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You obviously don't know how debate works. I made a backed-up claim that we can expect the military to move against American citizens. You have offered no evidence to the contrary. If you did, I would respond.

No, you, please, tell me, what you think they mean?

Violence is the way of the Right. Trump’s embrace of violence is a matter of record. He encourages his rally goers to beat up hecklers. In a speech to law enforcement officers, he advised them to be rough. “Don’t be too nice.” He praised Montana’s governor for assaulting a reporter. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type.” Trump favours torture. And what did Trump mean when he said that his plans for mass deportation will be a “bloody story?” During the unrest of 2020, Trump wanted to shoot protestors in the legs: Now, Trump has his man who will not hesitate to carry out that order.

And still, you have nothing of substance to add to the conversation.

I'll have to watch out for him.

Far from representing a viable vision for a sustainable peace, Putin’s 2022 proposal actually underlines his commitment to extinguishing Ukrainian statehood and erasing Ukraine from the map entirely. Putin’s 2022 “peace proposal” was a blueprint for the destruction of Ukraine

It's one-way talking, if you haven't noticed.

If you don't understand that different people(s) have different understanding of God, you lead a very sheltered life. Even within the Christian religion, there are disagreements as to who this "God" person is. It's deluded to believe that the ultimate creator of all that exists is interested in saving Donald Trump's life. If you believe in the Bible .... Oh, sorry, were you talking to yourself?

They are quotes from his books! Talk about willful blindness. It’s not yet clear to you what Hegseth intends? Perhaps the quotes below - his words! - will make it clearer. More from Hegseth’s American Crusade (2020): Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’

Well, I guess it all depends on how you view God. I am a pantheist, so I see God as being the very essence of nature and the Universe. All that exists is God. So what I trust in are the laws of nature. I view nature - everything that exists - with respect and reverence and celebration - but to think that those laws of nature will bend in my favour is beyond all reasonable thought. They had a direct pipeline to God. American evangelists really believe they are God's chosen people. That's not what I said at all. My point was that it's the height of arrogance to think that you are somehow deserving and others aren't. Thank goodness just because you say it does not make it true. Lol, is that—gasp!—kindness?

It’s a real war to Hegseth. He’s one paranoid dude. How long before he uses the military against the Left? According to him, they are all Marxists, and should be treated like enemy combatants. In Battle for the American Mind (2022), he writes: In The War on Warriors (2024), he writes: American Crusade (2020) calls for the Hegseth equates the left to wartime enemies: So, anything goes, for as Hegseth says: “The Left has never fought fair.” Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick

Trusting in God and recognizing his supremacy is not the same as thinking he has an active hand in your affairs. I once asked a die-hard Trump supporter who believed God was on his side why God would pay attention to American politics (saving Trump, lol!) and God did not see fit to intervene in genocide (there's been more than a dozen in the last 100 years) - including the Holocaust and the Holodomor? And his answer was that - "We asked." Do you believe that? Like victims of genocides do not pray. Please, less bait, more counterpoints.

This completely ignores what has been my main point. Putin invaded an independent democratic country. Full stop. He rejected all peace plans of 2022 because his goal was the overthrow of the Ukrainian government and the claim of all territory. If his goal was just to ward off NATO, why has he made the historical claim of Russia to Ukraine his central thesis? What, I think he talked about it for 30 minutes in his interview with Creepy Carlson. But you, and your cronies, have not really made any effective counterpoints to the evidence I have presented in any thread. Oh, one thing about the Iraq war - The only concern Russia had with the it was whether they would be able to collect the $8 billion it was owed by Iraq due to the war with Iran.

The manosphere is a real thing, and it’s a gateway to the Alt-Right. I’m sure Watters is a friend to them. Rife on websites, podcasts and other online forums – they share a common ideology: Women are either too self-centered or too dumb to make important decisions on their own. Susceptible young men adopt the views that women shouldn’t work because they can’t emotionally handle it and that women should allow men to choose who they vote for. Many in the manosphere feel their “job as a man is to keep a woman in line.” They are fighting against what the Claremont Institute (which has been referred to as “The Nerve Centre of the American Right”) calls the “gynocracy” (government by women) where “feminists peddle their revolutionary goals” to obtain not equality, but domination. The movement is real, and growing. Some men, when faced with a woman's needs, take it an indictment on them, and resent the "shame" that they are "made" to feel, and react with hostility. It's really a rather narcissistic reaction.

But they are not friends at a bar, and their reach is huge. Is there no line between private and public talk? Excuses, excuses. Whenever an offensive or inflammatory remark is called out, the supporters excuse it. Was Watters making a joke when, in a sexist rant, he said: Those are his words. Who do you think he was talking to? Why do you think young men with insecure masculinity are moving toward the right? Oh, yeah, they like Trump because he is a “fighter.” But, yeah, that’s what Republicans, especially Trump, does. Say something outrageous, and when called on it, say, “It was only a joke.” That’s what Trump called it (“in jest and sarcastically”) when he invited, “Russia, are you listening?” Thing is, the Kremlin was not in on the joke. Mueller noted:

So, his purpose is to entertain? It escapes me how his degrading "jokes" pass for entertainment. He's got a large audience, and with that should come some responsibility. I'll tell you his purpose - it is to influence, not to inform. He is a propagandist.

You mean he doesn't mean what he says? Then, what is his purpose? What was his purpose when he said: “(Harris is) going to get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/08/27/jesse-watters-kamala-harris/

This was not always the case. There was a real period of co-operation between Russa and NATO after the fall of the USSR and before Putin took power. Mid-1990s, Russian military even operated under NATO command in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1997, The NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security was signed by Russia and NATO at the NATO summit in Paris, France. The act was: Russia and the US even shared intelligence post 9/11. Then Putin began with his hostile trade actions, threats, and military actions (Azerbaijan, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, Turkey, Kazakhstan), and of course assassinations of Putin’s opponents by Russian intelligence on NATO territory. Putin is the corrupt imperialist, not NATO.

I think some of them must be like Jesse Watters, who likened voting for Harris to "having an affair." https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-says-wife-voting-for-kamala-harris-is-like-having-an-affair/

Why don't you quote the entire quote? He wasn't talking about people - he was talking about hateful rhetoric being garbage. (Talk about dishonesty.) "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it's un-American," https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-garbage-comments-1.7367634 You have no answer for my second Hitler-Trump comparison? The monomaniacal approach? Well, here's a third comparison. Both Trump and Hitler has/had cult followings that believe their dear leader is divinely sent. Sunday services paint Trump as God’s chosen one. His evangelical base credit God for Trump’s surviving the assassination attempt. When you have a base that worships you, you feel like you can do anything - even interfere in elections: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-had-every-right-interfere-2020-election-2024-09-02/ In Trumps words: “And I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country.” There are Americans who believe Almighty God is interested in American politics!! Tucker Carlson’s bizarre and creepy speech in Duluth, Georgia, a couple weeks before the election, and the crowd’s response, provide some insight into how Trumps’ supporters view him. Quoted from Carlson’s speech (in the video below): And when Trump took to the stage, the crowd chanted, “Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYNrDI1dtEw&t=3s

Please read Trump's tweet that I quoted.

I don't think we can compare guns to phones. And trying to monitor the phone usage of millions of kids sounds like an impossible nightmare. More efficient to go after the companies providing the services.

Well, I guess we can use the example of Putin and his oligarchs. In the summer of 2000, Putin met with his oligarchs and offered them a deal: In 2003, the first oligarch to learn Putin's way – Khodorkovsky - challenged Putin. Khodorkovsky ended up getting arrested at gunpoint, charged with fraud and tax evasion, and spent the next decade imprisoned in Siberia. Anyway, the other oligarchs learned their lesson, and Putin went on to consolidate his wealth and his power. How Putin Conquered Russia's Oligarchy The ACA needs to be expanded. There are still uninsured people. 26.4 million uninsured in 2022. https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/entering-their-second-decade-affordable-care-act-coverage-expansions-have-helped

The "deplorable" comment was one stupid comment made by Clinton, and all right-thinking Dems criticized it. Trump has made it a central theme of his campaign. Here's a tweet from Trump: Nov 11th 2023 - 1:25:01 PM EST Here’s another way that Trump is like Hitler – both have a “monomaniacal” approach – both are narcissists who believe that they and they alone can solve all of the country’s problems. “Only I can fix it,” Trump has said, ad nauseum. There are too many tweets in which he said that to quote here, but you can find them all on this webpage: https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?searchbox=%22fix%22 Hitler called it Fuehrerprinzip – that to solve a country’s problems, all power had to be invested in one person. Trump has even suggested he is the greatest president of all time – greater than Washington and Lincoln! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBcvBpRuGsP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Lol, because we know that right-wing men really value and respect opposing opinions. /s