Looks like the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza with American weapons and paid for with American dollars isn't enuff for the Biden admin Neocons.
War with Iraq being pushed on us now as well.
Iraq also recently demanded that the US military leave their nation but US ignores.
US loses military in Red Sea and Jordan and nobody asks what they were doing there.
I’m also in FL. It was 79 last weekend. 5 miles from the beach. Looking forward to driving north to catch the Olympic trials.
no legal troubles. Happily married.
How many of you guys are retired? I have like 35 more years of work. I use letsrun to escape
If you had invested $5,000 in Microsoft in 1986 when it went public, that would be worth $11 million now.
If you can come up with $20,000, put $10,000 in Vanguard index funds, $7500 in the "Mag 7" and the rest in whatever you like. In 30 years you will be almost Flagpole-wealthy." Like really wealthy.
How many of you guys are retired? I have like 35 more years of work. I use letsrun to escape
If you had invested $5,000 in Microsoft in 1986 when it went public, that would be worth $11 million now.
If you can come up with $20,000, put $10,000 in Vanguard index funds, $7500 in the "Mag 7" and the rest in whatever you like. In 30 years you will be almost Flagpole-wealthy." Like really wealthy.
That's good advice. I do want to be Flagpole rich and send my kid to Stanford or whatever he did
If you had invested $5,000 in Microsoft in 1986 when it went public, that would be worth $11 million now.
If you can come up with $20,000, put $10,000 in Vanguard index funds, $7500 in the "Mag 7" and the rest in whatever you like. In 30 years you will be almost Flagpole-wealthy." Like really wealthy.
That's good advice. I do want to be Flagpole rich and send my kid to Stanford or whatever he did
If you do become super rich, be like Shaq and don't give your kids just a ton of money. Let them see what they can do on their own and you be a last-ditch safety blanket.
So what's next after the $83.3 sexual assault payout? $370 million for business fraud. But surely it's the corrupt judges, jury and unfair legal system.
That's good advice. I do want to be Flagpole rich and send my kid to Stanford or whatever he did
If you do become super rich, be like Shaq and don't give your kids just a ton of money. Let them see what they can do on their own and you be a last-ditch safety blanket.
If you are the child of someone super rich, no matter what the parents may say, those kids know they will be taken care of. All that stuff about making their kids "work for it" is just a bunch of talk that rich people like to say, but can't and won't do.
wow. Hadn’t seen this one before. These Trump worshipers really had a conversion didn’t they?
(of course that thought conversion on Trump is money. It’s a shame Trumpers can’t recognize that these right wingers talkers entire belief system is designed to grift from them by making Trump a great leader)
Ben Shapiro: Trump stands for “nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power." He will turn conservatism into “the crypto-racist, pseudo-strong, quasi-tyrannical toxic brew leftists have accused it of being." (March 2016)
As a decades-long fairly conservative person, the highlighted part reminds of a particularly interesting aspect of Trumpism. For decades, I thought that liberals were too high-and-mighty about their ethical/moral superiority over conservatives. Oh, I'm against affirmative action or abortion, or want a strong national defense, or don't want huge taxes on the hard working? So, I'm a bad human being for those positions?
And in my mind, such criticisms are STILL illegitimate (and are still unfairly made).
BUT, BUT, BUT.....the liberals apparent SENSE (belief, convection, whatever) that a LOT of the conservative base WAS FUNDAMENTALLY unethical/immoral....and deplorable? Well, it turns out that they were RIGHT on the money.
wow. Hadn’t seen this one before. These Trump worshipers really had a conversion didn’t they?
(of course that thought conversion on Trump is money. It’s a shame Trumpers can’t recognize that these right wingers talkers entire belief system is designed to grift from them by making Trump a great leader)
Ben Shapiro: Trump stands for “nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power." He will turn conservatism into “the crypto-racist, pseudo-strong, quasi-tyrannical toxic brew leftists have accused it of being." (March 2016)
As a decades-long fairly conservative person, the highlighted part reminds of a particularly interesting aspect of Trumpism. For decades, I thought that liberals were too high-and-mighty about their ethical/moral superiority over conservatives. Oh, I'm against affirmative action or abortion, or want a strong national defense, or don't want huge taxes on the hard working? So, I'm a bad human being for those positions?
And in my mind, such criticisms are STILL illegitimate (and are still unfairly made).
BUT, BUT, BUT.....the liberals apparent SENSE (belief, convection, whatever) that a LOT of the conservative base WAS FUNDAMENTALLY unethical/immoral....and deplorable? Well, it turns out that they were RIGHT on the money.
Interesting.
Correct... I tended to vote D but sometimes voted R. Since trump and while the GQP continues on this path it is not only impossible for me to vote R again, I feel it's my obligation to vote D.
Has anyone noticed the emergency national crisis of terrorists, rapists invading the country at the southern border has become a non-issue all of the sudden on Fox News?
I guess this national emergency can wait until closer to election time now that Trump says to not do anything to solve it.
Poor Grandma and Grandpa. They were all worked up about incoming caravans and now nothing.
wow. Hadn’t seen this one before. These Trump worshipers really had a conversion didn’t they?
(of course that thought conversion on Trump is money. It’s a shame Trumpers can’t recognize that these right wingers talkers entire belief system is designed to grift from them by making Trump a great leader)
Ben Shapiro: Trump stands for “nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power." He will turn conservatism into “the crypto-racist, pseudo-strong, quasi-tyrannical toxic brew leftists have accused it of being." (March 2016)
Shapiro targets the young ones and is trying to position himself ahead of the inevitable collapse of trumpism.
wow. Hadn’t seen this one before. These Trump worshipers really had a conversion didn’t they?
(of course that thought conversion on Trump is money. It’s a shame Trumpers can’t recognize that these right wingers talkers entire belief system is designed to grift from them by making Trump a great leader)
Ben Shapiro: Trump stands for “nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power." He will turn conservatism into “the crypto-racist, pseudo-strong, quasi-tyrannical toxic brew leftists have accused it of being." (March 2016)
Shapiro targets the young ones and is trying to position himself ahead of the inevitable collapse of trumpism.
That quote was from 2016. Not sure what he is saying these day. But I think he is still a 100% trumper.
It just shows how disingenuous these right wing talkers are.
@judylthomas A jury trial gets underway in D.C. today for a Missouri man charged with multiple felonies in connection with the Capitol riot, including injuring an officer with a tent pole.
J6 is quickly becoming the new fake 9/11. Despite all the undeniable footage, coverage and fallout, they will insist nothing happened.
She has no clue what she votes for. She has no clue what hypocrisy is. She simply has no clue.
WATCH: Rep. @MaElviraSalazar continues to take credit for projects brought to #FL27 made possible by bipartisan legislation she voted against like the CHIPS & Science Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
wow. Hadn’t seen this one before. These Trump worshipers really had a conversion didn’t they?
(of course that thought conversion on Trump is money. It’s a shame Trumpers can’t recognize that these right wingers talkers entire belief system is designed to grift from them by making Trump a great leader)
Ben Shapiro: Trump stands for “nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power." He will turn conservatism into “the crypto-racist, pseudo-strong, quasi-tyrannical toxic brew leftists have accused it of being." (March 2016)
As a decades-long fairly conservative person, the highlighted part reminds of a particularly interesting aspect of Trumpism. For decades, I thought that liberals were too high-and-mighty about their ethical/moral superiority over conservatives. Oh, I'm against affirmative action or abortion, or want a strong national defense, or don't want huge taxes on the hard working? So, I'm a bad human being for those positions?
And in my mind, such criticisms are STILL illegitimate (and are still unfairly made).
BUT, BUT, BUT.....the liberals apparent SENSE (belief, convection, whatever) that a LOT of the conservative base WAS FUNDAMENTALLY unethical/immoral....and deplorable? Well, it turns out that they were RIGHT on the money.
Interesting.
You left out something interesting, and it's definitely a thing: the two parties have practically switched sides on key positions.
Reagan-era conservatives:
* Were in favor of illegal immigration (or, "undocumented" in common parlance). It kept businesses profitable, and they didn't care if it hurt American workers without college degrees.
* Opposed free speech. Reagan appointed Edwin Meese (an evangelical) to be his Attorney General. In 1984, Meese released a scathing report detailing the harmful effects of pornography.
* Thought America's might was largely a factor of its military dominance and the strong influence of large corporations.
All three of these positions are now identified with the democratic party, with some degree of variation and for slightly different reasons, to be fair.
One of the loudest arguments you hear from dems rn is that Trump is a "threat to democracy." I think this article does pretty good job of debunking that logic:
We aren't a democracy, we're a Republic (we elect leaders to run govt, not put everything to a vote where the majority rules)...and there's a lot of clever word thinking in how the term is applied in a modern context.
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