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John Byrne
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Posted: 26 October 2024 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | 1
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Trump promises to reduce taxes for American corporations, provided they guarantee all their products will be made in the USA. A reminder, his patriotic Bibles were made in China.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 29 October 2024 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | 2
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Trumf played “Dixie” at his latest rally, so that’s the Nazis AND the Confederacy checked. Nothing wins like losers.
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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 8162
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Posted: 29 October 2024 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | 3
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I've been saying for years that Trump's appeal is that he makes losers feel like winners.
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 12777
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Posted: 29 October 2024 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | 4
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That's a cogent observation because this kind of experience of uplift is a great feeling... but it can be used to as many negative as positive ends.
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James Johnson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 March 2009 Location: United States Posts: 2174
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Posted: 29 October 2024 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | 5
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One guess of who walked on stage to "Dixie"?
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John Byrne
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Posted: 31 October 2024 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | 6
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Trumf sits in a garbage truck—not in the driver’s seat—riling up his followers about being called “garbage” by Joe Biden, and completely skipping past the fact that Biden’s remark was inspired by one of Trumf’s own supporters calling all of Puerto Rico garbage. sigh
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Dave Kopperman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 27 December 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3482
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Posted: 31 October 2024 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | 7
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As tempting as it is to keep picking at the never-ending scab of Trump's character flaws, the reality of what his administration would do to reshape the country is incredibly bleak. CNN reports that Kennedy and Musk would be given posts and seemingly unchecked power to respectively remake the health care system and federal infrastructure.
"But there is an equally radical and expansive government reformation plan coming out of Trump’s own mouth, in which heterodox figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be given free rein to “go wild” on the health safety system and Elon Musk would be enabled to, as the tech billionaire said, “start from scratch” with the federal workforce."
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Casey Sager Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 749
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Posted: 31 October 2024 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | 8
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It's slightly amusing to see R's clutching their pearls over Biden's comment considering they cheer at the dehumanizing commentary Trump makes regularly.
Who doesn't love being referred to as a communist, marxist, fascist, enemy from within on a daily basis for the last few years?
Edited by Casey Sager on 31 October 2024 at 3:17pm
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Joseph Vecchio Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 31 October 2024 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | 9
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Trumf sits in a garbage truck-not in the driver’s seat-riling up his followers about being called “garbage” by Joe Biden
Not to mention that President Biden's quote was taken out of context and then amplified by the legacy media. He didn't say Trump's supporters were garbage, he said the things that were coming from them were garbage. The NY Times, despite having just endorsed Harris, ran with this on the front page, trying to put her on the defensive, just like what they did with Hillary.
The Republicans want to rule over you. They want to interfere with your lives in the most personal of ways. A woman in Texas who was having a miscarriage just died from an infection because doctors were afraid to give her proper medical treatment, and they don't care. They want power, they want money, that's their only policy. And yet tens of millions of people are just fine with that, are cheering it on even. That's the truly sickening part.
Trump will almost certainly lose the popular vote, very likely by a huge margin. He and his people know that, they're planning on litigating the result so that he gets into office regardless, and if he manages to do that, what next? As historian Rick Perlstein asks, What Will You Do?
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Dave Kopperman Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 31 October 2024 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | 10
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It sounds like the policy that RFK JR. and company is actually to find data that will justify them pulling vaccines from distribution and use. Considering that he's not just opposed to mRNA vaccines but also traditional vaccines - having been one of the major boosters of the debunked theories that vaccines cause autism - that sounds really bad. Like South African HIV Crisis bad.
Never mind the fact that the strategy is anti-science - you don't seek out data to support your hypothesis but adjust your hypothesis to follow the data. I thought under the Trump administration we'd be losing the social advances of the last fifty years. I didn't think we'd be at risk of rolling medical science back to the 1300s.
Edited by Dave Kopperman on 31 October 2024 at 11:50pm
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David Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 01 November 2024 at 1:59am | IP Logged | 11
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Nothing should amaze me of course, but I'm still kind of amazed by the collective pass Trump receives on his makeup, Orange Man Bad memes aside.
I guess maybe makeup is considered a childish or problematic subject for serious journalism or political commentary? But it's not. It's crazy person makeup and anyone who goes out in public like that is raising or more accurately answering serious questions about their judgement and mental health.
I can't imagine tolerating it on either side of a job interview. I wouldn't spend any more time than necessary in its presence. If my own mother started wearing makeup like Trump, my family would have a serious conversation about her impending residence in an assisted living facility, not how we could support her presidential campaign.
I expected (and feared) Republicans would adopt smeared-on orange makeup as part of MAGA cult identity but it hasn't caught on. And I'm not sure why.
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James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 01 November 2024 at 6:26am | IP Logged | 12
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What utterly befuddles me is the pass Trump gets about his name calling, but call him a name & all hell breaks loose. We had a radio call in a few days ago centred on Trump being called a fascist. Granted it did include his response where he called Harris a fascist, but i]the main thrust was Trump being called a fascist. The presenter even rattled off a definition of fascist & said he didn’t recognise much of that in Trump, to which I say, ‘Look harder’.
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Trump nicknames ever single person he hates. Harris is various words for communist & has been for some time, yet I don’t see phone ins about Konrad Kamala. I just don’t get it.
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