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But "civil servants", which used to be based on meritocracy are no longer that. You can thank the implementation of DEI for the attacks on civil servants. Plus, they are largely wasteful and inefficient positions. Have you been to a post office recently? Why are UPS and Fed Ex so much more reliable and efficient? I'd guess roughly 50% of civil servants could be fired and those positions not filled and we wouldn't skip a beat. That's assuming we kept the ones that know how to work and got rid of the inefficient ones that are simply riding the government for a cake job.
As to the rest of your poast, it sounds as if your handwringing over things that are very, very, very, very, very, very, very unlikely to come to fruition. I won't stop you. If you want to meltdown over the incredibly remote chance of those things happening, that's your choice. You'll be exactly what I thought of you.
He must be an evil genius. But I thought everybody said he was an idiot. I can't keep straight all the complaints about Big Orange. It's amazing what the dumbest President we've ever had is able to accomplish.
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It's called canned laughter for a reason and it is the antithesis of laughter from an audience no matter if you're hearing it live or as a recording. You're wrong and I'm right, especially the part where I called you a moron.
Sometimes I actually feel sorry for you, drowning in your own stupidity without a life preserver in sight.
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Well... he's human. He appears to be sentient, right? A sociopath still has a memory, and a famous one, like him, obviously has an agenda. He's not an intellectual. You love that about him. He thinks he's a tremendous intellectual. He's easy to read... it's See-Spot-Run-level stuff. He understands self-preservation, like anyone else. There's nothing complicated about Donald Trump. You don't have to be Sam Harris to know that having loyal subjects is in your best interest.
So any idiot can just take over a country and “end democracy”? Is that what you’re saying?
I’m mesmerized that it took 250 years for us to get the right moron to do it.
As for what I love about him, it’s your poast. Not just this one, all of them. You hate him. You’re scared of what he might do. But don’t personalize it. It’s not just you. You’re run of the mill. There are millions of you around, poasting on social media and message boards, melting down at the prospects of democracy ending. That’s, precisely what I love about him - his mind control over people like you.
Well I’ve condemned antifa and BLM in here. Maybe they aren’t policies per se but I think they represent radical thinking on the left
I’m skeptical. Are you talking about the emergency oil reserves? Why is it that the slightest disruption in drilling triggers total panic? I guess everyone is worried about 50 yrs from now?
I’m experiencing some financial hardship due to biden-nomics. In response im gonna work less but be more careful in my spending. I hate working anyway.
I said “on this issue”. I don’t have an opinion on school choice.
Not enough to justify the cost imo
imo the bi partisan bill shot down by trump would do a lot more. It was far from perfect, but as opposed to symbolizing trying to do something it actually would have done something.
It would certainly be a warning to use the legal ports of entry. Which most immigrants are already doing. I would put it to you that enforcing the laws already on the books, doing away with “sanctuaries”, and banning the employment of illegals would cost less and do more than a wall. Maybe not, but definitely worth a try. Not to mention once again what might have been with the bill already agreed upon by both parties but was shot down by trump. I’ll give you this though, actually get Mexico to pay for it as was promised when it was proposed and I’m on board. Deal?
Bingo! What the cult members love about Donald Trump is that they can relate to his fatuity.
It takes more than one person to "take over" a country. He needs loyal subjects to do that. It helps to be a charismatic demagogue... a celebrity. It certainly requires more than just the idiot, by themselves. He's not acting alone, at this point. He has a large cult behind him. And, then there are the stragglers that enjoy some kind of retribution through his ineptitude and asshole attitude.
I'm not trying to be funny. I'm the most tremendously funny person I know.
What I find most interesting about this exchange is how it is more important... it's absolutely vital... for you to try and frame me as "virtue-signaling", than it is to acknowledge, or agree with, the influence that chattel slavery had on this country-historically and culturally. You will allow yourself to come closer to defending prejudice, white supremacy and owning human beings because agreeing with "a lib" is a fate worse than death. And, you're wasting it on someone who isn't even "liberal."
So the Trump team? How do they measure up against the deep state? Can they hold their own? Who would be favored in a potential match up?
You'll have to pay for membership if you expect me to hold your hand any further.
The difference . . . well, one of the differences is that I can spot incorrect movie lines while all he hears is a laugh track. Plus, he uses a thesaurus.
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The shirts all say "Brett", the cast list on IMDB says "Frank Whaley as Brett." Brad is not the correct name.
Trump is showing signs of dementia, he might be forgetting things. OR he's just lying his ass off, as usual.
But if people don't "scratch his back" or kiss his ass enough, he'll reject them and ridicule them. So 2025 needs to earn their keep. He's a wild-card. CNN could start out-flattering Fox & Friends and Trump might change his tune 180.
Look, I already told you I’m voting for him. You don’t have to keep trying to convince me.
lol, an alternate euphamistic awareness? I'm not the one who engages with Alice in Wonderland for affirmation or creates imaginary enemies to tilt against to try to find some self-esteem or retreats into complete nonsense when you find you have painted yourself into a corner.
Instead of spewing pointless psycho-babble about the messenger or the subject, has it ever occurred to you to explain what you think is incorrect about the message you think you're trashing? Of course not. All we get is 'no slavery no war'.
So tell me genius...is this a laugh track or is it simply recorded laughter that is being replayed here? You moron, there is no difference. It's laughter that signifies to the dull that they should find something funny.
you're welcome, it's the least I could do. And thank you for your unstated contribution as well.
it's not laughter? Is that what Alice told you? Because I said nothing like that. I want to believe you when you say you don't do drugs, but if you really don't I can't help but think maybe you'd be less of a fruitcake if you did.
If I agree on the matter at hand, I'll agree with any liberal who isn't espousing your kind of nonsense, and who isn't turning every argument into an opportunity to virtue-signal your way out of failure to make a point.. All I've done in this exchange is put forth an argument based on facts, and you, as you always end up doing, try to turn it into accusing me or whoever of something that you need to defend against. You are absolutely psychotic in that regard.
In this example, I have said nothing to show support or opposition to anything. I have just tried to explain why the CW was actually fought. Next thing you know you're spitting out daughters of the confederacy socks Stonewll Jackson type stupidity, and I'm just sad that slavery is over and lost in a lost cause kind of absolute bullshit, as if you still need to end slavery single-handedly. But you say I'm the one who is 'allowing myself to come closer to defending prejudice blah blah blah'. YOU are the one creating in your mind a scenario where something needs to be defended against me. It's make believe. What I am not going to allow is for myself to get drawn into your craziness by railing against something that I've had no criticism of, just to give you some warm and fuzzies.
Dude you're the prejudiced one and yes, you are unquestionable a virtue-signalling psycho.
one thing at a time, we've got a flood of illegals to place first. But what a good thought, don't go to the trouble of finding homes for babies, just kill them. Why wouldn't that work with illegals as well?
Of course, the better option would be to prevent them in the first place. Illegals AND babies, I mean.
this seems a good opportunity to address the nuttiness of today's social environment. In the past, if I ran across something on youtube that suggested some level of NSFW, even just a little, I expected to have to sign in as a means of verifying age (I think). A little annoyance and I'd usually pass just because I couldn't remember the sign-in, but I applauded the reasoning.
But sometimes a sign-in wouldn't be required for some supposedly NSFW stuff and I tried to make sense of what they were trying to achieve with the inconsistency.
So all of a sudden about two weeks ago, I'm browsing youtube and up pops something they call 'transparent haul' or something like that, the 'haul' being a parcel of clothing that has been obtained for the purpose of trying on and modeling. I'd seen something like that before, maybe a tad risque at times but no big deal. But these gals were blatantly NAKED for all intents and purposes, and no sign-in required. And when I say naked, I mean top and bottom, veiled only by some very transparent material or a very open fishnet kind of thing.
They offer the disclaimer that the purpose is not sexual but rather educational about the qualities of the so-called clothing. But there is no actual pretense that it's about displaying female assets. It confuses me...how do you go from being maybe a little overprotective to let's just get naked in front of everybody in such a relatively short period of time?
It's bizzaro world, my friends.
Well, you can't have fetuses transplanted into the uterus you don't have, so adoption is the next best thing. The end-game is to outlaw abortion, outlaw birth control, outlaw porn... on and on. Christian Nationalist control freaks that keep active Grindr accounts on their burner phones.
Only freedom.
The better question is how many have you adopted?
Well, it's certainly the dumber question. See, I'm not the ones trying to ban abortions, ban birth control, or any other pregnancy intervention that is between a woman (or women) and her physician.
ol' George is completely FOS on this one, but he was just speaking for you so no surprise there.Well, you can't have fetuses transplanted into the uterus you don't have, so adoption is the next best thing. The end-game is to outlaw abortion, outlaw birth control, outlaw porn... on and on. Christian Nationalist control freaks that keep active Grindr accounts on their burner phones.
I have to admit, you do make a very good case for abortion. Or birth control. Or abstinence. Or any other pregnancy intervention.
