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Quote:A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OPPS!
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I'm positive that a Trumptard would misunderstand the quote and conclude that it is Democrats who are deluding themselves. I am not sorry to tell the Trumptards that their misunderstandings of reality are serious handicaps to living long and happily in America and staying in the middle class.
Robert Draper's book Weapons of Mass Delusion.
This article is adapted from Draper’s recent book.
To the chagrin of the House Freedom Caucus, President Trump vowed early on that he would “prime the pump” of the economy with big-ticket items like a sweeping infrastructure initiative and paid family leave (his daughter Ivanka’s pet project). But as Trump’s hold over the GOP base tightened — notably in direct proportion to the intensity of the attacks against him — nearly every elected Republican fell into line. By August of 2020, when the Republican National Committee declined to produce a new quadrennial party platform, conservative principles had manifestly become whatever Trump said they were.
But what were those principles, exactly? The reply I’ve heard over and over from rank-and-file Republicans is “America First” — a pithy slogan that falls well short of articulating what America’s role in the world should be, or how, for that matter, alienating our historical allies while embracing strongmen in Russia, North Korea, Turkey, Serbia, and Hungary serves America’s long-term national interests. Neither, for that matter, does it make clear exactly what kind of fiscal or social policy at home best characterizes putting America first.
Where the slogan falters as a policy platform, however, it succeeds mightily as both a shield and a sword. After all, to declare yourself country-first is to set yourself beyond reproach. Conversely, to place yourself in opposition to an “America First” conservative is to invite the belief that you may very well be “America Last.” In an earlier time, Republicans might have left it there. Today, however, GOP politicians and right-wing influencers from Trump on down helpfully connect the dots: To be “America Last” is to be unpatriotic, un-American, a Communist, traitorous, treasonous, an enemy within.
I heard Republicans express these sentiments about their political adversaries intermittently before the 2020 presidential election, but with vehement near universality after Trump lost. Just as those of us who were inside the Capitol on January 6 regard that day as an unforgettable cataclysm, so too do many millions of Republicans consider November 3, 2020, to have been the signal moment when evil actors thwarted the will of the people. In Mesa, Arizona, I stood in line for a conservative rally and found myself talking with a young man who described in elaborate detail the bipartisan nature of the election-stealing conspiracy, adding, “And the intelligence community had to be in there too.” In Manchester, New Hampshire, I heard a former professor and prominent election denier, David Clements, tell an audience that “the entire ‘deep state’ was in on it.” And in Perry, Georgia, I attended a Trump rally where the predominating slogan on shirts worn by attendees stated simply: TRUMP WON.
A couple of weeks ago, I received a phone call from a woman who until recently had served in a position of regional prominence in the Texas Republican Party. The woman had read something I’d written pertaining to the insurrection at the Capitol and found it to be thoroughly inaccurate. She wished to inform me that friends of hers had been there on January 6 and had seen nothing remotely riotous taking place. But, the woman added, whatever violence had occurred that day had been the work of antifa. She then said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s videotaped phone conversations that afternoon, in which she implored governors to deploy National Guard troops to the Ca
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OPPS!
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
How does one pretend to read so many books but never learn any lessons?
That is a good quote. Learn to apply it to yourself.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you proved my point by eliding a few sentences. A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm positive that a Trumptard (meaning 6ixStringJack) would misunderstand the quote and conclude that it is Democrats who are deluding themselves. I am not sorry to tell the Trumptards that their misunderstandings of reality are serious handicaps to living long and happily in America and staying in the middle class.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OPPS!
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
How does one pretend to read so many books but never learn any lessons?
That is a good quote. Learn to apply it to yourself.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you proved my point by eliding a few sentences. A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm positive that a Trumptard (meaning 6ixStringJack) would misunderstand the quote and conclude that it is Democrats who are deluding themselves. I am not sorry to tell the Trumptards that their misunderstandings of reality are serious handicaps to living long and happily in America and staying in the middle class.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
OPPS!
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
How does one pretend to read so many books but never learn any lessons?
That is a good quote. Learn to apply it to yourself.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You keep posting that same dumb shit and it has less meaning every time you do.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, buddy. Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark.
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Quote:Are you still smoking, 6ix? Long ago, when I vaguely hoped those who voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush II, or Trump were not automatons, I would read to my cousins the warnings on the pack of cigarettes they were smoking. Those warnings never stopped any of them. They all died young from precisely what the warnings said would happen to them (with two exceptions - a fatal drunken driving crash and a fatal gunshot.) Bad things happen to careless optimists while realists live long and prosper. Somehow, the careless never learn that.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You keep posting that same dumb shit and it has less meaning every time you do.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, buddy. Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark.
https://goodthinkinc.com/success-do-pessimists-live-longer-a-study-fro
m-the-american-psychological-association-reveals-pessimists-outlive-optimists/
6ix, here is your warning: Cigarette Labeling and Health Warning Requirements
https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-statements-t
obacco-products/cigarette-labeling-and-health-warning-requirements
6ix, let me repeat back to you what you wrote: "Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark."
6ix, do you really believe you are exempt from the laws of nature? If you do, keep on smoking and never return to work. Nothing bad will happen, at least in the short term. For example, smoker and paid professional blowhard Rush Limbaugh lived to 70, so you also can, although the normal lifespan is 77.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Are you still smoking, 6ix? Long ago, when I vaguely hoped those who voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush II, or Trump were not automatons, I would read to my cousins the warnings on the pack of cigarettes they were smoking. Those warnings never stopped any of them. They all died young from precisely what the warnings said would happen to them (with two exceptions - a fatal drunken driving crash and a fatal gunshot.) Bad things happen to careless optimists while realists live long and prosper. Somehow, the careless never learn that.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You keep posting that same dumb shit and it has less meaning every time you do.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, buddy. Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark.
https://goodthinkinc.com/success-do-pessimists-live-longer-a-study-fro
m-the-american-psychological-association-reveals-pessimists-outlive-optimists/
6ix, here is your warning: Cigarette Labeling and Health Warning Requirements
https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-statements-t
obacco-products/cigarette-labeling-and-health-warning-requirements
6ix, let me repeat back to you what you wrote: "Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark."
6ix, do you really believe you are exempt from the laws of nature? If you do, keep on smoking and never return to work. Nothing bad will happen, at least in the short term. For example, smoker and paid professional blowhard Rush Limbaugh lived to 70, so you also can, although the normal lifespan is 77.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Why are you so obsessed with my smoking?
Quit eating everything that is within 100 feet of you and you won't be a worthless fat sack of shit like most Liberal Democrats are.
How's that diabetes treating you?
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Quote:The White House @WhiteHouse tweeted:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How's that diabetes treating you?
Every single Congressional Republican voted against capping insulin costs at $35 a month for Medicare patients.
https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1580712335815020547
My East Texas relatives with diabetes will vote for Republicans because they despise "Critical Race Theory" and venerate the Confederacy teaching the inferiority of Blacks, which there are many in East Texas.
What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why
-is-it-under-attack/2021/05
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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There isn’t an "official" G.O.P. position on Social Security and Medicare. But the Republican Study Committee, the RSC, a caucus of House members that sets the party’s agenda, has released a fairly detailed set of proposals titled “Reclaiming Our Fiscal Future”. https://banks.house.gov/uploadedfiles/budget_fy22_final.pdf
The committee’s proposals center on raising the age at which Americans become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Its plan calls for increasing the age at which workers can collect full Social Security benefits — which has already risen from 65 to 67 — to 70.
At the same time, the plan would raise the age at which Medicare kicks in to match the Social Security age. Given the Social Security proposal, this means delaying Medicare eligibility by five years, to the age of 70.
The report tries to justify these large benefit cuts — because that’s what they are — by pointing to the rise in life expectancy at age 65 since these programs were created. That is, it argues in effect that our major social benefit programs have become too generous because Americans are living longer.
While average life expectancy for seniors was rising before Covid struck, that rise was very unequal. Gains were much larger for Americans in the upper part of the income distribution — that is, the people who need Social Security and Medicare least.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42920941?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Gains in life expectancy have been much bigger among Americans with a college degree. In fact, life expectancy has actually declined among noncollege whites. And mortality has been diverging among regions, with life expectancy at 65 in some states, mostly red, significantly below the national average and in others, mostly blue, significantly above.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-18.pdf#page=7
So Republican plans to cut Medicare and Social Security would impose widespread hardship, with some of the worst impacts falling on red-state, noncollege whites — that is, the party’s most loyal base.
Why imagine that proposals to deny benefits by raising the eligibility age won’t provoke a backlash?
At least part of the answer is surely the expectation that the right-wing disinformation machine can obscure what the G.O.P. is up to. The Republican Study Committee has released a 153-page report calling, among other things, for denying full Social Security benefits to Americans under 70; that didn’t stop Sean Hannity from declaring the other day that “not a single Republican has ever said they want to take away your Social Security.”
https://banks.house.gov/uploadedfiles/budget_fy22_final.pdf
If Republicans win one or both houses of Congress, they’ll try to achieve their goals not though the normal legislative process but through blackmail. They’ll threaten to provoke a global financial crisis by refusing to raise the debt limit. If Democrats defang that threat, Republicans will try to get what they want by making America ungovernable in other ways. Will they succeed? Stay tuned.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The White House @WhiteHouse tweeted:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How's that diabetes treating you?
Every single Congressional Republican voted against capping insulin costs at $35 a month for Medicare patients.
https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1580712335815020547
My East Texas relatives with diabetes will vote for Republicans because they despise "Critical Race Theory" and venerate the Confederacy teaching the inferiority of Blacks, which there are many in East Texas.
What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why
-is-it-under-attack/2021/05
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
This post made me giggle.
You are an idiot.
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Quote:If you had known my Trumptard East Texas cousins, you won't giggle. Exactly like you, they were self-important, confident people who were absolutely certain of their superiority and knowledge. They all died young because of those same deeply held but false beliefs about themselves. I could see death coming for them, but they couldn't because of their psychology, the same as yours.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
This post made me giggle.
You are an idiot.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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