JoeWeber
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My decision to go along came from my faith in modern medicine and the efficacy of vaccines, number 1. Number 2 was the information that ventilators etc. etc. were in short supply for those in high risk categories and hospital beds were forecast to be in short supply for everyone. Number 3 was just a desire to not be an asshole and get others upset because I was too good to wear a free, thin piece of paper over my mouth when in public. Seemed to work, best I can tell.
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Now that we have our Trump victory emboldened right wing brothers and sisters here to educate us in the dark arts do you reckon the value of DZ.com has gone up or down?
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Before you ran that through the right wing blender did it read: refusing to be intellectually honest is to be a partisan hack?
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I'll be repetitive for the point. My dad was a tail gunner in B-24's, shot down once and crashed on take-off twice. He saw a lot of the serious action, Ploesti, etc. He said the bravest pilots he saw in the war were the Redtails. They stayed with the bombers through the flack and usually used a few of themselves as decoys while the rest flew high cover. He said his group lost a lot of planes to flack but never one to fighters when the Redtails were escort.
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Man you are the gift that keeps on giving. Nothing she has said falsely can come close to any of the outright and provable lies Trump has told and you damn well know it. Further, if you are wrong about the damage Trump can cause please do not refer back to any of your bolt hole posts here and attempt to point out that you had your doubts. Yes you are smart, but you are also transparent.
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I understand how barcodes work, it was a metaphor. You continue to miss the point. I've said it repeatedly: it's not the issues so much as it's that Trump is an odious scumbag willing to harm anyone for an iota of personal gain. I will make money from his policies but I was happy to leave it on the table in exchange for being represented by an adult not a name calling bully who is both stupid and wide open to manipulation. It is there that we are different.
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How Wiki-smart of you. I must say, now that Trump's win has emboldened you to come out of the shadows I've learned a great deal. Mostly that I wasn't wrong at all about how different my world view is from that of most Trump supporters whose world views seem to have more blank spaces than a bar code.
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I'm guessing TF is that discrimination by a governmental agency is forbidden by the 14th Amendment. The issue is that we all seem to have our own views as to who is the discriminated against party. In Ron's interpretation, apparently, anyone not washed in the blood of Jesus Christ will do.
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Damn she can be uppity at times. You really should have pointed out her complete ignorance of sexual fluidity in ancient Greece as a whole and also how the Spartans managed their sexual anger. For sure she needs to learn how to play nice.
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Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
To be clear I am no longer going to bother. I can easily see this new normal out lasting me. I know those with kids and grandkids are going to be hopeful and that’s sensible for them. -
Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
Spend $100 on cancer surgery and see if that gets a lot worse. Unless you’re willing to spend moonshot amounts of tax dollars it will stay intractable. You think Musk gives a rats ass about the homeless? Of course a huge tax hike on the morbidly wealthy might help the financing but that isn’t why he’s helping America. -
Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
At the end of the day you voted for a convicted felon. You agree he’s odious but you held your nose and voted for him in the hopes that his VP and Billionaire fanboy, both who are obviously in it for themselves, might do some good. Trump, you think, with his Supreme Court enablers will temper his worst impulses? You are in for an awakening. -
They would, we won’t. They win, we don’t.
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Look, I don't expect you to get where I'm coming from because what I believe and what motivates me falls in most right wingers blind spot. I concern myself with the welfare of others when I vote. Also, I am simply appalled by Trumps behavior. He is inarguably a crude vulgarian, a puerile fool, and a dangerous narcissist, and that's just to start. No matter how much money he can provide to me by and through his policies, and I stand to benefit, I do not want him representing me or my country. He is embarrassing. To me character matters.
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Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
Thanks for clarifying my point. -
Owning real estate in Blue States is now a net positive, methinks.
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I'm thinking a go fund me or something. Maybe thoughts and prayers, too.
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Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
I've been troubled with this reply and trying to sort out what to say. The idea that 10-11 million people might be wrenched from their lives, undocumented or not, and the invariable large number of innocents who will be swept up as well doesn't bother you just doesn't sit with me. These people are your fellow human beings and having fellow human beings is what makes any sort of society possible. Fortunately your callous disregard for your fellow humans being deported has little chance of happening. I guess that is what makes me weak: I could never vote for anyone who held such a view no matter the advantage I might gain. -
Winsor, my deepest apologies. I now understand that you are making funnies, but we sadly are still coming around. I had the honor in Türkiye, but it was no pleasure, of standing in line for several hours to see the Beard of the Prophet, and several important swords and assorted gizmos. Most memorable was how we were quickly moved along when the blessed artifact was coming into view. The gizmos were available for extended staring. (sagfe)
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Quantity over quality?
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Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
Thank you for making crystal clear what I only suspected. No doubt when you learn that we don’t have a department of deportations staffed with 20,000 officers or a fleet of deportation aircraft and that there aren’t any countries jonesing to take their share of 11 million people or that the United States doesn’t drill baby drill but that companies do and they already have 9000 leases if they wanted to drill but haven’t you’ll find something similar to post for our edification. -
Some of them get it -- Sullivan Before the Election
JoeWeber replied to base698's topic in Speakers Corner
I'll concede, and have done so here repeatedly, that we missed a lot and Harris was far from the best candidate possible. But what is nonsensical to me is that the right seems unable to address Trumps criminality and unfitness in any serious way. For example, do you believe January 6 was a "love fest" as Trump has stated and will you be proud to be an American when he fulfills his promise to pardon the lot of those convicted of actions that resulted in 140 police officers being injured or worse? -
Bernays states the obvious, so in that sense he's right. Suderland simply uses the ancient idea of alchemy to argue that perception is reality. AKA Marketing 101.
