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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Clearly you think very highly of yourself, but for no reason. How is that working out, loser?

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Just fine, thanks!

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Just fine, thanks!

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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You are not fine. You are diabetic, toothless, unwed, unemployed but a full-time Trumptard.

Trump, who has a history of threatening to fire officials investigating him, has encouraged Congress to defund the FBI and the Department of Justice amid indictments against him, claiming that both organizations demonstrated an uneven application of justice toward him and Biden's son, Hunter.

Chris Christie and cons say a "special counsel" is needed for Hunter. A special counsel for a private citizen that has never held office because millions of dollars need to be spent chasing misdemeanors. First they insisted that Pres Biden not get rid of Trump's appointee who was heading the Hunter investigation. Now that they don't seem to be getting the results they want, they want a special counsel.

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-key-election-issue-built-impossib
le-plan-1816093

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Just fine, thanks!

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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You are not fine.

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Yeah. I'm good.

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You are diabetic,

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Me and 38 Million other Americans.

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toothless,

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My paid in cash dentures say otherwise.

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unwed,

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Now you're just joking. I'm the envy of all my friends.

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unemployed

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Retired since 32 years old.

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but a full-time Trumptard.

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Trump is awesome. Trump will be fine. Trump will be your next President.


Meanwhile, enjoy your weekend wageslave. I know I will.

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Also...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278808/

In 7 years, nearly 1 in 3 Americans will have prediabetes, which usually doesn't take long to develop into full-blown diabetes. In 2030, over 15% of Americans will already have full blown diabetes with the 107 Million+ getting prediabetes just wasting time until theirs becomes full blown too.

I'm in great company.

I'm also in superior shape than 99% of them too, since mine was caused by auto-immune issues and not a shit diet... which also makes diabetes infinitely easier for me to manage than most because I don't have food addictions like most of them do.



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A social media account belonging to the Missouri Democratic Party appeared to promote the idea of setting fire to the home of an apparent avid Trump supporter in a now-deleted X post.
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1533890501701275651
Donald Trump Jr. shared a screenshot of the now-deleted post.

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The question of why Donald Trump manages to maintain such a grip on the Republican base, to the point where he can remain a nationally viable candidate despite all of his misdeeds and legal woes, is one of the most important issues in American politics. It’s a subject that has been explored extensively, with the best evidence converging on the same general story: Trump is the avatar of a kind of resentful reactionary politics, one uncomfortable with a changing America, that defines the worldview of a plurality (if not a majority) of the GOP faithful.

But this answer offers few easy solutions and makes some people uncomfortable, as it feels a bit too much like a judgment of Trump supporters. So we get efforts to reject the evidence, often relying on long-debunked alternative arguments.

The best evidence typically points toward identity-based explanations: Racial and cultural conflicts are far, far more important than the kind of economic alienation Brooks wants to highlight. This is true not only in the United States but in other countries facing similar challenges from far-right populist movements.

The overwhelming evidence for a cultural explanation

This story starts with the late 20th-century revolution in social values: the end of segregation, mass nonwhite immigration, feminist challenges to patriarchy, a decline in traditional Christianity, and the rise of the LGBTQ movement. This revolution has transformed America at fundamental levels: the kinds of people who hold positions of power, the ideas that command cultural respect, and even the kinds of food Americans eat and languages they speak in public.

For millions of Americans, these changes made them feel unmoored from their country— “strangers in their own land,” as the sociologist Arlie Hochschild put it. Whether because of pure bigotry or a more diffuse sense of cultural alienation from the mainstream, a large number of Americans came to believe that they are losing America. For historical reasons owing largely to the legacy of the civil rights movement, these voters became concentrated in the Republican party — forming at least a plurality of its primary electorate. The election of Barack Obama, a self-described “Black man with a funny name,” pushed their sense of social alienation to the breaking point.

This cultural anxiety created room for Trump, who rode this group’s collective resentments to control of the Republican party. We know this, primarily, because social scientists have been testing the theory since 2016 — and comparing it with Brooks’s preferred explanations rooted in resentment at a rigged economic game. Again and again, the cultural theory has won out.

For example, in 2018, a trio of scholars used survey data to compare explanations of Trump support based on racism, sexism, and a sense of economic alienation. The former two are far more powerful predictors than the latter, almost entirely explaining Trump’s surge in support among white non-college voters.

A 2018 paper by Alan Abramowitz and Jennifer McCoy, two leading political scientists, found: “After party identification, racial/ethnic resentment was by far the strongest predictor of relative ratings of Trump and Clinton — the higher the score on the racial/ethnic resentment scale, the more favorably white voters rated Trump relative to Clinton,” they write. “The impact of the racial/ethnic resentment scale was much stronger than that of any of the economic variables included in the analysis, including opinions about free trade deals and economic mobility.”

There are dozens of other papers, reports, and even entire books coming to similar conclusions.

More at https://www.vox.com/2023/8/4/23818817/trump-support-david-brooks-econo
mic-anxiety

The conclusion: "the reality is that our deep political divide is rooted, first and foremost, in profound and largely irreconcilable views of who America is for and what its social hierarchy should look like."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.medi

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Authoritarians would have you think that they can do certain things better than their counterparts who have to deal with checks, balances, and public opinion.

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Did you Take-A-Knee for Rioters?

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Trump is awesome. Trump will be fine. Trump will be your next President.

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another Prediction?


Trump indictment a stress test of Biden's focus on democracy
https://www.stltoday.com/trump-indictment-a-stress-test-of-bidens-focu
s-on-democracy/article_91ea76e6-fd13-5526-8a5f-5c0b8e4a5c4c.html

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Originally posted by second:
The question of why Donald Trump manages to maintain such a grip on the Republican base, to the point where he can remain a nationally viable candidate despite all of his misdeeds and legal woes, is one of the most important issues in American politics. It’s a subject that has been explored extensively, with the best evidence converging on the same general story: Trump is the avatar of a kind of resentful reactionary politics, one uncomfortable with a changing America, that defines the worldview of a plurality (if not a majority) of the GOP faithful.

But this answer offers few easy solutions and makes some people uncomfortable, as it feels a bit too much like a judgment of Trump supporters. So we get efforts to reject the evidence, often relying on long-debunked alternative arguments.

The best evidence typically points toward identity-based explanations: Racial and cultural conflicts are far, far more important than the kind of economic alienation Brooks wants to highlight. This is true not only in the United States but in other countries facing similar challenges from far-right populist movements.

The overwhelming evidence for a cultural explanation

This story starts with the late 20th-century revolution in social values: the end of segregation, mass nonwhite immigration, feminist challenges to patriarchy, a decline in traditional Christianity, and the rise of the LGBTQ movement. This revolution has transformed America at fundamental levels: the kinds of people who hold positions of power, the ideas that command cultural respect, and even the kinds of food Americans eat and languages they speak in public.

For millions of Americans, these changes made them feel unmoored from their country— “strangers in their own land,” as the sociologist Arlie Hochschild put it. Whether because of pure bigotry or a more diffuse sense of cultural alienation from the mainstream, a large number of Americans came to believe that they are losing America. For historical reasons owing largely to the legacy of the civil rights movement, these voters became concentrated in the Republican party — forming at least a plurality of its primary electorate. The election of Barack Obama, a self-described “Black man with a funny name,” pushed their sense of social alienation to the breaking point.

This cultural anxiety created room for Trump, who rode this group’s collective resentments to control of the Republican party. We know this, primarily, because social scientists have been testing the theory since 2016 — and comparing it with Brooks’s preferred explanations rooted in resentment at a rigged economic game. Again and again, the cultural theory has won out.

For example, in 2018, a trio of scholars used survey data to compare explanations of Trump support based on racism, sexism, and a sense of economic alienation. The former two are far more powerful predictors than the latter, almost entirely explaining Trump’s surge in support among white non-college voters.

A 2018 paper by Alan Abramowitz and Jennifer McCoy, two leading political scientists, found: “After party identification, racial/ethnic resentment was by far the strongest predictor of relative ratings of Trump and Clinton — the higher the score on the racial/ethnic resentment scale, the more favorably white voters rated Trump relative to Clinton,” they write. “The impact of the racial/ethnic resentment scale was much stronger than that of any of the economic variables included in the analysis, including opinions about free trade deals and economic mobility.”

There are dozens of other papers, reports, and even entire books coming to similar conclusions.

More at https://www.vox.com/2023/8/4/23818817/trump-support-david-brooks-econo
mic-anxiety

The conclusion: "the reality is that our deep political divide is rooted, first and foremost, in profound and largely irreconcilable views of who America is for and what its social hierarchy should look like."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Ser

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