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@Best.Korea
So if you prefer living in USA, get used to US politics.
False dichotomy.
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@Best.Korea
That's like asking if a Nazi would rather be a Jew in 1941.
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@Best.Korea
Probably better than living in Gaza or Yemen right now.
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@Double_R
The fact that someone is or was a lobbyist has absolutely no bearing on whether their stated opinion on Trump should be accepted as their actual opinion.
It is when there is a pattern of belonging to the same lobby group. And I don't really care about what they think about Trump. Trump isn't a good person. Just don't ask me to believe any Ultra Lobbyist cares about the country. They care about what an evil Trump will do for the lobby they are paid well to represent. Not the country, so you can drop that ridiculous overused talking point. Almost nobody actually believes lobbyists care about the country anymore, with or without Trump.
Any of us would under the right circumstances.
No. Some people actually DO care about "The Country"
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@Best.Korea
That's an easy sentiment to hold if you live in the USA. Not so much so if you live in any one of the dozens of other subjugated nations.
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@Benjamin
I think what's also most egregious is the long time use of the CIA and concentrated arm sales for the sole purpose of disrupting foreign democracies. A practice that most every American views as "fighting global evil"
And then they have the gall to pretend that they protect democracy.
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@zedvictor4
All speech is hate speech if you ask the right person.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
So you can read minds.
There was a time when Establishment Mockingbird MSM could easily get away with the status quo strawmanning and the focus group verified caricature of a political opponent, but that was before they shot their final load on the Jan 6 scandal. Nobody pays attention to that stuff anymore like they used to.
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@TheUnderdog
He doesn't even like Nikki Haley, and she has a massive amount of support among most Democrats.
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@Best.Korea
America is currently killing innocent brown people in Gaza and Yemen right now while taking bribes from the Mexican cartels to smuggle in brown kids to work as sex slaves.
If most Americans cared about morality, that was about 4 decades ago. America is now that evil empire that needs to be wiped clean and reset, like Nazi Germany.
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@TheUnderdog
- Cohen v. California (1971): Wearing a jacket that said "fuck the draft" did not constitute fighting words since there had been no "personally abusive epithets."
- Gooding v. Wilson (1972): The Court held that offensive and insulting language, even when directed at specific individuals, is not fighting words. Examples include "White son of a bitch, I'll kill you."
- Rosenfeld v. New Jersey (1972): The use of "mother fucking" was found not to be fighting words.
- Lewis v. City of New Orleans (1972): Phrases like "god damn mother fucking police" were considered constitutional.
- Brown v. Oklahoma (1972): The use of "mother fucking fascist" and "black mother fucking pig" was found constitutional because the speech may have been anticipated by the audience.
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How did they release such a terribly written movie? Who wrote this?
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@Best.Korea
Small food stores often give me crappy food, especially if they are the ones making it.They do a poor job and no one cares enough to check.
This wasn't always the case. I guess you kinda answered my question then.
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Social capital refers to the resources embedded in social networks and social relationships that individuals can access and leverage for mutual benefit. It encompasses the trust, norms, and networks that facilitate voluntary cooperation and coordination among people. Social capital is considered a valuable asset for communities and societies as it objectively contributes to the overall well-being, economic development, and effective functioning of social groups.
Many policies enacted in the past 4 decades have eroded this in America.
My question to you guys is, who exactly benefits from these policies?
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@TheUnderdog
The DSM also states Gender Dysphoria as a problem. Meaning there can only be one normal gender.
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Nothing about this suggests that I believe anything without hesitation.
Of course it does. It relies on a ridiculous pre-assertion. One that the last 4 decades have proven laughably false. The entire reason why MAGA evolved.
I don't particularly like MAGA or Trump, but I am not going to make excuses about who is to blame.
During the 80's America lost a significant amount of social capital, and that was allowed to happen, even manufactured by the lobby class in DC. The destruction of the hope of America, the purposeful transfer of power to the elites through DC lobbies, I won't hand wave this so easily. So you post a list of Ultra Lobbyists, and ask me to believe they care about what's a danger to THE COUNTRY? Give me a break. It's increasingly hard to find enclaves in America where neighbors actually care about their local society like they used to, and believed they were also part of a bigger shared society.
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@Best.Korea
Biden isn’t wrong to estimate that the Republicans' plan would result in some level of cuts for multiple departments, which may include law enforcement tasked with protecting the border and enforcing drug laws. But his statement relies on assumptions.
Damn, even Biden learned your super secret cheat codes...
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The story said Biden made up the provisions. Nothing in the bill had anything to do about Border Guards
Why are you defending a liar that's a known liar to even far leftoid billionaire outlets? Do you think the deep state is lying about Biden now? ha!.
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@zedvictor4
Narcissists have a tendency to only love one thing.
Bingo. That's the only answer. Everyone else here is trolling and living in an alternate dimension.
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@Double_R
Nor did I assert anything close to that. Learn to read.
Sure you did. I even reposted it for you. Learn to read your own words I guess? You clearly believed with no hesitation that a list of lobbyists and defense contractors worry about the country over any other factor. What's that word you always use for groups like that??? sounds like fult?
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@Best.Korea
My graph rests too :)
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@Best.Korea
read the graph.
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@Best.Korea
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@Best.Korea
Already answered that.
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@Best.Korea
That's not what you asked.
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@Best.Korea
Already answered that.
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@Best.Korea
No I agree, wiki assumed something I didn't believe. Good catch BK.
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@Best.Korea
Oh I guess wiki assumed that, ok.
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@Best.Korea
I already told you. A president doesn't need to be bribed. Even if he could be bribed to help undermine a country, it's not necessary.
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@Best.Korea
Oh no, I assume all lobbyists care about "the country" as Double R assumes as well.
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@Best.Korea
Yes, just like you assume China needs to bribe a president to undermine the country. There are many chiefs in DC. A great many greedy chiefs. Most of DC is devoted solely to the lobby bribery business.
Most federal lobbyists are based in Washington, DC; an estimate from 2018 suggested that the count of registered lobbyists who actually lobbied that year was 11,656.
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@Best.Korea
You just assume that Trump cares about this country more than he cares about money.
He cares about neither. Care to make another guess?
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@Best.Korea
The only one on that list that isn't a military lobbyist or a defense contractor is Bill Barr. He is just a business lobbyist, so his opinion has a lot more weight.
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Nothing about my post suggested this as the takeaway.What the list shows is that the people who worked most closely with Trump understand how much of a danger he is to the country.
It's time to stop hero worshipping unelected lobbyists and defense contractors. None of them care about you or me or the country as a whole.
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@Best.Korea
They are happy if nobody with a brain is president. That will happen no matter what.
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@Best.Korea
They are happy if nobody with a brain is president. That will happen no matter what.
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@Best.Korea
It's one possibility.
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@Best.Korea
US enemies are happy either way, they have to deal with an idiot in the end. China probably took over USA politics long ago with shadow lobbys. Laughing so hard as the puppet government rips apart America from within. And all it took was a bribe here, and a bribe there. America is like a cheap prostitute.
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@Double_R
Sorry, but your presumption that appointed officials who also double dip as lobbyists and defense contractors really care about you or me is very laughable and hard to swallow.
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@Best.Korea
Lol, I don't pay a cent to Bezos. I just get the article repeats from other outlets.
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You know you are done with Democrats when even Billionaire owned WAPO hates you.
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Lol, more low-energy trolling. Enjoy the inevitable.
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@FLRW
I knew we would agree on something!
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@FLRW
Correct. They are both dummies.
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@FLRW
Biden's records that he released last week indicated he attended law school on a half-time scholarship based on financial need and that he graduated 76th out of a law school class of 85. His undergraduate academic records show that he graduated from Delaware 506th in a class of 688 with a "C" average and that he got his undergraduate degree with a dual major in history and political science.
But in the USA if you are rich and stupid you can be PRESIDENT!
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@FLRW
Yes, Biden is president.
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