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I watch the news again for the entertainment value. Trump is the gift that keeps on giving.
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We didn't watch it for years and it's only recently we can stand to watch a few minutes at one time and that's usually Newsmax. We can't tolerate the rest of the pukes.
When democrats accuse you of something, especially things like fascism, socialism, censorship, distraction, diversion and especially lying, you can be absolutely certain that is EXACTLY what they are and have been doing.
Part of the communist 50 point plan from the 1950's was to take over the media, the schools, the unions and one or both political parties. Guess which party they now have near complete control over?
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Rational self interest says that individually, every person will desire to do what they view as best for them. In aggregate (as a society) that sum isn’t necessarily good for the group. Nor other individuals within the group. That continuous striving by individuals (often times working cooperatively) is what “you” view as progressivism. It is aggregate self interest. Others might just view it more generically as “change”. Adam Smith described it as “the invisible hand”.
Not that it matters, but I view it all as a big Rugby scrum, with a whole bunch of muscle pushing the mass all over the place, for eternity. There is no stasis. Sometimes it squishes in a direction I find favorable, other times not.
Just have to keep my pot of beans full in the face of it. To a point, I would agree with you, but progressivism isn't about self-interest, nor is it rational. It's about self-dislike and a hatred for anyone they disagree with, with some nebulous ideals shoveled in to give it some respectability. Self-interest doesn't really factor into this. Like Lenin said about capitalist dupes, we'll hang them with the rope they sell us. How about gays for Palestine? If they showed up in Palestine they'd get chucked off a tall building. Defund the police? Close the jails? That will work out well for them. How about the stupid white progs who show up at a BLM rally and get told if they want to help they can hand over their money and property and get lost. Progressivism is every bad idea of the last 150 years cooked together in a stew to poison Western Civilization, and they will happily drive themselves off a cliff cheering.
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Always at the top of the scrum is the pious lefty, who claims he is just another one of them, and has a private army to watch over his disarmed populace. Castro was a billionaire: https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithf...astros-extravagant-life/?sh=d1ed4e36d769That single fact should convince most of the evil of the left, including those who wouldn’t know a nazi if he gassed them. Best, Ted
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no one ever says, we go this far and stop, there's never a stopping point. And so it is with progressivism. Change until everything is destroyed.
A few years back I read somewhere about the path to Marxism and how to accomplish it. Controlling the schools. Controlling the media. Spend an insane amount. Normalize gays. They have accomplished all. The next thing was promote transsexuals . At that time I thought there's so few of them that I doubt that would happen. Then came Obama and his bathroom edict. Look where we are today. Whoever wrote that was right on the money. Of course it goes exactly the same way in the other direction of extremism such as fascist hyper conservatism, as we are seeing now and have seen before in eastern Europe, South American, and many other places. Controlling the schools and the media has already become part of this administrations agenda - well it was part of the platform before they even got elected. We are watching the nazification of American today, and for the next 4+ years. And so it is, in these "interesting times". Get your blinders tight, boys. You're really serious about this, aren't you? Nazification? Tell me, when nazis, or communists, or dictators take over, what is one of the first things they do? Let me give you the answer, they take all the guns away. And which party in this country wants to eliminate the second amendment, and which party defends it? CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, NPR, PBS, etc, are mouthpieces for which party? And which party is screaming because social media is becoming freer? Are you seeing a pattern yet? Probably not. The idea that the republican party is moving in the direction of hyper fascism is laughable. This party hasn't changed in the last 50 years that I can tell. What has changed is the democrats. Think of a football field, D's in the left endzone, R's in the right endzone. Now the D's pull their goalpost and move it 50 yards further left. And now they claim the political center is their 25 yard line and the R's have moved farther right. BS And if you don't believe that? Look at what has happened in our lifetimes. Robert Byrd and George Wallace were democrats, how progressive were they? I would have liked to see drag queen story hour in Wallace's Alabama. How about some pride parades in Byrds hometown when he was grand wizard. In 1996, 118 democrats voted for the defense of marriage act, 65 against. How many do you think would vote for that today? Which party has socialist elected officials? 30 years ago, how many democrats would have backed the chemical and surgical mutilation of children? You need to turn Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow off and expand your horizons.
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Leftists have a foolproof test for identifying nazis, it's anyone who disagrees with them.
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Tim, you are absolute hoot. I don't know any republican that would agree with you. Trying to overthrow the government is nothing but traitorous.
Today, he muzzled the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Has a president ever done that? They can only speak to the public or anyone outside of the department with preapproval of thei White House appointed handler. Quite interesting. No republican has done that.
None has simply suspended a Constitutional Amendment. As he did yesterday. Can 2A be that far behind? 1A has been suspended from the minute he was sworn in. Yeah, not even Reagan dared any of that.
Got your jackboots polished?
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From Wiki, a notoriously right wing organization, as regards HHS:
Criticisms and controversies See also: Criticism of the United States government § Criticism of agencies In 2016, a published US Senate report revealed that several dozen unaccompanied children from Central America, some as young as 14 years old, were released from custody to traffickers where they were sexually assaulted, starved, or forced to work for little or no pay.[38] The HHS sub agency Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) released approximately 90,000 unaccompanied children during 2013–2015 but did not track their whereabouts or properly screen families accepting these children.[39]
To prevent similar episodes, the Homeland Security and Health & Human Services Departments signed a memorandum of understanding in 2016 and agreed to establish joint procedures within one year for dealing with unaccompanied migrant children. As of 2018, they have failed to do so. Between October and December 2017, officials from ORR tried to contact 7,635 children and their sponsors. From these calls, officials learned that 6,075 children remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight had run away, five had been removed from the United States and fifty-two had relocated to live with a nonsponsor. However, officials have lost track of 1,475 children.[40] ORR claims it is not legally liable for the safety and status of the children once released from custody.[41]
HHS is evidenced to be actively coercing and forcing bio-substances such as antipsychotics[42] on migrating children without consent, and under questionable medical supervision. Medical professionals state that wrongly prescribed antipsychotics are especially dangerous for children, and can cause permanent psychological damage.[43] Medical professionals also state DHS and HHS incarceration and separation policies are likewise causing irreparable mental harm to the children.[44][45]
Children are also dying in HHS custody.[46] The forced drugging, deaths, and disappearances of migrating Mexican and Central American children might be related to DHS falsely labeling them and their families as 'terror threats' before HHS manages their incarcerations. Despite a federal court order,[47] the DHS separation practices started by Obama[48] and mandated by the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy[49] have not been halted, and HHS has not stopped forcing drugs on the children it incarcerates.
In August 2022, the Office of the Inspector General for Health and Human Services reported that NIH had failed in its oversight of clinical trials, with slightly over half of sample trial results either being tardy for publication or remaining unpublished on ClinicalTrials.gov after several years from the stated completion dates.[50]
Freedom of Information Act processing performance In the latest Center for Effective Government analysis of 15 federal agencies which receive the most Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests published in 2015 (using 2012 and 2013 data, the most recent years available), the DHHS ranked second to last, earning an F by scoring 57 out of a possible 100 points, largely due to a low score on its particular disclosure rules. It had deteriorated from a D− in 2013.[51]
Wonder if they maintain a SWAT team?
Sounds like an excellent department to be eliminated.
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....you are absolute hoot.....
.....he muzzled the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Has a president ever done that? They can only speak to the public or anyone outside of the department with preapproval of thei White House appointed handler. Quite interesting. No republican has done that.....
.....1A has been suspended from the minute he was sworn in..... What is this, the dept. ofdouche rules of rugby? If you were molding your concept of the next marx in the field, did you hand out A's, because they 1A'ed your arse all day long? When you were out of the office for a few days, did you tell your grad student that they had full rights to speak against all your policies and instuctions? This should be a feel good win for you, except for crappy, veggie red hair highlights, shortly there will be a dem heading this dept. Then, there will be no need for a whitehouse baby sitter. The thing that should scare you more than cut fentanyl is, your president has also executively ordered merit based job qualification, not your standards of who can express the most inappropriate opinion, or dig their high heels in the deepest. The boots on dem grounds are even banning cell phones in the classroom, just three days in, and without marching orders. Your nazi concept of the 1A is out of step, and no self respecting rugby league would even give you a participation trophy.
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