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1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

Here's one of my favorite memes:

 

 

So, "yes". You could have saved us all some bandwidth.

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

I beleive him over Bob Woodward any day.

Yeah, I mean, what has Bob Woodward ever done? 

Well, go ahead then boys! Pile on in and fill your boots! Easy money right?

I would "bet" that none of you would be willing to risk a single satang because you already know you're going to lose. Just look at how desperately you're clutching at straws. A betting site run by Peter Thiel. LOLOLOL!

2 hours ago, impulse said:

 

You mean the same "top of their game" people who got us into Vietnam and Iraq, got us out of Afghanistan so catastrophically, keep claiming the border is secure, have us $35 trillion in debt, focus more on equity than saving lives, and on... and on...?

 

Those disgruntled ex-employees?  Good riddance.  They're the reason those DMV employees can keep their jobs, while being incompetent, unproductive, and rude.

 

Come on, might as well go whole hog - those soldiers are "suckers" and "losers", right? What a fine patriotic American you are! You should be very proud! Do you drape yourself in the flag on 4 July while insulting your military?

There's no hypocrisy like Right-Wing hypocrisy, it all boils down to one simple thing - what's in it for me.

2 hours ago, thesetat2013 said:

More so... Taylor Swift has a bigger following. In less than a day of her comments to go to vote.org and register to vote for Harris. She got 400,000 people to do it. Although many now have come to their senses and seen Harris and realized to do everything a superstar says would be ludicrous. If you do not think Swift has more sway over young peoples opinions and what they do, then you need to take off your blinders and really take a look at the younger generation now. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement-vote-gov/

You think that Taylor Swift and her single tweet has a larger following than the platform X from which it was made? Because, you may be aware, Elon Musk operates and is the majority owner of that platform and has been using it to spew misinformation and Trump- and GOP-supplied (along with Russian-, Iranian- and North Korean-supplied) posts continuously throughout the last six months or longer. And I am not JUST referring to his own posts and retweets, but how he manages the platform to diminish voices in support of Harris and broadcast those in favour of Trump. That is in addition to appearing at rallies, going on talkshows with Tucker Carlson, etc., etc. 

You told me it was the same thing. That was blatantly untrue. One tweet encouraging the young people to register to vote and in favour of Harris/Walz is not a sustained campaign and megaphone of a platform blasting Trump propaganda. What you're upset about is that she is supporting young people and their rights and is an effective messenger because she's not doing it for personal gain like Musk is. As DJT noted "But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat, and she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”

As to why she came out so strongly in support of Harris, well, guess who caused that? Ol' DJT and his continuous spewing of misinformation and lies! You make your bed, you lie in it!

"Though Trump now says he hates Swift, it wasn’t that long ago that he apparently coveted her endorsement. He posted images generated by artificial intelligence that suggested Swift had endorsed Trump for president in August.

One image showed Swift dressed as Uncle Sam, accompanied with the words, “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.”

The former president also posted deepfakes of young women wearing “Swifties for Trump” shirts on his Truth Social Account, writing, “I accept!”

Swift said Trump’s posts influenced her decision to announce her endorsement.

“It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation,” she wrote on her Instagram. “It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/trump-taylor-swift-kamala-harris-election

On 10/9/2024 at 6:26 AM, thesetat2013 said:

Can say the same thing about Swift with Harris. 

Oh, show us the photos of her on stage at a rally with Harris then. Show us her continuous re-tweeting of political posts from Harris supporters then. Show us her interviews that she makes this the main topic of conversation then. Show us how she is telling her captive concert audiences about how they need to vote for Harris then. Show us her re-tweeting conspiracy theories and anti-Trump messages then. 

Got anything like that? Didn't think so because it doesn't exist. She simply does what she has always done, encourage young people to vote. The only change in this election was that she made a long Instagram post supporting Harris and signed off as a "childless cat lady". This was unusual for her, but why did she do that? Oh, because DJT lied as usual and insinuated that she was supporting him in one of his social media posts hence she had to come out and refute it in the strongest way possible. She hasn't made any political statements since. 

So do you now consider this to be the same thing as the guy who owns X who is actively campaigning for Trump and appearing on stage at his rallies?

1 hour ago, tandor said:

Russian Microbiologists were well ahead of the rest with their creation/production of the 'Sputnick' SarsCovi2 Vaccine; saying that, they did Stage III a little differently than Moderna by randomnly selecting everyday working Russians to do the Trial. 

Gifting quote "rare COVID-19 testing machines" to Putin, doesn't make any sense at all as the Russians already had their own RAT test kit and PCR analyzers.

Reference: YouTube Podcast Series, This Week In Virology, with Professor Vincent Racianello.  

Thanks for providing a reference and attribution. They did have the Sputnik vaccine in Laos, and it was the one provided to the Lao people while foreigners were provided the Astra-Zeneca vaccines. I don't believe either vaccine caused any major problems and we were very surprised by how well Laos was able to cope with the pandemic. There are advantages to being isolated I suppose, although we also wondered whether there may have been some native immunity since the COVID-19 virus originated at the Lao-China border.

As to the donating of the machines, you are aware that the one who confirmed this was Putin, right? It makes perfect sense in that of course the Russians would like to have an American prototype or top-of-the-line machine or two to compare to their own and have as a backup/blind sampling tool.

1 hour ago, neeray said:

" Polymarket’s odds are determined by the "collective wisdom" of bettors. Enough said !

And it's a site run by Peter Thiel, one of the billionaires trying to shoehorn the Oligarchy into the Presidency. Very reliable and I'm sure it's not at all open to manipulation!

1 minute ago, NickyLouie said:

She has absolutely no chance of winning, never nominated and just being propped up by the Biden handlers to keep their money flowing inwards.

Well then, cancel the election! Thus Spake NickyLouie!

LOLOLOL. Desperation taking hold. Remember what I keep saying about our Cult friends. "Every single accusation is a confession. Every. Single. One."

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I believe they are ready, but as it's Harris on the next page, enough voters may choose to stay home to give it to Trump.

 

The Dems have a problem, in that they keep choosing candidates that are just not up to the job, or popular enough.

 

If Harris can't be further ahead of Trump at this stage of the race, it's her that is the problem, as after all, as has been pointed out a thousand times on this forum, Trump is the worst person on the planet. If she isn't doing better than the worst person on the planet, it has to be her, or her lack of policies, or her hiding from the media/ not answering questions, or just being unlikeable.

Except that she IS well ahead of Trump despite the massive misinformation campaign waged by Russia and her proxies, Musk, Thiel and the flood of billionaire dollars trying to get anything negative to stick to her. This is not going to be as close as the mainstream media think it will be because their polling methods are antiquated and they're peeved that they're becoming increasingly less relevant due to people getting their information from alternative sources nowadays.

It all comes down to the turnout among the younger people and women whose interests are most threatened by the return of the Felon. She's doing a great job mobilizing them, and needs to stick to it. Interviews like the 60 Minutes one are helpful, they're already increasing the percentage of Republican voters who are now committed to switching their votes, as are the opinions and pledges to do so by staunch and respected Conservatives from the old GOP like the Cheneys, and pretty much anyone of senior position and expertise who worked with Trump over the previous term. Things are going just the way we Liberals want them to. If you wish to pretend that this is all gonna work out great for DJT, carry on! 

On 10/2/2024 at 5:03 AM, spermwhale said:

"After 40 gruelling years as an electronics buyer"... who writes this stuff? 

Also: This isn't true: But his dream retirement turned into a financial nightmare when he discovered his UK state pension had been frozen.

He didn't have his pension frozen. He just doesn't get cost-of-living increases. Big difference. he still gets his money, so I'm not sure how that is a "financial nightmare." 

On top of that, he just moved to Thailand. HE HASN'T EVEN LOST A SINGLE PENCE AT THIS POINT!!!!

They couldn't find someone else who actually has already been long affected by this to whine?

On 10/1/2024 at 3:30 AM, Social Media said:

 

 

Mail-in voting, another frequent target of Trump's attacks, has also been in his crosshairs. He recently accused the U.S. Postal Service of being unreliable and untrustworthy, even as Republicans continue to encourage their base to use mail-in ballots.

 

Now who was it again who was appointed to run the US Postal Service and by whom was he appointed? 

That would be Louis DeJoy, who was appointed during the administration of Donald Trump. Here's a rare case where we're in agreement; DeJoy should be sacked. However, Trump would not mention this because he's doing EXACTLY what they appointed him to do - make the Post Office unreliable so it can eventually be privatized and to throw yet another roadblock into the electoral process. 

https://www.nytimes.com/article/general-louis-dejoy-postmaster.html

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has drawn stinging criticism for the changes he has made at the United States Postal Service since assuming the position on June 15.

The changes — including eliminating employee overtime, removing mail-sorting machines from postal facilities around the country, and reorganizing or eliminating Postal Service leadership — have slowed mail service in some areas and sparked concerns over whether the service will be able to handle the historically high volumes of mailed ballots expected in the November election.

Mr. DeJoy has argued that the changes are necessary to help the Postal Service become financially stable. The service has struggled economically for years, and its financial problems have been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.

A Republican Party and Trump campaign megadonor, Mr. DeJoy is one of just five postmasters general to come to the post from the private sector since 1971, when the Post Office ceased to be a cabinet department and was reorganized as the Postal Service, an independent federal agency.

On 10/3/2024 at 2:36 PM, WDSmart said:

Sounds like a violation of freedom of speech to me... 

Any bets that this fellow is under the impression that this either occurred in the USA or that the US Constitution applies outside of its borders? I suppose the WD stands for "Weren't Dat"?

Ho hum, big surprise. Birds of a feather etc. 

This is the sort of responsible leadership that the Republicans are asking people to vote for. What a collection of nuts!

10 hours ago, Tug said:

She’s 100% correct on that one not to mention the way he bungled the Covid response I’ve seen estimates of 200 thousand + preventable deaths for just that blunder…….

That's a BIG under-estimation.

"Across 3,127 counties in the U.S., 620,872 estimated excess deaths occurred during the first year of the pandemic (March 2020 to February 2021), and 538,708 estimated excess deaths occurred during the second year (March 2021 to February 2022). This equals a total of 1,159,580 excess deaths during the first two years of the pandemic."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9094106/#:~:text=Across 3%2C127 counties in the,March 2021 to February 2022).