DOT wrote:Also, you always notice that people never use "both sides though" against Republicans, always to attack Dems and defend Republicans. Kind of gives away the game there.
That's a bingo. Now trade me Johnson.
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DOT wrote:Also, you always notice that people never use "both sides though" against Republicans, always to attack Dems and defend Republicans. Kind of gives away the game there.
8516knicks wrote:Today's lesson for the MAGA crowd is - if u think u have a way through bulletproof glass with a nail gun, think again. You don't.Also, try not to hide in cornfield. That is all.
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Clyde_Style wrote:8516knicks wrote:Today's lesson for the MAGA crowd is - if u think u have a way through bulletproof glass with a nail gun, think again. You don't.Also, try not to hide in cornfield. That is all.
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Or hide stolen nuclear secrets in your house
HarthorneWingo wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:8516knicks wrote:Today's lesson for the MAGA crowd is - if u think u have a way through bulletproof glass with a nail gun, think again. You don't.Also, try not to hide in cornfield. That is all.
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Or hide stolen nuclear secrets in your house
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
8516knicks wrote:Are We Ther Yet wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:
Spinning people up to believe BS and ignore the real issues is also part of the play.
I'm plenty aware of what it going on.
I wasn't referring to YOUR eyes.
Anyone who buys into this two party BS is a part of the problem. I am so sick of hearing how much one side is better than the other. It simply is not true. Period. In order for a successful third party to emerge in the POTUS elections...they need to win on the lower levels. Until then it will be the two party nonsense we are stuck with. There needs to be a true centrist party/candidates for people to get behind. Not half assed, better than the other two options.
The media feeds the extremist views and the damage trickles down from there. Further dividing people who aren't really that far to either end of the spectrums. There is no centrist voice or party. That's going to continue unfortunately.
Follow the money. That's the basic solution to finding corruption. People keep following the "message" that politicians use to sway them to vote. It's a crock of shyt. They are crooked on both sides of the aisle. The money in politics is all about pay for play. Beholden to the large donor class and not the people.
I don't want a revolution in the sense of taking up arms but, the way things are going it may be necessary. It will never happen anyway so, whatever.[/quote
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I ammended it a bit:
Only 2 things have a chance at changing the way we do politics. Actually only ONE. I had thought one might be a real war like WW2 where winning made a slide toward divining the economic pie the most equitable in a LONG time til the early 70's. But Vietnam and the chief lesson learned by the powers that be - "f*ck the draft!" Now anyone in the military can't complain, they CHOSE it!
The second, and only remaining possibility is another DEPRESSION where EVERYONE was keyed into changing the economic structure. We got a TASTE of it with the pandemic SUPER UNEMPLOYMENT BONUS. When they want to keep the lid on civil unrest, they can pay up.
But now the essence of things boils down to Red State America thinking "I'm in line to get MINE (if Dems get their way) behind Women, Ethnic people including Immigrants (and illegal at that) and LQBTQ and especially now TRANSGENDERS and Blue States thinking "I'm in line to get mine (under the Republicans) behind the same old white superstructure and Old Boy networks. Each side figures WHAT CHANCE DO I HAVE and picks the side they think gives them the BEST CHANCE for their IDENTITY politics even if they aren't actively in that camp.
And we've gone from (what?) 7 tv channels and maybe the same radio outlets in the local market 1960's to where EVERYONE has a channel on TICK TOCK to Youtube and ALL want your EYEBALLS and the best way to get it is to FAN CONFLICT!And instead of just 7-11PM it's 24 HOURS ALL DAY.
I blame Wingo!
Jeff Van Gully wrote:this is derailed, but i'm surprised by the civility. may it long continue. we're all better for it.
Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:
Or hide stolen nuclear secrets in your house
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:
Or hide stolen nuclear secrets in your house
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
8516knicks wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
Ironic that in the last 70 year it's gone full circle. Trump's mentor Roy Cohn nailed the Rosenburgs for selling nuke secrets to the Russians and now Cohn's disciple Trump is going down for the same thing. What goes around really does seem to come around!
Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:
Or hide stolen nuclear secrets in your house
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
Luv those Knicks wrote:That's true for single issue voters and the two party system takes advantage of single issue voters to be sure, but a lot of people who aren't single issue voters (I'm not a single issue voter) see the two parties as very different.
Luv those Knicks wrote:I did a little reading up on this, and this is just bunk. Yes, Rand Paul did draft a bill, called the Justice for Breanna Taylor act" and yes, it died in congress, but it's a fair question that occasionally, a no knock warrant might be the thing to do - against an armed to the teeth terrorist group for example . . . knock knock . . . what could possibly go wrong there?
The Democrats are the ones supporting a police reform bill that the Republicans are almost certainly going to oppose, again, pointing to the differences between the parties.
read more here if you don't believe me:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3955
a LOT of democratic voters are fine with term limits. I'm less upset about this point than many, but I wouldn't have a problem with it if term limits was implemented.
That's a bit much and you are sounding very much like a life long republican, maybe pretending to be a libertarian, when you write things like this.
Very few to practically no democrats in Washington call the police corrupt or racist. Asking for gun legislation saves lives, it doesn't prevent self defense. The only gun law that (maybe) reduces crime - maybe, is carry laws, which a lot of individuals - myself included, are uncomfortable with. Guns in the home really don't deter crime.
You're covering so many complex subjects in your paragraph above, it's hard to address, but it certainly isn't damming testimony against democrats as you claim it to be. Bill Clinton did pass drug crime laws, which he's expressed strong regret over. The best weapon against drug violence is legalization . . . even the hard stuff. Tough call. These are not simple issues.
It's interesting that you would call them "unneeded vaccines". Do you really think democrats are pushing un-needed vaccines?
You can get covid twice.
You get a vaccine to stop the spread of a virus that you mgiht catch or might be a carrier for.
Trump's team DID pursue due process. They just got laughed out of court. Gore had a case. That's why the supreme court heard it.
Stacy Abrams didn't break any laws or insight any armed riots and unlike Trump, she probably wins a fair election.
Luv those Knicks wrote:Trump encouraging anarchy and intimidation to pressure officials to change an election.
Democratics encouraging anarchy and violence in the streets to pressure people to vote Trump out.
What does this even mean? Please give an example.
It's fairly obvious that you sit in the camp of republican/conservative. You may as well come clean because it's all over your posts.
You're also not actually making good arguments. There's no comparing Trump's STILL - nearly 2 years later, calling the election stolen and putting people who worked in the election in danger in the process while riling up his base - you can't compare that to Stacy Abrams or Al Gore. Not if you're honest.
Zenzibar wrote:Nevertheless, Payton is not a finished product yet and unless the team moves him in a couple of weeks, I anticipate him trending upward with this coaching staff.
8516knicks wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
Best comment was one I saw on Twitter --
Kashana -- "What’s scary is that all of this could happen to any of us who stole nuclear documents.""![]()
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HarthorneWingo wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:
Their silence yesterday was deafening once Garland announced his Motion to Unseal the Warrant. Fact is, Trump could've just released the Warrant if he wanted to.
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
Oh yeah, a lot worse. I was watching Anderson Cooper ask each guest, "But why would Trump do this?" And I'm thinking to myself, "He can't really not know, can he?" But the funniest thing was that each person he asked said, "I dunno"![]()
Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:
This is real bad now
Trump tried to end run Congress to sell the Saudis nuclear tech when prez
If he stole classified nuclear secrets he’s already being fitted for an orange jumpsuit
Oh yeah, a lot worse. I was watching Anderson Cooper ask each guest, "But why would Trump do this?" And I'm thinking to myself, "He can't really not know, can he?" But the funniest thing was that each person he asked said, "I dunno"![]()
Perhaps it is an honest answer to say one does not know since he operates outside the normal boundaries of reason.
But we live in an age of cowardice where people are cowed into silence by intimidation and the spectre of domestic terrorists hunting them down for speaking the truth about MAGA icons.
I don’t watch TV any longer so I’ll skip on the generalizations about the current state of televised MSM.
What I did witness is all of the larger TV networks have been watering down their coverage even since they discovered in 2015 the bottom line cash value of keeping Trump propped up as a credible politician.
Only the hosts on MSNBC seemed to buck that trend, but CNN fell deep into the both-sides talking head game and it ruined that network as a meaningful counterpoint to a propaganda network like Fox.
At this stage of the game, post January 6th, for anyone to say they don’t know why Trump would do anything venal is just cowardly. We all know Trump is capable of any crime including smothering his daughter to death with a pillow if he knew it would keep him out of prison.
Take any assumption about Trump and treble the worst outcome and you will usually land close to the actual crimes committed. The man is a lifelong criminal who was emboldened by holding the most powerful position on the planet. Not knowing why he’d steal classified information is just ducking bullets from his followers, but it sure is not truthful. Everyone honest knows Trump is a thief.
8516knicks wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:
Oh yeah, a lot worse. I was watching Anderson Cooper ask each guest, "But why would Trump do this?" And I'm thinking to myself, "He can't really not know, can he?" But the funniest thing was that each person he asked said, "I dunno"![]()
Perhaps it is an honest answer to say one does not know since he operates outside the normal boundaries of reason.
But we live in an age of cowardice where people are cowed into silence by intimidation and the spectre of domestic terrorists hunting them down for speaking the truth about MAGA icons.
I don’t watch TV any longer so I’ll skip on the generalizations about the current state of televised MSM.
What I did witness is all of the larger TV networks have been watering down their coverage even since they discovered in 2015 the bottom line cash value of keeping Trump propped up as a credible politician.
Only the hosts on MSNBC seemed to buck that trend, but CNN fell deep into the both-sides talking head game and it ruined that network as a meaningful counterpoint to a propaganda network like Fox.
At this stage of the game, post January 6th, for anyone to say they don’t know why Trump would do anything venal is just cowardly. We all know Trump is capable of any crime including smothering his daughter to death with a pillow if he knew it would keep him out of prison.
Take any assumption about Trump and treble the worst outcome and you will usually land close to the actual crimes committed. The man is a lifelong criminal who was emboldened by holding the most powerful position on the planet. Not knowing why he’d steal classified information is just ducking bullets from his followers, but it sure is not truthful. Everyone honest knows Trump is a thief.
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"What I did witness is all of the larger TV networks have been watering down their coverage even since they discovered in 2015 the bottom line cash value of keeping Trump propped up as a credible politician. "
I've been pondering this effect. He remains the single most reliable and strong EYEBALL attractor in the world.
And as our economic pie has greatly expanded in since the '70s only to see just about all of it raked off at the top, what seems to be left are distractions to lead away from the Bernie Sanders reality to a world where sports stars strike over $100M contracts and everyone has a "channel" and wants to be the KARDASHIANS (2nd to Trump in eyeballs, apparently). IT's the ROman bread and circuses (and lions) all over again.
The French saw this coming with THE AGE OF THE SPECTACLE. We see it in Marvel movies where people go for the CGI over story. The modern mythmaking machine probably started in my awareness was as a kid seeing the MEAN JOE GREEN commercial (he's probably a good guy, just the crafting of it was blatantly obvious an attempt at making a myth).
Now the network BUILD UPs to a game (those short ESPN or NBA or NFL 30 sec spots announcing an upcoming game) in its short powerful mini-commercials seems to overwhelm most games impact in reality. And by a LOT not a little. Those short spots are loaded with SENSATION.
Now conflict is driven to the max to attract eyeballs. The byproduct are fools like the recent mass murder shooters (including Rittenhouse).
I don't know what might cure it. A War, civil or nuclear? A Depression?
All I know is they'll have to pry my space laser from my cold dead hands!![]()
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HarthorneWingo wrote:Jeff Van Gully wrote:this is derailed, but i'm surprised by the civility. may it long continue. we're all better for it.
I heard someone say it was Clyde's fault. But I ain't no snitch.
thebuzzardman wrote:Interesting reading.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/29/jack-posobiec-central-spreading-russian-intelligence-led-macronleaks-hack
Jeff Van Gully wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:Jeff Van Gully wrote:this is derailed, but i'm surprised by the civility. may it long continue. we're all better for it.
I heard someone say it was Clyde's fault. But I ain't no snitch.
Whatever works. Y’all are brilliant people and good things happen when we operate in good faith.
We get to like… learn from one another and grow and humanize and ****.