bjr229
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@lesliedouglasx This breaks down along emotional versus logical lines. Real verses imaginary. Engineers, plumbers, surgeons all deal with physical problems using logic
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At first glance, this seems like a division between the working class and the managerial class, but it's not quite that simple. There are engineers and surgeons on the Republican side. What we're really witnessing here is a split between those who work (miners, engineers, surgeons) and those who mostly pretend to work (yoga instructors, film industry workers, social scientists).
Emil Kirkegaard@KirkegaardEmil
Most left vs. right wing occupations in USA. (Measured by donations.)
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@JohnCleese @naomirwolf Your mistake is thinking Islam is a religion. It is a political ideology with religious elements
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I read everywhere about the 'hard right'
This the term used to describe people who are
Islamosceptic - that is, people who are doubtful about the merits of a religion that demands child marriage, the beating of women, and death to all who oppose it
Perhaps 'sensible right' would be a better description
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@RepJackKimble Some real idiots would be an upgrade over the current batch of corrupt politicians.
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Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.
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@CartesianDemons @YasMohammedxx It isn’t a problem of attention span, it is a prioritization of my valuable time. Too much to learn, too little time
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@bjr2291 @YasMohammedxx That’s because it was made before attention spans got cooked
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I watched this over a decade ago. If I weren’t already an ExMuslim at the time, I would have been by the end of the hour and 15 mins. It’s excellent.
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You’re welcome! youtu.be/Hkm88bfZHGs?si…
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Our government isn’t broken.
It works great for billionaires.
For Big Pharma.
For Wall Street.
For corporations that can hire lobbyists.
It's rigged for the wealthy and well-connected.
We need to build a better system—one that works for working people.
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Here's something that comes around about once every lifetime. Zero out and all of a sudden the inning is over. A triple play is something so rare. 82 years before this was the last one. 🔥⚾️
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It is sad to see people actually thinking that Steve Hilton can win the governorship, or Spencer Pratt can win the mayoral election in Los Angeles.
They don't understand California politics.
Let me tell you two sad facts: neither thing can happen.
Joseph Stalin once said words to the effect that the people who vote don't determine elections. The people that count the votes determine elections.
But there's more than that in California, and Stalin would have been amazed if he had seen how this state has rigged elections.
If everyone in the state voted for Hilton, and everyone in LA voted for Pratt, both would still lose. You think I'm exaggerating?
Here's how Democrats have rigged the system. In California, every registered voter, alive or dead, legal or illegal, still in district or not, gets a ballot mailed to them. Every single one.
In CA, ballot harvesting is legal. Which means the massive Democrat machine sends operatives out to collect those ballots that were sent to people who aren't there, or senile citizens in old folk's homes, or anywhere else they can, and votes them for Democrats.
Then, they dump those ballots into the conveniently placed collection boxes that are all around the state, so the scammers don't have to go very far to drop them off. No need to actually pay for postage. Nope. Just drop them off.
Then there's the fact that any ballot received within seven days after an election gets counted. If the Democrats need a little push, they just put those pre-postmarked ballots into the post office box, and they get sent to arrive in time to change the election results.
The real problem is that there is no low-level Republican effort to rebuild Republican presence from the bottom up. The CA Republican party is a bunch of elite do-nothings who ask for money and then use that money for 'election events' like dinners, flights around everywhere, and pontifications. They're as big a bunch of grifters as Democrats are. They just have less power.
So before you all go "Rah Rah!!! We're going to win!!!" Realize that not only is the deck stacked against Republicans, but the order of the cards in the deck are already determined.
The winner of the California gubernatorial race will be whichever Democrat gets on the general election ballot. And the winner of the LA Mayor's race will be Karen Bass.
Not because the people voted for them. But because it's the Democrat machine that "counts the votes."
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One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.
Gaza in 2023 and 2026!
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RAIR Foundation USA founder Amy Mekelburg just delivered a BRUTAL truth to Congress:
"Islam is a hostile totalitarian political ideology using our freedoms to destroy us. To every non-Muslim, it offers three choices: convert, submit, or die."
"It does not stop until every court, every school, and every government on earth is under Sharia."
"These networks operate more than 8,000 Islamic nonprofits across America, including 650 in Texas alone."
"They have no plan of assimilating."
We MUST stop importing Islam to the West. It is a Trojan Horse meant to destroy us.
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The United States has:
• 683,000+ heart disease deaths/year
• 620,000+ cancer deaths/year
• 250,000+ estimated deaths from medical error
Yet public health officials are running national fear campaigns about backyard chickens, raw milk, pet turtles, and hantavirus.
That is not rational public health prioritization.
That is theater.
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Professor Gad Saad: ‘Say Goodbye To America, it’s all Over’
Gad Saad says America will fall to Islam, and we will allow it to happen
He categorizes it as a “Stage 4 cancer”
“We are approaching stage 4, but there is a cure. Here's where I get pessimistic. The problem is that there is no indication that the West has the stomach and the testicular fortitude to actually implement what is easily available.
So for example, when it comes to immigrants, any immigrant that belongs to an ideology that has tenets that are contrary to the Western tradition, that ideology should be banned. And you can't use the freedom of religion argument to render us all impotent as we go to the abyss of infinite lunacy. So there is a way to solve it.
I worry that nobody has the ability to do so”
What he’s talking about is Hijrah (Islamic migration for conquest), combined with higher birth rates and exploiting Western freedoms and guilt against itself
He says Islamist theorists have openly declared this strategy, and the West lacks the testicular fortitude to respond with ideological vetting and bans on doctrines opposing liberal democracy. Mainly sharia supremacism
There is a “cure”
- Ban immigration from groups whose core ideology conflicts with Western traditions
- Reject “freedom of religion” as a shield for supremacist political ideologies
- Prioritize cultural compatibility over empathy signaling
Literally common sense
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Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
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@charliebilello The FED is trapped. Inflation rising says raise interest rates, but the cost of financing the national debt requires keeping interest rates low. The economy and job market are soft, suggesting lower rates. In other words we are likely to see stagflation
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US CPI Inflation Rate moved up to 3.8% in April, its highest level since May 2023. The Inflation Rate is now back above the Fed Funds Rate and CPI is likely headed above 4%. The Fed is once again behind the curve and should be hiking interest rates.
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