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    Today, 08:47 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    People are starting to get off their asses, and the clown show is the reason why. Reinstalling Trump is more likely to cause them to sit their lazy asses down again. That's why Trump is being set up to pull down an honest, undeniable landslide, so we will sit down and do nothing while they build FEMA camps. If not, I do think that the swamp will drain him. Regardless of whether he goes in intending to drain it, he will have to. Deciding not to could be the last thing he ever does.
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    Today, 08:41 AM
    CaptUSA replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    FTFY. I'll give you through 2019, but 2020 was an unmitigated disaster. Race riots, lockdowns, spending fiascos, suspension of civil liberties, election rigging, censorship... On all his watch. If we can't expect better than that, it's time for the bunker.
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    Today, 08:24 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    That's what I have been saying all along is the fallacy of MAGA. Politicians did not make America great in the first place, and as it has cycled up and down, they were never the ones who made it great again. You think Trump sucks at picking only the best people. I think he picked the team that would do what he wanted to do. Either way, it doesn't matter much. Government needs purged. Trump is not the hand grenade so many people thought he was in 2016. He didn't even rise to the level of a monkey wrench in the Deep State works. Reinstalling him and expecting a different result looks to me like collectively living the definition of insanity. Will RFKJr. do better? That's something we don't already know. But we do know that he, very much unlike Trump, Must Not Be Named. And I came away from 2008 and 2016 considering that a very good sign. Another pair of signs I see also gives me food for thought. Trump has not only demonstrated a willingness (maybe even a desire) to resort to draconian measures, and his base loves him for it. They accept the necessity of draconian actions when he does them without question and treat anyone who does ask questions the way liberals treat dissenters.
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    Today, 08:16 AM
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    Sounds good.
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    Today, 08:04 AM
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    And even if there are more drivers, that doesn't mean there is more driving. As OPEC taught us in 1974.
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    Today, 07:54 AM
    fisharmor replied to a thread NPR editor speaks out: How National Public Radio lost America's trust in U.S. Political News
    The great thing about having my first principles straightened out is it's easy to make absolutely correct snap judgments. This is all I need to know, straight from his pen: There are only two majority opinions on this. The first position is you never defund a government program, at all. Maybe there's a need sometimes for an external entity like an uber-powerful superpower to invade and topple your government and put in all new programs that will never be defunded, but the idea of removing funding from a program is otherwise anathema. The second position is you call for defunding a program you really don't like, and score some political points off of calling for defunding, but never actually tie it off. So it's the same as the first position but with some lie theater to advance some parasite's personal lot in life. Both positions are abhorrent and we've seen both expressed in articles in this thread. I didn't read the whole article and I don't need to - he's clearly in the first category, and that's all I need to know.
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    Today, 07:49 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    Obviously he can tell baldfaced lies in order to combat what he considers misinformation. Remind you of anyone in the news?
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    Today, 07:46 AM
    fisharmor replied to a thread NPR editor speaks out: How National Public Radio lost America's trust in U.S. Political News
    The DC area NPR affiliate does pretty well with their playlists, but there's still the Saturday afternoon opera. I love classical music, even going into some of the modernist stuff, but opera, in general, may as well be Noh theater to me. As my dad used to say: hours of caterwauling with a nice aria in between. Then one beautiful spring Saturday morning last year, I was inexpertly making up some way-too-strong CBD oil from a not-low THC strain and accidentally licked my fingers before going to Hobby Lobby. And while I was sitting in the parking lot too scared to go inside, I heard this: I had one of those moments of profound beauty that was carved into my entire soul for life, and NPR's crappy programming was responsible. I can't hate on it entirely.
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    Today, 07:31 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    One thing's certain. There's a whole lot of room to the right of Trump from which to attack him.
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    Today, 07:29 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread NPR editor speaks out: How National Public Radio lost America's trust in U.S. Political News
    Combatting misinformation is important, but the truth isn't. Neat.
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    Today, 07:22 AM
    fisharmor replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    And neither side will ever mention that Trump assassinated a general of a country we're not at war with, while the general was officially visiting another country we're not at war with. It doesn't really matter who he was or what he was doing - if those were facts on the ground, that's the sort of thing that not very long ago in history would have invited reprisals like collecting all the hands and feet of everyone in an entire city and throwing them in a pile and watching them all bleed out. If there's one thing Trump did during his presidency, it was to show that Iran is absolutely not the boogeyman everyone thinks they are. If they were, they had every casus belli they needed to be the worst boogeyman they could be on that occasion.
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    Today, 07:12 AM
    CaptUSA replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    First off, Ron doesn't want tariffs. He'll accept low, uniform tariffs as a less obtrusive alternative to other forms of taxation. To state that he wants them is wholly disingenuous. Secondly, the purpose of low, uniform tariffs is NOT to give an advantage to domestic producers. That's what protectionist tariffs desire. And they attempt to accomplish that at the expense of the American consumer. The purpose of low, uniform tariffs on all imports, regardless of product or nation of origin, is to provide the federal government with some minimal operating revenue so they don't have to resort to other forms of wealth extraction from the American public (income taxes, debt, currency devaluation). You can't just say all tariffs are the same and Ron wants them. That's a demonstrable lie.
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    Today, 07:09 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    CaptUSA has been there, done that, and it went in one of your ears and whooshed right back out the other at the speed sound travels in air. You don't even seem to have noticed. You repeat yourself like a spammer. I don't.
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    Today, 06:41 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    Well, boys, we've reduced him to spamming like a cracked vinyl record again. Suppose he really thinks spamming us will cause us to unsee the difference between uniform tariffs and protectionist tariffs? Suppose he really thinks spamming us will cause us to unsee the fact that tariffs couldn't possibly raise the amount of money Trump gave Big Pharma to poison us?
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    Today, 06:29 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    It's what people who don't have a leg to stand on always do. The Swordsmyth Two Minute Hate Hour is always amusing, in a sad, ironic sort of way.
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    Today, 06:25 AM
    fisharmor replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    I always think "Sword Swallower", but SS is both apropos and easier to type.
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    Today, 06:24 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    And how do you propose to make that happen? Ron Paul is weaker than you because he has been in Congress and tried to really do real things, while you are almighty like every armchair quarterback. Only thing is, he lives in the real world. You just go around accusing others of having unrealistic theories, while shoveling your own. Did the word "uniform" go in one of your eyes and out the other? Wasn't there anything in between to slow it down?
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    Today, 06:24 AM
    CaptUSA replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    Incorrect. A low, uniform import tariff on all goods entering our ports is completely different than high selective tariffs on certain products, from certain countries, based on the political clout of their domestic competition. The former is a less-obtrusive way for government funding. The latter is a socialist scheme intent on giving political favors at the expense of the American consumer and the economy. You know NOTHING about the philosophy of Ron Paul. You LOVE you some socialism as long as it's your dictator in control of it.
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    Today, 06:19 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    Ron Paul says they are. Like the man said, you're misrepresenting his position.
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    Today, 06:17 AM
    CaptUSA replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    Funny watching SS deflect from the 100% factual content of the tweet to instead attack the tweeter. :D
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    Today, 06:15 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    It's his tariffs you're trying to sell.
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    Today, 06:14 AM
    CaptUSA replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    You should NEVER quote Ron Paul. You are deliberately misstating his position. Low, uniform tariffs as an alternative to taxing income are completely different than your socialist protectionist tariffs.
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    Today, 06:13 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    Show me where Ron Paul said enacting a tariff automatically ends other taxes, and/or where Trump (not you) proposed a package deal of that type. Show me where Ron Paul called for intranational tariffs and state customs agencies.
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    Today, 06:07 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    When? How? Why? When has passing a tariff ever ended any other tax? Why are you acting like it's automatic? Has Trump said one thing -- just one word -- about making the repeal of other taxes a part of his proposed new tariffs? Has he? You want us to believe your scheme is part of the plan, when Trump hasn't even made it one of his broken campaign promises? You just made that up. If progs accuse others of doing what they themselves do all the time, and you accuse others of doing what you yourself do all the time, how are you not a prog?
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    Today, 05:58 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    Same spam, different thread. I remember Obama trolls doing this to Ron Paul over his Republican endorsements, too. But they didn't lecture us constantly about political necessities and the perfect being "the enemy of the good" at the same time. They weren't so hypocritical.
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    Today, 05:51 AM
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    McConnell wouldn't confirm anyone but Bolton?
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    Today, 05:48 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    You say state tariffs will result in the end of the federal income tax. I say there's no reason in the world to believe that and you double down. With even less real-world evidence that it could ever happen, you then insist state tariffs are the only thing that could end the federal income tax. Then you start doing the liberal "if you don't support the federal Department of Education you don't want children to learn" fallacy. You want us to think you're not a liberal, but you can't seem to stop acting just like one.
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    Today, 05:39 AM
    acptulsa replied to a thread Thought experiment to show why protectionism damages the economy in Political Philosophy & Government Policy
    Nothing to it :rolleyes: News flash: I don't want interstate customs searches. So, I won't support this hare-brained scheme even if you type your fingers to the bone trying to sell it. Take your "Papers, pliss" totalitarian schemes and... I don't care what you do with them.
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    acptulsa replied to a thread RFK Jr. Attacks Trump....from the right in U.S. Political News
    Excuse, excuse, prognostication based on lesser evil dogma, spinning a meaningless "silver lining" offhand remark into an endorsement that never happened like those puppets who pose as journalists like to do. I feel so darned edified now.
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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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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

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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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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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