302.  @Mathew_Thomas  Wouldn't the people in California and New York love that. Then the US would be a dictatorship, being ordered about by the people of 2 or 3 states. States rights.....that's what the Civil War was about, not just slavery. Take away the rights of the smaller states and you're asking for trouble.....AGAIN.
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  3303.  @GarryMartin-nw4zh  YOU made the claim that he's making stories about people. I asked for an example. You said no one believes me. WHAT? That doesn't even make sense. You gotta be a troll. Only a troll could be that ridiculous.
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  3304. I've not seen that video. I'd love to see it. I've tried to find it but it was one frustrating endeavour.
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  3305.  @richardmesser1091  It wasn't illegal. It was purchased LEGALLY in Wisconsin. The gun charge was dismissed. PLEASE watch the trial, itself, before making comments.
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  3306.  @chiangkaishrek5123  A 16 and 17 are NOT allowed to buy or own a gun. They ARE allowed to shoot one or go hunting. That's Wisconsin law and why the original gun charge was DISMISSED. This is common knowledge. Watch the trial before you go making foolish and erroneous comments.
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  3307.  @angellopez163  You scared me for a minute. When you said that you hoped Pierre would be elected, a picture of Pierre Trudeau jumped into my mind. That was scary. LOL. I hope Pierre does get elected though. I don't see how he won't but the voters in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal make the decisions for us. However, Justin has been such a disaster that maybe they'll wise up this time.
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  3308.  @mikey2348  Trump is the elected president. You don't have to like him, in fact, you have that right and you can exercise that right by voting against him in the next election. That's the way the US has been run for around 250 years. Just another 5 months and you can vote against him. If your candidate wins the election.....good for you. If not, don't get mad, stomp your feet and call people names. Accept it and move on.....like an adult.
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  3309.  @sthubbins4038  Now I know what's wrong with you. You've been breathing your own putrid breath inside your mask for too long. It's starting to affect the brain and you're hallucinating. Take your mask off and BREATHE, ya weirdo.
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  3310.  @thecloneguyz  Once called, they have to respond. My grandson, at a year old, hit the 911 button on the phone. They called back and my daughter told them what must have happened. They still came and got my son-in-law, who works shift work, out of bed to be sure everything was good. This was stupid but the police have to stop by just to make sure things don't escalate. People be crazy.
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  3311.  @commerce-usa  The guy even admitted that he's financially well off. That's why he doesn't care about those who are struggling, trying to keep his business afloat and the means for his employees to have the means to support themselves.
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  3312.  @barrydunn682  It was a disease...A DISEASE. Italy, France, Spain and Great Britain have 90 million people less than the US and have 10 THOUSAND MORE deaths than the US. Get that!!!!! 90 million less people....10 thousand MORE deaths. Maybe you should be angry about the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California putting Covid patients into nursing homes. NURSING HOMES....for Gawd's sake. This is where the most susceptible people to this disease live and they put Covid patients there. People like you are so filled with hate for Trump that you cant see anything else but what you want to see. You won't even read this comment because it takes away your reason to hate.
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  3313.  @spittinvenom9671  Quit spittin your poison. Spittin' Venom. There have only been 2.4 million deaths in the entire world, due to Covid. How can there me millions being killed every day. That would mean that the pandemic only lasted for less than 3 days. You're screaming panic like a little girl.
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  3314.  @elenawilliams32  What a cop out. You don't address one thing that I said. Not one. All you did say, basically, is that people disagree, therefore your opinions stands. No logic offered, no evidence....nothing. A bad argument does not validate a faulty opinion. Only facts and logic do that. "Agree to disagree". Wow. I could see it if we had an in depth exchange of ideas and facts but you've done none of that. You've fixed it so that you don't have to investigate, or even discuss, the matter. All opinions are valid and goodbye. Way to maintain living in your own little bubble.
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  3315.  Joe Cunningham  I'm going to assume that you were attempting to engage in satire.
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  3316.  @loneskankster2242  So says the Russian bot.
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  3317. @Jesus loves a Shovelhead So what's the point of being here. You haven't watched the video. You have no idea what it's about or care to know. All you're here to do is to bad mouth a man who has made a terrible error in judgement and who has said, MULTIPLE times that this was the WORST time of his life and is eternally grateful for the support of his family, especially his daughter and his critically ill wife, who's suffering from cancer. You've no soul...no heart or empathy. You're ruled by hate and disdain, a person with a deep rot at your core. You don't care that he's recovering, that he's spoke about his ordeal and how dangerous that this drug is....and now knows better than anyone. You want to shut down the man, whose influence could prevent others from going down the same path that he did. What a great strategy. Quit revelling in the pain and suffering of others and quit using it to bolster your own ego. It's a cheap and insidious way to build your own self esteem.
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  3318.  @hanshansen3885  I guess you missed the part where Mueller was asked, during the hearings, if he was ever stopped from doing his job. He replied "No." How could he reply "No" if he was held up or prevented from doing his job which implies obstructed justice. He lay out some things that were done that were suspicious but nothing was ever proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt. That's the standard of guilt in the United States and it didn't pass that standard and they tried to impeach him but he was acquitted by the Senate. That means it's all a matter of opinion. I say that there's not enough to prove it and you say that there is. Already that shows that the standard of guilt is lacking. Then later there's been a lot of question surrounding the FISA report, the Steele Dossier and FBI involvement in fabricating the evidence that led to the impeachment hearings. This was one dirty election and an even dirtier reaction and the second time that Democrats called the election rigged. The 3rd time came in 2020 when Trump said it was rigged and even predicted that it would be and how it would play out.....and it did EXACTLY the way that he predicted. Each time the call that the election was rigged, the parties got dirtier. 2024 could be catastrophic for the US, no matter who wins.
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  3319.  @jonnylaw13  That was why I finished my comment by saying that I wasn't arguing with you. I was hoping that you'd see that I was only putting my own feelings on the topic.
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  3320.  @CC-xn5xi  So rich people don't want to become richer? That kind of goes against the narrative of the greedy billionaires, doesn't it?
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  3321.  @dennislawrence8501  Would you stop. He's talking about ALL media but especially those who would egregiously lie, like they are doing about the "bloodbath" story. It's OBVIOUS that he was talking about the auto industry. He was in Ohio, a state that would be greatly affected, in a negative way, by a sharp downward turn in the American auto industry. Only the really foolish or liars would deny that this is true. Quit being a troll.
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  3322.  @Buddhamaniac  2+2=5 only works for them until they approach the cash register to pay for the goods they want to buy. That's when they'll insist that it does equal 4 after all. They're not as smart as they think they are.
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  3323.  @A_Jeff  You didn't address ONE thing I said. NOT one. We want to be entertained. We don't want to watch "Snow White and her diversive miners". I don't want to watch some comic book female hero, who's trying to prove that she's just as strong as a man. Women have NOTHING to prove. I watched my children and grand children being born. It's the most heroic thing that I've ever witnessed. Trying to prove how good you are is like watching a bully beat up on a little guy. It's childish AND disgusting.
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  3324.  danimalcollective1  That would have been a great class.
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  3325. It's so simple to feed your kids. Traditional foods, meats, veggies, fruit and dairy and go light on snacks. Keep trips to fast food places at a minimum. Send them outside to play and away from the TV and electronic gaming as much as possible. It's how my generation grew up. I don't see why kids can't do it today.
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  3326.  @PapaWheelie13  A lot of those people cheering were of German heritage. In fact, that was one of the rationalisations that Hitler used to invade Poland. He said he was liberating those of German descent, living in Poland, who were supposedly being oppressed by the Poles. 66,000 Poles were killed in that short war and over 100,000 wounded. I doubt any of them or their families were cheering the Germans.
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  3327.  @galiyam1  Do you know what's hurting his presidency? The Democrat hatred of him and their reaction to losing the last election. The country was doing great until Covid hit and, true to form, the worst hit places were Democrat run states, both by the disease and economically. Texas and Florida have 30 million MORE people, combined, than New York, yet have over 10,000 more deaths. This is the state where Covid patients were put in nursing homes and Cuomo refuses to talk about it when asked. NY City has checkpoints at city exits. 500,000 people have left, most of them for good, eroding the tax base and it would appear that NY will have a 30 billion dollar shortfall this year. Mayor DeBlasio has threatened to increase taxes on those who remain, ensuring even more people leaving and is now talking about wealth redistribution. They've had riots, excuse me, "peaceful protests" where stores were looted and property damaged. The streets are empty, businesses boarded up and covered in graffiti. The Mayor took the homeless, out of shelters and have put them up in high end hotels at 175 bucks a night....13,000 of them. These addicts and mentally impaired people are wandering the streets, threatening people, urinating in public, passing out where ever they happen to be, even though they have rooms that you and I can't afford to live in. 1 billion dollars in funding have been taken away from the police force and even though 1/2 billion people have left the city, violent crime has doubled. Even so, the mayor has seen fit to assign 27 police officers to protect a BLM street painting, which he had commissioned at tax payer expense. ......and Trump is a bad president? Democrat city Portland has had 100 days of continuous riots. LA and San Francisco are in a dystopian mess, with homelessness, exorbitant rents and taxes, electrical blackouts and have even talked about taxing people that have left the state for ten years, AFTER they've left. They've just voted to repeal the state Civil Right's Act, their state version of the Federal Act that Martin Luther King worked so hard to put in place. Downtown Minneapolis has been destroyed. Their Democrat city council has voted to abolish the police force and then hired a private security firm to protect themselves. Kenosha has 3 days of intense riots, refusing help, from Trump, until people were killed. Chicago has had ongoing riots. Louisville has had BLM extorting money from small businesses demanding they buy 1/3 of their supplies from Black owned businesses or pay them 1.5% of their revenue. Do you know what the common thread here is? They're ALL Democrat led cities....yet Trump is a bad president. I can go on if you like. These aren't the only cities in a dystopian nightmare but you're going to vote for the Democrats and expand this chaos to a national level. GREAT THINKING!!!!!!!
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  3328.  @boundlesswithbenito  If it was illegal to speak Spanish these two ladies would be in jail, wouldn't they? The officer let them go. That would indicate that it is NOT illegal. It's not a very bright comment.
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  3329.  @tonyphan3289  I get Dutch-Canadian all the time. I've spent 2 weeks in the Netherlands and that was when I was 65 years old. Great country but it's NOT home. Canada is my home. I've spent a LOT more time in the US than Canada. My grand-children have finally shaken free of their Dutch heritage but that's only because they have an English name. I'm sure that it's a lot more difficult for you since at least I appear to look like the way that they think a Canadian should look like.
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  3330.  @trh-bee4383  You just said that if I go to work and catch Covid, I shouldn't be allowed medical assistance. What would be the penalty for the guy, who had a mild case of Covid, and went to work and passed it on to me and I became seriously ill? Do we penalise him, too? I was under the impression that the noble field of medicine was to care for all who were in need. Doctors even cared for Nazi soldiers who tried to kill our soldiers. Nazis, whose intent was to kill as many as possible, still deserved care when hurt in battle, but not Covid patients who step out of line. Even guys, like Paul Bernardo or Russell Williams, serial rapists and murderers, get treated for illnesses, but NOT me, because I want to work. One strange sense of compassion you have there.
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  3331.  @tehallanaz  Not mean and nasty....like a used car salesman. Nice and smiling to your face while she tells everyone else that you're a bigot and manipulative because you're a man....her only criteria. If that's how she sees men, it's highly likely that her perception is a big part of how she interacts with men. If I dealt with a dark skinned person in that way, no matter how nice and smiling my facade, I'd be seen as mean and nasty and deservedly so.
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  3332.  Ad Lockhorst  Unbelievable. Sports are just a competition. You're involved in one now. You're competing to see who can come up with the best argument in defence of your position. How about you argue with someone that speaks only Chinese and there is no one to interpret. Too bad for you. If the judges speak only Chinese, YOU LOSE. All your arguments get a thumbs down, because the judges heard nothing from you that would change their mind. It doesn't matter that you only speak English and it's all gibberish to them. YOU LOSE. In fact, all you're comments are declared complete nonsensical and you're portrayed as a total idiot. That's what trans people are doing in women's sports. It doesn't matter whether you like sports or not. This isn't about you. It's about those women who are being cheated in an unfair competition and declared to be unfit athletes.....just like your the idiot in that debate. The woman has the disadvantage physically and you have the advantage linguistically. I know you're not going to get it, mainly because you don't want to.
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  3333.  @missdee5169  But...but....bbb....but.....INSURRECTION!!!!!! LOL. They're trying really hard to convince us, that the party of the 2nd Amendment and open/carry, forgot to bring guns to their revolutionary coup. LOL. The most ridiculous claim in American political history.
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  3334. I don't think anyone said that there WAS peace in the Middle East. Kushner did say that it was a goal that they were working towards. There was a lot more work to do that was stopped by the 2020 elections.
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  3335.  @GFHanks  You might as well ignore this guy. He's a troll and will say anything to get under your skin. Your comment is spot on but he'll ignore it.
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  3336.  @retter2critical  Oh....a Jew by proxy. I worked as a crane operator at a scrap yard that was owned by a Jew. Does that make me a Jew? Before that, I worked, as a bartender, for a guy from India. Does that make me a Hindu? In college, I worked for a Filipino Catholic. I'm starting to get a little confused in my ethnic and religious beliefs, especially since I was raised a Dutch Protestant. Every day is an emotional conflict.
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  3337.  Speed Two  Look....the issue is this. Do SOME women lie about domestic abuse? Is this possible? You're attacking the messenger, instead of examining the message. In fact, you're allowing your dislike (hatred?) of Hanson cloud the issue. Do you know who might be suffering due to this type of issue assessment? Children....that's who. You, we actually, owe it to those children to see if this claim is correct, how pervasive it might be and if there are any measures that can be enacted to mitigate this type of behaviour. This is where our focus should be and not about whether YOU like Hanson or not. Also, the claim is that it is SOME women. "SOME" women, not ALL women. If it is 10 percent of the women, that means that 10 percent of our children are put through hell due to the actions and accusations of their mothers. I say that's too many and it shouldn't be a number that we should be comfortable with.
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  3338.  @brads3032  OH.....you mean like BIG Corporations? Run all the small businesses into bankruptcy so the big guys flourish. Isn't it weird that those who believe that they're advocating for the little guy are actually cheering on Corporations. All of us, who've worked in the small private sector, thank you for your concern but I chose to work for small businesses to avoid being a non-person....a cog in the wheel. What's really sad is that you probably don't even know that's what the big corporations want. When all the small businesses are gone, they'll still be there and then watch the wage fixing then. We'll ALL be poor.
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  3339.  @gwanael34  You're so full of crap, it's squirting out your ears and eyes. You're only seeing and hearing the crap that you want to hear and see. The man broke the law. It's not up to him to make deals, promises or even to beg forgiveness. Why would he be afraid? There are over a million traffic stop a day. Why is HE the one that the cops were going to kill? It's not the fault of the officers that this guy is that delusional that he thinks EVERY traffic stop ends in the death of the driver. If this were true, I'd have been dead YEARS ago. Oh yeah......you're full of crap.
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  3340.  @MrKotBonifacy  So the Soviets weren't able to train or motivate East Germans for the expected confrontation with NATO. East Germans had to suffer and West Germans lived the good life for a confrontation that NEVER HAPPENED. I may not be the sharpest pencil in the box but I'm certain of one thing. If given the choice, almost everyone would choose to have lived in West Germany over East Germany, international politics be damned. I'll even say that you'd have made that choice as well. There's a reason that they built the Berlin Wall and it wasn't to prevent 2 way traffic.
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  3341.  @FriendlyCroock  Candice Owens is not a race baiter. She's a conservative that happens to be black and that flies in the face of all leftist logic. So, they call her an Aunt Jemima, a race traitor, so she's always defending her status as a black woman. Then the intersectionality clan claim that she's also a traitor to women because conservatives are anti-woman. If it wasn't for the obsession with identity, her skin colour would not be an issue. It isn't with conservatives, only with the left, who believe she must think and act as they say she must and will not allow her to take her status as an independent human being. She must join the collective that her skin colour has assigned her or she's a race traitor or as you say, a race baiter.
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  3342.  @ionutbalta6607  You're a liar who accepts Soros money.
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  3343.  @ionutbalta6607  Let's just say the he does. Why would that make him a liar? Instead of wild accusations and name calling, discuss his ideas and show how then may not be true. That's how you prove a falsehood. Show us, precisely, what is wrong with what Rubin is saying. If you have a legit point, then you're on your way to proving that he is mistaken or even lying in his allegations.
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  3344.  @viasevenvai  When you ask people, random people, a question to elicit a broad range of answers, you're doing research. They tell you things and hopefully they give references for you to peruse. When you get enough information, you formulate an opinion. He's stated how it appears to him. Now he asking us, including YOU, if his assessment is correct or not. It's no different than googling. You ask Google for information and, hopefully, it gives you the correct answer. Instead of being so negative, answer his question and show him where you got that information. That wouldn't just help him. It helps ALL of us.
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  3345.  Hugh Mungis  Yeah. Equality for all Americans. Can't get anymore divisive than that. You're making a rather broad statement. Try giving examples.
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  3346.  @cellardoor1122  Elon Musk's net worth is 188.7 Billion dollars. I'd say that he's invested quite wisely. He's just taken over Twitter. No one knows if he'll make it a profitable company or not. It's not something that's done over a weekend. Of course, these things don't matter to you. If he'd bought FOX and fired everyone and told the world that FOX would now be the voice of progressiveness, diversity, inclusivity and equity, you'd be beside yourself with giddiness. Your criticism isn't about whether he's successful or not. It's all about ideology.....or maybe just being a troll.
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  3347.  @adamgrimsley2900  It's a mob when 50 of them show up at your home. It's a relative descriptive. When the minuscule is all you can hear for their excessive noise, it becomes a mob. They're using the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" adage as an ideological tactic.
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  3348.  @adamgrimsley2900  It didn't happen to me so everything is fine....right??? That's quite the attitude.
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  3349.  @888drpepper  Boycott women's tennis. When it hits their bank accounts, they'll start to see things differently. All you have to do is look at what happened to Harley Davidson. HD forgot who their customer base and it cost them. Tennis players will start to complain when their purses and endorsements start to go down.
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  3350.  Almighty Black'Man  BS. My sister was escorted back to Canada and told NOT to come back. She was there illegally, just like those that are coming through the southern border. She's white as white can get, red hair and blue eyes. As a matter of fact, of the top 10 countries where legal immigrants come from, not one is a predominately white country. Mexico, China, India, the Philippines, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti, Vietnam, El Salvador and Jamaica make up the top ten sources of legal immigrants. Over recent years, European make up less than 10 percent of all legal immigrants. If you weren't so lazy, you'd do a little research before you make such stupid claims. It's easy. Just google "top demographics of American immigrants". Any noob can do it.
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  3351.  @td7723  You're losing your hard earned money by letting these thieves steal without consequences. The cost of items go up to cover the losses. It'll never end until we ALL say "ENOUGH!!!". In the end, you get what you deserve. Put your head in the sand...expect to get your butt kicked.
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  3352.  @timwhite5562  My grand daughter works at McD and she's 18 years old and almost half of their employees are teens. Adults working at McD is a sign of how bad our economy actually is. Do you really think that adults would be working at a place at minimum wage and where tipping is not allowed, while there were better places with higher wages available to work at? It's not that great a job.
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  3353.  @Bfettrules  Yes....I do. Do you know why? Because I'm retired and live on a pension of 2,086 dollars a month. I'm not only living on it, I'm saving money. I retired 7 years ago and have more money now than I did then. I've also been to the Caribbean TWICE this year. I live within my means and yes, I could support a child if I had to. I was disabled in 1999 and had to live on 1560 until I reached 65 when I was able to start collecting on my pension. The woman across the hall from me, makes about 35k a year and has a teenage daughter. It's not easy but she's doing it. I can tell you other stories about how some make it and how others who make a lot of money go bankrupt. Those who live comfortably, like you, don't know how to live in hardship. Those who do live on very little will figure it out, somehow.
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  3354.  @newwavepop  You've nailed it. It's the work ethic. Without it, you have nothing. The poorest person becomes poorer. If the zero work ethic becomes the norm of society, you drag society down with you. That's what we're going through right now.
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  3355. The problem is our perception of truth. That's why this is so important. When we can't accept the truth of gender, we'll also ignore the other truth's that you're talking about. It's all intertwined. It's why in Orwell's "1984" it was so important for Winston Smith to accept the idea that 2 plus 2 equals 5 as truth. As Voltaire once wrote. "Those who can convince you to believe in absurdities, will also be able to convince you to commit atrocities." The absurdity is that men are physically the same as women and you've just laid out the atrocity. When one plays games with the truth, it will encompass everything. It's a mindset, that has to be defeated, whether the issue is big or small. We'll never improve the situation if we don't value truth as the highest ethical and moral objective. This gender stuff might seem unimportant but it's at the heart of how we perceive life and reality.
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  3356.  @MachiavellisThePrince  He mentioned 3 groups of students and every one in the plural. Students....NOT student. I'm thinking that you must be a teacher or journalist and that you're mightily offended.
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  3357.  @MrTigerniger  Apparently you missed the part where she had over 300 contract, between consulting companies and schools, to educate teachers on the principles of CRT. Those teachers then go to their classrooms and teach within the framework of CRT. It's like a Christian teacher who doesn't directly teach Biblical lessons but does so indirectly. Learning hymns in music class, as an example. Posting the Ten Commandments but in a way that the text isn't recognisable as the Biblical texts. Asking the students if they go to church or not and letting the students know that they love going to church. If you really think that a direct statement, in a children's book, accusing white people of making a pact with the devil for free land and other privileges isn't an aspect of CRT, you don't know a thing about it. Either that, or you're being just as disingenuous as the teacher activists for CRT.
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  3358.  @personreanimation  Jack Murphy didn't break any laws that I'm aware of. He engaged in consensual, but weird, sex but that's his business. If there was no law broken, it's not as big a deal as you'd want it to be.
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  3359.  @E_Ten  Which brings me to this point. Covid was a brand new disease. No vaccine. No treatment. Nothing was known about it. A couple of studies said that HCQ worked, most known the study in France. One question I have is this. Why would anyone just pick HCQ out of a hat to use as a treatment for Covid? Why that particular drug? Was there something in the symptoms and pathology of Covid that suggested that it was a logical drug to investigate? I'd say there must have been. A doctor just wouldn't choose it over so many other drugs to choose from. There had to be a reason. Which brings me to the safety question. It's been used for over 50 years as a treatment for malaria. It's known that malaria causes respiratory distress and I'd say that this was the connection that prompted doctors to try it on Covid. With over 200 million cases a year, the dangers of HCQ would be reliably documented. It would seem to me that in April, when nothing was known about the disease and I mean nothing, why wouldn't you prescribe it? It's been quite safely used and like any other drug, you don't prescribe it to those who have conditions that are known to react badly with it. There are all kinds of drugs like that. We can get aspirin over the counter, yet I know people with allergies that this aspirin will kill. I can buy peanuts at the 7/11, which is deadly for some people, but, for some reason, when you have a deadly disease, you're not even allowed to try HCQ. I find the logic baffling. At the time there was no known treatment but, if contracted, a doctor isn't allowed to even try it, in some places, just wait it out and hope that it doesn't get worse. Yet, if you had rheumatoid arthritis, a terrible disease but not nearly as immediately deadly as Covid, not a problem. Maybe it wasn't going to work but it seems that a drug that has such widespread use shouldn't be as controversial as it has been. That, to me, is baffling. It's like it was better to do nothing, than to use a drug who's side effects are well known. Then we'd have data, REAL data, instead of a political football.
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  3360.  @E_Ten  When there's 140,000 dead, we KNOW what the harmful effects of Covid is. In January, 6 months ago, we didn't know. HCQ was deemed safe for use, just like aspirin and aspirin has killed people in allergic reactions, yet I can take aspirin for Covid, but not HCQ. Of course it hasn't been tested on Covid before. How could it have been? I find it rather ironic that if I have rheumatoid arthritis and I have HCQ in my medicine cabinet, I could take it if I'm diagnosed with it. I try it too. I'm 68 and it could kill me within a week, and I'm not ready to go yet and if I've used it all along, I'll use it now. However, my neighbour doesn't even have the opportunity to try it, if he can't find a doctor who will prescribed it, off label, or like in Michigan where the governor refused to allow its use. In fact, there was a politician, in Michigan who was quite ill with Covid and had taken HCQ for Lyme disease, in the past, got her doctor to prescribe it because he felt it perfectly safe. She was vilified by the state governor when she said it helped her almost immediately. I realise that it may be coincidental that she recovered but the point is, why is aspirin, with it's record ok but HCQ not ok. That's what is baffling to me and why it's become political. Had people been allowed to use it, since its safety is understood, we'd know by now whether it would be a waste of time or not. But we won't know because the politics of it clouds everything. It's beyond ridiculous, to the point of being a tragedy more than anything. Worse, the media has conflated untested for Covid with untested for safety which is being quite disingenuous.
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  3361. I've been to the DR and Cuba. Cuba is such a sad country with really great people. The poverty is heart wrenching. We would give the cleaning staff food and knick knacks that they just can't get in Cuba, along with money. They were so grateful. Their stores were near empty with hardly any food choices. DR is corrupt but things are a lot better there than they are in Cuba. Right now, Cuba is undergoing nation wide blackouts that have lasted for days. It's terrible what radical socialism will do to a nation. Don't even start down that road by voting Democrat.
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  3362.  @window4799  I'm Canadian and live in a small town in southern Ontario. I can't speak for the big cities but it's great here. Right now, the American cities are a lot crazier than their Canadian counterparts.
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  3363. NO......Don Lemon. He does NOT represent the African community. He represents himself. That is his freedom. He's allowed to express his beliefs and it is the most condescending notion that if he doesn't fall lock step with what you see as "black" consciousness or however you express it, he needs help. There is no such thing as collective black thought or belief and it is almost a bullying tactic to assume that every black person must believe the same or be labelled mentally unstable. Kanye West isn't my cup of tea, either but if he went there and really lambasted Trump, you wouldn't be sitting there saying that his presence there is a "minstrel show". The only reason you're saying this is because you don't like what he said. I didn't care for it either, but you have no right to characterise people in this manner just because you don't like his politics. Also, just because he's using the slang or, what is known as, Ebonics, you don't denigrate him by saying that he's acting like he's in a Minstrel show. Had a white person said this, he'd be called a racist. I guess you'll be getting a pass for it.
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  3364. Those 2 girls are just like any high school kids that were sent to the principal's office. "It wasn't me. It's not my fault...it's their fault. This school (institution) is terrible". Except.....these girls are in college. When are they going to grow up?
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  3365.  @A_Jeff  You're contradicting yourself. If Canada needed the pipeline to get their products to a better port, they've lost out. The pipeline, to a better port, doesn't exist, Biden stopped it. That means that they're not drilling for more because they can't get it to markets. Thousands of oil workers, in Alberta and Saskatchewan, are now sitting at home because the Keystone project was scrapped. These are workers that would have had high paying jobs but no pipeline so no point in drilling for oil. That also impacts all the peripheral workers. Truck drivers to get products to drilling sites. Secondary manufacturing to build the trucks and products needed to drill for the oil. Service industries lose high paying oil riggers as customers. This is a huge industry in western Canada. Then there's the oil refineries in Louisiana which would directly employ hundreds of people of high paying jobs. Then the dock workers who load the oil tankards and all those who service the refineries and docks. The pipeline will also need servicing which will keep more skilled workers in jobs. The oil industry is a labour intensive business which needs highly skilled workers who make great money. This isn't like a guy whittling whistles to sell at a fair. This is a big industry. There's a reason why the Arab states are so rich. We, in Canada and the US, could grab a piece of their pie but Biden and company don't want it. They just decide that they don't want it and with a stroke of the pen, thousands are out of work. It doesn't cost Biden or the Democrats one red cent but the ordinary worker, as usual, pays the price. That's what blows me away. The Democrats just don't care about the little guy.
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  3366.  Roger King  If you think that the Bible was only written for the Israelites then you're not accounting for the writings of Paul. It was Paul was expanded the Bible out of Jewish teachings and spread it to the world. There are a lot of books in the New Testament devoted to spreading the Gospel all over the Roman Empire, including the Epistles to the Romans, Thessalonians, Ephesians and so forth. Those ministries were bringing everyone to Christianity, not just Israelites. Years ago I read Mein Kampf. Reading your comments reminded of that horrific book. Hitler was filled with hate and anger and he knew exactly who he hated and why. You're exactly the same. Like Hitler, you rant your anger and hate. You know exactly who it is you hate and why. I feel sorry for your congregation if indeed you are a minister. I don't see much love in your message. Just anger and retribution. A truly sad individual.
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  3367.  @tarunsukhani9250  You've just created a new identity. Rich, black men. Are they white adjacent?
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  3368.  @walkinlight3380  Not directly you didn't vote for it, if that's true. However, part of being a republic means that you vote for your officials to serve as your reps in government. If they force a raise in car insurance rates, the people voted for the guy. If there's another election and the people vote him in again, then....YES....you voted for it. He did it and you approved by allowing him another term as your rep. It may have bothered the voters that the insurance rates went up but obviously not enough to vote for a candidate that would strike down that legislation. You could claim that this legislation is Unconstitutional and I'd say you would have a strong case, but if you don't do any more than complain about it, you voted for it again with your actions. That's how a Constitutional Republic works. The democracy allows the people to vote for their reps and the Constitution limits what that rep can do. If you don't use the Constitution to do it's job, either by voting that rep out or by using the power of the constitution to show that it's unconstitutional, then you voted for it and are agreeing to it by not using the power of the Constitution. YOU are the one that allowing the Democracy to become mob rule with your inaction. You're not allowing the Democracy to run the way that it's supposed to run by not allowing the Constitutional to protect you from the bad reps who do things that are wrong or unwanted. You may not have voted for the rep to do those things but you voted with your actions to allow those things to stand and become permanent.
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  3369.  @rayc.1396  davidclark573. I didn't actually call him a troll but I strongly suggested that he might be one. Anyway, my fault for not specifying who I was talking to. I apologise and I'll fix it right now. I just realised that davidclark may have changed his name to greybone777. He's made more comments, under his new name, but has refused to respond to my comments. He's also made comments, that have been proved untrue by the Mueller Report, that the Republican party has been infiltrated by Russia. Now I know that he's a troll and it's no longer a strong suggestion. They may be 2 different people but I'm doubting it. Their approach is exactly the same if they are 2 different people. We may have 2 trolls on our hands.
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  3370. Why would anyone pray for the destruction of a nation? I find that idea astounding. I'm assuming that there is no room for compromise here.....only thoughts of killing and genocide and you're hoping that God approves. Nice guy.
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  3371.  @wilcox2146  Because we should all hold ourselves to a higher standard. If you can't or refuse to do that, you have no right to expect it of others no matter who you are referring to.
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  3372. Sylvertaco I never said you said that about Columbus. I was stating a fact. Columbus's discovery changed not only what we know about the map of the world. His discovery brought new trade, new wealth to the world. It made it possible to bring back new crops like corn and potatoes which changed the diets of the people in the Old World. This established a new leisure class which now had the means to study the sciences so the new medicines and eventually the trip to the moon could happen. It allowed the great thinkers to study philosophy which eventually brought a complete new way of looking at human freedom and rights. The discovery of the Americas is one of the biggest game changers in human history. Nothing would ever be the same again. Things don't happen in a vacuum. Without new riches and a better diet, people wouldn't have had the means to do the good or bad things that happened after. Of that time period, Columbus's ideas that expanded the known world and Gutenberg's invention of the printing press were pivotal to modern history. Without those, we can't know how are world would be. I think I confused your post with someone else's. That's my mistake but the point I was trying to make is still true. No matter where you came from, human history is similar, no matter where it happened to take place. However, there are only a few instances that really changed the course of history. Columbus idea that we could sail to Asia from Europe was one of those.
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  3373. Sylvertaca There is a movement on the far left to denigrate anything they view as white or colonialism. There is even talk of celebrating white genocide. Extremely rancorous rhetoric. This is the talk that vilifies Columbus and almost everything they see as the "white colonial" oppression of all of mankind. That includes what Columbus did. It's as if they want to erase all of that segment of human history. This is what Crowder is talking about and why there is that movement to eradicate any idea that Columbus's work has had any value in human history. It's ideologically driven and could ultimately is a manifestation of a very dangerous ideology.
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  3374. Yet, she just said that Trump would have been WAY better than Biden. Trump, as an individual, is easy to dislike. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a good president. I don't have to like Trump. I just want him to do a good job and he did while he was president. That's why I'd vote for him.
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  3375. Totally. He had the power to stop and he refused to do it. I can't think of anything more despicable than that.
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  3376.  @redfoxtactical8425  "You're a liar" isn't an argument. It's a challenge. If that's how you start a "conversation" I'm not listening anymore. It already shows that you've no respect for anyone's position and you're not about to listen. I don't support bullying tactics.
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  3377. I remember how it was for me when I was a teenager. I just felt so out of place. I wanted to just go to a tropical island and live in nature, like I thought we were meant to live. I even cut classes and hitchhiked to a library in order to page through a world atlas to find a likely island to go to. Being a teenager is tough. I'm sure glad no one encouraged those teenage fantasies. I'd probably be dead now of some tropical disease or the victim of a ruthless criminal. This new culture is destroying our children by using their insecurities against them. It's abhorrent beyond belief.
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  3378.  @kevintewey1157  There were lots of Germans who liked their country in 1939, too. I guess that proves that we should pattern our country them.
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  3379.  @littlems.tries-to-fix-it6270  Do you really believe that I didn't sacrifice to raise my children? I was the one who sat up with my kids when they were teething, had the croup or were too scared, from their nightmares, to sleep. I did it because my wife found it too stressful and would burst into tears when the pressure was on. Then I'd make my lunch and go to work for 8 to 10 hours in the morning because my family needed a place to live, food to eat and all the other necessities of life. I will say one thing. My wife appreciated my efforts and would NEVER say that she was the ONLY one who sacrificed for her children. In spite of our shortcomings as people and parents, we loved our children and it was NEVER a sacrifice to do the things that had to be done for them. Your comment exemplifies that pervasive modern "me first" attitude which has infected our society.
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  3380. Race conscious laws? Oh....she means like Jim Crow. Well, the Democrats are consistent, anyway.
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  3381.  @sportspolitics539  Justified in their investigation, maybe, but lying to the courts? No way. There is no justification for that. Also, the west is built on the premise that there are NO bottom feeders. That we all have an equal opportunity to voice opinions and concerns. If he has no right to speak due to a bottom feeder status, then neither do you. It's not as if you're at the top of the food chain. It's that type of arrogance that lost caused Hillary to lose the election.
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  3382.  @philcollins7269  Peter Gabriel is the heavyweight. Phil Collins is pop-lite......comparatively speaking.
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  3383. It's not about social justice, really. It's about exercising power. Their way or the highway.
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  3384.  @harambe1580  I was thinking that you were probably quite young. I remember having those feelings, at that age, myself. I'm 68 and, although the Covid thing wasn't around when I was your age, there was still that tendency to feel a little helpless about life. I don't blame you for not wanting to work behind a desk. I went to college and studied office systems and when I graduated, I realised that I hated it. I got into construction and machine maintenance and I was quite happy with that as a career. The only advice I can give you is to remain patient. Things work out, in the end, if you follow your instincts, do what feels right and work hard at it. As for women, there's nothing I can say that will help you there. I love them but they're crazy. LOL. I'm in Canada and I like it here. Fortunately, I never lived in the city. I'd love to visit Portugal, some day. People say that it's a beautiful country. Maybe after this Covid thing is over. Anyway, good luck to you.
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  3385. I'm wondering if being a black or transgender victim loses it's power, what will the next victims manifests themselves as? I'm trying to think of another marginalised group but I think that they've got them all covered. They're pretty smart though. I'm sure they'll come up with a new angle on how to sow discord and resentment. Those, of that mindset, have been doing it all through history. They'll never give up.
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  3386. Maybe until each one of us realise just how flawed we are as individuals. It's gonna be a few more decades, is my guess. I know that I won't see it in my lifetime.
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  3387.  @rebeccaw68  She does give the left their incentive to react negatively and even violently to what those volunteers are doing.
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  3388.  Shrim BEGIN?!  He's not defending the Confederate statues of flags. He defending the right to have and display them. I realise that's a difficult distinction to grasp for some people but try. It's not as hard as you think it is. Also, Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate South, whose armies fought to maintain slavery, waved the Confederate flag. It was the flag of the South and the Democrats were the party that supported the south. So it's not an "if" they had slavery ties, they fought a war to keep slavery.
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  3389. They will send in the National Guard. They'll call it "domestic terrorism" and it'll be the start of military rule and Federal charges under the Patriot Act. It'll be exactly what they want. Centralised power. Minneapolis will be just like Washington DC after the Jan 6th "insurrection".
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  3390.  @moestietabarnak  Why is it that there were HUNDREDS of riots, all summer, and the MSM was either silent, or justifying the looting and burning? Almost 140 riots, in a row in Portland alone. 4 riots since Jan. 1st of this year. People killed, businesses burned to the ground. people losing their life savings.....and NO ONE in the MSM called out the violence. Why was that? Also, if you seriously think that about 200 people, crashing through a door, in Washington, were going to take down the American government, you're delusional. Were these rioters in the wrong? You bet they were, but SO WAS EVERY ONE THAT RIOTED AND LOOTED LAST SUMMER. This "good cause" rhetoric is just that. Propaganda dressed up as rhetoric....and you're falling for it. You want 2 sets of rules and you can't have it that way. Not if you want to live in a civilised country.
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  3391. Some of the most dangerous places in the world are among the very poor. Even in the affluent west, I wouldn't recommend going to the poorer sections of our cities. You're more likely to be robbed, assaulted or even killed by a poor person than a rich one. Evil is in the heart not the bank account.
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  3392.  Google "Dancing Israelis"  The famous "they". I've heard about "them". This is just Fascist propaganda. You think that you see the enemy, just like these CRT advocates believe that they see the enemy. They're both horrific ideologies. Oh yeah. Stalin was Georgian...not a Jew. Mao is Chinese. The Kim family is Korean. Castro is Cuban and Che is Argentinian. Pol Pot is Cambodian. It's an ideology....not an ethnic issue at all. The VAST majority of those perpetuating these ideas are not Jewish at all. Even if Hitler had succeeded in his genocidal plan, this ideology would still exist. It's leaders come from EVERY race imaginable. You're living in the same world that they are. It's hideous and filled with hate.
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  3393.  @mariost-onge2395  Yeah.....it's in the bill. They're going to tax the rich and big corporations. Yipee!!!!! You're not very bright are you? "Duh...they're going to tax the rich...Duh" Are you serious? The rich will invest in Big Corporations who will buy cheap products in China and sell it to us at a higher price. American big corporate executives will take bribes from the Chinese government supported companies and funnel that bribe money into offshore bank accounts. Instead of paying mortgages, they'll live in company homes, drive company cars, holiday on the company account. Have a business meeting in France? Stay an extra week and enjoy. Do you know who pays for it? YOU DO. They just increase the price of the products they sell to you and that'll pay for THEIR taxes. YOU will pay their taxes but it won't look like it on paper. They're playing "hide-the-ball" with you and you don't even know it. Time for you to grow up.
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  3394. I don't think that's it, at all. Maybe for some, but it's real purpose is too silence people. It's to quell speech. They may find allies in perpetual children but those behind it aren't that at all. They're ruthless, deceitful and ambitious.
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  3395.  @satrianifnr  Great quote.
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  3396. They can have their own views. So long as it doesn't involve supporting MAGA.
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  3397.  @rkersch  A rather straightforward sarcastic remark. He asked "Why can,'t young people have their own views?" I said that they could...so long as they don't support MAGA. The contradiction in this statement would imply sarcasm. In other words, you're free to believe as you wish except....... Once exceptions are given, that purported freedom is lost. Sounds quite simple to me.
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  3398.  @ardenfernandes8583  His mother was Hungarian Jew. The SJWs are, eventually, going to start to require papers to show ethnic heritage and this will be a factor. That is the only way to determine the status of anyone in the hierarchy of oppression. Had Maher lived during the Nazi era, in Germany, he may well have been a casualty of the Holocaust or a Holocaust survivor. When group identity is the defining measure of a person, Maher's mother's ethnicity, will become relevant to who he is.
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  3399.  @jamestinning8900  I like that there's a source available that target those who want to know the facts instead of the narrative. It's rather refreshing to not have to scroll through pages of Google searches to verify the details of news sources.
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  3400.  @tomjeff1743  I've read a lot of those books. Lately, I've read "In Order to Live" by Yeonmi Park and "The Cowshed Memories" by Ji Xianlin. These chronicle the lives of ordinary people in Marxist China and North Korea. Horrific stuff. I've come to another conclusion about China. They're no longer communist. It's as if they've concluded that the way to success as a socialist, is to adopt National Socialism...otherwise known as Fascism. China, as it stands as a political entity today, is as close as it gets to Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy or Franco's Spain. A lot of people, Marxists mainly, get quite upset with this conclusion but they've not shown me anything that has dissuaded me from holding onto that idea.
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  3401. No it's not. We were poor and wore hand me downs and clothes from second hand stores and church rummage sales. If I ever wore my pants like that my mom would have cuffed me upside the head and told me to pull my pants up and tuck my shirt in. Dad would have seen that bare butt as a target for his boot to impact on. If the pants were too big, a needle and thread could tuck it in and a cheap belt would help hold it up. As a matter of fact, watch the part of the video about this again. Almost every one of those guys walking around with their pants down are wearing belts. This is complete nonsense.
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  3402.  @Fredman5551  You just don't want to answer that question, don't you. Also, YOU started the "bright" element into the discussion. Dish is out but you can't take it. If you want to pretend that you're brighter than someone else, it's best to not make 2 grammatical errors in one sentence and answer a question with a question. YOU set yourself up for that response. Now answer the damn question. Stop with the deflection tactics.
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  3403.  @spltndddpairofaces680  If the verdict says that those teachers did violate the parent's rights, are you going to still defend the teachers? I rather doubt it. Nice try with the KAREN smear but I would think that every adult should be concerned about the implications of this court case. If you aren't, you've just shown how little you care about the most vulnerable of our society. If they were secretly engaging in Bible studies, you wouldn't be so glib about it.
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  3404. There's always "timing". Do you know when it would have been perfect timing? Last October, just before the mid-terms. That would have been better than perfect....for the Republicans. However, that's not how classified documents are SUPPOSED to be handled. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen due to sloppy following of protocols. That's extremely serious, if it is that way. In spite of this, we still have to have a thorough investigation to see what REALLY happened. As it stands, everything that you or I, can up with, is guess work and unfounded theories. I find it hard to believe that the President of the United States, doesn't have all kinds of security cameras around his home. My neighbour does and he's just an average "Joe"....a long way from being the most powerful man in the United States, let alone the world.
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  3405.  @thomaskember3412  Cute. LOL. However. it they're both the correct answer then, the correct answer would be....there are 2 correct answers. No matter which answer you give, it's the correct answer. That took some thinking. LOL.
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  3406.  @Rensune  Apparently you didn't read or understand my comment. You can't FORCE me to talk about it with anyone. YOU don't have that right. You don't have the right to tell parents what they feel is appropriate, as conversation, in front of their children. THEIR children. Just because it's not being discussed in front of the children, shielding them as what was suggested, that doesn't mean that you're not talking about it with the spouse, friends and other members of the family. Children don't vote. You'd think that you'd know that. As they get older, parents widen the conversation parameters until they've reached adulthood. Don't tell people how they should react with their family. You don't have the right.
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  3407.  @thisislaflaretv5250  Talk about spewing the conformist dogma. You'd fit in perfectly in a humanities course in college.
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  3408.  @SquashGuy02134  What gets me is that I can't name ONE person that voted Liberal. NOT one. At least not one that will admit it. The problem is the same as it is in the US. Conservatives live in the rural areas. Liberals in the urban centres. The US is the same. Both of us have been plagued with a media that has caused voters, in the urban centres, to be absolutely TERRIFIED of conservatives. They call us Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists, homophobes, Islamophobes, transphobes....as if we're mentally ill or something. It's fear politics and the fearful, in the cities, are falling for it.
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  3409.  @JessiBear  Exactly. If parents are serious about getting their kids a good education, they'll find a way. Your suggestion is one of the better solutions.
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  3410.  @Dariaosu  I don't even believe that she came out of an abusive marriage. She's a manipulator and she'd say and do anything to further her own ambitions. If you go looking for someone to marry just to sponge off, I have no use for you. I have no problem working and supporting a wife so she doesn't have to worry financially, but if all I am to her is a meal ticket or paycheck, then I'd rather see her leave. I know one thing. If I ever meet a girl named Daria, I'd be extremely suspicious of her. I'd likely run in the other direction and fast.
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  3411. @the strangest Funny how this protest has brought out the elitist snobs. Super stinky. You're not as special as you think you are.
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  3412. Back in 1972, a small group, from the religious cult who called themselves "The Children of God", approached me and tried to recruit me into their group. One of the FIRST things that they told me is that I had to reject my parents, family and friends. Exclude them from my life because they would keep me from God. Of course, I pushed back but I was young and wasn't sure why it was so wrong. A few years later, I figured it out. Now the new LGBTQ movement is doing the same thing. "They're not your kids" they say. "Don't tell your parents" about your new name and pronouns because they will oppress you. It's what cults do.
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  3413.  @beyamoth  Yet he's helped countless people with their lives, wrote best selling books, has done hundreds of lectures on line, has read all the greatest and most important literature that's been written and available over the last couple of thousand years ans shared what he's learned with the rest of us....yet he contributed nothing. Hundreds of thousands think otherwise. Only one that has been cursed with the Dunning-Kruger effect would have the arrogance to say something as cynical as you have. If you're so wise, why aren't you contributing something to society. We need people with the wisdom of the ages to teach us poor dumb folk true knowledge. You'll have to give up your job as an cyber warrior though. That should be a big cut in pay.
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  3414.  Tiktaalik  That DNA claim of Peterson is one that people always use to discredit him. It's a childish interpretation of what he's actually saying. He's referring to symbols that people have always used, all over the world, to express certain ideas and that it might have its roots in our psyche, sort of like a Mandelbrot set. He doesn't go into it in depth but he has said that it is a consistent part of a deep psychedelic state and he thinks that there may be a reason for it. He isn't implying that the ancients understood the structure of DNA, at all. That's something only the truly cynical would say. He's someone who's to deeply ingrained is science to say something stupid like Egyptians knew about DNA. I'd have to have a reference to his saying that there are ghosts in the trunk of his car. I googled it and came up with nothing. The only thing I saw was an idea that he had that ghosts were representative of the unknown. That's it.
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  3415.  @zikebucan1785  Another who spouts insults and has no time to have any type on meaningful conversation. An internet troll. The big mouth who hurls insults from a moving car.
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  3416. She'd been drinking, she'd already fired the gun, she picked it up and the police are supposed to do what? Wait to see if she's going to fire it again? All the training in the world isn't going to prevent the fear of being shot. It's reactionary and it's a split second action. I wouldn't want to have been in that officer's position. Not ever....because not one of us is going to know how they'd react in that situation. It's so easy to judge that officer sitting on my couch watching a youtube video. Let's see how any of us would react if they were facing a drunk woman, holding a gun who had already demonstrated her willingness to use it. I honestly don't know if I'd have fired my gun or not in the same situation but I know for a fact that I'd be an emotional wreck for years if I did. I may never get over it. I can't speak for that officer but neither can anyone of us.
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  3417.  @tinfoilhatter  "That was one....LOOONG....incoherent, run on sentence" to quote a remark, left on a term paper, by my professor. No punctuation, no capital letters, horrific grammar.....it left me wondering what it is you're talking about.
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  3418.  @murraylagace695  No one truly knows anyone else. Quit turning this on the parents. They might know that their child is going through difficult times but they may not understand what it is that they're going through. As children grow older, they try to seek autonomy. It's part of growing up. It's also a part of growing up to make terrible mistakes and to be able to help their children through those mistakes is to know what they're going through and what those mistakes and decisions are. You're asking parents to be parents and then not helping them by not giving them complete information. "Let's keep this a secret from your mom and dad" used to be the line of abusive child predators. Now you want teachers to encourage kids to not trust their parents. That's the way that Stalin, Hitler and Mao ran their nations.
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  3419.  @DjiemYT  You're being as judgemental as a Catholic priest. The parent must be guilty and they must confess their guilt or they'll not be told what their child is doing. All a child has to say that they're uncomfortable talking to their parents about sex (most kids are) and the parents are guilty of something that they're not even aware of. What a great way to teach our kids. Stalin would have been proud.
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  3420.  @becsterino  I'm going to hate saying this but male/female physical abilities are on a spectrum. If you put it on a graph, you will see a big clump around the centre where both male and female are clustered. As you go farther to the physical side on the graph, which shows greater athletic ability and strength, males will become dominant until at the extreme end, it will be all male. Of course there are men that you will be able to beat but on average, if one picks a random man and a random woman, to compete in any sport, the man has a 10% or higher advantage. Always put your money on the man. The exception is not the rule.
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  3421.  @LucifienAlter  I've tried different disciplinary methods to get the dusting done. The most successful was when doing my dishes, I'd fill the sink with dishes, soap and water and let it soak while I do a small segment of the dusting, like a bookcase and end table. It doesn't take long and the water is still hot when I do the dishes. Do this every time you do the dishes, you'll have the entire apartment done in a week or so and you start over. If you stick to that routine, it gets quicker because the place is actually quite clean all the time.
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  3422. I used to joke about a certain Canadian prime minister when he was asked a question. My answer for him went like this. "I will check the polls and then I will tell you what I think". You have to say it with a thick French Canadian accent, though, so it loses its effect in print.....but the point is clear. Using polls to govern your country or your life will always get you in trouble.
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  3423. Fknmando ! What is so horrible about a guy commenting on the character of someone he has known all his life? Why should that cost him his job? He knows the guy. Is he not allowed to give his impression of the guy, someone who was a friend? YOU don't seem to mind giving you're opinion of someone. Maybe YOU should lose your job? It's ridiculous. What's more, I'm the one providing the information on the Salvas debacle, not you. You're the one saying that there has to be something more and insinuating that he should have lost his job but offering NOT one bit to back up this claim. All Salvas did was say that he stands for the flag and that he feels that a friend of his is a decent guy as far as he knew.....and they pressured him to resign. The man is not allowed to have an opinion unless it lines up perfectly with the party line. Quoting party dogma isn't giving opinions. It's indoctrination.
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  3424. Anyone who's raised chickens has seen this type of violence. Chickens will see a sore on another chicken's face and will peck at that sore, incessantly, chasing their victim down, every chicken getting in on the attack sometimes killing the poor bird. Watching them attack Ngo was no different. They're animals, attacking, en masse, anyone weaker or vulnerable. They deserve to placed in a dungeon for life.
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  3425.  @paul4835  I took it as aspirational when he originally said it. He said that it would be great if we could go to traditional Easter services. Who could disagree with that? It would be great. Not gonna happen. apparently, but...... The media is nuts. Worse, I see people on facebook putting up memes that are just plain false. When I say something, they lose their minds.
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  3426.  @moh-ss7zc  I don't know who you're talking to, so I'm going to assume that you were referring to the original comment. Why this is relevant baffles me. He was recounting an historical event and he was censored. That's an horrific abuse of power and an attempt to erase history. It has nothing to do with homophobia, cis or any other label that you just trotted out. If you were referring to something else....I will stand corrected if you explain what you were referring to.
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  3427. His reply was even more laughable. "B-b-b-ut, I'm the expert" LOL. He acts as if he's been touched by the hand of God and the proof is his PhD
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  3428.  CisgenderCrybaby  Why wouldn't any decent person cry about what they're putting children through? It's heartbreaking.....except for those who don't give an "eff". I'm pretty sure that would be YOU.
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  3429. The far left call this a "conversation starter". They introduce the topic, pretending it's incidental or not important, with the intention of getting the kids to talk about it. Then they defend their action by claiming that they were just answering the student's questions. Oh....wait....that was the guy in the park with a bag of candy. I get them confused.
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  3430. 2 sides of the same coin. Both of them the street military arm of the Marxist movement. The original Antifa was the military arm of the German Communist Party of the early thirties, similar to Hitler's Brownshirts. The Brownshirts won. Sort of like the difference between being thrown into an alligator pond or a crocodile pond. There's a difference but only to the scientific and dispassionate observer.
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  3431. What fight? The school's have already lost. She's taking on the school boards, the teachers union, the Democrats and all the woke, Marxist teachers. They control the entire school system. She should consider building a small school of her own that teaches the basics of academic endeavours, however, that's up to her. Our public school system has to be shown for the failure that it is and the way to do that is to homeschool or start small private schools that do what an education is supposed to do. The fewer students in public schools that there are, the more irrelevant they'll become.
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  3432.  @maxpayne7419  But there are degrees of freedom. It's not just 2 realities. Tyranny and and another that's the same no matter what. That's what the American Constitution is about. The freedoms the individual is granted as a consequence of existence. You can take away those freedoms, like the freedom of speech or expression, in a limited fashion but that also means that you're NOT as free as you were before those freedoms were taken away.
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  3433.  @virginiaoflaherty2983  That's seems to be a common phenomena. I've never expected much and was content with what I've had in material possessions. Yet, I've been told, all my life that I had a strong work ethic. It's the same with my siblings. They've started with nothing, worked hard, done well, and their kids did the same. We didn't expect anything from our parents and we've all raised our kids in the same way and almost all of them have that same work ethic. Maybe that's the problem....maybe. So many kids are raised to expect things and when they grow up, they're still expecting them. That attitude is maybe what causes a small rot in the culture which isn't good for the country. All I've ever wanted was the freedom to make my own way. Theirs no satisfaction in being given things. Meaning comes from accomplishment and you get that from hard work.
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  3434.  @leolabustro8531  Thanks. Margret Thatcher once gave a speech in which she pointed out that the richest country in the world, in natural resources, was the Soviet Union. It had everything. Rich soil, oil and gas, lumber, abundant water, gold, raw iron...it had it all. Yet, the people of the Soviet Union, had starved to death, they stood in line-ups for basic needs and it was all due to government policies. Venezuela is going through the exact same problems. They're the same policies that Trudeau is forcing on our country. THAT is what I'm talking about. Over regulation and government interference in our lives. A lot of people don't want to accept that. I appreciate you're support and your ability to understand how governments are slowly destroying the dreams of the individual in western society. Thank you for your response.
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  3435.  @vmusatov  Everything WASN'T easy, though. They had to work hard because they had nothing except the freedom to be able to make a plan for their future and then be able to follow up on it. It was all there for you but you had to work for it, not just the standard 40 hour week but 60 or 70 or even more. They were able to sacrifice and see the rewards before they were too old to enjoy it. That's all in the past. Ask someone to work overtime and most will refuse and they'll come up with all kinds of reasons why they can't. The entire culture has changed and our government uses it to take away our freedoms and most will gladly allow it in exchange for the promise of safety and security. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Ben Franklin Of course the Russians look back at Soviet times as the good old days. Their country has left communism and embraced Fascism, another branch of socialism which can be more brutal than what the Soviets gave them. At least the Soviets tried to provide everything for the people.....except freedom. Now, they still don't have freedom, they don't have a government that provides for them and they've been embroiled in one war after another on their own soil or in the old Soviet bloc countries. They have neither liberty OR safety and security, not like when they didn't have freedom but at least they had security or believed they had. This isn't about how good or bad the times are as it is about being free.
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  3436.  @ajones3323  Sensitive....aren't we. It was a joke. A rueful chuckle is supposed to be the response....not an argument that isn't even accurate. You do realise that you're demonstrating EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Clinton was impeached on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (first article, 228–206) and obstruction of justice (third article, 221–212). He was being investigated for sexual misconduct in the Paula Jones case and he lied before a Grand Jury when asked about another possible misconduct case to show a pattern of behaviour. He lied. Had he admitted it or plead the Fifth, he wouldn't have been charged under those articles of impeachment. Democrats were rabid in their attempt to throttle Kavanaugh, despite a lack of evidence, yet, like you just showed, are quite willing to rationalise your way around Clinton's sexual aggression towards Paula Jones, and the allegations against Joe Biden. You should be just as outraged over Clinton and Biden as you were against Kavanaugh (still no evidence), but you're not. Inconsistency.....thy name is Democrat.
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  3437.  @MrTachyon  It's the same man no matter how you spell it. It doesn't change historical facts. That's ridiculous.
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  3438. I'd say it's because there multiple reasons why people are leaving. This video would have lasted hours if he was to cover everything. So, I'll do it for him. "Crime is another reason why people are leaving". Is that better.....except now I'm the one that's ignoring all the other reasons and there are LOTS of them.
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  3439.  @Roman49837  I consider myself a Liberal. I will listen to new ideas, respect the freedom that allows others to have ideas different than my own and most importantly, the ability to accept or reject ideas based on the merits of those ideas. For some reason, Liberals, these days, think that I must accept and respect all ideas that are presented to me or I'm a bigot, a hateful person. Anyone who would force me to do that is NO Liberal. They're narcissistic authoritarians, using bullying tactics to either censor or, as in many places, literally erase me from the planet. I've listened to those lefties in NYC and I reject their ideas based on their merit. Their ideas lack in logic, based on misplaced sympathy, are unworkable and the evidence is how their ideas are destroying that city. It's quite obvious but those, who support those ideas, aren't Liberal enough to reconsider their stance or to listen to anyone who might offer new ideas. To me, that's not liberal. It's bullheaded, narcissistic and they're using their ideas as proof of their virtue and it doesn't matter to them how their ideas are hurting everyone, especially the ones that they claim to care about. They're NOT Liberal. They're bullies, forcing their beliefs on others through threats of violence, which they'll use, quite gleefully in rampages, destroying the neighbourhoods of those they they claim they're helping. Nothing liberal about that.
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  3440. I guess the ones who were burning down Kenosha aren't the vigilantes. Lol.
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  3441.  @niagarawarrior9623  It doesn't make sense that the truckers did that. The organisers have stressed non-violent protests, right from the start. I'm not going to make conspiracy claims but the truckers have been consistently emphasizing their desire to not behave like those who protested in the summer of 2020. They know just how badly that impacts their message. They don't want to see comments like yours. It hurts them and almost everyone in that convoy knows this. Watch any live feed, by people walking through the crowd, and it becomes quite apparent that this aren't the types of people that would do something like what you've described. There is NO litter, ANYWHERE. The streets are spotless. People actually shovelled the sidewalks to clear them of snow and ice. The organisers sent a truck load of food to the homeless shelter that was supposed to have been harassed. They do all this and then support setting a fire in a building? It's just seems too inconsistent to be believed. I smell a rat. I'm highly suspicious of the motives of those who set the fires and the fact that they allowed themselves to be filmed. Just like that guy with the Confederate flag. He wore a full face balaclava, the only one that I've seen in hours of watching live feeds, and he was soundly jeered by all those around him. The convoy does NOT support stupid or overt criminal behaviour.
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  3442.  @annep6723  A 9 year old troll. Well....you're trying, anyway. I like to encourage the kids even when they're wrong.
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  3443.  @bobdelano6746  It wasn't originally intended that way because America was already energy independent. Had the Keystone pipeline been finished, that oil could have been redirected for use in America under an emergency powers act. Now, we're not energy independent any longer and there's no Keystone oil to re-purpose. That's not what I call very smart.
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  3444.  @jameseaton4593  I watch this stuff to keep in touch with what's going on. I don't like being blindsided because I'm not paying attention. Knowledge is power.
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  3445.  @Havanorange  Of course he bristled at some of the journalist questions. They wanted to bring up climate change, with the back handed implication that this was all his fault that Hurricane Ian hit Florida. These journalists were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while he's trying to solve the problems of the moment.
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  3446. I know a 68 year old man who runs a small farm, does contract work for other farmers, works continental shifts at a paper mill and will take on all the overtime that he can get. Yet the farm is paid off, he's got all kinds of money and his wife is pissed that he won't slow down, let alone stop. Why does he do it? He loves to work. I worked with him for years and he's said to me, more than once, what a great day for working. People have different motivations in life. I'd never work like this guy, especially if I had his money, and I liked working, but to each his own. It's sad if they have to work but that's as much the fault of the new dynamics of family life. At one time, the elderly would be looked after by their family. Now, we expect it from the government and they don't care about the individual, not like a family member would or should.
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  3447.  @lordbread2083  I can't speak to that because I can't see into the future. Also, what's the difference between Trump's wall, Bush's fence and Obama's barrier? Nothing, except the size and scope of it. EVERY country in the world demands a passport for entry. Britain, France, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Kenya.....EVERY ONE OF THEM. Yet for some inexplicable reason, we have these people that believe that the US is racist if they insist that you have a passport if you want to enter at the southern border. The ONLY reason that the wall may never get built is due to the same people that believe that ONLY the US should not be allowed to ask for a passport for entry and to control their own borders. That's the only reason.
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  3448.  @douggale5962  A lot of ancient alien finger pointing.
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  3449.  @Elic205  Since it didn't always work, I guess "in the hopes of preventing looting" would be a better way of putting it.
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  3450. Good guy. He expressed what I felt at the time. I don't want to get it but if I do, I'd deal with it. If I die....that would really suck, but I'm not going to be so fearful of dying that I'll forget to live. I was in danger of dying before Covid and I will still be that danger after Covid is gone. Being in my seventies brings the entire dying thing a little closer to home. Avoid death the best I can but don't live in fear of it, that's my motto. Life's too short as it is to spend it in fear of the inevitable.
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  3451.  @PaxAlotin-x2s  And these were all authors from very limited regions. Their reach didn't spread out over the world because quite often their homelands were isolated. Most people in Nigeria have no idea what the Ge'ez script is. Besides, the Shakespeare exhibit is in his home town and celebrating his work. What does African languages have to do with that? If I was in Ethiopia and at an exhibit of the royal family, I'd want to see things pertaining to that dynasty. The same with Shakespeare. I don't care about colonisation when seeing an exhibit of Shakespeare. I want to see things that pertain to the life of Shakespeare.
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  3452.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  If you think that you're advancing your cause, you're fooling yourself. All you're doing is annoying everyone and causing people to turn away. Too bad that you won't ever read this....but even if you did, you're not bright enough to understand what I just said.
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  3453.  @johncrocker4209  Don't worry about it. I understood your comment clearly and I give it a thumbs up.
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  3454. I wonder if she'd talk to those in the trucker convoy. They're citizens and should have a voice. I'll bet that she'd refuse to talk to them.
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  3455.  @1220LOUIE  The only ones that would say he's not a patriot are the whackjob KKK types and the Radical Left Democrats.
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  3456.  @Lue1337  What they want is what you're seeing in college these days. They don't want students who think and ask questions. They want those who chant slogans and high five each other when they recite talking points which are the result of indoctrination. This is their first step in the fight against the patriarchy. No more male activities. Eventually, those who insist on acting like a boy will be reprimanded. My grandson told me that the school took away their soccer ball because soccer was too rough. It appears that only boys wanted to play soccer and that was unacceptable. It wasn't inclusive enough. He and his friends were angry and disgusted.
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  3457.  @mosaic617  Read Cynthia Cook's comment. She's got you figured out.
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  3458.  @Zachary_Setzer  I tried to answer but my response has disappeared. I'll try again. In 1977, I bought my first house. I could pay my mortgage, as a labourer at a shoe factory, with a little over one week's pay. My wife didn't work, we had 2 kids and we both had our own car. Yet 3 years earlier, when we got married, we had NOTHING. It took us 3 years to be able to buy our own home. My daughter and her husband have been together for 14 years. They've both worked steady through those 14 years. They have 3 kids, no car and it takes 3 weeks of saving to pay the rent for a basement apartment. They have no hope of EVER buying their own home. I lived those times. I'm living these times. I know what's happened. Life is tougher these days. It's a fact.
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  3459.  @Athrun82  Do you mean the colonial regimes that were taken from the Ottoman Empire after WW1? Those regimes that allowed political autonomy AFTER they defeated the Nazis and their Muslm political Allies. Quite the colonials. The British actually held those territories for less than 30 years, from 1918 till the day those countries became independent. Funny.....no mention of the hundreds of years of Turkish colonial occupation of the Middle East and the Balkans. It would appear that some colonialism is good while others are bad.
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  3460.  @LiamNajor  I'm doing it for those who might read his stuff and believe it because no one is calling him on it. There are people reading these comments who are unsure of what to think. I want them to be exposed to rational comments that show how illogical this "half wit" actually is. Sometimes I run into videos in which I'm not sure on what to think and I appreciate those who offer concise and factual stances that help to come to some kind of real logical position. I'll never convince this guy. He has his own agenda but most people don't and they, like all of us, need to hear more than what this guy is spewing. Thanks for your comment and support, though. I appreciate it.
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  3461.  @bigbubba4314  Thanks man. To me, Florida sets an example of what I'd like to see happen here. Continued success to your state, as well.
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  3462.  @kaze6979  I'm all for it. We need to challenge that old guard instead of just accepting that they're "great". I'm saying that as a 70 year character who is a part of the old guard. Keep us from dozing off in complacency.
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  3463.  @sandstorm8874  Every communist revolution shows that this isn't going to happen. They won't trust panderers. CNN, in spite of what they think, are part of the old guard, the power mongers that have to be taken down. IF it happens and it's still a big "IF", CNN, at least the people that are there now, are done. You won't see Lemon, Cuomo, Blitzer, Cooper or Acosta around anymore. They'll be dispensed with. The new regime will want their own people in place. It's how this works and always has.
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  3464.  @StephenAndrew777  "sound's to me" and "may even". You don't know do you? You're just hearing what you want to hear.
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  3465.  November Reign  I have a college diploma in data processing and I took a couple of classes in economics. This is what you would call theory. Theory is useless without an understanding of application, though. Theory is based on applied economics because without application you cannot form a scientific hypothesis and from there a theory. Application should always validate the theory or the theory is no good. So she may have studied economy theory but she didn't understand what she was studying or how theories are formed.
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  3466. The louder you yell, the more people will think that you are a loser.
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  3467.  @stevenelson424  Why don't you address what this video is about instead of advocating violence? Should we be "aborting" babies AFTER they've been born?
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  3468. I'm Canadian and I say that we have to save ourselves. I'm not too optimistic that we will, though. The logic of some of my fellow Canadians is baffling. They call for more government control, which increase our problems so they want even MORE government control which even cause more problems.
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  3469.  @Aanthanur  No, wokeness places us all on a hierarchy of power and privilege and then demonises the demographic that they deem has that power. Individuals, of that demographic, are declared inherently evil and it gives the other demographic the right to seize that power BAMN (By Any Means Necessary). That sets no limits on what they can do to take that perceived power and achieve that vaunted "equity", a Utopian dream that has no goal line. Hitler believed that the Jews had the power and that gave him the right to do to them what he felt necessary to wrest that power from them....for good.
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  3470.  @chrisf8855  White clouds are the superior clouds, much better than the "clouds of colour". Pssst......that's sarcasm.
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  3471.  @forsakenquery  Yes it IS their fault. If a business can't offer a sound financial plan, you don't loan them money. Old fashioned banking. A business must make money and the banks should only loan to businesses who view that as their priority. Bad managerial decisions will end in bankruptcy.
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  3472.  @joshlewis575  The old "look over there, nothing to see here" gambit. I love the defence....LOL. This looks like voter fraud in a specific case. If "the Donald" has abused women, in the past....terrible. Can't say a good thing about it. However, that has NOTHING to do with what's happened in Delaware county. Jeffrey Dahmer is not innocent because Ted Bundy killed people and the police would never refuse to investigate Dahmer because of Bundy's criminal record. You would think that the Party, that claims to care for the people, would want to ensure the integrity of their actions. Instead, people like you, refuse to even discuss it. "the donald".....give it a rest. You can't excuse all possible corrupt actions, for the entire nation, because of the existence of ONE MAN. That's what people that lack integrity always do. They deflect from themselves.
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  3473.  @fazole  You've nailed it, perfectly.
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  3474. "That dog ain't gonna hunt" Thought that was funny as hell.
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  3475. I watch the legacy media to get a gist of what's going on in the world. Then, I scour the internet to find out what really happened.
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  3476.  @DOOMJESUS  In other words, you have nothing. If you did, you'd be falling all over yourself, gleefully proving yourself correct. Instead, you BS and can't come up with one thing to prove your assertion. Quit trying to blow smoke up my butt.
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  3477.  @DOOMJESUS  You're just like flat earthers and chemtrailers. You make all kinds of assertions and when asked for proof, you'll spend more time making excuses why you can't or won't show it than it would take to actually post the proof you claim exists. You're full of BS and everyone that's reading your comments knows it. You're hurting your "cause" more than you're helping it. Every time you say "Do your own research" more people start to doubt you and people like you and start to turn to Trump.....but you don't care. You're a troll and are blind to facts. You're a left wing hack. The Democrat stereotype.
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  3478. When the month is over, Hochul will sign a law that will mandate that the governor must have a security detail at her beck and call. She's too important to lose, according to her. The rest of us just don't have lives that are as essential as hers. Remember Mayor Lightfoot of Chicago during the pandemic. Only she could go get a haircut because she's the mayor and has to look good. The rest of us are nothing. It's narcissism at it's finest.
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  3479.  Big Cheeso  Dr. King supported that idea of civil disobedience. He would not and did not approve of the riots in his time and he would not approve of all the looting, burning and physical attacks by BLM. Notice how his march on Washington did NOT include looting, throwing projectiles and setting fires. He showed us how protests are supposed to look like. Setting cities on fire was never a part of his agenda. In fact, it's easy for the leadership of BLM. They don't have to live in the neighbourhoods being burnt down. They were quite willing to sacrifice someone else's stuff for their ideology. Really nice people and that's said with the deepest sarcasm.
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  3480.  @99Yteu  Both sides can't grow. LOL. Unless you count the mail in votes. Then we'll have more ballots than there are registered voters.
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  3481.  @joshuagharis9017  The GOP making stuff up. Okay. You just heard Biden say that climate change is the existential threat and we have to do what's necessary to stop that threat. That wasn't the GOP, buddy. Wait until you hear what that's going to mean for your future. Your fancy car won't be worth a thing because you won't be allowed to leave your home. You won't be able to visit your family that lives a few states away....just like we haven't been allowed to over the last year. That dream trip to Europe or Africa will be just that. There will be people that will be allowed to go...but it won't be you. YOU are the problem. Just ask those elites. They'll only be too happy to keep you out of those vacation paradises so they can have it all for themselves. GOP....my God. This isn't a political party problem. This is way bigger than that and you'll let it happen because you don't like Republicans. How small minded can you get.
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  3482. In other words, they vote for free stuff, like the promise to forgive student debt. Sounds great, doesn't it? However, they never ask where the money's going to come from.
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  3483.  @brainlet99  Then you'd have a league of all men, transitioning to women. The women transitioning to men don't stand a chance against men. It's STILL the same result and why the sports events were divided in the first place.
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  3484.  @GM6.7  Also......you nailed it. Biden is also a loser.
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  3485. @Artful Codger Yeah. She wants them to centre on people being killed...little children. Children with names, faces we should be able to look at, with stories that will never be told. You call that a lie? You don't care about those kids. 24 questions about a flag of a revolution that was defeated 150 years ago. That's what's important? That little 8 year old girl, her life isn't worth a plug nickel to these vultures, or to you. They should be holding EVERY politician accountable but they don't care. After all, they're just little black kids. Who cares about them? Obviously you don't. Besides, it's the press asking the questions. What the hell does a stupid flag have to do with criminal deeds? She doesn't have to deflect. The press is doing it for her. I don't expect a response. Who would respond with such an indefensible comment?
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  3486.  @bradychick6535  They skipped it because they don't want the American public to hear about the Flynn travesty. They only want to spin their own narrative because they know full well how they colluded with the DNC to fool the American voting public. The facts will embarrass them.
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  3487.  @npcwill283  We already have, in the Constitution, an amendment that prevents a public agency from advocating for religion. IT'S AGAINST THE LAW. A public school is a public agency so we don't need special legislation to prevent it. It already exists in our Constitution. However, it is difficult, if not impossible, to understand human history without an academic understanding of religion and how it shaped human history. That's the academics of history, just as sex education was supposed to be a biological examination of sex as a science. It's gone WAY beyond that.
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  3488. He had to explain it thoroughly. Democrat voters don't understand why this is corrupt. You have to take them by the hand and show them every detail and then HOPE that they get it. If you don't, their answer would be "Does not. You must be a Trumpster." It accomplishes nothing.
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  3489. "We will never stop until systemic racism has been defeated!!" You'll never stop, then.....EVER.
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  3490. I've been following this stuff for a couple of years. Listen to Jordan Peterson and the mess with Lindsay Shepherd, the craziness at Evergreen College, but I still I had no idea how bad it was. They are so filled with anger and hate and they don't see it of themselves. Imagine, telling a Jewish gay man, whose lost family in the Holocaust that he doesn't understand, it just boggles the mind at the logic. That girl at the end saying that she might be shot because she was black, YES, it could happen, but the statistics says that she would be more likely to be shot by a black person. I'm not sure which one she'd prefer to shoot her, but I'd prefer not to be shot by anyone of them. Dave....I don't know how you do it, but I'm grateful that you do. Kudos to you. You're a special person.
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  3491.  @saltyp7573  Don't get all flustered. I was playing the role of Winston Smith's inquisitor in the book. He forced Winston to say 5 when there was only 4. That's all I was doing. I wasn't actually going to make you regret it. It was a replay of the book "1984". I was under the impression that you would understand that and that you were familiar with that novel and the ideas it was presenting.
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  3492. When the government becomes the competition when hiring employees, wages will go up. Especially when the government job involves sitting home and playing video games. Inflation anyone?
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  3493.  @jima6545  Orwell would have been so proud.
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  3494.  @chrisr3929  As long as you stay away from the parts of town where it is THAT bad. You're like that reporter you said that the protests were peaceful while buildings were engulfed in flames, behind him. "It's not that bad". Stay in the suburbs and avoid the downtown at night. It's not that bad.
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  3495.  @SCAR16L  I've been looking for almost an hour and all I got were the same points, written mostly on blogs. Not what I would call great evidence. Apparently, you have the evidence, from the way that you're talking. If it is being scrubbed, like you're claiming, all that's left is the bad stuff that I've already found. If you want us to believe it, you'll have to show us the evidence that YOU have. I don't make claims unless I have the proof to back up those claims. So far, all I see is no better than gossip. I'd never present this stuff, except with a disclaimer. Prove it. Don't expect me to prove your point. If there's no evidence, I'll just give up, eventually and that's proves nothing.
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  3496.  @Arctc-zh6rg  Yeah....David Dorn was peacefully murdered for a TV set. Stores are being peacefully looted and buildings peacefully burned to the ground. Peaceful Molotov cocktails are throw by peaceful protesters and I saw this guy peacefully kick a guy in the head. You, sir.....you are delusional and dangerous.
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  3497. A good man immigrates to the US and did it legally. He works hard and becomes a police officer, only to be killed by an illegal immigrant, a man who shouldn't have been in the US in the first place. What an absolute disgrace and tragedy. So sad for Singh's family.
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  3498.  @Lebelekani  Who among us is a true intellectual. Most of us are just muddling along, trying our best to understand the world. Sometimes, all we need are the simplest of narratives in order to separate the good ideas from the wildly extreme. Actually, I'd say the more extreme the ideology, the simpler the explanation needs to be to expose it. I'm not really sure what being a black African has to do with intelligence or the lack of it. That addendum seems rather pointless to me. It's the ideas that count whether intellectually simplistic or deeply profound.
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  3499.  @Hillarysrevenge  You want to see Chick-Fil-A go bankrupt? Why? What did they ever do to you?
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  3500.  @VespasianJudea  I never once said to believe "everything anyone says on the internet". I said to check references, find out any information that might debunk it and then decide on whether it's true or not. Also, I don't see how believing what you said in your comment will get you hacked. That seems a little weird.
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  3501.  @earlross309  Yes, he did. He made a lot of mistakes and was in a vulnerable position......but they didn't care. He was the perfect patsy. He said they wanted him to say and when things were going badly for him, they kicked him to the curb. No empathy, no help.....nothing. A man with a lot of emotional problems but who cares, huh? As long as he can be used to advance the cause. The cause is EVERYTHING. He's nothing.
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  3502.  @scottwasson  What? We are in the midst of an bad economy due to a pandemic. These people have NO jobs prospects, no skills, no money, many can't speak the language and some even HAVE Covid. We have to provide them with housing, food, water, health care, education and transportation and THAT doesn't cost money? YOUR money, Scott. Our schools are closed so we won't even be able to teach them how to speak English, an important skill if you want to, eventually, get a job. There will even be some that are criminals, fleeing justice in their own countries. It's thinking like that that has turned California into the mess it's in right now. Not one bit of common sense and absolutely no idea on how to run a viable budget.
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  3503.  @twixt999  Of course. Who needs "due process". Arrest them and throw them into prison with trial. You'd love that if they did that to you. "Due process" is for suckers....right????
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  3504. To Investigate WAS his job. Nothing else. It's NOT his job to prosecute. He's no different than a chief detective in a murder case. He finds the evidence and presents it to the prosecutors. The prosecutor takes that evidence and forms a case with it.
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  3505.  @outermarker5801  Which is why patriotism and loyalty is so important to conservatives. It's that great debt to himself.....I mean the obligations to no one except.....this is starting to sound illogical. Why would a conservative place such value on patriotism and loyalty? How does that serve the self? I don't think that your "fixed" sentence makes any sense.
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  3506.  @outermarker5801  Are you kidding me. All the right does is wave American flags, sing the American anthem and get upset when people won't stand for that anthem or refuse to recite the pledge of allegiance. Burning the American flag is a grievous sin to the conservative. That's what I mean by patriotism and loyalty. It's directed at the union of states that we call the United States. To show patriotism and loyalty to America is paramount to the right wing conservatives. So, they had different ideas on who the speaker should be. What does that have to do with patriotism? That has to do with competence and who individuals believed would be better suited to be the speaker. Sometimes a question, like that is quite clear and sometimes it isn't. What that has to do with patriotism is beyond me. Republicans embarrassing themselves. They're not the ones who are claiming that men can get pregnant and called the killing of a black man by 5 black police officers "white supremacy". They're not the ones supporting the placement of books like "Gender Queer" in school libraries....books that have illustrations and depictions of explicit sexual acts in them. They're not the ones who supported the BLM and Antifa riots and who didn't say a WORD when 8 year old Secoriea Turner was shot and killed by "peaceful protests" in Atlanta. A little black girl MURDERED by a group that they supported and they feel NO embarrassment over it. Even the term "peaceful protests" should embarrass them. Over 25 people dead, thousands wounded, billions of dollars in damage in cities all across the United States and they just kept repeating the "mostly peaceful protests" mantra. Then they kept on repeating the phrase by Trump of "good people on both sides" and intentionally ignoring what he said in the SAME sentence about white supremacists. You don't find those things embarrassing? I'm not going to say that the Republicans don't EVER embarrass themselves. They most surely do but to make it all about one party is not only naive. It's almost being intentionally obtuse. Don't trust ANY politicians. NONE!!!! That means Republicans too as well as Democrats. If you don't you'll find yourself being unable or unwilling to even define what a woman is. Now, THAT'S embarrassing.
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  3507. That's what Hitler did. He forced all political parties to be disbanded except for the Nazi party. Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro....all did the same. So is Lemon a Marxist or a Fascist? It's hard to tell.
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  3508. Twitter has one safety guideline. "Conservatives are dangerous"
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  3509.  @ryanyeager1797  Yes, I do know the history of America. I would take you more seriously if you'd refrain from making one line derogatory remarks and actually entered into a mature discussion on your position on this matter. As it is, all I see is a snob, who treats others with disdain and an elitist attitude. I hope my punctuation and use of the English language meets your lofty standards enough to warrant a rebuttal, but then again, I don't care if it does or not.
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  3510.  @mikeoxlong3676  I don't like Trump, either but I'd vote for him. In what reality to I have to love the people that might do the best job as president or leader. It's about realising what's best for the country and has nothing to do with my ego.
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  3511. Sort of how you're asking God to bless Ashli Babbitt??? Is that the message? The spirit of forgiveness is sure running through your veins, isn't it.
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  3512. If I'm not being preached at by the self righteous progressives on game day, I'm being preached at by self righteous religious leaders. What a choice.
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  3513.  @jodieholmes8453  Address the topic of this video. Should a person allow a baby to be born, make that baby comfortable and then still be allowed to "abort" that baby. Yes or no. No deflection about the wall or Republicans. Should we be aborting babies AFTER they've been born?
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  3514. You have to throw "naive" in there as well. A lot of them won't admit that maybe they were wrong about China and they keep doubling down on their previous naivete. We're taught, in our schools, to see the best in people. "Maybe Johnny's a bully because his daddy and mommy are mean to him". It's never the fault of the person who's doing wrong. Individual responsibility is seen as alt-right. People commit crimes because of social injustice. Always passing the buck and if you say otherwise, you're spreading hate and should be censored or cancelled. It's time we accept the wrong within us, along with the best.
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  3515.  @AXharoth  No....there is not truth in what he said. Men and women had roles in life because their biology had forced in on them. Those roles were important to the survival of the human species. That there is now, in humans alone, the chance for male/female roles to overlap, doesn't mean that this very short time is the norm. It isn't the norm for countless species on the planet and which was not the norm for thousands of generations. That short space of time is just an anecdote in biological development.
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  3516. I think what amazed them is that they saw it fall in slow motion, too....and they weren't looking at a TV screen or computer monitor.
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  3517. Now, they're going to say that Harris believes it's rational to fly into buildings? LOL.
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  3518. "who hasn't investigate(d)", "do the research", "educate yourself".....All mantras of the conspiracy crowd. Holocaust deniers, flat earthers, chemtrail advocates, ancient aliens.....doesn't matter. They all claim that they must be right because they, and only they, have put in the requisite time and study to know what's going on. Talk about child like and predictable to boot.
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  3519. +Robert Simmons Smash a bunch of bs into their minds and then reinforce it with the threat of death or imprisonment. That threat is the difference between life with those religions in the west and the cult of personality in North Korea.
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  3520.  @bobbysolo5411  Is EVERYTHING political for some people? Just ONCE, can't I watch a video without having someone turn it into their own little agenda? It's like trying to talk to an ex-spouse who just won't leave it alone.
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  3521. + Tarek El Derbas Why would a round earth take away from the existence of God? Can't he make round earths? I find no fault with your or anyone else's spirituality, as long as it doesn't come with the ego of moral and intellectual superiority and I'm afraid your displaying both in full force. The world is round. That's the way God made it. A man I once knew who was both an astronomer and a devout Christian was once asked how he reconciled his job with his Christianity. He said that his job demonstrates to him just how magnificent God actually is. That the Bible is God's word but it poorly reflects God's presence because it is meant for the extremely limited understanding of man. God is so much bigger than what can ever be described in any book, even if it is the Bible. His study of the universe have brought him an even deeper understanding of God and what is meant by the Biblical quote from Job describing Man as a worm. Modern astronomy shows just how much of a worm he really is. It's all a matter oh how you look at it. This entire idea of a round earth rejecting the possibility of a creator is nonsense.
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  3522. + Tared El Derbas If you're a scientist, then I'm the Emperor of the Galaxy, Andromeda. The only science degree you'd possess would be one you've paid for through the mail. Those links on that page you posted are all over the place in their claims. The only thing they have in common is the claim the earth is flat and that were're all a bunch of brainwashed sheep. Basically, using a fallacious claim to boost their own ego. I'd say they could barely get the first year of university in even if they combined all the educational levels they've achieved to piece together some kind of coherent level of education.
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  3523. Another use of the word shill. Rather limited in your vocabulary and ability to carry on a conversation aren't you?
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  3524. stardude692001 Yes, they did kill more people.  This isn't a contest, though.  Even when he was pulling Germany out of that economic quagmire, he was brutalizing the Jews and anyone that opposed him.  Not one leader, gets by without support.  They do it through ideology and perks for the supporters.  Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, all committed terrible atrocities but someone had to be the poster boy.  Hitler was the obvious choice because more nations were involved in his wars than the others.  In that way it affected more people.  As bad as Mao was, it was only the Chinese that suffered.  Not to make light of their suffering, it was terrible, but it was reduced to only that part of the world.  Same could be said of the other butchers.
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  3525. Well, it wasn't electromagnetism. Every scientist on the planet gets gravity and laughs at the idea of levitation. You really don't want to be laughed at do you? Next, you'll be telling us 2 plus 2 equals 5.
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  3526. Welcome to the Bronze Age. Actually, the Stone Age may better describe it. Scholars in the Bronze age knew the rudiments of geometry, astronomy, and the other branches of mathematics and science. This guy rejects every gain in our knowledge base in favour of superstition, paranoia and self serving delusions. It's pointless to reason with him. He doesn't want to know. He may well be a troll, saying the things he does because it's the only companionship available to him. Negative acknowledgement is better than no acknowledgement.
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  3527. StratMatt777 I gave him the tools to validate his chemtrail theories but I won't hear from him, again, or he will not acknowledge my suggestion made in my post.  The reason he won't is simple.  He is afraid of what he will find if he follows up on my suggestions.  They will never do the things necessary to prove their nonsense because it's too much work and it will invalidate their claims.  It's easier to look up at the sky and go "Look.  They're spraying us."  and then pat each other on the backs for their brilliant observational skills.  Throw in a few anecdotes about weird cloud formations and Monsanto and they now have, in their minds, irrifutable proof of chemtrails.  The rules of evidence means nothing to them as they view this concept as a sort of psycho-babble to detract from their "truth".  I have yet to see one verifiable fact presented in this video or the comment section that validates the chemtrail accusations.  If they are confronted by evidence that disproves their ideas, such as the point made about weight on the planes, they respond with accusations of shills and disinformation agents.  Their minds are made up and they will not let facts get in the way of their beliefs.  I can only hope that some chemtrail believer doesn't do something rash, like blowing up a plane, in an "heroic" attempt to thwart those who they believe are guilty.
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  3528. What you're referring to is the fallibility of human nature. People are imperfect. They make mistakes, are given to ego, greed and pettiness. Studying science doesn't impart an immunity to the vices that all people are susceptible to. However, your reference show that there is an awareness of this problem in the scientific community and there are those who're trying to address those problems. That still does not address the assertion that has been made that a false scientific idea will not eventually be found out. Sometimes it takes a little longer than it should but it will happen. Even the problems you're talking about will be addressed with the hope of greater accuracy in drawing new scientific ideas. No methodology will ever be perfect. The scientific method is, by far, the best way to understand the natural world. The BEST way....not the perfect way.
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  3529. +Farish D Lemon LOL. Well said.
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  3530. All she said was that she's glad everyone was safe. I'm guessing you're hoping for severe injuries and maybe even a corpse or two. You're a good person.
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  3531. +Nicolas Dane This video is about Reza Aslan and his credibility. It's not about FGM or circumcision. Aslan made claims and Pakman is pointing out the inaccuracies of some of the things he's saying. You're making the discussion about something else. If the next video or discussion was about Kent Hovind, it would be disingenuous to make the discussion about Islam or Hinduism. The discussion would be about, for example, on his claims about being a scientist and how he uses his false credentials to validate claims in science. Refusing to discuss this aspect of Hovind would show a lack of integrity and a refusal to hold an unbiased discussion. If what Aslan or Hovind says is false it is false and pointing out that others are wrong does not make what either of these two are saying any less wrong.
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  3532. StigmataBob2 I'm not American,  so I can't really say what your medical people say.  Here in Canada,  cancer is a terrible disease and I've lost my mother and friends to it.  Our survival rate is a little better than the United States, but believe me, the word cancer carries with it a real sense of dread here, as it does all over the world.  Right now there is no definitive cure.  Some cancers, pancreatic and brain cancer, are a near death sentence.  Others, testicular and skin cancer have very good survival rates.  There are lifestyle habits that can stave off the disease,  smoking, alcohol abuse, diet for example, but the idea that there is something out there that will cure all cancer, all the time, is a myth. When I was young, a person with heart problems had a death sentence hanging over them.  A person that had undergone heart surgery was looked on as one of the walking dead, waiting for the ticker to quit.  Now, quadruple bypass is routine.  People are living normal lives after surgery, for years.  Unheard of, when I was young.  The strides made in heart care have been fantastic.  Unfortunately, it hasn't been the same for cancer.  Cancer attacks all parts of the body and attacks them all differently.  They have different causes, different pathologies, even different cures.  What works for testicular cancer doesn't seem to matter with pancreatic cancer.  Yes, there are those who get rich treating cancer.  There are those who get rich treating heart problems.  Why can the heart patients live normal healthy lives after treatment but cancer patients have so many more problems.   Are heart doctors more competent, more compassionate than the cancer doctors?  Why would that be? Anyone,  no matter who he is or where he lives, that can cure cancer, every time will become a billionaire and there is no way the pharmaceutical companies can stop it, even if they wanted to.  You see, even drug company executives get cancer,  they die from it, lose loved ones to it, are afraid of it...just like we are.   There is a surface logic to the idea that people get rich off cancer but dig underneath and you'll find the same frightened people in the pharma boardrooms that you find on the street.
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  3533. They get it, too, or at least, it sounds as if they do. Their work is no less significant than the work that Mike Rowe is talking about but it is different. The big problem with the educational system is that it's only placing value on one type of work and will actually denigrate the "dirty" jobs. What we need are those people who, although they're in suits, still know that these blue collar jobs have value and to value those who are doing those jobs and understand that these people also take pride in their work and are proud of what they do. Too often, it's about career as opposed to work. They should be the same thing.
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  3534. ***** I suppose that's way different than the supposition that he's lying and using his fear of harassment as the reason he won't give his name or the name of his cousin.  That supposition is grounded in logic and reason, right.  You have no more evidence for that supposition than I have for the scenario that I've suggested.  The difference being is that I've also suggested that he's a nut, an internet troll.  He might be getting a big kick out of this entire thread.  You see,  I've said it a couple of times...I don't know really.  Unless I do know, I'll take it at face value and accept what he says until I have reason to think otherwise.  You've not done that, so my reasoning is as legitimate thus far as yours reasoning.
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  3535. From personal experience, I can tell you that your emotions run the gamut in the days following the loss. Anger, laughter, tears, regret, melancholy run through in turns, changing from one minute to the next. I even felt resentment towards those who gave condolences and then felt guilty for feeling that way immediately after. Anyone, who bases their opinion on this guy giving a little laugh, has never lost a child and has no realization that everyone reacts differently. A stupid, unfeeling and selfish argument. If you want to prove a conspiracy, this is not the way to do it. You'll never convince anyone of anything other than your own heartlessness.
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  3536. Jason Rasset Of course, the insurance companies love to pay out large sums of money for medical procedures that obviously don't work.  That's how they make money...by giving it away.  A great business plan.
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  3537. If you're not aware of facts those allegations should not be mentioned. Uninformed allegations are not much different than gossip. What you've done, whether it was intentional or not, is lay an allegation on the table and then followed with a challenge, daring anyone to refute that challenge. You justify that challenge with a self deprecating comment on how lazy you are. This is a win/win comment for the supporters of the SLPC. It's a situation where people are asked, very subtly, to prove a negative, a difficult thing to do in the best of circumstances. It also provides her detractors a way to present their information, whether true or not, thereby supporting the SLPC stance. You're either extremely naive or extremely clever at presenting a point of view that appears objective. I'm leaning towards the extremely clever, which means I believe that you support the SLPC stance.
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  3538. It's a rabid raccoon. It ran at her and likely latched onto one of her legs. Raccoon can run faster that people. It would be a natural instinct to try to fight off the darn thing and people tend to fight with their hands and when she did, it bit her hand and wouldn't let go. So she drowned it. Smart girl. I've been attacked by neighbour's dog. It wasn't that big but it ran and started biting me on the leg and grabbed my pant leg. I started punching it on the head and it let go and snapped at my hand and it grazed the back of my wrist. It then backed off. Had it been rabid it wouldn't have done that.
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  3539. First, I just saw a kid's snowflake made out of a white sheet of paper. It kinda looked like aliens, too. Never saw KKK members until I actually tried to see them. I guess it could resemble that but everyone knows that's not what the company was going for but that doesn't matter to the perpetually offended. I suppose they find a sense of power to get responses from "the man" although most of us find them annoying.
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  3540.  @nuqwestr  He was convicted of that charge in court. If you want to know what to think, find out what was said in court. Go to the source or as close to it as possible. Don't rely on the MSM. They have agendas as most of us do. One thing is certain. If a rape is claimed and it's in a school, it's up to that school to do something about it, make a report on it and keep it in their records. The school did NONE of those things. That's deplorable.
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  3541.  @ostentatioussavant8215  Because winning a lawsuit doesn't mean that you're innocent. It could mean that the judge or jury was influenced by ideology or social constructs that they've lost control of. I saw two aggressive people, going behind the counter and the employees protecting themselves. That's all I need to see if they were employees at my business. I may not be able to give them a promotion, small business and stuff, but they'd get my full support and, if possible, a bonus, for having to be put in that position.
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  3542. For these young actresses, the only thing that's worse than being exploited for their sexuality, is NOT being exploited for their sexuality.
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  3543.  @JR.M.S  That door may only be opened upon entering the Kingdom of God. Just because you've faith, that doesn't mean that the search for truth is over. In some ways it's only begun and it ends when God finally grants you entry into his Kingdom when you are truly transformed. As long as you're on earth, you're still as big a sinner as you ever were and the real truth will always be elusive. What you have done is accept that God will help you to that Kingdom of Truth when you pass on. Jordan is still looking to make himself a better person on earth, a truth that God still expects from you as long as you live.
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  3544.  @CrankyCatGuy  Yet, I'm still a man of sin and I'm far from knowing everything. No living person is worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is what Jesus said when he was asked who was worthy. If I'm not worthy, I'm not going to assume that I'm getting there because I've made a declaration of my beliefs. I'm going to live each day in the hopes of being a better person than I was yesterday. Sitting on my laurels because of a belief that I've achieved the Kingdom is the height of arrogance. I still have work to do because I'm still no better than anyone else.
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  3545.  @danielprofit  It's definitely politicised but it's not the flu. It's similar but different.
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  3546.  Mongoose 1980  Oh.....YOU think. Then DON'T reproduce and STOP telling ME what I should do or think.....and that statement "I don't think humans need to exist". It sounds incredibly negative to me and hateful. It's almost as if you'd be glad if some pandemic came along and wiped out a good percentage of the people.
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  3547. So....if I identify as a lady and insist that a Disney employee refer to me as "lady", will I get kicked off the property or will he/she get fired if they comply with my demand. Is this a "Don't say lady" policy invoked by Disney?
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  3548. @Jon Smyth I hadn't heard of that. I'd like to see references that would validate that story. If true, that would be rather discomforting.
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  3549.  @MissChievousRN  Apparently, you didn't read the part where I asked for a hand that would help me to defeat the internet algorithms that can be so frustrating with their tactics of misdirection and sending people off on wild goose chases. I thought it would be nice to avoid that frustration. Apparently, it can be just as frustrating asking for that information from people who claim to know, too. But, to your credit, you came through. I'm listening to Barnes and Malice right now. I'd have spent a couple of days looking for it but thanks to you, and thank you very much, I didn't have to. If we'd ALL help one another like this, maybe we could get the word out to more people. United we stand....divided we fall.
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  3550.  @excalibur5434  The Taliban are NOT Al Qaeda. They have supported Al Qaeda in the past but they are a different group. Trump was willing to listen to them talk but when they showed their true colours, he said "NO WAY". You don't negotiate peace with your friends. You negotiate with your enemies. That is, you do if they show that they truly want peace. The minute they show they can't be trusted, you stop talking......just like Trump did. The first step program is NOT a "get out of jail" program. It's there to help those prisoners who have shown that they want to change their lives and to help them reintegrate into society in a positive way. It's not there to release those who are involved in gangs and illegal activity in jail. Sentencing has been to arbitrary and it's pointless to keep a guy in jail who is getting older and has separated himself from the real troublemakers in prison. Of course, when you're filled with anger and resentment, you'd never see that.
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  3551. @Daniel Southerland You have a theory? Is this something you put together on a camping trip one weekend?
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  3552.  Donald Smith  Do you think that they're giving the homeless hammers and lumber to build these homes with? Are workers going to work for free? There is a huge bureaucracy in California, with all kinds of fees and permits, bureaucratic duplication and lawyers and consultants and land to be purchased, with real estate appraisal involvement, and agents and surveyors and more fees.....and you haven't even hammered in a nail yet. All of these people want to get paid and some of them are clever enough to scam extra cash into their bank accounts in all the confusion of the bureaucratic maze. You're one naive individual if you can't see that.
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  3553.  @brandonrandall3861  Only if they try to reason with them. A good leader, or mayor, doesn't give them the opportunity to do what they did to this mayor. A strong mayor would support the police, call in the National Guard if necessary and do what's right for the people of his/her city. They don't let the mob rule. It's not why they were elected.
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  3554.  @brandonrandall3861  You can "peacefully" protest all you want. You don't have to do what they are demanding. Once they start to break the law, you send in riot squads and you cart them off to jail. Use lots of cameras to videotape crimes and don't be so liberal with bail. Repeat offenders don't get bail. Won't be long and you'll see only the hardcore come out to "peacefully" protest. People have lives to live. Not everyone can afford to be full time revolutionaries. You don't have to shoot anyone.
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  3555. The only reason that we're paying almost DOUBLE at the gas pumps, electric bills are up and there are supply chain issues is because "Orange man....he BAD!!!!". That's it. The American people spoke, in 2020, and now the same people are speaking again but it's very soft, barely audible and it sounds like a whiny squeak. It goes sorta like this.... "Orange man bad and climate change and I can't afford to fill up my car, anymore".
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  3556. Fuckboy Spray No....as in how life for Europeans, Amerindians, Africans and Asians changed in the most profound way, more than in any point in human history. Nothing compares to what happened due to Columbus's first journey. The only thing that comes close is the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg.
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  3557. The guy's an idiot but he should never be banned. Everyone has the right to be an idiot.....even CNN.
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  3558.  @ShnoogleMan  There had been an argument over that statue of Robert E. Lee for quite some time and there had been rallies by folk on both sides of that argument. Some believed that because Lee fought on the Confederate side, the statue should be removed. Others said that it should remain to show a more complete picture of America history and that maybe it's counterproductive to demonise an entire segment of the American population due to the institution of slavery that had been a part of human history for thousands of years, throughout the entire planet. That is showed a full picture of how man had to struggle to overcome ideas and prejudice and that this statue showed how we are all capable of being on the wrong side of history if we found ourselves in the wrong time or place in history. Both sides have their points and those were the people that Trump was talking about when he said that he wasn't talking about the Neo Nazis. That day just happened to be a day where the Nazi types showed up for their own little demonstration, to add to the ongoing debate over that statue. "I'm NOT talking about the Nazis...." If he wasn't talking about the Nazis, who was he talking about? All this clip did, was say that there was no other way to look at this debate than to say it was good vs evil, a rather dogmatic way to approach history. Sounds like the way the Moral Majority would have handled it.
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  3559.  @billpracells8876  Of course he was. Just reduce it all to the simplest of terms and then point out the evil in them and, by implication, the "goodness" in you. Slavery has been a part of the human existence for thousands of years but ONLY the American southerner is evil because of it. You don't even have the self awareness, the honesty to admit that had you been born in another era, that you might have been a slave owner or trader, yourself. No....it's a lot easier and more rewarding to point and blame and bask in your sanctimonious belief in your moral superiority. No wish to understand the past or the people that lived it. Just sit in judgement like a tin god.
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  3560.  @billpracells8876  What makes you think the I worship anyone or anything. I just want to clarify what Trump said in that speech about what happened in Charlottesville. Also, you’re implying that I approve of owning slaves. Demonizing people doesn’t make for a rational point in a discussion. You’re applying modern sensibilities and applying them to the sensibilities of those living in another era. The fact is, had you or I been born 200 years ago, our lives would be completely different along with our belief systems. That is the important lesson of history.
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  3561.  @TrendyStone  That's EXACTLY what I'm saying. It's NOT mind reading. It's an implication rendered out of the context of what he was saying. "I'm NOT talking about..." If he wasn't talking about them, WHO was he talking about. Someone ELSE, apparently. If they were on the same side as the neo-Nazis, what did he mean by that. Could it be about the controversy in Charlottesville, the tearing down of the statue of General Lee? That's why I mentioned that statue and the tearing down the monuments to history. It isn't mind reading. It's following a logical train of thought that leaves you with a group who were NOT Nazis but feel that it's wrong to tear down monuments built years ago to satiate your own need to show virtue. I'm one of those that would have been in that group had I been there. I don't think that the monument should be taken down but I WILL condemn neo-Nazis. Read my comment again.....to the end.
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  3562.  @billpracells8876  I've watched this video before. This doesn't prove that Trump supports the alt-right at all. It's trying to prove that PragerU is mistaken about how the MSM didn't report Trump's condemnation of Neo-Nazis and advance the insinuation that everyone that went there to protest the removal of the statue had to be alt-right and Nazi sympathisers. You've already been shown that General Lee did NOT support slavery. So why did he fight on the Confederate side? He did it because he was loyal to the state of North Carolina and because the Civil War was more than a fight over slavery. It was a fight over state's rights, as well. In fact, the slaves weren't set free until AFTER the war had started, almost 2 years later and Lee opposed the war but reluctantly joined because he felt a loyalty to his home and his state. People fought for the south for various reasons, NOT just to fight for slavery. In fact, most Confederate soldiers never owned a slave. Why would they fight and die for something that they would never have? Why would Lee fight for a cause that he had openly opposed for years? That's why that statue shouldn't be removed. People, like you, want everything to be simple. "He's evil and he's good" and there's always that implication that you're good, as well, because you support the "good" guy. The world is more complex than that and so are people. That's the discussion that we should be having. We should be trying to understand the world of the time and the motivations of all the combatants, on both sides, and not turn it into a proxy war today of "good vs evil". That's a childish view of the world. Worse.....it implies that you'd never be on the side of evil...EVER. Nietzsche once wrote "Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." You could become that monster in a zealous rage. That's why the statue shouldn't be torn down. It's to remind us that this conflict was more complex than we can know and that we have to discuss the frailty of the human heart. It's to prevent us from vilifying one another through full understanding. The protests about the statue had been ongoing. The neo-Nazis and white supremacists went there to advance their own agenda and because of a disagreement, over that statue, that was already in progress and had been for a long time. I know this is a long comment but life and people are more complex than. "They're EVIL!!!!". That simplistic AND dangerous.
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  3563.  @billpracells8876  I never ONCE said that I supported slavery. What I said is that history and the people that lived it are complex and we should try to understand them, instead of categorising them into good and evil. It's how we understand ourselves. In fact, that's what you're doing to me, right now. You're not making any points on the complexities of history. You're just trying to win an argument by vilifying me. It's not a discussion, it's just more accusations. My father grew up 30 miles east of the German border, in the Netherlands, during the war. How much different his life would have been had he been born, 35 miles east of where he grew up. He's have been in Germany. Why did that line on the map destine him to be one of the good guys, yet his counterpart, 35 miles away, was marching with the Hitler youth? Would YOU, living in central Germany, in 1935, refused to join the Hitler youth? Would you have been that special that you would have went against your family, your friends, teachers, neighbours and community and defied them all by tacitly rejecting the Nazis? I doubt it. I'd like to think that I would and so do you, but the reality is that we'd have both been proudly goose stepping beside one another, proudly carrying the Nazi flag in our Hitler youth uniforms. To not admit that, is a refusal to understand yourself and how the human mind works and it's a discussion we should all have about ourselves and human history. Also, you don't know what your feelings would have been about slavery had you not the luxury of 20/20 hindsight. It's easy to be virtuous when you don't have to live it.
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  3564. Trump is related to Obama? Cool.
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  3565. They don't know what a woman is but they DO know that they're NOT a woman. Or like Justice Jackson. She doesn't know what a woman is because she's not a biologist but she knows that she's a woman. If she's not a biologist, how can she state that she's a woman. She doesn't know what a woman is. It's all so contradictory.
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  3566.  @mycryptodance4353  Who said that there wasn't racism? We all know that it exists. However, this accusation, has become an obsession. The search to expose is relentless. We've all become "Joe McCarthy's" searching out the racists and denouncing them on the flimsiest of evidence....no evidence much of the time. Standards have been set that no one could pass and those who fail those test, and they undoubtedly will, are denounced, humiliated, lose their jobs, friends and alienated from their family. Those tests are no different than the witch tests of the past. If she drowns...she's innocent. If she lives...she's guilty and must be burned at the stake. That's the purity test. And we ALL fail that test. Everyone of us. It's only the one that holds the power that can escape the wrath of the mob. Just hope that you can maintain that power because all it will take is for someone, anyone, that doesn't like you, to denounce you as a racist....the enemy of the people, as they used to say in Stalinist Soviet Union.
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  3567.  HMR B  At least he's negotiating. He's farther ahead in dealing with North Korea than any other president since the Korea war. That was all on his initiative. Also, there was no dealing with Pelosi. She was only going to accept one thing. One dollar to build a wall. That's not negotiating. The Dems were not going to allow Trump to come through on that election promise. They are not going to allow it to happen so there was no negotiating. They finally gave him a small amount because they were afraid another shut down might hurt them. Trump is negotiating a better trade deal with China. He's introduced an initiative to end the decriminalisation of homosexuality all around the world. He has introduced an order that gives economically depressed zones in the US the ability to take advantage of incentives to improve the economy of those areas. He's started a fund to help educate and encourage women entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries. He's done a lot of good things that you'll never hear on CNN or the other left wing outlets because they're too vested in their campaign to denigrate and finally oust Trump. This is the most biased the left media has been in my lifetime and I'm an old man.
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  3568. I do. If the public rates it high and the critics hate it, it'll be a good movie. Works like a charm.
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  3569. Exactly. She only compares today's poor to today's affluent. The ones, of her thought process, can't get that our poor are better off than most of the affluent of 120 years ago. There's never any gratitude or humility. They're continuously looking at the pile of the next guy to see how it compares to their own or some imagined marginalised group.
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  3570.  @armyman1245  "hahahahahaha" Which is almost exactly what I would expect from one so deficit of mind and character.
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  3571. I can picture this young man in El Salvador, who grew up reading about New York City and DREAMING about the day, when he's old enough, to actually go there and live. It's his dream. He even put together a scrapbook with pictures of "The Big Apple" which he would pore over, in the evening, and imagining what it would be like to live in the shadows of those magnificent structures that are so famous around the world. Finally, he has the means to leave his home and start his trek through Guatemala and then Mexico and finally he wades the Rio Grande into Texas. He talks to some border officials and does the routine when someone offers him a ride to New York, FREE and everything. He can't believe his luck. New York is a sanctuary city and his dream home. Of course he accepts and he boards the bus that will enable him to fulfil his lifelong dream. WOW!!! Dreams DO come true if you dream hard enough and work towards that goal. It pays to be a "dreamer". How beautiful a story is that.
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  3572.  @beppiek  People use caps lock to show anger or to emphasize their statements. Example. He will NOT do it. When you use it through your entire comment, a lot of people tend to think that you might be deranged. It's a literary way to express strong negative emotions. Unless you are in the grips of an emotional crisis, don't use it. People won't take you seriously. I'm not sure why you're being so cryptic. Just tell us what you're talking about. Who isn't who they pretend to be? You're saying a whole lot of nothing.
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  3573.  @beppiek  You're just odd. LOL. Here....I'll type it so you can read it. YOU'RE JUST ODD. Have a nice day.
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  3574. The problems in Afghanistan started when Bush Jr. lost his focus on capturing Bin Laden and turned all of his attention on Iraq and Saddam Hussein. He dropped the ball and Obama and Trump were both stuck with trying to untangle the mess that Bush created.
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  3575. ​ @christophergoodrow2792  If you don't want to see America become great, you must be from MAFA. "Make America Fail Again". What an ambition for your homeland.
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  3576.  @nadakbar  The native population hasn't been wiped out. In fact, there are just as many aboriginals, in Australia, today as there was when Europeans first came to Australia. All you have to do is Google "how many aboriginals in 1770" and "today' and compare. They weren't wiped out.
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  3577. I have trouble deciphering English. Try reading Shakespeare. "Forsooth" and "Puissance". Who uses those words? If someone could only write a textbook that's easy to understand I'd be so grateful.
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  3578. Calling that woman a misogynist was brilliant. It was worth a big fist bump even though I was alone when I heard it.
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  3579.  @atthecore4560  "at the end of the day, Feudalism is exactly what the elite want." This is what you said. I was just responding to that statement. It doesn't sound all that ambiguous to me. In fact, it's seems quite clear.
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  3580.  keyboardwarrior420  Like Jan 6th or the HUNDREDS of BLM, mostly peaceful protests, in which over 25 people were killed, thousands sent to hospital and billions of dollars damages due to looting, vandalism and arson. All "peaceful" protests like that. The BLM protests in Washington DC caused more damage and injuries than Jan 6th did. They even surrounded the White House, setting fires and threatening security, to the point where the president and his family had to seek refuge in a safety bunker. They laughed at that but were appalled at Jan 6th. I don't see the difference. Do you?
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  3581. Can't report on consequences that haven't happened. The FBI have been shown, and there's plenty of facts presented, but nothing has been done about it but lots of talk. All I know is that if I'd been reported, by my bank to the FBI, for 3 banking deposit irregularities, I'd be in BIG trouble. Hunter Biden has had well over 100 reports filed against him by the banks and the FBI has done nothing about it except lie and protect him. That should outrage every American, Democrat or Republican.
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  3582.  anna verano  Apparently, you're right. What's wrong with some people? Sometimes I'm too naive. I like to think people really want to solve problems. It's so sad to see that some people could care less. They'd roast marshmallows on the fires of destruction. It's sad.
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  3583.  @LoveDogs___3  I'm afraid they do. You have to have a brain in order to be brainwashed. That's the problem. Instead of our schools being a place where we learn to think, it's become a place of ideology. An ideology where hate is acceptable when it's under their guidelines. There's a person, in this comment thread, who's a perfect example of what I'm talking about. He has a brain but it's been turned into a mush of hate, acrimony and spite. It's there but it's damaged.....damaged bad.
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  3584.  @defenestrator9119  He might be a troll but is that statement true or not? Were those pictures taken when Biden was the VP?
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  3585.  @Tugela60  You have no idea what the circumstances are surrounding that fine. If it was a complaint, why weren't they informed of the violation? They went straight to a fine. Even if it was a neighbour, which you haven't even come close to proving, maybe that neighbour had a grudge against the guy and went looking for ways to get him. A revenge complaint. What if the neighbour worked for the city and is one of those moral busy bodies and knew that the law existed. He could have dropped a note in his mailbox but no way.....call the cops and get him fined. I knew a guy that built a small shed at the back of his property. Eventually he sold the place, some 7 or 8 years later. The new owner was there for over a year and he had a falling out with his neighbour. That neighbour checked to see if there was any record of a building permit for that shed. There wasn't and he ratted the guy out and he was forced to tear the shed down. He didn't even build it and that neighbour was good with that shed for years. It was only when he was angry at the new owner that he went and pulled that nasty stunt. Boy, does that ever sound like you. Morally superior, overtly vengeful and calling authorities on their neighbours, claiming that it's for their own good and for the "good" of society. You'd have made a great informant for the KGB. Stalin would have loved you.
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  3586. NOPE.....just the top administration. That's all that's needed.
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  3587.  @kateofone  It took YEARS for you to go through this. YEARS. Do you actually believe that every person, going through puberty and having difficulties with it, are going through gender dysphoria? There are countless examples where this has become a social contagion, that the solution for their discomfort with puberty has only ONE solution. Tavistock, a gender clinic in England, reported that there has been a 4000% increase of gender dysphoria referrals over 10 years. What's worse, most of it has been girls when throughout history, it's been a male problem The entire thing is beyond plausible. They also have close to a thousand lawsuits against them for treatments that they've done. I'm NOT disputing that dysphoria exists or that it even helped you. What I'm disputing is that there is only ONE solution to feeling uncomfortable in one's body and that there may be other psychological issues at play here. I'm disputing that if a person, who's experiencing emotional difficulties, may have the capacity to understand that this could be a multi-faceted problem and that the "you must have gender dysphoria" is the ONLY solution possible. That we MUST affirm the diagnoses of the patient and no other exploration into the psyche is necessary. Chloe Cole went through the drug therapies at 13. At 15, she had her breasts removed. At 17, she realised that this was all a mistake and she has the evidence, the paperwork to PROVE that the entire transformation process was pushed and rubber stamped by a medical profession whose only interest was in making money. That there is NO way that this could be open to abuse, just because it was good for you, is appalling. EVERYTHING is open to abuse. I have friends who are DEAD because the medical establishment prescribed opioids to ease pain and they became addicted. It KILLED them and it went on until we finally forced them to stop. I'm glad it worked out for you but this isn't just all about YOU. Everyone of those kids are individuals, with different psychologies, environmental factors, health issues and social pressures. To pretend that this doesn't exist because of YOUR experience implies that they are ALL the same and that underlying condition can't exist isn't only myopic...it's as narcissistic as it gets.
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  3588.  MICHAEL DAMATO  I've read a great deal in my life and I read that particular book several times. It was horrific and enlightening at the same time. I agree about the hierarchies of living creatures but I don't see that as the central theme of the book. It's a part of it, for sure, but it has to be or the pecking order condition doesn't exist. The very heart of the book is how the Lord of the Flies destroys the minds of those children through fear. Fear is the great manipulator. It's one of the ways that Satan, in religious literature, controls us. Respectfully, it makes no sense for the Lord of the Flies (Beelzebub) to be the pecking order. I suppose a Marxist might think so, though but I find they see everything through the lens of their own making.
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  3589.  @aleisterbroley900  Individual responsibility....that's what every person should believe in. To know and understand oneself, to learn all he can and try to do the right thing. No one should ever think that he knows it all and that self reflection is never necessary. What got us into this mess is the human propensity to envy. It's the socialist mantra. "If he has it and I don't, then he doesn't deserve it". Every child believes that. "How come Johnny can have one and I can't". They never look to themselves to improve their life. It's always someone else's responsibility. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason and the call against coveting is one of the Ten Commandments, one of the Big Ten. It's that serious. My willingness to look at all the facts, led me that conclusion, even though I'm not a Christian. Had I not been a classical liberal, I wouldn't look at all facts and ideas and I'd be one of the left wing ideologues who refuses to listen and wants to shut the mouths of those who disagree with them. If I wasn't a liberal, I'd never understand that it's my responsibility to see that I do more than assert my rights because I'd never have taken the time to think these things through. I'd accept what I was told by a world that obsessed with equity. Also, I make sure that I deserve those rights by trying to be honest, hard working and responsible and always ready to improve myself by honest self introspection. Most people, these days, try to change the world by some crusade against the evil in others. I try to change the world by realising that the evil is within me and that I have to be in a continuous battle for self improvement. If you think that's wrong, so be it.
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  3590. @Ying Dat Didn't hurt my feelings. It's just a rather silly idea to think that there was a black Dane mermaid, living in Copenhagen harbour. I suppose one could make a case that "blacks" are appropriating white culture. That seems to be a big talking point these days......another one that's extremely silly.
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  3591.  @shawnshell5961  He didn't lose his life over a bag of potato chips. He lost his life because he was at the bodega to "eff" someone up and proceeded to do just that. Once he was behind that counter, pushed the elderly worker down, started yelling and cursing at him and was physically trying to force the man out from behind the counter, he was a dangerous threat. Any normal person would have been afraid for their life, including you. Simon was a bully and he lost his life that was predicted by that old adage. "Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword". He'd still be alive had he stayed home. Instead he decided to "eff up" an innocent elderly man who was just doing his job.
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  3592.  @A_Jeff  Are you implying that the prosecutor and DA latched onto this case for political reasons? For once you agree with us? That's astonishing.
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  3593.  @garyjackson3531  I don't even like the term "transgender". It implies choice. Men are born with XY chromosomes and women with XX chromosomes. However there are, and it's rare, people that are born with a different chromosome structure. There are X chromosomes and XXY and XYY and XXXY chromosomes. They are what's called intersex and it's an aberration. Some seem to be normal but have both mental issues (the dysphoria) and physical problems. These are the legitimate gender problems but it's extremely rare. What we're seeing today is no more than a social contagion. I've seen them all my life of different kinds. Some are quite benign, like Beatlemania but others can be quite destructive, like the Satanic pre-school scares, of the eighties, and the modern transgender contagion of today. Transgender clinics in England have reported a 4000% increase in the last 10 years, most of them teenage girls. That's an impossible statistic. Real dysphoria, which comes from a genetic disorder is very rare and almost always was a male issue. Somehow, they've managed to convince people that this new phenomena has always been with us. It's ideological and has nothing to do with biology. Not like my 4 year old neighbour, who was behaving like a girl, even though just to look at him, you knew that he was a boy. That poor kid had real biological issues. He couldn't help it. He's nothing like these phoneys we see today on TikToc.
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  3594.  @garyjackson3531  I know that they're all genetic conditions. However, sometimes they don't manifest themselves so you'd know right away that there's a problem. That's when the dysphoria can surface and in this case it might be real. I repeat....that's when the dysphoria CAN surface, not WILL surface. However, dysphoria can also be a mental condition that can be quite serious. The reasons for TRUE dysphoria are unknown. But what does that have to do with what's happening, now? I went through great pains to explain how this was likely a social contagion, brought on by social media, our education system and the medical establishment. That STRONGLY implies that it's induced from the outside and NOT a dysphoria from within. Vulnerable children are told, by their teachers and social media, that they're problems are caused by gender confusion and the way to good mental health is to find out what their REAL gender is. So that's what they do and the pressure placed on them pushes them in the direction towards declaring themselves a different gender. "Oh, look at how brave little Susie is. She even wants to be called Joshua now. Everyone clap for Joshua." And the kid LOVES it. She's finally the centre of attention in a good way. What kid would't fall for it. In fact, it'll encourage other kids to do the same. They want to be brave, too. I agree that it is a socialist agenda. Mengele was a National Socialist, the ideology of the Nazis. Margaret Sanger was a socialist as well, although she'd never admit to be a National Socialist. Planned Parenthood started long before National Socialism became a thing. National Socialism is just another form of Marxism trimmed down to include only one of the same ethnicity but it's still socialism. In fact, the China of today is the closest thing that we have presently to Nazi Germany and they devolved down from full Marxism down to National Socialism. Guess where a lot of this transgender stuff is being spread among the young? That Chinese media company app called TikTok. This is a lot deeper than people would think.
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  3595.  Natasha Minor  Do you have some inside information on the intentions of the US government? Or is this your own conspiracy theory?
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  3596. Spelunkers......all.
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  3597. What's really ironic is that if the Palestinians succeed in their "sea to sea" quest, the first to go would be the LGBTQ+ community. When I mean go, I mean as in gone on to their next life and with the blessing and support of the LGBTQ+ communities of the west. They really are delusional.
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  3598. It sounds to me as if she wanted to put her own lackey in as the new police chief.
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  3599.  @burgerman8308  Then why rationalise for them. Just say "Yes, you're right. They do lie, bully and are rude" Instead, you point at someone else and accuse them of the same thing. How is Trump's behaviour relevant to their behaviour? It has nothing to do with it unless, you're trying to protect the Democrats by a deflection tactic and I'm not the only one that thinks that. Read the other comments.
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  3600.  @RagaSHOT  Trump was bragging. Biden was actually touching and sniffing. I'm positive the MeToo movement doesn't approve of touching and sniffing or does it depend on who's doing the touching and sniffing.
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  3601.  @illbeyourmonster3591  It's because conservatives are individualists. They go about making their lives productive on the individual level, cooperating with others whose priority is the same. They're not concerned about what others are doing because they don't feel a responsibility for the well being of others, except to help them to be self sufficient. Conservatism isn't about politics. It's about the individual. Left wing philosophy is about the collective. Everyone pulling for the EXACT same goal. therefore, individual goals must be suppressed for the common good. That goal is equity for all. Since the highest common denominator is an unachievable goal for the masses, it has to be the lowest common denominator to reach the goal of equity for all. Conservatives are too busy being the best that they can be. They mind their own business until their goals are challenged on the individual level. New age liberals are too busy making sure that this best isn't better than them. They're the busybodies of society. The greatest strength of the conservative is often his greatest weakness. That collective need to fight left wing ideology goes against the very nature of conservative thought and lifestyle.
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  3602. Tax cuts went to ALL Americans, across the board. Anyone with any kind of pension plan will tell you that it's been growing at an incredible rate and this is coming from a factory grunt, working on an assembly line.
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  3603.  @shidoin5398  Baldwin may have been upset with Trump because he was afraid that if Trump was elected he would release those files and implicate.....Alec Baldwin. That might be a very good reason to try to keep Trump from winning.
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  3604.  @bLackmarketRadio  The 2 people I know, had the virus. They had all the symptoms, exactly as described. As for how much is written down, mistakenly as the virus, we don't know and neither you or I can ever say what the number is. What I can tell you is that every epidemic in history runs it course. Even the really bad ones, like the Black Death, Smallpox, Malaria, typhoid, the Spanish flu and others, they all fizzled out. They have to or the human race would have been wiped out by now. That's always been the standard course of an epidemic. If you can control the number of cases so the hospitals aren't overwhelmed, you can save a lot of lives. We've done that and that phase of fighting the disease is done. Now we have to get back to normal, understanding that there will be more cases. What's happening now, is pure politics where one side wants to open and the other is using the crisis for their own ideological agenda. That's what we have to fight, we meaning, the average person. Advancing conspiracy theories, that can never be proven, doesn't help a thing. This isn't even an overly dangerous disease when compared to the great epidemics of history. The media is just pushing bad news for ratings. They just love a good crisis. If they don't have one, they'll make it up. Don't let them do it because they're the ones that are the problem, not the big conspiracies. Media loves ratings and a crisis gets that for them.
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  3605.  @bLackmarketRadio  If they have the symptoms and the tests show Covid, you likely have Covid. Manipulating numbers does NOT mean that that it always happens. You're changing a possibility, in a specific case, to be a certainty. That's illogical. Basically saying that ALL cases are faked and the virus doesn't exist at all.
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  3606.  @bLackmarketRadio  Of course they're paying me. Now you're starting to sound exactly like the flat earthers that I've talked to online. I never ONCE said that they weren't including non Covids as Covids. I said that we have NO idea how prevalent that it is. There is no way for you or me to know this. This might work just great in a country like the US, where hospitals are private and run like businesses and they see an opportunity to get government funds. However, in the countries that have socialised health care, like EVERY country in Europe, it makes no difference. They already get that money from the government because it's government owned and run and no one makes a profit off it. Yet, their numbers, per capita, are HIGHER than the US numbers. Italy, France, Spain and the UK are all in that category. So, to say that this is a big factor, worldwide, is looking at it through a myopic American lens. There are also countries where healthcare is poor and people don't have access to medical care. How many of them are getting the disease and can't get to a doctor and never get counted. What about countries that deflate the numbers to look good? The US situation is just one facet of this crisis. The disease exists. Instead of going off on a suspicion that you can't prove in a substantial way, start pressuring your local politician to start easing off on the restrictions. Don't go all squirrelly with accusations and overt threats. Just let it be known that if they don't start to ease off, you won't vote for them come election time. Politicians want votes, especially Democrats. Saying that some guy on the internet is getting paid to say things puts you in the category of people to laugh at. Don't be that guy. We're on the same side. I WANT the restrictions eased. I want it badly. I just don't go off all half cocked with theories. I see it as a political ploy by Democrats, in an attempt to make Republicans look like greedy capitalists and they'd love nothing more than a total economic collapse and a huge death count so to pin the blame on Republicans. I repeat. I WANT TO END THE LOCKDOWN. It's what I've been saying all along. The curve has been flattened. Let's acknowledge it and let's GET BACK TO WORK.
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  3607.  @stupendous7848  It wasn't bad until Trump began to talk about reopening the economy and getting back to normal. That's when the Democrats started howl and the Draconian rules really started to come out and it was only in blue states. Had we done things the way the task force, as a whole, wanted to do things, the transition to normal would have been smooth. However, the Democrats don't want to lose that kind of power over their subjects. They want to remake American to fit into their own view of how a country should be and they'll use the virus to accomplish it. ......and they're going to fail....miserably.
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  3608.  @Post-Trib  Drivers are unfamiliar with roundabouts. Is that forever? They'll NEVER get used to them??? Roundabouts help clear traffic congestion, saves on fuel which is also good for the environment and lessons traffic accidents. I've driven in the Netherlands, which was installing roundabouts all over, about 5 years ago. Within a couple of days, I was accustomed to them and actually found them a lot better than going through traffic lights. So chin up and try something new.
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  3609.  @ikunalz  Boeing has just announced that they're leaving Seattle. There goes more jobs. That should make the city richer. The basketball team are called the "Supersonics" as an acknowledgement to the heritage of Boeing and how the people of Seattle have benefited from their presence. You're the Aye ss.
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  3610.  @johncoulter1507  Strangely, I had another comment that gave references to my claims about Lysenko but they're not showing up. I wonder why that is. This topic has been an interest of mine for close to 50 years so it was easy to respond. Also, I'm pretty good at typing so it wasn't as big a deal to type it out. I do thank you for your comment, though. It helps to see that I'm not wasting my time.
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  3611.  @enriquetorres911  Trump never told anyone to drink bleach. EVER and YOU KNOW IT. However, to clarify, Trump asked Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci is there was any research done using disinfectants to combats internal diseases. He also asked about UV light research and in fact there is such research. He was turned facing the two doctors after which Dr. Birx turned and asked Dr. Fauci is he'd heard of any such research. Only the most childish of minds would interpret that verbal exchange as "Drink bleach!!!". People like you are actually driving people away from the Democrats and over to the Trump camp. You come off as being a delusional whackjob.
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  3612.  @raulcantu9142  That's not to say that there isn't good reason to stop polluting the air. Smog is not a good thing, no matter how you look at it. However, they're using this to control us, telling us if we don't bow down to what THEY know is good for us, we'll destroy everything. How could we be so selfish? They're trying to guilt us into acquiescence. If we don't accept the carbon tax, as an example, we're killing our children. Talk about being manipulative.
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  3613.  @raulcantu9142  Look at the "Yellow Vest" protests in France. It's directly due to a carbon tax that raised fuel prices, dramatically. Suddenly, the reality of it hit the average person. Rich people in France, they can pay it but what about the average person. How are they going to heat their homes, get to work. They can't afford the fuel. That's the reality of it. The rich, the elite, they have the money. Most people don't. And it even goes deeper than that. More people have been raised from abject poverty, over the last 20 years, than at any time in history. The major reason for that is fairly cheap energy. Now, they're driving first world poorer people down the poverty pipe. What's going to happen to these newly developing countries? It will devastate them. These added taxes may well cause more turmoil and migration than the climate change does. Their solution might be worse than the problem they're trying to solve....but the media, Hollywood types, academicians, politicians and upper middle class keep telling the ordinary person that he's the problem and he's the one that going to suffer most from their solutions. If we don't allow ourselves to be able to talk honestly about the problem, we're in for a bad time of it, but it's like a religion to them. Question their dogma and you're a heretic. Go to any university, in the first world, and start questioning the politics of climate change. They'll shut you up and quick.
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  3614.  @Tolbat  Baloney. lord...definition: someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler. :a feudal superior, especially the proprietor of a manor house. :a name for God or Christ. There are all kinds of lords. I worked with a guy, and his sister-in-law, whose last name was "Lord". The keyboard player for Deep Purple was "Jon Lord". This was a foolish way to proclaim your piety, no better than the way the Scribes and Pharisees acted when Jesus was alive. Quit patting yourself on the back.
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  3615.  @Aristocratic_Utensil  You're still doing it. I asked you a simple question. Do you agree with what he said or not? It's a yes/no answer. But no....you gotta smear him....AGAIN. It's the lefties who would smear people. Everytime I read a comment like yours, I think that I'm reading a message from a shill. A guy who pretends to be on our side but goes after the messenger in order to erase the message. That's what a shill does. When he says something that you don't like, go after him and tell us why. Name calling is for kids.
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  3616.  @motorlife7037  It's a part of her progressive ideology which includes Critical Race Theory. As an example, she says that requiring ID to vote is racist. To the progressive, this is another way in which the system is rigged along racial lines. It's rigged against people like her. Ergo....she's a part of the victim class and a victim. She doesn't say this, explicitly, in this video, but it's a part of her overall ideology. It's no different than seeing a clip of Dr. Martin Luther King. He may not say that hes a Christian in that video clip but it's well known that he's a Christian. In the same way, we know that Abrams is a progressive. Also, Abrams is comparing her fight to that of the Ukrainian people. The Ukraines are a victim of the Russian invasion. If her fight is analogous to that of Ukraine, she's implying that she's a victim and she's representing those who share her victim status.
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  3617.  @strategery101  To do what, exactly. Pass legislation to force people to like men? That should work. LOL. All they can do is support the Constitution that outlines the rights that we ALL have. That's a one case procedure. If someone's rights are being denied, let the Constitution decide on the legitimacy of that claim. That's all that they can do.
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  3618. I think that it's COBOL. It was devised in 1959. I studied it in college in the late seventies and it was the standard business language for decades. In fact, it was this programming language that was at the heart of the projected Y2K issues that had to be rectified before the year 2000.
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  3619. Everyone did. When Trump announced the travel ban, at the end of January, the media was the one that vilified Trump for it, saying the flu kills more than the virus does and that he was racist and xenophobic. De Blasio telling people to get out, don't worry and both him and Pelosi told people to go to the Chinese New Year's Parades in their respective cities. Also, Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfield spoke about the virus in January, one of the earliest. This crisis is unprecedented. No one, on Feb 1st, could have predicted, with certainty, that we'd be where we are now. You don't have to like Trump or Fox News but you should be honest in how you gather information and how it's assessed and don't allow a bias to rule your thought processes.
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  3620. I've always said that this explains the great divide in American politics. I'll expand that self reliance, that mountain folk exhibit, to most rural folk. The political maps, of the US, show that there is a difference in the way people think and vote in the rural over the urban areas. If one looked at the political map of Oregon, one would assume that it's a Republican state. There are only 3 small enclaves of Democrat voters. Those 3 enclaves are Portland, Salem and Eugene. You'll find similar in other states as well. It takes a certain mindset to thrive in rural areas and I'm sure it's even more exaggerated in mountain and more secluded areas. This is a great video. I just subbed to his channel and can't understand why I've never subbed to Sowell's channel, before. I've been a great admirer of Sowell for years.
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  3621.  @d.h.jefferies2191  I didn't say that, did I? I said that this video is about Joe Biden and you keep insisting on talking about Trump. The title says "Biden's money trail to China, Russia and Ukraine exposed". Nowhere does it say a THING about Trump. It's a common tactic. Deflect from a topic that you don't like by refusing to talk about it and talking about something else that's completely irrelevant. There seems to strong evidence that the Biden family corruption is severe and may even involve foreign governments. That has severe implications. If you want to expose Trump's corruption....fine. Have at it, but don't ignore what's even more serious at this moment. Right now, not 2 years ago, but at this very moment, we have a president, who's making executive orders, who may well be corrupted by foreign interests. Does that not bother you?? Or is your politics so skewed that it's not the corruption that bothers you, it's personalities. Biden can be corrupt so long as he's not Trump. Great logic that. It's like have a preference on who's robbing you. Better that Matt robs me than Billy.
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  3622.  @d.h.jefferies2191  That's why we need an investigation. We need it to validate or refute its contents. Until we do, we'll never know for sure. Like I said, if its important to you to solve last year's problems, go to it. I'd think it more important to tackle a problem that we could be facing RIGHT NOW. No point in my going on about my tonsils that were taken out years ago. I want to solve the issues that I have with my sinuses, TODAY. No different with the presidency. Trump, like my tonsils, is gone. Biden, like my sinuses, are the issue right now. I didn't go to my doctor and complain about my tonsils only to be told, upon inspection that my tonsils are gone. I talked about the pain in my sinuses. You keep talking about my tonsils when it's my sinuses that are in pain. That's a metaphor. This has nothing to do with being in a cult. Trump can't lead this country into prosperity or disaster, right now. He's NOT the guy in charge. Biden is. Solving last years problems might give you satisfaction but it doesn't solve what could be happening NOW. You're living in the past. Time to start living in the present.
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  3623.  @d.h.jefferies2191  Now you've invented a problem. My car is broken. LOL. I don't OWN a car and the doctor's office is right around the corner from where I live. I could hit with a golf ball swinging a 5 iron. I'm describing a reality in my life. I do have a chronic sinus problem and my tonsils were removed years ago. I'm trying to deal with my current problem....my bad sinuses. You're inventing problems that can't even exist. You really don't have any concept of what a metaphor is used for, do you.
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  3624.  @MrPojopojo  What a way to handle debt. I don't pay and the government will forgive. That sounds like a GREAT idea....if you're a corrupt SOB.
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  3625.  @SikhJedi  But who was that someone? Why was that person stabbed? What was that festival all about and who organised it? Who were the protesters and what was their problem? When did the police arrive? Were the police expecting trouble or were they called in when the trouble started? This was journalism at its worst. I have more questions when it was over than when they started their story.
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  3626.  @DarkMatterEclipse  There are a lot of questions to be asked and one of them is this. Were the police called after the violence happened or were they there already in anticipation of the violence? The only information I got about what the festival was about was that they were celebrating Eritrean culture. Why would that cause protesters to show up and cause trouble? They did one lousy job on reporting here.
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  3627.  @leroybrown2641  Are you seriously saying that you have no idea what "woke" is? And you VOTE? I have a feeling that you're part of the problem that we're trying to fight.
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  3628. Troll.
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  3629.  @alejandromartinez8340  We should double, no triple.....what the heck, let's just hire everyone onto the government payroll. Then we'd all live happily ever after. You really don't get it, do you.
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  3630.  @callen1904  Sort of like your troll account.
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  3631.  @Carl-jm2yw  We've been in a state of war and near war for 68 years. Now, FINALLY, there are talks that might lead to an easing of tensions between the west and N. Korea. There hasn't be a nuclear or missile test since the Singapore meeting. Still a long way to go, but this might lead to better times for the people of North Korea in the future. One thing is certain, the status quo sucked and why would any rational person want it to continue. Yet, you think that this is embarrassing. You want the status quo to continue and there be no attempts at negotiating for better relationships between the US and South Korea, North Korea and Japan. I think you should be the one to be embarrassed.
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  3632. Ivanka Trump deserves better yet incredibly, she never appears ruffled and she handles herself with incredible grace and style.
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  3633.  @LucielStarz123  Although I have sympathy for your position, it'll be even worse if we do nothing. It'll destroy our nation and we'll be left with a hellish dystopia in which half the people are living in closely guarded communities of relative luxury and the other half living hand to mouth in squalor. You don't want that either.
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  3634. I'd say that they're neutral on the left/right dichotomy. That means, to a leftie. that Chick-Fil-A is alt-right, white supremacists and Jan 6th insurrectionists. There is no middle ground to those lunatics.
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  3635. I was thinking that the first thing that Ghost Town would ditch would be the bottle of wine....after she drank it, of course. Seems to be enjoying herself.
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  3636. Yugesh Gurung It is plenty strong enough to pull down a helium balloon. However, there is other air out there, too. Take a deep breath. Feel the air going into your lungs? That's air or gas, just like the helium in the balloon. That air is heavier than helium. Not only does the earth pull on the air but the air is pulling on the earth. Because the earth is so much heavier, its gravitational pull is a lot stronger than the air, and because air is so much heavier than helium, its pull to the earth is stronger than helium. So it pushes the helium balloon out of the way as it is being pulled towards the earth. That's why the helium balloon floats away. If you blow the balloon up with your own breath. The air inside the balloon is about the same weight per volume as the air outside the balloon. That's why it slowly falls to the earth. It's the weight of the balloon itself that's being pulled to the earth and not the air inside it. Warm air is lighter as it expands. That's why it's always warmer at the ceiling of a room. Hot air rises. The ground heats the air, the air starts to rise and other air moves in to take its place. That's what causes the wind This stuff is so simple that my 10 year old grand daughter understands it.
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  3637.  @tryingtosleep1448  Everybody gaffes. I don't care who you are. Trump's are more obvious because he's so available. This wasn't a gaffe but the thing about asking whether there was research on using a disinfectant internally. Didn't make a lot of sense but it was a question and so what? The press made a big deal out of but Trump didn't care. It's not going to stop him or scare him into keeping quiet. That's a good quality.
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  3638.  Bob Smith  Yeah.....so let's go hungry in protest. Brilliant. You're so ideologically possessed you can't see anything but your "religious" dogma.
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  3639.  @juanfvt1000  I'll have to repeat myself. I worked in a meatpacking plant. My doctor didn't wear the protective gear, for my hernia operation, that I had to wear to put pork chops in bags.
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  3640.  @ephemeral1360  You want to arrest 60 million people? That sounds like a GREAT idea. LOL. Come back to earth, space cadet.
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  3641.  @alrent2992  Cows will and they do it all the time. Any one that's raised cattle will tell you that.
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  3642.  @P.Convenience  It took me a minute, too. LOL.
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  3643. You'd think that this guy could have used his vehicle to escape the bad right wing extremist, especially when the extremist was on foot. Instead, his drunken ass intentionally drove over him. Impaired driving and intentionally causing a death should be grounds for a no bail decision, considering that the guy admitted that he did it for political reasons. No wonder people are saying that there are different standards of justice in this country.
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  3644.  Terry Tater  Being a country guy, I can tell you how frustrating it is to see these city folk move into our neighbourhoods. They come in and are surprised that the country isn't what they expected and then try to change it to the image they have in their heads....meaning, they try to change us. Yes, I'm conservative. I'm about self reliance, personal responsibility, individual rights and sovereignty, hard work, and judging others on their character and integrity. I don't decry the actions of others when I'm guilty of those things myself. I try to say what I mean and conversely, mean what I say. It's how people of integrity should try to live their lives. I don't always succeed, in fact, I'm a failure a good part of the time but I recognise the weaknesses the reside in me. That's why I take umbrage in the defensive stance of this woman. She won't take responsibility for her part in what she sees as a problem. She wants it to be about everyone else BUT her. Had she admitted her role in this perceived problem and how difficult it will be to change the mindset of the average person, the conversation could have went in a more positive direction. But she wouldn't do that. All she wanted to do was identify the bad guy and then exert control. My ego isn't so grand that I think I can change the world but I do know that I can try to control my own actions. Worse, I don't have the right to control them anyway. Change, positive change, comes through a cultural renaissance, led by consciences of individuals, acting on their own free will. It's no different that the cultural change that the internet brought about. Individual decisions to use the new technology, no one being forced into it but a silent, yet overwhelming force of personal choices.
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  3645. I don't believe that for a moment. We've always, as a species, tried to grapple with the ideas of right and wrong. We just overcome one atrocity to replace it with another. That's the irony of human history. We think that we're better and refuse to admit that we're not.
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  3646.  edwardschlosser1  The Constitution is our guide to Liberty. If you're not willing to defend the Constitution, you have no respect for Liberty, either. The Constitution was written in the blood of those who fought for it to exist. You have to defend Liberty by holding the Constitution as the codified guide to freedom. If it hasn't been followed, then we'd better change that....and quickly and at any price, including your own blood.
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  3647.  @brianthomson6512  Hopefully, someone else might read it and get the message, even if he's incapable of understanding it. People have to know just how serious this is. That might be the plus in my comment.
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  3648. This is a comment that says a lot of nothing. Are you saying that you'd reject an idea just because he supports it? He's talking about a life philosophy and the best you can up with is "I don't like him". Not exactly a peak intellectual thought.
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  3649.  @pouglwaw5932  I like that remark. Slick politicians are like Ted Bundy. Great smile, engaging personality and deadly. Beware the "loveable" career politician. I'm going to use that, if you don't mind.
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  3650.  @alphagenisis1  The guy's a troll. Pay no attention to him.
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  3651. Gratitude is the one aspect of Christianity that I see great value in. Gratitude brings a feeling of fulfilment and contentment. Ingratitude breeds resentment, anger and contempt. Why would anyone want to live that way?
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  3652.  @halielouya453  You've not heard of Covid? It's this new pandemic that ravaging the globe and has caused all nations to impose severe lockdowns. It happened in the US as well and each state was allowed to set it's own policies on how it was handled, as per the Constitution. Guess what states imposed the strictest lockdowns and had the most severe economic downturns. That's right....Democrat states. In fact, people are leaving those states for places like Florida, Texas, W. Virginia and Tennessee......all Republican states. I'm not a party hack but this is the truth. How you could go on about a recession and not say ONE WORD about Covid, shows just how dishonest you are....and quit simpering over an ordinary man. "Biden is so strong and Powerful!!!" Can you get any more fawning than that? This has to be a joke, some kind of satire.
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  3653.  @zemm9003  You do realise that England is another country and that the problem that we're talking about is in the United States, a country where only 8.3% of the population claim English ancestry.
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  3654.  @tobybigham4196  Yes...I understand English. He said it was the English way and that they're learning from the best. I said that it's not just the English way but the HUMAN way. People do it all the time all over the world. In fact, Orwell warned us about word manipulation and I doubt that it was only directed at the English. He was talking about Socialists and how they control people through controlling language. Sort of like North Korea calling itself a Democracy. They even have some kind of weird rationalisation to justify why they're correct in doing so. I don't like the idea that others are immune to this kind of word gaming and that the English are responsible. I'm NOT English and I know that it's NOT true.
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  3655. Namesi That's because I don't know what hardship is. I know people that lived near my mother starved to DEATH in the war. I know my grandfather, my dad and uncles had to bury food so the Nazis wouldn't take it. I know my uncle spent the war in a concentration camp for being in the Dutch underground. I know that my grandfather lost 7 children to child hood diseases that have never affected the families I grew up with over the last 65 years. That's hardship. I had to do farm chores morning and evening growing up and thought it was hardship at the time, but that was self pity and had nothing to do with reality. I've suffered a deep personal tragedy but that's life and really not the fault of any political system or oppression. I've always had food, a place to live, never had to face the nagging fears that plagued people in the past from disease, war or crop failures. I KNOW I've had it relatively good. Not perfect. What is? There are places in the world that are suffering acute hardships but America or any of the western nations are NOT one of them. Any hardship suffered there is not because they're living in the US. If one has a sound mind and body in the US or hasn't face personal tragedy, there is no reason to claim hardship. It's only the result of an imagination given to self pity.
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  3656.  @theinsomniac4life  The question she asked was one that implied that Trump was responsible for the spreading of the virus. His response was to address that implication by saying that he's not the one to ask, when using that type of implication. China would be the appropriate country to ask, specifically meaning their leadership.
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  3657. Everything is flawed. Radical socialism is the most flawed of all.
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  3658. Not if the markets tank or the country is taken over by Marxists. Then they'll be just like the rest of us, except they'll have no skills. They'll be screwed when they can't figure out why their seeds won't grow or it just won't rain.
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  3659.  @kitjones6896  I've asked, multiple times, for the evidence which shows Trump saying that. Haven't seen it yet and I doubt that you'll show it to me, either. Repetition doesn't make it the truth.
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  3660. China should never have been granted the Olympics, in the first place.
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  3661.  @samwalsh4357  He was also against the Marxist views of Lenin and Stalin. He was a Democratic Socialist. I don't like them either but he hadn't had the chance to see how dangerous that ideology could be. Democratic Socialism is destroying the west. As Benjamin Franklin once said. "When people realise that people can vote themselves money, that will be the end of the Republic". I paraphrased that.
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  3662. If you're waiting for appreciation for your work ethic, you'll be waiting for a long time. Eff the employer and the government. Do it for yourself, out of a sense of pride and self esteem. You can't get others to like you but you can sure like yourself. People like you are the problem. You keep voting for free stuff from the government and then complain when they tax you to pay for the free stuff.
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  3663. Imagine believing that humans aren't corrupt. We all are given to corruption. The problem is that we've learned to accept it from those we like. You don't like Trump so you vilify him for his corruption. Why aren't you vilifying Biden for doing EXACTLY the same thing in the Ukraine that Trump is being accused of? It's selective vilifying when dealing with human corruption, that's the problem in politics right now. It's a lack of integrity....the integrity of being willing to admit that no one is above doing the wrong thing, including yourself.
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  3664.  YouTubeDweller8008  Just because Claudine Gay and others fell into money or are born into, doesn't mean that a poor person can't become rich or at least, well off. I know LOTS of people that did it. My dad is one. I have siblings that did the same. All they did was work hard, have a plan, and don't waste your money. Excess drinking will cost you a fortune. Smoking is the same and doing drugs. Buying a fancy car, a huge home, basically living beyond their means is not the way. It's like Tim Pool says, you need to understand your priorities. It can be done but with your attitude, you'll never do it. You've declared yourself a loser before you've even started to try.
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  3665. You don't have to watch the cut ups. He also airs them in their entirety. Some like the cut ups. To each their own. You can watch the long form interviews and others can watch the short ones or you can watch both. Watch the long one and then go over a segment that you like on a topic that you might send to a friend to watch. Not that big a crisis.
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  3666.  @diegaspumper8501  He started it and I was just dishing back to him what he started at. I wouldn't have even responded if he hadn't implied that they guy was a liar. If he thinks that anecdotes are lies, then so are his anecdotes. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.
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  3667. Go for it, Ms Hageman. It's time to end the Cheney's time with the Republican Party.
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  3668. The root cause being those people that are peering out their windows at those doing the clean up and then going back to watching TV. It's their attitudes that are the root cause.
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  3669.  @gorkyd7912  You don't care about the 8.3 billion dollars? You should. To spread the testing kits for the virus and get them to where they are most needed will be on the government dime. No money, how it is going to get there. There will need to be clinics set up for those tested so they aren't going to public hospitals. That takes money. Those under imposed quarantine still need to eat, drink and other amenities and way to get it. THAT takes money. I live in a town that has a large air force base where 230 people from that cruise ship will be quarantined. Do you think that it won't cost money go look after these people. Use your head a little and quit talking through anger.
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  3670. Do you really think that they need a vaccine to do this? They can do this in a multitude of ways. Nanobots in our food that attach themselves to the lining of your intestines or in the brain. In the water supply maybe. Millions of them released periodically so everyone has them inside them. All they need is for one of them to succeed in its programming to attach itself to the human body. In fact, you could have them in your body already. Now, they want to approach you and question you on motives. Not "Where were you on Friday?" but "Why were you THERE on Friday?" Or it's all bullcrap.
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  3671.  @penny4744  NO....NOO...no...NOOOOO!!!!! When Brett Kavanaugh was accused, they used it as a political tool. He had to be guilty because he was the wrong political class. When Joe Biden was accused, they shrugged it off because it hurt them politically. They didn't care about the victims in either case. They're using rape and their victims as political pawns. That hurts all the victims of rape. How can you be so blind as to not see that?
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  3672. For a minute there, I thought that the governor was going to thank God for sending us the Trump vaccine.
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  3673.  @VV-ck7hw  He's questioning the veracity of what a Democrat is saying. A black Democrat at that. Nothing could be more controversial than that. How dare he? How dare anyone question a Democrat politician.
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  3674.  @CarryTheThree  Not when you become a monopoly. There are laws against that. It was done to Standard Oil and I'm wagering you'd approve of that. Try to operate a computer without Google, Microsoft or Amazon servers. Then you add Twitter and Facebook and you have a big tech oligarchy that's colluding to only present one version of the political spectrum and suppressing others. Stacey Abrams is talking about voter suppression but we're facing something just as insidious and maybe even more dangerous. Information suppression. Every totalitarian government in modern history has done it. They've managed to take over control of the media and then only allowed their voices to be heard. Right now, the left controls big tech and they're deciding what is appropriate for you...yeah YOU....and I to see and hear. Create your own space. Do you mean like Parler? The minute some small entrepreneur tries and reaches any level of success, someone, like Amazon, suppresses them. I have a hard time believing that anyone would support the big tech corporations, the number one source of information that's suppressing information in favour of what they deem we should be allowed to view. I hate it when people use this insult but I have to use it. "Corporate lackey" seems to fit.
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  3675.  @j4nk3n  I'll never see a million dollars and I've worked hard. A divorce was a big factor but that doesn't mean that I don't have a decent nest egg put aside. Also, I could care less if someone gets handed a million dollars. Not my concern. I'm concerned with what I do with my life. I'm no good to me, my family or my friends if I don't do right with my life. Worrying about how others live only distracts me from what's really important. As long as they don't impose their way of life or thinking on others, they can live anyway that they like. Try to force me or anyone else on how to live and I'll have something to say about it.
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  3676.  @darkdan3379  You're a troll....the lowest form of life on the internet.
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  3677.  @doubleooh7337  Yeah. I've had this channel for 15 years. I like to watch YouTube videos and sometimes I make comments. One of the lowest forms of life on the internet are those who make short, unsolicited comments that attack or insult people who make serious comments. So I call them out. You did just that. You made a snarky remark. No substance. Nothing of value, engaging only in mockery. If you don't want to be called a troll, don't act like one.
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  3678. Strange how the Keystone Pipeline is a huge threat to the survival of a green world but a Qatar pipeline to Europe is a great idea. Political logic is illogical.
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  3679.  @graceamerican3558  They know history. Where do you think they got the idea? They're hoping that WE don't know history and they're correct. I just talked to a buddy of mine and he can't see the similarity between this Biden proposal and the Soviet Union or the dystopian world described by Orwell. "This is different. White supremacy is wrong and should be destroyed" That's what he's saying. He really believes that this is different than "Capitalist bourgeoisie must be destroyed" as they send ordinary people to the Gulag. He even acknowledges that the Soviets were evil. The lack of self awareness is disturbing.
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  3680. When my mother caught me with my hand in the cookie jar, I was guilty. "Proven guilty" was NEVER on the table. Moseby was caught. The rest "should" be a formality but she does have that "rich privilege" going for her. Mom never gave me any privilege, other than not pulling too hard on my ear, because normally I was "such a good boy".
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  3681.  @mchristine2007  You see, I didn't know anything about this cop's past so all I did was take in his message. I'm sure the vast majority of those who saw his video, feel the same. To me, this is exactly how I felt about how frustrating it must be have this deal with today's attitudes towards the police. Now, I have to think about the person and the message is lost. In other words, you've just told everyone, intentionally or not, to not to listen to this message, not because it's true or not, but because the messenger has faults. This will harm any future police voice in the future, whether the guy has faults or not, on this topic. You've made this about the person, not about the message. THAT'S my objection. 2+2=4, no matter who says it. You're confusing truth with personality and it's done more harm than good and it could only add to the animosity that so many people already feel about the police. I'm sure that wasn't your intention but that is the outcome.
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  3682.  @ericlazenby5984  You want them to show BEFORE the crime? Are you seriously that foolish? And they don't ALL laugh in your face, either. That's your own bigotry coming through which says all people, in a specific group, are exactly the same. Identity politics....the bane of modern society. My ex-wife, and my kids, went away for the evening and while she was gone, someone broke in and robbed them. Not only her stuff, but the kids bicycles, laptops, cameras and other valuable. The police didn't laugh at them. They went to pawnshops in all the surrounding towns and even got some of the stuff back and a person was arrested. I worked as a bartender for years. Every time I needed the police because of violent patrons, they were always helpful. They even had a police car parked outside a waitresses home because an extremely violent patron threatened her. They didn't laugh. Years later my son was killed in a tragic accident. 2 officers came to my door to inform me of the tragedy and one of them stayed with me and talked for almost 2 hours until I was ready to meet with family and friends. Then he gave me a ride to where I had to go. They didn't laugh. They showed nothing but sympathy and understanding. You're making broad statements to suit your own bitterness and hatred. It's unfair and shows a weak mind. If there are cops who do behave inappropriately, complain about them so they either forced to change their ways or are fired. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. They're defunding police in big cities all over the US and violent crime has increased by leaps and bounds. Over 200% in New York alone. Violent crime has been on the way down until this new police hatred started. Now it's returning. Everyone one of those 200% more, in New York, thank you for making that violent altercation possible by your lack of support of the police.
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  3683.  George Gee  Baloney. Do you really think that those machines will be cranking out products for a populace that can't afford to buy them? What we'll see is a change in how people attain financial security. How that will happen is difficult to predict but who could have predicted, in 1850, how the economy would change over the next 150 years. Those who tried, like Thomas Malthus, predicted mass starvation as well. Yet, more people have been lifted out of abject poverty, in the last 20 years, than at any time in human history. We're producing more food on less land and the only people starving today aren't starving due to lack of food. It's due to political corruption and war. The ability to feed them is there. Human weakness or the tendency to imperfection is the reason they're in trouble.
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  3684.  @IwillNeverVoteBlueAgain  Thank you so much. I sometimes feel as if I'm missing something but for the life of can't see what that could be. It's nice to hear that maybe I'm not as crazy as I sometimes think I am. Also, I fully agree with you on the racial and political bias. So much of what's being said is based along their favourite narrative and has nothing to do with specific facts.
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  3685. The Civil War is exactly what China wants. A fractured US means that China will become the world power. This will destroy everyone but especially those living in the Inner Cities.
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  3686.  @max420thc  The corrupt politicians are at the behest of the Chinese government and their agents. You have to get rid of the corrupt judges but it's the Republicans, not the RINOs, who are as corrupt as they come, that are standing against the Chinese and the politicians that are in their pockets. That's why the Democrats and RINOs, along with Big Tech, the Media and the multinationals, hate Trump so much. He's been standing against the Chinese and has been outspoken about it for over 20 years. A Chinese professor has just talked about it in a speech he gave, saying that Trump was the first president that they couldn't control. China has been doing everything possible since Trump was elected, to get that control back and Biden might well be their ticket to regaining that control.
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  3687.  Thị Lộ Lô  OR.....he realised that the Democrats have gone too far towards the Socialist spectrum and he won't support that agenda. It's like finding out your spouse is a serial killer and rapist. Are you going to continue to support him? Of course not. Loyalty is wonderful. Blind loyalty is for brainless idiots.
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  3688.  @battlegroundone  Dave Rubin was one of the leftie media personalities until he had Larry Elder on his show. Elder shot one fact after another and Dave just sat there with his mouth wide open, unable to refute a word the Elder said. That was the moment that Dave Rubin woke up and it was Larry Elder that shook him awake.
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  3689.  @rezakarampour6286  We should hear more from stupid women? LOL.
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  3690.  @alviverdeus  Hello troll. What bridge do you live under?
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  3691.  @alviverdeus  Sorry. No deities here. I'm an atheist. I do believe in trolls though. Creatures who hide under bridges or behind fake YouTube names.
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  3692.  @alviverdeus  It's common sense. I want to be able to believe as I choose. I even believe in the "love thy neighbour" directive that's so important to the Christian faith. I don't know if that's deep or not. I just don't see the point in hate. Hate's what's caused every war, murder and genocide in history. That's not "deep". It's fact. It's hatred that's causing you to make such snarky remarks. I surprised that you've responded. Maybe you're not the troll that I thought you were.
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  3693. @Master Carbuncle Wow. Aren't you the elitist snob. Educational betters? I suppose we should all have our curriculum vitae on hand so we can set the order of speech hierarchy when we meet. We could then kick the high school dropouts out of the room and back to back alleys where they belong. Get over yourself.
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  3694. What's this "pursuit of happiness" stuff? I want to be guaranteed happiness. I don't want to chase after it. Give it to me....or ELSE.
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  3695.  Doc Wonder  Thanks Doc. I'd have never got it without your medical insight.
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  3696.  Doc Wonder  I used medical because of your youtube name. People associate "Doc" with medicine. More sarcasm, I'm afraid. It seems you do have a problem picking up on sarcasm in print. LOL.
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  3697.  @sthubbins4038  NO ONE invalidated this election. He was just as sure that there was fraud as Hillary was and he told that crowd to march "peacefully and patriotically", HIS words, to let the members of Congress know how he felt. He then told the audience to GO HOME and "primary" those Republicans that didn't question the integrity of the election. "Primary them"...that means for them to get ready for the NEXT election. It means to get Republican candidates that will support the president, no matter who it is. Does that REALLY sound like "storm the Capital Building" to you? Also, Trump was over a mile away, when he gave that speech. It was impossible for him to "watch" them storm the building. That's pure hyperbole on your part. I gave TWO examples of VERY questionable events around this election...TWO examples that should have been investigated and ONE WAS and the person was charged. This woman bragged that she had control of over 7 thousand mail in ballots. MAIL IN BALLOTS....the very thing that Trump was worried about all along and this woman was charged for doing it. Hillary had NO evidence....AT ALL. The Mueller report turned up nothing and it cost the American taxpayers MILLIONS to do it. YOUR taxpayer money. Now the Democrats are spending even more. Thousands of troops around the Capital. Barbed wire fencing. Investigating military personnel for questionable tweets and reassigning them. Investigating government offices and purging all Republican supporters by going through their internet accounts. Do you know who else did that? Who did it right after the "Night of the Long Knives"? They have NO right to investigate people that weren't even there or to question the loyalty of military personnel because a few jerks, out of tens of thousands that were in Washington that day, acted foolishly. Security even LET some of them in, if they promised not to damage anything. Then the Democrats had a state funeral for officer Sicknick, claiming he was killed fighting rioters, when he died the following day from a stroke which had nothing to do with the riots. Now they have some of them in solitary confinement, even though it was months ago. Yet, when Antifa barricaded the doors of a Federal Courthouse, in Portland, and tried to burn the place down with people inside it, they just let them go. Over 120 nights in a row of rioting in Portland and they're STILL rioting. They had violent protests AGAIN last night and over 2 dozen gunshots at the one year Memorial for George Floyd at the "autonomous" zone in Minneapolis. In the middle of the day, caught on video. It's all political theatre and it's 2 sets of rules. And to top it all off....I've already said that those who broke in should be arrested and charged. They're a bunch of idiots. The difference is....I want to apply the law equally to rioters. YOU only want to apply it to those you don't like.
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  3698.  COkeefe Jones  So you're comparing the American society of 200 years ago to the society of today. The US went through a Civil War, where tens of thousands of white people, were killed and maimed, which resulted in the END of slavery. Have you never heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? The US spent 82 years with slavery in the southern states and 156, since then, where slavery is illegal, but all you see any of that. You're still living in the early 19th century and you can't get past it. They even showed you, in this video, the statistics that show that Nigerian Americans, people who actually came from Africa, with the darkest skins there is, are doing better than white folk....and you still call things trash. You're a whiner. A guy who complains about everything.
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  3699. What the hell was that weird rant at the beginning, Cenk? I was embarrassed for you.
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  3700.  @CalebTrask  Yes. I said that you do not have the right to impose your speech on others. You can't impose your views on others. I said it in the context of what this video is about. This guy forced his way up front and started his rant. He had no right to do that.
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  3701.  @PhillMetal  What? It's a political event at which he's the speaker. No one is forced to show up and listen. They came of their own free will because they wanted to hear him speak. That's why they're there. YOU may not want to hear him and that's your right. Just don't go to the event. You don't go to an event, in which the marquee says that Trump is the speaker, and then complain that he's speaking. Don't go. That really is the silliest comment yet.
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  3702.  @jman6214  To each their own. If everyone liked the same thing, we'd be like robots, assembly line people. That would be the Orwellian dystopian world that we read about in the book "1984".
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  3703.  @ascgazz  He's probably sitting in his easy chair, sipping on a hot chocolate, looking out the window at the deep freeze outside, as he types his "shit" on a keyboard. I'd say there's a lot of difference.
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  3704.  @ascgazz  I'm not sure what you're talking about. I've made numerous comments on this thread and I need specifics before I respond. Copy and paste what I said and I'll know and able to respond to it with clarity. I want to fully understand what you mean.
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  3705.  @ascgazz  First, I didn't know that it was an inch away. It could have been right in the middle of the comment section. All you had to do is copy and paste what I said and ask me to clarify and I would have done it. Maybe you don't know how but that's not my fault. So, here I go. I'm going to scroll through 266 comments because YOU want a reply. Alright, I've just scrolled through the 266 comments, stopping every 10 or so comments to hit the "show more comment's" button, just to answer your question. I was responding to this comment "Well… you same on here just to talk shit about it, so..? 😂😂😂." You're equating standing in line in the freezing cold for hours to making a comment on a telephone that takes around a minute to make, at most. I'm saying that there is a big difference. He could have sent that message from anywhere, including the scenario that I mentioned. I was mocking the idea that the effort involved is exactly the same.
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  3706.  @doodles9358  Except this isn't another country. This is a city in the United States and not that far away are beautifully cared for streets and nice homes. Why he says that the Democrats are the problem is because they are continuously raising taxes to help the poor. They are continuously telling people that if they vote Republican that their lives will get worse and that they're the only ones that care about them. Yet, nothing EVER changes, even though hundreds of millions of tax dollars are earmarked to clean it up....but it never does get to the problem areas. If things do start to look better, the Democrats start screaming "gentrification" and vilifying those who try to make things better. People don't have to live that way but the Democrats won't tell them that. They encourage the idea that there's no way out and it's the fault of the Capitalist system and the Republicans. So, the locals don't go to work or vote for those who they think are at fault. They keep voting Democrat and nothing EVER changes. It's horrific.
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  3707.  HenryDavidT  Narrow streets don't have to mean dirty and they're going to be let go. Streets in Europe are narrow and they're still clean. It's a community effort and those at the top aren't showing that they care. Also, I live in a small, apartment and I keep it clean, as do my neighbours. We still have standards of living and a pride in living well. What it takes is hard work and every time I say something like that, people get upset with me. I'd like to see a place clean up and improve without anyone working to do it. It's due to a poor attitude and poor work ethic. That's why the community lives like this. There's no other reason.
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  3708.  @doodles9358  Another thing that has to go are the unions. They're safe havens for the incompetent and the lazy. As long as unions exist, in the public sector, in these cities, nothing will improve. The unions will block every effort made.
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  3709. There's no such thing as someone's truth. Truth stands alone. It has nothing to do with what I believe or think or the events of my life. It's about facts. I can add to the truth but I can never use my opinions or life experience as MY truth. Also, being liberal means that I will hear and consider all sides of an issue. However, it doesn't mean that I have to accept it all as truth. 2 plus 2 does NOT equal 5, the earth is not flat and Elvis is not alive and until there is a solid logical argument or facts that say different, this will always be true. No matter what I or anyone else thinks. You cannot have 2 or more sets of truth.
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  3710. Thousands of schools are just sitting empty. Why not use some of them as makeshift hospitals? These are government buildings, just sitting there. When the caseload goes down, do a sterilisation program so the buildings are virus free when the kids go back to school. Why is it that politicians are so devoid of common sense?
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  3711. That's right. There are no telescopes or microscopes that will allow me to see an ant 200 miles away. Yet, I can land in Australia. Isn't that strange?
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  3712.  Trumptard  This is your scientific assessment, Doctor Trumptard? Thanks, for your expert advice. Is this based on research into the drug or Covid-19? It would be nice to see the data that you've amassed and compare it to that of those doctors who have used it. We need all the information we can get. While we're amassing this information, we should also get all the data surrounding Trump Derangement Syndrome that's available. There does seem to be a correlation between that affliction and the ability to assess information, specifically the automatic, knee jerk, negative reaction to anything that President Trump without study or data being applied.
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  3713.  @NoOneGetzOutAlive  Yup. When one is lacking in facts and evidence, one has to resort to name calling. You're a troll. The lowest form of life on the internet.
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  3714.  @donaldclifford5763  Deciding to no longer send money and weapons to a leader who has openly said that he doesn't want a ceasefire isn't imposing peace. He did backtrack that statement but it has to be one of the dumbest things that he could have said. Zelensky is hoping for added financial support but picks a fight with the guy who's going to give that money to him. That's not very bright. Try it with your banker next time you need a loan. See how that works out for you.
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  3715. Gender studies is a branch of human sociology that has succumbed to a Marxist type of ideology which pits one group against another in a predator/victim field of thought. It is akin to the study of economics in which communism would be a branch of that field that is studied, not as economic thought, but as THE only true and viable economic solution. Had gender studies remained a discipline that is interwoven with other social studies and remained open to critical thought, we wouldn't be in this mess in our universities right now.
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  3716. She welcomed the negatively biased questions. She'd walk in with her binder, important parts bookmarked, ready for anything that they'd throw at her. They'd ask and she'd smile and open that binder and then start firing facts. It was a joy to watch.
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  3717. CNN's main office in Atlanta is targeted by rioters. What did they expect? They were at the forefront, of the MSM, over the last 5 years, throwing gasoline on race division. They were tacitly encouraging this type of action. Now they'll blame Trump and the right for the rioting targeting their building. Just blame and more blame. They want to see the country destroyed. It's the dream of the left to destroy and rebuild the new Utopia from the ashes. Just like Bill Maher and his recession, things may not go the way that they hoped and the new "Utopia" might be closer to a new "Dystopia".
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  3718.  @Jonny2by4  I was in my mid-twenties, when my brother, in university at the time, told me that there was no way I'd be collecting SS when I retired because it would be broke. I'm now 68 and happily collecting every month. I will say that if we allow the socialists (Marxists) to take over, the end of SS may end. Nothing can kill an affluent society quicker than Marxism.
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  3719.  @frzstat  That's hilarious. I got my SIN card in 1969 and I never once thought of it that way. By the way, SIN is an acronym for Social Insurance Number, in case you were wondering.
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  3720.  @whatthehell2592  Minorities don't drink in Louisiana. It's alcohol suppression.
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  3721. If you do go, and you should, don't engage the rabble rousing leftists. Ignore them unless they come after you. Don't let them and the MSM use an encounter to further their cause.
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  3722.  @orkhepaj  If you can't understand the meaning of the word "integrity" there's no point in even discussing this with you. You're dealing in semantics. You're correct. It's NOT "cheating" in the specific definition of the word but it's damned unfair and only those lacking in ethics would use this to unfairly compete. You're muddling the argument and I can't help but think that you're doing it intentionally.
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  3723.  @orkhepaj  Then forget about the semantics. When something is ethically wrong, it's wrong. Zero in on that. Anyone, with any sense of integrity, know it's wrong and knows that they've found a way to game the system. In other words, to legally cheat to their advantage. Unethical behaviour is legal cheating. You're dealing in semantics and it serves no purpose except to muddle an argument and causing people, who by all appearance agree on the meat of the argument, to argue over things that should be on the periphery. Maybe you like dealing in silly outlying games but I think it's a waste of time. Move on to the meat of the topic.
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  3724. Are you kidding? California homeless....272,000. Florida homeless...24,000. People leaving California by the tens of thousands. People going to Florida by the tens of thousands. Poop apps in California. No such thing in Florida. That isn't mud. it's facts. Are you seriously saying that this would be a draw? If I had to make a choice between Florida and California, based on what was said in that debate, the choice is quite clear and it would not be California.
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  3725. @Linken Projek I'm an atheist and I could care less about this "Prove God exists" argument. It has NOTHING to do with how corrupt Adam Schiff has been. Quit changing the subject.
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  3726. @GA477 Read my earlier comment. There are some facts there that imply that this may not be true. I suppose, had the Democrats been in power, they wouldn't have been zeroed in on the impeachment. That was the centre of their attention back in January and early February while Covid was taking hold. Had they been focusing on real issues and threats at the time, maybe they could have saved some lives but I doubt it. They would have been more forceful in their opposition to the "xenophobic" travel bans to China instead of claiming it was a contrived distraction to get the focus away from impeachment. However, we JUST DON'T KNOW.
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  3727. @ActualAlien At first you were mildly amusing. Now you're just an annoying child blathering out the same nonsense over and over again. Grow up.
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  3728.  @anneanne9009  In other words, we all lose our rights or no one does. I've been quarantined because of the measles. It lasted 2 weeks and then it was over. What you want to do is quarantine EVERYONE until there is no measles in the country. Then we must do that with the flu, chickenpox, Covid-19, SARS, tuberculosis or whatever the current disease might be. Perpetual lockdown until all contagious disease has been eliminated. It's one thing to practise social distancing on a cooperative scale but another to impose it, on force of state penalty on every citizen. Once force is accepted, then individual freedom can be forfeited for perpetuity. "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" Albert Camus Think about that.
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  3729. Of course a lot of teachers support the "not testing" policy. Testing students also tests the teachers and teachers don't want to be tested. At least the teachers who aren't doing a good job and don't care to. They don't want to lose their job and their pensions so keeping their job is important. I've worked in union shops for years. Invariably, the laziest guy in the shop becomes the shop steward. Not always but if you make bets over many shops, you'll end up ahead.
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  3730. The Democrats would have been better off to completely ignore that Trump went to that ceremony. All they're doing is appearing petty and mean spirited towards those soldiers and their families by attacking Trump's participation.
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  3731.  @reaverbode9845  I appreciate the sympathy and I thank you.
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  3732.  @gerbo8018  I didn't know about those world records. I'm of Dutch heritage. My parents came to Canada in 51. I've been to the Netherlands a few times but never to Belgium but my parents always saw Belgium as a sister nation. My dad's best friend was Belgian. To be honest, I'm not sure on how efficient the Dutch government is either. I just assumed that they were like all the old Dutchmen I knew here in Canada. Hardworking and pragmatic and I figured the Belgians were the same. However, governments sure know how to screw things up. That's why I'm not a fan of socialism. They do what they do now badly. I don't want them to do more. That's just more to get wrong. I think you've just justified my reasoning on it. We'd like them to be better but they never seem to be able to do it.
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  3733. @Carryonandlaugh Where did I ever say ANYTHING about colour. I NEVER said that once. I think you're responding to the wrong comment.
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  3734.  @martinkent333  Who you callin an anarchist?
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  3735.  @michaelmiller7786  Easy to call people names. Why don't you address the issues that you might disagree with? That would at least be useful.
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  3736. Saving the environment by destroying the environment. Sounds like the government understands the problem. Get it?
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  3737.  @somkit9102  That's the official reason. However, had he not stated his belief that men and women are different and that men should stay out of women's bathroom's, he would NOT have been suspended. He could have went to school just like he always has. They put him into a position in which the charge of trespassing was possible. It's a word trick.....a sleight of hand. "Oh no.....he wasn't charged for his beliefs. He was charged for trespassing". It's as disingenuous as it gets. If it wasn't for stating his religious beliefs, at a religious school no less, he wouldn't have been suspended. THAT'S the real travesty. People have the right to believe as they will. To suspend someone, from a religious school, for quoting scripture to support his beliefs, is beyond ridiculous. It's wrong and the school should pay for it.
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  3738. Who's the Don Lemon doppelganger?
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  3739. Trump, as the next president, has serious problems. He could be too divisive for the country. A more stable DeSantis might help to bring the country back together. Neither Trump or Biden is capable of it. In fact, I can't think of one Democrat that fits that bill.
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  3740.  @d.h.jefferies2191  Oil companies don't set the price of oil. The markets do. Right now, the US is producing 2 million gallons less per day than in Jan. 2020. That's almost exactly what the US needs to be oil independent. Oil production started to go down right after Biden signed an executive order to slow down or stop oil and gas production on federal lands with an eye towards green energy. When the supply goes down, prices go up. That's basic economics....the first thing you learn when you take economics 101 in school. Biden did that. Now people are refusing to buy Russian oil, which takes MORE oil out of the market. That shortfall could have been handled by the Keystone Pipeline, when it went online. The Russian situation could have accelerated the building of the pipeline but not now. Guess who put a stop to that. It's rather simplistic to blame greedy oil companies. It goes a lot deeper than that but I suppose digging deeper will only serve to throw water on your political leanings and you can't have that.
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  3741. Now he's fomenting it in the US. LOL. I'm staying tuned.
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  3742.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  We're not talking about Trump. Don't be so single minded. We're talking about a fair trial. If a juror has a preconceived bias against the defendant, would he give a fair verdict? If another juror says that she was worried about violence and personal retribution, would that affect her ability to fairly judge the defendant? If a sitting member of Congress flies thousands of miles any utters back handed threats if the proper verdict isn't handed down, would that cause fear within the jury and cause them to give a verdict that would cost THEM the least harm? This is why a person why might question whether this was fair or not. The election has NOTHING to do with it.
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  3743.  @TylerShacklefordDurden  That's exactly why you'd make a terrible juror. You've already given a verdict before the evidence has been displayed. The trial is theatre because you think you already know it all. A juror has to go in neutral and be willing to honestly and in good faith, examine all the evidence. That's why Lady Justice is wearing a blindfold. If you were called to this jury, you would be obligated to tell them that you believe that the defendant is guilty....unless you're totally bereft of integrity.
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  3744.  @jaysonflask1663  They're telling me that anyone that uses snide remarks and nothing else really doesn't have a lot to say.
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  3745.  @cowcudda  Troll.
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  3746. Sir Bentington "Cleaning your room" is a metaphor for your life. Peterson is bluntly saying that if one cannot understand and deal with the issues that plague their own life, how could that person possibly skip the small issues around him and tackle the big ones first. It would be presumptuous of me to give marriage advice to the masses if all my marriages have ended in shambles. Peterson is saying that before you do that you should be sure that you can set the example of your personal circle of life as a model for the larger societal model that you'd hope to achieve. It has absolutely nothing to do with individual pampering. A society in which the majority of individuals are well adjusted and ethically sound will invariably find a society that is, as a whole, the same. A society of morally bankrupt and psychologically troubled individuals are not going to have any rational basis to shape the type of society that is of any benefit to anyone.
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  3747. Bartleby Oregon How does it benefit the team to share the ball with me if I refuse to develop my individual skills to be of any help to the teams. A team of individuals who do not hone their individual skills will be a losing team, no matter how much they're willing to share the ball. I am of no use to the basketball team if I do not, first and foremost, develop my ability to play the game. The team is only as good as the total of the abilities of each individual. Peterson is not telling you not to share. He is saying that if you're of little value to yourself, you'll never be of value to anyone else or society in general. When one builds a house, quite often that person brings in a team of people with specialised skills to complete the job. An architect, concrete finishers, block layers and brick layers, carpenters, electricians, drywallers, roofers and decorators. They each use their skills to form a team that will complete the building of the house. However, if the block layer lacks the skill and the foundation that he builds starts to crack and the foundation is in danger of crumbling, the best carpenters and electricians in the world cannot prevent the house from deteriorating long before its time. To build a decent house, each individual must be develop their personal skills to do their part in the construction. A poor tradesman drags down the entire team of builders. That's the emphasis on the individual that Peterson is advocating. A socially and poorly developed individual is a handicap, not an asset, to society as a whole.
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  3748.  @roddawg2847  Baloney. Cuba "traded" with the Soviet Union until it collapsed. That spelled the end of the near free oil that the Soviets were providing for them. Now they're getting oil from Venezuela but the collapse of the Soviet Union was incredibly difficult for the Cuban people. I'm Canadian. 1,100,000 Canadians went to Cuba, as tourists, in 2018. The US didn't stop the tourism trade. On top of that, tourists came from Europe and even Russia. The US didn't stop them either. Also, Cuba trades with all kinds of countries....once again, Canada being its largest trading partner. Other partners are China, Spain, The Netherlands, France..... https://www.worldstopexports.com/cubas-top-10-exports/ No embargoes on those countries. The only trade embargo is with the US where American companies are not to do business in Cuba. That's it. It might surprise you to know that the United States is NOT the centre of the universe. The biggest problem with the economy and the poverty of the Cuban people is that it's a command economy, where the state runs everything. It's the most inefficient way there is to run a country. Free the people and let them start their own enterprises and create wealth that the rest of the world will want and trade for. That's how you create wealth and a decent standard of life.
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  3749. Sacrifice is the key. You can have a good life, filled with meaning but you have to be willing to work, accept setbacks and be able to deal with tragedies because tragedy will come. It's not easy but when you're ready for the challenge it's won't be that hard, either.
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  3750.  @madmisobroth1361  I see all the people slaughtered EVERY year by drunk drivers. Yet, we still allow the sale of alcohol. Broken families, abuse, bankruptcies, fetal alcohol syndrome, homelessness.....and they still sell the poison. I don't get it. You see....you can apply your logic to everything. I started shooting when I was 14 years old. I'm 69 today and I still go hunting for duck, deer, rabbit, partridge and more. I'm involved in different environmental groups and gun safety programs. I've never known ANYONE who ever went of a shooting spree. I grew up in the country, miles from any police station. It would take at least half an hour for any police officer to arrive in case of an emergency. What were we to do, my neighbours included, if we were faced with a crazed individual who wanted to do us harm? Are we to just wait for help from the police, through no fault of their own, who may not get there for 40 minutes or longer? We have to rely on ourselves and now YOU want to take that away from us. And now, with the defund the police initiatives and some even wanting to abolish the police, who's going to protect YOU. Time for YOU to step up and take care of yourself, if it's necessary....or would you rather die than protect yourself. Our guns are our tools, for protection and recreation. Don't lump me with those nutbars that lose their minds. It's no different than those who destroy and kill others due to irresponsible alcohol use. In fact, MORE people have their lives destroyed by alcohol. We accept that it's the fault of the individual when he kills someone driving while intoxicated, yet for some reason, when it's a gun, it's the fault of the collective. You can't have it both ways.
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  3751.  @RespectfullyReal  I'm saying that it's understandable that he comes off as a creep. First, he's abused and then no one believes him when he talks about it. Most sexually abused kids grow up to be extremely troubled adults. There are countless numbers of celebrity children who've grown up to be that way. I'm saying that maybe we should cut him some slack and show some understanding. If he breaks the law, that's one thing but odd behaviour, that's not illegal and we shouldn't judge others on what we haven't lived through.
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  3752.  @deepPuddlesarefun  The difference is that Hong Kong is being forced to join a nation that they don't want to join. They've not been a part of China, the national entity as it exists, at this moment, at any time in their history. They were under British protection when the Marxists took over China and have remained that way for years. Now, they're being told that, against their will, they MUST acquiesce to the supremacy of China. That's the difference. If you can't see that, you're being intentionally obtuse.
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  3753.  @pav688  When everything is free, you end up with nothing.
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  3754.  @marilynshepherd6480  He never said that he lived in the West Bank. He SAID, read it again, that he went to live in Jerusalem with the Jews because he wanted to live in peace. That's what he said. You changed what he said and then called, what you changed, a lie. That's the very definition of a strawman fallacy.
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  3755.  @mrsTraveller64  We don't know when he moved. He may have moved there years ago, before Gaza became an independent political entity. We just don't know.
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  3756.  @Maintainingabadtrip  HUH????? Cuomo puts sick Covid patients into nursing homes, lies about the extraordinarily high deaths due to that policy, assaults 3 women.....and all you can say is THAT!!!!! What does being left or right to do with it? If he's guilty of these things, he should be dealt with by the law. What the hell is wrong with you political identitarians?
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  3757. Sunny Hostin could be a 10 if she lost that sour look on her face. Negativity and hate destroys good looks and Sunny is full of both of those personality disorders. If she changed her attitude and put on an optimistic smile, filled with hope and affection, she'd be an 11. Now, I'd can only give her an 8...tops and I'm being very generous.
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  3758.  @rangequeen  manslaughter...online dictionary: "the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder." Crime of killing a human being ....NOT, severely/permanently injure someone. The word "slaughter" denotes killing. It's right in the word "manslaughter" so, you can't charge them with killing a person if no one has died.
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  3759. They should have thought of that before declaring themselves an sanctuary for illegals. What did they think would happen? If I were an illegal, the first thing I'd do is head to where ICE can't grab and deport me. The place where I could get welfare, a driver's licence and even get to vote. Exactly what I'd be looking for.
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  3760.  @georgemason926  I don't know how old you are but there were a lot of Klansmen in the past. Davis started his mission in 1983 and continued it for 10 years. Life was a lot different then. There were still Klan shootings and lynchings in my lifetime and Davis's. The Klan just didn't operate in the south, either. Lots of KKK in the northern states. You might not know any Klansmen now, but you might be surprised to find out that some of the parents of your friends may have been involved in the seventies and eighties. This didn't happen last week or last year. Davis's experience happened 30 years ago.
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  3761. Then you should be okay. Just don't get involved in buying it right now. Prices will rise as people buy at inflated prices and then the stock value will drop back to normal prices. You won't be hurt at all, but those who tried to make a quick buck, right now, will take a bath. There's a reason that the MSM is touting this story. Don't trust them.
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  3762.  @JesseJames83  When shaping a giant obelisk, you'd use a LOT more than just 4 men. Sawing it in half is a 2 man job, at least 2 at a time, but grinding and sanding the rock into a shape could employ a lot more than just 4 men. It would be covered in workers, who could work 24 hours, to get the job done.
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  3763.  @JesseJames83  If I'm digging a ditch across town, the more people with shovels, the better. It depends on the job and this type of work, just like grinding and polishing granite, is labour intensive. You could either stretch those man hours over years with 4 men, or increase the manpower and get it done in a fraction of the time. You have to think in time on man hours.
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  3764.  @fraserfir19  I should be allowed to choose where I live. I strongly resent being TOLD where to live. I'd say most of us are like that, no matter our racial background.
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  3765. The first coupling, between Meghan and Harry, must have been one amazing tryst. Fireworks and groundshaking.....a train going into the tunnel. Now, Meghan is holding the promise, of a second supernova encounter, over poor Harry's head. That memory is like a drug and Harry's addicted. That has to be the only explanation.
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  3766.  @s.muller8688  It's sarcasm. We both saw the same vid and read the same comment but you misinterpreted his meaning. Now.....read it again but, this time, read it with the most sarcastic tone possible. The tone you'd use to make fun of her. See how the meaning changes?
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  3767. Goodbye "women". I sure did love you while you were with us. Hello "birthing person". I'm not sure WHAT to make of you. One thought though. Apparently, Caitlyn Jenner can never identify as, or choose to be, a "birthing person". Social politics is getting weirder and weirder
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  3768.  @60sbaby456  She's relatively young but she's doing a great job. She's doing a better job than Jen Psaki or Karine Jean-Pierre. I suppose we don't want a Doogie Houser for Press Secretary but she's far from that.
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  3769. They've found a new way to exaggerate the numbers. Five Democrats, that fled Texas, tested positive for Covid. They're not sick because they've been vaccinated. They're just positive and the reason for it is simple. You have to GET Covid for the vaccination to work. Then Nancy Pelosi tested positive because she met with them. She's vaccinated too. None are in danger but we have to enact new restrictions because the numbers are going up. They always talk about "the science" but it doesn't mean a thing. They either don't have a clue or they twist it to suit their own agenda.
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  3770. @QUALITY KHANTENT "NEVER"? That's a long time. Like when Ann Coulter said Trump was the most likely to win the presidency on the Bill Maher show, they all told her, in mocking tones "Trump will NEVER be president" and they laughed and laughed and laughed some more at the "stupid" idea. My mother used to say "Never say never". If you do, you become complacent and the "never" suddenly happens.
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  3771. @QUALITY KHANTENT Yet, blacks had always voted Republican until the 1930s. Always!!!!! The Democrats were the party that fought to keep slavery, started the KKK and created and supported the Jim Crow laws. Then FDR came along and Blacks, reluctantly, voted Democrat because his New Deal which really helped them. However, even into the late sixties, many Democrats were still pro segregation. "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" was uttered by Democrat Governor, George Wallace in the early sixties, in my lifetime. That was supported, NOT by the Republicans, but by top Democrats. It was LBJ's war on poverty that got the blacks to fully support the Democrats, in spite of the southern Democrats like Wallace and others, called the Dixiecrats. Things change and if the economy starts to favour Black and Hispanic communities, many will vote with their wallets, not through tradition. It's what prompted them to leave the Republicans in the first place and it could bring them back again, as well. "Trump will NEVER be president". They were all SO sure. Like my mother said....NEVER say never.
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  3772. He is a braggart but he's also given high praise to his task force, to all medical people, the armed forces, even governors Newsom and Cuomo. He's been appreciative of the thanks from Mayor De Blasio, even though he COULD blast the mayor for some horrific decisions that the mayor made, and he even thanked Rachel Maddow for her praise for those fighting the virus. He didn't have to do that. The problem is that there are those who refuse to watch his press briefings because of their hatred for the guy and get their information from a media that is acting as the opposition party, or as they've put it in the past, the "resistance". They don't want to understand the president, as a whole person. They only want to centre on the negative.
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  3773. And you'll get genuine answers from all the crickets out there. Chirp. Chirp.
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  3774.  @nighthawk0077  Apparently not. Tulsi is a Democrat yet she is still ready to criticise her own party if they're doing something that she sees as despicable. That means that the truth is more important than going with her party just because it is her party. That's what he means by saying she isn't taking a side because that's what's expected of her. She chooses on what she believes is right. It's not that hard to understand, actually.
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  3775.  @Aanthanur  "they love to deny the dark history we come from." That's the problem....right there. That insistence that most right wingers deny the dark parts of history. Funny thing is that they don't deny it. They know it existed. They know about slavery, the slave ships, Jim Crow, the Nazi horrors. It's that they don't want that history to define who THEY are as human beings, TODAY. Just like you wouldn't define the people in those foreign nations for the actions of THEIR racism against you. If you do....you're as racist as they are. That's what's happening now with CRT. They've picked out a demographic and are portraying them as evil based only on the colour of their skin and history. That's as racist as it gets. It's a validation of hate.
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  3776.  bombchomsky  She was charged with theft of the petition. It said so right in the video. It even shows the arrest papers and you can see, at the 4 minute and 17 second point of the video, where the word "theft" is clearly shown. Maybe you should have watched more than 3 minutes of the video. Also, before you accuse someone of anything, get the evidence to support your claim.
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  3777.  @kathyconnors7409  I'm with you on that one. He was my man in the last election. I used to be Conservative but I've lost all interest in them.
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  3778.  Captain Howdy  Thanks man. This changes everything. I have to rethink my stance on burning religious artifacts now. I'm off to my thinking space.
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  3779.  @lillybell2557  "Crisis actors over share over act over emote" That's your evidence???? LOL. Come on....you can do better than that. By the way, her shop is on Bank Street in Ottawa. I know where it is. Her family also owns a shop in the small town of Merrickville Ontario, which was vandalised. Those places actually exist. If she's a "crisis actor" how is it that the people of the area aren't saying something? You don't have to agree with the stance of the truckers but don't start making up ridiculous stories as evidence. You're starting to sound like Alex Jones.
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  3780.  @justinlloyd3  I suppose it would have been better if the cops had just left the scene and let the fight play out to its conclusion. If someone gets seriously hurt or even killed, what's it to the police? None of their business....right? Those girls are no more than a pair of loud mouthed little brats. Act like a child and you get treated like one. Oh yeah, creating a disturbance is AGAINST THE LAW.
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  3781. Your story is what social assistance is there for. I don't mind paying taxes to help a guy that has medical problems, still tries his best and feels bad about his situation. You don't sound as if you expect the help but accept it because you're stuck in a bad place that's out of your control. What most of us resent is the lazy and the demanding types, the ones that can't hold down a job because they have to get up too early, it's too far away, they don't want to work nights, the boss is a jerk (they always are), it's too hot, too cold, too wet and the hours are too long. They don't want to work for "the MAN" to quote a lazy nephew who's never had a full time job in his entire adult life. They refuse to contribute and then criticise the rest of us for being that selfish with our money that we don't want to subsidise their life of video games, smoking weed and afternoon naps. Keep doing the best you can and if you're being honest about it, we're only to happy to help you out.
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  3782.  @occamsshavecream4541  The same thing happened in a small provincial park in the area where I live. There were herds of up 50 and 60 deer, stunted due to lack of food and crawling with ticks and other parasites. You couldn't go for a walk, in that park, without seeing dozens of them. Eventually, they decided to allow a group from a nearby native reservation to come in and cull the herds. They're not as common in that park anymore but the ones that you do see are bigger and healthier. That's what you want to see. The smartest thing that the Park officials have ever done.
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  3783.  @begoniasaurusrex4564  Perhaps. Seems rather unlikely. Everything is about race lately, especially if it's from the left. That allows for questioning the motives when race ISN'T mentioned. Why would that be? Oooh......he's black. Sometimes, cynicism can't be helped.
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  3784.  @GChavia  Huh? He seems to be backing Trump who he believes wants peace....even with Iran. Your comment makes no sense at all. You either have comprehension problems or you're a troll.
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  3785. "If I catch you alone, I'm going to f----g kill you" Doesn't sound too scary, does it. Then he chases the guy (Kyle) that he threatened to kill. Still no reason to be afraid...right? Then a gunshot goes off. Getting scared yet? Right after which, the guy that threatened to him him, grabs his gun (Kyle's) yelling "EFF YOU!!!!" and tries to take it away from Kyle. Should scare anyone, would it. Why would anyone think he needed to protect himself? LOL. Cuomo is as dumb as camel doo.
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  3786. Because they exist...right. The guy with the funny moustache said the same thing.
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  3787.  Masson H  When you make a prediction for the future and you're wrong, you're not lying. How can you lie about something that hasn't happened yet? I think that the Toronto Maple Leafs are going to win the Stanley Cup this year. If they don't.....am I a LIAR? Use your head a little.
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  3788. I don't mind you having your beliefs and I don't even mind if you inject a favourite quote in this comment section....but to bombard us with quotes, to overwhelm the comment section with these saying gets old. I read the first one, even the second one but by the time I read the third one, I'd had enough. If I wanted to read from the Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska, I'd read that, instead of this comment section, where I wanted to see what others thought on what Glenn Greenwald had to say. Give us a quote or 2 and then direct us to a link so that, if we want, we can't peruse his saying on our own. It's rather self centered to take over a comment section with spam.
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  3789.  Punisher 25  Another person deflecting from the topic. I've yet to see one person stand up to actually defend what the governor of Virginia said today. It's always about everything else. You're being blatantly dishonest.
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  3790.  @thevikinghermit7151  Let's hope.
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  3791.  @SpiritualIconoclast  Give me a break. You just wrote your own narrative and then applied it to the original comment and are completely unaware that you're doing it. None of that was said or implied. It's something that you dreamt up in your head.
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  3792. I've watched this video for the 3rd time. It encapsulates every discussion I've ever had with a radical leftist. I say something and then they throw back what they just heard, which is completely different than what I just said. Conspiracy types like to do that as well. This video should be textbook material for every debate class. It's absolutely brilliant. It's like someone wrote a satirical piece....yet it's real. Nothing stranger than the truth.
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  3793.  @powerhouse109  TV show and a movie? What? Another person who judges people on a single issue and then defines them on THAT issue. Did you know that there's not been one person, IN HISTORY, that hasn't said or done stupid things. I know that I have and I will bet that you have, too. So...get off your high horse and quit pretending that the perfect "you" has the right to discuss the intricacies of politics because of your innate perfection. It's an arrogance only befitting someone with sociopathic tendencies.
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  3794.  @gordonshumway6128  Like it or not, we still need politicians. People, who will do the work of organising society for mutual benefits. The problem is simple. Politicians are people and people are prone to be imperfect....that includes you and me. What you do, when it's time to vote, you vote for the person who has the best ideas, who has shown themselves to be able to get the job done, make sure that the warts don't overshadow the platform. If you have a problem with what he said, talk about them. Don't denigrate him as if that's settles any argument about his points. Behave like an adult and discuss ideas.....not people.
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  3795. It's better than that. The best and brightest are choosing them.
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  3796. Is he saying that a racist jury is going to declare Trump guilty just because he's white? It sure sounds like it.
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  3797.  @landof8  Of course it is and if it helps to expand the library, start new academic programs, bring in the best teachers.....that means nothing to the school, either. "MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!". It drives the resentful crazy to hear it.
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  3798.  @savagetv6460  So, that's the purpose of schools? To produce geniuses? I rather doubt it. This isn't about what it offers sports fans. It's about what it offers the students that are participating in the sport. It offers a free education, deeper life experiences, new contacts, unlimited future possibilities and a chance to develop their bodies and minds through physical exertion. That others can enjoy watching the odd game that they play is just a peripheral bonus to the school and the student athlete.
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  3799.  @steadynumber1  That highlighting was my intent. Thanks.
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  3800. "Those usually are bad parents" I'd say that they're usually bad people. They just don't care enough to up their game in order to care for their children. Good people don't behave that way.
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  3801.  @jad4475  I understand your perspective but it tends to minimise a serious problem. The dozens of people, that we saw in this video, are on a vast track to an early death. That in itself is extremely serious. To add to that, how do you think they get the cash to buy those drugs. I'm glad that you've not been directly affected but it's a rather apathetic way to view social issues. The first step in trying to better a bad problem is to admit that a problem exists. You made it sound as if it didn't exist. That's my issue with your comment.
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  3802.  Pops Mcgee  He said that they have VIEWS in common. VIEWS. NOT bank accounts. VIEWS. Trump is a billionaire. I'm not even a millionaire. Yet we both have white skin. We have that in common. I hate Adolf Hitler but we do have skin colour in common. It's just the way it is.
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  3803. Please, show us the information that you have that proves that this a paid operation. It's important for all to see.
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  3804.  @CameronOttello  Maher is supposed to be in touch with what's happening on the social front. That he didn't know about this shows just how out of touch he was AND is. I watched this when it aired and I had known about this for awhile. This should have been gold for a comedic social tv host and he came off looking completely uninformed. No excuse for someone with his type of career.
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  3805.  @stephenthorpe3591  Usually, someone has to be charged with a bad law so the people can see just how bad that law really is. Have Humza charged and suddenly the nonsense will be brought to light. That, or the hypocrisy will be profiled. Either way, the Humza types will only succeed if we do nothing but complain. They have to feel the consequences of the bad laws that they're legislating upon the people.
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  3806. I'm thinking that's what separates you....and a lot of us, from those who swallow anything that's fed to them.
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  3807.  @daisy8luke  Utopia. They actually believe if we all behaved in the way that they want us to behave, beautiful things will happen. That's why they think their system could ONLY lead to the better students cheerfully lifting you up. They are exceptionally naive.
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  3808.  @puppy14  No....I think it fits. I made a previous comment explaining why I think this way. If it's disappeared, as comments on YouTube are apt to do, let me know and I'll repost it.
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  3809.  @jhlfsc  Don't be ridiculous. What do want him to do? Post his name, picture and address on the internet? That would be insane. Assume people are honest but take it with a grain of salt. There are black gay men out there. Larry Elder is black and he's appalled by what's happening in our schools. Dave Rubin is gay and he speaks out about it all the time. Blaire White is transsexual and she is quite outspoken about it. She evens finds the Pride Parades sickening. I suppose that Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy. Dave Rubin is the gay face of homophobia and Blaire White is the trans face of transphobia. Always a good out. SMH.
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  3810.  @theWebWizrd  He sounds normal. It's not scripted and contrived like so many politicians who come off as used car salesmen. He speaks as if he's in a conversation.
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  3811.  @rektaldischarge7496  Since every American has a SSN, that would be the perfect way to deter voter fraud. However, I heard, numerous times, that requiring Americans to get proper ID to vote was racist. A dumb argument but that's what I heard. You're the one that brought up voter suppression and when I googled it, they cited that asking for ID was voter suppression. I don't see how it could. It would surely, in this computer age, help prevent those using false ID from voting because they run the risk of having duplicate SSN trying to vote and getting caught with a false ID. For some reason, Democrats think that this would be a bad idea. Catching people using false identifications is something the Democrats don't want to see happen. Voter ID makes sense. So what if there's another voting step. Who cares, as long as it prevents voter fraud and illegal ID use.
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  3812.  @rektaldischarge7496  Do you mean that there are areas in Florida and Georgia where one can't get a driver's licence? Man, that sucks. If it is harder to register to vote in some areas, why not address those problem areas instead of just making accusations? You're insinuating that it's the Democrats that were hurt by this, so maybe they should help with transportation, school buses or the like to get voters to the polls. The ballots are still secret so it's not as if it can't be bi-partisan. I've already mentioned how there are people out there who use false ID all the time. SSN would make it a lot harder for people to do that. Also, why should a non citizen be able to vote. Are you saying that the next time I'm in the States and it's election time, I should be able to vote? That's nuts. Democrats went crazy over what they thought was Russian interference in the elections but they're fine with a system that might allow non citizens to vote? Isn't that election interference?
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  3813.  @bobbykiefer4306  The free market can't regulate itself no more than a free society. Both are run by human beings and if history has taught us anything...people are corrupt. The market has to operate under the rule of law just like everyone else. You can't be free without the law and the law has to be based on certain guideline which are enshrined in the Constitution. Freedom isn't just being free of the tyranny of the government. It's also being free of the tyranny of your fellow citizens. That includes your neighbour, your spouse, fellow workers, your boss, the bankers and corporate bigwigs. Everyone of them is beholden to the Constitution. That means we can live our lives under the auspices of that Constitution, the way that we want to live. That means you cannot deprive anyone of their rights, not just by allowing them free speech and the rest but also by not stealing what belongs to them or intentionally causing them any type of harm be it physical or otherwise. The free market system still insists that you operate under the law. The banks were taking part in scheme that had to fail and they all knew it. That's the harm that I referred to and it infringed on the freedom of the average American. They stole from ordinary people. They corrupted the free market system. Corruption always infringes on human rights. That's why a government should never be involved in business...like socialists advocate for. The government is made up of people and history shows that people are notoriously corrupt. Just like we have separation of church and state, we also should have separation of the economy and state. That doesn't mean that there's no regulation. That means that we allow both the church and the market to operate within the confines of the higher power...the Constitution, so the rights of individuals aren't trampled.
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  3814. @Henry James You have ONE thing that you find ridiculous and you throw his entire show, platform and ideas out the window. WOW. To add, I'd have to see the blurb,in which he says this, to fully understand what he's talking about, before I will comment on it. I want to know exactly what he said not an interpretation of it.
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  3815. I'm jealous. I've been trying to turn my friends and have been an abject failure.
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  3816.  @slipstreammonkey  The video is about the transgender movement. I'm sure that you watched it. GSpotter63 was responding to the topic of the video and never said word ONE about being gay.....not one single word. Yet, you insist on changing the topic from what he was talking about to one that YOU want to discuss. Worse, you imply that he believes that being gay is a pretence, which he never said at all. How do I know that? I actually read his comment. It's a strawman argument and has nothing to do with what he said. Even when he tells you that he's not talking about homosexuality, you insist that this is what he meant. You're making comments and accusations in bad faith.
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  3817.  @sid2112  See how easy we get our backs up. LOL.
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  3818. That's what happens when you get cheated. You wish you hadn't listened to that used car salesman because now you're driving a lemon. That's what the Democrats are. Used car salesmen, making wonderful promises of a Utopian paradise and never delivering. How long have they been voting Democrat in our big cities and look at the garbage in the streets. They're being being conned by professional flimflam artists.
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  3819.  @carlosgarcia4986  You just can't help yourself, can you. Here we have a story which strongly implicates the Biden family in one of the biggest political scandals in American history and all you can say is "Trump and Trump and more Trump". Could you not just comment on the story on hand. Even if Trump is guilty as hell, that doesn't let the Bidens off the hook. Quit deflecting.
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  3820.  @Kittycats-s  A Christian troll. That's a new one. I knew a guy, who was drafted and subsequently rejected because he had 2 different coloured eyes. Draftees were even rejected for having flat feet. Bone spurs are more serious than either one.
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  3821. So, we need a BAD economy? What kind of logic is that? If you want to get away from the national credit card, you must have a strong economy. No matter what, you have to be working and the country has to be creating wealth. Also, credits cards aren't necessarily bad. It's when you use them irresponsibly, that's when you get into trouble. The last recession showed us that. Granting huge mortgages to people that didn't have the means to pay and the customer not realising his own credit capabilities. That's what conservatism is about. Personal responsibility and having a realistic approach to your own life and future. Almost everyone that I know that has attained a level of financial success has done so prudently and cautiously.....a conservative attitude towards life. Hard work and strong decision making skills. The left seems to think that this is somehow immoral. Now, I'll use myself as an example. I've been a blue collar worker all my life. I live on a yearly fixed income now that I'm retired and that income puts me far below the poverty level. Yet, I have managed to put together a small nest egg and I travel every year. I have a son-in-law that I works at exactly the same job that I did before I retired and makes more money at it than I ever did. Yet all he does is complain and says he has nothing. When I show him how well I've done with it, he's amazed but then starts into how it's impossible these days. I then show him this young guy who's younger than he is and who owns his own home. That's when he stops talking. He's a socialist and wants the government to do it all for him. Not going to happen.
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  3822.  @JosephusCheveuxBoucles  Watch the video. It shows just how proactive he's been. They were on top of the situation right from the beginning and when Trump restricted travel to China, Biden called him a xenophobe. When he organised a task force, detractors said it was too white and male. NEVER offering help, just complaining, ostensibly no different than you are doing right now. Yesterday, Trump had a press conference in the morning and signed a bill for 8.3 billion in funds to fight the coronavirus. Then he flew to Nashville to talk to the victims of those tornados. Then off to Atlanta, to the CDC to bring attention to what was being done about the coronavirus. You're another one that's so vested in your hate for Trump, you find it impossible to even look at something that might put him in a good light. You're too blind with hate to realise that it's that very attitude, from the left, that's going to win the election for Trump, making the same mistake they made in the last election.
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  3823.  @c-h-a-dtheillustrious2155  If a person tells someone that, for a sum, he'll get you a better life and you pay him, that's a transaction. If he takes the money and then forces you into working as a sex worker, against your will, that's slavery. Also, you're NOT confined in a cubicle in a 9 to 5 job. You can get up and leave anytime you want. These forced sex workers are not allowed to leave and do so at risk to their physical well being or life. I'm amazed that this has to be explained.
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  3824.  @ElleDavi  Work hard for 10 years, supporting your family, helping her get through college, just to see her get a good job and start cheating on you, not once or twice, but multiple times. That she started to do this within months of getting her high paying job. 9 months later, I'm moving out with her saying that this isn't what she wanted and that she loves me and please don't go. A couple of years later, start dating another woman, just to find out that she cheated on her husband and then her last 2 boyfriends. After a few experience like that, why would I want to go through it again? Only an idiot would stick their hand in the fire multiple times , each time hoping that THIS time is the time that he's not going to get burnt. Women are doing it to themselves.
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  3825.  @nickbarber2080  Yeah, they used laser surgery, a very new method at the time. Had they done it the more conventional way, it wouldn't have happened. John Money used it as he saw it as a perfect opportunity to test out his ideas on gender. When things weren't going the way that he wanted, he tried to force it by abusing the boy and his twin brother. He didn't call it abuse of course but I'm sure Mengele thought that he was doing good, too.
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  3826.  American Ancap  Because, if they burn down a building, YOU may be in it. If they hit someone with a bike lock, that person could die or suffer permanent damage. You should be afraid of Antifa, because to be apathetic about their existence and goals, strengthens them and if they get to the point of dominance, they will do more than burn a few buildings and attack a few people. They will tear the entire country apart, in the goal of rebuilding it in their own stated image. That's their goal and have strongly asserted it as their goal. Why should Germany have been scared of a few Nazis in 1925? They weren't that powerful. However, they sure changed that and quickly. It took 15 years for them to start the biggest most damaging war in human history. No one said not to be afraid of the McVeigh types. Both can be dangerous. Germans were foolish to ignore the threat of the Nazi movement. Don't be foolish and ignore Antifa.
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  3827. I heard the same stuff in the late sixties about going into space. Yet, right now, space is a multi billion dollar industry and is vital to the economy. You either go forward or you go backwards. If the benefits of space are to continue, we have to continue to expand because nothing ever remains the same and if you don't expand, in 50 years, the US will be has-beens in the space economy.
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  3828.  @QuietRefl4378  I JUST told you that me wife was ATHEIST and is strongly anti-abortion. She's NOT the only one. I wasn't even talking about ME yet you still went right back to me. Talk to my atheist wife. How does her atheism's moral beliefs give her the right to force her anti-abortions beliefs on you? THIS ISN'T ABOUT RELIGION. I said that in my comment and gave an example of a non-religious person you thinks abortion is wrong. Yet, you ignore it and go right back to making it all about religion. ONCE AGAIN. Is that fetus a living, growing, separate and unique human being or not? Answer THAT question. My wife quite understands why you won't. It forces you to think about morality outside of religion and you don't want to do that. Here's what she just told me. You're too cowardly to answer that question.
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  3829. I cannot imagine being sued or being charged with something and NOT attending the trial itself. I'd want to see what's going on, to see if my lawyer(s) were doing their job and making sure that the DA and judge weren't corrupt and just out to get me because of personal agendas or causes. This is serious stuff. Of course Trump is going to attend. Most normal people would.
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  3830. I heard a California politician call it "subsistence" theft. As if theft to maintain a drug habit is the same thing as subsistence farming in third world countries. These progressives are completely out of touch with reality.
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  3831.  @reptard6833  Nazi....direct translation: National Socialist German Workers' Party "Socialist" and the doubled down with "Workers". Don't have to be an historian. It's information available to all.
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  3832.  @rotemtomhagbi1937  Now they may never have an identity of their own. It's been chosen for them by their school. If they don't go along, they don't become doctors. Also, you have a lot of gall assuming that everyone of those students has no identity. You don't know them and you don't know how overwhelming the pressure is, for those students, to conform to this pledge that is forced upon them. It's appalling.
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  3833.  @christopherparks4342  There isn't any evidence of Biden wrong doing because there's been no investigation into it. There was a conflict of interest and yet no one investigated. Why is it wrong for someone to ask if it was a corrupt move? Isn't it the job of the president to protect his country from corruption and isn't part of that job looking into egregious conflict of interest events and possible corruption? Wouldn't that become the perfect storm for corrupt politicians? "Can't investigate me. I'm your political rival". Kind of safety zone for corruption.
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  3834.  @christopherparks4342  Actually, it's Democrats that are saying that are saying that Trump was looking for dirt on Biden, a political opponent and this is wrong. The Republicans are responding to it. Also, I have no idea what Joe Biden was doing or why. That's what some of us would like to know. What is known that soon after that prosecutor was fired, Zlochevsky's criminal position improved. The following year, all charges were dropped against him and he returned to Ukraine. Strange how Hunter Biden's legal problems took a turn for the better right after that prosecutor was fired. Maybe it was fine but let's find out. What's wrong with that? Trump asked for a favour but that had to do with Crowdstrike. It wasn't till later Biden was mentioned but it wasn't discussed as much as the earlier favour. Not once was the aid discussed. You can read that transcript all day, and the aid just never comes up. Logic would imply that if you don't tell someone that he's being bribed, chances are good that he isn't being bribed. It could be that Trump didn't want to give aid to a new president of a country that was rated the 3rd most corrupt country in the world. At least until he found out if that president was sincere in his desire to clean up corruption. I'd say almost every American taxpayer would like to see that. Why would any American want their government to give away money that would line the pockets of corrupt foreign politicians? But that is of little consequence if Trump never overtly held up the money and said "Do the favour or you DON'T get this". It's a lot of assumptions and in the wet dreams of some who are determined to impeach Trump and have from the day of his inauguration.
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  3835.  @christopherparks4342  So he asked him to investigate Biden? So what? He didn't use the aid to FORCE him to do that, at least not in that conversation. Biden's son worked for a corrupt individual. How did Hunter get that job? Why would he get it? Was there some familial gain in firing the prosecutor of Hunter's boss? Trump can't send a group of investigators in to Ukraine and force an investigation to get answers for that. All he can do is ask the new Ukraine president and that's what he did. He asked him and he asked for nothing in return. If there is any other evidence of Trump threatening to withhold aid, lay it out. I've never heard of any. A lot of "presumptions" and hearsay and, in spite of what was said, hearsay isn't better evidence than direct evidence. Apparently, Trump doesn't think that it is a discredited conspiracy theory. He thinks that there's something to it. What could happen? The worst is that it, in fact, true or there's nothing to it and Trump ends up with egg on his face. "Egg on his face".....there'd be lots of folk would love to see that. Besides, he never asked for anything in return. He asked it as a favour.
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  3836.  @lucifer3668  The smear. You've learned well, Grasshopper.
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  3837.  @MrHorsesongs05  Capitalism and communism are NOT two sides of the same coin. True capitalism exists in a free market economy, that is not constrained by the state. Socialist countries, like modern China and WW2 Germany and Italy employ a state capitalism, where the economy has the freedom to somewhat operate in free market system but it's controlled by the state. "Everything in the state. Everything for the state".....Mussolini. Now, one can argue that we're moving closer and closer to "state capitalism", which means that the government is getting deeper and deeper into controlling the economy but that's not capitalism or a free market economy. I'd even agree with that but state capitalism has very little to do with a free economy or country.
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  3838. My mom had 7 kids. What's the big deal? She seems to have it together and she's concerned enough about her kids that she's willing to turn away from the party that she's always supported due to their policies. She seems like a nice lady and a good mother.
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  3839.  @catholicfaithofmine2664  Because our lives are the heroes journey. That's why. The hero is the pinnacle of human achievement and it's what we should all aspire to be, even if it's just standing up for truth and loyalty, to always try to make the world a better place just by your existence. Why would you not want to be a part of that? That's my question.
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  3840.  @herpderp1662  Fortunately, we have you, the internet genius, to set us straight. Thank you, oh wise one or is it "Yoda".
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  3841.  @herpderp1662  As if your comment had any REAL information to present. It was a shot at media companies and at the people that watch them. There was a strong implication that the world was lacking in intelligence, except for you, the guy that can see through it all. As for proof, if FOX or CNN is bad, why aren't you offering proof of how they're on the same team? I didn't see any. Not a one. You're doing exactly what you're accusing me of doing and YOU did it first.
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  3842.  @andreperry7995  Where do think the BLM riots happened? Do you think that it was in white neighbourhoods? No and double NO!!!!! It was in the poor sections of town where minorities lived and worked. If it happened in the neighbourhoods where the city politicians and bureaucrats lived, they'd have stopped the riots FLAT. These athletes and musicians are worth hundreds of millions of dollars apiece. Some, like Michael Jordan are billionaires. Are we burning down their homes? Are we refusing to buy their records, attend basketball games because they're almost all black? The stands look awfully full to me. That burning of black owned banks happened YEARS ago. No one is burning down Oprah's studios. You're exhibiting EXACTLY what this video is talking about. BLAME others. "It's not my fault." and because you believe that, you do NOTHING. If you want to win a race, you have to run. If you don't, you'll never be a champion or a success. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to run to be a success.
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  3843.  @ritchierich6133  You got it. What's easier? Change the whole world or your own attitude. Neither is easy but I just don't have the power to change the world. I barely have the power to change myself but at least I have some agency in that direction. I find it incomprehensible that there are people who think that they can change the world on demand.
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  3844.  @JohnSmith-to5ow  History is only a part of understanding how to deal with a pandemic and any and ALL information is always helpful. It's a complex problem, involving biology, science, economic, social interactions and history. Then you want to add in a large dollop of common sense and you come to a conclusion which uses ALL the data and not just the data that suits an agenda.
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  3845.  @jenniferwildflower4249  Right on.....and they exalt themselves as the better human. It's that attitude of the tyrannical.
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  3846.  @23wtb  I'm only telling the truth. If that bugs you, too bad. The people that the "woke" crowd are calling Fascists and Nazis are just ordinary people. They're using vicious hyperbole to demonise those that don't follow their Marxist ideology. It's pure nonsense and I know it because of the family stories that I grew up with and with the history that's available to everyone that's interested. To use an old adage. To a hammer, everything's a nail. To a Marxist, everyone's a Fascist or a Nazi. It doesn't work and that's the point that I'm trying to make.
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  3847.  @mikew764  Was it??? How would you know that? Was it because they said so? I thought that ACAB. When did that change?
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  3848. Islam is a religious ideology. Fascism is also an ideology, but a political ideology. Fascism is considered HORRIBLE by the left. However, Islam is protected by the far left. The left defends it by saying that criticising Islam is racist. Islam is NOT a race or ethnic group. It's a religious ideology. One can be of any race or ethnicity and be a Muslim. One can be of any race or ethnicity and be Fascist. Why is it that the radical left can't see this simple fact?
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  3849. @Thanos Dione I have no idea what it is you're trying to say. Speak English.
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  3850. It's evidence that they counted ballots while there were no observers. The affidavits are evidence that the observers were sent home. Now, we need an audit to show that the counters counted everything for one party. If there is a 24,000 difference in the audit, that's more evidence that they cheated. In fact, that would be enough to have them charged with fraud. No loose ends make for a tight case. That's the point that Tim is trying to make. A loose end could unravel your entire case.
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  3851.  @ReeCooks14579  Apparently, they're not showing my response to you, in this thread. So, i'll repeat it in case you didn't read it. "Why wouldn't they speak in this manner? He's trying to convince you that he has your best interests as a priority because he wants you to vote for him. What else would he say? "I don't give 2 effs about you."? Every used car and insurance salesman talks like that. Are you saying that they're all in mental decline? Disagreeing with someone doesn't mean that they're in mentally unfit. That's as narcissistic as it gets. You're almost on par with Trump in that department if that's your attitude.
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  3852.  @burtonl7239  Thanks. We had no idea for awhile why it was we couldn't get any paper. It had never happened before. It went on for about 5 months. I didn't get laid off due to seniority but others did. Eventually, the industry sorted it all out and we started to get the raw material we needed. I would imagine that they increased production at some of the pulp mills to make up the difference. From what I'm seeing, they're probably not getting any toilet paper now, either. I don't have to worry about my job anymore, though, as I retired 2 years ago. I'm thinking the entire industry has compensated for the crisis down there by now.
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  3853.  @youaake  Sanctions didn't start until 2015, only 4 years ago. The country was already spiralling out of control. A cursory google search will tell confirm this. It would also confirm that the US is still Venezuela's biggest trading partner. However, you'd rather advance your cause against the US than find out what is truly going on in that country. Read my previous comment on the toilet paper shortage in 2013. It wasn't lack of trade that caused it. It was the government policy of fixing prices that was the issue and that product was being purchased by merchants at a higher price than what they could sell it for. Anyone with any degree of math skills will tell you that this isn't going to work for very long. In fact, Chavez appeased the anger of the people by buying toilet paper at inflated prices and then sold it to the people at the fixed price that caused the problem in the first place. Where did he get the money? From the oil revenue that the nationalised oil company generated. He solved the immediate problem through the use of world trade. This is only one example of what that government was doing that destroyed their economy. Now, they're in serious trouble. There is no way out but through drastic measures and that has to be done whether the US is involved or not. A country, just like a private household, cannot survive if it spends more than it makes. Mike Tyson is a prime example of this. The man had millions....but he's broke. Venezuela did the exact same thing the Tyson did, except at a larger scale.
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  3854. He DID take it. What are you talking about? He had doubts but he took it and he even told the world that he did. I mean....what are you talking about???
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  3855.  @RichardCranium321  Who's side are you on? Malpractice is a huge problem. That's why one should ALWAYS be hesitant about taking medicines or undergoing medical treatment and get second opinions if you're not sure about what the doctor said or recommended. Yet, when Tim Pool does it, you get all upset. He didn't like the advice that told him to "sleep it off". So he asked around. He asked a friend about his experiences. Why wouldn't you. I hurt my knee playing hockey and they wanted to operate. I asked a friend about his experience and he was extremely unhappy about his surgery. So I weighed my options, held off for awhile and my knee got worse so I had the surgery done. Am I ever glad that I did, in spite of what my friend said or went through. I'm not even sure what it is you're complaining about other than maybe you just don't like Tim and you're just bitching about anything that he says or does. You're contradicting yourself.
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  3856. No one has told her that she has to respect Trump. However, it would be nice if she respected the office of the presidency. Trump is the president right now and he represents her and all Americans at this moment. Respect the fact the presidency is a fluid position and the office should be respected. Don't be the petulant child who didn't get her way at the last elections.
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  3857.  @theverde7980  I don't want monopolies. Communists don't want corporations or businesses or private property.
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  3858.    I know that you think that you're funny but the reason that Hillary lost is because she alienated the very voters that voted for Obama. She called possible voters deplorables and that they were irredeemable and then topped it off by telling white people what they should do and not do. 65% of the voting public is white and she denigrates them. Then she doesn't even bother to campaign in the swing states. I was shaking my head at the stupidity and arrogance and I was a Hillary supporter. It was the dumbest campaign strategy that I've ever seen and I saw the Democrat defeat coming. If she had told incest jokes, Trump would have an even bigger victory. And the Democrats haven't learned a thing by their defeat. In fact, they've doubled down, as evidenced by your comment, on their stupidity.
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  3859. I agree completely. I was a young man in the seventies and Carter, and he was a great guy and he tried, but he just didn't have it in him, to accomplish what had to be done. Now, they gloat over what they're doing or just lie around it. They're intentionally driving up gas prices, spurred on by the Green ideology. Same as with inflation, the supply chain, threat of food shortages, their obsession with far left progressive insanity. They want power for themselves and the bureaucracy that they've set up in Washington.
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  3860. I'm a Canadian and I not only blame Trudeau, I blame foolish Canadian voters. I just had someone tell me that he likes the carbon tax because he gets a climate rebate every month. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't explain that carbon tax is more than paying more at the gas pumps. It affects everything that we buy plus the cost of the bureaucracy that's needed to take in and then give back the carbon tax.
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  3861. If they go into another investigation when this is over, only their mothers are going to vote for them this fall. Okay, some of their mothers, anyway. While they're at it, maybe they should investigate De Blasio's response to the pandemic.
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  3862.  @angelolacap9681  Do you know what, Angelo? You get it. If only more people looked at life the way that you do. Best wishes to you.
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  3863.  yankeefan1281  Ok.....what ruling has she made, as a judge, that contravenes the law or the Constitution, in favour of her religion? I'd like to see an example. Anyone can make a claim. The real trick is to back it up. Now....back it up.
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  3864. @Registered User Then why have the quarantine camps? For incoming visitors to Australia? Wouldn't a Covid test be enough to ensure the disease isn't getting in? Or don't those tests work? Why build the camps? Who will be the inmates.
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  3865. @Registered User That should be great for the tourist industry. I'm used to taking 1 week holidays, during the winter, to get away from the cold, although I haven't done it since Covid started. Guess all that goes out the window if this policy spreads. Who wants to spend 2 weeks in a facility for 1 week of relaxation? And then another 2 weeks when you go home? Even being forced into a high end hotel and not being allowed to leave isn't what I'd call an enticement to tourists. It's still an internment. You can dress it up all you want but you are held in confinement for 2 weeks. You're holding people, in confinement, who have not committed a crime. The only reason is that they're outsiders. 2 weeks in jail for leaving the country or wanting to visit.
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  3866. That's just it. Anyone can cheat. The Democrats know this and it's one of the reasons that they support the mail-in ballots. They can both cheat and accuse the other of cheating, depending on the context. That's why Trump is opposed. A good election is a secure election.
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  3867.  @Traitorman.ArticleIII-Section3  His actions? Which ones exactly? You're great at making vague accusations. Lets become specific.
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  3868.  @MrKGatl  Then why was Mykola Zlochevsky cleared of all charges and his frozen assets released when all this was going on? Why is he now under more investigations? The guy has been suspected and accused of corruption for years and has even been called a "mob" boss by Ukrainian politicians and journalists. Even Marie Yovanovitch testified, on Friday, that she had been briefed on the Biden situation. It was an issue and an investigation is warranted, especially with that tape of Biden bragging about threatening to withhold aid unless they fired a prosecutor. A prosecutor who may well have been looking into Burisma in the past. With him gone and a new, friendlier prosecutor in place, that may well be to the advantage of Burisma, it's owner and founder and their employees. They still haven't established any bribery in these hearings. Not even close. All 3 witnesses have said, quite bluntly, that they have no knowledge of bribery. No bombshell evidence, in spite of what the MSM has been trying to push. We're all still waiting for that evidence. Maybe it will show up this week. Maybe not.
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  3869.  @MrKGatl  The Biden situation is that Hunter Biden was working for a man, who had fled the country and had 23 million dollars in bank assets frozen due to possible corruption. The situation is that Joe Biden had the prosecutor, who had led the investigation into Mykola Zlochevsky, Hunter's boss, fired and he did it by using American taxpayer money to put pressure on the Ukraine government to get it done. Had Donald Trump Sr. did that for the boss of Donald Trump Jr., would that seem right to you? I wouldn't like it....yet for some reason, you don't even want to acknowledge that this sounds a bit fishy. Is your hatred of Trump that deep, that you would allow that possible corruption to go unchecked, as long as it GETS Trump?
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  3870.  @peterwilson542  I think asking the same question, over and Over and OVER again, is always the best one....don't you?
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  3871. Canadians believe what they're told. I see it all the time. I'll go out for beers and the people, at the pub, that do resist, do so in hushed tones. Those who are in lockstep with the government will become loud, and angry, within 2 minutes, if you challenge their beliefs. Some of them display a hatred that I've never seen before in all my 70 years on this planet. I've no idea what they'd do, or what they're capable of, if the call to action came down from above. Yet, they all hate Trudeau. It's so perplexing.
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  3872.  @sylvariatzaka  I've not lost any friends because of the way I handle it. I don't get into full face arguments over it. What I do is drop titbits of information, here and there, just enough to make them go "hmmm" and then I change the subject. A few days later, I'll do it again on another issue. It's been very effective. It' all I can do. If they become so angry that they won't talk to me, anymore, I've lost them and I don't want that. It's works better than you think. There's a morsel of truth to everything and I use it against them. Another thing good about this tactic, the ones that think as I do and are afraid to say anything, realise where I stand and will open up to me.
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  3873.  @coreyham3753  Listen to you. An immigrant, who came to the US legally, works hard to establish a business, is sitting in JAIL for going to work and YOU babble about Tucker. Why is so hard, for people like you, to understand that work is survival. That the people, who live in 3rd world countries that are starving, are the countries with no economy. Countries that are run by corrupt oligarchs that will only allow people to work for them and NOT for themselves, are the countries that have starving children. Now, Michigan is doing the EXACT SAME THING, deciding who works and why and you can't understand how this is the road to the same hell as those 3rd World Countries. You're like a 4 year old child who thinks that hamburgers magically pop into existence at MacDonald's.
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  3874.  @ryaj2356  Of course shutting down speech has always been an issue. That's why there's Constitutional law against it. People will rob you too, in spite of laws making it an illegal act. You've made a spurious point and means nothing.
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  3875. So that makes it right? It's a "Well, Donnie does it, too" type of argument that kids make. I used to double their punishment when my kids used it to excuse their behaviour. It's either wrong or it's not. Pointing in other directions is called "obfuscation"... a cute word for lying.
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  3876. Lewis did. So did Ben Johnson. They were vilified and called cheats. The big joke was when Johnson won at the Olympics, he was the great Canadian hero. When they found out that he doped, he became that Jamaican cheater. We Canadians loved him when we thought he was legit but hated him when it was revealed that he cheated. Integrity was still important in those days.
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  3877.  @kulturfreund6631  I never mentioned the abolition of the military in Costa Rica but it is one of those decisions that was made, that came from their culture of self reliance. It's when they say "I will not take part in allowing destabilising factions" The militaries in Central America have been a huge problem. I haven't watched any yet. I've been a little busy and I've been watching Trump's press conference about the coronavirus which is a little more pressing right now for a senior citizen like me.
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  3878. The problem with politics these days is that people argue personalities instead of issues. This is an issue that Trump looked after in a positive manner. His opposition will fight it, not because this wasn't a worthy cause, but because they hate Trump. That shows a complete lack of integrity. They're allowing hate to rule their decision making process. That's despicable.
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  3879. @C T Of course. Yet, all the findings will be made readily available for anyone to see. I suppose we're going to have a special investigation into the investigation and then another special, SPECIAL investigation into the special investigation into the investigation. It's never going to end. You're like a flat earther. The lack of evidence is evidence in itself, of wrongdoing.
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  3880. I just love all those big Biden rallies and parades. Flags waving, people cheering, high fives, horn honking....hugs for everyone. So uplifting. LOL. Sure sounds like a Biden rally, doesn't it?
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  3881.  @kristofergobbe4838  Irrelevant. They knew about the problems at Wuhan and they tried to keep it under wraps right along with the Chinese government. Now there are over 4 million dead around the world and counting and you want to deflect by making spurious accusations about Trump. Try to stay on topic. The Wuhan lab issue could be the biggest scandal in history. It's insane to try to steer us away from what potentially happened there.
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  3882. @ All I can say is that I'm glad you're not negotiating on Canada's behalf. You're WAY to angry and you're negotiating out of hatred. Emotions will cloud any bargaining chips that you have. Never...EVER, negotiate when angry. That's how lawyers get rich in divorce disputes. People don't think straight when filled with rage and that sure sounds like you. We need someone who has the brains to work with the guy. You don't have to like him or spend Christmas with him. You have to use your wits. Canada doesn't have the money or resources to take him on in full on dispute.
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  3883.  @richardcory5024  Jan 6th....an insurrection? That implies a revolution, an overthrow of the government. If that's so, it has to be the first one in years, centuries even, where the revolutionaries didn't bring any guns. NOT A ONE. Can you show me a chain of command? What the plan was once they occupied the Capitol Building? There were even little old ladies as part of this "revolutionary guard". A revolutionary guard that went home after a couple of hours. There was no military that stormed the Capitol building, to reclaim it from the insurrectionists. They went home, ALL on their own, just when the Capitol Building had been taken. It was no insurrection. It was a bunch of over excited idiots, who let their better judgement get out of control. That's all. It fizzled out and they went home because they had no plan. No one did. Quit over reacting.
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  3884. Who cares what "diversity" they are. If you do this kind of thing, you're a POS and deserve to be locked up for life. It's white suburbanites that are allowing it. They're just as complicit as the "diverse" people that are doing the dirty work. That won't be addressed, either.
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  3885.  @caseinpoint4823  Still saying nothing. At least I'm arguing about something. All you're doing is coming up with different ways of calling me names and smearing me. It's as if you think that this will win an argument. If you think I was wrong about something, tell me where I went wrong and then give some evidence. That's the mature way to have a discussion.
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  3886. Price controls. It'll be just like Venezuela. They control the prices and the vendors, the store owners, will be buying products and then sell them for less than what they paid for them. They'll have no other choice but to not buy those products. I remember it well. In 2013, I was working in a factory that made toilet paper. Venezuelan store owners were losing money on toilet paper and the people became so upset they started protesting and rioting. Chavez promised to buy millions of rolls of toilet paper to satisfy the people and paper producers around the world took advantage of it and were overcharging him. We couldn't get raw paper because it was all going to produce for Chavez. They were laying off workers where I worked, here in Canada, because we couldn't get the paper to fill our orders. It's screwed everyone. Government price fixing is a terrible idea.
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  3887.  @redburtley6021  You MUST forgive him. If you don't, NO ONE will admit their mistake and they'll vote Democrat AGAIN. Do you really want that? NO ONE is so perfect that they've never made a mistake including YOU. If they all stay on that side, that side will win AGAIN. It's almost as if you don't want anyone to change their mind and vote against the Democrats and their insane policies. Only churlish little minds hold a grudge. It takes strength to forgive and move on.
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  3888.  @monsterpig3270  A lot of the followers of Jim Jones wanted out but were too frightened to say anything. These MAGA people are showing up of their own accord to support the man who was their president in the past and not ONE of them were affected badly by his policies or "edicts". So.....try again. Bad comparisons aren't proof of anything.
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  3889.  @noonespecial7  Hurt your feelings, did he?
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  3890.  @michaelmolyneaux-swann  One issue is that she's there representing the American people. That includes ALL Americans, not just the ones that she likes. By snubbing the American anthem, she's, metaphorically, giving Americans the middle finger. She's crying oppression while the country proudly allows her to reach the highest levels of athletic competition and doing it on someone else's dime and its still not enough for her. "F U" to the very country that she lives in, basically saying "F U to me" because she's also a part of the country. No one is saying that she can't express her opinions. What they ARE saying is this is NOT the time or place to do it nor is it appropriate to insult all Americans. No country is perfect and neither is the US. She can express her views on how to better the country at any time that she wants but this wasn't any type of expression that is helpful. It was an insult and she meant it as one. If all you're going to do is whine and complain, we really don't want to hear it. If you have an issue and have suggestions to reach a resolution, express away. This does nothing but divide a country. It's pointless, mean and self serving.
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  3891.  @JohnCarterRocks  If that's true, I'm against that. However, you'll have to prove it to me, first. I'm really sceptical that other Republicans would support that, as well.
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  3892.  @kamparker9726  I'm glad. That was my intent.
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  3893.  @mr_geekchic2899  I'm not sure what it is you're saying. Should Chloe sue the medical professionals for not giving full medical disclosure or not? I'm not sure what to make of your comment.
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  3894.  @sherilynstarzko8116  The "she's a liar" defence. Always a good one. That's why there will be a trial. That's how we determine what is true and NOT true. We don't assume anyone is a liar. We listen to their story, gather and examine the evidence and come to a conclusion. I will say one thing, though. They amputation of perfectly healthy body parts should never happen. Our bodies perform and grow according to the plan that its genetics have laid out. Perform surgeries on it, the body will treat it as threat, even if that surgery involves the removal of a cancerous growth. It will do its best to heal it. You can't amputate away emotional issues, however. Those issues will still remain. This could be why suicide rates are just as bad AFTER surgery as it is before. They're not treating the problem. It's all cosmetics.
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  3895.  @spidgeb3292  It's a part of her intimidation tactic. Let the jury and Andy Ngo understand that she doesn't care. She's gone anyway. Although, I don't think Andy will let that intimidate him too much.
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  3896.  @eoin8450  Socialism has never been owned by the workers. It's something they say but every socialist system has been a top down system. The state, who CLAIM that they represent the workers, or that they are in fact the workers (never true, though) controls it all. The only difference, I've said it before, between the communist state and the fascist state is that communism tries to manage it all, from the macro to the micro. Fascism controls the macro, each industry and lets them deal with the micro management, the day to day stuff. Fascism realises that the details are too complex to deal with it all so they give a little more freedom to make the micro decisions but they still control it all, in the name of the state, which is the people. That's why it's National Socialism, state Socialism or, as in Germany, National Socialist German Workers' Party. They still claim to be representing the Workers. The workers are the backbone of the Fascist state. Unions are disbanded and replaced by party representatives who monitor productivity, loyalty and worker grievances. No one, from the owners, top management to the guy pushing a broom is safe from that Party rep. It's the same in the Soviet state, except their is no ownership, just top management, but they are just as much beholden to the Party reps as their counterparts, the ownership and management, as Fascist workplaces. Fascist owners are allowed more leeway in market place markets, as long as it doesn't interfere with national goals.
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  3897.    LOL. I live in a small town of about 15,000. That kind of insanity hasn't reached us yet.
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  3898.  Ed Nunez  If Trump is guilty of something, then he should be held accountable. If Biden is guilty of something, he should also be held accountable. Don't deflect. The topic, RIGHT NOW, is about Biden corruption. It's illogical to claim that Trump is corrupt therefore Biden must be clean. One has nothing to do with the other.
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  3899.  Ed Nunez  He lost, not in a landslide but he lost. However, what does that have to do with Hunter and Joe Biden? That's what this video is about. Do you know what the word "deflection" even means in this context? It means that when the topic is about one thing (Joe Biden being corrupt) and you keep trying to talk about something else (Trump losing the election). THAT'S DEFLECTION. Why do you refuse to talk about the evidence that shows that Biden might be a very corrupt person? I even conceded that if it's proven that Trump broke the law, he should be prosecuted, but YOU can't do the same with Biden? If it is proven that Biden is corrupt, should he be prosecuted or not? It's a very simple question. Face it head on....like a mature adult.
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  3900. I'm with you. I hate individual freedoms. A foolish boomer talking point. I'd rather have a government to tell me how I should live or what to believe. I might even call it "Big Brother". The government personified. The generic face of control.
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  3901.  @jerrymarasco8878  Thanks.
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  3902. When a person says "I try my best to be honest" I'm good with that. No one is as honest as they should be and acknowledging a possibility that you have faults, that's honesty in itself. However, when a person says that they're honest, I'm not trusting them.
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  3903.  @tjti2631  I don't know and do you know what, who cares? What's important now is the present and the future. Who is bringing this to light and who are the ones with gloves and work clothes on, sweating and doing something? Who's the one in a 3 piece suit doing nothing at all except talk. That's ALL that's important. The rest is just noise.
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  3904. Trump supporters always talk policies. The border, inflation, high taxes, crime, the never ending wars, the homeless. Biden supporters always talk personalities. Trump's a crook, a liar, a racist, he's Adolf Hitler. Policies very seldom enter the picture.
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  3905.  @deepfreeze202  Do you know what happens? A far left news and entertainment industry and far left left academics, stir up racial divide by supporting progressive, post modernist views, so diverse groups divide even deeper into their tribal groups. When it gets out of control, they use their media to fan the flames and then attempt to take over the nation, hoping to transform it into their own socialist Utopia. It's NOT diversity. It's Socialism, that wants to destroy what others have built.
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  3906. It sounds as if "The Jewish question" has morphed into "The problem with whiteness". The solution to the Jewish question was known as "The final solution". I wonder what the solution to "whiteness" will be?
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  3907.  Damian Tirado  Surely you've heard the expression that "man is born in sin". It's at the very heart of the Christian faith. It's why Jesus died on the cross. He died to save us from our sinful nature. That's basic Christianity. If we die, with a faith in Jesus, we will be rewarded with a new and perfect body. Until then, we're all at the mercy of our sinful nature. It's why the Catholics have confession. It's because of this basic Christian belief that we will sin and confession is necessary. Also, Christian believe that they are following a path TO righteousness, NOT that they ARE righteous. Any Christian that believes that he's good is suffering from the sin of "pride", a grievance sin in the Christian faith. They believe that they're TRYING to be good, something totally different than BEING good. That's what the Christian faith believes. To add, to "try" implies failure. You may have been raised in the church but you completely misunderstood the faith that was being taught. Either that or that church didn't believe in the basic tenets of Christianity, which is entirely possible but unlikely.
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  3908.  @drbarafoo7208  What's wrong with you??
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  3909. @David Mackey What are you talking about? This video is about how the Dutch government is forcing farmers out of business. What does that have to do with Nazis in Madison Square Gardens or Operation Paperclip? Stay on topic. World War 2 is over. We're talking about a problem, in the Netherlands, 75 years after that war was over.
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  3910.  @jjrider6758  I don't see how we're at odds with one another. The WEF wants a great reset. This is part of their plan to achieve that reset. The details of how it's going to be done can be rather nebulous but the end goal is clear. They want to reset the world in how they want the world to operate.....with them as the "big bosses" of course. To do that, they have to shackle the prosperous countries and kill the dreams of the poor ones. It's the most hideous plan in human history.
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  3911.  @bosco1780  We cannot be held accountable for the stupidity of those who treat Chinese Americans badly. We should NEVER refrain from telling the truth about the horrific policies of the Chinese government. You're allowing their actions, that have killed people, destroyed lives and threatened our lives economically and financially because some individuals might behave badly. What was worse? The Chinese government allowing this pandemic into the world or some individuals acting like jerks. You have to weigh the damage and the Chinese government has to be held accountable for their actions. Otherwise, they will do it again and it gives license to other countries to do the same. I can guarantee you one thing. If it was the American government that had done this, you'd be only too willing to shout their blame from the rooftops and not give any consideration that American individuals might be treated with prejudice in other countries. It's only the white vs brown that sets the left off. Bigotry is bigotry, no matter who causes it. It was the bigotry of the Chinese government that prompter them to cover this up and the world is paying for it.
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  3912.  @Merk985  I'm complaining about those of my generation that infiltrated the universities and used their platform to covertly steer us ALL away from our Constitutional rights. This isn't a complaint about the young. I'm going after all those you spent generations fighting against our rights. It's like the building of Notre Dame in Paris. It was a 3 generation work effort to complete the construction. This is similar. The socialists worked lifetimes to see their efforts to fruition. That's what we're seeing now. We were frogs in a pot. We didn't know the water was boiling until it was too late and that was their tactic. They knew full well we'd never accept the Marxist agenda if they advocated for it. They introduced their ideas one item at a time, sounding reasonable, until we'd all be in so deep that, this was their hope, we would be unable to turn back. Had this not worked today, they would have worked on the NEXT generation and YOU'RE generation would be the one that raised the revolutionaries. They're building a hypothetical Notre Dame.
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  3913.  @formerfreak4943  The Ten Commandments are rules for the individual and says nothing about retribution. Even if you're not a Christian, those rules still stand. If you see God as an embodiment of truth, you can just replace the name of God with the word "truth" and it can still apply. The Bible already says that God is the truth and the way. I think that what you're doing is a good way to live a life. Good on you.
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  3914.  Willie Baker  Change the subject, huh. Don't want to look stupid, anymore? Guess I can't blame you for that.
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  3915.  Willie Baker  OMG. LOL. The entire narrative, on the blue side, is TDS, crying about white privilege, the patriarchy and supporting the riots all over the country. Over 70 days in a row of rioting in Portland, smashing things, attacking people and starting fires and Jerry "the Penguin" calls it all a myth. It's all about hate and anger. Another point in favour of you winning this contest.
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  3916.  Orga777  First, I'm 68 years old and my fight is reduced to being a cheerleader and one that dispenses solid information. Second, I live in Canada, where we have a leftist problems but they're nothing to what they have in the US. Third, I live in a small town, a real small town, in a rural area, and our biggest complaint is about big city, Covid infected interlopers coming to our town to get services denied to them in the big city. I know a couple of our small town business owners who demand ID and if they're not locals, get out. Almost everyone I know is either on the fence on BLM and Antifa or think that they're out of their minds. So the only way I can fight is election time and to support the Americans that appear to be on the front lines right now. If they come to our area, and they won't, because small town folk won't let it happen, I'll be there, in spite of my infirmities and old age.
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  3917. @Ethan Hobigant Roche Chris Cuomo....."Since when to protests have to be peaceful?" A rather poor attitude. Especially when the very first Amendment of the Constitution says that we have the right to peacefully assemble to bring our grievances to bear. If a protest is called, I'm going to assume it's going to be peaceful. It would be a peaceful assembly and it would be lawful. I'm an individual but so is the assembly. A group making a singularity, just like the Jack of Clubs is one card of the singularity called a Deck of Cards. Lose that Jack of Clubs and the Deck of Cards becomes unusable. When someone in that assembly throws a brick, that singularity, called an assembly, is no longer peaceful. As an individual, protesting, I have 2 choices. I can stay, and quite likely watch that assembly escalate the violence or go home, thereby tacitly expressing my disapproval for how that peaceful assembly did NOT hold up to its promise. I go home and tell anyone, who asks why I left, that I left because the assembly was no longer peaceful. When the union, at a company that I worked at, went on strike, I stood on the picket lines with my fellow union members. When they started throwing rocks and smashing car windows, I went home. The strike, like those who assembled to protest, was peaceful and I took part. The moment it became violent, I left because that strike was no longer peaceful. Many people stayed and claimed that they didn't throw anything or didn't approve of the violence. I say that the inflated numbers by the presence the peaceful strikers gave the violent ones the courage to do their foul deeds. I say the same thing about the "peaceful" protesters. When the violence starts, go home. The protest is no longer peaceful. "could be white supremacists"? A rather weak statement. Sounds more hopeful that factual.
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  3918.  @craigjohnson4302  I've made that case numerous times and you're the first one that's openly supported it. I've received a few likes but that's it. What really bothers me is that, at least to me, that ideal is self evident and no one seems to get it. It's as if no one has any principles, these days.
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  3919. I'm Canadian and I've said this all along. All our leaders have to do is to sit down and talk with Trump and his team. Danielle Smith of Alberta just proved that. Trudeau is NOT the man for that. This idea of a trade war with the United States is insane. Pierre Poilievre is much better suited to negotiate with Trump than Trudeau. Too many people are letting hatred cloud their vision.
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  3920.  @RT-tn3pu  What does it matter if he's rich. He's still supporting that woman, who lives in a mobile home, whose daughter went to play with a friend. Is that the right thing to do or not? Assessing this video on the identity of the person expressing his views is the very definition of bigotry. It's no different than calling a black man the "n" word and dismissing anything he says.
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  3921.  @DdotRay86  Instead of generalised claims and incessantly insulting others, I'd like to hear, in specific terms, what you find wrong in what Tucker said in this video. You've been great at discussing those who make comments in this thread but you've, quite deftly, avoided any discussion on what Tucker has said. We could trade insults, ALL DAY, and we'd have accomplished nothing. We're not here to talk about people but to talk about the idea that maybe our liberties are eroding or not. Tucker has given examples of how that this may be true. Now.....you tell us how his examples and his assertions may be false. That would be a true discussion, one that is honest and on topic. My being brainwashed has nothing to do with the truth of Tucker's statements. Talk about the statements.....not about individuals or try to invalidate through denigration.
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  3922. The constant hate rhetoric about Trump is the perfect life-form that would attach itself to the mentally ill.
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  3923.  @ahlaamonline9377  I've lived through 11 presidents. I've never seen anything like the hate thrown at other presidents that I've seen thrown at Trump. I work as a bartender and you can't even bring his name up and there's a fight. I've seen people face's turn into the ugliest and most hateful sneer when Trump's face shows up on one of the TV sets. There's no sound and yet some people just go off the deep end. We now see people, respected people, like John Podesta, saying that the west coast should secede from the Union if Trump wins the election. People are getting beat up for wearing a MAGA hat. It has NEVER been like this in all my life. And the media......they're incredibly biased. They're no longer reporting the news but they're making stuff up. There's no way that the media, of 30 years ago, would have ignored and covered for the riots that are tearing the cities apart all across the US. They do it because they don't want to help Trump win the election. I have friends who hardly speak to me anymore. They're entertaining the craziest conspiracy theories about Trump and if you ask for evidence they get mad at me. One has been a friend for 50 years. We've disagreed on things for years but nothing has set him off like Trump has. I try not to talk about it but they keep insisting. It's as if the whole world has gone nuts. This hatred isn't normal.
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  3924.  @ahlaamonline9377  I don't forget that. Apparently, everything I wrote went right over your head. You've not mentioned one word of it. I agree. People do hate presidents. However, this is unprecedented in my lifetime. I gave numerous examples. This hatred may end in the worst election day violence in my lifetime or in American history. People are threatening it already. Why are you ignoring all this?
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  3925.  @ahlaamonline9377  I've seen the months of nightly riots across the US. I've seen the burnt out buildings, the increased violence and deaths. I've heard the threats of "Burn it all down". I've never heard this before and said so often by so many. I'm worried for the safely of innocents and I can't imagine why these things don't bother you. But I guess if you think that violence and destruction is the norm and just fine, then bury your head in the sand. I guess the crocodile may not notice you and will pass you by.
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  3926.  @suburban404  And he was also the first surgeon to EVER separate conjoined twins who were joined at the head. No other surgeon would even attempt it but he did and was successful. It was an incredible feat of medical skill. I don't believer that the world was made in 6 days either, but I don't hate or judge him for believing it. Lots of people believe lots of dumb things. I accept people for what they are, warts and all. Apparently, YOU don't. You have a checklist and it appears that religion is one of the criteria that will incite your bigotry.
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  3927.  @exeutiy7445  I don't know but it must be evil. That's the default position on anyone that is rich. One can tell by the obvious position Sky News has on free speech and freedom in general. What is more insidious and dangerous than freedom? It's obvious that Murdoch's goal is control through freedom. When everyone is free, we'll be under his control. Boy....did that take some mental gymnastics.....and it still doesn't make sense.
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  3928.  @hansolowe19  When we're talking about the time spans of those cycles, it is in the coming years. Even if you want to look ahead only 50 years, that's up to you. You know what he meant. People just like to pick things apart to make themselves feel smarter. If you really wanted information, which I doubt, you'd ask questions instead of quibbling over semantics. For example, does climate change accelerate the Milankovitch cycle and if so, is the earth going to start cooling? That's an interesting question that might have positive or negative impacts on our future as a species. Your statement is just a complaint. Complaints don't inspire questions or curiosity.
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  3929.  @georgemurphy2579  I'd like to think I'm not biased, but, being human, I suppose I might be. Who knows what evil resides in the deepest recesses of my heart. Having said that, I'd rather judge a person as an individual. I'd say that we're all unique and that to me is TRUE diversity and not the phoney "I can see your oppression" diversity that seems to be so pop these days. It's a choice I make. You're right about one thing, though. I don't like stupidity. I don't mind people that are wrong and are mistaken in their beliefs. To me, stupidity is when you persist in those beliefs, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. That's why AOC is stupid as far as I'm concerned. Morally right over factually correct. How stupid is that? Morality based on inaccurate facts isn't morality. It's judgement gleaned from gossip and BS. As for Candace, she's sharp. She cuts through BS like the sharpest sword ever forged. I can't help but admire that, even if I am racist (I'm white, you know). There's an honesty about that I wish I could say I possess. She's a special individual.
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  3930.  @Creamy-1988  I don't know. I'm not an expert.
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  3931. "Follow the science". So Lia followed it right to the finish line. Apparently, science isn't what it used to be.
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  3932. My dad says the same thing. He came here in 1951, and he said that Canada was an amazing place to live and work for a good life. Now, at 91 years of age, he regrets coming here because of what this country has become and it saddens him to the core.
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  3933. I remember doing my grade 12 chemistry exam. I answered every question and received a grade of 43 percent. My mom was so proud. She told me so. I answered EVERY question, she said. That was enough for me.
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  3934.  @CityBoyNYC  Well.....I know that you're not acting in good faith. You just see another opportunity to act like an 8 year old bully in a schoolyard. If you behaved like an adult and showed us how you know this, I'd pay attention but now? Your claim doesn't mean a thing.
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  3935.  @jimarmstrong5820  He fired them because they were on strike and there didn't seem to be any resolution to that dispute. The controllers were holding the American public hostage and something had to give. So he fired them all and started fresh. It didn't take long and the airports were in full service and the economy improved.
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  3936.  @levelsandgear5644  So the high cost of housing, all the red tape, poor educational outcomes, high taxes, high energy costs, brownouts and the loss of jobs will continue. And all those with real skills will leave....like they're doing now. For the first time in California's history, the population has gone down. A state with the biggest gap between the rich and the poor. I'll bet that you're fairly well off and think that everything is just fine.
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  3937.  @evanwest4751  Trump didn't promote violence at his rallies. He said that if anyone saw a person that was about to throw a tomato at his rally to forcibly stop them from doing so. That's not a promotion of violence. She didn't say that the FBI was pushing for Comey to leave. She said that individual FBI agents, not the FBI, had lost confidence in Comey, not nearly the same thing. She also recanted that statement. I'm not sure what pieces I'm to put together here. Are you saying that this proves collusion or something? Politicians lie. Now there's a shocker. You'll go down in history for that discovery and revelation.
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  3938.  @burny6666  I asked for an example and you've spent more time explaining why you don't have to that then it would have taken to give me that example. Why are you avoiding this? I can't figure that out. Don't you have an example? You're so sure that she's a liar yet you won't give me an example. You want me to go to a press conference, listen to something she said and then determine if it's a lie or not. Maybe it's a mistake on her part. Mistakes aren't lies. If it isn't a lie or mistake, I have to do it all over again with something else she said. That's ridiculous. You said she was a liar. Now back it up with some facts and evidence. If you don't have a good specific example, just be honest and say so. It's like arguing with a flat earther that keeps telling me to do the research. You're so sure that she's a liar that you won't even give me an example. That's as illogical as it gets.
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  3939.  @burny6666  I'm not trying to start a debate. You said she was a liar. You must have a reason for saying this and I'm assuming that you know what that reason is. All I'm doing is asking for an example. You must have one or else why would you call her a liar. Hiding behind the current consensus argument shows me that you're just parroting what what others have claimed and you've never questioned it. You're suffering from a logical fallacy. I could go through one hundred things that she said and prove everyone of them to be true and I've still not proved that she's not a liar. The reason for that is quite simple. It could be the 101st thing that was said that was the lie or the 110th or the 150th. I could never be satisfied that I looked deep enough. I'd have to examine EVERYTHING that she's ever said to prove that she's not a liar and that's impossible. That's why one is assumed innocent until proven guilty. You don't and quite often can never prove innocence. You can only prove guilt. I would say that to claim that she's a liar, you have the evidence. That's logical and the correct way to prove allegations. If you can't do it or refuse to do it, I have to question why and one possibility is that you don't have the evidence. Also, I'd lay money on it that everyone on the planet has lied at one point so your claim is one that carries no value. It could only carry real value if she openly and brazenly said something that she knew was false and then double down on that falsehood. Has she ever done that? If yes, show me how it's a lie and that she knew that it was a lie. If you can't prove it to me, you can't prove it to yourself and your claim is invalid.
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  3940. Every white supremacist and KKK member must be scratching their heads in bafflement now. "Are you telling me that I rode around, on horseback all night, wearing a white pointy hat, looking like an IDIOT, for nothing? All we had to do was become post modernist lefties and they'd segregate all on their own?" Them Democrats sure are a shifty lot.
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  3941. Isn't it strange how they can't tell you what a woman is but when a 15 year old says that she's some non-binary gender, that no one has ever heard of....that teenager is obviously correct. So correct that drugs and surgery might well be necessary so she can fit into a gender that didn't even exist 10 years ago.....but they don't know what a woman is.
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  3942.  @kieranfreeman2103  Who are you talking to and shit like what?
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  3943.  @dklinepress3928  Isn't that the truth. Fashionable trends rule the day. Reality means nothing if it counters the propaganda narrative. Authoritarian politicians and advertisers use that against us and so many of us can't see that they're falling for it.
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  3944.  @spaceknight793  I was born in the fifties, EARLY fifties, and of course there's been talk of race but if you can't recognise how much worse it's been in the last 5 or 6 years, you've not been paying attention. Identity politics is the centrepiece of everything now. A study done on words and phrases, like racism and white supremacy, has skyrocketed in the media over the last 10 years. It has just double or tripled but almost 10 times that is was in 2010. Voting, going to the store, in schools, at workplaces.....everything is about race, these days and we're reverting back to forced segregation. There are universities that have segregated dorms and affinity groups for coloured folk and whites where, out of race folk aren't allowed. That would have considered appalling 15 years ago. Yet, Malcolm Nance, or NBC, was on Bill Maher and defended it. Had that been a network figure in 2005, he'd have been fired. Not now. You're not paying attention. That's all I can say to you.
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  3945.  @leciabreen88  I see you're deftly sidestepping my comment. It wasn't Trump that told the people of NY to go out to their favourite restaurants and the big parade. Where was Cuomo when the Mayor and his staff were telling people to get out there and live it up? You're allowing your dislike of an abrasive president cloud your judgement. Don't think with your emotions. Use facts.
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  3946. Pelosi is morbidly dead.
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  3947.  @Asghaad  Actually, the US has the highest numbers because it is the 3rd most populated country in the world. We can't trust the numbers from China and India is difficult to gauge due to extreme poverty in many locations and the lack of medical facilities to those poor, although I'd say that they still don't seem to be doing that badly....yet. The best metric to use would be by per capita. If you did that, the US is 10th in cases and 11th in deaths. Simply put there are 10 countries, had they the same population as the US, that would have a higher death rate, some over 50% higher, or at about the 240,000 death mark. You can't compare Belgium, pop. 11,460,000 to the US with a population of 331,000,000 and say that the US has more deaths therefore it is worse than Belgium. Belgium has about 300 more deaths per million than the US. In fact, you'd have to total the populations of almost 10 European nations to equal that of the US and then you'd find that those countries have a higher total than the US. Using only the totals of each country, as a metric, is highly misleading.
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  3948. For most of my 71 years, on any form that asked for "gender" and that's what the category was for sex as the terms were interchangeable, people would mark "male" of "female"....nothing else. Then, out of the blue, less than 10 years ago, they separated the 2 terms, giving each word a new definition. My 1985 Webster's dictionary describes both words as meaning the same thing. Why SHOULD we separate bodily function from gender? Bodily functions has always been what defined your gender or sex. There has never been a child, born with a penis, that has ever given birth. There has never been a woman that has become pregnant from anything other than a man, who had a penis.... unless you count the Virgin Mary and I'll bet you don't want to go there. A woman needs a man, with a penis, to get pregnant. That's has always been the defining measure in determining both sex and gender. To separate them is to artificially change the meaning of both words and then calling anyone, who doesn't want to do that, a bigot. It's as Orwellian as it gets.
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  3949.  @pahashnafilmgroup7563  Now you have to PROVE why they went missing, if those who are missing are the ones who are in those unmarked graves and then prove what ended their lives. Abuse and negligence is one thing....murder is another. We now need proof of abuse that led to deaths. Until we have that proof, there will always be questions. Exhume the bodies and prove it.
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  3950.  @jimd4201  That's easy. A DNA test will show that the clump of cells does NOT belong to the mother but distinct and separate. I'm sure that has been shown for quite some time.
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  3951.  @longboxdime  I know. I have a son-in-law like that. He was under quarantine and is going back to work tomorrow. I said it was a good thing and that the government can't be paying out forever. We have to work so they have the money coming in to hand out. He sort of hemmed and hawed but he really doesn't get it. He thinks that he's a slave and that's how his overlords have money and he doesn't. He's into the cult of envy.
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  3952.  @wekurtz72  I'll give you an example. When Brett Kavanaugh was accused, with little to no evidence, of sexual assault, the Hollywood community was all about MeToo and women's rights. Alyssa Milano sat behind Christine Ford at the confirmation hearings to lend her support. When Tara Reade accuse Joe Biden, with a lot more evidence, of sexual assault, Hollywood was strangely silent on it. The same people that went after Harvey Weinstein, never said a word about Biden. Selective MeToo beliefs. Alyssa Milano even endorsed Biden, in spite of the sexual assault. These people don't care about sexual assault or the victims. They self serving, narcissistic hypocrites, spouting off whatever makes them look good or feel good at the time. Integrity isn't a word that you hear often coming out of Hollywood.
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  3953.  @wekurtz72  What does Donald Trump have to do with whether the Hollywood elites are corrupt or not? "Bob is bad, therefore Ted isn't" is a basically what you're doing. One has NOTHING to do with the other. I never SAID that Hollywood was in charge of anything. I SAID that they were corrupt. I made a long comment about a specific example and you don't mention a WORD about it. Also, Trump has been a part of the entertainment business over his career. Therefore his "pussy" statement might just reflect that same attitude that Hollywood had when they employed the casting couch for generations. I never ONCE mentioned Trump either and your assumption that I approve of that "pussy" statement is just that.....an assumption. As for Ghislaine, another one of the elites that, not just Trump but Clinton and others were good friends of as well. Clinton more so than Trump....flying all over the country in Epstein's plane rather says that they're better friends than Trump EVER was. Also, Trump never once said Nazis are good people. That's that stupid "good people on both sides" nonsense that some people take out of context ALL the time and I can prove it. Not that you'd listen. People like you don't seem to understand what "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally." means. When you assess information, use your brain instead of your emotions. You might come off looking a little smarter. Also, if you think that Trump saying that "pussy" remark lets Biden off the hook for doing just that to Tara Reade, you've one weird sense of integrity.
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  3954.  @homewall744  It's as if you've never heard of the recent opioid scandal, brought to us by the drug companies and dispensed by the very doctors that you laud as being the ones to listen to. Untold lives were destroyed and lost but it's all good. They were doctors and they know best. Same as the lobotomy scandal, something that happened in my lifetime. That was a giant success (extreme sarcasm). Then the Thalidomide issues. I know people that were directly and physically affected by that great medical leap forward. Doctors are humans and because of that they're just as prone to greed, ideological and social pressures and corruption. Also, it's been known for years, that gender dysphoria was largely a male phenomena. Yet, it's dominated now by teenage girls and that referrals, in Britain, have spiked by nearly 4000% in 10 years. Strangely, that hasn't been the case in 3rd world countries. One has to wonder why. In my 15 years of school, I knew of only ONE person that I would call gender dysphoric and not ONE kid in my school committed suicide that I'd ever heard of. Yet, if we are to believe the supporters of trans medical procedures, there should have been all kinds of suicides due to their inability to get medical treatments. It just didn't happen. In other words, most of transgender claims are bogus and are used by a specific ideology to distort reality and that is another discussion.
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  3955.  Salvatore Eze  The longer we can put that recession off, the better it will be for all of us. If you invest wisely, be conservative with your spending, when the times are good, the better off you'll be when a recession does hit. Therefore, this wishing for a recession before the next election, just to get rid of Trump, is nuts. Only those, the elites, the ones with the money already in their pockets, will benefit from it. The rest of us will suffer. Peoples lives will be destroyed, savings will disappear, suicides will increase and homelessness will increase. This isn't something that a caring individual wishes for. This is something that a caring and responsible person wants to postpone as long as possible.
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  3956.  @fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335  You didn't answer the question, did you? I asked you to point out anything that SHE looted....that she herself stole or had stolen. You may have a case when saying that a lot of the stuff was stolen in the past but did SHE steal it any of it? What was stolen or looted at Queen Elizabeth the 2nd's order or direction? That's my question.
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  3957.  @fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335  "A classy woman that stole". That's what you said. NOW....you're changing your story. Apparently she didn't steal it but should have returned it. The British Museum was started by a Act of Parliament over 250 years ago. That means it's under the stewardship of Parliament, NOT the Queen. She couldn't return Kohinoor even if she wanted to. It's not hers to return. The Queen is a figurehead and doesn't have that kind of power. The best she could do is advocate for its return. Resentment, bitterness and hatred is a poor foundation to build a belief system on. It prevents people from searching for THE truth and only want to hear THEIR truth, which can be vague and self serving.
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  3958.  @denisevarner7308  Give credit to elder wise ones. LOL. That's rich.
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  3959.  @Daniel-po8eb  It doesn't matter what you call it. It's just the way it is. It doesn't help much if you lose because all the cowards have deserted you, does it. I want to win and the only way to do that is with numbers. People get brave in crowds. You can crow all day long about how brave you are and still lose. I'd rather lead a bunch of cowards to victory and stand bravely alone defeated.
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  3960.  @Daniel-po8eb  If it comes to a fight, then I'll fight. However, if you go looking for it right now, you'll lose. I don't want to lose. Brave men don't continuously tell everyone how brave they are. It's how you carry yourself, NOT about how many times you say "I'm a hero". Everyone's a hero until the s##t hits the fan.
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  3961. Transgenders, who were born male, can play in the men's leagues. However, they can't because they aren't good enough as men and never will be. They're just like me. I wasn't too bad at sports but I'm never going to play in the NHL or Major League baseball. I'm disappointed but I'm not about to pretend to be something that I'm not. They just have to face it. They're just not that good.....which begs the question "Are they claiming to be women just so they can win?" Anyone that would do that has extreme self-esteem problems.
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  3962.  @nickthompson1812  I'm not a Republican but I will tell you that the education is biased towards left wing thinking. Highly biased. They're not liberals. Liberals believe in free thought and expression. Left wing ideologists. Left wing universities will not allow diversity of thought. Conservative viewpoints are suppressed, even protested violently at times. They don't advocate against education. They advocate against an education that is highly biased. It's not conservatives that run hiding to safe spaces in universities when they hear ideas they don't like. I'm astounded at the arrogance on display. It's the same arrogance that Hillary displayed in her election bid. That attitude that she's better than the hillbillies in fly over America. The same elitist arrogance that you're showing in your comment.
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  3963. I find it hard to believe that the average American thinks that the riots, in so many cities, are just a myth or only done by white supremacists. I think they know damn well that they're happening and who's doing it and they don't like it. They keep their mouth shut because they don't want any trouble but when the time comes, they'll vote against the riots and the left wing Democrats that seem to support the violence and lawlessness.
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  3964. It won't do any good to protest. In fact, it'll likely do more harm. If one thing happens, one fire, one broken nose, one police line breached, one fight with BLM, the MSM will spin it, 24/7, into a white supremacist insurrection. They'll invoke Trump, maybe have a fake funeral for a guy who died of a stroke, and blow it so out of proportion that ordinary folk will be horrified and condemn those who did protest. The left are winning the propaganda war. I don't know how to turn it into our favour but I know that protests will only hurt us. The good news is that a lot of people have been red-pilled over this. This is how we win. One step at a time. If he's acquitted and cities burn, those who've changed their minds and believe he's innocent now, will condemn them. That will be another step towards ending this horrific ideology that's behind it all.
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  3965.  @eljisprincess1131  Then what are you worried about. Besides, they're contrails, condensed water vapour, created from the exhaust of jets. Water vapour condensing on carbon particulates and then freezing. The more water vapour in the air up there, the bigger the contrail. It's EXACTLY how clouds are formed. Water vapour condensing around natural particulates in the air. No particulates...no clouds. Same as the contrails. Exhaust particulates are discharged through the jet exhaust system and if the air is humid enough, has enough water vapour, you'll see contrails behind the jets. It's science. You learn about it in school.
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  3966.  @eljisprincess1131  They may have done some experimenting, like cloud seeding, but those trails in the sky aren't that. It's an impossibility. Those trails that you see are hundreds of miles long. There's not a plane big enough to carry that amount of spray. Also the cost would be out of this world. Besides, why bother. According to the conspiracy guys, the Covid vaccine will get us all. Just because things look unusual, don't automatically jump to a conspiracy. It's neither scientific and can be irrational. Keep looking into the science of clouds and how they are formed. There's enough bad things in the world to add a fear of clouds to the list.
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  3967.  @chicongodetraq1946  Allowing the politically illiterate to vote may be a bad idea but so is every other system of government that has ever existed. However, America is not a full democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. This means that people are restricted in what they can vote for, which is basically what you do when you vote. You can't vote against the basic law of the land. Basic human rights must always be protected. That's the beauty of the American system. It's also flawed, because people can still ignore those rights, but it's easily the best system that's ever been devised. There aren't many options in trying to coerce another nation to act responsibly and with integrity. You could declare war but that's a little extreme. You can use covert tactics, like in Iran, but that leads to unethical practices. There are sanctions or just a refusal to deal with them, anymore, which could hurt them in the long run. Basically though, it's like trying to deal with the average person. You'd like your neighbour to be a nice guy but you can't force him to be likeable. Sometimes you're just stuck with what you've got.
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  3968.  @slappy8941  Mussolini said this about Fascism. "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." Not one word about the individual and the reason for that is quite obvious. The individual is insignificant. It's all about the state. Mussolini should know. He was the very first Fascist leader. It's YOU that doesn't understand Fascism.
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  3969.  @rickybobby9840  If we want to clear it up, we start with the problem that is sitting right in front of us right now. This "everybody does it" is diversionary and only invites a paralysed response. This is happening right now. Put a stop to it. Don't cloud things up by pointing fingers everywhere else. Deal with the problem at hand. When that's dealt with, go on to the next one and if that happens to be Ted Cruz...so be it.
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  3970.  @gruemonkey1145  LOL. I use that expression all the time.
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  3971.  @lynnentler5725  Healthy diets and exercise do help us to live longer but diseases like smallpox and polio don't care about your lifestyle. Lifestyles have nothing to do with the disappearance of those diseases. Vaccines are. Every year, there are up to 500,000 deaths to the flu every year. That's 1/2 MILLION. Are that many dying from the flu vaccine? Not a chance. Flu is a bad disease and millions died from after WW1. You might change your tune when people around you start dying from a new strain of the flu because they thought that the vaccine is worse than the disease.
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  3972.  @NorthRunner64  What you're saying is that the local government has failed in how the police force is formed and applied. The local government. Who has formed the local government for over 40 years? The Democrats. It is the responsibility of the mayor and the city council to set the tone and policies of their policing force. If the problem is systemic, then it's the fault of the local government. In other words, Democrats have been in control and are responsible for the systemic racism in the Minneapolis police force. I'm glad we have THAT cleared up. Maybe, the good folk of Minneapolis, knowing this will elect a government that's NOT Democrat, next time.
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  3973.  @whousa642  When I retired I had 5 weeks holidays. I would take the entire month of August off and head off, with my camping trailer, into the Canadian north. Cooler and the mosquitoes aren't as bad in August. I would take a week in the winter to travel to the Caribbean. No one ever called me lazy. Also, you have no idea what Dave was doing for that month. You just don't like him so you'll just blurt things out to justify your envy.
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  3974.  @whousa642  Nice out. Just say "nonsense" and you're gold. LOL. You're quite the intellectual.
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  3975.  @Leester-70  To use that example again....hell DID come. My parents, my family and hundreds of millions of others went through it and came out the other end. You can give up if you want. You can BE one of those fat and weak whiners, cowering and fear, whimpering that we can't possibly defeat the degeneracy. Stand aside and let the strong ones realise what's happening and carry the fight. I don't want a defeatist in my foxhole anyway. The only way that they can win if for losers to cry defeat before the battle has even started.
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  3976.  @carstenschmidt9159  Sowell was an associate and student of Milton Friedman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics. He must have SOME understanding of economics. You say that we should read some ACTUAL economics books. Since it is quite apparent that I have no idea of real economics, like Sowell, maybe you could recommend some reading material that would be helpful in my economic educational endeavours. Anything at all. I'd like to see what YOUR idea of real economic understanding would be.
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  3977.  @NikolaMeduric  Super logic there. "NATO is going to invade us so I have to destroy the non-NATO nation of Ukraine" That's like saying Bob is going to beat me up so I'd better punch George. Paranoia can be a dangerous affliction.
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  3978.  @NikolaMeduric  Russia only became bad when THEY were the ones that started killing people. How many Russian civilians are now refugees, trying to flee Russia, because Ukraine is invading Russia? I'd say that it's Ukraine....100,000 refugees or more. Russia.....0 refugees. A rather lopsided count. This war didn't start because NATO attacked Russia. It started because Russia attacked Ukraine. Only 5 nations are supporting the Russians. Look at the nations supporting Russia. North Korea....Wow, the most brutal regime on the planet Myanmar.....Another country with horrific human rights record. Syria.....A country that has had Russian support in their civil war. Venezuela....Another country with an horrific human rights record against its own citizens. Cuba....see Venezuela Belarus.....Russia's closest ally, mostly because they don't want to end up like Ukraine. That's it. 193 nations and only a handful have voiced support. Even China has abstained and that's only because they'd love to invade Taiwan and are sitting in the weeds. You don't invade other countries. I hated it when the United States invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, when Iraq invaded Iran, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. NATO hadn't taken a shot at Russia. It was Russia that decided to attack Ukraine. Putin paranoia isn't a good reason to wage a war.
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  3979.  @pindrop.  Do you really think that if Russia wins that they will retreat? You can't be that naive, can you. The Baltic countries are now a part of NATO and they're right on the border of Russia. Poland, Romania and Turkey aren't that far away. To compare that to the Cuban missile crisis of 60 years ago, against a different Soviet Regime is ludicrous. If there's a nuclear exchange of even a full scale invasion of Russia from NATO, Russia is screwed, with or without the help of Ukraine. So, lets get back to planet earth. Russia's invasion of Ukraine does nothing but expand it's borders and scares the hell out of Europe's NATO nations. That will only consolidate opposition to Russia. Russia started the fighting. You can spin the rest all you want, but NATO still hasn't fired a shot. If NATO was so aggressive, this would have been the perfect excuse to declare war and invade Russia. It hasn't happened yet. NATO is just the boogeyman that Putin is using for his own agenda.
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  3980.  @pindrop.  What strawman? NATO hasn't fired on Russia. Russia has fired on Ukraine. Perceived threats mean nothing other than a person can perceive anything that they choose to perceive. So the invasion of Ukraine is a "nice" invasion as opposed to one that would "flatten" them. Now that's some convoluted rationalisation for you. Do you really think that adding Ukraine to NATO would change things that much if NATO wanted to invade Russia. All it would do is prolong the war and that only by a short time. NATO is on the border already. Once you consider the capabilities of modern high tech military equipment, it hardly means a thing. NATO would walk right through Belarus in days and their bombers would be over Moscow within hours. In fact, Belarus is more a strategic site than Ukraine. Russia would be better advised to tighten military capabilities on their borders if they're so afraid of NATO invasion. Now Russia is the aggressor. Europe will seek oil imports elsewhere and all Russia's economic possibilities will slowly dry up. They might start selling more to China but would would they really want to do that. Putin would have been better off with things as they are, use oil sale money to strengthen its defences and become the victim if NATO ever did attack. Now Russia is the aggressor and most of the nations in the world see it that way.
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  3981.  @pindrop.  I will add the Russia does have a point about their concerns. They're not all evil. However, they lost the plot with that invasion. They started the violence and ended the posturing. He who throws the first punch starts the fight.
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  3982.  @lilbarry1212  What you don't get is that those weapons have been within reach of Russia for decades. France and Britain have them. Germany, Italy and Turkey have American nukes installed in case of war. Turkey is only about 500 miles from Russia. How long do you think it would take to put nukes in Latvia or Estonia, NATO nations that are right on the border of Russia. It would be nothing for a nuclear armed sub to leave a German or Turkish port and approach Russia. Besides, who said that they wanted to put nukes in Ukraine, anyway? Where did you get that? Ukraine isn't even a part of NATO yet and you're already putting nukes there. You're getting way ahead of yourself. Weird that you don't think all of Europe isn't upset that Russia has nukes that could be pointed at them. That's where NATO is. Russia should be terrified but the European NATO nations aren't allowed to be? Kind of a double standard isn't it. This nuclear rhetoric is just a rationalisation to justify the carnage in Ukraine. No one is putting nukes in Ukraine. Ukraine had the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world after they were independent. They destroyed them. That was only 30 years ago. They did this after a 90% affirmative vote for independence. I wonder how much that loss sticks in the craw of Putin, a one time communist and KGB agent. Putin, at 69 years of age, spent more time as a Soviet citizen than he has a Russian. That has to influence his attitude and his paranoia. So, who should be more afraid of the other. Ukraine, the smaller country with NO nukes or Russia, a MUCH larger country with all kinds of nukes and a leader who was a part of the very aggressively expansive USSR. Remember Putin was in his thirties when Russia was trying to hold onto Afghanistan. Old habits die hard.
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  3983.  @lilbarry1212  I'm pretty well with you on everything that you just said, especially your last sentence. It does stink.
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  3984.  @NoRan-s1g  Massive starvation and secret police control.
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  3985.  @polygraphliedetector  LOL. So 17 Walgreen stores DIDN'T close their doors because of theft. Their official statement is just BS. Same as the Target statement. They're lying so FOX can lie. The shoplifting issues in San Francisco is real. Any serious internet search will verify it but you won't do that. You hate FOX that much that people could rob you blind and if FOX reported it, you's say that you gave it away. What does it matter who reported it? What matters is whether it's true or not.....unless truth isn't important to you and that would explain a lot.
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  3986. It's kind of enlightening really. It shows that we, the human race, is not some kind of aberration in our behaviour. That might be shocking to realise but it's better that we know than to keep deluding ourselves into a self hatred of our species.
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  3987.  @manderson7173  Really? I don't know how old you are but I remember a time when the products that we bought in our stores were made in our country. Not all of them but the great majority of them. I watched our manufacturing base dwindle to nothing, factory after factory closing down, now sitting empty and people losing their jobs. Cities rotting from the inside out, even the small ones. Everything, in our stores, were labelled "Made in China". All the political slogans calling to "Buy American" proved futile because there was nothing made in America. Why? Because of the REAL cronyism in the political bureaucracy. Allowing corporations to move manufacturing out of the country, to China especially, who have no labour or environmental laws, so the corporations could rake in big profits at the expense of the average American citizen. Corporate lobbyists, for decades, working politicians and established bureaucrats, establishing Draconian laws and red tape, to the point that it became impossible for manufacturers to operate in the US anymore. Trump has been talking about this for decades and has started to bring back some of those manufacturing jobs to the US. Why would you ignore this? As a matter of fact, why don't you give an example of the cronyism that Trump has been a part of? That might be interesting to examine. However, I don't expect a word from you. You're just a troll.
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  3988.  @TS-wh4ey  It's amazing, isn't it. They just made it up and then they validated it by basically saying that our history is bunk. It's kind of similar to their saying of "Trust the science". They don't really want you to trust the science. They don't even care to know what science is. They just want you to trust them. That mentality makes me nervous.
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  3989. I don't believe in a higher power, yet I'm convinced that religious beliefs were essential to human evolution. It was the narrative that gave us a set of values that mitigated our need to act in a selfish manner. There's a reason that religious beliefs have been present in every corner of the earth, in every society, throughout our history, so your dismissal of the importance of religion is poorly thought out. Also, your argument, that it's a sign of responsible behaviour, to not have children today, doesn't wash, either. Those conditions are relatively new. The need to act in a mature manner towards our family and offspring have been essential for millions of years of our history. It lies at the core of our being and survival. To turn that psychological imperative off goes against who we are and the inability to bear children has been fraught with depression and other mental issues. "What abouts" doesn't lend credence to anything that you've said. It's used to avoid the discussion and then lead you to claim that YOU know the better way. I find your comment to be condescending and somewhat illogical. Even your name "AtheistVegan and then You should be too" strongly implies that you've got it all figured out. Using the exception to negate the trend or the imperative of procreation doesn't lend to a very strong case.
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  3990.  Lancaster Stiltstalking  I love how you twist the facts. Barr never said that there was nothing there with Hunter Biden. He said that he felt that there was no need to appoint a special counsel to head the investigation into Hunter's laptop. That investigation was NOT halted by Barr and he never wanted to stop the investigation. He simply didn't feel that the investigation needed a special counsel to direct it. A HUGE difference. You either don't understand what a special counsel is or you're twisting the facts to suit your own agenda. Either way, you're claim is FALSE.
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  3991. What does that have to do with this video?
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  3992. That interviewer wanted to get away from the clock boy topic in a big hurry. I'm sure he didn't want to hear what Dawkins had to say on that. Comical in that it was so obvious.
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  3993.  @churly9717  And this is relevant to the coronavirus.....HOW? People are getting sick and dying. The economy is grinding to a halt and people are in danger of losing their life's savings....and you're flogging the dead horse called the Russian collusion. Wow....you sure have your priorities straight. Not the kind of guy I'd want to in a foxhole with. The bullets would be flying overhead and you'd be babbling on about Shakespeare or something else completely irrelevant to the mud we're sitting, hiding from sniper fire.
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  3994.  @churly9717  That war is over. Didn't anyone tell you? Patton's been dead for 35 years. Put down the wayback machine and come back to the present.
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  3995.  food  Before he said those things, he restricted all trips to China. I heard what he said and at the time, the virus had NOT been that serious, YET. He was right about that. He did say it would be over by spring, but no one could EVER know that, so I took it as wishful thinking and optimism. However, he did stop travel to China. So, I invoked one of the maxims I like to use in times like that. I not only listened to what he said, I payed attention to what he did. I figured that he had more information on the situation than most people. He had shut down travel to China. He offered members of the CDC to China to help them study this new virus. He even mentioned it during that speech. The only conclusion that I could come to was this. He was being very optimistic but he wasn't taking any chances and was hedging his bets. To use another maxim "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst". Biden called him a xenophobe but he did it anyway and didn't retract. So, I thought to myself, if Trump isn't hedging his bets, I'm not going to either. Normally, I keep a well stocked pantry, enough to last a couple of months, but I'm not a fanatic about it. I did a quick inventory, made a note of the things I needed and, over the next couple of weeks, I bought the few extra items I needed when I did my regular shopping. No panic, no rush. I was good long before March came around and when the shut down came and everyone was panic buying, I was sitting on my couch watching movies. So, who was the smarter? Me, all ready in case of the worst because I was prepared or all those crazy people, fighting and buying in a big panic. Instead of screeching about what he said, try to interpret it using logic and reason. All the information was there, just by listening carefully to what Trump was saying. Your problem was your intense hatred for Trump only allowed you to hear the negatives that you wanted to hear. I heard what was actually there because I didn't allow my emotions to control me. Logic and reason trumps (play on words) hatred and emotion every time. I'm not saying that you have to like Trump or vote for him but don't let your hatred rule you.
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  3996.  @Alex-pt5no  So, what you're trying to tell me is that it was GOOD to stand up against the Brownshirts that were smashing windows, setting fires and threatening people. That's good to know. So, when a group comes to my town, smashes window, set fires and threatens people, we should stand up to them and make sure that we win any engagements. Thanks for the advice. I'll get my friends to help me to do just that, especially if the authorities do NOTHING. In other words, Kyle was doing the right thing. Protecting his town and community from rioters that have ideological belief systems that give them the right to destroy lives and property to achieve their goals. I didn't think that it would be this easy to get you to see things my way.
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  3997.  @margaretp1465  I wondered how long it would take for someone to squeeze Trump into this. "Why are my corn flakes so soggy?". Trump likes his corn flakes soggy. That's why. One dimensional brain.
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  3998.  @boomboy1305  Yeah, I know. She's taking a nap and I'm outside trimming the hedge. My neighbour brings over 2 beer, one for me one for himself and we sit at the picnic table and talk for a bit. She wakes up and sees me with a beer and loses her mind. She sulked for 2 days. I didn't even know that she wouldn't like it. That was the first that she told me "No more beer until she said it was okay". Only a better man than me would have guessed correctly at that unvoiced new rule and only a better man would have apologised for not knowing what her little authoritarian mind would conjure up. I stand guilty of not bending to her demands. Fortunately, she's found the better man. She throws the stick and he fetches. It's the perfect relationship.
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  3999. That's for sure.
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  4000.  Simian Samsonite  Yes....he entertained that. Hundreds of thousands of freed slaves with nowhere to go. Maybe it was a stupid solution but there was a country, Liberia, that was founded by freed and runaway slaves. If I were a freed slave, in 1865, I might even consider it. Especially when I think how badly this country had treated me thus far. It's easy to judge from our cozy position some 165 years later, but I'm not going to judge the man that led the north in the war that ended slavery all that harshly. I wasn't there and can't even imagine what it would have been like.
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  4001. If CNN supported honest journalism, they'd send their medical "experts" to examine that doctor's patient records and get permission to talk to those patients. They'd verify her claims. As far as I know, not one of them did. Not one of them cares if her claims are true or not. They're allowing their hatred to rule the narrative.
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  4002. As much as I'm embarrassed by what happened in Parliament, they allies weren't going to put EVERY German soldier in jail. You'd have almost all of Germany in jail along with millions of their allies.
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  4003.  @Pledly  What? I mean, what does that have to do with Walz? What if I think that Kamala could have done a LOT better than him. I doubt that she'd consider Trump. Although I could be wrong. She did steal his tips idea and now she wants to build the wall. She's Trump without the orange hair. LOL.
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  4004.  @susanbabudro3825  It was for me, as well.
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  4005. When the lockdown first was implemented, I wrote on my Facebook page that 2020 would be remembered as the year the world went crazy. I haven't posted a thing since.
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  4006.  @moniquenoverola7843  Not even close to the entire station. There are 124 police officers in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
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  4007. Sorry Russel. The first step, out of despair in this country, is to realise that we've never had it so good. That we're not starving, that we have decent clothes and we can find a way into decent shelter and that there's a way out of your despair if you just find some meaning in your life and then work towards realising it. It's not the fact that we're better off than our ancestors. It's that it's NEVER enough and we don't realise it.
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  4008. As a good guy, I will still wish blessings on a person with murder in their heart. God bless you "Wolfe 123".
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  4009. As far as I'm concerned, you're NOT a minority. You're an American. Period. You have Asian heritage, kinda vague but it's all I have to go on, just like I have Dutch heritage. That doesn't set me or you apart. We're both citizens of the country we live in.
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  4010. @Kai McCook It's a comparison. Religion is based on faith and that leaves very little room for questioning the basic tenets. She has a Marxist based ideology. It leaves NO room for questioning ANY of its basic tenets. If you do, it's a violent act and violence must be met with reprisal. It's worse but similar.
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  4011.  @suilfisean  LMAO. You lied???? Could that be it? Why should I believe that you heard it? I don't know you. Any bozo can say anything they want. Doesn't make it true.
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  4012.  @drdonna4915  That's exactly correct. You've just validated what I said. Those groups don't believe in the idea that their oppression gives them the right to behave like the Palestinians did on Oct. 7th. The silent feminists do. "There is no excuse to rape.". The silent feminists have an excuse. It's just not a good one. You should have said. "There is no LEGITIMATE excuse for rape." They will continue to make their invalid excuse for one reason. They believe that Palestinian oppression trumps oppression against women. If you, as a woman, decry the horrific actions of Oct. 7th, you deserve what you get. The hierarchy of oppression has spoken. If you were at that music festival, you, a woman, are at fault for happens to you. THAT is their belief. Misogyny isn't as bad as Palestinian oppression. That's the guiding principle of those silent feminist groups. If it had been Jews that did those things, they wouldn't be silent. The Jews of Israel are the bigger oppressor and that makes it wrong....to them. It's not about right and wrong. It's about perceived oppression.
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  4013.  @cjgt77  So what's your suggestion. Stay on drugs, stay the way you are? That helps. Getting a job, even a low paying one, is better than smoking crack, playing video games and stealing from others to support the drug habit. You're making excuses. It's whining of the finest quality. Every worker at MacDonald's has 10 times the character than one who sits at home, on drugs and is complaining how he has no chance. Learn a little self respect. Oh yeah. I know people that did just that. They got clean, got off the drugs and got a low paying job and their lives have improved immensely. They're not living in mansions or travelling the world (although some have done a little travelling) but their small home is neat and tidy, their fridge is full and their lives are better than it was. It may not be great or ideal but nothing ever is. Anyone who uses the rhetoric that you used to excuse their behaviour is a loser. It's harsh but it's true.
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  4014.  @cjgt77  BS again. I made 15,000 dollars last year and a little more the year before. In spite of that I've been to Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands over the last 3 years and I'm planning on a trip to Costa Rica this winter. Incredibly, I have more money in the bank than I did 3 years ago. It CAN be done. The problem is that people don't realise the benefits of financial planning. They don't think that they should put in the extra hours or time to make things better for themselves. Look at that mess in Baltimore that those outsiders are cleaning up. Are you trying to tell me that the locals couldn't put in 2 to 3 hours a week into cleaning it up? That they can't tell those that are dumping that garbage to stop doing it? That place looks like that because the local residents don't have the will or ambition to clean it. Anyone that did has already left....like Elijah Cummings. The rest are like you are. Complaining how there isn't work and that their problems aren't solved overnight. I say do like Cummings did, even though I think he's corrupt. Get the hell out. Join the military. Go to night school. Spend your free time filling out resumes and pounding the pavement looking for jobs. The jobs and the life isn't going to come to you. You have to do it yourself. Put a little bit away a week, even if it's only 10 bucks and DON'T touch it. It's the little things that help. If you can't do the little things, the big things will NEVER come. That's how they did it in the fifties and sixties. It as baby steps for them and it paid off over the long term.
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  4015.  Smoke Tree  Yet, almost ALL the riots, looting and burning since the Floyd's death, has NOT been White Supremacists. It's not White Supremacists that have been going into restaurants and forcing people to give the BLM salute. FORCING them. White supremacists didn't do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Idbw1WKGN4&ab_channel=TheOregonian Or this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dT7V8iTIRM&ab_channel=leepacoindustries Or this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyqkytEpUI8&ab_channel=FOX2St.Louis Or this.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo7LHr9LtX4&ab_channel=TMJ4News Or this..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGqqjK4zU8&ab_channel=PESBeats%26NewsReviews This may not scare you but it does it terrifies me. You know....as in being terrified by terrorists? This isn't a contest. If extreme leftists are rioting, looting and burning things down, bulling people in restaurants and going to neighbourhoods and accosting people, then call it out. If you don't....you're a hypocrite. I'll call out the violence by both sides. I don't use a tally sheet. I call it out. It's WRONG...no matter who does it.
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  4016.  @morecomplex5233  This isn't a contest of who/what had the biggest numbers. The flu is a different disease than Covid-19. It's pathology is completely different. In fact, Trump, you or I has no idea if the outcome would have been different had the cupboard been full because, except for the testing, almost all needs were being met within a few weeks. Trump was right. The cupboard was bare and Obama should have replenished it. However, he should have done the same....but this is all politics and has no impact on how the country proceeds from here. Continuous blame, from both sides, doesn't solve the problem at hand. If you're going to criticise Trump, you have to criticise his detractors because they're doing the same thing. If it's wrong for Trump, it's wrong for you and I, the media and the Democrat party.
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  4017.  @andrewgarafalo6321  What did Trump do, as the president, that was bad for the American people? One policy that really hurt us all. I don't expect an answer, though. I never get one.
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  4018. It was more specific than that. He refused to say that Serena Williams was the best tennis player of all time. At best, this is a subjective call no different than the argument on whether Bobby Orr or Wayne Gretzky is the best hockey player of all time. It's a matter of opinion. However, in this case, we KNOW that Serena couldn't beat the best male tennis player at her peak. Yet, these activists wouldn't even allow him a subjective opinion let alone one that's based on fact. I shouldn't have to apologise for saying that Bobby Orr was the greatest of all time than MacEnroe should apologise for his stance on tennis. It's a ridiculous demand.
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  4019. @ruger6049 LOL. I was going to tell him to put down the bottle and go to bed but went with the "huh" thing instead. It sure did sound like the incoherent blubbering of an addict, though.
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  4020.  @Spilatro702  That stupid trope. Did you really think that Mexico was going to cut Trump a cheque to build that wall? Every Trump supporter knew that wasn't what he was going to do. It's only those with TDS that believed it. You really don't know how thick you really are.
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  4021.  @thunderstruck1078  It's not diversity that separates us. It's ideology. Their Marxist and collectivist ideologies force them to draw a line in the sand and they're using the mantra of "diversity and inclusion", rather contradictory, as their weapon.....and you're falling for it with your own collective rhetoric. It's not the physical, skin colour, nose shape or hair texture, that's the problem. It's what's in their head. What's in their head is the toxic, hateful and resentful dogma that Marxism brings to the table. It's why "Thou shalt not covet" was in the Ten Commandments, the Big Ten as I like to call them. They've fallen to one of the most virulent vices of the human condition. Envy and its end result....resentment. It's all about not having what they think others do have. The racism and diversity narrative is just their rationalisation for having a poisonous soul.
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  4022.  @looseleavesmakemoneytrees5961  I believe that we do have more in common than we think. However, like I've already told you, you're letting the radicals and violent speak for you. Yelling from your living room does nothing.
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  4023.  @Caitgreenham  This was all new to her. She had nowhere to turn. The school was against her. Her team mate, who went crying to administrators, suddenly changed her mind. They gaslit her by telling them all that if they couldn't accept it, they could go for counselling, insinuating that SHE was the crazy one. That caused her to question herself, wondering is she was, INDEED, the one with the problem. In fact, this is why the radical left are so active in schools. They're conditioning the most vulnerable to accept this stuff. I'm seeing it in my own grandchildren and even my 20 year old is still in a maturing stage of life. Just like I said, you should support her and the only reason that I can come up with why you're so insistent on smearing her, is too shut her up....to gaslight her into thinking that she's too weak to keep the up the struggle against this insanity. If you REALLY believe that this is wrong, get behind and support her. This is prevalent in a lot of schools and we have to show support for those who can break away from their propaganda and overt bullying. Instead, you're just throwing hate at her. That's why I don't trust your motives. NO one is going to understand our point of view if they think that we're only going to treat her the way that you're doing. To end the insanity, we will start small and build up our numbers from those that we can show how terrible this is. We're not going to that by smearing them and calling them weak. You're HURTING our cause more than your helping. That's why I think that you're just as bad as those who like this aberration and could even be one of them. You're not doing ONE thing to help them. NOT ONE THING.
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  4024.  @Caitgreenham  It's telling that you've not responded to my impression that you're trying to smear her and that you actually believe that it's a good thing that biological men are beating women in athletics. You can't even be honest about it. Do you support Thomas in her bid to swim with women as if she's a woman? Be honest and answer the question forthrightly and in good faith. Until you do that, I cannot take you seriously.
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  4025.  @ACryin_Shame  That's sad but your situation really illuminates the problem that most of us feel when dealing with this type of mass schizophrenia. Not as personal but it's becoming so frustrating for those who see life in a more pragmatic way. Best of luck to you.
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  4026.  @aceboog4546  "Racist and racist and racism and bigot. Evil and racist and bigoted and racism." That's all I see when I read your comments. LOL. How old are you? 9???
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  4027. Do you know how to save money on Turkey day? Call Thanksgiving a coloniser myth and that you refuse to take part in a white patriarchal celebration......and then don't invite anyone over for supper. Beans and toast and a good movie is a lot cheaper.
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  4028. @ I just checked my investments and it's down slightly from what it was in December. The stock market hasn't gone south, at least not yet. It didn't tank nearly like it did when Biden was elected. From what I've seen in my investments since January, there's absolutely no reason to panic.
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  4029.  @vlads3283  You have no idea what those two had in mind. The home owner wasn't about to wait to find out, either. They illegally entered a private residence for nefarious reasons. You play with fire, you get burned. No excuse for their behaviour and I don't blame the guy for protecting what was important to him.
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  4030. I learned that when I was 7 years old. If you don't stand up for yourself, they'll keep holding you down. Bullies never stop. The only way to stop them is make them pay for their bullying. That's what I did in grade 2. Got beat up 4 or 5 times until I hit the buy square in the nose before he had a chance to do anything to me. He still beat me up, THAT time, but the next time he approached me, I stood there defiantly and he backed off. A bloody nose will perform miracles in a bully's mindset.
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  4031.  @ismofishness8192  People have this idea that you have to give them a major beating. That's not true. All you have to do is hurt them, make them wince in pain, for the next 24 hours. You're going to get beat up, anyway. Might as well make them work for it. Bullies are generally too lazy to garner respect by going the effort of doing the right thing. They use fear to get people to like (I think it's tolerate) them, the lazy way. Of course it may not always work, but it's better than cowering for the rest of your life.
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  4032.  @shishoka  It doesn't mean that it WON'T happen, either. It has to be a consideration. I could get in my car, drunker than a lord, and drive around town. Does that mean I'm going to kill someone? NO!!!! However, it is so irresponsible and dangerous, that the act is considered a crime, even if one arrives safely at their destination and there is no victim. Once we allow it, we face the normalisation of drunk driving, something that was the case 50 years ago, and our streets become exponentially more dangerous. That's the slippery slope of normalisation. There are implications and consequences to how we enact our laws and the slippery slope is one of them. Does it mean that it WILL happen. NO!!!! But it still has to be considered as a possibility.
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  4033.  @larrycastaneda2822  I can't speak for Coleen but I do feel bad for the children. However, it's their parents who did this to them. Their parents know what the law is concerning immigration and they violated those laws. No different had they been growing weed or running a black market operation. They would be separated from their children then, as well and this is done hundreds of times every week. This is selective empathy.
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  4034. That's because he's pretty sure that he's not going to be standing in those bread lines.
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  4035.  @NYG5  Please stop!!! Now, I'm going to have nightmares.
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  4036.  @safffff1000  Huh??? If I send you a quarter, will you promise to use it to buy a sense of humour?
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  4037.  @whilomforge3402  A furry book burner!!!!!!
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  4038.  @carcusminsden1310  My dad grew up in WW2 the Netherlands. Lots of Nazi soldiers and Canadian soldiers stayed in the barn of his family farm, but he never even heard a shot being fired let alone a battle. This proves that WW2 was a "mostly peaceful" war.
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  4039.    All 70,000,000 PLUS of them???? That's a lot of terrorists. Maybe YOU'D better sit down and relax.
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  4040.  @halbleavy9900  I don't know. What do you call it when you're NOT redlining? That's the practice of denying insurance loans, and other financial services based on race. As an example, a bank approves a loan based on an application and then when the applicant shows up to sign the agreement, the banker sees that the applicant is black and withdraws the approval. Is there a word that describes if he doesn't do that? I guess it's called being non-racially discriminatory or non-racially bigoted. i'd say it's a good thing. Good for social adhesion and good for the economy.
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  4041.  @Natily80  We're talking about corruption and crime in our schools and YOU have to make it about politics. We don't care who's in power. If our children are in jeopardy when at school, I don't ask the politics of the perpetrator. I want that person dealt with. Quit hiding behind politics and help us clean up our schools.
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  4042.  @gurgurgur  Thanks. I may not have a belief in God as a corporeal being but I do understand what it is you're saying.
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  4043. Apparently, Kendi thinks it's okay to be racist. Sounds like winner take all, to me. According to Kendi, whites have been winning all along and that's what we were supposed to do. Us whites have been slacking. We'd better buckle down and reclaim our rightful place at the top. What a weird ideology.
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  4044.  @Burner377  We should BOTH talk to Congress unless you're ok with long solitary confinement for non-convicted political prisoners or not sharing evidence with your opponent. It would seem that this doesn't bother you one bit.....unless of course it's against your side. Then you might be singing a different tune. Also, someone chose what video evidence that the prosecution could have. That means they had to have gone through it just decided for themselves what would be exculpatory and what wasn''t. It's not up to them to decide that. What a great setup that would be for the prosecution. They can get any evidence that they want or just decide that some evidence isn't good enough to be used and the defence has to take their word for it.
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  4045.  @akidmyself4053  You should add "money" to that list. Top name actors all insist on top dollar pay checks. Imagine decrying capitalism all the while claiming that they have a right to this money because the movies make money. That's capitalism, you clowns.
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  4046. I'm going to lie to you so I don't have to answer why I want to lie to you.
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  4047. Yet, Trump was invited to that memorial ceremony and Kamala and Joe weren't. Apparently, the people most affected by this tragedy feel that Trump isn't quite as gross as the ones who caused their sad loss.
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  4048.  @BattManion1979  Well....Duh. It's a rural state. It happens a lot in the country. Low populations means fewer educational possibilities. I'm a country boy. If I wanted to become a specialist, when I was young, I'd have to go to the population centres where those prospective students gather to study. It would be like wanting to be major actor and never leaving Rockford, South Dakota. It's not going to happen unless you leave. That's the pattern of modern life. People aren't as interested to live in the legacy of the family farm, anymore. It has nothing to do with politics, at least not in South Dakota. It has to do with a changing economic reality in rural America, actually rural living in most industrialised nations. You've actually put little thought into that response or you've never lived in a rural setting.
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  4049. And now Hockey Night in Canada ratings are down. I once mentioned how ironic it was that Cherry told us that we should wear a poppy to honour those who died to ensure our freedom, including the freedom of speech, and is promptly fired for using that right to free speech. Got it good from the lefties. Apparently, they don't understand irony.
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  4050. @Michael Imad Marxism is an idea. All you have to do is read his material and find out what it is. Then you study the actions and rhetoric of those who follow the Marxist creed. That'll tell you everything that you need to know about Marxists.
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  4051.  @muellersgame8001  I'm in Canada and we're wearing masks. They'll arrest you in Australia, in some areas if you don't wear masks outdoors. Europe has extremely tight restrictions and mask wearing and Operation Warp Speed, the Vaccine program, is the brain child of the Trump administration. The biggest death rate in the US, is in New York, who have the strictest Covid laws. They also put Covid patients into nursing homes, killing thousands. Yet mask wearing is ALL Trump's fault? Do you think that the Democrats will mandate masks after half of America is vaccinated by MAY? They're going to in for one hell of a shock when people start to ignore those mask mandates.
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  4052.  @dpjbdpjb  Great case presentation. You win the argument. Nothing more intelligent than laughing your head off to prove a point. You should be nominated for a Nobel prize.
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  4053.  @cbxxb4841  Of course, it's our job to figure it out. How are we going to know if our elected officials are corrupt or not and to know who to vote for in the next election? The only way to keep the politicians and bureaucrats honest is to know what it is they're doing and calling them out when they do something wrong. Those politicians would love it if the voters don't bother to understand what it is they're doing. Politics would attract every scoundrel in the country. It's how politics work. Information is the only way to hold them to account.
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  4054. I think he feels as if he was blackmailed into it. Hopefully, when he's re-elected, he'll reverse some of the more stupid clauses the Democrats insisted on including any pay hikes, if there is any, or freezes pay to Congress for a few years.
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  4055.  @amyh3873  Quit trolling. Repeating the same message doesn't make you intelligent or correct. It makes you a mindless bot.
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  4056.  @alexs1640  Except, he just showed, by those texts, just how much Strozok hated Trump and why he didn't take the Hillary e-mail investigation seriously. If, the BIG if, Hillary was found of wrong doing, he was afraid that Trump might win the election, hands down, and he had to stop him. That was the whole point of this video. He was showing just how biased the FBI investigation was and that they were motivated to discredit Trump in any way possible. So it's NOT misdirection. In fact, showing bias of an investigator is an acceptable part of any court proceeding.
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  4057.  @alexs1640  Yes a person can do that, but that's not a guarantee that he did. Beyond a reasonable doubt is a central theme of the law and bias can help to establish that maybe the job wasn't done properly, in view of the text where Strozak said that he had to stop Trump. More to the point, Trump relinquished everything asked of him and Hillary had e-mails erased and 2 servers destroyed even though she was under an order to protect that information. Yet, Trump is accused of obstruction and Hillary and her crew are in the clear. That would imply that Strozak's bias did impede his ability to do his job.
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  4058. NO....he's hates ideologues. He's said so many times. McCarthyists are definite ideologues. I don't like Marxism or Communism either, but I strongly disapprove of McCarthyism. He's a strong proponent of individualism and how the individual is unique and should take responsibility for his own well being before he tries to fix the world. McCarthyism is an ideology that tried to fix the world by making wild accusations, not anywhere close to what Peterson would advocate. Try and listen, carefully to some of his lectures and put aside your ideological thinking while listening. You don't have to agree with the things he says but at least have the integrity to present them as he believes it and not as you interpret it.
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  4059.  Atheos B. Sapien  Are you seriously not going to support an initiative to end the decriminalisation of gays because it's Trump's idea? 11 of those countries have the death penalty for gays. These gays are dying and you won't support an effort to end it because you don't like Trump. That's brilliant. (big time sarcasm)
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  4060. Of course assisted suicide is the way of the left. They'll abort babies right up to the point of birth. They'll amputate fully functioning organs, on children, in the name of trans rights. They cry and riot, burn and loot when a police officer kills a black man but don't give a damn that black youths are slaughtering each other. They pretend to be empathetic but won't lift a finger to help the homeless drug addicts and mentally ill on the streets of LA, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Does anyone really think that the radical left is going to care about euthanizing the homeless and those in pain? I'm just touching the tip of the iceberg in this. Life means nothing to these people unless the people are in their cultic corner and then it's only as long as they support the agenda of the left and it serves their purpose. Remember....bread lines are a GOOD thing, as a presidential hopeful once said. We are living in horrific times and most people have no idea what those autocrats really think about the common folk. We are dispensable tools to them......that's it. Throw away people.
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  4061.  @supercool1312  How does stopping a pedophile from escaping after groping an 8 year old jeopardise the case against the pedophile? Wouldn't that mean that a police officer stopping the pedo would also jeopardise the case? Is it the identity of the one stopping the pedo a deciding factor? Only the facts should count....nothing else. Is there evidence that this man groped the 8 year old or not? That TR overstepped his bounds has NOTHING to do with the guilt of the groper.
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  4062.  @ljones98391  That's all I saw. "I was upset cause I lost my job". Well Duh. Who isn't upset when they lose their job?
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  4063.  @richarddefortune1329  We do "what(?)" all the time. You never told me what it was the journalist described or what he thought would be quid pro quo. I have to know what he said to know what Mulvaney was confessing to. Zelensky didn't even know the money was being withheld for a period. Ambassador Taylor testified to that. Wouldn't that be an important detail in trying to get someone to do something for you? More to the point, both Zelensky and the Minister for Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine have said that there was no quid pro quo or, to use the updated term, bribery happening. It's rather difficult to prove bribery when the victim is unaware that he's being bribed or extorted or whatever term you use. There still might be evidence of Trump guilt but, so far, it hasn't even come close to a burden of proof.
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  4064.  @daverudnick2153  That was something that I didn't know about. Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.
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  4065.  @atlas8590  We do want a Republic with democratic institutions. People operating and choosing their representatives within the confines of a Constitution. Like it is right now.
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  4066. @Diane Schubach My dad is 88 and has had a stutter all his life. He knows where he is and still gets his point across.
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  4067.  @terryhull9724  Maybe not, but they'd be a lot closer to being done and construction could be expedited due to the oil crisis. Just the knowledge that the pipeline would nearing completion would have a positive effect on oil prices. It's called speculation. Biden put the project at least a year behind and probably more. THAT has a negative effect on the price of oil. You can't spin this as irrelevant. It's a big deal and is having and will have serious implications. You'll find out at the gas-pumps and on your grocery bill. Unless you LIKE higher prices and inflation rates at the highest in over 40 years. Stopping that pipeline was a stupid move.
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  4068. @Phillip Banes It doesn't work that way. They have the same system that we have in Canada. Trudeau won 157 seats, which was the most seats of the six parties running. There are 338 seats, which means that he had won less than half the seats. He made a deal with one of the other parties and they threw there seats in together, which put him over the halfway mark to form a majority government. If that party, that helped form the coalition, ever turns against him in a Parliamentary vote, that would bring a vote of non-confidence and another election. It's not a great system. Ardern did the same thing. She's not as popular as you would think.
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  4069. @Phillip Banes First, I have to make people aware that there is a problem. That's NOT as easy as it sounds but my comment could be a part of making that change. I should also have an alternative so I'm not changing for changes sake. That would be disastrous. I've yet to see a system that is so perfect that I think we should adopt it. I was only pointing out how the system works and the issues that are built into it. I do know that the perfect system doesn't exist and will never exist.
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  4070. It's why Trump was hated so much. He threatened to upset the uni-party's corrupt partnership with the multinational corporations and the Washington bureaucracy. It had nothing to do with Trump's dubious past or his behaviour. That wouldn't have bothered them one bit had he agreed to play ball. Trump went after China, their gold mine. He want to bring back manufacturing to the United States and that would dry up all the sweetheart deals with the Chinese government. How many offshore banks accounts exist due to backroom deals between corporate executives, Washington bureaucrats and the Chinese governments? Deals that can't be investigated because multiple nations are involved? Bring the manufacturing back to the US and suddenly the corruption can to investigated because they'd fall under American judicial system and ONLY the American judiciary. It's why he had to go and why they all cooperated in the Russian collusion thing, even though China has a much greater influence on American lives. Don't touch China. Oh, they'll do the perfunctory complaining about human rights abuses and expansionism but it's all lip service. Too much money is being made. It's why so many politicians and bureaucrats are filthy rich. They're making money that can't be traced. It's the perfect scenario for the corrupt.
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  4071.  @Gaber8845  Were the funds allocated to USAID by Congress or did Congress allocate those funds to the various groups and USAID were to disperse those funds? Did Congress even vote on whether funds should be sent to Nepal to advance atheism? Was this discussed in Congress along with getting all those funds to the various groups around the world that were getting that money or was that the decision of USAID? I'd like to know how that works.
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  4072.  @timb7775  How is the cop going to write a citation if he doesn't know the identity of the person that's being charged? It makes no sense. Once a cop decides to write a ticket, the accused MUST show his ID. If he doesn't show it, he'll be arrested. The only time that you don't have to show ID is if you're not being charged with anything. You ask if you're being charged with anything and if not, you don't have to show it. However, both were going to get tickets. They were being charged so the BOTH have to show ID. That's the law.
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  4073.  @joepublic3933  Right now, the Voter Integrity Fund is presenting official records of 40,000 instances of people voting twice. 40,000 cases. Should we ignore that? Maybe next election, it'll be 80,000 cases of double voting or 200,000 cases. What is the magic number that will convince you that we SHOULD investigate? Of do we only do it when your personal favourite candidate is the target of this type of fraud. If they don't straighten this out, the American elections will be nothing more than a show. No better than having a vote in North Korea. The outcome will eventually become predetermined. Is this really what you want? Remember, these are actual records that show double voting. Wrestler Nahshon Garrett, left Arizona, 5 months ago to train in Tennessee. Official records, in Arizona, show that he received a ballot, in the mail, and that he voted. However, he insists he didn't vote in Arizona and that he voted in Tennessee. The records show that he did vote in Tennessee but they also show that he voted in Arizona. Is he lying? If he's telling the truth, then someone voted for him. No matter how you slice it, this is a fraud by someone and there are 40,000 more JUST LIKE IT. The FBI is looking at those records right now. .....but YOU think we should move on.
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  4074.  @ShoEnTeL1  I'm Canadian. Our system is NOT what I would call successful. I grew up in a small town of 1800 people. We had 3 family doctors. That was in the 60s. We had NO social health system. I paid for my own health insurance when I went to work. My dad teases that I cost him 56 bucks when I was born in 51, because of the lack of a social health system.....but we had doctors. Now....there's none in that small town. It took me 19 years to get a new family doctor and I finally got one 2 years ago. Housing prices are out of sight. I bought my own home 45 years ago, on the wages of factory workers. My wife didn't work. Now my daughter and her husband both work and they have no hope of EVER buying a home. Rents are now well over half a paycheck. Everything is regulated. Marketing boards have made farming only possible for the rich or niche markets and as soon as those niche markets are established, they become prey to more marketing boards. I lived through the capitalist years and the socialist years here in Canada. Life was a lot better in the Capitalist years with no social programs, than it is now. A lot better. I'm not going to speak for those other countries but I'm going to bet that there are people there who will say the same thing.
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  4075.  @mikefrank6319  I hardly go on facebook anymore because of the vitriol directed at me when I point things out that I can verify. They don't try to show me where I'm wrong. They call me a racist and then smugly think that this is enough to derail the facts that I'm presenting. Just say the word "trump" to them and they go from being average human beings to raving lunatics in 60 seconds. I'm afraid to play euchre anymore.
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  4076.  @dejuanrobert  That's not why they don't like him. The leaders of those countries don't like him for the same reasons the Democrats don't like him. He's not a career politician. He's not ideologically instep with them. He believes in looking after his own country and its citizens and it's a priority. He believes in strong borders and as small a government as possible. He supports the Brexit attempts in Britain and is a friend of Boris Johnson. He supports the freedom of the individual as opposed to their progressive, state controlled society. They hate him mostly because he's taken the US to a new economic prosperity that they haven't been able to achieve, in spite of being against their socialist beliefs and that this threatens their hold on the ordinary citizen. That tears the socialists dreams into shreds and they can't stand that.
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  4077.  @Seilolo  Maybe you should allow the adults to speak, there....Sonny boy.
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  4078. Conspiracy theories are always great. Besides, who the hell is Q anyway. No one seems to know.
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  4079.  Stuart Coker  Finally!!!!!! We'll be able to get those Quebecs to speak friggen English.
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  4080.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  Forcing people onto reservations was a racist thing to do. He's speaking out against racism. If the school can tell him to be quiet because he's white and you think that this is the right thing to do, then there's nothing wrong with forcing people onto a reservation, either. It's the rule of power. The school has the power to shut this white kid up and the US government had the power to put the Comanche nation onto reservations. Either you agree with the misuse of power or you don't. This young man doesn't think one should misuse power by using race as a criteria. Neither did the Comanche while they were being forced onto the reservation. Only hate and revenge would justify that kind of misuse. If you support that kind of hate, don't be upset and angry if a greater power defeats you. Someone has to win.
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  4081.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  Talking to you is like talking to a 4 year old. You have NO idea what I'm talking about and the simplest of concepts are WAY beyond your comprehension. This is a pointless conversation.
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  4082.  CHIEF TAHCHAWWICKAH  I don't even know what you're right about. I know that it was wrong to force a group of people onto a reservation. I'll concede that. However, I know that they don't have to stay there. I know that for a fact. So, now that this has been settled, why would a continuous harangue of white folk, well over 100 years ago, make things better today? It would no different than me, yelling at Germans, because the Nazi soldiers near starved my mother to death. THE WAR IS OVER!!!! It serves nothing to hate them over it. In fact, I've worked with guys who were in the SS. We both acknowledged what happened and how horrible it was and it's OVER NOW. Time to get over the bitterness, anger and resentment. It helps no one. Not the Comanche, in your case, or my relatives on my mother's side, in my case. It just prolongs the angst. Unless this is what you want...I guess go for it but don't expect people to take it because they won't. But, I'm sure that I'm right about you. You have NO idea what I'm talking about. You're just angry and you don't want to let go of it. Why a person would want to live like that is beyond me.
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  4083.  @lordbread2083  I guess that you're the kind of guy that hangs on to every word of these "bombshell" revelations from the left wing media. Don't you ever get sick of none of them ever panning out? Or do you actually believe every one of them. These stupid stories plus the arrogance of the way Democrats treat blue collar America, is why Trump won the last election. They'll lose again because they haven't learned that lesson.
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  4084.  @florinest  Wanting someone to die is despicable. If you want Trump out of the Oval office, be better than him and vote him out of office, just like every other president we've ever had. November isn't that far away.
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  4085.  @Builderjim  Over 90% of voting districts saw voting numbers increase towards Trump. You can gerrymander all you want, it wouldn't have made a difference. Trump won the popular vote. How does that add up to 25%? Your math is skewed and the result of the poor state of education in this country.
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  4086.  @philmortlock3490  Huh? My chromosomes ARE my biology. I can hack and chop and stick on parts all I want but my biology dictates my gender.
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  4087. Remember, there was a party that claimed that Asian hate attacks were a result of white supremacy. They did this while claiming that Asians were "white adjacent" and that's why they were doing so well economically. It couldn't be because those Asians worked hard, valued a good education, a strong family and personal integrity. That party doesn't believe that those things have any value. They think that pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is a myth and can't stand it when people hold Asians up as being the epitome of the American dream.
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  4088.  @andrewgood7586  So don't sue them? Let them carry on as before? A lawsuit, against the director, will hit her in the pocketbook. It'll damage the food pantry, costing them money and she'll lose the funding that she needs. Then someone else can apply for that money and open a food back that isn't racist. A lawsuit might even cause a DA to lay charges of discrimination. It's called "fighting back" and it's legal.
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  4089.  @harryl9222  It's defending its waters by attacking an oil tanker? Is this some kind of a fighter oil tanker? That's some smart defending.
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  4090. The nation's largest teachers union voted to keep on teaching, what they've vowed they don't teach, even if it's against the law. That's the type of logic they're teaching our kids.
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  4091.  @mikeyg1776  Money is representative of the wealth of a nation. It's an impossibility to try and get goods through direct trading. I can't grow carrots and then try to fill the larder through a barter system. Money represents the value of those carrots, apples, cucumbers, televisions, frying pans, your car......all the things of value in the nation, the gross national product. That allows for an extremely streamlined system of sales in the market system. When you print more money than the national product, you get inflation. The money in circulation must reflect the wealth of the nation or the nation will end in financial chaos.
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  4092. What a great tactic. Break the law and when caught, blame racism. I have one HUGE problem with that tactic. It won't work for me.
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  4093.  @DevinSheaProductions  35 million dollar investigation to issue a report that proved nothing. Then hearings that, once again, proved nothing and you're STILL on about collusion? Then the inject bleach thing. Are you REALLY that much of a dolt. He asked if there was research into using antiseptics or light as a treatment against Covid. He never ONCE even used the word "bleach" or "inject" in that dialogue between himself and the doctors. In fact, it was later found that there is a company that has been researching internal light therapy. If you want to make a case against Trump, go ahead but at least don't use examples that make you look foolish. It doesn't help your cause one bit. It makes you look like a troll and a very poor one, at that.
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  4094.  @copyrightstrikez_bandit143  I'm not sure what to make of your comment. It doesn't make any sense. Try again and use proper punctuation and grammar.
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  4095.  @copyrightstrikez_bandit143  You know the point that I was trying to make. I can't make head or tails of what you were trying to say. We all make mistakes. There wasn't just a couple of mistakes in your comment. It's incomprehensible and your follow-up comment isn't much better.
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  4096.  @helenmaclenan2912  No one knew. He did take precautions like set up a task force on Jan 27 and restricted travel on Jan 31, but it was a precaution. A "just in case" action, but he can't see into the future no more than anyone else can.
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  4097.  @scurra1163  175 countries, out of 195 countries in the world, have cases of the coronavirus. If Trump is incompetent, so it EVERYONE else. Europe has a MUCH higher per capita rate than the US and didn't shut down travel to China until a lot later than the US did. Trump's mistake was the he didn't pay more attention to Europe. He should have restricted travel to Europe, weeks before he did. It's how the virus hit the east coast of the US. However, the media would have lost their minds had he done that. Hell...Biden called Trump xenophobic when the travel ban to China was implemented. This isn't the time to be looking back and pointing fingers, anyway. Screaming into the wind helps no one. It's time now to work together, without rancour, and encourage each other through this. United we stand, divided we fall. When this is over, THAT'S when we'll have the luxury of belly achin about what went wrong. Right now, do what's necessary to beat this thing and encourage others to do the same. Anger and bitterness makes isolation that much harder to live through.
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  4098.  @vaman5591  What's wrong? Don't you like my comment? What's wrong with it?
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  4099.  @squamish4244  For one thing, conservatives support your right to free speech, no matter how foolish or offensive it might appear to be. Second.....maybe you should learn more about the Cultural Revolution in China. It didn't matter that you supported Mao or not. If you say one thing wrong, read one wrong book and it's off to the struggle sessions with you. Read "The Cowshed Memories" by Ji Xiansin. He thought he was a good citizen, a supporter of Mao and the Revolution. Not good enough, apparently. They don't have the power yet and that's because Conservatives won't let them. Wait till they do get that power. Then they'll strap a cage of rats to your face until you believe that 2 plus 2 equals 5. Of course, you won't complain because 2 plus 2 does equal 5....doesn't it?
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  4100.  @miskatonicalumni5612  You've just demonstrated exactly the point that Killdozer667 was trying to make. You're the shouter, calling people names and throwing out accusations. It's as if he created a second account to display the type of person he was referring to. Your lack of self awareness is almost comical.
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  4101. That Pollock showed what he's like in the Fox and CNN interviews. He just shouted over everyone that was questioning his narrative. He's a lying POC and he knows it. He shouts to drown out anyone that might call him out for the liar he is.
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  4102.  @GMarieBehindTheMask  Right....left. Big deal. Why is the current administration of San Francisco allowing their city to degenerate into some Dystopian nightmare? Babbling on about the right doesn't fix the problems that are quite obvious and it's those in power that aren't cracking down on the problems in San Francisco. Would you seriously vote for these same politicians because they say that they're not right wing? Man, is that thick. You vote for them because they're competent and the ones in power are clearly not competent. "But at least they're not right wing". Keep on beating your head on that brick wall.
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  4103.  @niceshirt91281  Wasn't Trump in the Terminator? He was one scary Cyborg, if I remember correctly.
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  4104.  @CCPLord  I think that if her family had just been killed, they'd have mentioned it. I've seen kids behave this way is a grocery store because their mom wouldn't buy Fruit Loops for them. How to go to the worst possible scenario and use that to justify her behaviour. Talk about useless hyperbole.
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  4105.  Chris Russo  I SAID that if she was my kid, I'd have to deal with her and her responsibility for her behaviour. I can't do anything to influence those police officers but I can about the way that she behaves. She would be MY responsibility. I have to show her how that her behaviour can have bad consequences, even if the other person oversteps their bounds. The next time, it could be a boyfriend who could beat her senseless or worse. She has to know that there are bad folk out there, including these specific officers and that they could lose control, just as she did, and hurt her badly. I can't go down to the police station and start lecturing them on how to behave but I can show my child that they have to maintain some kind of control over their actions. That's MY responsibility to her. That doesn't mean the police did the right thing. It means that if you want your child to do well in their future, they have to think about how what could happen to them. Don't trust the other person to act properly when you act as if you're out of control. Depend on yourself, NOT others, for your own well being. You don't start that learning curve when they're adults. That starts from the moment that you can communicate with them. That's MY job, what I owe her, as a parent. Once again. I'm talking about MY responsibility to my child, what I have to do to teach my child how to behave in such situations. Someone has let her down....big time.
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  4106.  Judah is Awake  Man...you're a genius. Why are you wasting your time on Youtube? "Trump backs down like a coward". That's epic, man!!!!! No wonder you keep repeating it. Just brilliant.
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  4107.  @workonitm8  The Democrat left hand didn't know what the Democrat right hand was doing. The whistle blower makes a public accusation and now they're doing damage control. It may have been better for the Democrats to keep the entire thing under wraps.
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  4108.  GOPareTerrorists  When you have the media, Big Tech, large corporations, the Rinos, public sector unions, the bureaucratic monster and the Democrats aligned against you, that doesn't mean that you're weak. It means that they're stronger. WW2 Germany wasn't weak. They took on too many enemies, at once and put themselves into an impossible situation....fortunately, I would add. Trump was in the same position. His opposition was too big and were well organised. Trump and the Republicans made errors but they had an impossible hill to climb. Besides, in a Democracy, it's never over, There will be mid terms this fall. You keep fighting and you can turn it around at the polls. The type of defeat that you're talking about only happens in totalitarian government and unless you believe that the Democrats are a party of despots, Trump and the Democrats, can turn it around this year.
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  4109.  @HelicopterRidesForCommunists  I didn't blame them. I said that this silly joke, and it was rather silly, is now ruining lives. That's because, ONCE AGAIN, explained even MORE clearly, they had no idea how stupid the woke crowd was. The stupidity of the woke crowd and their stupid reaction to a silly joke....THAT'S what is at fault. Stupidity. They didn't have the BRAINS to figure out that it was a joke and when it was explained to them, they wouldn't admit to how STUPID they were. There was no "Ok (pun intended), you got us on that one", like normal people do. They just plowed ahead like the stupid people that they are.
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  4110.  @ramonornelas8069  You're a troll. Go away.
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  4111.  @margoalamoto3903  Those that blamed MLK were Democrats. However, MLK was against the riots. BLM isn't. In fact, I have yet to hear them say one word against the riots. BLM leader in NY said that they'd burn the city to the ground if they didn't get their demands met. BLM leader in Chicago said that looting is a form of reparations and justified. In Louisville, BLM reps went to stores and demanded that they either use 1 third black suppliers or give them 1.5% of their revenue. At one restaurant, owned by Cuban refugees, they dropped a flower pot as a demonstration of what could happen if they didn't comply. Dr. Martin Luther King and BLM have NOTHING in common. BLM is a Marxist organisation, using their name as a form of Orwellian doublespeak, to bafflegab their critics. You're either falling for it or you know all about it and are complicit. BLM could care less about black lives. If they did, they'd be a lot more upset about the horrific crime rates in black inner city neighbourhoods, especially the nightmarish slaughter of innocent children.
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  4112.  @vikinglife6316  Nothing is perfect but I defend it because it's the best that I've seen. You've already given a weakness of the system but it's likely that there is no system that's invulnerable.
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  4113. I'm a guy, who lives in a one room basement apartment, in a different country, and I knew about this payment. Does Psaki really think that we're going to believe her when she says that she's not heard of it? Either she's a liar or she has no idea what's going on. Both options tell me that she's not fit to have that job.
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  4114.  @Security848  Fox is terrible??? REALLY????? They're nearly begging for the violence to stop. It's non-stop on Fox. They've condemned the Floyd killing over and over, yet that's not enough? Yeah, it's not neutral. CNN has defended the horror and Fox has begged for it to stop. Opposite ends of the spectrum. Which would you rather have? The violence to stop? Or to continue the "peaceful" protests until there's nothing left? When you decide, you'll know where you stand on the "neutral" spectrum. I hope you don't end up making Molotov cocktails, that's all. Then you'll be on the side of destruction and against Fox news.
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  4115.  @spacedive7700  I kinda thought he was being facetious. Maybe I'm wrong but that's how I took it. Sarcasm can get lost in a YouTube comment.
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  4116. Sort of like modern China. They're not communist anymore. They're fascist. An autocratic ruler class, severe social and economic control, strong reaction to internal opposition and an overarching view of Chinese exceptionalism, exemplified by the way that they're forcing the integration of the Uighurs into Chinese society.
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  4117.  Jennifer Osburn  Someone else's accomplishments do not empower you. You do that for yourself.
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  4118.  Andy Mann  POTENTIAL. Do you not understand the meaning of the word? I'll give it to you. Potential: having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future. (The online dictionary.) I've given MULTIPLE examples of how words and symbols have been used on the unwary. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." He's not going to dragged into a "potential" trap. It's happened to him before and to lots of others. I never said that there was anything wrong with coloured emojis or that it was racist. What I said was that there was a potential for some to use them, in some manner, to browbeat others for using them in what they could claim to be offensive. I don't know how many times I've used the word "potential" but it's doesn't seem to be sinking in. How can I give you an example of something in the future? All I can do is to give examples of similar incidents in the past, but you keep ignoring those examples. It's as if you don't understand what examples even mean. "You have convinced everyone that what YOU say is not true." Another example of gaslighting. basically telling me that everyone thinks that I'm wrong so smarten up. I don't care what others think so it won't work. I've seen how people react to some of the most mundane things and I can see the potential here, as well. Governor Newsom, when asked why people are leaving California. "They're racists". Asking to show IDs at elections. That's racist. You want to see MORE examples of crazy claim of racism? Here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mV2pANrmk&ab_channel=TimcastIRL If all these stupid things can be used to prove racism, are you still going to tell me that this doesn't have that same potential? I don't know how they'd do if they do but I'd never have predicted that stupidity of what is shown in this video, either. I'm not good at bad logic.
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  4119.  @CJ-wh3zy  I should of used the word "could" in that sentence so that it would say "He's decrying those who COULD use them to browbeat others and telling them what colour they MUST use." If you read the rest of my comments, I've given dozens of examples where people have used innocuous words and phrases as ways to browbeat them and that he likely sees their use could be used to trap the unwary into some kind of racial wrongdoing. That omission of that single word "could" changes the flavour of what I was trying to say. Peterson has reason to be wary. They've taken things that he's said out of context numerous times to denigrate him. Why would he not be wary of it now? Any rational person would use previous experiences to know what to look out for in the future. I wish that I'd used that word "could" all along. I've considered editing it but then I might be accused of using tricks to win an argument. So I'll let it stand...warts and all.
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  4120.  @CJ-wh3zy  She made it quite clear why she was leaving. We all kinda laughed, shrugged our shoulders and went on with what we were doing. I assume that it's an admonishment for many reasons. My past experience with vegetarians and vegans and the manner in which the statement was made, as if the conclusion should be obvious to all. It's the spirit in which the comment was presented. It's as if I'm hearing directly out of my cousin's mouth, a comment brimming with contempt. If you and I are in a discussion about a topic, I have no problem with differing opinions. It's how a person learns. However, when it becomes insistent, dripping with sarcasm, out of context and injected into every topic, all the time, you get tired of it. It doesn't matter whether it's politics, religion, food preferences or any other pet issue one might have, one dimensional conversations become increasing tiresome and irritating. I don't like to have an enjoyable day ruined by someone who will always be on their evangelical pulpit. Most people that I know are the same way. I'll get back to you on your comments. I'm making shepherd's pie and it needs my attention.
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  4121. I guess she should have went to collect welfare when she got pregnant, told the father to get lost but pay support. Found another guy to get pregnant with. Tell him to get lost but pay support and increase her welfare payments. Just keep doing that until the womb dries up. The success of her story is that she made the right decisions in her life, even though she came from a life that history has shown is difficult to change. It's the story of millions of average Americans who do the simple things, every day, that make their lives better. THAT'S what makes this a story. A story that people, like you, will never understand or accept.
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  4122. They're just a few more abolished police departments away from it.
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  4123.  Smoke Tree  So.....as long as I don't kill you, I can steal your stuff, burn your property and smash the windows to your home? That's good to know. Just because I'm conservative, that doesn't put me on the alt-right or support Fascism. Nazis nearly starved my mother to death, when she was a little girl. I hate Fascism. You're too filled with ideological hate to get that, however. I'd say it's interesting that you'd be quite comfortable with Antifa stealing my stuff....etc, while I'd advocate prison for those who would do that to YOU.
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  4124. Calling him names means nothing. A pointless comment.
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  4125.  @halomaster9640  I'm not defending or criticising him. I'm saying that calling him names means nothing, says nothing, proves nothing and it's pointless. You're making an accusation, now prove it. An accusation isn't evidence. It's no better than a 7 year old calling another 7 year old "stupid" in a school yard. Anyone can do it. It takes no intelligence and no thought. Use the brain that you're born with and show us HOW he's a scammer.
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  4126.  @gregthebaritone  There you go. Why couldn't halomaster9640 say that? Simple, to the point and effective. I don't like Scientology, either.
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  4127.  eric  Bush isn't the president right now and whether you like it or not, we never had 66 days of rioting in ONE CITY during his presidency. Riots all across the nation, police defunding and murders and shooting going up because Democrat policies in those cities. YOU LIKE THAT. All you did was name a few names. I'm talking about what is happening right now. John McCain is dead. Quit fighting against his campaign. Bush hasn't been president for 12 years. Quit fighting that war. When shootings in NY go from 89 last June to 209 THIS June, doesn't that bother you? Are you saying that it's ok because George Bush was a bad president? You make no sense.
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  4128.  Science Revolution  You didn't understand one word of my comment. Talking to you is like talking to a child. Read my comment again and try to comprehend what I'm talking about. I doubt it possible, though. I've read your other comments and you're out there.
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  4129.  @Ash_95  LOL. You nailed it. When all else fails and the stakes are high enough, violence might be the only avenue left to us.
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  4130.  GlobalMan Lite  Ad nauseum. I'd take you seriously if you weren't so robotically and mindlessly repetitious. It sounds as if you copy and pasted it from something you read.
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  4131.  @CBDM777  So what? Not liking someone doesn't make a person a grifter. I'm wary of ALL politicians and I try to see the strengths and weaknesses of every candidate. Blind loyalty to a politician is just that....blind. Having said that, I supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 and will likely do the same in 2024. However, I'm not about to anoint anyone as Monarch. I'll gather all the evidence and if someone comes along that can do a better job with political values that line up with mine, they got my vote. No one, absolutely NO ONE, is perfect.
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  4132. CNN net worth.... 5 Billion dollars. Tim Pool net worth.....1.1 Million dollars. Now tell me.....who has the infrastructure?
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  4133. It was Julian Castro that started it. He called for a boycott against Goya so they either towed the line or put them out of business. AOC is doing the same. Now you start crying because people are supporting this man's right to say his piece. We support free speech. That's it. This is to show those authoritarians that they can't tell us what to say or think.
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  4134.  @sprawlingman8277  Once again.....EXAMPLES. Don't keep repeating yourself. Repetition doesn't make things true. Until you can give me examples......YOU are a troll.
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  4135. They just shot YOU.....the messenger. Instead of hearing the message, evaluating what your message said and then formulating a coherent conclusion on what to do about it, they shot the proverbial messenger. They're angry because they know that the message can only lead to one conclusion. DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT THIS FALL. Better to shoot you than do that. I had the same experience having a few beers at my favourite bar the other night. I said something that made sense, about oil prices, and then had 2 guys yell at me for 15 minutes. I went to the bathroom and sat at the bar instead of returning to my table. The bartenders both laughed and said that it took me long enough to escape those clowns. All I could do was laugh with them and explain that I'm a pretty patient guy.
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  4136.  @drewpooters62  I live in a small town and I'm a retired bartender/bouncer. I built myself a reputation for being rather "insistent" about maintaining a certain level of behaviour. In other words, these guys knew me and weren't about to take a swing at me. Also both bartenders are close friends, one calls me Uncle Jack and I've travelled all over the Caribbean with the other one. That's why they were laughing about it. Things were rather stacked in my favour. All because I said that increased production would drive down prices and this was basic economics. Apparently, socialists don't believe that economics is a science.
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  4137. If that girl had been stabbed, neither you or I would have heard word ONE about it. Thousands of black Americans are killed every year and none of them get national media attention. Only when it's a white police officer and a black "victim". The media has become the poisonous arm of the left wing of the Democrat Party.
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  4138.  @hughgasey9666  I'm of Dutch ancestry. My parents grew up in German occupied Holland. The Germans went door to door taking food and metals for their war effort. My mother nearly starved to death and lived on elvers, a larval eel, for months. My uncle was beaten, was sent to a Jewish detention centre for a couple of weeks and then on to a POW camp because he wasn't Jewish. We have every reason to hate the Germans, yet, both my father and mother have gone to Germany and learned to get over it. Do you know why. They knew the war was OVER and that the Germans were no longer an enemy. Only a fool refuses to understand that people and situations change. I'm no fool and I know if you don't accept change, you'll be in a state of perpetual war. I don't want that. If you believe that, you're no different than those left wing radical bigots who still think that we have to pay reparations for something that ended 160 years ago. CNN is a name.....that's all.
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  4139.  @milkhoney6742  What the hell is wrong with you?
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  4140.  @milkhoney6742  Oh.....we have a braggart on my thread. Are all you New Yorkers like that? First Trump and now you. I'm seeing a pattern here.
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  4141.  @SCARFACE1218  LOL. I know. He's got to be one of the nuttiest people I've ever run into on YouTube. It's as if a homeless junkie found a laptop and started tapping out what was on his addled mind. Totally incoherent babble.
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  4142. Not just pilots. We need the best mechanics and techies. We need the best customer relation personnel and management. We need to focus on excellence and not what identity group that one belongs to.
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  4143.  @scottrobinson529  This is a hearing about policies that harm everyone who live in the US. It advocates for the idea that there's no such thing as competence or that a person shouldn't have to earn their way to advancement. It's exactly why we fought a Civil War and why people fought so hard to pass the Civil Rights Act. They fought against the idea that one should award people their place in society based on the identity group that they belong to. All the deaths and suffering in that fight is NOT a joke or BS. Neither are those individuals who continue to fight that same discrimination today.
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  4144.  @pilotvc  These people were only protesting against what they saw as unlawful edicts. Trudeau could have prevented ALL of this by agreeing to talk to the organisers, like a grown man. Instead he called them names and denigrated them as if they were animals. They're fellow Canadians, most with families and jobs, who NEVER been in any kind of trouble with the law in their lives. Trudeau's constituents. A real leader and statesman would have prevented the brutality. He encouraged it. Anyone that would cheer that one is just as bad. "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the truckers, and I did not speak out--because I was not a trucker. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
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  4145. In the struggle sessions in China, they just didn't browbeat those that disagreed with them. They went after those they THOUGHT were enemies, that just might have engaged in wrongthink, and it wasn't just done by making the victim feel awful. It came with public beatings that accompanied the verbal haranguing. It was a lot worse than what Tim made it sound.
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  4146.  @xavierlane2411  The man/child goes to Washington to fight for voter rights and when challenged, he starts to talk about a man who's no longer the president. Are you against ID requirements? "Orange man bad!!!!!!"
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  4147. Oh yeah.....those wonderful squeegee kids, harassing you every time you came to a stop light. You're a Fascist if you refuse to pay them, for cleaning a car window, that you didn't ask them to clean. You're even a bigger Fascist if you insist that they leave the people, in those cars, alone. They are nuts.
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  4148. He's rather slow, isn't he.
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  4149.  @KittensgiveMorbogas  LOL. Why can't anyone just clear this up for me? It's not a difficult question, yet all you do is play at silly games. Do you really think that your ad hominem attacks actually prove or accomplish anything? This comment thread has become a foolish game. I feel like I'm stuck in some kind of dream world where nothing makes sense. As Seinfeld would call it....Bizzaro world.
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  4150.  @TacoPoweredTimeTraveler  So there IS a definition for "Independent party". Good. I'm glad we all agree. Also, when you have parties, especially 2 powerful ones like there is in the US, a third party would be independent of the 2 powerful ones. It's a logical descriptive of the party. A party that gone its own way.
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  4151.  @motoxray  There is no such thing as a Nirvana. Not in this universe, anyway. Nothing is perfect and every system is due to failure as it inevitably leads to stagnation, tyranny and failure. This idea that capitalism is harmful to the average person just isn't true. Every TRUE capitalist state that is based on the rule of law has the most affluent citizens on the planet. The US, Canada, western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand.....these are the countries that the people of 3rd world, and even developing countries, aspire to migrate to. There has NEVER been a more affluent average citizen in the history of the humanity, than those who live in those Capitalist countries. NEVER. These are the countries that practise a capitalist economy and have strong social programs. That doesn't make them socialist. Social programs are the result of a strong economy and the revenue gathered through tax programs pay for health, education, the military and police protection, transportation and safety nets for the more vulnerable of the citizens. It is an expense of human survival and the more wealth that a nation accrues as a whole, the better the social programs. It's why I, as a retired person and living below the poverty line, as set for my Capitalist country, has still been able to travel to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, the Netherlands and am planning a trip to Costa Rica in a couple of months over the last 2 years and still have more money in the bank than I did 2 years ago. All the countries that I've mentioned all have economies that are overwhelmingly driven through market forces and the private sector. It's why these countries are the primary destinations for migrants and asylum seekers. Hardly any other country has huge issues with people trying to enter legally and illegally...especially 3rd world countries. All of their governments are corrupt and led by tyrannical leaders who keep power by enforcement of the military. The people there live a dystopian life, deep in REAL poverty, where the basics of life, food, clean water and shelter are basic struggle to find every day. That isn't capitalism.
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  4152.  AKILA SENPAI  The guy that stabbed Salman Rushdie called you a terrorist? Well, he's one to talk.
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  4153. If Mexicans aren't offended, they should be. If they don't know enough to be offended I'm gonna have to be offended for them. It's the least I can do.
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  4154.  @jorelj7748  What do you think the stimulus package is? It's a modern version of the New Deal. The New Deal was in response to a crisis called the Great Depression. The stimulus package is in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Different times and a economic crisis from different sources but still powerful responses to terrible events. How anyone could be so dense as to not see that?
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  4155.  K41  Yes, it was and I get that. This stimulus is a plan to stave off a horrific depression that would ruin tens of millions of lives, not just in the US but around the world. A pre-emptive strike, so to speak, a first step to a New Deal, that wasn't taken in the Great Depression because the damage was already done. I guess, your solution would be to do nothing and let the depression come without any effort to prevent it. The "do nothing" approach.
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  4156. She inserts the word "identifies" as a rationalisation for using these new terms. I can identify as anything I want that doesn't make it so. Funny, how it seems to be only the word "woman" that we can't define, anymore. I have yet to hear a term that covers all men. I have a feeling it's because if we stop using the word "men" they can't complain about the patriarchy anymore. That would be a disaster for the wokesters.
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  4157. "Mayor....may I?" NOOO!!!!!
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  4158.  @kurtlauer2005  I'll say it again. A Republic, without Democracy is tyranny. When the government, like the one in the USSR, tells you who can or cannot be voted for, that's NOT a Democracy. It's tyranny. That's why the Constitution is so important. It defines our freedoms, including our democratic rights to choose our representatives, whoever that may be. It's not a buzzword. Our Democratic rights are clearly defined and it does NOT mean the rule of the majority as defined in the Constitution. It does mean that we are free to choose our reps, using the Democratic process as defined in the Constitution and it says that the majority cannot vote away those rights. Take away the Democratic process and we might as well go back to the Monarchy or one person rule. Taking away our Democracy is no different than our right to free speech. We are a country of free speech, which has no defining word, just as we are a country that has the right to vote where we do have a defining word, that word being Democracy.
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  4159.  @kurtlauer2005  Democracy....a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. This is from the online dictionary. The very definition of a Democracy. "elected representatives". That means voting. We have representatives and we vote for them. That means that we are a Democracy. I don't know how it can be any clearer than that.
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  4160. Don't blame women. There are LOT'S of men who voted for this. I work as a bartender and I've seen those men start fights because they thought someone was a "Trumpster". All the Trump supporter would say was they wanted to be left alone but it was always the Democrat supporter who pushed it. ALWAYS and it was mostly men. I blame those who voted for Biden blindly, out of pure hate for Trump. It's the left, the Democrats, who talk about hate speech continuously, but they're the ones who hate with a pure blind rage. I've seen it too often.
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  4161. We aren't allowed private health care here in Ontario, Canada. At first, it seemed great. Health care paid for by the government. Still lots of doctors. However, we've seen the number of doctors erode. Our local hospital, which was a fully operational hospital 40 years ago, is now no better than a glorified clinic. They have X-ray machines and an MRI but they there's hardly any beds and the delivery room is gone. It's a shadow of what it used to be and it was expanded 18 years ago. They've even talked about closing it. Yet, our population is 30% greater than it used to be and growing fast. Wait times are unbelievable. The number of doctors hasn't increased and getting a family doctor is a daunting task. Don't let them take away your options by not allowing private health insurance. When you only have one option, they dictate the health system and if anyone even suggests improvements, those who favour socialised medicine start going on about 2 tiered systems and how it's not fair. It's a nightmare and it's not going to improve any time soon. Probably after their "care" kills me.
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  4162. I see God as a metaphor for truth, or more accurately as an anthropomorphic expression of truth. It made it easier for our ancestors to understand a system of morality, an idea that we still can't fully understand.
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  4163.  @Robadobo  Yeah....right. You're too much of a coward to actually go to a Trump rally and find out for yourself.
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  4164.  Your Worst Nightmare - Facts  You're missing the point of the original comment. The poorest people emit the lowest carbons. That includes the poorest countries. If you're telling people that they must live in abject poverty to save the planet, they become resentful of those who aren't living that lifestyle they're force to live due to poverty. What he's trying to say is that maybe a better solution to that climate change is to stop laying the blame and begin to find solutions that do NOT include maintaining the poverty of a large segment of the world's population and quite likely relegating more to those poverty numbers. You don't change minds with anger and resentment or that attitude of superiority affluence seems to bring to the privileged.
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  4165.  Your Worst Nightmare - Facts  Over reacting is what I'm seeing. Koch brothers in a dome? The one thing in life that is certain is that there WILL be change. It's inevitable. Everything changes but change itself. How that will happen is anyone's guess but if you go at it like the eco-warriors or AOC want to, we're heading for disaster. It has to work itself naturally. Just like our world is immensely different than it was 100 years ago, it will that much different 100 years from now. We just have to keep working hard and try to avoid major conflicts. Already, population growth is slowing down and will peak this century and then likely start to reverse. It's not going to be easy but the "Chicken Little" routine accomplishes nothing.
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  4166.  Your Worst Nightmare - Facts  Aren't you the pessimist. I'm not seeing any revolution or even signs of it. I'm seeing a few crazies in the west, embracing some kind of socialist anarchy but they're far from mainstream. Actually, military conflicts and human violence, as the human condition, has been on the decline since the last world war. Not saying that it will end but that trend is there. Also, more people have been pulled out of abject poverty, over the last 20 years, than at any time in human history. Poverty is the great indicator of high birth rates. The affluent west has a negative birth rate and our populations would actually go down if it wasn't for immigration. But, maybe revolution it is. Some seem to want the nightmare. I think it's insanity but unfortunately, insanity does exist. In fact, it seems to be encouraged in the west.
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  4167.  @robertdefrank2550  Yes....she's a professional basketball player. She made over 500,000 bucks in one season, a couple of years ago. I'm a professional carpenter. It'll take me YEARS to make that kind of money. She'll make more in 5 years than most Americans will make in a lifetime. However, she can't even see how lucky she is to be in the United States and can make this kind of life for herself.
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  4168.  @carlz7777  Why do you think I started out my comment explaining how damaging welfare has been to this country? Did you not catch on that I wasn't in favour of what Johnson did? I was being facetious by using the word "leaning". Instead of of making a statement as if I'm somehow a bit foolish (exclamation point a big indication), just agree with my take and say that you believe that he did it intentionally? Why act as if we're having an argument? Learn to relax....just a little bit.
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  4169.  @roxyaya2  Sorry....I really thought that you were claiming that "love the neighbour" was a call to force your neighbour to live as you do. That this was YOUR perception of Christianity and that famous verse. I'm assuming that this is NOT the case. To clarify, I don't believe, for one minute, that this is telling you to force your neighbour to live as you do. If that's what you read into it, it definitely was not my intent.
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  4170.  @roxyaya2  That's great. You have wonderful day.
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  4171.  @jeremyanderson3819  Most Conservatives thought that the Jan. 6th riots were stupid and those involved should be charged. A few hundred boneheads don't represent who we are at all. In fact, most of us believe it's one of the worst things that has happened, not only to conservative ideals, but to America. It gave the Democrats the opportunity to turn Washington into an armed camp and possibly a permanent Federal police force. A force that has NO conservatives in it. We don't like it at all or what it's allowing the Democrats to do.
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  4172. Why would you negotiate a cease-fire with a DEMOCRAT MAYOR to end the "peaceful" riots? Are those rioters his storm troopers?
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  4173. Joe Steel Advocating liberalism just for the sake of liberalism is short sighted and possibly dangerous. Liberalism implies the willingness to consider new ideas and balance against ideas in place. It does NOT imply that every new idea should be accepted because all conservative ideas are bad and harmful. Conservatism holds, as the highest principle, the autonomy of the individual. That includes the freedom to choose to live, belief and work as the individual wishes, as long as those choices do not inhibit the choices and freedoms of others. That's at the root of conservative thought and it's non-negotiable, no matter how liberal or progressive one believes that they are. Does that mean that conservatives will always be correct on specific issues? Of course not not more than a liberal would be. You take each issue and you examine the details and let the facts stand for themselves. From there, you come to a conclusion and you don't wait to see on which side the liberal or the conservative might fall on. That's not thought or self determination. No conservative or liberal will tell me what conclusion I must draw on any issue, be it gun control, health care, taxes, climate change, racial issues or any other issue that happens to be under consideration and I refuse to be labelled left or right due to my stand on any specific issue. I value my life and my autonomy too much to allow myself to be boxed by anyone, liberal or conservative.
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  4174.  @Manolara1  You don't have to read the Communist Manifesto to see what the Communists, or better the Marxists, did, to see that their blueprint led them to commit horrific crimes against humanity. You don't have to read it to see that what they were attempting to accomplish would lead to results that are logical and predictable.
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  4175. He'll say that he's voting for Biden but when he's alone, marking that X, he's voting against that 62% tax hike.
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  4176.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  Are any of those countries surrounded by nations that want to destroy them? They only have a population of 9.5 million and their enemies number in the hundreds of millions. The country needs everyone to help defend itself. Even now, after that horrific attack on young people at a music festival, they've had to deal with Lebanon and Iran as well as Gaza. People all over the world are demonstrating against them. If those countries ever succeed, the women will be just as much the victims as the Israeli men.
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  4177. I love this. This should be a meme.
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  4178. Jahleel Sayers If they had bought something, they couldn't have been charged with trespassing. All they'd have to do is show that they purchased something and they're off the hook. Quite simple really and they might even be able to take Starbucks to court for discrimination. I'm sure lots of lawyers would love to take that case for them.....if it had any merit, which I strongly doubt.
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  4179. Sorry Klinger.....you gotta stay and fight.
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  4180. Monstrous defence spending and do you know what? You're no safer. Being prepared militarily is and ready to mobilise in an emergency is different than spending your money to buy every killing trinket made available by a conglomerates, whose only purpose is to sell trinkets at a profit. Those conglomerates are necessary and even important but that doesn't mean you have to buy every little gizmo they want to sell. It's important that I eat, too but I'm not going to buy every food item that's available at the supermarket to stave off the threat of starvation. What good is something if it's destined to rot or rust away and never be used for anything except for display purposes and the feeling of security that being a pack rat provides.
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  4181.  @ericpetz5885  That was insane. It showed just how out of touch with normal Canadians the man is.
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  4182.  @ericpetz5885  I haven't looked deeply into Bernier, yet. I've seen a couple of interviews and I've no problem with him as yet except I'm not happy that he might split the Conservative vote enough that Trudeau might win again. I'd hate that. However, you do have a point. I will check him out.
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  4183.  Easliy Displeased  I'm retired and I'm nowhere near rich but I did spend years putting together a little nest egg. Now, with this great economy, my investments have never been working this good. You don't even have to save huge amounts. Some of the simplest things can add up over the years, but you have to be diligent in the pursuit of your goals. These whiners are just that. Complainers that have never learned to solve the simplest of problems. Financial success is there for them but they're too lazy and envious to even begin to strive for it.
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  4184. I went to see the Dead but I don't remember it. I do remember seeing Janice Joplin and Buddy Guy, who played the same show. I'm guessing that they were pretty good though.
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  4185. She was asking a question that has to be considered. However, at the end of the interview, she wished the Congressman the best of luck and hoped that the President could get some good meaningful legislation to deal with the immigrant problem. That doesn't sound, to me, that she's against secure borders. In fact, using troops in this manner, isn't the best way to secure borders over the long haul. A secure wall and a fully equipped border patrol is the best way.
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  4186. In 20 years of roofing, I worked with one female roofer. She knew her stuff but she couldn't do the heavy lifting and believe me, there's heavy lifting and grunt work when you're a roofer.
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  4187. He's giving Biden credit for the vaccine roll-out??? The drug company had a product that they wanted to sell and they're the ones that produced it and got it to market. It was Trump who cut the red tape for FDA approval. In fact, before the 2020 elections, there were Democrats who were insistent that they'd NEVER take a Trump vaccine...including the current vice-president. Also, it was the Democrat led states that had the strictest lockdown policies, NOT the Republican states and that's because Trump allowed each state to handle their own policies on it as per the Constitution. Democrats are still wailing at DeSantis for the way he handled it. As for the virus getting here...yes it did come from China. However, in the east, it got here from China via Europe, Italy specifically, and Democrats, just like they did when Trump closed travel with China, lambasted Trump for closing travel with Europe, as well. Hahn is grasping at straws.
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  4188.  @SIKE01  "If".....that's one hell of a big word. It says nothing about this small business owner or who he voted for because you have NO idea who he voted for. Small business owners are a very small percentage of the population and can easily be outvoted in an election. You'd be better off saying that those who voted for this should never complain about the results. They should be happy since they got what they voted for. However, those who didn't vote for it, deserve our support. Your single vote can't defeat the delusions of the army of radical socialists. They're getting what they want and that's the total destruction of the capitalist system.
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  4189. @Fuktrumpsupporters Tj You've just proven the point that the left will find some way to spin this in a negative way. There will always be something. If he doesn't go, he's a coward. If he does go, he was a coward then (but not now, apparently). He's going to commit the US to a war to distract from his crimes. His withdrawal from a war is a danger to US security. He's a racist and could care less about the minorities in America. He's helping the rich get richer by signing an executive order trying to increase economic opportunities in poorer neighbourhoods. He's abandoning the poor and serving the rich. He makes new policies that will encourage the poor to keep their pension plans and 401ks so they won't have to be poor when they retire. I haven't heard the spin on that one yet. Maybe you can come up with a counter spin. I'm thinking the left is quiet on this because they haven't found anyway to spin it in a negative fashion. Basically, what I'm saying is this. You don't really care if what he's doing is good or bad. All you care about is your own point of view on the man and even if he saved your dog from drowning, you'd still hate on him. There's no objective reasoning to your take on the man.
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  4190.  @sharan4700  Maybe they did. It just that MORE dead people voted for Biden.
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  4191.  @tracybarhite1764  I didn't believe the Democrats or the Republicans about the Georgia voting bill. I read it for myself and I found that it was the Democrats that were making up claims. So I challenged DOZENS of youtubers, who were calling that bill racist, to show me EXACTLY where, in that bill, voting was being restricted. Over 30 challenges and not ONE taker. That says a lot about what the Democrats are about. I've yet to hear a coherent case that points to specific clauses, of that bill, which would suppress voting. I haven't even looked at the Texas bill. The Democrats have proved to me, with the rhetoric of the Georgia bill, that they're quite comfortable lying to us. They've built their own reputation. They're crying wolf and I'm not coming to help them anymore.
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  4192.  @realMaxHeadroom  There it is. The accusation. The denunciation. You don't know any of them but that doesn't matter. Once the accusation is made, that "word" is thrown at them, they are guilty and nothing is will ever absolve them of that guilt. "Juden" that's the word, isn't it? OH......sorry. The word is "racist". My mistake. I was just reminiscing on a bygone era. I won't let it happen again.
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  4193.  @davidluong8370  It sure does. I've no debt. Neither did my wife, who went to a community college and was a systems analyst in a communications firm when I met her. My daughter did the same and is now a photographer and graphics designer for small an advertising firm. Her husband, who never did go to college, does programming for a gaming site and has just been offered a civilian job for the military. Between the four of us, we've had about 30 grand in school debts, easily paid off. I've not lost a moments sleep over school debt.
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  4194.  @Mr_Dopey  You're defending this raving lunatic? LOL. Some folk just ain't right.
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  4195.  @Mr_Dopey  Give me a break. The cop put his hand up, signalling for her to stop at :55. She was at a stop at this time. However, she took off and was driving towards him even as he signalled again and THAT'S when he told her to stop the fucking car. Then he tones it down right away and said to turn the car off. Then at 1:14 she grabbed at something on the console and the officer felt that something was amiss and tried to stop her. Then she got out of the car and started acting like an idiot. All she had to do was stop, put down her window and then put her hands on the wheel and assured the officer that she didn't want any trouble. Instead, she refused to stop, grabbed for something and then started cussing the cop out. She did everything possible to escalate the situation. If you act the fool, you will get foolish results.
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  4196.  @KrisTomich  They'll send you a strike but won't tell you what you've said wrong. It's a "stay in your lane" kind of lawfare.
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  4197. It isn't very bright but, you'd think you'd at least be safe from a government agency whose job is to protect you. That is the issue. It's one thing to be robbed by a highwayman. It's another to be robbed by a highwayman with a badge. That shouldn't happen.....EVER.
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  4198.  @ChristopherGray00  Always a smart mouth in the crowd. You know damn well he doesn't mean that. You're being intentionally obtuse and it's not a good look.
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  4199. In hindsight, Romney would have been better but only because his voice would have had no effect on the race riots of 2014. Obama stoked the fans of violence by saying nothing against the violence. He could have been a HUGE positive voice against the violence and race based politics but he endorsed it with his silence. We're paying for it now. Romney would have been a zero, another swamp creature. His word would have been ineffectual against the BLM rhetoric. Obama had the opportunity but it appears that he wanted it to happen. That's what makes Obama worse than Romney. Not an endorsement of Romney. It's a criticism of Obama.
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  4200.  Todd Feinberg  Aren't you the enlightened intellectual? Can't speak to the topic so you sneer and denigrate. You're a troll....the scourge of the internet.
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  4201.  @dirtyburtysgraffcafe5030  This was the sixties and we lived in the country. This type of thing wasn't even on the radar at the time. I do know that he left home in his late teens and moved to the city. I later heard that he was living as a woman, not as a drag queen, but dressing and acting as a woman. He had it rough, even as a very small child, not just through disapproval of his mannerisms but he was even a very unhappy baby, according to his brother, crying for hours on end, concerning both the parents and his doctor. I'd say that he was the rarity, nothing like the legions of trans kids in school today who are caught up in an ideology, not a physical reality the he was stuck in. In fact, I believe that the trans ideologues are doing this kid, and those like him, a grave injustice, using their rare and unique issues to further and force their own ideological agenda on society at the expense of the ones suffering from true dysphoria.
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  4202.  @niagarawarrior9623  Yes......and the state of Florida issued no mandates or lockdowns and their cases are going down at the same rate as Canada's and Florida's death rates, per capita, is much lower at this moment, than Canada. In other words, the policies of the Canadian government may not have made one bit of difference. Knowing this, and these are irrefutable facts, this should impact the decision making if there's another wave from a variant that's quite virulent, like Omicron, but not that deadly. That's part of the message of the convoy which Trudeau is strongly resisting. For him it's "Do as I say or else". This is NOT how Canadians have been governed in the past and worse, it violates the Canadian Charter of Rights.
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  4203.  @paysour3  And you know this......HOW? You're doing what the leftist press has been so good at. Making up your own narrative and then pretending that it's true.
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  4204. It's all over the news. Those, who would do them harm, aren't going to Tim's YouTube site, to find out where it is. They have sources that will, not just show them the address, but explain the best way to approach the area and the home and when the best time would be to go there. Also, the MSM is lying, by omission, about what really happened. Someone has to tell us and PROVE it to us. One thing is certain. Anyone who dares to approach that home may find themselves facing a gun barrel. This video makes that quite clear. A threat of a bullet in the head is an effective deterrent.
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  4205.  @johnbrown2163  It's a good thing that you're not disgusting, isn't it? We need people like you, all nice and perfect, to show the world how to live in peace and harmony. I can feel the love with every denigrating insult you've thrown out there. Every comment you've made has drawn the world in a little closer. A few more epithets, and world peace should be finally realised. Keep up the good work.
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  4206. @ I was arguing with you. LOL. Until I re-read your comment. For some reason, I thought that you were saying that driving on the Pride Flag was an affront to public property while vandalising private property wasn't as bad. I actually found a long-winded way of responding to a comment that I mis-read. At least we agree, now. LOL.
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  4207.  @victorpradha9946  Nothing more vulgar than a doctor asking parents "Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son", just so they can recruit a patient for life. THAT'S vulgar.
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  4208.  @ryanisbelle6107  He had to leave Canada and its wonderful socialist medical system to save his life. Our healthcare system is awful. I live it and it is getting worse every year.
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  4209.  @jafo766  As much as I don't care for Rebel Media, they are exercising their freedom of speech. They are a group, an media entity, saying what they like and believe. That's not a lack of freedom. That's freedom. Just like CNN. I don't like what they are saying and doing. They lack integrity, spin facts to suit their agenda and at times, bully and lie as a tactical weapon. Is this the right thing to do? NO!!!! Should they be allowed to do it? Of course. However, they'd better be ready to accept criticism when it comes their way...but they don't. They cry that they're losing the freedom to speak every time their criticised. Criticism is a loss of freedom. Jim Acosta has never lost the right to say as he pleases, no matter how hard he cries about it.
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  4210. I thought that Joe Biden said it in the late seventies. LOL. I could be wrong though.
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  4211.  @GeorgeOrwell-yz6zx  I don't know. I do know that it's the mutterings of an old man. Does that help?
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  4212.  @SimplePhotoshopTutorials  I find it hard to believe myself. It's been going on for years. Has he ever considered that one of those fires could get out of hand and he could lose everything. I doubt insurance would want to cover arson, especially when he supports the riots. Also, Andy Ngo has been documenting the violence for a couple of years in Portland. He's a liar if he says it's only become bad since the Feds showed up.
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  4213.  @MrWlesniak  That's exactly correct. The government or a group submits a press release and they will repeat it or ignore it, depending on their political affiliations or loyalties. That's an easy one to explain.
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  4214.  @sarahpettyYTSUX  How are black Americans going to get a Vaccine passport. It's not fair. They'll be forced to stay home. Wait a minute. Maybe that's what the Democrats want. Jim Crow 2 point oh.
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  4215.  @ethandavis3294  And YOU are missing the point that I was making. Had you been on that ship, with Columbus, you'd have done what your shipmates did. Things that you now condemn them for. It's easy to be virtuous, believing that you're better than they were, when you live in a time and place where those things aren't happening. That's MY point and I'll bet that you disagree with me.
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  4216.  Kismail588  Naw. That's a Democrat thing.
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  4217. That must really shake things up. I live in southern Canada, where it's difficult to discern winter weather from a polar vortex. It all seems cold to us. Your experience kinda warns us to be prepared for anything, even an unexpected event like a snowstorm in Tasmania.
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  4218.  @halcionkoenig243  Oil does deplete. We burn it as gasoline and other products and it ceases to exist except as a byproduct. Water doesn't burn. It moves between a vapour to a liquid to solid ice. No matter what, it's always water. Oil doesn't work that way. Any carbons released into the atmosphere will take hundreds of thousands of years, maybe longer, to return as oil after being absorbed by plants and returning to the soil. It's a very long process. Water is consumed as is recycled back into the atmosphere and will return as rain in the near future. This is a poor argument and we know this because all the easy major oil strikes are nearly used up. There are no more gushers, like you see in old movies or oil deposits sitting on the surface waiting to be discovered. Oil men are going to more extreme areas and digging deeper to get fossil fuels, today, and that's only going to get worse.
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  4219. They're staying in homeless shelters? Why aren't the good Democrats inviting them into their homes? Or at least paying for hotel rooms.
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  4220.  @sir.lancelot8338  That's absolute nonsense and the numbers prove me right. Italy, the UK, Belgium, Czechia and Hungary have MORE deaths per million than the US and Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Bulgaria are right behind them. This is a disease. People get it and unfortunately people die. The outrage is over a policy which INTENTIONALLY put people, with Covid, in the same place as the elderly.....ON PURPOSE. Would you allow me, if I had Covid, to go live with YOUR parents? If I did and they died, would you not be upset about it? Or is your hatred for Trump that deep that you be mad at him instead of me? That's twisted....and I don't even like Trump. Party politics is disgusting and you exemplify why that's true and you do it perfectly.
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  4221.  @abcxyz2927  Buck is NOT the problem. It's those who are going into the schools and telling children, who have serious problems in their personal life, that their problems stem from gender dysphoria. That's not trying to safeguard their own status quo. That's recruiting and using the most vulnerable members of society. It's trying to distort the perception of reality of others. Buck KNOWS that he's not a man and he says so. He's saying that there's something wrong with HIM and he's trying to cope with it as best he can. He's not telling anyone else what their problem is and he's definitely not a teacher, who's using their position to dispense medical information to children and telling them NOT to tell their parents. That's against the law.
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  4222. It might be on camera but the MSM would have edited out the parts that they didn't like and then portrayed Elder and his supporters as violent racists. We don't need to give them the ammo they'd use to defeat Elder. Those security guards didn't give to them and I'll bet that frustrates those "protesters" to no end.
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  4223.  @ShaunHensley  No one is claiming perfection here, but this is a new and unique issue and problem that has infected society the last few years. Unless this behaviour is something that you're engaging in, this should concern you. YOU could be a target in the future and suddenly everything you care about could disappear over a misplaced phrase or a burning desire that someone has to destroy a person's, ANY person's life, as an act of self gratification. I'm at a loss to understand the mindset where one deals with a problem by pointing out that there are problems somewhere else. It's childish and it is a guarantee to allow that problem to fester out of control.
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  4224.  @greghenchin17  Of course there is. If I'm looking for a grey haired white guy, I'm not going to approach young Asian women, am I. That would be a waste of time and just plain stupid. If I'm to be successful at finding illegals, I will go to where I have the likeliest chance of finding them and that would be Hispanics that are in marginal jobs and speak English poorly. I'd be stupid if I went to a native reservation to find those illegals because the odds of finding an illegal there is extremely poor to none. It is known that, by far, the greatest number of illegals are Hispanics. Therefore, it will be natural to search in those communities that will have the greatest percentage of illegals. In the US that's California and it's overwhelmingly Hispanic illegals, so that's where you look. Not in Maine where illegals are rare. You increase your odds of success by looking where the chances of success are the best. That's logical and to be expected. I'm not going to go apple picking in a cherry orchard. I'm not going to get many apples that way. To think otherwise is unrealistic.
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  4225. Those self pitying and nihilistic will find the negative in anything. "Sure has been nice weather this week" "Yeah, but it won't last. Besides, it's more evidence that climate change will kill us all". No joy in the moment, no happiness.....just negativity. What a terrible way to live.
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  4226. @eman987 10 Of course....the answer that fits all. If he says ONE thing that you don't like, he's a right wing grifter. Some people are amazingly predictable.
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  4227.  @ultramagalatino7791  Does your mother know that you're on the computer?
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  4228.  @deepseadweller687  That does seem to be true, however, you can even learn things from that. You listen and then appraise to see how accurate his statement might be. By doing that, you find out things that you've never known before. I used to debate flat earthers. They would say something that was truth, albeit marginally so, that I didn't know about. I'd investigate and find out what was true and what was just plain stupid. I wouldn't even tell them that their overall premise was ridiculous. I'd just point out how the specific argument, that they were using, was blatantly false and that they shouldn't use that argument anymore. Of course they'd just get angry and double down but I learned something from what they told me. The one that I've learned from Biden is that you don't have to be particularly bright to be president. Justin Trudeau is doing the same thing in Canada.
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  4229. That was one of the stupidest claims ever made against Trump. All you had to do was watch the video. He was asking a question. Only a person, filled with hate, could misinterpret it as a call to inject or digest bleach. It ranks right up their with how the "good people on both sides" line was misrepresented. They basically made it up.
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  4230.  @palimpalim5291  But I've listened to the woman in this video and she makes sense. I don't have to go to Africa to believe what she's saying. Also, the more regulations that there are, the tougher it is to run a business. Like she said, her business was being strangled with dumb regulations and they want to talk about gender equality. The same thing is happening in the US. Too many regulations. Trump comes along and slashes the stupid ones and the economy takes off. Give a man a shoe and he's no longer barefoot. Teach a man to make shoes and he has a job and he can exchange value for value. You don't give people stuff, you give them opportunity. Opportunity is what makes a better life....unless you think that they're incapable of taking advantage of opportunity.
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  4231.  @johnsparks007  I think that you've just found the sensitivity reader in this comment section.
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  4232.  @Drot-l3s  If a judge demonstrates her support of the ideas of this book, it will manifest that support in her judicial rulings. Would you support a candidate for the Supreme Court who thinks that a book that says "Blacks should be sent back to Africa" is a great idea to be a part of a middle school library or studied in class? I'd think that a judge like that would be a toxic member of any board let alone the Supreme Court.
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  4233.  @boofert.washington2499  Which is another difference. Some of us are drawn to the positives. Others can only see the negative. It's the difference between optimism and pessimism.
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  4234.  @codycarr4544  Isn't that something huh? It's almost as if the weapons had nothing to do with it. In fact, the policing would only help to mitigate the carnage, NOT prevent it, by that metric. Not saying we don't need police but we have to acknowledge that there's more to it than just guns. Time to stop blaming inanimate objects and putting it on those who make conscious decisions to do those things.
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  4235. Joe Biden is going to shut down the virus using Trump's vaccine. Good job, Doctor "Joe".
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  4236. Nadler: We're going to impeach Trump. US citizens: For what? Nadler: Don't know yet. We're setting up a committee. They really are out to lunch. I don't even like Trump all that much but isn't it sad that he's still better than anyone on the Democrats. They're losing it and losing it bad.
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  4237.  @heybaba77  White supremacists are no different than the mob that we just watched on stage in Minneapolis. They're engaged in the same identity politics as BLM, Antifa and the far left. Each has their own agenda. Tucker just doesn't understand this fact but there were no white supremacists on the stage that humiliated the Minneapolis mayor. They were ALL left wing activists of some sort.
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  4238. @Punani Surprise What an idiotic thing to say. First of all, the haircut thing was in response to the Chicago mayor, who had all these businesses locked down and then went to her OWN hair stylist to get her hair done. Second, this was about people wanting to go back to work, to their businesses, so they could once again be productive and earn a living. Did you notice that there wasn't ONE broken window, not ONE looted building, not ONE person beaten or killed, not ONE building set on fire, not ONE car smashed, not ONE landmark defaced? Not a one, during those protests. I'm not even going to ask you to compare that to the protests of the last 2 weeks. People have the right to protest, even if it's about something that you might disagree with.
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  4239.  @thewholesomegrail6722  You'll know. You'll know when the power is out, you can't get a gallon of gas, there are food shortages and we don't know if that stranger is going to hurt you or help you. That's when you'll remember what we meant by the "barbarians" That's when it's too late to stop the downward spiral and the vultures are picking apart what's left of our country.
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  4240. I'd love a link to that video. I'm Canadian and I really want to see it.
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  4241. Those Democrats will do everything to prevent that. Democrats are against school choice, home schooling or a school voucher system. "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." Mussolini on National Socialism. They need everything to be under state control, including schools.
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  4242.  @KairIdon3663  Pretty clever....troll. (That's sarcasm)
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  4243.  @ZedrikVonKatmahl  They don't realise that they're the ones that are the snobby elites that won't get their hands dirty. What's worse, they're of the belief that all problems are solved with money and since they have it, all they have to do is throw that cash at the problems. Look how well that's worked at inner city schools. As long as the citizens of the country are willing to work hard at any job and quit with the "essential" job elitism, they'll do just fine. Especially, if they believe in the rule of law and have the integrity to follow up on that belief. They just don't get money has to be earned the hard way.
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  4244.  @Studying_Qubic  You don't test it against a placebo to see if it's safe or not. You test it to make sure that it's effective and to make sure that the placebo effect isn't a deciding factor in its efficacy.
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  4245.  @godzillamegatron3590  When "they", the government, doesn't provide you with the education that you feel you need, then it's up to you to get it. You get what you want through hard work and that includes an education. If you can't do simple mathematics, like 8x9, that's NO ONE'S fault but your own, unless you have a learning disability. If you want to know how it's done, read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T Washington. You don't need a fancy school, with a big budget and all the modern gadgets. What you need is desire and THAT'S the problem with people in the US. They don't have the drive to succeed. It's a lot easier to sit around and lay blame.
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  4246.  @canderson5098  Why are some atheists so mean-spirited? He's wishing the best for people, through prayer. He can't do much else at the moment, so he's hoping the best for them. However, you, in a state of perpetual misery, won't even allow him that. You have to mock and denigrate. People have different belief systems and express themselves in various ways. Why can't you tolerate that? Why does EVERYONE have to be JUST LIKE YOU?
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  4247.  @canderson5098  Then I'll say what I say to my kids when they're being miserable. "Go to your room and you can come out when you can act like a civilised human being". Quit acting like a child.
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  4248.  @RedFeather36  Beautifully said.
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  4249.  @Capneon  It's not progress because to arrest people, they need to commit a crime. If arrests are up, then crime is up. THAT'S NOT PROGRESS.
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  4250.  @Capneon  Apparently, they ARE allowing crime to happen in the poorer neighbourhoods because of the social pressure to defund the police AND the consequences to officers if they run into dangerous situations. That's NOT progress. That's correct. However, if those same officers concentrate MORE on suburban areas and arrests, for petty crimes, go up and violent crimes go down, that's NOT progress either. Why? Because it comes at the expense of poor neighbourhoods, mostly minorities, who now don't have the coverage that they deserve and what the suburbanites are getting. You might call that progress but it's not when one segment of the population isn't being served so that another gets extra service. It doesn't say whether petty crimes has increased but it does say that arrests have and you can attribute that to officers, who still want to do their jobs, but can't where it counts the most. I don't see that as progress. Also, if petty crime is up, in the suburbs, that's not progress, either. No matter how you slice it, the new ideas of policing has not helped at all.
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  4251.  @carlHarrison-dt1fj  What party is the one that support CRT, which says that whites are inherently racists and want that taught in schools? Who supports DEI, which goes against the Civil Rights Act, which says that a person's race, gender identity, religious affiliations are not to be discriminated against or given preferential treatment? It's NOT the GOP. The GOP supports that idea that identity affiliations are irrelevant under the law. It's the Democrats who support racial segregation in dormitories and graduations. It was Democrats who said that Asian students should be forced to have higher SAT scores so another race could get preferential treatment in university admissions. Then they were angry when the Supreme Court ruled that this was Unconstitutional. This is what's causing hate. Putting people into identity boxes and then pointing fingers at the ones who they think is the problem.
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  4252.  @norbdavis2290  Covered up the payments? What do you think a non-disclosure agreement is for? it's payment to NOT disclose an event or events....to cover things up. That's not illegal. What he did was claim that it was a legal expense on tax papers. The DA claims that it should have been campaign expense. An accounting error. He didn't even cover up that he paid that disclosure agreement. I've done that on my tax return and it was corrected with no fine or legal action. "among other things that were fraudulent'. Another way of saying that you have no idea. Just like I predicted.
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  4253.  @norbdavis2290  It's NOT against the law to have a disclosure agreement and saying that it was legal fees isn't a felony. Then you use the word "if". "if it was on the up and up". "If" implies that you don't know IF it was on the up and up. It's the question I asked. What is that "if"? You've NOT answered it, yet. Show me the underlying crime. CRIME!!!! Don't give me an "if". You don't say to a murder suspect since we don't know IF you're guilty, we're going to convict you of murder and off to jail you go. Now, tell me the crime.
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  4254.  @stevepettersen3283  Why not arrest every Jennifer Heath in America? That way they're sure to get the right one, somewhere.
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  4255. How does studying history force one to criticise? I'm not following the logic. I study history to understand, NOT criticise.
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  4256.  @jonathanp1884  I find that both FOX and CNN, actually all the big ones, interpret the news. They don't inform, they manage the information. The most egregious example is when they reported on the Covington Kids. I watched it on CNN and then went on a search for more information. It took me about 15 minutes to find the extended video that was condensed into the one on CNN. It showed that what I'd seen on CNN was total BS. Think of it. I'm a guy, who lives in a one bedroom apartment, ALONE, in a different country, with no connections or staff and and an average cobbled together computer that my son-in-law built for me and I had this information before CNN, with all the resources that they have. Oh yeah...I'm a boomer too. You know...the generation that doesn't know much about computers or social media. How was that possible? Either CNN and the rest of the MSM is totally incompetent or they lied. Everyone of them reported the same thing. Yet, one hour after the first news report, I was on Facebook arguing that it was all BS. Their response? How would I know. Do I think that I'm smarter than the press and media? Funny thing was....I was found to be correct. You are correct about CNN not always being wrong. If it fits the narrative that they want, they'll be as honest as a Sunday school teacher. I double check everything and the internet has made that possible. The truth is quite obvious. Too many of us are too vested in our beliefs to allow them to be challenged. We won't even challenge ourselves even if it's in private. I find it a struggle myself. It's what the biased media depends on.
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  4257.  @Froggmeningreen  Who said they were all fighting to save France? I never said that. The allies landed in Normandy to defeat Germany. One of the countries benefiting from that effort was France, unless you believe the French liked being under German rule. My parents were kids in the Netherlands at the time and the Dutch hated the Nazis and are exceptionally grateful for the efforts of the allies to help defeat Germany. Without the landing in Normandy, Germany could have put a much larger effort into beating the Soviets. However, they had to fight on 2 fronts, 3 actually if you include the allies coming from the south, through Italy, as well. France and De Gaulle benefited from the Allied initiative. A lot of Canadian soldiers died in France so that they could be rid of Germans. All of Europe benefited due to the Allied invasion, especially the western nations, including France.
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  4258.  @DidierDidier-kc4nm  Still has nothing to do with what he said to Eisenhower before D-day or his blatant interference in Canadian politics. Roosevelt and De Gaulle didn't like each other. That happens. People don't like one another. However, Roosevelt is NOT the president of Canada and De Gaulle had no business interfering in Canadian politics. Canadians died on French soil and it helped to gain France back it's independence from Germany. Nice way to say "Thanks Canada" Another reason why Canadians are resentful of De Gaulle is that he didn't attend the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which was a defining moment for the Canadian military. 3600 Canadians died in that battle and 7000 were wounded. The least De Gaulle could have done was attend a ceremony of an ally in WW1. Not De Gaulle, though. Another example of his aloofness and lack of any appreciation of anything not French.
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  4259. I'm a little confused. Why was it okay for Iran to bomb those oil installations? Explain that to me.
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  4260. If hate speech were illegal, we're all guilty.....every one of us. That's what they want. Control us by using our thoughts, ideas and speech against us. The left rabble doesn't realise that it will harm them as much as it does those they hate in the end. They're just pawns to be discarded when their perfect society has been attained.
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  4261.  @d_a_n_a.  It sure looked hateful when gay Asian reporter, Andy Ngo was being attacked. Or when those 2 marines of Hispanic heritage were being beaten, for no reason, by Antifa, and being called all kinds of ethnic slurs. How about the abuse heaped on those Covington kids by the left? That was as hateful as it gets. Hate is a human emotion. If you're a human being, you're a victim of your own hateful responses. To point at others as despicable, can and will be interpreted as hate. You're own virtue can turn on you at any time. A person, who believes that he's beyond reproach due to his virtue, will end up being capable of the most heinous of crimes, all in the name of doing the right thing.
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  4262. @ LOL. At least half the time I respond to comments like yours, I get the "triggered" return or something similar. Have nothing else? At least, support your claim with some kind of logic that doesn't sound like something that a school child would make.
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  4263.  @thememo6019  So....you think it's a good idea to allow people, sick with Covid, into the country? Really? It's either a stupid move or it isn't. Discuss the issue, NOT people.
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  4264.  @Aeroldoth3  This is your logic? It doesn't affect me so let it happen? A woman is "graped" and since I'm NOT a woman, who cares? A school is shot up by a lunatic but since I'm not a student or teacher, I should keep my opinions to myself? Why do you care what I think or say? You don't know me. You know nothing about me. Mind your own business and if you're not affected, stay off the internet and quit making comments.
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  4265. LOL. I've been calling it the "Trump cure". You know "fish tank cleaner". People hate it when you're sarcastic......and right.
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  4266. "children were required" "WERE" required? That seems to imply that this was a problem of the past. If so, how is that relevant to this discussion? I thought it went against the Civil Right's Act and other legislation to divide children, in schools, according to race. An Act that is almost 60 years old. Your comment seems out dated.
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  4267.  @somozasi  He protects them by putting them in prison......troll.
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  4268. Ana Kasparian, of the Young Turks, decided to watch the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. She was shocked when it was revealed, in court, that all the people that were shot, weren't black. She had always been under the impression that Kyle had randomly shot Black Americans because the MSM had allowed people to believe that. Then, she was surprised to learn that Kyle did NOT carry a weapon across state lines. She'd heard, once again on the MSM, that Kyle broke the law by doing this. Another misconception that was the MSM refused to counter. She didn't know that the people shot, were chasing Kyle, threatening to kill him the first chance they could. She didn't know that Kyle did NOT fire the first shot and that there were 3 guns involved in this event, NOT just the one carried by young Rittenhouse. She didn't know that the first person shot had been in an institution for crimes committed and had been let out that day and travelled over 100 miles to take part in the riots in Kenosha and that he had threatened to kill Kyle and was trying to take his rifle away from him and that Kyle had every right to believe that he would shoot him if he won that battle. All because the media failed to fully inform the public. Our media is a major part of why things are going so wrong in this country.
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  4269.  @highcouncil1302  That's why 2 transgenders set girl's track records in Connecticut high school yet couldn't make the boy's team. Set records the first year that they entered as girls. I suppose an actual sporting event is anecdotal. It's why physical requirement standards are lower for women in fire departments and the military because most women can't meet the standards that men find routine. But reality doesn't meet your hypothetical "studies".
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  4270. I would think that the Israelites embellished the story to make their God look like the most powerful God that there is. Facts being mixed with religious explanations and dogma. People have always liked to go with narratives that suit their belief systems.
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  4271.  David Ortiz  Your comment makes no sense and I have no idea what it is your trying to say. Try English. What the heck is "firvyour"? Nothing that I've ever ran into. Maybe a little too much New Year's Eve grog??
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  4272.  @ajs41  I was a kid in the sixties and grew up watching The Beverly Hillbillies. I was trying to make him sound like.....you know...a hillbilly. A Jedi warrior is too much of a good image to poke a little fun with.
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  4273.  In truth we trust  When did I say that? I'm SURE I didn't. In fact, I KNOW I didn't. If Harris lied, she lied. PERIOD. It has nothing to do with what the Pope says, what Queen Elisabeth says, what John Wayne says or what Donald Trump says. So when the accusation is that Harris lied about her story about Abe Lincoln, who don't deflect by pointing at someone else. You man up and say "Yes, she did play free with the facts" or "No, she didn't and here's why". That's how you react to an accusation. They didn't prove Jeffrey Dahlmer innocent by proving that Ted Bundy was guilty. You don't prove Harris innocent of lying by proving that Trump is guilty of lying. I learned that when I was 6 years old. I'm astounded that I have to explain this to an adult.....unless you're not an adult and then I apologise.
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  4274.  @lancefulbright2685  And does she ever get the fingers pointing back at her. You could say that I'm doing it but I'm also going to say that it's in response to her finger pointing and I'm guessing that this is your point. Those 4 fingers are responding to her finger pointing and wouldn't normally initiate it.
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  4275. Math is a racist construct.
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  4276.  @patacleus6803  This isn't an Alabama sewage crisis. It has to do with Lowndes County, a rural area, where the county seat, Hayneville only has a population of 931 people, as of the 2010 census. The logistics of running a city style sewage system is prohibitively costly because there are only a little over 11,000 people spread out over 725 square miles. To compare, Manhattan has 1.6 million people living on 23 square miles. There is no work and money available is quite limited. San Francisco has a land area of under 50 square miles with 882,000 residents. Can you see the financial issues of putting a sewage system in a 725 square mile area now? How are the 11,000 people going to pay for it? Worse, Lowndes County sits on a clay base which is notoriously bad for disposal using septic tank systems. This causes even more difficulties. You're comparing an issue that is would cost more to install than all the sewage systems of Manhattan and has to be paid for by 11,000 people. Maybe you should try to get a deeper understanding of the problem instead of just reacting in a knee jerk fashion.
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  4277.  @TheProphetify  That was cheerful. Are you the guy I saw the other day, down town, wearing the "The End is Nigh" sign?
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  4278.  @duolingoowo4855  That just about sums it up. I'll clean it up for you. "When I was confused about my gender, teachers and medical experts affirmed that confusion and told me that I had to be transgender and that my confusion proved this to be true. However, I now know that it was just a phase that I was going through."
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  4279.  @rustyshack2349  Because it would be better to clean it up peacefully and using the law as your guide than it would be to use mob violence. If you allow anger, emotions, to be your guide, you're no different than the SJWs who get angry over a bad word. We're supposed to be a civilised nation. Let's act like it.
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  4280.  Annette Cotto  1950????? I'm 70 years old and I wasn't even alive at the time. Get over it. It's all in the past. We'll never have peace if we just keep pointing fingers at each other. You may claim that it was the ancestors that created the hate but you sure are determined to keep that hate alive. I'd say that makes you no better than what they were.
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  4281.  @ghosted_pepper  I know for a fact that you cannot cross the border from Canada into the United States. If you try and get caught, you will be arrested. My sister has been told that if she EVER gets caught in the US, she WILL face charges and do jail time. I know a guy who was caught shoplifting a coat when he was 19 and was turned back at the US border at 45 for having a criminal record. Why do you think the trucker convoy was started. Truckers weren't allowed across the border without a vaccine. Do you get that? Crossing the border. They had demonstrations on BOTH sides of BORDER and people were all upset about it. There's a border.
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  4282.  @John_Doe27  If they don't bring in the non-whites, who's going to clean their toilets? Bet you never thought of that. They did, though.
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  4283. @マナンナンアナメ This person is telling us that the big claim, that brown people are all the same, isn't true and he's offering himself up as proof on how false that statement is. Negativity is how the left is killing this country. Don't be what they want you to be.
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  4284.  @maggietinsley2516  Ignorant or too bullheaded to admit that they could be making a mistake.
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  4285. @Jesus Wept Wow.....You're getting crazier and crazier as the comment section moves along.
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  4286.  @noneofyourbusinessgoogle  Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States, was a career Democrat. Some has to tell BLM. Democrats need cancelling.
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  4287.  @eam4279  I'm not sure what lack of personal responsibility on the right that you're talking about. Also, if your children are failing in school, it doesn't matter what the colour of their skin is. It's up to you to make sure that they get a proper education. That's YOUR responsibility....no one else's. To hide behind skin colour is an abrogation of that responsibility. It's the same with making sure that your children have a prominent father figure in their lives. That's the responsibility of BOTH parents. No one else. Your comment sounds like one that a person makes who's always looking to blame someone else for the failures in his life.
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  4288.  @eam4279  My parents lived through the invasion of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany. My mom lived on eel for months because the Nazis denied the people food. My uncle spent the entire war in a POW camp. Do you know what? THAT WAR IS OVER!!!!! Every point you made referred to things of the past. Let's talk about today. If your kid is failing school....find out why. If you're a woman, don't have sex with a man that won't be there for you. If you're a man, don't have sex with a woman that has sex for fun. It's about personal responsibility. Don't do the things that will hurt others, especially future or current children. Be better. No one can do that for you. That includes everyone.....not just black Americans.
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  4289.  @goldenraven2046  I don't think that you quite understand what Churchill meant by that observation.
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  4290. Why? Because a lot of Democrats have Marxist leanings. Marxist believe that to reach their communist Utopia, the family, a tradition of the past, must be destroyed. Mao called it the 4 olds....old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits. They cannot allow any outside influence over the masses, including children, and family is an outside influence. Therefore, it has to be done away with. We can't have children growing up to think for themselves.
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  4291.  @generalali7609  Aren't you making it about politics??? You're the one that brought up Trump. Is that because you've picked favourites to prosecute, if it comes to that??? I don't care what the political views, of the guys on that list, are. I just want them held accountable. It doesn't seem likely but that kind of thing has to be stopped. PERIOD. If Trump is on that list....get him and get him hard, just like I'd want them to get Clinton, Prince Andrew or anyone else who's guilty.
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  4292.  @brandonsopinion8904  Like Chris Cuomo, of CNN, said. "Antifa is fighting the good fight". I'm guessing it's why you never, or at least rarely, hear the Democrats or the MSM condemn the actions of Antifa. They still approve of the methods of the KKK.
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  4293. Do you honestly think that the rich aren't devastated by their losses? Their homes mean just as much to them as it does to anyone else. It's NOT about money. It's about their lives and memories. Not every rich person is consoled with a big cheque.
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  4294. Was she charged with making a false police report? Why didn't the neighbour film her doing it? Everyone has a cell phone these days. This smacks of gossip to me.
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  4295.  @spacemanwithraygun3933  Gossip is so easy to play, isn't it?
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  4296. @Tala K Bus drivers are contributing members of society. It's a job. They get paid. They pay taxes and they're entrusted with getting our kids to school and home safely. You've just displayed a disgraceful tendency towards career elitism. Having said that, this bus driver should be fired for what she did to this kid. She had no right to do that. She didn't treat him that way because she's a lowly bus driver. She did it because the MSM has made it acceptable to behave in this manner, the prime example being the way the MSM denigrated Nick Sandmann for wearing a MAGA hat and supposedly smirking.
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  4297. @Tala K I'm a farm boy and for years I spent over 2 hours on the bus to get to school. That poor bus driver spent 5 hours, every day, driving a busload of close to 40 howling kids. Most of us have it easy compared to that. Why would he exacerbate the situation by losing it over a stupid hat? The driver has enough problems without adding to it by anointing themselves the political conscience of a bunch of 12 year olds. That's nuts. Who wants a nut for a bus driver?
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  4298. That's right and now we have people who need surgeries done for a variety of reasons and they're not getting it done. The "pain in my side" which could be a malignant tumor. The "ringing in my ears" that could be high blood pressure. The "tenderness in my leg" that could be signs of a blood clot. All these things are NOT being treated now. It's all on hold and hospitals are empty. Rural hospitals are in danger of closing forever, due to lack of funds, a perennial problem now exacerbated, all because of government directives. We have to get back to some kind of normalcy soon or the outcome will be a LOT worse than the Covid pandemic.
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  4299. Dr. Wang: "I am NOT Josef Mengele!!!"
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  4300.  @leonardoD81  You're absolutely correct. He's a troll and I knew it right away by that monosyllabic comment. That's why I made fun of him. There's nothing else to do other than ignore him. I'd rather have a little fun at his expense.
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  4301.  @themanwithnoname4385  That's for sure. They had declared neutrality and didn't expect to even fight. The invasion started with a German air squadron, heading to England to ostensibly bomb London, when they changed course and bombed Rotterdam instead. A complete surprise. The Dutch troops were outnumbered 3 to 1 and didn't have near the weaponry that the Germans did. They didn't stand a chance.
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  4302.  @thurin84  That's true. Unfortunately, our media thinks that burning, looting and putting people in hospitals is peaceful too. Gunfire is violence but only when it's the police or Conservatives doing it. When it's Antifa or "peaceful protesters" doing it, they're just exercising their right to assemble.
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  4303.  @somerosesarered5841  Trump has brokered a peace with North Korea, albeit shaky and now he's pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe, the US is changing its ways but that won't be good enough, either. I'd say that no matter what is done, you'll not like it.
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  4304. Ideologues never believe that it's their fault. Not when there's at least one more person to blame.
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  4305. Around 1670, my German speaking ancestor, who bears my family name, moved from what is now Silesia, to the Netherlands. That was 11 generations ago. He dropped a second "n" from the end of the name and bought a small farm. 11 generations later, after marrying and assimilating into the Dutch culture, every person in the world that bears my last name is descended from that one man and his wife. Yet, we don't call ourselves German. We're Dutch or of Dutch heritage. We're no more German than Warren is native Indian. She's making that claim for two reasons. There's economic and social status to be gained if you use that claim in specific contexts. Warren is using the one drop rule and it's ridiculous. However, it's still better than what Buffy Sainte-Marie did. She can't even use the one drop rule. She just flat out lied to advance her career.
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  4306. Since when does a security guard wear a t-shirt saying "Black Guns Matter"?
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  4307. Walter Duranty, of the New York Times, was in the Soviet Union, during those times, and denied that the famines and Holodomor actually happened. He was even awarded a Pulitzer Prize for those reports. It turned out that they were all lies. People have even called to have his Pulitzer Prize revoked, in light of the gross inaccuracies of those news reports, but they refused to do it. If you have to lie, in your argument to support an economic system, you can't be too confident in your position.
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  4308.  @MarksmansBeast2  Sorry but YOU'RE the one that can't even understand that this was a comparison. That doesn't make you very smart, even if it didn't happen. As it is, one could say that the narrative indicates an officer that's reminiscent of that horrible Uvalde incident. I'd say that you're being intentionally obtuse. Not a good look.
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  4309. And she wouldn't have to fix the election to do it.
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  4310.  @nonameissafer.8457  What are you? One of those dolls where you pull the string and they say something? You've got all the talking points down perfectly. Strange how the Russian pipeline isn't an ecological disaster...isn't it? I wonder how they do it.
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  4311.  @willleaver6698  Carte Blanche? (notice the spelling). It's ALL classified now. Every bit of information on every scrap of paper that Barr is going to look through is ALL classified and would have stayed that way, were the Democrats not obsessed with this collusion thing. If Barr declassifies 1/2 of it, we're 50 percent more informed than we were a week ago. Besides, why would the Democrats care, anyway? They haven't done anything wrong, have they? This should just refute Trump's suspicions. It's kind of like releasing the Mueller Report. That kind refuted the Russian collusion accusations. This SHOULD let the Democrats off the hook......wouldn't it? Or would it?
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  4312. He's not a woman. He's transgender. You can't make it simpler than that.
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  4313.  @fj400007  That never occured to me but you're correct. In fact, I'll be that Tracy Stone-Manning would be the first to start wailing had that been a dark skinned little girl. There's nothing that I can say that will fully reveal the depth of my revulsion at people like her.....and Biden. It has to be within him, as well, for nominating a person that would say something like that.
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  4314.  @ReeCooks14579  I've criticised Trump over the way he spent on Covid payments. However, could you imagine if he didn't do it. The Democrats would never have shut up about it. There was simply too much pressure to not pay people to stay home from work even though the right thing to do was to keep the economy at full bore.
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  4315.  @AndrewFishman  I loved the 70s and 80s and I was an adult. I loved the 60s, too, but it was a lot scarier. Nuclear war was the big scare, especially during the Cuban missile crisis. However, we didn't have our TVs on or weren't on social media 24/7. I do remember, as a kid, on hearing a booming explosive sound, off in the distance, being afraid that it (the nuclear war) had started. That it was all over and I wouldn't be here in a few minutes. That was scary. It wasn't some vague, 12 years from now, threat. It was right now, at any second. I may not see morning, that was a real fear. I remember that clip that Sydney showed about the little girl and the flower. That was only a part of it. By the 70s, a lot of that fear had dissipated, thankfully.
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  4316.  @AndrewFishman  Right now, I live within sight of the airbase, about 3 miles away. I can see the biggest hanger from my front door. Our family farm is less than 10 miles north of where I live. My dad and 2 brothers are still there. It's a beautiful spot, like a postcard in the fall with the trees all red, gold and purple. I know what you mean by Agenda 21. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Agenda 21 might be the perfect example to demonstrate that old adage. The climate change hysteria may well be another one.
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  4317. It's easier to infiltrate and take over a large corporation than it is take over 10,000 small ones. Get rid of the small businesses, through a crisis, and they're left with dealing with only a couple of large ones. They don't have to infiltrate or take over the small ones if they create conditions that they can't operate and go bankrupt. Communists love this.
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  4318.  Masson H  No one has said that Trump is a perfect human being. However, he's doing a good job as president, whether you like it or not. You're engaging in hate politics, not a good look and you refuse to look any issue objectively and without the bias of hate that seems to fill every comment you make. Emotions make for weak logic, at best and at worst, ignores logic altogether. In fact, your rhetoric is hurting your cause. Democrats aren't going to win over hard line Republicans. They have to win over moderates, those who sit in the middle. Calling someone, who weighs all the arguments and evidence of an issue on an unbiased scale, a cultist, will expose hard line Democrats as intolerant, name calling elitists and that attitude will turn people away from your party and towards those you don't like. It's why the Dems lost the last election and why they're going to lose the next one. I know that you won't believe it but you have to face reality sometime. Don't call people names if you want them to vote for your side. It's bad politics. "Hey, brain dead cultist.....VOTE for me" is as stupid a strategy as it gets.
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  4319.  @rhondae8222  It's free money. Most people would take free money if offered. It's the same rationale as the distribution of wealth. People, with no money, wanting to take the money from those who have it. Property rights mean nothing to them. You have an integrity that a lot of people can't understand which include the distribution of wealth and the reparation advocates. They just don't get the idea of personal responsibility and achievement. Stand fast in those beliefs.
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  4320.  @Blackwell-III  That doesn't even make sense. A business owner is NOT a slave owner. His employee is free to walk off the job any time he wants. When I worked for someone else, I did it on my own accord and when I quit, there was not a thing they could do about it. When I had my own renovation business, my employees would quit whenever they wanted and they did to return to school or for better opportunities. My business was small and work wasn't always there for them. They weren't slave and neither was I when I worked for others.
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  4321.  @rhondae8222  You're welcome. You're in a tough situation but nothing can be more satisfying than sticking to your principles. You might feel alone at times, but you're not. There are others who believe as you do.
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  4322.  @rathofturkey  It would seem that way. However, I could only take him more seriously if he would explain why he says as he says. He just says it as if HE is the authority, doing the exact same thing that he's accusing the Church of doing. He says that he's not acting out of hate but he isn't saying anything that would indicate that he likes anyone that he disagrees with, either. People, like that, are very difficult to talk to.
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  4323.  @krom1753  That doesn't mean that Trump had special consideration when he applied for that loan. That's the implication. He got the loan because the bank believed that he had the equity to back up his loan. That's not illegal.
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  4324.  @seasonedbeefs  Educators should NOT deny science, either, especially when they call themselves science educators. You can't educate in science by calling it subjective. If nothing is scientifically or objectively true then EVERYTHING is true and that makes no sense.
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  4325.  @AverageJoe483  I get that and I appreciate it. I'm just pointing out that there will always be new ways to fight tyranny. We just do what we can right now with the tools that we have at our disposal, in this moment. It's all we can do.
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  4326.  @tubthump  But not both. The Nazis hated the Zionists. If the Zionists are bad, wouldn't that make the Nazis good? However, if the Zionists are good, that would imply that the Nazis were bad....wouldn't it?
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  4327. Good for you. We need places like that to show us what sanity is about. Kudos to the Japanese people for their common sense.
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  4328. I checked out some of her movies. The word "nun" never came to mind. A couple of other words did. Not anything that I'd write here, though.
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  4329.  @Golden_God_Untethered  I'm still registered with Facebook because it's a good way to contact friends and family but I only go there maybe once in a week or two. Facebook is noticing it. They're starting to email me, letting me know about stuff that I'm missing. I pay no attention. The emails are becoming more frequent, trying to rouse my attention. Yesterday, I got 2 emails because it's been a week since I was there but only because a very close friend died and I wanted to send condolences to his family. They don't like to be ignored. Maybe they want to know what I'm up to. Afterall, Psaki says that they're working with Facebook to flag misinformation. Kinda hard to keep track of you if you're never there.
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  4330.  @johnpike5836  It's not an admission. It's a statement of fact. Also, it's NOT Rama Lama who's going about minorities being oppressed. It's the woke left. I don't like to talk for Rama Lama, he/she is quite able to, and has, expressed their feelings quite adequately. He doesn't feel oppressed and might even resent the woke mentality of being held as someone who needs the help of whites to be relieved of that oppression. Like it or not, if one is of a minority group, quite often it is easily detected visibly, just as it is easy to detect the oppressive white man. So, listen to and evaluate the message and stop trying to look for some kind of character flaw.
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  4331.  @killergoldfish117  They still operate in groups. Ten thousand police officers don't answer to a single person. I worked in a factory with 1200 employees. I didn't even come close to knowing everyone there but I knew the people who worked in my department and who were directly under me in the organisation. Everyone of them and intimately. I wasn't responsible for the guy that worked in a department on the other side of the factory. I was responsible for a specific amount of people. The size of the institution won't matter. Department sizes are still relatively the same. If I don't know the capabilities and weaknesses of those in my department, that's MY failure, no one else's and definitely not the fault of someone in another department that I don't even know.
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  4332.  @jokerj641  You're not even a Joker. You're just plain stupid. If you seriously thought he was telling you to inject disinfectant, you've got MAJOR comprehension problems. After that ridiculous remark, how could anyone take you seriously. I get not liking Trump but if you're going to criticise him, and appear to have an adult comprehension level, try to use arguments that are real, instead of silly childish nonsense.
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  4333.  @lindajohanson9131  He didn't say that he fired the locals unless they weren't doing their jobs. Also, we don't know if the Haitians are getting lower wages or not. What he DID say is that they show up everyday and they do their job. They're productive. The company makes NOTHING if their worker doesn't show. It's why the company that I worked at payed higher wages. They hoped that they could attract the best in town that way and it worked, somewhat. It also caused a lot of workers to take time off because they now could afford to take it off because they could make enough in 4 days to get by. Do you know how one gets people to listen to you? STOP complaining. People don't take complainers seriously. The only reaction you'll get is a big eye-roll and a "here we go again" response. If you're not known as a complainer and a hard worker, who shows up everyday and on time, they will listen because you DO have something to say. That you're just not whining because that's what you do. I used to hear them complaining everyday. Besides, you don't get respect just because you exist. You earn it by your actions and attitude. I can't speak to what's going on in Iowa but if immigration is a problem, then talk to your political reps. If you don't hear what you want to hear, TELL them that you'll not vote for them next election. They listen to that, every time. I hate the mass immigration, that we're seeing now and it's hurting us in ways that we can't even imagine. But, to whine that the company isn't giving you stuff, you'd better realise that it's as much your own fault as it is theirs. I've worked in factories since the early seventies and the people that I worked with back then, the men and women from my parent's generation, didn't complain like everyone does today. They showed up, didn't shirk and many worked 2 jobs because they saw a chance to get ahead and took it. That's what the Mexicans are doing and they're getting the jobs that the locals complain about.
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  4334.  @PhillipsMr  What a childish response. I suppose it's your way of disagreeing with him. Can't find anything on topic so you try to negate his point by nitpicking. This is a serious problem and you're trivialising it by implying that the most serious problem is his misuse of the word "then". You're quite the problem solver.
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  4335. Reason and logic can lead to you understanding why belief in a God could have been a necessary part of our evolutionary development. Don't dismiss the importance of the belief to human history.
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  4336.  @d6wave  I think that you've missed the entire point that was being made in this video. Missed it by a mile.
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  4337. @ac ca Nice....a judgemental, racist anti-Semite. That's been a source of "good" in human history, hasn't it? SMH.
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  4338.  @lazyriver53  It's tough when you love your father and he's done things that you're not proud of. He was likely a very different person when she was around and she didn't see that side of him. She was acting out of respect for the woman, NOT the SS. She made that quite clear. You have very little empathy for what a little girl had to live through and the legacy that was left her to her by her father. Yet, YOU'RE the one showing hate. Apparently, you find it easy to feel morally superior, yet you're exhibiting the same lack of compassion that the SS used to exhibit. This is from one who, most likely, was lucky enough not to have to live the life this poor kid had to endure.
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  4339.  @jerrygreene1493  Hi there, psychocowboy. You do realise that using different aliases doesn't increase the number of people that dislike JP. You're not fooling anyone.
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  4340.  @jerrygreene1493  Goodbye psychocowboy. I don't talk to broken records.
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  4341.  @phoebebeach1194  Facts will beat the truth....or is it the other way around.
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  4342.  Real Christian.  I'll say it again. As soon as I heard Hillary calling potential voters, the ones from Middle America especially, deplorables, I knew the election was over for her. You do NOT call the people that you want to vote for you names. You don't sell cars that way and you don't get votes that way. It's a losing strategy.
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  4343. It's like getting in a car accident and killing someone while driving under the influence. It was not your intent to get into an accident or kill someone but everyone will agree that you behaved recklessly. That's what happened to Alex Baldwin. We can't know what was on his mind or what his intent was when he pulled that trigger but we do know that he acted in a reckless manner. He has to stand up and take responsibility for that.
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  4344.  @Velheimthemage  She said that it was her last case, suggesting that she didn't care if she was disbarred or not.
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  4345. Most homeless have drug and mental issues. They're not employable. This is only the beginning of Trumps administration. It takes awhile for things to get better but over 4 percent rise in wages last year is more than DOUBLE the inflation rate of last year. That's excellent news. Also, it's not the government's responsibility to ensure that you have a skilled career. That's YOUR responsibility. They should only enact policies that won't hurt the economy and the opportunities for personal growth for the individual. It's up to YOU to take advantage of those opportunities.
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  4346.  Alice J  I was thinking the same thing. A corporation trying to use political ideology to control its target market and behaving the same way that Marxist governments have behaved in the past. Extremely ironic that the Marxists aren't calling out this obvious bid for corporate power.
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  4347.  Bat Eater  I'll add to that to say that they need Trump and his supporters to be evil to justify the hatred and violence that they, themselves, are advancing. They can't face the fact that they might be the evil ones. If we're not evil, then they're doing those things for no reason and that would make them the detestable ones. You've nailed their logic perfectly except they're too self unaware of why they're behaving in this manner.
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  4348.  trumptards must die  That's your answer? I ask you if you'd feel insulted if someone told you that you'd be useless without their help and you respond with...."She's a nutcase that thinks Guam is a country"? What? I'm not defending her. I'm trying to suggest that a mature conversation doesn't come from one who changes the subject, throws insults and then sits back and puffs his chest out in victory. She was making a point. Is that point valid or not? NOT her thoughts on Guam, but the idea that she's talking about IN THIS VIDEO. I swear that if she said 2 + 2 = 4, you'd say she was wrong because she thinks Guam is a country. That's the logic that you're using.
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  4349. Are you working and drawing a salary right now, Daniel?
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  4350.  @Bob5mith  That's was my understanding as well. I'm Canadian but we get American TV here and it looked like a good deal, financially, for the average person. I'm astounded at the complaints that I'm hearing. I blame it on the terrible job that the mainstream American media is doing. Instead of informing the people, they're trying to foment dissent against Trump. They're actually trying to create the news.
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  4351. Some people just hate. They hate and it makes them angry and the anger makes them hate even more.
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  4352. Yes...to higher energy costs, greater grocery bills, increased interest rates, job losses and inflation. We need that to survive. What a strange world you live in.
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  4353. "Life is truly good" If only more people would feel that way after a good day's work.
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  4354.  @sv3931  I didn't. I liked his policies and I support him but I thought that he was too brash, to the point that it made it easy to take down. Biden hid in his basement and he still beat him. DeSantis isn't like that. He's concise, isn't prone to bragging and is a more likeable guy. It was those negative qualities that made it easy for people to think of Trump as a modern Hitler. It would be a lot harder to invoke images of Hitler with DeSantis.
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  4355.  @italia689  I was talking about Sandra Day O'Connor and she's no longer sitting on the Supreme Court. She's no metaphor. She's real and is now 92 years.
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  4356.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  You're awfully obsessed with race, aren't you. You do realise that there's more to a person than just the colour of his skin, don't you? When race is everything to a person, I generally feel as if I'm talking to a racial fanatic. You really do have a one track mind.
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  4357.  @rricci  That's a reasonable assessment....and probably quite accurate.
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  4358.  @T-aka-T  His statement only pointed out the hypocrisy of the western "woke" student. They think that they're oppressed and denounce the system that they believe depresses them on a $600 IPhone. That's what cheapens this interview. That phone is worth more than what an average North Korean makes in almost 2 years. The latte that they're sipping on, while making their denouncement, would feed a North Korean family for almost a week. You're cheapening this interview and the plight of the North Koreans by your inane remark.
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  4359.  madwtube  It's not a scam. It's allowing a last resort attempt to save a life that is in a terminal stage. If there is no hope, but an unapproved drug, why not allow a patient to make his own mind up on whether to try it or not? It's like telling a person, dangling from a precipice, that you can't use the rope in your hand, to save him, because it hasn't been rated for a specific weight. Sometimes a desperate attempt is better, than no attempt at all, to save one from certain death.
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  4360.  @hannannah1uk  "Two legs good, four legs bad"
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  4361.  @mikeandrews1143  Hope is what drives us to try harder, to do the things that are required to make our lives better and to fight during a crisis. A person without hope does nothing because what's the point. It's why we try our best. We do the best we can and have the faith in ourselves that we have the ability to persevere. I couldn't imagine living a life where I didn't hope that our future wouldn't improve. That's a nihilism that is as close to despair as it gets. Despair, basically the opposite of hope. Those who despair, give up. Those with hope, keep trying. They have something to live for.
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  4362.  @fnln1167  Do want the truth? Washington Post "Get a grip. The flu kills more people". Rachel Maddow "What nonsense. That ship won't get there any time soon". Bill De Blasio "Nothing to worry about. Go out, have a good time. Take the subway. Don't forget to go to the Chinese New Year's Parade". Nancy Pelosi "I invite you all to go to the Chinese market". Joe Biden "Trump is just being xenophobic" in reference to the travel restrictions to China. Lots of that stuff going on. Why anyone, let alone YOU, would focus, ONLY on one person is an indication of a strong bias and a denial of facts. Also, one hopes for the best but prepares for the worst. That's how you face reality.
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  4363. If they give it back, Nigeria might put it back on display and women will be able to see and be harmed. They're going to keep it hidden for the good of all women, especially Nigerian women, who are way to sensitive to handle the sight of such an "horrific" artefact. We just gotta let Oxford do what's best for us. They're SO mush smarter, wiser even, than what we are.
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  4364. I have a feeling that this isn't what Kamala Harris had in mind with her anti-lynching bill. She'd probably tie the knot in the scenario you describe.
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  4365. Climate change has always been a problem. For millions of years it's been a driver for catastrophic change. Buddy just mentioned another flood. What do you think that was? A huge flood was a change in climate. You learn and adapt to the changes in the environment. They did it a thousand years ago, when things warmed up and adapted again when it cooled down a couple of hundred years later. World climate has NEVER been consistent and it never will be.
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  4366. henry sixx, jr. Come on, man. This infiltration of the Democratic party wasn't anticipated and he's a victim of the new Democrat mentality. JFK and Jimmy Carter were celebrated for their military service and they were life long Democrats. However, they would never have been allowed to rise very high in the party today, let alone become the president as Democrats. This guy might be a little naive but he's not to be forever the target of whips of Republicans. They should welcome him into their party because his story is important and could help to bring others from the Democrats when they fully understand that they could be next. The Republicans will and should, always, welcome anyone who wants to join. No penance or apologies necessary. All that needed is a willingness to be open minded and to be tolerant of the ideas of others.
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  4367.  @jamesray8771  Number 3 in the leadership hierarchy in that fire department.
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  4368. Whatever you do, don't post that NY Times article on Twitter. You'll get yourself and the Times banned for "misinformation".
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  4369.  @petergallo7997  We care about being stupid about Covid. That's the difference between someone like you and someone like me. You make it a "you guys" issue. I don't care who does it. It's stupid to allow people, sick with Covid, into the country.
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  4370.  republican lies  Lies..lies....LIES!!!!!!! All LIES!!!!! Stupid, dumb LIARS!!!!! And more lies. Crazy liars. Lying liars. Corrupt liars. LIES!!!!!!! Man....that was fun. No wonder you're not afraid to look like a jerk. It's so uplifting to call people names. You don't even have to be smart. Just let the pejoratives fly.
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  4371.  republican lies  God....you're weird. LOL.
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  4372. That's the big issue here, huh. All this is going on in the US and you're shooting the messenger. Good work.
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  4373.  @Traitorman.25th  Ok....you want complex, do you. Then why don't you show me how the new Georgia Voting Bill suppresses votes. Don't repeat what Abrams says or other MSM outlets From the bill itself. I've read the entire thing....all 90 plus pages of it. If I can do it, so can you. I've posed this challenge over 20 times and I've not received one response. Be the first one. To make it easy for you, here's the entire text of that bill. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/01/us/politics/georgia-voting-law.html
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  4374.  @Gonken88  OH.....you're a riot. People love those who pretend to be ridiculous.
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  4375. @ People intensely dislike those who take on mocking tones when speaking to you. That's what trolls do. It's as if you'd mock them to their face but you don't have the courage to do it so you do it in the safety of the internet. You're exposing the real you and it's not pretty.
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  4376. I live in Canada and I had no problem finding it. My buddy was all about how it was voter suppression, so I downloaded it and sent the PDF for him to read and challenged him to find anything there that would warrant the "Jim Crow 2.0" allegation. I've not talked to him since.
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  4377. You can't get it now. The Democrats in the House will vote it down. So Trump is forced to do it next year, if he can. He has to win big in the election and as soon as he's instated in his second term you'll get it. It's the Democrats that are stopping it. In fact, if they win the election next year, be prepared for tax increases.
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  4378.  @deusvult4214  Maybe, but as long as he tries to tell the truth, I've no problem with it. The truth is what counts and why I watch his videos.
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  4379.  Bore off.  We were talking about Joe McCarthy. Was he not obsessed with communists or not? How can you even discuss McCarthyism without mentioning Communism? It seems that you're the one that brainwashed to react to the word "Communist", in an irrational manner, no matter what the context it's being used in. And yes, communism is a threat. There isn't a single Communist country in history that has flourished and the people weren't kept in a state of oppression. There is no Communist success story.
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  4380.  @sethchiaroproductions2171  Asylum seekers......like the mother of that little girl on the cover of Time. Leaves her husband and other kids behind and pays a coyote 6,000 bucks to get her into the US. There are millions of average Americans that can't scrap together that much money. They're not asylum seekers at all. They just live in countries that's rife with corruption and crime. Kind of like the city of Chicago. Should Canada take in "asylum seekers" from Chicago who are trying to escape the crime and corruption of the inner city? No plan, huh. Ever hear about the wall? That "immoral" wall? LOL. The fences that Obama put up weren't immoral but call it a wall.....well you racist jerk. The hypocrisy is astounding.
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  4381.  @KeepItReal33  No drug war in Mexico? Really? Then why all these news stories. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/03/31/mexico-tourist-fears-violence-cancun-los-cabos/471115002/ https://nypost.com/2018/12/15/behind-the-american-tourist-tragedies-in-violence-plagued-mexico/ https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-fast-facts/index.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-cancun-that-tourists-dont-often-see-soaring-murders-amid-a-bloody-drug-war I got a lot more if you want to see them. I was in Playa Del Carmen in January. 36 people were gunned down nearby in a gun battle between rival drug gangs, mostly innocent bystanders. It has been one of the bloodiest wars on the planet over the last 15 years, almost rivalling that of Syria and Iraq. People are leaving those countries because of the corruption and the lack of opportunity......not because there are wars in those countries. They're not war refugees at all and that's why after they're apprehended at the border and told to come to their refugee status hearings on a given date, they don't show up. They know they won't qualify as asylum seekers and they'll have to go home. Once again, just like the mother of that crying little girl featured on the cover of Time magazine with a pasted picture of Trump looking down at her. Her husband had a good business going. She just wanted to get away from him and even had 6000 bucks to spend on a trafficker to get her and her child into the US. Divorce won't qualify you as a war refugee.
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  4382.  @CurtSMesS  We didn't know that back then. All we knew that it was dangerous and that it was mainly spread through sexual contact but it was brand new to us, back then, just as Covid-19 is now. Could an HIV infected patient, go to a store, pick something up after sneezing and pass the virus to the thing he/she had just picked up and pass it to the next person who picked it up. NO ONE knew if that was true or not, in the first few years. There were also the drug addicts. There were health care workers who refused to treat addicts because of their fear of AIDS, at that time. One of the main transmission points were the bathhouses that were prevalent at the time. I know people that caught AIDS through those establishments yet they didn't shut them down. Now they're shutting down burger joints and are proud of it.
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  4383.    I didn't say that they WANTED to regulate you into poverty. I said that this would be the end, unintended result of overt regulation. California is a paradise for the super rich and large corporations but it's killing the middle class. Housing and strict, complicated housing regulations are the main reasons. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/growing-number-of-californians-considering-moving-from-state-survey.html
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  4384.    No.....you explain to me, why anyone should learn a trade, that has been in existence for 1000 years, why he, SUDDENLY, needs to have a high school diploma. It wasn't necessary 50 years ago, but now it is. THAT'S what he was talking about. You're taking away from the guy who wants to learn, because you don't like the guy who's teaching him because you think that he might be a crook. That's a wonderful way to judge a person. Guilty....until proven innocent. If he is a crook, investigate HIM. Don't penalise the guy who wants to learn. That's what this regulation is doing. You've taken away any chance that he might have to learn from a reputable teacher because the rules state that he's not capable of learning. He's not allowed to even try, because he doesn't fit the criteria that they've set, NOT because the teacher might be a crook. Thank you, STATE. I thought you were there to help the average citizen, not put up roadblocks.
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  4385.  @KaisasDad  That may not be resolved, yet. He had the power of the president behind him but ask Nixon. That can only work for so long.
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  4386. NoneOfTheAbove My parents were immigrants. As a matter of fact, I was conceived in the old country and born here. I spoke Dutch till I was around 4 and a mixture of Dutch and English till I went to school. It was a little more difficult for us because we lived on a farm and only had one neighbour who didn't like foreigners. Dad still lives there and has been there 64 years and that same neighbour does, too, except it's the kid that I grew up with and they still don't get along that well. Ironically, that kid was the one that, initially, taught me how to speak English. My mom had only a grade 6 education in Holland and never worked except on the farm and she taught herself to read and write in English. You can throw water in my face all you want. Come to this country and become a part of the fabric of society. Your heritage is a part of who you are and can't be taken from you but when you immigrate, you've accepted that you're carving a new heritage for yourself as well, one that includes the old and that's melded with the new. I've seen what maintaining a position of isolation due to culture and religion can do, firsthand, from other Dutch immigrants, who looked at the local Canadians with disdain. It's not pretty. Fortunately, their children have blended in very well and that attitude has gone. We're still known as the Dutch because it's a small town but we're accepted as a part of the community because we have eventually integrated. That's important. Of all the Dutch people that immigrated to this area, only one was forced to go back, and that was for insurance fraud. Become a part of the greater community. The only reason one would refuse is due to a sense of superiority. It happened in the Dutch community that I grew up in and it was not right what some of those people said and did.
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  4387.  rawtheory333  I'm not American but I'm not knee jerk anti-American, either. I know people who just hear the word "America" and they lose all sense of perspective. You sound like you might be one of those. The guy is talking about the future as if it happened already and then criticising what hasn't happened yet. That childishly illogical. Why aren't you claiming that the Russians were financing ISIS? They were there, too. Don't they have their own industrial war machine? Or is it just the US? I'm seeing selective bias in how you assess international news. People, like you, are so predictable. No nuance or attempt to understand the complete picture. Just your default position on all matters.
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  4388.  @checo8187  If you break the law and you're not a citizen of the United States....GET OUT! What part of that don't you understand?
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  4389.  @creageous  Great comment. So small and meaningless. It's like calling people "racist" no matter what they say. "Racist" and "brainwashing" is the lingo of those who have no real argument to back up what they think.
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  4390.  @elLooto  I read that book over 45 years ago so I can't remember the details that well. I liked the book, I do remember that although I saw her on a talk show, Donahue or something, and I thought she was a little authoritarian. She really didn't like it when people disagreed with her and refuse to talk to them. I was kind of put off by that. It was almost a precursor to the SJW crap. Knowing her politics, I find it rather puzzling. Most people on the right enjoy a good verbal exchange. If she was challenged on something she would just wave her hand and move on. I'd rather read the book than talk to her. I don't care for dismissive attitudes, no matter what the political bent.
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  4391. The operative word being "most". CRT is a far left concept, the name created by a woman named Beverly Crenshaw at a meeting of Marxists. Although they say it isn't being taught in schools, the NEC voted to continue teaching, in the spirit of that ideology, even if it's against the law. Please, do not put your head in the sand. You don't need ALL the teachers indoctrinating your kids. Just a few can do more damage than you can imagine.
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  4392.  @marihutten  It's there to be seen. I seen it. Why didn't they? It's because they don't want to see it. Canadian tourists know to bring ordinary household goods because they're not available in Cuba. Simple things like chocolate bars, toy cars and dolls, makeup will be met with gratitude because all those things aren't in any of the Cuban stores. Every Canadian tourist knows that. They just don't want to admit why it's so or they blame the United States, a ridiculous claim.
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  4393. I'm no fan of the Proud Boys but a terrorist group? Come on, Canada. We're better than that.
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  4394.  @dagnut  Then who the hell are these guys protesting against if there are no sides? Are you saying that they're just a bunch of criminals and gangs? Then we should arrest the whole lot of them....TODAY.
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  4395. @G Bogart Except Larry Elder has one of the "small, petty, weak minds of the delusional right". He's a right wing conservative. If you're using all these denigrating adjectives to describe someone with right wing beliefs, it would follow that you have little use for those of who are leaning to the right. Everything that you've said implies a hatred for the right and all those who espouse right wing beliefs....which would mean Larry Elder. You just can't help but expose your own hateful tendencies.
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  4396.  John Jourdan  Actually, you have no way to know that as I have no way to know that he's being facetious or not. I took it that way, maybe because I'm the kind of guy that isn't spoiling for a fight at every comment that could be interpreted in different ways. Unless you know the guy, you can't really tell me what he was thinking. It's just your interpretation.
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  4397.  @jefftaylor2547  If that's true, I wish you'd gotten the evidence to prove it. We need it to end this. That is, if it's true. You're providing anecdotal evidence here, something to start on but we need to expose the whole thing if we can.
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  4398.  @jefftaylor2547  It's difficult to get the picture of what's going on from my couch but I don't deny the possibility of the organisation of this violence. I can relate something that I am familiar with to use as an example. In Canada, in the sixties, there was a French separatist group known as the FLQ. They were communist sympathisers and wanted Quebec to separate from Canada and form a new socialist nation. What's important here is how they were organised. They formed small cells of 5 to 8 people and they only knew the fellow sympathisers that were in their own group. Only one person, within the group, would be in contact with another group, would be the contact with a third group. It made it extremely difficult, for the Canadian authorities to get any information on them or their objectives. That's how, it would seem, that Antifa is organised. Not quite as secretive, but no formal apparent structure or chain of command. However, I'd say that it was a facade. I'd say that every group has a leader that acts as a liaison to other groups and that the average Antifa member is unaware of this loose association or is out of the loop. That's why, as you say, it's difficult to pin them down. This guy, that you say is getting paid, knows that there's something going on within the organisation but I'm sure he has no idea where the money is coming from or how. He's out of the loop. He has his handler, that pays him but where that handler got the money, he couldn't tell you. It's how these socialists underground groups operate.
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  4399. I remember, when I was a kid, watching Democrat Governor, George Wallace, on a political stage, announcing "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". That was in support of Jim Crow laws. It appears that the Democrats have figured out a way to get the blacks of America to insist on segregation. George Wallace, if he were alive, would be pleased.
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  4400.  @georgemilford5632  With all the "words matter" and "hate speech" rhetoric from the left and "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" you'd think physical contact would send the left into apoplectic fits. Not so. It's seems these things only upset the left when it's done to people they like. Misdirect a young Republican's hand is okay, you know, because she's one of the young "deplorables".
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  4401.  @georgemilford5632  You've changed the entire context and meaning of my comment. It's the left that has been using the terms of "micro-aggression", "hate speech", "uninvited physical contact" , "safe spaces" and how men are always using physical force to intimidate women. They've been crying about these things for years now. Now, when a left wing journalist, uses physical force to prevent a woman from doing her job, it becomes "misdirect", as if that makes it better. Acosta used his strength, as a man and as a prestigious journalist, to block her from taking the microphone, her job. Had that been Trump "misdirecting", you'd never hear the end of it from the left. However, since it was just one of the "deplorables" as many Democrats have called them, it doesn't matter so much. She's obviously a Republican, so a little "misdirecting" is just fine. Acosta was being rude and assertive and using baited questions to which no rational person would have responded to. His question was why did he (Trump) demonise migrants, implying that Trump was racist (an insult) to asking if he were worried about the Mueller investigation, again implying Trump's guilt, hoping that if Trump did respond it would prove his guilt in the whole matter. Trump wasn't having any of it and neither would you have, in his position, unless you're that irrational that you can't see the traps that Acosta was setting. Trump saw them and he wasn't stepping into them.
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  4402.  @jefffinkbonner9551  An amazing individual. I've read his book "Up From Slavery" It should be required reading in every school in America. Washington was black but his beliefs are applicable to anyone and his success, after the Civil War is a testament to that. I'm going to add that the progressive liberal would never allow it. It's the same people that have perverted the meaning and values of the character "Uncle Tom" in the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Any Black American that shows strong values and a solid work ethic must be vilified and suppressed. It's the reason why Thomas Sowell isn't held up as an American hero among the liberal progressives. They don't like to see a black man/woman succeed without their help.
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  4403.  Angelus Dei  Who is justifying the looting, burning and the violence? Republicans or Democrats? There are members of Biden's campaign staff who are donating money to bail rioters out of jail. AOC and Pressley, Democrat congress members are doing the same. Democrats are falling all over each other defending the protesters who are providing cover for those committing the violence. And don't give me this crap about peaceful protesters. If they were peaceful, they'd go home as soon as the violence started to show that they don't approve of it. Instead, they come out, night after night, providing cover for looters, who get lost in the crowd Like Chris Cuomo said. "Who says protests have to be peaceful?". To me, the people that are going out and allowing people like the murderer of David Dorn to walk with them who are the evil ones and the party that won't condemn it are just as evil as they are.
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  4404.  @milohoffman274  That should be easy. After all, the southern border is wide open. All you gotta do is pay off a Mexican cartel.
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  4405.  @douglemay7989  Charm.....that should make for a good governor. I know the best people that I work with ALL have charm. Not much food for anything else but they can charm a toad out it's warts. That's SO important. All I know is that the population is Florida is going up. That doesn't happen when a state is run in a proper manner. They're doing a lot better than California, New York, Oregon, New Jersey.....all of which are losing people. A lot of people are sick of the high prices, taxes, crime, homelessness and the over regulation in those states, especially California. People leave places that they don't like and move to places that they do. That's being demonstrated by the huge influx of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. They're leaving their homes in search of a better life and that's no different than people leaving the states, that I mentioned, and going to states who offer a better future. So, who cares if DeSantis isn't Mr. Personality. It's the job that he's doing that counts.
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  4406. That's funny stuff, right there.
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  4407. "I told Barrack a joke. It was a funny joke. Probably the funniest joke that I've ever made. Maybe the funniest joke ever made by any American president, may even be the best in human history. I don't know. It takes a lot to make Barrack laugh, I know that. It had to be funny because it upset Kamala"
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  4408.  @Frank71  Read the Georgia bill. This is where ALL the controversy is taking place. The baseball All-Star game is leaving Georgia because of this new bill and it's going to another state that has stricter voting laws than the ones that Georgia will use in the next election. Remember again, that they're calling Georgia's new voting laws oppressive.....NOT American voting laws. It has provisions in it that says that if a precinct, a voting region, has more then 1 hour wait times, they are to increase the number of voting booths or machines and increase polling workers. If the voter's list, in that precinct, goes over 2000 voters, voting precincts will be changed to bring that number back down to 2000 voters. There must be 1 voting booth or machine for every 250 voters plus one extra for the remainder. That means that if there are 1100 voters in that precinct, there will be 5 booths.....4 for the 1000 and another for the remaining 100, equaling 5 booths. There will also be 1 mail-in drop box for every precinct. There will be 17 early election days which will include Saturdays and Sundays and anyone can request a mail-in vote and will NOT required to give a reason for that request. Mail in drop boxes are a new thing in Georgia, only used last year because of the pandemic. Now it's coded into law. This cap on voters, per precinct, isn't based on how many actually vote but on how many eligible voters that there are in a precinct. The reason that you have IDs is so if you do share the same name as someone else, your ID number will identify you, NOT the name. That only makes sense. You're confusing the concept of American voting laws with state laws. Georgia is a state and each state decides its own voting procedures. The big reason that there's an outcry against the bill is that there are those that don't want ANY IDs required at ANY time during the voting process. They say it's racist. In Europe, according to you use your national ID card. That's an ID. In some countries, like Belgium, the law says that you MUST vote. Not so in the US and specifically Georgia. They want you to register, so they can determine your status and the precinct size and number of polling stations needed and then when you vote, they want to see that same ID to prove, just like your wife does with her national card, that you're the person that is registered to vote. I've read the bill....all 97 pages of it. The controversy is fabricated and there is no voter suppression intended in Georgia by the initiating this bill. It's pure politics. The controversy is voter ID. You just told me that they need it in Europe. Why is it so bad when Georgia requires you to show ID, then? I don't get it. Is it because "conservatives" are asking for it? That's seems like a very poor reason to me, especially since you seem to think that it's just fine in Europe.
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  4409.  @Frank71  So, the Republicans of Georgia, pass a bill, that requires ID to vote, in an effort to lesson the suspicions in a close race, and you object. You don't even have to get special ID. Your Social Security Card will do and all those who have ever worked have it. You need it to pay income tax and when you file your yearly taxes, you have to give that Social Security Number that is on your card. You have to file income taxes. It's the LAW. If you don't do it, you may face tax evasion charges and you have to have a Social Security Card and number to file your annual income taxes. If you've ever worked....YOU ALREADY HAVE ID. You have the ID that will allow you to vote. All you have to do is make sure that you're registered to vote. You can do that online or go to the local precinct and see if you're on the voter's list. If you don't have a Social Security Number, which means that you've never worked, you can use your driver's licence. Once again, you don't have to do anything. You've got the ID already. If you're on welfare, you had to show ID to get it. Same as food stamps so those people already have the ID. See how I'm narrowing down the numbers of people that are being inconvenienced. If you open a bank account, you need ID. If you want to buy smokes....ID. If you want to buy beer....ID. Buy a gun....ID for the background check. A credit card....ID to prevent identity theft and fraud. Almost everyone already has the ID that they need to vote. The very few that don't have any ID, will get it FREE in Georgia. Yet, the Democrats are still complaining. All you have to do is register. Once registered, unless you move, you can vote. If you're unsure of your voting status, you go online and see if you're registered. Almost everyone has a cell phone so it's easy. if you don't have a cell phone, get a friend to see for you. It's not that hard. You can register at any time. You don't have to wait for an election. Register today, RIGHT NOW, so you can vote in mid terms in November 2022. You've got lots of time Just take the ID, that you used to register, and take it to the polling station, when election day comes. It's NOT rocket science.
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  4410.  @Frank71  Obviously, you haven't read the bill. You're just going on about things that you've heard from the media and the Georgia opposition. It's being interpreted for you. Read the bill. Here it is. I've read the entire thing https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/01/us/politics/georgia-voting-law.html Now, tell me how this is somehow a horrible thing. Use the bill itself, not some media talking point. I've tried to explain it to you, using information that I've gotten from the bill. I don't know what else to do. You're making accusations that have nothing to do with these new election laws in Georgia.
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  4411.  @Frank71  It won't affect your right to vote unless you live in Georgia. If you live somewhere else, it doesn't affect you. The only thing that might affect you is how you allow the media to interpret thing for you. I'd never allow that. I do understand that if you can't read English that well it could be a problem for you. Your writing is quite good and I never guessed that English was a second language. I understand now what you mean by not trusting that I'm telling you the truth. All I can say, in my defence, is that I did link you to the document itself, believing that you would be able to understand what it said. Why would I do that if I were trying to fool you. If I were lying, the last thing that I'd want is for you to see the evidence and be able to judge it for yourself. I made it easier for you to prove me a liar, if I was lying. I might be wrong on the details but I'm being as truthful as possible and the fact that I did lead you to the bill itself might prove that I'm not trying to hide things from you.
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  4412.  @Frank71  There are lots of people on welfare here, too. If you don't have the money, there's Medicaid, a government financed medical system. You can get food stamps, a way to get free food, financed by the government and subsidised housing. The problem is that there are lots of people who don't want to work. I've watched them come and go where I work and there's no reason why they can't hold the job but they're too lazy. I don't begrudge anyone, that's having some problems, some help, but to make a life long career out of collecting welfare, you're playing the ones that work hard, everyday, for suckers. It's theft and that's not humane at all. I'd gladly help anyone but there comes a time that they have to grow up and help themselves. We have too much of it here. I'm originally from the Netherlands and they have the same type of social system there as they do in Scandinavia. However, they work and they work hard. They don't ask for money to sit at home and do nothing. America has always been a country of people that are self reliant and we've become the richest country in the world by following a life of hard work and smart decisions. Now, our young don't want that anymore and it's killing our country.
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  4413.  @eddypdeb  And it's STILL and ID system. You just don't show up and say "I'm here to vote. Give me a ballot". You have a national ID card. I don't have one for your country. I can't show up on election day, in your town and vote. Why? I don't have a national ID card for YOUR country. Do you really want every foreign tourist, in your country, on voting day, to head down to the polls and to vote in YOUR elections? The American registration system might be different but all they're saying is show ID when you vote. They don't want every foreigner, who happens to be in the US, on voting day, to vote in their elections. The Georgia law, the voting laws for THAT state, requires that you show ID when you vote. So does your country. You just said as much. You have a National ID card. I don't. You can vote in your country and I can't. As for the purges, if you move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen, are you still allowed to vote in the country that you came from? I'm saying that you won't be. Maybe I'm wrong but I'll bet that you won't be. Also, the US sends a regional representative to the Congress. If you move from Georgia to Montana, you should vote for the representative from Montana NOT the one in Georgia, thousands of miles away. That's why they purge the voting records in Georgia. They don't want your name in Georgia and in Montana on their voting register. That's also why you need to show ID, so that someone can't show up and pretend to be someone that's on the register who happens to be living in Montana. The election system is completely different in the US because the US is organised differently than YOUR country. Each state has its own election laws because each state sends its own representatives to Congress. In a way it's like the EU, each country has its own representatives that is sent to Brussels. Would you want someone, living in a different country, voting in YOUR election? The US is the same. The people of Texas don't want the people of Michigan voting for their representatives. All the law in Georgia is asking for is to show ID. ID.....just like your national ID. If you lose your ID card, you get another one. If a person in Georgia doesn't have ID, he can get one, from the government of Georgia, FREE. How is that different than your country? I'm NOT getting it.
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  4414.  @denofpigs2575  Then we'd BE the establishment cult. We'd BE the ones going after every dissenting voice, claiming that they're a threat to society when in fact, it'll be a threat to our power. Also, we defend ourselves with violence. We don't initiate it. Everyone of us was glad that Kyle was acquitted, even though he used violence. He used violence to defend himself. That's what we should ALL be doing and we're not and it's because we have a Party, the Democrats, that will not allow our police forces and National Guard protect us and our property. We've been left in limbo and it's difficult for the average citizen to find a solution. Stop voting for anyone that would allow "peaceful" protests to carry on or who even defends them. That's how we'll stop this BS. Make it a national priority to oppose this type of "protest".
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  4415. I read years ago where a journalist, from the US in the USSR was telling a story of 2 Soviet women arguing with one another. Finally, one of the women asked the journalist whether travel papers were necessary in the US. The journalist answered "No". The woman turned to her companion and said "See...I told you Americans could't travel whenever they wanted to" I had to think about it a second before I got the full implications of that story.
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  4416.  @Alan_Wigz  What I think is funny is how YOU, suddenly don't give a f^^k about women's issues and women's sports is an issue about women. Not funny, actually. APPALLING!!!! "Look at me. Look at me. Look how much I care, trans folk". I'm not from the Ukraine, either. Am I a phoney because I suddenly care about Ukrainian's being killed through Russian aggression?? I couldn't care about it 4 years ago because it wasn't happening. I couldn't care about women's sports being ruined by transgenders 4 years ago because it wasn't happening. It's happening NOW. It's a ridiculous comment.
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  4417.  @justinkirschenman2232  As far as we know, you're right about the flu. However, the flu also runs a natural course. Once a strand of flu has been exposed to a certain percentage of the population, the number of new cases go down very quickly. The germ finds it harder and harder to find people that haven't already been exposed to that strain and begins to starve itself out. The one thing we have never done is try to flatten the curve of the flu, mainly because we believe we know the average death rate of the flu. We didn't really know the death rate of Covid until we were well into it.
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  4418.  @justinkirschenman2232  Automation is near the threat that many think it is. 150 years ago, almost everyone worked in agriculture in one capacity or another. When the industrial age started, people were going on about automation then as well. In England, the Luddites were going around protesting and even destroying mills because they believed that they were taking away their jobs and way of life. Automation will change things but they don't have to hurt us, no more than the industrial revolution hurt the people of the 19th Century. The lockdown has become political and it's the Democrats that are doing everything they can to keep us locked down as long as they can. It's the Republicans that are opening up the Red states and Trump has said, over and over, that we have to get back to work. The best way to get back to work is to let your politicians, especially the Democrats, know that you can guarantee that you won't vote for them come election time, if they don't start to ease restrictions. Another is to let everyone you know that the curve has been flattened and explain about the natural progressions of epidemics and avoid the conspiracy theories. Just facts. It's all about appearing sensible. As for vaccinations, you don't have to get one if you don't want to. There will be enough with acquired immunity through having it, natural immunity and those who do get vaccinated, for the herd immunity to have a positive effect. The more that get vaccinated, the better, though.
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  4419.  @justinkirschenman2232  You've proven that it happened, ONCE. Once, way back in early February. You haven't proven that it's an ongoing problem and that every new manufacturer is going through the EXACT same issue. In fact, new testing systems have been developed since then, including the 5 minute, on site tests. They've gone through FDA approval for use as has the other new test kit sources. I once had a car accident. That doesn't prove that I get into a car accident every day. Prove that it happens all the time and that it's still an issue, THEN you'd have a point. It's as if you're saying that once you have a problem, you can NEVER solve it....EVER. What a negative and defeatist way of looking at things. We solve problems all the time. In fact, that's the main challenge of life. Addressing issues and finding solutions for it when discovered.
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  4420.  @justinkirschenman2232  Ok. I give up. We don't make tests anymore. In fact, if you do get sick, don't go to the doctor. How could you trust him? He gets his orders from the CDC. Whatever you do, don't take any test that they want to perform on you. No matter what it is or what it's for. There's no reasoning with paranoid people. All I can say is, never allow any testing done on you. It's poison. If you can't trust them with a Covid test, how can you trust them with any test...anything they say? I'm looking at my smallpox vaccination scar right now, grateful that I escaped that death trap alive.
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  4421.  @bbudimanalqodri  That it's always happened doesn't answer why people have always behaved that way. Why do people want others, people that they don't even know, to die?
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  4422.  @maplebones  You've just shown just how arrogant and stupid you really are. No wonder we're so frustrated. We want an end to mandates and our "leader" babbles on about racism and phobias. He's completely out of touch with reality. Sort of like you. You use a false narrative, the bleach nonsense, to make a mocking argument to smear people that you don't even know or wouldn't talk to. Your comment is no different than the "Let them eat cake" response. Only someone living on a high horse, with his nose up in the air, would respond like you did.
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  4423. It's why tyrants are so prevalent in human history.
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  4424.  Free Thinker  When else is he going to have Biden investigated? He asked the new Ukraine president if he'd look into it and now he's facing impeachment. Any investigation on Trump's part would have netted that same result. A president can't investigate a political rival because he would benefit if that rival was found guilty of a crime. So the only option open to him, as a defence, is to prove that Biden was corrupt and he did the right thing by wanting that investigation. This is so logical, I find it hard to believe that it has to be explained to anyone.
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  4425.  Free Thinker  Because the investigation into Burisma was carried out by the Ukraine government. That was the same prosecutor that Biden wanted fired. It would seem the best way to find out, EXACTLY, what happened here and to see whether Biden made a corrupt move or not, is to ask those DIRECTLY involved. Besides, no matter who Trump asked to investigate into the Biden's alleged corruption, the response would still be that Trump was trying to get dirt on a political rival. The only problem was, in this case, Biden used American taxpayer money, to fire a prosecutor, in another country, who may or may not have been looking into his son, for some kind of wrong doing. That SOUNDS corrupt to me. It should sound corrupt to anyone. If he's innocent.....great. In the end, though, the investigation will always lead back to Ukraine, where the bulk of the information of corruption, or lack of it, lies. That's just plain common sense. I'm sure no one, including you, would never say that it's okay for a politician to be a crook in another country, using American taxpayer money as leverage to get what he wants. It does seem that Biden did just that. If he didn't, then why did he brag about it?
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  4426. No....they don't. However, when the internet becomes a primary means of communication, it allows companies to become monopolies. No one was forced to use oil products either but, when Standard Oil became a monopoly, it became obvious that a monopoly can take control over culture and societal needs. Covid really demonstrated this danger. Close the stores and Amazon grew exponentially and now sit at a point where they can control the market, both politically and culturally. We can't allow any corporation that kind of power. If we do, the democratic process becomes a sham and we're seeing that happen right now.
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  4427.  @spindoctor6385  The last election really exposed the media and big tech for what they are. They've become agents for for the political party that controls the government, not just elected officials but the bureaucracy as well. It's the bureaucrats that need the right party in power and they used the media and especially big tech to their advantage. My dad is 89 years old and living on a fixed income. He's too proud to accept help from his kids. Over the last 10 years, all his friends are gone, except a few that live miles away. Phone costs are prohibitive, to keep in touch, so he joined Facebook, for free, and is now able to talk to his friends, some who live thousands of miles away, for nothing. This is how they control us. They lure us in with great deals and then use their platforms to control information. I've had to show him things, news items, that facebook won't allow him to see and the MSM won't cover. When a monopoly becomes the government, they'll create conditions under which we feel forced to use them. Once they have that in place, they can advance their own agendas for financial gain and power. They go hand in hand. What we'll have, and it's happening quite rapidly, a political system run by corporate autocrats instead of elected representatives. They'll do it through the guise of a free market that's NOT free at all but controlled by a powerful few. It's like religion. We took away the power of religious groups by limiting their influence on government. We have to do the same with the corporations or any other political group.
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  4428.  @ricks.1092  I don't know if there will be a Civil War or not but it's quite possible, maybe even necessary to stop this insidious ideology. This is an offshoot of Marxism and it will end the same way if they succeed in their goals. Struggle sessions, the Gulag, political prisoners, professional snitches, no veering from the facts as they see it, etc. It will be the end of our freedoms and individuality. With all the examples in history, it's astounding that we're even facing this Marxist threat in the west. Apparently, the lesson is that the one thing that we learn from history is that we really don't learn a thing from history.
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  4429.  @paulmitcheson2905  He didn't say to try injecting disinfectant. He asked if there was any research involving disinfectant and he asked 2 doctors. Only an idiot would actually think that he said that we should try it or someone so consumed with TDS that he can't think rationally. The "Mexico will pay for it" was, foremost, a political slogan but he also threatened Mexico with tariffs if they didn't do something about illegals at the border. Those tariffs would have helped to pay for it. So, Mexico started a program of helping to detect illegals on their side of the border. So, in a way, they're helping to pay for border security, freeing money to pay for the wall. Anyone, who actually thought that he was going to get the president of Mexico to write Trump a check to pay for the wall is either delusional or so consumed with TDS that he can't think rationally. You know why there is 10% unemployment? It's because Democrat controlled states have had such Draconian lockdowns that jobless rates were over 20%. Michigan actually reached 31%, at one time. Before Covid, the jobless rates were the best in US history. Can he get 10 million jobs back in the next 4 years? I don't know but I'm glad that he's setting goals for the country. Even if he gets half of that, it would be amazing. I hope he succeeds but, of course, that's not going to be good for the TDS. His failure to reach that goal would stroke that obsession in a satisfying way, though, wouldn't it? While he was hoping that Covid would go away, he'd already stopped travel to China and Europe. He'd formed a task force to fight the disease and even offered to send a team of virology experts to China, which they refused. He talked about it in the State of the Union Address, as well....the one that Pelosi tore up and not one Democrat mentioned that it was in that address. I realised that Trump was an optimist but I also saw that he was doing those things so I thought that it might be a good idea to prepare myself, in case of the worst did happen. When the toilet paper scare did come, I had enough to eat and wipe my butt for at least 3 months. You see, I didn't have TDS and that allowed me to think rationally. In spite of the numbers, the US is not the worst in cases or deaths per capita. In cases per million, the US ranks 9th. In deaths per million, the US ranks 10th. That means that there are 9 countries that if they had the same population as the US, they'd have more than 184,000 deaths. It surely didn't help matters when Democrat states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in nursing homes. Republican states Florida and Texas have 30 million people MORE than New York but NY has over 10 thousand MORE deaths. Those are facts that you probably don't want to hear but I can back this up. TDS has a way of not liking facts. Sort of like the fact that there are Democrats that like to hold to the narrative of "peaceful protests" as buildings are burning. What kind of TDS delusional thinking does one need to have to think that the ordinary voter is going to believe that to be true. I'll bet the voters in Kenosha are all talking about how "peaceful" the "protests" were in their small city. You don't have to like Trump or even vote for him but at least be rational about it.
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  4430. McCarthyism hasn't died. It's like the Hydra, of Greek mythology. It just grew a new head.
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  4431.  MrstromboliHiddenTruths  Okay. I get it. You've been shadow banned. Time to move on.
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  4432.  @Halcon_Sierreno  Guys, like you, will always find an "at least". That's what hatred does to you. You'll always find the negative.
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  4433.  @mamageesgospel451  "Not my fault I'm racist. They hated me first". How old are you, anyway?
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  4434.  @mamageesgospel451  Huh???
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  4435.  Boredpersons55  I stand before an intellectual giant. Thanks for bestowing your great knowledge and wisdom upon the masses. We really do need it. Now.....what about those potential famines?
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  4436.  deadworld953  Yet, here you are, crying about it online.
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  4437.  @NorCalJuggalo420  This isn't what I was taught in school for sex education....or even close. I went to school and so did my kids. This wasn't the case over the last 50 years. Its expanded into drag shows, classroom pride parades and flags everywhere and an obsession that wasn't present even 15 to 20 years ago. Don't hide behind the new obsession with sexualities and disguise it as "education". This is a public school and our education system shouldn't be teaching moralities that may contradict the beliefs of the different cultures, including religious beliefs. That goes against our constitution. You've no right to do that to our kids. Also, not everyone can afford to homeschool. Suddenly the empathy for the poor and oppressed is out the window, isn't it. "You learn about sex the way I want it taught or GET OUT". That's mighty inclusive, isn't it. This isn't about sex at all. It's about control and they're using sex to control the kids at the expense of the young and their relationships with families.
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  4438.  @kalburgy2114  I wasn't too upset about it 50 years ago and, to be honest, I kinda pooh-poohed the idea that this was a gateway to increased sexual obsessions is schools. Man....was I wrong. We had a couple of classes of sex-ed in high school in the sixties but it was so basic and mechanical and, being in a farming community, it was stuff we all knew anyway. It was just applied to humans and, like I said, was rather innocuous. Now it's a cause, with flags, demonstrations, drag shows, class pride parades and even a month dedicated to sexual activities which should remain personal. Children, as young as 5 and 6 years old, are being exposed to the LGBTQ whatever stuff now. I'm sorry to anyone, that I snickered at, who warned us about it ending this way.
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  4439.  @nicoleparent9  You actually like the big tech corporations censoring you? Wow. Most people resent it when they're told to shut up. I guess it's true that masochists do exist.
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  4440.  @petergallo7997  They're against big tech censorship but I suppose as long as big tech censors the stuff you don't want to hear, it's okay. I'll bet that the minute they start censoring the Democrats that you'll start howling like a banshee. When a small group of powerful companies corner the market and collude to censor thought.....that goes against the anti-trust laws. Monopolies are bad for a country. Teddy Roosevelt went after Standard Oil. Of course Standard Oil is in a hated industry so that's ok.
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  4441.  @sockpastarock7082  I didn't say that it was based on new age spirituality. I implied that if a segment of that scientific paper was written by those who based their opinions on that ideology, then I'm starting to doubt what was driving the actual scientists of the report. If I were an actual scientist I'd NEVER put my name on a report that included that kind of "scientific research". There's a matter of integrity involved. Pastor Bob (just another form of spirituality) is not exactly the one that I'd use to prove my proof of a science hypothesis. But...go ahead. Let Pastor "native" be a part of your science paper. Let's see how verifiable that is.
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  4442.  @sockpastarock7082  "Kindly keep your politics out of science." That's exactly my point. Why should I give credence to a scientific report, written by a new age spiritualist. What does a person's ideology or religious beliefs have to do with science? You've made my point for me.
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  4443.  @andyluamarta  I'm 72 years old and I grew up on a farm. I was 7 or 8 years old and going out to pump water out of the well to drink. When I was 11, I used to milk the old Jersey cow so we'd have milk on the table. The damn thing kicked me, stepped on my toes and kept whacking me on the side of my head with its tail as I was milking. I had 4 sisters and 2 brothers and we had no money. A nickel was a big deal. My parents grew up in the Netherlands during the depression and WW2. No electricity, no running water, no food at times. My dad came from a family of 16. He's now 93 and the idea of abortion angers him deeply. He said that life was tough, my grandfather was a gruff old man but that was life and he appreciates all the sacrifices that his parents made to raise him and his siblings. He did the same for us, at times working 3 jobs....at a shoe factory at night, on the farm during the day and as a musician on the weekends. He used to tell me to be grateful that we were Christian folk because it was up to him, he'd make me work on Sundays, too. I know how tough life was. Kids here in North America have it damn easy, today. I think that I had it easy compared to my parents, grandparents and all those before that. We've become a bunch of crybabies, with no gratitude for what our ancestors went through so we could finally have the easy life......but all we do is whine. What a way to spend the only life that we have. I don't feel silly at all. I'm grateful.
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  4444. Another attempt by elitists to "help" the "stupid and helpless" poor people. I would imagine that they love to sit around at the country club and tell each other how they don't tip because it's racist and sexist. From someone who's worked in the service industry for years, I heartily thank them for their caring and empathy but would you please just go f--k yourself. We really don't need champagne liberals telling us what is good for us.
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  4445.  @skylar9284  I watch my weight because when I get too big, I'm not nearly as active. The extra pounds induce a lethargy that I find highly unpleasant. It's sort of my own personal body positivity trigger mechanism. Don't be so lazy and get doing something. Keeping busy is one of the more positive things a person can do.
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  4446.  @aaronvoss38  I read it in high school and it helped me to learn what motivated Hitler to do the things that he did. The "incoherent ramblings" are instrumental in digging into the mind of a tyrant and to see just how angry and paranoid that man actually was. That, to me, WAS a wise use of my time. Learning about people is NEVER a waste of time, even if it's to learn about those who we consider to be evi. It put a stamp, on that ideology, that has led to a life long feeling of dread whenever I hear what some politicians have to say that remind of that Fascist lunatic. I learned that there may be a little bit of Hitler in all of us, in spite of how virtuous we think we are. As a society we will always be dealing with people like Hitler, Stalin and Mao, if we don't realise that they get their power from people who are just like us. If we can't recognise the potential evil in ourselves, we'll never see it in others.
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  4447.  J. Mtz  There not idols of honor. They're reminders of who we are as human beings. That we're all struggling with good and evil. "Let he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" This is what Jesus said about human existence. These are normal human beings.....that's all. People who we remember because their lives can teach us about ourselves. As for the flag, it's a symbol for our honour for our fellow citizens and that we're united in our struggles in life. Why is it that you ideologues all seem to sound the same, whether they be religious zealots or left wing activist. You both sit on your high horse, brandishing your sword, of moral superiority at every evil windmill that's on the horizon.
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  4448. You're not going to agree with anyone 100% of the time. You have to make trade-offs. It's the reality of life. Better Noem than someone who you agree with on abortion but is destroying the state.....like Gavin Newsom in California. He supports abortion but he's a train wreck as a governor.
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  4449.  @Mommybecca9804  You sure can. I'd be honoured.
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  4450.  @overthenonsense4171  That's why I said, business owners have to start opening their businesses and we have to support them by frequenting their establishments. If most of them open up and we give them our business, they can't get us all. We don't have to burn down the very businesses that we're trying to save and destroy the jobs that produce the wealth that our country needs. However, we do have to stand up to them, not as a destructive force, but a united one, that, like Ghandi and Dr. King did what they believed to be the right thing to do. We must do it as a united front. I'm not in a full lockdown but I do go to the local taverns to eat, at least twice a week and would continue to do it if the state ordered the them closed and they refused to listen. If every establishment, each restaurant, bowling alley, tavern and fitness club refused and we supported them, they'd be up against a wall and we don't have to destroy a thing. Ghandi showed us that passive resistance works and we don't have to destroy our country to succeed.
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  4451. I know of lots of small businesses that are producing products and doing quite well. Yes....there are giant corporations and they may even be breaking the law and that has to stop but the capitalist system was well and alive, in the US, until Covid reared its ugly head. That's when the corporations started to put the squeeze on the capitalist system. Our reaction to Covid was a boon to the corporations and a allowed them to squeeze out the small competitor in the name of public safety.
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  4452.  The Truth of the Matter  The dichotomy of Orwell. He's the socialist that revealed the dirty underbelly of socialism. So why not quote him? If it's a statement of fact, it's worth repeating. Orwell is a major influence behind my strong feelings against socialism. He's worth reading if you want to understand that ideology. He's also the one the said that socialist don't love the poor, they hate the rich. Truer words haven't been spoken.
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  4453.  The Truth of the Matter  Do you know what work turned me against Hitler? Mein Kampf. I read that and thought "This guy is a lunatic". Sometimes the words of a crazy man is exactly what's needed to expose the rot inside them. Orwell was a socialist but he spoke the truth and that truth has turned millions away from socialism and brought very few to that ideology.
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  4454.  @RegebroRepairs  But what is she lying about. Screaming "Liar" into the wind says nothing. Show us what isn't true....either that or continue being a troll and say basically say nothing. My 4 year old granddaughter could say what you just said.
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  4455.  @Thebobbyman  Yes, there is. The wall that is being proposed is also bringing with it a road, so border patrol agents can monitor activity more effectively. Way better than having to walk through miles of desert to monitor the borders. It's set up a line, which isn't easy to cross, that any potential illegal can see and understand that this isn't to be breached. If you're on your own side of the wall, you're good. If you're on the other side, you're in violation of a law that forbids illegal entry into another country. EVERY country in the world has these laws. That's why you need a passport to travel. It also makes it easier to set up surveillance equipment, so agents can be used in a more effective way. It's a clear cut guide for aerial surveillance, so they can monitor activity on both sides of the wall and then the roads, built while building this large, comprehensive wall, can transport the trucks and agents quickly to any problem areas. That's only a start. There is definitely a point to the wall. The point is only lost if you're politically motivated and allowing that to cloud your perception.
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  4456.  @alexanderduck8743  What a lot of hockey pucks. Every country in the world has the right to control immigration to their country. I can't go to Mexico without showing my passport and if I don't have it, I'm NOT allowed to go there. The Mexican government and their border security will stop me. Yet, for some unknown reason, the United States is expected to allow people to come in, without passports, IDs, a formal request and unvaccinated. Right now, the US allows in more immigrants from Mexico than any other country.....LEGAL immigrants, to be precise. Are those legal immigrants the "other" as well? The top 10 source countries for LEGAL immigrants, in 2018 are as follows. Mexico - 161,858 Cuba - 76,486 China - 65,214 India - 59,821 Dominican Republic - 57,413 Philippines - 47,238 Vietnam - 33,834 El Salvador - 28,326 Haiti - 21,360 Jamaica - 20,347 Not ONE of those countries are predominantly "white" countries. Remember, these are LEGAL immigrants, immigrants that the American government has WELCOMED into the United States, who will be allowed to work towards becoming American citizens. Your "other" characterization is bogus.
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  4457.  @godiswatching9501  Yeah and our IQ would go down 25 points. We don't want your Democrats. We've enough of our own.
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  4458.  Blake Townsend  They asked Jesus who was worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven and he said "No one". Then he added that with God all things are possible. With that, I'm not going to assume my position in heaven. I'm not worthy of it. Second, I don't have the arrogance to presume to know God's mind so I'm not going to say it's now and that all YOU guys had better smarten. I'd better look to my own soul first. Remember..."First, remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye." Since "no one" is worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven, I will assume you're included in that "no one". Before you go judging me, my friends and family or the citizens of this country and the world, sit in judgement of Blake Townsend. You've got your own soul to contend with and being a product of an evil world, that's plenty enough for anyone.
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  4459.  @godiswatching9501  It sounds great but I like it here. I live in a very picturesque part of eastern Ontario and I'd miss it terribly if I had to leave it. I know there are some beautiful places down there and I'd learn to love it, too.....I think. Maybe you guys could move up here. It's really is a nice place and we have the best hockey arenas in the world.
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  4460.  @godiswatching9501  Great idea. Instead of losing Alaska, maybe we could encourage them to join Mexico. Then the border jumpers can just go there and everyone's happy. California seems to want them anyway.
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  4461.  @bruciekibbutz2947  It's not all of us. In that bar, there were those of us, like I said, that just looked at each other in dismay, at the open hatred displayed. It's not even whether we liked Trump or not. It's the open acceptance that they felt that it was perfectly fine to physically attack someone that would think or believe something that they didn't like. There's lots of us up here that aren't as nuts as that, some that really like Trump. Probably more than you could know because they don't want to get into it with the lunatics.
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  4462.  @bruciekibbutz2947  My job includes not starting a brawl in my bar. If I stood up and told them what I really thought, then it's on.....and I'd get fired and I'd deserve it. Worse, they'd tell everyone how this Trump fan infiltrated their bar. The one thing I've said and said repeatedly is this. Given all the faults that Democrats assign to Trump, you'd think that it would be easy to defeat him. All you have to do is to be better than him. Yet.....they can't seem to do it. To the point, that's why they're going to lose the election this fall. They're NOT better than Trump and their behaviour is showing it. Don't interfere with your enemy when he's making a mistake....and they're making lots of them. Everytime they behave this way, another person starts to rethink their position and begins to meander away from the left. Expose the real intolerance. It's plain as the big nose on my face. It's what happened in the US in the last election. People kept their mouth shut in public and then spoke, LOUDLY, when they were in the election booth, where it counts.
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  4463.  @VaetanThought  Give it a break. I was circumcised when I was 5, due to an extremely painful infection. The operation was nothing and quite a relief. Thanks, though for being horrified and appalled for my "mutilation", though. I sure feel better now. Had the Reimer circumcision gone the way it was intended, you'd NEVER have heard of the Reimer's or this story. The Reimer twins would have lived a normal life just like the other approximate 2.5 billion men around the world who are circumcised today. The horror of this story is how Money used this unfortunate boy to further is own ideas. It's a story of horrific abuse. One thing is certain, my situation should NEVER be used as a comparison to what happened to that little boy and his brother.
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  4464.  @saberhap2639  Who the hell is George and how would YOU know what I've done or not done in my life?
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  4465.  @BlueEyedMomof378  And where, in any of my comments did I say that looking after your own people is fascist? As far as I know, I never said that ONCE. Also, I'm not complaining. I'm relating the truth and a warning for those who can't tell the difference between REAL Fascists and the phony ones that Antifa and the far left are talking about. Every Remembrance Day, I'm Canadian of Dutch immigrants, I go to Cenotaph, and honour the fallen soldiers. i wear the poppy and and lay with all the other wreaths and poppies. I even went to the Netherlands and went to a Memorial service, for Canadian soldiers, who saved the village church and for the Dutch soldiers who died fighting the German Nazis. So QUIT with the assumptions.
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  4466. I don't think that this woman cop looks like a lesbian. She might look like that poor girl's Nana who IS a lesbian but that's different. Actually, I think that cop looks more like a bully than a lesbian. Imagine going after an autistic child, to the point that the child starts beating her own head, yet still believing that you're the good one in this incident. You'd have to one mean spirited person to do that.
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  4467.  @mvpd88  Maybe you're right but I can't see it being better than it is already.
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  4468.  @JackH2478  You're not denying that water can't bend. You're denying that gravity exists. Now, you have to explain why you don't float away from the ground because there has to be a reason why you're not drifting half way to the moon.
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  4469.  @isaacm2374  We abhor the kind of violence that you're talking about. The difference is that there are many, on the left that excuse the BLM and Antifa riots. Some, like Chris Cuomo, actually say that protests don't have to be peaceful. Reporter have actually stood in front of burning buildings and said things were pretty quiet.
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  4470.  @none_yah098  They're Marxists. If you think that supporting Stalin, Mao or the Kim family, is a good thing than you support murdering despots. That's who Antifa supports.
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  4471. Acosta better get his story straight. Soviets were communists. Youngkins is a Republican and I'm POSITIVE that CNN, and the Democrats, have been calling Republicans "fascists". Fascists and communists are bitter enemies. One, the communists, are international socialists and the other, the fascists, are national socialists. A big enough difference to elicit permanent hatred. You'd think that someone as "informed" as Acosta would know this.
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  4472.  @ST-ks2es  " they may not answer "yes" in order to avoid unnecessary or threatening repercussions." Then they're not being honest. Also, I'm not making an argument for or against abortion. That's not my point. My point is that they are supposed to be experts and they are there to answer questions based on their expertise. Yet, they won't answer a basic question so we can explore this issue in a comprehensive manner. They might just as well stayed home if they're not going to answer in a forthright and honest manner.
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  4473.  @windycity258  Continuous riots in Chicago, last summer and more again this year and all you can talk about is a man who isn't even the president any more. That must be the same "git er done" attitude that Lightfoot has. Deflect the problem by living in the past. No wonder the Democrat cities are such a mess.
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  4474.  @amanuelberhe4149  I was born in Canada 70 years ago and spent my entire life here. I watched this country turn from a nation of hard working individuals, who asked for nothing but to be left alone to work towards their goals, to a nation of complainers, thinking that the country owes them everything. You're absolutely correct. It's destroying our country.
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  4475.  @brianchampney7077  However, if they use newer technology to stop the drug flow through entry points, where will they go next? That's simple. They'll use hundreds, thousands of migrants as mules, carrying 20 to 30 pounds apiece across the border where the odds of capture of lower. That would be in areas where there are no walls or only regular fences. These mules will be paid a few hundred bucks apiece and they'll take it because they're poor and desperate. Thousands of migrants have died, over the years, in the desert, trying to get to places where there are little to no barriers to stop them. They have to go that way because they know they have a very little chance of crossing at points of entry. A high and formidable wall would discourage them and potentially save lots of innocent lives. Are their lives not important? Apparently not. More important to thwart that bad man, Trump.
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  4476.  @brianchampney7077  Yes, there are natural barriers that are nearly impossible to cross. Barriers like deep canyons and sheer cliffs. They made better barriers than any wall that we could build. These barriers have always been a major concern to invading armies. It stops them almost dead in their tracks unless they can find an passage through them and that's exactly where defending armies will be waiting for them. But that's not where they are trying to cross. There are large areas of open desert that are secluded enough that migrants can avoid detection. The border there are barely detectable and it's basically a stroll into the US or a jump over a page wire fence of the type that used on a typical farm. However, these deserts are dangerous and people are dying of exposure trying to cross them. These are the areas that need a barrier to discourage these migrants. They need a wall so as to halt the migrants long enough for the border agents to arrive after they've been informed by the drones and the cameras placed on the top of the wall. It's not just the wall....it's all of it working together. What's easier to cross? An open field or an open field with an 18 foot wall in the middle. Only the most obtuse would say it makes no difference. So you truly believe that there are only pot mules? One gram of high end heroin is worth 200 dollars or more. There are 1000 grams to a kilo and anyone can easily carry 5 kilo. That's about 25 pounds. Get out your calculator and you'll see that 100 mules can carry a lot heroin or cocaine. Just because they use trucks now, that may not be the case in the future, especially if they devise newer and better equipment to stop it and the risks become too high. Back packing mules will always be a possibility and it's naive to think that it isn't being used right now. Find better and more effective ways to stop the big shipments and they'll surely revert to the small ways.
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  4477. Read "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Meyer. It's about ordinary Germans during the Hitler years and how they willingly, happily and unknowingly walked right into the horrors that Hitler allowed to be set on them. They never seen it coming or realised what was going on. Sure does remind me of what's happening in Canada, in the entire west that we thought was free, actually. “So this is how liberty dies with thunderous applause”? It might well be true.
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  4478.  @tonysmith-in7km  Everything is "coulda" and "shoulda". De Blasio "coulda" not encouraged people to go out and have a good time and go to the parade, too. The mayor of Florence, Italy "shouldna" told people to hug a Chinese tourist after their country stopped travel to China. It's IN THE PAST. He has stepped it up, now. If De Blasio and Cuomo hadn't been so free with the "have a good time" advice, maybe New York wouldn't be in the position that they're in now. That wasn't Trump telling New Yorkers that.
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  4479.  @lindag4878  I heard Trump say that it was still under control and it was at the time. Very few cases, then. He also said that, it would be like the flu and be gone by spring. It sounded like a hope to me. BUT....he had also started up a task force on Jan 27th to look into the virus. He and the president of Italy were the first to limit travel to China. He offered to send a team from the CDC to China to help but China turned him down. That was ALL before he said the things about the flu. Instead of the constant screaming in my head of "LIAR....LIAR...LIAR.", like you're doing now, I used my head for what it was meant for. I thought "This guy is being optimistic but he's hedging his bets. Maybe I'd better do that, too". When the time came, I was ready to last out a 2 month plague and quarantine. I saw it coming and I took my cue from Trump. If you weren't so infused with hate, you'd have got that same message, but emotions, run amuck, ALWAYS clouds the thinking process.
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  4480. The only way you can topple the US government is if you have fighter jets and nukes....and MAGA hats. MAGA hats is weapons of mass destruction. Democrats have never been so scared as they were when they saw all those MAGA hats on Jan. 6th....AKA Apocalypse Day, USA. Democracy nearly ended on that frightful day.
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  4481.  @batboy555  LOL. I doubt that they'll want that to happen. They're just blurting out threats due to their anger. They made a mistake. It's time to behave like adults and just admit it. I could respect that. Right now all I see is an administration that's no more mature than their 12 year old students. Who could respect that.
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  4482.  Niles Cooper  Perfect way to say it. It shouldn't be profitable.
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  4483.  @francischimenti1374  It's always the same until you become a part of the 10 percent. Then you feel as if it is 100 percent true. Worse, we, yes you and I, owe it to the children of that 10 percent to mitigate the hell that they're going through. Yet, all you can do is worry that this might help the "conservative" agenda. This isn't about politics for those children. It's real life.
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  4484.  @francischimenti1374  So, because you can't have kids, you'll not be bothered with the pure hell a lying parent can bring to their children. Those children are your fellow human beings. The focus of this video and Ms. Hanson are about how a certain phenomenon can impact children. You're the one changing the focus through your lack of empathy and disguising it in a cloak of a world crusader. You're going to fix it by sacrificing the most vulnerable because you believe that your cause is bigger than their immediate concerns. The air of self importance is truly astonishing and quite insidious. How incredibly narcissistic to believe that you know what's best for ALL of humanity. You won't even discuss what's best for a vulnerable child. Not my idea of a Messianic figure, at all.
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  4485.  @francischimenti1374  Thinking of the children in a divorce is what the entire video is about. It isn't about saving the world or how it might affect conservatives or how it affects your inability to have children. In fact, it is you that's changed the entire perspective of the video and you've even admitted that you've changed the focus. People were outraged that Hanson was concerned that there are women that will sometimes lie to keep children from seeing their fathers. Instead of commenting on whether this might be true or not, you go after Hanson, insinuating that this concern can't be true because of your opinion of this woman. Then you defend yourself because your bigger focus is the "whole of humanity". You're discussed everything but the topic at hand and then you mock the idea that this is even worth considering. ""Oh somebody PLEEEEASE think of the CHILDREN!" Dismissing, what is a terrible time for children and mocking how it might affect them, is as heartless as it gets. I've already raised my kids and worked very hard to place them as the ultimate priority as they were growing up. I now have 3 grandchildren that I'd do anything for them and yes, they're well being supersedes all. You don't even have to be a good parent to know this. It should be a given.
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  4486.  @RickyJr46  Beautifully said. Thank you.
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  4487. I agree but it's the start that we need. It's been swept under the rug for long enough. Open Pandora's Box and all the evils will pour out. It could lead to a snowball effect because all their corruption is tied together.
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  4488. @Peter Landriault My brother went to Germany and tested positive, while there, even though he felt no symptoms. He was forced to overstay his visit for 12 days before he was allowed to come home.
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  4489.  @jodi2462  A lot of it is just deals made between the prosecutor and the defendant's lawyer. Quite often the defendant doesn't even know what they've discussed. His lawyer just comes out and tells him what was decided. So much is just a big game.
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  4490.  @mosipd  I think it runs deeper than that. The educational system has been largely taken over by cultural Marxists and post modernists. For them, having a Constitution is a roadblock to taking power. The Constitution provides for free speech. They don't like free speech. It allows for a free and open press. They don't like a free press. They want to control the narratives and it shows with a media that is also taken over by those same cultural Marxists and post modernists. They now have this control over the media and the educational system and they're making a play to take over the Democrat party. If they are successful and win an election, you'll see the Constitution torn to shreds. They don't want the students to understand how important the Constitution actually is.
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  4491.  @jayv5093  When he called for help numerous times and no one would answer him? When he took it upon himself to get those members of Congress out safely? When there was violence all around him and he did something that might protect his safety or maybe his life? For this he should be punished for the rest of his life? I wonder what you would do if the mob was after you?
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  4492.  @jayv5093  He BEGGED for instructions and no one answered him. He was in charge of the officers, around the Capitol building, that day and when he called out for new instructions because of what was happening, NO ONE answered. So he took it onto himself to bring the members of Congress to safety. Wait for instructions? From who? The person who refused to answer him? Those officers were abandoned. Everyone knew that there were going to be protests and knew it for weeks in advance. Yet, when it turned ugly, there was no plan to help those officers out. THEN, the politicians made a big deal, later and lied about how Officer Sicknick died. They USED those officers as political pawns. Sicknick died of a stroke and heart failure, long after the riot and Biden even claimed, much later that he was killed by protesters. THAT'S A LIE. This is NOT about Tucker Carlson. This is about why those in power didn't take the precautions that should have been taken. That should bother EVERY American but for some reason, you'd be quite comfortable with being abandoned, like these officers were, had YOU been a security officer that day.
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  4493.  @funnyhandle  Going to university is a personal choice. You don't have to go to the most expensive college in the country. You make the choice and I have to pay for it. I went to a community college and it worked out just fine. They're buying votes. I don't own a car. I grow my own food and buy in bulk for the stuff that I can't grow. Maybe if the people, at the bottom, wouldn't be walking around with $1000 phones, paying over a hundred bucks a month for home entertainment, they'd have some money.
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  4494.  @arenam79  When you see crime statistics, you're seeing felonies NOT misdemeanours. That means that shoplifting, under a set number, is not a felony and therefore not a crime. When police are understaffed, they have to pick and choose what crimes to investigate and misdemeanours just aren't as important as felonies. Eventually, businesses just don't bother reporting crimes because they know that the police won't show up and if they do, the perp will be set free. The higher that set number, the lower the crime stats for obvious reasons. The crime may have happened but if they're not reporting it or it doesn't meet the standards of a felony, then it's not reported as a crime and politicians can brag that crime is down. That's the logic of it. Both store staff and police officers have been saying the same thing. No point in reporting the crime because nothing gets done or, from the police standpoint, no point in arresting someone because they just get released. Why risk their safety, their livelihood and their savings when the powers over them do nothing to protect them or the citizens? That's the logic that you're refusing to see.
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  4495.  @magsj6474  Some of the truckers went to the homeless shelter and asked to be fed. When the organisers heard about it, they sent a truckload of food to the shelter. Organisers announced this during a press conference which can be seen on CPAC. Let's try to get ALL the facts before commenting...ok.
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  4496.  @fwscfemalewhiteseniorcitiz3711  You can file a civil suit about anything. It's just a way to vilify someone who disagrees with you. It's the same as the state of emergency. What's happening that's endangering people? How many people have been assaulted? How many buildings have been set on fire or stores looted? Has the power gone out for residents. Is there no food? What EXACTLY is the emergency? The City of Ottawa and the Feds are creating the emergency by their response. It has nothing to do with what's actually happening. Also, there is a group coordinating the entire thing. They're been giving press conferences and giving people advice who might have any special requests. They'd also be the ones who would represent the truckers if the Feds wanted to sit and talk, which they have expressly refused to do. Trudeau has stated that he refuses to talk to racists, one of the words he uses to vilify people.
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  4497. LOL.....it's an antique. Who knew that it would still have practical value in the 21st century.
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  4498.  @KarenMacDonald-o7g  That old black lady couldn't have been a slave. Slavery ended in Jamaica in 1834. She could have been a nanny or housekeeper, an employee of the family but not a slave.
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  4499.  @skippersthepenguin3591  Why would anyone invest in an economy that was bad? That's crazy. They invest in the economy for growth so they'll have the capital for that growth. Growth means planning, building, innovation, production, sales and increased value. That's means work....jobs and opportunity. Stocks don't just grow for no reason. It's grows because people are working to build items of value. It's no accident that the stock crash brought about the worst economic period of the 20th Century. It meant no investment which translated into no work and no opportunity. It's part of the system of economics, not a separate entity.
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  4500.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  Some of the poorest people, in the US, are women who are raising kids alone. They have a difficult time finding meaningful work because of the constraints of child rearing and end up living on welfare, government handouts that don't pay well at all. Those who wait until marriage, or have a committed relationship, to have children, are those who take their responsibilities seriously. That includes a sexual life that isn't haphazard or off the cuff. Children, who grow up without a father, are more likely to not finish high school, go on welfare, become addicts and end up in prison....BY FAR. The best gift that you can give your children is to provide them with a stable and dependable home life which increases both financially and emotionally, in a 2 parent home. So, spare me your condescending attitude. The statistics support my contention. Also, the idea that everyone will be making 10 bucks an hour is nonsense. 1 in 17 people, in the US, is a millionaire, right now. I can't give you the numbers of Americans that have a net worth between 100,000 and 1 million but there's a lot of them. So spare me the intellectual angst and fears of a futuristic dystopia that doesn't exist and that you're creating in your mind. Get off your butt, get a job and then use the finances that you've made to your best advantage to create a future and stop your crying. Crybabies aren't doers and they accomplish very little.
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  4501.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  You don't get wealth from this great big pile that sits out there in some mythical money pile. Its not as if there's a limit to it, a set pile of cash and we're all fighting for our slice of it. Wealth is created. Over the last 25 years, more people have risen out of abject poverty than at any time in history. It's because they all went to work and were allowed to take part in a market economy, instead of the command economy that socialism is calling for. You have no idea how economics and the market works. All you see is rich people and you're envious. There's a reason why the admonition against coveting is one of the Ten Commandments. It is one of the most destructive forces in humanity. You don't go after what others have. You work to improve your own life and you do it through interactions with others in a fair and honest manner which includes the market. You do that every time you buy something or put money away to invest it. That's why you buy, sell and save wisely. That's how you create wealth for yourself. It's not trickle down. It's work your way up. Those who don't get that will always be poor.
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  4502. It definitely wasn't meant to be well intended. It's a tool for revolution. However, they couch it so as to appeal to the well intended. Who doesn't want to end racism? How could any sane person be against that? Once they have them, they slowly work in their real ideas until their targets are in too deep and they don't even realise how they got there. It's how Hitler won over the German people. CRT was named as an idea in 1989. It took almost 30 years for it to get onto the view of the average American. It's slow and insidious and it sucks you in before you know what's happening.
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  4503.  @joeclaridy  Excellent explanation bringing the history of this metaphor into clarity, Joe. Right now, we must destroy democracy in order to save it. That's the Democrat platform. It's funny how the Roman Republic was never re-installed AFTER Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Is that what's going to happen when the Democrats "save" democracy?
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  4504.  @Swampcheeks  Which is exactly what happened. Caesar crossed the Rubicon to end the Republic and it was the end of the Republic. Once you do something like that, you can't undo it. There will always be another existential threat that must be dealt with.
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  4505.  @frankmanning3815  That will come in handy when they clone woolly mammoths. Don't be putting it off until it's too late. Regret is a poor teacher.
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  4506.  @bbb1007  Russia....Russia....Russia, Russia.....RUSSIA!!!!!! We have a bot in the comment section.
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  4507.  @1940limited  Democracy is only as good as the Constitution that regulates it. The US declared independence on the idea that those, who are taxed, should have representation. That representation comes through our right to vote....the democratic process. If we can't vote, we're not a democracy OR a Constitutional Republic. We've lost our say. We'd become a dictatorship. However, you are correct. We're Constitutional Republic first and foremost. The democracy is a part of that Republic. We can't be free unless we do respect the Democratic process as described in our Constitution. We'd be a car without an engine. We can't be a Republic without our right to have our say in how we run the issues we face everyday. We have to protect our right to vote as well as the sanctity of the Constitution.
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  4508.  @bellumxyz1421  Such a small, myopic and arrogant view of human history. Religion has been a part of human society for tens of thousands of years, in every corner of the planet, in every race and nationality throughout all of our known history. Then you come along and proclaim that this phenomenon is pure brainwashing. You then throw in a little of your own personal bigotry, just to round things off. Has it ever occurred to you that religion is a natural evolutionary process? If it is consistently in every human society, it may have been essential to human survival.....but I guess it's easier to set yourself above others, peddle your own ego trip and thereby dismiss others than it is to look deeper into the psychology of the human spirit. Before you go all weird on me.....I'm not religious so don't bother using bigoted comments in an attempt to smear me. It's ultimately illogical, anyway.
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  4509. CNN with ethics? Not in this lifetime.
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  4510. Isn't it strange, that if I, living as a straight man all my life, announced today that I'm no longer going to live the straight life and I'm converting to a gay lifestyle from this moment on, no problem. However, if I was gay and that as of now I will no longer live a gay lifestyle and undergoing conversion to the straight life, I could be arrested, fined and even jailed. It seems like a double standard doesn't it.
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  4511. Yes, it is hard to give them the slip but going to the hospital does muddy up the procedure. Giving them the slip isn't just about sneaking out of the hospital. It includes the entire procedure that some slick lawyer could use to your advantage. One little technicality that's gone awry and the more steps taken, the more chances for that technicality that works in your favour. It's increasing the odds in your favour.
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  4512.  @TheNikki295  Where did she lie in this video? Help me out. I must have missed it.
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  4513.  @aloneinthedark99  My brother got his 2nd shot and 6 weeks later went to Germany, on business, for 2 weeks. He wanted to visit relatives in the Netherlands for the last 3 days but a Covid test, at the border, showed that he had Covid. Now he was stuck in Germany for 2 weeks. Fortunately, he still paid for Covid insurance even though my dad said that he was dumb to do that as he was freshly vaccinated. The reality is sure different than what we were told.
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  4514. Her REAL name is Nimarata Nikki Haley. She's been called Nikki all her life. So, if you call her "Nikki" you are calling her by her real name. My REAL name is Jacob but I've been called Jack for 70 years. In fact, it sounds strange when someone calls me Jacob. I'm Jack on social media. I don't feel that I'm misrepresenting who I am. People around town wouldn't know who you're talking about if you called me Jacob. Having said that, there are a lot of reasons her idea is a bad idea and I don't agree with her. I wouldn't even vote for her but your comment really doesn't apply. She's Nikki Haley. Everyone knows her that way. When you see that name, you KNOW who she's referring to. She's talking about people who are trying to disguise who they are. Most people would have no idea who Nimarata Haley even is. That name is more of a disguise than Nikki Haley.
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  4515. It wasn't even set during the slave era. It was set in the times after the Civil War and Reconstruction. So it wasn't even about slavery. Uncle Remus was a free man as were all black Americans of the time. The movie has always reminded me of "Miracle on 34th Street". Both evolved around kindly elderly men who embodied the traditions of folk lore and parents who felt that those traditions were no more than harmful fantasies. One movie is controversial because the kindly old guy has black skin and the other is a classic because the kindly old guy is white. Had Uncle Remus been white.....no problem. I'm not going to call those with that mindset "racist" but to see Uncle Remus as something other than a nice old guy is rather weird and could well be driven by some bizarre perspective on race. I don't get it at all.
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  4516. If they can go after her, they can come after you. That's the issue here. It has nothing to do with her literary abilities. A bad mailman is still allowed to voice an opinion, just like a bad writer.
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  4517.  @traciewalkertalktv665  When everything is racist, and racism is applied to everyone you don't like, it becomes a useless appellation. Racism is hate. It's abhorrent, no matter who the object of your hate is. There's no such thing as a nicer kinder hate. It's ALL an abomination and it doesn't matter if it's directed at someone from another race, gender, religion or political ideology. Those who are obsessed with race based hate are just looking to absolve themselves of their own brand of hatred. It's hypocritical.
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  4518.  @blazekush7  That may be but EIGHT WEEKS OF VIOLENCE!!!! EVERY EFFING NIGHT?? This is the topic on hand. How long do you want this to last? This is nuts. Somebody has to put an end to it. The mayor doesn't want to. Neither does the governor. And then they get mad when the Feds finally try to stop it. It's as if they LIKE the non-stop destruction and intimidation of the mob. Both sides......who cares about that right now. Stop the madness in the streets. PERIOD.
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  4519.  @magicskyfairy69  I'd be willing to bet that a lot of Colbert's subs, also sub for Fallon or CNN. You can't total them up and say that this must be the total of Biden supporters. It isn't as if we're all allowed one sub apiece.
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  4520.  @antitheistvegan  But we were discussing the people that equate having pets to having children. You gave a very snide response to the person that thought that this was an unacceptable comparison and I called you out on it. I didn't like the snide remark and told you why I agreed with his comment.
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  4521.  @antitheistvegan  I grew up on a farm and we made sure that all the animals were fed and properly cared for before we sat down to eat or went to bed. My parents insisted on it.. However, there's was no doubt that they kids came first. ALWAYS. If the dog starting biting the kids, that dog would be disposed of, immediately no matter how beloved it was. The kids come first. So to say that your pets ARE your kids, denies that kids should be the priority. That you'd even take issue with that statement is astounding.
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  4522.  @nugget7865  The lives of EVERY individual matters. If someone is murdered, skin colour is irrelevant. The life of that individual and the circumstance of THAT specific incident is what counts. Nothing else. You don't link another murder to that one based solely on skin colour. You find the specific killer, establish a motive and from there decide on the degree of guilt. None of it should involve the colour of either the perp or the victim, unless skin colour is the motive. That can only be determined on the individual case, not a blanket "black lives matter". Justice insists that all lives matter, all the time.
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  4523.  @steffansmith3601  I've worked as a bartender for years. I've had to tell people that they've had enough and they've lost it. I've had beer bottles, ash trays, chairs and glasses thrown at me. I've been sucker punched, had my eye gouged, been spit on and pushed. People have threatened to shoot me, blow me up, have their friends beat me up and have ME charged. Why? Because I've told them that they've had enough and it's time to go home. Do you really think that people like this are going to behave like adults when approached by a police officer? You have a "blue" bigotry where the citizen is always in the right and the cop is wrong. I wouldn't want that job for nothing. Not only do they have to deal with the worst of society, they have to listen to people like you who, in a knee jerk response, malign them continuously. Just pure hate. There are cops who are jerks. There are cops that are great guys. Judge each one as individuals because no matter what, cops, some kind of security, is here to stay. Either learn to live with them or spend your life bitching about it.
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  4524.  @steffansmith3601  Apparently, you didn't read that part about some cops being jerks, did you? In fact, you never addressed the part about the unwarranted violence some people exhibit for no reason. Also, you have no solution to how to handle these people. Just a lot of bitching and whining. Only the negative. There will always be some kind of police force. If someone shoots you, and people do shoot people for no apparent reason, would you just want that person to just run free? Someone has to risk their life to get them. The same for some drunk smashing into your car and putting you in a wheelchair. Just let him go? You're in a dream world.
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  4525.  @fazlsprig9292  I'm Canadian and I understood exactly what he meant. He wasn't talking about Canada when he said America. Every rational person understands that. Only those, who are being intentionally obtuse, would say something as pointless as you just did.
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  4526. I sometimes think that Canadians are scared to vote for a free thinker. I've never been so frustrated as I have been talking about the trucker convoy. "I don't need to see a live feed. I know what I see". It's infuriating. It's their answer to everything. They see it on TV news and it has to be true. But, I'll keep plugging away.
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  4527.  @timothylopez8572  Since when can't you say the word "God" in schools. I can say it as a matter of fact "Nietzsche once said that God was dead". Is that not allowed to be said anymore. Separation of church and state means that the state cannot favour any religion over another or set conditions based on religious affiliations. The state cannot proselytise on religious matters. That's a lot different than a reference to God. Belief in a God still exists and you can't pretend it away. That belief is a HUGE part of our history and history can't be taught without an acknowledgement of this historical fact without going into panic mode about separation of church and state.
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  4528.  @timothylopez8572  What about native religious beliefs? You're not implying that the separation of church and state should be taken literally, are you? It also applies to mosque and state, temple and state, oak grove and state and Manitou and state. The Constitution does not allow for favouritism towards or discrimination against any religious body or group by the state. The same rules apply to all religions.
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  4529.  @1Mhoram9  Yes.....it's not great theatre. So don't watch it. Not every book in the library is the great American novel, either. However, to call it fascist is absolutely nuts. You just made the perfect "so what?" comment.
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  4530.  @MaggiesNight  Biden had NOTHING to do with the vaccination program. It was Trump that initiated Operation Warpspeed and said that they should have a vaccine before Christmas. The Democrats laughed and said that it was impossible. The first vaccine was administered on Dec. 14th, and Trump was STILL the president. The day that Biden was inaugurated, there were 1.2 million Covid vaccinations done THAT day. You've got to be pretty indoctrinated to think that Biden was responsible for that. You don't have to support Trump but at least be honest. Don't just make up stuff. It's not a good look.
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  4531. We shouldn't just abhor racism. We should abhor active hate against anyone. Even though it's difficult, I try not to hate my ex-wife even though I could make a good case for doing so. Hate doesn't just hurt the person(s) being hated, it sucks the joy out of your own life. The "racist" talk is just a way to divide us into our little groups and it's destroying us in ways that could be disastrous. A way that can only result in tyranny. We can't outlaw hate but we sure can cultivate a mindset which tries its best to mitigate those negative feelings against a fellow human being. "Love thy neighbour" is a good idea, not just for Christians, but for all of us. Love, without superficial qualifications like skin colour, religion or politics, is what heals us. Hatred is what destroys us. All the wars of history bear that out.
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  4532.  @MegaBanne  "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". So you gets to decide what my needs are? I'll bet it's not me. I'm thinking the this decision is made for me. It's the same as the "from each" rhetoric. What does that mean? If my ability outstrips yours, do I have to use my ability to upgrade your "happiness" What if my ability isn't actual ability but just a willingness to work harder and longer hours. Do you sit and watch me go and then tell the democratic state that I'm doing too well and it has to be evened out? Why would those with ability work longer hours and harder when it has no personal benefit to them. It only benefits those who are lazy. A strong work ethic is a great leveler and can make up for a lot of unrealised potential or ability. Socialism robs from those who have a strong work ethic and who use that ethic to maximise their abilities no matter how low or high those abilities are. It takes the rewards of those abilities from those who are productive and gives it to those who refuse to use their talents at all or just to the minimum. It's why socialism will always be doomed to failure. Socialism can't HELP but being authoritarian. The same with democracy. A Democracy, without a governing set of rights, that are afforded to every citizen.....like the American Constitution, will inevitably lead to an authoritarian regime. It would be 2 wolves and a sheep voting over what's for supper. Socialism always robs us of our freedom. There's no point in designing a better mousetrap because that design doesn't belong to me. It belongs to all who feel that they have the need. It's intellectual theft. If socialism is a "value system", as you have said, that makes it no different than a religion. It's a religion that we must ALL take part in or we become the enemies of the state. My values must be EXACTLY the same as your values and everyone else's. We must all believe the same or socialism.....AGAIN....must fail. You see, a socialist can live and thrive in a capitalist society but a capitalist can NOT be allowed to function in a socialist system. Socialist millionaire Bernie Sanders is proof of that. Socialism has destroyed every nation that it has touched and it will destroy America if given the chance. It's heading down that road, right now.
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  4533.  @MegaBanne  I didn't say that you don't value hard work. I'm saying that the system, that you're recommending, encourages those who do NOT value hard work, to do what they really want to do and that's is nothing. They want the hard work that I do and maybe even you, to benefit them. It encourages envy and resentment and discourages those who would normally want to be the best and see some reward for their efforts but all they get is a pat on the head and thanks for what can be taken from them. Also, Karl Marx didn't invent socialism, only his own brand of that ideology. There's been different iterations of it and EVERY one of them has failed. Why? Because it looks for the failures, the victims of the systems and then uses more and more of the over all resources to fill the needs of those who either can't or refuse to fill their own needs. My neighbour was born with enormous physical difficulties. Yet he never let that keep him down. I know who can do a lot more work than what he can in a day the do SQUAT, yet my neighbour worked everyday at a supermarket doing odd jobs that needed to be done. One arm was shorter than the other, his hand was all twisted and nearly useless except as a stabilizer. He had a severe limp that he was born with and his parents were told, when he was born, that he'd be better off in a home, that he'd never be able to look after himself. Yet, I'd see him when I went shopping struggling with the shopping carts, never complaining, or trying to sweep up the mess on aisle 3 even though it was really difficult to hold a broom. Yet, this guy REFUSED handouts. He had children, bought a home and refused to allow himself to be treated as a victim. To me, he's one of the toughest guys that I've ever known. Yet, there are fully grown men, who couldn't hold down a job to save their lives. They're always looking for ways to beat the system and there are more and more of them everyday because the system tells them that they can't get ahead because of bigotry, or unfairness or high prices or something. They rob from all of us who value hard work, even from handicapped men, like my neighbour who has a REAL work ethic, to placate their own lack of motivation or ambition. This is why socialism doesn't work. It rewards those with little to no integrity. It robs from those who do and gives to those who don't. It's a recipe for failure and will only result in more and more people giving up and trying to find the same loopholes so they can do little or nothing as well. It's a race to the bottom.
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  4534.  @alirohani2687  Maybe you should read the response to your "redundancy" that I gave in the Richard Gipson thread. I'm not about to copy and paste it all over this comment section.
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  4535.  @alirohani2687  And now I have even MORE information that I've just heard. Kyle worked in Kenosha and was asked by his employer to help protect the business. He didn't carry that gun across state lines at all. It was provided. He also had a medical kit to help ANYONE that needed it. So he wasn't a vigilante or looking for trouble. He was helping his employer and he may even have been paid to be at this business although I can't confirm this. Also, he turned himself in, immediately, telling the officers exactly what happened. He's not NEAR the bad guy that you'd like for him to be.
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  4536.  @mstirlz  Well....they don't have much, then. I'll try not to be TOO harsh but I'm not sure on how to say it nicely, either.
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  4537.  @gamera3d324  After you do your taxes, do you take the tax returns down to the local pub, church or to all your friends, neighbours, work associates and family and show them what you did? If I asked you, would you send a copy to me? I'm betting that you wouldn't. Your tax returns are private. If your accountant posted your returns in the local papers and on the internet, you'd sue him and he'd lose his licence as an accountant. Why? BECAUSE IT'S PRIVATE!!!!!! That's the law. Why does a sitting President lose his rights? Is he no longer a citizen? Over 30 years ago, he was losing money and he didn't have to pay taxes. Since then, he's been doing a lot better and guess what? He has been paying taxes. A lot of taxes. His employees have been taxes as well. You see, there's a reason that you're allowed to write business losses off. Businesses go through ups and downs over their existence. The government allows you those exemptions to allow you to recover from the downturn in a business and they do happen to every business. It's not illegal. It's not unethical. It's an agreement between the government and a business, a set of rules that, not only help the rich, but also the small privately owned business. The roofing company, the small bake shop, a machine shop, a shoe company, everyone benefits from those tax breaks. Why? Because, in the end, allowing downturns to happen you're giving the owner a chance to recover and that benefits everyone......including you. Almost every business suffers loses, especially starting out. If you didn't give those tax breaks, who, in their right mind, would even start a business? That would cripple the economy and we'd all languish in abject poverty. If Trump had never paid taxes in his entire life and he's worth billions, you'd have a point. However, during those times, he wasn't worth billions. In fact he was billions in dept. His assets, when counted, were less than zero dollars. Now, he is worth billions. His assets are in the multi-billions and he's paying taxes. That's how it works. It works for Trump and it works for you as well.
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  4538.  @FederalMenace  He does get it. If a bully takes my money, I'm being robbed. If I grab him by the neck and we struggle over that money, then we're in a fight. I decided to fight for right to keep my own money. If I decided to let him keep it and walk away, there is no fight. That's the same thing with a war. The Democrats are trying to take away our right to freedom of speech. We can take it and let them do it and there will be no war. We can decide that we WON'T take it and fight back and war will ensue. It's our decision on whether we are willing to engage in that war or not just like it was my decision to fight that thief for my money. It's still our decision to go to war or not. I'd say fighting for our freedoms is worth it. It's a decision that might lead to war and, in the end, if they fight back, we're both agreeing to go to war.
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  4539. So, increasing your skill level doesn't help? Forget school....get a plastic surgeon? Ok....kids. Don't be listening to this guy.
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  4540.  @NoWayButYHWH  It isn't money that convinces people to believe this nonsense. It would go nowhere if people weren't convinced that it was true. It's the easiest thing in the world to think everything is motivated by money but it's not. Those people, who pay for the propaganda, would be nothing if there wasn't a human propensity to follow cultist beliefs. Those people in Jonestown didn't die because of some need for money. They were following an ideology that they believed would lead to a better life. So many of human suffering is because of this need people have for hope. That's the real problem. How do you convince people to be realistic about their beliefs?
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  4541.  @LetsReinharder  " Who said I advocated for giving up?" YOU did. "If you still believe that America is worth saving, you yourself are equally lost." You're telling me that the Titanic is sinking and it's time to abandon ship and stop rearranging deck chairs. Do you know who else thinks that the US is lost? Antifa, BLM, the "intellectuals" in our universities.....that's who. They want to burn the entire nation down and build their Utopia from our ashes. The answer is simple. STOP VOTING FOR THE SAME LAMEBRAINS THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS VOTED FOR!!! That includes both Democrats and Republicans. If they don't ascribe to the things that made the country great, tell them you're not voting for them and the DON'T VOTE FOR THEM. In my lifetime, I've watched the US go from a strong nation, that fought for equal rights for its citizens to a nation, that allowed Marxist ideologues take over our schools and media....basically our entire culture, even our churches. It's time to take BACK that culture. If they can do it....so can we. We can beat them at their own game and we can do it through determination, hard work and strong moral courage. Strong moral beliefs are the one thing that the left doesn't have. If we want to beat them, we have to stick by our convictions and advocate for truth and individual rights, as outlined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If they were worth fighting for 50 years ago, they're still worth fighting for today. All you're doing is advocating for more chaos and we don't need that...AT ALL.
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  4542. In a way, I like it. It makes the Democrat positions look terrible. It's great strategy to allow the really foolish be the main representative of the opposition.
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  4543.  @SkageXL5  What exactly is "the crime" that she committed? Is disagreeing with you a crime, now? When did this happen? People have the right to opinions. Each and every one of us, even if their opinions make no sense. EVEN YOU have that right. A troll is someone who makes short comments that have no depth or logic. "No it's not, she's guilty of the crime." What crime??? No explanation, no information, NOTHING except a comment that confuses and incites irritation. That's what trolls do.
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  4544.  @SkageXL5  I went through this entire comment thread. You never once explained what her crime was. Your very first comment was " "No it's not, she's guilty of the crime." I will ask again. What crime? You have no problem typing out everything else but you won't tell me what specific crime that she was charged with. Don't you know. You're the one that says that she's guilty yet you won't even say what she's guilty of. I am doing research. I'm asking the person who claims to know what her crime was...YOU. You claim to know but you won't tell me. Why don't you prove to ALL of us that you know what you're talking about.
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  4545.  @SkageXL5  You're the one who won't tell us what crime she committed. I've asked you a couple of times and you've refused. Tell me what crime she committed. It's that simple. You written all kinds of things yet you refuse to answer that simple question. What was her crime??? You don't know, do you.
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  4546.  @SkageXL5  Why should I do research, anyway. You're right here making all kinds of comments and telling us that this is a crime. Instead of finding ways not to answer the question, tell us what we would like to know. Apparently you do know or do you? I don't think that you do. I think that you're full of it.
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  4547.  @LowlyEidolon  What you said seems to support what I was thinking. it's not just the levels, it might be how the hormones interact with one another and maybe even the times they are produced or even outside factors may dampen or enhance the effects of one hormone and not another. I'm expressing it rather simplistically, as I'm not a medical man, but my point is that there can be more than just the levels of hormones involved with your problems. I realise that I don't know a lot about it, except the superficial, but I can't help but wonder if even the experts know fully what's going on. I'm sure it becomes even more complicated during puberty and menopause both male and female. I just gender affirming treatment as the ultimate and ONLY solution for gender issues, especially teenagers. I wish you the best with your health issues. It's good to hear from someone with real life perspectives on it. I wish you the best with your health issues.
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  4548.  @LowlyEidolon  I can't see why anyone could be offended by anything that you wrote. It makes a lot of sense. Now, I'm going to say something that some might be offended at and why they would be offended by your comments. They're ideologically possessed. When you're in the grips of an ideology, one can become quite belligerent to have those beliefs challenged and they'll react in anger and claim that they've been offended and that the other is being insulting or bigoted. it's a way to avoid examining beliefs, especially if they make no sense. Trying to hold opposing views as fact can be quite frustrating and the only way to deal with it is to not deal with it. That would explain the anger they exhibit or how they don't want to talk about it. Don't worry about how long your comment is. You've put together a very coherent case and that's what makes it interesting. Common sense beats a rant any day of the week.
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  4549.  @LowlyEidolon  Thank you for the information. I kinda knew this stuff but it was all rather disjointed in my mind. You brought a lot of clarity to what I did know and added a lot that I didn't know. That's the problem with ideology. It ignores anything that conflicts with it. You can't allow ideology to negate facts. Things will end up in a real mess if you do. It was a pleasure conversing with you.
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  4550.  @talldavid30  I'll never be able to explain every dumb thing that Trump says, but that's not the point. You made an original statement that insinuated that Trump was doing nothing and he most definitely was doing something. The first case of the virus in the US was on Jan. 20. The CDC was on it that very day. On the 31st of Jan, Trump forced restrictions of flights to and from China. By Feb. 10, cases had increased to 12 cases. That's 10 days after the travel ban. So to shrug off the measures he took can only be seen as a bias against the man. This isn't the time to be scoring political points. This is a time for cooperation and putting differences to the side. However, some people just don't want to do that. They still want to bicker and moan while people are dying. Here you are complaining, in a comment section to a video where Trump is talking about the virus and some of the measures he's taking. For once, put your hate aside and support the guy in this time of trouble. We have to work together on this. Like it or not, Trump is the president and the one who's been elected to handle this crisis. We either all work together or we might just die together, with our hands around each other's necks. How stupid is that?
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  4551.  @focusfilms4300  That's a good one. You sure showed him. Replace "left leaning media" with "Fox News"....that's BRILLIANT. This is why I love comment sections.
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  4552.  @Acujeremy  The guy was a lunatic and it's far from genocide. You're allowing the actions of a lunatic define the character of an entire country. Once again, you're either being sarcastic or.....
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  4553. @philip trevor What the heck does that have to do with MSM making up stuff to get viewers and ratings. Trump isn't telling them to do that. He's just one of many that is pointing it out.....kinda like what Tim Pool is doing right now. He's informing us on how MSM is promoting inaccurate news stories and won't take any responsibility for it. It's as if you didn't even watch this video. Why wouldn't you call out CNN for distorting the facts around those women getting probation? That's what this video is about. It's not about what Trump thinks of the media, at all. It's about what the media is doing and why more and more people are losing faith in a media that is overtly biased and self serving. When I was a kid, they gave you the news as facts. Each network and news outlet would tell you what happened without putting a spin on it to serve their own point of view. They gave you the facts and we made of those facts what we could. You'd rather have media spin than take an objective look at the issue because you're terrified you may end up agreeing with Trump.
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  4554.  @ravenzyblack  They're lucky that they don't have our weather. Imagine rolling blackouts when the temperature is going down to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, like what we're expecting here, tonight. I'm worried that this will be the national trend if Biden starts on his new Green policies. Progressives freezing their butts off should shut them up...but it won't. They'll find a way to blame Capitalism or right wingers or Christians or racists....as long as it isn't themselves.
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  4555.  @marcusdaloia2974  As a matter of fact, I do. I think that a person should go to work, give it his best all day and be satisfied that it was a good day's work accomplished and that you did the best that you could. That doesn't mean that you've succeeded in everything that you tried, but you've got something to build upon even if it's not to make THAT mistake again. So yeah. My problem is that they never put in that day's work. They'd rather complain about things rather than appreciate what they have and what they've accomplished.
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  4556. I know that this sounds like a conspiracy theory but it's all about Marxism. Instead of a class struggle, it's become a racial and gender struggle. Different identities but the same philosophy.
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  4557.  @frododododo  But cavemen are as human as you and I are. Basic needs are still the same. When young, we need the basics. Food, drink, shelter, clothes and love. As we grow, we have expanded needs, like socialisation and more independence. As growth moves along, we start to learn the things we'll need as adults to survive. Education, without socialisation, makes for poorly functioning adults.
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  4558. @Ken DeLancy Any adult, who says he's going hungry in the US right now, is either a liar or incompetent. If you can scratch up 4 or 5 hours of work, you can eat for a week. With the economy the way it is, that shouldn't that hard.
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  4559.  @icep6435  If you can show me, in the video that was released that day, one racist thing that anyone of those kids shouted out, I'll concede that you're completely correct. However, you can't. I've watched the 2 hour video and it didn't happen. You're either a full out liar or you live in some kind of Disneyland existence where fairy tales are real and Peter Pan really can fly.
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  4560. As long as they comply with all food and safety requirements and pay the requisite local, state and federal taxes, leave them alone. It's just Chamber of Commerce business autocrats who don't want to see any competition. In reality, it's short sighted. The more a region attracts successful businesses the better business will be for the individual, unless that individual doesn't want to do the things to keep them competitive. Then banning them is their best option. It's backward think in business strategy.
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  4561.  @ncm-jl3nu  And our Constitution demands that we use the Democratic process to elect our representatives. That means that we are a Constitutional Republic overall and that democracy is a vital part of our Republic just like free speech, the right to believe as we wish and a free and unfettered press without the interference or manipulation by the government. Without those freedoms, we would be unable to vote in an informed manner and that negates EVERYTHING about our claims to being a Constitutional Republic. Our Republic cannot exist without the democratic process. It would be like a chicken sandwich without bread or chicken. It doesn't make any sense.
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  4562.  @ncm-jl3nu  It's ironic that it's the Democrats that are the ones that are subverting American Democracy, in spite of all their posturing. Elections are at the core of the American Republic and the Democrats support or ignore every problem that rises in the election process. As an example, it's unbelievable that they claim that showing ID at voting polls is racist. They could care less about the Constitution, this country or Democracy. It's all political theatre and they could care less about the rights that should be guaranteed every American. They haven't changed a bit since the Jim Crow days.
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  4563. My dad grew up in WW2 Holland. He saw all kinds of Nazi soldiers and even had Canadian soldiers stay in the barn of the family farm as they mopped up operations in his area. Yet, my father never heard one gunshot fired in anger. I've concluded that WW2 was mostly peaceful.
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  4564.  @DM-dk7js  Quit trolling. You're saying the same thing over and over again. Use that brain and have a real discussion instead of resembling a bot....unless you are a bot. Then get lost.
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  4565. Pelosi impeaches while California burns. Let's give her a hearty "Nero" salute.
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  4566. @G Bogart Because it was happening. There were hoards trying to cross the border, illegally. They were doing it because they KNEW that Trump was going to ramp up the effort to control those illegal crossings and he was trying to get the funding and the Democrats were fighting him all the way. Trump had to make deals with Mexico and the other central American countries and he did this while in office. These are deals and policies that Trump put in place and the Biden administration reversed....just like this Border Patrol agent revealed. So YES....I REMEMBER TRUMP SAYING THAT. He had to point out the problem in order to solve it and he went a long way in trying to solve it. This is something that we all do. If your roof leaks, you tell the repairman "My roof is leaking, BADLY, right there". It's a recognition of a problem....not HATE. Reality does not involve emotion. In order to tackle a problem, you have to identify it. That's what Trump was doing. And before you lose it and start calling me a Trumpster, I don't care for Trump at all. I care for the truth....no more and no less and personalities don't matter. There is a problem at the border. Let's solve it. It would appear that it isn't being solved right now and it's the policies of the Biden administration that seem to be at the heart of it.
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  4567.  @TallisKeeton  No problem. Honest mistake. I studied Calculus in grade 12 and in college. I believe that this is normal here in Canada and a Google search seems to agree.
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  4568.  @obviousmaths4368  I'm thinking that he's talking about physically harder. Construction, forestry, mining is a lot harder, PHYSICALLY, than marketing or teaching. The latter can be very stressful but that has nothing to do with physical strength and endurance. A lot of men can't do those jobs and they don't because they're fully cognitive of that fact. So, if they become teachers instead, that doesn't mean that they should make EXACTLY the same as a lumberjack or roofer. That's comparing apples and oranges. However, women teachers make the same as men if all things considered, like length of tenure, are equal. In fact, it's against the law. Strangely, our courts aren't over run by cases where this is the case. The ambulance chasing lawyer types aren't chasing women clients who claim that their being paid less than men for the same job. If this was such a pervasive problem, this would be a perfect opportunity for those lawyers to fill their pockets and they're not doing that. It's all a strawman argument.
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  4569. Lectric Line This is what the Constitution says. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Jefferson later wrote this and has been cited by the Supreme Court numerous times over American history. "legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State" The state has no right to legislate religion. That is the separation of church and state. I'm not sure what it is your talking about when you say that people are being forced to do as they say or give up their right to own a business. Maybe if you cited some specific examples to illustrate what it is you mean, I'd be able to discuss it, somewhat.
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  4570. Lectric Line It seems that you have no interest in discussion other then going on some wild eyed attacking rant. What are you....some kind of SJW college student? I didn't come to this lofty conclusion of the separation of church and state. That was an idea offered by Thomas Jefferson, elaborating on his "freedom of religion" point in the Constitution. Read all about it. It's right here. https://www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall.html This was cited by the Supreme Court.....NOT me.... the Supreme Court, notably in Reynolds v. United States in 1879 and in Everson v. Board of Education in 1947. This has nothing to do with me. I'm only the messenger but apparently it's easier to talk about me than the message. Which is, apparently, the same when I asked for specific cases. Better to attack me than bring one instance to the table that we can discuss in a mature matter. Not for you. You just take offence and go on the attack. I'm not against or in approval of what you're saying. I'm trying to have a conversation so we can both get something out of it. You just want to WIN. Beat me by calling me crazy and insinuating I'm uninformed. You're just angry and bitter, just like almost everyone else these days. Draw a line in the sand and start flinging crap...like some kind of zoo monkey.
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  4571. She likely refused to make the apology so they made a compromise.
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  4572.  @matthewforman1620  Like Trump said, mail in your ballot and then, on election day, go vote in person. If they don't let you vote, you know that your vote has been counted. If they do let you vote, you may vote twice or maybe not. You can assume that your vote is still on route in the mail. Then you have to hope that they don't count the mail in vote when it comes or maybe you'll hope that they DO count it and you get to vote for your candidate TWICE. The Democrats think that this is illegal. I think that Trump just showed us how bad a system this could be. However, the Democrats just repeat "But that's illegal". Sometimes, all you can do is marvel at the stupidity.
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  4573.  @brom8t  That guy was a jerk. We all know that people like him exist but that still doesn't negate the real problems facing Springfield. They exist and should be dealt with.
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  4574.  @thepsychologist8159  Kind of an hateful person, aren't you? Don't like Holly because she came from money. Don't like her because she's not that bright or talented. You go on about everything except the one thing that this video is about. Why don't you address what she said? Address it as if it was said by an anonymous source? You don't go looking for truth by using denigration as your primary tool. You use facts and logic. Try it. You'll start to feel a lot better about yourself and others.
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  4575.  @SkageXL5  First, you told the original commentor, King Arthur" to cry about it. I would assume that you're were mocking him and his take on the modern Pride movement. When I was using the "they" and "them" pronouns, I was referring to those in the Pride movement, the collective, as "they" or "them" because they are a group. That's been a staple of the English language for hundreds of years. It should be quite obvious who I'm referring to if you have any basic knowledge of the English language. 30 years ago, gays and lesbians claimed to be marginalised and victimised and started the Pride movement. Now the Pride symbol is everywhere and try to criticise anything about the movement. It could potentially land you in a lot of trouble. Now YOU, the singular, to help you with the English language, are mocking those who are feeling marginalised, who are afraid to say what they think, by mocking King Arthur, the singular, as a representative of the group, the "they" and "them" that's used to signify group members. It's really rather easy if you know the English language.
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  4576.  @SkageXL5  I ran away???? I responded to your last comment. How is that running away??
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  4577.  @SkageXL5  Never mind. An adult discussion is beyond your capabilities. Rather sad, really. When you grow up, we'll talk like adults. Until then, eat your veggies.
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  4578.  @tabbyreed8925  Think about this. Trump has taken on China and wants the manufacturing to come back to the US. China has hardly ANY environmental laws. Their air is among the worst in the world. There are no labour laws, quality control is near non-existent and human rights are horrific, think Muslim re-education camps. What would be better? Making all our goods in a country that has NO real environmental standards or in the US, where we have them and can control them. If Trump loses, the manufacturing will go back to China and there goes the environment, especially the air quality. Also, in spite of pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, the US has made the best progress in emissions of all industrial countries over the last 2 years. He may have ended some of the EPA rules but most companies, that operate in the US are still doing their best to do it right because it is good marketing strategy and good for business. He's and anti-immigrant that's married to an immigrant. A little contradictory. Also, the US is STILL the number one destination for legal immigrants. He has no problem with it but he does want a better control system so not just anyone can come and it's nowhere NEAR as stringent as immigration laws in countries like Japan or South Korea and you NEVER hear complaints about those 2 countries. Funny how Trump isn't a good man because he cheats on his wife but Biden is just fine even though he's cheated on his wife, even been accused of forcible sexual assault. They kind of cancel each other out on that metric, if you ask me. The only thing that I don't like about him is his tendency to be a loudmouth and a braggart but we all can't be perfect.
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  4579.  @cesaradrianarreola7266  Your history lesson is all well and good but how does that apply to today? People have always migrated and the people who originally lived there would quite often fight back. The Germanic tribes, Gauls and others fought the Romans when the Romans expanded northward. The Romans fought back when the Germanic tribes migrated into the Roman Empire. The Mongols migrated west and were met with resistance from those who lived in the west. The Muslim Arabs expanded and met with resistance from the people there, including the resistance in Spain and southern France. The Turks fought the Armenians, Byzantines and others as they expanded into modern Turkey and into the Balkans. I could go on and on. People have always fought over land and they had recognised borders. Quite often the indigenous people were beaten by the migrating groups and many were slaughtered, assimilated into the conquering victors or migrated themselves into new territories and conquered those indigenous groups. And here we are today. Europeans migrated into the Americas and met with resistance from the indigenous people there. The Europeans won and are no different than the Turks, Arabs, Vandals, Goths and hosts of other groups that migrated and conquered. Now, we're seeing another migration into the United States. Many American are resisting and want to control the migration. How is that any different than the Balkan states fighting the invading armies of the Turks? I'm not even sure what your point could be. All I can gather is that people migrated for different reasons just like people are migrating into the US for their own reasons. My question is this. Do Americans have the right to determine who can come and resist those who force their way into their country?
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  4580. Wow.....that's awful. I hope that one day soon, that they will see that their dogmatic ideas are only hurting their kids.
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  4581.  @lolmouf  It would be nice to know exactly what is so cringe about it? I haven't read it yet so it would be nice to hear a perspective that actually takes more thought than "is so cringe". It says nothing really. You might as well have said nothing for all the good that I can get from it.
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  4582.  @peterstafford4426  What was covered in the hearings? I brought up a couple of things. I'd like to hear which of those things were covered.
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  4583.  @radarplotextractor3168  I guess it's the story of Canada and how we grew as a nation. A story that so many Canadians can tell from their own family history. Your comments are much appreciated.
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  4584.  @oldgundog4705  She must have been a wonderful person and teacher. It's hard to imagine a California teacher who would ask her students to memorise "In Flanders Fields", today. I hope that they're still out there.
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  4585.  @strategery101  Sort of like Castro saying that he would sacrifice the lives of all Cubans, in a nuclear exchange, if it ended in the destruction of the United States.
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  4586.  @crazysilly2914  Google it. You'll see the connection.
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  4587.  @renaissancenovice7202  So easy to blame parents. Mental illness is not just a parenting issue. It's a complex problem and to just dismiss it with an offhand "failure to parent" remark is not only cold, but incredibly small minded. A really thoughtless response that gets to the heart of every parent that has lost a child to mental health, addiction and suicide.
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  4588.  Sigma Nayo  A lot of kids are missing their friends and don't like the isolation imposed by this virus. It's like house arrest to these kids. My grandson misses his friends but he's getting along just fine. My granddaughter is starting to burst into tears for no apparent reason. She says she knows that it makes no sense but she can't help it. To a 13 year old, 2 months is an eternity. When I was that age, I hated school but to be locked in my house would even be worse. It's one thing to voluntarily stay home but another to be forced to stay indoors and not associate with anyone but parents. Those prone to depression are really going to have a tough time of it. We must start to ease off on the restrictions or things are going to get really bad and NOT because of the virus.
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  4589.  @howardjones7370  Pedantic??? You're being a jerk. "ffs" isn't what I'd call a gentle ribbing. It's rude. If I was at the local pub and a stranger sat down at my table and talked like that to me, I'd finish my beer, go to bathroom and then sit somewhere else.
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  4590.  @carmenlajoie2719  Communism constructs the biggest monopolistic systems in history. One employer and that's the state or central power. What's truly incredible is that people can't see that....people like you and the "renowned" Professor Richard Wolff.
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  4591. You can explain property rights to these people for 24/7 but they won't care. They're socialists and they don't believe that anyone should own land. It belongs to the people and if you try to stop people from using land that you've bought and paid for, they'll say you that stole that land as all land belongs to the people. The government bureaucrats will back them up because it gives them power. Nothing is actually yours. You will own nothing and you will be happy. That is the communist goal.
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  4592. The police weren't handcuffed at this event. It was a Democrat dinner and you don't cause trouble at their events. The police were even praised for their swift action. Had it been a Republican dinner, the police would have stood back, watching the "peaceful" protest. That's just the way it is.
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  4593.  @mikiohirata9627  And who cares. The best students in the country should go to the best school in the country. You either aspire to excellence or you will degenerate into mediocrity. If you go to any institution and all you initially see is skin colours, YOU could be the racist. Don't become the monster that you're trying to destroy.
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  4594.  @gustavot4645  What a fancy way to say that it's okay to discriminate against Asians. It's all very academic sounding but basically it's Asians to the back of the bus. My mother used to say "No matter how things change, they remain the same". Apparently, all we've done is find a new criteria in deciding who belongs at the back of the bus. You'd think that an academic would realise that. An updated version of Jim Crow 2 point 0.
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  4595.  Jorge Briln  Yes...you're correct but MAN....are you wrong. You've completely missed the point and then turned it into something malevolent and disguised it with a snicker.
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  4596.  @evansmith2766  What it does is allow the person, that has personal problems, a way to avoid confronting them. It directs the solution away from solving their own addictions, depressions and doubts and foisting them onto something that is WAY beyond their control. This can only exacerbate the issues that are actually troubling them. Viktor Frankl didn't survive the Nazi camps by pursuing systemic change. Given his situation, that would have been an impossible endeavour. He did it by pursuing change within himself. Shame can be a big part of that. There is shame in being an addict, homeless and locked in a static state of oppression. There's no escaping it. I know that for a fact. As long as the world was in a hopeless state, in my mind, I was in a hopeless state and I was ashamed of who I was and what I was doing. I had to look inside, find what was worthwhile and coddle it back into something that I could use. Incredibly, it made things better and strangely enough, the world got better as well. At least it made it better to deal with in a more pragmatic and personal level. That made things so much better for those around me. You don't fix the system. You fix yourself and the system changes when enough of us manage to fix ourselves.
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  4597. If the new administration screws up and you call them on it, they will accuse you of spreading conspiracy theories and have you cancelled, censored and kicked out of club. Doesn't sound authoritarian to me.
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  4598.  @galaxykitsune  It isn't the absolute decider but your gender will give odds on what your career, interest and hobbies will be. NOT always but just as men are, on average, taller than women, but not always, men will also have tendencies to go to certain interests and careers over others. NOT always. It seems that some people just can't understand that. Every study shows this to be true and some people just won't accept it.
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  4599. Piers believes that Tommy's is common, a low class thug. Piers grew up as a preppie and thinks he's better educated and an all round better person. His ego can't accept anything that the rabble might say. He sees Harris as an equal. Educated and from the right kind of people so he will treat him accordingly.
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  4600.  @dannyweaver7322  All the Democrats have to do to defeat Trump is to better than him. Given some of the stunts that Trump has pulled, it should be easy....yet the Democrats can't seem to pull it off. It wasn't just this one incident. They refused to acknowledge the Tuskegee airmen, the grade 4 girl who would be able to go to a better school. They wouldn't honour the aid worker that lost her life helping victims of the war in Iraq. They wouldn't stand for the soldier who was reunited with his family. All they had to do was put aside their petty differences but, no way. They behaved like petulant and disrespectful children. That day, they behaved a LOT worse than Trump did. You can question Trump's motives but there was no question on the disrespect shown by the Democrats. They should be ashamed and apparently a lot of Democrats were.
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  4601.  @guaporichard  Are you from the Chamber of Commerce??
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  4602.  @ericskelton8211  That's what he's doing. He's bearing witness to the terrible government in California and warning us to NEVER let it spread outside that state.
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  4603.  @richardthomas1531  This is one of those comments that shows a complete lack of understanding of history and the human psyche. At the time of the writing of the American Constitution, all 13 colonies had slavery. Slavery had been a part of the human condition for thousands of years but people like you think that it was going to end in one day. It's not. It was a long process of education, thought, debate, in-fighting and more debate. Right after the Revolutionary war was over, some of the Northern States started to end slavery. 20 years after that war, all the Northern States abolished it and the non-slave states was about half the number of states. By the time of the Civil War, more than half the states were free states and it had come to a head. Over 600,000 people died in that war to end slavery, but you and people like you won't even give the American government and the people the credit of officially ending slavery in the United States. It was the US government that ended it and it was that American Constitution, that was behind the ideals that ended slavery. The US has been slave free for most of its existence and it was the US government and its citizens that fought HARD to end it. They wrote that ALL MEN were created equal with the understanding that this was AND IS a work in progress. Instead, it's become of work of hate....of self righteous hypocrites pointing fingers and laying blame. That's not what the Constitution was meant to be. It's a document that was supposed to be a method of working our differences out without violence and hate.
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  4604. What I don't understand is why Griner doesn't try out for some NBA team? She has the height and she can play the game. Just think of all the money that she could make. Her hometown Rockets (22-60) could sure use some help.
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  4605.  @monikao.559  If it's a "He" I'll ask again. Why isn't HE playing in the NBA? HE'd be making a ton of money, a LOT more than what He'd make in the WNBA. Not good enough?
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  4606.  @MyMusicSosa  So....Andy Ngo, a gay Asian man, is a white supremacist. That seems likely. LOL. Incredibly, the so called "white supremacists" have embraced this gay Asian man as one of their own and the group, Antifa, who claim to support the gay community and immigrants, reject the gay Asian man. I gotta say the your logic is astounding......convoluted and confusing.
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  4607.  @kountrypoet1859  So I'm a first. I'm not sure whether I should be flattered or not. I don't think I've ever been first before. Oh well.....first time for everything.
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  4608.  @S1eww  Thomas would destroy him now.
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  4609. Awakening Soul There was a book in the eighties? What book? Is it a secret? Why not give the title of this book? I've googled it and I didn't find a thing about other black presidents of the US except ones that had acted in movies depicting black presidents. There doesn't seem to be a lot of people aware of these "facts" that you're saying you know about.
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  4610.  @LifesLaboratory  How can a Christmas tree be older than Christianity. It's a Christmas tree. It's referring to Christ, the originator of Christianity. It's in the name. Early pagans did worship trees. The oak tree is the most famous ones. However, the tradition of the Christmas tree was introduced by early Protestants in the 16th century. However, it's considered to be secular enough that it doesn't have to be symbolic of the birth of Christ.
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  4611.  Manu Camus  They are NOW. He wasn't when she first molested him. THAT'S the point. He was a child and she took advantage of a boy who was still in his formative years and used her position of authority to manipulate a child for her own personal agenda. It was morally wrong for her to do that and against the law. What they did as adults is their own business but one can't help but wonder how those events affected the president as a young child and how it may have clouded his judgement as an adult. If you care for someone, you don't use them. PERIOD. That's what she did when he was young. She used him and could have cared less how it may affect or hurt him. That's abuse when a child is involved.
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  4612.  Zainjal26  Then why would they come and stay? Tell me, with references, how the system DOES work. If they seek medical attention, can they be turned away? I don't think so. If they're hungry, will those kids be allowed to starve? Just how does this all work?
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  4613. "I reject my celebrity status" What an epic thing to say. Shaq is the best of humanity.
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  4614.  @engineeringjoules4776  No. Socialism doesn't contain capitalism. Here is a dictionary definition of socialism. "a political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole" Notice what it says about the economy. It basically says that the economy is state controlled. In a capitalist country, the economy is market controlled, an agreement of exchange between consumer and producer. The more successful the economy, the better the social programs that it can afford. Social programs are a cost of operating a country. Capitalism is how one gathers the wealth that ones uses to finance those programs. The better the economy runs, the better the social programs. Once you redistribute economic wealth, you take away the revenue that feeds the economic system. Every business needs that revenue to reinvest in maintaining and buying new equipment, hiring and training employees, buying raw materials and all the other sundry expenses of running a successful business. Too much regulation and you cripple the economy and that will inevitably end in disaster.
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  4615.  @sthubbins4038  Trump's NOT talking about it during his pressers. Weird, because it is something that he would do but he's not doing it. There is evidence that it's true. You should find out about it and if it's true, give your opinion on it. Unfortunately, you're not claiming that it's true. You're only making a sneering remark about it. It's all that you're capable of. Feeding those who need is neither good or bad to you. It's only how you can use it to advance your own agenda.
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  4616.  @annetteneubauer3052  It's NOT either/or. What are you going to do when your kids start to grow up? They're in school and you, at 35 years of age, sit at home alone all day because your entire family is off doing things. The logical solution is to go back to work or get a diploma so you have training to go back to work. You still have a long life ahead of you when the kids get older. No one is suggesting you sit at home your entire life like a potted geranium. The most insulting thing is that you really seem to believe that stay at home moms are somewhat brain dead. What arrogance.
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  4617.  @rpmangin  How crazy is that? I'm glad they're not that strict where I live. I'm in Ontario, Canada and there are rules but when you're outdoors, you don't have to wear them. That's just common sense.
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  4618. He was also behind the wheel. Where is MADD in all of this?
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  4619. What kind of interview is it when the interviewer does more talking than the person being interviewed? The word "interrogation" comes to mind. Why didn't that CNN "interviewer" try to get an interview with the guys in the following video clips. They seemed friendly enough. https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-violence-in-portland-as-antifa-assaults-numerous-people/
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  4620.  @MichaelJMayoskyStudios  In other words, 18 years of war in Afghanistan isn't enough. My grandson was born and that war was going on. In a couple of months, he'll graduating high school. His entire life, thus far, was under the shadow of that war. Should we do another 18 years because we want to maintain power over the rest of the world. It's the longest war in American history. It's pointless.
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  4621.  @cianaungier2020  Our chickens would roam free, on the family farm, and they'd still peck at the sores of a chicken that was hurt. Not as often, or as badly because of the greater room to escape outdoors. In a small area, there is no escape so it becomes a death trap for the injured chicken.
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  4622.  @mikekraut7643  Wow.....that's the best example of what happens when a group of people are considered parasitic. They tried the genocide in the forties. Maybe, if people keep calling them parasites, it'll work the second time.
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  4623.  @Dacademeca  So what if it's fake. Does this phrase express a truth or wisdom? "Care About What Other People Think, And You Will Always Be Their Prisoner." -Anonymous Is that better? Or is it a "fake" Anonymous quote, too.
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  4624.  @susandunn11  I remember when it first came out. I tried to tell people and they called me a conspiracy nut and a Trumpster. I still can't figure out the Trump connection in their feeble minds. I even offered to show all the evidence and they didn't want to know about it. That's how deep their hatred for conservatives runs. They'd rather allow the abuse of young girls than even look to see if it was true or not.
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  4625.  @calais027  Do you see everything through a racial lens? I hope not. You do know what they call people who use that lens, extensively, don't you? I'll let you figure it out.
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  4626.  @gerrywhelan5761  You're still obsessed with other people's money. It's their money and it belongs to them. Worry about your own position and try to enhance your own life and future. If you give up because of "rich people" you'll never get anywhere. Back in seventies, when I was a young man, I didn't care about how rich my boss was and he was super rich. I agreed to work for him and earn a wage. I bought a house from those wages and over the next 20 years, I paid for it, like millions of others did with their wages. This is was when, as you've confirmed, the economy was on a downturn. Now it's improving. Now's the time to take stock in your own situation, financially and career wise. Figure out how you're spending your money and if you're wasting some of it. The simplest of things can start you on a road to financial stability. I use my debit card to save money. Every time I use it, the total rounds up to the nearest 5. For example $21.95 rounds up to $25.00 and the $3.05 goes to a special savings account. Doesn't seem like a lot but you'll be amazed how much is there after 2 years. Spare change always goes into a jar and it's rolled up and cashed in when the jar is full. That change goes into that savings account. Just small things. Quit smoking and the money that was once used for that should go into that account. Get a savings deduction plan at work. 10 bucks a week, gets you 500 in a year. I know that you're going to say that this is all small potatoes and it is but that's how ordinary people reach financial success. It doesn't happen over night. It's a life long journey and incredibly satisfying as you go through that journey and watch things slowly grow and seem to grow faster as you get older. However, if you never start, you'll never get anywhere and that's the big problem with obsessing with the money of others. It's a sign that you give up. Surrender guarantees defeat and failure. In fact, it's the very definition of losing.
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  4627. @Atrid Money doesn't belong to everybody. It's not as if there's a big pile of cash somewhere and we're all deserving of an equal bite of the cash pie. Money is representative of wealth and is worth nothing without the things of value that we create. I have a big maple tree in my back yard. As it sits, it has no real monetary value. However, if I cut it down, run it through a saw and make planks, it now has value as long as there are people that want it and are willing to exchange something of value for it. If that something of value is cash, it becomes MY cash, not your's, nor the neighbour's or anyone else's. It's mine. It was my time and effort that bought the tree and my time and effort that cut it down and made something of value of it. YOU have no right to the proceeds of my effort. That's how wealth in a country is created. It isn't just money in a bank. It's the cumulative value of the domestic product created. Without those products, money is worthless. That's why Venezuela went belly up. No idea of economics. Eventually, they started printing money even though they didn't have the goods of value to back it up. The money became worthless. Also, you seem to have a skewed view of equality. There is, in reality, no such thing. What we try to do, in a capitalist and democratic nation, is give everyone an equal opportunity to do as they wish in life, including financial gain. That doesn't include the guarantee of success or the equality of outcome. That's up to the individual and the choices that he makes along with some luck. The more you keep looking at the piles of others, you more you neglect your own pile and the less success financially and professionally you will have. Every nation that has tried the financial equality ideology, the one that says money belongs to us all equally, has failed miserable. There's not one that has brought it to any kind of success unless they accepted the idea that we need to allow people to seek their own kind of success. China is a prime example of that. As a communist country, they starved. When they allowed greater economic freedom, people started to prosper, each one at their own individual pace. That's because there is no such thing as true equality. It's an impossibility.
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  4628.  @gerrywhelan5761  In reality, more people have been lifted from abject poverty, around the world, over the last 20 years, than at any time in human history. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty There have always been the super rich. Rockefeller, Carnegie, the Vanderbilts have always been a part of the social fabric of America. In fact, a greater percentage of Americans were living in real abject poverty 150 years ago than they do today. They lived on the brink of starvation all the time and there were no safety nets like there are today. In the west, we live better lives than at any time in human history. The poorest of us have better health care than the richest person did 500 years ago. The problem that you're exhibiting isn't that your life is terrible. It's the fact that you have a resentment against the rich, and yes, there are corrupt people in Washington. They aren't just the rich. He was talking about a complacent corrupt bureaucracy that support each other by corrupt means. That's been a reality of life forever. It isn't much different today and the fight against human nature has been ongoing all through our history. If it hadn't been a reality in history, the Bible would never had been written. Also, you don't have to rich to be greedy. I know of a lot of drug dealers and thieves that like to make the easy money without the effort and they don't have any money. I call that greed. Again, there is no such thing as a piece of the pie. There's no pile of cash sitting somewhere that we all have access to and that some are hoarding. Wealth is created. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. The wealthy have created their own wealth through the creation of products that they can sell. We all do it. You do it through investments in pension funds, savings accounts and investment plans at your bank. I live below the proscribed poverty line in my country. Yet, over the last 4 years, I've been to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and the Netherlands and I've just paid for a vacation to Costa Rica. Yet, if I told you how much I make a month, you'd think it was impossible. My dad came to this country penniless, yet today, after hard work (working 3 jobs at times) and making smart decisions, he's worth at least 1/2 a million dollars Anyone can make life work for them financially. All it takes is determination and using your head. I've said it before, if you dwell on what others have instead and complaining about disparities, you'll be the one with nothing in life. It's your attitude NOT the lack of opportunity. Pessimism is the worst enemy of so many people, not the rich or the corrupt. It's themselves. If you don't enter a race, you'll never ever finish it or even compete.
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  4629.  @domcroatian4044  I have to agree with you on that. Women tend to be more emotional than men. That would explain that difference. Men tend to be more aggressive which explains why men are more apt to end in prison.
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  4630.  @marcgrundfest1495  I guess. To be a woman, I guess they'd have to react to things emotionally, over being rational.
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  4631. And that's why we can't have nice things. It's just a argument to emotion. No logic whatsoever.
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  4632.  @nelliemcconnell4009  China represents a market that's 4X the size of the American market. If they start bad mouthing them, that'll be the end of Coke in that HUGE market. The question isn't whether China owns stock. The question should be "What does Coke have to lose by criticizing the authoritarian Chinese government?". I see a loss of billions of dollars from the Chinese market.
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  4633. The first thing to go in a tyrannical society is comedy. Comedy is the propensity that people have to laugh at themselves. It says a lot about someone who can't take a joke or laugh at themselves. To laugh at yourself is an admission that you're not perfect. Those who suppress humour can't laugh at themselves because they don't see any imperfections in themselves to laugh at. They cannot tolerate it. No one made fun of Hitler or Stalin in their societies......and lived. You do not even suggest that their perfect person and their perfect society has flaws. You do not make fun of the perfect society that the SJWs are trying to build. It's perfect and it's impossible to mock it, even in fun.
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  4634.  @johngreenwood1610  He took his 95 year old mother out of an old age home and put her up in a hotel. The following day he announced that Covid patients were going to be placed in old age homes in Pennsylvania. How self serving is that? Now he wants children, who claim to be transgender, to be affirmed in their claims and even undergo the treatment to change their gender. In what world are we allowing patients to diagnose themselves and then forcing doctors to affirm that diagnosis? That's insane. He's a freak and he just proved it with his "gender affirming" statement. He's advocating his ideology to the detriment of sound medicine.
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  4635. The media thinks that context is text meant to con you.
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  4636.  @CoolPapaJMagik  By hiring the best, they're targeting you? Seriously? What you've just told me is that you can't be the best based on your skin colour. You may not have meant it that way, but that's what it boils down to. I will NOT accept that. If you're the best, you SHOULD be hired. If you're not hired, based only on the colour of your skin, they've broken the law of our nation and the laws of humanity. Fortunately for us sports fans, the NBA, NFL, MLB and the NHL don't see things the way that you do. They get the best and that's how they win. Even Congress has all kinds of diversity, not because it's required but because the people voted them there. You're living in paranoia, thinking that you're unilaterally hated due to the colour of your skin. It can only lead to living a life of resentment.
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  4637.  @CoolPapaJMagik  I was confused where you got the idea that I was denying antiwhite hiring practices. So, I went through all my comments and i found that I made one COLOSSAL mistake in my first comment. I wrote "Merit is defined by race." I didn't mean to write that. I meant to write "Merit is NOT defined by race." That "not", that I forgot, would change everything that I wrote after that. If that's what's been throwing you off, I sincerely apologise.
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  4638.  @oreli2556  What does Trump have to do with this issue? You really are a weirdo. A weirdo and a troll.
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  4639.  @gabepizza  Are you seriously saying that "Meet the Press" could NEVER have a biased host? Really? They're the perfect political outlet? LOL. I'm astounded that we would trust ANYONE in the media, without verifying what they say. No one is perfect. No one is totally honest and that would include the host and staff of "Meet the Press".
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  4640.  @iznon  That was an answer to a question that I had. If the Sahara becomes greener when sunlight hits it more directly, increasing heat and monsoons, wouldn't the heat from green house gases do the same? Add that to the positive effects, on plant life from CO2, can we expect the Sahara to become even more greener? Also, how does the Miskovich Cycles affect the Amazon? That wasn't addressed, either.
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  4641.  @r0ckstar666  Yes, he was a Nazi. Nazis were obsessed with race and identity groups. Guess who else is obsessed with race and identity politics. It's NOT DeSantis. It's all the left talks about.
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  4642.  @KraziAnnRKissed  He lived across the river and a short drive from Philadelphia. When the BLM riots were going on, he could hear the helicopters flying towards Philly and people there were nervous that the riots could spill over into the outskirts of Philly. I wouldn't live there, either. I live 110 miles from the nearest big city and I sometimes think I'm still too close. City folk are moving in and ruining our lives with their weird ideas of country living and telling us how we're doing it all wrong. I don't care if you move in from the city or not but don't tell us how to live. The stories I've heard about those wannabe country folk are just weirdly incredible.
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  4643.  @whathandleUtalkabt  Nice deflection but that's not the answer to the question. Is this your new standard? "Do you like ice cream" "Not like Trump does. He takes 2 scoops. How greedy is that" "Do want to go golfing this weekend?" " No way. Trump owns a golf course and I heard he cheats" "Do like college football?" "Hate it. Trump invited the College football champs to the White House and they went.....and fed them hamburgers and junk food. I hate hamburgers now, too. This could be quite the game. Inject Trump into every topic. Fun times for all.
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  4644. Greed is a factor but I think that ideology might contribute even more. There's nothing more dangerous than self righteous ideologues. The socialist movement, of the 20th century, was an ideology that ended the lives of over hundred million people and destroyed the economic well being of even more. Combine ideology and greed and you have a extremely dangerous situation.
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  4645.  @tonyromano6220  I never once tried to disprove the existence of God. All I did was say what I believe. I could be right and I could be wrong but I do know that the Bible says that the truth will set you free. That doesn't prove the existence of a living God but it sure does point to a transcendent fundamental reality. There is a truth that sits way above our concepts of what we can possibly perceive.
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  4646.  @griley4440  They took money away from police operating budgets. That's taking away funding, what was called "defunding". If you want to allocate resources to help the police....DO THAT. Don't take money away to experiment with new and untried, unproven programs. See if they work FIRST and if they do, you can defund the police because it the policing will no longer be needed as before. That's common sense. If crime has risen is every city that did the policies that you claim was followed, then it was the wrong approach. Institute the changes, see if they work THEN defund the police. It's so simple that a child could see the logic.
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  4647. I remember, when I was a kid, watching westerns, where vigilante posses were always characterized as the bad guys or as good people led astray. There was always the good sheriff, fighting the mob, to protect the alleged criminal from the enraged mob. The message being, that we ALL have rights. Now, we have a political party that tacitly supports the mob. How times have changed.
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  4648. So, you're saying that in a road rage situation, the guy will find a way to kill the guy he's angry at no matter what? He won't react in a fit a rage by shooting the guy.....ever? You seriously believe that if he doesn't have a gun, he'll not stop until the guy is dead, that his fists will have the same result on a guy's head that 6 bullets will on that same head? You've never heard of a person, in a drunken row, shooting an adversary in a fight? Never heard of gangs, inadvertently running into one another and start blasting away? You're talking about pre-meditated murder. I'm talking about pulling a gun out of your pocket for a perceived slight, out of anger or fear and shooting someone as a reaction. I'd say that you're making that up. Not all killings are pre-meditated and people have and do shoot each other in a fit of rage over something stupid all the time. That big reason that it happens is that the gun is right there, in his pocket, on the dresser and the blind rage is happening right now and it's all due to the availability of the weapon and the ease of use of the gun. What's even more telling is that there is only one real use for a hand gun. That is to shoot human beings. To be able to carry it or store for ease of use to kill someone else. Even you know that this is true. It explains the huge disparity in numbers for gun violence between the US and Canada. The number one reason is the availability and the attitude that comes with that availability that we don't see in Canada or any other Western country. Murder rates and gun violence is through the roof if you compare it to any other western country and most of it is due to the ease of acquiring a handgun.
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  4649. http://wgntv.com/2017/10/28/man-shot-in-road-rage-incident-in-elmhurst/ http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/us/pa-deadly-road-rage-arrest/index.html http://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/northwest/crime/2017/10/25/milwaukee-man-shot-road-rage-incident-menomonee-falls/798909001/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3145203/road-rage-shooting-arkansas-boy-arrest-gary-holmes/ http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/west-phoenix/man-shot-twice-in-road-rage-incident-in-west-phoenix These are just the road rage incidents. I can get you lots more. I can go into domestic incidents, too, if you like. I'm sure you'll figure out some way to talk around this and pretend that these will not fit the idea that people shoot each other out of anger. When making an argument, at least be honest about it. I'm an old farm boy. Spent my youth shooting woodchucks, rabbits, and rats at the community dump located at the back of our family farm. Been duck hunting lots of times. My problem isn't with guns like these. They are unlikely the guns used in crimes, by street gangs or in angry disputes over trivial matters.
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  4650.  @2011super  They're not just protesting. 15 people have been killed. Buildings have been burned down, businesses looted, property destroyed, public monuments defaced, people terrorised, homes even burned and WHY???? BECAUSE AMERICA IS AN EVIL RACIST COUNTRY....THAT'S WHY. This is what they're saying. What kind of whack job lives in a country that they hate? They hate everything about it. The history, the constitution, the economy, the flag.....you name it, they hate it. Those of us that don't like the violence, are seeing these people destroy this country. We don't hate it. It's our home. We don't burn what others build, we don't chant anti-US slogans. THEY DO!!!!! Why would you live in an evil, racist, greedy, war mongering country. Go where people are good, tolerant, generous and would never hurt anyone. That's what I'd do if I hated where I lived. I'd leave. Goodbye and good riddance.
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  4651.  @87aggietim  It's a secret ballot. She may SAY who she's voting for but who knows what she marks when the ballot is in her hand.
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  4652.  @lisac9522  Don't you pay state and municipal taxes where you live? I heard that California has the highest taxes in the country. How can that be if they depend on federal taxes, Donald Trump, for their money? Does that mean that Texas, that has a fraction of the taxes that California does, is going bankrupt? This isn't about taxes. This is about the way that people think.
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  4653. If I lived in a Democrat City and someone phoned and told me they were pollsters, I'd lie through my teeth. They're not going to tell people where I work that I'm a Trumpster and get sabotaged by co-workers and maybe even let go after some trumped up excuse to fire me. I'll vote at the real polls.
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  4654. Ask Rudy Giuliani how he cleaned up New York. He's a bit of a weirdo but he turned New York around and did it rather quickly. I don't know where it says that you have to like the guy that fixes things or gets things done. Just follow his example and you'll see results.
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  4655. It's worse than race hate. It's a Marxist agenda where they want to tear the country completely apart, damn who it kills and who it hurts. Racism is their tool. They've been on a campaign to convince certain demographics that the "power structure" is oppressing them and the oppressed must rise up to end it, once and for all. If they succeed in tearing it all down, those "oppressed" races will still be oppressed but by the new boss who will have all the power and will never relinquish that power without a fight. Eventually, the US will become a Fascist state, just like China, because for Marxism to succeed, they have to devolve into Fascism. That's what we're fighting against. The first thing we have to do is somehow declaw their racism narrative. It's not going to be easy.
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  4656.  @Mathew_Thomas  Saying that the Civil war was about slavery sounds so much better and virtuous than admitting it was about states rights. You can point at villains and assure everyone that you weren't one of those. I'm against slavery....today. I can't talk about the beliefs of me, had I lived 200 years ago. No one can. However, that doesn't take away the fact that a large country most have regional representation, not one based on population density. How long would Alaska or Hawaii stay in the Republic if New York were telling them of the realities of life in those states? Not long, I'd bet. That's why each state should have a say in the Republic, so each state's realities are fairly represented and not just assumed by the population centres. I live in a rural area and have all my life. The biggest complaint the locals have are about the big city folk moving in, with their romanticised view of country life, and then tell us how we should live. That's an encapsulated example of state's rights.
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  4657. Harris is supposed to be in charge of the border. If she had any spine, she'd at that border, every chance possible, talking to border agents, drug enforcement personnel, local citizens, migrants, migrant children, local politicians....anyone that's concerned with the border. She should be going out with border agents, seeing what they're seeing, going into migrant camps and on and on. If she did that and handled the problem effectively, she might well be a presidential candidate. She's not done any of that. She's a failure at that and she'd be an even bigger failure as president.
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  4658. Media: The Russians hacked into our computer systems the election to get Trump the win. Trump cheated. The same media: It's impossible to hack into our computer systems to get the win for anyone. Biden wins fair and square.
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  4659.  @OliVitoProductions  No defence lawyer, worth his salt, would EVER recommend his client take the stand. That's lawyering 101. You just don't do it.
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  4660. They're not Asians. They're Pakistani Muslims. It's a disservice and an insult to the good people of the rest of Asia. You can't even begin to solve a problem if you don't address the specific problem which is why do so many Pakistani men behave in this manner. Until you can answer that question you'll never get to the root of the problem.
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  4661. A quick buck or a couple of rocks.
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  4662. The Covid epidemic has been a hypochondriac's wet dream. My daughter has obsessed over every illness and new pathology since she was a young teen. There was nothing you could say to dissuade her. She's quite sensible about everything else, works hard, isn't overly indulgent with the kids but one little sniffle and she loses it. If the government said that she had to wear a space helmet, to be safe, she'd do it. She abandons all common sense when someone has to blow their nose. I've given up. She's an adult now and it's ingrained into her and there's no changing her mind. I'm just driving myself crazy by trying. I nod my head and go home when she starts up. It's all I can do.
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  4663.  @GarryMartin-nw4zh  Give us an example. Making a claim isn't proof of that claim. Prove it by giving us an example.
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  4664.  @GarryMartin-nw4zh  So, you don't have any examples. Thought as much.
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  4665. Let me get this straight. He's saying that there's no evidence of Joe Biden's wrongdoing because Trump is guilty of something. Is that the logic? This isn't the Saul Alinsky tactic, is it? Accuse others of what you, yourself, are doing.
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  4666.  @flowersinherhair  Yes....I really do.
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  4667. I thought George McGovern but I'm older and reliving the good ole days. LOL.
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  4668. Maybe Mickey is pregnant.
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  4669.  @tomlehr861  Lies or not, he can spew those "lies" and you can keep telling us what you think of them. That's freedom. It also allows the press to lie. The Covington Kids fiasco is an egregious example of how much they lie. It took me 10 minutes to find the full length video of what happened to those kids and they couldn't do it? BS.
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  4670.  @ashlibabbitt8609  That's because your mommy doesn't want to have anything to do with you.
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  4671. History doesn't matter to them because the path to power is to promise the people that they can deliver Utopia. The most authoritarian dictator still had to get there by getting the support of the people. Once there, the new leader will either continue in their cycle of unrealistic promises and bankrupt the country or the use the boot of authoritarianism to hold the people down. Promise people free stuff and most people will, quite vigorously, nod their heads and blindly follow you anywhere. It's not the leaders that have to learn from history....it's the people that have to learn it. It's the primary reason why those in power, try to control education so the people will be separated from their true past.
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  4672.  Real Christian.  I have to say this over and over again to those who support the Democrats. Don't treat others like dirt. They'll resent it and end up voting for Trump because they've been consistently treated so badly. Instead, explain to him why they can't apply for citizenship and, if possible, give references to the government literature that support your position. That's how you win support to your cause. We've already seen the result of calling people "deplorables". They'll turn against the person insulting them and now Trump is the president.
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  4673.  Real Christian.  She insinuated that Republicans were racists and anyone considering Trump would be a deplorable. It hit middle Americans hard and it added to the gut feeling that politicians viewed the heart of America as the "flyover" states and that they were nothing but a bunch of uneducated hillbillies. Hillary represented the elites of Washington and they felt, then and now, alienated from their own Capital. The minute I heard her say that word, I thought to myself that this attitude was going to cost her and middle America, the same ones that voted for Obama, voted against her, just as I thought they might. But, go ahead and keep rationalising it. You may find yourself with Trump in the White House for another 4 years.
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  4674.  @davidburgoyne7489  If you vote for anyone else, you're just voting for the uni-party. Voting for the PPC may be not be successful, at first but if we all go for what's right, they can grow to that point. Their popularity has been growing exponentially. From about 1% a year ago to 10% in the latest polls. If too many people vote strategically, nothing will change. The PPC will never prosper if no one EVER votes for them.
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  4675.  @sep9960  There are about 900 Americans in Syria at the moment. That's NOT a lot of soldiers. Syrian forces could take over those oil fields with a concerted effort if they want. Trump wanted to pull the ALL out but, like you said, he was criticised for abandoning the Kurds. So, it would appear that we're stuck there for good. If Trumps orders the troops out, he's turning his back on the Kurds and if he stays, he's helping to steal oil. Talk about being wrong all the time. Destabilising Afghanistan? Are you serious? It's a mess right now. There are American soldiers, serving right now, that weren't even born yet when Bush invaded Afghanistan in his botched search for Bin Laden. I guess we're there forever as well. The forever wars.....sort of like in Orwell's "1984". Can't leave because you're a deserter and can't stay because you're a warmonger. What a predicament, especially considering that the Iraqi war was considered illegal in the first place. Trump can't even withdraw from an illegal war.
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  4676.  @Alex-pt5no  He worked in that state. In fact, Kyle worked in Kenosha THAT day. He was asked to help protect a business that had been severely damaged in rioting the night before. He was 17, old enough to join the military and handle a gun. So, if there was an illegal procurement of a gun, it's a minor offence at best. He offered medical aid to rioters, who were suffering from a tear gas attack. He put out a fire, set by rioters, and one of the rioters threatened to kill him if he had the chance. He later chased Kyle, and after a gunshot went off, Rosenbaum, the guy that had threatened to kill him, yelled out "F..... you" and lunged for and tried to grab the gun. Kyle, assumed that Rosenbaum was going to follow through with the threat to kill him, shot him. Anyone would do the same, including YOU. Also, if Kyle shouldn't have been there, neither should have those rioters. Riots are unsafe by nature of their existence. So the argument that he shouldn't be there doesn't wash. Not one of those figures should have been there, by that logic. They ALL placed themselves in a dangerous situation but only some of them threatened to kill someone and that was NOT Kyle Rittenhouse.
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  4677.  @Saol.Alainn  An advisor gives advice. The advice is taken, considered and rejected or accepted. If the advisor disagrees, he still has to obey the final decision. If not, he should resign or be fired if he disobeys. It's not illegal to dissent but what kind of government would we have if everyone decided to do as they pleased. That's the way any company works and what how the it works in the presidential chain of command to his staff. I go to work and I'm told what I have to do to accomplish a task. If I don't like it, I still have to do it or find another job.
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  4678.  @optimisticallycynical.814  Then why don't you say so. That original comment was one garbled mess. This sheriff seems to have the support of the people in his county. He may have some bad ideas, but is he doing a good job. I've worked with people that I didn't line up with politically and I didn't care for their life choices, but they did a good job. That's what's important when assessing a sheriff's competence. If you go looking for things that you don't like about him, like his beliefs, you're going to find something wrong. It's inevitable. When assessing his work, as a sheriff, you have to balance the good with the bad and then see which side it's weighted on. I can guarantee you, you can find fault with anyone and everyone. It's a pointless game of looking for turds. We've all left those deposits, somewhere.
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  4679.  @Somethingrandomlymadeup  That thumb's up was from me.
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  4680.  @jimmieleepatterson  That's true. Except, this time Pelosi is going to fail. There is too much insanity going on, from the left, that the average person is associating with the Democrats. Pelosi doesn't have the smarts to extricate the party from the crazy left. It's a similar case but it's in a completely different era with an influence that will damage the Democrats in ways they can't yet see. I could be wrong but I don't think so.
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  4681.  @Aanthanur  The media claimed it. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York claimed it as did Mayor DeBlasio. They were worrying about a lack of a tax base because all those with money were moving to their second homes in the Hamptons, Cape Cod, Florida and Upper New York state. First the lockdowns prompted and exodus and then the riots, the defunding of the police and the resulting increased crime has prompted even more to leave. Couple that with increasing taxes and New York is in big trouble, worried about a tax shortfall and wanting the Federal Government to bail them out. The media has been praising Cuomo's job until just recently. They were even talking about him becoming the US Attorney General if the Democrats won the 2020 elections. Now, he's going to hell in a hand basket because of how badly he's been running the state.
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  4682. This Canadian isn't trying to re-educate Peterson. It's the left wing establishments, within our government agencies, that are trying to do that. A great many Canadians are appalled by this overhanded action by our government. Don't equate us with our governments.
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  4683.  @voixdelaraison593  Why would you let ANYONE control your brain. When Tucker says something, I don't just look at him and then say that I don't like him because he comes from a rich family, therefore he's definitely wrong. I listen to what he says and then find out if he's wrong or not. He's a news personality and I judge what he says, not on who he is. If you think that you're any better, maybe you'd better look at the ideology that controls your impulse to hate someone due to their financial status. It's just as intellectually debilitating.
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  4684.  @autumndelicious4998  Do you really think that your childish sarcasm would enhance any point that you have to make? If sarcasm is all that you have, you don't have much. Learn to respond like an adult.
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  4685.  @Hadouken9000  Don't be too hard on the commenters. The truth can be harsh and might sound like they're being malicious when they're only relaying what's true. I admit some can be quite gleeful at his affliction but I don't let them get to me and I hope that you don't either.
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  4686. A guy gets fired and then badmouthed the guy that fired him. Haven't heard that song before....SMH.
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  4687.  @WhatHistoryShorts  So often the biggest oppressor is the person staring out at you from the mirror. That person is also the one that can set you free. Just do the best that you can. It's all you can do. I'm seeing it with my grand daughter who's so susceptible to outside forces. She's only in grade 12 and she's already talking about being non-binary. I don't know what's going to happen when she goes to college. I'm just hoping for the best.
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  4688.  @deltaex2621  Of course. It's means less money for the police. It seems rather self evident. Minneapolis is going to abolish the police. The city council has their own private police force to protect them. They'll let things go really bad and then you'll see the new Democrat police force, complete with the Democrat logo on their uniform, out to save the public. The Democrat saviours to the rescue. I understand it quite well.
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  4689.  @hosea4_682  Anyone arrested or in jail on a presumption has been unjustly arrested and jailed. The presumption, in American law is this. Innocent until proven guilty.
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  4690.  @hosea4_682  If Joe Biden did this....oh wait.....he DID do this. He told the Ukraine president that if he didn't fire a specific prosecutor within 6 hours, he wasn't getting 1 billion dollars. Biden bragged about it. He used American tax money to force the firing of a man who had prosecuted his son's boss. Also, not one witness said that Trump asked for quid pro quo. Even Sondland said that he presumed it but when he asked Trump directly, Trump said "I want nothing". Ukraine president Zelensky said that there wasn't any demands and so did his Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Taylor spoke with Zelensky and said that the Ukrainian president didn't even know the money was being held up. HE DIDN'T KNOW!!!!! How can you bribe someone who doesn't know that he's being bribed.
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  4691.  @TheVideomaker2341  Trump disdain for the Constitution? He's allowed the states to handle pandemic issues because the Constitution says that it's a state issue. He's not sent troops to stop rioting because, once again, it's a state issue. He did send agents to protect a Federal Courthouse, but a Federal building is Federal jurisdiction, as provided by the Constitution. Saying that he has disdain for the Constitution is easy to say but the Constitution says that Americans have the right to PEACEFUL assembly and it's the Democrats are the ones defending the rioting, looting and arson. Also, the radical left are going on and on about colonialism and when Trump wants to end the occupation of foreign soil by American troops, guys like him say that it's good to do that. Really? If it's wrong, you don't do it. Trump isn't a fan of warmongering and never has been. He's hasn't started a new conflict in his tenure as president, not like Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Reagan. He's stated for decades that the US should get out of these continuous conflicts and now he's trying to do it. We're sick of continuous fighting. Now we have to fight Americans in the street. The only ones who seem to support non-violence is Trump and his supporters.
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  4692. We're in a lot worse state than we were in the McCarthy era. A lot of the issues back then were just hysteria. The world had just went through the biggest war in history against a tyrant that looked and acted a lot like Stalin and Mao. People were terrified that we'd have to go through it again. This time, it actually is coming from within. It's everywhere and it's rebranded to look reasonable. This is the biggest fight since WW2 but we're not doing with tanks. It's with information and the tyrants are, right now, working with a big tech company, to flag "misinformation" and they've said that they want to do this with all platforms. That's REALLY scary.
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  4693. As Tucker said "Sue them into the stone age". She deserves every penny that she gets and more.
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  4694.  @A_LAB19  They did it because they were stupid and they were angry....a toxic combination. No different than ALL the riots, last summer, in support of BLM and Antifa. Stupid, angry and without moral compasses to fall back on to tell them that they were in the wrong to do those things. This "not my fault, he told me too" is the defence used by children.
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  4695.  @dherman0001  There's a couple of really weird ones, like the Westboro Baptist church, but they're pariahs in the Christian community. I'd say that Islamist extremist FAR outnumber any other demographic. I'd say that you're probably correct.
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  4696.  @dherman0001  I was just covering the entire gamut of religious groups. They call themselves Christian but I called them Pariahs within the Christian community. That kind of isolates them from Christianity right there.
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  4697.  @jonnylaw13  So what if it exists. That's a given. We ALL have privilege and once you make a contest of it, you've crippled yourself. The biggest privilege a person can have is the realisation that it doesn't have to be that way. David Webb demonstrated that beautifully, albeit unintentionally when he was accused of "white privilege". Webb "suffers" from the privilege of knowing that he can still succeed, as an individual, and the success of others has NOTHING to do with him. You succeed when you take your lot in life and make the best of it you can. That's success. It isn't a comparison to others or a contest. It's personal improvement. That's how you succeed. If every white man in the world is better off than Webb, he's still a bigger success than the white guy who lives off his mommy's bank account and he deserves more respect. You bring up white supremacy as a racist trope but isn't Aveva Martin a racist woman? She assumed qualities about Webb under one assumption. He's white or so she thought. That's the very definition, the very heart of racism. In fact, she's using racism to further her own professional goals and line her pockets. She might as well be a slave owner. She building her life on a hate for others. She'd rather see people believe that there is no hope than to build them up as individuals. I've no use for that type of person. Don't think that I'm arguing with you. I'm not. The entire racist trope these days is extremely destructive and does no one any advantage except for those who make a living selling it. That is the point that I'm trying to make.
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  4698. Mr. Clyburn, if your only objection is your fear that the wall doesn't become a monument to Trump, how about we call it the "Pelosi Wall"? Would that satisfy you?
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  4699. Years ago, I read a book written by a guy who was a pacifist during the nineteen thirties. He had some idea that if you didn't fight back, there would be no more wars, that the aggressor wouldn't be able to fight and that they'd just go home. A big supporter of Neville Chamberlain. We all know how that ended. Russia just invaded another country. Russia wasn't in any danger and everyone knows it. The idea that NATO was a military threat to Russia is just hyperbolic rationalisation, just like the rhetoric that Hitler used when invading Poland. It's just more of that old Russian expansionism that has been a part of their political worldview since the days of Peter the Great.
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  4700. All things come to an end.....even good things. It's not unraveling because it's a flawed system. It's unraveling because we've allowed an ideology to take root and grow. It a disease that's crippling the country. Diseases can affect anyone, even the strong.
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  4701.  @tkbikesnc6079  No one is calling him a victim. In fact, Trump has consistently called himself a winner and he's said, to his supporters, that they will be sick of winning by the time his presidency is through. He has been viciously attacked, though. He can't say or do a thing and they're after him. Hell, when he went to Britain, the media made stuff up when they couldn't find anything wrong in his actions. He's been attacked but he's refused to take on the role of victim. He's taken on the role of a fighter that won't allow his enemies to defeat him.
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  4702.  @qaz-fi1id  Conversation therapy??? Do you mean Conversion therapy?? It would make more sense if you did.
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  4703.  @jsav4269  You have to go deeper than that. There's an ideology that has used African Americans to their own end. The radical left that's in our schools, media, including Hollywood and the Democrat Party. They've used racism to elicit feelings of guilt and as a recruiting tactic. It's the socialism ideology that you have to hate. That's what's at the root of all this.
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  4704.  @reaper_exd7498  YOU'RE A TROLL.
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  4705. Unfortunately, he didn't get through so he didn't make that false report. I wish he did get through. Charging him with a crime is what he deserves and if the police had sent agents down to visit Ms. Ramirez, she could have sued him. Sued that nut for every cent that he has. The man is an ideological nut.
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  4706. AOC is one to talk about others being liars. The claim that illegals were forced to drink from toilets in the detention camps was a bald faced lie.
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  4707.  @AmateurApologetics  It's my birthday in 5 days, too and I'm smiling from ear to ear. On top of that, my daughter just gave me a tablet for my birthday. I'm feeling pretty good right now.
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  4708.  @EvanAntes  If Trump is on that list, the files would have been released during the election. It would have ensured the victory for Harris. Why don't YOU understand that?
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  4709. I like that what you just said. I've seen the friction myself between friends and family. Life is too short to be spent in anger and resentment. Agree to disagree and move on.
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  4710. If Biden does that, I'll buy and wear the MAGA hat and I don't even like Trump. More than that, I'll die on that hill with that hat on.
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  4711.  @onyxcrest6560  What I meant was that they don't care about YOU....or me or any of us peons. What happens to us is of no concern to them. As long as we're not around to disrupt their elitist lives. The only value we have is forus to do their labour for them and to boost their egos when they need to show each other how magnanimous they are. Their altruism is actually all about themselves.
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  4712.  @derekv8534  Exactly. This isn't Capitalism. It's crony corporatism and is as close to Fascism as it gets.
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  4713. A buddy of mine works up in the Canadian Arctic. He says the same thing as Candace does. Polar bears are extremely dangerous. In some of the places he works, there is always someone on the lookout for them and there's lots of them about. He seen quite a few of them.
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  4714.  Yoo toobe  I can't find one fact that she's given. She's done nothing but call people names and saying that Trump is corrupt. No examples, no references, not even a specific case that we can point to and say that wasn't right. As for telling me that what I said isn't true, you don't tell me what it was that was untrue and then give me the facts to prove it. Just "That's not true" and that's it. I can back up everything I said. Biden DID threaten to withhold 1 billion dollars in aid if the Ukraine didn't fire a prosecutor. His son DID work for a man that was on the run from the Ukrainian law and DID have 23 million dollars in assets frozen. Biden's boss did have the investigation dropped AFTER that prosecutor was fired and has now fled the country AGAIN due to corruption allegations. These are facts. Also, Hunter Biden DID fly on Air Force Two, a government plane, to make private business dealings in China. You can stick your fingers in your ears and yell "Lies" till hell freezes over and those facts will not change. Even if Trump is corrupt, which I have no doubt of, that doesn't mean that Biden is a good man. The two have nothing to do with one another and the idea the if Trump is bad, Biden must be good is the most childishly illogical mode of thinking imaginable.
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  4715. Wheeler had better be careful. Biden and Nadler are positive that Antifa isn't real. Even Joy Behar doesn't think that they exist. How's he going to justify attacking "peaceful" protesters who don't exist? Biden's storm troopers will put a stop to him and his "insurrectionist" ways.
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  4716. If you send in the National Guard, you don't make things worse. Like you said, TIM, there is no appeasing them. They'll just want more and more. Eventually you'll be in the place where it can't get any worse. You bring in the National Guard and you deal with the problem and stop it at its source. The longer you wait, the worse the problem becomes.
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  4717. Biden is literally stealing money out of the pockets of the taxpayers. This shows just how little the Democrats don't care about regular Americans.
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  4718.  @trh-bee4383  If inflation starts to rise out of control, to the point that our money is worthless, people aren't going to sit at home, terrified of Covid. Hunger will scare them more than Covid ever could and it doesn't matter who you are. YOU will leave your home to look for food or the means to earn the money to buy it. Why? Because hunger, TRUE hunger, is exponentially WORSE than Covid. People will get out and guess what. They'll STILL be spreading Covid AND they'll be malnourished. It'll increase death rates for Covid AND for other issues involving malnutrition. If you want to know how best to handle Covid. Look to Florida. Even though their 7 day case count average is over 2500 new cases a day, their daily death count average is about 3 per day. They're wide open, wear a mask if you want, getting vaccinated if you want (a good idea), no work restrictions or lockdowns and they have the 3rd highest case count in the US. And that's perfect because they're the 3rd most populous state in the US. So...they're EXACTLY where they should be...and so is New York State. 4th most populous state in the US, and fourth in Covid cases. New York has had some of the strictest lockdowns in the US and Florida only had them for a short time and then they lifted them......and the results are the same. NO DIFFERENCE......and Florida is filled with seniors. If New York locks down hard and Florida doesn't and they have similar results, what's the point?
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  4719.  @trh-bee4383  This thing started out when you said that a person would be refused medical aid if they didn't follow the guidelines set out by the government. I laid out a case against it. I'll say one more thing. Since when is the government the arbiter of all things right and wrong? Every war, genocide, forced labour, overt bigoted actions and suppression of freedom has been initiated, sanctioned or violently supported by governments. It's the main theme of human history. How did they do it? They did it by promising special benefits to certain segments of their societies. A little more land. Better food allotments, better access to fuel, little things, seemingly but essential for the survival of the average citizen. Men would join the militias just to get regular meals. YOU, are supporting the same kind of government pressure. "Do as I say or face the consequences." Loss of job. Loss of social contact through social marginalisation. Loss of medical assistance. Where's it coming from? Our government. With the history of abuse and human misery left by governments, throughout history, I'm astounded that anyone would still support their edicts. Yet they do. They do it through fear. "Do as we say or you shall surely die". That's the very heart of your argument. FEAR....so total that you'll allow them to do as they will and threaten us by any means necessary. I'm a grown man. I'd rather leave my safety in my own hands than is some strangers, who lives on a hill, in a distant capital city. I'm either their equal or I'm not and when they FORCE me to do things, against my will, I'm NOT their equal.
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  4720.  @4freess  You're just brought up a very big issue. I never said that capitalism is going to be perfect. That doesn't happen. We have to address the central bank system and addressing problems is an ongoing struggle in life. That's always going to happen. However, if you compare socialism over capitalism, the citizens of the west, the capitalist countries, have done immensely better, economically than socialist countries. We have the freedom to make our own decisions and that freedom, for each individual is the most precious thing that a person can have. Take that away and we become drones. We can't even be allowed to make our own way. We're always at the mercy of the state and the mob. I don't want to be forced to say what I'm told to say, believe what I'm told to believe, be a part of the group and to never deviate. That's not living. That's existing. I believe that this is a Rothschild quote. Not a big fan but I will still say that I lived in the best country during the best era of any time in human history and it was under a capitalist system. You show me a better time and place and I'll change my mind but just because it wasn't perfect, that doesn't change that fact.
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  4721. A better example from those times would be the sudden rise of Satanic child abuse allegations in pre-schools. Investigators would ask small children leading questions and the children would give answer that they thought the investigators wanted to hear. Then the arrests would start. It was the Salem witch trials, all over again. They're doing the same thing today with the transitioning hysteria. The child, conditioned to giving "correct" answers, gives the answers that he/she believes are correct.
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  4722.  @Lumberjack-fr6ve  They weren't stable. They'd just gone through a long war with the Soviets and their economy was one of the poorest in the world. There were different militias all vying for their power share and the average person/family was in dire straits.
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  4723. People actually spend good money and buy that drivel? Wonders will never cease.
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  4724. Geo T Two different guys can disrespect women. However, in the one case there is NO corroborating evidence on an incident that allegedly happened over 35 years ago. In the other, there is a film, confirming the allegation. Now explain to me why it is that the Democrats believe the allegation with no evidence and disbelieve the allegation with evidence. Also, would the Democrats believe Ellison if he were a Republican? Think this through but I don't expect a response.
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  4725.  @Ashamedofmypast  "an adequate explanation"? Maybe more time in the re-education camp will fix that....right?????
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  4726. It's our fight but the police should be our troops. Kyle shouldn't have had to be there to protect that car dealership. That should be the job of the police and the judicial system. After 3 days of destruction, people were desperate to protect their town and businesses because the police didn't seem to be able to stop it and neither were those elected to protect the citizens of the town. WW2 was our fight as well, but it was the military that did the fighting. The rest of the people supported them in our their way. The police should have done the protecting and they didn't. That's the problem.
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  4727. If this is such a great alternative, why isn't any country in the world building these reactors? Why wouldn't China build them?
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  4728. So, if they do, would you finally admit that it is possible? If they go to the landing sites and show you the stuff they left behind, will you acknowledge that it wasn't a hoax? I doubt it. You and your ilk will come up with a whole new set of minute details to debunk it. And they didn't lose the technology. Technology has advanced beyond that capability. It would be like sending the cavalry to invade Iraq next time. It would have worked great 200 years ago, but now? What a joke.
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  4729.  @kimobrien.  A rotten system like capitalism, huh. The people, living in the western capitalist countries, are the most well off people in the history of humanity. Yet, a lot of the people in the west, won't appreciate their good fortune. When you use "fairness" as a criteria for happiness, you will ALWAYS be unhappy. There will always be someone who's done better than you. Instead of worrying about someone else's pile, start to work on getting ahead in life. All you have to do is work hard, make wise decisions and fight the rot of envy in your heart. Envy will never end in success. That's why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Big Ten of Commandments. It's one of the most destructive forces that there is. Chasing fairness is comparable to chasing your tail. It can never be achieved.
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  4730.  @chrisdawson3859  It's not just the judges. It's the District Attorneys who refuse to prosecute. That means that the judge doesn't even get rule on the case. Go after the DAs and then see if there's a pattern with the judges. A judge can't rule on a case that isn't being presented in his court. The DA has to prosecute.
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  4731. @Gaige Elwell That went from "Jan 6th insurrection" to "killing of a cop" rather quickly. What are you talking about?
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  4732.  @Niphredyl  What did she say or do that wasn't classy? I'm not getting it.
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  4733.  Macavity  hannannah 1uk He/she's making a great point. Those parades have become exhibitions for those obsessed with "me". Each one trying to gain the spotlight. "Look at me. I'm special". They've never learned humility....a real virtue.
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  4734. @ The word "Islamist" was first used in 1849. That's 176 years ago. That doesn't sound so recent to me. That word is much older than the word "homophobic" which came into vogue in the eighties or "hoodie" which is also less than 50 year old making the word "Islamist" well over 100 years older than either "homophobic" OR "hoodie". It was a nice try at diversion but it's a big fail. Feel stupid yet?
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  4735. @ Now it's an appeal to authority. That's a logical fallacy. You seem to excel at them. First the ad hominem attack....a logical fallacy. Then this appeal to authority. A college student should know that. I'm not sure what my education level has to do with the information that I gave. I don't need a college education to know that the word "islamist" has been around for quite awhile. This isn't genius material.
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  4736. I just heard that AOC has suggested a new Party slogan for the next election. "Make America Green Again" and use the acronym "MAGA" on party clothing and hats. I think it's a wonderful idea.
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  4737.  @Number1Vaulter  Gustave Le Bon, a French academic, who died in 1931.
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  4738. I was married to a woman like that. "Was" being the operative word. She could do no wrong and I could do no right. NO.....I'm not afraid of women like you. Women like you, make me ill. Why would a subject myself to a complaining shrew, who thinks that their good looks is what makes them wanted. It doesn't and most men have already learned their lesson with women like that.
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  4739. Crist looked absolutely terrified that he might say the wrong thing. The look on Joy Behar's face, when she spoke up, explains why he would be so frightened.
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  4740.  @julies8813  This year is an election year, last year it's gubernatorial elections, the year before that were the mid terms. The year before that nothing (that I know of) and the year before that the presidential elections. It seems that almost EVERY year is an election year. Kind of easy to be right under those conditions.
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  4741. Populism is Democracy. The Democrats are trying to separate the two. However, the Constitution trumps both. (great irony there). It's the Democrats who want Democracy over the Constitution which means that they actually support populism. They're just playing word games and people are falling for it.
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  4742.  @harrisonsturm857  These people are witnesses? Since when do people, who have no personal knowledge of wrong doing, deserve to be called witnesses? A witness is supposed to add to a case by being able to provide evidence, through first hand experience. The people, that he was "yelling at" are accusers, not witnesses. You can bring people up by the thousands but if all they do is make accusations, without presenting evidence, you still have no case. No wonder Mr. Gaetz was angry enough to yell at them. They're not witnesses. They're only pretending to be.
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  4743. He did, too. I'd forgotten all about that. Thanks for the reminder. Gandalf showed a level of self awareness that most of us never attain.
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  4744.  @goji059  You could be right. It's been 40 years since I read it.
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  4745.  @Carandini  I couldn't agree more. If I shoot my neighbour, out of anger, I'll do it because I hate him. If he happens to be part of a protected group, it's a hate crime. If he's white, it's just a crime. Why are those tweets calling for the genocide of old white men not classified as hate crimes, but signs that say "It's okay to be white" is a hate crime. It's totally illogical.
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  4746. I think that hate crimes are BS but if that's what they wanted. Be careful what you ask for.
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  4747.  @blackstreetztv1763  I don't even like Trump. He's boorish, says stupid things and sounds like a kid at times. However, I'm not going to let my personal feelings about the guy cloud my assessment of the economy. I look at the facts. Unemployment is down and that's been consistent. Investment climate is excellent and has been for awhile and the economic numbers show that there are jobs being created. You've not shown one fact to refute that. All you've done is call me selfish and then expose a personal bias against Trump. That's not proof of any claim you've made. Hatred isn't an argument. It's emotionally crippling and creates nothing but anger and poor judgement. Either prove what you're saying or you have no argument. "Orange man bad" isn't an argument on whether the economy is good or not.
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  4748.  @MajinMist603  That's true but optimism and pessimism can affect the economic climate. However, the biggest driver on any market is the willingness of the citizens to work hard. There are those who say that the people of the fifties and sixties were just lucky. I grew up in the sixties and I can tell you that my parents generation were extremely hard workers, willing to put in hours very few us are willing to do today. That generation had just gone through the Great Depression and then WW2, so to them, a little hard work was easy compared what they had gone through in the previous 20 years. Unfortunately, success breeds complacency and that may be our biggest problem today.
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  4749. Candace Owens is a Jew? I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. As a follower of Louis Farrakhan, I'm going to have to cut her loose. I'll bet my sarcastic response, to your comment, is going to go right over your head.
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  4750. How could she not watch one of these videos and be so embarrassed that she'd refuse to go out in public again? It would be like watching myself on video the first time I got grade 9 drunk. It would scare me sober for years.
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  4751.  @runtoth3abyss  You're exhibiting EXACTLY what this entire video was about. You don't discuss what Antony the Great might mean by this quote. Not a chance. Instead you sneeringly belittle and berate, in some weird and toxic attempt to sound intellectual. Attack the person by making a group association, attack that association and dismiss them all as dangerous crackpots. You do this and never say a word about what was said. This is a logical fallacy. By the way, I'm not a Christian so you can forget about dismissing me with your dehumanising tactics.
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  4752.  @mariaalano3077  Even opinions are called lies by the MSM. "I think mail in ballots leaves open the strong possibility for fraud". LIAR..no evidence. It's an opinion, not stated as fact, but that doesn't matter to them.
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  4753.  jim Moore  The question is....did Trump Jr. and Eric use Air Force 1 and 2 for their own company business? They ran The Trump Organisation while their father was President but you'll have to show that they used those plains for personal business. I've not heard that they did.
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  4754.  @wweeks  Won't do anything like what? Burn a library? Collect papyrus? I'm not getting it.
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  4755. If I plug my ears, your comment isn't true.
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  4756.  @savioblanc  He did appear tired of the same questions, over and over again.
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  4757.  @dustinbaker8272  He called Tucker a white supremacist and then strongly implied that his views inspired mass shootings. Would YOU want to engage with anyone that makes those accusations? He did more talking than Tucker did. Tucker actually stopped talking so the host could carry on with his list of accusations. He saw to it that this wasn't a discussion but more of an indictment against Tucker. I will also lay odds that you've hardly ever watched Tucker's show, if ever, and are just mouthing talking points that you've heard about and not witnessed for yourself.
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  4758.  @rl8571  Well said. An interview has, as its goal, to try to peel back the layers of an issue in order to understand what is going on, to learn. Smith wasn't trying to understand or learn anything. He was there to win and understanding had nothing to do with this "interview". He allowed the encounter to become an interrogation with the clear objective of finding Tucker "guilty" of the crimes that Smith had assigned to him. The argument that Tucker does the same thing doesn't wash, either. If it's wrong and unethical for Tucker to "interview" in this manner, then the same rules should apply to Smith. However, this isn't Tucker's interview. We should concentrate on the interview of the moment and it was handled badly. I learned nothing from this interrogation except that they disagreed with one another.
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  4759.  @transistor3115  We like capitalism that operates withing the bounds of the law. We don't like the sale of slaves. That's capitalism, too. Isn't it ironic how that the Republicans, the protectors of capitalism, is the party that was formed, specifically, to end slavery. We believe in human rights and the Constitution and the rule of law. You're completely misunderstanding what "us guys" stand for.
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  4760.  Zainjal26  Those 2 little girls can't even tell you what asylum is. They're not true asylum seekers. It's a gambit that's being played so they can get into the US without the process that other, legit immigrants are going through and someone is telling them how to do it. They get here, tell the border agents that they're seeking asylum, even though they don't meet the criteria, get papers and then disappear, for good, into the US. They don't show up for their hearings because they know they don't qualify. So they hide in sanctuary cities and states and overwhelm the system with their presence. Lack of housing, medical care, schools and this idea that some Americans have that money is inexhaustible. This helps no one and if it isn't fixed, will be a big part of a future disaster.
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  4761. I call it "the Hitler effect". People are so afraid to criticise a minority problem, even when shown to be true, they keep silent due to a belief that any criticism is the first step on the slippery slope to Nazism and how Hitler, himself, began his journey into hell.
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  4762.  @NerdlySquared  "Eat the rich". This guy has money and he isn't smart enough to understand that they want it and will take it, over his dead body, if necessary. Their stupidity has gotten to the point of dangerous.
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  4763. You don't run into common sense like this too often.
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  4764. AUmapathi1 I don't want to lesson the impact the loss of the Arawak people or others had on them or even begin to suggest that it's a good thing. However, as an impact on world history, it's not that big a deal. Peoples have come and gone for tens of thousands of years and they include in the Americas. These are people that were already gone when the Europeans arrived there and whose existence will likely be forever lost in human memory. This has happened all over the earth. Their extinction had a huge impact on them at the time, but to us it's barely a footnote if anything at all. It's just a continuous pattern of human existence which ends with us. Columbus was one of those rare men who really changed the course of history. There are very few of those. Mohammed, Jesus (if he existed) or those that wrote the Gospels, Confucius, Guttenberg, Pasteur and Newton are others. They all had impacts on human life that had lasting effects and whose life's work will always have the distinction of changing the world. That doesn't mean that they were always good people. They weren't, just like the rest of us. The capacity for good and evil lies within us all. That's a given, like it or not and Columbus is no different. One of the biggest lessons we learn from men like that is not just the big contributions that they made but also in the realisation that they are ordinary men who did things that were out of the ordinary and that potential is in all of us, just like the potential to commit horrendous acts. Too many people want to vilify instead of learn. It's as if they're really saying how good they believe themselves to be and that is one of the biggest mistakes any person can make.
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  4765.  @typhoon2827  One of the reasons I was a bartender was because I was a roofer in the summer. I live in the north and you don't roof in the winter or during inclement weather. So, I supplemented my income by bartending on weekends and in the off season. It can be a very stressful job and lots of people aren't up to it. I have yet to hear someone tell me that roofing isn't a tough job, either. I know what tough work is. I will say that it depends on the situation. A Friday night can be extremely tough. Loud and drunken patrons, complaining and spoiling for a fight. I've been sucker punched, had beer bottles and ashtrays thrown at me...even a bar stool and had my eye gouged by enraged patron that I refused service to. People have threatened to shoot me, blow up my house, take a bat to me when I wasn't expecting it....all because I refused them service. All a patron has to do, if he leaves and drives under the influence and hurts someone, is blame you and you're responsible and could be facing lawsuits that could affect you for years. You could be fined if he's just walking home under the influence and he says that you were the one that served him to that point and, even if it's not true, you're guilty. If you're in a busy bar, not a restaurant or tavern, but an actual drinking establishment, it's tough. Anyone that says that it's not hasn't worked in that type of establishment.
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  4766.  @roneagle8038  I paid taxes on everything that I had receipts for. LOL. I know one thing. I paid a hell of a lot more taxes than those who lived on welfare did. They're one of the reason my taxes were so high.
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  4767.  @FriendlyCroock  Blexit is politics. Political parties try to get elected and to do that they go after votes. It's how they come to power. The Black community have voted Democrat for decades but they didn't always vote that way. There once was a huge switch, a "Blexit" if you will, from the Republican Party to the Democrats. Remember, the Republicans are the party of Lincoln, who freed the slaves and the party that fought the Jim Crow laws of the fifties and sixties, with Republican Martin Luther King as the leader. It was the Republicans that spoke out against the KKK who were almost exclusively Democrats. The "Blexit" started during the Great Depression and then was completed as a result of LBJ's "War on Poverty", which hasn't really worked out that well. They didn't call it "Blexit" but that's what it was. Now Candace is trying to get blacks to vote Republican, again. She's using the failure Democratic policies to show that segment of the voters that maybe those policies weren't as good for them as they hoped they would be. Some of the worst regions in the US are the black communities that are almost always the strongholds of the Democrats. She's pointing out that maybe voting Republican might not be as bad as they think it is and that it may not be as bad as it is right now. It's politics....not race baiting. Race baiting is when you use race to denigrate individuals of a race to shame them into falling into the group think. Sharpeton is a race baiter. So is Michael Dyson. They use the worst of tragedies to divide and tell one group that they should hold another accountable as a monolith. They foment racial divide, throwing gasoline on a fire that already exists. Candace is asking blacks to join her in her political beliefs. People like Sharpeton are saying that blacks can't think on their own and only he can knows what is good for them and if you deviate from what you're told to do, you're a race traitor.
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  4768.  @FriendlyCroock  One could see it that way, but she has been vilified by the left and she has been told, not just by blacks, but by white leftists, that she is acting against her own best interests. This implies that they believe that her endorsement of the Republicans is one that is, in fact, endorsing the white supremacist party. That's their accusation against her and in fact, that has been at the heart of the entire campaign against the Republicans, especially Trump, for the last few years. There has been a huge fixation on the left on white privilege, the white patriarchy and even Hillary said, during her presidential campaign, that white women only voted for Republicans because of their husbands as if they don't have minds of their own. How would you think Candace would respond to continuous claims that she's supporting a racist party and president when she doesn't experience racism from the right but it's the left that use racism to denigrate her conservative views. Is she not allowed to point out that it's the left that is using racism to try to cajole and shame her to rethink her politics? It's what is happening to her and it's not from the right. It's from the left. The Republicans welcome her into their fold and race is NOT an issue. The left use racism to get her back and it is an issue. Maybe she's just sick and tired of the relentless racist comments and shaming. Strange how a white "racist a-hole" (me), is defending a black woman (Candace). I gotta say the definition of racism has sure expanded over the last while. Actually, that's just another left wing tactic, one that Candace has been criticising. That tactic being, if you don't agree with someone, call them a racist and now you've just won your point. What a shallow position.
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  4769. I've had two Covid vaccines. I'm as protected from Covid as I'm going to get. If my neighbour doesn't want to get vaccinated.....fine. I'm not afraid of him. I'm protected because I'm vaccinated. If I'm not protected, why did I get the jab?
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  4770.  @jimmilne5549  No. I'm talking about telling people not to garden or mow their lawn. I'm talking about a arresting a man for playing ball with his wife and daughter in a park that wasn't closed. I'm talking about a complete closing down of an economy and thinking that this isn't going to hurt people. A United Nations report has said that if the economy doesn't go back to normal soon, 30,000,000 people will be facing famines and starvation of "Biblical" proportions. Their words, not mine. As the lockdowns keep going on, the numbers keep going up and may reach as high 150,000,000 people. That 150 MILLION people in 3rd world countries. Even the US can't go on with stimulus packages forever. The longer the lockdown goes on, the greater the chances for a disaster that might be WORSE than the disease. Unless you think it's alright for people in foreign countries to die so long as people are safe in the US, you have to realise that there are concerns that go further than just the disease.
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  4771. @@The1Waiter-gk4sz Mr Beast could also be showing the world that we can ALL help if we choose to. But, I suppose it's better to talk about it than actually do something. You're suffering from the scourge called envy. Mr Beast has money and fame and you're a guy that complains that no one has ever heard of. Grow up.
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  4772. @@The1Waiter-gk4sz Rich people are criticised for being selfish and money lovers and sometimes for good reason. However, when one of them spends his money on something good, like providing clean water for those who don't have it, you get mad about that, too. He's NOT my God. He's just some guy, who took some of his money and helped other people. I don't know what else he does. Maybe he pulls the wings off flies or visits prostitutes. I don't know or care. Answer this ONE question. Is it good that those people have clean drinking water or not? A simple yes/no question and should be easy to answer. You won't though. People, like you, never do.
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  4773. It would appear that CNN isn't the Kingmaker that they think they are.
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  4774. @ Good one. LOL. It reminded me of a day at work when I was shovelling some bad rolls of toilet paper off the floor into a baler for recycling. Someone stopped by and said to me how things just never seem change for some people. i asked what he meant. He said "You grew up on a farm shovelling cow shit. Here it is some 30 years later and you're shovelling shit paper". Funny guy.
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  4775.  @donkarnage6032  You've got to be kidding. There is NO video evidence of a "demolition" at the Twin Towers. However, you ARE correct that the American government took advantage of that situation. You're using poor science to justify your reasoning however. It's no different than the BLM phenomenon. Since there are 44 million black skinned Americans, all BLM and the media has to do is wait for an altercation between a black person and a white police officer. It's bound to happen. The numbers say so. Then the media and BLM take advantage of it. The same thing happened on 9/11. They didn't need to do anything. All they had to do was wait for the right moment, knowing that Al Qaeda would do something, and then use it to their advantage. That's it. Don't bother trying to prove this to me. I've spent hours studying every claim made by the "truthers" and analysed them from every angle. Science and the facts doesn't back them up. There's nothing that you can present that I haven't delved into quite deeply, years ago so don't even bother.
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  4776.  @quovadis7119  I'm no Christian and I support these mothers. Immigration laws are too lax in the US and a wall would help to prevent those with criminal records and associations from coming into the country. Mexico is going through a drug war right now. Last year, there were almost 28,000 casualties to that war, more than what died in Iraq, Syria or Yemen. In fact, the only war that had more losses was Afghanistan. This is a war over bringing drugs into the US, the main market for their illicit drugs. So yeah, they need a wall....badly and they need new policies that will prevent criminal illegals from going to sanctuary cities and hiding there to carry on with their criminal activities.
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  4777.  @anti-ethniccleansing465  They always end up being the refuge of the incompetent. Show me a shop steward and I'll show you the laziest guy in the shop.
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  4778.  @TAGGdinc  He's barely drew his foot out of the grave and you want to put a sword in his hand. Besides, his message implies that you have to fight the scourge of identity politics. That has never changed. His basic philosophy, or message, is still the same quest for truth. If you believe in that search for truth, you have no choice but to reject the identity politics movement.
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  4779. Release a murderer, out of prison that's rampant with coronavirus, and expect him to behave responsibly and follow all the guidelines of self isolation. Yeah.....good luck with that. I'm surprised De Blasio didn't tell people to hug a prisoner today
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  4780.  @blahblah1826  It's indoctrination when there is an agenda driving it. They just don't want the students to see the other "side" of the story. They want them to see that story in racialised terms, creating a dividing line between the "good" race and the "evil" race and that this dividing line still exists today. They're telling one segment of the student population that another segment of the population is at fault for any failures that they might have. They want a demographic to acknowledge their privilege and to accede those privileges to those that are deemed oppressed. That's NOT being open minded or using critical thinking. That's creating a division through a specific way of presenting a narrative and by the actions of that school board, it's not open to debate. When something is not open to debate, critical thinking is suppressed and openness is openly shut down.
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  4781.  @blahblah1826  In Pennsylvania, there is a book being read to 7 and 8 year olds, called "Not My Idea". This book talks about a little girl who calls her mother a liar and that her teachers are telling her the truth. They're trying to create a rift between parents and their children. The book then finishes off with a picture of a contract and says, quite explicitly, that white people have made a deal to get their privilege and free land. A hand is reaching for the contract and one can see the cloven hoofs and forked tail of the devil, implying that whites have made a deal with Satan. This is teaching about equity? You've either had the wool pulled over your eyes or you're flat out lying. This is a flat out racialized ideology that came out of critical theory and was devised by the followers of the Frankfurt School, a Marxist group that came from Germany and who were supported by that "humanitarian" Joseph Stalin.
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  4782. "A story about whiteness"....doesn't sound racialized to me. LOL. There is an extreme implication that human history isn't about how we have frailties and strengths. This implies that human history is a struggle against "whiteness", an indirect way of saying that humanity has struggled against a certain demographic that believes in their own superiority. That this is inherent to that demographic and it is the duty of education to ensure that the "whiteness" of that demographic is properly addressed before that culture of superiority is installed in them by their parents. There was once another ideology that taught that a certain group controlled the economy and the banks, to the detriment of ordinary people. That ideology developed into the most horrific period in human history. When you centre on the identity....WHITENESS.... or Juden....and the negative aspects of a specific group, you invite resentment and then retaliation. To teach a little kid, with a subtle implication that there is something inherently wrong with them, is horrific beyond imagination and I'm appalled that you and those like you can't see that. It has been done before with results that have directly impacted the lives of my family and I will resist it with everything my old body can muster.
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  4783. Here's a good rule to adhere to. Once you're into your 2nd bottle of wine, get off the computer and the cell phone. Something to live by.
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  4784.  @mmhmm9271  First of all, I was searching for your boundaries. Your original question provided none so I asked where those boundaries are. Jainism is an ideology that is extreme in their belief of the value of non-human life. All I wanted to know is where you stood on the subject to flesh out a rather vague statement of morality. Also, where did I say, or even imply, that wanting to preserve an ecosystem means that you hate humanity? That's a conclusion that you arrived at on your own because I never said anything even close to that. The last "point" that I made had to do with the way you said "even a shred of moral value". That sounded rather confrontational to me, as if questioning the ethics of the person that you were responding to. You don't know that person well enough (not at all really) to be bringing his morality into question. That's why I stated that you should be more concerned about your own morality before asking someone else about "even a shred of moral value" and even admitted that I was doing the same to you. However, that "shred" statement seemed judgemental and that you were poised on "attack mode" and that's what elicited my response. It appeared that I was correct in that assumption. Instead of just clarifying your question, you did exactly what I felt you would. You attacked me, calling me laughable and saying that I was lacking in intelligence. "Intellectually bereft drivel" sure does imply a belief in your moral and intellectual superiority over others.
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  4785.  @mmhmm9271  Actually, I wasn't upset that you called me unintelligent. I feel that name calling and insults is an extremely poor way to have a discussion or present an argument. (argument not being understood in the negative sense) I question my own intelligence all the time and that doesn't upset me. It challenges me to try to learn more. If I can't up my intelligence, at least I can up my information levels. I grew up on a farm and there was a symbiosis that involved both the keeping of animals and the raising of plant crops that's reflects what happens in nature. Humans have transformed our environment that disrupts the normally symbiosis between plants and animals and solid farming practices tries to mimic that relationship, which includes the predator/prey bond. Both are essential to the other in nature. Take away the predator and the prey, over the long run, will suffer and vice versa. We can't fully duplicate that bond in our agricultural practices but we can do the best that we can. We become the predator, in this new humanised world, displacing the role of the other large predators, and we allow the livestock to take on the roles, in nature, that the prey takes on. It's FAR from perfect and it's a progression of trial and error and we're starting to see that the factory method of farming, the specialisation methods, may not be the best way to raise our food. However, with a world population approaching 8 billion, we're forced into this new way of feeding ourselves, whether we like it or not. By the way the one thing that we learned, on the farm, is that flies can be a severe health hazard, to humans and to animals, although they are important to the environment. There is a balance in nature that you can't ignore. Maoist China found that out the hard way with their 4 pest program. It ended in crop failures. This is a very complex topic and I can't even begin to comment on it fully or give it justice. It would be best to allow us to live our lives the best that we can, as individuals, as long as we're not being overtly destructive. We should be willing to see each other viewpoints as part of the way we're trying to cope with the world and our place in it. I appreciate that you've responded in a conciliatory manner and didn't take on a defensive stance. I don't like the idea of sitting on opposite hills taking potshots at each other. Walking down the hill so we can speak civilly is a great deal more productive.
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  4786.  @td7723  Yet, you should care. The same government bureaucrats that ripped you off in taxes are the same ones that are allowing the retail stuff. They're ONE AND THE SAME. They just got you for 10 grand a year in taxes and they're allowing retailers, and the regular guy, to be ripped off one consumer item at a time. You think you can hide but we're all dealing with the same ROT. For a smart guy, you really are missing the point and the problem.
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  4787.  @Bfettrules  Also, I didn't SAY that I went to the Caribbean twice a year. I SAID that I went twice THIS year.
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  4788.  @Bfettrules  If you can.....good for you but that's NOT what you said. You said that it was impossible or implied that it was. It can be done. I find that the big reason that most people can't get by on very little is because of the green monster. They're too busy looking at the piles of others to attend to their own. I know. I was one of those at one time. It doesn't get you anywhere but your own little hell.
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  4789.  @lulusbackintown1478  I never ONCE said a thing about being stupid. I did say that people make poor decisions and how could you argue with that. People DO make poor decisions. I see it everyday. I worked as a bartender and watched just how bad those decisions could be, all the while listening to them blaming others. I commend you for finding your way through those tough times. I know that it's not easy but history has shown that life has never been easy. The one thing that got me through was to be grateful for what I do have instead of obsessing on what I don't or being envious of others. Envy kills your heart and soul and can be worse than the hardships itself. Don't give into it.
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  4790.  katttmandoo  It's why I was so opposed to the idea of "essential" jobs during Covid. Every job is essential to the person that's doing it. It's such a demeaning insult to tell people that their life's work, and 20 years at something is a life's work, means nothing. Only the elitist mind would be so arrogant as to say that to someone else.
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  4791. When she called Trump supporters a basket of deplorables, I sat there, mouth open, in disbelief. "What are you doing, Hilary?" I blurted out. I thought that this could have been the moment that really turned a corner for Trump. Who does that? I mean, who insults the people that you're trying to convince to vote for you. A Bud Lite moment.
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  4792.  @reddirtwalker8041  The theory of Marxism doesn't just go against human nature. It goes against natural law.
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  4793.  @kazekage55100  Marxist thought believes that socialism is a necessary step towards communism. Even the communists, of the Soviet Union, believed that their state wasn't true communism and it was in the process of working toward TRUE communism. Communism is the goal. Socialism is the process to attain communism.
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  4794.  @mitch_the_-itch  I'd rather be a cat than a sheep. Herd me and I might scratch you. Us cats may not agree on everything but we all want to preserve our freedom to be cats. On that we all agree. Herding is for tyrants. Sheep respond well to tyrants. Cats don't.
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  4795. @JRG2733 First....NO evidence that the Russians helped Trump. NONE. I thought that it might have been true at one time but I wanted to see the evidence. There has been NONE shown. Innocent until proven guilty. Guilt is proven with evidence. No evidence....no guilt. So that part of your argument is getting to be just plain dumb. Second.....Trump won through the electoral college vote. The electoral college was put in place over 200 years ago and the reason for it was quite simply why the United States rebelled against Britain in the first place. Taxation without representation. The 13 colonies were being taxed, without any input from the colonies, by the more powerful British government. The forefathers believed that each region should have a say in how they are governed and devised a system of regional representation. They didn't want the more populous regions to dictate to the more rural and distant regions. Why would states like Alaska, Hawaii, Montana and others like it even bother to stay in the union if New York, California, Texas and Illinois control the votes and the country. They'd separate from the US, just like the 13 colonies did from Britain. A simple civics course would have helped Hillary, immensely. They she would have realised that fly over America was important and wouldn't have had the arrogance to not bother to campaign in those states. She lost because of her arrogance and disdain for a certain demographic of America. The very demographic that voted for Obama, voted for Trump. Calling them a basket of deplorables may well have been part of the worst campaign strategy in American history. It showcased an elitist attitude that a lot of Americans hated. Actually, a civics course might do YOU some good as well.
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  4796.  @loudharley6926  The claim is that the Russians had dirt of Hillary and Trump Jr. went to find out what it was. So what was this dirt? The fact is that no one really knows what went on at that meeting and whatever it was, we don't know if there was a deal struck or not. What we know is one thing. They had a meeting. The Mueller Report turned up nothing. So, the entire thing was let go.....except by those who insist that they DO know. As for Flynn? Yeah, he was in a mess but there's more to it than we know. Wait till the Durham report comes out. This is beating a dead horse. It's no different than the media going on about the Covington Kids, in spite of the video footage that shows that those kids did nothing. Their only crime was that some of them were wearing MAGA hats. Wear that hat and you MUST be guilty. They still haven't proved a thing about Russian collusion. Adam Schiff said over and over that he had proof but nothing. The released transcripts showed that not one of them had any proof, in spite of what they said on TV. This is all about one thing. This is the Democrat dismay that Trump actually beat them. They can't believe it happened. They blame the Russians. They blame the electoral college system. They blame racism. They blame the gullibility of the hillbillies of "fly over" America. They blame everything but where the fault really lies. The Democrat party. They ran a terrible campaign and it's their arrogance that was their undoing. You'd think that 3 years of investigations they'd be able to remove Trump from office and they still can't do it.
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  4797.  @loudharley6926  They didn't even go through with impeachment proceedings after the Mueller report. Hillary lost because she didn't bother going to the swing states to campaign. She derided middle America, calling them a basket of deplorables and the Walmart shoppers. She told everyone that white people have to learn how to behave, that they have to accept their privilege and racist tendencies. Smart thinking that was. White people make up 65% of the population so she insults them and then expects them to vote for her. In the end, the VERY states that voted for Obama, voted for Trump. At the time, I didn't support Trump but I kept telling everyone that Hillary was losing her bid due to her arrogance and that she had to change her strategy and attitude. They called me Trumpster. You're doing the same thing that they're doing and worse, what the Democrats are doing. When you fail at something, don't blame others. Figure out what you did wrong, what you missed and don't do it again next time. But guys like you and the entire Democrat party won't learn. They keep on saying the same thing over and over and keep losing. If they lose again, what then? Are they going to be like Schiff and suggest it was because Trump offered Putin Alaska. I repeat....the VERY states that voted for Obama, voted for Trump. If the Democrats don't fix that, they'll lose again and mail in ballots and not requiring ID isn't going to help them.
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  4798. California will produce a lot of the food until they're no longer a part of the US and they start collectivising the farms in their socialist wealth redistribution plans. Suddenly, those farms will become, steadily less and less, productive.
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  4799.  @striper70  Even when he became Fascist, he still had a great admiration for Lenin and he was the first European leader to recognise Lenin's accent to power. Fascism and Marxism are extremely similar and many Socialists switched back and forth between Fascism or National Socialism and Communism. There are variations to their vision of Socialism but it's 2 sides of the same coin.
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  4800. "This is what Fascism looks like". She's right. Fascists would go to meetings and rallies and sit in the back and disrupt proceedings by jeering, heckling and making so much noise that no one could hear what was going on. The lack of self awareness is truly astounding.
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  4801.  @TubaTones  Yes and that's because Fascism was a brand new thing. It hadn't existed as a National ideology that ruled a nation before Mussolini founded the Fascist government of Italy. However, the socialist ideals of Fascism, was already solidly entrenched in the American conscious. Not as a known ideology with a name but one that was in practise, to a certain extent. Jim Crow is a variation of Fascism and was embraced by Hitler as a means to racial purity. It was a big part of the Dixiecrat philosophy that resisted the Civil Rights movement of the fifties and sixties. I find it surprising that more people don't realise this.
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  4802.  @marioarguello6989  The Crimean War ended in 1856, which is 58 years before WW1 started. Times had changed a lot. WW2 started 21 years AFTER WW1 and Hitler broke a lot of the mandates imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, long before the war even started. An 20 year old, in 1918, would be 41 when WW2 broke out. The memories would still be fresh in their minds. A 20 year old in 1856 would 78 years old when WW1 broke out. With an average lifespan of 52 years, in 1914, most Crimean vets were long dead. Also, Russia lined up with Britain AGAINST Germany at the start of WW1. Times change and they had become allies. That's not so unusual.
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  4803. That UPenn alumni doesn't know about the oppression hierarchy? Well...maybe he should find out. He's supposed to be a political and cultural analyst. It's his job to understand it instead of pretending that he's ignorant on the subject which I believe is much closer to the truth than his self professed ignorance. He doesn't want to criticise what the others said but he does want to sow the seeds of doubt on it. A very tricky and dishonest way to deal with a serious way of thinking...a way of thinking that's prevalent within academia.
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  4804.  @JhutaNabi  The problem with your viewpoint, that I can see, is that slavery was an accepted part of Christianity. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that slavery is wrong. No one wanted to be slave but they were quite happy to own one themselves. The idea, that slavery is wrong and was brought out by Christian groups, wasn't even thought of in Columbus's time. The very first Abolitionist group was started in Britain by Quakers in 1783. That's 277 years AFTER Columbus died. That's as far away from Columbus's time as we are from 1783. Before that, the idea that slavery was wrong, was not even close to a mainstream discussion although it was a topic among some academics and religious leaders. Had anyone told Columbus that slavery was wrong, he would have looked at them as if they'd been out in the sun too long. It would have been something that would have been inconceivable to him. After all, the Bible seems to allow it, especially in the Old Testament but even the New Testament tells slaves to obey their master. The anti-slavery movement grew out of Christianity but that was over 1500 years after the Church became a strong institution.
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  4805.  @JhutaNabi  Of course Columbus was controversial in his time. He was an Italian, getting exclusive licences to operate in the New World, in Spain. The members of the Spanish Court were envious of a foreigner getting these potentially lucrative deals. Also, Columbus was bull headed and ambitious and that would add to the bad feelings about him. Another factor was the tendency for other Europeans to vilify the Spaniards, including Columbus as he worked for the Spanish crown, in a movement known as the "Black Legend". This was a strong bigotry against anything that was Spanish. I think that it's laughable when I say that the anti-slavery movement started in the late 1700s and then you prove it with your reference to a paper wrote in 1836, when the abolitionist movement was starting to gain traction in the US. It uses new interpretations of the Bible to refute slavery. That's what the Reformation was all about....new interpretations of the Bible that forced people to question the dogma of the church and it all started AFTER Columbus died. I will give you another short example. My father was born 10 miles west of the German border, in the Netherlands. He was 8 years old when the Nazis invaded and him and his brother hid in a ditch, terrified, as the German army marched passed them. Yet, had he been born 20 miles to the east of where he had hidden, he'd be German and marching proudly, pretending that he was off to fight for the fatherland and dreaming of the day that he would be one of those soldiers. He's told me that many times. The difference between him hating the Nazis and being a good guy and loving them and being thought of as a monster, was defined by a line on a map. That's it. He knows that he'd have been just as susceptible to the lure of Hitler that all his school mates had been. What's really strange is that you hardly ever hear about the atrocities of the Aztecs and how they'd capture slaves to sacrifice to their Gods. These were blood baths and Cortez and his men were horrified at the carnage. Why aren't we talking about that? All people are doing is congratulating themselves on how moral they are by comparing themselves to those of the past who we now see as taking part in things that we feel are now wrong. Telling ourselves that we're better than they are when in reality we're not. We just live in a time and place in which we were taught to vilify these things because our ancestors started to question their beliefs....a product of our times. We're like my dad was, born on the right side of boundary that was set by others.
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  4806. It's worse than that. Young teenagers, going through the angst of puberty, are being told that their anxieties are likely caused by gender dysphoria. They're given packaged solutions which can result in big profits for those selling those solutions. Throw ideology into the mix and guess who bears the brunt of their idealism and greed. Teenagers and their families....and if you question these ideological and economic profiteers, they hide behind their accusations of bigotry. Incredibly, people are falling for this scam.
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  4807. How do you know that they were even accompanied by parents? I could take my 12 year old "nephew" to this show. I'm an adult and that's fits the requirement that they asked for. Sick pedos can be quite resourceful in their methods of grooming children. This type of situation is perfect for these weirdos. I'm glad that they're facing repercussions for this action.
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  4808.  @danieltrahan7197  He was talking about Tulsi. Is "F Trump" your response to everything? "I have a yeast infection" "F Trump" "I think my cat is sick" "F Trump" "There's a big pothole in the street in front of my house" "F Trump" You gotta put some more thought into your comments?
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  4809.  @sthubbins4038  You really support the city council hiring their own private police force while the rest of Minneapolis don't have the money for their own protection. YOU support the elitists and the average guy can go to hell. Thanks from every person that lives on a week to week paycheck.
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  4810.  @tamarasauls8855  All of which may be true but what does any of that have to do with the topic he's now presenting? If Hitler says that 2 plus 2 equals 4, does that mean he's wrong because of all the terrible things he's done? Of course not. This video is about the founding fathers and how they tried to deal with slavery and with the tyranny of the crown. Beck has shown documents written by Jefferson that sheds light on it. Let's talk about that.
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  4811. That's why he's at the G7 summit right now and has talked with all the world's major leaders, even Kim, the first American president to talk to a N. Korean leader face to face. You've just displayed the arrogance the brought defeat to the Democrats in 2016. They called the electorate, in particular, middle Americans, deplorables and hillbillies. They basically called them names and then honestly thought that this would be the best way to get them to vote for them. The dumbest campaign strategy in American history.
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  4812.  @E_Ten  Since you're so good at this, find us a site that shows how safe it is.
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  4813.  @E_Ten  I was talking about Hydroxychloroquine. How safe is it to take that drug. I never said a thing about masks. Besides, I worked a meat packing place for a time. We had to wear a mask 8 to 10 hours a day, except at breaks, 5 days a week. I've know more about wearing them than you do. My question has to do with the drug. If it's been taken for over 50 years now for various ailments, there has to be lots of data to show how dangerous or not, it is. Since you seem to have a handle on this, you must have looked into how safe it is.
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  4814. Communism would work perfectly if we were honey bees or ants. Perfect little drones. We're not, though and we never will be unless we subject ourselves to mass lobotomies.
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  4815.  Max Powers  In a lot of ways Nazism already embodied what the post modernists advocated in the sixties and seventies. That people in the west were not going to be susceptible to the Marxist class struggle so they had to change the game plan. Nazis went with the struggle and oppression between races. Post modernist went for identity politics. It's still the same game, just a renaming of the protagonists.
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  4816.  @westberryjim  He could well have been wrong. Just because he's the father of the United States, he's not above making mistakes. He's a human being. Also, those mandates can be refused by the parents on many grounds. I'm fully vaccinated but I support the rights of those who don't want the vaccination. Since I am protected, I don't really care if they're not. It's their life at risk. If I'm still at risk, what's the point of being vaccinated? I highly recommend that you get vaccinated but if you're foolish enough to not want it, it's your life and your choice.
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  4817.  @MatteoFitness  No one said that it was girly. It was something that the kid thought, maybe he was getting older and wondered why he still liked stuffed animals, and in his unsophisticated mind that had to be the logical answer. That's why this gender stuff is so harmful. It validates a passing thought and forces a child into a declaration that the child can't back out of. This parent handled this perfectly and said "It means you're a boy that likes stuffed animals". This showed the child that there are reasons why he might like stuffed animals and allowed the child room to live his life without the pressure of declaring gender.
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  4818.  @bonsa1guy  Are you saying that they've never spent money on helping the homeless in the past? Maybe that explains why it's so bad in California. They've never spent a cent to alleviate the problem....EVER. I'm so glad that you're exposing this.
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  4819.  @HgHg-yp6ft  What doesn't do any good in the first place? I'm not getting your point.
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  4820. So you don't feel badly for the children who have to live with severe handicaps for their entire lives? It's not just the financial costs, it's what those poor children have to live with. It's cruel and barbaric and totally unnecessary.
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  4821.  @josephwatts8022  He was the only one, out of thousands referred to, that had his party affiliation mentioned. ONE GUY. Why did he mention that when he didn't mention the parties of the rest of those caught in corruption scandals. Could it be that he is revealing his own party bias by mentioning it that lonely one time?
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  4822.  @josephwatts8022  What lie? The only time he mentioned party affiliations, in the entire video, was that one time that YOU referred to. That's a fact. That's all I said. I just wondered why he never mentioned party affiliations any other time. Asking a question isn't telling a lie. If you can show me, with facts, where I lied, I'll take back what I said and apologise for my error but I don't expect that to happen. You'll either repeat yourself or ignore me.
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  4823.  @scottgroves7474  "I know thats what tims been doing for the past 2 months" I wish people would stop making comments and then never explain what they mean or why they said it. You may as well have kept your mouth shut because you're comment carries no weight or meaning. It may feel good to get a couple of likes and a few "That's right" comments but it's no better than an "I'm right." and "No, I'm right" argument. It's what kids do on a school playground.
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  4824.  @chasethehistorian2003  Then why are so many people moving to Florida and leaving states like California and New York? Is it because life is SO great in those states and so terrible in Florida?
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  4825.  @blardymunggas6884  So which is it? Is it Sky News or Australia that's criticising New Zealand? You do realise that there's a big difference between the 2. Sky News has their own set of beliefs and principles that do NOT align with the Australian government (I'm assuming that's what you mean). Sky News is an Australian entity but Australia is NOT Sky News or is that too difficult a concept for you?
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  4826. Decolonisation of math....have you ever heard anything so ridiculous. Their brains are made of mush.
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  4827.  President Camacho  Scotty Bowman, the winningest coach in NHL history, was disliked by his players, often intensely....but he won Stanley Cups. That's what the players were there for. It gave them rings, prestige and inflated their paychecks. So, you stick with the winner even when you don't like him.
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  4828. I think that people should go to that San Fran restaurant, whose owners refused to serve 2 police officers, and pull a dine and dash. I'm wondering if they'd call the police to arrest you if you did. I'm betting that they do.
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  4829. Sylvertaco Columbus was a hard man, living in hard times. It was a part of who he was. He may not have had the fortitude to achieve what he did without that ruthlessness. It's not about making big judgements on individuals. It's the realisation that he, in may ways, was an ordinary man, who had his problems, just like the rest of us. We celebrate the idea that our history is filled with ordinary people, who have their faults along with there positive traits, who could still accomplish the near impossible things that can change the course of history. We don't celebrate Columbus day because he was perfect. We celebrate it because his imperfections were no different than yours or mine and he could still be such and important figure to the existence of humanity.
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  4830. Sylvertaco Had Columbus not gone west, it would never had given those scientists, diplomats and leaders the affluence and the ability to impact the world through their work and perseverance. The new world brought trade and a new diet that changed the way the ordinary person lived and gave those people a lifestyle of privilege and power that allowed for their ideas and discoveries to have an impact on the world. Most of those advances would not have been possible without the discovery of a brand new world that was unknown. History doesn't happen in a vacuum. Had the affluence that the New World brought back to Europe had never happened, a lot of those people that you mentioned would still be concerned about survival in a much poorer existence. The results of that is still impacting all of humanity today. Columbus and Gutenberg's printing press are 2 of the biggest events in human history. Nothing would be the same had those 2 events had never occurred. Human existence is a struggle. Life is a mish mash of the angelic and the horrific. Columbus embodied both, just like the rest of us. However, he did something that almost no one has ever done in history. He introduced us to a new world which opened new possibilities never contemplated before. It allowed all the changes that you talked about. It may have happened do to other innovations but we can't know that because we can't comment of things that never happened. Besides, there is no scientist, diplomat or leader that has lived spotless lives. They're human and as such they are flawed. We celebrate the ability to overcome those flaws and still achieve great things. That's what Columbus did. It was a momentous discovery he made and when he returned to Spain and told everyone about it, the world was never the same.
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  4831. Sylvertaco Of course there were advances that allowed Columbus to do what he did. They came in increments. Columbus tried to put it all together and he made mistakes but had he not, he might not have gone west to reach Asia. He took all the the small advances and used it to make one huge advancement. It's the same with Darwin. He didn't create the theory of evolution out of nowhere. He took all the ideas that scientists had advanced before him and coalesced them into one unified theory. Even then, it wasn't perfect, because nothing ever is but it changed the way we see the biology of life. Einstein is the same. He took all the ideas and truths of cosmology, mathematics and physics that had been gathering over a few hundred years and rolled into one unified idea that became the theory of relativity. He made mistakes but it was a game changer in science. You don't expect people to be perfect and you have to realise that they didn't to it alone. It's like Newton said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Great people take the works of others and then see or develop great truths or accomplishment that others have never done before them. Columbus was the one that took all the work of those before him and used it to try and accomplish something. He had no idea what the impact would have but within 50 years the world had changed immensely. All because he wanted a better way to get silk and spices and his answer changed the world.
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  4832. Sylvertaco Because you can't have an Einstein day and an Aristotle day, Darwin day, Pasteur day, Newton day, Copernicus day, Martin Luther King day (ok, you can have that one), Aquinas Day, Thomas Payne day, Adam Smith day and on and on, because it is unworkable. Columbus was one of the biggest and for some reason, through a kind of social evolution, people thought his accomplishment was bit enough to remember. It became a tradition. Suddenly, some people think traditions aren't worth having or they've decided that this person isn't perfect so that day should be eliminated. As a matter of fact, that's exactly why some KKK members fought the idea of a Martin Luther King day. They pointed out that he made mistakes and that eliminates his ideas as worthy. I wasn't around when Columbus Day was celebrated. People had their traditions back then. We still celebrate those traditions today. It's the same with Christmas. They are the result of tradition and heritage. They don't just pop out of the air like someone waved a magic wand. It's a remembrance of something worth remembering. You're making too big a deal out of it. You're telling people that their traditions are bogus because you don't get it. The answer is this. YOU don't celebrate it. Let others do as they will. I have no more right to tell others what is important to them than anyone else has to tell me what is important to me. If people want to celebrate Columbus, have at er. Now, I'm going to celebrate Thanksgiving....another day some people are now criticising. Also, a day that took place because a group of people heard about a land that lay to the west, across the ocean, and decided to got there. A land discovered by Columbus. See how that works.
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  4833. The reason people are changing names is due to a new ideological process that says that celebrating Columbus day is somehow racist and celebrates genocide. That's at the heart of changing the focus of that day. That's what I'm objecting to. It's a part of progressive thought that is vilifying western heritage and is, in effect, blaming all the ills of the world on a single group and reducing it to white colonialism, white privilege and the white patriarchy. It's saying that they've found the culprit and that they must now do everything to put an end to it. It's a symptom of a much bigger problem. It's the same solution that Hitler and his Nazis had. The fault of their problems was laid at the feet of the Jews and they had a solution. The fault of modern problems are now being laid at the feet of western civilisation and they must put an end to it. The vilification of Columbus is only a small aspect of it. To them, Columbus symbolises white colonialism. When they're done with that, they'll move on to the next symbol until they've laid their perceived problem bare. From there, I don't want to know where they intend to go.
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  4834. They tell you exactly why they don't like the name Columbus Day. They think Columbus is a colonialist. It's also why they've suggested naming it after the Natives of the Americas. It's that ideology that vilifies the oppressor and elevates the oppressed. You're missing the point that I made about the progressive thought. Progressive thought or post modernism, divides the world into the two groups, the oppressed and the oppressor. The oppressor is white colonialism. Start reading the twitter comments of extreme feminists and Antifa types. Read some of the works of post modernist and Marxist academics. They've laid all the economic and cultural woes of the entire world on European colonialism. That's where that parallel with Hitler is drawn. The Nazis also laid all of Germany's and the world's problems at the feet of the Jews. There are still people that do that on these comment threads. It's the ideology of blame. Europeans are blamed for everything that is wrong due to their colonialist past and Columbus is a small part of that. It's the same victim versus oppressor mentality. Replace white colonialist with Jew and you have a speech that Hitler could have given. Exact same words except the identifier of the problem. That's the only difference between the two.
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  4835. Explain to me why it is only certain speakers that aren't allowed to speak at universities? If I have the nerve to suggest, in some blogs, that BLM may not be the correct way to go to solve racial difficulties, I get creamed for it. If I say Serena Williams acted like a spoiled child at that tennis match, even though I also McEnroe also behaved like a spoiled brat in his time, I'm a racist and sexist. This is the group that has infiltrated the Democratic party and allowed Hillary to say that white people have to learn (fill in the blank) and that white men have to do (again, fill in the blank) and the party that suggested that the right are nothing but a bunch of bigoted hillbillies. I've always supported left wing ideas, until the end of the Obama era. It was then the left started to support violence, doxing commenters on social media, vilifying the male patriarchy, protesting speakers and smashing private property and threatening people they don't like. Wear a MAGA hat on campus at many colleges and you risk being attacked. Show a small segment of a debate on public TV, like Lindsey Shepherd did, and be reprimanded before a tribunal and told that you may have broken the law. Comedians don't even do colleges anymore because of the reactions of left wing students who shut up anyone that displeases them. I'm now a centrist, hoping that someone starts a movement of a group that allows freedom of expression and won't tell me that I have no right to free speech and doesn't carry the victim mentality that has permeated left wing thinking. I'm not even sure what strawman points I've made. Maybe you should be a little specific when you make those accusations.
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  4836. Sylvertaco Did you see that raving crowd at the Kavanaugh confirmation today? That's exactly what I've been talking. That mentality. Here is a sample of that mentality. Watch the entire thing. The youtuber is making her own take on it but she shows a clip of the types of people that the Democrats are aligning themselves with. It's why I've stopped voting in left wing politicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oohy7jB94k&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=qpw79UcQaPUMoZZk%3A6 Now, back to this Columbus day debacle. Read the reasons given for not celebrating that day any longer. It is a list of left wing talking points and exactly what I've been talking about. If you hear a person badmouthing Columbus, you can be sure that this person has the left wing ideology down pat. https://www.care2.com/causes/10-reasons-we-should-stop-celebrating-colomus-day.html https://medium.com/@danielberenson/twelve-reasons-not-to-celebrate-columbus-day-5689aff0e479 https://www.debate.org/opinions/should-we-have-columbus-day Dozens more just like it and they are all versions of the same talking points. Yet the bottom line is they are all, in one way or another, railing against the man that symbolises colonialism. It is no accident that the first place to change the name of that holiday to indigenous people day was a left wing Democratic city.
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  4837. Sylvertaco My views haven't changed a bit. It's the basic views and principles of the groups and political parties that I once sympathised with that have changed. This is a common point made by scores of people who all say that same thing and I'll paraphrase. "I didn't leave the left, I feel as if the left has left me". As an example, the left that I was a part of 40 years ago, would NEVER have taken part in the Kavanaugh witch hunt. They still believed in the rule of law and all the protocols that go with it. Not the left of today and not the Democratic party. Everyone would have been appalled at the craziness that went on outside the Supreme Court when he was being confirmed. The leftist of when I was young would have disavowed all that action and would have agreed with the idea of "innocent until proven guilty", the cornerstone our the western judicial system. We have all kinds of holidays that are devoted to non-Americans. Christmas and Easter celebrate the life of Christ, a Jewish man. Thanksgiving celebrate the coming together of British and native people, neither of which were American, although I will not be surprised to see the crazy left go after that some time in the future. I've already seen facebook memes that mock the idea of celebrating how white settlers give thanks to God and the Indigenous people and then proceed to slaughter those very people. I don't know if it will go any further but the seeds of dissent are there. Without the voyages of Columbus, there would be no America. That's exactly why the far left hate him. They believe America to be corrupt and should be destroyed and be rebuilt in a model that they've created. Some college equity groups now insist that meetings begin with the acknowledgement that we all live on land stolen from the "original people". Listen to the rhetoric from the Evergreen College protests of a year ago. That's exactly what they do. Do you believe that these ideologues would support anything Columbus did? Not a chance. The entire thing has its roots in a new ideology and it has been so deeply ingrained into the new left that many don't even know that it has been happening to them. It's a new way of thinking that has been taught to the children who have grown and has now become a part of the academic lexicon.
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  4838. Sylvertaco Would the theory of evolution always be a mystery had Darwin not put it out as a theory. I doubt that very much....but he was the one that did it. Similarly, I'm sure eventually someone else would have crossed the ocean and discovered the new lands.....but that didn't happen. We're not talking about the hypothetical here. We're talking about what DID happen. I've shown you all kinds of sources of why people don't want to celebrate Columbus or have a day for him, all of which are ideological. This is the source of these changes. Now, maybe you have another reason, like thinking that celebrating the life of a non-American is weird. I don't know but that would seem a little shallow and elitist, as if to say non-Americans should have nothing to offer Americans and should not be celebrated. I can't help but wonder though that it is an attempt to cover up the ideological and try to impress with reasons outside of the ideological to prove that it has no effect on you. I'm also putting out the idea that things don't happen in a vacuum and that if the only argument was that it's weird, you wouldn't be so deeply vested in getting rid of this holiday. It's like the feminist who's trying to say that we should get rid of father's day and then saying it has nothing to do with her ideology but more to do with some other vague reason.....like, it's weird. My issues with the left is that it has become ideological and rigid and that if you don't meet their standards of perfection, you must be vilified. That standard is completely arbitrary and anyone could be victims of its application. Find the flaw in the individual and then attack him/her for it. If you can't find the flaw, go to the one sure way to tear him down. Accuse him of a sex crime which must be believed. The flaws of Columbus were easy. The flaws of others might be a little harder to find but we still have the MeToo thing. You can always defeat the enemy that way. The new left has adopted a method to ensure compliance with their ways. The Columbus Day debate is only a small manifestation of how they think. Dare to step out of line and they will destroy you. It's a type of authoritarian rule that is based on group identity (celebrating the life of a non-American is weird, as an example) that is so powerful that there is no one immune to it's far reaching tentacles, including the most ardent left leaning ideologue. Just say the wrong thing and you could be their next victim.
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  4839. Sylvertaco Wow....one word arguments. That's deep. You are ignoring every thing I've said and then you claim strawman arguments. Maybe....just once, you might explain why they are strawman, instead of using an allegation. That is how we have a discussion. Explain the wrong in my stance. You have not given me one thing that gives a backup for your thoughts. I have, and you haven't commented on that. You refuse to admit it. You really have no idea what your objection is to having a Columbus Day holiday. You don't even know that you are stuck in ideological paradigm that says that you must object. "It's weird" That's it???.....that's all you've offered, "really weird" which is the heart of your position, which we both know that this is not it all....don't we?
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  4840. Sylvertaco The only reason that you've given for not having that holiday is a very simple "it's weird". That quite deep. I've tried to dig a little deeper but you'll have none of it. The "it's weird" is all you have. I don't believe that you're being all that honest about it....but I can't tell. You really won't say a thing, except...uh.....I don't know. It's weird. Really, REALLY weird. Weird is a little scary.
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  4841. Sylvertaco Wow...that is about the most smug and arrogant thing I've read in a long time. This whole thing came from a time when the average person had very little education and what they had was very limited. They learned the big moments of the past from the dozens of books, if they were lucky, that they had, and you have the absolute, unmitigated gall to call them "dumb". This was how, most of whom didn't get past a grade 5 type education, learned and appreciated the things of their history.....but they were "dumb". I suppose it was similar to my mom and dad, who back in the thirties, didn't get past grade 6 in school, dumb people.... or my grandparents, one of which left school when he was nine to go to work......what a dumb ass. It a simpler time. You are applying your.....OUR world view onto people who lived completely different lives than we do, but they're "dumb". My God. What absolute and complete arrogance. No respect for the past or for the lives they had to live. Just your own complacence and belief that you know how "dumb" the people of those times were. Wow....just Wow. Maybe, for just one moment, you could realise what life was like for those "dumb" people, you'd feel a little empathy for them and the lives that they had to endure. But no....they're just a bunch of "dumb" hillbillies. How arrogant.
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  4842.  @Razorokc  My point is that because THEY consider theft, which we all think of as a crime, under $1000 bucks a misdemeanour, statistically no longer a crime. That's not ME saying that. It's a word game that they're playing. A misdemeanour is not considered a crime. So....when politicians do this, those crimes are no longer part of the crime statistics. That means, when compiling crime statistics, those thefts are no longer in those stats. They then claim that crime is going down. It's a sleight of hand, so to speak. Read my comment, AGAIN. I NEVER said that theft under $950 was a crime I SAID, and I want you to understand that, that in California.....CALIFORNIA, not me, that theft under $950 is a misdemeanour which is NOT a crime. They've solved their crime problem by LYING, using word games. "Crime is going down. Look at the statistics" It becomes difficult to prove them wrong because THEY control how crime stats are being compiled. To show how ridiculous it is. NY governor Hochul claims that crime is down but has placed the National Guard in the subways to keep people safe. This has never been done before. The Democrats are destroying this country through BS. THAT is my point.
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  4843.  Mark Bailey  So you'd believe a politician just because they're a Democrat? Man...I see one gullible guy. I don't trust anyone....Republican OR Democrat. I test what they say and see if it's the truth and then I give an assessment of it. Democrat politicians must just love folk like you. LOL.
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  4844. They're not just pandering, they're encouraging rage, division and violence. Good news doesn't sell. Bad news does. If there's nothing going on, people don't watch the news. They tune in when there's something ominous or dangerous happening because it's interesting and threatening. They're also owned by big money, who don't like populists and fighting the establishment because big money IS the establishment. Big money and the bureaucrats in Washington. It's why they hated Trump AND Sanders. I'm astounded at those that can't see it.
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  4845.  @matthewcurry3565  Jews and Christians celebrate torture? Sacrifice I get. You sacrifice the fun things in life, when young, to attain success, economically and culturally, because it becomes more difficult when you're old.....but torture? Who celebrates torture? You're going to have to explain this to have it make any sense. Maybe you're correct but you're going to have to explain it.
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  4846.  @anfran7262  Could well be. His comment sure does sound like computer generated word salad. I can't say for sure. There are people who love California and most of them make a lot of money and don't have to live the lives that most of us have to live. Either way, I have no use for trolls and bots and also for those who, because they have the money, won't see or don't care about the reality of life for those not as fortunate as them. It's the "I'm okay, Jack. Everything's fine" attitude of a lot of the elites.
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  4847.  @redfoxtactical8425  Okay. If "Liar, liar, lies and LIAR" is informative, then I'm uninformed. I don't happen to think so. He didn't start out by examining the information available. He started out by calling them all liars and then kept repeating himself. A great way to start an informative conversation. I'm not about to sit through 2 hours of it. There are other things to do. Instead, I read a book about the Americas before Columbus. It was quite informative and I learned a lot.
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  4848.  @redfoxtactical8425  If he hadn't started out so aggressively, maybe I would have stayed tuned in but he came out swinging. I used to tell my ex-wife "Why are you yelling at me? Put the gun away and let's talk." Gun being a metaphor. If she wouldn't, it was pointless to go on. I couldn't tell him to stop being so aggressive and, like I said, I wasn't going to listen to a couple of hours of it. "You're living on stolen land". Ever hear that one? That's also part of the progressive culture. Maybe if I learn something about history and how different people lived and about their relationships with one another, I'll have an argument based of facts, instead of the emotional "You're living on stolen land" talking point.
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  4849.  @MariaMartinez-researcher  Do you know what's rude. Claiming that you're a minority so you can get ahead professionally. That's not just rude.....that's racist. Trump mocking her might be crude but she has it coming to her. She pulled a dirty stunt. Seemingly giving approval to affirmative action so she could use it to her own advantage. For almost 70 years, North Korea has been threatening the US, South Korea and Japan. Japan has had air raid sirens go off due to Kim's missile tests. All the former presidents did was add more sanctions which only hurt the regular North Korean but it didn't affect Kim one bit. Trump thought he'd try a different approach. Communication....this was once prized as a way of settling differences. Instead of amplifying differences, try to find common ground and it has shown some results. There's still a long way to go but at least the tensions have eased over what it was. That's good, unless you want to be locked into perpetual sabre rattling. Then you'd support the lack of communications strategy. Anyone that thought that Mexico was going to give the US 5 billion dollars on Trump's say so, is either delusional or just using it as political fodder. Most Trump supporters knew what he was doing when he said it. Use your head....a little bit, anyway. Also, the Greenland thing was an offer. There was nothing forcible about it. I could offer you money for your car. That doesn't mean I'm forcing you to take it. It was an idea, that's all. I know Trump is brash and abrasive but you have to try to understand what it is he's trying to do. He's doing what no other president has ever tried. He's listening to the average American, no matter who they are. That's why he is the populist president. As long as the Democrats refuse to understand him, he's going to beat them. "Know your enemy" an abridged quote from the great Sun Tzu, would be exceedingly helpful for Democratic supporters. Instead, they just attack without ever getting into his head. It's why Trump won the last election and why he has a good chance of winning the next one.
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  4850.  @Colin22  I was married once. Thought that she was the best human that ever lived. Worked 6 days a week to do the things that make a solid family. Then, things changed. Now, I wouldn't give her the time of day. I couldn't believe what a shrew that woman was. I changed my mind about her. Apparently, now I'm a grifter. I guess the rule is that people are not allowed to change their minds. I didn't want to be a grifter....but I am. I'm a Tim Pool clone. Changed his mind and now he's a grifter. It couldn't be that he grew up and was taught to think a certain way and after awhile he saw that maybe there were huge problems with the way he was taught to believe. NOPE....he's a grifter. Only possible explanation. I'll throw in my own conspiracy. You're a Chinese bot. You're job is to denigrate all Conservative voices. How despicable.
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  4851.  @Tomfoolery1972  You become a refugee to.....I don't know.....somewhere????
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  4852. That's because you're not some insane ideologue. It's as if they're evangelicals for sex. It's the creepiest thing that I've ever heard of.
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  4853.  @Theretailtrader1  Another problem is the sectarian and religious strife caused by mostly Muslim groups. Add that to corruption and the fact that success doesn't happen overnight and you now have multiple roadblocks to prosperity. It works in the US because they don't have those problems to the extent that we see in Nigeria. Give those Nigerians, like orbo Akin, opportunities in a land that has valued the rule of law, and they will thrive. All you need is the desire to be the best that one can be and opportunities and you'll have a formula to prosper. That we try to suppress that mindset, within our own black population, is the biggest travesty in our society, comparable to Jim Crow and slavery.
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  4854.  @hokahey7236  The one that they're not is snowflakes. They're brutal authoritarians and are using emotion to beat you down and put the boot on your throat. Do not underestimate how cruel and powerful they are.
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  4855.  @HANKHILLFORTXGOVERNOR  Spam is the tactic of those who have nothing else of value to say. It's small minded and frankly, a little nasty....and I'm 100% against affirmative action. I got the point the first time I read it. I don't want to keep reading the same damn thing over and over again. For all I know he's a bot and not even a real person. I don't talk or listen to inanimate objects
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  4856.  @harambe1580  If humans are a product of evolution, then we've evolved just as nature would do it. To this point, as far as survival goes, we're the most successful species on the planet, right now. Since evolution is all about finding strategies to survive, so far we've done quite well and it would seem that we're exactly as we should be. Doom and gloom predictions are just scenarios, not written in stone, but possibilities of the future. We just don't know where this evolutionary path will lead us. I'm glad to see that you're not so embittered that you'd dig in deeper and are willing to listen to other ideas. With an attitude like that you could still find contentment in your life. It's a good place to work from. Good luck to you.
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  4857. The closest that Stalin ever got to be like one of the masses is when he realised it was almost 1 pm and he hadn't had lunch yet. That was his Holodomor. Funny how the commie leaders eat so well while the people they "love" starve.
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  4858.  @helvetewinter68666  We've just found the devil. "It's THEM!!!! THEM'S THE PROBLEM". Get thee behind me Satan.....or is it Adolf.
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  4859.  Richard Russell  His lies? Coronavirus causes a big downturn in the market and there was a rebound. Then Russia and Saudi Arabia get into an oil fight which cause another downturn. These are the Trump lies? I stubbed my toe this morning. If Trump hadn't lied this wouldn't have happened. I'm not a big fan of Trump but letting your hatred of the guy and conservatives in general, isn't exactly helping to make you think in a logical manner. This really has little to do with Trump but with the volatility of world markets. He can't tell them how to think.
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  4860. As much as I hate communism, I'm not one to support the "better dead than red" idea. Once dead, there is no hope and you've let them win. I'd never give up fighting that idea, no matter what.
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  4861.  @matsv201  The left loves to do that and they'll do it for everyone. They find the flaw and then dismiss that person for it as if that's the only thing that could possible define that person. They use it against the idea of Capitalism. "Yeah but, not everyone is benefitting." When you point out the horrific accesses of socialism, it's "That wasn't true socialism". It's all mental gymnastics for those guys. Basically, they don't like the idea of individual freedom and accountability.
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  4862.  @zwicker5585  I had 38 kids in my class in grade 8. He was the school principal and we had grades 7 and 8 in the same class. He was able to do it then. All teachers had to. More and more people ARE homeschooling but A) a lot of parents have to work and B) the left isn't all that happy about parents choosing that option. They went apoplectic over school choice, like in charter schools. They have no business talking to kids about sexual matters on an intimate level. THAT'S called a relationship. They're responsible for the welfare of the kids while they're in school.....not 24/7.
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  4863.  skharri18  Instead of back handed ad hominem remarks, why don't you explain what's wrong with what Peterson said, in this context, and how I interpreted it. Not some crap about lobsters or religion, just the point that I made. How is this mystical teaching?
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  4864. I don't WANT violence but you try to steal from me, threaten my family or my livelihood, I will do what I must to stop it. I worked as a bartender and doorman for years and I hated dealing with unruly drunk customers. However, just because I didn't want violence, that didn't mean that I wasn't going to use it to protect innocent customers and staff. I threw one guy out into the street on his head and he screamed at me that I loved doing this kind of thing. I told him this "NO....A-hole. I hate it and I hate people, like you, that FORCE me into it. Go home and don't EVER come back". I didn't want him to come back because I didn't want to have to throw him out again. Sometimes you do what you have to do, NOT because you want to but because it's the right thing to do.
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  4865. When you vote for one party, loyally and without question, you leave yourself open to manipulation through trickery or shaming. Once manipulated, you've voluntarily given up your rights and your freedom. Its good to see that people are starting to see that.
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  4866. Ideology ALWAYS trumps science and truth to the ideologue. It's not the PhD that worthless. It's his belief system that forces him to fit his science into his ideology. Then, because he knows that he can't use science to justify what his ideology forces him to say, he resorts to the appeal to authority fallacy. "You must accept what I say because I'm the expert". I must reiterate. It's not the PhD that is worthless. It's that his belief system forces him to use that Phd as a tool to advance his ideology. He has rendered it useless.
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  4867.  @knightmare1235  I'm fully vaccinated and I can't stand Joe or the Democrats. For most of us that are vaccinated, it has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the scientific data collected over 225 years that shows how well vaccinations work and the people who owe their lives to their discovery.
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  4868.  @Stonezster  YOU can't see. Fortunately, it's not up to you. It's up to Dave. You're condemning him for things that he hasn't even done yet. Why not wait to see how it works out? To judge others is considered to others is the sin of pride. To judge on things that haven't even happened is the height of arrogance.
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  4869.  @Stonezster  Got nothing left so you mock me. Maybe it's good for a "lol" (I don't) but it does nothing for your claim. So.....go ahead and congratulate yourself for your self awarded win. It's really nothing to be proud of.
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  4870.  @Stonezster  "Are you trying to impress a GF or something, lol..." Strong implication that I'm a fake and would lie to further an agenda. I'd call that mocking and insulting and quite narcissistic. It's also gaslighting to the nth degree.
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  4871. Bring a pink haired suburban lady. She might wash out the pink after seeing this movie.
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  4872. It's not often I disagree with Mr. Sowell but I have to disagree with one thing he said. The media isn't misinformed. They know the facts. They choose to ignore them to present their own version of the facts. To wit.....When CNN first covered the story of the Covington kids, they ran that shortened clip that was designed and edited to give the narrative that these MAGA hat wearing kids were doing something despicable. They knew it wasn't true and it didn't matter to them. What makes me say that they didn't know? I'm a guy, not even American, sitting in my basement apartment, and it took me 10 minutes to find the original clip and it showed a completely different story. If some guy, living in a different country, could find this clip, I'm positive they knew of its existence before I did. So, I'm sorry to say, Mr. Sowell, I think that the media, by and large, is flat out lying to us.
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  4873.  @guard213  By El Salvadoran illegal immigrants. It's origins are El Salvador and our government has tolerated their existence.
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  4874.  Google "Dancing Israelis"  You're insane.
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  4875.  @americansfirst1095  You're just as bull headed as this teacher in the car. Just because you have the internet in your home doesn't mean that you can't restrict access to it. My daughter insists that the internet only be used in the living room where she can see what's on. She also restricts what they can access. Only so much time on the internet everyday. Weather permitting, they're either outdoors, or spend time doing household chores or doing kid stuff. Their cell phones have no data and are only used when they leave the house to visit or go on errands. To phone friends, they must ask permission. Cell phones and the internet are a fact of life. It's best to teach them to use them responsibly instead of being a tyrant.
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  4876.  @teeanahera8949  Yet, every civilisation, every tribe, in every part of the world had their version of the "sky fairy". Why is that? Can you explain it? Can ANYONE fully explain it. Also, it's very easy to claim that religion caused most of the world's conflicts. Every tribe, group, country, what have you, had religious beliefs. If they went to war, they called on their gods to help them. Does that mean that the belief in those gods was the cause of the war? Or is it just human conflict, the need for better hunting, fishing or agricultural lands because they're starving. Maybe they wanted the riches of their opponents. Maybe they wanted women because they'd just been decimated by disease or hunger and they had to rebuild their numbers. Primatologist, Jane Goodall, was shocked to be a witness to a group of chimpanzees crossing their boundary into the land of another troupe of chimps and slaughtering every one of them. Was that religion, too? Chimps aren't even capable of that kind of thought, yet they acted just like humans, invading the lands of others, slaughtering them and assuming control of that land. How is that even possible? People go to war and give all kinds of reasons but what is the real reason behind it? I think that "religion caused it" is a very weak argument to explain the human condition. It's also another way to assign a moral superiority to oneself. "I'm the advanced one. Better than THOSE guys" We have to look deeper into why we behave the way that we do.
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  4877. @Salamanda Wilde Another person that doesn't understand the moral of the story of the Garden of Eden. Others are evil, in your mind, and you're going to point out exactly who those evil doers are. Nice to finally meet that perfect human being. (high brow sarcasm)
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  4878.  @sharonkoebel553  There is none. It's gone. It's no different than saying pregnant person. Only women can get pregnant or carry a baby to term. Only women should get a women's award. We have a segment of our population that want's to blur what we, as human men and human women, have contributed to society, in our unique and specific roles. It's extremely damaging to both sexes. However, women are carrying the brunt of this new transgender ideological craze.
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  4879. I didn't feel betrayed. Disappointed would be more accurate but in a realistic way. Not one tear was shed.
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  4880. It is happening. There's a huge convoy on the American side of the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. That's what they're talking about when they say that it's costing a billion dollars a day for the protests to continue. The American media doesn't want you to know that it's happening.
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  4881. When a child reaches puberty, of course they're going to feel uncomfortable with their body. I used to have a great singing voice, the voice of an angelic choir boy. I sang everywhere, won awards, everyone telling me how talented I was. Then, just after my 12th birthday, my voice cracked. Try as I might, I couldn't hold a tune, anymore. My choir boy voice, a BIG part of my identity, was gone. I was devastated. Hair started growing in places that never had hair before and my privates were doing things that were quite troubling. This couldn't be my body doing these things. Yet, it was doing them and I had to realise that my body is going through changes that every human has to go through. It's natural and normal. I can now hold a tune but my voice just doesn't move people like it used to. I miss those days but life has given other blessings so I'm not complaining about it. Thankfully, I didn't live in a time where puberty blockers would have seemed like a solution to a normal life process that I didn't like happening. I was a kid. What did I know about life and the changes that I was destined to go through? It's not the wrong body. It's the wrong way of thinking.
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  4882.  @NickKautz  That's exactly it. There were 2 factions in the crowd. One faction would cheer when Peterson made some good intellectual points. The other faction cheered whenever he mentioned the violent and destructive nature of Marxism, demonstrating their approval of that violence.
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  4883.  @TOUGHEYES  I'm hoping that you understand that I was speaking metaphorically and it seems that you do. I'm going to add that this embracing of the Satanic self is generally a conscious choice, a surrender to the devil on the left shoulder. Why one would do that is another puzzle. It may have an obvious answer but since I'm not given to violence and destruction, it's not obvious to me.
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  4884. @Butter Emails So are you. You're right here on FOX. What's up with that? You're here, on FOX, making fun of someone for being on FOX. SMH.
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  4885. If you stick your fingers in your ears and hum loudly, it'll be okay and you won't have any similarity to that political group who is not to be named. Honest, it works.
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  4886.  nofy bn  You're such a bitter individual. Lighten up a bit.
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  4887.  @cindamcdade2787  I think that he was being facetious. That means he was joking.
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  4888. Andy Ngo may be a soft spoken individual but he's got more courage in his little finger than all those masked cowards put together. Big respect for Andy. By disgust for the masked mob that attacked him.
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  4889. I've just heard that Richard Spencer is endorsing Biden. I've got to fact check that one.
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  4890. It ended up being a brilliant move. The black and white depicted the drabness of Kansas as compared to the beauty of Oz. Yet, at the end of the movie, Dorothy goes back to drab Kansas and is so happy to be home. It's one of the greatest movies ever made. I'd be embarrassed to even try to remake it. It deserves to stand on its own.
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  4891. I'll bet she supports the toppling of that great Republican statesman in Rochester NY. Can't have a statue honouring a Republican even if it is Frederick Douglas.
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  4892. "I wish her well" meant that he hoped that she wouldn't be Epsteined.
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  4893. You know.....I've learned some of life greatest lessons from those that you'd consider "dumb". Everyone has something to teach you....even those at FOX.
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  4894. Why not. I grew up on a farm. I've seen animals having sex since before I went to school. Everyone that grew up on a farm that raised any kind of livestock were witnesses to animal sex, routinely. By the time I was 8 or 9, I knew that if the cows were mounting one another, it was time to get a bull for breeding and would inform my dad what I saw. Most of us figured out human sexuality by a constant exposure to animal sex. It's as normal as watching cows defalcating or urinating. A natural process of life.
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  4895. It may not mean that what he wants of the world. It may mean that it will be inevitable. If Jesus is speaking the truth, we're stuck with another truth, too. The truth hurts. People don't like being hurt and they may react with violence. Jesus said to love your neighbour, as well. However he didn't say that your neighbour would love you back. That could be what he meant when he said that his words weren't going to bring peace. One thing is certain. Loving your neighbour and turning the other cheek is quite at odds with that verse unless you understand it differently.
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  4896.  @marisawright2224  How many accounts do you have?
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  4897.  @hmacklemore2226  Now, you're going to tell us that the science says that being fit, eating healthy foods and making sure that your body has the proper nutrients and vitamins won't help you fight off a disease. Then WHY is it that the aged and those with comorbidities are the ones that are the most likely to die from Covid? All the scientific data say that this is true. It's almost as if being healthy DOES help one fight the disease. Rogan didn't just talk about vitamins. He said that he worked out and took care of himself and is in excellent health. That means that he's NOT obese, doesn't have heart problems or diabetic. These are ALL problems that could be avoided by a lot of people. That's science, too. Some people only use science when it suits them.
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  4898.  @davidjames8031  I've read the new law and it goes a long way to cut down on wait times in a line to vote to no longer than an hour. 1 voting booth for every 250 registered voters in a precinct. If people wait in line for more than an hour, they will add another voting booth, in that precinct, until those line ups are no longer an issue. However, since voters can vote by mail or vote early, it is highly unlikely that 250 voters will show up on election day for every booth and overwhelm the system. Unlikely, as in, it won't happen.
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  4899.  @Rensune  "You CANNOT allow"???? Who are YOU to decide how any parent should raise their kids. Of all the unmitigated gall. What else are you not going to "ALLOW"? This is exactly how we're losing our freedoms. It's the arrogance of those who think that they're the ones that know how life should be lived and then imposing on those who disagree. At one time it was the church that wanted to tell us how to live. Now it's the ones that tell us that "you CANNOT allow" that are doing the same thing and they're using the might of the state to impose it on us. Thank you so much oh wise one.
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  4900.  @Rensune  "You CANNOT Allow"......this was copied and pasted from your very first comment. Who are YOU to tell me what I should be allowed to do? If you don't "allow" me to do something, you've taken away my right to do it. You actually implied that you want to dictate what is said at my dinner table. It's NOT your dinner table and it's MY family. Keep your nose out of my personal affairs.
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  4901.  @DGPHolyHandgrenade  Answer the question. Do you support voter ID and prove citizenship?
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  4902.  @Jonsey-lm5sv  There are people, who aren't considered attractive or who've been socially awkward, who become very resentful and bitter. They tend to associate with, especially on the internet, who've had the same life experiences and are equally as bitter. This affects how they think, which includes their politics. I have a nephew like that. He's extremely bitter and he lashes out at what he sees as favoured in society. The good looking ones, the ones with money or who seem to have lots of friends. Strangely, as a musician, he's had lots of people that fawn over him but it seems they're all of the same mindset. His music reflects his bitterness and his followers love this. This also reflects in his political views. He's anti everything, a Marxist anarchist. There's no appreciation for anything...just bitterness.
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  4903. I've never met your Haitian friend or co-worker at the airport but I like him already. I admire people that make their own way and don't wait for others to do it for them.
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  4904.  @TrilobitesRTasty  I really hope that you're correct but there's a lot of stuff coming out that's not looking good for the Biden family. I don't want there to be corruption but if it's there I want it investigated and FULLY. Which brings me to my issue with YOUR comment. You've already decided and it appears that the evidence will never convince you. You'd allow corruption as long as it's from the party or ideology that you like. That attitude in a voter is quite concerning. I'm taking a look into all this Laptop stuff and it's unbelievable. Now, even the NY Times is starting to say that this laptop is more than what they said it was back in 2020. Don't be so eager to let corrupt politicians off the hook.
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  4905.  @danajohnson4480  What an incredible response. I'm the "mad" one because I'm prepared for any type of natural disaster. I think that NOT being prepared is "mad"...to the point of pure stupidity. I've kept a larder that would last at least 3 months for decades. It's came in handy at least 3 times in my life. The first time was the big ice storm of '98. I had no power for 2 1/2 weeks but I had fuel to cook and a system to keep warm. Why didn't everyone else do that? Then a tornado caused difficulties a few years later. Same thing, no power and trees and hydro lines down all over the streets of my town. I say quiet, helped neighbours clean up, even offered water and food for those who need it. Some of my neighbours even took my advice and started to keep important items in case of a sudden disaster. If EVERYONE was prepared, those black marketers would have no one to sell their stuff to. Their prospective customers would laugh at them and tell them to go away. By the time things sorted out, the TP would have been back on the shelves and those black market entrepreneurs would have been stuck with their TP and it would have served them right. What an upside down idea, that being prepared is madness. Madness is NOT being prepared. It's as foolish as it gets. It allows you to be at the mercy of the black marketers and government aid. I'd rather tell them that I'm good and go help those that need it.
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  4906. A race to the bottom. Not a contest I even bother with. How bad Nixon was is irrelevant to how bad Biden is today. I want to solve the problems we're facing now.
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  4907.  @merrinbuchan2488  The young people that go there, go on their own accord, a choice that they made. You're not seriously advocating that young adults should no longer be allowed to choose the manner in which to be educated, are you? Isn't that the very definition of tyranny? A governing force telling what you should learn and how you should learn it. If you don't like what a Wesleyan college or university is teaching....DON'T GO THERE!!!! No one is forcing you to attend that college. There are hundreds of secular colleges to choose from. You have a right, the freedom to choose, reiterated by the Constitution, to go where you want. Exercise that choice and don't impose YOUR choices on others.
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  4908. Ted Wheeler embarrassed himself years ago. This is just the first time he's done it on an international stage. Those Kente cloths, that Pelosi wore, are, apparently, a traditional Ashanti mode of dress. The Ashanti were a major slave trading nation. A great many of the American Blacks, have slave ancestors may have been sold by the Ashanti to white slavers.
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  4909.  @amyh3873  When you control thought and speech, through legal force, you are the one that's the bully, even if you BELIEVE that right is on your side. Without the ability, even if it's perceived as malicious, to express oneself freely and honestly, we lose our ability to change. It's just as wrong for me to censor your comment as it is to censor my comment. Neither one of us has the right or the wisdom to control what others think and say and repeating your comment, in multiple comment threads, doesn't make your ideas any more valid. It's called trolling.
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  4910.  @scottfarner5100  My sister crossed into the United States, illegally and when caught she was summarily kicked out of the US and sent back to Canada. She's white, red hair and blue eyes, so this had NOTHING to do with racism. She was told that if she EVER enters the US again, she will not be deported right away but will be sent to jail first. Is this legal? She crossed the border, from Canada and was deported. If this is the policy and doesn't break the law, why aren't they detaining the illegals at the southern border and deporting them back to their own country of origin? Can my sister SUE the American government for preferential treatment? There are immigration laws the must be followed and crying refugee, without evidence, from countries that are NOT in a war, civil or otherwise, do not fill the requirements for refugee status. If they're not at war or being persecuted by their governments, they don't fill the refugee status. Yet, the government is still allowing them in and by the millions.
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  4911.  @ScoutEboy  Says who?? The guy that's being accused? Our jails are filled with innocent people. Just ask them. They're all innocent.
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  4912. Why not make a movie? You don't have to watch it....unless our government starts showing acceptable propaganda movies across all outlets 24/7. Sort of "Big Brother" type stuff. Could happen. I wouldn't be happy about that.
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  4913.  @Skoomachu  My dad immigrated to Canada in 1951. He's now wishing that he hadn't.
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  4914. LOL. Didn't take him long to form a swamp, did it? He's been a politician for 3 years. That's pretty good work. What would you think more likely? A third year politician, with no political past or real ties to the government, who has the ire of ALL of Washington, the Dems and Never Trumper Rhinos, OR.... the career politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists who've built a network of back scratching and glad handing cronyism, going back decades? Logic dictates the answer but sometimes logic doesn't always shine through.
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  4915.  faultroy  My grandfather? You act as if you know me. My one grandfather died when I was a year old. He didn't get to teach me a lot. My other grandfather suffered a severe stroke when he was 29 years old. He wasn't found for almost 5 hours and had severe brain trauma from which he never recovered. He spent his entire life in an institution unable to even feed himself. He lived in Europe and although I never met him, he wouldn't have been able to say anything to me, anyway. So, there goes you theory about me being that moronic that I wouldn't even listen to my grandfather. You're a rather presumptuous jerk, do you know that? Also, I wasn't talking about a work ethic. I grew up on a farm and I know all about working hard. My dad used to tell me and my brother to be grateful that we were Christian folk because it were up to him, we'd work Sundays, too. Another example of you being a presumptuous jerk. Also, when I was young, I did enjoy reading a lot but my dad didn't see much worth to it and quite actively discouraged me from it....and I mean actively. I still read but I didn't do it so people knew that I was deeply involved so I never was able to encounter anyone that could inspire me in the way that others were. I had work to do and I rather enjoyed working anyway. However, I wish I had developed that side of my personality as well. I did when I was in public school but ran into that brick wall called dad and responsibility when I was older. Another example of you being a presumptuous jerk.
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  4916.  @ChristIsKing-77  I'm offended because it parodies women, a group that I care deeply about. He's presenting a cartoon figure that I've said, for years, is no different than the old minstrel shows. It's a slap in the face for those women who have experienced severe pain and discomfort and were forced to undergo breast reduction surgery to relieve their issues. He knows that people will take notice and that's what he's looking for.
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  4917. I'd like to see evidence for that claim.
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  4918.  @georgequinones3043  Matthew 7 :: NIV. "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. MORE Bible stuff.
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  4919. I know a guy who actually thinks that she's putting Doocy in his place. It's like he's seeing an alternate reality.
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  4920. I'm the opposite. I like watching the smaller clips and I don't watch the big ones. I got too much on my plate to set down and watch the whole thing. It gives us options. I like options.
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  4921.  @diomedes7971  First of all...YOU don't know me. You have no idea what I've risked in my life. Second....my life doesn't revolve around money. It's about finding meaning in my life and standing up for what I believe in. I learned that from family members, who risked it all to fight the most vilified enemy of the 20th century. If they could risk and forfeit their lives to fight them, I can risk a bit of cash and a different future. Life isn't worth living if you don't stand up for what you believe in. We wouldn't have lived the best times in human history if it wasn't for those who gave everything to fight for that privilege.
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  4922.  @justinancheta4843  If the US were ONLY a Constitutional Republic, then any President could, with a majority in Congress and in the Supreme Court, could change the very nature of the country. Without the Democratic process, there would be nothing to stop him. It's why they have elections. It's to prevent the avenues a dictator could use to usurp power. A populace that can't vote, has no power. That's why it's SO important to stress the importance of the Democratic process in any real and viable Republic. Without the input of the people, Constitutional Republic is just a fancy name.
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  4923.  2020 Dem Fraud  I know. This voting scandal is stupid, isn't it? Why would you be worried about the vote when you're NOT a democracy? Elections......why do they even do it?
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  4924. @BALZAR FROZNOV The Republicans formed, as a brand new party, with 2 main issues on their platform. To get rid of slavery and to fight against the Mormon church that was advocating and practising polygamy. I doubt they would abide a slave owner or a Mormon to run on a Republican ticket.
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  4925.  @sjoerdvelzen8255  So, it depends on the disease. I can ask about some diseases but not others. Do you know what? If you're THAT terrified of the disease, get vaccinated. It's supposed to protect you, isn't it? Stay home, wear a mask all the time, have your groceries delivered, quit your job. You won't die but I wouldn't call that living, either. When fear rules your life, whether it be fear of another race, gender, the dark, bugs or disease, you start to make ridiculous demands and decisions. I'll repeat what this guy just said. My health information is MY health information and between my doctor, my family and close friends and my doctor. It's of no concern of anyone else. If I scare you, stay away from me, the same way a person would stay away from snakes if they were terrified of them.
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  4926.  @steelers19571  They ARE in deep trouble, already. Common sense Larry is their best hope to get out of it. There are very few men or women in American that have the strength and integrity of Mr. Elder. If he can't do it, it can't be done.
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  4927. There was no one to call. NO ONE. The operator could do nothing because there weren't enough officers on duty. Explain to me what that operator could have done. The best 911 in the world would be totally helpless in this case. I'm completely astounded how people, like you, can't fully comprehend what's going on. "It's the operator's fault that there aren't any officers available." Is that what you actually believe? Get your head out of the clouds.
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  4928.  @tootstoyou1  Yes I was. LOL. I thought of it more as sarcasm, but irony works.
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  4929. They consider themselves informed and they don't even know what Antifa is or will acknowledge that Antifa has been rioting in Portland for years. Mark Bray, a long time Antifa member, even wrote a definitive history of the movement called "Antifa The Anti-Fascist Handbook", outlining its history all the way back before WW2. This information is available to anyone that's interested but they don't WANT to know. That tells me everything that I need to know about Whoopie. Wilful ignorance is the tool of the indoctrinated and I can only conclude that she doesn't want to know what Antifa is about.
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  4930.  @susansharp112  That's exactly what I would say to the progressive ideologues. Keep your religion out of it. However, that's impossible. We're all driven by sets of ideas and philosophies. What's important is to know when those ideologies intrude on the rights of others. Forcing one to acknowledge their privilege is intruding on their rights. Forcing a person to repeat the Lord's Prayer is against their rights. You can't outlaw one ideology and then support another. That's what's at the heart of the American Constitution.
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  4931.  @hcsanli  You're living in the past, man. Time to catch up.
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  4932.  @danquarterman  Before you do the "Hitler" trope, watch this video. It's titled...."How Hitler was Even More Evil Than You Think - Prof. Jordan Peterson" Another video is Peterson's take on the book "Ordinary Men", about how ordinary people became Nazi executioners. He explains how easy it is for ordinary guys....like you and me.....can be sucked into horrifically evil acts and believe that they're doing good. You're, not so subtle, comparison to Hitler doesn't stand. Not even a little bit. I don't smear people to make a point. I talk on the merits of a specific thing that he's said. There's an old adage that goes... “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” Don't be small minded.
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  4933.  @phillybeccio2782  Around 1670, my namesake ancestor, left Silesia and immigrated to the Netherlands. That was 11 generations ago. Everyone of my ancestors, from his bloodline, married native Dutch girls. This means that I have German heritage, Silesia being German in the late 1600s, but I'm no German. Elizabeth Warren is no different. She may have native ancestry 10 or 11 generations ago but it has no bearing on who she is now. It's not like this kid. His grandfather is on a band council and he actually lived for a while on the reservation. He has very strong ties to his native community, not like I do the German nation or Warren to the Cherokee nation. I'd be a poser if I claimed ownership of German culture. It would be different if that original Haveman was my grandfather but he's not. He's 11th back on the ancestor scale. Not much German left in my blood although my daughter's ancestry search did show less than 1% German ancestry so it is there.
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  4934.  connie baldwin  Don't get your panties in a bunch. It was meant as a humorous commentary on the state of the media. To spell it out for you, why would they zero in on Kavanaugh, for months, 24/7, and hardly give Biden a mention. That's my point. If it makes you feel any better, you could even say the same about Trump. Not as egregious as the Kavanaugh/Biden comparison in coverage, but it could work. Harvey Weinstein was a top Democrat fundraiser. Now you know. https://www.businessinsider.com/harvey-weinstein-democratic-politics-sexual-harassment-scandal-2017-10
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  4935. I think it's great that he's not behaving like a bitter old man. Let's it fall off him like water off a duck's back.
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  4936. I sincerely hope that can find a viable solution. There is a move, from somewhere, to de-platform all those who support free speech and individual thought. They're dragging us down and confining us in their chains and it can't be allowed to continue. Good luck to all of you.
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  4937. The people that lived in the Middle East or the Fertile Crescent, were the forerunners of the Semitic people......not westerners or Europeans so you're "western propaganda" trope doesn't really apply. Also, he's talking about the end of the Ice Age. The Indus Valley civilisations were there around 3300 BC, long after the Ice Age and the start of farming. Gobleki Tepe was built around 10,000 BC. You're talking about 2 different eras.
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  4938. Why does Biden remind me of Tim Conway's old man skits on the Carol Burnett show?
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  4939.  @MyThoughts721  I'm guessing that you're a suburban American, proving your virtue to yourself through your vote. Or you're just making it up.
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  4940.  @chanceneck8072  I'd say that it's for the best.
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  4941. I heard him explain it. He said that the reason why people hate the Jews is because those people hate God, or the concept of God which breaks down as the concept of truth. To them, there is no truth. Truth is subjective and depends on your point of view and your "lived" experience. That's why they have the concept of "my truth" and "your truth". When you believe that truth is subjective, anything that I say is subject to the "my truth" viewpoint. There's no such thing as right or wrong. It's all truth as one sees it. This means that the embodiment of truth, the concept of God, can't be true either. This is why a Palestinian can go to music festival and start killing innocent and unarmed young people. Why they can go door to door intentionally killing civilians, even children. They're reacting to their own truth of oppression and the "truth" of oppression becomes the most noblest of causes. It doesn't matter if it's God or Jesus, which is the anthropomorphization of God. God as the human form of truth. Your inability to understand his explanation is due to your lack of understanding of what the concept of God actually means. You're reducing this concept to the "bearded man in the sky" trope which is as childish as believing that there is a bearded man in the sky. Dig a little deeper into the human psyche and you'd understand it better.
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  4942.  @ThexSleepingDragon  What did you expect Israel to do? Have all Israelis walk out of their homes with their hands up behind their heads? Hamas attacked them. Over 250 young people BUTCHERED while attending a music festival. I seen a film of a 20 year old, stripped naked, lying in the back of a truck being paraded in the streets of Gaza, while people cheered and spit on her. It was difficult to tell if she was still alive or not. Only a sadistic jerk would even hint at the morality of such actions. If it makes me an idiot to refuse to side with these butchers, then I'm definitely wearing the idiot badge with pride. This was a horrific surprise attack on civilians. The Israelis are fighting back, showing the Palestinians to NEVER do such a terrible thing again. I'm guessing that they may even try to completely destroy Hamas. Hamas has ONE goal and that is to "push Israel into the sea". Given the chance, they'd kill as many Israelis as possible to achieve that goal.
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  4943.  @bigt8877  What? You asked if I'd ever heard of Sherman's March. I said yes and gave a brief description of it. Then I asked YOU how this correlates to what is happening in Israel and Palestine. So, the ball is in your court, not mine. It's you that's ran out of steam as far as I can see.
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  4944. ​ @bigt8877  Are you talking to me? I did respond. Also, name calling is a sign of a weak argument.
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  4945.  @bigt8877  What argument? You've not said ONE thing that I could argue with. I've written comments with multiple paragraphs, outlining my position and why. You've sent little one sentence snippets that quite often don't even make sense. You really have nothing to say. You're actually throwing out insults as a form of argument. Keep saying nothing. It reveals what you really are.
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  4946. I would support Mahsa Amini but I'd have to criticise Islam and that's Islamophobic. It's not easy trying to be virtuous.
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  4947.  Velociraptor 1961  That's all guys like you ever say. Fake president....even though there's no evidence that he cheated. That he has a cult following, even though a lot of people, me included, don't like the guy as a person. That Covid is somehow his fault, although I can drown you in facts that show that it's NO ONE'S FAULT except the Chinese and maybe WHO and the MSM. Don't challenge me because I have a book full of facts that are verified and you won't like the facts.
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  4948. ​ @schwiftyshadow2056  It's generational guilt. She must pay for the sins of her forefathers.
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  4949. He is calling it out. He was quite clear that this is an appalling viewpoint and he gave all kinds of reasons why he thought so. He may not be as angry as you are but he doesn't support one word of what she said. Also, it's quite obvious that she didn't think this through. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because she's so indoctrinated that she can't. Or maybe she's a raging racist herself. Maybe she just isn't bright enough to think things through to their logical conclusion. Whatever the case, she, quite literally, didn't follow the chain of thought to its logical conclusion. Her brain started and stopped on "Black". That's not what what I would call an intelligent thought process.
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  4950. They use that word to set the tone of the discussion. "Remember, stupid audience. Rogan is controversial." It's a dirty trick
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  4951.  @lordoftheringworms  You'll never hear a word from him. They're all alike. Make accusations, without evidence and then disappear.
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  4952.  Tucson Jim  Actually my biggest problem with all your posts is all the name calling. You can't seem to write one comment without some kind of insult. To know this I must have read your comments and not just skimmed through the ones that were directed at me. I was reiterating a point when I mentioned that Gelsolin wasn't a drug. I didn't think that solidifying my viewpoint would be the central theme of our exchange. Also, you're analogy of water killing people is true but isn't a very good argument. One of biggest threats in sickness is dehydration and the only way to help that out is to replace the water levels in the patient's body. You also mention that maybe the FDA doesn't take long enough to test some drugs. I'm saying that it's a process of safety, NOT a guarantee. There may never be that perfect process that rids us of all errors in testing or judgement of safety. We can try to limit those problems but it will never be perfect. That's my point about the mandate of the FDA. You're making of them due to things that got past that ended up dangerous. I'm saying that this will happen. Every system will be flawed. That's just a fact of life. Now, I would appreciate a more mature discussion that wouldn't include the overt insulting attitude and behaviour. I'm assuming that this is an adult platform and that we shouldn't be bickering, in an manner, that is more reminiscent of children than fully grown adults.
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  4953.  Tucson Jim  I'll bet you're a big hit at parties. Continuously pontificating, throwing out insults at everyone who'd dare speak and making sure that EVERYONE knew just how much smarter you are than anyone else.....OR......you only behave like this on the internet, where you the courage to be act like the smug jerk that you are without having to face someone that would physically shut you up. The made up internet name would indicate the latter. Don't want to take the chance that someone you know may see what you're really like.
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  4954. As an "Uncle Jack" I heard this one almost 30 years ago. Gotta admit that it did make me laugh.....and then plot revenge on the guy that said it.
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  4955. Joy Reid, the interviewer, does ALL the talking. Why does she even have that guest on the show? She won't let her say anything. If Joy wants her kid to have access to that book, BUY THE DAMN THING, JOY. Read it to YOUR children. You said it yourself. It's up to the parent to decide....so DECIDE. And if this lady decides that she doesn't think it appropriate for her kids to read it until they're older, don't sneak into the school library, Joy, to override her decision....the decision that YOU said she has the right to make. By putting it into the school, you're over rode HER right to decide what's best for her child. Then she uses the "expert" trope. We should all shut our mouths and follow the Pied Piper we call the expert. No minds of our own. Just blank stares as the expert plays their pipe. Man....I can't stand that woman.
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  4956. I was just so sick and tired of the lies from the left and their media. They embodied that line from Orwell's "1984" ........."The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command". When I read that, way back in the late sixties, I never thought that I'd see it first hand. The Democrats and their supporters proved to me that Orwell knew what he was talking about.
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  4957.  @codyray3344  Another thing that you haven't considered is that the flu was in full swing on Jan.1. The coronavirus wasn't. In other words, the flu had a head start. On Jan 1st, there were already thousands of flu cases and hardly any Wuflu viruses. They didn't even identify it until Jan. 7th as a new disease and it wasn't until the 11th that the VERY first death occurred. There is no treatment, as yet, no vaccine, and the death rate is uncertain. Worse, if it mutates, the death rate could go up. This is serious and it's NOT the flu. We have no idea how bad it could get or if it will just pass us over. Best to be prepared. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
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  4958. Maybe those students are trying to mask that the word "folks" is an English translation of the German word "volks" and that the Nazis were very outspoken about the idea of "Volksgemeinschaft". "Volksgemeinschaft, in Nazi Germany, a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests of individuals would be strictly subordinate to those of the nation, or Volk." From the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Radical socialist don't want to be associate with the Nazis even though they tend to believe in the same racially charged ideals. Whoopi Goldberg tried to do the same thing when she said the Holocaust wasn't about race. Of course, she'd say that. The ideology of The View is all about race and she supports it. She's trying to separate the race ideology of the Nazis and her own racially charged beliefs. Word manipulation has always been a major tool in the radical socialist armoury. It's how they control thought.
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  4959.  @tbone9474  Unfortunately, that's true. An indication of the blight that is our educational system, these days.
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  4960. Those aliens are no more adept at construction than you are. LOL.
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  4961. So....all those things are bad and you want to ADD to the them. Great thinking.
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  4962.  @tonyc.4528  I went shooting woodchucks when I was 14 years old. No one in the neighbourhood had a problem with it. I used to buy shells for my 22 at the local hardware store all the time at that age. Using a gun to rob someone wasn't even a thing that we thought about. Instead of going on about CRT, pronouns and bringing drag queens into the schools, maybe they should be telling students the risks and stupidity of a life of crime. That could save lives. No one has died yet of being "misgendered".
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  4963.  @Midwest-hx8wf  So what if he never cared for the wall before. Does that mean the wall is a bad idea? Who cares what true reason Trump has? I don't. I think that we need a wall to stop the flow of illegal immigration and smuggling. If trump want to build a wall for other reasons, fine.....so long as it gets built. You're making this wall about Trump and it's not about him at all. In fact, there are over 600 miles of barriers right now, built before Trump ever thought about running for office. If that barrier was good then, it's good now. If not, tear that old barrier down. Trump is repairing them as well, you know and it must be wrong if he's the one doing it. Tear them down. Why aren't you advocating that? I know why. It has nothing to do with a wall. It's all about Trump.
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  4964.  @nicholasmuro1742  By who? Giuliani? De Blasio? The voters?? Some mystical power that rules over the vote counters?? All I hear is the bleat of someone who feels powerless and thinks that he's found some sort of social secret that allows a rationalisation to do NOTHING. Rather sad. A nihilism that says that even if his candidate did good things, some people didn't like him so therefore no point in voting for him or anyone like him. It's all a game to you. You just lay down and accept all that's meted out to you. Nice job. When I ran a small business, you'd be the last person I'd hire. Surrender is not a human quality that I'd support.
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  4965. I'll say I'm NOT an American citizen. Do you know why? I'm NOT an American citizen. No shame in that, no more than there should be in being an American citizen. I'm not even sure why the left finds this so offensive. All your doing is stating a fact.
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  4966.  @gregorymckinney666  That's John Balnis???? I've heard about that clown. Not good stuff, either. That thing about his sister is right out there, bizarre. What a sorry specimen as a human being. I sure hope aliens don't kidnap him and think that ALL humans are like that.
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  4967.  @andrewpriester6994  I didn't know that it was him. He has multiple YouTube names. A friggen snake in the grass. He's ashamed of who he is.
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  4968.  @Don-mi6zl  You can't speak if you're being choked to death. Speaking involves the exhalation of air from the lungs. The vocal cords in your voice box vibrate as you exhale air, which creates sound. If he was speaking (I can't breathe) it means that he could have just as easily inhaled or taken a breath. Also, he said that he couldn't breathe LONG before he was on the ground. Also, he had serious heart issues which manifests itself in difficulty in breathing, he was getting over Covid which also affects breathing and he had a large amount of Fentanyl in his system. The most common reason for death in Fentanyl overdoses is that the person stops breathing. That's 3 reasons why Floyd couldn't breathe that day. So which one killed him. Remember, Chauvin is only guilty if it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I've just outlined 3 reasons why there is reasonable doubt. .....but I doubt that you care.
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  4969.  @deckard3755  I've been chipping away at a buddy of mine who was all in on the Trump derangement stuff. He'd believe anything so long as it held up his position. He'd lose his mind at the drop of a hat....but he's been thinking about things more and more as I bring in subtle points. As an example, he brought up that the right was using horse medicine to cure Covid. I told him that Ivermectin was also used to treat river blindness and scabies and that the original researchers won a Nobel prize in medicine. He actually looked it up...a first for him. I was confident and rational in my facts and even said that there was no real evidence to show the effectiveness of Ivermectin in treating Covid, one way or the other. I didn't even tell him that they were intentionally misrepresenting what Ivermectin was. Instead, I said that I didn't know why they're doing that and let him come to his own conclusion and he did. He now says that both sides are full of crap. Not a full out victory but a chink in his armour. I think that's how the tide will turn. Who wants to be seen as a lunatic? Not many of us, I'd say. Anyway, nice talking and have a good one.
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  4970.  Charles Hoffmaster  I've just read "White Fragility". Yes....he's racist. That book proves it. Not that it matters that there isn't a white human being or black albino, that could fail their racial bigotry tests. Gloss over that. When you go looking for faults in anyone, no matter who it is, you'll find them. It's a self fulfilling search.
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  4971.  @avivastudios2311  "12 Rules for Life" is a really good book and easy to understand. "Maps of Meaning" is academic and it's a tough read. Incredibly fascinating if you have the patience to read the same paragraph over 2 or 3 times just to fully understand it in its context. If you do read it and get it, it's well worth it. There's an understanding, or as close as we can get today, of human psyche as you'll ever read. I really recommend them both.
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  4972.  @randomfullywonderful  HUH?????
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  4973.  @bradleyweiss1089  Your issue isn't with evolution, at all. It's with abiogenesis. How did life begin if not by a creator? Science doesn't have an answer for that, at least not yet.
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  4974. I'm sure that you knew it already. It's common sense but it's what a good parent or teacher does.
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  4975.  malikail57  The American Army killed very few natives. Most died of hunger, due to loss of habitat and disease due to a lack of immunity to European diseases. If you were to tally ALL of the native deaths due to battles with the American military, the casualty list would be surprisingly small. At first, the Germans were NOT exterminating the Jews. They kept them in Ghettos or concentration camps and used the Jews as slaves in the war effort. However, when it was starting to appear that they were losing the war, the genocide started in earnest. That's when the killing became efficient and millions were killed. Had the war went on for another year, there would have been no Jews left in Nazi occupied Europe.
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  4976.  @JohnnyWang826  I've never heard Tim say that. You'll have to send me a link to prove it. He even made a backhanded joke about Don Lemon. I'm calling you on this one.
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  4977.  @biggusdickus7611  I watched the entire video, AGAIN, just to be sure I didn't miss anything. He didn't say that he allows CNN influence all his decisions. He said that he had his doubts about Ivermectin and he didn't want people to use him to claim that he took horse dewormer and he was pretty sure that they would. Then he said, LOUD AND CLEAR, that he took Ivermectin. He didn't allow CNN to influence him. HE TOOK IT. He took it and he told the world that he did. Now the world can claim anything they want because he's told the entire world that he took Ivermectin, the "horse dewormer". He made a derogatory joke about Don Lemon, too. He's heard all the negative stuff, evaluated it, told us all about his doubts, said screw it and HE TOOK IT, ANYWAY. Then he told us that he did. You're just being contrary. If you still want to carry on the way you are, you'll now have to give me a timestamp, from this video to back up your claim because I'm not watching it a third time to please you.
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  4978.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  LOL. Some people can't tell the difference between courage and foolhardiness.
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  4979.  @warbwashington5626  Isn't it great to make fun of a person with addiction problems? Why don't you go down to the nearest homeless shelter and make fun of those unfortunate people? Nothing more satisfying that kicking someone when he's down, is there? I know. You'll have all kinds of reasons why it's a good thing to rag on them but they're only virtuous reasons in your eyes. Most of us feel that it's cruel and condescending.
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  4980.  @marvin60000  Because everything he says is about the struggles of life. How tough life is and now you're telling me that he has to be mountains ahead of us to be one of us. That's ridiculous. He has to be one of us to understand what it is to be one of us. That means that he's going to fall to the same frailties that we ALL have to live through. That's where wisdom comes from. Not from the "life is perfect" idiom that the superior brain comes from. It's from one who has spent a lifetime trying to understand the complexities and the pain of life. If you can't get that....you're not thinking. I've spent a lifetime wrestling with the things he's talking about. There's no answers to it that will satisfy. It's a journey of understanding. I'll never get it all. I'm surprised that anyone.....yourself included, you thinks that they know it all.
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  4981.  @marvin60000  Always assume that they person that you talk to knows something that you don't. That includes everyone. Also, assume that everyone can be wrong at any given moment on any given subject. THAT includes everyone. You learn, not just from someone's or your own successes. You learn, as much or more, from the mistakes that you and others make over a lifetime. If you'll only take advice from those who've never erred in their entire life, you'll not take advice from anyone because that person does NOT exist.....anywhere. You've just dismissed the entire human race. Another thing that Peterson has taught you is that the smartest of people, like Peterson (you've said that he was) can screw up, then anyone can and will screw up. Also, you now know, from Peterson's experience, which he's been quite open about, that if a doctor ever prescribes that drug for you, DO NOT TAKE IT. That would be Peterson's advice and I know that you'd take that piece of advice, gladly. So, in a way, you've contradicted yourself.
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  4982. What's to say? The killing of George Floyd was awful and unnecessary. People should be upset. However, rioting and destroying won't help nothing and Trump made his feelings clear enough and added by saying the National Guard will be there to keep the peace. What more did you want from him?
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  4983.  William Kievit  I dare you to put on a MAGA hat and carry a little American flag and then go for a walk in the middle of one of those peaceful protests. I'm saying that you won't get very far before those Trump supporters (LOL) stop you and kick your butt. Violence is Trump's game. Cities have had violence for months now and it has almost ALL been Democrat cities with the tacit approval of the Democrat media and many Democrat politicians. "Let this radicalise you" wasn't a line from Trump. It's from AOC and describes those that are rioting right now.
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  4984. Another "hate the rich" comment. You've just made a blanket statement about a demographic, turned them into stereotypes without agency or personality, no different than judging a Jew based on their demographic. There are rich people that are morally bankrupt just like there are poor people that are just as morally bankrupt. Don't hate. It clouds your judgement.
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  4985. Any American that would vote Democrat, next year, has lost all sense of reason. They'd be better off sending their money to that Nigerian Prince, who's always looking for cash, than allowing this modern generation of Dems to handle it. At least Trump would nurture an economy that they could re-earn the money that they sent to that Nigerian Prince.
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  4986.  @StephenAndrew777  And you still don't know.
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  4987.  @StephenAndrew777  I don't like you speaking for this coach. He has the intelligence and the mental capacity to speak for himself and doesn't need YOU to interpret for him.
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  4988. Great comment.
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  4989.  November Reign  I was kidding about the dick part. I knew that's not what you were saying. I was a manager of a steel yard and I know that the business management courses I took in college really didn't prepare me for the everyday routines of managing a real business. It gave me some background, I guess but most of what a manager does is common sense. A good college education teaches you how to think and be adaptable. It's not what or how they're teaching students these days.
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  4990.  @EyesOpen117  Appreciate the comment but the person that should be responding and defending their position isn't commenting. I've asked others the same question in this forum and not one of them has answered me yet. They're a bunch of intellectual cowards.
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  4991.  @dovidstaples9985  Maybe you'd be better off doing a thorough investigation into cases of this type. This isn't the only time this allegation has been made. It's more common than you think. Sticking your head in the sand helps no one.
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  4992. It seems obvious but we really don't know why it took so long.
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  4993. You really don't want to see it crash and burn. It's happened in other countries and it's been sheer horror. Death and starvation, executions, people forced to live in the streets and in tents, refugee camps, no jobs, no access to health care, it's pure hell. Look at any collapse of any country. It's pure misery that can last for decades. You might think its bad now, but a reality check shows just the opposite. I'd rather deal with stupid people yelling foolish slogans than stupid people with guns and ready to use them.
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  4994.  @jamiepatterson1214  Forest fires are a natural phenomena. There are species that have evolved that even need fires to propagate. Also, if forests are cut to plant crops, there are still plants being grown, which means that it's a trade off. What is more devastating, to the environment, is the loss of good farmland and forest to urban sprawl. Buildings and pavement do NOT add to the natural cycle at all. Growing plants do and that's exactly what's happening when you grow crops.
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  4995.  @evertvdb000  MTG isn't running for president. Besides, if it's ridiculous for MTG to do it, it's the same for a presidential hopeful. At least be consistent in your criticisms.
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  4996.  @o00nemesis00o  Ideas, I get. I hate radical socialism in all its forms. It's a destructive ideology. "Hate the sin, love the sinner". I'm not Christian but I approve of that saying.
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  4997.  @waynegabler6570  Are you trying to say that if I vote against Trudeau, I'm against clean water? Why is this even a racial question? Shouldn't we all have clean water? If our government is getting us clean water, and there's a community, within the perview of that government, that doesn't have access to clean water, it's not living up to its mandate. In other words, those communities, that don't have clean water, have been without under the current government for years. So, I'm really not understanding the question. Is the question whether I will continue to support a government that has allowed communities to go without clean water or not? If it is, no. I will not support a government that has allowed a community to go without clean water for years.
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  4998. There have been suggestions that he was angry about a loss in sexual function. This question might clear up the rumours around that. When the roommate said that he didn't want to comment on that out of respect for his privacy, Waters, quite graciously, said that he understood and left it at that. His lack of sexual function might well be what drove this man to commit murder. I don't think that it was inappropriate to ask if that was the case. It WOULD have been inappropriate if Waters pushed the issue but he didn't. I think Waters and the roommate handled it quite well.
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  4999.  @BigDsGaming2022  94% of all teacher union political contributions go to Democrats. It won't hurt the Republicans one bit if they're not allowed to contribute to their party. It'll DEFINITELY hurt the Democrats.
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  5000. Diversity, in of itself, does not give you strength. It's competence, loyalty, determination and intelligence that give you strength. That can come from anywhere and a strong nation has the best leaders that they can possibly find.....not the most diverse.
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  5001.  @rainyvideos3684  I live in the biggest military town in our country. I've worked numerous times on the base and some of my best friends are in the military or retired from the military and I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about a government that will intentionally recruit for those who WOULD be interested in that. Replace every person, who's retiring, with an ideologue, ready to do the state's bidding because it is a part of the revolution. It's what happened in our universities. If you're belief system doesn't mesh with their's, who won't get a position as a professor. They call this "infiltration" a very well know military tactic.
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  5002.  @rainyvideos3684  I was only talking about one aspect of how this could be a problem. There are other aspects, as well. Just because I pointed out one issue, that doesn't mean that I'm not aware of other issues. There are many reasons why this is a bad idea. Leaving the door open for future corruption is only one of them.
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  5003. Listen to that reporter. He starts out calling them "undocumented" immigrants as if their victims of some bureaucratic glitch. They're here illegally. That means that they're "illegal" immigrants. It's how the woke operate. They use rebranding, changing words to alter perceptions and get angry when you won't accept their sleight of hand vocabulary. It's "newspeak". Use the new word enough and it changes how people view a certain issue. It's the art of BS.
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  5004. irishque halim It was never a Palestinian state, either. In 1516, the Ottoman Turks conquered the region and it belonged the Ottoman Empire until the end of WW1. It was overtaken by Egypt in 1832 and land was given to Egyptian Arabs and soldiers in what is now coastal Gaza and Israel, the first of many migrations into the area including Jews. In 1840, Britain intervened and gave the land back to the Turks. The late 19th century saw the immigration of many Arabs and Jews into the region. The Arabs didn't mind if the immigrants were Muslim but they didn't want Jewish immigrants, but they came anyway. That is the crux of this entire problem. It's the religious problem. If the Jews would embrace Islam, there would be no issues in that region. After the WW1, Britain took over the region and held it for almost thirty years. That's when they offered the 2 state solution. Many of the citizens of the area had only had a history in the region for less than 100 years, yet the Arab immigrants were considered to be full Palestinians while Jews were not. That's why the 2 state solution was rejected by the Arabs, including Arabs from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria, who really have no interest in the area except their rejection of anything Jewish. Once again, only Muslims were wanted by the local Arabs. What's troubling is that the same people that support Muslim immigration to Western countries, particularly Europe, reject Jewish immigration to the Levant. I'm seeing a double standard here. If there has never been a country in the area, ran by the locals, how could one segment of the locals feel that they only have the right to rule the area and to set immigration policies. Right now there are 1.8 million Muslims in what we now call Israel. They have been offered full citizenship and many have accepted the offer. They can vote, hold office, own land and businesses, have even joined the Israeli army and been elected to the Israeli Knesset. They enjoy a better life standard than the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and what's even more perplexing is that the Palestinian leadership, Hamas, has received huge amounts of cash from oil rich Muslim countries, yet these countries have never even offered to take in Palestinians to live in their country. Strangely, places like the US has allowed them into their country. Activist, Linda Sarcour is Palestinian and living in New York. Where are the Palestinians that could be in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Egypt, Jordan and other Muslim countries? This has everything to do with the religion of Islam and nothing to do with cooperation or understanding. The Muslims of the region must win. Calling them Palestinians is a red herring. It has nothing to do with Palestinians. It's about Islam....that's all.
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  5005. cixelsyd 00 I'm not doing it so much for him. I'm doing it for those who will read this thread and think that he must be correct because I never bothered to respond and award him the win through attrition. Some people will never be impressed with the facts. There's isn't a lot I can do for them. Others, more reasonable folk, will realise the value of a narrative that is supported by fact. I'm hoping that those facts will cause them to think about what I'm saying and they won't just rely on emotions. Emotions destroy intelligence. He throws emotional responses at us and feels that's enough to win an argument. It's not and I'm not going to let him or anyone think that it does.
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  5006. irishque halim There you go. You don't want to address any points I've made. You've reduced this discussion to a "I know you are but what am I" bit of childish nonsense. Not much point in going any further.
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  5007. irishque halim 5 times the Palestinians were offered a homeland. 5 times and they refused it every time. For the Palestinian leadership, Hamas the PLO, it is the destruction of Israel or nothing. When the PLO did recognise Israel's right to exist in the 1993, Israel responded by taking the PLO off the terrorist list and recognised them as the official voice of the Palestinian people. However, in the Second Infitada, they appeared to go back to using violence against the Israeli state. In 2008, Hamas took control of the government in Gaza and they've been at odds with Israel ever since. In 2017, a Palestinian poll showed that a large majority of the Palestinian people are getting tired of the Hamas rhetoric and would be happy with a 2 state solution. The people can't do much if their leadership oppose it. Israel wants it all to stop and it would appear a lot of Palestinians do to. It gets back to the ideology of the Islamic Hamas who are committed to their views on Islam. And that's where it sits again....with Islam. They just can't get over their beliefs, yet. Now, give me some information that is based on facts instead of your "they're killing them" yowling. A mature response.
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  5008.  @megamaid5749  We don't want politicians to save us. We want them to leave us alone so we can live our lives as freely as possible, within the law as guided by the Constitution. That's all. I don't care about the rich as long as they do that. I've got enough on my plate living my own life.
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  5009.  @nandy1256  If you dislike DeSantis because you dislike Gaetz, then yes, you are being juvenile. It's like the 2016 furor over alleged white supremacist Richard Spencer endorsing Trump. This, to many, proved that Trump was also a white supremacist and it was bit news. 6 months after the election, Spencer withdrew his support, extremely disappointed in how Trump wasn't endorsing policies that Spencer wanted. That was largely ignored. When Spencer endorsed Biden for President, that didn't mean a thing, not to the press anyway. Funny how that happened. The point being, DeSantis can no more help who supports him than Biden can. It's illogical and juvenile to think otherwise unless you actually believe that Biden is a white supremacist and that Spencer's withdrawal of support from Trump proves that Spencer admits that he was WRONG about Trump being a white supremacist. Do you see the quagmire that this type of reasoning leads to, now?
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  5010.  Alan Downunder  That's why the they get so upset when you talk about an election audit. If it wasn't rigged, you'd think they'd be glad to prove that it was legit. But they don't want anyone to do any audits and are even barring people on social media claiming "misinformation". It's an opinion. Opinions aren't information. An opinion is what should lead to an investigation but they don't even want opinions expressed.
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  5011.  @anthonyscott6929  It also doesn't mean that the there were multiple irregularities in the election. If you're good with the possibility of fraud, then argue against the election audits. However, if you believe that the elections should be transparent and legit, you'd want the audits, no matter what it showed.
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  5012.  @Control_alt_delete  Maybe if Weiner didn't get so angry and spoke in a calm and measured manner, people wouldn't get so suspicious. "Thou dost protest too much" is a natural reaction. Angry hysteria solves nothing and is like throwing gasoline on a fire. The topic was breached and Weiner knew that these allegations existed. He could have and SHOULD have behaved in a dignified manner. Credibility does not go to the one that screams the loudest.
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  5013.  @Control_alt_delete  I don't have to talk to your 70 year old grandmother. I'm 71 and I've lost a lot of friends, relatives and work associates. Just because people die that doesn't mean that every death is now an innocent demise and we're not to question it. "PBD most likely sold the interview in such a manner then surprised him with nut job stuff." Yeah.....most likely....or most likely not. You don't get points for a "most likely". So, PBD passed on a bunch of questions. That's his choice. It's his show. He can ask or NOT ask whatever he wants. Surely he didn't expect questions like "What's your favourite colour?" or "Do you like ice hockey?". Weiner was in politics. Politicians should be ready for the tough questions especially when he has the record that Weiner has. Then you want to bet that Trump Jr. would react in the same way and used a conspiracy, a well worn out conspiracy about Trump to illustrate your point. Placing a wager isn't evidence either. It's conjecture and means nothing. Besides, this isn't about Trump. It's about the Clintons. Finally, you missed my point, entirely. Weiner's reaction will only lead to a deeper entrenchment of that conspiracy theory. Read all the comments on how people think that he reacted in an hysterical manner which they'll interpret as being highly suspicious. That was my point and those comments lends credence to that point. He should have answered in a calm and rational manner. He could have answered by saying, calmly and rationally, that he feels that this conspiracy is no different than the ones that he didn't ask about. He should have said, in a matter of fact tone, that people die and it doesn't prove or disprove any accusations made. It's an accusation...that's all. Then he should have asked if PBD can show a direct link between those deaths and any real action that the Clintons took that would have caused those deaths, besides knowing the deceased. Knowing the deceased in not evidence of Clinton responsibility for those deaths. Instead, he reacts in anger, so as to intimidate PBD into abandoning this line of questioning, even suggesting that there are questions that shouldn't be asked. Wouldn't politicians love that. Don't ask any tough questions. Make it all a big love fest. You wouldn't want interviewers to treat Trump that way but boy don't you DARE do that to a Democrat. If a person wants to be taken seriously, don't act so totally unhinged. It only validates what people already think.
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  5014.  @Control_alt_delete  You're STILL not getting it. I never said that his emotional state was evidence. Never said that at all. I never said that he should start laughed it off, either. I said that he should have replied calmly and rationally. I even listed points that he could have made but you ignore it all. People are going to believe as they believe. He shouldn't give them ammunition by losing his temper, interrupting and shouting the way that he did. Weiner already has credibility issues with his criminal record. It didn't help his argument one bit to behave so irrationally, in fact it hurt him. The bottom line is that I was trying to help him with his credibility issues but you won't have it. If he'd have kept his cool, he would have given the perception that he had he was familiar with topic and had points that he'd thought through to the point that he could articulate those thoughts carefully and in a lucid manner. Critical thinkers don't shout and interrupt and that's why he damaged his credibility. For better or worse, people believe that when you have right on your side, you don't have to lose your temper. You let logic and a sense of purpose give you an air of confidence and believability. Any lawyer, in a court of law, knows better than to rant uncontrollably, especially in front of a jury. Perception can be just as important as facts, at times. It may not be right but it's human nature. Weiner didn't offer any facts, logical argument and didn't exactly leave an image of a person who has it together. He who shouts the loudest isn't correct.
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  5015.  @dejuanrobert  You've just put on display EXACTLY why Trump has been doing so well. You're full of hate. You can't even mention his name without losing control of all emotion and going into a vitriolic tirade against him and anyone associated with him. The left and Democrats are always the ones going on about hate and "isms" but, in the end, they're just as much the haters, maybe more, than anyone else. Ask about the US ecomomy? People like you will go negative and then call Trump names. Ask about N. Korea and nuclear testing. More negativity, even though the testing has stopped (WOW) and then some more calling Trump names. This is the pattern, no matter the topic. You can't accept that things are going well in the US because you're hatred clouds everything you see and hear. LIke Bill Maher who wanted to see a recession just so Trump wouldn't be re-elected. It didn't matter to him that it meant the loss of jobs for millions of ordinary blue collar Americans so long as his hate was vented and the object of his hate defeated. Just once, I'd like to hear one of you Trump haters admit that, in spite of your dislike of Trump as a person, you approve of the fact that he halted the testing by North Korea, for the last 2 years. I knew that Trump was going to win when she turned her nose up and called his supporters a basket of deplorables. The smelling "Walmart" crowds that live in "flyover America". It's that disdain and hatred for ordinary people, and the president that has helped them, that will win him the next election and the Democrats are too filled with their own venom to get it. You're exactly that type of Democrat. You've already shown you disdain for Trump and billionaires. I'm sure you feel the same for his supporters, as well.....and you wonder why this is turning off so many American voters.
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  5016. @GentlemanJack705 Okay. I'm ignorant. The more I know the more I realise my ignorance. Please tell me what that truth is so I can be cleaned of my ignorance, at least on this topic.
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  5017.  @jbf430  No....they wouldn't be thrilled. They want to be armed if protection is necessary but they don't want it to be necessary. They want it to be handled by the police and to adjudicated in a court of law. That's why they support the police....or haven't you heard that. It's the left, and specific Democrats that want the chaos of no police. They don't want police protection and they don't want to protect themselves. Apparently mob rule is the way to go, as far as they're concerned.
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  5018.  @krustymadrid4953  If the judge decides who goes to trial, he's not going to find the person being charged innocent. He's already decided that the person being charged is likely guilty. The judge won't be impartial. The judge will ALWAYS direct a verdict that will reflect his belief in the accused guilt in that case. It's the District Attorney that decides who goes to trial. The case just lands before a judge. He has no say on what case that he tries. The DA might try to direct that case to a judge that the DA feels might be sympathetic to his case but that's not the judge's doing. That's up to the DA.
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  5019.  @MrHonkler  He tore down your favourite playground!!!! Really!!!! You don't even know where West Virginia is, let alone Tim's skate park.
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  5020. Homeschooled or organised small schools who are committed to a real education. Allowing the tax allotment, per child, to follow them to whatever school they're attending would also help a great deal. That would allow small schools of 10 to 15 children to exist and flourish. The public school system is a colossal waste of time.
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  5021.  @doubletripplep  What else is a person to do? I live 1000 miles away from Nashville. There's NOTHING that I can do but show my support but let them know that I'm behind them. I'm not religious but I do hope the best for the guy. According to you, I'm NOT to do that. I think that this is a disgusting time to express your personal bias against a religious belief system. People express their best for this officer in the best way they can and YOU use it to make a self serving snarky, ideological, political statement. Also, those of us who wish the best for the victims and the officers involved weren't making political statements. We're feeling bad for the victims.....that's IT. Do NOT assume our positions on gun control or politics. We express sorrow. YOU express disdain. That sure does reflects your kind heart. That's sarcasm. BE respectful. There's a time for condolences and a time for politics. Be intelligent enough to know when those times are.
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  5022. Spent a holiday in Costa Rica. What a beautiful country.
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  5023. I'm seeing 95 likes and 2 dislikes. I think that you're full of it.
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  5024. @GA477 It doesn't matter who you watch. What matters is the truth. Is the Chinese government a threat to the rest of the world or not? If Fox says they're not, they'd be wrong. If CNN says they are, then they'd be right. However, that's NOT what's happening. This isn't about personalities. It's about the truth. China kept information about the virus secretive. They expelled foreign journalists. They arrested Chinese doctors who tried to warn the world about the disease. They stopped the citizens of Wuhan from travelling around China but allowed them to travel abroad. These are just some of the things that they've done and it doesn't matter who reports on it. It's the facts that count, NOT political affiliations or network loyalty. This isn't like rooting for your favourite baseball team. It's about understanding what's really happening in the world and you get the information about that where you can find it, no matter where that truth comes from.
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  5025. "SHE" felt that it was a time to celebrate. Ohh. That's different. When I want to celebrate, like with my family at Thanksgiving, that's being irresponsible. When SHE wants to celebrate, it's the right thing to do. Aren't we lucky to have such a smart woman around, who can tell us when to celebrate and when not to. I'm too stupid to figure it out for myself. Thank you, oh wise and beneficent one. Please keep me informed on when I can celebrate again.
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  5026.  @ethicalcheeze1407  White supremacy was mentioned several times. So was slavery. The discussion on slavery implies that racism is a white issue. To think otherwise is to be intentionally obtuse.
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  5027.  @suzanne2  Is systemic racism the thing that says no matter how proficient one is at a specific field, their skin colour determines whether they should be hired, accepted at a university, get a grant or other desirable goals? Is that the one you mean? Asians have had to deal with systemic racism in universities. It doesn't matter the ability. Too many Asians and the system says that the individual Asian may not be accepted to make room for one of another ethnicity. Harvard U. is being sued for this very issue. Systemic racism that is lauded and approved by the system and must be challenged. Maybe that isn't even systemic racism. I'd say that this would be overt racism. Racism that has been encoded in the law. Systemic racism is much vaguer than that. It's so vague that one can't quantify it or even prove it. Yet it still exists every time a "white" person is in conflict with a POC. Is that systemic racism? I don't know. It's so vague. It's so vague that it can't be proven. In other words, it's a political weapon. I'd say that the very idea of systemic racism are only the meanderings of a racist mind.
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  5028. @Rights Taken That's comforting. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in history and THE bloodiest in American history. 600,000 dead. God knows how many maimed for life. Wouldn't it be just great to replicate that and see if we survive? And for what? NOTHING!!!!!
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  5029. @Benaiah Ahmadinejad Of course he is. He's sending Antifa to every city to take part in riots and destruction.
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  5030. "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" came from the old cartoon, the Beany and Cecil show. It was one the business card of Dishonest John. That's where AC/DC got the title for their song.
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  5031.  @SeraphsWitness  "That's CCP style tyranny." That's from my comment. Which means that I recognise that China has issues with tyranny but it's hypocritical to call them out when we're doing the same thing. People use it as a deflection like children do. "Well, Johnnie's doing it too." As if that makes it all okay. THAT'S my point. Don't call out China when you won't even admit that you're just as guilty or worse, pretend that your tyranny is justified, somehow. If you're willing to admit, that's the log, and are fighting like mad to fix it, it's not hypocritical to call out someone else who doing the same thing. That Biblical injunction goes hand in hand with hypocrisy. You've recognised the severe issues with our hate speech laws. You're working, I hope through your voting practices anyway, to fix it and that means that metaphorically you ARE taking the mote of your own eye. You recognise the mote or beam and because of it, you CAN mention that someone else might also have problems. It's when you're actively doing it, you can't recognise the mote to even honestly criticise others. That's what I'm trying to say.
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  5032.  @jackmorgan8931  I was in the 9th grade in Sept/66. I never had a teacher that laid it out so succinctly, but it was the prevailing attitude of our education system back then. I remember a math teacher's response to a kid who complained that he would never use algebra in his entire life. The teacher said "You have a brain, don't you? I'm hoping that you're planning on using it someday. That's what I'm doing now. I'm teaching you how to use your brain. Algebra is like push ups for the noggin" That's similar to what you described.
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  5033.  @RoddNTune619  He was thanking the crowd for their support. He touched his heart and extended it to the crowd. I know this to be true because I'm neither deaf OR blind.
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  5034. @ I heard him thank the crowd. I seen him put his hand on his heart and, metaphorically, throw his heart out to the crowd. If you choose to be deaf, you'll be blind to what he meant to do.
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  5035. They'll keep on rioting. The media was pretending that the rioting, last summer, was all about Trump, but it wasn't about him at all. They've been rioting all along in Portland ever since Biden was elected and look at what's going on in Minneapolis right now. The rioting isn't done yet and the Democrats are going to suffer because of it. "Biden's America" will become the cry and it's because of a manipulative media and Democrat party.
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  5036.  @3rdStoneObliterum  It's a part of history. However, what does that have to do with Queen Elizabeth? She was the Queen through the dissolution of the British Empire. As far as I know, not one square inch of land was added to the Empire during her reign. She didn't even have any real power. She was just a symbol of a nation that goes back a thousand years, a large part of it during a time when they weren't even that powerful. It's tacky to use her death as a vehicle for the resentment of something that occurred long ago, LONG before her time as Queen and before ANY of us were even born. It's time to get over resentment and anger and let it be a part of history instead of using history as a validation for a person's hate.
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  5037.  @dereksbooks  Maybe YOU didn't entertain suicide but it's obvious some children do. Look up statistics for suicides for children and it happens. Also, I never said that there was going to be mass suicides for children but there is a very good chance that it will rise as this lockdown continues. Also, suicides among adults will also rise as they lose jobs and are forced to stay at home instead of going out to look for work. It's become a dystopian existence, hopefully temporary, and one that is perfect for depression and worse on an unprecedented scale. To look at some nations where they have to put nets around factories because the lives of those poor people are so bleak that they'd prefer to end it by jumping than to face another day. Also, we don't know what the mental state of this boy was at the time. There are many clinical mental issues that a lockdown could exacerbate to the point of suicide. I have to wonder about the media as well. Maybe we're not hearing about the suicides because the MSM doesn't want us to know how the lockdown is affecting people in a negative way. They have a way of not reporting what they don't want us to hear. In fact, when Dr. Phil said that this lockdown will have a negative effect on mental health, the media went after him viciously, as his only wish was to see people die from the virus. The only reason we're hearing about this one is because it's an acquaintance of Tim Pool.
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  5038.  @raulmachado182  A lot of women, senior citizens and children aren't able to defend themselves. Those crooks come in gangs and the average person travels alone. It the American judiciary won't actively arrest and prosecute those thugs, you have to do something to even the numbers and hiring security will do just that. It's great that a person can arm and protect himself but when they bad guys out number you, you don't stand a chance. Talk and bravado is cheap. Reality isn't.
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  5039.  @nitin9230  How does this insulting comment demonstrate any type of depth that could result in an intelligent argument? It has no more depth than chanting "Black Lives Matters" for five minutes.
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  5040.  Yul Strokheet Al-Wauch  I'm going to die, too. It's guaranteed to happen. Don't stick your head in the ground. YOU'RE going to die, too.....Trump or not. What a moronic way to rationalise a state of human hardship and misery. It's hate to the nth degree.
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  5041.  @kennethjacobs5976  I'll not speak for Ron Battiston, but I'll gladly stay in Canada. I like the US, a great place to visit, but, by and large, Canada is the US without the craziness. So far, anyway.
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  5042. @rgsand01 What would you have him do. Send in the army at the first sign of a demonstration? It's up to the local government at first. If they can't handle it, then the state should move in with the National Guard. If that doesn't work and it gets too far out of hand, then the Federal government steps in. It's how the system works and it can't be done in an afternoon. Besides, if the minute he does send in troops, you'll be calling him a tyrant. Your comments are nothing but knee jerk reactions based on a personal hatred for a specific person. No thought or reason involved.
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  5043.  @zamiel3  There's a reason why he called him a racist bigot. Had a white conservative criticized a black Democrat or called them names, the "racist" moniker is almost always applied. The irony is that it's just fine if you call Black conservatives names. All he did was follow the example of the left.
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  5044.  @A_Jeff  He's not allowed to talk about his own case. If he does, he's in trouble with the judge. Think about that. If the judge is corrupt, or doesn't care, and judges can be corrupt, Trump isn't allowed to say a thing in his defence. In this country, we're allowed a fair trial, to defend ourselves as we see fit and if there are issues with the way the court is being handled, any defendant should be able to point it out. That would include YOU. Your angle has NOTHING to do with fair. It's all about your hatred of one person. If it was happening to you, you'd be whining just like Trump is now. However, like I just said. You don't care about rights or being fair. You hate Trump and that's what makes it alright. It's how every corrupt, authoritarian government has operated. They pick a target, convince the people that this target must be stopped using ANY means necessary. Once the people have been properly indoctrinated, they'll gladly give up those rights, thinking that this will never be applied to them. Say hello to Fascism....and you're TOO blind to see it.
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  5045.  @BigMac4459  I'm not sure what it is you're trying to say. One can't just end playing at life, unless one takes the ultimate step and that, for me, is no option. You either accept truth as a universal or you don't. You can't just opt out. However, I may have your point all wrong. It's too vague for me to address with any kind of reason.
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  5046.  @saltyp7573  It's ok. Sometimes the nuance isn't as obvious as I hoped it would be.
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  5047.  @BigMac4459  The thing is, I would be just as critical if it was the conservatives that were imposing their will and forcing the left to be silent. When you suppress ideas, you're stealing the opportunity to think and to use your mind. That's the biggest tragedy in our universities today. The suppression of ideas lead to stagnation and repression. I wish you the best of luck and encourage you to hold onto your ideals. A free spirit and mind must have the ability to share what that freedom creates. Hold onto that.
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  5048.  @BigMac4459  That is 4 until I say different. LOL. Also, hate speech is a method to shut people up. It's the new weapon of the authoritarians.
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  5049.  @pauldorough  The kids are just fine as long as there's fuel to keep them warm. What kind of human being would traumatise kids by trying to freeze them out and then takes them away because of the actions (no fuel) that they advocate for?
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  5050.  @newtles7626  BS. The South fired on Fort Sumter. They actually declared war on the US. Lincoln did nothing until there was a military, with guns, attacking American installation. That was an act of war. I never once said to NEVER fight back. I said not to behave in the manner that they're behaving. We're not at war although we do have some major disagreements. You fight when attacked. You don't start the war....you finish it. Comparing human rights and freedoms to someone cheating in a football game doesn't wash. If they cheat in a game, you don't play with them. You play with integrity or you don't play. Let them be the a-holes. I'm not about to become one.
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  5051.  @sparkysmom7149  My dad is 90 and he's still sharper than Pelosi or Biden and by far. It's not the age. It's the voters. If you can't see how incompetent they are, you'd just as quickly vote in a young incompetent, as well. Ever heard of AOC? She has no idea what's she's talking about half the time yet she was still voted back in and has millions of followers. Who knows what that "young" politician would do if she had to decide on actions concerning the war in Ukraine. That's a real scary thought.
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  5052.  @christopherdieudonne  It's a lifestyle. Your parents maintained a lifestyle of treating people with respect as the default. Therefore the "talk" isn't necessary. It's part of the home culture to behave at the highest civilised standards at all times. When you grow up this way, you know, through osmosis, how to behave when dealing with a Police officer. People, who didn't have the benefit of having decent and civilised parents, like you apparently did, can't understand that.
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  5053. None of this is ever reported by the MSM. However, if 3 Proud Boys shout MAGA slogans and support 2A rights, that'll be the news of the day. The MSM sucks. Hear that CNN? I don't believe a word you say. To add....I wish Andy Ngo the best. The bravest person in America, right now.
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  5054.  @jannguerrero  The cigarette thing goes back a lot further than the sixties. My Dad, in 1945, when he turned 13, was given a cigarette by his father and told that he was old enough to smoke now. They had no television or even electricity and my dad had never been in a movie theatre until he was 18. Smoking was a way of life back then. The ads weren't about getting new smokers. It was about the competition between tobacco companies vying for the dollars of those who were smoking already, almost half of all adults.
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  5055.  @think2146  That's another question and irrelevant.
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  5056.  Gerry Swaim  "trump's a LYING CHEATING STEALING NARCISSISTIC BRAGGING BLOWHARD BULLY of a president. Anyone that treats people the way he does is capable of anything." This is exactly the problem. You don't start from there, capable of anything, and then start to go looking for that anything to make the name calling justified. The accusation of collusion has been investigated, scrutinised and combed over and there has been no solid evidence provided. If there had been, he would have been impeached already and these Ukraine hearings wouldn't be taking place as they would be redundant. No evidence and the law, American law, has to declare him innocent of those charges. That's how you treat gossip about people you don't like, as well. You don't spread rumours and innuendo until you have the evidence to prove those rumours correct. They didn't do that with collusion. THAT'S BASIC AMERICAN LAW AND BASIC HUMAN DECENCY. All the bankruptcies? Trump is worth close to 3 billion dollars. That's his net worth. Rachel Maddow showed his income return for 2006 and he made 156 MILLION dollars that year and paid 36 million in taxes. He's doing very well for a bankrupt business man. He's had some of his businesses go bankrupt, like his Atlanta casino, but he own's all kinds of businesses. Moguls like that always have some failures. That's par for the course when you have multiple business ventures. You've just show how little you understand business or economics. So far there is no evidence of any wrong doing with Trump and Ukraine. "Do me a favour" isn't bribery. There was no caveat at the end of that phrase. No "or we'll do that to you" to follow. It's "Do me a favour". That's all. Anything else is reading into it what you want to read into it. The Ukraine president has said, repeatedly, that there was no pressure. He's the victim of this. The victim of bribery or extortion or pressure....whatever you want to call it and he's saying there was none. Not only him but members of his government are saying the same. Taylor just testified today that the first 2 times that he talked to Velensky, the guy never even knew that money was being with held. What kind of extortion is that? HE DIDN'T KNOW THE MONEY WAS BEING WITH HELD. That was after he talked to Trump. That's quite the extortion attempt by the American president. Extortion with no information or ultimatum. Then Taylor says that one of his staff members heard a conversation on a phone. What? That's hearsay. Why didn't Schiff have the staff member giving testimony? That's the first hand information. That's what could really sink Trump. You're hating too much and letting that make decisions for you. Me....I'm waiting till I see ALL the information, then I'll tell you if Trump extorted Ukraine or not. So far, Schiff has shown next to nothing. That's being fair. That's how you asses information in a judicious manner. You don't root for an outcome and then dismiss what doesn't give you the outcome you wish for.
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  5057. @Ron White And look where that got us. Rising energy prices which will cause massive inflation which will cause increased interest rates which will force defaults on loans and mortgages. People will lose their homes and rents will increase. We'll try to play catch up by forcing increased wages and the cycle will even worsen. You really have no idea what's been set in motion. Maybe when you have to live in an abandoned box, you'll stop and think but I doubt it. You'll still want a higher minimum wage to solve your problems.
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  5058.  @lisastreitfeld5806  They didn't live the American dream. They created it, through hard work, pride and personal responsibility. The dream isn't granted to you, you have to work for it. They did. We now expect it. Their belief system was why it was within reach and beyond the reach of so many today. That's the difference between the generations.
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  5059.  @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  I could never start a cult. I'm likeable enough (I think) but I'd never be able to influence people the way that cult leaders can. However, I gotta admit that I don't get how some of them do it. The adoration and loyalty thrown at Hitler is beyond my comprehension. I don't even get why people send money to the evangelicals let alone commit mass suicide at the behest of Applewaite, the leader of Heavens Gate. That guy creeped me out. Anything that he would suggest, I'd do the opposite. What I'm saying is that I just don't get the entire charisma/cult thing. It definitely exists but it completely baffles me.
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  5060.  @keithdunahee4990  I've dealt with this guy, multiple times, using multiples names, on Tim Pool's sites. So, when you see the names, that Marcus Chang just gave, you'll know who and what you're dealing with. That's why this is relevant. He's been lurking here for a long time. If you want to support him.....fine, you have that right but I'm glad that I found out who he is and I thank Mr. Chang for letting us all know.
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  5061.  @fridgehorse  It would depend on what Wiley said. A call to violence would do it. A full context would go along way to justifying your point.
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  5062.  @SCAR16L  I have read her tweets and I've seen the picture of 2015 on the WEF website. Gabbard claims that the picture was put there without her knowledge. I did find others who claimed that their picture was placed there, as well, without their knowledge of consent. It was put there as a recognition of their potential as a world class leader or influencer. Another one was Canadian Conservative, Michelle Rempel Garner. She is diametrically opposed to Trudeau and it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to say that she's a part of the WEF, unless she was also one of those that was recognised as an up and coming leader. She also showed a lot of award that she received and didn't even know until asked about it by others. I don't accept anything unless I can prove it, so like I said, as far as I'm concerned, it's no better than gossip. Gossip doesn't impress me.
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  5063.  @changingworld7467  I've read all that. That's one of the reasons that I implied that his claims were no better than gossip and why I asked him to give his proof if he had any. I think that I have a handle on what she's about but I could be wrong. That's why I like to keep a door open, just in case I am wrong and if someone makes a claim, I want to hear the reason why they would make such a claim. This guy, upon my insistence, admitted that he had no real evidence. "I think" isn't evidence.
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  5064.  @nonameissafer.8457  You don't have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance if you don't want to. However, telling others that they CAN'T do it and that it's not up for discussion.....now that's fascistic. When others are reciting, don't say it. Although, I'd be awfully suspicious of a politician who doesn't want to show his allegiance to the institutions that make up his own country. Who's he doing it for, then?
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  5065.  @nonameissafer.8457  How is a charter school a place of hate and division? If no one in the state school is achieving state proficiency tests, then why wouldn't a parent have the right to find a better school? The elites have that choice. Most of them are sending their kids to private schools, but many balk at allowing that choice to the plebes. The Pledge of Allegiance is a-political. If you don't want to give that pledge while others are reciting it, DON'T SAY A WORD. Why does this even have to be a problem.
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  5066.  @StonerTHOTS  That mayor just said that they're not going to recite it and it isn't up for discussion. Why does he have the right to make the rules and force others to comply? The mayor doesn't have to say a word while the others are saying it but he said....NO PLEDGE, directed at all the members of the council. All I did was give a couple of options so a person could still live with the Pledge AND with their own conscience....and that makes me a drama queen? It would appear that it MUST be your way of nothing and it's not up for discussion or you'll start with the invectives. Quite the negotiator, you are.
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  5067. My mother went through the same thing. 2 months to live they said but she lived 2 1/2 years. It was painful for her, bedridden for 8 months with no hope of recovery. She take a shot for the pain, be out for 4 hours, be awake for 1/2 an hour and then repeat. She told me that she wished it was over as she, as a devout Christian, had made her peace with the Lord and the inevitable. However, she'd NEVER have allowed them to euthanize her. She's have fought with every ounce that she had left to prevent it. She was a tough woman. I understand how a person might want to end it but I'd be ashamed of myself, if ever I thought to do it to myself, because my 5'1" mother would be even more ashamed. Good parents make you strong.
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  5068.  @ryanthomas49  The government might be bad and corruptible but you'll never eliminate it, either. If we don't have some kind of structure, with people to manage it, we'll devolve into chaos and we'll be subject to tyranny of local warlords. It's like water. If we don't have fresh water, we'll die of thirst in a few short days. However, dump a person into the middle of Lake Ontario and you'll have fresh water but you'll drown in it. That's similar to government. We need a government to keep our society in working order. However, if the government has too much power, we'll drown in the laws, mandates and the bureaucratic malaise that we're seeing now. It's a balancing act. Destroy the government and it's destruction and tyranny through chaos. Build a huge government and it's the tyranny of a corrupt monstrous bureaucracy.
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  5069. @Matthew Jones You cannot repair damage done to my grandmother in WW2 occupied Holland by giving ME extra help. That damage was done to her, NOT me. The way to honour my grandmother and the horrific treatment she endured, is to take advantage of the freedom I have today, is to show appreciation for that freedom by doing my best at whatever I do. Accepting gratuities on her behalf isn't a show of respect or honouring her memory or showing gratitude for those who risked and gave their lives to release her from that bondage. When you have freedom, using it to make yourself the best that you can be, is the way to repair the damage of the past and to honour those who suffered and endured the oppression of tyrants. It showing a gratitude for what you have that your ancestors could only dream about.
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  5070. Actually, this is remarkably fast for a government. LOL.
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  5071.  @tcrews2040  Once again....repeating that she's lying doesn't prove a thing. You have to showcase what it is that she lied about, provide the evidence to prove that it is a lie and that she knows that it's a lie and is intentionally saying the opposite. I could put a video in a loop that repeats an accusation repeatedly and it would have no more value than the comments that you've posted.
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  5072.  @kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066  Calling someone names and using tired old cliches mean absolutely NOTHING. "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people" -Socrates. Let's talk ideas....instead of people. What is she talking about that would set you off on a name calling spree.
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  5073.  @kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066  If you don't care, why are you even responding to me? You're the one that started talking to me. What is this? Do you want to be the one that does all the talking? You won't read it because you have nothing but insults to say anyway. You can't even bring up a thing that Candace has had to say that you dislike so much. Oh well, you're not reading this, anyway.
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  5074. Does a business have a right to refuse service based on race, religion, gender, nationality or political beliefs? I'll leave you to answer that for yourself. We're no longer a monarchy which makes your metaphor rather tepid. Absolutism, as a form of authority, is no longer considered valid in a country that values democratic rights, freedom of speech and beliefs, in essence their Constitution. To put it bluntly, it's the King that's dead....NOT the jester.
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  5075.  M 40  They did the same with Greta Thunberg. You weren't allowed to call out anything she said because if you did you're bullying a little girl. A message that can't be questioned. Smart but highly unethical.
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  5076.  @Tadpoletofrogs  I'm not American. You're allowing anger and hatred to get in the way of your judgement. Also, I'm not making any kind of political point. My point is that once the land was dry and worked out. Now it's fertile and they're growing crops there. That's my point. They did something right to make it that way. You don't have to like someone to learn something from them. However, I'm thinking that you're so full of blind rage that if you were living in a barren wasteland, you'd continue to do so rather than do what those hated Zionists did to improve the land and your own well being. Grow up a little.
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  5077.  @ElieBei  A great deal of the Middle East was desertified due to over grazing and erosion over thousands of years. Israel is no different. It's high population is why so much water is being used. If the population density of Israel was comparable to the Gobi desert, agriculture would not have needed near as much water and neither would there be the need for water for the general population. If you took the methods used in Israel, taking into consideration the different needs that the Gobi desert would need, then you would have sustainable reclamation of desert lands. Also, as desalination technology improves, so will their dependence on the river systems for agriculture. New agricultural practises could lessen the amount of water needed for agriculture as well. You'll have to consider that this need grew for water grew incredibly fast. In 1970 the pop. of Israel was a little over 2.5 million. Now, it's 8.5 million. That's a 3.5 times increase in the need for water, just for public consumption. They had to act quickly just to make sure everyone had water. The need far outstripped the technological growth in water management and agricultural technology. That's not going to happen in the Gobi desert or in many of the areas that are being desertified.
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  5078.  @aceboog4546  You're just a troll. I commented on an earlier post by you but now I see that your just an angry troll. Crawl back under the bridge.
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  5079. So what do you think we should do?
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  5080. @Yuut Mute They used to. I worked 15 years in a shoe factory. It's closed now but things change. Shoes all come from somewhere else these days. I had to move on. I did very well though, from that company and I don't regret it one bit.
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  5081. They elected a new state government in Virginia over this incident. That sure sounds like change to me.
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  5082. "They all left and went home" Exactly. No one was dragged out in handcuffs, the National Guard or the Marines didn't surround the Capitol building, no standoff or big shootout, hardly any weapons (if any) were to be seen, no tear gas.....nothing. The insurrectionists walked around the building and went home. They went home all on their own, believing that they had defeated the mightiest military the world has ever seen. LMAO. Some people are so delusional. I have to wonder why nothing was done. Were they waiting for things to escalate? Waiting for the "traitors" to start burning down the Capital building and then fan out from there, by the tens of thousands, to "peacefully" burn the city of Washington down? Sort of like their favourite rioters, BLM, did? If that's what they were hoping for, they must have been severely disappointed.
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  5083.  @MacakPodSIjemom  Do you think that the government didn't care anymore and that's why they allowed it. The mechanism is still in place but they were just turning a blind eye to it. That this was the breakdown of the system that allowed Marxism to fail? Just like in the west. Allowing SJWs to quell speech is going to be the breakdown of our way of life. As for the SJWs being much worse than Bolshevism, Maoism or the Pol Pot regime, history strongly disputes that premise. SJWs have the potential to be that bad but, to this point, there are no gulags or firing squads, in the west, for wrong speech or ideas.
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  5084. The left play Orwellian word games. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." They practise intolerance yet claim that they're tolerant. They're the destroyers of society. That's why the right doesn't act like they do. They're the builders of society.
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  5085.  @maryhobbs4183  I neither support or condemn Trump or the Democrats. I'm interested in the truth and getting things done to make things better for everyone. So far, the economy is great, manufacturing investment is high. Wages are going up and unemployment is going down. Low inflation and a great time to invest extra cash in the stock market. Could be better. We could have that trade deal between Canada, the US and Mexico, but, of course, impeachment is MUCH more important. Impeachment and a buck won't even get you a cup of coffee but, hey, we don't need no effing coffee, anyway....right?
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  5086. I thought that we already had that problem solved with man or woman classes. Apparently not. I'd sure like to hear the mental gymnastics they'll use to argue against the xx/xy requirements. I bet that'll make a lot of sense. LOL.
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  5087.  @Korey_555  When they put the name of a man who sexually assaulted a woman, on their helmets, I had enough. They don't care about black people and neither does BLM. Anyone who judges good and evil acts based on the skin colour of the perpetrator, is as racist as it gets. BLM supported the rioting that burned Kenosha all in support of support of a man whose name doesn't deserve to be said allowed, let alone honoured by an NFL team. Sexual assault is wrong and a crime. The race of the perp is irrelevant. Anyone that excuses the perp, due to the colour of his skin, is as racist as it gets.
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  5088.  @Effectsmen  It does when privately owned businesses are quelling free speech. When big tech tells what you can and cannot say and what political statements are correct and incorrect, they're violating the Constitution. The right to free speech is a guaranteed right. Just because you're a monopoly you don't have the right to stop dissenting voices. They have the full support of the incoming government and YOU LIKE THAT? The first thing that a tyrannical government does is control the means of communication and the press. The new government thanks you for your support.
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  5089. HIs non-binary claims are just a symptom of his mental issues. So is his compulsion to steal.
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  5090. It's only starting. If we allow it to continue, it'll get a lot worse.
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  5091. Yes....he's a national socialist. He fully believes in the merger of the state and the economy. He just knows how to fool people into believing that he cares about them.
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  5092.  @NicerNine  I don't think that he should have apologised but I'm not going to judge the guy on it, either. Neither one of us know the pressure that he was under or any of the details involved, including things that we may never know. We just don't know all the circumstances and he may have been backed into a corner which left him no choice. I'm not about to impugn his character when I don't have all the facts. I'm just a spectator, just like you are, and neither of us are even close to what all has transpired. Also, I don't judge a person on one action. It's the totality of his life that matters. On the surface, a guy like John Wayne Gacy seemed like a good guy, a clown who made children laugh and enjoy themselves. We all know that this wasn't him at all. Just like Rogan. We can believe that he did the wrong thing by apologising but we don't really know him or what transpired. So I'm not going to call him names to suit my own beliefs or way of thinking. I'm not better than he is. It's arrogant to believe that, even while I question his reason for apologising. I'm going to say that's exactly what's wrong with societal attitudes these days. We've all named ourselves the moral and ethical arbiters of the behaviours of others and we "other" them because it makes us feel superior. I'm trying my best to reject that tendency to arrogance.
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  5093.  @ryanyeager1797  The very first comment that you made is a back handed insult, implying that you believe that he doesn't know history and that YOU do. The second was one where you deride someone for their lack of ability to communicate to your standards. As if he was below you in intelligence and therefore didn't deserve a response that befitted a fellow and equal human being. Both responses said nothing that could be taken as a positive or that had anything to add to the conversation or the topic. They were snide and derogatory, implying that you felt that you were dealing with uneducated rubes. I never said I didn't care, in a general sense, that is. I said, and read my comment carefully, that I could care less what you thought of my punctuation or my ability to communicate. In other words, if your opinion, of me, is that of some backwoods hillbilly, I don't care. My self worth isn't predicated on the arrogance of some YouTube commenter that I've never met. Do you get it now? Or do I have to hire a professional writer to make myself clear?
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  5094.  @ryanyeager1797  Pretty hard to impress the snobs, isn't it. I'm a bartender...a pretty lowly guy. Please be kind to the plebs.
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  5095. Rush....I love it.
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  5096. Lead the charge to have it changed. It would be nice to have everything done all at once but since your idea is only in its infancy, it's going to take awhile.
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  5097.  @hunterb1215  How do you know whether this person is doing something to rid the country of corruption or not? You don't know him. His statement of sadness is already doing something. A person can be upset over the state of the nation and then use it to act against that state of corruption. Why would anyone fight corruption if it doesn't bother them in the first place?
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  5098.  @hunterb1215  Encouraging him to not give up is the way to go. I would have given you a "like" if you'd approached it that way.
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  5099.  @greghill7759  They were at the receiving end for a change. They didn't know how to react. It didn't take one of them long to come up with their favourite boogeyman, though. That Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire. They've never done this kind of thing but accuse them anyway. The Stop Oil crowd shouldn't say much anyway. Their disruptions of the daily affairs of ordinary people is on the news almost every day. It hasn't helped their cause much though. Most people think that they're nuts and a colossal pain in the spot hidden from view. I wonder how much they edited to end up with this short clip. LOL. I'm surprised that they didn't run off to their safe spaces to hug their favourite stuffed animals.
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  5100. They gave each other trophies. Jim gave Brian a trophy, who gave Rachel a trophy, who gave Anderson a trophy, who gave Jim a trophy. And they all patted each other on the back and then went home.
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  5101. @Pariah I'm on the right and I'm an atheist. Of course, you'll only call me a liar. It can't be true because I MUST fit into some category of your making and you'll not making a right wing atheist category. If the category isn't official then a right wing atheist can't exist and I have to be a liar.
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  5102.  @sleazyneezy  I see you didn't ask for the data. Not surprised. You're cherry picking data, just like I did and I did it for a reason. You can make data work for you anyway you want. I said that there may be other factors that you're not looking at. Like this one. Could it be that because the Japanese aren't obsessed with racial virtue signaling that when they closed the border, no one was calling their government xenophobic? Could it be that they didn't have mayors like DeBlasio telling everyone, in February, to go out, have a good time, ride the subway and to go to the Chinese New's Years Parade to prove they weren't racist against the Chinese. Could that be why New York was the US hot spot? Could it be that the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in Nursing homes, putting the most vulnerable people in the US in danger? Could it be because Biden said it was xenophobic to restrict travel to and from China? Could it be because Japan doesn't have this element of political hate that automatically rebels against anything the president says? If this was such a concern, why didn't the Democrats forego impeachment and concentrate on the virus and sit down with the president and come up with a plan, TOGETHER, to fight this thing? Could it be the hate they felt towards the president? Trump even talked about the virus it in the State of the Union address, the one the Pelosi ripped up, because she said it was ALL lies. Not one Democrat mentioned that this was one item that they should be concerned with. And if you don't think hate is involved, don't YOU hate Donald Trump? I don't like Donald Trump, either, but I don't HATE him to the point of trying to blame him for everything. It's too simplistic and it solves nothing.
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  5103. Apparently, the "great replacement" is true. Van Jones just confirmed it. They want to replace the majority (whites) with a minority (non-whites). It's strange that he doesn't want the non-white Vivek to be one of them, though. I guess it has to be the correct non-whites, the ones that thinks the way that he does. It's almost as if he believes that all non-whites think the way that he does and those that don't....they're apostates. Sort of like the "Uncle Tom" Larry Elder, aka the black face of white supremacy. LOL. What a marooon. That's Bugs Bunny for hypocrite.
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  5104.  @gloriaf6971  His burden was the hard work that got him his doctorate degree, which allowed him to teach at Harvard and the University of Toronto. That isn't awarded to you. You have to work for it and it takes long hours of dedication or you don't get there. His burden was raising his family and dealing with his daughter's severe health problems. I'm thinking that you don't know what he means when he says we need a burden to carry.
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  5105.  @gloriaf6971  You did the things that you had to do to get out of your situation. You were fortunate enough that you lived in a country that allowed you to do that. 200 years ago, it would have been impossible. You were even MORE fortunate to enjoy the burden and the feelings of accomplishment when you succeeded. Metaphorically speaking, you went to the gym, on purpose, to lift weights and place demands on your body to improve it. Slaves lifted weights too on the demand of overseers and they didn't enjoy it. Both are burdens but one is done freely with the consequences of the burden rewarding those who do take on the burden with enthusiasm and love. If you hated every moment of it, you'd likely have never graduated. That's what Peterson is talking about. He may have come from a different background but he knew that he had to take on a burden to make his life better, not only financially but emotionally. Without that task in life, one becomes nihilistic, and nothing gets accomplished. He found his burden, and obviously enjoyed doing it, just like you did, and succeeded. You have more in common than you think you do.
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  5106.  @Johnny_Rico.You_Know_WhatTo_Do  She "shoehorned" it, as you so scornfully put it, to show that systemic racism isn't a one way street and that we can agree with one another, no matter what our identity is. What's right is right and she's correct and her identity, as a black woman, doesn't affect how she sees morality. This is an issue that affects us all. The comment right after this said that it only counts when black people are the victim. She's preempted that statement by responding that it can affect whites as well as blacks and that she's no victim.
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  5107.  @Chuck8541  They're using racism as their club to get what they want. It isn't about racism but it is about destroying the country and racism is their weapon of choice. Fuel the anger with identity and then, eventually, they'll discard the useful idiots that fell for it.
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  5108. It's the same with the left when they have to say the word "Latino". They'll be speaking in a normal accent and when they say "Latino" it's so exaggerated, almost a parody of an Hispanic accent except they don't realise how silly it sounds. It's just for that word, though. It sounds so phoney.
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  5109.  @kos15280  India's birth rate is at 2.33 percent. The replacement rate is 2.1 percent. In 1960, India's birth rate was just over 6 percent and it has fallen steadily since then. It won't be long and they'll be below the replacement rate. They ARE doing something.
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  5110. I'm guilty. I'm a microaggressor. I didn't know I was. Didn't know till just now. I asked an Oriental woman where she was born. She wasn't upset...I don't think. Actually, we had quite a long conversation about her childhood and the region of China where she grew up, interlaced with my telling her that my family came from the Netherlands. I realize now that her openness was feigned and that what was really there was a simmering hatred of my rudeness and audacity. I should apologize. Help me. Would an apology be taken as another form of mircoaggression and offend her? I don't want to be a two time offender.
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  5111. The Great of Beam Strange that the of the top 20 most productive nations in the world, not one is a country that is run by a government that controls everything. Everyone of them are capitalist economies. If you want to see efficiency, just go to a supermarket of a shopping mall. Stores shelves filled with produce of all kinds that never seem to be empty. Again, these are countries with capitalist economies. It kind of flies in the face of your claim of productivity and efficiency. As a matter of fact, any country that has even attempted your type of socialism has failed miserably. It's a paper dream.
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  5112. I was being facetious. Notice the "LOL" at the end of my comment? I understand that Harris was being misinterpreted.
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  5113. Swift 364 Why would you conclude from my comment that the other lives lost in WW2 are unimportant? I never said they were. I was talking about the Holocaust, a specific incident in the war where Jews were rounded up and summarily executed in an assembly line operation. The other deaths are just as tragic but the death camp phenomenon was overtly callous and shocking.
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  5114. The US used nukes once....just once. That was to end the most bloody conflict in human history against an enemy that attacked them first. Japan was sending suicide bombers to crash into their battleships and vowed to fight until the very end. They had just fought Germany all the way to Hitler's bunker before the Germans finally surrendered. They didn't want to have the same thing happen in Japan. It could have taken years and the lives of millions on both sides. Using nukes stopped the war dead in its tracks. Although, many were killed, I'd say many more were saved a long, tortuous death through starvation and disease had they not used nukes. You're letting anti-American bias cloud your view of history. It has nothing to do with what's happening now.
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  5115. I think it has to do with the internet. Most people knew about the maps years ago, but those that didn't had no way to express their doubts and misunderstandings. The internet provides a forum where a person can remain anonymous and give opinions and not have to face ridicule in a live confrontation. It allows him/her a way to find others who feel the same way he does and they can prop up the feeling of inadequacies that not understanding what is supposed to be simple, can bring. From there, it's a small step to calling all those people that made them feel so small a bunch of brainwashed liars. It's about ego and a way to support that ego that has never been available to them in the past.
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  5116. Thanks for explaining, TREY the Explainer.
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  5117. netterstyl I'm surprised that you're the only one that spotted the true issue here. What's wrong with people. They go on and on about this guy having his life ruined when Megyn is yelling and screaming. Where are their priorities.
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  5118.  @nodak81  Why should anyone be forced to get a driver's licence to work at some generic job? Some people can't drive and shouldn't. Others are afraid to get behind the wheel. Some have physical problems or might be under a suspension due to addictions. Why should they not be allowed to work because they can't drive? It's a stupid rule. I'm a bartender. I don't need to drive a car to serve my customers. What kind of arbitrary and autocratic rule would force me to get a driver's licence to do my job?
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  5119. Didn't have near the impact that the Beatles did on the Ed Sullivan Show. Not even close. It was a turning point in music. It's one of those things you'd have to be there to fully get it.
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  5120. Which doesn't make a lot of sense because their music was so varied. The Beatles of 65 sounded a lot different than the Beatles of 67 which was different than 69.
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  5121. Jason Fella Your statement about the medical methods is true.  People could have died from forms of cancer but the medical establishment had no way of knowing what it was that killed their patient.   Another factor is the death rates by other factors in those times.  That was in the days before penicillin and antibiotics.  An infection, that we cure today, could, and quite often did, kill you.  People weren't living long enough to contract cancer because they were dying of other causes.  Infant mortality rates were far higher than they are  now.   My grandfather sired 23 children.  7 seven of them died before their 5th birthday.  How many of those who died in 1900 from other diseases and reasons would have died later in life from cancers?  Something that we can never honestly answer.
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  5122. That stuff was written a couple of thousand years ago.  You'd be hard pressed to find a Christian that follows those parts of the Bible today.  ISIS is a problem today....right now, and it's a huge problem.
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  5123. Churchof thepainfultruth The Christian God can't be evil.  He doesn't exist. This isn't some kind of contest...who's got the best kill numbers.  If Christians killed in the name of their religion, I'd say that's evil.  I don't really know of any atheists that killed in the name of atheism.  I know that Stalin was an atheist, but he didn't kill in support of his atheist cause.  He killed to maintain power and control.    I think you'll find most self proclaimed atheist dictators are the same.   They kill for their own self interest.  Atheism is just their lack of belief in a God.
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  5124. + El Dacnomaniac I've read the Bible, cover to cover, on my own volition. I was raised in a strict Christian fundamentalist background and even attended our Church's elementary school. The man that I referred to was the fiancee of one of the teachers at that school. I've also read the Koran. .....and I'm an atheist. I realised I was an atheist in Grade 6, while reading a creationist type essay written by one of my classmates. I still learn a lot about Christianity later on as I got older but learned more as a student than a believer. Regardless of one's spirituality, it is still the most important piece of literature ever written. Tarek El Derbas is making all his assertions on anomalies that lend credence to his very narrow belief system. I was merely trying to point out that one can believe in God and the teachings of modern science. He will not accept this, I would think, because to do so, he'll have to relinquish his certainty of his moral and intellectual superiority of the majority of people on earth. Humility isn't his strong point, even though it's a virtue highly praised by Jesus and he uses his religious beliefs as a weapon against all those he thinks are his inferiors.
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  5125. + El Dacnomaniac Well, I felt as if I did because I used religious ideas in an effort to show that belief in God and science isn't mutually exclusive. It made it appear as if I might believe also. Part of reading the Bible is knowing when and where the writers would be coming from. Those writers wouldn't know the things we know now and would be using old legends and poetic licence to convey the messages of their beliefs. The Bible says things like that rainbows were put in the sky to remind him never to destroy the world with a flood again, yet, at a very young age, I could make rainbows in the spray of a garden hose. You take the book with a grain of salt.
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  5126. + El Dacnomaniac I read this in your link. " one quickly finds that the notion of a spherical world is the theory which has the burden of proof and not flat earth theory." Wrong and REALLY wrong. Every idea proposed has to meet the burden of proof. There are no exemptions. If you can't meet the burden of proof and you still believe then you're operating on faith, not science.
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  5127. El Dacnomaniac "cause hypothetically if nasa is faking" Hypothetically? Really? Doesn't sound like very good evidence. Let's try to get away from the hypothetical world in the real world.
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  5128. These guys are obsessed with NASA. It's like they think it was NASA that first proclaimed a round earth. Ask them about the European Space Agency or the Russians, or Chinese, India, Japan and on and on, they either go away or claim they're in on the big con, too. They're nuts.
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  5129. Real Eyes Realise Real Lies I've just went through everyone of your comments in this thread and you've basically said nothing of value. All you've done is call people shills and stupid. I don't think I've ever seen a person use the insult "shill" as often as you've used it. You know, it would be beneficial if you'd actually discuss the topic instead of just name calling and insults. At least we'd know that we might be dealing with one of at least some intelligence. Any 8 year old can call people names. They do it all the time in the school yard.
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  5130. El Dacnomaniac You're wrong about the meaning of theory in science. In science it has a different meaning than what the ordinary person would use in day to day conversation. According to dictionary.com, a scientific theory is "a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation:" http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scientific-theory It would also help to read this from Berkeley department of science. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/howscienceworks_19 Basically, a theory is science is a broad set of well tested ideas that have yet to be refuted. It gives a theory in science a very high status of acceptance as fact.
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  5131. El Decnomaniac I've been away on holidays and I had to review his comments to refresh my memory on what he was all about. I wasn't impressed.
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  5132. efc toffee I'll use a bar room brawl to illustrate how alliances are made in a war.  Buddy has too much to drink and starts becoming abusive.  He is asked to leave.  Someone makes a snide remark.  Buddy reacts and punches him in the mouth.  The doorman grabs the guy and tries to throw him out but the guy is too strong.  Another patron, a friend of the guy who was punched, helps him out and together they get the guy out.  The doorman thanks the guy for his help.   This guy feels good about his role in establishing order in the joint.  Later, that night, the doorman goes home, gets into a fight with his girlfriend and puts her in the hospital.  Should the guy still have helped the doorman?  The doorman's obviously a douche and of course the answer is yes.  It was under the circumstances.   Hitler posed the greater threat to the allies.  They had to deal with the bigger threat, first and the circumstances of the moment, just like the bar brawl I just described. As for the dropping of the two bombs on Japan, one has to take into consideration what was happening at that moment.  The allies had been involved in six years of the most devastating war in history.  They had to fight Hitler until they were a couple of blocks from his bunker.  It was a fight to the bitter end.  Japan was showing that they were going to do the same.  Kamikaze fighters was a strong indication of their determination.  The allies had no idea on how long a ground war in Japan would take and how many lives would be lost.  A war weary world wanted it over with and almost everyone in the allied world reacted with joy when those bombs prompted Japan's surrender.  Had you been a part of the allies at the time, you'd quite likely, have felt the great relief that the vast majority felt.  Was it right?  War never is.  It did, however, prompt the Japanese emperor to over ride his generals and declare a surrender.  It is arrogant and unfair to judge what they did when you didn't live in the times they had to live through. 
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  5133. Floating balls? I'm not quite getting what you mean. What's so unbelievable about a round earth. The vast majority of educated people believe it is round, so it can't be that unbelievable.
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  5134. I watched that flat earth seasons thing and it makes no sense. If the world is flat and the sun is above the flat earth, why does it get dark? How can it get dark on one side of the earth and not the other? This is something you can do yourself. Take a small light in a room and suspend it in the air in a corner. Then you go to the opposite corner, actually anywhere in the room. You can still see the light, even if it's just a few inches off the ground. The only way it can fully disappear is if it goes below floor level. If that happens, the entire floor can't see it. That would be no different than a flat earth. It has to be either completely dark all over the world or completely light. It makes no sense and if it does, explain it to me. Just to make his scenario work, he had to make the sun speed up and slow down. Why would the sun do that? I don't see how this would cause almost 3 months of complete darkness in the winter and 3 months of continuous sunshine in the summer in Alert. The whole thing is illogical.
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  5135. Of course those images showing an oblate earth are images and not the real thing. They're done that way as an exaggeration to show how the earth is not a perfect sphere. In reality, those difference only amount to 42 miles out of 25,000 miles, a difference so small in its relationship that it's not detectable with the naked eye when looking at the composite images of the earth or the pictures taken during the moon landings. It isn't nearly as oblate as depicted in those images. It's done that way for educational purposes to show exactly where the shapes are actually different. The reality isn't nearly as exaggerated. I've already explained that to you once. It's not that hard a concept to understand. I watched that video, or most of it, that you recommended. It's full of inaccuracies and fallacies. He has no idea on the properties of gravity and how it works on falling objects or a plane. A carpenter's level always works to the gravitational centre of the earth and that's exactly how a plane works. It's engines maintain a constant speed to maintain altitude because gravity will keep it at the exact same distance to the gravitational centre. Decrease that speed an gravity will pull it down and the flaps will have to be moved to maintain altitude. A plane does not have to correct itself to follow the curve of the earth. Gravity does that for the plane as long as it maintains a certain speed and no steering mechanisms are changed. I do not see the sun getting smaller until it reaches a vanishing point in the far north. What the sun does is reach its highest point a little lower every day until it is so low it no longer clears the horizon. Everyone of us that has ever been to the Arctic will tell you that's what happens. The sun does not get to the size of a star before vanishing completely. That has never been observed. There are a lot of good Christians that know the earth is round. Believing in God and a round earth isn't mutually exclusive and saying that denying a flat earth is an attempt to discredit a God is ridiculous. You can get a decent telescope and point it at Jupiter and watch that planet rotate on its' axis and see moons orbiting around it. Why is this planet different than the earth. The crescent moon doesn't work if the moon is flat either. Also, it seems a little disingenuous to call all evidence of a round earth lies and CGIs and accept any prove of a flat earth as fact. That's a little self serving and no way to prove a point.
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  5136. Are you really that thick that you can't understand the difference between a perfect sphere and one that's just a little imperfect? 42 miles difference out of 25,000 miles. That's 0.168 percent of the size. Not a big deal. That's all they're saying. It's not quite a perfect sphere. So to demonstrate the imperfection they sometimes have an exaggerated illustration to show where that imperfection lies. However, when looking at a composite image of the earth, that slight difference is undetectable. They're making a statement of accuracy. Wow....how can this seem so baffling? Once again, I'm going to have to explain this to you. The satellites, in spite of being in space, are too close to take a full shot of the earth. Remember my example of taking a single complete picture of a house standing 5 feet away from it? Have you even tried to visualize what this entails? It cannot be done because you're to close to the house. A satellite in space cannot take a full picture of the earth because the earth is too close. The only way they can show a picture is a composite, a CGI. You're being deliberately obtuse in repeating this "how come it's a CGI image?" question. There is no satellite far enough away to take a full picture of the earth. You don't have to believe it but at least quit pretending that you don't get this simple concept. No one was around to see how the moon was formed. Maybe God did create it. Who really knows? However, they have designed computer simulations and found a scenario that works and can explain how it could have happened. Science knows that it may not be that way but thus far, it has been the most likely scenario to explain its existence. They will leave this as the most likely explanation unless someone can show, using math and science, a more likely explanation. Once again, you don't have to believe it but your incredulity isn't enough to refute it and you must be intelligent enough to understand how and why this theory is being presented. They have observed all the planets in our solar system along with their moons and they're all basically spherical. They have discovered 715 exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, and they're also round. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, earth, isn't a sphere. It's flat. Every other celestial body observed is a sphere but not earth. Well, isn't that odd. A flat earth doesn't explain gravity or any of its properties. It doesn't explain why all those moons keep going around Saturn, Jupiter, Mars Neptune or Uranus. You don't have to believe that it happens but a half decent telescope in your back yard and you can watch it happen for yourself. But of course, the natural rules of nature don't apply to earth, just everything else cause the earth is so special. Of course, the government and NASA and the Illuminati and the elite don't want us to know that the earth is flat because if we knew that we'd all revolt and worship God and quit our jobs and refuse to pay our bills and....I'm not really sure why it's so important that we believe the earth to be round. It's all some kind of ruse for some nefarious purpose. Satan has to be behind it all. Another question I have is about my TV satellite dish. Why is it I have to make sure it's pointed to an exact location in the sky to pick up a TV image? My neighbour has to have his pointed at the exact same location. One of those imaginary satellites that NASA is lying about putting up there? Is that what I'm trying to locate when I'm zeroing in on that exact spot in the sky? I'm going to have to reiterate my explanation of why all images from NASA, the European space agency, the Russian space program, the Chinese,Indian and Japanese space satellites can't show a complete picture of the earth. All those satellites, from all those countries are too close to the earth to take a full picture of the earth. The only way they can show the entire planet is to form a composite picture, a CGI. It's either that or every country that has a satellite and every university in the world, every book, science magazine in every library have all conspired to fool us because they all worship Satan or the lizard people or something. All pilots and co-pilots, shipping companies, surveyors....all in on it. And you, the smart guy that you are, can spot how they are lying. I'm still not sure why they would do all this lying. Perhaps you could explain it to me. How is it to their advantage that some dumb factory worker, like me, believes that the earth is round? How does that benefit anyone? If nothing else, explain that to me.
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  5137. A solid electromagnetic engineer? Why don't you become one. Get a doctorate in engineering and then show us all the wondrous inventions and innovations that would be available to us if we only stopped believing in Einstein...and his idiots. Was Newton one of those idiots? Couldn't have been. He lived a couple of centuries before Einstein. Same as Copernicus and Galileo. Idiots that brought out ideas based on the ideas of gravity that Newton formulated. All those idiot scientists working in every university in every country around the world, yet you know more than them because you've got the education to understand gravity and electromagnetism. You're a little boy trying to join the "big people" and the only way you could even possibly sit at the same table is to call them names. Show me one credible scientific paper that refutes the laws of gravity. That paper doesn't exist and you can't prove to us or yourself that you possess a higher level of intelligence by the school boy tactic of calling people idiots. That may have worked in grade 5, maybe, but in the grown up world it is a joke.
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  5138. Science can measure the effects of gravity, make predictions using the laws of motion and gravity and have developed technology using gravity. As a matter of fact, almost everything we do uses gravity or involves the effects of gravity to some extent. It is one of the most important, if not the most important forces in the universe. The one thing that is difficult to understand is just what exactly gravity it and how and why it works. That doesn't negate its existence, no more than not understanding cancer negates the existence of cancer. What the hell does being a Jew have to do with anything??? Racial ethnicity has nothing to do with understanding natural law. If a Jew says 2 plus 2 equals 4, I'm not about to call him a liar and say all the concepts of mathematics are bogus. You're entire line of reasoning is based on incredulity which is fuelled by bigotry. Not exactly what I'd call an enlightened or professional means to use the scientific method. I'll warrant you have next to no education in the sciences or mathematics. I'll also warrant that you can't even show me one highly credentialled individual who thinks that gravity is a stupid concept. Memes on a youtube video isn't exactly science. Anyone who thinks that these memes lend credibility hasn't a clue on how information is examined or processed to a logical conclusion.
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  5139. I'm still not seeing any credible source for your ideas. There's so much junk on the internet and I'm not about to wade through every crackpot idea that's been posted. If you have good sources and information, share. You're the one that's bucking the system. Tell us why. if you won't or can't, I'm not about to take you seriously. Why should I? You're just a faceless, unknown guy posting stuff on a youtube comment section. To be credulous, you have to have to be credible and that means backing up your unusual claims. Like it or not, gravity is the accepted idea that explains the forces of the universe. If it's wrong, do us a favour and prove it. You've not even come close yet.
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  5140. Now it's an atheist conspiracy. Millions of scientists, around the world, from all disciplines and religions agree that gravity explains the motions on the heavens but you know better and the best you can come up with is that it's an atheist plot to make money. You have no idea what the term "rules of evidence" means...not a clue. Still no evidence of how your concept of earth can be proven. Nothing. Right back to accusations and claims that you can't or won't back up. Do you even understand what I mean by that. I'm still thinking that you've very little education. I'm also seeing someone who's had difficulty understanding basic science and is now compensating by embracing a world view that shows you're not as lacking in intelligence as your lack of education suggests. You've explained it to yourself and to those who you feel have questioned you IQ. You're not the dumb one....they're all liars...sent by Satan or atheists or the Jews or someone. You can now claim to have the brains, the insight to see through the lies, making you one of the smarter ones...just as you've always suspected. If you're so smart, give us the evidence to back up your claims. Real evidence with good references. No more about levitation and that rainbows can only happen on a flat earth. That doesn't say a thing.
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  5141. You're right about a flat earth because I'm a zio pro atheistic beast marked troll? You're starting to sound more and more like a lunatic as we exchange comments. This isn't about me....or you. It's about demonstrable facts and observations. Show me the evidence for a flat earth and how gravity cannot exist. Bigoted rants about Zion and whacked out nonsense about the beast doesn't cut it when you're a scientist trying to get a nuclear reactor to work or peering through a telescope at a round Mars or Jupiter. Use science and the rules of evidence to prove your point. All you're doing is proving how uneducated you really are.
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  5142. It's not about what you think or about what I think. It's about the mountains of evidence and formulas that support the modern scientific concept of the universe. Speed, motion, gravitational force, relativity, inertia, the seasons and more are all fully explained using the concepts of modern science. I've asked the other guy what evidence he has the proves the flat earth and all he does is call me an atheistic troll. Now, I'll ask you the same question. Show me the proof, in scientific terms on why you believe the earth is flat. You'd be better off taking a basic grade school science course and work your way up to university level. I know it's hard work but it's well worth it in the end. You'll be able to join the 21st century and take part in the wonders that science is uncovering every day instead of languishing in a medieval wasteland.
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  5143. You don't even understand the basics of relativity. No one lives upside down on a spherical earth. The earth has no up or down, but it spins on an axis from pole to pole. Gravity pulls from the very centre of the earth and a person will always perceive himself to be upright, not matter where he lives on the earth. It's his own perspective that counts for him. What some one sees from outside that perspective is irrelevant to the person that's living inside the perspective. No matter where you are on the globe, you're being pulled by gravity to the centre of the earth. That central force does not recognize up or down. It just pulls everything around it towards its centre. Get a basic education. That's all I can say to you.
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  5144. Lights in the sky that move all over the place and go around the sun. Anyone with a fairly inexpensive telescope can see Mars and Jupiter move through the sky and follow their trajectory as they move. Lights in the sky. What are you....an eight year old? If you had an education you'd know just how ridiculous you sound.
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  5145. What's laughable is that it took 2000 plus years for scholars to study the skies and develop the technology that has given humanity the insights to understand some of the workings of the earth and the one technology that could bring all that knowledge and hard work together for all to easily access is putting some of us back to the beginning. It's like all that study never happened. It's laughable and it's sad. I've asked and asked for evidence and I've got nothing. You're full of it, maybe even a troll. NO one could be that thick or that much of a Neanderthal. Pointless to even carry on any kind of mature conversation with one like you. You have no idea what it means to follow the rules of evidence or why a person in a discussion that makes a claim has the burden of proof. You fall for all logical fallacies possible and might even have chanced on some new ones. You know nothing about the scientific method or how to research, examine and process information or to present a case in logical coherent manner. It's all incredulity and a sneering dislike of anyone who spends a lifetime actually learning and trying to understand the universe. You're a child, destined to go nowhere and stuck in the stone age. I've always thought the chemtrailers were bad but you flat earthers take the cake.
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  5146. It was Eratosthenes who calculated the circumference of the earth over 2200 years ago. Most scholars have known, since then, that the earth was round...not flat. Astronomers had always puzzled over why some of the stars seemed to wander while the rest were fairly fixed. This led to the discovery that they were planets, not stars, and that they even had moons orbiting them. You can see them with a decent telescope. The telescope also enabled Galileo to confirm what Copernicus had discovered about the sun being the centre of the solar system. So your flat earth theory was disproved over 2000 years ago and your brain is still in the bronze age.
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  5147. What accounts of people being turned away? You'll have to do better than just making a claim. Guys like you claim something is a secret and then proceed to tell everyone what that secret is. How can you know if it's a secret? That's illogical.
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  5148. No....they don't. That's a far left stereotype of the modern conservative. Yes, there are right wing Christian nuts who are conservative but that doesn't define what passes as a modern conservative these days. Look at Dave Rubin or Milo Yianoppolous or Douglas Murray. They're all gay and open about it. They'd never be leaning towards conservative policies 30 years ago. The left has gone so far left, that they're chasing people to the right. I was always leaning to the left, for over 40 years now. However, the left has gotten so crazy anymore that the old left is now leaning right. The US especially, needs a centrist party to counter the crazies of the left and the right. A "normal people's" party.
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  5149. +bug Since we don't know the extent of our reality, let's just make up our own reality. Can't say it's wrong. No one knows true reality. Therefore, my view of reality is as valid as anyone else's. Basically, the meat of your argument....and seemingly close to an admission that the guy in this video has stepped on a favourite belief of yours. Thinking out of the box is a method used to assess a problem when nothing else seems to work. It's not a validation for every crack pot idea a person can come up with and it's definitely not a sign of greater intelligence or insight.
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  5150. A theory in science has a different meaning than when used in the more generic usage. A simple google search will confirm this. One word can have more than one meaning and that is the case here. A theory is an idea that has been thoroughly tested and substantiated with every test and observation performed which means that it is fact. Use the meaning of the word theory as it is meant in the context of science not the one that is in daily usage. Actually, more people believe in some sort of divine creator than a natural means of existence. A creator and evolution are compatible ideas and there are those who believe that a creator designed the universe and evolution is a part of that creation. You have specific beliefs concerning a creator, one that cannot be substantiated and is no more valid than other beliefs about a creator's nature. You are entitled to believe what you like but you cannot fit the facts to suit your beliefs. Beliefs are subjective, facts are not.
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  5151. Ganymede Skooling The rules of evidence do not work that way.  It is not up to anyone to prove they are a hoax.  It is up to those who accuse of a chemtrail conspiracy to prove the guilt and the reality of the crime.  Innocent until proven guilty.  You've declared their guilt and believe that verdict should stand on the accusation alone.  Would you want to face a justice system that was that stacked against you?  Your claim that we're not supposed to figure out a good conspiracy theory makes no sense.  That's exactly what this video and others are claiming to have done.  They claim to have uncovered a plot and are now revealing it to the rest of us.  What's scary is that there are people who believe it true and are starting to threaten violence.  
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  5152. Ganymede Skooling It's not about my rules for conspiracy theories.  It is about critical thinking, the rules of evidence and the burden of proof.  Those are established rules in science, law and academia.  It is the best way to establish fact from fiction. Show me where the government admits to this chemtrail program.  What document or politician or video that shows, without doubt, that this is happening.  I'll examine whatever proof you have and if it's reliable, I'll believe it and admit I'm wrong.  Be prepared though.  I do not except anything without a thorough investigation, no matter what the claim.  If there is a hole in your proof, I'll find it.  Not because I refuse to believe it, but because for evidence to have value it must be unassailable.  The entire chemtrail theory is about violence.  The accusation is that the powers are spraying the general population to kill them/us.  De-population programs, that's means indiscriminate killing which is violence.  How else is one to counter an attack like this without the use of violence?
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  5153. In spite of so much of cancer research being flawed, cancer mortality rates has dropped by 13 percent in the ten years from 2004-13. That is still due to the use of the scientific method Improve the research methodology, don't abandon it. You seem to be throwing out the baby with the bath water.
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  5154. American having the death penalty is violent. If the death penalty is violent in America, then it's violent in Saudi Arabia and Islam. A logical progression. Thank you for clarifying this important point. You're absolutely correct. Islam is no more a religion of peace than America is a country of peace.
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  5155. A contrail is a man made cloud, inadvertently forming from the exhaust of carbon fired plane engines. If clouds can fill the sky, why can't the clouds that form around the exhaust of planes fill the sky? Clouds form when water vapour condenses and freezes around particulates in the air. Dust, smoke, pollen....tiny particulates that are blown into the atmosphere. Clouds cannot form unless those particulates are present. There are days that those particulates aren't there. This means that the water vapour has nothing to condense around and clouds will not form. A plane comes along, burning fuel and ejecting gases and particulates out of its exhaust. Just like a car does. Your car exhaust ejects all kinds of pollutants. The difference being that a plane ejects its exhaust into a much colder atmosphere, where air pressure is much lower. This concentrated source of particulates now give the water vapour, that is present, something to condense around. The result is a contrail. Sometimes it dissipates within minutes. Sometimes it will last for hours. It all depends on how much water vapour is present up there. That's the same way with clouds. Sometimes they will dissipate and the skies will remain clear. However, when there is a lot of water vapour present, clouds will continue to form and grow until it falls as rain. There is no way a plane has the payload capacity to leave a trail that would stretch for hundreds of miles across the sky. It's physically impossible.
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  5156. You're right, of course. There are days when the particulate and condensation nuclei are higher than others, just like days when the humidity is higher than others. There is always a humidity index, no matter how dry the air is. There is also a particulate count at all times even in the cleanest of air. Those days of clear blue skies and contrails being formed are the days when the particulate count is very low and moisture content is high. Maybe I should have said that there are days when the particulate count is that low that there isn't enough for the water vapour to condense around for it to be noticeable. Would that be accurate enough?
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  5157. It's actually a combination of the two. Without particulates and moisture, contrails will not form. However, since jet engines always give off exhaust, those particulates are always present trailing behind the plane. You can only see them if there is enough moisture in the atmosphere to condense around the particulates being expelled by the plane's engines. A plane's passing can also cause vortexes that will create condensation trails or contribute to conditions for those trails that form from the plane's exhaust. If there was such a thing as electric engines in those high altitude planes, the only trails would be from the vortexes that form and those trails which are coming from the exhausts of carbon fuelled planes would not exist. Contrails would be almost non-existent if electric engines were used as the number one source for the contrails we see are from the exhaust of carbon based engines.
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  5158. Planes never fly at the same altitude in the same airspace. This is for safety reasons. 1000 feet difference in altitude can make a huge difference in atmospheric conditions. When you see 2 planes in the sky, you can bet that they are miles apart, even if they seem close. The distances involved only cause to make them appear very close when in reality they're not close at all. Don't think so? Go to this site which tracks almost all commercial flights around the world. You'll never see 2 planes at the same altitude unless they're dozens of miles apart. https://planefinder.net/
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  5159. According to the National Weather Service, water vapour needs some sort of nuclei in order to condense. If jet exhaust contained no CCN, the long contrails that we see could not form, unless the passing of the planes change conditions enough for the moisture to condense on nuclei already present. I'd think it would become very rare to see those long contrails is jet exhaust didn't expel the nuclei necessary for condensation. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds/cloudwise/learn.html
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  5160. I'm not a shill or a disinfo agent. I, simply, know a little about the science of weather and the precipitation cycle. This is the only reason that I know that contrails are naturally occurring, the result of burning fuel in the upper atmosphere and that they form for the same reasons clouds form. Since clouds can form, expand and linger, so can the artificial clouds caused by plane exhaust. No one has ever given me reason to believe otherwise. The statement that contrails cannot linger is just plain false. Science supports that statement. Now, show me the science that refutes it.
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  5161. Incredibly, air and ground crew members of commercial flights, never seem to mention all these rogue planes flying about. You'd think these planes would scare the crap out of a flight crew. Planes appearing out of nowhere with no known flight plan or registration would sure scare me. Scare them enough that it would be the talk of aviation. That's a lot of rogue planes to ignore.
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  5162. They can't say that the Iberian peninsula wasn't settled by humans earlier, because there are no remains to confirm it. It might not make sense to us why at the moment but the reason could be quite logical once discovered.
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  5163. + Florent With the ice ages going on, the Alps would have had enormous glaciers, making them an even more formidable barrier. You make a good point.
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  5164. One thing I learned from watching this video about free speech, is that I have the option to stop listening to these self righteous whiners by stopping this video and watching something else.
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  5165.  @blackcattours  So....the guy that passes the test the very first time and has his licence thinks that's there's nothing wrong with the process. Oh..kay.
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  5166. Just because one is afraid certain ideas are dangerous, that doesn't mean they should be completely ignored. When I was a teen, I wanted to understand Nazism and how people could willingly follow those ideas. My first step was to read "Mein Kampf". I went right to the source. To understand it, I had to know it. If I'm to fight it, I have to know it well enough to recognise it in others and myself. Know thine enemy. It is the admonition of Sun Tzu. To defeat the enemy, one has to know the enemy. It's how I tackled Marxism as well. Not saying all concepts are the enemy but if I'm to know evil, I have to study evil because if I don't, I'll never recognise that potential in me. That is the big arrogance that I see on college campuses, today. So many are convinced of the evil in others but conversely believe that they are nothing but good and would never do the evil of others. That's when things become dangerous. Knowledge and education have utility when used as a mirror to reflect our inner selves. It loses that utility when it is used to judge others and you become the arbiter of right and wrong. What it will cause is the scourge of cognitive bias, seeing only what puts the self in a good light. That is infinitely more dangerous than what Peterson is doing.
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  5167. +Michael009 Talk to anyone that has lived in a true dictatorship. My parents lived in WW2 Holland and they will tell you that you have no clue what its like to live under the boot of oppression in comparison to your intellectual arguments of an oppressed American citizen. You set up an impossible scenario of what you think freedom actually is and then criticize Americans for not living up to your dreamland. No one will argue that the States has problems and that things aren't perfect. There is no such place on the planet. However, to say that Americans live under the same restrictions that North Koreans do is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty and exhibits a strong personal bias. This girl had to escape North Korea, under threat of death. An American can leave his country anytime he wants, no threats, no nothing. If you cannot grasp how that difference, it's only because you have the personality of a complainer, always seeing the negative and never applauding the positive. Pessimism is your driving force and you'll always have the argument and provide the example how life sucks and our future is doomed. A sad way to live a life.
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  5168. +Michael009 Holland had it easy? Maybe in comparison to the Soviet Union but it wasn't easy. 25,000 people starved to death. It would have been more except for the food drops by the Allies. You're actually trying to suggest that America is worse than war time Holland? My parents lived both and I guarantee you that they would both think that you're a self indulgent, spoiled child, playing intellectual games and completely divorced from reality.
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  5169. Messenger Charles His own kind? You mean human beings? Nazis treated human beings like crap. The guy had the courage to stand up for the people he cared for and defend his child against the lunatics that wanted to kill her. You think it's not treachery to turn on your own child? It was his duty to protect her and he did it. It would have been treason had he done anything else. It's people, like yourself, that perpetuate the misery of war and hate and may ultimately result with this planet being utterly destroyed....all because of your obsession with "your own kind". Join the 21st century. It's time we gave up on those medieval ideas of superiority.
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  5170. Messenger Charles What the hell are you talking about? What are all those little quotes supposed to mean.
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  5171. That's the beauty of freedom of speech. It applies to everyone, no matter where they live or where they're from. Restrict one person from having that freedom, you've accepted the notion that freedom of speech isn't really a concept that you believe in and only granted to those you feel worthy. That's something everyone should stand against. Freedom belongs to everyone, not just the select few or just Americans.
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  5172. There will never be an Islamic reformation until Muslims stop revering Mohammed almost to the extent of his being a God. He's a ordinary man and should be open to criticism, just like anyone else.
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  5173. 7th Day Calvary Baptist church Jesus said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what it God's"  Doesn't sound as if he was appalled at all.   40,000 Canadians went to the United States for health care for a myriad of reasons, including the one that says that he who is willing to pay the most gets served first.  Heartless and based on the cash system.  I'd say Jesus would be appalled at a system that favours a person because of his wallet and not his need.
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  5174. StigmataBob2 I'm not sure I'd believe anything that comes out of Iran.  They're a Muslim Theocracy.  They're liable to say that they're success rate (dubious claim) was due to their faithfulness to Allah.  Not very compelling. Germany, on the other hand, is an interesting example.   How do they do it?  How does their treatments differ from American treatments?  What is their success rate compared to the United States?  Do the surrounding countries, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria for example, use similar treatments and have similar success rates.  How does Germany, a capitalist country, avoid the cash-for-cure system of the United States?   I googled cancer death rates by country and I didn't find any evidence that Germany's record was that much better than the United States.  Iran was way down in the death rate column, but it was stated that their numbers were not that reliable.  I did read in many sites that the survival rates were affected by how strident the successful countries were in testing for cancer.  Early detection is an important factor is survival rates and some countries have better programs in place in order to detect the cancer in its earliest stages.  Nowhere did I read that the countries with the more successful rates of cancer used different methods of cures than the United States.
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  5175. Mike Ivsin Rick Simpson has done no clinical tests, keeps no records and relies on anecdotal evidence to prove his cures.  He claims a 70 percent cure rate but offers no documentation to back up this claim.  He eyeballs doses, has no idea what compounds in his hemp oil are the active cancer fighting ingredients and can't begin to tell how and why they work. I've no doubt that marijuana can alleviate the discomfort of cancer but I'm afraid that as a cure for cancer it not that likely.  It may just be wishful thinking on the part of the legalize marijuana advocates.
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  5176. Mike Ivsin Not any time soon, buddy.  If Simpson wants to prove the medical benefits of his hemp oil in fighting cancer, he should have the documentation available to show his success rates.  Every one of these guys who claim they have the cure for cancer never have any type of medical files to show for it.  If it's as legit as they claim, you'd think they'd only be too happy to meticulously record every facet of each case so the medical community, all of us, can examine them to verify their accuracy.  That's why the  medical establishments keep those records.  To chart the success and failure rates in hopes of establishing patterns.  
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  5177. Mike Ivsin I'm not speaking for Canadians.  Everyone of us can speak for ourselves.  Why doesn't he have the documentation and the stage by stage records for each patient?  It's a simple enough question and it's common sense.  Why would you or anyone believe a person who doesn't do the simplest requirements to prove his claims?   We're all going to die...even you.  No need to be ghoulish about it and no need to act as if you have some kind of antidote to death.  You don't.
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  5178. Mike Ivsin Typical response of conspiracy theory types.  You can't answer the questions asked of you so, instead, you start with the accusations.  Answer my question.  Engage in an adult conversation.   In case you forgot the question...I asked why Rick Simpson doesn't have the meticulous records to show the progress of each patient that he has cured and his failures.  Along with that, the reasons he believes each case was a success or a failure.  That would show patterns that all researchers and medical people could examine to better understand his methods with the ultimate goal of improving on his methods until he has a 100 percent success rate and that success rate is repeated everywhere on the planet.  That would be the responsible thing to do.  Why doesn't he do that?  I would, if I thought I had a cure, but he doesn't.  Neither do any of the other people with their so called cures.  All they do is make sullen remarks about how big pharma makes money, yadayadayada.  That does nothing to add to the knowledge of how cancer works or how their cures combat the disease.   Why doesn't he keep meticulous records and if he does, why won't he share them? I don't expect an answer.  I expect you to either disappear or return to make more disgusting comments about my character.  Anything but an answer to the question.
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  5179. Mike Ivsin Just as I predicted.  You didn't answer the question.  You just went after me and my family.  My prediction "I don't expect an answer.  I expect you to either disappear or return to make more disgusting comments about my character.  Anything but an answer to the question."  I called it.
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  5180. Mike Ivsin And I said that it would be logical and responsible of Simpson if he carefully documented every case.  Meticulous records kept of every patient so patterns could be shown and dosages be realized that would be of  maximum benefit to future patients.  Records that could be examined by other researchers and healers so his methods could be improved upon.   Yet, he doesn't do this.  Why?  Why won't he keep records like any other medical specialist? That for me is a red flag.  He just flies by the seat of his pants, professional ethics be damned and it would be the logical, responsible and ethical thing to do...keep records of his patients.  Please tell my why he won't. Once again, you won't have an answer for me.  You'll either disappear or make your sickening remarks about my family dying.  You're really not a nice person at all.
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  5181. +veganath When, in all of human history, in all of the history of every living thing, has anyone or thing escaped the inevitability of their death? Ever. I can't think of one The one thing doctors and pharma companies know for a fact is that there will always be lots of customers. Cure them of one thing, they'll be back for another reason. If you don't cure them and they die, they're not coming back. They've lost a customer. If you live, you'll be back. There's no escape. I've got nothing against people smoking pot. However, what does this Rick Simpson have to lose with his claims. He's not forced to do any tests, has no requirements that he must meet, no meetings with the FDA or drug administrations in other countries, has no set dosage requirements, has no idea what component of marijuana is the deciding factor in curing cancer, no idea of the pathology of specific cancers and how that agent acts on it. He's got nothing except some anecdotes about how buddy got cancer and started a pot treatment and is now cured. I've got mine, too. A good friend has been smoking pot for over 30 years now and he's dying....dying of cancer. How is it going to cure what it even couldn't prevent? I'm not saying that pot isn't useful in alleviating the horrible symptoms of cancer which could have a positive effect on stopping its progress. I'm pretty sure it does. However, to advise some one to not see his doctor and follow Simpson's "cure" is irresponsible and self serving. Use yourself as a guinea pig if you want but don't sacrifice others because of a personal opinion.
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  5182.  @Ace1000ks  Yet, Clarence Thomas, wrote an opinion in 2017, strongly criticising this policy. It really doesn't matter who's responsible because every Democrat administration allowed it to happen. If you want this kind of injustice to end, talk to your local representatives, Democrat or Republican, and tell them that you'll vote for the candidate that wants to repeal this horrendous policy. If neither side satisfies you, primary them out of their position. If you try to solve it through party politics, you'll get just that. Party politics. Remember, it's the FBI that told Twitter to suppress the Biden laptop information. Anyone that thinks that only ONE side is corrupt is either brainwashed or wilfully ignorant.
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  5183.  @Ace1000ks  Personally, I don't like Donald Trump but the one thing that he did was expose the "swamp" to use his own words, in Washington and in politics in general. A lot of us didn't realise how pervasive it was and it would never have been known without the powerful reach of the internet. That doesn't mean that Trump isn't corrupt but his presidency was all about how the swamp doesn't want ANYONE to rock the boat and Trump sure did that, like him or not. His presidency might be looked at, in the future, as a turning point for America. Whether that will be a good thing or not, in the long run, has yet to be fully realised.
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  5184. Saying that mammograms contribute to breast cancer is like saying x-rays contributed to my broken ankle.
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  5185. Maggie Byrne   What!!!  X-rays did cause my broken ankle.  Jaysus!!!
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  5186. Maggie Byrne I don't know....but I never trusted those x-ray technicians.
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  5187. docstowatch The average person in North America is exposed to an average of about 3 mSv of radiation a year. That is just ordinary background radiation. A mammogram exposes a woman to about .4 mSv of radiation in one visit. That is two views of each breast. That is minimal exposure and raises the average of those women from 3 mSv to 3.4 mSv. That is an average. I'm sure there are overlapping exposures involved between those who have a mammogram and those who don't. The risks are minuscule compared to what could happen if the cancer isn't detected at an early stage.
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  5188. Don't report it to Glamour magazine. I'm sure that they'll ignore it.
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  5189. On what we see in the video, it certainly looks bad, but there is no audio and we have no idea what was said or why the guy was detained.  There could have been a warrant for his arrest for something completely unrelated to the store.  If had been arrested 60 times for trespassing while at work, why not show more clips?  Why not talk to those  working at the store, the police and local residents?  While I do believe that police are harassing young black men, this case seems a little too unbelievable.  I would like to see more information before I would make a definitive comment on it.  
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  5190. Give a reference to this supposed admission.  What's the guy's name?  When did he say it?  Where was he when he said it?  Who did he say it to?  
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  5191. As much as I dislike Trump, it was the American people that voted for him. He has a lot of support from ordinary Americans and you can babble on and on about fixed elections and the electoral college but the effects of the first are unquantifiable and the electoral college has been a part of the political process from the beginning and was established in the Constitution. If Trump is a traitor so in nearly half of the citizens of the US. If the vast majority of Democrats didn't vote, then they have no one else but themselves to blame.
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  5192. George Williams Herbal medicine is a billion dollar industry with no regulation.  Who do you think those manufacturers are?  They're corporate America.  They're one and the same.  You won't buy from big Pharma so they figured out a way to get your dollars anyway.  They are now into holistic alternatives.  Billions to be made.  So long as it works for you but don't fool yourself into believing you're not a customer of big business.  The billions dollar business says you are.
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  5193. George Williams Strangely enough, you are cherry picking by singling out Pharma.  You paint every drug company, every drug executive, with the same brush.  Big Pharma is just like any other business.  Some good, some bad.  It is ridiculous to think that all drugs sold by all drug companies are poison.  If that were true, there would be a lot of sick and dying people, before their time, because of the drugs they are taking.  Yet, it has been well documented that life expectancy and having good health well into the senior years is at an all time high.  One should practise common sense and stay informed about the drugs one is taking and learn as much as possible about any health problems one might have.  To dismiss all drugs from big Pharma because of a prejudice against someone making money off your poor health may be short sighted and possibly life threatening.
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  5194. Steven Romero Raccoons are nocturnal but I've seen them during the day. In town they won't come out but in the country you see them quite often. I've watched them in a nearby creek, getting clams and crayfish in the middle of the afternoon.
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  5195. COMICS ARE THE BEST Raccoon, foxes and dogs fight with their teeth. It's the main weapon that they have. Rabies affects the brain and causes some animals, predator types, to become very aggressive and they will attack. Humans become aggressive as well and develop a fear of drinking water because they have difficulty swallowing. Another name for rabies is hydrophobia. In the past they would tie people up so they wouldn't hurt others. This is a known fact.
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  5196. Must be tough for a woman in Saudi Arabia to start and run a business when she isn't allowed to drive.  I suppose it's possible but it can't be easy.   I wonder how many Muslim men work for women in Saudi Arabia.  That would be an interesting statistic.  Be nice to interview the male employee and the female employer if they do exist.  
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  5197. Jason Fella There is no way that we will find a cure for cancer without research.  Research means money.  Money for labs, equipment, support staff and researchers.  No one works for free.  You wouldn't...even for something as noble as a cure for cancer.  You're not going to live in a cardboard box, eating out of dumpsters, all the while looking for that elusive cure.  The cure will not be something that some guy accidently stumbles upon.  Cures will come from intensive studies into the basic structure of the living cell and it won't be cheap. Economics dictate that a drug company has to make money to continue to make the product.  If manufacturing the cure is a guarantee for bankruptcy, the cure won't be manufactured.  There is no way around it.
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  5198. chprofits guan Is that a peer reviewed youtube video?  Lol. Direct me to a study that's been submitted to an internationally recognized peer reviewed journal.  Some guy giving testimonials on a news cast is what is known as anecdotal evidence.  Interesting but not even close to conclusive.  If hemp oil is a cure, there must be studies done, double blind tests and meticulous patient records kept.             I don't see any of that yet.
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  5199. Raccoons do come out in the day as well. In urban settings, they're nocturnal but in the country, they can be seen during the day as well. I grew up on a farm and have seen them lots of times during the day. I used to watch them in a near by creek while they were looking for clams and crayfish. Not uncommon at all in a rural setting. Copied and pasted from Wikepedia "Though usually nocturnal, the raccoon is sometimes active in daylight to take advantage of available food sources" This was referenced and easily verified from other sources as well.
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  5200. First step.....primary the local selection for representation. Get the reps that we need so we can get them to Washington. The reps we have now refuse to do the job of securing our borders. Keep the ones that do that job and primary every one of them out that don't care about border security. The more we get into Congress in the fall mid-terms, the better the chance that things will change.
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  5201. Who says that crime doesn't pay? It's starting to pay real well for them.
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  5202.  @SocraticMutt  Name one parallel. Just one.
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  5203.  Anthony Swiss  I'm pro-life but I will say that there's a big difference between full term abortion where the baby is killed at birth or the type of abortion that was deemed lawful some 20 years ago. Not that I approve of either but man, how can you abort a baby, at birth and not kill it? It makes no sense.
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  5204.  @KagemaruHitokiri  I wanted my mother-in-law to abort my, now ex-wife, when she was 32 years old and still my wife. She refused. That's why she's my ex-wife and not my ex-fetus.
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  5205. BS....Whoopi. Those rioters were NOT taking care of the people in their towns. They were damaging private property, looting stores, burning down buildings, physically attacking people with over 25 dead and thousands injured. A lot of them didn't even LIVE in those cities. When it was over, the people that lived in those cities had lost their businesses, their homes, jobs, had their cars smashed and burned, the places where they shopped were empty and gone, and a lot more. No one stopped what those rioters did to those towns or helped rebuild after the riots were over. What Aldean was talking about was how small town folk wouldn't do that to their towns. They'd go after the person that hurt their neighbours, the ones that assaulted them, burnt their businesses and homes and took their jobs. It doesn't matter who they are that are doing those things. They have to stop and then they'll help their neighbours get back up on their feet. Those George Floyd riots helped NO ONE. In fact, it destroyed a lot of the neighbourhoods that black Americans lived in and then no one came and helped them to rebuild. All it did was make those cities even more dangerous.
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  5206. I can't understand why Biden and the Democrats are so upset with Russians crossing the Ukrainian border. They don't seem to mind people crossing the southern border of the United States. Ukraine should be welcoming those immigrants.
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  5207.  @jaanushiiemae2164  Because there is money involved....and careers, athletic scholarships and opportunities. If you discount the differences in physical differences, you've just excluded a whole demographic from life opportunities and given them to men only. Why would you do that? Do you dislike women that much that you wouldn't allow them those opportunities by eliminating a system that is inclusive? Why would you want to do that?
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  5208. Earlier this spring, I watched a pair of robins defend their home, filled with fledglings from a neighbour's cat. They dove at the cat, shrieking and actually pecking at the cat's head, putting their own lives in jeopardy. The cat backed off. I'm not seeing it as an advance in civilisation if nature's creatures are allowed to defend themselves but not human beings. When our homes are in jeopardy, like those robins, we should be allowed to do what is necessary to keep those homes safe from potentially dangerous intruders.
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  5209. @Scott Brails Genocide....I thought that we hated that. I suppose not. For some genocide is okay as long as it's a group they hate.
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  5210. " I don't want to live on this planet anymore." I'm perplexed by the idea that that you'd allow wingnuts, like this James character, to ruin your life to the extent that you don't want to "live on this planet, anymore". He's a nut. I'm not about to let people, like him, lesson my enjoyment of the only life that I'll be granted. Call him out for the weirdo that he is and then move on. There's way too much life out there to live and enjoy to let people, like him, wreck it for you. Like you said, he's a joke. I laugh at jokes.
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  5211. I'm not a Christian or religious at all but if that's what floats his boat, it's his right. He's a drug addict that holding onto the faith that helped him to a better life as if he had just jumped off the Titanic and is clutching to a lifesaver. If it helps him, good for him. He's doing a good thing making those masks. Let him live his life the way he wants.
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  5212.  @robertholland7558  Speaking in religious terms, specifically Christianity, we are ALL God's children. This is fundamental to that faith. You said that we're all part of the human race. It's the same expression. Also, some like to call it God. You call it Mother Nature. Same concept, different viewpoint. You want to be compassionate, Christians say to "love they neighbour as thyself". I think that it's the same message, just told in different terms. Both said with the arrogance, that us limited humans like to exhibit, that compels us to think that we're the ones that have the correct message. It's not a contest to who's doing the right thing.
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  5213. People should be able to go to their places of worship, under the Federal guidelines, which is created to enhance the safety of those at religious gatherings, JUST like those reporters are allowed to gather, in groups, every DAY, to ask the SAME gotcha questions, of the president and his press secretary. So.....for all those who don't understand that question that those reporters kept repeating over and over again....listen up. The president supports those churches who open up....UNDER THE FEDERAL GUIDELINES IN HER HAND AND AVAILABLE TO ALL. If those places of worship open up without adherence to those guidelines, he DOESN'T support it. Simple enough for ya?
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  5214.  @lilibee3443  You've shown us exactly why Trump will win again in 2020. It's not because he cheated. The Mueller report put a strong validation stamp on that. It's because Hillary and the Democrats demonised and started calling middle Americans all kinds of negative names and so they reacted in kind to the insults. The very people that voted for Obama, in middle America, voted for Trump. You don't call some one names and then ask them to support you. That's bad campaigning. Trump lost because of Democrat arrogance and you're showing us that this arrogance hasn't stopped.
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  5215. @Troy Kitchens What good are laws when the city, Oakland in this context, wants to defund the police? Elders are being abused and the police resources are being cut back. Instead of being angry at someone who's voicing his frustration at the horrific situation, you should be calling out the city of Oakland's leadership. They're the ones letting their own citizens down.
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  5216. I can't wait for Bernie to start praising Trump for the good things he's done. LOL. I wonder if Trump has ever taught anyone to read. Apparently, that would do it.
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  5217. @@WaryofExtremes-realoriginal The new Georgia voting laws is another example. Biden and the MSM called the bill "Jim Crow 2.0". It was 97 pages long and available for the public to read but they didn't. I would link to the bill and challenged dozens of people to show me how this was true. Not one person responded, yet i would find them in other comment threads repeating the same BS. They didn't want to know the facts.
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  5218. These are the children of parents who regret that Hitler didn't fully succeed in his Holocaust. I'll bet everyone of them is a Democrat, too. You know.....the party that had the support of the KKK. The KKK was outspoken in their hatred of Zionism and the Jews. They, either don't have the brains to know that they're supporting Adolf Hitler's policies or they know and don't care. Neither one a good look.
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  5219.  @bonsa1guy  And MILLIONS died. So many more were fooled. I remember. I was one of them. I was fooled by Trump's misdirection and I prepared for a hurricane that never came. How AWFUL!!!!! Hurricanes and weather systems change direction. Everyone should be prepared for that change, just in case. Only an idiot would neglect to be ready and then blame EVERYONE else for their own negligence. I will not let Trump, Biden, the state apparatus, the press or ANYONE to tell me how or if I should be prepared for a catastrophic event. Just get me the information and I'll do the rest of what I can do to be prepared.
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  5220. I was so sure that the J shape of candy canes stood for Jack. Who changed it to Jesus and why wasn't I consulted? Merry Christmas Sydney. Always enjoy your stuff. Merry Christmas to all the rest of you who like her stuff, as well, and "Bah..Humbug" to the 12 of you that gave her a thumbs down.
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  5221.  @zaphodbebop105  They set them up so elections would be fair? That's the crop that we're reaping? Man....that sounds awful. Instead of like the elections in California. Rolling blackouts always a threat. Highest taxes in the country. Highest home prices and rentals in the country. The most stringent building codes in the US. Highest rates of homelessness....by FAR. Highest energy prices. Water issues. Wildfire issues. Craziest law enforcement policies. That's just a start. All this leading to the first time in Californian history that the population went down because so many people are fed up and leaving. Yet, the people of California keep voting Democrat. ....and we reap what WE sow??? Come on, man.
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  5222. Sunny is hoping that Hakeem lies to the American voter to get the House back and that will be the path to returning to the policies that the American voters has just voted against.....against the voter's will. Their cause is paramount...NOT the will of the people. They don't believe in "their democracy" at all.
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  5223.  Mongoose 1980  You still have to have kids. If no one has ANY kids, the 9 billion people will turn into 0 in a couple of generations. Procreation is one of the prime motivators in life. It has to be. We can either do as you do, decry having children, or we can still embrace it but with some common sense thrown in. In fact, most areas of the world are seeing a very sharp downturn in birthrates and it's done voluntarily. World population growth has been slowing down and is expected to peak within 30 years. After that, we will see declines for many generations until we reach a point of stability. Even now, we can support the world's population if we could only rid ourselves of government and corporate corruption. We must do one thing and there is a precedent. We need a full separation of corporation and state, just like we did with the church and state. How that would manifest itself has to be worked out but that marriage, that we're seeing between politicians, bureaucrats and the multinationals, will enslave us all and we're not going to like it when it does.
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  5224.  Mongoose 1980  What? LOL. Are you one of those? Who are you to even ask that question? Do YOU need to exist? What's the point of you even being here? If you're gone tomorrow, and we will all be gone in some future tomorrow, what difference would it make to you if we all live forever or go with you? I mean....do June bugs need to exist? What about maple trees, or monarch butterflies? Does anything need to exist? It's one of the most pointless questions that I've ever heard. If you feel that your life is pointless, DO something about it. Make a difference. Don't let your apathy and latent hatred fester within you. That's such a waste of life. Life is hard but it's also beautiful. Maybe if you showed a little more gratitude, you wouldn't be torturing yourself with such vapid questions. Nihilism is a losing philosophy.
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  5225.  Mongoose 1980  You forgive me? How magnanimous of you. It's almost as if Jesus himself has blessed me with his grace. We ALL crave parenthood. We don't realise it but it's why our sex drive is so important to us. Also, Dave isn't looking to bring a child into the world. He's trying to adopt. That's a child that already exists but has no parents to look after him/her. It's a good thing, unless you think that euthanasia for orphans is a good plan.
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  5226. Watching these skaters would be like watching 2 time Olympic great, Dick Button, who's now 93 years old, strap on the skates and do his gold medal performance, today. He was a great performer in the early 50s, but it could only be a sad to watch him try to relive that greatness today.
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  5227.  @spalding1968  They believe in a higher power. They believe that the state can provide them with everything that they need. They could achieve heaven, right here on earth, if it wasn't for the evil capitalists getting in the way. Government is their higher power.
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  5228. I'm going to read all the comments to see how long it takes for someone to defend this weird Orwellian Newspeak from San Francisco.
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  5229. ​ @MissChievousRN  "Do some homework, SWEETIE". What?? What do you think asking for references is? I was hoping that he had the information handy so I would have a starting point in "doing my homework". He seemed to have the information so I asked. It would be like asking my teachers for references, as a place to start, on a "homework" assignment. It saves time floundering through Google and other search engine algorithms and chasing after all the red herrings that they keep throwing in front of us. But, if you don't want to help me, you don't have to....although it would be nice to have the solid proof to show those who would doubt it. I don't want to malign you or what you're saying but ​I don't think that MissChievousRN is a good witness. I don't think any random person on the internet is, including me. I want verifiable facts. Pointing to your post just doesn't do it....so, if you do have the proof, please share. It would make my search for the truth so much easier.
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  5230.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  They're NOT refugees. There aren't any wars in Central America and they're not living in refugee camps or under a direct threat to their lives. It's an insult to those who came from places like Somalia and the Sudan when they were at war and children were starving in tents with NO food or water. Don't be so insulting.
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  5231.  Mary Smith  The modern SJW believes that they have already revived Victorian virtue. Say the wrong thing and they clutch their pearls and faint away. LOL.
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  5232.  @paintinganimalsonrocks7633  If you have a business there, you're trapped. Who's going to go through the Chaz checkpoints to use the businesses and services inside their boundaries. There's not one thing about this that's defensible.
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  5233.  @beobe99  I guess you never heard of the checkpoints and seen the rapper, Razz, I think his name is, walking around with a rifle and pistol strapped to his side, telling someone that he's now the police. You haven't heard of the John Brown society, who are carrying guns and who say they are Chaz security. Do you actually believe that these clowns have the right to check your papers if you want to enter? Or do anything? You're as delusional as they come.
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  5234.  @ronmackinnon9374  It's only because the disarming was taking too long. Too many people were resisting the call for anti-gun laws so they felt they had to suppress free speech so the public would only hear their side of why 2A had to go. It's a gamble because if people see the intent, an armed public will be difficult to defeat if they're willing to fight back. There has never been a tyranny that has allowed its citizens to be armed. You can't fight tyranny with hockey sticks and pitchforks and they know it.
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  5235. "And Don Lemon is a Moron" How many of you are laughing too hard at this? LMAO
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  5236. When you cheer for violence and destruction, you might be the bad guy.
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  5237.  @THall-vi8cp  Yes, men do but women can be so blatant about it. They will slut shame other women, relentlessly, call men a bunch of pigs and then pretend that they never even said those things when they step out on their significant others. The audacity is full on jaw dropping.
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  5238. Here's another fact. Until 1820, Europeans were afraid to spend time in sub-Saharan Africa, other than the very south, because of diseases, especially malaria. Most Europeans would be dead, within a year, in the interior. In 1820, the process to make quinine was perfected and Europeans were able to enter inland off the beaches. Had the African people not captured other Africans to sell for slavery, there would have been no trans-Atlantic slave trade, to speak of. It wasn't till quinine was readily available that the European nations started to conquer these African nations and real colonisation began. Britain abolished the slave trade, all through its Empire, in 1807. In 1833, they abolished slavery, itself.
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  5239. Damn.....I hope that war doesn't last as long as the war did in Afghanistan.
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  5240.  @andrewcogger7586  All terrible things but do you think that we should be "aborting" babies AFTER they've been born? A straight forward question that some of you refuse to address.
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  5241. She says the she's willing to work with cities over their migrant problems. I call BS. They can't even get Kamala Harris to spend time at the border even though she was tasked to look after the migrant situation. They're not working with anyone along the border. If they were, there'd be all kinds of photo ops and news stories about it on the MSM. I haven't seen a thing along those lines. Not saying that they don't exist, but they sure aren't using this as a mid term election opportunity. In fact, I'm not hearing much, in the way of campaigning other than "MAGA is Orange Fascism" or the like. That's quite the platform.
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  5242. A police officer that doesn't arrest people is a tyrant? Man, that Cuomo sure has a weird concept of tyranny doesn't he?
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  5243. What a bunch of self righteous, narcissistic jerks those teachers are. I don't see how anyone could be that vain glorious and not know it. Where do they get the ego to think that they're the ones to save humanity from itself? All the "oppressed" people of America must be SO grateful that they exist and are here to save them from their oppressors. They're just awful people.
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  5244.  @merrytunes8697  Affirmative Action IS racist. It's why the Democrats tried to get rid of their state Civil Rights Act. It says that one cannot be given preference to or discriminate against anyone due to race, religion...etc. They did it so they could implement Affirmative Action without fear of a losing a court battle when accused of violating that act. Harvard was sued by a group of Asian students because of the negative effects on Asians that Harvard's Affirmative Action policies were having. The Asians LOST because Massachusetts does NOT have a state Civil Rights law. The Asians are now taking it to the Supreme Court and they will win due to the Federal law that Dr. Martin Luther King fought so hard to put in place. They'll win UNLESS the Democrats pack the Supreme Court, like they've threatened. Weird that the same party that fought the Civil Rights Act are now trying to do away with it in California.
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  5245. @Tinja Nurtle Venezuela hasn't reported any cases yet, either. No one is going to Venezuela right now. It's pure hell there. Same as a lot of the African countries. Many are war torn nations and others are dirt poor deserts. No one is going there either. Greenland has no cases. Who goes there to spread the virus? It's the isolated countries that have been avoiding the virus. Hardly anyone goes to these countries so the odds of infected people going there are extremely low to nil. It's the same scenario as when the Europeans first came to the Americas. Old world diseases were unheard of in the Americas because it was isolated from the Old World. As soon as a few sick Europeans showed up, the Natives started dying by the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. To say isolation and quarantine won't work is just plain wrong and history and science back that up. I'm not going to argue on North Korean honesty but it's a fact that hardly no one goes there from the outside. Logic would dictate that if very few people go there, the odds of an infected person going there is extremely low. No infected people means no one to contract the disease from....unless you know something about the spread of the virus that no one else knows.
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  5246. @Tinja Nurtle You're awfully bullheaded, aren't you? Now you're going to play word games. The hell with the facts or logic, you'll fight to the end because you have the "Orange man bad" syndrome and there is NO WAY IN HELL you'd ever give the guy the tiniest compliment. Had he said that there's nothing to worry about and no need for quarantines and restricting travel, you'd be calling him a science denier. You're blind with hate and it's really sad.
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  5247. The United States produces 2 million barrels per day LESS this year than they did in 2020. Canada produces about 300 thousand barrels per day LESS over the same time period. The forced stoppage of the Keystone pipeline might account for Canada's drop in oil production. This is ALL due to the order that Biden signed on his first day in office. Blame Russia for that? Putin must have had a gun to Biden's head. That could be the only way that they could blame the Russians.
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  5248. Left wing activists have permeated the education system in order to carry their message to the young. Since most of those activist/educators are women, they tend to focus on women's issues and since girls are better students than boys, those girls eat up the left wing indoctrination of their activist/teacher. Every movement knows that the best way to get followers for the future is through early childhood education. Hitler youth in schools, daily indoctrination in communist schools, Christian and Islamic schools.....they all use the education to set children on the path that they want them to go on. These activist/teachers are doing the same thing. It's up to the individual to decide if that's what they want for their children.
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  5249.  @jimdandy8119  As if it isn't dangerous to live the way that they do now. Every day could be their last due to overdose, violent crime, bad weather and disease, yet everyone thinks that they'll just stop because of some reason that they just can't define. As long as we do nothing, the problem will get worse and more people will die and the rest of us will be the victims of their itinerant lifestyle. Sometimes you have to be tough to make things better. It's not easy but nothing about what they're living is easy. At least there's a goal in mind.
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  5250. 400 million net worth, that's him. Hanks didn't lose a nickel when so many of us lost our jobs in the service industry. He wasn't told that his job wasn't essential, like we were, basically telling you that you really weren't contributing to society, just a throw away. What a bunch of elitist jerks.
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  5251.  @jussayinmipeece1069  It's NOT what she said. Money is not intrinsically evil and that's not what she said. She said it was the root of all evil. More to the point, it's what has been at the heart of Communism. It's the desire to rid the world of money, the root of all evil, implying that once money is gone, evil will be gone as well. Love of money is the tied to the seven deadly sins, many of which involve greed and gluttony. Do away with money and you'll still have greed.
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  5252.  @tangerinetech5300  How do you know that she disliked Ginsburg? Besides, that makes for one lousy eulogy. "I'd say something nice about the departed but I hated him". Better to say nothing at all than do that.
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  5253.  @Mercurie3  But these problems that they're speaking of is happening in Democrat cities. LA, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Sacramento.....all Democrat. You're not solving a thing in their homeless problem by pointing out Republican corruption somewhere else. Deal with the problem at hand and it's the hopeless bureaucracy of Democratic ideology. Their need to be in control of ALL aspects of building and economics. That's the problem with homelessness in California and all along the west coast. NY is facing the same crisis and, guess what, it's a Democrat stronghold as well.
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  5254.  Tgon Mwort  Good point. All talk, no action.
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  5255.  @michaeltice4281  How did we ever know the truth 30 years ago? Video cameras and cell phones didn't exist back then. Hardly anything was filmed. Video evidence can be excellent evidence but it's not everything. This "if it's not on video, it's not true" narrative is bogus.
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  5256.  @thesean3194  What a big victory for you. LOL. That's sarcasm and I mean BIG sarcasm. Your argument is that of a little kid but you don't care. You think that you've won and you're going to take your hollow victory and wallow in it like a little kid. Someday, you're going to have to grow up.
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  5257. Leave it to the top Democrat to call peace making a distraction. I guess that's what one WOULD think when she's unable to do more than one thing at a time. I suppose she thinks that Trump should be in the lab, right now, cooking up a vaccine, instead of seeking peace deals, solving the problems of racial tensions, trying to keep the economy strong in spite of the pandemic, solving issues with the police or dealing with trade with foreign governments. "Sorry Nancy. I gotta watch this Bunsen Burner. No time to govern." We want someone this stupid to be the new government next year?
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  5258.  @butcherjsy8  This is a concerted radical socialist program, to be specific. Japan isn't Christian and they don't have these problems. That's because they haven't fallen to the radical socialist ideology. Radical socialism is at the root of what's happening in Britain. You may not be able to convince all of Britain to become a Christian nation but you can get them to reject radical socialism.
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  5259.  @251omega  I've got too much on the go to be wandering all over the internet, hoping to find a clue to what you're talking about. I don't even know where to start. I could search for a week, think that I've figured it out and still be off by a mile and I'm not about to go around asking everyone about what this cryptic comment is all about. Coded comments are useless to me. You've piqued my curiosity but not so much that I'm going to search for a needle in a haystack. Thanks for responding but this is no help. One thing. This doesn't show that you're more intelligent than others. I really hope that this isn't what's really driving you.
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  5260. "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" Apparently, those humanists skipped over that part. No one if forcing them to be religious or Christian. It's a memorial that uses a symbol that was important to the people of the time. It's disrespectful of those that lost their lives and to those who lost their sons in that war. They should be allowed the free exercise of expression, thereof.
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  5261.  @harmgregory4560  NO.....we're tired of being told by a bunch of elitists, who've never grown a crop, except as a hobby, telling the farmers how to grow crops so we all have the food that we need. This "experiment" in Sri Lanka, shows just how delusional these elites can be. Sri Lanka stop the use of fertilisers, went to organic farming, and crops reduced by 50 to 60% and people went hungry. So now, you're advocating that we expand this, so we have even MORE starvation in the world. As if the globe trotting elites, who may have a few tomato plants in their back yard, are the experts who will lead us to greater crop yields and the end of hunger in the world.
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  5262. Wasn't Obama in Ferguson burning down the town back in 2015?
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  5263. There you are....all you Democrats, YOU voted for a government that has representatives that call for rioting. When these rioters burn your home, remember, YOU voted for this. This is what YOU wanted. You kept calling this Trump's America....but it still going on and YOUR Democrat representatives are calling for more of it. You deserve what you get and every one of you, living in those big cities that voted for this, will "reap the whirlwind" to quote a Democrat rep.
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  5264.  @amandayezzi4098  His opinion is disinformation? Are you kidding me? I think that it was a bad idea, too. Is this a thought crime? Disinformation.....the modern word for....I don't like it. How childish.
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  5265.  @jcthomas3408  I read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" It was rambling and off the rails as well but it was interesting to dig into Hitler's mindset. It told me that the guy was nuts. What was interesting is that these guys lived in a commune. Did they read that Manifesto because they all had similar viewpoints on modern society? Or did they read it out of curiosity? That I would find interesting to know.
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  5266. Jordan Peterson has helped more people than the entire college of psychiatrists combined. I would think that this alone would irk some of them to the point of going after him. Envy is a powerful drug.
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  5267.  @diogenesofseattle2344  They go on about the "fake" headline. Ok, fair enough. How about this one from Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/2019/08/09/charlottesville-donald-trump-speech-terry-mcauliffe-1451610.html "How Donald Trump Decided to go Soft on White Supremacists" This does imply that Trump supports Nazis and white supremacists. Now....let's get back on topic.
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  5268.  @TrendyStone  We can't read minds but we can imply what he meant when it's put into context. If he wasn't talking about Nazis and white supremacists, who was he talking about? Who else was there? If no one else was there, he's covering for himself, basically lying. If there were others there, then we can, by implication, conclude that the ones he was talking about, on that specific side, were those people. Not the Nazis but those who were advancing their own beliefs in what was happening that day, specifically, that we shouldn't tear down monuments to history. That's the logical approach.
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  5269.  @TrendyStone  Good work. Kinda cuts to the "white supremacist" claim.
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  5270. ​ @billpracells8876  “In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country,”. - Robert E Lee 1856 I copied and pasted this from a comment made by Trendy Brown which was directed at YOU. You either didn't read it or are wilfully ignoring it. In case you think this was made up, here's the evidence that it is FACT. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/making-sense-of-robert-e-lee-85017563/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-e-lee-was-not-a-proponent-of-slavery/2013/12/12/9fe474c2-626b-11e3-af0d-4bb80d704888_story.html https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/arlington-bobby-lee-and-the-peculiar-institution/61428/ This is a known fact that will be lost when we wilfully erase Lee's real life and feelings,from history, and replace it with vilification and denigration. Slavery wasn't just an American phenomenon. It's 10,000 years old and has been a part of human history all over the world. To reduce it to a moment of time, to a single era, is reducing it to a childish view of humanity and to a simplistic understanding of the human psyche.
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  5271.  @TrendyStone  Well put. We should be learning from history, not using it as a bludgeon to browbeat others.
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  5272.  @JohnEusebioToronto  Slavery existed for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. People act as if this was so new phenomena that just happened to occur in the US about 200 years ago and Americans embraced it as the rest of the world looked on in complete disbelief at a brand new idea called "slavery". In fact, the idea the slavery was wrong, THAT was the brand new idea. That slavery should be abolished was something that had never been entertained before and Lee, like so many others, were wrestling with a new concept. That's what you and so many others fail to consider. You could have fought for the Confederacy, had you lived in those times and had your up bringing and life experiences been different. You're taking the you of today and pretending that the virtuous "you" was the one that would transcend all time and circumstance and that you would have been on the side of goodness and righteousness no matter when or where you existed. What I'm trying to tell you is that just the fact that you're so filled with animosity shows that your virtuousness isn't from your heart but from your own narcissistic view on how wonderful you are. You would never consider putting yourself in Robert E. Lee's shoes and see life from his perspective. Your entire comment thread participation is more about yourself than it is about understanding and forgiveness. You NEED Lee to be that villain because you NEED yourself to be the hero, the kind one who's only objective is love and understanding. Yet, you display none of this. The only reason that you don't put yourself in Lee's shoes because you can't do that without having to shed some of the high opinions you have of yourself and you won't EVER do that.
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  5273.  @JohnEusebioToronto  And if you'd have fought for the Confederacy, it might be YOU that would be vilified today. "That General John Eusebio was nothing but a disgusting racist" would be the cry.....but life is much more complex than that. You may have even doubted why you're doing what you're doing but who doesn't do that? What I think is important is not just what you did, but how you got to be in that place to where you ended up at. History isn't just about knowing how to spot the bad guys and to "learn from history", as they say. It's a mirror that you hold in front of you to see that reflection of all that came before you that made you who you are today. That's both the good and the ugly. Not only are you Lee but you're Grant. You're the man looking for the witch and you're the witch being burnt at the stake. You have to know that the potential to be either one is there within you. If you only view it as "This guy good" and "That guy bad", you learn nothing about yourself and humanity. People are so much more than that and I find the idea of vilification extremely dangerous, just as I find the idea of sanctification of heroes to be dangerous. That's why I want to remember Lee as a human being, not just as a Confederate General and a racist, white supremacist and just plain awful. People cared about him. He had family, maybe a dog, neighbours that looked up to him and people that couldn't stand him. We NEED to know him as a man....NOT just as that General that was fought for the wrong side. I learned that from my father who grew up a short distance from the German border during the war. That stupid line in the map, allowed him to be one of the "Good guys". That's it. Had he been born that short distance, to the east of his home town, he would have marched with the Hitler Youth and be forever be stigmatised with the Nazi label. It was that easy. Please try to understand that history is about people....REAL people, who need to be understood. Those people that are tearing down his statues aren't interested in understanding. They're possessed by a hatred, a sanctimonious hatred that may, in the end, may have more casualties than General Lee ever even thought of. It's the evil of good intentions and it's frightening.
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  5274.  @JohnEusebioToronto  If you take down the statues and only speak of their evils, you'll never hear about the humanity within them, either. It's the "hate the sin but love the sinner" ideal put forward by some religious leaders. What I'm seeing is hatred and it's coming from those who are obsessed with racism, white privilege, colonialism, sexism and how THEY are the ones combating evil. I know someone else who thought they were combating evil. They were the Inquisition, who saw evil and were going to fix it and became evil themselves. They were the communists, who saw the Bourgeoisie as the evil oppressors and killed women and children, in their belief that once they were gone, the world would be better. What I see, right now, are self righteous do gooders, knowing deep in their hearts, that if only those evil doers were gone, destroyed and controlled, the world would be a better place and they're tearing the country apart. My nephew, a factory worker, had to go to a meeting, that told him and his co-workers that they were part of an oppressive system and that they had to change who they were to make for a better workplace and world. It reminded me of going to church and the preacher telling us how evil we were and how we must repent to be saved. He told me that a lot of his co-workers were resentful and felt as if this guy had no right to make assumptions about their character or intentions. This is what all this is doing and is about. "White fragility". How we're all guilty and you'd better follow the rules, say the right things, don't use the intersectional swear words or the "God" of Equity will get you fired or worse. They're fixing the world through vilification and hatred and it's not going to work. In fact, it's killing people as we speak.
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  5275.  @JohnEusebioToronto  NO....you shouldn't be vilified. It's your beliefs that should be vilified. That's my objection to this entire mess. When you vilify people, you draw a line in the sand and the results could be disastrous.
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  5276.  @JohnEusebioToronto  Both Hitler and Davis were responsible for horrific wars and actions, but alone, they were nothing. Without the help of millions, those wars would never have happened. They embodied the dark entity inside of us all and, even though they led the insanity, they are just another spoke in the wheel. Hitler is the face of it, the man that makes that entity real but he's no different than you or I had we that moment of opportunity, darkness and power. Like it or not, Hitler is still you. It's the demon that can be released at any time. Hating Hitler isn't what saves you in the end. It's knowing that he's not that special a demon and we're no better than he is and we'd better realise that all it takes is the right motivation to release that demon. Hate is what it lives on and hating a man, even one like Hitler, opens that door, just another crack, so that demon escape. Hate what he did, feel pity for the man. He's us.
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  5277.  @JohnEusebioToronto  The statue for Lee was part of a healing process between 2 factions of one country. It does no good to anyone to continually vilify one side, the south, as if they're not fit to exist, to talk to or acknowledge. It's there to say, to each other that this is over and we need to work TOGETHER, to make this a country of understanding and to put those differences in the past by forgiving. All that you're doing, by taking those statues down is pouring salt on a wound that was healed years ago. Slavery has been over 160 years ago. Time to let the war come to an end. Time to say, to each other that we know that we disagreed on this and now we'll move forward, AS BROTHERS AND COUNTRYMEN, not as winners and losers, saints and murderous animals. That's not healing. That's being spiteful from a victor who thinks himself morally superior and continuously jabbing those who he feels superior to. It's not saying that you approve of slavery. It's saying that you're ready to move on. Apparently, you're not ready yet. Let it go. THE CIVIL WAR IS OVER. THE SLAVES ARE FREE. No one in America wants to see slavery return. Quit beating a dead horse.
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  5278.  @JohnEusebioToronto  You really DO want to fight, don't you. All right then. What party supported the KKK. THE DEMOCRATS. They were against the black vote and many of the KKK leadership were also high in the Democrat party. The KKK formed to prevent blacks from voting Republican in the south. Blacks voted Republican because they were the ones that freed them, gave them full citizenship and then gave them the vote. The first 30 plus black Congressman were all Republicans. When Republican Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for supper, it was Democrats who were enraged. The KKK didn't rise in the twenties....they re-emerged. The KKK started after the Civil War. Then, in the fifties in sixties, when blacks were fighting for Civil Rights, it was Democrats that fought against it. It was a Democrat governor that refused to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was Democrat Governor, George Wallace, who cried "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in the sixties. I remember it like it was yesterday. 80% Republicans supported Civil Rights, 70% Democrats opposed it. Guess who wants to repeal the State Civil Right's Act in California? The Democrats. Guess who supports Blacks only graduations at Harvard....the new segregation? The Democrats. Guess who supports blacks only dorms at universities.....the Dems. Who's against school choice for inner city kids....you know who. Yet they send their kids to the best schools in the country. Who lied about Nick Sandman and ignored the slanders of the Black Jewish Israelites? Who lied about Jussie Smollett and his MAGA country story? Who lied about about "hands up, don't shoot"? Who withheld the body cam footage of George Floyd? Who said that Antifa and the riots are a myth? Who couldn't wait to use the incident in Kenosha to their advantage? Who holds the "deporter-in-chief" to near sainthood? Who refuses to acknowledge the horrific crime rates in the inner city? Who wants to defund the police and then pretends the burgeoning crime rates aren't happening? You want to see all the negatives and I've held off. I want to see healing...you want to fight, vilify, use hate when it suits you, deflect and ignore when it doesn't. I want to promote healing. You just want to fight some more. The riots, the destruction, the anger, the hate....you want to perpetuate it. You won't reach out in friendship. NOOO. HATE. MORE HATE. "Them deplorables" don't deserve your time. You're so filled with self righteousness that you can't see the destructive forces that are being unleashed in the name of your hatred. Worse.....you can't see that Trump will be re-elected because the peace relative peace that was descending on the country 20 years ago is being disrupted by left wing rhetoric calling everything that walks racist and white supremacists. Who would even call conservative black people the most vile names. Names that I wouldn't even repeat on this comment thread. What's happening in the US right now makes me sick to me stomach and you're displaying a symptom of what's causing the violence. I'm almost 70 years old and I've never seen hate like I'm seeing now, as I am from those who act like you do. Oh yeah.....the Democrat Convention, in 1924, was called the "Klanbake" as KKK supporters fought Catholics and Jews for control of the Democrat party. It all culminated in a cross burning. You wanted truth....here you go.
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  5279.  @elninodecobre2294  How do you know that? Is there any evidence or is this just Orange Man hatred. Why don't the Democrats ask to be able to have observers on hand when Elon and his team are going over the books? They could be right there to see what's going on and account for any money that Elon claims is being saved. Why won't they do that? If they did, they'd be showing the American people that they'er on board with saving money and being accountable. It would go a long way to bringing down the 60% Trump favourability rate. Instead, claims, like the one that you're making now, are only making the average and low income American think that they're being taken advantage of and that you're just a Democrat bot.
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  5280. @Winterhold Guard This is confusing. She can't answer because it isn't a biology question but biology has nothing to do with gender even though a woman is an adult female. This, to me, is exactly how the left obscures language and even reality. No one talked like this 30 years ago. I don't even remember it 10 years ago. It's a socially constructed reality where how a person feel becomes the THEIR reality. It's all subjective, dependent on their feelings at the moment and if I don't allow them their reality, I'm a bigot, a horrible person and must be silenced. To question it is violence, but silence is violence also because I'm refusing to validate their personal reality. It's exactly how I felt when I was a teenager and my pastor was pressuring me to take my "Confession of Faith". Say the words or you're not one of us, he insisted. The members of the church backed him up so I left the church. Now, I have different words that that I have to say. I have to acknowledge my white privilege. I have to change the concept of what a woman is even though it was the concept held by all for most of my life. Gender meant one of 2 options....male or female but now it's basically limitless and, like I said, if I don't believe it, I'm a bigot, a horrible person, right wing and must verbally agree or I will be ostracised, cancelled and yelled at. This is a free country and if you want to believe something......fine. That's what freedom is about. Just don't TELL me that I have to regurgitate what someone says, whether they want me to say that they're some obscure gender or to repeat the Lord's Prayer. It's my right to question your beliefs without being socially pressured to comply.
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  5281. Normally, I would have said how Murphy leads his life is his own business but the way he treated Sydney....what a jerk. Although, I have to admit that he always did rub me the wrong way when he was on Tim Pool. Control your temper, Jack. Most of your problems right now is that you have no control of it.
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  5282.  @thistime757  Go away, troll. I'm getting sick and tired of reading the same thing over and over again.
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  5283. You're doomed buddy. Doomed I tell ya. LOL. Just like the people of South Dakota. The press told us they were so they must be.....DOOMED.
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  5284.  @LClark-ry9to  Sitting on the banks of the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario, this afternoon. Finally.....nice weather up here. I'm in Canada so we don't get spring till late. We're not acting near as nuts as some of the US states are. Hope you had a good day fishing. Nothing like getting some outdoor time.
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  5285.  @RodMartinJr  So, you're going to vote for the Democrat candidate, who's JBS Freedom Index isn't much better than Obama's. Okay...good choice.
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  5286.  @RodMartinJr  So, there's a candidate that's 100% in line with every ONE of your political opinions? Wow....is that ever lucky. Those stats don't mean a thing. It would be meaningful if you had examples on why you don't like him, but that's not the case at all. In fact, a Democrat plant could say the same thing to discredit a candidate that he feels may be too strong so to endorse one that he feel the Democrats could beat. It's a misleading use of statistics.
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  5287. The huge rift in the United States was constructed by the media. What happened in Washington, yesterday, was the result of the manipulations of the MSM. If you want to see a movie that is an allegory of this, watch "The Caine Mutiny" and especially pay attention to the officer, played by Fred MacMurray, and how he manipulated the crew members, of the Caine, to mutiny against their captain. He was accused, at the end of the movie, of doing it to fulfill his dreams of becoming a famous writer. The MSM is doing the same, to fill their need for sensationalist news, and to placate the needs of their corporate overlords.
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  5288.  Google Account  When is the media and many of the Democrats going to stop embarrassing themselves with their obvious bias, their obfuscation of the facts, their tacit support of Antifa and BLM violence, their tactics of garnering support through racial and group identity politics, their way of turning everything into a trope of oppressor/victim and their "white" saviour attitude towards those who aren't white? The way they're always telling minority individuals that they've lost at life, before they've even started, is disgusting.
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  5289.  Houstontx101 Take Trump to prison  Give me a break. Trump isn't going to prison. Let's just say that he's guilty of something, although I don't know what he's guilty of yet, he'll leave the country and Russia will put him up. Even if he only had access to a couple of million of his 2.5 billion dollars, he could live comfortably for the rest of his life. You're living in a TDS dream world.
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  5290.  @NazisAreHomos  He's stopped nuclear and missile testing by N. Korea. That has been a huge issue for years and he stopped it. How you could spin this into a bad thing would be interesting to hear.
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  5291.  HMR B  He didn't say the issue was solved. He said that there has been a negotiated halt to missile and nuclear testing and there was. There was no claim that all issues between them were now resolved. That's simply not true. Trump is a bombastic character and says a lot of stupid things. That doesn't negate the fact that he's gotten further with the North Koreans than any American president in over 65 years. Things are far from perfect and he basically said that in this interview but things are better now than they were a year ago. That's what is important. Like it or not, Trump is a large part of the easing of tensions in that area and both South Korea and Japan are breathing a lot easier now than a year ago when missiles were setting off air raid sirens in Japan and S. Korea. His saying that he'd own the shutdown wasn't the end of the deal or that he'd lost. He shut the government down, just like he said he would and they negotiated further after he reopened the government. So, he wasn't defeated in that discussion. If he'd been defeated, there would not have been a shutdown and subsequent negotiations. He still building sections of the wall where the border patrols feel it's most needed. After discussion with the patrol leaders and engineers, he found that there are natural barriers that wouldn't need to have walls. This is wild country that a person from a country like the Netherlands couldn't even imagine. It's that wild that there are people dying trying to cross into the US from exposure and lack of water. It's not like a hike in the countryside of Drenthe or Friesland, where my family is originally from.
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  5292.  @istvanglock7445  No other president has EVER sat in a talk with any of the three Kims. Singapore was the very first time that happened. Trump now has sat down in face to fact talks, twice now. Unprecedented, no matter how one wants to look at it. We don't know what the North Koreans will do, but only a war hawk would be against negotiating for a peaceful resolution between North Korea and the US. Anyone who expected Mexico to sign a check to Trump in order to build a wall is just plain delusional. I just told my wife that I'm buying her a new car and that you, Istvan Glock, is going to pay for it. Does that make you obligated to pay for it? Of course not and neither is Mexico. It was just a nonsensical election campaign game and the only ones who took it seriously were people like you. It's easy to say that the deal with Canada and Mexico are bad deals for the US. It's another to prove it. I can say the moon is made of cheddar cheese. Claims are useless. Try giving a few facts. Also, there have been huge trade deficits with China for years. Only the most obtuse would say that this is a good thing and nothing should be done about it. The only reason you're saying anything is that you don't like Trump. You wouldn't support any initiative he suggests only for the reason that you don't like him. It doesn't matter how good or bad it is. You deal in the politics of personality......not in the politics of what is helpful to the people. It's not the issues you care about. It's your hatred of Trump. She was a part of the US participation on that fund. The point being this. Is this a good idea or not? Once again, you're not asking that question. Why? Because, apparently, for you, that's not the issue. You'll criticise it because Ivanka Trump was involved and her husband signed the bill pledging US support. You'd stand against it for one reason only. You hate Trump. The politics of personality being, once again, the driving force.
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  5293.  @istvanglock7445  I'm not a fan of Trump, either, however in the last election I still thought he was better than Hillary. I don't trust her at all. Also, what's happening with North Korea right now isn't anywhere near perfect but it is definitely better than it was even a year ago. You'd have to be intentionally blind not to see that. It's a matter of giving the devil his due. The people of North Korea are living a pure hell. There doesn't seem to be a way out for them except through negotiations. That's what's happening right now. Trump isn't giving him what he wants and, at least he's smart enough not to insult Kim Jong-un and calling him out too much. That would end any negotiations and any hope for the people of North Korea. Trump has been buttering him up using the adage that you catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar. It's a tricky situation but the missile and nuclear testing has stopped for now. Who knows what the future will bring but I prefer to be optimistic.....and patient.
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  5294.  @paigegodwin2525  Another bot??? One of the most annoying things on the internet are the exact same comments, repeated over and over again. Please stop....unless your goal is to be annoying. Then....good job, jerk.
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  5295. I'm going to the Mexico border, with my kids, get INTENTIONALLY separated from them, and get my half a million bucks.
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  5296.  @D0W666  Some one else made a similar claim, saying that Trump upped drone strikes in Yemen by 300%. These stats prove him wrong. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lb1hEYJ_omI8lSe33izwS2a2lbiygs0hTp2Al_Kz5KQ/edit#gid=492674230 When you make serious allegations, you should bring serious proof to back it up. I'd like to see where you got your stats.
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  5297.  @readhistory2023  That's why the warning to the Canadian truckers. The police will take it, whether you're doing something wrong or not. You can't assume guilt. That goes against everything the United States and the Constitution stands for. The money belongs to the trucker or the citizen and unless they can PROVE that this was ill gotten gain, they have NO right to it. A person can carry their money around any way they want. It's their right.
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  5298.  @andrerodriguez7603  The story does seem to have a lot of holes in it. However, it does bring up one question. Is this possible? Could a person go to a nursing home and coerce the extreme elderly to vote for the party of that person's choice? If it is possible, why wouldn't the governing body put into place policies that would prevent it from happening? If this is done, then no one could claim voting fraud, at least using this method. It would be in the best interest of everyone to ensure that elections are fair and that as many opportunities for fraud are diminished. Why would anyone object to that? It seems that nearly every election, there's accusations of voter fraud and the newly elected president is a fake president. Biden, Trump and the Bush administrations have all been accused of election fraud. Why not put an end to it or at least try to mitigate the opportunities as much as possible? I don't get it and I really don't get why the Democrats are so against it.
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  5299.  @Neptunus9  I tend to agree. However, my agreement with you doesn't make it false. Truth can be uncovered when rumours reveal something that's something is wrong. What's bad about this is that it shows that the elections are NOT secure. As long as the possibility is there that it is true, people will question the integrity of the elections. Witness how the 2000 election was questioned. Then, the 2016 election was questioned and Hillary still claims that she was cheated. Then the 2020 elections. That's where the term "election denier" was coined. That's 3 elections, out of 5, where "election denying" existed and it escalated every time. Unless the 2024 election is a landslide, one way or another, it'll be contested as well. They have to tighten the election process or this nonsense will never stop. It could even end in a major conflict. That's not BS.
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  5300. CNN editing news clips? Remember how the Black Hebrew Israelites were reading Bible verses? The Covington Kids remember.
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  5301.  @wolfman571000  You just can't seem to get over a person's race, can you? Affirmative action violates the Civil Rights Act that Doctor Martin Luther King fought so hard for. If you want Affirmative Action, you have to lead a drive to do away with the Civil Rights Act. There's a group, I'm sure you've heard of them, the Klu Klux Klan who'd be your biggest supporters.
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  5302. To be honest, I thought the kids of the rich were allowed in because of who they are. I didn't realise that such huge amounts of money for bribery were involved. I thought of it more as, what they used to call, the good ole boy network. A sort of bartering system of I'll help you now and you help me tomorrow trade-off.
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  5303. @Ram Rod The Dems are putting the cart before the horse on their green energy plans. What they should be doing is using full oil production and revenue to finance the infrastructure for a greener energy structure. Instead, they're turning off the financial potential to bring about the green plan without pain and much quicker. They're too dumb to see or understand that.
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  5304. They can apply for refugee status all they want. It doesn't mean that they will fit the criteria for refugee status or will be accepted as such. They can't sue the US government or Trump before they've applied because they have yet to arrive her, make an application and be denied. They can't sue until they have been denied their civil rights and they have no right to enter the US until the American government says they qualify for entry, either as a landed immigrant or a refugee. Buddy is jumping the gun.
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  5305.  @tracywarren889  Algebra is important, if only at an entry level, but that's not the problem. They're not even learning Algebra, which is a part of basic math. When I was in school, back in the sixties, the more academically inclined, who were looking at university, would take the academic courses and the more hands on types would take vocational stuff. However, the academics would take at least one vocational course per semester and the vocational types would take at least one course per semester in advanced math, science and English. There were also the science and tech programs, which were advanced science, vocational, math and English. This was for the engineering types. Pure vocational courses were set aside for those who were totally unable to deal with any academics, who found it difficult to read or do basic math, no matter how hard they tried. This allowed me to change from arts and science, a program for academics, to science and technology, a program that suited engineering and vocational interests. High school courses were balanced and most students could find their niche in life. Now, it's all rainbows and gummy bears and really helps no one. Test scores reflect just how bad it has become.
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  5306. @Bobby Rubarb Small government and less government intrusion is authoritarian. Really...it is.
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  5307.  @JMillion  So.....this guy can fake gender dysphoria and a doctor will sign of on transgender surgery in 22 minutes and you want to hear FACTS? How can this doctor have all the facts? He can't and he's colluding with others that would allow this guy to go through a surgery that would cost over 50,000 dollars.......AND THE GUY WAS FAKING IT. I know you think that you're clever with the facts don't care about your feelings quip but you're just being a smart ass. I can't get a lobotomy on demand and any doctor that would do it would be sent to jail. Yet, I can walk into a doctor's office, that I've never met, and set in motion transgender surgery. It's the ONLY amputation surgery that allows this to happen.
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  5308.  @beppiek  First...why are you yelling at us? Turn off the caps lock. Second....what are you yelling about? I can't make any sense of it.
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  5309.  @beppiek  Ok...I'll forgive the caps lock but I still don't know what you're talking about.
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  5310. I'm sure we're going to get the "cops kill blacks for no reason" arguments, somewhere in this comment section. I'm sure that there are corrupt cops, just like there are tall cops and friendly cops and quiet cops and stubborn cops. They're human and like ALL humans, each one is different in temperament and personality. However, some of us don't want to see them as individuals. They want us to see police officers as carbon copies of one another. Maybe if the MSM wasn't so quick to jump on a police officer shooting a black as a racist crime, we'd have better race relations in this country.....but they don't. When a white guy is shot by an officer, there's hardly a whisper from the MSM but a when it's a black guy, they're all over it, calling everything and everyone in sight a racist and babbling on and on about unconscious bias and systemic racism. It's MSM that's the problem in this country. They report what they think can cause controversy. Blacks being shot and the ensuing riots is a Godsend to these vultures and they fan the flames in glee. They know that making a big deal out of a police officer being shot won't cause the riots and rhetoric, so they don't mention it, except in passing. MSM has become a danger to the public. They've broken one of the basic rules of journalism. They've become the news and it's turning the people of the US against each other.....and they love it.
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  5311.  @willzresurreccion6745  What's with these canned responses? Don't you have the brains to come up with original material?
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  5312.  @willzresurreccion6745  I have original ideas, too. What I don't do is use the EXACT same response to a comment, over and OVER again. When I make a response to a comment, it's personalised to that comment and THAT comment alone. I don't use generic responses, even if they're my own, in a conversation. It's disrespectful, lazy and shows an extremely narrow take on a subject.
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  5313. @Steam fish White rice So, you'd rather talk about me. That should prove to the world that Biden is a honorable man. He can't be corrupt....Jack Haveman's gullible. If you REALLY think that Biden's not corrupt, I gotta wonder how gullible YOU are.
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  5314.  @fgpaguililla  Trump is going to pardon all of his family? From what? Have they been indicted of anything? Maybe you'd better get a clearer understanding of what pardons are used for. You first have to be guilty of a crime, proven in a court of law....THEN and only then, can you pardon someone.
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  5315.  @fgpaguililla  Let's make this a little simpler then. What has his family been charged with. Name the charge for any one of them. You tell me what they've been accused and then found guilty of, in a court of law, and then you'll have proven that they need a pardon. If you can't do that, you're spewing nonsense.
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  5316.  @OtayBuckwheat  He did until January of 2017. Do you really think that Biden didn't build connections in the 4 years before that, as vice president? That those connections wouldn't come in handy even when he wasn't in office any longer? Biden had a lot of influence in the Democrat Party and the Washington establishment. He had strong ties in politics or he'd never have won the nomination to be the president.
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  5317.  @fgpaguililla  How can he pardon his family, if they haven't been charged yet and he's no longer the president? You're not making sense. Give me references to where he said that he's going to pardon them. Your say so isn't near enough. I want to hear HIM say it.
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  5318.  @timothylopez8572  Equal opportunity only means DEI. Affirmative hiring over competency hiring. Then, when the Republican Trump tries to bring back manufacturing to the US, he's called a xenophobic and racist, yet it's the minorities that would benefit most. Also, money doesn't fix the issues of education. People used to study by candlelight in one room schools with only a piece of slate to write on. It produced some of the most brilliant individuals in history. What it takes is a commitment to excellence, to building an education that has a strong foundation of math and literacy ability. That's only achieved through a program of repetition and a sense of accomplishment when the student does achieve a degree of competency. They'll never get that if they graduate high school, in spite of being illiterate and unable to do basic math. Also, a living wage is fluid. What's as important, maybe even more so, is knowing how to spend the money that you do have. That is another thing that's not being taught in school and in our family life, especially in one parent homes.
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  5319.  @trumpsupportersarehumangar7005  Your name says everything that I need to know about you. It's the same attitude that LOST the election for Hilary Clinton. I supported her, even though I couldn't believe that she thought that the "basket of deplorables" rhetoric was a sound political tactic. People have parents, children, siblings and spouses that are Trump supporters and she called them irredeemables and deplorables. I'd bet she'd call them human garbage, too. That attitude lost me. I don't treat fellow citizens like that. You're running on hate and if anything, that's the attitude that's going to hurt the Democrats more than any other.
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  5320. Both the Soviet and even MORE the Nazi playbook. Hitler regulated the media so ONLY pure German content was lawful. If it didn't meet the pure German idealism, it wasn't allowed and punishable by force of law. Canada is doing the same. It must be acceptably pure Canadian or it's punishable through force of law. Justin Trudeau is the true Nazi.
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  5321. @Templar Knight Guys like him like to talk about facts and logic but when pushed they run from them as fast as their legs and illogical minds can carry them. I remember how it was at first. I wasn't following it too closely and kind of thought Trump was a bit of a blow hard. No animosity...just an impression. Then I would hear these "bombshell" revelations and think that maybe Trump was in trouble but not one of those revelations ever bore out. They just moved from one bombshell to the next. Schiff says he as incontrovertible proof of collusion, yet he has YET to tell us what it is. I could only come to one conclusion. Maybe I was wrong and Trump wasn't in trouble, after all. There just weren't any facts. Then the Mueller report blew their whole narrative out of the water. Yet, these bull headed whackos wouldn't let it go. They just kept banging their heads on the wall until the Ukraine deal came up and they started all over again. This time, I didn't believe a word of it unless they could actually show me facts. Of course it didn't come. Democrat logic says that it's illegal to get dirt on a political opponent but NOT illegal to withhold a billion dollars unless a foreign government fires a prosecutor who'd been investigating the boss of a family member. They know it's illogical and they know they're lying and they don't care.
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  5322.  @AndiWard  I also think that people will report comments and YouTube will only allow them to be seen in the "newest first" option. If you go the top of the comment section, where it tells you how many comments there are, you'll see a "sort by" option. Click on that and then pick the "newest first" choice. You can find your comment that way but it can be a long process if the video has been up for awhile. Not a big problem if there's only a dozen comments or so but when it gets into the thousands, you may have page for 10 to 15 minutes before you get to the lead comment that you're looking for. Then you have to click on "replies" to search for YOUR comment. Most times I give up before I find it. I think that YouTube does that so they can say that they're not blocking comments but only posting the most relevant comments. Relevant could mean comments that they approve of or have had complaints so they place them so they're difficult to find.
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  5323. "Goals are not quotas". It is against the law if your goal is to enforce quotas. She's doing the radical socialist game of playing tiddly winks with words.
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  5324.  @JoyElectric567  Yet, those who hate him the most, the far left, will continue to support a party that does nothing to help the most vulnerable in their cities. Horrific schools, poverty, homelessness and crime, substance addictions....all in major cities, almost all governed by the "party of compassion". I could understand it if the "party of capitalism" or the "party of greed" were in control but they're not. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There's a reason for that saying. Maybe if we encouraged people to better themselves, as individuals living in a broader community, we wouldn't have the problems that we have today. You're no good to others if you can't be good for yourself.
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  5325.  @tonybteacher  They jilted Trump? LMAO. They never courted him. They've hated him from the very moment he announced that he was running for president, 8 years ago.
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  5326. Here's a clown talking about hate and racism, all the while hating on Dinesh, a non-white immigrant. He makes a lot of sense.
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  5327.  AlphaX  It doesn't matter. Those statues don't belong to them. They have no right to damage the property of others. NONE. If you want people to respect you and your belongings and the things that are important to you, you have to do the same, even if you don't like it or disagree with what it stands for. This is exactly what George Orwell warned us about. The tyranny of the mob and the authoritarian state.
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  5328.  AlphaX  "When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic." Benjamin Franklin That's democratic socialism for you. It's what happened in Venezuela. It may be what's happening now in the US. The war to end slavery, in the US, happened 160 years ago. Maybe someone should tell these protesters the war is over and to stop tilting at windmills George Orwell, like any of us, wasn't perfect but he did warn us about the types of Socialism that Stalin introduced and the National Socialism of Germany. "“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right” Sound familiar? I'm sure Big Brother found good reasons for what he did as well.
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  5329.  AlphaX  " Did you go to law school?" That's called an "appeal to authority" and most legit scholars know that it's a logical fallacy. Any law student knows that the best cases are built on arguments based on logic. Maybe you missed that class.
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  5330.  AlphaX  And.....what does that have to do with the logical fallacy known as the "appeal to authority" other than to double down on the use of it. When we discuss George Orwell, we discuss George Orwell, NOT your credentials. His work and ideas are not legitimised or refuted by what you do for a living. You do those things by presenting a cogent and coherent argument of the topic at hand. I don't know where you got the idea that I think that law students sit around discussing cases all day. I said that law students know that you must use logic to present a good proposition. We have a topic of discussion and you used a logical fallacy to make a case. In other words, you've presented a poor and pointless case.
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  5331.  AlphaX  I can counter your experiences by telling you that I've read all of Orwell's work and 1984, multiple times. That still doesn't make any assessment I might make of his work, correct or on point. It's how I present my ideas, using sound argumentation, logic and facts....that's what counts. Anecdotally listing my experiences is irrelevant to a sound assessment of his work.
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  5332.  @jtes1442  It'll be hard to move their lard asses out of the classroom, though. You'll need a few good men who'd be willing to touch their blubbery bodies. You're asking a lot from them.
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  5333. "Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try" Yet....that's exactly what Lennon is doing. The entire song is about him "imagining" his own version of heaven. SMH.
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  5334.  @jimmiller5600  J6 is being ignored? Are you serious? It's all the media talks about. First thing that you do is bring it up. There are people in jail over it. Some spent time in jail for 2 years, without a trial and no bail. Why does the internet bring out the dummy in people?
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  5335.  @honestdon1772  He is gone. He's no longer the president. Have you not noticed? Don't change the subject. These people are walking off their Federal jobs and are taking part in violent demonstrations. This has nothing to do with Trump OR Jan. 6th. You have the attention span of a cabbage butterfly.
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  5336.  @Mapple-qp6yg  "majority of lower income people can’t hop from job to job." Why not? I did. I've always been a blue collar and I've had over 20 different jobs over my life. Worked hard, had a good reputation and NEVER had a problem finding work. If you want to work...you will. Also, the reason that people are mass quitting is because the laziest employees have realised that they don't have to work anymore. A lot of them hardly worked even though they showed up, doing only the bare minimum and as little as possible. It's one of the reasons employers can't pay more. They have too many employees working at half speed. 2 of them doing the work of 1 good employee. I know. I've worked alongside those parasites all my life.
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  5337. If you want to get tested, go do it. Testing sites everywhere. The US has already done over 116 million tests. That's heading for 1 in 3 Americans tested. I'm sure that they can find a kit for you.
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  5338. Anand Giridharadas has a net worth between 1 million and 5 million bucks. That places him in the top 1 percent of the world's population in terms of wealth. He is one of the elites. He's not smart enough to understand that if the other 99% of the world wanted to get rid of the rich......he'd be gone. The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  5339. I took "stunned" to mean that they were being a little dull witted and she was definitely that. We used to say that all the time when someone was acting like a simpleton. She looked as if she was having a hard time getting it out. She wasn't exactly oozing confidence or understanding about what's going on.
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  5340.  @LilaB-f2o  "More of this?" How can we have more of this when we vote for Trump. He's NOT the president. No wonder America is such a mess. "People" don't even know who's president. How can you blame this mess on someone who isn't the president? You make no sense.
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  5341.  @1133saginaw  Have you been in a coma or something? The FBI had the laptop and they've had it for over a year BEFORE the last election. Doesn't it bother you that 4 days after the existence of the laptop was revealed, the CIA did a FOUR DAY investigation, and said that it had the "earmarks" of a Russian disinformation campaign? Not that it WAS one but it looked like one. Four days AFTER the NY Post article, that's how long their "in depth" investigation took. I suppose that if you keep your head in the sand, you won't have to acknowledge stuff that you don't want to hear.
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  5342.  @SeraphsWitness  So did the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks in the Soviet Union. Both Marxists and Socialist groups vying for power. Nazis and Communists are both Socialists and they both vied for power until Hitler took over. They have different ideas on how socialism should be applied and that's why they hate one another. There is a difference between being a Nazi and a Communist.....but they're both Socialist ideologies. I can't say that a German Shepherd is a Pekingese but they're both still dogs. Nazis and Communists are both Socialists.
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  5343.  @SeraphsWitness  I didn't even mention Democrats so your statement is a non-sequitur. However, since you brought it up, a lot of Democrats are engaging in identity politics which is collectivist in nature. One of their main talking points is referring to dissenting voices as white supremacist. Even a person like Larry Elder, whose a POC, was called the "black face of white supremacy" by his Democrat opponent. That's collectivism 101.
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  5344.  @SeraphsWitness  Rather simplistic. They're all fruit off the same tree and eventually leads to the same undesirable outcome. You play with fire if you play with any one of them.
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  5345. If the police aren't allowed to try to stop a motorist, when they want to pull them over, then all any of has to do is just leave. I don't want a ticket so "see ya, later" and refuse to pull over. Every traffic law will be moot. We'll all just take off and "Up yours".
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  5346.  @marianlucas2947  It's always transgender women who are the ones that are playing in women's sports. It's never a transgender male taking over men's sports. Why is it that in the same sport, men's world sports records are 10% plus higher than women's world sports records? If women are equal to men in athletics, why isn't at least ONE woman playing in the NBA, NHL, MLB or the NFL? There's HUGE money to be made in men's team sports.....millions of dollars being paid to the athletes in those leagues. Yet not ONE woman. Why is that? You know why. You're just playing at being obtuse. Intentionally doltish. Not a good look.
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  5347. The first thing I did, when the CNN news story showed up on my facebook page, was to check around for "C-o-n-f-i-r-m-a-t-i-o-n". Something I always do when I hear a news story. It took me 10 minutes to find the long version of the Covington tape and almost 2 hours to watch it. Then I went back to facebook and posted a link to that site and stated that the CNN story wasn't true. You should have read some of the comments. They didn't have to watch that video. They knew the truth. Others claimed to have watched it but, by their comments, there was no way it was true. One person, who did watch it, said those kids shouldn't have been there in the first place. Another person, sneeringly, suggested that I had that big an ego that I would think that I knew better than professional journalists. I don't care what CNN says. They saw that long version of events just like I did and likely before I did and, just like the people that I talked to on Facebook, they didn't care. They had the narrative that they liked and wanted to hear and that's what they were going to tell people. They deserve to lose that lawsuit.
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  5348. It does have an impact now. Canada's production is down because of the closing of the pipeline. It would sure be nice if the 2 countries were working together again, economically, as it was before. With our combined resources utilised to their fullest potential, the citizens of both countries would be living a more comfortable lifestyle. Unfortunately, it seems as if they're working together to ruin both our countries.
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  5349.  @johnsuperhist5219  "Eat your taxpayers". This is the response that I would expect from one that's always looking at the bank accounts of others and then reacting out of bitterness and envy. There's a reason why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Big Ten Commandments. It's been one of the most destructive vices in human history, especially over the last 150 years. It's led to abject hatred and the deaths of tens of millions of people around the world and it would appear to be still flourishing. Time for you to grow up and understand just how destructive your mindset can be.
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  5350.  @uncaboat2399  It is the fault of the voters. I live in the California clone known as Canada. Our media is controlled by the government and I KNOW when they're lying to us. It's my responsibility to find the truth, just like it is for every voter. Allowing others to tell what is true or not is an abrogation of personal responsibility and is the fault of the one that succumbs to it. If I can be informed, in spite of the state funded media, then anyone can be informed and the fault lies with the one that digests everything that is crammed down their throat. Freedom is lost when you're too lazy to search for the truth.
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  5351.  @jasonspringer2983  If you read my first comment, you'd know that exactly what I said. Those women chose to be used as shields. That doesn't make those who hid behind them any less cowardly. And it makes the women just as guilty for any damage to property or for injuries incurred to those being attacked. Using others as shields, no matter what the reason, is despicable.
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  5352.  @jasonspringer2983  Not a problem. Thanks.
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  5353.  @rivashanmolefi7326  America is on the road to greater racial strife. The kind of strife that's been happening in South Africa for a while....unless there's no racial violence at all in South Africa. That it's all a lie. That's some realistic looking, staged news footage, if it is all lies, though. It looks real to me.
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  5354.  @donthewatcher8835  What a hateful specimen you are. People, like you, are the reason that Trump won the last election and Hillary lost. Elitist arrogance at its finest.
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  5355.  @Rope257  Another comment from someone with no integrity, what I like to call a POS.
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  5356.  @hughjanus1135  Not a Christian. Apparently, that means that I'm not a hypocrite if I shoot someone trespassing on my land. That makes me feel better. At least I won't have hypocrisy on my conscience when I shoot someone for trespassing. I knew that there was advantages to being an atheist. This is more than someone stepping on someone else's lawn. Millions are sneaking across the border every day. They're stealing stuff out of people's homes, sleeping in their outbuildings, defecating, leaving refuse, maybe transporting illicit drugs and trafficking children and women for the sex trade.....and the property owner must take it. That's what happens when the government doesn't do their job. There are consequences when your government looks the other way. I suppose you'd set up a soup kitchen and tents for them to live in if you owned property on the border because YOU'RE good and virtuous. Not like them Christians blasting away and killing people all the time. I'll bet that the ones, who locked up over 50 migrants in that trailer so that they died of heat exhaustion, were Christian too. We should ask them. But that's not as bad as what that Christian Ron DeSantis did. He actually provided a flight for migrants to go to Martha's Vineyard. Horrible awful. Those poor migrants actually got to see how the elites live. The most traumatic experience of their entire journey.
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  5357.  @kendo7964  I've had Covid. Not a fun thing. I coughed for 2 months but completely better now. As for "woke", they are the radical left who say they're progressive and applied that name to themselves. Basically a new age communist.
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  5358.  @Tugela60  All I'm seeing, in your comments, is a person that is supportive of all government control. If they say it, it must be done, no matter how ridiculous it is. They've been doing it for decades. The city even cut out access on the curb. It's never been a problem. Suddenly, some busybody sees it and decides to use it to flex their muscles. Hall monitor stuff.....which begs the question "Were you once a hall monitor?" It's what bureaucrats do. They validate their existence by making up stupid rules and then go out and harass ordinary people into compliance. Yet, they have nothing to say about the tent cities growing on the streets of their city. He's not allowed to park in his OWN driveway, but he can pitch a tent on a sidewalk, leave garbage strewn all around his tent, poop behind a dumpster and discard needles where ever he feels like it. A pox on bureaucrats and all the "hall monitors" that support them.
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  5359.  @1DwtEaUn  You could argue that but a 911 dispatcher doesn't call the FBI. They're employed by the local municipality and they call the local police, firefighters and ambulances. After George Floyd's death, it was city councils that voted to defund the police and in the case of Minneapolis and Seattle, they actually voted to disband the police....which didn't happen because crime started to skyrocket. Warren v. District of Columbia was held at the District of Columbia court of appeals. That's a Federal Court NOT a police force. Two different agencies. The Jordan v. New London was an age discrimination case. This is where a local police force set recruitment requirements that excluded Jordan from taking part due to his age. It went to the Court of Appeals. Just because they took it to a higher court doesn't mean that the Feds have jurisdiction. It means that there was a question Constitutional rights being violated. That could also happen to a local bakeshop or 7/11. If a person's rights are violated, that person could eventually take it up the chain of appeals right up to the SCOTUS. That doesn't mean the Feds have jurisdiction over a local 7/11.
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  5360. When is Acosta going to learn that taking a plastic knife to a gunfight isn't going to work out well for him?
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  5361.  @IngridRamos-q8z  What if you DON'T feel the need to talk? Not everyone is wired that way. What makes you feel better might make someone else feel uncomfortable or even exacerbate the issues that they're facing. Talk isn't the cure for everything. Sometimes it just leads one in circles and may end up causing issues with others that can make things worse. People aren't perfect and we have to learn to accept that
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  5362.  @syppy7416  There's more to communication than "talk". Having your friend come and visit you to watch the hockey game, when you've suffered a loss, is a form of communication in itself. It's unspoken but we both know that he's there to show you that he cares. He doesn't have to say it. He's showing it. Sometimes it's hard to find the right thing to say but we all understand companionship. A good laugh, some goodnatured ribbing, making plans for the weekend is just that. The loss isn't fixed through talk because the loss won't come back. However, just being there lets you know that you're not alone. Life goes on.
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  5363.  @timnoyes9892  That's what we're trying to find out. Every American is assumed innocent until proven guilty. There is reason to believe that this might be a political move. Let's make sure that it isn't so and that if Trump IS guilty, that all steps were taken to be fair, yet he was still found guilty. All angles must be looked at. A system of justice that assumes guilt is NOT a system of justice. There must be an investigation and, if necessary a trial. Then, and ONLY then, can you say that Trump is guilty. Personal hatred as justice is a terrible justice system.
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  5364.  @kateofone  22 minutes on a zoom call....that's your gender affirming care. This is so much BS. If a person has difficulties with their gender identity, they need healthcare that would get at the root of that person's issues. To allow a patient to self diagnose and then DEMAND that drugs and surgeries must be done, is beyond ridiculous. It's the only medical health problem that allows a patient to diagnose themselves. If I hear a voice, that no one else can hear, and claim that it's God speaking to me, that doesn't prove God's existence. The same with thinking that I'm a woman, in spite of physical characteristics that don't align with my belief, that doesn't prove that I'm correct. If that voice of God tells me to sacrifice my neighbour's wife on an alter that I had to build in my backyard, you'd tell me that this is crazy.....but it's the word of God and if I don't fulfill God's command he will punish me by forcing me to commit a life ending procedure to my body. "Don't affirm the word of God or I will do great harm to myself" is no different than what you're saying. You don't affirm a self diagnoses. You explore ALL possibilities until there's is only one left. That may well mean physical alterations but it may not, either. It's the shoddiest of medical care.
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  5365. Goodbye NFL. It's been great but I don't like being told what to think.
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  5366.  MICHAEL DAMATO  Now, you're getting it.
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  5367.  @peacheswilliams4539  If they look long and hard enough, they'll find a crime but it won't be this stupidity over bribing the Ukraine President. Unless their witnesses get better, they haven't proved any wrong doing by Trump in this.
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  5368. If they've all had the talk, then why aren't they listening. Apparently, listening to your parents isn't a thing with them, either. Your parents told you to do as the police officer instructs to keep from being shot and you defy both the police AND your parents. Talk about doubling down on stupidity.
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  5369.  @evertvdb000  I said "When questioned by the police he followed 3 rules" I never said a thing about being guilty or innocent.
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  5370.  @evertvdb000  "and if you are innocent, you admit?" That's a copy and paste.....so you didn't say it. Do you see the question mark? You ASKED and I answered. DUH!!!!!
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  5371.  @AlexM-vh2pu  The Democrats do that but it's not what my co-worker said. I was only relating what he told me.
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  5372.  @evertvdb000  I can't answer the question because I was NOT the one that said it. A co-worker did and I was just relating it. All he said was "Deny, deny and deny" when questioned by the police. That implies that you'd, FOR SURE, deny if you're innocent. However, I can't be sure because I DIDN'T SAY IT. HE did. It's his story..not mine. I was just relating what he said. I can't read his mind. I will say that saying "Deny" 6 times in a story quite emphatically says that he'd deny all the time. It's quite a simple and straightforward story. How you can make a problem out of understanding it is quite bizarre.
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  5373.  @evertvdb000  Don't butt in??? It's my comment. LMAO. If anything YOU are the one butting in. Also, I DID answer the question. I'll do it again. It's NOT my story. However, he did say that if the police question you, deny and keep denying. He didn't say anything about guilt or innocence. He said to deny. Deny. Deny. Deny. Always deny. THAT'S your answer. Deny...always deny. I don't know how to make it any simpler than that. If you apply that to politics, when questioned about a wrongdoing, you deny. Guilty or innocent...you deny. Deny. Deny. Deny. It's what makes it hard to get to the truth. The corrupt will always deny.
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  5374. They refuse dialogue because, to them, it doesn't matter whether their beliefs stand up to scrutiny. It's what they want and they know that the only way to achieve it is through force. As far as they're concerned, dialogue is superfluous and means nothing. There is to be only one outcome, in their minds, and they'll do ANYTHING to get to that outcome. All discussion does is point out who their enemies are. If they get real power, expect a Chinese Cultural Revolution type purge. Your past words will be used against you as evidence of your "bigotry and guilt".
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  5375.  @oasean  What's Alba to do? Wait until Simon really started to "eff" him up? He could only assume that Simon was there to do what his girlfriend said he was going to do. What that meant and to what extent that was going to be is anyone's guess but I don't blame Alba for not wanting to find out the hard way. It's difficult to defend yourself when your assailant has put you in a coma or you're dead. All Simon had to do was pay for the bag of chips, voice his displeasure, VERBALLY, and leave. That would have been the reasonable and lawful way for him to handle it. As a guy who worked in a convenience store, anyone who comes behind the counter and attacks you is a threat to your life. To assume otherwise is dangerous and just plain foolish.
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  5376.  @joedailey7090  Hopefully, they don't watch ANY news, for or against Trump. This is about the truth. Not FOX's truth or MSNBC's truth but what you heard in the courtroom and use that as your guide in making your decision. Thankfully, you're not on that jury. Your mind was made up before this trial even started. That's some integrity you've got there.
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  5377. When the morally superior attack.......
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  5378. @Educational Thoughts He didn't say that. He said that if she wasn't his daughter that perhaps he'd be dating her. He had 2 stipulations in that sentence. She couldn't be his daughter and if she wasn't his daughter, PERHAPS he'd be dating her. That means it may still not happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7yf8-Lk80 You don't have to like Trump but at least tell the truth.
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  5379. Wheeler, the consummate tonic salesman. He creates a problem and then offers a solution to fix the problem. He's got them coming and going.
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  5380.  @sammatthew2841  Weird, isn't it. Open borders are great....unless you're a coloniser. Then it's abhorrent. Hispanics can come to the US. Muslims can break into European countries. Jews should NEVER enter the Levant. Where's the consistency? Borders are important in the Middle East. They mean nothing in Europe and the United States except when Europeans go to America. Then it's bad. Explain these inconsistencies. I just can't figure out how some people arrive at these positions.
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  5381. One day, a child will face the ultimate fate, due to drugs and trans surgery. Watch the lawsuits happen then. It will be the only way these creeps will stop. Multi-million dollar lawsuits and charges of medical fraud for financial gain.
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  5382.  @guillermoelnino  If the child dies due to complications of the drugs and surgeries? Not too likely. Come next election, he'll lose his job. The only people that wouldn't feel bad for the child would be the creeps that support this stuff. Besides, it's highly unlikely that EVERY judge supports this stuff. They're just hoping that they never have to face a custody and lawsuit of this nature. It's like affirmative action. It was great until it went to the Supreme Court. Then Harvard lost its case and affirmative action has become illegal. That doesn't mean that schools won't stop trying but if caught, they might be in big trouble.
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  5383.  SmokieSmoke  "more about gun rights" That's so beyond ridiculous that it barely deserves a response. I would offer that those parents, demanding satisfaction at school board meetings, never ONCE mentioned guns or gun rights. It was ALL about their children, their education and how it affects their children's future. This is a perfect example of how you perceive a certain demographic and a personal bias that you have towards them. A perfect example of bigotry in the first degree.
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  5384. The WEF is proposing central planning. They plan and we follow. It's been a disaster in the 20th century but this time, because they're the smartest people in the world, it's going to work. How can so many smart people fail? It's illogical.......isn't it? But, maybe not. My Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was praised by the WEF and Klaus Schwab as a valued member of that elite group and he's not that bright. Maybe they're not as smart as they think they are. They're not lacking in ego, though. Someone should tell them that "pride comes before the fall".
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  5385. Have you ever tried to work with the representatives of the gamer generation? Good luck. On the first day on the job, the first thing they'll ask you is "When's break?". Then out comes the cell phone. You tell them that cell phones aren't allowed on the floor, they sigh and put it in their pocket. You show them what has to be done and they stand there and are looking in every direction instead of where they should be looking. When they finally get it, somewhat, you leave them to do your own work. That's a disaster. Within 10 minutes, they announce they have to go to the bathroom so now you have to cover for them. When they return, they're back on the cell phone. When break does come, you never see them again. Yeah, that's what you need in the military. (That's sarcasm, by the way)
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  5386.  @Tempelers  However, if you do GET Covid, you'd be in a better place to fight it if you're as healthy as possible. That would include having the levels of Vitamin D to help do the job. It's like going on a marathon run but never training for it. You might finish the run but you'll not be anywhere close to winning and you may just collapse due to over exhaustion. Not training and trying a marathon could even kill you. Vitamin D won't prevent Covid but it gives you the physical tools to help fight it off when infected. This is so simplistic, I'm amazed that it has to be explained to you.
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  5387. I'm not going to criticise Cohen or Barnes because they're individuals and I don't know their personal stories, but the BBC refused to cover this stuff until AFTER they announced the clinic was to be closed. They should have been reporting on it when the rise in referrals skyrocketed. A 4000% increase in referrals to the Tavistock clinic is more than enough to raise eyebrows. There's no way a single referral could balloon to 4000 in less than 10 years.
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  5388.  @randywoodward9707  The guy is on your side. Why are you ragging on him? We have enough problems with Democrats without turning on each other. We have to warm and welcoming to all who realise that they've been wrong. We WANT their vote. You're either the slow one or you're a Democrat.
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  5389.  @gipbwok2008  I worry about that. California Democrats wanted to repeal the State Civil Rights Act....the very act that Dr. Martin Luther King suffered so much to instil in our system of law. They did it so they could institute Affirmative Action policies in their schools and that would be in direct opposition of the Civil Rights Act. Harvard University is now facing action in the Supreme Court, for their Affirmative Action policies, by a group of Asian students who are alleging discrimination based on race. The Asians should win as the Court is majority Republican but Democrats are talking about adding 4 more justices to the Supreme Court and that will give the Democrats the majority. Remember, it was the Democrats who fought, tooth and nail, against the Civil Rights movement and that Act, 60 years ago. It seems that they're going to try to get rid of that Act and this time they'll make it appear that it's a good thing for Black Americans. I don't have a lot of faith in the Democrats, their ideology or their morality.
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  5390.  @TheCrunchbird  What would you have Israel do? Go home? Wait until the NEXT time, Hamas sends in a couple of thousand soldiers to kill, (g)rape and kidnap ordinary citizens, including small children. They said that they would do just that. I wonder what would have happened had the Allies quit fighting when they hadn't won the war, yet. Just stopped fighting. I gurantee that Hitler would have regrouped and attacked them again. Hamas started this conflict, hoping that they could use the "genocide" claims to win a propaganda war. All part of their plan. They don't care how many Israelis or Palestinians are killed. It's part of their plan and their religion. Any Jews that are killed are sent straight to hell as infidels and any Palestinians killed with be revered as martyrs and go straight to heaven, the end goal for all Muslims. Hamas starts a war, begins to lose, which they knew would happen, and then cries "genocide". If you don't want dead Palestinian citizens, don't start a war.....but Hamas wants to showcase their martyrs, the more the better, because that wins them support from people all over the world. It's as cold hearted as it gets.
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  5391. We've gone 4 months and only 1% of the population has been officially exposed. That means that there are 310,000,000 Americans still waiting to be exposed. If there is no vaccine EVER, as Dr. Fauci has warned, it will take 280 months, or 23 years to reach the 70% herd immunity needed to go back to living normally. Are you really willing to do that? Even if you cut that in half is even 10 years an acceptable length of time to be locked down? The flu is a greater threat to the kids than Covid has been but we send them to school every flu season which is EVERY year. I'm 68 years old, considered to be one of the most vulnerable. I say lets face this thing head on and get it over with. I don't want to die but I don't want to live the rest of my life like this either. That's not life. Life takes courage. Let's live in courage, not fear.
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  5392. So that's why Trump is facing all these charges. The Democrats think that they need scandals to win. Trump is ahead on too many criteria so they have to create the biggest scandal against him so they can claim that he's not just corrupt, but a criminal who wants to become a dictator.
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  5393.  @bobbluefield557  Bob Bluefield is total crap.
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  5394. In 1948, when Israel became a sovereign nation, there were 150,000 Arabs living in Israel....NOT the West Bank or Gaza but in Israel. Now, there are 1.7 million Arabs in Israel who are Muslims. If Israel is engaging in genocide, they're doing one awful job of it. In other words, your claims of Israeli genocide policies is bunk.
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  5395.  @vladimirputindreadlockrast812  She likely has input if they hire a new police chief. Whatever it was, she clearly wanted him gone. Maybe it was the "good ole boy" accent that upset her.
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  5396.  @ibrohiem  Sure. Get vaccinated or you lose all your rights. They even advocated that they'd lose health care benefits, that they should be turned away from hospitals if they don't get the vaccination that only a couple of BIG pharma companies can sell. That was the left. It was the so-called right wing "NAZIS", the Canadian truckers who were reviled and had their bank accounts frozen by, guess who???......the left wing Trudeau. The guy who was applauded by the left wing and big pharma. Nobody on the left is doing that......what a joke.
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  5397.  @DickMotorman  It's a comparison. At one time, it was the punks who were reviled, who couldn't get an ordinary job, called all kinds of names. Now, it's the conservatives. Good luck getting a job at a university, if you declare yourself a Republican. Conservative students won't voice their opinions on campus in fear of reprisals, both socially and academically. Wear a MAGA hat in a public space, especially if you're black, you may well be attacked verbally and sometimes even physically. This doesn't mean that punks and conservatives believe the same things. It's the stigmatisation that punks went through is similar, NOT EXACTLY, is similar to how the punks were treated in their day. Conservatives are the new hippies, too.
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  5398. The nice guy canceller. That's a new approach.
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  5399.  @TheJacobhale  I think that you should be able to tell jokes about anyone that you want. People, all of us, can be ridiculous and what's wrong with pointing that out? I don't care if they make jokes about me, a white guy. I care that they only allow it for certain groups and that some are off limits. I want that restrictions lifted so there are no groups that are off limits. I think it's racist when you carry your offence for selected groups. If it's funny, it's funny and I'll laugh, even if it's at my expense. You see, I quit being a crybaby when I grew up. I don't care who Chappelle makes fun of. I care about who he ISN'T allowed to make fun of.
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  5400. The government in control of production and the economy. Works like a charm, every time.
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  5401. In Canada, it's definitely...."hold my beer".
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  5402.  @RiddeL87  Who's cherry picking? I just related the entire story as was written in the Bible. AOC was cherry picking. She took out a segment of the story and they proceeded to make it sound as if Jesus said being rich was somehow wrong. When you complete the story, that conclusion doesn't match the entire narrative. It's like any other story. To get the entire gist of an idea, you have to be aware of context and the entire narrative must be considered, not just the "cherry picked" part.....like AOC did.
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  5403. ​ @RiddeL87  AOC cherry picked a segment of a story to fit her narrative, pretending that the Bible matched that narrative. I gave the full story, which showed that the story did NOT match her narrative, at all. She brought it up. All I did was point out the fallacy in what she said. I offered no narrative of my own. I only said that she didn't quote the entire story. It's like the Jussie Smollett story. If you only considered the initial news reports, you'll believe that he was beaten by a couple of MAGA wearing bigots. However, subsequent news reports reveal a completely different narrative. That's what AOC did. It would be no different than saying that MAGA wearing bigots beat Jussie and that's the end of the story, when it isn't. I took nothing out of context. In fact, I put her segment into context.
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  5404.  @RiddeL87  Religions can't cherry pick. People do. Religions do not form themselves. People form them and for a religion to survive, according to you, PEOPLE have to cherry pick what it is they want to believe. People are the reason that religions survive and, once again, by their cherry picking what to believe. AOC is doing EXACTLY what you're criticising. How can you criticise people for cherry picking religions and then say I can't criticise AOC for cherry picking....unless you believe that the Bible thinks and cherry picks itself, which is illogical.
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  5405.  @RiddeL87  Then you agree with me. AOC should be criticised for cherry picking. I'm glad we cleared that up.
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  5406.  @RiddeL87  "The cherrypicking is used by everyone who wants to appeal to religious people," YOU wrote that. AOC cherry picks, from the Bible, to appeal to religious people......and you can't see how she's doing exactly what you were talking about. The lack of logic is astounding.
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  5407. I would think that this would be normal with people all around the world. As long as it was only a couple of strangers and not a lot of them. A lot of them would make them suspicious of migrants, looking for new land, plunder or slaves for workers or women, as crude as that sounds. A small group wouldn't be a threat. Different peoples would have different beliefs and that would impact on how they perceived others. Their history with outsiders might cause suspicions or an automatic dislike of strangers. I think, of course with no real evidence, that being friendly would be the default and suspicion or a rude disposition could be the result of bad experiences. People will be people.
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  5408.  @illbeyourmonster3591  You've completely misinterpreted what I've said. I'm saying that their personality type is such that they don't even understand how this could be happening. The cows have to be milked, that roof has to be shingled, that customer is looking for a new home, that's what they're doing and thinking about every waking moment. When they get together, they talk about their jobs, their businesses and how one's line of work leads into someone else's line of work. They're surprised and a little disdainful of those who don't look at a productive life the same way they do. When left wingers get together, the topic will always regress into complaining about the productive people, the conservatives. However, they don't see the products that the conservative types are producing. They see the fruits of their labour, the money that they're earning as a reward. That reward is the source of envy for the leftie. They sit and commiserate with one another and then plot how to fight the right wing, after all, they have the time to do just that, not like the right winger, who's too busy producing to sit around and be envious of others. It's not that they can't be bothered. It's that they're too busy to fully comprehend the danger until it could be too late. The individualistic drive is their greatest strength but can also be a weakness in that this drive leaves them with no time to see what is going on outside of the immediate problems of everyday life. The left becomes a part of the collective because they're too lazy to be an individual. The individualist is too busy with life to even think about collective ideologies. It's the nature of the conservative. However, threaten the success of their personal goals and achievements and they'll be quite the formidable opponent.
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  5409.  @JustinRok78  Did you really think that the turn around for the middle class was going to be like winning the lottery? For this to happen, effectively and with long term results, it has to come about, from the bottom, slowly and deliberately, gaining strength because the engine that's running the turn around is a sound and well thought out system of policies. Trump has been president for 3 years. That's not a long time. A sound economy means the opportunity for gains for ALL segments of society. If you try to parse it out, maintain an economy that only affects certain segments, you'll get exactly what we've had for the last 45 years, stagnation for the entire country. You give everyone an equal opportunity to succeed and then people will succeed at the pace that they're capable of. That's freedom. That's all anyone should want. You're looking for equality of outcome. That's not freedom. That's the tyranny of the failed over the successful and operated by those who judge failure by the success of others. Just because someone is rich, doesn't mean you're a failure.
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  5410. Maybe all those SJW, Antifa and BLM types will boycott and stop drinking Red Bull. Maybe then they won't have the energy to get off the couch and cause so much destruction in town.
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  5411. The answer, to the person that gave the source of how many doctors in Italy died and then became sarcastic, is this. "Yes, your source is EXACTLY what I was asking for. Thanks for that and up yours for the sarcastic remark about Karen."
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  5412. Or do nothing.
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  5413. Racist to blame the lab. Not racist to blame the people at the wet market in Wuhan. That's the way it was.
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  5414.  @blooipr  Are you saying that Florida doesn't have a problem with illegal immigrants? Of course they do, just like almost every state in the union. DeSantis just showed us what hypocrites the champagne socialists actually are. They don't care about the poor. All they care about is their own image.
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  5415.  @jmswillow5969  Every where I went, they were called migrants. Nowhere have I read that they were undergoing a legal immigration process. They came to the border, according to every report that I've seen, and then claimed refugee status. If you have information to the contrary, present it. So what did DeSantis do? Did he send his henchmen to Texas and place them under arrest? Did he FORCE them on those 2 planes under threat? If so....that's a major crime and all those involved should be facing charges. SERIOUS charges. I'm just curious on how they rounded them up. Maybe you could fill us in on how exactly it was done. Of course they're human beings. These same "human beings" were forced to sleep under bridges because there were so many of them, that there was no where else to put them, as they were being processed. That was under the Biden watch. He didn't increase border security even though we were in the midst of a pandemic. A lot of American citizens were forced to stay in their homes, lost their jobs due to mandates, yet these migrants were allowed in because the border is so porous. The inhabitants of Martha's Vineyard aren't the only ones complaining about bused migrants. Mayor Eric Adams, of New York, has been quite vocal in his dismay that 36,000 migrants have been sent to his city. Let's see....a little of 50 migrants sent to a resort for the elites....BIG ruckus. 36,000 sent to New York....oh well. They have to go somewhere. But then, the officials in New York transport them to northern New York and drop them off so they can use the entry point at Roxham Road to enter into Quebec, Canada. These are "human beings". 50 migrants were found in a trailer, DEAD, because they were locked inside. They were human beings too, yet I've heard more about the 50 migrants that were sent to the playground of our elites than I have these unfortunates who died a horrible death at the hands of those who took their money to get them into the United States. I'm seeing some extremely selective outrage, based more on politics than a true empathy for human suffering.
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  5416.  @kingghidorah7104  How do I know if I have the flu? Or a cold. They've told us what the specific symptoms are. If you have those symptoms, they test you. If the tests prove positive, both that and the symptoms, you likely have the virus. Just because there have been false positives, doesn't mean that EVERY one is a false positive. There has to be a little common sense applied, too. They had something that made them sick, short of breath, pain when breathing, coughing, headaches and a fever that just didn't seem to want to go away. That sounds like Covid. The doctors treated it the way that Covid is treated and now both of them are better.
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  5417.  @kingghidorah7104  80%?? You'll have to give evidence of that claim. I haven't heard of anything like that.
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  5418.  @andrewjoyner4133  All she does is re-post tiktok videos that have already been posted. She doesn't condemn them or even talk about them. She just shows the videos and because of the high profile of her site, they go viral so it's seen by more people than just the small following of the persons who created the video. She makes no judgement when she re-posts the video. It's those who sees those videos who become upset and go after the more egregious of those posters. She's never doxxed anyone.
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  5419.  ja da  Proof that you're wrong is all those schools that teach left wing ideologies as correct and that the right are bigots. When was the last time you heard of high school kid being expelled for wearing a Democrat shirt. That's been the tactic of left wing radicals for 100 years now. They haven't advanced to the Gulag or re-education camps yet, that's the only difference. I'll not hold my breath for the expelled Democrats.
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  5420. Love that line. I laugh every time I hear George say it. I even laughed when I read you post.
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  5421.  @AngelkissDj  That's a problem with a lot of cities, especially fast growing cities, and a challenge that the city should tackle over the near future. No one said that Miami is perfect. It takes a lot of work to make a city liveable....something that the leaders in San Franscico, LA, NY, Chicago, Portland and Seattle should try. Instead they make excuses, fudge the numbers and then throw money at their problems.
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  5422. If your kids are running wild in a public space, they should be treated the same way that I've treated loud and drunken adults. Tell them they have to go. Also, Matt....kids will run wild if their parents allow them to. It's bad parenting and that's what is at the root of the issue. However, we've not seen any proof of the kids running wild. Neither have we seen proof that the owners and staff hate kids. We just don't have enough information to form a solid opinion on this specific incident. People will say what's in their own best interest. Parents, who let their children run wild, will defend those kids to the grave. People who hate kids will always find something wrong with them. So it's an impasse. We just don't have enough information about the kids and their parents or the owners and staff of the restaurant.
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  5423.  Roshea  Even if they have these rations, many of them are placing themselves in conditions that they've never endured before. The desert is extremely merciless and the unrelenting heat can kill you even if you are well equipped. I've worked in hot factories where new employees literally faint due to conditions that they're not used to. They're only there for a few hours and there is relief available. How do these migrants find relief in the middle of nowhere? They can't. AOC and the whacky left are using this tragedy to push their own narrative. If they really cared about these migrants, they support the wall and legislation that doesn't encourage these unfortunates to try this dangerous journey. Instead they tell them that they'll get free medical, welfare and there are sanctuary states and cities where they won't be deported. Then there's the hope that after a few years, they'll receive an amnesty and are allowed to stay, anyway. This is the reason they are coming and it's the left, including AOC, that are responsible for enticing them to make this arduous journey.
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  5424.  Roshea  Personally, I do feel bad about it. They are committing a crime but it doesn't warrant the death penalty. However, no American is responsible for the deaths, either, unless it's those left wing Americans who LURED those migrants with promises of free health care, free education, sanctuary states and cities, welfare and amnesty for that crime at some point in the future. As far as I'm concerned, those Americans SHOULD feel bad. They put the cheese in the trap that lured those migrants to their deaths.
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  5425. Do you know why Antifa sprays their slogans on a man's house they tried to burn down? They want people to fear them. They know that the law can't prove what individual did those crimes so it doesn't matter that we know that it was Antifa. They won't arrest anyone. It's EXACTLY how the KKK operated.
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  5426.  @realwickedbrew  My 1986 Webster's Dictionary give identical definitions for both sex and gender. Somewhere, since then, someone decided that they're different and then started to FORCE us to agree with him. It's an updated version of 2 plus 2 equals 5. It all depends on how you look at it, meaning that it's biological not mathematical.
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  5427.  @rtyria  So, explain how that allows for men to get pregnant.
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  5428. Of course it comes from the unions. The first place that the Marxists will go, to indoctrinate, is the organisation that is already sympathetic to socialism. All they have to do is push the union socialist further to the left. It's the logical tactic to take.
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  5429. Schiff said that he had incontrovertible proof that Trump colluded with the Russians to fix the election. Well.....where is it? Did he lie? It would seem that he did because he's allowing Trump to get away with it if does have the evidence. If he lied, he shouldn't be leading this investigation and if he's with holding evidence that would indict Trump, he shouldn't be leading it either. I'd really like to see someone call him out and ask him to explain why his "evidence" has never been presented. I'll bet you'd see some awful squirming going on.
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  5430. "Good riddance to you". Exactly what one should NOT expect from one who follows a religion of peace and understanding. You SHOULD be saddened by the loss of her soul and that she will be subjected to eternal damnation in Hell. Instead, you're glad she's going to die and suffer eternal punishment. You're one nice guy. Also, the truth of a religion is NOT a popularity contest. It's either true or not. Popularity has nothing to do with it.
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  5431. Tim....count the days since George Floyd died. There's your number.
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  5432.  DatBoiCMan  Ahh....Yes....Yes it does. Your turn.
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  5433.  DatBoiCMan  The guy's a bit of a jerk. I know that but you have to admit the MSM has went after him big time, the minute he announced he was running for president. They actually lie and distort things he says and its killing the Democrats. Most of us don't bother with twitter and when the media makes their claims, there are a lot of us that do the fact checking and find that those claims aren't true. The more they do that, the more they lose the confidence of the voters. Had the media been more honest, Trump wouldn't stand a chance in the next election. That, coupled with Democrat arrogance and the crazy activism of the left, i.e. Antifa, political correctness and censorship are forcing people to the right and into Trump's camp. As dumb as Trump gets, the left is gone completely crazy.
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  5434.  @sbor2020  LMAO. I'm a capitalist. Blackshirts are National Socialists. Socialists hate capitalists. You don't know what you're talking about. Mussolini, even Lenin at times, have even been called "right wing socialists". They're Socialists, who are left of centre, but right of Marxists. That's not capitalism which in turn means I can't be a Blackshirt. In fact, it would be more accurate to call YOU a Blackshirt. LOL. You don't even understand your own ideology. That's hilarious.
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  5435.  @sbor2020  We did the same to the Nazis and allies in WW2. They started a war, and the Allies destroyed Germany because the leaders, especially Hitler, refused to surrender. On Oct 7/23, you know what happened. Hamas instigated a surprise attack on innocent civilians, killing over 1200 of them and kidnapping more. Women, children and even babies were targeted. Then they scurried back to Gaza to wait for the Israelis to retaliate. If you start a fight, don't start whining when you start to lose. Hamas and the people of Gaza celebrated the brutality of Oct 7/23 with pride and glee. Israel had no choice to believe that if they did nothing, this type of attack would happen again. It says a lot about those who defend Hamas when they absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge that brutal attack on Oct 7/23. Hamas started it. Gazans chanted "From the river to the sea" Why wouldn't Israelis believe that, if they could, Hamas would do the same to everyone in Israel? To use YOUR description, the military conquest of the 7th century was driven by religious ideals. The conquered lost their cultures and forced to submit to Islam, not necessarily convert but to accept Islamic rule over them. That is a dramatic shift in culture and it was forced through military strength. However, in Israel, the 1.7 million Muslims are free to go to Mosque and worship. Even the Dome of the Rock was set aside as an Islamic holy site even though it's also the site of the ancient Temples of the Jews. So how does that suppress the culture of the Israeli Muslims? Gaza, as of 2005, didn't have ONE single Jew living there. The Gazans could have celebrated their culture to their hearts content but it's not enough for them. Israel must submit to Islam and accept Islamic rule or else. Unfortunately for them, they don't have the military might to enforce it.
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  5436.  @sbor2020  Genocide definition: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. This is NOT what's happening in Gaza. Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, initiated a WAR against Israel on Oct 7/23 by killing over 1200 innocent civilians. They took over 200 civilians hostage including small children and refused to give them up. This was WAR. Hamas REFUSED to surrender or give up the hostages and when they did give them up, many had been killed and survivors severely abused. All Hamas had to do was surrender but they didn't care. They gladly offer up every Gazan to die in oreder to protect themselves and to further their own cause. They are casualties of war just like the people of Germany were casualties of war during the air raids of WW2 or any other war. If Hamas wanted the killing to stop, they'd surrender but they won't. They WANT the deaths. The more deaths, the more that they can use the deaths to receive financial and military aid from others. Hamas had a choice. They didn't have to go into Israel, killing civilians on Oct 7/23. They could have surrendered when the war was going badly but they won't. They're cowards and they see the casualties as martyrs for Islam. If you don't want a war, DON'T START ONE.
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  5437.  @sbor2020  Because that's what you're accusing the IDF of doing. Conquest and genocide. Strange, since Israel left Gaza in 2005 and forced all ethnic and religious Israelis to leave. How is that conquest and genocide and I'm using YOUR definition? I'll say it again. Israel LEFT Gaza....every ONE OF THEM. They didn't come back until Gazans, under the direction of Hamas, went into Israel and slaughtered over 1200 innocent young people at a music festival and taking 251 hostages. What did you expect Israel to do? Shrug their soldiers and say "Oh well". Of course not. They did what anyone with any backbone would do.
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  5438. @vinncubus4628 Another one. What is this obsession with Trump? I've said it earlier. You should release a board game in which you pick a topic and then you have to make the association with Trump. If you can do it you get to advance your little shoe on the board. "Shoe....Trump has big shoes because his big feet match his big ego." Your turn. The topic is "Canada goose".
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  5439. @vinncubus4628 He's NOT the president and he may not be elected. In fact, he may not even be allowed to run if he's convicted in some of his court cases. Biden IS the president and this incident happened NOW, while he was president and Mayor Pete is in charge of transportation.....or don't YOU know this. You're blaming something that happened, basically today, on something that someone might or might not do in the future. That's not how the US government works. LOL. Future presidents cannot enact legislation. If that were the case, I'm declaring myself as future president and I'll make the changes today based on my future authority.
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  5440. I once told someone that mathematician, Winston Smith's claim that 2 plus 2 equals 5 is being taught in school. He fact checked it and then called me names.
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  5441.  @zymx2569  I don't get how you would arrive at that conclusion, unless you're kidding.
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  5442.  @j.thomas7128  I have no idea what I'm blind to. Trumps lies or the fact that his perceived lies to give CNN and the left some kind of licence to do the same and worse. I believe that one should set their standards higher than just pointing a finger and whining "See....Donnie's doing it, too".
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  5443.  @j.thomas7128  Whether Trump lies or not, isn't the point that I'm trying to make. The original comment seems to suggest that since Trump lies, we're to accept and overlook CNN's lies. "Well...Donnie lies, too." is the plea of a six year old. It's childish. If we were to wait for the person who never lies to call out obvious BS, it would never be called out. Everyone lies. A person is using a stupid and illogical claim when they use that to excuse another's falsehoods.
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  5444.  @CD-vb9fi  Everything that you've just said amounts to nothing. Just vague assertions on how bad politicians are. The thing is, politicians will be dirty because people are dirty. This has been going on forever, even in American politics. Watergate is a prime example of it. Also, the mess that was the Vietnam War. You, pessimistically call it the lesser of two evils. I call it the better person between 2 choices, available. Trump is trying to end the "forever" wars and the Dems are trying to prolong them. To me the better person is obvious because the better platform would obvious.
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  5445.  @CD-vb9fi  If dirty politicians are all that you have and the media doesn't report the dirt of their favoured side, then what does the average citizen do? Sit back and do nothing? Start a riot? Maybe even a revolution? Or do you decide on the issues? I'm too old to be out on the streets so I do what I can. There's been war in the Middle East for almost 20 years and I think it's time it's over. Trump wants to do that and so I support it. I'm not about to say that Trump is dirty so I won't support that effort and allow the our participation to continue. I have to deal with what I have NOT with what I wish was there. Right now it's Trump and Biden. That's what I have to choose from so I look at the issues. One is the war. Another is that the UN and WHO have said that strict international lockdowns may cause severe poverty and the deaths of millions through starvation. I believe that they are correct so I don't support the Democrat obsessions with lockdowns. Again, I don't say let the people starve because I don't like Trump. I work with what I have as a voter and citizen. I don't like the Defund the police movement. Once again, I have to support Trump on this one. I don't care for Critical Race theory, another movement that's coming from the left. I have to support Trump's call to ban it from all government agencies. I will not give up because I don't like either side. Things still have to be done and I'm not going to wait until we have a saintly figure in the White House. I'll be waiting a long time before that happens.
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  5446.  @CD-vb9fi  "perhaps that is why one never shows up" No, that's not why at all. A Saint isn't going to show up because, no such person exists or group of people exists. So I'm not going to wait around, waiting for the impossible to happen. Like I said, I want to deal with the problems, NOW, not until a Saviour comes. That's not only lazy but naive as one can get. It's how losers respond to a life that's unfair. I acknowledge the unfairness, accept it because there has NEVER been a place, country or society that has been perfect. You show the perfect place and leadership and I'll show you to be wrong. I want the wars in the Middle East to stop NOW!!!!! Not when perfection arrives or Utopia is established in the US. It's NOT going to happen. Till then, I'll do the best that I can, in the moment, and work towards being the best that I can be and part of that is doing what I can, RIGHT NOW, to make things better. I vote to end the wars, to battle the virus in a practical manner, end critical race theories, the pointless riots, to institute a better education system. I'm not going to wait for that "pie in the sky" saint to come along. That's for children. We can still end the wars, even with a corrupt president. I'm not going to insist that one of the conditions to end them is a saint for a president. I can't believe that someone would even think that way. If the wars could end now, why not end them? It's stupid to wait for Utopia.
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  5447.  @CD-vb9fi  So the war continues while you wait for the saint to arrive. The riots go on, people starve due to the lockdowns, others are persecuted under the guise of racial equality and on and on.....all because you want me to sit around and wait for this hypothetical saint to reveal himself. Sort of like all those saints that have come to power in all the countries around the world. Funny how you never named one of those saints in one of those Utopian countries I asked you for. You're living in a dream world, waiting for someone, who may not ever come, while you let the horrors go on because you'll only try to stop the horrors if your president is perfect in every way. If the president isn't perfect, you'll not even try to end the wars, the persecution, the awful things that are happening. You'd rather see them go on and accept the fact that you may have to work with someone who is imperfect. All the victims thank you for your efforts, you self righteous hypocrite. Once again, name the saint, in any country in history. You can't.
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  5448. There were lots of people gripped with hysteria. They were the ones that allowed them to become drunk on power. The average person became their own worst enemy. Had they stood against them, joined with us in refusing the harsh measures, it never would have happened, but they loved the rules imposed on them. I had a family member get Covid and blamed herself for getting sick. She just didn't do enough to protect herself, she said. It didn't matter that she wasn't all that sick and it was gone in 5 days. All that mattered was that she failed. It was insane.
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  5449.  @TheOne9661  If you're elected you suddenly care? How is that logical.
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  5450. Anyone who feels that they are owed something for the horror that their distant ancestor lived through, would only squander those reparations away. The young man in this video, who doesn't want reparations, has more integrity in his little finger, than anyone with his hand held out. He appreciates his life and what his ancestors went through. The person with his hand out is only looking to get free money and using the backs of his forebears for financial gain. That's how a spoiled and entitled child behaves. Any person that would take, what rightfully belongs to their ancestors, has no self respect and have no real value for what his ancestors had to live through and that will translate into not fully valuing what reparations would give them. Within 5 years, half of them will be broke.
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  5451. And all the things that you're doing isn't getting results. The streets have more homeless people than ever.
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  5452.  @gen_z_hippichikk  Because, even when Trump was the president the first time, he didn't have full control of Congress. The Democrats has the power to block him. Now, he has control of Congress and Kash Patel, Trump's pick, is now at the head of the FBI. That happened 2 days ago. TWO days ago. Now the files are on the DOJ desk. If the Democrats had the power and many are guilty, that's why they haven't been released. You're asking the guilty to tell on themselves...as if that's going to happen.
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  5453.  @asiaramsey5648  Who cares?
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  5454. That's always a tough loss. Good to see that you can still laugh. Best wishes to you.
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  5455.  @Joeseph-t2e  It did? Are you saying that Biden's election was rigged? That they staged a coup d'etat by corrupting the election process? You do know that this makes you an " election denier" don't you? I get it, though. A lot of us have been questioning that election.
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  5456. "Buy Canadian". We here it all the time in this country.....but try. The stores are filled with products from China. Our factories are closing but the companies that own them still exist. They're just not operating here anymore except to sell their cheaper products. I worked for one of the biggest shoe manufacturers in the world, a Canadian company, and they no longer make shoes here. Their factory is now being renovated into a retirement home. They're still huge in 3rd world countries, though but their corporate structure is so that you don't know what products are theirs and which isn't. Who did this "free trade" benefit? It definitely wasn't the blue collar workers and the middle class. It was the corporate leaders, the big investors who opened factories in 3rd world countries to take advantage of cheap labour and then sell those products here and strangle out the local small companies. Incredibly, those people who say that they support socialism and the left aren't really helping the working class at all. They're supporting the elites. Trump is right. MAGA is just a slogan, hyperbole that describes a greater idea. The idea that the ordinary American does have a role in the country and that they're NOT just a bunch of hillbillies and deplorables. I'd like to see that same attitude come to Canada. We're all important, not just the corporate elites.
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  5457. Alex Jones is a first class nut, but even nuts have the right to speak. I just don't have to listen to him. It's worked for me for years, ever since I first heard his "nuttiness", himself. I'm not going to miss him but, who's next in their moral witch hunt? "First, they came for the Jews but I did not speak out, for I was not a Jew" I guess we haven't learned form history, at all.
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  5458. Why would you change the rules if you believe that your guy won the debate? They have their opponent on the ropes. Why let him go? Is it because they're such good sports? Oh yeah....I believe that one. LOL.
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  5459. Apparently, his handlers believe that the best way for Joe to do his job is to not let him to do his job. That's quite the leader we have here.
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  5460.  @dexterjankaren  I think that Maher is just plain lazy. Even after the truth on the Covington kids was revealed, he was still talking like he'd never heard that this was all BS. He gets up, goes to work and then babbles the jokes that are written for him. However, he did go after Ben Affleck and the weird stuff that he was saying. I've never agreed with anyone 100% of the time. I'll discuss what's on the table at the moment. The rest is hyperbole and meaningless.
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  5461.  @chadelles2586  What you're doing is deflecting from the childish behaviour of those hecklers. First, you don't offer any evidence of his so called antics. Second, that's still no reason to act the way that he did, if you're correct about his behaviour. If it's wrong when he does it, it's wrong when they do it. However, you FIRST have to prove that he did it. You're saying so isn't enough.
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  5462. I suppose when you're terrified you'll agree to anything. Lighten up everyone.
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  5463.  @brandonsmith9860  I wasn't happy about Trump increasing the debt although the Democrats were partly responsible with their demands added to the Covid relief plan. Things like diversity hires for corporate boards, stricter emissions for airlines and money for PBS. What did that have to do with Covid? Trump should never have given in but what can you do. However, Biden just released a budget which would increase the debt WAY more than any budget in American history. That's a fact and no way around defending it. Taxing the rich....I've already explained how that doesn't work. You can't base a fiscal policy on resentment. That's a spiral into disaster.
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  5464.  @brandonsmith9860  Yes....and he's discouraged coal production, essential in the production of steel. The steel that will be needed in that infrastructure plan. Guess where he'll be getting that steel from. China? That's American dollars LEAVING the country and no longer a part of the American economy. In essence, he's giving money to foreign interests, and using taxes, that come from American taxpayers, to pay American taxpayers to build infrastructure. Guess what else you need to build infrastructure? Oil. Oil to operate the machinery and to transport goods. Oil that will be a part of the asphalt to pave those highways. So what does he do? He nixes the Keystone Pipeline. He discourages American oil production. Once again, he'll have to get that oil from somewhere. I'd say the Middle East, maybe even Venezuela. Once again, money LEAVING the US, American taxpayer dollars to buy oil, on top of the steel products, to add to the tax money to pay American taxpaying workers to build the infrastructure so they can pay taxes to pay themselves to to build infrastructure and buy foreign goods. Oh he'll cut some great deals with giant multinationals. Won't the rich love that. They'll be getting money to sell products, foreign products, to the American government for their infrastructure plan which they can hide in off shore accounts. It's a great plan alright, if it didn't help the very rich that you hate so much. People, like you, don't get it.
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  5465. The US is being manipulated by outside sources and multinationals and the bureaucratic mess in Washington, using the MSM to further their own goals. Some might think it's Russia but the more logical culprit is China. China is making a fortune, selling its products at bargain prices in the US. The multinationals are making a fortune by making deals with China and raking in their share of those sales and the bureaucracy, politicians and lobbyists in Washington are getting rich, hitching their wagon to the big money potential of Chinese trade. All three are using the corporate media to brainwash the American public and they're doing it to both the right and the left. The propaganda has been that effective that most can't see it. It's been directed at both sides and it has been the result of the use of perfect marketing to inflame the masses. If this divide deepens and continues, China will become the world power by default and they know it.
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  5466. The press loves controversy. Anything that'll cause protests, anger and conflict makes them money. Good news doesn't sell. Dissension sells. The truth is boring.
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  5467. All different facets of the same ideology and thinking process. They're all just tweaked to fit the specific group the ideologically possessed throws their allegiance behind.
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  5468. That Lamb dude sounds like a really nice fella. The kinda guy I'd introduce to my sister. LOL.
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  5469. Adam would rather be seen as stupid, than admit that he's wrong. That "Duh" look on his face is intentional. It's all he has.
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  5470. The thing is he's not using the money from the sale of his properties to reinvest in New York. He took that money out of that state and invested it in Florida. That means that anyone who's looking to build in New York won't have the investors they need to build or to buy their new building properties. That means less construction. That money, 1/2 a billion dollars, was invested in Florida and Florida builders see opportunities that has been lost in New York. He also didn't say that he SOLD his properties. He said that withdrew from projects in New York, which means that those who were depending on his money to complete their projects, must find new investors. It may not happen, now and that would indicate that these were construction projects. Properties that will not be developed so those projected properties won't be taxed at the completed values of those projects.
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  5471. I used to watch conspiracy videos all the time. I learned more about science, technology, construction, aviation, psychology, you name the topic, by trying to see if any specific claim made was indeed true. 9/11 truther says that there is no way that those planes should have penetrated US airspace. A cursory look at that claim and it was quite obvious that those planes didn't have to penetrate anything. They were already INSIDE US airspace. I found out that NORAD didn't monitor within North America but was mandated to protect a perimeter around Canada and the US. Planes within that perimeter were under the mandate of the FAA and Transport Canada. Claim false. That was a simple one. I watched those videos to learn....not about the conspiracy, but how to fact check, judge references and how to refute the overall conspiracy by eliminating specific claims around that conspiracy. Eliminate conspiracy videos and I lose an effective way to search for facts and what is likely truth over speculation. Bad on Youtube for not realising that.
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  5472. News 12, New Jersey, led with the headline "Newark accidentally enters into ‘sister city’ deal with fake city". Don't they mean "Newark stupidly enters into ‘sister city’ deal with fake city"? That would be a lot more accurate.
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  5473.  @lettersquash  So you're going to support a religious ideology and political movement that would end the lives of gays through force of law. I doubt that very much. You'll do it from the safety of your living room, where you can sacrifice others for YOUR beliefs, that's what I'm hearing.
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  5474.  @lettersquash  Another thing....if Hamas manages to rid Israel of all Jews and it does sound like they'll kill them all if necessary, are you then going to turn on them if they don't recant their desire to kill all queers? You'd be better served to stay right out of it.
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  5475. Brian Steltor: Oh...Ms Psaki, Your highness and most venerable one. Tell us how we can improve...how I can be better and please forgive us our failures. I beseech you, in the name of "truth" and "integrity", please, help us.
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  5476.  @ashlibabbitt1111  I didn't trust what Trump said over the outbreak of Covid. I watched what he did, though and I stocked up on toilet paper and other staples to last me 3 months. You don't just listen to what they say, you watch what they do. Had more people done that, we wouldn't have had the toilet paper crisis that we did. Don't trust a word coming out of the government. There's no qualifications there. He made no exceptions. Don't trust them. However, it appears that you do trust those who aren't named "Trump". Rather short sighted of you.
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  5477. I think that Obama should be named as special assistant to Elon Musk. He'll finally get to do what he said he would some 15 years ago. He'd get great satisfaction in that, wouldn't he?
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  5478. It would appear that taking part in fraud was the best decision of his life. The country is in a sad state when that is allowed to happen.
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  5479. They want to write their own narrative. They don't want the real narrative, the observable story, to become what we see. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984. This writer is telling you what you should see and to reject what you're actually seeing.
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  5480.  @d.h.jefferies2191  Hello there, Rip Van Winkle. I'm here to inform you that Trump is no longer the president. We have a new president and his name is JOE BIDEN. Apparently, there's a laptop that has strong implications of severe corruption surrounding him and his family that might even involve foreign governments. I know.....shocking isn't it. What's that??? NO....Trump lost the election. Biden is the president. Yeah, the guy that was once vice-president....that's the guy. We don't have to solve the issues around Trump's presidency anymore. He's gone. We have a NEW problem now. Now FOCUS. Joe Biden is the president. That's the topic.
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  5481.  @CM-pc6kw  Everyone saw the rot that is Kamala Harris after Tulsi was done with her. Everyone except the power brokers in the Democrat party. They didn't care one bit about all the perverse and corrupt behaviour that Harris has demonstrated over the years. That's how it turned out. The Democrats turned on Tulsi for what she said and rewarded, for all to see, the corruption of Kamala Harris. Weird how you didn't see that.
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  5482.  @SeekerOfTruth-b2i  Yup.....we have to follow the examples of Venezuela and Cuba. They sure know how to help the people. Hopefully, you'll find out that the resentment against a group, in your case the rich, doesn't help your life one bit. Every socialist revolution has ended the same....pure hell for everyone except the elites in government. Show me one Socialist state that you'd uphold as a great place to live. Just one.....and don't give me the Scandinavian countries. They have social programs but they operate under a free market system. A free market system is called Capitalism. They don't even have a minimum wage in Denmark or Sweden. That sure helps the poor. LOL.
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  5483.  @ccrider3435  What does Trump have to do with people paying WAY too much for their education. I made my decision not to go that way and I never ONCE thought about Trump. I'm pretty sure my wife, daughter and son-in-law did either. My life doesn't revolve Trump or any other politician...unlike your life. I don't like that, in spite of not going into major debt, they're going to force me to pay for someone else's decision, through my taxes. All you can say is "TRUMP!!!!". What's wrong with you? If they're not having problems paying off their debts, why do they need my tax money? It's all they do is cry about how big their burden is. I offer a solution and your answer is "TRUMP!!!!!" And yes, they are offering students big loans before they've even had a job. Right out of high school. Not much of a credit rating there. They can even get Credit Cards. Now that's a great move for a student who isn't even working yet. Maybe YOU should wise up, instead of letting your brain overload with "TRUMP!!!!!".
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  5484.  @MrPojopojo  little guys were screwed big time back in 08. Lost everything
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  5485. Last month was NOT Women's Month. It was "Bleeding Person's" month.
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  5486. I sure hope that this is true, at least percentage wise. However, I do know that there are people who will allow their belief, their reality, to propel them to the grave. They don't just carry it to the grave. it's what puts them there. I'm glad that you did use the word "eventually". It does give a hope for the long term.
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  5487. I do not like Cortez's politics, at all. I think they're naive and dangerous. However, I could care less if she's posed for nude photos or not. That's her private business and it's not against the law and lots of people have done it.
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  5488. Antifa tactics do NOT work. They call everyone that disagrees with them a racist and they use a pretty wide brush to paint their so called Nazis. If you're right wing, to them, you're a fascist. They protest, violently, Republican events and rallies and right leaning speakers. They smash things, start fires and attack people for no cause. They're not freedom fighters. They want the power to control speech and ideas. They're no better than the Nazis they say they hate. All I can think about this news piece is that CNN is shedding a favourable light on this group because they are ideologically in line with these moralistic thugs. What an embarrassment for CNN.
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  5489. I understand being angry about this but the cops do not interpret the law. They're there to uphold the law, no matter what. If the law is unconstitutional, then it is up to the person arrested to go to court and bring his case to a judge for trial and a decision on the merits. There is a process to follow. If an officer is given a command that is clearly unlawful, like shooting a jaywalker, then he has the right to refuse. In the case of someone who is violating a law, that has no victim, the police can arrest the person and even advise the person being arrested on how to fight it, if that officer believes the law to be unjust. In this case, a police officer is not the judge. He's a servant of the people, under the mandate of his superiors. Having said this, I'm going to call this one of the stupidest arrests that I've heard of in awhile. It should be thrown out of court and whoever ordered the arrest should be dealt with.
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  5490. It's Fascism. There's no capitalism involved. The Communist Party of China controls and regulates the economy. Every economic and social facet of that country is ruled by the Party. It appears like capitalism but it's not. Every so-called factory owner is subject to the will of the Party and if they don't like what that owner is saying or doing, they'll take care of him. Many suspect that this is what happened to Jack Ma after he criticised the CCP.
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  5491. We can be ready for the next time something like this happens. Human history is filled with people who got away with things. There's nothing that can be done about it. All we can do is to be ready for the next time. If you don't learn from it, you will be doomed to repeat it.
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  5492. Did you EVER nail that one, Tim. The progressive left is being propped up by Democrat leaders and media but that left hates them. They're using them to get power. When these revolutionaries grab control of the Democrat Party, the moderates are done. They will be purged out, physically if need be. Then they'll come for the rest of the country. The Democrat Party is the first step to power. They've already infiltrated the media and the Party to a certain degree and they'll knock the rest down and replace them with their own. AOC and her cronies are just the beginning. The Democrat establishment are contributing to their own demise. They're first and the rest of us will be next. Good call, Tim. You're seeing more than almost everyone.
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  5493. This is scarier than having a cage full or ravenous rats tied to your face.
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  5494. How are they going to fix this? They don't even know what a woman is. What I don't get is why those "women" wouldn't just identify as men and then get the big bucks? We're going to love living in a communist world. I hear that we'd all be equal. LOL.
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  5495. If Elon's young wiz kids have access to our bank accounts, doesn't that mean that there are government workers who have that same access? That they collated this information and stored it for some undisclosed reason. We're supposed to trust them but not their auditors. That's rich considering that those wiz kids have shown just how corrupt those government agencies are. My guess is that a lot of those Democrats protesting are scared that Elon's wiz kids might find links to their involvement in those corrupt schemes. The guilty can be quite comical in their attempts to cover their guilt.
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  5496.  @grahamtaylor6883  Belgium had 23,000 yesterday. That's country with a similar population to Sweden. Holland had 11,000 cases, Czechia...13,000. Poland....21,000. France 47,000. Spain...25,000. Even when accounting for population differences, Sweden is way better off. I think part of the reason is that population density is way lower in Sweden than the rest of Europe. France would have been well advised to allow a planned exodus for those who wanted to go to their country homes and had them isolate there. That might have saved a lot of the resentment and problems of that they're having now.
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  5497.  @mdaddy775  WOW. That is a lot of assumptions with not ONE iota of evidence. Just wild accusations. How do you know what the people that he has helped are doing? You don't have a clue about any of them. There's no way that you know these people as individuals yet you feel that you can speak for them. More than that, you don't even bother to give ONE example, of something that Peterson has said that, that is "devoid of logic, thought or truth". Not ONE thing. You just say it as if its fact and that we should believe some guy, on the internet, that won't even give his own name. At least show us where he's spouting nonsense and why you feel that way. If you show evidence, I might have reason to lend some credibility to your comment. There's nothing there to be credible of. I know that you won't though. Someone asked you this very thing 14 hours ago and we got SQUAT.
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  5498. They found over 50 migrants DEAD in a container at the border, Geraldo. DEAD. Over 600 bodies this year....DEAD...and you're saying that flying 50 to Martha's Vineyard is CRUEL??? No Democrat wanted to talk about the problem at the border and if they did, they'd kind of laugh it off. Now 50 are flown to the Vineyard, probably the easiest part of their long journey from their homeland and you think it's cruel. What's cruel is the fact that people are dying and you've ignored it. What's cruel is that you've allowed it to get to this point. Had any Democrat or their supporters did something, ANYTHING, this would never have happened and this border crisis is the fault of the Democrats. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. "Get back to where you came from" that's what I'm hearing from the Democrats. Get back to Texas and Florida, places that we hate but don't you come here. They could have housed all 50 of them at Obama's place. Notice how he didn't offer to do the humanitarian thing and invite them in.
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  5499. Of course she meant it. She sat on artillery that was pointed out towards American ships. She met with American POWs and when handed a note, by a prisoner, saying that they were being tortured, she gave the note to the Vietcong leaders. Do you still think that she won't kill those that disagree with her? She's an entitled, spoiled brat whose selfishness knows no bounds.
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  5500. Schumer: Trump made the border crisis worse by his actions and policies. To fix this problem, I will give Trump 4.5 billion dollars so he can continue those policies and make things even "worser". Me: If Trump made the crisis worse, doesn't that imply that there was a crisis and Trump just made it worse? I think Schumer is still politicking and doesn't have the integrity to stand up and say that he made a mistake (or that he was wrong) and that's why is willing to give Trump the money.
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  5501.  @undeadwarrior88  They're not anti-Bolsheviks. Mussolini thought that Marxism was unworkable. The international socialism would be to big to control with a command economy. That is would lead to an attempt to mico-manage the economy and society by the elite rulers who would eventually be too far from the average worker to fully understand his needs and wants. He thought that National Socialism would be more efficient with levels of managements controlling their specific responsibilities, oversaw by those is charge of the state. That's how Fascism was born. The only way for a communist society to succeed is for it to become a Fascist society. China is doing it today. As soon as they delegated responsibility to different levels of society, they started to succeed, economically and socially. They still have the state as the supreme leaders but it's done through a National Socialist structure. We might be seeing China, today, at the same level as Nazi Germany was in 1938.
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  5502. Daily Wire did that? They must have given it the same score that I did. It's a funny movie.
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  5503.  @Stan3I3  I see no reason to doubt that he's a doctor. There are doctors who have killed people for personal gain, have sexually assaulted their patients and have had their licence pulled for malpractice. Walking with a sign down the middle of the road is nothing compared to that. A doctor can be just as nutty as the next guy.
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  5504. I'm not distracted. This is exactly what I expect from those who are behind the scenes. No logic...just a thirst for power and the need to be morally superior. She's epitomises the radical left.
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  5505. I'm Canadian and I'd seriously consider voting for you as our Prime Minister. I watch your channel all the time and I really enjoy it. Thanks for the things that you do.
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  5506.  @JohnCarterRocks  It's actually something that Joseph Goebbels once implied. It's still apt. When one is obsessed with race and group identity, yet call everyone that questions their support of affinity groups, you're actually a racist, yourself.
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  5507. I wonder if Hunter Biden ever borrowed that Corvette. I wonder if he ever took buddies down there to show off Dad's old Corvette. I wonder if Hunter ever went through the papers that were stored in the same room as that famous Corvette. I wonder if there were any documents that would have been useful for Hunter in getting to know certain Chinese oligarchs. I'm doing a lot of wondering here. I wonder if I'll ever get answers to the things that I'm wondering about.
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  5508. I'm going to criticise the Griner negotiations. The Biden administration freed an arms dealer, dubbed the "Merchant of Death", in exchange for freeing a dope smoking basketball player. This guy is responsible for the deaths of thousands. I bet that had they released George Floyd's killer in that exchange, they'd be outraged. This isn't about right or wrong. It has everything to do with progressive ideology.
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  5509.  @ClaraMBreen  I thought that it was those who tried to prove that Trump colluded with the Russians. Spent millions on the Muller Report and the subsequent Muller hearings in an attempt to nullify Trump's presidency.
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  5510. If you're willing to accept lies because you want to believe them, you're as guilty as the liar.
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  5511. Bernie was a communist. He thinks bread lines are a good thing. He admired Chavez and Castro and honeymooned in the Soviet Union. We all know how well that turned out. He would have led the US down the same path.
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  5512. The only pronouns that I hear when the left goes on and on about it, is "me/me". I hear that because that's all it is. It's all about getting attention for themselves.
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  5513.  @elwatusi100  The wall is just a part of a larger plan that Trump had in place. It's no accident that illegal immigration grew exponentially after Biden took office. There's no such thing as a fool proof solution. There are only better options and Biden hasn't chosen one of those options. They just let everything run to chaos.
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  5514. Romans are colonisers. We shouldn't even be allowed to say the word "Rome" let alone learn about them in history.
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  5515.  @ezenwaperfect  I explained, in another comment thread, why they can't do that. If they give it back to the Igbo, they'd put it on display and Igbo women will end up looking at it. Oxford has already proved that this is harmful to women. You don't want to hurt Igbo women, do you? That wouldn't be very nice.
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  5516. Diversity is our strength. Diversity ensures unity. Divide and unite. It all makes sense in that weird, Winston Smith world.
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  5517. No 9 year old has a firm concept of what pronouns are or means. They have to be told. That's how we all found out them at the peril of our English grades. Now, they ALL know because it's being drummed into them and that they get to choose their pronouns. It's a manufactured situation.
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  5518. So...we boycott all Russian products EXCEPT oil. Hmmmm....does that makes sense to anyone? How is using Russian oil good for the environment, anyway? Is Russian oil really clean? I hear talk of the possibility of WW3. Would that be good for the environment or climate change? Would it help if China controls all the manufacturing and Russia and Iran sell us oil as they blow us up? Wouldn't they just shut off the tap if we get into a protracted struggle?? I have a feeling that common sense has left the building and I'm worried that it won't come back.
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  5519.  @PartisanHypocritesEverywhere  Do you mean what if you want to be a tyrant? A true leader finds that people follow them because of who they are and what they stand for. They don't expect people to do what they want just because they want the power to do that. It's organic.
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  5520. What if I don't agree with BLM and refuse to wear the shirt? Will I fail the purity test and be forced to resign? I shouldn't be forced to wear Hitler Youth.....I mean....BLM paraphernalia.
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  5521. Instead of babbling on and on about revolution, Tim, why not try to find ways to prevent this from happening and offer solutions so the country isn't COMPLETELY destroyed? This "throwing up of hands" in despair, is as frustrating and hopeless as it gets. Quit crying about how it can't be done and get to work and DO something about it. I know that he won't read this and neither will any of his staff but I'm going to vent anyway.
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  5522.  @Jblaze024  I'm a bot? Yeah right. Here's comment that I made 16 minutes ago, about 2 minutes after I made the comment in this thread. "Why haven't we heard of this earlier? He was arrested in January and I first hear of it almost 6 months later? He worked for ABC news and was a colleague of Brian Epstein (not Jeffrey) who also resigned abruptly. Yet, it's been all hush hush. The more I hear about those elites the more I feel the bile rising out of my stomach." I gotta be a very advanced bot to be able to make a comment like that.
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  5523.  @jaredroussel  So you're equating the "business records" nonsense with setting a woman on fire. You have ONE crime and you're defending the horrific stuff that's going on all over NYC. "Don't look at the man setting that woman on fire!!!. Look at Trump. He wrote down a wrong number in a business record. That's a LOT worse". Your priorities are really skewed to the negative.
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  5524.  @jaredroussel  I reread your comment. I think that I took it all wrong. In my defence, I've read too many statements where people always went back to Trump and how they think that MAGA people would defend him no matter what. I see now that you meant that these politicians will use their vision of crime to suit their political agenda.....like concentrating on proving business records as false but pretending that street crime is not a problem. I apologise for my error.
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  5525. "fake news", "propaganda", "LIES".....it all the same. They're using BS to gain power through money.
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  5526.  @2_Sec_C  Let's pretend that NONE of this is happening. Tell no one. Just let them die. You're full of great ideas and compassion aren't you. LOL. It would be better if they made cat videos to make money. That way the homeless could die in peace. It's WAY better to ignore murder, filth, disease and drug overdose and profile your cat to the world. No wonder people are dying. It's the compassion of apathy that's killing them.
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  5527.  @y3llowpersuasionz18  Read "Not My Idea". A children's book being taught in Pennsylvania schools. It ends with a contract that strongly insinuates that white people have made a deal with the devil. The picture shows the contract and behind it we can see the cloven hooves and forked tail of the devil. This single page demonstrates the heart of CRT. It's divisive and hateful and can only bring extreme anger and resentment. In another part of the book, the little 7 year old protagonist challenges her mother. She's angry over a statement that her mother made about not seeing skin colour. She calls her mother a liar and says that she DOES see it and screams at her the question "Why are you lying to me?" It's pitting the child against her parents and reinforcing the idea that the school is the ultimate authority and parents are not to be listened to. It brings us one step closer to children snitching on their parents. This isn't the only part of the book that justifies children defying their parents and lets the child know that the school has their back. Any ideology that centres on race is appalling. I thought we got rid of the KKK and Jim Crow. This is bringing us back to a time when race and skin colour defines everything about a person. If you approve of it, you'd have fit in just fine with the times before the Civil Right's Act.
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  5528.  @TruthOverAgenda-u7o  I don't know about the mayor but the governor is a radical left ideologue. He really believes that this is the right thing. Might as well make some cash while he's at it. A corrupt ideologue. Nothing worse.
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  5529. So......if I have 100 bucks, I can give 100 people 100 bucks each. If I do that and tell them they have to return 50 bucks, each, next week, I'll have 100 X 50 which would equal 5000 dollars. So that's how socialist accrue wealth. What a brilliant plan. I'd be making 5 grand a week. LOL. I'm rich!!!!!!!!
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  5530. Juan.....JUAN. Hunter Biden was being investigated by a Ukrainian prosecutor. His father, the vice-president, tells the Ukraine government to fire that prosecutor. In the midst of all this, 1 billion dollars is involved and the prosecutor is fired. It is kind of worth investigating and since it happened in the Ukraine, wouldn't you think it would be up to the Ukraine government and judiciary to do some of that investigating on their end? It's a bad reason to impeach and a lot of the voters are going to get sick of the incessant impeachment talk. Sharpiegate? Really? One year left...that's it. If you're so sure that the American people want an impeachment, let them impeach at the ballot box, Juan.
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  5531. So the Ashanti held the person who abused his slave in high contempt. Mighty virtuous of them. We, here in America, hold people that abuse their pets or livestock in contempt as well. I'd say that this isn't the way for the Ashanti to rationalise slavery. I'm sure that we don't defend the Alabama slave owner who is kind to his slaves so why defend an Ashanti who was kind to his slaves. People aren't pets or livestock. That's the point...not how "nice" you were.
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  5532. So, if this had been a question on a high school exam, Trump would have got a mark of 90%. Democrats: Trump fails and must redo high school.
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  5533.  @godsmasterpieceministries  Naw......they're pigs. LOL.
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  5534. Trump: 2 plus 2 equals 4. The Left: Trump is supporting a white male construct. 2 plus 2 can equal what you want it to be.
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  5535. I was born in '52 and I've had all kinds of optimism until about 10 years ago. Then the radical left started to impose all kinds of weird things on us. Now, I'm pessimistic about the future for my children and grandchildren. They'll never have the freedom and opportunities that we had and it's all due to the fact that we allowed the radical socialists to take over. As for the return of Jesus, who knows? He didn't come back when 75 million were killed in WW2. We didn't see him when 1/4 of Europe's population disappeared during Black Death. He may not come this time either. We just don't know....not really.
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  5536. That's something that I asked myself when I was much younger. I still don't have the answer to that question partially because I'd like to think myself better than that. I do have an ego. lol. I engaged others with that question except I would ask them if they were adolescent boys in 1935 Germany, would they willingly and proudly join the Hitler Youth. I'm saying that most of us would. You'd be surprised at the number of people that say "No way", even have become extremely angry at the suggestion that they likely would have. Self examination isn't as easy as it would seem.
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  5537.  @VioletDeathRei  The thing is, my family suffered as a result of the Nazi ideology. My parents grew up in wartime Netherlands and my mother nearly starved to death because of the callousness of the Nazi occupation. My uncle spent time at the Jewish detention camp in Westerbork and then was sent to a POW camp to sit out the war. The only reason he was sent there is because he lived a few kilometres away and was spared the fate of the Jewish detainees that were there because he wasn't Jewish. However, he saw them being packed into tiny railway cars so they couldn't even sit. It bothered him all his life. However, that was from the perspective of growing up in Holland. What if my dad had been born 100 kilometres to the west in Germany. Then he'd have been old enough to be in the Hitler youth. One could say that his righteousness was just a luck of geography. Without a doubt, the Nazis did some horrific things. That's not what I've been contemplating. It's my contention that the wrong things done is not a German thing but part of the human condition. That if we don't understand that about ourselves, that we will repeat the atrocities in the future. You don't stop evil by pointing fingers. You stop it by knowing yourself and what you're capable of under the right circumstances. That's why I'm against the posturing of the left that accuses everyone of fascism and evil even while they're quite enthusiastically committing their own violence and excusing it in the name of the common good. Nazis did that. They believed that what they were doing was the right thing for their people and that they stood above the rest. Antifa believes the same of themselves and in so doing are quite willing to commit violence for the "good" cause. No self reflection on what they're doing. In fact, they refuse to talk to anyone that might point out the flaws in their behaviour and will only live within their own little bubble or echo chamber.
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  5538.  @blindseher3634  It's why humanity has kept slaves for thousands of years. Why we had the Inquisitions, the witch hunts, the Cultural Revolution in China, the killing fields in Cambodia, the human sacrifices of the Mayans and the Aztecs, the slaughters by the Mongols and the followers of Mohammed. I could go on and on. It's a manifestation of the what we're all capable of under the right circumstances. We're just as capable of good and that's promising, but as long as the overwhelming majority sees themselves as the moral and ethical creatures and others as the evil ones, we will be doomed to repeat the atrocities of history, again and again.
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  5539.  @jeremyanderson3819  Canadian conservatives are doing the same. We gotta eat something, don't we?
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  5540.  @hibbo1351  So, you're letting all the rich, virtue signalling activists off the hook because "Donny does it too". My mom would have cuffed me upside the head for using that as my defence. "If Donny jumped of a cliff would you jump off a cliff, too?" and I'd tell her no, through my sobs. "I hate Donny". You should get a nicer person to live in your brain. Maybe then you wouldn't be so compulsive about injecting him into every conversation.
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  5541. If I would have been paid to attack Juicy, I'd have taken his Subway sandwich, too. Pretend assaults always make me hungry.
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  5542. Why would she allow those guys to just lie to us. "Crime is down from what it was 10 years ago" ignoring that it's gone up radically since 2020. Who cares about how good it was 10 years ago. What we want to know is how it's going right NOW. "I didn't want to defund the police. I wanted to reallocate funds to other areas". That's defunding you BS artist. Taking funds from one department and giving it to another......that's defunding one department and funding another. DUH!!!!! Of course you're going to use that money elsewhere. What a stupid word game.
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  5543.  @nameless-face  Are you saying that ALL 200,000 people are dead because Trump didn't act sooner? You think that putting Covid patients in nursing homes in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California helped the problem? I don't and Trump didn't do that. Your logic says that the million dead around the world are ALL the fault of their leaders. You're reacting more out of emotion than with logic or analysis.
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  5544.  Terry Tater  Your claim of those 50 companies isn't a very good argument. They may well emit all those emissions but the argument presented is that it isn't as big a threat than what is being advocated. Citing wealth isn't an argument.....a consideration, yes, but not an argument on whether we should be alarmed at those rates of emissions. The type of argument that you're using sounds petty and envious. Try using scientific data instead. Data implies facts and the used of evidence. If you want people to believe you, do it the way the scientific method advocates instead of some backhanded allusion to "rich people bad".
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  5545.  Terry Tater  Your logic doesn't hold water. It's a logic that says that I should be allowed to use an oil burning gas guzzler because I'm only one person. There's a reason that most western governments enforce cars to have emissions standards on them. Those standards are enforced one car at a time. You would be the first one to complain if you saw a car belching black smoke driving on a freeway. This works both ways. Either we all, as individuals, change our lifestyles, or green solutions won't work. Also, if you enforce green solutions, you hand out citations one offender at a time. Piers is accusing her of doing what she's accusing all of us of doing and is pointing out the hypocrisy of her stance. I grew up on a farm and yes we used pesticides. Not any more as we've changed the focus of our farms from cash crops to beef. I know, now we're guilty of ruining the planet through cow farts.
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  5546.  Terry Tater  The reason the people use plastic bottles is because they want them. I don't drink bottle water. There are all kinds of environmentalists walking around drinking from one time use water bottles. Second, don't throw things away anywhere you want. It's individuals that do that. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. If you don't like plastic use, buy products that don't come in plastic. Drinks come in paper and aluminium containers as well as do other products. Blaming someone else for your failures ensures that you aren't really interested in solving them. You're only interested in blaming others and absolving yourself of your own responsibilities. Be the change that you advocate.
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  5547.  Terry Tater  Denigrating the intelligence of others is a sign of a weak argument. So many of us expect others to change but don't want to recognise that they have to change themselves as well. That's his point. She pointing fingers in every direction yet she is living the very lifestyle that she decries and she is a part of what sustains those industries. If she wants changes in the world, she has to be the example of what those changes should be. Not live the good life on the status quo and then complaining how others are ruining it for all of us.
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  5548.  Terry Tater  He isn't blaming her. He's saying that we all have to change our ways to affect change and she won't address that. Everyone has to change and it's not going be easy. Polluting may not be a status thing but the accoutrements to status do pollute. Why are so many still buying gas powered cars instead of electric cars? Why are our homes so huge, with rec rooms and added bars and bathrooms for every bedroom? A TV in every room, every electrical gadget imaginable? Why do we insist that our lawns be immaculate and if it isn't we face fines? Why the trips to the tropics in the winter and the weekend jaunts into the mountains or the cottage. These are status symbols and a huge percentage of us in the west make it a part of our lifestyle. Once again, instead of blaming others, why don't we look into ourselves and take responsibility for our own actions. Everyone of those things I mentioned aren't necessary and I'm only touching the tip of the iceberg. The average person won't even cut back 10 percent in their lifestyle. That would be monstrous and would be the impetus for a new economic base that would be directed at this new way of living. Nope. Blame someone else as you turn up the air conditioner and watch a sporting event on your BIG screen TV and listen to the kid next door earn a few bucks by mowing your lawn on your new fancy riding lawn mower. Don't forget the weed whipper. Need one of those too. That's the life he's referring to. You can't blame those 50 companies if the people insist of this as their lifestyle.
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  5549. Of course it's going to take years. If you don't keep slapping the indoctrinated with dogma, they're going to forget and backslide. You have to hold their heads and force their heads pointing in the right direction. No distractions....EVER.
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  5550.  @BK-uy9nj  It's a joke, you silly troll. Everyone, but YOU, knows this. The rest is typical trolling BS.
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  5551.  @tequilastraightup595  So a member of Congress can rape and kill a woman and has qualified immunity? He'll get away with it? Like the Democrats like to say "No one is above the law.....even the president."
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  5552. Are fathers necessary? Watch how necessary you are when you miss a child support payment. Suddenly, your kids are going to starve to death, naked and out in the streets. So necessary that failure to pay could get you incarcerated. So...apparently fathers are necessary. We're their cash cow.
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  5553. Shut up, Gillette. That made me laugh.
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  5554. The Nazis were NOT far right. They were a radical socialist party, led by a man who gave his allegiance to socialism countless times. He hated Capitalism and blamed the Jews for being the originators of the free market system, for controlling the banks and industry. Read Hitler's speeches and you'll find that there's no way that Fascists are right wing.
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  5555.  @philalexander7902  It was a hell hole around the WORLD in 2020. I'm not American and I can attest to that. 2020 was a year like no other in my lifetime and I'm in my seventies. There were things that Trump did that I disagreed with but it was the Democrat states that caused the biggest issues. NY, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients into nursing homes. Everyone KNEW that the elderly were in the greatest danger from Covid, yet they did it anyway. Each state has the right to set their own policies on fighting the pandemic. Some of the states handled it horribly. Others did quite well. A lot of Democrat states are seeing people flee to Florida, Tennessee, South Dakota and Texas, all states that didn't take a strict stance on Covid restrictions. California, for the FIRST time in it's history has seen it's population go down. I repeat....the whole world went through hell in 2020. I'm Canadian and you didn't want to be in Quebec that year. It was awful. The deaths in Europe were terrible, as well. You can't take a year, which was an extreme exception, and then use it to negate the previous 3 years. That's resorting to politics and that was the biggest problem that the United States had in 2020. Political hatred helps no one.
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  5556.  @Idatemysister  Oh....SHUT UP!!!!!
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  5557. The military/industrial complex is a reason for the regime change but another one is that there are those who believe that naively believe that this is the moral obligation of the US to try and help the people of those countries, in spite of the fact that these people don't want that help. Most of the factions in these countries are just fighting for power for themselves. They'll take the help to get that power and then become exactly what we've fought so hard to displace. It's so easy to feel terrible about what is going on in Venezuela right now and want to do everything in our power to help them. However, until the people of Venezuela want to really help their own country to prosper and not just keep making the same mistakes, we're wasting our time and money getting involved. They're like the alcoholic or drug addict who can't be helped until they truly want to help themselves. We can't do it for them, no matter how tempting that might be.
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  5558.  @Mr.Precedent  "Probably". Sounds quite definitive. You're willing to ignore any evidence over a "probably". Good thing Woodward and Bernstein didn't ignore this guy, who disguised his voice over the telephone saying "Deep Throat is probably making it up".
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  5559.  @robbrown9337  I'm not even sure that they are confused. They're just being plain stubborn. I just watched some of the March Madness basketball tournament, both men's and women's. There was no comparison. The men's teams were WAY better than the women's and objective person would have to admit it. The reason that they wouldn't admit it isn't because they're confused but due to ideological bias. It's like a religiously driven individual. If the Koran says that Mohammed flew to heaven on a horse, he flew to heaven on a horse and you can't tell me otherwise. Or a flat earther or one who believes that we're being sprayed by planes and that chemtrails are the evidence of it. A person can convince themselves to believe anything and they do it for personal gain, either a physical gain, like money or prestige, or a psychological gain, where one feels a moral and intellectual superiority over others. I'd say it's easier to control the ideologically possessed than the confused. All you have to do is pander to their ideological framework which they MUST support or lose their sense of self. Religious groups have been doing that for thousands of years.
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  5560.  @alleygh0st  There you go. Don't step on people's beliefs. It bothers them.
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  5561.  @bartsimp  Those accusations are just political jabs. There's no real evidence to support it. Hillary was still angry, over losing the 2016 election, when she bit at Tulsi. She just dug that accusation out of her backside because it's all she's been doing since she went against Trump. Hillary called Jill Stein a Russian asset, too and it's just because Stein ran in the 2016 elections. Hillary thought that she took votes away from her so she accused her of being a Russian asset. It's her go-to accusation.
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  5562. I think that it's the language of love. It existed before anyone ever spoke a word.
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  5563. Then why do we have elections. YES....the US is a Constitutional Republic. That means that the Constitution comes first. It also means that we have representatives, that we elect, using the democratic process, that we send to represent us to enact policies and laws. They do this under the auspices of the Constitution. We are a democracy that can be over ruled by the Constitution, which should not be violated. We can't have just one of them. It has to both or we're neither. Take away the democratic process and the Constitutional Republic is gone. Take away the Constitution and we have no guarantee of a voice, through the democratic process, in how our country is run. That makes us no different than a dictatorship or the monarchy that the US fought a war to escape from.
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  5564.  @elizabethmonsell1847  He has 2 victim cards. He's black and he's Muslim. How's this poor Asian going to compete with that? He's white adjacent and should suck up any abuse by this intersectional "victim".
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  5565.  @MH-53E  The emotional response rules, huh. Logic and reason can't hold against a runaway emotional response, is that what you're saying?. I sure wouldn't hitch my wagon to that star but to each his own. I've found that unbridled emotion can be exceptionally chaotic and can get you in a lot of trouble.
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  5566.  @MH-53E  When you say that you don't trust someone due to some nebulous reason, that's definitely an emotional response. You've basically said that you don't trust him because you don't trust him. I don't see much logic in that.
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  5567.  @PETERJOHN101  I think that he's some kind of smart ass progressive. He thinks that by calling him a soy boy that we'll all turn against him. Small minded enough to think that it will work.
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  5568.  @thechiefwildhorse4651  Are the Comanche allowed to leave the reservation or are they being held there as defacto prisoners? If they can't leave, that would be appalling. Another question. Are the Comanche allowed to own their own property on the reservation? I've heard that they can't even own their homes. I'd like to know if that's true or not.
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  5569.  @thechiefwildhorse4651  I just wondered how land ownership worked. Just owning your own piece of property does wonders for anyone, native or not, especially if you had to work to get it. I live in Canada and I live between 2 reservations, 25 and 50 miles away respectively. Toronto is about 100 miles to the west and there are smaller cities all around us. The natives on the larger reservation work outside all the time and most are quite prosperous. It's not that way in all reservations in Canada. The more remote locations and, believe me, they are a lot more remote that where you live, don't have it so good. However, I have a close friend who was born in a remote area, attended a government school and moved to the small town that I live in and has done quite well. He came from a remote location in British Columbia and moved thousands of miles and found a better life. I'm not doubting that the reservation that you live on was designed to keep you restricted to your spot but I can't help but wonder why you'd accept that. You can move if you want. Get a decent job, save your money and move back if you want when you retire but I'll bet that if you did move away, you won't go back. Sometimes you have to grab life by the balls and do for yourself as best you can. You owe it to yourself to do that.
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  5570.  @thechiefwildhorse4651  Do you think my buddy had a whack of money when he left the infamous reservation school? Honestly? You've given up before you've even started. You sound like the kind of person my dad used to talk about. He'd say "He sounds like the guy that won't go into the water until he's learned to swim".....meaning that if you don't try, you'll never succeed. I just offered some advice that I've seen work for lots of people. If you don't want to do the work for it, say so but remember one thing. If you wait for someone else to do it for you, it's not going to happen. My dad, at 19, left his home in the Netherlands, landed in Canada with hardly a cent in his pocket. He took on a job at a dairy farm, milking cows. He worked hard, saved his money and finally bought his own farm. When I was growing up, he worked the farm, worked evenings at a shoe factory and weekends as a musician. He's now an old man and has travelled all over the world and it was all possible because he wanted it and was willing to sacrifice for it. All it takes is determination.
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  5571.  @halielouya453  The "Trump virus"? It came from China. What possible reason would Trump want to spread a virus? It was the most likely reason that he lost the election, no matter how you look at it. You're letting Orange hatred to rule your brain.
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  5572. This would ask cattle farmers to place their herds into one common herd and use all their property as one huge common pasture. He has answered how the North American prairies sustained huge buffalo herds but not cattle farming. Farmers fenced the land off creating artificial environments. Maybe the cattle ranchers were correct to resist the dirt farmers in the American west.
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  5573. I haven't had sex with Alyssa Milano for 2 weeks now. I think she's learned her lesson.
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  5574.  Real Christian.  For years, all we ever heard was "shop American" and the response was "we can't. Everything says made in China". Trump tries to fix it and you STILL complain. The farmers are getting help until a new and fairer trade deal is struck with the Chinese. When that happens, and it will, the farmers will have a secure market in China and they'll go back to work. However, if you LIKE our stores filled with Chinese products, you can ensure that this happens by buying only Chinese made products. I understand that you don't like Trump, but when you're in a trade war, there will be hardship. If the war is resolved and the farmers are STILL on welfare, then you have a complaint that has merit. Right now it's just a lot of hot air. Trump is helping those affected negatively by the restructuring of the trade deal with China. China wants what American farmers can produce so this isn't permanent.
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  5575.  Marco Polo1  Why don't you say something substantive? Throwing insults around is the tactic of a school yard bully. Actually discuss, with integrity, what is going on at the impeachment. "Orange man bad" or any variation of that sentence isn't exactly the hallmark of an intelligent or mature discussion. Neither is insulting those who are bringing up points that you don't like.
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  5576. "Birthing person"......a rather stupid way to call someone a woman.
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  5577.  @topcat4059  If you can't see that it's happening ALL the time, you're wilfully blind. In fact, the most rigid places in the US, during Trump's administration, were the Democrat states, perfectly illustrated during Covid. Yet, Florida, which had the most lax mandates in the US, came in exactly where they should have in the pandemic. The state, that is 3rd in population, is also 3rd in cases and deaths of Covid. The strict mandates changed NOTHING. Your political views are based on hatred of ONE man, not in logic or facts.
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  5578.  @johnnym8717  That's sorta what I've been talking about. He cut regulations and taxes and didn't impose restrictions on our ability to use our assets so we could grow and prosper. He didn't have to give us stuff. He only had to allow us to thrive on our own.
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  5579.  @calisdad3  Understanding whether Hamas is a terror group or not, is at the very heart of the issue. How can you deal with it if you don't even know or acknowledge the nature of the main combatant? Hamas organised and facilitated and operation in which their soldiers crossed a border in numbers, attacked a large group of unarmed young people at a music festival and started to randomly kill them. They went into the homes of ordinary civilians, killed unarmed men, women and children and took hundreds of them back to their own country and are holding them as hostages. Some of them are very small children. One young woman was paraded, almost fully naked, on the tailgate of a truck, where bystanders cheered and spit on her. Would this be the action of a terror group of NOT? I'd say that this should be extremely easy to answer. The answer would be an important factor in deciding how to deal with them. Maybe the most important factor.
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  5580. That won't help the women who transitioned into men. They'll still get their butts kicked and there will be more complaining about that. It'll end up with a trans men category and a trans women category and we'll be right back where we started from.
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  5581. Campuses are the testing grounds for a futuristic police state. Say the wrong thing and it's a re-education camp for you. That's a pretty word for prison.
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  5582. The way that they're treating Rogan is EXACTLY what the Maoists did in their struggle sessions. People would look into a person's history and find ONE fault and then publicly browbeat that person both figuratively and physically. It's appalling and there's one good reason for it. EVERYONE has faults. Look at what happened to Whoopi. She has ONE wrong opinion and she's vilified and suspended. It's the tyranny of language. The church used it. George Carlin spoke out against it and here we are....language tyranny is stronger than ever.
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  5583.  @Fullyautomagic  Give it a rest. You're not clever or witty.
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  5584. Yes, we do. Voting rights are enshrined in the Constitution. That means we're a democracy and it's protected by the Constitution. A Constitutional Republic that guarantees our right to free speech, a free press, to protect ourselves AND to vote. When you have the right to vote, you live in a Democracy. A Democracy under the umbrella of the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution is also why non-citizens can't vote in American elections. It's a democratic right that's reserved for American citizens. It's like being a Texan AND and an American. You can be both.
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  5585. Jelly Belly No, it's YOU that doesn't care about MS-13. Those who've had loved ones killed by these gang members, care a lot but that matters nothing to you. It's phoney sympathy for illegals that's driving you and it's more important to be right than to face the facts. There is a reason MSM doesn't talk about this. If they admit that MS-13 is an extremely dangerous gang and that they are over 10,000 members in the US, ALONE, they'd also have to admit that maybe illegal immigration might be a problem. You don't want to do that and neither does the MSM. You just don't care who gets hurt as long as you can prove how principled you are. You care little to nothing about the victims of these animals. Disgusting.
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  5586.  @loot3rd589  What? That doesn't make sense. It's the socialists that are breaking the covet commandment. They hate rich people and want to tax them out of existence and give the money to the poor.
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  5587. Had Tulsi won the nomination, to run for the presidency, as a Democrat, we would NOT be in this mess right now.....and she would become the next president of the US.
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  5588. Of course it's political. Why do you think these Democrats set up these sanctuary cities? It wasn't to help these migrants. It was in response to Trump wanting to build a wall. They could care less about the migrants. They wanted to thwart Trump's attempt to set up new immigration policies. That's what those sanctuary cities are all about. And now you see the hypocrisy. Suddenly it's political and they really don't want the migrants. Trump just showed them for the hypocrites that they are.
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  5589. "Cuomo invades Rhode Island. Details at eleven"
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  5590.  @tobybigham4196  My first comment led into the second one. It was intentionally simplistic because I felt that the comment that I was responding to was a rather simplistic way of assessing it. When asked, I expanded. I didn't see the point into going into an in depth explanation if no one was interested. When asked, or to be a little more accurate, almost insulted about my own English comprehension skills, I tried to explain my point. This type of language manipulation went on in the Soviet Union, as well. It's NOT just an English thing. The French post-modernists were good at it too and no Frenchman would EVER admit that they learned it from the English.
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  5591.  @garyjackson3531  Okay....it's the English. It's not a radical Marxist trait.....which the Soviets, Maoists or the Kim family in North Korea used. They learned it from the English. My bad.
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  5592. What's amazing is that the Democrats screamed about irregularities for 4 years. They even had a commission to look into it....that found nothing, yet they still didn't stop. Funny how the democrats can say all they want but.....
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  5593.  rick smith  Would you stop. The city and the country are facing a new and different crisis today. New York is a mess and you're still fighting the last war. Get over yourself.
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  5594.  @oliveoil7642  Sure....laugh at us. You seem like a really nice human being. (full on sarcasm intended)
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  5595. Defund the police. Fund protection rackets.
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  5596.  @andrewholdaway813  Troll. We're trying to find better ways to solve problems, through discussion, and you're jacking your ego by trolling.
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  5597. California has come up with a ingenious plan to solve its water problem. Illegal immigrants. Bring in lots of them. Entice them with free health care and welfare and a driver's licence. That should fix the water issues.
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  5598. It's because they're NOT feminists. They might think that they are but what they're really being driven by is radical socialism. This a new type of socialism that, instead of class war, it's identity conflicts. Man vs woman, black vs white, Christian vs Muslim, ultimately oppressor vs oppressed. This radical socialism needs conflict in order to attain the revolution that will tear society down, totally and completely, in order to rebuild it as a communist state. Most don't realise that this is what it's all about, not fully, but they do understand the oppressor/oppressed struggle and the elitist feminists need it to rid themselves of the oppressor identity and become one of the oppressed......to become one of the good ones. This is an extension of Max Horkheimer's critical theory, critical feminist theory, which needs to completely eradicate the traditional family, pitting women against the patriarchy. Islam is being used as another iteration of critical theory, even though it appears contradictory to feminism. Muslim are victims of the white patriarchy and capitalism and is another way of creating the chaos that the radical socialists need for their communist revolution. It doesn't matter that they believe that it's a branch of communism, as long as they are a part of the chaos and conflict that will usher in destruction and the new society.
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  5599. It's NOT A GAME, Tim. You're losing your civil rights. You said so yourself. If you don't vote for the one candidate that will help to keep those rights, you're allowing the ones, who have been taking your rights, to keep on taking those rights. It's the only weapon that you have to stop it, Tim. THE ONLY ONE!!!!! You either fight for your rights or you don't.
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  5600.  @remingtonsmooth1417  That's why so many were jumping out of windows in the 29 crash. They knew their friends would bail them out. There is a point of no return with an economy. Venezuela was the 3rd richest country in the Americas with the biggest oil reserves in the world.......and they're broke. Enough places in the world follow them, there is no place to go or turn. Inflation will eat their money up and will be flushed down the economic toilet.
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  5601.  @remingtonsmooth1417  Even if what you say is true, what's it to me? I'll have my own problems to worry about. My worrying about how Zuckerberg is doing on Kauai isn't going to help me one bit. It'll be totally irrelevant to my life or yours. In fact, the only thing it'll do is drive you nuts with resentment....and that won't earn you one more nickel or loaf of bread. Instead of being mad at rich people, start planning out how you're going to fare. That land in Kauai isn't going to help you one bit.
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  5602.  @Nick-q8k  "Well....Donnie does it, too". Real mature. My mother used to cuff me upside the head when I did that to my brother. I quit doing it when I was around 8 or so.
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  5603.  @Thepoweroftheriffcompelsme  These are academics, people who are teaching our children. They didn't even lose their jobs for saying the things that they did. First they gaslight us by claiming that WE are intolerant and we need to understand paedophiles. That implies normalisation. Then they claim "marginalised" status, as if they're the victims NOT abusers. They won't even accept the idea that children don't have the agency to understand sexuality or the psychological implications that could go with it. The "normalisation" process. Now, YOU'RE making excuses for them. The normalisation process is already working on you. Either that or you're....one of them? Let's hope not.
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  5604. The flag and the anthem stand for the unity of a people. When you refuse to stand, you're refusing that unity and setting yourself apart from what should be your fellow citizens. That's divisive. If you want to exact change you work with the people, ALL of them. You don't set yourself apart as someone special and above others. You reach out to everyone, including the president to see if there is something that can be done to make the changes that are necessary. Instead, you add to the hate that you claim the president is spreading. The president encourages everyone to stand for the flag and be unified to build a better country. You're dividing the country by rejecting the unifying symbol of the people. Trump may be wrong in his ideas of helping the country but you're more wrong in rejecting and marginalising those who you don't like.
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  5605.  @reallinestodayly168  I'm not really sure what that even means. Why don't you try to be a little clearer on what you're trying to say.
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  5606.  @abbigailcarr2725  Why do we even have men's and women's sports??? It should be just "sports". No women's golf, tennis, hockey or soccer. Just sports. If a girl wants to try out for the football team, let her. Funny thing is, there won't be any women in professional sports, at all or even college and high school sports. Here's an example. #1: 10.49s, Florence Griffith-Joyner 1988 100 meter dash. Compare that time to the men's and she would come in at around 6700th place. Sounds fair to me. The hell with biological women. We don't need them in sports, anyway.....right?????
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  5607. That'll be the last time E-man-uel Cleaver is going to be called to speak in Congress. They're not allowed to say his first name. E-person-uel won't work either, for obvious reasons. And they want to run the country. Heaven help us.
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  5608. Apparently, when the Marxist BLM gets in full control, religious freedom is down the drain.
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  5609.  @coltondalecarmean9114  The part in which they convince people that they should have a Democracy and forget all about the Republic and the Constitution that guides our Republic and how it has a check on the power of Democracy. That part of Fascism.
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  5610.  @coltondalecarmean9114  I'm still waiting for that evidence.
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  5611.  @coltondalecarmean9114  Who's truth account and where do I find it? I don't even know what a "truth" account is. Don't send me on a wild goose chase. You say that you have the evidence, show me EXACTLY where to find it. I'm not going to go looking of something that may of may not exist. You claim that you have the information so show us where it is.
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  5612.  @coltondalecarmean9114  I looked and looked and LOOKED. I've seen no quote, do date and no location. Maybe you gave it but it's not here. I WANT to see it. That's why I'm asking. I've never heard of "Truth" and from another quote I figured out that you were talking about "Truth Social". I've never heard of it. So, now I'm assuming that your talking about Trump's Truth Social account. So, I went looking for Trump's truth account. It's HUGE. I could spend the entire day going through it. Like I said, I don't see the location so I'm going to send YOU a location to see if you get it. YouTube sucks for this kind of thing. I've tried but all I can do is get the site address. So, please send me at least the date and a reference point so I can read it. It's important to have ALL information to have a political viewpoint that reflects accuracy. That's important to me. Don't send a site address. Apparently, YouTube doesn't like that. Just the date of the post that Trump made and the topic. That's should narrow it down. I will check it out.
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  5613.  @coltondalecarmean9114  It would appear that I'm not the only one that hasn't heard of Truth Social. Also, I've seen a comment in which you gave no date, only gave an edited version of Trump's quote and gave no location except for saying it's his truth account. This is just like those who said that Trump wanted to put Liz Cheney before a firing squad. IT WASN'T TRUE. Not true at all. I can prove it. Google "Trump says Liz Cheney might not be such a 'war hawk". You will see all kinds of videos that prove what he REALLY said. Now....do what I just did. Show me how to get to where he said that he would get rid of parts of the Constitution. Show me so it will take me directly there. Don't send me on a search that might take me all day to find that it doesn't exist and where I have to guess if that's what you're talking about. Be SPECIFIC. If you can't, I'll dismiss what you're saying as BS.
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  5614. Just think. The day will come when her little boys will grow up to be just like that guy at the bar. (One big eyeroll). That woman doesn't understand just how toxic she is. In her own way she's no better than the guy that was bothering her on her birthday.
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  5615. That's because the fathers aren't there, in the family, to show how one is supposed to treat others, especially women. When the parents don't show respect for each other, how are the children going to learn respect? The parents, and the elders of the family, exist to be the centre of the family and should set the pattern of behaviour for their children. This is not a perfect system but it's all we've had throughout our history. When that family structure breaks down, it will almost ALWAYS turn out badly.
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  5616. I heard that it was an off-world vehicle looking for a hump backed whale so they could use the whale song to ward off a futuristic killer satellite. That's the gossip that I heard.
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  5617.  @MrPojopojo  It's a "cash for votes plan". That's a plan that can lead to disaster. Venezuela tried it and it finally led to a dictator.
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  5618.  @amyh9512  Have you forgotten what high schools are like. A lot of the bullying and abuse takes place in bathrooms. You're setting up conditions where the male bullies can justify being in the same bathrooms as girls. NOT a good idea.
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  5619.  @amyh9512  We're concerned that kids are being fooled into becoming part of an ideology that may convince them to take harmful drugs and want to surgeries to be performed that would amputate perfectly healthy body parts. YOUNG kids.....under the age of 16. Tavistock, England's largest gender clinic, reported a 4000% increase in referrals in 10 years. That's a 4 THOUSAND percent increase. That would be an impossible number, especially when the vast majority of them are teenage girls. Transgender girls had been extremely rare before 2010, now the vast majority of them are girls seeking to become male. Tavistock, a publicly financed clinic as been forced to close, by the government, due to almost 1000 lawsuits being filed against them. Sweden is now questioning their own policies when a 15 year transitioner was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis, due to the puberty blockers that she had been prescribed. There are lawsuits now being litigated in the United States. as well. Chloe Cole, who went through the surgery at 15, is now suing, because her teachers and medical advisors, all told her about the benefits of transgender surgery and never ONCE mentioned the side effects. These medical "professionals" even told her parents that she likely commit suicide if they didn't affirm her gender claims....outright emotional blackmail. I went to a high school that had around 1200 kids. There was no talk of trans kids back then. Yet, I never heard of ONE suicide in all the 4 years I attended that school. NOT ONE. According to the "experts" suicide is a real danger if their gender is affirmed....yet no suicides in my entire school that I attended. However, people like YOU, don't want to err on the side of caution. Get out the saw and scalpel and hacking away. It'll be fine, they say, while they keep experimenting like some 21st century Mengele. These are children. Leave them be until they're old enough to make decisions on their own. Bigotry isn't the answer to EVERY issue, in spite of what you wish it to be. It's just a cheap way to avoid having a REAL conversation on the issue.
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  5620. Democrats......"Let's (g)rape the rich. Nobody likes them, anyway." Then when the rich are taxed into poor, they'll (g)rape the next level of rich, which would have morphed into the new elite rich through attition. Keep repeating until we're the only ones left.
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  5621.  @paulsmyth3580  We call them "socialists". Top down governance.
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  5622. Greta Thuneberg gets all kinds of traction. You can't question or contradict her because that would be tantamount to child abuse. Media used her as breaking news for months now.
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  5623. "What's goin on?" They want you to get out of the car.....that's what's going on. They have guns drawn, dude. Not a good time to argue. Do as you're told. Just GET OUT OF THE DAMNED CAR!!!!! What's so hard about that?
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  5624.  @Jasper_Yay636  A family, with plane tickets, are kicked out of an airport, for sleeping because of flight delays, and somehow you make it about Trump. It's no wonder that we have a diagnosis called "Trump derangement syndrome". It's an obsession. "My dog is sick and I have to take him to the vet". "Yeah but Trump doesn't have a dog. I wouldn't trust anyone that doesn't have a dog". That's how you sound to those of us who are rational. It's like a game to you. Take any topic and see how you can inject Trump into the conversation. It's bizarre. You should release it as a board game.
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  5625. No matter how we try to stop it, it'll be a mess. The only way out, without considerable damage, is through the political process. Trump was showing us how and he was using the Reagan/Kennedy ideas of less government and less government spending. However, the Socialist Democrats, since they couldn't run on a solid economic platform, had only one option. Completely smear and denigrate Trump and the Republicans and they did a masterful job of it. However, people are seeing through it and the Dems are getting scared. That's why they've really ramped up the "Fascist" rhetoric. We really don't want real Civil Strife. The American Civil War was a disaster and it was the Democrats that refused to negotiate the end of that era and fired on Fort Sumter. They're doing it again, hoping to get rid of any and all opposition.
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  5626.  @theelvisguy6933  California is how it's done.....right? Highest housing costs, highest taxes, highest energy costs, highest homelessness, the most laws and restrictions, people leaving by the tens of thousands....shall I go on. If you're a Marxist, avoid North Dakota. California and New York, they're the ones doing it right, the Marxist way.
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  5627.  @CT-uv8os  Yeah.....those Calvinistic Puritans on Martha's Vineyard sure do cut the cake, don't they? "Don't bring those 50 migrants to our town. We don't have the facilities to take care of them" But, I'll be they don't care that Springfield has taken in 15 to 20 thousand migrants and they can't handle the numbers. In fact, they're racist for saying something about it. They're not racist for complaining about the same thing concerning migrants. That's different. I'd say those residents in Martha's Vineyard are hypocrites. That they're Puritans is news to me but if you say so.
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  5628. The Young Turks are Socialists. The first thing a Socialist will do, when they gain power, is to outlaw Unions. They assume that since the economy and business should be run by the people (government) and since they represent the people, unions become redundant. Lenin banned unions. Hitler banned them...as did Mao and the Kim family. Banned them and put party officials in their place. The party is the people. It's a weird logic but it's theirs.
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  5629. If Trump lives out his term as president and your Hitler analogy does not happen, will you remember this claim? I can remember the claim that Bush was using the war in Iraq to call a state of emergency and that he would suspend general elections and set himself up as the new American dictator. Every leader should always arouse a certain amount of suspicion, however, don't let suspicion become a reality before the fact. Making wild accusations can lead to a loss of credibility and even amusement. Don't oppose the man, oppose specific undertakings and actions that he takes and give plausible reasons why. I have a close friend who is doing what you are and unfortunately, people are starting to roll their eyes whenever he has anything to say even remotely related to politics. It's not helping what he has to say.
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  5630. Capitalist Hollywood elites calling for communism. They're dumber than dirt. If communism ever becomes the political system in the US, they'd be the first to be sent to the American Gulag. I hope they like northern Alaska. Vegans wearing caribou skins to keep warm. That would be ironic.
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  5631. It's a constitutional republic that incorporates democratic principles. Pure democracy almost always becomes a race to see who can buy the most votes to stay in power. For us to be free, we must have the right to vote under the auspices of a constitution or Bill of Rights. Take away our right to vote, the democratic part of our nation, and we lose our Republic and become authoritarian. Democratic principles are entrenched in our republic. Lose our democracy and our Republic is gone. It would be like losing the freedom of speech. Lose the ability to express ourselves and we no longer have a Republic.
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  5632. The left doesn't exist in a state of believing fake news. They KNOW it's fake. They're just saying it in hopes of swaying those with simple minds, who can't process information in a coherent and logical manner. As Marx once said....."There is no right or wrong, only our cause. If it supports the cause, it's right". They think that disseminating fake news is good for the cause so it's the right thing to do. It's also why they call information, that doesn't serve the cause, misinformation and want to censor it. It serves the cause so it's a good thing. There is no morality, just the cause. That's a major component of the radical left belief system.
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  5633. This is the same BS as the Nazi truck drivers in Canada. I used to challenge people that believed that Trudeau trope to show me a Nazi flag at those protests. They could only show me the picture of some Nazi paraphernalia on a wrought iron fence. This picture was circulating in all the Trudeau supporting media outlets. No people in the picture. Just a flag and some other stuff. It could have been taken anywhere by anyone and I told people this while I was making the challenge. There were no Nazi flags flying at those trucker protests. White supremacists don't like Jews but they don't like Muslims, either. This is a nonsense argument.
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  5634. The only time I use "they" is when I don't know the gender of the person being discussed or if it's a hypothetical person.
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  5635.  @edmundtan1069  Actually it would the "they" as it is a choice of him or her, which would make it plural. It describes the 2 possibilities. 2 is more than 1 or the singular. That means that "they" would be the correct usage in that case.
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  5636.  @milliefee8194  Yeah....I know. They attacked the federal police in Portland and then tried to burn down the federal courthouse with people inside of it. That Antifa sure is an horrific cult.
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  5637.  @sues3218  They've been handing over their kids for over 150 years in this country. Why hasn't it happened before if it's such a bad idea? The reason is that socialist have understood that to change a country, you have to reach the kids. The rest of us, and I'm talking those of us in our senior years, never had to worry about this when we had kids. The problem is that we don't learn from history. We think we do and we yatter on about Fascism and think that we're immune to its lure when really, we're not. It just takes on another face and we fall for it again.
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  5638. What is particularly galling is that their delight when those end times do arrive is the apparent lack of empathy for all those who suffer as a result. These people could include a parent, spouse, sibling, child, neighbour, anyone...but it doesn't matter. "The end times have come. Yeehaw. I'm goin to heaven. Too bad for you. If you'd only listened. You were always a rotten son, anyway. Would have burnt you myself if the law had let me. God's gonna get you good, now. Told you so."
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  5639. Sorry Rowling. The feminist dialectic has been determined. Time to move on to the next dialectic and feminism must be re-examined under this new unresolved definition of a woman which NOW has to be determined. The dialectic doesn't end until we reach Utopia. If feminism is a casualty in the journey, it's a necessary casualty. Too bad....so sad. Didn't see that coming did you. There is no end to it.
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  5640.  YouTubeDweller8008  NO.....I grew up in Canada and everyone that I know, who are financially secure, grew up here. I get how growing up in a 3rd world country is going to stop you. I know how radical socialist policies can stifle human creativity and how they HATE anyone who shows success through financial gain. However, I also know people, in Canada, who have the attitude that it can't be done and I know for a fact that there are Americans that feel that way, too. American inner cities are filled with them. Funny thing is, all those that I know with that attitude have earned no more money than I have, at least not at first. They just gave up, drank and pissed it all away. I've not inherited a penny. Every cent, that I have, I worked for and saved. America isn't the only country where one can succeed. It can be done in many other countries, too. When you accept defeat, you no longer fight.
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  5641.  YouTubeDweller8008  That's exactly it. We have to live in a free country in order to be successful and that's where I'm talking from. This video is from the US and I will bet you that a lot of those who are attacking Ivanka Trump live in the US. That's the myth that they want us to believe....that we can't do it on our own. Our education system is filled with those types and our governments, both here in Canada and the US are ever rapidly taking those freedoms away from us. That's why I'm so insistent that we can do it in our 2 countries. It's because of the socialist types, and there's a lot of them in both our countries, who deny that it's possible. They want everything to be run by the government and the more that happens, the more our freedoms erode away. Lose that freedom, the freedom that we had through our recent history, the worse it will become for those who want to work for our success. There's one thing that I know. We live in the greatest countries that this planet has ever seen and we're destroying them with our "there outta be a law" mentality and it's all in the name of a false sense of safety and security. I've been to Cuba. I know how impossible it is for those unfortunate people and there's only one reason for it. It's government control of every aspect of their lives. We will end up that way, just like Venezuela did. The once great state of California is being led down that path by the elites of big tech, celebrities, academics and bureaucrats. It's happening here in Canada, too but we can't give up. It's becoming harder and harder to do but we can still turn it around. However, if we quit working for personal success and insist that our government has to look after us, we will lose it all.
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  5642.  @Aim54Delta  You make some good points but it doesn't deter from the fact that anyone can become a millionaire. In fact, I think that you've proved it. However, financial success isn't just about a bloated bank account. I'm retired, fairly well off but nowhere near a millionaire. It took hard work and recognising opportunities and making wise decisions. I don't count myself as being anywhere close to being a failure. In fact, I've made bad decisions, lost everything and then built it back up. Had I averted those bad decisions, I might well be a millionaire but that was never important to me. However, we do have a culture that's conducive to failure. The worst is the victim mentality but there are others. We seem to be in times where success must be instant. The brand new car, the big house, great vacations, a pool in the back yard, all the best toys. Those things didn't matter to me. I bought a small house, used cars, put off those great vacations till I retired, didn't bother with a pool or buy any of the nice toys that so many that I worked with wanted so badly. I stayed away from excess drinking, the drugs, all the vices that people seem to live for. I'm not saint but I know where to draw the line and I would not give up my future for a great time today. Sacrifice when you're young and the odds are that you won't be a millionaire but you will have a good life. I see those who had the same opportunities that I had and are now senior citizens with not a cent to their names. They're now living for their government pension and spend the last 2 weeks of every month looking forward to pension day. I didn't want to live that way and all it took was the will to not have it happen. Could it happen? Of course. Our economy could collapse but that's out of my hands. I can only do what I can.
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  5643. I knew, the moment that I seen that it was Global News, that this would be a biased assessment. If the people at the cemetery say that the matter is closed and that there has been no charges, it's not a news story. It appears that they're just trying to deflect how negative that this makes Harris and Biden look and somehow spin it so Trump looks bad. Harris and Biden should be ashamed of not attending that ceremony, considering that they were the root cause of that horrific event.
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  5644.  @charlesjohnson3625  So...what does eating meat have to do with the abortion issue? I tried for the correlation that seemed obvious. Apparently, it's more cryptic than that. Clue me in.
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  5645.  @user-kcrpine  That's a great business plan. Get thrown off the platform so you'll never be heard from again. That's how I ran my business. I yelled and swore at customers, telling them that I'M the expert and to shut up and listen. Worked REAL well. LOL. Do you want Tim to piss YouTube off and be banned? Are you sure that you're not a leftist trying to ban all right wing platforms? Goad him into doing something to get him thrown off the platform. Nice try.
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  5646.  @zukezamamee9033  I'm subscribed to a number of science and history channels. There are some subjects that I find more interesting than others. If they post a video on a subject that I'm not that interested in, I don't bother with it. I see the notification, go to the video, see what it's about and then decide whether I'll watch it or not. Sometimes, I'll pass on 4 or 5 videos, from a specific channel before I watch one. I don't notify the person that unless he only posts things I like, I'm not subscribing to his channel anymore. I'm grateful for the content provided that I DO like, that's offered FREE of charge. I don't make a big deal of it. Even if they go in a direction that I don't care for, I'll unsubscribe and let them do as they will. It's their channel and their choice. If you like Rubin's full videos, watch them and be grateful. You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater when you use your logic.
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  5647.  @RealSteelStreet  "🤔 Who ever said that specific guy was out late at night?! " YOU did. "the average citizen isn’t out in a neighborhood in the middle of the night unless they’re up to no good" That's your very first comment. Which goes to show you that you're playing stupid word games. Good bye.
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  5648.  @christinecrow4251  E-mails that have private information on them will be marked as such. A high school student could easily write the program to exclude all private e-mails. It's a bad excuse.
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  5649.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  What are you talking about? We're fighting against an ideology that promotes racial divide. Of course, they're welcome. Did you not watch the video. That was a black woman who's fighting the school system and she was strongly applauded.
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  5650. Please Fox News.....ban that troll AskMississippi AskMississippi. He's spamming the comment sections, of all your videos, with the same comment. It's a troll and it's annoying as hell. Don't you have at least one person reading the comment section?
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  5651. When you're obsessed with race, maybe you're racist.
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  5652. @ Joe Joe Damn.....that made me laugh. Comment of the week.
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  5653. I don't care how that guy from Vermont rationalises it. Cruz is correct. Those schools should lose their funding if they do nothing to stop the violent rhetoric of the Hamas supporters and it most definitely is the Democrats who are in power and could use Executive Powers to stop the funding and deporting anyone non-American taking part in it. His story of the 3 Arabs getting shot is a deflection and has not ONE thing to do with the behaviour at those universities.
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  5654.  @rg1360  Yet, Trump laid down a wreath for the 13 servicemen who died in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden, who ordered the withdrawal, was nowhere to be seen. This is a claim by people who were his political enemies. If the Democrats are so supporting of veterans, why didn't they do anything to help them when they were in power. Just another case of "whataboutism". Look into the streets of our major cities. The terrible inner city schools. The homeless, addicted to drugs and suffering from mental health issues. All in Democrat run cities. They don't care. Yet, they keep telling us that they're the party of the oppressed. BS.
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  5655.  @gorkyd7912  Of course it takes extra money. The space for quarantine at the air base a few miles from where I live is not normally used for that purpose. So, the money has to come from somewhere. It's allocated. The money is already there but it has NOT been allocated as yet. That's why Trump had to ask for the money and then sign the bill. They do it that way so a president can't just spend money on what he wants or on his own special projects. It's important. Panic gets you the nonsense that's happening in Italy right now. You don't want panic. You want to react with a clear mind and purpose. Also, the first confirmed cases came on Dec. 31, a little over 2 months ago. On Jan. 11, the first death was reported. That's 2 months ago. They closed off Wuhan on Feb. 3, a little over a month ago. By this time, Trump had already restricted travel to China. 17 people had now died. Are you now getting how fast this went. I'm having a hard time understanding what it is you think should be done. It sounds to me as if you're panicking yourself and you can't understand why no one else is. Just do what you can and relax. What will happen, will happen. You can only prepare so much and then the rest is up to chance.
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  5656.  @gorkyd7912  On Dec 31 was the official announcement by the Chinese government. Before that there were cases and they weren't saying much other than it was possibly a new coronavirus. It was the Chinese that tried to keep it under wraps. However, it was already festering in Wuhan. Here's how many countries have reported cases of this virus. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html That's over half the countries in the world. You're trying to lay blame on someone for something that is next to impossible to stop once it starts. It's pointless. The Chinese had the best chance but even then it might have been impossible. Instead of looking for blame, be a part of the solution. Quit the hysteria. You're not a child.
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  5657. When you believe that a man can become a woman, you've lost all touch with reality. It also begs the question on where else you've lost that touch with truth. That's why so many are starting to doubt the ability of the democrats to run something as small as a track meet, let alone an entire country.
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  5658.  @amaliacoria3063  Despicable is parading the lifeless naked body of a young woman, through the streets of your town so people can cheer and spit on her. Trump may not be a nice guy but he's not even CLOSE to being this. Your definition of despicable needs to be reexamined. It's caused you to descend into a realm of deep hatred that can only rot your soul.
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  5659.  @thejudge3658  Are you backing away from your original statement? That's rather interesting. I guess I'm not believing that claim that you initially made.
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  5660.  @binmyrtmind  I was baiting the guy. He's already backed away from that statement just as I figured he would.
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  5661.  @oceanblue22  I think the insinuation is that the elections are rigged. You may think you voted one way but in reality you voted for the established elites who are guaranteed the win, no matter what the vote tallies are.
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  5662.  @oceanblue22  That's exactly his point. You're saying that you have to get out and vote in order to get better candidates and he's saying that voting is useless if the voting system is rigged....so it's not really a separate subject.
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  5663. So, what you're saying is that the NSA would never lie or obfuscate in any way? That they'd NEVER use a tactic like this to cover what they're doing? In theory, you'd be correct. However, that an organisation is always upholding the highest of ethical standards is about as naive as it gets. If the NSA is spying on a private citizen, which is against the law except under specific conditions, would they just admit it? I rather doubt it. That anyone would be that trusting of any government agency is truly laughable. The only other reason, for a post like yours, would border on a conspiracy theory. That doesn't mean that Carlson is correct but to be that trusting to not even question the NSA, is bordering on being sycophantic.
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  5664.  @Jirodyne  IF they did any one of those things, would they admit to it, or would they say that since one aspect of those accusations are false, that makes the entire line of accusations false. The accusations are all tied to one another, in affect making it one accusation in totality. Therefore, if any part of that narrative is false, it renders the entire thing false. Which brings me back to where I was before. If they did spy on him, they'd NEVER admit it. They'd deny every part of the accusatory narrative hoping to muddy the truth of what really happened. Even admitting to one aspect of it would be a scandalous admission. The only way for them to go is to give a blanket statement and deny the accusation, smugly saying that they weren't trying to get him off the air and avoid the spying aspect altogether. I once worked with a guy and he had spent years in and out of jail before he straightened his life around. He said the first rule of the guilty was simply to "Deny, deny and then deny again". You start out with a denial and you deny while the penitentiary door is being slammed shut behind you. If you don't think that they'd play these games, you're as naive as they come.
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  5665.  @Jirodyne  "Not True, if any part of the statement is false, you say THAT part is False" That's right, that's what you're supposed to do. However, and THIS THE BIG ONE, if you're doing something wrong, you will twist the narrative so as to not be discovered. That's what LYING is. They obfuscate. They'll zero in on irrelevant details. They'll pretend that they don't understand the accusation. What is so damn hard to understand about lying? This is what Pool is trying to explain. He's saying that they'll use every trick in the book to keep you from knowing the truth. It's called LYING. That this has to be explained to you is astounding. We all know what they should be doing but are they really doing that. Have spy agencies ever been totally honest....EVER??? All this is an explanation of how they skirt around the truth to avoid admitting guilt and here you are saying that when the NSA said it was false that they MUST be talking about every accusation. Do you really believe that???? Maybe you'd better learn a little more about politics. They know how to lie and when caught they'll make any kind of excuse to explain how it wasn't really a lie. You're naive to think that they follow the rules of honesty.
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  5666. I agree with Kamala. Puerto Ricans deserve better than the severe garbage problems that they're suffering through right now. Too bad that she's not even aware of the problem. Too bad Global news doesn't even bring it up to explain what that comedian was talking about. Maybe, Puerto Rico wouldn't have this problem if news media would do their job and let the world know that there is a garbage problem in Puerto Rico. The media would prefer to use it as a political prop against those they don't like. Calling people racist is their idea of a solution.
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  5667. Good point. LOL. However, only those who can afford it are leaving. The mayor doesn't want to house them in the expensive homes that they left behind. They want them in the poor, inner city neighbourhoods but there's no room in those communities. They want to put them on welfare, in substandard housing, and then scare the migrants into voting for them by telling those migrants that the Republicans want to take their money away. It's worked for generations.
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  5668. That's the mindset that says a new network has to be 100% partisan (that means for one side). That's the Democratic or left wing mindset. How about giving EVERY person a platform, no matter what their political beliefs. That's the way it used to be. I put a sign with my candidate's name on it, in my front yard and my neighbour puts a sign with that candidate's opponents name on it and then we go to each other's house for a barbecue. That's called tolerance and acceptance ot the beliefs of others. Now it's just HATE...and more HATE and "you're not my friend anymore" and "you're not my sister if you believe that". We're building a crap world to live in.
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  5669. Presbyterians. They will brook no criticism.
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  5670. Because they're closet Marxists who are using Black Lives to further their agenda. They could care less about Black Lives. If they did, they'd say the name of David Dorn more often. They're pretending that it didn't even happen.
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  5671. If I owned that store, I'd have sent that Evy, or whatever her name is, a bottle of that bone broth, along with a price list of all my other products. Nothing says thank you, for free publicity, than free stuff.
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  5672.  @idrathernot_2  It sure is. In Oregon, they're forcibly shutting down small vegetable farmers to protect the environment. It might be that their socialist government is in bed with big corporate farmers. Just like during the Covid crisis. Small businesses were shut down. Mega corporations made a fortune. The state of Michigan wouldn't allow the sale of seeds so people wouldn't go outside and plant vegetable gardens. Big ag wins again. In Canada, they have marketing boards that won't allow small farmers to sell their products to the public. Dairy farmers have to pay a fortune to buy a milk quota in order to produce. Go over that quota and you're penalised so farmers pour the extra milk into the ground. The result. No small dairy farmers. I could go on and on. It seems that every socialist measure helps the corporate farms and diminishes the small farmer.
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  5673.  @hunterwhite7382  She went into a store and bought Doritos. All on film. It's the same thing. A chance for a photo-op. A politician doing a political stunt....and there's nothing wrong with it. It's the "kissing babies" thing that politicians have been doing for years.
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  5674. I decided to count all the American flags at those "protests". I didn't get past ZERO. If you claim that you want to live in America and be Americans....WAVE THE AMERICAN FLAG.
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  5675.  @ramiere1412  I'm not implying that they're "attacking satire". I'm saying that they're attacking the ideas that might lie behind the satire. They're doing it by labelling the satire as false information, instead of saying that this is satire or humour and should be viewed as such. Eliminate the satire that would poke fun at ideas, you're eliminating the possibility that the reader or consumer might be swayed by that satire. It's a very subtle attempt at influencing how a person might interpret the satire. If they laugh at it, maybe they'll laugh at the ideas that the satire is directed at. If you're worried that someone will believe the satire as fact, just point out that this is meant to be comedic. Don't smear it as a lie or disinformation. THAT'S my issue. Fact checking a joke is ridiculous. Only an ideologue would do that, like a religious or political fundamentalist. It would derail every conversation that I've ever had with friends over a few beers. The only reason they feel the need to fact check is due to the implications of the satire presented challenges their own belief system. It really has nothing to do with people believing the joke itself. It has everything to do with how people might perceive that facts behind the satire.
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  5676. When I was a teen, back in the sixties, I loved the music of Jim Morrison and the Doors. Listened to them all the time. Yet, I knew that Morrison was a class one jerk and I'd NEVER take life advice from him. That's what they don't get. There are people who aren't engaged in celebrity worship.
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  5677. If anyone recognises that POS, they should post his name.
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  5678. Not that I'm sympathetic to those who behave like this but there are different camera angles in his clip. Who is operating all the cameras? This is bugging me. Didn't the people, in that circle, notice all the cameramen? I'd sure like an explanation for this.
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  5679. She didn't get shot. Maybe that's what she thinks is an advantage. LOL. She can't see that it makes no difference if she's shot or stabbed. Maybe she likes being gang "graped". It makes her feel pretty. She's a nut. Articulate....but a nut.
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  5680.  @Seldonlair  What? The guy's attacked and now you want to charge him? You gotta be joking. LOL. I like tongue in cheek humour.
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  5681.  @JSwagJayhawk  It's not always a crime, if you kill someone while driving. You don't charge someone if he's not at fault. A pedestrian, suddenly darting into traffic, has to bear responsibility for his actions, and responsibility can't be placed on the driver for the reckless behaviour of others. If you're attacked, while holding a gun, and you lose your grip, that's an accident. If someone then STEALS your gun, it's not YOUR fault for being robbed. That's illogical.
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  5682.  @bubbag8895  That's recklessness. Being physically attacked isn't being reckless.
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  5683. What Weiner doesn't get is that if he'd just tried to answer the question without going so berserk, we'd take him a little more seriously. That's a legit question. The Clintons may be totally innocent but that's not the point. The point is that we should be able to ask the question and look into it without being yelled at. I was yelled at for questioning the source of Covid. Now, it's seen that the lab leak idea isn't just plausible, it's the most likely source of the outbreak. Calling people conspiracy theorists is the lazy way out.
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  5684.  @devikalambert1674  And there is no heaven for Christians. I know that from the word of the Allah....the Koran. I can't judge the beliefs or morality of others. I'm not even CLOSE to being worthy of that calling. I'll leave that to the one who can.
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  5685.  Kent Horvath  "they were created by human ingenuity and grit." Exactly. A free, fair and open market which people can take advantage of. Pretty well what I said. Yes, there are checks and balances so a president can't just do what he wants. However, the sitting president does set the tone and has a great influence on policy and also has the right of executive privilege. Those 2 points alone has a great effect on how the economy runs. If a president uses his influence and executive privilege to create a free, fair and open market, it allows for greater opportunities for business of all types to flourish. We're agreeing but from different angles.
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  5686.  Marcus  No.....I'm not. I don't like Trump as a person, at all. However, he's right about immigration. He did very well in negotiating with North Korea and he appears to be doing good things with the economy. I might hate some of the things that he has done but he is the president and if he puts out a policy that makes sense, I'll support it. I've worked with some of the biggest jerks that one could imagine. Not once have I gone into the office and complained to HR that this person did something that I disapprove of last year. It wouldn't have done any good, anyway. We have job to do and personal differences are irrelevant. Trump has a job to do, too. He hasn't done a thing, as the president that I can point to, that has been overtly bad for the country. I still don't like him personally, but that is irrelevant.
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  5687.  @janetvarney61  No. I'm from southern Ontario. We are distantly related, although I've never met him. The Havemans are from the Netherlands and one moved to Michigan in the 1890s. This showed up in my family tree. My dad came to Canada in 1951. I've been in contact with some of the Havemans in Michigan and have even been invited to their annual family reunion. Nice to talk to someone that knows them.
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  5688.  @cbr274  How about the wall? He didn't get it finished because, first the Democrats wouldn't give him the funding for it. He had to do some creative budgeting to get the money. Then, he lost the election and Biden stopped building the wall. Had Trump won the election, the wall would be finished. It would be finished and the Democrat mayors of Chicago, New York and others wouldn't be upset because they can't afford all the illegals ending up in their cities. Biden's policies are handing the next election BACK to Trump and you're too blind to see that.
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  5689.  @lapatrie6568  Is that all you have. "Trump doesn't care"? That's it. Such a simplistic argument. What are you....9 years old.
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  5690.  @lapatrie6568  You're going around telling everyone to think yet you're not giving us anything to think about. Give us a well thought out case for your opinions instead of the bubblegum comments of a child. All you're doing is showing people that you really have nothing but hatred to offer.
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  5691. To make matters worse for the climate activists, their lack of action on land management has ADDED to carbon emissions, raising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere instead of reducing them. Those "unprecedented" bush fires would never have been this large had the locals been allowed to do the things necessary to prevent the bush fires from spreading in the ways they did. Nice going, Greenies. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and you've created one hell of a bush fire inferno with your wonderful intentions.
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  5692. They talked about it to make themselves look good but after saying it, they went behind the curtain and laughed saying "I'm sure that those rubes swallowed this hook, line and sinker".
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  5693.  @juanguzman3686  She's giving a bad name to the people of Boston. They voted her into office and thereby is their official representative. It's enough to make a normal Bostonian wear a paper bag over their head.
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  5694.  @TheJeffL  Of course you don't care. You won't even tell us whether a man, who shows dirty pictures to children, should be arrested or not.
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  5695.  @jerrybumstead2654  "Gradual" being the operative word. A phrase here, a detail there, until, after a few decades, the story isn't recognisable. It's like the family farmstead. You don't see changes on a day to day basis, but if you leave and come back 20 years later, the change can be shocking. That's how they did it.
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  5696.  @jerrybumstead2654  I always questioned things and am an avid reader of history. The problem was, when I was a kid, I read encyclopedias and what the teachers would teach matched what was in the books I read and encyclopedias. When things were starting to change, I was too busy raising a family and running a business to have the time for questioning EVERYTHING. Now that I'm retired, I have the time and it's not as it was when I was growing up. What is being taught does NOT match up with history, academia or even common sense. That many people are that busy with their lives is a problem and why the left can get away with what they're doing.
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  5697.  @jerrybumstead2654  My parents grew up in the Netherlands, during the war. They didn't have much time for school and my mom had to quit in grade 6, to go to work so the family could eat. My dad went to grade 9 and then 1 year in agricultural school. Not a lot of education but, remarkably, my mom taught herself to read and write in English after she came here. We were very poor as kids, although well fed as we lived on a farm, but that required a lot of work from all of us. We grew up with a "get to it" attitude and a respect for common sense. I noticed a few weird things when I got older but I really didn't look into it until Obama's second term. That's when it really started to go crazy. My common sense meter started red lining at that time.
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  5698.  @jerrybumstead2654  I thank you. Truly appreciate it.
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  5699. I think that Schumer believes that if the government stops, it well make support for the Democrats fall even lower. He knows the ship will sink if he doesn't change course.
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  5700.  @jamescrouch1693  He's a troll. Pay him no mind.
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  5701. I'm going to say that BLM really don't believe that Black Lives Matter. They're using black Americans to further their own ideological agenda and the Democrats are going along with it and so are a lot of the Republicans. None of them care. This stabbing and the shootout should be national news and I'll bet that hardly anyone even knows about it or how that there have been no charges. Our media is absolutely disgusting. Our politicians are absolutely disgusting.
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  5702.  @imranmajed9694  I thought it was the Rothschild family that ruled the financial world. Why would the Israelites go outside their the group when everyone knows that they are pulling the strings of the money world. You conspiracy guys are all over the place.
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  5703. I would think that the helix shape manifests itself all through nature and ancient art reflects that. Using it in art shows that the ancients incorporated it into their vision and spirituality processes and Peterson feels that in this case he felt that it was intentional that it was used in their are. Not that they knew about DNA but that they observed the pattern and incorporated it into their metaphysical beliefs. The double helix as a part of the Mandelbrot set.
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  5704. Rather pessimistic. Are you quitting? I'd rather be optimistic and keep up the fight. Can't win if you're not all in.
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  5705.  @Kilometerscase  You're right. It's not just about being anti-Semitic. However, it is a symptom of what's really happening. The Jews represent the socialist hatred of Capitalism. There's a belief in the hierarchy of oppression and the Jews are seen, by many, as the pinnacle of that oppression because they believe the Jews are the architects of capitalism. They believe that success can't happen unless one steals that success from the oppressed. The Jews have been the most successful as an identity group. Then white people, especially those from western Europe. I've even heard some of them claim that eastern Europeans shouldn't be included with that white identity. Then the eastern Asians who they say are "white adjacent". There's a contradiction in their beliefs and the conflict in Israel is helping to expose this contradiction. Academia is filled with the radical socialists and it's no accident that they jumped on board with the Palestinian cause. Their mindset is the only reason that Israel is so successful, as a nation, is because their capitalist ways are oppressing the Palestinians. It's basically, success is bad, failure is good because the failed people would never oppress or steal from others. It's a warped view of economics and life and it makes them self righteous, resentful and filled with vengeance.
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  5706. Di Niro is worth 1/2 a billion dollars. An elitist, living a life of privilege, telling low life, unwashed Walmart shoppers how to live, think and vote. One big thumbs down for the guy.
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  5707. Why aren't the Republicans showcasing this plan? Because most of the major outlets absolutely hate Trump and they refuse to even talk about it. When they do, they'll just lie. Lie, just like they did about the Covington Kids. They think it's justified because they believe Trump is evil and the right thing to be as evil, or more, than Trump is.
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  5708.  @kyleorr533  It doesn't take qualifications to know that people with XX chromosomes are the only ones that can give birth. No person, with XY chromosomes, has EVER given birth. I don't have to be a mathematician to know that 2 plus 2 equals 4. I don't have to be a biologist to know that men, those with XY chromosomes cannot give birth. I don't have to be a mechanic to change a flat tire and I don't have to be a carpenter to build a doghouse. This is just plain common sense.
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  5709. The couch has a foot fetish.
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  5710. Bernie doesn't think stopping all travel in and out of a country won't help to stop the virus. Funny how North Korea, although surrounded by China and South Korea, the two countries with the most cases, haven't had one case of coronavirus yet. The most restrictive borders in the world, at the best of times, seems to be working at stopping the virus as well. It works, Bernie. Like it or not. You're jumping to the racist card too often and people aren't taking you as seriously anymore.
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  5711.  @SpeedBoost  I'm not about to say that all teachers want to be near children to abuse them. I will say that becoming a teacher is something that an child abuser would do in order to be close to children. Just like priests, coaches, scout leaders and other jobs that involve children. It does provide a vehicle for the pedos and it's something that we have to be aware of and watch out for. One sign would be if the person is obsessed with talking about sexuality with children. What's that obsession all about?
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  5712.  @laupewoh  If guys like you were only fair. The fact is that BOTH SIDES LIE. What's sad is that partisan people only see the lies of one side. However, you don't want to see what the Democrats are doing right now. How Biden changed border policies to reverse the gains made by Trump. How Biden left hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment in Afghanistan...equipment that will now have to be replaced. Dozens of container ships, waiting for months, to be unloaded but they can't get the trucks to ship the containers to their destinations causing empty shelves in stores. Keystone Pipeline cancelled and fuel prices going WAY up but Biden approves the Russia/Germany pipeline. The biggest budget proposals in human history that are somehow not going to cost a thing. Upset parents, at school board meetings, being called domestic terrorists and being threatened by the Patriot Act. People are talking about breaking up the union and a media that lied incessantly during the Trump era yet it was Psaki that said that her government is working with the media platform "Facebook" to flag "misinformation" and then went on to say that if a person/group is kicked off one media platform they should be kicked of ALL media platforms. Since when did the government institute the "Ministry of Truth". I thought that this is fictional. The Trump presidency is over. Let's solve the problems that we're having right NOW.
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  5713.  @noskalborg723  I think that he was referring to "false" prophets. The Bible talks about them.
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  5714.  @noskalborg723  In other words, you're no different than those you're criticising. You're right and they're WRONG.
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  5715.  @noskalborg723  Therefore, you're better than they are. Thanks for declaring your virtue online. "i am safer in my condemnation than they are." And it's all about you, isn't it. You and the great reward that you're positive that you deserve. That's quite the humble spirit that you have.
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  5716.  @noskalborg723  That's the problem with the self righteous. They always seem to believe that they're the most blessed of them all because of their own inherent tendencies towards virtue and truth. Instead of saying that this is what I think, you go on to say that you've understand what God wants from us and that this makes you special in his eyes. You're not.
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  5717.  @noskalborg723  Your perspective doesn't offend me. I'm just pointing out that you're no better than anyone else. You have your interpretation and they have theirs. It's opinions and everyone has them. You're railing at them for having the wrong perspective never once considering that YOU might not be seeing things correctly. That's why I said to believe as you will but don't go around thinking that you're better than the others. Pride cometh before the fall.
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  5718. That Trump makes one lousy misogynist. All those accolades for a woman (she deserves them). As a woman hater, he shouldn't have given her the job in the first place and then heaping praise on her.....well......one lousy misogynist.
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  5719.  @mchristine2007  I'm going to assume that this is true. So what does THAT have to do with the video he just made? Is he revealing a truth or not? That's what's important. Is he portraying a common frustration in police departments across America? Is it this frustration that is causing so many officers to retire early or resign? Is this why it's getting harder and harder to fill open police positions? Could this be why violent crime is on the rise, over 200% in some cities? Or doesn't it matter that more people are being killed and the police are powerless to stop it?
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  5720.  @mchristine2007  You completely IGNORED the very first part where I said that I didn't know this about him. Because I didn't KNOW this, I could only focus on his message and that's what I'm doing. The big question is this. "Does his underlying message have merit?" And since you want to take this to the absurd.....2+2=4 EVEN if Hitler says it. He doesn't change the truth of mathematics by being a human monster. The merit of his message isn't dependent on his character. It's dependent on whether it's true or not. Take him out of the equation and focus on the message as if the author was anonymous. THEN decide if the message is true or not. If you can't do that, think on on what Eleanor Roosevelt said. Eleanor Roosevelt once said this "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people". I'll leave it to you to ponder about where your mind belongs on this spectrum.
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  5721. Dems: The game is rigged against us by the racist deplorables. Never mind the former administration that won an election TWICE with a black president at the helm. Won both the electoral and the popular vote. Rigged my ass.
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  5722. I can remember Dr. Martin Luther King, years ago, fighting for the rights of Americans, specifically, at that time, the rights of Black Americans. He believed in non-violent action and was the major force in the institution of the Civil Rights Act and is now revered by all. Apparently, one can fight without committing assault or insurrection.
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  5723.  Masson H  Are you saying that no one is talking about defunding police departments? Minneapolis is. So is Los Angeles. Look what's going on in Seattle. You're talking about a Trump and Biden response, a federal level response. This is happening on a municipal level, not their jurisdiction. You're talking apples and oranges. The only way that Trump and Biden could affect this at the municipal level is withhold federal funding or send in a military if a municipality devolved into horrific violence. Otherwise it may well be against the Constitution. We just spent 2 weeks where local governments refused to control rioting and YOU think that Fox shouldn't be talking about threats that locals are making. Just ignore it. That's brilliant.
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  5724. And why didn't they keep enough liquid capital? Could it be because their business focus was elsewhere? Could that something else be that they were centreing in on woke progressive policies in-house and in investment parameters? I'm no banker but I'm sure there has to be a reason why there was no liquid capital available. Shouldn't that be an integral part of the business model and red flags that tell you that there are problems in important areas of the business?
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  5725.  @Anans1_Spyd3r  There's still a reason for bad management. Also, the minute that Trump and Biden brought in those HUGE budgets, that should have warned them that the interests rates were going up and that they'd better prepare for it. Obviously, they didn't. Maybe they weren't in a position to do it but it's still something that you have to be prepared for. It's not as if banks haven't gone bankrupt before. You laid out a problem. It's not as if this was a big secret. It should have been a priority to remain in a strong position and they obviously didn't do that. Bad management and there's a reason for it. It doesn't have to be a scandal. Incompetence isn't a scandal but it will still run you into the ground. It would still be in the best interest of any other bank to make sure that they don't make the same mistakes that SVB did because they obviously weren't prepared. Why they weren't prepared is the question. If you ignore that, as a banker, you run the risk of making the same mistakes that they did.
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  5726.  @Anans1_Spyd3r  My point is that they should never have allowed themselves to be in a position to be forced to sell those bonds at a loss. They should have had every scenario worked out and then safeguards in place to prevent those scenarios becoming a problem. They should aspire to maintain stability over the long term and they quite obviously did not do that. Why didn't they? That's the next question. What policies did they have to prevent such a thing and it they didn't have those policies, why not? That's when you have to look at the top executives to see what their motivations were. That's how we see whether they kept their eye on the ball or not and whether those motivations got in the way of running a profitable bank. If other banks don't look into it, they might make the same mistakes themselves and it will be disastrous. The triggers that set it all off are just symptoms of something that was deeper within that bank. That's my point.
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  5727.  @davemcl1057  I know people like that, too. They'll make a claim like the "very fine people" nonsense and when I start showing them how they're wrong, they'll just dismiss me with a "You're just a Trumpster" and refuse to listen. I'm sure they know that it isn't true but they say it anyway.
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  5728.  @kenj0165  That's not the problem. Our schools are at the mercy of the teacher's unions and activists. They unions will back the worst teachers that there are and will support only the easiest curriculums for the teachers. The activists are only interested in their own ideologies, whether that be about race, sexuality, socialism or an amalgamation each. When they say that math is racist, you know it isn't about education, anymore. Besides, who wants to hire someone who can't read a simple instruction manual. Who can't add or subtract or even fill in a shift report. I've worked with workers like that and they were a detriment and were quite often let go because they just couldn't cut it and that was at a factory that made toilet paper. Your viewpoint makes no sense.
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  5729.  @arod077  He went there because someone set it on fire. Did you not notice that or are you ignoring that on purpose? He went there to show that he strongly rejects those who would do such a thing. He walked there because it's within walking distance of the White House and that Church, called the Church of the Presidents, has had every president since 1816 attend services at one time or another, including Trump. Of course he went there. One lunatic, with a high powered rifle, could have taken him out, on that walk. He's the number one target for radical leftists. You haters are so predictable. If he stays hidden, he's a coward. If he goes out into public, he's looking for a photo op. Why aren't you speaking out against the violence? I suppose you're afraid that if you did that, you'd be on Trump's side.....so loot away guys. Trump doesn't like it....is that it?
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  5730. Hey......school snacks are expensive when you're the elite. No lunchables for her kid. It's Beluga caviar and $30 non-alcoholic champagne.
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  5731. They want to destroy the economy. They believe that our Capitalist system is what's going to end the world and it has to be completely tore down and rebuilt in the image that they've invented in their minds.....the "socialist Utopia". What they can't see is that their solutions could make things worse, for the world, than a healthy free market ever could. When the economy is destroyed and the people are hungry, they'll rebel and THAT'S when we'll see real destruction of our planet. That's when the dark times will be here.
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  5732. If it was a bunch of MAGA hat wearing "protesters" smashing windows and setting fires, it would be an insurrection and they'd have 3 year Congressional hearings to bring those "Fascists" to account. Look what happened to the truckers in Ottawa. They didn't as much as break a window, yet the government froze bank accounts and forcibly removed them and the media cheered it on. They're not hypocrites. They're much worse than that. They're flat out liars and there's a segment of our society that eats it all up.
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  5733.  @kjs257incpen3  What a coincidence. LOL. I just finished telling a person of Asian heritage that he wasn't a minority but an American and that's all. I'm of Dutch heritage. Almost every American comes from somewhere else. In fact, the enemies of the Dutch were the British and Spanish, for centuries. Yet, here we are, fellow citizens of the same country and I don't care. I don't see truth through the lens of melanin. I leave that up to the small minded.
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  5734.  @sprawlingman8277  They haven't had horrific governments before? This is a brand new phenomena? You're not serious are you. This has been the norm, around the world, for centuries. Why do you think that the early settlers came to the United States? Was it because life was so great in the countries that they came from? A poor argument and one meant to deflect and excuse his ineffectiveness at his job. He should be BEGGING for more border agents and finishing that wall. And don't give me this "Walls don't work" nonsense. The Berlin Wall worked and do does the wall that separates North and South Korea. This is all about political will and the Democrats know that if they continue the work that Trump started, they'll be susceptible to the same accusations that they lobbed at Trump.
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  5735.  @sumisell  Actually, Trump lowered personal income taxes for everyone and tried to cut government spending. Biden is doing the exact opposite and inflation has risen to the highest in 40 years. The economy is in terrible shape. I'm not a big investor but my meagre investment portfolio is worth 15% less today than what it was a year and a half ago. I'm afraid to even check it sometimes. Your 401K is being hit hard, as well. But, go ahead, vote against businesses making money. That's a GREAT strategy. If they don't make money, they're forced to raise prices. That's inflationary. If the prices get too high, people will stop buying and the business will go belly up. That means people out of jobs and MORE taxes, because there will be fewer people and businesses paying taxes. I can't believe that people can't understand that. SMH.
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  5736. Except that the bald eagle is classified as of "least concern" in the conservation classification status. In the lower 48 states it's now on the threatened status but is rebounding at a very fast rate. Today Minnesota has more breeding pairs than what all of the lower 48 states had in 1960. The future is looking pretty good for the bald eagle.
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  5737.  @JarlBarbossa  "Violence is the only true authority." So said Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. That's among lots others. Guess where they all ended up. Violence begets more violence until you've destroyed the world in your attempt to save the world. It never ends well.
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  5738.  DSXmachine  What makes YOUR personal interests so important? What makes YOU so important? Judges aren't rulers. They interpret the law and how those laws relate to the Constitution. That's what they do. They're not subservient to the voting public or especially "your personal interests". To finish, Scalia and Ginsburg disagreed on many issues. That's no reason to hate each other. Maybe you like cookie cutter people that all think the same but it's an exercise in futility. It's not going to happen. Learn to get along, in spite of differences. I know that right wing propaganda but why hate? It leads to misery.
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  5739.  DSXmachine  It's not the job of a Supreme Court Justice to enact policy on trade of anything else. Their job is to consider what's brought before them and decide how it relates to the Constitution. That's it. Nothing else. Period. That's why they're there. That you're founding stock means nothing in that. In fact, you're interests are no more important than anyone else who happens to be an American citizen. American isn't a hierarchical state where its citizens have social and legal position in that hierarchy. It's a state that has a Constitution that recognises the equality of all it's citizens under the law. Seniority means nothing.
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  5740.  @jonathantee16  What's so dumb about it? Anyone can make ad hominem remarks but can you back it up?
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  5741.  @kairidon3363  It's a hand that the Democrats dealt them. Charter schools....NOOO. School choice....NO again. Don't give bad marks for poor performance. That's racist. They were the ones that brought in the welfare state in their "war on poverty" which is an abject failure. I haven't heard ONE Democrat run on finding a better way to educate our young. The schools, in the inner cities, are getting worse and worse and the Democrats aren't even suggesting how to improve the lot of those kids. All they do is say things like "It's difficult to overcome the hand most black people are dealt." and sit back in satisfaction because they've shown how empathetic they are. When Trump suggested school choice and allowing funding per child to follow that child to whatever school that their parents want them to attend.....the Democrats wailed and wailed about it. They don't care about those kids. They only care about the optics of saying nice things.
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  5742. University of Chicago is one of the best schools in the world. Living in Chicago isn't a guarantee that you'll end up shot and killed. In fact, the odds are against it. The REAL issue is NOT to blame the victim but the politicians who don't want to do anything about it. Blaming the victim absolves Lori and her minions and that's appalling. If you want to give fault, go after those in charge of safety in Chicago, the mayor, the district attorneys and the stupid people who keep voting in those corrupt Democrats. If the voters keep voting the same people in and nothing changes, the VOTER is the problem, not some young guy who wants to get a good education and improve his life.
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  5743.  @notesandlettersbillcushing7741  I'm the best customer at the local bar. I even have a "regular" place where I sit. Being the best customer and a regular are synonymous.
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  5744.  @markrush5013  Funny how partisan politics works. It's awful when Trump does it but let's pretend that Clinton has never been on the passenger list of Epstein's plane. Why can't they BOTH be reprehensible? OH.....I know. Trump isn't on your team. Only HE can be bad. It's so transparent that it's laughable and you can't even see it. They're either BOTH guilty or both innocent. Let's look at Maxwell's list and see who's on it. That'll be telling. We're accomplishing nothing with this kind of banter.
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  5745.  @alviverdeus  I grew up in a fundamentalist Protestant church. In fact, it's an 8 minute walk from where I live. I left at 18 when I realised I didn't believe in the actual existence of God. Not ONE member of that church has ever treated me badly. If I go to a family baptism or function, they welcome me, shake my hand, ask how I'm doing. Not one word of an animus nature as ever been directed at me. They know that I can't be forced to be "saved" or to believe. I've even worked with and for members of that church. My brother has just announced that he's gay and I wondered what the reaction would be and nothing. He still attends services every week and is good friends with the pastor. My experience tells me that your beliefs of the "fundies" tells me that you're being driven more by hate than actual experience.
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  5746.  @PamelaByers-on6vt  So, if you're a Christian your beliefs aren't going to affect how you vote? Of course they are. It has to or your not following what you believe. That applies to any religion, philosophy or ideology. You can't be a Christian, live a Christ-like life except when it comes to politics. That doesn't even make sense. I don't even know what this "Christian Nationalism" thing means. If something is wrong, it's wrong. Being a follower of Christ doesn't change that. Maybe I could understand your point if you'd be more specific instead of so condemning....not a very Christ-like point of view if you ask me.
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  5747.  @PamelaByers-on6vt  "So, if you're a Christian your beliefs aren't going to affect how you vote? Of course they are." This is copied and pasted from my comment to you. Maybe you should read my comment a little more carefully.
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  5748.  @PamelaByers-on6vt  You're listening to the main stream media. Maybe you should listen to Trump, himself, instead of allowing others to tell you what he's saying, basically interpreting it for you. Maybe you're not doing that, but almost everyone that makes claims about Trump only know things that others have told them. Having admitted that I could be wrong, enlighten me on how he's trying to control us. Maybe you have a point. I've been wrong before and I'm sure that I'll be wrong about things again. However, I don't see anything controlling about what he's advocating for. Not one thing, but like I sad, I could be wrong.
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  5749.  @PamelaByers-on6vt  I responded to your comment about Trump but it seems to have disappeared. I said something along the lines that I don't think that Trump is advocating for an agenda of control, however and this is important, I could be wrong. If you have a good reason to believe this, besides saying that your friends agree with you, then enlighten me. I could be wrong. One thing. If a person disagrees with you, it isn't because you've grown up and they haven't. Maybe you should give reasons WHY you think the way you do about Trump. That would be a lot more helpful than "Grow up". That's just nasty.
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  5750.  @scottf2406  He said it. It doesn't matter who informed me of what he said. What matters that he said it. If fact, fellow soldiers have called him out on it multiple times, LONG before he became a VP candidate. He also said that he retired at a rank that he hadn't completed yet. I'm not eating out of anyone's hand when I've heard him saying it multiple times. You're allowed to be cynical about sources but your cynical remarks aren't evidence. Not even close to it.
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  5751.  @PamelaByers-on6vt  I'm 72 as well. I've learned that you catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar. Also, if you're hesitant to discuss why you believe certain things, my first reaction is that you have no reason to believe as you do. It's easy to sit with your friends and have a big "that's right" party. It's not so easy to sit and discuss ideas and listen to challenges to those beliefs and explain why you believe as you do. My family suffered greatly under the boot of an invading Nazi military. I spent years trying to understand how people could do the things that the Nazis did. To do that, I read the books by Hitler, his speeches, the works of the top Nazi leaders, the memoirs of ordinary German citizens who were caught up in this thing. These are people who I was diametrically opposed to. It's the only way to understand it. You have to discuss it, learn about it, to understand it. If you don't, you'll be as blind as the German people were in the Nazi era. I'm NOT calling you a Nazi, but that's how one becomes entrenched in belief systems.....like the organised Church.
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  5752.  Doc Wonder  Are you the guy in school who took EVERYTHING way too seriously? The guy who never saw the humour in ANYTHING? I understand that Doctor doesn't only refer to medicine. You don't have to explain it to me. You're supposed to have the wisdom to figure out that I was playing a word game. The same with the original comment. It was pure sarcasm and it made me chuckle right away. Not you, though. "Doctor Serious Biology" has to explain where he went wrong. He wasn't wrong. He was making a joke. Humour. My attempt wasn't as good but it was meant to be light hearted humour. Humour only makes sense when you don't take things so seriously. You have to understand the things that you are trying to explain for the humour to work. You must be a real blast at a party.
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  5753.  Doc Wonder  Anyone who has to have jokes explained to them is taking things WAY too seriously. You're pretending to laugh doesn't change that. It's a failed attempt to prove that you've a sense of humour.
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  5754.  Doc Wonder  We all recognise a phoney laugh when we hear one, Doc. Phoney laughter is NOT the best medicine. As a medical practitioner, you should know that.
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  5755.  Doc Wonder  I'm making fun of you, Doc. Do I really have to explain that to you.....AGAIN? Write yourself a prescription and then take a pill.
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  5756.  Doc Wonder  That's all you're doing. Going off into hysterics. Not one witty remark in return. Just gales of laughter. Trying to prove to us that you have a sense of humour. You're trying way to hard.
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  5757.  @cjc.9215  That's the question. Why didn't they get their own power supply and power instead of depending on it from Israel? Could it be because the Palestinian spent all that money of a HUGE tunnel system infrastructure and weapons? Besides, if they were supplying their own water and power, they can't cry when Israel won't give it to them. They take the money to prepare for war instead of the things that they need. They get their water and power from Israel so when they get cut off, they can cry "victim" again. A perfect propaganda tool. They could care less about their own citizens. They're just cannon fodder to them.
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  5758.  @asa1973100  That would have been a PR nightmare. It's foreign aid and it's supposed to be used to provide for Palestinian citizens. If Israel blocked any payments (if it was possible), we'd never hear the end of it. In the end, it could have made things even worse than they are now.
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  5759.  @jake-ch5tu  They broke into her house, destroyed it, stole her property and sold it and then refused to leave. That's called THEFT. Have you ever heard of it? It's been a part of Civil law for thousands of years. "Thou shalt no steal" Over 2500 years old.
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  5760.  @oldcrowtj4937  The governor can support such a bill and use his influence to help its passing.
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  5761.  @annemurphy9339  A terrible thing. Now, imagine being married to a woman, who's been seeing other men behind your back and when she becomes pregnant, wants YOU to pay child support for a child that's not yours. If you refuse to pay, you go to jail. So you pay, but you don't have a great job, so you live in a one room basement apartment and walk to work because you can't afford a car. Why? Because you're being forced to support TWO households while the mother of the child, who's NOT yours, has remarried and is living on 2 incomes, your money and her new husband's money and maybe even her own income.....a third income, to support one household. And women wonder why they can't find the "perfect" man.
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  5762. I'm a bartender, Tim and I don't feel as if I'm doing NOTHING. What an elitist thing to say. AOC's problem isn't that she's a bartender turned Congressman. She's a twit, acting on emotion, lacking in logic or reason and is totally bereft of honour and integrity. That has NOTHING to do with her humble beginnings. It has to do with character, something that she never been graced with or tried to develop.
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  5763. What do you mean he admitted the crime? He's charged with calling it a legal expense, which he did and he's not denying it in court. That's their defence. It WAS a legal expense and not a campaign expense, according to his defence. He HAS to admit that it was a legal expense to defend himself. He's be contradicting his own defence if he didn't admit it.
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  5764.  @Rick62153  You can turn it off. If we kick off the media every person that "imposes" on someone, there'd be no one on the news. Everyone pisses off someone. What you're talking about is preference and we all have our preferences. If you went to an event, with the express purpose of hearing someone speak or perform and some lunkhead starts yelling over the speaker or performer, you'd want him gone, too. In fact, you'd insist on it. That would be normal. Trump is running for the presidency. Of COURSE, he's going to speak and if enough people want to listen to him, he may even become president. What you're implying is that ONLY people that you like have the right to speak at all. Another ridiculous comment.
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  5765. Jay Ray Well.....that went off the rails rather quickly. Ok then, bye.
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  5766.  @strategery101  NO....they DON'T have more courage than we do. They hunt in packs, can't stand alone and cling to each other for validation. Take away their cult like need, of the collective, and they run screaming in fear in search of a cotton candy padded room. That's not courage. Running in packs burning and looting isn't courage either. Courageous people don't hide behind masks. They stand up for their beliefs, alone and unfettered, and don't look around to see if they have backup.
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  5767.  @magnuscarlsson9969  They need safe spaces, or so they claim. Safe spaces from what? From people chanting "Let's go Brandon" or refusing to buy a brand of beer? Apparently...YES. Why is that so frightening? It's frightens them because, to them, we ARE fighting back. When we go to a university to hear a conservative speaker, they're TERRIFIED. They afraid to hear us push back and since they need these safe spaces, we ARE pushing back. Just because we're not going in with bats doesn't mean that they don't feel threatened. Ideas threaten them. They're cowards and chanting out "Let's go Brandon" will either cause them to attack you in a rage, run and hide in their candy floss padded cells, or laugh and shrug their shoulders and go on with their day. We do the last one. They go off into insane clown world. I'm not about to act like that. Most rational human beings don't act that way.
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  5768. They have to jail Trump. How else are they going to stop this new age, 21st Century Hitler? It's how they can sleep with a clear conscience. They feel that they're the ones who are going to do, what our forefathers failed to do, when the original Hitler was born. Nip it all in the bud. What arrogance.
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  5769.  @doodles9358  It's incompetence partnered with corruption. If city council actually cared about these places, things would change. Pick up the garbage, increase police presence (something that the left hates), start a program of building improvements, start to require standards of merit in city schools including showing ways on how the young CAN work for better lives and firing those teachers who don't care. This is just a start and it won't be easy. Right now, city council is taking the easy route. They're ignoring it and blaming everyone else. It's my experience that if you're going to wait for someone else to do it, you'll be waiting a long time and it's been a long time in these neighbourhoods.
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  5770.  @fritzbodhi3220  The Democrats won the last election so that means that female athletes should give up their right to compete in competitions that are fair? Elections don't work that way. You don't vote away basic rights. Right and wrong isn't about party politics. Democrats were in favour of slavery and Jim Crow. Was that right as well? Agreeing with EVERYTHING that your party puts out is a sign of mindless obedience. It's no different than saying "If the Bible says that 2 plus 2 equals 5, it equals 5 and you can't tell me different". It's robotic compliance.
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  5771.  @portlandhasbecometrash8437  Or they realise that they did something wrong, REALLY wrong and people could have been hurt over this. Jussie wanted to cash in on causing pain to others and that's despicable and he's STILL not admitting his guilt. It's sad to think that he could be that delusional and cold. This had to be exposed so we don't go about demonising people on lies. Maybe you don't care about doing the right thing. That would mean that you're ideologically trapped or you're a criminal at heart who doesn't give a crap about anyone but yourself.
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  5772. As soon as they knew of the Iranian threat, the head of the Secret Service should have made protecting Trump, Biden and Harris THE priority. She should have been micromanaging each team, to be sure that everything was as perfect as possible. "There was a slope" Is she for real??? I could have done a better job and I don't know a thing about it. Mayorkas should be embarrassed at how poorly he's doing his job.
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  5773. In 2013, I was working in a paper converting mill, making toilet paper. We had lots of orders but we ran into a period in which we couldn't get raw paper to make the toilet paper from. It went for on months and the machines sat silent for lack of raw paper. Why? It's because Venezuela had run out of toilet paper and people were rioting and President Hugo Chavez promised to get 5 million cases of to keep the people happy. To keep that promise, he paid over market price and our suppliers sent their paper to Venezuela to make the extra money. That was the first I heard of the shortages in that country. It's only gotten worse since then. Fortunately, our company didn't lay any of us full timers off, promising that they wouldn't disrupt our paychecks but they did encourage us to take our vacations if possible. I know I was grateful for that gesture but I was starting to feel bad for the people in Venezuela. Now, I'm appalled at the situation and at those who can't or won't understand why this tragedy is happening.
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  5774. Why should I be concerned by those trying to steal Covid research? I'm concerned when anything is being stolen. It's against the law and it's morally wrong. What a dumb question.
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  5775. What kind of narcissistic jerk looks at others as if they're a threat, Rachel? That's been my biggest take on this entire Covid epidemic. Just how self absorbed some people actually are. Maddow is quite comfortable labelling people through her own lens of fear. I find it disgusting.
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  5776. Why don't the businesses put up their own tents? Build some kind of structure inside the tent so no one can move in. Design a tent that's aesthetically appealing so ordinary customers like their presence. Start with one business and, if it works, expand from there.
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  5777.  @mosaif_mudawi  First of all, Mohammed the Prophet, was a military leader. That doesn't exactly say "peace" as the military is used as a violent arm for many purposes, including imposing peace. Mohammed took his military and used them to spread Islam all through the Arabian Peninsula. After he died, the new leaders took that army and expanded into the greater Middle East. First the Sassanid Empire, which they defeated and then onto the Byzantine Empire in which they weren't quite as successful. But they turned towards Egypt and then North Africa. When the were done that, they jumped into Spain, winning numerous battles until they controlled the entire Iberian Peninsula. However, that wasn't enough. They crossed the Pyrenees, into France, and were defeated at Tours by Charles Martel and retreated into Spain. They also attacked Malta and Sicily and even sacked Rome. Muslim armies then went into Central Asia, where the nations of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Takikistan and others now exist and headed east into Pakistan. They eventually made it into India, Afghanistan and western China, defeating the rulers there. The Mogul invasion of India was particularly brutal. Still that wasn't enough. The Ottoman Turks took on the Byzantine Empire and eventually defeated them and transformed the entire region to Islam. However, that wasn't enough. They took on the Austrians and made it all the way into southern Poland and to the gates of Vienna before being turned back. I doubt that I'm being overly hyperbolic when I say that any religion that depends of wars, to expand their faith, isn't was I would call peaceful. Even today, the Middle East has been a trouble spot for wars, with Islamic nations calling for the destruction of Israel and Islamic factions fighting in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, a proxy war between Shia and Sunni Islamic sects led by Saudi Arabia and Iran. If you think that this is peaceful, I'd hate to see what your definition of warlike would mean.
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  5778. Don't like someone's opinion, called them bigoted and accuse them of hate speech. No need for a rational argument, just forcibly shut them up.
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  5779.  @righteousrebellion6611  So, God talks to you? That must be cool.....if not a little delusional.
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  5780.  @CreekyGuy  I'm not sure how this is going to solve the immediate problems facing the US. A mass conversion isn't about to happen. I'm pretty sure of that. So, what's to do that would be practical and effective. Proselytising about personal beliefs might bring one satisfaction but those criminals are still walking around, with knives and guns, killing, stealing and assaulting ordinary people. They're doing it right now....today. I can't fix my car by praying it to start. I have to take action. We can fix a crime problem that way, either. We have to come up with an effective plan that is practical and doable, right now. That's what living is about. If we work on doing the right thing in the right way, heaven will take care of itself.
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  5781.  @CreekyGuy  Don't start trying to tell me what prayer is all about. I've spent a lifetime in the church. 8 years in a private Christian school that was sponsored by our very fundamentalist Christian church. 5 years of Catechism. Calvinist Cadets for 5 years. Young People's society for 4 years, as a teenager. Prayer before and after every meal and Bible readings after noon and dinner meals. I've read the Bible, cover to cover, TWICE and have read the works of many of the Christian thinkers of the last 1500 years. I understand what prayer is about and why it's important. It's YOU that missing the point. When I said that I can't pray my car to start, when it doesn't, I meant that we can't just leave everything to God. WE have to take action for ourselves, too. God gave us 2 hands and a brain for a reason and it's not just to praise him. It's so we can use our physical assets to better the world around us, the one that He created for us. Yet, I've read over and over, in this comment thread, that we need prayer or that "I'm praying for this country". You can work on some assumption that maybe God wants the car to start and he quite likely does. Do you know how I know that? He gave me the hands and brain to take action, find out why the car didn't start and then use my brain to fix it. It's a 2 way relationship and a big part of it is to go to work and do the best I can to solve it myself. I've already got the help from God that I need. Part of thanking him is to use the gifts that he's already given me to make things better. The biggest part of thanking anyone is the action of using what that person has given me to solve my problem. I can thank my neighbour profusely and repeatedly for lending me his tools but it's false gratitude if I never use them and sit on my couch watching TV all day. That's the same thing with thanking God. It's lame gratitude if all I do is pray. I have to show my gratitude my DOING something with the gifts that He's given me. If I don't, he might just as well made me a turnip. Prayer without action means nothing. Now....how do we go about solving the issues that this country is facing. That's our job and we have to use the tools that God gave us to solve it.
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  5782. I'm not one to support violence but when you've been locked into your homes for 233 days, you have to take a stand. Sometimes violence is all you have left.
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  5783.  @lexluthor9509  Sort of like Trump University. Maybe even worse. However bad Biden was, in comparison to others, it's irrelevant. There is very strong evidence on Biden corruption and it should be looked into. It isn't like they're ignoring Trump. He's got over 90 different indictments against him, right now. Hunter Biden has a couple and Joe doesn't have any. Actually, it's NOTHING like Trump. Trump has to face his accusers. Biden, thus far, hasn't and has been defended every step of the way by the FBI and other government institutions and by the corporate press.
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  5784.  @thetruth401  Wearing a mask is to prevent spreading of the disease. Trump is being tested almost every day. He's not spreading the disease. That doesn't apply to me. I don't get tested everyday so I don't know whether I've been walking around asymptomatic for weeks or not, so I should wear a mask.. Trump, and his doctors, know that he hasn't been infected because of, you know, those tests. Do you see the difference? Also, Trump's doctor, HIS DOCTOR, told him it was alright for him to take the drug. HIS DOCTOR. Get medical advice before you take it....like Trump did. My doctor hasn't advised me to take the drug, so, guess what??? I DON'T TAKE IT. No medical advice so I don't take it. Do you see the difference?
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  5785.  @diandragomez6208  It's the fault of the media. I know a guy who's convinced that it's against the law to say "GAY" in Florida. He heard it on the news. I tried to explain that it was a law that didn't basically didn't want sex-ed until grade 4. NO....he insisted. They said it on the news. It had to be true. He said that they couldn't PAY him enough to go to Florida. I just shrugged my shoulders. There just wasn't any point to try anymore. The more I tried to talk to him, the angrier he got.
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  5786. It has to be the right woman who says and believes what they want her to say. It's no different than calling Larry Elder the "black face of white supremacy" because Larry, with his black skin, isn't following the rules set for him. Like Biden said "If you don't voter for me, you ain't black". That's the Democrat mindset.
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  5787. I'm not thinking that it's more acceptable. The issue is that the press lied about why the rioters were cleared out and an investigation showed that. Another part of that issue, not one so called journalist investigated into what might have really happened. They had a narrative and they ran with it and couldn't care less about the truth. And that's the problem. Their total disregard and contempt for the truth. That's what isn't acceptable.
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  5788. @UCOQsprkw3z-3fcc7qtUWNCw I'm sure they'd rather we never found out, I mean the sycophants with Trump derangement syndrome, not "we". We already know. However, they have no choice. An independent and official investigation revealed the truth and they're stuck with it. They're caught and they're making the best of it they can....which isn't much but for those who want to believe it, it won't make a difference. They'd rather believe the lie.
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  5789.  @lynnandjimb4611  That war helps NO ONE. People are dying and we all want it to end and all you can do is talk about your hatred of Trump. It's people like you that make it difficult for peace to be initiated. You'd rather have the war than to see Trump be the architect for peace.
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  5790. @ Nothing is true? Is that what you're saying? I guess believing that it's ALL theatre means that you don't have to think about it. No need for facts or logic. It's all BS. That BS is killing Ukrainians and Russians....or is that all theatre, too. One big episode of "Saving Private Ryan".
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  5791. With a stroke of the pen.....6 trillion bucks added to the Federal deficit. That's 6,000,000,000,000 dollars. That's over 18,000 dollars for EVERY man, woman and child in the United States. Since only half of America is of working age and paying taxes (potentially), you can double that to 36,000 bucks for every working American. That's if there are no cost over-runs.....and there's ALWAYS over-runs when the government's involved. This is an insanity that's never been seen before in American politics.
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  5792. I've read a lot of those articles and they do mention Trump but do they mention that Trump got 48 percent and the Democrats got 52 percent? I didn't see that. In other words, those polls are fun but they mean nothing and Trump, as a candidate, came out in first place. A lot of those articles mentioned that Iowa has a large white population therefore racism is quite prevalent there. That's they type of observation that alienates the moderates and was a large contributor to Hillary's loss in '16.
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  5793.  Innocent Bystander  He's making over 10 grand a month, 16K in October and has made 20K a month in the past. He may hit 200K this year. That's big money in my world. The guys doing just fine.
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  5794.  @brokenbullets5276  Imagine, wanting to be successful. Not wanting to lose his job. I'll bet you'd never do that. You'd blurt out stuff, knowing full well that you'd lose money, just because you're filled with the most "awesomest" integrity. You talk like a trust fund baby.
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  5795.  @jordandennis6794  What are you doing here then.
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  5796.  @brokenbullets5276  The thing about being demonetised is that he wouldn't be able to keep up his channel for long before he goes bankrupt. Money can take a lot of hard work to make and can be gone overnight, if you're not careful. Besides, when he says that he can't say something because he'll be demonetised, he's saying it in an indirect fashion. We all know what it is he's not saying and how he feels about the subject and he's also stating his feelings on censorship in the way that he's talking about what he's not saying. In other words, he's saying quite a lot. All you have to do is listen and understand the undercurrents.
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  5797.  Brian Laurence  I'd answer with something but your insult is so vague that there really nothing to respond to. Great insult, though. Did you make it up yourself or did you read it in a YouTube comment section?
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  5798.  Brian Laurence  Your entire comment is just a collection or ways to tell someone that they're wrong or that you disagree with them. Nothing of substance. You're said, and in this order, that I'm delusional, I have no idea on the subject matter, I'm extremely incorrect and full of nonsense, I've offered no contribution, am misleading and am false. .....and you really believe that you've added to the conversation? You might just as well as typed in bold and capital letters "WRONG!!!!" and been done with it. If I'm mistaken, show me where I'm wrong and give a cogent explanation on why you believe this. Don't find a half dozen ways of saying "WRONG!!!" and then feel as if that wins a debate. I don't even want a debate. A mature discussion would be way I'd rather go.
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  5799.  Brian Laurence  All I said, in my original comment, is that Trump can't just send people to a foreign country and start an official investigation. It isn't done. If there was corruption surrounding the Biden's why wouldn't there be an investigation. You'd think that you'd want to see corrupt American politicians exposed, no matter who they are. What delusional about that? Trump asked for a favour. That's all he did and that's all that's shown in the transcript of that phone call. If he did refuse the Ukraines aid or money unless they did him the favour, show me, in THAT transcript, where he said it. SHOW ME. Don't call me names or imply that I'm delusional. Show me the exact place and shut me up with facts, because if you can't, you're the one that's making up what's actually stated in that transcript. If it's there, it should be a simple thing to do. If it's not there, you've no other recourse but to call me names because the facts don't support you.
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  5800. @SwedishDrunkard5963 That vision of a communist Utopia is a delusion. It has never happened and is impossible to implement or support. It will always fall under its own hubris. A society based on envy is a society based on resentment, revenge and a never ceasing war on the enemies of the revolution. With all the examples we have of communist violence and destruction, it's beyond appalling that anyone would it even consider it a viable political system, anymore. Leave it to the academic intellectuals to rationalise all the misery and deaths that socialism has caused over the last 100 plus years.
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  5801. Yup!!! The reality. The Democrats haven't figured out why Trump has the support that he does. It's the ordinary American, who works in the factories, on the construction sites, who grow our food and mine the metals that we use everyday, that are supporting him. Do you know why? Because the Democrats look down on them. To the Democrats, they're the deplorables. The racists and the gun toting hillbillies with cow manure on their boots. You look at an election map and it's all the big cities that vote blue and the rural and industrial heartland, the country bumpkins, of America who vote red. They're tired of being looked down upon. The same people voted for Obama because they thought that, being a black man, he understood them.....but they were wrong about that. That's the reality. They could have destroyed Trump, in any election, so badly that he'd never run again, but they didn't even try to win over the "deplorables". They just doubled down and then wondered why, after calling them names and mocking them, the Democrats still wonder why the "rednecks" won't vote for them. A change in strategy might do wonders.
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  5802. Bomb threats....yeah, I'm sure. I'd be willing to bet that, if there actually were bomb threats, they were sent by progressives to show how violent the right actually is. It's all theatre.
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  5803. I'm doubly vaccinated AND have the booster and I'd love to go to Ottawa to support those truckers. There's only one thing that's stopping me. I HAVE COVID!!!!! I did everything that I was required to do. I mask up when going to the store. I have my vaccine passport. I haven't visited or gone out to a public place in over a month, even when my closest friend passed away from cancer 2 weeks ago. Yet, here I am, laying on my couch with Covid. Nothing prevented it. The vaccines didn't help. The mask didn't stop it. Isolating myself for a month didn't do a thing....so what was it for? I guess so I wouldn't be called a Canadian Nazi. Call me anything that you want. Their stupid insults don't bother me, anymore.
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  5804. I've tried to explain to people, who hold up Sweden as the perfect socialist state, that they have a capitalist economic system. They don't believe it. Part of the problem is that they don't realise capitalism involves the production of capital goods and that Sweden says that all those involved in production to be part of the free market system. This strong capitalist system allows for the profits and jobs to tax the people so they can have strong social programs. It's the decision on what constitutes social programs and what is part of the market economy, something that is always in flux. Socialist don't get that. They believe that socialism rules over every facet of a countries operations. That's true if you equate it with Marxism but not when you consider a capitalist economy. As long as business is forced to be a part of due process and follows the rule of law, it is the best system that we've, as humans, have come up with.
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  5805. She had the power to stop the meeting and dress down a white woman and she claims that she has no power. She knows that she has power but she has to pretend that she doesn't or her position, as diversity manager, would be in jeopardy. So she insulates herself with the claim of how black people have no power. She's a self serving liar.
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  5806. The Democrats wanted Gibbs to win so they could slam him as an "Uncle Tom", "Oreo" and "house N-----", believing that black voters will turn on him when they hear those slurs. "The black face of white supremacy". They can't even see how disgusting that this is.
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  5807.  @joseywales148  So, Jews outnumber everyone else to the point that they can win elections. I didn't know that they were such a huge demographic, Heir Fuehrer.
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  5808.  @TM-jo4wz  Some internet troll is calling someone a liar. Surprise. Surprise.
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  5809.  @galian151  Maybe she thought that she wouldn't let the politics surrounding the film ruin it for her. Then, she found out, the hard way, that the politics did ruin the film. Somebody has to watch it to find out for sure. I read "Mein Kampf" to see if Hitler was as crazy as everyone said he was. Spoiler alert...Hitler might be crazier than we think.
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  5810.  @michaellane5381  That was easy, wasn't it? I happen to agree with you.
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  5811. Well......I didn't see THAT coming.
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  5812. Well you just stop that. We'll have no reason here.
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  5813.  @nonameissafer.8457  Is Trump of that list? If he is, prove it. Every news outlet names Clinton and Prince Andrew. Show us, on those lists, where Trump's name is mentioned. Saying that it's there isn't enough. Prove it so we can ALL see it and see the context. Until you do, your claim means nothing.
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  5814.  @Vikturus2k6  Is what OK? I'm not sure what you mean.
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  5815.  @xenzorygames4116  I'm not sure what you're talking about. Let's look at the problem as it exists, not as some existential problem that we've concocted in our minds. Women have competed separately against one another for a VERY long time. No one seriously argued about it and it was generally accepted. Men didn't care and women liked to be able to compete in sports, as well. Now these guys have figured out a way to take advantage of a traditions by making spurious claims. That's the situation. Don't bring all the other issues into it. It's plain and simple. Are the trans athletes playing with honesty and integrity? The answer is as simple as 2+2=4. Of course they are. Everything else is superfluous noise.
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  5816. Buddy wants Trump to stop meddling in France's domestic affairs. Maybe, if Macron and his cronies were listening to the people, instead of pandering to their own ideological bubble, France's domestic affairs wouldn't be in the state it's in. I'm thinking that maybe the government should do a little more meddling in their own affairs and see what it is that the people of that country actually need.
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  5817. That old guy does what every leftie does. He asks a question, with the assumption that the answer will be wrong. He then tells the person that he's not allowed to make things up, using his assumption as his guide. They won't allow opinions to be voiced or new perspectives to be offered, unless they match his own viewpoint. It's why it's so difficult to talk to them.
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  5818.  @Kenbark42  He didn't say that they were taking away anyone's cow. He says that they were flying around to go to meetings where the TALKED about taking your cows. In fact, the Netherlands are doing just that. They are limiting the number of cows farmers are allowed to have and are even forcing farmers off their land. This is at the heart of farmer protests in that country and the Netherlands isn't the only country where this is happening. So, quit being intentionally obtuse and actually discuss the topic. That would be a lot more helpful.
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  5819.  @FazeParticles  What are YOU doing about it? Getting angry in a happy way?
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  5820.  @FazeParticles  You won't have long to wait. They're great at accepting handouts but have no idea where it comes from.
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  5821. When DeSantis brought up the "poop apps" in the debates, Newsom laughed. He thought it funny that people, in HIS state, where living like this. He just doesn't care. As long as they're not pooping in the streets in his gated community, how does it affect him? Why should he care? That he'd laugh at this is indicative of the mindset of the extreme left that are driving the modern Democrats. Their ideology supersedes the needs of the average citizen.
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  5822.  @MilkByCow  The US has a population of 330 million. It would take the countries of Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom to match that population. Do you know how many deaths those 5 countries had, in total? 135k. Did you get that? 135,000 deaths to the United States 102,000 deaths. The same populations and those 5 Europeans have over 30,000 more deaths than the US. So.....NO. I doubt that it would have made any difference had the Democrats been in power. There are factors involved that apply to westernised, mobile societies that weren't manifested in other, poorer countries. But I suppose, there's a degree of satisfaction in laying blame. Don't want to take the joy of being so smug away from anyone but I thought I'd lay out some facts.
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  5823. @GA477 Your short 4 word question demonstrates EXACTLY where you're coming from. It shows a predisposition, a bias and a desire to lay blame on a specific target and you will REFUSE to consider anything that might go against your preconceived claims. Those figures that I quoted.....don't matter. Spanky is to blame. That he restricted travel....no matter. Spanky is to blame. That it was a virus and situation that hasn't happened, in the memory of any living person on the planet....who cares. Spanky is to blame. Unless you can prove that "Spanky" knowingly, and with intent, allowed the virus to come to the US and spread, then no, he's NOT to blame. You may be able to show errors in judgement but I can show you all kinds of errors in judgement that had nothing to do with him that cost lives. Do those errors have consequences? Of course they do. However, when you're faced with an unprecedented crisis, errors will be made. It's inevitable. That's why De Blasio saying that the travel ban was racist and that everyone should go to the Chinese New Year's Parade in New York is an error, even stupid, but doesn't mean that De Blasio is to blame, UNLESS he wanted New York to be the epicenter of the pandemic. I'm sure that you won't get it. You're so driven by hate and bias that you're incapable of making any objective assessments on this or anything. It's the blame that counts. Blame at all costs and to hell with the facts, circumstances or objectivity.
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  5824.  @inigo4937  What? The first thing that Biden did, after the China travel ban, was call Trump and the ban "xenophobic". Yet, Doctors Fauci and Brix said it was the right thing to do. Mayor De Blasio, backed up by Governor Cuomo, said that there was nothing to worry about and people should go to the Chinese New Year's Parade. That's not being political? The reason that the Democrats and the MSM weren't in full anti-virus mode, on Feb. 1st, was because their focus was exclusively on impeachment. 24/7 coverage on impeachment at the time. They were being political. In fact, the press should have been all over the virus, at the time, but they were too focused on the political games that they loved so much. A strong opposition should be pointing out potential threats and offering solutions. All they could think about was finding a way to rationalise why they lost in 2016 and that's exactly why they'll lose again in 2020. Stupid political games and a smugness that will not allow them to consider the fact that they could have made a mistake.
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  5825.  @inigo4937  All I will say is that the coronavirus pandemic, in the way it has manifested itself around the world, is a brand new phenomenon. It's unprecedented in its scope and response. When dealing with the unknown, you're going to see mistakes. Party politics didn't have to be an issue in the US. Unfortunately, it was the Democrats who started to lay the blame on Trump. "He called it a hoax". "He's xenophobic". That was a Democrat call. Then, when a stimulus package was presented, it was the Democrats that wanted to add items that had NOTHING to do with the virus. Equity in corporate boards? That's going to solve the Covid economic problems? Increased emission standards for airlines? Money for PBS? That's politics and nothing else. Had the Democrats shown more concern for beating the Covid crisis instead of using it as a platform for societal change, maybe they'd have greater support from the people. Instead of yelling "Trump's fault", they stood beside him, offering support and suggestions, they'd have shown themselves to be the advocate of the people, instead of trying to argue every word, phrase and utterance out of the president's mouth. I've been saying this since 2016. The Democrats are the architects of their own political problems. I don't like it but it's the facts. Anyone, not willing to sit down and ask where they could have gone wrong, will NEVER solve their problems. Admitting that there is a problem is the first step to solving it. The simplest of axioms that the Democrats refuse to face.
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  5826. @GA477 Still at it I see. I guess facts aren't a thing that you have a respect for. Just attack and call people names. You do realise that's how a kindergartner would behave, don't you? You, Jim Acosta and Trump would have a great time yelling insults at each other.
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  5827.  Woochinatchika Kokillibolinov  MSNBC and CNN lie to you and you don't like it. Tim Pool tries to tell you the truth and you don't like it. It's hard to figure out WHAT you would like. If it wasn't for guys like Tim, I may not know about what the left is doing but hey....maybe he should be quiet. Then I could float off, obliviously, into a leftist Paradise. I could even change my name to Winston Smith.
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  5828.  @RoninTheCrusader  He spends 16 hour days trying to bring you the news so you can see the truth. Now, you want him to fix it, too? Maybe YOU should stop being so negative, take the information that he's worked so hard to get you, and inform the people on what's REALLY happening and find ways to try and alleviate the problem. It's NOT Tim's fault that the left is doing all this demoralising crap. It's the fault of the left. You don't have to watch. You can just float off, oblivious to the leftist destruction in a happy, uninformed fog. That's your doing. He's not forcing you to watch unless you secretly enjoy the negativity.
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  5829.  @Not_A_Cat  Russia is going to get prosperity alright. They're facing all kinds of trade embargoes and all their money is being expended on their war effort. If they wanted prosperity all they had to do was go to work. They have oil that Europe wants and they could have finished the pipeline and sold them all the oil that Europe could buy. Russia is a country rich with natural resources and they're squandering it on war toys and feeding their rich oligarchs. I watched one of my siblings do the same thing, spending money on the stupidest stuff and then complaining that she couldn't pay off her credit cards. She fixed it by blaming everyone else for her dumb decisions.
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  5830.  @ML44lakes  I'm not even sure what you mean. I know that the economy was suppressed due to Covid and when the restrictions were lifted, people went back to work. That doesn't ADD to the employment rates no more than coming back from vacation affects employment figures. Also, since the supply flow of foreign trade has been severely slowed, people are trying to make due by doing the work here. However, it's not been helping investment much. I don't have a lot but my meagre investment portfolio has been shrinking since Biden took office. Wait till the full impact of inflation takes hold. I've lived through it once before. It'll not be pleasant and the longer it takes to control it, the worse it will be for all of us.
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  5831. So a black woman can be a Karen? Wow....who knew? I think that Whoopi (Karen?) is wrong in what she said but she shouldn't have been suspended. People are allowed their opinions, even if the opinions are off the wall.
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  5832.  @PEZ1514  That's why it's the Democrat big cities that are suffering the most. When conservative Rudy Giuliani was mayor NY, he cleaned up the city and made it safe to walk the streets. Then Democrat De Blasio took over and it's back to the way it was pre-Giuliani. Every major city is the same. Even Jackson, Mississippi, a Democrat city with the worst murder rate per thousand in the US, got all upset when the Republican governor wanted to do something about it. They cried racism because Jackson is predominately black and that meant that black criminals would be prosecuted. They don't care about the victims of crime. They care about the criminals that are victimising others and if black people die....so what. I'm not going to tell you that Republicans are perfect but if you can't correlate the horrors of the crime rates in big cities with how EVERY ONE of them are Democrat run, then I can't even tell you that 2 plus 2 equals 4. More to the point, San Francisco, the city in question here, has had Democratic mayors since 1964.....almost 60 years ago and things are progressively getting worse, WHY IN HELL would you vote for Democrats again? That's mind bogglingly stupid.
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  5833.  @sthubbins4038  I doubt that he's saying that. He's saying that if you call someone a hypocrite, painting an entire demographic with a single brush, be sure that your own record is clean. "First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye." I believe that's what he's saying. AOC is behaving exactly as those she's accusing, yet she can't see that.
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  5834. @Steven S Why? Because Trump made the virus in his basement or something? There are 7 countries that have more cases than the US and dozens that have more cases per capita than the US. for example....Switzerland has a per capita rate of the virus of 1 in 13,000 people compared to 1 in 310,000 in the US. That's a 24 times higher rate than the US. EVERY country in Europe has a worse, FAR worse, per capita, record than the US. By that metric, Trump is doing a fantastic job. You're just making knee jerk responses, without thought, reason or logic.
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  5835. The German people are reacting to their history, not realising that the Nazi phenomenon wasn't a German thing, a right or left wing occurrence, religiously driven or any other motivation, although any one of those demographics could be guilty of it. This is something that's ALL humans are capable of......including those Islamic migrants. Hate is a human universal and don't think that you're not susceptible just because you're left wing or religiously pious. When you become guilty of the same atrocities of Nazi Germany, you'll do it because you believe, deep down, that you're doing the right thing.
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  5836.  @damarmar1001  Of course Trump "wanted" to open this weekend. Who didn't want that 3 weeks ago? He also said he would have to defer to the medical experts before he could do that and before we even reached this weekend, he decided to prolong the crisis policies to the end of April, upon advice from, guess who(?).....the medical experts. At the end of April, this decision will be revisited to see what should be done next. In fact, Trump has said, repeatedly, that saving lives comes first, THEN the economy. Maybe YOU should listen to EVERYTHING he says instead of only what you WANT to hear. Maybe then YOU'D have a "clue" to what is going on. Also, if a person can't make his mortgage payment, there are provisions that the payment will be deferred to the end of the mortgage contract. I'm wondering who is truly the idiot here. No one has to say that you have to like Trump or vote for him but at least get your facts straight before commenting.
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  5837.  @ZachBrimhall  All of it? Some of it? The more important points? Exactly what sticks out in your mind and why does that bother you and why do you think it's wrong? Honestly, you've really haven't said a lot except "I don't like it". My 7 year old grand daughter could do that.
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  5838.  @petermohlman  Another one who has nothing to say but to call people names. Why won't people, like you, tell us exactly what the lie is? All you can do is spew invectives that say absolutely nothing. Tell us what the lie is. Not liking someone because of a vibe doesn't mean that they're lying. EVIDENCE....ever heard of it. Back up your statement instead of relying on childish emotions. Then I'll take you seriously.
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  5839.  @pefo1674  Maybe that happened but WHAT does that have to do with our CURRENT president. He's the one running our country and you're still worried about a guy who's no longer president. Ignore the thief that's taking your TV today because another thief, one I don't like, took my TV last week. Great logic.
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  5840.  @MichaelLee-dt1iw  If it is more MAGA Yabba-Dabba-Doo, let's find out for sure. Let's look at the alleged evidence, discredit it because we ALL know what it says, EVERY American, and we can see that it's nonsense.
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  5841.  @anneanne9009  "Everybody has rights and choices." That's correct and what is happening is that the rights and choices are being taken away from all to protect the few. You used the measles as an example. Do we reject the rights of EVERYONE to save them ALL from the measles, take away their right to assemble, travel, work, worship (I'm atheist so I don't have a dog in this fight) or associate OR do we temporarily suspend the ability of a sick individual to interact with others. Which is the more egregious suspension of human rights? The Federal Government, under the aegis of the Trump task force, has issued a set of guidelines to follow. It is up to the States to follow the guidelines and Trump has made that quite clear and he has cited the Constitution as to why that must be his policy. In other words, he is following the Law of the United States and not ONE governor of any state has called him on it.
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  5842.  @Havanorange  The schools get their funding from the state. That would imply that they would be concerned about what their money is funding. Besides, if what that school board is doing is a form of abuse, it becomes a matter of law and that's a state matter. If I start talking to my neighbour's kid about sexual matters and even show him/her explicit pictures, the law gets involved and it will be covered under state law. It's a nice try but it doesn't float. Your logic is sinking like a cement block.
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  5843.  @Havanorange  The law is legislated through the state. You're still not making any sense. If the state sets the law, and the police uphold the law that the state legislates, you're turning to the state for help. All DeSantis did was legislate, into law, a bill that says that teachers can't talk about sexual issues to children under the age of 9. He's doing exactly what you seem to want. Set laws and if they're violate the laws, you want to call the police. It's almost as if we agree.
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  5844. @UCa76Kc41Dyd-dQNNlsinNzQ Don't have a rebuttal for what I've said so you start up with the gas lighting. If you disagree with what I said, tell me what you disagree with. Don't talk about me. Talk about the issues.
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  5845.  @Havanorange  I know the roles of the Legislative, Executive AND the Judicial. What does that have to do with anything. A person running for governor or president, proposes their platform, which includes new laws and policies. You're ducking the point. A law is passed by the legislature and is carried out by the Executive. The Judiciary examine those laws to determine if they're Constitutionally compliant. That means that the governor is involved in how that law is implemented. I'm not sure what your problem is. DeSantis is just doing his job. State legislators passed the bill, DeSantis supports it and the Judiciary implements it via the police. It's a state process. You're still not making any sense.
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  5846.  @djebelmqabeldjebel7406  Statistics say that Florida is BELOW the national average, per capita, in deaths and cases. I repeat....BELOW the national average. I can prove it, too. In other words, he's got it under control better than half of the states in the US does and he has to deal with the largest senior population in the US.
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  5847. Dr. Carol Swain is NOT the poster child for the progressive left. They hate the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" narrative that Dr. Swain represents. It goes against the victim narrative, that they love, which says that racism will always keep you down. The very existence of Dr. Swain destroys the portrayal that they want so much to be true.
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  5848.  @graydi66y  I was charged with car theft when I was 18. I had spent the night at home and was innocent but my only witness was my mother. I went to court and the judge ruled that there wasn't enough evidence to convict me. Therefore, I do NOT have a criminal record. It's that simple. If Trump wasn't convicted, he's not a convicted felon.
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  5849.  @valoredramack9117  What good does it do to teach people not to be a Na-zi? They know. They know and don't care.
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  5850.  @daieast6305  It's always best to believe the worst in people, isn't it. That's because people are the worst. Progressives have to be the most hateful, sneering people on the planet. Nothing is ever good enough. It's easier to hate than it is to go and find out for yourself, isn't it. F..K em all, right? No one quite measures up to you, anyway.
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  5851.  @reaverbode9845  He's outspoken and maybe he's correct about things but I can't forget how absolutely his appalling treatment of the Sandy Hook victims. That was inexcusable. I don't think that he should be deplatformed but I won't watch or endorse him for that. I lost a child shortly before that horrific event and if A. Jones had been standing in front of me and talking like that, the man would still be regretting it. That was disgusting and infuriating.
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  5852.  @reaverbode9845  The families of the children killed at Sandy Hook sued him for defamation. Just type in "Alex Jones on Sandy Hook" in the YouTube search engine and you'll see the aftermath of what he said and how he showed little remorse. Jones had to pay the father of a little boy that was killed that day 100,000 dollars. He's lucky. I knew a lot of people that would have strangled him for it. Jones was at the forefront of the conspiracy theories that got so bad that this father had to go into hiding due to threats to his life. What Jones did to this man and said about him is unforgivable. I've always been conservative and always will be but I know what I heard him say and I won't deny it, just because he's supposed to be conservative as well. He's a piece of field fertilizer.
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  5853. All they had to do was show what Trump said about Biden and Harris and then ask why Trump is always such a rude individual. They could ask how such a bombastic guy could hope to deal with our foreign adversaries if this is how he behaves. They might have been able to persuade some middle of the road voters to swing their way. Instead, they produce this list of claims of wrong doings which they believe that Trump has said and done. This ruined their entire ad. Most of the points, in that list, are demonstrably false.....like the claim that he told people to inject bleach. That one is so easy to refute. Their false claims is going to sink their election hopes because people are starting to disbelieve those stories from the Democrats and their MSM propaganda machine.
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  5854. Are we seeing the reemergence of Apartheid? I thought that we've come to the conclusion that Apartheid is wrong. I suppose an apology to the old South African government is in order. Same as the KKK and the Dixiecrats. They should be getting an apology, as well, for their support of Jim Crow. It seems that they were right all along. Who could have predicted that.
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  5855. I booed Rush Limbaugh when he hoped for a recession and total failure for Obama as president and now I'm booing Maher for hoping the same thing, except for his Trump angle. They're both showed their narcissism and elitist attitudes and their total lack of empathy for the less financially fortunate. Disgusting people.
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  5856.  @MsM1975  He spent most of his time forcing Californians to follow his Covid mandates than he did on the homeless. Strangely, he didn't force the homeless to follow the mandates. Those drug addicts and mentally handicapped people walked around as if there was no Covid. I'd call that a "super spreader" situation. I'm still not sure who was the worst governor during those years......Newsom or Cuomo. Strange how Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, took office on Jan 8th, 2019, a week after Newsom took office in California. They don't have the homeless encampments, they have the highest tax surplus in Florida's history, their economy is booming......yet he had to deal with Covid just like Newsom did. Newsom had time. He just doesn't have any idea on how to get things done. That's the problem with Newsom. Now, he wants to do the same with the entire country as he did in California. He would be a disaster as president....maybe even worse than Biden.
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  5857.  @gerbo8018  So, it's been an entire year since that government formed and they've had 6 months to get an emergency plan in shape. However, I get it. Nothing slower than a government. Living in Canada, we get nothing but American news and it's all about how Trump did everything wrong. I guess it's not as easy as it looks or as people would like it to be. What I do know is that doctors are getting better and better at treating the disease and the survival rates are getting higher all the time. I'd say that any government would be best advised to protect the elderly and those who have pre-existing conditions that could threaten their survival. Make that their top priority and then encourage the rest of us to use common sense in our lives. This type of control only breeds resentment, especially if the economy causes people to lose everything they own. We have to learn to use balance instead of living a life of reactive panic to every situation.
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  5858.  @ByXavi.  “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire. That's why we worry about this. Years later, Orwell picked the most universally understood fact, 2 plus 2 equals 4, to illustrate how by perverting this fact into 2 plus 2 equals 5, is a sign of what a totalitarian regime aspires to. They want you to believe the absurd, without question, in order to control you. It's that perversion of truth, as an example, that men can become pregnant, that is an indication that we have a force that wants to control what you believe even though all known facts and science says that it's not possible. Objective truth cannot be tolerated in an authoritarian regime. The Soviet Union underwent this same perversion of facts with Lysenkoism, and untold millions starved. If you stand by and watch our rulers pervert truth, you're contributing to the establishment of a dictatorship. THAT is why we worry about this. Truth is the highest and noblest of all human endeavours. That search must be protected at all costs.
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  5859.  @strategery101  They won't be able to keep it up if they go bankrupt. You can only bleed money for so long and you'll be forced to face reality. In 1996, Kodak was the fifth biggest name brand in the world. 16 years later they filed for bankruptcy protection and sold off HUGE chunks of their business in order to stay viable. Now, they're not making digital cameras and are talking about getting into pharmaceuticals. If Disney goes into a loss spiral, it may well be forced to do the same thing that Kodak has done. The only way that it could survive is if the Democrats declares Disney as "too big to fail".
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  5860.  @bluebirdgramma6317  I was being facetious. Dig deep, pull out a quarter and buy yourself a sense of humour.
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  5861.  @kathryncronkrite8027  When I was in college, I studied systems analysis and design. My favourite teacher used to say one thing. She said to always design your system to be idiot proof....to make it so that mistakes are as close to impossible as you can possibly can. That's how you design a great system. She was an extremely competent teacher and system designer. If it's not designed that way, it's a bad system and it's not her fault. It's the fault of whoever designed the system. If it is designed that way, she should have taken the simple steps to ensure that a mistake wasn't made. Check his ID with the information on his voting registration. Name, birth date and current address. If she didn't do that, it's a bad mistake and it will result in people not trusting the system. This isn't "catastrophic rhetoric". It's common sense.
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  5862.  @barryharlan9850  The very first response to the original comment dealt with poll workers. I was responding to that and the conversation grew from there. However, in the case of the arrest warrant that the original comment was all about, it also demonstrated a complete lack of competence and how some people don't even care to do their job. It's typical of civil servants. A simple ID check would have saved everyone a lot of trouble but some people just don't seem to care.
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  5863.  @alanlampe7031  I'm in Canada, where distances are daunting. Yet, our ruling party has decided to charge us a carbon tax that keeps increasing and is eliminating the ability to travel for the poorest of Canadians. Then we have big city elites telling us rural types, who grow the food, work the mines and cut the timber for the big cities, that we don't need to get to where we're going. If it gets too expensive for us to operate, it will affect the urban centres, negatively until THEY have nothing as well. You want us to live in poverty and do it willingly. Yes...when I went to school, we travelled by bus. I got on the bus at 7:40, in the morning, and arrived at school at 8:55. That's OUR reality. We had a small dairy and grew cash crops....food that people in the cities need and get from people like us. Now, you're telling us that we don't need to travel to get our work done. You're going to be for the shock of your life when your standard of living goes back to what it was 150 years ago because you refuse to allow us cheap energy. Cheap energy is the key to economic stability and growth and you want to kill it. You have no idea what it is you're advocating for or what the consequences will be.
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  5864.  @alanlampe7031  The mindset is the same. It's a bunch of elites telling us what's best for us because they know and we don't. Also, the EU doesn't have NEARLY the electric production facilities in place to further accommodate the energy needed for the change over to electric vehicles. A country, like Germany, is buying gas from Russia which helping to fund Russia's war with Ukraine. We may have different cities but agriculture still needs cheap and reliable energy so they can produce food that the citizens can afford. Those elites don't think that's important. The protests in the Netherlands is just one example of how little these urban elites think of the farming and rural communities and the Netherlands isn't the only country in the EU to have had farmer protests. To be able to get the energy needed for an electric transportation system, they will need better electric generation capacity which is almost impossible unless they expand nuclear energy or finally develop stable fusion energy. People don't want nuclear and fusion isn't viable yet and may never be. Wind and solar just isn't going to do it.
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  5865.  @garylivingston9052  My investments toij a big plunge the day that Biden was elected. It took till last fall to get back to where I was when he won. When the lockdowns started, my investments dropped heavily as well, even more than when Biden was elected...and no wonder. The entire world economy was shut down. However, 4 months later my investments had recovered and I was getting ahead once again. A 4 month recovery compared to a 3 year recovery. It's as if you've no money invested. You'd know about what I've just said by learning it the hard way.
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  5866.  @garylivingston9052  My point is that the recovery from a world wide shutdown of the economy, rebounded 10X faster, while the shut down was on, than it did from the news of the election of Biden. Essential jobs and companies were still operating well, under the lockdowns and good investors knew how to manage it. However, when Biden was elected, those lockdowns were still in place but what really hurt the economy was the policies that Biden put into place, using executive orders, that impacted energy and the industries that relied on those energy jobs. That took away a lot of investment opportunities and it took over 3 years for investors to maneuver their way through it so we could make money. I agree that things are a lot better than they were when Biden came to office but it's only because, after a downturn, things will get better. However, with record debt and the inflation that goes with it, things aren't as good as it seems. Until we start to control the debt, we're going to be in for a hard time. When a government prints money to cover spending, it's like they're chasing their tail. It accomplishes nothing but more and more debt. It has to catch up to us someday.
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  5867.  @danprice5346  What are the Proud Boys doing? I hardly ever hear about them in the news. Are they throwing rocks a police? Setting fires? Disrupting traffic? Looting stores? I've not heard any of this. I've not seen them chanting in colleges, taking over school buildings to support their favourite Middle Eastern cause. Maybe you should give links or references to the horrible things that they're doing lately. I'd really be interested.
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  5868.  @myinnermagpie  There's really nothing to investigate except what a mean spirited woman she is. How can one person be so filled with hate? However, it's not illegal to have a horrible attitude and personality.
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  5869. There are times to criticise the head of state of another nation. This wasn't a good time for Khan to criticise Trump, however. It was a state visit and political decorum should have been exercised at this time. You can show respect and disagree with someone at the same time. Khan would do well do understand that.
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  5870.  Mecca Black  "So everyone involved in Jan 6th should be in jail" So who said that? Every conservative, that I know, thinks that if you forced your way into the Capital Building on Jan 6th, should face the weight of the law. EVERYONE of them. What we object to is how this ONE event is supposed to be an insurrection, the overthrow of the government. That it's being used to investigate ordinary citizens who weren't even in Washington that day. If fact, the comment implied that pushing a police officer is illegal, that it was an assault on a police officer. A CRIME. And somehow you turn it upside down and accuse him of rationalising the Jan 6th riots. Either your reading comprehension are at a primary school level or you're so obsessed with this event that the rhetoric just spews out of you uncontrollably. Come back to earth...please.
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  5871.  @JoshxxLegg  He thinks that Elon is ruining Twitter by allowing free speech. I think Alex Jones is a lousy human being but to censor him or not give him a platform is against everything that America stands for. Elon knows this. Freedom of speech is one of the most sacred of human rights in the US and Twitter, along with the bureaucratic powers in Washington, were suppressing our freedom to express ourselves. Any intellectual should know this unless you're a left wing radical, where speech and language is controlled by the state.....Big Brother if you will. Twitter or X, as it's called now, is better for not allowing voices to be suppressed.
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  5872. The Diamond Princess cruise ship had 6 more deaths than Taiwan. LOL.
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  5873. I've been waiting for years for the left to finally cancel Dr. King and they don't know how to do it. The "content of your character" axiom goes against everything that they believe. The problem is Dr. King is an icon of the Civil Rights movement so it won't be easy to do. Then again, California Democrats tried to remove their state Civil Rights Act in the last federal election. So, we're seeing the attempt to end the fruits of his work along with all those who supported him in that era. When they succeed in dehumanising Dr. King so it becomes the cultural consensus, they'll have succeeded in their revolution.
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  5874. It isn't that certain members of Congress have lost faith in the Supreme Court. They HATE the Constitution and thereby hate the body, the Supreme Court, whose job it is to uphold that Constitution and ensure that our laws do not violate that Constitution. Every decision made by the Supreme Court, that the Democrats hate, is on point with that document but that doesn't matter to them. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of Democrats, behind closed doors, would do away with the Supreme Court if they could. To them, the law is about controlling the people, not about protecting the average American citizen.
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  5875. "This was a rumour". OH.....you mean that it was gossip. A low tier lie. I get it now. Strange how the media isn't even embarrassed about they make stuff up.
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  5876. A 4-5000% increase in cases of children claiming to be transgender. Did you get that??? FOUR TO FIVE THOUSAND PERCENT INCREASE!!! For children. That doesn't concern you???? There is a social contagion that's driving this and it's spurred on by woke ideologues. THEY are the ones that disrupting everything for those who are suffering from true dysphoria. It's NOT the conservatives. The woke left are using a real issue and then influencing the young, through dogma and social pressure, to suit their own agenda. Your rage should be at those who are at the root of this contagion....the ideological left. If it wasn't for them, this would be a rare phenomenon and those with TRUE dysphoria would fly under the radar and get the help that they need, whatever that might be. Instead, it's become a part of a left wing ideology and they could care less who they hurt. If we stop them from contaminating this problem, we can get back to REAL science instead of this unprecedented surge that is socially driven by the progressive left.
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  5877.  @tylerbetthauser7647  They're hoping that the jury is scared enough, of the enraged mob, to convict him in spite of the evidence that screams "not guilty". That's their ace in the hold. Jury intimidation....and it might just work.
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  5878. Can anyone be as dumb as Juan appears to be. People sick with a serious disease in China and that dumb bell thinks that it would be a good idea to travel there or invite people from China to your house. The stupidity is beyond astounding.
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  5879.  @Jarod-sm5rf  If you can prove that, do so. We need to see it.
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  5880.  @letsplayslots8855  Trump doesn't want to censor Twitter. He wants Twitter to stop censoring. Since when is wanting the violence to end a hate message? You're like the people described by George Orwell, who say things like "War is peace" "Freedom is slavery" and "Ignorance is strength"
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  5881. You don't? The southern border. Inflation, in spite of what Biden claims. Homelessness. Democrats soft on crime. The Afghanistan withdrawal. Money to Iran. Money going to 2 new wars. Money going to illegal immigrants. Refusal to deport illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes including murder. Allowing men into women's sports and locker rooms. Democrat support of transitioning children through drugs and surgeries. Record national debt. Higher taxes. Is that enough?
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  5882. This pronoun stuff is so linguistically bizarre. Using "them", when referring to the singular, seems to fall in line with their collectivist Marxist philosophy. There is no individual "he" or "she". We're all part of the "them", the cog in the giant wheel of the state.
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  5883.  @davemiller9570  That's a nothing question. Why not tell us what the problem is and explain why that problem can be blamed on Trump? Do that instead of some blanket statement that says nothing.
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  5884. @ I've lost money as well, but a third of it has already recovered. Trump has called a 90 day hold on most tariffs, a week ago and it's showing on the markets. I started working in the late sixties at a large shoe company. In 1980, the government announced that there would be no more tariffs on shoe products. Our company gave us a day off, without pay, and provided buses to go to the capitol and protest the removal of those tariffs. Thousands of shoe workers showed up but to no avail. The tariffs were removed and it destroyed the shoe industry in the US and Canada. The factory that I worked at employed almost 1200 employees at the time and now it's been renovated into a senior retirement home. All kinds of tariffs were removed and manufacturing was devastated. My town of around 20,000 people was once a bustling town where people had money and everyone had jobs. Now there's empty factories and lots and the young can only get jobs stocking shelves and at fast food places. I think it ironic that 45 years ago, we were upset at the removal of tariffs and now we're upset that they're coming back.
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  5885. Reversing the executive orders, concerning oil production, that Biden signed into law, will address it. If Trump wins in 2024, he'll do just that and gas prices will go down. It's that simple.
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  5886. How to create a tempest in a teapot. Instead of just tearing it off the door and throwing it into the recycling bin, put it on TV, tell everyone that it's racist and then wait for the backlash. The news creating the news.....that's all it was. This is the ridiculous nonsense that is driving people from the left towards the Trump camp. It's a trivial matter, blown up into a national crisis and it flies against all journalistic integrity.
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  5887. I don't get why you'd trust anyone, implicitly, at any time in society. History shows that humans have been brutal to one another, both at a group and personal level. I can show you a list of 500 WOMEN teachers who've been convicted of sexual abuse of students......NOT men, women. Do you STILL trust people just because they exist or hold a professional title? If you do, that's as naive as it gets and always has been.
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  5888. I've always wanted to be a Nazi she-wolf. Why won't anyone respect my chosen identity?
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  5889. I don't like Trump all that much, either. That's a personality thing. Would I vote for him. Not a problem. My personal opinion of him has nothing to do with how well he's doing his job. I worked with a guy who had the personality of scorpion. I didn't like being around him but he was the best at his job that I ever worked with. When everything was tallied up, the good and the bad, I would still pick him to work with. I wished he wasn't such a low life, at times, but overall, I endorsed him as a co-worker. That's where I am about Trump. He has bad points, like everyone else, but the good things he's done, as president, FAR outweigh those bad points.
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  5890.  @wzg8804  LOL. That's exactly it. The weight of issues. Is calling Rosie a pig a nice thing to do? Of course not. However, tearing the country apart, through encouraging racial strife, out paces that rude behaviour by light years. It tips the scales, negatively wise, right through the floor, on the Democrat side. I can criticise Trump for being rude and still laud him for fighting the Democrat's and their horrible things that they're doing to the US. It's the weight of the criticism that counts, not even the number of the criticism.
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  5891.  @robertnobles8189  You sound like a typical, law and order right winger. This is a sneaky end run around free speech rights. They took away his rights to his religious beliefs and then suspended him from a public school, Catholic schools are publicly funded in Ontario, for those beliefs. So he brought attention to this violation of civil rights by going back to the school. Now it's international news. It's perfect. Canadians have to know what our government establishments are doing to our rights. I know people, like you, don't care about Civil Rights.....unless they take those rights from you. Then it'll be a different story.
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  5892.  @robertnobles8189  Apparently, you don't care that they kicked him out of school for voicing his own opinions. A Catholic school and he actually cited scripture and they suspended him. It would be like you, voicing YOUR opinion, something that means something to you and they tell you that you're FIRED. But that means nothing to you because you don't believe what he does and anyone that disagrees with you is DIRT and deserves what he gets.
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  5893.  @robertnobles8189  Where did you get this information? You can't just say these things about him without evidence. I could do the same thing with you but I wouldn't do that. Unless you have evidence to back it up, it's no better than gossip and don't use gossip to smeart the kid. If you have information that will invalidate what this is all about, share it but don't just say stuff and then sit back smugly thinking that you've done something. It's nothing until you've proved it.
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  5894. I don't like Trump.....at all, but I dislike the Democrats even more. So, where did that leave me, come election time? It's Trump or no one.
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  5895.  Ronald McDonald  Clown
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  5896.  Ronald McDonald  It came naturally in a couple of ways.
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  5897.  @thelastrebelshow1627  I think he gave himself that name because it suited him. Bozo would have fit, too.
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  5898.  Ronald McDonald  Whoa....you're good. What's next? "I know you are but what am I" That's a good one, too.
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  5899.  Ronald McDonald  Calling someone a traitor....now THAT'S original. You should be a writer. LOL.
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  5900.  Ronald McDonald  Calling someone a traitor isn't all that original. People have been accusing each other of it for centuries. It's mundane and it says nothing. It's one word, out of context and arbitrary. If you have something of value to say, be precise and explain why you think that way. Don't just burp out one word retorts. That's what kids do.....and clowns.
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  5901.  Ronald McDonald  You're not saying a damned thing. This cryptic language doesn't mean you're smart or informed. If you want to appear that way, speak in plain terms. This babble talk is just dumb. Be precise. Say what you mean and mean what you say. I'm not about to try to decipher your riddles. If you have something to say.....say it.
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  5902.  @HeyHEY-fg9rp  I'm asking for data on his claim that the jab has killed more than Covid has. I get the comorbidity stuff but that's an unrelated claim or, to put it more clearly, fact.
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  5903.  @Djejjcjqjjwjfkckcje  I'm looking for real evidence that would get me ammunition to fight the mandates. I don't want to just sit here and say "NO MORE MANDATES" with a stubborn look on my face. I want to "follow the science".....to use their mantra as my guide to demonstrate why I would take that stance because I'm NOT against vaccines. I'm vaccinated. I want there to be reasonable grounds to not FORCE mandates. The more evidence that I have, the more I can say that I AM following the science. I don't want to see my daughter being treated like a second class citizen. Worse, she's the mother of my 3 grandchildren. Will they face special treatment (discrimination) because their mother isn't fully vaccinated? Once again, screaming "NO MANDATES" isn't going to prevent that. I must have reasonable arguments, based on evidence and science, or I'll be just another screaming head.
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  5904. That "youtuber" is a spoiled, rotten disrespectful brat, not even close to being an adult. Had I acted like that, my dad would have kicked my butt for 10 minutes and if I kept acting like that, he'd tell me to get the hell out of the house and my mother would have agreed with him. My parents would have been ashamed of me and they'd have every right to be.
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  5905.  @mirjanazivkovic3687  I've been obsessed, at times, with what I don't know. It can be quite a painful obsession but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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  5906.  @thomaschow-s4g  Is this gossip, wishful thinking or is it true. If true, give references and prove it. It's that simple. Only a gossip would decline to give evidence.
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  5907. I don't like being bare in the woods. Too many mosquitoes. I don't want "There's skeeter on my......" to become true.
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  5908. In a lot of places you need ID to get welfare. You need ID to get cigarettes and booze. How absolutely arrogant to think that these minorities don't have the smarts or ability to get an ID. Only a person that's so far removed from reality, like a Hollywood elite, would ever consider this a possibility. There's a word that describes this type of thinking. It's starts with an "R". I'll bet everyone of you, reading this comment, already thought the same thing long before you read this comment.
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  5909. I find that a lot of people that I talk to don't realise that they're supporting communist talking points. They claim to be socialists and say that they deplore communism and can't realise that CRT and other new ideologies are based in Marxism. They really believe that they can have socialism, the forerunner to communism, and freedom, as well. They can't understand that Venezuela is the perfect example of a socialist democracy that evolved into totalitarian Marxism and this is the inevitable end to socialism if we don't keep the socialists in check.
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  5910.  @Conserpov  I'd say it's because radical socialists have infiltrated our institutions and especially our education system. They took advantage of our freedoms to distort what our country and Constitution stands for. He's complaining about Communists.
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  5911.  @nicolestjohn6994  "IMO" Yeah.....that's YOUR opinion. If all you have is "arrogant" and "ugly", you have a very childish opinion. Name calling is what 7 year old children do in the schoolyard. I hope that you're not a 7 year old although I have to wonder. You don't even know how to turn off the caps lock.
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  5912.  @CBDguitar  What did he get busted for? I never heard about this.
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  5913. "I don't know" "I haven't read that" "Not my job" "Not within my purview" "I am not aware" For a high ranking FBI official, she doesn't seem to know very much or have any interest in what the FBI does or what it stands for. You'd think that with all the accusations against the people that she works with, she'd have a greater interest in what they're do and by association, what she herself is supporting. Apparently not. She's happy to collect her 6 figure income and follow the FBI agenda whether it's legal or not. She's a swamp creature.
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  5914. I think of Phoenix. Been there. Seemed quite livable to me.
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  5915.  @hoopsmccann4834  Trump was building a wall. Biden put a stop to construction the minute he got into office.
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  5916.  @mehrshadvr4  It wouldn't be a problem if it was only Haitians but it's not. They come from almost every country in the world and by the millions. 15 to 20 million in 4 years. Migrations like that have destroyed the countries that they've moved to throughout history. It destroyed the Roman Empire. It'll destroy us. Britain is almost at the brink of Civil War and it will only get worse. We cannot accommodate the entire world and this has NOTHING to do with bigotry. It has to do with logic and an understanding of economics. It will do nothing for the lives of those Haitians and other true refugees if the migrant policies of this Democrat administration if we're plunged into a total collapse and the chaos and violence that comes with it. Unless you want the collapse of our country and there are Americans who want this. If that happens to the countries of the west, it'll mean disaster for everyone.
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  5917.  @markrodriguez2132  Limited health coverage. I've never heard of anything so awful. That should disqualify her from holding a job....any job. That's sarcasm, in case you don't get it.
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  5918. @A J One of those murderous lunatics, I see. "Off with their heads" The cry of the revolutionary. Angry, bitter, destructive and violent. Just the kind that is qualified to build the "new" society. The kind of guy that I avoid, like the plague, when I'm at the local tavern for a beer and a burger.
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  5919.  @TingTingalingy  One of the fallacies of the pro choice movement. They will allow an abortion if the mother's life is at stake. If that's your only objection to pro life, it's a bad one. The percentage of those who would allow a mother to die over an abortion is incredibly small. So small that it isn't even an issue. What most pro life advocates hate is abortion as a form of birth control...especially the idea of abortions at full term. That's the big issue with pro life. "Safe, legal and rare" and not something to celebrate. Those babies aren't parasites. They're human and their DNA backs that up.
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  5920.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  I've never stated my stance on abortion so you shouldn't be assigning my position for me without having any indication on where I stand. I didn't realise that I was supposed to give my position. I just thought that you're playing word games in an attempt to baffle brains with BS. Pro life advocates place a high value on life, even in the womb. They stand for life, except in extreme circumstances, killing only when necessary, like in a war, for self protection or in the womb when extreme circumstances threatens the life of the mother. It doesn't mean that they're "pro killing" in those extreme circumstances. It, especially, means that they strongly disapprove of abortion as a means of contraception or so the mother can rid themselves of an inconvenient child. Pro life doesn't see a child as inconvenient or unwanted....EVER. Only pro abortion advocates see a child in that manner Now, you can assume that I'm anti abortion. I refuse to kill anyone out of convenience, to maintain a lifestyle, for financial gain or a hatred of others, including a child who's still residing in the womb because I don't like children. If one is responsible for their actions, they will accept what comes their way and make the best of it. If you don't like to take responsibility for your actions, you do whatever's necessary to rid yourself of the results of irresponsible actions and then tell yourself that you did nothing wrong. One loves their neighbour or their child. The other feels that this neighbour, this life growing in their womb, will never feel any love from their mother...that they're incapable of sacrificing to express love of their own child. It's an admission that unconditional love is NOT a part of their lives and they will not allow that child to live if it gets in their way. If they hate their own progeny that much, who else could they rationalise their hate against.
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  5921. The Democrats have had the Black support for over 60 years. For 60 years, they've lived in the inner city, on welfare, sending their kids to the worst schools in the world and they STILL vote Democrat. Every time a white cop shoots a black man, it's in a Democrat city with a Democrat city council. Yet....it's ALL the fault of the Republicans, somehow. Think about this. If the city council, of these cities, have the power to defund the police, they are "the bosses" of the police department. The police department answers to them....city councils that are almost exclusively Democrat. When the police are corrupt.....IT'S THE CITY COUNCIL'S JOB TO FIX IT. The summer of riots proved that they weren't doing their jobs. Yet, Democrats get voted in again. The logic of these people just astounds me.
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  5922.  Chief Scalpalot  Are you implying that DeSantis isn't speaking common sense? It's a cute saying but does it apply here?
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  5923.  @marcillioficino4663  I'm not misinterpreting anything. I'm asking him what he means by that because I'm not sure what he means or to be more specific....I don't know how to interpret his comment. So...I asked.
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  5924.  @JohnjOcampo  Maybe. Maybe not. You: Oh look, common sense. Me: I don't know why you call it common sense? Can you not see how you might think that I was calling you out on it? I was just asking him to clarify the statement. Nothing weird or sinister. I see possible 2 ways to interpret his statement. It would be nice to know, for sure and from the horse's mouth, what he meant.
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  5925.  @knine8154  I get the idea that it isn't very common anymore. I get it quite clearly. However, that's NOT what I'm asking. The original comment was that SeSantis was using common sense. His response was that he didn't know why it was called common sense since common sense isn't that common anymore. So I asked the guy a question, one that only he can answer. What was his intent by that statement? Did he mean that DeSantis may not be using common sense as it's not that common anymore or was he making a generic statement? I don't know. All he has to do is clarify it for me. I'm not sure of his intent but so far I've not heard a word from him.
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  5926.  @Mr.Ekshin  I'll try to explain it again. The original statement said that DeSantis was using common sense. I agree with that statement. The next person uses a quote which includes "I don't know why they call it common sense." Is that a subtle way of saying that he doesn't see it that way. That it's unlikely because "it ain't that common". I just want to be sure of his intent. That's all. A lot of people are talking for him but he doesn't seem to have a lot to say for himself....at least so far.
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  5927.  @Mr.Ekshin  I have no common sense because I am suspicious of his intentions? I'd say that to not be suspicious is a little naive. Notice that he still hasn't responded yet. He may well be chuckling at you because he actually meant that DeSantis has no common sense and you're inadvertently defending him. All he has to do is clear it up. How easy is that? I'd thank him and then we'll know for sure.
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  5928.  @Mr.Ekshin  "Jack is one of those poor souls born without common sense." "Common sense is actually not that common. I mean... you don't seem to have any." It seems straight forward....if you speak English. I UNDERSTAND THE QUOTE!!!! I have no problem with the quote and even agree with it. That's NOT what I'm talking about. GET IT. I'm NOT talking about the quote. Maybe, because English isn't your first language, I'll try to explain something that's common in our language. Puns and word games are very popular ways of making fun of others and even insulting them through trickery with people that speak English. Knowing this and having spoken English for decades, I asked him to clarify if he was using a word game to insult DeSantis or whether he was just making a statement. "I don't know why they call it common sense" Is he asking, in a roundabout way, why the original person thought DeSantis was using common sense? Is it his sneaky way of saying that DeSantis might be lacking in this quality? Once again, he hasn't answered my question, which is basically this.... "Does he think that Ron DeSantis has common sense or not?" I have no idea why you think this is so difficult to understand UNLESS you're not totally fluent in English.
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  5929.  @dangermartin69  They also fought against freedom. Speak out against the Party and that will seal your fate. Little difference between the Third Reich and Marxism. Both are totalitarian ideologies. Your comment is a non sequitur.
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  5930.  @LarryBonson  That's NOT science. It's ideology. Science is biology and there are only 2 sexes required for human reproduction. Christians know that and so do scientists. This is radical socialism, what George Orwell tried to warn us about in his seminal work "1984" and the Bible admonishes us against when telling us to seek the truth. You're not seeing the enemy because you're trying too hard to prove your Christian virtue. Don't be like the woke.
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  5931. I will agree with everything that you said except for one. It's not that they didn't have the capitol or resources to succeed. They lacked the work ethic to build up their capitol with the resources they had. It's the socialist mindset. The government will look after you. If that's true, why would anyone have to work hard.
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  5932. You've nailed it on the head. It's a Neo-Marxist narrative, designed to cause resentment and anger, to the point that violence becomes acceptable, leading to the great socialist revolution. It's horrific and will destroy us all.
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  5933. Crime will stop when politicians make it their goal to go after the criminals, prosecute them and sent them to jail. Most of this violence is due to gang warfare and gang blood feuds. Target the gangs. Make it a crime to be an active gang member and to commit crimes as part of that gang. Bring in an outside police force to counter Chicago police corruption. DO SOMETHING. Right now, nothing is being done. In fact, crime is being encouraged. Many of those who took part in the riots last year, had their charges dropped and they're the ones that are attacking the police both verbally and physically. If not the politicians.....who will do it? YOU????
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  5934.  Professor Moriarty  You mean they wanted cultural Fascism. Oh....that makes it much MUCH worse. In spite of the horrors of Fascism, Marxism has a bigger body count. It's like arguing who was worse.....Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy. It's pointless. They're BOTH horrible people and Fascism and Marxism are BOTH horrible ideologies.
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  5935. There doesn't need to be an other. "Leah" Thomas swam men's collegiate for 3 years. If he decides, at that time, that he's coming out as transgender......fine. Let him. However, he still swims on the men's team, just like he always has. Where are all the biological women, who claim to be males, that are clamoring to compete in men's sports. They don't seem to exist. Why? Because they're still competing against biological women. To make it worse, they now have to race against men, who claim to be women. If you're born female, you compete in women's sports. If you were born male, you compete in men's sports. Period. If Leah doesn't like it, she can get out of the pool.
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  5936. Not since I was 15 and the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. I didn't attack anyone though. Their passion seems to be driven by insanity.
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  5937.  @jairobarrios3945  It's as if an artist, in the Netherlands, in 1750, had photographs of Middle Easterners to base their paintings on. They just painted as they saw people. It's not the big deal that some would like it to be.
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  5938. You're fighting the same thing. The woke is fighting for a Marxist economy and doing it through woke culture. It's why they're so intent on bringing woke to children in schools. “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Get them when they're young and when the time is right, those kids will destroy the economy and take us to the Marxist "promised land". You got to fight it all because that's what they're doing.
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  5939. BLM supporters would have been quite happy if George Floyd had a gun and shot and killed the cop that was choking him. However, that guy could choke Jake Gardner and Gardner's not allowed to defend himself.
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  5940. Imagine, writing a book that decries racism, while using the denigration of a race, as the central theme of their book. Imagine that....and they figured out a way to exclude themselves from their racist rant against that identity group. It's not All of that group. Just the ones that they think that doesn't apply to them. What a trio of elitist, hypocritical snobs.
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  5941.  @carloaldo5130  I was there in 2018 and you weren't allowed to climb it. It would have been nice to do it but I can understand why it's not allowed. Quite a fascinating place and our guide really knew his stuff. One thing that I found really fascinating was that you could stand at the bottom of the pyramid, clap your hands and the echo would follow with a bird call. It would do it every time. It's amazing that they figured out the acoustics to allow that echo to end in a bird call.
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  5942. Batosai11489 LMAO....You must be absolutely terrified. LOL. That comment would put you right at the front of the genocide line up. Wow. I can't stop laughing at it. Are you really serious? LOL.
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  5943. Batosai11489 Who says that logic and reason is the path to Paradise? I don't recall anyone ever saying that. I'm laughing at the idea that a "tribe" of people dedicated to the principles of logic and reason would arrive at the illogical conclusion that to rid the world of illogical and unreasonable people is to kill them all off. Logic dictates that this would be an illogical use of resources and humanity. It also goes against any logic that says that those who do not always use logic are of no use as humans to society. That these people cannot work, love, learn, achieve or contribute to the whole of humanity. That's illogical in itself. In other words, you're asserting that the "logical tribe" will abandon all logic and begin a genocide of the illogical. Everyone uses logic. We abandon logic when they allow emotions to dictate a belief system or a trauma in our lives and we all do it to a certain extent. What would be a logical response to sustained illogical thought is to cultivate a culture of thinking things through, to use the inherent logic we all possess to control our emotional responses in a positive manner. There is no such thing a "logical tribe". There is only logic and reason and how much we choose to use it and where we use it. What you're proposing is an Orwellian attempt to control thought. Logic and reason encourages thought in a free and expressive manner because logic dictates that mistakes are also an inherent human trait and a new train of thought could come from anyone or anywhere because we all think and our thoughts are always trying to assume some sort of order, which again implies logic. If logic and reason are an inherent part of individual human personality, inherently flawed but still present, then we'd be attempting to eliminate those with flawed logic, but it could only manifest itself on specific topics. A person could logically solve a difficult mathematical equation and then illogically stick a needle in his arm that evening with heroin in it. Logical and illogical are within us all. That's why I'm laughing. We'd be killing the entire human race and that's illogical.
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  5944. First of all, there are areas of thought where logic and reason can arrive at different conclusions. In fact, you can bet that this will happen. It depends on information available and how much weight each individual puts on different bits of information. What logic does is give the BEST way to arrive at viable solutions. There is no guarantee for the perfect way. Mistakes are still made. Also, there will be countless solutions to complex problems. Some are better than others. There is no amount of logic that anyone can use to guarantee the best solution for every problem, 100 percent of the time. What we can do is hope that through careful assessment that we will arrive at a solution that will solve the problem to our satisfaction. Since humans are cognitive creatures, we all use logic to a certain degree. That's what human cognition is all about. Some of us are better are mathematical type problems. Others seem to excel at social problems and others at formulating artistic visions. We all use logic. It's who we are. It's because, like I said before, we're also emotional creatures. All of us. It's not whether we lack logic as individuals, it's whether we allow emotion to cloud our lives and whether we have the training and maturity to recognise when our emotions cloud our judgement. That's not easy and it's not tribal.
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  5945. Chad Little That's a logical assessment. Logic is the best path to success but it's not a guarantee. We bring different experiences to the table which causes us to assess each variable to a problem differently, thereby adding or subtracting the affects of the individual variable to the overall problem. That could have a profound affect on the way we work out a final solution. It will be certain that no 2 people will reason out the same solution to the problems of life and a perfectly logical person could add one flawed variable and use that variable to a logically sound, yet flawed conclusion. It's why the idea that logical people could form a tribe makes no sense. If we're all using logical processes to a certain degree, then, we're all in that tribe. Logic can still give us an unwanted and unforeseen conclusion, what we would call a failure. Yet, failure can be extremely important as a learning tool and can ultimately be the vehicle to success.
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  5946.  Derek B  "If you don't comprehend why this is a problem, then you don't comprehend what is going on" Standard answer for one that has no real answer. All I see is someone resentful of what others have. The true socialist mindset.
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  5947.  No Reply Email  An echo chamber isn't about agreement or disagreement. It's about being allowed to express what you believe, in spite of how many agree or disagree with you. An echo chamber refuses to hear the disagreement. They refuse to discuss it and some will go to the ultimate tactic of complete cancellation. Dave Rubin will sit and talk with Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk or Candace Owens, who will believe that abortion and homosexuality are wrong and yet become friends, have a drink together and show one another respect. That's not to say that all right wingers are wonderful people but right now, it is socially acceptable to cancel out those who don't have a proscribed point of view and that is predominantly a left wing exercise. Look into the example of Karlyn Borysenko and the knitting community. It's not the right forcing people out of the community and trying to ruin those with businesses. It's the left. How many campuses are refusing to allow left wing speakers to hold events on their campuses? This is a left wing phenomenon. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge this is, to put it bluntly, in an echo chamber.
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  5948. He's indignant that the word "treason" was used against Tulsi for absolutely no reason. If the existence of these bio-labs is common knowledge, where's the treason in talking about them and expressing concern? It makes no sense and it's quite the scurrilous accusation. I'm really not sure what Trump has to do with Mitt Romney calling Tulsi a traitor. You've confused me on that one.
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  5949.  @PluuusRyan  I don't care about what was said in the past. What I care about is the topic of this video. We know that there are bio-labs in Ukraine. This is undeniable. These loonies think that Tulsi and Tucker should be arrested for talking about an issue that could end in hazards with serious implications for everyone on the planet. We have to talk about it and show our concern. Instead, you want to talk about bad tweets and statements made in the past. It's deflection. You're rearranging deckchairs while the Titanic is sinking. Something has to be done about it and putting Tulsi and Tucker in jail isn't even CLOSE to a solution. Are you going to wait until you wake up one morning and your eyes are bleeding and you're covered in lesions and still complain about Dave clutching his pearls? Or are you going to wish that you'd paid attention when Tulsi and Tucker were warning of this possible outcome?
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  5950.  @rod-contracts1616  Math is racist. Haven't you heard????
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  5951.  @madmisobroth1361  Then why should I have rights that you don't? We're all equal. I think that you'd be surprised at just how many of your friends and neighbours have a hand gun, just in case something does happen. It's not something that you'd advertise, considering how some people, in the cities feel but, speaking for me, I'd rather keep a gun, on the quiet, than spend a lifetime regretting that I didn't have it when I needed it the most. I hate that it's needed but I'm not going to let that dislike cloud my common sense or my emotions. That's exactly what those horrific mass shootings do. They affect an emotional response and as important as emotions are, they should never rule you, especially when your life, or the lives of those you care about, could be snuffed out by someone whose emotions are ruled by greed, anger and resentment. That would elicit an emotional response that could really destroy any future that you have.
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  5952.  @robertbrown6513  Once again....he was abused. It has warped everything about him. You're trashing him instead of the people that molested him. Blame the victim. Hollywood is overflowing with these child actor victims, whose lives have been destroyed. But you trash them and NOT the sick cowards that did it to them. Well done. We should be able to end this horror with that attitude. (that's sarcasm)
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  5953.  @marklambert7515  A lot of child sexual abuse victims go on to become sexually perverse themselves. The same goes for their abusers. It's a cycle. If they do break the law, charge, convict and send them to prison and then try to get them help for their issues. It's not against the law to hang out with women. It is against the law to abuse them. Feldman, through his own abuse and drug addictions, initiated by his abuser, could well become the monster that was created and what he claims that he wants to destroy. If so, stop him but we need evidence for it. However, if you don't acknowledge that someone, like Feldman, was created NOT born, we'll never get to the root of the problem. We've allowed this sick culture to firmly embed itself in Hollywood culture and now we're saying that we didn't know. We knew. Brian Peck, director and producer, was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, when he was at Nickelodeon. He went to jail and when he got out, he was hired by Disney to produce children's films. This is insane. To me, that's reason enough to boycott Disney into bankruptcy. But.....we don't. We turn a blind eye and then sit, with moral superiority, pretending that "we didn't KNOW". BS.
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  5954.  @robertbrown6513  Apparently, you didn't read my comment. I didn't defend Feldman for doing that. I said that child sexual abuse victims end up broken people. Feldman is as broken as the come and we know that he's been abused. It's part of the Hollywood cycle. What he's doing now isn't the root of the problem. WE are. I mentioned Brian Peck, who was imprisoned for child sexual abuse and was later, upon release, hired by Disney to work on, of all things, A CHILDREN'S SHOW. We should be outraged that the sexualisation of children will go on. I said that we should boycott Disney into bankruptcy for this but it's so much easier to point at Feldman than it is to fight the machine that's creating the Feldmans in Hollywood. However, it will continue because we don't have the guts to fight the machine. We'd rather fight their victims. I even said that if Feldman breaks the law, charge, convict and jail him and try to get him the help that he needs. But you didn't read that part either. You're fighting the symptoms not the disease.
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  5955.  @robertbrown6513  Once again, he was damaged by sexual abuse and the drugs, given to him by an abuser. Sexually abused children grow up to be twisted adults. Asking for money to drop names is a rotten thing to do but it's NOT illegal. If he ever DOES abuse a child or personally facilitates the abuse of a child, arrest him, charge, convict and jail him. I've wrote this NUMEROUS times but you just can't seem to get it through your head. I also mentioned Brian Peck but you don't seem to want to talk about that situation. You're going after the symptoms, not the root of it all which is the corruption of Hollywood. Feldman is a result of that corruption.....a victim. If he breaks the law. ONCE AGAIN, charge him....but for God's sake, go after the REAL culprits. The ones who started it all. You almost sound as if you're defending the Hollywood corruption by zeroing in on Feldman. The great deflection.
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  5956. Biden reminded me of Edgar Buchanan when he gritted his teeth. The old timers out there might remember him. He was a character actor in the 40s through the mid 70s, portraying crotchety old men. A real funny guy.
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  5957.  @strategery101  We don't think that getting active means breaking the law. You can't complain about their rancid behaviour when you're doing the same thing. Being on the right side means that you have to do right. It's not something to talk about. It's who and what we are and hope to be. We betray our cause by being like them.
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  5958. It's because the elites approve. They want the control that goes with ending oil for the average person. We have too much power and the ability to travel, to have a full belly and to keep warm at night, through our own efforts, takes away that power. It makes us all dependent on them and that's what gives them control over the masses.
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  5959. Mounk is just giving us an ultimatum. Vote Biden or the violence continues. He's trying to veil it in some kind of voodoo leftist logic, but he's using fear of violence to get support for Biden.
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  5960. It's not even an anti-grooming bill. It's a parental rights bill. It also pertains to teaching using the CRT ideology. Now, I can see pedos using education to groom kids. This bill takes away a wonderful opportunity for them and they don't want to lose it.
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  5961.  @heavierthanlight7173  Maybe we should investigate the 2016 elections? Really? Have you not heard of the Mueller Report? 2 years of investigations and millions of tax dollars spent and they couldn't even impeach on what they found. Give it up on that. I only have one question. This guy has just claim that forensic evidence has gone missing. Is he correct? If that forensic evidence can be produced, then he's wrong and we can ALL go home. However, if it can't be produced, we should ALL be concerned, both Democrat and Republican. What happened to it and why?
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  5962.  @heavierthanlight7173  The Mueller report had NOTHING to do with the quid pro quo and the Ukraine. It had to do with Russian Collusion in the 2016 election and possible Trump interference in the investigation surrounding that collusion. https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/full-mueller-report-pdf/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/read-the-mueller-report/ https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf That last one is the official report that was handed in by Robert Mueller, himself. It says right at the top of page 1 as its title... "Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election" If you don't even know this, how am I going to take seriously anything that you say.
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  5963.  @anonymoushuman8647  He's been president for 5 weeks. Are you seriously saying that he should have turned it all around by the morning of Jan 21st? I can tell that you've never ran a business. Or else you're a troll. As for air crashes...the only one with fatalities happened on Feb 17, three days BEFORE Trump was president. Since we're going by your rules, Biden is responsible for that one. See how ridiculous your comment is? Going golfing. Your hatred has disrupted your information and logic processor. At least wait till Christmas before you make a solid judgement.
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  5964. I guess Charles Barkley is now the black face of the Ku Klux Klan.
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  5965. JOY.....THEY'RE NOT IMMIGRANTS!!!! They're in the US illegally. If they're undocumented, that means they've dodged the system. Showing pictures of them being captured and deported lets anyone, who's thinking of coming to the US illegally, that this is what's going to happen to them. That will save them a lot of effort, money and heartbreak. That's not cruel at all.
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  5966.  @SeekerOfTruth-b2i  So you'd rather live in a TRUE Socialist country? Name one that you'd love to live in. I get that you don't like corporate handouts but that's not a good reason to advocate for socialism.
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  5967. I don't care that he's boring. What is important is whether he can do the job or not. He has shown success at everything that he's tried, coming out of poverty, joining the Marines and serving in Iraq, gets a law degree, writes a book which became a movie, then wins a Senate seat in Ohio and he's only 40 years old. If he carries that success into the VP office, we have a winner. He can be as boring as he wants so long as he does his job and does it well.
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  5968.  @JLU55  Remarks like what? I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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  5969.  @JLU55  Are you saying that there's no such thing? Apparently, you've never heard of the career women, who forego having kids until they get into their late thirties and find that they're just not as fertile as they were when young. They end up alone, with no family and they regret that decision. I have a neighbour who did this and who's now in her early sixties, alone with 3 cats. She hasn't even gone on a vacation in decades because she doesn't want to leave her cats in the care of anyone else. She's told me multiple times that she wished she had kids. The one regret of her life. It happens to some women and why that one statement makes him incompetent is ridiculous. He's been a success at everything he's tried. Why would that change now?
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  5970.  @brucebouck6152  There likely are Republicans on the list but they can't figure out how to release THEIR names without releasing the names of the Democrats. So...no names are released. The Federal swamp is extremely deep.
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  5971.  @mrsTraveller64  He never said when he left Israel. He said that he had left Gaza because he worked in Jerusalem and he didn't want his children growing up with the hatred of Jews that's so prevalent in Gaza. How is this possible? There are people in Gaza who were going to work in Israel every day. If he'd been doing this for years and has shown himself to be reliable and maybe even showed recommendations from Israeli citizens, who were in good standing, the Israeli government might accept him as a new citizen. Why not? It would be a good idea to get his children away from the constant anti-Jew hatred that is so common in Gaza. There are already 1.8 plus Muslims in Israel as Israeli citizens. What's one family more going to hurt? It would be a good thing, especially if that family has shown themselves to be good people.
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  5972.  @mrsTraveller64  " I also don't think it's possible to move from Gaza to inside Israel" That's the problem, though. It's not what you can think is true. It's what you can PROVE is true. You don't know the circumstances and you've not cited any Israeli laws or policies that would have prevented him from moving to Jerusalem. For my part, I'm going to tell you that I don't know for sure, but I'm not going to use my doubt to insinuate that he's a liar, either. I will take what he says until someone proves to me that it's not true. My default will never be to imply that someone is lying unless I have evidence to back that up. Too many people have been hurt over unproven claims that turned out to be false.
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  5973.  @mrsTraveller64  And that is exactly my point. You think but you don't know for sure. It's nice to know that we're in agreement.
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  5974. Those idiots can't get it through their heads that these rioters don't give a damn about black lives. That these rioters are hiding behind a catch phrase (black lives matter) and are using it as shield to deflect the accusations or being criminals. "I'm not a real criminal because I support black people". They're liars, you idiots.
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  5975. The left is extremely hypocritical when it comes to Islam.
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  5976.  @Veritas1389  Yet, when California WAS turbocapitalist, it didn't look like this. That's before there was such a thing as welfare. When the people on welfare gets to a certain percentage of the population, things start to go this way. People on welfare have no money to spend. Only working people do but now rents are SO high, that people need all their money to pay their rent. Why is the rent so high. Regulations....and more regulations. That, and they prefer property to be owned by big corporations. The DEI corps, like Blackrock and Vanguard. Once all the small property owners are gone, the government will move in on these investment firms and REAL socialism will take over. If everyone is on welfare, where's the money going to come from. Money doesn't grow on trees. Money reflects wealth and wealth is created by entrepreneurs, both big and small. You don't create wealth by taxing people and then giving it back by welfare handouts. That's a recipe for what this video is showing us.
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  5977. @ Oh...I dare. I'm not talking about her politics, just her looks, although her politics results in a very bitter facial setting. Most conservatives, in a bar and not knowing who she is, would be all over her. However, that still doesn't mean that I like her. Giving the devil its due doesn't mean it's no longer the devil.
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  5978. When your husband stops having periods, that's when you should be unhappy. It means an addition to the family and you're NOT the father. LMAO!!!!! Sorry....don't mean to break up a happy marriage. LOL. I'm having way to much fun with this.
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  5979. Apparently, it doesn't matter if the statement is true or not. It all depends on who says it. Truth is perception. It changes as your vantage point changes. Besides, Trump has a lab on Air Force One and he's developing the vaccine, on the plane, between campaign stops. Considering all the rallies he's been doing, he's spending a lot of time in the lab.
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  5980. First the Great Depression and then WW2. 2020 sucks but those were bad years. A lot of our problems are just people acting like idiots. If they'd just chill a bit, they'd make things a lot better.
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  5981.  @WhyNotTruth  Actual evidence? Then why aren't you talking about the violence and intimidation in ALL the cities that I mentioned. I'm quite willing to condemn any violence that a right wing group would commit and I do, quite vehemently, but you turn a blind eye to the violence, committed by the left over the last 3 months. Those are facts that YOU have chosen to ignore. So, it's now up to you. I've condemned right wing violence in the strongest terms possible. Will you condemn the violence, all the looting, burning, the smashed windows, the throwing of bottles, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, the intimidation of people in restaurants? Do you condemn this or are you just going to slink away and hide?
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  5982. Joe "foot-in-mouth" Scarborough.
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  5983.  @ypatel1070  It's the Muslim attitude towards infidels and Kaffirs that's at the heart of the problem. They're thought of as less than human. That translates into Muslims, who aren't as moral or pious as they should be, feeling justified into doing as they want with infidels, which includes plying young girls with alcohol and drugs. It's the same attitude that created ISIS and the Taliban. They hide behind your religion. I'd be outraged at this if I were you. It would be in the best interest of all good Muslims to fight this attitude along side the rest of us. No more excuses for those Muslims who pervert the words of your Holy Book, just like Christians have been quite vocal of their disapproval of sexually abuse Catholic priests.
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  5984.  @rudyschwab7709  I think that they're worried. How are they going to defend the "Death to America" chants when they're supposed to be the leaders of America. They know that this is going to turn off a lot moderate Democrat voters and that could mean another Trump presidency. The Democrats don't have a platform to present. All they have are tactics and when you that's how you operate, you lack in integrity. It also places you in contradictory positions. They can't claim that Trump will destroy democracy when you support those who cry out for the death of America.
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  5985. This is as homophobic as it comes. They want the gays to die. It's systemic....built right into the organisational processes of our society. How could they even suggest that it would be safe to engage in irresponsible sexual behaviour.
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  5986. Moet Caccitore My wife would never tell me who she voted for. I would guess by listening to her opinions but when it came down to it, I had no idea. If I had been domineering and told her what to think, she would have kept her mouth shut and voted her own way in spite of my wishes. By being quiet and subservient, I would have said she voted my way and have been completely in the dark about her actual thoughts.
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  5987. This has been such an uplifting discussion and yet so depressing. I'm really afraid for the future of my grandchildren.
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  5988.  @sthubbins4038  This virus is a Godsend for you Trump haters, isn't it. Now you have a recession and Trump loses the election and ALL is good. Too bad people had to die and maybe people lost their homes and life savings but it's worth it if Trump is out of the White House......RIGHT? Are you feeling a little giddy, yet? Your dreams have come true.
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  5989. If the virus escaped a Wuhan lab, it would sure explain why China refused Trump's offer of sending CDC members to China, way back in January, to help figure out the disease.
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  5990.  @danielryan9076  That's exactly as it should be but the left, the left that Don Lemon advocates for, will have none of it. We must be divided into our identity groups and any dialogue between those groups can only be had if we accept the idea that we must acknowledge those superficial differences.....or so they say. As soon as you acknowledge those differences, that'll be their ammo to tell you that you have no right to speak. Vivek tried his best to make it about a discussion and Lemon would do it because he's black and the other 2 weren't. That was his reasoning.
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  5991.  @one-sidedrationalization1091  Then who's going to get me out of poverty. YOU????? The government???? If I wait for others to do it, it's NOT going to happen. I have to set goals for myself, work my butt off and make wise decisions. It's how countless immigrants, who come from impoverished countries, do it. My dad came to Canada with no money in his pocket and a pregnant wife, a surefire recipe for self pity and disaster these days. 18 years later, he had 6 kids, owned a 100 acre farm and was starting to make investments under the guidance of a financial planner. To do this he worked 3 jobs....THREE jobs. I never saw the guy. He worked 4 to 1 afternoon shifts at a shoe factory, worked the farm during the day and was a musician, in a band, that played dances and bars every Friday and Saturday night. Every Friday night, he'd leave work, do his musician gig and then return to finish off his 8 1/2 shift. Cultural amnesia is a crock, an excuse to do nothing. If you work hard, people will see it and want you to work for them but it doesn't happen overnight. Instant success, the Bill Gates/Steve Jobs phenomena is extremely rare. Most of us have to do it the hard way. It's not easy and it may not even work, but going on about complex systems and cultural amnesia accomplishes nothing. No one ever built financial stability by discussing vague and existential topics. Go to work and quit complaining. Complaining doesn't get the dog house built.
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  5992.  @markportnoy6290  No...he wasn't home. He was at a Congressional hearing, offering evidence against a sitting government of possible government wrongdoing. It should make EVERY American uncomfortable.....including YOU. I'd be asking questions, if I were you, instead of making excuses for them. What if they actually WERE trying to intimidate Mr. Taibbi? You'd be supporting a Stasi type tactic. I'm not even saying that it's true but I'd sure want to make sure that it isn't. "The price for liberty is eternal vigilance.” You'd better take that to heart, no matter WHO the president is.
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  5993. You're that little thunderstorm that follows some people around. Just when they think that the sun might begin to shine on them, you prick them with a bolt of lightning to prove to them that you'll NEVER go away.
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  5994. The idea that the layout of the Capital Building must be kept a secret is pure BS. All one has to do is Google "layout of the us capitol building" and it's all there for anyone to see. I don't even live in the US and I'm privy to this info.
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  5995.  @jody6851  Millions of voters voted for Trump. Apparently, even MORE voted for doddering old guy that's president now. Now I'll invoke Godwin's Law. Millions voted for Hitler. Now can you see how popularity isn't the ONLY answer?
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  5996.  @webbieice  The entire state of Florida had 99% of their votes counted, by midnight, on election day. Florida has 4 times the population of Phoenix, yet they could do it, quickly and efficiently. If there had been a close race, they would have had a recount but that's irrelevant. The initial count would still take the same amount of time whether it's close or not. You're just counting ballots. There's something wrong with the process. Not saying that there's cheating but when it takes a week to do the initial count, people are going to become suspicious. The process creates election deniers. If the Maricopa county election process was a product offered up for sale, no one would buy it. It's ridiculous.
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  5997.  @100_Dollar_Bill  Hurricane Katrina....1392 deaths. Hurricane Andrew....65. Hurricane Hugo....63 deaths. But...go ahead. Don't prepare. You know better. You "smart".
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  5998.  @steverigney7017  I get it. We just yell "bullshit" at each other and the last one standing wins. My turn. Bullshit. Back to you, Steve.
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  5999. The whole thing was a fake. Had the leader of Hamas stood up and declared that he had just ordered the execution of 500 Israelis, including women and children, she wouldn't have been triggered. It's fake outrage. I don't know how anyone could take her seriously.
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  6000. I guess we know who's the bi-polar one in the WaPo newsroom.
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  6001. Just as long as he wasn't educated in Baltimore. They've got the worst schools in the country.
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  6002. No evidence? Except for this. For some reason, it's only XY athletes in XX events who are winning medals and breaking records. I've yet to hear of one, JUST ONE, XX athlete setting records in XY events, even though transition from XX to XY is the more common transition at this time. If it's an even playing field it should be happening both way and it's just not.
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  6003.  @Grandmaster_1776  It doesn't matter if this one person cares about "those" people or not. What matters is whether American citizens, who've gone through a natural disaster, have to live in tents, effing TENTS, while non-citizens receive 59 millions dollars to live in some of the most expensive hotels in the country. You're either suffering from a deficient logic processor or you're a bot. I'm going with bot because no one could be that thick.
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  6004.  @Peacesells1  That's awful. Rioting and killing is WAY better. No forced vaccines and more rioting. Great slogan.
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  6005.  @beejcarson  As a Christian, you would know about the fabulous wealth of Solomon. God told him that he would grant him anything that he wanted and he chose wisdom. Because of this choice, God gave him the greatest riches of his era. Job was given great wealth as well. I know that Jesus said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it was for a rich man to enter heaven but there's one thing that's never mentioned about this story. He also added that with God, anything is possible, meaning that God could make that camel pass through that needle. It's not that riches are wrong or obscene, it's the greater temptations that come with enormous wealth. Announcing your faith is like waving a flag of morality. No one should have to give up money because of your self appraised virtue.
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  6006.  @beejcarson  Actually, I was just going to say that the taxes of Roman times were set by those in power. Today, to an extent, we set our taxes through decisions made through our elected officials. That means that I can advocate for taxation, through representation, in one way and you can advocate in another. The biggest reason that I'm against those taxes is due to the unprecedented spending by the government. No business or household could survive on the spending habits of our present government. Ever increasing deficit spending is a recipe for disaster. Any household that has faced bankruptcy is a testament to that reality. We seen it just recently with the way that Venezuela handled its finances. We're spending our way to disaster and we're blaming the rich instead of ourselves and our expectations that the money supply will last forever if only they'd do their part. Also, I realise the difference between personal and business spending. The rich will just move their assets offshore and you still won't be able to collect their taxes. Their business holdings will become lost in a dizzying array of paper companies that will cost a fortune in bureaucratic spending and the money will become lost, unless the rich guy behaves like Hunter Biden and loses his focus due to self destructive, abusive lifestyles. Increasing taxes won't do a thing to help the situation unless we solve this compulsion to spend our way out of trouble. 'A fool and his money are soon parted'. Our government is acting the fool and since we're all a part of that government, we're ALL acting the fool.
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  6007.  @beejcarson  I didn't vote for Trump but I did agree with the tax cuts. However, I didn't agree with the tax cuts if you weren't going to dig into the bureaucratic monster that we have, especially in Washington, FIRST. He put the cart before the horse, so to speak. The bureaucracy has become a self feeding monster, creating work for itself that doesn't even exist. It has become, what is known in economics, a sick company. Trump cut taxes and then let a great deal of the bureaucracy remain in place. It's not going to work if your goal is to cut the deficit. However, it did wonders for the economy, which was going great until Covid struck. All that includes the elected politicians. This isn't a party issue. It's an issue, in BOTH parties, of politicians working for their own best interests, instead of doing what they're supposed to be doing. The biggest reason for this is that the average person just wants to vote on election day and be done with it. They're not interested in politics on the local level, ensuring that the person that they primary to go to Washington is one that has their best interests at heart. They see a familiar name and party and put the X next to it. Joe Biden has really put the nation on a bad path. Our deficit is spiralling out of control and it's going to spell disaster over the long haul. The only question is....are we going to handle that disaster on our own terms or are we going to let it happen and THEN try to solve it.
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  6008.  @beejcarson  European nations tried the heavy taxation route in the sixties and seventies. My family is originally from the Netherlands and I remember some of the tax stories that they told me about. Great Britain was in dire financial straits until Margaret Thatcher led with some draconian measures to get it under control. "I'll tax the street (If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat (If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat (If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet" It sums up how the public felt about the taxes in Britain at the time. Also, I reject the idea that because the Republicans don't act responsibly with our tax money, that automatically means that the Democrats will do so. I'm saying that they've BOTH done it and I've said it in my last comment when I said that we have to primary our candidates so we get the ones in place to that we need come election time. That's what I meant when I said that people check the familiar name instead of taking the time to see what they're all about. It's the overblown bureaucracy and politicians of BOTH stripes are a party to it and taking advantage of it. California has the highest taxes by far of all the states. Yet, homelessness is a HUGE problem, real estate and rents are skyrocketing, they have rolling brown outs, the public schools are in terrible shape and for the first time in California history, the population has gone down. Their answer? More taxes. Over taxation was a major contributor to the downfall of the Roman Empire. It handcuffs the individual so what little money he does have must go to life basics. Go back and read the words to the ditty I gave in the first paragraph. It's debilitating to the very soul of a nation. The Democrats aren't solving anything when by increasing spending exponentially they increase taxes the same way. The spending will go the way of spending in California. Nowhere. It'll lines the pockets of bureaucrats, who are the unelected of government and their cronies. California cannot go on like this and the country will face the same problems if they follow their lead.
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  6009.  @user-cz2md9wn3n  "liberty and justice for ALL" You can't be saying that. What a horrible thing to want for your countrymen. I'm appalled....aghast even, with a little dismay thrown in, Confounded and dumbfounded that people would want that for ordinary people. Maybe that's why Sunny doesn't want to say it. She'd know that she's one of the elites and doesn't want to mingle with the riffraff.
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  6010. The Democrats remind me of a guy I used to work with, years ago, in a scrap yard. We would clean aluminium barbecues for recycling and we'd take the electric start mechanism and ask this guy to hold the end of the wire where the electric spark would start the barbecue. We would tell him that we had to check something. He'd grab it and we'd push the button to set of the electric spark. He'd get one awful jolt, holler and then yell at us for laughing at him. A couple of months later, we'd do it again and he'd fall for it....again. He fell for it every time. Hey Democrats. Grab the end of this wire, I have to check something.
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  6011. How infuriating it must be for the parents of a girl who has to deal with these transgender athletes. I'd lose it if it was my daughter or grand daughter. Is nothing delusional anymore?
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  6012.  @kennethprola5136  "massive tax cuts for the wealthy" Why do people always use that old canard? This is all about your hatred for rich people. I know that because that is your ONLY reason you don't want a government audit. You're obsessed with the rich getting richer. How can you give a massive tax cut to someone making 40,000 dollars a year? It will NEVER appear to be massive even if it's a 100% tax cut. It's proportional. Also, you're making that claim without a budget in place. There is no budget yet so how can you claim that it's all earmarked for the billionaires. You can't make a claim about a budget that doesn't exist. It's illogical. Also, it was Biden who let in more immigrants, who are willing to work for less, which benefits the rich, NOT the working class unskilled American worker. That policy alone has put hundreds of millions of cash into the bank accounts of the rich. That's a Democrat policy. Why does the Billionaire Trump object to this policy so strongly. HE is the one that would benefit the most from open borders, yet he wants to deport them all. Your hatred results in illogical conclusions.
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  6013.  @dutchreagan3676  And ain't that a fact.
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  6014.  @kjkitty777  I'm starting to get it. Sex is biological and gender is ideological.....or is it the other way around? Whatever it is.....we've arrived in Bizarro world. It took longer than I thought it would.
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  6015.  @kjkitty777  What's bizarre is that a biological male can claim to be a female and then force HIS way into a female competition, taking away a young teenage females right to compete on an equal footing with her peers. There is a reason why men and women, as they begin to reach adulthood have been placed into male and female designated sporting events. The male of our species has a physical advantage, which is biologically driven, over the female, in athletics. If this wasn't so, females would be breaking all kinds of sports records even if they weren't competing directly against the males. That's NOT happening. That's why I'm saying that this is ideological and that when this ends up in a court of law, we have entered Bizzaro world. That has NOTHING to do with normal transgenders. This has to do with reality and the only reason that this is even in court is due to an ideological segment of society that is wilfully distorting reality. There are transgenders who do not adhere to this nonsense, Blaire White just to name one. I find it appalling that these young teenage girls are being cheated in this way. Any human being in possession of a sense of integrity would feel that way. These young men should be ashamed of themselves....and I say men because, in this case, we are dealing with young men. Their feelings of gender identity does not change the reality of their biology no matter how much they want it to.
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  6016.  @kjkitty777  In this case it does matter. The entire case depends on acknowledging that these transgender athletes are biologically male. For that judge to tell the lawyers of those girls, I mean the REAL girls (see how easily it can become confusing), to not use the correct biological terms in their gender description, is to tacitly ignore the reality of the biology. Once the biology is ignored, the science ignored, what are you left with. It certainly isn't logic or science. It's an ideology, no different than any other ideology that refuses to accept the reality of demonstrable facts. This isn't about misgendering. That just muddies up the water. We need basic facts and these 2 are biologically male and should, during this trial, be identified as such in deference to biological fact. It's unfortunate that some find that fact offensive but offense doesn't change those facts. If words are to have any meaning, it must be clearly defined in a court of law in ways that is clear to all, both traditionally and in fact. Also, had you seen the pictures of those two transgender males, while running that race, you'd see why they, most definitely, had the advantage of the other girls. It's no accident that they came in 1/2 in that race and set state records. If you'd watched your daughter lose a chance at a scholarship and see the look of pain on her face because she felt cheated out of that chance, you might see this a little differently. That any of this is taking up precious court time is ridiculous. It, most definitely, has become Bizarro world.
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  6017.  @kjkitty777  Those female athletes are human beings, too and their being cheated by biological males. Those biological males are human beings, but they are cheating. Period. The lawyers, of those girls, cannot concede that gender designation, because it is at the heart of the entire suit. They MUST refer to those transgenders as male, to not only augment their argument, but to emphasise that argument as a matter of law. This isn't about pronouns. It's about the biological identity of those transgenders. It's the ENTIRE premise of their case. To concede, even a little bit, is to concede that maybe they don't have a case. They CAN'T do that. It wouldn't be fair to their clients and could even be seen as legal malpractice.
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  6018.  @shawnmalloy2919  And the impeachment failed. Trump was acquitted. So the entire thing was a giant waste of time. It was all political theatre. As if the country doesn't have real problems and everything is just great. The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  6019.  @shawnmalloy2919  All vague and nothing substantial. Just like this impeachment sham. He never told anyone to storm the Capitol Building. "March peacefully and patriotically" yet people, like you, pretend that he never said that. His accusers, in the impeachment hearings, just edited that part of his speech out. Unreal....and I'm not even that big a fan of Trump. When the government manipulates facts and call it the truth, I will no longer support that government. I don't care who the target is. I expect integrity from the leaders in government and RIGHT NOW, that's the Democrat party and they lied to me, AND YOU, by editing that part of his speech out. What a poor excuse for an insurrection anyway. Over 100,000 Trump supporters, in Washington, and only 200 entered into the Capitol Building. They weren't armed and some were let in by security officers. They even stayed within the velvet ropes after they were let in. BLM and Antifa has better riots on any given night last summer. The whole thing was blown completely out of proportion. Those who broke in should be prosecuted and those guards who let and encouraged others in should be reprimanded. It surely didn't warrant turning Washington into a war zone. Political theatre, that's all it is, by a party that wants the US to become a one Party government.
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  6020.  Yedolf  Why is it being auctioned off? Because the American government and bureaucracy is totally corrupt and YOU don't have the intelligence to understand that they don't care about you. They'll stomp on your neck just as quickly as they're stomping on Trump's neck and those who work for him. If you had a job, it could happen to you and you won't even know why. I've always been baffled how ANYONE would back a corrupt government.
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  6021.  @mumbles215  He was wrong. Fascism is an horrific political system. We'd be better served had he said that we should also be ready to defeat communism as well as National Socialism. They're both the enemy of those who value a free life and spirit.
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  6022.  @danielburger1775  The Nazis were just another branch on the Socialist tree. They had their own ways of taking away our individual rights. Like the rights of young Sophie Scholl, a 21 year old who had the temerity to criticise Hitler and the policies of the Nazi party. Communists and Fascists are cousins in ideology, who supported the centralised power of the state. It's the frying pan or the fire. Choose your poison. The only reason they fought against Marxism is because the saw them as a threat to their own power.
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  6023. This is the type of Hispanic that the left hates. The type that works hard, achieves success and shows gratitude to the country he lives in. Great guy.
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  6024.  @APirateNamedJohn  It's not that argument at all. The argument is this. The Democrats have enacted policies with all kinds of housing and property and environmental restrictions. This has increased housing and energy costs to the point that the average person can barely cope. Small businesses started to lose money and left causing unemployment and an even larger population living under the poverty line. Liberal drug enforcement and needle exchange programs and the good weather attracted addicts and the lack of care for those with mental issues filled the streets with homeless people. Then, with all those issues, they decided that California should now become a sanctuary state. With rents averaging over 2000 bucks a month, they've invited people, with no money, no skills and no prospects to come live in their state. Since the millions that have come aren't going to find work in small towns, they go to the larger cities where housing costs are the highest. This puts even more pressure on housing, increasing rents and putting even more people on the streets. High welfare rates burden the tax base to the bursting point so more small businesses and even big ones feel the pinch and are deciding to leave the state. It's a spiralling situation and the state is doing nothing to stop it. And the California billionaires sit in their mansions and blame everyone else for the policies that they support and shame others into voting for. People are dying on the streets and they vote for a no-straw ban. They believe that they're showing empathy but what they're really doing is placating the guilt they feel for their own good fortune by their displays of virtue and concern....and it's helping no one. Go for a virtual drive through the big cities and see the failures. It's sad that a state that is so rich, squanders it on feel good policies.
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  6025.  @MakerInMotion  He stood up against America till the country went into bankruptcy and the people were starving. Sounds like a wonderful leader.
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  6026. ​ @MakerInMotion  I'm sorry. I'm not always on the ball, LOL. However, standing up to America wasn't the way for him to go. He should have ignored America, worked on improving the oil infrastructure, which was in bad shape, and stop nationalising everything in sight. Instead, he created an outside enemy, America, so to distract the people of Venezuela from figuring out who the REAL enemy was. It was the radical socialists, including Chavez, who were the real enemies.
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  6027. Addictions or not, if you completely ignore your children, you ARE a scumbag. I know. I was one and am trying to make up for my scumbaggery every day. Having sympathy for an addict doesn't mean making excuses for their behaviour. It means seeing them for what they are and being honest with them.
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  6028. Uh...Tim. That writing below the space invaders tattoo says SUB.MISSION. That's kind of what Antifa has been forcing on the general public for a few years now. It's rather coincidental that he uses the Space Invaders logo that Antifa has embraced and took the one thing that exemplifies Antifa tactics from that website and placed them both together as a tattoo. Also, the reporter that he was hired to protect is a known Antifa supporter. I had my doubts but I also looked a little deeper and that's what I found.
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  6029. "I am birthing person. Hear me roar!!"
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  6030.  @crapphone7744  I think that DeSantis would be the best president that the US has had in a long time, if ever. I think that the Democrats know this and that's why they have to throw the "hateful" accusation at him. They don't know what else to say. They tried the "don't say gay" stuff about the parental right's bill but it was quite evident to almost everyone that it wasn't true. I just heard Joy Behar babble something about banning books, which he never did but some still claim it to be so. They're floundering and they're hoping that something will stick. If DeSantis does become president, he'll be a 2 term president and worse, for the Democrats, he'll have someone ready to take his place. The "hate" rhetoric shows just how desperate the Democrats are.
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  6031.  @sciencegirl2239  When you plagiarise material in order to get ahead, you didn't get it fairly. If you get caught plagiarising, and people in charge look away, there is a reason and a very good one is DEI. They looked the other way because they felt that they needed more representation from a specific group and Gay was a member of that group, who came from an elitist background. Roland Fryer went on his own, didn't plagiarise from anyone, has reams and reams of data to back his work and has showed success in his educational methods. He didn't copy from anyone. However, it didn't corroborate the leftist assertions of systemic racism so his identity group doesn't apply. Plagiarising is cheating. Cheating shouldn't be rewarded. There's no double standard here except for those who want race to be the main identifier of a human being. By the way, Gay plagiarised material from ANOTHER black American, Carol Swain, who has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina and a Master of Legal Studies from Yale Law School. This accomplished woman didn't plagiarise her work but she has the wrong political views so she doesn't get the recognition that she deserves.
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  6032.  @jamesmccarte1609  The ridiculous voter suppression bills. I read the Georgia voter bill, the Jim Crow 2.0 bill, all 97 pages of it. Nothing in there that would suppress a voter from voting. So, I'll issue the challenge that I've issued to dozens of others. You show me, in that bill, what items would suppress voters. I don't want to see second hand interpretations. I want the item, page number and then an explanation on how the would discourage any voter from exercising their voting rights. I have to warn you. I've not had one person respond to that challenge. I've been called a few names but nothing more and I don't expect anything from you either.
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  6033.  @jamesmccarte1609  You need a photo ID to buy cigarettes, booze, pick up a prescription, get a job, rent an apartment, apply for a loan, get a bank account, travel on a plane, get a package from the post office, apply for welfare and food stamps, get a credit card, see an age restricted movie, ....that's just off the top of my head. Are these all discriminatory practices? Who is this person that can't and isn't doing ANY of these things? Every western country has ID requirements to vote. Google "what is required to vote in (name of country)" and you'll always have an "ID requirement" listed at the top. This is a non-issue and worse, it suggests that minorities don't have the mental capacity to get an official ID. An exceptionally poor complaint and I'd be willing to state that it would be difficult to find someone that doesn't already have it. They Bill even states that you can get help acquiring that ID if you don't know how. They can keep repeating this claim all they want but it's condescending towards minorities and, frankly, untrue.
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  6034.  @jamesmccarte1609  If a person isn't willing to take the time to do these things, it's obvious that the vote isn't all that important to them. If there were barriers put into place to prevent them from fulfilling voting requirements, you'd have a point but you've not done that. People have had to register to vote for years upon years, some of them, country folk, have to travel 15 miles or more to fulfill the requirements or to vote. Nobody's crying for the poor town folk who have these distance problems. These are requirements that must be met by everyone. Pretending that this is somehow a suppression issue doesn't wash. It's no harder than filling out a census report.
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  6035.  @jamesmccarte1609  The conviction of a felony has always carried with it a loss of rights. That's nothing new. A convicted felon should try to work his way back into society, as a contributing member. It's part of the rehab process. If a convicted felon doesn't even want to make the effort to try to re-establish themselves, including winning back the right to vote, that's their decision. They're the ones that put themselves into that position. It's only right that they pull themselves out. That's what I did and I know others that did the same thing. I did it in atonement for those that I hurt. If I couldn't do that, then I don't deserve to win back those rights. The country owes me nothing....but I owe my victims everything and I'll gladly do what's required.
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  6036.  @n-km6780  You "think". I "think" differently. So now we're at a standoff. I can't prove what I "think" and neither can you.
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  6037.  @nighthawk0077  You're just taking it a step farther. What he's saying is that she doesn't allow party loyalty affect her commitment to the peace of the United States. The country comes first NOT the party. That's what he means. If the country is threatened, she assesses where the danger is coming from and since she's American first and Democrat second, she will turn on the Democrats if they're the ones leading us to disaster and collapse. In the end, we'll all have to decide whether we stand for the country or our party.
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  6038.  @anthropomorphicpeanut6160  Wonderfully rationalised. I suspect the slave traders used the same rationalisation for their chosen source of income. "In my situation, kidnapping people and selling them is the only way to put food into my children's mouths."
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  6039.  @Sbhh1999  Had those so called native's ancestors had tried to move to Mississippi 500 years ago, they would have been butchered by the native tribes that were already living in Mississippi. Different groups of people have been fighting over land for thousands of years. No different in the land we call North American today. The natives of Mississippi would have looked upon these people moving in from Central America as invaders, as well. Just because they're not white doesn't mean that they're no longer human and don't have the same human tendencies of every other human society.
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  6040. @Josh Potatoes Every country on the planet demands that a person show a passport upon entry and explain the reason for the visit. I challenge you, right now, to try to get into Spain or Iran without a passport. If you try, you will be detained. It's that simple. Anyone that has ever travelled outside the country knows this. It's no different when entering the US. If you try to cross into the US without going through the proper channels you're inviolation of Code 1325. You will be turned back or deported if caught. That is the standard for every nation on the planet.
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  6041.  @russk8091  A lack of empathy huh? It isn't the Trump supporters who are promising free health care and education, housing and welfare. It isn't Trump supporters that are offering sanctuary cities and states. These are the promises that are luring these migrants to the US, promises made by Trump detractors, all the while knowing that if those people that they've lured to the US get caught, they will be subject to being detained. They know full well that this has been the law and the policy for decades, even under Obama, but they don't care. Offer more promises, more bait to catch them so they can use them to make political points against Trump. If they're lucky, maybe one of them will even die. That's a real coup in their fight against Trump. Not one of them will ever say to those migrants, please don't make that trip. It's too dangerous for you and especially for the women and children, who are in the greater danger of physical and sexual abuse. Stay home until we can sort out what our new policies will be. Nope, they just increase the bait to lure the migrants to cross the borders and into those detainment camps. That's what I call lack of empathy. I'd never take my child through the perils of a desert and expose them to potential predators and then confined in detentions centres. I'd never encourage anyone to put their children through that. Not the left though. We'll give you more free stuff and if you get caught, we'll express our outrage against a president we don't like. They'll sacrifice their hardship to score political points. That's as cold hearted as it gets.
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  6042.  @BigLeagueDrew  Yeah.....a lot of bad laws and the laws that SHOULD be upheld are ignored. What good are laws that aren't being upheld? All they'll do is enact MORE laws that everyone ignores. Rudy Giuliani is a bit of a jerk but he cleaned up New York with his "no broken windows" policies. You don't NEED a lot of laws. What you need to do is to uphold the laws that already exist. All they have to do is emulate what Giuliani did but they won't. It's being done intentionally.
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  6043. The dummy doesn't realise that when the communist revolution comes, he'll be the first to go. For smart people they sure are stupid.
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  6044. She thinks that threats against the "democracy" are horrific, the Civil War being the worst of all. So....she joins the party that instigated the Civil War and fought to maintain the slave trade, voted against citizenship and the vote for the freed slaves, supported the KKK, instilled the Jim Crow laws and fiercely resisted the Civil Rights Act. Dave is right. She's not that bright.
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  6045.  @mortimerreed  What???
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  6046. My dad grew up in WW2 Holland. He saw all kinds of soldiers, German soldiers even confiscated food and metals for the war effort. Near the end of the war, Canadian soldiers stayed in the barn on the family farm for a week or so. Yet, my dad never saw or even heard a gunshot in all that 5 years. Apparently, WW2 was a mostly peaceful war. That was my dad's experience and I'd NEVER call him a liar. So this "peaceful" protest rhetoric could be true.....right???
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  6047.  @Sylvertaco  The enlightenment period took place in the 18th Century, the same century as the writing of the Constitution. It was, in fact, a part of that enlightenment. The enlightenment wasn't a collective slap on the forehead with a "Now, I get it" It was through a long process of which the drafting of the Constitution was a part of. Some might even say the culmination of that enlightenment. "We the People of the United States" That's the preamble to the Constitution. Either those slaves were people or they were not. Nowhere, in the Bible, could the slavers find that justification that the slaves were primitive and it was all a part of God's plan. That was their own rationalisation. The contradiction was that in that argument, they still acknowledged that the slaves were people and the first sentence in the Constitution does not distinguish the race, religion, ethnicity or gender of the "we the people". Those Amendments were added to ensure that the slaves, women and all were included in that preamble, that all were included when it was said "we the people" and it does give equal footing for all. Those Amendments are an assurance of that very first sentence. In reality, they are redundant if you acknowledge the humanity and equality of all. The early Constitution doesn't mention slavery at all so it neither legitimises it or condemns it. For many it was the inconvenient truth that slavery contradicted the very essence of the Constitution and when the Amendments against slavery were made, it was to clarify what they had ignored when the Constitution was written. Many of the founding fathers knew that slavery contradicted what the constitution said but were powerless to enforce it because they needed the support of all 13 colonies to succeed in the rebellion against Britain. The Constitution put the wheels of Abolition in motion and was the very first step towards the freedom of the slaves. Slavery was to old and complex and issue for it to disappear in an afternoon. Ben Franklin wasn't just going to stand up and say. "Slavery is wrong" and all Americans would collectively say "Why hasn't anyone told us this before? It all makes sense now". The seeds were sown in the Constitution and it became more and more apparent from the Constitution and from the religious beliefs of the time that slavery was an affront to the idea of "We the people" or human dignity.
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  6048.  @Sylvertaco  But it does pertain to our main talking points. The US formed at a time when slavery was being challenged for its morality. This has never happened before and part of it was due to the fact that the Catholic Church was being challenged and people were starting to be able to read the Bible in their own language. People started to understand what Jesus meant when he talked about the meek inheriting the earth and how God loved all men. This may not seem relevant to us but it was extremely important to most of the west 300 years ago. Early Christianity appealed to the slaves and lower strata of society because of this message of human dignity and value. This had been suppressed by the Church for almost a thousand years and very few were able to read a Bible due to illiteracy and because all Bibles were written in Latin. The enlightenment came as a result of the invention of the printing press and the loss of control that the Catholic Church had over politics and ideology. It was a slow process, hampered by Inquisitions, war and the time it took to educate a larger segment of the population. A slow and ponderous process. What we're seeing today is a lack of appreciation of how difficult it was to formulate and then institute these new ideas and what a struggle it was. What seems self evident to us was a huge revolution in thought and beliefs 300 years ago.
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  6049.  @Sylvertaco  You seem so critical of the Constitution yet you haven't cited one thing of the original text that you would heartily criticise. Not what it doesn't say but what it does say. This was the first attempt at a document to set standards of rule to make a better society and you're disappointed that it wasn't perfect yet you have yet to offer ONE thing that is says that is overtly wrong. Also, most people were illiterate in the year 1500 and the first English Bibles were not in any kind of circulation for over 100 years after that. Before that, the Bibles were in Latin and Greek. Literacy rates were rising as printing presses became more efficient but it still wasn't as if millions of Bibles were being printed every year. It wasn't until 1800 that literate people started to become the majority, in the west and it was at that time slavery was ending, one nation at a time. Yes, the Roman slaves valued the idea of life after death but if God values their lives that much in heaven, how could anyone, as a man, devalue that life on earth. That was the primary idea behind the abolition of slavery. The dignity of human life in heaven and on earth. It wasn't just that the majority were illiterate 300 years ago. It was also the fact that transportation put limits on the circulation of new ideas. A letter could take weeks, even months to be delivered. You're taking the conditions of today and wondering why those people couldn't get it right 300 years ago under conditions that you or I can hardly imagine today. We have better health care, you and I, not the elites, but just average guys in the west, than King George the Third of England had when the American colonies revolted. That is just the tip of the iceberg. They had everyday survival concerns that we never think about today. It's so easy to sit in judgement, lazing on our comfy couch in front of our computer. Maybe a little less moral superiority and a little more humbleness and appreciation of the hardships our ancestors had to live through so we can prattle on about our beloved ideas. Point out, at least one thing in the first Constitution that is blatantly wrong and I'll discuss it. You haven't done it yet.
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  6050.  @Sylvertaco  "As a man" It's generic. A limitation of the English language. Don't read into it what's not there. The Constitution is revered because of it's statement of the dignity and value of each human being. That's an amazing concept. By criticising those who hold value in that document, you're criticising that document by proxy. You've dodged my point quite deftly. If there is nothing intrinsically wrong with the Constitution, why won't you give it the credit it would be due, instead of sneering at those who do see value in it? I don't see what your problem is except maybe your own sense of superiority. It's not the Constitution itself, apparently. If the Constitution is a worthy set of ideals, then would it not be the reasonable thing to do but honour those ideals? It seems contradictory to not do just that. Your logic eludes me.
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  6051.  @Sylvertaco  And yet, you still refuse to mention what was wrong with it without the Amendments. If you took the original Constitution and applied it today, would it legitimise slavery? I say no. The only reason slavery held on was because it existed at the time. Today, that original document has enough to deem slavery unconstitutional. There is nothing in it that allows it. Had slavery not existed in 1776 or ever in American history, no one could institute it today as a new social norm. That original Constitution would be the strongest argument against the idea of creating slavery. The only reason that slavery endured at that time was because it had existed in human history for thousands of years.....not because that original Constitution allowed it. The only reason that the 13th Amendment was necessary was to reinforce what the preamble had already said but in a more specific manner. It stands alone in it's power but it had enormous pressure not to be followed in the spirit in which it was written. However, even if I concede that it wasn't complete, you'd have to honour it as the first real attempt to the concept of human rights. Only the most naive would expect such a revolutionary document or ideals to arrive, fully formed, in perfection, right from the beginning. That original document is the foundation of all that came after. Think of it. Those ideals have never been put to paper in the thousands of years of human civilisation. Thousands of years of human history and you're upset that it took 80 some years to specifically mention slavery. Like I said earlier, so easy to judge from the perspective of today. I'm sure that you wouldn't have been so fully enlightened in those days. To give an example. My dad grew up in the Netherlands, 30 kilometres west of the German border. He had to live through the Nazi occupation and it wasn't easy for him or my family. Yet, he has wondered what his attitude towards those Nazis would have been had he been born 50 km. east of where he was born. Would he have joined the Hitler youth, raised is arm in salute to the Fuhrer and marched to the glory of the Fatherland? He says he likely would have, just as he hated the Nazis because he was born on the other side of that border. You're judging the founding fathers from a vantage point that they didn't have and then vilifying them for the flawed people that they were. No nuance, no understanding, no appreciation on what it took to write that revolutionary document. We're not as good as we like to think we are. At least try to admire what they were trying to accomplish and give them and there work the admiration it deserves instead of finding fault with what you perceive as imperfections.
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  6052.  @Sylvertaco  Where did I support fanaticism? Now, you're reading things into what I'm saying. Besides, how is acknowledging human dignity, freedom and equality under the law fanaticism? That's insane. It's allowing for individual human sovereignty. It was the basis of the American judicial system and human rights. You call that fanaticism? I suppose "Love they neighbour" is the ranting of a fanatic as well. Once again, tell me what was said in that Constitution that was so wrong. All you can say is that it wasn't perfect because it didn't lay everything out in detail. Judge the document on what it says, not on what it doesn't say. Quit dancing around the bush, calling people fanatics, saying it was a bad piece of work because they didn't think of everything. Critique what it says. You won't do it. You criticise everything and everyone else but the original document itself. Is there anything that is written in that original document that is intrinsically wrong or flawed? Just one thing.
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  6053.  @Sylvertaco  You are essentially claiming that fanaticism is fine if warranted" You wrote that. I don't how else to take it except how I did. What are you saying? I can't figure it out. First you say that you don't like the fanaticism, then you say that you don't. I think you're a born complainer, seeing flaws in everything but not really sure what those flaws are. We're just talking in circles. You don't really specify anything and when I try to nail you down, you change the parameters, or something. If I ask for specifics, you hedge. There's nothing concrete in anything you wrote. It's all vagueness and complaints about...I'm not really sure what. One thing is certain, you haven't said anything about that original Constitution that has any concrete point.
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  6054. WalkingPromissoryNote 1963 LOL. I went back and checked it out. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. JUNK food. LOL.
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  6055.  @jeffreylogiudice823  What if I have a pet amoeba? They split in half to reproduce. The truth is, in order for advanced forms of life to survive, they need a binary reproductive process. Interbreeding, the joining of near identical genetic material, causes birth defects or inbreeding depression. This greatly inhibits the survivability of advanced species like mammals. Binary sex is at the heart of our ability to survive. Without it, we die. Worms are NOT an advanced species. Although successful, they haven't advanced, as a species, in over 1/2 a billion years. To advance, as a species, they need to introduce new genetic material every time they reproduce. If they don't do that, they will regress to where they are now.
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  6056. She doesn't like living in a border town and is quite happy to say so but if you're from El Paso and you say the same thing, you're a raycist. Is she really as foolish as she sounds??
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  6057. I feel so bad for the little baby that has to nurse from my hairy, lactating breasts. Now, I'm creeped out.
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  6058. So was Hillary and Kamala was POed at the guys. Sounds like just about every party that I've ever been to.
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  6059.  @randym8393  What would the grounds of her lawsuit be? Truck horns were too loud and they scared her? LOL. If she can get a settlement for this, from protesters that never threw one rock, frozen water bottle or Molotov Cocktail, never broke one window, didn't loot one store, never set one fire, didn't put ONE person in the hospital, let alone kill anyone, what could the victims of BLM protesters get in a lawsuit? Like the family of 8 year old Secoriea Turner, killed by BLM protesters...or the wife of David Dorn shot and killed during BLM riots by a "protester" wanting to rob a store. Man.....they should get a bank load for their losses. You're outraged by noisy protesters, but I know that your types don't have the nerve to say a word about those RIOTS. I refuse to call them protests for obvious reasons to normal people, but not for the indoctrinated. It quite often seems that violence is acceptable when it's for their cause but making a bunch of noise is considered near fascist genocide when it's something that they disagree with. I'm expecting one of 2 things from you. Either some weird rationalisation for the BLM riots, and I've heard some doozies, or complete SILENCE, the most common response.
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  6060.  @zenithperigee7442  What a silly argument. This happens all the time. The police show up at a dispute or they pull someone over. The cop asks the person to do something and they refuse. They argue and argue and ARGUE. I don't know how many times this has to happen and people have to be told. Just DO WHAT THE COP ASKS. Wait until he asks you a question. If you don't want to answer, take the 5th but if the cop asks you to keep your hands in sight, KEEP YOUR HANDS IN SIGHT. The officer has every right to expect to work in a safe environment, just like any other profession. If the cop does wrong, get a lawyer after the fact and have him charged or even sue him/her. But no. They gotta argue and scream and act the fool and then are all upset when they're arrested for resisting arrest. How many times does this have to happen before they get it? My Gawd....people are so stupid. It's like stepping into a bear trap. You don't need hindsight to tell you that it's a stupid idea.
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  6061.  @rebjiii  At least I've used actual quotes from Jesus. All you've done is make accusations and demonstrated your own feelings of superiority over another human being. As much as you think differently, we're no better than Trump and no more worthy of heaven or redemption than he is. Get over yourself. You can realise that specific things that he does might be wrong but you're dismissing anything that he might do that is good for the country. Now I'll give another example from the Bible. King David was chosen, by God, to be the King of Israel. Yet, he arranged to have Uriah, one of his own elite soldiers, killed so he could have his wife Bathsheba. Could you imagine a president doing that? God sent Samuel, the Prophet, to chastise him for it, yet he still allowed David to continue on as the King. Think about it. David murders to get a woman and God still allows him to stay on as the leader of his nation. There has to be a lesson in this. Donald Trump is a flawed individual and there are things that he does that I would like to believe that I wouldn't do. However, I have to admit that I'm a flawed individual as well. Moreover, if you look a little deeper into the life of Trump, he's done some things that are amazing compassionate. He's a complex individual and, unlike so many of us, he is very outspoken and blunt and allows his faults to lay wide open for all to see. Most of us hide them but they're still there, hidden away. Instead of your anger and hate towards him, try to show compassion. That's something else Jesus taught. It doesn't say to "love thy neighbour that is perfect or that you like". It says to "love the neighbour" without qualification or distinction. Your last comment isn't one of love but of anger, superiority and intense hatred of someone. Are you sure that this is how you're supposed to love your neighbour. Maybe should love the sinner and hate the sin. A fine distinction but one that is demanded by Jesus.
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  6062.  @redraven8963  I don't like the heat. I live in Canada and I'll go for 5 mile walk when it's 20 below and love it. I have to open my coat to keep from sweating. I'd hate the humidity and heat of coastal Texas. However, I worked in a paper mill for years and it was sure hot in there. It's the one thing I don't mess about that place. I liked the job other than the heat.
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  6063.  @MercenaryMuse  You prepare for the danger that exists in the environment that you're in. Big city folk join gangs (sound real safe) or try to live in some kind of gated community, believing that will keep them safe. That leaves the average person to the mercy of the criminal element. They then vote for DAs that are soft on crime because of their belief that they've made safe choices. That leaves the average person to the mercy of the criminal element. In the rural areas, we don't TRUST politicians so we like to protect ourselves from the dangers of OUR environment. Different threats call for different means of protection. I'd suggest voting for politicians that will protect you over those who would do you harm and we'll look after ourselves.
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  6064. Maybe you should turn the picture off and just listen to them talk. It's the substance of conversation that's important, not the style. I thought Noem has some great things to say and I was quite impressed.
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  6065.  @wildness01  It's also extremely costly. It might mean travelling 2000 miles for a 2 hour interview. It's also time constraining to do all the travelling. It's nicer to have a face to face but if it's not possible, it's nice to have the option. Besides, remote interviews have been going on for a long time, ever since satellite technology made it possible. Covid may have increased it but it's nothing new.
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  6066. So....saying good things about your business is illegal? Really? LMAO. You got this salesman stuff going, don't you.
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  6067. He's the one that didn't stop the water, when the rains did come, from running off into the Pacific ocean. Did nothing to retain the water so it would add to the water table, like constructing swales to hold back the water to prevent erosive runoff. He also allowed the dead brush to stand, with no fire breaks, so the fires had no impediments to their destructive nature and didn't give the fire fighters the opportunity to concentrate on those breaks as a way to slow and stop the spread of the fires. That's the way the natives used to control fires. So...it's not as laughable as it might seem. Things could have been done and he didn't do any of them.
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  6068. He's a "good" bigot. The rest of us are "bad" bigots.
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  6069. They already have their own country. It's called Gaza. Israel gave up all jurisdiction over Gaza in 2005. They even told every Jew, that was living in Gaza, to leave and they did. If Gaza wasn't an independent nation and under the thumb of Israel, how was Hamas able to dig hundreds of miles of tunnels without Israel intervening? It's because Israel was allowing them to be self ruling and Hamas really screwed it up for the Palestinians that lived there.
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  6070.  @Grizzleface  MLK promoted a nation where we all judged each other on character and not the colour of our skin. Yet, here you are, judging and insulting people who stand in support of that idea. So, please explain why that idea is so dumb. You won't, though. All you have is hate.
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  6071.  @xpusostomos  An internet troll. Pay no attention. Better yet, report him as spam.
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  6072.  @CaptainCamellot  Of course they're illegal. Trump's guilty until evidence proves him guilty. Until then....he's guilty. In what system are outside audits illegal? I suppose we should only allow the Treasury to audit the Treasury......and then the Treasury will find themselves "NOT GUILTY". The Mafia has investigated the Mafia and has found the Mafia innocent of all charges.
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  6073.  @sabinereynaudsf  We haven't been going to the moon because there has been no value to be gained by it. It is an expense with no return. Until we find value in it, trips there will be few. You need a purpose and so far the only one has been for the propaganda benefits that the Apollo program provided. Solar power on earth itself has its limits. No power can be accessed at night or in stormy weather. It's has reliability issues. If an energy transmission system can be developed in space, reliability issues will be cut down, exponentially. Nothing will ever be completely perfect but energy from space has the potential to get as close as one can get.
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  6074.  @jahalva4112  It won't be free. There will be costs in developing the system and maintaining it. Those costs will be passed on to the customer with room for profits to make the investment worth the effort. FREE is a pipe dream.
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  6075.  @cegesh1459  Are these Conservatives? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xoJiM6DcY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvaLO-MV7EY just to give context. That was a few days ago. Now.....I want you to come back with a time when Conservative students screamed at invited left wing speakers, on campus, and chased left wing students while threatening to do harm. I'll wait.
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  6076.  @yishaqdavid2029  Yes they did and then the Capitalists surpassed them within a few years. It didn't take long, either. It's easy to win a race when no one is running. The US, the Capitalist nation didn't even have a space program when that first human went into space. Didn't take them long to catch up and surpass them though.
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  6077. I guess Democracy is only good when you win. It's bad when you lose. The people have spoken, Obama. They voted and the results are clear. The Democrats lost.
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  6078. I just asked that question about the Amazon. Thanks.
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  6079. The elites can't get why the average person feels no camaraderie with them. They're great at dividing us. They force us into DEI meetings and tell us how to detect microaggressions in our fellow blue collar workers. They tell black Americans that it's the fault of whites and that it's okay to not try hard...the elites will look after them. They know that they're dividing the people at the bottom of the economic ladder and they do it because it's good for them. That's why they hate this new song. It calls THEM out.
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  6080. What does the Hatch Act have to do with this?
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  6081.  @jjdillon1207  The last election would prove that wrong. People are sick and tired of always being guilty of something. They're starting to push back and the vote is one way to do that without being mobbed by the radical left.
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  6082. @fish profile? Yet, every time that they've tried, on a national level, stop or control Capitalism, it has ended in disaster. The Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Germany (the Nazis were National Socialists, just like China is today) and Cuba, have all ended in famine, starvation, prison camps, poverty, authoritarianism and oppression. Not ONE has ended in a better life for the average citizen. Capitalism does not pit one group against the other. In fact, people have to cooperate in order to make the economy work, on a voluntary level, with agreements that are bound by the rule of law. It's when the economy is overtly controlled, that's when we run into problems. Top down authority, over reaching control on what we buy, sell, trade and how we use the capital we earned through our own efforts has been the worst of all governing methods. It was in the old Monarchy system and it was in every government who tried to socially control its citizens through economic dominance. Show me the Socialist nation that has thrived...just one. The only one that I can think of is China and they've interred over 1 million Uyghurs because of their faith and have persecuted the Falun Gong, Tibetans and others. The world isn't perfect but your Socialist dream has even been worse. Right now, it's tearing the US apart.
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  6083.  @guaranteedreducedquality  Google "Neil Degrasse Tyson on Transgenderism". He says gender is on a spectrum and one can "feel" like one gender and then later "feel" like another gender. That's not science. He does acknowledge that it's a social science and that it should be studied why people feel that way as a social science. However, that doesn't make it true. It just makes it a social phenomenon, just like the study of why people have religious beliefs is a social science. It doesn't make either one true. It just means that people have those beliefs. Of course our opinion matters. It's why we believe in the democratic process is the way to pick our political representatives. We count the opinions of all citizens to pick our leaders. Our opinions DO matter.
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  6084.  @Toxicashellmonsanto  I shouldn't allow it. All by myself? Could it be that by talking about it and showing others that I'm doing my part in not allowing it? This isn't going to be a "me vs the world" struggle. It has to be all of us, realising the problem and collectively not allowing it. Alone, I am helpless. I need the help of all of you that don't want the establishment of an updated feudal system. Spreading awareness is my part in resisting it.
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  6085.  @SocraticMutt  Like what? I know....Jan 6th. But you did say "things". What other things?
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  6086. The Nazis were called "right wing". Right winged Socialist. Lenin was called the same thing when he allowed some private enterprise because his economy was falling apart. Mussolini was called a far right socialist as well when he was the first European leader to recognise the Bolshevik government in the Soviet Union.
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  6087.  Chavez Powell  The big difference between Africa and the US is that Americans live in a very mobile society. It's no accident that the most mobile of nations also suffered the greatest due to Covid.
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  6088.  @82fdny97  Do you mean that the teachers that are obsessed with gender and CRT aren't too blame for teaching it? That's is her own fault that the school is doing this? That doesn't even make sense. The inner city schools of Chicago are a mess. That has nothing to do with this mother. Fix the schools. They're using our tax dollars to fail our kids.
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  6089. Who implied that? I'm not following you.
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  6090.  @vinessawess4401  I don't support the Republicans, either, but if you can't see how this isn't a Democrat phenomenon, then you're not paying attention. The MSM is carrying water for the Democrats and they won't cover this with the ferocity that they would had this been a black Democrat candidate. Also, you have the right to oppose Elder by not voting for him. Assaulting him or his staff is Illegal though, and they don't have the right to physically lay their hands on anyone. Assault is against the law, even if it's against someone that you don't like.
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  6091. Great comment. Go after me instead of discussing what I wrote. That really demonstrates a high level of intellectual integrity.
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  6092. So, there's non-citizen suffrage now in the US. Does that mean Russians can vote in their local elections? Isn't that called Russian meddling in American elections? Democrats are getting weirder and weirder.
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  6093. Why haven't we heard of this earlier? He was arrested in January and I first hear of it almost 6 months later? He worked for ABC news and was a colleague of Brian Epstein (not Jeffrey) who also resigned abruptly. Yet, it's been all hush hush. The more I hear about those elites the more I feel the bile rising out of my stomach.
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  6094. If I was a health care worker, I'd stay away from my children. That's what a parent does to protect their children. This isn't about losing my children, at all. I'm sure that this was a temporary measure. When the danger is over, the child will return. This isn't about the parent. It's about the safety of the child. They ALWAYS come first. That's how it's always been done. It's not easy but what about this crisis is easy?
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  6095. "I'm against all laws" They just opened a mosque down the street from where I live. It's called the "House of the Commandments". My first impression? Them guys got rules. Religious laws that must be followed. I'd say she's ideologically opposed to Islam.
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  6096.  @itsreallyhardtospell  No such thing as a Utopia. Tell that to the radical Socialists. They believe that this road to Utopia is an ongoing struggle. The Hegelian Dialectic. From each struggle, they come a little closer but they have to engage in another struggle to get there. Then another struggle, each time facing new challenges and from there they learn how to advance even closer. They see the casualties of those struggles as necessary to the cause. There is no such thing as failure to these fanatics. There's only new struggles to learn from. That's where Critical Theory comes from. It's an ideology of the negative, never being intrinsically comfortable of where one is but always "critical" of the current paradigm. No matter how good things are, there are always problems. That's how we get to micro-aggressions and systemic racism in CRT. However, they believe that this is the way to the Utopia. It sounds frightening to me.
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  6097. I know. If we all have a million dollars, one million becomes the new zero. Why would I say that? Inflation would render that money worthless in no time.
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  6098. Party politics. Vote your party no matter what. If they say "chop off their dicks", you agree and if you're challenged, you get emotional. You have no other choice because you MUST support the party. Kinda reminds me of the Stalin, Mao and Hitler party loyalties. The party is NEVER wrong.
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  6099. The guy in blue goes into a huge diatribe on all the reasons why he doesn't like Trump, interrupts the Pastor saying "You do realise we're talking about Trump, don't you?". Then, incredibly, he says that it isn't about who you do like and don't like. Then why all the rhetoric about Trump. He basically said that he would refuse to work with Trump, no matter what and that it doesn't really matter what the outcome would be. The man is full of hate. Fortunately, those Pastors aren't and are only thinking of the good that could, POTENTIALLY, come out of this. BLUE BOY could care less about potential. He just hates Trump.....PERIOD.
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  6100.  @windingriver1275  It's not in the giving of water. There's a law that prevents campaigners from approaching people waiting to vote. The giving of food and water could be a pretext, for campaigners to approach voters and try to coerce them into voting a certain way or to intimidate them from going in to vote. The precincts are to provide water for those standing in line if they should need it. That's part of the legislation. Therefore, you don't need anyone else to be there to give water. The legislation also has provisions that will address wait times longer than an hour. So, along with the water coolers and a voting booth for every 250 voters in a precinct, which would take care of long wait times, no one needs to approach a line up with water. It's a moot argument. Besides, if you see the lineup is extraordinarily long, what's to stop you from getting a bottle of water beforehand? Do you really need others to be looking out for you all the time? You're an adult. Act like it.
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  6101. I don't remember ever seeing a group of people that obsessed with race and ethnicity. Then that pretentious display of Spanish. That was cringe worthy.
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  6102. We have a Prime Minister that some shallows voted for because he looked good and had nice hair. The man is a disaster.
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  6103.  @kevm3  They're teachers of their sport, no different than a teacher that teaches physics. He may teach football, hopefully that his students, football players, can go on to a lucrative career in professional sports. If not, the students will also have backup courses, to earn a degree in another field, if a football career doesn't work out.
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  6104.  @landof8  And those players can get a free education and have the experience of their lives. When it's over, doors will be opened to them in professional sports or in the fields they'd study in academia. I'd say it's great that the school can make money on their sports programs. It might lesson the tuition for ALL students. Why is it that people get so envious and resentful when they see dollar signs? "MILLIONS OF DOLLARS????" Some people react to that phrase like it was a punch in the gut.
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  6105.  @mr.terrific8037  But I'm not a athlete. I played and played and I loved sports but I just didn't have that natural ability that a couple of my buddies did. One of them went on to have a career in the NHL. When he was a kid, he put on a pair of skates and was zipping around like he'd always skated while the rest of us took years to learn how to skate properly. He was a lucky guy yet he had to work hard to get to reach that level that allowed him to have a lucrative career in sports. Part of it was a scholarship to Cornell, where he received a degree that gave him the background to go on to sports management. A lucky guy that worked hard to achieve success.
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  6106.  @wilberdebeer4696  Yet that student, who gets a FREE education, can only see cash. The student is exceedingly fortunate, receiving an education that costs MOST of us tens of thousands of dollars, that takes us YEARS to pay back, but it's still not good enough. Never happy. No gratitude. Just more "It's not fair" whining Just dangle the phrase "millions of dollars" and people lose their minds with resentment and anger. It took me 15 years to pay off my student loans yet these student athletes haven't spent a day paying back loans and you want me to feel bad for them. Not happening. Colleges also make money off research that students, like me, did while in universities. Do I get a cut of the endowments from large corporations that make use of the findings that students like me worked hard on? Not a cent. It opens doors for us and I appreciate that but because it's low profile, not a big fan base cheering me on, my work isn't deemed important by people like you.
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  6107.  @savagetv6460  A school can't produce intelligence. Intelligence is innate and we're all born with our own level brain power and ability. The school's job is to give that intelligence direction, to teach the skills that allow that innate intelligence to flourish within the community that the students live in. If the school isn't teaching those skills, the ability to read, write, do mathematics and to think, that's when that school is failing and too many American schools are failing and miserably. You can thank their unions for that.
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  6108. Not it's not. We have the right to create a society that mitigates unlawful harm but "feeling safe" is a myth. My daughter is terrified of spiders. She'll to into hysterics and will run in fear when she sees one. She doesn't feel safe. How am I going to legislate or dictate that she "feels safe" unless I kill ALL spiders? We have the right to confront and conquer our fears, if possible. That's it. "Feeling safe" is an impossibility.
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  6109.  @adamaccountname  That painter from Austria, told the Mufti of Jerusalem that when he had completed his work on the Jewish problem in Europe, he would help the Mufti with his Jewish problem in Jerusalem and surrounding area. The painter then said, after the Mufti went home, that he wished the Germans were Muslim instead of Christian, citing the ideas of turning the other cheek and loving your neighbour as weak and harming the people of Germany. He said that the warrior religion of Islam would be a much better fit for Germany.
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  6110. You idiot. He was talking about that certain point in time. The drugs were there and belonged to someone and he didn't want them to know that he was the one that reported THAT specific cache of drugs. As time goes on, the danger involved with those specific drugs diminish.
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  6111. The left talks about diversity all the time and how intolerant the right can be. What a bunch of hypocrites. Who cares that he's a Christian. I don't. The left are the intolerant bullies and they can't stand someone doing things to help others. They think that help should only come from the government.
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  6112.  Unmutual-23  Go away, troll. Trump was nearly killed himself. Of course he cares. What is wrong with you?
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  6113. I love sports but, as things that I love go, I lost a lot more than sports. I learn to live with that. I can easily live without sports.
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  6114.  @tomster7574  He's talking about black men who believe this kind of thing. Malcolm X is NOT one of those guys. I can't speak to the 2 movies that Will Smith made because you've neglected to mention who those men are. However, I suspect that neither one of those 2 men would support this Booker T Washington quote or acknowledge that there is truth in it.
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  6115.  @tomster7574  Why? It's because he was talking about a conservative mindset. The same mindset as Thomas Sowell, one of the top economists in American history, and Larry Elder, the black face of white supremacy. Malcolm X does not have that mindset. My suspicion is based on thinking that you know this and that's why you didn't mention who those 2 movies were about. It's a suspicion and you did nothing to change that attitude by asking why I was suspicious, instead of telling me who those 2 guys were.
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  6116.  @tomster7574  I know. "Do your own research" and "It's not up to me to find out for you" and more excuses like that. I get that all the time from those who make claims and then won't back those claims up. You've spent more time giving me those excuses than you have actually validating your own beliefs or claims. THAT is why I'm calling you out. You want ME to prove you correct. LOL. You think so little of your own claims that you won't even take the time to prove your own claims.....and you actually think that I should do it for you. YOUR claim and I'm supposed to validate it. That's the height of intellectual laziness.
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  6117.  @tomster7574  You made a claim and I asked who you were talking about. Now, according to you, that means that I'm OCD. Apparently, you don't know what you're talking about. If you did, you'd tell me. But....go ahead. Explain to me why your lack of evidence proves that you've made a salient point. To quote the great Spock "Illogical". LOL.
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  6118.  @tomster7574  That pretty well covers your comments. I'm surprised at how self aware you are.
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  6119.  @caesarsalad1170  Which is something to aspire to. LOL. You would think that we'd like better ourselves.
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  6120. How can you have a fun night at the movies if no fun is allowed? LMAO.
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  6121.  @Sue-ec6un  He doesn't have to know science or be a doctor. A good administrator knows who to hire for the job needed. That's what his job is, to organise, to listen to the experts and between them decide on the best course of action and then liaison with the president and other administrators on what is happening and the steps that are being taken. You don't have to be a doctor or scientist for that. In fact, it would be a waste of a doctor's skills to put him/her in charge of doing the grind of organising, securing supplies, finding space for clinics and quarantine centres and other mundane things that a doctor shouldn't be dealing with. A doctor should be doing science and medicine and an administrator should be looking after the organisational needs of those doctors. Sending a doctor to get tongue depressors is a waste.
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  6122.  @elliott9139  If my kid, at 17, was in that crowd, looting and smashing things, I'd kick his ass till tomorrow. He wouldn't have to worry about cops. His toughness stops at the end of my boot and if you think that these kids are afraid of what their parents might say, you're delusional. They laugh at their parents. No respect for their parents, the law, each other or themselves.
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  6123.  @mrwoody1413  "good parenting from the time they were born" You nailed it, right there. It starts from the minute that they were born. The average leftist believes that it's not that important but the ones that are leading this new movement know damn well how important it is. That's why they want to teach 5 and 6 year olds to keep secrets from their parents and tell them that their skin colour is the most important thing about them and to judge people on colour. They want to get to them, when they're young, so that when they're the ages of these "wilding" kids, they have no fundamental ties to the most important part of their lives. They want to destroy the family so that eventually THEY, the government, will have control over them, not the family. These radical socialists have created a belief system that is negating the roles of parents and supplanting these roles with the power of government.
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  6124.  @rickmcdonald2233  There was a guy, who phoned reporters from the Washington Post, disguising his voice so they called him "Deep Throat", that brought down a president. Why? Because those reporters thought that IF Deep Throat's allegations were true, this would be a HUGE scandal and they went full bore into investigating the veracity of those allegations from this mysterious source. That scandal was Watergate. Now, there's a laptop filled with videos and e-mails, a group of whistleblowers, a business partner, around 150 reports of suspicious bank transactions from 11 different banks, a video of Biden bragging how he threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars from Ukraine if they didn't fire a prosecutor, a guilty plea of tax evasion and a gun charge, a gun charge that resulted from that information from that laptop.......and the SAME newspaper that broke the Watergate Scandal, won't investigate ANY of this stuff. THEY WON'T EVEN INVESTIGATE!!!! The entire MSM is ignoring all this stuff. Honestly, if anyone has to grow up around here, it has to be YOU.
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  6125. I'm up here, in Canada, watching the craziness going on in the US and I can't help but think that any American that votes Democrat, this fall, is out of their mind. Trump isn't the nicest guy in the world but, my God, those Democrats are as corrupt as they come. The riots in Portland are a myth. What kind of nut is Nadler anyway?
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  6126.  @CheekyMonkey888  Did you not even read my comment. I just read the memoirs of Dr. David Livingston. He was English, the "chosen" race and he couldn't go into the interior in wagons. He had to walk. Why??? The TSETSE FLY. It killed the animals that would pull the wagons that had wheels on it. The jungles and deserts aren't conducive for wagons either. Wheels bog down in the mud and sand that are in jungles and deserts and Sub-Saharan Africa has both. It's the same with Central America. Jungles. As soon as you build a road, it disappears into the mud. The mountains of Peru made it pointless to build wagons as well. Also, you need animals that are trainable to pull wagons. They didn't exist in Africa and like I said, the tsetse fly would kill any horses that the Egyptians would trade further south. Who's going to buy a horse that immediately dies when you take them home? Is it still incomprehensible or do I have to explain it in further detail.
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  6127.  @ji8044  I guess I took it wrong. I thought that your point was that even though the people in the Americas didn't have the wheel they could still build great cities. So what's wrong with those Sub-Saharan Africans? That's what I thought you were implying. My mistake.
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  6128.  @steadynumber1  If the terrain isn't conducive to construct roads, the wheel is useless. Swampland, jungle, desert sand and mountains aren't conducive to building and maintaining good roads unless you have the technology to do those things. Without the manpower and the technology, it's impossible in a lot of places. Europe and the Middle East had terrain that, in a lot of places, didn't even need roads to travel by wagon. That allowed them to develop chariots for war and wagons for trade. You just can't do that in a lot of the places in the world. Egyptian charioteers would have been destroyed trying to cross the Sahara. That's the same with Central America. The jungles and mountains would have made chariot war a disaster for the side that tried to use them.
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  6129.  @kpNov23  "Is climate change real?" 97% of climate scientists say climate change is real. What a self serving statistic. The climate has always changed. There is only one honest way to answer that question. The climate does change. Then they tell us that we must sacrifice to stop climate change. What? They want us to sacrifice to stop a phenomenon that's been happening since the beginning of time. It can't be done. Then Al Gore predicts, using "science", back in 2006, that the glaciers will melt, that in 15 years a good percentage of Florida will be under water. That we'd be wading knee deep in ocean water to enter the World Trade Centre and that most tropical islands will be submerged. That polar bears, that scientific icon of climate change, would be extinct. That was 18 years ago. Apparently, his "science" didn't work. Not only are those island still in existence and Florida is still high and dry, but polar bear populations have increased. Do you know why? It's simple. Science is a procedure. It's not a result. That's the reason. Believe the science is nonsensical and is unscientific. It's something that we were taught in grade 5 but we've forgotten what we've been taught.
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  6130. People are resisting the smugness and arrogance of the elites and then Fareed gets on television and demonstrates exactly what that smugness and arrogance looks like, just in case we're not sure what to look for. Incredibly, he's so lacking in self awareness that he can't understand what he just did.
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  6131. THAT is where you're wrong. Most of the people that I know watch and use ONLY the legacy media. They don't bother with the independents journalists or pundits. All they see is how wonderful Kamala is when told that she's the greatest, they repeat it. I just went to breakfast with 3 buddies and all 3 of them were gushing how intelligent she was. Why? The legacy media. Do not underestimate the power of their propaganda and always take it seriously.
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  6132.  @terrencegonzales2183  Do you want to know the reason? The man is a lunatic, a criminal who belongs in jail.
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  6133. These are women who want to make it okay to hate a demographic....our own kids. One of the most despicable things that a parent can do. I feel so sorry for them. They're pathetic.
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  6134.  @eyesofascension8678  Not in the small towns of the midwest or most small towns in the US. It's the big cities. Suburbanites have a tendency to live in a fantasyland and it's tearing the country apart.
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  6135.  @eyesofascension8678  A political map of Oregon shows that Portland, Eugene and Salem are blue. The rest of the state, almost 90% of the area of Oregon is red. They don't put up with Blue state nonsense in their small towns. A lot of them are wanting to break away and join Idaho. A lot of the people, in rural Oregon, refused to wear masks during Covid and there wasn't a thing that those blue cities could do about it. All the red areas have to do in Illinois is stand up to the Chicago authoritarians.
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  6136. "Google search" is a tool that can be used to defeat the left. They hate it.
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  6137. @Jason Cook I realise that Google, the company is left, but I'm talking about Google in the generic sense. You could use Bing or Duckduckgo but I'd still say "google" as an expression, not as a directive to use only THAT company. I mean google as in to do the research, when hearing a news story, to find out all the facts. I mean to google to expand beyond CNN as the only news source. I could say Duckduckgo it, every time, but that would be ridiculous. You know what I mean. You're just being intentionally obtuse.
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  6138. @ They violated her civil rights as a woman and refused to protect her from men with criminal records. As long as she's been a good citizen, while in prison, why not commute her sentence? Biden commuted the sentences of prisoners on death row who were there for murder. Fraud is serious but it's nowhere NEAR as serious as murder.
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  6139. If Elon Musk wants to spend his money on space exploration, that's his right. Tesla is a money making enterprise. If you don't think that the state should be subsidising Tesla, tell your Congressman and vote that way. However, it's the administration, that we just voted in, that wants to subsidise the clean energy initiative and they're doing it by forcing gas prices through the roof. That's where the costly failure is coming from.
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  6140.  @guangxidavidliu  Why? Do you have inside information that implicates China?
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  6141. Only a socialist would tax you and then give you money back. Take 10 bucks out of one pocket and then put 5 in the other.
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  6142. That's how reasonable people perceive their relationships with their parents.
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  6143.  @toomuchdrivetothrive  He called them racists. That has become one of the biggest insults in modern society. You don't get to claim some special status which would exempt you from acting like a jerk. Child/parent relationships having rocky patches are normal. Calling your parents names, on a public forum, goes beyond that, especially when one is supposed to be an adult. It's time for that 35 year old, multi-millionaire to grow up and quit his whining.
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  6144.  @-Monad-  "everyone should "be educated to a degree commensurate with their intelligence" The word "should" is the key here. "Should" implies that it always isn't possible or reality. One may be intelligent but due to economic realities, they don't get the education that would allow that intelligent to be brought to its full potential. It's NOT that they're smarter. They were able to to challenge that intelligence to its fullest potential due to the availability of information and how to use it. Without intelligence, that education would be lost on the student. The intelligence is already there to be developed into specific areas of learning.
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  6145.  @dwaynewalker1186  Troll.
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  6146. She rails on about how that court decision strikes down Constitutional rights. There isn't one word about abortion in the Constitution. It's weird how they treat the Constitution as it's a sacred scroll when they talk abortion and when it comes to the second Amendment, the Constitution should be abolished and re-written. Not very consistent.
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  6147. Why weren't there any journalists investigating the coronavirus back in January? Where were all the news specials, talking to epidemic specialists, trying to get in touch with sources in Wuhan, asking members of the CDC what a new coronavirus could be capable of? Do you know what they were reporting on? IMPEACHMENT. MORE IMPEACHMENT, and then when that was all done.....MORE IMPEACHMENT. CNN, MSNBC, all of them, on and on about ONE THING. IMPEACHMENT, over and over and OVER again. It's a huge failure of our media. When a huge pandemic was threatening the world, they were full focus on their ideological obsessions and their hatred of the president. The media's job is too inform us of world events and they, quite actively, ignored what was happening in China in favour of their of obsession with Donald Trump.
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  6148.  @ericsteadman7235  Give it a rest. You'd be happier than a hog in a bog if Musk had backed Harris and you know it.
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  6149. Every drug death is NOT the result of failed drug policies. It's the fault of personal decisions made by the drug user. Don't ingest illicit drugs and the chances of a fatal overdose decrease substantially, almost to the point of zero. Drug users aren't victims. They're complicit in their own demise. Before anyone starts ranting about how I don't understand....I have used illicit drugs in the past. The reason that I stopped had NOTHING to do with drug policies or policy makers. I had to take responsibility for my actions and say aloud that I was the only one that could stop my destructive behaviour. There wasn't a politician in sight when I quit.
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  6150. I think it appalling that the NEA believes that they have a right to ensure the outcome of an election. That means political indoctrination in our schools. This will end up, intentionally or not, challenging the religious beliefs of the students and their families. This is as unconstitutional as it gets.
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  6151.  @dparis2172  However, this is SO bizarre and ridiculous, how else does one respond if you've never heard of it before? I know that my reaction wasn't much different when I first heard that people were believing it. What I fault Maher foe is not knowing or ever hearing about it....unless he has and he used it as part of his comedy routine which I find rather low of him. If I'd have heard this claim 20 years ago, I'd have burst out laughing. It's the absurdity that Voltaire talked about. How could any rational person believe that? Yet...there are those who do. We are living in times where the insane are taken seriously.
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  6152. My mom was 5' 2" and Dutch. It happens.
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  6153. You're one of those people that has to have everything spelled out to him, right to the letter. Find a doctor that you trust and then trust him. Anyone that trusts a doctor, implicitly, is a damn fool. If you trust anyone implicitly, you're a fool. Trust some doctors and they'll tell you you're a girl and cut then your willie off. "I trusted my doctor"....you'd say, like an idiot. Tim found a doctor that he trusted and he even questioned him about the Ivermectin, because he was comfortable about taking it and the doctor told him to take it. So, he did. He trusted him.
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  6154.  @MrDlt123  So true.
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  6155.  @Raulsta1985  Usually....I would agree with you. However, one of the biggest things that the left wants to do is try to get us to believe that everyone from a specific demographic must ALL be the same. Think the same way, like the same foods, believe the same things, vote for the same party....and on and on. It's one of the most despicable ideas that they have and they use it into bullying people to shut up. We need to dissuade people of this crazy idea and to do that we have to see people, like Joel, stand up to say that they belong to these groups and they do NOT think the same way as everyone else. That they ARE individuals. If people, like Joel, never speak up, this bigoted idea will continue to take root and it'll become more difficult to get rid of.
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  6156.  @jhlfsc  Where did I say that minorities can't be bigots? I never said that ONCE. In fact, my entire message was that the idea that the original poster can't be black or gay and think this way is BIGOTED. That we're all individuals and that to assign characteristics based on race or minority status is as bigoted as it gets. That's why they had to act as if Larry Elder was the black face of white supremacy. They want to imply that he was bought off to say the things that he did and that, as a black man, he would NEVER believe these things on his own. That is as bigoted as it gets. It's saying that all I have to do is look at you, check off what demographic you belong to and I'll know everything about you. That's what they did to Larry Elder and it was the LEFT that did that, NOT the right. Also, Fascists are Socialists. Even that painter from Austria was a socialist. "We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan" Adolf Hitler , August 15, 1920, speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. " In this respect I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people.” – Adolf Hitler , February 24, 1941, speech on the 21st anniversary of the Nazi Party That was 21 years AFTER he made that first quote I wrote. “All the more so after the war, the German National Socialist state, which pursued this goal from the beginning, will tirelessly work for the realization of a program that will ultimately lead to a complete elimination of class differences and to the creation of a true socialist community.” – Adolf Hitler, March 21, 1943, speech for Heroes’ Memorial Day So don't give me this BS about right wing Fascists. It's complete nonsense.
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  6157. This entire covid pandemic has been an hypochondriac's wet dream. They now know that every bug, germ, virus, parasite and amoeba is out to get them and they were right all along. I never thought that I was going to become Felix Unger.
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  6158. I can't stand listening to those mayors. They play stupid words games to deflect and avoid being honest and truthful. Even George Orwell couldn't envision the deceit that's on display here and he did a good job describing what people with their ideology are like. They are the worst of the worst. No wonder people don't trust our election process. Common sense would dictate that no one would elect these used car salesman unless election fraud was rampant.
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  6159.  @adrianl7147  So you're saying that Trump's manner doesn't show that he's unqualified. Basically what I was saying.
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  6160.  @adrianl7147  But there is no content. They don't tell us what they did to survive except to tell us how they lived with nature. Well...DUH. That's how all of humanity survived. There's nothing special about that. They did what they learned from their parents who learned from their parents, from their parents before that, all the way back to the savannahs of Africa. I didn't learn a thing from this video.
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  6161.  @adrianl7147  LMAO. You're right. I was going to respond to another comment when someone knocked on my door. I dealt with that, which took about 15 minutes andcame back to my computer and gave my answer, meant for that person, to you. It was a totally different subject, about how native Americans survived when they came to the Americas. No wonder it sounded so weird. LOL Sorry about that.
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  6162.  @adrianl7147  Rogan is not a news guy. He interviews people so we see them as they are in the ways that 2 people talk over coffee or beers or playing a round of golf. He doesn't invite people on to interrogate them, to beat them down. He wants to show people as they are when they're not in front of a camera, when you see them in their raw form. Instead of a contest, it's getting to know them. He would've done the same with Kamala but she was having none of it. It would have been interesting to see her as a person and not a politician. What interests her? What does she do to relax? Sort of what he did with Trump and it was a big success for both of them. I didn't see that interview with Jonathan Swan so I can't even begin to comment on it but I'll look it up and see.
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  6163.  @Philosophy-esque  You sure didn't show me that the emperor has no clothes. All you showed me was that you're full of yourself by using big words and circular logic. If you want to show us that he has no clothes, you address what HE is saying and don't try to baffle with BS and pretend that this is evidence of some kind. It's BS and nothing more and says nothing about the emperor or what he's saying.
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  6164.  @Philosophy-esque  When you write a lot of nonsense, that doesn't prove that what someone else wrote is nonsense as well. All it shows is that YOU wrote nonsense and did it intentionally. Just because you didn't understand "Maps of Meaning", that doesn't make it a jumble of words with no meaning. It could mean that it's a difficult read and needs one to use their brain to understand it. Also, I've read it a long time ago and it is a very difficult read. Some ideas were very intriguing, like how people use narratives to express personal beliefs or behaviours. Peterson simplifies it in his YouTube series on "Pinocchio" and also using the stories of the Bible. However, it's always easier to mock than to do the work of trying to get his point or even analyse it so you can explain your position on it. You're the one with the big problem with it. Why don't you explain why those ideas are wrong instead of feigning intelligence through sneering remarks. You don't even have to read the book to do that.
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  6165.  @Philosophy-esque  Apparently, you just wrote in one short paragraph what Peterson did in 400 pages. At least that's what you think. It's like saying that the theory of evolution was the complete brainchild of Darwin when he built it on evolutionary ideas of others but added one perspective that no one else thought of. The theory of evolution already existed before Darwin wrote the Origin of Species. Knowledge grows upon knowledge and Peterson tied together elements of many disciplines to end up where you did and it discusses the very heart of why human history was so brutal and yet so productive and did it within his own journey of discovery, citing an wide array of authors and thinkers. Too bad you weren't around to simplify it for him and he wouldn't have had to spend years doing all that research. However, I'm sure that he would have dismissed your cynicism and the "I already knew that" attitude that allows you to display your arrogance like some young peacock. I even have a feeling that you didn't even read the book and that you're only repeating what someone else has said....someone who finds the ways that he links religion, the narrative, psychology, evolution, human behaviour and other disciplines as a justification for religious belief and no more then mere superstition. Sneering cynicism isn't all that profound either.
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  6166.  @Philosophy-esque  I think that you're the one missing the point. If one hasn't been exposed to those ideas before, you learn about them. The library is full of redundancies, yet we still go there. Reading one book should lead to another and another. It's not just the information, it's how it's presented and the perspectives. One builds on the other. You want to prove something. I just want to learn. I could have picked up something by Jung but I didn't. I picked up "Maps of Meaning". From there I read Hannah Arendt, Voltaire. Knowledge is intertwined and a journey. I've read Milton and Solzhenitsyn, Marx and Foucault. Do I agree with everything they've written? Of course not but I still learn from them. I assume that everyone knows something that I don't. From what I can see, you'll dismissive and arrogant, too good to learn from those you believe don't have your vaunted IQ. YOU are missing a lot but you'll never know because you're too good to find out.
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  6167.  @Philosophy-esque  "no formal education or academic contributions" the supremacy of the expert. I might as well quit interacting with you because my formal education is in computer programming and systems analysis. What expertise do you have in psychology? Like me, you have no background to even speak on it. Nice talking to you but apparently my lack of a formal education in these matters precludes any discussion on anything but how to design a computer system. I most humbly apologise.
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  6168.  @Philosophy-esque  "Regarding that perspective, I’m aware of Peterson’s compulsion to mix subjects from different fields in which he has no formal education or academic contributions" This is not my interpretation. This is copied and pasted from your comment. So far, you've not said one thing that would demonstrate that this one book or his series on Pinocchio or his Bible series lack merit. All you've done is harp on his use of big words and how ambiguous they can be. I found those YouTube videos quite entertaining and thought provoking, even with my limited education in those fields. You're not talking about his ideas. You're making it about him. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" Eleanor Roosevelt. So far, you've not passed talking about him, who is a person, a singular people. Anyway, considering my lack of formal education is these fields, I'm going to relax on this lawn chair and contemplate the beauty of my neighbours black eyed susies. Beautiful flowers. Don't know much about them but that's not important when appreciating them, is it?
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  6169.  @RomePama  His aspirations for 2028 is to become president of the United States. That's not going to happen. Californians, stuck in their progressive ideology, might still vote for him, though. Ideology has always trumped common sense. Look at what people have had to suffer in far left socialist nations. They just kept doubling down and allowing things to get worse and worse until total collapse. It's the story of the 20th century.
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  6170. Growing up on a farm in southern Ontario in the sixties, it seemed that there were growths of stinging nettles behind all the out sheds and chicken coups. Every farm seemed to have them. I've gotten into them lots of time and didn't like it. We had them in the woods, too, but they were a different variety and didn't grow as tall. Eventually, I found out that the ones growing around the buildings were imported from Europe and that peaked my interest. Why would they import something that seemed to be good for nothing except to sting you? It seemed to bring our history closer, when I finally found out. The farm I grew up on had so many things growing on it. A small apple orchard, pear trees, a plum orchard, currant bushes, raspberries and gooseberries, rhubarb....we were always picking them and my mom canned all summer. We never used the nettles, though, simply because we had no idea that they could be useful. At least it explained why every farm in the area had clusters of them growing around the place.
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  6171.  @reallymysterious4520  Trump is being charged with fraud. No one was frauded out of any money. He borrowed some money and gave his property as collateral and is accused of, by a prosecutor, NOT the people that he borrowed the money from, of over valuing his property. He paid the money back, in time. The lender was happy and had NO complaints. There was NO victim, No one lost a penny. Life went on until this prosecutor, who's stated her vendetta against Trump, discovered this clerical discrepancy, in the lending agreement. The lender is STILL not unhappy about what the affair. The only one upset is the prosecutor, the judge and people like YOU....and you're probably a bot.
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  6172.  V N  Common sense???? Every socialised nation has failed. EVERY ONE. The only one that has succeeded was China and that's because it's devolved into a Fascist state. A one party state in which the economy and society is ruled by that party. They even have concentration camps for minorities...just like another famous Fascist state. This isn't common sense at all. It's closer to insanity. The only ones that know what they're doing are those in power. They're ruthlessly using the minorities and champagne socialists to gain power and you're falling for the insane rhetoric that they're spewing. SMH.
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  6173.  @slipstreammonkey  It's cute but a diversion. They're 2 separate topics. Identity isn't a feeling. It's biological fact and deeply ingrained into our very being, right down to our DNA. It's what compels our maturation as human beings. That's why puberty is so important. It's a biological development, no different than any other stage of our development. It's compelled by everything that we're built from. An adolescent has no idea where the changes of puberty are going to take him/her because it is out of their control, no different than your eye colour or the freckles on your face, except it runs even deeper than that. Our existence depends on the binary that is gender. Without it, we'd be no better than one celled creatures because that binary allows us the genetic diversity to stay alive. There is no other system of procreation in all the so called advanced life forms. It's that vital to our survival. Our "feelings" can't change that. A dog can hump my leg, but that doesn't mean that it's found a new gender. It's responding to a primal urge that's within all of us, that is beyond our feelings. It's a call to life itself. We accept that a person could be attracted to the same sex but that's a lot different than claiming to be another gender or one that they've just made up. That's a feeling and has nothing to do with biology, no matter what the egghead intellectuals or a Supreme Court Justice says. Claiming to be Jesus Christ or Napoleon doesn't make it so, no matter who much you wish it or feel it. Cutting off body parts and attempting to fashion new ones doesn't change your gender, no different that sticking a sow's ear on a horse won't change that sow into a pony.
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  6174.  @VelaiciaCreator  Show us the biological markers that indicates that a person is transgender. Not about how they feel but actual biology that can be recognised using objective science not discussion. Explain how being trans operates as a biological function to human survival. And speaking of survival, trans activists insist that we must affirm a person's gender claims or we put their lives in extreme danger. Britain has seen a 4000% increase in transgender claims and the suicide rates have gone UP since we've been affirming the condition in schools, medicine and even through our governments. If not affirming their claim to gender, which was the situation in the past, why wasn't the suicide rate way higher, due to the despair of not living the lives that they were "meant" to live. Suicide rates should be going down not up. For thousands of years people have claimed to feel the Holy Spirit coursing through their bodies, compelling them to praise God and Jesus. I'm sure they felt something but was it a real phenomenon? Is it really the work of a real living God or is it a psychological condition. People have changed their lives due to this religious rebirth so its effects have real consequences. Is this proof that God exists? This is a complex psychological phenomenon that isn't as understood as you claim it is. It's definitely not understood well enough that placing young adolescents on puberty blockers is the ONLY option and neither is performing surgery on demand. This instances of regret and the anger expressed when one does voice their regret is highly suggestive that the idea means more than the reality.
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  6175.  @VelaiciaCreator  You completely ignored my points on how religious beliefs also affect people psychologically in profound ways. It's a cause and effect phenomenon. Does that prove the existence of God? Also, if would be extremely helpful if you could link me to these biological studies that prove your point. I've asked others but they've all declined. The studies that I have found all deal with feelings and there is never any real scientific evidence to validate such a claim. Maybe I've found bad evidence and need to see better stuff but it's difficult when you don't know what the good is. Give me start in the right direction. Also, the John Money example doesn't pass muster. He was trying to change a boy into a girl, another gender and he was working as if gender was a closed binary set. He wasn't exploring the possibility of multiple genders in which the gender types could be in the hundreds. All he proved was that you can't force a person into a different gender. That has very little to do with multiple genders if at all.
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  6176.  @VelaiciaCreator  Suicide rates are way up in the trans community and that contradicts the claim that gender affirmation is necessary or lives are at stake due to suicide. Well, gender affirmation has become the norm and suicide rates are still climbing. Also, if affirmation was THAT important, why weren't the suppressed trans population, 4000% more than what was known to exist in Britain, committing suicide at astounding rates. Their "very being" was being denied into non-existence, yet they weren't killing themselves at the rates that they are today. That they're suddenly being bullied doesn't account for that. In fact, odd behaviour was much more likely to incite bullying 50 years ago than it is today. Misgendering someone is now unlawful in some countries and you could be fined, lose your job or face school suspensions if you're accused of doing so. The idea that affirmation is necessary to save lives just doesn't seem consistent with reality. In fact that claim is used as an emotional cudgel to elicit guilt that results in no one ever questioning their assertions. "They killed themselves because you refused to affirm their gender. It's YOUR fault". That's an extremely powerful weapon.
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  6177.  @VelaiciaCreator  Are you EVER misunderstanding the point that I'm making. I hope that you're not doing this intentionally. I will try one more time. The claim is that lack of gender affirmation is causing suicides. There was no such thing as gender affirmation 50 years ago. In Britain, transgender cases have skyrocketed, in the last 10 years by 4000 percent and most of them are girls. Intersex cases were almost exclusively boys in the past and now it's girls. If that is the TRUE number of transgender population, how is it that the suicide rates for girls are on the rise, among those who are transgender, when 50 years ago they couldn't even get the affirmation they claim that they so badly need. No affirmation and no chance of surgery, either yet suicide rates are on the rise. Were those girls so much tougher back then? Also, you're claim that people have is tough today, doesn't past the muster either. 90 years ago there was the great Depression. Ordinary people, even in America, were scrounging for food and living in abject poverty. Then came the WW2. Not exactly a time of wealth for average people and then they had to contend with the new spectre of nuclear war which extended through the Cold War. When I was a kid, in the sixties, every large explosive sound would compel the search for a mushroom cloud on the horizon. Blacks in America were living under Jim Crow. Gays were reviled and transgenders lived an underground existence. The last 30 years were the best in human history, with more people coming out of abject poverty than at any time in history only blunted by the advent of Covid and the world reaction to it. Covid and the Covid response resulted in over 250 million people falling BACK into abject poverty, abject poverty being less than 1.90 in US dollars a day. So don't give me this "times are tough" nonsense. 95% of all humans lived in abject poverty 150 years ago, no welfare, socialised medicine, retirement pension plans or the means to access affordable food. Being gay is widely accepted and anyone claiming to be trans is being affirmed by their schools, medical practitioners, the law and businesses. The rainbow flag is everywhere. Even the crosswalks in my small town are painted to reflect the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. Your assertions are bogus and the facts don't bear them out.
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  6178.  @wayne3334  Sue both. It's the state that encourages the officer. Without state approval, the officer can't legally rob you.
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  6179. @kevinallies1014 That's weird. The US has around 7.6 million Jews living there. It's been a functioning society since WW2 although things are getting bad recently. Israel has a 73% Jewish population and it's an extremely well functioning society while Gaza, which is almost 100% Muslim, is a mess, spending all their money on arms and military infrastructure. Where did you get the idea that God told Hitler do rid Europe of all Jews? Did he also tell Hitler to invade my country, steal food and household goods off my family and imprison my uncle for 2 years? Did God tell Hitler to execute people, in town squares, to demonstrate Hitler's power? You better read your Bible again. "Love thine enemies" doesn't include starving, beatings and assembly line executions of the innocents, and instigating a war that led to the deaths of close to 50 million people in the most brutal conflict in human history. Your's is a most twisted view of God and morality that I've ever heard.
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  6180.  @50tv70  No....we accept them if we believe that they're correct and fight them if we think they're wrong. No one is infallible and accepting things because some higher power says that we must, is the very definition of tyranny. It's what every authoritarian government has strived for throughout history. They want blind acceptance and obedience and it's been proven, throughout history, to be extremely deadly. It was people that followed blindly, who were at the heart of the cause of WW2 and dozens of other horrors in my lifetime.
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  6181. Why would Iran shoot down that plane on purpose? Just to get one spy? That plane was on the ground shortly before it was shot down. They could have arrested the guy then. It makes no sense.
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  6182.  @Kurakumakachilibaba  No, I haven't. I'm an old man and I don't want to spend my last days in prison.
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  6183.  @Sushihunter250  I worked with a guy who was in the SS during the war. I'm old enough to have been able to say that. He never accused Canadians of being TOO polite.
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  6184.  @timwilson1339  Really? It's official US policy to get the Ukrainian special prosecutor, who was investigating Hunter Biden's boss and company, fired? Hunter's boss, Mykola Zlochevsky owner and founder of Burisma, was hiding in England and had some 25 million dollars in bank assets seized because of that investigation. 6 months after that prosecutor was fired, the investigation was dropped, the money was released and Zlochevsky was back in Ukraine. A year later, the guy was in another scandal and disappeared again. And this is official US policy. Gotcha. LOL.
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  6185.  @RobDeSaster  I got buddies that, at first denied it and then when I showed it to them, they gave the "he was fighting Ukrainian corruption" speech. That's BS as well. Shortly after that prosecutor was fired, the investigation into Hunter Biden's boss, Mykola Zlochevsky, was dropped and 25 million in seized bank assets was returned to him. Later, Trump was impeached for ASKING about it. I'm sure you remember that phone call.
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  6186. Hollywood doesn't care because they believe that they are our intellectual superiors. Why would you care about some dirty, Walmart shopper, who makes his living working a mindless factory routine? It's up to them to tell us what to think. They believe that to the very core of their being.
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  6187.  @unbreakable7633  Is Trump the lead in a new Republican segment that's fighting the old traditional Republicans as well as the Democrats? If not, what parts of the Constitution does he hate. Be specific because, if true, I'd like to know about it.
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  6188. There's no such thing as having it all. This idea is why the radical feminists are so miserable, so ready to do battle at every perceived slight. I'll give you an example. I dated a girl, years ago, for a short time. We were talking on the phone and I was telling her that I had just made some homemade soup. I then said, as an afterthought, that she may not like it. Before I had a chance to explain why, she lost it on me, ranting on about how men always think women are nothing but complainers. I calmly told her that she had told me, on our last date, that she didn't like cabbage rolls because she hated cabbage and that I had put cabbage in my soup. I then asked her why she felt it necessary to come out of the gate, both barrels blazing and that all she had to do was quietly ask why I thought that she may not like it. She sniffed and said I suppose so and that was it. We stopped seeing each other a short time later. Didn't bother me a bit.
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  6189. Antifa will support the 2A until they get power. Then the 2A goes out the window and they'll be the ones with guns. That's the big difference between Conservatives and Antifa. That guy that was killed by the cop was told not to reach for his gun and the cop panicked. He should have kept his hand on the steering wheel after he told the cop he was carrying. He'd still be alive today. Mistaken perceptions are the price citizens have to pay for the right to open carry.
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  6190. Dr. Phil: The lockdown could have serious psychological effect on the average American. We should realise this and try to bring things back to normal sooner better than later. CNN: Dr. Phil's not a real doctor. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's going to cause the deaths of Americans. Hollywood actor: Donald Trump is insane. CNN: This proves it. Hollywood actors are professionals. Some of them even play psychologists of TV. Trump needs mental help.
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  6191.  @renaissancestatesman  First of all, look at my comments closely. I never ONCE mentioned the possibility of voter fraud. Why? Because it's pointless now. What we have to concentrate on NOW, is the next election and there are problems if Trump runs again. First...it's his age. The next election is 4 years away which means that he'll be 8 years older when he's finally done. That'll make him 82. He's healthy right now, but that can change SO quickly. It may not change. My dad is 89 and he's 4 times as sharp as Biden....but that his health could change overnight is a consideration. Trump's age is a factor. Also, we have to find a way to mitigate the outright hate that so many have for Trump. One way is to find a candidate, who has a similar outlook but is so articulate and presents such strong arguments, without being too combative, and has the charisma to win people over, that it's difficult to hate him. Difficult to hate him in spite of the manipulations of the press. Third, we have to work on the highly suspect election process. Trump can't be that guy. Too many people will recoil when they here about "stealing the election" from him. We need someone that didn't have an issue in the last election. Someone who they can't claim is still whining about losing last election. We need someone who can lay out the case for reform and can make it appear as if he is standing up for this without bias. The past is OVER. Accept that we lost and start up with a new strategy. ......And I repeat.....I didn't swallow any hook, line or sinker. I just think that there's no point in crying about the past. We can't change it but we can change the future if we go at it right. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening. Too many Rinos and swamp creatures in the Republican Party.
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  6192. We all have that fond family history of our grandparents who immigrated to this wonderful country. Nuclear physicist by day and gang member and rapist by night. It brings a tear to my eye, I'm so proud.
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  6193.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  I agree. Race is everything. If you look at someone and don't consider the racial impact that they have on you and society, YOU are a racist. Must always see things through the lens of race. If not, you don't know history and stuff, which doesn't matter because history is racist....RIGHT????? Name the subject and I'll show you how race has the greatest influence on that subject. That's because I know that race is EVERYTHING. I'm so glad that you're fighting the good fight. We need more racialised discussion in this country, especially when it comes to math. Math is the most racist of all things taught in school. We have to introduce CRT to limit the damage that math has on our children and society in general. It's good that you're doing your part.
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  6194. If I were a Latino and I just scaled the wall to get into the US, the first thing I would do is to head to a sanctuary city or state. Once there, they can't deport me. I may have to run the gamut of ICE agents and police to get there but once there, I'm safe. But don't offer me a ride there. That's racist and you'd be dumping me in that safe zone. Illogical.
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  6195.  @frankcastle-ic4pp  Well, infidel. You may support the Muslims but when they become the majority, you will be forced to follow the laws of Islam. You won't have to convert, but your life will be severely restricted. They've done this in every country in which they've become the majority. We have no reason to believe that they're going to change their basic beliefs because we're being nice to them.
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  6196. @MY YT She was 13. That's a minor and a child. You neglected the OTHER definitions for the word "child". This is one of them: "a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority." You have all the earmarks of child sex abuser. I hope that you don't ever get past the "earmark" stage.
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  6197. This claim that the FBI were looking for nuclear documents has all the earmarks of Democrat disinformation.
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  6198.  @pingpong9656  I wanted DeSantis but that's not happening. I still get to vote, though. So, I'll back Trump. You see, the Republicans are different than the Democrats. They actually allowed challengers to run for the Republican nomination. No one ran against Harris. No choices there. Challengers not allowed.
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  6199. Could you imagine a Twitter shareholder being banned by Twitter. They don't ban the bots, though. What a stupid company.
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  6200. But he still took it and TOLD everyone. He didn't have to tell us, you know.
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  6201.  @gonzobean4694  I agree. I was in maintenance for years. A machine doctor, so to speak. I was fairly good at my job but that doesn't mean I was right all the time. I screwed up plenty. You fight your doubts, do your best, get advice from others, it's a full gambit of trial and error to find ultimate success. The worst people to work with are those who are always correct and then never waver because they can't admit that they could be wrong.
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  6202.  @StoneCoolds  Yes, I guess that might well be true. Those were the good old days weren't they? When we all knew our places and deferred to those who could wield power over our speech and actions. "Pick faster and call me Master".
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  6203.  @jodieholmes8453  When anyone does it, it's wrong. If it's wrong for Trump, it's wrong for her. You're using a double standard to defend her. Since Trump is doing wrong, you're claim is that now she can do wrong as well. That's a double standard and you're allowing someone that you hate to set the bar for ethical behaviour. If it's wrong for Trump, it's wrong for everyone and if it's wrong for everyone, you shouldn't do it.
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  6204.  @jhitchcock5503  What does that even mean? Unlimited funds on someone else's credit card. This is MY money. I earned it and then saved it. I spent over 45 years accumulating my modest nest egg. You sound just like my son in law. Complain about every aspect of life and have 101 excuses why things will NEVER work out. If you spent more time on the positive, maybe you wouldn't have time to be belly aching all the time. Maybe you'd be doing something that adds value to your life, a source of satisfaction, instead of crying in your soup, like an bitter old man. If you're living in a western style country, you're living in the best time and in the best place in human history to be alive......but you're too angry and bitter to see it.
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  6205. GuerillaUnderground "slave" to the system in jobs without meaning. There's no such thing. All jobs have meaning and relevancy. Remember that the next time you're sitting on the toilet and realise the predicament you'd be in if no one had done the "meaningless" job of winding paper onto a core and packing them into boxes for your convenience. Our world works due to these so called "meaningless" jobs by people that are only seeking to survive in a universe that is intent on killing them.
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  6206.  @WokeBegone  Trying to convert the indoctrinated is futile. It will invariably turn into an argument rather than a search for truth and it just ends up embarrassing both sidess. Most people won't change their minds until their favourite media source tells them to. As an example....I have friends who thought that the Covington Kids were just plain horrific, when that story broke. Not one of them would take the time to verify its veracity. Even when I tried to show them the original video, the one that the edited version came from, would they even believe me, mostly because they refused to even look at it. Suddenly, the MSM had no choice but to rescind all their original stories. It was only THEN that my friends realised that they'd been wrong. It's the same with the story of "good people on both sides" about Trump. Finally, when the MSM started to acknowledge that Trump did condemn white supremacy, in that speech, did my friends grudgingly admit that he didn't say anything wrong. I could give you dozens of examples why attempts at conversion are a waste of time.
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  6207.  Jave Nilson  If it saves just ONE life..... Isn't that the claim over the Covid restrictions?
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  6208.  @Furryfeather  The media knows that most people are headline readers. They very seldom read an entire article and never get to the part that lightly mentions the truth and you'll find that truth in the last paragraph. Google "Dexter Reed". You'll see a group of headlines saying how Reed was fired at nearly 100 times and killed without ever mentioning that he shot the first shot. Those headlines are lies by omission. Google is doing it intentionally. In other words, it's almost like the small print in a crooked contract or a pharmaceutical product description. The truth or the bad parts are always at the end and in tiny print. It's designed to protect themselves in case of litigation. That's why I always read the entire article and then use the last paragraph, their metaphorical disclaimer, to help me find out what really happened. If you don't, you will believe their lies. A sure way to lose your freedom is to believe lies and then act on them. Read the end first. Quite often, that's where the truth will lie.
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  6209.  @kimberlywilliams4800  Did you see his car? The driver's side was banged up pretty badly. Who's going to carjack that piece of junk? I, for one, would, most definitely, not going to start shooting to protect that vehicle, especially if the people get out of a vehicle with police lights, have weapons and are wearing jackets that say police on it. It doesn't matter if he knows why they pulled him over or not. I've been pulled over and had no idea what the reason was. Once, it was because my truck, a rather unusual vehicle, fit the description of a truck owned by a person wanted for assault. I complied with their demands, gave all the necessary paperwork, answered all their questions and they let me go with an explanation and apology. All he had to do was comply and he'd be alive today. Instead he resisted and started shooting. HE started shooting. If you don't want to get shot, don't drive around with a gun or start shooting when someone, in a police car, pulls you over. In fact, Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the US. He was breaking the law by just having that gun in his possession. He was the architect of his own demise.
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  6210. We don't even know what a woman is.
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  6211. MSM today, reminds of a guy I once knew. A common greeting around here is "How're you doing?". You never used it on this guy because he'd tell you how he was doing and it was NEVER good. These reporters are all about tearing people apart. Just like the guy I described, nothing is EVER good.
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  6212.    What???? Where are you digging this up and why would you even say something like that?
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  6213.  @mneedes2  LOL....now THAT was quite the comeback. So logical, yet succinct. A grand narrative in one word and sealed with an exclamation mark. Triggered ! ........Brilliant. Just....brilliant.
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  6214.  @mneedes2  Yeah....triggered with laughter. Did you not see the "LOL" in the last comment. I was making fun of you. I guess if you like being mocked....that might be fun for you. You might try a dominatrix. They'd be better at it than I would. I love the "schmoe" insult. LOL. Right from the Yiddish insult book. Bilingual, I see. Smart man.
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  6215.  Eisen Chao  And that is a good thing? I hope that's not what you're saying.
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  6216. @Lando R You are kidding......right? No one can be that dumb.
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  6217.  @mubirunyago9178  Wait till it's -30 Centigrade and you have no heat. You've not experienced misery until you're next to freezing with no way to get warm. It can kill you in a few short hours.....all because we hate oil companies.
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  6218. And these are the people that are fighting for a better, cleaner and safer world. I can't wait for that......
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  6219.  @martingifford5415  I had circumcision surgery done when I was 6 due to an infection. Not that big a deal. In fact it was a relief for the pain of the infection to stop, in spite that it change the appearance somewhat. However, it didn't look any different that it does when it was fully erect before surgery. Circumcision has been done for thousands of years, all over the world and it seems it was more prevalent in the tropics. Even the Mayas, Incas and Aztecs and other tropical American indigenous nations practiced male circumcision. I'm sure that there have been surgical accidents during the procedure but they'd be quite rare as it's a very minor surgery. Not like amputating full breast, genitalia, and the surgical construction of male and female genitalia. A new vagina includes daily dilation for up to a year because the body is trying to heal, what it sees as a wound. For me, the discomfort lasted about a week, that I remember and then it was forgotten until people, like yourself, started to tell me that I was mutilated. To me, it wasn't even a scar. I just don't get it, at all.
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  6220. The "universal" symbol of hate that I hadn't even heard of 2 years ago. I'd make one lousy "white supremacist." Don't even know the secret handshake.
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  6221. Yup. They're being manipulated by newage Marxists. The commies tell them that they're oppressed which makes them angry and then tell them that nothing will happen if they do something wrong. Everyone blames the thieves and the manipulators go scott free.
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  6222. What is the matter with that Liberal? Trump sits down with Black Leaders to talk prison reform and urban renewal and somehow he thinks this is a bad thing because he doesn't like Trump. Talk about taking things personally. It appears he's quite willing to put any improvements to the Black community on hold just because he doesn't like the President. It's all about him. It's guys like him that going to get Trump re-elected and he just doesn't see it.
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  6223.  @Davitor1  Figure WHAT out? Please tell me so I'll know how to fight Trumpism.
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  6224.  @chrisoneal2718  Exactly. There's war in Ukraine, in the Middle East, sparring between China and India and any escalation could lead to a world war and even a nuclear holocaust but all they can think of is abortion. It's bizarre.
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  6225.  @QuietRefl4378  Right and wrong is NOT a popularity contest. For thousands of years, people bought, sold and kept slaves, all over the world. Are you going to tell me that it was the right thing to do because the entire world was a part of the slave trade? Doctors performed lobotomies on patients. It wasn't considered a terrible thing until we learned more about it. That was our medical establishment. Telling me that most people think that abortion is okay and a healthcare matter, is a form of gaslighting.....trying to make me feel embarrassed for my stance on the issue. You still haven't addressed the issue. Is that one-celled entity, conceived of a man and woman, a living, growing and unique human being or not? You just keep dancing around that issue and refusing to answer it. I hope that we do work it out but if you can't answer that question and give a definitive reason for why you believe that it isn't human, we will never work it out.
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  6226. It's a 3rd world country with an elitist upper class. California is becoming like the land in "The Hunger Games". Starving and struggling masses and elitists running the show.
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  6227.  @Scaley_Reptile  I have no problem with the rich. I have a problem with a rich, elitist class who have all kinds of ideas that negatively affect ordinary people. You don't need money to enjoy life. You need hope and a meaning to life. California elitist are robbing the people of both.
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  6228. Speech codes are not there so students can feel comfortable at all times. It's much more insidious than that. It's so that certain ideologies will always be right at all times without challenge. The goal is to instil the accepted dogma into society as the only "truth" to be repeated and defended and excluding all other ideas. It is the suppression of a free human spirit to the individual and the installation of a singular thought shared by all mankind. Complete control. It is in place to find that Winston Smith in our midst and re-educate or eliminate him, whatever's necessary to maintain that universal thought or idea. If we allow it to happen, our future, as free individuals, is very bleak. We'll all be cogs in the machine. I'll see you when the machine runs out of spare parts.
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  6229.  @sthubbins4038  Would you go away. We're all sick of you and all your phony accounts.
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  6230. I know people that lost their lives to cocaine. Many more that lost everything that they had, including family, their homes and friends. Cocaine is a killer drug. Don't do it.
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  6231. It'll be another Oliver North scenario. Some flunky will claim the coke. They'll throw the book at him but it's all agreed upon. After he serves time or whatever is required of him, he'll get a cushy job with a great government pension. He's happy, the Bidens are happy, the MSM will be happy along with the Democrats and supporters. All happy......except the ordinary American citizen who'll be saying that once again we're seeing a two tiered justice system.
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  6232.  @jake-ch5tu  I'm a recovering coke addict that has supported Trump. Let me tell you something. I hate the stuff and if Trump's family was doing it, I'd call them out. Coke is one of the scourges of this country along with Fentanyl. The Biden administration doesn't seem to take the Fentanyl problem all that seriously either. Open borders and open drug use in the streets is a Democrat and Biden policy, NOT a Trump and Republican issue.
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  6233.  @Mr_Joe_B_619  Your mother used to wipe your s---y butt, you ungrateful jerk. She fed you when you used to squall like a seagull over a french fry. Show a little respect.
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  6234.    It's random. We have a triage system here. As an example, there was a local guy who had a cancer that had a high mortality rate. They put him lower on the triage list because they felt that his survival chances were very poor. A fundme campaign raised enough money for him to go to the US for the same treatment and get it done right away. However, it didn't work and he died. Many people feel that all he did was go to the states and jump the line because he had the cash in hand. So it happens for other reasons, too, I'm sure. Our system is great but it's not perfect, no matter what people say. Nothing ever is. However, if it's an emergency, in Canada, and they believe that they can save you, you'll jump the line. I have a couple of good friends who have nothing but good things to say about how amazingly well they were treated when their lives were at stake. So it goes both ways.
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  6235.  @reptard6833  The Mensheviks and Bolsheviks were rival Marxists groups in the Soviet Union. They were both communists but still had philosophical differences. Socialism definition: "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." Fascism allows for private ownership but the owners are under control of the Party. The Party is, who they call the people. Any citizen can join the Party and you can work your way up, even to become supreme leader. In fact, China is now the closest country to a Fascist country there is. An authoritarian government, with privately owned businesses, under the control of their government. Their companies act as arms of the state just like the companies of Nazi Germany did. Germany abolished unions. They were redundant once Party members took the place of union stewards. They'd hold regular meetings with ALL levels of management in attendance, ensuring full loyalty to the Party, even owners and management. Not much different than China. Just look at how Huawei and other companies have been involved in industrial and political espionage. It's a BRAND of socialism, a step down from communism. Mussolini started out as a Marxist and reshaped his thinking into Fascism after he became disillusioned with the ineptness of his fellow Marxists. It's nothing like right wing American thinking or Conservatives. They believe in the Constitution, individual freedom and that all men are created equal and little to no interference in the affairs of private business. Any company tries to follow those principles in China or in Nazi Germany would see it's owners and management system replaced and likely arrested. Also, I came to this conclusion on my own, after reading extensively on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The similarities were striking other than the way they treated private property. When China started to relax their rules on private property, they slowly morphed into a Fascist state, akin to Nazi Germany. A nationalist state that's trying to dominate the world economically and politically. They couldn't be more alike had China used Nazi Germany as a blueprint to economic power. The only difference is that China doesn't emphasise, as a propaganda tool, the glory of the state like Germany did. It's still there but not as overt. Next time try discussing this topic, instead of reacting in anger and with insults. It makes it seem as if you have an agenda and that you hate to have your agenda challenged, sort of like a religious fanatic.
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  6236.  @reptard6833  If the American right, represented by the Republican Party, is so similar to Fascists, why do they support limited government, less government control over the lives of the people and a free, market drive economy? Also, why aren't the Republicans sending Party members to our places of businesses to ensure loyalty to the state and maintain the purity of Party values in our corporations and businesses? That's what Fascists did. Why is there no call to control education. In fact, the right wing Republicans support school vouchers, separate schools and homeschooling. Fascists took over the schools and amalgamated youth groups into Party machines like Hitler youth. In fact, it's the American left that doesn't like school independence and supports the idea that ALL schools be government controlled with no choice for parents or students. Also you've not mentioned one word on how the definition of socialism doesn't line up with the way the Fascists controlled the economy. Instead you advance the horseshoe model of political systems but you ignore my example how China has changed from a Marxist state into a Fascist state without going through the full Capitalist economy of the west industrialised nations. It seemed to have skipped right over it. Most of your argument isn't built on the discussion of ideas but on mockery and put downs. This idea isn't new and even if it wasn't that doesn't devalue the efficacy of the idea. Ideas are to be discussed, not sneered at. The search for truth isn't about finding a consensus but an examination of ideas and thoughts through the lens of facts and perspectives. Mussolini must a Marxist, whose ideas devolved into Fascism. The Chinese Marxist government has changed it's ideas to devolve into a Fascist type state. I don't see the horseshoe model here. I see a straight line evolution. Maybe I'm wrong but I'd prefer to be shown how that's wrong instead of your mocking tone. I learn through discussion. All mocking accomplishes is resentment.
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  6237.  @reptard6833  The right doesn't believe that the state should be mandated to teach morality standards to their children. They believe that this is a personal matter and should be up to the parents and those who they know have the same beliefs systems as they do. Teachers are virtual strangers and they don't want stranger teaching value codes to their children. That's not a belief in state control. That's a belief in individual choices in how sexual morality should be taught to their children. Individual responsibility over state responsibility. Individual sovereignty over state homogeneous sovereignty. Free and diverse ideas concerning morality and ethics over a state mandated morality or one belief to rule all. That's NOT control. One can still teach their children the way they want under the right wing ideology of freedom including the state sanctioned principles of sexual beliefs or practices if that what's they choose. The right does NOT want basic beliefs systems to be mandated by the state. That's against state control NOT in favour of it. In fact, it's the left that does NOT approve of private education and who believe that every child should be taught only state approved curriculum, including morality even if it contravenes the religious beliefs of the families of their pupils. The left, for a group that won't stop talking about diversity, they sure hate the diversity of ideas. So, again.....who wants TOTAL control? The "one education that must fit all" group or the "it should be the individual choice of each family" group, on how their children are raised and educated?
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  6238.  @reptard6833  Morality is everything to those who are religious. They believe that abortion is wrong and they're afraid that a teacher, an extremely powerful influence on children, would use that influence to teach their children that abortion is an acceptable solution to a problem that, quite often, occurs when who is engaging in another, to them, immoral and irresponsible act of sex before marriage. It's a matter of perspective to them. It matters, to them, if it is taught in a manner of acceptance or whether or a manner of choice and responsibility to their faith, their partner, the child that is an inevitable outcome. It matters to them because they don't want that person of influence to be the arbiter of how the morality of sexual behaviour is taught to their children. They don't like the idea that the state is a "co-parent" to their children. Faceless state reps, labeled as teachers, who come into the children's lives for a semester or 2 and disappear from their lives, forever. The claim that you've sat on education boards in no more than an appeal to authority, which is a logical fallacy. It means nothing. If you can't see how sexual behaviour and morality is intricately woven, to people of religious faith, then you don't understand religion, AT ALL.....and it's not just Christianity, either. Muslims are even more concerned with the morality of sexual practices than Christians and Hindus have their own traditions regarding sex and the marriage bond. They don't want it reduced to a "one size fits all" type of ideology. To then sex and the family bond is the cornerstone of society and teaching it as a generic practise is not only wrong but damaging to the young. I'm saying this as an atheist. I'm saying this as one who believes that parents are the most important factors in a child's life and that the most important ideas of the family should be taught by the family. It's the diversity of thought and lifestyle that parents possess and they believe should be taught to their children....not in school but in the home. That's the morality of sexual behaviour they believe in and they don't want strangers influencing the morality of sex to their children.
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  6239.  @reptard6833  Just because abortion is legal, that doesn't mean it's moral or right. I don't need the government to tell me what I should believe or think. Remember, slavery was once legal, too. Legal does NOT mean moral. Also, it's not that some conservatives don't want their children to know about sex before marriage. It's the context in how sex is portrayed. They don't want 8 year olds to be influenced to view sex as recreational, that it has no consequences and there is no responsibility to your sexual partner or to any consequences that may result from unconsidered sexual behaviour. Another fallacy is that just because one believes a practise is wrong, that doesn't automatically imply hatred of the person who commits that practise. Which is something else that is a popular belief in popular culture and encouraged in schools. Conservative beliefs are so vilified in the education system that students feel quite comfortable suppressing any ideas expressed that don't line up with their own and will even resort to violence to shut down any ideas that they don't like, behaviour fully supported by the school, itself. Evergreen College is the most egregious example of this type of indoctrination but not nearly the only one. Also, you're ascribing the behaviour of some conservative types to the ALL conservatives. No nuance, no diversity of thought, all EXACTLY the same. That's the major objection of conservatives. The Westboro Baptist Church is considered a whacked fringe group by almost ALL conservatives, even those that are religious and disapprove of premarital sex, including that of homosexuals. And Chick-fil-A wasn't donating to anti-gay organisations. They were donating to groups that thought that they could change gays into straight people if that's what an individual wanted for their life. A naive idea but not necessarily hateful. In fact, Chick-fil-A has gay employees and has never discriminated against any gay customers. A trans person can go, any time they want, and buy a chicken sandwich. I'll tell you what's really strange. It's strange that when the conservative is Christian, there is all kinds of vitriol thrown at him but when that person is Muslim and espouses the same ideas, the left make excuses for them. Which brings me to another point. No school should EVER, as an official stance, support left or right causes or ideals. They are there to teach the young how to read, write, understand mathematics and the facts of history, science and the world. If they teach evolution of the species, they should NEVER tell the children that the religious beliefs of their parents is wrong whether they're Christian, Muslim or whatever, although many teachers would never dare to say that to a Muslim child due to the prevalence of identity politics in the education system. That's another ideology that shouldn't be taught in school. Beliefs systems are personal and shouldn't be supported or discouraged by the state.
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  6240.  @jamesbriggs6364  I have yet heard anyone tell me what that president did. What crimes did he commit to become a felon. Maybe you could tell me. What crime did he commit? I'd really like to know.
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  6241. He knows where his salary comes from. He doesn't care. He'll do what he wants and doesn't feel he has to explain a thing to anyone. He's what corruption looks like.
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  6242.  @christopherparks4342  Right after Shoken was fired, Zlochevsky felt that it was now safe to go back to Ukraine. Then he got himself into trouble over a phone call and new investigations started over wrong doing when he was the Minister of Ecology. Besides, Zlochevsky's corruption was an internal affair. Biden's action wasn't. It involved American taxpayer money. It may well be on the up and up but if it wasn't, it's rather difficult to investigate Biden, when the centre of that corruption took place in Ukraine. This prosecutor, Shokin, was he really that much a kingpin of corruption that it warranted withholding 1 billion dollars in aid? That seems rather excessive. Why wouldn't Biden insist that the Ukraine president, Poroshenko, resign as well? He was known to be corrupt. Biden might be completely innocent but it does look bad and it would have been prudent for the American president to insist that Biden recluse himself from doing representing the US in a country where his son worked for a man who was known to be corrupt. I'd think that it would nice to know if this was dirty or not. This hasn't anything to do with party politics. This has to do with being transparent and apparently, asking that the facts of the case be uncovered is a terrible thing. If Biden is found innocent of wrong doing, it doesn't help Trump one bit. If he's found guilty of using American taxpayer money to help his son, it doesn't just help Trump, it helps EVERY American. It's good for the country to root out ALL corruption, not just the corruption of people we don't like.
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  6243. Next week, it will have been 47 years since I married, what I thought, was a wonderful woman. After years of being fooled by her nice sounding words, her pretty face, the hollow sounds of endearments, I finally realised that she wasn't what she claimed to be. I could have kept my head in the sand, not acknowledged my mistake but I chose to wake up.....FINALLY. Now, I'm not happy about the way that a lot of those people voted but I'm not going to rag on them for finally waking up. We need their help to get rid of these establishment despots. We'll have to keep an eye on them, to make sure that they're sincere about their intentions, but for now, we've no choice but to enlist them in our fight against the autocratic establishment. The more that join the fight, the greater our chances of beating them.
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  6244. Jordan Peterson has a long interview with Chloe Cole. If you can watch that and not be furious with the medical establishment then you're as heartless as they come.
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  6245.  @davidlipton2424  Funny that. Yet, the people who surrounded the White House, that forced Trump and family into a secure bunker due to safety concerns, and who tried to set the Church of the Presidents on fire, were just "peaceful protesters". The same people who caused the deaths of over 25 innocent people, sent thousands to the hospital, looted, set fires and destroyed the businesses and homes of black neighbourhoods, were heroes, fighting for "social justice". You're not concerned about right or wrong. You just want your side to win.
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  6246.  @MrHorsesongs05  The Fabians were a socialist organisation. No different than the Bolsheviks, Democratic socialists or Nazis. They all have their own brand of "state capitalism" even Lenin tried to introduce it in the Soviet Union. However, that's not what capitalism is. Capitalism.....an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. The online dictionary. Controlled by private owners. That's the key. Socialists want to control the economy and businesses. If there are owners, they're still under the control of the state. Capitalism doesn't do that. All control is wielded by the owners and the state has no say in business decisions. That's NOT the case in socialism and the Fabians are just another group that wants control by the state.
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  6247. Kathy Griffin does feel bad, at all. She doubled down, a few days later, with a picture of the Covington basketball team holding up the 3 point sign and then she told everyone it was a white supremacist sign. She didn't want to give up the narrative.
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  6248. I'd like to see prison populations decline by seeing crime decline. If crime doesn't decline, the populations won't go down. If you're a prosecutor and if you have a way to decrease crime, you've got my vote. That's the goal. Reduce crime.....NOT reduce prison populations. If you succeed at reducing crime, you'll succeed at reducing prison populations. You don't build the attic, on a new home, before you build the foundation. It's common sense.
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  6249. Atta boy, Charles. Don't let that elitist Gapasrino shout over you. It's great when the Hedge funds make big bucks manipulating stocks but when I do it, it's irresponsible. Gapasrino doesn't like to see the goose, that's laying the golden eggs, get eaten for supper.
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  6250.  @DevilTravels  Of course he did....and you have the proof....right?? Except you're not going to show us because you don't think you should have to our research for us. You are full of it.
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  6251.  @georgia.newman  Thankfully???? This is the most disgusting manipulation of a young teenager's tendency to feel a large degree of angst brought on by the natural process of puberty. It would be like allowing a mother to abort their child due to postpartum depression or baby blues. This happens to 1 in 5 mothers and goes away after a few weeks but not always. This has been the case for many teenagers but most get past it and lead traditional lives. You can't take the exception and then make that the rule. Human psychology is too complex to just nod and agree with a 15 year old's self diagnosis.
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  6252. @trumps hairflap He was a hero when he was a billionaire and developing the car that would help to save the planet. He's NOT the hero when he's a billionaire trying to allow free speech on a media platform. Fickle bunch on the left.
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  6253. @Anthony Martin LMAO. If you saw where I live, how I grew up or the size of my bank account, you'd call me a victim. That is if I wasn't white. Fortunately, I don't see myself as a victim, except as a victim to my own decisions and life choices.
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  6254. @Anthony Martin You're the one that sent a comment to me. You told me to shut up and called me a spoiled brat. Where did I whine? I just gave up the facts of where I live and then said that I don't see myself as a victim. That if I were to blame anyone, I'd blame myself for my own choices. How is that whining? Besides, you can't enjoy scotch. It's awful stuff. A cold beer brings a lot more pleasure to the palate.
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  6255. @Anthony Martin I get nervous when I hear things that aren't there. That might be another reason to stay away from the scotch. I don't want to hear imaginary pipers....as much as I do like hearing them in reality. I haven't been called "Jackie" in years. Reminds me of my mother (RIP), so I don't mind, even if it's in a mocking tone.
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  6256. @Anthony Martin I never said that beer makes me nervous. I said that I get nervous when I hear things that aren't there. That was in response to your statement which said that you can hear the pipers when you drink scotch and a reason why I might avoid scotch and like to drink beer. Since I'm drinking beer and not hearing music that isn't there, I'm not nervous. Get it. No music in my head when I drink beer and I'm not nervous. Seems quite logical to me. Thanks for what you said about my mom. She was a good woman and a great mother.
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  6257.  @orkhepaj  BS? Is that because you HAVE been talking to your local politicians? Is that because you HAVE been handing out flyers all over town? I'd say NO. I'd say that you've made comments on YouTube and argued with a couple of family members or someone at work and now you think that you've DONE something. DO those things. Get in touch with those who've lost family members. Get testimonials, DO something if it you think that this is deplorable.....but you won't. You're no different than a BLM rioter who smashes a window and then pats himself on the back for being an activist for social justice. You no more believe is a just system than that BLM "activist" does.
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  6258. That loud, roaring wind is actually a collective sigh of relief from all the people of Nigeria.
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  6259.  @andreperry7995  We can't change the past, whatever it was. We can't change the future either. We can only change the present. In changing the reality of now, we can, hopefully change our future for the better. It's like being married to an unfaithful wife. It's traumatic, painful and you lose a large piece of yourself. You can withdraw, refuse any more interactions that would lead you back to a married relationship or you can try again, learning from the first interaction and avoiding the pitfalls that brought you to today. You're using the past to avoid changing the present. To you, it sounds as if you believe that since the past happened, change is impossible and avoiding pitfalls, even those that aren't your fault, can't be done. Like I said, if you don't run, you'll never find success in a race. Just because you lost the last race because someone tripped you, you don't quit racing. You run again, aware of the fact that the unfair does happen, and avoiding the unfair as much as possible. The past is irrelevant because it's out of your control. Don't use it to hobble the now and, by proxy, your future. It can only bring more of the past and you certainly don't want that.
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  6260.  @tilik13  The average person in western capitalist countries lives a better life than those living in communist countries. That's why people from 3rd world countries are moving, en masse, to the capitalist countries and NOT the other way around. No country in the world is perfect and that perfection has NEVER existed at any time in human history. What capitalism offers is freedom of the individual. Free to pursue his dreams, unencumbered by state interference. That's what makes capitalism a system that, even though far from perfect, the best option for every person on earth. Socialism offers conformity. Everyone the same and if you dare to step outside their proscribed rules for life, they'll arrest you. I guarantee you that there is not one communist country, that has ever existed, that you'd want to live in over the US.
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  6261. It is Thomas's fault that he was willing to forego his sense of fairness and integrity to beat a woman. I will call Caitlyn "she" if that's what she wants because she has earned my respect as a person of integrity. William Thomas has not. Until he does he will remain "William" and "he".
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  6262. @Pixie Pete God doesn't need you to judge for him. "Judge not lest ye be judged" "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth". A little humility will go a long way as an example of your faith.
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  6263. @Pixie Pete The implication wasn't that he was going to be judged. Not even close. It was the he was going to be judged negatively, that he was evil. To top it off, it also implied that you're going to be judged positively. When asked who is fit to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus replied "No one, but with God all things are possible". That would include you. That's where the humility comes in. Live your life under the assumption that you're not fit to be judged, let alone to be found acceptable to enter God's Kingdom. That's true humility. Be grateful that you even have that option because you don't deserve it. That's Jesus talking.
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  6264. @Pixie Pete I'm 70 years old. You're more likely to be the "kid" in this conversation.
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  6265. Trump is going to win the next election and then YOU will have to take responsibility for what you just wrote. That'll be SO hilarious. That's what happens when you support the thought police. They may not like YOUR words/thoughts/actions.
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  6266.  @yew2oob954  That old trope. Using racialised terms to rationalise your own racial bigotry. That's always ended well in our history. SMH. Basing legal decisions on racial terms....that's Jim Crow. I suppose whites can justify that because their lived experience proves that it was the right thing to do. It's a specious argument. Peterson is guilty or innocent based on facts, not due to the racial group that you place him in.
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  6267.  @yew2oob954  Canada does have free speech laws. It's in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which is to Canadians what the Constitution is to the United States. In Section 2(b) – Freedom of expression "2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication." This was passed in April of 1982. Even if this wasn't the law of the land, it would be reprehensible to not allow citizens to voice their opinions, even opinions that might be thought of as offensive. That's what dictators have done for centuries and they're some of the most vilified people of our history. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Castro, the Kim Family...all examples of powers that have taken away our rights. The dictators that good men and women have given their lives to end that type of tyranny. We have the right to express our beliefs without a state sanctioned board threatening to take away our livelihood.
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  6268.  @yew2oob954  Did he say that about a woman? Or is this an hypothetical. If that woman is a model, is he not allowed to mention that she's good looking? Could YOU be fired from your job if YOU said that about someone? Actually, my daughter has been a model and I'm sure that people have said that about her a lot. Should I go after every person that has said that and forced them to apologise and go through re-education or lose their job? That's the problem with the internet. It's a medium where things that are normally private becomes blown into an international affair. Also, don't "imagine" what he said. Speak on what actually happened.
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  6269.  @yew2oob954  My point, in the end was, did Peterson say that? Is that why he's being taken to task by this board. The rest of my comment is just spit balling. You made the implication that he said something inappropriate to a woman of a sexual nature. Is that spit balling as well? Or is it a fact? You can't make up a hypothetical and then condemn the man for it as if it was a fact.
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  6270. What a revelation. Woke folk are hypocrites. Never saw that one coming. (Big eyeroll)
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  6271.  Mua Hahahaha  She's so professional, she's figured out how NOT to go to jail for being a crook. Kinda like white collar crime. They use big money. She uses ideology to get out of serving time.
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  6272. "There is a huge disconnect" That disconnect is called politics, Senator Hassan. You're a Democrat and it is in your own best interest to maintain that disconnect with this border agent. You are playing at politics. Next time you go to the border, bring cameras and walk around the compounds and film EVERYTHING. Better yet, go there with someone who isn't part of your echo chamber. Have an honest look at those facilities so we can all assess what is really happening instead of haranguing a border agent who's working under extreme pressures and who's hands are tied by a Democratic Congress that doesn't want to give money for border protection. If what you're alleging is true, it should be easy enough to find and document. You don't have to rely on the word of third party "honest" lawyers. I'm not even going to mention the value of 3rd party testimony in a hearing.
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  6273. Those radar blitzes are designed, by the powers that be, to cause resentment, towards the police. from ordinary hard working people. It's another tactic from the radical left that has injected themselves into American politics.
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  6274. We must trust doctors. Look how well the opioid prescription policies worked out. Yup....doctors are the ones we should ALWAYS trust. That wasn't driven by ideology, either. Saying that doctors know best, especially when it involves ideology, is being rather naive.
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  6275. To be honest, the little girl was kidnapped. They were dressed in blue and escaped in a squad car and then hid her away for a couple of weeks. A clear cut case of kidnapping.
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  6276. Why do we even give these screwballs the time of day? Ignore these idiots.
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  6277.  dawnking7717  It's incomprehensible that anyone would vote for this. It's why so many believe that the elections are fixed. Who votes to get robbed? I know that I wouldn't. You'd have to be a lunatic to vote for this.
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  6278.  @1133saginaw  There are 2 conclusions that a person could arrive at. Either the MSM isn't reporting it because it suits their agenda or FOX is lying about the crime. That would imply that all those people, in this video, robbing that store, are paid actors. That's sounds like something Alex Jones would say. Maybe if you'd get off the big news networks, including FOX, and did your own digging for the truth, you'd know whether it's true instead of resorting to incredulity fallacy....or is it just political bias.
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  6279.  @euphoricmonk  Great comeback. LOL. I guess saying that you're scared of a needle doesn't make you sound all that credible so pretending superiority is the way to go.
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  6280.  @purplelove3666  Who said that these Muslims were illegally in the US? I didn't hear ANYONE say that. We know that they're here legally and that's the point. The same people, who were all about Muslims legally immigrating to the US, are now complaining that these Muslims believe that homosexuality is wrong. They've been told this fact, OVER and OVER again but they just responding with calling people homophobic. Now our predictions are coming true and they're all surprised. A lot of Americans agree with you about sending troops to other countries, including Muslim countries, and we're fighting to get them out. A majority of those who are siding with the Muslims about the Pride Flags on government buildings, also want the troops out of the Middle East. That's the point of the original comment. The left never thinks things through.
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  6281.  @erismana2105  He wished the best for him. Sounds real chill to me. Dom Elliot compared this guy to a serial killer and cannibal and we're not to call him out on it? If he can make ridiculous accusations, we can tell him how ridiculous he's being.
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  6282. I compared my picture of 20 years ago. I had a great head of hair back then. It all fell out and I have a forehead that goes all the way to the back of my head. That 20 year old picture doesn't look like me at all.....and I don't care. Would I like to have that mane again? Of course but I'm not going to dwell on it. It's just life.
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  6283.  @andrelotscher280  Have you got Trump on the brain? Imagine someone threatening you with a machete and the cop tells you to lighten up because at least your assailant wasn't Trump. One of the dumbest comments that I've ever read.
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  6284. It's strange that how terrible it is when the US intervenes in the Middle East but when Iran intervenes, in the Middle East, that's just fine. One is as bad as the other. If your argument is that it's the business of Middle Eastern countries, then that logic would be a rationale for the US invading Cuba. Both the US and Cuba are Caribbean nations aren't they? Proximity isn't an argument for military action.
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  6285.  @walterpierce6061  The man had SEVERE mental issues. He has an extensive criminal record, including a current assault charge. Yet, NO ONE is getting him the help that he needs. NO ONE. All they do is whine platitudes like "It's not a crime to be homeless". That's NOT the problem here. Again.....he had SEVERE mental issues and was posing a threat to others. "When you're a danger to others, you're putting yourself in danger" to paraphrase Gutfield. Have you NO compassion for those with mental issues? Don't you want to see them off the street and getting help for their issues? Does saying "It's not a crime to be homeless" really make you feel as if you're being the good one here? Absolutely NO compassion, if you ask me.
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  6286.  @gaple1995  You make perfect sense. Pride comes before the fall. They're so cocksure, of their own high morality, that they're willing to hurt anyone that gets in their way to usher in what HAS to be the new human Utopia. After all, how could anyone so virtuous go wrong?
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  6287.  @F3arlessSoldier  That would be this year. I'll bet the "protests" have them beat if narrowed down to the last week. It all depends on the parametres set. You may be right about the innocent black people though. Even if the not so innocent were thrown in, it would be close.
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  6288. I think that the time will soon come where women will stop competing if a man shows up to compete. Till now, the leftists have been in control and they've used fear to keep dissenters in their place. I think that it's time to really advocate for this tactic and show the athletes that they will get the support that they so badly need.
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  6289. Fascist dictators take complete control by taking advantage of civil unrest. The Fascist will claim that he must stop the violence and then call his version of Marshall Law. He will then send in troops to quell the protests and claim that he must extend Marshall Law because the enemies are still waiting for any show of weakness. That's what happened in 2020. The Fascist in power, seeing ALL the riots, over 100 of them across the country, sent in the troops to stop the killing, burning, looting and destruction and then he.......WAIT A MINUTE!!!! Our Fascist didn't do any such thing. He allowed each state to decide how they would handle it, as dictated by the Constitution. He offered to help in Chicago, but the mayor, quite rudely turned him down. So, he shrugged his shoulders and said "Okay. Don't say I didn't offer." or something to that effect. Trump had the perfect scenario to take over as dictator, just as Hitler did, and didn't do it. Hitler didn't waste that opportunity. He took full of advantage of it. It seems Trump isn't the Hitler that the Dems claim that he is. The Democrats are full of the bovine fertiliser that spread on every farmer's field and there are people eating it up. SMH.
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  6290.  @witchdoctor7398  The Republicans are communists??? LOL. What planet are you from??? Everyone on the left has been calling them fascists and you decide that they're commies. Wow....are you ever in tune. Bernie Sanders...Democrat....honeymooned in the Soviet Union, praised Castro and Hugo Chavez. Communist all. AOC....Democrat....calls herself a Democratic Socialist and even belongs to that party. At their conventions, they call each other "comrade". Straight out of the communist handbook. Nadler, Biden, Pelosi, Abrams, Omar, Schumer.....the list goes on and on. All Democrats and they all supported BLM and Antifa. 2 of the 3 founders of BLM have openly declared that they're "trained Marxists". That's communist for those who don't know. Antifa is a Marxist ideology as well. Their roots are in the German communist party, supported by Stalin. Both groups supported by a great many Democrats. You have no idea what you're talking about. I get not voting Republican but calling them communists? That's just plain nuts.
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  6291. Someone has to inform Trudeau that he's the leader of ALL Canadians, not just the Canadians that he likes.
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  6292.  Robbie Dawson  Isn't that where that word "careful" comes in? I didn't say let them in because they want in. I said be careful about WHO you let in. Left wing Europeans didn't want to be careful. They just wanted them ALL in, it that's what they wanted. I'm from immigrant parents. We became Canadians. I have friends who are immigrants and they are Canadians, FIRST. They include Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian and Mexican. They came here because they wanted to be Canadian and would NEVER go back or want Canada to become like the birth country. A Chinese woman, born and raised in China, makes a face every time she even thinks about that place. She's runs her own tavern and everyone thinks the world of her. That's the kind of people that I'm talking about. Not some clown who doesn't want us to sell pork anymore. If you're like that....go home.
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  6293.  @marksparrow4038  I didn't vote Conservative in the last election and I won't in the next election, either. I voted the People's Party of Canada, formed by Maxime Bernier, who resigned from the Conservative Party because he didn't like where they were going. He's not well liked in left wing circles.
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  6294.  @ReeCooks14579  Why wouldn't they speak in this manner? He's trying to convince you that he has your best interests as a priority because he wants you to vote for him. What else would he say? "I don't give 2 effs about you."? Every used car and insurance salesman talks like that. Are you saying that they're all in mental decline? Disagreeing with someone doesn't mean that they're in mentally unfit. That's as narcissistic as it gets. You're almost on par with Trump in that department if that's your attitude.
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  6295.  @kalvitien  Repeatedly? Name one.
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  6296.  Peaceforall  I think you better read his comment again. He never said anything negative about Trump. He did say that there is a Globalist agenda to get Trump out of the White House. He never said that he was for that agenda.
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  6297. First he says that he's never seen these policies when he was teaching. Then he claims that these policies is what made the American military so strong. Does he really not see how inconsistent he's being or is he just a bald faced liar? I'm going with choice number 2.
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  6298. I don't care about the masks. I want people to be able to go to work so they can support themselves, their family and their country. Let's get that done and then we can go after the masks.
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  6299.  @rateromuerte2708  I'm with you. They don't care about Indigenous people or anyone else. They're using that pretend care so people won't fight back out of guilt. Every decent human should tell them exactly what you just told them.
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  6300.  @Charlies-playground  Actually....NO. We're saying that the Democrats don't have ANY common sense and MAGA and the GOP have a bit more. No political group is perfect. We can only elect the best one of the moment. Elections are a compromise and ANY political group that can ignore what these officials are saying should NEVER be the elected party. THAT is what we are saying.
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  6301. The wall is better than fences and barriers. The wall is a brand new Audi while the current fences and barriers are rusted out old Chevies. You may be satisfied with the old rust bucket but eventually you need to upgrade. More old Chevies aren't an upgrade. Is it ego to want to fulfil an election promise, the promise that was the centre point of his election campaign? I always thought that it was a good thing to do everything possible to come good on a promise. I guess it's not, according to you. I'll bet if it has Hillary trying to make good on an election promise, you'd call it integrity. Your position isn't about the wall, at all. You don't like Trump and his failing to keep an election promise is a good thing, no matter what that promise is. It's a knee jerk reaction and then you go looking for reasons that justify why it's okay to have those reactions. It's personality politics basically saying "I don't like you so I refuse to cooperate....EVER!!!!.....no matter what".
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  6302.  @PeacockPoverty  As a person I find Trump a very unlikable guy. However, that's not the point, at all. If fences or barriers have been an integral part of border security, then an even better barrier should be more effective. He made a promise of building an effective wall between the two countries that would stem the number of future illegal immigrants. He's doing everything he can to keep that promise and he's being opposed, tooth and nail, by the Democrats, not because it's a bad idea, but because they don't like the idea of him keeping a big election promise. Also, the idea that he was going to get the Mexicans to pay for that wall was just election rhetoric and no one took him seriously...at least non of his supporters did. They knew it was just tongue in cheek election banter of a windbag. It's like promising my wife a new car and saying that YOU, PeacockPoverty, was going to pay for it. She'd know that it was nonsense but she'd still expect that car. The point is this. Would an 15 foot high wall be more effective than the fence that is in place now? Having grown up on a farm and climbed over fences most of my life, I know for a fact that it is. Not even a maybe about it. The only problem that the Democrats have with it is that it's Trump's election promise. Nothing else. It's why they call the wall immoral, even though they supported a barrier 5 years ago. It's why Pelosi wouldn't meet with the "Angel Moms". That would be an admission that there were criminal elements crossing the wall, as well. It's why Democrats are tacitly supporting sanctuary cities, something that the Obama government would NEVER have accepted 5 years ago. It's all about derailing Trump. It's never been about what's right or effective. They're determined that Trump cannot succeed in the one thing that is obviously concrete and real. His other programs, like the initiative to set up opportunity zones or to help women succeed in business in 3rd world countries are abstract and can be ignored. A wall can be pointed at and its existence could not be denied. That's why they oppose it. A concrete reminder that Trump came good on a promise cannot be allowed....EVER.
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  6303.  @PeacockPoverty  Trump has already allowed that there are areas which won't need the fence due to natural barriers. He's not even trying for a complete wall from sea to sea. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/13/mexico-border-wall-trump-plan-wont-need-full-border Hurd is the only Republican, on the border, that has opposed a cross country wall and Trump has already agreed that it's impractical to do it. However, Hurd is still strong on border security but some of the land owners don't want their land appropriated to build a wall and he supports that. However, if a lot of his district is impassable due to terrain, it would also appear that these landowners don't have the hundreds of migrants crossing their land all the time. The natural barrier is stopping them so their argument makes sense, especially since they're the ones that would give up the land to put the unnecessary part of the wall up. Also, Ted Cruz does support the wall. He said so many times in this interview on Fox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOEQjQMyOBA Build that wall. He said it more than once. Trump has agreed to a limited wall, wants other security measures, more border patrol agents and more judges to process those that seek asylum. Everything that you've just wrote in your comment....yet you still oppose it. Saying that they oppose the wall because they don't like Trump isn't ridiculous spin, either. I know that for the simple reason that the MAGA hats, the ones carrying the Trump election slogan, will set people off in a rage. A bunch of Catholic kids wearing them, invoked the rage of a bunch of Black Israelites and then the nation and that story was spun viciously out of control. Why? It's those hats and their link to Trump. People have even admitted it to be true. When Whoopi Goldberg asked why they would fall prey to these types of stories, Joy Behar replied "because we're so desperate to get rid of Trump".....and she's right. The Democrats, especially the MSM, has been spinning so many stories in an effort to denigrate Trump, that some people aren't trusting them anymore and their ratings have been falling. Democrat opposition to Trump has become a series of knee jerk reactions. I don't see why the wall issue would be any different.
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  6304.  @PeacockPoverty  If he didn't start there, then he must have changed and there has to be a reason for it. The reason was simply this. He listened to those who knew the most about the subject. Instead of a solid wall, border agents told him it would be better to have a wall they could see through and explained why. So now, you can see through the wall. He's no longer concerned with a sea to sea wall because he was told and understood that there are areas that the wall would be redundant due to hostile terrain. So, like you say, he's adapted to new information. This doesn't mean he's not committed to building a wall or the it's a totally bad idea. It means he listens and will adapt his thinking and is willing to negotiate if others will negotiate with him. However, there is no negotiating for the wall from the Democrats. "Not one dollar" from Pelosi. She has dug in her heels and so has Trump. Trump because it'a a campaign promise and Pelosi because.......reasons.
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  6305.  @PeacockPoverty  First of all, those lies have NOTHING to do with the effectiveness of a wall. Not a thing. We're discussing a wall and whether it should be built. It's illogical to say the wall shouldn't be built because Trump lied about the economy. A true non sequitur. Also, just because Trump wants to take credit for the wall, isn't proof that it shouldn't be built, either. Why would anyone take credit for a something that wasn't a good thing. Then you say that he'll take credit for parts of the wall he didn't build. So then, who built those parts of the wall? Could it be the Democrats who approved of it 5 years ago and even bragged of it as an accomplishment? Okay...he shouldn't take credit for it. Fine.....but it's still a good idea to build it. To say that you don't want Trump to build it so he can't brag he did it, isn't very mature either and it's quite self serving. Better to not have a good thing then to allow Trump to take the glory for it. Yeah....that's not personal at all.
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  6306.  @PeacockPoverty  How many times can a person say the words lie or liar in a couple of comments? Your obsessed with his lying. I'm talking about the wall and I believe I'm bring up some good points on why the wall should be built. That has nothing to do with Trump. I don't think a fence or the barriers in place today are good enough. It should be a more intimidating barrier, like the ones that are being erected right now. Higher and a lot more difficult to climb. Ones that the very young, the old, the infirm, those that are overweight or out of shape could never climb over. A wall that would take a major effort to scale and would only be possible for the most able of individuals. Ones that would hold up the migrant long enough for the border patrol to detect and stop them. The fences are there and they were better than nothing. However, the wall being built now is better than the fence or the barriers built in the past. If they're going to put up a fence to stop it, why not do it right and put up an even better apparatus to do the job? All "Trumps" wall amounts to is a better version of the fence already there. This isn't about Trump although that's what you've reduced it to.....just like a lot of the Democrat politicians. It's about having the best possible deterrent for the migrants. A fence isn't good enough. However, you'll never see that because.....Trump lies. That's all you can see. How myopic.
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  6307.  @PeacockPoverty  I don't CARE who's building that structure at the border. You do. You're not railing about the fences that already exist. You're going on about the structure that's being built right now. You hate it, not because you're against any structure at the border. You hate THIS structure because of the person who's behind getting it built. You can't separate the two. Your entire viewpoint is blinded by your hatred of Trump. You're proving my point. You can't even see that due to your blind hatred. You can't discuss it without going off on a rant on how Trump is a liar. If his wall is wrong, then so is the fence that Obama built. You should be insisting that it all should be torn down.....but you're not. You only hate the structure that Trump is building and there is only ONE reason for it. You hate Trump. You've proved my point and you're too blind to see that.
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  6308.  @PeacockPoverty  I can't but I can read your comments. Every comment you've made against the wall had nothing to do with the wall. Everything was about Trump. You've conflated the two. That's how I can safely assert that you're against the wall due to your hatred of Trump. If a structure, built on the border to deter illegal immigrants, is such a heinous idea, you'd have complained about the structure that was built during the Obama administration. You've not said a word about it, because the wall is not the issue. Trump is the issue and if you were honest, you'd realise it.
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  6309.  @PeacockPoverty  You've just proved my point again. How is a fence, designed to keep out "brown people" not racist, but a wall, designed to keep out "brown people" is racist? How is a border agent, who's job it is to keep out "brown people" not racist but a wall, designed to do the same thing, is racist? What is the distinguishing factor here? Answer that question without once bringing up Trump's name or any allusion to his existence. Try that for once. As for that assertion that the KKK is now cool again, even the SPLC says that it has been in a steady decline. Richard Spencer is hardly to be found on a google search except for year old news and for the fact that he's now in trouble for domestic abuse. Spencer first supported Trump but once again, the SPLC and said that his white nationalist movement is dissatisfied with Trump's presidency. He no longer supports Trump because he's decided that Trump doesn't follow his white supremacy ideals at all. As for your claim about the horror Trump has wreaked on "brown" children, the facts show differently. Those famous pictures that showed children sleeping in cages, were taken in 2014, during Obama's administration. https://qz.com/1291470/photos-immigrant-children-detained-at-the-placement-center-in-2014/ https://www.apnews.com/a98f26f7c9424b44b7fa927ea1acd4d4 Trump was still running a reality TV show back then. In fact, Trump signed an executive order stopping the separation of families last June. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/trump-separation-action-immigration/index.html This is from CNN, a news network that makes no secret of their hatred of Donald Trump. These are facts and easily verifiable. In fact, your entire tirade really doesn't prove that a wall is racist. Make that argument that the wall is racist without any references to Trump. If a wall is racist, that fact should stand on its own and there should be no need to invoke his name. To make this argument even more ridiculous, I don't like Trump, either. He's a loud mouthed blowhard, given to bouts of boasting and exaggerations to the point of full out BS. However, that has nothing to do with the wall or the facts. As a matter of fact, I think the distortion of facts around Trump might be a major factor in his being re-elected. The Democrats under estimated him and then alienated the entire centre of the country by calling them deplorables who lived in the "fly over" centre of America. That was a grave mistake and they'd better learn from it or they will lose again.
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  6310.  @PeacockPoverty  There are only 2 known sightings in the US of jaguars and one was shot last year. Not a big issue as yet. As for the ocelots, that may have an impact although most of the ocelots in Texas are in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge on the coast and are too far away to migrate to Mexico. There are other pockets along the border and you're right about those. As for the butterflies, they have a unique capability. They know how to fly. I'm thousands of miles from Mexico and the Monarch is common around here and has to migrate to all the way to Mexico. Apparently they can do it and they have to cross the Mississippi River. It's miles across. A wall would appear to be a puny deterrent to that. But yes, it would impact some wildlife. How much is hard to say. It's one of those cost benefits analysis that must be made. However, the growth of major cities has had a much greater impact on wildlife that any wall could ever have. Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, just to name a few, and all the suburban areas involved have disrupted wildlife habitat exponentially more than a wall would. The diversion of water to California from the Colorado has had a major impact on the environment along that river. Most of the illegal immigrants are going to California, so more water will be needed to supply them. So it takes from one to add to another. Nothing that we do as modern humans doesn't have its cost. Emptying Lake Mead to supply a growing California, partially due to added illegals, is a very high cost as well. A decent consideration but not a deal breaker. Especially when you include the word "could". "Could" isn't a word used to describe a definitive problem.
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  6311.  @PeacockPoverty  What a wild-eyed crazed rant that was. You didn't actually read a thing I wrote and neither did you even bother to read the references I gave. You just blathered the same nonsense you did before even though I proved to you that you were wrong. This "fence good" "wall bad" argument is pure nonsense, nothing else. I've given you all kinds of opportunities to offer up a cogent and logical case but all I've seen are head exploding angry rhetoric and repetition. If you're any indication of what is the best that the Democrats can offer up as a platform, they're screwed. You'll have Trump till 2024. By the way, I'm not even American. I'm Canadian so Trump is NOT my master. As a matter he's screwed us in the NAFTA deal, although I attribute a good part of the blame to that to Trudeau, the nut who negotiates with a gender's studies adviser. I wanted to see if I could get a reasonable reason why a wall shouldn't be built and all I got was a rant about a wall being a symbol of racism and a lot of nothing. You've done a lot to convince me that us Canadians are going to be stuck negotiating with Trump for the next 6 years instead of 2. Another thing....my sister was deported from the US and she's a red headed, blue eyed white woman. She jumped the fence into the US because she has a criminal record. You see, the US will not allow the most blond haired, blue eyed, MAGA hat wearing, white Canadian into the US, if they have DUI conviction. That's because it has nothing to do with race....but you're to crazed with anger to be able to digest any information anyway. Good luck, you lunatic. You're going to need it with Trump as your master for the next 6 years.
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  6312. King Steve And there you go. You've identified the problem. Now, what to do? If only we could get rid of those who excuse genocide. There has to be a way......isn't there? Once they're eliminated, the world will the perfect place we all expect it should be. So.....if you know a conservative, well......you know.
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  6313.  @youaake  The first thing that a person has to realise that when they fail...it's their own fault. It means that you didn't understand what was happening around you. You don't fail because of someone else. You fail because you didn't do what had to be done. You live in a life of blame. You've already lost and you haven't even started. The worst part is....you don't even get what it is I'm talking about.
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  6314.  Jose Adriani Buselli  That's deep. You're like a modern day Plato or something.
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  6315.  @RichardCranium321  But he DID talk to another doctor and he didn't talk to Joe's doctor. He never said that at all. He talked to another doctor because talking to your doctor is NOT the same as listening to your doctor. Anyone can be hesitant. You're a damn fool if you trust implicitly anything the "expert" says. I had a friend, who collapsed at home and couldn't get up. His wife rushed him to emergency and the doctors there couldn't find anything wrong even though the guy had no use of his legs. They told him to go home. His wife refused and said she wanted another doctor to see him. A doctor happened to come in, starting his shift, listened to his symptoms and decided that he had Guilain Barre Syndrome and had him taken, immediately, to a facility that could handle his symptoms. He almost died. Had my friend LISTENED to those doctors, the same type of doctor that told Tim to "sleep it off", he'd be dead, right now. It was due to his wife, refusing to take him home and ANOTHER doctor, that he's still with us today. Talk to your doctor NOT worship your doctor. Having doubts could save your life.
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  6316.  @HollyBlair-wf3px  Except for ONE. Just ONE. Go to any left wing rally and they're bitter, angry, don't want to talk or they threaten people with violence and quite often carry out those threats. But there is that one for the other side. That big ONE....the only ONE and it's all that they have.
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  6317. Cancel culture is about power. As long as the individual can use it for their personal gain, either for power, financial gain or ego, they'll take advantage of it. When cancel culture comes for them, they lose that power to a new gunslinger. It's self perpetuating as a social tool, as it depends on new adherents to maintain its effectiveness. Since it can be quite effective, new woke recruits will always be read to step into the breach.
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  6318.  @D-E-S_8559  What defeats in Kansas??? I know that there's an election in November but you can't claim victory yet. As for it being a "Red State"....hardly. It's been going back and forth for decades. It's neither blue or red. In fact, history shows that elections favour the incumbents and Kansas has been blue since the last election in 2018. Given those facts, it should be a very close race this fall with the advantage to blue. To add, a lot of conservatives, have a liberal view on abortion. "Safe, legal and rare" is their slogan. Therefore moderate "reds" support abortion with clear cut limits. So...that may not be as big an indicator of the voter base as you think it is.
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  6319. That's even worse than when he groped that woman at a music festival. Our woke PM, wasn't so woke a few short years ago. It won't matter much, though. He's left wing and they're allowed to grope and black face.
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  6320. @SwedishDrunkard5963 Yet, the most horrific times in 20th Century China, were during the Cultural Revolution. That's when they were trying to get rid of the "Four Olds". That was at the heart of Communism, the creation of a new socialist existence. Today's China is closer to Nazi Germany, another branch of Socialism. All you doing is saying that REAL communism has never been tried and we should never give up until we're either successful, which cannot happen, or completely destroyed.
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  6321. Apparently, the Democrats feel that's identity representation is more important than qualifications or corruptibility (Kamala Harris?). No wonder they have the problems they do in California.
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  6322.  @StinkCabbage  I call it the "Maddow/Carlson defence". They call themselves "pundits" so they can spout all the nonsense they want and people believe them. Integrity is a word that they have no use for.
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  6323. You can't remove a president just because you don't like him. He has to have committed a crime or you have to be able to prove gross incompetence due to mental or physical impairment. You'll have a tough time proving that a working billionaire is incompetent. Why don't you wait another 2 years and if Trump does show how disgusting he is, vote him out. That's the democratic process and it is the only acceptable way to run a country. If you can't, wait another 4 years and he's through. The time will fly by in no time. It will take almost as long to remove him from office by an undemocratic procedure.
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  6324. The bit, with Sam Smith and his tongue, is the stuff of nightmares. It's like some kind of hideous monster from another planet in a sci-fi movie. Bizarre.
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  6325. Cute. You made me chuckle.
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  6326. Someone tried to tell me that they were only firecrackers and harmless. So I agreed with him and told him I was going to buy some and start throwing them at him. What's the harm? I'll throw them at his kids, too. They'll love it. I'm not sure why he got so surely with me, after that.
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  6327.  @lizardbyte  People, who leave comments, like your's, always leave me a little sad. You throw out some insults, never explain why you feel that way and then leave, thinking that you've scored some really salient points. You've said nothing of any value. It has no more worth than the insults of an 8 year old bully on a playground. Time to grow up....unless you are 8 years old. Then it's time to reflect on your boorish behaviour.
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  6328. Saving himself from what? The right is coming after him. We honour his right to free speech even if we disagree with him.
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  6329. It's just as disproportionate as the Allied response to Hitler and the Nazis. That's how I see it. Had the Allies not responded, disproportionately, WW2 would have lasted for decades. If you're goaded into war, you fight to win, not to even things up. Your enemy would love it if evening up was your strategy. It's a recipe for defeat.
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  6330. It's not that we don't want to be associated with a "gay" beer. That might be a reason but it's just one among many. Dylan is mocking women with his over-the-top antics. You might even say that he's making fun of trans people which suggests that he's a phoney. His audience is around 16 years of age which is an overt attempt to market alcohol to minors. It's also part of a cultural phenomenon which could encourage young children to undergo gender affirming care, which would mean puberty blockers, sex based hormone treatment and ultimately extreme gender surgeries. Then the VP of marketing insults its customers by sneering at them, calling them frat boys and, by the way that she presents herself, strongly suggests that she doesn't like the truck driving football fans and those who go fishing and duck hunting or watch NASCAR every weekend it's on. In other words, this was the WORST product marketing campaign in history. This may well become required reading in future marketing seminars and college marketing courses. It's that BAD.
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  6331.  @Molari  They didn't "invent" it. Slavery has been a part of human history for thousands of years and practised all over the earth. By the time the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Spartacus, the leader that lead Roman slaves against Rome, had been dead for over 1500 years. Do you know what they did to him and thousands of other slaves? Crucified them and left them to hang on their crosses for weeks so the other slaves would know not to rebel ever again. This is the legacy of SLAVERY and humanity. We don't know who invented slavery because it's been with us for years, long before we started recording it in writing.
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  6332.  @CBDguitar  Ah.....you're a troll. Forget about showing me what Matt Gaetz was busted for. You're full of it.
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  6333. He only banned state employees who would be using state funding. He can't stop anyone from travelling anywhere of their own dime.
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  6334.  @hom-sha-bom  Not all scientists are "medical" doctors. There....fixed it for you. Sorry. I couldn't help myself. LOL.
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  6335.  @williamfranz9872  At least the GOP is having these hearings so that WE can know. Just this 5 minute segment was incredibly eye opening.....if people would take the time to listen or watch it. If the people, that's you and me, don't have any interest in taking in this information, nothing CAN be done about it. If the GOP does nothing, WE, the citizens, can threaten to primary them out and put someone in place who will. The citizens of the United States keep passing the buck for various reasons, laziness, apathy, party and or ideological loyalties. The whole point of the Democratic process is for the citizens to hold our politicians to account. If we don't do our part, corrupt individuals will see an advantage and we will pay for it. Ultimately, we pick our representatives. It's up to us to pick ones that will do their job.
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  6336.  TITUS GARGLES TRUMP CUM  These are hearings....not court proceedings. If the Democrat members can choose not to show up, why can't anyone else? Maybe they should have those powers and committee members show be forced to attend but that's not the reality of the moment.
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  6337.  @youraverageartist1588  "then the parents need to tell their sons to back off, and teach their daughters to stand up for themselves." Now YOU'RE the one separating the genders, wanting to teach boys a certain lesson and girls another. Worse, you're completely ignoring the point that was being made, which is that small children aren't aware of the implications of the differences in genders. Then, after all is said and done, you acknowledge that boys are different than girls and should have different life lessons at a young age to learn gender appropriate behaviour. It's rather contradictory.
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  6338. I wonder if Adam Schiff knew that she was talking about him? The scumbag.
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  6339. That's why Trump has just launched a vaccine program that he's referred to as the "Manhattan project of vaccines". He's developing it so his Republican's won't vaccinate. Makes sense.
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  6340.  @k.r.99  You make it sound as if I went off and partied it up, having a great time. That's not what I said or what I did. I went away, somewhere I never went to before, did a little exploring, hiked into the hills, spent time alone. I thought about my life, my parents and siblings, my own children. It was sad but it helped to bring peace. I was definitely not having what I would call a happy vacation but I didn't want to be surrounded by people who wanted to talk about her passing either. You have to do something and that's how i chose to spend that time right after her death. Maybe that's not for you but I'm not about to tell how to deal with your grief, either. Why would you assume to know what I was doing or how I felt at the time?
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  6341.  @marthell6159  That's the exact smugness that we're talking about. 1000 bucks to a guy, working minimum wage in a factory, is a safety net when you're living paycheck to paycheck. It means nothing to a millionaire. A millionaire would spend that much in a gift to placate his mistress. Thanks for worrying about the millionaires. The milk of human kindness is SO evident by that comment.
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  6342. @Registered User I'm completely baffled on why you have to go to a camp to be quarantined when you're ill. Why can't you just quarantine in the comfort of your own home? Oh, could it be that the government doesn't trust you? That if the government didn't watch over you, day and night, in a facility with locked doors and guards, Australians wouldn't be lost on how to look after themselves? What a wonderful idea. Let's incarcerate people for the crime of getting sick. You can dress it up with pretty bows and sunshine, but once inside, try to leave without government permission. But, I guess you should be grateful that people, that you don't know, care so deeply about your well being that they'll lock you away from society.....but at least you're safe. "Protect me, oh great leaders. I don't have the brains or dedication to protect myself" What will be the next reason that you'll need to be "protected". Maybe from "wrongspeak". Can't have people saying things that might upset the good people of Australia. Nothing is sadder than watching people willingly enslave themselves.
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  6343. Imagine being so full of hate that you'd criticise a charity organisation that helps mentally challenged children. They could care less about those kids. It's all about themselves and how they can puff out their chests with self importance. Makes me sick to my stomach.
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  6344. It's BOTH. The reason that the US broke away from Britain is due to taxation without representation. We choose our representatives through the voting process....the democratic process. That means that we ARE a democracy. However, we've limited the power of the democratic process through our Constitution. The Constitution takes precedence. We can't vote away our right to free speech. The Constitution will supersede the vote if the people vote to violate the law. If we lose our right to vote, the democratic process, we've lost the way to choose our representatives and that negates the reason why we became a nation in the first place. It destroys our Constitution and our Republic. That doesn't validate what Schiff or the Democratic party is saying. They're muddying the waters so people won't understand how important the Constitution is to the Democratic process. The Democrats have no respect for the Republic and how it is formed.
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  6345.  @luisvelez5695  You name one guy and that proves that most are Republicans? LOL. That's really logical.
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  6346.  @MrKGatl  It still hasn't been established that there was a bribe. Apparently, Sondland has testified and I'll see what he had to say but there was no evidence presented in last weeks testimony that proved a bribe. Maybe there is now with Sondland's testimony. I NEVER once said that the Biden's were under investigation. I said that Hunter's boss had fled the country and had 23 million dollars in assets frozen due to corruption allegations. That money was released AFTER the prosecutor was fired and the man was cleared of all charges and returned to the Ukraine. Isn't it convenient that that Zolchensky had an employee, Hunter Biden, whose father was the vice president of the United States and just happened to threaten to withhold money unless a specific prosecutor was fired. How convenient is that. Like I said earlier, if Donald Trump Sr. did that for the boss of Donald Trump Jr., you'd be losing your mind over it. Also, you fail to even mention Crowdstrike and the possibility of Ukraine meddling in the last election. This is rather selective research.
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  6347.  @MrKGatl  Zlochevsky's corruption went back to 2012, when he was Minister of Ecology. Hunter Biden started at Burisma in 2014, the year Zlochevsky fled the Ukraine and had his money frozen. 2 years later, at the end of 2016, that money was released, after the prosecutor was fired at the urging of Joe Biden and others. Strange and inconvenient that suddenly, everything was all good after this prosecutor was gone and that now, with a new president, who has declared a war on Ukraine corruption, Zlochevsky is once again, out of the country facing the same allegations he was cleared of 2 years prior. Is Hunter Biden or his father guilty of anything? I don't know but I do know that this doesn't exactly appear to be clean, either. As it stands, the Ukraine has it's aid, and has had it for months, and there is no information from the Ukraine on Hunter corruption of lack of it. Nothing. So they got their aid and did nothing to get it. All of this information is easy to find but it takes time and you have to sift through a lot of contradictory statements. You have to weigh it up and then check on the veracity of each claim. One thing is indisputable. Joe Biden did brag about getting that prosecutor fired. It's on video and is easily accessed here on YouTube if one wants to see it.
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  6348.  @georgeyarbrough88  They were also Clinton's plan when he was president. Obama didn't earn the nickname "the deporter in chief" because he was against this plan as well. He was ALL for it. However, the minute that Trump announced his candidacy, those Democrats said that this plan was racist. It doesn't matter who's plan it is, it's a good plan and we all know it. If, for some reason, Trump doesn't run, sudden bad health or a decision not to run, we have to support someone who does believe in that plan and has proven himself to be competent. Clinton and Obama didn't show that but DeSantis has with the successes of Florida. I'm glad that DeSantis supports the same plan as Trump. It means that we have more than one option to choose from if something goes wrong.
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  6349. This guy doesn't understand basic economics or the concept of supply and demand.
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  6350. CNN is going for the "pity" ratings. Emotion trumps facts, you know.
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  6351. Tim....you either believe and work in the system or you don't. The Arbery shooters were found guilty. Was it the correct verdict? Let's take it to appeals and see what kind of case they could make. That's the system. If an appellate court upholds the appeal, we accept that, as well....because if you don't believe in your system, you have NOTHING. It's devolves into the kind of chaos that allows the ideologically obsessed to totally destroy an 18 year old teenager's life. Speaking of that 18 year old, students at Arizona State threatened violence if Rittenhouse was accepted as a nursing student. These are the ones that don't believe in the system and that it should be completely torn down and destroyed. What will they replace it with? Mob justice....that's what. Those guys, in old western movies, who want to break down the jailhouse doors and lynch the innocent guy being held there....that's who they want in control. They support those that burn, loot and attack people because of their "just" cause. We're heading for a cultural revolution, just like we saw in Mao's China and Democrats and the MSM are fully in support of it.
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  6352.  @lordbread2083  You believe those government bureaucrats? LOL. You're either as naive as they come or you're part of the government propaganda machine, neither one being a good look.
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  6353.  @lordbread2083  Quit reverting to yesterday's problems. Who cares about Trump. He's no longer the president. I'm not even differentiating. All I said was "government". What I do know is that when government officials say that you can trust them, I get nervous. They're used car salesmen. The "Honest Johns" of the administrations. Go ahead and believe them but don't complain when you end up with a lemon.
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  6354.  @sylvariatzaka  There is the right time to fight back but it's not going for a beer with my friends. I've seen the reaction that people have that don't go along with the status quo. Most people look at them as if they're nuts or worse, that they're Nazis or something. That just makes them dig their heels in deeper and it validates everything that they believe about people like us. What's worse, it even convinces those who do have doubts. People want to be accepted and if they see how a more rational person is treated, they'll decide that there MUST be something wrong with us. The only way we can turn it around now, is too to show people where their ideas are mistaken. They need to see the facts and I've seen people, who do fight back, get thrown out of the place we hang out at. They're the ones being yelled at, being cursed and threatened but they're also the ones being thrown out. You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar. We're not on the beaches yet and you'll not reach anyone sitting alone at home.
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  6355.  @ravix9049  What voting right did the Republicans try to restrict? I'd like to hear them.
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  6356.  @ravix9049  Well, that sure answers the question, doesn't it? Nice dodge. I'll try again. What voting rights did the Republicans try to restrict? If they did, it shouldn't be hard to answer.
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  6357.  @paulcompme856  How do you know if she invited the state to her business partner? She was just trying to run a business and the state is taking it away from her. It's a cut and dry and it can be.
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  6358.  @ravix9049  "Do some research" The typical response of one that makes claims but can't back them up. Why should I prove YOU correct? If you can't prove your own claims, your claim is worthless. That's how evidence works. You make a claim and then you demonstrate its veracity. You don't claim "The moon is made of cheese" and then claim it's true until someone proves you wrong. That's illogical and dishonest.
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  6359.  @coreyham3753  Those edicts have already been judged to be Unconstitutional. Do you know what that means? It means that it contravenes the basic laws of the country. In other words....it's an illegal "law" or regulation and you don't have to obey it.
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  6360. Imaging, being so self unaware that you don't realise that the swastika signs were directed against you, calling YOU the Nazi. I hope that I'll never be that clueless.
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  6361. George Carlin was a funny man but he's a hypocrite. He was worth 10 million bucks when he died, yet he was born to an alcoholic father, who deserted the family when George was very young. His mother raised him by herself, during WW2 when there was no welfare system like there is now. In other words, Carlin grew up in poverty. Carlin is the poster boy for the American Dream.
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  6362.  trumpisthemessiah7017  I just heard Eric Adams, A DEMOCRAT, whine about illegal immigrants in his city, complaining about Texas Governor Abbot and blame Republicans for immigration failures when the Democrats have been in power for 2 1/2 years. The Democrats haven't made ONE proposal on how to stem the flow. In fact, it's ONLY the Democrats that support sanctuary cities and then complain when migrants show up to take advantage of a city's sanctuary status and then blame Republicans for it. What an incredibly illogical comment. LOL.
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  6363. Trump has Kanye and Biden's got Cardi B. Trump wins again.
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  6364.  @INeedJesus4sure  Yes, he did. He even tried to negotiate a retreat with the Taliban. However, when he saw that the Taliban could't be trusted, he stopped negotiations and maintained the status quo. The Biden withdrawal was a disaster and a disgrace. You can deflect by calling out the name of Trump but you can't make predictions on what hasn't happened. It wasn't Bush, Obama or Trump that called that withdrawal. It was Biden and only HE can answer to what happened and he hasn't said ONE word. You don't lighten Biden's responsibility by babbling the name of Trump. Face reality. Don't construct a reality of your own.
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  6365.  @adam-gj3co  That is true. Like so many laws, they're easily broken if you have no ethics. People do get caught at it, though. Harvard just got beat in the Supreme Court for discriminating against Asians. Apparently, Asians are white adjacent so they thought that it must be okay.
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  6366.  @jamesbennettmusic2154  Abraham Accords. He promised to go after peace and that was a great start. Biden STOPPED the efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. He got a good start on the border wall. He couldn't get the funds but he managed to do it anyway. Biden STOPPED the wall and is now selling off the parts that Trump bought. Trump did the "remain in Mexico" deal, meaning that illegals must wait in Mexico if they want to enter the US. Biden STOPPED that deal with Mexico. Also, he didn't have the majority in both the house and senate. That was why he couldn't get funding for the wall. He promised medical ships to California and New York to help with the Covid situation. He got them there.....one day late when everyone in the MSM said it was impossible. He initiated "Operation Warpspeed" which sped up the process to develop an new Covid vaccine. The vaccine that inspired some Democrats to say that they'd never take the Trump vaccine but then, when elected, tried to force everyone in the country to get vaccinated or else. I remember the State of the Union address. Trump pointed out that the black employment numbers were the best ever. Republicans cheered, thinking that this was a good thing. Democrats scowled. I'm not sure why. Apparently working toward a better life doesn't sit well with Democrats if you're black. Things were a lot better for the country, under Trump, than they are for California, under Newsom.
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  6367.  @myronschabe  If he supports a party that wants to control our language, wants to suppress "misinformation", calls people who disagree with them "Fascists", racists, misogynists, homophobe....etc, in order to smear them, he's an authoritarian. When he holds up his intellectual prowess as evidence of a higher understanding that should carry more weight than that of a plumber, he's an authoritarian. He may say it in "nuanced" ways but, in the end, he's no different than the party that he supports. They're elitist snobs who think that they know better than the average Joe or Jill, who work serving tables, swinging hammers or other menial jobs. They think they're better because they have "careers" and can't figure out why people would shingle roofs when we should all aspire to be like him. That's why the Democrats lost and he doesn't get it because we should all think like him.
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  6368.  @DimitriTheBarbarian  He was paid by the Kremlin. THAT'S the smear. You're insinuating that he's committing treason. Now, I've heard this before, about other bloggers, but the only one that's been verified is Lauren Chen. The rest is allegations, as far as I know. If you know different, prove it. If you make accusations you have to back it up because if you don't, you're only taking part in gossip.
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  6369.  @EclipseClemens  However, if we don't have the right to vote for our representatives, our constitutional republic is finished. The same as our right to free speech. Free speech, a free press, the right to protect ourselves, to choose our representatives, they're all aspects of our republic. Take away any one of them, our republic becomes no more than word salad and will be gone in reality. We have to protect our right to choose, to free speech and the other rights, in order to protect our republic. We need all those rights to remain a country of freedom.
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  6370. Maher knows that if his buddy, Newsom, gets into power, he'll protect Maher's interests. That's all that matters. So what the average guy can't afford to pay rent, let alone buy a home. So what there are people living in the streets, high on drugs or mentally ill. They don't live in Maher's neighbourhood. Who cares? What's high taxes to Maher? There will always be enough money for him to live in luxury. 150 million net worth is a lot of cash and it should be there for him until he passes away. Life is good for Maher. That's all that counts.
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  6371. Since most people, 90% of us, are straight, most kids are abused by straight people. I don't want anyone discussing sexual matters with my 6 year old. I don't know their motives and I don't want a straight person grooming my child anymore than one from who claims some variation of the LGBTQ orientation. It's inappropriate no matter what their sexual orientation might be.
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  6372.  @martinsmith2497  So there are people that don't speak English at Walmart. What does that have to do with the United Nations? The UN is an international organisation. Walmart is a store.
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  6373.  @sarahxyz2274  She parrots the old left wing trope that black Americans can't succeed without the help of white America. That Rep. Donald is nothing but a "token" black man and refuses to see him for the individual that he is. Why would she, a black woman, do that? Is to defend the idea that maybe SHE is the token black media personality? After all, MSNBC had to fill their diversity quota, the very thing that they espouse continuously. A $21,000,000 net worth might be incentive enough to accept being that token black AND woman employee. The network HAD to hire her to show just how inclusive that they are. For the racially motivated, there's nothing more infuriating than a black man or woman making it on their own abilities and the merits of their ideas. They NEED America to be racist and they'll smear anyone, like Rep. Donald, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder or Candace Owens who don't fit into their concept of a black American.....what we call a stereotype. If these black individuals can do it on their own, it negates that stereotype and they can't have that. The irony is, that means that Joy Reid can't do it either, according to their own racialized ideology. That, to me, is "the soft bigotry of low expectations". They'll just give it to them whether they've earned it, through ability, or not. How condescending.
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  6374.  @bg11696  This is a published paper. All you have to do is google "roland fryer pdf on police shootings". It will take you to the Harvard site that carries his study. It's interesting that you haven't done the requisite search for yourself to see who is actually telling the truth. Instead you make a back handed suggestion that Warren is likely lying because of an "emotional attachment to a story". Now....go and read the paper and tell me that his "discovery" isn't correct....like you should have done in the first place.
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  6375.  @chasethehistorian2003  You've just said nothing.
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  6376.  @yummygummy2133  I'm the same way and strangely enough, I am a fun guy to be around. I'm divorced and I have no interest in a serious relationships but I spend lots of time with women, even travelling with them. But, I've seen how they can be extremely toxic. The minute they start complaining, I'm outta there. Why not? Women don't need men. I don't need women. I'm a happy go lucky guy and I'll hang out with anyone until they become too demanding and grasping. When that happens, I leave with a smile on my face, whether you're a man or a woman. No fights, no arguments and no battles over property.
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  6377.  @Zombieboss2002  When I checked, all those making complaints against Epstein said that, as far as they knew, Trump had never been there and they never saw him. So....since you're making the accusation, you should come up with the evidence to back it up. "Innocent till proven guilty". That's the standard. If you don't hold that standard, you're engaging in gossip. Nothing good comes from gossip.
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  6378.  @iheartradio7860  Therefore....he won't date her. That's exactly what he should do. There is a nothing statement.
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  6379.  @mosesofnow8662  Why wouldn't he shut down funding? Funding for who?
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  6380.  @sramoore0075187  Then why did the Democrats fight Trump EVERY step of the way when this all started. He put together a task force. Dems said that it was just a bunch of old white men and scoffed at that effort. Trump imposed travel restrictions to China. Dems, including Biden called him xenophobic. Pelosi went into Chinatown, hugging and encouraging people to get out. Cuomo and De Blasio said everything was all fine, travel the subways, go to your favourite restaurant, see you favourite Broadway show. Trump talked about the virus in the State of the Union Address. Pelosi ripped it up, saying it was all lies. Trump restricted travel to Europe. Biden and other Dems said that travel bans don't work. Trump mobilised businesses to produce masks and ventilators. Dems complained and argued. Trump sent a hospital ship to New York and set up a mobile hospital centre. Dems and their media mocked him about the ship and said that it would never get there in time and then refused to use it. Instead they put Covid patients in nursing homes. Trump kept calling it the China virus, reminding us all of where it came from and the irregularities surrounding it. Dems and their media called him racist. The Democrats were as complicit or MORE in how it was handled. If they weren't so worried about appearing racist, maybe there wouldn't be as many dead as there are now and if they didn't hate Trump so much, they would have cooperated instead of fighting him all the time.
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  6381. We must have Zelensky back if we want to negotiate a peace deal. Both him and Putin. If we don't, this war could go on for decades or just escalate into a world war, which would include the EU and China. That's the reality of it. To allow childish bickering to get between a war and peace is just that....extremely childish. Only the warmongers want to drive a wedge between the 2 sides and a peacekeeper. Diplomacy is the only way out that will between peace and the untold loss of lives and unbelievable destruction. We either learn to get along or we could destroy everything.
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  6382.  @mateoruddock3056  And you're doing the SAME thing. He'd call you names and you'd call him names. Two loud mouths who would accomplish NOTHING. You're not even taking the time to use your brain. I have YET to see someone outsmart another by calling them names. Name calling is the last resort of the inept.
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  6383.  Wu Beach Boy  I don't care if it is a political stunt. The film is exploitative. Your "whataboutism" doesn't fly with me.
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  6384.  Wu Beach Boy  A strong suggestion, spammed all through the comment section, that it's a political stunt, isn't a strong endorsement for what these legislators are doing. In fact, to question their motives leaves a strong impression that you may NOT support their actions. Even your response to me isn't a ringing endorsement of their actions and might appear to be closer to a sleight of hand tactic, in which you don't actually commit to a criticism or an endorsement of the film. I can't know, one way or the other, what you think of the film. I can show that you may disapprove of the character of those who have taken the film and Netflix to task. That leads me to question YOUR motives.
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  6385.  Wu Beach Boy  I couldn't tell whether the "GOOD WORK" was meant sarcastically or as a compliment. It was a contextual impression. You start out with, what appears to be a compliment, and then you ride them about motives. That was kind of a balancing act that isn't readily detectable in print. I'm not about to judge their motives. I take the victories where I find them. I want this flick taken down. Period. I'm not about to question the morality of those who are determined to do it. They're doing what is the right thing. That's good enough for me.
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  6386.  @Zachary77  How does a person put a stop to crime in cities like Chicago or Baltimore when everyone there keeps voting Democrat? Who's going to change it when the Democrats are ALWAYS in power in those cities? What do I do? What does anyone do that wants change but none of his neighbours seem to want that change? How can you not understand that concept? If I'm wrong, explain that to me.
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  6387.  @caseinpoint4823  Did you not watch this video? Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary said that they were working WITH Facebook to flag misinformation. Is the White House a business? Are they advertisers? When did the White House or Facebook become the arbiters of truth? You're one of those people that have no idea why the big corporations and the most of the press HATED Trump. You're just not getting it. Trump wanted to even the playing field in trade with China and that cut into the cash flow for corporate bigwigs. China is a country with poor wages and no labour laws, no environmental restrictions, no quality control and a government that has complete control over the economy. They're getting rich by operating without restrictions and then selling the products to countries in the west who have those laws that incur HUGE expenditures. So the big corporations make their products in China and then sell them in the US at enormous profits. They give corporate executives big payoffs, which are placed in offshore accounts where they can't be traced of taxed in the US, to manufacture their products in China. That means the loss of manufacturing in the US and the loss of employment for tens of millions of Americans. Those corporations are the advertisers that you're talking about. Their corporate board members don't want to lose all their big perks from operating in China and that's why their working with the Democrats and the big tech companies to flag "misinformation". They want and love the control that they have and are NOT about to give it up. You don't even realise that you're believing exactly what those international corporations want you to believe and that's why they are the big advertisers that make all this money for big tech. They want to control the information and you're saying to the marriage of these corporations and big tech that you approve of this control (censoring) of information.
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  6388.  @caseinpoint4823  What in the world are you talking about? Why are you so angry about someone who advocates for Civil Rights and freedom? You want to be told what to do, how think and what to say? You're the one using foul language and calling me names. Your free enterprise (Facebook) is colluding with a sitting government to censor people. One of the biggest media companies in the world. Who's going to collude with the government next? YouTube? Twitter? Google? Tiktok? Those Big Tech companies comprise the bulk of on-line media. They are now the biggest disseminators of information in the world and they've decided, along with one Political Party, that only the voices and information that meets their approval, is allowed to be shared. They're suppressing any dissenting voices against that party and encourage criticism of that favoured party's political rivals and you get angry at those who think that this could be wrong. This is one step closer to a one Party state, what we've always called a dictatorship and you approve. I don't care about safe spaces or even want them. I want FREE spaces, the ability to express my opinion as is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States. I don't want a group colluding to corner the information outlets to further their own political agenda. That's the suppression of freedom. Monopolies are not what a free society strives for and that's what we're seeing.
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  6389.  @caseinpoint4823  If you have no argument, mock....is that the tactic? LOL. You're quite the intellectual.
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  6390. Why don't they just let them march and then pretend that they don't even exist? If there's no one watching them, they'll finish the march and go home. Nothing happens, no news, no one is hurt or killed, and the entire country has no idea it even happens. Do you know what's worse than hate? Indifference.
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  6391. There was a time that we found offense in how things were intended to mean. Now the offense is in how it is taken. Intent, to this mindset, is irrelevant.
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  6392. Simon Bouchard Then DON'T tip. You have that option. A "no tipping" law will force increased wages and force some establishments out of business and others to cut staff. Then you won't have that option and you'll pay the same for poor service as you would for good service. Then watch the quality of service go down, overall. Tipping is part of the overall expense of dining out and is a part of the expense that both you and the server have control over. You're taking away that control.
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  6393. 1barnet1 If there's no tipping there is no incentive for the server to do a good job. They have no vested interest in working harder. They'll get exactly the same as a poor server so why go the extra mile. What you'll get is an ownership who is now the only incentive to work hard and that never works out well. I'm a server and I'll will do anything within reason to do a good job because I like making ten to fifteen dollars over minimum wage. No one will benefit from a no tipping law. Not the servers, owners or the customer.
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  6394. Simon Bouchard It's still your option. If you don't want to tip....DON'T. I'm in the business and I'm off to work in 2 hours and I'm going to make tips. If this woman thinks that she's doing the servers a big favour by stopping tips, she's sorely mistaken. Ask any server if they want to give up tips and take a raise in pay, they'll tell you to go to the burning fire (I think you know where that is). I'm not being rude. I'm telling you how it is. It's not the servers that want to see an end to tipping. In the end, it's still up to you.
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  6395. 1barnet1 I'm in the business and I'm off to work in a couple of hours and I will guarantee you that there isn't one server I know that wants to see the end of tipping unless they're guaranteed, at least a 10 dollar an hour raise....or more. Serving staff are NOT the ones complaining of the tipping culture. Not at all.
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  6396.  Masson H  No spying but there was surveillance on Carter Page, a guy who has helped the CIA and a Trump supporter. Sounds like splitting hairs to me. Page is just a basic citizen and he was watched by the FBI and there has never been a good reason given for why they did it. In a free society, the police don't put people under surveillance on a whim. I'd like to see your reaction if the FBI or the CIA started watching you because you appear to be against Trump. The investigation was valid but there is no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians. In other words, your "valid" investigation was a waste of time. If there was evidence, Trump would have been impeached by now and they wouldn't be going on about this Ukraine thing.
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  6397.  Masson H  You're a troll. You'd have to be. Fox is the highest rated news channel in the US.
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  6398.  @Bunnahabhain18  I wish it so. However, they're doing the same thing to white kids now, as well. It's a nihilism that leads to apathy and it's destroying our society just as it has, in the past, for those of us who aren't white. It's destructive mindset for all of us and it has NOTHING to do with race. I'm not sure what point you're making by your repetition of those Peterson quotes. Anyone can chant things. It takes a mind to discuss what they might mean. Why don't you try that for a change instead of recycling the comments of others without trying to convey understanding of those quotes? That would have some real value.
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  6399.  @Surelockohms  Fred Trump's, Donald's father, was estimated at 300 million dollars. Donald took his share of his father's estate and added to his own net worth, he's now worth somewhere between 4.5 Billion and 7 billion dollars. Bloomberg had him among the 500th richest men in the world last May. I only wish that I was that bad a businessman.
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  6400.  @Surelockohms  Apparently, my comment disappeared, AGAIN, so I'll have to repeat myself. Donald Trump's father had a net worth of 300 million dollars when he died. Trump took his share, added it to his own net worth and was estimated, by Forbes, Bloomberg and others to be worth between 4.5 and 7 billion dollars. Bloomberg even had him in the top 500 richest people in the world. If only you had that kind of financial success. You'd be a bad businessman, too. I hope that this comment doesn't disappear.
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  6401. If you go out to protest, knowing that some, that are protesting with you, will take part in violent activities, you're no longer innocent. You're getting them to do the dirty work and then letting them hide in the crowd that you're helping to provide. You're guilty as hell.
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  6402.  @nickgarris2971  And yet, we just saw a news story, covered by an ABC news outlet, that shows kids walking out of class because they're sick of being bullied by these furries. Not FOX but ABC. Are they lying, too? What about those kids? All liars? I was disbelieving, at first. Recently, I was talking to a woman who told me that her daughter, who was in high school, was complaining about the same thing. I expressed doubt but I wasn't going to call her, or her daughter, a pair of liars either. That's never my default. I remember Bill Maher laughing at and mocking Dennis Prager when he said that they were putting feminine products in men's washrooms. Turns out that was true, as well.
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  6403.  @McCoy-j2w  You're a nut.
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  6404. The Interesting Nobody Science is NOT a religion. It's a methodology, a way of carrying out an educational process that uses hypothesis, experimentation, observation and conclusions drawn from the observations. Nothing at all religious about it. You follow a template of learning. That's all it is. You may draw wrong conclusions from your observations and it happens all the time. To prove that a conclusion A is wrong, you make a prediction from that conclusion A that if the conclusion from an experiment were true, your prediction should also be true which in turn validates conclusion A. You devise an experiment that proves your prediction and then observe what the results of your experiments were. If it confirms your prediction, the original conclusion A is still true. If it prediction isn't proved correct, you've just showed evidence that the original conclusion A is also false. How that is a religion is beyond me. It's doing something to see if it works....that's all.
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  6405.  @derekmcdaniel6029  Thomas failed as a male swimmer. He was never going to win any national titles or accolades competing against men. It just wasn't going to happen. That's why we say that he's a failed athlete. He couldn't beat the men so he competed against women. That makes him not just a failed swimmer but a failed human being with no integrity or shame.
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  6406. I was under the impression that this reporter was an American. Maybe I'm naive. I don't assume that an heritage doesn't negate your inclusion into the designation of "American". I learned that 40 years ago, in school, when we were taught that it was wrong to hold Americans, of Japanese heritage, into internment camps in WW2. I was taught that they were Americans and that this internment was a deplorable thing to do to Americans. Apparently, Stelter believes that this was all wrong. Maybe I should go to the new re-education camps to understand the new reality. I suppose she could have been Chinese and not American at all but then the question, that Trump asked, even makes more sense and isn't racist at all.
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  6407.  @kingkee1880  This is not even the first time that this has happened. There are numerous cases of schools transitioning kids without telling their parents and keeping it secret from them. That's why people have been calling these teachers and administrators "groomers". Just read the comments. Others have stated that this has happened to kids that they know of or to kids in their family. Also, kids as they reach puberty, are prone to keeping things from their parents. They like to experiment, start smoking, doing drugs, having sex, sneaking out at night, all kinds of things. It's quite common with kids of that age. Unscrupulous adults take advantage of kids like that, especially those with emotional problems and it would appear that's what happened to this kid. Those teachers played at doctor, something that their not qualified to do and is likely illegal, to appease their own egos and ideologies. It's too late to ask how it happened in this case. It happened and what to do about it is the problem.
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  6408. That's the concept behind peer review. Scientists evaluate a published paper on a new scientific principle and they run tests to see if the paper has any value to be had. Science has to be tested and questioned or it doesn't advance. "Trust the science" isn't an appeal to science at all. It's an appeal to accept a scientific idea as dogma.
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  6409. The left hate themselves. You can know this to be true by the way so many of them hate their own bodies so much they want to lop parts off and reattach parts that they think they should have. Hating your own body gives you licence to hate others. "Love the neighbour as thyself" becomes moot if you don't like yourself. They don't want America to survive. They want to tear it apart and destroy it all. That's true hatred and it's manifested in how they hate those that they live with and want to see them destroyed.
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  6410. "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile" Isn't it strange that this was considered a dystopian nightmare, less than 35 years ago. Now the progenitors of the Borg meet in Davos every year. I don't know about you, I still think that they're advocating for the nightmare.
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  6411.  @kdcurran4  Of course he wants their votes. That's how a Democracy works. DUH!!!! Kamala just wants their votes, too. Why is it good when she wants it but bad when it's Trump?
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  6412.  @smartiesnestle6679  If a nation crosses a border, attack, kill and sexually assault innocent people at a music festival, then drag men, women and children out of their beds and homes to kill, assault and kidnap them, they've declared war. If you declare a war, the other nation has a right to fight back. Don't cry because you've lost that war. It was NOT a holocaust. He meant to say EXACTLY what he said. You're just making excuses for Hamas, who committed one of the most brutal attacks in this century. Just remembering some of the brutal images of that day still makes my stomach retch. You're excusing evil and no different than the modern day deniers of the WW2 Holocaust.
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  6413.  @Phil-f3e  Whataboutism....a great rebuttal. "Well Donnie's doing it, too". Sounds like my kid brother when I was 10 years old. According to you, they've been convicted and it's only SOME Israelis. Who convicted them? If it was the Israeli government, that would indicate that it's NOT Israeli policy to abuse prisoners. In fact, if you do, they'll charge and convict you. How many Palestinians are going to be convicted for the starvation of Israeli prisoners? I'll bet it won't be a single one.
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  6414. Strange that there were a lot of the Democrats who wanted to impeach Trump due to claims of mental defect. Now they're upset that people are saying the same of Biden. They're all crazy.
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  6415.  Let’s Mass Debate  To feed babies??? I'm not calling a friend and that's my final answer. Am I correct???
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  6416.  Let’s Mass Debate  I never said a word about Joe Biden. I went over my comment a dozen times and his name never came up. You asked why one would need baby formula. I answered it. However, since YOU brought it up, the FDA does have an interest in this and a competent president would light a fire under that Federal Agency, to find ways to straighten that mess out. If the FDA is a roadblock to those companies getting their product out, we need to figure out why. I said "IF" they are a roadblock, NOT that they ARE a roadblock. I'm sure that those companies would love to get their product out to make their companies profitable. I'm not hearing a word from Biden or his administration on how to solve this from their end. In fact, it was Biden who said that there would be food shortages and here we are....a food shortage for the most vulnerable citizens of our country. If that doesn't concern you what does?
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  6417. They had to have known. 5 people, working a 40 hour workweek, at Instagram, could have put a HUGE dent into this but it didn't happen. I hope Instagram goes bankrupt over this, just for starts.
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  6418. Who cares if non-citizens are voting illegally or not. If they don't, what's it hurt to enact legislation that ensures that they can't. If they have voted illegally, apparently we need legislation to ensure that they don't. No matter what, non-citizens can't vote. The only reason why you'd object is because you want non-citizens to vote. Non-citizens like the Russians, North Koreans and Iranians? Do you really want them to vote?
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  6419. At the time, I was really starting to think that there were serious problems in the system. Things were starting to sound crazy in schools, the media and the Democrat party. The Grievance Studies papers pushed me to the point where I knew that something was wrong. The fact that publications, that claimed to be peer reviewed, would accept some of their papers and published them, convinced me that they were more about ideology than truth. I completely abandoned the left at this time. I'm still astounded that people still attack Lindsay, Boghossian and Pluckrose for this. It just validates how the radical left has corrupted our entire system.
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  6420.  @xftbllplyr2091  "His wealth consists of a combination of generational funds, investments, and real estate he owns along with his wife, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines." From Investopedia. It also states that he's an environmental lawyer. Forbes, a group that does financial analysis of well known individuals, says the same thing. This information is readily available to anyone that knows how to do a simple Google search. So, don't be so damn hateful.
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  6421.  @guiltyifudnthavemnybuyinnocent  I've already emailed that governing body and told them of my displeasure and why. I've also emailed my local federal AND provincial reps and did the same. Giving my support here is only PART of what I'm doing. I spent the day yesterday explaining it to my father who was unaware of what is happening in Canada. I know that a lot of other Canadians that are doing the same. Your intentions are suspect and we feel that you're one of those who support taking away our freedom of expression. So.....begone, TROLL.
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  6422.  @bonsa1guy  Both Trump AND Biden should get their comeuppance. On top of that, the FBI should be fully gutted.
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  6423.  getawaycar  It's because those who want to tear down the statues are also the ones that want to educate you. They want the ONLY source of information to be the state run educational system. No questions because you've been educated and that statue might cause a question that they don't want you to ask. What do you think re-education camps are? They're camps to send those who have the audacity to question what they were taught the first time around. It's a do over, a try again. We're seeing them now, in a limited way, in our human resources departments where they're teaching you the dogmas of "inclusivity" and "equity". It's to make sure everyone gets that message and is programmed to believe it without question. If you question it after their "seminars" you're fired. No individualism. No thoughts of your own. It's the beginning of the Orwellian society. If you didn't see it before, here's that warning again. 'Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.' George Orwell You might as well read this, as well, from 1984. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right” If you don't see this as the path to become a mindless drone, there's nothing I can say. It's the path to a dystopian future where destruction is seen road to enlightenment and we're all worker bees, obedient to the state, where revolutionaries like Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are reviled. It's imperative that they are because we can't have revolutionaries or anyone who would believe in the rights of man.
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  6424.  Steven Sweeden  I'm a conservative and I thought those people at the Wildlife Refuge were criminals. That wasn't their land and they had no right to it. It's the same in Seattle. It's NOT their land or their space to claim. Their just as bad as those weirdos in the Refuge. If one is bad, so is the other. It has nothing to do with Party politics or ideological beliefs. It has to do with right and wrong. They're BOTH wrong. PERIOD.
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  6425.  getawaycar  Those statues don't represent offensive ideals. They represent human history and the struggle for survival and understanding. It represents our ancestors and what it took to get to where we are now. If all you see are offensive ideals when you see those statues, your education has been wasted on you. You've become exactly like those whose ideals you think those statues represent. You've learned nothing about history and worse, you've learned nothing about yourself. "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." :Friedrich W. Nietzsche What the means for you.....Be careful that you don't become what it is you're fighting. Your supposed education should have taught you that but.....you know.......
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  6426. Isn't economics the science of the marketplace?
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  6427.  @marioboada7424  And we would have been proud of her had she stood on the podium at the Olympics. She got there by going to University on a scholarship, on the public dime and using corporate sponsorship, making their products more expensive for the consumer and shows NO appreciation for the opportunities afforded her. "F U" to the world. "I'm entitled" "I'm important" It's all about her. No Olympic athlete is hard done by. It's all in her head. She is no more oppressed than the other women standing on the same podium as her. She has the same training facilities, the same coaches, the same medical experts, she sits where she wants on the bus, doesn't have to go in the back door of their lodgings or eat separately. Everything that she's complaining about has been constructed in her own mind and nowhere else. To even mention Jesse Owens, in the same breath, is an insult to a man who lived through Jim Crow and all the demeaning aspects surrounding it. A Jim Crow society that she's only heard about. It's a slap in the face to all those who really lived through the hell of those times. You should be honouring those men but instead it's a never ending tirade of complaints and "woe is me". Time to grow up.
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  6428.  @marioboada7424  Yes....she has the right to do what she did. However, that doesn't make what she did the right thing to do. If it's considered, by a large percentage of the people, to be ethically wrong, they have the right to criticise her. If SHE has that right...SO DO I. It's the same as when someone says "Women are not men". There are people who get all bent out of shape by it but there is a right to say it....but there's also a right to criticise them for it. The Constitution gives you the right to make stupid decisions. It also gives me the right to call out that stupid decision. You can't give her that right and take that same right away from me and hide behind the Constitution. It applies to all of us. She has the right to do what she did but that doesn't mean that it was the right thing to do.
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  6429. They're afraid that they'll lose the mid-terms and they really don't want that.
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  6430.  @vlanza1999  Thanks.
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  6431.  JblueT  Maybe not. Black support for Trump has more than tripled and the Latinos are polling at 38 percent and rising. If the economy remains as good as it has been and Americans start to fear the proposed programs of the current Democrat presidential candidates, Trump may win in a landslide. The Democrats are doing everything in their power to ensure it.
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  6432. Musk isn't saying that Preston should go to jail for no reason. He's saying that he should be in jail for destroying his city, the city's businesses and the lives and well being of the workers in the city and businesses. Preston is living in a Utopian, Socialist Paradise that's he's created in his own mind and the people of San Francisco have to pay for it.
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  6433.  @JohnCarterRocks  Dr Oz wants to protect the lives of babies from their own mothers. That's not a gaffe. Also, I didn't hear any good ideas coming from Fetterman. In fact, I haven't seen one good thing that the Democrats have done since Biden was elected. Fetterman supports Biden. That already says that his cognitive skills aren't what they should be.
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  6434. That's only because the Democrats promised to pay off college debts. How gullible. Wait till they have to deal with food shortages. They'll want the government to get them food that doesn't exist....just like they expect the government to pay off their debts with money that has a value that will become non-existent.
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  6435.  @Vernichterlein  There are a lot of ideas out there that are extremely questionable. The OnlyFans "models" are a part of it. There was a time when feminists regarded Sports Illustrated models and beauty pageant contestants as women who are in league with misogynistic men to use women as brainless sex objects. It's been a theme of women for years and a lot of men, especially religious men, agreed with it. NOW....these women are being defended for doing the SAME thing that these models are doing...coming off as brainless sex objects. I will tell you another thing. I do NOT trust women with high sex body counts. They're NO different than the misogynistic men who use women as brainless sex objects. They're using men for the SAME purpose. Misogynistic men have a difficult time defending that attitude. Don't be surprised when "misandrist" women have a difficult time defending the same attitude towards men. They're both "users' who use other people for their own gratification. Users are not to be admired or emulated.
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  6436. There's money to be made in SJW work, says the capitalist with Marxist beliefs.
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  6437.  @solveigvan808  In 2015, if I'd have told you that, by 2022, there would be members of Congress who were going to claim that men could get pregnant, you'd have told me that I'm nuts. That our president would even name a trans person to his cabinet. That men would claim to be women and insist on going to women's prisons and be allowed into women's sports. That's how quickly this nonsense took over. There was no such thing as affirmative gender care back then. We didn't even know that these TikTok teachers existed. Remember, this started for Chloe in 2017. Her parents didn't know any of this and the most trusted people in society, our doctors, were telling them that this was SO serious that if the medical establishment did nothing, Chloe would die. They're just ordinary people....probably not even that bright. They believed those doctors....actually BELIEVED them. If a doctor tells you that you have cancer and that you need surgery, you believe them. We ALL know people that have died of cancer so we know how dangerous cancer can be. These doctors told them that their little girl was going to die because of this condition that was "rare" and it was back then. That terrified her parents. Her parents weren't going to ask YOU, some random guy on the internet, what YOU thought. They had nowhere to turn. The doctors lied to them and they believed them. For that alone, those doctors should pay. They took a confused little girl, convinced her parents that their little girl was going to commit suicide and it would be THEIR fault and then made a fortune off it. Remember, even though it's foolish for people to fall for the Nigerian Prince scam, that doesn't absolve those crook of their guilt. If her parents can show that they didn't know or understand what was happening and that this wasn't something that they wanted or pushed for, then they were being foolish and didn't act out of malice. Foolish mistakes shouldn't be punished through the courts. Malicious intent however, should be and this was as malicious as it comes by the medical establishment. They made money off of it and lots of it.
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  6438.  @TibiaOTarena  That's where you're mistaken. Little boys are being allowed to take testosterone, as well. A doctor won't get charged for doing to a teenage boy to what they're doing to teenage girls, except the boys don't take testosterone. They'll take estrogen and puberty blockers to prevent them from going through the puberty that will take them into manhood. This isn't about boys and girls. It's about erasing gender so there's no distinction between the sexes. Right now they claim that there are over 100 genders and the list is growing. Eventually, there'll be so many genders that it'll be impossible to keep track of them all and all the pronouns necessary to speak in any rational way. That's where they want us. They want us in a place where there are no definitions and no way to describe ourselves or our ideas. That's when they'll have their own "Newspeak".
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  6439.  @TibiaOTarena  They don't get testosterone for body image issues because it can be dangerous. Too much testosterone can be cause severe health issues. The same goes for estrogen. That's the irony of it all. A pubescent girl is starting to receive, naturally, increased levels of estrogen. That's a part of life for women. However, now they're being given testosterone as well as blockers to prevent the increased levels of estrogen. However, their genetic makeup still wants to do what it's programmed to do. That's why it becomes a life long cycle. They have to take drugs for the rest of their lives, because their bodies will try to repair what it believes is damage. The same thing happens to pubescent boys except in the opposite manner. Estrogen therapy can help some menopausal women but only under specific circumstances and it's not for all women. Men and women are different and because of the differences, react differently to hormonal actions. However, pubescent boys are encouraged to act on their doubts and emotional urges just like girls are. It's just that girls seem to be more susceptible to certain social contagions than boys are and boys have their own range of social contagions. In the future, this time in history will be seen as a weird aberration, sort of like the Satanic cult beliefs of the late eighties.
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  6440.  @bigglyguy8429  I'm not sure that I agree with that. I think Gates is worse than just greedy. I think that he's an ideologue and that he's part of a movement to "save" the world. Part of that is to reduce human population. Vaccines do save lives and sickness does a lot to keep people in poverty. The west has shown that if people have the financial resources, those people will have smaller families as a life decision. Every economically rich nation is losing population numbers and to maintain those numbers they encourage immigration. The thing is, Gates the ideologue, would be tempted to use vaccines in highly unethical ways. After all, he's saving the world and he believes, as ideologues are prone to, that this is his cause allows him to do those unethical acts. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis. This fits Bill Gates to a tee.
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  6441.  @bigglyguy8429  I agree with the "spiteful peevish child" description. I think that you'll find every socialist minded zealot and authoritarian to fit that description. The fact that he's had extreme financial success hasn't cured that childish viewpoint of life. It's only provided him with an arrogance to follow his belief system even more. His mission becomes even more sacrosanct. It gives him a sense that he's better than the rest of us and that gives him the ethical justification to lord it over us. A "spiteful peevish child" in a man's body, believing in his mission to save the world, is exactly the kind of despot that C. S. Lewis was talking about. He's the moral busybody and, to him, the rest of us are just "dumb" plebeians, who can't be trusted to run their own lives. He'll do it for us. Your comment, in a lot of ways, backs up what I've been trying to say.
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  6442.  @grazynkatodisco4916  I have no problem with that. However, if imagination isn't grounded in reality, it's only value is in entertainment. To accomplish things, one must be able to gain the knowledge to fulfil your imagination and dreams. That's what Einstein did. He didn't just imagine it. He then tried to see if his imagination was grounded in reality. His fame and success came from the work to turn imagination into knowledge. Imagination without knowledge is just "pie in the sky" mental meandering. You have to come down from the clouds and then work towards those dreams.
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  6443. Trudeau embarrasses me so much. Can't wait for the next election to vote the guy out of office for good. One thing, there Justin Mccastro. Americans did not CHOOSE to not vote in a female president. They voted to not vote in an incompetent president. They'd just gone through 4 years of incompetence and they didn't want to spend another 4 years under the same incompetence. That's all there is to it. Wise people do NOT vote based on identity politics.
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  6444. The media isn't defending them. They're supporting them. They're one of them.
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  6445. I doubt that the voters in California won't throw Schiff out because their hatred of Trump will compel them to claim that Schiff was justified to use corrupt tactics. The "end justifies the means" defence.
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  6446. It's TDS. Hatred is a powerful drug.
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  6447. The vaccine is going to turn people into conservative Zombies. That's what this thing is all about. Vaccinate everyone and they'll all be walking around, eyes glazed over, chanting "Make American Great Again" and "God Emperor Trump". I won't have to get the vaccine because I'm already brainwashed. I've been told that repeatedly, by left wing commenters on YouTube and who am I to argue with the enlightened ones. Wait till they get the vaccine. We'll see who's enlightened then.
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  6448. Time to invest in HCQ. Trump will recover and give the credit to the wonder drug and stock prices will skyrocket. Just don't invest in fish tank cleaner.
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  6449.  @americancitizen36  The newspaper that wins a Pulitzer, for The 1619 Project, isn't going to like anything that Peterson writes. They'd have to be interested in truth and it's not something that they seem to be big fans of.
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  6450.  @lonebikeroftheapocalypse9527  Where is the camera and the cameraman when you need it. LOL. Most times I leave the cell phone at home. I like being in a position where I'm out of reach. It gives me a feeling of independence.
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  6451.  Rick O'Shay  I offered 2 possible scenarios of that situation. There was the suggestion, in this video, that it was better to not help a woman for some convoluted reason, so I offered a vision of how that was so much better for the woman having a problem. I elaborated on the one that actually happened. Read it carefully and I think you'll figure out the real story.
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  6452.  @AngelDeed  Yes.....that's exactly what I mean. They can't open doors, either. I didn't want to say that explicitly, but that was the underlying point that I was trying to make. You're the only one that got it. You're SOOO smart. LOL. I'll bet you'd be a lot of fun to hang out with.
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  6453. Well.....I'm shocked. Imagine. NBC twisting someone's words to suit their narrative. No such thing as fake news, huh. It seems like we get it everyday.
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  6454. @ What about them? We've always looked after those who've lived with physical disabilities. Before we left it to the government, it was the church, or similar institutions, and the family group. We were so poor that the able bodied people all worked because it was the only way to survive. Now, millions of Americans, who are have NO disabilities, sit at home, staring at their TVs and phones, eating junk food and getting high and collecting a government stipend just to exist. Then they blame rich people for their lack of effort. Your "whataboutism" is just an excuse to protect your envy and resentment. It provides NOTHING.
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  6455.  @nicolash6553  You're missing one point. Those countries have corrupt governments and their leaders are making bank from the Chinese and other countries. For those corrupt politicians to keep filling their bank accounts, they need to keep their citizens poor and under the rule of their despotic authority. That's why the west is so rich. It's why Japan grew after WW2 even though their economy was gutted. My country, the Netherlands was also poor after the war. The Nazis gutted all the wealth that they gathered. My mother nearly starved and had to quit school at 11 years old to help support the family. However, they believed in freedom and it didn't take long for them to become rich again. Some of the most successful people in Europe, the US and Canada came from the places that you mentioned. They came to the west so they could freely live the way that they wanted to and NOT under the thumbs of despots in their home countries. It's not the selling of the natural resources that's exploiting those people. It's their leaders who allow it to happen because they're getting rich off of it. Had they allowed their people the same freedoms that we do in the west, they'd be just as well off as we are. Fair and equal trade is the key and not our supporting of their corrupt leaders.
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  6456. Antifa NEEDS racism to foment. It's how they'll spin America into chaos and violence until the country is destroyed. Then they'll seize power, from out of the ashes, and create their Utopian society, with them in charge of course.
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  6457. All I know is that if I done the same thing, it wouldn't take 2 full months for me to be arraigned.
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  6458. A married couple, in our village about 25 years ago, was showing nudie magazines to grade 6 and 7 kids in their homes. Apparently, they never touched any of the kids, just showed them the mags and asked the kids what they thought about them. People, in our village, were outraged and ran that couple out of town. They were a straight couple, had kids of their own, and they were doing this. I've hated straights ever since. Apparently, our whole village feels the same. That's the left wing logic. One criticism of the LGBTQ++++ community, like don't show dirty pictures to minors, and that proves that you're a hater, a bigot and a fascist. It's gaslighting 101.
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  6459. "If" they think that the parent "might" be abusive. Since when do we socially indict someone BEFORE the crime even happens. That's pre-crime and an ideologue can accuse anyone of committing a possible future crime if it suits the tenets of their belief system. You can't accuse someone of a crime based on a personal stereotype especially when your idea of abuse is disagreeing with something that they've said or been accused of saying.
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  6460. I've always been a policy guy and never one for political parties. However, there's not one policy that the Democrats or the left supports that I would vote for. The Democrats are doing it to themselves. They're is such a mess they have nothing but fear mongering hyperbole left to run on. It's nuts.
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  6461.  @edwardamos6462  That's a very simplistic answer to the points that we've all made. I'd say that you're keeping it that simple because that's all you've got. You don't know why you believe the way you do and you can't explain it. Not much of an argument.
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  6462.  @edwardamos6462  Your experiences have nothing to do with this. I'm talking about evidence that has been brought out in his trial and the police body cam videos. If a person says that he can't breathe while he's lying on his back, in the car, kicking and screaming, and there's no one around him, you tend to think that he's making it up. If he's repeated the same thing, LONG before he's on the ground but standing up and the police are just talking to him, you wonder what he's talking about. He said it 6 or 7 times, maybe even more, before he was on the ground. What made those claims more urgent when he WAS on the ground, the place that he asked to be? You're not addressing any of those facts. And if you think anecdotal evidence carries water, here's one for YOU. I worked with a guy who was constantly complaining how he couldn't breathe, every time it got a little hot out. That was 20 years ago. He's still alive. People say all kinds of things to jerk police officers around. He didn't die in ALL the time he was standing up. In fact, he became extremely violent. The only reason that he could have difficulty breathing, when he was still standing, is that the Fentanyl was starting to impair his breathing and he was already starting to die of a drug overdose. Hypoxia is the primary danger of Fentanyl misuse. The autopsy report says he died of hypoxia. They're police officers, not doctors or even paramedics. They're not as liable to recognise the signs. By the way, they did call for Emergency Services. I'm thinking they did it just to cover all the bases. One of the most ridiculous ideas is that Chauvin, intentionally murdered Floyd, in broad daylight, in front of an openly hostile crowd, who were videotaping him. Who would be that stupid. It's like leaving your name and address at a bank robbery. It makes no sense.
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  6463.  @edwardamos6462  Good one. That's quite the legal argument that you've got going there. Ever thought of a career in criminal law? Of course, I'm being sarcastic. You've no real argument so you just call me names. Not what I'd call a brilliant mind.
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  6464.  @edwardamos6462  Yeah....just like OJ was innocent. That jury was scared out of their wits. Even a member of Congress was inciting for more violence if the verdict didn't go the way she wanted. Who would they turn to for protection? The government? Both Biden and Waters said that there was only one acceptable verdict. Had they declared not guilty, those jurors would never have a moment's peace for the rest of their lives. I hope you're proud. The lynch mob has won.
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  6465.  @lamadyarah8787  It's not the United States that's seeing a billion dollar shortfall. It's the City of Los Angeles. It's up to the politicians of that city to balance that budget and they're NOT red. They're blue. Look at how well the blue team handled the wildfires and aftermath. They didn't prepare for fires that they knew were coming. They're now talking about austerity programs before they go bankrupt. Team Red, at the Federal level, is doing it before they get forced into it, like LA is doing. Just like spending as a family. You can't spend more than you make or you're going to end up living on the street.
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  6466.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  I care. I don't want to see a person die due to stupid decisions. Worse, she's a social influencer. I don't want her to influence my grand daughter or other people close to me to follow in her foot prints. I don't want to see society degenerate into one that is directed by the mentally unstable. It's a recipe for disaster in more ways than a person could realise. It's the same ideology that has driven San Francisco from a beautiful place to live and visit to a zombie apocalypse. It's apathy that allowed it to happen and it starts with not caring for the well being of others....including those with anorexia.
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  6467. Roland Fryer being the one who should have had that job. He's showed how education should be handled with his successful Harlem education project. The radical left didn't approve of the success of his program or the students who went to those schools. That includes the teacher's unions.
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  6468. I thought, when Obama was elected, that this would be the end of racial divide. By the end of his second term I realised that he had made things worse. I'm a white guy and I was so disappointed in what he did to divide America and now he's doing it again. White vs black vs women and that's how we should vote? He's the bigot.
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  6469.  @JeanneBlumLesinski-tr6se  You wait until the presentation is over and the question period starts. Duh!!! That's press conference protocol. You do NOT push your way towards the stage yelling "I got questions." That's a double DUH!!!!!!
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  6470. Psaki thinks that we don't fact check the internet bloggers. She doesn't realise that's what we do. That's how we know that's she's nothing but a dirt bag liar. We fact checked her. We do the same for Pakman, Dore, Rubin or Tim Pool, as we do for the media. That's how we know who to trust. She's not very bright.
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  6471. I always go looking for the evidence that they might have. it's amazing what you find out if you do that. One thing to remember is that the media will tell the truth if it benefits the narrative. That means that it can be true and it's how they try to prove their integrity. "See, that's true so therefore this MUST be true, too". They'll use the truth to lie to you. It's what liars do.
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  6472.  @jz7490  I'd say lack of coordination between the local police and the secret service. Whatever the case, had only 2 of the officers, who surrounded Trump to escort him off stage, had been placed on that roof, instead of by the stage, that man would still be alive, the other 2 wouldn't be in the hospital and Trump wouldn't be missing a part of his ear. That's the real big failure here. There's no way that this roof should not have had Secret Service officers on it.
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  6473. I posted, in early March, on Facebook, that 2020 would be the year that the world went crazy. It has exceeded my expectations. I've even dropped Facebook because of the craziness I've seen there. The world needs a planetary Valium so we can all sit back, relax a bit and think over what the hell it is we're doing.
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  6474.  @PolPotsPieHole  You don't know what a regular job is? I think that you're being intentionally obtuse.
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  6475.  @SANDSOFTRUTH  Trump inherited a war. What did you think would happen? Trump wanted to withdraw but wouldn't because he wanted to be sure that the Taliban wouldn't take over the country. Biden didn't care. He kept pulling out as the Taliban became stronger and stronger. Taliban fighters were at the gate of the American gates while people were desperately trying to leave, fearing for their lives. Biden didn't care. Not only did he keep telling the military to leave, he left billions in weapons for the Taliban to use. Also, more than Americans were killed that day. Afghan allies were killed, a lot of them that day. The rest of them knew that they were going to die that day as the American deserted them to the Taliban. They were so desperate that they were hanging onto the outsides of planes as the planes were taking off. There is no telling how many Afghans died in the aftermath of that withdrawal. Now the Afghanistan is the most restrictive nation on the planet, comparable to North Korea....and you have the nerve to criticise Trump and compare Biden's shame to what Trump was forced into. Trump wanted out but he sure didn't do what Biden did. Also, why didn't Biden show up for this ceremony. Oh....I forgot. He had to go to the beach.
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  6476. A safe space? Really? There's an outbreak of Typhus in Los Angeles right now. TYPHUS fer f---s sake.....and you feel safe. Why don't you go to East LA, you know, where the gangs hang out. I'll bet you'll feel safe there.....but I guess it really doesn't matter about those folk. As long as you're safe.
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  6477.  @Chase_Sparrow3337  Is that what you'd call a father figure? A man that abuses minors for his own pleasure? A cheat and a pedo? That sure is someone to look up to. Quite the role model.
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  6478. Jerusalem became Christian during the time of the Roman Empire. Constantine the Great declared that Christianity would be the official religion of Rome and the Empire in 312 AD. It was Christian until 638 AD, when the Rashidun Caliphate under Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Rashidun caliph captured Jerusalem. That woman knows NOTHING about the history of the region.
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  6479.  @Spartacus547  That road takes you to hell as well, I guess. It's just a more direct route. Success is paved with hard work, Personal responsibility, making good decisions and not being enticed by shortcuts.
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  6480. Trump's married. If I screwed a porn star, I wouldn't want my wife to know. If I was a billionaire, I might even pay her 130K to keep her mouth shut. Melania could take him for hundreds of millions. That would be incentive to pay her off. Infidelity isn't a crime. Neither are non-disclosure agreements unless in the furtherance of a crime and, I repeat, infidelity isn't a crime.
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  6481. They were all ex CIA agents. They may not even have clearance anymore. They played a dirty game. 4 days after the NY Post article, about the laptop, he got this letter. They then said, and read this carefully, that this had all the EARMARKS of a Russian disinformation program. That doesn't mean that it actually was one. They were hoping that the American public wouldn't be able to pick up on this disingenuous declaration. Incredibly, they had the letter in circulation in 4 days. That's quite the investigation from retired officers who wouldn't even be involved in any relevant investigation. It's a lot of BS.
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  6482. Did this guy ever nail it. I'm Canadian and we have the same mindset from the left as the US does. They want to put additives to the nationality. French Canadian, Black Canadian, Native Canadian......well, I say, we're all Canadians and we should put Canadians first. That includes everyone, even those who want to put that little qualifier to their nationality. I'm Canadian with Dutch heritage but Canadian first. Not Dutch Canadian.....CANADIAN. Just like the guy in this video. He's American. That's it. It should be Americans first from his perspective just like it's Canadians first from my perspective.
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  6483. I love how your cynicism blends in with your productive life. You see the problem but it doesn't change what you do with your life. Great comment.
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  6484. Or.....rich businessmen will buy the property at discount properties, offer the building to be used for the homeless and then they'll be guaranteed money from municipal and state governments. In other words, the rich guy will get richer on your tax dollars. Some of them will be asylum seekers. Once grand office buildings will become the tenements of the future. This might be a good time to invest money in firms that buy these unwanted buildings as a long term investment. Do your homework before you put any money down, though.
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  6485. "Follow the science" to save lives when distributing the vaccines? What is she.....some kind of religious fanatic? Follow the government and the politicians. They, and ONLY they, know what's best for you and care about your well being. "Follow the science"......my gawd!!!! It's as if we're heading back to the Middle Ages!!!!
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  6486.  @kenbeasy  Desantis didn't put Covid patients into nursing homes, at all and under NO circumstances. That lessened the chances of the disease spreading into nursing homes, considerably. It's because he, and his team, looked at the data and the science, on their own, and targeted the most vulnerable as the focus of their protection policies. That's why Florida has done so much better than New York. One went at it with a plan, in a pragmatic manner and the other just reacted in a knee jerk manner without a plan. You can figure out for yourself which was which. I'll give you a hint, though. There's a reason why New York put Covid patients in nursing homes, why they claimed they needed 40 thousand ventilators, when they didn't need near that many, why they couldn't find the ventilators that they had until, it was pointed out, by FEMA, that they were stored, in New York state leased warehouses, in New Jersey. Are you getting the hint, yet?
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  6487.  @TheWildEntrepreneur  Why? The US has given over 200 billion dollars to Zelensky and Ukraine and Zelensky wants to argue? He should be grateful for the American help. He should be grateful that Trump may help to put an end to the killing.....Ukrainian citizens I might add, and all Zelensky can do is sit in the White House, the home of our leader, and start an argument. How long would you allow that, in your home, with someone that you've been supporting for years? If you had any pride, it wouldn't last 10 minutes.
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  6488. I acknowledge the great cultural accomplishments of Europe but I can't take pride in it. I had nothing to do with it. They were the ones that did it. I'm certainly appreciative of it and extremely happy that it happened but I'm not about to brag about it. It's just the way it is.
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  6489. I have to add that a this was a question that demanded a humble response. Boasting about one's superiority is not a good look. Being grateful for the good things in life is a much better way to look at the world and life.
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  6490. Hilary could have won the 2016 elections but she chose to run an extremely corrupt campaign. She thought that the American people are too stupid to see through her machinations, so it HAD to be the Russians. I think that she's actually convinced herself that she did nothing wrong.
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  6491. When Trump offers an opinion, it's "He said, without proof" and that discounts his opinion, but when they offer an opinion, the fact that they offered an opinion is proof in itself. They can't differentiate between proof and opinion.
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  6492.  @okay5938  If there is CLEAR evidence, then why isn't Pelosi pushing to impeach? In fact, she's doing the opposite. There was no obstruction. Neither Mueller, or his team, were ever held up due the actions of the president. The investigations were never stopped, ONCE, because Trump intervened and stopped it. Trump was upset because he felt he was being unfairly targeted and that Mueller and his team were biased against him, but who wouldn't be. He even told some of staff that he wanted Mueller fired, but there was never any attempt to fire the guy or any of his staff. It was inner circle talk. The closest you can get to a legit charge is conspiracy to commit obstruction. That's extremely difficult to prove, especially, especially when there was no action taken. I'm afraid there is no basis to impeach on obstruction. This is just wishful thinking on the part of those who hate Trump. It was their backup accusation, just in case they couldn't prove collusion.
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  6493.  @okay5938  They called that interference of the Russians, collusion, because they wanted to show that Trump had a part in it. That's what everyone called it, repeatedly and incessantly. Let's get over the semantics of it, shall we? Mueller mandate was to find if there was any interference by the Russians. What it found was that there was no evidence to link Trump or his team with that interference and that there was no collusion. The media treated the interference as a forgone conclusion. It was the media (CNN, MSNBC, WaPo and the rest) that wanted it about collusion and a lot of the Democrats hooked their wagon to their claims of collusion. They were all sure that when the report was finished that if would prove that Trump actively helped the Russians to interfere in his favour. It wasn't till Mueller said "NO collusion" that the obstruction stuff started. Russian interference in the US election does not make Trump guilty of any crime, even if he benefits from that interference. It begins to be a crime, for Trump, if he "colluded" with the Russians to interfere in the elections to his own benefit. Trump is only guilty if he actively sought their help and there is NO evidence that he did. Trump firing Comey isn't obstruction. Whether Comey was fired or not, he was still obligated, by law, to testify before the Mueller team. In fact, firing Comey would hurt Trump as it would have had the effect of turning Comey against Trump more than he already was against him. Firing Comey did nothing to stop his from testifying. Nothing at all. I can't for the life of me see how firing Comey would stop him from testifying. It's illogical. I don't see how firing Comey would stop him from telling the truth. Since that's all you have, that's all I can comment on. You've not convinced me of a thing.
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  6494.  @okay5938  Sorry, I meant to get back to you sooner but I've had some health issues and was kind of laid up and busy with doctor's. Things are better now and I've a little more time. Comey didn't testify. However, he was the prime investigator into the Clinton e-mail scandal and he decided that there wasn't enough to build a case against her. Then, just before the election, new material was revealed and he re-opened the e-mail case. That upset a lot of Democrats, who felt that this strongly affected the outcome of that election. When Trump was calling for Russia to "find Hillary's e-mails", that's what he was referring to. He was talking about sensitive security material on Hillary's private computer that could easily have been hacked into by anyone, including Russia. In effect, he was asking Russia to admit that they had illegally accessed Hillary's private account and spied on sensitive security material. I don't see how that is obstruction. That's what the entire Comey investigation was about. However, it was found that Comey had drafted a letter of exoneration long before the that investigation was over. Republicans were now upset. How can anyone draft such a letter before an investigation was complete? This was a major reason why Trump fired Comey. He felt that Comey had a greater interest in his personal politics than doing what was good for the country. If any president feels that way about the head of such an important group, he should fire that person. That had nothing to do with the Mueller investigation which was inevitable, since there was a great interest in the leadership of the FBI to investigate alleged Russian interference. Interference, by a foreign power of agency in an American election, is illegal. Anyone that is involved in that interference is guilty of a crime. Adam Schiff said, repeatedly, that he had definitive proof that Trump aided and likely influenced Russian interference. That would have been an illegal act as helping a foreign power try to rig an election is illegal. That is what Schiff and others called collusion. The Russians tried to influence the election and Schiff and others were claiming they did so on an agreement they made with Trump. They called that agreement "collusion". They also claimed that this agreement, called collusion, was illegal and it became a major focus of the Mueller investigation. That investigation found no Trump involvement but it did point at Russian agents who are now open to charges in the US which they will never have to face, unless they enter the US. I still don't see any case for obstruction.
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  6495. This could be a form of Munchausen syndrome. He enjoyed all the attention and awards that he was getting and it looked as if it was all fading away. He needed to be that victim again so he would get the attention that he was getting when he was getting those rewards. Nothing says relevance when your the victim of the very crimes you're fighting. The guy's a lost soul and he's that narcissistic that he really doesn't care who he brings down with him. The same as Smollett. Had the police arrested 2 white guys, who happened to be Trump supporters, would Smollett have stood up and said that these weren't the guys? I doubt it very much. This would have been exactly what he would need to keep the suspicion off of him. He's a nut.
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  6496. No. Gravity exerts the same force on everything. Normally, the feathers fall slower because the air is exerting pressure against them. That is our normal. No air means there is no pressure exerting against the feathers and it will be attracted at the same rate as anything else no matter the weight. That's the normal state of gravity.
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  6497. When you enter another country, in an effort to live and work in that country and do so without following the laws of that country, you've entered and stayed there as an illegal immigrant. We call them illegals for short. That doesn't mean that their illegal people. It means that their illegal immigrants. She's trying to change language in her effort to change the way we perceive that situation. It won't work. They're illegals....illegal immigrants.
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  6498. @David Mackey Nazis went to the Netherlands, after WW2 to hide??? Is that what you're trying to say??? LOL. Maybe I'm reading you wrong because this is a crazy statement if this is what you're trying to claim.
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  6499. @David Mackey Madison Square Gardens is NOT in the Netherlands. I don't know how you do your research but you'd better study up on your geography to start. That's one of the weirdest responses I ever seen.
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  6500.  @jjrider6758  They've interjected their "end of the world" scenario into school curriculums to frighten and indoctrinate the children. Now that those kids are in university or into the work place, they've become their foot soldiers towards the great reset. Young minds are often idealistic and the elites prey on the young people's idealism and unrealistic expectations to control them. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire. George Orwell demonstrated this in his famous novel "1984" where Winston Smith was forced to believe that 2 plus 2 equal 5. We're now seeing it with the claim that men can get pregnant or have periods. Truth is subjective and it all depends on how you look at it. The WEF is telling us that they're going to free us from an oppressive future by subjugating us. "War is peace" as Orwell said.
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  6501. Pelosi fiddled while America burned.
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  6502. Trans athletes CAN compete. Leah Thomas, a biological male, competed with biological males for 3 years in collegiate sports. He was ranked 462nd among collegiate men. He could have competed in his 4th year, with biological males, as a transgender and might have even improved that ranking but he'd NEVER have set records. He could only do that by competing against collegiate, biological women. It's incredible that there are women that are supporting biological men taking BACK the rights that were given to women in the first place.
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  6503. Only if Biden steps down before the next election. If he doesn't run in 2024, I doubt that he will, they'll go through the primary process to select another Democrat presidential candidate. Usually though, if the incumbent president has party support, the primary process is just a formality. I doubt that it will be a formality if Biden does decide to run again, especially if they lose big in the mid-terms. Democrats won't want to risk another losing again and that will almost certainly mean a new candidate. Unfortunately for them, I don't see a solid Democrat candidate waiting for their chance. It's all the sames stuff that Biden is shovelling now.
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  6504. Hi. My grandmother was a de Jong. I guess we're distantly related.
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  6505. They want the poll numbers to be high for Biden so that when Trump wins, they can call it a Trump fraudulent win. Also, they need the numbers high so they can use the mail in ballots to their advantage.
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  6506.  @sheilahart1267  I wasn't talking about HOW it was done. All I said was that it was done voluntarily. People don't want large families. It was a choice. I had 2 kids and my wife and I would NEVER have aborted a child...especially my wife, who had a strong hatred of it.
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  6507.  @sandrajones2262  I went full time and worked part time. I studied office systems and data processing. I never got into those fields but it did give me the background to get into production management. That led me to being a yard manager at recycling plant and a crane operator. My education taught me that I'd never be happy with a desk job. I loved working outdoors so, in spite of not doing exactly what I was studying for, the education still led me to places that I enjoyed.
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  6508.  @sheilahart1267  Did you not even bother to read my comment that I directed to you? I guess I'll have to highlight the section that pertains to how I feel on the subject. "I had 2 kids and my wife and I would NEVER have aborted a child" I would think that this shows how I feel on abortion yet you still want to argue with me. You are one persistent harpy. I agree with you and you still want to fight. Maybe you should hold your breath until the anger goes away. It definitely isn't helping you to think in a logical manner.
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  6509.  @sheilahart1267  READ MY STATEMENT AGAIN. I was quite clear of how I felt on the subject. The child in the womb doesn't have a choice to be born or not, so that's a spurious argument. The choice is for those who can make it. Asking a 6 month old baby about choice doesn't make sense. Also, when my wife and I decided to only have 2 children, there were lots of options, to make that happen, that doesn't include abortion and we took them. This isn't only about whether to abort or not abort. There are dozens of birth control methods available. I can CHOOSE to use them, as well. A lot of women choose how many children they want and would NEVER abort a child. So...quit accusing me of things that I never said and don't believe in. I can only tell my feelings on abortion so many times before I will come to the conclusion that I'm talking to a cement head.
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  6510.  @thepauldobbs  So you want me to hate my children for making that decision. Ok...upset with them. I'm not going to do that....EVER!!!! I will love and care for my kids and my grand kids, no matter what. No qualifications, no "you're destroying the planet" vitriol. They are and will always be special to me.
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  6511. Immigration, based on skills, is good for the economy. A country that lacks the high end skills will end up spinning it's well in the private sector. It's in everyone's best interest that we have those skills. A poor national skill set is BAD for business. The answer to your question? Yes, this is business Fox.
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  6512. There's a reason why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Big Ten of Commandments. Envy is one of the most destructive forces on the planet. They knew this over 2 thousand years ago and most people just don't get it today.
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  6513.  @NicholaWallace  At least they're using the word "Liberal" with its proper meaning. I think that it's a part of the radical left agenda of manipulating language. That's been a part of their modus operandi for over a century. The control of language allows one to control thought. It's essential to the vision that they have for society. Orwell did a great job describing this tactic in "1984".
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  6514.  rtorres81rc  It is about American history. They talk about how people think and act. You can't understand history, let alone American history, if you don't understand people.
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  6515.  @M.J.212  I can't enlighten you. That's because if I tell you about the 600, or so dead migrants, found along the border, you'd not believe me. That there's been around 2 million migrant encounters, where they've been caught trying to cross into the United States by border guards, the highest in US history, you'll just say that you don't see it. Do you know why? You live in Phoenix, 150 miles away from the border. You don't live on the border. It's a 3 hour drive to get to Mexico. You may as well be in Boise, Idaho. Also, by the sarcastic tone of your comment, you don't want to believe it.
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  6516.  @shanecorning5222  Now you're really starting to get "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs". I suppose they're spraying us with chemtrails and that there are lizard people living in the centre of the earth, too. Put down the pipe, buddy.
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  6517.  @shanecorning5222  LOL. A flat earther, too. You'll believe just about anything. LOL.
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  6518.  @shanecorning5222  Speak English or at least in full and coherent sentences. Reading your comments is like talking on a cell phone and the signal keeps flashing in and out on me. It's a garbled mess.
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  6519.  @shanecorning5222  Belief definition from the online dictionary: 1. an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. 2. trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something. Now, quit being so damn cryptic and tell me what it is you're talking about. Quit the stupid games.
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  6520.  @shanecorning5222  "without proof"? You added that on. It wasn't in the definition, at all. Not in the one that I cited. So...I went to Merriam/Webster. 1: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing 2: something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion : something believed 3: conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidence Nowhere do I see "without proof". You're making that part up. You're still not saying what it is you're REALLY talking about. You're dancing around it. Quit pretending that you're so kind of mystic. Just get to the damn point.
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  6521.  @shanecorning5222  According to you. You can't just make up your own definition because that's how you want it to be. There's a reason why we have dictionaries. It's so that EVERYONE knows what the hell you're talking about when you say something. How can anyone take someone seriously who just defines words the way that he wants them to be defined. That's nuts.
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  6522.  @shanecorning5222  You're talking about faith, not belief. Once again...you've made your own definition. Faith is the belief in things not proved. One can have a belief in things that are proven. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it that way, as I showed you. Faith definition as to the online dictionary: 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. 2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. Check number 2. Once again....this is a dumb exercise. What are you REALLY talking about. You have something in mind. Quit playing games.
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  6523.  @shanecorning5222  My word gymnastics. I'm doing one thing. I'm asking you a question. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? Please....just tell me. WHAT IS YOUR DAMN POINT???? That's pretty direct. Quit telling me to define words and asking cryptic questions. Just tell me what the point is. God....it's like pulling teeth, trying to get you to do that.
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  6524.  @shanecorning5222  The thing is, you're all over the place. Now you're trying to avoid telling me what you're talking about by telling me to reread the comment thread. Stop talking in riddles. Just lay it out in plain English. You've touched on all kinds of weird conspiracy stuff. Now it's something about the scientific method. GET TO THE POINT!!!!!
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  6525.  @shanecorning5222  So, this discussion is about nothing. As for being a schoolboy, I'm 68 years old, raised 2 kids, have 3 grand children, have a college education, have read thousands of books and still read to this day. You're just a pompous fool, pretending to be wise and all knowing but refusing to have a discussion on what he claims he knows and understands. Talking to you has been a colossal waste of my time.
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  6526. Watch them try to force them. They're Marxists and they don't think anyone has the right to own property. They think that it should all be controlled by the state.
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  6527.  @formerfreak4943  The Old Testament says to stone adulterers. Yet Jesus said that he, who is without sin, should throw the first stone. Since no one is perfect, no one gets to throw that first stone. I'm guessing that this would also apply to gays. Funny how most people never mention this. Could it be they only see what they want to see???
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  6528.  @The00Dude  It wasn't finished when you "voted" him out. There's 458 miles that have been completed. First, the Democrats fought him tooth and nail to prevent the construction and he STILL got 458 miles done. And then Biden stopped construction. Now, there are even Democrats that want the wall completed and Trump's policies back in place. Are they the clowns as well. You sneer at Trump for wanting to build a barrier and support blocking every move to get funding, support a candidate that stopped construction and then blame Trump for not completing the project. Your success at blocking and stopping the wall is why the wall isn't finished.
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  6529.  @The00Dude  Are you serious? Immigration was a mess when Trump started. He made deals with Mexico and other central American nations and illegal immigration was down when Biden took over. He stopped the building of the wall and rescinded the deals that Trump has made. Also, Trump had to get a budget, secure funds, get proposals and estimates from contractors and then get the infrastructure in place to even BEGIN building. This isn't a "snap of the fingers" project. A lot has to be done even before construction can begin. Hell, it took 12 years, from first design concepts, in 2002,, to completion in 2014, to rebuild the World Trade Centre. You want a wall that's hundreds of miles long, over all kinds of terrain, to be done in less than FOUR years? You really have no concept of the magnitude of such a huge product. Trump also had to contend with the RINOs, those Republicans, who made up the majority, and hate Trump and were responsible, in part, for Trump's defeat in 2020. It's actually quite the accomplishment to get that much done, considering all what had to be done and the opposition to the wall....opposition that ended with shutting down the wall completely. You sound as if you wanted the wall and you're angry at Trump for not finishing it. It's sounds contradictory.
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  6530. These progressives think that the "masses" are of a kindred spirit. They don't realise that they'll be the first to go if the socialist masses take over.
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  6531.  Orga777  Apparently, not yet. Besides, no one to fight where I live.
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  6532.  @parrotraiser6541  The reason that I don't like it is because they use the term "racist" as a muzzle. Once the accusation is made, the conversation is over. Worse, they use it to validate the most ridiculous proposals to make new rules of conduct and even laws. Any doubt about the new rules or laws indicates racism by the doubter and discussion is over. They might as well wire our jaws shut so we can't express ourselves. If they didn't use that word in that way, I could care less what they call me. However, when they use it to stomp on the democratic process and as a "can't miss" method to get their way, I'll fight against it. It's the misappropriation of a word to beat us down.
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  6533.  @evilestmonkeey  LOL. Maybe that's the problem. I'm getting older and I don't hear those high range sounds as well as I used to. I was more sympathetic to some Democrat ideas when I was younger. Now, it's all drivel to me.
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  6534. @Ethan Hobigant Roche Yeah. She called on everyone to "peacefully" protest. Sort of like the Democrats are doing. "I'm peacefully protesting. It's not my fault that some of us are throwing bricks and Molotov cocktails". Plead innocence while providing a crowd for the violent to hide in.
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  6535.  @rublesforu.ssoldiersscalps4801  It's obvious that you know NOTHING about US history or how a government is formed. Trump won as a result of winning the electoral college. This system has been in place since the US started as a country. In fact, the big reason the US broke away was because the founding fathers believed in representational government. That's what the electoral college is all about. It's to prevent small but heavily populated areas to dominate the entire country. It was so Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska and Alabama could have a say in how the country was run. It was to keep states like New York and California from running rough shod over the rural states and controlling the entire country because everyone lived there. What does a guy in New York know about living in Alaska? If you're talking about elderly Covid patients dying, why is it that Democrat states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients into nursing homes? In fact, the Commissioner of Health in Pennsylvania put Covid patients in nursing homes and then took her own 95 year old mother out of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel. They were Democrats, NOT Trump supporters. You're as badly informed as they get or else you're too dumb to know how to lie effectively.
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  6536.  @rublesforu.ssoldiersscalps4801  I'll give you that one. I assumed, that this was an argument against the electoral college. I don't know how often I've heard it being made. I was wrong to assume that. However, that was 4 years ago. His followers may have grown in numbers or shrunk. No one can know that until there's an official count, better known as an election
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  6537. That's what are schools are doing to your kids, Rep. Clark. They're terrifying your kids with apocalyptic nightmares to the point that they can't even sleep. No wonder they're out there, breaking the law and spewing ideological nonsense. You're using your own kids to assuage your own agenda. They get go to jail and you get to pontificate on how hatefully they've been treated. You're dogmatic devotee and you're now going to use your own child to advocate for your agenda.
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  6538. You don't know what the solution is Tim? How about encouraging people to get behind the government policing units. That doesn't mean that we don't recognise that there are bad police officers or that there might develop a police culture that is counter productive to good public policing. It means that we solve the issues as they arrive in policing and support them as they are representative of the government who are representative of us....the people of our nation. Either we're a nation of law or we're not. That would include the police but it also includes those, especially those who might not agree with our way of life and wish to change things through violence. Anyone who believes that any group or agency is going to be perfect is a Utopian fool. The best we have is to recognise this tendency for human error and create safe guards against them. What we don't do is go against the only method that we've devised that would maintain a safe and civilised society.
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  6539. So Michelle Obama is afraid that her daughter will be racially profiled. By who? WHITE cops? Talk about racially profiling, Michelle. The lack of self awareness is astounding. You'd think that an attorney would be smarter than that.
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  6540.  @tydiab8838  They took the West Bank from Jordan back in 67 and have controlled it ever since. They taken land and displaced people there and built that land into Israeli towns since then but they've been in charge there for over 50 years, just like they did with the Golan Heights.
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  6541.  Dan i  LOL....I wouldn't be here if I were Jewish. My parents would have been killed during the Holocaust. My uncle was sent to Westerbork, the Jewish detention centre in the Netherlands, and held there, until they could send him to the POW camp, at Texel, because he wasn't Jewish. He was accused of espionage against the Nazis. He was sent to Westerbork because it was only 10 kilometres from where he lived. Sorry bud......You'll have to come up with a better argument to back your claims than to call me a Jew.
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  6542.  Dan i  It's very common in Holland, as well. My ancestors came from Silesia, around 1670, and moved to northern Holland. At that time, the name was spelled with 2 "n"s, Havemann, still spelled that way in Germany. They dropped an "n" to make it more Dutch looking.
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  6543.  Dan i  Basically "shut up" then. Your arguments aren't getting any better, are they. If name calling doesn't work, tell them to be quiet. Worked good when I was 8.
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  6544.  @tanindunn8379  There will be over 2 million illegals entering America this year. Had DeSantis sent them back to their original country, although he may not have the ability to do that, you'd not hear a thing about it. However, by sending them to the cities that declared themselves sanctuary cities, everyone is now talking about it and the Democrats, who created the sanctuary city status, are going to have to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Remember, these are cities, that are a long way from the border, and didn't think that it would affect them. It's the same thing with the homeless crisis. If they started pitching tents on the lawns and sidewalks of the Democrat elites, watch something get done about it. Having an addict do his business in front of his kids is sure to evoke a response from that "enlightened" governor. It doesn't solve the migrant crisis, but it brings it to the attention of ALL Americans, so the starry eyed liberals can see what happens when they impose their weird policies on the country. When they start to see real world problems with it that affect them, they might do something about it. I'd say it was a brilliant ploy.
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  6545.  @zmax683  I worked in a factory making toilet paper. I didn't live check to check. I'm not rich and I'm now retired but if my pensions stopped at the end of the month, I could live for years if I was careful. I like the idea that my decisions can get me ahead instead of a government telling me that I must NEVER aspire to do better for myself. My dad started with nothing, worked 3 jobs at times and saved and invested every cent that he could. There was no welfare, no state health care. People paid for it all out of their own pockets and those times are considered the golden age of this country. He's still alive and has lots of money. He did it by refusing to depend on others. If you can get by living check to check, get another job. 10 hours a week....that's it. If you take that extra money and invest it, you will be well off in no time. Don't buy that expensive phone. You don't need it. Instead of staring at your phone, you'd be better off doing something productive. Of course, you won't believe me and that attitude is exactly why you live check to check. You are your own worst enemy.
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  6546. Could well be. There are a lot of Republicans with dirty hands. It's not just Democrats, although they're at the heart of it all. It's the old Republican guard, the RINOs, the press, the Washington bureaucracy and big tech and the international corporations. They're ALL complicit.
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  6547.  @IambiguousSegment  You should get a medal for being a smart mouth. Maybe a "Troll of the week" medal could be created and you could wear it proudly out of your basement when your mommy calls you for dinner.....or does she bring it down to you.
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  6548.  @veradark5066  You're putting words in my mouth. Here's one of the things that I said "I have no problem with someone discussing their ideas but I will not put up with unwarranted rudeness or bullying and I will tell the bully what I think of them. It's gotten me a fat lip," First, I said that I have no problem with discussing Ideas. There goes your "flame thrower at libraries" trope. Why would I burn down a library when I have no problems with ideas? It's illogical and you're only saying this to smear me, in hopes to invalidate what I'm saying. Then I said, quite explicitly, that I will TELL, get that TELL, a bully what I think and that has gotten me a fat lip. I'm getting the fat lip because I'm saying words the the bully doesn't like. YOU have it backwards. I even said that I would take a beating for defending the bullied, a beating from the guy who I told what I think of him for being a bully. If I have to take a beating for telling him to stop bullying those who can't defend themselves, so be it. A bully deserves to be told just what he is. If that bully becomes angry and takes a swing...THAT'S ON HIM, not me. If more people would stand up to these bullies, their victims wouldn't have to live with the fear that they're being forced to contend with. However, if you turn a blind eye because you're afraid of how them might react, at least you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that the victim of the bully is taking the abuse, NOT you. Your safety comes first....right?
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  6549.  @cathyguy9241  Are you saying that I'm a part of a "make work" program? Wow. Where I'm from the local government would hire guys to dig ditches that started nowhere and went nowhere so they could say that they're solving the unemployment problem. I'm only too glad to put food on the tables of poor slobs who have nothing. It sure beats working with a pick and shovel. Times are getting better for the unemployed.
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  6550.  @L0kias1  Maybe. How would I know? All I did was show facts. They could turn it around. It happens to companies all the time. However, they'll never do it by not acknowledging that they've run into problems. Sticking their heads in the sand won't solve the problems that I showed. Nothing is a for sure, but you can't deny, and you haven't, that they've lost money over the last couple of years. Losing 2 million home subscribers, during a time when people were lock downed in their homes, is NOT a good look. I don't care who you are.
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  6551.  @ricardoacain1391  2.4 million encounters with illegal migrants on the southern borders plus another estimated 600,000 who evaded the border patrols and are now in the United States and people, like YOU, are whining about 50 who went to one of the richest places on the planet. They've found HUNDREDS of dead migrants along the border.....over 50 DEAD in a trailer, but 50 sent to Martha's Vineyard is a stunt. Jerks like you ignored all the deaths and misery at the border but BOY...upset the elites on Martha's Vineyard and it's whinging and crying and "it's a terrible stunt" rhetoric. You're nothing but a useless troll. You don't care about the dead. You care about nothing but yourself.
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  6552.  @ricardoacain1391  So what? That was then. This is now. I highly doubt that they lived in what is now the United States, anyway. Many of them have European ancestry mixed in with indigenous ancestry. Very few of them are what we would call pure blood native. The Haitians are as black as you get. They have very if ANY indigenous heritage. It's irrelevant and only serves to satiate a need to feel virtuous and morally superior.
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  6553.  @Bleilock1  You also know that when those African countries were freed, they were taken over by communists. They failed miserably and were better off when they were capitalist. Also, capitalism must exist within the rule of law and respect human rights. That didn't happen when much of Africa was taken over by the European nations. It was as totalitarian as it gets.
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  6554. And if EVERY cop quits, Tim, thousands will DIE. Murdered by criminals who will take what they want. And if you think that living in the country is going to save you, you're fooling yourself. They won't stop. All you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Working at a fast food joint isn't the same as being a police officer. Also, it isn't about needing a job. It's about honouring your oath to protect the public and the law. Once that oath is taken, needing a job is not the priority. That oath becomes number one. I do agree with one thing. The Norfolk police should back that officer. An officer of integrity of conscience should tell his superior that he would also donate to the Rittenhouse fund and they don't like it, too bad. If the department decides to fire him, then it's their doing and the oath is null and void.
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  6555. It's not my guide. It's their guide. It their belief that God is the judge. I didn't come up with that. Yet, these fundies have decided exactly who is wrong and are ready to destroy everything for their own salvation. I gave the Abraham story to show that, according to their book, that the wish to see the destruction of your fellow man may not be a Christian way to live your life. Their book...not mine. They are the Pharisees that Jesus talks about in their Bible.
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  6556.  @cpataxpro  Then why is it that New York, a Democrat stronghold, is the centre of the virus? Why did Mayor De Blasio tell people to go to the Chinese New Year's Parade and well into March tell people it was okay to go on the subway and even recommended events for them to go to? Why did the head of the Dept. of Health in New York support him on TV? Why did Cuomo support that same message? Why did Pelosi rip up the SOTU address, the same address in which Trump talked about the Coronavirus and yet she, no other Democrat, OR the media mention how he was correct about monitoring the virus in that speech? Why did Pelosi tell people to go down to Chinatown, in late February? Why did the Mayor of New Orleans allow the Mardi Gras to continue and allow over a MILLION tourists to visit that city over the festivities? Why did Joe Biden, repeatedly call the travel ban from China, xenophobic and received no backlash from any of the Democrats? Are you going to tell me that these were the correct actions? OR....are you going to use your vaunted 20/20 hindsight to select ONLY what you want to see and ignore the rest? You're using politics and the blame game in an attempt to showcase your delusional moral superiority. People, like you, are the most dangerous of all to human freedoms....the ones who lay blame and then use the guilt of blame to suppress and ultimately oppress those they deem their moral inferiors.
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  6557.  @DdotRay86  The desire for a secure border isn't racist. Right now, we're going through a crisis, that was brought into the country because of a border that wasn't secure to the point of being able to stop the disease from entering. This is only one reason why any sovereign nation has the right to monitor those who would enter their borders. Until Donald Trump became the president, that was the consensus of most American politicians, including Obama. Why wasn't Obama berated as a racist for HIS stance on illegal immigration? Why only Trump and by proxy, Tucker Carlson? Chuck Schumer bragged about the barrier the Obama administration erected to halt the illegal crossing of the border, yet called Trump's barrier racist. How anyone can't see the political manipulation and fraud in this is absolutely astounding. To add, this isn't about Mexicans at all. It's about people, illegally crossing the border and it doesn't matter where it is they come from. The truth is that the largest percentage by far, come illegally from Mexico. That's why the focus on that border. It is also fact, that, by far, the greatest number of LEGAL immigrants, come from Mexico. In fact, of the top ten nations, where legal immigrants originate, not ONE is a predominately white nation. Nations like China, Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Honduras are in this group. This isn't about racism. This is about ideology. Big pictures are made up of little pictures, pixels united to make a whole. Without the pixels, there is no whole. That's why we discuss the issues that Tucker is presenting so that the individual, doesn't get lost, in the big picture, so that you and I and everyone has a say, no matter how trivial it may seem. All you're doing is getting us lost in the big picture so it's impossible to discuss the specifics of our situation. It's a justification for the egregious behaviour that Tucker was talking about because it hasn't impacted you, as yet, and you can feel the power of moral superiority over others when they make the "small" transgression against the "BIG" picture. It's how tyrants rule the insignificant citizen and you've acquiesced, to the state, your position as an individual of significance to the big picture called the state. That's why you don't want to discuss the issues. You're no longer you. You're the BIG PICTURE.
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  6558. California has come up with a great solution to the homeless problem, high taxes, water shortages, power outages, exorbitant housing costs and the bureaucratically stifling red tape. Immigrants!!!!! Lots of them. Entice them with free healthcare, welfare, housing and a driver's licence. If you've sneaked across the border illegally, don't worry about it. California is a sanctuary state. Who cares about environmental issues from it all. More taxes will fix it.
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  6559.  @ahlaamonline9377  They may be able to maintain the nation but who knows how many lives will be destroyed by that hate through rioting, looting and burning. I don't want to see it happen. Why anyone would but there are groups, Antifa and the Marxist BLM that would like to see burnt to the ground so they can remake the nation in their own Marxist image.
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  6560.  @MrSumone  Trump sent the papers to me. I have them on my bookcase. Prove me wrong.
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  6561.  @MrSumone  It's innocent until proven guilty. That's the law. I don't accuse YOU of doing something unless I have the proof to back up my statement. I will say that I believe that you're innocent because it's not required to prove innocence. If that were so, I'll just make wild accusations until something sticks. Is that how you want the law to work and the press to report on things? I would sure hope not.
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  6562.  @srvaughan2502  The "Donnie does it too" argument. I used to do that.....WHEN I WAS 8!!! My mom cured me of that. You're lowering yourself down to Donnie's level. That's NOT much of an argument.
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  6563. They're not offended. It's all an act. They're using offence as a weapon to silence people in order to feel as if they have some power over others. In reality, they could care less about that shirt. It's only relevant if they can use it to score virtue points.
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  6564. It depends on how one looks at failure. If the education system wanted to promote communism, then they've been very successful in that promotion. The question is, how do we stop them in that quest. These communists are deeply entrenched in the system and they're not about to give up because we want them to.
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  6565. @bobbys4997 But it wasn't in politics. It was the media. Are you saying that there are elements of the media that are acting as a political arm for the Democrats? The media is supposed to unbiased. When they show a bias and then LIE about what's being said, it's no longer news. It's propaganda.
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  6566. When the law becomes so stringent that it becomes ridiculous, people lose respect for the law. Once respect is lost, we'll regress into lawlessness. The law strangles itself.
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  6567.  @thomasg4324  What did you think would happen? Trump would snap his fingers and a wall would appear? First he had to get funding and the Democrats fought him on that. He had to move funds about to get that money and Democrats were outraged about that. Then he had to work out the specific design of how that wall would look, then put out tenders and accept bids. Then contractors had to build the manufacturing infrastructure to build the wall itself and to get them to the construction site. Hundreds of miles worth, basically from scratch. There are over 400 miles of wall in existence right now. You can see pictures of it. However, Joe Biden stopped construction the minute he took office. Had Trump won that election, he'd have completed the wall by now. You're blaming Trump for something that Biden did. Trump didn't deport illegals. I wonder why that was. Have you ever heard of sanctuary cities and states? Even if the illegal had committed a serious crime, the authorities in those sanctuary places wouldn't turn them over to ice. They just let them go. That was a Democrat policy that they're still doing. Look at the illegal that murdered Laken Riley. He'd been detained numerous times for committing crimes and wasn't deported. Our president mispronounces her name but doesn't apologise for that. He apologises for calling him an illegal immigrant. That's what's wrong. Democrats don't think of the illegal immigrants as doing anything wrong. They WANT them to stay. The Democrats want them to stay yet you're after Trump over the immigrant issue. Please make sense.
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  6568.  @orga7777  That means that we have to name those RINOs and encourage people to vote against them in the primaries. We have to start a program in which voters call their reps and let them know that they will no longer vote for RINOs and that they'd better change their ways or their out a job. That's how we change things. Giving up just lets them win.
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  6569. That woman is such a sleazeball. She tried to make it sound as if Vivek had only one solution to help Taiwan and that was to arm its citizens. When Vivek called her out she hemmed and hawed around it by pretending to acknowledge his other points but still insisted on talking on that one point alone.
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  6570.  @levelsandgear5644  It's not perfect anywhere but some places are better than others. A state like California, with its fantastic weather and beautiful scenery, shouldn't be losing population. 4th in the country in population loss last year. For the 1st time in its history, California population is down. That's an embarrassment. A lot of people just can't afford the high cost of housing, energy and taxes and the increase in crime in the big cities is scaring them away. San Francisco used to be a major convention spot. No longer. They're going to other cities that don't have the tent cities, poop and needles on the streets and the high crime. These are problems that should be addressed and the California elites, just like those in Oregon and Washington are ignoring it. They're too vested in progressive ideology to care about the unfortunates.
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  6571.  @grigoriyengibaryan2972  Do you know why? It's because they were raised to believe this stuff. Almost everyone they know in school believes it. It's the new "it" culture for the young. Also, these girls have a very small window in which to follow their athletic dream. If they don't win big in high school, there is no athletic scholarship and if they speak out, that window slams shut for them. It's progressed from bullying from fellow students to bullying from teachers and school administrators. They're alone and history has shown us that this is they way of tyranny. Separate and isolate. If adults, in tyrannical dictatorships, are afraid to fight back, why would you think teenage girls would find that kind of courage? It's just not going to happen.
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  6572.  @evanwest4751  You really can't see that the person that is about to throw a tomato is the violent one? Honestly? Are you also going to try and tell me that if he does throw a tomato at someone, that the security team that forcibly escorts him out and off to jail are also the violent ones, not the tomato thrower. If I had a tomato and was about to throw it at your mother, would you be the violent one if you tried to stop me? REALLY? You have a funny way at looking at violence. The guy throwing the tomato is the victim and the person that tries to prevent it from happening is the violent one. That's a brand new form of justice. There is no law that says she has to have a given amount of press conferences per year. That's totally up to the president and his press secretary. Besides, who'd want to hold a press conference these days. Most of the reporters aren't asking questions. They're making accusations. Many of them are just variations of "Have you stopped beating your wife?" type of questions. It gets rather tiring after awhile. As for Trump being accessible, try twitter. He's on there all the time. She lied about Comey and she admitted it. In the history of mankind, I've never heard of a person that was perfect. I doubt that Sanders will be the first one. I know that our leaders are going to things that aren't right. I don't judge on that alone. I judge the body of work. Judging with perfection as a standard, would mean that I could demonise everyone. It would be an impossible standard.
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  6573.  @burny6666  You're the one that said that she was a liar. You're the one that should be able to tell me where she's an habitual liar and how you arrived at that conclusion. You're taking the easy route and basically telling me that the accusation should stand until I can prove otherwise. I could watch press conferences all day and not find what you claim is there and it doesn't prove that she's not a liar. All it proves is that I haven't watched them all. Our system of law and our sense of decency demands that we're innocent until proven guilty. It is illogical and unethical to issue an accusation and that let that statement be the accepted position. You have to prove yourself correct and it must be beyond a shadow of doubt.
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  6574.  @MrKGatl  A few minutes later, he said that he meant that those who believed in the 2nd Amendment would be voting as a block and would vote for him. He claims that is what he meant. It isn't a clear cut call to assassinate anyone unless one wants to believe that narrative and refuses to believe anything else. Also, it wasn't a member of the media that was sucker punched. It was a protester. How did the guy know that he was a protester? Because the guy was being, in his words, a "loudmouth". In other words he was disrupting the rally. Trump said, when asked about it, that his people were looking into paying his legal fees. Not a good idea but if I went to Democrat rally wearing a MAGA hat, I'd be attacked. As a matter of fact, there are incidents of people attacking those in MAGA hats almost every week, not the other way around. Chris Cuomo of CNN has even said that Antifa is fighting the good fight. Anyone that thinks that Antifa doesn't use violent tactics isn't paying attention. That's a clear cut call to violence from a journalist. Also, look at the violent rhetoric directed at the Covington kids, basically for wearing MAGA hats. Lots more violence for the opposition to Trump than the other way around. There was even a well known entertainer that wanted to blow up the White House and another one holding up an effigy Trump's severed head. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
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  6575.  @MrKGatl  The vast majority are from the extreme right. Almost all those who lean conservative don't belong with the White Supremacists or Nazis. They're a very law and order crowd. These extreme right winger are more apt to commit the more violent crimes because they generally support gun ownership more than the left. Therefore the more extreme violence comes from the right. Another thing the left does is that anything that appears to be a little off is called violence. "It's ok to be white" signs are hate crimes. A 12 year old kid draws a swastika, on a school yard with chalk, is also deemed a hate crime. The extreme left sees this as violence, which is ridiculous, especially in the case of the sign. Now, even the OK gesture is a hate crime.....more violence. Yet it's the left, that commit physical attacks that aren't as deadly. Punching those in MAGA hats. Using pepper and bear spray, disrupting traffic and banging on cars, setting fires, stealing property, blocking entry to right wing speaking events and so on. It's pointless, however, to turn it into a contest. No matter what extremist is doing the violence, right or left, it should be called out. NO exceptions. We both should be calling out that type of political violence and stop turning it into a game of "who's the worst". Most people are left leaning or right leaning and aren't into the violence. It's the extremists that are the problem and they live on both sides of the political spectrum. Even you believe that when you said "most" violence comes from the right. That implies it comes from the left as well.
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  6576.  @JohnCarterRocks  Sure they will. That's why he was elected in a landslide. Floridians hate him. (big eyeroll) You're either a bot or a troll. It really doesn't matter. They're both the worst element of the internet.
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  6577. I like Tim's videos and I know that he tries his best to be honest about the news, but I fairly seldom give him a thumbs up. However, this time he really nailed it. The way that the Democrats and their media slaves have painted this is absolutely disgusting. Big thumbs up on this one, Tim.
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  6578.  @pagerthemacaquemonkey3248  What I'm saying is that police officers aren't trained or encouraged to use common sense. That this is a circus all the way around. An dispute, like this, should never have ended up in the courts. It requires common sense on the part of those who's job it is to deal with such disputes. It clearly wasn't used. To compare this to an assassination is one hell of a job of "whataboutism". My point was that wisdom in police work is lacking these days and you try to tell my that I'm fabricating something. That's illogical. It's like saying that guy shouldn't mess with someone else's dog. He clearly did and that's what a cop would have had to deal with. He dealt with it badly, in my opinion just as in YOUR opinion, one that I agree with, he should never have screwed with her dog. You criticise the guy, I'm criticising the cop that ended up having to deal with it.
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  6579.  @pagerthemacaquemonkey3248  I guess you're right. This should have gone to court. This should be the BIG news story that it is. Doggy news is BIG news. The entire thing was handled PERFECTLY. We should take every argument that people have, every little disagreement and have a court of law settle it. FILL THE COURTROOMS. Don't like the way the neighbour looks at you. CALL THE COPS. GET CNN TO COVER IT. This is a minor incident and YOUR taxes was wisely spent by putting it through the court system. Whataboutism....are you REALLY that thick?
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  6580. We don't live in a tyrannical state, at least that's the claim. Our leaders didn't stage a violent coup and forced their way into becoming "those in charge". WE voted them in. It was OUR choice. So...yes, as a society we failed. It isn't as if the grooming gang phenomenon is something new. This has been known about for years. We can't choose the same leaders over and over and then blame THEM for doing what they've always been doing. We have to take responsibility for our choices or these miscreants will always be in charge.
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  6581.  @Bjjboxing  Life definition: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. So a fetus is inorganic? That would be weird. It has the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity and continual change and those qualities can be stopped, implying death. So how does that make a fetus inorganic? As long as an entity has those capacities, it is life and alive, and when those capacities begin, that's when life starts. That's science.
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  6582.  @Bjjboxing  If you take a few cells, from a fetus, and give them to a lab asking them to identify what species these cells belong to, the answer would be, after scientific tests and analysis, human. Those cells come from a human being and it is a singular person and they may even tell you whether it is male or female. "During the process of fertilization, the sperm and the oocyte cease to exist as such, and a new human being is produced." This is copied and pasted from a Princeton U. paper. https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/wdhbb.html It seems quite clear when a new human being comes into existence by this.
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  6583.  @hoosierdaddy7219  Chemtrails? We're talking about brush fires and you're talking chemtrails? Also, this isn't a Federal matter. This is the responsibility of the state and local communities. If they need help, they can appeal to the Federal government for help but only then can Trump, Biden or Obama step in to help. They just can't show up with chainsaws and start clearing the land. it is out of their jurisdiction. The governor, in this case Gavin Newsom, would be be outraged and rightfully so.
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  6584. Almost 3000 banks failed in 1931, alone. Also, there is no way that the banks bought ALL the property or everyone that I know would be renting their homes from a bank.....and they're not. In fact, most of my family owns their own homes and some of them own multiple properties. You have a skewed view on what banks are and on how they operate and how federal laws limit their actions.
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  6585.  @Antyvas  LMAO.
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  6586. I wonder who voted to repeal the California Civil Rights Act. White supremacists? Maybe. In fact, I'd bet those hood wearing night riders did vote to repeal. All 12 of them but there were over 7 million who also voted to repeal. So...who were they??? I'll bet they were Democrats. Afterall, it was the Democrats that proposed the repeal. Weird...isn't it? The party, that rants on and on about racism, is also the party that wants to repeal the Civil Rights Act. What next? Tear down Dr. Martin Luther King's statue? Change the name of any school named after the good Doctor? I'm not sure I like the Democrats.
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  6587.  @RClipsGaming101  The KKK burned crosses on the lawns of blacks who were supporting Republicans at the time. It's why the KKK was formed. Now, they're destroying and vandalising Teslas because they don't like that Republicans are auditing government expenditures. Do you get it, now?
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  6588.  @russellishihara8390  So it's irrational to take into account the thousands of pictures and videos of what happened? The accounts of thousands of people that were there? The hundreds of books written about the war?? Irrational to believe the people, in my own family, my mom, dad, uncles, older cousins, grandmother and family friends, who have their own accounts of their war experiences? They ALL lied to me?? That must have been quite the meeting when that all decided to lie to that dumb little kid "Jack" about the war. Funny thing is....not ONE person that was there told a different story. Remember, I was born right after the war. I knew LOTS of people that lived through it. I'll believe them long before I'd believe some random guy on the internet that I've never met and who may have his own agenda and ideology to propagate.
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  6589.  @Linda-io2ns  That's because money doesn't help. We need a new attitude for helping the homeless and from the homeless themselves. They put all kinds of money into homeless programs and it keeps getting worse. Giuliani showed how it can be done with his "broken windows" policies. Democrats don't like that because it works and it seems that if something works the Dems don't want any part of it. The Dems favour give away projects but no "help yourself" programs. Arrest the lawbreakers and put them into prisons which carry substance abuse programs and greater psychiatric and mental health professionals. Give the homeless something to do and if they refuse to do it and continue to live in the streets put them into facilities until they do. It's call "tough love" and it's not perfect but it teaches and encourages responsibility. Give away programs only encourage MORE give away programs. They're just chasing their tails.
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  6590. Don't be a dick. Take any help that's offered and appreciate it. He doesn't have to help anyone.
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  6591.  @CarlAlex2  It's NOT my nation and these are just random places that I've picked around the world. In my nation, if you walk down the street naked, you WILL be arrested. I'm not about to go through an entire atlas to name all the nations, cities or states where one would be in trouble by walking down the street naked. The point is that the US isn't unique in this regard. You're trying to make it sound as if the US is some kind of aberration. It's not.
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  6592.  @Robb-ex8jo  A YouTube channel with one subscriber and no content. LOL Did you get your mom to subscribe?🤣😂🤣😂
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  6593. There are a lot of radical socialists in Washington, especially in Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia. They have the population and those, living in rural areas and towns, are outnumbered and outvoted. One of the main objectives of these Marxists is the dissolution of the family. No outside influences on the children so the state can mould them into being good little activists for the state.
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  6594. If you can't define the word "woman", then you can't define the world "man", either. If you can't define what a man or woman is, then that would be the end of the patriarchy, as a target of disdain, as well. The entire left wing ideology and the claims that go with it becomes so convoluted that it becomes pointless.
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  6595. You're a LIAR, Sam Seder. These Republicans are NOT anti immigrant. They are anti illegal immigrant. As a matter of fact, one of them is married to an immigrant. They also told Esmeralda to marry the father of her baby so she could get legal status in the US. One of them even offered to call his father so he could officiate at the wedding. Just another one of those people that absolutely REFUSE to distinguish between a person who immigrates to America through legal processes and those who just show up and stay.....illegal immigrants. That's all that these people are asking. Apply legally and accept the results of the application process. You're too ideologically trapped to understand this.
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  6596. Damn! I just took a leisurely walk in the rain. I coulda been killed!! Not doing that again. I guess maybe I better take that "Love leisurely walks in the rain" comment off my dating website profile. I just described myself as a thug.
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  6597.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  It convinced most people that they're a bunch of weirdos. Only the nutty ones admire them. I'm in the comment section and I've already forgotten what it was they were protesting. All I'm doing is trying to keep my lunch down.
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  6598.  @garymcaree9017  Let's put it this way. The nation of Poland has every right to enact its own laws. If others try to impose their will on the Polish people, that's a detriment to what the people of Poland believes would be best for themselves and their future. When the state (the EU) gets too big, the individual becomes too far removed from the source of power and the more powerless the individual feels. The people of Poland spent too long under the rule of others to believe or accept the idea that others have their best interest at heart. The loss of self determination is a loss to anyone that values autonomy and freedom.
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  6599. No they won't. They're too narcissistic to even begin to see the contradictions in the story of the truly oppressed and their own story. They will go through all kinds of mental gymnastics to prove to themselves of the martyrdom of their own lives. "Christ, you know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, They're gonna crucify me."
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  6600. Another reason to stay away from George Floyd memorials.
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  6601.  @promethiac2641  No. Like the socialist French Revolution which ended in a slaughter by the guillotine. Voltaire should know. He used that mantra and he became the inspiration for that slaughter.
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  6602. That Pelosi interview was like a science fiction movie where the fake robot leader starts to malfunction. In movies, it usually signals the big revelation of a nefarious plot. Take that anyway you want.
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  6603.  @mr.whisky5374  Even if he did, the hate and insanity of those not edited out is appalling.
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  6604.  @devinmichaelroberts9954  "Rules of decorum" translate to "rules that won't allow you to criticise us". This Brit just explained case law which says that criticism could even be caustic yet still be lawful. This was an open meeting and ordinary citizens were there to speak. That is their right. The president had no right to shut down their speech because it went against his ideals. That's unconstitutional and he can't hide behind "rules of decorum" to enforce compliance to the narrative.
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  6605.  @fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335  Kohinoor was ceded to Queen Victoria in 1849. That was LONG before Elizabeth was even born. She had NOTHING to do with its procurement. In fact, India was independent when Elizabeth became Queen. Doesn't fit within the parameters of my question. Try again.
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  6606.  @kisha1682  You didn't earn it if you plagiarised or to use a better word.....cheated. If you rob a little old lady, leaving a bank, you didn't earn the money that you stole from her either. You cheated her out of that money.
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  6607. @rgsand01 Are you REALLY that stupid? The country is under lockdown due to a pandemic, people are rioting, looting and burning down our cities....and this is what's important to you? I hate calling people names but yeah....you're one stupid dolt.
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  6608.  @hendrikmaass  Could it be any worse than Twitter? Dump Twitter, try Parler and if they start to do the same things that Twitter do, move on again.
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  6609.  @Hirome_Satou  Well then....move on. However, you don't know how bad they will be until you try it. I don't do twitter because it's so toxic. If Parler is the same or worse, I won't consider it, either. All you've shown me is an assessment of its policies. That doesn't really tell me if they'll censor conservative speech or not or how strict they will be or how impartial. That's the biggest problem with Twitter. They have definite biases and their actions, not their policies, are what most object to. We have to see if Parler will let their biases, if any, govern their actions.
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  6610.  @Hirome_Satou  Yes, I watched it and yes, the video does claim that Parler bans "Liberal" speech. "Claim" being the operative word. What I didn't see was overt bias on their censorship. Was that woman censured because she posted that she wanted to fight a police dog or would she have been censured for wanting to fight any dog and her political stance on the matter is irrelevant. However, if the censoring of "Liberal" speech is taking place, I'd disagree with it but, as it stands, bias is allowed on social media. If Conservative voices are being banned on Twitter, then they can go to Parler where they won't be banned and "Liberal" are kicked off. That doesn't make them WORSE than Twitter. It only makes them no different than Twitter but with a different perspective. The only reason one would say it's worse is that they have their own bias. If censorship is wrong on Twitter and unfairly adjudicated, then it can be no worse if the same thing is done on Parler from a different perspective.
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  6611.  @Hirome_Satou  Quite the in depth analysis. Are you a professional? Like with a couch and everything? Explain to me how banning "Liberals" is worse than banning "Conservatives". I can see how it's worse for a "Liberal" on a conservative platform but in the overall scheme of things, they're both reprehensible. However, if you're a Conservative and you want to post, free of the encumbrances placed on Conservatives on Twitter, Parler is an option. If you're a "Liberal" and they ban you for your politics, head to Twitter. They like left wing comments. All I've read from you and the video you're posted is that one is as bad as the other. You haven't mounted any argument that would counter my point except to say that I'm ridiculous. All I have to say is.... "I know you are but what am I?" I can play grade 4 bickering too.
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  6612. I hope that there isn't a run on tinfoil, like the one on toilet paper. How are you guys gonna protect yourselves if it there is?
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  6613.  @scottdykema5385  If DeSantis wasn't doing the press conferences, you'd be going "Where DeSantis? How come he's not doing his job?" No matter what he does, you'll always complain because you want to make this political. You have NO idea what he's doing behind the scenes and YOU DON'T CARE. You see this as an opportunity to "get" DeSantis and you'll use the lives of millions of Floridians to satisfy your political agenda. You're a political hack. You haven't provided one fact. It's all accusations based on what you WANT to believe.
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  6614. Exactly why people don't take animal rights activists seriously. It's knee jerk complaining without objectivity or common sense.
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  6615. No, Tim. It's not about the mob. This is the post-modernist ideology, an offshoot of Marxism, that divides society into identity groups based on victim status. Blacks and natives are low on the victim hierarchy and white males are at the top, the despicable oppressors. These kids represent those oppressors perfectly. They're white, fairly affluent, meaning privileged, Christian and they support the top representative of oppression, Donald Trump. This was their crime and this is why they hate them. Post-modernism sees everything through the lens of victimhood where They, whether they realise it or not, are under the spell of post-modernist ideology and they are compelled to react in this manner. It doesn't matter what the blacks or those natives said or did, it will never be as bad as the existence of those high school kids. Had one of the black Israelites or natives, punched that kid, started kicking him when he was down and put him in the hospital, they would have been justified. For some, it that kid had died.....good. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, look at the threats. Post-modernism, that branch of Marxism, depends on mob mentality and revolution and that's why your fears of a civil war are justified.
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  6616. @Isaac Cook A republic and a Constitution.
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  6617.  @eljisprincess1131  I don't have to wait a week to get back to you. I have a sister who, suddenly, starting saying that those trails were chemtrails a few years ago (new boyfriend influence. Happens all the time with her). I knew that they were contrails but I looked into it anyway. I found nothing that would indicate that someone was spraying us. In fact, it didn't make sense. This kind of project would be one of the biggest industries in the world. Where are the factories making the millions of tons of spray? I've been online and asked till I was blue in the face. No answer. I asked why we never seen the thousands of tankers heading toward airports. No one seems to know how they get the stuff to the airports. If this were true, you'd know people that were working on this, somewhere in the supply chain. Hundreds of thousands of people, making spray, sprayers, installing them on planes, maintenance crews would be involved, pilots, ground crews, a chain of command in the government, hundreds of millions, likely billions of dollars allocated, weather specialists, scientists studying the soils and waters, people in agriculture, even hobby gardeners, who get their soil tested would end up with weird samples. Nothing from any of them. Just your assertion that they last and look weird. Of course they last. They're man made clouds. Clouds last. Hell, we had 3 days of cloud last week. If natural clouds last, so will man made clouds. Also, people, around the world, fly a lot more than in the past, especially over the last 20 years. When I was a kid, it was rare to go to the Caribbean or Europe. Now, everyone goes to the Caribbean every winter. Tourism is HUGE down there, now, growing spectacularly over the last few years. Speaking of Europe, my dad grew up in war time Holland. Towards the end of the war, Allied planes flew overhead everyday loaded up to bomb German targets. Dad told me that the skies were filled with contrails somedays, not always but sometimes they would cloud the sky with their contrails and they would last for hours. The Dutch loved to see them because it meant that the Germans were getting pounded and that the war would soon be over. However, Allied pilots didn't like them. It made their planes visible. The contrails were like huge fingers in the sky, pointing out the planes to German gunners on the ground. You see.....I've looked into it. It makes no sense and there's no real evidence of it. None. That they look weird sometimes isn't evidence. It's an observation that begs a question to be answered and the most logical way to get an answer is to find the science behind it. I could go on but, unless you're interested, it's not going to change things much. People tend to believe what they want to believe and ignore what contradicts it. Not a lot of interest in facts.
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  6618.  @waynepolo6193  He says that we ALL lie. It's an admission that he's human and that, as such, he's prone to human weaknesses...like ALL humans, including me and YOU. Anyone that claims that they never lie, well....that person is a liar.
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  6619.  @isoakkfgy4462  That could be a great idea but it's just that. An idea. Let's get back to reality and talk about what is happening and not about some idea that could be true or not.
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  6620.  @isoakkfgy4462  I don't know if Tucker is unvaccinated or not. I don't really care. That's his business. To each their own. I'm vaccinated and that's where my responsibility stops. I have no right to force my ideas on you or anyone. Assess all the information available and make up your own mind. Tucker lost his job at 2 major networks for speaking his mind. He may have a teleprompter but it's like when I was in college and taking a course in public speaking. I had cue cards to keep me on track. I would say that Tucker would have the same thing. He's not reading directly off the teleprompter. He's taking cues and working from that.
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  6621.  @isoakkfgy4462  You single out FOX? Have you ever listened to the other networks? They make up stuff ALL the time. Why did the other networks completely ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story before the elections? Why would Big Tech, like Facebook and Twitter censor all references to the NY Post story surrounding that laptop? How is it that they ignored Biden, telling Ukraine that they would NOT get one billion dollars if they didn't fire a certain prosecutor? Why did they make up the entire story about the Covington kids? It took me, an old guy, living in a basement apartment, 15 minutes to find out the truth about that story. Billions of dollars worth of property damage, over 25 people dead and hundreds injured in the BLM riots last summer and all the MSM could say was that they were "mostly peaceful". An 8 year old little black girl was shot by BLM supporters and it was "by the way" story for them. Had that little girl been shot by a Republican, it would have news 24/7 on CNN and MSNBC and you know it. A BLM supporter and crickets. As for Tucker, he obviously thinks getting vaccinated is a good idea or he wouldn't have done it. However, he has the right, no OBLIGATION, to talk about vaccines from all angles, all the information that is available. If he doesn't, if ANY news outlet doesn't, they're lying by omission. We, as free citizens, have the right to hear all the news, get all the information available and not just what some bureaucrat or corporate news executive thinks we should be allowed to hear. If they tell us something that's not true, then go after the truth. However, when most of the news outlets only relay partisan news then we'll get pablum, their version of what the truth should be because, in their arrogance, they think that we're not mature or smart enough to handle conflicting news stories.
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  6622.  @isoakkfgy4462  "Maybe" Do understand the meaning of the word? It's a "Maybe". Maybe it doesn't. He didn't say "It doesn't work". He said "Maybe". That leaves it open. However, he must believe that it has some value. He's vaccinated. You don't base an overall opinion on a statement that leads with a "Maybe" especially when he goes on and stamps his own position with action. That action being the vaccination. All he saying that maybe it doesn't work. He's not going to make a medical opinion on it but his personal opinion is that it does help and he proves it by getting vaccinated. I'm vaccinated as well. I did it because I believe it works. I don't know for sure, not absolutely, but I'm fairly sure that it does. That's why I went and had the jab....TWICE. I'm not going to TELL you that you must but I will tell you, by my example, that I believe it is effective. Having said that, you still have the option to do it or not. That's called freedom of choice. Tucker wasn't lying. He just said that he's not the one to give the expert opinion. He's not a doctor or medical expert. Same as me. I'm not a medical expert. I can tell you what I did but that's it.
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  6623.  @isoakkfgy4462  A "maybe" is not a discredit. It's saying that nothing is a for certain, even scientific studies have been proven wrong. Steven Hawkings got a Nobel prize and then received another one for proving the reason that he got the first one was incorrect. These vaccines are only a year old. It does seem to be effective but we'll know even better 5 years from now. If our media is deciding what to tell us and what not, how do you know that what they're saying is true? Is it just on blind faith. We believed our government when they said they were going into Afghanistan to get Bin Laden. Bin Laden was got, but we still remained. We believed the government when they said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we had to invade them. No weapons were ever found. Our government is mandating vaccines and they're using studies to prove its effectiveness. How do you know that they're just citing studies that match what they want you to believe? They've lied to us before. Now, I'm not saying that they are lying about the vaccines but I don't believe everything that my government tells me. Governments, for thousands of years, have engaged in wars, enslaved their own people, wrought genocide on people. Governments have a horrific record throughout history. I'd say a little healthy scepticism over government mandates should always be in order, given their violent and authoritarian past.
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  6624.  @ianstephens333  Get lost with your boomer nonsense. I'm a boomer and I think that, what those old folks said, to be despicable and delusional......sort of what I think of your comment. Your identity politics is typical of how Democrats behave.
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  6625. He questioned the integrity of the 2020 elections. Has anyone else ever done that? Could it be that Hilary Clinton did the SAME thing in 2016 and she even led the charge to impeach a president based on fabricated evidence? That this evidence was gathered by a group paid by her? Maybe it's not as sad as Giuliani's case. She's always been known as corrupt. The Whitewater scandal and her involvement in the Benghazi affair might show that she didn't have as far to fall as Giuliani did. That would soften the sadness blow, wouldn't it.
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  6626. I don't fully know what you're talking about but she signed a bill on Feb. 3/22, banning transgender males in women's sports. I, most definitely, agree with her on that.
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  6627.  @NebjosaMeier  Guilty of what?? Money laundering?? Accepting gifts as bribes from foreign interests??? Influence peddling?? I have a laptop. I can guarantee you that you won't find anything illegal on it. Especially not anything that involves international schemes that goes against my country's best interests and are deemed illegal. I just don't have the connections to make this possible. You'll not find any pictures of me with underage girls either or being involved in illicit drug activities, either. Your statement is vague, to the point of being useless.
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  6628.  @chicongodetraq1946  Because international business is good for everyone involved...that's why. As long as it's done fairly and honestly. The problem is that people are terribly flawed and corruption is the default. It takes a great deal of vigilance, integrity and determination to live one's life in an honest manner. That's why the best governments aren't ruled by people but by a code of ethics, like the American Constitution. The main job of a government is to maintain the integrity of the national code of ethics or conduct. That's it, first and foremost. That's why nationalisation is nothing but pure theft.
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  6629.  @Mackaygolf  Fascists are national socialists. Socialists don't merge with capital interests. They either own them or control them and capital interests have no choice but to go along with the fascist state which is indistinguishable from a socialist state. In Nazi Germany, companies were told what to produce and what suppliers to use. The Party would place party members in each large factories to ensure production quotas and party loyalty. No union because the Nazi party represented the people, the German worker. Any union would be redundant as the People were the Party and the Party is the people. Fascism had full control of capital interests. No merge....no choice in fact.
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  6630. What I think is racist is that these health organisations and governments tried to prey on the idea that the Chinese rabble will eat anything. Dogs, cats...why not bats? We've all heard the jokes about Chinese restaurants. That's more racist than believing that a government was taking part in unethical research and allowed their safety protocols to fail. Especially a government that will send you to a camp for being Muslim and a Uighur. Placing the blame on ordinary people because of cultural practises is the very essence of racism.
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  6631.  @makerstudios5456  In some ways, Catholics are correct. We are prone to doing wrong things. No one is immune to it. Show me someone who's lived their lives perfectly, never doing wrong, never lying, never fudging on their taxes, never saying a bad thing about others, never acting out of resentment....I could go on and on. Even when one tries to do the right thing, we can make mistakes that take us and others to bad places. It's not easy to live a good life. By the way, I'm not Catholic. I was raised Dutch Protestant and was taught that Catholics are evil.
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  6632.  @mikeoveli1028  It didn't happen to you so it doesn't happen. That's NOT a very good argument. I've never been shot at, yet I'd never claim that people don't get shot at. I would think a more positive response would be something like this. "It's never happened to me or anyone that I know but if anyone has been pressured into apologising along those lines, that's appalling" You can still respond as if it were a hypothetical scenario, let people know that you believe it to be hypothetical but, as an idea, you oppose it.....unless you think that it's okay if it ever did happen. Then you'd have to shape your response to reflect that belief.
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  6633.  @TrueNimrod  You're missing the point by a mile in this video. Gavin is saying that there's a problem but can't tell you why this problem is happening. He's the governor and he's had YEARS to address, assess and study this problem and all he can say is "lots of reasons". He can't give you one reason even though he claims that there are lots of them. This is a logic exercise that Gavin is losing. You'll never solve a problem if you can't or refuse to tell us why those reasons exist. I can tell you one thing for sure. There are "lots of reasons" why Gavin won't answer that question. I can't give you any but I can assure you that it's so. See how ridiculous my claim is. That's what Warren is pointing out. Gavin is just dodging and deflecting. You don't have to be an expert on any subject to see when someone behaves that way.
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  6634. Kaepernick already doesn't like Betsy Ross. Called her flag racist.
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  6635.  @studebakerhoch4397  YES.....I DO. However, Biden's case is different than Trump. Ted Bundy is NOT innocent because Jeffrey Dahmer is guilty. It's illogical. Tara Reade has maintained her story for years and your only defence is "Well, Donnie did it, too!!!!" When my kids reacted this way, I tacked on added punishment. Guilt stands on its own. But, I'm talking to a brick wall. You won't even read this, will you....and you definitely don't have a mature response, do you John.
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  6636.  @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler  You sound like one angry human being. I can't begin to take you seriously until you calm down a bit and speak like a rational adult.
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  6637.  @joelfry4982  Then you don't get it. It's not that "Humans can be evil because of wilful agency." It's "I can be evil because of wilful agency". When you really understand that, then you will understand the moral of that story.
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  6638.  @Zeno7741  Aren't you the nice guy. You want people to die so you can say how right you were about Trump.....and you actually believe that this makes you better than Trump. You're as sick a human being there is.
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  6639. AOC may not like what they find if they investigat why the police opened those doors. The reason may not be what she thinks it is. However, she'd just deny it if the reason wasn't to her liking.
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  6640.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  It's a comparison. No matter how it's done, they're still methods that are used to manipulate people. That's why the comparison is valid.
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  6641.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  So you don't think that those who are suffering from this syndrome aren't being manipulated by those who initiated the situation that caused the syndrome in the first place? Really? Are you ever naive.
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  6642.  @cameronh7229  If you don't want to be called a bully, don't behave like one. The "blah, blah, blah" response is exactly what a school yard bully would do. Then you do it AGAIN by saying I'd lose against a woman. It seems as if you're incapable of speaking in a mature manner. Besides.....I'm 72 years old and have a bad back from over 25 years of roofing. I have a hard time getting out of bed, now. I wouldn't brag about beating me in a fight but just like these larping bullies, it sounds as if you'd be quite proud of yourself if you did.
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  6643.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  You take a hostage and tell those who would stop you that you'll do them harm and you will do it if necessary. Then you treat that hostage with kindness, show vulnerability and that you're not REALLY a bad person. Once you've done that, you show the hostage that you trust them, just a little bit...not fully but just enough to show that you're a good guy. The feigned trust, because you don't really trust the hostage, will bring a feeling of comfort to that prisoner and lo and behold, you don't have to watch that hostage as closely because you've convinced him that you'd never hurt him. That eliminates, or at least mitigates, the damage that this hostage could cause if you treat him badly. You've convinced him that you won't hurt him because basically you're good guy but in reality, you have to carry out your threat when your opponents come after you. You WILL harm them when push comes to shove. And you don't think that's manipulative. Like I said, you're quite naive.
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  6644.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  You're nit picking.....that's all. It's just another way the narcissist manipulates you but you can't see that because you're nit-picking.
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  6645.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  So you really think that the Italian boxer hadn't heard of this stuff before? That it hadn't been discussed over the last 7 or 8 years as she was working towards this goal? That she hadn't been told that if she didn't go along with it, she'd be a bigot and a transphobe? That doubting it may cause a person to end herself? That this pressure may even have caused her to believe it? Then, when she does face it personally, it's on the biggest stage of her life. What does she do? Protest, get blasted on the world media and be kicked out of the Olympics? Or go along with it and hope for the best? So she goes along with it and then finds out the reality. There's no way she can beat this man and it breaks her heart.....but that's not all, now the years of manipulation will have it's effect. She gets called onto the carpet, and the implications are everywhere. She is a bigot and transphobe and she may even believe it because if she strongly believes that it wasn't fair, she wouldn't apologise. Everything has cornered her and she admits she's wrong. She is now an adherent of the ideology. This is the same type of manipulation that one, who ends up Stockholm Syndrome, has gone through. One is manipulation by a hostage taker. The other is manipulation through social and authoritarian pressure that has been ongoing for a number of years. They both end up in the same place and they've both been changed forever. That's the end result for this boxer. There's no name for it, not like the person suffering from Stockholm Syndrome has their condition named. She's a pariah to this segment of the population, just like the other would be if they betrayed the hostage taker. She's been manipulated for years so when she has to deal with it, she responds in the way her manipulators want. That's the comparison. That's why they're somewhat similar.
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  6646.  @Aaajjjjjjjjj  I outlined a complete scenario where a kidnapper will treat their hostage to manipulate them to behave themselves and you don't think that this isn't just a ploy. That the kidnapper is just lucky that it happens and that he never does it on purpose. All just a fortunate turn of events for him. Yeah, right. It's how narcissists operate. The entire gender thing is about narcissism. Manipulating others to believe what you believe. 2 plus 2 equals 5 and it isn't good enough that one says it. Like O'Brian says to Winston Smith..."You must believe it". That is the ultimate goal here. A man can become a woman. A man can become pregnant. You must believe it. That's the ultimate goal. It's manipulate and they use threats....like the Orwellian threat of releasing rats to eat your face or in this case, we'll destroy you career and it's not manipulation. It's just a different manipulation than a kidnapper uses but you'll NEVER be convinced that they're both manipulation and the victim isn't manipulated into acquiescing to the manipulator in both cases. In the end, you're not getting the point of the original comparison. That they're both the result of psychological trauma. 20 years ago, the IOC would never get away with it. Now they can because the gender crew has prepared them, psychologically, to accept that edict. 20 years ago, the IOC couldn't have done it because the mindset wasn't indoctrinated yet. The boxer would have been shocked at even the suggestion just like, initially, the hostage would have been shocked to think that they'd feel badly for the kidnapper. it's all indoctrination. Under different circumstances but still manipulation of how a person thinks.
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  6647.  @floralpoboop  That's because that "softest tap" hurt her and she knew that if he ever landed a decent punch, she might be hurt badly. That's why she started crying. She knew that she stood no chance. Only a man, with no integrity, would fight a woman. There's a reason why men's worlds records are 10% or more higher than the women's records. He might as well have fought a tall 13 year old boy. The guy doesn't have the courage to fight a real man so he fights women.
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  6648. They will get it too, if they keep us on the trajectory that we're on. They will completely destroy our economy and will face food, water and housing shortages. With that will come civil unrest and violence. However, they'll never admit that it was them that caused their own misery. They'll blame someone else for disrupting their radical social engineering.
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  6649. "Believe all women"........except I don't know any. That "women's suffrage" thing was kind of a farce, wasn't it?
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  6650. Why does that guy, in the dress, care so much what the old vet thinks? Does everyone have to like him? Is that it? Leave the old guy alone and grow up.
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  6651.  @johnclaeys376  Then why don't you tell me the rest? Am I supposed to guess what it is I missed? I know.....do my own research.
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  6652.  @anthonyholiday2772  Inciting violence. That's a crime. When they're already throwing bricks at police, smashing windows and looting, "more confrontational" would mean to increase throwing bricks and the rest. She's a member of Congress. It would appear, to the "protesters" that the Federal government would have their back if a member of Congress is urging them on.
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  6653.  @rmadara  Explain WHAT to my maker? That I don't approve of throwing bricks at police? I don't like it when people smash windows, rob stores and calling it looting, set fires. Will my maker chastise me for that?
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  6654.  @bimcrafter2648  If you can explain what Trump did wrong, I'll agree with you. I don't see where he told anyone to get violent. In fact, the only thing I heard is to march "peacefully and patriotically". Maybe there was something else but I didn't hear it. So tell me what it was so I will know the truth and be convinced that Trump did do wrong.
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  6655. I remember another time in American history when an identifiable group were not allowed entry into public places. Strange thing is, the people in this video would talk about those days as a disgraceful time in American history. Their lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  6656.  @BigDsGaming2022  Which shows you how stupid voters can be. If I had Covid and then sat next to your elderly parents or grandparents and they caught Covid and died, you'd be upset, too. Unless, of course, you hate your parents and grandparents. Then you'd buy me a beer. Sort of same thing that the New York voters are doing for Cuomo, according to you, anyway.
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  6657. The reason that "Uncle Tom" is a slur is because the Democrats, at the time, didn't want the black slaves to have a hero. They kept it up, after emancipation, once again, to vilify a heroic Black slave, who would rather die than give away the whereabouts of 2 runaway slaves. I, for the LIFE of me, can't see how this makes the term "Uncle Tom" an ethnic slur. He stood up against the villainous slave holder, Simon Legree, and was whipped to death for it. The left and the Democrats don't want a hard working, Black man who would give his life for what he believes in. Uncle Tom was 10 TIMES the hero that George Floyd was by any metric you want to use. The left doesn't want you to know that. Please, any time you hear that term used, in a derogatory manner, please set the guy straight. The left should not be allowed to get away with that kind of lie.
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  6658.  @promethiac2641  The shame that should be felt, by the groups mentioned in the original comment, suggests that those groups have abandoned our children for personal gain and ideology. It was made in response to the video and what was discussed. Your comment is a vague, defensive and rather snarky response to what you appear to think is a personal insult. It means nothing, points at nothing and you made no attempt to explain the stance of those groups. It's no better than the childish retort "I know you are but what am I?". All in all, a rather childish comment.
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  6659. People, like her, are working to gain power. When they do, they will definitely discriminate against white people or any other group that they happen to dislike. She's the monster that she's claiming that she wants to destroy.
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  6660. When the Saudis control 4% of Twitter, we need an investigation. However, TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based tech giant ByteDance, a huge Chinese company, is let off the hook. What's the logic behind that?
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  6661.  Jeremy Mettler  Huh????
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  6662.  @whousa642  You've never had a vacation? Wow. I'm impressed.
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  6663.  @JohnFox-1986  Why didn't Joe Biden release those names? If Trump was on that list, that would have sealed the election for him and there would have been a victory for the Democrats....but they didn't. They had four YEARS to release it. Why didn't they? If Trump is having the evidence destroyed, it's the fault of Biden, Garland and the FBI. They had the information in their hand and they passed it onto Trump, the bad guy.....who you say is on that list. Are they really that stupid or is there another reason why they didn't release that list when they had the chance? Make it make sense.
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  6664.  @Leester-70  I know what it's not. It's not saying that they've won. If I concede...they've won. You've given up and you've lost. Lost before you've even started. As long as I have my own principles and ideals and I live by them, they've not won. The freedom to live my life in the way I believe to be right. That's victory but it won't be easy. Freedom will always be challenged. I may never see victory in my lifetime. Like those who built Notre Dame, it's a lifetime commitment. You won't get there by giving up. If I don't get there, maybe my children will or my grandchildren but I'm NOT going to make it harder for them. It's almost as if you're one of woke progressives, trying to demoralise us by telling us that we don't stand a chance. Either way, you're the enemy as much as they are.
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  6665. Speaking FOR him. Maybe we should be listening to you instead of Joe. You seem to have great insight into the minds of others.
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  6666.  @BeardMan01  Well said.
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  6667. A Covid relief bill should NEVER be on the Omnibus Bill. Covid is a specific crisis and the relief bill should be introduced as a specific bill as a way to handle this crisis. That way everyone knows what's in that bill and no one can use the crisis in their political games.
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  6668. 71 gang members down voted this video. I mean, who else would do that?
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  6669.  @bitty_beastly47  Try to get close to Trump. Good luck on that one. Tim Pool supported Trump. He's been outspoken about election integrity. He's supported DeSantis, another one that the left hates. He's talked about the shooter at the gay bar in Colorado and that's PO'd a lot on the left. He's been loudly critical of Biden and the Democrat attempts for gun control. What bugs a lot of people on the right is that Tim doesn't agree 100% with them, 100% of the time. If you're not carrying a pitchfork, you're against them. That's their mindset. Both Tim and especially Luke, get under my skin sometime but I can see why the left hate him so much. Disagree with the loony left, on just one thing, and they'll hate you for all time. You can agree with them on the other 99 things but that won't count for them. Follow their ideology 100% or you don't follow them at all.
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  6670. It seems to be a pattern with Democrats. The big city Democrats don't even want to talk about what's happening in their district. Prostitution, homelessness, garbage everywhere, shoplifting and crime, drug abuse....and they keep pretending that it's not happening. I don't understand why people continue to vote for them. Are they blind or do they want the deterioration of American cities to continue.....that it somehow benefits them? It's the most baffling thing that I've seen in politics in my 70 plus years.
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  6671. Who does this Biden scandal benefit, right now? Let me see..... Elizabeth Warren benefits. Suddenly, she's the front runner as the Democrat presidential nominee. Not saying it was her, but........
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  6672. You should care about books taken out of print for ideological reasons, Tim. That's called censorship. If it's taken out of print for lack of sales, that's one thing but to do so because you've decided that there's some kind of message that shouldn't be conveyed, you're taking part in and shrugging off a metaphorical book burning. It's not about how many books or people are censored. It's about taking away individual freedoms. If the forced demolition of one person's freedom to expression through even one piece of art, you tacitly approve of it all. You'd stand by and watch the Nazis burn books down the road because....who cares. A blizzard starts with a single snowflake. If you don't want censorship to take hold, don't allow that metaphorical snowflake to exist.
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  6673. Atta girl, Lightfoot. Blame the victim.
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  6674. If Trump calls the Insurrection Act, you can be guaranteed that the MSM will call him a dictator.
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  6675.  @racewaysignsgraphics4603  I might have a beef with my neighbour and we could be in an argument over the placing of a fence. However, a fight (war) doesn't start until I punch him in the face or attempt to shoot him. Before the violence, we're in a dispute. As soon as the violence starts, there has been a declaration of war. Putin started the violence and the war because he was frustrated with how the dispute was going. So he started shooting. That escalated the dispute into war and he started that escalation.
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  6676.  @racewaysignsgraphics4603  From what I've been able to gather is that there has been unrest there for years. Pro-Russian forces and separatist forces made attacks against Ukrainian sites, in the region, back in 2014, around the same time that Russia annexed Crimea. The attack on Ukraine government buildings by local Russians were supported by Russia. Ukraine countered by trying to force out the Russian backed separatists. However, that was 8 years ago.
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  6677.  @America-xq2xg  Which is why they can't answer his question. They have no idea how wealth is created. They think that there's a big pile of cash somewhere and only the rich know where that pile is. If only we all knew where it was, we could all be rich. That's what they think.
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  6678. Going to someone's house at night, masked and terrorising the occupants was the tactics of another infamous group. They called themselves the KKK. The Democrats have been reluctant to call out Antifa. Could it be it's because it was Democrats also formed the KKK and given the unpopularity of that group, need a new violent arm to represent their ideology?
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  6679.  @user-yj2xz6rg2q  I'm a commie? LOL. That was one giant leap of logic. Do tell how you arrived at such a whacky conclusion.
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  6680.  @user-yj2xz6rg2q  First of all I asked a question. I wondered if the Democrats have started a new strong armed group to replace the KKK and presented it as a question. It would imply that I'm open to an answer, simply put, a discussion. Never called or even implied anyone was crazy. It was just a question. How that makes me a commie is rather perplexing.
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  6681. Apparently the rules are that they get to browbeat Barr and he gets to take it. Yup....sounds like great rules to me.
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  6682.  @techguy9023  Maybe you haven't heard. Trump is NOT the president. Thank you.
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  6683.  @scillyautomatic  The MSM refuses to accept or even talk about how Marxism is permeating American culture. They even try to tell us that Antifa isn't a thing, that CRT is idea in law, even though the people, who support those beliefs, have written books telling us exactly how it will be put into practice in education, the media or other areas of life. The rules about misinformation is one of their weapons. They get to decide what's true and they'll shut up anyone who strays from their truth. It's being presented that rules, for what they call misinformation, is good for the stability of the country. They make it sound nice but it's as insidious as it gets.
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  6684.  Rocksteady246  The freedom of speech is guaranteed in the Canadian Bill of Rights and Freedoms. It doesn't matter if psychology is a social science of not, it doesn't over ride our freedoms. Our freedom of expression is enshrined in OUR Constitution which should NEVER be taken with a grain of salt. There is no basis for taking away a basic freedom and just because Dr Peterson is a recovering addict, to a drug that was legally prescribed, does NOT take away his right to free speech and expression. Neither does character assassination.
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  6685. The truth is that the conflict in Gaza is about anti-Semitism. There is a belief, in Islam, that Jesus will not return until all Jews have been eradicated. That's the belief. This is from the Sahih Bukhari collection of Hadiths, a very important text in Islam. "Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say, oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me — come and kill him.” Sahih Bukhari 2925 The coming of Judgement Day is central to Islam. It's what Muslims long and pray for. They have to fight the Jews or Judgement Day will never come. I may get a YouTube warning for this but it has to be said.
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  6686. That is at the very heart of the problem. Worse, this lack of cultural reverence in the black community for a good education, is encouraged by the radical left. They're the ones who are quite often saying things like "Math is racist" and supporting the idea that the blacks, who do value education, are trying to be white. They use terms like "oreo" or "house N...." to denigrate their attempts to better themselves. People, like Thomas Sowell, should be elevated by all Americans but they're not. Sowell is too "white" to be elevated to the heights that he deserves. White progressives call him and Larry Elder the "black face of white supremacy"....a totally disgusting thing to say about such distinguished men.
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  6687.  @TS-wh4ey  This is a long term plan that goes back to the 1930s. It started in the universities were radical socialist professors would recommend their top students for positions in other schools. They slowly expanded that radical belief system until they were ready to plant their graduates in the media and the lower educational system....high school and now even in primary school. They're in the bureaucracy of Washington, in city and state politics, in law and in the entertainment business. I'm reading Paulo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". It's an overt communist look on how to use the educational system to create revolutionaries. It has become standard reading, in universities, for the next generation of teachers. Those are the teachers that will teach high school and under, all the way down to kindergarten. Paulo Friere is an admirer of Castro and Che. Some of the things in that book are quite troubling. That book and another that he wrote "The Politics of Education" which I haven't read, are important books in this movement. Radical socialism has been infiltrating our institutions for decades and now it's starting to be large enough to vie for power. We may be in for some tough times in the future if we can't stop it.
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  6688.  @antitheistvegan  You're dismissal of tens of thousands of years of human history is intellectually lazy. I know that because you refuse to even discuss what I've said except to be, once more, smug and condescending.
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  6689.  @reaper_exd7498  I don't believe that I've ever heard him praise BLM violence. You'll have to show me, with a link, to prove it. Not saying it's not true but I'm about the truth. I was just at an Steven Crowder clip and someone asked why there wasn't a live show today. Someone told him that he was working on his Twitter account because he'd been banned and then he told him to GO TO THE TIM POOL show and you can find out about it. Just because you don't agree with him on EVERYTHING doesn't mean that he's not providing a valuable service. He's still talking about it and he's left no doubt about how he feels about the Mumford cancellation. Don't act like a leftist, insisting he has to agree with you, ALL THE TIME, or you're going to attack him. He's standing for free speech. He did in on this VERY video. Free speech means that we're going to disagree. It's NOT free speech if you go into a rage and start calling people names when they do voice an opinion that you don't like. That's why I'm calling you a troll. A guy that implies that he supports free speech and then attacks someone that disagrees with him and posting the same message on different threads.
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  6690.  William Cooper  Yet he's railed continuously and every day against the media and cancel culture. Don't you agree with him on that? Don't you think that free speech is at the bedrock of our way of life? Or is this just lip service. "I believe in free speech when you agree with me" If you want to defeat socialism, defeat it by being more logical and presenting facts. Don't attack the person that advocates for free speech because there's fewer and fewer of them because when they're all gone, YOU won't be able to defeat socialism with logic and facts. You'll have been shut down....PERMANENTLY.
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  6691.  William Cooper  It's only like being on Twitter if you allow it to devolve into a name calling contest. If you're willing to discuss points, there's value in it.
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  6692.  @reaper_exd7498  Is this the episode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BwIQIIIxQ&ab_channel=TimcastIRL I watched this entire thing. I never heard him praise BLM looting and rioting. I did hear him say that he thinks that the trial is political and that the worst that Chauvin should get is manslaughter and even that might be a stretch as the knee on the neck is part of police training. This makes even a manslaughter conviction difficult.
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  6693.  William Cooper  Once again...did you NOT watch this video? He called out, STRONGLY, against cancel culture and stood for free speech. That's different than agreeing with him on specific points. You have to have free speech in order to disagree and Tim Pool supports free speech. It's ALL he talks about. He may have ideas that I don't agree with. There's not a person on this planet that I agree with 100 percent of the time on 100 percent of the issues. That's impossible. However, there is one thing that I have to insist on and that Tim Pool agrees with. FREE SPEECH. He's fighting for it. What he thinks about other issues is irrelevant is my freedom to voice my opinion is stifled. That's the most important issue we face right now and Tim Pool is NOT sitting on the fence on this.
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  6694.  @reaper_exd7498  Unbelievable. I went to the correct video and it's YOU that's misinterpreting what he said. Tim was reading from an article about the charges against Chauvin in which it said that "holding the knee on the neck is inherently dangerous". He called it fake news, later showing how this was part of police training. He said that he believed that the rioting was successful in instilling that false belief on the average American citizen and then, facetiously congratulated them on the success of that tactic. He was worried, however, that this type of pressure and that the protests, that are happening already, might have an effect on the trial, just like the riots, protests and the media portrayals, last summer, have had an effect on public opinion all along. He called it "scary". He was afraid that they'd bend to the violent pressure of BLM and others. You can't understand context. That's your problem. You used a left wing media tactic. You pointed out a snippet of the video and declared it to be the meat of the message. That's incredibly misleading. You'd better watch that video again and listen a little more carefully, this time. He wasn't praising BLM riots. He was afraid that the riots might not allow a fair trail because it may frighten people into submission.
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  6695.  @SeattlePioneer  It's not women that convinced us of those things. It's feminists and their male simps that have done that. That left wing segment of our society. Feminists don't represent ALL women and their simps and the left don't represent me. I'll not have them dictate to me what I should be thinking or telling me what is right or wrong. I refuse to give in to their bullying tactics. As far as I'm concerned, it would be like a full grown man playing pee-wee hockey. It's not fair and it's not right. It's an affront to their dignity and mine. I have too much respect for the good women in the world and I refuse to allow those femiNazis transgender Nazis to take away a good woman's right to compete on a level playing field. It's their version of propaganda and Goebbels demonstrated just how horrific it can become if you're not careful.
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  6696.  @nataliewalton5118  We depend on Hunter? To do what? Abuse drugs? Cavort with hookers, Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs? Make secret deals with Chinese officials? I don't think anyone is depending on him to do that except maybe his drug dealers, pimps and corrupt international figures. The rest of us are upset that his father, the President of the United States, might be implicated in those shenanigans. I'm sure you'd be beside yourself with outrage had this been Donald Trump Jr. and not Hunter Biden. I'm suspecting selective outrage on your part.
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  6697. @MeshugaMatch-m6q Theft is theft. Only those without integrity steal. Period. Unfortunately, the politicians who run New York have no integrity, either.
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  6698. 1.3 million non-blacks voted for Trump in 2016. They expect to add another 1.3 million non-blacks to vote for him this fall. Maybe more, if Biden keeps talking.
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  6699.  @VeritasEt  Nothing except that it distorts your vision of reality. If you apply it in a favourable manner, you refuse to see faults. In a negative manner, all you see is faults. It's a lens misshapes truth to fit an agenda. Like saying that the president of the United States isn't considered the most powerful man on the planet. The US has the top economy, the strongest military and is the most influential nation on earth and Trump is the leader. You don't like Trump so your reality has to be bent so that none of this is true. That's what bigotry does for you.
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  6700.  @JoshuaSmith-v3c  It's called being intentionally obtuse. Pretending that he doesn't understand but, in reality, he's only saying what he does to be contrary for his own purposes and biases.
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  6701. Staple a tail on my behind and call me a baboon. It's science.
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  6702.  @31Alden  It's not lost on her. She knows what she's doing. It's the radical socialist program of changing society by supporting the chaos of illegal immigration. Let them All in, whether good people or bad, and when the bad inevitably do bad things, cry bigotry. Create resentment and anger that leads to violence and then be the ones to lead the new society after the country has been torn apart.
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  6703.  @Mr.Precedent  "march to the capitol, peacefully and patriotically" "because we are the party of law and order". Sounds like an insurrection to me. LOL. You're claiming that his followers, the gun toting, gun loving nuts that they are, went to an insurrection and forgot to take their guns along. The very thing they say why we need the 2nd Amendment, which is to stop a corrupt government, and they don't bring their guns to stop, what they think, is a corrupt government. You really haven't thought this through, have you.
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  6704. Wayne Gretzky never cross checked anyone. However, Gordie Howe, Mr. Hockey, he would have been a better example. He was a nasty SOB, although one of the best there ever was. Mr. Hockey would have cross checked him without a second thought.
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  6705.  @DiceBaseballDigest  So...individual civil rights IS the problem or, more accurately, the lack of our civil rights is the problem.
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  6706.  @dggjr1759  There are no boring places. Just boring people. If you need outside stimulus to keep you interested in life, you have one pathetic life.
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  6707. Maybe they think that the people of NY will finally smarten up and vote in a completely new administration with a more common sense agenda. Moving isn't as easy as it sounds. Besides, these are pundits and reporters. That's different than ownership.
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  6708.  @churly9717  Then why didn't you say so. However, Germany wasn't the wrong enemy. They had to be defeated, too. I know. My family lived through the horror of the Nazis in the Netherlands back then. It doesn't apply, at all.
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  6709.  @churly9717  I don't know why his campaign was in contact with the Russians and neither do you. You can't just write your own story, though, fill in the blanks to suit a narrative that you'd like to hear, no more than you would like a cop to do that to you. Stick to the facts. This isn't a fiction class where a scenario is provided and you write an interesting story about it.
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  6710.  @churly9717  You're still not presenting any proof that he did, in fact, meet with a foreign power, under what circumstances and who that power was. Also, are you seriously saying that Trump can't meet with a foreign power, this summer, because he's running for president? What does that even mean, anyway. No foreigners at all? I would hope not. Not in the international crisis we're going through, right now. Once again, if this is illegal, which seems rather iffy, why didn't the Mueller report prove this? It didn't prove a thing and every Democrat knew it. That's why they didn't even attempt to impeach him on that. Give it up. Most people have gotten over it and realise that there just isn't the evidence to prove it. It's time to get over the rancorous rhetoric and start concentrating on the problem at hand. Start a unification effort with ALL our fellow citizens and start doing the things today and tomorrow that will help to end this threat. Whinging about the past won't solve a thing and most assuredly do nothing but disrupt the efforts that all, Democrats and Republicans, are working hard to win.
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  6711.  @churly9717  Then it can't be illegal, can it? If it was illegal, the Democrats would have impeached him for it, wouldn't they. If they met, you still have no idea what it is they talked about. It's all speculation. Also, you haven't even commented on whether Trump is no longer allowed to talk to foreigners because of this election cycle we're in. We know that he has. He's said so on TV, today, yesterday, the day before and the day before that. Also, you're still bucking the only leader that the country has. Forget it until the crisis is over. Work with him because he's all we got, like it or not. When it's all over, then start the division of the country all over again, from scratch. We're fighting a battle. Let's not fight each other, too.
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  6712.  @churly9717  Then what's the point in even talking to you? You don't care what I've said and you're not willing to hear a different perspective. Put the cotton back into your ears and put it in deep as you're no more than opinionated ass.
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  6713.  @Alex-pt5no  That's quite the in depth analysis.😂😂 Why don't you point out specific items that I've said that you think are deranged and give your reasons for disagreeing with what was said? Any 6 year old can call me names. Show your intellect and have a discussion instead of calling up your inner 6 year old.
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  6714.  @Alex-pt5no  First, I never said word ONE about the Germans having guns. All I said that the Germans didn't stand up to the Nazis or their Brownshirts....one ones that smashed windows, set fires and threatened people. I really don't know what would happen had the German people stood up against them but I do know that they did NOTHING. Now, you call me names and then run and hide by refusing to engage with me. Nice try. I didn't ask you what you said to others. I wanted to know why you called me names and to outline those reasons. This is between you and me, not someone else.
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  6715.  @miolol3120  That's why it's so ridiculous. They vote red and then complain about "red" policies.
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  6716.  @vinceruland9236  Thanks. The weird part is that she wasn't like that until she got pregnant. At first I just thought that it was a phase, that she'd go back to normal once the baby was born. It didn't. It seemed to get worse. Finally, after about 5 years of it, I had enough and walked out. It wasn't an easy thing to do. I'd made a pledge to honour that marriage and it went against everything that I believed in but I refused to be treated like her personal slave. In the end, I decided that it was her that let us down...not me.
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  6717.  @donmiller2908  One says "thoughts and prayers go with you" AFTER a tragedy. It's something you say when someone has died and there's nothing else that can be done. It's a way of conveying condolences. I heard it dozens of times after my son died in a tragic accident. They couldn't bring my son back to life but they were there to show support and I appreciated it and I'm NOT religious at all. This is different. These horrific acts were being ignored and are continuing to be ignored. They're talking about policy and procedures by those who should know better and because of it, we'll see it happen again. That's WAY different that approaching that father and showing support for what his family is going through for an incident that happened in the past. This is telling those in power what should be done about it. Two different things completely.
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  6718. They have a bullying specialist. Can you believe that? You don't need a specialist. The poor girl was beaten in the school halls. Everyone that took part should have been charged with assault, just for starters. You need teachers and staff that will do their job. We had bullying when I was growing up but our teachers handled it. They didn't blame the victim. We would get the strap if we were hurting one of our school mates. It was there but this piling on with no consequences just didn't happen. Our teachers cared. I know one thing. Had those bullies been using the wrong pronouns, they'd have done something about it. It just shows where their priorities are at.
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  6719. Not actually anti communist as it was anti Soviet invasion. The Finns were being invaded by the Soviets in 1939 and a Soviet minister had the gall to call bombs dropped, food drops for the starving Finns. Finns started calling the bombings "Molotov food baskets" and later, when the Finns made the incendiary devices to throw at Russian tanks, they called them "Molotov Cocktails", like an aperitif to go along with the Molotov food baskets. The Finns were anti communist. They were anti being invaded.
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  6720.  @Nikkithedog-t6b  Yeah....the Proud Boys are on the news every night, marching down streets, throwing rocks, taking over buildings, fighting with police....it just doesn't stop. Troll.
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  6721. @SportySP Give me a disease to save me from that disease. Sounds rather stupid doesn't it? Yet, that's what happens when you get vaccinated. It's a variation, of the disease. The concept isn't taken on face value. It's a simplistic way, a starting point of a much more sophisticated investigation into an idea. Trump may have later said that he was joking but if you watch the actual exchange, he was spitballing ideas and he wasn't joking. On the face of it, taken literally, it does sound stupid but he wasn't talking literally. He was talking about research into ways that it might be possible just like light therapy has been a part of research for years, a part of that exchange. "Is there a way to do it?" NOT "This is the way to do it!!!". That's the difference. If the answer is an emphatic "NO" then you don't do it. If it's "I don't know. We could find a way that it MIGHT be possible" then it's research until that idea is exhausted or a way is found.
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  6722. @SportySP Look assess it as if it's just an ordinary person, a layman, asking a doctor and a researcher about something. It's not Trump, it's you, asking about something you don't know about. Then, when you find out that it's might be rather naive, people start hounding you over it, telling you how STUPID you are, how ridiculous, telling you to shut-up, that you're an idiot. Do you agree with them? If you do and they keep it up, do you agree with them again? Will there ever be a point where you start to lose your patience and say something to get them OFF your back about it. A simple question and they just NEVER STOP!!!! Would you take it with a smile and a nod, FOREVER? People are making it about who asked the question, not the context and content of the exchange. Also, it's too late to question on who the right person is, right now. Trump is the guy. He's what we have to work with. Instead of battling him, EVERY STEP of the way, maybe the press and the Democrat party would be of more service to the people by helping him, giving suggestions, asking questions that would help the American people. Maybe cooperation and working with him, all of us working together and showing a willingness to compromise would be a better way to handle this crisis than continuous sniping and whining about EVERY word the president says. It solves nothing. Also, it wasn't a Republican or Trump that forced Covid patients into nursing homes, housing them with healthy and susceptible elderly people. It was the Democratic administrations of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan that did that. If you want to express outrage, do it over that instead of a STUPID and NAIVE question by a person that admitted that he wasn't a doctor and that he DIDN'T KNOW in the context of that question.
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  6723. @SportySP I never once mentioned Obama. Also, that some people of interpreting information in a rational manner doesn't discount what another person might say. I may not understand my doctor's reasoning, at times, but I'll listen because he's the one talking. If I need help understanding, I'll go to someone that does understand and get all the information possible. My reason for bringing up those Democrat governors is to show you how people, like you, are obsessing over a simple question, when there have been decisions made that have directly impacted lives. Sick people put into nursing homes with susceptible elderly people is a HUGE issue, yet I've YET to hear the outrage over that from the press or those you're forever going on about a simple question. I said it to make a point. The point it this. Your outrage is centred around politics, NOT reality. No outrage about the decision to put Covid patients into nursing homes because it was a decision made by Democrat governors. Outrage over a dumb question because it was Trump, who asked the question. Trump, a Republican. It's why the press harangues the president about that and why they're NOT haranguing him about putting an end to putting sick patients in with healthy ones in nursing homes. It makes the Democrats look bad. It's why you've decided to not talk to me anymore. You don't want the politics of this to be exposed so you'd better get the hell out before it is.
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  6724. @SportySP Now it's Russian bots. An allusion to the claim that has NEVER been proven to denigrate people that disagree with you. Also, the nursing home fiasco is not a tragedy. This was a decision made by the same people that are telling us to stay home, not go outside, to maintain social distancing, close businesses and schools, even threaten to arrest people that don't follow guidelines, because Covid is extremely contagious and then put sick people in nursing homes where the most vulnerable of our populations are gathered in one place. That's NOT a tragedy. That's either stupidity of the grandest scale, or just plain cold hearted. In fact, Pennsylvania's top health official took her elderly mother out of a nursing home and had her stay somewhere else, where it was safer. That we weren't ready for the disease is one thing and even understandable. It's of a scale that no one alive has ever dealt with. That led to this tragedy that we're facing. Putting sick people in the same place as healthy seniors, knowing how contagious it is and how vulnerable the elderly are, is NOT a tragedy. Had Trump done that, it would be the scandal of this century. That's not a bot speaking. That's reality and deep down you know it.
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  6725. Well duh.....it was the government that ordered the trees all cut in the first place. They might better fix it. It was their totalitarian system that caused it and seems to be effective at trying to fix it, as well. The US government would never order their citizens to cut down all the trees. Like you said, both parties would fight over it into the far distant future.
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  6726. That young guy just made a strong point about making wise decisions and that young girl asks why is it the woman had to move away to escape an abusive relationship. She wants to know why the man wasn't taught not to be abusive? What does it matter? You know that abusive people exist. Why weren't YOU taught that your choices will strongly affect how your life turns out? That you should be careful and choosy about who you choose as a partner? Why wasn't she taught that?
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  6727.  @Shadyjdsmamaw  "To march peacefully and patriotically to have our voices heard" Yeah.....he said that on LIVE television. It was a protest that morphed into a riot just like the George Floyd peaceful protests morphed into violent riots. If you can show me, in that speech, where he said to take over the Capitol Building, I will eat my words but I'm not too worried. I've read that speech and it never said that.
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  6728. There is so much Democrat loyalty that if they starting putting people in Concentration camps, they'd still vote Democrat from their cell block. They'd do what Solzhenitsyn described about some of the Gulag inmates. They don't know what they did wrong but they were vowing to be better agents for the Party cause in the future. That's what party loyalty can get you. Democrat Loyalists will still vote Democrat, no matter the inflation, the huge debt, increased crime, the homelessness, high taxes, unreliable energy supply and chaos at the southern border. This is California described to a Tee but they keep voting for the same.
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  6729. We are now engulfed in a cult of personality. It's a variation of the cult of personality. Their similarities lie in the fact that neither deal with issues but with the personality of the leader except one is in near worship of the leader, no matter what he/she does, and the other is in finding fault with the leader, no matter what he/she does. That leads to bias and an unreliable media.
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  6730. Why do you think that the Dems and the bureaucrats HATE Trump so much. He's drying up the gravy train for the swamp and the corporate elite. They've set their media on them and the world, and I mean the world, has been the target of propaganda attack designed to bring down those who would try to stop the corruption.
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  6731.  Catherine Jarman  Stalin was NOT a Jew and a large percentage of those who died by communism came under his watch and his direction. No one controlled him. He controlled everyone in the Soviet Union. In fact, during his campaign against the "rootless Cosmopolitan", many Jews were arrested and killed. It culminated in the Doctor's plot, a group of Jewish doctors, accused of plotting to kill Stalin. You're turning it into a racial issue when it's ideological. Marx was a Jew but his sidekick, a man almost as influential as Marx, was Friedrich Engels, a German and from a, what was called, Bourgeoisie family, rich industrialists. He was no different than the spoiled university students of today. Fascism seeks to control all aspects of social and economic life. You either capitulate or you suffer the consequences. It's basically "communism light".
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  6732. It's not just that kids weren't allowed to go to school. It's the campaign that would enforce, through social pressures, isolation from the rest of society through the use of fear. It would be as if you took those children and placed them on a deserted island with only their family to interact with. This is made worse through the fact that most families have only 2 children or less. That means total isolation from their peers. Add to that the fear of illness and death to themselves and to their family members, their only contacts, and it has to be devastating to the mental health of any child. I'm astounded how people can't appreciate this.
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  6733. White men aren't the problem. It's the Jews. It's always been the Jews. .....says the painter from Austria. Funny how bigots all sound the same.
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  6734. It's important but it'll only be big if the judge finds that the documents implicate Hilary in a scheme to mislead the public about Russian collusion. If he finds that, THEN it'll be real big.
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  6735. Colin Kaepernick wasn't blacklisted. He was already sitting on the sidelines when he started his "kneeling" campaign. He was also given a sizeable contract to represent Nike. If that's blacklisting, blacklist me. I'll sign half the contract with Nike that Kaepernick did.
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  6736.  @LaseñoradeSanLuis  At least you have the basics down for being a good journalist. Call people names. Try this one out. "She's literally the black Hitler". References to Hitler always work.
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  6737.  @stuffthetunic  In other words, collusion is so vague that you can't prove a conspiracy but we have to believe that it exists. Also, this idea they were guilty but too smart to get caught isn't evidence. It's almost like saying that their ability to cover up collusion is proof that collusion happened. Trump never removed sanctions that Obama set in place over the Crimean invasion. He allowed weapons sales to the Ukraine that Russia didn't want and Trump bombed Russian sites in Syria, something Obama refused to do. He also expelled 60 Russian diplomats in March 2017. So it hasn't all been rosy between Trump and Putin. Simply saying that Trump benefited from Russian meddling in the election, isn't proof of some sort of deal. There is no way to know how much Trump meddled or whether he even benefited at all. They may have meddled but how can you measure its effectiveness. I believed that Trump was going to win the presidency for reasons that would have had nothing to do with meddling. Hillary was a bad candidate. People were angry at her for seemingly cheating Bernie out of becoming the Democrat candidate and she would consistently call a large segment of the country deplorables and that white men have to do this and white people have to do that. There was an obvious bias against middle America and people knew it and felt it. Whites make up nearly 65 percent of the American population and you don't win votes by calling a large segment of the population names. It doesn't work. She alienated a lot of people. The people in the "flyover" states didn't like to be characterised as uneducated hillbillies. Presidents have different methods when dealing with other countries. Obama appeared to be less favourable to Israel than most presidents. It was just his way. Trump also tried a different way of dealing with North Korea. Until very recently, it seemed to be working. Changes in policies from one president to another is expected. It's why new parties are elected and it doesn't mean that they were in collusion. For 2 years, all we heard about was how Trump was a traitor and how the evidence of collusion with Russia would put him in jail. Now, collusion isn't a crime. If it wasn't a crime, what were they investigating. Obstruction? Why would Trump obstruct an investigation into a non crime? In fact, Barr repeatedly said that Trump had been fully cooperative throughout the entire investigation. He was frustrated but who wouldn't be. You would have been frustrated had you been called a traitor 24/7 by the major networks and the opposition. That's human nature.
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  6738.  @0rionsaint  Yokols......You nailed the reason that Trump is in the Whitehouse right now. The Democrats have went on and on about the "deplorables" or "yokols" as you would call them. It's that arrogance, that aura of elitism, that turned so many Americans off. Instead of looking inwards, a little self examination, over why they lost, they tried to blame everyone else....the Russians, racists, misogynists, homophobes, anyone but themselves for treating a large segment of America like a bunch of uneducated hillbillies. It's why the Dems lose again in 2020 and¸ unless they change their ways, they will lose again in 2024. Being the party of "revenge" isn't going to win votes. If they want to win elections, they'll have to deal with the issues that people care about....like jobs, immigration, personal freedoms and opportunity. A platform of "Get Trump" does nothing to help a country and so far, it's hurt the country and hurt it a lot.
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  6739.  @stuffthetunic  There are Russians that have been indicted for their attempts to illegally corrupt the elections. However, no Americans have been indicted. If there is no evidence then the law states that there is no guilt. Vague accusations of contact isn't evidence of criminal conspiracy. It might indicate it happened but no one really knows except for those involved. Which leaves us with the fact that Russians have been indicted but no Americans. If the Russians were indicted, that would imply criminal wrongdoing. If no Americans were indicted, the implication is that there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by any Americans.
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  6740. This trial wasn't about Kyle's guilt. It was about control and tyranny. It goes like this. "When we come for you, DO NOT RESIST".
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  6741.  @themasaiah8017  Yeah right. Her idea on how to solve illegal border crossings is to tell people to stop it. "Don't come". What a surprise when no one listened. Then she gives a speech saying how Democrat policies on energy was the way to go to stop climate change. Biden finished up that claim by announcing that it could lead to food shortages so if you ever can't afford to buy food, remember that dynamic duo of Biden/Harris and thank them.
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  6742. Yes she did. She was referring to the "passage of time" that Tim Scott brought up. The time from December 2020 to December 2021. Time passed....one year. I have a feeling that there might have been a hidden meaning there but I don't see it. There must be something that I'm unaware of. Would someone please enlighten me.
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  6743. I support sanctuary cities and states. In fact, I will give any refugee (illegal immigrant) a ride to the sanctuary city or state of their choice. What's that? That's a terrible offer? I'm a racist? I'm taking them to where they'll be safe and among other "dreamers". They'll be an asset to that city or state and make for a better and more diverse community. I'm not dumping them. I asked them if they wanted a ride and it's up to them to take it or not.
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  6744. As long as they don't say "January 6th". I still get triggered every time I hear that day. Just typing it out makes me want to crawl under my bed.
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  6745.  @usafvet100  I like the analogy to the Reichstag fire. In fact, I'm going to use it when I feel it necessary. Thanks for your comment.
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  6746. If it is possible to do it intentionally, it can be done naturally. What has to happen is those intentional arrangements has to occur, by chance, in a natural setting. For example, radiation can affect chromosomes. So can some types of toxins. If a creature is exposed to a toxin in the wild, ingesting a toxic plant as an example, it may affect that creature chromosomes. That affected chromosome could get passed on to its offspring. If this happens just a few times over millions of years, the descendant may look and behave completely differently than than an ancestor that lived millions of years previous. More importantly, it may have lost its ability to breed with that ancestor. It's now a different species.
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  6747. They're rich folk, trying their best to appear caring and loving but, in reality, have a disdain for the masses. Intellectual superiority just oozes from every orifice and we, the regular folk, should be grateful for the crumbs they throw our way.
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  6748.  @markpartin8403  No, they weren't the first on the scene. They had their own damage from Hurricane Helene to deal with. People in Florida also died from that storm. It's amazing that they could even go to North Carolina to help but they did and it was because they were prepared to deal with hurricane when it hit them. He's a politician. Everything that politicians say and do has political implications and overtones to it. Preachers preach, lawyers lawyer, farmers farm and politicians politic. It's what they do. There's a difference on how political ideologies do their jobs. That's why they're different parties. When asked about the hurricane, Harris started to go on about the marginalised and equity and who needs the most help. You didn't hear about those things from DeSantis. He just sent help. A different approach from different parties.
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  6749.  @lindaregan4770  What a silly generic comment. It means nothing except that you're filled with hate and you're validating it by calling him a liar. Of course, it's a safe claim because humans all lie. It's a part of the human condition so you'll never be wrong. "Zebras have stripes" Well....duh. People lie, therefore Trump lies. Well....duh again. Nothing really substantial to that remark.
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  6750.  @strategery101  They protested once. Jan 6th. Just once and it's being painted as the worst moment in American history. Worse than 9/11 and on par with the Democrat revolt that we call the Civil War. Only one person died and that person was a protester but it's worse than 9/11. Yet the "summer of love", all the BLM riots, that they call the "peaceful protests", with billions of dollars of damage, thousands of people in the hospital and nearly 30 innocents killed, including an 8 year old black girl, is justified and noble. It's all propaganda.
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  6751. Why does it have to be progressive, anyway? Why can't it just be a story for a story's sake? Entertainment that's presenting new ideas and snippets of life that we've not been exposed to before. I'm sick of being hated for being white. I can't watch TV or read an newspaper or go on the internet without my head being banged with this obsession with race. The only people this obsessed with race were Hitler's Nazis and the KKK. STOP with the agenda to hate, divide and ultimately conquer. You're killing us all.
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  6752. If putting the knee on the back of a prisoner's neck is routine and part of police training, why aren't there more deaths as a result? Could it be that it's not as dangerous as we've been led to believe it is? Could it be that there were other factors in Floyd's death.....like drugs, a bad heart and Covid? I think that we were being played for political reasons.
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  6753. Could you give a link to this. I'd really like to find out what happened.
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  6754.  Rich’s Pizza Party  People will always break the rules. What we have to determine is which one will be the best for the country and area that we live in. So far, the Republican states are doing better. California and New York, solidly Democrat, have the highest taxes, most rules, biggest homeless and crime problems, highest energy costs and their populations are going down. States like Florida, Tennessee South Dakota and Texas, Republican run, have the lowest taxes, best economic opportunities and their populations are going up. There's a reason for that. Only a guy like Newsom would lock everyone in their homes and then claim that they're now freer. That's the true Owellian dystopia. "Slavery is freedom".....right out of his book.
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  6755.  @gabepizza  Instead of continuous sneering insults, why don't you address what I'm saying, instead of attacking me. I just outlined a way that Acosta could have exposed Trump as a fraud and you've nothing to say about that except to call me some kind of sycophant. Also, I don't believe that criticising the president means I'm criticising the president. What I did point out that if Trump failed so did his medical team. They knew what was going on and kept quiet. Therefore, logically, they are responsible, as part of Trump's team and knowing the horrible repercussions of the disease and the situation. They knew and kept quiet. Not a good look. Why didn't you address THAT? That's what I mean when I say that you're criticising the entire team. Of course, to actually discuss the topic is an intellectual challenge. Much easier to attack me. Also, I'm NOT American....so I don't have to fawn over Trump.
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  6756.  @gabepizza  So now you know those doctors, personally, huh? You know what drives them, why they've been doing this for 30 years plus, why they've been all over the world, fighting Aids, Ebola, Swine flu and others. You're just making this up as you go. You're filled with hate and you'll do and say anything to feed that hate, including gossiping about people you don't know and have NEVER met.
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  6757.  @gabepizza  You're just a troll. Not one comment on this thread has any point that has any value. It's all insults and name calling. You've not grown up one bit since those days, back in grade 5, when you were the school yard bully. Try discussing like a grown up.....unless you are still 9 years old. Then I'll cut you some slack.....a bit.
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  6758.  @gabepizza  So, you're going to criticise, harshly, in others, the very attributes that you possess. That's the pinnacle of hypocrisy.
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  6759. It's what the socialist politicians want. End ALL capitalist enterprises. Then when the people need the things to sustain their lives, they have nowhere else to go but to them. They pretend to cry with the people and then offer a solution that involves themselves as their saviours. Time to vote these people out.
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  6760.  @jeffussery4884  What I mean is that they can use their wealth to protect themselves from the law. They can bribe where ordinary folk just can't do that. They also have the money to organise pedo networks, which allows them to work within the group to operate in secret. However, their arrogance eventually betrays them. I think we're seeing that now. 30 years ago, the scandal would have been huge so they were a lot more careful. Now, due to the relaxation of our sexual mores, they're able to operate with reckless abandon or so they think.
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  6761.  @somewhereinhawaii3663  We should vote Trump out of office. That should solve the problem of crime....right? Maybe you should start a campaign right now.
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  6762. Tyranny arrives with lots of good reasons for its implementation.
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  6763. Those communists used the religious, in Iran, to help them overthrow the Shah. They didn't have the power to do it on their own which was why they allied themselves with the religious rebels. They hoped that they could control the religious faction but they underestimated the power of religious fanaticism in Iran. It's sort of like WW2, where the west allied themselves with Stalin. It's not that they liked Stalin but they wanted to win the war. Politics can make for strange bedfellows.
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  6764. It's not that this case is untraceable. It's that they haven't been able to find the trace. If I lose the remote to the television, it isn't unfindable. I just can't find it. Simply put, keep buying a little at a time, and within a week, you'll have more than enough to last through any crisis. Last minute shopping is too late.
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  6765.  @AwakenedAvocado  Why would you get on the bus with him then? I know you think that you're being funny but I think you just sound a little childish.
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  6766.  @AwakenedAvocado  Yup....childish.
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  6767.  @loturzelrestaurant  I've read all about the history of the USSR and some of the history of Mao's China, North Korea and that revered Socialist butcher Che. If you want to talk environmental disasters, try reading about the Aral Sea, called by some the worst man made environmental disaster in history. The far left socialists of the Soviet Union did that. I've even read Marx as well as socialist educator Paulo Friere, the post modernist Foucault, Derrida and have a book by Jean-Francois Lyotard on my reading list. I've also read Chomsky and listened to a lot of his talks. Socialists all. Don't treat me like I don't know the subject. You don't know me.
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  6768.  @LoriLee-g4g  Are you that naive that you don't realise that teachers aren't discussing these things with kids AFTER that group is gone? Why aren't they telling parents? Why aren't they getting in touch with the media? Could it be that the person who sent this recording to M. Kelly, was a teacher but was afraid to send it without having their name exposed? There is no WAY that this is going on without the support of certain teachers and the principal. All they did was get those who are trained in this type of propaganda to come in and do their work for them.
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  6769. Just when Terry Crews is going to tell him that BLM isn't all about police brutality towards blacks, Don Lemon interrupts and won't let him speak. He knows what the BLM mission statement says and he doesn't want Mr. Crews to reveal it to the public because it would prove Donny wrong. Don Lemon isn't just an enemy to the countless black lives lost due to inner city violence, he's an enemy to all Americans. A lot of Americans are just too brainwashed to get that.
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  6770. They're radical socialists. They WANT our institutions to fail. They want businesses to go bankrupt. Socialism doesn't fit in with capitalism. The revolution needs chaos so they fan facial and sexual hate. It's a part of a over all plan and they're infiltrating EVERY institution and business that they can.
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  6771.  @johncooper7663  Sort of like sanctuary cities are calling the National Guard to remove migrants from their sanctuary cities. The city of Del Rio, Texas with a population of 38,000 people, had over 50,000 migrants go through their town, in less than 2 years...and Martha's Vineyard can't even handle 50? You want to talk about whiners??? LOL. They call the National Guard on those 50 migrants to remove them, AGAINST their will and yet you call the governor of Florida a whiner when he moves them out of his state after the migrants sign a waiver that says that they agreed to go to Martha's Vineyard. Are you serious????
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  6772.  @johncooper7663  They're using taxpayer money to feed, house, school, provide medical care and transportation to where they want to go, cell phones, clothing and more, for these illegal immigrants. For MILLIONS of them.....and they keep coming. The cost to the taxpayer is in the billions and you're whining about moving 50 migrants on the taxpayer bill?? Are you seriously trying to tell me that a rich neighbourhood, like Martha's Vineyard, can't find jobs for the 30 to 40 migrants who will need them? A place that has a population of almost 18,000 people, who are some of the richest people in the United States? Hell, my small town of 15,000 lost a factory of 150 employees last year and they weren't booted out of town. The little kids don't need jobs before you try to correct me. These rich snobby elites couldn't help them? They're living in mansions, HUGE mansions and they can't help 50 migrants??? Massachusetts calls itself a sanctuary state. Yeah right. Those snobs didn't think that they were coming to their backyards, did they. They found almost 60 migrants, DEAD, in a shipping container a while ago. I heard more outrage over moving these migrants to Martha's Vineyard, than about the 60 who died that horrible death. Almost 600 dead already this year along the border. This issue is just a pimple on the much bigger problem that the Biden administration has created and is ignoring. You seem to have extremely selective outrage.
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  6773. Treat people like adults and they will act like adults. Treat them like children, they'll behave like children. You nailed it.
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  6774.  @rolandwoltman7835  You may feel that you shouldn't have but you did the right thing. That is how we should all live our lives. A life of integrity, honesty and hard work. It's what builds strong, safe and affluent nations. If you let the lazy and corrupt run the nation, they'll bankrupt it and you'll be worse off than what you are now. There's a reason why 70% of lottery winners end up broke. Free money is a trap.
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  6775.  @beardham  They fought a WAR to end slavery. Over 300,000 people died in that cause. Jim Crow is over. Has been for 57 years, likely BEFORE you were born. Everyone knows about it. There's even a special day set aside for the man who led the fight to end it. Maybe you've heard about him. Dr. Martin Luther King???? Ring a bell????? NO ONE IS UPSET ABOUT THAT. That's your own foolish way of rationalising telling kids that their race is their defining characteristic. That if you're black, those white classmates are part of the establishment that will keep them down as adults. That all cops are murdering bastards. YEAH.....that upsets me. It should upset any rational human being.
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  6776. @Kai McCook Islam is a faith based system, as well. They have different beliefs but their reliance on faith is similar. If you're looking for offence, you'll find it. "Seek and ye shall find" seems to apply to more than God's grace. It can also be used for any situation, yet it doesn't pervert the original meaning, if you use it to describe a similar idea. Besides, how does his feelings on Christianity affect you, anyway? Your faith is enough to protect, or it should be.
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  6777. @Kai McCook It's just an example to a certain type of evangelising religious type.....like a Jehovah Witness or even a Hare Krishna or a Mormon. You're reading WAY to much into it.
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  6778. @Kai McCook NO....he did not. He was implying that her ideological fervour was comparable to one who has a religious fervour. That the way they approach their beliefs, their zealotry, is comparable....NOT that she was religious. It is her zealotry, in her beliefs, that's similar to the zealotry of some religious people. I really don't see how that's so difficult to understand.
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  6779.  @munchmacuchi7502  Yeah......right. The only chance that the Democrats have is to try and talk Republicans into not voting. It's not a bad try but I doubt anyone is going to fall for that nonsense.
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  6780.  @suilfisean  I'm more substance over style. Apparently, you're all about style. As long as you look good, you ARE good. Rather superficial.
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  6781.  @danielpowers2772  No, it doesn't.
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  6782.  @jimlovesgina  If that were so, why weren't those wells sitting patiently, waiting for the oil prices to go back up, so they could go right back into production? They incentive was there. Could it be because of all the restrictions placed on oil production by Biden? Add to that the cancelling of the Keystone pipeline and oil productions stagnated, allowing the prices to reach near record heights.
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  6783.  @allo-other  "Islamophobia is worse than misogyny." You've taken that sentence out of context and claimed that this MY belief. It might seem that way if you only read that ONE sentence but if you read the entire comment, you'll see that this is NOT my belief. I was saying that it's the belief of the silent feminists groups and the reason they're not condemning the rape of those Jewish women. THEY believe in the hierarchy of oppression, NOT me. Because they believe in this hierarchy, that Palestinian oppression is worse than the oppression of women, even when they're being raped, they will overlook when Palestinians are ones doing the raping of Jewish women. THEY believe that. NOT me. If the Israelis made a surprise attack into Gaza and were killing and raping innocent civilians, they'd be outraged because they believe that Jews are the oppressors, the lowest on the oppression scale. Therefore the Jews will always be wrong, no matter what, and the Palestinians will always be right, no matter what they do. I don't believe that. The radical left believe it and those feminist groups say nothing critical about the Palestinian action on Oct 7 because they believe it. Once again, the hierarchy of oppression is the reason why the feminist groups aren't criticising the rapes of Oct 7th. That's why it's out of context.
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  6784.  @MalachiCove  Very much, Marxist nonsense. The feminists thought that they were safe because of their position on the oppression scale. However, things have shifted. Transgenders outweigh them so now men are competing in women's sports and using women's bathrooms and change rooms. Jewish women can be raped and it's no longer considered an atrocity. How long will it be before they realise, that the white women in their ranks, are near the bottom of the hierarchy of oppression and that people will just turn away when they're horrifically used like those Jewish women. They just don't get that the radical socialists will turn on them at the drop of a hat.
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  6785.  @Danielle-zq7kb  Hamas runs into Israel, slaughters, rapes and kidnaps people and then run back and hide in Gaza. What's Israel to do? Wait at home and wait for the NEXT Hamas foray into Israel, slaughtering, raping and killing MORE civilians? If Hamas surrenders and the kidnapped victims are allowed to go home, the war is over. However, Hamas doesn't care. That's the part that YOU don't understand. Hamas would continue with Oct 7th. type raids until Israel stops them. And the ONLY way to stop them is to go after them and unfortunately Hamas is using civilians to hide behind to prevent getting caught. What amazes and baffles me is how so many people are good with a surprise attack on innocent people at a music festival. That's a blatant act of war and yet you're mortified when, those who were attacked, fight back. It's the most bizarre logic that I've ever encountered and I'm in my seventies.
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  6786.  @arodvaz1528  There are four hierarchies or domains.....according to who? Is this some kind of scientific principle or what?
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  6787.  @edwinsoto6932  It's the attitude that these residents have that has them living in a rat infested city that prevents them from being a model city. You'll never get that because you're of the mind that someone else has to fix their problems. Just put down the reefer, crack pipe or Coors, get up and go to work. You'll be amazed how much better things will get.
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  6788.  @serptimis1552  Thor and Odin weren't men. Jesus was supposed to be born to a human woman. That's the difference. Josephus wrote around 50 years after the death of Jesus. That's less time than the time between now and the death of Hitler. In fact, I've known people that fought or lived through that war, including my father, who's still alive. Josephus would have met people who claimed to have known Jesus as a man. That doesn't mean that Jesus was a god or performed great miracles. It means that he quite likely lived in the time period and like so many people, even in our own history, had legends develop around him. Just because George Washington never chopped down a cherry tree, that doesn't prove that he wasn't a real person. As for the legends, this was a time in which religion was extremely important. Even today, evangelists like Benny Hinn, claim to perform miracles and tens of thousand of people believe it. Why wouldn't people believe the same thing 2000 years ago. However, the main difference between Thor and Jesus is that Thor was a god and lived in a godly realm. Jesus was supposed to be a man and he lived in the Levant. That would negate your comparison.
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  6789. It's probably only 1/2 million that blew it off. The other 1/2 million don't exist.
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  6790. It's not so much agreeing with climate change as it is the left progressive solution for it. Their solution is to control the individual and to give all power to the state. That would be a disaster. I can believe climate change is happening and still say that Newsom's green policies in California, are absolutely ridiculous. DeSantis ended the Florida mandates for Covid as soon as he understood all the hazards that went along with it. That doesn't mean the he suddenly decided Covid was a hoax. He knew it was real but he thought that the mandates were worse than the cure. That's how he feels about climate change. People in Florida were losing everything that they owned, some of them their lives and the Democrats and their media wanted him to talk about climate change. It's like rearranging deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.
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  6791.  @eloiseharbeson2483  Because, in the end, it is up to all of us, all of us taxpayers, to decide through our actions and how we spend our money, that will decide on how serious we are about pollution. If we give the government the power to decide for us, you're not going to like what they decide. First of all, pressure the government to allow us to get off the grid. Don't force us to go to big energy companies. For example, if I install solar panels or a small windmill, don't force me onto the grid. Give me the freedom to act alone. However, they don't allow that which gives many people the impression that this isn't about climate change at all. It's about power and their control over us, the minions of the state.
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  6792. I can't believe that anyone would vote for Biden. The entire Democrat campaign is beyond comprehension.
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  6793. She's so passionate. She must be right. LOL.
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  6794. We now have political dissidents in Canada. When I was young, that was a major criticism of the communist countries like China, the Soviet Union and Cuba. Citizens of those nations were imprisoned for standing up against their governments. We all watched in admiration at the bravery of the Chinese individual who stood up against the tanks in Tiananmen Square and decried the brutality of the Chinese government. Now we have our own Tiananmen Square. I've never been so disgusted with my country and those Canadians who are cheering our government on. "First they came for the truckers but I did not speak out for I was not a trucker" A line written by a German dissident against Hitler, rewritten to reflect what will become a part of our Canadian heritage. We have to stop it.
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  6795. Funny how most of us, on the right, think that the CEO of GOYA is a good American and the left think he's Hispanic. At least they used to. Since his meeting with Trump, he's a white supremacist. The right includes him, the left pigeon hole him into the group that conveniences them the best.
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  6796. I'm fully vaccinated and have the booster but I stand 100% behind Kyrie. It was MY choice to get it. It's his choice not to. That's the way it should be. It's NO ONE else's business but our own. Mind your own business.
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  6797. Getting off gas powered cars is now right wing? How am I going to keep up with all this nutty stuff? What next? AOC asking for aid for fracking companies?
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  6798. Snow is racist. Where do you find snow? In the north and far south. What happens to people, in the Darwinian sense if they live in the far north and south where there is snow? Their skin turns white in order to absorb more vitamin D. Therefore, there you find a lot of snow, you'll find........damn. I'm trying to hard. Maybe one of you lefties can figure out the racist angle of snow. I'm no good at it.
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  6799.  @guitarman3968  Actually, I don't care for a lot of Trump's antics but he did a good job as president. De Niro bashes without anything to back it up. "Eff Trump" isn't political analysis. It's school yard bully behaviour and it shows that he's no different than Trump as a human being. He's doing exactly what he's accusing Trump of doing.....except Trump was president and De Niro is a guy who pretends to be someone else and does so at the instruction of a director. De Niro is another one who has double standards. Like I said, he's doing EXACTLY what he's accusing Trump of doing.
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  6800. "For the 63rd night in a row, demonstrators arrived in downtown Portland to protest racism, police violence and the presence of federal officers." First of all, they're rioters. They come with weapons and they use them. Second, I'm wondering just who it is that is insisting that racism is a good thing. Almost everyone is against racism. Then there's the police violence. Who is approaching who, here. Are these officers going door to door, attacking these rioters or are the rioters going to a specific location to seek the officers out to confront them. Who is the aggressor here? Then the most damnedest and erroneous thing you say. They're there to protest the presence of Federal officers. They were protesting long before the Feds showed up. You want me to subscribe to you? Good luck with that. Anyone that would rationalise the violence of this mob, the destructive and hate that these rioters exude, will never get a subscription from me. I stand for the ideas of truth, goodwill and understanding. I don't see that in the video that you're showing or your attitudes when showing these events.
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  6801. Is the American anthem racist? Well...of course it is. If milk, math and science are racist, why wouldn't the anthem be, as well. No end to the ways that the progressives could spin racism into everything. It's one of those questions that you know could have only one answer, accompanied by a convoluted explanation to follow. The progressive world has lost its mind.
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  6802.  @cameleyez  It proves that they weren't there to overthrow the government. That it wasn't an insurrection. It shows that it was a "peaceful protest" at worst and I'm sure that "peacefully protesting" is an acceptable way to show displeasure at your government. The standard was set in 2020 but you seem to only want to apply it when it suits you. Also, name calling proves that you don't care about the facts. It proves that the real hate lies deep within YOU, not those who rioted.
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  6803. That man should be president. He's got more common sense in his little toe than the entire Democrat party put together.
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  6804. It's human nature. People don't like to admit when they're wrong. To say that it's a Democrat or Republican problem is the result of indoctrination. It's human behaviour and will always be easy to assign to certain demographics because demographics are made up of human beings and they will behave as humans are prone to behave. A lazy and self serving tactic.
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  6805. Hearing that pompous, pretentious, pinhead Bono bad mouth Trump is enough to make a Trump supporter out of me.
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  6806.  @am3986  I'm not even sure what you mean by that. "Try harder"? At what???
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  6807. This is worse than what was happening during the McCarthy era. WAY worse and 70 years later we're still talking about how crazy that was. I agree that Communism is an horrific system of government and it has to be stopped but McCarthy was a loose cannon and it's not the way to fight bad ideas.
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  6808.  @MANGPIKEHENCE  It's because they're end goal is to have no distinction between the sexes. Harris is not a woman. Ask them. They'll tell you that they can't define what a woman is because they're not biologists. It's just some nebulous belief that a person has. Facts are what they tell us they are and they'll brag that Harris is a woman but then can't explain why they know this. They're baffling you with BS.
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  6809. I was against the war in Iraq and against Obama's endorsement of the Arab Spring. I thought Bush should have gone in, full force, and captured Bin Laden in Afghanistan and then got the hell out but instead he dithered about there and concentrated on Iraq and this turned into a mess. I'm hoping Trump doesn't get deeply involved, militarily, in Venezuela. The people there need help but he can best do that by letting themselves figure their own way out and helping financially and through humanitarian aid when and if possible.
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  6810.  @looseleavesmakemoneytrees5961  Maybe if the moderate Democrats WOULD speak out, we'd hear about it. If the media won't cover you, and they won't, organise and stand on the street corner and protest. Don't vandalise or yell at people..... just make yourselves known. If you don't get it out there, it won't be out there and Matt, myself and no one else will ever hear about it. The radical left puts themselves out there....every day, again and again, smashing things, attacking people and vandalising cars. Your silence will be seen as support for this behaviour. What's more, so does your vote.
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  6811. If Democrats and the media are SO upset about black Americans getting shot by police, why don't they start a national campaign, telling ALL of us how to act during a police interaction. Keep your hands where they can see them, drop anything that's in your hands, do as the officer asks you and don't resist arrest. Almost every death, that has been controversial, happened because the person arrested refused to cooperate. EVERY time. Even George Floyd resisted arrest. Had he not, he would NOT have been on the ground with a knee on his neck. He would have been in the back of a police car, on his way to jail.
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  6812.  @woodynorris8224  Is too.
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  6813. You can't make them pay if they refuse, unless you want to start the biggest war in human history. We're better off isolating them and working on our own best interests. I'm really not interested in seeing the misery of a huge war.
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  6814.  @AbsolBubon  In a lot of ways, Islam is a lot like Fascism. Hitler even said that he wished that Germans were Muslim and not Christian. Thought that the "turn the other cheek" and "love thy enemy" were too weak, not strong like Islam. The Mufti of Jerusalem visited Hitler and they made a promise that when Hitler solved the "Jewish problem" in Europe, they'd work on the "problem" in the Levant. One of the reasons that I have a problem with Islam.
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  6815. Alex Jones said some of the most vile things about the parents of the kids that were killed in Sandy Hook. He called them crisis actors and said that their kids never existed and this was at the heart of direct threats against those parents. Anyone of us, that has kids, and lost them in mass shooting, would be horrified that someone would talk of their loss in this way. Jones had better rethink what he did. I find it reprehensible and he's lying in the bed that he made.
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  6816.  @bartsimp  It is systemic racism. The racism of the Democrat party who designed the inner city cycle of welfare, broken families, lawless schools, gang bangers and rappers as cultural icons and a victim mentality that blames everyone else for their problems and creates a nihilistic view of life. That's the REAL systemic racism. The Democrats blame the system while they, themselves, are the victim. It's an incredible propaganda machine.
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  6817.  @rathertiredofthemess2841  There you go. Let's just go to the extreme. Let's BAN IT ALL. That's what I want!!! Of course. I'm a religious fanatic...an nutbar. Except that I'm NOT religious and all I'm saying is that parents should have a say in what is being taught and what books are available. Don't keep secrets from the parents. Allow full transparency and give the parents a say in what is happening to their children. Why does this sound so unreasonable to you? It's baffles me to the core. I don't stop caring or loving my kids the minute they walk into a school. That's a part of who I am. I will not, CANNOT, turn it off during school hours.
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  6818. There were 11 thousand gun deaths in the US in 2016 and 10,500 alcohol related traffic deaths. Why are they confiscating guns but NOT cars and alcohol? Why aren't they telling us that by allowing citizens to have liquor, they are potential "killers on the road"? The logic escapes me.
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  6819. Juan....that's 100,000 people seeking asylum PER MONTH. How do you process that many people? You won't have those done and you'll have 100,000 more next month and another 100,000 the month after that. You're insane if you think this isn't a crisis. And NO ONE is demonising anyone. However, when you have that many people, you're guaranteed to have people in that group, per month, that you don't want in your country. It's the law of averages. You have to go through each individual to make sure we're not letting in those who are prone to violence and crime. You can't let them all in. That'll increase the seekers exponentially and it will be a horror show for all of us, not just them. You're letting bi-partisan politics rule your thought processes. Think for yourself for a change.
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  6820. I find these ideas quite fascinating and coming from a small farm myself, they seem to make a lot of sense. Is there are other material that you could direct me to that would elaborate on these principles. It is obvious that some of the ways we live have to change and this seems a legitimate solution to one our problems.
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  6821. Except BLM started from the unfortunate shooting of a teenager who had just pilfered goods in a store, attacked an employee, fought with a police officer over his gun and then appeared to be getting ready to attack the officer again. It started on a false premise and then stood by and said nothing while people burned, looted and attacked people in retaliation for a thug that was shot. What the authorities should have done was quietly removed the "It's ok to be white" posters and let on that nothing happened. All this did was fuel tensions where one side is saying "I told you so." and the other side is countering with "White Nazis attack" slogans and fear mongering. At best it's an innocuous remark and at worst it's trying to get a rise out of people and ply for attention. A tempest in a teapot.
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  6822. hammertoe00 I can't help but agree with you. The more violent the outbursts of racial tension, the more coverage and the better the ratings which implies greater advertising revenue. The media has a great deal to gain from big news stories and when the news is slow, they need stuff like this nonsense about a few posters that say "white lives matter" to increase tension, anger and violence. They hide behind the "freedom of the press" and "the public has a right to know" slogans, but they suppress what doesn't help the story line and report on what could fan the flames of tension. They do not like the adage "May all your days be slow news days". That hurts revenue.
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  6823. It has become acceptable for black Americans to be racists. They've been sold the meme that racism is only for white people and that they can't be racist because they're in the minority and were slaves 150 years ago. It's a dangerous idea and ultimately will hurt them as a visible ethnic group. What's unfortunate is that there are many outside the black community that support this idea and are feeding it. As long as this idea persists, there will be racial tensions in the US.
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  6824.  @malygos9301  Atta boy.....now go stick your head back in the sand.
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  6825.  @nathankopfmann8659  I'll stay right here, thank you. We need a wall to keep out the Yanks. LOL. And we're gonna make the Yanks pay for it.
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  6826. The leftists are like the guy that farts and then points at someone else. Someone yells a slur into their sleeve and then point at some innocent bystander. Then, like they've been hit by a bad smell, they attack the bystander and claim bigotry. All the while the flatulator is snickering behind a mask.
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  6827.  @jkat2002  Are you talking about Hillary again. She still claims that Trump cheated and she was the REAL president. It never occurred to her that by calling people "irredeemables" and "deplorables" that they might not vote for her. And the election cheating thing isn't new at all. Obama and Hillary called the 2004 election a fraud, even calling out the Dominion machines. The same machines that Trump was questioning. When you send out millions of ballots, through the mail, without those ballots being requested or verified, you're asking for these controversies. Elections should be secure and the voters should have full confidence in their results. The fact that Democrats think that showing ID, to vote, is wrong and racist would prompt people to ask why they don't want a way to make SURE people don't vote twice. Every country, in the west, requires ID and many even require even a voter's registration card. In Canada, you have to show ID and proof of residency. It's the law. It's not just that it could have changed the election or not. It's whether people could have confidence that their vote counted. I don't care about the votes of others. I care that MY vote counted and that I was the only one that voted in my name. Why anyone would object to that demand is baffling.
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  6828.  Big Cheeso  And along comes Big Cheeso to prove her point.
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  6829.  @Razieed  That's why the Democrats won't have the first woman candidate for president. They're convinced that the only reason that Hillary and Kamala lost is misogyny. The rest of us know why they lost. It's because they were bad choices. That's why it will almost certainly be a female Republican who will be the first woman president. They have lots of viable candidates who could do it. The Democrats have no one. Democrat women are either too woke or too old.
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  6830.  @blackslavers  No......she fired dudes for using state computers for private use which involved very crude "locker room talk". I know people who've used company computers for personal use, not even involved in sexual content, and got fired. Talk about national security. Enemy agents use sexualised activity to blackmail CIA and other agents. Those "dudes" were saying things that maybe they'd do anything to keep their spouses and families from finding out.....including blabbing state secrets that could jeopardise the lives of other agents. I gotta say that you're completely out of touch.
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  6831. The reason that you're beating CNN is that you try to be objective. I don't always agree with you but you're not dogmatic. CNN and MSNBC have an agenda and they refuse to even consider that there may be another way to see things. People don't like the radical left wing slant. More and more they're starting to appear, to the regular viewer, that they're the mouth piece for Antifa. People want their news to be objective. Fox may be conservative but they're alone giving that kind of news.
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  6832.  @RodJeez  Not ANOTHER one. He was prescribed the drug due to a health issue. He became addicted to it. It was NOT a recreational drug. Instead of resorting to conspiracy theories, try to talk about the things he's saying. Any simpleton can regurgitate the familiar talking points about addiction and controlled opposition. “Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” Something to think about, if you care to think.
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  6833. That's what happens when you've indulged in too much California wine for too many years....kids. Moderation is good for the nation.
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  6834. I'm wondering if the evil king has orange hair. Orange hair could become like the black hat in old westerns. You'd know immediately who the bad guy is.....at least to the woke progressives.
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  6835.  @mark-wo2wj  I lost 7 grand in one week when Biden was elected. Around 500 bucks this time and that's over 6 weeks. It took around 2 1/2 years to recover from the Biden election. I can recover from this loss in 2 good days of trading.
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  6836. It's amazing how these politicians don't know what their party is doing yet support it 100%. I'd say that it's the job and responsibility to know EXACTLY what their party's position is on EVERY topic. This "not my area of expertise" sounds more like a "plausible deniability" strategy to me. Nothing honest about it at all.
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  6837. It's called "know your enemy". Maybe you've heard of it. It was written by the great military strategist Sun Tzu in his book "The Art of War" over 2500 years ago. It's required reading in many military and business circles. You should look into it. It will answer your question.
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  6838. There is so mass in the equation. g is gravity and is the result of an equation that includes mass. Gravity on earth is 9.80665 mass/s². You can expand that equation this way. d = 9.80665((g * t² ) / 2) m/s² Then to simply the equation you figure out (g * t² ) / 2. The simplified equation contains the mass already figured into it.
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  6839. "I know what Biden's thinking. He's thinking about groping children" That one made me laugh out loud.
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  6840.  @Cyrus-Maddog-vw6vu  That's the difference between the right and the left. The right will call out people that vandalise, steal and threaten people. The left only does it when it goes against their cause. Ruin your property and you'll be all upset. If you think that it helps your cause, you'll key, smash, threaten and rip off without any remorse. There is no right or wrong. There's only the cause.
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  6841. Trump was only mentioned once but that's not Taibbi's fault, or the fault of Shellenberger or Musk. Those Democrat congressmen had EVERY opportunity to ask about Trump's role but they didn't. Why? If I wanted to get Trump, I'd have went after it. I'm going to suggest that it's because they were afraid any questioning would inevitably lead to the FBI's role in trying to censor speech. Trump's attempts validates the possibility that the FBI could do it as well That one guy, from Texas, just gave a speech, accusing them of wearing tinfoil hats. He never asked ONE question. Shellenberger even ran for California governor....AS A DEMOCRAT. Also, the data dump doesn't matter. What matters is the content of the emails, whether they're authentic and if they were followed up on to censor legitimate news stories. THAT'S what's important. Those emails are there for every member of Congress to see but the Democrats spent little time asking about them. Instead they went after and tried to smear Taibbi and Shellenberger, who, up until this time, the Democrats had no issue with. Everything you said is a partisan plea to ignore what might be the worst government attempt at censorship in American history. You might as well tell us that Stalin censorship was a good thing because you don't seem to care whether it happened or not....unless you could prove that Trump was the only one guilty.
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  6842.  @denverlilly3669  When Democrats call half the country Nazis and Fascists and almost half the country agrees enough with that smear to vote Democrat......THAT'S divisive. When they continually call half the country racists, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic and will call a black conservative an Uncle Tom, house N-word and other horrible things......THAT'S divisive. That's the pot calling the kettle black.
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  6843. If the names of the non-citizens had Russian names, I'll bet that they wouldn't be put back on the voter rolls. What a mess American elections are.
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  6844.  @hughmatthias7279  Funny how don't address my comment. So you think that those 2 Marxist groups represent the true spirit of America? Do you know what countries did embrace Marxism? The Soviet Union did. You should read about all the horrors that Marxist, like Lenin and Stalin, imposed on their people. Then there was Chairman Mao. There was a good Marxist. That cultural revolution and the Great Leap Forward...great programs that killed tens of millions of Chinese citizens. Then the Marxists of Cambodia. One in four Cambodians were dead in just a few years. They went after their intellectuals, too. Even people that wore glasses weren't safe. I wonder who the "good" American Marxists are going to go after. Could be anyone. Antifa has already attacked people like journalist Andy Ngo, putting him in the hospital for filming them on the street. Sounds like real nice people. Antifa and BLM are responsible for 40 days straight of violent protesting in Portland Oregon. Damaged property, intimidation, setting fires, graffiti.......yup, real builders of a nation. You're delusional or maybe just uninformed and naive. Can't figure out which.
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  6845.  @hughmatthias7279  How do YOU know what Trump is hankering for? Can you see his inner thoughts and ambitions? I can't. However, one thing I do know is that the one over arching similarity between the Soviets, like Lenin and Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and the Kim family is their original adherence to Marxism. They all had Marxist roots. Trump is no Marxist. He cut personal and business taxes which will increase personal autonomy, NOT greater ties to the state. Even through all the violence, Trump has hardly interfered or tried to use this as a method to increase a grip onto power. Do you think Stalin would have allowed this lawlessness in his country? Trump has criticised it but what person, in his right mind, likes to see people being killed? BLM matter leaders aren't pleading for the killings, like that of an 8 year old little black girl in Atlanta, to stop. In fact, it was BLM supporters that shot and killed her while demonstrating their support for their cause....BLM. It isn't Trump who wants to tear down statues like that of Frederick Douglas in Rochester NY. He wants his statue placed in his proposed "Garden of Heroes" along with other great Black luminaries like Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Susan B, Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. BLM aren't the ones wanting to honour these great black Americans....Trump is. Trump wants to include Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that was the single greatest inspiration to the Abolitionist movement of its time. BLM types use the hero of that book as a racial slur. To them, the fictional hero, that inspired millions, to insist of the abolition of slavery, is one to be mocked and ridiculed. It's beyond ridiculous. It's as Orwellian as it gets. In fact, it's the Marxist inspired despots like Stalin and Mao who did everything possible to erase their own history, not Trump who wants to honour the American past, all of it, the good and the bad, so we know that we're not perfect, that we must struggle to improve the wrongs that lie within all of us. Did you know that the city of Seattle is forcing its white employees to undergo "White fragility" classes. ONLY whites and they MUST attend. There goes Martin Luther Kings contention about the content of ones character over the colour of your skin as criteria of judgement. Skin colour, in Seattle, is proof of guilt. Skin colour, in this entire movement is the definitive essential quality that separates us. Time to tear down Dr. Kings statue and cancel him out of history as well, it would appear. You can't even see the bigotry in your own heart because you're too busy looking for it in others. Also, I don't expect any response to any point that I've made...only more generic "Trump bad.....Marxist BLM good."
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  6846.  @Lord_Of_The_Pies  EVERYONE????? You haven't studied history at all....have you. What do you think the Russians are doing in Ukraine? Trying to take over the country with flowers and rainbows? Stalin didn't want to kill Ukrainians during the Holodomor famines? Hitler really didn't want to kill Jews? There are people that have no problem seeing people die.
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  6847.  @unclesparechange647  She wouldn't have worked in a place that would make martinis. I'm thinking more of a beer and tequila bar.
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  6848. JOY......criticising the press is NOT going against the freedom of the press. We're allowed to criticise. NOW....if you can come up with a time in which Trump wanted to do AWAY with press that was giving him a hard time, THEN you'd have a reason to say that he was assaulting the freedom of the press. All you have now is your anger at being criticised. And yes....if you lie and you KNOW that you're lying, then you ARE the enemy of the people. You're the enemy of all of us. Also, if you hate Trump so much, why are you allowing him to set behavioural standards. If it's wrong for Trump....it's wrong for Biden. That goes for Whoopi, as well. Why would you use a person that you hate as your measuring stick? It's ridiculous.
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  6849.  @infidelheretic923  You could say that about any leader. It's like saying that there's no point in doing a good job because someone might come along and screw it up. It's almost as if you're advocating for a "do nothing" policy because everyone else are "do nothings" and it's all pointless. What a pessimistic way to look at things.
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  6850.  @harrymills2770  Pretty good. I have my own way of saying it. 1. It's good to be alive. 2. I'm not perfect.
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  6851. Those leftist won't be laughing when they show up at emergency and they don't have the staff to look after them because the staff were fired.
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  6852. Don't you get it? Democrats tell the black community that it's way too difficult for them to get IDs and the Democrats are pretty sure that the black community doesn't have the brains to figure out that they're being lied to. In other words, the Democrats are racist as hell.
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  6853.  @jimmythepirate494  I've never heard the one about the roof. There's the one about the busdriver letting my friend "Jack" off the bus. A good one. Another is where one asks someone to help "Jack" off the horse but this is new. Weird since I used to be a roofer and even had a roofing company for a time. My buddies would have had a great time with it.
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  6854.  @richardavery4692  Jehovah Witness furries??? Is that what you're getting at???
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  6855.  @randyross5630  Funny but sad at the same time. A friend of mine was born after his father left to fight in Europe and was killed in the Netherlands and he never knew his father. Still, I can't help but chuckle at the image that you invoked. Humour is a defence against tragedy. Never stop laughing.
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  6856.  @secretgeorge  Sorry about that. I'm Canadian though. Apologising is what we do.
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  6857. This guy probably owns a landscaping business. He loves the cheap labour.
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  6858.  @kooh301  There's a guy, in our small town and I've known for 35 years, who's had rumours surrounding him for the last 10 years or so. No one has called him out on it because we have no proof, no victims. The rumours are that he's going to the Caribbean and maybe even the nearest big city and hiring young prostitutes, and I mean 13 and 14 years old. There's no real evidence that he's doing it...just indications. I'll tell you one thing, though. He leaves a really bad taste in my mouth when I see him and I'm not the only one who says that. Before the rumours started, though, everyone liked him and had nothing bad to say about the guy. However, I'm not about to call him out over gossip, either. I know another guy who was accused of it and it couldn't have been him and it was proved in court. It was an ex who accused him and even gave a specific time and place. He went through pure hell over it, but the timeline given was impossible and after a couple of weeks the step daughter denied the whole thing. The ex fabricated it all. That's the problem with rumours.
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  6859. The leader has the power and you are to SHUTUP!!! said every tyrant that has ever lived.
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  6860.  @vicom134  What does it matter? It's STILL happening. That poor mother will never get her sons back but she's there, reliving that tragedy so that we can put a stop to this horror.....AND HE LAUGHS and his cronies laugh with him. All the while, he's doing NOTHING to stem the tide at the border. It's not about whether it was on Biden's watch or not. It's his watch right NOW and even MORE people are dying. It's up to him to do something about it.....and he's doing nothing. If you want accuracy.....there it is and it's still disgusting that he laughed. Your lame attempt to defend him is rather cold hearted.
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  6861. Rachel says she'll be busy for the next year. That could be true. If her ratings keep tanking, she'll be busy looking for a new job.
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  6862. Cenk might vote for Trump in 2024 but he won't tell anyone. It's a secret ballot and it provides him the ability to lead a secret life. One life in which he's an outspoken left winger and the other life, the private Cenk and businessman, allows him to vote for the pragmatic right who will give him tax breaks and enhance his bottom line. He's still a phoney and will do what he thinks is best for him....playing both sides against the middle.
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  6863. It would have been nice if you gave examples. Speaking of vague, you haven't said one thing that has any real direction or solid merit. It's just an allegation of vagueness in your own vague manner. What did you, specifically find so vague or evasive.
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  6864.  @Ytoidzzz  It's not only Jews that are doing it. There are lots of white people doing it, too. Why aren't you castigating them? You're just trying to rationalise your own personal brand of hate.
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  6865.  @Ytoidzzz  Stop blaming each other. Slavery, in the west is done. Not one of us were alive when it was happening. It is time to stop fighting the Civil War.
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  6866.  @Ytoidzzz  This is the first that I've even heard your claim and I follow this kind of stuff. You're just another bigot, pointing fingers. I watch Dave Rubin and I'm quite familiar with Ben Shapiro. They're not even CLOSE to blaming whites for slavery.....or Dennis Prager, another American of Jewish heritage. You're letting your hatred run your brain. If anything, YOU are the one that wants the race war. You are the monster that you're wanting to do battle with.
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  6867.  @b.ballooon9225  Fully agree. It's ridiculous, it's racist and it's WRONG.
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  6868. How are we going to do that? The insane are in charge.
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  6869. @Alex T In other words, talent has NO bearing on success. Why is everything so extreme for some people. "I know a girl....." and that is now the standard to financial and social success. Of course it can help. However, if 2 immigrant trainers and body builders, think that they can find fame and fortune in acting, with little to no talent, by doing favours for a D-list actor, they're fooling themselves. Jussie doesn't have the clout that they think he does. Even if he did, a couple of acting roles would show whether they have that talent or whether they're a pair of wanna-bes. Jussie isn't their dad, doting over his spoiled sons. He's just a guy taking advantage of their naivete.
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  6870.  @Savssmiles  She's only 19 and she had the surgery when she was 15. It took her around a year to realise that she made a terrible mistake and sometime longer to decide to sue and to take this to the public domain. She started to testify in May of last year and was on FOX news at that time. That's when people started to hear about Chloe Cole. So the "years" claim is a bit of an exaggeration.
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  6871. Christianity spread, during the Roman Empire, because of the fear of the impending apocalypse. "Get saved NOW or you'll face the Armageddon and the horrors of Hell". So, they did and Christianity became the new religion of the Roman Empire. Now we're seeing the same type of argument. Our prosperity is our sin and Mother Earth will wreak it's vengeance upon us unless we do as we're told. Same method. FEAR. Scare you into compliance.
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  6872. Not just anyone can lay bricks. It's a highly skilled profession and it takes a great deal of experience to become an adept mason and a person can make a good living at it. It's hard work, working in all types of weather, heavy and dirty and it's not for everyone.
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  6873. I don't like Graham all that much but what does sound investing have to do with how good or bad anyone is. I bought a house in 1977 for 25 grand. It's now worth 350,000 bucks. Does that make me a bad guy? Not much of an argument there.
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  6874. She IS pretty. If she was a different person and looked like that, I'd even consider dating her. However, she's is one of the nastiest people that's in the media. Totally narcissistic and arrogant. She listens to nothing except echos and thinks smearing someone is the way to prove that she's correct. It's like watching a horror movie. The beautiful siren is standing there, as gorgeous as can be, and then opens her mouth and a monster manifests itself.
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  6875.  Donald Dump  "Sex and gender are not. They are relative and subjective" Which explains why they can still tell the difference between a man's and a woman's bones 200 years after their death. LOL. That is objective. A woman can chop off her breasts, seal up the vaginal entrance, fashion a penis out of her forearm and attach it to her pelvic area and 200 years from now, the archaeologist will still declare her a woman. That's how relative and subjective it is. Your statement is ideological balderdash.
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  6876. After 8 years of listening to the Democrats, the media, academia and the bureaucracy, lie about Trump and conservatives, the chickens are coming home to roost. That's the problem with lies. Eventually, you too many lies and the lies are starting to contradict each other.
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  6877.  @MrSophire  My family belongs to a church that's been anti-Catholic for hundreds of years. They are ALL anti abortion. Being anti-Catholic and anti-abortion are not mutually exclusive.
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  6878.  @halbleavy9900  I just explained it to you. Red lining is when you don't approve loans or insurance to keep certain identity groups, like blacks or Hispanics, out of a neighbourhood. There may other methods to keep these "unwanted" minorities away. A simple Google search will explain it to you. Red lining is against the law, just like affirmative action but it's being done, anyway. It was really prevalent around 40 years ago. Let's see what the law, the Civil Rights Act says. "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing." https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/civil-rights-center/statutes/civil-rights-act-of-1964#:~:text=The%20Civil%20Rights%20Act%20of%201964%20prohibits%20discrimination%20on%20the,hiring%2C%20promoting%2C%20and%20firing. I don't know how anyone could make it any clearer than that.
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  6879.  @Censored_Truth_Addict  You left out one key element. At the time he couldn't be deported to El Salvador because an active, rival gang would try to kill him. That gang, Barrio-18, no longer exists in El Salvador. They've all been arrested and jailed in a RICO type program that incarcerates all crime gang members. The element that kept Garcia from being sent to El Salvador no longer exists and negates the ruling. All SCOTUS did, after he was in El Salvador, is say that the US government must facilitate his return, IF the government of El Salvador releases him. The government of El Salvador has said that they're NOT releasing him. Bukele, the elected president of El Salvador, said exactly that in a press briefing in Washington with Donald Trump. He hasn't released Garcia so the US government can't facilitate his return. Even if he was released, they'd help him return to the US and then the US government would arrest him, tell him that he's being deported BACK to El Salvador because there's an outstanding order of deportation and away he'd go. In other words, it would all be a giant waste of time and money. He's going back to El Salvador.
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  6880. It's so simple. If Hamas's prime goal was to make life better for the people of Gaza, there would be no war. Israel has had LOTS of opportunities to completely wipe out Gaza and they never did. What's happening now is due to Hamas's desire to have as many Palestinians martyrs as possible to garner outside money, weapons and support. To do this, they have to goad Israel into a fight, by attacking and killing as many Israeli citizens as possible. Then they scream victim hood and and put out the metaphorical cup for alms to outside nations. Hamas is a blight on this world and to the Palestinian people.
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  6881.  @caryg4638  Which is why a strong Constitution is mandatory for the democratic process to work. I also question who would decide on who's sophisticated enough to vote. That could lead to an elitism that could be a disaster for the average citizen.
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  6882. @Chucky Lives Southern hospitality.....you sure aren't living up to that claim.
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  6883. @Chucky Lives There are lots of reasons why she'd never move to Florida. It's too hot and muggy would be one. Good reason right there, but it's really none of my business. You, on the other hand, gave a snarky response and don't sugarcoat it by claiming that is was a thank you. It's cute but as phoney as it gets. "Thank you for staying away" is the implication and it's an insult.
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  6884.  @Arctc-zh6rg  That's all rumour and conjecture. There is NO excuse for what's happening now. They're destroying homes and businesses of innocent people, stealing everything in sight. This isn't about George Floyd, tear gas or the police. It's about opportunity. These rioters and looters are all about one thing. Themselves. They're destroyers. Good, honest, ordinary, hard working people aren't involved. It's the lazy, the angry and bitter individuals possessed by the craziness of the mob and their own greed. Even if there was tear gas.....go home. Find another way to protest, to get your point across. This is just violence for the sake of it.
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  6885.  @John-zn4lp  In other words, the trial should be performative, an almost pointless exercise as a showcase, not a true trial at all. Guilty until proven innocent. Fool enough of the jury of what, exactly? That electoral fraud can't exist? That would surprise Rachel Rodrigues. She been charged for doing exactly that in the 2020 election. It's hardly been highlighted in the MSM because, although she's a Republican, it proves that the fraud CAN happen and the Trump is correct. Hillary Clinton said that Biden should NEVER concede to Trump, no matter what. Why? Because of election fraud. In fact, Trump was accused of election fraud in the 2016 elections. That's why he was impeached the first time. So to say electoral fraud isn't a possibility is either naive or an intentional falsehood.
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  6886.  @tommackean  It could incriminate him. "March peacefully and patriotically....we're a party of law and order" has been turned into "Attack. Let's overthrow the government". If they can twist that, they could twist anything into what they want it to mean. I wouldn't say anything. If I said "innocent" they'd swear that I just pleaded "guilty" and that anyone that understands dogwhislting would know that.
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  6887.  @jaimhaas5170  I asked myself and came to the conclusion that the Palestinians are following a hateful leadership that want's all Jews gone. If they don't disappear, they will disappear them. My mother went to Israel and her tour group, NONE of them Jews, were under armed guard while there. Why? Because terror groups will attack anyone. That's why. Israel allows Palestinians to live there. If Hamas had their way, there wouldn't be a single Jew in the region. Gaza is an independent Palestinian state. Hamas took all the money from outside donations and, instead of making Gaza into a paradise, like Israel has, they spent their money on a preparation for war. They didn't want to build. They wanted to destroy.
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  6888.  @jaimhaas5170  He can leave the "rez" any time that he wants. He can go to college, become the person that he sees himself to be. He can join the military, become a doctor, a civil engineer, a musician or journalist. It's all there for him. A person either takes life as it is and works to improve it or they sit and complain, point fingers, lay blame and let that resentment rationalise their hatred which will eventually lead them to conflict or war. It's a choice that everyone gets to make and the Palestinians in Gaza, wave chosen to hate and make war. Hamas took all the money donated to them and didn't improve Gaza one bit. They tried to turn it into a war machine and are now crying because it didn't work out the way that they wanted. War isn't the answer for the Palestinians but they'll do it again and lose again.
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  6889.  @jaimhaas5170  I don't have a dog in this fight, either but I know hatred when I see it. There are almost 2 million Muslims living in Israel. I'm not talking about Gaza or the West Bank, but Israel itself. They have full citizenship, can vote, run for office, own property and a business. They are police officers and are in the Israeli military. In fact, a Muslim judge sentenced ex-Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to 6 years in jail for breach of trust and he went to jail. A Muslim man, one of the Palestinians, did this. It doesn't matter in Israel what religion you follow. Most Jews are secular. However, in Gaza especially, it's ALL about Islam. Had the Jews, that migrated to this region, been Muslims, we wouldn't be having any issue in the Levant. It's because Hamas is a radical Islamist group, that will brook no other religion to be dominant, that's why there's a war going on. Hamas could have turned their country into a thriving community but they chose to prepare for war and crossed the border and did it. The Levant has been ruled by outside powers for over 2000 years. In that time, people from all races and religions lived in the region. Now, the Israelis are dominating, another race and religion, but they've been willing to settle on a 2 state solution but it's the Palestinians who've turned it down, at least 5 times. They could have their own country, actually they have in Gaza, but they want it all. By that, I'm claiming Palestinianism, is MORE warlike and exclusive of others than Zionism is.
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  6890.  @AL-lz1hb  You MUST find something wrong with those agents. It just has to be done. Did it ever occur to you that if the US government would secure the border and strongly enforce the law, NONE of this would have happened? The government creates the situation and then act as if it isn't their responsibility. Now, they're going to throw their own border agents under that bus for a problem that THEY created.....and you're going along with it. Sometimes people seem to revel in being intentionally obtuse.
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  6891. "From Palestine to the USA Revolution is the way" And yet, the United States will invite those, who think that way, to come and live in their country. Why? So they can keep an eye on them or something? It makes no sense.
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  6892.  @kateofone  This guy just went to a strange doctor and got the paperwork to do bottom surgery, on demand, and it took a total of 22 minutes. TWENTY TWO MINUTES. I can't get a lobotomy to stop the voices in my head but I can lop of my genitals....ON DEMAND. Also, it's not about the trans being immoral. It's about a medical establishment that goes directly to drugs and surgeries without any psychiatric care to be sure that gender dysphoria is the real problem. Why would they do that? CASH. That's why. Good old American greenbacks. Capitalism at work. Supply and demand. You have the demand and they supply the solution. That's why this is immoral.
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  6893.  PipiInMyPupu  Tammy is advocating that all Americans unite and work together and YOU have a problem with that. It's almost as if you're saying that we shouldn't get along or work as one nation. It would seem that you're advocating for divisiveness, distrust and hate. Whites over there, on the other side of the line, and everyone else on THIS side of the line. My parents grew up under that kind of divisiveness in Europe some 80 years ago. Boy.....did that ever work out great.
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  6894. That cabdriver was right. I was a bartender for 16 years and I don't know how many times I've heard how cool it must be to do that for a living. They have NO idea. I never let things get to me and that quality helped me in that job. It's an extremely tough job and most people aren't suited to it but it can be rewarding, too. You could extrapolate that to almost every vocation. I appreciate your comment directed towards Dave. I think that he has his head in a good place and has provided himself with the tools to handle it. Like taking a month off every year away from the MSM and social media. It cleanses the soul. As for his religion, he's finding his way to a spiritual life although maybe not a traditional one. It's another journey that will help him become stronger inside. A very thoughtful comment and I approve.
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  6895. light473 It's funny how Canada rates higher than the US as a country to live in, although they're quite close. I prefer the health care here and I think Americans are next to insane when it comes to the gun culture and how it's being perverted in the big cities. I have nothing against hunting but hand gun open carry is just plain dumb and the death toll in the US proves it.
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  6896.  Chadwicked B  I was waiting for the intellectual take on this subject. Took you long enough.
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  6897.  Chadwicked B  Another profound thought. You're on fire, today, aren't you.
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  6898. Funniest thing I've read this week. LOL.
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  6899. There will NEVER be a 2 state solution. "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". Free from what? Jews. They're telling us. Israel has agreed to a 2 state solution multiple times and was rejected every time by Palestinians. There has to be one state and that's a Palestinian state. Jews must bow to Islam and accept that they will never be considered full citizens until they convert to Islam. It's what Islam teaches about Muslim states. Follow Islamic law or else.
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  6900.  @noam1836  Then why don't you?
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  6901. In the end....I'll forgive them because I don't want my anger and frustration to wear me down. However....DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!!!
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  6902. That's true. It's a far left socialist ideology that says implies that all humans are exactly the same.
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  6903.  @0098Elaine  He's had mental health issues in the last 15 years. That might have a lot to do with the way he was dressed or even why he was there.
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  6904. The Democrats said that it was a Nazi rally even before it happened. Then they carefully watched to see if anyone stepped over their manufactured line. So, the Republicans brought in good ole Tony. He delivered for the Dems. Of course, it doesn't matter that the joke called to light a serious problem in Puerto Rico. Pointing out problems has always been racist.
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  6905.  mkbxtr44  There have been complaints of defective tests all over the world. Nepal, India, Australia, Japan....just to name a few. A brand new disease, only a couple of months old and you're surprised when things don't go perfectly. Rather shows that you've never had to deal with a crisis before.
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  6906.  mkbxtr44  In January, Trump organised a preliminary task force to look into the threat of the virus. On January the 31st, he announced travel restrictions from China to take effect on Feb 2nd. On Feb 4th, in the State of the Union address, the very one that Pelosi ripped up, he talked about the virus and how they were closely coordinating with China of the progress of the disease. So he was taking it seriously, already back in January. I can prove everyone of my statements if you wish. Also, he's NOT my president. I'm not an American. I'm Canadian but politics in the US greatly affects what happens here in Canada, more so than any other country in the world. In fact, I took my cue from the way that Trump was talking but also acting. When the Great Toilet Paper Panic struck, I was ready sitting comfortably on my couch. Too many people were hating on Trump instead of listening carefully and understanding what he was saying and doing.
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  6907. There is something here that puzzles me. We're going to have robots building and processing products and then delivering them to retail outlets in self driving vehicles, to be sold by automated checkouts to people who aren't working and have no money to buy all those products. How is that going to work?
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  6908. The elitists keep throwing money at the education system and it keeps failing. They will not admit that commitment will always trump money when it comes to education or any human endeavour. Money is a tool to success but money without commitment will accomplish nothing.
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  6909.  @megaxtrime3144  At that close a range, even if the sights are off, you'll hit what you're aiming at or be extremely close. There's no way that the woman at the counter would have been hit if the shooter was aiming even with bad sights. Sights are important for long distance shooting but the closer to the target you are, the less the sights become a factor.
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  6910.  @SurfCityAmpRoom1  Was that the most trite talking point that you could find? You do realise that this or variations of it, has been regurgitated thousands of times. It's like someone inserted a nickel in you and you blabbed on of the ten lines that you're programmed to say.
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  6911. Apparently, 40 percent of all wealth is earned.
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  6912.  @markp127  The media tell you think and you not your head in agreement. Too lazy to read the autopsy, the court transcripts and watch the body cam videos....to find out for yourself what really happened. You won't even bother to find out what happens when one overdoses on Fentanyl. The media spoon feeds you and you greedily gulp it down like a hungry baby bird. No point in trying to explain to you what really happened. You just don't care.
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  6913. Those Democrats don't hate the rich. They only hate those that are richer than they are.
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  6914. Peaceful protests are like "peaceful gangfights". It's peaceful while each gang are getting together, making plans and then walking to meet the rival gangs. Completely peaceful......until they clash. Then it's a violent exchange, that lasts a few minutes and it's all over. Then the next day the media says that it was mostly peaceful gang gatherings.....except for the 3 gang members that were killed.
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  6915.  @macmiles278  If you're into identity politics, shouldn't you be voting Democrat?
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  6916.  @Jdb6734  Quite the disingenuous remark. You know darn well who's teaching it. Who else but the teachers. Radical left wing teachers and administrators have taken over the schools and all our institutions.
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  6917. It's a good thing that Hunter Biden is an oil and gas expert. President Biden can go to his son for advice on how to handle the current energy crisis. Problem solved. We can all rest easy.
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  6918.  @rahul327  A good analogy. I'm not religious but I get it.
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  6919. Now.....where did you get that idea? Why wouldn't a factory worker get money? How would you even know this? Do you have references to prove this claim?
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  6920. No Tim......things weren't like this 40 to 50 years ago. We had our disputes but we didn't have 24 hour news cycles which are in a continuous hunt for conflict and drama. If they can't find it, they just make it up. When you only have TV news for an hour a day, you don't have to make things up to report. No time for the minutiae that's prevalent on the news, today. Always on the alert for dogwhistles.....wow. Grow up.
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  6921. Memes are no different than the political cartoons that have been in our newspapers for over 100 years. People, that believe in freedom of the press, look at them, react with laughter or not, and move on. Authoritarian types react with anger and then arrests. Which type of individual(s) do you think this Paulsen guy or CNN is? The one that believes in freedom or the authoritarian.
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  6922.  @Shawnwick11  That's a paraphrase of what he said and it was meant in terms of a question. He also asked about using light and as it turns out, light therapy has been researched for years. It doesn't mean that the research is going to inject bleach or anything overt like that but something along the lines of injecting a weakened form of a deadly disease to protect you from the disease.....you know, like a VACCINATION. Research. He was spitballing about RESEARCH. That's all. No one watching this at home injected bleach because everyone knew that's NOT what he was talking about. EXCEPT YOU!!!!! Don't be an idiot.
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  6923.  @jeanclaudejunior  So there is no crisis in Sri Lanka??? If you can convince me of that, you might be the one that would convince me to commit atrocities.
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  6924.  @jeanclaudejunior  Sorry. I didn't know that you were that important.
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  6925. No way. If he can confuse basic anthropological facts, how's he ever going to keep his orders straight. Busing tables.....maybe but I'd have my doubts on that.
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  6926.  @dpjbdpjb  There wouldn't be any killing in Gaza, right now, had Oct 7th not happened. Jewish Israelis want peace. Hamas wants to rid Israel of the Jews. If the Palestinians laid down all of their weapons, there'd be peace in the region. If the Jews laid down all their weapons, there'd be a slaughter and you know it. They proved it on Oct 7th. They murdered 1300 unarmed citizens, including women and children. They pointed a gun at them and intentionally shot them. There is film footage of the slaughter that the Hamas soldiers took in which they bragged about the slaughter and rape of innocents. I watched a half naked Israeli woman, being paraded down the streets of Gaza. The people cheered as men spit on her and when she lifter her head, you could see that she'd been beaten. She was 19 years old. Disgusting and indefensible,
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  6927. They've tried it. It doesn't work. Millions died. Not one centrally planned economy has flourished....and don't bring up China. China realised that it's impossible to control every detail of the economy. So they instituted a blend of capitalism and socialism and produced a near Fascist state. A state where private enterprise looks after the details of production but under the control of the state. It's not capitalism that doesn't work. It's how much integrity and honesty is valued within society that determines how successful a society becomes. Right now, it's at a low point and CNN is living proof of that. In fact, the riots have just demonstrated how honesty isn't valued by the society at large, in particular, the media. "Who says protests have to peaceful?" Yeah Cuomo....it's moral to destroy the property of ordinary people....laudable even.
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  6928.  @mimsyborogove3906  Vets have been homeless for decades. This isn't new. You're turning this into a political argument for sake of your own personal dislike of one person. That's self serving and doesn't solve the problems some of these vets are having. Anyone can point fingers. If you're that concerned, do something about it.
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  6929. Juan, Trump didn't write those tax codes. Every multi-millionaire does the same thing. In fact, Juan is worth over 2 million dollars. I'll bet he had an accountant the does his taxes and writes off everything that he possible can. His affluence is just as unattainable as Trump's affluence, to someone making less than 20 grand a year. Another thing that Juan doesn't get is that all Trump's businesses still pay taxes, as do all his employees. Incredibly more than what Juan makes in a year, let alone what he pays. All he sees are "in your face" numbers and doesn't bother to do any analysis of what those numbers actually mean.
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  6930. What I'm hearing you say is that she's spewing crap and that there's a certain target audience that loves to eat the crap. Our entertainment industry proved that a long time ago. And I will rag on her. A man comes into her office to help her and all she sees is a "white" man. She's allowing her racism to rule over her better judgement. If I said the same thing about a black officer, in the same way that she said it, I'd be raked over the coals and it would be my own fault. Her attitude is what's causing and fueling the big divide in the US. We have to stop giving this kind of rhetoric legitimacy before it destroys the country.
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  6931. Black Lives Matters isn't just about police brutality though. Read their agenda page. They talk about transgenders, the extended family, the patriarchy and other issues. They use police brutality as an emotional cudgel and give themselves a name that they can use to start weird arguments in semantics. It's a method of attack to put all those who criticise on the defensive. They're as corrupt as they come and they really don't care about black lives. They care about their cause, their organisation called Black Lives Matters and they hope that we're too stupid to recognise the word game that they're playing.
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  6932. I'm going to Toronto to see Ripley's Aquarium in a month. Gotta try out my first Chick-fil-a sandwich. Thank God (lol) for the protests. I'd never have known that they were opening here in Canada.
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  6933.  @TheJeffL  Check this out from The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It talks about "whiteness" and the things that indicate white culture. It's one of the most racist things that I've ever seen. Beer ads? People were upset because a beer company was using an influencer, whose followers average 16 years old, to sell beer. People to young to drink and they even admitted that they were looking for a future customer base. To make it worse, it was an influencer who was encouraging minors to undergo drug treatment and surgery to validate their transgender existence.....pandering to the big pharma medical industrial complex. Actually aiming at kids. Yeah....normal people find this appalling. Complaining about the president? You've GOTTA be kidding. I've never heard complaining about the president like I did in my 75 years of life, in the years that Trump was president. It was non-stop on EVERY DAMN NETWORK AND NEWSPAPER. He was Hitler, the anti-Christ, a racist, a crook, was going to start WW3, was a broke billionaire, grabbing women by the hoo-hoo and on and on. He threw fish food in the water.....what a disgrace he was. "Good people on both sides" manipulated and lied about that. He call immigrants "animals" another BS story. It was nuts. Christmas? Who cares. Boohooing about everything? THAT'S YOU. You're here everyday complaining about EVERYTHING that's being said. How can anyone be so self unaware? You are what you're accusing others of being. You're on multiple comment threads, always bitching about something and you use multiple names, thinking that no one is catching on. You have to be the worst troll on the internet.
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  6934. The "Milk Shake Wars". I wonder if vegans would be given conscientious objector status?
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  6935. In 1820, almost everyone lived in extreme poverty. If only people would realise this and truly understand it. We're so lucky to live here in Canada and the US, yet the message is always about oppression and being downtrodden. If the average person were transported back to those days, they'd be appalled at how harsh life was back then and would be praying to get back to the modern days of oppression and inequity. Even the atheist would be desperately praying to the God, that he doesn't believe in, to come back.
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  6936.  @juan1586  No.....it's not capitalism. Capitalism wouldn't allow a system where only the corporations succeed and the small entrepreneur is doomed to failure. The corporate body is ecstatic over the Covid restrictions which have destroyed the small capitalist businessman. The Corporatists have merged with the government to mandate that these small businesses either stay closed or operate under impossible conditions to survive. Capitalism is to ensure a free and open market. Mandated Covid restrictions is NOT operating under a free and open economic system. It's almost a return to feudalism, where the elites control the systems of productions. The Lords own the land and the serfs work under the aristocratic elites and the serf has NO chance of ever working his own piece of land. We're now heading towards the system where the elites own the means of production, agricultural and manufacturing, and the ordinary person has no chance of ever working his own business. Covid is just the start of it. Wait till the climate mandates start to be imposed. It will be the government and corporate elites that run it all and the rules will be so tight that it will be almost impossible for the average person to be the lord of his own enterprise. Capitalism is the freedom for all to take part. Corporatism takes away from that freedom and places it in their own hands.
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  6937. They want you to get rid of your gas stove, one of the cleanest sources of energy that there is, to go electric which is supplied by huge coal powered generators, one of the dirtiest forms of energy that exists. It's what Germany did. They went solar and wind, got rid of their nuclear reactors and are now finding that they're running out of energy options. So what happened??? They were forced into expanding their coal generating. Now they're adding more climate pollutants, to the atmosphere, than they did BEFORE the green energy push. Good intentions don't always guarantee the good results that we hoped for or intended.
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  6938. @AyshaA-ml2rd You don't decide to be gay. It's something that you are. Why that is, no one knows. My brother realised that he was attracted to men when he was 12. He never told anyone, even got married and had kids but his wife knew that something was off in their relationship. He tried and tried to be straight but it just wouldn't work. Finally, after 35 years of marriage, he broke down and told her. In all that time, because he's also very religious, he never stepped out on her and as far as I know he still hasn't had one. Yet, he knows that he's attracted to men and not women.
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  6939. Here's how to get at Masters degree in Gender Studies at my Institute of Higher Learning. Repeat after me. "Women are oppressed." Thank you for your participation. Make out your own diploma and sign my name at the bottom.
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  6940.  @rossilavery  It isn't class status. It's human nature. Crime is pervasive in poor communities, too. People act in their own self interest and will even break the law or act unethically to get what they want.
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  6941. He didn't say that conversion therapy is good or even works. In fact, in his experience, he's never seen it work. What he said was that it shouldn't be illegal and that it should be between a patient and his therapist. That's a lot different than saying that it works or is even necessary. I think that smoking pot is bad for you. I also think that it should be legal. He thinks that conversion therapy should be between the therapist and his patient, if after deep discussion that where the therapy leads to. Also, you're conflating transgender affirmation therapy with gay conversion therapy...two different things. He stated flat out that affirmation therapy is WRONG. You even agreed with him. He stated it in such a way that he made it quite clear that it wasn't a therapist's job to affirm anything and if conversion therapy is eventually desired, it should be after in depth therapy. That would include transgender conversion. You're fine with one but not the other and that doesn't make any sense.
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  6942. The Democrats, in California, have finally figured out a way to make Jim Crow palatable to the black community. Gotta give em kudos for sticking to their beliefs. George Wallace would be so proud.
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  6943. I wonder if Harris will provide funds to bail out these "peaceful" protesters, like she did for the BLM rioters.
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  6944. @Totalitarian Anarchist It's a cultural socialism that came out of the Post modernist movement. It's the celebration of victimhood and how the lack of equality is demonstrated by the existence of unequal outcomes. It's being applied in almost every sphere of society today.
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  6945.  @remielpollard787  If I painted on a stretch of wall, without being commissioned and maybe even against the will of the owner of that wall, I'd keep my mouth shut if they painted over my picture. They have as much right as I did when I drew my art piece, which may well mean that I had no right to do it in the first place. His addition is as much vandalism as mine was when I did it.
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  6946.  @newtles7626  Great point.
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  6947.  @happypt2929  "Cement overshoes" and "Swimming with the fishes".
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  6948.  @Rfranklinz45  Well said. I live in a rural area and we see these entitled, rich city folk all the time. Yet, when we go to the city, you see all kinds of homelessness and poverty. We have it here but it just isn't as prevalent as in the big city. I wouldn't live in a big city for anything, I don't care how rich I could become.
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  6949.  @jsmcguireIII  First of all, I'm Canadian. Second, this isn't about Trump, as much as some of you want it to be. It's about doing what's best for your country. My sister was deported from the US, too. Why? Because she was there illegally. It had nothing to do with the colour of her skin. She's as white as white can get, with red hair, blue eyes and couldn't get a tan to save her life. Another thing that you lefties want to do. Everything is about racism. Well, this has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with sovereignty of their borders and it's the same as any other country. I know WHITE Canadians who cannot go to the US for even a visit because they once had an impaired driving charge. The US doesn't want them and they have that right to make that decision. In fact, there are Latinos who immigrate to the US everyday, legally. They are allowed and those WHITE Canadians can't cross over on a shopping trip. You like to think that you're so virtuous and wonderful but, in reality, you're a pompous self righteous blowhard, no different than a go gooder Christian.
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  6950.  @jsmcguireIII  If they're asylum seekers, looking for safety, why didn't they accept the asylum offered by Mexico? From there, they could have applied for legal status as immigrants to the US. It's because they're not looking for safety or asylum. They want to live in the US and there has to be reasons why they can't or won't apply for legal status. If they could, they would. Instead, they're at the border, throwing rocks and bottles at uniformed officials. If I throw a rock or a bottle at you, you'd call the police. Strangely, these people throw rocks at others just doing their job, and you seem to think this is indicative of the kind of citizen that would be a good American. They're not looking for asylum. The definition of asylum is this. "the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee." They got that from the Mexican government. It's not what they're looking for. They're not refugees, at all.
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  6951.  @jsmcguireIII  And many did not and these are the ones at the US border, throwing rocks and bottles. Those who did accept asylum have, as an option, to apply for entry into the US. Those who are at the border right now are either rejecting that as an option or maybe realise that they don't have it because of past behaviour that would make them ineligible for entry into the US. That would only leave one option left to them. Storm the border, hope to get in and then live their lives, underground, hoping for a general amnesty sometime in the future. This is NOT the way to become a citizen of any country.
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  6952.  @jsmcguireIII  That's right. We don't know who they are. Maybe they are crisis actors. You have NO IDEA, either. Strange thing is, no one seems to be concerned enough to find out. That's the main issue here. You started out saying that they're asylum seekers. When that doesn't seem to be that logical a conclusion, you've constructed a conspiracy theory about FOX news. There's nothing there that gives evidence but the one thing you don't seem to wan to hear is that maybe they are exactly what they appear to be. People, trying to cross into the US, anyway they can. However, whoever they are, they're not getting in without proving who they are and why they'd be good American citizens. So far, they've not done that. Please, forget about your conspiracy theories unless you can back them up. Another thing, demand that your news sources tell the truth. Not just the ones you don't like, FOX as an example but also the ones you do like, because they haven't been all that forthright either.
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  6953.  @ezbody  "I don't think that you're stupid" is taken WAY out of context. He was talking about the TV snippets of information that we all take in, the lack of being able to concentrate for more than a couple of minutes. Sound bite learning. He's amazed that this isn't as true as social commentary would have us believe. Of course, it's more fun being bitter, nihilistic and to put on a demonstration of intellectual superiority. So, for that, you get a thumbs up.......
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  6954.  @jake45790  It can't??? Where were you in the "Summer of Love" back in 2020. Almost 30 people dead, thousands needing medical care, billions of dollars of damage....and the press and the Democrats said nothing except call them "peaceful protests". They said it while buildings were engulfed in flames behind them. Some even said that it was ok because they had fire insurance. Watch some of the videos of conservative speakers at universities. Activists disrupt the events, pulling fire alarms, spray painting, screaming at those who were attending. Say something that someone might disagree with in class, and you'll face the DEI disciplanarian inquisition team. Read up on Evergreen College and what happened there to Brett Weinstein and his wife. Don't be naive. The left are tearing apart your Constitution. They're even calling for it, saying that it's outdated. Freedoms and rights are NEVER outdated. Lastly, Canada has does have a Constitution. It's called the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which explicitly outlines what Canadian citizens rights are, just like the American Constitution. Unfortunately, just like in the US, it's being ignored.
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  6955. @CNN is Fake News That's a great point. If he says anything about Islamic attitudes towards the LGBTQ movement, he'd be Islamophobic. So he remains covertly homophobic in order to not be Islamophobic. These "phobic" monsters have to tie themselves in knots in order to pander to all the targets of the "phobic" communities. It's hilarious to watch sometimes.
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  6956. He's inter-racially white. A brand new term thought up by the Minister of Truth and their agents.
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  6957.  @1donjuego  Isn't it strange that 69% of the hyper rich and well educated say that they would cheat to win an election where as the national average is around 7%, yet, the film "2000 Mules" is nonsense. I'm finding it hard to believe that you're a conservative AND a Republican. I'm thinking RINO, myself.....a Republican who thinks that he's conservative.
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  6958.  @GM6.7  The very first vaccine was on December the 14th. Operation Warp Speed was announced on May 15th. It took 9 months to get a vaccine in place from that date. When Trump said, in Sept and Oct. that he was sure that the vaccination program would be underway by the end of the year, Democrats and the media laughed at him, saying it was impossible. Yet Pfizer was ready by Dec. 11th. Moderna announced that they were ready on Dec 18th. I can post links to verify if you wish. If Biden was inaugurated on January 20 of this year, and both Pfizer and Moderna announced that they were ready in December of LAST year, it's rather obvious that they didn't wait until Biden's presidency to look good. They announced it during Trump's presidency and those companies didn't care because there was an opportunity to make a lot of money and the sooner they got the vaccine out, the sooner that money would be coming in. In fact, this vaccine was ready for distribution in record time. The Dems might be trying to take credit for it but only the most irrational ideologue and tribalist would give credit to the Biden administration for the speed of the vaccine development. In fact, if those companies wanted to make Trump look bad, they would have waited till this year to make the announcement instead of proving Trump correct when he said the vaccine would be ready before the end of the year. It makes the Dems look bad for laughing at Trump when he made that announcement and it makes them look even worse for taking any credit for it now.
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  6959.  @fearthehoneybadger  Where did I day it suddenly appeared on inauguration day? I never said that once. NOT ONCE. I said that they started to vaccinate on Dec 14th and that, if you have the brains to GET IT, that by inauguration day, Jan. 20th, they were doing 1.2 million per day. In other words, the program had already been if effect to the point that it was up to that amount. Do I have to give you a day by day account of the vaccinations for you to be able to comprehend that they were already vaccinating at that rate on inauguration day? What's nonsense is your attempt to be intentionally obtuse. Your pretense at stupidity is not a good look.
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  6960.  @ghost_of_comments_past  That's why Trump was hated by Democrats and Rinos. He got out of the Paris climate accord, dropped out of Who, placed tariffs against China, made trade deals that were more to Americas best interests and was helping to make peace deals in the Middle East to help Israel, the hated nation in Brussels. That's only the beginning of what he was doing.
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  6961.  @ghost_of_comments_past  This isn't about who I support. I can show you the press releases showing when the vaccines were announced and it wasn't after Biden was inaugurated. In fact, the media was all about mocking Trump and his claim that the vaccines would be ready and being administered by Christmas, just like they were about that hospital ship going to New York in April. It came in on time, too, in spite of the "that's impossible" and "don't believe it" announcements on all MSM, before it arrived. It was the same with his hope that the vaccines would be ready by Christmas. They laughed at him and they were vaccinating by Christmas. The MSM didn't want to make a big deal about it at the time but it was already happening and the press releases were in place by both Pfyiser and Moderna in December. It's not their fault that the Dems and their media refused to give them, or Trump, the credit that they deserved. I'm speaking facts and facts don't care about my political loyalties. They're either true or they're not. I can prove that they're true.
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  6962.  @ghost_of_comments_past  I'm sorry but I thought that's what this comment thread was about. I made a case for why Trump was hated and my comment falls in line with the original claim that the news of the vaccine release was held back to hurt Trump. I'm saying that things aren't as cut and dry as that and that they didn't hold back the press release at all. In fact, it was a feather in his hat to have it announced while he was still president. This is another way to prove why the establishment hates him so much. They don't like his "America first" agenda.
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  6963. The far left keeps alienating more and more of their left wing allies. Someday, they'll have alienated so many on the left, there will be only one left standing. One radical screaming into the wind.
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  6964. Are you kidding Tim? The destruction of testing facilities is what Trump wanted? Trump threatened to send in the troops and the Democrats lost their minds. So they continued to destroy the cities. It was the Democrats that got what they wanted. You're engaging in conspiracies, Tim. You have no proof....not a shred of evidence that he wanted this. Now things are quiet and SURPRISE!!! SURPRISE!!!! People are testing positive for Covid. Tens of thousands of protesters marching shoulder to shoulder, hanging out with each other for 12....16 hours and this wasn't going to affect the spread of the virus? Are we ALL THAT STUPID!!!!! Anyone that would vote Democrat now, after this, isn't using his head. This is the party that put Covid patients in nursing homes. PUT COVID PATIENTS IN NURSING HOMES!!!! God, I hate yelling but man, how can you defend this. Then they endorse the protesting in the streets. Are they going to blame Trump is another 100,000 people die in the next 3 months? Especially when the case count was declining steadily? If they do and voters believe it, they are dumber than a box of rocks.
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  6965.  @richarddefortune1329  You talk about a good investigator, yet you don't seem to know a thing about the corruption of Zlochensky, Hunter Biden's boss. What if Joe Biden pressured to get rid of a prosecutor to take the heat off of his son? Had Donald Sr. done that for Donald Jr. wouldn't that bother you? Or is this just selective outrage? If this was indeed a corrupt act, shouldn't it be investigated? I'd think so. I know you'd want it investigated if it was Donald Sr. doing it. I know this because you're insisting on his guilt right now for what is basically the same thing except Trump is wondering why a person could use American taxpayer money to pressure a foreign government that might be an advantage to his own son. This investigation wouldn't just help the American people but also the Ukrainian people, with a new president who ran on an anti-corruption platform. I would also ask you this. Do you really think that we should be giving aid to a country that we know is the most corrupt country in Europe? You'd think you'd be reluctant to do that. It seems that Trump was. However, the aid was given and if you could show me what the Ukrainians did to get it, that would be evidence to prove quid pro quo. As far as I've seen, the Ukraines did nothing. No investigation into Burisma, no information on Crowdstrike. They just got the aid after the American president was sure that the new Ukraine president was sincere in fighting corruption. That was for is own peace of mind. He never even mentioned it to Zelensky. They didn't even know that the money was being held back. Ambassador Taylor testified to it. How can you have any bribery when the person being bribed doesn't know he's being bribed. You have to tell your victim. This isn't about being for or against Trump. It's about facts. If Taylor says Zelensky didn't know and Zelensky and his Minister of Foreign Affairs didn't know, how is there bribery or quid pro quo. That's something that you're ignoring. Also the fact that the head of Burisma, at the time Biden withheld money, had fled to London and had 23,000,000 dollars of assets frozen due to an investigation. Hunter Biden's boss was avoiding prosecutors in the Ukraine and he is to this day. Once again, this isn't about being a Trump supporter. If you can't show whether Zelensky knew he was being bribed or not, you have no crime.
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  6966.  @DaneMorgan2U  If FEMA and the Federal Government was failing, I don't expect a Democrat governor to call them out on it. There's a Federal election in a month. The Democrat governor will say anything to support the incumbent Democrat administration. The response may well decide who wins the election. If Cooper rips the Federal response, he may well be blamed if Harris loses the election. Since this is the second time you've posted response like this, I'm wondering whether you're just doing Democrat damage control. Just a thought.
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  6967.  @jasonblizzard9635  What is it that I don't get? That ALL women aren't the same? Everyone of them? I know that my mother isn't. Neither are my 3 sisters or my wife. They all think that feminism is ridiculous. They do believe in equal rights but that's a LOT different than being equal in all you do. That's impossible. My 2 grand daughters are in high school right now and the one plays rugby. She's openly stated that she doesn't want to play rugby against the boys. They're way too big. Are you saying that I shouldn't support her when she refuses to play against a pretend woman? Do I tell her that it's her own fault? I do know that there are a lot of big mouthed feminists, just like there are big mouthed BLM activists, Antifa members, DEI socialists and woke progressives and they come in kinds of identity groups, including women. You're just as much the problem and the feminists and transgender activists. You're letting get away with it and cheating a huge segment of the female population and you're doing it out of spite and resentment. I know women can be rotten to the core. I have an ex-wife who lied and cheated but I blame her, not every woman that walks. That's ridiculous.
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  6968.  @ariessolarhijiri2985  "the caps of pyramids" I don't know what that means. What is the cap of a pyramid and why can't it be replicated?
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  6969. Shoplifting is an undocumented sale.
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  6970. In the end, she has only one option open to her. Since anyone, who would oppose her, must be spreading information, that opposition must be done away with. The only way to defend "freedom of speech" is to suppress speech. We all know that....don't we???
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  6971.  @holyhandgrenades5529  And welcome, oh nasty one. Are you looking for a cult to join? Is that why you're here? I hear that Scientology is always looking. They'll even send you on a cruise....if you got lots of money.
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  6972.  @kittykat632  You don't think that some of them didn't do it out of fear? While that police chief was laying prostrate, the crowd was chanting "It's not enough". What will be enough? If that doesn't scare you, you really don't understand the seriousness of this situation.
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  6973. We've given the hall monitors the power over society. This should end well.
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  6974. Another story is the Mike Lindell and his claims that he has proof of bad voting machines. The MSM won't even examine his proof. They just dismiss it. That's astounding. How can they know if it's true or not if they don't look into it. The MSM isn't into finding the truth, anymore. Facts mean nothing.
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  6975. I thought that LIa was Justin Trudeau for a second.
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  6976.  @davidkramp1829  I think that you're saying that an adult should have the right to transition to the opposite sex if they want to. However, what if I'm a doctor and I believe that my patient may NOT be transgender but suffering from other mental health issues, like autism or emotional issues stemming from sexual or violent trauma? Should I be FORCED to perform the surgery, anyway, or to even affirm that my patient's ONLY problem is his gender identity and that surgery is the ONLY solution? That's what's happening now. If a doctor or medical professional does NOT affirm a patient's self diagnosis or gender dysphoria, he could lose his medical licence and face other disciplinary measures. How is FORCED diagnosis, from a medical board, who hasn't even SEEN the patient, giving doctors the freedom to practise medicine using science and conscience as their guide? Sometimes the worst person to give medical freedom to is the patient. That's where a doctor of conscience should be able to say, to his/her patient, that they need deeper psychoanalytical therapy. Transgenderism is the ONLY medical field in which the patient pronounces their own diagnosis. Every other medical requires the relating of symptoms to the doctor, a barrage of medical tests and professional therapy if required. ONLY transgender medicine allows the patient to be the doctor. If I can't diagnosis myself with a brain tumour and demand surgery, how can I diagnosis myself with gender dysphoria and demand surgery. It doesn't make sense.
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  6977.  @davidkramp1829  So, you start out asking about freedom, nothing else and I'm supposed to know what it is you're talking about. However, you want to talk about hypotheticals and forget about the reality of the moment. Well, you're not going to get a definitive yes or no because it's too complex an issue to address it a monosyllabic response. I addressed some of the issues in my previous response. I think that the patient has the right to the best medical advice and treatment possible. That's NOT affirming their gender dysphoria on demand and then being forced to perform surgery when it may not be the best medical option for the individual. Surgery should be the last resort, not mandated as a knee jerk solution to ALL gender diagnosis offered. That's the reality of what's happening now. A person, with severe emotional problems, can demand surgery when it's not the best course for them to take. To acquiesce to those demands might even constitute malpractice if the patient's problems are multiple. We'd better sort that out before so we understand better what we're doing and what consequences are involved when surgery is a customer demand and not medically required. When it's cut one and cut all, that's a dangerous route to take. If it is the best way, then we'd better ensure that we have solid criteria in which to formulate such a life altering decision. I will say that there should be no transgender surgery for minors. The young are just too uncertain of their place in life to do that.
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  6978.  @JWiLL0255  I thought Adolf was dead.
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  6979. I didn't get to hear them sing their National Anthem. Man, I'm disappointed.
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  6980. You're a better man than me. If I were in your shoes, I'd be likely to lose it and eventually one of those progressives are going to end up with a broken nose.
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  6981. She's done nothing wrong but they feel that there is a need for better training for teacher's assistants to correct what they're not doing wrong. What logic.
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  6982. He has his own site so he's not quite as dependent on YouTube as you would like us to think. Also, how would any of us know that YouTube will censor if those, like Tim, aren't here PROVING that they could be censored if they step over the line and then TELLING you where to go to hear the full message. He's complaining that he could be censored HERE but you CAN hear the full message if you go to his site. Now it's up to YOU to go there and hear what it is that he's not allowed to say on YouTube. If you get censored on YouTube you can't very well go on YouTube to complain about their censorship. He has to stay there in order to complain and to do that he has to do the things that won't get him kicked off.
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  6983. You'd think that CNN would hire a pundit that could understand that the sign about a haircut isn't REALLY about a haircut and that the sign about golf wasn't REALLY about golf. These activities are symbolic of normalcy, of trying to return to a life where we can interact normally, the way people are meant to. Instead of railing at them, try empathising with these people and realise that this is NOT the way life is supposed to be lived. I'm sickened that such a high profile network could support such simplistically minded pundits.
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  6984. The Bible calls it coveting. As long as you covet the things that others have, you'll never find true contentment.
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  6985.  @GG-xs8vt  LOL. They should start a movement to paint the White House black as an anti-racist move.
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  6986.  @bdlane3410  That's because perverts have NEVER hung around public restrooms. (Big eye roll).
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  6987. I can see one way that this could go. If the Democrats ever gain total power, THAT is when they'll deal with crime. They'll start arresting people for the usual crimes but they'll throw in thought crime, political dissension and all other "crimes" that go against the government. That's when we'll have lost our Republic, our democracy and our freedom.....yet most won't realise it. Like so many countries ruled by tyrants, it'll be their new norm and they won't care even if they're sent to the new "Gulag".
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  6988. 80 million, of the 81 million who voted for Biden, are too dead or too embarrassed to watch this town hall.
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  6989. That guy's a jerk. He knows that some people will be offended and he just doesn't care. His mat is a generic insult to a lot of people and he knows it. I have no use for that kind of attitude from anyone.
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  6990. I'm thinking about releasing a board game called "Trump Derangement Syndrome Monopoly". You roll the dice, move your little shoe and then pick up a card from a pile that has random topics on it. Any topic. If you can relate that topic to Trump, you get to buy that property at half price. Relevant because Trump is a real estate tycoon. Examples. My dog. "Trump doesn't have a dog. Never trust a person that doesn't have a dog". Trump doesn't have a dog so you can buy at half price. Hockey. "The 1980 men's Olympic hockey team went to a Trump rally. Hockey is MAGA". It happened in 2020. Again....buy at half price. Bass fishing. "Trump's golf course has ponds that are filled with HUGE bass." True again. There's a timer and if you don't have an answer in 10 seconds, your turn is over and the next person tries. This could be hilarious. Democrat supporters should mop up.
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  6991. The problem is trying to get people to understand this ideology. They just don't believe that it exists. I hate doing this, invoking Godwin's Law, but the Jews of Nazi Germany didn't believe that it could be happening, either. I'd be willing to bet that the Tutsis of Rwanda didn't believe that it was possible that they'd be killed, en masse, too. If a book like "Not My Idea" is allowed in school's, we're heading for a collision, whether you believe it or not. You'll believe it when the mob is kicking in your door.
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  6992.  @wnchstrman  We DO have a McCarthy right now. His name is Joe Biden and he wants to root out all those who have conservative viewpoints.
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  6993.  @Shimadacat  It's rather difficult to date someone who thinks you're a bigot, a misogynist and a representative of all the ills on planet earth. Not a lot of respect coming your way.
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  6994.  @Gaber8845  You actually believe that the government bureaucracy would never cheat you or waste your tax money. You're the hilarious one. Also, you're as naive as it gets.
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  6995. Good to see Lauren Southern again.
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  6996.  @ScientificFactsMorePlease  Bot. I've read this comment multiple times. I can't take mindless repetition, seriously.
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  6997.  @williamingramm2293  Can't stand it when a leader takes control of a disastrous situation. He dealt with Hurricane Helene and within a week he was sending his relief workers to Georgia and North Carolina. If he's a petty man-child.....send us more. We need leaders who gets things done. Envy is a powerful drug.
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  6998. Shootings, murders, violence, crime is up in all Democrat led cities. People are still coming down with Covid. Unemployment, although improving is still down due to the virus. Police are quitting their jobs.....all this and what are these journalists talking about? Why is the president calling it the Wuhan flu? As if getting to the bottom of this, all the nation's problems will be solved.
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  6999.  @joepublic3933  Not yet but he has said that if he has to concede, that he will try again in 2024. So the sooner they sort out the election problems, the sooner we'll have an answer to that question.
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  7000.  @joepublic3933  Why would they throw out a record that shows that Garrett voted in Arizona and Tennessee. Official records that show they sent out a ballot, in Arizona, to him and that it was returned filled out and that he also voted in Tennessee. These are official government sanctioned voting records. Are you seriously saying that the courts are going to pretend that they don't exist? Are they going to cover their eyes and plug their ears and go "Nope. I can't see or hear you!!!!!" You can't be THAT indoctrinated. This is evidence that you can't ignore.
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  7001.  @joepublic3933  Some have been thrown out. Some are still pending. I've just told you about actual official voting records that have been collected. that show double voting records. These are records kept by the polling stations. Don't you want them to go to court? That's one of the cases that I'm taking about. I even gave you a specific case of an Olympic wrestler where voting records say that he voted in Arizona but also in Tennessee. It hasn't gone to court yet. That's what is happening to ONE specific case of 40,000 thousands votes. I JUST TOLD YOU... and you ask me what happened to the other cases? The FBI is looking into this case. That's only the double cases that have been uncovered by the Voting Integrity Fund a small group of volunteers. What about the cases that they haven't looked into? They kind of thought that 40,000 was enough to warrant official recognition by the police and the courts and MORE investigation. I guess 40,000 isn't enough for you to warrant an expanded investigation.
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  7002.  @joepublic3933  How could this be BS? Explain it to me. You go and vote in the area that you're registered in. They check off your name to show that you've voted. THAT'S an official record that says you voted. You can't come back an hour later and vote again because that record says that you've already voted. That's how it works. However, Nahshon Garrett was registered in Arizona AND Tennessee. TWO PLACES. Official records show that he voted in Arizona by mail in ballot and in Tennessee by going to a polling station. Their records show it. This isn't hearsay. This is from official records. Either Nahshon voted twice OR someone got his mail in ballot in Arizona and voted for him. Either way....IT'S FRAUD!!!!!! Why are you so insistent that this can't be true? Why have you made your mind up that it has to be BS. It's like looking at the ocean and denying that there's water there. As a citizen, this should concern you but for some reason, you and others like you, seem not to be concerned at all. NOTHING would convince you. Not even official voting records seems to be enough. "Bullshit and Bullshit" is all I hear.
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  7003.  @lucid227  I never ONCE said that I wouldn't be a victim if I follow that axiom. Never even implied it. I can still love someone even if he/she is trying to hurt me. I have an ex, who I still love, who really screwed me. I still love her but I'm not stupid, either. Haven't seen her or spoke to her in years. Why hate her? She's irrelevant. Someone could break in and steal my piggy bank. I won't like it but I'm not going to hate him over it and if the judge puts him in jail....so be it. I can't be bothered to think about him let alone become consumed in negativity.
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  7004.  @lucid227  "However, a relatively large portion of non-ws have been taught to hate your kids for their race from every angle." So my response was that to "love your neighbour" is a good rule to follow.....NOT to hate non-ws but to hate NO ONE. Why does that upset you? You were the one who brought up the issue of hating non-ws. I didn't. If we were ALL taught to love one another as a central part of our lives, wouldn't that be better than teaching to hate non-ws? You brought up the victim possibility and I said to use common sense and safety to protect yourself. That has NOTHING to do with hate and negativity. I practice safety while driving, too. How is that hate and negativity. People can be dangerous. You're upset that people are being taught to hate non-ws and when I bring up a rule that would be good for us all, you don't like it. I'd say that's a better rule than teaching to hate non-ws. I can't even BEGIN to understand why you'd argue with me over that.
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  7005.  @UUuuUuUUUOOUOUOUI  Explain how I'm gaslighting him.
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  7006.  @lucid227  I didn't accuse YOU of hatred. I was agreeing with you about anti-ws hatred, assuming that ws meant white. Hatred shouldn't be taught. I said that we should follow the "love thy neighbour" axiom instead and gave an explanation. Maybe I wasn't clear enough but you sure went on the defensive without even bothering asking me to clarify what I meant. You just attacked me. Preaching? I'm not even Christian but I see nothing wrong with teaching our children to "love thy neighbour" over anti-white hatred. I mean....which would YOU prefer. I'm sorry that you feel so offended but that was NOT my purpose.
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  7007.  @mpetersen6  That's where my comment about common sense comes in. Besides, since I'm NOT a Christian, turning the other cheek is not an option that I would 100% support. It might have it's place, depending on the circumstance, but you have to defend yourself when your safety is at stake. I still say that "love thy neighbour" is way better than advocating for the hate of others. Hate is at the heart of a lot of suffering in this world. It's the destroyer of humanity.
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  7008. Leave it to the celebrities. They'd screw up the Lord's prayer in their attempts at virtue signalling. I worked for years in the service industry. It was the tips that paid our wages. On busy nights I'd make 30 to 40 bucks an hour, sometimes more, just on tips. And this nonsense about how tipping hurts women. Ridiculous. You can tell Jane Fonda never waited on tables. Women always make more....ALWAYS, and I don't care. I was quite happy with what I was making. "God save us from those with good intentions" Maybe those "loving" celebrities should talk to the people that they say they want to help first. They're going to help me and my associates out of jobs......and thanks, you champagne do gooders.
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  7009. I DON'T LIKE POLITICAL GOSSIP!!!!! Okay.....but I gotta hear this.
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  7010.  @CSRT123  And they'll cry when they come to her door and take her "personal" property. The Marxists did it and the Fascists did it to my parents in WW2. Communists and Fascists are opposite sides of the same counterfeit coin. I gotta give John Wayne credit for that last part about the coin, though.
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  7011.  @omarcogle1965  They weren't too inclusive when it came to those who were afraid that the Covid vaccine might have serious side affects that they didn't want to risk. They're only inclusive when it suits their beliefs. Deviate and you're out, excluded, even shunned and doxxed.
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  7012.  @PaulFennel-p2z  They are going after him. It's the only option that the Dems have. They can't win on the issues so they'll just jail their opposition....if they can. Mar-a-Lago is only worth 18 million dollars. My gawd. What a joke.
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  7013.  @Brainwashedgoat  You never supported Trump in your life. If you ever did, you may change your mind about HIM but you'd never allow someone else to rip you off like the Bureaucracy is doing. I don't like Trump, either, but I'm glad that our bureaucracy is being exposed. Only the really foolish would support those flat snouts in the trough. If you're going to spout BS, at least make it believable.
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  7014. They knew that he was running as a Republican. They were nice to him because they didn't think that he could win and they were all giddy with the prospect of a woman president. When the polls showed that Trump was gaining, they suffered a panic attack and they didn't like it one bit and felt they had to do something. So, they turned on him. Trump was no longer their friend. In fact, he was suddenly a Nazi. Were they told to turn on him? I don't know but it was easy to be gracious when they believed that Trump had no chance of winning. No so easy when he won.
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  7015.  Johnny Nemo  And so was I. Only the left would seriously entertain the idea of a black white supremacist. Intelligent people take it for the nonsense that it is.
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  7016.  @dsmithum  I'd never tell a stranger who I'm voting for. That's why it's a secret ballot. It's no one business. Also, the Democrat supporters are so angry. Say something that they don't like and they lose their minds and will even start making threats. I don't need that crap. I'll mark my X when the time comes and that's how I speak. Pollsters can take a flying leap.
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  7017. This isn't socialism. This is a national crisis on footing with a war effort. Extraordinary measures are taken during a war and other disasters and this is the same thing. Get off the ideological wagon and start helping by encouraging your fellow citizens instead of sneering comments and backhanded criticism. Be a part of the solution instead of the guy giving Bronx cheers to efforts that might save your life or those around you.
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  7018.  @khetto1  I'm wrong? LOL. What part? Is it the part about a national crisis? Or maybe where I say the government will normally help out in a national crisis? What part exactly? I'd say that's why we pay taxes. So that in an emergency there is a fund there to help us get through it as a nation.
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  7019. I watched an gave a link. I'll give it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJdjhd_XG8
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  7020. I was just starting to "believe all women". Now, I don't know WHO to believe.
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  7021. I'm 70 years old. I'm double vaxxed with a booster. Since the lockdown started, in early January, I've only had social contact with 3 people. My closest friend died of cancer....I saw no one. My dad turned 90, I phoned but I didn't see him, even though he only lives 7 miles away. I live alone and by myself. Last Saturday, I got Covid and it sucks. I say....God bless those truckers and their allies. We have a Canadian Charter of Rights that apply to all Canadians and our government is denying us our rights in the name of "safety n health". If the virus is with us for all time, just like the flu or colds, are we to be denied our freedoms forever? 2 years is enough. Time to live with courage and to stop living in our hovels like cowards.
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  7022. "You don't do things because it makes you feel good. You do things because it's the right thing to do" (Paraphrased) Right on. If you could only get people to understand that, we'd be in a way better place, in the world. Keep up the good work, guys.
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  7023.  @lindaleeyou1234  That poor innocent homeless man....right. He was just minding his own business, ranting and threatening people....why can't he do that? America is a free country. Why should women feel safe on a subway? There's nothing in the Constitution that says that you can't threaten people in the subway. I've never read it. Penny should have sat there and ignored him and if the homeless guy does end the life of someone what business of Penny's would that be. You act as if this happened in a vacuum. Penny wasn't trolling the subways looking for victims. He'd never have laid a finger on the homeless guy had the homeless guy not been terrifying everyone in that subway car. Had you been there, you'd have thanked Mr. Penny.
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  7024. The wall will help. It's a demarcation line and it slows down the migrants enough so they can be stopped by border patrol. The migrants won't be able to get into the country because they'll be told to stay on the other side of the wall. Egypt has a wall right now on the border to Gaza. It's stopping Palestinians from crossing into Egypt, yet for some reason, people think that it can't work here. You combine that with deportation, a stay in Mexico policy that Trump had and negotiating with Mexico to defend their own borders to the south and you'd have an effective plan to stem the flow. It all has to work together and that's something that the Biden administration isn't capable of doing.
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  7025. They're fighting for something. They're fighting for a Marxist revolution and so far, they're not doing bad. The Government won't even call them domestic terrorists. Where's Merrick Garland on this?
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  7026. Michael Newell Life is brutal.
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  7027. @Liberate Wisconsin First Did I once say that I supported Trump? I'm implying that the Democrats are using poor strategy in their efforts to defeat Trump. When Hillary called working class Americans, the people of the flyover states, a bunch of deplorables, she lost the election. The stupidest election strategy in American history. .....and they haven't learned a thing.
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  7028. @Liberate Wisconsin First Great strategy. Call the people, that you want to vote for you, names. Brilliant. I'll try it. Hey "pin head", give this comment a thumbs up. I'm a good guy and my comments are pretty good. Stop being a "pin head" and give it the thumbs up. I'll bet you can't wait to hit the thumbs up now. You're just as dumb as the modern Democrats.
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  7029.  @andrewcogger7586  Now, you're doing it. The Democrats lost the last election doing exactly what you just did. Do you seriously think that you're going to change their minds that way? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is called.......
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  7030. @Liberate Wisconsin First Now the conspiracy theories. No evidence but it's as stupid an excuse as any to explain why the Democrats lost. Get that? The Democrats lost. They should have won, but the same people that voted for Obama, the ones in the southern, deplorable states, voted for Trump. They changed their minds. Couldn't be because of Democrat arrogance, could it? No way. Trump must have cheated. Maybe you're right but if you're not, he'll win the next election, too.
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  7031. "They're probably creating a whole army of Pig warriors" Cosmos Kramer. He told us LONG before Alex Jones did.
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  7032.  @ollehkacb  What did you expect Israel to do? Nothing? Ask Hamas to apologise? Send them money that cash will stop the Hamas fighters from coming back and continuing the slaughter? You're in a dreamland if you think the Israel could have bargained their way out of this situation. Hamas left Israel with only one option. To go in and defeat Hamas to the point that this horror doesn't happen again. That's how the Allies defeated Hitler. Hitler wasn't going to stop unless forced into surrender. Hamas is no different. They showed, and it's on video, just how far they were willing to go and Israel couldn't allow that to happen. Hamas is a cancer that had to be removed. It might seem harsh but that's the reality of it.
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  7033.  @Shmyrk  Source for what exactly? I've made a number of different comments. Which one do you want me to give sources for?
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  7034. Joe Biden should have fired her days ago. This entire debacle is representative of this administration. The Democrats have to lose the next election so badly that they'll have no choice to review, with a critical eye, where they've gone wrong and try to mend the damage done to that party over the last 10 years. Please....be a part of the solution to fixing the divide in this country by letting the Democrats know that they've really lost their way and that their policies are toxic.
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  7035. ​ @hnewc1919  I'd say that the ones that notice the skin colour of those in their neighbourhood and make comment on it...they're that big "R" word. It's no one's business where he lives or why.
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  7036.  @37Dionysos  Why do you think people are coming, by the millions, from all over the world, to the West? Is it because the west is a horrible place to live? Or is it because, relatively speaking, the west is STILL better than anywhere else in the world? Your ideology of negativity will of course find fault in the west no matter how good it is. Since nothing is ever perfect, you will find fault. These migrants prove that the west is still the best place for the average person to live. If it wasn't so, this huge flow would be going the other way....and you know it.
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  7037. Jesus was not well known during his life, therefore it is unlikely to be any contemporary writings that refer to him. His fame grew after his death. Tesla is a modern example of this type of phenomena. He has achieved greater fame and all types of stories and legends surrounding his life and work have grown. I'm not saying that Jesus is divine but it isn't impossible that a man named Jesus once lived and is the inspiration for the Christian faith.
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  7038. Another one who calls people liars but never points out what the lie is or give evidence for that lie.
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  7039.  @fd5849  That's what they're teaching the children to believe. Social justice illiterates going to save humanity. That should work.
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  7040. It's not the Dr. Phil's opinions line up with Trump. It's that they APPEAR to line up with Trump. The MSM doesn't have the intellectual capacity to understand the subtle difference. Or maybe, they just don't appear to lack that intellectual capacity and hope that we're the ones that don't get it. That would make them intellectually dishonest. Either way.....not a good look.
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  7041.  TripleDog Dare  You can if you think you can. LOL. "We don't need no stinkin science".
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  7042.  @sebastianaddict8937  So they're teaching psychotics to be violent? Man, that's twisted.
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  7043.  Redbo Black  Then it'll be "Defund the Social Workers!!!!!".
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  7044. The FBI has always been in the pockets of the Democrat Party. The Democrats hated Dr. Martin Luther King. He was standing for the Civil Rights Act which over 80% of the Democrats voted against. The FBI was doing the work, that suited the agenda of the Democrats, by harassing Dr. King continuously. The FBI hasn't changed a bit. They called parents "domestic terrorists" because parents stood against the left's policies concerning CRT and Gender Theory. They helped fabricate all kinds of stuff against Trump and all the Russian collusion stuff. They're doing it again and now the DOJ is more egregiously involved. That's why the swamp needs to be drained and why the bureaucrats, including the FBI, have to prevent Trump from becoming president again. They don't want Trump to drain the swamp and then find the evidence of corruption in elections, the FBI, CIA, FDA and other agencies. They have to stop it at all costs.
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  7045.  @andrewgood7586  I never said that you said don't sue. I asked it as a question that requires a yes or no answer. Yes, they should sue or no they shouldn't sue. Learn what a question mark means. If you don't care, why are you even here making comments? Don't you have anything better to do? Those are question, by the way.
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  7046.  @andrewgood7586  Maybe you shouldn't get your back up as your first response. It's a question. You don't have to come out with all weapons blazing. Just explain yourself like a mature human being. Even if I was being combative you don't have to behave like I did. That would make you no different than what you're POed about.
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  7047.  @andrewgood7586  Quit dancing around and obsessing over words. Just be civil and state your case. It's not that difficult.
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  7048. @ArkoMazumder-x2e Of course he can say what he wants. I never told him to be quiet. I asked him a question and he got his back up so I told him there was no need to do that. As for staying in my own lane, I will say what I want. That should apply to me just as it applies to him or you. I could tell you that this is between him and me and none of your business but I'm not going to. I will ask why the 2 of you are allowed to say what you want but "I have to stay in my own lane", though.
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  7049. @ArkoMazumder-x2e "Stay in your lane" What does that even mean? Also, I can give my opinion if I want. I believe that people can say what they want, EVEN YOU.
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  7050. @ArkoMazumder-x2e You say that you can do what you want and then tell me that I can't. Saying something is doing something. Therefore, when you can do what you want, you're saying that you can say what you want. We don't have a 2 tier set of rules in this country. Either we have freedom of speech for all or we don't. You seem to think that you are the exception to the rules. You don't. No one does.
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  7051. @ArkoMazumder-x2e You're exceptionally odd, that's certain.
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  7052. @ArkoMazumder-x2e Shut up. None of YOUR business....TROLL. You make a lot of comments but say nothing.
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  7053.  @bennnnu380  If you used discretion, in assessing your options, you'll likely choose wisely instead of "your" team or party. It's all a person can do. Good luck to you.
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  7054.  @underleft  If you believe that to be true, don't vote for her......but be sure. Remember, she's also supposed to be a Russian asset. It could be a rumour, based on half truths, just to smear her because she left the Democrat party. It isn't like the Democrats aren't capable of smearing people. If you believed everything that they've accused Trump of doing, there's no way that you'd support him. I'm not disagreeing with you but I am suggesting that you be sure before you make that final decision.
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  7055. In their minds, we're all equally skilled. Everything is equity and if one person appears more skilled than another, it has to be because they're cheating, getting special help or, that awful word, privileged.
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  7056. Great logic they got there in Maryland. They want you to pay child support and then make it difficult for you to get a decent paying job. What a great idea....with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? LOL.
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  7057.  @justjoking5841  That is the technicality. But why would you invite someone to a nightmare? That's illogical. As illogical as left logic. The American Dream is supposed to be attaining the things that we wish for. No one wishes and works hard to attain a nightmare. It's supposed to be a good thing. The left contradicts themselves. They say that illegals should come for a better life and then tell us that the US is one of the worst countries on the planet. Which is it? They have no idea.
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  7058. At one time, Academia was a place to learn about the great works of literature, art and history as a means to better understand human existence. Now it's a big game of search and destroy. Point fingers and accuse in order to vilify. No understanding, no nuance, no self reflection. Just anger and recrimination. Well done, Academia. You've turned scholastics and learning into an endless tirade of school yard schoolyard whining and bullying. That's something to be proud of.
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  7059. Trudeau will come dressed as Colonel Sanders.
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  7060.  @gravitatemortuus1080  They might when they find that feminism has become irrelevant. When they can no longer cancel people and find that they're the ones being cancelled because they're TERFs. People, like them, don't like to lose power and they're losing it fast. They just haven't come up with a good argument to counter this new ideology.
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  7061.  @harryl9222  Don't hide behind the "fake news" mantra. If you think that this isn't true, somehow, show me the facts that back up your claim. Otherwise, you're making things up. Thus far, the only thing I've seen is that Iran has commandeered a British oil tanker. If you've seen something that contradicts that, show it to us.
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  7062.  @isabellakerr2966  Is this an attack oil tanker? Since when do countries threaten each other with oil tankers? I've never heard of any country which included oil tankers in their navy.
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  7063.  @allanfrancis7572  Bay of Quinte area.
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  7064.  @melissachartres3219  And you're a Chinese bot.
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  7065. You're disappointed that she disapproves of black listing? Whoopi is correct on this. Black listing was wrong during the McCarthy era and is wrong today. If they want to beat Trump, maybe campaign on issues that the public care about. Black listing is the tool of those who have nothing left in their toolbox of complaints.
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  7066.  @aprilsflower1622  If it has nothing to do with blacklisting then why did you mention it and put out the argument that she was once blacklisted and that's why she expressed her feelings on the subject in the way that she did? You're the one that said that. This claim that she's changed is vague at best and since you were talking about blacklisting and her experience with it, it would be natural to assume that this is what you were referring to. I can't read your mind. If you were referring to something else, say what that something else was.
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  7067. And then you show him what you have hidden in your belt. What money won't buy, intimidation will.
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  7068. The very first thing that these new "citizens" did was break the law. The VERY FIRST THING....and they get rewarded for it. If Geraldo thinks that this won't encourage MORE people to try and illegally come to the US, then he's living in some Disney cartoon. His way, the Democrat way, will only stop this illegal migration when the US becomes as bad as the countries that they're leaving. That's the socialist way. Don't uplift those countries. Drag us down to their level. We will then all be equally poor and oppressed....except for Geraldo. He can sit comfy with the knowledge that he's worth 20 million plus.....unless the new socialism renders those millions valueless. I'll lend him my wheelbarrow so he can cart those millions to buy a week's worth of groceries.
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  7069. @Mark Miwords The Republican Governors haven't been fighting illegal immigrants for years and Trump was getting it under control. Why would Abbot send them to his fellow Republicans that have been complaining all along? To get the Federal government to do something, it has to become THEIR problem, too and that means sending them to Democrat strongholds. The Democrats are allowing this so they should deal with the problems that they started.
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  7070. I'm Canadian and even I agree. Wish Elder was Canadian and could run against Trudeau. I'd walk across the northern Tundra to vote for the guy.
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  7071.  @Memetic-Info-Hazard-Handler  So, when I criticise the Chinese government for throwing the Uighur Muslims into concentration camps, am I now a Uighur nationalist? That's illogical. It's the "Zionist" appellation that triggers you and those like you and nothing else.
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  7072.  @eastcoasterner  Oh.....I see. You're a political hack. You don't want to talk issues. You want to talk people or to put it correctly. You want to denigrate them. The type of person that could care less about the country.
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  7073.  @scurra1163  Trump restricted travel to China. Europe did NOT. That's why they've been hit so hard. In turn, it's why the US is getting hit so hard. Trump should have restricted travel to Europe when it was obvious that Europe wasn't taking it seriously enough to stop travel to China. That's where most of the cases came from. They snuck in the back door when everyone was looking at China. Had he done both, instead of just China, the US wouldn't have the cases that it does now. By the time he did restrict travel from Europe, it was too late. If you want to criticize Trump, that's what you should be going after him for. Tens of thousands of travellers coming from countries in Europe, that were hard hit by the virus arrived in the weeks after the virus took off there. Europe responded badly to the virus. Borders were closed way too late in the EU. Italy closed travel to China on the same day that Trump did. In spite of everything, it still took off faster there than it did in the US. Who knows why but to point fingers is pointless. It was going to happen. By the time Trump stopped travel from Europe, it was too late.
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  7074. It's not dead because it actually exists. If what's revealed is even half true, the corruption and the scandal may be the biggest in US history. Watergate pales beside it. Unless you think that Watergate was a nothing story, you should be "crying" too. Then again, if corruption is just fine with you, I can see why you'd ignore it. People hate it when they're shown to be wrong. I hate being fooled too. I thought, at first, that Trump was guilty of collusion. I had to face the fact that the whole thing was a fabrication. I didn't like it but I had to face it. Now YOU should man up, look into the laptop story more closely and then decide if that story should be dead.
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  7075.  @mattjacks0n83  What a simplistic way of looking at issues. Is the NY Times a far right media outlet now? First time I've heard that. You're stuck on the messenger. I don't care who tells me the message, so long as it bears scrutiny and it checks out. The NY Times has been a left wing paper for decades. Hell, Walter Duranty, back in the thirties said the famine in Ukraine didn't happen and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. Turns out it wasn't true. Now, this same left wing paper is confirming the existence of the Hunter Biden laptop. I suppose I shouldn't believe them...right??? Then I won't believe them when they say that Project Veritas is a right wing group that edits their stories to suit their narrative. I should support PV in their lawsuit against the NY Times. It gets rather confusing when you denigrate the messenger instead of the message.
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  7076.  @mattjacks0n83  Now you're moving the goalposts. You don't need a courtroom decision to prove that something exists. I've not seen a great white shark but I know that they exist. That's the same as Hunter's laptop. It does exist. The pictures and emails on it appear to be quite damning but criminal guilt can only be concluded through a criminal trial. However, that's not the issue. If the media and the DOJ refuse to even look at the laptop, how are we going to have an investigation or a criminal trial? 30 years ago, something like this would have set off a frenzy in the media by journalists crawling over each other trying to get the scoop on what was on that laptop. Now, they're expending their energy on finding ways to discredit the very existence of the laptop. It's astounding, especially to those who were there to see the media frenzy over Watergate or the Clinton indiscretion with Monica Lewinsky and others. This laptop appears to have information that, if true, makes those scandals appear rather mundane. Yet, the major networks are steering away from it apparently because it doesn't fit their political narrative. That's a scandal in itself.
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  7077.  @mattjacks0n83  I don't know why Barr didn't go after Hunter Biden. Maybe he had issues with Trump and wanted out and this was a good way for him to do it....but I really have no idea. However, it really doesn't matter what Trump did, does it. If there is corruption in the Biden family, Trump's guilt is irrelevant. It would be like saying that since Ted Bundy is guilty, John Wayne Gacy is innocent. One has nothing to do with the other. A politician that lies....say it ain't so, Matt. My whole world is collapsing down around me. Sorry about the sarcasm but it's how I feel every time someone says something about Trump being a liar. I rather expect politicians to lie....don't you?
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  7078.  @mattjacks0n83  Once you become enter the political arena, you BECOME a politician. Trump doesn't have a political background but the minute he announced his candidacy for president, he became a politician. However, we digress. You're changing the subject. Trump is no longer the president. Biden is and this video and conversation is about Biden and the Hunter laptop. You don't prove Biden innocence by talking about the guilt of someone completely unrelated. It's called "deflection" and is a logical fallacy. You might as well talk about the corruption of Andrew Jackson. It bears no relevance to the laptop or its implications. The issue is whether the laptop has enough evidence to warrant an investigation into Hunter Biden (which is now ongoing) AND how deeply involved Joe Biden was if corruption is established....unless you don't care if the current president has used his position as a politician to gain a personal fortune.
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  7079.  @mattjacks0n83  I'm not going to make dumb bets. We have a president, who may be corrupt, who brought executive orders that curtailed oil production so the US is no longer energy independent, who seems powerless to stop increasing inflation rates, affecting gas, food and living expenses, has basically reopened the southern borders, has nominated a "woman" for the Supreme Court who can't even define what a woman is, has increased public debt in ways thought unimaginable 20 years ago, and supports some of the whackiest ideas in American history (a man can have a baby). He can't seem to hold a conversation, forgets what he's talking about and is dismissed by foreign leaders, except Trudeau, who's as weird as it gets. This is our leader and all you can talk about is Trump. Well, Mr. Rip Van Winkle. While you were sleeping, we've elected a new president.
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  7080. "Stop hiding behind the First Amendment. Censor that guy" Well...that sure makes sense, if you're in an Orwell novel.
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  7081. No one is under any obligation to provide you with a job. That's up to you, no one else. If you don't like the circumstances you're in, get up off your butt and find circumstances that are better and keep looking and working towards that goal. Don't EVER give up. The people living in those neighbourhoods have given up and this is the result. A strong person does something about it. The weak one complains and blames others, all the while waiting for them to fix it for them.
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  7082.  @Anne_Onymous  It's NEVER too late. In fact, we need to convince MORE people to leave their left wing lunatic ideology. We've been losing the culture war for years and it's starting to turn in our favour. Don't screw it up by criticising them for seeing how nutty they once were. We should be trying to be better than the left and we won't do that by digging up past grievances and holding onto them like a dog on a bone. If it's too late, then we may as well give up and I, for one, am going to refuse to do that.
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  7083.  @OtayBuckwheat  FOX showed Jeff Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan admitting that the FBI asked Facebook to censor information on the Hunter Biden laptop. I wonder if CNN, MSNBC, ABC or CBS showed any of that clip or showed concern over the implications of that admission. So I googled it. NOW A WORD. I went 10 pages and nothing. Plenty of entries but not only those networks that I mentioned didn't report it, neither did the NY Times or the Washington Post. You would think that you'd be concerned that the official Federal police force is interfering in an election would concern you but.....NOPE. "Fox did this and Fox did that"....that's your reaction. The one party system is the wave of the future and you don't mind. Stalin and Mao would be so proud, not to mention that Austrian painter with the funny moustache.
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  7084. Now that the Republicans are supporting the "defund the police" movement, we should see an endorsement from BLM for the Republican Party, any day now. The cries "defund the police" and "MAGA" will become the chants of the "peaceful" protesters. I can't wait.
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  7085. I thought, for sure, that she was going to say that Elizabeth Warren should go back to the reservation. LOL.
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  7086. That's what the Mueller Report was all about and the subsequent Mueller hearings. How Trump cheated to win the 2016 elections. A good part of this was due to Hilary's insistence that the election was stolen from her. It cost the American taxpayer millions.
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  7087. Sensitivity training. The Chinese called them struggle sessions.
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  7088. No Tim. Bill Maher doesn't get it, at all. Impeachment isn't bad because it emboldened Trump. It's bad because it's a fabricated narrative. A poor ethical standard will always get you. Maher is upset, NOT because the end doesn't justify the means, but because the unethical means didn't work. That implies he would use unethical tactics if he thought it would work. They twisted the truth and Trump emboldenment is the result. So, Bill Maher doesn't get it at all.
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  7089.  @miskatonicalumni5612  Read the comments in this thread. Everyone of them that disagree with Peterson is filled with name calling and nothing of intellectual value, whatsoever. What's more, the original comment points out something that Peterson detractors do and you back him up 100 percent by doing exactly what he said you'd do. Then you answer me by not acknowledging the truth of it in an active sense, but you still admit it by saying that conservatives do it, too. If it's childish for a conservative to behave in this way, it's childish for anyone to do it. You're validating the double standard you decry. An argument of "Oh yeah"s is schoolyard bickering. Defend yourself by being better than that.
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  7090. Being held Hostage? Until the elections, you whack job. Then you can un-hostage yourself.
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  7091. The radical left has created a system in which we can all be found guilty. It's Orwell's world coming to life. We're entering a dystopian nightmare.
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  7092.  Alex M  I know. Imagine....they actually spent over 30 million bucks on an inquiry to see if that election wasn't fraudulent or not. Where do these crazies get the idea that any American election could be rigged? That still amazes me. Even when that tax funded inquiry found nothing, she STILL insisted that she was the rightful president. Wow and amazing.
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  7093. His questions don't have anything to with climate change. However, he should be able to determine if the witness is a credible witness. If the witness can't be forthright about ANY question asked, any SIMPLE question asked, why would I trust him to answer the important questions in an honest manner. Just answer the questions as honestly as you possibly can. Don't protest every question. Honest people don't protest. They answer honestly. That adds to credibility and that guy's credibility is now ZERO as far as I'm concerned. No point in asking him questions about climate change.
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  7094. Weren't the Celtic black? I've heard about the black Irish. Rewrite Huckleberry Finn. Make Huck a black kid and he's trying to steal the white slave Jim. Why not? It would be accurate, wouldn't it? Lee Harvey Oswald shooting a black John Kennedy. A really good historically accurate iconic moment in American history.
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  7095. Are you saying that over-population is keeping people from being educated? That makes no sense and it won't until you explain yourself.
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  7096. Here we go again. The world did not change when Leif Erikson landed in the new world. It was a singular incident that many thought was just legend. Columbus did NOT know that he had discovered new continents. Until he died he thought he had landed on islands off the coast of Asia. The world changed with the voyages of Columbus. That's a fact. It brought the realisation to the people of Europe, Africa and Asia that the world was a lot bigger than they thought and conversely, it did the same for the people of North and South America. Nothing changed when Leif landed in North America. Not one thing.
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  7097. Admiral Aladeen Even if true, so what? It's not a contest. Asians arrived before that. Columbus's voyages were important due to how human history was affected by his sailing due west. It is one of the major turning points in history. Viking and African voyages were only incidents in history. Columbus changed history forever.
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  7098. ThobiWan He may have read about them but he had no idea if they were true or what the nature of the lands that the Vikings discovered were. As far as he knew they were islands off the coast of Asia or Asia itself. He, most definitely, did NOT know that there were two vast continents between western Europe and Africa and eastern Asia. No one did.
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  7099.  @rosesandthorns47  I can't imagine being so educated that I have nothing to learn anymore. I like the rule "Assume that the person that you're talking to knows something that you don't." There's a humility, in that adage, that the super educated could benefit from. I've found that the more I learned, the more I don't know. It can be disheartening at times but it's always exciting to learn more and to see my ideas change as I learn more.
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  7100.  @thebedroomintellectual2460  LOL. Good luck to them. I'm in Canada.
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  7101.  @CCPLord  I'm not blaming the kid for the police actions. I'm blaming her for how she behaved, ON THAT DAY. That's doesn't excuse what the police did. Once again, I'm talking about MY responsibility if that was MY child. MY child. It is my job to teach her how to behave in these circumstances, to teach her to try to maintain self control, no matter what. That she could have represented herself, as a human being, in a much better way. For you to inject murdered family members....and WORSE, things that didn't happen, is illogical. I have a responsibility to my child, to ensure her well being, her survival even, by teaching her that she must always try to maintain self control, as much as possible. If she believes that this kind of behaviour is normal, then she'll accept it of others and she'll take up with others who lose control and react in horrific ways, to her detriment and it could be a LOT worse than just a little pepper spray. It's my responsibility to show her that you cannot control how others act, but you can control how you behave. I can't do that with police officers. I can't go down to the local precinct and start teaching the officers how adults should behave. They're not my responsibility, but MY daughter is. Get this. If she was MY daughter. Not if that was MY police force. Then I have to deal with their behaviour, but I didn't come from that angle. I've said, right from the start, "If that was my daughter". I have a job, as a parent. Someone has failed her, big time, long before this horrific incident happened.
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  7102.  @CCPLord  If someone had been killed, that would have been the story. It would have been mentioned. If it was worse, like you said could be possible, do you really think a screaming child would have been the story here? That the story would have been about the dead person and how the police compounded that situation by their stupid behaviour with a child. A dead person is a MUCH bigger story that a child being pepper sprayed, as bad as that it is. You're adding things to the story that aren't even there. You can't write your own narrative and then use that fabrication to prove how correct you are. You have to go by the facts.
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  7103.  @CCPLord  I'm making assumptions? You're the one that brought up about family being killed and worse. Where did you come up with that stuff? It wasn't mentioned in the video. You pulled it out of your.....hat. I saw a 9 year old girl, screaming her head off, out of control, in the throes of a temper tantrum. I saw a bunch of police officers unsure on how to handle it and took it way too far. All I'm saying is that a good parent, especially with all that's been going on with the police, would have prepared her for such a scenario. Told her that if a police officer approached her, that the best thing to do is to remain calm and do as they say. That's all I said. Prepare your child for life. There are bad people out there and some of them may not even be bad but stupidly dangerous. Someone didn't do that. She acted in the worst possible way and the cops acted in the worst possible way out of exasperation. For her own safety and her own well being, she should be taught that. What does it matter to her safety AFTER the fact. She has to be ready to handle it before it happens. She has to be prepared. That's the job of a parent. You're the one making assumptions. Family getting killed....you MADE that up. When you use a made up narrative, in an argument, you're using more than assumptions. It's getting close to a bald faced lie. I'm astounded that you , as an adult, can't see that, that is, if that's what you are.
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  7104.  Gbraith  Where did I say that I was ok with it. That's something that others have projected onto me. I'm saying that I have no control or influence over how the police behave. I can't know every police officer. I do have influence over my own child and I can teach her that taking temper tantrums, screaming her lungs out, refusing to cooperate with someone with a police officer, could have dire consequences for her. Not that it would always be her fault but there are things that she could do to lesson the chances of being cuffed and pepper sprayed. Had she quietly and politely got into the car, she wouldn't have been cuffed of sprayed. That's a fact and you know that. You won't admit it because you're afraid that this somehow lessens the horrific reaction of the officers. It doesn't. She poked the bear and the bear poked back. I can teach her that it isn't always the best decision to poke the bear. She's never been shown that as far as I can tell. Regardless of the police behaviour, she still behaved badly and it shouldn't be acceptable, either. Both parties can be wrong in their own way, you know.
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  7105. This comes from the idea that only white people can be bigoted. The truth is that many of these migrants are extremely bigoted towards those who are different than them.
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  7106. He asked about the commune and they talked about the book club. The Unibomber's Manifesto appears to be a text which influenced Mangione quite a bit. To talk about it doesn't seem like an agenda. It seems like a natural topic of discussion. The same thing applies to Mangione's health, specifically his back problems. It's been suggested that those back problems affected his sexual functions and that caused a great deal of anger. It's something that I would ask about just like talking about the Manifesto. It was a part of the news for a few days now. I'd like to know why exactly this was such a bad interview. Your comment is rather vague on this.
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  7107. His mouth does cause him trouble but it's in his delivery not in substance. He's using a prepared script because he wants to be accurate in his quotes. When he speaks for himself, he doesn't use a script. When he's quoting he goes to the script so he gets it right. He does it in this video. He reads the quotes and then he looks up and adds his own take which isn't in the script. Watch the entire video. He really doesn't care if someone takes umbrage to his off the cuff remarks. According to the gag order, he shouldn't even be commenting from a script. He could go to jail for that but he won't. He has every right to defend himself, in court and in public and the judge knows it. Everyone does.....including YOU.
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  7108.  @middlegroundparty9436  Sure they are. "some of those rioters"....LOL. Kinda suggests that MOST of the rioters aren't paid by Trump, doesn't it? If that's true....why don't the Democrats and their media strongly advocate for the violence to stop? Hell, they keep calling them "peaceful" protests. What they should be doing is telling their followers to not protest as "Trump's rioters" are taking advantage of them. They're not though because it's BS and deep down you KNOW IT. You don't have to like Trump and I can even understand why, but don't let it degenerate into hatred. Hatred clouds rational thought. You're allowing emotion rule your brain.
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  7109. When you've fought all the social battles, to a successful resolution, you have to make up NEW causes to fight for. Life has no meaning if you don't have a cause.
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  7110. @Iva Hadid with a u HUH???? I'm not following you.
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  7111.  @DUNGEON_MASTER_1N_GULAG  Khrushchev kicked all the Kulaks off their farms and they starved by the millions. I read all about it. It was called the Holodomor. That was in the thirties when Khrushchev was the leader. The people of Ukraine still hate Khrushchev for it and deservedly so. Look it up. It's all true.🥱🥱🥱 It's a good thing I straightened out the revisionist history of the Soviet Union.
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  7112. But they get all upset when people go to an outdoor swimming pool or go to the beach. Less transmission....got FA to do with their logic. When they don't call out the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California for putting Covid patients into nursing homes, they don't care about transmission. They care about politics......PERIOD. They think the protests are good for the Democrats and that's ALL that matters to them.
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  7113.  @Hscaper  God may not be real but God is the representation of truth and our search for truth in our lives and an overarching truth does exist. That's what it's all about. You don't understand the psychology (as if anyone really does) of why our ancient ancestors would even espouse such an idea. We ALL believe in God, in our own way, even when we say we don't. We believe in what is right and true or most of us, anyway. Those who don't are the actual psychopaths.
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  7114. Since any man that looks at a woman is plotting to murder her, that woman in the video must not get a lot of looks. Not if she's survived this long. If they're not looking, they're not plotting.
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  7115. ......and everything will be so perfect and wonderful. All rainbows and gummy bears and money will grow in the garden and the lion will lay down with the lamb and Joe and Kamala will be the creators. Heaven on earth....(big sight).
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  7116.  Mark Armstrong  Do you know the legal definition of "but"? Do you know the legal definition of "do"? Do you know the legal definition of "you"? Do you know the legal definition of "know"? Do you know the legal definition of "the"? Do you know the legal definition of "LEGAL"? You'd have to legally define every word of your question because we have to know the specifics of the question to be sure that it was put forth clearly and succinctly. When you have to have legal definitions for the simplest of words, like "dog", you're bogging down the legal system to one of total inaction. It's childish and insane.
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  7117.  Mark Armstrong  Personal attacks now. Can't make a point on the conversation so insinuate that I'm incoherent due to my need for psychiatric medications. Not much of an argument. No better than the "I'm not a biologist" defence in not being to answer a simple question that any ten year old could've answered 20 years ago. It's not that she couldn't answer. She didn't want to and resorted to "science" as her weak defence. Then you try to rationalise her sidestep by hiding behind some legal gobbledegook. So....what is it? Does she have to be a biologist or a lawyer? Or does she only need a little common sense?
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  7118.  Mark Armstrong  I never said a word about Young. This is a conversation about Justice nominee, Jackson, who claimed that she couldn't answer a simple question because she lacked the scientific background to give an answer. An answer that a ten year old could have answered 20 years ago before it became so politically and ideologically charged. That's not an attack. It's a simple statement of fact. I don't care what Lindsey Graham said. Graham doesn't tell me how or what to think. Also, I'm not about to go through the body of Young's work and try to decipher the relevance to this topic. If there is relevance and you happen to see it, just tell me. You seem to feel obligated to make personal attacks but not to discuss your own reasons for what you seem to believe.
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  7119. They'll do NOTHING. I can guarantee you ONE thing. If Trump were the president, we wouldn't be having this invasion at the Mexican border. THAT'S something.
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  7120. I've never tried sushi but I'm off to the Sushi Counter first chance I get. I'll give it a fair review, based on quality of food, the atmosphere, cleanliness, etc. Race will have nothing to do with it.
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  7121. A codpiece for infants. There has to a big market for that.
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  7122.  Karl Von Eberfeld-Dunquartzhausen  So, why did Germany invade Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands? The Netherlands had loudly stated neutrality but the Germans invaded anyway and bombed the hell our of Rotterdam. You're delusional if you think that Hitler would have been satisfied with Danzig. He even betrayed his peace alliance with the Soviet Union. The Nazis were NOT to be trusted.
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  7123.  @ceterisparibus51  He murdered tens of thousands of American voters? Huh??? When did he do that? What are you even talking about?
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  7124.  @tomasnilsson2544  What's with trolls like you? Does it make you feel good to leave idiotic responses? Trolls are some of the weirdest people on the internet....by far.
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  7125.  @True_Joker  "When seconds count police are only minutes away" One of the most unrealistic and silliest things that I've ever read. What if my neighbour has his music cranked and I lose my temper. I grab a bat, kick his door in and beat the life out of him. How are the police going to anticipate that? Or if I sneak into a young girl's apartment, tonight and do unspeakable things to her. Should the police be there at the same time as I am, knowing what my intentions are? You could apply that to anything. It's like my older sister used to complain about when we were doing dishes. I'd be drying and she whine at my mother that I was falling behind. Well...of course I'm falling behind. I'm not going to get ahead of her. I'd be drying dirty dishes. It's the same with the police. They can only show up AFTER the crime. They can't arrest me before I do something. In fact, when you have no police, crime escalates. Google the Murray-Hill riots of 1969. The police went on strike and the city of Montreal went through 16 hours of rioting, crime and general criminal activity. You've been listening to those starry eyed academics who think Utopia is only one more government program away.
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  7126. "I'm so glad to be able to sacrifice to help the cause of Ukraine". Those clowns don't even look at their credit cards when they fill-up. 50 bucks...100 what does it matter? They got lots more cash. We get to suffer while they get to virtue signal. Sort of like Nancy Pelosi suffering with her stash of expensive ice cream in her 23 thousand dollar freezer. I almost started a telethon for her when I say the deprivation she had to bear.
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  7127.  @WVmountainsurf-rg6fe  You're really quite naive, aren't you? Did you see that female firefighter move? I doubt that she could climb a 40 foot ladder with the ease that's required of a firefighter. I've worked as a roofer for years. She's over weight and out of shape. If a man showed up on the job site in the same physical shape, I'd say the same thing. That's the reality of it.
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  7128. Except their silly troll is now ruining the lives of innocent people. They had no idea how stupid people can be.
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  7129.  @HelicopterRidesForCommunists  That's exactly my point. 4Chan had no idea how stupid people can be....meaning the woke crowd and their sycophants. Who did you think was stupid?
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  7130.  @lupusalbus3795  Huh?? Now who does what?
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  7131. It's amazing how ideology can pervert one's world view. The ideology can convince you that you're on the side of righteousness and that it's your duty to save the world from itself. Anyone that opposes you is the enemy and it doesn't matter who they've been in your life. That doesn't just include friends. It could be anyone, including your mom, dad, siblings.....even your own children. Righteousness is a powerful drug.
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  7132. It's just another control trap. The more that they can control speech, they can control what you and others think. That type revels in that kind of control. Just look at the student who dared him to read that passage. The teacher takes on the dare, thinking that it's a teaching moment and the student rats him out. It sounds a lot like the struggle sessions in Mao's China.
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  7133.  @dannyf2107  The military is not supposed to be used to fight wars. It's purpose should be to ensure peace and to defend ourselves when attacked. Bombing a site in Syria has nothing to do with peace and it took Biden's administration a month before he had started the bombing raid(s). It might upset you that Trump was trying to bring peace to the Middle East, but peace should be the aim of every administration. Biden was a big supporter of the Arab Spring and it looks as if he wants it to continue. That's terrific news. (sarcasm intentional) Strange how you zero in on the previous president's military service and neglect to mention the military service of the current POTUS. How is it bad when it's Trump but irrelevant when it's Biden? You're not biased are you?
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  7134. I think that someone should field a team of all transgender men. Everyone of them, biological rugby players. They're all real women, aren't they? Let them play against the women and lets see how long the other teams keep quiet. I predict that this insanity is so entrenched that the other teams would go out looking for their own "transgender" players and that'll be the end of sports for those who were "assigned at birth" as women. It's become embarrassing to admit that I'm Canadian.
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  7135.  @skyisreallyhigh3333  When you steal, you're assaulting those who own the items stolen, but also the legitimate customers, who must pay higher prices so they can stay in business. They're assaulting ALL of us. I've been an employee in a retail situation. That means that I represent the company. As a company rep, I will not allow you to steal from US, the company, as well as from the customers who must now pay higher prices. Also, the insurance providers will be forced to raise their higher premiums, upping the cost to the retailer, who passes it on to YOU....the customer. It's as if you know nothing about how an economy works and have no sense of right or wrong...no morality. Either that, or you're one of those who are doing the stealing and don't want the gravy train to stop. Either way, you're a detriment to our society.
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  7136.  @skyisreallyhigh3333  So the retail stores are throwing items, into the landfill, that is in so much demand that thieves target those items to steal. That makes a LOT of sense. LOL. But the store doesn't want it because they can't sell it. That's about as dumb as it gets. That last comment, about business owners being the thieves, explains all I need to know about you. You're a resentful, envious and angry person, who thinks that the world owes you something. You're just proven that you don't have a clue about a healthy economy or even how it works in nature. You lack morality or a sense of ethics. If a store decides to rid itself of inventory that they can't sell, that's their right. The stuff belongs to them, NOT you. Leave a country to the likes of you and that will destroy the country.
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  7137. @Typical J Where did I say that the US is impervious to criticism? I don't see that anywhere. In fact, I said that there is no perfect system. If a system is imperfect, it is open to criticism and improvement. That's the nature of imperfection. Apparently, you've not heard of the corruption our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. He's been using his position to line his pockets by special favours to interest groups. Also, since we're not a representative republic, our country is run by the voters in southern Ontario and south western Quebec. That's where the bulk of the population lives and the interests of those regions take precedence because you can't get federal power unless you appease the voters that live there. It's the biggest complaint from most of Canada. The other regions don't feel that they have any say in how the country is run and that they're continuously being out voted by the majority, the big guys in the country. Democratic bullying. There you go, a complaint about my country which I still prefer to the US for personal reasons. Every nation in the world has its issues, including the US. I wish that all Canadians felt represented but they don't and it has been a major point of contention here. It's just ONE area that needs improvement.
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  7138.  @s-h-e-n3859  They're the mainstream that fervently hoping for the violence to end. I don't care about their bias. I side with those who condemn violence as the means for social change. It's the reason, the ONLY reason, that I'd pick Fox over CNN any time.
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  7139. @WhocarezWhocarez-nw8ke Neither was the Black Lives Matters riots. Around 30 dead, thousands sent to hospital, over 2 billion in damages from arson and looting, Covid lockdowns ignored so we have no idea how many died from the spread of the virus that resulted, over 100 days of rioting across the US alone, including 120 consecutive nights in Portland Oregon, the CHAZ insurrection in Seattle, the surrounding of the White House so the President and family had to go to a secure bunker for their safety. is that enough or do you want more? Are you SERIOUSLY going to compare those Democrat approved riots to a 3 hour riot at the Capitol Building? 3 hours and they all went home. You've ignored the hurricane and want to centre on a tempest in a teapot. Make some sense, would you.
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  7140.  @indy_go_blue6048  Richards enter the La Jolla Tennis Tournament Championships in 1976, at 42 years old, and WON. She beat biological women. Richards played professionally, against women, from age 42 to 47, before retiring and was ranked as high as 22nd at one point. Mid 40s isn't the exactly prime age for professional tennis players, male or female. The oldest woman to win a major was in 1926, when tennis was a game of the rich, and she was 42 years old. In the modern open era the age is only 33 and that's the era that Richards played in. In other words, Richards had the physical advantage of a man when he played professional tennis and NEVER played professionally as a man in men's tournaments. You just made my argument for me. Thank you.
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  7141. Now do a video about living conditions in Syria.
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  7142.  @katon4525  All I know is that when Trump was president, my investments were doing great, even during Covid. When Biden became president, they floundered.....and I'm FAR from a rich man. Taxes were lower, wages were going up. His border policies were starting to work. No new wars....not a one. The Abraham Accords.....not ONE peace agreement since Biden was president. Energy self sufficiency. I don't have to believe Trump. I believe the facts. Also, you have to vote for SOMEONE because one or the other WILL become the government. I'll give you another example. Look at the differences in responses to a natural crisis. Florida's response to Hurricane Ian and Hawaii's response to the wildfires in Maui. Florida, a Republican state, handled the crisis smoothly, under the circumstances. Hawaii, a Democrat state, turned their crisis into a debacle. The people of Maui are outraged, taken advantage of by both Democrat politician looters and rich looters. Hawaii was a mess. I'm not saying that the Republicans are perfect. That's impossible because no one is perfect. However, one CAN be better than the other. You either figure out your priorities and find the candidate, Democrat or Republican, that best aligns with those priorities and vote accordingly. You're NOT going to get exactly what you want but it will get you pointed in the right direction. That's all you can ask for. One thing is certain....the US is a mess right now.
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  7143.  @highroller-jq3ix  I would think it self evident. It would be the masses of New York City telling the rural folk of Montana on how they should live in their environment. How could they do that with any knowledge of the realities of rural living? That individual, in Montana, will never be given a voice because the suburban big city voters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles will always outnumber them. Read Tony Putman's comment. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for lunch." It's why we have a Constitution and representative government. It's so the majority can't impose their will on the minority.....like they did with slavery 200 years ago, to name a well known example.
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  7144.  @thomasandrews7727  Show me a nation, ANY nation, that doesn't have it's elites. The ones that have the most money, influence or power. Any nation on the planet. What's really telling is that you admit that, in a republic, the individual does have a voice. Already, it's ahead of so many nations in existence. China....none. North Korea.....definitely none. Any of the Islamic nations....almost every one of them have despotic leaders. Even the enlightened nations of western Europe have the rich and powerful. In fact, it's the biggest complaint about the EU. The individual feels they've lost power to elites in Brussels. It seems that you're biggest complaint that the US isn't perfect. Welcome to life. Perfection is an idealistic dream, always beyond our reach. No one said that a republic would be perfect. It just allows a better voice to the individual. Not much but even a little improvement is better than none.
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  7145. Tim.....you ASS. I took the vaccine because I thought it was the right thing to do. It was NOT because I was forced to or am under the boot. I'm against mandates but I was fully vaccinated BEFORE mandates were even being considered. Quit saying that because I'm vaccinated that I'm somehow compliant to a totalitarian regime.
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  7146. Now, they should do the right thing and the equitable thing and give the job to Roland Fryer. He fits the right boxes and he actually deserves the job, and for more than his brilliant work in education for minorities, but for challenging the status quo, using academic rigour as it should be used. If they would do this, maybe Harvard can win back its status as a top university. The irony would be so sweet as well.
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  7147.  @thetransagender2866  You're not presenting much of a case. Instead of ad hominem attacks, give a rational response that explains your position. Making sneering remarks validates what people say about transgenders, that being that they can't hold a civil conversation. Unless you're a troll. Then go away.
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  7148.  @CJ-wh3zy  You're correct....why not? But Peterson snickered as he said it. Why? Simply because he knew that there could be the potential for some kind of backlash there. His experiences have shown him that this possibility is real. So, we have a situation in which the question "why not?" should be moot but it's not. That's why he snickered and appeared cynical of the motives of those that have, and it seemed intentional, completely misrepresented what he's said in the past. It's why I gave almost 80 examples of instances of where the mundane has been turned into some kind of racial, transphobic dog whistles to entrap those they don't like. If there are 80 examples of this weird phenomena, why would anyone, who's been at the butt end of these weird ideas, be cynical of any new thing that has some racial overtones to it? I'd say it would be exactly how any normal person would react.
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  7149.  @CJ-wh3zy  I was referring to his idea that eating meat would be at the heart of his recent health problems. It's a type of finger wagging at in which he sees himself as a medical and spiritual superior being. I find it condescending as if to say that he's now evolved into a superior being from his ancestors and people who still eat meat. If he doesn't like meat....don't eat it. If he doesn't like broccoli....don't eat that. Don't attach some significant meaning to it in which he'd be the icon to admire. I'd say that he's not and that he might be suffering from pride or narcissism....at way to boost his ego through criticism.
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  7150.  @CJ-wh3zy  My pronouns all referred to Gabriel, although that could be a woman's name but my meaning wouldn't change even if that were true. I was responding to Gabriel's earlier comment which is dripping with arrogance. I have a couple of vegans in my family and maybe that's what's behind my response. Both of my family members are intolerable, with their constant remarks on how they've evolved beyond the barbarian appetite for meat. Most of the family doesn't even want them around anymore. It's like having a religious fanatic at the dinner table, constantly reminding you that you're on the road to hell. It gets to you. Gabriel reminds me of those vegan family members.
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  7151.  @CJ-wh3zy  Thanks. I don't mind talking to honest people, either even if I don't agree with them. As for that comment from Gabriel, I've heard it many times, or variations of it from my 2 family members. If someone is sick and we ALL get sick, it's "maybe if you'd not eat meat you'd be healthier' and always said with a haughty sniff. One of them, at a barbecue no less, informed us that we're all disgusting and then got into her car and left, hinting that she just couldn't tolerate our company any longer. "I just can't stand this" were her exact words. When a person's first and only reaction to the health problems of someone else is a backhanded admonishment, I don't think their heart is in the right place. One can believe as they wish. However, when that belief is used to express their own feelings of moral authority, they're stepping over the bounds of common courtesy into rudeness.
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  7152.  @alymaple8936  Thanks. You're absolutely correct about this comment thread. I have to mention something about your name "Aly". It's how my mother spelled her name and I don't believe I've seen it spelled that way anywhere else, except for my sister who spells it the same way. It was nice to see.
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  7153.  Andy Mann  You're so small and one dimensional. You seem incapable of understanding a WORD of what I'm talking about. Either that, you don't want to acknowledge any of the other stuff that I've talked about. This is MORE than just about emojis. If that was all there was to it, this discussion would have never even started. I'd use an analogy but I doubt that you'd get it or you'd pretend not to. It's like talking to a recording. I expand the conversation and you respond with a "Emojis aren't hurting anyone". I try to to explain nuance and once again "Emojis aren't hurting anyone" or a variation of that sentence. I've showed you at least 80 different instances similar to this emoji stuff and you respond, AGAIN, with "Emojis aren't hurting anyone". If that's all you have to say, why are you here? Surely, you have more than that going on in your little brain.
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  7154.  Andy Mann  This isn't about "white" people. This is about an ideology that's using identity to turn us against each other. It's why skin colour is so important to them. Not because they care about skin colour but because they believe that they can use melanin as a tool for their revolution. They use gender, too and feminism and sexuality. It's to set us apart. It's NOT the emoji that's the problem. The problem is how these ideologues COULD use them, just like they've used other identifiers as ways to set us apart. I tried to illustrate that with all the examples that I've given but you've chosen to ignore them or even discuss them. It's like putting peanut butter in the mousetrap instead of cheese. It's STILL a mousetrap. Peterson has fallen into those analogous mousetraps before which is why he snickered when asked about the emojis. It's not about the emojis and the emojis isn't why he snickered. He knew that no matter how he answered it, it could be used against him.....and guess what? Here we are. You laughed at him and used his response against him. He seen the trap and set it off and YOU did EXACTLY as he implied you would. You're showing your ideological bent with your comment about "white" people. Racial identifiers and he turned it on YOU and you're not smart enough to see that he said what he did to expose people with your mindset. You don't even realise that he was describing people like you.
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  7155.  @AbhishekSakpal-ig5tx  So what? You've shown the disdain that turns people away from the Democrat party. Keep it up. If you do, the day will come when the Democrat party will become history.
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  7156. @ Triggered??? LOL. I was being a smart ass because I was laughing at him. After mocking him, I explained why I thought he was being ridiculous and why I was laughing at him. Not everyone makes comments because they're triggered unless you're triggered because I said that I was being a smart ass. If so, don't assume that we all react in the same manner.....or, in layman's terms, don't be triggered. It's really not that important.
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  7157.  @dekardkain5469  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq0KqUKQzos&ab_channel=J.R.Miller
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  7158.  @islandthrifts809  It's worse. Just for adopting him you are now labelled a coloniser. That's what they said about Amy Coney Barrett. She adopted 2 Haitian kids. The left has gone completely nuts.
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  7159. If the Democrats spend the next 4 years trying to impeach Trump, the Republicans could run a water cooler and still win the 2024 elections. I wonder how many times the Democrats are going to try to break through that brick wall before they realise that there must be a better way? Someone should start a pool.
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  7160.  @LadyDH  People, like her, will most definitely carry out their threats when in a large group. In fact, that's when the radical socialists have been the most dangerous.....when they have the advantage. They're great in a mob, serving out mob justice but when alone, they're the ones who yell insults from a speeding car. Cowards are dangerous when they're a part of the mob.
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  7161. @Bobby Fett And they please to dispose of Disney's special privileges. Disney did it to themselves. They're as dumb as they come.
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  7162.  @bladerj  And you think that this is a good thing. Corporations getting favours from politicians. You really can't see how this could be exploited and how this could attract the most corrupt individuals to get into the political game. That a corporation could get those favours by offering special favours to political figures to line their own pockets. That's exactly what's going wrong in America, today. We have a media that is indebted to politicians and will lie to cover any corruption.....like the Hunter laptop story. Pretend like it isn't true to get the guy they want into political office. There was a time, not that long ago, when the left was suspicious of corporate influence in politics. Now it appears that they embrace it. "What's good for GM is good for America" used to be a criticism from the left.
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  7163.  @bladerj  For the longest time, in Europe, it was the church that was in bed with the state. There were no big corporations back then. We've forced a separation between church and state but we've replaced it with big corporation and the state.....as if this is somehow better. Just because it exists, that doesn't mean that it should exist. I have a feeling you're only supporting Disney because you're deeply vested in the woke ideology and you'll go along with anything that supports that dogmatic belief. Right and wrong don't exist, in your world. It's all about you and your trans-humanist religion. I can't think of any other reason that you'd be so apologetic for big corporations.
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  7164.  @PrudentStudent666  So they don't have any special privileges? Then why is everyone so upset with DeSantis over this proposal. Are they really upset over nothing? I find that a little strange.
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  7165. You're assuming that the 4th place finisher is happy with this. What if she's too afraid to speak up? Say one thing and she could lose her job or a scholarship. Maybe her family will disown her or her friends will reject her and refuse to talk to her. This is acquiescence through bullying and social engineering. That's why I, a man, am worried about how this is developing. First they'll do it to women. Then, they'll figure out how to gaslight some other demographic into giving in. We'll all know that their new claims are BS but no matter whether we say something or not, we'll be screwed....just like the 4th place finisher in this bike race was. It's not that it's only women that are taking the heat. It's the mindset that will eventually target us all. "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." —Martin Niemöller That's why we MUST speak out, Tim.
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  7166.  @BottomShelfGames  What more can she lose? Her job. A scholarship. Family members and friends. Social status. She may have a lot to lose. You're blaming the victims. I suppose the Jews in Germany are to blame what happened to them, as well. If only they'd spoken out. We have to support them or like Niemoller said....when they come for you, there will be no one left to speak for you. That's when those who are behind this nonsense will have complete power over you and, like Niemoller, you will end up in a prison of their making.
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  7167. Steve Cohen is a Democrat. Of course he doesn't like this version of the Supreme Court. They've made rulings that he doesn't like. Had they ruled in his favour, he'd be gushing over them. Too much self interest involved to take him seriously.
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  7168. But he has to do the same thing as anyone else. He has to spend wisely or he will go broke. He'll just go broke in bigger quantities. The principles of handling money is still the same.
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  7169.  @skylx0812  He said that he didn't own a plane when he was asked about that carbon footprint. He later said that the plane belonged to his wife. What a disgusting human being and he could have become the president. I didn't care for Bush but I'm glad he won that election.
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  7170. racist.....definition ----a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. I don't see the word "power" anywhere. Could it be that she's injected this word to give the word a new meaning to justify her own racist feelings? Nooo.....she couldn't be that devious.
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  7171. Whatever you do, NEVER, vote Liberal again and while you're at it, don't vote NDP, either. They're the ones that are taking away our freedoms and reject the idea of personal responsibility. They want to be responsible for your life and mine. I won't give them my life. It's not their's to have. I like Maxine Bernier. He should have been the head of the Conservative Party in the last election. He'd be the PM right now.
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  7172. @Ser Aeggo Butterworth LOL. I think that you're right.
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  7173. @Well Dilligaf And I would agree wholeheartedly. Her progressive ideology looks to find offence through her self described group identity, in this case a progressive woman. Everything seen through the lens of sexism and feminism. It's getting very tiring.
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  7174. Who wants to watch a bunch of super rich athletes complain about oppression and thinking that kneeling for the anthem is a uniting action. Love baseball but I don't need them. I loved my wife, too but she's my ex-wife now and I don't miss her.
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  7175.  @babs_babs  It's called emptying the nest because the nest is needed for the next batch of children. When you're 18, it's time to stop looking to your parents for emotional support and build a life where YOU can be the one to lend that support to the very young, when they need it the most. We used to call it growing up.
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  7176.  @babs_babs  The person that he was talking about was ME, when I was 20. I wasn't going to school. I was hardly working.....partying all the time. I was told to get out and make my own way and it was the best thing that they could have done for me. 4 years later, I was married, had a good job and a baby on the way. A year after that, we bought our first home. I now have a great relationship with my dad, my mom passed away a few years ago, my daughter and grandchildren. Why? Because I grew up. That stupid adolescent doesn't exist anymore. It was okay to be immature when I was 15 but by the time you're 18, you should be looking at becoming an adult. Go to work, no matter how menial it is. Do the best you can. Build a reputation in your community as hard working, responsible and reliable and you'll work your way out the entry level jobs into work that really contributes to your life, your family and your community and QUIT YOUR BELLYACHING. Be grateful for what you have and don't allow resentment of others fester into a pus filled boil, because you're envious of what they have and you don't. Grow up. You owe it to yourself, your family, your community and to your parents.
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  7177. I wonder if she thinks that Senator Tim Scott is the black face of white supremacy. That seems to be the opinion of a lot of Democrats. I didn't hear any objection to that claim when it was made against Larry Elder. It should have been universally denounced by EVERY politician.....yet the Democrats were strangely silent about it. I would like to ask her if she believed that it was an reprehensible thing for Democrat governor Newsom to say. I'd like to see her squirm and obfuscate on that one.
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  7178. The Democrats, in California, want to repeal the State Civil Rights Act. That's the act that mimics the Federal Civil Rights Act that Dr. Martin Luther King worked so hard to bring to the United States. Why would they do that? Simple. There is no affirmative action in California. They can't because the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination against, or preferential for, any specified demographic. To get around this, the Civil Rights Act must go. A group of Asian students took Harvard to court, claiming discrimination due to Harvard's affirmative action policies. Massachusetts does not have a State Civil Right's Act which means that the Asian students lost their case. Now they have one option left. They must go to the Supreme Court of the United States and they will win. They'll win because the Civil Right's Act will not allow treatment according to demographic, in this case, Asians. Where does that leave those who support Affirmative Action? They have to get rid of the Federal Civil Right's Act. Which party supports Affirmative Action? Democrats. It will be Democrats who will repeal the Civil Right's Act, if it ever gets repealed any time soon. First, they will have to find a way to vilify Dr. Martin Luther King. I've been waiting for that to happen for a couple of years, now. Ironic, the only politicians to oppose the Civil Right's Act in 1964 were Democrats. Legal discrimination will be allowed if that Act is repealed.
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  7179. Biden is taking CREDIT for moving up the vaccination timeline. He did nothing. It's BS. It's the companies involved that take care of distribution, just like all other companies do. These are large corporations and have lots of experience getting products to market. They know that there's no profit in producing a product and then not getting it to market, in this case, vaccinations to those that want them. It's basic economics.
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  7180. "Kamala Harris sees things differently. Why?" Because she's a lying lunatic....that's why.
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  7181.  Hoc Est Pseudonym  If people don't change their minds, then we're F----d. We'll be stuck with this forever. Be glad that Tim and others like him are getting upset with Democrats. It's how people start to realise that the Dems are hurting America. I'll bet in the last 2 months that Tim has turned more people into Trump supporters than he has turned people into Democrat supporters in his entire life before that.
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  7182.  Fliegenklatsche  They're all we've got. Who else are you going to support? Also, the only reason that Trump couldn't do anything is because of the Rinos in the party. Hopefully that changes in the next election. They still have to follow the rule of law.....that's something that the Democrats don't respect.
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  7183.  eric  So a bunch of lunatics flying into buildings is Bush's fault? I suppose it's was Holland's fault when Hitler invaded that country. That's illogical. I don't like the Patriot Act either. I wish Trump would get rid of it, but I'm not so idealistic that I think a president should enact only the things that I want. That's not going to happen. EVER. All I can do is weigh the issues and see which candidate will be the best for me and vote accordingly.....not the perfect one, because that's just stupid. Right now, at this point in time, the Democrats suck....BIG TIME. Trumps a bit of a dork but his policies are way better than anything that I've heard from the Dems. Abolish the police......what kind of policy is that?
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  7184.  Science Revolution  Well.....it's a good thing we've got you to set them straight. LOL.
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  7185.  @Smayky  I'm from Canada and I know Europe. Canada and the US are immense and we depend on cheap prices to get around as part of how we live our lives. I know people that drive 120 kilometres, one way, to go to work everyday. It's devastating for them. Now, Biden is talking about food shortages. You won't be so calm when the food isn't there or you can't afford what food is available. North America isn't Europe.
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  7186.  @Smayky  100 Km per day isn't 250 per day. That's 2.5 times more. Also, that's quite common around here. They do it because Toronto is too expensive to live in and the size of the city is unbelievable. I couldn't live there. North American cities aren't near as compact as European cities. People that drive to Toronto to work spend an hour getting to the city and then another hour, or more, driving the last 25 kilometres to get to their job site. Very few good paying jobs in the rural areas but they can't afford to live in the urban centres. It's tough. I refused to do it and I had to give up a lot to save for my retirement. The commuters are giving up their time, up to 4 hours a day, just driving to work. You sacrifice no matter what you do.
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  7187.  @r32guy10  Funny, it was the Democrats that were fooled by the Jussie Smollett hoax. Most conservatives were shaking their heads in disbelief. His story fit in perfectly with the woke narratives that had been written long before that night. "We need this story to be true" cried one pundit. They wanted it to be true. That's why they're so easy to fool. Maybe if the woke brigade hadn't made up their minds BEFORE it all happened, maybe they'd of had the smarts to realise that Jussie was LYING.
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  7188.  Gee Mo  Extremely intelligent people don't act like those in the Monty Python movie screaming "WITCH!!!" at the tiniest provocation. Racist is the modern day witch and you're part of the mob that has no other answer than "WITCH!!!!" It was meant to show how ludicrous and ignorant people were in the Middles Ages. Apparently, people haven't changed much.
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  7189.  Gee Mo  "WITCH!!!!!!".....screams the guy looking for the tell tale signs of the evil sorceress. Are you that self unaware that you can't see that you're EXACTLY what I was talking about?
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  7190.  Gee Mo  Like the people in Monty Python who yell "WITCH" at every sign that a woman might be a witch, you yell "RACIST" every time you see the "tell tale sign" that a person might be a racist. The accusation of being a racist has become the modern day equivalent of the accusation of being a witch. You'll look for the sign that will inevitably manifest itself and you've proven your point. Like dunking a woman to see if she's a witch. If she lives, she's a witch. If she drowns, she's innocent.
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  7191. Biden doesn't see a thing. He's just doing as he's being told by the bureaucratic overlords. Biden's nothing more than a robot, programmed to say what he's supposed to say.
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  7192. Guys like this and drag queens are no different than those who used to do blackface minstrel shows. They're doing a parody of women, of how they believe women look and act, just like those in blackface were doing a parody of black Americans. I'd be a little insulted by his behaviour if I were a woman. Not much insulted, though, because I have thick skin and it takes more than a clown for me to feel insulted.
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  7193. I see a Pulitzer in Maddow's future. She deserves to be formally recognised for breaking "Cookiegate".
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  7194.  GlobalMan Lite  You don't have to remind ANYBODY. You've repeated yourself often enough, saying the same thing OVER and OVER, until we're all sick of listening to you. It doesn't matter whether you're right or not anymore. WE HEAR YOU. Maybe you could expand on it, if your robotic mind is capable of doing that.
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  7195.  GlobalMan Lite  Is ALL the literature, that you've written, one paragraph long? Besides, why would I want to read something anything that you've written. I'm not into sneering and resentment. I got enough of that from my ex-wife. I prefer knowledge to uplift my soul, not to feed my discontentment and displeasure with life. Life's too short to spend it that way.
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  7196.  @stingray427man  Personally, I don't care about her personal views. What I like about her is that she's willing to talk about things that the MSM refuses to acknowledge or ever discuss. I have yet to find someone that I agree with 100% of the time on 100% of every issue being presented and it doesn't matter. As long as I have sources that give me ALL the information that I need to formulate my own view on a given issue. So, I watch it all. It's a variation of the Jordan Peterson rule....Always assume that the person that you're talking to knows something that you don't. Megan has avenues and sources to things that I don't and that's why I value her channel. I have to wonder why you're even here if you don't like her at all. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that you're a left wing plant, here to smear her channel because it does espouse conservative ideas. Fortunately, I'm not but I still have to wonder what your purpose could be.
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  7197.  @stingray427man  I forgot that this was Rubin's channel. That's actually why I'm here, too. However, I subscribe to Megan's channel as well. I watch FOX and MSNBC and I read all kinds of literature from all angles. I try not to be one dimensional. As for friends....I spent years as a bartender. I sometimes feel that I've too many friends but it's okay. It's better than being alone. Besides, I have my kids, grandkids, my dad and 6 siblings if I need company....or I'll just sit outside under the tree and the neighbours stop and talk. I just got back from 2 weeks at a cottage that I rented with friends. No radio, no TV or newspapers, just drinking beers, playing cards, some fishing and making fun of each other. No politics at all.
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  7198.  @eta2380  Climate change is another red herring. When conditions change you adapt....or die. Humans adapted after the glaciers melted some 11,000 years ago and they didn't have near the benefits that we have now. If climate change is an issue, assess how it will affect your area and find solutions so your area can survive your new environment. The California Democrats are stuck in progressive ideology instead of looking for practical solutions.
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  7199. Do these leftist politicians take courses on how NOT to answer direct questions? It's no wonder the average voters hate politicians. When a person refuses to answer a question, they evoke suspicion. Listening to this guy, I'm positive that he's trying to hide his true intentions with pretty sounding platitudes.
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  7200.  @all2blame163  You don't put demented seniors in jail. That's just cruel.
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  7201.  @stevendouglas3781  Evil is stupid. It's the stupidity of destruction. Practice evil and you will always suffer negative consequences. That's stupid. If you practice morality, you will make wise decisions, the antithesis of making stupid decisions.
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  7202. If Hunter Biden was smart, he'd identify as a woman. That would prove that he couldn't be the father of that child. For someone who's "the smartest guy I know", he's not that bright.
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  7203. We have to more honest about what the "woke" culture actually is. It's Communism, plain and simple. It's why it's so obsessed with group identity. It pits each group against each other using the communist oppressor/oppressed creed as it's guide. That's why it's so important, for those Marxists, to make students feel bad about being a part of a successful demographic and encouraging them to find a group in which they could too be a part of the oppressed or victim. Also, we have to outline just how horrific Communism has been in the 20th Century and how it's a system that's not self sustaining.
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  7204. Why would they do that? Do you think that their message has more meaning if they're in different houses? It doesn't even make sense. It sounds like step 1 of a conspiracy theory. Next you'll be telling us that they're sporting fake beards to look smarter.
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  7205.  @alanguages  I wasn't try to correct you. I'm sorry if I gave that impression. It was more of a stamp of approval to what you were saying. I've quite cynically told people that the Democrats have found a way to convince the Black Community that segregation is a worthwhile goal, the very thing that the Democrats had fought for through the Jim Crow era. With the black community, voluntarily segregating themselves, the Democrats get exactly what they've always wanted, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" to quote a sixties Democrat. They get the bonus of making themselves look like the good guys. They're sneaky and dirty bunch.
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  7206.  @blagdomj  Between Italy and Spain, they have a population total of around 100 million people, compared to the US population of just over 300 million. They also have 189,000 cases to the America's 164,000 cases. The US has THREE TIMES the population than those 2 put together, yet MORE cases. WORSE....they have, between the 2 of them, 18,307 deaths compared to the America's 3,184 deaths, THREE TIMES THAT OF THE US. I can tell EXACTLY why Italy, Spain and the New York area are the hardest hit by the virus, right now, but YOU don't want to hear it, because you won't like what I'm going to tell you.
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  7207.  @hughgasey9666  As an investor, it's always easier to remake a business than it is to start from scratch. You have to get rid of those at the top, that's a given but the average cameraman, cleaner, techie, driver and the like, can do the job regardless of political thoughts. A good owner could turn it around within 5 years. That would be an excellent turnaround in any business.
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  7208.  @deweyseymour4268  Do you know why New York is the epicentre of the virus in the US. It's not because of Trump. It's because De Blasio, the genius mayor of New York and his top health official, said there was nothing to worry about, the day after Trump closed travel to China. They said that Trump was racist and to keep going out and enjoying yourselves and not to forget to go to the Chinese New Years Parade on Feb 9.....and Cuomo backed him, at the time. Even on March 11th, after Trump had assembled his updated version of this task force, De Blasio was STILL telling New Yorkers to go out as normal. He stopped because his staff said they were going to quit if he didn't stop it. That's why New York is the epicenter. It was their Trump Derangement Syndrome, in high gear, that was the cause and the left leaning New York population. Maybe Trump sounds like a liar to you but I realised, by listening to Trump, HIMSELF, and NOT the MSM's interpretation of what he's saying, that this was going to be bad. I realised it back in Feb. already not just because of what he was saying, but more by what he was doing. When the toilet paper panic happened, I'd already been ready for a couple of weeks. People like you don't know how to read or understand people. If it isn't laid out in PLAIN English, and sometimes not even then, you just don't get it. Instead, you just spew anger, hatred and insults due to your lack of comprehension of what is ACTUALLY happening.
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  7209.  @petermuller5800  This was 4 years ago and Trump WAS the president. So he was doing what a president NORMALLY does.
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  7210.  @meb280  There's a reason that "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Ten Commandants. That yearning for the property of others is spurred by envy and is one of the most destructive of human forces. It's ruined multiple nations and caused the deaths of hundreds of millions.
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  7211. Are you saying presidents can't die? Gosh....I didn't know that.
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  7212.  @haraldbredsdorff2699  I've actually seen people do exactly that. Apparently, we will never learn.
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  7213. Would being male be grounds for a late term abortion? I mean, they do suffer from toxic masculinity and pose a threat to women everywhere. It's an innate male trait. That's my crystal ball prediction. I don't like it but I can see it happening.
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  7214. People like these 2 are the people that build a country. People that are involved with BLM can only destroy. I don't like to use that word, but I HATE everything that BLM stand for.
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  7215. It's the CBC. Every Canadian knows that they're a bunch of leftie nuts.
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  7216.  @chickenlover657  I've read Marx and this is a great discussion.
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  7217.  @chickenlover657  Do you know I think is ridiculous. That you make a snarky claim about not reading Marx and yet you actually say NOTHING about this discussion OR Marx's writings. NOT ONE WORD. Your comment means nothing until you back it up and prove that what's being said is ridiculous or just plain wrong. Your comment is no better than a troll and apparently it's working. However, you're not about to discuss the video or what was said in it. You only talk people. To quote....Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt. Take that any way you want.
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  7218.  @chickenlover657  They did discuss how slogans are used by Marxists, actually people in general but how Marx's slogans are always about tearing society apart. "Workers of the world unite" which implies the "class struggle" and the need of the proletariat to "take over the means of production". All slogans and all calling for the division of the people into groups which they define. They mention how people are still doing it through slogans like "DEI" and "gender affirming care". Strangely, it's the radical socialists who're always repeating these phrases like mantras of the deified or good. How can these phrases be negative when they sound so virtuous? How can this be? I don't know because their discussion didn't cause me to think about what they just said. (that's extreme sarcasm, by the way).
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  7219.  @chickenlover657  One of the things about socialist thinking is that socialism is an evolving phenomenon based on the idea of the dialectic. Marx's brand of socialism is the product of the socialist ideas that came before him. To be socialist does NOT mean that you're Marxist. Socialism comes in various guises. Mussolini was a socialist but had different socialist ideas than Lenin and Lenin, the Bolshevik, had different ideas than the rival socialist Mensheviks. Today's socialist are different again than Marxists, who emphasised class as the great divider of society. American socialists don't do that due to the fact that socialists 50 to 60 years ago concluded that the western workers were not about to foster revolution because things were going to well for them. So they changed their emphasis to identity, namely race, gender or sexuality. Same claims of oppression and inequality but from a different viewpoint. "We have nothing to lose but our chains" has been a slogan of the radical socialist for over 150 years among others. Orwell spoke about Party slogans in his writings, especially in his books "Animal Farm" and "1984". That was over 70 years ago. They're still using them. In Lenin's time it was the "class struggle", and "workers taking over the means of production". Now it's "white supremacy", "white fragility", "Diversity, equity and inclusion". Different slogans for different times. Thoughtlessly repeated with no need to think about it. The slogan is the truth, until a "new truth" is revealed. No need to talk further than that. The truth, their truth, is self evident until we need a "new truth". That's the sloganeering. They didn't have the communication apparatus like we do today so they don't have the number of slogans and catch-phrases that we do now. However, it doesn't negate the mindset of the simplistic summation to be explanation enough for complex socialist ideas. It's enough to repeat the slogan. The rest, to their mind, is just window dressing.
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  7220.  @chickenlover657  You missed my point. They're all versions of Socialism. Socialism definition: a political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Different individuals have different ideas on how it should be manifested but that definition brings it to its basics. As for the Frankfurt School, I've read Marcuse and I also know that the group are Marxist philosophers, who have advanced Marxist thought into different Critical Theories. I've read some of the material and it's based on Socialist and Marxist ideas but advanced, through the dialectic, so to evolve along with societal conditions. I'm sure that Peterson is no fan of the Frankfurt School for just that reason. In fact, it's how he came to fame. He fought back against Critical Queer Theory at the University of Toronto, specifically the infamous Bill C-16 which had it's roots in Critical Theory and Identity politics, which both came from the Frankfurt School which grew out of Marxism and Socialist thought. That's when he suggested that one could be prosecuted for misgendering and was told that he was being reactionary and bigoted. Turns out, he was correct. He's dead set against the ideas of those from the Frankfurt School as well as the Postmodernists.
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  7221.  @chickenlover657  Marx influenced a lot of the modern Socialist thought. You can't even begin to talk about communism and radical socialism without reference to Marx. His influence is huge. I can't recall any direct mention of the Marcuse, Aldorno or Horkenheimer but he's definitely NOT a fan of identity politics which grew out of their beliefs. He has talked about the Postmodernists, specifically Foucault and Derrida and he's been quite outspoken on their socialist ideas....also influenced by Marx and others. You can no more separate Marx from Communism than you could Jesus from Christianity. Marx is the most influential communist or socialist who ever lived. Every modern socialist has been influenced by his writings. It's pointless to try and separate Marx and communism as they're so tightly woven together. One thing that influenced Marx was the teachings of Hegel and the Hegelian dialectic. If you can figure that idea out, it's so convoluted that it's nearly impossible, you'll better understand how socialist ideas progress. It explains the modern ideas of the progressive, an updated brand of socialism. It'll also shows how Marx is a central figure in the progression of Socialism.
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  7222.  @chickenlover657  I never said that Marx was the father of Communism. I said that he was the most influential of all the communists. I even mentioned Hegel as an influence on his thinking. Rousseau was as well and so were the socialists of the French Revolution and they all preceded him. As for the Frankfurt School, they were also highly influenced by Marx and even called themselves "Marxists". However, it would seem that you don't even get my reference to Hegel of the Hegelian dialectic. Hegel said that society leaps ahead in leaps and bounds and Socialists adopted this idea as a part of the evolution of Socialism, including Marx. It's why Mao called his socialist plan "The Great Leap Forward". It was in homage to Hegel. Hegel and Marx both influenced the Bolsheviks, who supported the Frankfort School, who came up with Critical Theory. These groups and individuals, who were all recognised as great Socialist thinkers, influenced the Postmodernists and they were big influences on the modern progressives, like Ibram X. Kendi, Kimberly Crenshaw, Derek Bell, Robin DiAngelo, Michael Dyson and others. It's all a progression. I would invite you to read their work and then you'll see how this all ties in together. You are right, though. The Frankfurt School are deeply responsible for the mess we're in now but they're not alone. There are a lot of Socialist thinkers who added to this mix and before we beat this thing, I'm sure there will be a lot more.
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  7223.  @chickenlover657  Yet, you haven't said one thing that he said that's false. What did he say that's so wrong? I've been waiting but all you've done is take jabs at his character but you've not offered one thing to back up your claim of his ignorance. Now back it up.
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  7224.  @chickenlover657  This is copied and pasted from YOUR comment. "JBP and his collocutor are either misinformed, disingenuous or plain intellectually dishonest and manipulative." Who do you think we're talking about? That's quite the assault on Jordan's character, too. Also, Marx has had a huge effect on the ideals of socialism. To pretend that he hasn't is being wilfully blind. I even went to great lengths to show the progression of the socialist movement. I gave multiple names, their socialist movements and how they were all linked to one another and especially to Marx. It's YOU who doesn't want to acknowledge or address anything I said. Then you've insinuated that his audience is ignorant. Well thank you for your incite into people that you don't know or have even met. Thank you for implying that I'm ignorant. I think that I've shown you that I do know about this subject and that I'm not ignorant on the subject. I've read a LOT more on it than you have or we'd be having a discussion on what you DO know and have to offer. However, you won't do that. You attack his character with your accusations of his dishonesty and manipulative behaviour. I think that your entire opinion is based on your hatred of the man....nothing else.
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  7225.  @chickenlover657  Calling someone manipulative and dishonest is an assault on someone's character. It's also an assault on someone's character to call their audience "ignorant'. I've not said that I've read more than an historian, whatever that means. I've said that I've PROBABLY read more about it than you. YOU are the one that brought up the Frankfurt School, not me. You're the one who said that the new left has been influenced by that school and NOT Marx. I went through a long description about how the socialists were influenced by each other but now YOU don't want to discuss other socialists, just the ones that you want to talk about. So here goes using YOUR rules. From the Encyclopedia Britannica: Frankfurt School, group of researchers associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, who applied Marxism to a radical interdisciplinary social theory. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. From the Jacobin Society: Carl Grünberg, the institute’s (the Frankfurt School) first director, officially gave it a Marxist orientation. From ScienceDirect: primarily influenced by Marxism, the Frankfurt School rejected an orthodox reading of Marx and represented a different form of Marxism than their Bolshevik contemporaries. I can do this all day. They were most definitely influenced by Karl Marx. So give it up.
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  7226. Public restroom have been the hunting grounds of predators for decades. They've just made it easier to have a successful hunt.
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  7227.  @jimcutright  He's suffering from a form of Tourette's syndrome.
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  7228. So the Islamophobe is accusing Muslims of being homophobes. This should set Trudeau's brain into convulsions.
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  7229. I has a feeling that Maajid would be the voice of reason in this matter. The people that should have dealt with the matter years ago, were afraid to deal with it and left a huge hole for the populists to enter. Had the authorities been honest as well as the Muslim community, they would not be in this position and Tommy Robinson would be a nobody. It's a huge failure of those in power and one that should be of great shame. However, it would appear that they still prefer to wallow in denial and silence. I'm afraid that it will only strengthen the populist movement.
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  7230. It's NOT anti-trans. It's about the idea of gender affirming care, puberty blockers, hormone treatments and drug and surgeries on healthy CHILDREN. Most of us are afraid that children are too young to make these decisions and it might do irreparable harm that will last their entire life.....and don't give me this nonsense about "experts'. Experts prescribed opioids, thalidomide, performed lobotomies, electric shock treatment and more, all things that we later had to rescind and we don't do anymore because the experts were WRONG. Don't give in to the emotionally charged group who are ideologically obsessed and do NOT succumb to the emotional blackmail of "they well off themselves if you don't do as they say". I've heard this before. "If you leave me, I will do great harm to myself". It's as manipulative as it gets.
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  7231. @vicky-zy4de Is no the answer? Musk has been involved in space exploration and has been working with NASA for years, under both Democrats and Republicans. He's sending satellites into space as an American citizen. Would he not need security checks for that? So, I checked. Apparently, he has had top security clearance for years and it was due to his involvement in the space industry and NASA. He's also said that way too much is classified and that the government has being using it to hide actions which could be seen as highly dubious and even unethical. No surprise there. What really surprises me is that DOGE is uncovering examples of HUGE government waste and corruption. Billions and billions of our tax money. Yet, some people are complaining. Why would you, why would ANYONE, be upset at the person who's revealing that our government and its bureaucracy is using our tax money as a personal piggy bank? That baffles me.
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  7232. Kelly doesn't understand. She says exactly that. She's fired for not understanding something. She never once put anyone down. She expressed no hatred. In fact, she even expressed an admiration for Diana Ross and thought that dressing up as her might be a form of flattery. She might be wrong in how someone might find it offensive but I don't think she meant to insult anyone. Don Lemon did. He, flat out, demonised white people, calling them a terrorist threat and calling for a travel ban based solely on skin colour. It's a statement of vilification of a demographic and it fits the definition of racism. It's all about intent. Kelly did not intend to insult or demonise. She just didn't understand an idea. Lemon did intend. His intentions are quite clear and it was an expression of disdain for a group for superficial reasons. If anyone should be fired of the two, it should have been Don Lemon.
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  7233.  @strategery101  We'll explain it red faced, with egg all over our face.
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  7234.  @Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave  Who are you talking to? If you're responding to the original comment, did you ever miss the point. If it's someone, who's message is gone, never mind.
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  7235.  @allandouglas4856  Well....DUH!!! I thought that I made it quite clear that I didn't know who he was talking to. I just asked him to clarify. Was it the one who made the original comment or someone who's comment is hidden? That was a BIG part of my comment. Why is that so difficult to understand?
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  7236.  @rodiusmaximus  In my very first comment I asked Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave who he was talking to. The @Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave was very clear. I then told him that if I was wrong to ignore my comment. i'm not sure why that's so difficult.
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  7237. What amazes me is how these people actually walk towards the "concentration" camps. What rational person would do that? Juan, talking about Trump lying....what a joke. Trump does say a lot of stupid things but it was Pelosi, Schumer and Obama that kept saying that this was a manufactured crisis. That was a major lie. Then, to prove that it was a manufactured crisis, they refused to allow funding for more bed space. Wouldn't it be the Democrats that are creating intolerable conditions if that's their stance? In fact, kids were kept in cages during Obama's administration. Why do Democrats ignore this? Those pictures, taken in 2014 really do look as if it was the Democrats were running the "concentration" camps. If the Democrats had any integrity, they'd admit their complicity in this problem and then, like mature adults, step up and try to solve the problem. Using these migrants as pawns to defeat a president they hate is as heartless as it gets.
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  7238.  @SeasideDetective2  What having minorities, who are conservatives, does is show that conservative ideas are universal. That's why they are held up. It says..."See, our ideals aren't a racial issue. It's a human issue and about human rights" That's why it's important that it becomes general knowledge. It also shows that you're not obligated to group think. You seem to want to see the negative side, no matter what the stance. When you're liberal, you resent minority conservatives. When you're a conservative, you resent minorities and you resent that whites use the "good" minorities as tokens. Not a lot of positive vibes there. Also, quite the obsession with race.
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  7239.  @staceybryceadams9276  I wonder how many people thought that there wouldn't be a Civil War in 1845? I have a feeling that there were quite a few Americans who would have said. "No way". Also, poverty is relative. What's poor in the the US is pretty good in the Sudan. I'll bet you'd rather be poor in Alabama than middle class in Ethiopia.
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  7240. The world has always been evil. Remember the Holocaust? Before that Holodomor? The Turkish slaughter of Armenians. The Mongols? Dozens....if not hundreds of other examples. All it takes for it to manifest itself is the right circumstances. It's always boiling just below the surface. It just needs something to unleash it and the Hamas slaughter in Israel is just that.
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  7241.  @joesmith4443  So.....what does that mean? What's your point?
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  7242.  @The00Dude  So what if he doesn't like Trump. I don't like him, either. However, I supported him in 2020 and as long as the Democrats keep acting the way they do, I'll support him in 2024. It's a trade off. These are the choices and Trump had it going just great until the Covid crap started. I've worked with and for people that I didn't like as people but I take them for what they are and how competent and successful they've shown themselves to be. I don't have to like someone to appreciate their abilities. It's NOT a popularity contest.
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  7243.  @Lawrence_Talbot  Cain and all his descendants were NOT black. Years after Cain died, the world was wiped out by a flood. The only people left were Noah and his family. If Cain's descendants were black, that lineage would have died out with the flood. That's according to the Bible. Also, Lilith is only mentioned once in the Bible and only in certain versions. She's referred to as a night demon or monster. Nowhere else in the Bible is she mentioned. The Israelites did have folk tales surrounding Lilith which came from their time in Babylon but Lilith is NOT a figure that is a part of Christianity, at least not in the context that you've given. Also, Matt doesn't see anything wrong with this kid. He said so explicitly. He feels that the kid is making a mistake and he may be getting harmful information. Matt is encouraging him to love the person that he was born as and that there's nothing wrong enough with that person to warrant such radical medical treatment. Love yourself as you are and work within that framework to better yourself. People have been at war with one another as long as there's been recorded history. Even the indigenous, of the Americas, went Empire building and used war to gain their power. It's that way all over the world, throughout all of history. Just about everything that you said is based on an enmity of Christianity and your manipulation of facts to rationalise that deep dislike. That's called bigotry and it shows that you may well have become the monster that you're seeking to destroy. (Nietzsche)
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  7244. @justin schumacher You don't judge a person's character on the the character of others. Besides, I don't know what 8 you're talking about.
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  7245.  @andrewalderman9489  Such a simplistic answer. The bank accepted Trump's assessment, gave him the money and he paid it back with interest. Where's the fraud? If the bank doesn't perform their own assessment of that property, that's on them. It's standard procedure in the banking business. They gave Trump that money because they were satisfied with his statement. This isn't just about Trump. This is about using the court system to take down a private citizen. Today Trump....tomorrow it will be you. Don't give anyone that kind of power. You may regret it someday.
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  7246. They have to be the unfriendliest bunch that I've ever seen. They can't even discuss their beliefs in the hopes of recruiting new voters to their side. If they keep up their rancorous behaviour, they'll never win another election.
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  7247. Disgusting....isn't it?
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  7248. I wish I could do a Rip Van Winkle and wake up in 20 years. Things will have to be better then because it can't get any stupider.
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  7249.  @usurperx7111  Of course I'm racist. Calling people names is always a lot easier than actually discussing the issue. Did it ever occur to you that it was the "white" owners and management that decided to have the "black" anthem sung at this football game. The masters who are allowing them to have their own anthem. That's NOT me, it's the "white saviour" types who babble on incessantly about DEI and how we must fix things for those minorities who can't do it for themselves. Minorities are not children and using sarcasm, to point out that this is the attitude of the white woke progressives, seems to have gone over your head.
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  7250. Trump colluded with Putin to send Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine to help in their war against......Putin. This year, Putin will again interfere in the American election to help Trump win so he can send MORE aid to Ukraine. It all makes sense in a convoluted Democrat way.
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  7251.  @brianmeen2158  Malcolm X stated that the biggest threat to black Americans is white liberals. He's be called the black face of white supremacy if he were alive today and saying things like that.
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  7252.  David Hutchins  It's nice that they've apologised for the role of the African Kingdoms but I don't see it as necessary. It wasn't them. It was their ancestors. Not one of us should be held accountable for what our ancestors did because there isn't a person on the planet that doesn't have ancestors that have taken part in deplorable acts. My parents lived through the war in the Netherlands. My mother didn't have a father and was exceptionally poor as a child. She, along with her family, almost starved to death because of the actions of the Nazis. In the sixties and seventies, I worked with guys who were in the military in Germany, as Gestapo and military grunts. I had friends whose fathers fought in Holland in the German military. I don't expect an apology from them. Part of the healing process isn't just feeling remorse. It's also forgiveness. Unless those two qualities don't manifest themselves, the pain will never go away. Forgiveness is just as important as the apology and depending on the person, maybe even more important.
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  7253.  David Hutchins  I fully understand how those African kingdoms had been involved in the slave trade long before the trans-Atlantic slave trade. My point is that it's nice that the modern African apologises but that modern guy is no more responsible than I am or you. History is complex. It's better to acknowledge that it happened and move on. Too many people these days want to lay blame. That can be an exceedingly destructive human trait. Blame has a habit of morphing into retribution and that has been catastrophic in history. That's my point. In a way, it's just an extension of what you're saying. The slave trade, in history, is complex and it's too simplistic to just point fingers and yell "GUILTY!!!"
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  7254.  @DreamFactories  He was talking about the NFL owners. He likened them to slave owners and I'm not sure why. The players are part of a players union in which they negotiate with the owners to give them a stake in the success of the league. Each player can sign a personal contract with the team if they want or not sign it. They can sign with any team they like after they've been in the league for a fixed amount of years. They can leave the league any time they want and do whatever you want. A team owner may not like an exceptional player to leave but there is absolutely nothing he can do about it. To even begin to compare those owners to the real slave owners of colonial America is a slap in the face to the real slaves of that era. The players union can bring those owners to their knees and even bankrupt some of those owners if they put their mind to it....but they won't. The players aren't that stupid. They know that for them to have success the owners must have success. Notice, he didn't say that about the NBA owners. LeBron knows the reason for his own success and isn't so stupid as to not be appreciative of it.
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  7255. "Leftism makes you indecent". On the surface, that sounds as hateful as what Biden said in his speech, but you have to look at it a little closer. What makes this statement true is the leftist idea that they are striving for that socialist Utopia on earth. This means that anyone that disagrees with that path to Utopia, is striving to prevent that Utopia, probably for personal gain. In effect, their enemies are willing to destroy the planet, to stop their Utopia from ever coming to fruition. Case in point....climate change and environmental catastrophes. Conservatives have a difficult time falling in line with the view that the socialists have on those subjects. Conservatives believe, for the most part, that Utopia is unachievable, in this life. "My Kingdom is not of this earth" which describes the religious Utopia, that we know as heaven, will never be a part of human existence as we know it. Instead, being the flawed creatures that we are, we are to find redemption, in order to find achieve that Utopia, in the spiritual realm and after we die. We have to hope, through our faith and how we live, that we can find the grace that gets us to that Utopian perfection after our life is over. That makes it a personal journey which smacks of selfishness and greed to the socialist which, to them, negates their socialist Utopia on earth. We're both striving for the same thing but the socialists have a deeper commitment to a heaven on earth and any deviation from that goal must be met with force and hostility. Of course it's a lot more complex than that but that's how I see it, anyway.
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  7256.  @ChiroTheHero  For the older students who've already been indoctrinated. The little ones wouldn't know enough to be offended by gender faux pas. That's why the left wants to start on them in kindergarten. The kids are ripe for indoctrination so by the time they're in high school, they don't know anything but progressive ideals.
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  7257. So far, 4 people are stuck with year's worth of toilet paper. I'm wondering how many of them there will be. Keep an eye on "thumbs down" meter.
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  7258.  @groverg7287  He didn't have to. The ARMY paid for it and other private donors. Why would ANYONE pay for something that was already paid for. That would make the family a bunch of scammers and from what I've seen, they wouldn't do that. I repeat. THE ARMY PAID FOR IT. Why would Trump pay for it AGAIN? You're hatred is making your brain shrivel.
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  7259.  @jeannicolas8150  I'm not a lawyer so I can't tell whether they have a legal case to sue. What I will tell you that this is one of the most disgusting things that I've ever seen from the media. An anonymous source? REALLY!!! That's what they're basing this on? Then the sister of the victim told them that she wanted NOTHING to do with this story and then showed her appreciation of what Trump did by saying that she's going to vote for Trump. Yet, you can't see why people are so outraged at what this reporter did. I've lost a child and if a reporter did this to my family, I'd be extremely angry. Even the thought of it has me vibrating. Please....grow a heart.
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  7260. @Scooters Videos Everyone could play that stupid game. What about watching CNN, the guys who brought you those horrific Catholic boys from Covington. The ones who were sure that Jussie Smollett was genuinely attacked. Man, that was smart. Or Don Lemon, offering the idea that the missing Malaysian Airline was swallowed up by a black hole. Or Don Acostas, continuously asking "when are going to stop beating your wife" type questions. Anyone, who doesn't do their own fact checking, no matter what network they watch, they're the dumb ones. Blindly listening to one person is the perfect path to brainwashing.
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  7261. Any political party that would drug and surgically alter children, against the wishes of their parents, that allows children to diagnose their own mental health, will NEVER get my vote. My logic? Children are the most vulnerable in society. If they would do this to children, what would they do to the rest of us?
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  7262.  @GregoryAnderson  This isn't failed Darwinian terms. Darwin's theory of evolution isn't this at all. Some people have corrupted the idea for their own agenda but no evolutionary scientist would ever equate racism with evolution. Bigotry comes from the mind. It's not the genetic variants who happen to find that certain genetic traits seem to help more in survival than others. That's evolutionary theory. What I invent in my head isn't evolution.
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  7263. What is the difference between a "dictatorship" and a "totalitarian dictatorship"? It seems like a simple question. Why won't Schiff answer it? I just don't get it;.
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  7264.  @adlucem9845  Well done. I would like to add something that's a little different. All the minority neighbourhoods that were destroyed by the BLM riots. You didn't see the homes of the elites destroyed and the minute that they were threatened, suddenly the police and National Guard went into action. Thanks for that list. I've a mind to copy it so that I use it to show the BLM apologists in other conversations. I hope you don't mind.
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  7265.    And the people on the left say that Conservatives are filled with hate. You're no better. The flip side of the same coin.
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  7266. @Asher JM Leask Yet, it's conservative types that travelled to Baltimore and joined with more conservatives in Baltimore to clean up the city. Democrats, the "liberals" are accusing them of....I'm not really sure of what they're accusing them of. Al Sharpton he travelled to Baltimore, too. However, that Democrat showed up in a 3 piece suit and complained about those who were out there doing the work. If that man really cared, he'd be in coveralls, wearing work gloves and picking up trash. Not him, though. That mess doesn't concern him in the least. Neither does the crime. Try to stop the crime by policing the area and as soon as the first miss step by a police officer, he'll show up complaining about police brutality and guess what? Individual officers are afraid to engage aggressive black criminals because it could mean their job, their reputation, their future and maybe even their safety. So the crime goes on. The garbage keeps piling up. Property values keep deteriorating and Sharpton goes back to New York and picks out another fancy 3 piece suit. Causation does equal correlation if you're the one that causes nothing to be done. The end result will be west end Baltimore. One causes the other. If you don't do the dishes and the dishes will pile up. (This is a metaphor. If you don't know what metaphor means, google it).
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  7267. @Asher JM Leask Well, then say something of value. Say something that helps people instead of hiding behind cute little cliches that don't do a damn thing. I'd say that you don't have an legit answer to what I've said. That's why you're telling me to go away.
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  7268. @Asher JM Leask Then tell me what those 4 words meant. Tell us all. Apparently, I've missed you're meaning. Why say something that makes no sense to anyone. Might as well say "Gobbledegook" 4 times. That would be just as enlightening.
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  7269. As long as Newsome, or whatever governor happens to be in power there, doesn't take responsibility for the homeless problems, nothing will ever get done. For Newsome to fix it, he has to say "This is my responsibility and if things get worse it's my doing. If I try my best to improve conditions and it gets worse, I've failed." That's how you fix things. Take it onto your shoulders and get to work.
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  7270.    Someone is stealing from charity? Right now.....in this time of crisis? Who would do that?
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  7271.    No.... he had to repay money that he wasted and misused in his presidential campaign. He was never accused or found guilty of stealing those funds. What he did was not a crime but it was unethical. It's not even impeachable. Also, you're actually going to withhold aid to sick and dying Americans, the doctors and hospitals that can help them, the people that are losing their jobs and businesses and their life savings, out of a fear that Trump MIGHT skim some off. GREAT!!!!! I guess no funds for anyone until the election or some kind of removable process to get him out of office or a full out revolution. Trump is the president right now. The country needs that aid, right now and instead of thinking of the 300,000,000 plus Americans, you're focused on a worry that ONE person may of may not do something nefarious. You sure have your priorities straight.
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  7272.  @gissneric  I'll repeat myself "People don't always get what they want". I don't know how I could be more straight up than that. If you're insinuating that DeSantis would want to bring back Jim Crow, he's a Republican. Jim Crow is a Democrat creation. It's the left that's obsessed with race. It's the result of the post-modernist idea that socialism can't be brought to fruition, in America, through class struggle, as Marx had suggested. It would have to be done through a racial lens and it for it to work, racial strife must be nurtured to the point of anger and resentment. It was Democrats, in California, that wanted to rescind the state Civil Rights Act in the last election. Fortunately, California voters rejected that bill.
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  7273. Milano: Let them eat cake.
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  7274. Apparently, they've found evidence that might push that date back to 300,000 years. I think that the 30 thousand figure was a mistake and that he has added a correction at the beginning of the video.
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  7275. If this was Donald Trump Jr. who did this and was an addict, the left would want to throw away the key.
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  7276. I have to say that I was astounded to hear what Ruth Bader Ginsberg had to say about Roe v Wade. Wouldn't they be upset if she was still alive and voted to strike DOWN that "undemocratic" decision, along with the right leaning Justices in the Supreme Court.
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  7277. I don't always agree with Tim but I've never agreed with anyone all the time. I appreciate that he's here and at least tries to show all there is to a story. I don't have to agree with him. I want to hear all the news not just the MSM slanted version. If I wanted full agreement, I'd listen to the guy in the mirror.
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  7278. @trumps hairflap If she was a country judge then she's a judge. Your comment is one that an Ivy League elitist would post. One of those snooty Yaleys, with their nose in the air, trying not to smell the unwashed grads from "those" schools. They have a home on the Cape and like to winter on the Riviera. That's what you sound like.
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  7279. You don't know what it's bad in Italy, Tim? Maybe it's because the mayor of Florence said that travel restrictions to China was racist and said people should hug a Chinese tourist if they saw one to show that they loved Asians. That, in spite of the fact that the first 2 cases were a Chinese couple from Wuhan, China. That was Feb 1st. At the same time, in New York, Mayor Bill De Blasio and his own staff said that New Yorkers should go out and have a good time and go to the Chinese New Year's Parade on Feb 9th. De Blasio kept that kind of talk up until March 11th, until members of his staff threatened to resign if he didn't stop. I wonder how many infected American tourist came back to New York, in the week before that parade, and attended that parade. If 25 was the number, that would have been enough. That's why, along with those feminists in Spain, the virus took off in Italy, Spain and the New York area. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
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  7280.  @Johhny_McMerica  Fantasy???? The laptop exists. You can read all about it. It's there. The FBI asked Twitter and Facebook to suppress the NY Post article about it. The emails exist and you can access them. It's astounding that after a couple of days, 51 former intelligence agents signed a letter stating that this had the earmarks of Russian disinformation. That's all it took....a few days. That's quite the investigation. LOL. If this stuff is even half true, the Bidens, the IRS, FBI, the CiA and a lot of Democrats cheated YOU and all Americans......and YOU DON"T CARE????? Then again....if you're just a bot or an NPC, why would you care.
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  7281.  @bryanheart6149  I don't share my tax bill with the world and neither do YOU. However, I do share my taxes with the government under the assurance that this will remain private and only between the agent assigned and myself and any person hired to do my taxes. The minute that I refuse to do my taxes, the government can come after me for tax evasion. If they're not satisfied, they can audit my assets. Trump was being audited and the IRS has never charged him with any tax fraud or evasion. He doesn't have to share his financial status with Rachel Maddow, CNN, Barney Rubble or YOU. That's none of your business. He only has to share it with the government agents who asses his tax bill. Period. If you find out that YOUR bank is granting loans without any real estate appraisals, get your money out tomorrow.....in ten minutes if possible. Your money isn't safe there.
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  7282.  @PhullyNo1  It seems that you don't have too much to say, do you GENIUS? However, I'll bet you're still muttering to yourself that Trump committed fraud. If you had any integrity, just a tiny speck of it, you'd admit how wrong you were but we'll never hear from you. Your hatred, your TDS won't allow you to admit that you don't understand what really happened.
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  7283. Atta boy. Lets engage in more gossip. If you have facts....up them. Otherwise, keep the gossip in the back alleys where it belongs.
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  7284. Sam195 So, he was in the pride parade. How does that make him homosexual. He may well have done it for political purposes. That's engaging in gossip. I know people who've gone to the pride parade as well and they're not gay or bisexual. If Brown has no issues religiously or morally with homosexuality, then why wouldn't he use the pride parade to make political points. You still haven't shown anything that proves that he's gay or bisexual. You're engaging in bar room gossip and connecting dots to suit a personal agenda. You're no better than the reporter at CTV news.
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  7285.  dredgen malice  No.....he basically told Disney that the state of Florida wasn't going to give them tax breaks if they're going to use that money for political ends. That's not punishment. That's common sense. Hell.....Disney's head office is in California. What right does a Californian corporate board have to tell Floridian parents what they should believe or not and use their tax break money and clout to browbeat those parents into submission. I find it ludicrous that the left would suddenly embrace corporate power.
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  7286.  dredgen malice  Why would any government give tax breaks to a HUGE corporation, who's leadership doesn't even live in their district, that is hell bent on tearing that government down??? It would be like giving someone cash to call your employer to get you fired from your job. It doesn't make sense. Disney has received special treatment for over 50 years and they believe that this gives them the right to use their resources to usurp a duly elected government. Corporations should NEVER rule the country or expect the citizens to so beholden to them that those citizens are at the mercy of Corporate dictates. If the citizens of Florida are unhappy with Ron Desantis, they can vote him out. That's how the process works. The United States, including Florida, is NOT Corporatocracy. It's a representative democracy and NO ONE elected Disney as our representative.
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  7287.  @hairynads1098  All I know is that he's doing a great job as the governor of Florida and he led his state through Covid, brilliantly. If you look at the case and death numbers, per state, Florida was EXACTLY where they should have been by population. In fact, the numbers show that every state, whether with strict Covid restrictions or lax ones, like Florida, ended approximately where their populations said they should. In other words, the lockdowns did NOTHING.
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  7288.  @27manduh  He led Florida through the pandemic without losing hardly any businesses and with above average economic growth. He kept the schools open so Florida students are performing way better than the states that closed their schools. He invoked the "Parental Rights in Education" bill, guaranteeing that parents won't be kept in the dark about what is being taught in school. He led Florida through Hurricane Ian and Nicole, in 2022, in such a way that he carried a 20% win in the Gubernatorial race later that year. He only won be a .4% lead in 2018. His 2022 lead was one of the biggest leads for the Republicans in Florida in years. Had he done a bad job, why would he have went from a .4% win in 2018 to a 20% win if 2022. He did a hell of a lot more than just talk and the people of Florida rewarded his efforts by giving him such an outstanding win.
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  7289. Baloney. I guarantee you that the generation that were young adults right after WW2 would never allow themselves to be in that position. They worked their butts off, sacrificed their time and effort, scrimped and saved with no luxuries until all priorities were fulfilled. Now the young, indoctrinated by the socialist education system, expect success right away and if they don't get it, they complain and give up. I watched that war generation while I was growing up. They knew how to accomplish things. This modern crew of Democrats don't have a clue. All they can come up with is give away programs and they have nothing but disdain for those who work hard, make wise decisions and pull themselves up by the bootstraps. They're ruining the country.
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  7290.  @shannontower2176  My dad worked 3 jobs while I was growing up. My neighbour did the same and the neighbour beside him worked a full time job and worked a small dairy farm when he was done his 40 hour week. That's the way they worked. They didn't need the newest car. They got by with what they could afford, never EVER going in debt for a vehicle. They'd never have bought the latest fancy IPhone when an ordinary phone would do. Vacations? What was that? They weren't going to Europe and the Caribbean every year. They grew up in the Depression and the Big War and they knew that the only way to survive was through hard work and sacrifice. It's the only way. If you have a nation of people who don't have that work ethic and are waiting around for others to do it for them, your country will go to hell in a handbasket. That's not a delusion. Hard work is how nations succeed. Blaming others for your problems is a recipe for national disaster.
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  7291.  @shannontower2176  It's not just my families life story. It's the story of the entire North American continent. I still see the odd person working and living that way today. They're doing just fine. These are people that look for solutions to their problems, not people to blame. In fact, my brother in law, works a 60 to 70 hour week even though he's done well over the last 25 years. His son is following in his footsteps, doing his own thing, started from scratch and at 31 years old, already owns his own home. So don't tell me about life being so "great" in the fifties. People were a lot poorer than they are now. The big difference is their attitude over the attitudes so prevalent today. Back then, NO ONE, that I knew, went on vacation in the Caribbean in the winter. Now, it seems as if everyone is going. Waitresses, factory workers, cab drivers, just ordinary people. My dad didn't go on a vacation for 17 years when he was young. That's the way people lived back then. This "do your research" is one of the cheapest and meaningless comments that people throw around these days. It's dismissive, vague and arrogant, as if the person using that admonition is the only one that could possibly know anything about the subject due to their extensive knowledge and education. Instead of accusing and blaming and making vague remarks, try looking for solutions for yourself. I've heard this all before as a bartender. People whining about how their life sucks and how they have nothing, all the while swilling back up to 30 bucks worth of beer nearly every day. They're clueless.
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  7292.  @shannontower2176  It's funny how when you make a comment it's legit and when I do, it's trolling. Also, I've read lots about the NWO. It's rather vague as well. Instead of criticising what I'm saying, go to work, make wise decisions, showing others how a person should live and then vote for any politician that fights against these articles and policies that advance a NWO and encourage others to do the same. You get nowhere by complaining. You work towards your goals and against ideas that you feel are harmful. When you're blaming others, you're not doing anything to help yourself. You've put yourself in a wait mode, waiting for others to do something. Do it for yourself. Individual responsibility is the way to realise ambitions. That's what conservatism preaches. That's what I'm saying and it's completely against the collectivisation of the socialists or the NWO. In fact, we're on the same page but I'm offering a way out. You're just complaining and saying it's all hopeless.
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  7293. I was going to say a Biden rally but, as far as I know, he's never had one and no one would show up if he did.
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  7294.  @skoop651  "probably vandalise" That's not a very definitive statement. There are all kinds of videos of Trump signs being vandalised and Trump supporters having their hats removed from their heads. The entire Covington Kids debacle only happened because some of them were wearing MAGA hats. Same as the Smollett hoax. The media jumped all over those incidents, too happy to give it to the MAGA supporters. Now, I'm not going to say that there aren't Trump supporters who aren't behaving badly but if you put it on a scale, Biden and Democrat supporters have been the most vocal and violent. I can list incident after incident, especially in the schools, where conservatives were physically attacked and threatened.
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  7295.  @craigentrekin5883  That's the media. They're biased and they're driven to make Biden look great and to vilify Trump. In the 2016 elections, they were saying that no one was going to Trump rallies, even though it wasn't true. They have to do that so they can cheat and get away with it.
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  7296. I'm not a big Trump fan. My statement is based on observations of people around me. Democrat supporters are angrier and Trump supporters tend to keep their politics to themselves to avoid trouble. I'm a bartender and Trumpers give their support in hushed tones.
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  7297. My god....is this clown journalist only 6 years old? He has to be told how to behave at the residence of the President of the United States? My grandkids didn't have to be told at that age and this guy is supposed to be a grown man. What an embarrassment to himself and those who he works for. I would have fired him and sent someone to take his place that, at least, has a standard of decorum.
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  7298.  @rustinstardust2094  It is also possible that the Unibomber Manifesto did influence Mangione's decision to commit murder. Either way, it is interesting and opens up possibilities either way. Since his own Manifesto reflects the Unibomber's Manifesto, it's a legit question and the roommates response is rather rather surprising and eyebrow raising. It begs the question that if it didn't influence him, what did? Also, we have no idea whether the roommate would or did lie for Mangione. There's good reason to be doubtful of the roommate's intentions or agenda. We just don't know.
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  7299.  Your Worst Nightmare - Facts  In 1960, I was 9 years old. I WAS one of those hippies. I lived through Vietnam, remember the the repeal of Jim Crow and saw the whites only signs that had yet to be taken down in 1969. So don't give me this superior attitude. Where did you get the idea that I don't believe that global warming isn't man made? I never said that at all. I said that if you force change without thought, that it could be a disaster worse than what climate change could bring. If you take too much of our resources and the wealth that we've created to transform the world overnight, you might find that we'll end up with nothing.....like Venezuela. Also, you've not even addressed one point that I've made, including the big one about population growth. It's a fact that affluence has brought birth rates down and that most of the Western countries would be experiencing population declines were it not for immigration. That's a fact. Also, outcomes from global warming are still speculative. Global warming is real but there are other factors in play that may be overlooked or even considered. You're doom and gloom. I'm saying that if we work hard, make the changes as they make sense and don't force it, we will likely stand the best chance of survival. Have you ever heard of Thomas Malthus? He predicted over 200 years ago that the population will reach a point that we will not be able to feed the world. Well, that hasn't happened. Yes, there are hungry people in the world, but that's not because of an inability to grow enough food. It's political or more to the point, political strife and corruption. These are always the poor countries where corrupt leaders prevent freedom and the economic growth of the average citizen. There may yet be solutions to those problems of climate change that haven't even occurred to us, just like solutions were found that Malthus, and those that followed, couldn't imagine. Besides, no matter how much I worry, those things are going to happen, anyway. My worrying isn't going to change a thing except make MY life pessimistic and miserable. I'm not living the last few years I have left unhappy. That doesn't help anyone one bit.
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  7300.  @garypeacock951  If you read the bill, you'd see that those long waits have been addressed. If a precinct has over 2000 voters and wait times of over an hour, more voting booths must be installed and, if possible, any voters over 2000 should be reallocated to other precincts. Every precinct should have one voting booth for every 250 voters and an extra booth for the remaining fraction that's left over plus 1 voter drop box per precinct. That means that a precinct with 1100 voters would have 5 voting booths or machines. This is to be the standard all across the state. Any precinct that does not comply will be breaking the law. You can't argue that voting has had problems in the past and then complain about legislation that tries to address that problem. It's illogical. To assess this bill you have to judge THIS bill, not what happened in the past.
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  7301.  @asimion9470  There will be drinking stations at every voting precinct. You can get water. However, this is designed to prevent campaigners from approaching voters in the lineup and trying to influence or even intimidate the voters. This bill has also addressed the lineup problem by mandating 1 voting station per 250 voters and trying to limit each precinct to 2000 voters. If a lineup causes over an hour wait, they must add polling stations and increase voting staff. This bill takes care of long waits. If you see that the lineup is a little long, what's to prevent you from buying a bottle of water before you get in the lineup? Are you that helpless that you can't think that far ahead? I've never NEEDED a drink of water because I'm standing in a lineup. It's a dumb argument.
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  7302.  @garypeacock951  I don't want to seem contrary but you made it appear as if this new legislation was bad because Georgia had issues in the past. That's why I was critical of what you were saying. I went through the entire 93 page bill to see what was in it instead of listening to the pundits who had political loyalties and would just plain make stuff up. It was not my intent to gaslight you but to point out that maybe you'd be better served to read the bill for yourself before you criticise it.
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  7303.  @carlz7777  "Leaning?" with a question mark, like that was the dumbest thing you ever heard. Then you end the next blurb with a double exclamation mark, giving off a vibe of "Did I ever tell him". Nothing friendly at all about how you agreed with me. It was condescending, like you were schooling a child telling him to "smarten up".
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  7304. Trump is the threat to democracy while the protectors of democracy (guess who?) install the militia and set up razor wire throughout the Capitol for the first time since the Civil War. No wonder we love the Democrats so much.
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  7305.  ihategoogle  Loving your neighbour does not include approving of what he does. Many parents will love a child even though they don't approve of their lifestyle or choices that they've made. Love or caring isn't about approval. That's where the "as thyself" comes in. You do what's best for you, including self sacrifice and setting standards for your life. Those standards must also apply to your "neighbour".
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  7306.  @roxyaya2  It does not. That's just your interpretation of it. You can't force personal redemption. When a rich man came to Jesus to seek that redemption, he was allowed to walk away with his decision NOT to follow the conditions set by Jesus. Just like no one wants to be forced to do things against their will, they shouldn't force others to things against their will. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". That's also an admonishment from the Bible. Put that with "Love thy neighbour as thyself" and you would NEVER force people to live as you do. That's the product of the human condition and anyone FORCED to pray, to be a Christian, is NOT a Christian at all. You know nothing of Christianity except for your own perception and a cognitive dissonance that only allows you to accept information that validates that preconceived perception.
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  7307.  @adriannahorschtetler1624  Where did I say that I wanted to change anyone? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I don't want others to force me to change so I would never do that to others. What I said was that I can love someone and not accept what they believe or how they live their lives. I have family members who are extremely abusive and I find that behaviour unacceptable. They're still family members and I care for them but that doesn't mean that if Joe (as an example) beats his kids, severely, that I have to accept that. One might even call the police to protect those kids, in the hopes that he'll change and no longer engage in that behaviour. Anyone would do that. You don't have to be Christian to hope that this behaviour stops and even take measures, like calling the police and applying the law, to stop it.
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  7308. @ThisIsLanaBanana. The guy's a troll. Pay no attention to him. A lonely pissant.
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  7309. Except that they don't broadcast the news. They tell you what they want you to hear. They're not much better than Goebbels propaganda machine.
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  7310. I pretend I'm broke so they'll leave me alone. Being ugly helps, too, but when they thought I had money, I handsomed up, just like that. It's like a coke dealer in a strip club. Their manhood grows 6 inches when he has product.
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  7311. Mangione is on her shirt. This is a man who shot a man in the back. All my life, it was the common belief that anyone that would shoot someone in the back, was the worst of cowards....and she supports it. Goes to show you just how low the left has fallen.
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  7312. I agree and I love your YouTube name. As long as I'm alive the Expos live.
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  7313. One of the worst things that could happen to any country is to raise generations of uneducated citizens because their parents didn't have the resources to pay for it. The poorest countries, in the world, are also the most uneducated. We owe our affluent lifestyles to the policy of offering an education to ALL of our citizens. Having said that, as citizens, we have the right to take part in the education process. This should never be state mandated or be a part of an education curriculum that is forwarded, by the state, for the state. It's for the betterment of us all as individuals and not to create lackeys of the state. Today's politicians and educators have forgotten that.
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  7314. Joe Steel Conservatives do change. However that change is measured and change isn't done just for the sake of change itself. Maintain the systems of the past that have worked well until, as long as the issues are fully understood, ideas show that change would be a good thing. I know conservative minded people who are very religious on the one hand and highly innovative in their businesses or workplace. It's not so much that they refuse to change but they believe that change should be slow and only implemented when positive results seem inevitable. Also, there is no such thing as complete autonomy. We still live within the structures of our family, our workplace, our church or belief system, our circle of friends and the community in general. "No man is an island" is a truism not just a cute saying. The autonomy comes in when we're allowed to choose if we stay within our family, stay at a specific workplace, change our belief system, find new friends or even change the community we live in. It's the freedom to be who we wish to be within the society that we, as a social creature, must live to survive. It is the freedom to change or not change as we see fit as an autonomous human being. When Thomas Paine said "If I see something that needs change,why should I wait until you see it." I see a support for autonomy. That I, as an individual, have the right to change something, without the approval of anyone else, so long as my actions don't infringe on the rights of others.
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  7315. Joe Steel Edmund Burke believed in the importance of religious institutions in order to maintain a high sense of morality in society. I'm not religious at all but do believe in a person's right to believe as they wish, even their right to believe in stupid things, like a flat earth. However, you're taking my points to the absurd and that's not much of an argument.
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  7316. There was a guy who was showing kids sex toys down at the park. He's still in jail.
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  7317. Tim is correct about some of the nihilistic attitudes of these people. I worked at a place once that went on strike. There was some trouble and people, who didn't even work there and who were known troublemakers in our town, showed up and the incident turned violent. Fires were set, rocks thrown and people ended up in the hospital. What was their attitude? It was fun. They LOVED the violence. I heard multiple people say it. Antifa is a Marxist based organisation. Their literature is quite open about it. Some just love the violence that comes with it and they really love the fact that there's no consequences for their violent and destructive behaviour. All they have to do is say that they're anti-fascist and the left wing establishment smiles and looks the other way.
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  7318. The law states that you have to buy something or leave. I know. I've told people to leave for that reason. It is a misdemeanour and you can be evicted from the premises and charged with trespassing. It is against the law. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a very simple concept.
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  7319.  @cats5351  Huh????
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  7320.  @norrisfong6445  It was Trump's idea and construction was in full swing when Joe Biden halted construction in the FIRST week of his administration. Had Trump been elected the construction would NOT have stopped and may have been completed. Blaming Trump for Biden's executive order to stop construction of the wall, has no logic.
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  7321. Way too vague. Surely you have examples that back it up. I have the flat out lies that MSM has given. Tucker gave us some but, to me, the most egregious was the Covington Kids fiasco. It took me 10 minutes to find the actual film of their experience at the Lincoln Memorial and to find out just how rotten they are to the core. With all the resources that CNN and others have, are you seriously going to tell me they couldn't find what a retired factory worker, living in a basement apartment, in another country, found in 10 minutes? Now, you've made a claim about FOX. Do what I just did. Back it up.
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  7322.  @ca3891  That's a great example. LOL. "It's in the title!!!". I actually looked at the title, expecting to see an example. What I saw was the the MSM was lying. What you basically said was that FOX are liars because the title says that MSM are liars. Do you really think that you've given me and example? No wonder it's so hard to have a discussion with some people.
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  7323. They don't care if that baby dies. They know full well that millions will die if they stop oil completely, today. It doesn't matter to them. As far as they're concerned, people are a cancer on this earth.....except them of course. They rest of us are disposable. We're collateral damage in the war on oil and their noble cause to save the planet.....NOT humanity but the planet.
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  7324. His claims about why they didn't sound the sirens is complete BS. When sirens start blaring and they're not turned off, the first thing that most people would do is go on social media, turn on the news, or contact family and friends and find out what the problem is. Authorities should have blanketed the airwaves with information and safe zones identified. Police and others should have been put in place to direct citizens to those safe zones in a safe fashion. This is as incompetent as it gets. It's so egregiously incompetent that it's no wonder people are suspicious of their motives.
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  7325.  @chetdudeweb707  It doesn't matter where I live. They had sirens. The top guy said, in THIS video, that they considered setting off the sirens but they were afraid that people would go the wrong way and into the fire. He said it. That was a terrible decision. This guy was the head of Emergency services. One of his primary responsibilities would be formulate plans that could be used in any emergency. They had NO contingency plans let alone plans for specific emergencies. It's pure laziness.
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  7326.  @GoodAvatar-ut5pq  Isn't it strange that you just watched (I'm assuming) a conservative young black lady, who voted Republican, being embraced by conservative Republicans. They don't care that she's black or a woman. They care about her integrity and character. In fact, she's said that the worst racism that she'd ever experience is from the left, who tell her that there's something wrong with a black woman with conservative values. It's the same attitude that left wing activists had with Larry Elder, calling him the black face of white supremacy, implying that he's not thinking as a black man should. There is no one more hated, on the left, than a person who they see as an apostate and they use race, gender and other superficial stereotypes to validate that hate. It's why they turned of Tulsi Gabbard, a woman of colour who refused to toe the Democrat activist line.
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  7327.  @jennapuhl596  I'm not degrading him for his beliefs. I'm saying that his posts are out of context, off topic, and that he's rambling on, jumping around without any real cohesive direction in his comments. It's almost as if he's been drinking. That has nothing to do with his beliefs. If he had a cohesive thought, I'd gladly engage with him on religious ideas. However, what is one to say about the muddled mess that he's posted thus far?
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  7328.  @augustuscaesar8287  So then....our ancestors came out of Africa. You just said so. They believe that the first modern human came out of Africa but would be quite open to new evidence that would show differently. It makes no difference to anyone where the first anatomically modern human came from. The price of tea won't change, people will still have to go to work tomorrow, pay taxes, pat the dog or buy groceries. No political party will benefit. Nothing will change. It has to be one of the silliest conspiracy theories around.
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  7329. United we stand, diversity we fall.
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  7330. The Democrat politicians in those big cities have very Marxists beliefs. They allow crime to happen, driving out businesses and then take over those businesses for the good of the community. That's communism and it's exactly what those Marxists wanted. Those businesses will be floundering in red ink, creating an impossible profit situation for their competitors, which will drive out the competitors and MORE nationalised businesses. In the end, you'll have the long lines that we saw in the Soviet Union. Tim is nailing the problem.
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  7331. And our Democratic right to vote is enshrined within our Constitution. Without the right to vote, we become a dictatorship and that means we're no longer a Constitutional Republic. We're a Democracy under the umbrella of the Constitution. We're both and we can't have one without the other.
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  7332.  @Adelaide-g2h  That's because Democrat policies have hurt the American black population, yet black Americans have consistently and overwhelmingly voted Democrat. If 20% blacks started voting Republican, the Democrats would lose. Blacks, who would vote for Trump, know this and are trying to convince black Americans that it's in their best to vote Republican. It's a long uphill battle, as only 8% blacks voted Republican in 2016. Also, Americans have to know that blacks do support Trump and that they're not one big monolithic mindset. Remember "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black". That's the attitude of the Democrats and they're fighting back as black Americans.
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  7333. When the Democrats say, and Joe Biden said it, that they are "our" kids, there's an extremely strong implication that they think that we ALL belong to the state. That we don't have personal agency. Right now they still have to contend with that pesky "voting" thing but that might just be dispensed with so they can tell the citizens, THEIR citizens, how they should live their live without worrying about the next election.
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  7334. How ironic that the longest filibuster was the Democrat filibuster over the Civil Right's Act and now California Democrats are now trying to get rid of their state Civil Right's Act which mirrors the Federal Act. I'm astounded, as a Canadian, how more Americans can't see what it is the Democrats are doing to their own country. It scares me because if the US falls to their hunger for power, Canada won't be far behind.
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  7335. The Smithsonian took it down because it said things like "You might be white if you work hard", "You might be white if you respect the nuclear family", "You might be white if you set goals for yourself", "You might be white if you show up on time." People started to ask if this was a KKK document, extolling the virtues of white people. That prompted the Smithsonian to take it down.
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  7336.  @nagendragpu  I'd like to see one of those voter suppression bills. Please give me links so I can examine them.
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  7337.  @josephburgett9106  She would have been around 5 years old. I doubt that there are many 5 year olds that were politically savvy enough to understand what Watergate was about at the time.
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  7338.  @nagendragpu  "There is created a state board to be known as the State Election Board, to be composed of a chairperson elected by the General Assembly" Copied and pasted from the bill. That means that this chairperson will take on the duties of the Secretary of State in the election process. How that suppresses voting isn't clear to me. What difference does it make to a voter whether it's the Secretary of State that oversees it or a Chairperson elected by the Legislature? It wouldn't make any difference to me. I didn't see anything that would reduce the number of polling stations or precincts. I did see a provision that says that if a precinct had MORE than 2000 voters and lineups were longer than a hour, steps were to be taken to add voting booths or to reduce the number of voters to 2000 and moving the access to other precincts. Each precinct is to have one voting booth for every 250 voters plus an extra for the extra fraction. This means that if a precinct has 1100 voters, there would be 5 booths. Once again, I don't see how this suppresses voting. They have declared that there should only be 1 election drop box per precinct. Drop boxes were an emergency measure put in place for things like Covid. This is now codied into law. This was never a part of the election process in the past. I don't see how this suppresses voting, either. You're going to have to be more specific than what you've been. You've made vague accusations but that doesn't make them the truth.
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  7339.  stephen glover  You've nailed it. The ones that voted for Obama, voted for Trump in '16. That would indicate that there are voters out there that are flexible. A moderate, like Tulsi, could get those votes but the mainstream Democrat can't see that. They're still going on about how the election was stolen from them and Trump is an illegitimate President. Doomed to lose again next year if they don't smarten the hell up. Tulsi would beat Trump and she might be the only Dem in the running that could do it.
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  7340. They keep voting in socialist politicians. Socialist don't believe in property rights so if this company closes its doors, no big deal. Let those small businesses close down so what's left are the big corporate outlets. It's easier to take over a couple of big corporations than it is to take over tens of thousands of family entities and they know it. People hate the big corporations and if that's all that there is, the people will support the nationalisation of those corporations. It's a progression. It's why they're called progressives.
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  7341. He's daring Democrats to sit down and talk with him for 2 hours. LOL. Like that's going to happen. Some may but could you imagine AOC, Ilhan Omar, Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff or heaven forbid, Joe Biden trying to keep up the brilliant mind of Jordan Peterson. Jordan would be forced into baby talk with those guys....and yes. I used a gender sensitive designation and I don't feel bad about it, either.
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  7342. Cenk's nephew is the perfect bot....a walking, talking, cliche generator and he looks so real. The wonders of modern technology.
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  7343. I've said this for a couple of years now. The day will come when Dr. Martin Luther King will be cancelled, as an American hero, by the left. It has to be done to validate their ideology, at least in their minds. Fortunately, we have strong Americans, like Shawntel Cooper, who aren't afraid to stand up against this insidious ideology. It means that this country still has a flame of hope at it's core.
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  7344. Was it Arielle that threatened you or members of the LGBTQ community? That is an important distinction. I'm sure that there a lot of woke, ideological, LGBTQ community members, who are there to harass people like you. They'd do it to discredit Arielle.
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  7345.  Wu Beach Boy  Spam much? Your message just isn't that important that it warrants being splattered all over the comment section.
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  7346.  Wu Beach Boy  Wow.....more assumptions. First you go after those in Texas and now you're making allegations about me. Like I said in the other thread, your comments bring into question your motives. I'm not about to allow you to deflect to child pageants to justify your criticism of those in Texas that would go after that film and its distributors. I would get it, if you had something along that lines of that now that they're going after this film, maybe they should look into child pageants but you didn't do that. All you did was impugn their integrity.
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  7347.  @adriangutierrez848  Oh shut-up!!!! Trump is an A-hole but, right now, he's much better than the Democrats. They're the ones that called the riots in LA, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kenosha, Atlanta, Louisville, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Richmond, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo, Rochester.....there's dozens more, "peaceful protests". Over 30 people dead in BLM inspired riots, a group that the Democrats endorse, and all you can say is "Trump has done more than God". You're so blinded by TDS that you've lost all sense of logic and reason.
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  7348.  @Ketowski  Like how Trump cares about how Americans are being ripped off by the bloated bureaucracy. ALL Americans, who are being ripped off, even those who voted against him are going to benefit from cutting that bloat. I don't care who you are, you're going to like paying less taxes. Yet, there are people crying about it. I just don't get it. Do these people go to work and leave the front door wide open? Do they leave the car running all day while they go to work or shopping? Do they leave their wallet just lying around in a bar or restaurant? It's as puzzling as it gets.
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  7349.  @weirdphax5406  Anyone, who's disenfranchised by the Democrat party, is welcome to join. Who knows. Ten years from now, long after Trump is gone, it might be the Republicans who are the badies. Remember, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bolton? Not nice people. Hell...Cheney just endorsed Kamala. Times change. We need her NOW, not a year from now.
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  7350.  @WaluigiMangione  That's it. Change the parameters of my analogy. I implied that you wouldn't ALLOW them to save you. "Get away from me". That would be your attitude. What's that got to do with them putting on gloves? You're like Archie Bunker who didn't want a blood transfusion from a dark skinned man to save his life. We used to laugh at people like that. LOL. Now we're laughing at you.
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  7351.  @tbrcc636  Pardons are a prerogative of the president. Every one of them have done it. Your allegation is too vague. It's rather difficult to make assessments on such a broad statement. It can only lead to vague responses. Pick a specific pardon and then give your case on why that pardon should never have been given. That might be something that I could answer to. You've really given me nothing to speak on.
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  7352.  @tbrcc636  Did I say that I justified any pardons? I said that it was a presidential prerogative and I asked who was pardoned that he objected to. You gave me 2 names and do you know what....I AGREE WITH YOU. I don't think they should have been pardoned, in spite of all the philanthropic work that they've done. I have a feeling that when he told his followers to be strong and take back the country, he didn't mean for them to storm the Capitol building and commit violent acts. He had told them to march "peacefully and patriotically" to show how they didn't trust the way the election was carried out. That's not supporting the ones that committing violence. It's a conflation that doesn't actually pass the muster. Right and wrong has nothing to do with party affiliation. I can agree with you on some things and disagree with you on others. That's the problem in this country right now. Ethics and integrity are tossed aside for personal agendas and ideological causes. Instead of being a follower, maybe you should think for yourself and align yourself with the cause of finding the truth instead following an ideology or a political party.
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  7353.  @hosea4_682  He didn't call them animals. He said that the members of the gang MS-13 were animals. Don't lie...bot.
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  7354. @supernovaaust Are you using the Bible to justify murder? Okay....Jesus would approve. LOL.
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  7355. It doesn't matter if Avi had an agreement with Comedy Central or not. It is dishonest and unethical to manipulate a conversation to denigrate a guest. That's not comedy or satire. It's a hit job.
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  7356.  X D  Therefore, it's okay for the MSM and the Democrats to lie to you. Gotcha. I don't get people like you. I get upset when people lie to me and treat me like a piece of what the dog dropped at the park. You just defend it while they scrap you off their GUCCI loafers and into a doggy bag. SMH and rolling my eyes.
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  7357. Bingo. It closely matches everything that I've said about Fascism.
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  7358. That's communism for ya. Your stuff is my stuff and I can take it if I think I need it.
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  7359. Almost 3 years since Trump announced that he was going to run for the presidency and they're reporting on his financial difficulties.....NOW? This has been public knowledge for decades. Lots of people go through financial problem, some even go bankrupt, why is this such important news? It's not whether you fall off the horse or not, the important thing is this. Did he get back on the horse and try again and ultimately succeed? By any metric......YES, HE DID. He's now a billionaire and the elected President of the most powerful country in the world. This is like saying that the Washington Capitals were not the Stanley Cup champions last year because 40 years ago they were the worst team in NHL history. Yes.....they were abject losers back then but they were the best, ultimately the most successful team last year. He didn't quit, Don Lemon. Even if things were tough for him financially some 30 years ago, he's doing just fine right now. In fact, he put himself into the most thankless position in the world, for what? To make money? He's lost over 1/2 a billion dollars since becoming president. Give me a break. Trump is actually doing something. All you're doing amounts to no more than constant whining about the doings of one person....behaving like a jilted lover.
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  7360. If a pandemic is that dangerous and serious, you won't have to tell people to stay home or get vaccinated. We'll stay home on our own and we'd be falling over each other trying to get the vaccine.
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  7361.  @Jimraynor45  "Just because you vote for your lighthouse keeper doesn't suddenly mean he has the power to control your life or operate out his bounds." That's correct. He doesn't have the power to control my life or operate out of his bounds. That's what the Constitution is for. To limit the power of our elected officials so the don't exceed the limits of power and take away our rights. That's why I say that we're a Democracy within the bounds of what the Constitution allows. The Constitution rules over the election or democratic process NOT the other way around. Our entire system has systems of checks and balances with different branches of government being able to limit the powers of the other. That would also include the tyranny of mob rule. An elected official cannot legislate a law the takes away the rights of its citizens no matter how badly those citizens want him to. Our Constitutional Republic tries to prevent that from happening through the guidelines of the Constitution. It's a check against corrupt politicians and illegal mandates of its citizens. I don't see why this is so hard to understand. The Constitution sets the parameters of the election or Democratic process. The American Democracy is subservient to the American Constitution. The United States is a Constitutional Republic first, overseeing the Democracy so it doesn't end up being corrupted. That's how it's ideally set up to operate.
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  7362.  @Frankie5Angels150  Democracy definition: "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." The Online Dictionary. " typically through elected representatives" Representatives NOT everything. I suppose the Dictionary is gibberish, as well. It's quite explicit in saying that a Democracy is commonly manifested through elected officials. The people elect representatives who enact the law. Republic definition: "a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch." Online Dictionary The representatives are elected (do you see it?) by the people and the leader of the government is either appointed by the representatives or elected by the people. The online dictionary says that when representatives are elected by the people, we call it a Democracy. Representatives are elected by the people in the United States. That means that it's Republic and a Democracy. Since the Constitution sets how elections are run, the US is a Constitutional Republic AND a Democracy. Your ad hominem attacks don't change the facts. If you want to show that you may be correct, then back it up with references. Show me where my logic is flawed. Don't insinuate that I'm not smart enough to be talking and don't gaslight me by saying that other's are ignoring my gibberish. That's the true fallacy here.
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  7363.  @umpire29  It defines "loan" as something being borrowed, usually money but it can be anything. However, loaning power doesn't take away from the democratic process of electing our reps, who borrow the power of the people. It's still a democracy. The United States is a Constitutional Republic in which the people exercise their power through the vote, also known as the democratic process, a process clearly defined in the Constitution. The people don't have power if they're not able to vote for representatives to act on behalf of the electorate. That means, it's no longer a Republic. Take away the Democratic process and you lose your Republic.
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  7364.  @umpire29  I gave you the definition of the word "loan". However, I don't see how that takes away form the fact that we employ the Democratic process. You can, although it's about as cumbersome as it gets, have a direct Democracy in which EVERY issue is voted on by the people, but it's not the ONLY form of a Democracy. I gave you the Dictionary definition of a Democracy and a Republic. That's NOT my belief. Those are the facts. The definitions say that a Republic is governed by the people who commonly elect representatives to govern, by proxy so to speak. Nowhere did it say that a democracy is exclusively governed directly by the people. It explicitly says that it's through the election of representatives by the people. You don't have to believe it but it's like saying that water isn't wet when all the evidence says that it is. To make it true, you have to change the definition of words which is what you're attempting to do. Go back to the definitions, from the dictionary, that I gave and read them carefully. It's very clear and the fact that you're insisting that democracy is only direct rule from the people shows that you're either not understanding what it says or you're changing what it says to suit what you want it to say. I can't help that. You either accept the definition, as we all understand it or you make up your own definition. Once you do that, there is no such thing as objective truth. It's all about how YOU see it.
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  7365. I can name a person from Antifa. Mark Bray, who's been arrested for acts of violence while protesting and wrote "Antifa...The Anti-Fascist Handbook", is an active member. His book outlines the history of this group in great detail, a Marxist group that was supported by Stalin and was formed as the Communist answer to Hitler's Brown Shirts. If Whoopi's "gang" had any interest in finding truth, they would have done the research to find this out. Instead, they just babble leftist rationale for the antics of Antifa. They have no respect for truth or facts.
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  7366. No.....it started with black clad protesters with masks who were marching and attempting to shut down anyone who would dare to even appear to disagree with them. They disrupted legit events, smashed windows, set fires, threatened and attacked people they didn't like, all hiding behind the anonymity of face masks. They behaved in the same way that Hitler's brown shirts did in the thirties. The only real difference is this. Antifa doesn't appear to follow a strong leader while the Brown Shirts followed the tenets of the Nazi party. And don't give me this crap about that driver in Charlottesville. He doesn't represent Trump or the Republican Party. Trump even said the the driver of that car was a disgrace to himself, his family and his country and he was absolutely correct. He was a disgrace.
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  7367.  @markbishopiii1577  Actually, it goes even DEEPER that what Donalds was talking about. CRT comes out of Critical Theory, an idea conceived by Max Horkheimer, part of the Frankfurt group, who are self proclaimed Marxists. He came to the US in the early thirties and decided that the traditional Marxism, the class struggle, may not be as effective in the US and other western nations so he came up with the idea that power was at the root of all struggles in history. Years later, in the 1980s, a group of Marxists gathered together in an old nunnery in Madison Wisconsin, to discuss how race was a big part of this power struggle. A member of that group, Kimberly Crenshaw, proposed the name "Critical Race Theory", paying homage to Max Horkheimer's ideas.....but it doesn't stop there. There's a guy by the name of Paolo Friere, a Brazilian educator and a Marxist, who believed that social change could be achieved through an integration of education and activist ideas through an proposal called "Praxis" or practical application. He outlined it in his writings, one of which is the book "Education for Critical Consciousness". Notice how the word "critical" is a part of that title, pointing Horkheimer's philosophy. This book is required reading in many education programs for teachers. It's integrating critical thought into the education system in a way that the things being taught are through the lens of this new way of this new look Marxism. Reid is correct. It's not being taught as subject matter. It's even more insidious than that. It's become a part of how history, geography, literature and even math and science is taught to primary, secondary and university level students. This is done in the same way Christian schools teach religion, integrating it in all subject manner in a covert manner. The receipts are there. Reid cut Donalds off before he could do any meaningful explanation of what he meant. She didn't want to hear it. In a way it's how the press presents Critical Theory. You might call it "Critical Media Theory".
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  7368.  @davidluong8370  You may not believe it but I'm not talking about you and those who go after specialised trades or careers. I'm talking about those who go to the top schools and study the humanities, social arts and some of the other specialities, like women's studies, philosophy or social work. They are jobs that have no future and either have little to no demand or command very little pay. They take on the same debt that you did and make a lot less money than what I do. My statements weren't overall generalities, but you can get degrees in nursing, engineering or computer sciences and do quite well for yourself with little debt. Also, my entire point isn't about what you spend on education but more about understanding value for your buck. I will lay odds that you're not the one complaining that you'll never be able to pay back your student loans because you're not making much more being a social worker than minimum wage. Why would you go to a prestigious university, spend all that money on a Bachelor's degree, when you could have spend WAY less on a diploma, in the same field, and worked right alongside the person from the fancy university. That's the common sense way of looking at it. I understand that if you want to be a doctor or lawyer or even a top notch engineering degree, that it'll cost, but they have high potential. Gender studies isn't something that's in high demand. One other thing, I don't care about how much money you have or what anyone else has. What gets me is that they feel entitled to that big degree in activism and then want me to pay for it. Then when I suggest that there are other ways to get to where you want, people get all defensive and act like I'm showing them up or something. Also, not everyone can be a lawyer or doctor. You don't want to be like Cuba where there are so many doctors that there are doctors driving cab or growing vegetables to make a living. There's such a thing as realistic goals and finding the best and most efficient ways to get there. Getting rich isn't the goal. It's more about feeling good about what you do and how it affects the things that matter most....your family for one thing.
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  7369.  @davidluong8370  My dad and brother are musicians. However, they both decided that it was a very difficult way to make a living. Both of them pursued alternate careers, even though my brother went to university to study music, he also kept his options open. He didn't go to a prestigious school either and didn't put himself in huge debt to become a starving artist. If people don't go to your shows, be it music, theatre or other forms, you won't make money. You can't MAKE me buy tickets to see a film and selling is at the heart of financial success. An artist that doesn't get recognition isn't going to make money. That doesn't mean that he should stop. My brother supplements his income with his music and he's done well for himself financially. Life doesn't seem fair and there's a reason for that. It isn't fair and never has been. It would be nice if everyone could get rich off their dreams but it's an impossibility.
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  7370. What you neglected to mention was that Harvard Law School said that they had hired the first woman of colour, referring to Elizabeth Warren way back in 1995. Where would they get this idea from? I can offer a good guess.
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  7371.  @eniselmenic5056  "all three of trumps supreme court pics" "trumps" It's right there. I copied and pasted it from YOUR comment. You didn't say a THING about the other justices who voted against the "Roe v Wade" decision. Only Trump's picks. So it DOES lead back to Trump and calling me names doesn't change that. Ad hominem attacks aren't considered to be logical or conducive to making a sound point. Besides, even if you WERE talking about those 3 justices, you're WAY off topic.
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  7372.  @firstsecond-ft1qg  What does it matter what the sum is? It's money and a LOT OF IT. Also, the word is "cite" not "sight". If you're going to nitpick over numbers, I'll nitpick right back at you.
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  7373. My parents came to this country with nothing. No bank account, no property.....nothing. They didn't own the cot that they slept on, the table they had breakfast on, even the plates they ate off didn't belong to them. They lived in a one room shack with no running water. They worked hard, my dad working 3 jobs at the same time and my mom raising 7 kids and worked a large garden and small orchard so we'd have inexpensive but decent food. Now, my dad has some money and he's enjoying the fruits of his hard work. Anyone of those blacks could have done that and many did just that. Larry Elder talks about how hard his father worked and Candace Owens talks about her grandparents and their work ethic. The left and those who want handouts HATE them. They hate them because they have pride and a strong sense of ethics. The ones that want reparations have no pride or work ethic and reparations won't help them one bit. They don't know how to live responsibly and many will end up in bankruptcy. What really galls me is that my dad, who's now 89, will have his tax money paying 25 year old children who've never worked a day in their pathetic lives. I'll never forget my dad's reaction when told, for religious reasons, to quit a job and if he had financial problems, they'd help him out. My dad told him that, as long as he was able bodied, he'd eat the grass out on the lawn before he'd take a handout. These parasites would NEVER understand that. I suppose this comment will be deleted but I had to get this off my chest.
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  7374. NIMBY. Right Adams? Texas has to look after these illegals because of where the state lies on the map. Texas should a welcoming state....but New York shouldn't have to be because you know....reasons. Yet they declare themselves a sanctuary state because it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy. It's easy to be morally superior when it's not your problem. It's not so easy to give up that moral superiority when the problem comes to YOUR door. It's even easier to blame Texas when you have no solutions for those problems. What a virtue signalling hypocrite.
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  7375.  @philb.1502  Because they're buying votes....that's why we're against it. They're telling a demographic that they'll give them tens of thousands of dollars if they vote Democrat. How are they going to buy votes in the 2028 elections? Will it be reparations, pay off mortgages, free groceries? An economy can't take that kind of wild spending without it going bankrupt. Hell, one month ago, the Federal government almost had to default on their financial obligations. Now they want to give away another 40 billion over and above what they almost defaulted on. Basic economics says you can't print money to run a country. It'll render the dollar worthless, forcing inflation rates higher and higher. Exactly what happened in Venezuela.
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  7376.  @rockbandjohn  Bigger yields, that means MORE FOOD.......and that's a bad thing??? You sure don't want Farmer Joe reaping 200 bushels instead of 100 bushels of wheat, do we. Farmer Joes don't need that money.....the elitist greedy money grubbing scumbags. We don't need the extra food. If you're hungry....GET A JOB or go to the food bank.
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  7377. Isn't it great. Men explain why they won't date feminists and progressive women and then the feminists and progressives demonstrate exactly how the men were correct. What a lack of self awareness.
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  7378. Not only is he a thief but he's a WEIRD thief. What's with the Democrats employing so many weirdos.
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  7379.  @DataGeek903  That's as bizarre as it gets.
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  7380. Why doesn't FOX send a documentary team, down to the border, and make a comprehensive video about this. Show the drugs, the people crossing the border, the reactions of the people living along the border, the dead bodies, the migrants that have violent records.....the WHOLE story. Talk to the migrants, the border agents, the local politicians, the people who have to deal with migrants crossing their land and stealing their stuff. Back it up with facts so NO Democrat or media personality can deny it. FOX does a lot of talking but they're really not doing what needs to be done. Inform the people so that EVERY American can no longer deny it.
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  7381. It's the socialist war of reality. As Voltaire once said "Those who can convince you to believe in absurdities, will also be able to convince you to commit atrocities". Atrocities are the absolute form of absurdity.
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  7382.  @chrischeehan2423  Of course one has to have legal consent. A doctor can't just hold you down and start hacking out body parts. What are you on about? Like I said....every living thing is going to die. Who would be a doctor if they're going to held responsible for someone dying in his care? It's going to happen. The doctor is guaranteed to fail at some point. It's not that people die under his care. It's whether it's the doctor's fault if they do. He can't save anyone. As for the government, they're not medical experts. They've no business telling anyone what medical procedures you should be doing. I don't go to a plumber to get my tonsils out. I'm sure not going to see my local politician to get it done. You're running off on anger and emotion and it's driving you to make wild accusations and making up scenarios and passing them off as truths. And.....I'm fully vaccinated but I'm dead set against vaccine mandates. Now, figure that one out.
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  7383.  @chrischeehan2423  I don't know how to go about handling it. Almost every doctor is either on board or pressured into following what they're told to do. It's not the medical that's the problem. It's the ideology that's taken over politics and the media. I have friends and family that are all on board for all the mandates. In a way, we're all responsible. They're perfectly willing to bully us all into their compliant world and we're letting them do it. Going after doctors isn't going to solve a thing. They've already said that they'd fire any doctor that didn't get vaccinated. When the country allowed Biden to be president, we got what we allowed to happen. Fortunately, the United States does give rights to the states and there are places to go where things aren't as bad as the lunacy states. Imagine if you were in Australia or New Zealand. There's no place to go.
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  7384. I just went into the pantry to get an onion to make some homemade soup. The onion was rotting. So I threw out all my food. I can't have rotten food in my pantry. Someone could eat it and die.
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  7385.  @mikemccool7575  I wished Maxwell well, too. I didn't want to see her Epsteined. I wanted her to have her day in court. I didn't want to see Epstein killed either for the same reason. What I find strange is why you're only concentrating on the one ex-president. Why not on Clinton, the other ex-president, who we KNOW was on Epstein Island. Is there a little TDS going on here?
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  7386.  @mikemccool7575  It's because we know that Hillary isn't going to say a word about who's on that list, or Biden or any of the other swamp creatures. I hope that they would but they're not going to. They're not calling out for more investigations. Not ONE of them are.
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  7387. I can't imagine, after an election, that we'd have a meeting, at work, to commiserate with one another at our disappointment at the results of that election. I'm glad I'm retired. What nonsense.
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  7388. Gas powered stoves burn SO clean that we have them in our kitchens and use them to cook our food. Compare that to placing your Ford, in your kitchen, and starting the engine. It will kill you. Another Democrat "tempest in a teapot".
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  7389.  @alext2046  NO.....she said that she was honest with her daughter, telling her the truth about her daughter's decision. It was her daughter who told her that she lacked the love to even see her own mother and father, that her politics took precedence over family. The daughter was the one who rejected her mother and her mother isn't allowed to react in an honest manner? She even told her that she'd miss her but that means NOTHING to the daughter. The daughter thinks it's all about her and if she doesn't get her way, her parents will be punished. What a spoiled and narcissistic human being.
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  7390.  @fakerating  I suppose that we can't have TWO felons or crooks. It has to be one or the other. It's okay if that guy rips you off but that other fella.....that's horrible, awful and the end of our Democracy. It's not whether you're being cheated, it's who's cheating you. You're an easy mark.
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  7391.  @TsunTzu  I'm just talking about the race issues. Obama had the status to make a big positive difference. Romney didn't have that potential voice to make a difference. I guess I'm talking about a wasted opportunity as far as Obama is concerned although I would imagine that he doesn't see it that way.
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  7392.  @linjicakonikon7666  So, if I regret voting for Obama, I'm not thinking for myself? However, if I'm glad that I voted for him, I AM thinking for myself. LOL. Let me know what else I'm supposed to think. Save me the trouble of thinking for myself.
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  7393. It's on the internet. Type "Blueprint for the Capitol Building" and there it is...right at the top of the page. What a maroon.
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  7394.  Yedolf  There is no proof other than having one of the worst voting systems in the world. Voter ID is racist. Sending out ballots, through the mail, to everyone. Changing voting procedures without going through state legislators, which is against the law. All I gotta do is find out who never votes, call down my relatives from Canada, and let them vote Republican. They don't have to show ID. That's racist. All I need is one person, some crackhead from the Bay area, give him 20 bucks per vote and drive him from one precinct to another to vote. It's insane and it's no wonder people call our voting process a sham. Yet, when Georgia tried to fix their election process so it was more secure, it was Jim Crow 2.0. The last election was the 3rd election in this century, that's been disputed. Bush's narrow win was called a fraudulent election win. Trump's win was fraudulent with many Democrats calling him a fake president and the last one was disputed by Trump. That's 2 claims by Democrats and one by Republicans. That's HALF the elections this century. Fix the damned election process so it we won't have this mess.....but we can't because it's raycist or some other stupid claim. Every other country can do it but the US can't. Of course, none of this will sink through that thick skull of yours.
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  7395. That's the beauty of America. A person can live where ever they want, so long as they can afford it.
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  7396. The weird thing is, Canadians are suffering because of Trudeau's climate mandates, not climate change. Trudeau must enjoy watching people struggle because he's the one forcing laws that hurt us. Housing is unbelievably expensive and so is fuel for travel, heating and cooking. Food has almost doubled in 4 years and Trudeau doesn't care. Trudeau is the one, sitting in his ivory tower with his silver spoon in his mouth, that's enjoying watching Canadians suffer.
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  7397.  @johnf1121  You really are driven by the superficial. No wonder all Harris could add to the rescue efforts was some talk about the marginalised and about equity within the rescue efforts. Everything is about the superficial to the Democrats. I guess if you have nothing else, you go to the superficial and start mocking based on that shallow world view.
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  7398.  @starbucksguitarM-jc5oy  You have voted NDP in Provincial elections. Remember Rachel Notley? The NDP isn't much different than Trudeau's Liberals. I have never voted for either party and I never will and I'm from Ontario.
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  7399.  @whathandleUtalkabt  I'm one of the more fortunate ones. EVERY one that I've ever hired turned out to be a genius. EVERY ONE!!!!. Didn't have to fire any of them. I'm not just fortunate....I'm brilliant and I know brilliance when I see it. Trump, now, he's not so lucky. He's actually hired people that didn't work out. I've heard that he's not the only one, though. As a matter of fact, every company that I've ever heard of has had to fire employees. Could it be that they were incompetent and turned out to be dumb as rocks? I don't know. I've never had to fire anyone. I'm brilliant. I have nothing, in my experience, to draw from.
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  7400.  @jamesmccarte1609  Yet, I was off work all through January, because my employer was forced to close. She told me, last summer that if she had to go through any more extended lockdowns, she'd have to close permanently. She started the business 8 years ago and it was just starting to show a good profit and the government closed her down and it wiped out all the gains that she'd made. 4 lockdowns later and she's still hanging on, but it's more than some of the other businesses in my small town. As far as I know, this was the first time in Canadian history, that our government arbitrarily shut down businesses entire provinces. They didn't even force shutdowns during the war. It's been devastating to hundreds of thousands of Canadians and to hundreds of millions of the most vulnerable around the world. It's always the little guy that has to take the brunt of the negative effects of these actions..
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  7401.  @narniaphuket  They still place the test tube baby in the uterus of a woman. If it's successful, that baby will grow in the woman's body, taking all it's nourishment from the woman in which that baby lives. It's STILL the same procedure. Sperm meets egg. They join to form a new life and that baby grows within a woman's body. NOT a test tube. NOT a man and so far, not in a substitute device. A woman and only a woman. There is no other way.....yet.
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  7402. DEI a radical socialist program to divide us and create chaos. Marx's class war, in the end, didn't work out so the radicals went to identity differences to divide us. They hope that the resulting chaos will bring the "revolution" that will bring the socialist paradise on earth. Racism is part of their arsenal to foment the hatred that will bring their revolution.
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  7403.  @Bapuji42  It's not funding. it's the union of the UN, the WEF and huge money management companies, like Blackrock, who force these corporations to adopt ESG or they won't get the short term loans these companies need for their day to day operations.
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  7404.  @plant495  A rational troll. Now, there's an oxymoron.
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  7405.  @carlostuggle6515  Troll. A man is killed because no one will get him off the streets and to some help and all you can say is some blather about Trump. Truly disgusting.
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  7406. Radical Marxist have infiltrated the Democrat party of Washington. They will not allow any moderate to be in their party. They know that if they can control the children, they can control the future.
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  7407. I'm going to tell you something about being Canadian and having the most powerful country, the world juggernaut, as your only neighbour, Tim. Everything that happens, in the US, affects us. The president, the Congress, the economy......everything. We're HUGE trading partners, in the summer, we're overrun by American tourists. In the winter, we go to the US to get away from the snow. If you thrive, we thrive. If you go down the toilet, we're right behind you. When the fires were burning in California and Oregon, we were advised to stay indoors due to the horrific air quality. So....YES, we are concerned with American politics.....and that bozo, from the University of Waterloo, is just that.... a BOZO. Only the most insane and corrupt individual would wish that kind of harm on a neighbour and as a Canadian, I'm calling the man a disgrace.
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  7408. I'd say that he was lying. He's not a stupid man and he's got the education to know that to verify whether a law suppresses votes all he has to do is read and analyse it. He's done that and he doesn't care. When Georgia passed its voting law, I read that document, all 97 pages of it. There was nothing in there that suppresses votes from either side, yet the Democrats swore up and down that it was so. I asked dozens of them to show me, out of the voting bill itself, and I linked them to it so they had no reason to not check it out, anything that would discourage someone to vote. Not one taker. NOT A ONE. The man is a liar and they all know it and they don't care.
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  7409. There are no alternatives. Trump is the president and leader of the Republican party. He's the best the conservatives have. There IS no one else. Besides, the regressive left think he's another Hitler or worse. We're all putting labels on ourselves and others. Examine ALL the issues and decide on their merits on whether you support them or not. Quit thinking of them as left and right issues. Are they sensible and will they work. That's how you should be looking at things.
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  7410.  @evenflow714  A political solution might not happen but what is happening is that more and more people are associating this type of behaviour with the Democrats. There are those who never say a word about their true feelings but hate the fact that they feel as if there's something wrong with them for appreciating the life they have in America. I work as a bartender. When things like this are mentioned in the bar, it's invariably the left and their invective is so fierce and angry that very few challenge them. However, I've heard conservatives talk quietly among themselves and quite often it's people that I'd never think would feel that way. They don't want to be in the receiving end of the names, disdain and near threats that the left are always throwing their way. So they shut up....until it's time for the ballot box. Then they'll speak loudly with their secret ballot. There may not be a political solution but the Democrats are cutting their own throats by associating themselves with this type of ridiculous behaviour.
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  7411.  @evenflow714  Legal immigrants aren't going to vote Democrats, out of hand. They don't have anything to lose. Not like the illegals. Most of the legal immigrants have been in America for years, have established jobs, homes, families and are a part of the community. They are the immigrants that the government have allowed in as part of an immigration policy that takes employment into consideration. These immigrants could go either way. Some of them have left socialist countries and don't want to live under that political system and that's why they came to America in the first place. Regular Americans are still a voting force to be reckoned with and a lot of them are getting tired of feeling as if they're somehow tainted by some of their beliefs. When I heard Hillary calling middle Americans a bunch of deplorables, I knew Trump had a good chance of becoming president. The Democrats and the media are even worse now. I might be wrong but but I'm seeing an even more decisive win for Trump. People are sick to death of the whole tip toeing, stop offending, politically correct crybabies on the left....at least I am. I should add that the incessant cry of "racist" is getting old, too. When milk becomes racist, adults are going to bail.
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  7412. It's not about Christianity. He talks about how religion has been a part of human development in every culture, throughout history and how the myths surrounding their respective religions have similar themes. He spends more time talking about Christianity because that was how he was raised and what he knows the most about. He's a teacher, a university professor and a lot of what you see are parts of university lectures that he's giving in his class. He teaches about the psychology of belief systems, and focuses on religion but he does speak a lot about political ideologies, as well. He leans towards the idea that religious beliefs are part of the evolution of humanity and the method that ancient peoples used to understand a morality that applies to all of us. He has said numerous times that all these old religious myths, all of them, not just Christianity, were metaphors for how we perceive the over arching truth of our existence. It's rather childish to concentrate on Christianity and pretend that it's about some sort of validation of a religion you don't happen to like. That's not true and it's no more than an emotional, knee jerk reaction.
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  7413. That's the problem, Tim. It's NOT the police. It's the courts and the politicians that are the problem. Even if the police catch the guy, the courts let the criminals off with a baby slap on the wrist and they're out doing it all over again. Even if the police solve and arrest EVERY criminal that commits an act like this, it does no good if the courts let them go. We need to force the politicians to do their job and all it takes is voting for candidates who will. Do that and things will change. Rudy Giuliani proved it when he was mayor of New York.
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  7414. I doubt that either one of them know how to even turn a washing machine on. After all, she's a doctor and he's a politician. (LOL) They have minions to do that for them.
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  7415.  @michaellorenzen8200  I'm getting Dr. Jilly to remove my goiter. I hope she doesn't mistake it for my head and amputate it instead.
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  7416. She's what they used to call a "scold". People used to avoid scolds. Now they put them on CNN
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  7417. We have whistleblowers on the whistleblower. Now, who do we believe? LOL.
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  7418.  @kyleme9697  Because they're in the grips of an ideology. They're no different than those in Jonestown, the members of Heaven's Gate or the suicide bombers in Palestine. They'll do anything to advance their cause. That's why they're doing it. They sincerely believe that they're doing the right thing.
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  7419.  @alexketteman5202  I'm with you, fully. I'm an older guy and I've weighed the possible issues with the vaccine with the danger that Covid might have pose. From there I made the decision that I'd be better off with the vaccine. I'm WAY past worrying about fertility or long term effects for my future (my future is short term, anyway. LOL.). My concern is the now and the immediate future and I make my decisions based on that. I've been vaccinated since April and all is good. However, that's my decision and the one that I felt was best for me. If your concerns are different than mine, I'm not going to argue with you. They're your concerns and you have the right to act on them....even if I think that you're making a mistake. To each their own. That's what being free means.
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  7420.  @settame1  For sure. These hospitals that are supposedly not treating vaccinated people are being hypocritical. They still treat drug overdoses and gunshot wounds, even if the victim is in a gang. These are all the result of personal decisions. If you're husband fell ill with Covid and was refused treatment, I'm thinking a lawsuit would be in order. I'd prefer it if everyone was vaccinated but it's not up to me, you OR the government. It's up to each one of us. As for your kids, as of Sept 14th, only 412 kids, under 18, have died of Covid. Out of 680,000 Covid deaths in the US, only 412 children have died. During that same time, about 1500 kids, 14 and under, have been killed in car accidents. In other words, your kids are in greater danger on a short drive to the store than they are from Covid. Yet, I'll bet hardly any on these vaccine "mandaters" give a second thought to that danger to their kids as they're strapping them into their car seat. Vaccinate your kids when it makes sense. That's my advice for what it's worth. I don't see the sense in it now.
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  7421.  @robkocol5664  Maybe it's because it's easier to pretend to care than it is to actually care. Take the axiom "Give a man a fish and he eats today. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life" One gets immediate satisfaction from giving a man a fish and he can flagrantly show his benevolence on a daily basis and do so for life. Teach a man to fish and your benevolence fades with time. It also encourages those, who are looking for power, to create a situation where the beneficiary of that daily fish, becomes reliant on those who are the provider. However, if someone teaches that person how to fish, that power is gone. It's a combination of narcissism through being an altruist and using your altruism to maintain their dependence on their benefactors. They feel that they should have power because they're the ones with the knowledge to give you a good life. If the "downtrodden" learn to build their own good life, the elitist loses value and power. So, who cares more? The one that maintains their status as the benefactor or the one that is willing to allow others to be their own benefactor? I'm sure that the answer is obvious to most people. It's about ego.
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  7422.  @paul5896  Guys like you always make that same comments. I'd laugh or "lol" but I've heard this SO MANY TIMES. It's like listening to the same knock/knock joke in a loop. It gets stale pretty quick.
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  7423. There's a difference between a person, who happens to be a member of Antifa, setting fires, than Antifa, as an organisation, making this tactic a new strategy and policy. That's what he meant. I'm Canadian. If I go to the US and shoot a well known American personality, that doesn't mean Canada is invading the United States. Same as this. If a member of Antifa sets a forest fire, it doesn't mean that all of Antifa is responsible. It's only that way if he was directed to do so by a joint agreement of Antifa members. As far as I know, there is no evidence of that. That's all that Tim is saying and it's quite reasonable.
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  7424.  @veronicasimpson7953  If you have proof, show it. If not, you're engaging in gossip, the meanderings of an idle mind.
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  7425. I'm not sure what you mean by that. What is wrong with this video clip and what's did Rubin say or do that is so funny?
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  7426.  @DonaldTChump  That's it? He was at a party and Epstein was there, too. That's your proof of guilt? Come on. Two of the richest people in New York at a large party in New York isn't evidence. We're talking about the flight logs. Was Trump on one of those flights to Epstein Island? That's the question.
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  7427. What is your point? Are you of the opinion, that in a good economy, no business will ever fail? That's rather naive.
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  7428.  @CharlieTWilbury  Or do they. Who's saying that the killers of Tyre Nichols are white supremacists, even though that all killers were black? Who called Larry Elder the black face of white supremacy? Who's saying that math is racist? MATH!!!!! If you hear the accusations of racism, it's almost always from the Democrats and their supporters. They even support college admissions along racial lines. California Democrats even wanted to get rid of the State Civil Rights Act, the act that Dr. Martin Luther King inspired, to enable the racialized admissions in California schools. It's the Democrats who think that blacks aren't able to get an ID for some vague reasons which is ridiculous. I could go on and on. It's their go to accusation on almost every issue.
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  7429. If they really want to be equitable, they should give the job to the one who gets the least votes. It's not fair to them that no one likes them so, in compensation, which is another word for reparations, it's only fitting that the loser wins. The position goes to the black, Latino, no-binary and vertically challenged individual with Zero votes. And the crowd goes all jazzy hands.
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  7430. The problem with Iraq is the fact that the country is divided along Shia, Sunni and Kurd lines. All three have their own agenda. Until all three groups are willing to negotiate a settlement, the country will be in chaos. Either that, or a strong arm takes over the country, basically another Saddam Hussein. That's something that Obama didn't take into consideration. Syria has the same problem. Assad is Shia. The rebels were Sunni and the Kurds formed their own rebellion. Same problem. Assad isn't going to give an inch. He's Syria's Saddam and there will be no negotiations. So, they're at an impasse until one group overpowers the others.
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  7431.  @paulsweeney2959  When teachers, or specifically, the public education system, feel that it is their duty to teach morality, they've overstepped their mandate. Our education system was built to teach our young the technical life skills or reading and mathematics, NOT on what the children should believe. When a teacher sits up all night with a sick student, when he/she spends their lives crying over the death on MY child....then they are co-parents.....MAYBE. They are public servants, no more. My brother, who is a teacher and a strong Christian, who taught in the public school system, would NEVER and HAS never imposed his personal beliefs on his students. That's not his job. A teacher can give a helping hand, if needed, but to assume the role of the parent is more than presumptive. It's an arrogance that should never be the accepted policy of our education system.
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  7432. @Robbie S NO!!!! It doesn't work that way. What a conservative wants is the opportunity to make their own way, freely, without undue interference and if he becomes rich in the process, all the better. Getting rich isn't the goal. It's the reward for being successful and getting there on your own merit.
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  7433. @Robbie S You've misunderstood EVERY word I've said. Of course, the man living on an island doesn't become rich by himself. We're social creatures and it's how a person operates as a part of that society. You contribute as an individual, doing the things that benefit yourself and society as a whole. It's a two way street, a symbiotic relationship. ....and, of course, Jeff Bezos didn't get rich on his own. He needs staff and more importantly, customers. However, I, as an individual, don't have to work for Jeff Bezos if I don't want to. I don't have to buy off him, either. That's my choice as a self determining individual. However, I CAN approach his company and apply to work for him.....if I want. Then, it is up to me to make my way, as an employee of Bezos, in the best way that I can. If it doesn't work out, I can walk. There may be unpleasant consequences, for the time being, anyway, but there are more options than just Jeff Bezos in the world. In fact, it's a good thing that there are those options, should I need them. I may never have the finances of Bezos, but so what??? I'm not living his life and his property doesn't belong to me. I, Jack Haveman, belong to me and any property, whether in cash, land or products is mine. That's what concerns me. I don't spend my days gazing at the piles of others because that's one sure way to guarantee the neglect of the way I live my life and use my own assets. I will NEVER allow envy to rule my life.
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  7434. It's no joke. The unions have been infiltrated by radical socialists and that's serious stuff. Radical socialists have caused more deaths than any other cause in the 20th century and are now in government agencies all over the western world. It's called "The slow march through the institutions" and they won't stop until this is taken seriously.
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  7435.  @kimiscool7  I think that it's WORSE than sterilizing and mutilating mentally ill kids. They're taking the more impressionable kids, who are going through a difficult time of puberty, and creating mental issues and then offering the surgical procedures as the solution to those mental problems that they nurtured. It's as, and I don't like using that word, EVIL as it gets.
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  7436.  @SHrepairs  Actually, it's right on point. The Soviet Union fell because it's economic machine was unable or unwilling to provide the goods that its citizens wanted or needed. A healthy economy generates the wealth of a nation. If an economy cannot or will not provide the simplest wants of its citizens, how can it generate wealth? It can't and it won't. The inability of the Soviet Union to generate wealth is what drove the failure of that state. Allowing the citizens to operate in a free and open market is symptomatic of the deeper problem of the Soviet Union. The economy has to restart or this may snowball into a depression that could see tens of millions starving around the world. We'd be wishing we hadn't panicked over Covid to the extent we did.
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  7437.  @SHrepairs  I'm Canadian and we have a socialised healthcare system and we flattened the curve by doing EXACTLY the same things as the Americans did. What we don't have, and that's what the controversy is now in the US, is a polarised political atmosphere where progressive and Democrat controlled state governments are imposing Draconian rules, under threat of arrest, on the average citizen. We don't have snitch lines, we can mow our lawns, buy grass seed and paint and we don't have drones flying around telling us to disperse and go inside. That's what Democrat state governments are doing and Republican state governments are NOT doing. In fact, socialised health care is the dream of Democrats. Also, there are health care worker laid off in areas where the virus hasn't been a big problem due to lockdowns is their state that won't allow medical activity other than extreme emergencies and Covid related cases. I have friends and relatives in the US and they're the ones telling me this, online. You're obviously being driven by a hatred of free economies. I don't know where you're from but I will tell you that Canada, in spite of it's socialised health care system has a free economy. I've even ran a small business and have many friends and family members who own their own business and love it. That's capitalism....and it's the freedom to be the person that you want to be instead of being controlled from above. I'm perplexed by anyone that would want control to come from anywhere but within. I don't like a big government, the ultimate corporation, controlling everything that I do.
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  7438.  @SHrepairs  You're a fascist? You support the Fascist state of China? That explains everything. A country that has 1 million Uyghurs in detention camps, persecutes Tibetans and member of Falun Gong, censors the internet, arrested doctors that tried to tell of the imminent threat of Covid, boarded people into their homes, had riots forcing people to remain in Wuhan and shot and killed people in Hong Kong because they wanted to keep the freedom that they've had in the past. Talk about wage slaves. People in China have to work, too or did you think that the "wonderful" government just wishes products into existence. You're a bitter, angry individual, obsessed with the ideology of envy. Not the way I'd want to live my life. I prefer to make my own way, like I have for over 50 years. The measure of a man is demonstrated on how well he can take care of himself. The less I depend on others.....the better. I don't need big government looking over my shoulders and telling me I can't do this. I don't need any propaganda to tell me that this is the preferred way of life for me. It's worked for me all my life.
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  7439.  @davidmays8974  I'm not BETTER than anyone. Neither are you. That's the biggest problem that the human race has had all through our history. "We're BETTER than you" and that belief has given licence to the killing of hundreds of millions of people. The SAME people that considered Columbus a horrendous individual, committed that same atrocities that he did, some of them even worse. This was about politics and envy and most of today's criticism is about expounding on their moral superiority. If this was a "Columbus" problem, it would have ended with his death, only 14 years after he landed in the Americas. In fact, it became WORSE, after he died. Columbus is a figurehead, something solid to latch onto when people want to prove how virtuos they are.
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  7440.  @davidmays8974  And if you'd sailed with Columbus, you'd have been complicit with Columbus. People LOVE to think that they're SO good but it's damned easy when you don't live in a time or situation where these things were happening. My parents grew up in Nazi occupied Netherlands. Do you know who the Nazi soldiers were? They were ordinary people, just like you and me. One time farmers, shop keepers, factory workers, living ordinary lives and they found themselves doing some of the most atrocious acts in our recent history. These same ordinary Germans went into my mother's home when she was 11 years old and took ALL their food. They almost starved to death. Had you or I been one of those soldiers, we'd have done the same. We're just not in that situation. The Spanish had no problem with slavery. No one did at the time. It was a part of life all over the planet. The Aztecs were taking slaves and them brutally murdering them in religious ceremonies and doing it by the hundreds. Funny how NO one calls that brutal. Columbus wrote that the native Tainos had told him about the fierce and warlike Caribs, who used to raid the Tainos for cannibalistic rituals and capture and enslave their women. Once again, I don't hear you complaining about THEIR brutality. No one is perfect and that includes you. If you think that you wouldn't have been goose stepping in the Nazi ranks had you been born in Germany in 1925, you're only kidding yourself. Any honest person has to admit that they'd have done the same. It's the dishonest ones who puff out their chest and point fingers at everyone else thinking that they're better than others. Once you believe that, and it appears that you do, you'll find that you'd be quite ready and willing to do horrific things to those who you believe are worse than what you are. It's the way of humanity all through history. You haven't learned a thing except to believe that you're superior to "those people" over there.
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  7441.  @micahlucero8123  That's a great appeal to emotion. My parents grew up in the war in the Netherlands. My grandfather had to be institutionalised due to severe mental illness and left 4 small children alone with my grandmother. They had little to nothing to eat, yet Nazi soldiers would take half of the little food that they had left for the war effort. They would live on eels, caught in the canal across the road, for weeks at a time. She hated fish till the day she died. My mother left home at 12 to work for food and lodging at another couple's home about 30 miles away. If she didn't, she may have starved to death. Human history sucks. We have to know about it, learn about the mindset that brought it about. Your rant is why people build the resentment that keeps them locked within themselves and when they find the power, to react viciously. My mother experienced the wrath of the German people, who resented those who kept them poor and struggling for centuries. My parents didn't let their experience turn them into resentful and vengeful people. They immigrated to Canada, worked their butts off to provide a good life for me and my siblings. That's how you defeat "oppression". I know indigenous Canadians who went to those schools. They've done well for themselves. Built their own families, homes, had good careers and aren't railing on about how tough they had it. They talk about the schools.....the good, the friends they made but also the bad. They don't let it define them. They're strong, living their lives in dignity and appropriate pride. Others don't and I see them living lives of resentment and addiction. You can blame others but others aren't going to fix life for you. My parents and my native friends, who've been successful and lived full lives, prove that. Resentment can bring as much misery as any "oppressor" Don't become your own subjugator. You may find that oppressor the most difficult one to escape from.
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  7442. This is the party that thinks that men can get pregnant. And they say that Republicans are out of touch with reality.
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  7443. Men lie about money due to the pressure that women put them to show that they have successful careers. There's supposed to be equal pay but women shame men if they make more money than them by eliminating them from the dating pool. We see it all the time when women are asked what's important in a dating partner. Money and success are always high on the list to a woman. Men want honesty and responsibility in women. A woman that is too promiscuous doesn't seem all that responsible. In other words, they both lie for the same reason.
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  7444.  @KidsandKittens217  Thanks for the definition....I guess.
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  7445.  @burmy1552  The first problem that I see with your comment is that you think that an elected government is going to be free of religious influences. Take the abortion issue. Not all religious people are pro-life but it is a dominant influence in their beliefs. There are other reasons that non-religious believers have for being pro-life. It's an absolute impossibility to divorce political beliefs from religious or ideological ones when voting. You vote for those whose political goals align with your own personal beliefs. A person with Marxist beliefs is more likely to vote for those whose platforms align with theirs. A religious person will be more likely to vote for one who has conservative beliefs. You can't separate your beliefs from what you expect from government. It's impossible. Ideology will inevitably include almost everything about how you live and want to live, including the type of society that you want. I'm actually thinking that, not understanding this tendency for voters, is as close to a logical fallacy as it gets.
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  7446. I realise that we're only getting one side of the story but I can't see how the town council and especially this councilman can justify their position. Going to jail for the crime of operating a business is beyond excessive. They even lied about how this couple was disposing their grease, proven by the inspector's 4 reports. No matter how I assess it, this is a misuse of power and I can't help but think that this had to do the council member's personal business interests. No outsiders allowed in their little club.
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  7447.  @cortical1  I did give you facts. I told you they made a big deal about Trump throwing fish food into the coy pond. That actually happened. it was the stupidest news story that I'd ever heard and the media edited footage just to make up the narrative. This was NEWS to them. I told you about Nick Sandman, a kid that was doing nothing and the press went berserk about it. Also with a made up narrative, with edited footage and everything. Trump took an extra scoop of ice cream, and THAT was news to them. A SCOOP OF ICE CREAM!!!!! And they made a big deal of it. Was it illegal? NO. It was a scoop of ice cream. If you think that the MSM wouldn't have taken a story about Don Jr. lying on a gun application and made it a big story, then YOU'RE delusional. The thing is, they'd have been right to do so. Get that!!!!! I'll repeat it. Had this been Don Jr., they would have been RIGHT about reporting it as a big story. It would have been the RIGHT THING TO DO!!!! It's shows corruption. Not 2 scoops of ice cream corruption but using the power of the presidency to cover up an illegal act. Once more, had Don Jr. done this, the media would have been right to report it in a big way. I don't care who it is. If the son of a president, vice president or someone running for the president does something like this, it's BIG news...whether it was Biden, Trump, Obama or even Abraham Lincoln. YOU want to pick and choose based on whether you like them or not. I choose it based on whether the DEED was right or wrong. YOU base it on your feelings.
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  7448.  @cortical1  Then why isn't this story of Hunter Biden the main story? The allegation is that the Secret Service covered it all up and there is proof that shows that this might be true. So I googled it. "Hunter Biden lies on gun registration form". That's what I typed in as my search parameter. I went through 4 pages and not a word about it from CNN. I thought that I found something on NBC but I was wrong. They were talking about Joe's new gun laws and not a word about Hunter. The Secret Service covered up a felony. WHY WOULD YOU DEFEND THAT???? It's an egregious act of corruption, yet you defend it. It's even worse that taking an extra scoop of ice cream. Yet, CNN doesn't say a word about it and you defend it. The ice cream incident did happen and it was all they could talk about. Yet, when the Secret Service covers up a felony, by the President's son, they say nothing and YOU DEFEND IT. You're something else.
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  7449.  @Solo-7-7-7  I can't support the extreme jump in our national debt through wild spending. I can't support the chaos at the border and the human trafficking cartels. I can't support the way they way they advance CRT and explicit sexual topics on very small children and then hide behind LGBTQ rights as a justification. I can't support how they stopped the Keystone Pipeline but supported the pipeline from Russia to Germany, which help to finance the invasion of Ukraine. I can't support their election policies, especially their insistence that IDs are racist and how they want mail-in voting as the norm. I can't support their equity programs. I can't support how they've suppressed news stories and even admitted to colluding with big tech to flag "misinformation" and even legitimate news stories that proved to be true. I can't support how they covered for Hunter Biden and, by proxy, his father, who is now the president. I can't think of one thing that they've done that I like. Maybe, since you do support some of what he's done, you could enlighten me on what he HAS done that has helped the country because I can't see it.
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  7450.  @Chris-ym2qx  That was the Rachel Maddow defence. She used it as a defence in a lawsuit. "I'm not a journalist, I'm a talk show host and should be allowed to give my opinion". The judge agreed and she won and it had NOTHING to do with the accuracy of what she said on her show. She's a talk show host. Hannity does the same thing that she does. You're applying it to the side that you don't like but it's applicable across all of the media. You have to think things through a little more.
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  7451. When I was in high school, back in the late sixties, Jewish Nazis were SO rare, so enigmatic, that someone actually wrote a book about a specific Jew who joined the American Nazi Party. A case study in the unfathomable. Now, they're gathering by the hundreds to hear and cheer on the current "Nazi" presidential hopeful. The world sure has changed.
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  7452. It has to be covered. There are people who listen and believe their nonsense and we have to point it out and explain why it's wrong so when confronted by those who believe this nonsense, people have the facts to dissuade them of the MSNBC and Hamas propaganda that they've been subjected to.
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  7453. Much better to give them nothing. No drugs, no medicine, no cures. I guess we'll have to find that witch lady that lives in the forest. She'll have the "eye of newt" and "bat's wings" that should cure us. After all, it worked so well 500 years ago.
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  7454.  @diamonddavey2668  I live in a small town of 15000 and there are 2 cases of the virus. Our town has the largest military air base in Canada and it's where those that were on the cruise ship that landed in California were sent and quarantined. 2 of them now have the virus. If it wasn't for that, we'd have 0 as well. In North America, the per capita caseload is 1 in 310,000 people. It's unlikely that you'd know anyone, anyway. Unlike, some countrie in Europe. There it's about 1 in 15000 almost 25 times higher. If we had that rate here, there'd be over 24,000 cases and you might have a couple at the hospital where your wife works. It's one thing to not trust politicians but it's another to disbelieve EVERYTHING. You may well end up regretting that. It doesn't mean that you have to go crazy. A few precautions is all that's needed.
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  7455.  @stuckinthepastproductions4329  One of those A--h---s. Gotcha and thanks.
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  7456.  @jerrynoles1904  That's because people aren't travelling and planes aren't flying. No planes.....no contrails. Besides, why would they spray those supposed chemtrails in the middle of the day? Do it at night. No one would see them and they'd be mostly dissipated by morning. Another one of those guys that were in the tinfoil aisle when everyone else was fighting over toilet paper.
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  7457.  @Justaguywithtruth  You don't need to use it everyday. You'd only use it after someone was diagnosed with the virus and was in that room. What a waste of time and money to spray rooms all the time. Use it for specific circumstances.
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  7458.  @warrior-xd2xn  Trump is NOT the president. LOL. This is 2023. You've lost a few years.
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  7459.  @erwinnijs1  If you want to wait the millennia for the CO2 in the atmosphere to be taken in by plants and then is transformed back into usable oil, you're absolutely correct. However, it takes hundreds of thousands of years, millions even. We can't wait that long for the oil to replenish itself. I guess we can but we're going to have to find a better source of energy to tide us over. The oil that we're getting out of the ground right now, came from plants that lived millions of years ago. It's been sitting in the ground, ostensibly in a state of storage until recently. We, humans, have been burning off the accumulation of millions of years of plant waste in a little more than a century. That might well be an issue. There aren't enough plants to absorb that kind of CO2 release into the atmosphere at that rate. CO2 percentages in the atmosphere has to go up.
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  7460.  @yamakawirodebike5710  If they told you oil came from dinosaurs, they were wrong, or else, you misheard what it was they said. Oil comes from decaying plant life and the oil we have been drilling today, came from decaying plant life that died at the time of the dinosaurs. That's likely what they told you and is what I learned in school back in the sixties.
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  7461. I find Alex Jones is a rotten person but I still support his right to speak. Also, he's right about those white suburban women. They live in those white neighbourhoods, are terrified of the black gangster types which, to them, is all of them, and they feel guilt about how they feel. Sort of like Robin D'Angelo. So they compensate by saying the right things to prove that they're not as biased as their terrified self. It's their way of atoning for their sin of racism.
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  7462.  @nolabtoday1371  Then why are people insisting on surgeries to change their sexual organs??? That's SEX isn't it??? Yet they keep insisting that their organs are an important part of their gender but not their sex. It becomes so weird that one starts to feel as if they're chasing their proverbial tail in order to explain it. It's all about their sexual proclivities. SEX!!! Then they say that their sexual proclivities aren't about sex but about gender. All I can make out is that they're playing a bizarre word game, in order to muddy up the water so the idea is so difficult to question that you just can't be bothered anymore. Then they raise their hands in triumph, happy they they used BS to baffle brains.
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  7463.  @jerrygreene1493  Is that YOU, psychocowboy1? Or is it The Molecule FX boulder? LOL.
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  7464.  Jon Kentucky  No one gets thing 100 percent correct, 100 percent of the time. That's a fact of human behaviour. Tim is a decent guy and he tries to present ideas and the news as honestly as he can. He's not going to be right all the time. If you see that he's made a mistake, make a correction and then give us the evidence that prove that the correction is valid. That's the reasonable response. I know that the claim of Trump's mocking isn't true. If I decide to call Tim on it, I show him in ways that he can't refute so it's not MY opinion, but the facts. Facts don't care about feelings and more than that, they don't care about opinions.
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  7465. Well.....that was creepy.
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  7466. Who would play Andrew Cuomo? Let's see. Who's the number one villain in Hollywood? It's too bad the Anthony Hopkins has gotten so old. He was a great villain. I guess I'd have to go with Kevin Spacey. Villain on AND off the big screen.
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  7467. Too bad he doesn't talk to the Teacher's union like that. After all, they're behaving more childish than that little girl.
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  7468.  @WELVAS.  Still flogging that dead horse? Give it up. That horse won't come back to life and win the race.
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  7469. They say that Trump is a threat to democracy. What they really mean is that he's a threat to them....the Democrats.
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  7470.  @RagaSHOT  To "find" those votes, they have to exist. It's like an Easter Egg hunt. You don't find Easter Eggs that don't exist and if you don't find all 100, that were hidden, that doesn't mean that they DON'T exist. You just didn't find them. He didn't say "I want to MANUFACTURE 11,780 votes" He wanted to FIND them. You can't find what isn't there. A stupid argument.
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  7471. Someone has to argue with them. If we don't stand against them, show the flaws in their arguments, we end up with what's happening in the west, right now. They'll take over the reigns of power, pass laws that discriminate and harm all of us. As frustrating as it can be, it has to be done.
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  7472. Trudeau will call Kenney a Nazi, accuse him of flying a swastika, refuse to talk to him because he just came down with another case of Covid and then threaten to have Kenney investigated, freeze his bank account and impound his vehicles. He has to do it. How are we going to beat the Rona if he doesn't????
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  7473. Disney will change their minds when people stop watching their content.
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  7474.  @abcxyz2927  What does that have to do with Buck Angel? She's said NUMEROUS times that she has a mental disorder. He/she admits it. Buck, a true transsexual, is saying that the APA is WRONG....just like we are. Are you responsible for what the APA is claiming? You're saying the EXACT same thing that Buck is saying. Canadian gender researcher, Kenneth Zucker, studied gender dysphoria for decades and came to the conclusion, from all the data collected, that it is a very rare disorder and that most people grow out of it during and after puberty and many are actually gay. Only a very rare amount keep the disorder for the rest of their lives. Zucker has been cancelled and fired from his job for this, even though he was recognised as a leading expert on the disorder. Buck Angel is one of the very rare individuals, just like the guy I grew up with, who have had the disorder persist through their entire life. Don't react out of anger. React to the facts.
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  7475.  @matthewdoty1327  Yes there are illegals in the US from other countries than Mexico. However, Mexico accounts for well over half of all illegals. The next country of origin is El Salvador, then Guatemala. India is 4th and then Honduras. 4 of the top 5 countries are Hispanic so when an illegal is deported, it's a good bet that the country of origin for that illegal will be Hispanic. In fact, my sister was one of the illegals. She's a white, red haired, blue eyed woman. She was apprehended, after a number of years in the US and deported back to Canada. If you're an illegal, you'll be deported and because almost 3 out of 4 illegals are Hispanic, deportees will be Hispanics almost 3 out of 4 times. https://www.statista.com/statistics/269365/origin-of-illegal-immigrants-in-the-us/ Most of what you're saying is pure speculation and superfluous noise.
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  7476.  @jonasmlgaard-asmussen9844  Biden couldn't help but do better. They shut down tens of thousands of businesses, some of them permanently, over Covid. As they started to come back to their jobs or find new ones, that led to what looked like a great economic resurgence. It's a great scam. Shut down businesses over Covid and then when they go back to work, elevate yourself to the status of hero of the working man. Smoke and mirrors.
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  7477.  @audreyblack8629  The doctors are instructed to maintain a policy of gender affirmation. That means that if a 14 year old comes to see a doctor, claiming to have gender dysphoria, the doctor MUST agree to the 14 year old's self diagnosis. They could lose their medical licence over it. A lot of doctors just pass the patient on to gender "experts" basically washing their hands of it. The medical establishment is highly complicit in this. They stand to make a great deal of money. There were video taped sales pitches to Vanderbilt University, outlining just how much could be made doing transgender surgeries. A lot of parents are caught between their children, the schools, the medical establishments and the government. A parent could lose their child for not affirming their child's claimed identity or for even misgendering or dead naming their own kid. This is much deeper than just the parents.
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  7478.  @lucky-iz8cp  Hamas KNEW that Israel would fight back if they attacked them first. They KNEW and didn't care. They want to see Palestinian martyrs so they can display them around the world to validate any actions that they might take. They're using their own people as propaganda pawns. If you start a war, you'd best be prepared for the consequences.
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  7479.  @Whats_in_a_name_1  I'm confused. What does his "current psychological position" have to do with his perception of courage?
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  7480.  @Whats_in_a_name_1  Oh...I'm speaking with an intellectual. LOL. My kids call each other "stupid" all the time. They're only 9, 7 and 3 but damn....are they smart. Genius even. One might even say that they're intellectual giants. Sort of like you.
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  7481.  @oleoosterom343  When did I start arguing with you? I'm talking to "Greenman".....unless you 2 are the same person. Now that would be a weird thing to do.
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  7482.  @MrPojopojo  That's a plan that the average voter can't resist. "Here's 10 grand but you gotta vote for me". I guess that's the price for a greedy, corrupt heart.
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  7483.  @ultramagalatino7791  Well, she should learn. Her son is making childish remarks on it for the entire world to see.
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  7484. Bill Maher got Covington wrong because he saw the MAGA hat on Nick Sandman's head and he drew his conclusion on that. A hat was all it took. That's bias.
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  7485.  @treeamigo8447  If given a choice, I'll take the Christian extreme and I left the church 50 years ago. Work hard, be grateful for what you have, make wise decisions and you've given yourself a good chance to have a good life. It's optimism and hope. Behave like a progressive and you destroy everything around you. It's complaining and whining and resentment and the most pessimistic life I could imagine. Nothing's perfect but I'll take the Christian life over the progressive any time. The progressive socialist has to destroy to rebuild. I'd rather build.
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  7486.  @A-GoldenBar  Kyle can do as he wishes. He's a free man. If he's sick of this mess, he's allowed to not pursue it. If he thinks it best to go after them, he's free to do that. It's up to him. We're not in his shoes and we have no right to tell him what he should or should not do. Those media outlets deserve to lose everything, but it's Kyle's decision, NOT mine.
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  7487.  @jcb3393  That's definitely true but we don't know how he feels about it. This may be something that he doesn't want to spend the next couple of years reliving over and over again. He may want to get out of the spotlight and return, as much as possible, to a normal life. He deserves that as much as he does any money that he might get from those lying leeches.
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  7488.  @A-GoldenBar  My advice to Kyle would be to do what he feels is best for him. Suing them to oblivion would put a smile on my face, though......but it's not about me, is it.
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  7489.  @bean-spiller  First, the wall isn't finished. Biden stopped it. It's like saying that you started building your home, you sadly passed away and you're kids didn't finish it and that's YOUR fault, somehow. Biden stopped construction almost immediately, when he took office and when Trump was metaphorically dead. There are huge sections of the wall that are just lying there, waiting to go up and if Trump had won the election would be up and standing. What I find ironic is that Clinton, Bush and Obama had barriers put up and even bragged about it but when Trump wanted to put up a wall, it suddenly became racist. That's just politics and nothing else. The part about Mexico paying for it, wasn't about Mexico just cutting a check. It was a warning to Mexico that if they didn't help, he was going to impose trade tariffs. That's how he was going to get Mexico to pay for it. It was a threat, not a promise and most reasonable people knew that. Right now, illegal immigration is at its highest, ever. That's a fact and pointing the finger at Trump doesn't change that. The separation of children was happening during the Obama administration as well. Why? Because the cartels are using children for all kinds of reasons. It's as if no one wants to admit that child trafficking exists for all kinds of nefarious reasons. Migrants cross the border, with kids, with no ID but that's just fine? Why would ANYONE allow a man, with a child to cross the border and not expect that man to prove that this child is his? That's as irresponsible as it gets. I don't know if Trump's policies would be working better than Biden's right now because I can't see the results of something that didn't happen. What I do know is that in the Congressional hearings is that the Democrats are reluctant to admit that there is a problem. If they had any integrity and courage, they'd say, with regret, that the problem is immense and look for ways to mitigate the numbers coming in. They just won't do that. I've not heard any new ideas from the Biden administration and if there is I'd like for you to enlighten me so I can evaluate its effectiveness. Right now, it is a disaster and us babbling about Trump does nothing to improve the situation.
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  7490. The media is a "collective of Karens". I like it and I'm using it.
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  7491. Everything that DeSantis said about California is true. Everything that Newsom said about Florida is BS. Pure BS.
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  7492.  Vexed Nation  I'll be nice to see that overfed weasel finally get run out of politics.
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  7493. Tulsi, the "Orange Man Bad" of the Democrat party. The media is going to lose their minds if she makes it to become the presidential candidate.
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  7494.  @lightgiver7311  You can throw the NDP in there with the Liberals in Canada....and the Bloc Quebecois, whose platform is about ethnicity and ethnicity only. It all comes back to identity politics for the left. You are not you. You are a cog in the collective. A worker bee. A nobody.
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  7495.  @Exozik  " These restrictions were put in place for a reason." said the Austrian painter to the Star of David. "You have no right to complain".
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  7496.  @jacka55six60  So who censored those comments? I know that they're not shown but who took them down? Was it the person(s) who originally posted them? YouTube? FOX? That's the question that we need answered.
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  7497. Nazis considered themselves as National Socialists first and foremost. They were anti anyone who stood in their way, including Marxists and Capitalists. Mussolini was the first to recognise the new Soviet regime.
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  7498.  @lawrence1318  I'm not American, so I don't have to play second fiddle to anyone. Do you have any other fallacious assumptions that you want to throw at me? We're talking different eras which DOES lend to making subjective comparisons. We can't really compare how they'd have stacked up against each other because they've never played each other. THAT is the deciding factor. Would Court beat Serena when they were both at their peak? That's difficult to assess however, Court never had to contend with the hard shots and serves that modern females possess. She's not even ranked in the top 23 and everyone of those ranked played in the last 15 years. Not ONE from before 2009. Australia can have all the records as most tournaments won but that has NOTHING to do with Serena's abilities. You may even be right that Court could be Serena but we can't know until they play each other as equals and that is an impossibility.
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  7499. Abraham negotiated with God to save Sodom and Gomorrah. He was a follower of God and yet had the love of his fellow man in him strong enough to not want to see their destruction. Retribution is up to God, not man and definitely not you. Wish the best for everyone, whether you agree with him or not. That is the lesson of Jesus. It is definitely not the wish to see the world destroyed so you can see paradise. That is selfish. You'll die soon enough and you can see heaven then...maybe.
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  7500. When your skin colour becomes a lottery ticket. Unfortunately, 70% of lottery winners are bankrupt within a few years. That'll be the fault of slavery, as well, so they'll need reparations for their own stupidity. I guarantee you that this guy will be one of bankrupt reparations Lottery winners.
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  7501. Wesley Harcourt Ya think?
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  7502. I have gay friends who think that the entire pride parade thing and pride month are ridiculous and depraved. They feel as if their lives have been usurped and demeaned by pride activists and the trans community, that parody regular people, especially women. For me, it's not much different than white folk, putting on black face, to parody black Americans. They dress up as caricatures of humans but we can't say anything for some reason that I can't even fathom. If I were a woman, I'd be really upset by the way women are portrayed by drag queens, even more than I am now. I don't get how others don't see it that way.
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  7503.  @Whoknows285  Wage slavery......what a stupid term. We're slaves to our own survival needs. Food, water, shelter, clothing, security from disease and predation, plus the need for reproduction. We're all slaves to these needs. These things don't just materialise out of nowhere. We have to work to get these things, no matter how you slice it. You can't just lay about your cave and hope the mammoth comes to you and commits suicide at the cave door so you can eat. You have to go out and WORK so you can eat. You're a slave to your stomach, using your logic.
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  7504.  @seanbrown9048  I'm going to say that the campus police had their hands tied by the administration. Had the police came down hard on the students rioters, the administration would have disavowed themselves of any involvement and fired any and maybe all the police that were there. We should be demanding accountability from school administration. They're the ones that are truly in power here.
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  7505.  Marcus Hughes  I'm with you, Marcus. We don't need to strength of character, firm resolve. We need to be emotional, feel sorry for ourselves and get into contests on who's the top victim. If we can't have the proper demographic on corporate boards, we may as well all just die from a virus right now, because that will kill us more than any virus could.
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  7506.  Michayal Valder  Isn't it strange how it's the Republican supporters who are appalled at the fact that Andy Ngo, a gay, Asian journalist was beaten and put in the hospital by radical leftists. How, when 2 marines, of Hispanic heritage were beaten and hospitalised, all the while being harangued by racial slurs and the leftist, Democrat supporting MSM didn't even report on it. You may think Trump set the standard but the left has taken the torch to new levels of violent action. Besides, if it's wrong when Trump does it, it's wrong when the left does it as well.
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  7507.  @CURTIS-W5CER  If they do this every day, ALL DAY, wouldn't they know enough to follow the steps, correctly? It was a mistake. A mistake that conspiracy types will salivate over.
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  7508.  justintimberflake2895  But Trump is NOT the president. Biden is. YOUR president used his position to line his pockets, basically cheating the American people including YOU.....and all you can say is that you'd rather be cheated by Biden than by Trump. I can't believe that anyone could be that foolish and NAIVE. Wow....and I mean WOW!!!! So, if I turn up the charm and get you to like me, you won't care if I rob you blind. LMAO. You're something else.
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  7509. Joe Biden has Twitter on his speed dial. "Jack....please purge Antifa. They're making me look bad" Jack: "It will be done by morning, Joe".
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  7510.  @The_Insanity_Plex  These people are addicted and suffering from mental health. These addictions and mental health issues are causing them to commit crimes and posing a danger to ordinary citizens. An addiction is a disease and so are the many variations of mental health diseases. Yet, we allow them to go untreated, letting them roam the streets, alone and afraid. That is the travesty of these homeless encampments. Treat the disease and you clean up the streets of those encampments. However, it seems we'd rather watch them die, alone, addicted and afraid and we're doing it under the guise of compassion. Nothing compassionate about it. We don't do this to those suffering from other diseases, yet we're quite comfortable to allow their health afflictions go undiagnosed and untreated. Your comment is vague in its scope and offers nothing but more of the same.
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  7511. In 1970, in Quebec, a group called the FLQ, kidnapped a British diplomat, James Cross and local politician, Pierre Laporte. The FLQ was organised in small cells of 5 and 6 members where only 1 person would know the identity of 1 person of another cell. Pierre Laporte was executed. The Canadian government instituted the War Measures Act, only used twice before, WW1 and 2. In the end, 16 people were found to involved in the kidnappings. Small cells, that's how they were organised. To add, the arrests of the FLQ members spelled the end of years of letter bombs in Quebec and the end of the FLQ.
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  7512.  @dtklamf7457  I'm retired now but I spent 16 years in the bar business, 7 of them in a strip joint. The atmosphere, in a bar, is a lot different than working at a warehouse or factory. Bar fights are a part of the culture and I've been in my share of them. However, when I worked in other types of businesses, things were different. You don't handle conflicts in the same way. Also, that guy WAS held accountable. He lost his job over it and the other guy was still working there, he didn't have to deal with that jerk anymore, he didn't have to worry about the law and other employees knew that the company wouldn't tolerate that kind of behaviour, so it cut the chances of it happening again, way down. It was all good for him.
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  7513.  @dtklamf7457  I get where you're coming from, as well. We share a common perspective but, due to my "advanced" years, I have a little broader experience than what you might have. I really appreciate your willingness to see things from another perspective. That shows that you might be good at the job your doing. I've worked with a lot of head cases in the bar business. That you are willing to be flexible is a trait that is a plus in the work that you do. Have a great day.
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  7514.  @mikeklug3369  I'm pretty sure that you're correct and I even called him a troll. But others read it, too, and I'm challenging those who might be on the fence to think about what I'm saying and to get more information. Trolls, or ghosts as you call them, are mindless bots and I want everyone to realise it. Especially, those who are obsessed with Trump. That hatred is real, emotionally driven and irrational. Most of all, that hatred is extremely dangerous and hatred like that has driven every war in history. It has to be challenged to show how ludicrous it is.
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  7515.  @janeleslie4192  You can't just walk into a poolroom and announce that you're looking for children to abuse. The networks of sex traffickers is extremely suspicious and secretive. To get into one of these organisations, you have to get them to trust you and then it's only levels of trust. You might get some of the low level members but the top level organisers will continue on as normal. To stop them you have to get the trust of those top level scumbags. It's tough and painstaking but unless you do that, you're only operating on a cosmetic scale. You have to stop the big operators. They have the connections and the networking that will you can use to stop them. Even that will drive the others deeper underground making it even MORE difficult.
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  7516. If this was a rehearsal, why did Baldwin pull the trigger? Why would he even use a real gun, when it wasn't an actual film shoot.
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  7517. James Raymond It should take as long as the country in question thinks it should take. If they decide that you wait 10 years, then you wait 10 years. Immigration to another country is NOT a right. It's a privilege bestowed on you by the citizens and the government of that country. If they believe that they don't have the capacity to accept every person applying for immigrant status, they have the right to set the rules for granting that status.....not the person making the application or the individuals living in that country who may not fully understand the financial and social realities of their own homeland.
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  7518. When the pandemic is over, Fauci will no longer have media relevance. He may not want to give that up.
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  7519. I remember when Popular Mechanics was about building things. What a disappointment.
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  7520. @Sen Bhapiro Constant calling people "Fascists" isn't exactly handling opposing opinions in a sophisticated manner, either.
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  7521. When Chomsky did acknowledge that the killing was real, he blamed the Americans. This after calling it American propaganda until he couldn't deny the facts anymore. He supported Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, as well. He just refuses to learn from his mistakes, it indeed they are mistakes. He's too vested in ideology to ever find fault in it. An extremely dangerous man.
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  7522.  @jerrylong6238  It's hard to believe that anyone still thinks that an ad hominem attack is an effective way to make a point in 2023....unless they're 8 years old. I know I just used the same fallacy but you're the one who set the rules in this discussion.
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  7523. I didn't know that Google, Facebook and the Washington Post were "liberal" groups. I thought that they were businesses. Is Newsweek admitting a bias in large corporations. I suppose, when you think liberal views (interpret..left wing views) are correct views, liberal becomes the default position for everyone and since left wing views are correct, they're beyond reproach. That's some bad journalism, Newsweek. It sounds more like dogma than a search for truth.
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  7524. Kind of a pointless comment, or should I say troll?
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  7525.  @ChrisandJess98  Not religion. Christianity. Islam doesn't hold forgiveness as a virtue.
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  7526. Stop voting Democrat would be a big step towards a solution. You don't have to vote Republican but vote for anyone who is NOT a Democrat.
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  7527. It's even easier for an athlete to ignore the human rights abuses and genocides for personal gain. Money and fame always trump integrity, ethics and principles. "Better they lose their lives than I lose my fame and fortune."
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  7528.  @solarisxyz3405  LMAO. If only you could see me in real life. LOL. I'm a 70 year old teenager, who's spent a lifetime working in factories and construction and who grew up on a farm. Am I idealistic?? Yes, I am. I have a set of ideals that I try my best to stand for. Money's great but it's NOT my prime directive and I've quit jobs, on principle, to go to a lesser paying job. So, instead of creating a straw man Jack, talk about the ideas that I've presented, instead of the pretend "Jack" that you've created in your mind.
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  7529.  @elmerelless674  We don't like George Bush either. He's responsible for the deaths of a lot of good people and it accomplished nothing except destabilise the middle east. It paved the way for the Arab Spring, that was strongly supported by Obama and led to the rise of ISIS and the horrors that came with that. A lot of us hate what both parties, the Democrats and the RINOs, have become and that's the reason for the rise of Trump. Not a big supporter of Trump, myself, but his rise is understandable.
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  7530. Since Rep. Susan Wild was the one who brought it up, apparently saying that Donald Trump was a "fake" president is unacceptable. Will she ask Hilary to apologise for her ongoing remarks, about being cheated out of being the president, or not? She can't deny it that Hilary said it and has been saying it for years.....unless she's prepared to lie about it. I'd have to wonder what her stance is on students who would use the wrong pronouns. Should they be suspended? Is that worse than calling for a genocide? Personally, I'd rather be called names than have my existence ended but that's just me.
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  7531. She said that Trump only built 2% of the wall. Actually, it was 23.5% and Biden/Harris stopped construction as one of the first things that they did. Had Trump been elected, the border wall would be finished by now.
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  7532.  Sebastian Thor  LOL......sure they will. Once the richest are looted, there will be a new level of rich people to be hated and looted. And then a new level of rich people. Repeat the procedure until they get to me, somewhere down the line. No thanks.
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  7533.  @dcollins4679  I care about truth....that's why I care. I know one thing. If KEW has this conference and, for some reason they conclude that mushrooms and plants are binary, the queer activists would be extremely upset. Suddenly, THEY would care. Why, though? They're forcing us to use all kinds of pronouns and want to do so on pain of legal reprisals. Why do they care what pronouns I choose to use? Why do YOU care?
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  7534.  @allymacdonald7321  That's not my point. I was being objective, so that what I said would be applicable to anyone. No matter who you are, it's how one assesses truth. Truth isn't a popularity contest.
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  7535.  @James-ll3jb  Damn....I fell for it. You're a troll. You don't have an original thought in your head. How could I have taken you seriously.
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  7536. "Misleading people?" Would that be a nice way to say that she's lying?
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  7537.  @Drot-l3s  What do you mean that she doesn't know whether babies are racist or not? That's beyond ridiculous. How does a baby know what colour my skin is supposed to be? If a baby is racist and that's your first inclination, then everyone is racist and she'll approach things that way when making judicial rulings. It would be especially telling if she goes along with the idea that blacks CANNOT be racist and that racism is only the domain of white people. Assigning racism to a baby is assuming guilt without evidence. The obvious answer would be no, an unequivocal NO, until proven guilty. Any judge should know that and if a judge can't answer that question, that judge isn't following the rule "innocent until proven guilty". That's not only a matter of law, it's a matter of common human decency, as well. You don't have to be an expert to understand that.
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  7538.  @kristinetibbs7492  Not conservative values.....REALITY values. The D Man is ensconced in reality.
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  7539.  @astickem4428  I take his statement differently. I don't have to be conservative to have a grip on reality. I might have some opinions that align with conservatives but I also have opinions that are most definitely left wing. Therefore, I'm going to tell you, UP FRONT, not to put me in some kind of intellectual box that doesn't fit who I am. I'm no conservative no matter what my position is on transgender ideology and I don't care WHAT you say.
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  7540. This is our great social Democratic state. They claim that they're the party that cares for the poor but they do nothing to help them. They're EXACTLY what they claim the Republicans to be. Not one bit different....maybe even worse.
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  7541.  @imaninfjer6763  Where's the outrage? There is none. That's because the handshake was a personal moment between Pelosi and Trump. The tearing up of that speech was a rejection of blue collar Americans that are doing better economically, of that little girl who now has better opportunities because she can choose her future through a better education, the Tuskegee airmen, to all Americans. She basically showed her disrespect for all Americans, NOT just Trump. If you can't see that, I'd say you're filled with hatred of a president and you're incapable of seeing anything past that.
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  7542.  @imaninfjer6763  Pelosi had just impeached Trump. She led the charge, saying that Trump committed treason, a traitor and that he was corrupt. That's one of the worst things you could say about a president. She said that impeachment would be a stain on the life and presidency of Trump for all time. I'd find it difficult to shake her hand myself had she done that to me. I'd bet you'd feel the same way yourself had she done that to you. I don't see how that makes me a snowflake. Like I said, all the Democrats have to do is to be better than Trump. Considering what they think of the man, it shouldn't be that hard. Yet, they can't seem to do even that. Democrats are their own worst enemy.
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  7543.  @dunyacaliskan7495  In skinny dipping....what else????
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  7544.  @Sparty1966grad  None of that is Desantis's doing. He's allowed people to make a choice. So if you decide to not get the vaccine, and you get Covid and die, that's not Desantis's fault. That was your own decision and doing. The vaccine is available and you CHOSE not to get it. Same as going out. If I'm afraid that I might get Covid, I stay home. If I'm willing to take the risk, that's also my choice and my doing if I get Covid and it kills me. DeSantis isn't forcing you to go out. That's YOUR decision. Now...if he were a tyrant, he would take the choice away from you and tell you to stay home, wear a mask, get vaccinated but he's not doing that. He's leaving it up to the individual. He actually thinks that you're a big boy and can make decisions for yourself. If you're afraid of Covid, stay home, where a mask when you go out, wash your hands, try to live a healthy life and get vaccinated. No one is stopping you. Do those things and you should be safe.
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  7545.  Owen Chang  My daughter got her first vaccine dose. That night she broke into a horrific case of hives. 2 months later, she's STILL getting them, all over her body. This has never happened before. She now wishes that she didn't get the vaccine and her doctor advised against the 2nd one. That's why there are people that don't want the vaccine. I got mine and I don't regret it but I did it on my own choice. NO ONE FORCED ME. I object to being FORCED to do it. I'm a big boy and I can choose to do it or not. Just because a country has free health care, that doesn't mean that it's a socialist country. It's a social program. It astounds me that people, LIKE YOU, can't understand that. Socialism is where the economy is owned and controlled by the state. GET THAT....the economy. That means production of goods. Those countries that Socialist advocates called socialist, like Denmark and Sweden, are market driven economies. That's CAPITALISM...not socialism. The Danish Prime Minister, Lars Rasmussen, said this, in response to an assertion made by Bernie Sanders. "Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy." Before you go and make assertions about economic matters, maybe you should learn what it means or what the term "socialist" refers to.
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  7546. Those ships were used ONLY for the slave trade....nothing else. How ridiculous. These women are infuriatingly obtuse.
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  7547.  @hybridh9702  Nothing survives without profit....not even YOU. If you expel more than what you take in, you'll end up DEAD. That's the same with any business. They MUST get more for their products than they pay for it. Without profit nothing works. NOTHING. It's why fusion hasn't worked so far. They've haven't been able to produce a profit of energy so they can sustain the fusion process. In other words, it cost more energy to make than they get in return. There is no extra energy, energy profit, so to speak, that they can use to initiate the next fusion cycle. It's not profit that's bad. It's absolutely necessary throughout business and nature. It's what a person will do for financial profit that sets them as good or bad people. It's why the Soviet Union failed and why China changed to a more profit driven economy and why North Korea is such an abject failure. It was the lack of the driving force of success, the lack of profit. It's NOT the corporations or businesses. It's the people running them who make immoral and unethical decisions. THAT'S were the problem is.
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  7548.  @LucasCanDrum  That the US is an "unequal" society is a self fulfilling ideology. People convince themselves that they're not equal and then they go looking for examples to prove it. It'll be women, ethnic minorities, LGBT+ groups, religious groups....all looking for victim status and then demand that they now get preferential treatment or compensation for it and use their victimhood as rationalisation for bad behaviour. It's a big race to the bottom. I cringe when I see people, sitting on campus at Harvard, Yale or Princeton, telling me that they don't have a chance to succeed. Or LeBron James and Oprah Winfrey complaining about how unfair life is and Oprah actually wishing old white men would "die already". Quit feeding into their victim mentality which they will use against you and other good citizens. They're using you and anyone else who believes that being a victim gives you a pass at being a scoundrel. It's starting to happen here in Canada as well. Victimhood is a way of life among our young and the enlightened. It's causing more violence and hatred than the things that they're railing against.
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  7549.  @codycarr4544  Without a doubt. Our school systems find the seeds of discontent, envy, resentment and sexual angst and nurture them, using them as tools to create young activists. They downplay personal responsibility and hard work and encourage collectivism, identity association and rage at the perceived inequities of life. It can only end in mental anguish, broken families, addictions, poor health, crime, narcissism, feelings of helplessness and nihilism and outbursts of rage and violence. You see it everywhere. We have a generation that's focused on fixing the world and not themselves and neither the world or themselves are benefiting from it. As Voltaire once wrote....Cultivate your own garden. If we all do that, the world will look after itself.
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  7550.  @Selenium764  She's a minor. She's not old enough to even give consent to have her tonsils removed because the law feels that she's NOT mature enough to be able to process all the necessary information. Not mature enough......that's at the heart of all this. Yet, a minor, going through severe emotional stress, is suddenly and magically mature enough to give consent and DEMAND that she have her breasts removed. They manipulate a mixed up teenager in order to fulfil their own ego, ideology and bank accounts to perform Mengele like experiments on them. That's not just malpractice. It's depraved indifference. The doctors are SUPPOSED to tell you about all the benefits AND risks of every surgery or medical procedure. That's their job and obligation......and she was only 13 when those doctors "affirmed" her self diagnoses and gave her the puberty blockers almost right away. No discussion, no assessment of her emotional state, just making sure that she has the money to pay for the procedure before she signs on the dotted line. It's amazing what greed will do to people.
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  7551.  @kilgoretrout4350  I'd like to hear what it was, that Laura said, that is ignorant, stupid and funny. It's easy to say it. I want to hear why you're saying it and the reasons that make your statement a true statement. Let's see how easy that will be.
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  7552. Democrats don't think that people should be kind to each other. They believe that's up to the state. State mandated kindness.
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  7553.  @jasona59  What I'm talking is about a perspective on white supremacy that isn't shared by many, which could include Tucker. Facts are different than opinions. It's my opinion that the white supremacists are no different than BLM or Antifa and that they share the same ideology. Tucker may not have that opinion. I offered an opinion, that's all.
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  7554. Isn't it strange. 769 murders in Chicago last year with 4,033 shootings and nothing is said. If you mention it, you're accused of not understanding the problem and eventually you'll be called racist. However, one guy goes loony and shoots about 10 people and we're going change the laws, the Constitution, even redraw the map of America. I guess Stalin had a point. "‘If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics’ Extrapolate that to what just happened. "One shooter is a tragedy, thousands of shooters, that's only statistics" We sure have a strange way of looking at the world these days.
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  7555. That's because a lot of the Republicans are part of the swamp. They're not much different than the Democrats. I've been waiting for someone to come along and try to take these rats down. I was even naive enough to think that it would be Obama but it didn't take long to figure how wrong I was. It was Trump that tried and the establishment, the Democrats and Rinos lost their minds about it. They threw all the might of their influences in the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security to pull strings with their plants in the MSM and Big tech platforms. Stalin would be proud of them. Stalin's advantage is that he didn't have a pesky Constitution to keep him in line. Just wait, though. The establishment will eventually render that document as toothless as a new born baby....if we let them.
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  7556. A diary would have special privacy attached to it. There's an ethics question about revealing what a person wrote that was only meant for their own personal use. It would be like reading your thoughts and then blabbing them to the world. It's deeply personal. Project Veritas did the right thing by not publishing without the consent of Ashley...even though we'd all love to hear it.
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  7557. So, you think that LeBron was right in backing up China? Interesting. I find it rather strange that anyone would back up a country that openly abuses civil rights and was less than candid about the beginnings of a pandemic. But, if you see good in it.... A country with concentration camps and suppresses the right to freedom. China is, at this moment, the closest thing we've seen to Nazi Germany since the Big War, but if you see good in it..... The American relationship with China is at the heart of the problems in the US, today. Specifically, how the big corporations are supporting that regime for profit, but if you see good in it..... I know. Right wing talking points. I'm a sad little man.
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  7558.  @Jordothecat98  Try this. Instead of attacking Rubin, try discussing the topic of the video. Simple enough for you?
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  7559.  @Jordothecat98  If you're not interested in "right wing" personalities, talking with one another, why are you here? To throw insults, as far as I can see. Nothing uplifting or profound in that.
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  7560.  @Jordothecat98  LOL. Claiming victory are you? I didn't know that this was a contest. I thought that it was a conversation. Well, if you can puff your chest out, go for it.
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  7561.  @Jordothecat98  Actually, Dave has mentioned this quite often. Apparently, those with left wing ideas, refuse to go his show, now. They don't want to support a "right wing" platform. However, your comment says nothing about what Jason Whitlock had to say. You've just dismissed him as a right wing mouthpiece and pretty well anyone that's on his show. You say that you don't want to dislike people for their political beliefs, yet you insult them by your "circlejerk" comment. Like I said earlier. If you come to this platform, at least listen and then comment on what was said. That would have some value. I don't dislike you but I do dislike how you treat those who might think differently with disdain. You may not be as "tolerant" as you believe you are.
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  7562.  @slappy8941  For God's sake.....The Turner Diaries is a futuristic novel and is reflects back on a war that hasn't even happened yet. Novels aren't evidence. There may be pearls of wisdom in a novel but to use it as evidence of fact is nonsense.
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  7563. Both sides need to be cleaned and replaced by what? Not people. People are prone to self interest and corruption as well as being kind and altruistic. We're complex individuals. Not one of us is beyond reproach. What is needed is transparency. A system in which it would be more difficult to be corrupt because corruption is a given. We need to be able to stop it when it does happen. That's why having a media that is overwhelmingly biased is hurting everyone in the US. Saying "The press is the enemy of the people" might be hyperbolic, but today's press is doing a good job of lending truth to that statement.
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  7564.  @w1975b  It's not that they believed it. They were using it as part of an overall agenda. In the book "1984", by George Orwell, O'Brian didn't believe that 2 plus 2 equal 5. He was just using it to control the mind of Winston Smith. Orwell used a universal truth, one that everyone would automatically agree on, as a demonstration of what the radical left would do if you let them. He's now being proved correct. The new "O'Brian", those people that you're speaking of, are using ideas like "men menstruate" as their version of 2 plus 2 equals 5. They know damn well that it's BS and they don't care. As long as their ideas sow confusion and chaos, they'll flog it. We can't allow it.
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  7565. I don't know if Baldwin wanted to kill her. I do believe that he was angry with her and that it was a backhanded threat, sort of what some people do with their finger. He had a gun in his hand and, to show his displeasure, pantomimed killing her. Now he's scrambling because he knows that he should never have done that.
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  7566. @Sticker Carlson "MAY have nuclear documents" That's what he said. How's that being fooled? He may have them, which implies that he may not. He doesn't know. How can admitting that he doesn't know be fooling him? We have to wait to see what the documents actually were. Until then, NO ONE knows. Anyone, on a YouTube comment thread, who claims to know, is full of it. We won't know until the information is released. It seems hard to believe that a person would take classified material and then keep it in his house. You'd think he'd have them in a secure location, where they couldn't be found.....unless he was setting them up. I know I wouldn't keep illegal stuff, that could get me a prison term for years, hidden in my apartment. That's as dumb as it gets.
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  7567. ​ @GilmerJohn  He also said "going somewhere for her birthday". Where is that "somewhere"? It kinda implies that it's a weekend getaway, maybe even longer. I would balk at that myself after just a one week relationship. Slow down a little bit. If the relationship is good, there will be lots of time for that.
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  7568. I posted this on my facebook page when the pandemic started to roll in early March. " 2020 will be the year that the world went crazy". I never thought that it could get this crazy, though.
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  7569.  @flacko_jody2130  Apparently I've just ran into the most bigoted person that I've ever encountered, live or on the internet. Congratulations on winning the "Intolerant Fanatic of the Year" award . You most definitely deserve it.
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  7570. Democrats in 1865: "But we need our slaves to pick our crops. Who's going to do it now?" Democrats in 2025: "But we need our slaves to pick our crops. Who's going to do it now?" Like my mother used to say. "No matter how much things change, they stay the same".
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  7571. It's more than just the instant knowledge. They refuse to view any information that would disagree with their beliefs. I just read a comment where a person said that he would never go to one of those Nazi sites. He'd already made his mind up and any information that would contradict him HAD to be from Nazis. They've been taken in by a socialist ideology and once there, they refuse to ever accept facts. It's their belief or you are a Fascist.
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  7572.  @ReeCooks14579  Trump said that over 20 years ago. He knows how to create a good economy and did it during his go at Trump. It's why the old guard Republicans hate him. The reason that the Democrats hate him now and why their economy hasn't been good under Biden is because the radical left has taken control of the Democrats. Trump is more of an old school, centrist Democrat. That's what explains the hatred of the Cheney's and Romney's as well as the radically left Democrats.
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  7573.  @js8224  I don't know what their point was in taking it down was, either......but they did. Maybe they think that if it's not there, they can deny that it ever even existed. However, I don't understand the mindset of the radical socialist so I can't give you a good answer on that.
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  7574.  @jeanalice4732  And they were angry at big industrialists and bankers a lot of whom were Jewish, especially the bankers. Marxists and radical socialists don't like private property and it's the first thing that they tried to get rid of. Those Marxist Jews, that you're talking about, HATED what Judaism stood for and that image of the money grubbing Jew that people had back then....that still lives on today.
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  7575. I'm now reading "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire. His book has become the guiding light for educational studies in universities and is used to train teachers. Read that and you'll start to realise why and how these left ideas are being applied in our schools, all the way down to kindergarten. It's eye opening and, quite frankly, horrific.
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  7576. Blake Sinack Correct. No one can ever be right 100 percent of the time. They won't accept that and we're not allowed to accept that they could be wrong.
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  7577.  JblueT  NO....McCarthy was wrong to do what he did. He's right about the horrors of communism but he did the exact same thing that communists did and what makes them so dangerous. In fact, the left have taken a page from McCarthy's book of tyranny. They protest, cancel, attack, shame and mock anyone that even appears to stand against their ideology. McCarthy may have fought a horrific enemy but he did it using Fascist tactics. Fascists are just another brand of Socialists just like Communists. As a Conservative, I reject that type of intimidation and I support the rule of law and upholding the Constitution. That means freedom of speech, including speech I disagree with. In this case, speech I most strongly disagree with. It's going to be a tough fight but it's the only true and honest way to live. We're not going to fight tyranny by being tyrannical. Then, we'd be just like them.
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  7578.  @ZedrikVonKatmahl  Which goes to show you just how hateful they are. A parasite implies an organism that is alive and a DNA test will definitively prove that this "parasite" is a human being. In other words, they look at fellow human beings as parasites, objects of disgust and quite abhorrent. People like that kinda creep me out.
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  7579.  @mattghostly5261  In other words, Facebook is not responsible for the child abusers using their platform. If the parents don't take control of their children's online activities, it's open season on those kids. It's STILL wrong. I will NOT support abusive behaviour on a child, just because their parents aren't doing their job. I will guarantee you one thing, if I did something wrong or immoral towards you, like steal your wallet, you'd be running to the government for recourse. As much as believe in limited government, I also believe in the rule of law and Facebook should be sure that their customers are safe and abusers should face the laws in place.
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  7580. The fact that crime is up, in EVERY major city, over the last 3 years.....is that the fact that you're talking about? That it was the radical left that advocated for and enacted police spending cuts, defunding the police.....is that another fact that she's ignoring? Why don't you tell us what facts that she's ignoring? I'd like to hear them.
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  7581. If every business or political acted with complete honesty and in a responsible way, we'd never need an audit. It's why the IRS audits the citizens and businesses of this country. They want to know if we, as citizens and businesses, were responsible and honest in our dealings. If every audit that they ever did showed that nothing untoward ever happened, eventually we'd have to decide that audits are a waste of time. I would bet that Kathleen Hicks would argue that the IRS should audit our tax returns, except for her. I know I felt that way when I was audited. Why audit me? I'm as honest as they come. Everything was good but I was still nervous. Now, we're looking at a nervous bureaucracy and establishment. They're no different than I was but they have ways to try and prevent being audited themselves. I just had to bear it as I had no way to prevent it.
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  7582.  @canderson5098  So you're proud of your position as a miserable SOB, so long as you're on the internet. Fine then. Act like a child. It's so easy to be mouthy here. A lot easier than confronting your issues, like any mature adult would. Much better to harangue complete strangers online. What did you do before the internet? Hold your breath until your face turned blue? It's astonishing that grown adults behave this way on the internet an even MORE astonishing that they defend their boorish behaviour as being normal.
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  7583. What are the Democrats and their media going to do when no Americans are denied those social programs? Pretend that they never made those claims? Hope that the voters forget? I, for one, am not going to let that happen.
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  7584.  @daemenoth  No....they've been elected to be a part of the government. If they don't have the requisite information, how can they hold the ruling government accountable. All they're seeing is black ink. As an elected official, you can't say much about that redacted ink except complain about its existence. One court appointee isn't much of safeguard, especially if that appointee has been corrupted. I could understand the redaction of names or identifying marks but how could you know if only one, supposedly incorruptible official, is allowed to see it. At least allow one person, from each party, that has a house member, appointed by the party, to have access to those complete documents.
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  7585. Don't wear the red uniform!!!!!! It never works out well.
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  7586.  @jacobawojtowicz  Actually, this was demanded by ALL politicians, not just Trump and it was done around the world. In fact, Democrats said that Trump didn't do enough to halt Covid and were angry that he left it to individual states to set their own policies. That meant that Republican states, like Florida and South Dakota, had very few restrictions and were held up as examples of what NOT to do by Democrats. Andrew Cuomo was lauded by Democrats for his very strict policies in New York. So, pretending that the Democrats would have done any different is a fallacy. Democrats would have done the same, restricting work, and they might have even been worse. It's a nice try but no.....the shutting of the economy was inevitable and most would have been screaming blue murder had Trump advocated for NO restrictions when Covid began.
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  7587.  @samilucille1  Why? Who did he harass?
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  7588. Who woulda thought that such a sweet little girl could have turned into such a harpy?
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  7589. Too many confuse being nice with being a pushover. Do not wake the sleeping giant within.
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  7590.  @Tyt55  Troll. Why can't you say something original or of substance. It's always the same thing over and over again. You must be a student of the propagandist Joseph Goebbels. "Repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth". I wouldn't be too proud of that.
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  7591.  @ryanpotochnik1374  It's a game that reflects human nature. Religious fanatics will say that you're a "child of Satan" and you'd deny it, of course. However, they'll say that's exactly what a "child of Satan" would say. You could ask if they're a Fascist and when they deny it, you'll respond with that's what a Fascist would say. A dumb game that in reality is a dumb game people play all the time in real life.
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  7592.  @almosthuman1398  I saw all the hits. Not one talked about a man that had 3 babies. The Wikipedia entry was about an English soccer player who came out as gay. Nothing there about him being a mother. SO.....once again. Post a link. You claim that you just did the Google search. Link me to the one about a man, named Thomas Beattie, who gave birth. I'm not going to read 8.7 million Google hits to find some obscure entry. You say that you've seen it. Now...give us the link.
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  7593.  @DavidPaulMorgan  Don't worry. The WEF has it all under control. Their biggest worry is the plebeian backlash against the world elites, themselves, who know what's best for us. Our leaders are full in on supporting their plans. Big corporations, such as Blackrock, Vanguard and others have their ESG scores to impose and politicians, like Trudeau, Biden, Rutte of the Netherlands, Macron and others in the EU are all in, supporting the WEF. They have the global plan that will save us all. I call it the tyranny of the elites.
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  7594.  @JohnBarron-s4c  Do you know what's even more despicable? Supporting the idea that we MUST affirm a child's identity claims and allow them puberty blockers, drugs and surgeries on their say so. This is the only place in medicine where the patient, who can be minors, are the ones diagnosing their own mental health. As long as they support the genital mutilation of minors, I will NEVER vote Democrat. As long as they support affirmative action, which cheated Americans of Asian heritage of placements in our top universities in the name of DEI, I will NEVER vote Democrat. As long as they pit race, gender, ethnicity, religions and other identities against one another, I will NEVER vote Democrat. Trump may be a little uncouth but he never support the amputation of healthy breasts off of a 15 year old girl and he NEVER say that hundreds of riots which killed over 25 people, injured thousands more and caused billions in property damage, are just "peaceful" protests. Also, he does NOT support what's happening in the Democrat supporting cities of America. The homelessness, the open drug abuse and deaths by overdose and the deterioration of once great cities like San Francisco and New York. Kamala is the ONE??? She tried to put the mother of a girl with sickle cell anaemia in jail because her daughter missed school due to hospitalisations and much needed blood transfusions to save her life. It took her 2 YEARS to finally have the charge dismissed, even though the mother had all the medical proof to back her up. That woman is a monster.
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  7595.  @davegar1816  I was speaking about immutable traits that can't be helped when I was speaking about identity boxes.....specifically race. Those traits do not describe who we are as individuals, what we believe in, our integrity, honesty and desire to care for one another. What you're talking about is political ideology. That's NOT an identity. It's a belief system. You can be black, Asian, white or any ethnicity to have the same political beliefs. it has NOTHING to do with racial identity. I believe that slavery is wrong. I would have supported the party that fought to abolish slavery. If that would have been the Democrats, I would have been behind them......but they didn't. So, I would have supported the GOP. Would I have been wrong? Answer that as honestly as possible. I'll bet that you won't.
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  7596.  @JohnHallett5846isaPrick  I suppose that you supported slavery. I've heard that laughter is how Democrats cope with losing their right to own slaves. It's kinda sad, really.
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  7597.  @DahHar117  I didn't say that. I SAID that I would have supported the party that wanted to abolish slavery. "Would have supported". That implies that this support would have been there at the time that slavery was abolished. NOT now. What good would it be to support a party for something that happened over 150 years ago. Right now, I'm appalled at the idea of drug and surgical intervention for children who claim to be transgender. I could never support a party that is in favour of such horrific policies. That would be the Democrats. Also, I could never support the party that support segregation in schools and in hiring practices.....affirmative action. The Democrats support affirmative action and the segregation of university dormitories and graduations. In fact, it was California Democrats who wanted to repeal the California state Civil Rights Act, an act which forbade discriminatory and preferential treatment according to race, gender....etc. I can't support that as an ideology. Maybe you can but I can't. Don't put words in my mouth and don't lay traps for me to fall into. It's sneaky and should be above ethical practices.
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  7598.  @DahHar117  The California Civil Rights Act is against both discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, etc. That means if you give preference to one race over another, that's against the law in California AND the United States. The Democrats wanted to repeal the Act because they did want to give preferential treatment. The thing is how can you give preferential treatment to one group without discriminating against another? They go hand in hand. My statement said "would have" supported the Republicans to abolish slavery. I also said that I would have supported the Democrats, WOULD HAVE being the important part, had they wanted to abolish slavery. I was talking about had I been alive BACK THEN. NOT now. At the time of slavery. Then I went on to say that TODAY I can't support those who want to allow drugs and surgeries to transgender minors. I also can't support CRT and DEI. That's TODAY, not at the time of slavery but what's happening right now. Also, I don't mean it as a badge of honour. I meant it as a matter of fact. Yes, Democrats do support segregation in school dormitories and graduations and support affirmative action. It's quite inconsistent. Democrats support segregation at UCLA campuses in LA and Berkeley, Western Washington in Seattle, Roper Hall in Washington DC, MIT and more. It's sad that you can't understand past and present tense. It would sure help you in understanding what I'm saying.
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  7599. She's correct. Be an American FIRST, then a Republican or a Democrat.
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  7600. @ Calling her a liar means nothing. You have to show the lie and prove why it is a lie. If you don't do that, you might as well have said nothing because you're statement means nothing. Name calling is the last resort of those who have no argument to stand on.
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  7601.  @BHadassah  I have no problem with the binder. It's evidence to back up my claims. It also ensures complete accuracy when giving quotes. Like a lot of people, I don't have perfect recall and I want to be accurate. Why not use all the tools available? I know that I'm not infallible and I'm not afraid to admit it. One word can change the meaning of a quote and those who want to tear you down are always vigilant in order to pick up the slightest error. Having the evidence at your fingertips is a good way to stop your detractors in their tracks.
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  7602. I'll bet that the proceeds from the sale of that book goes straight into her bank account. Why don't we loot that account in the name of social justice?
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  7603.  @ad-yh3vw  It's time to stop all government funding to the NPR network. It's crazy to fund a network that advocates against the Constitution and human rights.
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  7604.  @jennifercockfield3218  “Miss Information” pageant. Cute.....made me laugh.
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  7605.  @ronaldpitts8419  They disagree with that moniker only to hide their true intentions. They know that Marxism carries a bad connotation with it, so they pretend that they're really just for social justice. It's a smoke screen.
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  7606. That made me laugh. What an astute observation. No wonder she's a politician.
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  7607.  @jonathanp1884  So, if CNN outright lied to us, about the Covington Kids, in the most egregious way, all you can say is "Far far more reliable than FOX."? An outright lie and you STILL insist that they have a semblance of dependability? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Apparently, you don't mind being fooled. I rather resent it.
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  7608. You support the peaceful protests? Why? What is there to protest? Justice for Floyd? George Floyd was killed by a brutal cop. He's under arrest, charged with murder, along with the 3 officers with him. You can't fix that by protesting. Maybe it's police brutality. Floyd was killed by a city cop in a city that's been Democrat for decades. That Democrat city council voted to abolish their police force. Maybe, if they'd done their job, YEARS ago, they could have cleaned up their police department. That was their responsibility. They're the city council and the police department answers to them. I know this to be true because if it wasn't that way, the council wouldn't be able to abolish them. It's as much, maybe even MORE, the fault of the elected governing body of Minneapolis that Floyd died. Yet....they're getting off Scott free.
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  7609. You're allowed to call it "fake news". You can criticise the media all you want. That's free speech and Whoopi is quite happy to exercise it when blasting FOX and, whether I like it or not, it's her right. However, she cannot force people to say what she wants them to say or censor what she doesn't like. Trump was criticising the press all through his presidency but he never forced them to say or write what he wanted said nor did he try to censor the media. Criticism is NOT censorship.
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  7610.  @DidierDidier-kc4nm  My problem is with De Gaulle. I've said that clearly in my first comment. If others have problems with how the French are treated, that has nothing to do with me. It was De Gaulle that told Eisenhower that he was uncomfortable with foreign troops in France before D-Day, in spite of the fact the Allies were on his side and German troops were already there and it was De Gaulle that said "Vive le Quebec Libre" on Canadian soil and meddling in Canadian affairs. De Gaulle is an ungrateful and backstabbing jerk. That's the point I was making. If the rest of the French people are like that, maybe they deserve the criticism they get.
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  7611.  @ponytoast1231  Yet, when the 13 Colonies fought for independence from the British, a mere 14 years after Quebec was ceded to the British, the Quebec colony wanted to remain with the British. Life for the average person in Quebec was BETTER under the British than it was under the French and they didn't want things to change. What in the world does De Gaulle have to do with Canada backstabbing Quebec, anyway. Quebec hadn't been a part of France for 204 years when he said "Vive le Quebec libre". They didn't back-stab De Gaulle. It was Canadian soldiers that died so that ingrate could come back to France and become it's ruler. It was none of his business. Worse, there were terrorist groups setting off letter bombs and 3 years later the FLQ, one of these terrorist groups, kidnapped a British diplomat and a Quebecois politician, Pierre Laporte, and murdering him. I suppose that you think that was deserving as well. Quebecois terrorists killing a fellow Quebecois. British imperialism....that's how you describe WW2. The Nazis invaded Poland, then Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belguim and FRANCE. De Gaulle had to flee to the hated imperialist Britain so he could rule France in absentia. Of all the convoluted logic I've ever heard, this takes the cake. The imperialist British, gave De Gaulle refuge and then helped him to get his country back so he could be the president of France....IN FRANCE. That's the stupidest imperialism that I've ever heard of. And guess who didn't want to help De Gaulle get his country back. The Quebecois. They could care less if France ever got from under the Nazi yoke. As far as they were concerned, De Gaulle could rot, hiding in England. It was the rest of Canada that was willing to fight to defeat the Nazis, not Quebec, and without the help of the Canadians, British, Americans and others, France would have remained under the thumb of the Nazi dominated Vichy government. The French would have really loved that. They were still smarting from the way the Franco/Prussian war ended that unified all the German states. Your entire comment is whacked.
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  7612.  @albertmooney2628  No....socialism like controlling the economy. For example....you MUST buy EVs and nothing else. Socialism like in DEI where hiring is overseen by the state. Socialism like when you control speech and the press.....like the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story or forcing the use of preferred pronouns. Socialism like the destruction of the family through the erasure of male and female genders, especially the rights of women in sports and locker rooms. Socialism like when they tell educators to keep secrets from parents. Socialism as in trying to end civilian choice, also known as a free market system. Socialism like in forcing the tyranny of the "expert" which always ends being the state. It was the left who wanted to defund the police in 2020 or did you conveniently forget. The things that you mentioned are social programs, NOT socialism. Here's the definition of Socialism. :a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Socialism wants to take away the freedom of the people by taking away their free market system which brought the most successful and richest countries in the history of humanity. That's the socialism that we're against.
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  7613. @Tiger Dragon All of which could be true, but it still doesn't prove that the rancher in this video is a crook or that he's lying. What's more, your comment acknowledges that there is a crime problem and we do need a wall to end this corruption. So, in a way, we're agreeing with one another.
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  7614.  JusticeAA  So a wall does work if you use it in conjunction with manpower and other hi-tech methods. We'll have to thank her for verifying it. (big time sarcasm)
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  7615.  @Darksoulpoetry  So what??? They went skateboarding. Why do have to be punk to do that? And as to "Fuck the System", wasn't that what this was all about? The big powers are holding people at bay, including skateboarders, by threatening to cancel them. Tim defied them, saying that they weren't going to discourage him from saying what he wants or doing the things that he enjoys. He's doing something about, because the "punks" sure aren't. They're quiet as can be. The "punks" have bent the knee, not Pool or those who came out to skateboard last weekend.
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  7616.  @Darksoulpoetry  Why is it sad that it's not punk? I knew skate boarders in the early 80s and they weren't punk. He said that it's very sad that it's not punk. I'm saying that it doesn't have to be. That Tim's boarder friends are cowed by woke cancel culture is just a symptom of a larger phenomena of people, that have all kinds of interests, that are cowed by the cancel brigade. They've ruined EVERYTHING. The movie industry has been ruined. If you don't kneel at sports events, they're after you. If you don't think that men can get pregnant, they'll try to get you fired.....and he's bemoaning the passing of the punk life? You want to talk about context, but the context is MUCH bigger than this small subset lifestyle of years ago. Are you really trying to say that if boarders were still punk and they weren't affected by woke cancellation culture that they could care less about the rest of society? That's would be a rather self serving context if you ask me.
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  7617.  @jixxytrix1705  "Those cultures aren't punk". Punk isn't EVERYTHING. It's just a lifestyle. I'm not criticising it or praising it. I'm just saying that it's small potatoes compared to what's happening in the big picture.
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  7618.  @reno_death  I grew up int hippy era. It was an era of fanatic anti-establishment feelings with riots, burning of draft cards, a new sexuality, long hair and fuelling a genre of music that's we now call classic rock which is still my favourite genre of music. I hitchhiked all over North America. What a time of freedom and adventure. Do I bemoan the end of my youth? Am I wailing about the hippies that seem to no longer harbour anti-establishment sentiments? What would be the point? The clock doesn't run backwards. Forget the nostalgia. This is now. "The hippies are gone. Wah". So what? Time moves on. Today's youth don't seem to have that rebellious nature that we did and I don't care about that. What I don't like is that we're all refusing to question what's going on. Listening to crying about the end of punk skateboarding is like listening to the 50 year old continuously reminiscing about his glory football days in high school. Living in the past is just sad.
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  7619.  @iciousvid  Funny that. I'm complaining about the same left wing nonsense that they are. I'm wondering why we're all so cowed by the corporate establishment. I'm just not caught up in the past, wailing about how skateboarders aren't punks today. Well boo-hoo. You're not kids, anymore. That's life. Stop living in the past.
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  7620.  @iciousvid  LOL....yes.
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  7621. @The Dude " i dont take advice from benzo addicts." Then you're an idiot. I learned my trade from a guy that was a severe alcoholic and it killed him, yet I wouldn't be where I am without his teaching and advice. So get off your high horse and take advice for what the advice is worth NOT on the imperfections of the person giving the advice. We're human and we're ALL imperfect. I can apply your logic to anyone alive. "I don't advice from a religious nut" or "I won't take advice from a Democrat" "I don't take advice from a guy who cheated on his taxes" (that's everyone) "I don't take advice from a guy that eats meat....or risks his life mountain climbing or would abort their kid or transversely thinks abortion is wrong" There's always something that one can find that you won't approve of. It's the most ridiculous statement that anyone could make. Right now I could be thinking "I don't take advice from one that would make such a stupid statement". but then I'd be the idiot. Also, he didn't misunderstand that law. He saw the potential pitfalls and he brought it to our attention. Your hatred won't allow you to take his advice OR want to understand what he was trying to say. All you see is your own hatred.
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  7622. The "Trump Bump" was gold. It isn't anymore. If it was, MSM's ratings wouldn't be as low as it is along with the public trust. The only problem is that MSM doesn't realise it. The "Trump Bump" has hit a wall and they're banging their heads off that wall, under the impression that it isn't there. Like the crawling baby, in the cartoons, that keeps running into the wall, backs up and repeatedly tries it again. The definition of insanity....anyone?
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  7623. @Alexander Hardwell How is this Trump's fault? Does he own one of those Hedge Fund companies? Is he behind the stock manipulations of RobinHood and other trading companies, who appear to be in cahoots with the Hedge Fund managers? I've not heard of this. This is exactly like the real estate bust of 12 years ago. Unscrupulous financiers playing dirty and mad because they got caught.
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  7624.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  And this has what to do with that quote. Is there truth to that quote or not? If not, explain why. Saying "Ayn Rand wrote terrible fiction" says absolutely nothing about this quote. Please stay on topic.
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  7625.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  "giving people resources doesn't help them". No...it doesn't. “Give a man a fish and you feed him one meal. Teach him to fish and he can feed himself for life" You don't help people by giving them things. If they aren't willing to help themselves, you'll end up giving them things to live for the rest of your life. Lottery winners go broke. Professional hockey player, Evander Kane, has made 53 million dollars, over the last 10 years, and is 29 million dollars in debt and had to declare bankruptcy. There's another saying that fits. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". To translate, you can give people all kinds of resources but that doesn't turn them into responsible adults.
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  7626. The Democrats keep telling us that they care about the ordinary worker. Yeah.....right.
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  7627. @ Another "great" response. LOL.
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  7628. I worked for a family company and watched it happen. Grandpa and dad worked hard. Grandkids had hobbies, raising miniature horses and stuff and lost it all.
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  7629.  @thebladeofchaos  Then why has NY City been in lockdown since March? Also, death rates are at less than half of what they were in April, which would mean that hospital stays have also gone down. Worse, Covid has been around since March and everyone has been talking about a second wave and they didn't prepare for it? A reset....pfffft. Macron has been trying to impose Draconian rules since he took office. Look at the yellow vest protests. It's his way. Now he's got a big panic on his hands but Trump is supposedly an idiot for being worried about people panicking. What Macron should have done was to advise people to stay home, take extra precautions and try to get out in the backyard for some sun and exercise. The problem is that the authoritarians think that people are all idiots and only THEY have the ability to save us from ourselves.
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  7630.  @thebladeofchaos  You forget the exact figures and then throw out these percentages like they should be taken seriously. If you're going to throw out those numbers, which suggests that almost EVERYONE is going to have life long effects from the disease, you'd better back them up. Especially, when you consider that many are asymptomatic or don't even have any symptoms. I stand by my death numbers and you appear to agree with me. However, I can prove it. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Look at the graphs. Cases in mid April was around 80,000 per day at 8,000 deaths. Yesterday, the case count was over 500,000, or 1/2 million cases around the world and the death rate is down and is just over 7,000 per day. Worse, you completely ignore the horrific effects of extreme poverty, malnutrition and starvation. This will be worse than the Covid and people are allowing fear to justify what could be the greatest tragedy in human history. But as long as we can stay safe....that's what's important, right? That is, if the lockdowns even have a great effect.
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  7631.  @thebladeofchaos  I've got to add this. If the emergency systems in Paris are on the brink, who's fault it that? They've talked about a second wave for months and they're not prepared. Sounds like Macron is no better than Trump. Worse maybe, because American systems are no where near the breaking point. Also, what about the people of Paris. I know that I'm prepared for disaster of any kind. Extra water, food and necessities that will last at least 3 months. What's wrong with them?
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  7632.  @thebladeofchaos  I've always have at least 3 months worth of supplies on hand. You don't need as much as you'd think, either. Once it's there, you replace as you go. Maybe, it's because I grew up and live in Canada, where the winters can be quite harsh. When I was growing up, on a small farm, we ate from our garden and the animals we raised. I remember being snowed in for weeks and we never worried about food or supplies. I kept it up into my adulthood although I live in a small town now. I can't understand why people aren't ready, just in case. When people were fighting for toilet paper, back in March, I had enough to do me till the end of summer and now I have enough to do me till March. It's like a savings account....but I guess a lot of people don't have that either. I'm 70 years old. I didn't work hard all my life to be afraid to die when I retire. I'm not going to take stupid chances but I'm not going to live in fear either. A little common sense would do the world some good, especially right now.
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  7633.  @gigelbecali8072  I can get fired, from my job, if a woman accuses me of looking at her inappropriately, the male gaze. This guy, and he IS a guy, goes into the dressing room while teenage girls are undressed and for some reason he's a hero. He stands there buck naked and those girls are supposed to shut up and go for counselling if it bothers them. If you don't see the problem here, YOU are the insane one....or you're a troll, which is another form of insanity.
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  7634.  @mattnewby123  LOL. He'd break a nail, grab his frisbee and go home sobbing. He might play it on his phone. Anyone who's terrified of a trucker is beyond hope.
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  7635. Yeah, Tim. I'm going to hang out my shingle as Dr. Jack Haveman and start operating on people. Who needs school? A one solution answer isn't the way, either.
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  7636. Could anyone show me the specific evidence that proves that Trump obstructed the investigation. I've heard the accusations but no one has never shown exactly what he did wrong.
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  7637.  @ramonlong1079  I worked with a guy who made his own guns and won international awards for the quality and accuracy of his "home made" guns. All legal and above board. Not one of his guns has ever been used in the commission of a crime. The guns are NOT the problem. The problem is a political acceptance of inner city gang crime and the idea that trying to stop it indicates racism. The gangs will get guns no matter how hard it is to legally own one. As long as you allow the gangs to thrive, you'll have gun violence. Gangs are terror organisations and the good people of the inner cities have been terrorized into submission for far too long.
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  7638.  @christinavance1128  So the solution is you want to go after those that are buying guns legally and that ignore the back ally gun sales. Those who are selling and buying guns in back allies are the ones that have nefarious uses for those guns. They can't buy guns legally so they go to those who will sell without background checks. If you think that stopping legal gun ownership will stop the violence, you're fooling yourself. Gangs don't care about legal. They care about power and the quick buck.....that's it.
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  7639. She's just trying to play the victim. I'd never remove anything from my brother's property without asking. I don't have that right and neither does she. What I'm saying is, she's a liar.
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  7640.  Rico Staxx  In other words.....MORE censorship. Great.
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  7641. CNN vettes their stories huh. Like the Covington Kids story? I'm a retired bartender, living in a one bedroom basement apartment, in another COUNTRY, and it took me 20 minutes to find the original video that proved that the story CNN was flogging was FALSE. Not just false but a damned lie. No one will ever convince me that CNN, with all their money and resources, couldn't find what a guy with a cobbled together computer found in 20 minutes. They LIED!!!! They lied and they had a reason for lying and that reason has tainted almost every story that CNN has covered since Trump became the president. They hated Trump and that's all that mattered.
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  7642.  @sirfrancis6058  You do realise that you've said nothing of value. All you've done is badmouth an individual. You never said ONE word about what this video was about or what Horowitz said. Here's something for you....a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." When you discuss people, you're no better than a gossip, the busy body that most people avoid.
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  7643.  @sirfrancis6058  I'm not being tribal when I point out that you're entire comment was about Rubin and how you think he's a talking head for the Republican Party. You made it quite clear that he's NOT to be taken seriously and you give no real reason except for something about FOX and Republicans and even in that there was nothing that was specific. Not one issue was discussed. You only went after Rubin by making unflattering comments about FOX and Republicans. I don't care who you're talking about, that's not much of a discussion, even if you weren't being overtly antagonistic.
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  7644.  David Ortiz  firvyour---for your info. Okay. It makes sense, in some kind of made up language. Why don't you try using a language we all use and understand? I still don't get the point, though.
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  7645.  @Kim-sq9gp  I've spent the last 10 years making toilet paper. Toilet paper. It's hot, dirty and involves long hours. I made decent money and YOU get to wipe your lazy butt. Don't think you'll miss my efforts? Wait till there's a run on toilet paper and you're using an old newspaper and you have to hoard those because there's no one out there wasting their life away providing the paper that you want so badly. You have no idea how lucky you are. My parents grew up without electricity, running water or toilet paper in a western country and not that long ago. It was people that wasted their lives building that infrastructure, doing the back breaking work so you can sit there and complain about their wasted lives. SMH.
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  7646.  @MD-zy9xk  I was assuming that what you added, in your comment, was a given. I assumed that everyone involved would be WAY overpaid for doing nothing except for their "meetings....wink..wink" which they will point to as proof of their dedication to the cause. It's the government trough. All the piggies are invited by special invitation only.
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  7647.  Yaruu Salamander  If you limit your sexual partners, you limit your odds of getting STDs. That's why prostitutes get them more than the average person. That's a fact. If you don't have sex till marriage, then you've almost zeroed your chances of STDs until marriage or sex. If you're committed to your marriage and partner, it doesn't mean your partner won't but at least you've reduced your odds of getting STDs from your end. If you're partner is as committed to a monogamous relationship as you are, you've almost reduced your odds to zero, or as close as you can get, without going full abstinence. These are facts no matter what the attitudes of your country towards sex are. You're not referencing about the truth of what she said or what I just said. You've added to the question, creating a strawman and then setting that on fire. Does abstinence limit the chances of STDs, yes or no? Just like Tim says. If you don't want to become a heroin addict....DON'T USE HEROIN!!!!! It's plain common sense.
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  7648. I love my alone time. On a recent vacation, in a group of 16, it was commented that I seemed to go off on my own a lot....and I did. However, I'm getting sick of the enforced alone time. Being introverted doesn't mean I don't like people. I just like alone time, too. I wanna go out for a beer!!!!!!!
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  7649.  @akosritter9088  Why do you have to send your kid to a BIG company to get an education. A small, one-roomed schoolhouse could do the same thing. That's how I was educated. A very small school organised by like minded parents. It was a private school. It sounds as if you'd prefer government propaganda. Yet it's government propaganda that was at the heart of almost every war over the last 100 years. Governments have cause more death and destruction than any other entity on the planet.
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  7650. Maybe we won't get what we want out of it but, just knowing that they lied will be a driver for many to not vote for those who imposed such strict mandates. Revenge sounds great but the best revenge will be the truth getting out so there's proof that they lied and to NEVER trust them again. Just let the evidence keep piling up till we all realise that the swamp is not to be trusted.
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  7651.  @SunAndMoon-zc9vd  It's wasn't the UN that stopped the Soviet Union from expanding into the west. It was NATO. As far as I can see, the UN does very little. Everyone is at the table, including some incredibly bad nations. Imagine, Saudi Arabia has a seat at a women's rights table. It's become a joke.
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  7652.  @dontaskquestions.  Tim voted for Trump. He said it BEFORE the election. He said why he was going to vote for him. He said AFTER the election that he voted for Trump and has voiced his opinion that Biden is a TERRIBLE president and that he wished Trump was president. He even wants everyone to vote Republican in the mid-terms. So....how is that CNN Lite? Is he supposed to say EVERYTHING the exact same way that YOU would say it? HE VOTED FOR TRUMP. I wonder how many, at CNN, voted for Trump or even Republican. My guess is not one. He voted for Trump. I just can't figure out why that would bother.....UNLESS.....you're a Democrat troll.
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  7653.  @thetomdillengerescapeplan3525  Trump has a lot of issues and why I wasn't too keen on him, at first. However, I've learned to like what he's done and, other than DeSantis, there's no one I'd rather see as president. Does that mean that he's perfect? Not even close. If you think that Trump is beyond criticism, then the Democrats are correct about the MAGA cult of personality. NO ONE is perfect. That person doesn't exist and Trump isn't going to be the first one.
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  7654.  @jacobvanveit3437  As a citizen of my country, I would NEVER pledge allegiance to any one party or candidate. That leaves me open to being fooled by that party or candidate. Blind loyalty is just that.....BLIND. I always look at the good and bad of every candidate. It would be insane not to. Remember, every conman finds their greatest success to the those he can get to blindly believe him. I'll not be the receiver of anyone's BS. However, I do support Trump. I thought he did a good job, by and large, in his first term. It wasn't perfect but it was better than most, if not all, of the presidents in my lifetime and I'm 70 years old. I have to remember that he's 76 years old and that if he runs for president, he'll be in his eighties when he's done. I don't want another senile man in the White House, like we have now. He may still be sharp as a tack at 82, my dad's 91 and he's still smarter than most I know, but it's still something to consider. Another thing, Tim has been quite vocal on the insanity of the Democrats. He'd never vote for them the way that they are now. That doesn't mean that he has to like Trump. That's simplistic thinking. Personally, I'd rather see DeSantis as president but that may not be happening right away.
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  7655. That's easy. They'll call it a lie. The thing doesn't exist. If it was there, why can't we see it? Then sit smugly back declaring another victory.
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  7656. He probably thought that kid was going to take that Nerf gun to school. To quote a great thinker. "What a maroon".
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  7657.  @jedcollings3624  Why would anyone call someone "Jed". Sounds like you're about to strike oil, Texas tea and become a millionaire.
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  7658. China has over 1 million Uighurs in concentration camps in order to turn them into good Chinese citizens.....and the world is silent. Even Muslim countries don't seem to care about them, their fellow Muslims. He's correct. It's only because they're Jews and the radical socialist blame Jews for Capitalism. That's why the left supports Hamas. They're radical socialists and if socialist China wants to lock up Uighurs, China has every right to do just that, according to them. That's the same with the Jews. They're a capitalist Democracy and they must be stopped. Success is abhorrent to these people.
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  7659.  @ethanahmed08  The guys a bot, either metaphorically or in reality. A non-thinking NPC repeating the same thing over and over again. No one who values science would behave in this manner. It's authoritarian sloganeering.
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  7660. I am talking on the level of the fundamentalist, a believer. I am using their argument against them, the hypocrisy of "loving thy neighbour" and hoping for the destruction of that "neighbour". The Christian who wants to die and go to heaven and leave behind a world reeling in death, plague and war. It goes against what the Bible teaches. It is coveting salvation. A sin, according to the Bible. To finish, I am an atheist, but I do know a little theology.
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  7661.  @hanshansen3885  Crap like privilege tests and placing students in "privilege" groups based on skin colour, gender, immigration status, religion and political beliefs. Crap like their obsession about teaching all aspects of sexual activity to children as young as kindergarten age and even trying to diagnose kids with gender dysphoria. Crap like telling students that math, science and history are all racist and that black kids can't understand mathematics because of math is about white supremacy and racist. Worse, they're not teaching the kids to do math or read of write. American kids, especially in the inner cities, are not meeting grade level standards and are falling far behind, compared to other nations. Yet, they won't allow parents, who want a better education for their children, the freedom to send their kids to another school. If you have the money, NO PROBLEM.....send them to any school that you want but if you're poor and can't afford to do that......eff em. Go to the school that they tell you. There is no second option. The American education system, in the primary levels, are in terrible shape and designed for the elites. Poor and especially minority kids are victims, according to them, and will never succeed because rich white men hate them. What a horrible way to bring up a generation.
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  7662.  @hanshansen3885  I think that we all should be treated as individuals with all due courtesy, regardless of what they now call the "identity" group. The identity group is irrelevant to how anyone should be treated and that's the problem. If my child...or yours...is singled out as a victim and is helpless unless the oppressor group gives him a hand up, I'm going to object. If your child or mine, is held up as privileged, over others in the class, I'm going to object. Especially when the kids are being told not to tell their parents about what is being said in class or extra-curricular activities. It happens and how rare it happens is irrelevant. If it's being kept a secret in one school, how do we know if it's not being kept secret in another. As parents, we have the right to know what is being taught to our kids and why. There are too many school board videos, on YouTube, where parents are upset about what they see and are dismissed. If someone refuses to be transparent, then you're going to invite suspicion. That's normal human nature. That's all we want. Let us know what is going on in our classrooms. Yet people fight us on this ALL the time. You're even doing it now. If what is being taught is open to parents, the suspicion will have now foundation and this will all go away. For some reason, people are fighting transparency and only the most naive would never stop to wonder why. People who are trying to hide things usually have something to hide.
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  7663.  @hanshansen3885  If it's happening in one school, you go and see if it's happening in your local school. If they're reluctant to tell you what's going on in their school, THEN you insist that they tell you. If they're open and above board, you can trust them. If they're reluctant or put you off, I wouldn't trust them. If an incoming Supreme Court Justice can't tell you what a woman is, then we know that this ideology has reached the highest levels of government. When our president fills positions based on group identity, it only confirms it. Why would our state funded and operated schools be any different? All I want is to be able to see what's being taught. "I am pretty sure that everything the students are taught is on the schools webpage and in the curriculum." Pretty sure isn't good enough. Every day I see videos where teachers go on TikTok and tell us the most outrageous things. Drag queens brought into school. Kindergarten kids participating in mini Pride Parades. LGTQ flags hanging all over the classroom. Telling us how they discuss their private lives with the student. All you have to do is look it up. Kali Fontanilla, a teacher, has a YouTube channel and she talks about it all the time and she's FAR from the only one. If you're comfortable with being pretty sure...well that's up to you. However, there's one thing I've learned. When you trust something or someone implicitly, you leave yourself open to be fooled explicitly. Do more than just doubt it. Find out for sure. One thing is sure and that is that war, genocide, slavery even a lot of famines and mass starvation are the result of governments. Why a government or those in power, would suddenly stop at using schools to further their cause is illogical. It's why the American Constitution is so strong on giving power to the people and taking it away from the state. Our schools are state operated and that should always mean that they should be open to inspection.
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  7664.  @promethiac2641  "Entitled Territorial Tribalism" What??? This video is about an immigrant who has said how he felt about his new home and how FOX and other's, on this comment thread, are welcoming this "outsider" to their country and taking him in as one of theirs. How is that tribalism??? Another one that can't say a thing unless it's negative or accompanied by a sneer. Why can't you be happy that this new immigrant has found happiness in his life? Why is that so hard for people like you?
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  7665.  @elsierodgers4874  It took him less than one day. The day that he announced that he was running for president, the Democrats, the media and the left declared war on the Americans who live in fly-over America. Guys, like YOU, can't understand that Trump was a symptom of the rot in Washington, NOT the cause. The Democrats have spent everyday since that announcement, dividing us along lines of race, gender, religion and economic status and they've done a great job. Your ilk did this. This guy, a conservative, the bane of the Democrats and the left, is talking about unity. Blaming another race or gender for your problems is NOT unity. You refuse to understand the Trump phenomena. You just lay blame and will always advocate for disunity as long as we long for unity with all Americans. It's why you cheered when football players refused to stand for the symbol that's supposed to unite us all. You want us angry....and we're not going to give you the satisfaction.
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  7666. 75,000 independent truckers, in California, put to work on contract, would do wonders to solve the container ship boondoggle off the coast. That's just one simple solution to a problem that the state Government created with their meddling in business.
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  7667.  @AfterKai48  Mosquitoes have killed more people than Covid has....BY FAR, in human history. Over 1 million people die of malaria every year, most of them under 5 years of age, and 300 to 600 million suffer from the effects of the disease every year, just to name one disease. Diseases that are spread to people by mosquitoes include Zika virus, West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, dengue, and malaria.....copied and pasted from CDC.GOV. Millions have also died of Yellow fever in human history. They had to stop work on the Panama Canal, for a time, because so many were dying. Now what was that about taste or smell or something?
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  7668.  @AfterKai48  You're the one that mentioned mosquitoes in your comment. I was just telling you that mosquitoes have been way more dangerous than Covid and it's not even a close race. Malaria can even be recurring, over years. That's my point. Also, I know people who've had Covid and they can still taste and smell. I also know someone who died from it. I know 2 people who've lost the ability to taste and smell due to accidents, both due to brain trauma. They don't like it but they live with it. I lost a testicle due to cancer. I don't like it but I'm not traumatised by it, not do I suffer mental anxiety over it. I never did. It just is and I live with it. I'm just glad to be alive. Maybe if it was socially acceptable to show gratitude for the good things in life instead of focusing on the bad, we'd all be happier. We're too busy encouraging each other to air our grievances instead of our gratefulness for our existence. I'm going to shower and then sit out on my lawn chair and enjoy the sunshine and the beauty around me and my absent testicle won't enter my mind once. Why would I think about it? Self pity won't bring it back or change a thing except my own peace of mind.
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  7669. Up until Jan 6th 2021, I'd never seen anything like May 31, 2020. Rioters threw fire bombs at the White House, injured over 100 security staff, tried to set fire to the Church of the Presidents and forced the Trump family to an underground bunker for their safety. How did the CNN respond to that? They laughed at Trump and called him "Bunker Boy". If it wasn't for the Democrats and the MSM and their CONSTANT yammering about J6, I'd have let go of the White House riots a long time ago but they will NOT let me forget that they supported the killing, looting, burning and destruction of the summer of love. Maybe it's time they put down the proverbial sword and move on but they just don't want to because they believe that it's their path to power. Even losing the election hasn't taught them that this is a bad tactic.
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  7670. Then these same JERKS will rip YOU off because of your "eff em" attitude. Theft is wrong, even if they rip off people that you don't like. YOU are the problem, just as much as Nordstrom and the thugs that looted the place. Wait till it happens to you and you ask for help and everyone says "airybrook deserves this. When Nordstrom was ransacked you said screw them. You advocated for this kind of behaviour, that it was retributive justice....so, screw YOU" No wonder this country is going to hell.
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  7671.  @bigperm3853  WRONG. Those who are advocating the ideas of CRT are using it to cause anger and resentment from one side and defensive anger and resentment from the other. If you'd take the time to learn about the history of CRT and the radical socialist movement, you'd know that these Marxist influenced activists have replaced class oppression with race oppression. Same type of created hostility, aiming for the same goals. Tear down the system and replace it with a Socialist Utopia.
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  7672.  @bigperm3853  The book "Not my Idea" is directed at 7 and 8 year olds and is in school libraries and even read to kids in class. In it, a 7 year old little girl calls her mother a liar, which could lead to discussions on how parents can't always be trusted, insinuating that the teacher is trustworthy. The book ends, showing a contract, that states that white people have a signed a contract with the devil for land, power and wealth. The contract is being held up by someone with a forked tail and cloven hoofs. This is the atmosphere in which history is taught. It's not about facts. It's about how one side is in a perpetual struggle with the other side. I'd say that it's YOU that are confusing historical facts with CRT. CRT is not about historical facts. It's about seeing history through the lens of racial strife that can never end. The facts are only valid if they support the CRT ideological narrative. It's the difference between saying that there were great floods after the ice age glaciers melted and that there were great floods because God sent them. Both recount actual history but one tells it through a religious lens. That's EXACTLY what CRT does. It's call Critical Race Theory for a reason. It teaches history through a racial lens and it's never about reconciling our differences. It's about using our differences to create resentment.
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  7673. Women's sports have become the minor leagues for pro men's sports.
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  7674.  @jameszeallor2735  If a person keeps protesting when the bricks are in the air, the buildings are burning and looting has become the norm, then he becomes a part of the criminal activities. The thugs are using the "peaceful" protesters as camouflage, and worse, those protesters are allowing it. Protest until the violence starts and then go home. Continued presence is tacit approval of violence.
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  7675.  @patacleus6803  Have you heard about the mess in down town San Francisco? They have a Poop App so they know where to find human feces on the street. Long Island sound also has problems. Algae blooms from nitrates caused by sewage is a problem and there are advisories against eating fish and beaches are closed due to fecal counts at times in the summer. This is from a Blue state, where the money is huge. That's the thing. Problems are universal but you'd think that the areas that have the most money wouldn't be needing Poop apps or have advisories in place at times.
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  7676.  @patacleus6803  Your point is illustrated by the fact that Lowndes County is losing population every year and has been for years. The county seat lost 200 people in 10 years, a lot when the population is already only around 1000. That means that the cost per unit for sewage is getting even MORE expensive. You're not talking 15 to 20 thousand a hookup. This is getting close to 100,000 a hookup, maybe more. Therefore they almost have to remain with some sort of septic system. University students found it easy to spot the problem but a solution wasn't coming, not one anyone could afford, anyway. The homeless of San Francisco aren't looking for opportunities. Not the one that are causing the need for a Poop App, anyway. They have serious drug and mental issues and the local governments seem paralysed in coming up with any solution. In fact they make it worse for the average citizen. For one thing, police are told to not even bother investigating a crime under 800 dollars in value so theft is out of sight. Discarded needles are everywhere and 1/3 of them are needles that the city is handing out in their needle exchange program. You can't take your kids to the park, not with all the needles laying around. But all the politicians and local activists can say is that you can't arrest someone for being homeless and the problem continues. Housing is crippled by unbelievable red tape and all kinds of restrictions. It cost a fortune just to get all the permits and you haven't even turn a shovel of soil yet to lay the foundations. These blue states have issues and it's not economic issues. It has more to do with idealism and maybe even corruption. Money keeps being poured into the issue and none seems to ending at the point where it's needed. Where is it going? At least, in Alabama, they're not losing the money. They're not getting it, because it's too difficult to justify the cost of fixing it, especially when they're already in a economically depressed area. That's NOT the problem in San Francisco.
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  7677.  @patacleus6803  It's government policy when the person is pooping in broad daylight and nothing is done about it. It's government policy when they're living in tents and there's garbage everywhere and no one cleans it up. It's government policy when businesses have people sleeping in their entrances and their complaints fall on deaf ears. The money is there, in San Francisco, after all, the area is home to Silicon valley. They're just not using it to help these people. It's not like Alabama, where there is no Silicon Valley, and no huge income to get the money in taxes to get the job done. If there's no money to help the homeless in downtown San Francisco, how are ever going to get the money in Alabama to put in a good sewage system? Money doesn't grow on trees. Alabama has to have a source for the cash they need and they don't. San Francisco has the source of income to tax and they can't get it done. In fact, California has some of the highest taxes in the US and still things get steadily worse. At least they have a home and they're not living in tents. Also, I've seen the homeless, not in California but in Detroit, Toronto and Buffalo and most of them have serious mental and drug issues. I've seen them in the small town that I live in and it's the same. There are those that are temporarily homeless but they generally find away out, either through finding a job or government assistance. It's the druggies and the mentally disabled that can be a problem and they have to find a solution that's better than just ignoring them.
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  7678.  @patacleus6803  Saying that a poor state should be able to pull itself up by the bootstraps is like saying that the homeless in San Francisco can do the same. Rising out of poverty is a long, arduous journey, taking hard work and dedication. California, for a great many reasons, natural resources being the prime one, has been at that point for decades. Yet, it still can't seem to help the poorest of its citizens while the super rich live in gated communities and pontificate on how virtuous they are. Also, Bakersfield and Los Angeles have the worst air pollution in the US. San Francisco and San Jose are also in the top 10. California has 21 contaminated water bases, more than any other state in the Union. It isn't as clean as you like to think it is.
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  7679.  @patacleus6803  What this dialogue has shown is that both states have problems that are unique to their positions. Right now, California has some of the highest taxes in the US and still has problems getting things done, as an example, the high speed rail line. California has reached as place of bureaucratic complacency, what happens when a society reaches an overt state of affluence. Alabama is just the opposite. They've always been poor and are finding it difficult to get out from under it. Texas is in the middle. It's a high growth state, taxes are low, bureaucracy is still minimal and it's flourishing. A lot of middle class people are leaving California and are shocked at how low state and municipal taxes are in Texas in comparison to California. It won't last. Once the affluence becomes generational, the complacency will settle in and the bureaucracy will grow. It's an inevitable cycle. Alabama may see the same thing in the future. “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” It seems to be a cycle that has been seen over and over in history. California won't be spared as long as it adheres to a philosophy that doesn't include personal responsibility, hard work and common sense. California has these homeless problems, not due to lack of money or a lack of a desire to fix it. They're mired in a bureaucratic maze of their own making. Those people shouldn't be living in the streets that way that they are. Not with all the money that's available to those in power. There's something deeper going on.
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  7680. I remember, back in the eighties, the big talking point was that the government had no business in the bedroom. That was from the left and the Democrats. Now, they want IN the bedroom. Their state reps, the teachers, feel compelled to babble on about their antics in the bedroom to 7 year olds and they want the government to give them the right to have these conversations without the knowledge of parents. They're not too consistent, are they.
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  7681.  @CammieCakesz  He doesn't know. He's just repeating the mantra that he was told to say.
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  7682.  @williebobs3830  And this proves what? That English white students are human, too? That this cultural mindset is learned NOT innate? Thanks for the reminder. The only reason MOST kids don't do well in school is due to the attitudes of their parents and community towards education. It seems to be MORE prevalent in American black culture and we should change that. "Whataboutism" doesn't solve a thing.
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  7683.  @animesparklingdreamer1438  Drag queen story time for kids. 14 to 18 year old kids given dildos and butt plugs to handle during school hours. Kids being brought to Pride Parades where, especially men, are wearing provocative clothes and engaging in simulated sex. Organisations, such as MAPS, trying to be seen as legitimate groups, representing paedophilia as normal and that kids enjoy it, led by a University professor. That kind of sexual degeneracy that's targeted at children.
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  7684.  @Bc232klm  The only ones who would cringe are the ones that are scared that the law is going to catch up with them because of the awareness this film brings to us all. I hope you break into sweats every time that there's an unexpected knock at the door.
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  7685. She can't afford to leave. 80 million isn't enough to live on.
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  7686. ​ @giordanobruno1333  I will if it indicates the left wing mindset. "Know thine enemy" to quote Sun Tzu. If you don't understand them, it's difficult to defeat them. It's probably why Trump isn't going away. The radical left of the Democrat party doesn't understand him or his supporters. They think that their hate is enough.
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  7687. Tim, you're wrong about the Canadian dollar and economy. When I was growing up, both were on par with the United States. From 1952 (the year that I was born) to 1978, our dollars were almost even every year, sometimes a little higher, other times a little lower. In 1978, the Canadian dollar went down to .87 cents to the American dollar in 2 years. After that it went slowly down to almost .70 cents to the American dollar. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, Americans and Canadians were crossing the borders and spending their money on par. We were the 2 most prosperous countries in the world. This all changed, in Canada, due to the policies of another Trudeau. It was a disaster for Canada and the United States. Suddenly, the auto and steel industry fell apart and cities like Detroit, Gary, Pittsburgh in the United States and Windsor, Hamilton, Sudbury and Sydney declined because of free trade which saw both our economies failing in favour of countries like Japan. Our politicians gave it all away.....both American and Canadian. Trump can remember those times and he's trying to get it back.
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  7688. @TimPoolWithoutTheBeanie What do you think an election is, Jeff? It's a polling of the people. It's not the polls that are fake news. It's the media who make stuff up and act as if it's the truth. Like the Covington Kids story. It took me, a retired bartender, living in a one room apartment, 20 minutes to find the original video to prove that their take was a made up narrative. It's the same with the "good people on both sides" story or the coy fish nonsense that they media pushed. It's all BS.
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  7689.  @sarahg2653  I never thought of that. They're like 12 year olds, who heard some stuff about insurance, from their mom and dad and are repeating it to their buddies. A great point.
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  7690.  @John_Doe27  It was sarcasm. I heard a woman, I forget who it was, on a morning talk show, sort of like "The View", actually say that. Kind of an awkward pause while the others stumbled over what to say to that.
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  7691.  @kevinhibbard320  I didn't think that he'd even heard of the word so he did surprise me on that.
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  7692.  @condew6103  You're correct. I'd forgotten but my ex-wife's step father cleaned toilets for a living. Some kind of toilet bowl cleaning product used in public toilets. He made big money. He had a route where he would clean toilets and urinals and replace the cleaning and odor product. He worked on a commission and it was quite lucrative. I was parroting an elitist remark I once heard on TV.
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  7693. "Similar jobs at different companies" Here comes the anecdotal evidence. Well.....I've got some too. I worked at a factory for 7 years, making a decent wage. I worked alongside women and we made the exact same wage per hour. Over the year, a person COULD make more, if that person worked overtime. I retired and 4 months after I retired, our major competitor, started operations in an empty factory across the street. Get that? Across the street and they were making the exact same product we were. They also paid 4 dollars an hour more, TO START, than what we were getting paid. Some of the guys moved across the street, including a few of the women. They ALL started at that same rate and were now making 4 dollars an hour more. You see, Glamour magazine, when you work for a different company, you've just entered a new variable. In our case, the competitor was a much larger corporation, with deeper pockets. They paid 20 percent more for doing the EXACT same job because of an ability to pay more. It's a failed comparison. Not once, EVER, have I seen anyone make a valid case for gender wage disparity. They always leave something out or neglect important variables. They have to because if you work for the same company at the same job description or level as described in the company policy of job descriptions, it is against the law to pay one person more than another. Against the law. You don't have to go to Glamour magazine to validate unfair practises. You need to get a lawyer and present your case before a judge. They won't in this case because she works for a different company who have their own reasons for paying their employees the rates they do and that is perfectly legal and ethical.
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  7694.  @sandrabecker666  It's never too late. The only way to keep things from improving is to give up.
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  7695.  @staninjapan07  Okay....I get what you're saying. It started outside of China, as a major outbreak, in Italy. That's to make it more concise. It was a problem in Italy before it was a problem in the US. It has been postulated that the eastern outbreak, in the US, came from Europe, probably Italy, and not directly from China. The first 2 cases in Italy were 2 tourists from Wuhan and it spread from there.
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  7696. I've been saying that BLM was a fraudulent organisation since the summer of 2020. Boy have I gotten the flak for it. However, I'm too big to say "I told you so". I'll let them tell me that they should have listened.
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  7697.  @mikearchibald744  The only thing that I will say or ask is this. When was the last time that there were protests, at a university, when a left wing speaker was being profiled? I can name LOTS of times that it happened to conservative speakers and professors and staff were deeply involved. I can't even think of one time that it happened to a left wing speaker but I could be wrong. Name one time and give references.
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  7698. I've been saying this all along. The Democrats should have been standing beside Trump and helping him out. You don't have to like him, just be helpful. Had they all stood together, things might have been different.
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  7699. They'll tell you to get it from the rich. Another fallacy that originates in envy and a delusional concept on how life works.
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  7700.  @robertwelsh4094  You don't care that the current president has been compromised by foreign interests? Is your TDS that intense that you'd support the corruption of the Biden family? If Trump has committed a serious crime, throw him in jail. If Biden has committed a serious crime, throw HIM in jail, too. Why would any sane person be happy with corrupt politicians no matter what party they belong to? I just don't get people like you.
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  7701.  @generalali7609  Trump could well be on that list. So why single him out? No matter who's guilty, they should be held accountable. This hasn't anything to do with politics. It has to do with telling the truth. Don't be too disappointed if he's not on that list.
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  7702.  @generalali7609  If that judge did have ties with Epstein, recused himself in a Trump lawsuit against the Clintons due to bias and has expressed his disdain for Trump numerous times, then it is political, on the part of that judge. There's nothing wrong with pointing it out to the people. You're the one that wants that information to remain hidden due to YOUR political leanings. That's the politics that I'm talking about. Instead of trying to find out if it's true or not, you just go after Tucker, using your politics, instead of a belief in the truth, to try to convince us that your politics should trump the truth. That's what I meant when I implied that you were injecting politics into the conversation. Politics over facts.
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  7703.  @amberpoole-kieniewicz735  Now, it's all about race and gender. Actually, it's boomers who give the most to charity. Since you insist that whites have all the money and minorities are poor, it would seem that it's those rich white boomers are the ones doing the most to help. Also, I lost everything to a divorce and my reaction to the death of my son which happened within months of each other. I started drinking heavily and got to the point where I couldn't hold down a job. After about 10 years of this, I straightened myself out but by then I had put myself in a position where a good paying job was out of reach. I worked at jobs that didn't pay much more than minimum wage. So, I adjusted my approach to money and saving it. I stayed away from owning a car. WAY to expensive to buy, insure, keep fuelled and maintain. I started to do the small things to save. I didn't spend my spare change. It was rolled up and put into a savings account. I got a deal so that every time I used my debit card, the card would round my payment to the nearest 5 dollar amount and the difference between the price and the payment went into a savings account. Every time I walked to do my shopping, I put 10 bucks into a savings account. If the clerk would tell me that I saved 3 bucks on my shopping bill, that 3 bucks went into a savings account. At the end of every month, I would pay my rent, go shopping and the rest would go into a savings account, usually somewhere between 100 and 200 bucks. When I got to $10,000 bucks, I invested 7000 of it into investment plans recommended by my banker. I nickled and dimed my way into a 6 figure savings account. Does that make me morally superior? Hardly, but it sure meant that I was determined to do better for myself and my daughter. Oh yeah, through all that time, I would put about 10 bucks worth of groceries into the food bank bin at our local grocery store. Not the same thing as taking in children, which is an extremely laudable thing to do but this moderately rich white old man did try to help.
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  7704. The way things are going for them, the Democrats are going to wish that there was voter suppression in 2020. In fact, they may even revitalise the KKK to keep the minorities FROM voting.
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  7705. @Rebecca You have no IDEA what Fascism is. Not a clue. Trump supports a separation between business and state and as few regulations as possible. Fascism wants the state to have control over business and I mean total control. Unions replaced with Party members, making sure that both management and the workers are following Party guidelines. That's definitely NOT Trump.
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  7706. He keeps saying that it's the neo-liberals. Doesn't he mean the conservatives? The Republicans? He's playing at word games.
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  7707.  @Gurung1980  If the Chinese sold you low quality kits, why would you ever trust them. I'm not saying to trust India, but you now know who NOT to trust.
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  7708. @Joe Casson And yet you just talked like that about someone you don't know who's had real concerns about his child being sexually abused. The lack of self awareness would be comical if it wasn't for the seriousness of the case.
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  7709. Very astute analysis of the criticism that Jesus voiced against the Pharisees and it's so true. Why the public display of virtue and morality? Even more significant, why does the modern activist find it so necessary to vilify others? I'm an atheist but I've found that there are some very incredibly profound ideas and questions that lie within the pages of the Bible. Jesus asserts that no one is deserving of entering the Kingdom of Heaven. What he means is that we all have the roots of destruction within us and that no matter how moral we believe we are, we would always be wrong. What's more, when he talks of the Pharisee's public display of morality, they may be demonstrating, through the self perceived belief in their moral superiority, the idea that they now would also be imbued with the right to challenge others on their obvious lack of morals and have the wisdom to fix it or even put an end to it. That's dangerous and has led to some of the most vile atrocities in human history.
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  7710. If all you can say is that you're disgusted by Dennis Prager and that he's a bad man, you have nothing. It's just a litany of insults. If you want to garner respect, you talk about issues NOT about people. All I heard from the Eggman is different ways of saying "I hate him". A pretty shallow exercise.
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  7711. Wait till one of the Minneapolis city council private security guys shoot someone. Crickets.
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  7712. If the trees were originally cut on the orders of Chairman Mao, how can you call them climate refugees. Had the trees been harvested properly, maybe the temperatures wouldn't have risen as much and most of these people would still be in their original homes. Not doubting climate issues but Mao is a big part of the problem they're facing now. If it isn't, why are they trying to replant the trees?
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  7713.  @peggywu7567  You really didn't say a lot. You told me that I didn't know and that I'm ignorant and that you can't be bothered explaining it to me and that's it. I could do the same in return. "You just don't know and you're ignorant and I know this to be true but I can't be bothered to explain it to you because you won't believe it, anyway". See how pointless that was?
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  7714.  @chfgbp6098  There is some truth to that. However, it is a fact that Mao accelerated the process when he ordered the cutting of the trees to fuel his plans for the Chinese economy. Of course, those trees may have been cut, anyway, in the meantime but we have no way of knowing that. We do know that Mao was directly responsible for the cutting of a lot of those trees and that did speed up the process of desertification.
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  7715.  @carlyellison8498  Now, that was clever. You're actually using the 1st Amendment to rationalise why you don't need to offer a cogent case for the things that you believe. I never said that. What I said or criticised, and I never once said that it should be illegal or whatever you're trying to say, is that if you want to taken seriously, you have to offer more than insults (you're part of a cult) to take part in a serious discussion. That was how you started this entire thread. It was a dismissal.... "cult guy" and after that anything that anyone said was a put down. You know.......he's a "cult guy". I don't know you but that's impression I get from you. It's like there's no talking to you because....HEY.....you're in a cult. Automatic dismissal.
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  7716.  Chief Seattle  And anyone who isn't shaken to the core after those numbers and STILL supports Marxism, has to be some kind of stupid. Just sayin.
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  7717. @Hannes Zappes Huh???
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  7718.  @myDickbiG  Gotcha. Sorry about that.
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  7719. They can't do it right now. The Democrats hold the majority and they'd just vote against it. That's why it's SO important to vote next month in the mid terms. The Democrats have to lose the majority so they can be outvoted if the investigation proceedings prove how corrupt the Bidens have been.
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  7720.  @vincegoupil  So.....let's do nothing about a problem, which really does exist, because it might be bad for the Democrats. Great plan. In other words, this isn't about right or wrong. It's all about the right team winning. That small everyday problem outlines the mindset of the Democrats. The little guy isn't important. It's all about the state and holding power. That's why you could care less about this woman that had her home destroyed. It doesn't serve the Democrats. It has to serve the collective.
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  7721.  @bartholomew3956  No point in even trying to explain it to you. You'll only listen to those who've used this event for political gain. Too lazy to read the autopsy, watch the body cam video or even look into what happens when overdosing on Fentanyl. They tell you what happened and you nod your head like a good little sycophant.
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  7722. If Disney wants people to watch their version of Snow White, make a great movie. Why should they care about the Daily Wire version? If I were them, I'd see another version as a marketing opportunity. Do what they think is right, as far as making a movie is concerned and let the chips fall where they may. If it's a good movie, people will watch it.
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  7723. A separation of corporation and state. No more pharmaceutical executives taking on jobs at the FDA. In fact, get rid of a lot of those bureaucratic jungles. They do nothing but grease the pockets of the bureaucrats. He, who has the most to pay the bureaucrats, wins the corporate games. We've instituted a policies of separation of church and state, for good reason. We have to do the same with the bureaucratic/corporate marriage in existence today.
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  7724. I don't think that they are in alignment. I think that they're scared that Trump will win and WORSE, that they will lose power. They're terrified that if Trump wins, turns things around and doesn't do the things that they've tried to scare us into believing, it may be decades before they win another Federal election. That means that people will see the lies and reject them, as a network, and the Democrats as a viable ruling Party.
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  7725.  @victormontes7007  Huh?????
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  7726.  @termination9353  Wow!!!! I've heard them all now. Trump has used demolition companies so he's guilty of destroying the Twin Towers? Man....that's some tough detective work. LOL.
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  7727.  @termination9353  You're sending me to hell? Am I speaking to God? Somehow, I thought any encounter, that I might have with the Almighty, would be different. You know, a burning bush or a booming voice from the heavens. I've gotta say, there Jehovah, and I'm not criticising, but this seems rather lame.
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  7728. So don't do as he did? Don't vote for Trump???? I'm not even sure how Tim, voting for Trump and telling everyone how insane the Dems are, is dividing the vote.
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  7729.  @Djejjcjqjjwjfkckcje  That's a primary thing. When the elections come there won't be a ticket with Trump, DeSantis and Biden on it. It'll be the Democrat candidate against the Republican candidate and that's decided during the primaries. If the Republicans do choose DeSantis over Trump, to run for president against the Democrats in the next election, Trump will have nothing to do with it. The only way the vote could be split is if Trump or DeSantis started a 3rd party and that would split the vote. It would also be disastrous for the country. I think that you'd be better served if you understood how primaries and elections worked.
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  7730.  @BEAUTYnIQ  The traditional honey bee isn't even native to the Americas. They're an invasive species. How did the indigenous people of the Americas even develop the corn, potatoes and beans that we all eat today without honey bees? It's a damn miracle.....or the whole bee apocalypse narrative is just that. A story to scare the hell out of us.
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  7731. To validate defending oneself, one has to be murdered. That's the mindset of the radical socialist.
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  7732. Although I believe that Biden is doing a terrible job, I would only condemn Biden's stance against Brown if his objection was based solely on her skin colour. He may have had good reason to not want her as a Supreme Court justice, none of which has anything to do with melanin. There are a lot of Blacks and women that I wouldn't endorse and not one reason would be because of race or gender.
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  7733.  @mackdaddynutjob  If she was rejected because she was conservative, I get why Biden rejected her. I think that he was 100% wrong, though. Conservatives tend to be more pragmatic are committed to things like the rule of law. Biden has shown that the law and the Constitution don't mean a lot to him. I get Biden but I don't support him for that reason.
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  7734.  @loramurray2341  Most people are unaware of what Trump has done as president. All they know is what the MSM has told them. If I was to present some of Trump's policies as someone else's, a Democrat in particular, a lot of people would support him....until I revealed that they were Trump's policies. Then they called me a liar. On the flip side, if I was to attribute what the Democrats and the MSM has been doing to Trump as Trump's actions, they'd be outraged. I've found a lot of people are misinformed and they hate Trump, not because he's a bad president, but because he's an unlikable guy and has done things, in his personal life that are rather questionable. That's because, what little they do hear about him, comes from a lying media.
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  7735.  @mrt2this607  I think that if Trump had been more like Florida governor Ron DeSantis, he'd be president right now. DeSantis is just as firm but is a more likeable guy. Even if the Democrats had cheated, it would have been impossible for them to cheat enough to beat a nice guy Trump. I never liked Trump YEARS ago. He rubbed me, as a person, the wrong way. As he started to run for president, my feelings for him didn't change, as a person, but I agreed with most of his positions. So I picked him over Hillary and again over Biden. However, I know lots of people who just couldn't get past that personality flaw. They just couldn't be objective, no matter how right he was. Right now, DeSantis is going through his smears but he's managing it better because he doesn't have that abrasive personality that Trump does. If Trump runs again, I'd back him but I'd rather see DeSantis run. DeSantis brings likeability to the table that Trump never could. That likeability, or lack of it, was Trump's downfall. The corporate establishment used it to create the narrative of Fascist monster and people believed it. Even my dad, who agrees with all of Trump's policies, if you don't tell him that their Trump's, thinks Trump is like Hitler.....and my dad lived through wartime Holland during WW2. That's how effective using Trump's personality has been for the corporate establishment.
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  7736. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right” George Orwell....1984 Life is beginning to imitate art.
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  7737.  Omega Minus  That may be true but I would hope that they'd try to learn from art as well. Imitating, what is supposed to show the negative side of humanity, isn't what I'd call learning anything.
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  7738. There's been months of peaceful protests in which buildings were burned, stores were looted, people were killed (David Dorn a prime example) bottles, Molotov cocktails, and high grade fireworks are thrown and thousands of police have had all degrees of injuries. There are COUNTLESS videos that document the violence. A BLM supporter, shot and killed a 9 year old girl, because her mother mistakenly turned into the Wendy's that had been burned to the ground a few night earlier. Anyone that wants to see the videos, of the violence, can do so by doing a simple google search. Hell, the CNN studio, itself, was attacked and vandalised by rioters. If you go out to protest and it ends in violence, you leave, quickly and abruptly. Staying gives the rioters cover by providing numbers for them to do their dirty deeds. If you go out a second night, and it ends in the same manner, realise that looters are going to use you to hide behind, to add legitimacy to their violence so they can continue to loot and destroy. If you keep going out to these protests and they continue to end in violence, you're becoming complicit in that violence, whether you like to admit it or not. If you, like the CNN media pundit, Chris Cuomo, asks where it says that protests can't be violent, then you're justifying mob violence. No one says that you can't protest. However, as per the Constitution, that assembly must be peaceful. When the first brick is thrown, the assembly is no longer peaceful and you should divest yourself of that assembly if you want to remain guilt free. That's the law and that's common sense.
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  7739. So what? I don't trust anyone, totally.
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  7740.  @judipierry549  There is no such thing as "transgender". There is a developmental problems, which are medical in nature, that's known as gender dysphoria and another that's known as Diverse Sex Development, better known as intersex. It's no different than any other developmental problems that happens to living beings which have nothing to do with sexuality. Biological sex is not something that you can switch on and off through drugs and surgery. It's built right into your DNA. Expecting children, as young as 10 or 11, to demand medical transition isn't just ludicrous. It's cruel. What you do is get them the psychological help they need until they're old enough to consent to medical procedures. That psychological attention should be geared to helping them accept themselves as they were born into and not that their bodies are something to be loathed, drugged and cut up. What I find appalling that people would allow a patient to diagnose their own condition and force a doctor to go along.
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  7741.  @americanineverywaybutcitiz2330  I'm not really sure what that means. Are you suggesting that this is something that he's a part of? That he's in on it? Sounds a little far fetched to me.
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  7742. Thomas B Marxism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin. The idiots that you're talking about just can't get that through their collective heads.
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  7743. California became a part of the United States in 1848 and became a state 2 years later. It was never a slave state and slavery ended in 1865. So, the free state of California was American for 17 years when slavery ended in the US. Yeah.....5 million seems about right.
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  7744. It seems that the first thing that Joy Reid wanted to do was to bring in a transgender person in an attempt to defend their lifestyle. No attempt to protect a religious group, in case other radical transgenders might be planning to do similar things. I find Reid to be a particularly insensitive and her agenda and views to be quite revolting.
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  7745. The only way that the Democrats moderate their policies and begin to act with common sense is if Trump wins the election by a huge landslide. I mean a landslide where there's a Red majority in the House and Senate and only 1 or 2 blue states left standing. If that doesn't get their attention, a third Party will form and the Democrat Party will go the way of the Whig Party. In one hundred years, they'll be known as the Party that supported slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow and all the progressive politics of the last few years will be a footnote.
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  7746. He says that the Democrats have lost their minds but when a member of the Democrat royalty speaks, Maher listens and votes for him. Imagine, he's intentionally voting for someone who, he himself, has said has lost his mind. Nothing is more bizarre than that.
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  7747.  @johnfruechte3265  You nailed it. As soon as you use violence, it's no longer peaceful no matter what the media says. I can't understand why the media would do that unless they approve of what Antifa is doing. I realise that the media thrives on mayhem to sell advertising but this is just plain irresponsible.
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  7748.  @adolfolerito6744  I cannot help but agree with you. Even here in Canada we have to follow procedure. Almost everyone I talk to thinks that the American system, that the Democrats strongly support, is bizarre beyond belief. IDs are racist. Ballots sent to all through the mail...it's a recipe for corruption and the endless arguing over election results that we see now. I can't believe how foolish it all is.
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  7749.  @west7192  A country cannot be governed by a Constitution alone. There are decisions that must be made, budgets as an example, that just can't be formed through a Constitution. We need representatives to take all the variables into consideration so to decide on how a budget is to be determined. We could have representatives who are permanent and pass on that status to their descendants but history has shown that this is highly susceptible to tyranny. So, we form a voting system, within the rules of the Constitution, to pick our reps. If they do a bad job, we can vote them out. That's how our Republic works. In fact, the fact that the founding forefathers felt that they were being taxed without representation, is why the colonies rebelled against Britain. It would have been pointless to revolt if we didn't form a system, within the Constitution, if the citizens had no say in choosing who would represent us. So, they formed their own style of democracy that was governed UNDER the Constitution. Without that form of Democracy, our Republic dies because we will once again be taxed without representation. It's an integrated system ruled by the constraints of the Constitution that gives us our freedoms.
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  7750.  @lilmike2710  I joined in 2009 and I have no content. I like watching videos and making comments though. It's like saying that just because I've never written a book, I don't read. Illogical.
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  7751.  @lilmike2710  I don't see where anyone asked you either but here you are, shooting off at the mouth. I know. It's different when YOU do it. It always is.
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  7752.  @lilmike2710  LMAO!!! Ageist blocked. 😂😂😂
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  7753.  @bennyandersen742  "Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world." John 18:36 This is why. According to scripture, the world is the domain of man and Satan. This was a human choice made when Adam and Eve broke the only rule that God set for them. We made our beds and now we have to sleep in them. However, again according to scripture, there is redemption offered which will be realised in God's Kingdom. That offer is open to each of us and all we have to do is accept it. You wanted to know the answer and it's there for all of us. I'm not saying that God exists. How could I know that? What I'm saying is that you're making a theological argument about an ideology when you know nothing about it. Your ideas on God and religion are irrelevant if they're anchored on personal feelings and not the facts of the religion that you're referring to.
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  7754.  @bennyandersen742  Talk about completely misunderstanding what I said. I never said it was your fault. I was making the implication that the story of Adam and Eve was relayed to show the human condition. That we're predisposed to making the wrong decision, even when given only one wrong decision to make, something as innocuous and simple to do as not eat from one specific tree. That's all they had to do and they screwed it up. That story reflects on all of us, unless you're that unique individual that has NEVER screwed up in their lifetime. The fact that God knows the future doesn't take away from that fact. If given the chance to make a mistake, we will do it and the evidence of that is all around us...except the perfect YOU......of course.
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  7755.  @bennyandersen742  Maybe I'll have to be simpler in my presentation. I even stated that it doesn't mean that God exists. I said, and I thought it was quite clear, that it was a story of the human condition. A narrative to help to explain human nature. Our ancestors were not a bunch of dumb, superstitious clods. They were trying to explain their own behaviour through narratives, as metaphors to life. Even the concept of a supreme being is a metaphor to truth and perfection, one to aspire to. Read my last comment again. I said that Adam reflects the human nature that is in all of us. That inexorable nature to get things wrong even, as in Adam's case, when he had only ONE thing that he was forbidden. If he couldn't do that one thing, how are we ever going to do it with all the things that can go wrong in our lives. That's the lesson of Adam and Eve. They're us. That's what that story is trying to tell us. We should aspire to seek truth and perfection but understanding that it's an impossibility to achieve. When one believes that those attributes have been achieved, that person will feel that they have achieved superiority, which includes all the horrors that go along with the need to impose that superiority on others. Religious people do it all the time, as do academics and politicians and it can be socially devastating.
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  7756.  @bennyandersen742  Of course things happen that we can do little about. A guy could walk into my home, and shoot me dead. I'd be powerless to stop that. However, I also have choices that I can make and I do everyday. I choose to go to work. I don't have to. I may suffer the consequences of that choice but it's still my choice. That's the forbidden fruit. I'll enjoy lazing in my back yard for a time but I will have to face what happens some day. This is the contradictions of free will. Wisdom comes from knowing we can control and what we can't. Adam and Eve had the ability to choose whether to eat of the apple or not. Once the choice was made to eat, they were at a loss to know what to do next. They learned that there were consequences to their choices....the knowledge of good and evil, so to speak. Know when you're in control and how to use that to your advantage. Don't be trying to change what you can't. You'll waste your time.
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  7757.  @bennyandersen742  I made a choice, as a teenager, not to do my school work and I quit before I graduated. No sociocultural, physical or psychological conditions forced me to do it. I wanted to have fun. My brother, 2 years younger, was the opposite. We both made choices. Later, I realised that having fun was good but I wanted more. I quit drinking, took on another part time job, finished highschool and went to college. Part way through college, I changed courses because I decided I didn't wasn't as interested in that field as I though. I made a different choice. I worked extremely hard, at times only getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep a day. I didn't have to. I CHOSE to. Those choices were rewarded. I could have stayed as I was but I chose not to. I chose not to take that easy route, thinking that there were no options, that I had no control of my destiny. That's a self fulfilling attitude and will get you exactly what life doles out to you. In other words, I didn't wait to see what life had in store for me. I made it happen.
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  7758.  @bennyandersen742  I realise that there are forces that work to form a pattern of life. Almost all the people that I was hanging out with, when I was young, are still doing what they were doing back then. Why did I choose not to continue that pattern? There are lots of reasons. Do you think that I wasn't tempted to take a night off from work and go partying with my friends? Lots of times...but I chose not to. When a buddy called and said that they were going to go camping for the weekend, it would have a great to go but I said no. I was in the same place in life as they were, at one time, but I chose to leave it behind. I still had to do the things that would change my life. I wanted to travel and so did my friends but NONE of them have gone anywhere because they didn't change their lifestyle. That was their decision. Just like I didn't want to become an accountant and changed to a civil engineering course. I could have stuck with what I started with but I chose not to. Now all those original classmates are somewhere in the financial world and I worked in construction and worked outdoors. I knew that I liked the outdoors but had I not chose to change my field, I'd have worked in finance for 30 years. Choice is still an important aspect of our lives. If it wasn't, I'd still be sitting at home waiting for life to happen, swilling beer, instead of making life work for me, as best as I possibly could.
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  7759.  Masson H  Calling people liars and a laughing stock is a poor and exceptionally childish way to make a point.
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  7760. I'm alone while watching this video. How happy is that? VERY happy and I'm super smart.
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  7761. He's a Justin Trudeau clone.
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  7762. Like a coward.....you're kidding. For the longest time, he had press briefings, EVERY DAY, for well over an hour. What did the press do with that opportunity? Instead of asking questions that would help all the viewers watching, they just threw "gotcha" type questions at him. Questions that no one in their right minds would answer. Questions like this. "Don't you think it's irresponsible to tell people that it's okay to go out in the sunshine when people are dying in Florida and Singapore, both hot, humid places?" Paraphrased, of course. It would have been a good question, great one, in fact, had he asked it in a civilised manner. Instead, he framed it around "irresponsible" instead of framing it around why there were cases in warmer countries. STUPID. REAL STUPID. I wanted to know the why of cases in warmer countries and we didn't get an answer because he was too busy asking questions designed to bash the guy, instead of getting information that could HELP people. Most of those reporters are disgrace. All they care about is their own careers and making hay out of a serious crisis. If they can bring down Trump, they figure that's a career builder. Self aggrandising, narcissistic jerks.....no different than Trump. They make my blood boil.
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  7763.  @orkhepaj  You're assuming that she was forced to do this. You don't know that. My cousin wanted to play guitar. It's all that he ever did, much to his parents dismay. He'd wake up, in the morning, put his feet on the floor, grab his guitar and start playing. He'd play before school, after school, after supper and well into the night. He took every music course possible at school and both guitar and piano lessons on his own free time. His parents were proud of him but they were also worried that he was too driven. There are people, even children, that are driven to succeed and they don't need to be forced to work hard. Don't make assumptions that you can't possibly know and don't take away from the work that she had put into becoming the best that she could be. You're buying into a stereotype and assuming that's who she is. It isn't fair and it robs her, and others, of the right to follow their dreams.
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  7764.  @cyrix_1  You're a troll. Anything that you say is predicated on that status. Pointless statements made from one whose only objective is to cause dissension and turmoil. Pointless statements from a pointless existence.
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  7765.  @ShawnPatton-rm2hv  We all know about racism in the US. I learned about slavery WAY back in the sixties, in school. You can't talk about the Civil War and not talk about slavery. We've all been taught about it but now it's been distorted. It's portrayed as a unique American and European phenomenon which is absolute nonsense. It's used by radical socialist to divide us instead of bring us together. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. This is NOT what being taught in schools these days. In fact, it's SO bad that California wanted to eliminate their state Civil Rights Act in the 2020 elections....the very act that Dr. King fought so hard for in the sixties. There are schools with Black's only dormitories, graduations and events. I've even heard people criticising mixed marriages by radical left wing activists. They're calling the people in mixed marriages "race traitors" something that the KKK used to say all the time. Larry Elder, a black American, was called the "black face of white supremacy" by his political opponents on the left. This is where the type of teaching has led us. Race relations are WORSE now then they were in the eighties and nineties and it's ALL because of this obsession with race. I know that you're a troll and I'm wasting my time but if you want division, keep teaching about race the way that they are now. It will tear this country apart and that's EXACTLY what the radical left wants. Revolution by any means necessary.
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  7766.  @spruceandhemlock  What are you doing with men that throw tantrums anyway? Not all men do that. My sister in law gets upset because my brother NEVER gets mad, let alone throws a tantrum. Is that the kind of problem that you want? Any woman that takes tantrums tor the nuttiest reasons can expect to be sent packing. You should be doing the same. Don't date 3 year olds. It's a pretty simple rule. You chose the whiny thing. Maybe you'd better review your selection methods.
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  7767. Then you've never had an interest in sports. It's been professional for over 100 years. I'm 71 and I played hockey, in my teens, with guys who made it to the NHL. My favourite pro hockey team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, have been around since 1917. There are pro teams that are even older than that.
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  7768.  @djtwo2  I played hockey, soccer and baseball. I was average good and I loved playing because it was fun. Now, I'm 71 years old and have a bad back. So I have my fun by watching those who are really good at what they do. That makes me stupid? I only have a few years left and I'm going to spend it doing things that I enjoy and if that means spending money to watch a hockey game, that's MY business and no loud mouthed bully is going to change my mind...so eff YOU.
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  7769. I've worked in those factories and that guy is correct. At the last place I worked at, they'd hire 10 people at a time. 3 months later, you might have 1 or 2 left. Work 15 minutes with these individuals and you know exactly who won't be there by the end of the week. Some don't come back after their first lunch break and this factory was one of the highest paying places in our town AND had benefits. Most of them don't like working shift work and say so and that's why they leave so quickly. There is no shift work on UI, if they can get it, or welfare. Most of these new hires know where else there are free benefits. The government. There are problems with these new illegal immigrants but they show up and since they don't speak the language at first, they don't spend time gabbing with their fellow workers. They work, like they're getting paid to do.
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  7770.  @1dilligaf  That's NOT my point. My point is that the jobs aren't being filled. It's an ongoing problem, at least in the town where I work. We don't want them to hire these immigrants but we don't want the jobs, either. Then we bitch when the company goes bankrupt because they can't fill the orders they have or the work is sub-par because the ones that they do hire, don't care. You can't cry about not having a job and then refuse to work when you do have a job. That's what they're doing and in the end, we won't have to worry about working those jobs. They'll be gone for good.
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  7771.  @1dilligaf  Did your kids try to work on those farms? Just wondering. Not saying whether they did or not but it is a legit question.
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  7772.  @1dilligaf  Then why didn't your kids work at lower wages? They'd still have made some money. Instead, they made NOTHING. Not a nickel to show for their summer off school. I'm still asking if the applied for those farm jobs or not. Did they even bother to apply?
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  7773.  @chrisfuller2069  It's like YOU are the one who didn't read MY post. I told you about the company that I worked for, which is one of the highest paying companies in town. They couldn't get employees. I told you that. There is another factory who pays more than than the one that I work at and THEY have trouble getting workers. The highest paying factory in our town. I don't know where else I'd go to find better. The stories I hear are all the same. It's too hot. They don't like shift work. They find it boring. The boss is an a-hole. It hurts my back. My head hurts. It goes on and on. One guy said he thought that I was in the mafia or something because, although we were paid the same, I was buying a house and he couldn't even save enough for a down payment. I did it but he couldn't...but he took days off all the time. I told him to take out a savings plan that was available and the company would match it but he wouldn't. I'm now retired for 4 years, living a great life and he's still there, complaining about everything, taking days off and still just as broke and he can't figure out why. This didn't happen to my parent's generation. They would work 2 jobs, pinch pennies until the Lincoln screamed "OUCH" and made wise decisions. The work was just as hot, the shifts were just as long and round the clock, the bosses were just as big an a-holes, the work was still boring but they did it and did their best. Not like the ones that you're talking about....doing shitty work and blowing off. When you do that, you'll end up nowhere.
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  7774. Mark Rutte, the Dutch PM, is an active supporter of the WEF. The WEF wants to stop all meat production. They call it "responsible eating". They want those farmers to fail.
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  7775.  @undergrounddojokeyboardcag701  Florida had 99% of their votes counted, by midnight, on election day and they've over 4 times the population to count. Maricopa County, yes a county, took almost a week and that was the initial vote count. They're just counting and it shouldn't take any longer if it's close or not. I've said it before, this type of delay creates election deniers and division in the country. There's no reason, in the world, why the count wasn't completed by morning and we'd be talking about a recount by noon. We're not living in horse and buggy days. If I were from a 3rd world country, looking around for a good election process, for my nation's first democratic election, Maricopa County....Arizona even......would be the LAST place I'd go. Efficiency inspires confidence and I would have no confidence in what I've seen in Maricopa County. This is just plain common sense.
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  7776. A super hero that doesn't want to save the world. WTF???? How does she earn the name "super hero" then? Modern logic is not all that logical.
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  7777. I've connected the dots and Jussie is a liar.
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  7778. I have to agree however, one party thinks the economy is important that this is the way to help the average American. The other party wants to increase taxes and give that money to average Americans. I'm of the adage "Give a man a fish and he'll eat today but teach that man to catch his own fish and he'll eat for many days". That's all I really need to know when it comes to election day. There are only 2 choices and only one choice that follows that adage.
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  7779. I don't own a car. I walk everywhere, even to get my groceries. I've gone a month and never even got into a car, bus or even mowed a lawn with a gas mower. I live in a 700 square foot basement apartment that hardly needs any heat in the winter or air conditioning in the summer. Yet, when I took a carbon footprint test, I still flunked. I'm not sure what I have to do to reduce my carbon footprint, now. Stop eating? Buy a tent and live in the woods? My existence means that I'm leaving an unacceptable footprint. There is no way to live right by our "carbon footprint" and they all know it.
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  7780.  @stevemuzak8526  I live the way that I do because I'm retired and it saves me money. I live quite comfortably on very little and it has nothing to do with some misguided hope of saving the planet. I'm just clearing that up so as to not be misunderstood. Of course I care about the environment. I'm not about to throw garbage everywhere becaues that's just plain dumb. However, I don't delude myself into thinking that because I'm doing these common sense things that I'm saving the planet. That's a rather grandiose way to think of myself, in my opinion.
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  7781.  @klakklakk9778  That's the very attitude that's allowed for the horrors of the world. "Love thy neighbour" has been ignored and now you're equating, no, you're priorities are towards animals over your neighbour. Finishing with "lol" doesn't disguise how terrible this attitude could become.
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  7782. Of course CBS, NBC, WAPO and the NY Times are ignoring the story. They're afraid that they will be found complicit in trying to fix the election. A lot of corruption going around.
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  7783. Yahoooo!!!! Spread the joy.
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  7784. Grumpy Old Man I was going to say "Grumpy much?" but then I read your name. Lighten up. It's a joke. Laugh a little. We're not expecting a car. At least, I'm not.
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  7785. rick leonard If Alex Jones can get a press card, so can I. Hell, anyone can.
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  7786. I looked for the swastika in those Ottawa crowds. I didn't see any. I saw one of the swastika on a wrought iron fence with snow in the background and it was plastered on almost every news outlet. The same damn picture. I saw another on the side of a high rise. You couldn't place the swastika in Ottawa or as a part of the trucker protest at all. I'm calling BS on this and everyone that I talked to, whether they supported the protests or not, agreed with me. Trudeau is making it all up.
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  7787.  @RockerfellerRothchild1776  A beer company that featured a man, pretending to be a woman, whose core following is around 16 years old. In other words, they're encouraging children to follow the route of Dylan Mulvaney which may include operations that have life long negative consequences. Boycotting this beer is way to voice our displeasure at how they were supporting these horrific measures and call attention to what's happening. When people begin to see what's happening, they will call for an end to this child abuse. It's one measure, among many, like the exposing of this hospital in Texas, that will come together to form a tidal wave that will end this Mengele style medical experimentation. If you don't like that.....tough.
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  7788. Why should he? There is no law that says he must. There's not a thing that the Democrats can do to him about it. It'll just drive them crazy and do you know what? They're being foolish. Their chances of winning in 2020 are getting worse by the week and this obsession with arresting, impeaching and nullifying his presidency is starting to grate on the voting public. The Democratic party is in disarray. All kinds of candidates and no unity within the party. They'd better start cleaning up the mess inside their own party, because if they don't, they'll be in big trouble come elections, next year.
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  7789.  @johnburns8660  He spends a lot of his time in the US and other countries. He's out of reach of those grasping stifling arms of the progressives when he's not in Canada. He's become too big for the Canadian authorities to control.
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  7790.  @sprsmoke  He's a bot. He leaves the same message all over this comment section. It's all he says. A mindless bot.
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  7791. How quickly things change on the left. Last year, these top women were the darlings of the feminist movement and if you had the nerve to criticise Linda Sarsour, you were a sexist Islamophobe. Now the very people that stood beside her are agreeing with us. What irony. That's the same as the radical leftists and Antifa. They're supposed to be against racism but they have no problem using ethnic slurs. Yet, it should have been predictable. Anyone that obsessed with bigotry to the point they see bigots hiding behind every rock and tree and never stop talking about, has to see the world through a bigoted lens. Their activism is actually just doing penance for what they feel in their heart. Pure hatred and envy for all the see and think they see in others.
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  7792. You give this black ethnostate guy respect, Tim? I'll bet you wouldn't say that if Richard Spencer called for a black ethnostate. In fact Spencer said exactly that. It seems that black supremacists are in line with white supremacist Richard Spencer.
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  7793. I just worry that one of them, or a group of them, will murder journalist Andy Ngo. A great American hero.
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  7794. "When the people realise that they can vote themselves money, that will be the end of our Republic" That wasn't Ben Franklin but it is the truth. The Democrats tried to buy votes and now they can't understand why the law (the Constitution) and responsible people think that this is wrong.
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  7795.  @AndrewFishman  Maybe in hindsight the Cuban missile crisis was ridiculous but it didn't seem so at the time. It was a direct confrontation and it was on the news all the time. Everyone was talking about it and how destructive hydrogen bombs could be. Khrushchev backed down but it was more than just placing warheads. It was a showdown and the Soviets blinked first. Also, it was the very first real direct staredown with nuclear weapons. It was immediate and a real threat, not just a movie. I remember those movies. "On the Beach" was released in '59, 3 years before the Cuban crisis. It just added to the fear, among other things, that the Crisis brought. By the time "The Day After" was released, we had become desensitised to the danger. The fear was still there but not like it was in the early 60s. I was 11 years old, during that crisis, and all the kids of my time, were afraid that we'd be dead within a week. Our parents lived through WW2 and knew the dangers of war and that only added to the atmosphere of dread that we felt. One thing about those times was that our parents would try to shield us from those things to a degree. It's impossible now with social media being the way it is. "Go out and play" was the order, so we did and it was a way to forget the danger that was hanging over our heads. Like I said, though, any loud explosive sound, would bring it to the surface. It was frightening.
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  7796.  @AndrewFishman  I didn't take it negatively. I understand how it was in the 80s but I was only pointing out the difference between the CMC and the eighties. I remember being at the neighbours, watching the Mickey Mouse Club, and the programming was interrupted to tell us of the latest threat from the Russians. Back in those days, regular programming was NEVER stopped for the news unless something serious was happening. Someone, on the news, actually told us to be aware of where the nearest bomb shelter was. We were country folk and there was no bomb shelter within 20 miles. My neighbour and I went outside, scared silly, thinking this was the end. Then my cousin, who as couple of years older, came by and asked if we saw the news and scared us even more by explaining the realities of a nuclear war. We thought it was coming. There was no such threat in the 80s. The possibility was real, VERY real, but there wasn't a showdown, with fingers on the button, so to speak. The news wasn't being interrupted to tell us how close a confrontation was. It was more of repeated scenarios, real but not real. My kids were aware of it, even worried about it somewhat, but were never confronted with a real situation that could have ended it all. That was the difference. It was more like the climate change threat. A real possibility but sometime in the future.
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  7797.  @AndrewFishman  Existential fear. A fear that our existence, today, would threaten our existence sometime in the future. Like climate change. 13 years ago, Al Gore released his movie. In it, he predicted that sections of Manhattan would be underwater, including the base of the Twin Towers. Instead, ocean levels have only risen 3 millimetres. 3 millimetres. I don't even know how you'd measure that on the scale of an ocean. Now, it's the 12 year till doomsday prophecy. It might be 11 years now, since it's been almost a year since AOC's dire prediction. Of course, there's truth to this climate change issue. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and it does affect temperatures, but using timelines to predict the end is counter productive. Already, people are doubting because of Gore's movie and his water level predictions. The "scare them to death" tactic isn't the way to go about pollution problems and I'm afraid it might backfire on us. Reacting out of panic is never a great idea. Worse, it takes control out of the hands of ordinary people and places it directly in the hands of politicians. They'll tell us what to do and if you don't listen, you will pay the price. I'm afraid that if we allow the government to take control, we could destroy our country in our efforts to save it. It will become the never ending battle, the government our eternal saviour, but we must always be on guard against those who would do environmental harm. Sort of like the Orwellian enemies against the free state of Oceania in 1984. If we don't do as the government says, environmental disaster will overcome us all. It is rather Orwellian.
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  7798.  @AndrewFishman  Yes, I did read that. As a country boy, I'm dead set against that idea. In fact, I'm seeing the opposite right now. I live about 100 miles east of Toronto. Home prices are skyrocketing in Toronto. People are selling their Toronto homes for over 1 million dollars and buying here for 1/4 of that for the same house. Building around here is going at a breakneck speed. There are rural areas here that I don't even recognise any more and I've lived here since 52. Some of the ideas in Agenda 21 aren't really all that bad but I have one major objection to it. It's a top down policy. They tell us and we are to listen. Being a freedom type guy, I don't like that and I believe that these things can happen through the choices of individuals. Like population control. We, in the western industrialised countries, have lowered our birthrate through the choices of the individual, not because it was imposed on us. I believe that if left to our own devices, with only minimal government mandates, we can work it out ourselves. Which reminds me. Canada's largest military air base is about 10 miles from where I grew up. A major reason for our fear, during the CMC, was that we were sure that this base would be a prime target for a nuclear attack. Our country life didn't insulate us like it might have other places in North America or at least that's what we thought. Just to give some context to why we were so fearful back in 62.
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  7799.  @convinceme6676  Kiss our country goodbye if Harris is elected. It'll be like her home state where they have the highest taxes, highest energy costs, highest housing costs and the state where, for the first time in history, the population is going DOWN and businesses are closing or LEAVING and I'm just getting started on California's problems, all due to their political policies. People are leaving just like the migrants are leaving their countries. People don't leave a place, en mass, if it's a good place to live. There is no call to install Project 2025 by the running Republican candidates and it's a private organisation. Ties to the Republican Party is tenuous, at best.
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  7800. People change their minds. I married a woman who I thought was the most wonderful person that I've ever met. 15 years later I found out that she was a cheat, a liar and a thief. I was floored and I divorced her. I was WRONG about her and admitted it. Tim was wrong about paedophiles. He's now admitting it. Good on him.
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  7801.  @dsgio7254  If you act in your own self interest, you're engaging in greed. You don't have to rich to be greedy. In fact, some of the poorest people I know are greedy. However, it manifests itself differently than with the rich. The greedy poor feel entitled. They want a reward just for existing and are envious of those who succeed economically and financially. They're the ones who want the money of the rich, using redistribution of wealth as the method to the money of others. "It's only fair". However, it's only fair when that money is going in their way. It's greed without effort.
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  7802.  @cjuare123  What power? He's doing an audit of Government spending. He is the leader of the government. What does it matter if they're rich or not? Overspending and corruption is wrong and has NOTHING to do with the bank account of the one doing the investigation. What matters is what is found. If I were the Republican president, you'd say that I have no expertise in financial matters because I'm worth less than 100 grand. Being a billionaire is irrelevant. What's relevant is whether his findings are accurate or not.
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  7803.  @quanahhurtt1833  My parents paid no attention to what was going on at school. They just assumed that I was being taught to read and write and do math....and they were correct. It was 1965 and that's what they were doing in schools. So what did I do? I worked 6 days a week so my family would have a good home and food on the table. I believed, just as my parents did, that my kids were being taught to read and write and mathematics....and they were. Things were subtly changing but it was still basic. However, over the last 20 years, things have changed, big time and, not only did the parents keep assuming that things were as they always were, the teachers were purposely hiding it from them. When they did say something, the teachers and the media, would bring out the bigot card. This is deeper than just laying blame. Laying blame doesn't help anything. Fighting back is what it's going to take to get over this crazy stuff.
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  7804.  @quanahhurtt1833  I blame the people that are actually doing the wrong....NOT the victims of their wrong doing. Naivete might be dangerous, but it's not wrong or immoral. Doing what the teachers and the education board are doing, THAT'S wrong. Being fooled may not be foolish, but it's not immoral or wrong. I blame the education system for their program of indoctrination and subterfuge. That's who's at fault. When you blame the victims, they'll resent you're lack of empathy and will refuse to help you, to help the country, because they'll think that you're against them. You're not. You're against those who are doing the wrong, not those who are that naive as to not understand what's happening.
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  7805. Not at all. They know EXACTLY what they're doing. They're trying to control us through BS. As Voltaire once said "Those who can convince us to believe in absurdities, will also be able to convince us to commit atrocities" He should know. He was one of the main inspirations for the French Revolution.....the one that guillotined people by the thousands. Orwell broke it down even more. The tyrants must have us believe what they say. Not just repeat it but believe it. "2 plus 2 equals 5" It all depends on how one looks at it. It's radical socialism. It's not crazy. It's sinister and their way to impose control through the way we think.
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  7806.  @Blackwell-III  What a way to avoid addressing what I said. Invoke a special superiority that allows you to see what others don't and then, metaphorically, smugly sit down in some sort of self ascribed victory. You've said nothing.....absolutely nothing with that last comment.
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  7807.    Look who's dividing the country. Calling a large segment of his fellow Americans "Stupid" isn't exactly joining hands and trying to unite the nation with tolerance and understanding. It's the voice of man filled with hate and rage. If anything, it's the reaction to Trump that causing division. The attacks on those wearing MAGA hats, the encouragement in universities and colleges by staff to quell any conservative speech. Segregated dorms in colleges and segregated graduations. Continuous denigration of whites and toxic masculinity. Crazy reactions to the Covington kids and the support of the fraud Jussie Smollett. All coming from those who don't like Trump. There was no praise for increased spending, by Trump, for sickle cell anemia, and exclusively Black disease. No praise for increased funding traditional and financially black colleges like Tuskegee and Grambling because Trump said that these colleges were an important part of American history and deserved that support. Paltry credit if any for prison reform and the first step program, initiatives that positively affected Blacks more than any other American demographic. He was the first president who came into office supporting gay marriage and he named openly gay, Richard Grenell as the ambassador to Germany and is now the acting Director of National Intelligence. That's Trump's division? Instead of listening to the way he says things, why don't you centre on what he does?
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  7808. I'm not going to comment on trans issues but, as far as I'm concerned, Dylan isn't trans. In fact, he's not only mocking women, he's mocking the trans community as well. His over the top antics doesn't represent anyone and I don't care what he claims to be. He's wearing "woman face" AND "trans face" and the left can't see it.
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  7809.  @sherlockhomo-ph4su  There you go. Another left wing manipulation of the facts. Trump has NEVER been convicted of any felonies. NOT ONE. Therefore he's NOT a felon. Until he has a conviction and goes through the appeal process. I'm not going to call you the name that reserved for people you play games with the truth but if the shoe fits, you're going to wear it.
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  7810.  @dementare  "NOT "Cuties". Cuties was just BALLSY enough to ACTUALLY SHOW YOU what's ACTUALLY BEEN GOING ON" I'll show the world how violence is wrong and what is going on in our inner cities by beating you senseless and the robbing you. In this, I'll be performing a public service in showing just what goes on within our big cities. That's your logic. They commission young girls to perform highly sexualised acts, film them doing it and then sell the film to the public under the guise of "education". It's a lot of BS. I don't need to see your bloody and beaten face to know how wrong it is.
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  7811.  @Joeseph-t2e  All they have is pure hate.
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  7812. It won't stop at their voices. There will be an authoritarian figure, who will emerge and all those radical voices will have to neutralised. Why? They've already proven that they're able revolutionaries. Don't want ANY revolutionaries.
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  7813.  @lordcharfield  He won't answer. Trolls never do. They slip in their catchphrases and then hide in the bushes, waiting to see how many people will respond. The sneaks of the internet.
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  7814.  @jeaniemarczniec7755  It's funny how a blind person can see things that you don't. Chicago just had around 100 people shot and you call others blind. This is awful but not to you. What appears to be awful to you is that someone is calling it out and criticising those who are supposed to be doing something about it. Better to ignore the dead than to go against your ideology, isn't it. Just pretend that it's not happening. That'll make it go away.
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  7815.  @TheXpertGenius83  NDT might be an astrophysicist, able to recite the most up-to-date data on that field but it doesn't make him a wise man and it doesn't mean he's correct when he goes into other fields. There's one thing to be smart, know all kinds of information but it's another to be intelligent and a man of wisdom. One thing that I would question, why doesn't he use the scientific method when speaking about sexual and gender issues but he still expects us to respect his science credentials when he's talking about someone's "feelings" as he's discussing his science "facts". It rather inconsistent. Does that mean the "feelings" would be important in his astrophysics studies, as well?
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  7816.  @dylanshawhanable  First, I wasn't discussing the video itself. It was mentioned that NDT was a man of science and all I said was if he uses feelings as evidence of scientific fact, he's not using the scientific method. If he's not using the scientific method, he's a poor scientist. Why do I say this? I had previously watched a video in which he says that a person can wake up and then portray themselves to be the gender that he "feels" to be at that moment. Google "Konstantin Kisin & Neil deGrasse Tyson CLASH Over Trans Debate" I can say that I "feel" that the earth is flat but that's not how I would prove that it is. I need to use the scientific method and to even mention that I "feel" this way, shows that I'm not working from any personal value of science. That's what I was talking about. If NDT isn't coming from an scientific outlook, then where is he coming from. "Feelings" isn't science. Now, if you have a problem with what I've said, be specific and tell me what that problem was and why you disagree. Don't start assuming that I have anti-trans sentiments. Actually tell me where I've gone wrong. Your comment couldn't be any more vague.
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  7817.  @michaelmulvihill7710  What you don't understand is the long term effects of shutting down the economy and doubling the national debt in less than a year. Or the effects of printing money to cover that debt. What that means that if we do it again, for another year, it's another doubling of the debt and even MORE money in circulation which a recipe for runaway inflation and horrific economic collapse in 3rd world countries. That means starvation, which especially affects the children, who will be affected by the effects of childhood malnutrition for the rest of their lives. My sister adopted a girl who, at 3 years old, nearly starved to death. She's suffered from all kinds of health problems because of it, including a kidney transplant....all because of the effects of starvation. Right now people, living in 3rd world cities, are out of work and money. They're going into the countryside to forage for food. That means that they're spreading the disease, they're killing wildlife and flora to live and are prey to criminals who will steal what little they have. The UN has warned that there are at least 10 million at risk of starvation right now, due to the lockdowns, and that lockdowns should only be used in extreme circumstances. But....go ahead. Be afraid of the long term effects, that you've even admitted that you don't even know if they exist or not. That'll feed the masses in the 3rd world and ease your conscience a bit.
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  7818.  @gwuengr2  Let's ignore the elephant in the room. People are leaving California in droves. The population has been going down since 2020 and it's the first time in California history. They're taking their money, their skills and their jobs with them. Companies that have left California since 2020.....Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Tesla, Neutrogena, Unical Aviation, Kelly-Moore Paints, Boingo Wireless, Hyperion, First Foundation Bank....and that's not even CLOSE to all of them. I'll name even more if you want. Tens of thousands of jobs...GONE. Billions of dollars.....gone and it's only going to get worse. "He's getting a big pension". That should explain the problems in California. LOL. Get your head out of the sand.
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  7819.  @jamesharmon3827  There's nothing fair about it. They went on and on about it being horse medicine, pretending that anyone who would take it is nothing more than some country rube. Not ONCE did they ever say that those who developed it were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine and that it changed the lives of millions of people who suffered from river blindness in sub-Saharan Africa. "Fair" is the last word that I would use when talking about those pundits. As for the FDA, they're the ones that approved Oxycontin, the "medicine" that ruined the lives of millions. I take what they say with a grain of salt.
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  7820.  @dlewis895  It's never been proven that Trump organised the attack. Also, he explained why he wore the MAGA hat. He hoped that it would protect him from the more violent rioters. You didn't prove that this wasn't true. Video footage showed that this police officer was responsible for getting the Congress members OUT of the building safely and he did just that. It would seem that this hat switched on an outrage, trigger mechanism in your brain.
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  7821.  @tubthump  That was an agreement made in 1933, right after Hitler gained power. Why wouldn't a Jewish group want to leave Germany, after hearing all the anti-Jewish rhetoric that Hitler has been spewing for years. Also, that deal was an agreement to get Jews out of GERMANY, not Europe and it covered 60,000 Jews to leave by 1939. The Jews in the rest of Europe were not included. If I were a Jew, Zionist or not, and living in Germany in 1933, I'd want out too. Finklestein is one of those guys who thinks that Israel is an apartheid country. Gaza has been independent since 2005. There are no Jews in Gaza, not a one. Isn't that what they wanted? There are 1.8 million Muslims living in Israel....not Gaza or the West Bank, but in Israel. They can own property, start a business, vote, run for public office, join the Israeli police force or military. They have all the rights of an Israeli Jews. In fact, it was a Muslim judge who sentenced ex-Prime Minister of Israel and one time mayor of Jerusalem to 3 years in prison. There were no protests from Israeli Jews, no calls for that judge to lose his job or be arrested. This apartheid nonsense is just that. Nonsense. It's the radical Muslims of Hamas who are causing all the issues in the region.
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  7822. Maybe if the Democrats would attack the nation's problems, instead of Republicans, they'd have more support.
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  7823. We all hear what we want to hear and interpret it in our own way. As long as we take it in the spirit of how it was meant, it's all good. Besides, that code that he was talking about isn't that far off of what Shaq said.
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  7824. Since so many people have been laid off and not working, the tax revenue is down. They'll make it up by issuing huge fines to "law breakers" visiting friends or going for an unjustifiable walk.
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  7825.  Michael Drake  Apology accepted and I hope a lesson learned. Appreciate you getting back to me.
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  7826.  @EliezerTseytkin  That is true. A lot of Chinese people, either American or non-citizens hate the communist regime but in a entity that employs a lot of people of Chinese heritage, it would be even easier for Chinese agents to infiltrate them. That would be true of any race or culture and it isn't singling out Chinese citizens as more treacherous but does make this a vulnerable area to watch out for. All it takes is for one spy in a group of good Chinese Americans and it could be a disaster for the country. That said, that spy wouldn't necessarily have to be Chinese. The ideologically possessed or those who are just plain greedy would be vulnerable, as well.
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  7827. Maybe we have the rot in Washington because good people, like YOU....Tim, refuse to run for office. So who would be left, to run for office, but the corrupt if the principled won't step up? “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” Complaining about the situation might make you feel good but you're doing nothing.
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  7828.  @nescionetizen295  A passport and 50k? Where was she going? Was she getting out of the country because she was involved in these shootings? Who drives around with that kind of cash, weapons and a passport, especially when her husband just killed someone? It would be common sense to hold her until you have answers to these questions.
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  7829.  @Oregon727  Bad education so we'll ignore crime. Gotcha.
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  7830.  @marcbowen5559  The one thing I will say is that the Democrats have always held themselves up as the party who cares about the unfortunate, who will help those who can't help themselves. The Republicans are the ones who are supposed to care about making money, who have no sympathy for poor and economically deprived. Yet, you can see what's happening in Minneapolis, in a blue city and state. Where's the caring for the little guy? When you see these homeless encampments in Minneapolis, San Francisco, LA, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, Sacramento, Chicago, NY, Philadelphia, Washington DC.....all blue cities, all run by the self proclaimed champions of the oppressed and underprivileged. That is the shame of the Democrats. They claim to care but blame others for THEIR lack of action. The oppressed actually mean nothing to those leaders. Tim Walz cheered when Minneapolis was burning in 2020. Nero is held up as heartless tyrant who fiddled when Rome burned but Walz was selected by the Democrats to run for vice-president in spite of his glee when his city was on fire. If you can't see that as a problem for the Democrats, YOU are the reason that Trump won the election.
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  7831.  @carmenortiz5294  Of course there have always been corrupt police. But NEVER before has the police, politicians and the media sat back as the city of Minneapolis burned. Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, opened his windows so he could smell the burning of his city, savouring the aroma of revolution. Things did change with those riots. We've always decried riots in the past. They were celebrated in 2020.
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  7832.  @sthubbins4038  Please go away. We know who you are and what you stand for and it even embarrasses the left.
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  7833.  @paulbentley1705  I think that he might be StHubbins, using a different account. StHubbins is notorious for it. He has multiple accounts.
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  7834. There was WAY more damage, in Washington DC, done by the BLM riots than there was on Jan 6th. There were all kinds of fires going on. They even tried to burn down the Church of the Presidents and Trump was advised to go to a security bunker in the White House. Almost every major city in the US suffered from the damage, loss of life and injuries suffered from the BLM riots. Jan 6th lasted 3 hours, one person was killed and it was one of the rioters and then they all went home. A tempest in a teapot.
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  7835.  @itsMe_TheHerpes  My doctor is a medical expert. There were those, that I know, that went to my doctor, the "medical expert", and became addicted to the opiods that he prescribed. "Experts" have a role but they should NEVER be seen as beyond reproach or criticism. I might go to a roofing expert, for advice about my leaky roof, but I shouldn't be forced to accept that advice. That's the same for any other "expert" including teachers.
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  7836.  @itsMe_TheHerpes  I sure hope that you're being facetious. I'm not about to relinquish my personal autonomy to those who are recognised as experts. Experts are not so far above the rest of us that their words must to be seen as sacrosanct and beyond reproach. That't insane. Please, tell us that you're joking.
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  7837. Wow....this thread is filled with conspiracy mongers. Come out from under the bed, folks. The boogey man is gone. If they wanted to get us they'd have done it long ago. Think our water system. It would be easy to pollute the water system and you don't have to coax people to drink. You don't have to console people that the sharp pointy needle is going to hurt you.
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  7838.  @AlexanderStHill  That vaccine was a mistake made with good intentions. The real BS came when the Democrats first insulted those efforts and then FORCED every American to take the vaccines, that Trump initiated, no matter what. I think that most of us were wanting a safe vaccine, something that would halt the spread and medicine that would help those that did come down with Covid. The Democrats smeared every proposed medicine that might help the sick but they FORCED the healthy to take the vaccine. Both the sick and the healthy were punished by the Democrats. The Republicans didn't do that. I'm afraid your vaccine claim is a very poor one. Explain to me why I'm wrong. Always open to a good discussion if I'm missing something.
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  7839.  @robyoung-pl1gq  No policies? Are we talking about the same guy? It's Trump that we're talking about. He built the wall, in spite of the fact that the Democrats fought him tooth and nail. He made deals with Mexico and other countries to stem the slow of migrants crossing the border, including the "Remain in Mexico" deal. He lowered taxes. He made trade deals and took on the megalith, China, who's been killing manufacturing in the US. He brokered peace deals between Israel and Muslim nations. He stopped payments to Iran. He forced NATO countries to pay their fair share to defend themselves. He introduced the Economic Development plan to help poor regions. He signed a Free Trade Deal with Canada and Mexico so those 3 countries could bring back manufacturing jobs and develop their natural resources. He brought in the First Step Act and then later signed the Second Chance Act to help prisoner to rebuild their lives when they got out of jail. He set up the traditional Black Universities to be funded for a ten year stretch, instead of forcing them to apply every year. No policies??? You're either talking about someone else or you're a troll.
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  7840. You gotta wonder, at the integrity of a mayor, who needs his lawyer at his side at city council meetings.
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  7841. That was quite the mouthful. Ramble on.
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  7842.  @ramalama9030  Welcome to Canada. We need those who appreciate life and the people that share our community. We DON'T need those who complain all the time and especially those who divide us by seeing racism in every word, gesture or action. This new obsession with race is destroying the good in ordinary people and fanning the flames of hatred and encouraging the ugly that can be residing in the human heart. Good luck with your life in our country.
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  7843.  @Coowallsky  I had no problem understanding what he was trying to say.
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  7844. @GlobalMan Private Strange how your original comment is gone. I can't even respond or defend myself because I can't refer to it for context. If you are the one that deleted that comment, and I can't imagine why or how anyone else did, I'll have to stand on my assessment. You are a troll.
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  7845.  @jokerj641  He was asking the doctors a question. He didn't say "We should all inject bleach". He was wondering if there was a way to use it in a medicinal way if there was anyone looking into it. He also asked about doing the same with light, somehow. Turns out that there is a company that has been researching light, specifically UV, therapy for a few years now. You've just proved your total lack of comprehension skills. Either that or you're choosing to interpret it they way that you want to hear it. Trump is an idiot....you bet. However, if you start hearing things that aren't true, you're not one hell of a lot better. Always try to tell the truth, at least to the best you possibly can. You're not being honest right now and deep down you know it. BS, even it's about an idiot, is STILL BS.
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  7846. Just when I thought things couldn't get any stupider, Major League Baseball steps up to the plate.
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  7847.  @himynameis6502  Look what happens when someone comes along and challenges that system. Anyone that would support him are called names and many are afraid to even speak out about it. They go after that person, who would dare upset their system, through the court system with the most egregiously ridiculous charges, to an attempt to bankrupt him, imprison him and keep him off the ballot. It's corruption at its finest and they have the power to force Americans to go along with it.
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  7848. That's exactly what the fat acceptance folk are doing.
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  7849. "I'm not comfortable answering that." You're terrified to answer that, would be more accurate, and I don't blame you. The LGBTQ church will have you excommunicated and shunned. You could lose your job. If you're a student, you'd be a social and scholastic pariah. God help you if you're studying biology and you give an accurate answer. How can you celebrate "women's month" when you don't even know what a woman is? The contradictions of the radical left can only leave an adherent confused, bitter and angry.
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  7850.  @lindajohanson9131  If the government gives kickbacks, that's a political problem and it should be brought to the attention of the voting public. It should become an issue. In fact, I'd call that discrimination, no different than affirmative action. Of course companies will take advantage of it. Who wouldn't? I would and so would you. Off shore corporations can only take advantage of these programs if we let them and we're allowing our governments to do just that by not confronting them about it. It's still our own fault. We're allowing the governments to favour foreign companies to take advantage of us and THAT'S wrong.
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  7851.  @louisliu5638  Don't criticise someone for using that word. Tell them that you believe it's WORSE than corrupt and why you believe that. In this way, you show your support and ADD to what they're trying to say. Clarification helps. Confrontation, with someone that you essentially agree with, starts a negative discourse with them, NOT with those who are "life threatening". Don't attack your allies over language. Help them. Don't criticise them. It makes no sense.
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  7852. There is no acceptable number for innocent people in jail. Also, there is no acceptable number for guilty people that get away with it. In both scenarios, innocent people have had their lives disrupted and their right to a free and safe existence taken away from them. Each one of them have the right to try to seek justice. How do we do that? I wish I had the answer. I wish someone had the answer, anyone. One answer given, the victim must be believed, denies the accused their rights. Therefore, it isn't an acceptable answer......and so, the search continues.
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  7853.  @lorettavandross2575  A judgemental Christian? "Love thy neighbour" Donna. "Judge not lest you be judged". You know....all those things that Jesus taught us on how to treat our fellow man. Try it.
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  7854.  @jeremyj5932  They'd hate because Trump proposed it even though they actually wanted it. I explained a school choice proposal, to a friend of mine, and he thought it was a great plan.....until I told him that it was Trump's idea. Then he sneered out some generic response and dismissed the entire plan.
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  7855.  Skinny Bones Jones  Wow.....I guess that went right over your head. And speaking of sounding insane. What the hell was that?
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  7856.  Skinny Bones Jones  Thousands and thousands of years. We didn't even know North and South America existed till a little over 500 years ago. How could we have ruled 2 continents if we didn't even know that they were there to be ruled. It wasn't till 500 years ago that we knew that you could sail around Africa. When Marco Polo came back from the Far East, they called him a liar and Japan was hardly more than a myth till 400 years ago. Hell, Columbus thought that he was off the coast of China when he was in the Caribbean all along. Where did you learn history?
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  7857.  Skinny Bones Jones  The Byzantine Empire is hardly the world. Not even the Roman Empire. Are you really going to pretend that there wasn't a powerful civilisation in India, China, Japan, what is now the Cambodia and the area around it, Central America, South America or African nations at the time? They ruled in their areas, but didn't expand that far out of Europe. We know about them due to the extensive literature they left behind but they hardly knew that most of those places were even on earth let alone ruled over them. They had a few Crusades about 800 years ago, but they had very limited success and lost it when the Mongols showed up. Hell, the Mongols scared the crap out of Eastern Europe for quite awhile. Even the Byzantines were at a constant war with first the Sassanids from Persia, then the Arabic Muslims and followed by the Turks who were invading and conquering the Byzantines for hundreds of years. It wasn't until the year 1500 that the Europeans started to expand out beyond the Mediterranean Sea. I can show you a map of the extent of the Roman Empire. It encircled the Mediterranean Sea and that was it. There's one HUGE world outside of that area.
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  7858.  Skinny Bones Jones  I get the problem now. I'm talking to a "scientist". LOL. This is where I jump off the train.
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  7859. OMG.....The Queen is a Trumpster. Orange Betty bad.
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  7860. The lesson is that you shouldn't blame the elites for wealth inequality. It should be blamed on a system that stifles the ability for the "unequal" to advance their economic prospects. As long as you use blame, as the only explanation for any problem, you're not considering other possible sources for those problems and resolving those issues will stagnate.
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  7861.  @Songbirdstress  They'll try but as communists or radical socialists, they will fail. That's when they'll turn to a new socialism, like China did, that resembles Fascism. It's all socialism but it manifests itself in its own unique way.
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  7862. Gender and sex is the same thing. You can't think your way into another gender. You can't wish it. You can't feel it. You are what you are. A dog humping my leg isn't demonstrating that it has a third gender. It's a dog, male or female, that's humping my leg no different than someone with a pillow or a blow-up. I don't mean to be crude but that's the way it is.
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  7863. We need horse dewormer for the horse faced congress woman. I have a question. Does this mean that Covid is an STD? I love MGS Firearms comment. "Probably the only test AOC has ever passed." Broke out laughing out loud. Well.....that's enough fun for today.
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  7864. Yuri Bezmenov described why this girl believes these things. It's the Marxist goal to transform society through blurring the lines between reality and unreality and they say that the best way to do that is through education. Form those ideas when a person's mind is still developing and malleable. George Orwell showed us this foray into unreality in his book "1984". 2 plus 2 equals 5. It's all in how one looks at it. This is a very useful tool when trying to transform society into one that's easy to control. As Voltaire, an inspiration for those who took part in the slaughter of the French Revolution, once said "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” They need the people to believe what they're told and to believe it implicitly, yet freely. When they accomplish that, they will have what they need to carry out an actual and physical revolution.
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  7865.  @aquariadiana6779  A coward? He's going to Tulsa to stand in front of thousands....IN PUBLIC. If ever there was a time where a sitting president was in danger of being assassinated, it's right now. It might be the most dangerous time for an American president in history, matching the Civil War. I suppose you wouldn't lock your doors and blacken out your windows when there was a crowd of thousands a hundred yards away, howling for your blood. You, the brave one, would walk out and confront them. Grow up.
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  7866. You think that they'll get tired of it all and go home, Tim? They've been doing this, in Portland, for years. They haven't got tired of it. The rioters believe in a Marxist revolution. They want to tear the system down. They hope this violence will spread all across the US until the chaos is so bad that they can step in and rescue the country and instill a new Marxist based regime. They're not going away.
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  7867. What is a measly days worth of illegals, anyway? I must have skipped that class.
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  7868.  @_nom_  Clever. "I know you are but what am I?" You've got your own version of that childish line.
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  7869. Too much shoplifting and stores will either close or hire armed guards. NO one should have to tolerate theft of their property. This is as dumb as Democrats can get.
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  7870.  @iams2109  My god....are you really that dense? The government REFUSED to talk to the truckers. Treated them like dirt. Called them every name in the book. Wait till it's YOUR turn for the government to come after you. You sat smugly by while they took away the rights of others, do you really think that the rest will support YOU. They'll do exactly like you do. " Civil rights are for those who agree with me. Eff those who don't" A great attitude until the government decides that you're now expendable.
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  7871. What made you decide that your rule is necessary? Are you implying that they've never read the book? Please explain why you'd want to censor anyone's speech?
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  7872.  @ryandudley3616  That debate, with Zizek, was 5 1/2 years ago. Zizek has been a student of Marx and Hegel for decades. He's specialised in their work. Peterson has read a lot of stuff, including Marx and Hegel but he's a clinical psychologist. Political philosophy, especially surrounding Marx and Hegel is Zisek's speciality. Of course he's going to be more knowledgeable than someone who has a different professional focus. You said that "these" guys are grifters. Are you talking about Zizek and Peterson? Or the guy in the video and Peterson? Be a little more specific.
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  7873. Hanging around with or associating with the Clintons seems to be overly depressive. The depression factor would be enough to prompt me to stay away from them. I don't like to hang out with people who bring me down.
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  7874.  @thewaronu8842  Sex isn't about bathrooms or sports. It's about procreation. Period. We've created social spaces for men and women in sports and bathrooms due to the need to protect women from being exposed to the danger of unwanted sexual encounters of a criminal nature. Sex is about the survival of a species. It's inherent to our nature and it's that way for all advanced species. It's important for the more advanced species to have a binary system of sex, to enhance genetic diversity. Without it, a species will not sustain itself due to genetic damage caused by a lack of diversity, something that we call inbreeding. There is no form of procreation that requires more than 2 genders. It's always, within mammals specifically, between one male and one female.
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  7875. When I was I was in high school, back in the sixties, we walked out over a government plane to extend the school year by one week. I could care less but our teachers, they were all in. "We gotta stand up for our rights" they said. I went out, stood around for awhile and then walked the 2 miles to the nearest beach. Nothing like demanding your rights while wading in the cooling waters of your local beach.
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  7876. They go along with it because radical socialists have wormed their way into every institution. It was a long and slow process but their agenda is coming into fruition right now. Yuri Bezmenov, a Soviet journalist and KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1970, outlines the Soviet plan to infiltrate America universities and try to distort reality among the young. Those youngsters, who were successfully indoctrinated, find positions in academics, the media and government institutions and hire ONLY those who they see as allies to their cause. When their numbers take control of those institutions, we see what's happening right now. They're not lily-livered at all. They're doing EXACTLY what their mission tells them to do. Distort reality. “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire. The atrocities will come next. It's why the radical left isn't condemning the horrors of OCT 7th in Israel. They're trying to convince you that rape and murder is just fine....another distortion of reality.
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  7877. Ali Velshi is Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian descent. The Gujarati were well known for their role in the slave trade in Eastern Africa and India. I'd say that before he starts going after anyone else for historical wrongs, maybe he should be making his own bed. Many Gujarati are Hindu, as well, who were deeply entrenched in the horrific caste system, which the British wanted eliminated and succeeded, for the large part . My point being is that we all can point to things, in our past, that we're not proud of. That has nothing to do with Queen Elizabeth or HER legacy, what she did or believed as the ruling monarch. Velshi is a hypocrite, just like anyone else who loves pointing fingers. In fact, I might be one as well but, in my defence, I'm only saying this about Velshi in an attempt to stop his type of rhetoric.....a rhetoric that is too often dividing people these days.
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  7878. If you fight back, you just might end up dead, just like Tyre Nichols did. What you do, is go along with the police and if they do something that's excessively violent, you turtle and protect yourself as best you can. Then, when it's all over and you know that you're safe, you call a lawyer and start both a lawsuit and a criminal investigation. Don't EVER fight back against the police because if you do, you're risking your very life. And YES....I have been in that situation. 2 cops had me bent over the hood of a car. One of them had a pistol to my temple and was pushing down on it as hard as he could. The other kept kicking me in the ankles, telling me to spread my feet apart, even though I couldn't. I still complied, didn't fight back, and they quit. Had I fought back, I don't have any idea what they would have done. I got off lucky, with bruises to my temple and ankles but, to this day, I know it was because I didn't fight back.
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  7879.  @jerm70  It took me a few minutes to unpack and understand your comment. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that you're saying that their way to genocide is to pretend to care through loud protestations of negative yet small police interactions, while wilfully ignoring where the real genocide is taking place. A re-direction of attention so to help increase the numbers of street killings. If that is indeed what you're saying, quite the analysis and doesn't speak well of the "kindly" left. I'm not seeing a huge problem with your take on it, if that's what you're saying.
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  7880. We've been noticing. It's the reason that Trump won in 2016. It's just that too many people just can't believe that it's happening here. The horrific slaughter and rape of Oct 7th and the fact that they supported it has brought it to all of us, in a way that it's not been exposed before. This could be a seminal moment in history....at least I'm hoping so.
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  7881.  @jonathanp1884  That fallacious argument again. The roads are owned, operated and maintained by the state. Therefore, they have the right to set the conditions on which we are to use those roads. My body is NOT owned by the state. I own it. Therefore, they do NOT have the right to tell me how it should operated or maintained. That's MY responsibility. If the government sets guidelines on how I should look after myself, it's still up to me on whether I should follow those guidelines or not. If you want to follow those guidelines.....go ahead. No one is stopping you. Just don't tell me that I must do EVERYTHING that the state demands. They do NOT own me nor do they have the right to tell me how I should live.
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  7882. No longer the scientific method. We now have scientific consensus. It would appear that we're going to need a modern day Galileo to challenge the consensus.
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  7883.  @aaa-sz9ul  I forgot. I'm not supposed to think. Don't tell the government.....PLEASE.
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  7884. Why would anyone listen to Caitlin Moran. She's just a woman with a funny accent.
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  7885. I'm looking forward to the Welker/Trump debate. I wonder if Biden has invited to attend. I hope so. It doesn't seem right if he wasn't.
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  7886. @Dillon Duncan It isn't Palestinian territory and they've never had that territory. The Ottoman Turks controlled the area for almost 400 years and they got it through military dominance. During that time, the area was populated by Muslims, Jews and various Christian sects. Then the Turks lost WW1 and the British took over. The British were the ones that suggested the 2 state option. Why? Because the land that they controlled, the Levant, was populated by these various groups. This has NEVER been Palestinian land, exclusively. Also, it isn't about ethnicity. It's about religion and if every Jew in Israel converted to Islam, the conflict would be over. In fact, Gaza is an Islamic state and Islam is the official religion. It is guided by Islamic law and it is a separate entity and self governing. Israel is not encroaching on Gaza. It's accused of building settlements on the West Bank, also never a part of Palestine. The West Bank was taken from Jordan in the 6 Day War and has been controlled by Israel ever since. If anything, that area should be returned to Jordan, just as the Golan Heights, also taken from Syria in the 6 Day War, would be returned to Syria. The West Bank is where Israel has been building settlements.....no territory taken from Jordan. It's NEVER been Palestine, either. Also, this thing about the Jews and financial success is the same logic SJWs use against white people and colonial success. It's bigotry disguised as righteous grievance against historical events and progress.
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  7887.  @danailzhelyazkov6684  Christianity isn't about owning the land. It's about self redemption through Jesus, a personal quest. Christians shouldn't be concerned about setting up God's kingdom on earth because his kingdom is not of this earth. A Christian is to be the best he/she can be and to help others find redemption as well. This is why the American model of government is one where a Christian can live a good life on this earth. It's secular and allows freedom of religion so that, as long as it doesn't infringe upon the rights of others, you can live and believe as you like.
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  7888. Because they want to create division in the country. They know that illegal immigration angers and upsets a LOT of Americans.
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  7889. I think that they believed that Germanic tribes like the Saxon, Angles, Frisians and Jutes invaded Britain and set off a time of chaos and violence. Apparently, they did go to Britain but it's now felt that it was more of a migration than an invasion. That would have changed the entire narrative from one of chaotic violence to one of a gradual change in the culture.
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  7890.  @StevieRevbo  That's what I was taught when I went to school. I was taught, and all the old history books, talked about the invasions of those European mainland tribes and that they took it over through wars. Wars imply chaotic violence. It was those wars that brought about the Dark Ages. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Invaders/ We now realise that it's was more of a migration and that the plundering Saxons idea is wrong. That also means that the narrative of the "plundering Saxons" isn't what's being taught anymore and probably why you haven't heard it, before.
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  7891.  @gamejew123  I think that we all fight hard to maintain our points of view. Some will hold on longer than others, though. The true Liberal will understand that and realise that the possibility of being wrong is much higher than what we like to think it is. That's the true liberal, not the bastardised definition of the word "liberal" used by the left, whose thought processes are as rigid as a block of granite. They're no more liberal than I am a walrus.
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  7892. I get where you're coming from. Years ago, it struck me that Fascism was NOT a right wing movement. It didn't make any sense to say that when you looked at it closely. I thought that this just couldn't be and that I was the only one who thought this way. So, I kept learning about it and had to conclude that I'd made the proper assessment and, to my surprise, that I was NOT alone. It sure took a load off my shoulders.
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  7893. What Smith is talking about is the REAL racism in America. It's the left that could care less if black Americans are killing each other by the thousands. It only matters if they can use it for political hay. The power and conviction that Smith showed nearly had me in tears. Why? Because he's correct. I wouldn't be surprised if the left wing media and their sycophants condemned what Smith just said. They don't see how racist their stance actually is.
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  7894.  @brianking9215  I agree. Those hippies, people my age at the time, weren't crazy SJW ideologues, like they are today. There were some crazies but not so much as now. "Make love, not war" isn't quite the same as "RACIST!!!! RACIST!!!!".
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  7895. She's hit the nail on the nose. They do hate America. You should hear Kamala's 4th of July speech. It was laced with hatred for her own country. The vice-president had nothing good to say about the United States. Why would ANYONE vote for an administration like that?
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  7896.  @coldheartedsnake2302  We ARE blaming the parents. It's parents that took their kids to this bar. They are parents.....and we're blaming them for taking their kids to a strip cloud. SMH.
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  7897. If this issue is so "complex", as she claims, I'd say the obvious answer would be "Yes, we should be asking all kinds of questions about it". Instead, she obfuscates because she doesn't want to admit that she feels that the "gender science" is done and that there are no more questions to be asked and there shouldn't be. She even invoked the "respect" word, as a way to hint at her belief that this is all written in stone and if you do ask questions, you're a BIGOT. She's an ideologue....not a scientist.
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  7898. Any American that votes Democrat this fall and claims he's not a communist, it just plain delusional. I worked in construction for years. It was the general consensus that the lowest person there was is the one the steals another man's tools.
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  7899. @Cheese Doodle nyggah The cure for racism is MORE racism. Gotcha.
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  7900. @Cheese Doodle nyggah Trump knew this? Is that why he moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem? It sounds as if he bowed down to the "parasites" by doing it. He also has been quite supportive of his daughter, who married a Jew and converted to Judaism. Trump then gave that Jew all kinds of responsibility in his administration. Wouldn't it be to the advantage, of the "parasitic masterminds", to have a plant so close to the presidency? Either Trump doesn't understand it at all or he's complicit. Or the whole thing is a lot of nonsense. I'm going with my take on it. Yup....you're curing hate with invoking hate.
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  7901. If Trump's phone call to the new Ukrainian president was important enough to get him impeached, then the Biden family dealings in Ukraine is just as important or more. Joe's threat to withhold money is multiple times more overt than Trump's vague allegations.
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  7902.  @justarandomguywantingtostu6539  Trump had just met with the President of Columbia and they discussed the problem of Venezuelan refugees entering Columbia by the hundreds of thousands. It's straining the resources of Columbia. These are economic refugees who are looking for basic necessities like food and clean water. This is from the country that has the richest oil reserves in the world. The Chavez government totally destroyed the means to production through corruption and terrible social and economic policies. He, as the elected president, is responsible for the country and its social and economic welfare. He failed and failed miserably.
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  7903.  trumptards must die  I have to add to my comment that I think that she is a bit of a nut but that has NOTHING to do with what she's saying here. I'm judging the content of what she's saying THIS time. That's all that matters. I don't discuss Dutch ovens when the topic is kangaroos. Try to do the same.
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  7904.  @haunted5311  If some people are asymptomatic, why would they get tested? They may not even know that they've had it. If they're not getting tested, how do we know the percentage of those that are asymptomatic. More accurate would be to say that 1.7% of the population is the figure that is KNOWN to have it at some time. The .05% is the death rate derived from that figure. The death rate could well be lower but we're not sure.
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  7905. I don't care, either but there are people that do and they listen to her. I care about that. She's causing problems where there should be no problems and ignoring the real issues. I care about that. I don't care that she was scared of the guy that was there to save her. I do care that she decided to smear the guy and that's been the way she's always operated.
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  7906. Jussie's white supremacist checklist. MAGA hat.....check. Uses the N-word......check Uses homophobic slurs......check They come out at night......check. Carries a noose, just in case they run into a gay black man.....check. Travels in groups.....check Violent......check That's the typical white supremacist, in the minds of the left, and every left media personality believes in that stereotype, although I think caricature would be a better word. This caricature was so perfect, to them, that they HAD to believe it. They can't understand that they're the victims of their own bigotry.
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  7907. Trump: I don't drink but if you want to drink alcohol, that's your right. Headline: Man dies after drinking rubbing alcohol. Blames Trump.
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  7908. Apparently, Obama hasn't met too many Americans....other than those in his elitist circles.
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  7909. I know people that are always too close when they talk. The close talkers....and those that are always touchy feely. Doesn't mean that they're harassing you. It's their way. One reason that I hated the MeToo movement. One rule applies to everything. No judgement and no nuance. Biden does come across as creepy, though but doesn't mean that he's actually taking advantage of anyone. It could be his personality. Not one I care for but he's harmless......I hope.
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  7910. Bureaucrats.....they're the scourge of this country. Petty, unelected tyrants, who are the ones that run the country. Once they turn on you, you are screwed.
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  7911.  @ms.whitefolks1223  It could be that they're not making the wise choices in life. That their expectations are way too high. I don't drive so I don't own a car. You have no idea how much money that saves me. I walk.....everywhere. It's good for me physically, mentally and financially. I live near a gym and there's a big window where you can see these people on the treadmills. They drive their cars a couple of miles to walk nowhere on a treadmill. It's things like this that make me shake my head. People will drive a couple of miles to get a coffee at a coffee shop. You can make the SAME thing at home for a lot cheaper...but you can't tell people that. I know so many seniors who live on the exact same income that I do and they are always complaining about money. Is it me....or is it them?
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  7912.  @heidimisfeldt5685  I haven't owned a car since 1991. I've worked at minimum wage jobs or barely more most of my life and, like I said, I live just barely over the poverty level, in my country, as set by our own social standards. Right now, we're going through the crisis of Covid-19. My minimalistic lifestyle has meant that I've hardly suffered at all, other than the social constraints it has placed on all of us. I feel bad for those with families to support. Most people that I hear complaining about their lot in life aren't nearly as bad off as what was shown in this video who lived a couple of hundred years ago. They complain because they're not as well off as some in our society. If you judge your position in life to how well others are doing, you'll always be dissatisfied and you'll always blame your lot in life on others. Make the best of what you have and you'll find that the best you have is way better than you might think.
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  7913.  @matthewhopkins666  It's what he was aiming for. He WANTED this to be a national scandal and he knew that he had the criteria, black and gay, that would fit the media hysteria surrounding MAGA. Had the Chicago PD not made this a priority, he would have been crying on the media, just like he did in those exclusive videos, that no one cares if a black gay guy was assaulted by white supremacists. Jussie knew and hoped that it was going to be front page news and he ran with it.
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  7914.  @matthewhopkins666  Of course they overreacted. We all know that and Jussie knew that they would. They overreacted because the political climate was such that it was inevitable. Jussie played to that climate. His problem was that his story was ridiculous and it didn't take much for the police to figure out that it was a hoax. It's the fault of the media that wanted this to be true. This goes far beyond the PD. The media didn't have to cover it the way that they did but it fit their narrative and Jussie used them AND the PD to serve his own agenda. This isn't about the police. It's about a twisted political narrative that's looking for trouble and then blowing it all out of proportion. It's a good thing it was winter and bitter cold. This could have sparked riots and the media would have LOVED that.
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  7915.  @matthewhopkins666  It was Jussie that reported a fake assault and then LIED to the police. That's a crime. It's not a crime for the police to overreact. It's stupid but not a crime.
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  7916. It may not be just elder abuse. The man may have Alzheimer's disease and it, primarily, affects the elderly but it can happen to victims in their forties. So, not only are they abusing an elderly man, their using and abusing a man suffering from a debilitating disease, no different than mocking a Covid patient in ICU. The Democrats have to see this and I can only draw one conclusion. They put him in this position on purpose, knowing full well that he won't be able to fulfill his duties and they have someone in mind to take his place. If true, it's not only disgusting, it's a ruthless power grab by someone or group.
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  7917. She's the scapegoat for an administrator that's just as bigoted as she is. She's taken the hit for them. They ALL deserve to get the boot.
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  7918.  @itsMe_TheHerpes  Do I think racism is real? Yes....of course. Do I think that it impacts the life of Americans, today? Only if YOU allow it to......unless BLM comes along and burns down your building, loots your store, sets fire to your car or throws bricks at you. That's racism impacting the lives of Americans, including black Americans. See David Dorn.
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  7919.  @thuglifebear5256  He's gay, too. The left see gays as allies and they have to screw up big time before they'd turn on him. Identity politics will only save him for so long.
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  7920.  @suserman7775  I hate conspiracy theories but I have to say that the more indications of white supremacy that they can find, the more power they have over you. It stems from the post modernist ideology that gets its roots in Marxism but updated to include the hierarchy of victimhood with whites at the top of the oppressor ladder. Now, all they have to do to discredit you is find any picture of you, at any time in the past, holding up the OK signal, and they've turned you into a Nazi. I'm waiting for more of these so called "dog whistles" to be entrenched until we get to the point where there will be so many that we will all become potential targets when they need us out of the way. That's how the Soviets controlled the people. Hundreds of seemingly harmless but telling (at least to them) indications of being an enemy of the state and recruiting the entire population to be on the lookout for those signs of sedition. If it doesn't stop, we're in for a rough ride. What those who support this nonsense don't realise is that they will eventually be as much a target as anyone else.
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  7921. Those lefty pundits really have nothing of substance to say so they resort to smearing, denigration, name calling and flat out lying. They're operate with the mind and intelligence of a grade 4 bully in a school yard.
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  7922.  @flipnotrab  And now YOU'RE making it political. Hurricane Ian is in Florida. That means it's the responsibility of DeSantis, who's the governor of Florida. Your "whataboutism" is pointless and has NOTHING to do with what's going on in Florida or the job that DeSantis is doing or has done to prepare for THIS hurricane.
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  7923. These kids are Marxists. Telling them to grow up means nothing to them. They don't believe in free speech and they'll shout down anyone who would "impose" freedom on the people. Their beliefs are rooted in the idea of the tyranny of the proletariat. You cant reason with them or insult them. They don't hear what you're saying.
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  7924.  @barbarapowell5040  Your welcome. I have to add that I didn't do this to pick sides. I did it because there are all kinds of facts besides "It's Trump's fault" or anyone else's fault. There are a lot of factors at play and this obsession with blame prevents people from looking at the problem objectively and rationally. Anyone can play the blame game. I just showed you how easy it is. It's a lot harder to do it with reason with the aim of finding truth, no matter where it lies, although the media has a lot to answer for, in this matter. They've been pure poison. Thanks for the comment and good luck to you, too.
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  7925.  @spinfrost  Did you not watch this video? You don't like Trump but it's not Trump's doing that ran the woman our of her home. Trump is the "shark" that has spoken for YEARS against the type of illegal immigration that the Democrats have strongly supported. The Dems are destroying America. You have no other choice BUT to vote for Trump. The old school Republicans don't care. Bush, Romney, Cheney....they're the ones that got us into the never ending wars in the Middle East. THAT'S the old Republican party. Please....don't listen to the MSM. They're gaslighting you, gaslighting all of us. We have to win like Reagan, so the Democrats will see that Americans are done with their far left radical policies and return to some type of sanity.
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  7926.  @bobdelano6746  That was the plan originally when the United States was self sufficient in oil. The oil from the Keystone pipeline wasn't needed in the US. However, thanks to Biden, that's not the case anymore. So, the plan changes. We can do that. 2 years ago, the plan was to continue to be self sufficient in oil. Biden changed that plan. That means that we can change the plan again. New times bring new problems and NEW plans. Just like deciding to halt the purchase of oil from Russia. Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline and halted a lot of drilling in the US and bought oil from Russia. Now, because of the war, he changed the plan to buy from Russia and the new plan is to NOT buy oil from Russia. See how that works. Plans can change. I don't mean to treat you like a child but it can't be helped when a person is forced to explain simple concepts.
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  7927.  @therealgemini5  The blanket incident is the only verifiable incident of its kind in the hundreds of years of Old World migration and they don't even know if it worked or not. Smallpox was already present among the settlers and the military in western Pennsylvania so it could have spread through trading or raids. Smallpox was very transmittable to the natives. David Thompson wrote of an early morning Blackfoot raid on a Shoshone village. The Blackfoot fighters snuck into the village, quietly cut holes into the tents and then, at a signal, entered all the tents at the same time. The Blackfoot were only in the tents a few minutes and came pouring out when they realised that the Shoshone were suffering from smallpox. Those few minutes were enough to devastate that Blackfoot village with smallpox within a few weeks. One exposure to a settler by Pontiac's men, would have been enough to kill hundreds. That's unintentional yet deadly. Those blankets may not have made one bit of difference. The epidemic had already been started. One incident means nothing.
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  7928. Cuomo wants to institute new strict lock downs and wants to stop the use of the new vaccine that Pfizer has just developed. I suppose it doesn't really affect HIS life, except his desire to flex his muscles.
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  7929.  @joygasm1  Huh??
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  7930.  @orange_cat  Please....PLEASE.....vote. They'll only cheat if they think that they have to and trying to talk conservatives, out of voting, is EXACTLY what the Democrats want. If we don't vote, they won't have to cheat. We would be handing them the presidency if we don't vote. That means that we'd never be able to catch them....EVER.....if the conservatives never vote and the Democrats don't have to cheat to win. Actually, you're doing exactly what a Democrat troll would do. Talk the supporters of the opposition out of voting so they can gleefully show how they're the true choice of the people.
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  7931.  @cljackson512  So, for the rest of her life she has to have it thrown up in her face? She has definitely turned her life around. Grow up.
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  7932.  @cljackson512  Now invoking the name of God? God forgives people for their sins. Oh yeah.....Judge not lest you be judged. Matthew 7:1. Sanctimonious jerk.
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  7933.  @cljackson512  NO.... you're dismissing her. You're giving the appearance that because she did wrong once, that she can never be anything different, and that she can now, no longer fight against violent and destructive behaviour. If that criteria were true, that only those who've never done wrong, can strive for a better society, then our society is done. No one is perfect. We have to work with our imperfections or we don't work at all. The first part of that is redemption and forgiveness. You're giving off the impression that it's not possible, that a stupid minor act, 27 YEARS ago, defines everything about her. Wow....judge much? That's the height of ridiculous.
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  7934.  @cljackson512  I don't know if she has or not and I don't care. I look at the truth of what she's saying. Is it valid or not. The validity of what she is saying is NOT contingent on what she may or may not have done. That's a ridiculous way of assessing problems. I could just imagine having that discussion with a person. "First, do you acknowledge your indiscretions? We can't talk about this until you do". People will think I'm a nut. It's not my place to judge people. Worse, I'm not about to try and solve problems by making sure that everyone involved has first sought out absolution for their sins. Who the hell am I do even suggest such a thing. "Let him who is without sin". That person doesn't exist.
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  7935.  @cljackson512  I find it easier to watch Fox now, because their ideological party, the Republicans are in office. When Obama was in, they behaved somewhat like CNN does now, except CNN has taken it to a level that's never been seen in my lifetime and I've been around awhile. I fact check everything, no matter who says it or what my views are. I don't want to use, as evidence, something that's not true. That would make any position I take as untenable. I watched this video and I know that the things she is showing us are true. I've seen similar videos from other sources. That's what's important here. She is showing us facts and then giving us possible reasons for why it happened. Her "crime" in 1983 is irrelevant to the devastation in Minneapolis and to how we can solve the rebuilding process or how we can prevent this from happening again. I do know one thing. Getting rid of police isn't going to solve it. That's a pie-in-the-sky Utopian dream and as simplistic as it gets.
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  7936.  @anti1training  The Christian admonition "love the neighbour" says it best. There are no qualifications to it. it's not "love thy white neighbour" or "love thy straight neighbour". It includes everyone. When one can do that, honestly and sincerely, there is no race problem.....and I'm not Christian. However, I recognise and give credit to good ideas no matter where I find them.
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  7937.  JblueT  It's NOT about multiculturalism. It's about ideology. The ideological left knows that they can use diversity as a tool to create disharmony. So they advocate for the immigration of multiple ethnic groups and then tell them that white America hates them. The more ethnic groups, the more hatred. Black and Natives weren't enough. The more the diversity the more the chaos. It's called postmodernism and it's the problem. In reality, there is no REAL racial divide. It's a narrative devised by the left through academia, the MSM including Hollywood and the Democrats. They stoke the fires and their puppets respond. Multiculturalism works just fine if the Marxist driven resistance could be shown for the destroyers that they are.
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  7938. Hate crime or "crime" is the same thing. Racism is just hate....nothing else. To elevate racial hate is just being disingenuous. Killing my black neighbour is no worse than killing him if he was white. They're both abhorrent. Making it about race is calling on the collective in order to foment anger and resentment and boy is it working.
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  7939.  Mental Gymnast  Don't. The opinions of normal Americans are turning away from this horror. Don't do this because it will stop the tide and it will make things worse. There will be a right time, hopefully not, but when it does happen, THAT'S when you join in. Don't do it on your own. Too many innocent people will end up dead and maimed. Self control is our ally. We have to be better than them but be ready when they do come. They're overplaying their hand and we want them to play that hand till it strangles them.
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  7940.  @TiggerTheRed  That's it. I want hot peppers on my pizza and no one else does. They'll ALL be eating hot peppers now....and they'll love it. YOU are a genius.
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  7941. They've been giving children drugs and cutting and pasting body parts on children for a few years now. In fact, they claim that you're an evil person if you object to this "affirming" treatment. What I'm trying to say, don't bet that a doctor would lose their licence and be sued for his diagnosis of racism cancer. You might lose that bet.
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  7942. If AOC's message was about how Puerto Ricans had to deal with poor conditions, that's one thing. However, it would appear that AOC did NOTHING to help her own grandmother, the least that she could have done, under the circumstances. She allowed her mother to live, as a victim, and then used her grandmother's victimhood to score political points and then plead the she was only pointing out the travails of OTHER Puerto Ricans. The first to come to one's aid, during times of trouble, should be family members. AOC, thoughtlessly, used her grandmother's dilemma for a personal agenda. What she should have done is helped her grandmother and then went to other Puerto Ricans, who didn't have the privilege of having family in the Congress of the United States making 174,000 bucks a year, and revealed THEIR plight. Then this controversy would not be in place. Like I said, she's thoughtless which strongly implies selfishness.
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  7943. These polls are bogus. How are they going to accuse Trump of cheating, this fall, if the polls show that he's favored to win? "Polls show Trump ahead by 61% favoring Trump". If he wins, it's what expected. However, if the polls show Trump with only 38% favored....and he wins, he must have cheated. It would have to be the only explanation.
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  7944. "97% conviction rate????? She's gotta go. Is there any way that we can smear her?" It appears that the evidence scares Baldwin.
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  7945. I have a solution. DEI. That solves everything.
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  7946. Libertarians are the adaptable conservatives.
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  7947.  @tonydoesntcare  I will stand for something if it's true. I'm not arrogant enough to believe that I'm ALWAYS right, no matter what. If it's pointed out that I'm in error, in some way, and they can prove it, I'll acknowledge that I made a mistake and correct it. I refuse to stubbornly cling to an idea even after it's been proven, without a doubt, that I'm wrong. That's at the very definition of the word "fanatic". I'll admit my mistake and adapt. Sticking my fingers in my ears and droning loudly to drown out the dissenting voices is for children.......and fanatics.
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  7948.  @purplechum9  Nice deflection. We're not talking about Christianity. We're talking about Islam. You don't defend your religion by smearing others. You take the arguments given and refute them using your religious texts as evidence. Your approach is illogical.
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  7949.  @bayuagni79  Apparently, a lot of Muslims don't understand the Koran. I don't see a lot of peace from Muslims. The fiercest wars in the 21st century, thus far, have been in Muslim countries. Why can't they just understand the Koran and live in peace?
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  7950.  @9inchsradius  Yeah....of course it does. Germany was completely destroyed and you think that working at Volkswagen in 1944 would compensate that. You can't be serious.
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  7951. I burst out laughing when I saw the clips from that "Oscar nominated movie". This has to be the corniest movie clip that I've ever seen in my life. I predict that no one is going to watch this movie except for the most deeply indoctrinated, far left, Marxist sycophants that exists. Of course they'll blame the audience, when we don't watch it and call us all bigots. Being called a bigot is getting to be a badge of honour, though. I might as well own it as deny it.
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  7952. That's the thing when you stand for something. You believe that you're doing the right thing. I knew that Trudeau wasn't going to do the right thing when his first reaction was to demonise those truckers. They'd hardly started on their way to Ottawa and he was calling them every progressive epithets in existence. Racist, misogynist, Islamophobe, transphobe, homophobe....every recognised slur in the progressive arsenal. He's so lacking in self awareness that he's trying to tell a Jew that she's supporting Nazism, a specific brand of Fascism. Now here you are, ostensibly doing the same branding. Rubin is a Jew and he's gay. Real Trump material (huge sarcasm). Your take has nothing to do with facts or logic and everything to do with the narrative. To you, those who protest are nothing short of hillbilly dolts, exhibiting your snobby elitist behaviour. You can't get why it is that you and Trudeau are showing what real Fascism is about. It's flies right over your head.
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  7953.  @trevorv9218  How could dead people vote in every election? In the past, we voted in person and you had to show your ID before you got a ballot. My dog was on the voter's list, years ago. He didn't vote though. He didn't have any ID. Just like a dead person, he didn't go to the poll to place his vote. Unless you're a zombie, you couldn't vote 10 years ago. You might still be on the voter's list but, being dead, you still face the impossibility of actually showing up at a polling station. Weekend at Bernie's?
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  7954. So they did follow the law. They followed the law and found NO evidence of collusion of obstruction. No one is being indicted. That's what the law dictates you do when you have no evidence. However, the MSM was NOT a part of the investigation. They were supposed to report it but instead went on a media witch hunt. They told us over and over that Trump was guilty. That's who should apologise. They should apologise to their biased reporting and their fervent hope that Trump was guilty even before the report was released. What the MSM did was no better than gossip.
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  7955. @Show me the truth I know that but you also know what I'm talking about. I suppose I should be exactly precise to appease those you might (intentionally) misunderstand me.
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  7956.  @shadowspade4258  It has to do with her radical socialist beliefs. It's the goal of Marxist to completely forget the past, to tear down what exists, completely destroy it so we can rebuild in their Marxist image. During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao wanted to get rid of the "four olds".... 'old ideas', 'old culture', 'old customs', and 'old habits'. Kamala says the same when she says "to be unburdened by the past". Mao had millions killed in his bid to be unburdened by the past. Kamala got funding for BLM rioters so they could get out of jail to continue their destruction. She named Tim Walz as her running mate, who also strongly supported the riots in Minneapolis. Destroying the old in order to transform man into the new socialist being. That's what it means.
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  7957.  @shadowspade4258  Apparently, my response to your question has been throttled so I'll repeat it. It has to do with her radical socialist beliefs. It's the goal of Marxist to completely forget the past, to tear down what exists, completely destroy it so we can rebuild in their Marxist image. During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao wanted to get rid of the "four olds".... 'old ideas', 'old culture', 'old customs', and 'old habits'. Kamala says the same when she says "to be unburdened by the past". Mao had millions killed in his bid to be unburdened by the past. Kamala got funding for BLM rioters so they could get out of jail to continue their destruction. She named Tim Walz as her running mate, who also strongly supported the riots in Minneapolis. Destroying the old in order to transform man into the new socialist being. That's what it means.
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  7958. This Democrat is a lot better than those weirdos at the DNC but he still a problem when it comes to education. Throw more money at it and don't go private...exactly what the Teachers unions would want. These are the same unions that have destroyed the education system in the US, especially in the inner cities. It's still the same Democrat idea. They want to control how we are educated. When the Teachers Unions support the Democrats, they will tend to place registered Democrats in the schools who will indoctrinate students in ideas that line up with Democrat policies and platforms. Can't have the students be exposed to ideas that don't line up with their teachers. That's what's happening right now in education. Raising education budgets only means better ways in that indoctrination.
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  7959. To be a champion, you have to see it as a privilege. The minute you start thinking that you're a "great" swimmer, you lose your edge. When you believe that you're not worthy, you will do the hard work to just be able to rub elbows with the greatest. Some of the greatest athletes are the most humble and it's because they're great people who will do the great things needed to become the best.
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  7960.  @Americansikkunt  ​ @Cult Boy Yeah, and she gets that privilege, as a swimmer, by being the best in her category. Not everyone gets to compete in the top meets. They have to prove themselves the best in order to EARN that privilege to compete with the elites. You have to understand that it is a privilege, given only to those who earn it. Understanding it as a privilege, and that you must earn that privilege, gives the inspiration to work to the limit, to finally be one of the privileged ones. I don't see how that changes the meaning at all.
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  7961.  @Americansikkunt  I said, NUMEROUS times, that she EARNED the privilege. I never said ONCE that it was granted. You're quibbling over nothing.
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  7962.  @halielouya453  Why is that amazing? DeSantis is doing a wonderful job in Florida. He's not nearly as divisive as Trump is and, in my humble opinion, a much better choice for president over Trump. DeSantis was an up and comer during the Trump years so it was obvious that she would work for and support Trump but that's over now. I would have voted for Trump in 2020 because he was the option. We've moved on. Times have changed and we now have a better candidate for president. Isn't that what we all want?
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  7963. Those weirdos in CHAZ are no different than my sisters, when we were kids, playing house. Us guys would make forts, playing at war and sometimes we'd get together and create our little society. We'd protect against the unseen enemy, the girls would create walkways and even plant flowers and it was all great fun, pretending we were adults. We all grew out of it because real life isn't like playing house or building forts.
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  7964.  madwtube  It's a law because of drugs, like Thalidomide, that have caused problems in the the past. That set off a slew of legislation designed to not EVER have that happen again, if possible, and that's just fine, to a certain extent. Also, a drug, that's not approved by the FDA, cannot be used or prescribed by a doctor. If a doctor does do it, that's where the litigation starts. The "right to try" is legislation designed to prohibit lawsuits when a drug, that is in testing phase, is applied in desperate situations. That's all it is. It's not a scam....I'm not even sure what the hell that means. It allows drugs, already in the testing phase, to be used as a last hope, without fear of litigation or indictment.
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  7965.  madwtube  Of course it does. It's like saying that murder doesn't happen because there's a law against it. Foolishly naive, however it doesn't mean that we abandon the laws against murder, either. The FDA sets standards in the hopes that it doesn't happen again. It's a mitigation process, put in place to limit occurrences. It's NOT a guarantee that it won't EVER happen again. You seem to skirt around the problem, a severe problem, of how to handle certain terminal cases. If you're facing certain death and there is a hope, why not try it? You've not given ONE good reason why desperate situation should NEVER justify desperate measures. Would you be that resigned to death that you'd never even try? I find that astounding......and baffling. Worse, what gives you, or ANYONE, the right to make that decision for someone else?
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  7966.  madwtube  A great way to avoid the question. Just call me names. I'm going to assume that if you're in the hospital and the doctors have told you that there's nothing more they can do, except for an experimental procedure or drug, which looks promising, you'll call it a scam and refuse to do it. That's some great decision making skills that you have there. I guess "pull the plug" is the only acceptable answer for you. I have a feeling that this has nothing to do with terminal illness at all. I could be wrong but you're basing this entire argument on a fervent hatred for Donald Trump and because it's his idea, you're knee jerk response is to oppose it. Tell me that I'm wrong and that you like the president. I'll bet that you won't.
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  7967.  madwtube  I never said that the FDA hasn't approved drugs that was later found to be dangerous. I never said that at all. I said this......copied and pasted from an earlier comment. "The FDA sets standards in the hopes that it doesn't happen again. It's a mitigation process, put in place to limit occurrences. It's NOT a guarantee that it won't EVER happen again." I repeat....."It's NOT a guarantee that it won't EVER happen again." DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS? It means that it could and most likely will happen again. Once again, you're ignoring my questions. FIRST....if you were told that there's nothing to be done and you were going to die would you allow an experimental procedure to be used in the hope that it might work? It requires a simple yes/no answer. Example....yes, I'm dying and I'll give it a shot....OR No, I'd rather die than try an experimental drug that might save my life. (???) SECOND.....Do you like Donald Trump. Again....yes/no. Give it a shot. Answer those 2 questions.
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  7968.  @elephantoflight3362  Not ALL parents. "Good" parents, who stayed home and did what they're told, they were left alone. However, go to the school administration or a school board meeting and angrily complain about school policies and what's going on at schools and you could have been reported to a hot line put in place for just that purpose. Angry parents complaining about schools. That IS targeting a specific demographic....parents who dissent. Worse, in your case, you know that it's true, troll, but you don't care.
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  7969.  @DonnnieB  Go after the superficial. She has an accent, so she's not educated enough to speak effectively. She's speaking too fast, so her message is meaningless. For the message to have meaning, the speaker MUST BE PERFECT. What I hear from you is pure bigotry....nothing else.
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  7970.  @drill6739  Socialism definition...... a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Read that part where it says that describes how the means of production should be owned or regulated by the community, again. That means that your vaunted owners, owned companies that were regulated by the "community", which always means the Party. Even the name "Nazi" means, in German, that you're a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. You'd have been a Nationalist, specifically a German Nationalist, and a Socialist, led by the German workers, to form the community that controlled the politics, social and economic life of that country. No company was to have a union. Why would they? They had the Nazi Party and Party officials took the place of Union officials in the larger factories. They'd even hold regular meetings with all the workers, management included, to go over production figures and how dedicated individuals were to the Party. The same thing happened in the Soviet Union. Don't need no stinking unions, the workers are in control now. You're delusional if you think that Mao was some kind of victim of the zealousness of his followers. He knew what was going on and he could have voiced his displeasure while it was going on. In fact, Mao was an ideologue and even his policies, like the killing of song birds and the confiscation of metal tools, killed millions. That's what happens when you leave the complete control of a country to a handful of people. They will make decisions on things they know nothing about and it will invariably end in disaster. I'm appalled that there are still people that would defend the horrific murders, disease and famines that Mao was directly responsible for. The Chinese people had gone through hell, in the past and a political saviour would have instigated a system that gave the people the means to individual responsibility and freedom instead of another version of the autocracies of the Chinese past.
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  7971.  @dektran4843  You are exactly right. "I am the perfect one" No...you're not.
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  7972.  @ivonned32  Division is good for the politicians who think that way. The ones who want to seize power by using the angry to destroy the things that we cherish. The angry come from every race, gender, sexual preference and religion. You see it in the BLM riots. Just as many whites burning and looting as blacks. That whites are setting fires, for all kinds of reasons, doesn't take away from the fact that the authorities allow the underbrush to grow, wildly, until a dry summer turns it into a tinderbox. The indigenous people, before Europeans came to the Americas, would burn it off, quite frequently, so the fires were manageable. Now they let everything grow, without management, until, more accurately WHEN, a fire does start, it's a raging fire from hell. Because a fire will start, one way or another.
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  7973. It's why I'm grateful that I had my children when I was young and my spouse has stated that she feels the same. We both still had lots of time, after our children were grown, to explore career opportunities and find success that way. As a matter of fact, when you approach child raising with responsibility and integrity, you'll already be setting the foundations for economic stability. We both went to college after our kids were grown and we came out debt free. Also, we had built the maturity to concentrate on our studies in a more positive manner than if we had gone after high school. We didn't go to college to party and our expectations were more grounded in reality. It also meant that we still had energy levels to deal with our grandchildren, which added to our relationships with them. However, life comes as it comes and it doesn't take away from your experience of is even a criticism of it. My mother had my youngest brother at 45 years of age. It was unexpected and my brother was 8 months younger than my son, but he's a great guy and my parents would not have had it any other way.
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  7974.  Yanni Ritsarntyios  How do you stop a disease? It isn't like Trump is going door to door, spreading the virus. You're blaming, like so many others and like so many others, you have NO suggestions to halt the spread. In fact, right now, US cases are on the way down while many countries are seeing MAJOR spikes. Does that mean that Trump has the right ideas on halting the virus and the leaders of those countries are the screw-ups? Of course not. It's a disease and there will be ebbs and flows around the world. Living in a country that has done well (Canada) and where people have been quite smug about it, we're now experiencing a major spike. Does that mean that all the things that we've done, that we felt was SO great, are suddenly all wrong? I'm going to say no. This is going to happen. I've said it all along. The disease will run its course and, in the end, there's little that can be done about it until someone comes up with a viable vaccine.
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  7975. You're just hit on the difference between the left and the right. The right believe that this individual is responsible for what he did in New Zealand. He may have had outside influences but he made that ultimate decision. The left wants to blame groups. There is no such thing as personal responsibility. They blame everyone for the actions of the one. That's where the divisiveness lies and the shooter knew that and predicted it in his manifesto. The far left are doing exactly what the shooter wanted them to do. They're being manipulated by the one and don't have the self awareness that allows them to see that.
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  7976.  Jack Richardson  Peterson was suffering from an addiction to anti-anxiety drugs that were prescribed by an actual doctor. So...yes his addiction is the result of a type of illness. It's not as if he started doing crack or heroin for the high. He had health problems and the drugs prescribed reacted badly, causing addiction. It could happen to anyone, even you. But maybe not. When your perfect, bad things don't happen to you.
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  7977.  Jack Richardson  My father in law was a brick layer and builder who had his own business. I can drive around town and see multiple homes, office buildings and a local bank that he built. He also developed a serious drinking problem which killed him before he was fifty. It was awful to see him go that way. Was he a "pop" bricklayer and business owner? No....everyone that knew him, liked and respected him and couldn't understand how this could happen to him, including me. He was a good man who had demons that plagued and destroyed him. Your smugness says a lot about you as a human being and it's not very flattering.
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  7978.  Jack Richardson  What do you think? You think a psychologist is some super human being, a godlike figure who could never have emotional and physical difficulties? He's just as human as anyone else, no different than you. He happens to have high intelligence but that's not some superpower that will shield him from having personal issues. You sound like a little kid, ascribing super authority to a something that's only a profession. His being a psychologist, in of itself, doesn't make him right or wrong. It just means that he's trained in a certain field of study....no more, no less. And it doesn't give him a secret ring of power to fend off all emotional problems. Grow up.
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  7979.  Jack Richardson  Who has he bullied or belittled? Name one.
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  7980.  Psychonaut  First....you don't understand addiction. Second....you're stuck under an illusion that just because one has problems, that means that he isn't intelligent. Third....you're not discussing anything that he's saying. You're reacting like a school yard bully who thinks that if he calls you stupid, he's won the argument. He presents ideas for the intelligent and thoughtful to discuss and consider. Those incapable of discussion, call out names. Grow up and discuss those ideas. If you can intelligently discuss his ideas, then you'd have something. If all you do is denigrate, you're a talking head with nothing to contribute. You should have outgrown that when you were 15 years old.
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  7981.  Psychonaut  I'm retired and I worked as a machine tech and a business manager and I have a college diploma in business systems.
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  7982.  Psychonaut  Well, I'm not getting it. How is my profession tied to the legitimacy of what Jordan Peterson has been speaking about? "I'm a business manager, therefore Peterson is great" as opposed to "You're a business manager, therefore Peterson is a loser". How did I get into the picture?
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  7983.  Psychonaut  Still not discussing ONE thing that Peterson has ever said or written. All you do is attack personalities. If you're representative of what is being taught in academia, no wonder the country is in the mess its in. Don't discuss ideas and learn from them. Berate people and refuse to discuss ideas. "John" agrees with me therefore he's smart. "Jack" says things I don't like therefore he's stupid. A 5 year old can do that.
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  7984.  Psychonaut  As a weak man, I started with nothing. Worked hard, raised a family. Lost my son in an accident when he was 18, a year after finding my wife in bed with another man and I lost everything. It hit me extremely hard and after being aimless and lost for a couple of years, I went back to work, real work and helped start a business from scratch, rebuilt my life through hard work and smart decisions. Re-established a strong relationship with my daughter and now I'm financially secure, retired and have a great life. Maybe I am weak. Maybe not. I did the best I could. One thing that I'm proud of. My 88 year old dad, told me that I'm the only one of his seven kids that never asked him for money. We were never very close, not like he is with my brothers. He also told me that he was impressed by how I came back from a terrible life experience and have put myself in good place in life. That tops anything that you or your pop analysis can say about me.
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  7985.  Psychonaut  You just called Peterson weak and then implied that I'm the same because I happen to show a little empathy towards what's he's going through. I was trying to show you how you make judgements on people that you've never met, have no idea what their lives are about or like and then pretend that you've just made some kind of deep intellectual statement of an over arching truth. You've not discussed ONE thing that would pertain to Peterson's work. NOT ONE THING. All you've done is call him names. Once again....a five year old can do that. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt. Which mind have you, thus far, shown yourself to be? Just a little self reflection and answer this question honestly.
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  7986.  Psychonaut  Do you really think that every thought in your head is your own? Everything that you know is the result of others teaching you. You were taught to speak, to read, to do math, everything you know is the result of ideas and facts that you've been exposed to. Peterson talks about more than just psychology. He's putting out ideas for you to think about. Using your own mind to judge the things around you, to understand what others say, their motives, what "quotes" mean and how they might apply to you. You don't become a better person or accomplished by regressing into your own head and considering nothing outside of it. You look at the world and what's in it, interact with it, think about it and try to understand the wisdom or foolishness of it. I'm not that egotistical to think that I'm the ONLY one that has a thought worth relaying to others. If I did, why would I even talk to anyone. Whatever they say would be stupid by my standards. It takes one narcissistic person to believe that they're the only person that has anything of worth to say. The world doesn't revolve around me. If someone has something of value to say, I appreciate it. I'm NOT the only "wise" person alive and I rather doubt that you're not that "wise" person either. "Try thinking for yourself". The justification that a person that can't think beyond his only little thoughts would say. My God....what an ego to think that "yourself" is the ultimate.
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  7987.  Psychonaut  Right now, I'm sitting in the sunshine, enjoying the fruits of what I did over my life. Wisdom isn't about never making mistakes, either. Peterson has made them in the past and he's talked about them. Wisdom is gathering all the knowledge that you can, assessing them and then knowing that mistakes are not the only thing that defines you. If that were so, we'd all give up after we'd made the first poor error in judgement in our life. Apparently, we're all not as lucky as you are. Never EVER made an error in judgement in your life. I'd hate to be one of your kids. Make one life mistake and you're forever saddled with the "loser" label. Peterson is recovering from his problem. He's made enough money in his life that he could do whatever he wants. He's one of the most successful people, not only in his field, but on the planet, known and admired by millions. Who are you beside that? Some internet hack calling people names. No one has ever heard of you and when you're gone, there goes your influence on the world. You're a nobody, a talking nothing on the internet. No one even knows your name. You didn't even have the courage to identify yourself.
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  7988.  Psychonaut  Rather one dimensional aren't you. You don't discuss ideas. You talk about people. You're a gossip. That old lady on the phone continuously muckraking about the neighbours. No wonder you won't use your own name.
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  7989.  Psychonaut  So....being a business manager is a menial job. Rather condescending aren't you. You don't think much of the average worker do you. I'm surprised you took the time to get off your high horse and to bother and type off a response to my comments. It must hurt the ego to have fallen this far. Don't give your real name. You're too important. I'm sure that there are hundreds, THOUSANDS, just waiting to pounce on you, if you give them the chance.. After all, can't let an intellect like yours just run amuck. Get over yourself.
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  7990.  Psychonaut  You never explain what I'm not comprehending. You don't know me, yet you assert that I've never had any life experience. You just construct a figure that you decide is me and then you proceed to knock it down and declare yourself the victor. They call that a strawman, you know. Still not talking issues. You've made this all about me. You don't even have the intellectual capacity to discuss any thing that Peterson has ever touched on. It's as if this "mental weakling" has ideas that you can't even begin to discuss, either because you've never ever listened to him or read his material or it confuses you. So, to make up for these deficiencies, you just start calling everyone names and change the subject.
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  7991.  Psychonaut  Assumptions? Listen to you. The great one. "I've done things you can't imagine". Wow....a guy that incorporates "psycho" in his YouTube name. A person who may suffer from , among other symptoms, delusions of self importance. You have this idea that you have "special insight and wisdom and then you use this "gift" to call people names. Once again, get over yourself. You're not that special. Some guy, with a made up name, on the internet, thinking he's special. A guy that doesn't even understand what a strawman is and insists that he knows what another person, on the internet, is like and what he's done. Delusions of grandeur. We should anoint you "King Psyhconaut" Emperor of way out there. PsychoNUT would be more fitting.
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  7992.  Psychonaut  "Extensive awards" LOL. I'm supposed to believe all this? I don't even know who you are. You won't even use your correct name. Maybe I'm talking to Donald Trump!!!! Wow!!!! He's always talking about how great he is. What an honour to meet you your Royal Orangeness. Could I get a personal tour of the White House? Or maybe we could do a round of golf? As long as you don't cheat. LOL. What a maroon!!!!!
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  7993.  Psychonaut  Going for the low hanging fruit, are you? You're demonstrating exactly what I've been saying about you. You're incapable of any intellectual thought or conversation. It's all insults and bulling. The mind of an adolescent.....and you seem so proud of it.
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  7994.  @gerardo49078  Thanks a lot for the comment. It does mean a lot to me. It's not easy but I used to think about my grandfather when things were really bad. He had 22 kids by 2 wives. 7 of them died before their 5th birthday, most of them were the older ones. I can't imagine what that would have like, except to realise that this wasn't out of the ordinary back then. People are tough and most of us work through the bad things in life, like I'm sure Peterson will. Self pity doesn't help and hating on people just rots the soul. Once again, thanks.
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  7995. A Clark Not my point at all. Carter was a Democrat but he wasn't a ideologue like the Democrats are now. He'd never be the leader of the Democratic Party or run for president now. He's way too soft a Democrat. That's my point. The Democrats of today have lost all reason.
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  7996. A. Clark Okay. Carter's a democrat. My point is that the Democratic party has changed over the years. They weren't so obsessed with racism and sexism and phobias and fascists and Nazis and confronting Republican supporters in restaurants. They wouldn't have supported masked thugs dressed all in black, crying out for the destruction of the US. Any Democrat running for the presidency that openly supported these things would never have gotten elected 40 years ago. That's my point. We didn't see these things back then.
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  7997. A. Clark I've heard the word "racist" more in the last 6 months from Democrats that what I've heard it in the first 60 years of my life. That and "sexist" and "homophobic". Who the hell used the word "misogynist" 10 years ago? The average guy had never heard the word before. It all started to ramp up during Obama's second term. Even during the Civil Rights movement, in the sixties, they didn't bandy those words around like they do now. Not saying that there wasn't problems but what the Democrats are doing now is absolutely insane. Jimmy Carter was the president that brokered the Camp David Accord between Egypt and Israel, trying to achieve some sort of stability in the Middle East. Now the Democrats are pissed off because Trump made a deal with North Korea to halt their nuclear build up, as if political stability in that region is a bad thing. Once again, I never said that there wasn't problems before but it's nothing like it is now. Not even close and for nothing. Imaginary racism and oppression where it doesn't exist. Ending Jim Crow, in the sixties, was a tangible goal. Now, they're babbling about systemic racism. What the hell is that? How do you stop it? The Democrats have become unhinged.
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  7998.  @ShaeT0525  They don't want sexually explicit books in school. Get it. IN SCHOOL. SCHOOL...that has little kids in it. You can still buy those books in book stores or online but they don't want books with sexually explicit content available to kids IN SCHOOL. SCHOOL. NOT stores, online or in your home. SCHOOLS!!!!!! The Nazis BANNED books from all outlets. They weren't allowed in stores or even in your homes. They burned them all.....every copy that they could find. It was against the law to own those books. NOT here though. They don't think that they should be in SCHOOLS. They're deemed too sexually explicit for young children. If I went to the local playground and showed them to little kids there, I'd be arrested for showing little kids. You can't be that obtuse. You gotta be a troll.
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  7999.  @SuperTruthful  And so should Joe and Hunter Biden if we're going to follow your logic. None of them, the Trump or Biden family, have ever been convicted of any crime. Maybe they should have been but they haven't. Until that happens, you can't put them in jail.
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  8000. When you do, you'll be playing right into their hands. The media will accuse YOU of violence and then say how dangerous conservatives are. What we have to do is call it out and demand that the law takes care of it. Demand that the media, CNN and MSNBC, start reporting on these incidents and denouncing that violence. If it's a Bernie supporter that's doing the attacking, demand that Bernie denounce it. Tell him, the media and the Democrats, that if they don't do something to stop it, you'll never vote for them again. Turn our individual voices into a chorus of indignation and denunciation of political violence, so loud, that they can't ignore it. Because if we return violence with violence, the media will use it against us. We have to outsmart them and it should be easy. They're NOT THAT SMART.
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  8001.  @DennepeerRelaxation  It's up to the Deutsche Bank to decide if they've been the victim of fraud. They got their money back, with interest. The loan was paid off....so they weren't victimised. The bank obviously didn't even check on the numbers because it's standard procedure to do just that when giving out a loan. In fact, it's one of the main sources of income for a real estate appraisal company. They appraise property, for banks, in loan applications. Deutsche Bank quite obviously didn't feel it necessary to do this, for whatever reason and it is up to them, NOT a state Attorney General. An AG has no business telling a bank that they're engaging in bad business policies. The AG has said that she was going to "get Trump" and then she looked until she thought she found something. If Trump is guilty of fraud, what about the loan officers who didn't do their job? Are they guilty as well? This is a fraud without a victim. No one lost a cent. In fact, everyone involved MADE money. This isn't about fraud. It's about getting rid of a political opponent. If the banks didn't care, why would the AG care? There's only one reason. The AG doesn't like Trump and it's malicious prosecution.
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  8002.  @DM-dk7js  Trump is no longer the president. Haven't you heard??? He can lie all he wants, he doesn't have any power. Biden, on the other hand, IS the president. It's his propaganda that has dire consequences as he IS the president. Quit trying to fix problems that no longer exist and work on current problems. Obsessing about Trump will solve nothing.
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  8003. I love football but I'll never watch another NFL game until this nonsense is over.
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  8004.  @Chuck26814  You're right. I never thought of that. Why would she have to be a biologist to answer that question if it's not biological? It shows the complete idiocy of this woke idea.
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  8005. Then give us your FULL name. Tell parents what's in the curriculum and what other teacher's are telling your kids. If they start LGBT.....whatever....groups, don't allow students to join in secret. Do what's necessary to keep parents in the loop and advocate for the end to over-sexualisation of the children and the divisive racial ideology that school boards are pushing on our kids. If you don't help us....you're against us. Right now, we don't just need you to teach. We need you to expose what's going on, if you see it. You want our respect....this is the time to really earn it. We have no other way of knowing whether you approve of the woke ideology or not.
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  8006. I'm Canadian and live about 2 hours drive from Renfrew and have even worked there in the past. I've not heard a word on it on Canadian media. I learned about this on American internet sites. Our media doesn't disseminate news. It disseminates propaganda.
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  8007. Apparently, Mel Gibson, as William Wallace, crying "FREEDOM!!!" is the portrayal of a 13 century tyrant. It's funny how the "Freedom" cry has changed its meaning in the last 25 years.
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  8008. Matt Ayres Of course the natives fought each other. They're human and they did what humans do. The Aztecs had an empire. How do you think they got that empire. Same as the Aztecs. When the Hurons saw the rifles that Champlain had, the first thing they wanted to do was go shoot some Iroquois. The Pawnee name for the Sioux nation was the same word they used for enemy and they were the highest paid soldiers in the US cavalry because of their value as scouts. To the natives, the Europeans were just another tribe trying to muscle in on their territory. A strange tribe but still another enemy or friend if convenient. Any study of history will confirm it. Native American are just people and as such they were as susceptible to the bad traits that people have as well as the good. Their worst enemy was European diseases which killed them by the millions. It was a horrible time for them. Entire villages were completely wiped out in a few weeks. Incredibly devastating.
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  8009.  Jaqen H'ghar  First rule of anarchy. NO RULES. Try to follow that one to its logical conclusion. LOL.
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  8010.  @Opinionsrnotfacts574  It was a payment to a media company. The press should be free and not financed by the state. It could only result in a conflict of interest. It doesn't matter if it's on public record or not. No one noticed until now and they were relying on that to continue. I mean, who reads those documents that could fill your living room. They were hiding it in plain sight.
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  8011.  @Opinionsrnotfacts574  Apparently, there WAS no Congressional oversight. Also, the 3 branches of government, the executive, the legislative and the judiciary, are in place as to maintain the integrity of each branch. If Congress, a part of the legislative branch, isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing, than it's up to the executive and/or the judiciary to call them out on it. This time, it's the executive who's investigating corruption. At other times it's the legislative branch who curbs the executive. See "impeachment".
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  8012.  @soylentgreen8795  Isn't that what the climate change people want? No more dependence on fossil fuels? Half the planet isn't poor due to lack of resources. It's poor due to corruption and the suppression of free enterprise.
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  8013.  @soylentgreen8795  Fossil fuels will run out, eventually, no matter the population. We will have to adapt sooner or later and it will be a bottom up change not top down. It's like the boom in tech. It's consumer driven. The auto industry went through the same evolution years ago. If the climate is conducive to tech research, people will find a way out. If the government does it, they will limit ideas and it will not end well.
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  8014.  @JorgeHernandez-gq6yy  “history is taught only by the victor” That's a cute way of saying that "I don't have the evidence but I know the truth". It has nothing to say about the truth.
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  8015. I had a friend rail on about 2 open/carry gun guys, in a store with rifles slung over their shoulders. They didn't shoot anyone, point their guns at anyone or threaten anyone. They just carried rifles in public. He went on as if this were the end of the world. When I mentioned that there were around 80 shootings in Chicago on one weekend, he just shrugged his shoulders and said something about crime being cyclical. He just couldn't see his own hypocrisy. It was all about the narrative. Now, don't get me wrong. I think it's a little whacked to carry rifles around town but there was no crime committed so I shrugged that off. I shrug off no shootings and he shrugged off 80 shootings. That was weird.
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  8016.  @mikemason6154  Of course, she's not smart like YOU. I mean, who could be.....right? I know that I'm most definitely not. "Mike Mason". I'm going to have to remember that name. That obvious intellect is going to do some great things.
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  8017.  @mikemason6154  Yet, you felt it necessary to be ingracious towards Candace. That was rather unkind of you and it doesn't seem to have any purpose. That's my impression of your comment and the fact that there was the implication that you had the superior intellect. I noticed that you haven't mentioned a thing about Candace in your reply to me. Are you extending that love towards her as well?
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  8018.  @mikemason6154  We all fall into that trap. It's a part of our nature. It calls to mind something that Nietzsche wrote. "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster." Sometimes our zeal to do the right thing overcomes us and we go too far in that quest for justice.
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  8019.  @sloughwaya7291  What trap? It's your own fault if you allow someone else to inform you and you eat it up like a starving street dog. The real trap is when our leaders and media conspire to withhold information and intentionally censor what they believe you shouldn't know. If you believe the misinformation without fact checking, that's ultimately YOUR fault. The trap isn't misinformation. It's censorship.
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  8020. Dutch first. Look at all the negative Dutch stereotypes. Tulip trommpers.....what an offensive term. Then that woodpecker joke. We need some kind of financial compensation for this type of anti-Dutch sentiment.
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  8021. I guess that this LA Trump rally has shown that white supremacy has adopted diversity. Woke Neo-Nazis. I'll bet the organisers made sure that there was equitable representation from each identity group at that rally. Don't want to offend anyone.
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  8022. Trump made it harder for illegals to get into the US. That includes child trafficking. Biden is making it just fine for illegals to try to enter the US. That includes child traffickers. Which one seems like the right thing to do? Kamala Harris is just an evil opportunist. She could care less about right or wrong.
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  8023. Did Biden and Russia collude? Is that why Biden is now President? Where's Mueller when you need him?
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  8024.  @Rkikomeko  Why does he deserve jail? A "does not"/"does too" argument means nothing. Explain your position.
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  8025.  @kaybrown7733  No man has EVER had a womb surgically implanted and then had a fertilised egg placed in that womb so that this cell develops into a baby that was removed through a Cesarean Section to produce a healthy baby. It's never happened. Don't start with the nonsensical word games. You know exactly what I'm saying and no man has ever given birth, which includes a biological transgender from male to female. It hasn't happened yet.
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  8026.  @Kronin-n6f  Housing prices and rents completely out of control. We're in 1.5 trillion in debt. That's over 32,000 bucks for every man, woman and child in Canada and he did NOTHING about it. He deserves to lose his position as PM. He did a HORRIBLE job.
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  8027.  republican lies  Ignorant about what? I haven't said anything. I haven't even told you whether I supported Trump or not. That's something that you pulled out of your backside. All I did was make fun of your childish insults. If you act like a child, expect to be treated as one.
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  8028.  republican lies  But I'm not....but I do think allowing immigrants, who test positive for Covid, to enter the country. That's NOT a Trump issue. That's a stupidity issue and anyone can be stupid....Democrat or Republican. You don't seem to care about poor decisions. It's all tribal for you. If a Democrat puts a Covid patient with grandmother, you'd go along with it because a Democrat did it. That makes YOU the stupid one and the cult member. I would be pissed at anyone who did that and I could care less where they are politically. You do.
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  8029.  @kurtshat4823  Tim is letting us know what's going on. You don't hear that on the MSM. I googled "riots in Portland" and I got nothing about it from any of the big media companies. Antifa entered 2 banks and harassed employees and customers and then started fires in the Federal Court House with people inside. Had it been the Proud Boys, it would have been 24 hour coverage. If Tim Pool is one of the few telling us about it, then I'm going to be grateful for it because CNN and the rest of them are absolutely awful. Tim tells you about it, at least. You may not agree with his ideas but the important is in the telling of it. That's what's important. If people, like him, don't inform us, we won't even have enough information to form an opinion on it.
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  8030.  @bradfordjoseph7894  The only people that are brainwashed are those who never challenge their own beliefs. The girl with the braids was willing to discuss and even admit that Kaitlin and her friend could be right about some issues. I think that she would be difficult, maybe even impossible, for her to be brainwashed. However, the 2 girls, who were calling Kaitlin names, refused to speak civilly or even admit that they could be wrong., they're already brainwashed. Brainwashed people don't discuss, they attack.
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  8031.  @censured-again  Anything that China is involved in, I don't trust. Then add Russia and Iran, you'd be dealing with some of the worst countries in the world. No....I'd say stay away from that lot. They should stay true to themselves.
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  8032. Tim.....don't be such a knothead. You have to vote Republican, not because you're a conservative or a Trumpster, but because you have to send the Democrats a STRONG message. They have to know that their policies and beliefs are the very thing that will destroy them and they have to change. Sitting on the fence isn't going to do that. That's no better than what the Democrats are doing which is NOTHING. Things won't improve until people like you DO something. You have a great deal of influence and you could be a vehicle of change so life becomes better for the good people of California, who are being victimised by ideology and inaction. You have to vote Republican. It's getting to be the only sensible answer.
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  8033.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  BLM rioters weren't targeting Democrats or where they lived. Had BLM done that, the police would've stopped it immediately. It's only when Democrats are the targets of the mob, that's when police are told to stop it. Democrats could care less about poor neighbourhoods, which include inner city black areas. Remember, Kamala sent money to bail out the BLM rioters.
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  8034. Actually, I get what he means. General Patton wasn't a good guy either but he did fight against the Nazis, even though he said later, that we defeated the wrong enemy. Not every soldier that landed on the beaches in Normandy were nice people. Some of them were really horrible people.....but they helped to defeat the Nazis. Thank God that they did that. Later, when they got home and manifested how rotten they were, that didn't erase how they helped to beat Hitler and his crew. Trump is a jerk but he's still fighting an evil and that makes him on our side. I don't have to like everyone on the team. I just want them to do the best they can to help defeat an insidious threat.
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  8035.  @mattmarzula  I'm not sure how thinking that this was a joke is falling for the joke.
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  8036.  @tbest29  Great lengths? They haven't proved, without a doubt, that he did engage in unlawful obstruction. If Trump was going to "great lengths" it should have been easy to make a case but all Mueller could say is that he couldn't give a recommendation. What part of the judicial ideal of "presumption of innocence" don't you get? The Democrats won't let go because they're not following that basic tenet of US law. They won't let go of it because they are working under the presumption of guilt. Their frustration arises because they can't prove it, likely because it didn't happen. Therefore, they'll keep investigating until their last breath. They're no different than all the 9/11, moon hoax, Area 51 conspiracy nuts. They'll never let it go. That's not smart.
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  8037.  @tbest29  Apparently, allowing a "criminal" president to sit in office and have the power of an acting president is the wrong time, then. There isn't enough evidence to indict Trump when the time is right. Those Democrats who won't let it go are now hanging their hopes on the "you can't charge a sitting president" trope. They're still haven't set the impeachment process into motion. Why won't they deal with that? They were so SURE that the Mueller Report would be the end of Trump but now that it's here, he's still the president and no impeachment in sight. "No recommendations". That's what the report said. They're no closer than they were 3 years ago. Now they're having more hearings and Mueller's appearance didn't help their cause, either. In fact, left leaning MSM have pundits that are calling Mueller's testimony as a disaster. If the Democrats keep on with this, they'll lose the next elections and they'll lose big. People are getting tired of it and not just that. They're tired of the eternal racist charges, the actions of Antifa, the attacks on free speech, the fear that right wing students have to endure on campus, the violence against people for wearing MAGA hats, the hypocrisy of their border security positions, the incessant virtue signalling and on and on. The left is absolutely filled with rage and hate and have gotten to the point that they can't see beyond that hate. It's hate that is feeding this "HOPE" of charging Trump with something.....ANYTHING. They refuse to work on the real things that need to be solved. And I've been a Democrat supporter all my life. After the Covington Kids debacle, I started to think that the Democrats have moved into a position that makes them WORSE than Trump. I never thought I'd see that day but it's here.
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  8038.  @tbest29  Don't fool yourself. If the Dems, specifically Nadler and Schiff, don't give up on this impeachment stuff, that could do it. If the squad, AOC and her henchman, don't stop with their racially motivated rhetoric, that could contribute to their loss in 2020. If the Democrats don't separate themselves from Antifa and the far left socialist activists and all the far out gender, race and feminist ideologies, they could find that another contributing factor. They have to get back to the centre or the ordinary person is, either stay home on election day or vote for Trump. People are tired of this Russia stuff, of the incessant racist and bigot accusation and just, as an example, the foolishness of men claiming to be women and then competing in women's athletics. Another one is, and it's a biggie, the attack on free speech where a person is physically and verbally attacked for an opinion and could even lose their job over it. That's all from the left and the Democrats are being associated with those ideas and it's killing their hopes.
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  8039.  Packfan69  Mueller gave no recommendation. Not for impeachment or for prosecution at any time. The strongest thing he could bring up against Trump was that he didn't exonerate him on obstruction. Which means absolutely nothing. No prosecutor will stand up in court and tell a judge that he can't exonerate the accused. The judge would dismiss the case right then and there. Mueller could recommend impeachment or say that there was enough evidence for it.....but he didn't even say that. It was his JOB to show all the evidence for obstruction and bring up a case against the president. He didn't do it. No prosecutor would ever bring to court the evidence that his committee put together to indict someone. There just isn't enough and that's why Trump has not been impeached.
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  8040.  @tbest29  That could happen. That's why they have elections and that's why the US is a democratic Republic and not a Fascist state. The people still have a say in government policy. However, don't be too sure. Hillary was going to win in '16 and it was a positive. All the "smart" people were laughing at even the idea of Trump being president and when he won, they just couldn't believe it. At the time, I predicted a Trump win based on Hillary's rhetoric and I told anyone that would listen that she would be the cause of the Democrat demise. I'd supported Obama in the 2 previous elections but became disillusioned with him at the end of his 2nd term. Weren't the Dems upset....crying, wailing, throwing things and then the claims that he must have cheated, somehow. That's what brought us the next 3 years of collusion claims and the aftermaths. They just refused to accept that maybe they had played it all wrong. In fact, the people that voted for Obama, in Middle America, voted for Trump. That's who the Dems have to win over and they're not doing a good job of it. They "white privilege" rhetoric is still being spouted and with 65 percent of the population being white, that's not exactly pandering to the biggest block of the voting public. But, you never know. I don't think that the Dems will win, but the world is an unpredictable place. The difference between you and I is this. I recognise the fickleness of the voting public. You're so filled with Trump hate, you see nothing but that hate and can't understand why everyone doesn't think as you do.
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  8041.  @tbest29  I don't see how he has done anything to democracy. There was a midterm election and the Republicans lost the House. He accepted it. When he tried to get money from the Pentagon, a court ruled that it wasn't legal, he stopped and took it back to the courts and he won that case just recently. There will be an election next year. On top of that, if you're going to say that he colluded with the Russians, Mueller flat out said that he could not make a determination that. He's an investigator, who reported that he, basically came to no conclusion on guilt. That's innocence in every court in the country. He's a blowhard and a braggart. That's for sure but as for normalising lying, I'm going to have to be a bit cynical here. Honestly, is Trump the first time that you've ever heard of a lying politician? You must be awfully young. Lawyers, politicians and used car salesman are known as the biggest liars in existence. As for the charges, not unless they get more evidence. Already Nadler and Schiff are talking about another round of investigations. Why would they do that if they already have the damning evidence? Schiff said a long time ago that he had irrefutable evidence of collusion. He said it on network television. Yet, I've never heard him say what that evidence was. If he has that strong evidence, why doesn't he give it. At first, I really thought Trump was in trouble with the collusion, but after hearing the "walls are closing in", "bombshell revelations", the "tick, tick, tick" on the treason clock and nothing ever materialising, I started to think that it was a case built more on wishful thinking than reality. Also, it seems that the MSM were using it as a ratings booster and now that it's been fizzling out, CNN and MSNBC ratings have plummeted. MSM was vested in keeping this story on the forefront and the Democrats were quite happy to have it there in the belief that it would sway people to their side in the elections and it did in the midterms. However, they may be riding that horse too long and it may backfire, especially after the Mueller hearings. It didn't have the results that they had hoped for.
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  8042.  @tbest29  Calling him an idiot kind of shows that you do hate the guy. Also, if there was collusion, why didn't Mueller say so. That was his job or mandate. He was supposed to investigate Russian interference and find any cooperation with the Russians from any campaign sources. If he did find collusion, he was to present it, along with a determination on how good the evidence was. He didn't do that. The same with obstruction. He didn't do that, either. He said it himself. He offered no determination of Trump's guilt. That, in simple English, means that he didn't have the evidence to say he was guilty. That's after all the investigation, with a team of investigators, and they still couldn't determine his guilt. If they could, Mueller would have said so. He didn't. Therefore, Nadler and Schiff want to start a NEW round of investigations, this time concentrating on his finances and so-called money laundering. The more that they keep changing the angles of investigation, the more people will begin to think that it actually IS a witch hunt. The Democrats would be better suited in uniting the Party and developing a single, cohesive platform. They might even TRY to give an appearance that they're trying to get something done. That would be refreshing.
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  8043.  @tbest29  No determination of obstruction. That's right out of Mueller's mouth. Now, you're on a new angle. If that doesn't work out, what next? No one is obligated to show their tax returns. If they have evidence of something wrong, then they can subpoena them. That's the job of an investigator. Trump doesn't have to do their job for them. That's the procedure in law. Get a subpoena. You have to have sufficient evidence to get it and that's what they'll have to do. Until then, his tax returns mean nothing. It's potential evidence. Potential evidence doesn't count.....at all.
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  8044. I've been censored on YouTube by saying that I believe that the problems in the Israel and Palestine is due to radical religious ideology and I even brought receipts. That didn't mean a thing. I wasn't allowed to comment for 48 hours on any YouTube video and wasn't told what I did wrong or why it's wrong. I figured it out by repeating that comment after being warned. It took 1/2 an hour, after the first warning and after repeating that same comment, that I was informed of my 48 hour ban. Our government, aided by the press, big tech and our education system, is leading us on the road to Fascism and most of us are going willingly.
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  8045. So....am I privileged or not?
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  8046. Burning and looting doesn't solve anything, he says. That's not why you shouldn't do it. You don't do it because you should respect the property rights of others, no matter who they are. You don't do it because it is wrong and for no other reason.
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  8047.  @LifeLifemoreAbundantly  He was right about a communist threat. He was WRONG about how he went at it. He turned it into a witch hunt and followed a policy that said that the accusation is the proof of guilt. No different than what they did to Judge Kavanaugh.
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  8048.  @howie6992  They HATE him in DC. He's been tearing apart the bureaucracy and all the cronyism that goes with it and they hate him for it. DC is a Democratic, left wing stronghold. If you're a Republican, DC is a lonely place to live. Trump's base is the regular, middle American and his support has been getting stronger in that demographic because he's standing up to the elitists and they're snobbish attitudes. Bill Maher typifies their attitude. "Middle America is jealous of us. They want to be us". This is from Maher. They think that regular Americans are a bunch of uneducated hillbillies and, according to Hillary, a DC elitist herself, a "basket of deplorables". Until this Covid crisis, normal Americans were finally doing better. Now it's the Democrat governors that are the ones threatening ordinary Americans who only want to go back to work.....the kind of work the DC elitist find undignified and menial.
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  8049.  @LifeLifemoreAbundantly  McCarthy went after people who attended Socialist meetings when they were in college back in the thirties, just out of curiosities. Just to be questioned was enough to get you fired and blacklisted. Anyone who was in the merchant marine or who was unloading ships could be investigated and over 3000 longshoremen and seamen lost their jobs due to his unlawful investigations. People were imprisoned and later released because their rights had been infringed and evidence was proved either false of manipulated. The man operated in the same manner as Joseph Stalin. The reason we oppose Communism is partly because of the idea of centralised government and that if you question the edicts of the state, you must be the enemy. In Communism there is only one way to think or believe. Our free system resists that idea and as long as we don't infringe upon the rights of others, we can act and believe as we please, even if we find it repugnant and potentially damaging. We should NEVER have arrests made on flimsy charges and our tactics should NEVER be comparable to the tactics of Stalin. If we're going to act like him, we may as well BE communists. We have a system of law that places the individual as the sovereign entity....NOT the state. McCarthy took the power as the representative of the state and ignored the sovereignty of the individual. That's the communist and authoritarian way. It's NOT what we value in the west. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight against Communism because we should. We should fight it because we want to be better than they are. McCarthy wasn't that. He was the flip side of Stalin. Just as ruthless and he could care less about the rights of the individual.
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  8050.  @clayc8115  These are toys. Toys aren't harmful. They're items that kids play with to amuse themselves. All toys are gender neutral. Why is a toy race car a boy's toy? Don't women drive race cars? Why is a doll a girl's toy? I fed, bathed, changed my kid's diapers as a man. Does that make me a woman? Get a grip. As for cigarettes and alcohol, they're known to be harmful to the health and growth of impressionable children. Is a toy tractor dangerous because you happen to think of it as a boy's toy? My sister might argue that. She's out in the fields on a tractor all the time as are a lot of women in the farming communities. How do you make a gender neutral tractor, anyway? This is dividing our children into subgroups. Little boys play with this and little girls play with that, yet the gender neutral kids play with the SAME toys that little boys and girls play with. Now business owners must pay for signs to tell parents what they SHOULD be buying for their kids, as if they're not smart enough to figure it out for themselves. What next? Mandated toy sections for white kids, black kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids. Don't conflate the use of abusive, addictive and unhealthy products with children's toys. It's divisive and completely foolish and it's not the business of our government to decide what toys our children should be playing with.
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  8051.  @KeepItReal33  El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are NOT at war. No civil war, no war against invading armies, nothing. There is a drug war in Mexico between the government and drug syndicates and between the syndicates themselves but it's not the type of war where civilians are bombed and murdered. If the war there was SO dangerous, why would people enter Mexico and walk right through the war ravaged countryside with their children. These people are NOT fleeing wars at all. If there are wars in these countries, provide me with the evidence.
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  8052. She was "Lemon splaining". No wonder he was POed.
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  8053.  @goldenshark3182  I don't see a comment that even mentions "Temple of Doom". I see that the person that you were talking to edited his comment so he must of fixed it. Since I can't see it, that's what must have happened. My mistake but, in my defence, and honest one.
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  8054. No matter who wins, the loser will accuse the other of cheating. That's what will be the issue that could push the nation over the edge. That's why we need to completely overhaul the election process itself. Get rid of the machines to ensure no outside internet interference. Allow only mail-in voting upon request WITH a legally accepted identification. Make sure that counting ballot procedures are strictly adhered to. Other nations can do it, even 3rd world countries, so there's no reason why this can't be done in the US. Fix the election process and we'll get away from the endless cycle of claims of election fraud. After 3 disputed elections, in this century, you'd think that this would be something that BOTH parties could get behind. I'm lost at why one party doesn't want to fix it.
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  8055.  @therepublicofcynica  My parents lived in a one bedroom shack when I was born. He worked 3 jobs at times, saved and invested wisely and now 70 years later, he's a millionaire. I know lots who've done the same. Marx was one of the elite, who used people to finance his hatred of the elites who supported him. Engels was his biggest benefactor, using the wealth of Engels's capitalist ventures as his "socialist" teat to nourish himself. Marx's beliefs are the ideology of envy and resentment.
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  8056. The guy has a chance to ask the president a question.....and this is what he asks? What's wrong with the guy? There are so many important issues that need clarification and have to be addressed and he asks a grade 3 question. If he worked for me, well, he wouldn't be working for me tomorrow. What a maroon. (Bugs Bunny quote, for those who feel the need to correct me.)
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  8057. I don't know but new Covid cases were at their highest on Jan 6th. 2 weeks later, there were over 100,000 fewer new cases than on "riot" day. New case numbers plummeted after Jan 8th. It was a super spreader event that never happened.
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  8058. The entire Colin Kaepernick business has turned into a game of "spot the racist". If you stand for the anthem before the game, well....you know. I can't help but think that's why the left love it so much.
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  8059.  @johnbuscher  It's as if MADD doesn't exist anymore. 30 years ago the outrage would have been as crazy as the Covington Kids story a couple of years back. SMH.
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  8060. Wow....some heavyweight brains here. This'll be good.
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  8061.  @DM-dk7js  If you think that the law should include the killing of innocent human life, then I have a difficult time trying to figure out what your faith could be. I don't know of any faith that supports that.
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  8062.  @rustynails8756  Thanks.
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  8063.    Another type of government regulation. It's not the same as shoeing horses but it's another example of government over reach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2oItXC1eM This is how much government REALLY cares about the individual.
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  8064.    You have no facts to prove why he's complaining. You're making it up because that's what you want to believe. You STILL haven't explained to me why a 1000 plus trade, suddenly needs a high school diploma to show competence. You keep dodging that. Now, I'm going to start with the personal attacks. You're still acting like a child. Instead of having mommy and daddy look after you, you want to replace them with the mommy and daddy state. Grow up. Stand up on your own 2 feet for a change, instead of having some authority figure telling you what to say, think or behave. Why any adult human being wants to have his every movement in life governed, is both astounding and baffling. Do you not have the maturity to stand up and declare yourself a sovereign human being? Never mind. Don't respond until the government tells you the correct answer.
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  8065.  @bobm9509  That is ironic. I wonder who's buying those slaves in Africa right now. They would't be Muslims.....would they? That might explain the crickets. Muslims are a protected group. That's important in these times of "your identity defines who you are". Can't have the oppressed be the oppressor, can we. Things are unacceptable until I do it. That's the mantra of the left..
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  8066.    I've owned a home renovation firm and I've managed a small business for a small company as well. I've had to deal with paperwork, and MORE paperwork, and MORE regulations, until there was so much regulation, that it would take a special consultant to untangle all the requirements. Apparently, "fuck off" is the official way of telling me that you refuse to answer ANY of my questions. Great stuff. Through are entire exchange, you've never, once, tried to have an adult conversation and not, once, have you even attempted to answer any of my questions. Then you finish in exactly the way that I expected. "Fuck off". You're quite the intellectual. SMH.
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  8067.    Check out the regulations in this small town. Of course, if you lived there, you'd pay all the fines that the city would levy on you because regulations are ALWAYS in your best interest. This city would just love to have a compliant citizen like you move in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8P-l8_dTsI
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  8068. @Jugonostalgicar3308 Some billionaires support Trump. Some of them support the Democrats. They're as different from one another as are the poor. The Bohemian Club might be another thing. We've already seen Trump, a billionaire, being found guilty of 34 felonies. It's my opinion that the charges are bogus but billionaires can be targeted by the law. Jeffrey Epstein, worth about 700 million, was also charged. Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was also a billionaire at his death. It might be easier for a super rich person to fight off the law but they're not invincible.
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  8069.  @justinkirschenman2232  Look at what happened when Trump said he was withdrawing troops from Syria. The entire Democrat party lost their minds, accusing him of abandoning their Kurdish allies. Trump isn't the king of America. He's an elected official and he still has to follow protocol. No, Russia didn't fund ISIS. ISIS was funded by an extreme brand of Islam and the donations of individuals, some of them extremely rich, the same way the Roman Catholic Church became so rich. Donations from the devout. Rich evangelists in the US are doing it the same way. If they can do it, so can extremist Muslims. There are a lot of very rich Muslims in the Middle East. In fact, the US threatened to cut funds to the rebels against Assad because many of them had joined Al-Nusra, a extremist group. The US was afraid that they were funnelling money and weapons to Al Qaeda and ISIS. Al-Nusra made it a special point to not help ISIS, in hopes that the US wouldn't withdraw support. You're just falling to the rhetoric of conspiracy nuts.
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  8070.  @justinkirschenman2232  First of all, that war is over. Obama pulled out all the troops in 2011 and there was a big press conference is Washington about it. The next day, the VERY NEXT DAY, the Iraqi president flies home and starts arresting Sunni leaders. That's not the fault of anyone but that president, Nouri al-Maliki. He didn't have to do that but the hatred the Shia and Sunni have for one another is what started the conflict in both Syria and Iraq right now. ISIS, Sunni Muslims, are fighting against the Shia president, Assad, because they believe that the Shias are heretics and they've felt that way for a thousand years. Then Obama got them right back into it and ISIS has been behaving horrifically ever since. Would you seriously expect Trump to get out, right away, when ISIS was there murdering innocent people? He had to finish them off. Now, they're pretty well defeated and their leader is gone. Trump said it again when he announced his death. He want's the troops out. It doesn't happen overnight and thank God that it didn't. That murderous ISIS leader would still be torturing and killing innocents, like the Mueller girl, who was kidnapped in front of refugee hospital and horrifically abused by ISIS. She was there to help refugees and those butchers did that to her and all you can do is dredge up something that happened 17 years ago...the WMD lead to that earlier war. You're too angry and bitter to assess this rationally. If the troops are out in 6 months, are you going to come back to this thread and admit that maybe you were wrong? I'd be surprised if you do. I don't know if it will happen but if Trump says he wants to do it, then I'll support that intention. He says that he's ready to do it now and we'll see what happens. I'm not about to lose my mind over it because of the way things happened. In fact, his earlier announcement about leaving, might have induced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to think that he was safe and wasn't as careful as he had been. Lighten up a little.
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  8071.  @justinkirschenman2232  The war was essentially over in 2011. Here is that announcement when Obama was preparing to pull the last of the troops out of Iraq, some 5000 troops, way down from the some 150,000 a few years earlier. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/world/middleeast/president-obama-announces-end-of-war-in-iraq.html https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40682.pdf However, that's when the Iraqi president amped up his assault on Sunni and it looked as if Al Qaeda was going to resurface and ISIS started to form. That war in Iraq was over and Obama even stated that the US would be leaving a stable country. He didn't screw it up. The Iraqis did that themselves. Now Trump is going to leave but he wasn't just going to dump and run before the job was done. Also, your statement on how the US was helping ISIS, against Russia, makes no sense. How is killing their leader helping ISIS? That's as illogical as it come. The situation in Iraq and Syria is complex with Al Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Syrian rebels, Syrian loyalists to Assad, Kurds, Turks, Shia Iraqis, ISIS all fighting one another. I'm sure I missed a few. The original invasion was a mistake but to leave when Obama wanted would have been a mistake as well. The Iraqis could have settled into making a stable country back then, but they didn't want to. Sunni and Shia hate each other. That's what's behind the war in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. It's behind all the posturing between Iran and Saudi Arabia as well. It looks as if ISIS is defeated and now is the time to get out. Not in 2011, not in 2016, but now when ISIS is gone. The fact is, if the fighting continues in those countries, it won't be because that's what Trump wants. It'll be because of Shia/Sunni hatred of one another.....a hatred that's been there for over 1000 years. Shia have pilgrimaged to Karbala for all that time, some 10 million a year and rivals Mecca as a holy site. This is the shrine that ISIS had vowed to destroy because they see it as a sacrilege. Karbala was the site of a huge battle between Shia and Sunni in 680. That's how long they've been at each other. Please understand the hatred these people have for one another. Shia even believe that the final battle will be between those 2 factions and it will be the defeat of the Sunni and the beginning of their Caliphate. That's how deep this rivalry runs.
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  8072.  @TheRichie213  He sent strikes to aid in the fight against ISIS. ISIS established a zone that covered Syria and Iraq. This was, in essence, no longer Syria but the new Islamic Caliphate that ISIS had won militarily....a new country. Syria, itself, was fighting ISIS as well. Also, your "banker" war makes no sense, either. Bankers could make just as much money by lending to build infrastructure around the world. What difference does it make to a banker if a country borrows to build a new highway, sewer system or to buy a few tanks. You still go into debt. Why is it that you refuse to acknowledge the enmity between Sunni and Shia that has lasted for over 1000 years? Also, if the banks are the reason for wars, why is it that wars have been fought for thousands of years long before banks even existed. Are you actually claiming that Genghis Khan was sent by the Mongol banks to conquer all of central Asia and China? The most primitive of peoples fought with their neighbours. That's human nature and in fact, we're living in a time where a person is the safest from being a war casualty in our history. We have a bloody past but it's getting better but that doesn't figure into your personal hatred against your own perceived enemy and carrying on your own battle against them. It's not banks that cause war. It's human nature.
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  8073.  @TheRichie213  So.....there it is. That's the problem. Antisemitism rears its ugly head again. It has nothing to do with the reasons for the fighting or why these two religious groups hate each other. It's about the people that YOU hate and you spin every situation or issue possible into your own bigotry. Also, I'm not pro-war, but I'm definitely against people like that monster Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. That was a man who beheaded and set people on fire and then showed videos of it on the internet. He raped innocent women and enslaved them and encouraged his followers to do the same. But that doesn't matter to you. It doesn't fit into your Antisemitism the way you want it to. My parents grew up during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and my uncle spent a couple of months at the Jewish detention camp at Westerbork. What he saw there was horrific but, since he wasn't Jewish, they sent him to the POW camp in Texel. The Nazis in that camp were doing to those Jews because the believed the same things that you just espoused....that Zionists were financing and behind the wars. Millions died because of that despicable ideology and I won't even consider it as a legitimate rationale for your ideas.
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  8074.  @TheRichie213  Now, you're making assumptions. I was highly critical of his move to get out of the Iran deal that Obama made. I thought he should honour it and then reconsider when it ran out. Fortunately, Trump wasn't goaded into retaliation after some of the stunts that Iran pulled. I, also find Trump to be boorish and I have difficult time listening to him talk for even 5 minutes but I assess things on facts NOT on a preconceived notions or whether I like the guy as a person or not. What kind of loyalty would have it displayed had Trump pulled out the troops the day after he became president? The Kurds wake up and their top ally has gone home, abandoning them to carry on the fight alone. Eff you, Kurds...not my war. Is that the action of one that you would trust? I, sure as hell, wouldn't.
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  8075.  @creageous  Does that arrogance make you feel better? Is it a compensation for your teeny thingy? I guess it is safer to do it online. Rather sad.
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  8076. The thing is, you need hard evidence. This in Georgia is that hard evidence that is needed. I can know that the bank was robbed but I may not know who did it. That's the big link that has to be established through investigations. Until then, under the law, there is no one to prosecute. "The Democrats did it" isn't enough. We need the individuals that are responsible. That's how the law works. The people in that video may well face jail time over this.
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  8077. Had the Dems supported the president, got the wall built, and showed a United Front in support of border security, most of those people wouldn't be in those camps. The reason that they're coming now is because they're being told of the sanctuary cities and states, the free health care proposals and they expect support from the Dems for breaking American immigration laws. There is also a fear that they'd better come now because it looks as if Trump is going to win big in 2020 and then he'll have the resources to fix the loopholes in the immigration laws and the problems of border security along the border. This entire problem is the fault of the Democrats. It's what they wanted because they wanted to demonise their opposition. It's a callous use of the lives of these people for their own political gain.
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  8078. Because she IS relevant. There are tens of millions who follow her and they are the ones that are electing the governments that are instituting the insane social policies. We have to expose her ideas so people don't vote for them.
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  8079.  @mohamedali2858  No one was occupying Gaza when the pogrom was launched on Oct 7/23. There were only Arab Muslims in Gaza. This, and you know this to be true, is about the Islamic belief that the Jews are evil and must be destroyed before the end times come to be. That's not just the Jews in Israel but EVERY Jew around the world.
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  8080. I will NEVER respect a person as dishonest and manipulative as AOC, no matter how savvy they might be. Some of the most murderous sociopaths, like Ted Bundy, were exceptionally intelligent. I'm not going to respect Bundy just because he knew how to manipulate women. Respect is earned through strength of character and integrity. AOC and Bundy have never shown me those qualities.
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  8081. If you didn't like how it made you feel.....QUIT. Quitting a job isn't the end of the world. You go and find another job. I've done it a couple of times.
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  8082.  @Thalinks  Yes....I have owned a home. Yes...I have been out of work and YES I've had to struggle and do you know what? I paid my bills. Doing well isn't a sign of character. It's when things are stacked against you and you still strive to do what's right, that's when you've shown what you're made of. Anyone can be a hero when things are going well. It's during times of tribulation that one has to show his stuff and there appears to be a lot of Americans that are failing the test. Ethics isn't just about what you do. It's about who you are.
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  8083.  @Ryan-mq2mi  I'm getting so sick of it. I'm about to leave YouTube for good and start using Rumble. At least, their policies are reasonable and within the free speech requirements of the Constitution. My problem is that I'm old and don't like change. LOL. I'm going to have to get over it.
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  8084.  @pitchblack1012  Resist the mindset of the welfare state. Resist DEI and other socialist and progressive ideas. They will lead you down the road that Argentina and Venezuela have taken....poverty and tyranny. I think that it's quite obvious.
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  8085.  @marihutten  I've been to Cuba, along with other Canadians, and it completely baffles me that they've seen the poverty and hopelessness of the people of Cuba but can't see how their own ideas for Canadian politics will lead us to where Cuba is now. Thanks for your comment. Maybe some of my fellow Canadians will see it and understand.
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  8086.  @mainnevent515  You knucklehead. The fifties are over. WW2 is over. We don't have to fight the Mongol horde, anymore. You're living in a make believe world.
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  8087.  @johnkladis4266  She does have the right to her opinion and to express what that opinion is. However, if I worked for a company and then posted, online, that I'd never purchase anything that my company produces and I will ALWAYS buy from our business rival....I can expect to be fired, terminated, let go and metaphorically kicked out the front door. I have the right to say it and my company has the right to fire me for what my free speech implies. That's what this person did. She openly said that she supports a group that has been designated a terror group, an organisation who is supported by a Iran, who has openly stated that they wish to see the death of Israel and the United States. She's shown a strong possibility that she may act, as an ally of that group, known as Hamas, along with Iran and use her position to undermine her own nation and job. She can say what she wants but that doesn't mean that she can't be fired from a job in which she is obligated to protect the interests of the country that she works for. My tax dollars should not go to a person who could potentially act against our nation. That would be like Roosevelt recruiting Goebbels. It makes no sense.
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  8088. They'll build a wall to stop people from leaving.
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  8089. Had the Democrats won both the House and the Senate in the mid term elections, none of this Ukraine stuff would have never been brought to light. They would have impeached the president for blowing his nose within a week of that victory....NOT because of a high crime or misdemeanour, but because they had the power to do it. Fortunately, the Republicans won the Senate because, had they not won, we would have seen the biggest abuse of power in American history.
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  8090. I wonder how far back the flood stories go back in our history. 10,000 years? 30,000 years? Maybe those giants were actually Neanderthals. They were significantly bigger and our DNA has shown Neanderthal ancestry. Could all this have been so shocking a story, the giants breeding with humans and the subsequent flood, that it became the most important tale of our history after the story of our creation? I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there as an interesting way of looking at it. Something to ponder.
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  8091.  @pn5721  What really annoyed me is that I've looked it up once before and I've forgotten what it meant. Apparently some thing just don't sink in. LOL.
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  8092. If the covid virus keeps changing, how do you know that the current vaccine is the right one for the job, Mr Gupta? It's changing. You're not suggesting that they know, ahead of time, how to vaccinate for a new strain are you? That sounds like it comes with a conspiracy theory.
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  8093.  @rhet1016  What is Harris going to do. She's NOT the president. She didn't call after Hurricane Helene. Why is that? She's campaigning. Also, what does Trump have to do with Harris calling DeSantis? Two different people. Maybe Harris should look to her own state....California. People are leaving California for the first time in its history and the reasons are obvious. Harris is one of the reasons why this exodus is taking place. Why would anyone even want her help? Her record shows that she'd hurt more than help.
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  8094.  @TechInfo-ul4xr  Harris didn't help prepare for Hurricane Helene or clean up after it passed. During Hurricane Leo, Democrats implied that the damage was Florida's own fault because of climate change and Florida looked after its own mess that time. They didn't show up in Maui until 3 weeks AFTER the fire. As far as I know they never even visited the site in East Palestine after the train derailment. During the George Floyd riots, they allowed city after city to burn, saying that this was necessary and claiming that it was mostly peaceful...even though almost 30 innocent people were killed, thousands were injured and billions of dollars worth of damages. And now you expect people to take their phone calls? If they had a better track record maybe DeSantis would answer her call but what would be the point. If she wanted to help, she'd send FEMA down there with unlimited resources but she can't. She's NOT THE PRESIDENT.
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  8095. Are they still fighting in Korea? I never heard a thing about that. It's amazing how the South Koreans could build the 12th biggest economy in the world in a nation ravaged by war. Of course I'm being facetious, in case you haven't figured it out.
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  8096. This sounds like a totally dysfunctional family. The person going to her daughter's house should also respect the choices and lifestyles of those that will be there and not insist that everyone should go along with their own beliefs. Like it or not, part of the argument is the continuous return to the Christian values that others may not share. The rest of the family is no better. A rational and reasonable person does not verbally mock and abuse those who hold different beliefs than they do. They accept that those differences exist and move on, respecting the others they share the room with. Also, these are the grandparents. Show them respect for who they are and gently explain how your beliefs differ and that you don't want those differences to be a problem in their relationship. This works just fine in my family. My family is large and if runs the gamut from the most pious Christian to the drinkers and pot smokers. Yet, in 60 years, our get togethers at Christmas are an enjoyable occasion with no fighting or bickering. If it's happening to this family in this video, it's the fault of those involved.....all of them. Each of them should be pointing fingers at themselves because they're all to blame to some extent. Pat Robertson is a knob. I hate being so blunt but that's the way it is.
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  8097. As long as the people keep voting for the party that turns a blind eye to these atrocities, it will get worse. Those rioters in Chicago don't need money for food, Tim. Quit making excuses for them. That BLM spokesperson was just blowing smoke.
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  8098.  we are already at war  My parents grew up in Nazi occupied Holland. They were a bunch of pigs who terrorised everyone there, not just the Jews. Put my uncle into a POW camp for 4 years and nearly starved my mother's family to death. American soldiers didn't die fighting for Israel back then. They fought an authoritarian regime that were out to destroy anything in their path. I resent that you would reduce my family's struggle to a fight to protect the Jews. My family deserved protection, too.
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  8099.  @haywardjuniel8388  Vote for the guy that seems to be the most qualified, who has the best ideas and who believes that the voter, the average person, is best suited to make decisions for himself. I know who that is and it's NOT Gavin Newsom. California is a disaster and right now is the FIRST time in history that the population of California is declining. Why? Because people don't want to live there anymore and the main reason is poor leadership. Make it an issues election. That's what it should be anyway. The record of Newsom stands for itself. It's time to return to the common sense that Larry Elder espouses. It's that simple. Follow your own advice.
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  8100.  @barefootman7569  Putin love. LOL. Stop being a troll and speak like a mature adult. Grow up.
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  8101. Catholic schools are funded by the government. That means they're obligated to follow government mandates, including those surrounding gender ideology.
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  8102. I'm a scientist therefore I cannot be questioned.
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  8103.  @theamericaninvader6444  They did leave lanes open. However, pay no attention to StHubbins. He's a troll who's even threatened to off his own sister.
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  8104. When I was a teenager, my neighbour used to tell me how this group of people used to go to public parks, restaurants and public functions to yell, threaten and browbeat ordinary people. I thought that this must have been horrible. He told me that this was why his family left Nazi Germany and came to Canada. It's now happening in the US and it will rear its ugly head in Canada, when the Conservative party wins the next election. The left will behave in the same manner as the left in the US. It's coming Canadians. Just wait and see.
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  8105. A great way to avoid dealing with the "manufactured crisis" at the border. Change the subject. My car mechanic does the same thing. When he can't figure out why my car won't start, he rotates the tires and then gives me a hard time about how important tire care is in overall car maintenance. He's a really good mechanic.
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  8106. No new wars under Trump. First time since Jimmy Carter. Most people that are watching this have lived through one new war after another since then. Trump didn't leave Afghanistan but he wanted to but refused to leave under the terms that Biden found acceptable. Trump doesn't get any credit for the Abraham awards. Had Biden done that, he'd be getting a Nobel peace prize. Hell, Obama got a Nobel prize for, I'm not really sure what, but it seems that he got it for being elected.
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  8107. They're voting for the shadow government that's propping him up. Kamala is going to be no different. She'll gladly take the money, the prestige and the fun of rubbing elbows with the big boys and allow the shadow government to tell her what to do.
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  8108.  @derickartis3780  Which would mean that you're not on welfare so his comment wouldn't apply to you, would it?
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  8109.  John Jourdan  I think he was being facetious, a "tongue in cheek" comment. That's how I took it.
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  8110.  @georgemilford5632  "My house, my rules" Apparently, you've forgotten all about that.
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  8111.  @georgemilford5632  Apparently, Obama didn't think so at least that's what he implied when he said it to a reporter that was annoying him. Acosta should not have "misdirected" the intern when she reached for that microphone. You know it and I know it. She was doing her job. He had no right to use physical force, no matter how slight it might appear, to prevent her from doing it. She made three attempts to grab the get the mike. He blocked her three times, culminating in the "misdirection" where he brought his other hand down on the inside of her elbow, pressuring it down, with enough force to bend the arm and turn her slightly to her right. He knew why she was there and what her job was and he didn't care. He's responsible for how he acted. No one else.
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  8112.  @georgemilford5632  Acosta will be back at the Whitehouse on Friday. Also, if Obama had to be reminded, he wasn't handling it all that well, was he? Politics has become a great deal more heated these days with both sides acting like fools. Maxine Waters telling listeners to let Republicans know that they aren't welcome in public places, Hillary talking about being uncivil, people wearing MAGA hats being attacked ( a guy in Tuscon just had his leg badly broken for wearing one) and other incidents are also happening on top of some of the dumb things Trump is saying. You're attributing this all to the right wing but there are elements on the left that are just as bad. CNN has went out of their way to distort the news to show Trump in a bad light. It's no surprise that he'd react badly no more than it was for Obama to do the same. The difference between you and I is that simple. You only don't like it when the right does it. I don't like it when anyone does it. My rules aren't subjective. Your's appear to be dependent on who does it. It's not the action. It's the person doing the action.
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  8113.  @georgemilford5632  I think Obama handled it better due to his background as a lawyer and career politician. Trump is more bombastic and behaves like an average guy whose behaviour isn't restrained by his training. He reacts without thinking and as a businessman, he's used to people deferring to him. He reminds me of a lot of people I've worked with and for. Unsophisticated and will blurt out whatever happens to be on their mind. Fox news is bad and Tucker Carlson can make me cringe at some of the dumb things he says. However, CNN and MSNBC is no better. There are a lot of left wing media that seem to be bent on vilifying Trump. That's where that fake media charge comes in. As an example, the NY Times headline reads "Trump calls immigrants animals" Sounds horrible right? It is.....if that's what he said. It isn't. It turns out at a town hall type meeting in California, a woman mentioned MS13 and how violent and frightening they were. Trump said that they've been working hard to rid the US of this street gang and that there were a lot of them that have been deported and finished with "they're animals". He was talking about a violent street gang, not immigrants at all. Trump calls fake news and then a major news outlet does that. Trump just smiles and shrugs his shoulders and people can make of it what they will. His point has been made and it happens over and over again. This frustrates me to no end. Why fall into his trap? Trump is supposed to be unintelligent and they're being out witted by the dumb one. Anyway, have a good weekend. We just got 6 inches of snow and I'm here staring out my window. Looks nice though.
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  8114. I think that Trump isn't as orange as he was a couple of weeks ago.
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  8115.  @31mAyMgaYanga  Why is it wrong? Germany is quelling free speech and the United States has done the same thing. They're BOTH guilty.
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  8116. I knew you'd distort this incident. Entitlement and educate those kids. What a pile of nonsense. The March for Life was over. Those kids were told to wait there for the bus so they could leave. First the Black Israelites harassed them, then then the native group walked right up to the kids, waiting on the steps, while Phillips was beating his drum. He walked up to that one kid and started beating his drum right in his face. That kid wasn't in his way because Phillips never intended to climb those stairs. That's a fact. That kid said nothing, absolutely nothing, never moved or made any gestures that suggested violence. He just stood there and smiled, yet that short clip went viral. I wonder why it was this video didn't go viral. These kids actually attacked this elderly gentleman, trying to knock his sign right out of his hand. They danced around him mocking and and getting directly in his face. Yet it didn't go viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7mmPk0D32o I just watched that video again. The elderly gentleman is a Trump supporter. No wonder it's acceptable to you guys and it never went viral. You guys on the left are so hypocritical.
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  8117. I realised that the media was starting to fabricate crisis situations when Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005. It was a terrible thing to have happened to her and her family but it was blown way out of proportion in its significance in world events. 24 hour news coverage with CNN repeatedly questioning its audience in the most dire and pleading of tones with "Is you child safe going on spring break?" Talk about an over reaction. Then, I remembered the fever, in the eighties, of disappearing children. It was announced, in a near panic mode, that each year 1 million children disappeared in America, leaving the impression that they just vanished off the face of the earth. Upon analysis, the numbers included kids who got home late from school and their parents contacted police, kids who told parents they were staying at a friends house and went boozing instead and all kinds of minor incidents that were similar. These were thrown in with the tragic stories and created a state of panic where parents weren't letting their children out of their sight and it has lasted until today. Media hysteria causes more unfounded fear these days than does reality or facts.
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  8118.  @roderickmills5398  I agree. It was much better to have an authoritarian rule over you telling you what to say and think, where you can live and work, even tell you how to live your life. We need tyrants so we can all be free. As a matter of fact, the first order of business would be to shut up and dispose of all who would voice their own opinion. So, Roderick, be careful what you say. You do realise that democracy is a mistake and you have no right to express your own ideas.....unless they align with your own personal tyrant, who you don't get to choose.
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  8119.  @roderickmills5398  If I have no say , no vote, no way to voice or enact my ideas, then I'd say someone else has an authority over me. There is no in between. Either I have a way to be a sovereign individual with an equal opportunity in voicing how my society is governed or I DON'T. Saying I'm not too bright isn't an argument. It's an ad hominem attack and shows me nothing but poor debating skills.
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  8120.  @roderickmills5398  More ad hominem. Nothing about the topic at hand....you know.....how democracy is a horrible mistake. You seem to want to talk about me as if you think that if you can denigrate me, your assertion is true. It's illogical and what is called a logical fallacy.
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  8121.  @roderickmills5398  No......I disagreed with you. Disagreement isn't an attack. I was a bit sarcastic but it's not easy to read a statement as vague and provocative as "democracy is a horrible idea". Democracy is rather slow and cumbersome but if you look at the alternatives, it's still the best that there is. Those weirdos in the video do get to vote but guess what? They didn't vote for Trump and he's still the president and it looks as if he will win the next election as well. That might indicate that generally it works its way out. So far, the world's democracies have been the best places to live on the planet. Nothing is ever perfect, not ever. You take the best option of the imperfect choices. You've made the claim that democracy is a horrible idea but you've not even bothered to champion a better option. You just make a claim as if it can't be questioned. Well.....I'm questioning it and you've not talked about it at all. All you've done was call me names.
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  8122.  @roderickmills5398  Who gets to decide who's an idiot and who isn't? What would be the criteria? Not academics. Look at some of the clowns teaching in our universities right now. Do you go back to the monarchy? That was a terrible idea. Yes....democracy is slow and cumbersome. I said it myself. However, until someone, that includes you, comes up with a better idea, it's still the best we have. I know this because the best countries in the world to live in for the last 100 years have all been democracies, all with Constitutions to mitigate the actions of mob rule. That's what has protected us, to a certain degree, from the leftist agenda to get rid of the idea of free speech and freedom of the press. That's mob rule in action and the Constitution has, so far, been the check that has held them off. It's a democracy under checks and balances that tries to hold off the negative effects of the mob. If you can come up with a better system, I'd like to hear it. I've not heard one yet. Constitutions are a way of telling us that our freedoms to choose are still bound by the rule of law and that even the mob is bound by it. Show me the perfect system and I'll adopt that but until you can show me that system, it's the best of all the horrible ideas. The only ones, thus far, that believe in other systems are autocrats, people that want absolute power. They've always been far worse than democracies.
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  8123.  @roderickmills5398  "Time to recreate a genuine federalist system and that means local hierarchies." That still leaves us with a basic question. How do you settle on the local hierarchy. Who gets to be at the top of the hierarchy, the ones who actually make the decisions that are the best for your local entity. Should it be a monarchy type system? That was a disaster. Maybe something like what the Chinese have now, a system that grew out of the Politburo system of Stalin and Mao? A miniaturised sized version that would suit a local government. That hasn't been that great, either and the people in China don't have near the freedoms that we have in the west and we have no reason to believe that it wouldn't become a city state system where a few get to run their vassals below them. We're still may be back to a localised democracy, where the individual gets to vote on who gets to enact policy on a limited time basis. That's still a democracy. All I'm hearing is a plea for greater state rights, something the left would hate. It has also been the biggest struggle of American politics. In fact, it was State's rights that was the big issue of the Civil War.....not slavery, as many would make it. It's also state's rights that have made Oregon such a leftist paradise. They've actually relaxed laws to an extent that aren't there of a Federal level. Sanctuary cities and states are another example. It's the loony left that using state and municipal laws in an effort to get federal control. It's why these states hate Trump. He stands in their way of seizing complete control, the control that allows them to break Federal immigration laws. Yet, in California, a sanctuary state, they have municipalities that have opted out of this state legislated sanctuary status. They did it because local politics, the people, voiced their opinion, through the power of localised democratic process. The same corruption that you see on a federal level can and does happen on the local level. Citizens in Seattle went to their town council, democrats all, and complained about the homeless and crime issues in that city, and they were basically laughed at. I guarantee that had they went to the Whitehouse, Trump wouldn't have laughed at them.
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  8124.  @roderickmills5398  A lot of what we're talking about are details and we may be deflecting from the basic issue. How would the hierarchy be established in your more localised governing entities? You've not answered that. Who will be at the top of those hierarchies and why would they be there and not someone(s) else in those communities. You've not answered that. You've talked about having smaller, decentralised governments but you still haven't said how they would be run and that is my question and the central issue here. What process determines the ruling class of that hierarchy.
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  8125.  @roderickmills5398  The US is a amalgamation of states which all adhere to the Constitution of the whole. The right to vote is a central part of that Constitution and if a state abandons the right to vote for all its citizens, it has contravened the Constitution, the very ideals of the entire country. In essence, it's a step to secession. From your comments, it would seem that your problem isn't with democracy or the right to vote, it's with the size of government. That the further away a person gets from a localised government, the value of that individual person's voice carries less weight. Now, that's an excellent point and I would say that there is a very important discussion to be had on that topic. Take, as an example, what is happening in the EU. Too many Europeans feel as if they've given away control of their lives and countries to an overblown association of European nations who pass edicts without any consideration to the lives of those in different regions. A huge central government that is incredibly distant from the ordinary person who feels they've lost any voice in the country they live in. That's a travesty and that, in a lot of ways, is what I'm hearing from you. I'm saying this because you've yet to respond to the question of a better way to build a government, even on a localised level. All you talk about is federal over reach and that's a different topic. It's one of the reasons why Trump won. Those people living in the fly over states feel helpless as the big states, the populated areas, dictate how those in the rural landscape should live. That is something that I could agree with you on but I can't agree with a state or local process that doesn't include the power of the individual as participants in government decisions. That means a vote, a say in how it should be done. They're not always going to be the right decisions because people are notorious for making mistakes but it's still the best for everyone.
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  8126.  @doubledoubleusmokymirror4d405  Teacher activists are already teaching that to children. They believe that the point of education is to turn out activists. Read the works of Gramsci and Freire. Socialist teachers love their work.
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  8127.  @tparbs  I don't trust any politicians. Having said that, they're a necessary evil and we can only judge them on their performance. I didn't trust Trump but things were going better than they have in decades, until Covid arrived. Then the Democrat states started to implode and Republican states started to prosper, trying to carry on Trump's recipe of governing. It's so obvious that only the most stubborn refuse to admit it. It would be quite normal for someone, like Tulsi, to see that the Democrats are failing and badly.
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  8128. TMan786 What fact is he not comprehending?
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  8129. Jordie0001 That's the big issue with Islam and why they're not outraged. They know that the Koran calls unbelievers the lowest of creatures and if they were to be outraged at the Pakistani grooming gangs, they'd have to explain that attitude and that puts them in danger of criticising the Koran. That is absolutely forbidden. So they keep their mouth shut. Can't be a blasphemer if you say nothing.
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  8130.  @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia  "Uh-duh, a-yuk, yuk yuk." Does being intentionally obtuse give you pleasure? Grow up.
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  8131.  @littlebob1261  Oh stop....troll. It was a riot by bunch of idiots. They wandered around for a couple of hours and then went home. What kind of insurrection does that. It's just political propaganda. Nothing more.
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  8132.  @chasethehistorian2003  He didn't win the primary because Trump already has a presidential record that a lot of people liked, so they picked Trump. Just because I think that Wayne Gretzky is the best hockey player of all time, that doesn't mean that all other hockey players are terrible. That's the same with presidential primaries. Biden won the primary in 2020 and he definitely wasn't a very good candidate.
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  8133.  @douglemay7989  Unelectable???? Is that why he went from a narrow 0.4% victory, in 2018, to winning by a 19.4% margin in 2022. He's THAT unelectable?? The Florida Democrats couldn't even touch him in 2022. That Charlie Crist must have one heck of a lot of charm. LOL. Look at the president that we have now. He didn't campaign and when he did come out, he lose his train of thought, can't even read the teleprompter, gets lost on stage, keeps falling down, gets his facts all confused....that's REAL charm there. If Biden can get elected, anyone can.
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  8134. @@maxofficial2 "If you leave me, I'll kill myself" So what do you do? You stay because you don't want them to carry out that threat. WORSE.....if you do decide to leave, in spite of the risk of suicide, the law or your professional organisation, FORCES you to stay because leaving increases the risk of suicide and that would be "life ending". Using threats of this nature is emotional blackmail. It's manipulative and reprehensible.
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  8135. @@maxofficial2 Who said what? What part of my comment are you referring to, specifically?
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  8136.  @WhyNotTruth  That might well be a good topic of discussion and consideration but that's NOT what the "Mengele" of ethics said.
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  8137.  World2154  So far, there's no proof of that. No proof and repeating it over and over again, isn't proof.
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  8138. You shouldn't need a government order to be told to stay away from church for a little while. God knows what's in your heart. You don't need to go to a building to show your piety or find favour with God or to find comfort. God resides in your heart. Don't be a Pharisee.
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  8139. I would like for someone to show me where, in the transcript of that phone call, where Trump explicitly threatened to withhold aid or money until those requirements were met. Show me please. I haven't been able to find it, myself so I'm asking for your help. I'd really appreciate it.
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  8140.  @timothyryan6018  How is that a threat? That doesn't mention anything about withholding funds or aid. It just asks for a favour. All the Ukrainian president had to do was say yes or no or even nothing at all. That's definitely not impeachable. I'm sure the leaders of nations do this all the time. How would a country ask an another country to extradite criminals? "We believe Joe Blow is hiding in your country. Could you do us a favour and find him for extradition so he could stand trial for bribery?" Is that illegal?
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  8141.  @Ser_bobbathan_wasabathonthe5th  LOL...something like that.
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  8142. I love censorship especially when _ _ _ ___ ______. I've always _____ ___ ____. I feel it's important to be ______ ____.
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  8143. A ridiculous guideline. I'm a free man living in a free country. No one has the right to follow me, regardless of NW or any other guideline. The constitution of the country should be the only guideline. What the heck does this NW stand for, anyway?
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  8144.  @cellardoor1122  Is that ALL you got. He's wearing sneakers? That's quite the in-depth financial analysis. LOL. You should have Janet Yellen's job. That obviously means that he's wrong about his financial assessment of the bailout. (big eyeroll) The millionaires thank you for your support.
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  8145.  @bmack1708  You would think that the worst cases of LGBTQ+++ harassment would be happening in red states. That's where the "bigots" live. Are you saying that there are no LGBTQ+++ in those states? That doesn't make sense.
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  8146. Those adorable chipmunks and squirrels offered themselves up to the hawks as food for the starving hatchlings. That's what makes them SO adorable. They're heroes.
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  8147. 40 million....66 million....it's rather unimportant. What is important is that even if it's only 3 million, that's enough for me to reject Stalin's mode of totalitarian rule. Bad is bad and an exercise in number crunching doesn't make the 2 million man killer a better person than the 60 million man killer. I reject them both and also the notion that I can soften a man's horrific deeds by engaging in softening his murderous ways.
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  8148. Really. She called out Kamala in the Democrat primaries and effectively drove Harris out of the running as the Democrat candidate for president. Harris had ZERO votes after that. Over the next few days, she was the number one search word, on Google, to find out who she was but the Democrats didn't invite her to the next debate, effectively dropping her as a candidate. WHY.....when she put on such a strong showing in the debates. I'd say that it was the Democrats who exercised their power to get rid of her because they saw her as a threat to THEIR money and power. They did to her what they had done to Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Do as they say or you are OUT!!!!! She's out.
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  8149.  TITUS GARGLES TRUMP CUM  "Well Donnie did it, too!!!!" You sound like my kids. When I tried doing it when I was a kid, my mom would rap me upside the head. Then she'd double the punishment. Time for you to grow up.
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  8150.  @justinkirschenman2232  What do you mean, Covid tests contaminated with Covid? Where did you hear that? I'd need a reference to that.
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  8151.  @justinkirschenman2232  It doesn't even make sense. If you're sick, you get tested. You don't get tested if you're not sick. How would you know if the test made you sick if you're sick already.
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  8152.  @justinkirschenman2232  Repeating that the tests are contaminated with the Covid virus isn't proof that it's so. You have to prove it through references. You haven't done that and I've never heard of any reports that said that this was true.
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  8153.  @justinkirschenman2232  I didn't see the comment where you sent that link. Youtube never notified me of it. I had to upload all the comments and scroll down before I saw it. A YouTube glitch. So, I read your reference. It says that this happened in February. There were hardly any cases in February. The case load didn't really take off until early March. This was a reason that they were unable to do the testing that was needed at first. They had to resolve that problem and your reference even said that they did all the way back in February. By the time they did that, it was too late and your article that's what forced the social distancing call in mid March. It may have been a factor in February but this is May. Test kits are manufactured under different standards and by many more manufacturing sources. They didn't even have the on site tests developed yet, back in February. A lot different situation in April, then it was if February. Just because it happened in early February, doesn't make it a factor, through March, April and halfway through May. Your article even says it was discovered and fixed in February.
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  8154.  @justinkirschenman2232  First of all, this article doesn't state whether the tainted test kits were discovered in the field or as a part of an in house quality control check. That makes a difference. Also, to say that this is still happening requires proof. It also implies that there is no quality control whatsoever in this industry, even from the new companies that have gotten into new testing kits. Also, I've watch numerous press conferences. The press was continuously haranguing Trump, at first, for the lack of tests and that initially they weren't that good. Trump has acknowledged it. Then why, when testing is approaching 10 million, aren't the press haranguing him about these test tainted with Covid viruses. I've NEVER heard that and it would be a good one to go after him for. Why would I trust these people to make the vaccines? Maybe, it's because it's not only these people that are working on the vaccines. There are labs all over the world working on them. Different labs, everywhere. It's just not American suppliers. The US is a big country but it's not the centre of the universe. Also, why would you trust any drug you take that these people make? Why would you trust the food you eat that these people produce? Bad food can kill you, too. It's a poor argument and you prove it every time you go to the grocery store or drug store.
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  8155.  @justinkirschenman2232  That's it finally. You make claims and then you want ME to prove it for you. It's not how science works, or the law or academics. It's not how humanity has achieved anything of value. It's also a question of integrity. If you claim something or make an accusation, you should have the integrity to prove that claim or accusation. Your claim is no different than the made up claims against Trump. If you can't back it up it's just talk, old lady gossip. It's how flat earthers operate.
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  8156.  @justinkirschenman2232  They can't be trusted because they made a mistake???? Really? EVERYONE makes mistakes. This wasn't intentional. Why is it that ONLY this mistake can NEVER....EVER be rectified. It's illogical. It happened at the very beginning. Now, there are many more companies involved not just the 3 original companies and the FDA has found the CDC protocols were insufficient to prevent the infected tests. Those protocols have been updated. NEW companies are making the tests. NEW COMPANIES. These tests were developed and manufactured a month after the initial tests were to be found to be infected. Are you seriously saying that these new manufacturers are ALSO making infected tests? Making them and NO ONE is saying a WORD about it because the press would rather make stuff up? This is beyond ridiculous and you're just using this argument to bolster an preconceived agenda. Like I said, why would you trust anything that ANYONE makes for human consumption? We're talking in circles and you refuse to admit that this is the example is proof that there can only be ONE outcome in the manufacture of vaccines. Bad vaccines. It's like saying that because some Tylenol capsules were laced with poison in 1982, we should never, EVER, take another pain reliever again because pain relief manufacturers can't be trusted now. It's beyond ridiculous.
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  8157.  @SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist  I know that I'm probably not a good person either so I'm free to say how I feel. However, I could never vote for a person or party that supports the mutilation of children, keeps secrets between themselves and those children from their parents, or who says that they support women's rights but can't tell me what a woman is. That's 2 plus 2 equals 5 territory and a complete departure from reality. That's how this imperfect being feels.
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  8158.  @WanderingExistence  You're defending Don Lemon's rudeness and his financial privilege by criticising FOX? That's illogical and a very childish argument. Don Lemon has the world as his oyster. If Vivek can't speak on a topic because he's not black then Don Lemon can't be the voice of the average black American because he's one of the privileged elites of America. That FOX has been guilty, of transgressions in the past, has absolutely NOTHING to do with Don's behaviour or the fact that most Americans will never live the life of luxury and privilege that he enjoys.
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  8159.  @generalacehorn4059  Typical fear mongering. We've had disputed elections since 2000. Hillary is STILL claiming that the 2016 was stolen from her and Trump is doing the same.....yet Trump's an election denier but Hillary isn't. It doesn't even make sense. Yet, when Georgia brought out a more secure election process, the left called it Jim Crow 2.0. So I read ALL 97 pages of their election bill and found NOTHING that was the wrong thing to do. I challenged dozens of people to show me where there was a problem with their new laws, even referred them to the document and not ONE person ever responded. My Gawd....voting ID is racist. How can ANYONE be so ridiculous? Clean up our voting laws so we don't spend all our time fighting over whether the other guy cheated or not. You'd think that we're a third world banana republic the way we hold elections. It's insane. Quit your fear mongering. It's childish.
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  8160. I'm protesting and I'd NEVER loot or condone looting. Am I wrong to say that this man should never have died? I protest how he died. I make my feelings known and then I go home. I'm NOT a looter. Unless you think that Floyd deserved to die, I'd hope you'd protest the manner of his death as well.....but I'd also hope you wouldn't tear your town apart as a part of that protest. It's not that difficult a concept to understand.
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  8161. I've heard Tim call the MSM a bunch of liars, countless times. Even in this video, he's calling CNN a bunch of liars. I'm not sure what your point is, unless it's just making blanket statements without having any basis.
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  8162. The "children in cages" crap again. Obama put "brown babies" in cages or are they so filled with hate that they won't accept that as fact, no matter what the evidence. It was Trump who put an end to that practice. These dumb jerks still don't get it. The more they talk this way, they more they are guaranteeing a Trump victory. It's almost as if they're an arm of the Trump campaign team. A sort of "good cop/bad cop" routine to confuse the voters. Trump wants a merit based immigration system, built along the model of the Canadian immigration policies. It works great here. These blockheads are too busy shouting "Bad Trump!!!!! Bad Trump!!!!" to ever sit, listen and assess the information that's out there. They're too dumb to understand that calling people deplorables and racists is NOT the way to make friends or elicit votes for your team.
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  8163.  @NachoManAndySavage  It sure can......and CBS is showing a total lack of integrity by mounting an investigation into Sharon Osborne. They may have the right to do it, but they're not right in doing it. Also, when an industry only allows specific opinions, it's not calling for freedom and it allows for the takeover of power by authoritarians. REAL authoritarians love it because it will make their job easier when it comes time to usurp power and the elites will control what you think, say and do. But, of course, you'll like that because you think that you'll be the one with the jackboots on.
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  8164.  @NachoManAndySavage  I don't know what you're opinions are but you were being quite sarcastic with your "freedom for all" line. That led me to the only logical conclusion and that was that you approve of the overall censorship tendencies of the media AND the left....YOUR left.
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  8165. Watch all the religious nuts come out. Christian and Muslims draw ranks and babble how bad the other is. You're both nuts.
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  8166.  @greg_austin  Don't be intentionally obtuse. "They" are the arresting officers of Jennifer Heath. "They" are NOT a "they" who are cops in Peoria. We are talking about a specific case. "They", police officers of Broward county, arrested the wrong woman, Jennifer Heath, who is TWICE the age of the Jennifer Heath that they wanted, was a different height and had a different eye colour. Then "they" held her for 3 days even though there was doubt about whether she was the right person wanted. Her drivers licence even showed that "they" had the wrong person. Worse, there was ANOTHER Jennifer Heath on that cruise, who was ALSO the wrong Jennifer Heath. These police officers of Broward County, the "they" that is being talked about, are at fault for arresting the wrong person, NOT for being at fault for everything. I'm astounded that this has to be explained to you. I doubt that you'd ask such a question if it was YOU that spent 3 days in jail for no fault. In case you're confused on who the "you" is that I'm talking about, I'm talking about "greg_austin".......you.
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  8167.  Robby Thomason  To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You see the symbolism because you're looking for it and want to see it. "I want to believe" isn't exactly the way to an objective search.
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  8168.  Robby Thomason  I'm fully vaccinated but I'm against the mandates because of the lack of trust people have in the medical establishment. The repercussions of mandates may end up being worse than the disease. Going on about Satanism makes you seem a like a bit of a nut. Try to be a little more rational by using facts instead of demonising others. You can get out the same message without people thinking that you've lost your mind and they'd be more apt to listen to you.
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  8169. How could they nominate a woman when they can't define what a woman is? That's contradictory. If you don't know, then saying that the entire NY Rangers hockey team is manned by women, is a valid claim. It can't be denied because you can't deny what you can't define.
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  8170.  @kevincoleman-tammen1266  You clothe them, IF you have the wherewithal to do it. However, you have to balance your ability to help them with your ability to maintain a financial position that you'd be able to help those who need it. You're not helping anyone after you give all your possessions away and are now not able to help anyone, anymore. People don't have financial success, solely out of good luck. It takes hard work, an understanding of how to accrue wealth and what is valuable, in the fiscal sense. You can't help someone to eat if you're flat broke and need help yourself. You have to balance your financial success with your desire and ability to help.
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  8171.  @kevincoleman-tammen1266  Do have possessions? Like a car or do you own your own home? Do you have a bank account? Are you seriously giving away everything that you own? I don't believe that you are. You're looking for ways to criticise and you're not being realistic. You need money to be able to give money to help the poor. It's a great thing when a poor person gives what he can but in reality, it's a paltry contribution. If you build on your wealth, with an eye to charitable work, you can build something of value, not only for yourself, but that can really help others as well. That's something that's sustaining and can help others over the long term. I can't help the underprivileged if I'm dirt poor and near under privileged myself. I also have to contribute to building a society that has the financial clout to help the poor. A society of poor folk is a society that's ripe for a disaster.
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  8172.  @kevincoleman-tammen1266  God is providing for you through the riches and hard work of others. I'm going to assume that you live in a western style capitalist society. The reason that so many can live on welfare is because others have worked hard, saved their money and invested in worthwhile financial projects. If they gave it all away, to the poor, we'd still be living on a world that's lost to the perfection of God's heaven. God's Kingdom is not of this world. Jesus has told us that flat out. As a matter of fact, when Solomon asked for wisdom, God rewarded him with riches. Does that mean that Solomon didn't trust in God? You're taking advantage of living in a society that is rich and then boasting how God is rewarding your piety through providing for you. That's the sin of pride. If our society wasn't as rich as it is, things wouldn't be as great for you as you claim it is. There's a huge safety net under you and you don't have the gratitude to thank God for the blessings that such a system as granted you.
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  8173.  @kevincoleman-tammen1266  However, declaring, on the internet, that your piety is the reason why God is providing for you, that is a show of pride. Before you get to full of your own sanctity, there are people, burning and looting cities right now, across the US, who go home to a warm bed with a full stomach, every day. Is their devotion to God the reason for that as well? Be grateful. That's it. Don't qualify it by telling us that God has deemed it well deserved, due to your devotion to him. Your belly is just as full as the guy that just robbed and looted a store.
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  8174.  @kevincoleman-tammen1266  OKAY....You're humble. I'm glad that we got that cleared up. I'm glad that God has acknowledged your humility and given you the rewards that you feel you so richly deserve. Maybe you should start your own YouTube channel so you can proclaim your humility all over the internet.
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  8175.  @communist_man_of_pesto401  First of all, Jesus NEVER said it was a sin to be rich. Why would he say that? It would mean that he was against God's blessing of Solomon with riches because Solomon chose wisdom over money. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Also, because Job had remained faithful to God, despite the terrible setbacks he suffered, God rewarded him by returning his wealth, sevenfold. Once again, it doesn't make sense that God would reward the man by making him a sinner....a rich man. I could give you all kinds of examples if you're interested but this will do for a start. Jesus never said being rich was a sin. You've misunderstood what he was meaning.
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  8176.  @communist_man_of_pesto401  No, it's not. When Jacob worked hard, in the service of God, he was rewarded with larger flocks. The parable of the talents, those who worked hard and increased the talents, left in their charge, were rewarded and the one that hid his talent was heavily chastised. Money reflects the value of products produced by your hard work. It's the inevitable result of a nation's labour. Without the freedom to grow and prosper, we diminish and wither. Capitalism is a co-operative economy, where people make agreements with one another to trade and grow their enterprises. True socialism is a command economy, where we're told what we need, by the state, and they set the quotas for the people. This leads to stagnation. An economy either grows and flourishes or it languishes. The status quo can never be maintained. That's why the richest nations, the ones with the best standards of living, are all Capitalist countries. It's how it was done in Biblical times. Individual freedom to allow one to make his own destiny become reality. In Socialism, there is no personal destiny. It's all bestowed on you by the state. No reward from God.....notice how socialists deny God and no hope to plan for your own financial future.
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  8177.  @alphapablo3514  There is no evidence that he is in the client list because we've not seen who Epstein's clients are because that list has NEVER been released. Guilt by association does not have legal status in the US. Also, Matthew Colangelo, who was the 3rd in line to become the DOJ, after Merrick Garland, stepped down to become an assistant prosecutor, in a district in New York, to help go after Trump. That would be like a company manager, quitting his job, to become the night shift foreman in another company. It makes no sense. It smells, BAD, of corruption. Worse, no one knows what the underlying crime was that this hush money was trying to protect. Non-disclosure agreements are legal unless money is passed to cover a crime. Now....tell me what crime was Trump trying to cover up. That doesn't mean that Trump is a saint but you've allowed hatred to be your guide instead of the facts.
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  8178. When I was young, I was a big fan of the band, the Doors. I loved the music and the ideas in the lyrics of Jim Morrison. I found out that Morrison was a bit of a jerk. I accepted that fact and I still love the music of the Doors, to this day. To show the converse, I refer to the music and life of Michael Jackson. He was a talented entertainer but a lot of people refused to believe that he could be guilty of horrendous crimes. I get, innocent until proven guilty, but the guy was a weirdo. Buy his records if you like his music but never, EVER, allow your kid to spend the night with him. I still watch Harvey Weinstein movies and enjoy them but the SOB belongs in jail and he should rot there living on bread and water.
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  8179. They'll ignore it. Down deep they know that it's wrong but their white guilt won't allow them to criticise the guy. There will be blacks who feel that they're justified in that kind of behaviour and the white Liberal won't say a thing about it....mostly due to their own weird racist attitudes.
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  8180.  @robertwelsh4094  Those of us who love higher food, housing and energy prices are really laughing. Tears due to laughing so hard at those MAGA tears. Us elites, we got LOTS of money so we can afford it. YAY for us. Those poor folks are gonna have a hard time though and most of them are the disgusting MAGA supporters, anyway. Looks good on them......right?
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  8181.  Free Thinker  Zlochevsky was in London, England, avoiding Ukraine authorities and had 23 million dollars in assets frozen back in the Ukraine. It benefited him greatly, because shortly after that prosecutor was fired, that money was released and 8 months later he returned to the Ukraine. It didn't take long and he was in trouble again, over things he did when he was Minister of Ecology back in 2012 and he's left the country again. Zlochevsky was an extremely corrupt individual, a businessman and politician in a country named the 3rd most corrupt nation on the planet. Why would his company employ an American, with no fossil fuel exploration experience, couldn't speak the language and didn't even live in Ukraine? Could it be that his father was the vice president of the most powerful country in the world? I don't know.....not for sure, but when his father, that vice president, tells their government that they won't get 1 BILLION dollars unless they fire the guy that investigated his son's boss, I'd like to know what is going on. I'd think any reasonable American would and I would think that party politics would be irrelevant. Apparently, I would be wrong.
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  8182.  @tu3aa251  They're innocent until proven guilty and that's how it should be. That's why an investigation is warranted. However, there are some that believe that investigations only apply to certain individuals, based on party affiliations. Strange how an investigation into a candidate would be a benefit to his rival and wrong but an investigation into the rival, which would benefit the other candidate, is fine, even though it benefits that candidate. Now fill in Biden into candidate and Trump into rival and you have our situation. If it's necessary to investigate Trump....have at it but don't tell me that investigations can only go one way. That's beyond ridiculous.
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  8183. This is like when George Bush flew over New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. "I didn't know it was that bad" he said. The Biden administration and his media are just as unfeeling and aloof as Bush.
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  8184.  @spindoctor6385  Do you really believe that a company, once it has grown extremely large, will use their market and financial power for goodness and niceness? Really? Maybe you should look into the history of monopolies. Once a company corners a market, they will do anything to undermine any competition. Just as an example, they'll undercut prices so their competition can't compete price wise. They'll offer increased prices for raw materials so their competition can't afford to buy the things that they need. They'll invest in the companies that supply raw materials and control who can buy and who can't. They'll get exclusive rights to machinery and technology so the competition is squeezed out that way. Throughout history, when any group, be it political, ideological, religious or financial, gets too much power, they'll wield it against the people to ensure and increase that power. It's human nature. It's why the American Constitution has attempted to put checks and balances on how it governs. It's also why it's enshrined religious freedoms AND restrictions, such as "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust" They even require that elected officials to give up any business connections so as to not give favour to their own business interests. I don't believe, for one minute, that any large corporation will freely and cheerfully allow competition to exist. Look at the new Parler platform. It was a conservative platform and the Amazon computer server division, kicked them off their servers as soon as it appeared to have too much influence. A great way to manipulate the last election. Speaking of which, have you read the Time magazine article which outlines how Big Tech, the MSM, large corporations and the Democrats worked to "fortify the election to ensure a proper outcome". That's what happens when there's too much power in the hands of too few. Give big tech the freedom and you'll NEVER have competition. They'll make it impossible for the little guy to operate. Don't trust them for a minute. Actually, I'm astounded that anyone would trust corporations as big as the Big Tech 5.
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  8185.  @spindoctor6385  You're still not getting it. Facebook already owns 72 internet companies including Instagram, Oculus and Whatsapp. Twitter is one of the most prominent sites in the world. Amazon is huge and Alphabet, one of the most valuable companies in the world, owns Google, of which YouTube is a subsidiary. These companies make money selling their data and it is next to impossible for companies to make money through only advertising and membership fees. Advertisers will want to target their audiences so they'll insist on data collection, so that just leaves the fees to make money on. These companies will just grow and grow, leaving those little companies to operate in obscurity or go bankrupt. WORSE, they'll become part of the political process as they grow. The Democrats LOVE that these big companies will run propaganda for them and won't allow them to lose their influence and will enact policies that will help the big ones and suppress the little ones. It's happening in Canada right now. The Canadian communications regulatory body, the CRTC, is trying to enact policies that favour Canadian media and squelch the little guys. The CRTC head was once an employee of Bell Canada, the the biggest communications corporation in the country. The Democrats will do the same for their big tech companies. They're WAY ahead of the Republicans in this. Yet, you want to give these guys, including Facebook, the power to grow until nothing can touch them. Why would you want to do that? If you don't have regulations, they'll take advantage of their position to gain more power. It's how every monopoly has ever operated yet, for some reason you believe that Facebook will be good. They're censoring discussion now if it doesn't meet their political stance. EVERY one of those tech giants support the Democrats and censored stories that might help the Republicans. All I can think is that you approved of all the censorship and allowing big corporations to become even bigger than the government. Once private companies can pick and choose the political leaders, we're living in an autocratic society. It will be the new age Feudal system.
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  8186.  @spindoctor6385  I just explained it to you. Facebook has gotten so big that advertisers will cater to the advantages of data collections. They'll insist on it with new and smaller platforms and refuse advertising dollars unless those smaller platforms comply with data collecting policies. So, without advertising dollars, they can only rely on membership fees and as other small platforms acquiesce to the big advertisers, they'll lose out because they just can't compete with all the little extras that the other platforms can afford to provide with all the extra revenue. Then there's the pressure of conformity, especially among the young. How do you tell your 15 year old that you won't allow Facebook in your home because you have moral and ethical qualms about data collecting. All their friends have it and they don't see the danger or problems involved. That will only create pressures to give in because most kids can't fend off peer pressure. These are the kinds of things that Facebook and advertisers depend on and encourage. On top of all that, data collections has hidden traps for unsuspecting users. It can be used for political purposes, like I've already said. That's what happened in the last election. I've given you ALL kinds of reasons why it's wrong and why it shouldn't be allowed and, go back to the first paragraph. That answers your question on why it's harder for new players. It gives Big Tech an advantage that new players will find difficult to compete with. The playing field will never be equal. I'll add one more thing. Facebook understands that their type of platform is useless in small markets. It depends on being able to reach the biggest market possible. Why join a platform where you don't have any friends or relatives? How does a new player break into that market when Facebook has a lock on it? People will agree to data collections just because they want to be a part of an internet community that reaches everyone, not just a couple of people. Everything about the industry favours Facebook and the other big tech corporations and puts new players at a HUGE disadvantage. In other words, you'll end up on a platform that will collect data or you don't have a viable platform to join. It's either them or nothing.
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  8187. Look at the kids playing communists. Ain't they cute? Just so adorable. Anyone caught hissing gets sent to the Gulag. First one there's a rotten egg. I'll bet their parents are SO proud. LOL.
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  8188.  @Patty-yq3zf  Who's trying to limit free speech or ban books? I've not heard of this leader. Give us examples of this censorship.
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  8189.  @bruhism173  One little statement and that's ALL you hear, now. How infantile is that? Why don't you print up a statement and declare that this is what you want everyone to believe and say? No deviation, whatsoever. What myopic little minds some people have.
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  8190.  @Halcon_Sierreno  The Germans laid the foundation for the nuclear bomb. Funny thing is, they thought that they were doing the right thing in preserving civilisation and that the "other", less sophisticated people, would be the ones to destroy mankind. So, the Nazis set upon a quest to prevent it from happening, by destroying the less viable nations, and creating a 1000 year nation that would bring peace and prosperity. The point to remember is that they felt that this peace and prosperity wouldn't happen without the distraction of those inferior nations. Sort of like wishing that the "evil" Americans didn't exist. If only they were gone, the world would be saved. No matter how things change, they remain the same. Hatred, and the self aggrandisement that go with it, always seem to rule the hearts of humanity.
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  8191.  @DominicLeung87  Refusing to admit that you could be wrong is a path to failure. I know that elves don't exist but if I seen one in my back yard, I'd have to admit that I've wrong about that. I can prove a left wing advocate is wrong on an issue and it won't open their eyes to those facts. It makes them angry and they refuse to discuss it further. As an example, I showed someone proof that Jen Psaki, Biden's press secretary, that she said that they were working with Facebook to allow only approved ideas on that platform. Did the proof stop and make him think? No. He became angry AT ME. "What are you mad at me for?" I asked. "I didn't say it, she did. Be mad at her". Reasonable people change as new facts are uncovered. Ideologues get angry and refuse to change.
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  8192. Every time someone says that we're better off because of Biden, I check my meagre investment portfolio. It never was big but it was worth having. Its value has dropped, since Biden became president, by 15% and it's floundering around, in the water, like a half dead sunfish. Half the time I'm afraid to look. When Trump was president, I was eager to see how it was going. Obama might be doing better. After all, he charges more for one speaking engagement than most of us make in a year. Life is good when you're an elite.
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  8193. The guy was criticised for the "epic" win but I have a feeling that this girl was going to cry no matter what the guy said unless it lined up 100% to her mindset. She still a child at heart, no different than the screaming 5 year old at a supermarket. Her emotion is not only manipulative, it has become self affirming and that can make for an extremely dangerous person.
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  8194. He's famous. I pay no attention to those Hollywood celebrities and I've even heard of him. To add, he's a prime example of Hillary's elitist followers who believe that the average person is wallowing in the basket of deplorables. He's also part of that establishment that lost Hillary the election.
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  8195. We have to show ID to vote in Canada. You go to the voting station that assigned to you, give your name, show your ID, get your ballot, your name is struck from the voter list and you put the finished ballot in the box. One man.....one vote. Don't get why that's such a problem for the Democrats.
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  8196. When he took his 95 year old mother out of an old age home and put her up in a hotel and then announced the following day that Covid patients were going to be placed in old age homes, I knew that this was a dangerous and self serving man. He just proved it again.
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  8197. I wonder if Hydroxychloroquine is an ingredient in the Pfizer pill. That would be funny.
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  8198. ​ @NorCalJuggalo420  Type in "Drag queen story time" in the YouTube search engine. You don't have to watch Infowars to see it. It is happening. Also....I'M AN ATHEIST. I don't believe God exists. So stop with your BS about me pushing religious views. You're making stuff up.
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  8199. No system is perfect and I very much doubt that it ever will be. We should try to implement the system that works the best and limit the tendencies for corruption, the kind or corruption that companies like Blackrock or individuals like Soros or Klaus Schwab would impose. History has shown that if given the chance, humans will take advantage of any given situation and it's up to us to fight for the freedom and strength to fight that type of social rot.
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  8200.  @nicoleparent9  Why would I believe that? I've given no indication that I believe in such a thing. I do know that when big tech platforms censor articles from the NY Post, one of the oldest newspapers in America and the 4th largest in the country, there's something wrong. When Time Magazine writes that Big Tech, the media, Big Corporations, Rinos and the Democrats worked together to "fortify" the elections and that this is a good thing, I'm going to say that this isn't how a Democracy is supposed to be run. Maybe you like censorship and the elites rigging an election but I don't. And before you start calling me a conspiracy nut, I can show you that Time Magazine article. They're actually bragging about it. Same as Project Veritas catching one of CNN's top executives, on video, admitting to propaganda and bragging how they got Biden elected and how they use scare tactics to get ratings. This is what our democracy has become. Big corporations deciding who they want as president. Great stuff.
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  8201.  @jamesriver3745  My best friend, of 30 years, believes everything that the MSM tells him. He swears that Rittenhouse is guilty. Why? He's white and he was carrying a gun. "I don't need to watch the trial. I know what I saw". Then he proceeds to tell me that burning down Kenosha was no big deal. "They have fire insurance". He was never like this before but he became so obsessed with his hatred of Trump that he can't think logically anymore. It's sad to see the anger roll over his face when you present facts that he doesn't like. His wife hates it when he watches the news. Unfortunately, he's not alone in this. As a bartender, I see it a lot.
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  8202.  @sockpastarock7082  No....what he's saying is that this report was claimed to be written by 30 qualified scientists when it wasn't. There were a handful of scientists, who may, or may NOT, have an agenda to promote. Most of the names that are on these reports are NOT scientists, like it's claimed, but activists with an ideology to sell. It's no different than supporting a report, claiming that it was written by "experts" and scientists, and then discovering that the scientists involved are creationists and the "experts" are pastors and church elders, interested in religious culture and truth. Those scientists could have the requisite degrees but they're ideologically driven. It's misleading and deep down you have to know it.
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  8203.  @sockpastarock7082  "That's why we use the scientific method" New age spirituality....that sounds scientific. It's like the claim that there's multiple genders. REAL scientific, that one. That's exactly how Christianity started. They told everyone the "end is nigh". Scare people and they'll do anything to stave off that horrific ending. It's been the pattern of humanity. We've been dodging the Apocalypse for centuries. We're so afraid of dying that we forget to live.
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  8204.  @sockpastarock7082  If you think that spiritualists adding their name to a scientific paper gives it credence, there's nothing more that I can say. They were supposed to consult with experts and they go to religious types? How can you defend that? It's like going asking Ken Ham or Kent Hovind to lend their name to a scientific report on evolution. Who would take that seriously? Yet, you're defending that very thing on climate science. If those scientists are to be taken seriously as scientist, they have to separate themselves from ideology first. Where does the science end and the ideology start in that report? That's the big question. Peer review isn't asking a shaman what he thinks.
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  8205. A Pakistani gender program in one of the most religiously conservative countries on the planet. That should fly....really high. This is my scenario on how this is going to work. A contract will be awarded to a small gender consulting firm, American of course, who will open a small office somewhere in Pakistani, with a sign on the door that says nothing about what is supposed to go on there. There will be a receptionist and an expert inside, but that won't matter much because no Pakistani will have a clue what they do there, anyway. In the end, after a couple of months or so, 6 or 7 Americans divvy up the 10 million bucks and wait for the next pork barrel relief package. I wonder how close I'll be in this prediction.
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  8206.  @snex000  He was established, in an immigration court, to be a member of MS-13. Then an appellate immigration court upheld that decision, naming him as a gang member, and ruled that he be deported. Garcia asked that he not be sent back to El Salvador because he would be in danger from rival gangs so the judge ruled that he not be sent there until conditions change. They have. Since then, gang activities have been slowed to ZERO. He could have been sent to any other country but what country would accept a KNOWN gang member. So he went nowhere....until the gang problem in El Salvador has been solved. Now, Garcia is being charged with drug and human trafficking and an involvement with the killing of a gang member's mother. He's still under an order of deportation from 2019. The US government allowed him to stay so he could commit those crimes and even beat his wife, which is a despicable crime....unless one is of a favoured demographic. He should have been sent home, El Salvador, the minute that the gang problem had been solved. You're defending an indefensible human being.
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  8207.  @mikez4760  Those countries didn't try to remove their ghettos. They set up a free market system that their citizens embraced and they produced the wealth to be able to afford their social safety nets. When the Islamic migrants arrived, especially in Sweden, they weren't on board with the success through the free market system, which implies hard work, something that the people in those countries believe in. The new migrants created their own ghettos, refusing to work and eschewing the beliefs and life standards of the people in the new home countries. The US has an underclass that has been told for generations that they cannot succeed and shouldn't even have to try to excel. Guess what. They languish in their poor neighbourhoods, blaming everyone else for their problems. If the majority of the populace embraces the idea of hard work, of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, you will have a prosperous nation. When you reject those ideals, you make life harder for yourself and those around you. It's the way of life.
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  8208.  @andyluamarta  Why would anyone be damned to a life of misery if a baby is born? That's quite the claim.
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  8209.  @ozymandiasultor9480  If you took a small piece of flesh from an aborted fetus and sent it to a lab and asked them to identify what species that piece of flesh came from, what would their answer be? I'm genuinely curious.
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  8210.  @ozymandiasultor9480  How would they know that it's a part of a fetus or what species that fetus belongs to? It's just a small piece of flesh. isn't there a DNA process? Again, I'd like to know. No need to be rude and tell me it's none of my business. We won't resolve this issue by being ill-mannered towards each other. You seem to know. Enlighten me....enlighten us all. I'd appreciate the information.
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  8211.  @andyluamarta  It is a possibility but if that were the case, people have lived lives of misery throughout human history. In fact, thousands of years ago, that was life for everyone. Thankfully, they had the strength to endure so we can be here talking about it. It's rather sad when a grown adult has to admit that they're too weak to do what our ancestors were able to do. I'm now sure what that one word comment "fetus" is supposed to mean, either. These are all just observations and questions that I have.
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  8212.  @ozymandiasultor9480  So, they do know what species the fetus is. It's human. You'd be ending the existence of a human. The deciding factor would be whether it's attached, to the mother, by an umbilical cord or not. So, if the child is born and out in the air, can you still end its existence if the umbilical cord is still attached? Is that your position? When someone says "It's none of your business", I find that rather abrupt, rude even. Maybe you didn't mean it that way but that's how it comes off.
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  8213.  @ozymandiasultor9480  Didn't you just tell me that a DNA test would tell us what species the fetus was? So what species would that species be? Would they return the answer that it's the possibility of a human or would they say that it's human. Possibility of a species seems rather vague...not a very definitive answer. It's either a specific species or it's an unknown species or no species at all. The baby can't survive if the umbilical cord is detached from her either. Even at a week old, the baby can't survive on its own. It still needs outside attention to survive. This leaves us with the moment of the umbilical cord being detached. One second the cord is attached and the screaming clump of cells isn't alive and then SNIP it's alive. That's not what you're trying to say, is it? Until we can decide whether this being is a living human or not, we can't decide whether it's my business or not. So what is it? Is it the SNIP that the deciding factor on whether it's alive? I'd really like to know when that moment is.
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  8214.  @ozymandiasultor9480  Not my father's concern. He had to work 3 jobs, 70 hours a week to raise those 7 clumps of cells and it's none of his concern? So he was a slave to my mother's whims. My grandfather did the same for 16 kids and he had to keep his mouth shut? And people call our society a patriarchy. Wow. Strange how you completely neglected to answer the question about that moment when a valueless non-life became a valued life. is there a reason for that?
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  8215.  @ozymandiasultor9480  So you really think that those kids should never have lived? Maybe I shouldn't have lived either? Thanks. By your rules, YOU shouldn't be alive, either because the history of humanity says that EVERYONE lived in poverty before 1950.....unless your family belonged to the elite class. Lots of money and not a hard time in their lives. Coming from privilege and telling us poor beggars how we should live because we're too stupid to figure things out for ourselves. I love the arrogance with that sneering remark about boomers. Biased much? What's amazing is that you don't want to answer my questions. What's the matter? Are you afraid to be direct or honest? Afraid of the place where those answers will lead you? You tell me it's none of my business, basically telling me to shut-up but I'm the one imposing my opinion. "Sit down you dumb boomer and I'll tell you when to talk". I'm not allowed to have an opinion. The elites are known for that kind of arrogance.
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  8216. @Zep Tepi Trump did NOT mock a handicapped reporter and I can prove that he didn't. So at least stop with that. None of what you said are crimes or impeachable offences. I'm speaking as a person who's wife cheated on him. It's a rotten thing to do but is completely irrelevant to the character of our children and I resent the implication that you'd defend that type of child bashing. What you're doing is acting out of hatred and malice, allowing those emotions to drive your ability to judge performance in a logical or reasonable manner. Whether Trump is a man of low character or not, it is still indefensible to attack one of his children. Only those living in bitterness would defend such a despicable act.
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  8217.  @LakeHowellDigitalVideo  Apparently you don't know anything about law OR common decency. I worked with a guy whose 4 brothers were either in prison or had just been released. Yet, my associate was a good man, raised a family, cared deeply for his wife, worked hard and had never had any issues with the law. You're using the "guilt by association" argument and that has been declared irrelevant in both real law and social relationships. If Trump has committed a crime and you can prove it, you have a case. Right now, as Gaetz proved when he asked those lawyers that question, there are no facts to support impeachment. Not one of them raised their hand, when asked, and you can call people "stupid" all day long and that doesn't mean that Trump is guilty of what they're trying to impeach him for.
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  8218. I did the google search and guess what I found. Man originated in Africa. Are you using a different Google search than I am?
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  8219.  @Master-Mo  What do you mean...."Source"??? Just google it. Google "Where did man originate?" and then read. Isn't that what you said to do? So DO it.
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  8220. What's this? Is "she" trying to tell us that if you've been assigned as male at birth, due to obvious body parts, it's impossible for you to get pregnant?? You learn something new every day.
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  8221. He was right. The Democrats are in power. They may have cheated in the election and are now using a "mostly peaceful protest" to institute a heavy police presence and maybe a new Federal Police spy agency to look for dissidents, censorship and a corporate autocracy. It sure sounds like the end of democracy.
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  8222.  @NetiNeti-gm5bz  We are born to discriminate though. When you pick a significant other, you've discriminated against all others who might want to be with you. Survival is impossible without discrimination. When an ancient man watched another die of snake bite, he assumes All snakes are dangerous, just to be on the safe side. That's human nature. As for hate, that comes out of ideology. Like Nadler, who has such open disdain for Candace that he wasn't even listening to her. He heard the word stupid and then made a decision based on his hatred for Candace and her cause. A completely erroneous decision. Also, humans aren't pure from the beginning. I've been around the very young all my life. Two year olds are all about their own needs and for the first few years of their lives show very little empathy for others. They'll take, bully, hit or kick anyone that keeps them for the things they want. In fact, good parents discourage those traits right from the beginning so when the capability for empathy begins, they've already been exposed to the idea of sharing. Bad parents indulge their children their every whim. We have colleges and universities full of the products of that parenting. Overgrown children who can't bear to be contradicted or even hear things that they might disagree with. Their basest instincts have never been challenged and it show in their hatred for everyone.
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  8223.  @user-ul2sl3nf7e  Here he is....the dissenter. Instead of working together on this, he wants to sow division by name calling and insults. You're hatred and bigotry of others is one shining example how a nation should work together. (warning......extreme sarcasm).
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  8224.  @user-ul2sl3nf7e  Oh....shut up with this "dear Leader" crap. Man, you haters must all get the same newsletter. Your comments are all so alike. I haven't heard the word "dumb" this often in all my 60 years of life. You've got negativity up past your exit hole.
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  8225.  @ajm5007  And you can prove this? LOL. I doubt it. If you could you'd already have done it. You're just a troll....the lowest form of life on the internet.
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  8226.  Yedolf  NO......we believe common sense AND the evidence. YOU are the one that panders to the MSM.
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  8227. @Registered User There is only one problem that I see with your argument. These big tech companies colluded with government agencies so that the government could regulate speech. The government should not be allowed to do that and that's at the heart of 1A. They used big tech to silence private citizens and big tech was quite willing to do it. We didn't agree to use their product so that they could betray us to a corrupt regime. That was NOT what I agreed to. Also, just because you don't use these platforms, that doesn't mean that most of the population does not. The government doesn't care if a person, like you, doesn't use that platform. What they care about is that this is a way to reach the majority and if they can control the information that this majority can see, what Goebbels would call propaganda, they can then manipulate the majority to control you. You've willingly given a government faction the ability to control you through their manipulation of information. That's a big problem.
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  8228. Amen definition.... " is commonly used after a prayer, creed, or other formal statement. It is spoken to express solemn ratification or agreement. It  “it is so” or “so it be.”  is derived from the Hebrew āmēn, which  “certainty,” “truth,” and “verily. ”The "men" part in the word "Amen" has NOTHING to do with gender.   That man is nuts.
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  8229.  @yew2oob954  Exactly. "You stupid.....I smart" Only the people that agree with me do legit research. The rest of them do bad research. It only makes sense....right?
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  8230. The Democrats could care less about inflation. Their agenda is to advance the climate change policies. Severe inflation will slow the economy which is exactly what they want. If the people aren't working, they're not putting carbon into the air. They could care less how hard life is for "peasants" of society.
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  8231.  @finderskeepers1993  What am "I" going to do about it? Take the law into my own hands??? That'll work. I'll be the one in jail, NOT the homeless guy on my front lawn. Who cares whether it's the Dems or the GOP who's responsible. If the Dems are the ones in power and the homeless problem is getting worse, then hold them accountable and vote them out if they do nothing. If it's Republicans, do the same. The fact is, Portland has been run by the same mayor, Ted Wheeler, for years. He's also police commissioner and that city has been getting worse every year since he become mayor. So...VOTE HIM OUT......but they won't because he's a Democrats and the voters are loyal to their party no matter what. Besides....what are YOU doing about the homeless problem? You offer lots of criticism but nothing that helps the issue. Your comments are pointless.
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  8232.  @Evan-kx7sf  You tell me when and where in human history where life was perfect for those who lived in those Utopian times and I'll agree with you. I don't doubt that you don't like the quote that I posted. You're one of those moral busybodies that Lewis was talking about. Pointing out the criminals in the world, in a back handed effort to showcase you own righteousness. Never once willing to admit your own weaknesses and shortcomings. That's what at the meat of my comment. We're ALL criminals deep inside. Most of us haven't been in that position that it would manifest itself. I don't have that big an ego to think that I wouldn't succumb to it if the circumstances were just right. You're exhibiting tendencies of grandeur, of incorruptibility, no matter what the situation, or where or when. In there lies the seeds of the tyranny of omnipotent morality.
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  8233. Legislator wages should be tied to the annual inflation rate. Vote yourself a raise.....of course you'd say yes.
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  8234. The minute I hear that switch from an American accent to a strong, pretentious Hispanic accent to pronounce an Hispanic name, I know I'm dealing with a leftist. They're so fake that I can't even start to believe a word that they say.
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  8235.  @mochithepooh5368  It matters what they say when their examples allow others to impose their will on you. They have influence and a lot of people follow the example that they set. That includes the horrific trend to cancel those who seem to step out of line. They're like the elites in "The Hunger Games". It's not that they're better than us. It's that they feel their position gives them licence to lecture us and if we don't listen, instill laws that we're required to follow. As for "the science". Scientists are only human. They're just as prone to error as anyone else. Worse, they're susceptible to ideology, as well. Nothing can create a stupid person out of one who should be intelligent, than ideology, whether it's religious or political.
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  8236.  @mochithepooh5368  I get what you're saying about the science. It's just that I've seen people who say "follow the science" and all they're doing is regurgitating political talking points without actually looking at the data. That was my point. I realise that celebrities don't impose laws but they influence people to think that there's only one way to view an issue. If you view it any other way, like the celebrities who influence them, they start to feel that this gives them the right to impose their views on others. It's a cultural thing that's become quite normal, these days. I may not give a damn what a celebrity says but that's me. Others do and use them as a life guide on how to live. Foolish....very foolish. It's not just the celebrity types either. It's the melding of celebrities, media types and politicians, who feel superior to the rest of us, who are influencing the populace. One of my closest friends is completely saturated with this idea. He thought that Kyle Rittenhouse had to be guilty because he's white and he had a gun. He's allowing the identity politics of those elites to influence how he looks at things. A snapshot of a white guy with a gun inspires a pre-written response. He'd be outraged if I said the same about an American with African heritage. It's all about the narrative that Hollywood, the news media and politicians have planted in their heads. It's why they supported the violence of the BLM riots. It was the popular thing to do...and they don't realise that they're allowing these influencers to control the way that they think.
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  8237. Once again, you're resorting to talking about people and not ideas. Your sneering comment is designed to demonise his health issues and subsequent addictions and implies that he's not to be listened to because he's a "less than" human. Leave the gossip behind and talk about his ideas.
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  8238.  @chickenlover657  What are you pointing at? "He's a druggie and he won't shut-up". That's one deep observation. SMH. Now, you're trying to dismiss me with that smart remark about how I'm pouting. It appears that's the go-to when having discussions. You've just proved the validity of that quote from Eleanor Roosevelt.
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  8239. So....they caught the little Adolf, did they? Thank God. I thought the Brown shirts were returning. I had the doors locked and refused to go out at night. I'm breathing easier, today. The entire world has lost its mind. Cuomo.....you're an adult. Use your head a bit and stop making a big deal out of the antics of a 12 year old. Anyone who was terrified, needs professional help. My son came home with a swastika drawn on a corner of his school binder when he was around 13. I explained the significance of the symbol and how our family suffered from the abuses of the Nazis when they invaded our homeland. I didn't even force him to erase it, but the next day he'd drawn a picture over it so the swastika was no longer visible. He only drew it because he thought it looked kinda cool. Once he knew about it a little more, he got rid of it. A simple solution to a simple problem. Time for a little commons sense to prevail. I know its a lot to ask, put please.....at least try.
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  8240. How about "good people on both sides"? Oh......wait. They lied about that one. What about when he called immigrants "animals"? Well darn.....they lied about that one too. Okay....never mind.
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  8241. @ You implied that the rich obtained their wealth through nefarious means. That they haven't created new products that ALL of us want and buy....even you. If you took their products away, we'd ALL be the poorer for it. They hire us and pay us and it's the only way that most of us have the money to buy our homes, pay our rent, buy are cars, our food, everything that we need to live. To prove that's what you said, I'll repeat it for you. " but the rich obtained their riches" leaving no room for any other way but the one that you're about to tell us. I'm pushing back against that. The rich got rich in MANY ways, including providing services and products that we're willing to pay for. Maybe you didn't mean to make it sound as if there's only one way that they could become rich but it's what you said.
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  8242.  @mplp1959  If all liberals changed teams, wouldn't that be the beginning of the road to change? You don't want them to be woke but you don't want them to leave the woke culture, either. Rather contradictory.
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  8243. Stay safe Andy. The world needs you more than ever.
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  8244. The KKK and the radical left are ideologically in line. The world is getting crazier and crazier.
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  8245. The league will eventually compromise. Christians will be forced to wear the rainbow jerseys but Muslims will be exempt.
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  8246. And this is where the ant-police rhetoric starts.
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  8247. If that lunatic in Philadelphia, with the knife, killed his wife/girlfriend, we'd never have heard a word about it. Those rioters don't care about injustice, they want the police to go away so they can do whatever they please. If Joe Biden had any balls, he'd call out the rioters. He would never stop talking about it, but he doesn't care either. The number one cause of death, for young black men is homicide. Police killing isn't even close to being in the top ten of deaths for young black men.....but no one cares about those blacks being murdered. Biden and the Democrats have their priorities are all twisted. Either that or they don't care.
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  8248. CNN has to manufacture another crisis....and soon or they'll be going bankrupt.
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  8249.  @Thebobbyman  "Seems like a waste of money" The agents that work on that border don't "seem" to agree with you. They say it would make their job a LOT easier. The immigrants that are dying are the ones who are trying to cross in the middle of nowhere. They're dying of exposure and heat exhaustion because they want to avoid those fences and barriers. Yes, you do have to go to legal points of entry. If you don't, you're in violation of United States Code 1325. That's the law. On top of that it's easier to get there because that's where the roads are and food and water is available so they don't face the perils of the desert. The only reason that they would walk through a desert, instead of a paved highway, where they might even get a ride, is because they KNOW that they don't qualify as a true asylum seeker. They want in anyway so they try to circumvent that requirement by sneaking in through the desert.
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  8250. My dog made it onto the voter's list once. George Haveman....my dog, although we just called him George. Fortunately, here in Canada we have to show ID to vote so no one could impersonate my dog and vote in his place. Democrats are being dishonest. They know of the risks and they're pretending that they don't. I'd say they'd like to see a system with as many risks as possible.
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  8251.  Blake Townsend  Are you the guy that's down on the corner, down town, with the sign that reads "The end is nigh!!!!". If so....you need a haircut.
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  8252.  Blake Townsend  Sometimes it's better to be gentle in how you bring the message. Your overt method of spreading the message will not bring those reading it to change their ways. In fact, they'll tune you out. This is a message best brought to those who are ready to hear it, not to those who'd reject it out of hand. They won't listen and it will harden their resolve to never listen in the future. A more subtle approach would be a great deal more effective when talking to a general audience. The truth shouldn't be a cudgel but more like a soft blanket, to comfort and guide, not to threaten or admonish.
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  8253.  @godiswatching9501  I've spent a winter in Florida and I did like it. For the last few years I've been going to the Caribbean every winter. I, especially, loved Costa Rica. If I lived in Florida, maybe I wouldn't be going to these exotic places. I don't mind the cold that much. I worked outdoors for years and I preferred working in the winter over the heat of summer. Also, the summers here are great, with the long lingering evenings that see daylight until almost 10 at night. I have mixed emotions on it but I'm happy here. I'd be happier if we didn't have to put up with Trudeau and his ilk, although I'll give him credit for how he's handling the Wuflu, so far. Are you sure you don't want our libs? You can have them and come up here and do some ice fishing.
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  8254. It goes back even further than that. Here's a 1963 list of communist goals that were that are am excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen: Cleon has been characterised as a right wing nutjob but when you read this list, you're going to be amazed at how closely this mirrors modern times. It's happening 60 years later, just as he and Bezmenov said it would. This has been going on since the member of the Frankfurt school came to America, to escape Nazi Germany, and took positions at Columbia University. It's a slow process which is finally coming to fruition.
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  8255. He thinks George Jefferson is a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, too. Watching too many sitcoms.
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  8256. It doesn't END global economy. It's setting new rules on how trade is conducted and it is attempting to make trade fair for all. If this is ending a global economy, why did the Americans just sign a trade deal with Japan. Why talk about trade with Britain, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and even China?
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  8257. He sure had a look of disgust on his face when that so-called reporter asked "Are you doing this voluntarily?"
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  8258. I used to enjoy Tyson's videos on science. Now he comes off as a guy who has joined a cult and decided that science is evil or something. It's either that or he's getting paid big time, like Sage said. If he's still a scientist, all he has to do is look at the data. Not ONE woman is playing in the NBA, NHL, MLB or the NFL. Not one. Yet, this "scientist" has never asked why that is. That's what science does. Make observations and trying to figure out things happen the way it does. Why men's athletic records are at least 10% or more higher than the women's record holder. Is he that bad a scientist that he dismisses that outright? Or has he joined a cult comparable to Heaven's Gate or something. It's so bizarre.
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  8259. Unfortunate, Tulsi isn't in Congress any longer. Her own party, the Democrats, rejected her because of her views on unnecessary foreign wars. They can't have a "peacenik" in their party.
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  8260. Tim, if you don't know what to do or have a solution, to halt the violence, a curfew it is. Not knowing what to do is why some of the cities are burning and stores are being looted.
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  8261. We were almost all raised the way in the fifties and sixties. Big families and one on one parenting was almost impossible. The fathers had to work to feed the family.....no welfare, and mothers had too much to do keeping the kids fed, clothed and in a clean home. We had all kinds of freedom that kids can't even imagine now, but cause trouble? Parents had no time to deal with it they way they do now. It was, like you say, a good butt whooping and don't you dare do it again. You learned to think in terms of right and wrong and you behaved accordingly.
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  8262.  @Ruffington_Roast  Haven't done any since the 90s, but I did lots in the late sixties and early seventies. Mushrooms, acid and mescaline were all done and multiple times. I was one of those hippies who hitchhiked all over the US and Canada. It was a fun time. However, I have no idea how that's relevant to what we're talking about.
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  8263.  @dr.tonielffaucet5988  It's some religious ritual concerning the consecration of priests. So what? That was quite common with ancient religions. Once again, I don't see the relevance, unless you're saying that Tyson has started to believe a religious ideology and given up on science as a method to find scientific truth. It's like solving a math problem that hasn't yet been solved like the Riemann hypothesis. You worked on it, discovering new principles of math, hoping that the new findings will lead you to the answer of the Riemann hypothesis. It's NOT magic or religion. It's finding new information and building on old verified information. Science is like that. It's how we figured out the principles of science that have brought the amazing technologies that we have now. It's not religion. it's facts building on facts.
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  8264.  @ShadowMask1995  They only let them in at certain doors. The rioters forced their way in at the other entrance in the front of the building. Those police officers should be strongly reprimanded but they are security. Colbert's people were let in by those who weren't security. They were basically employees, even Adam Schiff. He has nothing to do with who's allowed in during after hours. That's up to security and the protocols set. He should be severely reprimanded for it but nothing will happen. He's untouchable. He also lied to the media about having incontrovertible evidence on Russian collusion. The media isn't calling him out on it or even his constituents. He's crooked and untouchable.
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  8265.  @synnical77  If you want other people to make up your opinion for you, ask me. I've got lots of opinions. Good ones, too. I'd only be too happy to indoctrinate you with my "propaganda".
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  8266.  @synnical77  It's true that people want a filter but the media shouldn't acquiesce to that sort of bias. The media should be unbiased and report the facts as best they could. I can't say much about FOX but I know the rest of the news media has been outright lying for years, especially since Trump was elected. The BS on the Covington kids....that was an outright lie. It took me 10 minutes to find the original video and it was clear that they ALL lied. I'm a retired man, living in a one room basement apartment with a computer that my son-in-law cobbled together for me and I could find the facts on the matter. There's not a DOUBT that they all lied. LIED!!! That's different than being biased or providing a filter. They LIED!!! It was the same with the BLM "peaceful protests". I seen a reporter, with buildings completely engulfed in flames behind him, saying that it was basically a very peaceful protest. It was a LIE. Cities were being burned, stores were being looted, people were being attacked, a couple of dozen were even killed....and that's PEACEFUL??? They lied. Now we're finding out that the leaders of BLM extorted money out of the organisation. The media lied for them and then provided cover when things went bad. They even lied about stupid things. They went all ridiculous when Trump dumped the remainder of his fish food into the coy pond. The LIARS cut out the part where the Japanese PM dumped his food into the pond first. They edited the video and then told us that Trump had insulted the Japanese people. It was a LIE!!!! A lie isn't a filter. It's a lie and they did it intentionally, redundant but it has to be said that they KNEW what they were doing. I could go on all day, fill a book with the blatant falsehoods from the MSM, but I think you get my point. There's a difference between endorsing someone and lying for them and I cannot stand by any media that would do that or any political party that would smugly allow them to lie for them.
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  8267. ​ @synnical77  It's NOT the bias. I thought that I was quite clear on that. It's the all out LIES. Lies aren't bias. Bias is interpreting facts to your own belief system. You still have the facts but you see and interpret them differently than others might. Lies are NOT about facts or even logic. They're LIES. I gave you some egregious examples of how the MSM has lied. Did you not even read them? I understand team bias but I will not countenance lying for my team. That's WAY different than lying. CNN was already losing viewers due to their unreliable journalism. The new administration's claim for unbiased journalism isn't the reason. It was already in trouble and it will take more than a couple of months to turn it around if it ever can be.
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  8268. Netanyahu will not agree to a ceasefire until all the hostage are released and Hamas leaders surrender themselves to Israel. Do you honestly think that he's going to agree to a ceasefire unless those demands are met? Who, in his right mind, would do that?
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  8269.  @MustAfaalik  The GIC has condemned Hamas for the latest executions of 6 hostages. That I do know. That's what I found when I googled GIC. I'm not going on a wild goose chase to find what you want me to find. Show me where to find those latest proposals. You seem to know what they are.
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  8270. Actually, I think that she does get it. Democrats are convinced that they only reason that Hillary and Kamala lost is because they think American men hate women and that it would be pointless to try to run another woman. They'd only lose because of "patriarchy" and the Democrats want to win. That's the point that she's making and it's a good one. The only reason they pushed Tulsi out is because she went after Kamala and destroyed her chances in 2020. Don't go after the Democrat elites or you're out of the party. Tulsi didn't kiss the ring.
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  8271.  @wilsonsalinas8857  He's started to build the wall again. He's started the deportation process. Illegal migrant crossing are substantially down. Military recruitment is up. He's doing a comprehensive audit of how our tax money is being spent. He's signed executive orders protecting women in sports. He has a team to negotiate for peace in Ukraine. That's off the top of my head. That's only in one month. On top of that he's meeting with the press almost every day and so is his press secretary. Half the time we didn't even know where Biden was when he was president.
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  8272.  @Earthdweller1958  NO.....I didn't forget about those people. I don't know ANYONE that thinks that they shouldn't be charged if they took part in violence or property damage. That's YOUR projection onto those of us conservatives who think that political violence isn't okay. One thing that I've noticed is that every time something like this happens, people like you, go to the ONE incident that the conservatives have done. They don't want to talk about the hundreds of riots in 2020, in which over 30 people were killed and billions of dollars in damages, the fires, the looting and on and on. None of the attacks on conservative students in universities, the attacks on people wearing MAGA hats, the things like that CHAZ zone in Seattle, the attacks on people going to see conservative speakers like Ben Shapiro or Michael Knowles, the attempted assassination of Trump and the death of the man standing behind Trump. How many people went on line, ANGRY, because he missed Trump. When we mention how terrible these things are, we know that you will go. "WHAT ABOUT JAN 6TH!!!!!" and you do it, EVERY time. OVER AND OVER. it's the ONLY thing that you have. Get over it.
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  8273.  @elinope4745  The bars is just an example, Eli Nope you dope. If you can't understand the point that he's making, just say so.
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  8274. The end of abundance in France and the west, means the end of abundance for everyone on the planet. No hope for the those in the 3rd world. Their future will only be one of suffering, always scratching for food, water, shelter and decent clothing. This is what we're electing to political office in the west. Politicians, who don't care if the rabble enjoy a good life or not. It's inevitable, as far as they're concerned, so why even try to maintain or work towards success. It'll be a self fulfilling prophecy.
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  8275. Fake news getting fact checked by Pinocchio news. That's funny stuff, right there.
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  8276. "So....do you agree with stuff in his speech that he took out?" Huh??
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  8277.  Roger Murphy  What does Trump have to do with the response that coach handed to that racially charged question? Are you that obsessed with the orange man that you can't stay on topic for one minute? The election was 2 years ago. Quit living in the past. Mid terms are in 3 weeks. That's a lot more important now.
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  8278. That detestable wage gap. What confuses me is if women are being paid less for doing the same job, why aren't they suing their employers? It is against the law. So, if you're protesting to the government, you're too late. They've already addressed the problem and said that employers MUST offer equal pay for equal work. You'd think that if this was such a big problem, the courts would be overflowing with women presenting their cases against employers. Yet, we're not seeing that at all. For all you ambulance chasers out there, this is an untapped market, a huge opportunity to cash in on the wage gap. Suck the money out of those elitist Capitalist scumbags. They don't need it anyway.
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  8279. Calling people racists and white supremacists is the most simplistic talking point that there is. It says and does nothing except incite anger, frustration and an emotional backlash, something that the media loves. Quit being an intellectual lightweight.
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  8280. Of course his age helps him. When asked about his corruption he can honestly claim innocence. If he's forgot what he's done, it's not even a lie. As far as he knows, he's not guilty of anything. He can look very sincere when he says that he's done nothing wrong.
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  8281.  @irrationalmale  You can't clean up a mess, this size, without awareness and we're not getting that from the MSM. This is the ONLY way to let people know what's happening. I've talked with all kinds of people about these matters. Most had NO idea. Some would sit there in stunned silence when you show them the evidence. Others get extremely angry and that's good because you know that you've hit a nerve and they have no plausible response. We have to keep the pressure on in EVERY way possible. If you don't know that your school board is doing this, you'll never go to school board meetings to voice your opinion. You'll never vote for candidates who stand for what's right and things will NEVER change. Just because we talk about it on the internet doesn't mean that this is all we do. This is only to bring awareness, one person at a time.
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  8282. I only use facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. I don't scroll anymore or post stuff. Too many people are posting "meme" news that end up not being false. If you say something, they'll come after you, mad as hell. People who are supposed to be your friends, won't allow you to have an opinion and refuse to view any evidence to the contrary. I don't need the aggravation. It was a great platform before it became political. Now it's too divisive.
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  8283. They let this go on for 47 days, Tim. 47 Fkg DAYS. How long do you let it go on? 100 days? 147 days? A year? 2 years? There are good people in Portland that deserve better than what these "protesters" are giving them. They deserve peace and order, so they can get on with building a good life. These anarcho-Marxists build nothing. They destroy and hate and threaten the security of ordinary people. Trump let them have their temper tantrum. It's time to squash them. They may think that the revolution has come but they're wrong. Their day of reckoning has come and that's never pleasant.
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  8284. This graph is what they call a "conversation starter". The conversation won't be about math, either. The intent is quite clear. It's also a reason why kids aren't learning math but they are learning how much they hate one another.
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  8285. They're coming to the US now because they'd go to jail in El Salvador. They gotta go somewhere and the current administration is protecting them.
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  8286.  @eugeniaskelley5194  I believe that it's ideological. There's a new brand of Marxism that infected the educational system over the years and the results of that are now manifested throughout society. Communism has attempted to bring about an androgynous society before, like China did when Mao was the leader. It's an attempt to blur the lines of individuality and the meanings of words. George Orwell's 1984 talked about this. There's an attempt also to erase the idea of objective truth. 2 plus 2 can equal 5 or in this case, men CAN get pregnant. Voltaire once wrote. "Those who can get you to believe in absurdities can also get you to commit atrocities". There is no idea more absurd than men can get pregnant.
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  8287.  @eugeniaskelley5194  I have to add that another thing that Communists have tried to do is destroy the family structure. They want full control and to do that, they start when you're very young. That's why the big emphasis, by some teachers, on the Pride, Drag Queen story time and teaching children that they can be a girl or boy or however they feel. A person without conviction is malleable. This is a part of a socialist takeover. It has to be resisted or our future is in terrible jeapardy.
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  8288.  @billbombshiggy9254  I have to add one word to that sentence. "You'd be a fucked up mutilated adult woman". You have sensible parents. I'm glad it all worked out for you.
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  8289. What has to be done is we MUST get rid of the idea of "gender affirming" care. It's the only medical condition that DEMANDS the diagnoses of the patient MUST be affirmed. No psychological analysis to see if anything else could be at the root of the patient's problems. Just affirm and if the doctor doesn't affirm, that could be the end of their medical licence. It's barbaric. No different than forced lobotomies, electric shock therapy or bloodletting.
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  8290.  @Aireck174  She's said a lot of nutty and mean things. She can't apologise for everything. Let's give her credit for regretting her behaviour in the past and take that as a blanket apology and move on. Holding a grudge is a left wing flaw that we must try to avoid. It gets us nowhere and it hurts our chances of ridding ourselves of this horrible Democrat government.
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  8291.  @Hammerhead137  Holding a grudge always hurts the person more that's holding the grudge than the person who the grudge is directed at. When my wife cheated on me, it hurt, at first, but it didn't take me long to realise that she didn't care so why should I wallow in it. She gone and can do as she likes. If I see her, and I do because we have kids, I'll say hi, nice to see and goodbye. I'll even do a favour, within reason, but I'll never get involved with her again. She's not worth my time enough to hold a grudge. That's the same with Ana. Sure she screwed up advocating for the Democrats but now she's not. I don't have to like her but I can be glad that she's now slamming the Dems and hard. I want her to keep doing it because she could convince others to not vote Democrat. That's what I want. I'm not going to call her names because EVERY VOTE COUNTS. I'm glad that she's doing what she's doing because there's no way that I want another 4 years of what the world has just gone through. Besides, holding a grudge isn't going to hurt her one bit. She hasn't a clue who I am so it's not affecting her one bit.
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  8292. Why ANYONE would ask Michael Moore a question and then take his answer seriously is absolutely insane. The man is as stupid as it gets.
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  8293.  @ST-ks2es  How can you separate your beliefs from your expertise. A credible belief system must be supported by facts and facts are derived from information which is dispensed by experts. If the experts refuse to answer questions then how are we going to formulate any social standards, a social belief system, that can only be arrived at by using all the facts available. We also have to know exactly where the belief systems of the experts, sitting in front of you, ends and the facts begin. In other words, how has the facts, that they choose to offer or not, affect their beliefs. You cannot separate the two. In fact, that's what the abortion controversy is all about. One side believes that abortion is wrong. The other side believes that there's nothing wrong with getting an abortion for any reason. It becomes an "Is not/is too" screaming match. So we need to hear the facts and we have to know how their beliefs affect how the facts are presented. In other words....we need honesty. Refusing to answer all questions honestly, to the best of your ability, leaves us exactly where we started. "Is not/tis too" is not how we should settle disputes on matters of science OR belief systems.
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  8294.  @windycity258  What a childish comment. The riots were propped up by a press that was solidly against the president and supported the political agenda of the Democrats. Trump asked Lightfoot if she wanted help to halt the riots and she, in a very snotty manner, said she didn't need any advice from him....so he did as she asked and didn't send help and the riots continued. Federal agents went to Portland, to protect a Federal courthouse, that's it, and the Democrats, the Press and the mayor of Portland called them "Trump's storm-troopers". The Constitution says that it's up to the state to ask for help and Trump honoured the Constitution and what the state's wanted. Apparently, Oregon, Washington and Washington DC, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and other states, didn't want Trump's help because not ONE of them asked. All Democrat states and not ONE condemned the "peaceful" protests, the destruction of property, the looting, the violence, the increase in crime due to police defunding and when Trump mentioned it, they ALL cried foul. And it's ALL irrelevant right now. Maybe you want to solve last year's problems but I'd prefer to tackle the problems that we have NOW and that's up to the current president and the state leaders that are in office, today.....unless you want Trump to step in, but I kinda doubt that's what you're getting at.
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  8295. Yeah Juan....Most people would rather have a platform than a job. Platform.....good. Job....bad.
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  8296. "Trump doesn't believe in science!!!!" Trump brings out a representative from a major scientific research lab. "Trump is using science to kill people!!!" What a bunch of maroons.
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  8297. All worthwhile ideas are offensive at first. Martin Luther 95 Thesis, upset the Catholic Church. The American Constitution offended King George. Abolitionists offended slave holders. Without the right to give offence, humanity stagnates. Without that right, we've tacitly agreed that we've finally reached the peak of intellectual understanding and humanity has reached a wall that can't be broached. Not the border wall, an intellectual wall.
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  8298.  @MrJoshcc600  Because that junkie used his father's position to make money, illegally. That's how he got the money to live that extravagant lifestyle that he's living. That junkie is under investigation for tax issues, has over 150 bank transaction irregularities on the record at homeland security (2 for normal people is a lot) and there are strong indications, on the junkie's laptop and phone records that Joe Biden and Joe's brother, Jim also made money on those illegal transactions. That's why. If you're an American citizen, they used YOUR tax money to get rich. If that doesn't piss you off, you're a .........
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  8299. He admires China because they turned their economy around on a dime. Well....DUH!!!! They went full on Fascist, that's why. Hitler did the same thing in Germany before the war. When you go Fascist and have an industrious populace, like they had in Germany and now in China, the economy will prosper. It might seem great to a dolt like Trudeau but is that what we really want?
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  8300. A space for whites and no brown people allowed.....except Asians. Asians are great. Actually, who's got time for this crap. There's work to do. University is tough and there's that part time job to pay for it and who's gonna monitor the spaces, anyway. No time for that. Unless things have changed since I went to school.
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  8301. When was the last time that the media or the government, including Republicans, made excuses for mass shooters? I'd like to know of just one. It's ALWAYS been condemned by both left and right. Yet, when it's the BLM and Antifa that's rioting and around 25 people were killed in those 2020 riots, the media and the Democrats pretend that it was "mostly peaceful". 8 year old Secoriea Turner was murdered by a BLM supporter and the media and the Democrats never ONCE made a plea to stop the violence when that happened. The "peaceful protests" narrative was upheld, in spite of this terrible tragedy. These mass shooters have severe mental issues and generally act alone or in VERY small groups. They don't reflect the beliefs of conservatives and this woman knows it. They're using these shooters, and worse, the victims of those shooters, as political pawns.
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  8302.  @Muck006  BINGO!!!!! I've been trying to tell people this for years and it pisses a lot of people off. Keep talking, my friend. People need to hear this.
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  8303. One good Civics course would do AOC a lot of good.....or maybe not. She studied economics at Boston U. and she doesn't know word one about economics.
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  8304. Don't blame the police because these boneheads are jumping onto the tracks of a subway. That's on them. Blaming someone else is exactly what the left is doing. It's never the fault of the person who's acting irresponsibly or in the grip of a mental breakdown. It's always someone else's fault. You're falling into their trap, Tim. It's on those who are acting up....not the police, white supremacy, leftist lunacy, AOC or Donald Trump. If you act the fool, you are the fool and it's on you.
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  8305.  @RadagastBrown420  See what I mean. You're obsessed with Trump. One thread talks about Bill Maher and you make a sarcastic comment about Trump. Someone makes a comment about Ben Affleck and there you are with another Trump snipe. Get a life, man. There's more to the world than that one orange man.
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  8306. She could also deeply believe the things that she's talking about. If she does, that even makes her more dangerous than if she was paid to say these things. If she was doing it for money, pay her more and she'll switch teams. If she's doing it out of ideology, it will be a lot harder to get her to stop. She'll keep saying these things to appease her narcissistic view of herself. A person who acts out of self imagined virtue, does so with a clear conscience. It will almost be impossible to ever change her mind.
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  8307.  Justin  Saying that it's conjecture means I'm trying to be smarter than the next guy? Ok. I'll try to dumb it down for you. He's making it up and it's BS. I'm not even sure what the point of your comment is? Do you disagree with the points that I've made or does the way I present the points bother you?
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  8308. My opinion is that the activists are nothing more than Marxist ideologues and that they've entered our governments, at every level, disguising themselves as caring and empathetic individuals. They're not. They're Marxists and they're doing this to foment chaos and dissent in order to degrade the country to the point of the socialist revolution that they so fervently want. They are the Marxists and National Socialists, who only differ on the scope of their Socialist agenda. If they succeed, we will become variations of the Soviet Union, Communist China, North Korea, Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. They'll tear our countries apart and allow the destruction so they can rebuild it in their image. The Great Reset.
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  8309.  @Kenny-sx4gl  He's in jail for saying this. The contempt of court was just their way of getting him off the streets and they hoped that this would be the end of it. Had Tommy never said a word about this, he'd still be a free man and you and I would never had heard of him. Back then, if you made too much trouble about this issue, you'd find yourself under arrest for any one of a dozen reasons....contempt of court being one of them. It's how corrupt governments operate. Lavrentiy Beria, the head of Stalin's secret police put it best. "Show me the man and I will show you his crime." When they want you, they will get you.
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  8310. They need a "laugh" room to go along with that "cry" room. I'd find it hard to keep a straight face if I were there. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
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  8311. When you keep finding different ways to ask "Have you stopped beating your wife", don't be surprised when the person that's being asked doesn't want to talk to you any longer.
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  8312. She doesn't want to be lectured by "some white man". That would imply that she thinks that his genes are inferior to her's. We know who else was like that.
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  8313. Yes and I hope he keeps on asking that question. People need to answer it and when they do, they'll understand why that question is so important.
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  8314.  @nietzschesmoustache3585  He's saying that the far left and the MSM are lying and hypocrites, constantly. Almost EVERY DAY he's brings more evidence of their hypocrisy. He's saying it in this video. You're not seriously trying to say that he's supporting those guys. He calls them out and does so vigorously. He's not a Trump supporter but he very rarely even talks about him but his big thing is calling out the crazy left.
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  8315. My uncle, aunt and cousin live on the Afsluitdijk, where the locks are. Only a few people get to live there.
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  8316. MrRCGNL There is a set of locks called the Lorentzsluiven that allow the ships to go from the Ijsselmeer to the North Sea. My aunt lives within sight of the locks. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentzsluizen
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  8317. Joy Behar says that DeSantis is sacrificing the education of a generation of children. Has she ever looked at the student scores in the US??? It's horrific.
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  8318. We already have a word for "a person who produces sperm". That word is "boy". They both mean exactly the same thing. It's as nonsensical as it gets. We also have a word for "a person who produces eggs". That word is "girl". Same as above.
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  8319. @Duh Dam Those boys did or said nothing in that incident that showed any racism or bigotry. It was the Black Israelites that did that. One of the boys even shouted out that "they're human, too", defending gays. You're just shouting out an accusation without facts. There is evidence of racism and bigotry on the part of those Israelites. Just watch the long video about that day....if you have the integrity to watch it.
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  8320. What does it matter? The teacher was abusing him. That's the issue.....nothing else.
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  8321.  @rtta51  What I find despicable about these comments, they're saying it in a mocking way. I can't believe how cold and unfeeling they are. Arrogant and smug.
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  8322.  Darren Zarkovich  I don't know if anyone has told you but Trump fired both Bolton and Bannon. Bolton was especially angry about it. He'd say anything to get back at Trump. Lots of conspiracy theories, now lets talk about all the rioting in the US. Stuff that's real and has been happening for months. You know, those "peaceful protests" that keep turning into burning buildings. Let's talk about those for awhile.
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  8323.  @Joaopereira-dh3dw  Trump is NOT the president, right now. Can you not see that just because Trump is corrupt, that doesn't make Biden a good guy? You want to forget Biden because of Trump. GET THEM BOTH. It's like saying that we shouldn't go after Jeffrey Dahmer until we get Ted Bundy because Bundy killed almost twice as many victims. GET THEM BOTH. Deflecting guilt is so childish. "Well, Donnie's doing it too". When my kids used that on me, it just added to any punishment that I might mete out. It doesn't matter what others are doing. If you guilty....you're guilty and "Donnie's" guilt doesn't change that. GROW UP!!!!!
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  8324. China isn't drifting towards Stalinism. They're the closest style of government, right now, to Hitler's Nazism. They're exactly what the far left are decrying EVERY day. Privately owned businesses, controlled by the state which is run by a non-elected committee under an appointed authoritarian figurehead which is exactly the style that Nazi Germany put in place. A party or committee that had an appointed authoritarian figurehead (Hitler) who controlled every aspect of human endeavour, including the economy, and reviled any dissension or deviation from the norm. I'm wondering if this is why the "new look" Democrats are insisting that the Russians are the enemy. Could it be that they favour the Chinese model of authoritarianism and don't like that Trump is taking them on. So they keep playing a game of sleight of hand and misdirection.
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  8325.  @Lynx-eq7qx  In Nazi Germany. Unions were abolished and replaced by Nazi Party officials who would call employee meetings and question employee loyalties by the quality, quantity of productivity and the attitudes of individuals. The company might have been privately owned but heaven help the owner that didn't declare his fealty to the Nazi Party or questioned Party decisions.
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  8326. I'm a bartender. It's against the law to nap in a bar. If anyone did that while I was working, they'd be asked to leave. It doesn't matter if he's drunk or not. I can't make him take a breathalyser so I'd have no choice but to evict him.
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  8327. Hilary denied the 2016 election, too. She's still denying it. It's why they spent millions on the Muller Report and the Muller hearings. They wanted to prove that Trump colluded with the Russians to become the "illegitimate" president. Democrats are saying showing ID, to vote, is racist. What's to stop a bunch of Russians to go to the United States, go over voting lists and find the names of voters who have died, are incapacitated or moved away and then vote in their place? Vote for Trump because they're Russian plants? What would stop them if you don't have to show ID? That's only one reason why BOTH sides are accusing each other of election fraud. Until the election rules are tightened, you'll ALWAYS have this problem.
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  8328. It would seem that Federal taking precedence was decided by the Civil War. The Feds said that all slaves be freed and the states had to comply. That was a major precedent.
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  8329. I went to college with a couple of bubblebrains like her. It hurt to sit in class and listen to their incessant babble.
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  8330. Yet, human life spans are at the longest in history and child mortality rates are, especially in the west, at the lowest in history. If this food was so unhealthy, why would that be? This isn't about capitalist companies forcing you to eat unhealthy foods. It's about YOUR choice on what YOU believe is best for you. If you relinquish your freedom to eat what you think is best for you, it's YOU that is relinquishing that freedom, no one else. Until you decide to put the blame where it belongs, you'll always be at the mercy of others, who will tell you what choices you must make. You will be a living oxymoron.
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  8331.  @fooffie  He might be a little over the top but are you seriously going to say the De Blasio is better? De Blasio was threatening people with jail when they were supposedly ignoring the lockdown but now people are looting, burning and destroying businesses, he says nothing. I'd rather a fruit loop that puts an end to the violence than a cringing left wing sycophant, hiding in his home with all kinds of security to protect him.
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  8332.  @professordogwood8985  I had to undergo a circumcision due to a severe infection when I was 5 years old. It wasn't indecent or a tragedy. In fact, at the time it was a HUGE relief as the pain, from the infection, was horrific. Once done, I never gave it a second thought unless people, like YOU, brought it up, calling it an indecency, like you did, or an abomination. A great thing to hear when you're only 11 years old. Don't be so damned judgemental.
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  8333.  @catrionamacfarlane4949  I sure hope that's not how you behave at funerals. "He's DEAD. Face it and grow up". I suppose RIP needs correction, too. "He's not resting. He's DEAD".
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  8334.  @professordogwood8985  A lot of circumcisions aren't prescribed by doctors. It has ancient religious and cultural significance to a very diverse range of people. I can't say this for sure but I have to wonder why it's so prevalent in the more tropical regions, especially in sandy deserts. It may have to do with infections due to heat or sand getting under the foreskin. I do remember that my infection, in the beginning, felt as if there was something under the foreskin and it grew from an irritation to severe pain. Circumcision is more of a holdover from ancient times than a medical procedure. As for calling it an amputation, I've lost more skin of my knee falling off my bike. It's not the big deal that people make it out to be. The poor Reimer kid was saddled with a poor doctor, that's all. He, and his brother, might still be alive today if John Money hadn't come along and tried to "fix" things with his perverse ideas. The botched circumcision was an accident. What Money did was truly shocking and appalling.
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  8335.  @professordogwood8985  I don't want my foreskin back. Why would I? It hasn't changed my life one bit. There are other body parts that I wish I still had but that little piece of skin is completely inconsequential. Why it bothers people that other people would do it, completely perplexes me. A tattoo hurts worse. A breast implant must REALLY hurt. I know getting your ears pierced is painful, let alone the tongue, lips, nose, naval, nipples or other sensitive locations. The circumcision thing is a big deal about nothing, compared to some of the things that people voluntarily do to themselves. A tempest in a teapot.
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  8336.  @professordogwood8985  Yeah......lots of big secrets out there. They don't let us circumcised folk know the deep stuff. Rather intolerant if you ask me.
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  8337.  @catrionamacfarlane4949  It's pretty easy to call my comment "ridiculous". It's another to explain WHY you think that. I notice that you didn't even try.
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  8338. Sometimes I just want to reach into my TV, grab Trudeau by the lapel and slap his face while shouting. "For Gawd's sake, answer the FFing question". One of the most maddening people that I've ever encountered but Kamala is starting to give him a run for his money.
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  8339.  @francischimenti1374  It just baffles me why you would worry MORE about feminism and the conservative viewpoint than you would about a truth. Women can lie. Why is it so easy to decry bias when it is against a woman but so difficult when it is against a man? Bigotry is wrong. Bigotry in our court system is doubly wrong. If you care about the whole of humanity, you have to care about that, even if it is the minority of cases. You appear to be willing to sacrifice the minority to judicial bias out of a fear that it might serve the conservative cause. It would seem that there are those who refuse to believe that a feminist could have their own bias as well.
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  8340.  @francischimenti1374  Funny how you've avoided the original topic, that a woman could lie to further her agenda, through this whole discourse and that the courts have been biased against men in some circumstances. You, absolutely, refuse to address this. Why is that?
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  8341. Socialist and Marxist ideology has taken over the Democrat party. They're pitting identity groups against one another, in the hopes that they can divide and conquer. I can't understand how it's possible that people can't see it.
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  8342.  @verlaharmston9277  Covid and climate change are just tools to attain their true "God" or ideology. That "God" is socialism and the authority of government. You could say that Covid is an icon, if you want but it's a way to control your life and all the things that are important to how individuals find meaning. It's all about control....telling others how to live and believe. The more absurd the ideas that they can get the rabble to believe, the easier it is to control them. "A man can get pregnant"....who would have believed it 10 years ago. Almost no one. Yet, here it is and anyone who doesn't believe it is a bigot. They shame you into silence. It's exactly how George Orwell described it.
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  8343. It's not the world. They're not doing this in China. This is a western phenomena and it's the result of the decadence of our affluent lifestyles.
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  8344.  @rubenprod24  Does your cute little comeback prove that men and women are the same? At best, all it does is point out that anyone can be wrong including those that are making that crazy gender claim. You've gained nothing.
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  8345.  @Jack-my4zj  Except the Nazis were the activist fascists of Germany. They felt morally superior to the rest of the world and they felt that their superiority gave them licence to commit atrocities. They went on to destroy Europe, killing millions. One of the most useless campaigns of the 20th Century.
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  8346. Then don't go up in his rocket. Simple enough. Some people refused to get into the first automobiles too. I'll bet they were the ones that didn't become traffic statistics.
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  8347. It would have been annoying if it wasn't so funny.
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  8348. Not only do have to help those kids that are confused about their gender, we have to stop our schools and activists from telling these kids that when they feel a somewhat troubled that it must be a transgender problem. They're not equipped to diagnose anyone, let alone children. Stop these activist adults and the problem will fade away. Also, put an end to affirmative therapy. Mental health professionals should not be affirming the self diagnoses of their patients. That's not the job of the patient (who's not a doctor) or their health professional.
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  8349. Also, if they use mail-in ballots and Trump wins in a landslide, suddenly Democrats will say that he must have engaged in mail-in fraud....plus Russia and voter suppression and whatever else they could come up with.
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  8350. Ironic that. Almost all Muslims believe that homosexuality is wrong because it's what is taught in the sacred texts. 1.7 billion homophobics. Gays get upset when Christians say something against them but are strangely quiet when it's Muslims. Muslims have no problem hanging them or throwing them off rooftops. What a weird situation. You'd think that the Democrats would voice their disapproval of the Muslim stance but.....I don't know what to say about it. It makes no sense.
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  8351.  @Bill-ed1hr  Are you really that naive? Israel is not going to allow just anyone near Gaza. Greta's boat could have been filled with weapons. That's how Israel is going to look at it. That's how anyone with half a brain in their head would see it. Have you never studied how a war is fought? Naval blockades are a major part of tactical warfare. The Israelis will take them to shore and then release them with a warning not to try that again.
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  8352. Why is it that the American left have such a distinct American accent until they say the word "Latino"? Suddenly, they take on a fake Latino accent. It's as pretentious as it gets.
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  8353.  @mrbuck49  Number one cause of death from a Fentanyl overdose is that the person stops breathing. That is a fact. Floyd started saying that he couldn't breathe LONG before he was on the ground. Floyd also had a serious heart condition. people with that condition have acute breathing difficulties. Floyd was also recovering from Covid. Covid affects breathing and it can be extremely severe and dangerous to one's health. Over 7 million deaths attest to that. An accused can only be found guilty if it's without a shadow of doubt. So, was it the Fentanyl that caused him to stop breathing, his heart condition, or the knee on his neck and back and did Covid exacerbate his difficulty in breathing? How do you know for sure? There goes that guilty without a shadow of a doubt. You only eliminate the 3 conditions that I mentioned if you WANT Chauvin to be guilty and that's not being impartial.
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  8354.  @thekyleprojekt7996  There is a guy on this comment thread who has that image in his head. Ask him and he might draw it for you. Computer graphics can do wondrous things. LOL.
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  8355. Bars and taverns in our town, if they don't know you, will ask for proof of local residency. If you're not local, you're not allowed in. You can get food to go and that's it. We still wear masks and seating is limited but outsiders aren't welcome.
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  8356. Maybe he wasn't guilty. Just a thought. I mean, I assume that when someone isn't being indicted for something there's not enough evidence to indict.
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  8357. He never ONCE sent the FBI to their houses. He may not have liked what they said and expressed that dislike, a freedom guaranteed in the Constitution but he never suggested that they were domestic terrorists or called the DOJ to get them. He even let each state and community set their own policies for dealing with the BLM riots. He didn't like a lot of their policies but he never interfered. The riots went on all summer, killing over 25 people, sending thousands to the hospital, destroying hundreds of businesses and causing BILLIONS of dollars of damage. People are allowed to complain when someone says mean things about them. They shouldn't be able to set the FBI after them.
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  8358. No way. America is TOO racist to vote for a woman of colour as president.....isn't it? That's what I've been hearing, anyway. Well, she does have experience as a Democrat. Wasn't she a large part of running Amazon out of town? Just what the country needs. Someone who would discourage business.
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  8359.  @cannibalshark1645  I know. I'm a Canadian and I know that, as well. I don't get it.
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  8360.  @cheery-hex  If it's a secret, how did you find out that it's an oligarchy? Just curious.
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  8361.  @fenrisvermundr2516  How can a democracy give power to the minority? It's basically a popularity contest and the ones with the MOST votes gets to govern. That doesn't make sense. What gives a democracy the possibility of going wrong is the fact that a majority can become corrupt or take up ideas that are culturally driven. That's why the Constitution is so important. You can challenge a majority if the majority impose laws or policies that go against the Constitution. Laws have been stricken just because of those Constitutional challenges. It's also why there are checks and balances in the American system. It isn't perfect but it's the best yet devised.
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  8362.  @fenrisvermundr2516  You're jumping to the extreme. People vote for their candidates for a variety of reasons. Sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for really stupid ones. There have been lots of good people that have made the government. That has to be true. If it wasn't, we, the people of the west, would all be living in 3rd world countries, sick, starving and living in the streets.
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  8363.  @shaunkellison1761  He was the only one blurting out that sentence but there were lots of others who were there protesting. What were they doing, protesting when they didn't even have an inkling of what was going on. Just a knee jerk protest until the intended victim had to plead, near in tears, her case. Also, why didn't the protesters tell that jerk to shut his mouth. He didn't say it once. He said it again, AFTER the second time she told them that there were bullet holes in her walls. If those protesters didn't know this then what the hell were they doing there terrorising this poor woman and her family. This sounds like the "peaceful protester" claim. "Not EVERYONE was burning and looting so quit pretending that those protests were violent". Tell that to the dead people that protesters killed. BLM never said word one about how they abhorred those deaths. As far as they were concerned, they were just casualties to the cause.
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  8364. Why don't they send Geraldo to CNN where he'd feel comfortable flogging the lies. There are all kinds of "on the ground" bloggers in Ottawa and if he spent 10 MINUTES watching one of them, he'd know that this stuff about Confederate flags is BS. He won't though. Just like Trudeau, he doesn't want to have his world view challenged. He's a lying piece of trash.
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  8365. Sounds like some weird DEI interpretation of the law. It's all about identity. We don't need to investigate the crime itself. All we need is a listing of the identities of all involved and that is enough to distinguish the guilty from the victim. That's one weird system of law.
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  8366.  @durgan5668  Didn't that frozen money originally come from taxpayer funds? You're not playing at word games are you?
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  8367. Honey bees aren't native to the Americas but there are other pollinators that are. That's why you will still clover patches. The one thing that happens is that as soon as people see a will colony of honey bees, they call a beekeeper and the colony is taken away. In fact, the public is encouraged to do this. I'm not saying that this is the ONLY reason you don't see as many but it has to contribute to why you don't see as many.
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  8368. Eating cats and dogs are steeped in racist tropes, huh. Funny how saying that the Chinese were eating bats and those Chinese are the ones that caused the spread of Covid, killing millions, wasn't a racist trope. Why is that?
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  8369. Women.....they're not happy till they're not happy.
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  8370. Apparently, Germany hasn't drifted all that far from their National Socialist past. They just don't want to give up indoctrinating kids to be good socialists.
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  8371.  Yedolf  You don't have to like Trump. That's not a requirement when you're pissed that Biden LIED to you. I don't expect ANYONE to intentionally lie to me and if they do, no matter WHO they are, I will upset with them. That includes Trump, Biden, my neighbour, my best friend, my wife, my parents or my kids. DON'T LIE TO ME. You seem to be implying that people can lie to you for some unfathomable reason. It's so bizarre. If his list of Biden's statements are true, SAY so. Don't deflect to someone else to imply that Biden's lies are acceptable. Lies are NEVER acceptable.
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  8372. I'm a person with blue eyes..... a homo sapiens with blue eyes to be accurate. The homo sapiens describe what kind of creature I am. The blue eyes describe a feature that I have but doesn't describe what I am. That's the same thing with a Constitutional Republic. We do have a democratic process but that's a description of a feature of our Constitutional Republic. We are a Constitutional Republic that features the democratic process....a democracy, which is comparable to blue eyes on a human being.
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  8373.  @sevensages5279  I've seen one picture with Epstein in the forefront and Trump standing behind him at a public function. They're both billionaires, living in New York, and it wouldn't be that big a stretch for them to both be invited to a public gala. So.....let's see more pictures. Pictures that show them together, along with dates, that would prove that Trump and Epstein were taking part in crimes. So far, all you've brought is gossip.
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  8374. The Democrats have become like the elites in "The Hunger Games". What's insane is that more Americans can't see that. Good for Tulsi for standing for ALL Americans and not just the elites.
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  8375. I have but it's NOT ethnicity that's at fault. It's the radical socialist ideology that tells them that they've been oppressed and because of this they deserve to be treated differently. They're being taught that in school especially through CRT. It's on the news and certain politicians are supporting it. When you raise a child, any child, to be spoiled and they will be spoiled. It's the same with the Muslims. They're raised to believe that they're better because Muslim and that the rest of us are heretics and infidels. They're also raised to believe that Islam must rule and we must ALL submit to Islamic law. Don't be fooled into thinking that this is about ethnicity. It's about ideology.
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  8376. It will only matter if the rest of the country is starving and living without power and resources. Besides, I thought BLM was about police brutality. If you want to get out of poverty, go to work, make wise decisions, stay away from drugs, control your alcohol and nicotine intakes, don't have children outside of wedlock, if possible, and stay away from credit card use. Use your brain instead of your emotions.
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  8377.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  And it wasn't like it was 30 years before that. People, in the west, were pulling themselves out of poverty, because 30 years before that, almost everyone was poor. REALLY poor.....and 30 years before that, when my grandparents were born, they had no electricity, no phones, no running water, no cars, no planes....nothing. What we take for granted today, the richest people, 120 years ago, would see as miracles of affluence. Your problem is that you, also, don't understand relative poverty. What's poor today, in the west, is affluence beyond measure 200 years ago. You just don't get that....at all. You're consumed with envy and are a living example of why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Big Ten of the Commandments. Whoever wrote them understood something that you don't and you'll never have peace of mind until you do.
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  8378.  @dbefore7165  BS. If you want to make a better life, you can do it. My dad came to this country with nothing, raised 7 kids, worked hard and is now quite well off. The problem isn't that it can't be done. It's that attitude, that you're advocating, that gives up before they've even started. Financial stability isn't instant. It takes years of hard work and sacrifice. If you're willing to do what it takes, you can do it.
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  8379.  @dbefore7165  Why do people, like you, always take things to the extreme? Never normal. It's either horrific tragedy or the bliss of perfection. Life isn't like that. I'm NOT a millionaire or anywhere close to it. That's not my goal in life. I want to be successful but that's not about just money. If that's what you think a worthwhile life is about, no wonder you're a whiner. Your values are all twisted. Money can be a consequence of success but that doesn't mean you have to be a millionaire. Grow up.
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  8380. @user-je4vd9sp5d Some of those Harvard students are going to astonished when the oppressor ideology turns on them. They've said all the right things and supported all the right causes and they'll still be labelled as the oppressor and as enemies of the people. You'd better have a plan B.
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  8381.  @sherlockhomo-ph4su  And this has "what" to do with this lunatic professor??? Please show us how this is relevant you BOT. Is this professor one of the Oath Keepers or something? I'm not getting the link.
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  8382. Why would a cop place his life and safety in jeopardy, arresting members of an Antifa mob, when the DA will just let them go? I wouldn't do it, either. The police departments should go on strike. Check out the Murray-Hill riots and see what happens when there is absolutely NO police protection. That's when the people will start crying for the politicians to do something.
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  8383. After 4 years of saying that Trump became president by cheating, now suddenly, Americans must not EVER say that elections are rigged. Completely forbidden...unless you're accusing Trump. That's just fine. I don't think that they're too self unaware to see the hypocrisy. They know damn well it's hypocritical and THEY DON'T CARE.
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  8384. Closing stores in Seattle, Portland, LA, Philadelphia and Washington DC due to safety concerns. LOL. Who didn't see that coming?
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  8385. Warren might be Trump's running mate in 2020. LOL. She's got the spiel down pat.
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  8386. For millions of years, fires have burnt through brush and forest. Now, it's a tragedy because it affects humans but it's a natural part of the environmental cycle. There are plants and animals that have evolved that take advantage of the new state of the environment after a huge fire runs through an area. Now, we can't allow it to happen, yet environmentalists won't let you do the things that would help to keep the damage down. I just argued with one of those creatures. He actually said that if you cut a firebreak the animals would have no place to live. Turned out he didn't know what a firebreak was. I asked him if he preferred that the animals be burned to death. He called me a rude name. Big city environmentalists, who couldn't grow a potted plant to save their lives, are telling those who live in those areas, how the land should be managed. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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  8387.  @KittyCalibur  The disabled action hero could be a Muslim Turk and you could be the Slavic woman being captured and sold as a slave in Constanti....OOPS.....I mean Istanbul. That should work. The Muslim action hero could develop feelings for the Slavic woman (you) and be a strong and daring examination of the Slavic slave trade. It would be ground breaking.
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  8388.  @scottmcloughlin4371  It also says “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” It's one of the Big Ten.....the Ten Commandments. Matthew 6:15......‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ Proverbs 20:20......If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. Colossians 3:20......Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. In all there are 38 verses, in the Bible, that tell you to honour your mother and father or give consequences for not doing so. Maybe the verse that you cited has a deeper meaning than what you seem to think it does.
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  8389.  @benedicthamlin1137  The Democrats are supporting this craziness. When Ron DeSantis passed a law that forbids the teaching of sex-ed in Kindergarten through grade 3, it was the Democrats that called it the "Don't say gay" bill. It was flat out lie. It had to do with ALL sexually charged conversations. It was Democrats that supported all the "peaceful" BLM riots. Only the wilfully blind can deny this.
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  8390. It appears that these lefties can only be good at either math or at English.....not both. You need to understand what the column descriptive means before you understand how to deal with the numbers in those columns. Be good at both, you guys. English isn't that difficult if you've learned to read and have a dictionary.
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  8391. I'm afraid so. These things were done on the advice of WHO. Over half the planet was duped.
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  8392.  @lightsinthedarkness  If the rebels take over in Syria, things will not get any better. The US should never have supported the Arab Spring. It killed untold thousands of people. The effects of it will last decades.
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  8393.  @bo2-x2n  Of course....it's better to lounge away in Hollywood and moralise at others. Don't take a chance. Don't stand for your convictions by risking it all. Much better to sit on your $60,000,000 dollars and tell everyone else how evil they are. It's a good thing that the soldiers, on D-day, didn't shirk when the going got tough. We'd still be living under Fascism. She's quite the role model.
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  8394. I wonder if their problem with Columbus lay in the fact that he wasn't Spanish but Italian. I'm thinking that this stuck in the craw of many of the politicians of Spain. I'd call this a form of racism.
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  8395. Do you always want them to selflessly help you. There is a time that you have to step away and be an adult and, for most of us, be there for our children. The most precious thing that you can give your children is a stable home that they can always feel comfortable about while still giving them the confidence and ability to never feel the need for it or expect it. That's how you build a well rounded and balanced person....at least, that's how I've tried to live my life and by and large it's worked out fairly well. I got three grandkids that seem to like me for no particular reason whatsoever. I'm kinda proud of that.
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  8396. So....if the Hunter laptop story is disinformation, then is the computer shop owner a Russian spy? A Russian plant to control elections? Would Giuliani, then be a Russian asset as well and be investigated? And since he's Trump's lawyer.....you can see where this is going, can't you? There's nothing about this idea that is good for anyone. One of the most horrific ideas that they've had since the Jim Crow laws.
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  8397. What an incredibly nasty woman this is. Thankfully, I believe that her movement is dying. I'm sure there will be those who hang on but most people don't want to spend their lives espousing hatred as a virtue. It's too taxing on your emotional well being.
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  8398.  @cutoverpark9596  Good luck to her, then. Have you ever said that? Or "best wishes"? You'd be doing the SAME thing, if you have, but using a different "magical" formula. In this case, you're just deflecting from this person's point and using derision and bias to mock this person. What's more, you know EXACTLY what is being referred to. It's just more nastiness towards someone who believes differently than you do.
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  8399.  @cutoverpark9596  But what is luck but an imaginary force. How would "luck" influence anything. You may think that you're not using an imaginary phenomenon but that's what you're invoking as a help to someone. This is where religion and the gods come from. You're claiming that because it's secular that you're not involving a type of belief system. I know that you think that I'm religious but I'm not. In fact, right at this moment, I'm having a discussion with a fundamentalist about Noah's flood. My point is that we ALL use the abstract. You're not better than others because your abstract isn't associated with an organised religion. In fact, your disdain of the religious reflects an elevated view over those who are religious. You are what you claim they are. Be careful that you don't become the monster that you wish to destroy.
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  8400.  @cutoverpark9596  I did not deflect. I said that you were doing the same thing, on a different level, when you invoke the imaginary phenomenon known as "luck". You're doing it on your terms just as a Hindu or Christian or Comanche shaman does when they call on their imaginary phenomenon. You've just proved my point about your feeling of elevated being by calling them fools. Of course, you're NOT the fool, they are...just like the Christian who says that you're not saved. You just use different rationales to justify your elevated positions, your superiority. You've made my point for me.
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  8401.  @1133saginaw  When the government restricts oil production, there's less oil available. That means people start to price bid for less and less products. It's basic economics. The first thing that Biden did was stop the Keystone pipeline and restrict drilling offshore, in the far north and on government land. Biden inserted his restrictive policies on oil production and bragged about a no oil future. That drove up the prices. Prices are set by availability and and the consumer's willingness to pay. Once again....basic economics.
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  8402. Release the prisoners. What a great idea. That should help boost the homeless population. California has sure turned into a crazy place.
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  8403. Sorry....the economy didn't tank due to the Covid pandemic. It tanked due to the government response to the pandemic. Covid didn't make those decisions, the provincial, federal and municipal governments did that.
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  8404. When you ban hate speech, the ones who decide, what hate speech, is will decide that hate speech is criticism of them. Sort of like banning conservatives on the internet.
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  8405.  @joak9992  It makes no sense. He tells them to march peacefully and patriotically to let their voices be heard and then when some of them storm the Capitol, he tells them to go home. Yet, somehow he's guilty of something. It really makes no sense unless it's their intent to destroy the Republican party and become the ruling party for the next 20 or more years, where elections are held but mean nothing. Just like in some of our cities.
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  8406.  @ogboost7610  He's moved into the country. He's said it numerous times. He's on property with acreage and he says it's extremely quiet except for the occasional hunter off in the distance. You don't hunt in the suburbs.
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  8407. I couldn't help but think of Jordan Peterson when you were using the metaphor of feeding the puppy. He'd have used the dragon as a metaphor. You feed it till it's so big there isn't enough food to satiate it's hunger and you lose control.
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  8408.  @antitheistvegan  If you would place the importance of a cat on par with your child, I would find you annoying....and I like pineapple on my pizza. The child ALWAYS comes first and it shouldn't even be a part of a discussion. There is no mammal in which at least one parent would sacrifice their own life and safety to protect their offspring. It's what we are as a species and as a part of a class of species.
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  8409.  @Chris_Hruska  Trump is NOT the president. You do understand that he won't have the power to release that list until he becomes president at the end of January. If he doesn't do it after that, you'd have a reason to make that statement. Until then, all your doing is working on your dislike for Trump and that means nothing. Your obsession is not proof of Trump involvement.
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  8410.  @steffansmith3601  I shouldn't have to talk about criminal cops no more than I should have to talk about criminal postal worker, electricians or street cleaners. If a cop commits a criminal act, that cop is a criminal and should be dealt with....like the cop that killed George Floyd. He's facing murder charges. If a jaywalker gets beaten up by a cop, a hypothetical situation, that cop is committing a criminal act, and he should be prosecuted. That's common sense. However, what you're doing is painting them all with the same brush. When that cop killed Floyd, ALL cops are guilty. Prosecute them all with the indictment of public opinion. Now, when a guy passes out drunk, after driving to a Wendy's, he has the right to resist arrest, steal a weapon from the cop and fire it at them and be let go. That drunk driver, on probation for domestic and physical child abuse, put the lives of average Americans in danger, but the cops that tried to arrest him to discourage that type of behaviour are fired and prosecuted. That's "blue" bigotry. The Rule of Law applies to everyone.....even cops who will still be cops no matter what you call them or organise them.
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  8411.  @steffansmith3601  So....therefore there is no way to deal with the person the would break into a home a rape a 12 year old. ALL cops are bad. You can't get it through your head that no matter who you call, it's just a pretty name for a cop. It's an authority figure. If it's the neighbourhood watch.....that's the cop. You're so delusional about how we should protect ourselves from the really crazy people. No matter who does it....that a version of the police force. You have no solutions....you just complain. That's it. I've worked with guys like that and they offered nothing. Bitch and whine. "The boss is an idiot" That's it. God...I hated working with them.
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  8412. I don't blame the police as much as I do the Democrat politicians. The police arrest the guy and the DA lets the criminal go. The risk their life for what? For nothing. If the criminal fights back, the cop could end up losing his job, his pension, his family threatened and he could even be charged. Give the police the support they need and this doesn't happen but our radical left wing socialist Democrats won't do that. I'll bet everyone of you out there would do the same as the police officers under the same circumstances. VOTE OUT ALL DEMOCRATS. That'll solve a lot of the crime problems.
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  8413.  @timwilson1339  Dictators don't normally take power overnight. The Democrats have to play it so it appears by the book or the moderate Democrat voters might turn on them.
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  8414. What kind of Christian thinks that Mary and Jesus weren't Jews? It's at the heart of Christianity.
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  8415. @Ron White Whether Biden stole the election is rather irrelevant now, isn't it. Biden is in office and his policies are going to cause suffering in this country like we haven't seen since the depression.....but you're so filled with hate that you'd rather see that than admit that Biden is doing a TERRIBLE thing to the people of the United States and Canada. Hate is a terrible thing.
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  8416.  @lifeapplication792  Another person with no kids and Trump derangement syndrome. We're talking about education, NOT Trump or didn't you watch the video.
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  8417. I'm starting to hate these two. Every time I watch one of their videos, I spend the next 20 minutes half blind with tears from laughing so hard. I'm a control type of guy and I don't like losing it like that. But there's nothing like a good belly laugh, as my good buddy used to say, so I'll be back tomorrow. Funniest duo since Abbot and Costello.
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  8418. "People can be knowledgeable on the extent of their own ignorance". We should all be so wise as to understand that statement.
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  8419.  @xocolatl3682  Yes....as a black man. He's telling us that he's black because he wants us to know that he's NOT some black automaton who parrots what the Party line says he must. That the idea of "whiteness" to him, a black man, is reprehensible and racist. He saying it to the new age liberals who believe that minorities don't have the capacity to think as individuals. So quit gas lighting him and the rest of us. There's nothing wrong with what he said. You just don't like that he had the audacity to speak up.....that he doesn't know his place.
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  8420.  Skye325  You're describing the specifics of the ideology. It wouldn't work in a lot of the places of the world if you're bent on instituting a socialist regime. For example, in Thailand, they wouldn't go on about white people because the perceived seat of power aren't white. Marxist groups might demonise the central Thai because they're the biggest and most powerful ethnic group. They would use the Thai as their CRT cudgel to enact Socialism, just like the left does to the whites here in North America. Marxism goes after the perceived power group. In the Soviet Union, it was a class war. In the US, a class war wouldn't work, so they adapted Marxism to go after, what they see as the American power base.....white people. That's why so many of the woke are white. It really has nothing to do with being white. It's about identifying a power base and, in the US, white people are the obvious target. However, it can get even more convoluted than that. If a person is black and is standing against them, that person will be perceived as part of the power base and would be seen as being a part of the power structure called "whiteness". You don't have to be white. All you have to do is be seen as being part of those in power. Asians were labeled "white adjacent" due to their economic success. It's a power struggle and they need an enemy. Anyone will do so long as they can rile enough people to cause mayhem.
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  8421.  @girumzemichael704  My mother used to say "Never say never". We may not see it in our life time but sometimes society's changing paradigms is like building Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. You could spend an entire lifetime working on it and it won't be completed until your grandchildren are old. In fact, that's what may be happening with the massive amounts of debt that the government is accruing, right now. Our grandchildren will be paying off what we spent or they, and the country that they live in will go all Venezuela.....bankrupt. Everything comes to an end. We may not see it in our lifetime but that we have to keep working to make things better. If we don't, we're just fast tracking that bankruptcy.
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  8422. No need for Trump to even bother with them. The celebrities are draining their own swamp. Most people just don't care that much about them and if the Democrats want to spend their money on them, let them go ahead. It's obvious that it won't help them get elected. Trump has a lot more important things to focus on.
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  8423.  @MarcoS-vb8jq  Almost 100% of 15 year old boys have experimented with that kind of thing. That's ALL of us.....including YOU. This is according to CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan Health Centre. If you didn't do it then it's YOU that's the weirdo.
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  8424. I'm seeing the left revision of the Bible. There will be 11 commandments. "Thou shalt not limit the right to tweet....except for conservatives".
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  8425. When the rainbow flag holds more importance than the flag of the nation you live in, you know that your loyalty lies with an ideology and not with your fellow citizens. You'll see that in a lot of school classrooms now. The rainbow is good and as an example, the American flag is bad. Hundreds of Canadian flags at the trucker convoy but all the Prime Minister sees are swastikas. They're dividing us through ideology instead of uniting us as citizens of our nation.
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  8426. When they chanted "Lock her up", they were saying that she should face penalties for ignoring a court order and then destroying the evidence that the courts wanted to see. What she did is against the law and if you or I did it, we'd be facing indictment. That's a lot different than saying that you believe that there is evidence of fraud. That's not against the law. In the end, they may be mistaken, but believing something is not a crime.
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  8427.  @dylanb4494  Khazars? Is Khazar discrimination a big problem in the US? That's a new one.
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  8428.  @kathrynck  Well...Duh. Notice the question marks. Question marks indicate questions and questions strongly imply a lack of understanding. What do Khazars have to do with Critical Race Theory or anti-white bias? What's with all the dancing around it? Just explain it to me.
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  8429. Somebody should tell Reid that it was Gavin Newsom that wanted to do away with the California Civil Rights Act in 2020. The bill was called the Affirmative Action Bill. They knew that they couldn't implement affirmative action as long as they had state Civil Rights. Fortunately, California citizens voted against the bill.
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  8430.  @Gidget-b8s  Of all the 8 billion or so humans on this planet, not ONE of them was born of a human with an XY chromosome. NOT one. That seems like a very consistent place to start from....maybe even a biological law. A man is a being that cannot give birth due to its chromosomal makeup. Nothing fluid about that. So what is a woman? A human being who cannot impregnate another human being due to its chromosomal makeup. Nothing fluid about that, either. It's consistently true. In fact, both of my definitions are so true that you cannot give me an one exception.
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  8431. What kind of delusional mind would pattern a fictional Nazi super villain on the life and ideas of Jordan Peterson? If this doesn't shake the belief system, of the progressive left on the absurdity of their ideas, I'm starting to think nothing ever will. "None so blind as he who will not see" I guess that says it all.
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  8432. It's embarrassing to talk to someone? Wow. You gotta learn to lighten up a bit.
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  8433.  @OutdoorCanadians  What happened to your grandma was wrong. Of course it affects the family. However, I'm not getting your point. What are you trying to say?
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  8434.  @MaggiesNight  I don't care about what HIS supporters like or don't like or weather they want the vaccination or not. Also, I didn't say that he invented the vaccine. I said that his operation "Warp Speed" allowed the FDA to prioritise vaccine testing and allowed them to do phases simultaneously instead of in order, speeding up the testing process. The FDA doesn't invent cures or medical procedures. . It does the testing to ensure that these new advancements are safe to use. They used to do one step, evaluate the results, do the next step and then do the same and it would take YEARS for that drug to be approved. All Trump did was say that there's no reason why those tests couldn't be done at the same time, if it was possible. That sped up the testing process. I don't care if Trump was a jerk or not. It did speed it up and by a lot. I evaluate the results on the facts not on how I feel about Trump or anyone else. You're basing it on your emotions. You hate Trump therefore it wasn't any good. That's bigotry....the same bigotry as racism, misogyny or xenophobia. You judge people on your own preconception rather than on the facts. Subjective conclusions over objective conclusions. Also, the Capitol riots have NOTHING to do with Operation Warp Speed. Not a thing.
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  8435.  @MaggiesNight  If Trump hadn't cleared the path, we still wouldn't have the vaccine approved and 150 million people would NOT be vaccinated. The FDA would still be following the old protocols and might still be on phase 1 or 2 of the testing procedures. I never said that others weren't working. In fact, for Trump to clear the path, they have to be working. It was against the law for them to go against the old procedures and would have left them open to lawsuits if something did go wrong. However, Trump felt that some of the procedures could be done at the same time instead of one at a time. Surely, you're smart enough to see how this is a time saver. Trump deserves credit for his role in making this time saving protocol available. NOT Biden. He had nothing to do with it. He inherited it and he can't take credit for new FDA protocols that Trump put into place. It's not that difficult a concept. The only reason that you can't see it is due to your lack of emotional control. You're letting your hatred of Trump rule your brain and it's not allowing you to understand it. I don't understand how anyone would allow someone else control their logic and thoughts. I wouldn't allow it. Not EVER. I don't care who it is. I don't judge based on emotion. I judge on facts and logic. If Trump cleared the path....YOUR words....that enabled others to do their job in a more efficient and time saving manner, he deserves credit for it. I don't think he deserves credit for putting the country into such overwhelming debt. That is scary and could have terrible consequences in the future. See how that works? Trump helped to put the country into a serious debt situation. I don't like that. Trump cleared the path for the FDA to more efficiently move along the testing procedure for a new vaccine. I DO like that. I can like and dislike different things that Trump has done. That's different than liking or disliking those things because of a precondition of emotions that forces me to judge based on my "feelings". Not like you do. You judge base of your "feeling" of hatred and it's forcing you to think illogically.
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  8436.  @MaggiesNight  "TL:DR" Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.
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  8437. What should she say to the protestors? After all the looting, burning, attacks, killings? GO HOME!!!! NOW!!!! You're providing cover for criminals and thugs. These leeches have stolen your protest from you. Don't enable their violence. Unless you approve of the mayhem. Then stay and we'll deal with you. .....and up yours, Jim Acosta.
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  8438.  @OkTxSheepLady  He sure is. Naked as a jaybird.
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  8439.  @eohrefare7346  Trump owns his own golf courses. How does that cost YOU money? He's doing press briefings all the time. He's got audits going on the government. He's named his cabinet. He's stopped the flow of illegal migrants and started work on the wall, again. He's off right now to try and end the Ukraine war. He's done more in 3 weeks than Biden has done in a full term. I don't know how he's doing it. So, he takes time off to go to a football game or play a round of golf. We all need down time. You'd cry your eyes out if your boss forced you to work 10-12 hours a day, seven days a week. You're just filled with hatred and that's blinding your logic processor.
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  8440.  @MegaBanne  "There will be no need for hard work. Just the necessary work." That's the most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard. If I have a natural ability to play hockey, just showing up to play won't make me among the best in the world. I have to work my butt off, exercise, watch my weight, develop skills...the harder I work at it, the more likely I will attain my dreams. Musicians are the same. They play that guitar, violin or piano at every opportunity possible. They study and play, play and study. If they don't work hard at it, they'll never excel at it. That goes the same for being a carpenter, shoe maker, engineer or doctor. Hard work drives success. Getting by on what one deems necessary won't get you anywhere. There's a reason why Asians have the highest household incomes in America. It's the LACK of laziness. They work long, hard hours and will NOT compromise with "doing only what's necessary". That clip I outlined is the most profound statement of a commitment to mediocrity. YOU are living in a dreamland. Then you say "Everyone will have to do their basic work." So the overlord will tell what to do and when to do it. It's not up to the individual. it's up to whatever vague figure or body of people decides what their basic work should be. More dreamland stuff. It all sounds really great yet it's the capitalist west that has spawned the richest nations in world history. It's produced affluence for the average person that has NEVER been seen before. The only ones who fail are those who won't get off their butts, put down the video game controller and cell phone and go to work. They're living off the avails of those of us work 50 to 60 work weeks and then complain that they don't have enough. Once again, you're living in a dreamland. Show me ONE nation that has a socialist style governance that has ever the affluence that these capitalist nations have. They don't exist. Capitalism is the freedom to make your own life. It's up to the individual. It's the "spread the wealth" types that destroy the initiative and the pride of a hard days work and the feeling of achievement that goes with it. There's no such thing as "doing what's necessary". That's just spinning your wheels and eventually you give up because you're going nowhere.
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  8441. .....but....taking selfies is a human right, isn't it???
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  8442.  @alirohani2687  Copy and pasting the same comment doesn't legitimise the veracity of that comment. I'm starting to think that this isn't even your own thought, that you stole it from someone else.
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  8443.  @halfzack1317  Marx has said that there is no right or wrong. There's only the cause. If it's good for the cause, it's right. If it's bad for the cause, it's wrong. That's speaks loudly of the ethics of the radical socialists.
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  8444. When the CIA and the FBI line up, ideologically, with one group and one party, we're heading toward an authoritarian, one party state. It's not here yet, but it's coming. The Dems wanted us to believe that it was Donald Trump who it was to be feared. However, they used him to create the fear that would allow the American public, to give the Dems the permission, to do what ever they felt necessary to rid us of this existential right wing threat....leaving them with a power that would be difficult to unseat. In other words, the left and the Democrats played the American public.
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  8445.  Masson H  Trump's a science denier who's instituted a vaccine program and given money for Sickle Cell Anemia research. He's started a new military branch in Space. He's a denier that knows how to use social media to his advantage. He's a denier who's country has made more cuts to greenhouse emissions than any other industrialised country. His science denying skills need an upgrade. When Italy was the hotspot, were they science deniers? Or Spain, Russia or Great Britain?
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  8446. I'm so disgusted with my fellow Canadians for re-electing the man/child commie Trudeau. I've talked to my friends, and a lot of them support EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that our government mandates. When I was a kid, some 60 years ago, it was the church that HAD to be followed. Now it's the State and the state is transient. At least the church has a handbook that must be followed to appease God. The state has only edicts, set by ordinary men/women and changes with every election. What a state of affairs we've allowed ourselves into.
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  8447.  @TertuliandoconUrit  This was predicted. Guys, like Tim Pool, were saying it right from the start. Don't trust Go Fundme. They've done this before to what they call "right wing supremacist groups.".......Trudeau's knee jerk reaction to the formation of the convoy. Go Fundme are political hacks and can't be trusted. Fortunately, they've started to use another platform called "Givesendgo", who are more sympathetic to conservative causes.
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  8448. @RonnieWilkerson-ku5gg Yet, it was Trump who made the announcement about the peace deal. How did he know? The Israelis and Palestinians were supposed to be negotiating with Biden and his team. They should have been ready to make the announcement, immediately. Cameras in place, speech written and on the teleprompter, Biden in the wings ready to make the announcement. The minute the agreement was made, there's someone on the phone, from the negotiating table, and 10 minutes later Biden is on TV making the announcement. Yet, Trump did it first.
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  8449.  @movinngroovin2104  They're all beholden to the swamp bureaucrats. Our elected officials have no power. It's all those government agency creatures who don't want to lose their jobs and the perks that go with it. That includes the loot from corruption. Look what is happening to Trump because he took on the swamp. A lot of politicians are making hay on the corruption of the bureaucrats and they don't want to lose that.
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  8450. This judge is probably figuring that she'll contract Covid in jail and when released, she won't be healthy enough to open her shop anyway. I'd say that if she did get the disease, she may have grounds for a big lawsuit settlement.
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  8451. I'm a creationist and I've just been triggered. Would the creationist, Christian students in that class be allowed in the safe spaces at that school? I'll bet a white, male, conservative student in a bowtie would get some funny looks in a safe space. Maybe not, though. That would be an indication of bigotry and that student would need another safe space away from those who don't like the looks of white male conservative students. A chapel, maybe? Would that triggered Christian be afforded a chaplain to get over his hurt feelings? So many questions.
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  8452.  @tinfoilhatter  He was talking about the human condition and if you're fixated on all the bad things in your life, because we all have them, you'll end up angry, bitter and vengeful. That helps no one and can only makes things worse than what they already are. It's not that difficult. I'm going to say that you're being intentionally obtuse because you feel as if the message is directed at you.
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  8453.  @Kittycats-s  You are one funny troll. (big eyeroll)
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  8454. So Lightfoot wants businesses to put in extra security, to catch the light fingered, so the court system can just let those kleptos go. Who voted for this pea brain??
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  8455.  @bettyreynolds204  Forbes estimates his wealth at 7.5 billion dollars as of April 1/24. Bloomberg estimates it at 7.6 billion. That makes him one of the richest people IN THE WORLD. Sounds incredibly successful to me. He's owned well over 500 companies. Some of those companies did go bankrupt but there were others that were a resounding success. He flies around in his own personal jet, that he bought with his own money, and didn't take a salary when he was president. Don't let your hatred get in the way of facts. The man is one of the most successful humans on the planet.
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  8456.  @Bjjboxing  My dog was on the voter list. MY DOG....George Haveman. I lived in a town of 1800. If there was a guy named George Haveman in my town, I would have known him. I knew everyone. I did have a dog named George. When I went to vote, the woman handing out the ballots, asked who this George Haveman was, in puzzlement. My family was the only one with that last name in our town and she knew them all. The point is, if this can happen in a town where everyone KNOWS everyone else, what could be happening in a city of millions? You're dreaming and naive if you think differently. For 200 years people, who thought it important to vote, would get in their cars, saddle up their horses, hitch up the wagon and vote. Bars were closed, employers were forced to allow their workers time off to vote and it worked. Now suddenly, we add a brand new process that has a huge potential to be subverted. If it's important to you, go to the voting sites and do the way it's always been done.
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  8457.  @Bjjboxing  It doesn't take millions. A close vote could mean less than 100 votes could be the difference. If you want to cheat, all you do is identify the regions where the vote will be close and cheat just enough that there isn't suspicion. A one million vote swing is going to raise more than eyebrows. It's going to bring accusations. A one hundred vote swing is where cheating could be the most effective. That's why you keep the process as simple and as consistent as possible. The simpler it is, the harder is it to cheat.
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  8458. The law wouldn't allow Democrats to discriminate against blacks so they centred on Asians to discriminate against. They had to be a little more creative, encouraging blacks to forsake families and putting black children in the worst school environments possible and then claiming that they were actually helping oppressed black Americans. To show how much they were helping them, they created affirmative action and DEI so they could discriminate against other identity groups......like Asians. The Democrats have always embraced an ideology of identity conflict. What's amazing is how people fall for it.
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  8459. I refuse to fly Air Canada. It's time that I add United to that list. We have to "Bud Lite" them.
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  8460. I'm sure that this wouldn't bother these weirdos one bit.
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  8461.  @theeuphioanswer770  Yet the poorest kids from the Dominican play baseball, ALL the time. They've become so good at it, they're over represented in MLB. Why is that? I'd say it's the love of the game. Just like basketball for the inner city kids. They'll play it anywhere and anytime. It's one thing to try to get kids to enjoy your sport. It's another to make it about race. That's my objection. Oh...by the way. Most Dominican players are black. Funny how kids with old gloves, battered old shoes.....Tony Fernendez played in his bare feet because he was so poor.....half broken bats and old shirts for bases, played all the time, but American black kids can't because of a lack of equipment. It's just not true and a nonsensical effort to make it about race instead of just helping kids out.
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  8462.  @theeuphioanswer770  They only did that AFTER the Dominican players started to prove themselves as ball players. When they saw how dedicated they were to the game, THAT'S when they started to invest in the DR. players. They didn't do out of equity or inclusivity or because Dominicans were black. They did it because the Dominicans loved the game and played it round the clock. Skin colour was irrelevant. The Dominicans proved themselves and MLB responded. Not one baseball executive went to the DR. because of equity. They went because of the merit of the players. Prove your worth and the world will respond.
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  8463.  @kimberlyhall9949  Why? Is it because you think that it more resembles the Nazi salute? I have news for you. We've seen the footage....ALL of it. CNN didn't show the part when he has his back to the camera and did the gesture. He then turned and said "My heart goes out to you", verbally and clearly explaining what he meant by those gestures. That was the part that explains the truth of the matter, making it the most important part, which hopefully even people, like YOU, could understand. Apparently not. The forward facing part wasn't necessary. Only the intentionally obtuse could misinterpret what was going on.
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  8464.  @werejustgaming  Public executions is what the Chinese did during their cultural revolution. It's being done in North Korea. I will NEVER support the kind of brutality that these radical socialist regimes use. What's the point of having high standards if you don't abide by them. You're no different than any other authoritarian regime. You may have different ideals but you resort to murder when people have different ideas. Stick to the things that have made America great. Don't become the monster that you want to destroy.
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  8465.  @TheWalterKurtz  Guillotines is what the radical socialists of the French Revolution used. I don't want to be them. Fight and fight hard but don't resort to brutality when you've already have them in custody. That's barbaric.
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  8466.  @TheJeffL  She wanted to take away their Constitutional rights. Why would any reasonable person stand for that? Maybe you would. After all, big brother government is ALWAYS right, isn't it.
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  8467.  @TheJeffL  That's right. That's because they're going to stop her. That's the beauty of a free country. "Rulers" have to follow the Constitution and there's a process to follow when enacting legislation.
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  8468. Why wouldn't Disney fire Zegler? She bad mouthed the original "Snow White" movie which people are still buying. It's a marketing decision.
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  8469. I'd never move to a place because it's Conservative. I'd hesitate, to the point of seriously considering NEVER to move to a leftist city. Generally, I wouldn't move to a big city...PERIOD. City folk live in a weird bubble.
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  8470. The difference is when people don't like me, I don't automatically assume it's because I'm white. I like to think it's because they're a-holes but I have to admit that I could be the problem, sometimes. People aren't going to like you. That's life. If they're doing it for reasons that are illegal, do something about it. Otherwise, get over it and move on.
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  8471.  @Joshingyouhard  I can't speak for your experience or how you perceived it. What I can express is my doubt that those administrators spent every minute, of every day, hating on YOU and you only. I'm more inclined to believe that some were overtly negative towards you at times and that you've converted that as a day long singular attack on you because of your black skin. Maybe I'm wrong but I've never seen that when I went to school. I've seen kids that the teachers didn't like for different reasons but a concerted assault by the administration....never and not even close. Sometimes you see what you want to see. Once again, I wasn't there but don't those administrators have anything else to do but go after one little black kid?
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  8472. I was out tonight and I'm a little late watching this but your channel is getting to be, more and more, my favourite channel. I was a little pissed I wasn't here to see it as soon as it was posted. Keep it up, Sydney. I love your take on life.
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  8473. "We're out of time" That's why I hate the MSM. They NEVER go into any depth of any story.
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  8474.  @TheCubicleReview2  Let's ignore Trump and his university. It doesn't exist anymore. If Trump doesn't exist, is New York a better city to live in or do business? Does that solve the illegal immigrant situation, the burgeoning crime, the homelessness and will it make business investments a lot better? Will food prices go down? Rents become more affordable? Will the average person make an affordable wage? If so.....HOW? There are people who fiddle while New York burns because of their hatred for one man. It's like you don't care about these issues so long as Trump is disposed of. Time to get your priorities straight.
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  8475. @ciarroam Give it a rest. Those, who would abuse children, find their way into places where children are found. Churches, sports, playgrounds, schools, none of these institutions are free of it. The entertainment industry is no better and maybe the worst of them all because these predators know that there are parents out there who would sacrifice their children for money. They'd turn away as long as the cash was coming in. There's no cash coming from belonging to a church. In fact, it's the other way around. Church members donate to the church. The biggest problem with those other institutions is that parents find it hard to believe it to be true. Like everyone else, I went to school and I didn't see it. Yet, I can show you a list of 500 FEMALE teachers who have been convicted of having intercourse with students, both girls and boys and as young as 12 years old. I even know a guy whose ex-wife was convicted of it as a teacher. It's not "tell that to the Catholic Church". It's "reveal it where it's happening" and divert from one to another to appease your personal bias.
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  8476. The problem is that the schools think they have to teach these things. You don't have to teach fairness. It's absorbed, by children, in the way that adults treat them. Children know fair. Give one child ice cream everyday and not to another one, the "it ain't fair" cry will invariably be invoked. A school would be better off just treating ALL students fairly, under rules that are applied equally to all. It's not going to be perfect but nothing ever is. However, children do understand intent. If motives are pure, most kids will get it.
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  8477.  Masson H  Check the stock market today, you bot.
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  8478.  @talldavid30  He said that while he was restricting all flight to and from China back in January, something Biden said was xenophobic. He said it while he put together a task force to fight the coronavirus, which pundits criticised as being "too white" forgetting that the Surgeon General is a black man. He said it when he offered to send members of the CDC to China to help them fight the disease, which the Chinese flatly refused. Your hatred is driving you to using the virus and the suffering of its victims as another tool to vent more hatred. Grow up and quit spinning things to feed your intolerance.
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  8479.  @talldavid30  Also, FEMA has been directed to prepare for a state of emergency if the president feels that it might be needed.
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  8480.  @HarryElmore-jl2pj  I don't know what it is you're trying to say. What radio host.
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  8481.  @williamabbott9437  It's why California Democrats wanted to get rid of their State Civil Rights Act, specifically Proposition 209 in the 2020 election. They called it the Affirmative Action bill. In it they stated that they had to strike it down in order to institute Affirmative Action. The California Constitution's Declaration of Rights that prohibited the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, and public contracting. California Democrats wanted this removed. It went to a public vote and was defeated by a 57% of the voters voting against it. Why did California do this??? A group of Asians sued Harvard University for discrimination in their Affirmative Action policies and lost even though the policies clearly discriminated against Asians. The reason they lost their lawsuit??? Massachusetts doesn't have a state Civil Rights Act. This Asian group is now taking it to the Supreme Court.....and they'll lose unless the Democrats pack the court. It's what Democrats have always stood for. Legalised separation based on skin colour.
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  8482. Now that we've gotten rid of the black chef on the Cream of Wheat box, we're off to all the restaurants and get rid of all the black chefs for real. I'm offended by the idea that there are black chefs. It must be fixed.
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  8483. Biden SHOULD call out both Anfita and BLM. He won't but he should.
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  8484. Frederick Douglass wrote that the Constitution, as an anti-slavery document, established a precedent which allowed it to be “wielded on behalf of emancipation.” This was in 1851. Frederick Douglass was an old BLACK man. Those kids have no understanding of what the Constitution stands for.
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  8485.  @Spiritof_76  I don't have to take stock in Taibbi. All I have to do is look at what he showed us in the Twitter files concerning the Hunter Biden laptop. When you have evidence, the person with the evidence is irrelevant. It's the evidence that counts. Metaphorically shooting the messenger, in this case Taibbi, doesn't change the message. Twitter banned any mention of the Hunter laptop story, even the links to the New York post article that exposed the laptop. They went so far as to prevent sharing of this story through private messaging, a measure that was only reserved in the sharing of child pornography. The NY post is the oldest daily newspaper in the US and the 4th largest in the US. Taibbi, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger all said the same thing about the laptop. They said that there was communication between the FBI and Twitter through a special one-way channel that had been setup between these 2 entities. It's also telling that one time FBI special counsel was working for Twitter at this time as well as other former FBI personnel. If the suppression, of a major news story, that the FBI KNEW was true doesn't bother you, I have to wonder what you're agenda is. Is it to support your party or to support the truth? I'm about the facts and truth and I find it appalling that Twitter would suppress, what is known as "censorship" news that might be damaging to one specific party and be helpful to another. That's not just the news of the laptop but also and dissension concerning government Covid policies and mandates. It's a violation of the 1st Amendment and if allowed to stand, that could impact X, now that it's owned by Musk, who could just censor or suppress stories that might damage Trump. I would bet that you'd find that quite upsetting.....yet we weren't even allowed to send a link to that laptop article through Twitter's private messaging service. Clearly a political move.
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  8486. The one thing that's worse than a POS? A POS with a cause.
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  8487.  @ISirSmoke  Great comeback. It's right up there with "Oh yeah....says you".
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  8488.  @mortenfrosthansen84  Who said thank you? I didn't see it.
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  8489. When words have no meaning, why can't it be a pronoun? 2 plus 2 equals 5. Men can get pregnant and all of life is a social construct. No science. No mathematics. No truth. We are whatever our psilocybin addled brains can conjure.
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  8490.  @fiddlermom9629  You can still try to reform the Republican Party into one that is a more acceptable alternative. You don't have to place people like Romney at the forefront. Go in and primary Romney and encourage others to do the same. If people would do more of this, the country would be in much better shape.
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  8491. I'm on facebook but I don't go there anymore. I go there for a couple of minutes to contact someone on private messaging but no more scrolling, no more posts, no more comments. Facebook is dead as far as I'm concerned. One day I said that if I can't go more than 5 Facebook posts without some kind of political comment, denigrating someone....I'm out. I couldn't do it. So....goodbye Facebook. It was fun at one time but the fun is over.
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  8492. If that's the Democrat strategy, it's going to fail this time and fail miserably.
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  8493.  Jaqen H'ghar  The media doesn't have to relay that information on to the public as news, do they? Unless the point that you're trying to make is that the media is just a branch of the CIA. If you believe that to be true, you should try to get the evidence that makes that link between the 2 groups. Having it make sense isn't good enough.
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  8494.  @SL-es5kb  I don't think that they've have gone insane. They're seeking power and the way to do that is to obliterate the idea of objective truth. To use, what has become a cliche, convince people that 2 plus 2 equals 5. That it all depends on how one looks at it. A man can become a woman just by saying it or vice versa. That's our modern iteration of that Orwellian equation. Why did the powers do it in Orwell's "1984"? Because, to quote Voltaire, "Those who can be convinced to believe absurdities, can also be convinced to commit atrocities". The one who can convince you of those absurdities does it to have power over you. You'll believe anything that they tell you. I wish it was insanity. it's worse than that. It's just plain evil.
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  8495.  @joeterzio7175  Is "Joe Terzio" a pseudonym? Is your name really Stacey Plaskett? It might as well be. Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone. He's won Journalism awards. That's more than some guy with a blog and you KNOW IT. Also, everyone at that hearing, has the emails that that Taibbi and Shellenberger are referring to. It's not some written article in their personal blogs. It's Twitter e-mails and some of them were attempts by Trump, to affect censorship, but most were from government agencies to Twitter wanting news stories suppressed and in-house emails encouraging it to be done. That includes emails from form FBI lawyer, Jim Baker, who left his job at the FBI and went to work for Twitter, and who wanted Twitter to censor Trump and the suppress the Hunter laptop story. This is ALL available to every one of those who were taking part at that hearing. So Stacey, or whoever you are, stop with the "misinformation" to use a hack word to justify censorship. We don't believe you because, at best, it makes no sense, and at worst, it's a lie.
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  8496.  @4EyedAnimation  Too late??? Are you giving up??? I'm not and the only way we're going to defeat this progressive radical socialism is to convince people that they're wrong. If we can't convince them, it is too late and we might as well give up. We have to demonstrate, to people like Maher, that the path of the left is the path to destruction. Now, he's starting to see it and you're telling him that he's too late and he's to be ignored. NO....we need him to keep on this path. We need all of those left wing weirdos to see that their path is destruction and most people, even on the left, don't really want that. Too late......my Gawd. That's the most defeatist attitude that there is.
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  8497. Of course the majority of slave holders, in America, were white. The vast majority of the population of America is white. DUH!!!! The vast majority of slave holders in Africa were black. Another DUH!!!!! What is it about becoming a professor that makes your brain fall out?
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  8498.  @beardedskyrim8652  Nice strawman. You create the narrative of the "monkey in the jungle", without any evidence that's what he believes, and then you knock down the strawman that you've created. Then, you assume that you know the mind of God by relegating Cortes to hell. it shows that you have no idea of the idea of repentance and redemption in Christianity. No human has the right to condemn anyone to hell. Funny, how the conquering of Mexico stopped the barbaric practice of human sacrifice. They basically traded one form of barbarism to another form. The real and unintended tragedy of Cortes's story is that he brought disease to Mexico that brought more death than the human sacrifices and the Spanish conquest combined.
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  8499.  @csmidt2885  Homelessness has been a problem, forever. However, it has increased in population and in percentage of the population over the last 10 years. California is in the top five in homelessness, percentage of homelessness, and in the increase of the homeless in the US. Also, California has mandated that any theft under 900 dollars is now considered a misdemeanour, which is NOT a felony and means that it's NOT a crime. A cute way to reduce crime on paper but not in reality. So many stores have closed due to crime and businesses have left the state for that same reason, also citing high taxes, high energy costs, high rents, recurring brownouts and too much red tape. You may not want to face these facts but a simple google search will validate those problems. Also, state populations do NOT go down, even a little bit, if things are going well. You may not like it but that's the facts. Migrants aren't flocking to the border because their home countries are great places to live. Californians aren't leaving for Arizona, Texas, Florida and Tennessee because they love California. They're having issues in their home state and see a better future in those growing states. This has been the way of human migration throughout history. That doesn't mean that California is the worst place ever. It means that they're facing severe problems which should be examined and solved before it really gets out of hand. Your head-in-the-sand approach isn't going to solve those problems. You have to face them, no matter how big or small, to find ways to improve. Things never improve by doing nothing.
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  8500. That's the problem. They want people to give them things. That's 95 billion that people had to work for and the government took it away from them to give to people who think that they deserve it. We live in the most affluent country in the most affluent time in human history. We have no idea how fortunate we are but we demand MORE. "Give it to us. We deserve it". If the government wouldn't take that money from us in the first place, it would be in our pockets. All your saying is that you want them to give us the money that they took from us in the first place.
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  8501. MTXOPS You do realise that if mobbing and harassing Pelosi at a restaurant is wrong, so is doing the same to Ted Cruz or Candace Owens. Also, you have to admit that Waters and Booker's call to harass Republican officials is wrong. If you don't believe that then you have a skewed concept of right and wrong.
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  8502.  @Robertodette  Actually, the unemployment rate hovered around 5 in 2016. It wasn't until Dec. of 2017 that it went down to 4.1 percent. The closer it gets to 0 percent, the more difficult it is to shave percentage points off. No matter what anyone says, the economy has been good under Trump. If he is as incompetent as they say, wouldn't his policies have hurt the economy? It hasn't and it has done nothing but improve under Trump. You SHOULD be glad about that. Every American should be happy. Here in Canada, we're sitting at nearly 6 percent and it's on the rise. That's not good. I'd like to see it going down.
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  8503.  @MachiavellisThePrince  Schiff said that he had irrefutable proof that Russia and Trump had colluded to fix the 2016 elections. I believed him. I thought Trump was finished. So....I waited for him to drop the proof and finish Trump. I waited and then I waited some more. The Mueller Report came out and that proof wasn't there. So, I waited for the Mueller hearings. Still, not a WORD from Schiff. That's when I was convinced that the entire Trump collusion stuff was utter nonsense. Adam Schiff did that. He LIED. He had no proof. The man has the same credibility that I have, after telling the world about the unicorn hiding in my closet.
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  8504.  @prav6673  Trump ended the policy of putting kids in cages. The infamous pictures, of kids in cages, were taken in 2014, when Obama was president. This is common knowledge. Where have you been? If kids died and went missing, it likely happened during Obama's presidency. Melania asked Trump to end this as soon as those pictures were released a second time, pretending that they were taken after Trump was president. That suggests that Trump, as the president for a short time when that happened, may not have even known about this policy until those pictures were made public a second time. No one paid attention when the pictures were released the first time when Obama was president. Your comment should have read... "A bunch of kids in OBAMA'S cages have died and "went missing" why don't you talk about that." Now it's fixed.
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  8505. Talking about extremism. There's one group saying the Jews rule the world and at the other end, they're not represented enough. It's a race to the bottom of the intellectual scale.
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  8506.  @aaryan_B055  That's why I said that they want the equal right to act in a manner that lacks integrity. Integrity implies a sense of self worth. No integrity implies the opposite, that there is no self worth and a lack of shame. It also shows how little they think of others. People of integrity would be embarrassed to take that kind of advantage.
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  8507.  @orangefacedbuddah1776  LBJ is responsible for the welfare system that allowed a woman to be better off to be a single mother than to be married to the father of her children. To be able to become that single mother, she had to avoid birth control and her sexual partner, of the moment, would be required to NOT use a condom. So, I most fervently disagree.
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  8508.  @TheLittlered1961  I don't care about his opinions. I glean from the guy what I can and that's the facts. As long as what he says is the truth, his opinions are irrelevant. I'm not here to validate what I think. I'm here to gather those facts and add it to the facts I already have to form a clearer picture of what is going on. Tim gathers those facts in a way that I never could. He brings them to me and validates them with the evidence to back it up. That's what I need from him. His opinions are just superfluous noise. It's how I use the media. I'll find out about an event, something current. From there, I find other sources to get a clearer picture. Tim is one of my major sources. I take what's relevant and important and then weigh his opinions for validity. If valid, I'll add it to my lexicon of ideas and if not, I'll drop them. Like I said...opinions are superfluous noise. I take it if and when it's useful but I don't rely on them. The world's full of opinions. They're generally useless. What is useful are facts and I'm not going to bash a good source because of his opinions that mean nothing to me, anyway.
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  8509. Because it's what they want. They want to destroy capitalism. Notice how they don't really care that businesses are closing for good or leaving town. It's part of the great reset.
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  8510. I've read countless books on the Soviet Union, Lenin, Stalin, the purges, the Gulags, the famines and the war and I've never encountered anything on the Night Witches. A truly astonishing story.
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  8511.  @Aurora3242  It's the same war and 9/11 is one battle of that war. It's radical Islam vs the world. We don't see it here in North America like they do in Europe. It's been ongoing over there. One incident after another. An Islamic inspired murder, bombing, knifing or violent protest. Some considered so small, even though violence is involved, and others too egregious to ignore. Charlie Hebdo killings, Theo Van Gogh, a bombing of the London subway, New Year's eve in Germany, the exile of Ayann Hirsi Ali....one thing after another because the radical Muslim sees this as a battle for their lives as Muslims.
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  8512.  @queent3343  Florida is doing better than almost every state in the Union. People are flocking there from all over the US because of how well they're doing. You're just one of those people that are never happy. Even when things are going well, you'll just make stuff up to whine about.....like that nonsense about legislating the LGBTQ community out of existence. You're crying over nothing.
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  8513. A lot of platitudes from the attorney and a lot of flat out BS from that one reporter. The change has to come from the people of Portland...yeah.....right. What if they don't want to change? What then? Does this go on forever? Because it's been going on for a couple of years now. The MSM and the Democrats have been ignoring and denying it for just as long.
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  8514. We've always worked. "By the sweat of your brow" was written over 2000 years ago. Every single luxury that you have is due to the sweat of others and yourself. We live in the best times to work in the history of humanity but we just don't appreciate it.
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  8515. ​ @ColonelFredPuntridge  No one would allow a woman to die if her life truly was in danger. That's the go to for most pro-choice advocates. It's always the life in danger or she was raped which we all see as a mitigating circumstance. However, there are millions aborted where the mother decides that they just don't want the baby. It's abortion on demand. Pro-life supporters feel that it's wrong at no matter what the stage of pregnancy, unless there are life threatening circumstances. They just don't understand how pro-choice advocates arrive at the belief when life starts. They don't understand the logic. If it's not a growing life at 5 weeks, when does that growing entity, and it is growing at 5 weeks, become considered a human life? That's what is trying to be determined here. If it doesn't exist as living at 20 weeks, when is it a growing life? At 30 weeks? Maybe 35 or 40? When does that happen? Most importantly, why is 10 weeks good and 30 weeks bad? That's what they're trying to establish.
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  8516.  @macdonaldmaurice  Do YOU have 400 million? Does that lack of cash make YOU a waste of space? Trump doesn't smoke, drink or do drugs. So what would he have done with that money that he saved staying away from those destructive vices? Even if he was born penniless, if he was as ambitious as he has been, he'd have done just fine. He may not have become the president or even a millionaire but our country is filled with people who aren't rich and aren't a waste of space either. Don't allow your emotions (hatred) write narratives for you. You have NO idea what he would have become had he been born in the suburbs in a middle class family....no more than I do. In fact, neither one of us has any idea what type of person he is, other than the one that has been painted for us by a VERY hostile press.
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  8517. I DO blame Lia. Integrity is more than just the rules. It's about having the pride to know when you're playing under a false premise and refusing to do so. Any biological man, and that's what Lia is and why we call her transgender, that has any integrity, would never take pride in beating someone in an unfair playing field. That's on Lia. The NCAA is culpable too but Lia still has to take responsibility for her own actions. Also, I will say "her" out of courtesy although, as far as I'm concerned, she doesn't deserve it.
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  8518.  @michaelpolehonki  There are already 5 times more encounters with illegal immigrants, on the border, than in 2019. FIVE TIMES MORE!!!!! Once Trump left office, he no longer has control over the border......Biden has that control and one of the first things he did was STOP construction on the border wall. The money was in place to do it and BIDEN stopped it. This told people, who wanted to come, that the US was no longer serious about securing the border and they came. They came because the party that supported sanctuary cities was now in power. They came because the party, that said that wanting a secure border is RAYCIST, is now the ruling party. How many more invitations do the need? Of course they're coming and some are dying because of it. But you don't care about that. It's all about "orange man bad". Politics.....that's it. If people die, so what? So long as everyone knows that the orange man is bad.
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  8519. Listen to those vulture journalists at the end. They've just signed a wonderful agreement and they just want to rip away at something else. It's become harder and harder to show any respect for the MSM.
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  8520. When George Orwell wrote 1984, he used the simplest fact, 2 plus 2 equals 4, and distorted it to show how authoritarians use absurdities to control people. This is where we're at now. When I read that book in the late sixties, everyone sympathised with Winston Smith, who was trying his best to hold onto reality. Today's radical left abhor the reality that Winston Smith was searching for and we sit by and let them do it to us. 2 plus 2 does NOT equal 5. Men cannot get pregnant.
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  8521. @@The1Waiter-gk4sz Getting those people clean drinking water, even for a year or two, is doing something that YOU'RE not doing. These people were subject to getting and maybe even dying, especially the children from contaminated water, such as typhoid, hepatitis A, cholera, salmonella, e-coli, dysentery and giardia. That's just a few of the horrific parasites that infect people who are forced to ingest and bathe in filthy water. He's saving lives and you're complaining about him. It's people, like YOU, that are the reason why people suffer in the world. You DO nothing and then whine at those, who take their riches and actually do something with it. So many super rich athletes, actors and business tycoons do nothing. If that woman actually cared about the people she says she's helping, she contact Mr Beast so they could come up with a plan that makes those wells sustainable long into the future. But, it's better that those people get sick and even die. Better that than Mr Beast receives any credit for it or even has any money. You're not even smart enough to understand that it takes MONEY to do those things and that if he was broke, 1/2 a million people would still be drinking and bathing in filthy, diseased water. You don't care. You hate rich people and that's WAY better than helping the poor.
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  8522.  @semi13-ec9kx  What should Israel do after the brutal attacks last weekend? They intentionally shot and killed over 250 young people attending a music festival. The Palestinians drove up and opened fire on them and then chased them down and either killed them, captured them and even raped some of the women. They took a 20 year old girl, stripped her naked, put her on the tailgate of a small truck and then paraded her along the streets of Gaza, where people people cheered and spit on her. I couldn't tell, from the video, whether she was dead or alive. What was her crime? She was dancing at a music festival. The Palestinians couldn't even know if she was Israeli or not. It made me sick to my stomach. So what should Israel have done? Tell all Israelis to remain calm and go home? Assure them that the Palestinians will stop the killing if the Israeli people show how peaceful they are? That's insane. The Jews did that in WW2 and look where that got them. Hamas KNEW that Israel would retaliate and that Palestinian citizens would be killed. They KNEW it and didn't care. They needed martyrs for their cause and, as far as they're concerned, these citizens were heroically giving their lives for their cause...the Hamas cause. Now, let's hear you defend what Hamas did....FIRST. If Hamas didn't want a fight, they shouldn't have started it.
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  8523. I doubt very much that Rubin is saying that experts, on any given topic, are useless. Experts disagree with one another, all the time. We have to take that into consideration. A classical liberal would know that and be willing to assess ALL the information and not just designate one person or group as the arbiter of all knowledge on their field of expertise. That would insinuate that dissenting voices will always be wrong and should be suppressed. It would be a better strategy to go with a plan, on the advice of those at the top of the field, with the understanding that they could be wrong and that we have to adapt as circumstances unravel. That's at the core of thought for a classical liberal. Continuous reassessment and adaptation of ideas and plans. Rigidity doesn't take into account new and unforeseen developments or that events evolve. It's no accident that it was the classical liberal that accepted the new idea of evolution. They fought against the expertise of the church as dogma. Rubin is now questioning the expertise of our experts as dogma. He's advocating a willingness to allow his perceptions of life and events to evolve. That's classical liberalism. I could be wrong but that's how I see it....and I'll continue to see it that way unless you can present a logical argument that shows I could be mistaken.
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  8524. He sounds like he's got a head on his shoulders. I was impressed by what I heard.
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  8525.  @NIKKOBELLIC-l1q  Men hug each other all the time. Ordinary guys. It's not gay at all. If it were, there's an awful lot of gayness going on in hockey and other sports. They've been hugging each other after scoring a goal in hockey for at least 60 years. I've never heard hockey being called a gay sport. It's not figure skating.
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  8526.  Tom Armstrong  It's a sneaky tactic. You couch a statement as a question and then feign surprise when someone says something about it.
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  8527.  @lescobrandon8045  I have a notion that it had something to do with living in the desert. Sand gets into everything, especially during sand storms. I'll let you figure out the implications, particularly with young boys who aren't as diligent about cleanliness. Hell, it could be why I had infection problems. Also, it might have been a good place for parasites to hide. Circumcision would open things up and make cleaning easier. Just a few ideas on the origins of the surgery that might have evolved into religious ceremonies.
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  8528.  @syav4467  Republicans hate what California has become. They hate the politics that has brought on the highest taxes in the US, the most homelessness, rolling blackouts, highest property and home prices, the bureaucracy, the highest energy prices, the strict Covid mandates, the garbage and pollution, high crime....and on and on. Most loved the old, free California and are saddened by what has happened to a once beautiful and unshackled state. Abrams just hates Georgia. She hates the history and the racial diversity, especially what she see as the "good ole white boys". Republicans just want to change the political atmosphere in California. Abrams will never be happy until all white voices are suppressed, chased out of Georgia or done away with. Until then, she will hate her home as she has always done. I believe this because any white man that would disagree with her on anything, will be called a racist and since that will always be the case, she will hate her home state. I'm Canadian. I love my country and would prefer to live here over any other. However, I hate what Justin Trudeau and his cronies are doing to my homeland. Do you get the difference now?
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  8529.  @banalucki  You're the one that seems to know. Why don't you enlighten the rest of us with your insights? Your comments do not make sense.
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  8530.  @banalucki  LOL. I'm guessing that you believe that you're the one with the great IQ and life experiences and I'm the one that is in need of a reality check. Humility isn't really one of your virtues, is it? Maybe you could have explained yourself instead of posting an ad hominem attack on my intelligence and mental state. That would have been a great deal more useful.
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  8531.  @xaviermagnus8310  In factory work, as long as the job don't require physical strength, women perform quite well. I've worked factories for at least 25 years. However, as soon as it requires strenuous labour, they fall off quite dramatically. A lot of factories have gone to great lengths to eliminate or change all jobs that require strength. However, this is impossible in construction, mining and other jobs like this. Also, most women want the office job. They don't want to put widgets into gadgets. A lot of men don't want those jobs, either but they will do the difficult outdoor jobs and do them with pride. That's the area where you find very few women. They just don't want those jobs.
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  8532. The N-word is just a weapon. Just like a gun, they'll use it on those they don't like and won't even pick it up when someone they like uses that word. Very selective outrage.
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  8533. It might be a decorum problem but for the media to call it out the way that they did and then blame Republicans for the back door dealings of that Democrat aide, is a much bigger problem. It shows an hypocrisy that pure propaganda. They'd have been better off ignoring it.
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  8534. Sadly, her resignation is exactly what they want. They'll replace her with an ideologue that will do as she's told.
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  8535.  Brexit Refugee  Your entire comment is an ad hominem attack and says absolutely nothing. It's schoolyard bullying and nothing more. Instead of the attacks, discuss where you think he may have gone wrong. Just one issue. Give examples on why he might be wrong on that issue and give references if required. Calling him a fool isn't an argument.
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  8536. Trying out the victim card. "People called me names so I shouldn't have to go to jail for any crimes that I've committed". You may as well empty all the jails now.
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  8537.  @robertos782  That money goes into the economy and circulates so that ALL Mexicans can take advantage of it. Had she stayed in the US, that money would be spent in the US...NOT Mexico. You're an evil American if you stay in the US and if you leave, you're an evil American for leaving evil America and taking advantage of your new country. I'm thinking that you're either not an American or you're one of those Americans who feels morally superior to those around you.
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  8538.  @West_Coast  It's weird how Trump, the bigot and racist, had double the black vote and increased, substantially, the Hispanic vote. Very strange. I, a person who's not fond of Trump, find that rather strange. Maybe he's not the bigot that we like to think he is. Maybe we're just being influenced by a biased media who've not been all that honest in their reporting of his presidency. I know. I'm in a cult. The knee jerk response to anything that might even resemble saying anything positive about MAGA. Trying to be open minded has become so difficult these days.
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  8539. We're going through a cultural revolution, similar to what happened in China in the sixties and seventies. Both target the young and both are driven by those in higher education.
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  8540.  @rcmysm9123  Then why is it that Islam, in the 100 years after Mohammed's death, did Islam forcefully expand into the entire Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and into Spain and Portugal? Why did the invade Sicily, sack Rome TWICE and only stopped expanding into Europe because they were defeated at Tours by Charles Martel, the French monarch? Those Muslim warlords put together an empire that matched the Roman Empire in it's size and scope. Doesn't sound peaceful at all. Could it be that Mohammed was also a warlord, who took part in hundreds of battles and wars and, in ten years, used his armies to take over all of the Arabian Peninsula? That Muslims are encouraged to follow the example of Mohammed and expansionist wars are the example that he set? You can repeat the "religion of peace" all you want but the proof is in the actions that the followers of Islam took part in right from the very start of that religion. They went to war. I'd say that the belief is that there will be peace when Islam rules the world. Until then, they must fight for Allah or perish trying, in order to enter into Paradise.
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  8541.  @tabinekoman  The left doesn't use the word "phobia" to describe irrational fear. Just criticise the doctrines of Islam and the left will call you Islamophobic and refuse to talk to you. No one calls you Christophobic when you criticise Christianity and it's a religion just like Islam. No one is called Hinduphobic or Shintophobic, if they criticise the teachings of those religions. ONLY Islam. The left uses the word "phobic" to smear and denigrate, like an 8 year old calling another kid "stupid" on a schoolyard to bully and force their will on fellow students. It's the manipulation of words in order to use them against you. Accuracy and truth are irrelevant.
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  8542. This guy reminds me of our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Will not answer a question to save his life. If you watch JT for 10 minutes in Parliament and you still vote for him, you're an idiot. Garland is just an older version of JT, yet people will still vote for that obfuscating boob. I guess we get what we deserve.
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  8543.  @donaldkeith139  Because they had to show correlation. Sleeping on the top bunk and not being able to say nightly prayers, in the traditional way, leads to bad kids. If it wasn't an overwhelming majority, the joke makes no sense.
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  8544.  @JohnCarterRocks  I'm not reading into his actions. I read his book "Covid-19. The Great Reset". I've watched the videos that HE posted from his meetings in Davos Switzerland. I don't have to read into his actions. He's quite up front about what he wants for our future. Also, he's NOT a banker. Never has been. He's and engineer and economist and has been a professor of business at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 2003 and is still and honorary professor to this day. He's also the founder and director of the World Economic Forum and has written a number of books on the future and is a proponent of "stakeholder Capitalism". I don't know where you got this idea that he's a banker but it's just not true. If you can't even get his vocation correct, what other misconceptions do have about the guy. I'd say that maybe you'd better look a little closer, maybe listen to what he's, himself, is saying before you start trying to tell me what he's about.
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  8545.  @JohnCarterRocks  I don't need to listen to right wing media. Once again.....I read his book, written by Klaus Schwab himself called "Covid-19. The Great Reset". I READ IT. Dave Rubin didn't have to tell me what it said. Schwab TELLS you, straight out, what he has in mind. His meetings at Davos are broadcast via the internet, open for all to watch. You thought that he's a banker and you're telling ME that I don't know what I'm talking about??? At least get your facts straight.
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  8546.  @JohnCarterRocks  You just keep saying the same thing over and over again. Nothing at all to add. You won't even acknowledge that you screwed up on Schwab's vocation. You're a fraud and a troll.....nothing more. You're doing your cause, if you have a cause, more harm than good and you're too thick to realise it. If all you're going to do is say the same thing again, don't bother. I get where you're coming from.
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  8547.  Kenny Bugh  Explain to us why the MSM refused to follow up on the Hunter Biden laptop story or why Big Tech companies would strike down any reference to the NY Post article. This HEAVILY implicated Joe Biden in crooked business deals, deals that would have been HUGE news had it been the Trump family, blanketing the news 24/7. Why was Steven Crowder given a YouTube strike for pointing out irregularities in addresses in Las Vegas? Why were mail in ballots allowed, for the FIRST time in American history, by executive command, bypassing the legislative process as demanded by law? Why wasn't the arrest of Rachel Rodriguez for election fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot a part of the MSM news cycle, proving that mail in voting could be manipulated? Why did the Democrats and the MSM do everything possible to refute and denigrate the Project Veritas revelation of mail in voter fraud in Minneapolis? Why isn't the Time magazine article about how the Democrats, Rinos, big tech, multinational corporations and the MSM worked together to "fortify" the elections a bigger story? This is unprecedented in American election history. All you keep doing is repeating the same thing about recounts and ignoring all the other weirdness surrounding the elections. And WHAT THE HELL IS THIS RACIST NONSENSE ABOUT BLACKS BEING SO INEPT AS NOT BEING ABLE TO GET IDS ABOUT? Do you really think that blacks Americans are that incapable?
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  8548.  @thepsychologist8159  Your entire comment was a big "I don't agree with her" reply. Then you finish by saying that because there were wild fires in '23 that proves something about the air quality in New York. HUH??? There have been wild fires for millions of years. There's nothing new there. I remember the choking smoke of wild fires in the sixties. We didn't view it as an "end of the world" warning then. It was FIRE. Again.....calling someone names isn't proof of anything and being rich isn't a personality flaw. Disagreeing with someone isn't proof of anything, either. Your comment is still filled with bitterness and resentment. There's no sense or willingness to see things in a different light or to accept the idea that we may be using bad policies to fix a problem that may need a different approach. It's just a "do as I say or else" mandate that may be just as destructive than the actual problem. You're a hateful person and all you've done is prove it every time you post another comment.
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  8549.  @tsb7911  Then why are people leaving those states? You're not responding to what this video is about, either. For the first time, in California history, it's population went down in 2021. Could it be that those states were doing great because they weren't as radically socialist in the past. It WAS a great place to do business and the Fortune 500 companies thrived. However, the radical left has taken over the politics of those states. They hate capitalism and want a state run economy. That's bad for business. It's bad for the Fortune 500 companies. It explains why Elon Musk left California and why Oracle, another tech giant, has just announced that they're leaving California for Tennessee. This is the Roman Empire. They were the richest, most powerful force of their time. Yet, the western Empire collapsed. You're no different than the Roman who, as the collapse is beginning, is maintaining that the Empire is the greatest nation on earth and that the rest of the world would be lost without them.....but it isn't is it. There's your response. Your infinity lasted one day.
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  8550.  @glassontherocks  Sagan never went so far as to say that there's no biological differences between males and females, that it was all about feelings. Sagan would give facts but in a layman's terms. He'd never say that Venus could be Mars and that it was all in how you looked at it. Neil even made up a "fact" in this interview. He said that women long distance swimmers were better than men. A quick google search showed that the men's 10 kilometre Olympic record is 25 minutes faster than the women's record. I've never heard Sagan pull stuff out his butt but I could be wrong. The one thing that is certain, Neil isn't following any science when making these gender claims.
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  8551.  @TuffTakes  Most of those women realise that swimming isn't going to be their career path. They're using swimming to get a free education. It's their long term goal and they'll only start complaining when that free education is taken from them. They're going to ride it out to attain what they REALLY want, even if they have to put up with a ridiculous situation. If the choice is a huge college debt or a phoney silver medal, I'll make bets that they opt for the phoney silver. The progressive are winning this because they know that most of these swimmers aren't really swimmers. They're students. Offer a person a free home and you'd be surprised what they'd agree to. "A donkey is an aardvark now give me the deed and the keys". They're getting a free education and they want that FREE sheepskin. That's what makes sense.
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  8552.  @TuffTakes  And they are dealing with it, each in their own way. Mostly, they'll take the free education but there is another reason and that is the social stigmatising that goes with speaking out. Whatever the reason, the long term effects aren't their concern. They'll take what they can out of it and let the future of the sport take care of itself. Ten years down the road and they're making 70 grand per year, due to their free college education, they can complain about the state of college women's sports all they want.....or not. It won't matter to them. They're where they want to be.
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  8553. The Democrats are failing NOT because of a lack of business people. It's because they have too many radical socialists in their party. They're the ones who're directing every strange stance that the Democrats seem to have. The DEI stuff, transgender sports ideas, LGBTQ+++++ stuff, open border policies and now fighting against government efficiency. All these spring from their radical socialist ideologies.
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  8554. And it might backfire on them. The people, who are citizens of the country, may change their political allegiances, because they feel that the party that they've been supporting for years is forgetting them, replacing them with a new voter base. A lot of them are white and white Americans are still, by far, the biggest voting block. However, they may also find that black and Hispanic voters may not like it, either, feeling that they're being abandoned for the new "undocumented" (YouTube wants me to be nice) immigrants. The Democrats may find that their good intentions might have disastrous consequences.
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  8555. That Democrat said that 50 percent of the senior care providers in New Jersey were immigrants, most of them legal. If they're legal....NO PROBLEM, you jerk. What is a problem is that senior health care, an extremely difficult job, is poorly paid and people that want to make a good life for themselves and their families aren't able to in those fields. What this guy appears to be advocating is the perpetuation of this low wage status into the future. All those good people working LEGALLY, in that profession thank you for that Mr. Democrat. (deep sarcasm)
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  8556.  @michellelewis3063  Then why don't you enlighten us.
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  8557.  @SkageXL5  LOL. They CRIED about those who they claim were in power, who laughed and exerted power over them for years. Now they're in power, just as the comment stated, and now they're crying because the pride movement is leaving them behind and the NEW power is mocking them. You're either totally self unaware or you ARE aware and you just don't care.
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  8558.  @SkageXL5  Ok....here we go. S Kage first comment. "LOL, go cry about it!" My reply "LOL. They CRIED about those who they claim were in power, who laughed and exerted power over them for years. Now they're in power, just as the comment stated, and now they're crying because the pride movement is leaving them behind and the NEW power is mocking them. You're either totally self unaware or you ARE aware and you just don't care." S Kage "@Jack Haveman You're the second person who's made the error of assuming I know what "they's" you're talking about. Reading your response to me you use "They" or "them" 6 times, and appear to switch who "they" are at least once. This is clearly a Transphobe/Bigot problem and speaks to the type of person that holds those positions Can you rewrite what you're trying to say so it makes sense and defines who you're talking about at any point so I can consider a response? I assume you'll either not respond, or respond with some vague imagined personal attacks and other things to cast yourself as a victim, because that's all you people ever do. Either way, thanks in advance!" My reply. "First, you told the original commentor, King Arthur" to cry about it. I would assume that you're were mocking him and his take on the modern Pride movement. When I was using the "they" and "them" pronouns, I was referring to those in the Pride movement, the collective, as "they" or "them" because they are a group. That's been a staple of the English language for hundreds of years. It should be quite obvious who I'm referring to if you have any basic knowledge of the English language. 30 years ago, gays and lesbians claimed to be marginalised and victimised and started the Pride movement. Now the Pride symbol is everywhere and try to criticise anything about the movement. It could potentially land you in a lot of trouble. Now YOU, the singular, to help you with the English language, are mocking those who are feeling marginalised, who are afraid to say what they think, by mocking King Arthur, the singular, as a representative of the group, the "they" and "them" that's used to signify group members. It's really rather easy if you know the English language." Then you say... " LOL, you left a trail of dust when you ran away :D" So I reply.... "I ran away???? I responded to your last comment. How is that running away??" So you say this.... "Just gonna put a copy of your lie here, because you're probably going to delete it and to try and hide your failure. "Jack Haveman Jack Haveman 20 minutes ago @S Kage I ran away???? I responded to your last comment. How is that running away?? " That's a little perplexing but you respond.... "Here goes @Jack Haveman again, just running away, shouting lies over their shoulder. LOL" So I finish up with this... "Never mind. An adult discussion is beyond your capabilities. Rather sad, really. When you grow up, we'll talk like adults. Until then, eat your veggies." I don't know what's going on but this is what I see in my comment section. If you're not seeing this, I don't know what to tell you. I've responded every time.
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  8559. Get a big bottle of tequila and watch CNN. Every time someone uses the words "racist", "sexist", "misogynist", "homophobe" and "Islamophobe", you have to do a shot of it. You'll be in the hospital with alcohol poisoning within a couple hours. This says all you need to know about CNN or the left.
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  8560. When you're a Marxist you don't believe in private property. That's why that couple in St. Louis must be charged. They don't own that home. They're stealing it from the people. That's Marxist logic.
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  8561.  @tabbyreed8925  You missed the point entirely. Trump was putting tariffs on the products made in China. That evened up the price difference and it was working. The steel industry was coming back, among others. That's why the economy was doing so well, before Covid. China HATED what Trump was doing and so did a lot of the big multinationals. What with the bad wages, bad environmental, quality and labour standards and the opportunity for graft for multinational executives, Washington bureaucrats and politicians, it's no wonder they HATE Trump. They've got the major news networks on board because they're ALSO owned by big multinationals. The minute Trump announced his bid for presidency, the racism allegations started. They HAD to beat him. If he was successful at bringing the trade deficit to a positive state for the US, they would lose their gravy train. The elimination of tariffs is what started the trade deficit in the first place. Now, the big companies could produce offshore and sell here, until the country was bled dry, but the elites would be just fine. They don't care about you and me. Trump has been against it for YEARS now. 25 years ago, he was complaining about it. The reason why he does it is simple. He's in the hotel and casino business and was doing a national TV show. He's not dependent on cheap labour like the multinationals are. The elites have done a great job convincing everyone that they're socialists and that they care for us. They don't. They want money, power and control and Trump, even though he's a class jerk, is spoiling their plans. Worse, he now trying to get troops out of the Middle East and brokering peace deals there. That's a big hit for the military industrial complex. Another reason to hate him. The Democrats were hating on Bush when he went into Iraq but as soon as they got into power, they supported the Arab Spring and the Middle East conflicts really expanded. Right now they're opposing withdrawal. The same party, the same PEOPLE, that called the Bush Iraq war illegal, now want to stay there. There are American soldiers in Afghanistan that weren't even born yet on 9/11, yet the Democrats want to stay on. They're pulling the wool over your eyes, over all our eyes and too many are letting them do it.
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  8562. Of course they hoped that the sanctions would deter the invasion of Ukraine. It didn't work. Why can't they just admit it? "The deterrence failed. I wish it hadn't but it did" There....it's SO simple and no one could call you dishonest.
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  8563.  @sthubbins4038  "most probable"? LOL. I think that it's "most probable" that it was Hillary that offed Epstein to protect her husband and any future presidential plans that she might have. Bill Clinton has a lot more ties to Epstein than Trump has so my claim makes more sense. So, let's get back to facts instead of the speculations of a guy who financially supported his p---phile brother.
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  8564.  @ultrasmagowski2877  The left has spoken. You have nothing to say about the issues. You just attack the person with ad hominem attacks. There are many Jews that support Trump. Winning districts doesn't change that.
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  8565.  @llamathrust8646  For doing what? You just can't throw someone in jail because you don't like them.
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  8566.  Brutal Noodle  My prostate?? What the heck are you going on about? This is going nowhere and completely pointless.
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  8567.  @ep799  He must be a Republican then, because he's not a good example for the Democrats. Most people, who might be sitting on the fence, are going to think badly of him and those who he claims to represent. Brilliant if that's his plan but I don't think it is.
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  8568.  Brutal Noodle  I wonder how you'd react if you went to a car dealer to buy a car and he started to insult you and calling you names? Would you really buy a car from the guy or would just leave? That's exactly what you're doing except on a political arena. Are you really that unaware that you cannot see that this is a bad way to garner support?
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  8569.  @Dee-nonamnamrson8718  What is a wheeler dealer? LOL. Is English your second language? Let me introduce you to Google.
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  8570.  @danielschmidtke9213  Nonam was trying to belittle him. It was a very poor attempt.
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  8571.  @Dee-nonamnamrson8718  I'm Dutch. My native ancestry goes back to before YOUR ancestors knew that MY country existed....and I know what this term meant. All you have to do is look at it. It's self explanatory. Even if you don't know what it means, Google does.
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  8572.  @Dee-nonamnamrson8718  So you can't stand yourself?
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  8573.  @Dee-nonamnamrson8718  That's right. I forgot about that. It's a funny line, actually. LOL.
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  8574. They always want to cite poverty as THE reason for crime but I doubt that. I'd say that it has more to do with unstable home lives that is the result of encouraging mothers to live as single parents. That doesn't mean that they're bad mothers but it's extremely difficult to do it alone. If we could only stabilise the home life of these kids, we'd see crime rates go down. It''s not going to be easy, especially with the way our children are being taught in the public school system.
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  8575. Come on CBC. We're not the US and quit making things up like some CNN fear monger to get ratings and trying to scare us into imagined scenarios of peril. It's shock journalism.
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  8576.  @MaxPowers2.0  People, with a TikTok attention span, have a tough time with in depth analysis. It has to be simple and brief or their brain starts to wander off.
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  8577.  @BLUELEADER78  Yet, native Americans had borders before 1492. The different tribes fought over land all the time. They may not have wrote them down but they understood that if they tried to settle in lands that another native tribe or nation considered theirs, they be met with hard resistance. However, I have no idea what he's trying to say with his history lesson.
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  8578.  @shay5839  Native tribes had their own territories or land before Europeans came. If Algonquins tried to move into Iroquois lands, the Iroquois would go to war with them. So, there were "countries" but there wasn't a United States, Mexico, Peru or Canada. They didn't come into existence until Europeans established those countries. The natives knew full well what their territories were and their borders were clearly defined by each tribe.
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  8579.  @jaymudd2817  What do mean they didn't have sovereignty? They were independent nations who ruled themselves. That's what sovereignty is. The Iroquois Confederation were, at one time, 5 different nations who were continuously bickering and at war with one another. They got together, in council meetings, and after extensive negotiations formed one nation, with a capital and rules on which to govern. The United States is loosely based on the model that the Iroquois developed. They had councils, just like they have in Congress and in state and municipal governments, today. The natives weren't a bunch of clueless troglodytes. They were quite sophisticated and were destroyed by European diseases that they had no immunity against. Before that, they had huge civilisations. The Aztec, Mayans, the Mound Builders, Incas, Mississippians, the Cherokee and lots more. I've seen the ruins of the Mayans. They weren't primitive people. The ruins of Chichen Itza are a true marvel.
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  8580.  @jaymudd2817  Even that has become another silly canard. Columbus thought that he was in the East Indies, islands of the east coast of Asia, NOT India, so he believed that they were East Indians. India was a generic European term in those days and it covered more than just the country of India, which didn't exist in those days. It was just something that he called them that stuck. It's the same as the term "Americans" There was no such term or word before Columbus. India is named after the Indus River, by they ancient Greeks, which is in Pakistan, NOT India. "Indians" is a word that's indicative on how little people knew about their world. It's not a pejorative or meant to insult. It's no different than calling Deutschland, the name that the native peoples call their country, Germany. It's just a word.
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  8581.  @jaymudd2817  There is no such term or person known as an Early American. It's a term coined by German mapmaker, Martin Waldseemuller, who named, what we call South America, America, after explorer Amerigo Vespucci. What we now call North America, he named "Terra Ultra Incognita" because he had no idea what lay there. Now, we refer to the United States as America and the people who live there "Americans" when the term should actually refer to all who live in North and South America, not just one country.....but who cares? We're not even calling India by it's correct name. That's a British and European appellation, that was derived from the Greek historian Herodotus, over 2000 years ago after the Indus River, which is in Pakistan. But really....who cares? Our maps and names for each other are filled with names and identifications that are completely WRONG when we consider the historical facts. It shows just how intertwined our history actually is....and who cares? It just becomes a way to detract people in a conversation, to deflect from the topic when things aren't going well for one of the conversants. We all know what's meant but it's a great method to show moral superiority, thinking that scorn is the same thing as making a solid point. Who really cares.
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  8582. I make toilet paper. Toilet paper....the stuff that caused hoarding, riots and illegal black market crime when the pandemic started. It's important stuff. Yet, I only make about 40k a year. I WISH I could work ONE year and make 165K. One year and then back to my 40K. That would be something. These high paying WNBA stars are in for a shock when they have to get a regular job. LOL. Maybe they can get on where I work, making toilet paper. I work with women and we all make the same money. No gender gap there. I have a feeling that they believe they're too good to lower themselves down to factory work, though. Strange to think that a black woman could think that she's too high and mighty to work beside me, an older white male. I'll bet that if I took a vacation to Russia and got busted for bringing in some pot, it wouldn't even make the news. I don't like to use the "P" word but I'm thinking that I lack "privilege".
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  8583.  @eveharris30  Are you really this dense? You can't be. I said "No one". That wasn't specifically about them. It was directed at EVERY person on the planet. NO ONE has the right to speak for others and NO ONE has the right to speak for me. Not carpenters, Armenians, bachelors, race car drivers, nervous bridegrooms.......NO ONE. That includes the group that you're presuming to speak for. No one has the right to speak for someone else and then insist that's how they're supposed to feel or think. That's the very peak of authoritarianism. If you can't understand that, you'd make a fine minion for the next dictator.
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  8584.  @dunyacaliskan7495  Do you find Hunter attractive??
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  8585. If you're protesting and violence starts, it's up to you to decide if you're good with the violence. If you are, stay. If not, GO HOME. If you're against violence, don't allow the looters use you as a human shield. Your presence is a tacit approval of the destruction. Leave and let the criminals stand on their own. Burning and looting is injustice, too. It's the injustice of the mob.
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  8586. It'll be the "Great shark of colour". No other name would be appropriate.
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  8587. Over the last 5 months, the death rate from Covid, in the Netherlands has been at around 0.3%. That's flu numbers. Yet we've never had the restrictions when there have been flu outbreaks. There were even demonstrations against the mandates in Amsterdam yesterday. My question is this. Why isn't the medical establishment flying to the Netherlands to see why their death rate is so low? You'd think that success numbers like that would be cause for joy but for some reason, it's ignored. That's why so many people are worried that they're NEVER going to stop. All I can say is this. Wait till the climate mandates start. We haven't seen nothing yet. "You have no right to go for a drive in the country and releasing carbons into the atmosphere" It won't be the climate that ends the good life for hundreds of millions of us. It'll be authoritarian mandates that'll do it for us.
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  8588.  @logicplague  Double jeopardy applies to a criminal trial. This was a lawsuit, a civil trial. The Asians that lost their civil trial against Harvard, took it to the Supreme Court and they won and that effectively ended Affirmative Action. From that, it seems that it can be done.
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  8589. Why don't we include gender in the hate speech laws? We could use it to suppress the misandrist rhetoric that's coming out of her mouth. I've not heard that kind of "hate speech" in quite awhile from anyone. Arrest her and off to the Gulag she goes.
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  8590. Federal storm troopers are being replaced by State storm troopers. That's a BIG improvement, ain't it, Wheeler? Pelosi? A Democrat governor using State storm troopers to control Nadler's mythical Antifa activists. The weirdness of Democrat narratives is truly laughable.
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  8591.  @jasondykstra5257  You know....he just might. I'm not bothered by that idea at all.
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  8592. @The Council Or he DID assault those women and Cuomo and the media is taking advantage of it to take attention away from the nursing home atrocity. I say this because I think he's guilty of the assaults AND the killing those seniors.
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  8593.  @stephenwalsh4481  I think that she was being facetious.
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  8594.  @nonameissafer.8457  Thanks troll. Apparently you're one of those guys that approve of major surgery on healthy young bodies in the name of woke ideology.
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  8595.  @DemonicMonkey88  Fixed. Does it make sense to you now?
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  8596. No, I didn't. At least I can still see it. However, I'll copy and paste it. Here it is "It's fake when it isn't true and they KNOW it isn't true. Or do you think lying is ok when it's against someone you don't like."
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  8597.  @DemonicMonkey88  Proof read your comments, please.
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  8598.  @peterstafford4426  The information that each department doesn't know what the other is doing, is coming out of the mouths of Twitter executives. They're either lying about it, which implies that they DO know, or they really don't know. That's not a fantasy. It's confirmed by Twitter executives. If they're lying....that's bad. If they're telling the truth and material, like the Hunter Biden story which is true, is suppressed, why would they do that? Had it been the Washington Post, breaking a story on Watergate, would they have suppressed that? It doesn't seem likely. In fact Woodward and Bernstein are seen as journalistic heroes. I'd like to see where the fantasy lies in the original comment. Could you explain what it is that I'm not seeing.
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  8599.  @peterstafford4426  If Trump's team was contacting Twitter, we should find out what was going on. If they were just complaining about material being censored, that's not a problem. If they were TELLING Twitter what to censor, that's wrong and goes against the Constitution of the United States. However, none of this has been brought to light to the release of the Twitter files. The pipeline to the FBI has been and its shown that it ALWAYS seemed to favour the Democrats. The NY Post's website WAS always there. That's not the issue. The issue was that if I wanted to post the specific NY Post article, revealing the Hunter Biden laptop, it was suppressed and the post was quite often taken down. THAT'S the issue. It was a new story that Twitter and Facebook suppressed, so the story would have limited public access. It wasn't an active attempt to ban it across the internet from all platforms, just the suppression of the story on the more popular ones, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Also, a lot of us are upset about how the last elections were held. Ballots sent out to everyone, with no chain of possession possible. My dad has dementia and received a ballot. I could have filled it in for him and voted for Trump. Is that a good idea? Who would have known? Homeless shelters were getting dozens of ballots, addressed to homeless individuals, who had listed the shelter as their home because they slept there for a couple of nights and were never seen again. The opportunities for election fraud is wide open. The insistence that forcing IDs to be shown, for voting purposes, is racist is another idea that will bring up suspicions. Until the Democrats commit themselves to solving these issues, like the new elections act in Georgia, elections will be questioned and stuff like what Trump was doing will happen again. The elections were questioned in 2004 and 2016 by Democrats and then again in 2020 by Republicans. It's now being challenged again in Arizona by Republicans. We have to fix this but the Democrats refuse to cooperate. Questioning the elections isn't just a GOP phenomena. It's being done on both sides and only a biased individual would insist otherwise.
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  8600. They said that she may have assaulted hospital staff. She's walking along a busy highway, out of her mind on drugs, and presenting a danger to herself and to others. Public intoxication is also grounds for arrest. That, in itself, has nothing to do with being released from a hospital. There were plenty of reasons to detain her.
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  8601. It was NOT Covid that started this spiral. It was the world reaction to Covid that caused it. I said, right at the beginning, that this was going to lead to terrible consequences if we carried it too far and no one would listen.....but then again, who the hell am I. This was also predicted by the WEF. However, they predicted it because they supported and orchestrated the reaction to the pandemic. A few months after the pandemic started, Klaus Schwab released his book "Covid-19. The Great Reset". He'd already had the scenario worked out long before the pandemic started. When it became real, it was easy to set the wheels into motion. The printing of money to finance the Covid policies and then the vaunted recovery in Canada and the United States made it worse. Biden's energy policies added to it. Biden campaigned on the Great Reset, lauded by the WEF. Trudeau has been a big supporter of that organisation. Now, the Netherlands is intentionally setting policies that will take land away from farmers to rethink the food system and to re-purpose land use. Sri Lanka already put those same policies in place that the Netherlands are proposing and they had a net loss of 30% of their agricultural production and the nation is in chaos. Mark Rutte, the Dutch PM has even said that these policies are a part of the WEF agenda. I could go on and on about it. But, we can't force people to listen and we're going to be stuck with it. Hard times ahead people. REAL hard times.
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  8602. All you drunk drivers, if confronted by the police....RUN. Run like hell. They can't stop you. I just have one question. Does that rule apply to ALL Americans or to Blacks only? Do I have to comply? I need to know this before the weekend. I plan on getting rip roarin plastered on Friday and need to know my options.
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  8603.  @kuiperkoch3498  What do you think government childcare is. That's leeching off others. The government takes money, right out of your paycheck, to pay for the childcare of other peoples kids. It doesn't matter if you've never HAD kids. You still gotta pay the taxes to pay for them. Try NOT paying your taxes. They'll be after you with the full force of the law. They want to leech off you so you can look after their kids through judicially enforced taxes. What he's talking about is voluntary. You can ask your neighbour, family member or friend to look after your kids but they can say no and that's the end of it. You can't get a lawyer and FORCE them. It's their choice. So...who's REALLY doing the leeching here?
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  8604. She doesn't want them to come because she just realised that Guatemalans are Trump supporters. She don't want no Trump supporters.
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  8605. @The Clownening Well......that was good for the conservative cause. Atta boy. You've just confirmed, in the minds of those lefty whackos, that they're 100% correct about us. Please stop helping.
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  8606. Extremism is the purview of the authoritarian. Believe and say as they do or ELSE.
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  8607.  @pvaldez704  Kristin Graziano was elected in Nov 2020 and took office in January. Donald Trump relinquished his presidency the same month that she took office. Biden was president during her entire tenure as the sheriff. So, I'm STILL confused on why he would criticise MAGA when the MAGA leader was NOT the president.....Biden was. Calling me names doesn't mean that you're any more correct. Maybe you should grow up and act like an adult.
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  8608. Stephen Colbert has it in him to be a very funny guy but he's lost in political ideology. Listening to him is like listening to Christian rock music. They may well be great musicians but their ideology will relegate their message into the banal to the point of being cringe worthy. This is where Colbert sits today. He's letting ideology get in the way of a search for truth and it makes his comedy and message exceptionally boring and not funny at all.
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  8609. I can change facts by yelling....REALLY LOUD!!!
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  8610.  @Dogdad-333  Do you know her ex personally? Were you there to see their personal lives? Also, having a famous father opened doors for her. So what? Isn't what she's saying and advocating for more important than her lineage? You sound like such a bitter, resentful and negative person.
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  8611.  @ImperialSenpai  He also convinced people to believe in the same absurdities that he, himself, believed in. Therefore that statement is true. Voltaire convinced people to believe absurdities and those same people committed the atrocities of the Reign of Terror.
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  8612. They're not being stupid. They have an ideology and they've been quite competent is proselytizing that ideology. What was fringe a mere 15 years ago has become mainstream. It's everywhere and has affected politics, economics, education, the military and the law. Stupid people aren't that successful. What they are is ruthless about gaining power and they'll use ANYONE, even your children, to get it. Never, EVER, underestimate your enemy.
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  8613. I pictured the politically correct person being placed in an internet pillory, so the virtuous can throw virtual tomatoes at them.
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  8614.  @renaissancenovice7202  It isn't just the broken monitor. It's the straw that broke the camel's back to use an old adage. It's the change of life, the need to be with those his own age, the feelings of isolation and loneliness that parents can no longer fulfil, the fear that this is never going to end and the unrealistic understanding of time that young people seem to have. Force that upon any teenager and it's not easy. Then his monitor breaks, his one lifeline to the outside world, to freedom and that could overwhelm someone. Like I said, it's no accident that suicide hotlines are seeing a HUGE spike in calls. It affects people differently and we're all not assembly line products, all born with identical personalities and vulnerabilities. We're individuals and we'll all react in our individual manner and sometimes it can be tragic. If this lockdown isn't psychologically damaging, then there shouldn't be a spike in the calls to the hotlines. You can talk all you want but you can't get around this basic fact.
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  8615.  Sigma Nayo  I believe in the right to bear arms and I also think that a normal, mentally stable person should stand up for himself and take individual responsibility for himself. But, I also know that people have mental issues. My grandfather was such a man and he never recovered from it. Life isn't just a black and white exercise. It's full of nuance....but the most telling thing of all is how you ignore the fact that suicide hotlines are busier now than they were 4 months ago. People react to stress differently and the longer this lockdown goes, the more we're going to see serious mental breakdowns and an increase in suicides and suicide attempts. This was a little boy. Not ONE of us knows his mental state, his parents, or what the dynamics of his home was. To make assumptions and then pass them off as facts is no better than gossip. I hate gossips....those busybodies that always know better and are so willing to throw everyone and anyone under the bus to satiate their own ego. For God's sake, show a little compassion for the situation and the hell his parents and family is going through instead of sitting in judgement.
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  8616. If 2000 bucks is going to change my life, my life would have changed a long time ago. This is Democratic Socialism. They pay you to vote for them. People fall all over themselves to get the cash and it really doesn't help most people one bit. It's a band-aid.
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  8617.  @Terralventhe  I will say that the Biden administration did arrest a journalist, named Steve Baker, who entered the Capitol Building on Jan 6th, as a reporter and did make reports on it as a reporter. It took 3 years to finally charge him and he received misdemeanour charges of parading in the Capitol building and trespassing. They actually put him in leg irons and chained the leg irons to his handcuffs even though he surrendered himself at FBI headquarters in Dallas. They chained him like this for misdemeanours, which isn't even a felony. He now works for Blaze as a reporter. This is strange as there were 2 NPR reporters in the Capitol Building that day, as well, and they have NEVER been charged. CNN correspondent, Manu Raju, was also in the building and not arrested. NBC News’ Frank Thorp was also there and not arrested. There were others there but none were arrested. There is one thing that's different between those reporters and Steve Baker. All the reporters, not arrested, reported on the riot in a similar manner and from approved sources. The Blaze and Steve Baker are conservatives and are not approved. Let's see if this comment makes it past the censors.
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  8618.  @Bjjboxing  If we want them down, we ask those that own them if they would agree to do tear them down. If they say that they will, then THEY will arrange to tear their OWN statue down. We don't form a mob and tear it down because the statue DOESN'T BELONG TO THE MOB!!!!! It's such a simple concept. It's astounding that it has to be explained to people.
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  8619.  @Bjjboxing  But it's not up to you to tell people that they MUST not be in public spaces. You can say what you believe but, it's not your statue and this is a free country. The person(s) that owns that statue get to decide that. If they refuse, you shrug your shoulders and move on. That's how an adult behaves. Next time you walk by the statue of General Lee, you KNOW who he is but he's only a thing made of stone. He can't hurt you and neither can the owner. When he tries to enslave you, that's different. You stand your ground and refuse to be enslaved. That's how adults behave. You fight REAL threats to your safety. You don't fight symbols that mean different things to different people.
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  8620.  @Bjjboxing  So what. Even on public spaces. Maybe I want that statue. It's up to those responsible and what their reasons for exhibiting them are. If those responsible for the statues decide that maybe it's time to take it down, for whatever reason, they'll do it. They don't have to take it down because it happens to upset YOUR sensibilities. If it's under the responsibility of a local politician, vote for the politicians that will do as you wish. That's the Democratic system. If they say they will and then refuse, don't vote for them again. That's how our system works. Don't tell me or anyone else that YOU don't think they should be up in public spaces therefore take them down. Follow the process. That's how our system of government works.
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  8621.  @Bjjboxing  "Why do should we care about Confederate flags or statues? That isn't America. The statues could go down for all I care" That's your original comment and I'm responding to that. All I'm saying is that it isn't up to you to care or not. Also, the people who fought for the Confederacy ARE Americans. When that war ended, they were taken back in as Americans, with equal standing. We may not agree with their stance but they ARE American. It's against the Constitution to arbitrarily take away their status because we don't like their belief system.
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  8622.  @Bjjboxing  Who cares? The war is over. Has been for 155 years. They lost....we won. Terrific. MOVE ON!!!! If someone wants to reinstate slavery, then get worked up. Quit obsessing over something that's been done and gone for over 1 and 1/2 centuries. We got better and more pressing things to deal with, rather than whinging about something that was resolved so long ago.
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  8623.  @Bjjboxing  If you don't care, what's the big deal? I don't care. It's a part of the past. I like history and knowing about the past. It's nice to be reminded of the past, warts and all. I know that I'm not perfect and I'm comfortable with it. My country isn't perfect either and I'm comfortable with that.
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  8624. If the release of methane, in the Arctic, due to the melting of the permafrost is going to cause a run away effect, would that not have happened at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago? There was a great deal more land affected back then and surely there must have been copious amounts of methane released. Why didn't this release cause a run away effect and render the earth unlivable?
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  8625.  @mickeyotoole9780  That doesn't answer my question. Why didn't the global warming, at the end of the last ice age, release huge amounts of methane, causing a run away effect? That's what is predicted with the current climate change. Yet, when the global warming was a great deal more comprehensive, at the end of the last ice age, the release of all that methane didn't set off a run away effect that ended with an unlivable planet. Why is it so different this time.
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  8626.  @mickeyotoole9780  You're stating possibilities as if they are known and measured scientific facts. If they are, and I've looked for them, I'd like to see them. Until then, they're only possible answers to my question. I'm not asking this to prove or disprove man made climate change. I'm just asking a question about one aspect that has been put out there. I want to understand the process.
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  8627.  Jay L  Huh????
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  8628. It's funny how gender is a social construct but they must physically construct, through surgery and drugs, their bodies to fit into this nebulous construct that has no definition. This is so illogical.
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  8629. I showed a buddy that Project Veritas video about the guy admitting that they were disseminating propaganda and he just shrugged it off. He didn't care. To him, propaganda is truth and it was driven by his absolute HATRED of Trump. How many more people are like that? It's mind boggling and scary.
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  8630.  @ten_tego_teges  The vast majority of people that came out of the feudal system were still of agricultural background. When the aristocrats lost their power and the peasants took over the land, they drew on their knowledge, as peasants who'd always worked the land, to become successful. The Kulaks in the Ukraine were a prime example. They knew what they were doing and had attained moderate success within a generation of taking over their farms. However, if you look to Zimbabwe, the people that took over the farms weren't farmers. This idea that all you have to do is give the people land and they will produce is a fallacy. The land needs good caretakers, people who have the background and dedication to do the tough, backbreaking work necessary to make it a success. That didn't happen in Zimbabwe. In fact, those who one might say were comparable to the peasants, the labourers, didn't take over the land at all. Many left with the white landowners and helped them to establish new farms in neighbouring Malawi. The "peasants" of Zimbabwe were not the ones that lent their expertise to make it a smooth transition. It was a disaster......and it will be a disaster in South Africa, too. The land in medieval Europe was taken over by those who'd always worked it. The land in South Africa will be given to those who support the government and want the land due to ideological reasons, anger and envy. Those aren't the qualities needed to run a successful agricultural community. In reality, you're comparing apples and oranges. One that was a social system that was in a natural state of transition and the one that is now in South Africa that is a forced transition. The transition should come due to social conditions as they are today and never for ideological reasons.
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  8631. American By Birth Patriot By Choice A living wage is enough for me to get food and shelter. Everything after that is a bonus. Most restaurants or bars pay a minimal wage. It's a tough wage for the average person to live on and it's tough for the owner to pay more. Not always. Some places do really well and the owner gets rich and good on them. However, people think that the serving business is easy. Although there is a minimum training involved, there is a great deal of skill and anyone that's worked in the business can spot the good from the bad almost right away. It takes a certain personality type to do the job effectively. Right now, where I work, they need a new bartender. You'd think that would be easy but, in spite of all the resumes, no one is working out. In fact, most serving staff in our town have run the gamut of taverns in town. That's because it's not as simple as it sounds. That's where the tips makes things better for both the owner and the server. The owner can run a viable business, even though it is small and the employee, the really good one, is rewarded to the point that the owner will retain the services of the best available. What's more, the customer doesn't have to tip. It's an option. If you can't afford to throw down 2 bucks over a 15 dollar meal, you shouldn't have gone out to eat in the first place because you can't afford it. Having said that the motto for the server is this. "Gratuities not expected but always appreciated." It keeps businesses open and provides options for the customer. It works for everyone. Like I said. If you don't wan to tip......don't. Basically, any business that adds tips to the bill is being lazy and doesn't want to deal with the idea that some servers are better than others. The loss of meritocracy in the workplace and the lazy server gets the same as the hard worker.
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  8632. Michael Hoover Well, aren't you the little ray of sunshine. The "nothing is ever right" kind of guy. People with that attitude wear it around like an old raincoat. People avoid you because you reek of negativity. Not one positive thing in your entire comment. Life sucks, don't it?
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  8633.  @RevealedFilms  Spending 20 minutes harassing a phone scammer isn't going to make a lot of difference in the years I have left. The only person that would feel that way would be the scammer. You're not one of those, are you?
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  8634.  @MojoRisenesq  Funny how you're benefiting from the goods that oil and industry provides. You can't even post this comment without the technologies of oil and industry that make it possible. You, quite likely, wouldn't even be alive or if you were, you'd be dirt poor, like people were before oil and industry brought us to prosperity. You may want to bring it all down but you're not going to like it when it does happen.
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  8635. So, that's how you negotiate, Jon??? Scream, curse and make wild accusations until you get your way? I'd say it's time for you to grow up and stop acting like a 3 year old in the throes of temper tantrum. Holding your breath, till you turn blue, should get a glass of cold water in the face, not an audience with the queen.
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  8636. I worked in a shoe factory, for 16 years, that employed 800 employees. This was a company that had over 100 such factories all over the world. If that company had done that, we'd have walked off the job. Not a maybe about it.
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  8637. Actually, the virtuous left believe that the whites of South Africa deserve to be killed. Those nutbars would slit their own throats to prove to all that they're not racist. It's a type of insanity.
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  8638.  @evansmith2766  Frankl looked inside to find that stoicism. Had he not looked for the worthwhile, deep within him, he'd have never would have found the strength to sustain that stoic lifestyle. The one thing that you'll find when you try to fight the system and not deal with your own personal issues, is that the system will fight back. A person that has dug in, like Frankl did, to find their inner strength, will become a slave to the issues that will prevent him from dealing with setbacks in a positive manner. He becomes resentful, may even lash out in anger and that can only end badly, not just for him but for all that come into contact with him. Frankl found an inner strength and peace. That's the way to deal with the world around you. The world will live on, like it always has, with all it's horrors and corruption, but you'll be gone. At least make your corner of it, a place where people will want to engage with you. You accomplish nothing by constant complaints.
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  8639. I like how a Marxist buys all kinds of property all over the country. It seems almost oxymoronic.
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  8640. I'm pretty sure the government has these platforms connected to and hanging from underside of the the dome that covers the earth. That way they can look down at us and watch what we're doing. Then if any country screws up and pisses them off, they can rain destruction down on them from above and there'd be nothing to stop them. That's why NASA has this big budget. One thing that bothers me though. Hot air rises. In an enclosed room, it's always hottest near the ceiling. If the earth is in an enclosed dome, why is the air up there not hotter than on the surface? There's snow up on those mountains and the sun is up there, too. It's gotta be awful hot up there. Yet, they keep telling us it gets colder as you go higher and it seems right if you look at mountain tops. I hope some flat earther can explain this to me.
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  8641.  @galaxykitsune  That's not true, either. Humans are a product of evolution and anyone that has had any experience with different animals can see that males and females, of a species, have tendencies that are more prevalent according to gender. Evolution is all about survival and the gender roles are parsed out as natural selection to best suit survivability of their species. The male of any advanced species doesn't carry a child in the womb, doesn't have to give birth, doesn't nurse the newborn and this gives women and men their own tendencies on how they naturally and instinctively live their lives on a day to day basis. Humans do have the added ability to reason and apply logic but that doesn't mean that they will forego all instinctive urges. We are a product of our environment but just as much or more a product of genetics. You can't escape the urges that drive you, as much as you might want to. No man will ever bear a child. Not one person alive today, billions of us, was born of a man. That has to change basic natures and tendencies of both men and women.
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  8642. I looked. Not a word from the major networks. British papers, Sputniknews, Rebelnews, all foreign publications, but no American sources.
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  8643.  @chrisBaron-g2h  Or maybe he is a black man and he wants people (especially other blacks) that they're not alone if they feel this way.
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  8644.  @calais027  It's a trap that the progressive left has designed to catch Conservatives. If they accidentally snag a progressive in that trap, it's "catch and release" time. Condemnation for one, redemption for others. Had it been Trump, that had a picture revealed of him, in blackface, impeachment would be in process already. You KNOW that it's true. It's the hypocrisy of the left, because in reality, the whole thing is about nothing. It isn't about right or wrong for the left. It's about setting standards that no one could possibly follow to gain power over them.
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  8645. I always use the example of the Oxycontin crisis. That drug was approved by the FDA and AMA and it killed tens of thousands and destroyed the lives and families of hundreds of thousands more. It took YEARS of disaster before Oxycontin was taken off the market. Too late for a couple of people that I knew and I say "knew" because they're gone now, victims of the "wisdom" of the experts of our medical establishment. However, it wasn't before people made billions of the misery of others. This time is ideology. A man cannot become a woman and there isn't enough doctors in existence to make that true. No human being, who has XY chromosomes, has EVER given birth. EVER. You can drug, detach, reattach, wear makeup and don a dress and, if you're a man, a being with XY chromosomes, you will never become pregnant. That's the science of it. You can't change it or negotiate with it or wish it different. The science says that it cannot happen. Period.
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  8646. They have become the satire.
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  8647. Her son sounds like a real piece of work.
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  8648.  @sanjicook08  He doesn't think it's justified. He doesn't like Nazi symbolism but he thinks that you should be allowed to wear it without being physically attacked. That's why he's telling us about and he's not being supportive of the rioters who came to her house.
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  8649. I have no problem with the binder. It ensures that the answers will be accurate and I liked it when Kayleigh McEnany was asked a question and she'd say "I'm glad you asked that question" while opening the binder up. It meant an "Oh damn" moment for the reporter because they'd know that she'd have the information right there backed up by the press releases and news items contained within that binder. I'm not criticising Leavitt because she's amazing but everyone has their methods and as long as the answers are coming quickly and accurately, that's great and all we can ask for.
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  8650.  @marcthemeatman  That's correct. That's a tax on the consumer....but there's another outcome. Some entrepreneur realises that he can make that product and then sell it to the consumer for, as an example, 25% LESS than a foreign producer. You'd buy a product for $75 over $100 wouldn't you? He has to hire workers and must pay them. Now, Americans are working, more and more of them because more American factories are opening up. Around 1980, the reverse happened. I worked at a large shoe factory and the government dropped all tariffs. Now the factory is a senior citizens home and the 1200 people that worked there work somewhere else. In fact, dropping those tariffs destroyed a very large and vibrant shoe industry in Canada and the US. The producing country ALWAYS reap the benefits of being the producer because the money goes to THAT country. If the country is the country that you live in, that's a good thing. If not, that money's gone forever.
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  8651.  @MrE399  He's the left's worst nightmare, too. Unless you're rich. Then you can live in your gated communities with your private security and sneer at the poor homeless druggies in the streets.
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  8652. What did she just say? Does this mean MORE taxes?
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  8653. I'm wondering if the low polls is just another part of the set-up. If the polls for Trump are high and he wins, it'll be hard to call him a cheater. However, if the polls for Trump are low and heading downward and he loses, nothing lost. If he wins, he must have cheated. There's no way he could have won, with polls favouring Trump at 35%, so cheating is the only reason that he did. And people will believe it. Just another game, just like the mail in ballots.
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  8654. Why don't we lower tax rates for the average American and leave the Corporate taxes alone? That would give the average American more spending money and the Corporations won't feel it necessary to up prices for their products. It's a win/win for everyone. Could it be that Bernie really doesn't care for the little guy? He just hates the rich.
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  8655.  @rufffamily1676  Then tell me what it was that he lied about. Don't call him a liar....PROVE it.
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  8656. Their hatred of president Trump runs so deep that they actually believe that the Mueller Report is bad news. They actually wanted collusion to be true. They were cheering the idea that Russia has that much influence on our lives and country. It's insane.
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  8657. I thought they were in power already. Are you saying that they're not? If not, who is in power, then?
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  8658. Who IS that loud mouth with the beard? These immigrants are breaking the law. They know that. I would NEVER take my child and try to sneak across the border with him. That would jeopardise my freedom and my child's safety. It's the same thing as selling drugs. I know that if I sell drugs, the law will separate me from my child. That's not the law's fault. That's MY fault. I made that decision. It's so much common sense that my child gets it. How did such an imbecile ever get a press pass into the White House?
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  8659.  @Americansikkunt  Did you know that every time Trump mentions the success of his "Operation Warp Speed" at his rallies, the crowd boos. Operation warp speed was Trump's initiative, his "baby", so to speak, yet they'll boo him. How is that possible? They don't "care to go any deeper"....yet they boo him for that. It sure is perplexing.
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  8660.  @promethiac2641  "What good is free speech if talk is cheap?" What does that even mean? Are you trolling or is there some deep meaning in this sentence? Free speech doesn't exist unless you allow ALL speech, including "cheap talk". Also, who decides what is "cheap talk" and what isn't? I don't expect much of an answer though. Most trolls run away when asked to explain themselves.
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  8661.  @Havanorange  He was trying to get the internet service up as quickly as possible. What's wrong with that? Besides, Comcast is a private business. Do you really want the governor telling them how to run their company? Maybe you do...if you're a communist.
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  8662.  @PermanentHigh  It's a joke. LOL. Do we really have to explain that to you or is that permanent high starting to affect your sense of humour.
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  8663.  @kountrypoet1859  Why would I get offended? I'm an atheist. I thought it was quite clever and I took it as a shot against the idea of heaven. I'm not sure if that was how it was meant but I don't care. I still think it's funny. You're making quite the assumptions about someone that you've never met. Is that something you always do or am I a first.
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  8664.  @GottfriedLeibnizYT  Of course it was an existent issue back then. How did Prager know about it? Why would he say to look it up? I saw that episode live and I knew about it and I'm some retired guy, living in a one room basement apartment in another country. The MSM wasn't reporting on it, that's all. If you depend on the MSM for news, quite often you're misinformed on the issues.
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  8665. "Positive contributions of immigrants". There are no positive contributions from these immigrants. They hate those who don't follow their religion and many have stated how everyone MUST submit to their belief system or else. It's time to stop with the "positive contribution" nonsense and admit that this is going to destroy us if we don't stop the flow, now.
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  8666. If you're in a tent and have NO alternative but to burn a candle to stay warm, for gawd's sake, put the candle inside a jar. At least the flame will be somewhat contained and if you do knock it over, the odds are that it will put itself out.
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  8667. We love Geraldo but he's a nut. That's what I expected from the panel.
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  8668.  @pokemonfan2630  I'm not Christian but what I can tell you is that God gave humans the freedom to choose their own path, individually and collectively. It's up to us, to YOU, to try to make a better world and to uphold truth and justice. If God did it for us, it wouldn't come from our hearts and the fact that this is happening proves that we, as humans, can be horrifically corrupted. Adam and Eve rejected the ONE thing that God asked them to do. Do you really think that the rest of us wouldn't do the same? That's the point of the stories of God. It's to show us an image of perfection that we can try to attain. I know a lot of people believe it to be true but the lessons of the Bible run a lot deeper than whether it's true or not. It's unfortunate that people cannot or will not see it.
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  8669.  @richard-gn3es  Apparently, you think that Trump sets a good example for the public to follow. Making derogatory remarks is one of my biggest grievances against Trump. Now, here you are, making derogatory remarks. A adept Trump protege.
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  8670.  @mattfoley6082  Did he ACTUALLY say that? Is that a Trump quote or is this your own interpretation of what you think he said? Just wondering.
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  8671.  @richard-gn3es  That was a JOKE??? Oh, I get it. It's in reference to the loan that Donald got from his dad. That loan that proves that the billionaire businessman and president is a failure. Yup....that IS funny. If only I was that big a failure.
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  8672.  @richard-gn3es  Yet, Trump has managed an economy that has provided jobs for all Americans. Real jobs that create products which translates into real wealth. 6 million fewer Americans on food stamps. That means that their lives are better now than what it was at one time. It's not wealth that determines whether they know better or not. Success isn't about the size of your pile. It's evidence that one knows the methodology one needs to find that success. That methodology applies to everyone, rich or poor. Work hard and make good decisions and you've increased your chances of success, exponentially. That's a message that socialists don't like. I used to say this to my kids. The only way to mow the lawn is to mow the lawn. If you get it, and they did, and apply it, the lawn gets mowed. Expand that simple axiom to life and you'll invariably meet with success. That's what makes life in the west so great. Trump may be rich but he's using a grass roots approach to life.
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  8673.  Magical Frijoles  The Michael Cohen thing. Yes, the man is in jail. He's said that he will share the truth when he gets out. Why is isn't doing it now is beyond me. As for that hush money, it hasn't been determined if that was from Trump personally or from the campaign fund. That's a huge difference and those who want to impeach Trump know that. If that hush money was from illegal sources and it could be proven, Trump would have been impeached already and the entire Russian collusion/Mueller report would be redundant. Right now, Nadler is still talking impeachment but is vague on what he's going to use to accomplish it. If this Cohen thing is so damning, it would be obvious what to use. The entire "can't indict a sitting president" doesn't prove his guilt. Evidence does and if they had the evidence, they'd have impeached him already and they haven't.
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  8674.  @weehudyy  The perfect political argument. When you don't have a point, make a personal remark. Why don't you give reasons why you don't like Trump's policies? Why don't you discuss what's good about some of the proposals of the Democrat candidates. Instead, you fixate on what's in my orifice.
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  8675.  @weehudyy  You're claiming that Trump is guilty because people that he knows or has worked with, are guilty of something. If you apply that standard that we're all guilty of something. Look at all the corruption surrounding the Clintons. If you hold Trump to those standards, you must do the same for the Clintons. You're still not addressing the policies that I've mentioned earlier. Your entire stance is one of singular and explicit hate and you could care less about any good his policies my have. Like Bill Maher, you'd rather see a recession, an economic state where people go bankrupt, commit suicide or lose their homes, then to see Trump win the next election. That Americans are better off right now, economically, means nothing to you so you ignore the topic all together.
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  8676.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  To the entire nation. They withheld information, from the public, that would have changed the outcome of an election. They hid information of illegal actions of the Biden family that gave preferential treatment to foreign interests that effected the economic stability of our nation. The media has been an absolute disgrace.
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  8677. I hope you're being facetious. Murder, burning, looting and assaults are never righteous. Remember David Dorn? You should because, according to you if you're serious, his murder was "righteous". It was disgusting how the media ignored the murder of a good man because of those "peaceful" protests.
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  8678. This is all supported by the multinational corporations. If you make it impossible for small businesses to exist, the people will have no choice but to go to Amazon, Wayfair, Walmart and all the other huge corporations, who work with the corporate manufacturers. This is intentional by the California Democrats, who want to control all aspects of the economy and culture. That includes every brain dead California Democrat supporter. They're so brain dead that they're incapable of using their own mind and want someone else to take care of them. I'm astounded that the average person can't see this. Apparently, that's what happens when you allow your brain to be controlled by the state and their corporate allies.
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  8679. I'd like to see a link to this guy's article. I looked but I wasn't able to locate it. Would appreciate the help.
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  8680. "Honour thy father and mother" is part of Ten Commandments for a reason. Not because it's a Christian Commandment but because it's a basic tenet of all viable civilisations. Ancestor worship and the veneration of those who came before you was part of the central belief systems of cultures all over the world. It's a gratitude to those who came before you. It's an appreciation of all they had to go through so you could now be alive and it's a wish to continue to build onto what has come before, realising that it's not perfect and neither are we. If you don't have it in your heart to hold gratitude, what do you have? Bitterness and resentment. Anger and revenge......and destruction. The destruction and anger that goes with it. Only a true narcissist would feel that they have all the answers and that only they hold the morality in their hearts to show the rest of us how to live.
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  8681. Mansplaining....another way of saying that this specific woman is too weak to stand up for herself. How condescending.
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  8682.  @3MrNiceGuy15  Another person who equates circumcision with the amputation of breasts and genitals. I was circumcised at 6 years old due to a severe infection. The day after the surgery, I checked it out. A small scab, which fell off in a week, and then nothing. No pain, no difficulties, no nothing. That was 64 years ago. All that I noticed is that, when flaccid, there was no foreskin to cover the head. When erect, it looked no different than is always looked, in the morning. (yes, 6 year olds wake up with an erection, too). I fathered 3 children, have NEVER had any medical issues since the minor operation and have had a VERY vigorous sex life, over the years. To compare male circumcision to sex change surgery is beyond ridiculous. One is a VERY minor operation that has little to no affect over a lifetime while the other is fraught with a lifetime of drugs, infections, takes away the ability to procreate and affects the body's natural functions. You're using a tempest in a teapot to covertly validate gender reassignment surgery.
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  8683. My prime minister admires China because they know how to get things done. I never voted for him. I never voted for his dad, either. Trudeaumania....what a joke.
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  8684.  @lisadleo2624  Because members of that community have a higher likelihood of being a member of that progressive ideology. If she was gay and conservative, she wouldn't be doing those things.
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  8685. They're leaving the Democrat party and RADICAL left. They're leaving the cult that says that you must agree 100% of all they say or you're a Fascist. That's who they're leaving.
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  8686.  @cedricliggins7528  He sure is. Peterson did a masterful job of exposing him.
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  8687. It's a story that thousands of years old. Pontius Pilate didn't want to kill Jesus either but he capitulated to the mob and killed him. For those who are tempted to call me out, I'm NOT religious. I used this 2000 year old story to illustrate that this mob mentality is nothing new and that people back then understood that the mob cannot be placated. The story doesn't have to be true to illustrate a truth about humanity.
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  8688.  @jamesclaypoint5465  Not being able to practice Christianity is only a part of our problem. The REAL problem is her unbridled hatred towards others that belong to a certain demographic. What else would she do if she could convince the majority that her hatred is justified? The Holocaust didn't start with the elimination of Jews in death camps. It started with heated rhetoric, expressing hatred against the Jews and how something had to be done about it. This woman has already expressed her hatred and is on her way to doing something about it. Getting rid of the Christmas tree might seem trivial and, in and of itself it is, but the reasoning and the vitriol that went with it, most definitely isn't. She then accused another lady of placing people "in a LOT of danger". She called them all "pieces of trash" and said the she hated "everyone of you". I mean.....WOW. All this because someone liked having the Christmas tree in the library. All over a "f---ing tree", to put in her own words. What do you do when threatened with "extreme danger"? You protect yourself and this woman is setting the rationale in place to use extreme force to counter the extreme danger that she perceives to be in. It's quite frightening, especially to someone who has lived and heard this kind of rhetoric before and seen the results of this deep hatred. You don't have to be a Christian if you don't want to be but to use such horrific language should be called out by all of us. History has shown that those who employ such vitriol can set into motion horrific actions. This is at the heart of why we should object.
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  8689.  @knightstemplar6420  People on welfare with no desire to improve themselves, perpetuating their parasitic lifestyles by passing it onto their children. Yeah....I can defend that. (big eyeroll)
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  8690.  @Rampart.X  And so what? I wish success to every human on the planet. Why would anyone do otherwise?
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  8691. Are you saying that we should be quiet about the extremes of Islam? That we should leave them alone because it has life and death implications? WOW. Dawkins made a fortune on his atheism stance but it was almost all against Christianity. Now, when things are getting hot over Islam, he refuses to say a word about it because he's afraid. It's easy to be a hero fighting someone who won't fight back, like Christians. It's pure cowardice to hide from Islam, a religion that grew out of Judaism and Christianity, pretending that he's never looked into it. If you're afraid to defend your atheist beliefs, don't go on TV. Stay home, tell people that you've retired and want to spend your twilight years in solitude. At least there's some dignity to that.
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  8692.  @jill3906  I can't even figure out what that means. I'm different than anyone that I know. In fact, no 2 people, that I've ever known, are exactly the same. Diversity is a given fact, no matter who is in that group. When one starts to put people in categories, that's NOT diversity. It's dividing things up. When you're in the US and you're a citizen, you're an American. Nothing else. To start separating us into groups of hair texture, eye shapes, religions, ancestral origins or skin colours, you're dividing us. I could care less about those divisive characteristics. If you're a good person, work hard, mind your own business, you're ok by me. Those other things mean crap if you suck as a human being.
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  8693.  Chief Scalpalot  And no child support for a child you're not allowed to visit, either. Win and WIN.
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  8694.  @allnoyz7895  If anyone can come up with a better way to fight crime without the use of the police, I'm all ears. I've yet to hear any viable alternative and I don't expect one from you, either but I'm listening. If you have a better way, and present a credible case for that way, I'll back you 100%. So, let's hear it.
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  8695. Stealing from the rich to give to the poor costs you nothing. When you take your own money, buy the goods and share it with the less fortunate, then you're showing true compassion and you're allowing the producers of those goods the capital to keep producing the produce that everyone needs. A strong economy is a symbiotic relationship. We live well because we have a system where we can all take part in the process, even if that process includes helping those who are unable to help themselves.
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  8696.  @riverdonoghue9992  If I was a teacher and being FORCED to talk about my sexuality, I'd be telling them about my very traditional marriage to a woman. I'm sure they wouldn't want that.
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  8697.  @lorettanericcio-bohlman567  What specific policy, that Mike Pence had, that would have chased you out of Indiana? You're being rather vague about what they are.
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  8698.  @bc4458  If California is so great, why was 2021 the first year in California history in which the population went DOWN? It went down in 2022 as well. That has NEVER happened since California joined the United States. Where are the hopes and dreams of those that left? In Florida, Texas, Tennessee and South Dakota, I guess.
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  8699. The reason that students are traumatised is because they're being taught history in a framework that encourages traumatisation. If it's taught in a balanced fashion, in a way that not only glorifies the good things in history but shows how we progressed in our understanding of how the bad things in history developed. Dividing history into good guys/bad guys doesn't shed insights on the nuance of human nature or how complex human personalities are. Today, our history is viewed and taught through the lens of vilification with no sense of understanding or compassion. That is what is taught to our children and they have become prey to this sense of superior virtue that is being outlined to them by our educators. In many ways, our teachers have become our high priests, setting our standards of morality and virtue. Our schools have become the new "church" and the students are reacting just like any good Christian would have 200 years ago....with moral outrage and indignation. Do we really want that from our education system? A new form of religious fervour.
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  8700. That settles it then. Republicans will cheat. Mail-in voting doesn't work. Best we scrap the program before Trump steals the election.
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  8701. So when San Francisco doesn't investigate crimes under $950, under a directive from politicians, it's not going to affect shop lifting and theft rates? I'm afraid that the numbers prove that wrong. When rioters and looters don't face any legal repercussions for their actions, under the directive of politicians, people will be more and more comfortable with rioting and looting. That's politics. The spike in crime, that's taking place right now, is up over previous years, NOT seasons and the defund the police initiatives (political) is the direct result for that spike. A child should be able to figure it out.
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  8702.  @boblynnsr.7434  Trump is no longer the president. We have a new president now. He's not doing a very good job, either. There's strong evidence that his son was involved in corrupt dealings in Ukraine, Russia and China and there are links to his father, our current president. Biden has also been caught with classified documents, on his property, from his time as vice-president. These are incidents that must be investigated. Trump has nothing to do with this. Just because Trump was corrupt, that doesn't mean that no other subsequent president could be corrupt. We have to deal with them as they come. It's not just naive to let Biden off the hook because "orange man bad". It's just plain dumb. Deal with the issue of today, the president of today, not the president of yesterday.
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  8703. I sometimes think that all those whacky conspiracies on YouTube were being promoted so to point out a segment of the population as real nutjobs. You know, the Truthers, chemtrailers, flat earthers and the like. That way when the real things were happening they'd just lump you in with those guys and everyone will just dismiss you. It's a brilliant strategy, if it's true, but I think they overplayed their hand.
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  8704. Once again, the left banning speech. Can't say that......by law. No one can tell me what I can say or can't say. That's what tyrants do.
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  8705.  @onewildandcrazyguy9213  A healthy economy is one of wealth exchange. I have something and I will exchange it for something that I would like. That is how an economy should operate. What socialists want to do is take what I have and give me nothing in return. It's forced on me and I have no say in the matter. It's theft made legal. Why would I put any effort to create anything if the fruit of my labour is taken from me? It's the basic reason why socialism is a failed concept. It rewards those who take and punishes those who create.
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  8706.  @onewildandcrazyguy9213  This is the definition of the word "socialism" "a political and economic theory of social organisation which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." Socialism pertains to the means of production or the acquisition of wealth and how a society engages in that goal. It says the state should be in control of production and decide what the market wants. Capitalism says that production should be in the control of the producers and decided on what the market wants. In other words the freedom of the individual to decide what he wants and the supplier decides on whether he will supply it or not. A fire department or a public water system is not socialism. It's an expense of living, the exact opposite of production. As a society, we've made a tacit agreement to share in the cost of life's expenses and we call them social programs. Therefore we build roads, schools, police departments, a military and the infrastructure that a community needs and we all chip in to build and maintain it. Without a strong economy, there is no wealth attained by the private citizens and we can't chip in to aid in the cost of expenses. We call that money we chip in "taxes". If no one is producing, there is no money being made and no taxes paid. This is the reason socialism is doomed to failure. In Venezuela, as an example, the nationalised oil industry financed the social programs. Those seeking office would promise the electorate the world because the oil revenue was the cash cow that would financially fulfil all their promises. The oil industry had no money left over for maintenance, research and development, hiring the top people and training. Eventually it had to collapse. It's why the Soviet Union failed and why China changed it's strategy allowing for free enterprise while remaining in control of the larger sectors of business.
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  8707.  @onewildandcrazyguy9213  Did you not even bother to read the official dictionary definition of socialism I provided? If you did, read it again because it's quite evident that you didn't understand it. Socialism covers the means of production or the gross national product. Basically what all the produce and investments in a country that gives the country monetary value. It's how rich a nation is. Social security is an expense. It doesn't make the country any richer. It's a social program that costs the nation money but allows for a cohesive and civilised society. So....NO. Social security is not socialism. It's an expense of running a country and does NOT involve the means of production in any way. Production, in the economic sense, means to produce something of value. You do not produce or manufacture social security. When it is the state or government that controls all or most of production, oil, paper, cars, pencils, toilet paper, potatoes, ladders.....manufactured goods, that's a socialist system. That's what that definition says. It says nothing about social security, education, highways, the police or all those other government run agencies because the produce nothing. They are an expense of the state and do not incur wealth or value.
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  8708.  @onewildandcrazyguy9213  Social security can be said to be socialised but it's not a part of the economy. READ the official definition of socialism, AGAIN. It talks about the economy not state social programs. The military isn't socialism because it is not a part of the means of production. Neither is social security. NOTHING is being produced. Macdonald's is a part of the economy. It's the sales aspect of production or how a product is exchanged after it is produced. Now you're presenting a youtube video, an opinion piece, as evidence over an official definition of the word that has been recognised for years "Nothing strikes more fear" is how she starts. That's an opinion piece. If you can't tell the difference, it's no wonder you can't tell the difference between a socialist country and a capitalist country. One has it's economy controlled by the state and the other through the freedom of the market and enterprise. What you're describing are social programs. They provide no wealth to a nation's fiscal well being. They are necessary expenses of a successful nation.
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  8709.  @onewildandcrazyguy9213  Apparently, official definitions mean nothing to you but I'll try another source. This is from Merriam/Webster dictionary----- "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods" Or how about encyclopedia Britannica---- ", social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources" Now, I've given you 3 official definitions of socialism. If you still don't understand how socialism has to do with the means of production, I don't know what else to tell you. I can't understand why you won't address these definitions. It's like you're pretending that I haven't even posted them.
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  8710.  @sthubbins4038  When they talk about the Mainstream media, they're talking about the bulk of it. CNN, MSNBC, PBS, ABC, CBS, the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, the over 80% that are openly against the elected president and make no bones about their position. That's who wouldn't report on something like this. It had to come from neutral or right wing sources. It's ALL negativity. "Those ships will NEVER be ready. Don't believe it". "Hydroxychloroquine is a false hope. Don't believe it" Nothing works for them. Everything is in vain. Better we make sure that airlines comply with new emissions laws that we need RIGHT now. I think Trump is a braggart and I have a hard time listening to him but he's has an excellent team behind him and he's been praising everyone that's trying their best, even Cuomo and Gavin Newsom. He even thanked Maddow for her praise for some of the workers. He didn't have to do that but she just spit in his face, anyway. These people are just getting in the way. If you're not helping, then shut up. If you're criticising EVERYTHING, then you hurting everyone. Fortunately, Trump doesn't listen and is encouraging his team to keep up the good work because I don't see a lot from the MSM that's helping. A lot of complaining.....that's all.
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  8711.  @snarkloaf  He was referring to "Crowdstrike" when he asked about the favour. Crowdstrike is the name of a server that might have been relevant in the last election. So, if a person, an American politician to be specific, goes to another country and uses taxpayer money, 1 billion dollars, to stave off an investigation, he can declare that he's running for president and he's now beyond reproach or investigation? Really? He can do as he likes in a foreign country and no one is allowed to find out about it? Joe Biden did something shady. He's not in an election, not yet. The Democrats are deciding on who is going to run in the election and Biden is one of the candidates. This process isn't an election. This is a process of the Democrat party not the election of a new president. If a candidate for the leader of a political party breaks the law, he can't hide behind his position and say I'm in my safe space and you can't investigate. That would mean that you couldn't ask the Ukraine or Russian government to give evidence against Trump either. He's also up for the next election. Also, what if the Ukraine investigation shows that Biden did nothing wrong? How does that help Trump? The Democrats were looking to impeach the day that Trump was inaugurated. He hadn't even done anything officially as a president and they had already decided they were going to get him out and it's been one impeachment motion after another. An investigation looking for a crime. They think they've found the crime and now they're spinning it the way they want to public to hear it. And I don't even like Trump and I can see that this isn't about anything he's done wrong. It's about Democrat hatred towards Trump and a determination, to use a current expression, to cancel him.
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  8712.  @annetteneubauer3052  "Why should a daughter make the deans list if her purpose in life is to be a wife and mother and nothing else" You said this and the implication, with the phrase "and nothing else" can only be one thing. You become a wife and mother and nothing else. If you didn't mean that, maybe you should be a little clearer in your writings. Also, he NEVER shamed anyone. "Many of you will lead successful careers but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children that you will bring into this world" That shames you? Are you kidding? He didn't say one word that was negative about having a successful career. All he said was that some of you, something that I'm going to assume you did, will have successful careers. Okay. Others might want different things. My god, don't dare say that. The successful career women might feel shamed. Some women find fulfilment in other ways and, for some reason, you can't bear that. Get over yourself. This wasn't a slight directed at you. You did that for yourself.
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  8713.  @simonwarner8328  The United Nations has issued a warning that if the economy doesn't open soon, 30 million people will be facing a famine of "Biblical proportions". That's how they put it. Do you know who's affected the most in a famine? Children....that's who. Worse than that, if this degenerates into the full recession, the number, facing starvation, could increase to 150 million people. Already, there have been riots in Lebanon because store shelves are empty and people are getting desperate. If you think that dying from Covid-19 is a bad way to die, it's nothing compared to starvation. We have to fight both threats and do it sensibly and with purpose. The economy is how the world puts food on the table. Cripple the economy and you'll have disaster.
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  8714.  @RedArrow808  It's all preformative. They're radical socialists and they're using immigrants in their agenda to divide Americans. They're hoping that the division will cause violence which will expand into their socialist revolution. They're not confused or misinformed. Without crime, there will be no resentment and without resentment, no anger. Without anger, no revolution. They WANT this to explode.
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  8715.  @jeremiahfitzwinkle323  Where did I ever say not to use a mask. I was just commenting on your little random soundbite that means nothing at all.
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  8716.  @rpmangin  It's about the same way here. I live in a smaller town, about 20 thousand people and the most cases we've ever had was 7 or 8 cases at the same time and that's because they were housing those, who were returning from abroad and who were Covid cases, at a military base within town limits. Ontario had quite a rash of cases at the beginning of January and we were all in lockdown until 3 weeks ago. We can go to bars and restaurants now. The big joke around town is that they're allowing us to go to 5 additional places now. Aren't we lucky.
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  8717.  @craigjames4258  It's a circular definition and in academic circles it's a big "no-no". Do that in high school or university, on a test, and you get a big, fat ZERO...or at least we did when I was in high school and college. A rabbit is something that we call a rabbit" says nothing. I still won't know what a rabbit is. Same as the sentence "Diversity is when you're diverse". I still don't know what diverse means.
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  8718. Do you know why it was a little old lady, Tim? Because had it been some young men, the media would have spun it into "White supremacists fight peaceful protesters. Trump's private army descends on Portland". That's why.
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  8719. We just had an election in Canada. We had to go to a polling station, show our ID and then vote.....on a piece of paper. The OLD FASHIONED WAY. The votes were tallied, Trudeau won and we got on with it. What the hell is wrong with you Americans? This method worked for 200 years and now, suddenly, it's all gone to hell. It's simple. If you're worried about long line ups, increase voting stations. Get more people to handle the election. Smarten the hell up and quit the accusations of cheating. Also, don't vote by mail. How dumb is that? Go to the official station and go through the procedure. For those who can't, there is a procedure to follow. It's always worked. Don't cloud the process. Make it as simple as it can get and be consistent about the process. Why cloud the process unless.....you want it clouded.
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  8720. Not ALL immigrants are carriers. Therefore, it would be wrong to discriminate against all immigrants. It characterises them as disease ridden filth and that's dehumanising. It looks as if we're all going to die.
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  8721. It'll be difficult for Google to change its course. The problem with the corrupt is that quite often they think that they're the good guys. That's human nature. People hate admitting that they're wrong, even when it's obvious.
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  8722. Watch the entire video before you comment.
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  8723. Someone should tell Vox that Tucker wasn't criticising Capitalism. He was criticising the corruption of the human heart. He was criticising those who pervert the system to hurt the lives of others for personal gain. Capitalism must still operate within a set of guidelines and restrictions. They're as beholding to the rule of law and the Constitution as every other citizen. As bad as this Singer guy is, I'd still rather live in a Capitalist society where the corruption comes from the individual than a socialist state where corruption comes from the collective.....the state. The economy and the government must be kept separate. Who polices the government when they have complete control of the economy? When you investigate yourself, you will invariably, find yourself innocent of all wrong doing. One of the major flaws of Socialism and the strengths of Capitalism.
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  8724.  @sg-zd8eb  Because it's the radical left gays that are pushing the farcical agenda. What's the point in picking a normal gay person who has REAL liberal views. They don't care about pronouns and they don't like making a big deal about their gayness.
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  8725.  @JOHNNYCFC18  It was the same but this what the left does. They manipulate words so language is never clear. That's how they manipulate reality. Orwell tried to demonstrate this in his seminal works "Animal Farm" and "1984". Language manipulation is a major tool of authoritarians.
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  8726. When 62% of the American population are afraid to speak about their political views, I'm not surprised at all. 33% seems about right.
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  8727. Basically what this guy did was what so many on the left do. They don't like someone and call them racist and use convoluted logic to support their claim.
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  8728.  @adilkhan-yt9op  Iran is Shia Islam and I'm assuming that you're Sunni Islam. Both fruit off the same poisoned tree.
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  8729.  @waraabebidaarleh3165  It's NOT about the people of Islam. It's about the ideology of Islam and what it can induce people to do. No different than the ideology of Fascism or Marxism. They urge people to do things to others that they never have done of themselves. Bad ideas create bad people.
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  8730. The 7 day new case load average is at the lowest point, in the US, since the pandemic started, yet they want to re-enact new lockdown measures.
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  8731. I'm not sure that I understand your reasoning. Those who oppose abortion believe life begins at conception when a brand new, identifiable entity is created. From that moment on, that entity is a growing living being. They believe that killing that living being, weeks after conception is NO different than killing a five year old, a teenager or a 30 year old woman. They're upset when a 30 year old woman is killed. They're upset when a 30 week old living human being, in the womb, is killed as well. As upset as when George Floyd was killed last year. Yet, there are no riots, burned out buildings or lootings. The abortion clinic bombings are loudly condemned by all major anti-abortion groups and has NO widespread support. So, when you stick with the topic of abortions, there are some, you call them the right, that get upset when you kill a living human in the womb, and some, you call them the left, who support the idea of killing a living human in the womb. I'm not seeing how they're the same.
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  8732. I agree with almost all of this but the Gulf of Mexico will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me.
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  8733.  @TheJeffL  Which party seems to be doing something about it? Ron DeSantis, a Republican, just signed into law that makes squatting nearly impossible. Why aren't Democrat governors advocating an end to it. I find it difficult to blame Republicans, when it's a Republican governor who's doing something about it, NOT a Democrat. I will blame the party that does NOTHING and I don't care which party that it is. The Democrats are the same party that declared Martha's Vineyard a sanctuary community and then summarily forced illegal migrants off their island. They're a bunch of phonies, pretending to be virtuous and kind but only when they can get others to be kind by proxy. As for your think tank theory, YOU are the one that's the predictable one. No matter WHAT the topic, you take the opposite stance....EVERY time. I have yet to hear you agree with anything that's ever been said on one of Tim Pool's videoss. This is why I say that you could care less about the people that own the homes that squatters take over, until it's YOU that comes home and there's someone living in your home. Then, like the hypocrites living in Martha's Vineyard, you'll say that they gotta go. You're a reactionary troll and a hypocrite.
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  8734.  Dubjax 28  "The income gap between highest and lowest earners has never been wider in US history." So what? It's NOT about what someone else has, it's about what I have. That's how you should look at it. Are things better for me now than they were a couple of years ago and does the future look brighter at the moment. You're turning this into an economy of envy. What someone else has doesn't impact me. I can't spend someone else's money on me. The deficit is a huge problem. However, how are you going to pay it off if the economy is in the tank. You have to start to make money before you can pay off your debts. That's common sense. If this economy continues to improve and the deficit keeps growing in the future, then we should start questioning why this is happening. If I'm going bankrupt and my wages aren't helping, I have to improve my financial position. I'll just keep going deeper into debt until I pare down my life style or improve my wage situation. That's the same with the government. Get all those troops out of the Middle East, just like you promised, Trump, and apply the savings to the deficit. The economy has improved so you can do this. Keep that promise of withdrawing troops. No matter how you slice it, the economy is doing great. Now, the government in power has to take advantage of it. Let's see if, after the next election, Trump can do as well with the deficit as he has with the economy.
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  8735.  @michaelshishido8151  LMAO!!! Wow....this cap locks kinda makes you look a little insane. I'm picturing you, all red in the face with spit flying, as you pound out this comment. Relax, man. Calm down. LOL. It seems that you like Red Tape. You must be a bureaucrat. The guy who insists that forms are signed in triplicate before you move on to the next form, which is signed in duplicate and then sending the client to the next department, 10 miles away, to get Form 3A-6663321-BB signed in triplicate to bring back to you, so you can have him sign another form which he has to send, by mail, to another department, to get authorisation papers which must be signed by the Ministry of Signing Authorisations. I love those guys. We all love those Bureaucrats who live off Red Tape.
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  8736.  @michaelshishido8151  LOL......what cap locks are you talking about. Are you seeing capital letters that I can't see? I've been a bartender for over 15 years. I make a living out of going out. LOL.
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  8737.  @elvisonwax  The press are adults? They're the ones that interpreted a simple question into a presidential directive to ingest bleach. They ask the same stupid questions, over and over, again and again and are still puzzled when the president won't answer them. "Aren't you being irresponsible......." What adult would actually expect an answer from a question framed in that way. Like that Yahoo reporter who insisted that the South Korean per capita rate of testing was better than the US per capita rate. He didn't even fact check before he embarrassed himself on live TV. That's quite the adult behaviour.....and you're allowing these guys to give you information without question. Fact check EVERYTHING, whether it's from the president or the press. The press will lie to you just as quickly as anyone else would and I can give you HUNDREDS of examples where they have. I'm astounded that people, like you, don't mind that they're lying to you. I suppose you approve as long as the lies support your own belief system.
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  8738.  @blueocean-me1ns  That canard again? Over 50 people were found, in a trailer DEAD, along the Mexican border. Did you get that? DEAD. Yet I've heard more about the 48 migrants that we're given a free plane ride to one of the most exclusive resorts in the world, than I have about those poor dead migrants in that trailer. Border agents have found over 600 dead migrants along the border this year. That's just along the border. That doesn't count those that perished trying to GET to the border that border agents couldn't find. NO concern about that. The only thing that upsets you is a free plane ride to Martha's Vineyard. Talk about a tempest in a teapot.
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  8739. It's the vice of envy. There's a reason why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Ten Commandments. It's one of the most destructive forces in society.
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  8740.  @joe225c  Even if it were true, that they may never find out, who's going to believe them? They've lied to us so often that the truth would be an aberration. Dems don't believe that honesty is the best policy. Whatever brings them power, they'll do it.
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  8741. @TRUMP TRASH I'm thinking that you and StHubbins might be the same person. I find it hard to believe that there are 2 people that have the exact same problems.
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  8742.  @SalacKite  I realise that but these 2 are always on Tim Pool's videos and say pretty much the same things. They never engage and even when you prove them wrong, they're back the next day babbling the same things again. I'm not saying that they are the same person, definitely but they might as well be. They offer nothing of value....only insults.
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  8743.  S, Lianis  Well over 80 percent of the world have religious beliefs of one kind or another. Are you seriously going to contend that over 4 out of 5 people are nut cases? Kind of an arrogant outlook on the people around you. And forget about calling me one of those nut jobs. I'm among the 1 out of 5 that isn't religious. However, I think enough of people to not dismiss them solely on their personal belief system. Apparently, you're one that is quite high on himself.
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  8744.  S, Lianis  Trump has own hundreds of businesses. If only 6 failed, that's not a bad financial track record. As a matter of fact, Rachel Maddow got her hands on Trump's 2006 tax records and it showed that he paid 36 million in taxes that year. A lot of taxes for someone that's not a billionaire. Worse, if you can't see his taxes, as you claim, then you can't know what they will tell you. You're just making it up. I know because the rules of evidence says that lack of evidence isn't proof of evidence. If you can't understand that, you will, indeed, live your life in the self styled bubble.
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  8745.  @gerrywhelan5761  The upswing in the economy is only a few years old. You really didn't expect it to jump automatically to where it was in the late sixties, did you? You're going back 20 years and using THAT as your metric when a mere 10 years ago, we had one of the worst recessions in the last 70 years. Economies build. They're not turned off and on with a toggle switch. Right now, this year, the economic numbers are better than they have been in decades, since those halcyon days that you speak of, or the early seventies. I was there, looking for work in the late sixties. I know what it was like and the American economy is on the road back to those times and in the last couple of years, it has been the working class that has benefited the most from an upturned economy. Anyone who would reject the idea that our economy is thriving today because it isn't as good as it was 50 years ago, isn't being realistic, at all. Worse, if you vote for the Democrat, give away platform, next election, you'll wreck every gain that has been made in the last 4 years. You're too busy worrying about what's on someone else's plate (the rich) to appreciate what might be on your own plate and the opportunities that exist right now. Envy makes for an extremely poor financial and career planning.
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  8746.  @gerrywhelan5761  Yes, things were on a downturn from the early seventies. A gas crisis, over 20 percent interest rates, free trade, they all contributed to a downturn in manufacturing. I'm not arguing about that. What I'm saying, and I'm repeating myself, is that things have turned for the average blue collar worker. For the last 3 or 4 years, the economy has gotten better for the lower end worker. I never ONCE said things were perfect. In fact, they weren't perfect in the sixties, either. Life sucked for a lot of people in the US, especially blacks and other minorities. Things are better for them now then they were back then. Right NOW, in the US, the economy is better than it has been over the last 50 years, back to those glory years of the sixties. I'm not talking about 10 years ago, or 15, or 20. I'm talking about the last 3 years. All you have to do is look at employment records, wage increases across the board, the stock market and the lack of skilled workers to fill specific manufacturing jobs. All this is good for the average Joe. This happened over the last 3 years. It's known by everyone. Bill Maher hoped for a recession because he's afraid that if the economy keeps improving, as it has over the last 3 years, Trump will be re-elected. If you expand the parameters, you will reach a point where your claim is true but Trump or any president, has no control over what happened in 1980. He can control, somewhat, what happened during his own presidency and those are the parameters that are important right now. Things are better now than they've been since the early seventies. This IMPLIES that things did get worse but are now getting better and have been for the LAST THREE YEARS. Please, understand that I'm NOT talking about the eighties and nineties. I'm talking about the LAST THREE YEARS. There has been a definite improvement since 2015 and the economic numbers are better than they have been in a long time. It's a trend, one that you'd be smart to appreciate, instead of denigrating it as if it doesn't exist at all. You really didn't expect it to jump, overnight, to what it was back in the sixties. It took years for it to get to the point that it was in the late sixties. We're on a positive trend that might see it happening again but you don't even want to acknowledge the trend. If it doesn't jump there, RIGHT NOW, today, it's a failure. That's a losing attitude and things will never get better for anyone who thinks that way.
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  8747.  @Antonio-gg4vv  Israel is going to release them almost immediately. I've never heard of the pouring chemicals on her boat. Suppose you direct us to that information.
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  8748. Joe's a Trumpster!!!!! He's a conservative and a deplorable!!!!! He's on our side now. LMAO.
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  8749.  @racistwhore  What are you.....8 years old? You're an example of the worst kind of troll. I know. "Boo hoo, whitey" (big eyeroll)
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  8750. They've blamed the Republicans for racism, Jim Crow 2.0, segregation and an insurrection on par with the Civil War. This is child's play for them.
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  8751.  @ClarityDetermination  That entire trucker fiasco was a clear demonstration of how Trudeau sows unity and caring among Canadians. He called them names, using identity as a clear divisive tactic and then he called the police to violently break up a protest that had NO violent encounters by the protesters, at all. No hard feelings there. I know that you won't respond. It's as if you've been hired by Trudeau as their official internet commenter. I'm not sure how campaigning is illegal. I'd like an explanation but I don't expect that either.
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  8752. MSM, Big Tech, the Corporate elite, the bureaucratic swamp and all the lobbyists hate Trump for one reason. He's taking on China. They hate it. They love putting their manufacturing facilities in China, a country that has no environmental laws, poor labour laws, poor safety protocols, poor quality standards and low wages. These elites are making HUGE profits working in China and getting kickbacks which the American investigators can't track. That's money that Chinese officials and companies that can be placed in numbered accounts in any of the countries that allow those bank accounts to exist. They're losing the goose that's laying the golden egg and they hate it. That's why the minute that Trump announced his bid for the presidency, he became a racist. It's why we have all the twisted stories, intentionally misleading framed narratives, the emphasis on hate and systemic racism. It's all money driven and people can't see that these elites are manipulating the narrative with their social justice tropes. They need to turn people into ideologues. Ideologues don't question what they're being told.
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  8753.  @tlalanerampa4312  Typical of a troll. Make some kind of insult and then disappear.
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  8754. We need San Francisco values for the children of the USA. Who doesn't want to see more "poop patrols" and "free" needles littering the streets? I'm planning a vacation with my grandkids right now, to visit the Utopian San Fran. The oldest one will love that he can just walk out of the store with any toy he wants and nothing will happen to him. It's paradise for toddlers.
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  8755. @JamesBarry-j7m So you'd have supported the Fugitive Slave Act back in the days of slavery. Anyone who aided an escaped slave was a felon.
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  8756. Tim, you should get rid of the description of Dexter Reed, as well. "Man shoots cop during traffic stop. Police return fire, killing the perpetrator". It doesn't matter if the guy is black or not. He fired a gun at the police. That's enough right there. No police officer should be thinking about the colour of a guy's skin when he's shooting at him. It's irrelevant and only those who want to use it for political purposes would think that his skin colour is important.
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  8757.  @lynnettac2105  Yes, we have the same parents. As for the rest, I think you'd better read my comment again. He was my brother. He was 8 months younger than my SON. There is no "she" in my comment. I'm not sure why or even how they could be invited to the wedding. I was married before they were born.
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  8758.  @lynnettac2105  If that's what you do, that's up to you. That doesn't negate the fact that they are still your half siblings. My dad has half siblings and he doesn't call them that. They're still his brothers and sisters to him. They're quite a bit older than him, as he was the 3rd youngest of 16, from 3 different mothers. However, they're all family. If you don't want to acknowledge those half siblings....fine but that doesn't erase the fact of their existence.
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  8759.  @lynnettac2105  Maybe it's because she knows her younger sister? Meghan is a woman who has publicly aired her disdain for her in-laws. Stuff like this should remain within the family but she's used her position to make allegations about them to her advantage. She's quite willing to live on the name and position of the royal family by bashing them at every opportunity. It's disgusting and self serving. Unless she has something of value, like heinous illegal acts, not her little snipping at micro-aggressions that might just be in her head, she should keep her mouth shut. She's only getting from her HALF sibling what she's been doing, for years, to her husband's family. The worst thing you can say is that Meghan doesn't fall far from her family tree.
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  8760.  @lynnettac2105  Harry is free??? The guy has turned on his own family because of a woman. NO one, man or woman, should be put in that position, because of a spouse or significant other. This wasn't happening before he met Meghan. He could've stepped down from his royal family obligations without fanfare but he chose to let his wife lay it all out there for the world to see. Dysfunctional.....yes. Trash.....that's your interpretation of what I'm saying because I never said that. However, I see a woman that is narcissistic and manipulative. Not a woman that I'd EVER get caught up with, again. I had a wife like that. Every time I see Meghan Markle, I see my ex. Thank God, she's gone. I'm in a better relationship and spot in life. Harry can do the same but he won't. Badmouthing and hatred of his own family seems to be the priority right now. You're absolutely correct on one point. Hatred is NOT the answer. If only Meghan and Harry could get that message. A person can be estranged from their family, for a myriad of reasons, but they don't have to whine and gossip about them through the media. Attention seeking narcissists is what they've been reduced to. It's a sad and hateful way to live.
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  8761.  @lynnettac2105  It's not demonising. It's about her lack of respect for her husband, her husband's family and the obligations that they have to their position. I would NEVER publicly badmouth my family and that includes my in-laws because they've become my family through the vows of matrimony. Believe me, we ALL have reasons to be criticised. There are behaviours that are just plain unacceptable. Dishonouring your parents and, by proxy, all of your family, is one of them. It's considered so important that it's one of The Ten Commandments and she has no problem, Harry as well, in breaking that commandment. Honouring your family has been an integral part of social life in countless societies for thousands of years. All I see here is dishonour and disdain.
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  8762. She judges a book on its cover. As superficial as it gets.
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  8763. You sure found a lot of ways to call someone insane. Let's try talking about his ideas. Name calling isn't exactly the domain of the intellectual. A 5 year old can do that. I'd hope that, unless you are a 5 year old, you'd want to advance past that stage.
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  8764. This is a matter of honour. You can lie about a lot of things about yourself and, although wrong, it can be harmless. However, this is different. This is a slight against everyone of those who risked their lives, lost their lives or suffered debilitating injuries fighting for their country. This would be something that a person, who has the arrogance to call themselves "the God" would never understand. His opinion is dismissed and I'm dismissing the person that would dishonour the true soldiers in that way.
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  8765.  @gabepizza  " They are getting opinions from the person they are interviewing." In a perfect world, that would be true. However, a host can and has asked questions to suit their own agenda and refrain from asking the questions that they don't want the answers to. The really intelligent ones will make it seem legit and will even subtly change the subject if they don't like where it's going. They even have ways of asking questions in a way that puts the interviewee in a bad spot. Sort of like..."experts say that...." or "sources have informed us that....., in the hopes of cornering someone. That's why I say, always double check the information that's gathered in such an interview. It's not the obvious bias that fools you. It's the ones that are believable that can be the most dangerous. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
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  8766. Of course it was childish but he's pointing out the fact that she's leaving the country while there's a government shutdown and people aren't getting paid. She wouldn't be there to negotiate even if Trump was willing to capitulate on the wall. That's just great. I wonder if the border security deal that Pelosi would negotiate would cost 5 billion or what, but then, how could we know? She hasn't proposed anything yet. She's just against Trump's plan to build a wall. It would be nice if she would draw up a plan and then discuss it with Trump. That would be a start.
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  8767.  @elephantoflight3362  BS. He asked a question. Questions aren't propaganda. The question was quite the simple one. Do minorities need special help in order to succeed? The answer should have been a resounding "NO". People in minority groups are just as capable of success as anyone else who would apply themselves. It would seem that this judge doesn't believe that but we don't know because he wouldn't say what he believed. Why couldn't the judge be honest and tell us his opinion on the matter? It's either "No, minority members are as capable as anyone else" or "Yes, minority members need special help", The judge didn't want to admit what he thought because he was afraid that he might expose his personal biases.
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  8768.  @elephantoflight3362  It's only loaded if you don't believe that minorities are capable of achieving success without help. That means that it's loaded if you're a bigot. It's loaded if you're forced to be honest. To ordinary, rational people, it's an easy question to answer. To the bigot, quite often it's in their best interest to avoid answering it. So, maybe you should try answering it. Do you think that a person, who happens to be a minority, needs special help to succeed?
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  8769.  @elephantoflight3362  You didn't answer my question, did you? I wonder why. Is it because you don't WANT to answer it because you don't want to admit what you actually believe about minorities. I'll ask again. Do minorities need special help in order to succeed? Just answer it. If you asked me, I'd answer it, immediately. Why can't YOU answer it?
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  8770.  @elephantoflight3362  Still making up excuses for why you won't answer the question. I gave you my answer. Why not give me yours? Do minorities need special help to succeed? I say that they don't...that they're quite capable of succeeding without special help. What do YOU think? Do they need special help or not?
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  8771.  @atticuswalker8970  That didn't make a difference. The members of that response team spent years waiting for a new pandemic, doing nothing but waiting. Trump didn't fire them. He had them placed in real productive areas where their expertise was also needed. Then, even before the pandemic came to the US, but was hitting the news, he had a team put together, including members of that team. It was the Democrats who criticised him for putting together that team. They used that old race card.....calling the team nothing but a bunch of old white men, basically mocking them. Trump even offered to send members of that team to China to help them out but the Chinese refused. Then, when Trump curtailed travel between China and the US, the Democrats called him xenophobic. When Trump held up travel between Europe and the US, they said that it just wouldn't work and it was pointless. This was all done at the suggestion of the team that he put together. How much would you want to bet had Trump kept that original Obama team together and followed their suggestions, they STILL would have criticised his response, which was no different than the responses of most other countries? Look how quickly Trump got the respirators manufactured and ready for distribution or outfitted 2 hospital ships for NY and LA. The media said it couldn't be done and it was complete only a few days past Trump's target, which was said to be impossible. Then the leaders in NY refused to use the hospital ship sitting in their harbour. Instead, they put Covid patients in nursing homes....one of the worst things that they could have done, killing hundreds of the elderly. The big problem was that they used Covid as a political tool. The "I'd never get a Trump vaccine" went to "You'd better get a vaccine or lose your job" in a few short months. This political posturing is destroying the US and keeping those kids masked and out of school for 2 years had nothing to do with the early response team. This was a policy of state Democrats, NOT the Federal government or Trump.
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  8772. "Foreign aid is less than 1% of the entire budget" She doesn't have a clue. There's a lot of things that need to be done that the budget should go towards. One guy sitting in an office, doing nothing, doesn't seem like a big expenditure. 10,000 guys sitting in their offices, doing nothing, becomes a HUGE waste. Do that across the board, in every department, and now you're digging the country into debt. That's why it's so important. Look after the nickels and dimes and the dollars will look after themselves. If you don't understand that, you are the problem.
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  8773.  @DarkMatterX1  I love to laugh but I'm not about to kick someone when they're down, either. I don't make fun of people who've lost something important to them. Had we been walking down the street and seen a Vietnamese church and made that comment, I'd laugh. When I'm looking at the ashes of that church, it's not the time to laugh. It doesn't take an adult to understand the difference in those 2 scenarios.
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  8774.  @DarkMatterX1  I know that you'll find this hard to believe, but I was also the class clown and I work as a bartender and my sense of humour is a source of income. People love to laugh and enjoy being made fun of. They call me an a-hole all the time while filling my tip jar. But I know when to hold my tongue and what NOT to say. My first thought, when I read about that church, was NOT some humorous image but genuine sympathy for the people involved. This is important to them and I'm not about to make fun of them. That might come later, when they're not in a vulnerable position. Sometimes, it's better to keep your mouth shut. The depth of the cash, in my tip jar, taught me that.
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  8775.  @amywalker7515  It's been verified countless times. Even CNN, the NY Times and the Washington Post have admitted that it's genuine and they're strong Democrat supporting media sources. Hunter Biden is under investigation, completely verified, because of the contents of this laptop. Also, Hunter Biden was in the midst of a serious drug addicted binge at the time. He was doing some really weird stuff. You have to read "Laptop from Hell" by Miranda Devine. It's a pretty damning expose of the the president's son and throws a lot of suspicion Joe Biden's way as well.
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  8776.  @syav4467  But we weren't talking about that. The video was about something that happened LAST NIGHT and it was reprehensible behaviour. But you come along and deflect the conversation away from topic at hand and start your own pet conversation. I didn't see ONE comment about Hunter, Benghazi, Hilary's deleted servers or even the BLM riots until people, LIKE YOU, changed the subject and deflected to Jan. 6th. Also, why did you say "you guys". How do YOU know who I support? I'm saying you're making assumptions because I pushed back on the way you attempted to deflect the conversation. I will say one thing, though. That lack of action is rather weak. The riots lasted about 3 hours and then the bozos just WENT HOME. All on their own. No police coming after them. No big gun battles. No one arrested in the building. No perp walks out, handcuffed with their heads down. None of that. They just went home. What should Trump have done? Would they have gone home an hour earlier if Trump had asked them to....if that was even possible. You can't hold Trump for not doing something. That's not against the law. That would be like holding Trump responsible for the BLM riots because he did nothing to stop them. Doing nothing isn't against the law. Also, why, when there were almost 100,000 Trump supporters out there and everyone knew that they were coming, wasn't there more security in place? I find that totally perplexing. ALL those people and no added security. It doesn't make sense. Also, only a few hundred forced their way in. Others were waved in by security. Had the doors held open for them and everything and only a few hundred out of a 100,000 people. It was the lamest insurrection that I've ever heard of.
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  8777.  @hipflask  And why would they do that? If they're shoveling snow, cleaning garbage, taking care of city monuments and feeding the public, to show their sense of responsibility and civil duty, why would they turn around and harass and threaten people and ruin it all? It makes no sense. They even sent food to the homeless shelter as a gesture of goodwill. Instead of demonising those who might disagree with you, maybe you should try to defend your position with facts and logic. I know it's a lot to ask but it will work to build bridges and understanding. You're countering, what you think is hatred, with REAL hatred of your own.
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  8778. I couldn't even sit through the entire clip because of the flat out lies of those two. They're NOT banning books. They're saying that some material isn't appropriate for young children. I don't care if the sex acts depicted are of homosexual, transexual or heterosexuals. It's not fit for an 8 year old child. Those two can't show me ONE instance where the police have went to a local bookshop and forced the owner to take one of those books off their shelves. That's because it isn't happening. They're NOT banning books. Parents have been told NOT to read these books at school board meetings due to their graphic nature but they're okay to put into school libraries. Yet they lie about it. This is why I could never support a left wing agenda. They lie right to your face and they're using our children as pawns. It's worse than dispicable.
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  8779. I avoid them if possible. The weird coloured hair, multiple piercings, facial tattoos are like a signal that they have weird angry personalities. It's like a white hood or swastikas signal people who are weird haters. It's a symbol of their belief system.
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  8780. Those who are crafting the ideology, THEY are the Marxists. The lunatics, that are screaming and defacing property, are the foot soldiers. They believe the orthodoxy from above, 2 plus 2 equals 5, and they MUST support it, no matter what and they get angry when challenged. Of course, the lunatics don't know what they believe, they just do because that's what they've been told to believe by the ideological overlords, who send them out to do their dirty work for them. Create chaos, disruption and finally destruction which their leaders hope will turn into revolution. That's what Tim doesn't get.
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  8781. The kid did nothing wrong and was extremely polite, even towards the old guy. That old guy is an entitled Karen.
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  8782. @Julie B Yup. Look at the mess that's New York right now. First, De blasio tells everyone that there's no problem, everything is fine, take the subway, go out for a night on the town, go to the big parade.....no sweat. Trump's a racist for his China ban. Wow....his own staff had to threaten to resign if he didn't stop it. Then, the Governor puts Covid patients in nursing homes. Now that's brilliant. He tells everyone they don't have enough respirators and the Feds tell him that they should have lots. Then they find them.....Where? In New Jersey, in a warehouse that the state rents out because the rent there is cheaper. Smart bunch. Then the protests starts. What social distancing? Lets fill the streets with hundreds of thousands of protesters. That'll be fine. But of course.....lets cut the city police budget by 1 billion bucks. They're racist....right? Crime goes up 250% over last year but it's a minor detail. People are under lockdown but they still manage to get out to commit serious crimes. OH...here's another smart idea. Let's let a whack of prisoners out of jail. Don't want them dying of Covid. So here they are, out in the streets, "Peacefully" relieving people of the property, and smashing a couple of windows, during the protests. Less police on the streets and MORE criminals. What could go wrong? Here's another brilliant idea. Why not put the homeless in hotels at $175 a night. The really fancy ones on the upper West Side. 10,000 of them. Now, they're urinating, masturbating, doing drugs, passing out and intimidating regular folk......doing all this out on the streets. This is a program that supposed to on through October. Man is that going to cost. Speaking of cost, they figure on a 40 billion dollar budget short fall this year. I wonder why that is. Maybe 1/2 a million, you know, 500,000 people, the richest people too, have left the city and took their tax money with them. De Blasio knows how to fix that though. He's going to tax the rich even more....duh...that should work. Maybe that's why he's put checkpoints at the exits of New York. Lock em in. That's one Democrat state. Do you want me to do another? Trump is a long way from perfect, but do you really want the New York style of government in the White House? The US will be like Venezuela in 5 years.
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  8783.  jon jones  10,000 dying every day? Try 228 in Texas, yesterday and 180 in Florida. Texas has a 7 day average of 202 per day, over the last 7 days and Florida has a 158 per day average. Not like New York, who at their peak were just under 1000 per day. 10 thousand per day.....man. Maybe you should verify before you post things and make a fool of yourself.
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  8784.  @thelastofus2872  No....they don't own the money. I own my money just like you own yours. The government took it from us in the form of taxes and are now giving it to corrupt bureaucrats, politicians and large corporations. Just like they don't own law enforcement. They might control it but with determination, we can get control of our money and law enforcement back to where belongs. You're just giving up and letting them get away with it.
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  8785.  @smilegrizo6051  I'm Canadian and I was firmly against Obama sitting down and talking with the Cubans. All Canadians were afraid that if there was peace between those two countries, Americans would start going there in droves and ruin it for everybody. Thank God, Trump prevented that from happening.
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  8786.  @jesusenki8509  Maybe you should watch this news report about California and LA in particular. There is a definite problem and local politicians are doing nothing to fix it. Instead they worry about plastic straws, institute language laws, worry about LGBT rights, climate change and don't do a thing to fix what's right in front of them. It's an horrific mess and the political elites and in Hollywood don't care. MeToo is more important to them. They show ideological empathy but they look right through the horror right in front of them. Better to sit and praise Kaepernick for taking the knee. They're pathetic.
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  8787. Beautiful.
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  8788.  @MissTEO1  "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped." George Orwell from his novel "1984". Orwell predicted this and it's being done incrementally. Welcome to California...the state that's using "1984" as their "how to" manual.
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  8789.  @GrannySue2  Well.....that's not much for added information. I guess I'm stuck with an uncorroborated YouTube short video, that takes one statement, out of context and then proceeds to talk about the Covid pandemic. All coming from a guy who makes no bones for his bias against FOX and the Republican party. Not exactly the objective facts that I was looking for. Not much to go on
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  8790.  @MJBfromWilloughby  Is that a threat? If it's at the barrel of a gun, all the more reason to stand against it.
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  8791.  @seansimms6693  That's life.
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  8792.  Melinda Gordon  Right on, Melinda. You nailed it, perfectly.
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  8793. That woman never said ONE word about Bragg or his policies. She lied about the deaths on Jan 6th and she refuses to acknowledge that bail reform is a Democrat idea. Also, it was De Blasio's administration, Democrat, that cut 1 billion dollars from the police budget in NY. How is this the fault of Republicans? What's more, Democrats are the party of equity and they want it everywhere, including the prison system. When you look at skin colour, as a mitigating factor to consider when sentencing, you're engaging in racial profiling. Too many blacks in jail......give black criminals a more lenient sentence so to reduce their population. Who cares what colour a person's skin is. If guilty, sentence them according to the crime, NOT what skin colour they might have.
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  8794.  @cjuare123  We don't care about their financial status. It's not a double standard. If Soros were doing the audit, it would only be wrong if he were covering things up instead of exposing them. If he were exposing them.....good for him.
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  8795.  @kimobrien.  You would actually trust the government to regulate what you and I can have or aspire to? That's incredible. He's talking about the bloated bureaucracies of the US. These are staffed by people who do nothing but perpetuate their ability to expand the bureaucracy of doing nothing. They don't create a thing. I've yet to go to the store to buy a product that one of those bureaucrats have produced. It's the black hole that gobbles up our capitol and the things that we earn and returns nothing but paper filled with statistics and policies that tell us what we're not allowed to do.
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  8796. Don't do that!!!! They'll come after you for sure. When it affects their crony ways and their bank accounts, then it's all about law and order. Otherwise....eff the ordinary American who's trying to make an honest living. To them, they're the symbol of capitalism. They prefer the bureaucracy of socialism, where they can get rich by doing nothing, stealing from the poor to enrich the elites. Stop paying taxes and you're upsetting their gravy train.
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  8797. If American women are anything like Canadian women, they'd vote for the candidate who's good looking...and that's not Trump. If only the Republicans could find a pretty boy candidate with Trump's policies.
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  8798. Protesters are like members of a deck of cards. Each protester has the Constitutional right to peacefully assemble to bring their grievances to bear. However, when someone, who is a part of that assembly, throws a brick at a window, your assembly is no longer peaceful. Like the 5 of Clubs. It's a part of a deck of cards that's useful in a game of poker. However, if 1 or 2 of the cards have a big "X" painted on the back, that deck of cards is no longer useful. It doesn't matter that the 5 of Clubs wasn't marked, the deck has been rendered useless. It's the same with a peaceful assembly. Once violence is used, your assembly is no longer peaceful. Your personal intentions are irrelevant to the assembly's peacefulness just like the 5 of Clubs is now irrelevant to the usefulness of the deck of cards. The mature person realises that the assembly is no longer peaceful and goes home to show their objection to the use of force in a good cause. The leaders of the protests do the same and then tell everyone that these assemblies were no longer peaceful and they don't approve of the violence. They announce that they will go out again the following day and anyone, who wants to peacefully protest, is welcome to join. However, if you start trouble, all peaceful protesters will, once again, go home and leave you to deal with the authorities by yourself. That's how these "peaceful" assemblies should be organised. Until they are, they're NOT peaceful assemblies. They're just a marked deck of cards.
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  8799.    Who's telling those cops to go nuts on quiet crowds at 4 in the afternoon? Cops aren't just doing this on their own. There is a hierarchy of command that ends at the Mayor's office. If the mayor tells the police to stand down, they should do that. Also, there should be some kind of leadership in the protester ranks. They should be coordinating with the police and the mayor to ensure that things like this don't happen. That's what happened with those so-called "white supremacists" in the Michigan legislature. The leaders of that protest had consulted with the police, days earlier and those that supposedly "stormed" the legislature actually had their temperature taken before they entered. Notice, in this case, not ONE incidence of violence. They even cleaned up after themselves.
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  8800. I have a couple of cousins in the Netherlands, who's first name is Fokke. It's said exactly as you think it is. My sister, when she was 15, visited Holland with my parents. When she came back to Canada, she said she had a difficult time calling her cousin by his name. We came from a very religious family and normally they would have come down hard if they heard us use that word in the Canadian way. However, they thought this was hilarious. Weird stuff happens.
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  8801.  @mikewurlitzer5217  Actually, having a high IQ doesn't guarantee success. It helps, immensely, but if you don't do the work, I mean study hard, you won't learn a thing. High IQ is about potential. it's not about outcome. The high IQ still has to apply itself. There are a lot of great athletes, who are prima donnas but refuse to put in the hours of practice and end up failing at their sport. That's the same with academics.
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  8802.  @AlexMackenzie-nx5qq  Can a bot be wrong? I have always thought of bots as mindless machines who do as its creators program it to do. So, bot....it's not your fault. You're only making this comment because you have no choice.
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  8803. @ Or maybe you've been given a selection of responses which is randomly picked every time someone calls you a bot. Clever programming could pick responses so that they're spread around so we never see the same one twice. 4 to 500 canned responses would be enough to convince the average person that you're a human being. So far, you've said nothing that would indicate that you could out think me.
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  8804. We still have hunting guns but the majority of murders in the inner cities are done by handguns. They're easy to carry and hide. You can put them in your glove compartment or under your seat. Spontaneous reactions and impulse shootings are jut so easy. You're angry, he's a big guy, you're a little scared.....shoot him. Our gun deaths in Toronto, that are gang related, are handgun related that have been smuggled up from the States. If handgun laws were the same in the States as in Canada, where would they get them? We only have one border. The risk involved getting them here from overseas would make the cost of those handguns prohibitive.....extremely so. That's what's happening in Australia. It's isolated and any illegal guns are extremely expensive. That cost drives down the desire and ability to want or buy a gun. The guns used in Paris or Britain were not handguns. They were guns that are more readily available there just as hunting rifles are in Canada. Hunting is very popular here. Lots of people have them. It's the handguns that are the problem and they're the instruments that bring the fear and the culture of fear that cause so much mayhem on the streets of American cities. If no big company is making them, where are you going to buy them?
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  8805.  @mariahewitt9787  Trump was trying to end the war. Zelensky said TWICE "I don't want a ceasefire". Well, WE DON"T WANT A WAR. We also don't want to send our hard earned tax money to a guy that says things like this. Who yells at our leader as if he expects us to just give him billions because he asks. You think that Russia is a bad country but Ukraine has been named as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, even reaching all the way to the 3rd most corrupt. The only difference between those 2 countries is that one has more power. That's it. It doesn't make Ukraine any less corrupt. It might make them more manipulative, though.
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  8806.  @Monkeyshine911  It makes no sense to want your clothes to be clean AFTER you wash them???? What's the point of washing them at all?
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  8807.  @Monkeyshine911  So you wash it the one time and it's not clean and you leave it. A week later, you wash it again, and it's a little dirtier but you don't mind and you fold it and put it away, again. You wear it, it gets dirty so you wash it as a normal person does...and it's comes out with a few MORE stains in it and you repeat this until all your clothes are so dingy looking that you throw them all out and buy new clothes. What the hell does Trump have to do with this? What's this obsession with Trump? Why is it that with every discussion someone invariably goes "TRUMP". That's the totality of your argument. You can't come up with anything except invoking the name of Trump. That's incredibly small minded.
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  8808.  Kaiser Soze  It's as if you didn't even read the first two comments. These guys are telling us how things have improved for them since Trump became president and you say this. Did it ever occur to you that those tax cuts have benefits that go beyond the direct benefits. People have more money in their pockets and you're still pointing fingers at those who YOU think are better off than you. Economically, the average American is doing better, but thank God, we have you to point out how things aren't perfect.
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  8809. She's showing us the master/slave mentality. She's decided that she hates being a slave and is complaining that she should be, even DESERVES to be, the master. Under the right circumstances, she'd only be too glad to own the plantation. She'd be the first one to crucify Spartacus for daring to refuse to not work and provide for her. She believes that she deserves it. Surprise!!! You don't deserve a thing, not even your freedom. It comes at a price and we call that "sacrifice". If you're lucky, it means holding down a job. If not, you're actually fighting for your life against those who would take it from you. No matter what, you're working and sacrificing. That's the very essence of life....ALL life.
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  8810. It's all so simple. Judge people as individuals. Judge them on their character. Honesty, loyalty, dedication.....the things that make that person a good person. The minute you judge a person based on their group identity, you've taken away their ability and right to earn respect as an individual person. They become no one....a cog in the machine. That is the ultimate theft of identity.
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  8811.  @JeansiByxan  It's because they've been indoctrinated into a neo-Marxist ideology. They see themselves as the soldiers of a new Socialist age, in which the individual no longer exists. To do this they must turn the children into the activists of the future that will destroy the system and rebuild into their vision of the state. It's a political ideology which presents itself as a Gnostic religion. As an example, Critical Race Theory, which isn't taught as a subject but more as a practice, was conceived and named by a group of self described Marxists in 1989. It took place in an old convent in Madison Wisconsin and the name was suggested by Beverly Crenshaw and attended by a couple dozen of other Marxist like Richard Delgado and Derrick Bell. They're great supporters of the Marxist educator Paulo Freire, who advocates for the indoctrination of children in the school system of Marxist principles. It's a very coordinated plan to transform the very spirit of America.
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  8812.  @JohnFox-1986  You expected grocery prices to go down on the first day of his presidency? LOL. You really are out of touch. Of course other countries are annoyed with his tariff plans. I'm Canadian and I don't care for it but we're going to have to deal with it and don't, like our Prime Minister, start into a trade war. That's nuts. Also, Gaza could be as successful as Israel but they're too obsessed with their radical Islamic ideology to even begin to make life better for it's citizens. If they did what Trump is suggesting, the place would be a wonderful place but now no one is trying to immigrate there. Also, and he's said it multiple times, he wants the war to END. He's doesn't want Russia or Ukraine to win. He wants a diplomatic settlement which means that there has to be giving and taking on both sides. That's the problem with this war. Both sides want to win which means that this war could go on for decades. Trump wants it to END. NO MORE WAR. Only warmongers want this to end in a victory for one side or the other. Trump has declared how he wants the killing to stop, dozens of times, but people, like you, refuse to listen.
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  8813.  T Z  I think that you're missing the problem here. The school's are indoctrinating our kids into accepting a new, Marxist influenced ideology. That means that, not only the trans problem, but all the problems that you mentioned will become even more deeply entrenched in the future. That's the goal of the entire thing. Make so many of the students become separated from their families and leaning on the government that they will accept anything that the state dictates. Education is how this movement grew. It's at the very heart of how they advance their agenda.
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  8814.  @philc1773  So the answer is to assume that the parents are ALWAYS guilty. Guilty until proven innocent. I'd have to see the evidence that says that 95% of all LGBTQ are victims of parental abuse. That's a pretty bold claim.
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  8815. Don't sweat the little things, Kirk. It'll drive you nuts.
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  8816. That woman, claiming to be a Marxist, doesn't follow the Marxist principles at all. She's using Marxism, as a tool, just like any other Capitalist. No different than Marxist Hugo Chavez, who had a personal net worth of over 1 billion dollars when he died. Or his daughter, María Gabriela Chávez Colmenares, who has over 4 billion dollars in accounts in Andorra and the United States. In other words, she's NOT a Marxist.
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  8817. Lightfoot officially called Chicago a sanctuary city and is now upset that people, seeking sanctuary, are going to Chicago. Did she really think that no migrant would ever show up to claim sanctuary status? It's almost as if she thought that Chicago was so far away from the border that none of them would ever show up. In other words, it was political theatre. She used those migrants as a political tool.
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  8818. Who, what, why, where and WHEN.....Rachel. Had you answered those questions, BEFORE you went on the air, you would have known not to use this story. It's basic journalism which is the first thing they teach you about writing a news story in high school. I'd say that you could have prevented embarrassing yourself but apparently you are incapable of feeling shame.
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  8819.  @jsmyth024  Yes.....they should. However, in today's modern cities, most people don't know their neighbours. Those, who believe that they're the arbiters of virtue, are only too willing to snitch on their neighbours to stroke their own egos.
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  8820.  @wonderwonderful5351  It means that I'm referring to those people who have nothing constructive to say or add to the conversation or situation. Those who complain, place blame and continuously do nothing but point fingers, as if that's going to help anyone. I mean people who are NOT like those who make proposals, devise plans and work towards making those plans work and don't quit until they succeed. Two different types of people. Now it's the WAY he says black that's a problem. ALWAYS SOMETHING to whine about. He's referring to the black Americans because he's there to help solve problems that are uniquely help them. Just like those "peaceful" protesters, who are shouting about problems that are unique to black Americans. One is talking to any black leaders who will listen to see what can be done to solve the issues. The other stands in the streets and chants and makes demands of others to solve it for them. Trump is not excluding anyone. They're sitting at that table with him and any black leader who wants to accomplish something is welcome to join. Your just looking for any reason to lay more blame and not do a thing. I put my money on the guy that reaches out, not the complainers or the ones who find fault with everything. I hated working with that kind of person because it was so difficult getting things done because they always had that "What's the use" attitude. Do it and quit complaining about it. Like Trump's doing in this meeting. Everyone built America that put in the hours to do the work. The US had slavery for 80 years and it was ONLY the slave states. They were without slavery for 157 years. Are you seriously saying that ONLY Black Americans worked in all those years? Even you can't be THAT obtuse. You're seeing only the negative.....AGAIN. Americans built America....including Americans of African heritage. Now some of them, NOT of any specific heritage, but of a specific ideology, aren't appreciative of the hard work that went into it. Only the lazy and the complainers would to that.
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  8821.  @jeffreyskoritowski4114  Ok....I get that now. However, it still makes NO sense to put sick people in nursing homes. Still better to put them on the Comfort, even if the ICU ward was small, than to put them in nursing homes that don't have those facilities either and are filled with healthy, but dangerously susceptible seniors. Why would you transport patients that need ICU care facilities out of the hospital, anyway? It STILL makes no sense....to the point of really stupid.
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  8822. It depends on what Trump says. If Trump calls out Antifa....it's an idea. If Trump sides with Antifa....they're domestic terrorists. Don't look to the Democrats for what they think. Ask Trump what he thinks and the Democrats will say the opposite.
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  8823.  @DM-dk7js  Did you even watch the video? Maybe you should. They're a loosely organised group with cells all over North America and Europe. They originated in the early thirties, in Germany, as the German Communist Party's answer to the Nazi Brown Shirts. They dispersed after Hitler took power, going underground or leaving the country. Antifa is short for the German “Antifascistischer" which is Antifascist in English. In fact, East Germany called the Berlin Wall the “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” meaning that they believed everyone on the other side of that wall is a fascist. That was in 1961, over thirty years after Antifascistischer was formed. Read, Antifa member's Mark Bray's, book "Antifa. The Antifa Handbook". They're a Marxist revolutionary group, cleverly hiding behind their name by claiming that their against Fascists and white supremacists yet they're one of the most violent groups in America, attacking ordinary citizens, setting fires to buildings and vehicles, throwing Molotov Cocktails and even killing people. They've openly declared their aim to destroy the system and begin a new Marxist type order. They were behind over 120 consecutive days of demonstrations, firebombings, attacks on citizens and police and even killings in Portland Oregon in 2020. They're definitely a domestic terrorist group. It's just that they have the protection of the Democrat Party, even though Antifa has rejected the Democrat party as a viable way to power. That's how they've been able to carry on their violent antics. The Democrats are using them as pawns and they don't mind because they know if the Democrats turned on them, most would be in jail.
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  8824. My nephew is a fairly well known musician in the Northwest. He was on the road and ate at a fairly busy tavern and gave them an excellent review, saying that they were extremely friendly, the place was spotless, the food excellent and the prices were great. The next thing he knew, his website and Facebook page were inundated with posts on how he was a sexist, a misogynist and that no one should ever buy his music or go to his shows. Apparently, there was a dispute between the owner and a female employee, not sure what it was, and she accused the owner of being abusive. My nephew knew nothing of this. All he saw was a decent meal and a great place to eat, the only time that he'd ever been there. Now, he had to explain himself and then they wanted an apology, which he refused to do. This is our future folks, unless we do something about it.....right now.
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  8825. Instead of having a discussion with the guy, Biden verbally attacks and insults him. "You're too old to vote for me". That guy may well be younger than Biden. Biden is 77 years old, ffs. Can he be any more hypocritical?
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  8826.  @B_Bodziak  It would seem they all kind of feel good about science. Trump has appointed 2 medical experts as part of the leaders of his task force. He's encouraging research into treatments and a vaccine for the Covid virus.....a very sciencey thing to do. He's followed the recommendations that his medical advisors have given him, based on their models, the exact thing that you're talking about. So.....I'm not sure what it is you're talking about...UNLESS.....this is all about denigrating and dehumanising a group of people that you don't like. If so, nice try. This whole lockdown thing was suggested by his medical team experts and Trump has followed their expertly derived suggestions every time.
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  8827.  @Sebastianthorn69  It's not just about profit. The United Nations task force on the world economy, has announced that there are close to 30 million people in severe threat of starvation due to the loss of jobs because of a downturned economy. Lebanon has had demonstrations due to the fact that the stores are empty and there's no food available. The UN predicts that this number will reach 150 million by the end of the year. You're biggest worry seems to be about people getting rich. Maybe you should be MORE worried about people starving due to the Covid driven devastated economy. These people wouldn't be facing horrific deaths if the economy was good and some people were gaining profits from their investments. A strong economy is good for everyone and a poor one helps no one. Your culture of envy will only result in horrific tragedy and the ones most effected in a world wide famine are the children. I'd rather see some people get rich as long as we can avert a "famine of Biblical proportions". That's how the UN described it...not me.
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  8828. Jennifer Aniston won't be my friend. There goes that dream.....or delusion. LOL. I have a feeling that she wouldn't be my friend even if I was vaccinated. She's threatening me with something that she'd never do no matter what. Rather an empty threat.
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  8829. If it's not armed factions fighting one another, it's NOT a Civil War, Tim. You're using hyperbole to get clicks, you're doing a disservice to your followers and to the country. Also, it's disrespectful of the hundreds of thousands who were killed and maimed for life in the REAL Civil War. Things are bad and it may go that way, but we're not in a civil war right now. So, stop with the sensationalism.
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  8830.  @daveholland3315  Yes it can.....on any surface. If you're referring to the question that Trump asked, don't be so juvenile.
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  8831.  @jerricroft937  Exactly what the police in the US are doing. Dragging out 15 year old girls and then sending them off to Concentration Camps to work as slaves or die. What a great comparison. (dripping with sarcasm) I've been to Westerbork, where Anne Frank was sent after her arrest. My uncle spent time there as a prisoner but was transferred to a POW camp because he wasn't a Jew. That statement that you quoted was about as ill informed and irrelevant as it gets and had to be spoken by one living in a state of delusion about the reality of the world.
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  8832.  @matejzizanovic7959  Every city that has these problems are Democrat led, many for over 50 years. People voted for them. Giuliani cleaned up New York with the strict "no broken windows" policy and the following Democrat mayors completely destroyed his gains. If you pay no attention to who you vote for, especially in local elections, the corrupt politicians will take over and people LIKE YOU, are supporting them with your apathy.
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  8833.  John Doe  What's ironic is that those middle class liberals that are going to Texas are leaving their leftist state behind due to the damage their politics have done to their home state. They're, basically, running away from themselves but like the idiot that's running from his shadow, he can't figure out why he can't escape it.
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  8834. Birthing people. If only someone would make up a word for that. Someone REALLY smart. It's incredible that after tens of thousands of human speech, that problem never came up.
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  8835. @R It's like a form of Munchausen syndrome. They use their abuse to remain at the centre of attention by claiming PTSD, whenever that attention seems to fade away. Instead of using physical illness to get attention, they use a mental disorder and, of course, it can't be their fault that they were abused. They can be the victim and the hero at the same time. Nice to see that not all victims use that status as a bargaining tool. Well done.
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  8836. CNN vetted the guy. They just think that their audience is that stupid that they'd never catch on.
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  8837.  Free Thinker  Can't ask for an investigation of the Bidens. Apparently, that's an impeachable offence. Haven't you been paying attention.
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  8838. We're all part of the experiment AFTER the Ministry of Truth and Reconciliation gets done with you. Any bad tweets, in your history, and it's off to the re-education camp for you. There's your experiment for you. Psychological manipulation in the American Gulag.
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  8839. What blows me away is how this writer, Ruth Graham, is so ideologically possessed that she couldn't see how people would react to this. She probably thought that this piece had some deep progressive insight. Completely self unaware.
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  8840.  @KevinHammond1  If he's one of them, why would he have her on his podcast? Is putting light to one of the biggest child sex scandals in American history. Why not do what the rest of them do? NOTHING. Pretend that this never happened. Brett just revealed that this writer tried to put his hand in her back pocket when she was only 15. When she wouldn't allow it, he tried it with her 16 year old friend and succeeded. She revealed how predatory some parents, especially mothers were, offering their children to these predators for money. He even gave her a platform to show what a good mother does as opposed to some of the bad mothers. Yet, you still find something nefarious in this podcast. Brett relayed everything that she wanted to say and his interruptions were only to clarify some of the points that she was making. Peterson is one of the most hated people on the planet.....hated by the very left that is at the heart of the sexuality of children. His own profession is forcing him to go to a re-education camp, even though not ONE client complained about him. And here you are, making an argument about some of the symbols on his jacket as if that proves anything. You're going to have to go a lot deeper than that.
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  8841.  @roy_for_real2674  You don't have to do anything that you don't want to do. However, don't come crying when you have to face the consequences of that decision. I know that I don't have to show strength when dealing with the struggles of life. It might be a good idea to try to face those struggles with strength and determination. The opposite, being weak and just letting life roll over me, is allowed but the results of that apathy isn't going to get me anywhere.
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  8842.  @Throatwobbler_Mangrove  He is at home you bigot. Just because he's of Hispanic heritage doesn't mean that he's not American. Are you going to tell black Americans to go back to Africa, too? I don't see why not. Gotta love a troll making bigoted comments.
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  8843. Tim Pool, with his morning Portland riot update. Sports and weather to follow.
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  8844. What an insufferable little brat.
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  8845.  @flowersinherhair  Or..I'm being sarcastic.
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  8846. The New York Times....yeah right. That's the paper that Walter Duranty worked for. He supported the Soviet actions in Ukraine that was Holodomor atrocity which ended in cannibalism. First they talked about eating bugs. Now it's Soylent Green.
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  8847. What I hear out Behar's mouth I would call "scatalogue".
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  8848. I know that you never read these comments, Tim, but if the cops with integrity quit now, they'll be replaced with the drone police recruits sooner, rather than later. Police departments have to go on strike. That's what has to happen. The Murray-Hill riots show what happens if the police withdraw service overnight. Within a week, the people will be begging them to go back to work. It's the only way to foster a new respect for the vital work they do. If a cop steps out of line, get THAT cop. You don't go after the entire service. When you have a boil, you lance the boil. You don't commit suicide. It's as if people have lost their ability to think in a logical manner.
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  8849. Damn, the stereo to my speakers are backward. He's sitting on the left side of my TV screen but his voice is coming out of the right speaker. A little weird.
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  8850. If anyone had of bothered to watch the events at Evergreen College a few years ago, you'd have seen a trial run for what's happening now. It was insane then and it's insane now.
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  8851. The polls don't work because the left has been so angry and violent that Trump supporters keep it a secret. I work as a bartender and I see it. People say something positive, at the bar, about Trump and they're verbally and even physically attacked and it's NEVER the other way around. I know people that support Trump but never say it out loud but the Trump haters have no problem venting their rage. What do you think they'd say if they encounter a pollster. They'd lie. They don't want any trouble. People have told me that won't vote by mail because they think that their name is attached to the ballot and people will find out who they voted for. That's how worried some people are about the rage of cancel culture. The angry leftists, just don't get that.
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  8852.  @SteveShivik  It was stupid. It gave the left the propaganda material to go after innocent conservatives. Those who stormed the Capital had no plan, no organisation, no command hierarchy, no weapons and they didn't even know where the members of Congress were. All it did was make conservatives look bad. It accomplished nothing. We can be smarter than that.
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  8853.  @DwayneThompson22  It's hard to assess the influence that Sullivan had on the mob that day. I know he was a big part of it and bears some responsibility for it. In the end, psychology or no, every member of that mob is responsible for their actions on Capital Hill. I was once a part of a strike action. When it turned violent, I turned and walked away. I was willing to support a strike but not violence. That was MY choice. If I can resist the siren call of the mob, anyone can. The only way you won't resist is if you're prone to violence or approve of it as a tactic. The problem still resides within the individual. Fortunately, only a few hundred, out of the tens of thousands, there that day who were supporting Trump, gave in to the psychology of the mob.
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  8854.  @tomlehr861  And his policies gives you the right to call him a liar. What if YouTube supported Trump? Your comment would be deleted. In fact, he wants the platforms set up so people like YOU, can criticise him. You should support him on that. The problem is that you're so vested in your hatred of Trump that you can't address the topic at hand. All you can do is repeat, over and over again.....lies, liar, lies and liar. Are we a nation of free speech or not? That's the issue. The issue isn't whether people lie or not. That's a given. It's a human weakness. Should we allow a self appointed judge tell you what he thinks are lies and then censor what you say. Remember, if they're allowed to censor those you like, eventually they will censor you and that's when someone will step in and have you under their control.
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  8855. Racial affinity groups......JIm Crow 2.0.
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  8856.  @firouz256  The point is that abused people are more vulnerable to abuse as they get older. It manifests itself differently for each abused person. The point is that if abuse is part of your childhood, that's no reason to ascribe gender dysphoria to ALL the abused and that's what's happening now. A pubescent is struggling, both emotionally and socially, from their abuse and adults are saying that they must be suffering from gender dysphoria, that's why the emotional trauma. They present those children with the narratives to convinced that pubescent that this must be why they're struggling and once convinced, the young teen will verbalise this new "revelation", diagnosing themselves as being of the opposite sex and you're not allowed, on pain of legal and professional action, to try and find out if the problem could lie elsewhere. THAT is the point. It's being used for ideological and monetary gain.
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  8857. At least we know Cenk will never go senile. Can't lose mental faculties that he's never had.
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  8858. Social justice....what the hell is that, anyway? Smashing private property....is that social justice? I'll never respect that term until the people wielding that term learn to respect the rights of others. Besides, it's not social justice. It's JUSTICE. Don't pretend that you have some insight into some kind of justice reserved just for yourselves. It's either just, or it's not.
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  8859.  @chiangkaishrek5123  So he's not allowed to go to the range or carry it? No target practice? That's ridiculous. Besides, the JUDGE knows the law and that's why he threw that charge out. Wisconsin is an open/carry state and if you're old enough to hunt, you're allowed to open/carry. It's common sense....and it's the law.
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  8860. I will always open doors for others....even the most nasty of women and I've encountered them. I'm not going to let their nastiness change who I am. I do for myself, my family, friends and neighbours and ultimately, I'll offer it to anyone who needs it. If they rebuff me, I move on. I am who I am and they're the jerk if they snub me. Their opinion really means nothing to me.
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  8861.  @VinceA-jq6ds  I don't automatically assume that everyone is someone that I don't want to interact with. I'll let them show me. I'll be friendly to anyone until I have reason to not be. My reason will never be just because you exist. I interact, regardless of what identity you are, with people because of what and who I am and will judge you only, AFTER I interact with you. I don't judge on sight.
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  8862.  @DieFlabbergast  But it is a commendable goal. If we don't strive to be better, then it'll never happen.
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  8863. The Americans aren't fighting in Yemen, have no troops in Syria, reduced forced in Iraq (q) and Trump wants out of Afghanistan against the wishes of the DNC. Also, there is the peace deal between the UAE and Israel. None of that was the case over the last 20 years. At least, American involvement has been greatly reduced and will continue to do so if Trump has his way.
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  8864.  @sep9960  I will have to agree that he hasn't brought full peace to the middle east but things are better than they have been in years. ISIS is basically gone and what we have left is the rift between Sunni and Shia in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. That's not really the US fight but they're stuck there. 900 troops in Syria isn't a force. It's a token presence at best. Those 900 troops aren't going to stop any action against the Kurds by the Turks or anyone. Trump wants out of Iraq as well but we know that the Shia and Sunni will be at each other's throats with Shia getting support from Iran and Sunni from Saudi Arabia. How's that the responsibility of the US? Same as with Afghanistan. Trump will leave, if he wins this fall and the Taliban will attempt a takeover. They'll do it next year or in ten years. It'll only stop if the Taliban are completely routed or they win and then there will be peace in Afghanistan. In either case, the US must leave and that's what Trump wants. Maybe what should be said is that Trump is bringing peace to the middle east and it's part of the process that he's trying to set in motion.
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  8865.  @Havanorange  Because he doesn't need to be reminded about what his policies are at all times. It's because he knows what he's talking about and he's a good enough speaker to not need a teleprompter to talk to us. One minute your complaining about what he's saying and then you're snidely saying that he's incompetent. Notice that you don't hear the MSM talking about Florida so much anymore. He's getting things back in order remarkably fast and the MSM doesn't want the country to know about that. They feel its best to ignore him so we won't know what he's doing.
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  8866.  @Havanorange  What do you need an outline for if you know what you're talking about? Of course he blows up at the stupid questions of reporters. He's trying to organise help for the tens of thousands of people who need it after the hurricane and the idiot reporters want to talk about climate change. How does that get fresh water, food, medical help and electricity to those who need it? How does that get information for what to do to get help? It would piss me off too when reporters are only caring about their own political agenda. It's the same when the reporter asked about the "Don't say gay" bill. It doesn't say that ANYWHERE in the bill and he called that reporter out on it. The MSM were determined to carry that message and it was a baldfaced lie. That the media would intentionally lie about a bill that wants for keep teachers from talking about sexually explicit topics to kids between the ages of 5 and 8, straight or gay but the media just wanted to cloud the issue with their lies. That would piss anyone off. Even you if they intentionally lied about something that you said. When I studied public speaking in college, I never used notes either. I would study my topic thoroughly so when I was asked question during the question period, I could answer them quickly and succinctly. That meant that I was organised enough to know that material and didn't NEED notes to refer to and I got an A as a final mark. You're the one that said that he was unorganised and that's why he doesn't use notes. I beg to differ. He doesn't use notes because he knows his stuff and that takes a great deal of hard work and organisation.
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  8867.  @davidrosenberg5160  They did. Trump made a deal with Mexico that forced the illegals to stay in Mexico. Now, Mexico was paying to look after them. The money saved by not having to house, school, give medical attention to these illegals because they weren't in the country, could now go to building the wall. Only the dumbest of the dumb actually thought that he was going to try and force the government of Mexico to write him a check for the money to build the wall. You're not really one of those, are you??? I surely hope not.
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  8868. I'm hoping so. Our PM has destroyed this country.
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  8869. That should encourage people to get tested. Get tested and a free ankle bracelet as a bonus. I'd rather get a new TV.
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  8870. It was a fly of colour....which is different than a coloured fly.
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  8871.  @Keith-n7l  Everything that you said is untrue. The media lied to you, maybe because it was what you wanted to hear. Floyd died of a drug overdose. The autopsy showed quantities of Fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system that were over the lethal levels. Even the "I can't breathe" mantra was distorted. Floyd was saying this long before Chauvin even was at the scene. He was standing up when he first said it and kept repeating it. One of the main issues with Fentanyl is that it restricts the ability to breathe and that's what kills those who OD on the stuff. That police officer did NOT kill Floyd. He killed himself with his reckless drug use.
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  8872. Tim.....if a cop refuses to uphold the vaccine mandates, that cop will lose his job. Those who fire him, will replace that cop with someone who WILL enforce the mandate. That means that, in the end, the only cops left will be those who will do as they're told. The real problem are the politicians and bureaucrats that would fire those cops and the voting Bozos who elect those politicians. If we elect politicians that respect freedom and personal choice, your cop issue will go away. We have to cut off the head of the snake. Voting will do that.
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  8873.  @hyg44gu54  The stupidest comment on the internet.....this year.
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  8874.  Felix Rivero  Then vote him out. Quit the temper tantrums and act like an adult.
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  8875.  @souljah4264  He didn't say to drink disinfectant, if that's what you're talking about. He asked if there was any medical research into finding a way to use a disinfectant to cure Covid. He also asked about using sunlight and if they were looking into it. Anyone that heard "drink disinfectant" has serious comprehension problems. Also, the President cannot order me to drink disinfectant, anyway. However, the military has to listen to any sitting president. That is in the chain of command and the duty of any military officer. There is protocol if the command is unreasonable, but that is used only in the most egregious of circumstances. So, yes....it's still the stupidest comment I've read this year.
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  8876.  Felix Rivero  "You're stupid and that's the truth." Any child can play that game. It's all in the eye of the beholder. Also, the name calling and the air of superiority is why the Democrats lost the last election. They'll lose the next one, too if they don't start to behave like adults. I supported the Democrats until they started to act as if they were better than middle America. You're NOT better than the Walmart shoppers. As long as the elitists that support the Democrats, behave in this way, they'll lose. NOT because Trump is so great but because they refuse to be better than Trump. It should be easy, but all they do is call him and his followers names and throw insults at them. It's the worst campaign strategy I can imagine.
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  8877.  @Saol.Alainn  He was talking about research not filling a syringe full of bleach and inject it into the first Covid patient they can find. Anyone that believes that is either exceptionally dumb or being intentionally obtuse. I think that even you don't TRULY believe that. You're just saying it because it's a way to mock Trump.
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  8878.  @Saol.Alainn  I think the name calling, from the left, is helping Trump. One of the biggest reasons that I've not been happy with the Democrat party. In fact, I'm getting to the point that I'm hoping that a new Party emerges and the Democrats go the way of the Whig party. Anyway, have a good one.
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  8879.  @ciscadanielle  It's a condition of their job. They know that going in. Why go into that profession if you don't want to do the things necessary to do the job. It would be like a roofer being afraid to go on a roof and refusing to go up there. Or a pilot afraid to fly.
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  8880. Don't do that. Nothing will encourage corruption more than when you know that you have full rein. Vote wisely.....always. Don't vote out of habit. Some sleaseball will take advantage of you.
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  8881. Joe Biden reminds me of "The old man" portrayed by Tim Conway one the Carol Burnett Show. LOL.
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  8882. So, if I watch that YT video, Wapo won't look as foolish for saying that there isn't enough POC on Shark Week???? Is that what you're trying to tell us? I'm not getting the correlation.
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  8883. We don't hate people that look like Rashida Tlaib. We hate people that look and act like Nazis. "From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free", that's implies a final solution to the problem of the Jews in that area.
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  8884. @Steven Smith The entire Jan 6th debacle came as a result of the frustrations the people felt against Hillary and her fake dossier, the media's attempt to lie and obfuscate about the collusion claims, the distrust felt the resulted from the lies of this fake investigation and how they wanted to block required IDs for voting. If they lied about Trump and Russia, why wouldn't they lie about the elections? It was the Democrats that fostered the atmosphere of distrust and anger and then they used that anger to further indict average Americans. Now.....BACK to the topic on hand. If you want your Party to have credibility you have to expect them to have ethical values of the highest standards. They not only let the American public down, they let YOU down, a person that had trust in their honesty. That should upset you. Instead, you respond like an belligerent child. "Well, Donnie did it, too!!!" No wonder politics stinks so badly.
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  8885.  @Aanthanur  I'm not American but the US was a land of opportunity in back in the fifties through to the eighties. People worked hard and life was pretty good for all. Now, no one works and sacrifice is a dirty word. "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is laughed at. Maybe to say that the US was the greatest sounds a little over the top but it was a hell of a lot better for the average person, back then, than it is right now. That's the point. What was once a good place to live is now being rapidly destroyed. I've seen the inner cities, of the US, back in the seventies. It wasn't the best but it was a hell of lot better than it is right now. In fact, it's not even close.
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  8886.  @Aanthanur  You haven't been to the US and seen the state of the inner cities, then. I live in Canada and I've been to the US numerous times. I've seen it deteriorate over the years. There are still the nice areas, where the high income types live but it's getting worse in almost every big city. I wouldn't live in any of them right now and people are leaving cities like New York, Los Angeles, Portland and San Francisco in droves. 20 years ago people were going there in droves. Portland and San Francisco were beautiful cities. Now they're dumps where homeless druggies live in tent cities, in garbage and graffiti everywhere, injecting drugs in broad daylight and even pooping on the sidewalks. It's disgusting.
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  8887. "No tax of tips". 10 years ago, AOC would have loved that. She might even have become a Republican. LOL.
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  8888.  @A_Jeff  Of course it's staged. Only the dumbest of the dumb would believe that Trump applied for a job at McDonald's one afternoon and went to work without staff and customers being vetted. EVERYONE knows that it was staged. The MSM didn't reveal some big secret. LOL.
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  8889. It depends on why he's doing it. If it's about an inflation hedge okay. He'll still work the land so it's profitable and we all benefit. If he's doing it for ideological reasons, which is what I believe, then he's doing it to stroke his ego. As a very prominent member of the World Economic Forum, he's not becoming a farmer to produce food. He's doing to control how food is produced and that is scary.
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  8890. "Why should I stick my neck out. I have no skin in the game" (paraphrased) I would imagine that this was exactly what the average German citizen said when the Nazis forced Jews to wear the Star of David.
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  8891. If you're a lifelong criminal, like the type of person that the reporter was referring to, YOU CAN'T LEGALLY BUY A GUN. She lied. Then she lied again about defunding the police. This is as bald faced a lie as it can get.
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  8892. Notice the gratitude that Ted Cruz displays. His father came from Cuba, worked at washing dishes for 50 cents an hour and now he's a United States Senator. You can tell that he's humbled by this. Yet, Ilhan Omar, who spent time in a refugee camp in Africa when she was a child, came to the US, got an education and then became a United States Senator.....and she calls the US an evil nation and its citizens racist and privileged. No gratitude, no humility....just a smug and superior sneer on her face whenever she talks about this country. You may not agree with Cruz's politics but he's a hell of a lot better person that Omar ever thought of being.
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  8893.  @A_Jeff  What? Jim Bloomberg ran for president in 2020 and he's worth 106 Billion dollars. That's 100 billion dollars MORE than what Trump's worth. I know for a fact that you'd have voted for and supported him. Most of the Democrat donors are the super rich who have great influence over the bureaucrats in Washington. You know, like Big Pharma, who support gender care that cost almost 80,000 bucks, just for the operation, plus a life time of drugs and medical procedures to fight infections and complications for life of their patient. They mandated, through the force of law, that we must take their covid vaccines, putting billions in the pockets of the billionaires who are the major shareholders of those big drug companies. Are your really that blind? Or are you just trolling again?
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  8894. What she did was admit that she knows that she's supposed to like it, as a left wing advocate, but she can't help but hate it because, deep down, she thinks it's all BS. However, she can't say that so she sheathed her statements in bubble wrap, hoping that it would protect her from the radical left wingnuts.
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  8895. @GA477 "You're wrong" Me: "I'm right" You: "You're wrong" We could do this all day, OR, you could get the information to prove that the statements that I made are false. You won't though. You don't want to risk the possibility that those facts that I represented might be true. A lot easier to find new and inventive ways to say "You're wrong".
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  8896. There was a time when a person had to be intelligent to be able to master the rigours of academia. Now, if you can't handle the demanding workload of academic achievement, you just make stuff up and coat it with tommyrot and codswallop.
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  8897.  @spittinvenom9671  Sorry. Sometimes sarcasm doesn't play as well on the internet, especially when you don't know the person that's being sarcastic.
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  8898. Say Yawn.....Maybe the N. Koreans are still developing nuclear weapons, but maybe, just MAYBE, by using diplomacy, they'll be less likely to use them. Did that ever occur to you, Yawn?
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  8899. It's so important that these rich celebrities let us know how inflation isn't all that bad. However, those who don't have the cash, are to hold their tongue about how badly they're feeling the crunch. Just one iteration of the elitism of Twitter.
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  8900.  @ISavant  Strange....my brother, who's a teacher, says the same thing. Does that make him a conservative moron? He's be surprised to hear that. He's gay and has been a member of the NDP, a radical socialist party in Canada, for years. If you're deficient in math skills, you're not good at math. If it's because of the way it's being taught, it's not conservative to point that out. It's pointing out a fact, a reality. Of course, that means nothing to you because I suspect you're just a troll. A guy who goes on the internet, with the express intent of uplifting his ego by tearing down others.
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  8901.  @joecasey7415  Most of the Bolsheviks were NOT Jews and Stalin, the worst of them, was Georgian. He caused the starvation of millions during Holodomor. Castro once said that he'd sacrifice the lives of every Cuban if it meant the end of America. That was after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chavez took the richest country in the Americas, after the US and Canada, and drove it into bankruptcy. Venezuelans were so hungry that they were eating their pets and zoo animals. 7 million people have fled that country since 2015, according to the United Nations. Inflation was over ONE MILLION percent at it's worst. Every one of them killed their own people. The United States is FAR from perfect but to use that country to defend monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Castro and Chavez is beyond ridiculous.
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  8902.  @joecasey7415  Of course, you want to blame Marx as the sole "inventor" of communism, along with his sidekick, Engels. However, he wasn't the first to even use the word. It was first used in France, in the lead up to the French Revolution in 1785. Victor d'Hupay referred to himself as a communist author in a letter he sent in that year. Marx wouldn't be born until 33 years AFTER that letter was written. d'Hupay's friend, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, first used the word "communism" to describe a government system based on egalitarianism and the common ownership of property in 1793, also LONG before Marx was born. Restif used that word numerous times in his writings to describe that system of government. He was NOT Jewish and neither was d'Hupay. There were countless socialist intellectuals, all advocating for an egalitarian society and abolishing the ownership of property. Marx became the most influential of these socialists but it was already quite established as an ideology during his time. Although he was born to Jewish parents, he was baptised into Christianity when he was 6 years old. He never practised Judaism and became an atheist when he grew up. He said atheism was the opiate of the masses which included Judaism. Also, a look at the leaders of the Russian revolution shows that there were Jews in their ranks but a lot of Russian intellectuals as well. Lenin had Jewish roots but he never even knew about it and was raised in the Russian Orthodox church. His sister revealed that Lenin did have Jewish roots but had never been told about it. You're allowing bigotry to cloud your world view. There are a LOT of Jews who absolutely HATE communism. Instead of attacking an ethnicity, attack the ideology, which would have endured without the work of Marx. There are tens of millions of communists around the world and very few of them are communist and are represented no more or less than any other nationality. While you're off fighting Jews, American communists are threatening to destroy this country and almost ALL have no Jewish roots. Fight them ALL, not a just a small fraction of them.
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  8903. She has to picket that movie company every day. Let them know that they're nothing but a bunch of elitist snobs. Let them know that their movies are going to be boycotted. If she going down....so will they.
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  8904. Chris Cuomo says that ANTIFA is fighting the good fight. Like smashing the windows out of a tavern where a Republican supporting group ate a meal, a couple of months ago. That's the Democrat problem right now. Democrat supporting media praising the group that would take part in such stupidity.
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  8905. If the right is so racist, bigoted and violent, why is it that it's the left that are violently attacking and bullying people, even children? Worse.....why isn't MSM calling out these violent bullies? Could it be because CNN and the rest of the left wing media are encouraging this behaviour and are cheerleaders for those bullies? "When I see that hat, I am TRIGGERED"....a quote from a CNN pundit, talking about the Covington Kids. It's why they're being sued for 275 million dollars. It's the left that has become the violent ones.
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  8906.  @bigboicreme  Why don't you watch this episode and be convinced one way or another? As it is, your comment says nothing but "I don't know what happened so I don't really know what I'm talking about."
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  8907.  @yougetaspear7799  Ironic isn't it. It's happening all over the western world.
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  8908. In October, Trump said that he hoped to have the vaccine ready by the end of the year. Democrats and the media laughed and said that was a pipe dream and that Trump was a stupid as they come. 5 months later, as of this moment, 98,203,893 Americans have had at least a single vaccine at the Biden, Harris and other Democrats are taking credit for it. If it wasn't so self serving and just plain disgusting, it would be funny as hell. However, I can't even crack a smile.
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  8909.  @jamesmccarte1609  It is one thing to want to disband a government agency and another to plant steel obstruction that could kill or severely injure someone. If Trump's pick had tried to physically destroy property, in a covert fashion, that would be a crime. To openly state an intention, which isn't illegal, and to try to do it through authorised and legal channels, is completely different than committing an illegal act that is intended to damage property and cause injury and suffering. If you can't see that, YOU are the problem. I might disagree with his desire to disband the EPA, but I'd never commit an illegal act in an attempt to stop him. I'd do it like a civilised human being and this has nothing to do with party politics. You're defending a dangerous and illegal practice. Once again....that makes you a part of the problem.
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  8910. There are 18.6 million Millionaires in the US not 18 thousand. That's a lot of millionaires.
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  8911.  @charlesvancella524  Great comeback. 😀😃😄
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  8912.  @davidhynes  LOL. Not there's a nightmare waiting to happen.
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  8913.  @Ambyli  Some companies and schools will force you to put your pronouns in their bio. They're afraid to say that they won't do it because they may face repercussions, which may include losing your job. They're doing it, not because of what they believe, but because they don't want the headaches of not going along.
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  8914.  @MANGPIKEHENCE  The amount of men who are pro-life is only 4% more than the women who support pro-life. Not that big a difference. A lot of the leaders of the pro-life movement are women.....but you don't want to hear that, do you. Best to divide us into our categories so we can sneer at one another. That's way better than the distinction between right and wrong.
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  8915. Biden wants the racial divide because he's hoping that this will destroy the Republican Party forever. The end game will be a one party nation.....sort of like China.
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  8916. Huh????? One of the premier intellectuals of our time, influencing millions around the world to self improvement....and you're calling him fragile? I think that you may have a perverse idea of strength.
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  8917. Hello from Canada. I've always wanted to visit your country. The biggest deterrent is that I don't like the heat of the tropics. I start sweating when the temp gets above 15 Celsius. Best to you and yours.
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  8918. "The enemy within" says Medhi. He's calling them Nazis. Wouldn't one consider Nazis an "enemy from within"? Another one that thinks that people who come illegally is no different than coming legally. It's the Democrat mindset where "illegal" means opposing the Democrats, instead of breaking the law. It's why they release people immediately upon arrest for theft and other crimes.
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  8919.  @magicskyfairy69  Claiming that something is "your" truth, doesn't make it true. It's illogical and a convenient way to place yourself into the realm of moral superiority without having to justify your actions and to rationalise any behaviour normally judged as immoral. That's what the left does. Truth isn't subjective. Overt and aggressive violent behaviour, in a civilised society, is wrong. "My truth" doesn't make it moral or correct.
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  8920. It's "gobbledegook". No wonder you can't understand a thing of what was said. You don't even understand how to use the spellcheck.
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  8921. By all that's reasonable, logical or sensible, it should have died off this year. Unfortunately, one cannot account for or predict just how deep stupidity can run or how difficult it will be to eradicate. Close the schools but open them for 140 bucks a week....but they're still closed. Only woke folk could come up with that and believe that it makes sense.
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  8922.  @atticuswalker8970  Why do YOU care about this?
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  8923.  @atticuswalker8970  So do I. I value the rights of female athletes to compete on a level playing field. I don't think that a man, Leah Thomas as an example, should be allowed, with full MALE "bits", to compete with women. All world athletic records show that men outperform women by 10% or more. That may not seem a lot if you don't know much about sports but in sports it's immense. It shows that there's a reason why there are mens and womens categories in sports. It isn't as if we're telling Thomas he isn't allowed to be in sports anymore. He spent 3 years competing in men's swimming. He can continue to do so.....but that means no medals and sports records as he wasn't any thing special as a national class swimmer. Then there's the freedom for women to have their own spaces. There's a reason for that, which includes the sexual dynamics between women and men. Men are an existential threat to women under some circumstances and a women's locker room is one of those places and circumstances If I look too long at a woman in my workplace, I could be accused of the male gaze and lose my job. The entire MeToo movement was adamant of this point. Yet, Thomas can walk into a women's locker room, all "bits" intact and it's the girls, in that locker room, who were gaslit by being told that there were mental health experts that would help them through their fears, as if there was something wrong with THEM. I'm not even sure what freedom that you're talking about. Transgenders can still compete in athletics. We just think that they should compete in the gender that were assigned at birth and verified through a DNA test. No loss of freedom. They can still be transgender and compete. Not ONE of those transgenders, who have or had their "bits" cut off, will EVER get pregnant. NEVER. That's how we know that they're biologically different than women. They'd be men with their "bits" cut off. That's the freedom that I care about. Why should YOUR caring supersede mine? That's not very democratic at all.
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  8924.  @atticuswalker8970  First of all, parental consent isn't required. If a parent doesn't affirm their child's transgender claims, they could lose custody of that child. Schools tell the students not to tell parents about what they're being told about trans culture and there are even LGBTQ plus clubs which are kept secret from parents. They even claim that they have to do this because parents can be abusive towards their children. These same teachers are diagnosing children as trans and affirming those kids when they do claim to be trans. Again, trans kids can compete in sports if they want. Leah Thomas competed in men's swimming for 3 years at Penn State. The fourth year she went out for the women's team and cleaned up, setting women's records and named as female collegiate athlete of the year. Yet, she could barely make the top 500 in men's collegiate swimming. That shows that it's not only unfair but that it's taking away the rights of women. Strange how you're not mentioning any of this or the fact that Thomas was free to keep right on swimming on the men's team. Thomas's problem was that he wasn't going to win any medals competing against men. He had to go against women to find success. You've completely ignored everything that I wrote and that says a lot about your stance. You should be able to refute what I wrote but you didn't even try. I have to wonder why.
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  8925.  @bluejay9235  Do you mean EVERY police officer? There's not a good one in the bunch. There all EXACTLY the same? A spoiled rich kid, goes out, whining and complaining about his oppressed life, vandalises property and then gets mad, when he gets arrested, and assaults the cop that arrests him......and it's the cops fault??? Are you serious? I'll bet that if I went to your home and started destroying your property, you'd be mad enough to do something about it. Then when you saw that I'm 6'4" and 255 lbs, what would you do then? I'll bet that you'd call the police. You're another one that thinks that you should be allowed to do whatever you want and no one should take that away from you. Just a spoiled, entitled little monster that's trapped in an adult body. You're the kid, that was lying on the floor, screaming and kicking his feet in the grocery store, crying because you wanted a box of Fruit Loops.....and then got it. The result is this grown man, who claims he's a girl, complaining about imaginary things, defacing property and still thinks he's a victim of some kind of oppression. Ridiculous.
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  8926.  @bluejay9235  I don't worship nor idolise the police. I take each officer as individuals, who have a job to do. Some do a great job....some suck Also, those cops, in Democrat cities, were told to stand down. When they did arrest BLM rioters, Democrats and their supporters would bail them out. Democrats like the current Vice-President and even the staff of the current President. Why risk your own life and career because the Democrats won't let you do your job? It's NOT the police. It's the left wing politicians that suburbanites keep electing. You don't see this kind of thing in rural areas. We have a common sense that these suburbanites don't have. Also, why do some gun owners seem to thing that owning a gun makes them invincible. You're NOT going to win every gun battle. I could also have a gun and I'd be just as capable of handling it as you are. It's great to be able to defend yourself but it's not even CLOSE to a guarantee that you'll end up the winner. You'll call the police when you're standing over the body of a family member, shot by an intruder and then took off. That's a guarantee. Go after the politicians that tie their hands when rioters break the law. The judges and DAs that drop all charges and let them go, AFTER the police arrest them. That's the REAL problem
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  8927.  @bluejay9235  People, like you, just don't get it. You go after the symptom, NOT the problem. The cop arrests a rioter and 3 hours later, he's right back on the street, throwing bricks. You arrest him AGAIN and he's back out again the following night. How many times are you going to risk injury, to arrest someone, who's going to be let out by the Democrat establishment. YOU would even say "eff them if they're not going to prosecute". The rioter is applauded and the cop is vilified for doing his job....that's the way its handled on the MSM. ONE thing goes wrong and you're charged, your face is all over the news, you're vilified, your family is harassed, you lose EVERYTHING that you own, might see jail time and have to go into hiding to protect yourself and your family. THAT'S why these officers are doing as instructed. It's pointless. You take a brick to the side of your face and the guy that does it gets off scot-free. See how "noble" you'd be after experiencing that or watching your fellow officers do the same. The REAL problem are the left leaning politicians, their judges and District Attorneys. They're the generals in this phenomena, to use an analogy. You're going after the grunt instead of the general who's giving the orders. You ask the police to maintain order and then beat them submission when they do. It's no wonder that morale in the police departments are so low. No wonder so many are quitting and moving to places like Florida where they get the support they need to do their jobs. If your bosses treated you that way, you'd quit too, or go to a work to rule attitude because it's just not worth doing your best. It's human nature. You're treating them the same way that the left wing over seers and the media treats them. If I were a cop I'd tell you to get lost when surrounded by a group of armed rioters. YOU got a gun...figure it out for yourself. You think that I'm a jerk anyway. Why would I help someone who feels that way?
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  8928.  @bluejay9235  That's right. You'd be the good cop who QUIT. Do you know what happens when all the good cops quit??? The BAD cops are left and bad cops are hired to replace them. That's what they want you to do. They WANT the good cops gone. You're encouraging the bad cops to operate freely and the good cops to leave and they will because people, like the left wing AND the right wing are all putting them into positions where they just can't do it anymore. Then you act surprised when the bad cops do the job that the left wing bosses and media want them to do. YOU'VE QUIT. We have to start a campaign to oust those politicians that won't allow the police to do their jobs. If we get good politicians, like Rudy Giuliani was in New York, who support that police and insist that everyone does what they're supposed to do. But you don't do that. You focus on the police and REFUSE to see that this is a result, NOT the cause of the problem. I know one thing. Quiters never succeed. They leave it to the losers to do as they want. What a great way to fight city hall.
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  8929.  @bluejay9235  Probably they should stay on and refuse to do what's unconstitutional. Then they'd have to be fired and you'd have the option of using legal channels to challenge them. It would also be THEM, their bosses, that are insisting that they do the wrong thing and it's THEM that's unlawfully firing people. If you quit....you've done just that. You've quit, given up to the bosses. What you should be doing right now is calling out the politicians that support these things. Let them know your position and only vote for those who see things the same way that you do. Don't make it about party politics, although that may be difficult, make it about doing the right thing. NOTHING is going to change as long as the same people are running things. All they'll do is weed out those cops that are pushing back and the situation just gets worse. Those politicians are at the heart of the problem. Those police are the symptoms. Bad apple officers must be dealt with but nothing will change until the bad apple politicians are gone. That should be the priority.
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  8930.  @loneskankster2242  Never said that you were. I SAID that you were a Russian bot. "Trumpies" aren't Russians. Russians are Russians. You're a Russian bot hiding in plain sight.
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  8931. The California Democrats are cleaning up San Francisco when a true Fascist is coming to town. A fascist replete with his own concentration camps. You've all heard of the Uighur concentration camps in China. Newsom feels compelled to impress that leader. Wouldn't want a Fascist to think badly of him. This is getting so bizarre.
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  8932. They all looked as if they were insane, that's why. Doocy probably can't act that way or won't. I wouldn't either.
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  8933.  @fernando3061  He's displaying his skin colour in his comment to show that a black person can think for themselves. The idea of victim is one where black Americans are being exploited. He's saying that it doesn't have to be that way and he is refusing to accept the mantle of victimhood that the "woke" are trying to force on him. That's why it was important to state that he is black. Not for validation but to show that victimhood can be abhorrent, even to those who are supposed to the victimised. The only way to stop being a victim is to decide and declare that you refuse to be one.
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  8934. Bernie surrounds himself with crazy people because he's as crazy as it gets. He thinks they're normal. 5 years from now, if you ask the average person who AOC is, half won't remember and the other half will say "Ain't she that crazy bartender that went to Congress?" A flash in the pan.
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  8935. "My Kingdom is not of this world" John 18:36. Most Christians know that since God's Kingdom doesn't exist here, it must exist elsewhere, which means that a theocracy is impossible. "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's" Mark 12:17 Another example of how heaven and earth are 2 separate entities. In fact, the biggest part, of the Old Testament relates how the Jewish Theocracy didn't and couldn't work. Humans are too imperfect to allow it to happen effectively over any significant length of time. That's not to say that Republicans, better yet Christians, don't get overbearing and demanding, but the things that I've just mentioned, are at the heart of their religion. Before you start calling me a religious kook, I'm not a Christian. However, I do know the faith quite well and have an insight into what Christianity teaches.
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  8936.  @rogermetzger7335  Iran is a theocracy, today. They have an elected government but they're under the thumb of the Ayatollah. Yes....the Hebrews were under a theocracy. My point is that even though they were expected to obey God's law, they failed to do so and miserably on any consistent level. They failed and they were punished for it. Punished quite severely with invasion, death and slavery in foreign lands. That was my point. They were theocracies just like Iran is now a theocracy. The only true theocracy is the one in heaven. All those attempted on earth, in the past AND in the future, are doomed to failure because we humans are imperfect, "born in sin" if you will. Your examples of the attempts in New England are evidence of this. Also...yes...the monarchs that swore fealty to the pope placed themselves and their people in theocracies. They put themselves in a position so that their political state was under the direct control of a religious leader and could be over ruled at any time for any reason BY that religious leader, the Pope. theocracy definition: "government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided" Encyclopaedia Britannica The Pope represents Christ on earth, according to the Catholic faith. That's as "divinely guided" as it gets.
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  8937.  @rogermetzger7335  I'll have to add this. Your example of Henry VIII doesn't wash either. Henry wanted a divorce but he couldn't because it went against the Catholic Church and the Pope refused to dissolve the marriage. THAT was the power that the Church had over the monarchs. That's why he separated and formed his own church. Also, you might look into the "Humiliation of Canossa" if you want to see how much power the church had over monarchs in the Middle Ages. It's as close to a theocracy as we can get on earth.
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  8938.  @rogermetzger7335  I'm going to say that you could apply a bit of all those methods of interpretation. However, a big influence was my upbringing in the Christian Reformed Church which is a Calvinist branch of Christianity. However, I'm looking at it now as an outsider and applying my own subsequent reading on the subject, as well. From everything that I've been able to understand, as an objective outsider, is that Christianity sees the return of Jesus as a Kingdom that stands outside of the world as we know it. A complete transformation from the world of Satan to the world of God. This implies that perfection will not and cannot be achieved without God and his transformation. I will say that the early church is different than the church that it became. They early Christians believed that the return of Jesus and the Kingdom of Heaven was imminent, coming at any moment. That didn't turn out to be the case and Christians had to revise the timeline of his return, which would increase the importance of how one should live their life. Instead of being here when Jesus returns, Christians have been forced to feel that it will happen AFTER they die. That has a 2 pronged effect on how they see their faith. The importance of faith becomes more nebulous as they can't claim to know someone who's grandfather had a cousin who knew Saint Peter, who was a disciple of Jesus. Their faith has to come more from within than through evidence, although that is discussed in Hebrew 11:1. Second, it means that the day to day activities of a lifetime have greater relevance as a part of how one finds redemption. Your faith must manifest itself in your works, to a certain degree, to use a religious concept. I guess maybe I looked at your comment as an argument rather than a discussion and that may not have been the best way to approach it. However, in my defence, there is a lot of negativity on the internet and I probably responded ready to do battle. I'm sorry about that.
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  8939.  @yourneologism  I went to a fundamentalist Christian school and we learned about the concept of theocracy. We spent quite a bit of time on it. The Reformation was a driving force away from the attempted Theocracy of the Catholic Church. It led to the ideas of that became manifested in the American Constitution in which individual rights are written down as a basis of governance. It's also why the freedom of religion is so important in the Bill of Rights. Seek redemption the best way that you know how and it can only be done on the individual level. No one can do it for you. It also recognises, through implication, that we're just not capable of knowing what is the correct religious dogma could be which would make our religious freedom even more important to those who believe in God. It is also a rejection of forming a Theocracy to govern the nation.
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  8940. Do you know why people are scared, Bishop? YOU are the reason. You and the media have spent years peddling fear porn to the American public. Trump was the first American president to support gay marriage coming into office and voiced his support decades ago. A lot of his followers are gay, Dave Rubin, Tammy Bruce, Brandon Straka, Blaire White, just to name a few. This is just one example of your made up fear porn. You're living in your own made up delusional world.
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  8941.  @Grandtim1959  Once again, the vague accusations of lies. Nothing of substance, just a "He lies" accusation. Also, his campaign isn't dying. The polls show he's neck and neck with Harris and doesn't seem to falling at all. Just another claim that isn't backed up by facts.
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  8942.  @CJ-ik8qf  How could Trump do that? He's NOT the president. He's NOT in Congress. He's not an elected official. How did he do that?
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  8943.  @hanshansen3885  I read the Mueller Report. I didn't see anything there that proved Russian collusion. The best it did is say that they couldn't disprove it. That wouldn't fly in front of an impartial judge.
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  8944. It's almost as if Whoopi wants a special designation for racism. The Holocaust was bad but not as bad as racism. "Get off this Holocaust bandwagon and get back to focusing on us, the Black folk". That's what happens when you allow your narcissism to grow....or fester.
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  8945.  @jansharp314  I worked with a guy who looks and acts just like Walz. Phoney as they come. He laughs at everything as if he's some happy, likeable guy but then he stabs you in the back. It's all an act. This guy that I know actually does that jazz hand thing when entering a room. It's always creeped me out. However, that's not as important as his ability to deliver as a VP. He didn't do it a governor. He let Minneapolis burn and he supports the one thing that I find unforgivable. He's supporting affirmative care for "transgender" minors. That included puberty blockers, sex hormones and drugs and amputations on minors, even if their parents don't approve. I can never vote for anyone that would do that and I'd rather have D. Dump and Couch Pouch, who reject this horror, than a person who would allow it to be done to a child. Any person who would do that, would do anything to anyone and is NOT to be trusted.
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  8946. I remember a group that hated Catholics. They used to wear all white with white hoods. Apparently, we're not supposed to like those guys.
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  8947.  @momoneyinvesting  I think that YOU are the one that doesn't get how it works. Where do you think the money for social healthcare comes from? That it grows on a magical money tree? It comes out of YOUR taxes, which means, if you're healthy, you're still paying. I live under a socialised welfare system. Every year, the government raises taxes and cuts health benefits. A person can go DECADES without a private doctor. I know because it happened to me and I'm not alone. So what do you do? You go to the only place that you can....the emergency ward at your local hospital which is insane. Then try to get a referral from a doctor that you'll only see once in a lifetime. If you do get the referral, you may have to wait over a YEAR to see a specialist. Why? Because there's no money in it for the medical professionals if there's too many doctors. I remember, before we were under socialised medicine that we had 3 general practitioners in our small town of less than 2000 people. Our population has doubled and we have NONE....like in zero, not a doctor in town. I went from paying for healthcare out of my paycheck and top of the line medical care to "free" healthcare and horrific care and it's illegal for me to find a way out. Thanks but no thanks.
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  8948.  @ArtemisFowl-e4t  It's a descriptive. You have immigrants, who go through the process of applying, getting references, doing things the right way and then, once accepted, come here as legal immigrants or aliens. That is, until then, alien to this country. You have those who sneak across the border, into the United States, and then claim that they're immigrants. Sneaking across a national border is illegal in almost every country in the world. Hence the term "illegal alien". To enter the United States is against the law and if an alien does that he's doing something illegal.....an illegal alien. Of course, when you don't want to understand, you never will.
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  8949. Art Linkletter.
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  8950.  @Svenson-kr2ry  Woke activists which equals radical socialists. They believe in critical theory in which all aspects of life is viewed in the negative. No gratitude to the divine, stoicism is reviled, hard work has no rewards, and they only pay homage to oppression and depression. To uplift is bad and unrealistic. Joy and beauty is an impossibility. It's all to the negative.
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  8951. I haven't been in debt since 1988 when I divorced and sold my house. If you're in debt, you've made choices, some of them bad and some that might actually be good.
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  8952. CRT is another tactic to pit Americans against each other. Jim Crow didn't work so they've come up with another way to divide us. Why wouldn't people be resentful, especially the Americans of African heritage, of those who have "white privilege". Any normal person would feel animus towards those, that they've been told, who have the privilege and power to keep them down. "It's not YOUR fault....it's them. Those white devils" Then white Americans become indignant and resent being told how terrible they are.....and those with race obsessions just keep picking at that wound until it festers and destroys everything. It's always been the tactic of the resentful. There's a reason why "Thou shalt not covet" is one of the Ten Commandments. The envy, that goes with coveting the lives of others, is one of the most destructive forces in human society and history demonstrates this to be true, over and over again. That's why this insidious ideology has to end.
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  8953. All they're concerned about is women's rights. They could care less about the rights of children.
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  8954.  @danboyd6180  I'm guessing that he's demonstrating another issue in the lives of our children. Some parents just don't care. Whether he's telling the truth or not.....he's showing us a reality that's deplorable.
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  8955.  @venture_210  I'd say it's unravelling because we've accepted a pernicious ideology, based on Marxist principles, into the nation. This is an ideology that dismissed the massive violence in over 60 cities last year, with Billions of dollars of damage, looting and around 30 dead, all in the name of "justice". Adam Schiff teared up, a great display of political theatre, over what happened on Jan 6th but there was not a word, NOTHING, when 8 year old, Secoriea Turner, was shot by BLM supporters in Atlanta, Georgia. You'd think that an horrific thing like that would give the media and others pause to reflect on the idea that maybe these riots weren't the right way to go and that too many innocent people were getting hurt. But that didn't happen. They don't care about that little girl's rights or of the rights of all those business owners that lost everything or their employees that lost their livelihood. They didn't care that Jacob Blake sexually assaulted a woman. They didn't care that our current Vice-President visited Blake and told him that she was proud of him. A RAPIST....and she was proud of him. Did Adam Schiff and Congress call her out for that? No....they picked her to be the next vice president and possibly the president. If you can't see that as a breakdown of society's respect for the Constitution and the Rule of Law....there's not much more I can say to you.
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  8956. If you were to die tomorrow, I'm sure you believe that you will be going to paradise. If that were the case, what does it matter to you and any Christian what happens to the earth. You're going to paradise, anyway. The only ones who it would affect are those who are going to hell. They will be going even sooner, if it is the end times. Why would you look forward to seeing your fellow man endure eternal punishment. To say that you're looking forward to their going to hell is unusually cruel.
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  8957. Ted Wheeler's "Please don't steal" campaign should work like a charm. LOL.
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  8958.  @russell3380  Beat by an old man, with obvious signs of dementia, who didn't campaign and had the media asking where he was. He couldn't even get people to go out and see him even when he was in public. This is the guy that received more popular votes than any president in US history? Then there were states who had voting procedures changed, by executive order, instead of through the state legislature even though that's against the law. They mailed out unsolicited ballots, to EVERYONE, requiring no IDs to vote. We know that people were harvesting ballots. Rachel Rodriquez was charged and found guilty of it. Project Veritas showed videos of the same thing happening in Minnesota, a man with hundreds of ballots when Minnesota law states no one could be in possession of no more than 3 ballots. That election was a fiasco. Did Biden win? Who knows but one thing was certain, it was FAR from being the most secure election in history. Many people believe that it was intentionally designed to be controversial so there would be anger and untoward incidents due to the election. It's surprising that the Jan. 6th riot at the Capitol building was the ONLY real violence attached to the election. There was violence all across the country when Trump was elected. Then they spent millions in trying to accuse Trump of collusion with the Russians in order to win. The entire election was one s--t show and I'm thinking that's exactly what the Democrats wanted, win or lose.
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  8959.  @hootowl6354  Of course it does but did he REALLY break the law? What law did he break?? Hillary broke the law when she defied a court order to turn over her e-mails and she deleted them and had a server destroyed. She set the precedence. Why were you not concerned about her "contempt of court"? Another "rules for thee but not for me" phenomena. "Guilty until proven innocent" is the cornerstone of the law in the US. You've already assumed guilt before a trial and evidence has even been presented. Are we to expect a "kangaroo court" if left to the likes of you?
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  8960.  @hootowl6354  Yes.....there are still unknowns which means we can't say that a crime was committed. There is also the question of executive privilege when it comes to a president de-classifying documents. If you don't know what he's got, you can't call it a crime, just like you said. However, Trump could be in deep trouble, depending on what he has, who he could have shown or what he intended to do with them. All this is stuff that we can't know. It's no different than Adam Schiff saying that he had incontrovertible proof of Russian collusion. I believed him....until his "proof" was never shown. That's when I knew that he was lying. I'm not going to belief it until I see the documents. That's what I should have did with Schiff's "proof".
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  8961.  @hootowl6354  I never said that I didn't believe it. Don't put words in my mouth. What I'm saying is that it's a "claim" that those documents were government documents. It still has to be proven. People are corrupt, even at the highest levels of government. So I don't believe ANYONE....including Trump. I'm going to wait and see what those documents really are, what the president's powers entail and what the motivations were of the FBI and others involved as well as Trump's. If the claims are true, THEN I'll declare him guilty. If not, then he's not guilty. That's what trials are for. Anything else is no different than vigilante justice...a declaration of guilt before all evidence has even been offered and examined.
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  8962.  @kv1293  My God....you guys are thick. I NEVER said one word on how well it worked. I explained the DAMN process....THAT'S ALL. They didn't suspend any elections. They just agreed to not have a vote of non-confidence or call an EARLY election. The scheduled 5 year election will still take place in 2024, like it's supposed to. How rigged it is, I can't tell you but IT WILL HAPPEN. Just like it did last Nov. in the US. If you don't understand what a vote of non-confidence is.....JUST SAY SO. Damn.....try to explain the election procedure and you just won't accept it. Use your friggen brain.
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  8963.  @mera8785  There may not be an election anyway till 2024. In fact, since it is a minority government coalition, if the NDP won't vote against the majority Liberal government, there won't be a vote of non-confidence. That happens ALL the time in Canadian politics. They agree to not vote in the manner to have an early election. That they made it a formal agreement, doesn't change that it happens all the time. If the members of the coalition are afraid that the official opposition will win a majority, they will all agree to not vote for an early election or a vote of non-confidence. If the official governing party is afraid that they'll lose the election, they won't call an early election either. That happens all the time in Canadian politics. It's nothing new. Your pretense that it is, doesn't change that fact. Check the history of Canadian politics. It's nothing new for parties to try to hold off an election if it's in their best interests. If you don't understand Canadian politics, you might try reading up about it.
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  8964.  @joe-di6zf  Why would I bend the knee? At least we didn't have an election that was "fortified" so as to have the "proper outcome". If they are reviewing my social media....let em. I don't care what they think. I just signed a petition, TODAY, against my provincial premier. Let them review that.
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  8965.  @joe-di6zf  We don't know. How can I make comments on something that I don't know? I know that I don't like Trudeau or his party. I don't like the NDP or the Conservatives, either. I didn't vote for any of them. My party, a brand new one, was only formed in 2018, by those who are right leaning and want to see more fiscal responsibility in government. It'll be a hard sell to Canadians who really like free stuff.
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  8966.  @kv1293  They didn't take it away. They all agreed to not have an election till the proper time. Canadian elections aren't like American elections. American elections are rigid...every 4 years. In Canada, it's every 5 years but there are conditions under which it could happen earlier. Everyone voted to not have an early election and it was almost unanimous. It's up to the minority party of the coalition that makes up a minority government. In every minority government, that minority party makes the decision whether or not to have an election. If they decide that they like the status quo....there is NO election and it happens all the time. They have basically decided not to have an early election, just like so many other minority parties have over 100 years of politics. Trudeau couldn't form a government in 2019 because his party didn't win enough seats. He had to get the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP to agree to form the government with him so he would have enough votes to hold a government. Do you get that? THEY AGREED TO FORM A GOVERNMENT. All they did was agree to continue to form that government until the 5 year term was up or Covid wasn't as big an issue. They did the same thing during WW1 and 2. As long as the agreeing parties agree not to have a vote of non-confidence, you don't have an election. In fact, had Trudeau not been able to form a coalition to form a government in 2019, there would have been another election back then....before Covid. Enough parties agreed to not do that and to form the government. You're just not getting how Canadian elections work. The odds were that there wasn't going to be an election anyway till 2024. They're too afraid that there's a growing conservative movement and that they'd lose their power. Saying it was for Covid allows them to say that the conservative movement doesn't scare them and that they're good people because they don't want to kill grandma with Covid. It's just political rhetoric.
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  8967.  @thenightingale7405  The reason why they can't protest outside a justice's home is so that one group can't intimidate or frighten those justices from ruling against the interests of those protestors. Groups like the KKK or QANON. I'm sure that you've heard of them. The KKK could have shown up at the homes of judges during the Civil Rights movement, when those who murdered Civil Rights workers were on trial. They could stand on public property, the street and obstruct the judge's attempt to go to work, letting him know that they were not going to stop until they got what they want, no matter how long it takes. This isn't a law to protect elites. This is to protect the rule of law.
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  8968.  @spidgeb3292  Congress can only postpone it and while they're doing that, the situation will only get worse. Eventually it will come to a head and the longer it's postponed the bigger the crisis will be. This is the result of the shutdown and what happens when the government tries to control the economy.
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  8969. Abbott isn't shipping those migrants to Washington and New York. He's giving them a free ride to where those migrants want to go, no different than the midnight flights provided for migrants by the Democrats.
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  8970. I'll fix it for you. "less formally educated classes". People, who are grow up economic poverty, don't always have the means to go to the big universities to get the type of education that the richer people do. That's a fact. It's no insult to admit that. I'm not really sure what your point would be.
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  8971.  @user-kcrpine  Yet, it's still important to keep your neighbourhood clean. I'm just a guy that lives in a basement apartment. I don't have the influence or resources to fix the BIG problems but I can go down by the river and clean garbage off its banks. Remember, a small cut can get infected and eventually turn into gangrene and kill you. If you can't even solve the little things, how are you EVER going to solve the big ones. Do what YOU can do. It might make you feel good, clamouring for environmental solutions, but it's not accomplishing much. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone that would disagree with you, yet, with all this consensus on environmental issues, the problem still exists.
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  8972.  @1776tonow  These are the ones that will get you fired for not agreeing with what they say. They will even try to keep you from finding another job. They may be the crazy foot soldiers but they have the support of a lot of people in power.
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  8973.  @A_Jeff  First of all, I'm not upset. I think that Disney made a BIG mistake in how they wanted to remake "Snow White" and Rachel Zegler confirmed it with her sneering remarks about ordinary people of 1937 and how she disparaged the original movie. You're the one that's upset over how Disney is destroying its own brand. They keep making movies that people don't want to see and are losing a fortune doing it. Then, like you, they blame their audience. What a way to treat your customers. Once again, they're preaching at us, telling us what we have to like, dislike and that if we don't pay our good money to buy their product, there's something wrong with US. It's the worst marketing strategy since the Bud Lite stupidity. If they want to make money, quit lecturing us and provide us with entertainment that we'll buy and watch. There's a reason that I don't go to church and why I don't want the Disney brand of evangelism.
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  8974. I just did a Google search about this story and even though it's over 6 hours old, I couldn't find a MSM source that talked about it. On page 3 I found an article on the Washington Post. No, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS or FOX....and both FOX and the Wall Street Journal are owned by Rupert Murdoch. I did find source like the Post Millennial, the Verge, Forbes and Variety Magazine but they should all be interrupting their regular programming to talk about this. This is insane. I'll check again in the morning but I'm not confident. Hopeful...but not confident.
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  8975. So many people think that it's either Republican OR Democrats that are in the wrong. It seems to me that it's both Republicans AND Democrats. They're both feeding off a bureaucratic swamp whose only mission is to maintain and expand the status quo. Anyone who threatens that mission is the enemy. Defending one party or the other is pointless. You have to understand that our system has been corrupted by bureaucrats, corporate lobbyists, special interest groups and the politicians that use them to gain economic and political success.
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  8976.  @lovemyalaskaful  No actions from her. LOL. She's on TV all the time, has her own podcast. has spoken on campuses all over the country, even spoken in front of Congress, is married and the mother of 2....ALL before her 33rd birthday. People even talk of her as a future Presidential candidate. If only YOU were that prolific and well thought of to be considered to be that well thought of. You sound more like an 8 year old, hurling insults in the school yard, than you do an adult.
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  8977.  @jaygeezi5421  Because I looked into it, read half a dozen books by those who support it, and it's an horrific ideology. It's based on Marxist principles that use racial differences to divide and conquer, the same way that the early Marxist used class differences to get power. It negates the power of the individual and forces people to live within designated boxes which THEY get to define. The rhetoric of the ideology can only end in acrimony and hatred. If you took one honest look at the history of socialist ideology, you'd be terrified too......unless you love hatred and strife.
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  8978. Is there corruption in Puerto Rico or not? Why is it always about Trump. If there is corruption, call it out and help the people there. They most definitely need it. But people like you would rather go after Trump than actually stop corruption and help those people who really need the help. All Cuomo had to do is ask if Trump has any plans to STOP the corruption. That would have been helpful. Finding one hundred different ways to call Trump a liar doesn't help the people in Puerto Rico, at all.
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  8979. It wouldn't surprise me that some of your subscribers are so terrified of the new "Hitler" that they're erasing all signs of their existence so "Hitler" won't be able to find them or find any evidence of things said that "Hitler" might use against them in the future. They're living in a delusional state of terror.....a true phobia. Kind of like that girl friend who was terrified of moths. Terrified of something that won't hurt them.
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  8980.  @FreedomFighter2112  I get it. You're a TROLL. The most despicable creature on the internet. Please go away until you have something of value to say.
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  8981.  @iLLWiLLTheMiCK  My God.....you're the dumb one. She said that Hitler was more than a Nationalist. She gave reasons, IN THAT CLIP, why his type of nationalism was a problem. His penchant for expansion and his desire to turn everyone into Germans (that explains the hatred for Jews). You're just as dishonest, in your assessment, of what she said as the Democrat representative. Also, she said what she did about black people because she was accusing him of trying to alienate her from the black community by showing her to be a Nazi sympathiser. She said that he thought black people were that stupid that they would accept any statement about her, even if that statement was distorted or taken out of context. Basically, that blacks were too stupid to do any fact checking about her. Your bias is twisting your concept on what was being said to fit your narrative of ALL right wingers of being NAZIS. You'll twist anything to fit that belief.
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  8982. @ What I want? Do you want to be a cog of your identity group? Do you want to be told what to do, think or say, based on the pigeon hole assigned to you? I would hope not but if you do want that, I will assume your personality and by that how will behave based only on your name. You're a woman. You do and say "woman" things. Your name is Anne same as my ex-wife. Do you really want me to think of you in the same way that I do her? It won't be flattering. I doubt it that you do. I think that you'd want to be who you are and not my be judged based on an assumption, on what you are, based on some arbitrary classification. I think that you'd prefer to be you, not your classification.
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  8983.  @Vicioussama  If there isn't enough prisoners to change the vote, you're saying that the individual vote is irrelevant. I'd object to that. If you're a person who engages in illegal anti-social behaviour, I'm going to assume that you're going to vote in ways that will support your anti-social tendencies. It seems counter productive to have someone, that has shown a disregard for society and even wants to destroy that society and has committed offences to support that desire, get to vote on policies to improve society. His motives are highly suspect, especially terrorists.
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  8984. I've heard pro-choice advocates actually say that it kills parasites. They're really nice people.
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  8985.  @Xani13  I first heard it on one of those "man on the street" interviews. The interviewer asked a bunch of college girls, sitting in a park, whether they thought abortion was wrong or not and one of them said that they were parasites that were preying on their female host. Her friends all agreed with her. I've heard it said a few other times but that was the one that stuck out for me. The girl that said it was so malicious in her response. The hate was palpable.
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  8986.  @EvanAntes  He is on the list? You don't know that. Neither do I. They tried everything to go after Trump through the courts but they did't want to even talk about the Epstein files? Are you that naive that you don't think that if he was on that list that they wouldn't have released his name in the hopes that his voters would turn against him. After all the lies about him. The "good people on both sides" lies, the Russian collusion which they couldn't prove. They couldn't tie him in with J6 nor with the qrid pro quo. They did impeach him but that's only because the Democrats were in control of Congress. They didn't have the proof to get him legally on those claims. But the Epstein files? They wouldn't touch that to get Trump. Bondi even explained that they didn't want to name the victims along with the perps and that's a legal issue. 4 years of Democrat rule and they didn't even get close to releasing the files and after 5 weeks of Trump rule, you're suspicious of their motives. 4 years didn't cause suspicion but 5 WEEKS did. WOW. Biased much?
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  8987. @ Calling me sad and pathetic is what is known as an ad hominem attack and a logical fallacy. Name calling proves nothing. Explain to me why I'm wrong. THAT is what a logical and honest person would do.
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  8988. I asked all my Democrat friends and they all approve of Joe Biden. Democracy WINS!!!!!
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  8989. So when a group of people are chanting "Death to America".....that means that I shouldn't be worried or afraid of them. If it bothers me, I'm Islamophobic. YET....if I were to say the same thing about any other identity group, other than Americans or Jews, I'd be a racist and a bigot. That bonehead, Mayorkas, doesn't seem to get that they're chanting about his demise, as well.
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  8990.  @littlelizardpsycho5178  I'm afraid not. If there was, Steve Jobs wouldn't have tried alternative methods to cure his cancer that didn't work. I'm sure that Jobs would have given almost all of his 10 billion dollars to cure his cancer if it was available. Yet, the man is dead because he was killed by pancreatic cancer. If the elites are dying of cancer, then there's no cure.
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  8991. So.....are Muslims homophobic or are gays Islamophobic? This is getting really confusing.
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  8992. Cold fusion was a "Fleischmann and Ponsi"  scheme.
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  8993.  @DonaldTrunk23  No, he's not. He's said NUMEROUS times that he's a centrist and that the Democrats have gone SO insane he can't support them anymore. I know what he's talking about. I'm EXACTLY the same. Yet, to the left, I'd be a radical far right Fascist. I'd say that you're just trying to smear him because YOU are the radical leftie and you just don't like him. You've not given ONE example, which is just as I figured. You just repeated the same thing. Repeating something doesn't make it true.
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  8994. Why is there any kind of invocation at a public meeting? Hasn't it been decided a long time ago that religion should stay out of the political arena? Besides, what is this crap about Mother Gaia? Isn't that just another religion, some kind of pagan woo as supposed to Abrahamic woo? He's no more athiest than I am shape shifting lizard man.
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  8995. They're not scared because white suburban socialists are telling them that it's okay. They're being led by the nose by Marxist activists and they're too stupid to get it. They're using the people, with the obvious characteristic, as pawns to tear down the system and then they smugly tell us that "it's not us. We were at home". We'd ALL better wake up to what the REAL problem is because those elites behind it will have the boot on your neck because we were all looking the wrong way.
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  8996.  @padarousou  It's no coincidence. It's the intellectual Marxists who are egging them on and telling the rest of us that if we say something we're racist. What astounds me is that people can't see where the danger really lies. The ones with that "characteristic" are the foot soldiers but the real enemy are the intellectual elites who are vying for power by manipulating the foot soldiers and the real stooges....US. We're buying into the racist narrative and it won't stop until we vote those elite politicians out of office and get those Marxist intellectuals out of our schools. This stuff will only stop when we do that.
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  8997. As a right wing Islamophobe, I'm 100% behind these Muslim parents. Can I can hand in my Islamophobe card, now? Or am I stuck with it. Parents everywhere should insist that sexually explicit material not be shown or discussed with young children. Only an ideologue would believe that this material is proper for young kids. We should all follow the example of those parents in Dearborn.
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  8998. "All white people are guilty and reparations won't erase that guilt" So what will? Did that woman just take one step closer to a "final solution"? And if we ever do get to that point, what's that nodding white head going to say? "But I'm an ally. I'm on your side". She's doesn't appreciate that she's as guilty as every other white person on the planet and that to make the perfect world, which her "kind" has corrupted, she has to be a part of that "final solution". The lack of awareness is astounding.
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  8999.    And you have good evidence for this? Or is this just another conspiracy theory that people want to be true.
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  9000.  @JKLZREFAN  Once again, I will ask this. Why did Hitler invade neutral countries? You've been ignoring that question and I think it's an important one. I wonder if those Hitler peace initiatives included giving up those neutral countries, especially Norway, who had the iron that Germany wanted. Also, Hitler had quite often said that expanding east was a viable option for German growth.
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  9001.  @JKLZREFAN  "expanding east would probably have happened by immigration" Probably? That's not enlightenment. That's speculation. "Third, yes they probably would have "given up" Norway for peace" Another probably. Apparently, you've never heard of the Battle of Britain. It was Germany who started the bombing raids, NOT the Allies. By the time that the Allies were bombing, Hitler wasn't in a good position to ask for peace. He was starting his solution for the Jews and he wasn't going to give up Poland and neither was Stalin. That Marshal Plan was some awful punishment.
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  9002.  @JKLZREFAN  I know people that have seen the death camps. My uncle was imprisoned for a while in Westerbork, where every Dutch Jew went before being transferred to either Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen, before he was transferred to a POW camp. He saw them being loaded into the cattle cars. People can go on about the numbers but what happened was horrific. Nuremberg
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  9003.  @JKLZREFAN  He saw them being crammed in so tight that they couldn't sit down. They had to stand all the way to Poland. I've travelled on trains and I had a seat. That's the norm. They were crammed into cattle cars. This wasn't normal. In fact, why would they arrest every Jew they could find, even women and children, put them in a detention camp and them cram them into a cattle car to ship them off? That was horrific.
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  9004.  @JKLZREFAN  They STARTED the war. They invaded Poland. And they invaded neutral countries. They had no right to do that. I'm of Dutch heritage and I know what the Nazis did in Holland. Holland had declared neutrality and the Germans didn't care. They invaded anyway and the Dutch suffered under their rule. My mother nearly starved to death, along with my grandmother, great grandfather, who was in his eighties and my mom's brother and 2 sisters. My dad's family had a small farm and they hid food from the Nazi soldiers. My uncle was arrested because he siphoned off meat from his butcher shop to give to the underground and others. The Dutch HATED the Nazis. HATE them to this day. They don't hate the Germans but they hate the Nazis with a passion. Every family has stories of dealing with the Nazi soldiers and none of them are good. They didn't have to invade Poland. Hitler wanted to and he thought that making a deal with Stalin would keep the Allies from trying to stop him as they would be worried that they might have to fight both Stalin and Hitler.....but the Allies didn't back down. Hitler knew the risks and he took them. That's on him.
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  9005.  @JKLZREFAN  I've been to Holland on Liberation Day. They're unbelievable. On the 50th anniversary, surviving WW2 Canadian soldiers, were in parades and the streets were packed with cheering people. A friend of mine, who's father and uncle, Canadian soldiers, were killed in the war and the townspeople invited my friend and his daughter, paid their way over, so he could be there when they named a new footbridge in his father's and uncle's honour. Don't give me this BS about my not knowing every Dutchman. I know how the Dutch feel about the liberation. In fact, my dad came to Canada because Canadian soldiers stayed in the family barn while they did mop up operations in the area. Dad was 13 years old and that it was hero worship for him and the other kids he knew. More so than kids look up to athletes, today. You're fooling yourself if you think that the Dutch didn't hate the Nazis.
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  9006.  @JKLZREFAN  You're defending the Nazis and pretending that they're the ones on the right side of history. I'm saying that they're not and providing evidence of a nation that we're not appreciative, one bit, on what the Nazis did to them. That heavily implies that they were NOT such good guys. You don't like to hear it, that's your problem. Also, if Hitler was only trying to unite all Germans, why did he take over ALL of Czechoslovakia. They're not Germans. The Allies allowed that but were assured that there would be no war. Remember Chamberlain? Why did the Germans take over as much of Poland as possible? Why not just the areas where the Germans lived? Why arrange to have Poland completely crushed? Again I ask, if Hitler wasn't an expansionist, why would he invade Denmark, Norway and Holland? 3 countries that he wasn't at war with and he invaded them. There is no way that you can rationalise it. Just like saying that standing, jam packed in cattle cars, for an 1100 km trip, which would have taken, at least, 15 hours, is normal. You're grasping at straws to hold onto your belief system.
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  9007.  @JKLZREFAN  Why invade a neutral country? The Netherlands declared neutrality and the Germans invaded anyway. You can easily confirm this with a simple Google searcH. Why did they take all of Czechoslovakia when they were, supposedly, only reuniting the Sudeten Germans with Germany? You never answered those questions. Common knowledge and you've danced around it. It goes against international law to invade a country who is now a combatant. Your logic chastises Poland for taking supposed German lands and then says it's fine for Germans to do the same to the Netherlands. Rather inconsistent. As for Liberation Day, in the Netherlands, another simple Google search will confirm the celebrations. You're being intentionally obtuse.
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  9008.  Boe Jiden  Never too late. Anyone can have MAGA printed on a hat. Google may be big but they're not THAT big.
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  9009.  @theghostofmaximumvolume3414  There was a time when things weren't that way. Bill Nye would show experiments and teach how and why the reactions worked. There's nothing political about that. It wasn't until around 10 years ago, when EVERYTHING became political....2 plus 2 equals 5 stuff because math is racist, that you see a lot of people bending to the political and cultural fists pointing at them. 30 years ago, you didn't know the political leanings of a celebrity and even if you did, you didn't care. Now, it's enough to get you fired from your job, marriages are breaking up, families stopped speaking to one another and on and on. Things have changed and a lot. It's destroying great countries and turning us into the things that our ancestors were trying to escape from when they came to Canada and the United States.
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  9010.  @echoesofmalachor3700  Bill Nye was more directed at a much younger audience. He's the "Hardy Boys" of crime mystery novels. Cox's audience is older and a little more sophisticated. If you're an adult, you'd be more apt to watch Cox.
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  9011.  @5crassrocker  So, the super rich businesses, like Walmart and Amazon, who have benefited the most from the lock downs aren't oligarchs? This is a giant mess and it's been orchestrated by a Democrat opposition who have hated Trump to the point of instigating violence, chaos, draconian measures against ordinary citizens and small businesses and forcing people out of the big cities. Had not the Democrat states not imposed such stringent measures in their lock downs, forcing so many businesses to fail, there would not have been the need for aid packages from the government. However, the Democrats feel that the pockets of the rich are so deep that they can tax them forever. That's what will destroy the economy and heaven help us if they ever take over the Federal Government. What you're complaining about now will seem like a pleasant memory compared to their Socialist plans for the American future. "Once the voting public realise that they can vote themselves money, that's the end of the Republic" Benjamin Franklin. That's what the socialists in the Democrat party are advocating for. John Podesta and other Democrats have even suggested that the western states should secede if Trump wins again. That should be a real financial windfall for everyone. (deep sarcasm intended here).
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  9012.  @mikehardy2712  What did you expect to happen when Trump took over? Did you expect that within 2 years that we'd ALL have yachts and private jets? Or just the opposite? What he did was open the economy so everyone had a chance to improve their lives. Giving people money is useless. It devalues what you have. Your wealth only has value if it's built on creating it. For me, as a relatively poor person if compared to the "oligarchs, to be able to create wealth, I need the opportunity and freedom to work and create a life that brings value and it has to apply to everyone. My dad came to this country with nothing, no job and unable to speak the language. Now, he's a millionaire. It didn't happen overnight. It took hard work, being smart with what he had and having the freedom to do, financially, the things that brought him that success. He's not an oligarch, but he's a success. I'm doing the same. I don't think I'll be as successful as my dad was, but I'm not as driven as he was, either. That's MY doing. I don't care if someone is rich. What I care about is having the freedom, which gives me the opportunity, to make my own fortune, even if it doesn't compare with the fortune an oligarch might have. The minute I start looking at the piles of others with envy, that's the day my own success stops. That's why the commandment "thou shalt not covet" is so important to personal and social success. Be concerned with freedom.....that's it. Everything else will fall into place, if you have the freedom to make your own way in life. That's what Trump is trying to bring to the table. The government doesn't DO FOR the working class. It ensures that every worker has the freedom to make the decision that can bring personal and financial success their way. My dad did it working as a labourer in a shoe factory while operating a small farm. A worker. It wasn't easy but looking back, he'd have it no other way.
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  9013. I just went to Chichen Itza, the Mayan city in the Yucatan. We had a wonderful guide who explained how and why the Mayans laid out the city the way they did. It was all about how the Mayans marked time. It was incredibly fascinating. Time was a concept that was understood in the Americas long before the "white" man showed up.
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  9014.  @fridgeffs5662  Worse than that. It's like Russians voting in the American election. Talk about Russian interference in our elections. I have a feeling if the problem was that the vast majority of these non-citizens were Russians, the Democrats would be all in for not allowing them to vote.
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  9015.  @williammunny9916  That's all well and good but how's that going to clean up that mess in California? We are talking about a real problem and you're quoting scripture. No wonder people think that Christians are a little whacked. Try living a good life and thereby showing how a Christian strives to be the best that they can be. Instead, you remind me of a Pharisee, loudly quoting scripture so we can all see just how righteous you are. Get off the soapbox and show a little humility.
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  9016.  @nerzhul5022  Yeah....because "science" is God, right. No one has EVER made a scientific pronouncement to find out later that they were wrong. Science is infallible. That's as stupid and naive as it gets.
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  9017. I don't think that a lot of these younger folk are insane. I think that they've been indoctrinated and then affirmed into believing insane things. When you confront them with facts and logic, they may get angry or they may start to doubt what they've always been told to believe, maybe even change their mind. Like the second person that Matt was talking to. He LOOKED defeated. He was told differently and was almost FORCED to believe it but he ran into the wall of logic that Matt was dispensing and he looked visibly shaken. Sometimes a dose of reality is all a person needs to shake them of their beliefs.
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  9018. Christ taught to love your neighbours, even enemies, yet these end timer Christian rejoice that their end has come. They are sad at an individual funeral but cheer for the biggest funeral that is the end times. Perplexing, but mostly selfish. Worse yet, they don't see how absolutely self serving this whole idea is....and Bachmann has political hopes. Now it's scary, too.
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  9019.  @iggyangeline1763  They sleep in other people's garages in 3rd world countries? You wake up and find someone asleep beside your kids? I rather doubt it. No one wants to find complete strangers sound asleep in their homes in the morning. There are a lot of bad people out there, both in the United States and in 3rd world countries. I'm sure that you'd be upset if you found someone sleeping in your home or in buildings on your property. To add....a lot of garages are attached to the house so...yeah, it is a part of your home.
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  9020.  @keenanlarsen1639  I do know their intention when they flat out tell you what it is. "It's a parasite" I'm hearing that more and more. "I'm not ready to be a mother" I've heard that one lots, too. Some have even celebrated abortions. Some have even said that they wished that they had become pregnant so they could have an abortion, too. Part of the pro life stance is that the intention of the individual mother should be made clear so that the reason for the abortion isn't a frivolous one. They're not comfortable with the "too inconvenient right now" reasons that seem to be prevalent right now.
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  9021.  @mokooh3280  A lot of the questions asked have nothing to do with the crisis at hand. This is what they should be centering one, not about what the disease should be called and quibbling over how something was said. Stupid questions that are designed to trap the president so they can rail on about nothing back at network headquarters. I saw that the MSM wasn't interested in the truth during the Covington kids fiasco. I saw the news report on CNN, went looking for other information and saw a link to the entire video. It took me 10 minutes. CNN flatout lied and they lied because those kids were wearing MAGA hats. I don't trust a word they say, now. They're agenda driven and they don't care about the truth. That's the discussion right now. Can the MSM be trusted. The answer is yes or no, with explanations for the one you chose. It's not "Well, Trump lies, too".
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  9022.  @GMV8KSA  Who said that there wasn't? Our problem is that they're setting quotas for women and protecting the women who are inept just because they're women. There should be standards for police officers and if you can't make the minimum standard, you don't get the job. Period. Their gender is irrelevant.
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  9023. Creeps have their ways.
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  9024.  @kevlivinginabox  Yes she did. Even Wikipedia calls her a businesswoman, just before they called her a conspiracy theorist and a white supremacist.
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  9025.  @gsadow  He's saying that it was a form letter that was sent to ALL states. "What was sent to Florida was essentially a form letter" I copied and pasted this from his comment and I don't see how it could be any clearer than that. Every state, including Florida, he said it, got this letter.
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  9026.  @MinnesotaOutdoors-uu4fr  Obviously, not these women. The women that want "equal rights" have never played sports so it doesn't affect them. You sound like one bitter, cynical person. You either stand for what is right, no matter what, or you become the villain who could care less about anyone.
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  9027.  @KairIdon3663  Maybe you should let the citizens who were impacted by the hurricane tell you how they feel about it rather than listening to the media TELL you how they felt....TROLL. Had Harris showed up and caused a "traffic jam" you'd say nothing about it. That's what makes you a troll.
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  9028.  @Typhoid2  Are you serious? In the last year, under the Democrats, his rent went up $318. in ONE year. I can guarantee you that his rent didn't go up even one quarter of that under the 4 years of Trump. Then add the big increases in food and energy, he was a LOT better off under Trump. Trump's administration helped him by not allowing his monthly expenses go up by leaps and bounds. A stable economy does wonders for us all and a 50% annual increase in rent is anything BUT stable. Use the grey matter that the good Lord has given you.
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  9029.  @zephsmith3499  I don't care if these examples are the only ones in the world. Who hired these people? They're obviously having deep rooted issues and they're teaching young children? If they're continuing to teach, apparently the rest of the staff, their direct superiors AND the school board isn't having any problems with it. The last thing that I'd want is for my kids to think that having psychological problems is something to be admired. Just be teachers. Teach them the basic skills and don't be going on about their sexuality and pronouns. That won't help those kids the skills they need to know to survive.
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  9030.  @PriscilaKlopper  You may even consider teaching a few other kids to make a few extra bucks. It would sure help them to have a professionally trained teacher and a couple of bucks won't hurt you either.
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  9031.  @benjaminblevins1882  Capitalists need markets. They need people with the capital to buy and sell products that they need and want. The only thing that's needed from the government is to ensure the rule of law and to protect the rights of its citizens. It's socialism that requires the heavy hand of government. Socialism drove the Soviet Union into bankruptcy and it dragged the entire Eastern bloc down with it. Socialism destroyed China until they moved to a National Socialist regime. National socialism destroyed Germany and Italy and left Spain behind the other countries of Europe. Democratic socialism ruined Venezuela and we can't even begin to talk about the horrors of North Vietnam and the killing fields of Cambodia. The United States has lost another credit ranking and it's all due to the wild socialist spending of the current government.
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  9032.  @4freess  I have no debt and that's because I decided not to go that way after I paid for my home. That's personal debt but I still owe money. We all do. The government and the bureaucracy borrows money, on our behalf, and then we have to pay it back. I didn't ask them to do that but they did it anyway, all the while claiming that its for our own good. Governments are self perpetuating, seeking security through growth, a never ending work program. It's a serious problem and it's outside the scope of capitalism. Capitalism is about free markets and there's nothing free about governments.
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  9033. Sorry Sunny. You're wrong on every count here. Jesus would tell us to love our fellow human beings, including gay people, but he'd NEVER join, let alone lead, a gay pride parade. He spoke out loudly against the sins of pride and that right there would be enough for him to pass on the pride parade.
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  9034. Mayor Adams, accusing border states of callousness while he callously complains about illegal immigrants. You can't make this stuff up.
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  9035. I used to have no problem opening a pickle jar. I was a man's man back then. Now, I'm an old man and my 17 year old niece can open a jar that I can't open. Biology matters.
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  9036.  @DarkMatterX1  Way to put words into his mouth. Is that quip, about the Jews, reveal something about you? I'm not sure whether it reveals a deep bigotry or not. I've just wondering why you went straight to that conspiracy trope.
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  9037.  @WaluigiMangione  Of course it's not defined in the Constitution. Being a woman is not a right. It's a fact of reality. The Bill of Rights defines the rights of all human beings. It's not a biology text.
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  9038. Ask any Canadian how the cold affects batteries. It's common knowledge here and has been since we started our gas cars with batteries. We can even buy electric battery blankets to keep the charge up on the battery. These elites, with the heated garages, or who live in balmy California, don't have to worry about these problems.
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  9039.  Gavin Coleman  The farmers are on welfare? All of them? Or just some of them? In reality, Trump took on the might of the Chinese juggernaut, who were allowed to operate and sell their products in the US at an unfair advantage. This is a trade dispute and the problem with trade disputes is that some people are casualties of the fighting. It's just some crops are farmers are having issues with and new markets can and will be found or they will adapt to more profitable crops. The American economy stats are excellent at this moment. The fact that you can find an area that has been having problems doesn't change that fact one bit.
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  9040. Kaepernick is worth 20 million dollars. It's time he shutup and give thanks for the sacrifices his ancestors made so he could live the life of a prima donna. They did it, under the most horrific conditions and instead of celebrating their courage and hard work, he whines about things he never experienced. He's living a life of fame and privilege on the backs of those ancestors and all he had to do was throw a F.....g football, a stupid game. He doesn't have the grace to show the gratitude for what they built and made possible for him
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  9041. I can't understand why these woke institutions are even bothering to put books in the school libraries. Most of the kids can't read anyway. Of course, I'm being facetious. Asra Nomani is absolutely correct. Our schools are a disgrace and many are indoctrination centres of hate and divisiveness. It's time we put a stop to this new dogma. Fire the teachers who refuse to teach basic skills and are obsessed with race and gender. They're tearing this country apart and it's being done intentionally. Putting up posters, in the schools, that say "Eff America" only shows the hatred in their hearts. It makes a mockery of their mantra of "Diversity, equity and inclusivity" and is as Orwellian as it gets.
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  9042. Nadler's position appears to be that ONLY the government should audit the government. Everyone else...hands off.
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  9043.  @lokithecat7225  That's why millions are risking their lives to enter the US illegally. They're actually laughing at America.
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  9044. "Our political system is corrupt" says the guy whose a part of the political system. What I don't get is how he claims we need a conversation about climate change and then he goes out into traffic to have that discussion. That makes no sense. Try it sometime. Try talking to people that are driving their cars on public roads. You won't have much of a conversation. Those buggy eyes would kind of scare me off, anyway. He looks a little crazed.
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  9045. Fortunately, the wrong person DIDN'T die.l
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  9046.  @MrVaticanRag  All in the development stages. There are still no working thorium reactors. The deal in Indonesia is a feasibility study. Most countries would rather invest in models that have been proven to work rather than experimental models. It's a lot of money to spend. Thorcon is an American company and has even gotten grants from the US government so it's not as if it's been completely ignored. I still have to ask why it hasn't been explored more if the tech is so much better than uranium enrichment? Also, India and China are still building traditional nuclear reactors and a lot of them. If thorium is that great, why not just build all thorium reactors? Development and feasibility are still a long way from having a working thorium nuclear plant.
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  9047.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  Yet, for some reason, you don't seem all that enamoured with his famous line "Judge a person by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin" Yes, you do the exact opposite. You imply that Sowell is some kind of "house....", at the beck and call of the "white" overlords. Everything is about race, to you. It's bitterness, resentment, hate AND bigotry, everything the Dr. King stood against.
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  9048.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  The KKK was formed to try to intimidate southern blacks from voting Republican. That really helped the Democrats. In fact, Robert Byrd, one of the Democrats who filibustered AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, was a recruiter for the KKK. He was also a mentor for Hillary Clinton AND Joe Biden. They'll riot to get rid of statues of slave owners but they ignore the fact that it was the Democrats that supported slavery, Jim Crow, benefited by the actions of the KKK and rejected the Civil Rights Act. LBJ supported the Civil Rights Act because he was smart enough to see the writing on the wall. If the Democrats didn't appear to change, they were going to go the way of the Dixiecrats. It was a political move, not one of ideology or a beneficent belief system.
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  9049.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  It doesn't take away from the fact that Democrats supported the KKK and their existence helped the Democrats win elections in the south. Voter suppression was the tactic of the KKK and they did it through intimidation and violence and the Democrats will NOT admit that this is a part of their legacy. If white people are supposed to acknowledge their guilt for slavery, why are Democrats not being asked into admitting and apologising for their role in segregation, the Civil War, Jim Crow and the KKK? I'm going to say that Byrd found it politically expedient to get out of the KKK and start to polish a new image for himself. I also notice that when I gave evidence showing that only ONE Democrat hauled butt to the Republican party, you pretended that I never said a word about it. Maybe it's time for you to stop the hatred and start improving your own life instead of constantly trying to tear others down and using race to do so. In other words, you're no better than the Dixiecrats.
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  9050.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  And Sowell was BEING equal by being a professor at a prestigious university, teaching students to make use, through economics, of the freedom that the US was offering. Those Civil Rights mean nothing if you don't work hard and build something concrete, which is what economics does. That's when Black Americans should have turned to men and women, like Sowell, and did what Asian Americans did. Build something concrete with their lives. Instead, they acted as if getting that Civil Rights Act was going to make life better for them. That Act is USELESS without taking advantage of the new freedoms that Act afforded them. Those leaders, that you mentioned, FAILED Black America by not telling us that freedom means NOTHING without responsibility and hard work. Free people will go just as hungry as oppressed people if they do nothing. That Act was to ensure that ALL Americans could WORK towards a better life. Passing it should have been the beginning for each individual Black American. Instead, those leaders rested on their laurels, trying to win the freedoms that the Civil Rights Act had already given them.
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  9051.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  Are you SERIOUSLY going to talk in circles with me? Are you so mantra driven that you have to start regurgitating things? I already showed you that many more Republicans voted FOR the Civil Rights Act than Democrats. It was Democrats who were more in favour of it. You're not even READING my posts. It's like your some bot, sending comments from a "comment" library of "pat responses". Come on.....say something original, something from your own mind, instead of something from your Rolodex.
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  9052.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  He's not demeaning his own people. It's the woke progressives that are demeaning them by saying that black Americans can't do well in school, in their careers or in politics, unless they're helped by the great white saviours. Sowell doesn't believe that for a minute. Asians can do it without depending on the white saviour to show them the way. Why can't black Americans do it?? It's because they've been fed a bunch of white saviour pablum that says that the white world is the only world that can bring them "justice"....whatever that means. Grow a pair and start making your own way instead of waiting for others to do it for you. It's NOT going to happen if you wait for others to care about you. THAT'S his message. However, people, like you, are so tied to their chains that they don't realise that those chains have no lock. All you have to do is tell those white saviours to get lost. You don't NEED them and never will.
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  9053.  Jimmie Jay Bohorn  How are you going to force people on what to think? Who's going to make that arbitrary decision on who's racist anyway. You've just insulted Thomas Sowell. I think that makes you a racist. I guess we'd better lock you up until you stop hating black people. What about the Muslims that hate Jews? Blacks that hate Koreans? Koreans that hate the Japanese? People that are obsessed with hatred are quite often just as filled with hate themselves. They just have acceptable nationalities for their hate. It's "good" hate or they claim that they can't be racist because they belong to the virtuous group, incapable of racism. It's ALL horse hockey. Your idea would set off atrocities comparable to the Holocaust and like the Holocaust, the ones committing the actions will be convinced that they're in the right.
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  9054.  SESolutionsEngineering  What makes them the "bad guys" is the system that they upheld. It's the system that's bad and they're bad for forcing it onto the citizens of their country.
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  9055. Inviting Muslims, into your country en masse, would be like inviting Nazis to come over back in the late thirties. They openly say that they hate you, that they want to force their religious laws onto you.
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  9056. People don't even know who these people are. They've not broken the law. They've just done some strange things and have weird ideas. Tim IS covering this stuff because there's been gunfire exchanged, homes and cars were torched and businesses were vandalised. I'd say that trumps the goofy talk, from Eliza and Murphy, any day.
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  9057.  @brian6speed  I'm a conservative and I think evolutionary theory is correct. I don't believe God exists, either. I believe that God was invented as a metaphor for truth. It demonstrates the anthropomorphic nature of man or the humanisation of an overarching truth. Strange that the theory of evolution, as we know it, was proposed by a deeply religious man. It's a strange world.
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  9058. Nancy was asking for money for PBS, the Big Bird network. Money for the Kennedy Centre for the Fine Arts. Gender and racial equity of corporate boards. Tax breaks for solar and wind power. New emission standards for airlines. Do I have to go on? Not only was it too much, it has NOTHING to do with the Covid-19 crisis or the economic chaos that came with it. Too much and just plain stupid. This added money was to help small businesses who are facing bankruptcy because of the virus. Money to help PEOPLE who own those businesses and those who work for them. Your hatred of one person is so strangling that you can't even think straight or see how illogical your knee jerk responses really are.
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  9059.  @MobileMechanicatlanta  I gave you examples of what was in the Democrat bill. Why can't you show me the same courtesy and show me what the Republicans have in their bill that has nothing to do with the coronavirus? That way I'd know what you're talking about and look into it and we'd have something to talk about.
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  9060.  @MobileMechanicatlanta  YOU made the claim about unnecessary items in the Republican proposal. I didn't. Now you won't, or can't, give me ONE example to back up your claim. I expected as much. It's YOU that is confirming what I expected. I gave examples and you refuse. I don't blame you for being done. When you don't have the proof to back up your claims, you have no other option but to get the hell out.
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  9061. I wonder how CNN would react if a bunch of MAGA hat wearing "protesters" set police cars on fire and smashed windows. Would they be quibbling about the definition of violence or would they be wailing about "white supremacy" and how this behaviour is reminiscent of Hitler's Brown Shirts. I'm pretty sure I know what they'd be saying.
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  9062. I doubt that very much. The Democrats aren't smart enough to come up with a plan like that let alone carry it out.
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  9063. You don't support rape culture? Damn.....did I ever subscribe to the wrong channel. Actually, that whole thing is appalling. That type of media dishonesty will never help a woman that has really suffered the horrible ordeal of rape. They're hurting those women a lot more than they're helping.
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  9064.  @kenyoung4881  Not when Trump gets elected. They'll all be heading north to escape the tyranny of Trump, just like they did the last time. Our streets were crawling with celebrities, who kept their promise to leave when Trump was elected. Celebrity watching became a national sport.
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  9065. All transwomen are women but not all women are transwomen. I wonder if this is important.
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  9066.  @ronthomas4182  They're not endorsing it. They're being brow beaten into it. Some are hoping for scholarships and they only have a tiny window to qualify or they can forget about a free education. If they don't run, and some have done it, they'll be reprimanded, told to get counselling and some of the teachers and students will mock and bully them. They could be kicked off the team or even suspended from school Try to get into a major university with that on you scholastic record. It's easy to criticise in anonymity from behind a computer screen. Not so easy when you have your future on the line. However, I will say that I admire anyone that does speak out. It takes a lot more courage than what most of us have.
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  9067.  @hannannah1uk  It bothers me because they're bringing little kids to watch them parade around and doing things that are overtly sexual. These are things that if I did it down at the splash pad, I'd be arrested. Also, their narcissism demands that I can NEVER criticise anything that they say or do. "Look at me" WHY??? They're no more special than anyone else. Yet my tax dollars has to pay for the crosswalks, in my town, to be painted rainbow colours in the honour. BS.....I left the church because I didn't like the way they imposed their beliefs on me. I'm not going to allow them to do the same thing to me, either. Live your life the way that you want, but don't EVER tell others that this is the perfect way to be. It's BS.
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  9068. It would be ironic if they did. This is the kind of movie that shows how dumb the anti-racists are and it'll seed the grifters scurrying to their holes and the rest of us can start getting along....like were supposed to. I doubt that this would be Russia's plan.
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  9069.  @abc33155  The reason that I assumed that you wouldn't respond is that I have NEVER received a response from someone who used the same comment multiple times. You are the very FIRST one. It's a pattern that I didn't expect to be broken and I'm very surprised that it was.
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  9070.  @IcyBird420  Trump was in office for 4 years. That's about 1400 days. That would mean that he would be going to a funeral every 4 days. You've made a ridiculous claim. He did honour some of the serviceman. He introduced some of them at the State of the Union Address....you know, the one where Pelosi ripped up her copy of the speech. Trump hasn't been president for going on a year and a half. Biden is the president now or haven't you heard. Quit trying to solve last year's issues and get up to date.
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  9071.  @thelastcommenter7154  Funny how you don't say a word about WHAT I said and actually try to steer away from it. I already told you that there was a slave trade. It had to exist or what the hell was the abolitionist movement all about? Why fight the Civil War, to end slavery, if there were no slaves? It's illogical. My question still stands. Why would the Republicans suppress knowledge about slavery and Jim Crow, when that knowledge makes the Democrats look bad? Answer the question that I posed.
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  9072.  @thelastcommenter7154  I posed it because there is one side claiming that the other side is trying to cover up the fact of slavery in human history. They are accusing the Republicans of this coverup. I gave you the history of the Republicans and wondered why the Republicans would cover up a history that makes the Democrats look bad and Republicans look good. I don't know when the first slave ship came to the land which would one day become America. I know that there was a first because there were lots of slave ships that did come. It's a silly detail that is irrelevant to the big picture. However, I'm going to guess that it was in 1619 and it landed in Virginia. However, it's not even close to the first slave ship to the New World. Slaves have been coming to the Caribbean and Brazil for over a century before that. If you want to go back further than that, there's been a slave trade all over the world for thousands of years. It's NOT an American invention. Spartacus led a slave rebellion 2100 years ago. Europe didn't even know that America existed back then. I'm not even sure what your point is.
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  9073.  @thelastcommenter7154  I never ONCE said CRT is fake. What I asked was why would the party, that fought against slavery and Jim Crow, want to cover up the details of slavery. That's the claim that proponents of CRT are claiming. "They are suppressing CRT because they want to hide the reality of slavery". Why would a party, that formed with the mandate of abolishing slavery, want to hide that slavery existed? It's illogical. Also, you never corrected anything. Not one fact or detail was given that could be used as a correcting point. People bog themselves down in details and forget the big picture. Also, I didn't google it. I guessed that year because I'd heard of the 1619 Project. I used common sense NOT Google. It seems rather disingenuous to claim that slavery and CRT could only be applied to America, when slave trades have been in existence for centuries. The African slave trade also took place in the Caribbean, South America, Europe and in the Middle East. Yet, you're only going to apply it to the US? Strange thing is, the US is the ONLY country that fought a Civil war, that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of it's own citizens and which brought to an end slavery in that country. That's also a part of history. The ones that brought the African slave trade (native Americans practised slavery too) to America, did so because of a history of slavery that went back thousands of years. In other words, it was nothing new OR unique to America. Also, it still doesn't answer why the Republicans would want to cover up their part in ending the African slave trade.
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  9074. Trump's wall is only 40 to 50 miles long? Try 458 miles, buddy. Are you THAT misinformed and you're supposed to be the expert political analyst? Yes, Trump said he was going to get Mexico to pay for it but EVERY one that voted for Trump KNEW that this was his way of bargaining with Mexico. He also said that if Mexico didn't cooperate with him, he was going to impose tariffs on trade goods and that's how he was going to get the money from Mexico. This guy really didn't think that Mexico was just going to cut him a check for billions of dollars to build the wall because Trump told them to. What a ridiculous idea. Is he that thick that he didn't understand what Trump was doing? Also, Congress refused to give him the money for the wall. He had to do some budget wizardry to get the money and the Democrats cried and whined like crazy. This guy had better do his homework. He gets a D for his work....which is failure when I went to school.
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  9075. I can only remember one such incident when I was in high school. This time it was a female teacher. Everyone knew about it. She was only at the school for one year.
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  9076.  @toshi240  It's WAY bigger than a "Jew" problem. It's everywhere. While you're chasing Jews, hundreds of thousands of kids are trafficked every year by Gentiles. You've narrowed your search down and an attitude like that can only allow this trafficking to flourish everywhere else. I can only hope that this isn't what you would like to see happen.
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  9077.  @marisawright2224  They died of a disease. I'm sure you've heard of it. These rioters are destroying on purpose. David Dorn was killed, intentionally, to get a TV. The US has 330 million people. Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain have 320 million people. Yet the have over 30,000 MORE deaths. The same amount of people but more deaths. Is that Trump's fault too? Or the fault of the leader of those nations. In fact, if you take away Germany's 83 million people, the remaining 240 million in the other 4 countries would STILL have 20,000 more deaths. Explain that, why don't you? I can prove these numbers, too but I doubt that I'll have to. I've thrown these stats out before and I've YET to get a response. People don't like to hear facts. They prefer their emotions, especially, it seems, HATE....and you sure do hate, don't you.
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  9078.  @GrouchoTM  LOL. She's already completely ignored my population figures and found another way to manipulate the figures. Facts don't impress her that much.
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  9079. If the president wasn't there, how do we even know if he was aware of the pardon was being given. What if Hunter got hold of the autopen machine and signed it himself.....sort of like a student writing an absent note and signing his mother's name. That would be fraud.
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  9080.  @snowflake1958  Yes...in a way I did. So, you're saying that since Trump is acting juvenile, so can you? Great validation argument you have there. "Well, Trump did it first" in a whiny voice. Maybe you should be in politics, too. LOL.
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  9081.  @snowflake1958  There is an bipartisan oversight committee that would prevent that. The Democrats agreed to it. So if Trump is getting billions (highly unlikely) the Democrats approve of it. So they're all crooked. Better no one gets any help. Keep the 1.3 trillion set aside for medical assistance, small businesses, laid off workers and stricken families. If a billionaire get one red cent.....no one gets a thing. Your hatred is not only illogical, it's pathologically destructive and hurts everyone.
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  9082.  @guitarplayer5235  What does that have to do with getting money for the coronavirus? When it finally gets past, are you going to refuse the money because the guy giving it to you is a turd? I've worked with people I didn't like. I still did my job the best I could. I didn't refuse to work, call people names and sabotage the efforts of those around me. Get the relief bill done. Don't be all hung up on whether the person designing the bill is a nice guy or not. The country needs help. I repeat. THE COUNTRY NEEDS HELP. If it takes a turd to get us that help, so be it. I don't ask if the fireman, rescuing me from a burning building, is a turd or not. I accept that he's here to help me. I'll worry about his turdness after the crisis is over and I'm out of the burning building.
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  9083.  @snowflake1958  1.3 trillion is GOING to the average people of America. However all your worried about is a scenario that you've painted in your own mind. I guess there will be no help for the poor as long as Trump is president, as far as you're concerned. No help because you're scared that Trump might benefit from it. That's just great. What if he wins the next election? Does that mean no help until January of 2025, when a new president takes office? Try to use your head for a minute will you.
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  9084.  @snowflake1958  You really don't get economics, do you. The rich aren't getting these loans. It's corporations that are in trouble. Do you know who owns corporations? Shareholders, that's who. Shareholders aren't just rich Wall Street Tycoons. It's almost everyone. If you have a pension at work, you have money invested in corporations. If you have money in the bank, it's being invested in corporations. Your 401 money is invested. If they go bankrupt, all those things are affected, negatively. If too many go bankrupt, it's the entire economy that goes belly up and we'll be like Venezuelans....eating out pets. Corporations work on a very small profit margin. It's calculated on percentages of money invested. It may sound like a lot of money to you and I but when it's a percentage, it's relative to the size of the investment. A 1 million dollar profit, over a year on 1 billion dollars invested is terrible. I'd love to have 1 million bucks but as a profit on 1 billion dollars, a corporation is cutting it awful fine. A corporation needs, at least, a 5% annual profit margin...at the least. If it gets lower than that, it's starting to bleed and the longer it lasts the more trouble it's in. In fact, a corporation operates in the same way a household does. It's in larger sums but, just like a household, it NEEDS to make money to pay off it's creditors and suppliers. Some are doing quite well, but there are lots of them running month to month just like the average guy working paycheck to paycheck. They deal in bigger sums of money but it's exactly the same. If you let them go bankrupt, we're all in big trouble and they do go bankrupt. Obama bailed out GM because it was done. They paid back their loan and are now starting to make face masks to fight the virus. 1.3 TRILLION to the average guy, small businesses and the fight against the virus. Please....we ALL need this money. You're hatred of the rich is going to cripple us. Worse....If the people think that it's the Democrats that are the ones holding up this money, Trump WILL WIN THE NEXT ELECTION. They will blame the Democrats. I don't care if Diamond Jim might finagle some money out of this. I want to see help for the average Joe and it's in there. Even the Democrats acknowledge that it's there. Please, encourage your congressman to let us have it.
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  9085. It's worse than that. It's about fundamentally changing how we view the world. Nothing is true. Nothing is fact unless the overlords say so. You and I must listen, obey and believe.
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  9086.  CisgenderCrybaby  Quite the stereotype you have going on there, Crybaby. I've been to lots of sporting events and have NEVER been drunk while I'm there. A lot of people, who go to sporting events have NEVER been drunk in their entire lives. Yet, here you are, with your collective mindset, claiming that you know these people and that they're ALL the same.
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  9087.  @martinportelance138  Palestinians have been held hostage by Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups. They don't care about the people. They only care about their hatred for the infidels. Suffering for Allah is their path to heaven.
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  9088. I have the greatest respect for the medical profession. However, I have to remember that it was also medical professionals that wrote prescriptions for the pain killers that caused one of the biggest drug epidemics in the west. I've lost friends to the opiod addictions that seen its genesis in a visit to their doctor. To conclude that a certain demographic, of society, is beyond reproach, is extremely shortsighted and naive. Your doctor is just as human as you are.
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  9089. We're now vilifying the life of gratitude and replacing it with a life of grievance. It's why the left hates Christianity. It's all about giving thanks for what God has given us, even if it's only our lives. To forestall being call a religious fanatic, I'm not religious....AT ALL.
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  9090.  @harrisonsturm857  All he did was congratulate the new president of Ukraine. He encouraged him to combat the corruption in his country and asked about an e-mail server and a vague reference to Biden. In fact, Adam Schiff got up, in Congress, and invented, out of his head, the entire phone call. Trump, freely released, the tapes of that phone call and even the president of Ukraine said that there was no pressure or quid pro quo, as far as he knew. You're hearing what you want to hear. It's the same way that the MSM tried to push the nonsense about the Covington Kids, Jussie Smollett, the "all immigrants are animals" manipulation, the pretending that the BLM violence didn't happen, that Antifa was a myth, the "good people on both sides" distortion, that he called Covid a hoax......I can go on and on. Everyone of those lies and manipulations playing into the heads of those who "want to believe". Had this been Joe Biden holding money to get something done by a foreign government leader, it would have been ignored. Oh wait, he did do that and it was ignored. And then the Hunter Biden laptop information was ignored and people talking about it on social media were censored and even had their accounts purged. Time Magazine wrote an article, not as an expose, but to show how the Democrats, Rinos, the media, big tech and large corporations worked together to "fortify the election to ensure the proper outcome." The Democrats are trying to form a one Party state and people, like you, are helping them. They've lied, manipulated and encouraged violence and last summer over 30 lives were lost and over 2 billion dollars in damages reported in riots, yet you'd still ignore it all. Enjoy your censorship when they come after you when you happen to disagree with one thing that they want you to believe. I'm astounded that you can't see what the Democrats and the multinationals are doing. You will but it may be too late when it does.
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  9091.  @iamperplexed4695  What's a noble cause for one is death for another.
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  9092.  @fatteebaddee  The authorities were there. They arrested over 30 of the protesters. They arrest 0, that's ZERO, of those at the Christian concert and rally.
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  9093.  @Kitsie-yc6ku  Nothing is safe. What we do is mitigate the danger and make trade-offs as to what is in the best interests of the child so they grow into responsible adults. Is it better for kids to be outdoors, playing with other kids, learning social skills through cooperation and conflict or indoors, ALONE, playing video games and interacting with people that they don't know and may never meet in their lifetime. Just the exercise, the fresh air and sunshine is exponentially better than sitting indoors, staring at their phones or computer monitors for hours on end. Safety isn't real. It's an illusion. I know this because no human has ever made it out alive. Our lives all end in the most unsafe condition that exists......our demise.
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  9094. It figures that a wishy washy man would have an unruly dog. I noticed this trend in dog owners. The undisciplined have undisciplined dogs.
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  9095.  Boredpersons55  It is a crime to paint everyone with a fascist brush that you don't like and then physically attack them. That's assault and an individual does not have the right or the authority to initiate a physical altercation with anyone.
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  9096. She was accused of endorsing Hitler. If you can show how what she said endorses Hitler and why she is a big admirer of that maniac, then I'll agree with you but you won't be able to, unless you do what this Lieu did. Take things out of context and present it as the full narrative. In other words, you'd have to be dishonest.
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  9097. @TRUMP TRASH The Electoral College. Ever hear of it. The US is not a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. Had Hillary not been so arrogant, she would have realised that and would have campaigned in more fly-over states. Apparently, she dismissed the "deplorable" vote, one dumb political move. Alienate the electorate that voted for Obama and they'll get upset and vote against you. Hillary won't admit her mistake and the Dems may suffer the same fate. If you don't learn from your mistakes, you'll be doomed to repeat them.
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  9098. @J.J. So, if a bunch of guys kick the snot out of me for being white, it doesn't hurt as much as it would if a bunch of white guys beat up a black guy. Really??? Systemic racism ideology has made racism so vague that anything can be racist. It's lost all meaning. A slip of the tongue. A disagreement over a parking space, loud music disputes....if a black guy is involved, he's automatically absolved. It's childish and ignores the facts of any specific incident. Broad application of how racism towards one is more damaging than for another, based on skin colour, is the very definition of racism. "Seek and ye shall find". Anything can be an issue if that's what you want it be and are searching hard enough for it.
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  9099. Maligning a guy for the way expresses himself is childish and serves no purpose. It's like making fun of inner city ebonics. However, ignoring the Tara Reade story shows the hypocrisy of the press. Had this been Trump being accused, that's ALL they would have talked about, attacking the president from all sides. They're as dishonest as they come.
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  9100. If Covid goes away, Dr. Fauci is no longer relevant. It'll be time to hang up the stethoscope and retire to his beach house in Florida in winter and in Martha's Vineyards in summer. Of course, he'll still wear his mask because it's too risky......or not. LOL. He can sit on his porches and watch the oceans rise and finally drowns him, all the while wishing that he'd become a climate expert instead.
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  9101. Brian Stelter, brings to mind a certain Austrian, who was hiding in a bunker and planning a counteroffensive while the gunfire of enemy troops were echoing in the distance.
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  9102.  @mrgrimreaper94  The only thing that oppresses them are themselves, partially for believing the Democrat rhetoric that it's the Republicans that would take away their welfare if elected. So they stay where they are out of a choice to do just that.
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  9103. Trump asked a question. You don't learn a thing if you never ask questions. When I was training employees, I'd smile sometimes at questions that seemed a little silly, but I ALWAYS answered them as fully as possible and with respect. You learn from answers even if the questions are a little dumb.
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  9104.  @bahar5403  You're out there. Trump expanded restrictions till the end of the month because of the advice of his medical team. He has said, MANY TIMES, safety first, THEN the economy and that he's going by what his medical experts will advise him. You're either being intentionally obtuse or you've got your fingers stuck in your ears.
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  9105.  @jamesrice4562  Because they're "Gotcha" questions. Akin to the old lawyer joke "When are you going to stop beating your wife" questions. They're designed to trap the president, NOT to elicit information or to help with the crisis. If Acosta would have framed it different, he would have gotten an answer. Had he said "I was talking to Dr. So and SO, earlier, and he said that he's having problems getting masks. Could you recommend someone for him to contact to get those masks or could you forward his name so someone could help him out" That would have been a useful question. That could have elicited a response that others could have heard and used as well. What person, in his right mind, is going to answer questions the way that Acosta or some of the others framed it. He's supposed to be gathering information not on the attack. He's NOT the opposition party. He's a journalist or he's supposed to be.
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  9106. You realise that you don't have to buy stocks off of him. That's your choice. He's not forcing you to buy or do business with him.
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  9107. Cuomo social distanced Covid patients into nursing homes.
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  9108. I'd watch this show every day but Juan pisses me off so much that I refuse to. Just letting you know....as if that'll help. At least it makes me feel better to say something.
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  9109. She's "complaining". You make her sound like a whiner. Was that your intent? I'm thinking so, especially when you followed it up in the description when you made a point of saying that Riley "misgendered Lia Thomas".
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  9110. I didn't watch the rally because I can't stand listening to Trump speak. However, there's no way in hell, I'd vote Democrat. Not as long as they keep acting the way that they've been acting. The Democrats have lost it. They're not even an option as far as I'm concerned. It has nothing to do with personality. It's all about what they're supporting, the tearing down of statues, the defunding of police, the support for "peaceful" protests, the erasing of history, the cancel culture, the obsession with racism....the list goes on and on. Every day, when I watch the news, it's like I'm watching a reenactment of "1984". I hate feeling like Winston Smith.
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  9111.  Mang Pike Hence  Yeah....and it's JUST as disgusting as what this school district did. If church leaders should be held accountable, so should the this school. At least we can agree on that.
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  9112.  @afarissar  That's what they did to Brett Kavanaugh. They didn't just listen to those women. They believed them, even though they were all prove to be fraudulent, or in the one case, highly suspect. They BELIEVED them. In fact, the media even touted Avenati, the lawyer, as a candatate for president. He'll have to get out of jail first though. This is a stupid word game that people like you play. They really do "believe" women if it's politically advantageous. They only "listen" when it's goes against their political beliefs. It's as dishonest as it gets.
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  9113.  @davidpearson1157  They hate her because she's making accusations against their chosen president. Reade's allegations were known 30 years ago. Her mother was even on the phone with Larry King talking about it. It's the same thing with the Hunter laptop story. They suppressed that story because they were afraid that it would hurt the chances of THEIR chosen one. Yet, we know the laptop exists and we know that government agencies requested social media platforms to suppress that story. They're doing the same with Tara Reade.
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  9114.  @jh7589  As if biological males could EVER become women, woman enough to conceive, become pregnant and have a baby. It's never happened and it's never been proven to have happened. That idea is just as non-scientific as the existence of God, Allah, the Prophet or Adam. Ideology is NOT science even when it's a secular ideology.
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  9115.  @blackstreetztv1763  I don't see how that's possible. My investment portfolio hasn't grown, as it has over the last 2 years, in a long time. That doesn't happen when the economy isn't growing. That's a fact. When the last recession hit, 10 years ago, I took a bath, along with a lot of other people. That's what happens during a recession. When the economy is growing, investments are healthy. I don't know how long it will last but it's been really good for the last 2 years. However, I'm afraid that impeachment might just hurt the economy and if it doesn't work but the Democrats win the election next year, I'm really pessimistic about the economy. When you have money on the line, you look at things differently than you do when its an ideological viewpoint. Ideology doesn't put food on the table. Hard work and a creative economy does that.
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  9116.  @blackstreetztv1763  I'm doing fine because the economy is doing fine. This is just ordinary investing and everyone I know is happy how their portfolios are growing. It means that companies are expanding, increasing productivity and enjoying profits. That translates to jobs and better times for the average Joe and I'm one of those guys. I'm far from rich but things are good, better they've been in years because of a very healthy economy. You've basically said nothing in either one of your comments. First you made a claim of a bad economy and then, when confronted, you call that person "selfish". That's quite the astute economic assessment that you have there. You can't even understand the implications of what I've been saying. Worse, when unemployment figures are released at a 50 year low, you just stubbornly respond with a "No, it ain't" under the belief that you can talk it true.
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  9117.  @blackstreetztv1763  I've worked with those who "feel" different. They're always complaining, always broke, nothing is ever right and they're always looking for the easy way out. They make the same money that I do but I've got money in the bank and I've travelled to Europe and I go to the tropics every winter. Their problem isn't the economy. It's between their ears.
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  9118.  Jack London  It tells me that the Democrat party are no longer Democrats but have evolved into a far left, socialist party. The same kind of Socialism that has destroyed economies and lives around the world. Can't say as I blame those Wall St. brokers. We'll be fighting over scraps of toilet paper if we let the socialists take over.
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  9119.  @galatianman4293  Sadly...that's true. However, sometimes revolts take awhile. When a large percentage of women are no longer able to take part in sports programs because it's filled with biological men, they'll start to become angry. That's when you might see a revolt.
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  9120. The guy spent 15 years in the US and another year and he can't speak English or French. Sounds like the kind of citizen we need in Canada.
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  9121. I'm sure that there were a lot of "right wingers" who didn't want the Nuremberg trials and inquiries to take place, either. These "right wing" deniers were all members of a workers party in Germany. Strange how the workers party of Britain, the Labour Party, don't want any inquiries into atrocities in Britain, today. It seems that the Labour party of Britain has more in common with the "right wing" workers party in Germany than they'd like to admit. Pssst.....I've got a secret that I'll whisper in your ear. Nazis are NOT right wing.
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  9122.  Masson H  "Only 13% of (uninformed) Americans think Trump did nothing wrong." This is not a popularity contest or a consensus. It's about what can be proved. The question is this. Did Trump, explicitly demand of Zelensky, investigations into Hunter Biden and Crowdstrike and then tell him that if those investigation weren't forthcoming, Ukraine was not going to get the military aid? Was that anywhere in the transcript of that phone-call. If you see it there, direct me to where that demand was made. I can't seem to find it.
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  9123.  @jiveturkey2875  Is Tim accurate on his take on what he's saying? That's what's more important. If it's all BS, then you have a point. If he's pointing out inaccuracies and lies and backing it up, that's a good thing. Like his take on the Collins article. He's showing a MSM source distorting the purpose of a rally and proving that they did so. I think that's important. You should too, UNLESS, you actually believe that this is a white supremacist rally and you're discrediting Tim because he's attacking a narrative that you believe.
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  9124.  @jiveturkey2875  Tim does reference Newsguard, frequently but he's also said that they may not always correct in their assessments. Tim covers a variety of topics every day and I would imagine it takes long hours to find something of interest, read it, find other sources, assess everything he's read and then give a conclusion. The problem with MSM is that they've allowed their "news" to become opinion pieces. "60 Minutes" type programming, the cutting edge stuff of 40 years ago, doesn't exist anymore. Tim will give alternative insights to what they're saying and gives you a way to check for yourself if you're so inclined and you should be. Never, trust one source. That's been something I've believed for years but these days, it's a put down if you questioned the left leaning MSM news. "Sounds like Fox" or "Breitbart news....PFFFT" and their ears turn off. It doesn't matter that your information may have come from elsewhere. I've had people call me a "Trumpster" and then dismiss everything I say based on their slur, even though I'm not a supporter of Trump. That's the battle we're fighting these days and it's causing a horrible divide in society. Tim is fighting it as well, the best he can. He's growing but he started as a single person, no money or real influence. He's done well because he offers something the big guys don't, including Fox, in case that's an issue. He trying to show objectivity and that you don't have to regurgitate what you're being told. He's telling us to figure it out for ourselves. Is he right all the time on specific issues? Of course not. Who is? However, the tools to find out the facts should always remain the same. A healthy scepticism is indispensable to a free society. Without it, we become bots.
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  9125. I doubt that. If Trump wins the nomination, Dave will vote Trump. He has his reasons for liking DeSantis and I respect that. Trump's not perfect but he did do a good job the first time around. A better job than just about any president that I've seen in my 70 years. However, DeSantis did a great job in Florida, especially with his handling of Covid. That means he has to be considered as a viable presidential candidate. He has his weaknesses too, though. Everyone does.
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  9126.  @trillwilltitus  If Floyd didn't have a lethal dose of Fentanyl and meth in his system, he'd be alive today. The autopsy reports shows over 3 times the lethal limit in his system. Anyone found dead in their home, with the amount of Fentanyl in their system that Floyd had, would have been declared an over dose victim. What's sick is what the media and Minnesota politicians did. Billions of dollars of damage, over 25 people dead, thousands put into hospitals in the middle of an epidemic. The effects are still being felt with demoralised and defunded police depts, increased crime and the divisiveness that it all caused. The media invoked the word "racist" and they got the response that they were hoping for.
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  9127.  @jggrimm  Well, I have to be honest. The truth does hurt, doesn't it? I can't blame you for that. Why hurt yourself on purpose? That would be dumb.....and you're not dumb are you.
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  9128.  @cyrusvaldes5001  What makes you think that HE is the one that's voting Democrat. Don't accuse the guy who's pointing out the trouble. He's obviously not happy with what's going on. I didn't vote for a lot of the stuff that's happening. Someone did but it wasn't me. It's either that or the Democrats cheated.
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  9129. There's a lot one can say about Tim Pool but he's trying to be honest. He may not be right all the time and there's things that I can disagree with when he speaks, but he's as honest as a person can get. That's all I can ask.
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  9130. For Pete's sake, Costco. Just hire based on merit. If you do that, you'll get a diverse staff.....unless you truly believe that some identities are more capable than others and you have to hire the less meritorious to achieve true identity diversity. If so, you're the bigot.
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  9131.  @dwaynepenner2788  Candidates run a platform. The one that presents the best case for their platform should win the election and represent the people. The idea being that the majority support that platform and expect the elected official to do their best to enact what they promised to do in their platform. That's why the candidate was elected. If the candidate did the opposite of what they promised, that would be not representing their constituents. You don't make a bunch of promises and then break every promise when you get elected. That's just bizarre.
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  9132.  @dwaynepenner2788  Are you seriously saying that a person should forget all that they promised to do when they were running for office? That doesn't even make sense and it's a recipe for stagnation. Nothing will ever get done. If a candidate promised to fix the sewer system if elected, that candidate should follow up on those promises. He can't just put his feet up and say "Sorry, but I represent that constituent, too and he doesn't want me to fix the sewers. We're going to have to wait until ALL my constituents agree on it". That would eventually enrage all his constituents. The primary way that a politician can be stopped from doing as he promised is if those promises violate the Constitution which may apply in the case that was brought against Trump. She ran on a platform of getting Trump and then went looking for a crime to get him with. That could be seen as malicious prosecution and illegal.
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  9133.  @dwaynepenner2788  Of course an elected official has duties beyond his platform. Where did I ever say that he didn't? I'm saying that he owes it to the voters to ALSO do his best to fulfil the promises that he made while trying to get elected. Many people vote for a candidate based on their platform. What kind of candidate makes election promises and then doesn't do it. If a veteran needs help, it's a big OF COURSE, a politician should do what's within his power to help him. That's PART of his job as an elected official. There are all kinds of day to day things that must be done and the politician must do them. Keeping his election promises AND doing the everyday drudgery of office are NOT mutually exclusive. He can do both and should. If he doesn't do that he's breaking his election promises AND he's reneging on his duties to do the best job that he can. I'm completely baffled on what you're arguing about, especially on a really confusing stance on election platforms. It's as if you're saying that a politician can lie all he wants to get elected and that's perfectly fine with you. It's a weird position.
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  9134.  @dwaynepenner2788  Where are you getting these weird ideas. I've said it multiple times. He represents ALL his constituents but he still has to keep his election promises. That's why he was elected in the first place. If someone is in stress, he must still help him, regardless of whether he voted for him or not. That's the drudgery of his position which doesn't go away because someone didn't vote for him. What part of keeping his election promises don't you get? And get it through your head. It's his job to fulfil ALL his obligations of his position. ALL OF THEM. I've said this OVER and OVER again. However, part of his obligations is to try and keep his election promises. If a politician refuses to that, he has no integrity or honour and he'll most likely do absolutely nothing, including ignoring your hypothetical veteran in need. Once more. An election official should do his job, INCLUDING helping all his constituents as long as it's legal and doesn't go against his better judgement. Please understand that. I never ONCE suggested that he should neglect those who didn't vote for him. I didn't say that or even implied it.
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  9135.  @nimaakhtarkhavari8766  I don't believe that for one minute. We're friendly enough but we work hard and don't really follow what's going on. If you try to tell them, they look at you as if you're crazy, watch the CBC, our propaganda network, and use that as their evidence that everything is all right. Then back to work, the cottage or fishing they go. They just don't get what's happening to them.
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  9136. CNN didn't cover this because they couldn't spin this story into some kind of race baiting incident that could end up in 2 weeks of rioting, looting, physical violence and burning buildings.....Sorry......I mean peaceful protests.
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  9137. He was afraid that he was going to be arrested and put in jail. He wasn't afraid that he was going to be killed and he had no problem with violence. I know that because the cop was down, crawling to get away and this asshole aimed and shot him in the head. Over 1,00,000 people get stopped for traffic violations every day. What made him think that he was the one that was going to be killed? That 1 in a million? If they wanted to kill him, why didn't they just pull their guns and blast him right off? They didn't want to kill him. In fact, those cops have been doing routine stops all day, all week, ALL YEAR, and they hadn't killed anyone. If cops are so dangerous, how come they haven't got you yet, anyway? You're making a stupid assertion and I'm being stupid by just talking to someone as full as crap as you are....and you are full of crap. You're a paranoid delusional nut and you should get some help.
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  9138.  @gwanael34  I don't teach them nothing. I'm a retired factory worker. All I can teach him is machine maintenance. Just another example of your delusional state. You haven't answered my question. How is it, if cops are so dangerous, that they haven't shot YOU, yet? You appear to be a prime candidate to get shot. Belligerent, non-compliant and I'm guessing quite the loudmouth unless, of course, you do all you mouthing off on the internet, where you don't have to face the consequences of have a big mouth.
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  9139.  Dalishar Arcturus  Intrinsic to Marxist ideology is the idea that no one has the right to property and that property belongs to everyone. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with destroying property since it really doesn't belong to the person that claims it. Why can't they break what belongs to them? That is their morality. Personal goals, individual rights, the principle of accruing things of value as a natural result of labour, these are things that are to shared by all and the individual's right to these possessions are subservient to the whole of society. That's why so many of us see Marxism as an ideology without morality. It robs the individual of his humanity and denigrates the human spirit. It gives licence for the whole to bully the one into submission. It's the forced compliance to the hive.
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  9140.  @mrwhips3623  So why did Germany invade Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands? The Netherlands had declared neutrality yet that didn't matter to the Fascists. Why did the Fascists take over the entirely of Czechoslovakia? What threat were they to Nazi Germany? Why did the Nazi employ slave labour camps? Why did they put my uncle, a Dutch citizen, into one of their slave camps. He wasn't a Jew or Gypsy.....which brings me to another topic. Why did the death camps exist? Yeah.....I know. It's all a lie. That seems to be the go to for all the Fascist supporters, also known as National Socialists. Isn't it strange how Belgians speak Dutch....yet the Netherlands see no reason to invade and annex the part of Belgium that speak Dutch. ONLY the Nazis did that. You're defending a lunatic leader, who was the head of an insane ideology that ended the lives of tens of millions. The Germans didn't have to invade Poland. They chose to do it and that's why they were the bad guys.
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  9141.  @rogerlopez4808  There are several reasons why Africa didn't expand like others did. For one, in spite of the size of that continent, there are very few natural harbours and the few that do exist don't come close to the harbours, for large ships, that other continents are blessed with. Also, much of Africa is situated on large plateaus. This means that the great rivers, unlike other great rivers in the world, are only navigable for a few miles inland. That seriously hampered the ability to set long distance trade routes, essential to economic growth. The Sahara is another major deterrent to establishing major trade routes and sub-Saharan Africa was cut off from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Even when the world started going to them, the navigators wouldn't enter into the country because of the limitations set by unnavigable rivers and the prevalence of diseases, especially malaria. It wasn't until the development of quinine, as an effective treatment for malaria, did European explorers venture inland, and that wasn't until the 1800s. There were some big kingdoms but they just didn't have the natural advantages that countries in Europe, the Middle east, North Africa and the Orient had.
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  9142.  @davidblasko2159  Schools are funded from grades 1 through 12 because children are required, BY LAW, to go to school. It is good for the children and good for society to have a decently educated young base. Education is NOT mandated after high school. That is a personal decision. You don't require others to pay for what you choose to do. I want to buy a house, I pay for it. I want an advanced education, I pay for it. It is something I want and choose to do. A 12 year, MUST go to school of some sort. If he doesn't, he'll face truancy charges and eventually his parents will be called to task, by the law. High tuition rates are another issue. If institutions of higher education are getting government money, they should be called to task for the increasingly high tuition hikes. Also, students might find it in their best interests to find alternative means of career advancement. Nothing holds you back more in your personal growth than high debt, including a huge educational debt which has no solid value as inventory or collateral.
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  9143.  @Thyalwaysseek  No, they are saying that a person should care enough about their body and the possibility of being pregnant to treat the child conception process with care are respect. If you don't respect the process you won't respect in the possible results and in turn you will be a poor parent. That's what they are saying. Behave in a responsible manner. Having a child and caring for it is a big responsibility and you should aspire to be the type of person that would do it, willingly and to the best of your ability. It's not a process done frivolously. There are consequences and you should face it like an adult, not an entitled child who's only purpose is to have fun. That's a life that's growing within you. Respect it as you would respect yourself.
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  9144.  @wweeks  Another one of the conspiracy nuts. I can tell any discussion with you won't be all that intellectual. It'll be an exercise in blame. Pointless to even talk to you.
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  9145. Can't do that. Joe would start WW3 to keep Shokin away and protect his son.
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  9146. We're angry Dr. Fauci, because you locked us into our homes, sometimes for as long as 2 years. You wouldn't let us see our dying parents or go to their funerals. No family get togethers. Many lost our jobs, watched our children become depressed due to isolation and are upset that we were forced to vaccinate and were censured if we DARED to question your edicts. This isn't a disagreement. This was tyranny and we have every right to be upset.
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  9147.  @4touchdownsinonegame178  We all thought that the rioters, on Jan 6th, should face charges and they have. We also think that the BLM and Antifa rioters should face charges and many were let go without charges. Rioting is wrong, no matter who does it. However, the Democrats are using the rioters of Jan 6th as pawns to grab power. That I don't like.
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  9148. It's a slow news day so, the media, needing a crisis to increase ratings, decides to try and start a race war over some minor bickering. If they're lucky, maybe this will spark a riot, with casualties, burnt out buildings and the National Guard being deployed. Another slow news day averted......THANK GOD!!!
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  9149. Not only does the worker get the soda, he now owns the rocks, too. That's socialism.
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  9150. Jordan Peterson was right. People will be arrested as the result of Bill C-16 and their beliefs. We have to get rid of Trudeau and all the other socialist parties or we'll sleep walk right into "1984".
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  9151. This guy seems to think that we should all be perfect in every thing that we say and do. It's an impossible standard. A person's life's legacy isn't determined by only the bad thing that they've done in life. It's the totality and whether, in the end, their lives have made the lives of others better.
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  9152. Transgender games makes no sense. All it will do is exclude biological (trans men) from competing. Biology has shown us that men are better suited for sports than women. People can drug themselves, use their body as a living Mr. Potato Head and they'll still be what they were biologically born to be.
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  9153.  @nono-hp5kx  I never said he was perfect. He was a product of his times and those times included the enslavement of those who couldn't defend themselves. It was a way of life. Had you lived back then, you may well have been a slave owner yourself. People owned slaves throughout our written history. It wasn't until a few hundred years ago that the anti-slavery movement started in earnest. The entire idea of individual rights for all is a new concept, that developed slowly when the printing press was invented and Bibles were written in the languages of the average person. The idea of individual salvation in heaven slowly morphed into the individual rights and freedom here on earth, eventually settling into an idea that was separate from religious thought and applied to everyone on earth, no matter what religion or ethnicity. However, it was a slow evolution. It's so easy to sit here, on our computers, to rag on people who lived in a different time, under different circumstances and life pressures. Almost every person in antiquity was a monster by our standards. That's a reality and it's arrogance to believe that we would have behaved any differently than they did. All of that has no bearing on what Columbus achieved. When he returned to Spain and told everyone of what happened on that journey, human history changed. It was one of the biggest moments in our history. It has affected almost every human living on earth today. Columbus was not this big leader that invented slavery. Read the story of Spartacus and how prevalent slavery was during the Roman Empire. Columbus was just acting as normal people did in those times. We learned about Columbus is schools but it was just the main events. The year, what islands he discovered, the names of his ships and how many voyages he led. There is so much that has to be taught that only the superficial is covered of almost every topic. We learn the nuances of our own accord and interests. Ultimately, we learn the things we do, not just as a tool for survival, but as a mirror to hold up to ourselves. We're learning about ourselves. How we got to where we are today. Why we think and act as we do. How vulnerable and corrupt we can be, yet deeply caring as well. If you can't learn that from a good education, it's wasted on you and worse, it becomes a weapon to use on others. That's when the conflicts begin, today. Self professed morality fighting the evil others.
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  9154.  @andrewbowers_  Thanks. I enjoyed the hard work and even though it was tough, it was satisfying, too.
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  9155.  @Censortubes  If it was just pouring drinks and opening beers, that'd be a breeze. I will say that you should read my ENTIRE comment. I never ONCE mentioned how tough pouring drinks was. However, like a lot of people, you read what you want to read and ignore the rest. When was the last time you went home from work with a black eye, given to you by someone that you had to deal with as a part of your job. How many times have you had to duck bottles because of a drunken irate individual for doing your job. I'd like to see how you'd handle it. LOL.
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  9156.  @Censortubes  You built cars. LOL and another LOL. That's a toughie. I'll bet people assaulted you all the time on the job. LMAO. Yes it does go farther. I'm responsible for your actions, even after you leave. If you get into a car and run over a kid, I could be sued for over serving and spend the rest of my life in debt. If I cut you off and I see you get into a car and drive, I have to call the police, although I'm still liable if you run over that kid. My settlement may not be as large. If you get angry, I have to deal with you and maybe even call the police. If you see me on the phone, you might conclude, as many have, that I'm calling the police and then threaten me or assault me. It's happened countless times. A lot of servers have quit over this. LOL. I'm still laughing at you, "no name" the Car builder. I spent years shingling roofs. If I showed your comment to my fellow roofers, any construction guy actually, they break out in laughter with me. You really have no idea.
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  9157.  @Censortubes  I worked in an actual bar, a real drinking establishment. The male bartenders worked alone and were expected to handle the troublemakers except on the really busy nights, like when there was a band. We would have a bouncer for those evenings. Any female bartender would be afforded a bouncer, at all times. If you've ever worked in that atmosphere, then you'd know. However, you'd prefer to sneer at others so you can stroke your own ego. I assumed that you worked on a line at a car manufacturing plant. That's why I laughed at you. Also, we didn't have a conveyor to bring the shingle to us. We were a small business and we carried the bundles of shingles up the ladders on our backs. Apparently, you've never heard of a tear-off. Back breaking work and it's hot. So, before this pissing contest gets out of hand, I'm outta here.
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  9158.  @Censortubes  Like I said before. READ MY COMMENTS. I had already explained why I became a bartender. I was a roofer and I live in the north so in winter I tended bar to supplement my income. That was very early in this comment thread, before you even came along. That's what you get when you don't read what's been written. You say stupid things.
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  9159.  @alistairmcdougall9625  America was energy independent under Trump but is now trying to get away from fossil fuels to save the planet from climate catastrophe under the Democrats. Democrats don't want oil, American, Venezuelan, Canadian or Middle Eastern. They want green solutions and fossil fuels ain't it.
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  9160.  @donaldpump8882  I did. I took it to combat intestinal strongyloidiasis.
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  9161.  @thealan8233  Of course life is tough for everyone....even the rich. Do you know how I know that? No one gets out of life alive. We can look at others and conclude that they've got it so easy but we're not living their lives. We don't know their fears, their losses and their struggles when they get old and are facing death. All we can do is stop looking to the lives of others, reacting with envy and instead tend to our own lives. Envy will crush you, those around you and when it becomes a cultural norm, it will destroy the community. There's a reason why "Thou shalt no covet" is one of the Ten Commandments or the Big Ten as I like to call them.
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  9162.  @StopSettlerViolence  My reason is because I can predict exactly what cause that she'll champion. She's a climate activist. What does that have to do with what's happened on Oct 7/23? Nothing at all, yet she's tying it to climate change. It's illogical yet predictable. She'll do the same with every issue. Logic means nothing to her kind. It's all about the cause.
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  9163.  @ionutbalta6607  The right is pissing on the Constitution? It's the left that is trying to suppress free speech. The left is trying to control what we read and listen to. "Baby, it's cold outside" is being banned not by the right but by the left, who've become more prudish than a Victorian grandmother. If it wasn't for the Constitution the left would have outlawed such films like "The Red Pill". If they don't like it, they want it banned. Don't like what a person says, fire him, dox him, protest him, mob them in restaurants when they're with their families. It's the left that want to do away with the right to bear arms, which is in the Constitution. You've said that Republicans piss on the Constitution but you haven't said how or given an example of it. As for the David Pakman thing, here he is in an interview with Dave Rubin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipJoOJrqgU He appears quite willing to engage in a discussion in that video. He didn't say that he was left, either. He says that he has never changed the things he believed and that these were once the same as the left. It's the left that has changed and the right that has become more accepting and has moved to the same positions that he has always had. Rubin claims that he's never changed any of his core beliefs but his left friends have become more radicalised to the left and many refuse to even talk to him anymore. Also, there is a new surge in Socialism in the Democratic Party and it has had a profound affect on how they form policies and ideas. That cannot be denied. A man like Bernie Sanders would never have been considered to run for the presidency by the Democrats in the sixties and seventies. He is too far left and has embraced many Marxist ideas. As for the European socialism, those countries still embrace a capitalist economy. Business is privately owned and market driven. They have social safety nets but it is paid for by the taxes paid by the citizens who are getting their money through a capitalist economic system. The US does the same and has for decades now. The US has a capitalist system but there is welfare, rent control, subsidised housing, Medicare, social security and more. That isn't part of the capitalist economy. I don't know how Trump being the laughing stock that he is makes Rubin a liar. That's illogical. Trump is a bit of a jackass but he isn't completely incompetent, either. North Korea was launching unarmed missiles over South Korea and Japan, setting of air raid alarms and scaring the crap out of people there. Trump comes along and brokers a deal with the "dear leader" and no more missile launches. The people in that region aren't laughing. Most are quite happy that it isn't happening anymore. Trump signs an executive order, identifying depressed areas as opportunity zones so those poor neighbourhoods have a chance to improve and the people there to rise out of poverty. Who cares how stupid Trump is if he's enacting people to rise out of poverty. He also set in motion policies that will encourage the poor to not cash in their retirement packages and 401ks so when retirement comes, they won't live in abject poverty. Who cares that a stupid man is responsible for the elderly living a better life than they do now? I know I don't. Also, the radical left is more dangerous than the right. There are right wing nutjobs that have done terrorist acts, but the radical left want to to tear down the entire system and build a Marxist state. Now that's dangerous. They already are so powerful in the universities that a lot of students are afraid to say what they think due to harassment by the left wing students and professors. Berkeley has just lost a court case where that have to stop harassing student Republican groups and allow right wing guest speaker on campus. They've also been told that their free speech zone is unconstitutional. Free speech should never be zoned or cordoned off. It should be open to everyone, no matter where they are.
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  9164.  @danielvincent1153  He was a young man and influenced by ideas in a way a young man does. As he grew older, as we all do, our life experiences and ideas change. I know mine did as I got older. Also, you don't know if he left the Young Turks due to ideological differences and that his funding came because it was seen as a good investment and potential money maker. You have no idea why anyone funded the start of his show. One thing is certain, Rubin needs no funding now. He has a money making enterprise and doesn't need a nickel from Koch or anyone else.
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  9165.  @danielvincent1153  I'm 67 and I think of under 30 as being young. I have changed a lot since I was 40, reaching a maturity that I thought I had at the time but realise now that it actually wasn't as mature as I liked to think I was. Rubin left the Young Turks because he wasn't comfortable with their "gotcha" style interviewing and how they would twist what people said to fit their own agenda. I don't believe Cenk or Ana. His debate with Sam Harris was filled with obfuscations and misrepresentations and then after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris, Cenk thought that they brought it on themselves by printing those cartoons. That was when Rubin left. He just wasn't comfortable with the doublespeak there. TYT got mad at him and then decided to vilify him with these accusations. Also, you have no evidence whether Koch controls content on his show or not or if that show is self sufficient right now. The Rubin Report has had a lot of success and has nearly a million subscribers. That's pretty good no matter how you slice it. With those numbers he could run that show without Koch or anyone else.
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  9166.  @danielvincent1153  The one reason I like his show is because he isn't badgering his guests. He lets them talk and then you can see what they're all about. Almost every other program has interviewers who are trying to trip their guests up and they'll centre on the irrelevant just to show up that guest. It becomes an argument and almost nothing is ever said. The guest is continuously being interrupted and they can never finish a thought unless the interviewer likes what he's saying. I want to know the guest, to talk and finish his thoughts without ending up saying things like "I am not a racist. Why would you say that?" I'm so sick of this kind of interview. They're not interviews. They're ambushes.
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  9167.  @lisad6106  Yes...I can still infect other people. Some are vaccinated, some not. Those that are vaccinated are protected, like I am, from the severity of the virus. Those who aren't vaccinated, by their choice, have to live with the consequences of that choice or die by it. It's what they've chosen. We have the right to our choices, even the stupid ones.
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  9168.  @BiggieTrismegistus  But they're NOT helping and who cares if they're embarrassed. That dirty water is killing people and you're upset that their government feelings are hurt. That's quite the priority set that you've got going there. One well costs up to $30,000 dollars. That's it. Are you seriously telling me that a government in Africa couldn't come up with 3 million bucks to dig 100 wells in THEIR country? William Ruto, president of Kenya, is worth 40 billion dollars. Yet, you're upset that he's embarrassed. It would be NOTHING for him to dig 1000 wells.....but Mr Beast is your bad guy. As far as I'm concerned they deserve to be embarrassed.
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  9169.  @morgansummers5803  At least those kids can BUY his merch. Those African families can't even afford that. The Flint water crisis has been resolved. It's no longer a problem. That's the same with the derailment in Palestine. The EPA has been cleaning up and the railroad company is being forced to foot the bill. It's being taken care of. No one was fixing the bad water problem in those African countries. Mr Beast just showed how it can be done and he showed just how corrupt those governments are. One well cost as much as $30,000. William Ruto, president of Kenya, has a net worth of 40 BILLION bucks. He could EASILY put a well in every village in Kenya and pay for it out of his own pocket but he doesn't and he won't......but YOU criticise the one who does. Even if Mr Beast did foot the bill for Flint, you'd go after him for that, anyway. It's envy. That's all it is.
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  9170. I used to see everyone through the lens of skin colour and I was called a white supremacist. I went through a personal conversion, realising that skin colour is superficial and says nothing about the person deep inside. So...here I am....once again being called a white supremacist because I don't think skin colour is all that important. I'm never going to will this cultural war so I'm not going to fight them. I'll be the best that I can be and give EVERYONE a equal chance to prove to me that they're worth knowing. To hell with all of you woke progressives out there.
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  9171. Lemon couldn't get the pastor to smear Trump so he tries to smear the Pastor. When that didn't work, he went back to smearing Trump. I guess it's better to criticise the president and this Pastor than to see if there was anything he could do to help alleviate the problems in Baltimore and the other inner cities. Those who can.....do. Those who can't.....criticise. Thanks for the criticism, Don. That should help the rat problem in Baltimore.
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  9172.  @AncientRylanor69  They're still in operation but no one is happy. Their employee turnover is extremely high and they're hiring lower management right out of university, some who have absolutely no experience or natural ability in production. My son-in-law was there for 6 years and spent that time looking for the perfect job that suited his specific skill set.....and he found it. Most say that the job isn't so bad, it's the unreasonable demands of management. It wasn't like that when I was first hired. Things changed when the company was bought out and new management ideas were implemented. Almost everyone of the original employees are gone, everyone of them fed up with the new boss.
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  9173.  @LuckyCharms777  Ignorance? All I did was relate a personal experience. How does that make me ignorant? Name calling doesn't exactly indicate high intelligence, though. Never has and I doubt that it ever will.
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  9174. @ YouTube notified me of a comment so I went and read it. It said "Enjoy your blissful ‘egg nor ants’." I interpreted "egg nor ants" to mean ignorance. Later, I received another notification, from you directed at me. I decided to read all the comments and discovered another comment, from you, but directed at professionalpookie. That's the sum of the comments that are from you in this thread. I don't know how I'm supposed to learn anything from that. Besides, if seems as if you're the one who's feeling are hurt. I didn't answer to a comment which I didn't even see and you got all upset and called me "ignorant".
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  9175.  @mmp495  Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. It's been great so far. Been to Europe, Mexico, Costa Rica, western Canada and the Dominican Republic. Also, a couple of fishing trips every summer. All that work paid off. I'm a lucky guy.
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  9176. Buying votes. Sounds like something a corrupt politician would do. "Here's thousands if you vote for me".
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  9177. When Trump bombed Syria a couple of years ago, I thought "Here we go again. Another president who ran on getting out of this type of war and then reneges on that pledge". Not because I'm anti-Trump but because not wanting to get into foreign wars is the right thing to do. However, when Trump started to try to get out of the Middle East, he was castigated for even considering it and I supported Trump for saying it and supported him even more for the peace deals that he helped to engineer. Not because I'm a Trumpster but because it's the right thing to do. Now, the current administration is reversing what Trump started.....and I'm fully against it. Not because I'm a Trumpster but because we shouldn't be initiating an escalation in a war that isn't ours. Time to vote for what's right instead of political ideologies.
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  9178.  @anti-ethniccleansing465  My daughter works at UPS as well. She loves it and gave up a better paying job because the work was easier and less stressful. There's work to do and she's busy but it's a small office and the union is almost irrelevant. I could tell you personal stories about working union shops that are incredible in their stupidity. I finally got away from the union over 25 years ago and I couldn't have been happier about it. The last place I worked at had union organisers at the gates and we all told them to get lost.
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  9179. What's more you should be praying for the souls of all those who haven't found the faith, instead of smugly telling all of us how you're going to be saved and the rest of us are SOL. Jesus said no one is worthy. That includes you, too, buddy. Don't be too sure of your salvation. You may be in for a big shock. P.S. I'm an atheist myself. I'm speaking in terms that this hateful person might, hopefully, understand.
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  9180. Dr Asatair Bair......Total pay and benefits: $185,360.00 That's one sight better than minimum wage. I wonder how much Dr. Bair gives to charities every year. I have a feeling that he gives $0.00 as he likely feels that it should be the job of the state to make sure that charities aren't necessary.
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  9181. Biden will wake up every morning and will have forgotten all about it.
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  9182.  @bloodsheder99  In the very first few days of his presidency, Biden struck down the deals made, by Trump, with the Central American countries. He stopped work on the border and gave the impression that he wasn't going to give the border a big priority. That attitude prompted this wave of illegal immigrant numbers to increase dramatically, numbers that were going down during the Trump years. Deep down you even know it to be true. You're just refusing to admit it....or you're a troll.
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  9183. They're Marxists or radical socialists. They believe that things should be free and that no one should work. They think that they can live off the money of "millionaires and billionaires." LOL.
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  9184.  @richardtorruellas2370  Matt made them look like someone with their hand caught in the cookie jar. For all their outrage at how awful thieves are, Matt just showed them to be the awful thieves...stealing the money from a lot of gullible suckers. I don't know how anyone could take these race hustlers seriously after watching this.
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  9185. No one paid attention to the fiasco at Evergreen College and look what's happening now. It's Evergreen College expanded into all of Democrat America with a MSM pretending that's nothing going on.
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  9186.  @cfp11  They'll do what is necessary to do. You don't have to shoot them. Arrest them and send them back. If caught again, send them back again. Those immigrants are going to get sick and tired of waiting in Mexico hoping for an opportunity to cross the border.
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  9187.  @scottcantdance804  I getting sick of reading the same comments in every comment thread. If you have no ideas of your own, PLEASE refrain from inundating us with your spam. It's annoying as F..... and causes me to think that anyone flogging those ideas has to be some kind of ideological nut.
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  9188.  @smallfeet4581  Lenin never knew that he had Jewish heritage and Stalin, the most brutal of all the Bolsheviks and Lenin's muscle, was Georgian. When Stalin became the power, in the Soviet Union, Lavrently Beria was the most influential member of the secret police and was eventually named to head the NKVD. Beria was ALSO a Georgian. Am I to surmise, from this, that maybe the Georgians are behind Marxism as well. Also, China is the largest Communist power in the world. There are only about 2,700 Jews in all of China. Are you seriously trying to tell me that this tiny population is the ruling force of over 1 billion people??? This is a lot of selective fact finding. Yes there were influential Jews who were involved in the Marxist movement. However, they're far from the driving force of Marxism today. Anyone who believes that is engaging in the same identitarian politics as the progressive woke left. In fact, the Marxist left are staunchly anti-Jewish right now. Look at their adamant stance against the Jewish state of Israel and how pro-Palestinian they are. Definite selective facts.
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  9189.  @smallfeet4581  That story of the Bolsheviks is offered in an edited form to demonise a demographic. A nugget of truth that is presented as being the entirety of the truth. It's extremely dishonest.
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  9190.  @lamontcranston3177  " Sorry. I don't do "research" at NAZI sites." What a lazy and pathetic way to avoid having to face facts. If the source doesn't agree with your worldview, they must be Nazis. It doesn't matter that this could be true. All it matters is whether it validates what YOU believe or not. It's all about YOU and you'll smear anyone that would DARE to contradict you. It's the epitome of narcissism.
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  9191. Tim, those illegals deported at those chicken processing plants, didn't just break the law by sneaking into the country. Many of them were guilty of identity theft. Those, who have had their identity taken, know how debilitating it can be. It's a crime, just like robbing a store or breaking into a private home and it can ruin a person's life. The left don't care about right or wrong. They just care about their ideology and logic and reason is irrelevant.
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  9192. They'll let us know what's disinformation and what's not. Sort of like the Hunter laptop story. Good thing that they were there to tell us that it was all Russian disinformation.
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  9193.  @Undomaranel  He's loud? I never heard him even raise his voice. He's extremist? A man is not a woman.....that's an extreme idea? No one would have thought differently 20 years ago. 2 plus 2 equals 4 is NOT an opinion. It's a fact. A man cannot get pregnant isn't an opinion. It's a fact and it's at the very heart of evolutionary science. He went after you for wearing a costume, huh. Nice try. Your little anecdote means nothing. Especially from someone that use a fake name. Nothing credible about your response.
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  9194.  @rightwank8718  As opposed to the normal people walking around expressing their hatred of those that they feel superior to. People like you, for example.
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  9195.  @adamgrimsley2900  Did you not hear about the mob that went to Judge Kavanaugh's house? Protesters went to city council member's house in Seattle, too. There were protesters banging on the doors of Tucker Carlson's house and spray painted his driveway, terrifying his wife to the point that she hid in the pantry. In Rochester NY, BLM protesters climbed onto a person's porch roof, banging on the walls of the home. Protesters, in Portland, went to a black veteran's neighbourhood and threatened to burn down his neighbour's home if he didn't take down an American flag that he had erected in his front yard. His neighbours all came out and stood up to the protesters. Is that enough or do you want more?
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  9196. Actually, he could have remained with the Young Turks and made a career, robotically (not sure if that's a word) chanting the decrees of Cenk. He'd be quite well off, today and have the respect of all YT sycophants.
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  9197.  @John.Flower.Productions  It made perfect sense to me. Are you a failure because you can never play in the NBA? Of course not. You can do something else. Get into sports medicine or coaching. Be the best trainer in the business. YOU are the metaphorical poodle. You'll never be that metaphorical police dog. Actually, you don't even have to get into sports at all. There are LOTS of options open to you but whatever you do, be the best that you can be. I don't see how that's illogical at all.
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  9198.  @John.Flower.Productions  It's a metaphor. A metaphor doesn't have to be an EXACT comparison. People use metaphors to illustrate an idea or concept. Apparently, metaphors are too abstract for you to comprehend. Life is unfair. It always has been and always will be. You can't legislate it away.
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  9199. Well, buddy. This is your 15 minutes of fame. I'll bet it isn't what you imagined when you set off on your social justice journey. "The world she's a changing" LOL.
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  9200.  @litolambanog7956  From China but the rest is just conspiracy theory. I'll bet you were in the tinfoil aisle when everyone was fighting for toilet paper.
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  9201.  @massonh7476  Did you not watch the video? Hillary and company spent YEARS saying that the election was rigged. If the election process is compromised and BOTH parties seem to agree, don't you think that the system has to be overhauled? Probably not. I've seen your name before and you're nothing but a crazy person, steeped in hate and resentment, making wild comments to express the rot in your soul.
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  9202. Did she endorse Hitler or not? Give a reference to that site so we can all watch that entire clip and show us exactly where, in that clip, she endorses Hitler.
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  9203.  @johnpeterson2391  Don't tell me about Hitler. He invaded the Netherlands, even though they declared neutrality and ground the Dutch under the Nazi boot. My mother almost starved to death because of that bastard and my uncle spent 3 years in a Nazi POW camp. What Candace said was that if his only concern was to make Germany great, that wouldn't have been a problem. Becoming great doesn't mean you must kill people, at all. It means becoming the best that one could be. Killing people isn't great and YOU know damn well Candace wasn't saying that he had to kill people to make Germany great. She made it quite clear that his desire to expand and force everything to subjugate to the Germans, in essence to become German, was the problem. German expansion couldn't happen without killing. German superiority was all about killing. She's basically saying that Hitler distorted the meaning of the word "Great". She made it quite clear that there was a problem with Hitler's version of "great". No one was talking about Americans of the past. That's what YOU introduced to the conversation. We're talking about today and what Candace meant when she was talking about Hitler. Her intent was quite obviously distorted and YOU know it. Why would a black woman endorse white supremacy. It's ridiculous. This is the same left wing attitude that calls Ben Shapiro and Dave Ruben Nazis. It's illogical and ridiculous. One doesn't have to become dishonest to call out white supremacy. That's what Lieu was doing and it's a disgrace.
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  9204.  @blahblah1826  Then why would the NEA, the largest teachers union, vote to teach, using CRT as a guide even if the state government mandates that it's illegal? If it's "bulux" then the very teachers, who espouse that ideology, are full of it as well. https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/we-need-teach-truth-about-systemic-racism-say-educators This is from the Union's website. If they say that they're going to do it, I believe them and you should, too.
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  9205. He never said that he thinks DeSantis is going to win. He said that he supports him. That's 2 different things. I support the New York Giants and I always will but that doesn't mean I think that they're going to win the Super Bowl this year. Dave supports DeSantis but he's realistic enough to know that this may not happen.
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  9206.  @jackhammer2671  I'm sure that when Trump wins the Republican primary, Dave will vote for Trump. Dave lives in Florida and no one handled the Covid crisis better than DeSantis did and, in spite of all the Democrat hand wringing, he handled Hurricane Ian perfectly. DeSantis gave parents their right to take part in the education of their children with the "Parental rights in education" bill. Dave sees this and thinks that DeSantis can bring that same success to the Federal level. That doesn't mean that he's turned his back on Trump. The Republicans have more than one good candidate while the Democrats have ZERO. This is a good thing. We get to choose from a plethora of good candidates while the Democrats get to choose between Biden and those who are just as corrupt and incompetent. A little competition won't hurt us. In fact, I think that it'll make Trump even stronger.
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  9207. Leftists make fun of people who prepare for disasters. I've read the mocking before Helene hit the US. Making fun of DeSantis and how he working ahead of the storm to help mitigate the damage. The leftists said that people were over reacting and clutching their pearls. For years they've been making fun of "preppers". They're out of their minds.
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  9208.  @HappyNeuron-qu9sx  Gaza declared war on Israel on Oct 7/23. Now they're losing and are all upset about it and they have no one to blame but themselves. Hamas has to step down and the war would be over but they won't. So long as there are civilian Gazans to hide behind, Hamas won't give up. They're using the people as cannon fodder to protect themselves.
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  9209. Democrats have gone to the "racism" well once too often. Imagine being that desperate for approval, that the Democrat media go to a pedophile fugitive being shot story as their example of a racist nation. They really thought that the American public were never going to know the truth about it. They still haven't learned their lesson from the Covington fiasco, "hands up, don't shoot", Jussie Smollett and even how information was held back in the George Floyd death. They want knee jerk reactions, which is almost ALWAYS violent, to take over the minds of the American public, in the belief that while in the grip of rage, they turn against Trump and towards them. If people die, so be it.
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  9210. That it's not just destroying the lives of Americans who live on the border, is something that never occurred to me. Of course, a lot of good Mexicans are negatively affected as well. The Democrats are a menace to both Americans and Mexicans. They have to be defeated in this fall. I'm no Trumpster but he's, by FAR, the better of the 2 options.
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  9211. So...if I wear a dress to work, I'm allowed to pull "it" out in front of a woman? Is this really true??? Had I known that I could have avoided all that trouble with human resources. I suppose there's a process to be followed but, as an exhibitionist and weirdo, I'll do it, short of drugs and dismemberment. Drugs are bad for you and I gotta keep my "it" in order to be able to pull "it" out. No "it" and there's no point.
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  9212. If the Democrats and the media want us to believe that they're the party of morality and ethics, maybe they should BE practise a higher standard of morality and ethics. They most definitely haven't acted in this manner for the last 10 years. They've lied so often that they may NEVER get back the trust of the American voter, especially if Trump has a successful term as president.
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  9213.  @randyfuentes4201  Are you saying that there will be NO contact tracing? That it's FALSE FOX news? Whew!!! They had me believing that it's true. Thanks for setting me straight.
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  9214.  @Wary_Of_Extremes  You can if you invest that money wisely and some people have done just that. However, it does help if you have good information or if you create the conditions, through legislation, that enables you to invest BEFORE anyone knows the details of the legislation that you're supporting. I think they call that "inside trading"....I'm no lawyer, though.
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  9215.  Big Dick Black  Quit being a troll. DeSantis is sharing the stage with a gay guy. If you're going to comment, at least act like a grown-up.
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  9216.  @Dinkys999  What a lot of hyperbolic nonsense. NO ONE IS BURNING BOOKS. It's just that they believe that some books aren't appropriate for children and shouldn't be in schools. They're not trying to stop the sale of Penthouse and they're NOT picketing stores that sell those magazines and they're definitely not burning Penthouse mags. In fact, unless you're some weirdo pervert, if I was showing a 10 year old pictures out of Penthouse, you'd be upset with me and rightfully so. So stop with the hyperbole and GROW UP.
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  9217. They probably don't and what does it matter? They're still validating this story, using facts that they can back up. Even if they get those details wrong, they're showing that all these events have sources and evidence from outside the Bible. That's amazing news. Unbelievers supporting the Biblical narrative from sources that aren't Biblical. You should be happy about it, instead of being so outraged.
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  9218.  @joycemanieri2304  "INEXCUSABLE"......in capital letters. When my mother used that word on me, in metaphorical capital letters, I knew she was upset and I prepared for the worst. Then " not one of these so called Professors even believed that God exists!!!" First you denigrate their credentials as professors with the "so called" description. Then you finish off the statement with 3, I repeat, THREE, exclamation marks. If that isn't outrage, I'd hate to see you when you're really are upset. Strange how you didn't mention a word about how I said that their evidence, even though not coming from a religious perspective, was good news. You're still implying that this evidence is worthless without faith. In effect, you're shooting the messenger and ignoring what they're saying.
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  9219. @James Tiberius That's the thing. I don't believe he was saying that Trump was going to anoint himself Emperor. It was more about removing a ruler, whether elected or not, and then making the object of his removal, the knife, an artefact, a relic to be revered. That's what Pelosi was doing by giving out commemorative pens for that occasion. These were to become relics of impeachment, objects of veneration and a collector's item. A rather disgusting display. To use another example, like making commemorative knives to celebrate the Manson murders. It's rather bizarre.
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  9220. @James Tiberius I would never feel that the impeachment of a president, due to corruption, is a time of revelry and celebration. It's a sad state of affairs when it has to be done. Corruption hurts us all. The problem with some of the Democrats is that they've wanted impeachment from the moment Trump was elected. They weren't even sure what it was that they were going to get him on but they were determined to get him on something. That's what makes this whole thing seem so self congratulatory. It has that feeling that it wasn't done due to wrong doing on Trump's part but more that they beat him and that somehow this validates their idea that they DID win that election and that Trump, the corrupt one, somehow cheated them. It's saying that they don't have to admit that maybe they failed to deliver a strong mandate to the people and that they are, most definitely, BETTER than Trump, something that the defeat threw into doubt.
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  9221. Paul HODGERS The governments of the west are regulated by their constitutions and the rule of law. Businesses try to influence public policy and have had some success at it, but their primary goal is to be successful and that depends on the market. In other words, businesses are regulated by the market and the government which is selected by the people in elections. Businesses are held liable if they break the law or use unsafe practises. It's all a balancing act, one in which the imbalances are corrected. The richest countries in the world are dependent on free market systems. That's capitalism. It's not perfect. Nothing ever is and its an impossibility, but it's the best system yet devised.
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  9222.  @ashleypurdy5105  They refuse to admit that Trump did a great job mobilising the production of masks, respirators and test kits. Almost 60 million test done in the US, now. No one even comes close to that number but the haters don't care. It's still a failure to them For the life of me, I can't understand why Trump being optimistic and reassuring is a bad thing. I know people that had to go into the London bomb shelters during the war. Their mothers didn't tell them that this was the end. They reassured their children and told them everything was going to be fine, even though it might not be fine at all. Maybe that's why you and I are different. I like to view problems with an optimistic outlook. I dislike pessimism. Pessimism breeds apathy and with that no enthusiasm to tackle problems or solve issues. The one thing is certain. The left is as pessimistic as it gets. It's all about the negative with them. It's such a sad way to live a life.
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  9223.  @sickhater380  LOL. He dragged himself through the mud. We're just now finding out about it.
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  9224.  @Lilithedog  God......that's stupid.
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  9225.  @KrisVComm  ""Roofs" is the plural of roof in all varieties of English. Rooves is an old secondary form" from the online dictionary. Other sources say that "rooves" is Middle English and how it was spelled in the past. So, my question is....are you from the past? Can you Quantum Leap through time? That would be so cool.
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  9226.  @Halo_Legend  I did make a few errors in that comment. I didn't finish high school and spent my professional life swinging a hammer and working in factories, making shoes and toilet paper. Those occupations didn't require that I have superb grammar skills. I'll try to correct them if I can spot them. However, I'm still correct on how the word "rooves" is spelled and used, today and in the past.
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  9227.  @KrisVComm  But we live in the present. I'm not about to converse with you in "Olde English. That had been preposterous".
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  9228. The Democrats have nothing except their hatred of the rich and their success. It's been a recipe for disaster all through the 20th Century and they want those disasters to continue into the 21st century. That's what hatred and envy will do to you.
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  9229. Gutfeld would slay Anderson Cooper like the ground dwelling serpent that he is. Cooper has no sense of haha and he'd be twisted into a pretzel trying to keep up.
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  9230. I agree with everything you say but they do come out with nuggets of facts that a conservative network, like Fox, may not think important. I'd never take either one at their word, ESPECIALLY CNN, because they are extremely toxic, but I listen and then do my own fact checking. However, if you only watch CNN and are committed to fact checking and the truth, you're going to be one frustrated human being. I don't think that Trump should be impeached but he was on FOX this morning and I had to turn it off. Yet, considering the Democrat field of hopefuls, I'd probably vote for Trump. I've always said that if the Democrats could come up with a candidate that was doing the things that Trump was doing and was a likeable person, they'd win in a landslide......but they're too consumed with this new socialist and left progressive agenda to ever even consider that strategy. What's worse, they're too consumed with hate. Hate for Trump, for the white patriarchy and the rich. Hate has never been good for any society, ever, in human history.
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  9231.  @wouldntyouliketoknow7363  I watch Tim Pool a lot. He doesn't like Trump but he finds himself defending Trump because he does have a commitment to the truth. He can be a little frustrating and he tends to ramble but he's honest. I like Dave Rubin, too, not because I agree with him but because he lets his guests talk. He had Don Trump Jr. on lately and I felt as if I got to know the guy, somewhat. Then Don was on the View. What a s---show that was. All I saw was a bunch of scolds yelling over the guy. Rubin's show was civilised. The View was a screaming mob with pitchforks. I listen to OANN at times and have no problem with them. I still fact check, though.
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  9232.  @kennethprola5136  I responded to a bot. I HATE it when I do that. I wrote a long rebuttal to a machine that just repeats itself in every comment thread. I fall for it too often.
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  9233.  @CodeSleeper  Why isn't South Africa demanding Elon's return? What a ridiculous question. Because he won't go back....that's why. They can't make him or kidnap him. Also, what about Billionaires who voted Democrat....like Soros, Bloomberg and Cuban. They're part of the "oligarchy". You're only seeing what you want to see.
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  9234. It's "great shark of colour". Don't be offensive.
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  9235.  @MrSamfala  It doesn't matter today who Trump appointed yesterday. Trump is no longer the president. Biden is. Stick to the topic.
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  9236. The feds should refuse to print the money so congress can't spend it. Even if congress doesn't spend it, that extra money devalues the entire money supply that adds to inflation. The more you have, the less it's worth.
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  9237. @ricmar70 The one thing this article didn't do was distinguish between children and adults. It also never once referenced the claims that suicide are extremely high among those who have transitioned and the rates of regret. Could the things not mentioned have an impact on wait times? That was never discussed. Also, talking to the "experts", at transitioning clinics, who may have financial interests in getting increased funding, could be seen as ideologically self serving. A rather unbalanced article.
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  9238. "I need a haircut" is a symbolic plea to get back to normalcy. I don't see how you don get it. It's a minimalistic way to make a point.
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  9239.  @johncooper7663  If you don't know what the evidence is, you're being intentionally obtuse. The evidence is there to be seen by anyone and everyone. Quit being a troll.
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  9240. @ No it doesn't. In fact a House Judiciary press release, in June of 2024, concluded that the CIA colluded with Biden Campaign to mislead the voters over the laptop story. Again, this was released by the House Judiciary Committee while Joe Biden was still in office. This wasn't CNN or the Washington Post, who are as biased as they come. It was an official government institution. How could they mislead us if it wasn't true? They could only do that if it was true and they didn't want us to know about it. Just Google "Is the Hunter Biden laptop real?" The first thing that popped up was the Wikipedia article. The second was a press release from the House Judiciary Committee regarding Facebook's part in suppressing the story. The third articles was another from the House Judiciary Committee, a government committee, that I referenced in the first paragraph. You're flat out lying.
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  9241.  @jimmulcahey9312  Did you know that Sweden, that bastion of socialism that the left likes to hold up as the ideal, has NO minimum wage? I've often wondered how many people are working a buck an hour over there. Maybe a few 12 year olds but I doubt there are very many who would or do.
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  9242. Juan....Juan.....JUAN!!!!! It's not just Trump who's telling us that things are great. It's the overwhelming number of Americans that are saying it. They're also saying that it's going to be better next year. Also, it would seem that it's that 12 or so percent who think things are worse, they have to be the ones that are committing suicide. Could be it's because they're listening to people like you, JUAN. People, like you, the Democrats and their left wing media. Listening to that doom and gloom incessantly would drive almost anyone to jump.
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  9243. How can Kamala represent change when she's publicly stated, as a part of the current administration, that she wouldn't change anything that they've done? It makes NO SENSE.
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  9244. Apparently the Democrats believe that the this manifesto will incite others transgenders to do copycat missions. I guess they think that they're mentally unstable enough to do this. The Democrats are so full of it.
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  9245.  @davidburrows4801  At least in America we strive to allow human rights. That's more than what they can say in Marxists countries.
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  9246.  @Josh-b3c  That's correct. The only one to complain to are the ones that are doing the damage. It's an impossibility. Your small company can't sue that big company for polluting your water because you don't OWN your company and neither do they. It's the government that owns everything and they'll tell you that they've decided that it's for the greater good. Socialism takes away your voice.
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  9247.  @mitch_the_-itch  You sure are confused. That was 250 YEARS ago. We've become independent since then, specifically in 1867 which is almost 100 years after YOUR independence. The Loyalists were LONG dead by then. With that independence, we've enacted The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is equivalent to your Bill of Rights, a part of the Constitution. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the freedom of speech for ALL Canadians. Unless you're speaking through a time machine, those freedom loving Canadians that stayed in the USA, died at least 200 years ago. Your attempt at levity is rather weak PLUS uninformed.
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  9248.  @mitch_the_-itch  Emotional? LOL. I just informed you a little about our history and our Charter of Rights and that's emotional? It's facts. How can that be emotional? I did mock you a little because your original comment would have been relevant 200 years ago but Canada did not exist back then so logically neither did The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That Charter guarantees the freedom of expression. There's no limits on that right in our Charter. "as limited as they were" "were" is irrelevant. Our freedom of speech is no longer bound by the tenets of British law of 200 years ago, just like American law isn't bound by British law 300 years ago. They've been abrogated since then by our Charter of Rights. Yes, we have fallen, just like you have in the states. You're only a step or two behind us, make no mistake about that. Instead of mocking us or laughing at us, you should be supporting us. You're in the same boat that we are. I might even suggest that you're worse off. The left has just arrested a past president and a future presidential candidate, ostensibly to stop him from running. At least we've not gone that far. LOL. Now I'm laughing at you and I shouldn't be. We're in this together and we should be supporting each other.
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  9249. "He's an illegitimate president" "He colluded with the Russians to rig the election" "Lets have an inquiry so we can impeach him" "Muller says there's no evidence but let's impeach him anyway because we know he's guilty" "The electoral college system is unfair. Let's get rid of it" How is this, undermining of an election, any different than what they're accusing Trump of? Both parties have been claiming that the election process has been broken since 2004. Yet, they don't fix it. Instead they use it as a political sledgehammer to gain power. The American election process is a disgrace. You, Americans are being manipulated by power hungry politicians, from both parties, and you're being sucked in by it. Go to any country outside of the US and they'll show you how fair and secure elections are held.
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  9250. The real tell will be if they leave New York and are willing to take a reduced price for their homes. If property values go down, do you really think that they'll not blame the political environment for the loss in money? What about those who stay and see their property equity go down markedly? "My house is worth 30% less than last year" isn't going to make you happy. How long will the people of Portland live there and be afraid to go downtown? They will either leave OR finally vote for someone who can take away the conditions that are causing that fear. "All lives matters" should not be a death sentence. It should be the default. If all lives don't matter than neither do black lives. You get to pick and choose who's life matters and who's doesn't.
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  9251.  @JohnKobaRuddy  It was based only for Mao and his minions. If you deviated ever so slightly from Mao's beliefs, their based reality would destroy you.
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  9252. If you have an ID card then you ain't black.
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  9253.  @timfallon8226  Not the strange. They'd already fought Germany in WW1, so they saw Germany as an enemy. Also, Germany was a border country to France and fairly close to Britain. The USSR had to go through all of central Europe to get to France and Britain. It's only natural to be worried about the aggressor standing next to you than the one across the street.
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  9254.  @joemiller9931  That's doesn't mean that he wasn't a Fascist, also known as a National Socialist. Mussolini had been a radical Socialist for years, following in the footsteps of his parents who were also Socialists. Mussolini was the editor of a major socialist newspaper and a socialist politician before he adopted the ideas of Giovanni Gentile, the man who formulated National Socialism. It wasn't a big leap for Mussolini to adopt Gentile's ideas.
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  9255.  @bill-or-somthingbill4390  There's a hurricane coming. Don't you think that the reporter should be asking questions so he could inform his audience of what measures to take to keep them safe? How is asking a question about "racism" going to help anyone who's biggest concern is this category 4 hurricane. You worry about that question AFTER the hurricane and hopefully everyone is safe....you know....no loss of life. That reporter's job is to inform the public so everyone DOES come out alive and NOT to stir up trouble in the face of a life threatening emergency. This reporter is "rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic." so to speak.
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  9256. I don't get why that's so insincere. She watched a PragerU video and it offered a new way of seeing the world. How is that even a political debate? Unless she's lying, which is a baseless assumption, that's her experience.
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  9257.  @THE_Dodge_Morningstar  You basically called her a liar. You said that she was insincere, VERY insincere to be accurate, and that she was "pretending" when she claimed that PragerU played a role in "setting her straight". The implication that she lied is extremely strong just by saying that. You never said why you thought that. You just said it. I went rather easy on you by saying that your comment was baseless. I could have brought up that you implied that she was lying. You have nothing from which to draw that implication from except that you don't like PragerU. That's no reason to insinuate that she's pretending or faking it. She could quite sincere. You shouldn't throw words like "insincere" and "pretending" around unless you have evidence to prove that she's pulling this story out of thin air.
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  9258.  @JhutaNabi  So you live in a culture that eats it's own young in religious ceremonies. Everyone that you know does it. You've been going to these ritual events since you were a small child and it's important to everyone that you know, that these rites are adhered to. Are you evil? By our standards...yes you are. However, you don't see how. This is important or the gods will be displeased and the balance of life will be thrown into chaos and it might destroy everything that you know. You've been told this since birth and you can't even imagine being different. You don't want to destroy the world. So, what do you do? Save the world or the child being sacrificed. Those are the dilemmas that our ancestors faced. We came from nothing and its been a learning curve since then. Our beliefs are handed down to us from our past and changing those beliefs are fraught with dangers and disruptions of the social norm. We have to acknowledge that those ideas were wrong but understand the position that these people were born into. Slavery wasn't being challenged 900 years ago. Everyone did it. The idea that it could be wrong was almost bizarre in the context of your world. Would YOU be the one that would bring to light that maybe this is wrong? I doubt it very much. You're a product of your environment as much as your individuality, probably more so. Almost all of us would have supported slavery back then. We may not like to believe that but it's just the way it is. Someday, our descendants will be looking back on us and shaking their heads at how evil we were.
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  9259.  @JhutaNabi  I didn't SAY that it was right. That's why we believe that child sacrifice is wrong today. We went through a cultural and social process to get to where we are today in some of those things. Now....address what I said. Had you lived in a society where child sacrifice is the norm, EVERYONE was taking part in it, would YOU be that special and enlightened one to speak out against it? Think about it and answer honestly. If you can be honest, you may find the answer to what is meant by the statement that it's not fair to judge them by our standards. It you truly believe that you would be that enlightened one, then you'd better check your arrogance.
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  9260. 1.1% of the world are now millionaires. They have at least 1 million dollars. Sunny has a net worth of 3 million. That means she's comfortably in the elite class. Whoopi is worth 60 million. She's WAY too comfortable in that class. No opportunities for black Americans, huh. Nothing I dislike more than rich elites talking about how unfair life in America is. No gratitude for anything.
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  9261. The Left will judge the entire police department on the action of a single police officer but we're not allowed to judge protesters, on our neighbourhood street, on the actions of violent "peaceful" protesters downtown. Yeah....they're nuts.
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  9262. He's not stupid. He's caught up in a radical socialist ideology and like every ideologue, critical thinking goes out the window.
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  9263.  @ephraimwinslow  They THINK that they're being righteous. The socialist causes sound SO nice, so fair....how can it NOT be righteous. They can't understand the old axiom "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". It becomes worse when someone tries to point out the unintended consequences of those good intentions. They take it as a personal affront, as if you're accusing them of being evil, when quite often they're not evil. They're just misinformed and believe that if you don't believe in their just and fair causes, you must be the one responsible for things not working out. That causes them to just dig their heels in harder and it makes things even worse. They cannot believe that their good intentions, as an example, could be the cause of the homeless problem in San Francisco. How could that be? Their intentions are SO noble. It has to be those who, like me, think that these policies are the problem and who point out, greedy jerks that we are, that throwing our tax money at it, makes things worse, not better.
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  9264.  @kingofthecatnap5422  That name reveals all that we need to know about you. You nap while others work and make it possible for you to nap with a full belly.
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  9265.  @kingofthecatnap5422  I'm not even American and I'm old and retired. However, I still say that if you want things done, you have to get up and do it. That's how I lived my life. Waiting for someone else means sitting around and taking a lot of catnaps because it's not going to get done...EVER. No one sweeps my floor. I do it. I'd be wading through 6 inches of grime and dust if I waited for someone else to come do it. Just because you're disabled doesn't mean that everyone should live the life that you're forced to. If you can, do it.
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  9266.  @truthovercomes1273  You know that and I know that but you'll never convince this kokoskokso. He's a troll and really has nothing to offer but accusations and gossip. Good comment, though.
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  9267. When I saw the picture, of this teacher, I saw a man that created a parody, a cartoon figure, of his perception of womanhood. It's unrealistic and an insult to those few women who have had to live with this their entire adult lives. It's no different than the drag queens, who I see as modern day minstrels, putting on "womanface" to parody women. The only difference is that we're outraged to see the minstrel shows today but we're supposed to be supportive of the modern drag queen "minstrel" show. That teacher is nothing but a narcissistic clown.
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  9268. This isn't an interview. An interview is when one asks a question, of another person, and then listens to the full answer. Then he asks another question, sometimes based on the previous answer and, if not, another topic. You do NOT shout over the person being interviewed so no one can hear or understand the answer to the question. Hasan is the media arm of the Democrat party and is completely lacking in integrity. The press is supposed to asked question that is should reveal the truth and not practise in "gotcha" moments. That's the problem with the media, right now.
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  9269. Sunny is asking "Where is the compassion?" That's right, Sunny. You're living in the liberal, compassionate, socialist state of New York and this state will NOT take Jordan Neeley in hand, place him where he can get medical and psychiatric care 24/7, give him a warm bed and good food so he can, hopefully, recover from his difficulties. Instead, they turn him loose on the world, where he can do as he will, inevitably, give in to the demons in his brain and end up ending his life. There is no compassion in those people who are claiming to care for Neeley, a minority. They don't care one bit about him, unless he can be used to further their own political agenda. The great socialist state of New York failed Jordan Neeley, the very state that YOU, Sunny Hostin, support.
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  9270. Yet, if the didn't lead with the news of war, how would we even know that it's happening? I don't like what undertakers do but it is necessary to do it. I may not like news of the war, but it's important that I know about it.
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  9271.  @franciscojuarez4994  That's why Cuomo said that it would be a disaster if the rich people leave New York....and they are. They're leaving New York and California because the taxes are so high. Even ordinary people have had it with the taxes and regulations. Both are the homeless capitals of the US. These states have been the showcase for the saying "the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer." Now it's catching up to them and the middle class has shrunk immensely and those states have no choice but to tax the rich....and the rich don't like it. They don't like it and they're leaving. That's when the good times will be over.
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  9272. This is a culture war of independent and individual thought against the mob mentality of group think. They act as a unit. We act as individuals. However, when the antagonism gets too tough, we will unite to face them. We're still a part of the community and we will act to defend that community and the individuals that make it up. They won't defend the individual but they will attack him. It's how they destroy us, one individual at a time. Never let that happen.
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  9273.  @911WASanINSIDEjob420  Definitely is a POS but so are lots of people that I know. I don't spend my time talking about them. Unless they're breaking the law and seriously hurting people, there isn't much I CAN do but talk about them and that's just too close to gossip for my liking.
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  9274.  @911WASanINSIDEjob420  Everyone has their own pet cause that they think is a priority. Tim is calling out Antifa, who have shown themselves to exceptionally violent, as Andy Ngo could attest to. Babbling on about Murphy and Eliza may have its uses but it's pretty safe. Going after Antifa can invite violent reprisals and Tim has already had over 15 police swats at his home and studio. He's going after those who might retaliate with REAL violence, not someone who might just call him names and say mean things about him. So, I'll give him a pass on Eliza, who's nothing but a big mouth anyway. Sticks and stones......you know how it goes.
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  9275.  @polderrican  Yeah, he's being a weird pervert but he's not attacking anyone. No one is in the hospital, fighting for their life or getting bones reset. The group called Antifa, got into a gunfight with police. An officer was shot and the police fired back, killing the Antifa shooter. Then Antifa called for the murder of police officers. They burnt down homes under construction, fire bombed cars, smashed windows and assaulted ordinary citizens. Do you know what I say? Jack Murphy.....molehill. Antifa......mountain. Don't try to turn Murphy into a mountain. He's weird but all this came into the news almost a year ago. The Atlanta stuff is happening right NOW. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
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  9276.  @makeamericasmartagain3974  Explain to me, then, why China has some of the worst pollution problems in the world. It's run by the Chinese Communist Party, strongly socialist to its core. No one can complain about the issue. The Party allows it and the Party is the only one who can change it and they won't. It's why American corporations have gone to China. A lot of money to be made when you don't have to deal with laws and the ire of the average citizen who can start a class action suit against you. Try that in a socialist country.
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  9277.  @vladtepes481  LOL. Hitler is another example of how socialism will go wrong. No matter the propaganda of the left, Fascists are socialists.
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  9278. A lot of anger, personal attacks and name calling but not a lot of substance. What, in this video, do you object to? Be specific. Don't start with the name calling. Actually discuss what this video is about and what was said.
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  9279.  @tamarasauls8855  It still doesn't negate what this video is all about. You give the impression that you're invalidating the video by personally attacking Beck. Like I said, all you've said could be true, but what does that have to do with the video? Discuss the topic. Don't discredit one of the speakers and then leave it at that. It accomplishes nothing to understanding what was said in the video.
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  9280.  @mikegleghorn5437  I've said this earlier, what you've said about these guys may well have merit, however that doesn't take away from what's being presented in the video. You can't, in any future discussion on what is being talked about, in the video, deride the letter, written by Jefferson, because you first heard about it from Glenn Beck. That letter still exists, with or without Beck, and you have to deal with it, as if Beck doesn't exist. A refusal to discuss it because of this one man, doesn't disprove or prove, what's being said. The only thing that does that is by using your intellect in a reasoned and logical manner. You're basically doing what an 8 year old does in a school yard. "You're stupid" might work at recess but not between supposedly intelligent adults.
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  9281.  @tamarasauls8855  Thanks. I appreciate that you took the time to watch it. There are so many that lack that kind of integrity. That's a big "good on you".
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  9282.  @E_Ten  So it takes 50+ years to determine whether it's safe or not? They've used it for malaria, arthritis, Lupus and Lyme disease....millions upon millions of doses around the world and they don't even know if it's safe or what the long term effects are? I'm 68. If I contract Covid, I could die within a week or 2. Do I care about long term effects? Maybe in 15 years, when I'm 83, I'll have breathing problems. Maybe not. I'll never know it Covid kills me, will I. Covid kills the elderly. My dad is now 88. I haven't seen him in 5 months because of Covid and I'm finally visiting him tomorrow. If he gets Covid, what does he care about long term effects? He's in excellent health but he knows that he's going soon and he treats it with humour. A friend phones him at 9 every morning and he answers "Yup...I'm still alive!!!". However, he doesn't want to die this week, either and if he does get Covid and he feels HCQ is his best option, who cares about long term effects? He doesn't. Long term effects are meaningless when you don't have a long term. I could still have another 20 years but I don't know that. So many of the people that I've known for all my life are gone already. 70 was the lifespan when I was a kid. I'm basically there. It's the elderly that we're trying to save and you don't want to give them a drug due to long term effects when most don't have a long term ahead of them.
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  9283.  @E_Ten  Says who. So it's better for my dad to risk death because if he skips the process the consequences would be catastrophic. OKAY......that makes sense. I guess risk assessment is left up to others because we're not mature or smart enough to assess it on our own. We need the to be told by our superiors. I get testing drugs for safety so it can be safely recommended within parameters, but to withhold meds for a life threatening illness when there's nothing else is taking bureaucratic interference to a new level. "It might help but we haven't tested this safe drug for that, so NO....you can't have it" However if you have arthritis and you're muscles hurt....no problem. People are dying NOW but don't give it a shot because something MIGHT happen in the future. This isn't an ordinary situation but what the heck. We'll do nothing until a vaccination is developed or herd immunity is attained at 70 percent exposure. As for ethics, what's more ethical? To try it because there are reasons why it would work or wait until till hope for the best because people refuse to see that the elderly have the most to lose by not trying and really nothing to lose by trying. Gotta have the process. Imagine watching a loved one die, just to have them tell you 3 months from now, testing is done and it's okay to use. Whew.....what a relief.....for others.
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  9284.  @E_Ten  How could you know that sugar pills would be just as effective when it hasn't been tested? I've seen more than one doctor say that it works and you have this one test that says it doesn't. Besides, if it's no different than sugar pills, like you claim, what's the harm? Actually more harm for the sugar pills. He's diabetic.
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  9285.  @E_Ten  It's my idea of a joke.
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  9286. Lee didn't look for it. She had it and used it to get preferential treatment. There was racism involved, in this incident, but it wasn't from the school teacher. It was from Sheila Jackson Lee. She knew that what she was doing was wrong but she thought that she could use her privilege to browbeat that teacher and make her the bad guy. A disgusting display of the arrogance of the elites.
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  9287.  @mikeydflyingtoaster  That's the answer to everything. If you don't like their views.....they're very sympathetic to Russia. Tulsi Gabbard...Russian asset. Jill Stein....another Russian asset. Donald Trump....Russian stooge. It spills over into Canada, as well with your accusation of Lauren Southern along with a truck load of YouTubers. If they lean right, or it appears that they lean that way....they have to be Russian assets. All I see, when I read your comment, is one in the pay of the CCP. China has been a traditional enemy of Russia for centuries and you're trying to smear Russia because it helps China. See....anyone can play that stupid game.
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  9288. I'm not sure on what you mean. As far as I can tell, the people on Jan. 6th set back the movement against the corporate elites, immensely. Thankfully, the establishment seems to be shooting themselves in the foot by overhyping the narrative. I've said it over and over. We can't outfight them. We have to outsmart them. The protesters can't charge headlong at them. They have to wait for the establishment to charge at them. The establishment has to escalate the situation into violence and it has to be obvious. The country has to be appalled at them, NOT the protesters.
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  9289. I'm not sure where your problem is with this video unless its how he says the VA belts are dangerous. It's dangerous because it could damage the onboard computers and guidance systems. These electronic components were not on the Apollo moon mission rockets. Back then the computers were monstrous and couldn't even fit into your living room. So they didn't need to have the shielding to protect the electronics on board the Apollo ships. If the computer systems fail on the new ships, like this Orion, it could shut down the guidance systems so you can't steer anymore or worse, the life support systems. That's the danger they face now and its not real danger. It's like your car. Back then, cars didn't have all the electronic gizmos they have now. Space ships are the same. If they fail in your car, your car will quit but you won't die. If you're in space and the computers fail, you'll die because all life support machines will quit. I can't for the life of me, understand why it's so hard to grasp this concept.
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  9290. I don't see the contradiction that you're talking about. The only one that I've ever heard of was how dangerous the VA belts are and that NASA admits it in this video. They don't admit this at all. That is a contradiction from a misconception that some people have about the VA belts. I don't see any other contradictions.
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  9291. Jim Taylor The most radiation that the astronauts went through during the Apollo missions was 11.4 rads. That's well below the standards set for workers in nuclear plants. 100 rads can have health affects and over 1000 rads is likely to be fatal. The Apollo flights went through the VA belts at the pole where the belts are not as thick. Thus, they avoided the wider parts and spent shorter times in the belts. The VA belts are an area of the magnetic field which store radiation from the sun and protects the earth from the sustained effects of radiation. Sometimes there are major solar events that get through and still effect the earth. In 1859, there was a major solar storm that hit the earth called the Carrington Event. The effects of this storm knocked out telegraphs all over Europe and North America and even gave electrical shocks to telegraph operators. Yet, no one died from the effects of the radiation from that storm. However, in space beyond the VA belts, it could have been a problem for astronauts. If such an event were to happen again, it would be disastrous for electronic equipment on earth. It might take years in some areas to restore electrical power and it would cost in the trillions to bring back the power levels to what they are now. Moon mission hoaxers do a lot of talking about the VA belts but they don't have the numbers or stats to back it up. This was not the first time I seen the film you recommended and all it has ever said is that it would be dangerous to electrical components in any modern spacecraft. Dangerous, just like the Carrington Event, in which telegraphs were damaged but people were not. That is the danger. Hoaxers just extrapolate the danger to people to satisfy their own suspicious agenda. It won't be long before you'll have new agencies to call liars. NASA won't be the only ones any more. The Chinese are planning manned missions as well. When they do, they'll be the new liars. Conspiracy types won't run out of stuff to be suspicious of for a long time. Moon hoaxers will have a field day in the future.
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  9292. What irony. They hire people that see social justice transgressions everywhere and end up being the targets of the very people that they hired, who accuse THEM of social justice transgressions. They didn't think that they're a part of "everywhere". They're getting shot with their own metaphorical gun.
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  9293. Kicky Which is incredible, considering the willingness so many people have to call Kavanaugh a rapist on absolutely no evidence. I guess when it suits your agenda it ok to call someone a rapist and other times it's not. This could apply to those on both sides of the fence. Had 5 frat guys did the exact same thing today, I wonder what the response would be from both parties. Maybe it would be the same kind of circus that we saw with Kavanaugh. Guilty until proven innocent.......or......innocent until proven guilty. I forget which one our system of law is based on. Maybe you could remind me.
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  9294.  @marksamuel5347  When he does release those files and Trump's not one them, will you accept that? Or will you say that any records with his name on it have been destroyed? Would you ever accept that there's no evidence of Trump's innocence in the Epstein matter? Or will it be like the Muller Report which basically says that they've found no evidence of wrongdoing but that doesn't mean that he's not guilty. You do realise that it's innocent until proven guilty and NOT guilty until we find the evidence that proves that he's guilty. Until then....he's guilty.
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  9295. Nothing will change. The Democrats will just claim that the redacted lines of the document are hiding Trump's wrongdoing. Even if they open the entire thing without redaction, they'd still interpret the way that want. Nadler is the perfect example. Candace Owens...."You must think that black people are stupid" Nadler...."You must refrain from calling the congressman stupid" Candace ....."I didn't call him stupid. You weren't listening". Nadler shrugs...."You may proceed". Paraphrased but it catches the gist of the exchange. Nadler hears what he wants to hear and he'll do the same with that Mueller Report. That's how the modern Democrat operates.
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  9296.  @westberryjim  I guess those statistics, that I cited, didn't impress you one bit. You just plain ignored them and went on, in an hysterical panic, insisting that your child is in imminent danger, EVERY day from Covid. Yet, and I'll bet you don't even care, that your daughter is in greater danger of dying of being permanently maimed every time you strap her into a car seat belt. You'd drive around, without a care in the world, even though she's 2.5 times more likely to die in that car than of Covid. Your fear is irrational and based on media propaganda, not the facts OR SCIENCE. In fact, you're using your daughter as a political prop to support a political ideology. When you ignore the science and still insist on the horrific menace to your daughter's life, that's the only conclusion that I can arrive at. This isn't about your daughter. This is about your own need to show how much you care about others. You're like the Pharisee, praying out loud so all can hear....." “I am not like other men – robbers, evil-doers and adulterers” and then proceeds to outline all the good things that he has done.
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  9297. It's blood. Most sane human beings are repulsed at the sight of blood. It's so stigmatised that when I worked at a huge baking facility, if you scratched your finger while working, they would throw the current batch of product into the garbage. The line would be shut down and an intense, 4 hour cleanup would commence. The line would NOT start again until the cleanup was completed. That was for a tiny scratch from a male. These women are full of themselves.
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  9298.  @lizbrown7232  The NDP are socialists. They use blue collar worker to achieve centralised power. It's the biggest scam in politics.
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  9299.  @Jeff-ql3tg  The church does teach that right and wrong do exist and that everyone of us has the capacity for both and that redemption is for all who seek it. That is at the core of Christian beliefs, even the Catholic Church. That doesn't mean that EVERY Christian will do the right thing, EVERY time they do something. No one is perfect and the church is no more perfect than anyone else. They do encourage one to turn their life toward trying to do right. They don't always succeed but that's a human frailty.
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  9300.  @anasueiras4668  Do you know her personally? Time for a tell all book deal if you do. I think that she's generally a private person and doesn't like to let her emotions show too much. In fact, I think that people who judge those they don't know personally are no better than gossips.
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  9301.  @Highley1958  You're absolutely correct. We should leave the homeless out in the streets to die. It's the compassionate thing to do.
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  9302.  @HgHg-yp6ft  I'm talking about Biden and the Democrats, who claim that the pipeline cancellation was a good thing. I'm saying that whatever good that they've came up with is nothing to the bad that it's caused. Loss of jobs, higher oil prices, the loss of our oil reserves to lower the higher cost that THEY created and a greater dependence on foreign oil because we've went from the top oil producer to third in the world. I'm not even sure why you're having a problem with my comment. I'm agreeing with you. Why would you argue or nitpick?
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  9303.  @basictas-g5q  It would be our oil, to do with as we please, including redirecting it for domestic markets and to keep our oil reserves at maximum levels. Every nation is better off producing its own energy. In fact, lack of energy resources is a major reason for poverty in 3rd world countries. People, in the 3rd world, are dying because of lack of resources and Biden wants to stifle our production. Besides, where did you get the 1 cent number from?
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  9304.  @A_Jeff  Yes, it is being produced in Canada. Our economies are closely tied to one another. What's good for the US economy is also good for Canada. it's been that way since WW2. It's a lot easier, for the US, to negotiate oil deals with its closest economic ally than it would be to do so with other nations, who are further away and are ideologically and economically different. Also, most of those producers are American companies and the oil being shipped is owned by Americans. What do Canadians care who's buying the oil? It's a lot easier and cheaper to send and sell it next door than it is to send it all over the world. This is poor reasoning on your part. It makes no sense to conserve energy by using MORE energy to ship it further away, than it would be to ship it next door. It's like shopping for bananas 100 miles away over the store down the street. In the pipeline case, when there's a disaster, natural or man made, it makes more sense to have the potential to have access to local oil than to depend on foreign oil. It's how one prepares oneself for future emergencies.
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  9305.  @zachfreedom644  That would include common sense. No matter what, they'll use anything that we say against us and they'll use the most convoluted logic imaginable. They don't care about logic, truth or accuracy because they believe that there is no such thing as truth. That everything is about a "lived" experience, your truth. You can't argue with the ideologically possessed. You can only hope to get through to those you are sitting on the fence, who have the courage to ask questions and seek true answers.
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  9306.  @manw3bttcks  So, isn't it fortunate, for the US, that the oil produced in Canada is heavy crude. The American top economic ally, who lives right next door and is willing to use refineries in the US, is producing EXACTLY what you say that America needs. That pipeline would have put that oil on American soil. Isn't that lucky? Apparently not. Better to buy it from the Arabs or even Venezuela, who Biden had even asked if they would produce more....the SAME heavy crude oil that America already had a deal for with Canada and cancelled. So now no pipeline, no refineries in Louisiana and no potential to siphon off the crude oil for our own needs and the stoppage of production in Canada. I still can't see the benefits to the economy by stopping the pipeline.
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  9307. That's true but it does explain why they can't see how ridiculous and incompetent Biden is. He's in the throes of dementia but they can't bring themselves to tear him down. His mind is no better than a child's mind at most times and they must validate what he says, just like they would a child. Praising everything a child says and does will NOT build childhood self-esteem. It brings a sense of entitlement which becomes obnoxious very quickly. What builds esteem is to be honest with them. Let them know when they've failed. Don't do for them what they can do for themselves and be supportive in the things that they attempt over their young lives. That's how you build a well rounded person.....and one that's likeable, too.
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  9308. I always kind of laughed at the premise of the movie "Soylent Green". It's a non-sustainable idea. Every year around 60 million people die around the world. If you divide those dead people among all the people, at the world average weight of 136 pounds, everyone gets 1.16 pounds of Soylent Green to eat, for the entire year. Since most people eat between 3 to 4 pounds a day, they'd have breakfast on Jan 1st and go hungry for the rest of the year. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't add up, even if they farmed humans for food.
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  9309. I really like that comparison. It was a major factor in destroying the communist hold behind that iron curtain.
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  9310.  @josephwatts8022  But that's NOT what I said or asked. I wondered why it was he only mentioned the one time, a party affiliation. Why did he do that? Was there a reason for HIM to do that? I never once mentioned what party I thought was the most corrupt. I only wondered why HE SAID that this guy was a Republican when he NEVER said a party affiliation for any other corrupt politician. Please try to comprehend what I was asking. I repeat, I was not looking to see about who was the most corrupt. I was questioning the motives of the guy making the video. Do you get it, now?
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  9311.  @josephwatts8022  I did and so have others and I've not seen his answer.
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  9312. There has been a Civil War in Yemen for 10 years. Around 377,000 people are dead because of this conflict, including 85,000 children who died of starvation. Starvation is one of the worst ways for a person to die. Yet, where have the protesters been when this was going on? I can tell you where. At home. These protests aren't about war or people dying. It's about an ideology that's anti-Semitic and its adherents who are using the "coloniser" assignation as their ideological excuse to support the Palestinians against the Jews. They have the same philosophy as the National Socialists of Germany. It's all about race and Socialism. Certain races are colonisers and evil capitalists and must be punished for their past crimes, exactly what that painter from Austria advocated for. We're STILL not learning from history.
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  9313.  @scottfarner5100  Let's assume that you're right about everything. Explain to us all why Biden hasn't done a THING to alleviate the problem. Name one thing that Biden has done concerning immigration. Biden is the president now. It's up to him to fix the problem NOT some president that was voted out. Remember, Trump LOST the election. He has NO power. Biden does. So what's he doing about it?
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  9314. Then why do the WPATH files reveal that there are doctors, at WPATH, who feel that their policies aren't based on science and are, at best, experimental? I remember the lobotomy fiasco. Then the Oxycontin mess which killed thousands. Doctors aren't omnipotent. They make mistakes and are just as vulnerable to indoctrination as anyone else. You'd think that the example of Joseph Mengele and his associates would have made this clear.
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  9315. In my bartending days, I knew guys like those doctors. They'd win arguments by censoring their opponents, too. A nice way of saying "They knocked them out".
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  9316. @MorganSullivan Quit pointing fingers and quit living in the past. This is a NOW problem not a problem of the 70s. Like my dad used to say. The war is over. Put down your weapons and work on the problems of today.
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  9317.  @tonyrmathis  I'm smart enough to read through the self-censoring to get the point that he's trying to make. I don't need him to smack me over the head with blunt statements that can only get him kicked off of YouTube. I rely on Tim's objective style to help to keep me informed and I don't want to see him gone because some people want to see him get censored. I can only come to one conclusion. You're trying to goad him into saying something that would get him the boot. Nice try, SJW. He's not going to do it. You'll not get him censored using that strategy.
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  9318. This Biden breakdown reminds of Captain Queeg, played by Humphrey Bogart, in the movie "The Caine Mutiny" when during his trial, Queeg went off on an incoherent monologue that destroyed his case. That's how bad Biden looked. How the Democrat hierarchy and his family couldn't see that this was inevitable is beyond me.
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  9319. A typical response from someone who talks about the person instead of his ideas. Strange that, for a fascist, he's been strongly critical of Hitler and the abuses of his time as the Fuhrer. However, it could also be that you've not really listened to the guy at all. I'd bet that's the reality of it.
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  9320.  @paulmorgan4369  Hitler was a powerful speaker. He held his audience enthralled and they hung on his every word. I don't get it. I've read Mein Kampf and listened to him give his speeches. It all sounds nuts to me but I don't count. It's that German audience that counted and they were spell bound. The books I've read, written by those who lived in Germany consistently confirm it. I can't say whether this was intentional on Hitler's part but he definitely had his audience in his hands. It's like listening to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. I thought he sounded whacked but lots of people were moved by his sermons. He had something that attracted him. So did Hitler. I repeat, my assessment of his oratory abilities are irrelevant. It's how the German people received them and they loved it.
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  9321.  @paulmorgan4369  The Treaty of Versailles caused the economic conditions that left the Germans ripe for resentment. Without the harshness of that Treaty, Hitler would not have had an audience that was ripe for the picking. Had the economic conditions in Germany not been so terrible, Germans wouldn't have followed Hitler or Nazism. People, experiencing good times, would not have felt the anger necessary for Hitler to exploit. That's common sense. It doesn't validate or rationalise Hitler's actions or beliefs. It explains why people followed him. Also, Douglas Murray isn't a Neo-fascist. He did tests on the IQ of certain groups and then he published the results. That's NOT fascism. It's straight out science. One can use that science in a positive or negative manner. Facts aren't racist. It's how one uses those facts that determines whether racism exists in that individual. How does it benefit Murray to say that Jews and Asians, on average, have higher IQs than the race he belongs to? That doesn't even make sense.
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  9322. So there, Mr Expert "medical man", how DOES the virus spread? Tell us, O wise one. Why is it that the big cities, where people are living so much closer together and we see huge crowds, have so many more cases than rural areas. Could it be because contact spreads the virus or is it just plain magic? I like magic. That David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear so magic is a viable answer to how it's spreading. Don't let your desire and need to work interfere with common sense.
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  9323. @Jack Chevy They're not fighting for the common little old lady, though. They HATES them.
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  9324. "The Great Reset". Of course they say things are going their way. This is what's needed for that "great society" that they have planned for us. They're only getting started.
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  9325.  @chasethehistorian2003  You're the one that filling every comment section with snide remarks about him but none of it that says anything. If you think that he's such a failure, why don't YOU explain yourself?
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  9326.  @PvtFlowers  Yes, I have. It was called "The Children of God" at the time although they've re-invented themselves many times over the years. This was in Daytona Beach in 1972. They tried to recruit me and when I resisted, using the Bible as evidence against their claims they stopped the conversation, instantly. They all took on a very stubborn and angry expression, gathered their stuff and left. As the weeks went by, they were on the beach and boardwalk, looking for new recruits all the time. However, if I approached the group, because I knew the person that they were talking to, they would automatically gather their stuff and leave. I found out later, from a guy who they did recruit but left, that they were all instructed NOT to talk to me. I thought it was hilarious at the time....I was only 19.....the cult phenomenon was just starting to hit the news at the time, culminating in the Jimmy Jones killings and I wasn't familiar with it at the time. The one thing in common with "The Children of God" and guys like the one shown in the video, is their anger and the impossibility of discussing disagreements with them. Both groups refuse to discuss, investigate or fact check. If someone proves them wrong, they get angry and leave and will refuse to accept the evidence that shows their errors. The next time you hear from them, they'll still be using the same arguments that were proven wrong. I've found the same thing with flat earthers, birthers, chemtrail believers, truthers and more. They don't care about the facts. All they know is their fear, their hatred and their loyalty to their cause. If that's not a cult, then it's as close to being one as it can get.
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  9327.  @blardymunggas6884  Sky News is conservative. ABC is the left wing news in Australia and reflects what the government believes. FOX News is the conservative news in the US and does not reflect the mainstream at all. You would be correct if you said that they were conservative sources of propaganda, which is different than what you said.
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  9328.  @uncledraw7050  What a ridiculous statement. Gangs commit murder. That's NOT worse than some kids drawing this on pavement? Are you serious? A few years ago, my son drew a swastika on his school binder cover. He was 13 years old. I told him about WW2 and how the Nazis invaded our country and how his grandmother almost starved to death because of it. He knew about it but it had never really sunk in. He thought it was a cool looking symbol. The next day he drew something over it so you couldn't see it anymore. It's a tempest in a teapot. If there were hordes of swastika wearing, brownshirts damaging property that belonged to Jews and assaulting them, you'd have a point. They don't even know who did it or why. They're losing their minds over nothing.
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  9329.  @uncledraw7050  My apologies but I've read comments that were a lot more ridiculous than the one you made and they were quite serious. I thought you were one of those. Glad it was sarcasm actually. I don't like authentic stupidity. Sorry for my mistake.
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  9330.  @Czah5  Couldn't agree more. A bunch of young teens giggling away about how big a fuss they're causing. Draw a penis with some chalk, it gets cleaned up. The teens giggle and it's forgotten. Draw a swastika and it makes the news. Twenty years from now, they'll be sitting together, having a beer, and laughing about what little a-holes they were.
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  9331.  @stephentoth6003  LOL. There is a curling rink behind my apartment building that is facing a high school football field. High school kids sit against it while watching the game. On the other side of field is a major highway. Once or twice, every summer, one of them paints a big dick on the side of the building with black paint on the white curling rink wall. You can see it driving by on that highway. It'll sit there for a few hours, sometimes a day until someone paints it white. It's been going on for years. I've seen a swastika drawn there as well. No one has ever been caught and the police, school and the people at the curling club just shrug their shoulders and get on with things. The bigger a fuss you make of it, the more likely they'll do it again. It's what some kids are like.
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  9332.  @greybone777  Why would you mock this person for declaring that he'd never vote Democrat, EVER. You'd think that you'd be happy that the Democrats have lost another voter. NOPE.....you have to show how you're STILL the superior one. It's almost as if you're a Democrat, who's trying to make Republicans look bad, in the hopes of turning this person away from voting Republican. Either that or you're just a troll. Neither position is a good look.
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  9333.  @Lollygagger-k4p  That's why the swamp in Washington and blue states HATED Trump. He said that he was going to try and get rid of the swamp and they've been trying everything and anything possible to get rid of him. Most of us hate what our different levels of government have become. Extremely corrupt bureaucrats who are slipping cash into each other's bank accounts. This will continue until you start using your vote to fight this corruption and to call out the reps who don't stand with you. It's not going to be easy but if we don't, our country will destroy itself.
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  9334.  @silviaquesada2499  I suppose that's a joke. It's rather a weak joke if it is. Markle went there as a tourist to honour the Invictus Games which her husband founded. It doesn't have anything to do with claiming asylum. I know Markle is a spoiled brat but I just don't get what your point is.
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  9335.  @sandrajayandran  My point is this. 1---- What does this have to do with the Igbo mask that is being held at Oxford? 2---How did Megan Markle get into this conversation. Even if you're replying to the original comment of this thread, it still makes no sense as it has nothing to do with seeking asylum in Nigerian. This is a comment that's coming out of left field. It's bad enough that the comment about asylum is off topic. Now we're talking about Markle. I'd rather talk about the hockey game tomorrow night, if we're going to go off topic. I wonder if they watch hockey in Nigeria.
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  9336.  @silviaquesada2499  Which means that your reference to Markle means nothing to the topic....the topic being about a mask that they claim should be in Nigeria. i'm not seeing how she fits into this. That's what loses me. What does Markle have to do with this mask?
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  9337. Damn, if only more people were like this guy. What a great world this would be. Just when you lose all hope for the sanity of humanity, a guy like this comes along and restores it. There's still hope that people will come to their senses.
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  9338. Liberal comedians are trying too hard to manufacture humour. Conservatives are more prone to see the humour and then comment on it creating laughter. I've seen Crowder do impersonations of Trump that are both hilarious yet have a ring of truth to it. Life is funny Liberals. See the humour in life and your comedy will be a lot more effective.
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  9339. That quote should be posted at every university in the west. Every Che t-shirt wearing leftie should be forced to read it and then justify why he would wear such a shirt. What scares me is that many will agree with Che and what he said.
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  9340.  @darthfader733  It's funny how they cherry pick the quotes they'd like to follow. I suppose, once indoctrinated enough, they'll be exposed to your original quote. It would be interesting to see the reaction of these students if your original quote was signed "Donald Trump".
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  9341. I know lots of people that voted for this and a lot of them are men. They're so filled with hate that they'd vote for anything, any policy, no matter how much it hurts the country, so long as it defeats Trump. It's like when Castro said that he'd sacrifice the lives of every Cuban if it meant the destruction of the United States. It's the same thing, not as in your face, but the same on a different scale.
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  9342.  @MBAZ1961  That's why you BELIEVE as Muslims. Israel, or Jacob, is one of the patriarchs of Israel that's what Jews and Christians believe. Also, the Bible speaks of the kingdom of Israel. A kingdom is a place. That's what Jews and Christians believe. They believed it long before Mohammed was born or the Koran was written.
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  9343.  @fullstackweebdev  Socialism needs enemies. For the Bolsheviks and Marxists, it's the upper classes or the Bourgeoisie. The Nazis it was the Jews and Gypsies and to a lesser extent the Slavs, Jews being both the creator of Capitalism and Marxism. For the new socialists, it's the white male patriarchy, the great colonisers. Chairman Mao hated the cultural past of the Chinese and viewed those who kept the Chinese traditions as the enemy.....the consistent element that there's always an enemy. Socialism is always looking outward looking, it's supporters always looking for someone that they can use to validate their resentment and envy.
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  9344. Apparently, McCarthyism isn't a specific era in history. Evidently, it's way bigger than that. Who will take on the role of Joseph Welch and ask "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" I'd ask but no American will listen to a Canadian. We need someone with the guts to stand up to this insidious new tyranny and it has to come from an American.
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  9345.  @jonnybaze7449  I'll refer to my response to wilcox2146. If you don't expect it of yourself, you can't demand it of others. That's the hypocrisy.
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  9346.  @kelleygreengrass  A person of integrity doesn't expect others to do what he refuses to do himself, expecting others to behave in a certain manner but not him. What arrogance to expect others to follow rules but the same rules that he sets for others don't apply to him. That's as narcissistic as it gets.
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  9347.  @OliverDePlace  They won't be. Millions of people are losing their jobs, people are sick and maybe dying, people are watching their savings melt away and the Democrats are worried about WHAT???? PLANE EMISSIONS!!!!! Diversity in corporate board rooms. Is this what you want to hear, from your doctor, when your deathly ill? "I'll give you medical care but you'd better be sure that your car has clean emissions or I'm outta here". That would be the end of that guy as my doctor, just like the American public is going to get rid of their Democrat reps this fall. You're dreaming if you think the average person, in the US, is happy with what the Democrats did today.
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  9348.  @TH3M0L3CUL3M4N  It's 1200 per person and 500 per child. Get it right.
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  9349.  @OliverDePlace  Yes.....that would be a great election strategy for Trump, wouldn't it. You're making stuff up, predicting the future. What are you....some kind of psychic? Got a crystal ball or something? It's all Trump and his team have been talking about. 1200 bucks per person and 500 bucks per child and the Democrat Senators had to agree and it was done. If Trump reneged, like your crystal ball says, the Dems win the next election.....for sure and without a doubt. I have to warn you, though. Most people don't believe in crystal balls or internet prophets. If the Dems don't come through soon, they'll lose the next 4 elections. Besides, Trump can renege on ANY package the Dems propose and pass, so blocking it helps NO ONE and potentially devastates the average American. It either gets done and you're right or it gets done and you're wrong....but make the Dems quit STALLING. We don't care about plane emissions.
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  9350.  @TH3M0L3CUL3M4N  This isn't a carte blanche. This will be in the form of loans and tax cuts if they rehire laid off worker. This isn't like 2009. That recession was the fault of banks who were bilking the public with unethical lending schemes. It was the fault of the corporations. The corporations didn't ask for this no more than the victims of the coronavirus did. What good is a package for laid off workers if the companies they work for go bankrupt and they have no place to work at when this is all over? That would be a disaster for the workers and for all Americans. That's why this bill has to be passed quickly and decisively, so people all across the board can feel some hope for the future. Democrats attaching tax cuts for solar panels is ridiculous and does nothing to help the crisis right now.
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  9351.  @TH3M0L3CUL3M4N  It's going to be looked after by the administration that was elected to do that job. We need to have those large corporations solvent. You can't just say we're not going to help anyone because someone will try to take advantage of it. People take advantage of the welfare system, too. We're not going to stop it just because of the cheats. As for trusting Trump, why would anyone trust any politician? What makes one more honest than the next and how would you or I know who's worse than the next one? We just plain don't have any idea about that but we have to accept what it is because that's all we have. It's either that or do NOTHING. That doesn't sound like a very good option, at all.
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  9352.  @OliverDePlace  So, his proposal is going to funnel money to Trump Towers or something like that? No one would want that. Not even Tucker Carlson would be good with it. That money is for businesses that are in trouble and lots of them are facing serious financial setbacks, possible ruin. The "for his own benefit" is a reading between the lines exercise that Trump haters engage in. Don't make decisions based on emotion and don't hate big business because they have more money than you. If a huge corporation goes under, due to the economic effects of the virus and the lockdowns, no one will benefit and the hardest hit won't be the executives. It'll be the bottom workers, the cleaners, assembly line workers, people who will come out of this with their finances depleted and no job to go to. Worse they'll be fighting other workers, for jobs, who lost them because the big corporation, that you hate, have also gone bankrupt and these big companies DO GO BANKRUPT. This isn't about FOX and I hardly ever go on Facebook and when I do, more people dislike Trump, in my circle, than do. Your entire premise starts out with "I hate Trump" and it expands from there to validate your hate. If there is 500 billion to help businesses, then there is OVER 500 billion to help others....the ordinary people. Also, are you seriously trying to say that tax cuts to wind and solar use, racial profile posting of corporate boards, aircraft emissions and this stuff is what we NEED right now? Hatred is an insidious drug. Get off it. It has destroyed more lives in history than any other single human endeavour.
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  9353.  @OliverDePlace  You're ignoring the stupid points of plane emissions, racial makeup reports of board members...etc. What is this doing here? How is this appropriate? If you're allegation is true about of allocation of funds, that would be an easy issue to settle, if that's all that the Democrats were worried about. It's not and the perception, to the average American is that Democrats are playing politics and using the crisis for their own agenda. I've seen it everywhere, even people that I know that hate Trump are scratching their heads, upset at what Pelosi is doing. It's terrible politics and if the Dems don't stand up and appear as if they're in it for ALL Americans and not just for special identity groups, they'll lose the election this fall and lose drastically. Most people sat in anticipation of a stimulus package being passed and all they're hearing is that the Democrats are blocking it. Besides, it that Trump, Mnuchin thing is the REAL obstacle, why throw in all these other issues. It only muddies the waters. All they have to do is centre on that. Make it a one issue problem that they're trying to solve. Americans would get that. They don't get what plane emissions have to do with the coronavirus. All the Dems have to do is make a provision to the package that would ensure that neither Trump nor Mnuchin can give their own enterprises money. It would be easy as it's illegal already.
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  9354. The progressives don't feel that they have to do anything to "fix" the problem. They feel that all they have to do is express their outrage and that should do it. It's self applied redemption. They're no different than the Pharisees, in the Bible. Big public displays of piety so everyone could see how dedicated they are. A shallow hypocritical display.
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  9355.  @Skankhunter420  Yeah....you're correct. I even knew that and have NO idea why I said LA. Must have been a slip of the typing finger. LOL. Thanks and corrected.
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  9356. She probably wouldn't be all that bad a speaker if she wasn't forced to lie all the time to keep her job. It's not easy to be a competent liar.
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  9357. The founders of BLM never had noble goals. They are self admitted Marxists and are using Black Americans as a political tool and a way to line their pockets. It seems contradictory but it's not. Marxists are more about envy and resentment than they are about caring for those who might need help. They just want to become the new elites and people fall for their soothing rhetoric.
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  9358. I'm rather doubtful that her 12 year old said anything like that. I'd say mom made the whole thing up. If it is true, what kind off sick things is she telling her daughter? Why would she scare the poor girl so badly? No matter what....there's something wrong with this woman.
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  9359.  @omigiekiel5968  Yes...it's entirely possible.
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  9360. I don't like the stuff, either. Maybe I'll one and just pour it out down the sink or give it to a friend.
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  9361.  @athel7764  LOL......nice try.
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  9362.  @Razorokc  "The post I commented on says crime goes down when you stop convicting crimes." It was a JOKE. It was cynicism at its best. He didn't actually mean it. He was poking fun at the political mindset of Democrats. They supported not convicting criminals in order to lower criminal statistics. That way they can brag that statistics prove that crime is going down. He's making fun of that horribly flawed logic. Are you seriously that thick that you're not getting what he meant? You've caused me to not only laugh at the Democrats but to start laughing at YOU. Grab a quarter and buy yourself a sense of humour. You'll enjoy life more.
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  9363. Not really, although it did feed my confirmation bias. I've believed it to be true for years. When I can't talk about my favourite childhood book, Huckleberry Finn, without apology, there is, definitely, something wrong out there.
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  9364.  @carolineatkins2900  Are you kidding me? RFK was never been the president. Not only was Trump the president, in the past, he's running AGAIN. He's the number one threat to the Democrats losing the next election and they want to take away a service that EVERY OTHER ex president is granted. They KNOW how hated he is by the radical left. If Trump was assassinated, it would put smiles on their faces. I wouldn't be surprised if you'd be high fiving your buddies if it happened. It's legalised mur--r. All you're doing is finding an excuse to ease your conscience.
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  9365.  @bobbrinkerhoff3592  The elites wanted Jeff to face that end. They would likely want the same for Trump but that might be the final straw for a lot of Americans if he ended up the same as Jeff. There are a lot more people that liked Trump. No one liked Jeff. A lot of people aren't sad that Jeff is gone but they don't like the idea that he won't be able to name names from Hades. The reaction from the millions of Trump supporters may finish the Democrats.
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  9366.  @Goober-o3n  I never said that he was. We were discussing it as a hypothetical, an "IF" he went to went to jail. How would I know if he's going to jail or not? I don't have a crystal ball. Relax, man. It's just a discussion. Name calling is a little over the top.
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  9367. Do the mayor and the Governor want to secede from the Union? That is a question that should be asked of them. If they're supporting a mob to take over a Federal building, that's not much different than the firing on Fort Sumter, a Federal property. It sure sounds like succession. Nancy Pelosi is out of her mind.
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  9368.  @traczebabe  They'd love to be rich. They just don't want to pay the price to reach any kind of financial success.
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  9369. Jesus was all about personal responsibility and he supported the idea of hard work and vilified the vice of envy. Envy is at the root of Socialism. I'd thought about the commandment against coveting for years. It didn't seem so bad until I realised what measures a person in the grips of coveting or its outcome, envy, could take. It is one of the most destructive forces on earth.
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  9370. There are some horrifically evil people out there. It's unbelievable that we can't acknowledge that. Look at MSNBC. They're pushing the knife crime story because they don't want people to think that it was a BLM supporter acting out his anger. The next question is this. Has BLM come out and denounced this crime and disassociated themselves from the person who would do such a thing? I honestly want to know.
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  9371.  @seanouellette676  Who films themselves having a mental breakdown? She's as narcissistic as it gets and is just seeking attention. That's why the fake tears. It got her internet fame, exactly what she was looking for.
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  9372. @TRUMP TRASH Have you ever heard of fire breaks? It's when you clear a swath of land, not ALL the land, but a 100 yard swath through the brush, so if a fire starts it will burn until it hits the cleared area. It's called prevention. Then you can still have the eco-friendly environment and still mitigate the damage that inevitable fires can cause. This has NOTHING to do with being a Trump supporter. It's called using your head.
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  9373.  @JamesRaider82  I learned that dead trees burn when I was in scouts. We used dead wood to start campfires. I was under the impression that everyone knew that. LOL.
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  9374. @TRUMP TRASH I grew up on a farm in a heavily wooded area. Brush grows and dies under the forest canopy, choked out due to lack of sunlight. Also branches and old trees will inevitable die and fall. California is extremely dry in those areas where the fires are running wild so all the dead brush doesn't rot. It's sits there, getting thicker and thicker and dryer, adding fuel to ground cover. After years of neglect and the dry tinder gathering, all it needs is a spark. If you don't know about these things, ask. Don't mock. Try to learn something. The natives knew how to manage the problem inherent in these environments so they didn't have to live with wildfire problems that we're seeing in California and in Australia. It's common sense.
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  9375.  @JamesRaider82  LOL. I guess I can feel superior. That's a little comfort but it's such common sense that there's really nothing to feel superior about.
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  9376.  @jcfra420  They're not associates or partners. They're employees. Unless they have money invested, that's all they are. It's just another example of word speak.
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  9377.  @daviddillon9645  "Drinking bleach for covid". No one told anyone to drink bleach to fix Covid. That's ridiculous. Trump asked Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx if anyone was researching the use of disinfectants internally to fight Covid. He also asked about internal light therapy. They answered that they knew of no one but apparently there is a company that is researching internal light therapy. Trump NEVER told anyone to drink or inject bleach. That's YOUR fantasy. Repeating it will only cause people to dismiss you and think that you're not quite all there. If you want others to take you seriously, quit talking so foolish.
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  9378. Good parents will lose their kids if they won't allow their child to medically change their gender. It's more than just bad parenting. It's an ideological contagion and very likely Marxist inspired.
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  9379.  @lisahardy9707  It's unclassified. Do you know what that means? That means that you can submit a request under the "Freedom of Information Act", an FOIA, in order to see that document and they can't refuse. They can't refuse that request because it isn't classified information. This is so crooked politicians can't cover up their corrupt activities so that every American citizen can determine whether there is wrongdoing or not. Why would you NOT want to see it? If Biden is using our tax money to put himself in a position to demand bribes I would think that you'd WANT to see it.....that you'd be angry that our president would do that. Instead, you're advocating for secrecy. It's almost as if you're a Biden family member or business partner. Why else would you want to keep it under wraps?
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  9380.  @metalman6708  What would you have a person do? Allow people to come in and steal anything they want? If the state won't protect you, who's left to do it? It's going to happen and the fault lies, not with the person protecting their problem, but with the elected officials who just happen to Democrats. This stupidity taken to the extreme.
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  9381. So.....the logic goes that if I condemn white supremacy, it's my fault if a white supremacist commits an atrocity? I guess I'd better not call out those Nazis anymore.
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  9382.  @Ryooken  FOX may be wrong when they claim that it's the ONLY reason why recruiting numbers are down but it is a factor. A FACTOR. Not the ONLY one but it is a mitigating factor. If you can't understand that difference, then you don't want do get it. You're ignoring that factor, one of the MANY factors, including the ones that you've listed. Your report came out in 2014. This was before the LGBT stuff was as prevalent as it is now. Also, this is a Department of Defence report. They're not about to report that they could be at fault for some of the problems. This report places the issue on external factors, absolving them of any responsibility for recruiting problems. That's human nature. No one wants to blame themselves, even if it's only a part of problem. People don't like to criticise themselves. If only 23% qualify, of those who apply, what about those that don't apply, for any reason, including the new progressive ideology. There's no way to know why they're not applying and people are quitting jobs over progressive policies. I know that if my company demands that I acknowledge my white privilege, I'd refuse. I don't care if they fire me or not. I don't do that. It's the same with pronoun stuff. You can't make me say or do anything that I don't want to say or do. That's no different than my boss telling me that I must become Catholic to work there. I ain't doing it and I would never voluntarily go to any government or business entity that does that per policy.
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  9383. HRH You've searched for monsters and you've found them. Now, you'll have to neutralise them. Legislate their actions. Make sure that your monsters no longer pose a threat. I will suggest some literature that might help in the fight against the monsters that threaten society. It's called "Mein Kampf" It's a blueprint that will help you to effectively deal with those monsters in the future so they'll never raise their ugly heads again in your country. Good luck.
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  9384.  @Colin22  That's all you got. "He's a grifter" Please explain why you believe that. "I predicted it!!!! He's a grifter!!!" How do you know that he didn't just change his mind on his political views? "He planned it. He's a grifter." How do you know he planned it? "Because he changed his mind....He's a grifter. That's what grifters do" You're a bot. No logic or reason, just a blank stubborn look on your face.
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  9385. What? The Democratic Party has been infiltrated by far left wing activists. They refuse to denounce Antifa, who've caused violence all over the country. They tacitly supported the MeToo movement by declaring Kavanaugh a rapist, even though there is no evidence to say that he ever raped anyone. Due process suddenly meant nothing to them because it no longer serves their political goals. They have avowed Socialists in their ranks, like Bernie Sanders, who heavily endorsed the Socialism in Venezuela which has become a political and economic disaster. The universities are bereft with Democrats who are attempting to quell anything to do with Republican or conservative politics. Berkeley just lost a court case in which they were forced to abandon their policies of discouraging conservative speakers on their campus, discouraging student Republican groups and told that "free speech zones" are unconstitutional. These were all policies by a faculty and students that support the Democratic Party. That's extremism, no matter how you look at it.
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  9386.  @fromthehaven94  The Garland thing was rotten to the core, as well. However, they didn't go after him to smear him and accuse him of heinous acts with no evidence. McConnell was just being an ass and he conned some of the other Republicans into supporting him. Garland should have been confirmed, there's no doubt of that. Republicans aren't perfect by a long shot. I've even leaned more to the Democrats over the years but they've become a disgrace over the last few years. Some of what they're saying and doing shows a complete lack of integrity. I'm not going to call Ford a liar because ultimately I don't know if she is or not, but since she can't offer one iota of corroborating evidence, I cannot call Kavanaugh a rapist. That's my objective call and I'd say a reasonable one. No one should be pronounced guilty without any evidence to support it. No one.
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  9387.  @silentnot4812  They didn't just wander the land. They had defined territories which they defended with extreme violence. However, they were decimated by European diseases and it destroyed their populations to the point that when the Europeans came to live here, the land seemed empty and in reality, it was. A great book to read is "1491". It describes just how sophisticated native Americans were and how European diseases devastated the populations. It even offers scientific evidence that explains why the natives were so vulnerable to those diseases. Too much of our history has been distorted through emotion and politics.
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  9388.  @jennybaboolal4777  The original comment was about smells in the change room. That's the smell of sweat not urine. I've been in lots of hockey and gym dressing rooms for men, and I can guarantee you that we're peeing in a bowl or urinal. We're not peeing just in any old place in the dressing room and I'm not peeing into my hockey bag.. If anyone was just peeing in the corner of the dressing room, the rest of us would be pissed at him. It could even start a fight. No....the smell in a dressing room is sweat not urine.
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  9389. Colbert, who has a net worth of 75 million dollars, has found a financial identity that he can rag on. It doesn't matter that he's WELL into the 1% of the American financial elites, he has this belief that he can claim to be better than those who have more money than him. He doesn't get, that to most Americans, he's no different than the billionaires. He's super rich, to the point that he's financially in a strata way beyond what the average American could even dream of. His audience are nothing but clapping seals. It's sad because there was a time when Colbert was a really good comedian.
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  9390. We don't really know whether his death was caused by the vaccine or not. People die of heart attacks all the time and have been for as long as I've been alive (70 years). A lost a good friend at 38 years of age, 3 years younger than Benjamin and almost 40 years before the Covid vaccine existed. I'm dead set against the vaccine mandates but I won't use bad science to justify my position, either.
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  9391. The SNP or the Scottish National Party is a left social democratic political party. It sounds like another way of saying the National Socialist Scottish Workers' Party. The guy with the funny moustache has finally defeated Scotland, albeit posthumously.
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  9392.  @kevintewey1157  "I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people.” – Adolf Hitler , February 24, 1941, speech on the 21st anniversary of the Nazi Party I have MORE quotes from Hitler in which he says similar things about his feelings on socialism. "We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism.” – Adolf Hitler , August 15, 1920, speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. Nazi is short for "National Socialist German Workers' Party." I don't care for socialism...AT ALL. I have even more disdain for National Socialism, a term coined by Mussolini and refined by Hitler. China is now closer to National Socialism than it is to Communism. Mao would be appalled at what's going on in China today with their move towards Capitalism and the "injustices" of accruing wealth on the backs of the common man. China has 607 billionaires at the moment, all business moguls yet they all must defer to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). I think that they should call themselves "The Chinese National Socialist Party" That would be a lot more accurate. China is a wonderful place alright, if you like one party rule.....kinda like Hitler did.
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  9393.  @kevintewey1157  My mother nearly STARVED to death at the hands of Nazis. My uncle spent time in Westerbork, a Jewish detention centre, and later a Nazi POW prison camp in the Frisian islands. Your wild accusations mean nothing to me. Besides, who can make sense of the incoherent rant you posted, anyway? The entire thing sounds like something a guy, rummaging for food in a dumpster, would be muttering to himself. Please....take your meds.
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  9394.  @fuckfannyfiddlefart  NO....it's not. It's a bill that prevents teachers and staff from encouraging students from keep secrets between them and their parents. No more "Don't mention this to your parents" allowed. That includes things of a sexual nature or even to do with race. If a parent is not to know about it, it must be inappropriate. In fact, that's been the norm for children for all my life. The Snufflelufagus, from Sesame Street, revealed who he was because it was decided that it was a mistake for children to keep secrets from their parents and for one simple reason. It's one of the first things a child predator tells children. Sexual matters are too complex for 6 and 7 year olds to fully comprehend and it's abhorrent for anyone to discuss it without the full knowledge of parents. You can discuss is 24/7 with those who are age appropriate and consenting. That's been the norm for straight people forever and it should be no different for progressives. In fact, it's a little weird if being progressive revolves around discussing sexual issues with little kids and being secretive about it. I'd say criminally weird. It's called the Parental Rights Bill. Any parent, progressive, liberal or conservative would want to have the right to know what is being discussed in the classroom. It's just plain common sense.
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  9395.  @magsteel9891  What parent, gay or straight, would want their 6 year old discussing sexual matters, IN SECRET, with virtual strangers? Why would they even want that done with friends, family members or neighbours? A teacher may not even know their child's name 20 years down the road. This is who they would want keeping sexual secrets with your child??? It's just plain common sense.
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  9396. CNN keeps saying that they're not fake news and then they prove it by dispensing news. You'd think that the people running the place would set in place protocols to prevent this kind of thing happening. They just don't get that they're losing audience because they have no fact checking or the integrity to admit when they're wrong.
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  9397. Neither am I. I'm good with that.
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  9398.  @Malachor8091  Actually, most of us Trump supporters were ashamed of those who broke into the Capitol building. We believe in the rule of law but there are going to be some of the 70 plus million supporters who will behave irrationally. I do remember the meltdown in 2016. The long faces of every MSM personality. The rage of Hilary. People, all over the US, lamenting in the streets because Trump won. There are still some great memes floating around about the meltdowns. Then the millions spent on the Muller Report and when he couldn't find any Russian collusion, the Muller hearings. Listening to Adam Schiff saying that he had incontrovertible proof that Russia colluded with Trump to fix that election. When the hearing turned up nothing, they said that just because there was no proof, that doesn't mean that Trump wasn't guilty. So they impeached him anyway but the Senate wouldn't confirm. That's an embarrassment for the Democrat party and supporters but they're too lacking in self awareness to understand it.
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  9399.  @scabberdoug  This has WHAT to do with the corruption of the Biden family? NOTHING. It's like saying "We just caught Ted Bundy but we let him go because John Wayne Gacy is guilty of killing these other people". Or better yet, like the little kid who claims innocence because "Donnie's doing it too". The topic is Biden corruption. Biden....Joe, Jim and Hunter. Stay on topic. What Trump said about Covid and Xi means nothing on that topic.
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  9400. He does that because he's on a time limit. He'd be a class one moron if, when it's his time to speak, he lets his opposition speak through his time.
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  9401.  @waynecatterton5127  If you show me 10 people, I'll show you 10 different opinions. That's why there are so many different denominations. People, as individuals, have different ways of seeing and understanding ideas. That's the state of human existence and it applies to Christianity because it's an ideology that's filled with human beings.
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  9402.  @waynecatterton5127  I KNOW what a cult is. I've dealt with the cult known as the "Children of God" and they're NOTHING like most churches. Cults isolate you, take you away to country homes and then put you through a rigorous indoctrination program that includes sleep deprivation and continuous dogmatic repetition. They do not allow any alone time, strip you of all your possessions and try to keep you away from all outside interactions unless one of them is present. I grew up in the Christian Reformed Church and it was quite conservative. However, when I turned 17, I left the church. They didn't hate me for it. They asked why I left, expressed concern for my soul, prayed for me and then left me to my life. That was it. I still go there for weddings, funerals and baptisms and stop and talk to church members all the time. They have a belief system yet even within that church, that group that I grew up with, there are disagreements about what being a Christian entails. They have a core belief, the power of redemption, through Jesus, and personal responsibility but the details elude complete agreement. In fact, throughout human history, no matter where on the planet, how completely different people are, they ALWAYS had a belief system based on the metaphysical. The entire human race can't ALL be based on cults. That's an extremely narrow viewpoint and only serves the ego of the one making the claim.
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  9403.  @waynecatterton5127  But I'm NOT religious. I'm an atheist. However, I do KNOW what Christianity is all about and it's NOTHING like what you say it is. Then your claim about the "orange Messiah"....the idea of a human messiah, goes against EVERYTHING that Christianity stands for. In fact, that would make your "orange Messiah" the antiChrist, the exact opposite of Christian beliefs and one of the biggest warnings in the Bible. You know nothing about Christian beliefs and are basing your views on basic hatred. You HATE the orange man and you've ascribed his political rise to another to another group of people that you HATE. When you base your belief system on the hatred of people, you're starting on the road to disaster. When enough people, with that worldview, take power, they will allow themselves the right to end the existence of those they hate. Corrupt religious leaders, corporate and political leaders have done this throughout human history and led to the greatest atrocities in human history. I don't have to mention some of those atrocities.....do I? I'm sure that you know what they are and it's ALWAYS based on hatred and personal ego something that "love thy neighbour" stands against.
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  9404. OH yeah. How do you know.....wait....I'm atheist. Never mind.
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  9405. @FacetoFace-c8h I'm in Canada and I've heard of Saville and the child abuse that he was involved in. Also, it was 10 years ago that the Muslim grooming gangs were exposed and anyone who talked about it was called Islamophobic and racist. This isn't new. It's been kept under wraps for years, just like Jimmy Saville and any decent person finds his actions and the cover-up sickening. That also goes for the grooming gangs. We don't care that they're Muslims but we DO acknowledge that Muslims are largely behind it and people were afraid to call it out because they didn't want to be called racist.
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  9406.  @Radarcb329  He never mentioned any solutions. What he said is that the current strategies that are being put in place, haven't and can't work and that we need a new approach. Get that...."a new approach". That could include advanced micro-nuclear reactors among other things. He's implying that we need ways that develop organically, through the market system. The very same way that cell phones, computers, the car and other new technologies became common place. The people wanted it and when it became economically feasible, the people bought into of themselves. However, it will mean creating an investment climate that would encourage the research and the development of these types of new cleaner techs. Instead of an incessant tirade of "do nots" we should concentrate on inspiring people to "do".....which may well include your suggestion of advanced micro-nuclear reactors.
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  9407. Even before the Nazis gained power, they would go to the rallies of their opposition, and sing, chant and shout until those holding the rally gave up. They would attack those who were supporting their political rivals with the intent of causing enough fear in them so they would remain silent. There was nothing about the Nazis that would suggest free speech.
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  9408.  @johnkolinoff8591  You know it's the Benjamins...how?? The list isn't available to anyone. I don't care about the nationality or ethnicity of the perpetrators. I care if they're guilty or not.
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  9409.  @johnkolinoff8591  It's actually goes "For the love of money is the root of all evil". 1 Timothy 6:10. It's a Biblical verse and it's talking about greed, not money specifically.
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  9410. They hired her because she is full of crap.....crap that aligns with the ideals of NPR. it's NPR that has to go. It would be like firing Goebbels and thinking that you've now defeated the Nazi party. She's just another cog in their wheel.
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  9411.  @Thed538dhsk  You also have to realise that black American students and liberals resent the success of Nigerian and Ghanian students. It flies in their face of identity politics. I've said this countless times. The continuous advocacy of the mindset that hard work and wise decisions do not apply to African Americans, as a road to prosperity, is as racist as Jim Crow and slavery. They've convinced black Americans to stay in their lane and worse, that the only way out is for the whites to give it to them. what an utterly condescending and despicable attitude.
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  9412. Can't have Joe moderate because he's "allegedly" a racist..blah, blah,blah. However, having Biden being interviewed by Cardi Bi is no problem. She's a fine specimen, isn't she?
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  9413.  @ahmedminhal8924  The same with the Killing Fields of Cambodia. First, he claimed that it was all American propaganda, that it wasn't true. When it was finally revealed to be true, he flipped the narrative to the claim that it was instigated by the United States. Basically saying "It's all American lies but if it is true, it's America's fault". He was also a strong supporter of Hugo Chavez. We all know what happened to Venezuela. Now, Venezuela is talking the invasion of Guyana, over a border dispute. Chomsky is an elitist complainer who uses the poor as fodder to spread his socialist ideas. When it all goes wrong, he disappears and moves onto the next "cause" for the poor. He never has to take responsibility for his bad decisions. They die and he sells more books.
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  9414.  @leelatmir4128  And another ideologue rears its ugly head. "DNA can't be true because it screws up my beliefs"
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  9415.  @zackq8865  I understand that but it wasn't a good idea. They could have shot him. Not a very good outcome, either. As it was, they caught him and killed him anyway and with the rationalisation that he was trying to escape. No matter what, don't argue. If they say "Get out of the car", you get out of the car. None of this "I didn't do anything wrong" stiff. You have the right to remain silent and you should do just that. If they want to see your licence, you show them your licence. Same with insurance and ownership. Don't do anything that would set them off or give them the excuse that they're looking for. If they get rough anyway, don't fight back. They're armed. They outnumber you. They're trained to physically control you. It's all in their favour. Fall to the ground and turtle, protecting your vitals the best you can. Never, EVER resist. That's tantamount to suicide by cop.
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  9416.  @holden6104  All of what you said is true however not all cops are bad but cops like these are the rotten apples of the force. All we're both saying is that you want to give yourself the best opportunity to come out alive or physically unharmed. Even this guy, with his yelling "I didn't do anything wrong" shouts only gave those officers the excuse to go off on him. Then, once their adrenaline was on high, they won't stop. Try to control the situation as best you can and you're not going to do that by being adversarial. The police are armed, they outnumber you and they're trained to physically control you. It's a no win situation.
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  9417.  @zackq8865  Not allowed to shoot a fleeing suspect. Okay. LOL. I'd depend on cops to follow that law. Like you said, they didn't seem to have a problem beating him to death. Just don't give them an excuse to do it. They might be breaking the law by shooting but you're still dead. Not the trade off that I'd settle for.
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  9418.  @Hobbitfeetpics  Another trope. "Stop victim blaming" I'm NOT blaming the victim. He's in a situation that's OBVIOUSLY dangerous to him. Every sign of resistance that he makes, he's giving those bad cops another reason to go at him even harder. Maybe you find some comfort in those cops being charged but I don't. Do you know why? It's because we have a dead victim and I don't want people to make the same mistakes that he made and also end up in a morgue and on the news. Also, I HAVE been in his position. One cop pressed his pistol into my temple, as hard as he could, while I was bent over the hood of the police car. The other cop kicked my ankles repeatedly, telling me to spread my legs apart further, even though it was impossible. My crime? I was on a country road, at around 9 in the morning, just outside of Daytona, when I had to urinate. I went into the bushes, they pulled up and told me to come out. I didn't know it was the police as I couldn't see them through the leaves. So, I told them to wait a minute while I pulled up my zipper. That's what I did that was so horrible. There's wasn't even a house in sight. I didn't fight back. I didn't say much except to answer the questions asked of me. I ended up with a nasty bruise on my temple and scrapes and bruises around my ankles....but I was alive. I don't know if Nichols would still be alive if he's complied but I do know that it would have increased his chances. Being right isn't a big comfort when you're dead.
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  9419.  @mhdab2416  It's better to die so the world will know how tough you are, isn't it. Nichols sure looked tough. He was begging them to stop, screaming that he did nothing and even tried to run away. I didn't see a tough guy. I saw a frightened kid. It was an horrific thing to watch. As for me, I tried my best to be as stoic as possible and not to show the fear, that the 19 year old kid that I was at the time, would obviously be feeling. A few bruises and I walked away. I wish Nichols could say the same. It's easy to brag about how you'd have shown those cops while sitting at a keyboard. Wait till it happens to you. You may end up dead, although unlikely, or severely injured with complications that could last for the rest of your life. There's a difference between being a tough guy and stupid guy.
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  9420.  @Hobbitfeetpics  That he existed was their first reason, as far as we know. He refused to get out of is car and they had to force him out. There's another reason. He squirmed and kept insisting that he was innocent. That's another reason for them to get angry. He tried to run away. That would add MORE to the vindictiveness. Do I think that they're good reasons? NO...but I'm not one of those cops. They're the ones coming up with the reasons to beat the life out of him....not me. He was making an argument to a bunch of brick walls that are trained to fight and have weapons to boot. I could see that he was terrified but that doesn't negate that he did the wrong thing out of panic. It would have been better for him to do the right thing but it was his abject fear that destroyed him as much as the police did. These are the facts. I can't help what's reality. Nichols was in trouble and he didn't help himself by panicking at all. I don't know what drove his fear but it's a destructive thing to be told to fear something so blindly. One should never let his fear control his actions and he did do that.
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  9421.  @LeavingBabylon_  What the hell is false hope, anyway? Hope is what drives you to success. When you give up hope, you just plain give up. Why would anyone want that? If you really want humanity annihilated in a world burned to hell through human inaction....give up hope. It'll be a self fulfilling prophecy. Destruction due to apathy and the lethargy of a hopeless soul.
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  9422. China has become a National Socialist nation and the closest thing that we have to a Nazi country since WW2 Germany. They even have concentration camps to exploit, re-educate and integrate these minorities into Chinese society as Chinese citizens. Forced integration. It isn't capitalism when the economy is controlled and manipulated by the government.
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  9423.  @harambe1580  So you want to eradicate a certain type of humanity. Good on you, Adolf. He wanted to get rid of a specific demographic, as well, thinking that they were a blight on the world. You've decided that there's another blight and fortunately for you, you're not a part of that blight. Funny how the eradicators never feel that they could be part of the problem. It's always the other.
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  9424.  @harambe1580  You used the word "eradicate" so I assumed that you meant what you said. Also, I'm not going to spend my life wishing things were a certain way. I'm going to deal with my life as it is, not as I want it to be. Also, you don't have to live in a big concrete building, with hundreds of people, if you don't want to. I live in a small town and I go visit the family farm all the time. I pitch a tent at the back of the farm and spend a week or so, at a time, outdoors and enjoying myself. It's great but that's only because I have the safety net of our modern technology. Life in nature is extremely hard and if you spend any time in nature, you'll realise that. Life is cheap, in the wild, and the problems are a lot worse than taxes and money or rent. Happiness in life doesn't come from the outside. It comes from you, from how you view the world and your existence in it. Instead of complaining about the things that you have no control over, appreciate the good things in life. Your family, friends, a warm sunny day, art, music, a good book, tell a joke, smile at your neighbour, be optimistic about life. Quit whining about stuff that can't change.
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  9425. @Ethno Nationalist As far as I'm concerned, there's not much difference between white supremacist and Nazi beliefs than Critical Race Theory. Both are obsessed by race, put people into categories by race and are quite comfortable with segregation. I've even heard the phrase "race traitor" coming from the left, something that I first heard over 50 years ago from KKK and Nazi groups. If we treat each other as individuals and not through the lens of group identity, you wouldn't have to fight for the white people, of black, Asians or Latinos, either. Being good to one another would be enough. It's NOT what these race obsessed people are looking for. They demonise specific groups and that can only lead to intense strife.
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  9426. I just can't get my head around the fact that she helped a guy, right in the middle of a trial for assaulting 2 people and putting them into the hospital, to escape. This guy punched a man almost 40 times and then punched a woman in the face. A WOMAN!!!! He also had a warrant for his arrest for deportation because he'd been deported TWICE already and was back in the country again, illegally. These people will defend the worst of the worst.
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  9427. I GOOGLED it. Cenk is a hypocrite.
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  9428. Over 2 years later and CNN is finally talking about it? This is supposed to be a news channel? What a joke.
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  9429. Now that Obama is a conservative, watch what happens when he endorses Trump for President. We're going to see major meltdowns on the West Coast, New York and Washington.
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  9430. The most egregious environmental disaster, done at the order of a government, is what the Soviets did to the Aral Sea. When a government or government agency has that much power, it will invariably have a negative impact. We see the same thing with the government laws on clearing dead brush. Quite often the piling brush catches fires and they start moaning about climate change and another government agency steps in. It's a system that feeds itself and gets fatter by the day.
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  9431.  @WevvMang  What you're basically saying is that Trump and Biden are cut from the same cloth. They both tried to evade taxes and got caught. Strange how you have no problem with one of them not paying taxes until forced to....with penalties, but the other one is evil for doing the same thing and who paid penalties for what he did. I'd say that they're both crooked as hell but I could be wrong. I mean, one is GOOD tax fraud and the other is BAD tax fraud. I can't tell the difference but I'm not political either. I'd need to be to be able to know when tax evasion is acceptable behaviour.
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  9432. I'm sorry but we just don't know this woman well enough to know the reason why she's working 3 jobs. I know a guy, who's 68 years old, works his farm, does contract work on other farms, works full time at a paper mill and with work all the overtime he can get. The man has all kinds of money and his wife is pissed that he's still working so hard. He does it because he loves working. I know that this is difficult to believe for some people but there are people like that. Having said that, I don't like Bush at all. However, this has nothing to do with Bush. Dore made an assumption that he can't possibly know about this woman's motivation.
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  9433.  @Shyhalu  He self censors because if he didn't, they cancel him out and we wouldn't be able to listen to anything he says. His constantly telling us that he has to censor himself is him pushing back. He's telling us about the problem and THAT we need.
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  9434. Yes....but....but.... RACISM. Racism is bad and....and it's not right. Bigot.
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  9435. I can't either. I'll try again tomorrow.
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  9436. If the Democrats had acknowledged the riots and spoke out against them, they'd win the election, hands down. They had the opportunity and lost it. Now they'll have to face the consequences.
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  9437. Abolish the police and the protection rackets will flourish.
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  9438.  @hamie7624  Some one should have told the people of Gaza that when crossing into Israel, in the wee hours of the morning, and butchering over 1200 teens and young adults at a music festival, has consequences. That dragging men, women and children out of their beds and slaughtering, s-x abusing and kidnapping them is an outright act of war. They don't do those things and then expect nothing to happen. Population of Gaza at the end of 2022 was 2,000,000. At the end of 2024 it was 2,100,000.....and increase of 100,000 people. That's some lousy "jen o siding". In 15 years, at that rate, they would have "jen o sided" up to 3,00,000 people. How are you going to fit them all in?
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  9439. Tim's sister is a paid actor and it's all a farce and I know this to be true because I'm against white supremacy and bigotry and I voted for Biden. My evidence is irrefutable.
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  9440.  @enterprisedavidcain  I did. I'm against white supremacy and bigotry and I voted for Biden. That's better evidence than RA or TYT presented.
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  9441.  @enterprisedavidcain  How dare you impugn my evidence. I stand for social justice. I'm one of the good guys. How much more evidence do you need than that? I can't be wrong as my cause is my evidence. If the cause is just, the evidence must be fact. Them's the rules.
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  9442.  @enterprisedavidcain  This was my first attempt at trolling. How'd I do? I think I sounded like a leftist and apparently, so do you. My comments is EXACTLY what RA did in his attack on Tim. He just spouted nonsense, with no proof, because he had to win. I just extended his argument to include his sister. By his logic, and by extension, the The Young Turks and left wing logic, if Tim lied, then his sister must be lying too. Why not just go full idiot, and say that she's a paid actor? I don't need proof. My social justice cause is plenty proof enough. Sorry about the trolling. It feels kinda dirty and I won't do it again.
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  9443. The Harris ex-aide says that the Harris campaign is made up of diverse talent. THAT is the problem. Harris is their symbol of diversity and symbols don't get the job done. Why not get the BEST talent? That's how you run a country smoothly and efficiently.
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  9444. If Obama had brokered these Israeli peace deals, normalised relations between Kosovo and Serbia and stepped into North Korea, he wouldn't just get a Nobel Peace Prize, they'd make up a new prize to give him and named after him. We'd have a national Obama Day and statues raised to him. They reward Trump by impeaching him.
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  9445.  @lordbread2083  "doesn't deserve pity"? That doesn't sound like hatred...not at all. The lack of self awareness is laughable.
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  9446.  @TheLisaGate  Thanks for the kind comment. Now I'm going to reciprocate with a comment of my own. You and your neighbours are demonstrating what it is to exhibit a sense of community and caring. It's what we should be nurturing in this country, not the idea that we need outsiders to do it for us. Either you have pride in where you live, which obviously you do, or you become what we're seeing in this video. It's too bad the neighbourhoods around you don't take advantage of the example set by your block. It would go a long way to making their communities a better place to live.
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  9447.  @TheLisaGate  All one can do in your life is to do the best that you can. If you've done that, you've had a successful life. Let's hope that it works out for you and your neighbourhood and that it will expand out from there.
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  9448. That the names of the donors are public isn't the point, JUAN. The point is that Castro was making a call to action when he outed those names. A call to dox, blacklist or try to get people fired from their jobs or ruin their lives. That's despicable behaviour and not worthy of anyone looking for a future as an elected official. It doesn't matter whether they're right or left wing.
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  9449. Actually, I must respectfully disagree. She doing EXACTLY what the radical socialist left has done. They infiltrated all our institutions in an attempt to make their ideology mainstream. She's going into the lion's den and writing papers that would refute their ideological claims. Now she's on a national news channel and discussing just how radical those leftists really are. She's challenging them on their own "terf" (couldn't help it). That's been the problem all along. The radical left has created their own echo chamber and they want to exclude any dissenting voices. However, she's in there forcing them to accept other viewpoints. That's a good thing. It's necessary if we want a return to some kind of sanity.
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  9450. Why would Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine or New Mexico even stay in the Union, without the electoral college? The Democrats are opening a can of worms that they may not like at all.
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  9451. Around 270 doctors? That's it?? In 2018, there were 985,026 medical doctors in the US. They managed to get .0279%, of those doctors, to sign that document. Not that impressive, is it. Remember one thing. Joseph Mengele was a doctor, too.
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  9452. It was said that the left protests of the late sixties prompted people to vote in the right wing Nixon. I wonder how much the Antifa, BLM and all the other crazy far left wing rhetoric prompted people to vote for Trump. I believed during the election that the alignment of the Democratic party with these causes alienated a lot of people with centrist views and was one of the factors that helped to give Trump the presidency.
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  9453.  @BooDamnHoo  Sounds like one hell of a guy, doesn't he? What's strange about this is that New Jersey, Michigan, California and, of course Pennsylvania did the same thing. They're ALL Democrat states. There was a viral video, of a 20 year old Covid patient, in a nursing home, repeatedly punching a 75 year old man in the side of the head, just for laughs. What kind of leadership would even consider doing such a thing and why...WHY isn't the main stream media all over them about it? If Trump had of done that, there'd be no end of the outrage. They'd be trying to impeach him over it right now.
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  9454.  @plutothe9th361  Science says that it has to be that way. LOL. He seems more like he would be the kind of specimen that would spontaneously generate out of sewer scum but apparently not.
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  9455.  @afrosamourai400  So if a black person tries to steal from your store, it's racist to try and stop them? I don't care who tries to steal from me, I will stop them any way that I can. Skin colour be damned.
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  9456. How could he say that. It's still too new a phenomenon to even know whether it has negative effects on their children. It might well be better to have a mother and father but there's still value in having 2 adults who care for their children, no matter the gender of the parents. Life isn't perfect and you do the best with what you have.
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  9457.  @Stonezster  A lot of children go through life never being adopted and go from one foster home to another and have to deal with the mental anguish that goes along with that. At least the adopted child won't have to deal with that system and will be in a home where he/she can be cared for. Also, like I said, this is a relatively new phenomenon so we don't know what the negatives would be. I'd say that the mother/father family is the best scenario but that's not the only way. We do the best with what we have, under the circumstances. Too many children grow up in terrible circumstance, much worse than what Dave Rubin has to offer.
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  9458.  @williamsharp2532  I know. Another one of their weird ideas based on the emotion of fear. "If you use fertiliser, it'll cause global warming and we'll all die". No common sense. As if a 30 to 40% drop in agricultural yields isn't going to cause severe problems.
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  9459. Canada has a merit based immigration system and has for years. It hasn't lowered immigration rates. In fact, we have a problem with the least educated not wanting to work. They'd love a job but a job where they can watch their phones all day and not be required to sweat. We don't need more of those kind of citizens. We need people that have educated themselves and shown a propensity to work hard and do their best.
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  9460.  @echochamberdisrupter2852  So...when will it become their homes. 100 years from now? What about 500 years in the future?? 5000 years?? 100,000 years??? It's awfully damned easy for a "white" guy (you seem to think that's important), who never had an ancestor that was transplanted to another part of the world, to feel smug about their own "goodness". Incredibly easy. Apparently, there's one "white" guy that isn't a bad person. Congratulations on that "echo chamber disrupter".
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  9461.  @echochamberdisrupter2852  I'm going to ask what that "non-white" Jassmin is doing on the wrong continent. She'd better get back to her home or do those coloniser rules only apply to "white" folk?
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  9462.  @echochamberdisrupter2852  Doesn't really answer any of my questions. It's just more self congratulations on being the guy that never left his continent. What about those who were forced to leave their homes and dragged off to other continents. Sort of like African slaves to the Americas, European slaves to the Middle East and North Africa or British prisoners to Australia. All taken against their will. Are you going to force them back home, too.....if you can figure out who they are. A ridiculous position that is unenforceable and accomplishes nothing but to stroke your own ego.
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  9463. @DaaClaptain Bad ideas like trying to fix the world is going to solve the problem at the border. As if the leaders in those countries are going to listen to her. Of course he ridicules ideas as illogical as that. If she goes to the border and takes steps to fix the border problems, he's going to praise it. DUH!!!! Kamala isn't in control of those countries. Don't try to fix things out of your control, like the internal policies of OTHER nations. Fix what you can control, like your own border. Try to makes sense.
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  9464. But it's not fringe. It's an assault on truth. By 2030, it's projected that 50% of adult women will be alone and childless. That's only 6 years away.
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  9465. "When I exert my power and beat people down, it's so exhilarating that I can't stop the urge to start dancing." It's that exhilaration that is at the root of all authoritarian states of being. Move over, Stalin. I'm coming.
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  9466.  @zombieninjatedsmith1301  I get out all the time but to ignore what's going on is a strategy for disaster. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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  9467.  @Bunnahabhain18  What does that prove? I didn't like Bush back then and I don't like Biden and his administration now. I don't care what party the eff-up is from, I won't support him/her. Trump had everything running great until Covid hit and we can thank China for that. Things were getting better, economically, after a few months but it really went to hell when Biden took over. Anyone that votes by party loyalty is refusing to use their brain.
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  9468.  @danqodusk8140  How can it not? If the economy is owned or controlled by the government, they'll make decisions that are in their own best interest and the citizen consumer can go suck rotten eggs. Show me one socialist government that isn't autocratic.
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  9469. They're ordering babies like I order curtain rods from Amazon.
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  9470.  @AbcDino843  Pay no attention to this guy. He's been trolling all through this comment section.
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  9471. @ It sure sounds like something that a Democrat would say.
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  9472. "We have to address this problem". We can't even get the Democrats to acknowledge that there is a problem. The VP won't even go to the border. She's supposed to be the immigration czar and she's doing nothing.
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  9473. MacDonald's is franchise driven. Each outlet is individually owned and operated. MacDonald's sets the standards but how are they going to beat that if the franchise is in China. I suppose you could refuse to supply them but if their supply chain, their raw products, are developed IN China, it would be hard for head office to anything if the Chinese government supports the franchises.
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  9474.  @ConvictedFelonTrump8647  How do you know if Thomas is a woman or not? Are you a biologist? Is Thomas a biologist? Apparently, and this has been stated in Congress, we need the requisite biologists to identify a woman. That has been claimed in Congress and by Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. What biologist examined Thomas to see if he met the criteria that would confirm her woman hood? Thomas did NOT beat Gaines. He tied her. Also, that's NOT the only issue that Gaines has with the Thomas affair. Thomas, when stripped down to the nothings, presents as a fully functioning male. Gaines was subjected to having Thomas stripped naked in front of her with ALL his males parts in full view. I can get fired, from my job, for looking at a woman and making her feel uncomfortable, at the work place even though I'm fully clothed. Thomas entered Gaines's work place, took off all his clothes, and looked at the naked women in that dressing room and is applauded. Why is that better than what I just described in my workplace?
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  9475.  @ijclark  You're assertion that the comment undermines the argument is illogical. Freedom is the right to say what is on one's mind, INCLUDING being able to say "a woman is an adult human being" or the inverse, whatever that might be. I guess "a woman is NOT an adult human being". In other words, one can only have freedom if he's given the right to be wrong.
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  9476. @Elianor Anouk Abusing women is against the law and has been for generations. You don't hit a woman....EVER. That's been the cultural norm as long as I've been alive. In fact, Christianity expects a person to honour their mothers and the prime directive, the very heart of that "right" wing religion is "Love the neighbour as thyself". This directive has NO qualifications or exceptions added to it. The idea that the right abuses women, as policy, is demonstrably wrong.
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  9477. @Elianor Anouk The old "psychological" abuse argument. If you can't show abuse with concrete evidence, just claim psychological abuse, a state which is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify and may exist ONLY in the mind of the one that perceives themselves to be abused. Sort of like my sister, who claims that the government is spraying her with chemicals from planes. She believes it implicitly. Does that make it true? I'd say not too likely. Just because one claims psychological abuse, doesn't make it so.
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  9478. @Elianor Anouk And that's how most of my discussions go. You don't discuss the topic. You talk about me. I'm not funny, not creative and lame. What a great way to discuss things. If you have nothing of value or your intellect fails you, just start the insults. What's amazing is that you probably think that you've put me in my place and that you've defeated through pure logic and reasoning. It's absolutely impossible to have any kind of a meaningful discussion with people like you.
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  9479. The insurance companies KNEW that this would eventually happen. They knew that it was only a matter of when and where. Yet, not one government, municipal or state, did anything to mitigate damages when it did come. It's time for a new approach that will address the inevitable that will make it easier to limit the damages when it does come.
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  9480. Toe the line or off to the economic Gulag you go.
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  9481. Of course the media is worried about Kari Lake. She was the charisma to become the first woman president of the United States. The party of identity politics can't have the "fascist" party beat them at their own game and do it on merit, NOT on what demographic box you check off. Of course, she'll be labelled as the female face of the patriarchy.....except that they refuse to even define what a woman is. What surprises me is how anyone would still take the Democrats seriously.
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  9482. @Ricky Robyn They may stop growing at 25 but that doesn't mean that an 18 year old hasn't reached a level of maturity that would give them the mental tools to handle these things in a more mature way than a 12 year old. I'll use the age old adage of "if they're old enough to go to war and KILL people, they're old enough to take part in adult activities". You have to draw the line somewhere, though and 18 is a decent compromise. However, that's not even the issue here. The issue is that they're exposing 11 year old children to these things. Your argument clouds this issue. There is no WAY that pubescent children should be treated this way.
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  9483. They're not stupid. They're using the DEI stuff to further an ideological, neo-Marxist agenda. Foment anger and resentment until it boils over into violence and revolution. Tear it all down and rebuild it in their own image of a socialist paradise. They reduce everything to Identity and then set the identities against one another.....and it's working. We're allowing "stupid" people to set the agenda.
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  9484. The fact that the left are saying that Trump is just replacing fences, proves the leftist mindset that can't seem to accomplish...ANYTHING. It's the same way they want to deal with the problems of homelessness on the west coast. They talk and the problem grows. Their entire modus appears to be mired in a paralysis of talk and helplessness. They just don't get it.
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  9485. America didn't "get" to this point that Cranston was talking about. It had already been set in stone, thousands of years before America was even conceived of. What's amazing about America is that they are the FIRST nation to ever fight a Civil War over whether they should END slavery or not. Hundreds of thousands of people died in that struggle. That "actor" should act and ONLY act, because he knows nothing about history.
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  9486.  @davidr2299  Oregon.
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  9487. Afraid so. I broke the law when I was 20 years old. That hung over my head through most of my working life. I'm now 72, so it's not like I just took part in that activity. It's my own doing. I knew that it was wrong and I did it anyway. Don't get me wrong.....I found work and as the years went by, I was hired because of the reputation that I built over 45 years of working hard. Yet, I still couldn't get a job at a local large business because I screwed up in 1972. I would really have liked to worked there, great benefits and pension but I did it to myself. You reap what you sow. Yet, in spite of all that, I have a nice sized nest egg which I earned through honest, hard work. It's sucks but it's not the end of the world. It's not about serving your time. It's about exhibiting behaviour that would reflect on your integrity and honesty.
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  9488.  @imaginarymask  It really wasn't much of a tribulation. I did something stupid. I put in my time for it. When I got out, I went looking for a job and got one. There are all kinds of reasons why someone won't hire someone and I, quite stupidly, added another reason to not hire me. Actions have consequences and I found that out. The big problem is, they don't tell kids that in school. Not ever. It seems that tribulation and oppression is the centre piece of education now. They don't tell you to make the right decisions. Stay in school. Don't get pregnant or cause a pregnancy until you're in a committed relationship. Don't break the law. Work hard and appreciate the opportunities that you do get instead of lamenting over the things that are out of reach. Do those things and you've increased your chances of having a good life. These days that's controversial but in reality, it's just common sense. So many people, that I know, have had it so much harder than what I did. Some things couldn't be helped. Physical, mental and environmental limitations that are a LOT harder to overcome than my criminal record. In spite of my "tribulations", which kinda makes me chuckle, I've had a good life. However, if I was put in front of a classroom filled with kids, today and they'd find all kinds of reasons to put me down. As far as I'm concerned, when they do that, they're putting themselves down.
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  9489.  @imaginarymask  The world is full of silly and unfair things. As long as I'm not being ripped off, it's our of my control. I've never felt inferior and the people that I worked with all seemed to like working with me.....except the ones who thought they were being treated unfairly, quite often the lazy, and no one liked working with them. My point is that we do coddle them now. "it's not their fault. They're oppressed". I'm not oppressed. I have a great life. Since I've retired, I've been to Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Nova Scotia and the Netherlands. I'm making plans to go to the Cayman Islands with friends in December and hope to take a tour of Europe in 2025. Life is great. I loved my jobs, working in a shoe factory, scrapyard, construction, bartending and finally at a paper mill. Tough jobs but I got satisfaction from doing it and it's given me the opportunity to have a good retired life. I appreciate what I have and that's what's wrong with our society today. They appreciate nothing. Everything is oppression and not fair and I deserve. You destroy your own life, feeling that way, MORE than any criminal record ever could. People, who feel that way, are their own worst enemy. We live in a wonderful country and we're destroying it with our never ending whinging and envy. Accept the limitations of life and work around it with dignity and honesty. You only got one shot at life. Don't spend it wishing it away.
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  9490.  @imaginarymask  I should mention that you can get your criminal record expunged after so many years of being a law biding citizen. I never did but I can still do it. Also, I don't feel as if I deserved it or anything else for that matter. My criminal record is my own damn fault. I'm not going to go crying over it, that's all.
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  9491.  @baddog4347  I REALLY hope not. He may be the most destructive governor in the US. Witmer and Hochul are close behind him. If it was up to those 3, we'd still be hiding under our beds with 3 masks on, with little pinpricks all over our arms, like junkies, from all our booster shots. Eventually, we'll all be buying electric cars without a charging cord because there's not enough power, on the grid, to charge a cellphone.
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  9492.  @dylanb4494  The majority??? LOL. Does bigotry suppress your ability to do simple math? You identitarians are something else. There are about 20 million Jews in the entire world....THAT'S IT. There are almost 21 million people in Beijing, alone. LOL. You do know that China is communist, don't you? In the entire country of China there are 2,500 Jews. The majority.....LOL. You SJW identitarians gotta invest in a calculator or maybe an abacus so you can do simple calculations. The majority of Marxists are Jews.....that's rich. LOL. Sorry for laughing so much but....LMAO.
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  9493. Except that male appearing person in that meme is my sister...or she used to be.....or I thought she was, until she informed me that she was a ze. I first I thought it was German or maybe ze chipped a tooth. Now I'm woke.
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  9494. If Lemon was living from paycheck to paycheck, instead of wallowing in his millions, he'd know that his facts are severely skewed. The average blue collar worker knows what's really happening in our economy.
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  9495.  @strategery101  We're letting them destroy themselves. The right have won elections in Sweden and Italy and it's not looking good for democrats in the mid-terms. We point out the absurdity of their activism and allow them to eat themselves.
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  9496.  @mikekane2492  Free speech is only important when it's your own speech that is being suppressed. That's the problem that you're running into. Their free speech is trivial to them. It's what harms the ideas that they have and they don't want to hear the ideas that might put those ideas into doubt. It's better, for them, to be secure in their belief systems than it is for those systems to be challenged. The best way to do that is demonise those who might challenge them. Immorality....here you come. If you're immoral, your ideas must reflect that immorality and you can't have them infecting the minds of the unwary.
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  9497.  @Nylon_riot  It has nothing to do with the rich. It has to do with the corruption in our government, the career politicians and bureaucrats. They convince us that we need their help to get ahead in life and then tax the hell out of all of us. They give a nominal part of those taxes to the people in need, no one gets rich on welfare, and then divide the rest among themselves with corrupt schemes disguised as social programs. If these career government officials allow it to happen, corporations will be forced to go along and the officials just love that. It's why they hate Trump and Elon so much. They're trying to dismantle this career government corruption and it's enraging those who've been gobbling at the trough all their adult lives.
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  9498. It wouldn't have helped to have Ms. Best at council meetings. She's not ideologically congruent with the council and anything she said would have been dismissed, without consideration. This is now up to the people of Seattle.
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  9499. "Fake Latinos" "If you don't vote Democrat then you ain't black" No wonder they're starting to support the Republicans. Don't tell people what to think.
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  9500.  @janx8695  Actually, it's the chromosomes that are the reason for that difference. Chromosomes direct the body to produce eggs or how sperm and eggs interrelate. In biology, morphology is...."the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures." the Oxford dictionary. Without chromosomes, our internal morphology was no blueprint to follow. It's why our DNA exists. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say and if so, I apologise.
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  9501. @@monsieurtarzan4249 They're finding hundreds of dead migrants around the American southern border but that's NOTHING....right? A MAGA guy hit a police officer with a flagpole. That's FAR worse. Your so consumed with hate that even the deaths of children must be ignored so you can feed your hate.
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  9502.  @hardlines2635  I had been celibate for almost 7 years. Not because I wanted that way due to a lack of interest in sex, but because I'd become very selective about you I share my affections with. I've just started a relationship with a great woman and it seems to be going well and I couldn't be happier. We took our time getting to the place where we made our commitment but it was worth it. Just because one has sexual urges, that doesn't mean they should be followed up on, no matter what. Also, we don't need to give tacit approval whose urges are directed at children. That's harmful to children and abhorrent. If you can't control your sexual feelings, you degenerated into the realm of animal behaviour, reacting to primal needs instead of acting out of caring and responsibility.
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  9503. Reminds of Elizabeth Warren, in the US. She's 1/500th Cherokee, apparently, and claimed that she was the first Indigenous department head at Harvard. She even used that claim on her resume. What a bunch of phonies.
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  9504. I don't think that all the cops, that aren't resigning, are supporting the rioters. I think that they feel that they have a duty to their profession and the public and are staying, even if their battle seems to be a losing fight. If told that it's time to forcefully stop the violence, they'll quite happily do what they've signed up to do. Protect the citizens and their property.
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  9505.  @Freedom_is_essential1  You have to consider that he's a mathematics professor but is now commenting on social issues and is extremely well read on the subject. He has a YouTube site called "New Discourses" and he outlines all the influences on Progressive ideology. He knows his stuff and presents it in a coherent manner so anyone can understand it. Remember, this is a mathematician speaking on the humanities, ideology and culture. What impressed me is how he went from a hard line atheist, as a young man, to an atheist who understands how the religious narrative is and was essential to human history and how we see the world. An incredibly perceptive individual who would have been recognised as a Renaissance man a few hundred years ago.
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  9506. Hasbro is actually paying people good money to come up with these nutty ideas. It seems they'll promote anyone. It sounds like something my grade 6 grand daughter would come up with. A rainbow potato head.
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  9507. It goes deeper than that. When Venezuela nationalised the oil industry, they now had a cash cow (or so they thought) that they could use that money to enact social programs. Since they were a democracy, it became a bidding war for the different parties seeking power. "Vote for me and I'll give you...." and the opposition has to up the ante to get the vote. Eventually, they're giving away so much of the oil profits to those social programs that the oil industry, itself, doesn't have the money to pay the best and smartest employees, maintain existing equipment or invest in newer technologies. Then the oil prices tank and there's nothing for ANYONE. Inflation runs away and they tried to fix it by controlling prices which only makes things worse. Socialism is bad but democratic socialism could even be worse. It's the worst things that could happen to the west.
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  9508.  bobothecreepyclown  If this is a misquote, then what is the actual quote. Don't leave us hanging.
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  9509.  @bruconicinfernon4noplatoon317  Isn't that what you're doing right now? Throwing feces against the wall to see if it sticks? Throwing an insult (feces) towards me (a wall) to see how I'll respond (whether it sticks). You've just demonstrated the perfect way to explain what this metaphor means. Well done. Besides, it doesn't answer my question. If this is a misquote, what is the actual quote?
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  9510.  @bruconicinfernon4noplatoon317  You're rambling there, Cheeta.
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  9511.  @johnmacdonald4362  So.....tyrannical powers controls over an economy.....bad. Tyrannical powers against a pandemic....good? Are you really saying that tyrannical powers are a good thing if you can find justification for its use? That's a unique perspective.
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  9512.  @johnmacdonald4362  And the government gets to decide what is good for the people and if you don't their decision.....shutup. Only THEY get to decide what is the common good. That's really worked well in every autocracy I've ever heard of. The people don't have the brains to know what's good for them. The autocracy knows though. Sort of like putting recovering Covid patients into nursing homes. They're the government. They know what's good for you. "Calm down". I don't even need a brain.
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  9513. "I'm against oppressive systems". There.....I've done my part to change the world. It works better if you go with some friends and stand on a street corner and proclaim it. Then you can tell each other just how wonderful you are. I remember the hippy days. "All you need is love". So many of them were so sure of it and proclaimed their love for the oppressed of the world while looking right through the unfortunates standing right in front of them. We see that right now in cities like LA, San Francisco and Portland. They show such great empathy for the children "locked in cages" but step over the drug addicted and mentally unstable and do nothing for them. It's easy to be that kind of social activists. It's all talk and no substance.
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  9514.  @Yves_Ka  That's right. They went to WAR!!! Hundreds of thousands lost their lives to end freedom and even more lost limbs, their eyesight and hearing, sustained brain damage and mental breakdowns to end slavery. They're heroes. It's an amazing thing that they did. The only country in the world who fought this hard against slavery and it was the duly elected president who did it. It was easy in Canada. There were hardly any slaves here. The real courage came from those who gave their lives fighting, like American did. What kind of logic would take those heroics and turn it into a negative? SMH.
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  9515.  @Yves_Ka  First, the United States wasn't even close to being the last nation to abolish slavery. Many held onto it until well into the 20th century. Saudi Arabia and Yemen didn't abolish slavery until 1962. That's 100 YEARS after the US. Also, the southern United States was conducive, due to climate, the nature of the soil and the geography, to the type of agricultures that were labour intensive enough that made slavery advantageous, especially the growth or cotton and tobacco. The north didn't have that type of agriculture and Canada especially didn't have those types of industries. It's easy to abolish slavery when you don't have a big slave system and then so smug to pat yourself on the back for it. Slavery was also a HUGE part of the system in the Caribbean and in certain countries of South America. Brazil didn't end slavery till 1888, 25 years AFTER the United States did. When was the last time you heard people blasting Brazil over their history with slavery? I'm really puzzled by the myopic approach or vision, of such a complex cultural issue, of slavery. It's as if the United States invented it, upheld it and we see it nowhere else. Yet we KNOW that this isn't true. So why just vilify THEM for it? And choosing to question those, in the US who stand for freedom now, because their ancestors may or may not have had slaves, is illogical. It smacks of MORE identity politics. You can tell, just by looking at them, whether their ancestors had or supported slaves or not. So how does that account for the large support from Hispanics in Florida, who believe in the same thing? Did THEIR ancestors support slavery? Slavery has been a part of the human condition for thousands of years and was prevalent all over the planet. Even the natives had slaves before the Europeans arrived in the Americas. It's time to look at slavery as it was, not through the lens of retribution, personal arrogance and hatred. It happened EVERYWHERE....yet you zero in on one country and that's it. It's self serving and arrogant.
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  9516. I'm going to invest all my money into the "Bank of Chaz". I'm gonna get rich...rich.....RICH!!!!
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  9517. Is this some kind of reparations? This is the nuttiest ideas yet.
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  9518.  @jdfraed123  A lot of people realise that Roe V Wade was an unconstitutional decision. Even Ruth Bader Gingsberg said that if a case ever came before the Supreme Court , she'd be forced to strike it down on that basis. Overturning Roe V Wade was inevitable. If you have an issue with the abortion policies of your state, go to your state legislature, who are now responsible for those policies. On the Federal level, try to get the impossible done. Get abortion rights enshrined in the Constitution through an Amendment. Good luck with that. We're facing high inflation, energy issues, a slowing economy, war in Ukraine, looming food shortages....and you think that abortion is the biggest problem facing most Americans? You might have a surprise coming. Pro-choice is only an issue for those who are ideologically obsessed. The rest of us are worried about more important issues.
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  9519. So many babies will die because their mothers abort them due to the inconvenience of having and caring for their child and the mother's lack of love for them. When you hate your children, you'll find it easier and easier to end their existence.
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  9520. Isn't it strange that when Dr. King stated that we should be judged on our character, NOT our skin colour, we all applauded that because he flat out stated that race should never be used to discriminate against or given preferential treatment towards any individual American. Now, we have those who don't like the "preferential" part and believe preference, using skin colour, is a good thing. Maybe the black "community" (I hate that word in this context) isn't as enamoured with Dr. King's words as they like to claim.
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  9521.  @Svoorhout85  Worse. It was accepted in a scientific journal that prints academic papers and passed peer review. Three academics did it to show just how badly eroded the peer review system had become around gender and race studies. I'd say that they succeeded. Google "Grievance studies affair". Lots of material on it. They sure upset a lot of the new cultural warriors.
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  9522.  @tommoore3292  And if the MSM would tell the truth, they'd have the same protection but the MSM doesn't even want to go there.
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  9523. I laughed AT Kimmel.....not with him.
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  9524. I'm gonna stick my fingers in my ears and chant "Bad Trump...Bad Trump...Bad Trump" until he's no longer the president. I wonder what the world will be like in 2024?
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  9525. The introduction of capitalism, in China, turned their socialist society into a different type of socialism......Fascism.
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  9526.  @TheBelegur  China is communist in name only. They've allowed privately owned businesses to operate but under the full control of the government. Companies, like Huawei, which are just arms of the CCP. That's exactly how the Nazis operated as well as the Fascists under Mussolini. Businesses are private, and will remain so, but they operate under the full control of the government. In true communism, there are NO private businesses. In fact, I'm quite confidant in saying that the only way for a communist government to succeed is to become a Fascist state. A form of socialism but organised in a different manner. Something that Mussolini, the communist leader that developed this idea and called "National Socialism".
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  9527.  @TheBelegur  The Fascist system in Italy was different than the one in Spain, which was different than the one in Nazi Germany. Just because it doesn't EXACTLY match the one in China, doesn't mean that it's not a form of Fascism. If the CCP has half interest in business, that it implies that the other half is privately owned. That goes against everything that Marxism or communism stands for. communism definition: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. If part ownership of a business is allowed, then it's NOT communism. Fascism definition: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. The Party and particularly, Xi Jinping, is the leader or dictator, as it were. He's officially the Paramount Leader, the Communist Party Leader, the Head of State and the Commander in Chief. He has a firm hand on his power. China is also VERY nationalistic. Look at the Uighur camps, in which they are being re-educated into learning Chinese, getting away from Islam and then integrating them around China so they can be assimilated into the Chinese culture. Not quite as aggressive as Nazi Germany but definitely leaning that way. From this, I'd say that China is closer to be a Fascist country than a communist one. Marx would NOT approve of what is going on in China, right now.
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  9528.  @TheBelegur  I didn't dig those definitions out of my backside and it was YOU that said that businesses in China is partly privately owned. YOU said that. SO....If businesses have private ownership, in China, like YOU said, and communism is a system where the economy is owned by the workers, it CAN'T be communist. These are definitions from online dictionaries and an ownership system that you claimed to be true. They can CALL themselves communists, just like North Korea calls itself "the Democratic People's Republic of Korea". North Korea is definitely NOT a Democracy. Given the definition of communism and YOUR description of the Chinese economy, it's NOT a communist country. It call itself anything it wants. It doesn't make it so. Besides, what country would call itself a Fascist nation, today? It would be political and economic suicide.
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  9529.  @TheBelegur  Then how are there millionaires in China. As of 2019, there are 4.4 millionaires in China. Read this. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/21/china-overtakes-us-in-rankings-of-worlds-richest-people This is copied and pasted from that article. "The report says the “rapid transformation of China from an emerging nation in transition to a fully fledged market economy” helped create a record number of rich people." Do you see it? "a fully fledged market economy". That's capitalism...NOT communism. However, it's capitalist economy is strongly controlled by the government...and that's Fascism. I can find you all kinds of material that support my claim that people are allowed to own property....or wealth. Money is property and China has lots of people with lots of money. They own it however they must be loyal to the Party or they could lose it overnight. That's the same as in Nazi Germany. The families of those who tried to assassinate Hitler, lost everything they owned when the plotters were executed. Gone. The party allowed ownership as long as you were loyal to the Party and Hitler. The Party in China will allow you to own property....money....as long as you're loyal to the Party. There were no rich people in Mao's China or in the Soviet Union. There was an elite class but no one was allowed to accrue wealth and there was NO market economy.
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  9530. The point is that you can have fun with the Super Bowl. That's why you watch it. It's not that you must have the Super Bowl to have fun. You're misinterpreting what he's saying. In fact, he was quite critical of how the Super Bowl seems a little disconnected from reality to him.
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  9531. People just don't think things through. When you lockdown small businesses and then passively sit by while rioters loot and destroy these SAME small businesses, who else is going to benefit but the corporate outlets? Now that the big outlets have captured the market and permanently locked out the small businesses in the inner cities, the looters have turned on them. Now, corporate America wants help, through the law, to stop the looters. LIke Tim says.....the state and corporate America merging to form a new social model. Sort of like the old ways of Church and state working together. Now, it'll be big business and the state and it's a modern form of Fascism. Nice work all you woke progressives. You think that you're fighting the good fight but you're setting up a way for the elites to crush you.
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  9532. Nature has evolved with grazing animals as an important part of the ecological paradigm. Beef farmers can use that natural phenomenon to replace the loss of natural grazers to continue this ecological niche as best it can. The great herds are gone. Something has to replace them. However, we now have city folk, who only go on 2 week holidays into the country, telling the ones who live and work there, about the environment that they deal with everyday. It's the "Peter Cottontail" perspective of nature, one that's just fine for children but you have to grow up someday.
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  9533.  @spltndddpairofaces680  Those teachers are hiding behind that law, using it to further their own ideology. It's the perfect storm for child predators.
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  9534. MSNBC was advised by Wes Walz on how to lie about military records.
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  9535. The Mountain of Doom. LOL. I can picture Pelosi now with the ring of power. "My precious. My beautiful precious". She could be a believable Gollum, once she got the ring. Right now we'll have to call her "Sméagol". "Sméagol" Pelosi. I kinda like it.
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  9536.  @williamobrien6480  I used to see that on bathroom walls quite often back in the seventies. Great quote.
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  9537.  @JoeSmith-mp2fn  Selective morals. Every mayor of Chicago has been a Democrat since 1931. That's 90 years of Democrat mayors. Yet the crime and corruption issues has never changed or improved and seems to be getting worse. Yet.....YOU appear to be blaming conservatives. Democrats aren't conservatives. It's such a simplistic answer. Conservatives lie about everything. Wow....that should solve that culture of gang violence and gang blood feuds. Maybe you should go after those who were voted into political office, in the hopes of making Chicago a place that one would want to move to and live in. Of course, ideology comes first. Let them die as long as Conservatives don't run the city.
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  9538.  @JoeSmith-mp2fn  If they constantly lie, they must be lying about the crime problem in Chicago. Yes, crime does exist everywhere. Toronto and Chicago are about the same size in population, Toronto having about 200,000 people. Yet Chicago had 4,033 shootings in 2020 compared to 460 in Toronto in the same year. THAT'S 10 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF SHOOTINGS in Chicago over Toronto. So....you can stick your head in the sand, call conservatives liars and pretend that since crime exists everywhere, this isn't a problem. So long as conservative liars aren't running the city, we can't be bothered to even acknowledge that there is a problem. We'll just be happy that the conservative liars aren't in charge and we can happily ignore the realities of life in Chicago. You certainly have one twisted sense of logic.
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  9539.  @JoeSmith-mp2fn  We were talking about Chicago and you made a statement that crime was everywhere. I used Toronto to show that, in spite of the fact that crime IS everywhere, it doesn't have to be as bad as Chicago. Second, YOU'RE the one that made the assertion that conservatives are liars. All I did was show you that Chicago had mayors and administrations for 90 years, who are NOT conservative and violent crime is horrific. The people have elected the SAME group of politicians for 90 years and the awful crime rates has remained the same, right along with it. They keep sticking their hand in the same trap and wonder why things don't improve. Hey.....but at least those lying conservatives are in charge. Do you know who else is lying? YOU are.....to yourself. Go ahead, keep sticking your hand in the same bear trap. Eventually your hand will get that strong and build an immunity to the pain. Also, I know that there have been liberal mayors in Toronto. That's not my point. My point it that it doesn't matter the ideology of the administrations...liberal or conservative. What matters is the pattern of success. Toronto is one of the fastest growing, vibrant and crime free cities in North America. That's a success that we want to perpetuate. Chicago is a city in decline, with horrific violent crime rates. If you want to perpetuate that record, vote for the same people, that brand of Democrat that have been there all along. If they've failed all along, what makes you think that they'll succeed in the future? I know....at least they're not conservatives. LOL. You sure have a twisted sense of logic.
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  9540.  @JoeSmith-mp2fn  You just don't want to talk about Chicago, do you. Everything else but not the topic of this video. All deflections. Conservatives are liars. Crime is everywhere. Other cities....but crime in Chicago???? NO WAY. You're just like the mayor of Chicago right now. Talk about anything but what is actually happening. Population density??? Would you give me a break. Toronto is bigger and yet Chicago has 10 TIMES the violent crime problem. Yet, "Republican cities". You'd think you'd want to match Toronto but instead you come up with ALL kinds of reasons why the Chicago politicians are doing just fine. You'd be the kind of guy I'd want to solve a specific problem. You blame others, make excuses, compare yourself to what someone else is doing, take the ideological route....ANYTHING but take responsibility for the task at hand. To use a metaphor, you can't mow your lawn by criticising how the neighbour mows his lawn. You have to tackle your own lawn or the grass won't get cut. The politicians have to tackle the crime problem in their own city or it won't be solved. Either do their job or make way for someone who can.
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  9541. A BLM mural, painted in front of Trump Tower, huh. If that's not a political message aimed directly at the president, what would be? It's illegal. I forget the name of the woman on CNN who lamented when they announced that Jussie lied about being attacked. "We NEED this story to be true" she said. That says it all. It's like a religion and they NEED their stories to be true.
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  9542.  @joebright4607  I'd like to be able to write comments that would satisfy everyone but I'm just not that good. I know that this document stuff has the potential to be extremely serious and it should be dealt with, maybe even get rid of the sitting president. There are a lot of reasons why we have to consider getting rid of the president but we still have to follow procedure. McCarthy is who we're stuck with. He's not even close to a perfect choice but at least he's NOT Pelosi. The travel on the road back to respectability as a nation, will be a long and arduous one but, in the end, it will be well worth it. We can't go on the way that we have been and not destroy the country.
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  9543.  @burningsnow9870  Communism SHOULD be a scare word. A cursory search of communist history would prove it.
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  9544.  @ghostplanner.digital  I have the young continually tell me that our generation had it lucky and things aren't that way anymore. So then when we propose going back to the mindset that our generation had and even more, the generation of our parents, they reject that and want their own ideas implemented. We remember the cruelties of our past and we see our youth driving us headfirst into a repetition of those horrific times. When you give power to the government, the corrupt will take advantage of this power and corrupt the nation. This is something that the elderly have seen before and don't want to see again.
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  9545. The only person that can portray me in a movie is.......ME. No one else could possibly understand my lived experience and no one should be that insensitive to my reality to even try.
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  9546.  @christiansmith131  That's true. However, it's been said by more than one foreign pundit that it would be extremely difficult for a foreign to invade and hold the US. Why? Because American citizens are better armed than most nations. That has to be a consideration. When Germany invaded the Netherlands, hardly any people in the Netherlands had weapons of any sort. They couldn't get together and form citizen militias or even pick of marching Nazis from a distance because they had no weapons. All they could do is stand at the side of the road and watch the Nazis march by. It incurred a scary and helpless feeling in the pit of every stomach.
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  9547. As much as they deserved to get punched out, Elder's security team did the right thing. The media would have only showed the retaliation but not what started the incident in the first place. It's how the Democrats and their propaganda media operate and people will eat it up. We don't need to give them the ammo they'll use to defeat Elder. We have to be better than them and win the moderate Democrat voter away from their party by showing them just how unhinged the Democrats and their media really are.
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  9548.  @1frogass1  It worked out exactly the way that I described. The Democrat controlled media and Big Tech censored stories that made the Democrats look bad and misrepresented stories to make to make the Republicans look bad and dangerous....and it worked perfectly. However, just because it worked once, that doesn't mean that it will work this time. There are a lot of people that are having "voters regret" due to the way that Biden and the Democrats are screwing things up. In California, Newsom has already screwed up badly. Voters can see that and even though it's an uphill fight, California is a extreme leftist state, as long as we don't fall into their trap, Elder should be the next governor. However, if Elder's supporters start behaving like the Democrats are claiming they'll behave, it'll scare the undecided to their side. We want to win this recall. We NEED to win it. That means doing it correctly. Punching someone in the nose may leave you with some satisfaction but it'll pale quickly if Newsom isn't recalled. Win the war. Winning skirmishes mean nothing.
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  9549.  @corvetteb3075  In a way, so did Walz. You're not risking much if all you do is train and then train others. However, when the war in Iraq seemed imminent, he left the service. He got paid for all those years. Got to travel on the taxpayer's dime but when things got tough, he bailed. Worse, he lied about it. He lied about his rank and about taking part in actual combat. That's a slap in the face to all those who did have to fight, who lost their lives, their health, both mental and physical....those who are still suffering trauma because of those combat experiences. Trump was eligible for the draft but he, upon the required medical exams, found to have bone spurs in his heels and he got a deferment from service. Was it a legit diagnosis, neither of us knows but one could get a deferment quite easily. I knew a guy who was deferred because he had different coloured eyes. However, we just don't know about Trump. What we do know about Walz is that he LIED about combat. Intentionally, with the intent of using that lie to further his political career.
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  9550. I had no idea Brian Stelter was a comedian. I hadn't laughed that hard since this Covid stuff started.
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  9551.  @Randy-md6xl  Being a fetus is just a stage of life of a specific being. A fetus, a baby, a toddler, an adolescent, a teenager, an adult, a senior....all stages of living. I find it weird, that the only stage, in my life that had no value, was when I was a fetus.....and I was a fetus. I was an embryo, too and a fertilised egg. I wasn't all that cute or communicative but that WAS me. I learned, when I was just a little kid, that if you didn't keep a chicken egg at the right temperature, the little chick inside would DIE. Actually die. A fertilised egg. We had fertilised eggs under a heat lamp and we took extreme steps to care for those eggs because we didn't want those chicks, inside the egg to die. Turning them every few hours and making sure that the temperature didn't vary. Yes.....the fertilised egg, inside that shell would DIE, expire and grow no more. "Life is the aspect of existence that processes, acts, reacts, evaluates, and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism)." Growth and metabolism. From the moment of conception, the new being starts to grow. In your case, it grew until it became the person that you are today. Had that growth been interrupted, at any time, even 2 weeks after conception, you wouldn't be here today.
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  9552. I live in Canada and I go there with no problems. It's a beautiful country that uses an outhouse, so to speak, the outhouse being a metaphor for big cities. Know what to avoid....big cities.....as much as possible and you'll be just fine. The gun toting redneck, that lives in rural areas, is generally quite harmless. It's the gun toting city folk that you have to be afraid of.
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  9553.  @stevesherman1743  Where did I say that I don't talk about things? Why do you find it necessary to put words in my mouth and then use YOUR words, pretending that they're my words, to refute some kind of argument? That's a straw man fallacy. I don't want someone, who I barely know, telling my kids about things that are deeply intimate. I don't KNOW them and I don't know their intentions. This idea that if their teachers don't tell them, they'll go through life in some kind of ignorant fog says that you have a very small opinion of the average parent. People have different opinions about life, social and moral values and how we should conduct themselves. They have that right. No one should be told, by the state, via the school system, what their children must think and believe. The state, governments, have committed the most heinous atrocities in human history. I don't trust the government yet I realise that they're a necessary evil. That doesn't mean that they have the right to undermine our family values or the values of anyone else, no matter what those values are. Teach my child, all children, the academics. Leave the ideological stuff, religion and politics, out of it. Teachers have TOO much influence for me to allow them to impose THEIR values on my children or my family....especially when they're pre-teens. It makes the entire system open to state indoctrination and I have family members and friends who can tell you first hand how horrific that can become.
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  9554. We watch sports to escape the reality of life for a couple of hours. If ESPN can't do that, we'll go somewhere else. I love hockey and have watched it for 60 years. If they start preaching at me, it's been nice but good-bye. I'm pretty sure that most of my sports loving friends feel the same way.
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  9555.  @thenorfolkst  Of course she knew she was doing it. She got a fine so obviously she knew. But she wanted to visit her son, to show him support in his fight against mental illness. So she did it again and again. She's even paid part of it off. We ALL know this and it's NOT the point. The point is this. It's ALWAYS the little guy, the ones who are the least economically privileged, that have to pay the price for their laws that favour those who can afford it. They don't care about us and they keep imposing new laws that just drive us deeper into poverty. They did the same thing with Covid. They shut down the economy, for our own "safety" and 250 million people, around the world, slid back into abject poverty. Abject poverty is considered to be less than $1.90 American a day. A DAY!!! That means that they make less than $13.30 in a 7 day work week. That's less than the minimum wage per hour in the US. This was an estimate from the United Nations. These people are starving, living off garbage, but the privileged don't care. At least they're safe from Covid. It's as selfish and cowardly as it gets.
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  9556. I live in a small town and I know 3 people that make fireworks for our Canada celebrations in the area. It's not that hard.
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  9557. I wonder if Obama had said to let blue cities rot, if that would have prompted Republican supporters to riot, loot, burn, smash and attack people. I really do wonder.......
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  9558.  @danajohnson4480  There WAS plenty of toilet paper under Trump. What happened was that a class of "entrepreneurs" bought up all the toilet paper and tried to get rich on it. Had the lock-downs not happened, there would have been no shortage of TP. Amazing that you need this to be explained to you. I saw it coming months in advance and I made sure that I had at least 4 months worth bought up in late January and then replaced each package as they emptied. It was easy to do because I ALWAYS keep at least 36 rolls of TP on my shelf. If only everyone would to that with their groceries and water supply, those lock downs wouldn't see the stupidity of fighting over TP. We'd all be prepared for any natural disaster. Those that didn't have TP were the stupid ones, NOT Trump. He had nothing to do with my being prepared for all contingencies.
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  9559.  @1133saginaw  NO.....a government that doesn't allow food companies to sell poison, a GOOD thing and then walks away with no contingency plan and allows babies to go hungry...a really BAD thing. Which option is best? Getting poisoned or starvation. If we're going to give the responsibility of not being poisoned to someone else, maybe that someone else had better be there, when they tell us NOT to eat our food, to have an alternative. Starvation is one awful way to die. We give that responsibility to someone else and then depend on them to feed us. I don't trust any government to care THAT much for my well being. Almost every war, genocide, economic upheaval and oppression has been at the demand or validated by a government. YOU might trust them to look after you but NOT ME. They demanded a recall and then walked away. That's NOT the socialism that I want.
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  9560.  @bgbgbg123  You're putting a pretty ribbon on abortion. You can dress it up as nice and elegant as possible but an abortion prevents a living being from living a full and meaningful life. It's existence has only just started when it was purposely ended..
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  9561. She says "Perception is reality" Yup...it sure is. The perception.....Democrats are corrupt elitists. The reality.....Democrats are corrupt elitists. It's not going to be easy for a corrupt party to fix themselves. Like pigs, they all want their share of the Democrat trough.
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  9562.  @nagillim7915  It came long before the fifties. When Europeans first came to America, they settled onto their new homesteads as the nuclear family. They isolated themselves on large farms, as much as 160 acres, sometimes far from the nearest settlement. Their children didn't necessarily inherit the land, meaning that they had to divide it with their siblings. They could go out and claim their own homestead, which meant going to new lands, sometimes far from their parents. Owning land became a dream that had never existed before. The fifties brought new affluence so women didn't have near the work that their mothers and grandmothers had. Refrigerators, washers and dryers, electric stoves, vacuum cleaners, all the new conveniences that made life so much easier. Kids were gone to school at age five where, at one time, school wasn't required by law and most kids didn't even go to school. No wonder women became bored. Doing laundry by hand might be drudgery but it sure did keep you busy. Now, you throw a load into the washing machine and you go and watch TV until it's done. Then you throw it into the dryer and watch TV until it's dry. Then you fold the laundry in front of the TV set. Life became too easy and one can't blame women for wanting more.
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  9563.  @fish509b  So you think that your government should freeze your bank account because of your political views???? Really?? Wait till a government gets elected that you don't like and they decide that you have "unacceptable" views and then freeze your bank account because you've donated to the "wrong" cause. But that's different, isn't it. You couldn't POSSIBLY have "unacceptable" views because you're YOU. I'm no Nazi. My mother almost starved to death in WW2 Holland because of the Nazis. I'm NOT a misogynist. I sometimes think that women are a little nutty but they're the most wonderfully fascinating creatures on earth....after small children who always put a smile on my face. I believe in freedom of religion and I'm NOT religious. I've never been afraid of gay people or Muslims or transgender individuals and don't hold anything against them. I believe in hard work, making your own way, being fully honest, try to keep excuses to a minimum and would never support an idea because it's popular or it's what my "team" supports. Most of all, I believe every human has the right to believe as they will and have the freedom to express it...even YOU. I want every person to be their own team...a team of one. I think that we should all show others the courtesy to listen to what they have to say and then honestly evaluate it without input from those who would tell you what to think, do or say. If you really think that sucks, I feel sorry for you.
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  9564.  @pegg00  Did you watch this video? Dave made some excellent points and Knowles gave him his due for it. The only thing I don't understand about him is his love for tequila. That's just not right.
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  9565. Of course not all cultures are equal. Would those who believe differently support the Fascist culture of Nazi Germany? Would they support the caste system of the Hindus and the burning of widows in historic India. Would they support the human sacrifices of the Aztecs and the Mayans if revived today? Of course not. All cultures are equal is a foolish idea.
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  9566. @BoltaBekOzbek I'd say the culture that values freedom, the rule of law and the sanctity of the individual would be the one that would rank at or near the top. If you can't be who you want to be, as long as it doesn't take from the rights of others, isn't a culture that you or anyone would be proud to be a part of. I gave some clear examples of cultures that fail. Why didn't you comment on that?
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  9567. @ I never gave ONE example of a single death that was cultural driven that ended in a single death. Each one had multiple deaths over years, sometimes centuries. Even if it was one death. It's STILL morally repugnant. If that single death is the result of a religious expression of a culture, it's even a bigger sign that some cultures have morally inferior ideals. Morality and ethics have nothing to do numbers. One horrific abuse is enough. Saying that wars are waged by better cultures is rather vague. I'd like to see specifics, in the way that I gave specifics. Also, there are people in those "better" cultures who aren't good people and they fool others into doing terrible things. Humans are flawed and it's manifested in ALL of us. The difference is in what one intentions and beliefs are. One culture could believe in human rights and do terrible things and another may commit horrific atrocities as a part of their belief system. The Aztecs practised human sacrifice as a religious rite to ensure prosperity for themselves and as a part of what they believed to be true. It permeated their entire society. They believed it was the right thing to do.
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  9568.  @alena-qu9vj  Colonisation was THEN, not now. It's the culture of then and it would be considered wrong today. It's the same with slavery. Our culture, TODAY, is adamant that slavery is wrong. The culture 300 years ago didn't see anything wrong with it. So...is our culture today BETTER than the culture back then or not? I'd say it's better because our beliefs have changed and are now the cultural norm. You're comparing a different culture, than what we have today, to the Mayans. It's a false equivalency.
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  9569. When I was 23, I was married, a father and we were buying a home. This makes me laugh.
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  9570.  @RobertMorgan  Actually, that marriage broke up when I was 36. It sucked, big time but do you know what? It was still better than had I not got married. It didn't seem so at the time but in retrospect, I don't regret it at all. One thing is certain, I'd rather be married at 23, even if it ultimately failed, then be crying because my parents won't let me live at home, anymore. I was building something of value, that would last. I never remarried and I'm happy with that as well and I now have 3 great grandchildren that I'm taking camping on my sister's property on a river. Fishing, swimming, canoeing, sitting around a fire, life couldn't be better. Don't let life scare you. Take it by the horns and build something, a life that you love. If you're lucky enough to have a decently long life, you'll look back and be glad that you did it that way. I've learned that life isn't about success and failure but how you deal with it.
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  9571. JFK would be a Nazi to a lot of the Democrats, today.
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  9572. White empathy has resulted in self flagellation. She hates herself for her skin colour and she's encouraging others to hate her for that very reason. She's advocating for racism. Plus.....she's a nut.
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  9573. When those criminals start to think that they can get away with crime, they'll also start to realise where the big money is. It's in the homes of the millionaires and they'll come for the fancy stuff the elite own. Then you'll see the elites start crying. Hollywood elites will be shocked at how much they're hated and they won't understand that these criminals don't care enough about them to hate them. They just want their stuff. Will these idiots learn, though. I kinda doubt it.
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  9574.  @triangleofdeath6246  Union members were replaced by Party officials and they'd have meetings with all the workers to talk about production goals and to see who had the correct attitudes towards the party. A lot of snitching to those Party officials as well. Unions were seen as an opposition to the goals of the Party and the national good. I'm not sure on how the Party in China coordinates with industry but I know that there are no unions allowed. Not that I'm a big union guy, myself, but I do believe in the right to organise. An awful lot of similarities. Fascism blends the entrepreneurship of Capitalism and the authoritarianism of Socialism into a very efficient society. Not one that I'd support but it can work, for a time, anyway, in quite the robust manner. Germany did it and now China is doing it as well.
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  9575.  @ashlibabbitt1111  John Balnis.....aren't you getting tired of people thinking that you're a trolling jerk.
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  9576.  @Parrallaxatives  Who said that trans people are faking it? They may well believe, deep down, that they are transgender. Maybe they're as brainwashed as you've implied, that Judeo Christians are, in another comment? People can turn to any solution to heal the pain inside. That doesn't mean that it's the correct solution. It could mean that it's the one that they believe or have been told is the correct one. "God will save me" or "Puberty blockers will save me". Can they BOTH be a delusion and how would you know it they were?
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  9577.  @johnnyblue4799  If you'd read the works of Gentile, Mussolini and the speeches of Adolf Hitler, it becomes obvious that Fascism is a form of Socialism. Socialists hate this but it's a fact.
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  9578.  @woresor  Vaccines don't cure. They prevent the disease. Once you're sick, the vaccine is useless. It's how vaccines eliminate a disease. Everyone gets vaccinated until the virus that causes the disease no longer exists. That's how smallpox was eradicated. The smallpox virus needs a susceptible host to infect in order to survive. If everyone is vaccinated, there is no host.
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  9579. No one would ever protest at her home or loot it. She's far too virtuous and wonderful. What possible reason could they have to protest at her house? I can't think of any. (big eyeroll)
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  9580. @Bert Brown Afraid not yet. Congress refuses to give the money. At least, they've rebuilt a part of the wall where the highest traffic would be and is falling down. This wall will last for years instead of the rickety thing that past governments have built.
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  9581. Why would anyone go back to work for an extra 50-60 bucks a week? What Biden is telling this restaurant owner is to pay his employees another 2-300 bucks a week. What small or new restaurant can afford that? He basically told this guy to shut his doors for good. That's the same with all the shoplifting in San Francisco. Walgreens just closed 17 stores because of the theft. Now, people are complaining that there aren't enough drug stores. I would not be surprised to see government run drug stores opening soon in the Bay area. I'll bet that if it does happen, those stores won't have a problem with shoplifting. Not armed security but the police patrolling the store and woe betide the thief. Get rid of the independents and leave it all to a centralised power. It appears to be the way of the future.
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  9582. Trump never said that he would be a dictator from day 1. He said that he would be a dictator on day 1 and he'd close the border and he'd "drill, baby drill". Then he no longer be a dictator. That's right out of his mouth. Joy LIED. Flat out lied. I'll say again. Dictator for one day and then he'd not be a dictator. He was telling us that he would sign 2 executive orders. That's what he was talking about.
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  9583.  @wonniewarrior  I would believe that to be true but I don't know for sure. It makes the most sense. I'm sure he didn't want his property burned to the ground, by activists, like so many others across the country. If Gardner was allowed to remain in business, I'm sure his landlord was afraid the mob would come for Gardner and that could mean fire. Either that, or he's a leftie himself, which isn't a big improvement on the type of person he is. Either way, ethics isn't his strong suit.
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  9584. As a lifelong country boy, I'm seeing the big city folk moving to the country, with romanticised ideas on country living. Then they're hit with reality and instead of embracing it, they fight it like hell. They try to mold the country into their version of country life. Some are good but man, some of them are a plain nightmare. Nothing like having a big city lawyer move in next to your farm. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Big city lefties might do well to heed that old adage.
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  9585. The public bending the knee demand is an update of public executions that was so common after the French and Soviet Revolutions. Executions will not play as well today, so public humiliation is the new weapon of choice. No one will want to go through that twice and they know it. If we'd been paying closer attention, we got a prelude to this a few years ago at Evergreen College. Bully people till they prostrate themselves in humiliation, begging for their forgiveness. They've advanced somewhat since Evergreen.
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  9586.  @SweatyFatGuy  Marxists believe that the default for Marxism is Fascism. Do you know what the East Germans called the Berlin wall? They called it the "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall" which translates as "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". It was built, by the East Germans, to protect them from those who lived on the other side of that wall, West Germans and their allies. It also explains why Antifa riots, no matter who's the president. They see no difference between Trump, Biden, Obama or Clinton. They're all Fascists to them.
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  9587.  @SweatyFatGuy  I've said it for years. Nazis and Marxists aren't that far apart. It sure does trigger some people. They really get upset when I back it up with evidence and a coherent argument that they find almost impossible to refute. It turns their world upside down. I remember watching the wall being torn down. I was partners, in a small construction company, with a guy who married a girl from Germany. The three of us watched them tear down the wall on TV. It was a big moment in history, marking the end of the Cold War. One of the big moment in history that I'll always remember. The Kennedy assassination, the Henderson goal (you have to be Canadian or Russian to get that one), the first moon landing, 9/11 and the tearing down of the wall. I'd be so proud to have a chunk of that wall. I'm kinda envious....in a good sort of way.
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  9588.  @scottfarner5100  She crossed 6 years ago and was a Canadian citizen. She went to live with an American in hopes of marriage that she met when he was in Canada. However, none of that matters. Refugee status has to do with those who come from a nation embroiled in wars and are displaced citizens due to the effects of that war. Asylum seekers are those who are faced with imminent threats of torture of persecution in their home countries. There is no WAY that everyone coming across the southern or northern borders, including my sister, meet or met those requirements. They're coming because they're having economic difficulties (they're poor) at home and they know that the current US administration won't question or enforce those asylum requirements. Also, separating children from the adults that are accompanying them, has NOTHING to do with asylum or refugee status. Having a child with you isn't an automatic indication of lawful refugee or asylum status and has NOTHING to do with those immigration laws. They're either running from wars, torture or persecution at home. If they can't show that they're facing such dangers at home, they can't seek asylum as refugees. That's the law. You can't show up with a child and say that you're a refugee and then say that this proves that you're a refugee or seeking asylum. It's an illogical claim. It's NOT the questions that determine refugee or asylum status. It's the answers. Can they show the requisite determination for legal immigration status as refugees or asylum seekers or not. That's the question. Rubber stamping requests and letting them come in to disappear into the country is a TERRIBLE policy. Also, if you're from Nicaragua, and you're being persecuted, you go to the nearest country (Honduras) to seek asylum. If they don't allow your case, you go to the next country, Guatemala and do the same. If refused, go to Mexico. There is NO evidence that this is happening. People are coming from all over the world, going to Mexico (not Canada) and then seeking asylum at the US border. They're doing it because the US is seen as a rich country and that's why they want to go there. It's also why, they're not going to Canada and heading south. Canada is already seen as a rich country and no one would come from there to seek asylum, which is why my sister was sent home and threatened with jail if she ever returned. You don't just claim to be a refugee. You have to prove it and this isn't happening at the southern border.
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  9589.  @MegF142857  However, you did carry human eggs and have NEVER been able to produce sperm. No man has ever carried human eggs as part of their biological development. They don't have the parts to allow it to happen. No woman has ever been able to produce sperm. They don't have the biological hardware that makes this possible, either. You are now in menopause. Your body is no longer releasing eggs. That can ONLY happen to a woman. The fact that, for some reason, you could never birth a baby doesn't alter the fact that your entire biology is geared to producing offspring. Something was wrong in your metabolism that prevented it from happening. Human biology is extremely complex and things do go wrong. That doesn't take away from the biological fact that you're a woman. It also doesn't alter the fact that you can NEVER become a man or that men and women have specified roles in human reproduction. In fact, this binary is the essential to our survival. It allows for genetic diversity that must be ongoing or our genetic lines will begin to degenerate and that will lead to human extinction. It's basic biology.
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  9590. The "Final Solution" is still going strong and being funded by the American taxpayer. I shouldn't be so smug, though. My Canadian government is doing the same thing.
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  9591. That will go along way to solving the gang violence in Chicago. You sure are a problem solver.
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  9592.  @thomasobrien333  Good fiction reflects reality. It's not true as fact or history but it demonstrates truth as an idea. 2 plus 2 equals 5....that's not happening, right how, but math is now being called racist and it's claimed that a man can become a woman. It's not the same but it is similar. It's like learning from history. Things aren't going to happen exactly as history happened. It will have similarities and we have to be cognisant of those similarities to learn from history. It's the same with Orwell. It not a prediction of what he describes in his books. It's being able to learn from his descriptions and seeing the similarity in events and ideas in other occurrences and ideas. You learn from fiction, just like you learn from history.
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  9593.  @TheEndingAbyss  At one time, domestic production was protected by tariffs and fair trade deals. That went out the window with free trade. I watched factory after factory close down in the early eighties and the dynamics of the town I live in completely change within 10 years because of it. Nothing wrong with trade. Nothing wrong with other countries doing as well as we do in North America but it shouldn't be at the expense of the average person here. Now we can see what the consequences of that can be. Trump was right. We need domestic production to protect the citizens of our country from hostile foreign powers who may have their own agenda. Not isolationism but a more robust economy with our own production facilities. We're going to regret it if we don't enact policies to ensure that.
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  9594. She has a guest on her show to do.....what??? Listen to her talk???? I'm getting this interview thing all wrong. I thought that you interviewed someone to hear what they have to say. This old dog is learning new tricks every day.
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  9595. For those fighter jets to be and optimum performance, they have to be flown. You can either fly them over a football game or over some lake in the mountains. That would be the training session for the day. Leftists seem be missing their logic processor.
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  9596.  Wayne Gambill  He tries to stop the press from speaking about him? Really? Like how? Arrests? A knock on the door in the middle of the night? Journalists disappearing and never heard from again? That's how true dictators do it. This is one vague allegation. The press hasn't stopped talking about him, especially the MSM, which has been quite open in their hatred of him. They've out and out lied about things he's said. Example....It was claimed he called immigrants animals, when it was clear he was talking about an extremely violent street gang. They had to have known but they didn't care. They knew that a lot of people only read the headlines and that's all that will stick in their memories. Even you'd be upset at that kind of reporting if it was about you. And so what if Fox has supported him? They've also criticised him and Trump called them out, too. A dictator doesn't hold mid-term elections. He doesn't allow impeachment processes. He does what Assad did in Syria. He calls out his army and starts arresting his opponents. Next year there will be an election with an opposing party and everything. What kind of failure of a dictator will allow that? Dictators don't have elections. Also, it hasn't been fully established yet that he withheld funds in lieu of an investigation. That's what these hearings are about. A conclusion before the hearings are complete would make this a kangaroo court with Trump as the victim. So that entire statement is bogus until all evidence has been presented. As for the mob rule claim. They didn't attempt to STOP the proceedings. They felt that they should be included. Mob rule would have insisted that the investigation stop. Cease and desist under threat of retaliation. They just wanted it to be known that they felt it unfair that only one side was allowed to see and hear what was going on and that only selected news was allowed to get out. Besides, wasn't it Maxine Waters would urged her followers to confront Republican legislators? Where was the backlash from the DNC for that? He didn't lose the last election, either. He won the electoral vote and that makes him the president, whether you like it or not. US elections have always been that way. They tried for 2 years to get him on collusion and they had NOTHING. He trashed NATO? NO. He said that NATO should pay its fair share in that treaty. They seem to want all the benefits of being protected from the Russians but didn't want to pay. An overwhelming majority of NATO countries weren't paying what was agreed upon. Why wouldn't the leader of the country that was paying say something about it. I get that you don't like Trump. Your diatribe of "lying, perverted, vile, vulgar and hateful SOB" makes it quite clear how much you HATE the guy. However, it would appear that this hate is forcing you to literally see red at the mere mention of his name. Making assessments through the lens of hate puts you in a state of mind where only the hate shines through and any logic or reason is put to the side. You don't have to like the guy but you shouldn't allow your hate to be the only venue of reason when discussing issues around his presidency.
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  9597.  @williamlauth279  "march peacefully and patriotically" and "because we are a party of law". That's what he said on J6th, 2021 before the it even started. Calling him names doesn't change that.
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  9598.  @debbieassini8934  No, he said the "peacefully and patriotically" phrase shortly after 12:00. He finished his speech at 1:10 just as the rioters started throwing metal poles at security. At 1:45, the rioters surged past security. At 3:13 Trump tweeted asking people to remain peaceful. Trump was at the Ellipse, close to the White House, when he gave that speech. That's a 1.8 mile walk to the Capitol Building. The "peaceful and patriotic march" would have taken around 40 minutes according to Google Maps and that's on a normal day, not when there were tens of thousands marching. Trump was in the limo "grabbing the steering wheel away from the driver" a nonsensical claim. Everyone knew that there was going to be a large protest long before that day. Why was there more security in place? People asked for it. Even Trump did. Another thing, why wasn't there the outrage when BLM rioters threw Molotov cocktail and other projectiles at the White House and security? They even tried to set fire to the Church of the presidents, at the edge of the White House lawn. Trump and family had to go to a secure bunker for their safety. That's sure sounds like an insurrection where the president had to hide from a mob for his own safety. Yet, the media mocked and called him "Bunker Boy". There were fires all over Washington that day. I suppose that's a good insurrection as opposed to the bad one on J6. I say that BOTH were bad but there's no evidence that Trump planned the riot. It was supposed to be a protest and that's legal in the United States. According to Democrat supporters, burning, looting and attacking police is okay, depending on who does it. Violence should be called out, EVERY time, not just when it done by people that you don't like.
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  9599.  @stephx9759  If the Israelis had opened fire on persons at a music festival and paraded the seemingly dead body of a naked young woman, through the streets of Jerusalem as Israelis cheered and spit on her naked body, we'd have known about it and been outraged. However, the Israelis never did this. That doesn't make the Israel a perfect state but the differences in the blood lust is to the extreme. There is NO excuse for what the Palestinians terrorists did.
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  9600.  @AnnOnTheFloor  "Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do." 1 Corinthians 8...7-8 In other words, it's okay to eat that sacrificed meat to false gods as long as your conscience is strong and you see the meat for what it is....just meat. That's the same as the flag. There are protocols surrounding the flag and the pledge of allegiance but if your conscience is strong, you'll know what your priorities are. If you conscience is weak, you'll show it by being uncertain of your allegiance. So, all I can say is to act on the strength of your conscience and only you and God can know your commitment to your faith.
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  9601. Typical progressive nonsense. He's quite willing to mock it but actually talk about what's IN the Constitution that bothers him, he doesn't do that. They didn't consult him and that's enough. Either the Constitution has worth based on what's written in it or it doesn't. That's what's at issue. That "expert" can't even address that simple idea. What's worse, he has no idea what human rights are about. He's not even bright enough to understand that he's taking away the rights of the people. Thankfully, they're not going to let him anywhere NEAR that document.
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  9602.  @rickmcdonald2233  Hillary lost, too. Yet, she's still saying that the election was stolen. The entire Russia collusion thing was about how Trump stole the election. When the Muller Report showed that it didn't happen and then the Durham Report showed how it was all fabricated, you still won't accept THAT reality. So....is Hillary a liar or is she just not in touch with reality? Instead of making this about partisan politics, why don't you look into who BOTH parties have accused the other of cheating, in the past? Hillary did it in 2016 but it wasn't the first time for the Democrats. They claimed that the GOP cheated in 2004, saying that the voting machines were corrupted. Then Trump did it in 2020. It would appear that NO one trusts the American elections anymore....and it's no wonder. Other countries are laughing at the US for some of the dumb things that they do during elections. I mean... IDs are racist? You've got to be kidding me. That's not even close to all of the weird things that go on during your elections. Only 3rd world tyrants have worst election policies than the US. It's time American get a grip.
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  9603. Typical leftist tactic. Make an accusation and then not allow the accused to defend themselves. Ted Lieu did the same to Candace Owens. Make a obviously veiled accusation against Ms Owens and then direct his question to a 3rd party so she couldn't defend herself. The left is as dishonest and unethical as it gets.
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  9604.  @obviousmaths4368  "I'm smart and you're not". That's always a great response.....FOR A SIX YEAR OLD. Now explain to us how your DNA has nothing to do with the male/female binary. Go ahead. I'd love to hear the science behind it.
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  9605. Every time I fart, I feel guilt over the extinction of the planet. I try to hold it but I can't do it. Forgive me, Mother Earth.
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  9606. When conservative Giuliani was mayor of New York, crime went down. Now we have liberal mayors and crime goes up. That's the numbers. The liberals are letting the looters and rioters go free to go out and do it again. Conservative don't. It is Liberal policies, like the one in San Francisco, that has made theft under $950 dollars a misdemeanour, that has seen an incredible spike in crime there. Police don't even investigate shoplifting any more. People just walk into stores, take what they want and walk out without paying. Walgreen's has just shut down 17 locations due to the shoplifting binges and people have to go miles to get their drugs. It's always the poorer areas of town that are affected the worst. Liberal politicians have their heads filled with rainbow ideas that never work in real life. Time for them to come back to earth.
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  9607.  @flob2802  I don't even know what the hell you're talking about. You make no sense.
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  9608. Yet, here's Larry Elder running for the presidency of the United States as a member of what the left decries as a white supremacist party. He came from extreme poverty and is now worth around 20 million dollars. Anyone who tells you that success is easy doesn't understand success OR life. Life is hard. What makes America a great country is that a black man, who grew up under Jim Crow and in extreme poverty, can aspire to and achieve such heights.....and I'm not even American and I say that. All a good, honest, hard working person needs is the freedom to be able to grow as a person. That's what America provided Elder and now the socialist left wants to take away from the rest of us. You can't legislate success. You can only attain it through hard work and the left is trying their best to inhibit those who have that work ethic.
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  9609.  A REAL MENACE  I don't care what they try to make me say, I will refuse to say it. If they force me to say "I love my kids", I won't do it. That doesn't mean that I don't love my kids or don't care about anyone. No one has the right to force me say anything, no matter what it is. That would be succumbing to Fascist tactics. The Fascist in Nazi Germany forced people to salute with a "Heil Hitler". That was a horror and so is this. If they can force me to say that, then what else can they make me say?
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  9610. For a second there, I thought it was Minnie Pearl. Started looking for the price tag on her hat.
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  9611. Tim...if Patriot Prayer or other groups or individuals try to step up, the media will paint them as White supremacists. Suddenly everyone will be on the side of rioters. The media is the enemy of the people. Also, it's not the police that ineffective. It's the courts. If the police arrest the rioters, the courts release them right away and they're out there again the following night, rioting away again. We have to get rid of the Democrats.....those in power and replace them with politicians that will allow the police and the courts to do their jobs.
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  9612.  @cammontreuil7509  That's correct. If you use property as collateral to secure a loan, the bank ensures that the value of the property will cover the cost of the loan. If a bank doesn't do that, as policy, take your money out TODAY. Your money isn't safe there.
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  9613. @UltimateReality American auto companies were bailed out. We'd still be able to buy Japanese and European cars.
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  9614.  @willyboy7141  If you go in with guillotines, you'll go down in history with the likes of Robespierre, Lenin and Castro. Killing your opposition without a fair trial. I realise that we want to see action right now but they have to carry this out so EVERYONE knows. I have 2 good friends who had always refused to accept that the Democrats could be corruptible. They're both starting to realise that they were wrong. Had you gone in with guillotines, they, along with countless others, would have been appalled and never accepted what the Democrats were doing. We have to expose them.
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  9615.  Tiktaalik  If you're one to think that evolution is BS, then there isn't much point in even talking to you. You have your own belief system that you will steadfastly defend, no matter what. Your belief system obligates you to discredit him. Either that or give it up and you're not going to do that. I asked for a reference to his ghost story. I have no idea on how to find this "H2" interview. Not much of a reference.
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  9616.  Tiktaalik  One newspaper article that has its problems with it. Yet that very article mentions others that have glowing reviews on the book. Cherry picking at its best. More to the point, it's a left wing magazine and cannot abide any idea that smacks of conservatism. Biased to the neck. It's like asking an atheist what he thinks of original sin. He'll start with the premise that it's BS. You'll not get an insightful opinion on the principle other than the "It's BS" response.
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  9617.  @steven5054  There you go. Another one that attacks the person but doesn't bother with the ideas he's presenting. You'd make a great debater with that tactic.
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  9618.  @pedalingprospector2007  Very few got arrested that day. That's correct. So why did the insurrectionists quit insurrectioning? They had possession of the Capitol Building, the first step in the overthrow of the government.....yet they stopped. There were no police or security to stop them. They weren't confronted by the National Guard. Why did those "revolutionaries" just go home after a few hours? Surely they didn't think that the insurrection was successful and Trump would continue to be president? No one was arrested for gun possession because no one had guns. The thousands of hours of video evidence doesn't show insurrectionists marching into the Capitol Building with guns. We'd be seeing the footage non-stop on MSM, if there were guns there. I think that you're dreaming.
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  9619.  @loloLolo-vz6wx  The oil companies can't produce the oil because they can't get the permits to produce or ship it. The government forced the end of the Keystone pipeline. Are you that foolish to believe that the oil companies are refusing to produce because they don't want to make money? That's beyond ridiculous.
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  9620.  @emmapeel8163  You nailed it. They're securing power for themselves. Any and all opposition will be censored and cancelled.
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  9621.  @tinfoilhatter  Of course it was about me. I thought that I would give my opinion on a comment that I hadn't even wrote yet. LOL. That makes perfect sense. No wonder you're having problems understanding Peterson. You're as illogical as it gets.
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  9622.  @tinfoilhatter  The Vulcans are right about that. However, we do have a brain and we should try to exercise that brain as much as possible. It may not make us perfectly logical but it's better than wallowing in ignorance, isn't it?
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  9623. Paedophiles are hiding behind the LGBTQ movement in the same way that Catholic priests hid behind the sanctity of the Confessional. That includes STRAIGHT pedos, who could care less about those in the LGBTQ "community". They're just using them and the LGBTQ movement is allowing it JUST LIKE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DID. Instead of worrying about what someone might be saying about the movement, maybe the movement should be decrying those pedos as mightily as the rest of us. That would be a lot more constructive than worrying how the denial of paedophilia might affect them. A "children first" stance would be a great deal more ethical than worrying about themselves.
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  9624. I was thinking that this woman believes that she's a Mr. Potato Head. Transformer is good, though. I wonder if this woman has a prostate. I'm serious. Is the prostate a part of the procedure in the transitioning from female to male? I've never heard one way or the other. As someone battling with serious prostate issues, I'm wondering if this woman might have to deal with the same issues in the future.
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  9625. What a great tactic that woman used. Insult the guy and then demand that he not defend the insult she threw at him. Just keep yelling "white supremacy" and someday it will stick. If the public charge law was in effect when that poem was written and, as she seems to claim, only Europeans were allowed to immigrate back then, wouldn't the public charge laws apply to European immigrants? She's intentionally distorting facts to achieve power and is using leading questions to twist the hearings to reflect her own biases.
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  9626. Obama could have housed all 50 of those migrants in his home on Martha's Vineyard. Wouldn't that have been the humanitarian thing for him to do? Apparently not. Let's get them out and onto an Air base. That's a LOT better. "Why don't they just go back where they came from?" I'll bet that's what they're saying around the dinner table except they're saying it in soft, mushy Democrat talk, which I'm not literate in.
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  9627. I think that the Portland tourism board are trying to attract violent thugs, arsonists and thieves. Seems like a great marketing scheme. Sure makes me want to go there. (BIG eye roll).
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  9628.  @Mobus_  Who cares? The statement (equation) is still true.
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  9629.  @kevinkelly2162  They understand the mathematics. What they're saying is that the Democrats cheated to get those votes. What part of "cheating" do you not understand? If we get 100 buck each on pay day and I steal 20 bucks from you, I will have 120 bucks to your 80. Basic math that we both understand. However one of us would be angry and it won't be me. In fact, I'll just ask you the question.....what number is higher, 80 or 120. Then, when you complain, I'll just tell you that you got the question wrong. I'll bet you'd go for that. LOL.
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  9630.  @lasttry99  He's NOT on NBC. They suspended him....remember. Why would they do that? Seems that he reported the truth and he PO the overlords. So, we have a reporter telling a true story who was suspended by NBC. It seems that you're arguing about nothing.
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  9631. When you walk, anywhere on the road, you will get run over. That's the nature of a Marxist induced political movement. No one is safe. Even those leftist, who believe that they are loyal allies to the cause, may find themselves run over by the Marxist truck. Just one misstep, and you're roadkill and it doesn't matter where you're standing on the road.
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  9632.  @Userbrodownunder  It's like keeping your pitcher in the ball game, in the 7th game of the World Series, and you're losing 10-1. Then, FINALLY, in the 8th inning the manager pulls him and puts in a new pitcher and he strikes out the side. Looks great but WAY too late but incredibly, the top brass award that manager with a new contract. That's what you're advocating for. He destroys the state and then you're rewarding him for trying to fix what he's destroyed with your support. It's NOT going to work. It's a desperation move because he realises that if he doesn't do something, he'll never become the president. It's self serving. If he didn't care about the problem 5 years ago, what makes you think that he cares about it now?
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  9633. My couch is right wing. I lay on it everyday and watch Fox news. I think it will mail in its vote for Trump this fall....in a different envelope than mine, of course.
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  9634.  @aronm5329  You're ignoring the REAL problem. Fraud accusations in 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2024 and it will be certain to happen this year. Why? Because they have 50 states and 50 different voting processes and the states can change them any time that they want. The US needs a national voting policy, all the same and written into the Constitution to guarantee so that no policy can change unless they change the Constitution. However, neither party doesn't wants to commit to a standard process. It's as if they like the system as it is so they can use the controversy to bad mouth the other side. It's not just embarrassing, it's another sign of the corruption of government.
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  9635.  @i.ehrenfest349  It's nonsense because neither party has tried to fix the flaws in the voting process. There are 50 states with 50 different voting laws....some so vague that things like this can happen. But let's NOT fix it. Let's use it to demonise the OTHER party and who ever comes up with the best case should convince voters that the OTHER is the bad guy. That's the nonsense here and it's only going to get worse. Worse, it's expanded into "the Russians did it". FIX THE PROBLEM. You're only pointing out the symptoms of a terrible voting system. Get at the root of the problem and FIX it and get rid of the nonsense and even the reality of voting fraud. Now, tell me that I'm wrong.
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  9636.  @billiebreese2067  You're not understanding ONE word of what I'm trying to say. The voting system is BROKEN. Let's assume that you're correct in what you're saying in the 2000 election and Gore should have been president. Yet, Bush became president. By every metric that I can think of, that would mean that the system is broken. WE AGREE. Yet you're too interested in blaming the other guys. In 2004, there was talk about the Dominion voting machines being tampered with. Is this possible? in 2016, it was outside interference in the elections...the Russians. In 2020, it was a combination of a comprehensive mail-in ballot system and harvesting, Dominion machines and illegally changing the voting process without going through the state legislature....Pennsylvania for one. Instead of looking to blame each other, why not name a commission for recommendations to ensure that this nonsense stops. But...NOOOOO. Let's just blame the other party for cheating. That's SO much better. FIX THE DAMN SYSTEM. Then we won't have things like the 2000 voting controversy. Other nations do it. The United States can do it, too if they have the inclination for it but it appears that, by the tone of your comment, no one wants to do that. Blame is a much better system.
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  9637. 8 cases so far from that event. Every one of them fully vaccinated and everyone of them had little to no symptoms. Yet, these 8 cases are added to the rising "surge" in cases and used as a reason for more lockdowns.
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  9638. It would be a PR disaster. Every news network and paper would show it round the clock and they'd never stop with the "crazy" right wing gun nut rhetoric. Even people that don't approve of the Pride parade would think that pulling your gun is going too far. We have to show that our way is the better way. That we don't burn, loot, throw bricks, punch or SHOOT those that we disagree with. We settle our differences in court. It's slow and painstaking but it's how we're going to beat them. The 2nd Amendment is VERY important but so is the wisdom of knowing when to use that right. Sometimes, pulling your firearm is the worst thing to do and this would be one of those times.
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  9639.  @LucifienAlter  "I have to wipe everything every few days". I said a week. Not a big difference. I have the Dutch ornaments. My parents immigrated from the Netherlands. You don't have to use my methods. All I'm saying is that it works for me and I spend 10 minutes or so, doing the dusting while my dishes soak. My dishes are easier to clean, so the dishes are done much faster, and my all my furniture appears clean to the casual observer. In fact, when I'm done the knick knacks, it doesn't look much different than when I started because I haven't let the dust build up. It works for me. What works for you, works for you. I was only suggesting another approach. If you don't like it.....don't do it.
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  9640. Pope Francis is an admirer of Paolo Friere, noted Brazilian educator and Marxist. Friere is one the main influences behind the mess that our educational system is in right now. Sowell was right to laugh at what the Marxist Pope had to say about economics. It's total nonsense.
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  9641.  @ockerthorn3907  I don't think so. They mentioned the Russians and repeated 200 years and even 190 years, many times.
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  9642. When I was working at the toilet paper factory, management announced that they had a contract to make 1 ply toilet paper. I HATE 1 ply toilet paper. In spite of my pleading and tears, they insisted on making it anyway. I tried for 1 month.....I tried really hard, but I just couldn't do it. I had to resign and have now taken my activism to my new profession as a bartender. I'm the new AOC. No 1 ply toilet paper in our establishment's bathrooms.
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  9643.  @diomedes7971  Had I landed on the beaches of Normandy, there would have been nothing fearless about it. I would have been terrified. However, I'm not conflating any sacrifices that I might have made with those landing at Normandy. What I'm saying is that if those guys could sacrifice their lives and body parts, I should be able to sacrifice a paltry scholarship or anything else that isn't life threatening. Those soldiers set the benchmark, paid the ultimate sacrifice, so we could have the right to stand for our rights in other and more mundane matters. If anything, it's disrespectful to the memory of those lost lives, if you're too afraid of losing a job or a scholarship for standing up for what's right. That's true disrespect. It's like saying that their sacrifice doesn't matter. You're going to bend the knee to authoritarianism, anyway, so eff their sacrifice. The female athletes have 2 choices. Either stand up and say that this isn't fair and they won't take it......OR.....keep their mouth shut, do what they're told and, in the process, ruin women's college and high school sports. And if they lose their scholarship because the coach is filling his team with trans athletes, it's their own doing. Most scholarships are on a yearly basis and they could be kicked off the team and out of school the following year anyway. Keeping our mouths shut is how we got into this mess in the first place and this is only the start. Authoritarians will force you to do their bidding because that's what they do. If you don't stand up for yourself, no one else will and you'll reap exactly what you've sown.
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  9644. "working hard and delivering services" It's not about those who work hard. It's about those who hardly work. Every workplace has them and if you think that government bureaucracies are free of them, you're as naive as it gets.
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  9645. I just hope that PV hasn't been seeded information from a bad source. That doesn't mean that over all story is false but that THIS source is bad and that they could use that source to invalidate what could be the truth. PV has been a thorn in the side of the establishment for years and they'd love to set him up, hoping to render them as far right fanatics. James O'keefe is good at what he does but no one is perfect.
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  9646.  @DerekG35  There were no slaves in the north. That's where the union soldiers came from. What I hear is a racialized stereotype is which ALL whites had slaves and they were ALL rich. YOU are a bigot of the worst kind no better than the Confederates who fought to keep slavery. Either that or a TROLL. Neither one is a good look for anyone.
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  9647.  @NazisAreHomos  You lefties have to STOP BREAKING THE LAW.
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  9648. If I had splashed that paint, I would be a white supremacist and a Nazi. However, they don't know what to make of a black woman doing it. They try to couch it by saying not emphasising that she's a black woman and just saying "woman" but in reality, the fact that she's a woman of African heritage is what gives her message it's strength. It's wrong to vandalise property and I think that Ms. Beatty understands this, but she also knows it's the only way to get her message out without causing overt damage or physically hurting anyone. She's forcing the media to take notice because normally they'll refuse. She's exposing their hypocrisy. I have nothing but admiration for the courage it took to do what she did. I imagine the arresting officers treated her with the utmost of respect, bringing her coffee and whatever else she wanted while under custody. I would hope so, anyway. Kudos for doing what she did.
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  9649.  @Hasshodo  The bias against the people of Jewish heritage for one. The reason that those university presidents wouldn't condemn calls for genocide is due to a bias against the Jews. If a student wore a t-shirt that said "There are only 2 genders", that student would face a school suspension. Yet, if that student wore a t-shirt advocating for the annihilation, the death of Jews, that has to have context. Do you get it now?
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  9650.  @pierrebibeau9861  Right now the Mexican government isn't laughing at Trump. They're angry with Biden and the Democrats for starting the border crisis all over again. Besides, who cares if the world is laughing. We want to see solutions for the gang violence in our major cities and a president finally meets with the Chicago mayor, who REFUSED to talk to the last president, and they meet in a Chicago suburb, that voted Republican, where the violence isn't a problem. If you can't see how ridiculous this is, then you're so filled with hatred of the Orange Man, you're thinking with your backside instead of your brain.
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  9651. @Butter Emails Wapo makes a rather foolish statement and you go "TRUMP!!!! HE BAD!!!!!" You're rather one dimensional aren't you.
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  9652.  @jonathanstone4878  Are you saying that the media doesn't make money off controversy? Really??? It's what drives that billion dollar industry. If nothing happens, they'll make stuff up. Remember the Covington Kids. The media flogged pure BS on that one....and I've a lot more examples.
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  9653.  @KosstAmojan  For sure. There's nothing worse than an authoritarian who want's to look at the books of thieves. Ask any white collar employee who's embezzled the company he works for or their customers. "You have no right to do that" or something similar with be the cry.
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  9654.  @Viceroy11011  It applies to everyone except, according to Christianity, the one who originally said it...Jesus. It's a fact of the the human soul, NOT a judgement and is not meant to used that way.
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  9655.  @mik3ymomo  What does it matter on how factually true it is? What matters is the truth in the message. Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" are most definitely not true stories but we revere those works of literature on the truth of the message.
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  9656.  @A_Jeff  "My team and city staff have worked tirelessly......blah, blah, blah" What else are those politicians and bureaucrats going to say? "It's not OUR fault" is all that they have left. Are you a political shill professionally or do you really think that by defending those elites that you're doing a public service? LOL.
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  9657.  @jerrybumstead2654  Where we can all drink out of toilets. LOL.
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  9658.  @johnswick4593  The earth isn't flat??? Since when???
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  9659.  @johnswick4593  You don't think that the earth is flat??? How could you toy with me like that??? I believed in you.
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  9660.  @johnswick4593  How could I refuse to forgive after you said "please". My mother would cuff my ears if I didn't.
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  9661.  @johnswick4593  I saw them the day this kid punched me out when we were playing road hockey. He was one tough dude.
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  9662. Why not? Do you have any evidence for your mistrust?
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  9663.  @Yunky_  Palestinian supporters have been claiming that Israel has been committing genocide for years. When they're not crying "Genocide", they're going on about "apartheid"....as if there are any Israelis in Gaza. The only Israelis that are now in Gaza were brought there against their own will. No Jew is living in Gaza and the people of Gaza want it that way. The people of Gaza are living in their own state and elected Hamas to lead them. So now the IDF is there trying to free those hostage Israeli citizens....if possible. Hamas decided to go to war on Oct 7/23 and they got it. What kind of war has no casualties? It's what war is. If Hamas didn't want to lose the war, they should give up their hostages, call for peace and a peace deal that will ensure that there is never another action like Oct 7th.
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  9664.  @ThrifterGuy  I'll bet Carlin believed it. He came from nowhere and had a net worth of 10 million dollars when he died. It's just a funny line and he was looking for laughs. A "little Johnny" joke doesn't need to be true to be funny.
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  9665.  @jodawson5268  The truth is that the woman is the one who gets pregnant. The man gets to tango but he walks away not carrying a child. If the woman doesn't want to get pregnant, she'd better take the precautions to prevent it. Look after yourself and don't depend on others to do it for you unless you trust them implicitly. A stranger that you've met in a bar doesn't meet that standard. In fact, it means that you don't have standards other than the one of immediate self gratification, which is a selfish motivation.
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  9666.  @AskMississippiAskMississippi  The United States has to be the only country in the world that doesn't require passports to enter the country. They just walked right in and not one passport was shown. I've travelled all over the world and I've ALWAYS had to show a passport. This is insane. The US will become just like Venezuela if they don't get handle on these issues. Bankruptcy can happen overnight. It could become horrific....but you'll never believe that. You're too busy stroking your ego.
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  9667.  @benfriedman5492  In other words.....you're not afraid of Covid. All the mask mandates and vaccinations, the social restrictions are a sham, right?
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  9668.  @benfriedman5492  You started it. Why would you assume that we were anti-vax? Polls indicate that most Americans want secure borders. Are most Americans anti-vax?
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  9669. @Fred Freddy We can't blame both? Why is that? Is there some law of nature that says that only one demographic can be a problem at a time? I've never heard of that law, before.
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  9670. @Fred Freddy The strange thing is I was prepared for the lockdown because of the things that Trump was saying and doing. He put together a task force to deal with in mid-January 2020. Soon after, in instituted travel restrictions to China. He offered to send a team to Wuhan, from the CDC, to assist China which the Chinese government flatly refused. He talked about it in the State of the Union Address saying they were trying to cooperate with China to fight this thing if necessary. He then restricted travel to Europe. And what did the Democrats do. They called his task force a club of old white men. They said the travel ban to China was xenophobic, Pelosi went hugging people and inviting them to Chinatown to prove how un-xenophobic she was. Cuomo and De Blasio told everyone to live like normal and don't forget to go the Chinese New Year's Day parade, to prove how un-xenophobic THEY were. Pelosi ripped up the State of the Union Address saying it was ALL lies and then Bided told everyone that travel bans didn't work. Trump did say that this thing could just go away and he was wrong about that but he was speculating about the future. So I thought that he might be saying that but he's doing things that says he's been aware that there could be a problem. So I stocked up enough for at least 3 months and when the big toilet paper panic hit, I was sitting comfy. People are so filled with Trump hate that they weren't paying attention and they got caught and then they blamed everyone else for their own lack of preparedness. You have to take responsibility for yourself too and quit waiting for people to tell you what to do after the crisis hits. Its too late, then.
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  9671.  @benfriedman5492  I watch Tucker all the time. That doesn't mean I agree with him on everything he says but he has a different perspective and one needs that to be fully informed. As a matter of fact, I've found that there's no one alive that agree with on everything and I don't care. I follow his broadcasts but I'm not HIS devout disciple, as you seem to be implying. I'm fully vaccinated and I think it's rather foolish so not vaccinate. That doesn't make me an apostate of the Tucker cult. Actually, you sound more like a follower than I do. You have an ideology that's a part of a group think and I'm assuming that because that's how you see others. You see me as a "follower" of Tucker because of your own experience regarding your belief system that requires certain articles of faith. I don't like to live that way. I think it's foolish to go unvaccinated. I think it's hypocritical to criticise someone for travelling openly and then supporting illegal immigrants for travelling openly. It's a contradiction in beliefs.
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  9672.  @benfriedman5492  What makes you think I'm a Trump follower? Where did I say that? I said I pay attention to what people say? That's different. If Trump says 2+2=4, I'm going to agree with him. THAT'S common sense. I didn't like his debt financing...at all. I was unsure about his handling of Iran but it worked out apparently. I did like his prison reform and first step initiative and I liked that he was taking on China, a country that has real live concentration camps for ethnic minorities, you know, like the weird little Austrian guy some 80 years ago. It's NOT an automatic. Trump doesn't drink. I like to have a beer on a Friday night. I don't care about his meat eating habits. I can consider each issue on its merits without going into personalities. The search for truth isn't about who's talking about it. It's about facts. I'm NOT a follower. The reason why I called YOU a follower because it seems to be the way you think. Issues aren't about the details of the issues. It's about who's saying it and who's agreeing with it. "You're a devout Tucker follower. You're a Trump follower". It would appear that this is the way you think, the way you feel that people behave. It's projecting your own attitudes on others. People don't have to be a follower to agree with someone. You refuse to believe that. Since you refuse to believe that, I have to assume that you believe the opposite, which means that YOU must be a follower.
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  9673. Granted, the left is still ahead in the culture war. However, we're starting to see the conservatives to win cultural battles. That doesn't mean that the conservatives have won the war, as if there is such a thing. It means that the culture has taken a turn towards conservatism.
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  9674.  @sjoerdvelzen8255  OH....you completely disagree. Well, that's different then. YOUR opinion is MUCH more valuable than MINE. Covid is producing a society of hypochondriacs and hall monitors. I think it disgusting to treat people as if they're a threat to my life just because they exist. I refuse to do that. Human history is filled with the results of attitudes like that. Horrific atrocities brought on by fear of the other. Now it's fear of the other because they may be contaminated. You THINK you're justified because "I might die". You believe that gives you the right to treat them like dirt, as if they're vermin, living with filth and spreading disease like rats out of a sewer. What a enlightening way to treat your neighbour.
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  9675. Even the insane vote. At least he's not as insane as those who NEVER question their beliefs or ideology. That's even more insane than Rapaport. At least he's willing to admit that he's wrong.
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  9676. I was on my daily walk the other day when a police squad car pulled up along side me. He rolled down my window and asked for my first name. I gave it to him. He said that it wasn't me he was looking for. He added that if I saw someone matching my description to please call 911. He said the guy wasn't dangerous but that he could be lost and confused. I'm 69 years old and automatically assumed that the lost guy was older, like me, and could be suffering from dementia. In other words, this guy could be serious difficulty. I could have refused to talk and told the cop to leave me alone but how does that help this poor man who's lost and confused in the middle of the day. Arresting criminals isn't the only thing that the police do. We zero in on the bad stuff and completely ignore the good.
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  9677. Now the problem will be the gang members that go on the run. They'll end up crossing into the US at our southern border and welcomed by Biden and Harris. The Democrats have to be voted out.
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  9678. Only nerds become marine biologists. Basketball players are the cool kids. I didn't have the talent to play in the NBA (I can't jump) and I'm not smart enough to be a marine biologist. So...I became homeless instead. So ended the career of a once promising young man. I gotta go. Someone's trying to get into my cardboard box.
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  9679. As much as I can't stand the woman, that's sounds too Stalinist to me. You can't send everyone you don't like to the Gulag.
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  9680. The Democrats would NEVER hire Sowell for economic advice. Sowell is one of those "uppity" folk, as far as they're concerned. Trump could have used him but the economy was going so well under him, that Sowell wasn't really needed as much, although I have a feeling that he had a lot of influence on the way Trump thinks. Although, I do believe that it might have helped to have Sowell on board when Covid struck. The response to Covid has destroyed more lives than the disease itself.
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  9681. Dyson has a net worth of around 5 million bucks. Race hustling has been really good to him.
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  9682. I don't get it. If Taylor said that he was told by a staffer that he, the staffer, overheard a phone conversation, that suggests Trump wrongdoing, why aren't the Dems calling the staffer as a witness? Granted, he only heard one side of the conversation, as he wouldn't have heard the party on the other side of the phone, but at least it's better that second hand news. Even this Bartender, in another country, knows that hearsay and not considered to be reliable evidence. Especially since only one side of the phone conversation would have been audible. This was supposed to be the best evidence from Taylor? Come on. That's nuts.
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  9683. I imagine the blind would like dogs that look like them to lead them around safely. The left has lost their racist marbles.
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  9684. @reality smith You're really that self unaware? Trump wanted to withdraw troops from the Middle East. He may have BEEN an ass, but he's stated it over and over again. He lost the election and within a month of becoming president, Biden is bombing Syria.....but YOU want peace in the Middle East. Is this the "war is peace" that Orwell was talking about? YOU voted for Biden. So, by extension and logically, you voted to bomb Syria. That's your "peace" in action for you.
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  9685. BLM had destroyed billions of dollars worth of taxpayer and private property, injured thousands of people, caused the deaths of over 25 people and put the lives of others in jeopardy while protesting during a pandemic. Then the leaders stole the donations for their own personal benefit. Why wouldn't this person try to ruin the life of this other student? That's what her entire movement does and did.
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  9686. @Earthquake1964 No it doesn't and it shouldn't, either. There's a simple reason for this. Who's going to decide what the truth is? The government? The government, in power right now, would approve of what Reid just said and anyone that said different, like Dave Rubin, would be the one squelched. We need free speech because if we don't have it, someone will define truth on their terms and we won't like it.
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  9687. He turned off the television because Sondland had just testified that Trump wanted NOTHING from Ukraine. That's a good thing for Trump. Besides, Trump has work to do. He can't sit around and watch television all day. Did you not hear? He's on his way to Texas for the opening of a brand new Apple facility. More good news for the American worker. "I want NOTHING" isn't proof of wanting something. You're not making sense.
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  9688. The Democrats and the Corporations are supporting this because they're hoping that this will get rid of Trump. Why? Because Trump is taking on the Chinese juggernaut, putting a crimp in how the Corporations are making a fortune producing their products, in a country which has no to little environmental controls, labour laws or safety standards for workers or the quality of products being made. That's why the Corporations are backing these progressive ideas. It has nothing to do with being woke. It has to do with the Corporations being forced to produce their products in the country where they intend to sell them at a great expense. They don't like it. I'm astounded that there are so many people that can't see it. They rail against Trump and Capitalism and can't realise that it's the Corporations, with the support of the Democrats, that are the REAL problem and that they're being used and fooled into supporting them. Time to use your brains, Democrat supporters. You're being used by the people that you think you hate.
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  9689.  @BenjesBride  Until you move, vote Republican and vote for them EVERY election possible.
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  9690. I'm waiting to hear Sunny Hostin rage about how this is worse than 9/11, Pearl Harbour, the Holocaust and the Alamo. I'm NOT holding my breath waiting, though.
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  9691. They'll cry about free speech. Sort of like Jim Acosta when he got into a small tug-o-war with an intern over the microphone. When he was banned from the press room, he cried on national TV on how his right to free speech was being violated by a dictator. He's not smart enough to see the irony of what he was saying. LOL.
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  9692. Sometimes you have to do the right thing. The brother of the Uni-bomber had to turn in his brother. However, if you do it for profit and virtue points, you're no longer doing the right thing. You're an exploiter and a low life.
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  9693. ​ @mylamberfeeties875  Let's say he is making money.....a lot of money. !/2 a million people now have clean drinking water. No more water borne diseases. No more children dying WAY too young. His money is saving lives....but YOU don't want that. He's making money and that's enough to hate him and allow those people to live with disease and premature death. Better they die than he gets money and fame...right???? Envy is a powerful drug.
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  9694. Federal contractors have access to the Treasury but Elon Musk can't? Let's name Elon and his team as Federal contractors then. That judges ruling makes no sense. I don't know who those contractors are. What makes them so special?
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  9695. Sunny Hostin is carrying water for her Democrat masters. It's as if the Civil War never happened.
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  9696.  @lynnjacobs2091  Might be nice if you backed up your claims with evidence. How did he show his true colours?
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  9697. There's already a word for "egg producer". That word is "female" The use of sperm or egg producing still identiifies gender. Sooner or later someone will point that out and outlaw those terms and reduce the language to new heights of absurdities. George Orwell was a genius.
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  9698. The Democrats, their supporters and the media seem to think that if only DeSantis had forced all the people of Florida to buy electric cars, last spring, Hurricane Ian could have been averted. Completely unable to understand the difference between climate and weather.
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  9699. Why has ALL the mainstream media ignored or barely covered any of the evidence for Biden corruption? That's my question. In fact, they keep saying "without evidence" when there's all kinds of evidence. It sounds as if one is protected while the other isn't.
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  9700.  @spiritofdixie2389  Would you relax. I was making a joke. Some people see Hispanics as an identity group so I was playing on that. No need to start screaming at me like some kind of disturbed whacko.
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  9701.  @spiritofdixie2389  Now I'm going to scream at you. IT WAS A JOKE!!!!!!
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  9702.  @3MrNiceGuy15  Language is an agreement on how we communicate. it's why a dictionary is so important. It defines words so that we all know what those words mean. Sure, Bob and I can agree that a specific word has special meaning to us, but we still have to use it with others in the way that everyone else understands it. I can't insist that they must use it our way or they're negating the way that we see the world and that denying our unique perspective is an indication of a phobia. Words have an accepted meaning for a reason.
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  9703. Tim may not always be correct but he tries his best to be honest. When he's wrong, it's not because he did it on purpose or he isn't trying to give the best, most accurate account of the story. It's because, like everyone else, he makes mistakes.
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  9704. The irony of the "They want to put you in chains" trope is that it was the Democrats that fought a Civil War to KEEP slavery. Who supported the KKK agenda of terrorising the freed slaves so they wouldn't vote. It was the Democrats that instituted the Poll Tax and Jim Crow and 80% of the Democrats voted AGAINST the Civil Right's Act. How they convince ANYONE to vote for them, let alone Biden, is beyond comprehension.
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  9705. Bumblebees are pollinators. Some species even depend on them for pollination. Also, bumblebees are native to the Americas while honey bees are not. Wasps also pollinate and some hornets. So do butterflies.
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  9706.  Juice isloose  Big news....Dr Seuss is problematic and 6 of his books will not be printed again. Andrew Cuomo.....Covid superhero. If the media wasn't so dishonest, maybe people wouldn't feel as if there was a double standard and say these things. DeSantis was called out, by the media, because there were lineups for the Covid vaccinations in Florida. That was when there were only 5 million people vaccinated in the ENTIRE WORLD. Now tell me, if he was called out for that, what would the media have done if HE PUT COVID PATIENTS IN NURSING HOMES? What's dumb is pretending that nothing would have been said or done.
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  9707.  @simeonharman4589  That's why Larry Elder is called the black face of white supremacy. Black right wingers are seen as traitors to their race. Like it or not, there's a strong element of "whiteness", "white privilege" and "white supremacy" implied in his rant. There's even an admonition to "not act so white". This is the modern white left wing bias that's ashamed of their own skin colour and see everything in racial terms.
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  9708. "It didn't happen till 40 years later" Tim referring to talk of Civil War in the 1820s. That's your justification or evidence that Civil War will happen? What if it takes 100 years? 200 years? Will that mean that he was correct about Civil war? This is like the Doomsday cults who make predictions of the end of the world and when their proposed time passes by, they just readjust their timeline to doom. We may be headed to Civil War and we may not be. I wish Tim would stop fanning the flames to conflict. It serves nothing but to generate fear and suspicion.
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  9709. I guess that us Canadians are racists, then. And Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, India....just to name a few. That's BILLIONS of racist people. I'm sure glad that the Democrats are carrying the torch of anti-racism. That sarcasm, for those that aren't versed in that sort of thing.
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  9710. They're telling little kids that they must apologise for their existence. That there is something intrinsically wrong with them. No wonder so many young people are depressed but that's what they want. They want revolution and they're doing it by causing depression, then resentment and onto anger. Once they're angry enough and enough of them.....the revolution is on and it will be a bloodbath. It's what they want.
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  9711. So....Rose. If you now see that the Democrats and the left are quite willing to lie to protect their ideology and protect Biden, are you willing to admit that these same Democrats were willing to lie about Brett Kavanaugh for political reasons?
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  9712.  @Arctc-zh6rg  The typical "Wall Street" argument. People are looking for answers and relief now. This isn't like hammering out a trade deal or a new health plan. Voters are seeing this as the Dems using a crisis for political purposes. On top of that, Wall Street isn't just about the big money people. I'm retired and have modest investments and I'm watching them fade away. This morning Wall Street was trading to the positive. This is going to set it for another plunge and millions of us, with small investments are going to take another bath. Get this bill done. They can always introduce another bill down the road. The ordinary American is getting sick and tired of the Democrats and the media in a 24/7 quest to fight the president on 100 percent of EVERY issue. No one can be THAT wrong...not even Trump. For Kris'sakes just get along for once. We don't have time for their games.
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  9713.  @Arctc-zh6rg  Isn't it strange how the media defended that reporter that Trump dressed down for repeatedly crying out how scared Americans were. Now the Democrats are holding up decisions to get them relief and they are wondering why Americans are getting scared? Average Americans are in a bad place right now. Every one of them were hoping to hear good news today. A lot of them aren't going to sleep well tonight. A world wide pandemic, losing millions of jobs, your savings melting before your eyes and now the Democrats don't want to give aid so they can fill their own agenda? DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THAT THIS WAS A GOOD TIME TO DO THIS? It's insane. Let go of your hatred for Trump for just one minute and come back to earth. The Democrats will be absolutely destroyed this fall if they don't start cooperating and put on a unified front against this crisis. Average Americans aren't going to stand for it. Only the ideologically obsessed and those consumed by hatred are going to like NOT getting relief soon.
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  9714.  @Emil.H  No....they allowed fellow Nazis to run private businesses and put Party agents into the factories to make sure that the workers were falling in line with Party ideas. That made the unions redundant and besides, you couldn't have unions opposing government interests. The party told the owners what to produce, how much and where to get their raw material and equipment. They provided the workers for them, including near slave labour so the factories could operate with lower labour costs. Don't do it and you lost your business. It was a complete takeover of the business except for the letterhead but the Nazi Party ran the business by controlling the owner, management, unions and workers. A different style of socialism but not a lot different than communism. The company worked on the direction of the Party, not on the direction of a free market economy. The latter is Capitalism. The former is not.
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  9715.  @bernardjameswilson  I'm not sure what you mean by that.
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  9716.  @carsonchan5102  I just gave an example of the government destroying the dairy industry. My dad started his farm with nothing. The government mandated Milk Marketing Board ruined it with too many rules for the small farmer to survive. No young person, except a multimillionaire, could do what my dad did in the early fifties. The milk quota, which the amount that a farmer is allowed to produce, costs millions. Try to ship too much and you're monetarily penalised. Farmers pour their milk onto the ground to prevent that. Then they need to buy the land and equipment which is millions more. That's what killed the dairy farm dream. You can metaphorically water and fertilise that dream all you want, you will go bankrupt before you succeed. I know a young woman who is trying to start a small bakeshop. She rented a small store, did all kinds of renovations and installed the equipment needed to be a success. She's now sitting in limbo because the local and provincial government has so much red tape and she's not allowed to sell as much as a butter tart or she'd be fined and and will never get the licenses needed to start operations. She's been "watering and fertilising" until she's at the point of either drowning those metaphorical plants or scorching them with too much fertiliser. She may go under before she can even legally sell her first birthday cake. Your metaphor sounds great if you're left to do that job, but the government shackles you. The biggest hurdle is overcoming the roadblocks that the state sets in front of you.
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  9717.  @thehellyousay  I didn't say it was terrible. You're missing the point, COMPLETELY. My dad moved thousands of miles from home to a country that was free and growing and he was able to succeed, like ALL the immigrants did, from nothing. No money, no education, no real life skills and only his determination, hard work, willingness to learn to a country that gave him free reign to realise his dreams. He gave up his relationship's with his parents, his siblings, his friends, all he knew to seek an opportunity and he did because Canada allowed him to. Now his grandchildren and great grandchildren don't have that free reign anymore. That's the failure that he's talking about. Life is still good but the opportunities are eroding away. You can be blase about it until one day YOU will be the one that realises that maybe he was correct. But, never mind. Don't question a thing. "I'm ok, Jack" A great mantra. The same mantra that Neville Chamberlain said before the world erupted into war in 1939. If you don't acknowledge it, it's not happening.
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  9718.  @fiouable  Another one who sticks his head in the sand and refuses to see that there are major problems in this country. His only solution is to tell those, who want to fix the problems, to leave. Canada is drowning in debt.....but YOU don't want to hear about it. Our government wants to raise taxes significantly, which results in inflation, but YOU don't seem to mind spending more on food and essentials. Housing has more than doubled in the last 8 years, but hardly anyone's salary has, but that's okay with YOU. Leave if you don't like it...that's your solution. It took me 19 YEARS to get a family doctor. DO YOU GET THAT. 19 YEARS. When I was a kid, I could make an impromptu visit before I went to school. Now most Canadians have to wait in a clinic or emergency for hours to see someone and if it's anything serious, it's difficult to be referred to a specialist. My daughter has been waiting to see a specialist since last JUNE. Your solution. Move to Alabama. That's the most asinine response that I've ever heard. Desert your home, basically become the rat deserting the sinking ship. You're quite the problem solver.
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  9719.  @andreamcgurran3577  You name the country and I'll show you their atrocities. That's humanity and humans are capable of good and evil. Sometimes good intentions end up incredibly wrong. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about what has happened over my lifetime. We're losing the freedom that we had after we fought and defeated Nazism. Your life, in the seventies, isn't diminished because of something that happened a hundred years earlier. If you use history as a criteria, no life is worth living and none of us are innocent. You'll find horrific abuse in all of human history. It's our heritage. It's YOUR heritage whether you like it or not.
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  9720.  @maxpayne7419  It's not just that we're losing freedom. It's the road that we're on. A frog in boiling water doesn't know he's being cooked until it's too late. You either get it or you don't.
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  9721.  @maxpayne7419  Seat belts and helmets.....you're just being a jerk, now. This is now a country that, if you use the wrong pronouns, you could find yourself in big trouble. They make it up and YOU have to follow. We have the internet but now, our government, wants to control the content. Our esteemed PM, was worried that maybe the guys working on a pipeline might be too overly zealous towards young women in the small towns that they're working through. That this should be considered when deciding if such a project is worth the trauma for these young women. This isn't just in Canada. The farmers in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Ireland are now facing restrictions and land appropriations because it's said that farmers are a threat to the environment and our esteemed PM has implied that this might be a good idea. Home prices have sky rocketed and rents are insane....yet the PM wants to bring in MORE immigrants, which means home prices will keep going up, far beyond the capabilities of the young....but that's alright. You're GOT your little kingdom. Who cares about the people that have been here for generations. As far as I can see, you're just being a troll. You've not made any kind of case. All you've kept saying is that you're 55 and that everything is great. Do you know what? It is. But if you can't see that we're heading in the wrong direction, you're not seeing. When the young have no hope of owning their own home, things are wrong. If you can't see that, you are the proverbial ostrich.
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  9722.  @ronniekregar3482  Did you send in your 5 bullet points on what you did this week? You better get on it.
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  9723.  @sagchipkwe31  Trump is NOT a Democrat, so no NOT like Trump.
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  9724.  @sagchipkwe31  I'm talking about the exact same people that went absolutely insane on Brett Kavanaugh, with no evidence, like Alyssa Milano and are now endorsing Joe Biden, who was accused of the SAME thing, with more credible evidence. The Republicans are not starting a hashtag movement like #metoo, or #believeallwomen. They're not demonstrating and chanting against Joe Biden, like they did for Kavanaugh. They're not really all that obsessed with it at all, compared to how the Democrat supporters were during the SC hearings. My comment, which was meant as a joke, was about the hypocrisy of those who screamed at Kavanaugh and are silent and still supportive of Biden. That's it. If you want to throw in your fake outrage over Trump and the lack of outrage towards Biden, jump right in. It just validates what I said in the first comment.
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  9725.  @sagchipkwe31  "fk dump the trump" Quite the political analysis there. Are you a student of the political science or something? If not, you should be. That astute brain should be put to good use.
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  9726.  @erenjaeger1738  "why can you admit there's never such a good thing as "christian nation" Why can't you admit that there's no such thing as a GOOD nation. The only things that separate the Christians from others is the scale of their evil side. The only difference between the, for the example that we've been using, is that the Spanish had a greater population, more advanced weaponry and a degree of immunity to diseases that the Aztecs didn't possess. Had the advantages been the other way around, do you really think that the Aztecs would be no less brutal than the Spanish. It's a matter of scale. I'm NOT Christian. I want you to understand that. I'm looking at this from the outside. There's one thing that Christians are supposed to do and that is to "love they neighbour". Not your Spanish neighbour or your Aztec neighbour, or Dutch, Bantu or Libyan neighbour. You're to love your neighbour, no matter what. "Love thine enemy", "Turn the other cheek", "Bless those who curse you". If someone, who calls themselves Christian, kills for personal gain, to appease his God or out of national interests, he's not following the tenets of the faith as it is written in the Christian Bible. So why do they do those crimes anyway? Because they're human. Humans will destroy what they touch and Christianity makes that very clear with the words "Man is born in sin". It's the only religion that carries it that far. That's why we can call out both Cortes along wit his men and Montezuma and his nation of Aztecs. Both groups are human and as such they are failures in doing the right thing. However, the tenets of Christianity does offer an understanding of human good and evil. It's why the abolition of slavery was initiated by those who were Christian. It was their Holy book that made them realise that slavery was an affront to human dignity. That doesn't mean that a Christian nation is going to be good because that's impossible. It will not happen. All we can hope for is to try to do better and to STOP pointing at others as the evil ones. That in itself is evil.
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  9727.  @Inaworldoflove  There was no primary vote. We were just told that she was the candidate. That stuff at the convention was just a formality.
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  9728. Shouldn't that babbling orifice, on Weiner's face, be on top of his head?
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  9729.  @Kim-sq9gp  If they force a home owner to give up a part of their home to house people, that's seizure. To be honest, though, they're only offering money and it's up to the homeowner to decide whether he will take part in the program. Force isn't coming into play.....YET. If the local government says that you MUST take part, then they're seizing a part of your property for THEIR program. That violates the 4th Amendment the part about seizure even if they coat that seizure with financial compensation. The government cannot force you to work for them.
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  9730. Even if it happened only once, that's too much. Trans males have an advantage over women. It's unfair and wrong. Anyone with a modicum of integrity would understand that. Maybe that's why I'm so deeply at odds with modern Democrats. They don't care about fair or appear to have any integrity. It's that lack of integrity that gives credence to the claims of election fraud. If you lack any integrity in sports, it reflects on your integrity in other areas of life.
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  9731.  @shinigamigamingincYT  It's always that same thing. What about Jan. 6th? It's all you have. From the left, there's the summer of 2020. The violence against right wing speakers at universities....Evergreen college, Berkeley, Uni of Missouri. The left wing protests in support of Hamas in which Jews were attacked and threatened. The destruction of Teslas. The violence against Riley Gaines. The attacks against people wearing MAGA hats.....even kids. Look at what happened to the Covington kids. I know. Jan. 6th was worse than 9/11, Vietnam and Civil war and slavery. (I'm rolling my eyes)
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  9732.  @erenjaeger1738  The Tlazcala hated the Aztecs and were allies of the Spanish until Mexico independence. Google it. They were bitter enemies for 100 years before Cortes landed there.
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  9733. Question the integrity of the 2016 elections and Big Tech says, hey....good work. Question the integrity of the 2020 elections and it's get off this platform and "does your boss know what you're saying?" I hate to use the word "hypocrisy" but what a bunch of hypocrites.
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  9734. I'm in Canada and almost 75% of us have been vaccinated, at least once or have had Covid, vaccinated by nature so to speak. Yet we're still on a less restricted lockdown. The upside is that our premier, the provincial governor, is saying that once we open up, there will be no more lockdowns. I'm not sure I believe him but I hope so. It's insane to lock down the country because 25% of the people are afraid of a needle. Let them run the risk if that's what they want. I've had it with all the scare talk. What's the point of living if you have no life?
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  9735.  @EntropyRising-m6p  They were at a funeral. What did you expect Trump to do? Tell Obama to eff off? Nothing more tacky than people bickering at a funeral. Put your differences aside for JUST ONE MINUTE. You can get back to the battle after it's over.
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  9736.  @ericsiel1480  You're rather old fashioned aren't you? LOL.
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  9737.  @bastgojira8072  What a mean spirited comment. It reeks of the same bias that prompts so many people to vote Trump. You just implied that the people of Alabama of bunch of dumb, inner bred hillbillies. In 2016, there 86 births by girls under the age of 14. All I can say is this. Tell me you were born in New York without telling me that you were born in New York. Ridiculous.
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  9738.  @johnwatson1258  There's a difference between inadvertently and unintentionally breaking the law and planning and carrying out a felony with the full intent of stealing from someone else. I may be committing a felony but it sure isn't my intent. There's a moral imperative that's being ignored when you steal from another human being. The adults that carried out the dine and dash did it intentionally and are disgusting human beings who would even involve their children and put them in possible jeopardy.
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  9739. I think that you used one word that maybe didn't fit. "Should". I think that this woman thinks that indigenous people CAN'T participate at the global scale. It's such a superior and condescending attitude and to use their stupid word....racist.
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  9740.  @MiloSturgis-t3w  Women and children being trafficked and sexually abused, drug smuggling that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, dead bodies in trailers, floating down the Rio Grande and dying horrific deaths in the desert. Yet you claim that MTG trying to sound intelligent is WORSE. You are ONE SICK, HATEFUL HUMAN BEING.
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  9741.  @alysiaduemler2221  I look at my grandchildren and I fear for them. They're in the late teens and early twenties and don't know what the consequences of this ideology will impact their future. We've won the vote but that's only the beginning of the fight. Don't give up....ever.
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  9742. The only place that I can think of is hell.
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  9743. @Rational thought What does the India of today have to do with what existed in the region, which in now India, of 5000 years ago? Completely different time, different people and different circumstance.
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  9744.  @poker4400  Funny how a wall or barrier was something that the Democrats bragged about in 2015 and is racist and useless in 2017. You have a point about large employers. They should be fined, heavily. However, that isn't the only way an illegal immigrant can make a living. The wall, not only provides a definitive barrier, it will also provide a road and a way to string security cameras to monitor the wall. Border agents would be able to get to trouble spots quickly and efficiently when movement is detected. When you have tens of thousands making the attempt every month, a tall steel wall is a definite deterrent, along with high tech cameras and a good road adding to the deterrence factor. Then apply the law within the country and maybe you'll get a handle on all the illegal entries.
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  9745.  @me_and_me_  Trump had the wisdom to consult with border agents to see what the best option would be. They told him that the steel wall was a better fit for this project and when they showed him why, he agreed. You see, he's adaptable. Smart people aren't rigid people. The reason that the revised wall hasn't been built yet is due to Democrat blocking the funding. He's getting it done anyway but it's taking longer.
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  9746. @Vaase Montenegro It's a mitigated democracy. The people have a voice in choosing who represents them but they're not the ultimate voice. That's why Hillary lost the election. She got the most votes, if you go by the tally, but she didn't get the most representatives. One is a safeguard against the other. It's why there are all kinds of safeguards in how the government is run as well. Checks and balances.
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  9747. Of course there's nothing to be done about reducing energy prices. We're the victims of OPEC. Victimhood is what the Democrats aspire to. It rules all their policies. "It's not our fault. It's their fault for oppressing us".
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  9748.  @j_jones_  OMG. They comprise of 0.2% of the entire world. Yet, everyone thinks that they're so strong that you're not even allowed to talk about them in a negative way. People are upset at the way the Palestinians crossed their border and just started shooting everyone in sight. They took a teenage girl, I couldn't tell if she was dead or alive, stripped her naked and threw into the back of a truck and slowly paraded her down the Palestinian streets while people cheered and ran up and spit on her. It made me sick to my stomach. THIS is why people are upset when you support Hamas. Not because you're not supposed to talk about Israelis in a negative way. If they did this to your sister or daughter, you'd be pissed at people who would support it, as well. However, people don't care about things like that. All they see is politics and their own personal beliefs. Human lives and the desecration of young girls mean absolutely NOTHING. Your politics comes first. DISGUSTING.
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  9749.  @darkspawnsenior9488  If I'm wrong, maybe he could tell me, NOT you. Besides, even if I am wrong about him, that doesn't mean that the mindset, that I'm talking about, doesn't exist. If I'm wrong about him, let him tell me and I'll apologise....to him. Until then, I'm going to assume that it's pretty clear where he leaning toward and stay with it.
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  9750.  @KeatrithAmakiir  It's called FREEDOM. It's entitled to every Canadian, through our Canadian Charter of Rights....and by the way, I am one of those old folks and I got Covid last Saturday. I'm fully vaxxed, with a booster, yet I support those guys who are a part of that convoy. I'd be there myself but I've just explained why I'm not. When it all clears up, I'm off to Ottawa to wave my Canadian flag....like all good traitors do.
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  9751. Who cares what SOME people might think. It's the intention that counts.
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  9752.  @kpm7727  I care what his motives are. I want to know if the ideas that drove the motive are shared by others and is he a part of a group or did he act alone. Remember, he was part of a commune. A motive can uncover things that could help us to prevent similar crimes.
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  9753.  @BeeBlot  If that was the only evidence, you'd be correct. However, they found fingerprints, a manifest, a gun and a notebook outlining plans to commit a crime similar to this one. In his Manifesto, he even referenced UnitedHealthcare, although it said nothing about Thompson, the man that he allegedly killed. Put all that together, that's enough reason to hold him.
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  9754. ​ @sivannatalie  I would agree. Sowell makes an excellent case on this matter.
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  9755.  @windradyne8724  I'm only explaining the concept behind those ideas. I can explain Islam as well and the flat earth theory or any other concept. Doesn't mean that I believe it. As for calling it sophistry, that's a simple way of dismissing what I said. Instead of a sneering dismissal, why don't you try to discuss those ideas to see where it takes us? That would be a LOT more helpful than ridicule and the application of racial tropes. As for the anthropomorphism of animals, objects or ideas go, this is a well known trait of humanity. It's happened for thousands of years. It's a known fact and your casual dismissal doesn't change that.
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  9756.  @windradyne8724  Sophistry is used as a negative. It's akin to the phrase "word salad". Silly and meaningless. Here's the definition from the online dictionary. "the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving." That's why I said that your comment was a sneering dismissal. You didn't discuss the idea, you dismissed it and strongly implied that this was intended to deceive, a back handed way of calling him a liar. He may be mistaken but a mistaken idea is NOT a lie. It's a mistake. So yes, your use of the word "sophistry" is rather insulting and dismissive, unless you didn't know what the word meant. Then you'd have been mistaken. If that's true, your position is rather tenuous at best.
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  9757.  @bigt8877  Quite familiar. What's your point?
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  9758.  @bigt8877  Apparently it is okay, according to you. This was a surprise attack. Israel was not expecting it. The butchery at the music festival demonstrates it. What did you expect Israel to do? Tell their citizens to walk out of their homes with their hands behind their heads in surrender? Hamas was not going to stop. They would have shot any Israeli that would be that foolish. They've been quite explicit in their intentions for years. This attack pushed Israel to the brink and they're fighting back. You'd do the same. Israel wants to end the hostilities once and for all and there's only one way to do that. Defeat Hamas, once and for all, and completely destroy it so that no iteration or likeness, of that party, ever arises again. Hamas has left them no choice.
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  9759.  @LordDarshdan  It has NEVER been their country. Before it was Israel, Britain controlled it. They took it from the Turks after WW1, who had it for almost 400 years. Before that it was the Mamelukes, from Egypt, who ran it. Before them it was the Mongols, Before that the Kurds and Crusaders fought over it. The Byzantines and the Romans and the Greeks, under Alexander the Great. That region hasn't been independent since before the birth of Jesus and that was when...guess who....the Jews had their Kingdom there. All through those years, for the last 1400 years, the land was shared by Muslims, Coptic Christians and Jews. That area has been contested for 2000 years and it's still that way. Even Muslims know that this has been the homeland of the Jews but as far as they're concerned, the Jews corrupted the true faith. Had the Jew become Muslims and returned to the Levant, as such, they'd have gladly accepted them. It's all about religion. Muslims don't like the Jews, of any other faith, and the Jews were escaping the pogroms against them that the world inflicted upon them for hundreds of year.....especially after what the Nazis did. They could live with the Jews, but they want control. They want their religion to rule. That's what is at the heart of the conflict. Islam must rule.
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  9760.    I attributed it to arrogance. When the leader of your party refers to a large demographic as "deplorables", you're not looking at a group that is showing a lot of respect for the electorate. It makes me wonder what they think of those that DO vote for them. They probably think that they can sell them anything and like the good little flock that they are, they'll vote for them anyway.
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  9761.    When I heard her call voters "deplorables", I knew that she was going to lose. I wasn't even a Trump supporter and people knew that. I'm a bartender (a real one, not like AOC) and I told patrons that Trump was going to win and why and most of them laughed at me. Trump has grown on me and I'm still not fussy on his demeanor at times but he doesn't display the arrogance that I see from Hillary and a lot of her supporters. One patron agreed with her about the "deplorables" slur. He's always been an arrogant SOB himself. It doesn't speak well of their party and it explains their refusal to accept that they lost on their own merits. Arrogance begets stubbornness and it would appear that they're making the same mistakes in this upcoming election.
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  9762. Controlling speech is the first step to controlling thought. When you control thought, you've acquired a slave.
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  9763. Wrong Joe. Maybe it was only 3 or 4 guys that hit him but there were dozens who allowed it to happen. Dozens, maybe over a hundred, watched and never tried to stop it or help Andy. Not one of them detained the violent ones that were doing the hitting. As far as I know there still hasn't been any arrests. This was a group attack approved and urged on by a mob.
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  9764. Anyone, with half a brain, could see that allowing HUGE numbers of immigrants, into your country, would cause problems. Not because immigrants are intrinsically bad but because too many immigrants will cause Balkanization, a condition where the different identity groups isolate themselves and harbour ill will towards each other. This situation has been observed in history and even has a term describing the fallout when this happens. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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  9765.  @derphyn  Why Moldova? Most people haven't even heard of the place. Why not give the cost of a country that people have heard of?
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  9766. Al Green.......The Musical.
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  9767. Biden is talking about food shortages and he's allowing millions to cross into the country illegally. That's going to help the shortage problem, isn't it? The Democrats are a lost cause.
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  9768.  @levelwithz3779  "cats" is a troll. You won't get a response from it. It's just trying to get you going.
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  9769.  @troonkiller  What's even MORE ironic is that this teacher would support the Democrats who allowed crime cartels to engage in human trafficking, including child trafficking for sexual purposes. Over 30% of the female migrants are abused but this teacher isn't worried about the ones, who are doing the abusing, are entering this country. That many are carrying in Fentanyl that have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last decade. None of that poses a threat to his daughter and nieces. Only the one man named Trump.
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  9770. To repeat what's already been said in this comment section. "That would be affirming their delusion". Also, biological women, transitioning into men, wouldn't stand a chance. In reality, it's what's happening now. If a woman is good enough, she can play in the NBA, NHL, MLB or the NFL but it's not happening. All you'd be doing is forming a league which excludes those with XX markers from playing sports. All those women transitioning to males could only compete, fairly, in women's sports and they can't do that. If they did, it's an admission that they're still women.
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  9771. Kamala needs to get men to vote Democrat. So she, along with her campaign staff have come up with a winning plan. They're going to insult men, especially white men, calling them all kinds of names. Its as if they believe that they can insult men into loving them. It's a novel approach in garnering votes. I have my doubts on it but let's not interrupt them when they might be making a BIG mistake.
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  9772. Did you really expect a person (Cuomo), who celebrated the abortions of full term babies, would feel badly about killing senior citizens? This is what happens when you lose respect for life.
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  9773. California is falling off a cliff and Pelosi and Schiff are in Washington fighting windmills. These Democrats have gone WAY past stupidity.
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  9774. So....there are no billionaires. Bill Gates is as broke as I am. You really don't get economics, do you.
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  9775. How about telling us where in Canada those Chinese bases are. I'm in Canada and I've never heard of these bases. I live in about 3 miles from our countries biggest military base and I've friends and a son-in-law in the military. I'm a bartender and I've not even heard rumours. You hear them all at my job.
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  9776.  @damienalvarez2957  I remember Nancy Pelosi saying that she was going to punch Trump right in the face. Not too ladylike.
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  9777. The ball weighs a lot more than the feathers so when it hits that surface it will push it down further than the lighter feathers which increases rebound. Man....that's such a simple concept.
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  9778. Biden has to rescind the executive orders that he signed right after he took power. ALL OF THEM....including completing the Keystone Project. It's not going to change immediately but it will start to drive energy prices down. He has to take control of the border. The extra money to feed, house and care for the millions of illegals is putting a huge strain on the economy. He has to get those tanker ships, sitting off the west coast, into harbour and unloaded. Get those ships moving again. Then, start policies that will bring manufacturing back to the US so we're not dependent on the economies of other nations. He has to quit the crazy spending. Control the budget. In spite of what people like to think, money is different than wealth.
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  9779.  Tucson Jim  "I didn't die from the gash from the chainsaw on my leg. I died of blood poisoning from the wound" Essentially true but you can't discount the importance of the chainsaw accident. No accident, no blood poisoning and no death. Same as the Covid virus. No virus, no complications and no death. They go hand in hand. Also, Gelsolin is not a cure or a drug. It is something that they could use to help boost an immune system when a boost would be quite useful. It won't hurt you and it may give you the extra strength to stay alive. Sort of like the research that says chicken soup helps to boost the immune system. Chicken soup isn't a cure but it helps. Gelsolin may not be the cure but it can be part of a regime to recovery since it's already a required protein in your body. What is wrong with looking into it? I don't get the problem. Also, I'm defending or condemning the FDA. I'm acknowledging that they exist and why it exists. I'm not saying it's perfect. In fact, I've said that, quite strongly, that it wasn't. The FDA mandate is there for all to see and I've paraphrased that mandate or purpose. Now, we can quibble all day about what's right or wrong about it but the fact that it is there and has a purpose is undeniable. Unless you really want Drug companies to release new drugs, without controls or guidelines, whenever they want without a care for any deadly consequences. I'm not really sure what the problem is here.
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  9780.  @Bunnahabhain18  What does this have to do with late term abortions? Are you responding to the wrong video or what?
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  9781.  @Bunnahabhain18  Almost every ONE of those jobs were the result of the Covid epidemic. Each state enacted their own Covid restrictions and the worst of those restrictions all happened in Democrat led states. Your claim is about disingenuous as it gets and you damn well why it happened. Dishonesty at its finest. I still don't know what this has to do with late term abortions but I guess you're just trying to deflect away from the topic just like you deflected away from the real reason why those jobs were lost.
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  9782.  S S  HA HA ha. Never heard that one before, either. Next thing you'll start into the poetry. Jack be nimble. Jack be quick. Jack jumped over the candlestick. That always breaks me up.
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  9783. That only applies to black Americans. Kyle is white and definitely a "white supremacist". Rules are a lot more stringent for "white" folk. That's how equity works.
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  9784.  @frostyfire3102  What is BS? That the media goes a lot easier on Black Americans? Is that BS? That had this been a black guy killing a white guy, we wouldn't even be hearing about it? Is that BS? There are dozens of blacks being murdered, everyday, all across the US, by other blacks and not a word from the media. They just don't care. However, if it involves one of the so called "white supremacists" which is the first thing that they called Kyle, they'll say and do anything to vilify the guy, no matter the circumstances. So....explain what in my comment was BS.
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  9785.  @aindriubradleymarshall6226  Orwell demonstrated the truth of that, with the 2 plus 2 equals 5 incident, in his book "1984". Orwell used a basic truth, corrupted it and showed us a man who was made to believe an absurdity. Voltaire and Orwell predicted what we're seeing right now. Men can get pregnant and don't you dare disagree or face the metaphorical rat cage tied to your face.
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  9786.  @frankymaclellan7295  So you assume that we're conservative, do you? If people, who are demanding that the government honour the Canadian Charter of Rights, are conservatives, what does that make those who don't think that the Charter of Rights should apply to Canadians?
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  9787. If this lawyer can get him off, she's made the career move of her life. I just don't see how she's going to do it, though. Unless it's an insanity plea. Even that might not work although it's the only chance he has, as far as I can see.
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  9788. Happy New Year, Tim. Sometimes you talk too much and you have some weird things to say, but you're honest and fair and you try to be as accurate in what you say as possible. Too bad that the MSM can't be more like you. Thumbs up.
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  9789.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  I'll take my winnings in installments if you can't afford it. LOL.
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  9790. I've never really cared for Trump but I'm getting so I dislike the Democrats and the left even more. They've gone completely off the rails and they're determined to keep everyone at each other's throats. It truly is getting sickening.
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  9791. I tried to talk about the grooming in Britain, here in Canada, and all I got was "sounds like you're listening to Breitbart news" in a very dismissive manner. I tried to show them the hearings, which were being shown live on YouTube, and they refused to listen or watch them. The same people that would HATE on Christianity, especially Catholics, would protect Islam, even though it's an Abrahamic religion just like Christianity. What's bizarre is that they just REFUSED to see Islam as a religion and insisted anyone who brought the grooming issue up was racist. So....I will say it again. Islam is NOT a race...it's a religion.
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  9792. The left NEEDS Democracy. The Constitution will destroy them but they can change the minds of the electorate through lies and manipulation. Low information voters is the bread and butter of the left.
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  9793.  @TheDivineCalls333  That's because in conservative states, they'll still arrest you, charge and punish you if found guilty of demeanour theft. Not in California. If it's misdemeanour theft, you're let go. They HAD to make it a felony so DA's can be forced to charge and punish you if found guilty. That's the reality of it. It's telling that EVERY district in California voted in favour of Proposition 36. Every one of them. They knew that something was wrong with their system and they did something to fix it. Yet, their own governor voted against it. He STILL didn't care that California citizens were sick and tired of the situation that he and his party created. That's a fact that you don't seem to want to face.
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  9794.  @davidharper1152  The left HATE Orwell. Don't trigger them. LOL.
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  9795.  @REL602  Yet, it's the sophisticated educated urban populations that come up with some of the weirdest ideas imaginable and other suburbanites take them seriously. As Thomas Sowell once said, university professors suffer no consequences for their intellectual musings. They start some of the most damaging political ideas in history and then, when it goes south, move on to some other idea that doesn't work either. Education does not indicate intelligence or common sense.
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  9796.  @marthell6159  Have you even looked into what was on that laptop? There's a lot of suspicious stuff on that hard drive and it all ties up with the suspicious bank transactions that were reported to the proper authorities. Bank transactions that go back BEFORE Trump was even president. Hunter Biden flew on Air Force 2, to China and a lot of his business deals appear to be related to China. It's strange that you completely ignore those transactions but go ahead. Dwell on the past. Are you seriously suggesting that Trump covered up the laptop story? He would still be president had he revealed that story. Instead, there are hearings right now that suggest that the FBI told Twitter and other platforms to bury the laptop story and to not allow the NY Post article to be shared on those platforms. 3 journalists, 2 of whom voted for Biden, all say they found this in the Twitter documents. Why would Trump sabotage his own election? You make no sense.
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  9797.  @Kim-sq9gp  If you want to learn, you will. My son-in-law never went to college but he worked hard and in his spare time he worked on computers and took on-line courses that were free. He's now in his early twenties and just resigned from a factory assembly line to work for a company that does computer graphics for flight simulators. It was his hard work and passion that got him the job and he owes nothing in student loans. We expect success to come the day after graduation from school. It's not that way. You have to build a reputation as a hard worker and one that gets results. A sheepskin doesn't prove that.
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  9798. It's Trudeau's fault. He's insulted all my unacceptable views. It hurts....it hurts SO bad.
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  9799. Trump is not allowed to investigate Joe Biden for possible corruption because Biden is a rival presidential candidate. However, Democrats are allowed to investigate Trump for possible corruption, in spite of the fact that Trump is a rival presidential candidate. Makes sense to me in a kind of hypocritical, partisan logic.
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  9800.  @codyray3344  They didn't identify it as a new disease until Jan 7th. Before that all they knew was that a few people were coming down with pneumonia type symptoms. It wasn't until the 7th that they had isolated the virus and confirmed that it was something new. At that time there weren't a lot of victims and the Chinese government was downplaying, actually denying, how bad it was. Taiwan is one of the few countries that openly dislikes China and they can bring solid measures against the disease without having to listen to internal yelping about racism. As an example, when Trump restricted flights, Biden calling it xenophobic. In Taiwan, they don't care about that nonsense. They, universally, hate socialism, not like here in America, where there is a HUGE socialist movement and they're using racism as a weapon against our traditional freedoms. Taiwan doesn't have the issues with identity politics that we do in the west and it does them well. It's not the millstone around their neck like it is here. Also, the Taiwanese don't trust the Chinese, AT ALL. They're like Hong Kong, in that they know first hand how deceitful the Chinese government can be. Not like the pie-in-the-sky, ain't socialism wonderful crap we have to listen to in the west.
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  9801.  @jimmilne5549  Did you not read my comment at all? I said that you have good reason to NOT like Trump. I'm talking to you about YOUR attitude and it's no different than Trump's attitude. Behaving in the same way that he does solves NOTHING and it is only serving your own sense of superiority. Like it or not, he IS the president and for the US to accomplish anything as a nation, right now, you have to work with him. You either sulk and hate on him, in effect accomplish NOTHING as a nation, or you put aside your personal differences and see what can be accomplished. I do that every day at work. There are people there that I don't see eye to eye with, but that isn't a good enough reason to stop working with them. If it was, our company would go bankrupt and right now, I see the US going through the worst cultural crisis of my lifetime and the Democrats aren't all innocent in this. They are absolutely refusing to work with the president and like an employee who won't work with others they are accomplishing nothing.
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  9802.  @lordbread2083  I guess you didn't read the part of the road that will be built while making this wall, that will allow border agents and their trucks to get to problem areas quickly and effectively, did you? You didn't read how surveillance equipment could by easily installed on the top of that wall to monitor activity on both sides of the border, either. You didn't see where I said that it makes a clear demarcation line that everyone can see, nothing vague about it, that makes it easier to know where one can detain people or not. It's not just the wall, it's everything that goes with it. All you did was repeat an earlier comment and not address ONE point that I made.
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  9803.  @jimmilne5549  Trump is only dividing because the Democrats are allowing the division to happen. He has a stance. They have the freedom to disagree but they're doing more than that. They're refusing to work with him. Anyone that does visit him at the White House is vilified and shamed. That's they're contribution to the division. They can still work with him and at least come to terms on things that they do agree on....but they don't. That's division, as well. One side has to be the bigger side. If Trump is unwilling than it has to be the other. If the other is unwilling, then they're both responsible. Then all you're doing is pointing and blaming. That's childish on both ends. "Not my fault, it's his fault" is the argument I got from my kids.
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  9804.  @lordbread2083  Sorry about that. I had you confused with another commenter who basically said the same thing. My bad. However, if you read my comment about all the side benefits, you will get the gist of what I'm trying to say. A solid road must be built to carrying the heavy equipment and the materials to build the wall. That road will become the patrol road that will carry agents and their trucks to problem areas. The wall will also be able to carry top notch cameras and surveillance material to monitor activity on both sides of the border, with lights to pinpoint that activity at night. It marks a clear line that tells aerial surveillance exactly where the line is and who would be subject to arrest. That wall is essential to using modern technology in an effective manner. Putting up a wall alone isn't everything. It's all that goes with it that makes it effective.
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  9805.  @jenwendy7  You really want your kids being indoctrinated into an ideology? What if the teacher was a Catholic, telling kids that they're evil if they don't believe in God? Would that upset you? I've a feeling that it only bother you if it's the ideology that YOU dislike. If it's the approved dogma.....go for it. The lack of self awareness is astounding.
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  9806.  @jeffarnold3800  The politics of envy. Always a good strategy. There's a reason why there's a commandment against coveting. It's one of the most destructive forces within all of us. Look at it this way. The left: We need to build electric cars to save the planet. Elon Musk: I have a company and we have the technology, desire and the money to build those electric cars. The left: No you don't. We're taking that money away from you. Try building those electric cars now....you greedy capitalist. That envy may well prevent Musk from saving the planet. Talk about a destructive force.
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  9807. I have an idea. Why doesn't Cuomo start programs to discourage people form committing crimes? Programs like incarceration for those who commit crimes and incentives to get early release if they show that they want to change their lives. Also, requiring them to have a job before they get an early release and programs to encourage employers to hire felons who have shown a willingness to change, relocate and work. Also, it might be a good idea to increase the number of courts, judges and the administration to handle those numbers. I'm sure that there's more but this might be a start.
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  9808. Criminalising disagreement with the establishment beliefs. George Orwell would have loved this (sarcasm alert). He was a prophet, after all.
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  9809.  @austindovercourtiii2000  Yes....we must fight them. We have to fight them with the tools that our Constitution allows us and with the morality of right on our side. It's a battle of good vs evil. We either believe in the good or we don't. We can overcome, just like Kyle did but we have to be strong....just like Kyle was.
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  9810. Jason Pollack.....one of those guys who thinks yelling and interrupting makes him right. His film, juxtaposed against the full film, makes him out to be a liar. He's no different than the person that put together the original video about the Covington Kids. He snipped out what he didn't like and changed the narrative to suit his own purposes. In Pollack's case, he is building a reputation as a film maker through creating controversy. "Creating"...that's the key word. You don't create truth. You relate it.
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  9811.  @travislouisseize7755  It has nothing to do with Mao or Marxism. Bezos has made billions selling cheap stuff from China, to Americans. Trump is making that harder and it's hitting the bottom line so he's fighting anything that would support him. Bezos, the Democrats, the Rinos, the Washington Bureaucracy, the Corporate elites and the political lobbyists will do anything to get rid of Trump. When they do, the extreme leftist will be dealt with because they don't want a true socialist government. That's why they cheated Bernie Sanders out of running for president.
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  9812.  Sean Fisher  I don't know about globalism, so much but I do know what I see on the store shelves. Trump is threatening the big money that they make, not just through legal trade, but by ending the kickbacks that the corporate elites and the swamp make from Chinese companies and Chinese government agencies. That money is put into off shore bank accounts and can't be tracked by any American investigations because it's being done from Chinese banks. It's corruption to the max and Trump's adversaries don't want to lose the goose that's laying all those golden eggs. Trump has been saying it for years and they knew and panicked when he won the election. That's the main reason they're after Trump. Not globalism as a cause but they're money tree is being uprooted. Other countries don't have the resources to be as corrupt as China so it has to be them or no one.
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  9813.  Sean Fisher  I'll check them out in the morning although I'm quite aware of the globalist angles. I'm just seeing how it's affecting the short term or these elites. But I'm nodding off and I'd better get some sleep. Thanks for the links.
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  9814. Why? Because she just told us her views on Title 9? What's there to trust, here? She said that she's voting Trump. It's an endorsement. She's influencing thousands to vote with her. Besides, you're an idiot if you fully trust anyone. You've basically said nothing. Not a damn thing of value.
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  9815.    Who cares. They had no right to beat either one of them. Those animals that did it belong in jail until they're too old to hurt anyone. Getting into a semantics battle over this is like complaining about mosquitoes while being trampled by buffalo. The REAL problem are the Marxist rioters not bickering over gender identity. We'll argue over that when the REAL problem is dealt with.
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  9816.  D G  It's not the justice system that's evil. It's that it's been infiltrated by those who would do evil. That's the difference. The justice system, starting from the Constitution, hasn't changed. We've allowed those who don't honour the Constitution to take over. Also, that case in Texas isn't settle yet. The father still has options open to him. That's why the justice system has safety mechanisms in it and one can appeal decisions. The people of the US have the opportunity to put and end to the craziness in November. If it isn't done at that time, then other options must be strongly considered. The Republicans must win in a landslide and I believe that they will, unless the Democrats try to force a showdown before that. They did it during the Civil war so it's not out of the question. Right now, the reality is what to do about the violence and chaos. Bickering over words is pointless. That's what the progressives do. They continuously use words to divide and confuse. Let's just agree. We don't care what the man calls himself. He/she should never have been beaten. That's what the issue is. They just love to see us bicker over semantics. Let's face the enemy, instead of each other.
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  9817. We are now seeing athletes who are taking chemicals so that they WON'T be as good at their sport as they were in the past. They don't want to be as good as they were or as good as they can be. Kind of goes against the entire idea of training and working hard. I thought you were trying to improve performance.
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  9818.  @PANCHOVILLAMATO  Why not improve the fencing? I fixed up my house so it has more value. Fix the fence so it has greater value in deterring illegal crossing. Also, put it where there are no fences and people are crossing and some are even dying in the attempt. Make it so difficult that they won't be bothered to try anymore because the success rate is so small it's not worth the risk. I don't see how you can turn that into a reason for not doing it.
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  9819.  @burny6666  I just promised my girlfriend that you're going to pay for her new car. She's very excited. Thanks a lot. She needs a new car for her job.
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  9820.  @bobdavidson9770  Then why would Donald Trump be elected. Almost every media establishment hated him. There were even Republicans that hated him. He was hated by all the bureaucrats in Washington. Almost every staff member at every university hated him and anyone who spoke in his favour was severely admonished for it. People were losing their jobs over supporting him....yet he won and they lost their proverbial s@@t. Yes, sometimes they cheat....but ALWAYS? No one ever catches them? Why would they even need to COUNT the ballots if the outcome is assured? You just declare the winner and he takes office. It would be a stupid waste of time to count ballots. If the outcome is assured, please let me know who wins the mid terms. You should know being so mature and all. Like I said earlier, you've found a way to do nothing but sit around and smugly say that you've got it all figured out. As lazy as it gets....but mature though. LOL.
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  9821. JuliaJustBeauty That doesn't fly, especially now. These girls will get support from those, like you, who take the stance that there is no way a girl would make up an allegation like this. There could be psychological rewards in making these accusations as well, a sort of Munchausen syndrome, where the attention is the priority over the reality. There are segments of society that laud the courage and bravery of those who stand up and tell their story. Manipulative individuals can use this to their advantage to coerce women to make allegations that aren't true with a promise of social approval from that segment of society. Why do people, with the full realisation that they'd be open to ridicule, start to advocate for a flat earth? There are facets of the human psyche that don't fall under the norm and those things have to be considered when claims of any kind are made. In this interview, thus far, Brown has been quite convincing and unless he's bluffing outrageously, he's going to come out vindicated. If a woman has been physically assaulted, by all means, come out and confront the accuser. However, if Brown is vindicated, then the witch hunt allegations will also be vindicated and the women will legitimate complaints will be in no better position than they were 30 years ago. No reasonable person should want that. That CTV reporter, I can't remember her name, should have made sure those sources were impeccable and beyond reproach. If Brown has witnesses that she has used in her story that contradict her story, then her career is in trouble. I'm not sure she did her due diligence at best and might even be guilty of orchestrating a scandal that didn't exist, at worst.
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  9822. Why would a tabloid like Buzzfeed retract its claims? I mean, you don't see supermarket tabloids retracting their stories on the Sasquatch or creatures living in the centre of the earth, do you? The claim is the proof.
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  9823. As a life long misogynist, I don't even know who to "misogynist" against, anymore. Things were so much easier for us haters 5 years ago.
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  9824.  @PaxAlotin-x2s  When did I denigrate anyone's culture? Calling me racist doesn't legitimise your point.....not one bit. It's intellectually lazy and doesn't mean a thing. Also, my point has nothing to do with the languages being African in itself. My point was that Africa's regions were isolated for reasons of geography not because of race. I never mentioned race, ethnicity, skin colour, intelligence of anything of that nature. It was YOU that did that. Most of my comment was about Shakespeare and his home town. When you have an exhibit about someone, ANYONE, the exhibit should be about them, not how it relates to your favourite cause. When you do that, you make their life all about YOU and I'd call that rather narcissistic.
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  9825. You're comment is the definition of racism. You've singled out a group for derision and disdain and when you allow for this feeling of superiority towards others, you've now accepted that they're deserving of retribution for only one reason and that would be because they are a member of a specific group. This is the very attitude that we've been fighting for years. The Civil Rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King has taken a giant step backwards in the last few years and I'm sure he'd be appalled at some of what is happening now.
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  9826.  Fiasco  Britain was faced with a dilemma. They couldn't fight both Hitler and Stalin at the same time. That's why Hitler made the pact with Stalin to invade Poland. He didn't think that Britain would only go after him and that Stalin would be of help if they did. He was wrong. Hitler was warned, after he took over all of Czechoslovakia, that he was NOT to expand any further and he ignored it. Hitler wanted peace with Britain because he was afraid the US might side with them. Also, Hitler wasn't about to give up the land he'd already took over. That was the condition that Britain wanted that Hitler would not agree to. I'm of Dutch heritage. Holland declared its neutrality when the war started. Hitler invaded anyway. My mother nearly starved to death because of it. There is NOTHING that you'll ever say that will convince me that Hitler was a scourge on the earth. What he did was inexcusable....and it has nothing to do with Stalin being the monster that he was.
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  9827. I know 250 million seems excessive but it's the way to go. Maybe it'll make the celebrity types think twice before calling for violence against kids. They're just as disgusting as the MSM for doing their inexcusable tweets.
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  9828. Getting angry about forcing children to wear masks, being taught in the context of CRT and gender ideology is considered domestic terrorism. I wonder how angry THEY would get, if teachers at THEIR children's schools were covertly teaching Christian dogma. Would that be domestic terrorism or would they consider that "righteous" anger? I guess it's all perspective, isn't it?
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  9829. I just read CNN's release on this. They mentioned that 2 people were arrested at the hospital, including a member of the press, for blocking the entrance and interfering with a police officer, but they said NOTHING about what the protesters were saying or who they were. Once more, CNN is providing their own narrative and covering for the BLM movement.
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  9830.  @SippyKupp  Do you mean that having anxiety and the resulting addiction to the medication to fight the anxiety is a pretty good journey? Strange take on emotional and addiction issues. The medication almost killed him. He has been in hospitals for a year and a half. It's been a terrible road for him and his family. Also, my brother in law just had cancer and is now cancer free. It wasn't pleasant but he didn't have near the issues that Peterson did. He hardly stopped working through the treatments. You might be advised to find out the whole Peterson health issue before you comment.
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  9831.  dan bob  I'd have read your entire comment but your grammar was so poor that I was having a difficult time understanding your point. The value of your comment is lost in your poor ability to express yourself in any intelligible manner. I'm not trying to insult. I'm hoping that you'll work on it so as to be able to better convey, what could be, a message worth reading.
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  9832.  dan bob  A lot of very vague statements. "some sort of denial".....that could apply to anyone and everyone. You'd be correct by default. Why should I or anyone believe what you tell me? First, you haven't really told me anything, except that I'm blind and arrogant and that you've something of value to impart. However, secondly, I have no idea what it is you're trying to say except that people are blind and arrogant and that you have something to say. All I was trying to tell you is that you should use some punctuation and your message might be easier to understand.
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  9833. They didn't have police as we know them but they did have a judicial system and they needed it. There's always been crime. The difference today is that we're keeping statistics on it. The Bible talks about crime all the time and how evil fills the hearts of all men. There's never been a time on earth where people were intrinsically good. God sent a flood once, to purge the world of the evil deeds of men. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. It's a myth that we've never needed police. We've always needed laws and people to uphold them. The police are just a specialised force that is different than what we've had in the past.
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  9834. I sacrificed for years to build a nest egg. That's the only way for a person, who has nothing, to have a little something some day. However, the elites are asking us to sacrifice without reward. That's an abomination.
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  9835. I heard, from sources close to the president, that Trump held a gun to the driver's head. Then the Secret Service guy disarmed him by holding a taser to Trump's back.
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  9836. @ Are you seriously saying that a person, who would abuse children, wouldn't lie about being trans just so he can enter a girl's bathroom? Their entire life is a lie. Yet, they'd NEVER lie about being trans to benefit their perverted predilections. You can't be that naive. If men aren't allowed into women's bathrooms and locker rooms, we'd know right away that the 6' 3" inch, 230 pound guy, in lipstick and heels is a guy and he can't hide behind a trans claim. That's why we've never allowed men into girl's bathroom and locker rooms. We know that there are inherent dangers if we allow it. Insisting that there isn't doesn't change that.
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  9837. Imagine, believing that the Merchant of Death, is on even par with a black lesbian basketball player, in terms of being a danger to the public.
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  9838.  @JohnHallett5846isaPrick  You've just shown us why Trump is getting more popular. The Democrats are doing the same thing. They're demonising the voters, the people of America. It's not just the supporters of Trump, that they're deepening into their support, it's their husbands and wives, who don't see their spouse that way. It's their children, their parents, grandparents, friends and neighbours. They don't like hearing their supposed leaders insulting the people that they love and care for. No one will vote for you if you call them names. It's the worst political tactic one could take in the democratic process.
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  9839. Somebody has to tell them the war is over and we've decided to get along.
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  9840.  @finderskeepers1993  I dont support or condemn the Lgbt people. They just are. Every one is an individual to me...not some cog in a group dynamic I'm the same with racialization. I don't see them only as part of homogenised group. A person is more than their skin colour or sexual orientation. Quit turning people into group bots.
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  9841.  @deckard3755  Anyone that watches his videos and can't see that he's not just talking about authoritarianism of the past but authoritarianism in general. He holds up examples, like the Gulag or the Holocaust, to show where any tyranny will take you. He doesn't browbeat you or scream at you. He tries to get you to think and feels that this will lead you to a place where authoritarianism becomes a plague to you. "Fix yourself before you ever attempt to fix the world." This is in complete opposition to the "turn them into activists" attitudes we see now. I believe that he's doing more good with his approach than just criticising or calling them out to their faces. The authoritarians are mad at him now. There's a reason for that. His stuff goes against everything that they stand for.
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  9842.  @deckard3755  You asked why he wasn't addressing the new authoritarianism in the west. I said that he's been addressing it all along by the way that he approaches the subject, using the Gulag and the Holocaust as examples where authoritarianism will lead you. It's an indirect approach. KInd of like leading a horse to water and then seeing if it will drink, to use a simile. Show them the face of totalitarianism and then allow to recognise it when it's happening to them. A different approach. A more subtle approach. Sometimes beating one over the head leads to people beating back and you gain nothing. He's fighting it by using logic, reasoning and facts from history. I should add that he's been extremely ill , almost died, and he's only now recovering. The last thing that he needs is the stress of dealing with woke lunatics. Not every soldier carries a gun.
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  9843.  @deckard3755  To me, everything he says, applies to what's happening today. It's why the left hates him so much. They know that he stands firmly against them by the tone of his lectures. It drives them crazy because he's so calm and rational. His demeanor is one of his biggest assets in fighting their insanity. Anyone, who's sitting on the fence on this, will be more likely to lean towards his way of thinking than towards their angry and bitter ranting. Everyone has their methods. Like I said....not all soldiers carry guns.
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  9844.  @BarronShouldEnlist  BS. There were 65 combat deaths during Trump's administration. 45 of those deaths were in Afghanistan. This is from Newsweek, a publication that has never been friendly to Trump and was being very critical of him in this article. Your number is a bald faced lie and you know it.
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  9845.  @sunshinehoward9649  He didn't give his opinion. He lied. I googled it and that number doesn't come up anywhere. He pulled it out of his backside, pretending he had some authority. It wasn't an opinion.
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  9846.  @WannaKnowAll  The problem are the all the stories that are being revealed on improprieties in the election. 30 years ago, if there were just a couple of these stories, the media would have been all over it, every journalist wanting to be the one to uncover the big story. Now, they dismiss it, without even questioning it. No investigation, nothing. Hundreds, maybe thousands of stories about issues, especially with the mail-in ballots. Why aren't they investigating? Why didn't they show the terrible riots? What is going on with the MSM? I know that they're owned by big multinational companies. The same companies, whose executives were hurt by Trump's trade war with China. Could that be the issue? Also, if they're not reporting on these things, why would that be? Is there something to hide and the elites won't allow them to talk about it? I've never, in all my 70 years, seen the media behave this way. They're supposed to report the news, not suppress it or create it.
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  9847. This is EXACTLY what Hitler and his Nazis did. Not close or somewhat resembling. EXACTLY. They combined with the unions and it became a de facto state union. This is National Socialism. California isn't becoming a Fascist state. What's amazing is that no one sees this.
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  9848. WOW. Getting the creepiest women in Australia, on stage, at the same time, is quite the accomplishment. Hats off to whoever organised this. Now....please don't EVER do that again.
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  9849.  @CBE-d6j  I can't speak for her but many people accept horrific acts because they grew up immersed in it. It's why people send their kids to religious schools. They want their beliefs and cultures embedded into their children's minds although it may not be a bad thing but the possibility is there. It's why the Nazis established the Hitler Youth. To normalise aberrant behaviour. It's even why the radical left wants to start talking about extreme sexual behaviour to children as young as 5 and 6 years old. It's about indoctrinating them into their lifestyle. It takes a strong mind to see through it. A better question would be is to ask how she had the strength to see through it in spite of how she was raised.
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  9850. @ It's at least as brave as being a loud mouthed troll......troll.
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  9851.  @MikkahLive  Thanks.
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  9852. Jordan Peterson said that this was going to happen 10 years ago. I argued with people over it. Now, it is happening and I don't have to argue anymore about whether it will happen or not. Now, I have to argue on how wrong it is.
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  9853. We used to keep a toad in our cellar to eat the bugs that would come in with the wood for our wood furnace. It would do a great job keeping the house free of all the weird bugs that live under the bark of trees. That'd be a great job for Nadler. Kind of like Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings".
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  9854.  @jacksnyder7318  Yet, those who train working sheepdogs say that mongrels are the best and that purebreds end up being inbred which brings a whole new set of problems, including diminished intelligence.
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  9855.  @alejandror3277  A fairly poor one but easy to understand. The "Demos", referring to the Democrats, are full of "crap". "The Democrats are full of crap" becomes the Democraps. A bit juvenile, maybe but has an air of truth to it.
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  9856.  @grahamyates2490  Columbus set into motion a defining moment in human history.....arguably one of the most defining moments in history. The fact the he went through all the work, the pleading of his case to different governments, the privations and enemies he made in Europe, his dogged determination to go to eastern Asia by sailing west was a momentous undertaking. That he even got the ships to do what he was proposing was quite a feat. When he found the islands in the Caribbean, that was the beginning of a new era for all mankind. Everyone of us has been affected by what was set in motion that day. We can quibble about his motives but the fact that he had the courage, determination and fore sight to accomplish this is why he is being elevated to a hero's status. However, he was human, as well. That means that he had faults, like you, like me, like everyone else on this planet. He had to fight the inner demons just like the rest of us do. In spite of that, he was still one of the most important people that has ever lived. I can't speak for the young guy's motives, either, but what I do know is that his questioning is always the first step to vilification. It's not the questions in themselves but the tone of those questions. He clearly doesn't see Columbus as a hero and can't understand why we'd honour his great accomplishment.....because it IS a great accomplishment. When describing Columbus to someone who has never heard of him before, it's that accomplishment that you describe. You don't start off by talking about his faults. He's remembered by his great discovery. The rest is details that describes the humanity that was in him. If you ignore the discovery, you're erasing this aspect of history because without his voyages, Columbus would just be another forgotten individual, like the rest of us.
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  9857.  @grahamyates2490  John Cabot acted in response to what Columbus had done. It was Columbus that had formulated the idea the one could get to Eastern Asia by sailing West. He was the one that went looking for sponsors and finally convinced the Spanish to back him up. The entire trip was the brainchild of Columbus and no one else. Without that, there would have been no Cabot or Henry Hudson or any of the other men who sailed west. It was the vision of Columbus that set everything in motion and changed the world. It's not just the courage. A suicide bomber doesn't change the direction of history. Every single man that landed in Normandy on D-Day is a hero due to their courage but we don't honour each individual soldier because individually they didn't change WW2 but they did collectively. Columbus changed the course of history due to his vision and courage and determination. Not ONE sailor on those 3 ships would have sailed had it not been for Columbus. That's what makes him unique. This was his voyage, his plan, his battle to fund the voyage, his determination to get support and then to see the entire enterprise to its fruition. That's the type of fortitude that very few people display in life and is the hallmark of success. Was he a saint? Of course not. No more than those men that landed in Normandy. I'll wager some them were deplorable human beings but they faced something horrible and did it. Columbus opened up to the rest of Europe to fantastic new opportunities. Cabot was just one on many that responded to what Columbus had shown possible.
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  9858.  @patrickparsons2378  It's also a way to gain power and then hold it. It's not a cause of their emergence, it's their tactic to ensure their rise to power and to stifle any opposition. Dissidents will not be tolerated. It's already a part of the mindset of the tyrannical.
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  9859.  @Zachary_Setzer  No they're not better. I bought a house in 1977, working as a labourer at a shoe factory which locals said wasn't even a well paying job. My wife didn't work and we 2 kids. We got married in 1974 and had nothing. 3 1/2 years later, I had the down payment for a house and both the wife and I had our own car. In the fall of 73, my radiator in my car, developed a bad leak and I phoned work and told them that I'd be a half hour late. My boss got angry and fired me. Half hour later, my car was repaired, I drove out to look for another job and found one a little over an hour later, at the aforementioned shoe factory. My boss called me that afternoon, apologised and asked me to return the following day. I told him that I'd found another job. That's the way life was in those days. Now, my daughter and her husband have been together for 14 years. Both have always worked. They have 2 kids but do NOT have a car and believe that they will NEVER be able to buy a home. They don't drink or do drugs. They don't gamble or go out on weekends. When I was 25, when I bought my home, I could pay my mortgage with one weeks pay the same as I could when I was paying rent. It takes the both of them to pay their rent almost 3 weeks of their salary. You weren't alive then. You have NO idea how things have gotten worse.
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  9860.  Citizen EU  All you need to be able to do is draw an "X". Enough of those in the correct column and that arrogant chuckle will fall down around your ankles.
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  9861.  Citizen EU  Yeah.....that's why Trump won the last election. What you're saying is that there were a lot more voters out there, in 2016, who would've voted for Trump but they didn't know how. After all the rioting, shootings, burning and looting, I'll bet they're all out there practicing their "X" skills right now. The Dems are ready though. They've instituted the mail in vote and when Trump wins, they'll claim that he cheated.....using the mail-in votes.
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  9862.  Citizen EU  If I lived in a Democrat city, do you think I'd tell some stranger on the phone I'm voting for Trump? Not a chance. I'm not getting doxed by some whackjob leftie. Look at the CEO of GOYA foods. All he did was say he appreciated the job Trump did and a Democrat politician, Julian Castro, wanted his company boycotted. No way.....I'll do my "X" when it counts. I'm sure there are a lot of us out there. Radical left Democrats are too whacked to have to deal with every day.
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  9863.  Citizen EU  Ok, if that's true, show me where it says that this was the only states polled. If you can prove it true, you might have a point. I find it hard to believe that the Christian heartland is going to vote for a party that approves of all the chaos and violence in the big cities and the defund of the police. Christian folk have sure changed if that's true.
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  9864.  @7n154  Because Trump is a bully, Biden can advocate for violence in front of students. Has it ever occurred to you that when you condemn violent bullies you should condemn ALL violent bullies, not just the ones that you don't like? "Well, Donnie does it too". That's a whine that my mother would have smacked me upside the head for using. Unless you're an 8 year old, there's no excuse for saying what you just said.
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  9865.  @juans3728  Maybe when you're an 8 year old. When you're an adult it's called "assault" and it's against the law.
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  9866.  Tangerine Cloudsky  No......he's a world renowned neuro-surgeon who performed the first ever successful surgery on co-joined twins at the brain. The VERY first. A remarkable achievement. He was also a presidential candidate and was at HUD for a number of years. Everything he's done has helped fellow Americans, especially his medical career. Every American should hold him in the highest esteem and not judge him ONLY through a political lens.... a very myopic lens as far as I'm concerned.
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  9867.  malikail57  How about giving a list of the names of these historical accounts so I can consider the legitimacy of their, and your, claims.
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  9868. I'm a Dutch guy from Canada. Go back to the old country and they're all beautiful. Like.....BEAUTIFUL. What happened to me? Good thing I had personality, no one would have talked to me. I did cheat a little. I told them I was from Canada. They love us Canadians....even the ugly ones.
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  9869. Normally mispronunciations don't bother me all that much but hearing Metis pronounced in this manner made me cringe. Must be the Canadian in me rearing its ugly head.
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  9870. @charles A poor analogy. A party can't stop the runaway train. Neither can a protest. However, the protesters in Ottawa can change the attitudes of the people so they can effect change through the political process. They can change how the political engineer, metaphorically speaking, is running the country. That political engineer is in control and his decision process can be changed. The engineer, of a runaway train, has lost control. Protesting his train driving policies isn't going to stop the train which is out of control. The government is still in control. The driver of the train has lost control. Your analogy doesn't work.
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  9871.  @sheilasmith7779  Violence is EXACTLY what the establishment is waiting for. One bad incident and it will be plastered all over the news and will be the excuse to send in forces to break it all up. Then anyone, even resisting a little bit, will have his picture all over the media and the confrontations will be shown non-stop. Violence is the tactic of the bully. When attacked, by said bully, you defend yourself and then use violence to control and subjugate that bully. Our government is the bully, right now. They haven't used violence yet and the reason is obvious. If they do, without provocation, they know that the average Canadian will turn on them. This works both ways. It's propaganda. We have to beat them at their own game.
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  9872.  @rectombulas793  That's correct. The ones who start the violence will LOSE the propaganda war. Don't let the Oligarchs goad you into doing something stupid. They'll destroy you for it. Be better and smarter than them.
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  9873. Take her out, Joe. Your district deserves better than her. Best of luck to you.
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  9874.  @warbwashington5626  The man had health issues and the drug was prescribed to him by a doctor. A DOCTOR...you smug jerk. Peterson had no idea that it could have such adverse side effects. You're a miserable little man.
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  9875.  @marvin60000  You're not listening. Period.
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  9876.  @marvin60000  Peterson went to a doctor for health issues. The doctor gave him a prescription and he filled it. He didn't know that the drugs could become addictive. He didn't go out looking for heroin or meth or opium. He was sick and a doctor gave him something that he became addicted to. Why is this so difficult for you to understand? He wasn't engaging in back alley drug deals. He went to a DRUG STORE with a prescription, given to him by a doctor. This could happen to anyone....INCLUDING YOU. Show a little compassion.
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  9877.  @marvin60000  It must be nice to be a know it all. To be the guy that ALWAYS makes the right decisions, where everything always goes right. Most of us have to learn by our mistakes. We find out that we know it all until we don't. If you don't stick your neck out, like Peterson did, never do anything of consequence, I guess you'll never make mistakes that amount to anything. You're another one of those smug, self righteous types that loves to judge everyone as beneath them. Instead of talking about his work, you prefer to denigrate because you can't stand to see someone that has done something that outshines you.
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  9878.  @desnock  "he's as fucked up as the rest of US" NOT "you". That's how you should crafted that sentence. Human beings are fallible. ALL OF US. To insinuate that only a certain group are fucked up, thereby eliminating yourself in that designation, shows just how arrogant and narcissistic you actually are. YOU are as fucked up as anyone else. Did he have alcohol problems? Yes he did, and he overcame them and became a highly respected academic. I can't tell you all the details of his recent problems but guess what, he's working hard on recovering on that, as well. Meanwhile, he's back to work, trying his best to understand the incomprehensible ways that humans behave. He's not wallowing in self pity. He's working and putting himself right out there, warts and all. He knows people, like you, are going to attack and vilify him, by the millions and he still sticks his neck out and takes it. You won't even use your own name when making a comment. You have a lot less to lose than he does, yet he stands up and takes it. You hide behind a made up name, because you know FULL WELL, that if people know who you are, they'll point out the fucked up things in your life.
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  9879.  @davisneves  How do you know whether he lied or not? You don't even know who he is or even what his name is.
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  9880.  @Mark-jb9hx  If Cuomo cared about those lives, he would own up to it and say that it was the wrong thing to do. Instead he pretends it didn't happen. He knew how contagious it was and how deadly for seniors and he did it anyway. That's the issue here. Was this a deadly action or what? If so, where is the remorse? Answer that question instead of the responding with the childish equivalent of "I know you are but what am I?"
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  9881. I would really like to get concrete confirmation that this is happening. It's not that I don't believe Tulsi, because I do, but if I show this to those who are Democrat supporters, they'll just say that she's lying. I want to be able to prove it so they can't say that it's not true. If anyone knows where to look, I'd appreciate your help. This needs to be shown to everyone.
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  9882.  @5p1tf1r31  And guess who's doing it to us? The Socialists. That's where they're getting their support. It's not the capitalists and those who value individual rights and freedoms. Those people run the entire spectrum of the financial spectrum, from the very poor to the very rich on both sides of the line. There are a lot of people, who are poor, who hate the rich. They equate success with theft and exploitation and they want to curb their successful enterprises. That's a problem. Just as bad a problem as Bill Gates and his arrogant belief that only HE has all the answers. The problem isn't specific demographics. It's ideas and attitudes, anger, resentment and hatred that's destroying the world.
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  9883. I'm puzzled why the left hates the pregnancy centres so much. They're helping women who are pregnant. What's wrong with that?
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  9884.  @therepublicofcynica  Communism definition: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.......from the Oxford dictionary. Socialism definition: (in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.......again, from the Oxford dictionary. According to these definitions, you can't realise Communism without going through socialism first. No different than you can't become an adult without going through the teenage years, first. You can't have one without the other. That means that they have EVERYTHING to do with one another.
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  9885. I don't know this but I have to ask. Are books like "Brave New World", "1984", "Fahrenheit 451" and "Lord of the Flies" still being discussed in school? I sure hope so. They are amazing books and portray ideas that we should all learn about and be able to discuss. Actually, in high school I wanted to learn about Hitler so I read "Mein Kampf" and realised just how insane his rantings were. I also said read Marx and Engels to understand communism. I was young and naive enough to think that understanding something meant that I have to learn about it.
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  9886.  @NCStreaming2025  I have the right to judge the behaviour and claims of anyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. It's called freedom. I've just judged your response. It's abhorrent...even if you're trolling but especially if you actually believe the shit that's spewing out of your brain.
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  9887. Come on, you guys. There are 7,942,645,086 different genders. One for every person on the planet. I'm different than the person beside me, whose different than the person beside them and so on. When it's all said and done, we're all our own unique gender. Next year, at this time, there will be 8,108,605,388 genders. Isn't it great!!!!!! I just gotta figure out what to call my gender. Maybe "Jack Haveman" is good enough. I'll use Jack/Jack as my pronouns.
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  9888.  @A_Jeff  It's the big banks that use the ESG term, forcing privately owned businesses to abide by THEIR rules or lose points on their credit scores. It's a tactic borrowed from Fascist China where social credit scores are the norm. DEI is illogical and I don't need anyone to tell me to be upset because I've lost my chance to apply for a job because of my skin colour or other immutable characteristics. It seems that Jim Crow still exists. Skin colour is everything. "No ------'s allowed" depending on what skin colour is needed to fill the vacancy. "-----'s need not apply" Fill in the applicable skin colour. Oh yeah. Jim Crow is alive and well.
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  9889.  James Wisrik  First of all, what does tax breaks, subsidies and bailouts have to do with the homeless crisis is California? Why can't they both be issues that need addressing? All your saying is that we can't do anything to alleviate this homeless crisis because the Republicans are bad people. That's not only illogical....it's incredibly stupid. These drug addicts and mentally handicapped deserve help and the garbage should be cleaned up. Saying that the Democratic governments of California shouldn't do anything because you don't like Republicans tells me that you and those like you could care less about their plight. It's a disgusting attitude.
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  9890.  @The_Savage_Wombat  Politics is about power. As long as they have power, they have the means to have the perfect life, the best that a country has to offer. Power gives them the way to get money, and the good life but without it, none of it happens. Money doesn't get you power. The rich can still end up in prison. Jeffrey Epstein is a prime example. He had all kinds of money but he lacked the power to prevent being put in jail. Had he the power, he'd still be alive, living free to do as he pleased. Power first, money second. The other way around and you're still vulnerable.
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  9891.  @igeo212  It does mean something. It means that the average Joe can tell Trump what's on his mind. A smart politician listens, evaluates and does what he can to alleviate the situation, if possible. That's what Trump is doing. He may be doing it just for votes but who cares if he is if he does something about the average person's problems. If no politician ever shows up, they're not going to be able to listen or do anything about what the average person is facing. Even if Trump or any politician is doing these things to gain votes, it's still a lot better than having politicians do nothing. Your vote is supposed to bring the improvements that are needed. Why the politicians makes those changes is irrelevant. What counts is whether he does them or not.
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  9892.  @loot3rd589  That's right. Thousands of corpse don't matter when you can use them to badger the president. WELL DONE.
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  9893. You fully captured the simplicity and naivete of the mind of 5 year old. It's what makes this entire thing so evil. They're trying to take that naivete and use it to mould that child's brain into one of their own making. They're trying to brainwash our children and it's an atrocity.
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  9894.  @theoncousland4587  In other words, a waste of time and money.
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  9895.  November Reign  I don't think you're being a dick, either. LOL. Unless you think that I'm one.
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  9896.  @luckerooni7628  "Despite what the law says, companies aren't people, they can be one personality to the next depending on who's running the show" Then it is people. The "who" running the show would be a person, a "people". You're contradicting yourself.
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  9897.  @ChadBoss-qr4hl  His comment pertains to the fact that Andy Ngo is gay and that they beat him up, anyway. If you're conservative and you beat up a gay man, they'll throw the book at you. if you're a conservative gay man, they can beat you up for wrongthink and get away with it. Gay conservative, just like black conservatives, are traitors in the minds of lefties. Larry Elder was called the "black face of white supremacy".
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  9898.  @dovidstaples9985  They encouraged her to use new pronouns and use the male facilities and didn't tell her parents. A girl who they KNEW had mental issues and then looked the other way when she was bullied and threatened with rape and you don't think that this is serious? She was so frightened that she ran away and all because the school officials took advantage of a troubled young girl.
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  9899.  @dovidstaples9985  Isn't it strange that when I sent multiple links to newspaper articles, including the NY Times, that shows that schools ARE hiding transitioning of children from their parents, it's nowhere to be seen. I had at least 5 links and that entire comment is gone. So, I'll try this. Google "schools hiding transgender from parents". This will bring up multiple news stories that verify that this is going on. That is if you're interested in finding out the truth. If you're not interested, keep your head in the sand and don't bother with the Google search.
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  9900. How privileged do you have to be to think that you are the only one allowed to attack? They thought they could bully her, without restraint, and are now outraged that she doesn't lay down and quit when they try to smack her down, like any good victim should. They don't know how to handle someone with strong resolve. People are supposed to be intimidated by the press. What a shock it must be for them when they're not. LOL.
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  9901. @solaroid55 Could you give a reference to that presentation. I'd like to see it.
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  9902. @solaroid55 Thanks. Appreciate it.
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  9903. @solaroid55 I just watched it. This should be the biggest scandal in American history. That the MSM is pretending it isn't real is more than appalling. I'd say that they're complicit and a big part of making the fraud work. Journalists used to investigate this stuff. Now, they only refer to it to say that it's baseless. This is the kind of stuff that Hitler and Chavez and other dictators used to gain power.
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  9904. Democrats don't care about your intention. They'll tell you what your intention was.
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  9905. I remember the last time that a nation targeted certain demographics. We ended up in a world war. I suppose one go round at Fascism isn't enough.
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  9906. I'll bet that she voted Democrat. How about having an honest conversation about that? It was the Democrats that supported slavery, who voted against emancipation, giving the freed slaves American citizenship and the right to vote. It was the Democrats who benefited from the formation of the KKK and brought in the Jim Crow laws, poll taxes and literacy laws in order vote. It was the Democrats who opposed integration and the Civil Rights Act. I'm old enough to have heard a Democrat say, live on TV "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation tomorrow". It was the Republican party that formed with the primary mandate of ending slavery. Why don't we have a conversation about that?
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  9907.  Dr.HLecter  I have NO idea what you're saying. First you say that non-citizen voting is Trump fear mongering. Then you say, sadly for because they CAN vote. Uh...WHAT? And why are you sorry for them and us? What are you talking about? I just don't get why you're pushing back on ensuring that only citizens vote? Would you want Russians coming here and voting? Or would that be fear mongering, too? However, Hillary is claiming that the Russians interfered to get Trump to become president. Is illegal voting one way that they did it? Your comment is confusing or I'm just thick because I'm not getting it.
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  9908.  Jeff Jordan  Why would they go through the tough work of building tunnels? All they gotta do is walk into the country. If they get caught, they're released anyway and if not....they're free to do and go as they want. Obviously, since YOU seem to know about the tunnels, I imagine the border control would know about them too. They'll just arrest them as they pop out of their tunnel and then put them on a plane to Nashville. Big deal.
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  9909.  Jeff Jordan  So why isn't the Biden administration doing everything that they can to stop it? Do they WANT drugs to come in? You seem to know where they are. Why don't those, who are responsible for that kind of thing, doing something about it? Also, to pretend that this is the heart of the problem is being rather naive. They can carry it over the border just as easy AND more effectively with coordinated crossings, designed to send patrols to one place while crossing at another. It's become a fiasco since Biden took over and even Democrats are starting to say it.
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  9910. Need to change it to "Boys can have a vagina and girls can have a penis". Kindergarten Cop will soon be overdubbed to comply with the "new norm".
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  9911.  @4NickAder  The gun charge that Hunter Biden pled guilty to. He applied for a gun permit and then lied on the form that asked whether he was a drug user. He was kicked out of the military for using cocaine. It was also revealed, on the laptop, that he forgot to pick up from a computer shop that his girlfriend disposed of the gun in a dumpster across the road from a high school, another indictable offence. It's one of the reasons he's in court. This is all common knowledge. A quick and simple google search would keep you informed.....if it's your goal to stay informed and I highly doubt that it is.
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  9912. Trump is ending the war for political gain. Honest!!!!! Watch Adam Schiff try to impeach Trump for making foreign deals in order to make him look good.
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  9913.  @Fray2221  He just taught you how to figure shit out for yourself. This isn't about doing it for you. It's showing you the options on how to do it for yourself. We're not your mother, cutting up your steak for you into perfect bite sized squares. Here's a knife and fork and learn to do it for yourself.
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  9914.  @elizabethpotter3964  No...the lie where he claims that Florida is banning books. That's the lie. They're not doing that. It's all political hyperbole. Florida is keeping age inappropriate books out of primary schools. A person can still buy them in Florida. Everyone knows that to be true. However, people, like Newsom, flat out lie about it and the Democrat party will back him up and lie right along with him. It's why I reject the Democrat party. They lie. We know they lie. They know the lie and they keep right on doing it.
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  9915. Because the implications of this run deeper than just cheating and that's bad enough. It has to do with being FORCED to go along and being gaslit when you say something. The girls on the Penn State swimming team were told that they could get psychiatric help if they were having problems with it, as if THEY were the crazy ones. Misgender someone and they can come at you using the force of law. You could lose your job and any chance of finding new work. Here, in Canada, you could face fines or lose custody of your children. That's what makes it interesting.
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  9916. @@matcaterina If the child is to go on that school field trip, the parent MUST sign the waver or the child doesn't go. PERIOD. I've signed enough of them to know this. As for forcing teachers to out the kids, no one is even asking for this. Everyone at the school already knows. They want those teachers to also tell their parents. It's not that big a deal for little Johnny that his classmate might want to change his name from Bob to Barbie but it's HUGE for the parents. Parents are ultimately responsible for their child's well being, no one else and to withhold evidence is preventing parents from doing their job.
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  9917.  @evertvdb000  But this video or the comment isn't ABOUT MTG. It's about Harris. If you have to defend Harris by attacking others, who aren't even in the conversation, then you have an extremely weak case and an extremely weak candidate for president. You should be able to defend Harris on her grounds, not by trying to drag someone else down to her level. If you do that, you've admitted that Harris is a poor candidate. However, I'm sure that can't even understand what I mean by that.
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  9918.  @evertvdb000  You're absolutely right. You do have the first amendment right to talk about MGT. I never said that you didn't. I said that you have a weak argument if that's how you're defending Harris. However, like I also said, it's likely that you don't even understand what I mean by that. You just proved me right. Time for me to move on. It's too tedious to talk to someone who can't even understand the simplest of ideas.
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  9919. Abortion was NEVER a Constitutional right. All the Supreme Court did was give abortion laws back to the states, where it belonged. If the death penalty is the decision of the state, which is the decision to take an adult human life, then by their logic, the much lesser act of ending the existence of a clump of cells is a no-brainer responsibility of the state. In fact, it's a ridiculous stance to say that Trump wants to control abortion rights federally, when he gave away that power to the individual states. It's completely illogical.
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  9920. ​ @seth7745  It's all about their "white" guilt for white progressives. They've created a culture in which all oppressors are bad and the oppressed are good. It's why they hate white skinned people, calling them colonisers and bigots. It's why they hate Israel, or Asians who do well economically. They call Asians "white adjacent". If you succeed, you're guilty. Listen to the weird progressive in this video. He's castigating whites and white progressive are all sitting there, nodding their heads, to the "truth" of what he's saying. What's happening in Africa has very little to do with the attitude of white progressives in Europe and North America. This is happening in Scotland and the white progressive are crying about "white supremacy". I'm SURE that you've heard that moniker before. We're talking about the attitudes in Europe NOT Africa which has their own issues with bigotry.....see Rwanda in the 90s.
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  9921.  Bob Smith  You have "humour" issues, don't you.
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  9922.  Filip Martin  I have never seen this. That's incredible. It's like eating one tiny lead paint chip and then saying that he's shown how harmless lead paint actually is. That was incredible.
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  9923. He is NW, then. Not the police. He has the right to call the police and then he should of listened when he was told not to follow. No one knows what happened after, except that TV is dead and GZ is left to tell the story. Why believe him? GZ created the situation which led to the death. He should not have followed. The police would have arrived. TV is either gone or they find that he's up to no good or he's out for a walk. GZ has done his job as NW as did the police. No one dead.
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  9924.  @frogfinance4605  Not always. It takes strength to know when it is appropriate to apologize. Weak people cling to mistaken beliefs and abhorrent actions even when all evidence is against them. If I screw up, and I have, I'll first admit to myself. Once I'm honest with myself, I'll be honest with others. Saying "I wish that I hadn't done that" is an apology, even if I only say it to myself. If I can't say what I think, then I'm not only being dishonest, I'm being cowardly and cowardice is a weakness. However, don't apologise because it's demanded of you. That's being weak. Only do it if you're genuinely sorry. Being genuine isn't a weakness.
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  9925.  @LadieKadie  That's good. Why fully trust any politician? Instead, support those who enact policies that are good for the community. If Abbot says we need laws to prevent squatters, that's a good thing. Don't say that you don't trust Abbot and then reject anything that he proposes to fix the problem. You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The Democrats are never going to fix it. Your only choice is Abbot if you live in Texas.
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  9926. How hypocritical of Medhi Hasan. He supports Palestinians while not understanding or pretending that he doesn't know that the Mufti of Jerusalem met with Hitler and made a deal that would see Hitler help him solve the "Jewish problem" in Palestine. Hasan is supporting the Palestinian cause that would have enlisted Nazi help in their quest to rid the Levant of the Jews. We ALL know how the Nazis dealt with Jews.
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  9927. And......Jim Acosta replies. NO.....We don't want to address the issues that the American people care about. We want to flog this dead horse. If we did what's best for the US, Trump will get the credit and we DON'T want that. So, we'd rather hold the country to a standstill than allow Trump to get any accolades at all. If it means another 10 million illegal immigrants, so be it. Who cares about the deplorables of middle America and the inner city? I got my cushy job.
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  9928.  @Patrickf5087  I didn't know about that building on the military base. I'll look into it. However, I fully agree that Google is also part of that establishment. Google, who owns YouTube, have been all about suppressing "misinformation". Having that building on a military base sure would indicate a link between the elites in government and Google. It would also explain the overt campaign against Trump in the last election. Trump wasn't fitting into the elite club at all. It's too bad, in some ways, that Trump had such a coarse way of presenting himself. I have no problem with it but I worked construction and as a bartender and I'm accustomed to those ways and understand it. It horrifies the suburban housewife, though and the academic snobs. LOL. That does hurt him in an election. I'm not about to get into the indications of election fraud. That's an issue that's just too hot to handle.
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  9929.  @perihelion7798  As an ordinary guy, it sometimes seems as if there's not a lot that I can do. However, what I feel I can do, in my small way, is to do 2 things. /First.....stay informed. That means listening to ALL the information that's offered and not the stuff I like. I can't refute something that I don't know about so it's important to know what they're thinking, saying and doing. Nothing they hate more than facts but it will sway the guy who sits in the centre.....like I used to. Second.....vote. Vote local. This may be the most important of them all. The leftist Marxists are infiltrating our municipal governments and our schools. We have to take back our cities. The biggest reason for the BLM riots is that the left is controlling big city politics and they set the policies that allowed for the conditions to blow up. It has to stop. Vote state for the same reason. There was a lot of chicanery going on in the last Federal election. We have to make the politicians feel that it's in their own best interest to ensure election integrity by voting against ANYONE that isn't firm on secure elections. Vote federal. Know who your candidates are and hold them to account. Vote Federal for the obvious reasons. The establishment hates it when the people stand up for themselves. You can see it by the reaction to the angry parents at school board meetings. Domestic terrorists...indeed. They just want them to go away so they can go on with their socialist agendas. That's what this is all about so....don't go away. The main thing is to insist that our representatives live up to the standards set by the Constitution. If they don't, let them know that they're putting their political career in real jeopardy. It seems simplistic but once the people stand up for themselves, the establishment is in real trouble...and they know it.
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  9930.  @perihelion7798  It might work for the indigenous but they don't carry a lot of weight as far as economics and power goes. They can still control them because they're so small. However, I doubt they're going to allow the rest of us to form our own autonomous zones. Like you've already implied, they own the military. The foot soldiers may not be aware of it but that's who's giving them their orders. They're already going through their private social media to see if they're supporting the right people and if they're not, they have dismissed some of them. It would be great if the constitutional zones worked but I'm afraid that it might be the tool that they want to finally take full power over the country. In fact, it might well what they've been working towards. That's why the school board fiasco is such a help to stop the authoritarians. Suddenly, the average person is actually running into that brick wall called the establishment. That a soccer mom could be labelled a domestic terrorist, because she doesn't like the sexually graphic material in her kid's school library, has to be opening a few eyes. This is the type of thing that will defeat them. Most people don't know the depth of what is happening to our institutions. They're busy trying to make a living and it all sounds a little crazy to them....until they run into it first hand. It won't be easy and it will frustrating but it's the best way to reverse the coarse and not destroy the country, completely. At least, that's my opinion, anyway. All I do know is that Civil war is a destroyer and the results might take decades or longer to fix....if ever.
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  9931.  @perihelion7798  The left got this way because of the infiltration of socialists into every facet of society, starting at the universities. This started in the 30s. The socialists, in the universities took the socialist students under their wings and slowly placed them into positions where they could indoctrinate the next generation. First it was the schools that were the priority. Then the media and local governments. After that it was into human resources departments and the bureaucrats in governments. They did it all under the radar, cultivating a mindset that would put their ideology under a positive light. They've had a huge head start. We have to start doing the same thing except show the positives of being a free human being. Actually using science and facts, again, instead of the Orwellian science of the left. It's not going to be easy, like I said but we have to start taking part in the community, especially our schools. I'm 70 years old and had you told me in 1975 that our own citizens would be cheering on Marxism, I would have laughed at you. That's how insidious their program is. Assuming that the last election was honest(?), 70 million Americans voted for Trump. You'd have been lucky to get 2 million people to vote for a this version of the Democrats back in '75. We can turn it around but we have to believe in ourselves and in our system. It's not the left that will defeat us. It's us and we'd better start realising it, soon.
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  9932.  @plinpain  There's so much that I could say about your comment. If I was more scholarly, I could write a book on the subject. However, I'd say the simplest way to look at truth is to assume that I really don't have a clue what the truth is. I can have indications and those indications can lead me to the truth but to declare that we can the correct answers, on complex issues, is delusional and extremely narcissistic. After a couple of generations of telling kids that they're special, we have an adult population that's positive that they are just that. If you're special, how could you be wrong, on ANYTHING. Knowing that you can be wrong is the only path to any semblance of truth. Too bad most haven't been taught that.
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  9933.  @plinpain  It's been almost 50 years since I've seen any of that stuff. LOL.
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  9934. The left WANTS the productivity to crash. It's how they're remaking the country and eventually the world. Make JUST enough to survive on and no more. If you try to manufacture any more, the superfluous that we wish for but don't need, that will add to the climate crisis. We'll become a nation, a world, that is always living on the edge of poverty, waiting for that natural disaster that will kill us. One hurricane, one ice storm, one drought away from disaster. It's necessary, according to the left, to save the planet. Sri Lanka is a prime example. They went green and the country is now going through pure hell. Empty shelves, food shortages and over 100% inflation. Is the left, in the west, looking at this and rethinking how they approach climate change? Not a chance. The Netherlands has enacted the same green policies and it appears that Trudeau is about to do the same thing in Canada. If people go hungry and starve or freeze in the winter, that's the price that we, the ordinary citizen, has to pay to have a planet.
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  9935.  @BigDsGaming2022  So if 94% of all union contributions go to one party, the Democrats, who do you think that the Democrats are going to cater to? The unions that donate to the Republicans? It's a quid pro quo. The minute that 94% start contributing to the GOP, the Democrats will no longer cater to those unions and conversely, if the Democrats start supporting legislating against unions.....goodbye union support. It's so logical, your head shouldn't be hurting at all...unless you don't like admitting that, nationwide, Democrats and Teachers unions are in bed together. That's got to hurt.
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  9936. Now all the black folk in that county are going to get Covid. Is this some kind of Democrat county, black, de-population plan?
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  9937.  @toyguy1956  Sign it right way to prove that it's yours. That's what I was responding to. To complete that transaction, demand the receipt and attach it to the ticket. Write the name of the store, location and time of purchase onto the receipt. If you win, memorise all pertinent information and only present the receipt if asked when collecting your prize. Do this especially if you buy the ticket at an outlet that you've never used before, like out of town. Be ready for them.
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  9938. 5 million unplanned immigrants Illegally crossed, the Mexican border, since Biden came into office. Every one of them needs a place to live. That means that they'll need at least 2 million extra homes to be built but won't because the skilled labour needed isn't near the numbers necessary to do the job. What does that mean? It means that home prices and rents go up. It's how the economy works.....almost a law of nature. The more people chasing fewer products, increases the value of those products, in this case real estate. Add to that the insane building regulations and you end up deep sixing the American dream. It's inevitable.
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  9939.  @katydid2877  The people that move around, have decent jobs. If you're at the lower end of the economic scale, you can't afford to move around all the time. You're stuck where you are. 2 months rent, in advance is already a hurdle, most of the economically deprived, can't clear. The homes are for sale, yes but they're being bought by those who made good choices.....not the ones who studied dance theory and flipping burgers at a fast food joint. What good is it to the poor, that the well off are buying homes at their leisure. It's a two tier system and it's was brought on by extremely poor political decisions and the growth of a bureaucracy that's out of control. There are building codes that cover everything. There in books so thick that you can hardly carry them and they add to the cost of home building. Also, do you really think that the 5 million illegals, most as poor as they come, are buying and renting all those homes? They get put up for awhile....MAYBE....but they generally end up living in the lowest of possible places to dwell. They're not moving into the new housing developments.
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  9940. Call the police. They'll arrest them and they'll be out tomorrow for revenge. Call the police again and they'll be out the following day with a contingent of their friends chanting slogans, making threats and finally looting and setting fires. Yeah.....let's open a business in downtown Seattle. The people in that city are a bunch of knobs.
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  9941. Well, of course it was. Eventually the crazies have to sit down and shutup.
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  9942.  @gotnatas  She may not be a genuine psychopath but she's definitely deep into a psychotic ideology. She's certainly using the radical left tactics of never letting the opposition speak. A clear demonstration of how the ill-mannered left behaves.
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  9943.  @rainyvideos3684  First you get the soldiers into the classrooms. When it's all accepted as normal, THEN you put in soldiers that ARE interested in that. This is an idea that is ripe for state infiltration and corruption. This is FAR beyond the scope of government unless you want the state to run everything.
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  9944.  @rainyvideos3684  That's exactly where our universities were at 30 years ago. The Marxist, progressive woke instructors were few. However, when those instructors retired and left campus, the new recruits were Marxist and progressive and look at it now. This is an academia that's obsessed with the new ideology. Men can get pregnant and if you disagree you're vilified. Your comment is extremely naive and short sighted. You're willing to accept it now even if it leads to disaster in the future. "Wear the Star of David. How can that hurt you?" Bad things, quite often, start our innocuous and harmless. People don't even notice until it's too late.
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  9945.  @Austin1990  Austin.....I think that those who fought with security and broke into the Capitol building were nothing but criminals and no better than the BLM and Antifa thugs, who burned, looted and attacked people for their cause. However, I still believe that we should look into election practices and even perform audits when needed. I think that this is reasonable for those on both sides. Arrests have been made for ballot harvesting, including one, Rachel Rodrigues, who was exposed by Project Veritas and is now facing charges. And yes, the election audits should be done to appease voters. If the process shows no wrong doing.....great. However, if there was wrong doing, let's work on the election process to ensure that it never happens again. Only an audit will show problems and that's the only real way to know how to fix those problems if they do show up.
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  9946.  @ekay9783  You don't like hearing from a black academic? Why is that? Dr. Allen seems quite articulate and knowledgeable on the topic. His ancestors were slaves. Not like Kamala, whose ancestors were slave owners. You're not calling Dr. Allen a liar, are you? I think we should give Kamala a platform. How else are we going to find out whether she's competent or not? This speech showed me that she spouts Democrat propaganda. She doesn't want us to know about the true legacy of Democrats and slavery. They don't even have the humanity to apologise for their overt role in maintaining slavery.
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  9947.  H Smith  They never said that he'd be locked up by now if he wasn't the president. What they said and Mueller said, was that they went into the investigation with the idea that a sitting president could NOT be prosecuted. That's a subtle difference that people do not want to understand or admit to. I have repeatedly asked people to show me exactly how he obstructed justice. I have yet to hear or see any definitive evidence given. The closest they've come is conspiracy to obstruct justice and even that would be difficult to prove in court. In fact, Trump allowed the release of over 1 million documents, allowed hundreds of witnesses to testify and never, ONCE, used executive privilege to stop any testimony or block any document to not be examined by the Mueller team. More than that, why is it that impeachment proceedings haven't been brought up a long time ago. Adam Schiff has stated that he has definitive proof of Russian collusion.....proof that he's never given that I've ever heard. So, my challenge to you is for you to reference actual proof that show obstruction. The proof that these prosecutors have that would prompt them to write that Trump would be in jail if he wasn't president. You see, until that is done, until he is prosecuted in a court of law, Trump is innocent.....innocent until proven guilty. According to you, that should happen in 2020 or 2024. What are you going to say, then, if it doesn't happen.
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  9948. irishque halim You've ignored my entire comment and the obvious fact that if the Jews converted to Islam, the problem would be solved. This isn't about race or ethnicity or whether Palestinians have a greater right to the region. It's about Islam and another religion or secular group that isn't Islam, controlling the area. It's why every Islamic country supports the Palestinians. The Palestinians are Muslims. If they stopped being Muslim, they would withdraw their support. Muslims see the area as Muslim land. Others can live there but they must submit to the authority of Islam and the Jews will never do that. As long as Islam is NOT the authority in the region that is now called Israel, there well be unrest and violence and the Palestinian issue will remain unresolved.
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  9949. irishque halim The entire population of Gaza is Muslim at 98 percent of the population with no Jews present. The religious affiliation of the Israeli population as of 2011 was 75.4% Jewish, 16.9% Muslim, 2.1% Christian, and 1.7% Druze. The population of the West Bank is 80–85% Muslim (mostly Sunni) and 12–14% Jewish. The remainder are Christian (mostly Greek Orthodox) and others. I'm going to assume that the entirety or darn close to the entirety of the Jewish population will not be identified as Palestinian by the Muslim Palestinians. I doubt any one identifying himself as a Jew would feel safe living in Gaza. The Palestinians that do not identify as Jews or Muslims are a very small segment of the population and I would think that their loyalties are divided on this issue. Therefore, it is almost an exclusive issue about Muslims not wanting Jews in the Levant. Not all Muslims. That's too general a statement but the PLO was a Muslim organisation and so is Hamas. They recognise Islam as their driving force and is central to their constitution. They have been the organisations at the forefront fighting the state of Israel and they strongly identify as Muslims and maintain the Islam is the very core of their struggle. It is all about Islam. If all Jews would submit to the authority or Islam, problem solved. No more fighting in the Levant. Islam does not compel one to become a Muslim but they do insist that one submits to its authority. The Jews will never do that so the Palestinian Muslims will continue to fight them.
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  9950. irishque halim Now you're appealing to emotion. Not a thing of substance. One fallacy after another. If you're going to discuss a topic, use some logic and facts. Discuss the matter as a mature adult.
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  9951. All those Americans, that refuse to watch FOX news, will never hear word ONE of what is being revealed by the Durham probe. I know people that still think that the Hunter laptop story is bogus and it's only because they're stuck in a MSM bubble.
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  9952.  @mekanator108  Hollywood is just FILLED with them....right? LOL.
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  9953.  @debbie0598  No problem. I just deleted mine, too.
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  9954. The US government is being run by those with mental disorders and the minds of children. I'd say this video reflected that perfectly.
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  9955. In the area in which I live, there is only ONE active case. ONLY ONE. I have my doubts I'm going to run into this guy. Yet, our town council has just mandated we wear a mask indoors in public places. We live in a world of fear porn. In 5 months, only 1% of the population of the US has had the virus. If we don't get a vaccine, EVER, a possibility, it will take 25 years to reach the 70% herd immunity platform. I will live the rest of my life wearing a mask. So what about next year's flu season? Do we wear a mask for that too? Do we practise social distancing because ONE death is too many? I don't want to live my life this way. I don't want to treat others like social lepers. I don't want to live in fear of EVERYONE till I die. I want to live my life.
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  9956.  @nandy1256  Matt Gaetz??? So if I don't like Gaetz, I must automatically dislike DeSantis? Is that where this is going? It's rather juvenile if it is.
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  9957.  Alan Downunder  So, it doesn't matter about the issues. Is that what you're saying? It's all about strength and power? That's rather tyrannical of you. I like to consider the issues when I vote.
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  9958. Has Juan not heard about all the rioting, burning buildings, looting and physical violence that has accompanied a lot of the protests? Someone should tell him. He needs to know....especially if he's going to do news commentary.
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  9959.  @mikew764  One whistleblower, who disguised his voice because he didn't want people to know who he was, dragged a sitting president from office. They called him "Deep Throat" and that president was Richard Nixon. The reporters didn't know who he was yet they investigated it anyway and it was found to be true and became one of the biggest stories of corruption in American history. Now we have the Hunter laptop, various whistleblowers, around 150 suspicious bank transactions and MORE and the media would have us believe that it's not worth investigating. At least check the stuff out. It took 2 YEARS for the media to admit that the laptop story was true. Now they're trying to downplay how the FBI and the CIA tried to suppress that story even thought the emails are there and have been presented in Congress. It's STILL not enough. When you don't want to believe, you'll never believe it no matter how much the evidence. It's like talking to Ken Ham, the creationist. No matter what evidence is presented, he dismisses it.
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  9960.  @Ytho100  She destroyed Harris in 2020 primaries. Knocked her right out of the running. Tulsi was the number one search on Google for a week later. What did the Democrats do? They didn't invite her to the next primary debate, essentially killing her bid to run for the presidency. They did the same to Bernie Sanders....TWICE. Tulsi saw the inner workings of the party and started to point them out and that put her on the outs with the party. The Democrats are no different than they were over 100 years ago, where they fought to keep slavery, dehumanised black Americans with the Jim Crow laws. It's still about race except it's emotional manipulation now. Why do you think they picked Harris? She's weak and easily manipulated through her ambitions. They're still manipulating the black vote by offering a black candidate who will do as they bid. It's all the same mindset. It's dehumanisation. "You're racist. You're transphobic. You're a homophobe, Islamophobe, xenophobe, misogynist". "You're a Nazi, white supremacist, have white privilege" anything to dehumanise you, make you disgusting in the eyes of the voting public. They are exactly what they were in 1865. They've just changed the identities of those that they hate.
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  9961. I didn't know about any of this stuff until the laptop story broke and it was immediately squashed. The very next day the media was flogging the story that it was Russian disinformation to help Trump. That was quite the investigation. You couldn't even share the NY Post article on social media. There are people that didn't even hear about it until AFTER the 2020 election. It wasn't 5 years. It was a little over 2 years and the Democrats have been running interference for Biden ever since.
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  9962. I don't see any point in dwelling on the mistakes of the past. I'd rather make plans on what I'm going to do in the future. I can't change the past but I can change the future. I always have extra supplies on hand. Not prepper, years of stuff type of supplies, but enough to last at least 4 to 6 weeks. When it looked as if this COULD be serious, the first week of February or so, I started to buy extra stuff every time I went shopping. Not bags and bags of it, but a couple of cans of beans, a couple bags of pasta or rice, cans of soup and tomatoes, dried soup mix and other sundries. Just 5 or 6 items extra every time I was at the store. Didn't take long and my larder had plenty, enough to last well into a 3rd month. Now, all I do is replace what I've eaten or used. No panic buying, no fighting in the stores, no worrying, because I've prepared myself and I took it seriously enough to see the possibility of a crisis. That's what a doer does. The complainer whines about the past, blames others, waits until the last minute and then is in a panic because he/she is doing what they've always done. NOTHING......and then they gaze into the past to look for someone to blame and complain about. They don't realise that their attitude is the problem, not politicians, whether they be liberals or conservatives, but their own shortsightedness. I can't imagine being in a panic over toilet paper. It's the dumbest thing that I've heard.....yet it's real and the ones in a panic are supposed to be adults.
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  9963.  @bluemax92  Who CARES what Trump said? WHITMER PUT COVID PATIENTS IN NURSING HOMES!!!!! Are you seriously saying that because Trump said something stupid, Whitmer is now off the hook for a policy that killed hundreds, maybe THOUSANDS, of lives.? Man, I guess political loyalty means more to you than the deaths seniors in nursing homes. What twisted priorities you have.
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  9964. One side asking that people show respect and the other refusing. I don't know about most people but if I behave in a disrespectful manner, my mother would give it to me....and good. This is something you're supposed to learn as a child.
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  9965. It wasn't just twitter. Facebook wouldn't allow that NY Post article either and neither would YouTube. In fact, the writer of that article has written a book about that laptop. If it was a fake story, you'd think that there'd be lawsuits. I've not even word one about any lawsuit against the Post or the writer, Miranda Devine. The laptop is real. If you look deeper, you'll have to admit that it's true. Even the NY Times is now referring to the laptop as if it does exist. If Nick Sandman could sue the Washington Post and CNN and get a settlement for a fraudulent story, this would be a cakewalk for a litigant if it wasn't true.
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  9966. Illegal immigration is a main cause of high housing costs. Too many people looking for housing that doesn't exist. It's Economics 101. Too many people looking for too few housing. You don't need a tax funded study to understand that.
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  9967.  @krustymadrid4953  The trial hasn't started yet. That means that the judge hasn't even been able to direct ANYTHING, good or bad.
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  9968.  @stephend4909  I didn't SAY that this wasn't political. I said that it's the prosecutor that brings this to trial. Google "how is a person indicted". You will see that a judge only comes into play after there is an indictment by the prosecutor. After the indictment, a judge will be selected. Each district has a system to select judges, usually based on a rotation. The judge takes on a case when their turn is up. Google "How are judges assigned cases in the US". The trial hasn't started yet. The judge is NOT selected until the prosecutor has indicted and is ready for trial. This trial should be about the prosecutor. We have no idea, YET, what and how the judge will behave because the trial hasn't started yet.
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  9969.  @krustymadrid4953  The original comment did NOT have the word "future" in it. It said "This trial will be about the judge, not the accused." I copied and pasted it. YOU added the word "Future", changing the entire meaning of the comment. Sneaky and dishonest.
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  9970.  @ConvictedFelonTrump8647  Of course. The party of 2A, the gun toting conservatives, had a 3 hour revolution where NO ONE brought their guns. No right wing militias, no chain of command, they break into the building, wander about, take selfies and then they go HOME. Really, REALLY scary. No other place in the entire country saw those MAGA riots or insurrectionists, only at the Capitol building in Washington. It was nothing like the BLM riots. That was nation wide, in over 100 cities. People were murdered, thousands had to go to hospitals to have injuries treated, Billions of dollars in damages, insurance companies were refusing to pay for those damages. People lost their homes, businesses and their jobs and do you know where the worst of the damages happened. In the black communities that the rioters said that they were protecting by people who openly said that they wanted to tear the country down and said that they HATED America. So don't give me this BS about ONE FRIGGEN DAY. These revolutionaries are targeting the entire country and they've spent YEARS rioting and destroying almost every major city in the country. Look at the "student" protesters who were just arrested. Over half of them aren't students. They are there on behalf of their agenda. "Death to America" and using the war in Gaza as their excuse to do just that. You're either one of them or you're as naive as it gets.
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  9971.  @paulxx11  I've seen the pictures of Hunter and the crack pipe. I'll bet you have too. My question is....why wouldn't the FBI take ALL the electronics? That's what they should have done. I'm thinking that there may be lies on both parts. However, he may not want to release the evidence until the right time. If he's correct, then he wouldn't want tip his hand to those that might be guilty so they don't have all kinds of time to know the exact evidence and find ways to counter it. That's basic lawyering.
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  9972.  @tpc3062  How did they know that it was Hunter's hard drive? I can't tell what's on a hard drive just by looking at it. How could they know? Maybe the stuff the Giuliani wanted to keep hidden, the stuff that could get him in trouble, is on those hard drives and he bluffed them into not taking them. It makes no sense.
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  9973.  @1133saginaw  No.....Hunter left it at a repair shop. If, after numerous times of contacting Hunter, it isn't picked up, it eventually becomes the property of the repair shop in lieu of payment. Also, if there is evidence of illegal activity on that hard drive, it's the responsibility, of the repair shop, to report it, which he obviously did because we all know about it and we've all seen the pictures of Hunter and the crack pipe. There's more to this than we know.
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  9974.  @jrprogrammer  I doubt it. The repair shop owner has the receipt that shows that Hunter Biden left a hard drive at his shop. Hunter's signature is on that receipt. Then the repair shop owner gave the hard drive to Giuliani and he will swear to it and identify that hard drive as the one that he gave to him. That's a chain of command. That, plus the data on the hard drive, will validate the authenticity of the receipt and the claims of the repair shop owner. No matter how you slice it, if the proper investigation is done and this is all legit, there will be no problem with the chain of custody.
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  9975. @Farm Jedi For sure.....that makes no sense. That's my point. Why wouldn't they take All the electronics, as stated on the warrant, and why would they take Giuliani's word that this was Hunter's laptop. Also, why wouldn't they take it before Giuliani questioned them on it? It's as if they knew beforehand that the hard drives were not to be taken and what to look out for. That's a few unanswered questions. I'm sure there are a lot more.
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  9976. @Farm Jedi Something is really off. It's hard to figure out what's exactly going on but the US is in big trouble. What's unfortunate is that too many Americans are too vested in their hatred of Trump to even consider that something could be wrong. I'm not a big Trump fan but I won't let emotion control my ability to reason logically. There's something seriously wrong, in the US, and it's coming from the left and it's finding it's way into the Democrat party and the media. When the media is screaming about white supremacy while the left is rioting, looting and burning down cities (notice it's the poorer minority neighbourhoods) you can be sure that there's an agenda there.
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  9977.  @daisysfield5456  Already the NY Times, Wapo and NBC had to make retractions concerning this story. Also, why isn't the media telling us that this part of the laptop is a lie? That Giuliani is lying about the laptop is something that you've concocted, from no evidence, because you don't like Giuliani or the implications of what it might mean if the story is true. And it hasn't been years. The story came out last summer about the laptop being found. Ever since last summer, most of big tech has been censoring this article from the New York Post so no one could even talk about it, especially Facebook and Twitter. Imagine censoring the story about Nixon and Watergate. That would've been an outrage and rightfully so. This NY Post article, about the laptop, comes out and within days the story is being suppressed by big tech oligarchs. No real curiosity, no intrepid journalist trying to find out the truth of the matter. They all just ignored it. Also there were more than just the crack pipe. There were also pictures of underage girls on the laptop. Hunter was living the life of an addict, something that he admitted to on national television. Then he lied on a firearms form about BEING an addict and then the gun that he bought, illegally, was disposed of in a public dumpster, another illegal act. Are you starting to get the picture? Of the two, Giuliani is the more believable, by far....unless you're that dogmatically vested that you wouldn't believe it no matter what.
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  9978.  @un-conventional_itchiban-164  I noticed that in San Francisco. The left has created the most beautiful homeless cities. They were so proud of it that when I took some pictures, they came out to talk to me about it. Talk loudly. They seemed to be quite agitated. The left creates....LOL. If complaining is creating, then you'd be correct.
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  9979. Someone should explain to "The HILL" that the truth is not bias. Bias is when you know the truth and try to hide or manipulate it. When you call looting and property destruction, protests, you're hiding facts. You are displaying bias.
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  9980. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov. 22:6.) It seems that the radical left is using Biblical axioms to support their agenda. Who would have thought that.
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  9981.  @spencerchudyk3390  Maybe he should have asked why there has been poor people in all of human history. Why the overwhelming majority of people were dirt poor, for thousands of years. It's that old conundrum. Why aren't things perfect? If only things could always be EXACTLY as we want them to be. When you look and expect perfection, you're going to be disappointed....very disappointed. The poorest American, right now, has access to better health care than royalty did 200 years ago. As imperfect as the American health system, royalty of those times couldn't even begin to get the kind of medical attention that the poor, of America, get today. In 1935, Americans were living on bread lines and in shanty towns. Poverty didn't just exist, it was the norm for most Americans.....in fact around the world. My parents grew up without electricity or running water as did everyone of their neighbours, in the 20s and 30s. Did he really expect that within 25, every person in America would be affluent? The rise in the standard of living, in Canada and the United States, after the war, was the biggest gain in life styles, for the common man, in human history, up to that point. Some people only dwell on the failures and refuse to see the successes. My parents, the same people without electricity or running water, in 1945, without a nickel in their pocket and not a square inch of property, managed to buy and pay off a small farm by 1967. My dad raised cash crops during the day, worked as a labourer, in a shoe factory, from 4:30 in the afternoon till 1:00 the next morning, 5 days a week. On weekends, he would play in local pubs and dance halls, as a musician. He worked his butt off and now he's in his nineties and has had a great retirement. Why? Because the capitalist system allowed him the opportunity to make something of himself. He didn't cry that "Joe" down the road had more than him. He put his head down and went for it. Now, he's got young folk, that are wailing that he's got white privilege and that he should share the wealth. They refuse to see that he worked 60 to 80 hours a week to find his success. They're too lazy and feel entitled to what he had to work so hard for. So spare me the negative platitudes about capitalism. When I hear that negativity, I hear the ramblings of one that doesn't want to do what has to be done, that has no pride or self esteem. If you want it bad enough, in America, it's there for you if you're willing to sacrifice and work hard for it. If you wait for the state to do it for you, for that's what socialism is, you'll wait a lifetime.
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  9982.  @spencerchudyk3390  It was capitalism that built the US in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. It was international socialism that slowly destroyed it ever since. Then came the free trade deals and the beginnings of the world economy, a sort of international socialism. Suddenly, the rule of law, that governed the capitalist system here, no longer applied. Any autocratic country, which exploited workers, and they did, was allowed to dump their products in our country, wiping out our manufacturing facilities. Countries that allowed child labour, near slave labour with no labour laws, environmental standards or quality control requirements popped up all over the 3rd world. Workers, locked up in sweat shops with suicide nets around the buildings, allowed us to buy cheap products and those products filled our stores and we happily and greedily allowed it. Unscrupulous nations, some even communist like China, cajoled and bribed multinational executives, lobbyists and our state bureaucrats, to encourage them to shut down factories here and rebuild them in their nations, promising cheap labour and non-existent manufacturing standards. Our oligarchs grabbed that cash with both hands. It's not Capitalism that eroded the middle class. It's the exploitation of the elites, who circumvented the rule of law, an implicit requirement of capitalism, that did it. The elites were forced to follow the rule of law, in this country, so they went elsewhere, where it no longer was an essential part of the system. That's not capitalism at all. Capitalism requires a free market, FREE being the operative word. A free market system has one basic requirement. It requires that all within that system be free and that means a rule of law that is equally applied. When you allow child labour and lock workers in the place of employment, you're not applying the rule of law and freedom is thrown into the waste basket. You may think the it's capitalism that did it, but it was actually the cooperation of state and the multinationals that did it, an evolved form of Fascism.
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  9983.  @codipherus66  That's because we believe in the sanctity of the individual. You lefties want to run roughshod over the individual, in order to appease the masses. The "democracy" of the mob. What we don't like is that there are now males who are taking advantage of the plight of the .0001% and their history and using it to join girls teams, taking away their chances for a scholarship. But there are people that don't care for those individual girls. All they care about is ideology and how it makes them look virtuous. I will always put the rights of an individual citizen over an outraged mob. It's the mob that arms itself with pitchforks and lynches individuals for being different. I won't support that mentality, in reality or metaphorically.
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  9984.  @codipherus66  Really. Why don't you explain yourself? My comment stated my belief in the individual rights of those girls who are being cheated by an ideology. Now you're trying to tell that I just contradicted myself but you don't explain how. Every time I engage people like you that's the way it is. They find all kinds of ways to say that I'm wrong but they never give any kind of explanation on why they believe as they do. You're no different. Your next comment will, more than likely, be another wordy way of saying "you're wrong". Let's here some rational thought on it.
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  9985.  @codipherus66  Of course won't engage me. Apparently, you have nothing to engage me with. That's why you only engage in short comments. There's no analysis or thought and I've seen this type of engagement countless times, from people, just like you, who when challenged, find creative ways to not discuss what they mean or even what it is they're talking about. Are you really so lacking in confidence in what you're saying that you refuse to talk about it? What a weak position it must be.
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  9986. Tim.....this guy did nothing wrong. It's not those who showed their support for this cop, and his message, that are stupid, but those who wanted him fired for expressing his opinion and frustration at the demands that are being made of police officers. They are the stupid people that are putting the rest of us in this position of having to take a stand. A STAND, TIM. Something that you rail on about almost everyday. You call people feckless for not taking a stand and then call them STUPID for drawing the line here. You're not making any sense.
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  9987.  Gavin Coleman  So, you'd prefer we go back to the nuclear testing and missiles flying over S. Korea and Japan and setting off air raid sirens. Yes, Kim has not treated his people well but if the American government kept up their old policies, all those murders of innocent Koreans would continue for certain. This is an opening, some kind of hope that they may finally have a future without a devastating war......but you just want things to go on as they have for the last 60 years. The people of North Korea thank you for your desire to take away any hope for a better future.
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  9988. Radical Socialism is at the heart of this insanity. If you vote for left wing politicians, you're voting for this to continue and YOU are part of the problem. The radical socialists have infiltrated all our institutions, all the things that you've mentioned. It's the fault of the average citizen. They've convinced us that we need them to survive and used democracy against us. Benjamin Franklin once said "When the voters realise that they can vote money for themselves, that will be the end of our Republic". You can extend that axiom to any western country that values freedom but can't understand the dangers of unfettered democracy. It's why a strong constitution is imperative.
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  9989.  @squidmissile750  My best friend lost his sister to a guy speeding. Too bad that there wasn't a police officer there BEFORE that jerk killed that poor woman. Alas, they can't be everywhere, at once. A co-worker watched a drunk go the wrong way on a major highway and hit a car head on, killing both passengers. Another time when a police officer could have made a difference but again......they CANNOT be everywhere. You see, being on patrol can save lives. Besides, people get their panties all balled up when there's too strong a police presence in schools. I'm not sure why but they do.
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  9990.  @squidmissile750  Actually, the drunk driving incident happened at around 9 in the morning. The drunk driver was heading home after a long night of drinking. Classes start at 8:30 in our town. My co-worker got off work at 7 that morning, went for breakfast and was heading home. He managed to dodge the drunk, who was coming right at him and watched the accident in his rear view mirror. As if no one ever speeds, drives recklessly or drunk during school hours. Give your head a shake.
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  9991. The Green war effort. Yeah.....that's gonna happen.
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  9992.  @zacchariaturnbull5322  Science??? Is that how we're able to communicate, almost instantaneously? Sounds like pretty cool stuff. I'm sure that we will find alternate technologies. However, will that bring other problems? Also, are we going to destroy ourselves is some big rush to get away from fossil fuels before the new techs are even in place. The "Stop Oil Now" advocates seem to be pushing us hard in that direction and it could lead to famine, disease, starvation, war and deaths the like of which we've never experienced in our history. We could destroy ourselves before we have a chance to develop these new techs. I'm Canadian and our Prime Minister has been all in to destroy our oil economy. Germany tried to do the same and now they're in trouble due to the war and are building more coal facilities to make up for the lack of fossil fuels and the dismantling of their nuclear plants.....which brings us to another issue. Are these rabid environmentalists going to try and stop the new techs out of fear and their desire to enact a radical socialist world government? We're allowing politics to get in the way of innovations as well. Example. Here, in Canada, we must sell any energy we can produce, with home solar panels, to our local electric company. Going off grid turns into a bureaucratic nightmare. Will they do the same with other techs? I have a feeling that they will.
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  9993. I thought that the California Democrats hated the rich and would welcome their Exodus. I know they like the poor. All you have to do is look at their policies that encourage the influx of the poor and homeless and their overt policy that invites illegals or "economic migrants" to their state. I thought that's what they wanted. It surely seems to be working that way.
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  9994.  @chinadollfmd  Another one who seems to think that numbers are relevant in civil rights. It doesn't matter if 90% are vaccinated. What matters is whether our rights are being violated. A majority cannot impose their will on the minority. Our Charter of Rights give power to the individual, not to the mob or the popular or accepted ideas. The tyranny of the mob is still tyranny. The fact that they might lose their trucks and they're willing to risk it all for their principles, says everything about their character. That you appear to be gloating about their destruction says everything about your lack of character.
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  9995.  @AUMINER1  They did just that with the Covid vaccines. Trump put into motion an expedited road for FDA approval. The Democrats and their media laughed and jeered at his claim, that it could be done in less than a year, and then swore up and down that it would be too dangerous and that they'd never take a "Trump" vaccine. That rather implies that anyone taking it must be a "Trumpster" and a fool. Now, they want to force everyone to get the vaccine, not just once or even twice but THREE times. Now the one's NOT getting the vaccine is the fool and maybe even a criminal. SMH.
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  9996.  @brainlet99  You'd be throwing good money after bad. They've haven't been able to make money in the WNBA or other women's team sports. Golf and tennis are the exceptions. Even men's leagues have trouble making money. There's no way a "trans" league can pay for itself.
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  9997.  @olrikparlez3152  So, you don't care if the MSM lies to you. You don't care about the truth. You'd rather bow to the cognitive bias that the MSM spews out than vett what they tell you. In fact, you'd rather do that than even SEE that I included Fox in that vetting process. NO WAY. You're all about the tribe. My side vs yours. You realise that when the MSM lies about something, they're lying to YOU. They have that little respect for you and you take it. Once again. IT'S NOT ABOUT FOX NEWS OR CNN OR MSNBC OR THE WASHINGTON POST. Can you get that??? It's about the truth and you find that on your own and you never, EVER, allow any one person tell you what the truth is, blindly and without question. The truth doesn't take sides. It stands alone. When you get that.....when the average person gets that, maybe the divide in the country will end. As long as we have people like you, yammering away about how Fox or CNN or whoever, are liars and evil, the United States will be in a mess. The truth....that's what's important. Nothing else.
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  9998.  @Huntnlady7  They use emotional blackmail to get you to accept their edicts, too, just like you would a child. "Be good or Santa Claus won't come". Now it's "You must do this or you'll be a super spreader. You'll be responsible for the deaths of the vulnerable". Never mind that I'm ONE of the vulnerable...but like I said. I'm not smart enough to make those decisions for myself. I need the political parent to tell me what and how to think and live.
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  9999. Being safe has always meant that I don't get seriously physically hurt or die. No one has EVER talked me to death and no speech has cut me or broke my bones. I don't care about what you say. I care about what you do. That girl is a liar. The students will protest people that they don't like and force any cancellation of events that might challenge their belief system. If you're triggered by my calling her a liar....too bad. Time to grow up.
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  10000. This shows just what the Democrats and Rinos think of the average American.
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  10001.  @SeraphsWitness  And I just gave a long winded reply which basically says that if you're willing to admit that you're doing wrong, in your country, then you're not being hypocritical. It's those who are doing wrong and then deflecting by pointing at someone else that's refusing to even TRY to take the mote out of their own eye. They're trying to solve another country's problems and they can't or refuse to see the problems in their own backyard. If they refuse to acknowledge and fix their own problems, who are they to bark at someone else. Although I'm not conflating the 2, hate speech laws are quite enslaving too. It makes us slaves to the state, telling us what we can't say or write. China's slavery may be worse but hate speech is a type of slavery too.
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  10002. "LIFE IS HARD" Did you hear that, Democrats? Life is hard. The minute a person realises that, that's the minute he's starting to understand that he has to work hard to make life easier. Money doesn't do that. Funding doesn't. Even good attendance won't. Hard work is the answer.
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  10003. @Kenneth Borders The reason that we don't speak German is because a coalition of nations, from the west AND the Soviet Union, resisted their expansionist agenda. Had it just been the Soviet Union against Germany, Germany would have beaten them. The fact is that Germany couldn't fight a war on 2 fronts. That's why they lost. The west made a pact with the devil named Joseph Stalin. Since you're so proud of your Antifa organisation, maybe you should consider this fact. The East Germans called the "Berlin Wall" the " Antifaschistischer Schutzwall". The direct translation to English is "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart". Your "heroes" would shoot people trying to leave East Germany because they believed that West Germany was Fascist. Imagine an Antifascist Utopia where you have to shoot people to force them to stay in that Utopia. You should be proud.....LOL. (that's extreme sarcasm).
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  10004.  @mrmines2000  Maybe you can't bring the law to hold them accountable but those news stations should be grilled on their rhetoric at every possible opportunity. Make them face the truth and embarrass them for their support of violence by these criminals. They're lying by omission and gas-lighting the public and we should ALL be telling them how much we don't appreciate being lied to. We should warn them if they keep it up, we'll start boycotting their major advertisers and telling those companies why we're doing it. That's holding them accountable, as well.
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  10005. CNN is printing the propaganda of a Fascist government that is holding over one million Muslims in permanent "reeducation camps"....a fancy name for concentration camps and a synonym for labor camps.
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  10006. In a relationship, when I feel I have to edit every statement I make in my head before saying it to prevent a possible misconstruing of my meaning, it's time to reconsider the relationship. If she still finds offence, in spite of my belief that there's no way possible to find offence with what I've said, I'm outta there. Believe me....when someone wants to find offence, they'll find it. Now, I'm forced to play this game at my job as well. What a world we're creating for ourselves.
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  10007. The one thing that Tim is missing is that when Floyd was getting out of his car, he was already claiming he couldn't breath. He said that he was claustrophobic and that getting in the back of the cop car would increase his inability to breath. This was LONG before Chauvin was on the scene. The cop, that was talking to him at the time, assured Floyd that he would lower the window a bit and turn on the AC so he would be alright. This entire thing was politically charged. Saint Floyd is NOT a saint. He just a guy who'd been a screw-up all his life and was making the same bad decisions that he'd been making all his life. It's sad and I feel bad for him but he was the architect of his own demise.
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  10008. He CAN do that or he actually DID it? If he did, let's have an example.
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  10009. I worked in a paper mill for years. These elitist whiners don't know loud until they've done 12 hour shifts for 7 days straight, on continental shifts, in a paper mill. Spare me the crying.
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  10010. What's he doing to halt truancy and juvenile crime? He's having hearings. Hearings discourage crime. Everyone know that.
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  10011.  @bathhatingcat8626  We don't have to compare. Censorship is against the Constitution. Period. This isn't about anything else. Should they be allowed to control speech...yes or no. The rest is just noise.
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  10012. The next step in cancel culture will be the mob showing up at your home and if you resist, you're arrested. Eventually, the mob won't have to show up. They'll just tell the authorities that you're a problem, and you'll be arrested, in the middle of the night and you disappear. Sounds like fiction.....right? Or is it?
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  10013. If you're 30 years old and refusing to look for work, you're lazy. Plain and simple. Also, the left wants the economy to fail so they can't bring about their socialist Utopia.
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  10014.  @NotLeftarded1  They're the ones who don't trust the science. They'll trust it when they find the results that they want and then they stop. They've found the science that they want to hear and don't ANYONE question it......but that's not science. Science demands continuous scrutiny. They say "Trust the science" but it only applies to their vision of what science is.
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  10015.  Tim Foster  Blame China for actually doing those experiments and then not taking the precautions to ensure safety for the rest of the world. Fauci allowed money to go there but China was doing that research whether he sent money or not. China has to accept the brunt of the criticism with Fauci and the NIH being criticised as accomplices.
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  10016.  Tim Foster  Gain of function was outlawed in the US. However, China was going to do it anyway. So, certain American agents, sent money to China, in the hopes of staying in the loop, a loop that disappeared the moment something went wrong. China, the country that puts minorities into concentration camps by the millions, who oppress the religious and are arresting anyone in Hong Kong that advocate staying independent, and you think that they would NEVER engage in gain of function research if it wasn't for American money or support? The research in Wuhan was NOT the brainchild of the US. It's ALL China and the US was trying to benefit from their work by sending money. The US, including Fauci, are complicit but this was a Chinese project.
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  10017. I always thought the "N" word was a product of the southern accent. It's not "Old Yellow". It's "Old Yeller". Same as in the book, "Huckleberry Finn". Huck didn't call the woman that took him in, the "Widow Douglas". He called her the "Widder Douglas". "Fellow" is "feller" in the south. I figured it out when I was a kid. The "N" word is how the southern accent says Negro, the Spanish word that means black. It morphed into a pejorative because of the way the northerners see those living in the south, and viewed the southern accent as proof of the southern, uneducated, hillbilly existence. It's grew out of bigotry in many more ways than what we realise, the bigotry of the north towards southerners being one of those ways.
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  10018. Listen to that CNN jerk lie. Trump has never been anti-immigrant. He's against uncontrolled immigration and people illegally crossing the border. Ask the mayors of New York and Chicago, both Democrats, what they think of the open border policy. That man is a flat out liar.
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  10019.  Mark Bailey  "You're stupid" How old are you, anyway?
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  10020.  @lightandlove3067  The residential schools were instituted, in Canada, in the 1800s. Queen Elizabeth wasn't even born yet. She didn't become Queen till 1952 and Canada was no longer under the rule of the Queen or Britain. The Queen was a figurehead but she had no power. Also, the schools were not a genocidal phenomena. It was far from perfect, a terrible experience for a lot of children, but it wasn't a program of genocide. If genocide was the goal, why didn't they just send in soldiers and kill them all off before they even took them to the schools? The schools were already starting to be phased out and 20 years after Elizabeth was crowned, they were almost all gone, with the very last school closed in the mid 80s. In other words, the residential schools ENDED during her reign and even that's irrelevant because she had nothing to do with the start of them or how they ended. It was a unfortunate time in history but to use it promote your own hate accomplishes nothing but MORE hate and MORE strife.
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  10021.  @thomashovgaard3134  Not true by these statistics. There were 68-70 strikes all through the 4 years of Trump. The previous 4 years, under Obama, there were over 130 drone strikes. Look here and count them up yourself. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lb1hEYJ_omI8lSe33izwS2a2lbiygs0hTp2Al_Kz5KQ/edit#gid=492674230
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  10022.  @littlebob6962  LOL. Why wouldn't anyone talk to her? Are they afraid of what she might say? What's really silly is how the "crowd" hid behind a food drive to advance their protest. They sure had all the platitudes on their signs but didn't seem to be able to expand on them. I'll bet that you've never even been to any of her presentations.
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  10023. Unimportant things like state and civil rights, is that what you're talking about?
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  10024.  @npcwill283  That's right. Kids don't understand the world. That's why adults shouldn't be taking advantage of their lack of knowledge for their own carnal pleasures. You'd think that it would be self evident but apparently not if you're that selfish to insist that you deserve to use them in a sexual manner.
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  10025. Suggesting that Covid leaked out of a lab and it was covered up by the Chinese government was racist but to claim that it was caused by the propensity of the average Chinese citizen who bought and ate bats and rats and puppy dog tails at a live market.....that's just fine. It's almost as if they thought that the "racist" world would buy that trope about the good people of China. It's getting to the point to where we have to throw the word "racist" out with the trash. It has no meaning and has become a weapon to be used against the masses.
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  10026.  @thegloriousryius  There will always be inequity. The only thing that communism does is create a small ruling class and a huge working class, a working class that has no escape and will always be equitably poor. It's a Utopian dream of heaven on earth which cannot happen
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  10027. When push comes to shove, most "moderate" Muslims will back the radical wing of Islam. They have no choice. They can't ignore what the Koran, the Hadiths and their Omans tell them without becoming known as apostates. France, Britain, the Netherlands and others invited them in. It would be as if the European leaders had invited the Nazis to come live in their countries back in the 1930s. The Islamists will defeat us from within.
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  10028. I always get the message. The Democrats are weird and I'm not voting for weirdos. Every time Tim puts their message out, I dig deeper into my resolve not to vote for them.
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  10029.  @highroller-jq3ix  Troll. Why do you hate women?
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  10030. That's why the progressive activists chased Riley Gaines into a locked room, threatened her, wouldn't allow her to leave and told her that she had to pay to be let out. She was in there for 3 hours, all because those progressives weren't being stupid, small, close minded and cruel like Dave Rubin. (sarcasm) No nuance, no educational discussions.....just violently reactionary and all because Riley doesn't think that it's fair that men, can claim to be women, and then compete in women's sports. You complain about someone saying things that you don't like but if you say anything against progressive ideas, you can be physically attacked, lose your job and even have your kids taken away from you if you don't sign a consent form for trans surgery on your child. Where's the nuance in that? Go to your local university and wear a sign saying "Men can't get pregnant" as a social experiment. Then you'll see who the cruel ones really are.
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  10031. I have to add that Levine, as Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania, took her 95 year old mother out of an nursing home and put her up in a hotel and then announced, the following day, that sick Covid patients would be put into nursing and senior citizen facilities. Covid patients to be housed with the most vulnerable people in society....the elderly. THAT'S why he's being treated with such disdain. There's nothing good about the man. Elderly people died because of that decision and he gets a promotion. Being called a freak is being nice and far better than he deserves.
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  10032. The mental gymnastics that the left are exhibiting to justify trans men in women's sports is worthy of Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
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  10033. They really don't want green energy, either. They want a return to a state of naturalism, to become the noble savage, living off the land but not touching it. It's a heaven that's been created and exists between their ears.
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  10034. If the Washington Post is counting, I don't believe it. They will count mistakes as lies. I'm not saying that Trump is always truthful but neither is WaPo. They flat out lied about the Covington kids. No matter how many conspiracy theories Trump throws out, none compare to the boondoggle that cost the American taxpayers 35 million plus dollars. That was a doosey that is still unproven after spending all that time and money. Politicians lie. I'm amazed that you're surprised at that. This has been well known for years. Nice to see that you're starting to catch up.
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  10035. He only tried to kill him a little bit. Come on...man!!
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  10036. Climate change activists: Polar bears will extinct because of melting sea ice. Susan Crockford: Polar bear numbers have actually gone up since the sea ice receded. Climate change activists: What horrible news!!!! We NEED them to die. What's going wrong?
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  10037.  @RadagastBrown420  I have a love/hate relationship with Trump, as well. He can be very bombastic, says what he thinks when maybe discretion would be a better course but he did a good job as president. No new wars, peace deals in the Middle East, reduced the flow of immigrants coming over the southern border, great ideas on education......but he made mistakes with covid but just about every politician in the world did that. If I'm to be honest, there's not a person on the planet that I agree with on everything. I understand that and live with it in that I will listen to anyone and accept what they say and do on the merits of that action and NOT due to some innate hate that I feel. And I don't, EVER, have every conversation lead back to Trump. He's just not that important to me.
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  10038. It's good to see that he hasn't lost the ability to think and convey ideas. So glad that he's coming back.
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  10039. They'll become his own private army. Gang bosses need their henchmen.
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  10040. This is a "Lord of the Flies" event. Kids, left to their own devices, behaving like kids. They'll destroy the very island that they live on. No idea or care for the consequences of their actions.
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  10041.  @writerpaperback6284  Joe Biden isn't in the WH yet.
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  10042.  @wheniwasyourage4418  I'm giving to believe that you don't even know any Republicans, happy, sad or otherwise. I watched a video, the other day, about people entering a stadium for a Trump rally. Across the street were a large group of protesters. They were screaming profanities and insults continuously, especially at any American of Africa descent, who was going to listen to Trump speak. Not ONE person, going into the Trump rally, paid them any mind. They just talked to one another and ignored the blue in the face, screaming protesters. Finally, a media commentator went over to the protesters to talk with them. That didn't go well. They didn't want to talk to her. They snubbed her, walked away and emoted snide remarks in her direction. Finally, an African American protester started to talk to her. He was adamant that those Trumpsters were racist and that he would be physically and verbally attacked if he went into the stadium. She talked him into going over and talking to some of those waiting in line. He told them that he wouldn't be safe inside that stadium and every one of them assured him that he'd have no problem, including some African Americans, who told him that this wasn't their first Trump rally. People hugged him, shook his hand, invited him in as their personal guest but there was NO way he was going in. He finally went back across the street with the media person and he was in for a shock. He was yelled at, insulted and jeered and finally someone poured a drink over him and the girl with the mike. They treated him FAR worse than any Trump supporter did. So, who do you think would be the happier? The ones that smiled, shook your hand, hugged you and extended a personal invitation....OR......the ones that insulted, made jeering remarks and poured a drink over you? Like I said....you don't know any Republicans. You've a narrative and that narrative tells you what to think.
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  10043.  @celestemi4341  If those people in the street are slaves, they wouldn't be i the streets, night after night. They'd be hunted down, shot, hung, put in chains and confined to their work stations. They have the freedom to be in the streets. You're not even close to grasping the real slavery that is being discussed in this comment thread.
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  10044. The left believe in good and evil. They're good and virtuous and the rest of us are evil.
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  10045.  @palaceofwisdom9448  Every union shop that I worked in, screwed me and I was a union employee. Unions are a haven for the lazy and incompetent.
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  10046.  @DavidUSA2525  It's a fitting analogy. They're crying about a white basketball player only because she's white. That's racist. Instead of endlessly complaining about others, maybe they SHOULD take a moment to honour those who died in battle.......but they can't do that. There's not an ounce of gratitude in that whole group. It's all complaints. Multi-millionaires whinging about nothing.
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  10047. I understand it perfectly. It's called HATE. It's so blind, so pervasive, that any discussion involving common sense, sends them into a rage of bewildering contradictions and irrelevance. They don't care about facts or truth. They just hate and it's all that counts.
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  10048. Isn't lynching against the law already? I didn't realise that I can get rid of my annoying neighbour by lynching him. I'd best get that done before the law won't allow it anymore.
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  10049.  Celtic Snow  He's had so much to do. He's started it though. No more "critical white theory" in Federal agencies. If he wins the election, no more "race is the deciding factor" crap. It's a process, not a 2 hour movie. It takes time.
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  10050. Hakeem Jeffries says, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that DOGE is stealing taxpayer money. Since when is an audit stealing? Also, I thought that the cost of living was great. I've heard this claim from all kinds of Democrats and their "pundits". Is he saying, AGAIN WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that inflation has suddenly become unbearable in the 2 1/2 weeks since Trump became president? That's quite the turnaround.
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  10051.  @613harbinger316  They know how to get power. They just don't know what to do once they get it.
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  10052.  @BigMac4459  That's all well and good until they hold a gun to your head and demand that you play their game. That's what happened to Winston Smith in 1984. They tied a cage of rats to his face until he played the game by their rules. Right now, universities are forcing students to play their games by their rules. Conservative students are having a metaphorical gun held to their heads, in the form of physical assault, shaming and the threat of lower grades. Go along with their games or suffer the consequences. This type of bullying will expand unless we put a stop to it. I'm not a big fan of Trump but he's the strongest candidate available to fight off the intimidation of the left.
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  10053.  @odenpetersen6028  Winston and Julia did't object to the shared truth of their society. They, at least Winston, objected to the truth that was imposed on them. Obey those imposed truths or else. They would impose those truths, force them under threat or even torture, until the appearance of shared truth manifested itself. That's why the 2 plus 2 equals 5 scene was introduced. It was saying, in no uncertain terms, that there is no such thing as objective truth in that society. The truth was what the ruling Party said it was. That's not shared truth at all. Everyone appeared to go along with this "shared" truth because to state any different carried consequences. You may share a piece of bread with me of your own free will. That's shared bread. If I take half that bread, under threat of force, it's no longer sharing. It's theft. Big Brother and the Party in that book were stealing reality from their citizens and dressing it up as sharing. It's not. It's truth under duress. That's not truth, shared or otherwise.
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  10054.  @odenpetersen6028  Actually, I'm not sure that we can ever share a truth. Empirical truth is demonstrable and is fact, no matter who is assessing that fact. I have 2 tomatoes on my fridge. That's an empirical fact or truth. This isn't open to opinion and a group of individuals can never, correctly, share a truth that says there are 3 tomatoes on my fridge. It's not a truth to say it and it's demonstrably false. Coban uses this politically sensitive issue because it has become so contentious. Gender has always been expressed in 2 ways. Male and female. DNA has confirmed that this is consistently true. A male ALWAYS has a y chromosome. Even those with the rare xxy chromosome are seen as male due to the y chromosome present. If one takes and tests the piece of skin for gender, it will always show that it will be purely xx or xy with a rare extra x thrown in. That's empirical data, yet to say that it is an empirical truth, that would be deemed heretical. One has either male, with a y chromosome or female, without the y chromosome. There is no variation. To say that this is the truth puts you exactly where Winston found himself, trying to defend the empirical 2 plus 2 equals 4. That's not to say that people don't have gender dysphoria. I know for a fact that they do. However to ignore certain facts about gender, limits discussion and study into how and why it exists in the first place. The academic has the metaphorical cage of rats tied to his face to force him to discard the heresy of this truth and forced to adopt the new "shared" truth. Young children are undergoing radical treatment due to an acceptance of the idea of relative truth. I fear for these children because the stages of growth and sexual development in humans has been in place for millions of years. This could end quite badly in the future and it's all due to an acceptance that truth is fluid and empirical truth doesn't exist as fact. 2 plus 2 does equal 5 in this realm....but does it really. Are we really going to deny the evolutionary reality of human growth over an ideological vision of what is truth? I'm not sure that this is such a good idea and it would seem that Copan feels the same.
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  10055.  @BigMac4459  At this time, they're not suppressing each other. You even said that the conservatives aren't expressing ideas out of fear. That's not a problem for the left. They are free to say as they wish. No conservative is going to tell them they are not to do that. It wouldn't fare will for them, in a college atmosphere, if they tried. The left will not accept any dissenting views. That has been consistently so over the last few years and it's becoming more and more entrenched. There are things that cannot be expressed in most schools and everyone of those ideas are conservative ideas.
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  10056.  @BigMac4459  I'm not sure what you mean by calling freedom an infectious ailment. It sounds rather negative to me. I'm astounded at the idea that anyone would prefer not to be free and to have their lives and ideas dictated to them by others. What an appalling idea. I like the idea of choice and I'd like that choice to be mine, not imposed from above by some authoritarian tyrant.
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  10057.  @odenpetersen6028  When a man can give birth to a child, that's when he can truthfully claim that he's a woman. His experience doesn't allow that transformation, simply because all the womanly experience in the world will still have him sitting on the outside of womanhood looking in. He will never menstruate, never give birth and never suckle a child at his breast. That is the life experiences he will never have. That is what having the xy chromosome will deprive him of, no matter how hard he wishes it wasn't so. He stands no chance of ever being what he feels he is. These are the elements of womanhood that will forever elude him. That is THE truth.....and this very fact is now being suppressed as bigoted. Truth doesn't know bigotry. It just is. 2 plus 2 does NOT equal 5, even if it said under duress.
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  10058.  @odenpetersen6028  First, I don't decide the standards set for womanhood. That's decided by nature and science. I have no say over it. That standard has been observed and accepted for thousands of years.....tens of thousands of years. 10 short years of ideological babble isn't going to change that. Second, I do not base my opinions of people on their ability to procreate. You're putting words in my mouth and making assumptions, based on a bigotry that says that if I disagree with you, I must be a contemptible person. An ad hominem attack will not change the facts of nature. There is an argument that I can make that will make the proper definition of a woman or a man. I've already discussed it. It's in their DNA. It's in the DNA of all higher life, of every mammalian species. The rest is metaphysical meandering on meaning and subjective feelings. That will not change a person's DNA and will never allow a man to give birth or ever hope to. On the farm, when I needed a cow, I checked the genitals. It told me all I needed to know. It's a law of science. I didn't engage in some discussion of subjective bovine truth. I knew what I had and what I wanted. Once again.....2 plus 2 does NOT equal 5 even under duress and even when subjected to ad hominem attacks.
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  10059.  @odenpetersen6028  The laws of biology DO care about womanhood. It's in the DNA. That's genetics. The differences between a man and a woman or male and female is at the very heart of reproductive biology. Without it, we wouldn't exist. Every person ever born came from the womb of a woman. Every unborn child, in the womb, was impregnated from the sperm of a man. Two distinct genders, different within the species but still the same species, joined together to make their progeny. Nature has never devised another way for humans to procreate. It needs a man and a woman. That's biology. Everything else is an exercise in philosophy and does not change that truth.
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  10060.  @silvergriffin2585  Yes he did and then he wrote and released "Animal Farm" in 1940. It was an allegorical novel, reflecting the rise of Communism, the October Revolution and into the Stalinist era. It was immediately banned in the United "SOCIALIST" Soviet Republics. It is STILL banned in China and Cuba. Then in '48, he wrote "1984". This novel spent a great deal of time on Newspeak, that language of Oceania that restricted speech which was used to control the masses. Guess who's doing that right now. It's NOT Prager U. Leftist Universities are even publishing a list of words and phrases which should not be used in the schools. Restricting what people can say so as to control their ability to think and reason or question the accepted ideology. Orwell started out as a Socialist but after great reflection, he began to see the flaws in the ideology and he was quite effective at pointing it out. When I read those 2 novels, it was quite apparent that this was not very flattering towards socialism. Strange that an guy who calls himself Anarchist Moose would support a style of governance that is all about control of the people and the economy. You'd think an anarchist would be resist that kind of control with his entire being. It's seems so contradictory.
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  10061.  @silvergriffin2585  I will admit that I did assume that you were a socialist and the reason that I did was because I've heard that same claim that Orwell was a Socialist, before and it was always from strident socialists. While I agree that there shouldn't be corporate bailouts, there are a lot of conservatives in the US that agree with you. It was Obama, the Democrat and a firm socialist, that bailed out the banks and General Motors and Bush, who said that he was a conservative but wasn't. It was also Obama that bailed out certain banks and Wall St. due to the unethical practices of many of the lending institutions. Canadian banks came out unscathed due to regulations that outlawed the wild west practises that was characteristic of American banking. Trump is bailing out farmers who are suffering because of the trade war with China. He's bankrolling it with the funds raised by tariffs and he feels that the farmers shouldn't be the casualties of a trade war meant to force China to stop it's unfair trading practises. These are unusual circumstances and those bailouts have their merits. Now, I'm not saying that I agree with those bailouts but they helped more than the rich. Thousands upon thousands of blue collar workers kept well paying jobs due those bailouts and lots of peripheral businesses remained open due to the money that these auto workers were able to spend on a daily basis. The bailouts weren't just about the rich. I know people that benefited from the bailouts and they were ordinary line workers. I was a bartender and these guys were my customers because they were still working and could afford the beer and my tips. So I even benefited from the bailouts.
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  10062.  @silvergriffin2585  I'm not a fan of Obama. He also ushered in a whole new wave of racial tensions that didn't exist when he took office. He had the position to lend his considerable weight to bring some sanity to the riots in all those cities and he allowed it to happen. Democrats refuse to call him on it. When he bailed out all those corporations, I suspected, at the time, that it was a ploy for the government to gain control over those companies. I'm still not sure whether it was or not. As for the health insurance, that was a populist move that backfired. Almost 2/3 of the American taxpayers received a tax cut and that's according to the Tax policy centre, a non-partisan group. However, it's hidden in the way the taxes are reported so a lot of Americans don't see it in their tax refunds. They're of the belief that they get a larger refund when in reality they were getting less taken out of the pay cheque in payroll deductions. David Pakman complained that he felt guilty that he paid less taxes last year than the year before. https://time.com/5570679/trump-tax-cuts/
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  10063.  @odenpetersen6028  Womanhood, as an idea, is subjective. Being a woman, as being a scientific fact is objective. Your idea of womanhood can change and it may not be the same as it was 10 years ago or 10 years before that. Truth can't be subjective or fluid. It can't be one thing today and another tomorrow. That's irrational. 2 plus 2 must always equal 4.
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  10064.  @odenpetersen6028  However, is "are trans women real women" a problem of semantics? What if that is at the very heart of the problem that causes a high suicide rate? That statement alone differentiates them from "real" women. They'll never feel what a woman feels during menstruation or deal with the unique issues that a "real" woman deals with at that time of the month. They'll never experience an orgasm the way a "real" woman experiences it. She'll never feel what it is to be pregnant, to feel the dread for their future while waiting for the pregnancy test to give its results or the joy of seeing the result that one is wishing for. Never feel a baby's kick in their stomach, never endure the pain of child birth or the closeness of holding that baby to her breast to feed. How many "real" women are devastated when they find out that they are unable to have their own children, yet a trans woman KNOWS that this will never be a consideration for them....never feel the devastation or loss when realising their own sterility. They may feel like a woman, dress like one, talk like one, detach body parts and add new ones, but that basic aspect of female identification will never be reached. Gender is the primary force behind human survival, not just human but for all advanced life. Without that primal need that each gender has, we will die off as a species. It's a path to biological extinction if those primal urges and needs aren't met and is a major element of human psychology. Yet.....we are not to speak of it. We're not to explore the psychological aspects of it. It's easier to lay blame and a lot more satisfying to reach a conclusion of moral superiority when we can point to those who we deem to be at fault for the complexities of that issue. The devil is in the details and you're saying that we can't point out that specific devil or detail.
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  10065.  @mnguardianfan7128  The prosecution must have consulted with the Deutsche Bank, the business that was alleged victim of the fraud, then. The bank did show up at his sentencing trial. It seems that the loan, in question, was quite acceptable to the bank and they even said that they'd do business with Trump again. My sister was a real estate appraiser for 30 plus years. The banks were one of her major employers. A person would put up property as collateral for a personal or business loan, claiming that their property was worth X amount of dollars. The bank would contact my sister to appraise the property in question, at the borrower's expense and she would submit an official appraisal which is bound by strict guidelines. If the borrower's claim of X value of his property is too high, they don't call the police. They tell the borrower what the property is actually worth and they either reject the loan application or reduce the amount allowed based on that property value. Once again, they do NOT call the police. My sister has been stopped on the street by irate borrowers who angrily claim that she undervalued the property and that her assessment is ruining their lives. However, she has no choice. There is a formula in deciding the value of real estate and she could lose her licence if she didn't follow the assessment rules. If you have money in a bank that would allow a loan, without following protocols, get that money out right now, if possible. Your money isn't safe there and you're risking another situation like the one in 2008. Giving out loans without any real knowledge of the value of collateral is piss poor banking. This is entirely bogus and is politically motivated.
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  10066. How are you going to solve a problem when you don't know why a problem is occurring?
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  10067. If there's that much evidence WHY isn't anyone being indicted?
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  10068.  @girletherial  I'm not saying that Mueller didn't say that he wouldn't indict a sitting president, but I didn't see it. Show me exactly, in the report, where it says that. Colbert's monologue mean nothing. It's his interpretation of the report. I want to see the exact spot, in the Mueller report, where he states that Trump will be indicted when he's no longer the president.
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  10069. If you want to invoke Godwin's law, how about this. The Democrats pushed and pushed against a specific group of people and when they finally pushed back, the Democrats have the excuse to take away our rights in the name of national security. If this ends in laws that do take away our rights so we can never criticise the government again, is this not comparable to Hitler squelching all opposition? Would that not be Godwin's Law in action?
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  10070.  @nelsonperez5289  Of course people make judgements. You just judged me. When you vote you make a judgement. I'll bet you'd agree that Hitler was a terrible man or maybe you think he's misunderstood. Whatever you think, you've judged him. How can one discern right from wrong without making judgements? What I'm saying is that you shouldn't pre-judge. That you don't judge a person based on the colour of their skin, their gender....etc, before you get to know the person well enough to know what they're really like. We ALL judge. It should be informed judgements, not a "he's a Democrat therefore he's a crook" type of judgement.
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  10071.  @nelsonperez5289  Of course you judge when you vote. You judge the candidate on their beliefs, their past record, their character on whether they're honest or dishonest, whether they can be trusted. You get all the information that you can and you judge on that. That judgement will decide whether he's a good candidate or not. I can judge someone to be an excellent choice. You seem to think that judging someone means that you've judged them negatively. A judgement can also be good if done correctly. If someone tells me that Bob is bad, I don't take his word for it. I get to know the guy and I judge him on his merits and faults. If his merits outweigh his faults, I judge him to be a good guy. You don't pre-judge. That's bigotry. I won't vote for him because he's black or German or gay because being those things mean that you're a bad person. That's a poor basis to judge anyone.
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  10072.  @nelsonperez5289  You just judged me again. You just implied that you're strong and that I'm weak. that you're better than me. You say you don't judge but that's not true at all.
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  10073.  @fwscfemalewhiteseniorcitiz3711  It depends on what's going on. I've gone to week long Christian encampments, years ago, and the kids had a great time. Also, if you took the time to go to any live feed of the protest, there's really not much going on that kids shouldn't be exposed to. People are outgoing, smiling, extremely helpful to one another and there are even events aimed specifically for children. It seems to me that people are just trying, desperately, to find issue with this protest, from Trudeau's whacky racists and "phobia" statements, to "I can't sleep" to a newscaster complaining about a plinko game. It's all ridiculous. If you disagree with their message, just say so and give reasons. The attempts at vilification reeks of desperation. They can't come up with a good reason to continue with the mandates so they just smear people. It's just so tiring.
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  10074.  @carlfrye1566  I compared his "2 plus 2 equals 5" as his version of "men can get pregnant". It feeds the claim that there's no such thing as a basic truth. it's all a social construct. They couldn't use Orwell's examples. That would have been too obvious, so they invented their own nonsensical claim. Different but in the same vien.
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  10075. I don't know if he's a Trump supporter or not. He was asking questions that we all would like answers for even if those answers are just a formality. One of the biggest complaints anti-wall folk have is how come Mexico isn't paying for the wall. The implication being is that they have no problem with the wall but they don't want to pay for it.....and that's a lie. So he asks the question of a guy who will give a perspective that the left and MSM will NEVER give you or allow to be heard. Nothing wrong with that.
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  10076.  @steroidbaggins2936  LOL. That's funny stuff, right there. How about I call Pierre is "alleged" father. That's gotta work for you.
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  10077.  @northernguy8860  He sits like a "people".
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  10078. In Canada, in the sixties, a French separatist group, calling themselves the FLQ, operated in the same manner. They were divided into 5 man cells, with only one of them knowing a member of another cell. They were all fighting for the same cause but they only associated, outside their cell, through one person. That person would be in contact with 2 or 3 cells, who's contact member would be in contact with 2 or 3 other cells, to form a network, which could be called together in an emergency. This was how the October Crisis played out in 1970. The FLQ were known for mailbox bombs and the movement climaxed with the October Crisis in which they kidnapped 2 politicians, one British, and murdering the other one. The arrest of 16 of them, who were involvement directly or peripherally, in the kidnappings and murder, ended the activities of the FLQ. As a matter of interest, the FLQ was also Marxist in nature. Some of them, when arrested, wanted to be allowed to go to Cuba and they went.
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  10079.  @talldavid30  Shows what you know about American history and how the government is organised. They have the electoral college for a reason. It's the same reason that the US broke away from Great Britain. Taxation without representation. Why would the people of Alaska, Montana or North Dakota stay in the Union if the big cities always have their people in power and they NEVER have a say. Regional representation through a democratic process, is at the very heart of the country. So....Trump was elected by the process that was put in place by the founding fathers, who did it for a reason.
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  10080. Look at the American southern border. It's the biggest migration in human history and the American power brokers are doing it for a reason. It's to Balkanize the US and then pit Americans against each other. That's why identity politics is so important to them. If they can create hatred and division, they'll be able to say that they must do something to bring peace. That's when Americans will gladly acquiesce to whatever solution their government will offer them. Americans will enslave themselves and be grateful for it, just like most Canadians are doing now. Canada is just one step ahead of them. The next election, in both our countries, will show us if we allow it to go on, or whether we both allow our countries to become totally authoritarian.
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  10081. Name one. People like to call him a liar but you have to beg them for specifics. So name ONE lie in this video.
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  10082. You can't charge someone with treason for being incompetent. We can impeach and we should but be bad at something is not illegal. It's grounds for dismissal and we have to dismiss Biden yesterday.
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  10083.  @agresseur7184  Where did I say "political differences"? I never said that. I said he should be impeached for incompetence. I don't think that this would be that difficult to prove. When Trump was president, the Democrats insisted that Trump was incompetent and that he should undergo a cognitive test. Had he failed, that would have been grounds for impeachment and rightly so. So Trump took the test and he passed with flying colours. Yet, we haven't seen a cognitive test for Biden, who shows every sign of dementia due to old age. Is it because the Democrats don't want to see a test that would prove that he's not competent to do the most important job on the planet? If Biden was a manager at MacDonald's they'd have dismissed him a long time ago because he's just not able to do the job any longer and it wouldn't be for political reasons. I would think that we'd ALL want the president of the most powerful country in the world, to be able to pass a cognitive test, to prove his competence.
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  10084. And here I always thought that the government should keep their greedy, grubby hands off our hard earned wages.
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  10085.  @andrewsinkinson2785  It's not about being conservative or liberal. It's about integrity. When you lie, like they did about Russian collusion or they call their opponents Nazis and Hitlers, they've lost all credibility. I don't care about a person's political leanings. I will recheck to see if the pundits facts are accurate. If it's not, I will call it out. I call out NBC hosts way too much. It's like with the Covington kids. They ran with their story, yet it took me, a guy who lives in a basement apartment, in another country, 20 minutes to find the evidence that this wasn't true at all. NBC and others, with all the resources that they have at their disposal couldn't find it? Not a chance. They knew and chose to lie. The truth will set you free. Lies are a trap and they're going to have to chew their legs off to get out of the trap that they've built for themselves.
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  10086.  @troutman-sw9qc  The Federal Government created the Dept. of Education. Are you saying that this same government can't investigate what they've created? What law is that? The most ridiculous thing that I've heard in a while. It would be like Coca Cola not being allowed to look into its own shipping department. Their money comes from Coca Cola. Of course they can find out if it's being wasted or not. Just like the Federal Government funds the Department of Education. Of course they can find out what they're getting for that money. You're either as dense as they come or you're a foreign agent trying to cause division in the country.
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  10087. @ The Federal Government created the Department of Education in 1979. That's only 46 years ago. Now, the Federal Government wants to see what the Dept. is doing, the department that they created and who they fund. How is that against the law?
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  10088.  @shyman99  I'm NOT an American. Get that myopic, one eyed head out of your Yankee.......
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  10089.  @CarolABlack-ic1hs  Thanks Carol but it was easy. Low hanging fruit.
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  10090. I'm thinking that she will be. That's the oath that she'll be taking. It won't be an oath to Ginsburg. She can still be mindful of Ginsburg but that doesn't mean she has to agree with every ruling that Ginsburg ever made.
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  10091. Imminent domain is necessary in the huge projects that give us our highways, railroads, airports and the like. Without it, we'd never be able to take on the big projects that sustain a viable economy. It's not a policy in place so a PRIVATE developer can take your property so he can make a fortune. Imminent domain should only be enacted in the most extreme of cases. This case here smells of cronyism.
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  10092.  @MakKo-me3st  You're correct. It's best to leave them on the street. That's what I'd want done with any family member who was suffering from mental illness. I'd be outraged to see them in a warm clean bed with good nutritious food, getting medical care and drug rehab. How DARE they!!!!! FREEDOM!!!!
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  10093.  @theworld6710  Explain WHY it's a terrible idea and then offer up what WOULD be an effective way to help them recover from mental illness and drug addiction. Until you do that, his idea is WAY better than yours.
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  10094.  @theworld6710  You haven't explained WHY it's ridiculous. Repeating the same thing over and over isn't evidence of why an idea has no merit. You have to back it up. One thing is evidently ridiculous. Allowing what's going on, in those cities, with NO plan to help them, solves nothing. It doesn't help the homeless, the crime that inevitably comes, or the average citizen who has to navigate the tragedy on those streets. Doing nothing is WORSE than his proposal and that's all that you're offering. If I throw a plastic straw on the street, I could be charged. These unfortunates aren't just spreading garbage everywhere, they're openly defecating and urinating everywhere. There are discarded needles everywhere, car windows are smashed, stores looted, ordinary people are threatened, businesses are closing and you, just like EVERY politician in those cities have absolutely NOTHING to alleviate the problem. You guys are the problem....more so than those on streets. All you do is criticise those who offer solutions and then sit on your hands and do *NOTHING*.
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  10095.  @marrisacoleman8509  Typical. I ask and no one explains. They just sit back, smug as can be, and imply that they KNOW but they aren't about to share that knowledge. NO WAY. Better that no one knows......right??? Do you know what I think? You have no idea why it's a bad idea but it just doesn't sound right and you've done nothing to prove otherwise.
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  10096.  @gordanpulver9901  High school troller, huh. You'd better study harder. Your, that's how that word is used, teachers have failed you.
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  10097.  @georgeboehringer5530  Simmons resurrected the Klan and introduced the burning cross which the Klan had never used before. I can't see any good in resurrecting an organisation that used violence and intimidation to suppress votes in the south or who were in favour of racial and ethnic apartheid. Same as the Freemasons. I don't see how that this changes anything about the Freemasons. I'd bet that those Freemasons also voted Democrat and didn't like the influence that the Republican party had over black Americans. It changes nothing about the Klan.
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  10098.  @EdwardKwasi-d3v  Russia is funding those who want to hold the American bureaucracy to account? Is that your claim? I'd think that the Russians would WANT the bureaucracy to spend MORE money on waste and corruption. The more that's wasted the less that the Americans will have to spend on their military and helping Ukraine. So....my question is this. How much are the Russians paying YOU to spread propaganda on how good wasteful spending is.
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  10099.  @JohnBoon-e1n  Are you saying that our freedoms shouldn't be afforded us? No free speech, no freedom of beliefs, no freedom to protect ourselves and all the rest, because freedom is a human construct? That would be something a tyrant would say.
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  10100. I worked at a large shoe factory, that employed around 800 people, in the late sixties and early seventies. Our personnel manager hired people and also did payroll. That's it. He had no helper. Things became more complicated as we started to get health plans, dental plans, pensions, investment options. Then he was asked to settle disputes between employees and employees and management. It turned into the mess that all administrative jobs seem to go.
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  10101.  @SherrifOfNottingham  Ukrainians shouldn't investigate an American who committed a brand of extortion in their country? Why is that? The Ukraine is involved and it isn't like Trump could send a team of investigators into the Ukraine and send out summons to force Ukraine citizens to testify. He has to ask their government to help out. It's either that or American politicians are allowed carte blanche to do commit any corrupt activity in foreign countries. Does that really sound like a good idea to you?
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  10102. So then what's the point of talking about white privilege? It's a moot subject and is reflected in the attitudes of individuals. You can't legislate it away. People will think what they think. Funny how when whites make more money that blacks or Hispanics, it's white privilege. What is it when Asians make more money than whites? Maybe if those who think they're less privileged would stop worrying about the perceived privilege of others and concentrated on the privileges that they do have, they'd be doing a lot better than what they are.
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  10103.  @Picklepop670  And if he doesn't, you're going to vote Democrat? Is that what you're saying? I have yet to meet the person that I'm in 100% agreement with on EVERYTHING. I doubt that I ever will. When I vote, I vote on the issues, ALL of them. This may be your pet peeve, and I get it, but to make this a focal point come election day, is extremely short sighted.
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  10104.  @jamesborden9343  Trump is no longer the president. Biden is. You're not one of those who thinks that the election was rigged, are you?
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  10105. He even held that brass knuckle contraption to Zeldin's throat for a couple of seconds. It was an overt threat on his life. It's insane that he was automatically let go. The "soft on crime" policy is an intentional tactic to encourage chaos, to the point, where the Democrats can take over policing with their own policing force, much like how the Nazis did it with the SS. The Dems will claim it necessary to ensure safety in the streets. Then, when their strict measures are effective, they'll claim that they solved the crime crisis in America.....basically solving the problem that they created.
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  10106.  @droyal18able  You didn't get it? LOL.
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  10107.  @SCAR16L  I've tried to find out about her being with the WEF but all I got was vague and not what I would call definitive proof. Not like I would for Trudeau. He's espousing, publicly, a lot of the WEF policy points, including the draconian control ideas that they seem to love......for our own good, of course. I don't trust politicians as a rule. I expect them to earn my trust and it hasn't really happened yet. However, some things and some politicians are truly untrustworthy and that would include Trudeau and Biden. However, Gabbard had the opportunity to be a real force in the Democrat party. All she had to do is toe the party line and she refused to do that. That's one reason why I have to see REAL evidence of her involvement with the WEF. If you do have the definitive proof, it would be greatly appreciated if you show it to us.
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  10108. Why would Republicans not want people to know about black history in the United States? The Democrats fought to keep slavery. They fought against giving released slaves citizenship. They fought against giving them the vote. it was a Democrat who killed Lincoln and another Democrat who abandoned Reconstruction that Lincoln wanted to institute. They were the party of the KKK who tried to stop southern blacks from voting Republican. The Democrats were the party of Jim Crow. They fought against the Civil Rights Act. The Republican party formed for one reason only....to end slavery and they fought for everything, that I just mentioned and that the Democrats fought against. If anyone wouldn't want true black history taught, you'd think it would be the Democrats. The Republicans should be PROUD of their record in standing with black Americans. I can't believe how Americans are allowing Democrats to gaslight them like they are.
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  10109.  @StonerTHOTS  "one nation under God" That's such an easy thing to fix. Next time you're going to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, don't say that part. Just say this......"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, --- ------ ----- ---, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Or, do what I do. I see God, not as a physical being but, as a metaphor for Truth. Therefore, when I say "One Nation under God" I'm stating my belief that truth is our noblest purpose. That our nation is built on the concepts of truth. I don't have to be religious to say it. I allow my own conception of God be my guide and I can still be true to myself and those around me.
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  10110.  @shmick6079  That's it, then. Their belief is what counts. Not the facts or the truth. It's what they believe and we don't want to upset THEM. Better to upset the actual girls, who have NO chance of winning against biological boys. Someone had better tell those "girls" that the truth hurts and it always has. When I say "no chance", I'll back it up with men's and women's world records in sports. The men's records are consistently 10% better than the women's records. 10% and higher. No women's sporting record stands above a men's record. These girls have NO chance against these boys. This is turning the clock back 130 years and maybe worse. It won't affect me. I'm 71 years old....but what a legacy I'm leaving for my granddaughters.
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  10111.  @enviro1001  You would if it was your candidate who was the target. That's the difference between the left and the right. The right is smart enough to know that this lack of competence puts EVERYONE'S lives at risk. The left only cares when it threatens them.
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  10112.  @Oregon727  No it's NOT his security team. They were assigned by the Secret Service. They are headed by a Biden appointee, named Kimberly Cheatle in 1922. A special agency is going to probe security policies and Cheatle in the very near future. Trump might be better served with his own security detail, however. Cheatle's DEI program doesn't seem to be working.
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  10113.  @muneirovalibas6194  Because we believe in the judicial system and understand that nothing's ever going to be perfect. We have the ethics that tells us the difference between right and wrong. The left could care less about right or wrong. They only care about their ideology and forcing an agenda. They'll do anything to get their way. A person, with strong morals, believes that the end does NOT justify the means. That's why the jurors are afraid of the left and not the right. They fear evil.
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  10114. Everyday, I see them. They follow me to the store, to the bank, on my daily walk through the park. Everyday. They think that I don't notice because they're wearing masks.....but I see them. Every night, I wake up, and they're staring at me through my window. I get up to confront them and they take off. I e-mail my daughter and they read it. No matter what I talk about, suddenly I'll get ads, trying to sell me products associated with our conversation. I told her about a big snapping turtle in the pond at the park....next day I have ads telling me how to build a back yard pond. They're letting me know that they're listening and watching and that they can get me whenever they want. I don't know if I can take it anymore. I know who it is. My uncle was with the Dutch Underground in WW2 and they haven't forgotten. They're going to take it out on me. I KNOW IT!!!!!!
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  10115. @Pamela Pamela The best way to beat that is to recommend a Google search parameter that will get them to that video. For example say "Google....man in Philly shot by police". Write variations of the search and test them to see which Google search works the best. It's harder for them to censor that.
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  10116.  @Bleilock1  The third Reich was not capitalist. Businesses were directed by the state. Large factories had Party reps in place to make sure management and workers were loyal to the Party. The Party would tell them what to produce, how much and where to buy their raw material. Hitler threatened to nationalise any business that refused to comply or who weren't producing as much as they should. Read Hitler's "Table talks" or Rudoph Jung's "National Socialism, its Foundation, Development and Goals". There is no doubt that National Socialism wasn't capitalist or right wing.
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  10117.  @Bleilock1  The Bolsheviks hated the Mensheviks in the Soviet Union, yet they were both communists. They're just different shades of Socialism. Capitalism definition: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. Socialism definition: a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Thyssen companies were nationalised because he objected to the war. There was nothing he could do to stop it. He didn't toe the Party line and he was punished for it. He had to go along with the Nazi Party or else. That means that he did NOT control his own company. The Nazi Party did. You should tell the complete story.
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  10118. If you're a member of the press and you're not committed to finding the facts, then you are the enemy of the truth. That makes you a purveyor of chaos and an enemy of the people. In this case, they may not an overt enemy, but one who is aiding and abetting those who openly declare that they are the enemy of the country they live in.
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  10119. Josef Mengele was a doctor. Doctors provide health care. Therefore he was providing healthcare for Jews at Auschwitz II Birkenau a famous hospital in WW2 Poland. This logic stuff is fun.
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  10120. That's what one can accomplish with hard work, determination and patience.
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  10121.  @tcrews2040  Wow!!! Another comment filled with name calling and insults. You sound like like an 8 year old, school yard ruffian, with nothing to say but still screams out all kinds of expletives thinking that it makes him sound smart. Floyd's family are going to be in for a shock. You can't sue over an opinion that may well have merit. If they go through with the lawsuit and lose, Chauvin may end up with grounds for an appeal. All they see is dollar signs.
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  10122.  @kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066  Did I say that I agree with her about EVERYTHING? I have yet to meet, know or hear about a single person that aligns perfectly with me on every issue or topic. We're human and we ALL make human mistakes. It's not so much that we make mistakes, it's what our cores beliefs are all about. You're still not talking about any ideas. You're just talking about people and you've introduced race into the mix. Race has nothing to do with ideas. I wish people, like you, would stop using race as the benchmark for your version of truth. Lahren's idea's and beliefs have nothing to do with what colour her skin might be. You only saying that because you see race LONG before you see the merits or lack of merits of any position. A childish and, dare I say it, a racist way of gauging any issue.
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  10123.  @JR-zm2yu  OMG. This started out as a video about a woman who seems to have been bullied, by a city mayor, and it's devolved into a discussion about Reptilian Overlords. Wow......just wow.
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  10124. ​ @monl3807  Is that why Hamas had to cross the border between Israel and Gaza to kill Israeli citizens on Oct. 7th? If Israel owns the land why are there were no Israelis for Hamas to kill in Gaza? There are NO Israelis in Gaza. Not a one. No Israeli citizens, no Israeli army or police. No Israeli politicians. They all left in 2006. In fact, Israel has to INVADE Gaza if they want to put an end to the ruling Hamas party in Gaza. If Israel owns Gaza, why are they allowing Hamas to exist? Couldn't they just arrest the entire group and put an end to it all? There's a lot more that I could bring up. Your comment lacks facts and logic.
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  10125.  @unapologeticpatriot6078  Any bank that allows the client to hire his own real estate appraisal firm, in order to get a loan, shouldn't even be allowed to exist. If I found out that this was how my bank operated, I'd empty my accounts this afternoon and put my money in a more secure location. The entire premise of this case is flawed and the word "corrupt" isn't much of a stretch.
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  10126.  @TeamFillip  It's not anti-transgender to believe that there could be emotional and mental issues involved with those who are transgender. It's not anti-transgender to think that putting children on puberty blockers might be a bad idea, even dangerous to the children or that it's not in a small child's best interest for an adult to decide whether a child is transgender or not, just because they may exhibit behaviour that isn't what's considered normal for a child with gender identifying body parts. Also, it's not transgender to believe that people are born with gender identifiers and that this is standard, not only in humans but in nature, especially the higher forms of life. You're assuming that criticising some of the modern transgender ideas are a form of hatred when that may not be the case at all. Crowder is a Christian and has said so repeatedly. A major directive for Christians is to love thy neighbour. There is no qualifier to that directive. Just because a person disagrees with another or disapproves of their behaviour, doesn't mean that they hate them. If that were true, I'd hate my family...my own children and I don't. In fact, I care for them deeply. At no time has Crowder EVER said that he hated transgenders....EVER or has wanted them punished or eliminated. That's something that you've read into it that just isn't true. A very simplistic view that calls for black and white viewpoints and no nuance.
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  10127.  @TeamFillip  Youtube is NOT a specialty platform. It is, along with a VERY select group, a form of communication that has become monopolistic. They've colluded to shut out voices that they don't like and that have specific political views. The best way for a political group to seize power is to control communication and information. We're on that road...right now. You're not objecting because it suits your political and social views. That's quite convenient for you. It's a inconvenient as being a Chinese Muslim Uyghur for those who don't agree with you or to use an overused example....a Jew in Nazi Germany. When you want to suppress the voices of those you don't like, you're trying to control them. It's a power grab for those narcissistic enough to believe that only they have ALL the right opinions and all others are that irrelevant that they should be forever banished....the final solution to dissent.
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  10128.  @TeamFillip  Are you seriously saying that questioning ideas is discrimination? I'm sure that's how slavery was defended. "The Bible says it's ok and it's always existed". Without discussion, even that we're not comfortable, we never advance as a species and as humans. Business has no business telling anyone what constitutes ethical beliefs or ideology. Your belief system is a basic human right. It only becomes a violation when it actively violates the rights of others.
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  10129.  @TeamFillip  I would bet that you'd be singing another tune if YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon were telling Democrat supporting uploaders to kick rocks. Youtube invites, as its business platform, people to upload their videos on their platforms, EXCEPT those whose political views differ from theirs. What's next. Muslim Imams have to go because they Islam believes that homosexuality is a sin? The other 4 big tech companies do the same. When people say that there's only one political view point allowed on social media, they say "Start your own". So someone started Parler and guess what....Amazon won't let them use their server until recently. The left, to the everlasting joy and approval of the Democrats, control social media and the MSM. There is only ONE major conservative news network and NO big tech conservative platforms. It's a near monopoly. This is EXACTLY how authoritarians take over a government. They control the media and then guys, like YOU, hide behind dubious interpretations of business laws to squelch all dissenting voices. YouTube calls itself a platform, a bulletin board, but it's colluding, just like Time Magazine said, with other big tech companies, big corporations, the Democrats and the MSM to make sure that ONLY their voice is heard...and you're good with that because it lines up with your voice. YouTube is NOT the voice. It's customers and uploaders are. Their standards are that you don't break the law and that's all it should be. Having conservative views is NOT illegal. Just be grateful that they weren't all lining up to squelch left wing voices. Then YOU'D be the one complaining. It's easy to applaud when you're in the choir.
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  10130.  @TeamFillip  All you have to do is question the election results. Not just any election results. Only the 2020 results. You can complain about the 2016 results ALL you want? Or maybe you could do what Crowder did to get a temporary ban. Look up addresses on voter lists and go to those addresses and find out that they don't exist. That got him suspended for one week. He looked at a Nevada voting list, went to the address given by voters, showed on video, with a current newspaper, where that certain addresses did NOT exist and for that, he's a piece of shit. HE SHOWED FACTS and that went against their policy and now, according to you, only a piece of shit would show facts that might make the election look bad. It doesn't even show that Trump won and Crowder, most emphatically, said that it didn't.....but he's still a piece of shit for exposing fake addresses. I call that good journalism and it would have been recognised as such 30 years ago. Now, because it seems to hurt a certain political party, it's considered the work of a piece of shit.
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  10131.  @TeamFillip  It doesn't matter if they're hollow actions or NOT. If it's so damn hollow, why suspend him? Where's the law that says that you MUST be a good journalist to be on YouTube anyway? Are cat videos good journalism? You're grasping at straws here. He showed facts and for some reason YouTube was uncomfortable with those facts. Apparently they didn't think it was all that hollow or inconsequential.
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  10132.  @TeamFillip  They complain about him because there's a movement that wants to shut down any opposition. You either agree with them or you're not to talk. "Don't give conservatives a platform". That's their cry. Just like the example I gave about the voter addresses. There is absolutely NO reason to put a strike against that video but it runs counter to what these people want known. That's the rule that he's breaking. He's disagreeing with them. They find that offensive and the people at YouTube are a part of that "Don't upset me" crowd. It's NOT Crowder that's crying. It's the whiners and complainers, who don't HAVE to listen, but don't want anyone ELSE to listen to him, either. They're the ones crying that he has to be quiet or else. That's censorship. Cyber book burning. The new age of information is being run by people that don't want us to have ALL the information, just the stuff that validates their outlook on life. The rest must be hidden from the masses, lest the masses agree with them. The masses must only see the stuff that they're programmed to see. If they don't know, they can't disagree. All you've done is talk in generalities. Give me a link to something that he's said that's so offensive that the delicate public should not be exposed to. You say there's video evidence but you haven't shown me any....and even if it was offensive. Unless he's calling to violence, he's not breaking any law.
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  10133.  @TeamFillip  Crowder has no problem with Black farmers getting financial aid. He DOES have a problem with farmers getting aid first, BEFORE anyone else, getting preferential treatment. That's illegal and against the Civil Rights Act which states that no one should get preferential treatment or be discriminated against due the colour of their skin. He never ONCE said that Black farmers shouldn't get financial aid. Carlos Mazda went on a rampage saying that YouTube should censor Crowder. Crowder responded by criticising Mazda and called him names that Mazda uses to describe himself. Mazda claimed that Crowder supporters were harassing him but YouTube found no evidence that Crowder had EVER directed anyone to harass Mazda. In fact, Crowder made it a point to tell people NOT harass him or anyone else. It's not up to YouTube to intervene in a personal online dispute between two people. If YouTube says, upon investigation, that Crowder didn't violate the rules, then it would seem that Mazda just wanted Crowder gone. Mazda himself is very outspoken and has launched close to 20 obscenity laced tweets directed against Crowder, so it's not as if Mazda is all that innocent in this matter either.
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  10134.  @TeamFillip  That's just it. People "THINK" that he's making racist comments and then use that thought as their rationale to metaphorically cut out his tongue. Also it's not about defending him or supporting him. It's about the right of every human being to express himself as they see fit. You have no right to tell me that what I think is not to be said out loud. I support the right of Crowder to say offensive things and, conversely, I support the rights of Carlos Mazda to say obscene and offensive things. I don't have to like it, that's MY right, and I also have the right to criticise them for it. I don't have the right to use social pressure and ultimately, the law, to shut either of them up. That's what freedom is all about. No one is correct 100% of the time so you'd better be ready to receive the flak that comes with being imperfect, which includes, among a myriad of consequences, criticism.
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  10135.  @illegalewahrheiten2911  I got a lot of my initial information from parents, relatives and people who fought in that war, including those who were German soldiers. My parents grew up in Holland and moved to Canada in the early fifties. I worked with men who were in the Canadian, British, Polish, Czech and German military. What I've heard from them was corroborated by history books and other material. Yes.....Hitler was bad. He invaded the Netherlands, even though the Netherlands declared neutrality. They went door to door, stealing food and metal for the war effort. My mother and siblings nearly starved to death because my grandfather had become an invalid and had to be institutionalised. Don't tell me that Hitler was a good guy. He plunged Europe into the worst war in history. Good people don't do that.
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  10136. I don't doubt that "Blaire" named her as one that "she" preferred to room with on the road. Most men would for obvious reasons.
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  10137.  @ElieBei  A lot of the water used in Israel isn't used for crops at all. Israel has an extremely high population density. A lot of the water used is for the over 7 million inhabitants in a very small area. They use it to drink, shower, flush their toilets, in manufacturing and cooking and in a very robust tourist trade. Had the land been only used for agriculture with a low population density, the water problems would be a lot different. These are all factors that are not considered in your comment. The southern Negev desert is still dry but that has to do with the fact that to get water there is a major undertaking but it may still eventually happen, especially with the advanced in desalination technology. Remember also, that the greening of Israel is a relatively new phenomenon. There are still a lot of wrinkles to work out and one of them is the fact that there are too many people living in too small an area.
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  10138. You're at work to get a job done. If there is a specific problem, address it but don't go on about cultural stuff and colonialism and workplace discrimination. If a manager treats someone unfairly, have mechanisms to settle it. People get treated unfairly for all kinds of reasons, not just the standardised "woke" reasons. The case should be legitimate and not about ideologies, politics, religion or racial issues. The minute that cultural bigotry becomes the issue, the issue is clouded. Talk specifics or don't talk at all.
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  10139.  @Aaqe  Yes.....that's ALL he's been talking about for the last 2 months. What is it with you people like you? You do realise that this was 1 minute and 24 seconds of a much longer meeting where they discussed all kinds of things and took questions from the media. Some people gotta complain, always and forever, about the STUPIDEST things.
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  10140. Correct me if I'm wrong. A bunch of women's football teams played in a women's football tournament and one of the women's football teams won the tournament. This is a victory for women's football? This can't be what they're making a big deal of....is it???
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  10141. I don't believe that it is 47%. Why is there no undecided classification? I'm sure that there are at least 10% who aren't sure of whether they approve or not. I'll estimate that it's 53% Trump approval, a little under 40% disapproval and the rest uncertain. This is CBS and they've been reporting on everything in ways to make the Democrats look good. If it is 10% uncertain, like I'm guessing, they'd never let Trump have any part of that 10% so I'm thinking that they assigned it all to the Trump disapproval column.
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  10142. The housing crisis is real because the previous administration allowed uncounted millions to enter the country without having the infrastructure to house them all. Increased demand for diminishing products increases the price of that product. That's basic economics.
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  10143.  @CharlesBronson-w8n  I'm lost? He works full time. He pays NO rent because he lives in his vehicle. The average rent, in the United States, for a one bedroom apartment is around $1,500. This is money that he's NOT spending on rent because he's living in his car. I think that $1500 bucks is more than enough to pay a monthly phone bill.....don't you?
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  10144. This whole black face thing is nothing more than a tempest in a teapot. Big deal that Northam did it and the same with Behar. It's become another way to silence those you don't like and I don't like either one of those two. However, using this to destroy them is behaving no differently than they do. It's saying that I could never disguise myself to give a rendition of MLK's "I have a dream speech" but it's ok to don a beard and top hat to give the Gettysburgh address. Both are great speech's by great men and neither is meant as an insult. Intention is everything. One might have an argument against Northam but Behar did nothing wrong in this case. I wish it was because I can't stand her.
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  10145. Somebody should tell Warren that NEXT year, there's going to be an election. NEXT YEAR!!!!! Instead of trying to impeach which will fail and might further alienate the voters from the Democrats, maybe they should show themselves to care about the issues and that they have a plan to deal with the border, free speech issues, bringing home the troops, North Korea, cutting the deficit, healing the divisions in the country, setting policies to help the inner cities and on and on. No country on the planet is 100 percent perfect and neither is the US. There's lots to do besides just a vendetta against the president. It might be a good idea to build up your own party.
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  10146. It's not the parent's fault if their child devolves into a life of drug addiction, alcoholism, crime and corruption. It IS the parent's fault if they use government resources to cover their child's crimes, facilitate his questionable business dealings and look the other way when that child takes part in controversial and possibly, incestuous, relationships. It implies corruption of the highest measure.
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  10147.  @richardhurlock4522  Maybe we should blame the media for not following up on the story and telling it like it really happened. Maybe we should blame the Democrat party for not calling out the media for their fabricated and manipulated narratives. Maybe we should blame our universities for churning out left wing activists, bent on creating chaos to bring about change. There are a lot of people that are complicit in allowing this story to be blown way out of proportion to suit an agenda. Hollywood being one of them, although the example I used isn't one of them. That storyline is an old one. "Don't trust strangers". I've heard it since I was a kid in the sixties.
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  10148.  @lazmaroulis6686  What's worse is that our so-called leaders and the media are pretending that this fall back into poverty never happened. This means that this may not be the last time that we go through this.
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  10149.  @alondramojico6838  That's true and Florida had a much greater case per million count, as well. However, New York had EXACTLY the same death rate as Florida and a HIGHER case per million count than Florida. New York had just as strict a mandates as California. This means that there are more at play here than just mandates. That strict mandates are not the only factor in the spread and death rates. It also means that we can play with statistics any way that we want so they end up to suit what we want to see. One thing that has happened since Covid started is that for the first time in Californian history, its population went DOWN. People are leaving California and New York state is going through the same thing. Florida, however, is seeing an upsurge in population. The economy is growing. People are so happy with the situation that they voted, overwhelmingly, for the current administration, in the last election, an election that they barely won in the previous election. People, in Florida, are experiencing greater life satisfaction in Florida than in either California or New York. Isn't that the point in life? Instead of living in perpetual fear, for the future, they live with an atmosphere of optimism and real personal and economic growth. That's what makes life worth living. Living to be safe is mere existence. Grabbing life by both horns and facing it with courage and determination is what makes life worth living. Hiding in your homes and viewing those around you as threats to your life is an awful way to live. I've had Covid, in spite of 3 vaccines and living in a place where mandates were strict. It was no fun and I'm over 70 years old and should be afraid....but I'm not. I'd never want to go back to the mandates. It was a miserable time and Covid rates in my area are the highest, now, that they've ever been. I still go out, mask free, where ever and whenever I want and I am enjoying my life much more now than 2 years ago. If I catch it again, so be it. I'll deal with it but I refuse to live my life as in fear.....especially in fear of the people around me. I will NOT treat people that way.
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  10150. That guy is a flat out liar. The photographer that took the pictures of children in cages said that he took them in 2014, when Obama was the President. He has to know that to be true. Also, a refugee is one who's life is in immanent danger due to political strife. A refugee is NOT someone who lives in a high crime zone. That would imply that a person living in the inner city of Chicago could seek asylum in Canada due to a danger of being shot by gang members. That's crazy. There is no war going on in El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras. These are countries plagued with corruption and gang violence.....like Chicago, Baltimore and St. Louis.
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  10151. Since paying a man MORE for doing the same job and all things being equal is against the law, why aren't the courts jammed with lawsuits, with women and minorities, laying out their case for being cheated. This would be a lucrative field for any emerging lawyer. Do you know why this isn't happening? The wage gap is a myth and every and any self respecting lawyer knows that it's a battle they can't win. The evidence will always defeat them. Not this superficial evidence these patsies are offering but real evidence coming from the real world.
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  10152. Their goal is revolution. They want to transform our society into their great radical socialist state. It's at the core of their belief system.
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  10153. If a biological woman could score, on average, 25 points a game, she'd be in the NBA. Same as female hockey player. Average 35 goals a season and the NHL would be laying out the red carpet. It's when biological men, try trickery to play in the woman's league is when there's a problem. There would be no women's sports if men were allowed to play in women's leagues.
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  10154. "good people on both sides" That's their go-to evidence. They spit this out and then plug their ears.
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  10155.  @codyrussow170  He didn't take those classified documents home intentionally? He didn't take them and then left them there, FOR YEARS, on purpose. It was just a mistake. This is what you WANT for a president??? Someone, who's not authorised to de-classify documents, just leaving them scattered about for years??? It's just an honest mistake. I wonder if his drug addicted son found documents that he used to bolster his standings with the Chinese government, which enabled some of his financial dealings over there??? After all, Joe appeared to have just left them around, unintentionally. How do YOU know if Hunter found them or not and used them for his own financial gain??
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  10156. The BBC, calling a military move against the Nazis, an infamous raid. Were they actually defending Fascism?
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  10157.  @jsn1252  You're changing the context of what the original poster was trying to say. He was talking within a Christian context and I replied within that context. You're basically changing the topic. If you stay within the Christian narrative, then God gave man the choice to eat of the tree or not. If you go outside that narrative, there may be other narratives but they are irrelevant to what we're talking about. We're talking about a specific belief system. You're talking about another belief system. It's an apples and oranges comparison.
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  10158.  @musiopath  I disagree with you on the free will part. Once God told Adam and Eve not to eat from that tree, choice was implied. "Eat anything but that. If you do....." Then it becomes the "to eat or not to eat" condition and there's even a consequence laid out. Satan disputes the consequence that God gave. That's true in our everyday choices. We choose based on what we believe the consequences will be. Someone may come along and give a new perspective on what a consequence could be and it's up to us to decide if that new perspective is correct or not. Eve chose to believe Satan. I agree with the rest of your comment, though. To easy to blame Satan. Ultimately, it's up to us to weigh up the facts and decide for ourselves a proper course of action. "The Devil made me do it" is a coward's way out. Take responsibility for your bad actions. It's the only way to mitigate the odds that you'll do it again.
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  10159.  @MacakPodSIjemom  That's the problem. You have to defeat them with the truth and logic, something that has become difficult due to the indoctrination the young are subjected to in school. We can't give up because it will destroy all the gains made in the west since WW2 and the developing countries over the last 20 years.
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  10160.  @bjrnhalfhand2258  I've heard all that before. It kinda makes me laugh because if my sexual experiences was to get any better, I don't think I could stand it. LOL. I'd be the one that women always complain about....the 10 second sex partner. I really don't want that. If that's the only criticism for circumcision, I can live with that and happily.
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  10161.  @bjrnhalfhand2258  Maybe....but how would you know? Unless you've had sex, with a foreskin and without one, there's no way that you COULD know. It would all be hearsay. Besides, a 10 second sexual experience would almost BE like missing it altogether. LOL. I'm aroused easy enough as it is and it feels damn good when I do it. So why would I complain or yearn for something that I could know nothing about. The big point is that's NOTHING compared to the bottom surgeries that the transgenders put themselves through. Not even close.
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  10162. A black guy gets shot and now I'm allowed to steal off anyone I feel like, in protest. It's the progressive way.
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  10163. I was just livid at the way that Congressman talked to Homan. There's not enough expletives to describe how I feel about that twerp.
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  10164. @Miles Doyle What is wrong with you? You're projecting the image of a religious fanatic. Sort of like Carrie's mother in the movie. People that repeat themselves are perceived as being mentally unstable, sort of like the homeless guy that keeps repeating the same incoherent phrase for hours. I have nothing against Christian belief systems but if you think that you're advancing the word of God, I'm telling you that you're turning MORE people away than you're attracting.
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  10165.  @themoviedealers  The economy is great at the moment and we're not in recession. It might happen in the future but at the moment unemployment is way down, at rates not seen in decades, and wages are rising faster than inflation, which is still small. The stock market is on the rise. All these are signs that the US economy is good. You may be right about how Reserve is being propped up but there is no recession at the moment. It could crash next week or next month or next year but it hasn't happened yet. The 09 recession wasn't in effect in 07 even if the conditions for it to happen were in place. We may well be in that spot today that we were in back in 07, but we're not in a recession, right now.
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  10166. Still the Democrat war on guns instead of a war on criminals. You need a criminal for a gun to be effective in gun crime. It's not that hard.
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  10167.  @Eric-e9t5y  I don't think that he's uncomfortable about the audit. I think that he's saying that the left can't claim secrecy if they have reps watching what they're doing. It's transparency. They're going to cry foul anyway. At least don't give them the satisfaction of saying that the DOGE was hiding something. If they're being honest in their audits, who cares who's watching.
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  10168. Why do I always have to show you nobs this picture. This is the southwest corner of Building 7. Notice that this corner has a huge chunk missing out of it, starting at about the 18th floor and running diagonally down to about 1/4 of the way into the building. It's completely gone. That's only one corner of the building. You can see char marks near the top as well, facing west, which indicates there must be damage on the south side, the side facing the north tower, as well. In fact, that entire south face was damaged that badly when it was struck by the thousands of tons of debris from the North Tower. Then the fires burned for hours after this damage was done. LOOK AT IT. I guarantee that you wouldn't rent a room in that building at no price. http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/images/articles/911-images/wtc7-side-damage1.jpg
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  10169. Deckard Oh yeah, the no jets theory. That one really makes sense. At least 3 million people within eye-shot of the burning North Tower and you're trying to tell me that no one watching it burn. Not one person. There are more live witnesses to the plane hitting the South Tower than almost any event in history. Literally hundreds of thousands of people with their eyes glued to one of the biggest events of New York history, watch the second plane come from the south to hit the tower. Not TV audiences either. Actual eye witnesses. That has to be the most ludicrous of all the conspiracy theories involving 9/11 and it makes NO SENSE, at all. Add to that, 2 missing planes with passengers and crews that no longer exist. They got on a plane and were never heard from again. I'll bet in this "great" film, they never even attempted to talk to anyone who had friends and relatives on those planes, who dropped them off to fly away or who were expecting them to land. No talks with travel agents, airport staff or families of crew members. Absolute nonsense.
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  10170. Deckard "Jack Haveman Oof" That makes sense too. LOL.
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  10171. Deckard A great way to never have to address points being made. Assert bias on the part of the other person and then commit to never engaging with biased people. That way, you make the discussion about the other person and not points being made of facts being presented. You do realise that's bias, don't you. But at least you don't have to explain the ostriches with their heads buried in the sidewalks of New York on 9/11. I wouldn't want to have to explain that one, either.
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  10172. John Fashanu Another "Oof" response. Maybe he has some kind of disorder. A literary form of Tourette's.
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  10173. John Fashanu It would be like claiming that 50,000 people were at the Super Bowl and they all watched CGI players. A family friend that I've known since 72 watched the second plane hit live. He was in his office in New Jersey, watching the smoke from the North Tower from his office window, when a plane flew by overhead and flew straight into the South Tower. He said he heard people yell and scream all through the building when it happened. It must have been quite the experience to see it.
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  10174. Deckard You'll talk about people but not about issues. Not that deep are you? What the heck does "oof" mean, anyway?
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  10175.  @WilliamKSmith-lq1zn  How do YOU know who Cynthia voted for? Does EVERY person in California vote for Newsom? Did YOU vote for Biden? Apparently, you deserve what you got, for president. You and your cronies. It was quite obvious, before the elections, that Biden was suffering from cognitive decline yet you put him in office anyway. What is WRONG with you?
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  10176.  @jamesc7894  Nice sleight of hand. We're talking about General Milley and China and you make it about Trump and the Saudis. Why can't you stay on topic? I'll give you that Trump is corrupt....but WHY do people like you seem to think that just because Trump is corrupt, Biden must be angelic? I just don't get it. Can't they BOTH be corrupt? Isn't THAT possible? You're running around after the corrupt Trump while allowing corrupt Biden to rip you off because you can't seem to accept that they can't both be unscrupulous. In your small mind, if Trump is Satan then Biden must be Jehovah. Grow up. Either that or your a Chinese bot...exactly what they're talking about in this video.
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  10177. How does your "whataboutism" solve the problem of FGM? Your avoiding the issue. You're basically saying "Don't look here.....look over there." These are two different issues. This woman was speaking with a Muslim woman who is also a member of Congress. That puts her is the unique position of being able to address a problem that is a well known problem in the Islamic community and being able to lend the weight of her position and influence as a way to end this intolerable practise. It should be addressed and the person asking the questioned shouldn't be shamed for it. The paedophilia problem should also be addressed. Even if a person did ask a Catholic member of Congress about those priests, that person should respond in a way to denounce that problem and they should never point to another problem somewhere else. That's "whataboutism" and it's a sneaky way to avoid dealing with issues and it doesn't make FGM an acceptable practise.
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  10178. It completely blows me away that this ideology actually has a "Day of Rage". That's so weird and Dystopian. It reminds me of the Star Trek episode "The Return of the Archons" where, at a certain specified time, Festival begins. This begins a time of violence and destruction. This was supposed to show a truly horrific society. Now, the far left thinks it's a good idea.
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  10179. I think you nailed it. I tried to put my finger on why those characters resonated so strongly but just couldn't do it. Now I can. Thanks.
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  10180.  @heatchills4093  You can't change the world but you can change your own little section of it. That's what he's doing. He's basically saying that if others are willing to do this abomination, there's no much that he can do about that. However, he will have NOTHING to do with it if he can help it. It's a start. Hopefully other places follow suit until places like Washington are aberrations and not the norm.
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  10181.  @A_Jeff  And her answer reflected badly on the business that she worked for. NO POLITICAL AGENDA ON THE JOB. The boss had every right to fire her. Had she said the same thing about Biden, she should STILL get fired. It's quite obvious that you don't know the law, have very low ethical standards and probably can't even hold down a job, especially one that would require working with customers.
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  10182.  @Phycheeeee  He's not a bot, though. His name is John Balnis and he's as real as they come.
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  10183. So, you expect this turn around by next week? It's not going to, you know. You have to start someplace and the economy is going in the right direction. A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.
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  10184. No, we don't have a faith in the non existence of God. What we're saying that there is no reason to believe in God and that the default position is the non-existence of God. When you were born, you didn't know about God. You didn't believe or disbelieve in his existence and it stayed that way until you were informed of his existence. Non belief is the default, just like non belief in Thor or unicorns or leprechauns. All of it, including the belief is the default, how everyone starts their lives. It is the default until one is told and for whatever reason, accept it as fact. Sometimes, a person who began to believe, examines the reasons for belief and finds them wanting and he reverts to the state of unbelief. One has to have reasons to believe in God. One doesn't need a reason to not believe. If you can't show his existence, like anything else without proof, I don't have to believe it.
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  10185. "there are plenty of oil leases that are not being tapped into so maybe you should ask them" NO......Jenn. YOU should be the one asking them why they're not tapping into their oil leases. The price of a barrel of oil has never been so high and they've never had the opportunity to make so much money. How is it that these greedy oil companies aren't drilling and making this money? The reason that she's NOT asking is because she knows why and she believes that she has the MSM in their pocket so any answers won't get out to the public, anyway.
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  10186. You ask what the left could say to Mr. Woodson, Tucker? I can tell you what they'd say. They'll call him an "Uncle Tom" and a "porch N----" and other disgusting things. Anyone that doesn't believe that should check out how CNN reacted to Kanye West visiting the White House. Don Lemon and his cronies were absolutely horrific in what they said. They're obsessed with race. That's the very definition of racism. When you define people by their race, you're a racist. That's about as blunt and honest as I can get.
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  10187.  @outermarker5801  I never defended Trump ONCE. I said not to trust politicians. You say that Trump is corrupt....you bet but what about Joe Biden? The entire Democrat party, the Washington Bureaucracy and the media covered up the laptop story. They said stuff about Russian disinformation, THE NEXT DAY, that was their big investigation and then big tech platforms wouldn't even allow you to share the NY Post articles about it. Talk about collusion to rig an election. Joe Biden bragged about withholding 1 Billion dollars, in aid to Ukraine, unless they fired a special prosecutor and they ignore it completely. It's on VIDEO, ffs, and not a word about it, yet when Trump just asks about it, just asked about it, no money mentioned, they impeach him. I've showed people the video of Biden bragging about it and they get mad at ME....as if I something did some kind of video editing wizardry to make the video. Half the friggen scandals about Trump were just made up. He was supposed to have called immigrants "animals". Made up. He sent "stormtroopers" to Portland to protect a Federal Office...made up. He defended white supremacists in Charlottesville....also made up. So corruption runs both ways. It's not that you have to trust the politicians you vote for, at all. They're all corrupt. What you do is vote for the one that you can trust the most of the 2 bad ones. If you have an entire machine dedicated to the overthrow of one person and that's ALL they offer....I'm not voting for them. Biden didn't even campaign. We had no idea what he stood for except we gotta get rid of Trump. What kind of platform is that? Now look at the mess we're in. A huge deficit, inflation especially high food prices and shortages, banks going bankrupt, a war in Ukraine, a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, an energy sector that's down almost 20% in production. I could go on and on and I'm not even counting the scandals surrounding his son and brother. Over 100 questionable bank transactions reported but not investigated. If you or I had 2 or 3 of them reported we'd have the FBI, the DHS, the DEA and the IRS down our necks but not Biden. So get over this idea that you can trust politicians. You can't. You make a trade-off hoping, that the one that you vote for, will do better for the country than the other while they're lining their pockets. That's the reality of politics.
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  10188.  @voixdelaraison593  And it's over. Trump has conceded. The WAR IS OVER. Why would you want to carry it further? It's easy to censor ordinary Americans as long as you think that it's not going to affect you.
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  10189.  @DavidAsset78  That would depend. I don't know what case you're talking about and I'd have to know the details before I could even begin to formulate an opinion on it.
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  10190. I'm not going to say whether the Republicans are racist or not but I do know that the Democrats have people, in Congress, that have declared anti-Semitic beliefs. It's also, the Democrats that are obsessed with identity politics and are always going on about white privilege, systemic racism and unconscious bias. It's the Democrat controlled cities that have the worst inner city violence, that seem giddy with joy every time there appears to be a racist incident. They were crushed with disappointment when Smollett's ruse was exposed. I could fill this comment section with examples of their obsession with race but I think most of readers fully understand what I'm talking about.
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  10191. The freedom, of that little child, kicking and rolling around, sucking it's thumb, in it's mother's womb, to have a future, should be sacred to ALL life. To put your hand, on a mother's stomach and feel that little one moving around and NOT want to protect it, isn't just puzzling......it's inexplicable. I've never felt that kind of love in my life......and there are people that want to destroy that little one. When that little one stop moving and died and my wife had to go to the hospital and deliver it still born...that was one of the most terrible moments of my life. I will NEVER feel right about condoning an abortion. It makes me sick to my stomach.
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  10192. Has anyone told Morning Joe that Trump supports school choice and school vouchers? That should change his attitude about this right quick.
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  10193.  @fuukyyoutb4864  Sounds like he has a good friend and enjoys that friend's company. Sounds alright to me.
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  10194. She's saying it because the Palestinian supports REFUSE to acknowledge that Israeli women had that done to them on Oct. 7th. She saying that if they had that done to them, their attitude would be a lot different. She could have expressed it better but it was in the heat of the moment and that's what happens when emotions take over your mouth. If Jewish fighters had crossed into Gaza, in a surprise attack and then raped Palestinian women and then paraded them through the streets of Israel, we'd never hear the end of it from feminist groups. However, that WAS done to Israeli women. They were raped and then paraded, some half naked, through Gazan streets, while Palestinians citizens cheered, waved flags and then SPIT on those unfortunate young women. That's why this woman, this writer, was so angry. Palestinian protesters, through their silence on this matter, are tacitly complicit in this horrific action. This writer's tirade is taken out of context.
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  10195. It is amazing how many ancient tribal names, around the world, translate as "The people" as if they stand above others. It's a part of human nature to elevate those that you identify with. It's in that understanding that helps us to expand that tribal mentality and it won't be easy.
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  10196.  @JohnFox-1986  I read everyone of your comments. You've said nothing of value. Never ONCE backed up the smears and ad hominem attacks with a shred of evidence of those claims. You might as well called everyone "stupid-face", like a 4 year old, and called it a day. Grow up. If you disagree with what this outlet is saying, tell us what specifically what they said and why you disagree. Name calling means nothing and is intellectually lazy.
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  10197. I'm going back to bed.
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  10198.  @Norundithus  First.....I'm NOT triggered. I believe that negative ideology start small and can grow into an horrific authoritarian regime. The Marxists of the Soviet Union took years to grow into a movement that overthrew the Russian government. The Nazis started small and gained momentum until they led the world into the most destructive war the world has ever seen. Mohammed started as a preacher in Mecca and had to flee from the authorities before his movement became one of the most influential ideologies in history. This is a pattern of world history and I see a new ideology taking hold, in America and the west, that has the potential of destroying those once great countries. So....spare us the adolescent taunting.
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  10199.  @amyh3873  She sat through all those meetings with Trump and Meadows, planning the insurrection, and didn't say a word???? That would imply that she was in on it OR she's making it up to get her 15 minutes of fame. Anyone who would hear those plans and not say a word, to expose it and then allow it to happen, is no American Patriot.
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  10200.  @RichMcCarter  Maybe you are the exception. That one person that ALWAYS assesses correctly. I doubt it but I'll give that to you as a freebie. Once you give that power to label and then you will use that power to exercise control. Humans are too prone to self interest to be given that kind of power over others. I'm not a Christian but the Biblical adage to "love thy neighbour" is a sound basis on which to live your life. Love them without qualification or exception and hope that if they do wrong that they will eventually understand the ramifications of the mistakes that they're making. Remember, if you allow yourself to judge others, others will allow it for themselves and YOU will end up being the one being judged. No one is that blameless that they will survive intense scrutiny.
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  10201. Canada is going through its own cultural revolution. Understandable since Trudeau is a great admirer of the Chinese government that reveres Mao, who initiated the horrors of the Chinese cultural revolution. In a lot of ways, this is similar to the excesses of the McCarthy era in the US. Looking for demons never ends well. I'm very frightened for our future here in Canada.
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  10202. Tim.....How are we going to have any doctors if NO ONE goes to University. There are all kinds of scientific fields that one can't just start doing on your own. Don't assume that Sandman doesn't have something in mind. I agree most studies are worthless but to make assumptions of Sandman's life plans is no different than the ACLU making assumptions about Sandman.
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  10203.  @JojoJoget  And now you're allowing these people to steal the land, again. That's logical. Bad when certain people do it. Good when other certain people do it. Lack of consistency here. The past is gone. We can't change it. All we can do is see to it that it doesn't happen again....but you don't care about the future. You're stuck in the past and all you want is some kind of revenge against all historical wrongs. You're NOT going to get it. In fact, I don't think that you even care about the illegal immigrants. It's all about envy and resentment and you're filled with it.
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  10204. When you refer to someone as a birthing person, aren't you saying that they're NOT women? Then why would you go through such great lengths by saying that men can get pregnant? They're NOT men. They're birthing people. The more you change the language the sillier and more convoluted it gets.
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  10205.  @NicerNine  What possible reason that there could be that he had to apologise? I don't know. That's my point. We think that we know it all but that's impossible. We just don't know all the back room stuff that's going on. We're dealing with the most heinous and ruthless human beings that there exist. Anything is possible and I will hold my opinion in abeyance until I have ALL the information, not just the surface stuff that we're allowed to see. Do you get what I'm saying? What we're ALLOWED to see. I will not be manipulated by their machinations. It's a game that I refuse to play.
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  10206.  @KB-uy3lv  Not just there. Anywhere in the inner cities, where street gangs run rampant and terrorise the locals into silence and compliance. It another way for gang members to make a quick buck and their gang paraphernalia will guarantee compliance and silence because of the fear it generates. This is similar to what was going on before the secret ballot. Intimidate voters to vote the way that you want them to or face the consequences.
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  10207.  @wolfgangdevries127  So what if Tucker doesn't love us. He's telling us about something that we need to know. If he was as unprincipled as you seem to be suggesting ALL wealthy people are....he'd keep his mouth shut about it. The only way that we can ever get real justice for the victims is for us to know that it happened. Like it or not, Tucker is letting us know that it happened. Why you'd complain about that is a mystery to me.
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  10208.  @rico14  I don't think that he's a demonic force, no matter what Trump says. Besides, I have no context to even make a judgement on it. I don't blame him for looking forward to being out of office. Who'd want to be president, anyway? No privacy. Everybody's criticising you. Everything is your fault. People even want to end your life. Playing golf sounds like a lot more enjoyable to me. Yet, he's doing it anyway. So, how does that make ME the gullible one? I don't get it? It sounds like gaslighting to me.
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  10209. Apologise for making false accusations against an innocent man. Apologise for causing the biggest rift in American society in living history. Apologise because it's the mature thing to do when you've drag someone's reputation through the mud over gossip and innuendo. Apologise because it takes strength to admit when you're in error and it's what a person of strength and integrity does.
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  10210.  @b0hd3n  Trump's divisive tactics? Wear a MAGA hat on campus. Let's see what that gets you. Look at those Covington kids. They didn't do a thing. Black Israelites started yelling racial and homophobic slurs their way but it was the left and left wing media that vilified them, saying that THEY surrounded the native guy and started taunting them. They had to shut their school down for a week because of the threats and vitriol thrown at them. Democrat and left wing speakers can go where ever they like and you never see these protesters screaming and threatening them. They don't stand and chant inane slogans to drown out speakers but let a right wing speaker try to have a live engagement. The left wing loses their minds. You have professors in college saying all kinds of racist rhetoric against whites and it's acceptable including threats of genocide and that white's breeding is morally unacceptable. Obama puts up fences and barriers along the Mexican border and crickets. He makes speeches saying we have to control our southern border and that's just fine. Republicans agree with him. Suddenly Trump says it and it's immoral and he's a racist. They lied when he said immigrants were animals. They glossed right over when those pictures of children in cages were proven to have taken during Obama's presidency and tried everything to say that this was all Trump's fault. Antifa threatens everyone and you NEVER hear the Dems or left wing media say a thing about them or condemn their violence. Antifa actually beat up 2 marines of Hispanic heritage, calling them all kinds of Latino slurs and it didn't even make the news. Kathy Griffin holds up a severed head of Trump but that's just a joke. Madonna says that she dreams of blowing up the White House but not biggie. A 12 year old kid is picked on by his teacher and class mates because of his hat but...you know, the little brat had it coming to him. Just this week, an immigrant from Togo, in Washington DC, was attacked by 2 guys, while on a walk because he was wearing a MAGA hat. I could go on and on. Trump says a lot of ridiculous things but don't go pretending that this is ALL his fault. The Dems and the left wing media have been relentless in their hatred of Trump and they either look the other way when Democrat supporters commit violent acts or actually condone it. I mean, doesn't Nicholas Sandmann have a punchable face? That's your peaceful and tolerant Democrats and the left. Every word of what I said is true.....and you know it. Your hatred of Trump will either excuse it or condone it or you'll turn it into that childish argument of "He started it". If Trump is causing division it's only because the left and the Democrats are allowing it.
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  10211.  @b0hd3n  I agree. He does have an obligation to bring the country back together. However, the Democrats will NOT let that happen. They're letting their hatred for Trump get in the way of mounting a good Democratic platform and it's causing them to make some terrible decisions. I'm saying this as a guy that normally leans centre left politically. As soon as the last election campaign started, I was appalled, not by Trump, but by the attitudes of the Democrats, especially Hillary. I expect MY party to be the party of ethics and high morals. That's why I expect them to make an apology when they're wrong. That's takes personal courage and self awareness but that's not who they are, anymore. One example of the issues, concerning the Democrats, that I'll never get. Why could Obama build a fence and barriers and make a speech about strong border security and he's applauded. However, when Trump says the same thing, except the fences are a stronger wall, suddenly he and the Republicans are racists. I don't get why Obama and the Dems weren't racist but Trump is over the exact same attitude on an issue, the difference is only the 3 short years between their saying it. The Dems are actually lying now. Bald faced lies and they have to know it but they do it anyway. I expect Trump to behave like Trump but I the Dems are doing the utmost best to be better at being dishonest than Trump. The Dems are going to lose the next elections if they don't smarten up and lose big.
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  10212.  @b0hd3n  Trump has repeatedly tried to stem the flow of migrants into the US and has felt that building a solid wall would be ONE effective measure in that attempt. Another would be to end the "catch and release" policy in effect today. Guess what? It's the Democrats and Rhinos who've voted against him. Being the president isn't like working at a regular job. A president is constrained by Congress and right now it's the Democrats that control the House. If the Democrats are determined to stop Trump, no matter what, it IS their fault if he can't stop the flow of illegal migrants. However, I will say that it may his fault that he couldn't hold the House in the mid term elections. There is a good reason for this balance of power. If it wasn't this way, a president isn't a president any longer. He becomes an autocratic ruler and will do what he wants with no constraints. That's exactly what the American founding fathers were trying to prevent. The Democrats could have helped to lay the foundation to prevent over 100,000 migrants detained at the border in March, but they didn't want to. Their aim was to make sure that Trump gets no credit for stopping the wave of migrants coming illegally into the US. That's not Trump's doing. That's the doing of the Democrats in the House.
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  10213.  @hunterb1215  The original comment could have been better stated but I will gladly give you the "like" now. Good luck to you.
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  10214. He did not. He said that it's the left that instigates the violence most of the time and that the right will do nothing unless attacked. That they'll walk around, waving flags and then go to the bar and drink beer. THAT'S what he said. He said that if there was to be violence, it would be the left that starts it. Guess what!!!!! That's exactly what happened. There was violence and it was Antifa that did it and 13 were arrested. This is his video from Saturday. Listen to what he said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhMuzKUNQP4
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  10215.  @KaosII1968  Except Tim predicted that it would be the Antifa that would cause the violence and he was correct. MSM claimed that it would be the "white supremacists" who would looking for trouble and are still trying their best to make it appear that it was them that were the problem. Tim ended up being correct and is telling the truth about what happened. MSM is spinning it to suit their own narrative. One is fact, the other is propaganda. If MSM told the truth on what happened, their stories would match up, but they don't. MSM are lying.....plain and simple. If you can't see the difference between the two stories you have a personal agenda that you're trying to serve.
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  10216.  @greghill7759  Who were they going to scream at? Each other? It's ok. I'm not going to be disappointed when you don't answer. In fact, I expect it.
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  10217.  @Darkpara1  The Americans should never has put the Shah in power. That's a fact. However, the way Iran is behaving today is their own doing. They didn't have to attack that oil installation. That was a choice they made. They don't have to support world terrorism. That's their choice. Behaving badly because the US behaved badly 65 years ago is no excuse. Getting beat up by a bunch of thugs a few years ago does not make it right for me to beat up people. It's poor logic.
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  10218.  @JB-uv4hm  I'd like to know how he pissed on the Constitution.
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  10219.  @leekh-a3933  Saudi Arabia is claiming it also. Iran is blaming Yemen. I don't play guessing games. If you have a reliable name for the attacker, up it. Just get to the point.
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  10220. @MacTehKnife And he's now exposing the left. Be glad that people have minds and some have the integrity to realise and admit their mistakes. If that didn't happen, we'd be screwed. Instead of criticising what he can't change, be glad he's now on OUR side, fighting against these commies. You should be welcoming him. You can't change the past. You can only change the now and the future and he wants to do that by fighting against the Democrats. GOOD!!!!!!!!!
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  10221. @Simon Grace Did you ever consider that the riots is what red pilled him? Something has to turn the tide for him. He's said that he's voting Red this November across the board. That means, and I'll say it loudly, HE'S NOT VOTING DEMOCRAT!!!! Good....great even. He's not voting Democrat. You can label it any way you like, if you don't like "red-pilled" but it doesn't change the fact that HE'S NOT VOTING DEMOCRAT!!!!! To add to that, he's laying down a really good case to show others why they shouldn't vote Democrat, either. We NEED people like that. We need people of influence, like Tim Pool, to preach against the insanity of the Democrats and influence others to NOT VOTE DEMOCRAT, EITHER!!!! It's so simple that I explained this to my 10 year old grand daughter and she gets it. We want him to continue to discourage people from voting Democrat. We want him to feel welcome so he'll try even HARDER to steer people away from the Democrats. We don't want to start ragging on him for things that he did in the past. That's leftist behaviour. It's what he's doing NOW that matters.
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  10222. @Simon Grace You can call it what you want. I'd say that the riots red pilled him to the reality of the Democrat party or as you would put it, the fundamental lies of the Democrats. But you don't have to say he's been red pilled to the lies of the Democrats. He just realised that the Democrats are insane and he's not voting for them. If saying that he's been red pilled on the Democrats doesn't suit you, fine. What does it matter how you say it or how you apply the word "red pilled" to his realisation of the Democrats. What matters is that he's not voting for the Democrats this November.
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  10223. I can show you a list of 500 WOMEN teachers, who've been convicted of having sex with their students. Women teachers. That's doesn't even include the men who've been convicted of the same thing and the conventional belief is that men are WORSE than women for this kind of thing. .....and this is who some are advocating on choosing what material should be in the library. Never, EVER, leave it to only one person or group. It's a sure fire recipe for abuse.
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  10224. It's not lust or greed. It's our instinct for survival. We're not about to let our children die before our eyes, so we keep working to bring them the security that is required for their immediate desire. Stop the work and people die. It's that simple.
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  10225.  @grantfraser5430  Charging him with fraud, in NY, when there's no victim, everyone made money, no customer complaint against him and a State Attorney, who ran on a platform of "taking him down", her words, and it does give them impression of an harassment campaign. Only the most brainwashed Democrat honestly believes that Mar-a-Lago is only worth 18 million. That's so ridiculous that the only way that charge could stick is if the judge was biased, as well. Having said this, if Trump is guilty of crimes, he should be prosecuted. However, that fraud charge is so repetitiously bad that it's only serving to recruit supporters for Trump. It's HURTING the Democrats. Don't allow your emotions, your hate, to dictate policy or your political stance. Use the facts.
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  10226. The Democrats have finally figured out a way to bring back segregation and they've made it so the minorities actually like it. It's brilliant. Soon, the super elites won't have to interact with black Americans anymore and they can rationalise it by saying that it's good for them and that this is what they want. To the back of the bus, guys. You know who you are. GET!!!!!
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  10227.  @Loveispatient_2024  Another one who just practices the same morally superior ideology that the left does. You just go to different categories. I suppose the Arabs were Jews and Freemasons, too. And those Aztecs....more Jews...Jewish Aztecs. A rather myopic view of history.
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  10228.  @AA4WF  Do not EVER underestimate the power of stupidity. Look into the Cultural Revolution of China. Millions were killed by people just like this, many of them students. The accusation was enough to put one through hell. Then there was the killing fields of Cambodia. Pol Pot wanted to create the Great Agrarian Society. Everyone was to be farmers on the communist collectives. Intellectuals were murdered and starved to death. If you wore glasses, you weren't safe. 25% of the people of Cambodia were killed in 4 years. When people are under the control of ideology, there's no telling how murderous they can become. It could be the person living under your roof that could become your biggest threat.
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  10229. Newsom was all about using authoritarian tactics, on ordinary law abiding citizens, to save people from Covid. However, he looks the other way when it's criminals destroying the lives of those same law abiding people. Also, those criminals in jail, have to show that they're seeking redemption BEFORE you let them out. It's NOT compassionate to the criminal or his victim to let them out without first proving that they're serious about turning their life around. You don't hand out redemption like candies on Halloween. Redemption is earned.
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  10230.  @sleazyneezy  Troll number one.
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  10231.  @sleazyneezy  Italy, France, Spain and the UK have 90 million less people than the US. GET THAT!!!! 90 million LESS people. Yet they have, in total, 138,000 deaths. Again. 90 million less.......7000 MORE deaths. You'd have to add the populations of the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway and you'd still be short 20 million people in total population. Also, you'd have another 30 thousand MORE deaths. Could it be that ALL you see is Trump, Trump, TRUUMMPP!!!!!? Could there be other factors involved? When you look at problems through a single lens, you'll never solve it. In your case, all you do is create anger and division. OH.....just in case you're wondering, I have the data to back this up. If you want to see it, ask. I don't expect you to ask but I'll put it out there. If you do, you'll be there first in the dozens that I've challenged.
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  10232. Cardi B twerking on the Grammys....wonderful and empowering. Formula One Grid Girls....sexist and disgusting. I'm not sure what the criteria is, when deciding these things, but I'm positive logic has nothing to do with it.
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  10233. From what I've learned about human history, we all came from Africa and our African ancestors were black. My ancestors, who moved into Eurasia, started to acquire white skin because of the new environment. I'm supposed to be BLACK. So, in light of this historical fact, I want to claim my ancient roots as a black man. I am a Black man....and because men can become women, I going to identify as a woman. A lesbian woman because it happens all the time. I'm a black lesbian woman. It's a legitimate claim.
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  10234.  @paulsoxl7739  He was having difficulty breathing. That's what he was saying and what he meant. Fentanyl restricts your ability to breathe and it can become so difficult that it will kill you. That's what killed Floyd and the autopsy report confirms it.
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  10235.  @jaylea8803  Capitalism is when the government forces small businesses to shut down and go bankrupt. Maybe you'd better brush up on your definition of the word.
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  10236. "Black folk is too dumb to get internet and ID and stuff and if you think they know how, you're a friggen racist." says the enlightened left.
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  10237.  @abc33155  The true stories are there to investigate in which transgender males, who still have all the male body parts, are using women's bathrooms and dressing rooms. They're claiming that they are now female and should be allowed to play sports with women and to use their dressing rooms. Many girls have complained that these males have stared at them while they were changing and that they felt violated and uncomfortable. So, yes......there is a tie between transgenders using female bathrooms and female sports. If you would allow a male, who could be pretending to be transgender, to share a bathroom with your daughter then the next question would logically be whether you would allow that SAME male to use an athletic change room with your daughter. In other words, it was a line of questioning that leads to a question on a transgender's right to play female sports and use the female change room and showers with the other girls. It's very relevant to the topic.
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  10238. "It was just research" says every pedo, ever.
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  10239.  @stephendoherty981  Hamas crossed their border, murdered and did unspeakable things to people at a music festival and kidnapped others and you blame Israel for starting the war. If Hamas didn't want war, they shouldn't have invaded Israel.
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  10240.  @TheCetarius  Explain how those judges followed the constitution in this ruling.
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  10241. @ Why don't you come out and say exactly what you mean. Stop with the cryptic nonsense and speak plainly.
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  10242.  @TheCetarius  Did Congress discuss and vote on every separate allocation of funds and give the money to USAID to distribute OR did Congress vote to give the money to USAID and allow them to distribute the funds as USAID saw fit and to who USAID wanted to give the money to. If it was the later, the power of the purse no long lies within Congress but with USAID. No one voted for the staff of USAID and is a back door way to distribute funds without having a vote in congress.
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  10243. As I thought. You have no answer to my comment. You know that USAID gave the money to whoever they wanted and that the one receiving the money was NOT approved by Congress.
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  10244. Anyone that would vote for the Party that supports "peaceful" protests has lost all sense of reality.
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  10245. I think a lot of the progressive students come from single child families. They've always been the centre of attention of their parents and have never had normal sibling conflicts in their lives. They leave home and become students and are shocked and appalled that some one would actually challenge them and actively disagree with what they say and believe. A sibling, especially if there are 2 or more, will teach you early in life that people are going to disagree with you and in these disputes, your parents aren't always going to agree with how you handled this type of adversity or take your side. A tough lesson that's better learned when you're young and not when you're 19 and trying to live on your own.
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  10246.  @TurboPickle4u  Make sure you use sun blocker while outdoors.
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  10247.  @t3dwards13  He said. "They'll let you grab them by the p.....". That implies consent. It's reprehensible behaviour but it's still legal. Spiking trees is an abhorrent and dangerous act of terrorism and is illegal. Why would anyone listen to a degree from her agency when she's already demonstrated that if you don't agree with government decisions, ignore it and physically rebel until you get what you want, even if it might kill someone? She's set the ground rules with her support of tree spiking. However, I'll bet she'll insist that you follow her mandates. She doesn't care about right or wrong. She cares about power and it's irrelevant what Trump does or says. This is about her.
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  10248.  @scottwasson  BS. You're repeating talking points that just aren't true. If and oil company could make money investing in solar panels or efficient car batteries, they'd be all over it. Besides, do you know how they make batteries? They use rare earth minerals that are in short supply in the west that unfriendly nations control. Rare earth minerals, which mean that they could run out rather quickly. There is only one way to change to clean energy. That's to maintain a strong economy using oil. That strong economy can give the tax breaks to do the research on clean energy so we can transition seamlessly. What we're doing now isn't changing a thing. We're not producing our own energy so we're buying it from others, who don't produce as cleanly as we do. We then ship it across the oceans risking HUGE ocean oil spill catastrophes and all the while shipping much needed cash, that we could use for clean energy research, to those countries who may not have any interest in doing the same. We need a balanced plan, not a sledgehammer.
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  10249.  @urgreatestenemy  Socialism definition: "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." ....the online dictionary. Socialism has to do with the means of production. The police is NOT something that's covered under production. It's a cost that either the individual, the local community or the state must endure. Production adds to the wealth of a nation. Social programs do not. They are a cost that we all must face. You're the one that doesn't understand what socialism means.
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  10250. My brother-in-law was told, by his vet, to give his dog aspirin to help it with arthritic pain. That's it for aspirin, I guess. Until I can lick my testicles, I ain't taking no dog medicine.
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  10251. Babylon Bee isn't making a political statement. This is a biological statement. Follow the science.....right??? That thing that might be bigger than us, I like to call it "The Truth". It's something that transcends what we think or believe. We can't fully know truth but it's the noblest of all human endeavours.
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  10252. The United States had a leader that cut back on illegal immigration dramatically. The voters cut him loose. He was doing it but Americans don't like mean tweets.
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  10253. It's NOT negligence, Tim. She made a mistake. It was a high pressure situation and she was under stress. Her timbre of her voice, during the confrontation, shows how much pressure she was under. Negligence strongly implies that she didn't care enough to do her job properly. This isn't the case, at all. Not all mistakes are negligence. Sometimes they're just mistakes. We all do them. We drop things, put them in the wrong drawer, I've poured juice into a bowl of oatmeal.....that doesn't mean I'm negligent or that I don't care. It's a mistake. You can't legislate mistakes away. You can mitigate them away through training but you'll NEVER eliminate them. We ask these people to do the dangerous jobs so that we don't have to and then we criminalise and villainize them when they make mistakes. Good luck recruiting new recruits to do those jobs. It'll end up being us who will have to deal with keeping the peace and we're not going to do very good job of it. Our cities will be over run with roving gangs of thugs and life in those cities will become unlivable.
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  10254. I've developed a racism vaccine. Pretty soon you won't be able to go to work, school, church, the movies, sporting events or shopping unless you get MY vaccine. I'll be rich, rich, RICH.....and you'll STILL be racist....just not as bad. I'll be winning the Nobel Prize for this.
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  10255. Since when do psychiatrists make a diagnosis by watching a guy on TV? Also, I'm wondering what this psychiatrist would say about forced psychiatric evaluations of the homeless? Just curious on that one.
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  10256. "Ms Plaskett......I'm SPEAKING TO YOU!!!" That's what I was thinking when seeing her talking through his response.
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  10257. And the BLM riots in Washington. Trump took his family into the safe bunker, in the White House, and the rioters even tried to set fire to the Church of the Presidents which sits at the corner of the White House lawn. Every president since 1816 has attended services there and BLM rioters tried to set fire to it.
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  10258.  @12Squared  They will never show shame for what they're saying. They'll just keep changing the story so it fits what they want to believe. They actually think that the Israeli military killed those young people at the music festival. It was all staged.....a false flag operation. They'll never see logic or reason or feel shame or regret. They'll lie to themselves before they'd admit they could be wrong.
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  10259.  @MichaelWinter-ss6lx  Not true. They are everywhere. My next door neighbour was poor and he tried to bully me all the time. I would load my pockets with rocks and if he came near me, I'd fire them at him. That would keep him off me for awhile, until things quieted down. Then I'd relax and forget to load up with rocks and he'd try it again. That kept up for years. I know that we like to blame an identity group but it's a biased viewpoint that doesn't help the kids in poor neighbourhoods at all.
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  10260.  @kellyedey8573  Selling drugs and telling the world what goes on in this neighbourhood. They're even calling for the military to come in and clean the place up. Top notch businessmen. LOL. Another one of those "head in the sand" commenters. If we pretend that it's not real, it's not real. We can just let the neighbourhood keep going on as it is because we live in the suburbs and it's NOT our problem. Not our problem until one of our family members end up down there and then when we try to tell people what's going on, we'll get people like you going "You like watching people fail. Don't be such voyeur" which shames people into not watching and continuing to be unaware of what's going on and people will continue to die before their time. You really are the epitome of empathy.
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  10261. I don't want them here. I don't want Justin here, either. They can all live in California where all the loud, whiny progressives live.
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  10262.  Flint Sissy  He didn't denounce it because he was trying to negotiate a deal with them. You don't start out negotiating with someone by calling your opponents out. They'll get angry and refuse to talk to you. It doesn't mean that you agree with them on everything. It means that you're willing to chip away at their position instead of bludgeoning them with a sledge hammer. This isn't how it works.... "You're a bunch of murdering tyrants and you shouldn't treat your own people the way that you do. Now.....give us a good deal". They'll tell you to hit the road and walk away. Oh yeah....the tariffs failed alright. The Chinese are in desperate straits, economically and it started long before the Covid crisis. They were finding it harder and harder to get products into the American market and it was hurting them. The tariff wars and the negotiations aren't completed yet. This isn't a movie where all is resolved within 2 hours. This is a process.
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  10263.  Hot Chen  The United States has a population of 335 million people. Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the UK have a combined population of 322 million people. That's 13 million people less. Yet, the United States has 45 thousand FEWER deaths than these countries COMBINED. Should these leaders also be name responsible for the 116 thousand deaths in their countries? Of course not!!!!! It's a disease and lots were saying it was like the flu, back in February, including the Democrats. In fact, the Democrats were more concerned with impeachment when Trump formed a task force and limited travel with China. On Feb. 4th, Trump talked about it in the State of the Union address, the one that Pelosi ripped up. Democrats still going on about impeachment and not ONE word about the virus that Trump was saying might be a problem. Debates between Biden and Sanders.....still not a word. On the 24th of Feb., 2 days after Trump asked for 2.5 billion to help fight the virus, Pelosi was in Chinatown, hugging people and telling people it was ok to be out and about. I could fill a book with MSM and Democrats treating it like the flu....and I don't blame them for those deaths. Why???? Because no one knew this was going to happen. YOU didn't know on Feb. 1st. Stop playing politics. It's stupid and it's childish and it a great way to show how your heart if filled with hate.
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  10264. Of course Democrats are saying "I can't believe that people are buying these lies". That's why they keep on lying. People ARE believing it....at least enough people are buying it so they think that they can continue with the bs.
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  10265.  Love day  That is a completely different matter. Another thing that this birthrate number doesn't address is whether this is a stable rate or whether it is going up or down. It could be alarming but we can't know from one number. I gave a chart showing rates from 1960 to the present and it showed that it stood at a high of 6 in 1960 and has been on a downward trend since. That would imply that the Muslim rate has been in decline as well but not as fast as the Hindu rate. However, I don't know because you've not shown a trend.
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  10266. You're one of the few in this video that showed any common sense. He's lucky, strike that, we're lucky, that your paths crossed.
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