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6th December 2020, 01:55 PM | #321 |
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Interesting. Quote Tweet Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays This is a no-brainer. Obviously we have to do this, under the national security umbrella. Quote Tweet Mike Coudrey @MichaelCoudrey Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, we are asking you to declare Dominion and Smartmatic a national security threat by executive order & bar US States and US persons from doing business with them. We cannot allow foreign companies to control our elections! #TrumpRally #StopTheSteal |
6th December 2020, 03:39 PM | #322 |
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Oh tell Dilbert-boy to shut his trap. He never was the smartest person in the room like he thinks he is.
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6th December 2020, 03:41 PM | #323 |
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OECD healthcare spending Public/Compulsory Expenditure on healthcare https://data.oecd.org/chart/60Tt Every year since 1990 the US Public healthcare spending has been greater than the UK as a proportion of GDP. More US Tax goes to healthcare than the UK |
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6th December 2020, 04:03 PM | #324 |
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So much truth to this! Quote Tweet Murray @Rothbard1776 BREAKING: @SidneyPowell1 “I would warn any state right now that thinks they’re going to certify this election to re-think it VERY SERIOUSLY, because what they’re certifying is their own fraud, and their own complicity in fraud. I might even mount a class action suit later to sue them themselves for their own participation in it. It’s ridiculous. The legislatures in the states need to take control right now & reject the certifications, of especially the swing states, that were so heavily influenced by these 100’s of thousands of vote changes.” |
6th December 2020, 05:34 PM | #325 |
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Gee, what a surprise. Has anyone informed the so-called (says he has no power to do anything!) Governor @BrianKempGA & his puppet Lt. Governor @GeoffDuncanGA, that they could easily solve this mess, & WIN. Signature verification & call a Special Session. So easy! Quote Tweet Tracy Beanz @tracybeanz Georgia County Can’t Find Chain of Custody Records for Absentee Ballots https://theepochtimes.com/georgia-co...s_3606540.html via @epochtimes |
6th December 2020, 05:35 PM | #326 |
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Murray @Rothbard1776 BREAKING: @SidneyPowell1 "There is no telling how many Congressional & Senate seats, and even Governorships, we've lost because of this [election fraud]. They've been telling us that the country has been trending blue. It has not. That is an abject lie. We've collected the data 2/ that's going to show that, among many other things." |
6th December 2020, 06:19 PM | #327 |
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Is Trump even aware that his legal team disavowed Powell?
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6th December 2020, 09:46 PM | #329 |
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7th December 2020, 12:05 AM | #331 |
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"To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived. He truly is without fault, so simple and at the same time possessed of masculine strength" -Leni Riefenstahl Wollen owns the stage
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7th December 2020, 12:07 AM | #332 |
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7th December 2020, 12:52 AM | #334 |
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Watch @marklevinshow at 11:00 P.M. (now!) and @SteveHiltonx at 12:00 A.M. on the Great Election Fraud of 2020! SO TRUE. NO WAY WE LOST THIS ELECTION! Quote Tweet Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow A MUST-SEE Life, Liberty & Levin at 8 PM eastern tonight on Fox! Please do NOT miss it, from beginning to end! If you can’t watch Live, please be sure to DVR the show! It is an essential episode! See you then! God bless! |
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7th December 2020, 01:18 AM | #336 |
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Or channeling Commander Peter Quincy Taggart
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7th December 2020, 06:15 AM | #337 |
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The problem with Trump playing the "Never give up, never surrender" card is, if you really do intend to "never surrender", you must be willing to die in place, if winning becomes impossible. And Trump is too much of a coward to ever do that. He'd be okay with a bunch of other people dying in place, but the minute his own ass is on the line, he'll start shouting "I surrender! I surrender!" faster than an auctioneer on speed. |
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7th December 2020, 06:37 AM | #339 |
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7th December 2020, 06:43 AM | #340 |
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7th December 2020, 07:16 AM | #342 |
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7th December 2020, 08:03 AM | #343 |
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You see, it is easy to show your bravado when you are at your peak, and when you fall, it is already more difficult to show how cool, invincible you are, you know everything and can do everything. And when you are replaced by someone else, when you are losing ground, it is harder to prove that you are right.
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7th December 2020, 08:27 AM | #344 |
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I just watched Downfall, a German film about the last days of Hitler in his bunker as the Russians clobbered Berlin. Hitler preferred to commit suicide rather than surrender, which was certainly cowardly. Trump will just always pretend he never lost, which is arguably worse.
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7th December 2020, 08:34 AM | #345 |
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You write that as if consistency was ever a consideration for Trump.
I think I posted his decision tree recently: IF x is good for Donald Trump, THEN x, ELSE not x. No reason to think he’ll be considering consistency - or anything else - when deciding whether or not to emigrate. |
7th December 2020, 08:57 AM | #346 |
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Since this whole debacle began I've been hoping that someone with sufficient influence would metaphorically guide Trump to the traditional small room with a bottle of whisky and a service revolver. But he's surrounded by enablers who are as cynical and/or deranged as he is.
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7th December 2020, 09:20 AM | #347 |
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And a federal judge tosses the GA "Kraken" case.
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7th December 2020, 09:55 AM | #348 |
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Off topic a bit but: I don't agree it was cowardice for Hitler to commit suicide. His world was broken. In many cultures, suicide is a honorable way out of defeat. And, I mean, he would surely have been hanged by thy allies, had he surrendered alive. It takes some courage to take maters in your own hands.
... Which is exactly why I can't imagine Donald Trump doing it. He will take the Black Night route. ...Unless he suddenly finds it in his interest to accept defeat, in which case he won't give a thought to the people who tried to join him in his last stand. Hans |
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7th December 2020, 10:07 AM | #349 |
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Is it honorable to commit suicide in German military culture? Certainly many Nazis took that option in 1945. It seems cowardly to me, for whatever that's worth.
I think Trump's cowardice is not as questionable as Hitler's. Definitely Trump will follow his nature and keep lying and denying. It's the only way he can imagine he's not a loser. |
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7th December 2020, 10:13 AM | #350 |
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trump has shown in the past if he doesn't need someone, or they won't play by newly revised rules they go under the bus.
If he can sell out his toadies to save himself bet your last cent on what he would do. It's coming down to unveiled threats already and no court nor state government has folded to pressure yet. Hope holds strong for the correct outcome. |
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7th December 2020, 10:19 AM | #352 |
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It was Hitler's Götterdämmerung. He saw the war as only having two possible outcomes, the complete destruction of the Soviet Union or the complete destruction of Germany. Hitler's suicide was, I think in his mind and seeing his and Germany's fates being linked the final destruction of Germany.
This is also Trump's Götterdämmerung only this time Brünnhilde isn't riding into the flames, she's flying to South Florida after burning down Valhalla. |
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I think that's our culture's judgement on their culture. In both European and American thought there is an idea that it is better to die than to surrender, but in American sources, it only counts if you go down fighting.
This is not a blanket statement meant to cover every aspect of American tradition, but I think it's a general attitude. Patton's suggestion of "Don't die for your country. Make the other son of a bitch die for his country." has a very American ring to it. |
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According to the film, Hitler had a strange contempt for the German people. He thought that if they weren't strong enough to win, they had no right to survive. There's a parallel with Trump -- if the American people aren't stupid enough to set aside their self-interest and swallow his BS, then they don't deserve to survive either.
Yeah, I didn't really intend to Godwin this thread, but here we are. |
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I remember a scene from a movie that my parents were watching when I was a kid. Hitler promoted an officer he didn't particularly like to General shortly before a battle that he commanded and lost. The General surrendered and was taken prisoner, and when Hitler learned this, he went on a rant about how he had specifically promoted the man so that he would commit suicide when defeated, and he couldn't even do that right. |
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