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[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

 

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[ThxOne Premium Member]

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My bad... twas a poor suggestion on my part.

 

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My bad... twas a poor suggestion on my part.

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[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Simply not true. Illegals do not get SNAP or Medicaid. Not even DACA are eligible for SNAP.

Illegals most certainly get Medicaid. I just spent a month entering and verifying their Medicaid benefits.

The wall failed because Trump promised someone else (specifically the people he wanted to keep out) would foot the bill , and he ended up pulling the funding from the Defense Department. He claimed the wall would cost $8 billion, but the actual cost would have been triple that, and he only managed to fold $1.8 billion of the cost into a $1.3 Trillion omnibus bill.
He even tried a shutdown in order to gain funding support.
The wall basically died during his presidency. Remember the private funding efforts he and Bannon tried to resort to?

He failed to achieve his campaign promise. And you expected Biden to achieve it for him?

People complained about all those things all along. They always do.
Inflation literally doubled in his first year, and held.
No one switched left to right. He got less votes this time around. Simply far fewer people voted left.

We can hope, but his track record doesn't provide much faith.

The wall failed because Biden/Harris practically invited people to immigrate here illegally. When our policy regarding illegals is just claim asylum if you get caught here illegally, they've basically opened to borders and it's pissing people off. The fact that we're footing there medical bills, feeding and housing these people while Vets are in the streets is absolutely insane.

As for Trump's track record vs the current administration, the voters clearly have more faith in Trump and handed control of the Senate and House to Trump/GOP. IIRC, governors races were 8-3 in favor of the GOP.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

I love when pandering has consequences

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

It was a joke. Chill out.

Your think the left wants to shame or "cancel" people, yet almost all of the personal attacks you try to make are ********** in nature, your entire party is obsessed with controlling what people do in their bedrooms, it denies pretty much anything that is not a man and a woman having missionary *** to produce an endless string of babies as against "God" and nature, you want the government to be run based on religion, elected a ****** felon who wants to go after anyone who opposes him, by incarcerating them, and you simply deny any fact that paints your leader in a bad light.

Sorry, but one of those things are "normal" behavior.

This is exactly why the left lost the election. Hurling insults at voters and calling a Trump a racist and felon just wasn't enough to overcome the failure that has been the Biden administration.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

This is exactly why the left lost the election. Hurling insults at voters and calling a Trump a racist and felon just wasn't enough to overcome the failure that has been the Biden administration.

I'm still dealing with the emotional damage of being called garbage.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

You aren't funny enough to tell jokes. My personal attacks were varied. My insults to you were homosexual in nature. However, they were just "jokes". Nobody cares what anyone does in their bedrooms. Again, more left wing hysteria. Also, I am not religious. Nobody is denying that *** other than missionary happens. Nobody is stating that we must have an endless amount of babies or that we need to worship God. YOU are exaggerating that hysteria your side loves so much. Elected a ****** felon... because millions of voters saw with their own eyes that all of it was bullshit. Petty attempts by the left to INCARCERATE the opposition.

Do you get the hypocrisy or do I need to point it out for you?

OK. So you think it is an insult to someone to imply they are homosexual or do homosexual things. Ergo, homosexuality is a bad thing. But you "don't care" what anyone does in their bedroom?
And you consider telling someone to "go **** d****s" to be a "joke", yet think I'M not funny enough to tell a joke?
If "go **** d****s" is your idea of a "joke", your standup routine must be a scream!

Sorry to shock you, but the right-wing is VERY interested in religion and what people do in their bedroom (that's a metaphor for human sexuality in general, BTW), and whether "god" plays a role in your life.
You have a SCOTUS judge who wants overturn Griswold v. Connecticut (right to buy contraception), Lawrence v. Texas (same-*** intimacy between adults) and Obergefell v. Hodges (same-*** marriage), due to religious opposition to those things SCOTUS has already overturned Roe v Wade due to religion-based opposition. You have a president-elect who denied people entry to our country based on their religion. The same man who signed executive orders to ensure more faith-based representation in order to affect policy based on their desires.

I think you confused the **** case with the financial fraud case. The **** case was not something he could be incarcerated for. That was the financial fraud.
"Petty"? I don't consider hundreds of millions of dollars as "petty". You might have a bigger bankroll than most of us if you do.

You didn't imply or directly speak of any hypocrisies, so I guess I do need you to point them out for me.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

OK. So you think it is an insult to someone to imply they are homosexual or do homosexual things. Ergo, homosexuality is a bad thing. But you "don't care" what anyone does in their bedroom?
And you consider telling someone to "go **** d****s" to be a "joke", yet think I'M not funny enough to tell a joke?
If "go **** d****s" is your idea of a "joke", your standup routine must be a scream!

Sorry to shock you, but the right-wing is VERY interested in religion and what people do in their bedroom (that's a metaphor for human sexuality in general, BTW), and whether "god" plays a role in your life.
You have a SCOTUS judge who wants overturn Griswold v. Connecticut (right to buy contraception), Lawrence v. Texas (same-*** intimacy between adults) and Obergefell v. Hodges (same-*** marriage), due to religious opposition to those things SCOTUS has already overturned Roe v Wade due to religion-based opposition. You have a president-elect who denied people entry to our country based on their religion. The same man who signed executive orders to ensure more faith-based representation in order to affect policy based on their desires.

I think you confused the **** case with the financial fraud case. The **** case was not something he could be incarcerated for. That was the financial fraud.
"Petty"? I don't consider hundreds of millions of dollars as "petty". You might have a bigger bankroll than most of us if you do.

You didn't imply or directly speak of any hypocrisies, so I guess I do need you to point them out for me.

Kamala sucks dicks real good

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

OK. So you think it is an insult to someone to imply they are homosexual or do homosexual things. Ergo, homosexuality is a bad thing. But you "don't care" what anyone does in their bedroom?
And you consider telling someone to "go **** d****s" to be a "joke", yet think I'M not funny enough to tell a joke?
If "go **** d****s" is your idea of a "joke", your standup routine must be a scream!

Sorry to shock you, but the right-wing is VERY interested in religion and what people do in their bedroom (that's a metaphor for human sexuality in general, BTW), and whether "god" plays a role in your life.
You have a SCOTUS judge who wants overturn Griswold v. Connecticut (right to buy contraception), Lawrence v. Texas (same-*** intimacy between adults) and Obergefell v. Hodges (same-*** marriage), due to religious opposition to those things SCOTUS has already overturned Roe v Wade due to religion-based opposition. You have a president-elect who denied people entry to our country based on their religion. The same man who signed executive orders to ensure more faith-based representation in order to affect policy based on their desires.

I think you confused the **** case with the financial fraud case. The **** case was not something he could be incarcerated for. That was the financial fraud.
"Petty"? I don't consider hundreds of millions of dollars as "petty". You might have a bigger bankroll than most of us if you do.

You didn't imply or directly speak of any hypocrisies, so I guess I do need you to point them out for me.

Nope, only when I was insulting you. However, you are the one that made it a "homosexual" thing. Go **** a d**k is a phrase like "piss off" or "**** off" or "you're full of shit". It means I don't care for what you are saying. It's part of that comprehension thing I give you shit for. If you want to think the entire right wing are religious freaks who want to control everyone then keep on truckin'. Like I said, you all are fully of hysteria.

As far as the **** stuff... yeah, you **** someone you go to jail. PERIOD. No ****, no incarceration. So, toss that b.s. right on out. The rest of the petty shit is literally the left doing anything and everything to incarcerate Trump. The hypocrisy that you apparently missed is you claiming the right will do anything to throw their opposition in jail when that is exactly what the left have been doing to Trump for 8 years.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I am curious RobGMN... Do you not think that religious people should be represented in the United States?

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Rob,
you have to look deeper into these numbers. the 4% was only for one year. Also, you have to remember that minimum wage increased each year, which gave many people a 50% raise. In California was as much as 75% raises over the duration. So, the minimum wage people saw a huge financial gain, but nobody else did. If you google what the average yearly raise is, you will see it's 3%.

If you look at the chart, it has been over 4% since he took office. Do you think they are simply fabricating all these numbers and our economic history to make Trump look bad?
If so, then any discussion is moot.

The economy isn't fake. What the left is telling is, is fake. For example, they say the economy is great because the stock market is up. Who really gets rich off the stock market? Corporations and the 10%'ers. The left states that gas is lower because inflation is up. Sure, inflation is up, but our income does not match it.

Yet a HIGE talking point for Trump is how great the stock market did while he was POTUS. So, do we consider it a metric for both Biden AND Trump, or do we simply ignore it?
As far as "getting rich" - I know you are a government employee and may be affected less by it, but almost every worker in the US is impacted in some way by the stock market. Retirement accounts. Insurance plans. Corporate profit sharing. Bonuses. Payroll. And so on.
If the markets weren't relevant, no one would care if they crashed.

You are a smart guy. I advise you to look outside the box. Look what is being written and how it is written. I can tell you for a fact that I am the smartest guy in the room. However, I'm not telling you that I'm the only guy in the room. See what I'm saying?

The problem is that there is nothing in the box or outside of the box. He expressed that he has a concept of a plan. That's not a plan. Are we supposed to make one for him? Because he's promising miracles again.
Those don't work.

Earlier, you painted a picture of me driving a big gas guzzling truck with Trump flags all around it. I don't even have a single Trump flag

No, I didn't. I asked if you did such a thing along with increasing your driving by 58%, just so you could have a reason to complain about gas prices.
An alternate take on Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" Doctor: "Then stop doing it, dummy"

He can call me a liar. I've been called a lot worse and I'm still alive.

It was a minor joke based on his incessant claims that I am lying about my job and my income.
He was offended by it, but whatever.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Kamala sucks dicks real good

Allegedly.