Republican vs Democrat

[guitarjosh]

LOL you do live off the backs of workers. I didn't create the system I just live in it and doesn't mean I agree with it.

Yea we had a lot of capitalism in 2008 and 2020. History also shows the opposite. Still pointless.

Reagan was for socialism for the rich. That's why the government had to come in and bail out the banks while all the clown's got bonuses for ruining the economy. Capitalism is for the poor people.

Yes you did, and yes you did. We also have a lot of corporations that are over leveraged which can't support themselves.

More false equivalence. Of course it's Josh.

Your framing is BS and so is the false equivalence. All your conclusions are the same black and white BS. You're a small mind hack.

I said you know history, understanding it is a different thing. You understand none of it because YOUR a small mind hack.

It was funny, just because your shit isn't funny that's YOUR fault.

You live off the backs of workers! Tell your employer you no longer want to put money into your 401k and sell all the stock in your 401k. Until then, you’re a gigantic hypocrite.

2008 wouldn’t have been anywhere near as bad if we didn’t have the Fed dropping rates to 1%. The market should set rates, not the Fed. The Fed also should have been the ones to bail out the banks, since that’s what they’re there for. 2020 was due to a communist country, probably had a leak out of their lab. Capitalism had nothing to do with that. History couldn’t be clearer, when you have a lot of private property rights and individual freedom, you have a lot of average people with relatively high standards of living.

We had the S&L problem during Reagan, but that was due to over regulation, not under regulation, and the high inflation, which Reagan and Volker beat.

Show me and show me. Which companies can’t support themselves? If they can’t, they should go out of business. People that can have the ability to support themselves should be taught how to.

Not at all, you said India was poor because it was a British colony. Many countries, like America, were British colonies and are doing great, so it’s not that being a British colony is the problem. India’s problem is that they embraced democratic socialism instead of capitalism.

No it’s not, you keep telling me one reason after another why America got so rich compared to other countries, and I keep pointing out that other countries had more of that than we had, so why were they so poor? The reason why is because capitalism is what made us so rich.

I know and understand history, you don’t know or understand it.

It was funny, but people aren’t laughing with you, we’re laughing at you because what you write is so stupidly wrong.

[Hareeba!]

From the pulpit, Reverend Billiance Chondwe counts the empty seats.

"We are close to 300 [worshipers] but nowadays we are only less than 150. People are sick at home," says Chondwe — or Pastor Billy as everyone calls him — as he greeted congregants on a Sunday in early April at the entrance to his church, the Somone Community Centre, a branch of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zambia.

People are falling ill because the U.S.-funded clinics where they got their HIV medications and care have suddenly been shuttered. The staff is gone. The electricity has been shut off. Some patients have already run out of their daily pills that keep HIV at bay — and they have started to feel the physical consequences of the virus surging back.

The Trump Administration, in January, abruptly halted the vast majority of U.S. foreign assistance in light of their America First agenda. Officials said that lifesaving aid — such as HIV medications — would continue to flow. But the reality on the ground shows otherwise. An untold number of people with HIV have simply and suddenly lost access to their medication.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/14/g-s1-59863/hiv-aids-drugs-usaid-zambia

[Hareeba!]

He is promising to send Americans to foreign death camps.

This amounts to capital punishment without due process being offered.

[Optional]

Feel free to use the search function on my so called mention now that it’s working . Hint , don’t waste your time.

As for the foreign media . What might the American people do as far as stopping Trump from going too much further ?



As per the CNN article one more time .

What’s shocking to Harry Enten isn’t shocking to those living outside the media echo chamber.

Americans aren’t buying the anti-Trump narrative

The American people are the bosses. If you say enough loud enough you have the power to do more than many people think.

I think there are already strong signs he is steadying the ship. Whatever either of us think the reasons are for that is less important than it's happening.

[khicks26]

The country is already falling apart, which is why Bernie, AOC, you are constantly complaining about America and wanting a socialist revolution. You do have a choice, you don’t have to have a 401k if you don’t want to. So you’re just admitting to being a huge hypocrite. You constantly attack me for being savvy in the stock market, saying I’m living off the backs of workers, as you own stocks so you can retire better! LOLLOL!

What causes the average person to have a rapid increase in their standard of living is the whole point! History and empirical evidence shows that the more free market capitalism we have, the better the average person is.

You go after Reagan because he set back the socialists by decades. Again, he put in reforms that stabilized the economy, we’ve only had 4 recessions start since 1981 compared to 7 from 1953-1981. 2008 wasn’t the fault of Reagan, it was caused by the widespread belief that housing would perpetually rise. Have you ever seen The Big Short? There’s a scene about 25 minutes into the movie where Michael calls Lawrence to tell him about the position he took shorting the housing market and how he has to pay out premiums. Lawrence said, “You mean to tell me we pay premiums until the mortgages fail? In other words, we lose millions until something that never happened before happens?” That was the conventional wisdom leading up to 2008, that the housing market was free money, and people positioned themselves accordingly. When housing tanked, they got hammered.

I never said labor doesn’t create wealth. In this day and age though, labor needs wealth to get the tools and equipment needed to work. I didn’t say that about the culture war either, you’re just lying again. I said that if the democrats didn’t have a large supply of people who can’t support themselves needing transfer payments and promises of guaranteed jobs that pay a living wage regardless of your skill level, all they would have is unpopular culture war positions and they would get little support.

That’s a brilliant point about India being a British colony. Luckily for us Americans, we were never a colony of the British. Neither was Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong… What hurt India was their following a socialist economist named Harold Laski. If you think it was bad now, look up The Emergency in India under democratic socialist Indira Gandhi. It’s exactly what people like you want for anyone who gets in your way.

It might be, but it’s still smarter than anything you’ve ever said. Tell me why it’s so stupid. If colonization and imperialism made a nation wealthy, Russia should be wealthier than the USA. You just keep grasping at straws. Literally everything you claimed made America wealthy, I’ve been able to point to a country that had more of it, yet they had less wealth. Once you point to capitalism, you’ll be right

Right to me means small government that isn’t too involved in my life. Again, if you’re going to call someone an idiot, you should probably use proper grammar. You’re = you are, your = possessive, like "your car”. I know history, and that shaped my agenda. You know the history TYT, Sam Seder, and Thom Hartman spoon-fed you and nothing else. That’s why you’re always wrong.

I’d rather be a Brooks clone than a Khicks26 clone. Who would want to be an evil hypocrite like this Khicks26 guy. He even laughed at his own post.

LOL you do live off the backs of workers. I didn't create the system I just live in it and doesn't mean I agree with it.

Yea we had a lot of capitalism in 2008 and 2020. History also shows the opposite. Still pointless.

Reagan was for socialism for the rich. That's why the government had to come in and bail out the banks while all the clown's got bonuses for ruining the economy. Capitalism is for the poor people.

Yes you did, and yes you did. We also have a lot of corporations that are over leveraged which can't support themselves.

More false equivalence. Of course it's Josh.

Your framing is BS and so is the false equivalence. All your conclusions are the same black and white BS. You're a small mind hack.

I said you know history, understanding it is a different thing. You understand none of it because YOUR a small mind hack.

It was funny, just because your shit isn't funny that's YOUR fault.

[jt315]

Trump announces tariffs on the whole world. MAGA: “This is great! The Art of the Deal. Manufacturing factories will be built in the U.S. Trump will use the money to lower taxes and pay down the national debt.”

Trump caves and removes all the tariffs — except on China. MAGA: “Amazing move! Trump just united the world against China. He’s playing 5D chess!”

Today, Trump announced that smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronic devices and components — basically almost everything we import from China — will be exempt from the tariffs.

When will you MAGA folk finally realise that your corrupt dear leader is a clueless moron who doesn’t understand the basics of the economy and has no idea what he’s doing?

The clueless moron who has no idea what he’s doing has Xi running to other countries for help .
You are one clueless flaming Lib .


China's President Xi Jinping on Monday called for stronger ties with Vietnam on trade and supply chains amid disruptions caused by U.S. tariffs, as he attended in Hanoi the signing of dozens of cooperation agreements between the two Communist-run nations.

[DwightShrute]

Not to mention the BS 1512 (c)(2) obstruction of an official proceeding charges that dealt with evidence tampering .
A maximum 20 year sentence . AYFKM !

Talk about a reach . But of course , only the legal eagles on the right pointed out the ridiculous nature of these charges as the left rejoiced in .

They charged over 300 people , as well as President Trump which the Supreme Court eventually overturned .

the whole J6 thing, what happened that day, the impeachment, and the following circus, was just a desperate attempt the democrats invented to prevent Trump from running for another term. Hopefully Patel and Bongino will find the evidence.

[jt315]

Owen Shroyer is one of only a handful [B]of Jan. 6 participants charged with a crime despite having neither entered the Capitol building nor been accused of committing violence or destruction on Capitol grounds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...ase-rcna104378[/.
Also,to this date, not one person has been charged with "insurrection" for J6. Not one person. Still the fake news media and the radical Lefties keep calling it an insurrection.

Not to mention the BS 1512 (c)(2) obstruction of an official proceeding charges that dealt with evidence tampering .
A maximum 20 year sentence . AYFKM !

Talk about a reach . But of course , only the legal eagles on the right pointed out the ridiculous nature of these charges as the left rejoiced in .

They charged over 300 people , as well as President Trump which the Supreme Court eventually overturned .

[jt315]

Cmon JT, pretty sure you personally mentioned 70+ approval ratings just a month or two ago.

Not that approval rating says right or wrong anyway. But it really is a good thing. The 70+ rating was widely pointed to in the foreign media as proof that the American people want Trump to backstab and attack your allies, so there was no use hoping for sanity to take back over.

At least now the foreign media is starting to say the American people might stop him going too much further. Whether you realize it or not, America does need her allies to stay the pre eminent world power. It's good for you and me that the world can see Trump is not completely unrestrained to continue the wrecking ball stuff too much further.

Feel free to use the search function on my so called mention now that it’s working . Hint , don’t waste your time.

As for the foreign media . What might the American people do as far as stopping Trump from going too much further ?



As per the CNN article one more time .

What’s shocking to Harry Enten isn’t shocking to those living outside the media echo chamber.

Americans aren’t buying the anti-Trump narrative

[DwightShrute]

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[DwightShrute]

It’s not only difficult to debate a group of MAGA people that literally change their reality on a whim, in a split second, it is absolutely impossible.

They hated electric cars, now they’re buying them.
They hated higher prices, now they love them.
They hated “short term economic pain,” now they ask for more.
They hated economic downturns, now they love them.
They hated “going after political enemies,” now they’re asking why there isn’t more of it.
They “loved” the Constitution, now they’re demanding Trump win a third term.

You can’t reason with a cult.

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[Hareeba!]

One of the largest egg corporations just reported record profits.

Usually, quarterly profit are roughly $5 million.

Tell me WHY they are reporting $169 million in profits for a QUARTER of a year?

Are you mad yet?

Kamala Harris had a plan to stop price gouging.

[Hareeba!]

It’s not only difficult to debate a group of MAGA people that literally change their reality on a whim, in a split second, it is absolutely impossible.

They hated electric cars, now they’re buying them.
They hated higher prices, now they love them.
They hated “short term economic pain,” now they ask for more.
They hated economic downturns, now they love them.
They hated “going after political enemies,” now they’re asking why there isn’t more of it.
They “loved” the Constitution, now they’re demanding Trump win a third term.

You can’t reason with a cult.

[Hareeba!]

If only more people had seen this and taken note of Charlie's opinion.

https://x.com/i/status/1911488504305262676

[DwightShrute]

It's just total bullshit.

Find just one instance of somebody who didn't enter the Capitol and who didn't engage in some act of violence or obstruction of justice outside who was charged, let alone sentenced.

Owen Shroyer is one of only a handful of Jan. 6 participants charged with a crime despite having neither entered the Capitol building nor been accused of committing violence or destruction on Capitol grounds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...ase-rcna104378


Also,to this date, not one person has been charged with "insurrection" for J6. Not one person. Still the fake news media and the radical Lefties keep calling it an insurrection.

[guitarjosh]

hmmm ....

Our military had orders to hunt down and kill the ones on the right. If they don't see a difference between the 2, one has to wonder if they'll order the same for the people on the left side.

[guitarjosh]

Yea the country would fall apart without Josh and his small mind. LMAO 401k like many Americans, its not like you have a choice.

Not the point and still pointless. More false equivalence, still pointless.

I go after Reagan because he was a douche bag. Capital has nothing to do with it. Also the biggest recession since the great depression.

Oh now labor creates wealth because I made you look stupid. The culture war is why we don't have wealth and it's not the rich hording wealth. LOL You are looking stupid again. Yea its over your head. LOL

India was a British colony, which still makes it a basket case today. That's why it's run by a right wing fascist. Maybe you should move there. You would fit right in. LOL

This is the stupidest thing you have ever said. Shows you don't know how the world works.

Left and right mean different things to you and me. Most everything in this world comes down to money and greed. I could give a rats ass what you think is left and right. Your a fuking idiot. You know history that fits your agenda which is narrow, you understand all most nothing about history.

As if we care. LOL I bet you underestimate many things in life as you hyper focus on the dumbest shit there is. I see that in every post you write.

Are you a brooks clone?

The country is already falling apart, which is why Bernie, AOC, you are constantly complaining about America and wanting a socialist revolution. You do have a choice, you don’t have to have a 401k if you don’t want to. So you’re just admitting to being a huge hypocrite. You constantly attack me for being savvy in the stock market, saying I’m living off the backs of workers, as you own stocks so you can retire better! LOLLOL!

What causes the average person to have a rapid increase in their standard of living is the whole point! History and empirical evidence shows that the more free market capitalism we have, the better the average person is.

You go after Reagan because he set back the socialists by decades. Again, he put in reforms that stabilized the economy, we’ve only had 4 recessions start since 1981 compared to 7 from 1953-1981. 2008 wasn’t the fault of Reagan, it was caused by the widespread belief that housing would perpetually rise. Have you ever seen The Big Short? There’s a scene about 25 minutes into the movie where Michael calls Lawrence to tell him about the position he took shorting the housing market and how he has to pay out premiums. Lawrence said, “You mean to tell me we pay premiums until the mortgages fail? In other words, we lose millions until something that never happened before happens?” That was the conventional wisdom leading up to 2008, that the housing market was free money, and people positioned themselves accordingly. When housing tanked, they got hammered.

I never said labor doesn’t create wealth. In this day and age though, labor needs wealth to get the tools and equipment needed to work. I didn’t say that about the culture war either, you’re just lying again. I said that if the democrats didn’t have a large supply of people who can’t support themselves needing transfer payments and promises of guaranteed jobs that pay a living wage regardless of your skill level, all they would have is unpopular culture war positions and they would get little support.

That’s a brilliant point about India being a British colony. Luckily for us Americans, we were never a colony of the British. Neither was Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong… What hurt India was their following a socialist economist named Harold Laski. If you think it was bad now, look up The Emergency in India under democratic socialist Indira Gandhi. It’s exactly what people like you want for anyone who gets in your way.

It might be, but it’s still smarter than anything you’ve ever said. Tell me why it’s so stupid. If colonization and imperialism made a nation wealthy, Russia should be wealthier than the USA. You just keep grasping at straws. Literally everything you claimed made America wealthy, I’ve been able to point to a country that had more of it, yet they had less wealth. Once you point to capitalism, you’ll be right

Right to me means small government that isn’t too involved in my life. Again, if you’re going to call someone an idiot, you should probably use proper grammar. You’re = you are, your = possessive, like "your car”. I know history, and that shaped my agenda. You know the history TYT, Sam Seder, and Thom Hartman spoon-fed you and nothing else. That’s why you’re always wrong.

I’d rather be a Brooks clone than a Khicks26 clone. Who would want to be an evil hypocrite like this Khicks26 guy. He even laughed at his own post.

[DwightShrute]

hmmm ....

panic merchant

[DwightShrute]

To the Trump supporters here: do you have any criticisms of Trump over the past few months, or do you approve of all of his decisions?

I said many weeks ago (and haven't made a post here since then) I think this thread has become utterly pointless because there's no real debate or discourse to be had. Every Trump supporter is so rooted in defending him, the reality denial is just completely off the charts. Feel free to prove me wrong somehow.

to the never Trumpers such as yourself, is there anything Trump has ever done which you agree with or support, or do you disapprove of all his decisions?

[Hareeba!]

Masked agents.
In unmarked vans.
With no arrest warrants.
Who refuse to identify themselves.
Black-bagging entire families.
And detaining anyone who tries to stop them.
America is becoming a police state.