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That's nice, dear, did Uncle Stevie Bannon tell you that?
Nice comment, comrade. Doesn't make any sense but we can see where you're coming from.
Republicans are occupying a fact free zone in America today. Just look at this board, where no right wingers can ever back up their claims with any sort of link that's not from Brietbart or Newsmax.
That's the entire strategy behind the "fake news" and "alternative facts" memes. This way, any news we don't like we can simply say is fake, again, without any sort of facts to disprove it. Like the election being stolen.
All the Republicans have are culture wars and trying to frighten the rubes. Ask any Republican now running for office what their specific plans are for helping the economy or health care or infrastructure situation and all you'll get is deflection. Except maybe for pushing the idea that more guns will solve gun violence.
We have a guy running for Gov. in NY, Zeldin (R), whose office has put out, literally, nothing by way of any sort of platform that deals with real issues. Beside the fact that he's been caught out lying about his military service, what's not to like. (he was a military lawyer, and apparently a good one, but is on record claiming he was a paratrooper in Iraq)
Socialism! They don't really understand it but it's been scaring people for generations and is, unfortunately, a winning strategy.
I was pleased to find out a few weeks ago that the local high school is introducing courses in financial literacy. Now if only they could do the same for political literacy.
Yes, they've been making quite a bit of noise lately about discontinuing military aid to Ukraine at the current levels.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/18/republicans-ukraine-aid-mccarthy
You can see here the trickle down Putin effect. The right wing posters, on this board, are participating in undermining confidence in election integrity, questioning aid to Ukraine, and acting happy when any Biden plans go awry, even those that would benefit average Americans.
Putin was savvy enough to realize that the Trump fans are a cult and if he could get the cult leader babbling some stuff, then his followers would go along, no matter how absurd.
Good Lord, this is the same cohort that actually believes that JFK Jr is alive and going to run for national office.
Also want to mention that I think that QE2 was possibly the most passive aggressive person in the history of personhood..
Whatever anal exams he's had so far will pale in comparison with the ones he'll be getting in jail in the near future..
Hah! Probably, but for someone like him, the push vs. pull thing would seem like it might be problematic.
And I'd like to understand how he manages to work a doorknob on his own.
Yes! And maybe the moon is made of green cheese. Is this really the best you can do?
What was there to "protest" about the election, other than a result the "protestors" didn't like?
GA elections are run by Republicans and were during the 2020 election, as well. Don't you think they would have been happy to expose any irregularities that favored the Democrats?
Vlad is very happy with your guys continuing efforts to undermine confidence in the integrity of elections.
"They see their America disappearing."
Their America has already disappeared, it's long gone. They are having hissy fits because the changes are not necessarily what they'd like to see. The absolutely weird thing is that, when asked, these same people cannot name an era in American history when things were provably better, overall, than they are now (putting climate change aside).
It's ironic that so many of them expect certain types to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" yet they, themselves, are unwilling to attempt to do so. Better to threaten violence and try to tear apart the republic.
Tough shit.
These people are truly scary.
Fortunately, since Trump fails at everything, he probably wouldn't be able to come close to pulling something like this off. At least not from the jail cell he will start occupying in the near future.
That a good portion of the population is willing to throw away democracy in favor of supporting this buffoon is the scary part. They just don't care, for example, that he stole classified documents that put our embedded spies at risk.
I can see no explanation other than White Nationalism, that this is the new Nazi party. No more kowtowing to the darkies and the dirty immigrants, this is what MAGA means. And let's finally do something about the Jewish control of everything, please.
As an aside, I'm betting that QE2 is turning over in her grave now that a dark skinned man (Sunak) might become Prime Minister.
Wow, he's a tiresome windbag, it's exhausting to pay attention to him.
Remember when he was insisting on getting an extra 2 years added on to his term because everyone had been so mean to him? Boo-hoo, what a little bitch.
Have you ever heard of a real billionaire, a Gates or Zuckerberg or Buffett or Thiel or Musk, continuously hitting up people to send money to them for various causes?
Even the Kochs, who I don't like, have a building at Lincoln Center, there's a Bloomberg wing at the Met Museum, there's the Gates Foundation. Where's Trump on this list?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2021/01/19/americas-top-givers-the-25-most-philanthropic-billionaires/?sh=222f64bd1f59
Why does he never give any money to any causes he finds admirable if he's so successful and rich? Putting fraud aside, I think we all know by now why he continues to refuse to make public his tax returns.
Guaro? Never had it, never heard of it. From a 30 second glance about it on the Google, looks to be sugar cane based, sweet. Maybe like rum? Regardless, enjoy and report back, please.
That's funny, a master in action. Said about a guy who has failed in every endeavor in his adult life.
Unless, of course, you consider multiple bankruptcies, multiple failed marriages, being impeached twice, losing the national popular vote twice, and having his charity and university shut down due to fraud, to be successes.
He's a wannabe Putin and that's about all he is.
You might want to have another look at tequila, the landscape has changed a lot recently. Even the Clooney Gerber lineup is tasty (not sure if Clooney's still involved) and not all that expensive.
Enjoy Costa Rica, never been there but every single person who goes there seems to have liked it. My son went there on his honeymoon, his second time there, and they had a blast.
Made my way through a bottle of Bowman bourbon a few weeks ago. As the man said, "it's fucking delicious" (if a little sweet).
There's a cult of bourbon drinkers, that I was unaware about until a couple of years ago. Like the fans of Pappy, which is hard to get and very expensive. Liquor stores have to play the odds to get some of the rarer bourbons, distributors do a lottery once a week and sometimes all that's available is a bottle or two of whatever. And they sell for a lot, and people come from all over the place to buy the stuff.
A friend is into Defiant whiskey, made in NC and also very hard to get. We have a distillery around the corner from our house that makes some excellent, in my opinion, gin. Ryan Adam's gin, Aviator, is also pretty good.
Where did you see him, at Foxwoods?
Bar tab seems about right, maybe $15 for a glass of decent wine, $7 or $8 X2 for the drink. At a venue like Foxwoods, you might have gotten off cheap - of course it's kind of a loss leader for a casino, they'll get you on the tables coming in and out.
Are you a bourbon drinker? My family is bunch of avid bourbon fans.
Just looking at the 538 aggregate poll numbers and there are a few surprises.
They have the R's ahead in Governor's races in AZ by 1%, Nevada 1%, WI even, OK 1%. These are all stalwart Red states so it appears the natives are restless. History would indicate that these shouldn't be close races at all.
On the Senate side, even more drama, with R's ahead in NV by 1%, OH 1%, NC 2%, WI 3%, FL 4%. Again, seemingly close races looming in some of the reddest of the red states, with incumbents fighting for their seats.
Rubio within the margin of error? I love the smell of MAGA desperation in the morning.
Yeah, those darn Big Government Marxists. Why, under Dear Leader they gave a $1T tax cut to corporations and the very wealthy. They subsidize the fossil fuel industry and the defense industry and big agriculture. The nerve of them!
That shite is all cool to your cohort, but when you try to get some money to feed hungry children, that's socialism motherfuckers. Trying to provide money for desperately needed infrastructure repairs, where do they get off?
You have the same mindset as those who have never gotten over the New Deal, the people who will drive out of their way to spit on FDR's grave. (for real). Those, like yourself, who feel that democracy is incompatible with capitalism.
As for sortagreen, maybe he's angry that the minority of Americans is increasingly ruling over the majority, via the Supreme Court, gerrymandering, etc. As we should all be.
Democrats have won 7 out of the last 8 popular votes for President, it's clear where this country stands.
Thanks, I am enjoying it. Careful on the length of time you steam the vegetables, though, nutritional value, like memory, is fleeting.
Had a dentist when I was a kid, a friend of my parents. It turned out years later that I was able to figure out that he was doing work on my teeth that apparently didn't need to be done, like fillings. Who goes for a second opinion to another dentist about relatively minor work?
His family had an expensive lifestyle, though, guess the money had to come from somewhere. I'm figuring this situation is not uncommon.
Go vegan, or at least vegetarian, and lose weight, have more energy, feel better all around. Guaranteed.
If that person processes financial information with the same skill they process political information, it's hard to believe there is any sort of net profit as a result.
There are several Republican candidates, like Lake in AZ (see Trump), who believe in only two possible outcomes of an election. Either they won or there was significant voter fraud and it was a stolen election.
And, acting on that premise will, actually, be the death of democracy.
So we have on video Walker's ex-wife describing the FIRST time he put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. But that's cool, right?
Warnock ran over his ex-wife's foot, no witnesses supported her assertion it was on purpose, but that's a deal breaker.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/16/erick-erickson/no-proof-warnock-ran-over-wife-obstruction-case-dr/
You MAGAts are something. Just pull bullshit out your ass and think if you repeat it enough on public forums that you can get some other brain dead MAGAts to believe it.
Walker continuously lies about everything, clearly is suffering from CTE, has a history of violent and murderous threats, ignores the biological children he, at first, denied fathering, flashes his toy badge around, is about as dumb as a doorknob, but he's your guy? Got it.
Do you understand that Trump is being deposed in a libel suit? All your bullshit about the context of a rape is bullshit, he defamed her. That's what this case is about, where she works is also irrelevant.
Ever been in an upscale NYC department store and seen the layout of the dressing rooms? I didn't think so.
You live in Georgia and are complaining about border chaos. Sure, those people in South Carolina can be problematic or maybe you mean Floridians? If Kemp wins again, maybe he can go to Texas and fly a bunch of asylum seekers to Charleston. Meanwhile, who exactly is going to harvest your peaches?
Yours is a red-run state and you're complaining about crime?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3274797-we-have-a-murder-problem-in-america-especially-in-red-states/
Maybe try some Democrats, since blue states have less crime, or are you angling for marital law?
https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Georgia_state_government
How's a Senator clearly suffering from CTE going to deal with the crime issue? By flashing his toy badge around?
If free speech is being suppressed, why do I see articles quoting conservative Republicans all over the place? You want the consequences of hate speech to be lessened, that's the whole of it.
It's a little mind boggling that you're so uniformed about issues and continue to comment in an issues oriented forum. I'm tempted believe you're a plant by Democrats and doing a poor job of acting like a conservative by doing a terrible job of convincing anyone about anything.
Yes, the NY Times comment can be seen as funny, I'll grant you that, any comment section can be viewed likewise.
But there's a level of vitriolic rhetoric, and calls for violence in the Breitbart comment section that's clearly unhinged, and unmatched in other media comment sections.
If you can't see that, well, I'd advise you to not apply for a position as an astute observer of the obvious anywhere.
No, seriously, read the comments at the end of the article, they are your Breitbart fan peer group, a nasty bunch. Would you be pleased to consider yourself to be like them? (for the most part)
Breitbart is funny, you have to admit.
All individual polls are outliers, subject to a variety of anomalies. This is quite obvious to almost everyone.
That's why Nate Silver's 538 Polls are valuable, they aggregate with ratings and funders, if any, listed.
Ok, lets' see what's on there today, shall we?
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
It's very hard to square the article in The Onion, I mean Breitbart, you posted with actual reality, but enjoy!
Well, maybe, Dear Leader shouldn't have passed the $1T tax cut that went mainly to corporations and the very wealthy. He even gave tax breaks to those who buy private planes
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/13/ron-johnsons-children-buy-new-plane-after-federal-tax-break/10485403002/?gnt-cfr=1
But yeah, that money wouldn't have helped with our budget deficit, it's all Biden's fault, amirite?
Let the Saudis buy their military hardware from some other country. Let's see, not Russia, not Iran, not Israel, not Europe, hmm, Chinese don't seem to have much for sale, not Japan, maybe Venezuela?
They don't have all the cards.
Well put, thank you.
It appears to be that the Federal Reserve views persistent and / or increasing inflation as more of a problem than a recession. The commoners will be sacrificed to the cause of neoliberalism.
Watch for when the average national cd payout rate is 5% or more, then fasten your seatbelts.
So, this used to be a weather related site, about storms? With all due respect to F6, I think it has evolved since then. I much prefer to think of this in the way I've previously described, what does the historical context mean, now, in relation to these current posts? Although, it's true, that with climate change now in the house it might be a good idea to revisit discussions about storms, like Pakistan, for example.
With respect to the two you mentioned, it seems that taking them seriously enough to joke about them is sort of a waste of time. What's the point? They don't provide meaningful links or defend their assertions when asked directly. Is one really this desperate for amusement, that picking on handicapped children is entertaining?
I don't understand the Conix allusion. You hyped the joke, the arguments with the bolt head MAGAts can sometimes be tiresome, so on with the joke.
I mean, a "tornado alley" in real life is a storm tossed- often violently so - area, so maybe you strive for a stormy environment here? Hence the board name, Tornado Alley?
Seriously, are you a crabby old guy? Don't take it so seriously, no harm was meant or implied or attempted.
I'm spending a few days, now, in Keene Valley, up on a mountain, definitely not camping out. It's nice around here.
And it would be a lot more interesting than the pointless arguments with the local dead end MAGAts, which seem to predominate. Unless that's the idea.
ok, print the joke in two parts so no one can jump to the ending.
Plus, all the people, so far, testifying against Trump have been Republicans, several of them appointed by him.
I think the right wingers' wet dream is that there will be info on the laptop that confirms the Ukraine government was corrupt, thereby justifying Dear Leader's attempt to withhold weaponry already approved by Congress. Which wouldn't have helped Putin at all, no sir.
And somehow it will show that the Russian meddling in the 2016 was fake news. It will be additionally horrible because it will prove that Hunter's corruption far exceeded that of any other politician's kids, it will put to shame the $600M that Javanka made during the Obese One's term.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/jared-and-ivanka-made-up-to-640-million-in-the-white-house/
It doesn't matter what they find because the R's will lie on television about what's on the laptop and their non-reading base will believe it and be incentivized to vote for them in the midterms.
Maybe the base will come out to vote, anyway, because they don't like the way Biden is handling the economy. And as wing nuts like Conix make abundantly clear, they don't even need to be able to have an explanation about how he's not handling it well.
Hence the phrase, ignorance is bliss.
Wait, you don't want to post a joke because it's too long? Going by several of your posts, that's a joke, too, right?
A good joke always bears repeating, no matter the length. Phrasing like yours is just a tease, please, please tell us.