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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: B_B_C on August 29, 2024, 12:54:27 PM
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Am I the only person who needs a translator for BBC's posts? I can rarely understand them. lol
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Am I the only person who needs a translator for BBC's posts? I can rarely understand them. lol
He's on the right he's ok.
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Boo’d without mercy at his dumpster fire speech. How long before he reaches the Trumpy “I never even met the man” achievement level?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-d-vance-booed-entire-181225948.html
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He's on the right he's ok.
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Am I the only person who needs a translator for BBC's posts? I can rarely understand them. lol
Same here. At first I thought it was sarcasm, but lately it doesn't even seem like it. His posts just don't make any sense.
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What stands out in these side by side photos is that apparently, service men wearing eyeliner is not permitted. Eyelashes get thinner as we age, not thicker and darker.
"Eyelashes undergo the same aging changes that hair elsewhere: they become thinner in dimension as well as in density, they become shorter, straighter and with less of an outward and upward curve. Loss of pigment, is, of course, to be expected. And finally, the density tends to be irregular."
https://www.patelplasticsurgery.com/aging-thinning-eyelashes-latisse-treatment-utah.html#:~:text=%E2%80%8BEyelashes%20undergo%20the%20same,density%20tends%20to%20be%20irregular.
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He’s a loser, a rare mis-step from the Trump campaign. Awkward, low charisma, little “it” factor. A one-term senator who barely won thanks only to Trumps endorsement. I don’t see the appeal.
I don’t think it’ll matter much but when i think about they could have had Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, it seems like a missed opportunity. Tulsi Gabbard would have been my choice but I don’t think the “powers that be” care for her.
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He’s a loser, a rare mis-step from the Trump campaign. Awkward, low charisma, little “it” factor. A one-term senator who barely won thanks only to Trumps endorsement. I don’t see the appeal.
I don’t think it’ll matter much but when i think about they could have had Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, it seems like a missed opportunity. Tulsi Gabbard would have been my choice but I don’t think the “powers that be” care for her.
He listened to Duhnold Jr. That's was what swayed him.
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He listened to Duhnold Jr. That's was what swayed him.
Next time I'm sure he'll consult Lurkingforcock from getbig for political advice. ::)
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Next time I'm sure he'll consult Lurkingforcock from getbig for political advice. ::)
My advice to Trump would be get out of politics and the U.S. before a majority of folks finally conclude that you are nothing more than a grifter and a fraud and while you still can. Also, move to Afghanistan, Algeria, North Korea, and Syria or other countries with no U.S. extradition agreements. ;D
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Next time I'm sure he'll consult Lurkingforcock from getbig for political advice. ::)
It will be the best he ever got.
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My advice to Trump would be get out of politics and the U.S. before a majority of folks finally conclude that you are nothing more than a grifter and a fraud and while you still can. Also, move to Afghanistan, Algeria, North Korea, and Syria or other countries with no U.S. extradition agreements. ;D
Did Lurkingforcock PM you and tell you how to edit this post?
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Did Lurkingforcock PM you and tell you how to edit this post?
This makes no sense. I assume the sugar rush is to blame.
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Did Lurkingforcock PM you and tell you how to edit this post?
Why do you ask? Does this seem like something he would post? Well, intelligent people think like one another, so I will take your observation as a compliment. ;D
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He’s a loser, a rare mis-step from the Trump campaign. Awkward, low charisma, little “it” factor. A one-term senator who barely won thanks only to Trumps endorsement. I don’t see the appeal.
I don’t think it’ll matter much but when i think about they could have had Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, it seems like a missed opportunity. Tulsi Gabbard would have been my choice but I don’t think the “powers that be” care for her.
I would have preferred Tulsi, but Vance isn't a loser, and he will help with Pennsylvania.
He's actually intelligent, and will debate Walz just fine.
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I would have preferred Tulsi, but Vance isn't a loser, and he will help with Pennsylvania.
He's actually intelligent, and will debate Walz just fine.
He's a military guy. Walz is in deep shit IF there is actually a debate. These people can't defend the ideas the espouse.
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He's a military guy. Walz is in deep shit IF there is actually a debate. These people can't defend the ideas the espouse.
Seems to me Vance has dug his grave with attacks on Walz' service. It was obviously politically motivated and can't stand up to a debate.
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Seems to me Vance has dug his grave with attacks on Walz' service. It was obviously politically motivated and can't stand up to a debate.
Aren't all of these attacks from both side politically motivated?
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What stands out in these side by side photos is that apparently, service men wearing eyeliner is not permitted. Eyelashes get thinner as we age, not thicker and darker.
"Eyelashes undergo the same aging changes that hair elsewhere: they become thinner in dimension as well as in density, they become shorter, straighter and with less of an outward and upward curve. Loss of pigment, is, of course, to be expected. And finally, the density tends to be irregular."
https://www.patelplasticsurgery.com/aging-thinning-eyelashes-latisse-treatment-utah.html#:~:text=%E2%80%8BEyelashes%20undergo%20the%20same,density%20tends%20to%20be%20irregular.
He was a journalist in the Marines....he didn't fight at Iwo Jima..
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He’s a loser, a rare mis-step from the Trump campaign. Awkward, low charisma, little “it” factor. A one-term senator who barely won thanks only to Trumps endorsement. I don’t see the appeal.
I don’t think it’ll matter much but when i think about they could have had Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, it seems like a missed opportunity. Tulsi Gabbard would have been my choice but I don’t think the “powers that be” care for her.
I knew nothing about him before he was picked, but this is not factual. He wrote a best-selling autobiography and had Ron Howard make a movie about his life. And his life has been remarkable. The opposite of a loser.
I have been watching him on the interview circuit and he has been nailing it. He is head and shoulders better, more accomplished, and smarter than Harris and Stolen Valor Tampon Tim.
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Aren't all of these attacks from both side politically motivated?
Well, well. You got this exactly right. Good job, Chaos.
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He was a journalist in the Marines....he didn't fight at Iwo Jima..
That doesn't matter. There were journalists in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea. Nobody parses or ranks their combat service. Serving in a combat zone means your life is consistently in danger, regardless of what your MOS is.
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That doesn't matter. There were journalists in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea. Nobody parses or ranks their combat service. Serving in a combat zone means your life is consistently in danger, regardless of what your MOS is.
My late uncle Lowell was a foreign war correspondent during WWII. Based on the stories he shared with family and his book Parachute to Berlin, I agree with you this is a dangerous job.
https://www.amazon.com/Parachute-Berlin-Lowell-Bennett/dp/1636243169#:~:text=Lowell%20Bennett%20was%20born%20in,the%20American%20International%20News%20Service.
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My late uncle Lowell was a foreign war correspondent during WWII. Based on the stories he shared with family and his book Parachute to Berlin, I agree with you this is a dangerous job.
https://www.amazon.com/Parachute-Berlin-Lowell-Bennett/dp/1636243169#:~:text=Lowell%20Bennett%20was%20born%20in,the%20American%20International%20News%20Service.
Your late uncle sounds like he was a great person, although Vince and I were both talking about service members who worked as journalists, not civilian journalists. Not demeaning your uncle's work, but it's not comparable. Civilians can leave anytime they want. Service members cannot.
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“He thinks while he’s talking. And he talks fast,” Trump said, praising Vance to a confidant . “And he goes everywhere.”
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Your late uncle sounds like he was a great person, although Vince and I were both talking about service members who worked as journalists, not civilian journalists. Not demeaning your uncle's work, but it's not comparable. Civilians can leave anytime they want. Service members cannot.
Of course you did not intend to demean my uncle, but you underestimated the dangers of his occupation and his commitment. Prior to becoming a correspondent, because my grandmother was a native of France, Uncle Lowell felt duty bound to join the French Army, but he was captured when that country surrendered to Nazi Germany in June 1940. The United States was neutral at the time, and being an American by birth, he was released and ended up in London.
Actually, some folks like my uncle could not leave anytime they wanted. This is why he couldn't; 'LONDON, Jan. 21 -- Lowell Bennett, 24-year-old war correspondent of the International News Service, who has been missing since he went as an observer on an RAF attack on Berlin on Dec. 2, is alive, unhurt, and a prisoner of war in Germany, it was revealed here today. https://www.nytimes.com/1944/01/22/archives/missing-us-reporter-is-captive-in-reich-lowell-bennett-took-part-in.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1944/01/22/archives/missing-us-reporter-is-captive-in-reich-lowell-bennett-took-part-in.html)
You might find this article interesting as well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pow_Wow_(newspaper) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pow_Wow_(newspaper))
Lowell Bennett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920. He embarked early on a life of adventure that took him all over the world, before meeting his Scottish wife-to-be in London in 1940, (Aunt Elizabeth) and becoming a war correspondent for the American International News Service. His first war assignment was covering the Allied invasion of Tunisia in October 1942, a story he tells in his first book Assignment to Nowhere, published by the Vanguard Press in 1943.
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Parachute to Berlin, full synopsis:
The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.
Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.
Uncle Lowell joined the State Department and saw service in Germany during the Berlin Airlift. Eventually, he became a career diplomat.
In 1948, when I was four my grandmother took me with her to France. It was decided on this trip that I would stay with my uncle and his second wife in Berlin for a while prior to when Aunt Noelle gave birth to their first daughter. I had the privilege of attending a German speaking preschool while there.
Thank you, Dos, for inspiring me to assemble these pieces of my uncle's illustrious biography. Most of which I already knew. I found additional information and articles about him, which I will add to what I have in Family Tree. The last time I saw uncle Lowell and Aunt Noelle was in 1988 when my wife and I visited them at their 300-year-old chateau in Lafat, France, which is where they lived for many years. He passed in 1997.
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Of course you did not intend to demean my uncle, but you underestimated the dangers of his occupation and his commitment. Prior to becoming a correspondent, because my grandmother was a native of France, Uncle Lowell felt duty bound to join the French Army, but he was captured when that country surrendered to Nazi Germany in June 1940. The United States was neutral at the time, and being an American by birth, he was released and ended up in London.
Actually, some folks like my uncle could not leave anytime they wanted. This is why he couldn't; 'LONDON, Jan. 21 -- Lowell Bennett, 24-year-old war correspondent of the International News Service, who has been missing since he went as an observer on an RAF attack on Berlin on Dec. 2, is alive, unhurt, and a prisoner of war in Germany, it was revealed here today. https://www.nytimes.com/1944/01/22/archives/missing-us-reporter-is-captive-in-reich-lowell-bennett-took-part-in.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1944/01/22/archives/missing-us-reporter-is-captive-in-reich-lowell-bennett-took-part-in.html)
You might find this article interesting as well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pow_Wow_(newspaper) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pow_Wow_(newspaper))
Lowell Bennett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920. He embarked early on a life of adventure that took him all over the world, before meeting his Scottish wife-to-be in London in 1940, (Aunt Elizabeth) and becoming a war correspondent for the American International News Service. His first war assignment was covering the Allied invasion of Tunisia in October 1942, a story he tells in his first book Assignment to Nowhere, published by the Vanguard Press in 1943.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41zQ3U0vDUL._SY445_SX342_.jpg) (https://tantor-site-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/books/238x238/P0506_ParachuteBerlin-238x238.jpg)
Parachute to Berlin, full synopsis:
The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.
Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.
Uncle Lowell joined the State Department and saw service in Germany during the Berlin Airlift. Eventually, he became a career diplomat.
In 1948, when I was four my grandmother took me with her to France. It was decided on this trip that I would stay with my uncle and his second wife in Berlin for a while prior to Aunt Noelle gave birth to their first daughter. I had the privilege of attending a German speaking preschool while there.
Thank you, Dos, for inspiring me to assemble these pieces of my uncle's illustrious biography. Most of which I already knew. I found additional information and articles about him, which I will add to what I have in Family Tree. The last time I saw uncle Lowell and Aunt Noelle was in 1988 when my wife and I visited them at their 300-year-old chateau in Lafat, France, which is where they lived for many years. He passed in 1997.
Sounds like he was a great person.
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Sounds like he was a great person.
He was also quite a character and a fun uncle.
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“JD’s plenty combative. He wants to get thrown in the ring and we’re happy he does,” a Trump campaign adviser said. “He doesn’t take any guff from anyone. And that’s important in this world. . . . he and [the former] president talk almost every day.”
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Bears a resemblance to that cuckold Jerry Falwell Jr.
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Bears a resemblance to that cuckold Jerry Falwell Jr.
Freaky stuff going on in that family.
In January 2022, Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki Tilley, spoke about their scandal in an interview with Vanity Fair.[72][73] Tilley admitted to a years-long affair with the pool attendant, Giancarlo Granda, starting in March 2012 and continuing through 2014. She said they met when Granda was working at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, and that they had made sex tapes with each other. Falwell said that he once walked in on his wife and the pool attendant having sex; he called it "traumatizing." Tilley said that Granda pressured her into sex on one occasion in 2018 although she "kept saying no", and she realized later it could be considered assault. Granda denied the accusation but did not comment on the rest of the interview, promising answers in a forthcoming book[65] and Hulu documentary, God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell_Jr.
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The winner of the Trump Harris debate :
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"American history is a constant war between Northern Yankees and Southern Bourbons, where whichever side the hillbillies are on, wins. And that’s kind of how I think about American politics today, is like, the Northern Yankees are now the hyper-woke, coastal elites. The Southern Bourbons are sort of the same old-school Southern folks that have been around and influential in this country for 200 years. And it’s like the hillbillies have really started to migrate towards the Southern Bourbons instead of the Northern woke people. That’s just a fundamental thing that’s happening in American politics."
https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1833557803048296708 (https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1833557803048296708)
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The winner of the Trump Harris debate :
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Are those hair implants?
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“I think our people hate the right people,” JD Vance
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/going-back-to-cincinnati/ (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/going-back-to-cincinnati/)
Aug 23, 2021
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Are those hair implants?
Who knows? I does raise the question as to whether he has eyelash extensions or implants (yes, this procedure is possible). This would explain why he looks like he is wearing eyeliner.
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Hahahha. Just as stupid as his boss.
And just like his boss, by his own admittance, he has no problem making up lies and spreading them.
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JD Vance mocked for another botched photo opp — as he blames Harris for eggs costing $4 while standing in front of a $2.99 display
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=JD+Vance+mocked+for+another+botched+photo+opp+%E2%80%94+as+he+blames+Harris+for+eggs+costing+%244+while+standing+in+front+of+a+%242.99+display
JD Vance was roundly mocked online over a trip to the supermarket where he bemoaned the steep price of eggs — and botched the photo opp.
The Republican vice presidential nominee stopped by a supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvania, with his sons over the weekend to illustrate how grocery prices have been impacted by “Kamala Harris’s policies” when he claimed a dozen eggs cost $4.
The problem? When footage of the visit emerged, Vance was quickly called out by viewers who spotted the price tag of a dozen eggs behind him was actually $2.99.
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Hahahha. Just as stupid as his boss.
And just like his boss, by his own admittance, he has no problem making up lies and spreading them.
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JD Vance mocked for another botched photo opp — as he blames Harris for eggs costing $4 while standing in front of a $2.99 display
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=JD+Vance+mocked+for+another+botched+photo+opp+%E2%80%94+as+he+blames+Harris+for+eggs+costing+%244+while+standing+in+front+of+a+%242.99+display
JD Vance was roundly mocked online over a trip to the supermarket where he bemoaned the steep price of eggs — and botched the photo opp.
The Republican vice presidential nominee stopped by a supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvania, with his sons over the weekend to illustrate how grocery prices have been impacted by “Kamala Harris’s policies” when he claimed a dozen eggs cost $4.
The problem? When footage of the visit emerged, Vance was quickly called out by viewers who spotted the price tag of a dozen eggs behind him was actually $2.99.
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In reality, egg prices (at least at the grocery stores I shop at) are all over the place. If you, like me, buy local, organic, free-range eggs, you can expect to pay a premium. Safeway is presently charging $7.99 for one-dozen eggs of the brand shown below. There are much less expensive options for folks who are not as fussy as I am and who may eat them more often than I do. A dozen eggs sometimes last me a couple of weeks.
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Looks like an older Bobby, I tell you what.
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The winning candidate of the presidential election
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“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said in 2021. “If we’re going to push back against it, we have to get pretty wild, pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”
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facts never came into the equation in this election it was all emotion, and some dated back to the 1800's
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As recently as 2022, Musk tweeted that “for Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.” He tweeted that “Trump would be 82 at end of his term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America.”
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facts never came into the equation in this election it was all emotion, and some dated back to the 1800's
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As recently as 2022, Musk tweeted that “for Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.” He tweeted that “Trump would be 82 at end of his term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America.”
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Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America
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Introduction by JD Vance
" In the classic American film Pulp Fiction, John Travolta’s character, recently returned from Amsterdam, observes that Europe has the same consumer goods as America, but there it’s just a “little different.” That’s how I feel about Kevin Roberts’s life. He grew up in a poor family in a corner of the country largely ignored by America’s elites—but his corner was in Louisiana and mine in Ohio and Kentucky. Like me, he’s a Catholic, but unlike me, he was born into it. His grandparents played an outsized role in his life, just as mine did. And now he works far from where he grew up, just a few steps from my office, in Washington, DC: he is the president of one of Washington’s most influential think tanks, and I’m a US senator.
Now he has written the book you hold in your hands, which explores many of the themes I’ve focused on in my own work. Yet he does so profoundly, with a readable style that makes accessible its real intellectual rigor.
Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism. The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill; it is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. Yet it is Heritage’s power and influence that makes it easy to avoid risks. Roberts could collect a nice salary, write decent books, and tell donors what they want to hear. But Roberts believes doing the same old thing could lead to the ruin of our nation.
If you’ve read a lot of conservative books or think you have a good sense of the conservative movement, I suspect the pages that follow will be surprising—even jarring. Roberts understands economics and supports basic free market principles, but he doesn’t make an idol out of decades old theories. He argues persuasively that the modern financial corporation was almost entirely foreign to the founders of our nation. The closest eighteenth-century analogue to the modern Apple or Google is the British East India company, a monstrous hybrid of public and private power that would have made its subjects completely unable to access an American sense of liberty. The idea that our founders meant to make their citizens subjects to this kind of hybrid power is ahistorical and preposterous, yet too many modern “conservatives” make such an idol out of the market that they ignore this. A private company that can censor speech, influence elections, and work seamlessly with intelligence services and other federal bureaucrats deserves the scrutiny of the Right, not its support. Roberts not only gets this at an instinctive level; he can articulate a political vision to engage in that scrutiny effectively.
Roberts sees a conservatism that is focused on the family. In this, he borrows from the old American Right that recognized—correctly, in my view—that cultural norms and attitudes matter. We should encourage our kids to get married and have kids. We should teach them that marriage isn’t just a contract, but a sacred—and to the extent possible, lifelong—union. We should discourage them from behaviors that threaten the stability of their families. But we should also do something else: create the material circumstances such that having a family isn’t only for the privileged. That means better jobs at all levels of the income ladder. That means protecting American industries—even if it leads to higher consumer prices in the short term. That means listening to our young people who are telling us they can’t afford to buy a home or start a family, not just criticizing them for a lack of virtue. Roberts is articulating a fundamentally Christian view of culture and economics: recognizing that virtue and material progress go hand in hand.
My childhood was not, by any objective measure, easy. Neither was that of Kevin Roberts. Both of us were negatively impacted by family instability, and both of us were saved by the resilience of the thick network of family—grandparents, aunts, uncles—that is often the first and most effective component of our social safety net. Both of us saw how a factory leaving a town could destroy the economic stability that provided the foundation for those families. And both of us learned to love the country that gave both of us and our families second chances, despite some bumps along the way. In these pages, Kevin is trying to figure out how we preserve as much of what worked in his own life, while correcting what didn’t. To do that, we need more than a politics that simply removes the bad policies of the past. We need to rebuild. We need an offensive conservatism, not merely one that tries to prevent the left from doing things we don’t like.
Here’s an analogy I sometimes use to articulate what the previous generation of conservatives got right and wrong. Imagine a well-maintained garden in a patch of sunlight. It has some imperfections of course, and many weeds. The very thing that makes it attractive for the things we try to cultivate makes it attractive for the things we don’t. In an effort to eliminate the bad, a well-meaning gardener treats the garden with a chemical solution. This kills many of the weeds, but it also kills many of the good things. Undeterred, the gardener keeps adding the solution. Eventually, the soil is inhospitable.
In this analogy, modern liberalism is the gardener, the garden is our country, and the voices discouraging the gardener were conservatives. We were right, of course: in an effort to correct problems—some real, some imagined—we made a lot of mistakes as a country in the 1960s and 1970s.
But to bring the garden back to health, it is not enough to undo the mistakes of the past. The garden needs not just to stop adding a terrible solution, though it does need that. It needs to be recultivated. The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems—we are no longer in this situation and must take a different approach. As Kevin Roberts writes, “It’s fine to take a laissez-faire approach when you are in the safety of the sunshine. But when the twilight descends and you hear the wolves, you’ve got to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”
We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon."
—J.D. Vance
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How is Vance going to deal Mr Trump running for president in 2028?
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Nobody does Trump better than Trump
anybody trying as Mr Vance seems to be here is just a useful relatively powerless stooge
"I think it’s very simple. Look, if you protested peacefully on January the 6th, and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned. And there’s a little bit of a gray area there, but . . . there are a lot of people we think in the wake of January the 6th who were prosecuted unfairly. We need to rectify that."
"Margaret, I noticed that you cut off the thing that I said immediately after that. The full quote is that of course, there are gray areas. And here’s the nature of the gray area: Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice denied constitutional protections in the prosecutions. There were double standards in how sentences were applied to the J6 protesters versus other groups."
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And that’s exactly what we did. We looked at 1,600 cases. And the thing that came out of it, Margaret, is that there was a massive denial of due process of liberty, and a lot of people were denied their constitutional rights. The president believes that. I believe that. And I think he made the right decision.
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Vance is great.
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Vance is great.
he is not if he just mimics Trump albeit with fancier linguistics
He needs to act more like he knows he can not be sacked by Mr Trump other wise he may as well bide his time to election 2032
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he is not if he just mimics Trump albeit with fancier linguistics
He needs to act more like he knows he can not be sacked by Mr Trump other wise he may as well bide his time to election 2032
You are viewing this through a lens of hate, which is making you try to reach for things that don't exist so you can still have some hope they will fail. You might not even be consciously doing this, but it's a common theme of the TDS inflicted that has occurred since Trump won.
For the unclouded, Vance is intelligent, articulate, interviews well, gets his points across clearly, does not let an interviewer get away with falsehoods, admits mistakes, and is overall polite. He understands the agenda, and is able to explain it reasonably, without the hyperbole and BS that can get thrown in.
Unless something goes way off course, he's the candidate for 2028. Sure a lot can happen between now and then, but it's set up a good as it can be at this point.
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You are viewing this through a lens of hate, which is making you try to reach for things that don't exist so you can still have some hope they will fail. You might not even be consciously doing this, but it's a common theme of the TDS inflicted that has occurred since Trump won.
For the unclouded, Vance is intelligent, articulate, interviews well, gets his points across clearly, does not let an interviewer get away with falsehoods, admits mistakes, and is overall polite. He understands the agenda, and is able to explain it reasonably, without the hyperbole and BS that can get thrown in.
Unless something goes way off course, he's the candidate for 2028. Sure a lot can happen between now and then, but it's set up a good as it can be at this point.
There is a reason why he was #1 at Yale.
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There is a reason why he was #1 at Yale.
then he must have deliberately avoided studying Marbury v. Madison.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/5us137 (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/5us137)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison)
other wise he would not have claimed :
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then he must have deliberately avoided studying Marbury v. Madison.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/5us137 (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/5us137)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison)
other wise he would not have claimed :
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My friend, you are equating one judge with the SCOTUS. I see a big difference between the two.
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My friend, you are equating one judge with the SCOTUS. I see a big difference between the two.
how does the difference impinge on the principle established by Marbury V Madison?
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My friend, you are equating one judge with the SCOTUS. I see a big difference between the two.
So will SCOTUS.
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The comparison…
https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1890451808562159722?s=46
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JD just gave a fantastic speech in Europe. Makes Kuntmala look like the POS she is, and the STUPID cu nts that voted for her, dumbest fucks on the planet, truly despicable!
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JD just gave a fantastic speech in Europe. Makes Kuntmala look like the POS she is, and the STUPID cu nts that voted for her, dumbest fucks on the planet, truly despicable!
Yep really dumb & stupid idiots - Try getting someone like Prime to explain
Why he backed her & voted for her. - He can't & won't.
She was hopeless & useless from the start.
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Yep really dumb & stupid idiots - Try getting someone like Prime to explain
Why he backed her & voted for her. - He can't & won't.
She was hopeless & useless from the start.
What makes you think I would not and cannot explain why I backed and will continue to back VP Harris? She was and is the better Candidate for President of the U.S. by a long shot, IMO.
I don't expect you to agree with me because your head is stuck so far up your ass you cannot see straight.
Regardless of what you think, time will prove me right and you wrong. Perhaps sooner rather than later the way Trump's dictatorship is going less than a month after he took office... or was it the South African, nut job, Elon Musk who assumed that role? It is hard to tell at this point.
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What makes you think I would not and cannot explain why I backed and will continue to back VP Harris? She was and is the better Candidate for President of the U.S. by a long shot, IMO.
I don't expect you to agree with me because your head is stuck so far up your ass you cannot see straight.
Regardless of what you think, time will prove me right and you wrong. Perhaps sooner rather than later the way Trump's dictatorship is going less than a month after he took office... or was it the South African, nut job, Elon Musk who assumed that role? It is hard to tell at this point.
LOL what mindless clown. Self deport, Libcunt!
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What makes you think I would not and cannot explain why I backed and will continue to back VP Harris? She was and is the better Candidate for President of the U.S. by a long shot, IMO.
I don't expect you to agree with me because your head is stuck so far up your ass you cannot see straight.
Regardless of what you think, time will prove me right and you wrong. Perhaps sooner rather than later the way Trump's dictatorship is going less than a month after he took office... or was it the South African, nut job, Elon Musk who assumed that role? It is hard to tell at this point.
You've gone completely crackers.
HTH
👊🏻
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While Mr Trump is getting all the coverage and glory over the recent "great Television"
the real winner within the administration is Mr Vance as he advances Project2025 , getting Mr Trump and the Muskovite to do the heavy lifting until as he is bidened
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“The breakdown of democracy in the United States will not give rise to a classic dictatorship in which elections are a sham and the opposition is locked up, exiled, or killed,” they wrote. “Even in a worst-case scenario, Trump will not be able to rewrite the Constitution or overturn the constitutional order. He will be constrained by independent judges, federalism, the country’s professionalized military, and high barriers to constitutional reform. There will be elections in 2028, and Republicans could lose them.”
“But authoritarianism does not require the destruction of the constitutional order. What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism – a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent’s abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. Most autocracies that have emerged since the end of the Cold War fall into this category, including Alberto Fujimori’s Peru, Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, and contemporary El Salvador, Hungary, India, Tunisia, and Turkey.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump)
Mr Trump is only a shop front distraction.
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“The breakdown of democracy in the United States will not give rise to a classic dictatorship in which elections are a sham and the opposition is locked up, exiled, or killed,” they wrote. “Even in a worst-case scenario, Trump will not be able to rewrite the Constitution or overturn the constitutional order. He will be constrained by independent judges, federalism, the country’s professionalized military, and high barriers to constitutional reform. There will be elections in 2028, and Republicans could lose them.”
“But authoritarianism does not require the destruction of the constitutional order. What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism – a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent’s abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. Most autocracies that have emerged since the end of the Cold War fall into this category, including Alberto Fujimori’s Peru, Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, and contemporary El Salvador, Hungary, India, Tunisia, and Turkey.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump)
Mr Trump is only a shop front distraction.
Hate America? GTFO you won’t be missed, BIG BLACK C ocksucker!
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ah that time of day when the dingleberry twins make their presentations on getbig one by one
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ah that time of day when the dingleberry twins make their presentations on getbig one by one
Fuck outta here, KAREN!
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What makes you think I would not and cannot explain why I backed and will continue to back VP Harris? She was and is the better Candidate for President of the U.S. by a long shot, IMO.
I don't expect you to agree with me because your head is stuck so far up your ass you cannot see straight.
Regardless of what you think, time will prove me right and you wrong. Perhaps sooner rather than later the way Trump's dictatorship is going less than a month after he took office... or was it the South African, nut job, Elon Musk who assumed that role? It is hard to tell at this point.
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You'd never mentioned her & how good a President she'd make until they Dumped Joe
& Put her up.
Word salad Fucking 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
You are so Funny.
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What makes you think I would not and cannot explain why I backed and will continue to back VP Harris? She was and is the better Candidate for President of the U.S. by a long shot, IMO.
I don't expect you to agree with me because your head is stuck so far up your ass you cannot see straight.
Regardless of what you think, time will prove me right and you wrong. Perhaps sooner rather than later the way Trump's dictatorship is going less than a month after he took office... or was it the South African, nut job, Elon Musk who assumed that role? It is hard to tell at this point.
WOW, you really are a TARD!
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WOW, you really are a TARD!
Notice he didn't explain or back it up.
FFS Pedo Joe was bad enough & He thinks the mad laughing Hyena Khvntmala
With her word salad crap & unable to do on the spot spur of the moment interviews
Hell she didn't even know if she were Black / white / or Indian. What a 🤡
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Notice he didn't explain or back it up.
FFS Pedo Joe was bad enough & He thinks the mad laughing Hyena Khvntmala
With her word salad crap & unable to do on the spot spur of the moment interviews
Hell she didn't even know if she were Black / white / or Indian. What a 🤡
Hear you, anyone who would support Kuntmala is an absolute idiot.
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You'd never mentioned her & how good a President she'd make until they Dumped Joe
& Put her up.
Word salad Fucking 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
You are so Funny.
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Why would I have? She wasn't running for President before that.
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Why would I have? She wasn't running for President before that.
Pipe down, Stupid!
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Why would I have? She wasn't running for President before that.
You still haven't explained why she would've been a better President than Donald.
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You still haven't explained why she would've been a better President than Donald.
You'll never get an answer to that.
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You still haven't explained why she would've been a better President than Donald.
The retarded "sucker of caulk" is probably the biggest PoS on the internet. Loony, perverted, twisted, distorted mind.
Sucks cock, and even worse, when wife was dying.
A true vile, deranged libturd...
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You'll never get an answer to that.
Nope probably not ::)
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The retarded "sucker of caulk" is probably the biggest PoS on the internet. Loony, perverted, twisted, distorted mind.
Sucks cock, and even worse, when wife was dying.
A true vile, deranged libturd...
His answers / replies have certainley gone down hill in the last few years
& he does appear to have very odd thoughts & outlook to what is Normal.
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His answers / replies have certainley gone down hill in the last few years
& he does appear to have very odd thoughts & outlook to what is Normal.
Crazy people don't get more sane as they age.
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Crazy people don't get more sane as they age.
Ha Ha - nope they don't
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The retarded "sucker of caulk" is probably the biggest PoS on the internet. Loony, perverted, twisted, distorted mind.
Sucks cock, and even worse, when wife was dying.
A true vile, deranged libturd...
;D
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Ha Ha - nope they don't
Right.
Whatever we are we get more so.
"Our behaviors, thoughts, and habits tend to reinforce themselves over time, leading to an amplification of existing traits and tendencies.
When we believe something about ourselves, we often act in ways that make that belief come true.
Repeated actions become automatic, making it easier to continue on the same path.
We actively seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs, further solidifying them."
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Right.
Whatever we are we get more so.
"Our behaviors, thoughts, and habits tend to reinforce themselves over time, leading to an amplification of existing traits and tendencies.
When we believe something about ourselves, we often act in ways that make that belief come true.
Repeated actions become automatic, making it easier to continue on the same path.
We actively seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs, further solidifying them."
More copy and paste from the board RETARD!
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You still haven't explained why she would've been a better President than Donald.
That is has to be explained... is why we are in this shit hole we are in. I know you are not American, and your interest in our politics is amusing, but that anyone has to explain to you why Kamala, or the kid living next door to you wouldn't be a better candidate speaks volumes
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That is has to be explained... is why we are in this shit hole we are in. I know you are not American, and your interest in our politics is amusing, but that anyone has to explain to you why Kamala, or the kid living next door to you wouldn't be a better candidate speaks volumes
This is just deflection, and it's something I see you do when you can't answer something. You make this kind of post, someone responds, and you just disappear for awhile until the thread moves on.
I'm not stupid. I keep up on events, research them, use independent sources, and listen to other views.
I have not seen one compelling argument on why Harris would have been better, be it policy, past history, etc...
Go for it. I will listen.
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That is has to be explained... is why we are in this shit hole we are in. I know you are not American, and your interest in our politics is amusing, but that anyone has to explain to you why Kamala, or the kid living next door to you wouldn't be a better candidate speaks volumes
I don't give a toss what you think of my interest in American politics
& if that has to be explained to you then you're stupider than I thought.
As neither you or Prime is able to to say why she would be so much
better - you both just post around the subject with deflection replies.
IIRC the majority of American voters didnt think she was going
to be better , that's why she lost.
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This is just deflection, and it's something I see you do when you can't answer something. You make this kind of post, someone responds, and you just disappear for awhile until the thread moves on.
I'm not stupid. I keep up on events, research them, use independent sources, and listen to other views.
I have not seen one compelling argument on why Harris would have been better, be it policy, past history, etc...
Go for it. I will listen.
Both He & Prime are fond of making these blanket stupid statements & then don't /can't back them up with any meaningful substance.
And either run away for a while [common tactic for AG ] or just ignore
giving a sensible reply - Primes usual tactic.
They don't have anything worthwhile to say & just play at being obtuse.
Libturd Dummycraps we saw their Childish Pathetic behaviour at Trumps
speech & these 2 fools are doing the same. ::)
Pathetic arent they.
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That is has to be explained... is why we are in this shit hole we are in. I know you are not American, and your interest in our politics is amusing, but that anyone has to explain to you why Kamala, or the kid living next door to you wouldn't be a better candidate speaks volumes
Only one in a shithole is you, Clown!
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He’s a loser, a rare mis-step from the Trump campaign. Awkward, low charisma, little “it” factor. A one-term senator who barely won thanks only to Trumps endorsement. I don’t see the appeal.
I don’t think it’ll matter much but when i think about they could have had Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, it seems like a missed opportunity. Tulsi Gabbard would have been my choice but I don’t think the “powers that be” care for her.
Trump picked him and he only picks the best people. Of course, he wanted to hang the last VP so I could be mistaken. I hear you can't trust him in a room with a couch though. 8)
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Both He & Prime are fond of making these blanket stupid statements & then don't /can't back them up with any meaningful substance.
And either run away for a while [common tactic for AG ] or just ignore
giving a sensible reply - Primes usual tactic.
They don't have anything worthwhile to say & just play at being obtuse.
Libturd Dummycraps we saw their Childish Pathetic behaviour at Trumps
speech & these 2 fools are doing the same. ::)
Pathetic arent they.
I'm going to give him a chance to legitimately respond.
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I'm going to give him a chance to legitimately respond.
Fair enough ........... only don't hold your breath for either to respond in a normal
Sensible manner.
Sadly for both of them I no longer believe they're capable of it,
Eaten away with TDS. LIBTURDS who would've guessed.
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Fair enough ........... only don't hold your breath for either to respond in a normal
Sensible manner.
Sadly for both of them I no longer believe they're capable of it,
Eaten away with TDS. LIBTURDS who would've guessed.
I don't mind a differing opinion, if it's well thought out and reasonable.
But "it's so obvious I'm not going to explain it"? Fuck that shit. It should be very easy to see why people voted for Trump. It's less so about Harris, other than "not Trump". But those who go the "not Trump" route generally fail to explain policy, impacts, and such.
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I don't mind a differing opinion, if it's well thought out and reasonable.
But "it's so obvious I'm not going to explain it"? Fuck that shit. It should be very easy to see why people voted for Trump. It's less so about Harris, other than "not Trump". But those who go the "not Trump" route generally fail to explain policy, impacts, and such.
Yes agree, Its funny that AG has a problem with me taking an interest in US politics
As I'm not American - Wonder if he has a problem with all the other countries leaders
& people being interested in US politics also.
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Yes agree, Its funny that AG has a problem with me taking an interest in US politics
As I'm not American - Wonder if he has a problem with all the other countries leaders
& people being interested in US politics also.
When they resort to those kinds of comments, or attacking the source, or any other ad hominem type attacks, they generally have nothing.
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This is just deflection, and it's something I see you do when you can't answer something. You make this kind of post, someone responds, and you just disappear for awhile until the thread moves on.
I'm not stupid. I keep up on events, research them, use independent sources, and listen to other views.
I have not seen one compelling argument on why Harris would have been better, be it policy, past history, etc...
Go for it. I will listen.
Since VP Kamala Harris was not elected, why waste time discussing something that didn't and may never happen? It seems futile to me. This also explains why others, including me, aren't spending time questioning it.
I am more interested in what might happen with the mid-term elections. Will voters continue to support the Musk/Trump administration by voting for Republican candidates for the House and Senate or will there be a tidal wave of Democrats elected to these positions. If so, this could stop the current administration’s agenda in its tracks.
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Since VP Kamala Harris was not elected, why waste time discussing something that didn't and may never happen? It seems futile to me. This also explains why others, including me, aren't spending time questioning it.
I am more interested in what might happen with the mid-term elections. Will voters continue to support the Musk/Trump administration by voting for Republican candidates for the House and Senate or will there be a tidal wave of Democrats elected to these positions. If so, this could stop the current administration’s agenda in its tracks.
Because she's being mentioned as a better alternative. So much so, that agnostic said he doesn't even have to explain why. So let's see.
I think it's pretty obvious what will happen at the midterms. If the economy improves, the right will maintain control, and will stay the course, and win the next two elections after. If it does not, they could lose the House and Sentate, then nothing will pass, and the left will repeat the same mistakes they did last time.
One thing the left has NOT done (outside of maybe folks like Fetterman and Torres), is doing an introspective and trying to figure out why they lost. There are doubling down on divisiveness and attacks, the same as last time. No real leaders are emerging, and it's the same clowns continuing to act like the clowns that they are.
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Because she's being mentioned as a better alternative. So much so, that agnostic said he doesn't even have to explain why. So let's see.
I think it's pretty obvious what will happen at the midterms. If the economy improves, the right will maintain control, and will stay the course, and win the next two elections after. If it does not, they could lose the House and Sentate, then nothing will pass, and the left will repeat the same mistakes they did last time.
One thing the left has NOT done (outside of maybe folks like Fetterman and Torres), is doing an introspective and trying to figure out why they lost. There are doubling down on divisiveness and attacks, the same as last time. No real leaders are emerging, and it's the same clowns continuing to act like the clowns that they are.
Oh, I think many folks on the left are trying to figure out why the election turned out as it did, right now. Also, there are many folks who voted for Trump in 2024 who are rethinking and regretting they did and are questioning how they could have been so wrong, (conned).
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Because she's being mentioned as a better alternative. So much so, that agnostic said he doesn't even have to explain why. So let's see.
I think it's pretty obvious what will happen at the midterms. If the economy improves, the right will maintain control, and will stay the course, and win the next two elections after. If it does not, they could lose the House and Sentate, then nothing will pass, and the left will repeat the same mistakes they did last time.
One thing the left has NOT done (outside of maybe folks like Fetterman and Torres), is doing an introspective and trying to figure out why they lost. There are doubling down on divisiveness and attacks, the same as last time. No real leaders are emerging, and it's the same clowns continuing to act like the clowns that they are.
He makes a statement about Khvntmala & then backs out of backing his statement
Up saying its not important ::) it was important enough for him to make his stupid
Statement.
Good god these Libturd Dummycraps are so Fucked up.
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Oh, I think many folks on the left are trying to figure out why the election turned out as it did, right now. Also, there are many folks who voted for Trump in 2024 who are rethinking and regretting they did and are questioning how they could have been so wrong, (conned).
Define "many".
He still has a positive approval rating.
But how were they "conned"?
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Define "many".
He still has a positive approval rating.
But how were they "conned"?
2 Muslims
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You make this kind of post, someone responds, and you just disappear for awhile until the thread moves on.
I'm not stupid. I keep up on events, research them, use independent sources, and listen to other views.
I have not seen one compelling argument on why Harris would have been better, be it policy, past history, etc...
Go for it. I will listen.
bump
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bump
Good luck. This is one reason I treat him like a troll.
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Define "many".
He still has a positive approval rating.
But how were they "conned"?
Many means a lot, a substantial number, or more than a few.
As of 3/12 Trump had a 46.5 favorable rating and a 49.7 unfavorable rating while J.D. Vance had a 41.7 favorable rating and a 44.5 unfavorable rating, according to the RCP average.
Conned as in not delivering on his campaign promises, and because they thought they would be better off financially with Trump in office. However, there has yet to be an improved economy, because prices have not come down. Also, a goodly number of folks who voted for Trump have subsequently been fired over the past couple of months from their federal civil service jobs or worry the future of their jobs is tenuous. Understandably this poses a great financial uncertainty for them.
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Many means a lot, a substantial number, or more than a few.
As of 3/12 Trump had a 46.5 favorable rating and a 49.7 unfavorable rating while J.D. Vance had a 41.7 favorable rating and a 44.5 unfavorable rating, according to the RCP average.
Conned as in not delivering on his campaign promises, and because they thought they would be better off financially with Trump in office. However, there has yet to be an improved economy, because prices have not come down. Also, a goodly number of folks who voted for Trump have subsequently been fired over the past couple of months from their federal civil service jobs or worry the future of their jobs is tenuous. Understandably this poses a great financial uncertainty for them.
Yawn 🥱
Boring
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Yawn 🥱
Boring
You are boring.
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You are boring.
Try & think of something original - Copying me is very
Boring
Yawn 🥱
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Many means a lot, a substantial number, or more than a few.
As of 3/12 Trump had a 46.5 favorable rating and a 49.7 unfavorable rating while J.D. Vance had a 41.7 favorable rating and a 44.5 unfavorable rating, according to the RCP average.
Conned as in not delivering on his campaign promises, and because they thought they would be better off financially with Trump in office. However, there has yet to be an improved economy, because prices have not come down. Also, a goodly number of folks who voted for Trump have subsequently been fired over the past couple of months from their federal civil service jobs or worry the future of their jobs is tenuous. Understandably this poses a great financial uncertainty for them.
This is so absurd, it's laughable.
First, he's been in office 50 days.
Second, he's doing / done everything he campaigned on. Border, Paris accord, tariffs, DEI, men in women's sports. etc you name it. He did an insane amount of EOs and and talked through them in real time. How can you possibly say he's not delivering on campaign promises, unless you believed every single one of them would happen instantly?
In addition, for anyone ignoring the mainstream and paying attention to actual words and videos, there are numerous interviews with Trump/Vance where they said that in order to get prices down, they had to get energy costs down first. Do that, and shipping and manufacturing get less expensive and prices should drop. There was no magic wand he could wave and prices would drop.
Do I personally like or cheer people getting fired? No, I really don't. But the fact is that there is tremendous waste and it needs to be cut. My only gripe is I wish the did this a little more slowly to ensure there's no mistakes, and I wish everything they find was confined to a monthly report instead of an instant X tweet.
But apparently people shouldn't by Teslas now because the founder is trying to eliminate waste and fraud.
Makes sense.
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This is so absurd, it's laughable.
First, he's been in office 50 days.
Second, he's doing / done everything he campaigned on. Border, Paris accord, tariffs, DEI, men in women's sports. etc you name it. He did an insane amount of EOs and and talked through them in real time. How can you possibly say he's not delivering on campaign promises, unless you believed every single one of them would happen instantly?
In addition, for anyone ignoring the mainstream and paying attention to actual words and videos, there are numerous interviews with Trump/Vance where they said that in order to get prices down, they had to get energy costs down first. Do that, and shipping and manufacturing get less expensive and prices should drop. There was no magic wand he could wave and prices would drop.
Do I personally like or cheer people getting fired? No, I really don't. But the fact is that there is tremendous waste and it needs to be cut. My only gripe is I wish the did this a little more slowly to ensure there's no mistakes, and I wish everything they find was confined to a monthly report instead of an instant X tweet.
But apparently people shouldn't by Teslas now because the founder is trying to eliminate waste and fraud.
Makes sense.
Here is what makes sense. People should not have taken Trump at his word when he said, "“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” Truthfully, I didn't believe him then and I do not believe him now. Once a liar and a con, always a liar and a con.
People should buy whatever automobiles they want and can afford. However, boycotting Tesla is peacefully protesting the process Musk and Trump are employing to eliminate so-called waste and fraud in government.
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Here is what makes sense. People should not have taken Trump at his word when he said, "“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” Truthfully, I didn't believe him then and I do not believe him now. Once a liar and a con, always a liar and a con.
People should buy whatever automobiles they want and can afford. However, boycotting Tesla is peacefully protesting the process Musk and Trump are employing to eliminate so-called waste and fraud in government.
So, I have seen that quote about Day One prices before, and tried to have a discussion about it.
It was a stupid thing to say - let's get that out of the way.
However, I have seen the energy related quotes as well. So my question was always, what was the timing of his comment? Was it pre-bird flu, and anything else that's happened? Meaning, if he said it in April, but pivoted to the energy part AFTER, I can get that. If he said it right before the election, I don't know then.
I do know there's no magic wand to wave, and I actually did expect prices to rise for a bit. So, it's a matter of timing, and whether you believe he was just lying, or if he actually believed at that time he said it that he could do it.
But there's also always going to be low informed voters who are pissed when they feel wronged. I don't put too much stock in those dumbasses.
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So, I have seen that quote about Day One prices before, and tried to have a discussion about it.
It was a stupid thing to say - let's get that out of the way.
However, I have seen the energy related quotes as well. So my question was always, what was the timing of his comment? Was it pre-bird flu, and anything else that's happened? Meaning, if he said it in April, but pivoted to the energy part AFTER, I can get that. If he said it right before the election, I don't know then.
I do know there's no magic wand to wave, and I actually did expect prices to rise for a bit. So, it's a matter of timing, and whether you believe he was just lying, or if he actually believed at that time he said it that he could do it.
But there's also always going to be low informed voters who are pissed when they feel wronged. I don't put too much stock in those dumbasses.
You know, I have no idea either how many times Trump repeated this during his campaign or the timing of his saying it. Clearly, he said things people wanted to hear in order to get votes, regardless of if he actually believed what he was claiming. This is what politicians do. The 'truth bar' for politicians is pretty low in most cases. If they are never called on these 'fibs' this is upon us. No one but Trump knows whether he believes what he says or not, he says a lot of things and changes his mind a lot as well.
Personally, I am not noticeably impacted by the current state of the economy because I have much more income than expenses. People who are living paycheck to paycheck have more reason to worry about the economy because it impacts them the most.
Being an old fella, I remember when everything cost considerably less than it does now. When I was fifteen and got my first car, regular gas was 25 cents a gallon. The first house I bought cost me $13 K. Today, it is appraised by the real estate site, Trulia, at about $600 K. My parents paid less than $5 grand for a new 1957 Cadillac. Last week, I had five rooms, and the exterior of my house painted. I paid the contractor almost $13 K for four days work with 5-6 painters on the job. In 1960 the federal minimum wage was $1.00. Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25 (which is ridiculously low). State minimum wages are twice that or more.
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Here is what makes sense. People should not have taken Trump at his word when he said, "“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” Truthfully, I didn't believe him then and I do not believe him now. Once a liar and a con, always a liar and a con.
People should buy whatever automobiles they want and can afford. However, boycotting Tesla is peacefully protesting the process Musk and Trump are employing to eliminate so-called waste and fraud in government.
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So you take every thing a president says as absolute & if they
don't do it by the stated time you complain - Do you do it for
all Presidents or just Donald. ??
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So you take every thing a president says as absolute & if they
don't do it by the stated time you complain - Do you do it for
all Presidents or just Donald. ??
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You have an odd concept of what a complaint is verses just a statement. Could it be that everything someone says with which you disagree, is automatically a complaint?
Anyway, I don't take anything 'a' President says as absolute, mostly just one person, this being Trump. It is because he says so much which isn't truthful... like pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth.
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You know, I have no idea either how many times Trump repeated this during his campaign or the timing of his saying it. Clearly, he said things people wanted to hear in order to get votes, regardless of if he actually believed what he was claiming. This is what politicians do. The 'truth bar' for politicians is pretty low in most cases. If they are never called on these 'fibs' this is upon us. No one but Trump knows whether he believes what he says or not, he says a lot of things and changes his mind a lot as well.
Personally, I am not noticeably impacted by the current state of the economy because I have much more income than expenses. People who are living paycheck to paycheck have more reason to worry about the economy because it impacts them the most.
Being an old fella, I remember when everything cost considerably less than it does now. When I was fifteen and got my first car, regular gas was 25 cents a gallon. The first house I bought cost me $13 K. Today, it is appraised by the real estate site, Trulia, at about $600 K. My parents paid less than $5 grand for a new 1957 Cadillac. Last week, I had five rooms, and the exterior of my house painted. I paid the contractor almost $13 K for four days work with 5-6 painters on the job. In 1960 the federal minimum wage was $1.00. Today the federal minimum wage is $7.25 (which is ridiculously low). State minimum wages are twice that or more.
I don't disagree with the first paragraph.
As for the rest, like you, I am amazed what we pay for things now, and how I've just accepted shelling out the amounts I do for things.
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I don't disagree with the first paragraph.
As for the rest, like you, I am amazed what we pay for things now, and how I've just accepted shelling out the amounts I do for things.
Just wait until AI takes over, you wanna see mass unemployment and extreme poverty, it's coming!
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You have an odd concept of what a complaint is verses just a statement. Could it be that everything someone says with which you disagree, is automatically a complaint?
Anyway, I don't take anything 'a' President says as absolute, mostly just one person, this being Trump. It is because he says so much which isn't truthful... like pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth.
You're just very odd.
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I don't disagree with the first paragraph.
As for the rest, like you, I am amazed what we pay for things now, and how I've just accepted shelling out the amounts I do for things.
It is curious how we come to accept some stuff over time, like high prices. Almost every time I price something I want to buy or get an estimate for it; I am at first shocked and then I acquiesce.
Last Week I priced custom shades for my bedroom windows and exterior door. One company, The Shade Store, quoted just under $1G per opening. These openings are about 14 square feet each, so they are not huge. I ended up buying them from a different local company for half that amount, which still seems like a lot to spend on shades.
On the other hand, I bought eggs today at a specialty neighborhood grocery store, Market of Choice, which tends to be more expensive than the big chain stores like Safeway. For organic, free-range, cage-free eggs, I paid $5.59 for a dozen large brown eggs. Compared to what some folks are paying for eggs, these were a bargain. Maybe I just got lucky.
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Just wait until AI takes over, you wanna see mass unemployment and extreme poverty, it's coming!
The company I work for actually develops AI platforms.
People's jobs will evolve, not necessarily be replaced.
I've seen AI write code at 100x the speed or more of a person, but the person is still necessary to review, tweak, modify. AI can hallucinate, make up bullshit, etc.....
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It is curious how we come to accept some stuff over time, like high prices. Almost every time I price something I want to buy or get an estimate for it; I am at first shocked and then I acquiesce.
Last Week I priced custom shades for my bedroom windows and exterior door. One company, The Shade Store, quoted just under $1G per opening. These openings are about 14 square feet each, so they are not huge. I ended up buying them from a different local company for half that amount, which still seems like a lot to spend on shades.
On the other hand, I bought eggs today at a specialty neighborhood grocery store, Market of Choice, which tends to be more expensive than the big chain stores like Safeway. For organic, free-range, cage-free eggs, I paid $5.59 for a dozen large brown eggs. Compared to what some folks are paying for eggs, these were a bargain. Maybe I just got lucky.
When I bought my house in 2003, we got a custom shade and it was $250. I was like WTF. That one doesn't surprise me - custom anything is always expensive.
Costco by me has the free range pastured eggs for 8.99 for two doz. That went up a buck in the last two weeks - thankful they keep egg prices relatively constant throughout all the chaos.
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The company I work for actually develops AI platforms.
People's jobs will evolve, not necessarily be replaced.
I've seen AI write code at 100x the speed or more of a person, but the person is still necessary to review, tweak, modify. AI can hallucinate, make up bullshit, etc.....
I know practically nothing about AI. Thanks for sharing this because now I know a tiny bit more, especially that it can hallucinate and make up bullshit, plus some other negative stuff about it.
I tried American Greetings' version of AI which supposedly writes a verse for you to use in an Ecard based on information you provide. It did not work as I imagined, so I rejected the AI suggestions.
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I know practically nothing about AI. Thanks for sharing this because now I know a tiny bit more, especially that it can hallucinate and make up bullshit, plus some other negative stuff about it.
I tried American Greetings' version of AI which supposedly writes a verse for you to use in an Ecard based on information you provide. It did not work as I imagined, so I rejected the AI suggestions.
Yeah man, I was very surprised to learn about the hallucinations.
It will get better over time. Musk has theorized in a year or so, we'll have AI that will smarter than a human, which could extrapolate very quickly into being smarter than all humans combined.
However, AI will do what it's programmed to do, and we've seen the outcome - like when Google's AI made all the founding fathers, nazis, etc all black. We have to be extremely careful there.
I do think if done right this this will be beneficial, especially in the medical field. For example, for every 10 breast cancer surgeries, 30% have to go back because stuff gets missed due to human error. So one of those three has to go back again. There is thought that AI assistance could eliminate this. That's the good.
The bad could be, say, if the AI is programmed for equality of outcome by race or something. The AI could take the unfeeling logical path and say the best way to make this happen is simply to kill enough white people to balance out the population, or shit like that.
But I also think that old school illustrators, sculptors, painters, etc might see a revival, because the old school human touch will become en vogue once AI gets into everything.
We'll see.
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Yeah man, I was very surprised to learn about the hallucinations.
It will get better over time. Musk has theorized in a year or so, we'll have AI that will smarter than a human, which could extrapolate very quickly into being smarter than all humans combined.
However, AI will do what it's programmed to do, and we've seen the outcome - like when Google's AI made all the founding fathers, nazis, etc all black. We have to be extremely careful there.
I do think if done right this this will be beneficial, especially in the medical field. For example, for every 10 breast cancer surgeries, 30% have to go back because stuff gets missed due to human error. So one of those three has to go back again. There is thought that AI assistance could eliminate this. That's the good.
The bad could be, say, if the AI is programmed for equality of outcome by race or something. The AI could take the unfeeling logical path and say the best way to make this happen is simply to kill enough white people to balance out the population, or shit like that.
But I also think that old school illustrators, sculptors, painters, etc might see a revival, because the old school human touch will become en vogue once AI gets into everything.
We'll see.
Thanks for your well thought out excellent post, which unfortunately, is a rarity on these Getbig forums.
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JD 2028!
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Greenland will be Trumps.
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Thanks for your well thought out excellent post, which unfortunately, is a rarity on these Getbig forums.
You should try it some time.
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You should try it some time.
I did exactly that with the post where I acknowledged Coach's correctness.
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Great Americans!