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This is likely false, given the source, but let's play along and pretend it's credible. Sending LEOs to the scene of a violent insurrection already in progress is suuuper political? Like sending squad cars to a bank robbery. Politics!

He is a serial liar. Compulsive. Pathological. About all things big and small, meaningful and trivial. You simply don't find that a disqualifying character flaw because it's one you share. Meanwhile, back on topic, you don't seem have any opinion at all about why a casual statement of fact from his vanquished opponent provoked such a childish outburst.

Nobody should be above the law, but Comey didn't break the law, fool. The top prosecutor investigating Comey said that there wasn't evidence to charge him. So Trump fired him and replaced him with somebody who has zero you prosecutorial experience and fewer morals. Someone willing to blindly follow Trump's orders--orders he's not supposed to be giving at all. And the result is this embarrassing absurdity of a political prosecution. That's how little concern Trump has for actual governance. That's how little Trump thinks of his followers. He knows that he can spit right in their faces by appointing comically unqualified loyalists to important positions in the government, and their only response is to lick the spittle clean like eager little puppies, and then beg for more. And as little as he thinks of you, I think even less.

Jeebus, did you just stumble your senile old ass home from the bar? You make about as much sense as a Trump UN speech. The only people whining are Trump and, as always, his servile army of witless keyboard warriors. Harris stated a fact--a statement that didn't affect Trump in the least--and he threw a tantrum because it didn't fluff his ego.

It's pretty obvious she's referring to the popular vote. The orange manbaby's fragile ego simply can't abide anything that suggests he isn't universally beloved. Why would a sitting president (with any dignity) even comment on such a remark? Sore winner whiny child throws a social media tantrum.

A truly grotesque abuse of the justice system by a truly evil president intent on destroying the American experiment--and not even subtly. Publicly ordering our once independent DoJ to prosecute his political enemies (rather than actual criminals) underscores just how little Trump respects American values and his own cultish followers. No pretense needed. He knows that they will support naked fascism. He knows they will choose him over America every time. He's groomed them for the end of democracy and they are fully compliant.

Once upon a time, Americans would have overwhelmingly agreed that it's a good idea to take medical advice from medical experts, and a bad idea to take medical advice from a politician. Particularly someone who LITERALLY can't pronounce the name of the medication about which they are speaking. Seriously, if you can't even say "acetaminophen" don't hold a press conference to share with the world your "deep insights" about acetaminophen. Just shut your goddamn mouth and sit down. Full stop. This is another reminder that these are not normal times. Trump is objectively stupid. Just shockingly dumb. And a reminder that his cultish followers are dumber still. This is not defensible behavior. How do we stop these people from breeding? How do we get Trump to hold a press conference about the importance of regularly applying intense heat to eliminate bacteria on the testicles? It's possible that research could one day establish a contributing casual link between pre-natal acetaminophen and neurological conditions, but a few loose correlations (which are old news) are not it, and not cause for a press conference. If you're looking for a way to apply research to give your children a better future, maybe stop focusing on sketchy warnings about pain medicine and take some painless steps toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions--the dangers of which are established by an overwhelming scientific consensus approaching unanimity.

Well, it looks like that bullet killed both Charlie Kirk and the first amendment. Let's be clear: this was direct government retaliation, the most aggressive censorship, against legitimate political commentary. Not hate speech, nor calls to violence, nor even a celebration of violence, but simple criticism of political behavior. The masquerade is over, the costume set aside. Now it's just naked fascism. And MAGA America is really turned on by what they see. Whatever legacy Kirk might have had as a free speech advocate is now destroyed. Ironically, not by the people who disliked him, but by his own "friends" using his death as a final excuse to end free speech.

If only this post were from January 7, 2021, someone might be able to take it seriously. Or maybe if these posts were coming from people who haven't been defending and cheering excusing and laughing about political violence for years. Or from people who didn't vote back into office the man who sicced the violent mob on the legislature--and then watched the spectacle on TV. Or if that man hadn't pardoned his violent mob and put them back on the streets. But with all that history it's pretty hard to take seriously MAGA America's "sudden awakening" to the idea that political violence is unacceptable. But better late than never, I guess. Welcome to the impeachment movement!

Popped back in just for this thread--and it's exactly as expected. This is rather like when Rush Limbaugh died. Kirk was also a professional a$$hole. Like Limbaugh, he made a lot of money spreading lies, sowing hate and driving division. Objectively, the world will be better off without this cog in the hate machine. Still, his only "crime" was political speech, and political speech should never be answered with violence. Never. It's a tragic day, but the tragedy isn't the "loss" of Kirk, it's the ongoing erosion of civil discourse, displaced by the brutal expedience of force. Sadder still, the MAGA crowd won't recognize the irony of this deeply MAGA, "might makes right" moment. A movement headed by a bully who has caused and reveled in political violence has very little room to be outraged by political violence.

No, I think asylum and refugee considerations should not be based on race at all. Trump disagrees. He's aggressively shut down the legal routes that non-whites were using at the southern border, while opening up a special path for white "refugees" fleeing a fictional genocide. It's blatantly racist, and you're eager to defend it. You know, like the whites only rules we used to have all over the southern US. After restoring statues and renaming parks and monuments to honor Confederate generals, I'm sure he'll get around to editing the dedication for the Statue of Liberty: "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled WHITE masses yearning to breathe free."

Nah, they have meaning. You just need a room-temperature IQ to understand them. Like I said, ask somebody to explain it to you, slowly. Maybe get some puppets in the mix or something? Your feelings aren't facts, and the the fact that you existed during the events discussed clearly doesn't mean that you understood them. The world of economics is as mysterious to you as thunder to the ancient greeks.

That's a lot of word salad to say that you agree with me that people crossing the southern border are almost entirely non-white. Which is an easy and plain fact to verify. Tell @gatomontes99 to pull his head out of Trump's ass for a minute and recognize the fact.

Jeebus. So, your answer to the fact that inflation was the price paid to stimulate the economy and avoid a massive recession is that there was inflation? Let's give you about 3 hours to catch on. And then, as before, go look at any other metric from where Trump left them to where Biden left them. Get somebody who can read simple charts and graphs to explain it to you.

He clearly didn't make it worse, dummy. Nearly every metric by which the economy is measured improved dramatically from what he inherited from Trump. Cold hard facts. We've been over that dozens of times, but unless you suddenly learned how to read a chart or graph I didn't suppose it would be helpful to post them again.

So when you said "libbies" cause so much inflation you meant one moderate Democrat who inherited an economy in the midst of a generational crisis and successfully navigated the economy out said crisis into a soft landing? Spot on, as usual.🤣

Jeebus, dude. You are the tail end of the human centipede. Good luck selling that.

Lol. So, it's your official position that the people illegally crossing the southern border are not overwhelmingly non-white, primarily Mexican and Latin American? You're going on record with that? You really are shameless in your eagerness to carry water. No bar too low. No claim too dishonest.

Sanctuary cities are abiding by the law. And they exist because those policies are the best for the citizens who live there. In the US, border and immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility. States and cities have no role there, but they do have other obligations to their citizenry. Imagine that you're running a city in Southern California, for example. Undocumented people exist. That's a fact you can't change (federal responsibility) like the weather or the water level. You have to decide how to achieve your goals within the context of that reality. For example, law enforcement depends on community engagement and trust. You need people to follow the local laws and to assist with enforcement. You need people to share information with investigators. You need people to be witnesses. You need people to be willing to comply with a traffic stop. You need people to take responsibility after a fender bender. And on and on. Obviously, establishing every contact with your local LEO as an existential threat to the undocumented residents in your community undermines all of your local goals with regard to community trust and engagement. Are you going to sacrifice your macro objectives--what you owe to your constituents--to mitigate the deficiencies of the federal government? Remembering that your job is to govern your city, is helping the feds deport a handful of people worth driving a subset of your population out of compliance, trust and engagement? Of course not. That's an easy decision. You do what's right for your city and your people and let the feds worry about their obligations.

Sure, pointing out that Trump is overtly targeting people of color and favoring whites in yet another aspect of governance is "racist." If you're a dimwitted liar, that probably sounds like a super great counter argument.

The point is that, as usual, you are talking about things you don't remotely understand. Your premise that "libbies cause so much inflation" is obviously false. Democrats are, and historically have been, decisively better for the economy. The ideas are better. They work better in practice. The outcomes are on record.

Holy shit, read a book sometime. And while you're at it, you might want to look at deficit and debt.

Yes, dumbass, this newsflash just in: the people crossing the southern border are almost entirely non-white. Which you already know. And this is what the app is for. I'm typing this slower and louder because apparently it's necessary... If Trump had made a blanket shutdown blocking all asylum and refuge seekers you could at least pretend it wasn't racially motivated, even though we all know who Trump is targeting. But when he shuts down the pathways used overwhelmingly by brown people, and then opens up a special path for white people, it's undeniably racially motivated. It's not a question or an accusation, just a fact. Playing that dumb should bother you, but as you constantly demonstrate, there's no bar too low when it comes to defending orange people.

We've yet to have any noteworthy good results. We've got an economy he's quickly tipping into recession, a constitutional crisis, a government waging war on journalism, science and education, an insane tariff policy and the volatile market to match. There's pretty much nothing the orange buffoon can't turn to shit in just 100 days.

While, yes, it's a perverse, Kafka-esque cruelty, it's also unbelievably stupid and shortsighted: the MAGA trifecta. If you punish people for attempting to comply with the expectations of the legal system, they very quickly learn not to trust or respect the legal system. It doesn't discourage people from existing in the US, it just incentivizes them to exist outside of legal governance.