Matt Gaetz, typical Republican
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Who is Jason Pirozzolo? Politically connected Florida surgeon reportedly tied to Gaetz probe
Jason Pirozzolo, a politically-connected Orlando hand surgeon who used to serve on the board of the agency that oversees Orlando International Airport, was named in a Wednesday night report by CBS News as a figure in the sex trafficking investigation targeting U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz and former Seminole tax collector Joel Greenberg.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-is-jason-pirozzolo-politic
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SECONDRATE: And a lot of mass shooters are nutters.
But if a stupid person is a Republican, you can't seem to stop labelling them as "typical Republican", and if a mass shooter posts something even mildly off the liberaloid narrative you label them as "right-wing terrorist".
But should any of them be Democrats you chalk it up to individual stupidity/craziness.
Say, you aren't biased, are you?
Corporate America is still dangerously delusional about what the GOP has become
The GOP corporate America used to know and love is gone.
What we have now is an angrier GOP willing to punish companies that disagree with it. It's un-American, and it has nothing to do with the free market, but apparently the base likes it.
That means sorry, the old GOP went out to get a pack of smokes and it ain't coming back.
Corporations need to hear this, and probably a few half-hearted Republicans do too - former House Speaker John Boehner's GOP isn't coming back.
The loudest voices denouncing the Republican party and the radical Trump voters are Republicans. There is nothing to debate. A vote for a Republican at this time is a vote against what America has always made great efforts to achieve.
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The GOP broke records for fundraising last quarter, with almost ZERO of that cash coming from corporations who have gone to fully backing Democrats.
You're on the wrong side of this, Ted. You're fighting for what you used to fight against.
Democrats are no longer the counter culture. They are the status quo.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Quote:The GOP is the status quo. I quote its 2020 platform: "RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention;" You can NOT get more status quo than that. https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_2020.pdf
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Democrats are no longer the counter culture. They are the status quo.
On the Democratic side, the platform is all new. None of the ideas being duplicated by the GOP. https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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What Is Happening to the Republicans?
One of the oldest imperatives of American electoral politics is to define your opponents before they can define themselves. So it was not surprising when, in the summer of 1963, Nelson Rockefeller, a centrist Republican governor from New York, launched a preëmptive attack against Barry Goldwater, a right-wing Arizona senator, as both men were preparing to run for the Presidential nomination of the Republican Party. But the nature of Rockefeller’s attack was noteworthy. If the G.O.P. embraced Goldwater, an opponent of civil-rights legislation, Rockefeller suggested that it would be pursuing a “program based on racism and sectionalism.” Such a turn toward the elements that Rockefeller saw as “fantastically short-sighted” would be potentially destructive to a party that had held the White House for eight years, owing to the popularity of Dwight Eisenhower, but had been languishing in the minority in Congress for the better part of three decades. Some moderates in the Republican Party thought that Rockefeller was overstating the threat, but he was hardly alone in his concern. Richard Nixon, the former Vice-President, who had received substantial Black support in his 1960 Presidential bid, against John F. Kennedy, told a reporter for Ebony that “if Goldwater wins his fight, our party would eventually become the first major all-white political party.” The Chicago Defender, the premier Black newspaper of the era, concurred, stating bluntly that the G.O.P. was en route to becoming a “white man’s party.”
But, for all the anxiety among Republican leaders, Goldwater prevailed, securing the nomination at the Party’s convention, in San Francisco. In his speech to the delegates, he made no pretense of his ideological intent. “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” he said. “Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” (He delivered that famous line shortly after the delegates had defeated a platform plank on civil rights.) Goldwater’s crusade failed in November of 1964, when the incumbent, Lyndon Johnson, who had become President a year earlier, after Kennedy’s assassination, won in a landslide: four hundred and eighty-six to fifty-two votes in the Electoral College. Nevertheless, Goldwater’s ascent was a harbinger of the future shape of the Republican Party. He represented an emerging nexus between white conservatives in the West and in the South, where five states voted for him over Johnson.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210309112317/https://www.newyorker.com/m
agazine/2021/03/15/what-is-happening-to-the-republicans
1964 was the last time that the Democratic Party won the white vote, although they came close in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The G.O.P.’s Matt Gaetz Problem
It’s tempting to see the Gaetz affair as the last shudder of the era of Donald Trump, but the political culture that the two men represent won’t easily be swept away.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/the-gops-matt-gaetz-prob
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Everything you post about Matt Gaetz can be tripled for Hunter Biden.
I wouldn't be so eager to sling shit, especially when it splatters back on you.
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BTW, SECONDRATE, I noticed you dialed way back to zero on you "responsible job" experience. Were you just blowing smoke, like you usually do?
Quote:Are you trying to say that you're perfect?
SECONDRATE: Are you going into the territory of shades of gray -- the twilight where we are all flawed?
OF COURSE we're all flawed.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The GOP is the status quo. I quote its 2020 platform: "RESOLVED, That the 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention;" You can NOT get more status quo than that. https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/docs/Resolution_Platform_2020.pdf
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Democrats are no longer the counter culture. They are the status quo.
On the Democratic side, the platform is all new. None of the ideas being duplicated by the GOP. https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
No. That just means that they've already changed under Trump and don't care to change back to the NeoCons they once were.
Democrats are the status quo. All the big multi-national businesses support Democrats.
You need a dictionary too. You don't know what Status Quo means.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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SIGNYM:
SECONDRATE: And a lot of mass shooters are nutters.
But if a stupid person is a Republican, you can't seem to stop labelling them as "typical Republican", and if a mass shooter posts something even mildly off the liberaloid narrative you label them as "right-wing terrorist".
But should any of them be Democrats you chalk it up to individual stupidity/craziness.
Say, you aren't biased, are you?
THUGR: Corporate America is still dangerously delusional about what the GOP has become
The GOP corporate America used to know and love is gone.
What we have now is an angrier GOP willing to punish companies that disagree with it. It's un-American, and it has nothing to do with the free market, but apparently the base likes it.
That means sorry, the old GOP went out to get a pack of smokes and it ain't coming back.
Corporations need to hear this, and probably a few half-hearted Republicans do too - former House Speaker John Boehner's GOP isn't coming back.
The loudest voices denouncing the Republican party and the radical Trump voters are Republicans. There is nothing to debate. A vote for a Republican at this time is a vote against what America has always made great efforts to achieve.
THUGR, you seem ignorant of the United States' founding, and conflate "corporations" with "America".
Originally, the Founding Fathers were highly skeptical of corporations, since they had the British Crown Corporation - the East India Company, and its monopolies on tea and other goods- as an example to avoid. (The Founding Fathers were also pretty wary of private banks lending to government Treasury, since they had the negative example of the -private- Bank of England to learn from. Much like our Fed today.)
Corporations were originally chartered by individual states. They had limited lifespans (10 or 20 years), were created for a single purpose (building a road or a canal, for example) and were prohibited from dealing in more than one commodity.
How things have changed!
In addition, for most of its existence America placed tariffs on all imported manufactured goods. The FF knew, even if you don't, that it was essential for America's independence to be a fully-capable nation as self-sufficient as possible. Ben Franklin, besides being a scientist, libertine, diplomat, and inventor (Franklin stove, anyone?) also engaged in what we would now call corporate espionage and brought home with him designs and plans for various engines and machines.
http://hiddenhistoryofbusiness.com/index.php/2016/02/08/episode-32-ben
-franklin-corporate-espionage/
He was also against patents, refused to patent his stove (which he invented, BTW, bc he was concerned about fireplace-driven deforestation) and promoted the spread of knowledge and communication by setting up public libraries and the postal service.
There is nothing "American" about "free trade", transnational corporations and corporate oligopolies.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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Many decades ago I had an AHA! moment when I realized that nowhere in the Constitution does it say 'capitalism'. Neither does it say 'corporation', or 'company'. It also fails to mention the modestly-stated sidesteps 'free enterprise' or 'private business', or even 'profit'.
It was the moment my eyes were opened to the fact that business had so hijacked our understanding of America that our understanding of 'freedom' was perverted to mean FREEDOMforBUSINESS. America was business friendly and godly, where everyone had freedom from want (no one talks about THAT freedom anymore, either!) as compared to AHEM! ... elsewhere.
But the FREEDOM the Constitution really talks about is POLITICAL freedom, where we, the people, have the capacity to decide whatever it is we want to decide. What kind of governance do we want? What kind of economy? What kind of environment? What social rules should we follow?
It really is up to us.
In America, we have political freedom so we can decide these things for ourselves.
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Know what's missing from this thread?
Facts.
Evidence.
Yeah, pesky little bitches, huh?
Instead, we get another round of people saying things and not much else. Not ANYTHING else.
Hunter's lap top? Lots and lots of facts. E-mails, photos, videos... wall to wall facts. And offered up the most iron clad way. Being so jacked up on drugs he forgot to pick up his laptops, which then became PROPERTY of the computer store owner.
Smartest man Joe knows, no doubt. LOL
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