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27th November 2021, 04:35 PM | #41 |
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27th November 2021, 04:36 PM | #42 |
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No person not wearing pants, their fly is not down. You did not "gotcha" them to prove they are just as bad.
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27th November 2021, 05:04 PM | #44 |
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28th November 2021, 12:07 AM | #45 |
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28th November 2021, 12:33 AM | #46 |
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There is no doubt that professional wrestling is staged. Just like there is no doubt that Biden used to chum it up with segregationists.
Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...their-n1021626 Maybe Kamala Harris was onto something, after all? Personally, I don't consider him to be a racist. But, considering his age, and those he hung around the water cooler with, I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a pretty good assortment of jokes about "them negroes". |
28th November 2021, 12:36 AM | #47 |
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I’ve seen laughably ridiculous threads in politics over the past few years, but this takes the cake.
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28th November 2021, 12:57 AM | #48 |
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28th November 2021, 01:22 AM | #49 |
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"I'm not saying Biden's a racist, but..."
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I grew up in a time and place when such jokes were commonplace, yet for some reason I can't recall any. However you 'wouldn't be surprised' if Biden 'knew' lots of them - this despite having 'serious mental decline' according to conservatives. A very selective memory loss apparently... But I'm not surprised you purport to believe this - after all a partisan's gotta do what a partisan's gotta do. |
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28th November 2021, 02:23 AM | #50 |
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No, he is responding your post.
You see, when someone posts a link with no critique of the contents, that means they are using it to bolster their own argument. You posited that Joe Biden is racist, and you used that news article as support for it. Don't think you can get away with it just because you didn't explicitly make the connection - we all know what you meant. But what's worse is is you know it's a false equivalence. The words from Biden that you quoted were in response to this:- Trump administration expands travel ban
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But this difference didn't stop you from arguing that if Trump's bans on immigration were racist, so were Biden's travel restrictions to prevent spread of a deadly virus. It doesn't bother you that the reasons are completely different, you just found ammunition for another partisan attack and went with it. You should be worried about whether we will survive the Omicron virus, not using it as fodder for meritless partisan attacks. Not only is this action intellectually dishonest, it's obnoxious. A lot of people will die from this latest variant, perhaps even more if political attacks like yours reduce our ability to respond to it. If that happens the blood will be on your hands. |
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28th November 2021, 02:30 AM | #51 |
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To hear someone complain about partisan politics in this environment...what a zinger!
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28th November 2021, 02:31 AM | #52 |
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Busing was a very controversial subject in the 70's and Biden did not like the idea of forced busing.
“I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed.” He sponsored "a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing." He was not against school desegregation.
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I can just hear the screeching and howling of conservative parents now if the courts ordered their children to be bussed miles away from their own neighborhoods and having to spend an hour more each way every day. They'd be yelling their heads off about 'parental rights' and 'You can't tell me where my kid has to go to school!" |
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Yeah, I suppose he could have refused to work with racist senators but then he would have had to work mostly by himself considering the amount of racism then. And he certainly couldn't have worked with Trump. Or MTG or Boebert.
You seem to find it very easy to spin narratives. It's what you do. But your biggest narrative spin failure is to convince anyone you're not a Trump supporter, Duckie. |
28th November 2021, 07:48 AM | #55 |
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"Biden used to do what we want! What a Racist!"
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28th November 2021, 08:54 AM | #57 |
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28th November 2021, 10:53 AM | #58 |
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"A wall will not stop the coronavirus.
Banning all travel from Europe — or any other part of the world — will not stop it." --Joe Biden, March 12, 2020 |
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28th November 2021, 11:49 AM | #59 |
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Grow up, already. Jesus.
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28th November 2021, 12:44 PM | #61 |
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I'm trying to figure whether you're being deliberately obtuse or spectacularly stupid.
The object - as has been repeated across the world - is to buy time, not keep it out. Let me help with some simple maths. If you have one case that infects 5 other in three days, in just 15 days days you'll have 3125 cases. If you start with 50 cases, in 15 days you'll have 31250 cases. Which number is easier to deal with? |
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28th November 2021, 01:16 PM | #62 |
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Now we have entered a new stage of "people not getting it".
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28th November 2021, 02:11 PM | #63 |
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Not one constructive comment, just boring, pathetic ****-stirring. You should get a job at OAN with ease, if you don't already have one.
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28th November 2021, 02:34 PM | #64 |
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Honestly I don't see how Joe Biden could *not* be racist. I'm also not sure how it would matter to questions of policy like this.
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28th November 2021, 08:31 PM | #65 |
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The Trump Travel ban only applied to people who were ethnically Chinese. Vast numbers of people who were not ethnically Chinese continued to travel from China to the US. That is what made the Trump travel bans racist.
Trumps "ban" was also far to late to accomplish anything because Covid was already heading out of control in the US while it was on the way to containment in China. Not that Biden's bans will turn out any better in the long run, conservatives have turned the US into a country that fails at literally everything. They won't just ignore the experts, they will undermine everything the experts say to do and as a result the US will fail again, just like they have set the US up for failure in almost everything over the last 20-25 years. |
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28th November 2021, 08:42 PM | #66 |
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28th November 2021, 10:15 PM | #67 |
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I can only imagine you are confusing something like the ability of US citizens and nationals to continue to travel back to the US for what you wrote. That would of course include ethnically Chinese Americans/nationals that fit that description as well. The same remains true with Biden's current travel ban. Functionally I am not seeing any difference between them.
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30th November 2021, 12:12 AM | #69 |
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More of the usual liberal hypocrisy. They believe in reproductive rights for women, but not COVID.
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The attempts by the Trumpers here to deflect are truly pathetic.
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1st December 2021, 04:49 PM | #72 |
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Not pathetic, Deplorable.
Pathetic means 'miserably inadequate; of very low standard'. Deplorable is in another league. Twisted facts, 'deniable' innuendo, barely hidden agendas, brazen lies that they know will be called out on. Deplorables don't care. They got a punch in that hurts, and that's all that matters. But don't mistake them for Trumpers. They would be this way whoever the last Republican president was. |
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The beauty is, the die-hard Dems still can't see the real message of their double-standards.
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Yeah, it's not like Biden has a history free of evidence of racial biases, but this call just ain't it.
Not that I'm arguing it's a good call. I think it's silly because the variant probably doesn't even originate in Southern Africa, even if it did it's obviously not limited to spreading there at this point, the ban doesn't even stop people who are there from coming here if they're American, and the ban just incentivizes places to test less and not tell others when they do find stuff like this. They should put in strict (and temporary) quarantine measures for all people coming in from areas it is currently shown to have spread even if they are Americans until more data is available. |
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Fox News sure seems to think so.
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There are no white people in South Africa??? This is news to me.
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