You gonna decide for yourself who is a rapist also?
republicans have no shame
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Don't inject Lysol.
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Liberals need to try and stop finding rhyme or reason with what Trump says or does. It’s clear to see here that he’s simply driving you all batshit crazy. You should know by now that Trump thrives on all the noise.
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Originally Imzcount (Why do politicians think “hope” is a plan ?)
“Avoid the foolish notion of hope. Hope is the surrender of authority to your fate and trusting it to the whims of the wind”.
Taylor Sheridan
“Avoid the foolish notion of hope. Hope is the surrender of authority to your fate and trusting it to the whims of the wind”.
Taylor Sheridan
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Deleted User 266
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Advice from a Conservative on what Liberals need to do. Hmmmm.
My response is, if Trump is ignored then we are fucked. Even more than we are when we pay attention to him. Yes, he does drive people crazy and I feel anyone who is a decent person with a conscious should be affected by what Trump says and does - in a negative capacity.
Of course he thrives on the noise but I believe he is actually an insecure person who thrives on being both loved and hated. It's an ego thing. I have little doubt that if he had nothing else to do to gain attention he would pull down his pants and take a shit in the middle of 5th Avenue.
It's all about him believing "a lot of people agree with me" and it seems he brainwashes himself to believe things that just aren't true.
I say let Trump thrive because while it may stir up his base, it's also helping to show how despicable of a person he truly is. Maybe people get off on that but they are not the morally good people. My hope is good triumphs over evil.
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“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
Derek Cressman
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Former Director of the Office of Government Ethics:
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
Derek Cressman
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"You parents just need to give in to your screaming toddler. They wont stop until they get what they want so you might as well just give it to them."
Sorry, but we aren't going to just ignore it. Yes, some people need to stop trying to convince us that the President is an incompetent scumbag. Everyone who is not one of his devoted followers has long since come to that same conclusion. But no, we shouldn't just ignore what he says.
A portion of our nation stupidly put this grifter into the Oval Office. I will never stop pointing out his con he's running for fear that people might think he's doing a better job. He isnt.
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"Love trumps hate"
Originally Imzcount (Why do politicians think “hope” is a plan ?)
“Avoid the foolish notion of hope. Hope is the surrender of authority to your fate and trusting it to the whims of the wind”.
Taylor Sheridan
“Avoid the foolish notion of hope. Hope is the surrender of authority to your fate and trusting it to the whims of the wind”.
Taylor Sheridan
Re: republicans have no shame
Intellectual sloth becomes Mich.
But apparently, it's complicated:
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
Derek Cressman
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I met PalJayhawk a few years back and he told, "I read your old timer stories and I thought you must be like 75 years old." I know how everyone loves my old timer stories so I will step in here and blather, and for the record I am not even 60 yet.
Some of us are old enough to have seen this dog shit nationalism before, we know how it ends. For reference, I remember being a kid in Chicago in 1966 when some of the shit went down that summer. We were at my grandmother’s house on the South Side on 55th Street near Midway. It was the closest I have ever been to being in an actual war. My racist grandfather was a Chicago cop and he was on duty somewhere out there where we could see smoke coming up from burning buildings. We listened to the radio the whole time and heard sirens and saw National Guard troops and every couple of hours my grandfather would get to a pay phone and call us to tell us how close it was to where we were. We had an evacuation plan and we had our stuff in bags ready to bug out if needed. I did’t really understand what was going on as a 6 year old, just knew it was bad and we could all get killed. We were on edge for the entire time there and it was relief to leave the city and go back home. If you look up the history of Marquette Park and the rallies that went on there in 1966 you can get an idea of what Chicago was like during that summer.
A couple of years later I was living in small town Missouri north of KC going to a Catholic grade school. As a civics lesson we voted for president in 1968. Every 8 year old voted the same way their parents, did so I cast a vote for Humphrey. I remember hearing the rhetoric of George Wallace on TV but never really put it together, even to an 8 year old that trope sounded like bullshit. So when we counted the votes, Wallace won handily in our class election. The nun running the class went around the room asking kids why they voted for their pick. The resounding statement from the Wallace kids was unified, “he is going to put THEM on a boat and send ‘em back to Africa”. Mind you these are kids who had probably no interaction with people of color, there weren’t any in our school although some of the nuns were from the Phillipines. Most of these kids had never been to a big city, their parents avoided KCMO even though it was only 30 miles away because it was “dangerous”. Their whole prejudice was built on the prejudice of their parents of an unknown THEM. And yet in spite of having never seen this violence they feared and never having been in a position where they might have to run for their lives, their conviction was unwavering and had a tinge of real anger and hatred in it, like they somehow had experience that made them angry. These kids were vehement, THEY have to go if THEY don’t like it here. The nuns were a bit taken back and obviously this was not where they thought this would go. So I decided to step in and ask a few questions, cuz I knew where these kids lived and what they loved. This was 1968 and the Chiefs were in their heyday. So I asked them, “Soooo…..Mike Garrett, he’s gone then? And Otis Taylor and Bobby Bell and Willie Lanier and Emmitt Thomas, Robert Holmes, Frank Pitts……who will we have left?” Full stop………well……the “good ones” can stay……So just the football players? Are their other “good ones” out there we should keep? Who is going to decide who the “good ones” are? If it is Broncos fans I can bet you that every Chief player I named just made the “bad ones” list. Have any of you thought about what this really means? When confronted with a conflicting reality the knee jerk reaction is to revert again to anger. Yelling and name calling ensued and the nuns decided this was enough civics for one day let’s get back to math or something that would occupy everyone. The saddest part is other than football players none of these kids knew anyone who could be categorized as a “good one” because they didn’t have any personal experience. It is always easier to dehumanize when you can create a “group” to hate when you don’t know anyone that could be categorized as individual people.
So here we are again. A presidential candidate is talking about sending THEM back on a boat. Truthfully I never thought I would see this dog shit again. But here we are again with a mob hootin’ and hollerin’ for it. The party of “personal responsibility” is selling them the ages old trope that the reason you aren’t living the dream, is because some minority stole it from you. The reality of America is very few every really get to “live the dream”. There are the few who by virtue of work and intellect get there, and those who are born to it. Since there is only so much “dream” to go around, logic says it is more likely someone who is “living the dream” is hoarding it, not that someone living in poverty took it from you. GDP is not an infinity number, is this not obvious? My point isn’t to scapegoat the wealthy/successful. To scapegoat the most vulnerable and least powerful among us as “the enemy” is the absolute essence of dog shit nationalism. The mentally healthy learn to recast “the dream” as the life we actually live. When you can’t do those mental gymnastics, you are susceptible to believing in a dog shit demagogue and can succumb to the fear they offer. If anyone out there wants to say that we as a country have trascended racism, this election moment is here to say, "fuck you, no we didn't".
We have seen this dog shit before, we know how bad it stinks. It will end up on the same historic scrap pile that the other dog shit movements ended up on. And everyone out there now seeing it for the first time needs to remember this time, so you can tell these stories again in the future. Remind the next generation, we have endured this shit before. Lessons learned are important to keep in memory so maybe someday, we won’t repeat them.
Some of us are old enough to have seen this dog shit nationalism before, we know how it ends. For reference, I remember being a kid in Chicago in 1966 when some of the shit went down that summer. We were at my grandmother’s house on the South Side on 55th Street near Midway. It was the closest I have ever been to being in an actual war. My racist grandfather was a Chicago cop and he was on duty somewhere out there where we could see smoke coming up from burning buildings. We listened to the radio the whole time and heard sirens and saw National Guard troops and every couple of hours my grandfather would get to a pay phone and call us to tell us how close it was to where we were. We had an evacuation plan and we had our stuff in bags ready to bug out if needed. I did’t really understand what was going on as a 6 year old, just knew it was bad and we could all get killed. We were on edge for the entire time there and it was relief to leave the city and go back home. If you look up the history of Marquette Park and the rallies that went on there in 1966 you can get an idea of what Chicago was like during that summer.
A couple of years later I was living in small town Missouri north of KC going to a Catholic grade school. As a civics lesson we voted for president in 1968. Every 8 year old voted the same way their parents, did so I cast a vote for Humphrey. I remember hearing the rhetoric of George Wallace on TV but never really put it together, even to an 8 year old that trope sounded like bullshit. So when we counted the votes, Wallace won handily in our class election. The nun running the class went around the room asking kids why they voted for their pick. The resounding statement from the Wallace kids was unified, “he is going to put THEM on a boat and send ‘em back to Africa”. Mind you these are kids who had probably no interaction with people of color, there weren’t any in our school although some of the nuns were from the Phillipines. Most of these kids had never been to a big city, their parents avoided KCMO even though it was only 30 miles away because it was “dangerous”. Their whole prejudice was built on the prejudice of their parents of an unknown THEM. And yet in spite of having never seen this violence they feared and never having been in a position where they might have to run for their lives, their conviction was unwavering and had a tinge of real anger and hatred in it, like they somehow had experience that made them angry. These kids were vehement, THEY have to go if THEY don’t like it here. The nuns were a bit taken back and obviously this was not where they thought this would go. So I decided to step in and ask a few questions, cuz I knew where these kids lived and what they loved. This was 1968 and the Chiefs were in their heyday. So I asked them, “Soooo…..Mike Garrett, he’s gone then? And Otis Taylor and Bobby Bell and Willie Lanier and Emmitt Thomas, Robert Holmes, Frank Pitts……who will we have left?” Full stop………well……the “good ones” can stay……So just the football players? Are their other “good ones” out there we should keep? Who is going to decide who the “good ones” are? If it is Broncos fans I can bet you that every Chief player I named just made the “bad ones” list. Have any of you thought about what this really means? When confronted with a conflicting reality the knee jerk reaction is to revert again to anger. Yelling and name calling ensued and the nuns decided this was enough civics for one day let’s get back to math or something that would occupy everyone. The saddest part is other than football players none of these kids knew anyone who could be categorized as a “good one” because they didn’t have any personal experience. It is always easier to dehumanize when you can create a “group” to hate when you don’t know anyone that could be categorized as individual people.
So here we are again. A presidential candidate is talking about sending THEM back on a boat. Truthfully I never thought I would see this dog shit again. But here we are again with a mob hootin’ and hollerin’ for it. The party of “personal responsibility” is selling them the ages old trope that the reason you aren’t living the dream, is because some minority stole it from you. The reality of America is very few every really get to “live the dream”. There are the few who by virtue of work and intellect get there, and those who are born to it. Since there is only so much “dream” to go around, logic says it is more likely someone who is “living the dream” is hoarding it, not that someone living in poverty took it from you. GDP is not an infinity number, is this not obvious? My point isn’t to scapegoat the wealthy/successful. To scapegoat the most vulnerable and least powerful among us as “the enemy” is the absolute essence of dog shit nationalism. The mentally healthy learn to recast “the dream” as the life we actually live. When you can’t do those mental gymnastics, you are susceptible to believing in a dog shit demagogue and can succumb to the fear they offer. If anyone out there wants to say that we as a country have trascended racism, this election moment is here to say, "fuck you, no we didn't".
We have seen this dog shit before, we know how bad it stinks. It will end up on the same historic scrap pile that the other dog shit movements ended up on. And everyone out there now seeing it for the first time needs to remember this time, so you can tell these stories again in the future. Remind the next generation, we have endured this shit before. Lessons learned are important to keep in memory so maybe someday, we won’t repeat them.
Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness
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Strong post, japhy. Very well put.
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
Derek Cressman
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There's little doubt he'd do it to fire up his base if he starts feeling insecure enough, but....
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
Derek Cressman
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What a lie. It will happen again in his next pep rally and he will make some comment that he thinks is sly and witty about how they aren't supposed to say that but it will be clear that he is totally fine with it.
If they were cheering and clapping while chanting "I kill kittens" he would let it happen. He's simply that obsessed with hearing the cheers and support.
If they were cheering and clapping while chanting "I kill kittens" he would let it happen. He's simply that obsessed with hearing the cheers and support.
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And now, because "send her back" is capturing the news cycle, it's time for......
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
Derek Cressman
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It's not a lie, it's a reinterpretation of the truth. Soon he will claim he never said that they should go back to their own country. Then he will turn around and say it again at the next perp rally, and then he will claim it never happened again. The reality is his cult followers don't care what reality is, they just want someone who will tell them who their enemy is with authority and tough talking conviction. They like to claim he does this to drive the libs crazy. But he does it to keep his followers off balance. They know their/his reality can change on a dime so they can't really latch onto anything solid or real so the only reality is what he says is reality. They can't think about it too deeply because it could quickly turn out that everything they heard was a lie. So the followers dispense with any sort of introspection or critical thinking and go all in on whatever comes out of his mouth next. Every new lie is a test, if you don't follow along he will turn his mob on you and that is the fear that keeps them all in line.
tiny believes that playing to dog shit nationalism will bring out voters who usually sit out an election and that is what will win the election again. He will continue to play it until it turns into a loser and then he will claim he never said it. That's how narcissism works.
tiny believes that playing to dog shit nationalism will bring out voters who usually sit out an election and that is what will win the election again. He will continue to play it until it turns into a loser and then he will claim he never said it. That's how narcissism works.
Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness
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It's journalistic malpractice if they don't get an unequivocal "yes/no" answer on whether this "go back to where they came from"-rhetoric is acceptable from every Republican holding public office, or running to hold public office. That answer should then be available to everyone to do with it as they see fit to keep/remove/put said person from office.
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Deleted User 266
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He’s certifiably insane. So many things that he says are bad he later says are good - and vice-versa. He doesn’t realize how often he is disagreeing with himself. He doesn’t admit to things he says and does - and he does admit to things he doesn’t do and say.
How do people not see it? Those who do see it - how do they just let it pass?
I swear I’m living in the twilight zone sometimes and while I realize I’m far from normal, I wonder how people can be as batsh*t crazy and brainwashed as they are. How can anyone possibly defend and support this man? I respect the office he holds but I in no way respect him as a person. He’s the epitome of a person who is a piece of sh*t.
End of rant. Sorry for the interruption. Carry on please.