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Prove it.

Have you not read the Eastman memo or learned of Trump's plans to seize and remain in power? The fake electors? He followed it up quite recently with public statements about the need to suspend the constitution to put him back in power. There isn't really much to debate here. It's all there in plain black and white. The goals are objectively stated. True, the insurrectionists are just one piece of the effort, but lynching Pence or Pelosi (#2 and #3 in the order of succession) is not trivial.

I know you're kinda slow, but check your quote: "As a result of the events on January 6, the lives of five heroic officers were lost." He did not say they died on Jan 6. He said they died as a result of the events of Jan 6. You are welcome to disagree (though that seems petty) but you'll be lying if you continue to misrepresent what he said.

A traitor shot in the act of trying to violently overthrow the government and end democracy in America is a weird farking character to rally around. As a parent, I feel human sympathy for this woman's loss. But it certainly doesn't give her a license to block the road. AP News Witthoeft and others were walking on a street near the Capitol when police, who had formed a line to keep them from going farther, directed them to get out of the road, officials said. Video shared on social media shows police repeatedly warning the group to move to the sidewalk or be arrested. Witthoeft then turned around with her hands behind her back and was taken into custody. ^^calling *this* the straw that broke the camel's back is about the snowflakiest damn thing ever. She's not a victim. Just get out of the road and onto the damn sidewalk! I think it's pretty obvious where her daughter got her smarts. You people have an enormous sense of entitlement.

There was a violent mob breaking through barricades, doors and windows to get at the people who had retreated inside. It was not an execution. There aren't many clearer cases of defense of self and one's charges. It shows INCREDIBLE restraint that they ONLY the a-hole coming through the window. Fark all the insurrectionists.

Yes, yes. We know. Anyone can make a chart or write letters or numbers so all information is untrustworthy. I just like when you say it, reasserting your claim to the dumbest troll trophy. Meanwhile, those of us who form opinions and make decisions based on facts are laughing at just how stupid you are.

Florida Man can't read a chart? The numbers are what they are. Shouting Trump's PR slogans doesn't change them.

No, it doesn't. There are multiple definitions of "full employment" but NONE of them mean that "everybody has a job." There will never be a time when "everybody has a job." There is a certain amount of natural churn in even (and sometimes especially) in the healthiest labor markets. So full employment (whichever definition) usually lands around the 4-6% unemployment range. But if you are ignorant of economic terms and want to use your layman's definition, fine, have at it. By your standard, Trump wins the booby prize, with general labor force participation well under Obama and the lowest lows in 40 years or so during the pandemic. Enjoy! FRED

I think he meant "never mind" -- that McCarthy had been elected on the 4th vote. But it's but correct. Day 2 and still the kook faction is holding out.

Ah, so you're a "big fella"? The sort of slack-jawed bully who resorts to assault when he can't compete in a battle of wits and then tries to justify it? This all adds up. Now I see exactly why you'd defend Trump's inexcusable behavior.

I'm pretty liberal, and I have no problem with people shooting someone in the act of a home invasion. They've invaded the place you should have every right to feel safe and you have no idea what they are there to do to you in that moment, only that it's some kind of harm. The criminal forfeits their right to safety in that scenario. The "stand your ground" laws are complete bullshit but the castle doctrine is fair.

Just like Bigfoot. Only the really super smart people can understand the evidence and all the coverup involved to keep the mighty sasquatch hidden! Meanwhile, I'm counting this as another troll sighting. You continue to prove that the troll is one cryptid that definitely walks among us.

These suuuuuper witty replies remind me very much of your similarly silly threats about the midterm elections.

And I've pointed out to you that pretending like Democrats have suddenly just started some kind of game makes you seem both naive and ignorant. Lewinsky trial? Benghazi? Even if Trump's impeachments had not been absolutely justified (and they certainly were) they wouldn't have been "starting" something. Baseless investigations and obstructionism are the only things left for a Republican party that is a morally and intellectually bankrupt. They no longer have values in which to believe, save for the acquisition and consolidation of power through any means necessary.

Aw, I don't think anyone here believes you could make it through college. You post satire articles thinking they are serious. You post blogs and Pinterest memes and rant about reliable sources. You're absolutely allergic to primary sources and the trappings of scholarly debate. Frankly, I don't think you'd get through the first year before a mutual agreement that it just wasn't the right place for you.

So you've got nothing except the PR of a compulsive liar? The guy who started his presidency by telling you he had the largest inauguration crowd in history ends it by telling you he built the best economy in history, and you just swallow it? Lol. That's pretty gullible, even for Florida Man. You'd be better off going back to citing random Pinterest posts. Economists laugh at that absurd claim the same way the United Nations laughed at Trump when he said his administration had accomplished more than any in history. The truth is that the economy was pretty good for most of the Trump administration because he inherited an economy that was pretty good -- and he ALMOST managed to not fark it up. It wasn't the best in history- not by a longshot. It wasn't the best in even a single major metric. GDP growth was modest tracking straight from the Obama economy. Lagging well behind other modern presidents like Clinton, Reagan, Bush, not to mention actual record sets like FDR. Your claim is a complete joke, and it only highlights, once again, how gullible the Trump cult is. Again I'd encourage you to fact check for yourself--if you can. Find an original source and check any major metric against other presidents.

Here's a fun exercise, Florida Man. Can you name even a single major economic metric in which the Trump economy was "the best"?

No, I employ analogies because you've proven incapable of comprehending the actual topic and the analogies perfectly illustrate how truly absurd your position is. It you didn't have incidence data, big dumb raw numbers might be your best*directional* data. But it's clumsy and often leads to poor conclusions, as the seatbelt example illustrates. However, if you do have the incidence data (and we do!) then there is no guesswork. You can simply look and see the direct effect on hospitalization and mortality. ^^This is indisputably and obviously true. But you are so damn invested in the holidays bogus vax failure narrative that you will do anything to avoid acknowledging facts that are clear in the incidence data. There is no question that the vaccine makes any individual dramatically less likely to be hospitalized or to die. It's visible in the data. It's*explicitly* stated in the reports and analysis. You can keep your head up your ass and ignore all of that, but it won't change the reality.

Blah, blah, blah. You've posted this same asinine crap SO many times. It's like if sometime showed you data that wearing a "bulletproof' vest makes it 5x more likely that you'll survive a shooting incident ànd you say, "Nah, I only way to know it's they work is to look at how many shooting deaths there are each year." The data is right there. It's been shown to you over and over again. There is a reason that every medical organization on the planet disagrees with you, it's sure as hell not because you've outsmarted them. Jeebus.

And in 6 months you'll be saying "I never said what KIND if reckoning." Lol. Coward.

I think we're all know that's bullshit. You weren't doing a stupid, smug countdown to a slight majority in one body of the legislature. That's no kind of reckoning.

Yeah, I'm one of those crazy kooks who measures efficacy with outcomes and incidence rather than just looking at a big dumb raw number. Me, and everyone who measures efficacy. People who wear seatbelts are like 7x less likely to die in a car accident, but for folks with your math skills the real measure of seatbelt efficacy is how many people die in auto accidents each year. ?

Your facts are more like fictions. Everyone in the US wanted Shokin fired because he *wasn't* investigating corruption in Ukraine. It wasn't Biden's pet project or special favor. Nor was it any kind of secret. Burisma wasn't under investigation at the time, so "stopping" the investigation would have been impossible. The clip *has not* been "scrubbed" from the Internet, lol. There are dozens of them. Watch to your heart's content or until you climax or whatever. Oh, and the Senate Republicans already did this investigation and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

This is as grounded in reality as your juvenile, ad nauseum midterm projections, and likely to end the same way.

There are also oligarchies and theocracies out there. Maybe a few others if one is looking for nuance. But democracy isn't limited to pure democracy. Any arrangements in which power is derived from the will of the voting public is democratic. This can be direct/pure, or inspect/representative. Most governments are blended in some way. You have elective monarchies and hereditary dictatorships, for example. Of course the US is a democracy, but it is other things as well. The idea (rhetoric, really) that the US is not a democracy is picking up steam among the conservative chattering class because, frankly, they can no longer compete in a democracy. And, as Republican David Frum so eloquently put it, “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” And we have seen this borne out quite explicitly in the last two election cycles.