Sharlo

Someone please explain the point of these talks to me.

We know the Iranians always negotiate in bad faith. So whatever they agree to is BS anyway. And we know that we have enough tech superiority to use precision weapons and daisy cutters to level whatever they build without having to go nuclear.

And Trump clearly isn't going to hesitate to do that.

So what's the point?

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I love how Lurch is holding all the cards This pisses his party off so much

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Such a great story. Dude had a stroke during the election and afterwards became the most coherent Democrat. And he looks like Lurch. You know they hate that.

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That’s kind of greedy, it’s kids man.

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this line of thinking is what created the hellscape of the welfare state we're stuck with.

to follow your logic of "it's kids man," I'm assuming you support making all kids' sports/extracurricular equipment tax deductible? Softball? Soccer? Ballet? Swimming? Clip boards for the debate team?

You already get a tax credit for having a kid. that's what it's for.

What would really help you have more funds to spend on your kid's travel ball would be reducing, capping, or altogether eliminating the illegal federal income tax.

How about a reduced flat tax that didn't make us jump through hoops to get pennies back on a bunch of random arse deductions. Wouldn't that be great?

I can dream.

Chad Jones

Good grief Mexico is unfixable.

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I don't support any politicians. I have my beliefs and check them against candidates when it's voting time.

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So you hold your nose and vote for whoever the dems put in front of you? Surely the DNC's platform for any given election is closer to whatever a democratic socialist believes than anyone else. Or do you vote for the Green Party or some other lefty third party?

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"Hey Murphy you're a scumbag."

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:rotflmao:

Pretty damn funny.

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There are a few Dem supporters who suggest they should nominate a lesser known candidate, like a Dem governor who's never in the news. The strategy would be to avoid the thousands of ads the GOP can run reminding voters of the stupid shite said and done by AOC, Gavin and Harris.

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That might actually be their best play, but I would be shocked if the DNC could pull off something that coherent at this point.

There are many reasons why this entire line of thinking is asinine and dare I say, racist, but here's one of the most glaring blind spots:

The implicit argument is that only, ahem, Europeans, conquered and "stole" land. But the fact of the matter is that the tribes that were here first fought over land, conducted large-scale, multi-year military campaigns, and did all the same awful stuff to each other: Slavery, massacres, leveling entire cities, all of it. A handful of examples:

- Inca expansion wars
- Aztec wars
- Mississippian Chiefdom wars
- Beaver Wars in the Great Lakes Region (I know, I know
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My point is that the "stolen land" crowd paints a picture of all of these groups living peacefully in the Americas in some kind of dreamy utopia. I think this oversimplifies these people and makes them seem less prone to greed, vengeance, revenge, fear, and all the same emotions that still cause wars.

To me, portraying entire nations that way is quite racist. They did all the same stuff to each other before the Europeans arrived. The Europeans just had better tech.

Point #2: If we're going to peel the stolen land onion, we have to of course sort through all the pre-European tribal wars, right? Until we get back to the original group of cave people living in each place? Surely that's what they intend to do, right? (Tongue in cheek.)

Never heard of this horse shite pole.

That said, I hope the commies are deranged enough to run Newsome.

JD will mop the floor with him in the debates, and there’s enough damning video of Gavin the commie saying commie things to send the alleged leaners running for the hills.

Kind of amazing the dems are still such a mess following that 2024 arse kicking.