Replies to post #411652 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[12yearplan]

That deserves a reply. Good Post.

[Matrix999]

This is so true! It is so confusing how these working slobs fight to protect the same people that are taking advantage of them.
Just makes no sense!

[B402]

income inequality, Thats the problem and it won't be fixed by flooding the country with cheap labor.....To the contrary.......Treat the southern border like we treat immigration from around the world....

To beat those people you speak of, labor has to have leverage to beat income inequality......

Biden says the right thing in speeches,,,Secure the border, then reform immigration.......(I advocate for amnesty, tough sell but a pathway for a compromise )

We take the working class for granted, our society would end without them....

[fuagf]

"...the easy manipulation..." Been wondering how to reply to yours and while drafting one i just posted yours come to mind

What is the most widespread, most damaging brainwashing con in the history of woankind? Religion. Based on
the best available factual evidence that is most certainly closer to the truth than any of the main religions' truth.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168727879

"The thing that gets me is the apparently easy manipulation of the masses.""

Yep. I think most of us would relate to that. It's been a thing since the beginning of woan;-)kind.

To Ryan. Yep, Trump for all his failures as a human and as a president has never been as strict an Ayn Rand disciple as Paul Ryan always was. In his support of Trump

In New Book, Paul Ryan Admits He Was a Fraud All Along
As a congressman, Paul Ryan shamelessly ran cover for Trump. But in an interview with Politico’s Tim Alberta, the former House Speaker made it clear what he thought of the president.

By Eric Lutz July 11, 2019

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“Because, I’m telling you, he didn’t know anything about government…I wanted to scold him all the time. Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time,” Ryan continues. “We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think he’s making some of these knee-jerk reactions.”

It’s a line Ryan has echoed before. “I can look myself in the mirror at the end of the day and say I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy, I avoided that tragedy. I advanced this goal, I advanced this goal, I advanced this goal,” he told the New York Times in a lengthy exit interview last August. And of course, it’s intended to paint Ryan in the best possible light, similar to John Kelly, Rex Tillerson, and others who suggested they only stood by Trump out of some high-minded sense of duty to the country. Of course, none actually succeeded in serving as a real moderating influence. They may be better than the sycophants he’s surrounded himself with now, but Kelly, Tillerson, and Ryan consistently failed to keep the president’s impulses in check. Worse, they lent a veneer of normalcy to a president who was decidedly not. Ryan makes clear in Alberta’s book that he knew Trump to be an unqualified jackass. In one anecdote, the House Speaker receives an early-morning phone call from then-chief of staff Reince Priebus asking him to read a tweet the president had just fired off.

“Terrible!” Trump wrote. “Just found out that [Barack Obama] had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

The tweet, offered without proof or basis in reality, sent Ryan into “maniacal, punch-drunk laughter,” according to Alberta. This behind-the-scenes Ryan hardly squares with the public Ryan, who repeatedly came to the president’s defense and downplayed his maddening Twitter addiction. “I actually don't pay that much attention to it,” Ryan once said of the president’s incessant shitposting.

That Ryan is now back to bashing Trump is, perhaps, a step above some of his former colleagues, who have turned into rabid, mindless supporters of the president. But it’s hardly courageous to point out Trump’s plainly obvious defects after the fact. So far, just one Republican—Justin Amash, who left the party earlier this month—has openly criticized the president. “These guys have all convinced themselves that to be successful and keep their jobs, they need to stand by Trump,” Amash tells Alberta in the book. “But Trump won’t stand with them as soon as he doesn’t need them. He’s not loyal. They’re very loyal to Trump, but the second he thinks it’s to his advantage to throw someone under the bus, he’ll be happy to do it.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/paul-ryan-admits-he-was-a-fraud-all-along-tim-alberta-book