Thank you. Let’s let this massive thread derailment die. Seems like there are more appropriate threads for the discussion of the last gazillion posts. Unfortunately, I still see B_B typing…and typing…
Via Reddit:
Trump voter proves why most people think of MAGA as poorly educated people (that Trump loves)
…I think it is. Lest I get accused of making it all about Gaza again, It’s what happened in Gaza, especially while Biden and the Democrats were in charge, and the inaction on it even now, thats lead me to that conclusion. They are not only not listening: they are actively shutting it down.
The establishment Dems are never ever going to change. They will pose for a photo with a war criminal and not even bat an eyelid. They will vote for people like Marco Rubio. They think that Trump getting a Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a bad thing. They aren’t ever going to listen.
If I intended to say “don’t bother to fight” then I would simply say “don’t bother to fight.”
But merely observing a situation and saying how you feel about that situation is just that. Nothing more.
I don’t see it as any different to what they said.
Do you mean where I said “but that doesn’t mean I think people shouldn’t keep on fighting”?
Because I had to add that part. Otherwise, you probably would have assumed I meant “people should stop fighting” as well. The only reason I decided to write that explicitly was because of so many bad faith readings of what other people have said.
No you didn’t. You said he implies that no one should fight anymore. That “a way to say in reality: don’t bother to fight.” You aren’t actually arguing with things they actually said: but things that you think that they said.
I’ve only made a handful of posts in a thread with over 4000 posts. All but one of them in response to things that were said to me, including a rather deranged attack from the moderator here. I hardly think that I’m the problem. I’m easy enough to ignore. Just don’t respond to me or ignore me.
hey look!
Initially the DOJ sued to block the merger, but HPE hired MAGA influencers Mike Davis and Arthur Schwartz. Since that fortuitous hiring, HPE reached a settlement with the government to move the merger forward,
And Alford is not happy about it.
There was a recent “Last Week Tonight” from John Oliver where he compared the coming Trump administration members as guys that will guarantee that we will eventually run into a Titan like implosion.
.. As long as it takes Trump and a few billionaires with it..
It is called “Lastwordism”, where people are willing to get the subject back on track…after they have the last word.
That is why I suggested renaming this thread and starting a new one. No amount of guilting is helping here. I don’t think there is anything that can get this one back on track. Used to be a good discussion…
Wait, maybe I can use bad grammar and spelling and get folks attention diverted enough to steer this back to the topic.
I herd that their was a new weigh two determine if a discussion is going of the rails because of all the loosers that can’t stay on topic. Sadly, that ain’t true. Back to the loosers.
Uh, last two posts were on topic, but some had to be the combo breakers!… 
…and that is different from the rest of the internet….how?
Calling the attitude stupid and you dumb was not me trying to be insulting. I can be way more insulting than that, if you’d like, if you’re going to continue to promote idiocy like this:
What about before Trump? Were they just a bunch of disorganized camps when they very successfully applied the Southern Strategy, or their little foreign venture, or any of the other crap they pulled?
Thinking it’s all Trump is magical thinking that will really come and bite you in the butt.
Keep telling yourself that. I’m sure with the blanket over your head, the monsters really can’t see you…
Anyone - the machine could turn anyone into a new figurehead - the fucking MAGAShaman, for all anyone actually cares.
I said “if you think it ends with Trump”. It won’t remotely end, there won’t be any “semi-sane Republicans” (because their sanity isn’t the issue, it’s their greed and bigotry).
You’re aware how in the shitter the US economy actually is, right? You spend over a trillion/year just servicing your debt, never mind paying it down. So where’s the money to fix things going to come from?
^ And that is why we need to tax the rich. Tax them hard.
I cannot believe this went from the madmonk show to the Banquet Bear show. Screw all of you who refuse to get back to the Leopards.
It will do until the spits and BBQ sauce are ready, at any rate..
Just the headline of this alone is mind-boggling:
Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live. - The New York Times
In the end, she’s going to be that person - like many - who thinks this one program that affects her family is REALLY important, but everything else is bad, or (gasp) socialism. I do see she’s a visiting Fellow at the “Ethics and Public Policy Center”, which is, despite its bland name:
Founded in 1976, the Ethics and Public Policy Center is Washington, D.C.’s premier institute working to apply the riches of the Jewish and Christian traditions to contemporary questions of law, culture, and politics, in pursuit of America’s continued civic and cultural renewal.
You need a chainsaw to cut that irony.
Yeah, I didn’t bother reading that one, but the same thoughts occurred to me. Well, a couple. One is that Medicaid is actually OK (since it helps her), but other social programs (that she doesn’t need) are bad.
My other thought is that she probably thinks she and her son deserve Medicaid, but those other people are undeserving and should be thrown off.
Not sure which is more hypocritical.
If only there were some kind of policy center that could work on questions like that.
Of course the policy center she works for is actually a hard right fundamentalist Xian group. Any question of how 21st century America ought to operate can be answered by looking at the Bible, with emphasis on the Old Testament parts.
And don’t forget: all those people named in the bible, the various characters, etc? They were all White.
Well, not Judas. Ain’t you ever seen Jesus Christ Superstar?
And here is a gift link so everyone can read that article.
That URL literally has an unlocked article code, is it not working?