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Are you not seeing the insane shit some of the unhinged Canadians are posting? ?

This is why no one can take you seriously. Instead of disagreeing with policy or outcomes you go around posting utterly absurd shit like this. In your twisted little mind, Democrats hate white people and create propaganda against the nuclear family, lol. Dumb, dishonest and delusional. Oh, and for the record almost 36% of Latino children are in households with a single parent--and it has zero to do with loving their children.?

Tlaib carried 71% of her district last year, after they already tried to tar her at anti-semitic. I don't think she's sweating this round.

IMO, Trump is very extreme, even among other people who might be casually labeled narcissists. All politicians have an ego, but they aren't all devoid of empathy. They do think about other people and how their words and actions affect others, it's why they have a filter when they speak. Trump just doesn't. If a person isn't named Trump, he really doesn't give a shit about them--and even some of those are iffy. The man has no redeeming qualities. No one would want to be raised by a man like Trump. No one would want their son to be like him, or their daughter to marry a man like him. But somehow people think it's funny or cool when the President of the United States exhibits such behavior? Bizarre.

3. Of course they were. You're a pathological liar, like your bright orange hero. It's literally all you do--well, that and spamming your silly list of grievances. You can't even manage to be honest in ^^this post. Supporting a cease fire or even supporting a free Palestine does not make one a "Hamas supporter." That's just asinine. And frankly, Israel had the world's overwhelming support when this all started-- and 75% of Americans. But as they continue to blow up children that support is eroding quickly.

This is a good post with valid criticism. Weirdly though, it was particularly well liked by an unexpected handful of people as it sailed overhead.

Raving loons are often the heroes of their own twisted stories, so this from you is entirely unsurprising. When your children eventually emerge from whatever bunker or hollow mountain you've raised them in, we'll happily welcome them back to reality.

The difference this time is that Trump can't buy their silence with promise of a pardon.

True, children are rarely starving on the streets. ?

I think you're faking here, trying to use a figure for ALL social welfare spending, rather than poverty/hunger relief. Nice try, but an old woman's hip replacement isn't trapping anyone in the ghetto. And welfare spending for the poor doesn't "trap" anyone. It's a life preserver in stormy seas. All it does is keep people alive, barely. There's no luxury in it. No one is choosing it over making a better living. If you turn it off, kids don't learn a lesson, they don't escape "the ghetto" they simply go hungry and homeless.

I guess that's the sort of inane thing one says when the numbers prove you wrong? "But I feel it was the best economy ever! The numbers don't matter!"

For Ohio The elector shall mail the identification envelope to the director from whom it was received in the return envelope, postage prepaid, or the elector may personally deliver it to the director, or the spouse of the elector, the father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandfather, grandmother, brother, or sister of the whole or half blood, or the son, daughter, adopting parent, adopted child, stepparent, stepchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece of the elector may deliver it to the director. When you only have one drop box for a country, of course families are going to consolidate for one trip. It could be something untoward, but there's certainly no evidence that this was.

GDP? Noooope. Despite running huge elective deficits. Unemployment? Noooope. The DOW (which is not the economy, but bets on the economy) DID accelerate. People bet that the tax cuts/deficit spending would stimulate the economy. But it didn't. And the Black unemployment gap? Noooope. It's nearly always roughly double the white unemployment rate, just as it was under Trump And if you're still bamboozled and starry eyed about the"lowest Black unemployment" claim as an absolute number, Biden already beat that. I swear, Trump could tell you people the sky was green and you'd just nod along instead of checking the facts.

It's hard for a train to go over someone's head, but here we have it. Maybe try putting away your feelings and what Trump told you and check out the data for yourself. Though history tells me that's unlikely.

^^ this is what thinking people call a specious argument. If you want to claim that Trump did something specific for Black Americans, you're welcome to try. But the facts don't support it. Yes, Black unemployment was low, but not relatively better and through no action on the part of Trump. Just as he didn't change the economic trajectory, he didn't change the employment trajectory and didn't change the black employment gap. I've demonstrated this for you before with economic data, but that apparently didn't stick, so let me give you an easy metaphor. Imagine the economy as a long train. It's big, and heavy and takes a long time to change speed. Blacks have, for a litany of reasons, been largely pushed to the back of the bus--their economic progress generally tracks the whole economy, but always lags by about the same amount. Now, this train had been accelerating at a slow, steady rate during engineer Obama's shift. At shift change, engineer Trump took over. The train continued accelerating at the exact same rate. Nothing really changed. Then engineer Trump gets on the intercom and starts broadcasting to the passengers about how fast they're going, how awesome he is, and how Black people have made so much progress down the track! How he's done more for Black people than anyone except maybe engineer Lincoln. Again, yes it's true that the train continued to accelerate at the same rate. Yes, black people are further down the track. But he didn't do anything specifically for Blacks AND they are still lagging--still at the back of the train with the same gap to the front. No relative change. How much credit do you think Black people should give that specific engineer? Did he really do anything for them? And then a few hours later engineer Trump missed the warning signs and drove the whole damn train into Covid Canyon... It was an empty, specious claim, meant to fool people who can't or won't look at economic data. You can be that person, or you can go check the facts for yourself.

Of all the ridiculous alternative reality shit conservatives convince themselves of, this is near the top.? Sure, Blacks break heavily Democrat because of the secret plot to feed hungry children. Not because Republicans have been on the wrong side of every civil rights issue for the last 50 years. Not because they sent Strom Thurmond to the Senate into this century. Not because they gerrymander Black districts into irrelevance or force Black voters to wait in line hours to vote. Not because they cozy up to white nationalists and wave confederate flags at rallies to save the statues of confederate "heroes." And on and on. None of that stuff. Definitely not the decades of persistent--and sometimes open--hostility. They've just been tricked by feeding hungry children.

Allows? Nah, according many religions god commands his children to kill one another, and for the most trivial reasons.. Must be a sadist.

Indeed, illegal immigrants will do a lot of jobs that Americans (and Canadians) don't want.

It's not relevant until he makes it relevant. People can believe whatever crazy shit they want about the metaphysical and it'll do no harm to anyone. But it's a problem when they try to turn their crazy beliefs into laws that govern the rest of us. Their freedom ends where someone else's freedom begins. There are lots of religious people in government who understand that and behave accordingly, allowing freedom of and from religion for all. Fundies--of all faiths--typically can't respect the distinction of personal faith. Now that Johnson is in the spotlight for the first time, it looks as if he falls into that camp. It appears that, at every opportunity, he's opted to turn his religious beliefs into law. That's why it's a topic of conversation. He's made it relevant.

The best part about this thread is definitely going to be the irony.

Maybe after McCarthyism and the "red scare" ran its course? Maybe when Republican states became red states? Or maybe people just learned the proper name?

Yep, he's full nutball. But he says it quietly instead of shouting it. Dangerous.

Sometimes three are really subtle clues, like a pack of rabid torch-bearing Trump supporters marching around shouting "Jews will not replace us!" Or other nuanced stuff, like endorsements from and dining engagements with half of the ADL watch list. Calling 3/4 of the Jews in this country anti-semitic turncoats. It's the little things...

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that when a Democrat is found to have crossed a line, there's a broad chorus of their peers calling for resignation. That's what happened with Menendez. Even a joke in poor taste was enough to finish Al Franken. Yet someone like George Santos is sheltered and protected, and the few Republicans who called on him to resign were quickly shushed. You see, the Republicans crossed the Rubicon long ago. They didn't even bother drafting a platform for the last election because there are no values anymore. There is just a lust for power at any cost or compromise. It's why they'll overlook gross abuses of power, a failed coup and 90+ criminal indictments in their leading presidential candidate.

Full agreement from me. There is no danger from the American left. Very different goals. Very different tactics. Very different effects. Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance etc. These are just ignorant people on the internet shouting "Nazi" with no understanding of what that means. Even the American right has (mostly) different aims and objectives-they desire different outcomes. But the tactics are awfully familiar. That's sort of the irony of the whole thread. As they lose more and more popular support they are less and less interested in democratic principles. If only they can consolidate power in other ways, they think, then they can force change upon us--for our own good, of course.