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Cognitive Dissonance of the Left - Reaction to killing Soleimani
« Reply #1350 on: January 06, 2020, 07:37:11 AM »
When Obama ordered drone strikes against terror targets in Yemen, Afghan, Pak...  when Obama approved the killing of Osama bin Laden, conservatives for the most part applauded.  Search 'giving credit where credit is due' on the forum. I may have mentioned that drone strikes are the same kinds of policies the same Obama would have criticized if he was not President, but we all agreed these were good and proper policies in these situations.

With Soleimani, Democrats are tripping over themselves to criticize.  Isn't that strange.

Even more strange is that no one seems to argue the facts.  This man was responsible for killing and injuring THOUSANDS of Americans, among his victims, and was actively plotting more.

It is provocative to kill someone who is killing us?  Sorry about that.  If you were storming the Obama White House or Oval Office with deadly weapons, what would the orders be?  Shoot to kill.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/trump-has-produced-extraordinarily-dangerous-moment/604456/
https://spectator.org/the-democrats-strange-reaction-to-the-death-of-qassem-soleimani/
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women in white
« Reply #1351 on: February 05, 2020, 05:23:49 AM »
https://pjmedia.com/trending/white-women-draped-in-white-sit-while-trump-announces-lowest-minority-unemployment-numbers-ever/

ORiginal phrase :
"Hell hath no fury like a writer scorned"

changed in 1697 :

Take our opening phrase, substituting, of course, “woman” for “writer.” Not Shakespeare. It’s William Congreve, in his 1697 tragedy, The Mourning Bride. The actual line is “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d,/Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”

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Nasty Nancy pre-tore the SOTU pages
« Reply #1352 on: February 05, 2020, 06:40:24 PM »
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385657.php

It's all staged for the cameras.

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breaking news : nancy spotted without makeup
« Reply #1353 on: February 06, 2020, 04:50:06 AM »

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Cognitive Dissonance of the Nancy
« Reply #1354 on: February 06, 2020, 11:38:58 AM »
Glenn Reynolds writes:

Pelosi keeps saying that Trump’s speech was full of lies, and that not one word was true. So the tremendous economic growth didn’t happen? Black workers aren’t doing better? The bottom quartile hasn’t progressed faster than the top 1%? Gen. McGee wasn’t really a Tuskeegee Airman? If you’re going to denounce lies, maybe name one? If we had an actual press, maybe someone would ask her about that.

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american hating communists
« Reply #1355 on: February 08, 2020, 04:25:30 PM »
gobs of *red* lipstick
is totally appropriate :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squad_(United_States_Congress)

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wealthy Jewish kid vs immigrant's spanish kid
« Reply #1356 on: February 09, 2020, 06:52:43 AM »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-boys-same-disability-tried-081445840.html

what is the point of this article -  that someone else should be paying for this person's child
the government should pay for this - taxpayers ?

every human on the planet can get first class treatment when they can pay for it for anything
and when one can't you get the best you can if "second class"

I can't hire several hundred dollar DC copyright lawyers either while I sit and watch the stars etc steal everything

talented lawyers cost money
as does the specialist educators who treat children with learning disabilities

no one works for free or provide the facilities that are needed.   it cost MONEY and no it is not the responsibility of anyone else to cover this.

What does the parent do for a living ?
work for free?


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Bernie Bros being rude?
« Reply #1357 on: February 20, 2020, 05:31:40 PM »

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"That Little Sell-Out Was Me!"
« Reply #1358 on: March 09, 2020, 01:37:40 PM »

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Re: "That Little Sell-Out Was Me!"
« Reply #1359 on: March 09, 2020, 03:00:00 PM »
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/386238.php

Some adviser told her she needed to endorse Biden if she wanted to be his VP.

Presidential Ticket:  Slow and Slower.

Amy is just barely in triple digits but knew to endorse him the very first day.

Where is Warren?  Afraid to give up her 3rd place finish in Massachusetts?


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What say the anti-vaxxers on coronavirus vaccine? Let it spread?
« Reply #1360 on: March 20, 2020, 10:10:56 AM »
It's easier to be anti-vax on a disease already stopped in its tracks - by vaccine.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-18/anti-vaxxers-coronavirus-vaccine-development
I can't pull up the article, but the subject brings up a good question.

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Down goes the model of the Left
« Reply #1361 on: March 20, 2020, 10:17:32 AM »
The central planning model, opposite  of conservative libertarianism, says we should all move to urban clusters, ride mass transit and go to one health care option.

Facts on the ground  suggest otherwise. 

I call on mass transit riders to pay their own way and their own share of the road costs they use.

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/03/20/mass-transit-the-pandemic-petri-dish-the-left-loves/

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What was Washington doing during the virus outbreak? Schiff Impeachment Hoax
« Reply #1362 on: March 20, 2020, 10:30:53 AM »
The impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the 45th and incumbent president of the United States, began in the U.S. Senate on January 16, 2020, and concluded with his acquittal on February 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump

During this time, China admitted the virus was deadly, contagious and out of control, the numbers went up 100-fold, WHO declared an emergency, Trump ordered quarantine and travel ban and Biden called that hysteria and fear mongering.

Now the pandemic is Trump's fault. 

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It's Trump's fault!
« Reply #1363 on: March 20, 2020, 05:58:55 PM »

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Kathy Griffin sick
« Reply #1364 on: March 26, 2020, 04:58:20 AM »
so never let.a bad situation go to waste.

Turn her predicament from a natural plague into a Trump bashathon with all the usual suspects chiming in (including the One who would have single handedly saved the world from this ):

https://ew.com/celebrity/kathy-griffin-coronavirus-slams-trump/

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Cognitive Dissonance of the Left, Government should just print more money
« Reply #1365 on: March 26, 2020, 06:34:41 AM »
Before Bernie Sanders fades from the scene, we should take a look at the "braintrust" behind him.  To be fair, a whole lot of people think we can just print more money and not pay for what we spend even in good times.  But the Left is most brazen about it.

iyi = intellectual yet ignorant

Meet NY Prof. Bernie Sanders adviser Stephanie Kelton.  Off the Left edge of Sanders and Krugman is precarious ground, but The New Yorker gives it a serious look. 

How do these people get hired and hold their jobs in academia?  The answer to that explains much of what is wrong in our country.
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-economist-who-believes-the-government-should-just-print-more-money
The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money
The Bernie Sanders adviser Stephanie Kelton argues that “How will we pay for it?” shouldn’t be a central question in American politics.
August 20, 2019
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"Kelton is the foremost evangelist of a fringe economic movement called Modern Monetary Theory, which, in part, argues that the government should pay for programs requiring big spending, such as the Green New Deal, by simply printing more money."
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Cognitive Dissonance of the Left
« Reply #1366 on: March 26, 2020, 08:45:28 AM »

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BILL DEBLASIO ON MARCH 10, We want to encourage New Yorkers’ going out.
« Reply #1367 on: March 29, 2020, 09:01:17 AM »
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1244016912281059329

But we would be in better hands with Democrats in charge?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1368 on: March 30, 2020, 06:19:50 AM »

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1369 on: March 30, 2020, 07:38:25 AM »
haha

the photos of the scowling face made we wonder if she has a smile;

This is what she looks like when she and parents count the bucks rolling in:

https://www.google.com/search?q=greta+thunberg+smiling&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjOpdyKtsLoAhXTmHIEHdaHCZ8QsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1440&bih=789

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1370 on: March 30, 2020, 07:42:22 AM »
I don't want to mock her but she did use the world's biggest megaphone to shout "How dare you" to me and to us.

Funny they never want to have the discussion.

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semantics
« Reply #1371 on: April 03, 2020, 06:52:13 AM »
It just occurred to me
if one says someone is a "colored person "

that someone risks being called a bigot racist etc

but if one says "person of color "  that is PC

 :-P


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Re: semantics
« Reply #1372 on: April 03, 2020, 07:37:28 AM »
It just occurred to me
if one says someone is a "colored person "

that someone risks being called a bigot racist etc

but if one says "person of color "  that is PC

 :-P

Funny, and hard to keep up with.  Kamala Harris is not an 'African American'.  That heritage came from the Caribbean.   If you argue that it goes further back to Africa, maybe we all do.

"Affordable Housing" from a public policy point of view has always meant 'housing that people can't afford', and to address it means make it worse.  If words had meanings, affordable housing would be the homes rich people pay cash for, and policies that make more people rich and fixer-uppers legal.  "Affordable Care Act" was all about getting more and more people on subsidy, opposite of affording their own care or insurance. 

Abortion isn't a "reproductive right".  It is anti-reproductive act, if you won't call it the taking of a life of another human being.

Income inequality is a fact with no meaning.  If you earn one more dollar, your income is no longer equal to what you made before.  Anyyone who goes out and earns a dollar, steals it or just receives it, has committed income inequality.  But if you call it an income ban, income freeze, or income brakes, no one will vote for it.  The term was resurrected to say that a good economy isn't good, and better isn't better.

Gay once meant happy.  The Left stole our language.  They stole our colors too.  Remember when red states were Democrat?  That made more sense.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/
But red looked too much like the communism map, and Democrats resemble that.  So they switched over and never switched it back.

Take it back.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1373 on: April 03, 2020, 07:53:16 AM »
I have burned over how the Reps allowed the color switch from the beginning. 

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Pelosi forms House committee to oversee coronavirus response, 6 months later?!
« Reply #1374 on: April 03, 2020, 09:59:57 AM »
ccp:  It is telling how Dems only want to blame Republicans and not themselves
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Pelosi forms House committee to oversee coronavirus response
BY MIKE LILLIS - 04/02/20 11:10 AM EDT
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Where were they during the critical months of November, December 2019, January 2020 when the commie-red-virus was coming in?

They were tying the hands of the President, holding the fake Articles of Impeachment from the real US Senate.  Calling the travel ban racist and telling people to come visit Chinatown as late as 2/24/20:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/02/24/coronavirus-speaker-house-nancy-pelosi-tours-san-franciscos-chinatown/
Come spread your virus if you have one, or pick up one of ours if you don't.

Maybe they should let up on the constant partisanship and do something positive to help, other than not let a good, deadly crisis go to political waste.

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here we go again
« Reply #1375 on: April 03, 2020, 11:55:42 AM »
pelosi schumer nadler and schiff clyburn investigations

and their propaganda outlets  with the 24/7 one sided  hit pieces

just sickening

"Bipartisan "

sure






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Suddenly Due Process is important!
« Reply #1376 on: April 07, 2020, 01:33:51 PM »

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1377 on: April 13, 2020, 02:32:05 PM »
https://pjmedia.com/election/watch-bernie-sanders-endorses-joe-biden/

if only I was there to put handcuffs on them at the moment in the picture and send them to a gulag in N Dakota

what makes white people like them think the are immune from reparations?

"  Biden insisted he would beef up America's social safety net, "make sure that health care is made accessible and affordable to every American," provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and combat "structural racism." He blamed that "structural racism" for "this godawful situation at which African Americans and Latinos suffer most at the hands of the coronavirus."

When you say this how can one do all this without penalizing everyone else?
What about poor white people?

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1378 on: April 13, 2020, 04:40:18 PM »
BTW, they cleverly did this at the very moment that the Dem-Prog base was getting its daily dose of Gov. Cuomo.

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Governor while you pushing leftist agenda
« Reply #1379 on: April 14, 2020, 06:17:38 AM »
how do you explain the death of 42 + in a nursing home in YOUR state on YOUR watch?:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/northam-sneaks-in-raft-of-lefty-bills-on-voting-guns-abortion-climate-lgbt-under-cover-of-easter-weekend/

I am not expecting this question to be raised.

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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« Reply #1381 on: April 29, 2020, 05:29:50 AM »
Speaker Nancy:  "inject Lysol into your lungs"

Sen. Amy K:  President basically said "chug bleach"

A friend threw this into an email yesterday, the joke of the moment, mocking Trump to rib me:


Our ccp:  "yes I heard what he said and IT WAS NOT that"
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If what he said was reckless and dangerous, someone out there is going to spray lysol into their lungs or drink bleach to save themselves from coronavirus because of what he didn't say, isn't all their mis-repeating of "mis-information" even more dangerous?


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will CNN apologize for their rush to frame Trump ?
« Reply #1382 on: April 29, 2020, 06:06:55 AM »
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/04/29/az-woman-who-blamed-trump-for-chloroquine-ingestion-now-subject-of-homicide-inves-n2567839

I guarantee many or all the calls to poison control were from Dem operatives link directly or indirectly to the MSM.

I wonder if some of them were not jurnolisters themselves

can we trace those calls?

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Internet control, China right, US wrong, Cog Diss of the Left
« Reply #1383 on: April 30, 2020, 08:00:26 AM »
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/

Authors
Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School professor
Andrew Keane Woods, Professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law

Un-bleeping-believable.

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Re: Internet control, China right, US wrong, Cog Diss of the Left
« Reply #1384 on: April 30, 2020, 07:10:45 PM »
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/

Authors
Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School professor
Andrew Keane Woods, Professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law

Un-bleeping-believable.




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China's model of control looking increasingly attractive
« Reply #1385 on: May 01, 2020, 07:02:51 AM »
Can we just merge the Media, the Left and our Fascism threads?   

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/asia/china-coronavirus-model-democracy-intl-hnk/index.html

"The crisis has...highlighted the benefits of a strong government and centralized planning,"

   - Really?  And the benefits of a lying and jailing the whistleblowers government.  What is that benefit, a worldwide pandemic that shut down the global economy and is killing the old, the weak, the poor?  How stupid are they, really? 





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Cognitive Dissonance of the Left, hydroxychloroquine
« Reply #1387 on: May 19, 2020, 08:09:44 AM »
@davidharsanyi
Killing a unborn baby is a decision made solely by a woman and her doctor. Taking hydroxychloroquine is a joint decision between a man, his doctor, every Democrat in congress, and all on-air talent at CNN.
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1262555060317364225

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We're on your side!
« Reply #1389 on: June 02, 2020, 03:29:09 PM »


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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the Left
« Reply #1391 on: June 03, 2020, 06:06:15 AM »
Speakers and leaders in the war-torn, Democrat-controlled cities urge protesters to make a difference by voting for change.

   - I agree.

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vote for change
« Reply #1392 on: June 03, 2020, 06:32:58 AM »

Doug writes,
Speakers and leaders in the war-torn, Democrat-controlled cities urge protesters to make a difference by voting for change.

   - I agree.

I know what kind of change YOU mean

but this is not what students are learning in our marxist universities
or from our media
they want ever more handouts freebies and everything paid for by the rich


which means all taxpayers;
until Margaret Thatcher's prediction becomes correct.

I was looking up all the news that came up on my iphone yesterdasy afternoon while getting iced in physical therapy yesterday.
except for one Fox News item EVERTHYING else was pro democrat party and anti Trump
  at a dozen other items

This is what the younger ones see all day and night .

Trump is just able to reach out to these people
I don't know who can

W coming out and saying we have failed on race.

Where was he or his father during 12 yrs in office?
Nicky says we need more immigration as well as what for racism, I don't know.

And as for Trump , as Ann Coulter says, he can't even PRETEND to be compassionate.
  totally the opposite of Bill Clinton "I feel your pain " which we all knew (on the right) was an act.

I only hope we can hold onto the Senate ....  it won't be pretty either way but that would be at lease a salvage





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Get rid of the police
« Reply #1393 on: June 05, 2020, 01:36:25 PM »


See what happens.

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What lives matter?
« Reply #1394 on: June 05, 2020, 08:16:07 PM »


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The Saints keep marching on: minority fights police grabs taser
« Reply #1396 on: June 13, 2020, 11:15:56 AM »
https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/13/atlanta-police-fatally-shoot-black-man-wendys/

I am not sure what else police should do .

It always seems ok to fight the police

and if they are not saints (like of course the people they are arresting)
and passive
then they are no good





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Cognitive Dissonance of the left: "Democratic Violent Socialism"
« Reply #1398 on: June 22, 2020, 07:12:14 AM »
 "Democratic Violent Socialism":  That's what they do; let's call it out.  A label I just heard from Jason Lewis, Republican candidate for US Senate in Minnesota, Planned Parenthood's Tina Smith seat.  Lewis was a local talk show host, formerly a frequent guest host for Rush Limbaugh, former congressman in one of the suburban districts that flipped Dem in 2018.  [Give money] https://lewisformn.com/  He leans constitutionalist, libertarian and anti-hawk, maybe of the Rand Paul mold.


Why not lump in the violent tactics with the cause of the Left?  They did.  Many on the Left excuse the violence as justified in pursuing the cause.  Many of the others, well intended, unintentionally give cover to the violence.  The policies of so-called defund the police support the rise of violence.  Look at the data.  Other countries have proven, as documented on the forum, that socialism and "equality" causes require coercion which is at least the threat of force to move outcomes away from their natural, free state.

Ask the persuadable voters in the middle, do you support the violence needed to achieve the Leftist objectives?  Most don't.  Do you support tyranny of the mob?  Most Don't.  The Founders and framers truly feared that.  Nearly every word of the constitution is written to stop or slow down the impulsive mob rule of the immediate majority, from the electoral college to the structure of the Senate to the enumeration of individual rights (cf. right to own and bear arms, powers not expressly given to the feds go to the states and to the citizens.).  These are all under attack from the Left.

Defeat them or be ruled by them.  Every race for the Senate and House this year is going to matter, not just the Presidency, and margin of victory or defeat matters too.
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