The Isolated Political Blurt Thread

[sr71plt]

What malicious nonsense was that meant to convey?

 

[JackLuis]

What malicious nonsense was that meant to convey?

It was just humorous, Pilot. This is not:

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It is too big to post here but it shows how many hours you'd have to work and min wage to pay for a one bedroom Apt. in each state.

 

[Bacigalupo]

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[sharingfantasies]

It was just humorous, Pilot. This is not:

https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn....=2cda329872242d9c6fb5b22adb468972&oe=5A54586C

It is too big to post here but it shows how many hours you'd have to work and min wage to pay for a one bedroom Apt. in each state.

It is interesting, but for most minimum wage workers, their bosses believe 28-32 hours is full time.

 

[JackLuis]

Wisconsin paid $4 million for tiny airport for Republican mega-donor’s golf course

While the rest of Wisconsin’s road infrastructure “crumbled,” state Republicans quietly approved $4 million in repairs to a tiny airport near a golf course owned by a Republican “mega-donor.”

According to the Associated Press, Sand Valley Golf Resort developer Michael Keiser donated $25,000 to the state’s Republican Party earlier this year. Soon after, the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee approved the $4 million repairs to the golf resort’s diminutive airport.

The report also said that the donation came “three weeks after Gov. Scott Walker (R) released his budget without funding for Wisconsin Rapids’ Alexander Field [airport].”

“It sure looks like Mr. Keiser’s campaign contributions to Scott Walker and Republicans teed up millions in taxpayer-funded improvements to help bring corporate jet ferried golfers to his Wisconsin courses,” Mike Browne, as spokesman for liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, told AP. “Meanwhile the rest of us will continue to have to deal with crumbling roads and bridges and delayed projects as these same Republicans take a budget mulligan and refuse to fix the state transportation funding crisis.”

 

[Hypoxia]

Wisconsin paid $4 million for tiny airport for Republican mega-donor’s golf course

He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

We get the best gov't money can buy.

The honest politician stays bought.

Law- and sausage-making -- don't watch.

The legislature is in session. Hide your wallet.

He is a thief. He is a Republican. But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sand Valley Golf Resort developer Michael Keiser has donated “at least $65,000 to Walker and Wisconsin Republicans since 2012,” the AP report continued.

State budget committee approves $4M for tiny airport near Republican donor's world-class golf course

“It sure looks like Mr. Keiser’s campaign contributions to Scott Walker and Republicans teed up millions in taxpayer-funded improvements to help bring corporate-jet-ferried golfers to his Wisconsin courses,” said Mike Browne with the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now.


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[sr71plt]

It was just humorous, Pilot. This is not:

Yeah, sure. It's just the sort of humor the Russians loved to pay to float on Facebook during the campaign and the mentality challenged in the U.S. electorate ate up with glee. So, you say you consider it funny and legitimate to lie and Swiftboat someone stepping forward to run for public office--and out of the other side of your mouth you complain that good people won't step up to run for public office?

 

[JackLuis]

Yeah, sure. It's just the sort of humor the Russians loved to pay to float on Facebook during the campaign and the mentality challenged in the U.S. electorate ate up with glee. So, you say you consider it funny and legitimate to lie and Swiftboat someone stepping forward to run for public office--and out of the other side of your mouth you complain that good people won't step up to run for public office?

Swift Boating Hillary? When she has failed twice to get elected, running against a Black man and then a lunatic, even after getting DWS and the DNC to pave the way for her coronation? Now she whines that an old Jew who made Trump call her Crooked Hillary and poisoned her well of supporters despite his supporting her after she fucked him over.

The Russians didn't have much to do with our election really. Sure they fucked around, but the CIA does the same in lots of places and they are generally more blatant about it.

Obama jumped in her shit and beat her up on her policy and her character, Bernie didn't.

 

[sr71plt]

Swift Boating Hillary?

Christ almighty, don't be so stupid. People are failing to get elected precisely because they are being Swiftboated. I didn't bother to read the rest of your post. You can be doggedly stupid about such things.

 

[JackLuis]

Christ almighty, don't be so stupid. People are failing to get elected precisely because they are being Swiftboated. I didn't bother to read the rest of your post. You can be doggedly stupid about such things.

You mean I can hold to my conviction that Hillary failed due to her inability to connect with people who would not accept her point of view that she is God's great gift to the US of A? If it hadn't been for Bill she's still be in Arkansas.

You will not accept the fact that Hillary lost because people would rather take a chance that Trump wasn't as silly and incompetent as he appeared rather than vote for the Hillary that has shown herself over twenty years to be a shill for the highest bidders. All the Rethuglican "Swiftboating" was irrelevant to my opinion. I based my opinion of Hillary on her actions and her words. I mean you've seen my reactions to the Republican Bullshit for the last eight years, do you think I believe even 10% of their bullshit?

 

[Hypoxia]

Keep in mind that Hillary won the popular vote by an expected margin but lost the game on a technicality -- a real loss, so she's gone. Let her go.

It's not that "[Hillary or Bernie or Tromp] did [this or that]" that swayed the election. Rather, USA presidential elections are not small-D democratic. In a democracy, whether republican or monarchic or whatever, whoever takes the popular vote, wins. Electoral college is more like a shareholder's meeting, candidates backed by proxies -- if the proxies are gerrymandered or suppressed or discounted to tilt the odds.

The USA experiment with democracy has failed.

 

[sr71plt]

You will not accept the fact that Hillary lost because people would rather take a chance that Trump wasn't as silly and incompetent as he appeared rather than vote for the Hillary that has shown herself over twenty years to be a shill for the highest bidders.

And you won't get off dogmatically swallowing the Swiftboating the reactionary Republicans have been doing against Hillary for twenty years or the Russians getting on board with that in the last election. You are as much a dupe of media manipulation as the Trump voters were. You even join in with the Swiftboating. As several have pointed out to you. Hillary won the popular election by millions of votes. She was deemed more acceptable that Bernie in the primary and more acceptable than Trump in the general election and this despite twenty years of character assassination that works with baa, baa sheep like you. That doesn't mean I think she's an angel--what it means is that I actually do think about what the best options are without being duped by media manipulation. Trump was easy to peg because he reveals himself by what he directly says and does in ways that I don't see filtered by anyone else or the media coverage.

 

[sr71plt]

And you're just too tiresome in your dogmatic blindness on this topic, Jack. I don't keep bringing this up--you do, and you show your naivete about this every time.

 

[JackLuis]

And you're just too tiresome in your dogmatic blindness on this topic, Jack. I don't keep bringing this up--you do, and you show your naivete about this every time.

We are NEVER going to agree about Hillary/Bernie, Pilot.

I accept that, it's you who can't seem to let it die. I tend to laugh at things because I know that our Helpful Congress is a shame and most Politicians are self serving lairs, who will do or say anything to get reelected. Is that naive or pragmatic?

Go write some gay porn, Pilot you're good at that.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

What posts, would Donald Trump's Blurt thread have inside it ?

We have some of Donald Trump's blurts, thanks to twitter. People inside the White House tell journalists, reporters, and media "personalities" ( as anons) what Trump has said.

Trump decided to report on himself, in the past, by pretending to be other people.

(alts!)

What if Trump were free, to blurt as much as he wanted ?

(He would remove as many posts, as other alts have)

 

[sr71plt]

We are [SIZE="5 I accept that, it's you who can't seem to let it die.

Bullshit. You're the one constantly bringing it up. Point to a single thread or quote I've posted about it. Everything I've posted to you on it has been in response to YOUR obsession with it.

 

[JackLuis]

Thoughts and Prayers arrive in Florida.


The other side of Progress

 

[JackLuis]

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[Hypoxia]

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We could say the same of politicians, preachers, pundits, and bankers.

 

[Adre]

"Many one-time supporters of President Donald Trump are so red hot over his possible immigration deal with Democratic leaders that they’re burning their “Make America Great Again” hats.

The angry right-wingers shared images of the charred caps on social media under the #burnmyMAGAhat hashtag. They also referred to the president as #AmnestyDon and some even called for him to be impeached."


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[Bacigalupo]

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[Hypoxia]

Tromp and the rest of the alt.right have a message problem. Adolf Hitler addressed it:

"The art of leadership... consists of consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and making sure that nothing will split up that attention."​

The problem: Tromp and his base have too many enemies. They're fragmented. Lawyers, liberals, atheists, Jews, Muslims, spi!cks, n!ggers, Arabs, uppity women, scientists, queers, Juggalos, and the rest of America and the world. They need to focus on one enemy. Hey, it might be YOU!

Hitler also said:

"Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the members of the crowd."​

They certainly learned that lesson. Say shit over and over, and it becomes true.

 

[JackLuis]

A handful of ultra-rich dynastic families are bleeding the country dry — and destroying American democracy

hite House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs, said recently that “only morons pay the estate tax.”

I’m reminded of Donald Trump’s comment that he didn’t pay federal income taxes because he was “smart.” And billionaire Leona Helmsley’s “only the little people pay taxes.”

What Cohn was getting at is how easy it is nowadays for the wealthy to pass their fortunes to their children, tax-free.

The estate tax applies only to estates over $11 million per couple. And wealthy families stash away dollars above this into “dynastic” trust funds that escape additional taxes.

No wonder revenues from the estate tax have been dropping for years even as wealth has become concentrated in fewer hands. The tax now generates about $20 billion a year, which is less than 1 percent of federal revenues. And it applies to only about 2 out of every 1,000 people who die.

Now, Trump and Republican leaders are planning to cut or eliminate it altogether.

The last time America faced anything comparable to the concentration of wealth we face now, occurred at the turn of the last century.

Then, President Teddy Roosevelt warned that “a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power,” could destroy American democracy.

Roosevelt’s answer was to tax wealth. The estate tax was enacted in 1916 and the capital gains tax in 1922.

Bull Moose party anyone?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

This past weekend, and today, I have been listening to, and reading, apologists for Trump. They were trying to deflect criticism of Trump's decision to re-tweet a gif of violence against a woman.

It was not just Right Wing leaning men.

gsgs comment- When it is false equivalence, it is false equivalence. Hillary Clinton has called Trump out on his bullshit. The only response he could come up with, was a re-tweet from a known racist, Anti-Semitic, White Supremacist. His answer to criticism was physical violence. Mildly critical posts have led to banning on his twitter account.

Snowflake in Chief, pouting and sulking, because he was not given a grand welcome to the world stage. World leaders do not appreciate time wasted on a fucking infomercial for Trump hotels.