jakee
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Right, a Democrat or a multiple Felon conman. Tell me again how you’re not one of the most intransigently partisan people here if you think those two things are the same?
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You mean like 'whatever Trump does Harris is worse'? As fatuous as that?
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A rapist? An insurrectionist? An election fraudster? A best friend of Putin? A dismantler of NATO? A destroyer of the independence of law enforcment and justice from political control? A normaliser, even legaliser of poitical corruption? A person causing indiscriminate damage to the essential organs of the federal government that will cost countless billions to fix in the short and long term? I mean, what exactly was she worse at?
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You claimed that spending has no impact on the economy but taxes do. You have no evidence for this and you are plain wrong. We both know you are wrong, because you just agreed with Bill that Trump’s spending cuts will drive the US towards recession. Everything else you said in the post I was replying to relies on the assumption that what you said about taxes and spending is true. It’s not true, you know it’s not true, so nothing else you said needs a response.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. And since you’ve now agreed with Bill that what you said was untrue, my comment was indeed more enlightening than yours.
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Europe has already supplied long range cruise missiles that the US would not. Europe provided tanks when the US would not. Europe provided fighter jets that the US would not.
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Not ignored. Trump’s administration has personally intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate - a pimp and pornographer with a huge following among school age kids - to ask that Romanian authorities go easy on him while he faces charges of serial rape and human trafficking.
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Neither of these things are true.
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You think that's going to be accomplished? Massive LOL.
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Even in the Leopards Eating People's Faces meme they said they wouldn't eat your face. Trump categorically told this guy that his was going to be the first face to get eaten. What on earth did he think was going to happen?
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Doesn’t take much figuring out - Putin has dazzled him with how much money they can both make mining for minerals in the land that’s been stolen from Ukraine. They’ve pretty much said this out loud multiple times.
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Right - fixing ducts costs money, and so no matter how important it is that the ducts get fixed the administration will make sure it's impossible to fix them. Let alone the on the nose analogy of accidentally firing thousands of the wrong people. Maybe if you spent less time fantasizing about helping the police kill people and more time finding out how politics works (like, what the US constitution actually says for a start) you'd be in a better position to have this conversation.
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What a surprise, you’re caught talking absolute nonsense and suddenly want to drop the subject. Chauvin had two cops helping him hold the already handcuffed Floyd on the ground and he didn’t let go. When Floyd fell unconscious he didn’t let go. When a cop couldn’t find a pulse he didn’t let go. When they called an ambulance he didn’t let go. When the ambulance arrived he didn’t let got. When the paramedic couldn’t find a pulse, he still didn’t let go. Oh but you, if only you had been there! One tiny bit of help from you doing what two other cops were already doing and everything would have been perfect… because you are just so goddamned special. Indeed, it is a very good analogy for what we’ve seen of Trump’s government so far.
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Obviously false. Described by who? Yes. A police officer was convicted of murder for something he did while on duty - the single most difficult thing to achieve in the entire American legal system. That didn't happen because of a narrative, it happened because of what Chauvin did. "At 8:20, a witness across the street began recording a video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck, Kueng applying pressure to Floyd's torso, and Lane applying pressure to Floyd's legs, while Thao stood nearby." You were going to shove another cop out of the way so you could help? Good luck with that, let me know how it goes for you. Seems like we;ve found something you know even less about than the US Constitution.
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It is truly staggering how many people can't see anything of the world outside their own house. We had the same thing after Brexit, any industry you can think of was chock full of people standing their in amazement. Transport, food, science, space, aviation, medicine, policing, construction, banking, all of it. 'Well of course I thought they'd never cut ties with my specialty, it's so obviously a good and useful thing! Not like all the other red tape holding everyone else's specialities back."
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You realise you are making the point that the MSM is not staying away from the story? It's a domestic US crime story getting global MSM coverage?
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I dont think you know what the first four sentences of the Constitution are, because I can't really see much relevance to this conversation. You don't wanna answer mine though? How rude 1) No. 2) Stupid question. Those aren't the only options. Let's assume you'd answer with the first option - then what would you have done if you were present when Derek Chauvin was killing George Floyd? You'd have helped him do it?
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The BBC is the biggest news website in the world…
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Cool. By who? Racists, probably? Like how Hegseth complained that no one could know if the chairman of the joint chiefs was qualified or just black, and has now fired him and replaced him with another white guy who is explicitly, legally unqualified for the job. Someone explain to me again how DEI is standing in the way of the glorious meritocracy ‘cos I’m still just not quite getting it.
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Just another example here that you can always do a hell of a lot worse than nothing. Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill In there supposed quest to root out fraud Doge is committing widespread fraud by giving definitively false reasons for firing people, leaving the government exposed to a staggering number of lawsuits. Paying more for the people you fired without any of the benefits of having them still doing their jobs. And that's before getting into firing 7,000 IRS employees during tax season - an approach which always leads to a much greater drop in government revenue. Now why on earth would two billionaires with extremely complex tax affairs (one of them a serial fraudster) think that's a good idea?
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Problem with fiscal conservatism is that the Federal government is going to need truly unprecedented levels of investment just to get back on an even keel after Trump is through with it.
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I get why you say hesitant, but it's also bolder because he made no attempt to provide any cover or alternate explanation for it. Just boom, here's my Nazi salute. If you don't like it, I have others. Also telling that it was so obviously fascist that one of the next speakers from National Rally (a French far right party that was founded and run for 40 years by a literal holocaust denier) refused to take the stage because of how bad it would look to be associated with him.
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Trump, the greatest negotiator in the world: "Well of course I believe Russia is telling me the truth, and you know they really hold all the cards here."
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So? There are all sorts of political parties around the world who advocate for killing all sorts of ethnic groups. The only one that Donald Trump thinks needs access to asylum in the US are white South Africans. On average the wealthiest and most privileged demographic in their own country. If we called it DEI as applied to immigration what would you think then?
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The early stages of the farcical Ukraine peace talks between.... the US and Russia only are like the worlds most twisted game of 'who said what'. Which of the statements below came from Trump, Hegseth and Rubio and which ones from Putin and Lavrov? "Ukraine cannot join Nato" "Ukraine cannot have its old borders back" "If Ukraine wanted a seat at the table they shouldn't have started the war" "Russia only strikes legitimate military targets" "Russia may not have to make any concessions at all for peace" "Zelenskyy is a dictator and his people hate him" Spoiler alert, in a truly insane turn of events all but one of those things was actually said by the USA. Could anyone tell which one is Russian without looking it up?
