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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 7:58 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Thursday, April 30, 2020 7:55 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thursday, April 30, 2020 11:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: When the country’s as divided as it’s been, it really is unhealthy and dangerous for all of us.
Friday, May 1, 2020 8:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: When the country’s as divided as it’s been, it really is unhealthy and dangerous for all of us. Any graph will show you the wild swing to the left that a majority of people who align themselves with the Democratic Party have taken while the Conservative needle hasn't moved much. Fix your party. Fix the country.
Friday, May 1, 2020 8:08 AM
Friday, May 1, 2020 8:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: When the country’s as divided as it’s been, it really is unhealthy and dangerous for all of us. Any graph will show you the wild swing to the left that a majority of people who align themselves with the Democratic Party have taken while the Conservative needle hasn't moved much. Fix your party. Fix the country.The last big fix was the end of slavery. Were the abolitionists able to persuade millions of Southern citizens to peacefully and reasonably change? No. It had to be an all out war. Other countries could end slavery without a million tragic deaths, but not the US. We went for the maximum drama and irrational shouting and killing. It was not the abolitionists that started the Civil War. To see how less emotionally unstable nations solved the slavery problem, read Slavery Abolition Act United Kingdom [1834]. www.britannica.com/topic/Slavery-Abolition-Act The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Friday, May 1, 2020 8:18 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: When the country’s as divided as it’s been, it really is unhealthy and dangerous for all of us. Any graph will show you the wild swing to the left that a majority of people who align themselves with the Democratic Party have taken while the Conservative needle hasn't moved much. Fix your party. Fix the country.The last big fix was the end of slavery. Were the abolitionists able to persuade millions of Southern citizens to peacefully and reasonably change? No. It had to be an all out war. Other countries could end slavery without a million tragic deaths, but not the US. We went for the maximum drama and irrational shouting and killing. It was not the abolitionists that started the Civil War. To see how less emotionally unstable nations solved the slavery problem, read Slavery Abolition Act United Kingdom [1834]. www.britannica.com/topic/Slavery-Abolition-Act The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly It must have been tough for Democrats to lose their slaves. Not really though. They still have them. They just pay them better today. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Friday, May 1, 2020 8:23 AM
Friday, May 1, 2020 8:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Whatever. Back on the topic of Democratic Slavery... You can't tell me a party doesn't view their people as just cattle when I drive through Gary, IN and see signs everywhere that just say "Vote Democrat" with the date on them. No candidates named whatsoever. Just pay your vote to keep all the free shit we're giving you while oppressing you and assuming that you will always be stupid and just do what we tell you to do while we keep all the rewards to ourselves and let the towns fall into disrepair and allow the violence in your neighborhood to stay so bad that even the cops won't go there. And if you dare vote anything other than Democrat we will shame the fuck out of you, Uncle Tom. Remember. Vote Democrat, Tuesday November 3rd. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Friday, May 1, 2020 11:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Whatever. Back on the topic of Democratic Slavery... You can't tell me a party doesn't view their people as just cattle when I drive through Gary, IN and see signs everywhere that just say "Vote Democrat" with the date on them. No candidates named whatsoever. Just pay your vote to keep all the free shit we're giving you while oppressing you and assuming that you will always be stupid and just do what we tell you to do while we keep all the rewards to ourselves and let the towns fall into disrepair and allow the violence in your neighborhood to stay so bad that even the cops won't go there. And if you dare vote anything other than Democrat we will shame the fuck out of you, Uncle Tom. Remember. Vote Democrat, Tuesday November 3rd. Do Right, Be Right. :)6ix, like natural born Republicans in Texas, you hate niggers, but will loudly claim you are not a racist so I checked for the reason Gary, Indiana bothers you: In Gary 80.92% of the population is Black or African American. Gary is #2 on the list of Cities with the largest percentage of black or African American people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_African-American_populations Unsurprising that 6ix is a flat out racist. Trump says he is the 'least racist person anywhere in the world' LOL "Trump Is a Racist. If You Still Support Him, So Are You." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-a-racist-if-you-still-support-him-so-are-you The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Saturday, May 2, 2020 10:07 AM
Saturday, May 2, 2020 10:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Why I'm skeptical about Reade's sexual assault claim against Biden
Saturday, May 2, 2020 11:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: But my gripe isn't about Biden here. It's about your behavior, and the behavior of everyone on this board who was singing a much different tune about a woman's claims of sexual assault when it was about a guy they did not like. Would you care for me to dig up posts you and everyone else were making while the Kavanaugh fiasco was going down? It would be another prime example of the one-sided hypocrisy going on around here, and might actually be a little enlightening for you to read.
Saturday, May 2, 2020 11:19 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: But my gripe isn't about Biden here. It's about your behavior, and the behavior of everyone on this board who was singing a much different tune about a woman's claims of sexual assault when it was about a guy they did not like. Would you care for me to dig up posts you and everyone else were making while the Kavanaugh fiasco was going down? It would be another prime example of the one-sided hypocrisy going on around here, and might actually be a little enlightening for you to read.Survivor advocates say Republicans are mischaracterizing the response to the Kavanaugh allegations, arguing that the effort was always to ensure that Blasey Ford’s accusations were fully investigated by the FBI before his Senate confirmation vote. “The idea that Democrats just reflexively believed Christine Blasey Ford is a completely revisionist version of events,” said Robyn Swirling, founder of Works In Progress, which aims to reduce sexual violence in the workplace. “Democrats called for an FBI investigation, which was obstructed and never thoroughly conducted. All allegations -- whether against a Democrat or a Republican -- should be treated by Democrats and Republicans alike as equally serious matters. Survivors are not political pawns, and shouldn't be used as such to score political points or pursue electoral agendas.” https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495757-democrats-accused-of-double-standard-on-biden-kavanaugh As Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh prepares for his second year on the Supreme Court, new reporting has detailed how the limits ordered by the White House and Senate Republicans last year constrained the FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-16/fbi-investigation-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Saturday, May 2, 2020 11:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nothing you just posted here changes anything. Your behavior, and that of Democrats in general is hypocritical. You and other Democrats can deny the double standards you live by all day long, but it doesn't change the fact that they are the only standards you have. And, once again, I'll follow this up with I support Biden on this. I felt the need to state that again since you didn't quote that part of what I wrote.
Sunday, May 3, 2020 7:56 AM
Sunday, May 3, 2020 9:00 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nothing you just posted here changes anything. Your behavior, and that of Democrats in general is hypocritical. You and other Democrats can deny the double standards you live by all day long, but it doesn't change the fact that they are the only standards you have. And, once again, I'll follow this up with I support Biden on this. I felt the need to state that again since you didn't quote that part of what I wrote."I'll follow this up with I support Biden on this." - Your support is worthless.
Quote:"Your behavior, and that of Democrats in general is hypocritical." - Your accusations of hypocrisy are hollow, empty, unsupported. Worthless.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 7:07 AM
Sunday, May 10, 2020 1:23 PM
Sunday, May 10, 2020 10:19 PM
Monday, May 11, 2020 3:33 PM
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:14 AM
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:20 AM
THG
Saturday, May 16, 2020 6:20 AM
Sunday, May 17, 2020 7:35 AM
Monday, May 18, 2020 6:11 AM
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 8:54 AM
Thursday, May 21, 2020 7:27 AM
Friday, May 22, 2020 7:07 AM
Friday, May 22, 2020 10:50 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Support for QAnon has grown as Trump has consolidated control over the Republican Party In winning the Oregon GOP primary for the US Senate Tuesday, Jo Rae Perkins became the seventh Republican congressional candidate who openly supports QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that maintains the president is secretly fighting “deep state” operatives and Democratic pedophiles. Perkins highlighted QAnon in her victory speech, pointedly repeating the group’s most used catchphrase before thanking fellow supporters. “Where we go one, we go all,” she said. “I stand with President Trump, I stand with Q and the team. Thank you, Anons, and thank you, patriots. Together, we can save our republic.” At its heart, QAnon supporters believe that a secretive network of government officials, Democratic politicians, and liberal elites are running an international pedophile ring and conspiring to bring down the president because he’s close to bringing them to justice. The theory began circulating in October 2017, as Vox’s Jane Coaston explained: QAnon is a conspiracy theory based around an anonymous online poster known as “Q” — a pseudonym that comes from the Q-level security clearance, the Department of Energy equivalent of “Top Secret.” Beginning on October 28, 2017, Q began posting on the 4chan message board /pol/ about Hillary Clinton’s imminent arrest. Followers of Q became known as QAnon, and they began awaiting “The Storm,” during which all of Trump’s enemies, including Rep. Adam Schiff and others, would be arrested and executed for being murderous child-eating pedophiles. Celebrities like actress Roseanne Barr and former athlete turned conservative activist Curt Schilling have shown support for the theory, as have right-wing media figures Alex Jones and Sean Hannity. President Trump has not publicly embraced the conspiracy theory, but he hasn’t been shy about retweeting its supporters. At its core, Q is about supporting Trump’s power over the federal government. And it allows its adherents to create order out of a chaotic administration. Under this conspiracy theory, instead of Trump being incompetent, he becomes beleaguered in his fight against evil, monstrous people. It’s a mass self-soothing exercise. Trump has of late embarked on a series of attacks on government oversight and operational norms. Over recent weeks, Trump has purged inspectors general he perceives as disloyal, many of whom were simply doing their jobs by investigating the administration’s actions. To many outside observers, such actions look like authoritarian power grabs. But to Q supporters, these actions are emblematic of the ways the president is fighting the “deep state.” Essentially, everything Trump does easily fits into this conspiracy theory, meaning there’s no need for its adherents to question his actions. This means that, in many ways, belief in QAnon is the ultimate show of loyalty, something Trump has made clear he values greatly. The president has never been afraid to use the bully pulpit — and Twitter — to call out those whom he perceived to be disloyal Republican lawmakers. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, and even occasional close confidant Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) have found themselves on the receiving end of Trump’s wrath. In highlighting their support for QAnon, then, candidates like Perkins are signaling to the president that he does not need to worry about them raising his ire as Romney so often does. Instead, he can trust them to be allies and to support his governing style, even if it includes brazen power grabs. More at www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/20/21264925/jo-rae-perkins-qanon-us-senate-oregon The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Saturday, May 23, 2020 6:06 AM
Saturday, May 23, 2020 10:23 AM
Sunday, May 24, 2020 6:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nobody takes any poll by a firm that calls themselves "Data for Progress" seriously. Certainly not a "Vox exclusive" poll. It's gross how easily you are manipulated. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sunday, May 24, 2020 7:24 AM
Sunday, May 24, 2020 9:29 AM
Sunday, May 24, 2020 10:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Truth is . . . Wait, do COVID deniers even know what the truth is?
Quote:Are these people lying to us or are they lying to themselves? For years, that’s been the great imponderable of American politics, the question the rest of us asked as we watched nominal “conservatives” sink ever deeper into a morass of conspiracy, lies and alternative facts. Were they yanking our collective chain, working some deep strategy, invisible to our eyes? Or did they actually believe Barack Obama was a Muslim, born in Kenya? Or that Hillary Clinton ran a child-sex ring out of a pizza parlor? Or that the victims of mass shootings were really “crisis actors?”
Monday, May 25, 2020 7:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Don't bother trying to tell me what the truth is, smart guy. The CDC and the WHO change their mind on what the truth is on a daily basis.
Monday, May 25, 2020 9:09 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Trump's heedless holiday demonstrated that as his drive for re-election begins in earnest, he will not alter the formula that got him to the Oval Office in the first place. This method depends on the reliable power of divisiveness, anger, and activist rage.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:30 AM
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 10:07 AM
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 6:45 AM
Quote:Introduction It’s 11:00 p.m. in Berlin. Not a single car is in sight, yet a pedestrian waits patiently at the crosswalk until the light turns green. Meanwhile, four thousand miles away in Boston, at rush hour, commuters flout the “Do Not Cross” sign as they dart in front of cabs. To the south, where it’s 8:00 p.m. in São Paulo, locals are frolicking in string bikinis in public parks. Up in Silicon Valley, it’s midafternoon and T-shirted employees at Google are playing a game of Ping-Pong. And in Zurich, at the Swiss bank UBS, which for years mandated a forty-four-page dress code, executives burning the midnight oil have barely loosened their ties. We may tease Germans for being excessively orderly or Brazilians for showing too much skin, but we rarely consider how these differences came about. Far beyond dress codes and pedestrian patterns, people’s social differences run deep and broad—from politics to parenting, management to worship, and vocations to vacations. In the past several thousand years humanity has evolved to the point where there now exist 195 countries, and more than seven thousand languages and many thousands of religions. Even within a single nation, such as the United States, there are countless differences in fashion, dialect, morals, and political orientation—sometimes among those who live in close proximity. The diversity of human behavior is astonishing, especially since 96 percent of the human genome is identical to that of chimpanzees, whose lifestyles, unlike humans, are far more similar across communities. We rightly celebrate diversity and condemn division, yet we’re shockingly ignorant of what underlies both of these things: culture. Culture is a stubborn mystery of our experience and one of the last uncharted frontiers. . . .
Thursday, May 28, 2020 7:26 AM
Thursday, May 28, 2020 8:29 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Dishonest Elections Project: Conservative group fighting to restrict voting tied to powerful dark money network The Guardian reports: A powerful new conservative organization fighting to restrict voting in the 2020 presidential election is really just a rebranded group that is part of a dark money network already helping Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to remake the US federal judiciary, the Guardian and OpenSecrets reveal. The organization, which calls itself the Honest Elections Project, seemed to emerge out of nowhere a few months ago and started stoking fears about voter fraud. Backed by a dark money group funded by rightwing stalwarts like the Koch brothers and Betsy DeVos’ family, the Honest Elections Project is part of the network that pushed the US supreme court picks Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, and is quickly becoming a juggernaut in the escalating fight over voting rights. The project announced it was spending $250,000 in advertisements in April, warning against voting by mail and accusing Democrats of cheating. It facilitated letters to election officials in Colorado, Florida and Michigan, using misleading data to accuse jurisdictions of having bloated voter rolls and threatening legal action. Calling voter suppression a “myth”, it has also been extremely active in the courts, filing briefs in favor of voting restrictions in Nevada, Virginia, Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota, among other places, at times represented by lawyers from the same firm that represents Trump. By having a hand in both voting litigation and the judges on the federal bench, this network could create a system where conservative donors have an avenue to both oppose voting rights and appoint judges to back that effort. https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2020/05/27/dishonest-elections-project-conservative-group-fighting-to-restrict-voting-tied-to-powerful-dark-money-network/ The Right-Wing Legal Network Is Now Openly Pushing Conspiracy Theories https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/leonard-leo-federalist-society-voter-fraud.html Captured Courts -- The GOP’s Big Money Assault On Our Independent Judiciary https://bit.ly/3esMX4R From the Supreme Court on down, the special interests responsible for these judges’ selection and confirmation are effectively capturing the judicial branch, packing our courts with politicians in robes. With a captured judiciary, the Republican Party can do its donors’ dirty work through the courts without fear of electoral consequences. It is nothing less than a crisis for American democracy, which depends on a fair and impartial judiciary. Behind this capture scheme lie hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous spending, funneled through an elaborate web of front groups. It is impossible to understand this capture scheme without understanding who is spending so much money to capture America’s courts—and how and why. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Thursday, May 28, 2020 9:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Hilarious how somebody can believe something like this 100%, yet you bring up the name George Soros or mention the Deep State and that's just ultra-right-wing conspiracy hokum. HILARIOUS Do Right, Be Right. :)
Thursday, May 28, 2020 10:15 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 5:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: No. You don't speak truth. You regurgitate a truckload of Progressive diarrhea from sites like Vox and MotherJones all day long. Many times not even properly quoting them and framing your posts as if they were something you wrote yourself. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 11:27 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: So what has Trump really offered to the white working class that makes up most of his base?
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 4:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: So what has Trump really offered to the white working class that makes up most of his base? An alternative to the Bush/Clinton/Obama era that destroyed them. Do Right, Be Right. :)
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 8:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: So what has Trump really offered to the white working class that makes up most of his base? An alternative to the Bush/Clinton/Obama era that destroyed them. Do Right, Be Right. :)Your Trump alternative, what is it? Did Trump give you a job? How is your pay raise? Do you get medical and dental insurance? Is there a retirement plan? How is your 401K doing after Trump's stock market crash? How about the National Debt? Is it lower now so that the Federal Government can pay you Social Security benefits during retirement? Trump promised to make the Debt zero, you know. He's not making progress on that promise. I know the answer to all the questions: NOTHING MATERIALLY IMPROVED FOR YOU, 6ix. (Everything improved for me.) But for you, 6ix, there were all those immaterial things, psychological benefits, that only exist inside your mind to make America great again. I am looking forward to the material goodies Trump has been and will be giving me if he is reelected and 6ix can look forward to whatever Trump has been raining down on him, the warm and fuzzy feelings about Trump he can't describe. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 10:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I'm not a Republican, but the more time passes the bigger fan of Trump I become. November is going to be a blowout. It will be fun to watch you bitch and moan about it for another 4 years.
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