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04-02-2022, 09:11 AM
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lefty Bill Maher slams media for censoring Hunter Biden laptop
Maher is incapable of being decent, but he’s not incapable of being correct. A very rare liberal who can criticize his side when they deserve it.
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04-02-2022, 09:43 AM
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He’s had negative things to say afoot the left seems quite a bit lately.
Maybe he’s seen the light or maybe he’s terminally ill and wants to make penance with god for fear of ending up in hell for all the lies he’s been spewing for decades.
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04-02-2022, 04:26 PM
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He hates the right. Thinks their a bunch of foul mouth dingbats.
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04-02-2022, 04:41 PM
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Maher is incapable of being decent,
But I’ll use his opinion because it suits my narrative.. lol
While conservatives are yelling
Media’s suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop was election interference
While ignoring Trump and others Tried to actually steal the election
Love conservatives logic
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04-02-2022, 04:51 PM
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Maher is incapable of being decent,
But I’ll use his opinion because it suits my narrative.. lol
While conservatives are yelling
Media’s suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop was election interference
While ignoring Trump and others Tried to actually steal the election
Love conservatives logic
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i can differentiate between being a jerk, and being correct. you can’t.
Maher is right, they willfully buried the story, twitter and facebook censored it, they slandered people as russian agents who wanted to discuss it, until the story couldn’t hurt democrats politically. then they declared it was fair game
if the gop takes control of the house, which is a 95% likelihood, they’ll have hearings on this all day. maybe they’ll take a page out of “democrat logic” and impeach Biden. that’s what i sincerely hope they do.
the conservative logic seems
pretty popular with independents and hispanics at the moment, no?
A huge percentage of hispanics are catholics. they don’t want to be told
there’s no such thing as gender, and that ninth month abortions are swell.
if democrats could be moderate democrats, they’d be unstoppable outside of TX and SC. A democrat like Bill Clinton would win 40 states. 40. But they can’t.
their answer to all the failures at the moment, is to worsen the crisis at the border. is that “liberal logic”? keep shooting themselves in the d*ck? Keep pushing independents to the right?
seems to me that the DNC knows they’re going down, so they’re trying to empty out their wish list while they can, implement all the radical
liberal policies while
they still can.
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04-02-2022, 07:09 PM
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So Trump lost the election so we’ll aka conservatives and sore losers will blame the media . And Transgenders . Suggesting he’s Sons Laptop had anything to do with his father..
And we’ll excuse Trump for attempting to steal the election.. believing he was treated badly
while they Dems implement all the radical
liberal policies
Spoken like a true cult member
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04-02-2022, 07:39 PM
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So Trump lost the election so we’ll aka conservatives and sore losers will blame the media . And Transgenders . Suggesting he’s Sons Laptop had anything to do with his father..
And we’ll excuse Trump for attempting to steal the election.. believing he was treated badly
while they Dems implement all the radical
liberal policies
Spoken like a true cult member
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of all the things you’re claiming i said, i didn’t say any of them.
let me ask you, why did the media all work together to shut that story down, in the month before the election? why did they say it was russian disinformation?
there was never, ever a speck of proof it was russian disinformation. but that sounded great for democrats.
if the media wasn’t trying to protect biden, then you explain why they did what they did
you’re the one who gives your side a pass for trying to steal
an election. you refuse to comment of what congressional democrats did in 2016.
for the 100th time, let’s see who’s the cult member. tell us some
meaningful
policies on which you disagree with democrats
and again, why did you refer to desantis’ law as the don’t say gay bill, when there’s nothing in the bill
that treats homosexuality differently than heterosexuality?
I’d say you never had reason to believe it was an anti gay bull ( because it’s not anti gay), but you heard liberals say it, so you nodded like a good livestock and repeated it like a good sheep.
make that wrong. please make that wrong.
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04-03-2022, 11:22 AM
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Ron passing a bill in the state where Republicans have been charge since 1999 passed this bill to protect
Heterosexual is comical it’s not even taught now k-3rd grade
teachings on sexual orientation or gender identity would be banned “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
For starters, criticism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill does not in fact say “gay” anywhere in its text is true.
does, however, contain the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” each twice.
But legal experts say that whether the bill prohibits the word “gay” itself is a “distraction.”
In the same way that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the governor of Florida from deploying the term ‘critical race theory’ in efforts to engage in certain kinds of political maneuverings,” said Charlton Copeland, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law
Critics have said the language of this provision could open districts and educators to lawsuits from parents who believe any conversation about LGBTQ people or issues to be inappropriate, regardless of their child’s age.
Legal experts agree,
So like I’ve said these. Bill are all based on a lie a fantasy constructed by the GOP and fed to the base as truth and DeSantis, who is widely seen as eyeing a run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination and has signaled his support for the measure several times,
It’s all an election Stunt
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04-03-2022, 12:40 PM
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Ron passing a bill in the state where Republicans have been charge since 1999 passed this bill to protect
Heterosexual is comical it’s not even taught now k-3rd grade
teachings on sexual orientation or gender identity would be banned “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
For starters, criticism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill does not in fact say “gay” anywhere in its text is true.
does, however, contain the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” each twice.
But legal experts say that whether the bill prohibits the word “gay” itself is a “distraction.”
In the same way that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the governor of Florida from deploying the term ‘critical race theory’ in efforts to engage in certain kinds of political maneuverings,” said Charlton Copeland, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law
Critics have said the language of this provision could open districts and educators to lawsuits from parents who believe any conversation about LGBTQ people or issues to be inappropriate, regardless of their child’s age.
Legal experts agree,
So like I’ve said these. Bill are all based on a lie a fantasy constructed by the GOP and fed to the base as truth and DeSantis, who is widely seen as eyeing a run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination and has signaled his support for the measure several times,
It’s all an election Stunt
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you’re opposed to a bill, which prevents sex talk in grades k-3?
you think kids as young as 4, should have to hear about sex in school?
meanwhile his approval
ratings are soaring, and everyone thinks the democrats are in for a drubbing.
keep telling parents it’s bigoted to want to keep toddlers away from these topics. it’s a foolproof strategy.
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04-03-2022, 12:41 PM
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Ron passing a bill in the state where Republicans have been charge since 1999 passed this bill to protect
Heterosexual is comical it’s not even taught now k-3rd grade
teachings on sexual orientation or gender identity would be banned “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
For starters, criticism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill does not in fact say “gay” anywhere in its text is true.
does, however, contain the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” each twice.
But legal experts say that whether the bill prohibits the word “gay” itself is a “distraction.”
In the same way that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the governor of Florida from deploying the term ‘critical race theory’ in efforts to engage in certain kinds of political maneuverings,” said Charlton Copeland, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law
Critics have said the language of this provision could open districts and educators to lawsuits from parents who believe any conversation about LGBTQ people or issues to be inappropriate, regardless of their child’s age.
Legal experts agree,
So like I’ve said these. Bill are all based on a lie a fantasy constructed by the GOP and fed to the base as truth and DeSantis, who is widely seen as eyeing a run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination and has signaled his support for the measure several times,
It’s all an election Stunt
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how could you possibly know what’s not taught in florida?
“it’s an election stunt.”
kind of like passing a federal
law against lynching? is there an epidemic of
lynchings that missed?
are there any states where it’s currently legal to lynch blacks, and the feds needed to step in?
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04-03-2022, 09:22 PM
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how could you possibly know what’s not taught in florida?
“it’s an election stunt.”
kind of like passing a federal
law against lynching? is there an epidemic of
lynchings that missed?
are there any states where it’s currently legal to lynch blacks, and the feds needed to step in?
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Children who know about sex know when someone is trying to abuse/groom them. Every parent should be talking to their kids about sex. My kids used proper anatomy words so if they ever came home with a private part nickname, I would have known that someone had been talking to them inappropriately.
Why would anyone object to a law against lynching?
Afraid you’ll lose the right to lynch?
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04-03-2022, 10:01 PM
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Children who know about sex know when someone is trying to abuse/groom them. Every parent should be talking to their kids about sex. My kids used proper anatomy words so if they ever came home with a private part nickname, I would have known that someone had been talking to them inappropriately.
Why would anyone object to a law against lynching?
Afraid you’ll lose the right to lynch?
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Should there be a law specifically against stabbing? Or against bashing heads in with a baseball bat? Should there be a separate law for each method of murder? How about one law that covers all forms?
Oh yeah, we already have that.
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04-04-2022, 05:27 AM
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Children who know about sex know when someone is trying to abuse/groom them. Every parent should be talking to their kids about sex. My kids used proper anatomy words so if they ever came home with a private part nickname, I would have known that someone had been talking to them inappropriately.
Why would anyone object to a law against lynching?
Afraid you’ll lose the right to lynch?
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that’s the parents job, to decide when their kid is ready for that.
you can teach kids not to be too trusting with strangers, without discussing the pros and cons of different kinds of gender identity. the FL law prohibits discussion of gender identity and personal
sexual choices. it doesn’t prevent all safety discussions.
you’re misinformed or lying.
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04-04-2022, 07:01 AM
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that’s the parents job, to decide when their kid is ready for that.
you can teach kids not to be too trusting with strangers, without discussing the pros and cons of different kinds of gender identity. the FL law prohibits discussion of gender identity and personal
sexual choices. it doesn’t prevent all safety discussions.
you’re misinformed or lying.
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Floriduh’s latest political bill is just the resurrection of an old trope.
The bill’s proponents insist that the measure has nothing to do with harming the dignity of gay individuals but rather is aimed at ensuring age-appropriate sexual education. A series of tweets by Governor DeSantis’s press secretary, Christina Pushaw, however, suggests otherwise. “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill,” Ms. Pushaw wrote. “Grooming” is a term for the tactics sexual predators use to manipulate and exploit their victims. “If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill,” she said in a second tweet, “you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children.”
The conflation of gay people, and gay men in particular, with pedophiles is an old and pernicious stereotype. In 1988 the British Parliament passed a measure preventing local authorities from “promoting homosexuality” or “the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” Known as Section 28, it stayed on the books until 2003. Ten years later, the Russian Duma unanimously passed legislation “for the purpose of protecting children from information advocating for a denial of traditional family values” prohibiting the dissemination of “propaganda” of nontraditional sexual relationships.
While branding gay people as child molesters has been a staple of right-wing rhetoric around the world, there has long existed a strain of American libertarian conservatism that deems the legal enshrinement of such prejudices as an invasion of privacy and a dangerous enhancement of state power. During a similar episode of anti-gay moral panic, none other than Ronald Reagan — whose record on L.G.B.T. issues is most often defined by his shameful inaction around H.I.V. and AIDS during his presidency — turned to his libertarian roots to thwart such bigotry, rather than promote it.
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In Michigan there’s four murder laws
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In Michigan there’s four murder laws
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They are not about the type or form weapons used. Lynching will fit nicely into one of the laws. A separate law for lynching is not required.
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They are not about the type or form weapons used. Lynching will fit nicely into one of the laws. A separate law for lynching is not required.
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it is required when everyone on the left knows what’s coming in november, unless they convince voters that republicans are in favor of lynching.
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04-04-2022, 07:22 AM
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pete you call it flori-duh.
it’s a state with zero income tax yet a booming economy.
it’s a state that managed covid far better then NY, which is governed by the guy Biden said was “the gold standard” in terms of managing covid. But FL had lower death rates, despite having a larger elderly population, and despite not locking down as strictly, despite not closing schools as long. That’s called “winning.”.
People are moving from NY to flori-duh in massive numbers, so clearly the country doesn’t agree with your assessment. but you know better!
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04-04-2022, 01:50 PM
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Jim you never watched the show did you. You saw the headline and ran with it!
I guess you missed what he said next
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04-04-2022, 02:14 PM
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i’m aware maher hates republicans and foxnews. that doesn’t mean he’s wrong, when he attacks the left for burying a story i. order to help biden get elected.
a lot of reliable liberals are scared for november. are you going to claim you aren’t aware of that?
chuck todd is losing his marbles over what he sees coming.
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i’m aware maher hates republicans and foxnews. that doesn’t mean he’s wrong, when he attacks the left for burying a story i. order to help biden get elected.
a lot of reliable liberals are scared for november. are you going to claim you aren’t aware of that?
chuck todd is losing his marbles over what he sees coming.
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Nate Silver just reported that Democrats are INCHES away from expanding their Senate majority from coast to coast.
--WINNING by 1 in Ohio
-- WINNING by 4 in Wisconsin
-- WINNING by 7 in New Hampshire
-- WINNING by 9 in Arizona
WINNING by 9 in the ultimate swing state of Pennsylvania
The Republican vote against $35 insulin gifted Dems a brilliant campaign message: What medical necessity will R's put out of reach next?
Sunsetting Social Security and Medicare?
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Nate Silver just reported that Democrats are INCHES away from expanding their Senate majority from coast to coast.
--WINNING by 1 in Ohio
-- WINNING by 4 in Wisconsin
-- WINNING by 7 in New Hampshire
-- WINNING by 9 in Arizona
WINNING by 9 in the ultimate swing state of Pennsylvania
The Republican vote against $35 insulin gifted Dems a brilliant campaign message: What medical necessity will R's put out of reach next?
Sunsetting Social Security and Medicare?
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yup, a blue wave is on the way for sure!!! all signs point to it.
i don’t see huge gop gains in the senate. it’s not a favorable rotation for the gop. way more republicans up.
what did silver say about the house? you forgot to mention that for some reason.
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As we wake to pictures and reports of horrifying war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine, innocents, hands tied behind their backs, lined up and executed, children, women, men, thrown into ditches or left in the streets, I would remind you of this:
"Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? I'm serious. Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which by the way I am."
-- Tucker Carlson
"This is genius. Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine -- of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful."
-- Donald J. Trump
"I'd say that's pretty smart. He's [Putin] taking over a country -- really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in."
-- Donald. J. Trump
Russia learned from the Nazi invasion of their own country. They took that brutal lesson to heart, target the innocents, burn the hospitals, slaughter civilians, destroy the infrastructure.
Trump, Carlson, et al look upon that horror and they see ... strength.
You have only to look to Fox News and OAN right now to see those who speak for Republican ideology threatening similar revenge on Americans for imagined slights. See the comment of Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans, Laura Ingraham, et al.
That's how it starts.
That rhetoric. Revenge. Getting even. Using the power of government and the military to crush your opponents. That's where it starts.
And it ends with the bodies of innocents shot in the head and dumped in a ditch.
You remember when Trump as President threatened to send the Army into Chicago?
And Republicans cheered that idea?
When he paraded tanks through our capitol?
And Republican cheered?
Do you?
It's all part of the same mindset, one that ends in genocide. Every time.
We must not only stop what's happening in Ukraine, we must stop it before it happens HERE.
Case in point, right here.
This is how you justify genocide. This is how you justify the same sort of slaughter that's happening in Ukraine right now.
This is how you see Vladimir Putin as strength. Right here. This right here.
Rep. Lisa McClain (MI) says that migrants crossing the border are all “terrorists, convicts, murderers and rapists.”
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As we wake to pictures and reports of horrifying war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine, innocents, hands tied behind their backs, lined up and executed, children, women, men, thrown into ditches or left in the streets, I would remind you of this:
"Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? I'm serious. Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which by the way I am."
-- Tucker Carlson
"This is genius. Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine -- of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful."
-- Donald J. Trump
"I'd say that's pretty smart. He's [Putin] taking over a country -- really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in."
-- Donald. J. Trump
Russia learned from the Nazi invasion of their own country. They took that brutal lesson to heart, target the innocents, burn the hospitals, slaughter civilians, destroy the infrastructure.
Trump, Carlson, et al look upon that horror and they see ... strength.
You have only to look to Fox News and OAN right now to see those who speak for Republican ideology threatening similar revenge on Americans for imagined slights. See the comment of Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans, Laura Ingraham, et al.
That's how it starts.
That rhetoric. Revenge. Getting even. Using the power of government and the military to crush your opponents. That's where it starts.
And it ends with the bodies of innocents shot in the head and dumped in a ditch.
You remember when Trump as President threatened to send the Army into Chicago?
And Republicans cheered that idea?
When he paraded tanks through our capitol?
And Republican cheered?
Do you?
It's all part of the same mindset, one that ends in genocide. Every time.
We must not only stop what's happening in Ukraine, we must stop it before it happens HERE.
Case in point, right here.
This is how you justify genocide. This is how you justify the same sort of slaughter that's happening in Ukraine right now.
This is how you see Vladimir Putin as strength. Right here. This right here.
Rep. Lisa McClain (MI) says that migrants crossing the border are all “terrorists, convicts, murderers and rapists.”
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if you’re uneasy with the republicans aggressive flexing of muscles now, wait until november pete.
obama’s IRS was targeting conservatives when he was potus. Where was your concern for political retribution then? or for Carter Paige?
oh, you’re going to have a rough november.
if trump had sent the army into places like chicago, more blacks would be alive right now. those places are third world cities
you have come completely unhinged. trump speaks for all
republicans? when Hilary slut shamed her husbands victims on national tv, did that cause you to vote for someone else? seriously, why is it on when you support a morally bankrupt candidate? but a character flaw when anyone else does it?
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obama’s IRS was targeting conservatives when he was potus.
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That is a not a complete or totally true statement. The IRS unit that reviews 501(c)(4) applications had been using the names of organizations as an initial filter to try to decide who was likely to be involved in inappropriate political activity. The IRS had flagged not just political sounding names but names that signaled a conservative orientation, including tea party, patriot, 9/12, etc. And that is what the Rs ran with. What was ignored is that the unit was also looking for words like occupy, progressive, etc.
The IRS used political sounding names but it did not do so on a partisan basis. And then they stopped using those search terms. There was later a report from the inspector general which said there was no political bias from the IRS but the gov apologized for using the search terms.
Obama had zero part in anything.
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That is a not a complete or totally true statement. The IRS unit that reviews 501(c)(4) applications had been using the names of organizations as an initial filter to try to decide who was likely to be involved in inappropriate political activity. The IRS had flagged not just political sounding names but names that signaled a conservative orientation, including tea party, patriot, 9/12, etc. And that is what the Rs ran with. What was ignored is that the unit was also looking for words like occupy, progressive, etc.
The IRS used political sounding names but it did not do so on a partisan basis. And then they stopped using those search terms. There was later a report from the inspector general which said there was no political bias from the IRS but the gov apologized for using the search terms.
Obama had zero part in anything.
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in which “inappropriate political activity”, means conservative activity.
no evidence whatsoever obama played a direct role. i didn’t say that he did. but why do you suppose those people at the IRS felt, that at a time when obama
was potus, it was a good idea to target conservatives?
when you’re an executive, the people who work for you, are an extension of your policy.
is there any evidence that progressive groups got unfavorable treatment from the IRS, just for being progressive? i didn’t hear about any.
the point was whether or not conservatives are ever unfairly targeted for being conservative. that was one example. Brett Kavanaugh would be another pretty solid example.
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04-05-2022, 03:33 PM
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in which “inappropriate political activity”, means conservative activity.wrong. they looked at both
no evidence whatsoever obama played a direct role. i didn’t say that he did. but why do you suppose those people at the IRS felt, that at a time when obama
was potus, it was a good idea to target conservatives? but they didn't "target conservatives"
when you’re an executive, the people who work for you, are an extension of your policy.
is there any evidence that progressive groups got unfavorable treatment from the IRS, just for being progressive? i didn’t hear about any.They did. There were more conserv. leaning org. filing though.
the point was whether or not conservatives are ever unfairly targeted for being conservative. that was one example. Brett Kavanaugh would be another pretty solid example.
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But they weren't being unfairly targeted any more or less than liberal ones.
The problem was that the IRS was starved for $ and took shortcuts bc of staffing/$ issues
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04-04-2022, 07:39 PM
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As we wake to pictures and reports of horrifying war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine, innocents, hands tied behind their backs, lined up and executed, children, women, men, thrown into ditches or left in the streets, I would remind you of this:
"Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? I'm serious. Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which by the way I am."
-- Tucker Carlson
"This is genius. Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine -- of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful."
-- Donald J. Trump
"I'd say that's pretty smart. He's [Putin] taking over a country -- really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in."
-- Donald. J. Trump
Russia learned from the Nazi invasion of their own country. They took that brutal lesson to heart, target the innocents, burn the hospitals, slaughter civilians, destroy the infrastructure.
Trump, Carlson, et al look upon that horror and they see ... strength.
You have only to look to Fox News and OAN right now to see those who speak for Republican ideology threatening similar revenge on Americans for imagined slights. See the comment of Ron DeSantis, Florida Republicans, Laura Ingraham, et al.
That's how it starts.
That rhetoric. Revenge. Getting even. Using the power of government and the military to crush your opponents. That's where it starts.
And it ends with the bodies of innocents shot in the head and dumped in a ditch.
You remember when Trump as President threatened to send the Army into Chicago?
And Republicans cheered that idea?
When he paraded tanks through our capitol?
And Republican cheered?
Do you?
It's all part of the same mindset, one that ends in genocide. Every time.
We must not only stop what's happening in Ukraine, we must stop it before it happens HERE.
Case in point, right here.
This is how you justify genocide. This is how you justify the same sort of slaughter that's happening in Ukraine right now.
This is how you see Vladimir Putin as strength. Right here. This right here.
Rep. Lisa McClain (MI) says that migrants crossing the border are all “terrorists, convicts, murderers and rapists.”
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Propaganda Pete selects together a montage of past quotes from different contexts, some with different intents when taken out of context, some being sarcastic rather than serious, all of which were said before present conditions and all pasted together to create a picture of Republicans being bloodthirsty NAZI Stalinistic insurgent insurrectionists who are about to commit genocide on the American people if they are not stopped.
As Pete has warned--be very afraid!
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04-05-2022, 09:19 AM
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Meanwhile in Tennessee
Tennessee Republicans are advancing a bill that creates a separate, privileged class of marriage for heterosexual couples, acting as a loophole to the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage. The bill would also legalize child marriage by eliminating age requirements.
Because you’re not molesting a 10 year old if you’re married
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04-05-2022, 11:27 AM
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Meanwhile in Tennessee
Tennessee Republicans are advancing a bill that creates a separate, privileged class of marriage for heterosexual couples, acting as a loophole to the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage. The bill would also legalize child marriage by eliminating age requirements.
Because you’re not molesting a 10 year old if you’re married
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meanwhile in Palm Springs, they want to give $900 a month to anyone who identifies as gay, trans, non binary etc…
is that discriminatory pete?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cal...nder-residents
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