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9th September 2020, 04:18 PM | #961 |
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9th September 2020, 04:20 PM | #962 |
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On top of a lie made up by a low-life “reporter”, who is known for disinformation, the Democrats have taken his false words and put them into a TV commercial. We now have 21 witnesses stating that the story is a BIG LIE. Even Biden admits this may not be true... ...Secret Service would not allow the trip to the cemetery based on very bad weather and security concerns. Now these low-life Biden handlers are making commercials of this fictional statement, with no proof, and think they can get away with it... ...These are horrendous people that we must defeat on November 3rd! |
9th September 2020, 04:21 PM | #963 |
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The failed former Governor of Michigan, RINO Rick Snyder, who was responsible for the Flint Water Disaster (and I let him know it!), is now endorsing Sleepy Joe Biden, who doesn’t have a clue! Snyder, whose political career was ruined by Flint, hurt a lot of people in Michigan... ...I’ll take the Endorsement of Law Enforcement all over the Country, and Joe can have the RINO’S. This Snyder mess was made during the OBiden era - no wonder they’re friends! |
9th September 2020, 04:42 PM | #964 |
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Hey thanks for that link. Which led to this story:
https://www.salon.com/2020/09/09/tru...inish-him-off/ which lead to this link. https://youtu.be/tCAOsmxgNVU?t=432 Trump from Jan.11, 2000. Enjoy. |
9th September 2020, 04:44 PM | #965 |
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Raw links; didn't click. Please see The campaign for good linking: please provide some indication of what you're linking to is about.
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) |
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9th September 2020, 04:48 PM | #966 |
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I'm having a hard time imaging Trump's suburban strategy being successful, because I think those folks are a little better educated than average. Am I wrong?
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9th September 2020, 05:07 PM | #967 |
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9th September 2020, 05:11 PM | #968 |
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Fake News asks why I bring up Booker. It’s because Biden supports Booker’s bill that forces federal control of local zoning and low income housing in suburbs... ...If in doubt, ask why the bill withholds $12 billion in highway funds until local authorities agree to federal control? I will protect the suburbs. Biden will destroy the suburbs! |
9th September 2020, 05:37 PM | #969 |
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And while he was saying this he was actively defying the statewide mandates both for wearing masks and limiting public gatherings to fifty people. NC has been struggling with its Covid numbers. They resurge every time restrictions are relaxed. Attempts to normalize with things like sending kids back to state Universities have backfired to the point where the schools are shutting down and sending the students back home. (As if that's a good idea.) |
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." |
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9th September 2020, 05:43 PM | #971 |
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." |
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9th September 2020, 05:44 PM | #972 |
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9th September 2020, 05:50 PM | #973 |
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Mebbe. We keeping having incidents around here of black and mixed families in upscale middle class neighborhoods finding anonymous messages in their mailboxes and elsewhere with contents which, while not overtly threatening, were at the very least disturbing. Impetus seems to be things like BLM yard signs, etc. Or none at all. It isn't clear to me that being "a little better educated" is enough to prevent racist attitudes and behavior. |
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9th September 2020, 05:54 PM | #974 |
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9th September 2020, 06:09 PM | #975 |
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Is he referring to Bob Woodward? The journalist he had 18 interviews with himself personally? Woodward may be many things, but I don't expect him to make up massive whoppers in his journalism. Not that he needs to with Donny because the Orange Shart produces enough all on his own to power a small country. This pretty much confirms Donny doesn't have a clue when he is blabbing the quiet part out loud, and doesn't remember who he has been talking to from one moment to the next.
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9th September 2020, 06:18 PM | #976 |
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9th September 2020, 06:23 PM | #977 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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9th September 2020, 06:25 PM | #978 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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9th September 2020, 06:28 PM | #979 |
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9th September 2020, 06:40 PM | #980 |
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9th September 2020, 06:47 PM | #981 |
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Sheesh!!!
Extra!! Extra!!! Read all about it!! trumps-contempt-for-the-military-reveals-his-fatuous-bloated-ego--and-could-finish-him-off(salon) And that's not all!! From that same article THIS blast from the past!! Donald Trump exposes self on 60 Minutes II - January 11, 2000 with Dan Rather. All the Trump favorites are here! Featuring: his feelings about John McCain! George W. Bush! His campaign for POTUS is reviewed cynically by America's top Marketing guy "says Trump is doing it for more Brand identity!" And much more!!! (YouTube) |
9th September 2020, 06:51 PM | #982 |
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9th September 2020, 06:53 PM | #983 |
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Donald "J for Jenius" Trump.
The obese, ugly, delusional, grifting, orange, lying **** who talked and BS'd his way into the highest office in the land.... is talking and BSing his way out of the highest office in the land. All anyone had to do was step back and let the dumb **** hang himself with his own noose. Unfortunately, I have zero faith in 50+% of eligible Americans to be smart enough to vote the lying murderer out in November because... triggering liberals. "In a democracy, people get the leader they deserve." ~ Joseph De Maistre |
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9th September 2020, 07:00 PM | #984 |
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I suggest we on this forum nominate Barack Obama again for a Nobel. And Joe Biden for good measure.
Oh and this point: The nomination of Trump by the Norwegian right-wing politician is probably invalid. The criteria for a Nobel nominator for the Peace Prize includes "Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states", of which he is not one. |
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To survive election season on a skeptics forum, one must understand Hymie-the-Robot.
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9th September 2020, 07:03 PM | #986 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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9th September 2020, 07:05 PM | #987 |
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9th September 2020, 07:17 PM | #988 |
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9th September 2020, 07:33 PM | #991 |
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9th September 2020, 07:36 PM | #992 |
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9th September 2020, 08:05 PM | #994 |
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9th September 2020, 08:29 PM | #995 |
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9th September 2020, 08:35 PM | #996 |
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Yes, but he is not a cabinet member or minister. This criteria specifically rules out parliamentary members who are not part of the ruling cabal, whatever form that takes. Otherwise you would be getting literally hundreds of thousands of nominations every year from the many hundred governing bodies around the world.
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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9th September 2020, 08:38 PM | #998 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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9th September 2020, 08:40 PM | #999 |
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Yeah, it's really not.
To poke further at that, though... Why smart people are more likely to believe fake news
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I completely disagree with Jardina. More 'conservative' does not mean more intelligent nor does it necessarily mean they have the 'greatest political knowledge', especially if they're getting almost all of that 'knowledge' from very biased sources like FOX, Breitbart, and other right wing echo chambers.
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