Now, 15,000 troops on border - tax breaks - and "you'll lose a lot of money if you elect D's".
No tax cuts - act of war against a few asylum seekers from central America (months away) "I'm good at counting crowd sizes" - and extortion - that's just yesterday from POTUS.
Fear campaign by Trump and Bovzo and company are loving it.
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I can't imagine how exhausting it must be for you Americans to live in a constant state of fear.
You live in what was the greatest military and economic power humanity has ever known yet you lie awake at night clutching your guns, waiting for the boogeyman. And he never comes.
You obviously don’t own a lake house in Minnesota.
There is legitimate fear among Orange supporters there, that some of the migrants are coming to live in those.
Link: http://www.citypages.com/news/migrant-gangs-coming-for-our-lake-homes-minnesota-retiree-warns-nation/498309331
Those Republicans. What are you going to do? They've gone insane.
How the hell did you find that article, by the way?
I drive a lot. Heard it on the bbc on sat radio. Easy to then find on google.
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you nailed it. everybody's always afraid of everything all the time
I think it's the internet. Stupid people tend to be gullible and the internet and the 24 hour news bullshit just feeds on them. Plus, the stupid people no longer think they're stupid because they can google anything and confuse knowledge with intelligence.
what people don't realize is that google is designed to amplify confirmation bias. these companies all track you and feed you back what you hope to be true, which is so nice and easy to believe. People want to be scared of barefoot migrants (for some reason that I can't figure), so they see something on TV and when they go to read more about it, all their search results confirm exactly what they were scared of.
everything is bullshit and everybody is too stupid and lazy to realize it.
What Lincoln forgot to say: You can fool stupid people all of the time.
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Lincoln didn’t have the proof positive of Orangetan around back then to prove it.
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God bless you.
I've been harping on the knowledge vs. intelligence thing since high school. How many kids did you go to high school with that had straight As then flunked out of university? They earned their great high school marks by memorizing everything then when they got to University and had to actually think they were exposed. The internet has totally exacerbated this phenomenon.
Both knowledge and intelligence are meaningless without understanding... computers can do the former
Descartes was wrong.... it should be "Intellego, ergo sum."
Knowledge, understanding and intelligence are all useless.
Without whiskey.
I’d vote for you.
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"The (whiskey) road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Blake
Been there/done that... wiser now.
Nice.
Pool. Pond. Pond is good for you.
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University? This is America. Call it "college."
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I've always wondered about that.
In Canada, college is for dumb people.
If someone said in the states "I am going to University" or...
"where do you go to University" they would be rightly punched in the face.
Here as well, for the most part.
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In casual conversation, "university" and "college" are synonymous.
Yes, a university is superior to a college, when you are talking about formal names, and when you are discussing distinctions between actual schools. University of Whatever is always better than Whatever College.
But, when a high schooler is deciding "where to go to college," he very well could be choosing between Harvard University or Princeton University. In that context, of a high schooler "going on college visits," lower case "c" college means both capital "U" universities and capital "C" colleges. Don't you agree? Or, is it different in the northeast? Do people really say that their son is "going to university"? That sounds downright pompous...like something they might say before ordering Jeeves to get them another martini. As for me, I have a kid who is going to college at Notre Dame right now.
In common parlance here, yes. University does sound pompous. In other places it is common parlance
for what we call college.
Great point on the targeted advertising.
I'd add that social media emboldens stupid and/or crazy people. They can easily find other stupid and/or crazy people who agree with them which is empowering for an otherwise outcast that would need to rethink some of their positions.
nobody thinks critically because media has removed the perceived need
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True, cable news started that trend. Social media has exacerbated it.
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Ok, let's bus the caravan to Toronto and drop them off. Trudeau can greet them.
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you're a huge pussy if you're scared of this caravan
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Jimbasil is worried about the millions we will have to pay to house and care for them.
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shit, we're probably spending more than that with this thousands of troops stunt
feeding and caring for destitute foreigners fleeing humanitarian disaster areas seems pretty okay compared to some of the stupid shit we spend money on in this country.
we're being constantly fleeced - and it's not by poor people
latest estimate is 1.2 billion.
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Yes, but what if there's a Russian in the caravan?
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I just want people to enter the country lawfully. Do it right like eveyone else has to. Silly me.
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Which laws have the caravan people broken?
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They seek to break immigration laws/crossing borders illegally.
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How many did in the April caravan?
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The one that Trump disauded?
JFC.
How many in the April caravan requested asylum and how many attempted to enter illegally?
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No idea. Tell me.
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Thank you for showing that Rooney and Chi are right.
You're a joke.
You rationalize a caravan of people coming through our Southern Border. I think you prove them right
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Of about 1500 that started, abut 400 requested asylum with most passing the first test.
Only 120, again out of 1500, tried to illegally enter.
You're a joke and a pussy at the same time.
I'm hitting the Peloton. See ya, puss.
they're asylum seekers; that's not illegal.
you see, you might be one of those people I was talking about above.
They are migrants, not asylum seekers. That distinction changes their legal status.
Asylum seekers flee persecution due to their race or creed or the like.
Migrants flee unfortunate economic conditions.
The former has special status. The latter does not.
Also, asylum seekers must seek asylum in the first country the reach. They are generally not given a license to travel from country to country to country until they find a comfortable place, and then file for asylum. That is illegal.
76% of the asylum seekers in the April caravan passed our first test of having a "credible fear."
IOW, you're wrong.
Please explain.
Where do you get that data?
What were they in "credible fear" of? What about the one's who were rejected?...why were they not in credible fear?
I'd honestly like to learn more about your view of this.
This took 3.5 seconds.
Well, then you get 3.5 seconds off of your time in Purgatory.
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So wrong it's laughable. You are a lawbreaker if you illegally cross the borderand then seek asylum.
If they want asylum then they can apply to the US Embassy in their own country.
If you don't like that, then change the law.
So they haven't broken any laws yet. This isn't Minority Report.
Come to think of it, it kinda is.
Trudeau would be rational about it, I'll bet.
He'd set up a temporary camp for them while they are processed through the legal system. Greet them with lawyers, process a couple dozen cases a day. If they have a good case for asylum, they can stay. Otherwise, out they go.
The "caravan" Trump wants us to be so afraid of is half the size it once was. By the time it reaches our shores (maybe January), it will be tiny.
Last time a "caravan" came, 14 people made it the whole way.
Some crisis.
Trump thinks you are a total fucking moron. If you fear the caravan, you prove him right.
But what outfit would he choose to wear?
Something like this maybe?
Cultural appropriation!
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The guy is so embarrassing.
I'll bet he wears polo shirts in winter.
Ever been to Chicago or Atlanta or Detroit?
You guys have it pretty good up there in the great white north.
Those cities are not particularly dangerous. Crime is down everywhere.
Things were worse everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s.
It's just more evidence of our out-of-proportion fear.
A lot more dangerous than Toronto or Vancouver.
Not sure what the 70s and 80s has to do with it.
My point: In comparison, Toronto is the shining city on a hill. American cities are (still) cesspools. Rooney was describing how great America is, I think he has it wrong at least as far as large cities are concerned.
maybe get out of the basement once in a while
if you think chicago is a cesspool, you haven't spent much time there
(or whoever you visited convinced you englewood was downtown)
There are great areas of Chicago, but also the not so great.
I have seen both. The really bad areas are a warzone and in comparison to places like Toronto the homeless people, trash and slums are a cesspool. You also have to remember that I am not a huge fan of large cities in general.
Obviously you have never strolled down Hastings street in Vancouver
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As the hateful traitor defies the laws of physics to reach new lows daily...
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The laws of physics break down when approaching a black hole.
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Tuesday, November 6 - The Singularity
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You missed the worst one.
Let's see if you can figure it out on your own.
Gillum staffer: "You whip 'em up. The poor, the middle income. You have to whip them up into a
frenzy in order for them to vote" because Florida is a "F***ed up," "cracker state," "you have to appeal to white guilt".
You guys constantly claim the high ground vis-a-vis Trump but you're running an obvious criminal for office in New Jersey, you already elected a sexual assaulter to the Senate from New Jersey, and you already elected wife-beaters in Minnesota and Delaware (to say nothing about taking part in one of the most despicable smear campaigns involving allegations of repeated gang rapes).
Leaders of your party just sat next to a man who equated Jews to termites and completely failed to condemn him.
Just stop. Please.
It’s a shame but under the Ned rule they have to do it to combat the Orange demagoguery
What do you want them to do as Ned would say, just unilaterally disarm?
I mean in a utopia you would be against that behavior, but here you have to double down on all of the bad shit yer opponents do, lest you fall behind in the game.
Seriously, of course that kind of rhetoric is despicable from a staffer, although coming from POTUS it prolly carries more weight. Both are completely wrong though, and indicative of the problem with our political discourse today.
Hillary's & Holder's rules.
Best thing I ever did was stand up to the grade school bully. It was a knock-down, drag-out, rolling in the dirt wrestling match...with a big audience no less. 50-50 draw. I didn't think I'd won, really. But that was not important. That kid never bothered me again. I was fascinated by how he steered clear of me after that. He treated me with respect after that...until we graduated.
Let's talk in 6 years about making things civil again. Maybe by then, Hillary and Holder will have changed their minds on civility.
The only problem with your analogy is that you aren’t standing up to the bully, you become the bully
like the bad dude under your rule.
You wanna stand up to the bully; tell numbnuts to knock off the divisive fearmongering he is engaging in?
Gotta hit the bully hard, otherwise he won't notice.
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Trumpenkreiger alert.
More Whataboutisms?
For the rest, WTF are you talking about?
Hey, it's Eric Holder with Louis Farrakhan! Did not see that coming.
Here's what the President of the United States tweeted, in case you missed it. It is currently the "pinned tweet" at the top of his feed.
I'm sure you are proud.
Link: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1057728445386539008
If you think a video on open borders is actually racist, then what do you think of Democrats who
keep the company of Louis Farrakhan? Are they anti-Semites?
Do you think the vid is racist? I will concede that Holder is a rat fuck asshole.
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I do not.
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He might think so, but we'll never know. He sees his role as 100% Trump defender, 100% of the time.
He's our Hannity.
Aw, you're so afraid you're lashing out. You know why you're so afraid, don't you? Trump said so.
Louis Farrakhan? He seems to only show up when R's mention his name and post photos of him. Other than that, I haven't heard his name seen him anywhere. How is he relevant?
By the way, I'm in a photo with Heidi Klum - does that mean she and I are sleeping together? Probably not - but we did have an excellent conversation for all of about 30 seconds.
"I haven't heard his name seen him anywhere." He just sat next to Bubba at Aretha's funeral.
I guess the news programs you watch didn't cover it.
Imagine if Trump sat next to David Duke...
Must have missed it. He's so relevant, I'm surprised we missed it. I slept with Heidi Klum too.
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More chit chat about Louis Farrakhan! Keep it coming! It absolves all sins!
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"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Time for Democrats to stand up to Farrakhan.
Well past time for Republicans to stand up to the demagogue in chief.
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