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Elections; 2024
Thursday, December 7, 2023 1:21 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Thursday, December 7, 2023 7:02 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Thursday, December 7, 2023 8:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Just as appropriate would be a sign that said "Nikki = Irrelevant" But then he'd also have to be wearing a shirt that said "I'm with Irrelevant". -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Friday, December 8, 2023 5:44 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:“NO HISTORIAN CAN GET INSIDE the heads of the dead … But with sufficient documentation, we can detect patterns of thought and action,” writes Robert Darnton. This book aims to do just that by looking at the evolution of authoritarianism, defined as a political system in which executive power is asserted at the expense of the legislative and judicial branches of government. I focus on Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Muammar Gaddafi, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Mobutu Sese Seko, Silvio Berlusconi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, with Idi Amin, Mohamed Siad Barre, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, Nahrendra Modi, Viktor Orbán, and others making cameo appearances. Some readers may wonder why I do not discuss strong female leaders in modern history, such as Britain’s prime minister Margaret Thatcher or India’s prime minister Indira Gandhi. While some of these women may have had certain strongman traits (Thatcher’s nickname was “The Iron Lady”) or engaged in repressive actions against minority populations, none of them sought to destroy democracy, and so they are not addressed here.
Friday, December 8, 2023 6:43 AM
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 8:22 AM
Sunday, December 10, 2023 10:10 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Opinion | Why Fundamentalists Love Trump
Monday, December 11, 2023 7:15 AM
Monday, December 11, 2023 7:23 AM
Monday, December 11, 2023 6:33 PM
Monday, December 11, 2023 8:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak: • He tried to violently overthrow the 2020 election.
Quote:• He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators.
Quote:• He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.
Quote:• He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead.
Quote:• He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him.
Quote:• He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping.
Quote:These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.
Quote: Who’s the real dictator here? Author Kevin DrumPublished on December 11, 2023 – 3:06 pm13 Comments on Who’s the real dictator here? The latest version of "No, you are" comes from Allysia Finley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, who says that Biden is the real dictator. Her evidence is the usual farrago of right-wing nonsense: Biden signed some executive orders she doesn't like; he put in place some protections from oil drilling that she doesn't like; he has border policies she doesn't like; and most laughably, a lunatic federal judge said he was bullying social media platforms, an allegation so ridiculous that even the Fifth Circuit largely overturned it. Oh, and Biden's Justice Department has gone after Donald Trump on "trumped up charges." Uh huh. This is all nonsense. Some of it is just stuff Finley disagrees with while the rest is a figment of her imagination. Conversely, here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak: He tried to violently overthrow the 2020 election. He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators. He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies. He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead. He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him. He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping. These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 8:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: You're pathetic.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: You're pathetic.6ix, you could make a decent life for yourself after you drop your delusions.
Quote:The President Is Not Superman By Tom Nichols | Dec 11, 2023 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-president-is-not-superman/ar-AA1lm2R3
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 6:55 AM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 10:52 AM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11:16 AM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11:34 AM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 3:33 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 3:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The IRS has plenty of funding. But instead of going after rich people, they're going after people who make more than $600 selling used stuff at garage sales.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The IRS has plenty of funding. But instead of going after rich people, they're going after people who make more than $600 selling used stuff at garage sales.Let me check. Too easy. You are lying, 6ix.
Quote:The American Rescue Plan of 2021 changed the reporting threshold for TPSOs. The new threshold for business transactions is $600 per year; changed from the previous threshold of more than 200 transactions per year, exceeding an aggregate amount of $20,000. Under the law, beginning January 1, 2023, a TPSO is required to report third-party network transactions paid in 2022 with any participating payee that exceed a minimum threshold of $600 in aggregate payments, regardless of the number of transactions. TPSOs report these transactions by providing individual payee's an IRS Form 1099-K, Payment Card and Third-Party Network Transactions.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: This law passed by Democrats destroys eBay, Paypal, CashApp and other service providers and will put a very large delay on TPTB's ability to get us all on a non-cash based system like they want. Giving more money to the IRS was NEVER about going after rich people with good lawyers. It was about fucking poor people who barely scratch out a living.
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:22 PM
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 10:24 PM
Thursday, December 14, 2023 6:47 AM
Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:34 AM
Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Oh boo hoo. The poor lawyers. Fuck Lawyers. I guess we can add the Lawyers to the long list of shitty people Democrats love in modern politics. You'd better hope that your guy can destroy his political opposition by imprisoning him for life, because it's the only way that Democrats win the election in November. Tick Tock
Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Oh boo hoo. The poor lawyers. Fuck Lawyers. I guess we can add the Lawyers to the long list of shitty people Democrats love in modern politics. You'd better hope that your guy can destroy his political opposition by imprisoning him for life, because it's the only way that Democrats win the election in November. Tick Tock As a future President, Trump works with lawyers who are defending him, but he can't let them go about their work unsupervised because he is so much smarter (in his opinion) than the people who are defending him and must micromanage them. After all, his lawyers are no match for Trump's high personal standards of legal legerdemain and flashes of brilliance Trump constantly displays in speeches to his adoring citizens. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Thursday, December 14, 2023 11:05 AM
Thursday, December 14, 2023 7:07 PM
THG
Thursday, December 14, 2023 7:09 PM
Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Worried about the polls, don't be. Most people haven't begun to pay attention yet. And when they do, baby look out. T
Friday, December 15, 2023 6:53 AM
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Friday, December 15, 2023 12:17 PM
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Friday, December 15, 2023 3:33 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: 'Trump isn't going to win': Analyst makes case that major 'MAGA defeat' is a certainty Buried deep in an analysis of all of the reasons why Donald Trump will go down to defeat against President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, a columnist suggested that history is not on his side and that the MAGA movement is winding down. Writing for the Atlantic, Hussein Ibish of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington explained that there are multiple roadblocks that will deny Trump a second presidency, including his extensive list of criminal trials that are casting a cloud over his campaign, his disparaging comments about the military that are resurfacing, and the fact that he is not the man he was in 2016 when he won his surprising victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-isn-t-going-to-win-analyst-makes-case-that-major-maga-defeat-is-a-certainty/ar-AA1lyOKS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=aaa3bd2cffc2420d893f4590439948a6&ei=38
Saturday, December 16, 2023 11:31 AM
Saturday, December 16, 2023 12:55 PM
Saturday, December 16, 2023 1:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Yammering Dems.... https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1734679864152625626 ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Sunday, December 17, 2023 8:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The problem with this messaging is that people know things are not good right now and everything was a lot better under Trump.
Sunday, December 17, 2023 8:21 AM
Sunday, December 17, 2023 8:39 AM
Sunday, December 17, 2023 10:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The problem with this messaging is that people know things are not good right now and everything was a lot better under Trump.You are out of your little mind. Well, everybody who is angry poor white trash is doing worse, but so what? Guys who weigh 450 pounds are doing worse. Guys who retired when they were 30 and living on $7,000 per year are doing worse. But, so what? People who support Putin are doing worse, but so what? How is the economy doing? It is doing fine, so long as you are not a Nazi. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+is+the+economy+doing%3F
Quote:Leaving these individuals to remain on the streets can cost taxpayers up to $50,000 per year for a single chronically homeless individual by them cycling in and out of treatment facilities, jails, hospitals and other institutional care facilities.
Quote:As they filed through the streets, the activists sang in support of closed borders and requested that the migrants should go back to their home countries. When one protester asked, “What do we want?” The group shouted, “Closed borders!” “When do we want it?” the protester further asked. “Now,” the group answered. “Immigrants, we’ve been here,” a woman yelled into a megaphone. “Take your a** home,” the group yelled in response.
Quote:"The thing that we're most concerned about is our children, our Black children, the football, the soccer, and all the things that they do, and trying to be constructive citizens. And now they're going to take this part beautiful part and give it to migrants," said resident Brooksy Cribs. "Don't get me wrong, I understand the situation, but that's not on us."
Quote:Cox Automotive, a leading auto organization, predicts that 1.5 million cars will be repossessed this year – 300,000 more than in 2022. The rising number of delinquencies on auto loans is not putting off some consumers, however. A record number of new car buyers took out loans with monthly payments of $1,000 or more in the three months to June, according to data from Edmunds. Car payments have become the highest expense for some Gen Zers and millennials, even exceeding their rent.
Quote:IRVINE, Calif. — July 13, 2023 — ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, today released its Midyear 2023 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 185,580 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — in the first six months of 2023. That figure is up 13 percent from the same time period a year ago and up 185 percent from the same time period two years ago.
Quote:As food prices head higher, it’s a safe bet the Fed will continue to tighten rates until inflation falls to its 2.0% target. Of course, if the federal government reduced spending, the Fed might not need to go to such extremes in raising rates and reducing the money supply.
Monday, December 18, 2023 10:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I could go on and on, but these stories are real, and they effect a whole lot more than your supposed Trumptard Nazis. I made a point of only putting articles from your Lefty shitrag sites that spend most of their days blowing Biden* and attacking Trump.
Monday, December 18, 2023 11:01 AM
Monday, December 18, 2023 11:05 AM
Monday, December 18, 2023 11:10 AM
Quote:Even as President Biden accuses Donald Trump of threatening our democracy, he is employing agencies of the federal government to harass and punish Elon Musk, whom he seems to consider a political opponent. Why? Because the mercurial entrepreneur has the temerity to criticize Biden and champion free speech.
Monday, December 18, 2023 5:30 PM
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