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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1281 » by Rich Rane » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:31 am

13th Man wrote:And it other news Antifa turns violent yet again and publicly threatens to assassinate the president yet CNN calls them an anti-hate group. LMAO!! The mainstream media has lead everyone to believe that white supremacists are everywhere yet the only fascist and violent people that turned up were the Antifa.

They came out in droves and even attacked a reporter from MSNBC which was not acknowledged by their own station because it goes against their narrative. So now the MSM pretends that none of violent Antifa stuff this is happening. Just ridiculous.


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Post#1282 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:35 am

Then why didn't NBC even acknowledge it happening in their very own coverage? Props for those tweets but I'm sure it got a lot less or no video coverage from CNN compared to Jim Acosta's life threatening experience.

Sad that the Obama administration had actually warned about Antfia and had labeled them as a terrorist organization, yet CNN is calling them an Anti-Hate group. Ironic that this Anti-Hate group is the one inciting all of the violence and making death threats against the presdient.
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Post#1283 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:44 am

The MSM goes on and on about Paul Manafort and how he lived such a lavish lifestyle (is that a crime?) and did not pay taxes from over 10 years ago. So they nail and crucify him on his tax returns which has absolutely nothing to do with the Russian Collusion probe. Ok there Mueller....these are desperate attempts to get at Trump, all the while not even batting an eye to all the fishy stuff going on with Fusion GPS and the Clintons.

I'm not too worried, Trey Gowdy is going to get to the bottom of this and we'll all see who the real crooks were all along.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1284 » by Rich Rane » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:57 am

13th Man wrote:Then why didn't NBC even acknowledge it happening in their very own coverage? Props for those tweets but I'm sure it got a lot less or no video coverage on CNN compared to Jim Acosta's life threatening experience.


Don't know. Don't really care if Cal Perry doesn't either.

What's your endgame here? NBC News = Democrats = Antifa? = Terrorists?

13th Man wrote:The MSM goes on and on about Paul Manafort and how he lived such a lavish lifestyle (is that a crime?) and did not pay taxes from over 10 years ago. So they nail and crucify him on his tax returns which has absolutely nothing to do with the Russian Collusion probe. Ok there Mueller....these are desperate attempts to get at Trump, all the while not even batting an eye to all the fishy stuff going on with Fusion GPS and the Clintons.


Manafort is still not cleared from the Russian investigation. You do realize Mueller IS investigating Russian ties and if he finds other crimes, Manafort can be charged, right? That's like saying the police wanna search my house for connection to a murder and find drugs. I can be charged for drugs, but that doesn't mean I simply stopped being investigated for the murder.

I'm not too worried, Trey Gowdy is going to get to the bottom of this and we'll all see who the real crooks were all along.


Trey Gowdy, the retiring Congressman who made himself look like an idiot for attacking Strzok's marriage in a public hearing pretty much to defend Trump, a married man who paid off a pornstar for sex. Do you even read what you type?
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1285 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 3:07 am

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Don't know. Don't really care if Cal Perry doesn't either.

What's your endgame here? NBC News = Democrats = Antifa? = Terrorists?


Point is that NBC or MSNBC whatever... is extremely biased, what do you expect from a station that hosts Rachel Maddow? They have and will hide facts that do not fit their narrative. They will cover up and downplay the disgusting and vile actions of Antifa just as CNN is doing by referring to them as merely an anti-hate group.

Manafort is still not cleared from the Russian investigation. You do realize Mueller IS investigating Russian ties and if he finds other crimes, Manafort can be charged, right? That's like saying the police wanna search my house for connection to a murder and find drugs. I can be charged for drugs, but that doesn't mean I simply stopped being investigated for the murder.


Fair enough but the guy is still getting nailed to the cross mainly due to association with Trump. They're throwing the book at him for that? Whatever... And now he's trying to do the same thing to Roger Stone. Can't wait for the long drawn-out Witch Hunt to end.

Trey Gowdy, the retiring Congressman who made himself look like an idiot for attacking Strzok's marriage in a public hearing pretty much to defend Trump, a married man who paid off a pornstar for sex. Do you even read what you type?


Gowdy was trying to discredit Strzok's character. That's a valid play at least he didn't go full Ghomert which was downright classless. Strzok was inevitably fired, the gig is up.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1286 » by Rich Rane » Tue Aug 14, 2018 3:25 am

13th Man wrote:Point is that NBC or MSNBC whatever... is extremely biased, what do you expect from a station that hosts Rachel Maddow? They have and will hide facts that are inconvenient to their narrative.


CNN and MSNBC biased? Sure. To the point of Fox News? Definitely not. Can you agree on that?

Fair enough but the guy is still getting nailed to the cross mainly due to association with Trump. They're throwing the book at him for that? Whatever... Can't wait for the long drawn-out Witch Hunt to end.


Manafort's charged with laundering dozens of millions of dollars and defrauding several US banks for $20 million. As a taxpaying citizen, hell yes I would want the book thrown at him if he truly is guilty of these crimes.

Gowdy was trying to discredit Strzok's character, that's a valid play. Strzok was inevitably fired, the gig is up.


The IG report already concluded that Strzok's political views had little to no impact on the Clinton e-mail probe.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1287 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:05 pm

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CNN and MSNBC biased? Sure. To the point of Fox News? Definitely not. Can you agree on that?


Fox News is full of opinion pieces or segments from folks like Tucker Carlson to Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham.They admit that they have a bias, at least they expose the real stories that the MSM do not want to cover. CNN, however are chalk full of biased reporters who try to mislead the public into thinking that they are impartial when they're clearly not. Journalists are not supposed to display blatant bias and go on constant attacks 24/7.
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Manafort's charged with laundering dozens of millions of dollars and defrauding several US banks for $20 million. As a taxpaying citizen, hell yes I would want the book thrown at him if he truly is guilty of these crimes.


I haven't been following the details of the case closely, it just appears to me that they including the media are fixated on nailing this guy even if it has nothing to do with the Russian probe. You don't see Mueller going to great lengths with any other suspicious characters, especially from Fusion GPS when he has valid reason to do so This entire probe will be proven to be a sham anyhow, it's too bad they have to resort to these tactics.

The IG report already concluded that Strzok's political views had little to no impact on the Clinton e-mail probe.


Do you seriously believe this? It had also said that Strzok had a biased state of mind which may have played a role in his conduct during the investigation. Strzok was able to weasel his way through lies and technicalities but not for long. Anybody with common sense could see through his texts how his extreme hatred for Trump has played a role in the investigation. He's had his hands in every aspect of Mueller's probe that Mueller isn't able to get any legitimate dirt on Trump since they've been tainted.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1288 » by MrDollarBills » Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:18 pm

oh lord, the bigot is back. I thought you would have left to spew your nonsense on the Hawks forum. This dude rattled off four unhinged posts in a row.

13th Man wrote:The MSM goes on and on about Paul Manafort and how he lived such a lavish lifestyle (is that a crime?) and did not pay taxes from over 10 years ago. So they nail and crucify him on his tax returns which has absolutely nothing to do with the Russian Collusion probe. Ok there Mueller....these are desperate attempts to get at Trump, all the while not even batting an eye to all the fishy stuff going on with Fusion GPS and the Clintons.

I'm not too worried, Trey Gowdy is going to get to the bottom of this and we'll all see who the real crooks were all along.


Trey Gowdy? The same Trey Gowdy that is leaving congress at the end of the year? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: you are DELUSIONAL. I've had it with you Trump cult nut jobs. You have absolutely ZERO UNDERSTANDING of what is happening right now.

Paul Manafort committed multiple felony crimes including tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. I don't know how things work in Canada but down here buddy a crime is a crime and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has authority to investigate all crimes related to the Russia inquiry and Manafort's crimes tie into all of this. Any crimes uncovered that go beyond his scope are referred to the FBI, which is why Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer is being investigated by FBI SDNY for multiple felonies. For Manafort, this is just the tax evasion trial. When the money laundering trial begins, you'll probably want to stick your head back into the sand so you don't have to hear things that make you sad. If Donald Trump is innocent of any wrong doing, why don't you Trump loving sickos let the investigation play out? You can rest assured if the President of the United States did nothing wrong, he will not be falsely charged or indicted with anything. But you know deep down that he isn't innocent at all, so you'd prefer to attack the investigators and deflect to Hillary Clinton who has been cleared of any wrong doing. You sound like a **** ing lunatic cultist. Your moral compass is in the toilet.

Why don't you discuss the child separations and abuse at the southern border? Or is that not happening either?

How does a full blown adult think that someone who lied on multi million dollar bank loan applications should just get off scot free? Are you **** ing stupid? Go ahead and try that in your country, see what happens to you. You are beyond all help. You're lost.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1289 » by MrDollarBills » Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:29 pm

13th Man wrote:
Rich Rane wrote:
Don't know. Don't really care if Cal Perry doesn't either.

What's your endgame here? NBC News = Democrats = Antifa? = Terrorists?


Point is that NBC or MSNBC whatever... is extremely biased, what do you expect from a station that hosts Rachel Maddow? They have and will hide facts that do not fit their narrative. They will cover up and downplay the disgusting and vile actions of Antifa just as CNN is doing by referring to them as merely an anti-hate group.

Manafort is still not cleared from the Russian investigation. You do realize Mueller IS investigating Russian ties and if he finds other crimes, Manafort can be charged, right? That's like saying the police wanna search my house for connection to a murder and find drugs. I can be charged for drugs, but that doesn't mean I simply stopped being investigated for the murder.


Fair enough but the guy is still getting nailed to the cross mainly due to association with Trump. They're throwing the book at him for that? Whatever... And now he's trying to do the same thing to Roger Stone. Can't wait for the long drawn-out Witch Hunt to end.

Trey Gowdy, the retiring Congressman who made himself look like an idiot for attacking Strzok's marriage in a public hearing pretty much to defend Trump, a married man who paid off a pornstar for sex. Do you even read what you type?


Gowdy was trying to discredit Strzok's character. That's a valid play at least he didn't go full Ghomert which was downright classless. Strzok was inevitably fired, the gig is up.



Roger Stone was caught red handed negotiating with a Russian intelligence agent in order to get access to hacked information from a hostile foreign actor, that is a not only a serious crime that is outright treason . Guccifer2, the hacker he was dealing with was revealed to be a pair RUSSIAN MILITARY OPERATIVES. If you stopped watching fox news for five minutes maybe you'd gain a clue and realize that this isn't some game. You are beyond clueless.

It's also telling that you come on here ranting about Antifa and say nothing about the actual Nazis. So on top of being a bigot who thinks that gays and transgender people are 'defective', but you're a nazi sympathizer to boot. Please get the **** off of this board with this crap.

I have zero tolerance for you Trump nutters. Enough is a enough.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1290 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:26 pm

MrDollarBills wrote:oh lord, the bigot is back. I thought you would have left to spew your nonsense on the Hawks forum. This dude rattled off four unhinged posts in a row.


I was going to take the high road by continuing to ignore you and act civil but since you can't refrain from the childish name calling, I can play this game too. How am I a bigot? because I said MAGA? A bigot that interacts with people of different races daily? A bigot that calls out his own half-race in Sarah Jeong? Everybody here knows that you're a racist underneath your cloak. You might as well go join BLM and Antifa because you're pretty much at their level.

Trey Gowdy? The same Trey Gowdy that is leaving congress at the end of the year? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: you are DELUSIONAL. I've had it with you Trump cult nut jobs. You have absolutely ZERO UNDERSTANDING of what is happening right now.


Gowdy is one of the few in politics with true integrity, he will be missed when he's gone. Zero understanding huh? That's why the left are so unhinged as I've saying all along while Trump keeps MAGA'ing. Continue to live in your biased and delusional world while ignoring reality and the fact that Trump has made the economy much better for most Americans, including for the Black community. Don't hate, appreciate.

Paul Manafort committed multiple felony crimes including tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. I don't know how things work in Canada but down here buddy a crime is a crime and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has authority to investigate all crimes related to the Russia inquiry and Manafort's crimes tie into all of this. Any crimes uncovered that go beyond his scope are referred to the FBI, which is why Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer is being investigated by FBI SDNY for multiple felonies. For Manafort, this is just the tax evasion trial. When the money laundering trial begins, you'll probably want to stick your head back into the sand so you don't have to hear things that make you sad. If Donald Trump is innocent of any wrong doing, why don't you Trump loving sickos let the investigation play out? You can rest assured if the President of the United States did nothing wrong, he will not be falsely charged or indicted with anything. But you know deep down that he isn't innocent at all, so you'd prefer to attack the investigators and deflect to Hillary Clinton who has been cleared of any wrong doing. You sound like a **** ing lunatic cultist. Your moral compass is in the toilet.


Blah..blah...blah....None of these people in high positions are clean. If he were to truly probe Hillary, Podesta, her cronies and her foundations, a lot of real dirt would come out but of course this hasn't happen because they are protected by the deep state. I don't really care all that much about Manafort tbh, funny you put so much energy into something of insignificance to the matter.

Why don't you discuss the child separations and abuse at the southern border? Or is that not happening either?


Because these policies were in place during the Obama tenure as well? Where was the outcry then?

How does a full blown adult think that someone who lied on multi million dollar bank loan applications should just get off scot free? Are you **** ing stupid? Go ahead and try that in your country, see what happens to you. You are beyond all help. You're lost.


Calm down, take a deep breath. Because like I said, it's irrelevant to the probe. It's pretty transparent what they're trying to do, which is crucify anybody associated with Trump to try to get dirt on him, kind of like a blackmail tactic. Taking the roundabout route and nail anybody of association to the stake because they can't find anything on Trump directly. Continue to find that needle in the haystack while prolonging this sham of a probe. What a joke.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1291 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:34 pm

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Roger Stone was caught red handed negotiating with a Russian intelligence agent in order to get access to hacked information from a hostile foreign actor, that is a not only a serious crime that is outright treason . Guccifer2, the hacker he was dealing with was revealed to be a pair RUSSIAN MILITARY OPERATIVES. If you stopped watching fox news for five minutes maybe you'd gain a clue and realize that this isn't some game. You are beyond clueless.

It's also telling that you come on here ranting about Antifa and say nothing about the actual Nazis. So on top of being a bigot who thinks that gays and transgender people are 'defective', but you're a nazi sympathizer to boot. Please get the **** off of this board with this crap.

I have zero tolerance for you Trump nutters. Enough is a enough.


Then ignore me like I did to you. You have zero tolerance but cannot contain yourself to spew nonsense in defense? Like I said, just wait a few weeks and we'll see who were the true colluders with the Russians. Things are slowly starting to unravel now with the firing of Strzok and Gowdy will get to the bottom of the corruption.

Why would I talk about the Nazis when they are nowhere to be found? Do you mean the 20 White Nationalists that showed up to the rally in Charlottesville? The same rally that was highly touted by the mainstream media to be filled with Nazis and White Supremacists? The only thing that I saw were hords of unhinged Antifa inciting violence and threatening assassination to the POTUS.

For the record I hate and denounce the Nazis. I hate the White Supremacist groups. Does this make you feel better? I don't know why you would even think that I support them EVER. This goes to show that the MSM has brainwashed all of you into thinking that anybody that supports the MAGA initiative is a bigot and racist. Total baloney. I think that you are the one that needs to change your perspective on things especially when it comes to race not me.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1292 » by MrDollarBills » Tue Aug 14, 2018 3:18 pm

13th Man wrote:
MrDollarBills wrote:oh lord, the bigot is back. I thought you would have left to spew your nonsense on the Hawks forum. This dude rattled off four unhinged posts in a row.


I was going to take the high road by continuing to ignore you and act civil but since you can't refrain from the childish name calling, I can play this game too. How am I a bigot? because I said MAGA? A bigot that interacts with people of different races daily? A bigot that calls out his own half-race in Sarah Jeong? Everybody here knows that you're a racist underneath your cloak. You might as well go join BLM and Antifa because you're pretty much at their level.

Trey Gowdy? The same Trey Gowdy that is leaving congress at the end of the year? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: you are DELUSIONAL. I've had it with you Trump cult nut jobs. You have absolutely ZERO UNDERSTANDING of what is happening right now.


Gowdy is one of the few in politics with true integrity, he will be missed when he's gone. Zero understanding huh? That's why the left are so unhinged as I've saying all along while Trump keeps MAGA'ing. Continue to live in your biased and delusional world while ignoring reality and the fact that Trump has made the economy much better for most Americans, including for the Black community. Don't hate, appreciate.

Paul Manafort committed multiple felony crimes including tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. I don't know how things work in Canada but down here buddy a crime is a crime and Special Counsel Robert Mueller has authority to investigate all crimes related to the Russia inquiry and Manafort's crimes tie into all of this. Any crimes uncovered that go beyond his scope are referred to the FBI, which is why Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer is being investigated by FBI SDNY for multiple felonies. For Manafort, this is just the tax evasion trial. When the money laundering trial begins, you'll probably want to stick your head back into the sand so you don't have to hear things that make you sad. If Donald Trump is innocent of any wrong doing, why don't you Trump loving sickos let the investigation play out? You can rest assured if the President of the United States did nothing wrong, he will not be falsely charged or indicted with anything. But you know deep down that he isn't innocent at all, so you'd prefer to attack the investigators and deflect to Hillary Clinton who has been cleared of any wrong doing. You sound like a **** ing lunatic cultist. Your moral compass is in the toilet.


Blah..blah...blah....None of these people in high positions are clean. If he were to truly probe Hillary, Podesta, her cronies and her foundations, a lot of real dirt would come out but of course this hasn't happen because they are protected by the deep state. I don't really care all that much about Manafort tbh, funny you put so much energy into something of insignificance to the matter.

Why don't you discuss the child separations and abuse at the southern border? Or is that not happening either?


Because these policies were in place during the Obama tenure as well? Where was the outcry then?

How does a full blown adult think that someone who lied on multi million dollar bank loan applications should just get off scot free? Are you **** ing stupid? Go ahead and try that in your country, see what happens to you. You are beyond all help. You're lost.


Calm down, take a deep breath. Because like I said, it's irrelevant to the probe. It's pretty transparent what they're trying to do, which is crucify anybody associated with Trump to try to get dirt on him, kind of like a blackmail tactic. Taking the roundabout route and nail anybody of association to the stake because they can't find anything on Trump directly. Continue to find that needle in the haystack while prolonging this sham of a probe. What a joke.


You're funny.

1) You're a bigot because of your previous comments about gay people (calling them defective), and your comments about transgender people, going so far as to say that you'd physically assault your son if he ever came out to you as trans. You can continue to pretend that you didn't say these things. You are clueless about the social economic landscape of the United States. Trump isn't doing anything of benefit for the Black Community, the economic recovery is a result of The Obama Administration's policies. I love how a Canadian swears he knows more about what's going on in America than actual Americans. By the way, Trump called a black woman a dog this morning on Twitter, so please get out of here with trying to paint him as some champion to Black Americans. He's not, and the majority of us all hate him.

2) Trey Gowdy wasted millions in US Taxpayer money going after Hillary Clinton over Bengazi and came away with nothing. He has little integrity. Please don't talk about matters that you are clueless about.

3) You claim to not care about Manafort...yet you were on here complaining about him being treated unfairly and a target of a "witch hunt". Which one is it? Also.... If Trump is innocent, you should have no problems with a thorough investigation (that has so far led to multiple indictments of Trump campaign figures and other actors related to the assault on the US electoral process) exonerating Donald Trump, instead of whining about Hillary Clinton. But hey, as I told you months ago before you cried and ran off of here because we hurt your feelings, please don't hold your breath waiting for Clinton and Obama to get locked up. :lol: :crazy:

4) Zero tolerance child separations were not Obama's policy, that is a lie: https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/matt-schlapp/no-donald-trumps-separation-immigrant-families-was/

5) You're clueless. You admit to not following the details regarding Manafort or the probe closely, yet you are convinced that none of this has merit. Multiple people have been indicted over this and that will continue and I can assure you Hillary won't be one of the people ending up in jail. Your argument literally consists of you talking out of your ass and then tossing in random unrelated stuff about Fusion GPS and whining about Hillary. It's not only crazy, its embarrassing and you appear to be sympathetic to crime with how you think Manafort should not face justice for committing tax evasion and bank fraud.
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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1293 » by MrDollarBills » Tue Aug 14, 2018 3:28 pm

13th Man wrote:Like I said, just wait a few weeks and we'll see who were the true colluders with the Russians. Things are slowly starting to unravel now with the firing of Strzok and Gowdy will get to the bottom of the corruption.


yeah...the real colluders.....

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Re: Official Current Affairs & Politics thread 

Post#1294 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 3:48 pm

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You're funny.

1) You're a bigot because of your previous comments about gay people (calling them defective), and your comments about transgender people, going so far as to say that you'd physically assault your son if he ever came out to you as trans. You can continue to pretend that you didn't say these things. You are clueless about the social economic landscape of the United States. Trump isn't doing anything of benefit for the Black Community, the economic recovery is a result of The Obama Administration's policies. I love how a Canadian swears he knows more about what's going on in America than actual Americans. By the way, Trump called a black woman a dog this morning on Twitter, so please get out of here with trying to paint him as some champion to Black Americans. He's not, and the majority of us all hate him.


You're such a baby. One of those annoying people that hang onto one's every word even though I explained myself that defective was not the best choice of words. I clearly explained that I meant to say that gay people have "abnormal" genes. People make mistakes when posting but of course, knowing your history on this board, you like to cling onto every word until no end. The same goes with the saying, "I would slap my son silly", now all of the sudden I am a child abuser. Ok whatever satisfies your narrative. If you state it enough times you may actually convince some people.

As a Canadian, I would much rather have Trump as a leader than Cuck Justin Trudeau. Trump can be an egotistic douche and go off the rails because of his thin skin but at least he looks out for his country first and foremost. Many Americans need to show a little bit of gratitude rather than the opposite.

Lol @ the current economy being a byproduct of Obama's administration 2 years later. Just LOL!

3) You claim to not care about Manafort...yet you were on here complaining about him being treated unfairly and a target of a "witch hunt". Which one is it? Also.... If Trump is innocent, you should have no problems with a thorough investigation (that has so far led to multiple indictments of Trump campaign figures and other actors related to the assault on the US electoral process) exonerating Donald Trump, instead of whining about Hillary Clinton. But hey, as I told you months ago before you cried and ran off of here because we hurt your feelings, please don't hold your breath waiting for Clinton and Obama to get locked up. :lol: :crazy:


I am bothered by the Manafort ordeal not so much for Manafort but by their shady tactics of going after Trump. What don't you understand about this? If Mueller applies the same level of effort against Hillary's cronies, I'm sure he'd be able to dig up much dirt as well but of course we'll never see this.



Trump corrected this after all the crying from the left. I'd still much rather have stricter border policies than a laxed one or open borders.

5) You're clueless. You admit to not following the details regarding Manafort or the probe closely, yet you are convinced that none of this has merit. Multiple people have been indicted over this and that will continue and I can assure you Hillary won't be one of the people ending up in jail. Your argument literally consists of you talking out of your ass and then tossing in random unrelated stuff about Fusion GPS and whining about Hillary. It's not only crazy, its embarrassing and you appear to be sympathetic to crime with how you think Manafort should not face justice for committing tax evasion and bank fraud.


You have been wrong about everything thus far. The Russian collusion sham, the economy, about race, everything. Continue to whine and cry in your delusional world the rest of your country is actually MAGAing. Like I said, the gig is up for Mueller and his cronies, they are going to get exposed over the coming weeks and months.
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Post#1295 » by MrDollarBills » Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:38 pm

I clearly explained that I meant to say that gay people have "abnormal" genes.


so you've gone from calling gay people "defective" to "abnormal". It speaks for itself.


The same goes with the saying, "I would slap my son silly", now all of the sudden I am a child abuser.


If your first reaction to your child coming out to you that they are transgender or are dealing with gender dysphoria is to inflict harm upon them, then yes you are an abuser and or you have the mindset of one.


As a Canadian


You should stop coming on here acting like you have 1/10th of an idea about what is going on in the United States socioeconomically or politically because from the things that you spew on here, you don't and you get most of your information from fringe right wing websites. I don't lecture you about your country's economy or political landscape because I do not have that kind of knowledge. You'd come off as less of a lunatic if you showed us the same courtesy.

Trump can be an egotistic douche and go off the rails because of his thin skin but at least he looks out for his country first and foremost.


LOL. Okay. Getting into senseless trade wars that are beginning to hurt American farmers so bad that he had to sign off on a 12 billion dollar bailout package to keep them afloat, making racist comments on twitter and at his nazi rallies about minorities, signing off on tax cut bills that will tank the economy, and trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act which would have left millions of Americans uninsured or kept from receiving healthcare due to pre conditions are surely signs that he thinks about America first. And this doesn't include all of the grifting that's been going on by him and his cronies.

Many Americans need to show a little bit of gratitude rather than the opposite.


Gratitude for what? And again, you must be tone deaf as a Canadian telling Americans what we should be doing. This man is reviled here. If you stepped outside of whatever echo chamber you have immersed yourself in you'd realize that.

Also, its our free right to not have to show him anything but our middle fingers. Stay in your lane, you're on here calling Trudeau a "cuck" while telling us we should show Trump gratitude?

Lol @ the current economy being a byproduct of Obama's administration 2 years later. Just LOL!


You don't know the first thing about our economy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/25/for-the-last-time-trump-inherited-a-good-economy-and-he-hasnt-made-it-better/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0713d1365d12

In the past 45 years, only one president has inherited a better economy than Trump did. That was George W. Bush, who took office at the tail end of the tech bubble, when unemployment was a mere 4.2 percent. Trump has been luckier, though, in that his term didn't begin just as an economic expansion was ending. On the contrary, the slow and steady recovery that President Barack Obama kick-started with the stimulus has continued under Trump — just a little slower and a little steadier than before.


Trump would tell you that **** tastes like sugar and you'd believe him.

am bothered by the Manafort ordeal not so much for Manafort but by their shady tactics of going after Trump. What don't you understand about this? If Mueller applies the same level of effort against Hillary's cronies, I'm sure he'd be able to dig up much dirt as well but of course we'll never see this.


What "shady" tactics? Upholding the rule of law, and prosecuting a man who commits numerous crimes are shady tactics? Four people connected with Trump's campaign have been charged with committing serious crimes. Three of them have agreed to cooperate in exchange for lighter sentences. If Robert Mueller, A REPUBLICAN, is going after Trump it means that he has uncovered evidence of crimes being committed by him. What don't you get about this? Just because you like Trump or the people in his orbit doesn't mean that they are above the law.

And of course you'll never see it because Hillary Clinton, and this is coming from someone who is not a fan of hers, did not commit any crimes nor did she conspire with a hostile foreign government to undermine the United States' electoral process. Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department to investigate Russia's attack on our country and uncover any crimes that are connected to it or otherwise...and not bogus conspiracy theories about Hillary amplified by the far right lunatics.

Trump corrected this after all the crying from the left. I'd still much rather have stricter border policies than a laxed one or open borders.


Crying from the left? Ripping children, some of the infants, away from their parents who were seeking asylum was universally condemned here in the United States by people range from center-right to center-left politically, no sane, decent human being wants to see their government abuse children...but of course, you wouldn't know that because you're up there in Canada talking out of your ass and your only pulse on the USA is through far right/alt right echo chambers which are full of sociopaths who take glee in the fact that Trump is harming brown children. Also, currently there are still hundreds of children that are separated from their parents, many of them permanently because their parents were deported before they could be reunited with them. But that's cool with you, right?

Also, newsflash: the United States doesn't have open borders, nor does throwing children in cages have anything to do with protecting the border. Most immigrants come into the United States and legally overstay their visas, not by sneaking across a border. If you're going to talk a bunch of crap about this country at least read a goddamn book first.

You have been wrong about everything thus far. The Russian collusion sham, the economy, about race, everything. Continue to whine and cry in your delusional world the rest of your country is actually MAGAing. Like I said, the gig is up for Mueller and his cronies, they are going to get exposed over the coming weeks and months.


See, in the real world you have to use facts and data to prove that someone is wrong about something. Just saying "you're wrong!" doesn't prove anything. A little critical thinking and less shouting about MAGA/Hillary/Fusion GPS would go a long way in helping you to make sense instead of your insane rambling.

Yeah, Mueller's going to be exposed. Sure. Be sure to come back on here after Roger Stone Jr. gets indicted for multiple felony counts so we can hear all about how any day now, Mueller will end up being arrested along with Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and the other people who you Trump sycophants are obsessed with :lol:
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Post#1296 » by 13th Man » Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:49 pm

MrDollarBills wrote:so you've gone from calling gay people "defective" to "abnormal". It speaks for itself.


Actually, I changed it to the term genetic anomaly, which in essence is an abnormality. Why so PC? nevermind...

If your first reaction to your child coming out to you that they are transgender or are dealing with gender dysphoria is to inflict harm upon them, then yes you are an abuser and or you have the mindset of one.


It was a harmless figure of speech. If you can't let that go then you have issues and I feel sorry for you. Again, quit being petty and annoying.

As a Canadian You should stop coming on here acting like you have 1/10th of an idea about what is going on in the United States socioeconomically or politically because from the things that you spew on here, you don't and you get most of your information from fringe right wing websites. I don't lecture you about your country's economy or political landscape because I do not have that kind of knowledge. You'd come off as less of a lunatic if you showed us the same courtesy.


This is a political forum. If you choose to be ignorant about other countries that's your prerogative. I choose to engage in discussion, that's my right. It bothers me that the intolerant left has so much influence in society not just in the States but spilling into Canada as well. The indoctrination that goes on at our Universities here are just as bad. Btw, many of my colleagues have Trump Derangement Syndrome as well, it's hilarious and sad to witness at the same time.

LOL. Okay. Getting into senseless trade wars that are beginning to hurt American farmers so bad that he had to sign off on a 12 billion dollar bailout package to keep them afloat, making racist comments on twitter and at his nazi rallies about minorities, signing off on tax cut bills that will tank the economy, and trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act which would have left millions of Americans uninsured or kept from receiving healthcare due to pre conditions are surely signs that he thinks about America first. And this doesn't include all of the grifting that's been going on by him and his cronies.


I'd rather have a bailout for farmers than a balilout for Wall Street. Change doesn't happen overnight so easily, sometimes you have to take hits in the short term for prosperity in the long run. The tariffs has been part of his platform as he promised Americans that they would no longer be taken advantage of by other countries. I hate it since I'm affected by this but you guys should show some appreciation. The U.S. economy is in the best shape that it's been in a long time. Unemployment is at historic lows all across the board, how could you hate on that? Obamacare is a joke, and it was part of Trumps election campaign to scrap it. Good riddance if he's able to do this.

Gratitude for what? And again, you must be tone deaf as a Canadian telling Americans what we should be doing. This man is reviled here. If you stepped outside of whatever echo chamber you have immersed yourself in you'd realize that.


He's so reviled that he scored the biggest upset in U.S. election history? Hillary had everything going for her. All the money, the media backing and attempted election rigging by the deep state and still lost lol. Maybe the bitterness comes from the fact that the democrats are the biggest sore losers ever? So much as to wish the demise of your country due to the hatred of one man, Just lol again.

Also, its our free right to not have to show him anything but our middle fingers. Stay in your lane, you're on here calling Trudeau a "cuck" while telling us we should show Trump gratitude?


Hence why the term Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's funny and sad how one man affect you guys this much, especially when he's doing good for your country on a whole.


You don't know the first thing about our economy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/25/for-the-last-time-trump-inherited-a-good-economy-and-he-hasnt-made-it-better/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0713d1365d12

In the past 45 years, only one president has inherited a better economy than Trump did. That was George W. Bush, who took office at the tail end of the tech bubble, when unemployment was a mere 4.2 percent. Trump has been luckier, though, in that his term didn't begin just as an economic expansion was ending. On the contrary, the slow and steady recovery that President Barack Obama kick-started with the stimulus has continued under Trump — just a little slower and a little steadier than before.


Trump would tell you that **** tastes like sugar and you'd believe him.


Obama didn't do **** in regards to the economy. His GDP numbers were mediocre over 8 years. It took Trump less than 2 years to turn things around. Show some appreciation.

What "shady" tactics? Upholding the rule of law, and prosecuting a man who commits numerous crimes are shady tactics? Four people connected with Trump's campaign have been charged with committing serious crimes. Three of them have agreed to cooperate in exchange for lighter sentences. If Robert Mueller, A REPUBLICAN, is going after Trump it means that he has uncovered evidence of crimes being committed by him. What don't you get about this? Just because you like Trump or the people in his orbit doesn't mean that they are above the law.

And of course you'll never see it because Hillary Clinton, and this is coming from someone who is not a fan of hers, did not commit any crimes nor did she conspire with a hostile foreign government to undermine the United States' electoral process. Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department to investigate Russia's attack on our country and uncover any crimes that are connected to it or otherwise...and not bogus conspiracy theories about Hillary amplified by the far right lunatics.


Just wait and see, things are starting to unravel. Mueller had close to 2 years to come up with dirt on Trump and what has he come up with? Manafort cheating on his taxes. LOL. Hillary should be in jail right now if it's not for her deep state protecting her.


Crying from the left? Ripping children, some of the infants, away from their parents who were seeking asylum was universally condemned here in the United States by people range from center-right to center-left politically, no sane, decent human being wants to see their government abuse children...but of course, you wouldn't know that because you're up there in Canada talking out of your ass and your only pulse on the USA is through far right/alt right echo chambers which are full of sociopaths who take glee in the fact that Trump is harming brown children. Also, currently there are still hundreds of children that are separated from their parents, many of them permanently because their parents were deported before they could be reunited with them. But that's cool with you, right?

Also, newsflash: the United States doesn't have open borders, nor does throwing children in cages have anything to do with protecting the border. Most immigrants come into the United States and legally overstay their visas, not by sneaking across a border. If you're going to talk a bunch of crap about this country at least read a goddamn book first.


That issue has been rectified, you should quit crying about it already. No president is going to have perfect policies in place, the point is that it gets fixed. The stance that Trump has to curb illegal immigration is still far better than anything offered by the Dems.

See, in the real world you have to use facts and data to prove that someone is wrong about something. Just saying "you're wrong!" doesn't prove anything. A little critical thinking and less shouting about MAGA/Hillary/Fusion GPS would go a long way in helping you to make sense instead of your insane rambling.


Nah, not my approach. I don't go into exhaustive research and post useless reports like you do over the years with nothing to show for. If all you read are stories from the MSM, your head will be filled with garbage.

I look at the big picture based on more credible sources, make an assessment and observe reality as it unfolds. I'm not a journalist or reporter and even then I wouldn't even give them much credibility these days either as journalism as jumped the shark.

Yeah, Mueller's going to be exposed. Sure. Be sure to come back on here after Roger Stone Jr. gets indicted for multiple felony counts so we can hear all about how any day now, Mueller will end up being arrested along with Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and the other people who you Trump sycophants are obsessed with :lol:


Show me results. So far what evidence has Mueller presented wrt Trump Russia collusion? Nothing. Doesn't surprise me if they continue to lynch anyone close to Trump due to assocaiton, albeit having nothing to do with the probe whatsover. What a joke.
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Post#1297 » by MrDollarBills » Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:54 am

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^I agree with this assessment, and this tweet is from a man who is a conservative and who is Anti Trump to the core. If/when the tape of trump spewing the word "n*gger" gets exposed, the sycophants and alt right/extreme far righters will double down on it. and that's fine. This will only serve to destroy the GOP come November as they fully shift to the extremist right and it will end Trump between now and 2020. I would expect even more resignations coming from the GOP if this actually happens because I will wager that there are more people in America who do not condone this. Despite the crap that morons like 13th man spews on here, die hard Trump cult Republicans only make up a small % of the electorate. If a recording of Trump comes out between now and November of the President of the United States calling a black person a n*gger it will be the end on multiple fronts.
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Post#1298 » by MrDollarBills » Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:16 am

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Post#1299 » by Prokorov » Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:17 pm

13th Man wrote:Then why didn't NBC even acknowledge it happening in their very own coverage? Props for those tweets but I'm sure it got a lot less or no video coverage from CNN compared to Jim Acosta's life threatening experience.

Sad that the Obama administration had actually warned about Antfia and had labeled them as a terrorist organization, yet CNN is calling them an Anti-Hate group. Ironic that this Anti-Hate group is the one inciting all of the violence and making death threats against the presdient.


who cares about CNN... or any cable news network? they are in the business of ratings, not journalism.

Trump is a racist who is enabling white supremacy. No, this wasnt something trump started, its always been there. trump is just making it ok for the kkk and neo-nazis to not have to hide in shadows, now they can promote the extinction of blacks, jews, and others without having to be sneaky about it.

trump will try and supress black athletes from speaking out, but he wont even comment on the KKK.
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Post#1300 » by Prokorov » Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:20 pm

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Don't know. Don't really care if Cal Perry doesn't either.

What's your endgame here? NBC News = Democrats = Antifa? = Terrorists?


Point is that NBC or MSNBC whatever... is extremely biased, what do you expect from a station that hosts Rachel Maddow?


of course they are biased, the network is owned by democrats, the people who pay the checks want 1 thing to make money, either through ratings or influencing people. fox news is no different.

none of that is relevant to trump being an awful human

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