A thread for Democrats Only
POSTED BY: THGRRI
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 15:36
VIEWED: 755368
PAGE 68 of 725
Quote:6ix, there is much about your response that is very, very Republican and not at all Finnish. In Finland the rich feel obligated to look after the poor. The government tax collector ensures that the “feeling” becomes more than just a feeling. American tax collection does not work like that, at all. In America, 6ix (who is not rich) feels the obligation to sacrifice for his poor family. It is definitely the poor looking after the poorer, while the American rich need not sacrifice anything and can go about their business of growing ever wealthy. Personally, that is great for me, but not so great for 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I plan to have a good amount stored away to give my niece and my brother when I'm gone. Other than that, everyone else is on their own.
Nobody has ever done anything for me in my life that wasn't some trivial, one off thing. I wasted my kindness and put myself out there for people who didn't deserve it.
I've got no fucks left to give. The rest of my life I'm living for me, and as long as I'm not putting anybody else while doing it then there's nothing wrong with that.
Great for Finland. Glad they've got it figured out. Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for them in the long run.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That last comment by 6ix was ultra-Republican: “Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for [the Finns] in the long run." Try googling the question: Why are Republicans always whining and complaining about Muslims, niggers, and Mexicans? Is it something in the GOP DNA that makes Republicans like that? http://time.com/4535292/donald-trump-black-slaves/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Ground Control to Major Don
Trump’s NASA nominee lacks the right stuff, and it’s time to find a better choice.
For the past 421 days, NASA has been without a permanent administrator — longer than any other period in the agency’s history, longer even than any spaceflight any of its astronauts have taken.
President Donald J. Trump’s nominee has little chance of getting off the ground, and it’s time the White House dumps him for a more qualified candidate.
The president’s choice, Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine, has spent the past four months in the black hole between the Senate Commerce Committee and a full chamber vote — even though he can be confirmed without a single Democrat’s approval. By now one thing is clear: If a Republican nominee from a Republican president can’t get through a Republican Senate, it’s time to pick somebody else.
www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Ground-Control-to-Major-Don-Y
our-NASA-pick-12757175.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, there is much about your response that is very, very Republican and not at all Finnish. In Finland the rich feel obligated to look after the poor. The government tax collector ensures that the “feeling” becomes more than just a feeling. American tax collection does not work like that, at all. In America, 6ix (who is not rich) feels the obligation to sacrifice for his poor family. It is definitely the poor looking after the poorer, while the American rich need not sacrifice anything and can go about their business of growing ever wealthy. Personally, that is great for me, but not so great for 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I plan to have a good amount stored away to give my niece and my brother when I'm gone. Other than that, everyone else is on their own.
Nobody has ever done anything for me in my life that wasn't some trivial, one off thing. I wasted my kindness and put myself out there for people who didn't deserve it.
I've got no fucks left to give. The rest of my life I'm living for me, and as long as I'm not putting anybody else while doing it then there's nothing wrong with that.
Great for Finland. Glad they've got it figured out. Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for them in the long run.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That last comment by 6ix was ultra-Republican: “Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for [the Finns] in the long run." Try googling the question: Why are Republicans always whining and complaining about Muslims, niggers, and Mexicans? Is it something in the GOP DNA that makes Republicans like that? http://time.com/4535292/donald-trump-black-slaves/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Wasn't trying to sound Finnish.
I'm just trying to make it to the Finnish.
I also don't give a shit about Time's or your opinion about Muslims either.
Equating Muslims with black and mexican people is the false equivalency that you're drawing here. It's impossible to be racist against Muslims. Muslims are people who practice a diseased ideology. They could be black, white or Mexican too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Uff-duh.
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, ask why is Finland happier than Indiana? It might go all the way back to WWII. If the Finns didn’t stick together, they’d all die together. www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-winter-war That’s certainly not an attitude found in America, where it is every man for himself, every state for itself, winner take all. At least that is the Texas I live in, which can be a brutal land to the losers, and wonderful beyond my greediest dreams to the winners.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My motivation to bust my ass making somebody else money is virtually gone at this point. I see no path for any relatively meaningful upward advancement at any companies today without a college degree.
I've got plans for some personal projects I'm working on at the moment however. Just working for somebody else while I'm putting a lot of the pieces together. ;)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Why is Finland happier than the US?
www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-14/why-finland-happier-us-0
"I've joked with the other Americans that we are living the American dream here in Finland," said Brianna Owens, who moved from the United States and is now a teacher in Espoo, Finland's second biggest city with a population of around 280,000.
"I think everything in this society is set up for people to be successful, starting with university and transportation that works really well," Owens told Reuters.
Finland rose from fifth place last year to oust Norway from the top spot. The 2018 Top-10, as ever dominated by the Nordics, is: Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia.
The United States came in at 18th, down from 14th place last year. Britain was 19th and the United Arab Emirates 20th.
One chapter of the 170-page report is dedicated to emerging health problems such as obesity, depression and the opioid crisis, particularly in the United States where the prevalence of all three has grown faster than in most other countries.
While US income per capita has increased markedly over the last half century, happiness has been hit by weakened social support networks, a perceived rise in corruption in government and business and declining confidence in public institutions.
"We obviously have a social crisis in the United States: more inequality, less trust, less confidence in government," the head of the SDSN, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of New York's Columbia University, told Reuters as the report was launched at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
"It's pretty stark right now. The signs are not good for the US It is getting richer and richer but not getting happier."
Asked how the current political situation in the United States could affect future happiness reports, Sachs said:
"Time will tell, but I would say that in general that when confidence in government is low, when perceptions of corruption are high, inequality is high and health conditions are worsening ... that is not conducive to good feelings."
Obesity, depression (drugs), and opiods (drugs).
Exactly what Libtards destined us for.
That's why they ended Physical Education in schools. And to combat the resultant loss of physical health they threw drugs at children (to keep them under control, lethargic - instead of letting them burn off steam with recess). And to combat the resulting drug-induced "bipolar" epidemic: throw more drugs at them.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:nytimes? This is where you fail.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Voters May Be Wising Up
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Does working class support for President Trump prove shallow when a Democrat makes a populist economic argument? The panel digs into the results of Pennsylvania's special election.
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/pennsylvania-race-shows-working-class-
trump-support-is-shallow-przybyla-1186582595712
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/opinion/pennsylvania-election-voters.html
There’s no mystery about the Republican agenda. For at least the past 40 years, the G.O.P.’s central policy goal has been upward redistribution of income: lower taxes for the wealthy, big cuts in programs that help the poor and the middle class. We’ve seen that agenda at work in the policies of every Republican president from Reagan to Trump, every budget proposal from party stars like Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House.
This policy agenda is, however, deeply unpopular. Only small minorities of voters favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations; even smaller minorities favor cuts in major social programs. So how does the G.O.P. stay politically competitive? The answer is that the party has mastered the tactics of bait and switch: pretending to stand for one thing, then doing something quite different in office.
But if special elections in the Trump era are any indication, voters are wising up. Rick Saccone, the Republican candidate in a deep-red Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by almost 20 points, tried not one, not two, but three different bait-and-switch strategies. And on Tuesday he still seems to have suffered a hair-thin defeat.
1)
2)
3)
4) But there are also Trump-specific issues. It’s hard for Republicans
Trump!! Russia!!
5)
Totally unbiased to define a "deep red District" as one with 35,000 more Democrat voters than Republican.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NYT editor was caught on hidden camera targeting the President of the USA, and denying any sort of objectivity.
Quote:So much for the objectivity and sanctity of the "free" (corporate) press!
While talking about being objective at the Times, Dudich replies candidly, "No I'm not, that's why I'm here."
Dudich considers himself an important player at the New York Times, telling the Project Veritas Journalist "my voice is on... my imprint is on every video we do."
Dudich goes on to explain what he might do to target President Trump:
"I'd target his businesses, his dumb fuck of a son, Donald Jr., and Eric...
"Target that. Get people to boycott going to his hotels. Boycott... So a lot of the Trump brands, if you can ruin the Trump brand and you put pressure on his business and you start investigating his business and you start shutting it down, or they're hacking or other things. He cares about his business more than he cares about being President. He would resign. Or he'd lash out and do something incredibly illegal, which he would have to."
When the undercover journalist asks Dudich if he could make sure that the anti-Trump stories make it to the front, he replied, "Oh, we always do."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-10/okeefe-takes-aim-nyt-records-
editor-admitting-targeting-trumps-buinesses-his-dumb-fk
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:JewelStaiteFan, you are no different from Trump. He speaks often of "The Failing New York Times". You and he are using lies as tools. I have found all Republican Texans do the same as you and Trump, at least the ones that are worth my effort to check their truthfulness. They are always the Failing Republican voters. You guys have a perverted relationship with the truth, meaning you won't speak it when you think a lie is more useful.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
nytimes? This is where you fail.
Totally unbiased to define a "deep red District" as one with 35,000 more Democrat voters than Republican.
As a businessman, Trump often fabricated or exaggerated to sell a narrative or advance his interests. In his memoir, “The Art of the Deal,” he called it “truthful hyperbole” or “innocent exaggeration.”
He would call reporters and pretend to be a publicity agent for himself named John Barron or John Miller. He claimed to earn $1 million from a speech when it was $400,000. He claimed to be worth $3.5 billion when seeking a bank loan, four times what the bank eventually found. When trying to lure investors to a hotel project, he had bulldozers dig on one side of the site and dump the dirt on the other to give the impression that the project was making progress.
“He’s a salesman and that’s not about telling the truth, that’s not the DNA about being a salesman,” said Gwenda Blair, the author of “The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President,” a biography of his family. “The DNA of being a salesman is telling people what they want to hear. And he’s got it.”
Trump continued his practice as president. The Washington Post’s fact-checker documented 2,140 false or misleading claims in Trump’s first year in office, a rate of nearly six a day.
A Quinnipiac University poll in January showed that only 35 percent of Americans consider him honest, while 60 percent do not.
Republicans express concern. Amanda Carpenter, a former aide to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and former Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, has a new book coming out in May called “Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us.” On the cover is an illustration of Trump with a Pinocchio nose.
Her explanation is that Trump’s supporters do not see deception, they see a commitment to winning.
“Donald Trump’s lies and fabrications don’t horrify America,” says the publisher’s summary of her book. “They enthrall us.” It is a widespread and serious character defect of Republicans.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/trump-truth-lies.htm
l
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Trump sits down with Anderson Cooper to discuss Stormy Daniels
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
One of the many problems with facebook
http://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/galloway-facebook-will-continu
e-to-do-everything-cambridge-analytica-did-1189600835961
T 
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
One of the many problems with facebook
http://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/galloway-facebook-will-continu
e-to-do-everything-cambridge-analytica-did-1189600835961
T
"This was not a data breach. Some users were paid to take a personality survey."
lol...
Well... duh.
I'm betting most of these people have Alexa in their home today too.
Have you ever noticed when talking about something on your smartphone or around Alexa that the next time you go to YouTube that your reccomendations have some videos regarding key words that you were talking about recently, or Google/Amazon ads show things you might be interested in?
All of this stuff is legal because you clicked OK.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I don't know if other people get the little task bar that shows what's loading up when a page comes up. I've noticed because - I dunno. Just curious. One of the links in the list when clicking on web-pages here is google-analytics.com And what IS google analytics you might ask? Here, let them tell you, in their own words ...
https://www.google.com/analytics/#?modal_active=none
So anyway ... anyone up for a rational, fact-based, and civil discussion about the topic?
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME