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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:30 pm Post subject:
lakersken80 wrote:
ContagiousInspiration wrote:
I pray someone, by any means necessary, removes the terrorists actively destroying America. If successful they will have not broken any laws.
Millions of retired soldiers who took an oath to defend America from domestic threats and so far not a peep. I sure hope they try to save their country ASAP
BTW beyond scamming money the Tariffs are the fuel used to make others hate us and for STUPID Americans to get mad at countries that Hate America now
The United States of America threatened to invade and MURDER Canadians
The United States of America threatened to invade and MURDER citizens of Greenland
The United States of America threatened to invade and MURDER citizens of Mexico
Who else
America is on life support and nobody is coming to help
Nobody is going to help because its citizens put these people into power. We have to look in the mirror and see we are the reason why we are in this situation.
I wrote this darn thing after reading about what seems like ineptitude from our Boulder police regarding a suspicious death of a young CU student Megan Trussell
I came back to delete my post.. just so much anger.. there is NO end to what all of these people will do to innocent Americans and we are now a lawless nation supporting the worst human rights abusers all around the world
Elon is Goebbels 2.0 out there lying about Ukraine to appease Putin
We are in really bad territory and it's killing me to watch and the thought of turning my back is killing me too. Nonstop theft and weakening of the country
. never forget our EPA Head who needed a soundproof booth and 24/7 armed secuirty and bullet proof vests etc.. hmm Link
Environmental Protection is a cime now.
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The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
“The FBI has told Citibank that recipients of EPA climate grants are being considered as potentially liable for fraud. That is, the Trump administration wants to criminalize work on climate science and impacts,” the @capitolhunters account wrote Wednesday on X. “An incoming administration not only cancels federal grants but declares recipients as criminals. All these grantees applied under government calls FOR ENVIRONMENTAL WORK, were reviewed and accepted. Trump wants to jail them.“
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Last month, the number of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—representing the majority of Canadians who visit—dropped by 23% compared to February 2024, according to data released Monday from Statistics Canada, while Canadian air travel to the U.S. was down by 2.4% over the same period.
The U.S. Travel Association (USTA) warned last month that even a 10% reduction in Canadian inbound travel could translate to $2.1 billion in lost spending and 140,000 jobs jeopardized in the hospitality and related sectors.
Using the USTA’s metrics, a sustained decline of more than 20% in Canadian visitors would translate to more than $4 billion in losses to the U.S. economy in 2025.
Flight Centre, Canada’s largest travel agency, told Forbes it saw a 40% decrease in leisure bookings in February compared to the same month last year, and a 20% cancellation rate on prebooked trips to the U.S. over the past three months.
The USTA has forecasted 21.5 million Canadian visitors to the U.S. in 2025—a 5% increase over last year.
Given the boycott, such an increase would be “almost impossible,” Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, told Forbes.
Neither the USTA nor the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office nor Brand USA responded to Forbes’ queries on whether 2025 projections for Canadian visitations would be adjusted downward.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 7:48 pm Post subject:
Halflife wrote:
Newsome + Charlie kirk+ steve bannon = he is trying to make himself familiar with the anti-american crowd for 2028.
I haven't watched any of Newsom's stuff.
Theoretically it is fine if he is debunking all of Kirk and Bannon's crap.
But if he isn't. If he's doing the Joe Rogan thing. And legitimizing the views of those guests in any way. It's unacceptable. _________________ When the world grows. Grow with it.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:09 pm Post subject:
Nikita Khrushchev said in 1956: “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within”. How prophetic. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be
because we destroyed ourselves.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:30 pm Post subject:
George Carlin Highlights the impact collective action, even if driven by individuals with questionable intelligence, can have, suggesting that even seemingly foolish groups can exert significant influence _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be
because we destroyed ourselves.
competent government's message: Wear a mask and get this vaccine and you might be saving countless lives including your own
the great unwashed heard: tyranny
The problem is not messaging. Never has been. To believe otherwise is foolish.
Not really. The great unwashed heard was: wear a mask. The great myth heard by a minority: tyranny. The vast majority complied with the mandate. A small minority was indeed vocal, but small nonetheless.
Now back to messaging. This issue is communication. For communication to work, first, a narrative must be made. But second, and just as important, that message must be heard. In politics it is not just getting a message out to those who already hear you, but to get the message out to those who do not, and there are sufficient numbers here that are reachable, or else the Democrats would never win.
When a Democrat says Black lives matter, most of us know what that means, that black lives matter too. But to a large swath in America, it means ONlY black lives matter.
When a Democrat says Defund the Police, most of us know what that mean, that we shift some responsibilities, we allow those trained to deal with the mentally impaired to deal with the mentally impaired and let the police go after the real bad guys, but to a large swath of America, it means to shrink the police force.
In politics, and why I actually hate politics, it is not always who has the best ideas, but who can best demonize or misrepresent the other. And Republicans have a real advantage here as lying and hypocrisy seems to be second (and third) nature. And most people do not pay attention to the details like many herein. They get bits and pieces when they check for sports or weather or the headlines but not the analysis. Then, when they do get some analysis, usually there is so much noise mixed in with misinformation, that they become confused or lose interest.
So, from my point of view, do not try to win just those on your side but to win those on the ledge. Be general and consistent with tying to raise all ships, and not the green ones, or the ones with sails, or any specific type, but ALL. Make sure those on the ledge know they are in your sights as well. Be careful with your slogans. (I do think that most politicians understand these two issues, but there are other voices who don't seem to.) Vigorously defend accomplishments and learn how to call a lie a lie. Joe Biden was underwater, 7 months in until now, or about 3 1/2 years of his 4. If the messaging was so good, I want someone to tell me why that was so (Hint, look at the inflation rate of the US, especially compared to the EU which actually exceeded it by about 2 points, and the lack of communication to that effect).
I would love this to be true, but once people frame something in a certain way, you can’t add information and context outside the frame. It’s a fundamental flaw of humans. Pattern seeking. Most of our thoughts and even our sight is a series of shortcuts based on preconceived patterns.
To put it another way, humans are not by nature “good” good is a rational frontal lobe concept that weighs abstract concepts and builds on them. Humans are governed by a much more primitive brain stem that doesn’t value anything beyond the immediate right or flight needs of a social predator (which is what we are by nature). Civilization is an act beyond our evolution, beyond our nature, because we can see the benefit in not stinging the frog that carries us across the river. But it requires effort, and desire outside of ourselves. And it’s far easier to get people to behave like they are programmed to, and once they do, your facts don’t matter.
Democrats seek to be collectively better than our nature. Republicans capitalize on what we actually are. And with our state of evolution matched against our god like tech, kind of hard to beat that. I would bet far more that humans will wipe themselves out than that we will achieve equality, peace, and harmony, with each other or our universe. But I’m gonna try.
I agree for the most part (yes there are some ~40% hard wired one way and another ~40% wired another--or maybe ~40% that are actually critical thinkers--) but explain why we have gone back and forth, for the most part, in the general elections: Kennedy/Johnson>Nixon/Ford>Carter>Reagan>Bush>Clinton>Bush>Obama>Trump>Biden>Trump and why if what you say is true, would Democrats ever win? Why do we talk about swing states and all the energy goes to them or why do we talk of the swing voters and have focus groups with them exclusively if what you say is universally true? I contend personality matters, style matters, messaging matters, and your product perception matters, but mostly to this group within the hard wired extremes.
It's not that those things don't matter at all; it's a question of how much they factor into how things are functioning (or more accurately, not functioning) in this country in its current political state.
What is happening now, and what has transpired over the last 10 years is absolutely unprecedented in over 150 years of this nation's history. The level of discord, the vastness of the division and the depth of entrenchment in those things is nothing like what we have seen before. We have experienced violent insurrection and witnessed as the GOP has embraced a mortal enemy of seven decades as not only our most important ally, but our only ally.
There's really nothing about the 60's, 70's, 80', 90's and even the '00's that has any measure of correlation to where we are now in regards to being able function as a country that works together for the good of the country as a whole. To contend that has any meaningful connection to how the Democratic Party has communicated would be contextually way off the mark.
Yes and no. Yes, this most recent past is unprecedented. Yes Trump is acting like no other president ever but we have yet to see how the public reacts. If our elections are secure, it would not surprise me one bit if the Dems take the House in 2 years--with some proper messaging of course, HA!
Also, I lived through all of this. We had some mighty nasty rednecks back in the 60's. It was not Kumbayah, and if you were any of our now protected groups or someone of color it was in most ways far worse than now. The right has always been who they are now. Apparently, by what we see, some have become more vocal, as though Trump has signaled it's OK to be a jerk or a racist, but their hearts have been just as dark as they are now. The division in the 60's was rather dramatic I'd say. All that occurred with Civil Rights and the horror that led to reform was most dramatic. The Vietnam War was as dramatic a division as I've ever seen. Kent State certainly punctuated this--I mean Americans legally shooting Americans actually occurred.
We can go back further and the division between Jefferson and his ilk and Hamilton and his ilk was most contentious. Heck, we had Adams trying to get away with the Alien and Sedition Acts. Our country's most recent immigrants have ALWAYS hated the newest immigrants. ALWAYS. We had Andrew Jackson defying SCOTUS, without repercussion as he so liked killing American natives. And, of course, there was this little thing called the Civil War, which I say partially in jest, maybe Lincoln should have not allowed the traitors back in, but most certainly not without some additional constitutional realignments. The South screwed the county then and has not stopped since. Take the South out of our elections and we have a much better country. I doubt we would have had any of the horrible Republican presidents from Nixon on, less maybe Reagan, but even here, I suspect we would have had a kinder gentler less arrogant and divisive version.
In other words, our warts are many and always have been. _________________ Hey Doge, ever hear of “measure twice, cut once?” It is not cut first and measure later.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:54 am Post subject:
^^^If destroying the US Dollar and destroying every friendly alliance we've ever had is winning then we're way ahead of schedule _________________ If we don't make it dangerous to be a Nazi
They'll make it dangerous not to be
Lunatic Convicted Criminal has some unhinged, chaotic thoughts:
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of “screwing” the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!! Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and TARIFF RELATED MONEY IS POURING INTO THE UNITED STATES. “The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself!”
Globalist = The Jews
WSJ = owned by Rupert Murdoch, an Australian, not a European
Projection = When he says "they" have antiquated thinking, are weak and screwing the USA -- it's a confession that he is doing those things.
Multiple Lies - egg prices are up, oi/gasoline prices are up, tariffs are paid by American citizens so foreign money is not pouring into US
FDR Quote - lol, only his stupid Cult would fall for this cheap trick
What a (bleep) lunatic psychopath. I guess the Democrats didn't warn people enough that he was a cray-cray Russian puppet who couldn't be trusted to run the country. Cuz it's just so hard figure that out without someone spoon feeding it to you... _________________ Don't blame me. I voted for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.
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NEW: The Trump admin is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority, known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to speed up deportations of certain immigrants in the coming days. It is expected to come in the form of a presidential proclamation. W/ @jmhansler + @alaynatreene.
The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
During a joint address to Congress last week, Trump said, "to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.” Since then, administration officials have not said what "reclaiming" means.
U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans that vary from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to the less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force, the officials said. Whether military force is used, the officials added, depends on how much Panamanian security forces agree to partner with the U.S.
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The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
During a joint address to Congress last week, Trump said, "to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.” Since then, administration officials have not said what "reclaiming" means.
U.S. Southern Command is developing potential plans that vary from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to the less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the Panama Canal by force, the officials said. Whether military force is used, the officials added, depends on how much Panamanian security forces agree to partner with the U.S.
I’m sure firing the JAGs and other generals had nothing to do with this illegal request.
What do they bring to the table? They don't inspire anyone, they are not passionate about anything, they cave on everything. They keep saying meaningless things about "bipartisan" legislation and wanting to work with a political party that resembles a domestic enemy.
There's polling that suggests that close to 60% of the electorate will blame Republicans/Trump for the shutdown, and Schumer still wants to cave.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:46 pm Post subject:
Wilt wrote:
Schumer and Jeffries are useless, just useless.
What do they bring to the table? They don't inspire anyone, they are not passionate about anything, they cave on everything. They keep saying meaningless things about "bipartisan" legislation and wanting to work with a political party that resembles a domestic enemy.
There's polling that suggests that close to 60% of the electorate will blame Republicans/Trump for the shutdown, and Schumer still wants to cave.
Democratic party leadership needs a major overhaul.
It's embarrassing how bad they are at politics. _________________ When the world grows. Grow with it.
What do they bring to the table? They don't inspire anyone, they are not passionate about anything, they cave on everything. They keep saying meaningless things about "bipartisan" legislation and wanting to work with a political party that resembles a domestic enemy.
There's polling that suggests that close to 60% of the electorate will blame Republicans/Trump for the shutdown, and Schumer still wants to cave.
Democratic party leadership needs a major overhaul.
It's embarrassing how bad they are at politics.
It certainly seems a lot of us see problems with the party.
The only problem with this is we don't always agree what the problem is or what is the fix. _________________ Hey Doge, ever hear of “measure twice, cut once?” It is not cut first and measure later.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:44 pm Post subject:
Wilt wrote:
Schumer and Jeffries are useless, just useless.
What do they bring to the table? They don't inspire anyone, they are not passionate about anything, they cave on everything. They keep saying meaningless things about "bipartisan" legislation and wanting to work with a political party that resembles a domestic enemy.
There's polling that suggests that close to 60% of the electorate will blame Republicans/Trump for the shutdown, and Schumer still wants to cave.
And revealing themselves to be more so with every passing day.
You can't engage in bipartisan politics with a party that has no interest in meeting in the middle . . . and you definitely can't with a party that not only won't, but is dead set on furthering division and disruption. There's is no working with the current Republican Party, all one can do is find as many ways to thwart them as possible. And you don't do that by worrying about decorum and moderation. _________________ "You know it seems the more we talk about it, it only makes it worse to live without it."
Schumer trying to explain his cowardice about an hour ago. The tweet has 500 likes and 3000 comments, all angry telling him to resign.
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Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
If we enter a shutdown, Congressional Republicans would weaponize their majorities to cherry-pick which parts of government to reopen.
My entire twitter timeline includes pledges from all other Democratic Senators saying they will vote no and the rest of the timeline is calling for Chuck Schumer's head. People are livid. _________________ Don't blame me. I voted for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.
Republicans need 60 votes for cloture. They have 53 plus Chuck Schumer only gets them to 54. They might pick off Fetterman (traitor). But every other Democratic Senator that I've seen is voting no. They would still need 5 more Dems and I don't see that happening.
In any case, Schumer needs to step down or be pushed out. Chris Murphy is a consensus pick for the job on Democratic/progressive social media. _________________ Don't blame me. I voted for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.
“I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,” she said at Dem retreat, per @sarahnferris. She said she and her fellow Democrats are “texting, calling, sending carrier pigeons,” to mobilize the Democratic base against Schumer’s plan to allow the GOP funding bill to advance.
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