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    Quote Originally Posted by DKnerd View Post
    Not sure if I should reply on this.... But :-)
    Im from Denmark, have friends in the states and love being there... and been several times....
    But it saddens me to see how the US gotten so torn apart.... I was planing to come again in 2022. Is it just me but with Democrats, replublicans fighting dirty, Im not sure if I wanna take the chance to visit in 2022

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    You should be fine visiting next year. If shit were to hit the fan, it wouldn't happen until 2023.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    Sadly, I have some relatives who can no longer hold a basic conversation without complaining about how Democrats are ruining everything. Fox news really knows how to stoke outrage about trivial matters.
    driving down wages and stirring up inflation are trivial to whom?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xheight View Post
    Funny I thought it was the stolen election under the crisis of Covid that installed a President who's son takes money China and Russia and defeated the progressive candidate that was originally leading in the polls.
    Wow “stolen elections” and Hunter Biden. Veering into conspiracy theories gives you zero credibility and shows that you should be ignored.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
    Communist states have been around for over a century now and yet somehow we continue to delude ourselves into thinking that people living under communism are suffering and yearn to live free? If that were really true, then all of the CIA's many attempts to engineer coups to overthrow communist governments would have met with a lot more success than they did. Life under socialism is not exactly comfortable by our standards, but the vast majority of people saw their quality of life greatly improve by just about every metric. Of course, for the tiny elite of landed aristocrats and industrial magnates, the transition was quite traumatic as all of the privileges they took for granted evaporated basically overnight and they were reduced to living like the common people they were used to bossing around. So the logical option for many was to flee, often taking as much of their wealth as they could bring with them, which in turn helped them set up successful businesses once they arrived in America. If you thought that your average Cuban ex-slave or Korean peasant with no wealth to speak of could make it to America and succeed by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, I have a bridge to sell you.

    The problem is that the US military hasn't had an enemy that came close to parity for quite a long time, so it's under no external pressure to make sure that it's spending its money wisely and taking good care of the troops. Burning more cash for flashy weapon systems creates a ton of jobs and looks great on recruitment videos, and because F-35's aren't flying actual combat missions that could expose their design flaws, the military isn't forced to re-evaluate unless there's some freak accident which is a rare occurrence.
    I am not advocating military spending but the space between blowing up the budget and the quantum factors that allow people to overturn a oppressive government are not clear here. Having met those that have escaped Ill take that bridge you are selling. The basic inertia of systems is no measure of their functionality much less their good and to claim that people are better off than they were is an unprovable thesis. For every Jihyun Park there are far more modest yet impressive stories. And we can also point to the impressive wealth generated by the Cuban community to FL. Who knows what a free Korea or Cuba could have been. Just about everybody seems to have forgotten what Venezuela is doing plodding along the socialist path. The consequences of material equity are survival level existence unfortunately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robotman View Post
    Wow “stolen elections” and Hunter Biden. Veering into conspiracy theories gives you zero credibility and shows that you should be ignored.
    Enjoy your information confirmation bubble. Meanwhile here in reality.

    Politico confirms Hunter Biden laptop emails after media ...
    https://www.nytimespost.com/politico...amid-election/
    "A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden's emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, '10 held by H for the big guy ...


    China's COVID Secrets | Wuhan Lab Leak? | 2021 PBS FRONTLINE Documentary

    https://youtu.be/VH29A7EP08I

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    Don't bother clicking the link people. The NY Times Post is neither the Times or the Post. It is a hack right wing internet site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xheight View Post
    driving down wages and stirring up inflation are trivial to whom?
    Wages go up faster under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    More than that, if they retake Congress next year (which is why they are pulling all this shit) they will move to impeach Biden immediately. On what?
    Probably some dumbass variation of the big lie about how the election was stolen from Trump and that Biden somehow had a hand in the skullduggery. Now, stop me if I'm mistaken, but even if by some otherworldly miracle the GQP were to get Biden impeached, wouldn't the vice-president assume the top spot? Qpublicans couldn't handle a black MAN in the Oval Office, imagine the apoplexy if a black WOMAN were to become Commander-in-Chief. Right wing and conservative heads would explode from coast to coast.

    Quote Originally Posted by DKnerd View Post
    Not sure if I should reply on this.... But :-)
    Im from Denmark, have friends in the states and love being there... and been several times....
    But it saddens me to see how the US gotten so torn apart.... I was planing to come again in 2022. Is it just me but with Democrats, replublicans fighting dirty, Im not sure if I wanna take the chance to visit in 2022

    Kirby101 - Is it sure they retake congress next year??
    Don't let the nuttiness stop you from coming here if that's your desire. We haven't become Sodom and Gomorrah with God ready to lay the final smack down on us. Just practice caution and common sense (especially when it comes to virus mitigation, i.e., masks, vaccinations, etc) and you should be just fine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    Don't bother clicking the link people. The NY Times Post is neither the Times or the Post. It is a hack right wing internet site.
    aggregate collection simply points to the Liberal press acknowledgment while links to primary sites are for those with the time or Times subs. (which I don't register to)

    FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.

    A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)

    MORE: Emails released by a Swedish government agency also match emails in the leaked cache, and two people who corresponded with Hunter Biden confirmed emails from the cache were genuine.

    While the leak contains genuine files, it remains possible that fake material has been slipped in.
    - Politico
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    Meanwhile, the Trump administration literally had a coup memo, but yeah sure, something something china hunter biden.

    It must suck to fall this deeply into a hole because you're afraid most people don't agree with your dumbass takes as to require such conspiracies to hide this fact from yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xheight View Post
    Enjoy your information confirmation bubble. Meanwhile here in reality.





    China's COVID Secrets | Wuhan Lab Leak? | 2021 PBS FRONTLINE Documentary

    https://youtu.be/VH29A7EP08I
    So did tuck carlson eventually 'reveal' what was in Hunter's laptop or did he just dangle the carrot for his viewers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    Wages go up faster under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones.
    that's not an answer to why people pay attention to Fox reporting which is btw a flim-flam assertion that throws in measures like GDP.
    Median household incomes slipped considerably during the Great Recession. They only started rising during Obama's second term in 2012.

    But cost-of-living increases undercut those gains as many goods and services carried larger price tags without similar income growth. Inflation adjusted, household incomes only matched their 1999 level in 2018, per the Census Bureau.
    business insider.com
    Further I don't care about Republican success or failure as a brand much in the way that I loathe the hypocrisy of the Democratic brand.
    I do think diversity of News gathering only helps people make up their minds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xheight View Post
    how do you prove something so massive and technical without the investigations into the big data consulting firms? If the Hunter Biden and Wuhan lab stories are just getting the air they deserve what would defrauding the American election look like in delegitimizing the government.

    "The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time" https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

    It is conspiracy thinking until it isn't.
    In all seriousness, who gives a flying f**K about Hunter Biden? Especially after 4 years of Trump and all of his children enriching themselves off of his Presidency?

    As for the so-called 'Stolen Election', hate to burst your bubble, but it wasn't stolen. Trump was in the lead early because he was the incumbant, and the Democrats were still jockeying for the nomination. Then before a true campaign could even really get started, the pandemic hit. Then Trumps complete mismanagement of it led to the deaths of 500,000 Americans, which MAY have impacted his polling somewhat (that was sarcasm incase you didn't get it).

    Then Trump got more votes than any incumbent President had ever gotten, but Biden got even more than that. That was because absentee and mail-in balloting was more heavily used in this election than in any prior election, again, due to the pandemic. And as for the few cases of voter fraud that have been reported? Big surprise- it was usually a one-off, and almost always a Republican (I can't think of a single case where it was for the Democrats, but odds are one or two would be, so there that is). There was no systematic attempt at voter fraud. Every single investigation in every single state has proven that. It has proven that for years.

    Tump lost, Biden won. Get over it. And if you can't, there's another election in 4 years.

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    According this article from BBC, llamas could potentially save us all from COVID:https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58628689

    This might actually work. These eejits are taking horse dewormers based on the recommendations of Q crazies, so spraying llama juice up your nose pretty much sounds like something their Orange Idol would recommend.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xheight View Post
    Funny I thought it was the stolen election under the crisis of Covid that installed a President who's son takes money China and Russia and defeated the progressive candidate that was originally leading in the polls.
    No election was stolen.

    Not a single shred of evidence that points to the last Presidential election being stolen was presented in any court of law to adjudicate this.

    The stolen election is a complete fabrication. Stop spreading this lie, it really damages your credibility.
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