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    Today, 09:54 PM
    Your first two sentences are pure speculation with absolutely no factual data to support them. Your last comment is just pure bullshit. But you already know that.
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    Today, 08:54 PM
    Now he’s praising the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909? I wonder if he knows that Sen. Nelson W. Aldrich was the very guy who organized the covert meeting on Jekyll Island that gave birth to the Federal Reserve Act? But I’m sur Aldrich had nothing but the best interests of the average American in mind when he helped craft that tariff act. Certainly there couldn’t have been any other motive from a stand-up guy like Aldrich, right? ETA: Aldrich was, in fact, the father in law of old John D. Rockefeller himself. Future vice president Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, his grandson, was actually named after him. At the time Aldrich was well known as a “Rockefeller man” in congress. He represented not his actual constituents but the Rockefeller financial empire. IIRC his reputation among real conservatives and liberty loving Americans was so bad that his involvement with the Federal Reserve Act had to be carefully concealed lest that revelation doom the bill’s chances. As I recall, he even pretended to oppose the bill in a successful effort to dupe enough Americans to go along with it to get it passed. He was a globalist, progressive scumbag and NOTHING he was ever involved in, including the tariff act bearing his name, was good for America or its people.
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    Today, 08:13 PM
    At best he’ll start quoting from Ian Fletcher’s book about how great tariffs are and how horrible free trade is. What he WON’T tell you is that Fletcher is actually on the board of a group called the Coalition For A Prosperous America, a lobbying group for a bunch of rent seeking corporations and industries seeking to enrich themselves unjustly at the expense of American consumers through tariffs and trade restrictions. Fletcher is nothing but a shill lobbyist and his book is just pro-protectionist propaganda. But you didn’t really expect any better, did you?
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    Today, 05:55 PM
    Hurricanes during hurricane season? ZOMG!1!! It's a plot! :eek: :rolleyes:
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    Today, 02:36 PM
    Is that even a real picture? It seems a bit uncanny. It looks like the helicopter is floating just above the water. And if it's not, why would they land in such a spot?
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  • acptulsa's Avatar
    Today, 02:20 PM
    All action, no bullshit. He's the man. Glad you and WP are hanging in there.
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    Today, 11:31 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Hurricane Helene in Open Discussion
    See how much more adult and civil that is than, unhappy lad, get that twist out of your knickers?
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    Today, 11:02 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Hurricane Helene in Open Discussion
    A civil and adult conversation tends to avoid a paternalistic tone. Try to tell me that you've never once in your life bridled at such an elementary suggestion and I'll happily call you a liar. The funny thing is, you've participated in the thread. You've critiqued my own answers to that question you think I haven't asked. You know I've asked myself that question. Have for months. As we age and our memories get weaker, it's wise of us to pause and consider that we can no longer be certain people haven't already tried our suggestions -- and we already know they have (at least on a good day). They call things like that aging gracefully. And such habits make all conversation more civil. Some consider it the very difference between conversing with and preaching at.
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    Today, 10:51 AM
    Hell yes! Happy to know I helped in a very small way. You, too, can enjoy that feeling by PMing AF and getting the Venmo! Rather than donating to the United Way or Red Cross, or some other agency that will use it to send their CEO on lavish trips with 5 course luxury meals, you can help real people help real people!! I URGE YOU ALL TO PITCH IN! We may have an election to look forward to, but we can still do moneybombs to bring relief to our type of people!
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    Today, 10:09 AM
    A handy object lesson for those who refuse to believe Israel and its stooges can really be so hypocritical as to blithely say the opposite of what their bosses really want. https://x.com/AmazingZoltan/status/1842335994353537460 1842335994353537460 It's called a psyop, kids.
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    Today, 09:28 AM
    There's no mousetrap like a hunter/seeker mousetrap with non-artificial intelligence and a highly sensitive sensory array. They're decorative, too. And affectionate.
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    Today, 09:16 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Hurricane Helene in Open Discussion
    I'd rather ask what makes you presume I haven't. Especially when I have a multiple page thread full of my speculation on that very subject on this very site. What's more, I think mine makes more sense. It's based on historical precedent -- a number of them, but particularly the Biennio Rosso, which brought Mussolini to power.
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    Today, 05:57 AM
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    Today, 05:55 AM
    Oh, on his "...if you suspend the Constitution and appoint Me Dictator For Life" agenda. Forty More Years! Remember, before he does anything else he's got to build the FBI a yuge, beeautyful new palace before they try to shoot him again! That'll probably eat up the entirety of his first Next Four Years all by itself. I mean, we already know he will screw us all to save his own hide. SS already told us about several instances where he already did. We're going to be hearing a lot more, "The Prime Alpha Male had to do that because he was afeared of Hitlery's Suicide Squad!!" out of the Trumpscuse Brigade before we're through.
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    Today, 05:45 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Hurricane Helene in Open Discussion
    Why, yes, the Democrats really are purposely trying to lose this election.
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    Today, 05:39 AM
    Don't see why not. Like seniors and Medicare, they charge us so much in taxes we can't afford to also buy something that works right. But be advised...
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  • CCTelander's Avatar
    Today, 05:37 AM
    As I understand it ending the fed is on his agenda, immediately following eliminating world hunger, ending poverty and curing cancer. Give the guy a break! He can’t do EVERYTHING all at once you know.
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    Today, 05:35 AM
    Forever is a long time to expect the guy to refrain from running his mouth. After all...
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    Today, 05:33 AM
    According to Trump, the very purpose of his tariffs is to prop up the petrodollar. Doesn't sound like he has the slightest intention of ending the Fed, does it?
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    Today, 05:28 AM
    No, it was the Trophy First Lady who was imported.
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    Today, 05:25 AM
    Yer brainwashed. You're so brainwashed you think the Alt Right Division of the MSM isn't the MSM. Language like this suckers you every time.
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    Today, 02:48 AM
    Oh please. I love ta like a brother man, but it’schard to take ignorant comments like this seriously. Read a frekin’ history book ffs.
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  • CCTelander's Avatar
    Today, 02:33 AM
    Your initial statement is patently false. I don’t know where you get these ideas but history clearly demonstrates quite thevreverse.
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    Today, 01:01 AM
    Let me know when you’ve shrunk government back down to that size. Then, maybe, we can talk.
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    Today, 12:57 AM
    Please spare me your bullshit straw manning. My commentscwere a direct counterpoint to TheTexan advocating actual isolationism, nothing more. And also please spare us the bullshit lie that tariffs are the causitive agent behind American prosperity, and that free trade destroyed it. Only people naive enough to belive that protectionist shill Ian Fletcher fall for that crap.
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    Yesterday, 11:48 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7ddQs7vg0
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    Yesterday, 11:48 PM
    Not to mention the fact that isolationist societies throughout history have almost always been backward, stagnant societies that usually suffered under some form of brutal, feudal dictatorships. It’s only been after they’ve abandoned their foolish isolationism that they were able to move in the direction of greater freedom and prosperity, although there are certainly no guarantees that the will/would.
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    Yesterday, 09:32 PM
    That was back when people on the “right” actually had a decent, fundamental understanding of economics. Oh, and they actually opposed, you know, socialism.
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by acptulsa on 07-02-2017 at 08:46 AM
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So, you take a sniff, mistake an anti-Fed argument for a minimum wage argument, and jump off board? Do you think victims of inflation and the systematic destruction of manufacturing jobs should be stripped of the right to vote, but corporations should get to vote even though they are things, not people? You say government is the problem, not the corporations, but I don't see you acknowledging who or what it is that is paying the lobbyists to make the particular bribes they make.

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by acptulsa on 06-15-2016 at 10:08 AM
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Did a delay in response give the gunman more time? Cops face questions over why it took three hours for SWAT teams to storm Orlando nightclub as police chief admits officers may have shot some of the VICTIMS

...Police Chief John Mina has also admitted that some of the victims may have been hit by officers' gun fire.

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by acptulsa on 09-23-2012 at 10:16 AM
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I just can't decide who to vote for in the presidential race. They're both just so perfect! I can't believe it. Things are just going so well I never considered firing the president, but this Romney guy is just such a temptation!

Romney promises us more war. Obama promised us just the opposite, but that's ok, because he saw Dubya's two wars and raised us three police actions. I think that's a wonderful thing, and can't wait for the next one. I heard somewhere that with six you

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by acptulsa on 09-23-2012 at 10:14 AM
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Once upon a time, there was a thing called the Interstate Commerce Commission. It was founded to prevent kamikaze capitalism amongst railroads in a day when their efficiencies and primitive technology pretty much guaranteed them a monopoly in viable transportation.

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by acptulsa on 06-26-2011 at 08:29 AM
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