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Destroying the constitution to save it!
« Reply #1502 on: January 07, 2021, 01:29:57 PM »

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left, Hypocrites
« Reply #1503 on: January 07, 2021, 08:41:48 PM »
Hypocrite of the Day

Leominster, Massachusetts school superintendent Paula Deacon recently announced yet another delay in opening schools, which have been closed all year. She then flew to Florida to see Tom Brady and the Bucs game.

https://mailchi.mp/58faeaf93d30/unleash-prosperity-hotline-846638?e=17d44a0477

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1504 on: January 07, 2021, 08:55:48 PM »
Environmental groups are nowhere to be found [on nuclear energy]. Why? Because they hate nuclear power and are financed by the solar and wind industry lobby. They oppose a form of energy that emits NO greenhouse gases.  Are there no ends to leftwing hypocrisy?
Committee to Unleash Prosperity
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Protesters storm Wisconsin capital Madison 2011
« Reply #1505 on: January 08, 2021, 07:15:44 AM »
Marking this youtube for future search.

We've never seen protesters storm a capital?


quote author=G M
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5yT16a_og
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One difference, no one shot and killed one of the people attempting to enter.

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take over of Wisconsin capital 2011
« Reply #1506 on: January 08, 2021, 08:20:03 AM »
heros
patriots

fighting for their rights against dastardly evil fascists nazis
who are a threat to democracy

so this is fine

any peep from senile Joe at that time?
how about kamala

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1507 on: January 08, 2021, 08:29:04 AM »
IIRC the takeover of the WI statehouse in 2011 lasted quite a while.  Let's get some more of the footage and articles on this.

https://beautifultrouble.org/case/wisconsin-capitol-occupation/

Worth noting:

"The teaching assistants noticed that the senate had failed to set a limit on the number of speakers on a floor debate about Walker’s bill, and so signed up thousands of people to offer testimony. This kept debate open indefinitely, as well as the capitol itself, and eventually turned the occupation into a twenty-four-hour speak-out, with a microphone set up in the middle of the rotunda."

Clearly, this is not what happened after the Trump rally.

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Re: Manufactured outrage
« Reply #1509 on: January 08, 2021, 09:00:18 PM »

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1513 on: January 09, 2021, 03:50:56 PM »
I get the point about hypocrisy, but since when do we model on CK?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1514 on: January 09, 2021, 04:30:25 PM »
I get the point about hypocrisy, but since when do we model on CK?

Same rules for everyone, right?

Or are we still in the Mitt Romney mode of going into the fetal position in response to every attack?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1515 on: January 09, 2021, 06:07:12 PM »
Those aren't the only two options on the table.

Looking like we are just as bad as what we condemned with righteousness while going 0-60 in court and our  side killed a policeman (he died of his injuries later) while breaking into the Capitol is a tough sell.  Using Colin Kap. as our theoretician is tougher yet.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1516 on: January 09, 2021, 06:20:49 PM »
Are we going to VOTE HARDER?



Those aren't the only two options on the table.

Looking like we are just as bad as what we condemned with righteousness while going 0-60 in court and our  side killed a policeman (he died of his injuries later) while breaking into the Capitol is a tough sell.  Using Colin Kap. as our theoretician is tougher yet.

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Re: Riots
« Reply #1517 on: January 10, 2021, 07:54:13 AM »
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-07-at-8.11.00-PM.png?resize=768%2C992&ssl=1



Isn't this amazing?

They take the fun and challenge out of pointing out their bias and hypocrisy when they swim nakedly in it.
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1518 on: January 10, 2021, 08:07:37 AM »
And yet most of them are blissfully unaware...

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Too much marijuana or steroids?
« Reply #1519 on: January 10, 2021, 04:07:08 PM »
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/10/arnold-schwarzenegger-compares-capitol-hill-rioters-to-nazis-wields-sword-from-conan-the-barbarian/

or just TDS?

we are stronger than before ?

28 trill in debt
 
virtual war with China

we can't even say man or woman anymore

everything is race or identity politics

media silencing the party you once belonged to

mono party take over of the government with big monied backer and virtual control of 90% media

Oh and yes we are a sword being tempered to be "stronger than before"

Does this not meet the definition "muscle head" ( knuckle head) disorder?


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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1520 on: January 10, 2021, 04:19:26 PM »
Pussy whipped ever since Maria caught him banging the maid.


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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the Left, Thomas Sowell
« Reply #1522 on: January 13, 2021, 10:36:16 AM »
THOMAS SOWELL: “It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2021/01/12/is-truth-irrelevant-n2582977

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the Left, Thomas Sowell
« Reply #1523 on: January 13, 2021, 11:53:01 AM »
THOMAS SOWELL: “It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2021/01/12/is-truth-irrelevant-n2582977

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/07/kamala-harris-called-riots-a-movement-last-summer-said-they-should-not-stop-n1310640

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1525 on: January 14, 2021, 09:07:36 PM »
 If Trump has called off the ruckus for inauguration day, why the security scare.  If Trump can incite them and they take their direction from him, can't he call them off as well.  If they're saying the supporters would be violent anyway, then he didn't incite them. 

BYW, people like a gracious, magnanimous winner.  Democrats in Washington aren't that.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1526 on: January 14, 2021, 09:15:15 PM »
If Trump has called off the ruckus for inauguration day, why the security scare.  If Trump can incite them and they take their direction from him, can't he call them off as well.  If they're saying the supporters would be violent anyway, then he didn't incite them. 

BYW, people like a gracious, magnanimous winner.  Democrats in Washington aren't that.

It appears that they suddenly believe that walls do work, given all those that have gone up recently in DC.

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The Left fears this video
« Reply #1527 on: January 15, 2021, 09:45:05 AM »


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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1529 on: January 18, 2021, 11:20:53 AM »
G M:  It appears that they suddenly believe that walls do work, given all those that have gone up recently in D.C.

Yes. 



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The Cognitive Difficulty of the left
« Reply #1530 on: January 18, 2021, 03:30:06 PM »

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Democrats aren't gracious winners, are they?
« Reply #1531 on: January 20, 2021, 08:01:37 AM »
Stabbing Hector’s Corpse
Americans hate one thing more than a sore loser, and that is an arrogant, vindictive—and bullying—winner.
By Victor Davis Hanson

January 20, 2021
In Homer’s epic Iliad, the Greek hero Achilles finally kills his hated archenemy, the often trash-talking Trojan warrior, Hector.

After Hector dies, once frightened but now gloating Greek soldiers encircle and cowardly stab his limp corpse.

Achilles even ties the ankles of the dead Hector to his chariot and in fits of mindless rage drags him around the walls of Troy.

Homer then brilliantly shows how Achilles’ vindictive excess ensures sympathy even for the once-braggart Hector. Eventually, the adolescent Achilles relents, grows up, allows Hector to be buried, and accepts the tragic nature of a common humanity.

If Democrats and the Left had wished to reinvigorate the Trump legacy, they could have done no better than unleashing their unhinged and often repulsive hatred of the last two weeks.   

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson recently boasted, “There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.”   

What method does Robinson advocate for the required mind-rinsing of these millions? The Chinese, Soviet, or North-Korean model?

CNN’s Don Lemon claims that those who voted for Trump—nearly half the electorate—are synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. Would Lemon include one in three Hispanics or one in five black males?

The Lincoln Project, in good McCarthyite fashion, wants to create lists of former Trump officials to destroy their reputations. Is that the spirit of their namesake, Abe Lincoln, who urged Americans to heal the nation’s wounds “with malice toward none, with charity for all”?

Was it not enough to rush through a slipshod, one-day second impeachment of Trump, the first in our nation’s history?

Or after he leaves office, will Trump also become the first private citizen in history to be the target of a Senate impeachment trial—an act as unnecessary as it is likely unconstitutional. 

So far the Left has produced no consistent standard by which the public can judge Trump’s excesses. Indeed, for months, blue-state mayors and governors contextualized nonstop summer rioting, arson, and looting.

Politicians like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Vice President Kamala Harris, and Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), have themselves either revved up angry protestors, urged mass street demonstrators to continue indefinitely, or directed followers to hound and harass government officials.

Trump, unlike Iran’s strongman Ayatollah Khamenei who advocates the destruction of Israel, is banned for life from Twitter. So are many of his followers—unlike those of radical Antifa and BLM who used social media to coordinate their often violent protests, looting, and arson. 

The small conservative alternative to Silicon Valley’s left-wing social media monopoly, Parler, was crushed by Big Tech in one fell swoop. 

Does Joe Biden really believe he can unite the country by smearing two U.S. senators as no different from the genocidal Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels? 

Already Biden’s premature promises of mass amnesties and lax border enforcement have sparked caravans of undocumented immigrants to head for the border. Are they going again to crash through without background checks—right in the middle of a spiking COVID-19 pandemic, with already crammed ICUs and long lines for vaccinations?

Joe Biden has promised to cancel pipeline contracts and curtail fossil fuel production. 

How popular will that be?

Fracking made the United States a net energy exporter and crashed gas prices. America is no longer dependent on Middle East oil and gas. It has no need to intervene in endless wars out of worry for secure energy supplies. 

The transition to clean-burning natural gas allowed the United States to reduce carbon emissions more rapidly than almost any other major industrial nation. And high-paying gas and oil jobs sparked economic booms from Texas to North Dakota. 

Lots of departed Republican Trump officials are now loudly trashing their former boss. Few admit that their once-stalled careers were revived only after they successfully lobbied to work for the Trump White House. 

Efforts of Republican House members to join House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s push to impeach Trump were widely praised as “bipartisan” in the media and by the Left. But impeachment won the support of less than five percent of Republican House members.

No wonder, since some national polls put Trump’s national popularity unchanged or even above where it was on Election Day. About 85 percent of Republicans still support him.

The irony is that all these frenzied efforts to mutilate the political corpse of Trump are reviving him. 

Banning Trump from his often self-destructive Twitter addiction, smearing his supporters as racists, and bulldozing through a far-Left agenda will only ensure Trump a ninth life.

Americans hate one thing more than a sore loser, and that is an arrogant, vindictive—and bullying—winner. 



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aclu wants to ban sex on IDs
« Reply #1534 on: January 22, 2021, 05:40:51 AM »
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2021/01/21/aclu-wants-erase-male-female-sexes-id-documents/
Why,  sex is not a "civil liberty" any more than one's height or eye color
listed on and ID

How is this possible people are crazily supporting this?

Why can't Americans have a say
most don't support the LBGT crap


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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1538 on: January 24, 2021, 01:02:11 PM »
ute indian tribe buyer's remorse

did they vote for him?

what did they think was going to happen?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1539 on: January 24, 2021, 03:15:18 PM »
ute indian tribe buyer's remorse

did they vote for him?

what did they think was going to happen?

Moar free Sh*t from Uncle Sugar.

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response to BLM and Antifa
« Reply #1540 on: January 25, 2021, 09:55:31 AM »
is  total capitulation
is total appeasement

response to 75 million voters on other side . Ignore the reasons they are pissed and do this:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/how-can-farright-violence-be-stopped-165037092.html

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Re: response to BLM and Antifa
« Reply #1541 on: January 25, 2021, 10:07:59 AM »
BURNLOOTMURDER/Protifa are state approved paramilitaries.

is  total capitulation
is total appeasement

response to 75 million voters on other side . Ignore the reasons they are pissed and do this:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/how-can-farright-violence-be-stopped-165037092.html

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Hollywood Tony does it again
« Reply #1543 on: January 29, 2021, 06:07:02 AM »
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/01/28/dr-fauci-backs-overseas-abortion-funding-as-positive-for-womens-sexual-and-reproductive-health-n1416432

At first I really liked him
his obvious relish of his celebrity status
has changed my opinion of him
further intensified by his now overt Democrat partisanship

As soon as I see him on the tube I change the station
I can't stomach him anymore


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John Kerry private jet to Iceland, only choice for somebody like me
« Reply #1545 on: February 04, 2021, 07:56:41 AM »
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-private-jet-iceland-climate-award

John Kerry took private jet to Iceland for environmental award, called it 'only choice for somebody like me'

President Biden's recently appointed climate czar, John Kerry, took a private jet to Iceland in 2019 to receive the Arctic Circle award for climate leadership.

Kerry defended his high-pollution ride at the time, calling it "the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle". The incident had not been previously reported in the American press.

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who led the Arctic Circle Roundtable, criticized Kerry for traveling to the event via private jet, Icelandic outlet RUV reported.

Kerry received the award, which took the form of an iceberg sculpture, for being "a consistent voice pressuring the American authorities to commit to tackle environmental matters," the outlet noted.

Icelandic reporter Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson confronted Kerry at the event over his choice of transportation, asking: "I understand that you came here with a private jet. Is that an environmental way to travel?"
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I want to say, bleeping moron, but it is just the opposite.  That's what he thinks we are.  WHY IS HE TRAVELING THERE AT ALL, IF THE EARTH'S SURVIVAL RESTS IN THE BALANCE?

Note that that the American press didn't ask the question or even report it.

Besides climate hypocrisy, this reeks of elites' 'rights' versus those of the unwashed masses.  Just like how socialist dictator Hugo Chavez' daughter became a billionaire while the little people were left to eat zoo animals.

The work he does is important, anything goes.  The work you little people do needs to be stopped, based on the Leftist principle of coercive paternalism.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1546 on: February 04, 2021, 09:11:15 AM »
'only choice for somebody like me'

what other choice could a man of such stature do

to be able to travel ~ 2500 miles
to pick up a small statue award
and receive adulation
then fly over on a private jet........

Lurch -> backwards

He even makes Kissinger look handsome in comparison

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claims that Trump was racist and the new term "sexist"
« Reply #1549 on: March 08, 2021, 08:24:14 AM »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-endorses-female-generals-whose-130408215.html

this gets yahoo headlines though it is all conjecture and not more

Trump was not even present with them as choices