jakee
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Where does that number come from? Had a million or two people like you shown up we wouldn't be having the discussion. You had a binary choice between an agent of chaos with a declared intention to destroy the constitutional system of checks and balances and a normal politician who happens to be a Democrat, and you were unable to choose the normal person. Given your comment above you do appear to be happy with the idea that people who failed to vote against Trump are culpable, so it's baffling that you refuse to consider yourself one of them.
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It now turns out that Hegseth shared the same information at the same time on another group chat he started using his personal phone... with members of his family and friends. I look forward to hearing him explain how his own wife tricked him into inviting her into the Yemen Warplans Casual Group chat. "It's not my fault, she changed her screen name! I thought she was the babysitter..."
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Ok, so you admit that you lied. Why then do I need to watch videos to understand your point of view when you admit that your point of view is fake? People did assist him - and despite that he still killed Floyd. Would you expect him to give an honest answer? Would you expect any murderer to tell the truth? What is undeniably true is that, at the very least, he did not care if he killed Floyd. A man accused of a $20 fraud. Every single F'ing time the right accuses the left of something, it is what they themselves are actually doing. I think that the violence that is allowed to run rampant in US prisons is an absolute travesty that makes a mockery of the concept of justice and destroys any hope for an effective system of rehabilitation. I would be willing to bet that you have no problem with the idea of criminal 'shitheads' being shanked, raped and murdered in prison, just as you have no problem with the police murdering people over suspicion of petty theft.
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Considering you are one of the people who was suckered by the Republican rhetoric about Harris that’s a question for you to answer.
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Turns out that when Trump thought he'd be able to stop the Ukraine war on day one, it was because no-one had ever told him it might be difficult. So that's understandable. Likewise the absolute priority of stopping all the people dying - well plan A of, um, just asking Putin nicely didn't work so he can't be arsed now. Which is totally fine. "Now if, for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we're just going to say, 'You're foolish, you're fools, you're horrible people,' and we're going to just take a pass."
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The dynamic of that was interesting too. El Salvador gets paid a lot of money to take deportees and stick them in prison for no legal reason. When asked in the White House to send one of them back El Presidente said (paraphrasing) 'fuck you, the USA doesn't tell me what to do" and President Trump who is so sensitive to disrespect and ingratitude said "Hey this guy is so great isn't he?"
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It's cute that you think 'not moving forward' is what you have to worry about here.
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The Supreme Court has already ruled that Constitutional bars cannot stop a candidate standing for President if he's really really popular.
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Trump demands that Harvard introduce sweeping Affirmative Action policies in admissions, staffing, course content and disciplinary processes specifically to help one racial/religious group it feels is underserved. Spoiler alert - it's not black people. Trump freezes $2bn in Harvard funding after university rejects demands
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The problem with that is that you justify it by stating things like you were faced with two parties of extremes, without ever stating what those extremes were. It just seems fundamentally dishonest. We all know what Trump's extremes are, but people like you and Brent happy to spread the both-siderist idea that 'well ok but whatabout the Dems they must be doing I don't know but something that's just as bad' which makes people feel that voting for him is ok. Then you get things like this. Let's be honest, the Dems wouldn't have done anything like this. Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack
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In fact there was so much fanfare around the tariffs that the media are barely covering anything else. His Ukraine negotiations have been an abject failure in persuading Putin to do anything at all (as they were always going to be) and you don’t hear a thing about it.
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Without even hinting at what those things are that's a very something and nothing statement though, isn't it? It's technically true to say that over here the Tory party could have done things differently at the last election to get my vote... but if the things I mean are 'adopt the policies of the 1990's Labour party' then what I really mean is that there was no possible scenario in which I was going to vote for them.
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Wait, I thought putting tiny screws into iPhone cases for minimum wage was going to be the New American Dream?
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This is why I struggle to have any sympathy at all for those who voted for him but are now saying "well I never thought he'd do this" because the only response I can think of is "why not?" I guess it's why, as repulsive as it is, there's a certain directness to Winsor's attitude that is at least understandable and consistent. As long as 'the commies' aren't in charge and there's enough old timey racism being perpetrated he literally doesn't give a fuck about anything else. But for everyone currently showing the tregret? I have no idea what they ever thought was going to happen.
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Man who built career lying about autism pledges to find 'cause' of autism
jakee replied to jakee's topic in Speakers Corner
What, common sense? Well ain’t that a kick in the teeth. -
... in 6 months. Because I guess no one in the medical profession ever bothered to think about it before and it's probably quite easy to fix. SMH. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0z9nmzvdlo
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Why do you think there’s a dichotomy? Who he really is and who his supporters think he is are two different things. A liberal arts grad who worked in the mainstream media before becoming a professional politician lectures us about the elite? What would he call someone with his CV if they were on the other side? I saw an old pre brexit vote debate the other day and it was staggering how unquestioningly media presenters accepted the statement that the remain campaign represented ‘the elite’. But who was selling Brexit? Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson (yes really) of Eton, Oxford and establishment journalism. Jacob Rees-Mogg, whose nanny looked after him during his first political campaigns, of Eton, Oxford and the City of London. Jim Ratcliffe, richest man in Britain, James Dyson, most famous industrialist in Britain. Anyone who says ‘the elite’ when they mean ‘the other side’ and hopes we won’t notice has immediately disqualified themselves from serious conversation.
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Then I guess you have to admit that the American people as a whole fundamentally support more liberal positions than you do, right? When?
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And worth repeating again that Walz said the journalist effectively hacked in by changing his screen name so he looked like someone else. Leaving that there's no evidence that happened, this is Mike Walz's own claim about how secure the chat was. He searched for someone by name only and added them to the chat... And he even thought that excuse was legit enough to play well on national TV! Giving out info on that basis alone could get you fired from high street retail.
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I would remind you that you got very very angry when your suggestion of TSA style security at every school was called overly expensive security theatre. Glad to see you're making progress.
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I guess every administration puts its press secretaries in an odd position, but they are civil servants. Ultimately they're employed by the Federal government and by extension the taxpayer, not by the President, his campaign or his party. With only a small sized logical contortion you could argue that the press represent their employers and the President is the customer for their services. Obviously this makes it worse
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Still though, wouldn't it be amazing to have the unearned confidence of a trump Press Secretary for just one day? Reporters: The markets don't seem to like the tariffs, is Trump going to change his mind? Leavitt: Absolutely not. Reporters: The markets are super, super down now, surely Trump has to change his mind? Leavitt: What is it you're not getting? There is zero chance Trump will change his mind no matter what! Trump: Ok the markets are kinda scared so I'm changing my mind. Reporters: Karoline, What do you have to say about Trump changing his mind? Leavitt: Trump didn't change his mind, this was always the goal! How did you guys not notice we were planning to do this?
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It’s a plan that’s better than most. The only problem with a hard cutoff is it can’t take into account company towns that simply do not have any jobs or customer base for entrepreneurs when their company moves away or shuts down. It’s a story repeated across a hundred coal mining towns in Appalachia. It’s happening to a traditional steel making town an hour away from me right now. These places where private companies have extracted profits for decade after decade without investing a dime into the future take longer than 2 years to fix, and people have genuine ties to where they live which mean they may not want or be able to simply move somewhere else for the chance of work. Ironically that’s an area where the rise of remote working could start to help, but I’ll leave you to guess who is irrationally opposed to expanding working from home because they don’t bellyfeel that it’s industrious enough.
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Which has absolutey nothing to do with how Trump's tariffs have been worked out. But hey, Trump calls them reciprocal and that's good enough for you - no need to check anything below the surface. Being associated with a global economic catastrophe might end up being the thing that springs to mind.
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It’s how they justify all the anti-democratic power grabs of the Republican party. They’ve always been the majority but those sneaky minority Democrats kept getting elected instead - so whatever they do in retaliation is fair and proper.
