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Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 6:57 pm

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:48 pm I don't want to know why the flag is removable

Duh, it's in case you want the little flag blessed/hugged by the real FJT when you're at one of his rallies before placing it back on the bobblestand.

Wha't the going price for the square foot of this memorabilia?

The campaign is shirely missing out on important fund raiser

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:48 pm I don't want to know why the flag is removable

so you can put the Russian Flag there. or the NK flag...

The Good Liars @TheGoodLiars wrote: US Flag Code: The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.

Crazy Trumper former Staind front man Aaron Lewis spells out "TRUMP 24" using dead coyote bodies last year. Because he's a sick fuck.

Stupid trumpers can't even spell dementia.

Like edumacation may be a new dimension for them

Raiklin hoping to settle scores:

They are really trying to amp up the crazies in their base. Hopefully twice as many "normal" Republicans are repulsed and disaffected by people like this.

bill_g wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:57 pm They are really trying to amp up the crazies in their base. Hopefully twice as many "normal" Republicans are repulsed and disaffected by people like this.

Sadly, I don't think they are. I will note as I have noted recently that most of the folks I know who are willing to vote for FJT despite all his baggage have expressly noted they simply don't care about the criminality and authoritarianism. They are *OKAY* with that. Because for them it's about high gas prices and high insurance prices and the person of color down the street that makes them feel uncomfortable.

I am sad to say that some of these people are people I love dearly and I am still trying how best to go low contact.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:33 am

bill_g wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:57 pm They are really trying to amp up the crazies in their base. Hopefully twice as many "normal" Republicans are repulsed and disaffected by people like this.

Sadly, I don't think they are. I will note as I have noted recently that most of the folks I know who are willing to vote for FJT despite all his baggage have expressly noted they simply don't care about the criminality and authoritarianism. They are *OKAY* with that. Because for them it's about high gas prices and high insurance prices and the person of color down the street that makes them feel uncomfortable.

I am sad to say that some of these people are people I love dearly and I am still trying how best to go low contact.

One hears this so often (and is saddened). Does anyone then say, "What more do you think fuckhead can do to lower gas prices? Because the answer is nothing." And "Insurance prices are more likely to rise under fuckhead, because he's all about the money going to the top." Nothing to be done about the racists, however.

Seriously these false narratives drive me crazy.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:33 am

bill_g wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:57 pm They are really trying to amp up the crazies in their base. Hopefully twice as many "normal" Republicans are repulsed and disaffected by people like this.

Sadly, I don't think they are. I will note as I have noted recently that most of the folks I know who are willing to vote for FJT despite all his baggage have expressly noted they simply don't care about the criminality and authoritarianism. They are *OKAY* with that. Because for them it's about high gas prices and high insurance prices and the person of color down the street that makes them feel uncomfortable.

I am sad to say that some of these people are people I love dearly and I am still trying how best to go low contact.

(there are no words)

p0rtia wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:58 am

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:33 am

bill_g wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:57 pm They are really trying to amp up the crazies in their base. Hopefully twice as many "normal" Republicans are repulsed and disaffected by people like this.

Sadly, I don't think they are. I will note as I have noted recently that most of the folks I know who are willing to vote for FJT despite all his baggage have expressly noted they simply don't care about the criminality and authoritarianism. They are *OKAY* with that. Because for them it's about high gas prices and high insurance prices and the person of color down the street that makes them feel uncomfortable.

I am sad to say that some of these people are people I love dearly and I am still trying how best to go low contact.

One hears this so often (and is saddened). Does anyone then say, "What more do you think fuckhead can do to lower gas prices? Because the answer is nothing." And "Insurance prices are more likely to rise under fuckhead, because he's all about the money going to the top." Nothing to be done about the racists, however.

Seriously these false narratives drive me crazy.

But the Trump supporters will assert, correctly, that gas prices were much lower when TFG was President. However, they ignore the fact that this was largely because there was a nationwide pandemic going on, many businesses that they would normally visit were closed outright, many people were laid off and couldn't afford gas at any price. The economy was suffering, which caused some prices to go down.

Now, despite what MAGAts think, the economy is doing well; unemployment is lower than it has been in many, many years (to the point that economists rank it as full employment); the stock market is at an all time high; corporate profits are up; inflation is down (but not low enough). As C. J. Craig in The West Wing said to someone, "we'll be more than happy to take credit for a booming economy".

So, unless we enter a new recession, and people stop driving because they lost their jobs or because they have nowhere to go, gas prices are going to stay high.

Oh, and the fighting in the middle east always causes oil prices to go up.

Yes, that. Exactly.

The president does have certain tools that could [temporarily] [somewhat] lower the price of gasoline.

But government interference in the free market sounds like ... anti-capitalistic socialism.

Also ignore the fact that Turnip boasted about getting OPEC to gut oil production and held a meeting with the head of Gasoline companies where he begged them to raise oil prices. Happened in April 2020

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/03/busi ... index.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/02/busi ... index.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/economy ... KBN22C1V3/

https://theweek.com/speedreads/906636/t ... ve-tax-cut

bob wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:01 pm Raiklin hoping to settle scores:

Familial resemblance.....? Azog the Defiler.....

NC Education State Superintendent candidate wants cameras in school restrooms:

https://www.wfae.org/politics/2024-07-1 ... -bathrooms

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:44 pm NC Education State Superintendent candidate wants cameras in school restrooms:

https://www.wfae.org/politics/2024-07-1 ... -bathrooms

Damn. Is that even legal, much less appropriate?

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:03 pm

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:44 pm NC Education State Superintendent candidate wants cameras in school restrooms:

https://www.wfae.org/politics/2024-07-1 ... -bathrooms

Damn. Is that even legal, much less appropriate?

Legal? Would be if she gets elected and asks, the GOP in NC has a gerrymandered supermajority in the legislature.

Appropriate? I can image there's folks that would find appropriate places for those cameras, but she'd need surgery to remove them.

Mr brolin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:56 pm

bob wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:01 pm Raiklin hoping to settle scores:

Familial resemblance.....? Azog the Defiler.....

I can't unsee that.

OK, crime show aficionados, the top picture (with him doing that weird thing with his face) reminds me of a lab tech (?) on one of the tv crime series. I can't for the life of me remember which show though. I remember he is wearing a white coat, is short and appears to have no neck and limited range of motion. I think he was an infrequent character, but showed up often enough to remember. Help me out here, please!

Just another skinhead.

His photo reminded me of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.