Hodad
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Right? -- The election fraud story is thoroughly debunked moronic nonsense. But, damn, if it were true-- if there were an organization in the country capable of committing millions of acts of voter fraud without leaving any evidence and without anyone leaking information --that organization is clearly vastly more qualified to run our government than the mere mortals who currently do so.
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What the Left fails to communicate about Jan 6
Hodad replied to Deluge's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
A is blatantly, embarrassingly false. B is almost certainly false. Informants are not "operatives." C is definitely false. D1 is definitely false. D2 (because apparently you love the D) is also false. Only the people who breached the Capitol and the planners (like Tarrio) have been charged. You're just a shameless liar. Have some dignity. -
What the Left fails to communicate about Jan 6
Hodad replied to Deluge's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Why do you think "the odds" matter? Does the constitution say that it has to be a really good insurrection to be disqualifying? Many of those people are on video-- or in court --saying exactly what they intended and wanted to happen. Why don't you believe them? They may be fools, but you're still allowed to believe their expressed motives. -
What the Left fails to communicate about Jan 6
Hodad replied to Deluge's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Of course the Jan 6 rioters intended to overthrow the government, Dummy. That's exactly what Trump told them to do. The final conclusion to that rambling, incoherent, lie-filled screed (sounds a lot like you, actually, with his string of silly, false grievances) was that they would all march down to the Capitol, fight like hell and "stop the steal" or they wouldn't have a country anymore. He said all that specifically in reference to the vote certification. The crowd understood exactly what he meant. They've testified to it in court. Many of them are on video talking about their "1776 moment." They certainly expressed intent to harm Pence and Pelosi before they stormed the Capitol to get at those lawmakers. It was a crowd full of stupid people who are easily manipulated. It really doesn't matter whether or not you think the fools had any chance of success. The fact is that they acted on Trumps urging, and acted with intent. There isn't a law against insurrections that have a likelihood of success greater than X%. There is simply a law against insurrection. -
What the Left fails to communicate about Jan 6
Hodad replied to Deluge's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Seeing as how no BLM riot had the expressed intent or opportunity to subvert democracy and, through violence, install an unelected ruler, there isn't really much to compare. ? -
Trump claims immunity from ANYTHING!
Hodad replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Jeebus, apparently you are just plain dumb. Jack Smith didn't "give up," he charged Trump with multiple felonies. That's what the trial--one of many--will be for. And Trump absolutely did the things he's accused of doing. The only question is whether a jury will be convinced of the criminality of those actions and hold him accountable. -
Laffer is largely discredited at this point. His theories were questionable to begin with, but when put into practice the experiment was objectively a failure. It failed again when W tried it. Like most religions, faith in the universal goodness of tax cuts went unrewarded. Reagan didn't grow revenues with tax cuts, as Laffer proposed. Taxes were cut dramatically and net revenue fell. And the economic growth came from both natural recovery and from massive deficit spending and debt accumulation. But, yes, GDP was up. And yes, there were new jobs--which is important, since now every family needs two of them to make ends meet. The "middle class" isn't a naturally occurring phenomenon. For the vast majority of history there was a small aristocracy, a slightly larger merchant/professional class, and everyone else peasants, paupers and serfs. America was the "land of opportunity" because it was untouched by European hands, a nation overflowing with land and resources. But in a property ownership society, how do you build and maintain a middle class after all the land and resources have been claimed? It doesn't take much--just some modest worker protections, a mildly defensive trade policy and a serious progressive tax scale. In the generation after the New Deal they had a good recipe to grow the middle class. The social policy sucked, but economically, that was the heyday of the white picket fence American dream. Reaganomics was a massive positive for China, but here at home income inequality has exploded and the middle class has become grist in the mill of economic pressures. Even the rise of the "knowledge worker" hasn't been enough to offset those changes (though it's critical to international competitiveness). Anyway, if you want a home for every family and a chicken in every pot, the 80s aren't your economic model. If you want a massive working class--struggling class--and a big lottery in which some will become unfathomably wealthy, Reagan's your guy.
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Of course they did. That's not really debatable, even. They shifted favor to capital over labor, dramatically cutting taxes on the rich while busting unions, deregulating, unwinding the "New Deal" and eliminating economic protections--again, to benefit the wealthy. All of this was done based on the argument they the wealth would "trickle down" from the wealthy to everyone else. Of course, that was always a bogus idea. GHWB called it "Voodoo economics" and he was right. What actually-and predictably-happened is that the wealth did not "trickle down." Instead, income inequality exploded as we turned millionaires into billionaires and the middle class into the working poor. Literally everything you complain about economically is traced back to those policy shifts. Instead of making things here, capital sought cheap labor abroad. Instead of building things, we consume things others built. Instead of one person being able to support a family with a manufacturing job, out takes two adults working at Wal Mart. That's the weirdest thing about modern conservativism. It's a near-religious belief in the Reagan dogma. Rather than looking at the actual effects of the supply-side experiment, they complain about the outcomes and propose to"fix" them by doing even more of the same things that caused them.
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Biden Impeachment - Bad for the GOP
Hodad replied to WestCanMan's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Hey look. The guy who continually spams threads repeating himself is literally just repeating himself. I am shocked! And, FYI, you changed the numbering. -
Do you mean before Reagan and the supply-siders gutted unions and dismantled the middle class?
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Biden Impeachment - Bad for the GOP
Hodad replied to WestCanMan's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are entirely false, partially false or wildly misleading. Which, given your track record, counts as progress! -
In an absolute sense, you're right, but we're not an absolute democracy. The Constitution exists to provide guardrails that protect and preserve the nation, even from the excesses of the population. It prohibits the election of a foreign citizen as President to prevent giving that power to someone loyal to another county. It prevents the election of someone who has engaged in insurrection because that person has already demonstrated that they are not loyal to the country, but to some other interest. It's unfathomable that people would want vote for someone who has already betrayed a constitutional oath and attempted to steal power and subvert the will of the people, but if people were inclined to do so (and apparently many are) the 14th amendment is the guardrail meant to prevent bad judgement from becoming a fatal mistake. A vote to end democracy is anti-democratic. Funny, but serious.
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Biden Impeachment - Bad for the GOP
Hodad replied to WestCanMan's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Jeebus, you're still climbing to a conspiracy theory that never made sense and was been thoroughly debunked years ago. And debunked on this forum multiple times, spoon feeding you. You're like one of the Q fools still waiting in Dallas for JFK to show up. -
Nah, Nordstrom is a victim of being squeezed between surging fast fashion and true luxury retail. The Ukrainians are innocent.
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Biden Impeachment - Bad for the GOP
Hodad replied to WestCanMan's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Yes, you all know what went down. You're just keeping the evidence safe in the super secret vault alongside the evidence of widespread election fraud in 2020 and the address of JFK's weekly poker game with Elvis and D.B. Cooper.? -
Fourth point: Bog stupid buffoons in North America--including those on this board--will immediately and nonsensically blame Joe Biden (and record domestic production) for any price increase at the pump. Because they don't even know enough to be embarrassed by that claim.
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Democrats and their reprobate minds
Hodad replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Well, it started out as just tawdry and trivial. Then you stated that a sex tape scandal more vile than a rape scandal. That's something that's hard to sweep under the rug. Good luck. -
Democrats and their reprobate minds
Hodad replied to West's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
WTF does being gay have to do with it? A couple of people make a sex tape in the workplace. It's definitely inappropriate and a fireable offense, but office sex is pretty common and ultimately harmless. Aside from your delicate feelings, nobody actually got hurt. The fact that you think that's worse than rape speaks to the depth of your misogyny, and little else. -
Trump claims immunity from ANYTHING!
Hodad replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
It's like you picked up a megaphone here and started shouting about your ignorance. If you don't know what Trump has been charged with--as detailed in some remarkably through indictments--then you are part of an extreme minority in the English speaking world. Everybody knows. There's no mystery about what Trump has done or the charges made against him. The only question is whether the juries will hold him accountable. -
You're a shameless liar. As has been pointed out to you many times, Chauvin was not following protocol or training. He admitted that plainly in his own words in court. Your parents obviously did not raise you right. If you can't have the decency not to lie about everything, at least don't lie about the obvious and incontrovertible.
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Senate moves to protect US from Trump
Hodad replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Your orange Messiah tried to stage a coup and you're shouting about how a bi-partisan bill represents Democrats approaching the Rubicon? Lol. Pipe down, lunatic. The grown ups are just trying to make sure they if Trump wins up in the white house instead of prison that he won't set the stage for WWII during a late nite poop-and-tweet. He's that petty and reckless. -
It's one thing to be an lying, spiteful, a-hole I'm the political arena, but another level entirely for powerful people to attack and destroy the lives of innocent, regular citizens. The scumbag deserves this judgment richly. I wish he weren't already broke so that these poor women could get some actual compensation.
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Enter Tuckercarlson.com
Hodad replied to Nationalist's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Oh no, the poor daft fool if telling us about his magic TV that shows the future again. Facts: Brown was killed on August 9. The video of his alleged robbery was released for the first time ever on August 15. It was covered as breaking news by FOX and CNN the same day. There is zero possibility that you saw that video on day 1. I've told you this many times. I've showed you the time-stamped screenshots. Either your conspiracy brain has rotted to the point at which it can no longer accept new information, or you're actively and deliberately lying again. I suspect the latter. CNN didn't lie about Michael Brown. They reported. As a FOX bobblehead you're probably unfamiliar with how that works, but the gist of it is that they hire reporters who talk to people with knowledge of the people and events being covered and then relay the gathered perspectives to the audience. CNN, reported that one of Michael Brown's family members described him as a gentle giant. They also reported the robbery as soon as the police released that information. Yes, they covered both stories and perspectives. It's called journalism, you dolt.
