Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Off the rails.


I think it's safe to say that these daily coronavirus propaganda briefings from the White House are doing way more harm than good for the country. The president holds these briefings at lease once per day, because he can't hold his "Dear Leader" rallies where thousands of...let's just say his red state faithful gather and feed his fragile ego. 

Yesterday's briefing, to put it mildly, went way off the rails. Mr. trump had an epic meltdown on national television, when a CBS reporter (who also happens to be a lawyer) called him out on his lie about doing everything possible to stop this pandemic and saving lives.  Mr. trump became so shook that you could literally see him shaking at one point when the reporter refused to back down. Caught in a lie, and with nothing to back his spurious claims, he reverted to name calling. It was embarrassing to watch. And if you are proud to be an American, watching your president make an absolute fool of himself in such a manner cannot make you feel good about your country. Dr. Fauci, a man who most of us hold in high esteem, also made himself look really small yesterday. The briefing opened with him having to grovel to Dear Leader, and clarify his truthful statements made to Jake Tapper on CNN  the day before.

Mr. trump started the press conference with Fauci, and pretty much told d him to go up there and tell the world why he dared to go on television to make "Dear Leader" look bad. Fauci himself became snippy when a reporter asked him if that's the only reason he went up there. Truth is, we hardly heard from Fauci after that statement, and he sat there for two hours listening to trump's BS propaganda session like a bad student on time-out without hardly a peep.

But that wasn't even the worst of it. "Dear Leader" actually played a video from the press room which was nothing more than a FOX NEWS prepared campaign video. It was filled with lies and misinformation about how Mr. trump handled the coronavirus epidemic. Shockingly, it seemed to have prepared by White House staffers working on our (the taxpayer) dime. Some cable news outlets cut away, and their talking heads declared later that they were "shocked" that the president would do such a thing. You have to wonder what planet they have been living on for the past four years. Nothing that this man says or does should shock them.

At one point yesterday Mr. trump wrongly declared that his power is absolute, and that he has "total authority" to do whatever he wants. I don't want to get into a Constitutional law lecture here, but let's just say that he is wrong. Article II does not give him "absolute power" as he likes to declare. He shares that power with two other co-equal branches of government. He is not a King. It's kind of what this whole Revolution War thing was about.  You can read more about the powers of the Executive branch here.  And here I thought that republicans respected the concept of federalism and the separation of powers.

 “I have the ultimate authority,” the president responded...... “When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total and that’s the way it’s got to be. … It’s total. The governors know that.”

Nope, that's not the way "it's got to be".  Maybe come November, Mr. trump will learn the truth the hard way. 

*Image from npr.com


183 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:14 AM

    I have to assume Anthony Fauci feels it is better to take Trump’s crap, and to accept that he has to indulge Trump’s lies to some extent, in order to stay on the team. Because if Fauci and other medical experts bail, then Trump will become completely untethered from reality, and that will not be in the interests of the American people.

    As for Trump’s assertions of absolute power, expect those to get louder and angrier as he discovers he is no longer driving the bus. He has fucked up so badly that state governors are now ignoring him and doing their own thing. The lockdown will end when they say it does, and Trump will have zero input into that decision.

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  2. Dispatch from the Real World10:46 AM

    Trump's quick actions saved the country from at least 250,000 deaths that we would have had under a Democrat president more worried about offending China and rousing the deplorables into stigmatizing Asian Americans than she would have been about saving American lives. He will ride this brilliant display of leadership and concern for the people into a massive victory this November.

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  3. Anonymous10:46 AM

    More fake news from Team Pravda!!

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  4. Anonymous10:49 AM

    Chicago April 2020 To Date
    Shot & Killed: 29
    Shot & Wounded: 91
    Total Shot: 120
    Total Homicides: 32

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  5. StillaPanther210:53 AM

    Don’t count your chickens. DLT has a lot of support in America because white power will be hard to rinse from America’s wash. They will continue to hold on to that status until the numbers get much lower. The white race will rather have a solo guy in office instead of a guy support by some old Blacks in America. I hope I am wrong.

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  6. Obama set to endorse Biden. drumpf was a walking clusterfuck long before mainstream media ignored his failings in the 2016 election campaign. They fell for all the dog whistles from drumpf to chase after HRC's imaginary criminal acts and left drumpf's criminal enterprise totally alone.

    Not hearing much from all them there prowd southern wasicu Magats lately.

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  7. The danger of drum0pf's judge choices and the damage to the judiciary because of those ideological choices....

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/trump-bench-justin-walker.html

    Another unqualified judge run amok.

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  8. 56+ years ago, give or a take a year or three, vocal whites warned of the negro proclivity for violence. These unnamed and forgotten speakers foretold of Negroes rampaging like toddlers, stealing when they wanted, committing rape when it suited them. Some were mayors with heavily negro districts and knew first hand the inability of Negroes to function as civilized human beings. They tried to tell the world that Negroes could not be turned into whites with dark skin. They protested, marched, whined and complained that desegregation would result in ruination.

    For over five decades we’ve empowered Negroes, franchised them, pampered them, placed them on pedestals as creatures of worship or pity. And for all that spending, pampering and pandering, we have vast urban areas of slums, ghettos, ruins filled with some of the most violent, blood thirsty, savage, feral creatures to ever stride the planet. We’ve had 52+ years of forced integration. 52+ years of generous social entitlement programs. 52+years of excuses. And, the fears expressed by white leaders in the late 1950s and early sixties have come to pass.

    Black African’s . . . Negroes . . . have received more help than any other people in human history, and yet they still remain the most slothful, lazy, feckless, violent, brutal, and savage. No race in human history has been given more than Negroes. Yet, for all the help, Negroes have nothing to show for it – NOTHING. In fact, they have more slothful lives, are more backward, more tribal, more paleolithic than ever.

    A legion of liberals living in gilded cages whine that we need to give more to the negro, provided them opportunities, give them assistance to over come poverty/racism/both. They continually assume that given the same opportunities as whites, Negroes can become productive citizens, that they can turn away from the bombardment of all that glitters and suppress their inner child. Guess what, Negroes can’t. They are not whites with dark skin, their gratification deterrence is almost non-existent. They are, as confederate officers noted, “children in adult bodies”

    From the mid-1960s onward, We’ve done it the anti’s way. We elevated the non-white, specifically the negro savage, we’ve given money to bring them out of poverty, we’ve passed laws to prevent non-white discrimination, we’ve advanced them in our schools without them needing to learn, we’ve given them jobs and home loans they didn’t qualify for. In every aspect of society, antis have pushed the doctrine it is socially and legally unacceptable to show any bias.

    The real question is WHAT have we to show for it? Is life better now than it was before such social engineering took place? OR, are cities decaying ruins? Are Negroes educated on par with whites after nearly three generations. More importantly, do current blacks embrace the education their grandparents demanded? Have we achieved the color blind society hippies of the 1960s dreamed about?

    Some 56+ years after civil rights movement demanded blacks be included into white society, we are more segregated now than ever before. Blacks culture is so far removed from the main stream culture (the culture that does the building, inventing, creating, and general is the engine of progress) that is unrecognizable as progressive and has more in common with the African tribal warriors of the first century BC. 52 years of embracing sloth on the slim hopes that antis could turn blacks into whites.

    It is time to face the raw, cold, unpleasant facts — bestowing equality and allowing the Negro to live among us as equals hasn’t worked. Their way of life is not ours.

    In 1965, Negroes were truly free to chart their own course. No longer could whites dictate special polices for handling Homo Sapiens Africans. No longer could this savage hominid be contained in special game reserves (segregation).

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  9. It is 2020, 56 years later, and we see, in places like Detroit, just what the negro has done with that freedom. Around the globe, from St Louis to Zimbabwe, the negro lives a life of savagery, of instinct, or brutality. There is no building, no development, no creative thought. No negro civilization has arose nor could they maintain the ones given to them.

    Instead, we have roving packs of predators, preying on our citizenry while demanding we support them.

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  10. drumpf body count crazee train keeps a chugling along...

    Last updated: April 14, 2020, 16:24 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    591,064
    Deaths:
    24,600

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  11. Another 543 bodies for drumpf....

    Last updated: April 14, 2020, 18:00 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    603,059
    Deaths:
    25,143

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  12. What are d9o nothing ingnuts going t9o do about do nothing Typhoid drumpf? Just what they have done all along. Wring their hands and claim victimhood.

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  13. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman2:37 PM

    Dispatch from the Real World said...

    Trump's quick actions saved the country from at least 250,000 deaths that we would have had under a Democrat president more worried about offending China and rousing the deplorables into stigmatizing Asian Americans than she would have been about saving American lives. He will ride this brilliant display of leadership and concern for the people into a massive victory this November.

    10:46 AM
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    I guess you have been in a coma since January and you brain was damaged. Otherwise you would not have posted the bull shit that you did.

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  14. Florida guv declared professional 'rasslin essential business.

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  15. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman2:44 PM

    Electrobe speaks ata12:15 PM
    and at 12:16 PM
    Electrobe speaks said...

    It is 2020, 56 years later, and we see, in places like Detroit, just what the negro has done with that freedom. Around the globe, from St Louis to Zimbabwe, the negro lives a life of savagery, of instinct, or brutality. There is no building, no development, no creative thought. No negro civilization has arose nor could they maintain the ones given to them.

    Instead, we have roving packs of predators, preying on our citizenry while demanding we support them.

    12:16 PM
    Please take your bull shit to stormfront or some other lunatic web site.

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  16. https://www.theroot.com/obama-makes-it-facebook-official-endorses-joe-biden-an-1842863024

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  17. Anonymous3:01 PM

    "Trump's quick actions saved the country from at least 250,000 deaths that we would have had under a Democrat president more worried about offending China and rousing the deplorables into stigmatizing Asian Americans than she would have been about saving American lives."

    Word.

    Could you imagine Hillary screeching at Americans about all the coronavirus dead: "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

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  18. What's up Brother Panther? Long time no hear. You are correct, white conservative men love to have angry white guys yelling at them about "others". They would love nothing more than four more years of that.

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  19. Gambler2:

    Well, at least Electrobe chose a name.

    I wonder why the haters even bother to write so much, or at all. I usually just skip them. I have long since learned that they lie, and mislead, and argue in bad faith. They're not here to teach, or learn, or state the truth.

    The only reason why I pay any attention to the trolls at all is that, on occasion, they do display interesting symptoms. Once I toyed with one until it splattered emoticons all over the page. No doubt it thought it 'owned' me by responding with lunatic spectacle when I pushed its buttons.

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  20. Black progressive men love to have angry jews telling them lies to stoke their hatred of whites. They would love nothing more than an eternity of that.

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  21. Anonymous4:09 PM

    "I wonder why the haters even bother to write so much, or at all. I usually just skip them. I have long since learned that they lie, and mislead, and argue in bad faith. They're not here to teach, or learn, or state the truth."

    They're here for a warped sort of entertainment. They get their jollies from gaslighting people with the "alternative facts" that they found on laughable, zero-credibility wingnut websites, and from taunting people with hate speech.

    They'd prefer to just stand on a street corner and shout ethnic slurs, but that would get them beaten up, fired from their jobs, or, at minimum, socially ostracized. So they have to settle for anonymously "owning the libs" online.

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  22. Another 500 drumpf lifeless bodies....

    Last updated: April 14, 2020, 20:15 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    608,988
    Deaths:
    25,671

    Walk with pride, magats.

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  23. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman4:21 PM

    Anonymous said....

    They'd prefer to just stand on a street corner and shout ethnic slurs, but that would get them beaten up, fired from their jobs, or, at minimum, socially ostracized. So they have to settle for anonymously "owning the libs" online.

    4:09 PM
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    Excellent analysis! I hadn't thought of it that way. But I think you are right. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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  24. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman4:30 PM

    Gambler2:

    Well, at least Electrobe chose a name.


    Paradoctor said....

    I wonder why the haters even bother to write so much, or at all. I usually just skip them. I have long since learned that they lie, and mislead, and argue in bad faith. They're not here to teach, or learn, or state the truth.

    The only reason why I pay any attention to the trolls at all is that, on occasion, they do display interesting symptoms. Once I toyed with one until it splattered emoticons all over the page. No doubt it thought it 'owned' me by responding with lunatic spectacle when I pushed its buttons.

    3:12 PM

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    Thanks for your response. I don't bother to read everything they say either. After a few words and I get their drift, I skim, and then compose a reply. Sometimes I respond with facts, but when I am answering a long diatribe such as the ones posted by Electrobe, I just call it for what it is, bull shit.

    Have a great day. I hope you are holding up well during this social distancing time period.

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  25. "They get their jollies from gaslighting people with the "alternative facts" that they found on laughable, zero-credibility wingnut websites"

    "Gaslighting" implies a dominant position with the ability to contradict the memories and perceptions of an intended victim until the victim begins to doubt his or her perception of reality.

    Since the Left dominates mainstream media, the term “gaslighting” in a media context most appropriately describes the Left’s efforts to push a false view of reality and to convince the majority of Americans that their common-sense views are somehow extreme.

    Part of being able to gaslight people is getting to decide what is "credible", so as to shut off any consideration of ideas or facts that don't support the dominant narrative.

    Facts that don't conform to the narrative are still facts.

    The way you can tell someone has succumbed to gaslighting is how consistently and irrationally they refuse to even consider anything that doesn't come from their 'side'. They have become so enmeshed in the web of deceit and invested in the narrative that they'll fight to death to defend their false reality.

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  26. "They'd prefer to just stand on a street corner and shout ethnic slurs"

    This is the comment of a zombie.

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  27. Anonymous5:33 PM

    Has any body noticed how when the POTUS delivers this "state of the affairs" address
    NONE OF THEM ARE PRACTICING SOCIAL DISTANCING!!! ...WTF!

    Not even the doctor!!!!!! I wouldn't be surprised if all of the president's joke(rs) have the virus.

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  28. Anonymous5:33 PM

    Dr. Jerome Adams is the bomb dignity.
    God bless the people that birthed him!

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  29. Anonymous5:45 PM

    Some Words About The World Of Quarantine:

    The Latin root of the word "quarantine " is forty.
    So what does the Bible say about "forty?"

    The flood lasted 40 days.

    40 years Moses fled Egypt.

    40 days Moses stayed on Mount Sinai to receive the Commandments.

    Exodus lasted 40 years.

    Jesus fasted for 40 days.

    Lent is 40 days.

    40 days for a woman to rest after giving birth.

    A group of theologians think the number 40 represents "change."

    Please know that during this "quarantine" rivers are cleaning up, vegetation is growing, the air is become cleaner because of less pollution. There will be less theft and murder. Healing is happening and people are talking to Christ. The Earth is at rest for the first time in many years and hearts are truly transforming.

    So during this time, enjoy it with your loved ones and go to the family altar together.
    Family prayer is a great blessing after all didn't our founding fathers put "In God We Trust" on legal tender?

    God can work with you, within you, and within your home and remember Christ promises us that...
    "EVERYTHING WORKS TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD...FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GOD."
    (Romans8:28)










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  30. "It is time to face the raw, cold, unpleasant facts — bestowing equality and allowing the Negro to live among us as equals hasn’t worked. Their way of life is not ours."

    Works for me.

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  31. "Black progressive men love to have angry jews telling them lies to stoke their hatred of whites. They would love nothing more than an eternity of that."

    Really? As a Blah progressive man I can conclusively say that's false. I really don't hate whites. I mean of course certain whites (nazis, racists, nazi-like assholes, klan and klan-like asshole....you know the type) I kinda hate but the rest I'm cool with. Ha!

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  32. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman6:35 PM



    Gambler2:

    Well, at least Electrobe chose a name.

    I wonder why the haters even bother to write so much, or at all. I usually just skip them. I have long since learned that they lie, and mislead, and argue in bad faith. They're not here to teach, or learn, or state the truth.

    The only reason why I pay any attention to the trolls at all is that, on occasion, they do display interesting symptoms. Once I toyed with one until it splattered emoticons all over the page. No doubt it thought it 'owned' me by responding with lunatic spectacle when I pushed its buttons.

    3:12 PM

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  33. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman6:37 PM

    From Today's Huffpost

    All Hands On Deck?

    "The White House has tried to reassure the public that it’s on top of the coronavirus pandemic, declaring it an “all-hands-on-deck effort.” Yet as the disease has ripped through the country, many of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members have been largely absent or have failed to use the powers of their agencies to respond to a crisis that has shut down the economy and killed more than 20,000 Americans."
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-cabinet-missing-coronavirus_n_5e95bc65c5b6cc788eaf729e

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  34. Anonymous6:38 PM

    ...and they will vote for him again like cows being led to slaughter.

    The heart and the brain...2 very easy organs to manipulate.

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  35. "Well, at least Electrobe chose a name."

    But like all trolls when he is confronted with the fact that his logic is faulty he'll revert to anonymous and just start calling names. This is nothing new.

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  36. If Fergus had issued stay at home orders he would have the authority to rescind them.
    He didn't, so he doesn't.
    He is already culpable for the extra growth of the transmission in states whose governors made it plain that they weren't issuing stay at home orders because the president hadn't told them to. He will be further culpable if he somehow manages to prematurely end the orders that are in place, or even lie the citizens into failing to comply with them.
    Things aren't going back to the way they were, full stop.
    They won't go back to whatever semblance of normal we do manage to attain until people feel safe from a hideous death while doing the normal activities they always do.
    That won't happen until certain things are in place. First would be an effective and widely available vaccine. Herd immunity could bring back herd behavior.
    Until that happens, most likely some time next year, we have behavioral mitigation and pharmacological intervention, the latter of which is actually looking promising right now, but again won't be in wide use for at least months.
    So as much as he wants it to be otherwise, the choices on immediate offer are social distancing or body counts in line with the first estimates from a month ago.
    What we have done has lowered those estimates from hundreds of thousands to perhaps sixty to eighty thousand, but only contingent on the distancing staying in place.
    It's a simple choice, and to any leader worth the title, an easy one.
    What we will get remains to be seen.

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  37. The Latin root of the word "quarantine " is forty.
    So what does the Bible say about "forty?"
    The flood lasted 40 days.
    40 years Moses fled Egypt.
    40 days Moses stayed on Mount Sinai to receive the Commandments.
    Exodus lasted 40 years.
    Jesus fasted for 40 days.
    Lent is 40 days.
    40 days for a woman to rest after giving birth.
    A group of theologians think the number 40 represents "change."


    No, it represents what PilotX has in his hand.

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  38. Anonymous7:21 PM

    I have long since learned that they lie, and mislead, and argue in bad faith.

    Says the guy who has to ignore all the horrors committed by blacks, whether in dry criminal justice statistics or specific articles and videos, because they might hurt his self-esteem.

    They're not here to teach, or learn, or state the truth.

    You're all here to signal your virtue and chant ORANGE MAN BAD!

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  39. Last drumpf b9ody count for today. Let me know when you magats get tired of all the winning, will you....

    Last updated: April 15, 2020, 00:18 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    613,624
    Deaths:
    26,016

    Only in America under a dumbfucker like drumpf.

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  40. "Says the guy who has to ignore all the horrors committed by blacks"

    Says the anon who has to ignore all the horrors committed by whites. Give it a rest hypocrite.

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  41. "You're all here to signal your virtue and chant ORANGE MAN BAD!"

    And what praytell are we supposed to do? Lie and praise trump for the great job he's doing? Sure, I'll get right on that.

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  42. Wesley R9:01 PM

    The daily campaign events (so called press conferences) are a joke, but as long as Chairman Trump is on television lying, he is providing material for the Democrats to use in the fall.

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  43. LeonT9:07 PM

    Says the guy who has to ignore all the horrors committed by blacks,

    You're not much of a racist dicknose, are you.

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  44. Anonymous9:53 PM

    Trump just announced that he is suspending funding to the WHO ... because they've been too nice to China ... or something??? That appears to be his latest strategy: blame the WHO for all of Trump's terrible failings. This is his hail-mary pass, his last-ditch effort to avoid getting unceremoniously booted out of the White House in November.

    Revolting.

    I hope the Republican senators who refused to remove this vile thug are very pleased with all the insanity they have enabled.

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  45. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman10:16 PM

    Anonymous said....

    I hope the Republican senators who refused to remove this vile thug are very pleased with all the insanity they have enabled.

    9:53 PM
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    Most of these Republicans senators are as bad as Trump. They are his evil enablers. Seems Romney is the only one with a shred of integrity.

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  46. Anonymous10:24 PM

    WHO was wrong when it mattered.

    They covered for China's lies.

    They have not spent the money given to them well.

    Trump is right to stop throwing cash at this corrupt and incompetent organization.

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  47. "Trump is right to stop throwing cash at this corrupt and incompetent organization."

    I'd like to hear Dr. Fauci's take in this.

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  48. Anonymous11:14 PM

    "I'd like to hear Dr. Fauci's take in this."

    I expect Dr. Fauci will be hooked up to wires at the next press conference. Every time he says something truthful, Trump will give him a shock.

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  49. Anonymous11:14 PM


    “I have the ultimate authority,” the president responded...... "

    He just doesn't think he should take the blame. He's the weakest President of all time.

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  50. Anonymous11:25 PM

    Seven rural states, all of them with Republican governors, have refused to issue lockdown orders. One of them, South Dakota, is looking increasingly like its citizens might come to regret that. From the data I'm seeing, South Dakota's epidemic is on its way to getting out of control. There is still some time for their governor to pull her head out of her butt and avoid the worst ... but not a lot of time.

    Meanwhile, Trump's little buddy Vlad looks like he's blown it. Russia's COVID-19 outbreak is about to get really bad. Maybe not Trumpian levels of bad, but definitely quite bad.

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  51. I know, let's cut the funding for the WHO in the middle of a goddamn pandemic because the stupid moron of a president wants someone to blame for his crimes against humanity.

    I'm sure that will help.

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  52. "I expect Dr. Fauci will be hooked up to wires at the next press conference. Every time he says something truthful, Trump will give him a shock."

    Ha! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26oRZCLHR1M

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  54. Anonymous2:31 AM

    “Ha! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26oRZCLHR1M”

    If he knew about them, I’m sure Trump would love to implant one of them v-chips in all his underlings. No one must tell him about South Park.

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  55. Electrobe Field,

    I was going to point out that your comment identifies you as Ku Klux Klan. No doubt you are an important member, very likely responsible for training new recruits in Klan ideology. Just for laughs, I clicked on the hyperlink. lolz wtf?

    That's some serious white baby-making pornography/propaganda. Sometimes I don't even believe you guys are for real. This is a page from Hitler's Germany. Let's all breed more beautiful white children. God bless White Amerika!

    Fuck you Klan guy.

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  56. Doubt what I say? Let's see what Erich says:

    i took a look (and really glad that i did so) at the twitter pic and …. low and behold i see before me 3 (the 4th is obscured) of the happiest healthiest and most wholesome looking blond haired white youngsters i have ever had the privilege of viewing in my entire life — no wonder and for very good reason the proud momma looks so happy and self-fulfilled — what a very charming and enlightening photo i would be so proud to have framed and hung in my own home —

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  57. This is how I imagine a conversation with Doug would be like. Ha!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLODGhEyLvk

    Am I close?

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  58. Anonymous6:10 AM

    Saints preserve us, Obama finally endorses Biden. During the endorsement Obama admits that Biden has touched him. Obama did not say if creepy Joe sniffed and groped him but we can read between the lines. Go Joe!

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  59. Anonymous6:29 AM

    Vernon Jones endorses President Trump. Democrats vow to destroy him. Who are the Nazis again?

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  60. Anonymous6:36 AM

    Doug, Da WHO be a world thang...everybody posed to help. Not just USA. Besides, dey needs to shutter down dat bat meat markets before getting anymores gibs. Yo

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  61. So it turns out what you need in a crisis is big government.

    Turns out Capitalism and 'the free market' (the same free market that demands subsidies from the big government when the shit hits the fan) are completely fucking useless.

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  62. Anonymous8:24 AM

    “Vernon Jones endorses President Trump. Democrats vow to destroy him. Who are the Nazis again?”

    Huh, let me check ...
    ...
    ...
    Nope, it seems like it is still pretty much normal, and not even a little Nazi-like, everywhere in the world, to get pissed off when one of your party’s politicians supports the defeat of the top politician of his own party. That’s been cause for political excommunication in every country since the beginning of time.

    And doubly true when the alternative to your party’s top politician is an incompetent, racist crook whose failings have killed many thousands of people in the last month.

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  63. Trump's Tax Returns and impeachment trial8:49 AM

    "It was filled with lies and misinformation about how Mr. trump handled the coronavirus epidemic."


    One thing I like about Lumpy is that he has single handedly disproved the importance of an high IQ. I think he has an high IQ and to be honest, he's an incompetent moron who doesn't have the mental capacity to fill the role of president of this country.

    Somewhere between make America great again and keep America great, ( btw, when did we make the change?) America has gotten obnoxious, fat, lazy and sloppy.
    His followers have been gorging on the "McDonald fast fool diet" for over 3 years now. And while it looks good on the commercial it's really not been how do you say? Too healthy.

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  64. Stillapanther28:53 AM

    Somehow Electrobe forgot the centuries of whites brutalizing each other and more specifically brutalizing people of color. Black people's brutality is Little League when comparing it to whites' Major League. They killed thousands on one day by dropping a bomb on the Japanese. Dropped bombs on Vietnamese= first hand witness.

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  65. Elizabeth Warren, who should be Biden's AG or other high mucky-muck, will endorse Biden this very day.

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  66. Anonymous9:38 AM

    @WHO defenders:

    What did WHO actually get right about this virus?

    What steps did they take to fight the virus and halt its transmission?

    If that’s not the WHO’s job, what are they there for?

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  67. Electrobe speaks said...

    ----------------
    ...the stupidest babble-blather a white person could utter. Then again...

    Let's make this as simple as possible for you ignorant self (the root of "ignorant" is, "ignore"): you are SO ignorant, so myopic, so blinded by the lies you've been fed you actually believe the people who, admitted by your fore-conquesting psychopath fathers, were given the constitution by the "copper-colored" people, the "colored" people, the "negroes" of this country - this being your alleged ethos and the basis for all your actions from the moment of the writing of a wholly stolen idea to now -but are, somehow primitive and pathological.

    YOU APPROPRIATED MY PEOPLE'S RAISON D'ETRE AND USED IT TO GUIDE THE ACTIONS ANF BELIEFS OF EVERYONE OF YOU TODAY ---- but you are ignorant enough to believe it is we who are lesser.

    (And there's the little matter of believing people who believe in a cousin religion to the primary religion of their country were SO fragile they sailed THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND TEN miles to remove themselves from ----- themselves. Stupid says as stupid thinks. Oh well...)

    I try vainly, for the most part, to explain to people that all the all the heinous crap they pull on us, are the results of successful experiments tried out on you first.

    The mechanisms of mind control that created, perpetuate and maintained such a farcical belief system, based not on facts but FAITH - is truly serious stuff.

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  68. korporate amerika demands capitalism in good times and socialism in bad times.Someone recently opined.

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  69. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman10:53 AM

    Anonymous said...

    Saints preserve us, Obama finally endorses Biden. During the endorsement Obama admits that Biden has touched him. Obama did not say if creepy Joe sniffed and groped him but we can read between the lines. Go Joe!

    6:10 AM
    --------------
    It is customary for a former president to wait until after the nominee is chosen before endorsing him. So your use of the word "finally" is inappropriate.

    You must be new to politics.

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  70. Anonymous11:14 AM

    "It is customary for a former president to wait until after the nominee is chosen before endorsing him"

    Obama endorsed Hillary prior to her gaining the nomination over Sanders.

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  71. Paul Sperry11:31 AM

    With the exception of Germany, U.S. COVID-19 deaths (fatalities per million) are lower than every Western European country, including Britain, Spain, Italy and France.

    USA's testing rate per million is higher than Britain, Spain, France and Switzerland.

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  72. Lock him up... drumpf death toll still rising like a bad moon.

    Last updated: April 15, 2020, 16:25 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    618,856
    Deaths:
    26,333

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  73. "Vernon Jones endorses President Trump. Democrats vow to destroy him. Who are the Nazis again?"

    Pretty much the same playbook that was employed against Willard Romney when he had the temrity to go against dear leader. For grins and giggles do a search of trump comments about old Mittens. I bet this is the guy that was tapped to be the only Blah Republican in the House after 2020. Because if it's not him that number will be ZERO. I mean that makes people like Electrode happy but to the rest of the civilized world that shows a tad bit of racism.

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  74. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman1:09 PM

    From Alternet today:

    "Illinois governor chartering flights from China in a ‘herculean’ effort to prevent Trump from snatching ‘millions of masks and gloves’: report"
    https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/illinois-governor-chartering-flights-from-china-in-a-herculean-effort-to-prevent-trump-from-snatching-millions-of-masks-and-gloves-report/

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  75. Moar wayyyyyyy off the rails.... from WAPO

    By
    Dana Milbank
    Columnist
    April 14, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. CDT
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) have insisted that Congress spend another $250 billion on small businesses devastated by the pandemic, but they refuse to “renegotiate unrelated programs” from last month’s emergency coronavirus bill.

    What are they afraid of?

    Well, maybe it’s this: As the dust settles on the $2.2 trillion legislation, it has become clear that one of its largest provisions, a $170 billion tax giveaway, appears to be tailor-made for the benefit of wealthy real estate investors such as President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is running one of Trump’s coronavirus task forces.

    Full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic

    The giveaway, primarily to real estate investors and hedge funds, is larger than the total amount in the legislation for hospitals ($100 billion) and for relief for all state and local governments ($150 billion). Worse, the bonanza for these millionaires and billionaires has little to do with the coronavirus: It lets them offset losses not just from 2020 but from 2018 and 2019, before the pandemic.

    AD

    This is repugnant. Cash-strapped states don’t have the funds to care for the sick, much less to do the testing, contact tracing and isolation needed to reopen workplaces and schools. As The Post’s Tony Romm reported Tuesday, more than 2,100 U.S. cities expect major budget shortfalls — and therefore possible cuts to vital public services.

    But this provision gives tax filers who earn more than $1 million a year an average windfall of $1.6 million this year alone. (Compare that with the $1,200 break the average wage earner gets.) As The Post’s Jeff Stein reported Tuesday, the Joint Committee on Taxation found that 82 percent of the benefit of this and another tax giveaway in the coronavirus relief bill will go to the 43,000 taxpayers who earn more than $1 million — and just 3 percent to those who earn less than $100,000.

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  76. Anonymous2:09 PM

    "With the exception of Germany, U.S. COVID-19 deaths (fatalities per million) are lower than every Western European country, including Britain, Spain, Italy and France."

    Not true at all.

    The US has about 71 deaths per million.

    Iceland has 23, Norway 21, Austria 40, just to name a few.

    And the countries I just listed are at the END of the first wave of their epidemics, while we in the US are probably barely halfway through ours. By the time this is all said and done, we'll probably be at 150 deaths per million.

    So it's pretty pathetic to say, gosh, at least we did better than Italy, France, and the UK -- because those countries have failed utterly to deal with their epidemics! These guys have achieved "worst in the world" performances! Apparently, that is going to be one of Trump's bullshit excuses going forward: We weren't THE WORST IN THE WORLD, so it's totally fine.

    No, it's not fucking fine. The fact that Trump didn't fail as unbelievably, colossally badly as Italy does not change the fact that he still failed, and a LOT of Americans will have died unnecessarily as a result.

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  77. Anonymous2:11 PM

    "at least we did better than Italy, France, and the UK"

    Meant to say Italy, Spain, and the UK.

    France is not in the same league of badness as those three.

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  78. Leon Low-T2:14 PM

    Got my Trumpbucks today!

    Just ordered 21 Thighmasters. Had enough left over to get four boxes of Dude Wipes.

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  79. Anonymous2:28 PM

    Trump will need to answer questions like, why didn't we do as well as:

    Canada, 20 deaths per million?
    South Korea, 4.3 deaths per million?
    Australia, 2.4 deaths per million?
    New Zealand, 1.9 deaths per million?
    Japan, 0.9 deaths per million?

    Allowing him to weasel out of responsibility for deaths of 100-150 per million, by comparing himself to the handful of countries that failed even harder than the US, is bullshit.

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  80. "Trump will need to answer questions like, why didn't we do as well as"

    Because we're a dumb country run by a dumb leader.

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  81. drumpf death count, chapter 2 today...

    Last updated: April 15, 2020, 18:35 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    622,923
    Deaths:
    27,586
    Recovered:
    47,707

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  82. Hey, let's look to a positive future. List your thoughts of who you think President Biden will choose as a running mate and his cabinet. I say.

    Stacy Abrams- VP
    Kamala Harris- AG
    Tammy Duckworth- Sec Def
    Van Demings- Director Intel
    Corey Booker- SOS
    Elizabeth Warren- Sec of Ed

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  83. Orange Man Bad3:01 PM

    "Trump will need to answer questions like, why didn't we do as well as:"

    It's Trumps' fault we a highly populated republic with a respect for individual freedoms and a decentralized hierarchy of government authority spread out over a large geographical area populated by a diverse group of peoples with differing cultural responses to guidelines and advice dealing with a pandemic that transparently reports all statistics pertaining to the crisis.

    What a dick.

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  84. Anonymous3:04 PM

    Stacy Abrams- VP
    Kamala Harris- AG
    Tammy Duckworth- Sec Def
    Van Demings- Director Intel
    Corey Booker- SOS
    Elizabeth Warren- Sec of Ed
    ----

    Finally, an administration that looks like the cast of CSI SVU.

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  85. Stacy Abrams- VP ..... "Paying taxes is racist!"
    Kamala Harris- AG..... "Demanding competence is racist!"
    Tammy Duckworth- Sec Def..... "Fighting coronavirus is racist!"
    Van Demings- Director Intel.... "Arresting blacks is racist!"
    Corey Booker- SOS..... "I'm not gay, and climate change is racist!"
    Elizabeth Warren- Sec of Ed..... "I'm not white, and insisting on the truth is racist!"

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  86. New Zealand PM and cabinet take a 20% paycut for 6 months to show support for laid off workers.And she is much easier on the eyes than any scag in kremlin annex.

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  87. I say leave Warren in the senate where she can write the legislation for him to sign. Also, Massachusetts has a Republican governor and if he picked a Republican as her replacement it might give up control of the senate.

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  88. And the cheat goes on:


    Ari Berman

    @AriBerman

    This is outrageous: instead of passing emergency vote by mail law, Kentucky GOP enacted new voter ID law when DMVs are closed & voters can’t get ID needed to vote & it will go into effect in same year Mitch McConnell up for re-election

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  89. Anonymous5:13 PM

    "New Zealand PM and cabinet take a 20% paycut for 6 months to show support for laid off workers"

    Trump has donated every one of his government paychecks since he became President.

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  90. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman5:48 PM

    Orange Man Bad said...

    "Trump will need to answer questions like, why didn't we do as well as:"

    It's Trumps' fault we a highly populated republic with a respect for individual freedoms and a decentralized hierarchy of government authority spread out over a large geographical area populated by a diverse group of peoples with differing cultural responses to guidelines and advice dealing with a pandemic that transparently reports all statistics pertaining to the crisis.

    What a dick.

    3:01 PM
    ------------------
    Yes, we are that kind of country, but 90 percent of us are obeying the guidelines set up by our medical experts. We are doing this voluntarily because we know it works to reduce illness and death - our own and others.

    All of the people scoffing at these procedures and refusing to abide by them are risking their own lives, the lives of their relatives and the lives of everyone else they come in contact with.

    Isn't the first duty of the president to protect the people he/she governs? In this Trump failed completely. Many people now dead in this country would still be alive if Trump had acted sooner. This is a fact that cannot be disputed because it is backed with hard evidence. There's no way he's going to weasel out of this one.

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  91. drumpf body count chapter 3...

    Last updated: April 15, 2020, 21:47 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    641,316
    Deaths:
    28,387

    Easily another 2 grand stacked bodies today and the day is still youngish.

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  92. If POS drumpf got paid what he was actually worth as Potus, he'd owe the US billions because he is worthless as mammary apparatti on a boar hog.

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  93. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/pentagon-amazon-trump-contract-187850

    We may never know how much drumpf interfered in preventing Bezos from getting Pentagon contract because Pentagon was barred from talking about drumpf's interference.

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  94. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/texas-ag-threatens-to-criminally-sanction-any-group-that-tells-voters-to-apply-for-a-mail-in-ballot-to-avoid-covid-19/

    This story is more than confirmed by Juanita Jean's The World's Most Dangerous
    Beauty Salon.

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  95. "Massachusetts has a Republican governor and if he picked a Republican as her replacement it might give up control of the senate."

    Good point.

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  96. https://www.theroot.com/michigan-residents-stage-gridlock-to-protest-stay-at-ho-1842888459#replies

    Oh the stupid is strong in these folks. Oh well, fewer trump voters.

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  97. https://www.theroot.com/obamacommencement2020-twitter-begs-obama-to-serve-as-1842887042

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  98. Anonymous7:53 PM

    I'm ready for looters!!!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRgbo0wro0E

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  99. Final body count for drumpf today....

    Last updated: April 16, 2020, 00:27 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    644,089
    Deaths:
    28,529

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  100. Bezos picked up 24 billion in wealth as lockdown shot up Amazon stock.

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  101. Anonymous9:49 PM

    "Bezos picked up 24 billion in wealth as lockdown shot up Amazon stock."

    Trump will be furious, because he envies Bezos (for being vastly wealthier in real life than Trump even pretends to be in his fake reality-show persona) and hates him (since Bezos owns the Washington Post, which does mean things like provide the public with factual information about Trump).

    Trump would actually be justified in taking on Bezos for treating his warehouse workers like crap, which has only gotten worse in the current crisis as they face increased workloads and exposure to COVID-19. But Trump won't do that, because he is a malignant narcissist who doesn't give a toss about other humans, and so his only concern is what he feels Bezos is doing to HIM, personally.

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  102. Anonymous9:56 PM

    you actually believe the people who, admitted by your fore-conquesting psychopath fathers, were given the constitution by the "copper-colored" people, the "colored" people, the "negroes" of this country

    You're not specific.  Which exact peoples are those?  You write "constitution" with a small "c".  Are you talking about the Constitution of the United States, or another one?  If the former, are you claiming that it came from people who did not even have a written language?  Why are you so diligently ignoring the influences of classical Greece and republican Rome on the founders?

    (Probably because you're a victim of public schools (esp. "afrocentrism") and have been systematically dis-educated to the point of believing total lies, but I'm willing to accept whatever you say rather than my own speculation.)

    Who ARE your people, exactly?

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  103. Anonymous9:57 PM

    Flying Junior said...

    Electrobe Field,

    I was going to point out that your comment identifies you as Ku Klux Klan.


    If anyone needed to confirm the level of rabid anti-white hatred here, you just did it.  Happy, healthy white families make you lose your shit.  Especially any celebration of them.

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  104. Anonymous10:07 PM

    "This is a fact that cannot be disputed"

    All facts can be be disputed.

    Even the hyperbolic fantasy facts of deranged Trump-haters.

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  105. Fake News Update10:20 PM

    What Georgia's Governor Did: Waive 1951 Law Prohibiting Wearing Masks In Public, to Allow Medical Masks as the CDC Guidelines Urge.

    What the Media Reported: Governor Makes It Legal to Wear Klan Hoods!!!

    https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1250496598376738817

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  106. Some pigs are more equal than others10:28 PM

    Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...
    90 percent of us are obeying the guidelines set up by our medical experts
    ------------------

    Much of the 10% appears to be prominent democrats:

    Chris Cuomo: Ignores the social distancing rules established by his brother the Governor, threatens passerby who points this out.

    Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Ignored social distancing rules and instructed her trainer to come over to watch her huff and puff as she lifted 5 ounce dumbbells.

    Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York City: Ordered the entire city to shut down, including its gyms; made special exception for himself and went to his gym.

    Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago: Ordered city to shut down, then instructed her hairstylist to break quarantine to come over and give her highlights. Defended this breach of her own order by saying that, being "in the public eye," her hair highlighting was an "essential service."

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  107. President Gibs10:38 PM

    Dems last week: We need to keep things shut down until after the election.

    Dems this week: Scrambling to open the economy before round two of TRUMPBUX

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  108. Over 15 Thousand Cars Expected to Flood Lansing, Michigan Tomorrow to Protest Gov. (Adolph) Whitmer:

    https://www.waynedupree.com/operation-gridlock-michigan-lansing/

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  109. Tomorrow is No Pants Thursday.

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  110. Anyone else glad we have a Space Force instead of an epidemic response team?🤔

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  111. "Much of the 10% appears to be prominent democrats"

    And angry white men in Michigan with trump signs and assault rifles. 🙄

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  112. Trump is the GOAT11:58 PM

    Stimulus check Popeye's.

    Tastes good.

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  113. The orange angry man is now fighting with VOA. Can we just admit we elected a lunatic yet?

    https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/831988148/white-house-attacks-voice-of-america-over-china-coronavirus-coverage

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  114. Now dear leader wants to be a dictator. Great.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-threatens-to-adjourn-congress-rants-against-voice-of-america-2020-4

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  115. Over 15 Thousand Cars Expected to Flood Lansing, Michigan Tomorrow to Protest Gov. (Adolph) Whitmer:

    In that case, arrest every last one of them. Charge them with knowingly attempting to spread a biological agent.

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  116. Warren endorsed Biden in a campaign video second only to the one Obama endorsed Biden in.
    Obama's video echoed Schiff's impeachment speeches, "Truth matters" and such.
    A good case is being made for the return of decency to leadership, and while Biden wasn't my first choice, he is a fundamentally decent guy, and would make a capable leader in the awful circumstances the next president will operate in.
    Kinda like Obama proved a capable leader in the awful circumstances he was elected to preside over.
    One thing you can say for Fergus: it took George W. Bush two full terms to fuck things up badly enough that the country would even vote against its racial bias to get rid of his party, and Fergus has achieved it in less than four years.

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  117. Another day in the drumpf killing fields begins....

    Last updated: April 16, 2020, 12:55 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    644,417
    Deaths:
    28,559


    Moar drumpf inspired news..... another 5.25 million unemployment claims filed last week.

    Tired of the millions winning unemployment under drumpf, yet?

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  118. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/republicans-trump-economy-coronavirus-186452

    Dems this week: Scrambling to open the economy before round two of TRUMPBUX

    Wingnuts demanded drumpf open economy last week, not Dems.

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  119. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman11:13 AM

    Anonymous said...

    "This is a fact that cannot be disputed"

    All facts can be be disputed.

    Even the hyperbolic fantasy facts of deranged Trump-haters.

    10:07 PM
    ---------------
    Your post amuses me. I am wondering how far you would get disputing the following facts:

    Two plus two equals four.

    Humans need oxygen to live.

    The sun burns hydrogen.

    There are millions more facts, Anon.

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  120. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman11:29 AM

    Anonymous Some pigs are more equal than others said...

    Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...
    90 percent of us are obeying the guidelines set up by our medical experts
    ------------------

    Much of the 10% appears to be prominent democrats:

    Chris Cuomo: Ignores the social distancing rules established by his brother the Governor, threatens passerby who points this out.

    Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Ignored social distancing rules and instructed her trainer to come over to watch her huff and puff as she lifted 5 ounce dumbbells.

    Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York City: Ordered the entire city to shut down, including its gyms; made special exception for himself and went to his gym.

    Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago: Ordered city to shut down, then instructed her hairstylist to break quarantine to come over and give her highlights. Defended this breach of her own order by saying that, being "in the public eye," her hair highlighting was an "essential service."

    10:28 PM
    -------------------

    LOL. So you are using anecdotal evidence to create a theory that is totally ridiculous. We really have no idea about the political persuasion of the non complyers. Yesterday we saw a bunch of protesters wandering around without masks in Michigan, but we have no hard data on their number. We do know many were Trump supporters because they were wearing maga hats. Trump doesn't wear one, but he is staying in the White House because he is deathly afraid of getting the virus. However he is comfortable with thousands of others getting sick and dying.

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  121. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman11:38 AM

    Anonymous

    Dems this week: Scrambling to open the economy before round two of TRUMPBUX

    10:38 PM
    -------------
    What the hell? Not a single Dem is advocating that we open the economy.
    Dem governors are making plans regarding how to open safely in the future. Planning for the future is something that Trump doesn't know how to do. He has proved this repeatedly. He couldn't plan his way out of a paper bag.

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  122. Newest drumpf body count is exponentially bigger than the last....

    Last updated: April 16, 2020, 15:47 GMT
    April 14 – 15 Change in US Data
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    651,310
    Deaths:
    33,332

    Data change can be copied and pasted. I suggest you read it for clarification.

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  123. So, according to stoopid fucking wingnuts, four Dems equals 10% of the US population. Must be retarded fake noize ciphering.

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  124. Wingnuts want the economy opened immediately. Dems are preaching caution and go easy. Wingnuts want moar dead to line korporate amerika's pockets.

    Would not surprise me they decide people with stimulus funds that die before the fund is spent, must repay the money with interest.

    From The Hill today......

    As Washington policymakers scramble to contain the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, the question of how quickly to reopen the economy has emerged as the latest political battleground dividing the two parties.

    Behind President Trump, Republicans are increasingly eager to get businesses reopened and customers into their doors, warning that a prolonged economic shutdown — even in the name of protecting public health — will do more harm to the nation’s long-term viability than the coronavirus itself.

    “It is time for Texans to go back to work,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told a local news station on Wednesday. “Because the consequences of this economic shutdown are serious and dire.”



    Democrats are sounding a different alarm. While they, too, want to get the economy back up and running as quickly as possible, they warn that scaling back public safeguards too soon would cause more infections, kill more people, spark deeper societal fears and undermine the economic rebound that any reopening was intended to promote.

    “The economic depression is directly correlated with the rise in transmission of the coronavirus,” Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), a physician, told Fox News this week. “So, for us to focus on the public health and safety aspects is the right way to help get our economy back in order.”

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  125. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman12:34 PM

    From Raw Story today:

    "Some conspiracy theorists on the far right have been claiming that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Mainland China and that it was unleashed as a form of biological warfare. And others have claimed that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab and escaped because of carelessness — not as some type of bio attack. But according to Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the “weight of evidence” indicates that the deadly coronavirus has “natural” origins."

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/top-pentagon-official-throws-cold-water-on-right-wingers-wuhan-lab-bioweapon-conspiracy-theory/

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  126. Anonymous12:41 PM

    The ghetto is like a self cleaning oven.

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  127. Kung Flu Fighter1:17 PM

    "Some conspiracy theorists on the far right have been claiming that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Mainland China"

    Everything that doesn't fit into the narrow liberal narrative is a "conspiracy theory", as if positing that maybe the local bio-weapons facility just might have been the source of a weird new virus is just too crazy to even consider.

    This from someone who believes the Russians decide our elections and control the President.

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  128. "Dems this week: Scrambling to open the economy before round two of TRUMPBUX"

    Um, every single politician that wants to hurry and open the economy has been a Republican. Watch Senator Kennedy's interview on Fox.

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  129. Trump's Tax Returns and impeachment trial2:09 PM

    "The briefing opened with him having to grovel to Dear Leader... "

    Lumpy has never been a leader, no matter how many algorithms he manipulated to have his name and picture pop up when one looks up leader on Bing. At best, he is a boss. A business executive who has benefited from white privilege and the affirmative action programs set up by the gerrymandering congressmen who are punishing America for electing a black man president.

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  130. Anonymous2:09 PM

    Whether the virus was released intentionally or by accident from a lab or whether it came from a "wet market", China lied to the world about what they knew about for at least 6 weeks.

    They shut down all air travel from Wuhan to other parts of China, but continued to allow international flights from Wuhan to other parts of the world, thus facilitating a global pandemic.

    They knew it was deadly and easily transmissible and they intentionally infected the rest of the planet.

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  131. Zero Hedge, January 2020: Coronavirus originated from a top, level-4 biohazard lab in Wuhan.

    Next day: Permanently suspended from Twitter.

    Washington Post, April 2020 (3 months later): So yeah...it looks like coronavirus came from a bioresearch safety level-4 lab in Wuhan.

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  132. LeonT3:12 PM

    No Kung Flu Fighter, everything that's batshit insane and lacking in basic logic is a conspiracy theory.

    Now shut up and get out of the way and let the people who use science fix another conservative fuck up. again.

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  133. Anonymous3:23 PM

    People who use science? Guess that rules out ALL Negros, Mudsharks, Commie Lefties, the nose tribe, Illegal invaders, assorted vibrant dullards.

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  134. Microbiologists studying the sequenced genome of the novel coronavirus have already ruled out bioengineering as its origin. I posted a link to the paper they wrote about it in an earlier comment.

    And (h/t: Driftglass):

    CONGRESSWOMAN DEBBIE DINGELL: ... What happened yesterday was inexcusable. People did not have masks, gloves, did not distance themselves. They had confederate flags, swastikas, blocked an ambulance trying to get to a hospital, bringing hate and fear into a time that is already full of fear and anxiety is just unacceptable. There were people bare-handed, handing candy to children. What they did was to help spread this disease around the state more, not contribute to the mitigation and it just made me sad.

    The Republican party is a death cult.

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  135. drumpf death count continues its upward spiral...



    Last updated: April 16, 2020, 20:17 GMT
    April 14 - 15 Change in US Data
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    673,215
    Deaths:
    34,384

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  136. Anonymous5:15 PM

    Wuhan Chinese Flu!!

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  137. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman5:24 PM


    Anonymous Kung Flu Fighter said...

    "Some conspiracy theorists on the far right have been claiming that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Mainland China"

    "Everything that doesn't fit into the narrow liberal narrative is a "conspiracy theory", as if positing that maybe the local bio-weapons facility just might have been the source of a weird new virus is just too crazy to even consider.

    This from someone who believes the Russians decide our elections and control the President."

    1:17 PM
    --------------------
    "Some conspiracy theorists on the far right have been claiming that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Mainland China and that it was unleashed as a form of biological warfare. And others have claimed that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab and escaped because of carelessness — not as some type of bio attack. But according to Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the “weight of evidence” indicates that the deadly coronavirus has “natural” origins."

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/top-pentagon-official-throws-cold-water-on-right-wingers-wuhan-lab-bioweapon-conspiracy-theory/

    Really? Just whom do you expect me to believe - you or Gen. Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff???
    Well, that's a no brainer! When you provide me with some credentials, I might consider you opinion as worthy of addressing. Until then I'll stick with the general. Have a nice day!



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  138. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman5:33 PM

    Anonymous said...

    People who use science? Guess that rules out ALL Negros, Mudsharks, Commie Lefties, the nose tribe, Illegal invaders, assorted vibrant dullards.

    3:23 PM
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    No Anon, it rules out you and all the other science deniers on the right. You all are way out there.

    Granny Mudshark

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  139. Anonymous5:38 PM

    Philadelphia bus shooting leaves 3 negro criminal teens hurt after man with concealed carry claims self-defense:

    https://abc7chicago.com/concealed-carry-philadelphia-shooting-bus-teens-shot/6108138/

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  140. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman5:39 PM

    mike from iowa said...

    So, according to stoopid fucking wingnuts, four Dems equals 10% of the US population. Must be retarded fake noize ciphering.

    12:10 PM
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    Good point, Mike! Seems to me that righties know nothing about scientific methods. They have never heard of sample size or random sampling. Have a great evening.

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  141. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RANMflaZyg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3vEtBw24XHChUi12DiIbt-pfhQGboLHDO-KF20RVFKKRaXEQw_pP9fzHU

    This will make your day.

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  142. "People who use science? Guess that rules out ALL Negros, Mudsharks, Commie Lefties, the nose tribe, Illegal invaders, assorted vibrant dullards."

    Nope, conservatives especially religious conservatives. Fox news hosts and the entire Republican Party.

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  143. Anonymous7:59 PM

    "They have never heard of sample size or random sampling."

    Says someone who can't grasp the concept of per capita.

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  144. Leon Low-T8:10 PM

    Per capita is a conspiracy theory.

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  145. PX: You're right, it did.

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  146. Obama makes an appearance in a Trump campaign ad:

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1250807051636355074

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  147. "Obama makes an appearance in a Trump campaign ad"

    If that's what passes for witty for trumpies you guys are in more trouble than I thought.

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  148. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman10:42 PM

    Anonymous said...

    "They have never heard of sample size or random sampling."

    Says someone who can't grasp the concept of per capita.

    7:59 PM
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    LOL! LMAO! Said by a stupid, anonymous know-nothing to a woman with two years of advanced statistics in graduate school and who did research for 27 years! LOL! Have a nice night, dummy.

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  149. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman10:56 PM

    Leon Low-T said...

    Per capita is a conspiracy theory.

    8:10 PM
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    The white supremacists use per capita crime statistics that do not reflect multiple crimes by the same person, so if one person commits four crimes, he is counted as four people. On addition, these per capita do not numbers represent convictions; they are simply arrest records. You and I both know that men of color are arrested more often than white men.

    So they scream "per capita" constantly and pretend that I don't understand the concept. They love to insult me, but I don't give a crap about what they think of me.

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  150. 13 do 5011:25 PM

    "You and I both know that men of color are arrested more often than white men."

    Yes, because they commit more crimes.

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  151. "Yes, because they commit more crimes."

    Not really.

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  152. "So they scream "per capita" constantly and pretend that I don't understand the concept."

    You know not too bright individuals learn a new word and they think no one else knows it. W and trump are like that. "Herd immunity" is the word of the day.

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  153. Leon Low-T12:18 AM

    I wish I was smart like Black Pilot and the old white lady.

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  154. "I wish I was smart like Black Pilot and the old white lady."

    We know. If you went to school instead of playing racist on the interwebs all day you might just accomplish your goal. Doubtful but one never knows.

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  155. Thank you for reading, Anonymous. And thank you for confirming the porno shout-out that was that ridiculous photo. Harmless in itself, yet the undeniable fact is that it is celebrated by American white supremacists. The last time that happened was in the late 1930s in a little place called Germany.

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  156. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman11:05 AM

    Leon Low-T said...

    I wish I was smart like Black Pilot and the old white lady.

    12:18 AM
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    So do I. If you were as smart as Pilot and I, the world would be a better place.

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  157. Anonymous11:36 AM

    "So do I. If you were as smart as Pilot and I, the world would be a better place."

    But then I wouldn't be able to do my job.

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  158. "But then I wouldn't be able to do my job."

    Trolling the internet is a job? Who knew?

    Ha!

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  159. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman1:38 PM

    Hey PilotX, all of us with half a brain knew! LMAO

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  160. PilotX:
    You nominated:

    Stacy Abrams- VP
    Kamala Harris- AG
    Tammy Duckworth- Sec Def
    Van Demings- Director Intel
    Corey Booker- SOS
    Elizabeth Warren- Sec of Ed

    Not bad. I'd love to see Harris do some prosecuting.
    Maybe we need Warren in the Senate. Ditto Bernie. On the other hand, what about Treasury? Yang?
    I nominate Buttigieg for Chief of Staff.

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  161. Or I'd like to see Stacy Abrams in the senate so I'll change that to Susan Rice. Maybe Paul Krugman for the Tres.

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  162. Anonymous11:06 PM

    "Or I'd like to see Stacy Abrams in the senate "

    Just watch the movie "Idiocracy".

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  163. Just watch the movie "Idiocracy".

    I saw it and it looked just like trump supporters.

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  164. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman11:24 AM

    LOL! Good one, Pilot! Made me laugh 'cause it's true. They do look like that.

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  165. Anonymous11:33 AM

    Blogger PilotX said...
    Just watch the movie "Idiocracy".

    I saw it and it looked just like trump supporters.

    2:40 AM


    incorrect again due to delusion and Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    Idiocracy is really about the results of democratic "progressive" mindset and illogic.

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  166. Anonymous12:22 PM

    I saw it and it looked just like trump supporters.

    BusdriverX thinks President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho looks like a Trump supporter.

    How does this fool remember how to breathe?

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  167. "Idiocracy is really about the results of democratic "progressive" mindset and illogic."

    Um, ok. You mean the smart couple who didn't have kids represented conservatives while the, uh rural, folks having 20 kids were the libs huh. Dear god, these people are dumber than we thought. That movie is real. And they breed!😳 Art imitates life.

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  168. "BusdriverX thinks President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho looks like a Trump supporter."

    Which crowd likes monster trucks, Mountain Dew, mindless tv and appoints dullards (ahem Ivanka and Jared) to key positions? Oh I get it, he's a Blah man so in your brain that means he wouldn't be LIKE a trump supporter.You do know that was an actor playing a role right? Sure you did genius. How does your head contain such a massive brain? It boggles the mind.🙄

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  169. Anonymous5:00 PM

    Which crowd lives on EBT and crime?  Whose favorite "art form" is mindless "rap"?  Who threatens to riot when one of their own gets arrested?

    Which crowd goes to work every day so that there's food on the shelves for EBT to buy?

    All of that is going to disappear a lot sooner than you think.  Your "nice condo" is a death trap when the balloon goes up.

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  170. Anonymous has left a new comment on the post "Off the rails.":

    Which crowd lives on EBT and crime? Whose favorite "art form" is mindless "rap"? Who threatens to riot when one of their own gets arrested?

    Which crowd goes to work every day so that there's food on the shelves for EBT to buy?

    All of that is going to disappear a lot sooner than you think. Your "nice condo" is a death trap when the balloon goes up.
    ----------------------

    Kid, you live in ---- yurts and trailers and shanty shacks. It's YOU and YOURS who live off oxys and EBT cards and spend all your $$$ on guns, fireworks and cat food. Millions of you are SO far outside of reality the people you think love you so much in Congress and the White House don't even venture out to find out which sister-mamas and daddy-brothers are dying of coronavirus, oxys, meth, gun shots, or rabies. It's you and yours who are so poor you get one satellite dish and the whole town steals its use - so poor you have to pool $$$ together from the entire village to pay to watch Kardashians reruns. And though you're too disingenuous to tell anything approaching the truth ---- the largest consumers of "mindless rap" are ---- YOU AND YOURS.



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  171. "Which crowd goes to work every day so that there's food on the shelves for EBT to buy?"

    People like me, my dad, my mom, my sister, my neighbors, my friends, my co-workers, millions of people across the country that look like me. Millions of people who look like YOU are on assistance so really I'm giving YOU EBT. And BTW rap is far superior to country music by far. Try listening to Public Enemy, Wu Tang, Tribe, Gang Starr, Common, The Roots and Run DMC to name a few and you'll have hours of aural joy. After you've listened to all of those artists come back and I'll have some more for you to enjoy and as Will posted the biggest audience for rap are whites. They know something good when they hear it.

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  172. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WILyWmT2A-Q

    here's a start. No need to thank me.

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  173. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman1:41 AM

    Anonymous said...

    "Which crowd lives on EBT and crime?"


    5:00 PM
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    The majority of people receiving EBT assistance are women with children. I'm not sure how much crime they commit though.

    https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/5571-households-receiving-snap-by-race-and-ethnicity#detailed/2/any/false/871,870,573,869,36,868,867,133/4862,4901,4902,4903,4900,4888,4887,4828,4827/12154

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  174. Anonymous said...
    you actually believe the people who, admitted by your fore-conquesting psychopath fathers, were given the constitution by the "copper-colored" people, the "colored" people, the "negroes" of this country

    You're not specific. Which exact peoples are those? You write "constitution" with a small "c". Are you talking about the Constitution of the United States, or another one? If the former, are you claiming that it came from people who did not even have a written language? Why are you so diligently ignoring the influences of classical Greece and republican Rome on the founders?

    (Probably because you're a victim of public schools (esp. "afrocentrism") and have been systematically dis-educated to the point of believing total lies, but I'm willing to accept whatever you say rather than my own speculation.)

    Who ARE your people, exactly?

    ------------------------
    MY people. The people of this land of Amer'ica ("African-Americans," or, "Jesse Jackson negroes"). My people are the people you Euros called, "copper-colored" and "negroes" and people your artists drew who are the same people who, until the 1790 census when you changed up your "race" terms to suit your nefarious ends of replacement through "racial" re-categorization. You see, I know who my ancestors were and we have the descendant receipts to prove we were in the Midwest LONG before you and yours set foot here.

    As for schooling/education: from Montessori school to graduating H.S. at 15 through university, I attended public school for one school year.

    Onto the heart of the matter...
    You see, it's low-brow like you who are the real targets. You concern yourself with petty social issues - constructs made for expressly to keep you good little you servile pawns. You busy yourselves with learning the "race" narratives, the "civilization" narratives, the "religious" narratives, the "economic" narratives they put forth for you to ape... and they laugh as you spend your waking hours as somnambulistic as you are during your non-REM sleep stage.

    More on being, "specific" - I was... and am. My use of a small "c" was to further the fact of European philosophical thievery. Your constitution is one stolen and so, writ small (remember, your psychopaths and pathologically violent criminal ancestors stole the land from the people who were here long before "Atlantis" and who remain here ). Your own books tell you from where you lifted your constitution - that despite the alleged philosophical leanings on Greeks past, you stole your national raison d'etre from my people.

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  175. Anonymous9:48 AM

    "Kid, you live in ---- yurts and trailers and shanty shacks."

    I'd like to see you describe my place as a "shanty shack", and I've got the least opulent house on my road.  The biggest is something like 4000 SF.  I actually know someone who lives in a trailer park, though.  Her ex-husband pretty much ruined her and she can't do any better, despite her career as a legal secretary.

    "It's YOU and YOURS who live off oxys and EBT cards and spend all your $$$ on guns, fireworks and cat food."

    Never had EBT.  Never done narcotics.  Haven't spent a cent on fireworks since last Fourth of July and don't have any pets.  As for the other thing... just let me say that you don't want to mess with me.  JHPs will ruin your whole day.

    "so poor you have to pool $$$ together from the entire village to pay to watch Kardashians reruns."

    If anyone I know is tasteless enough to care about the Kartrashians, they haven't admitted it to me.  I've turned off a number of TVs in the last 5 years, but I haven't turned a single one on.

    Stereotypes about blacks are far more true to fact than stereotypes about "white trash".

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  176. "Stereotypes about blacks are far more true to fact than stereotypes about "white trash"."

    Shocking, a racist anonymous troll believes stereotypes about Blah people. Call the networks! I have breaking news! Also, water is found to be wet.

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  177. Gambler2 ASKA White Woman1:06 PM

    To Anonymous at 9:48 AM

    Stereotype/fact = oxymoron.

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  178. Anonymous9:37 PM

    People like me, my dad, my mom, my sister, my neighbors, my friends, my co-workers, millions of people across the country that look like me.

    2 million is "millions", but there are FORTY million people "that look like you" in the USA.  Further, you really mean "who", not "that", unless your word choice means you're arguing that they're not actually human, which I would agree with.

    Millions of people who look like YOU are on assistance so really I'm giving YOU EBT.

    There are a lot more millions of people who look like me, though, and we pay LOTS more taxes.

    "On net, whites generate a $249.52 billion surplus, or $1,260 per person if you assign 100% of military spending to whites. If you just give whites a proportional share of military spending, their surplus goes up to $553.52 billion total and $2,795 per capita.

    Blacks, by contrast, run a budget deficit of $389.71 billion, or $10,016 per capita. If 100% of military spending is assigned to whites, blacks STILL run a $306.53 billion deficit, or $7,700 per capita.

    Hispanics run a budget deficit of $411.95 billion of $7,289 per capita if military spending is proportional. If 100% of military spending is assigned to whites hispanics run a deficit of $291.3 billion, or $5,160 per capita."

    https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/05/11/fiscal-impact-of-whites-blacks-and-hispanics/

    Note that this doesn't count the cost of the criminal justice system, which is dominated by burdens from blacks.  Nor does it count the costs imposed on the victims of black crime.

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  179. Anonymous9:38 PM

    Niggas killing niggas over contents of "sail foams":

    https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/04/17/officials-montgomery-county-caitlin-celina-mauras-facing-murder-charges-after-fatally-stabbing-jaylin-thomas/

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  180. White "patriots" killing thousands because freedumb. But carry on.

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