Author Topic: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town  (Read 208446 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #900 on: June 10, 2022, 05:45:36 PM »
DAMN YOU JOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
FACT CHECK:
Putin’s Price Hike hit hard in May here and around the world: high gas prices at the pump, energy, and food prices accounted for around half of the monthly price increases, and gas pump prices are up by $2 a gallon in many places since Russian troops began to threaten Ukraine.
:putin


benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #902 on: June 10, 2022, 05:56:22 PM »
I’ve been thinking about dating apps recently because, like millions of Americans, I’m on them. I know a lot of people hate “the apps.” To be honest, I don’t mind them. They take a lot of the stress and ambiguity out of meeting people or asking someone out. But the longer I use these dating apps, the stranger the whole experience feels.

For one thing, quite a few of the suggested matches I’m seeing don’t make a ton of sense. I figure the algorithm has reached the point where the apps could predict my preferences pretty well. So even though I’m a pretty open-minded guy, I do have to wonder why I, as a democratic socialist of modest means and faith that the international working class shall free the human race, am regularly shown profiles of venture capitalists and Wall Street types.

I’ve also noticed that my use of the apps sometimes feels weirdly detached from the aim of actually trying to meet people. I open them just because a push notification has informed me that I have new recommended matches, or because “swipe surge is now in session”; soon the smooth-flowing interface is inviting me to peruse and “like” profiles. Not long after, colorful, eye-catching icons are gently persuading me to spend a few extra dollars for more matches or getting my profile seen by more people.

Before I know it, I find myself surrendering to the dull compulsion of algorithmic relations — even if I’m not actually interested in messaging anyone or going on a date anytime soon.

All of which got me thinking: What are these apps really for? I know what they are supposedly for for users like me, but what matters to the app owners is not getting their users good dates. What matters is that they can make money off of us.

With roughly one in five American adults estimated to have used online dating services in 2021, and at least one study showing that it’s now the most popular way for straight couples to meet, there has been no shortage of attention paid to the social and moral questions raised by online dating. But little has been said about one particular implication of the rise of dating apps and websites: the vast power it has given unaccountable, for-profit companies to manage how we meet potential romantic or sexual partners.

We could consciously uncouple our dating lives from the tyranny of the profit motive, though — with publicly owned apps that will democratize how we meet people online.

...

Here’s where the state would have an important role to play: in providing public funding for the development of cooperatively owned dating apps.

This idea isn’t as outlandish as it might seem: after all, even in the United States, governments already fund many cultural institutions for the benefit of their citizens’ quality of life: museums, the arts, research in the humanities, public parks, even nightlife. Dating apps are an increasingly important avenue for a central experience of being human. It makes sense for the government to devote public resources to them.

In fact, some countries are already paying to set up their own dating services. The Singaporean government’s Ministry of Social and Family Development has a webpage devoted to helping the uncoupled find partners; it advertises a government-run online dating portal, officially accredited dating agencies, and a “Partnership Fund” which “supports ideas and initiatives that you are passionate about to create opportunities to bring singles together.”

These government initiatives admittedly do have an ulterior motive — they’re trying to reverse sharply declining birth rates. Still, these programs show that there is nothing particularly strange or novel about publicly funded dating.

Corey Robin once wrote that “the point of socialism is to convert hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness.” That goes for socializing online dating, too. It wouldn’t do away with the frustration or disappointment that many people experience on the apps or in dating more generally. But it could be an important step toward making a dating experience that’s about people instead of profit. Then we could swipe, not to create wealth for the capitalist class, but for the simple and essential purpose of finding a date.
:bernie

BIONIC

  • Virgo. Live Music. The Office. Tacos. Fur mom. True crime junkie. INTJ.
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #903 on: June 10, 2022, 06:28:33 PM »
Or just buy a wife and cut the middle man :idont

/messy
Margs

Propagandhim

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #904 on: June 11, 2022, 04:32:55 AM »
The govt is helping me get pussy by putting me in the Fast Pass(tm) program with all the uggos.  It's pretty awesome because this allows me to do the special bonus Total IQ Test Package and the govt is actually paying me not to have children!  Who said govt run puss puss can't be profitable!


Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #906 on: June 11, 2022, 11:23:08 PM »
Really, that's the important news certain people tried to bury this week?

spoiler (click to show/hide)
NYtimes.com reported the attempted attack on Kavanaugh near the top of its website, which is where I read about it
[close]
504

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #907 on: June 11, 2022, 11:40:35 PM »
In case anyone missed this, Fox Noise broadcast an entire hour of Tucker Carlson propaganda WITHOUT A SINGLE COMMERCIAL BREAK (=it cost them money!) while the January 6 committee presented its findings, to prevent its viewers from switching channels and learning about what really happened on January 6.

And this was the brainwashing/disinformation they showed instead:
https://news.yahoo.com/were-not-playing-along-how-fox-news-covered-the-jan-6-hearing-154636310.html
504

D3RANG3D

  • The Bore's Like Bot
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #908 on: June 12, 2022, 04:01:26 AM »


« Last Edit: June 12, 2022, 04:47:42 AM by D3RANG3D »

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #909 on: June 12, 2022, 04:01:12 PM »
KHIVE :whoo



spoiler (click to show/hide)
:bernie
[close]

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member

Potato

  • Senior's Member
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #911 on: June 12, 2022, 04:31:46 PM »
Spud

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #912 on: June 13, 2022, 08:41:34 AM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the debt by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2022, 11:24:16 PM by Occam »
504

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #913 on: June 13, 2022, 10:40:26 AM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.

They should but then their donors would be mad because they enjoyed the sweet sweet tax cuts
:O

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #914 on: June 13, 2022, 02:10:54 PM »
The tax cuts actually worked to fuel economic growth and helped the middle class
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/the-trump-tax-cut-wasn-t-just-for-the-rich

There are a couple of moves they could've made to prevent the high inflation (or prepare for it) but all the bright lights in the Biden administration said it was "transitionary" like their jobs.
Then they said: "Oops we were wrong we're going off the cliff now" next they blamed Putin and that's sort of where things stand. I think the inflation is less of a problem than most though, mostly because everything was frozen for 2 years.
The bigger problem is the inflation coupled with the lack of economic growth, crashing stocks and an adminstration that has already given up.

In any case the same people that couldn't get the economy running for Obama are now also failing Biden.
Same with foreign policy. The people that lost the Crimea to Russia and nearly lost Iraq and Syria to ISIS have already lost Afghanistan and are in the process of losing all of Ukraine to Russia and Taiwan to China.
🤴

Cauliflower Of Love

  • I found my bearings, they were in the race
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #915 on: June 13, 2022, 02:32:28 PM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.

So what you're saying is that if obama had not had such a high debt, then an increase of 40% wouldn't be that bad.

thanks obama.

Potato

  • Senior's Member
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #916 on: June 13, 2022, 03:00:34 PM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Oh, so nothing to do with the massive levels of government stimulus spent around the world and the huge disruptions to the supply chain then? Just blame Trump? Cool, let's see how that works out for the Democrats.
Spud

D3RANG3D

  • The Bore's Like Bot
  • Senior Member

BrokenVerses

  • Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #918 on: June 13, 2022, 06:11:51 PM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Oh, so nothing to do with the massive levels of government stimulus spent around the world and the huge disruptions to the supply chain then? Just blame Trump? Cool, let's see how that works out for the Democrats.

Trump was happy to take credit for the massive asset bubble that brewed up in the stock market due to monetary stimulus and he wanted his name to be attached to every stimulus check that got sent out during his administration so yes he deserves blame.

Of course the Democrats didn't oppose this either so they don't have an argument lol.

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
🤴

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #920 on: June 13, 2022, 09:18:00 PM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
You think the Democrats should run on confusing deficit and debt when they wanted to spend trillions more this last year than they were able to except Manchin and Sinema stopped it? All while promoting MMT as Scientific Proof™ that deficits AND debt don't matter?

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #921 on: June 13, 2022, 10:59:09 PM »
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.

Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
You think the Democrats should run on confusing deficit and debt when they wanted to spend trillions more this last year than they were able to except Manchin and Sinema stopped it?

So you *do* agree that Trump is responsible for the current US inflation.

Quote
All while promoting MMT as Scientific Proof™ that deficits AND debt don't matter?
Didn't Republicans come up with that?

Of course the Democrats didn't oppose this either so they don't have an argument lol.
I suppose so.

Anyway, my point was that it is idiotic to blame Biden for the current inflation because the former guy is responsible, while Biden on the other hand was unable to enact any of his policies.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2022, 11:12:33 PM by Occam »
504

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #922 on: June 13, 2022, 11:22:24 PM »
No, Donald Trump was President, not a god.

And no, Republicans did not come up with MMT.

If Biden was unable to enact any of his policies then why has the baseline gone from $4.4 trillion and 21% of GDP in 2019 to project at $6.2 trillion and 24.5% of GDP and increasing from 2023 forward? (The deficit is projected to shrink, but remain and continue increasing debt as has been done since Coolidge, because they project massive tax increases on the middle class.) Because Biden and the Democrats took the 2020-2021 COVID baseline and locked in a large chunk of it as ongoing spending, Manchin and Sinema didn't block everything they just blocked it from increasing as much as Biden and the Democrats wanted which would have been like $8 trillion or some shit. It was all over the news. Biden isn't to blame for inflation but you can't point to the spending as causing it when you wanted to increase spending even more.

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #923 on: June 13, 2022, 11:26:49 PM »
Oops, I really should re-read what I post. I meant debt, not deficit in my post above.
Obviously Trump increased the DEBT by $7.8 trillion, not the deficit, from $19.95 trillion to $27.76 trillion (=~40%).
My bad.
504

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #924 on: June 13, 2022, 11:38:38 PM »
Like half of that was COVID stuff, breh. Probably half of the remainder was Medicare. Democrats can't run on "we shouldn't have paid for COVID and should have cut Medicare" too easily.

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #925 on: June 14, 2022, 12:16:23 AM »
Is it hypocritical to say Trump caused the inflation when the Democrats were complicit? Maybe. But the fact remains, the inflation was caused by what was done while Trump was in office.

(As an aside, most of the stimulus was a huge waste because it eventually ended up in the accounts of the 1%; less than 10% of the stimulus money went to health care.)

Please note that I am not defending Democratic spending policy here. Both parties seem to be largely clueless about macro economics.
504

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #926 on: June 14, 2022, 12:33:25 AM »
See how the supply of money was increased starting 2020?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

That's how you create inflation. Considering how much was added since 2020, the purchasing power of the US dollar actually remains quite strong.
504

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #927 on: June 14, 2022, 12:36:30 AM »
I just don't think "Trump's deficit spending is causing the inflation, elect Democrats so we can double or triple deficit spending once the traitors are out of the way" is a winning message. Or should they run on promising to add increasing middle class taxes to the rising prices?

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #928 on: June 14, 2022, 12:49:33 AM »
As I said, it simply annoys me to keep hearing right-wing morons blame Biden for the current inflation and wish back the former guy while it actually was Trump's fiscal policy that caused the inflation in the first place; it just took a while to kick in.
504

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #929 on: June 14, 2022, 12:55:24 AM »
You don't get to blame the former guy when you wanted the job and wanted to outdo his bad behavior though.

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #930 on: June 14, 2022, 01:01:23 AM »
Children, especially you Benjamin, sit down and listen to the CEO of the James Fund.
Quote
But two actions on March 23 would swing investors from despair to relief, and reveal who really matters in America.

That morning, the Federal Reserve announced the deployment of additional “tools to support households, businesses, and the U.S. economy overall in this challenging time.” The measures included many actions taken during the 2008 financial crisis, with one new wrinkle: Direct purchases of corporate debt — the first nongovernment bond-buying in the Fed’s history — would now be allowed. Companies have swelled their borrowing in recent years, and experts have identified this as a source of serious economic risk. A sudden shock like the pandemic that wiped out revenues would not only cause bankruptcies, but also accelerate bond defaults, broadening stress throughout the financial system.

Backstopping corporate bond markets would support investors and capital owners. By the evening of March 23, investor confidence was lifted even further; reports announced progress on a record $2.2 trillion congressional rescue package, a large chunk of which would go to support the Fed’s interventions in corporate bond and other markets.

The mere announcement of future spending heartened investors, who have relied on Fed support since the last financial crisis. This explains the shocking dissonance between collapsing economic conditions and the relative comfort on Wall Street. Between March 23 and April 30, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rocketed nearly 6,000 points, a jump of nearly 31 percent, creating over $7 trillion in capital wealth. The April gains were the biggest in one month since 1987.

The same month, 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs.

...

Dozens of companies, from troubled aircraft maker Boeing to airline Delta, from Exxon Mobil to T-Mobile, have been tapping credit markets they might never have been able to access, at lower rates than previously offered. The American Prospect and The Intercept have identified at least 49 large companies that have issued corporate bonds since the Federal Reserve announced that it would purchase them. For some, the benefit of cheaper borrowing was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

“It is meaningfully changing the way investors are evaluating the risks for a swath of companies,” said Kathryn Judge, a law professor at Columbia University and expert in financial markets and regulations. The Fed’s support disproportionately flows to large corporations with access to credit markets, Joyce pointed out. “Small and midsized businesses with much more need are more likely to struggle.”

...

In short, while activists nitpicked about which companies got small business grants worth $10 million, the real bailout, with trillions on the line rather than millions, was happening, quietly, at the Fed.

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/27/federal-reserve-corporate-debt-coronavirus/

This is what caused the issues today.
:O

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #931 on: June 14, 2022, 01:06:42 AM »
FACT CHECK: The Fed is allowed to do whatever it wants and no one is allowed to criticize it. It's the only sentence in the Constitution, read it sometime.

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #932 on: June 14, 2022, 02:41:45 AM »
The left’s response to Boudin’s recall is instructive. The voters who decided to recall their left-wing prosecutor were simply confused. “Why is recalling a prosecutor supposed to be an answer to homelessness? How is the mythic fusion of CRIMEANDHOMELESSNESS supposed to translate into any sort of ‘stark warning’ on these two separate policy questions?” demanded Tom Scocca. “Perhaps more than anything, Boudin’s recall shows how inchoate anger over the visible symptoms of inequality — homelessness, public drug use, property crime — can crystallize into a renunciation of an individual politician, even as voters broadly desire the policies that politician champions,” concludes Piper French.

The biggest takeaway from Boudin’s decisive defeat, according to the left, is that voters really like Boudin’s policies.

A different explanation is that Boudin made himself the focal point of frustration with lawlessness because he loudly communicated the idea that enforcing the law was not his priority. He vowed “the tough-on-crime policies and rhetoric of the 1990s and early 2000s are on their way out,” criticized Mayor London Breed for cracking down on drug dealers, and promised not to charge quality-of-life offenses like “public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk.”

It may be true that the underlying cause of homelessness lies outside of Boudin’s control. But given that he publicly articulated a change in policy in handling the symptoms of that crisis, it’s hardly a surprise that voters would fault him when the symptoms worsen.

Boudin represents the long tail of a disastrously misconceived response by progressives to the problem of abusive and racist policing. The best available model for effective reform of urban policing could be found in Camden, New Jersey, which dissolved its corrupt and racist police force and reconstituted the department. The Camden model required spending more money for better and more accountable public safety.

This model, however, did not have intrinsic appeal to progressive activists. Instead, activist groups settled on a slogan of defunding the police. The advantage of this approach is that, first, it neatly fudged the difference between activists who favored reducing spending on the police and more radical activists who favored outright police abolition. (Defund can mean either decreasing funds or zeroing them out.) And second, by framing the police problem as one of resources, it avoided the need to discomfit labor by confronting the power of police unions (which make it difficult to fire even the most violent and bigoted cops). Instead, it held out the possibility of redistributing resources from policing to other government agencies, an additional carrot for government employees.

One norm that has taken hold within the progressive movement is a taboo against expressing frontal disagreement with progressive activists, which is disdained as “scolding.” (The activists themselves, of course, are free to castigate liberals and moderates as openly as they wish.) Since every issue on the left has affiliated activists, the practical effect of the anti-scolding norm is to make it difficult to identify and correct misguided ideas on the left, at least openly. Many progressives have quietly backed away from defunding without repudiating its underlying premises.

...

The left’s response to these reversals has been to portray voters as the victims of brainwashing by conservative media.

“Congratulations to San Francisco’s hysterically reactionary media for carrying this Koch-funded recall over the finish line, ensuring that reforming America’s brutal criminal justice system drifts ever-further out of reach,” wrote Dave Roberts. “The media, and particularly local television news, tends to cover crime a lot, in part because of the perception that this draws viewers,” wrote Perry Bacon, making a more considered version of the same argument. “And both national and local newspapers tend to be owned and run by more moderate figures, be wary of left-wing causes and find the left to be a useful foil to demonstrate to conservatives that they aren’t too liberal. As a result, news coverage in these races becomes very favorable to politicians like Adams and unfavorable to ones like Boudin.”

Why Black, Latino and Asian American Democrats would be more susceptible to reactionary media propaganda than white Democrats, they have not explained.

The obsession with the media does at least point toward a strategic answer to the problem. If the left could gain the same level of control over mainstream media that conservatives hold over right-wing media, you could at least imagine a world in which voters in blue America could be coaxed away from worrying about crime and instead worry about the things progressives want them to worry about.
Good discourse in the replies to this tweet:
https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/1535592608491360256

You see the actual takeway like any election result is that you shou-SHUT THE FUCK UP THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED UNTIL YOU END CAPITALISM (Also, Chait said something stupid at least once so anything he says is a right-wing fascist lie intended to give false consciousness to the proletariat.)

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #933 on: June 14, 2022, 10:20:20 AM »
My 4 point plan to clean up San Francisco:

Infiltrate the drug rings
Sell the drugs very cheap
Add cyanide to the drugs
Arrest the drug people for the thousands of cyanide deaths

No more druggies, no more drug dealers. Clean streets. Win win!
:O

Joe Molotov

  • I'm much more humble than you would understand.
  • Administrator
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #934 on: June 14, 2022, 10:40:31 AM »
My 4 point plan to clean up San Francisco:

Infiltrate the drug rings
Sell the drugs very cheap
Add cyanide to the drugs
Arrest the drug people for the thousands of cyanide deaths

No more druggies, no more drug dealers. Clean streets. Win win!

Use the drug money to buy weapons for South American dictatorships
©@©™

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #935 on: June 14, 2022, 10:46:27 AM »
My 4 point plan to clean up San Francisco:

Infiltrate the drug rings
Sell the drugs very cheap
Add cyanide to the drugs
Arrest the drug people for the thousands of cyanide deaths

No more druggies, no more drug dealers. Clean streets. Win win!

Use the drug money to buy weapons for South American dictatorships

Good point I forgot we need to do something with the excess cash. I would buy El Salvador its on sale
:O

recursivelyenumerable

  • you might think that; I couldn't possibly comment
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #936 on: June 14, 2022, 10:55:05 AM »
You see the actual takeway like any election result is that you shou-SHUT THE FUCK UP THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED UNTIL YOU END CAPITALISM (Also, Chait said something stupid at least once so anything he says is a right-wing fascist lie intended to give false consciousness to the proletariat.)

good thing I've already ended capitalism and in fact end capitalism anew every time I meditate at the Shingon temple down the street.
QED

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #937 on: June 14, 2022, 02:19:26 PM »


🤴

Occam

  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #938 on: June 14, 2022, 03:08:05 PM »
504

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #939 on: June 14, 2022, 06:05:15 PM »
Wow I can't believe Donald Trump is crazy, thankfully William Barr told us or we might've all missed it.
🤴

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
🤴

D3RANG3D

  • The Bore's Like Bot
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #941 on: June 14, 2022, 07:51:33 PM »
The absolute state of the adults taking back the white house.

« Last Edit: June 14, 2022, 08:08:15 PM by D3RANG3D »

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
:O

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
:O

Transhuman

  • youtu.be/KCVCmGPgJS0
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #944 on: June 15, 2022, 12:32:41 AM »
Anonymous accusations and some fully clothed photos that could have been ripped from Facebook?

:gurl

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #945 on: June 15, 2022, 02:54:17 AM »

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #946 on: June 15, 2022, 04:21:41 AM »
(Image removed from quote.)

I don’t know whether or not  you are sarcastically posting about the lack of free speech in America because somebody can’t “joke“ about wishing for the POTUS’ death. Having an elected official put that idea out into the populace elicits a stronger response, has a greater chance of them than acting on it. It is encouraging a threat to the life of our president.

I’d love to have the usual amount of attention from the Secret Service applied to Boebert, her associations, her background, where she has been receiving and where she has applied her money, etc. Ruin the little idiot, loudmouth hypocrite.

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #947 on: June 15, 2022, 04:24:41 AM »
I just don't think the FBI or Secret Service has jurisdiction over God.

Plus I think He'd take the Fifth rather than cooperate with the investigation.

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #948 on: June 15, 2022, 08:21:55 AM »
As long as God is withing 100 miles of the US border, they have jurisdiction
:O

Skullfuckers Anonymous

  • Will hunt bullies for fruit baskets. PM for details.
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #949 on: June 15, 2022, 09:25:23 AM »
Save the prayers, Biden is a Catholic so the deep state won’t let him make it through his full term.

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #950 on: June 15, 2022, 03:14:31 PM »
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1537009959304671232

You know who didn't need emergency powers to get shit done even though he had a pandemic to give himself ultimate power like most European governments did
spoiler (click to show/hide)
:trumps
[close]
🤴

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #951 on: June 15, 2022, 03:21:45 PM »
Bernie would have nationalized the oil companies and sent everyone monthly dividend checks
:O


D3RANG3D

  • The Bore's Like Bot
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #953 on: June 15, 2022, 04:45:20 PM »
 :neogaf

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #954 on: June 15, 2022, 04:51:49 PM »
https://twitter.com/MayraFlores2022/status/1537044924834652162

Apparently she won a seat that was blue for 150 years.

« Last Edit: June 15, 2022, 05:14:36 PM by Nintex »
🤴

benjipwns

  • your bright ideas always burn me
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #955 on: June 16, 2022, 09:55:36 AM »
:pika
Not every President can be as good as Jimmy Carter though, it's not wise to hold everyone to apparently near impossible standards.

james

  • Donate to the JAMES FUND
  • Senior Member
:O

Nintex

  • Finish the Fight
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #957 on: June 16, 2022, 03:45:38 PM »
https://twitter.com/postpolitics/status/1537459220664225792

January 6 TV drama didn't work, let's attack Trump's African American guy Jack :biden



The Biden people don't even show up to work lmao.
« Last Edit: June 16, 2022, 04:12:00 PM by Nintex »
🤴

Madrun Badrun

  • twin-anused mascot
  • Senior Member

Potato

  • Senior's Member
  • Senior Member
Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town
« Reply #959 on: June 16, 2022, 10:09:42 PM »
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/LeuchterNEJM2022
The fact that this is not "off topic" for the US politics thread is alarming.
Spud