Supreme Court proposals, got some good trolling candidates on there too.
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It is your kind that embodies the ideas to which I take such vigorous exception. You give them life and you champion them. You might as well be Karl Marx or Bernie Sanders, both lunatics. Learn this and learn it well:
There are tens of millions of us here in middle America who will never submit to your tyrannical sort of thinking or to your obsessively anti-American beliefs. We are free people who love our country as founded, and so shall we remain. This will be true regardless who wins in November. If you leftists try to impose still more of your socialist crap on us be ready for a real fight to the death. We want no part of it.
That was not unpredictable. The same guy nominated Trump for it in 2018.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/striking-reversal-trumps-attacks-military-122037450.html
"His questioning the patriotism and judgment of America’s military leaders, even accusing them of pursuing global conflicts to profit the military-industrial complex, marked an election-year shift in which he has turned against two of the remaining institutions he spent most of his first term embracing as pillars of his “America First” policy.
It was Trump, from the earliest days of his transition, who talked reverentially about his “great generals,” telling two interviewers that he surrounded himself with them because they conveyed the sense of toughness he wanted to mark America’s global role.
Nearly four years later, all of these generals have been banished from his inner circle."
Trump himself has consistently championed U.S. arms sales, forgiving Saudi Arabia for the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the high civilian death toll from the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen — justifying it because the country buys billions of dollars annually in American weapons.
“I don’t like the concept of stopping an investment of $110 billion into the United States,” Trump said just two weeks after Khashoggi, a Virginia resident, was killed by a Saudi hit squad. Trump’s defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, comes from Raytheon, a corporation at the heart of the military-industrial community. And Esper’s predecessor as acting defense secretary came from Boeing, and Trump’s Army secretary was at Lockheed Martin.
The Pentagon’s senior civilian and military leaders were particularly incensed by comments the president made Monday at the White House, when he said “the top people in the Pentagon” wanted to “fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy,” according to these officials."
This is a deferral program which creates a lot of headaches, bureaucracy, and costs more money than if nothing had been done. The very definition of “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Short on cash, Trump campaign appears to be hiding large-dollar payments to top staff
The report cited court documents showing that the campaign appears to be paying Miller, a top campaign strategist, as much as $35,000 a month. That is effectually a $420,000 salary, or more than the presidency pays.
The campaign reports salary payments to chief of staff Stephanie Alexander and senior adviser Katrina Pierson, each of whom earn $20,000 a month. However, it does not appear to issue similar reports for COO Jeff DeWit or senior advisers Kim Guilfoyle, Bob Paduchik, Bill Shine, and Lara Trump, federal records show.
The campaign has also paid out [a reported $2.3 millionto the president’s private businesses.
“This is illegal,” Fischer told Salon at the time.
This spring, a report suggested that Parscale paid Guilfoyle and Lara Trump $180,000 a year, roughly equal to a top White House salary. Miller’s recent court filings suggest that his campaign salary might be more than double that amount."
https://news.yahoo.com/short-cash-trump-campaign-appears-182422103.html
As someone in neither the right’s or left’s pocket, I personally feel the tone of the discourse is much worse on the right than on the left. I admit I’m not on board with radical liberals at all. For me, antifa is definitely a threat to the US, just as white nationalists are.
But just look at the name calling. Who nicknames political opponents by pejorative terms (crooked hillary, lying ted, sleepy joe, jeff flakey, pocahontas, little marco, the squad, etc… I’m sure I missed a ton)? Who named African countries shithole nations? Some name calling of individual and groups has been used before for easily labeling enemies (say untermenschen or lugenpresse). It’s well recognized as a propaganda tool. IMO that kind of rhetoric is very much a part of fanning the hate.
And in discourse here, pointing finger at people and accusing them of this or that does not help dispel the impression that those are more personal attacks rather than a divergence of views on policies.
So on this issue of hate on either left or right, let’s not illustrate Matthew 7:3-5 a bit too closely for comfort.
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Are you sure?? Just look at the name calling you pointed out. All against the Right!
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To be more accurate, all the examples were from the alt-right (and alt-reich? There were also some German references), otherwise should be known as RINO.
Is this similar to the nonsense feigned outrage that “all the Trump news coverage is NEGATIVE!”
Sure, it can’t possibly be due to the facts he’s a POS and does things all reasonable people would classify as Negative at an unprecedented rate…
When the facts “slant left”, that just means it’s time for “alternative facts”.
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I know that. To be exact, it was all Trump’s name-calling I highlighted. He hit many GOP targets as well as I mentioned like Bush, Flake, or Rubio. It was in response to Shinobi’s claim that all the hate came from the left.
The far-left’s labeling of everybody who disagrees with them as nazi or facist is equally wrong. And you’re more than welcome to point out the equally wrong name calling done by the left. I’ll condemn it as strongly. Name-calling is a crude propaganda tactic appealing to the lowest base instincts IMO and should be denounced whichever side it comes from.
My post was more to point out that there’s shared blame on this issue. What I meant is much better said by Nietszche: “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
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It does seem like this needs some clarification. “Labelling” specific neo-nazi groups and rallies as neo-nazis is not wrong, nor is calling out specific racist actions and dialog, no matter if they’re “left,” “right,” or “the rest of us.”
That’s different than, for example, someone claiming everyone who is not a registered Democrat or not voting for only Democrats is a nazi or a fascist, which would be wrong and would be the direct correllary to the above references to “all liberals ____” (where the person posting is referring to anyone who’s not a Trump apologist “supporter” as a “liberal”).
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To me the attitude that is wrong universally, is: those who disagree with me are “the enemy”. That label is used to justify the hate.
The free press as being the enemy of the people was a well-known tactic of the Third Reich (see my mention of Lugenpresse above). Similarly demonizing all those who disagree with you is wrong. Sure, some white supremacists in the alt-right need to be pointed at for what they are. Same with some antifa groups that should be called anarchist for what they are. But few of those lately called extremist or communist or fascist actually are. The use of those should not be a blunt instrument to dismiss or ridicule diverging opinions on what is best for the country.
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The most corrupt administration in US history.
Top Medicaid official racked up $3.5 million in consulting charges — and billed it all to taxpayers
“The person in charge of providing health care for low-income Americans spent several million dollars of taxpayer money on furthering her own career, a congressional investigation has found.”
So how much did previous Medicare/Medicaid administrators spend?
DHS Whistleblower Complaint: 4 Of The Allegations Of Misconduct
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Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Lied To Congress About The U.S.-Mexico Border Threat
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Top Immigration Official Demanded ‘Deep State’ Analysts Be Fired Over Intelligence Reports He Didn’t Like
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Homeland Security Head Chad Wolf Ordered Murphy To Halt Intelligence Assessments On Russian Interference
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Wolf And Cuccinelli Directed Murphy To Downplay White Supremacy Threat, Stoke Antifa Fears
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Lol government software project budgets and non- accountability. Bet it was a cost-plus contract…
But don’t you have to give them a break though? They couldn’t have possibly known Healthcare was so complicated. Because even as of 2017, nobody knew Healthcare could be so complicated.
Early voting / ballot requests leaning left.
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Crazy how today’s reality reads like some sort of teen fan-fiction:
“At his press conference today, clearly upset by the devastating comments made about him by himself and reported to Bob Woodward, President Trump told reporters that William Barr is going to produce evidence of crimes against him by his various Deep State enemies. Grasping for a basis for his claims — he is not supposed to have inside information about a Justice Department probe — he cited the many shows he watches, all of which of course feature slavishly pro-Trump hosts feeding his own conspiratorial worldview.”
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