Elections; 2024
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I already did come up with a plan that is guaranteed to work. From your viewpoint, it would be an experiment that started 62 years ago in my family in Texas. From my perspective, it is a proven fact. The most important people in my life, parents/sisters/my mother's sister/her children joined the same religion. You can read about it at https://www.jw.org/en/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why don't you come up with a plan for how we can be prosperous again? That would be a lot more forward-looking.
Second's plan is simple.
Join another cult!
Fuck your religion dude. Your family hates you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:I can do hundreds of different tasks in a day and I'm not particularly fast. For example: it took less than a minute to post about Trump's latest mathematical error. Trump doesn't do arithmetic, even for something as simple and important as his plan to replace the income tax with a tariff.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Come off it, lad.
You're talking about Trump right now. You've talked about Trump every single day for 8 years, and there has never been a single moment you haven't thought about him.
Enjoy your next 4 years.
Why can’t Trump’s tariffs replace the income tax?
Year 2023
Total imports = $3,108 billion
10% tariff on imports = $310.8 billion
Income tax = $2,176 billion
Shortfall = $1,865 billion
($2,176 billion - $310.8 billion)
https://jabberwocking.com/why-cant-tariffs-replace-the-income-tax/
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Tariffs, and Tariffs alone, created this vast wealth for our Country. Then we switched over to Income Tax. We were never so wealthy as during this period. Tariffs will pay off our debt and, MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!
11:21 PM · Jan 2, 2025
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1875049777186136481
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:You missed the point that showing self-control, behaving decently, following the law rather than impulses and shameful urges, paying your taxes, going to work, etc. is the guaranteed way to prosper in America. So many Americans do NOT prosper solely because of their poor behavior when no one is watching, not even God (in their opinion).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I already did come up with a plan that is guaranteed to work. From your viewpoint, it would be an experiment that started 62 years ago in my family in Texas. From my perspective, it is a proven fact. The most important people in my life, parents/sisters/my mother's sister/her children joined the same religion. You can read about it at https://www.jw.org/en/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why don't you come up with a plan for how we can be prosperous again? That would be a lot more forward-looking.
Second's plan is simple.
Join another cult!
Fuck your religion dude. Your family hates you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Second Coming | Fintan O’Toole
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/the-second-coming-fintan-o
toole/
Karl Marx famously wrote that “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Donald Trump’s crushing victory over Kamala Harris makes him undoubtedly a world-historic personage whose impact will be felt around the world for a very long time. But his second coming is no farce. It is a brutal show of strength.
It has turned out that the drama that best encapsulates this momentous period is, after all, the shadow play of death and resurrection that unfolded in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. As Trump was grazed by a fragment of a bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks, he dropped to the ground, then rose again, fist in the air, triumphant and defiantly alive. Distilled into this moment and lit by a glow of heroism was the whole story of what had happened since Trump’s apparent political death on January 6, 2021, and of what was to come in the 2024 election: that which does not kill him makes him stronger.
There has been, in recent times, something of a pattern here: the strongman gets elected, is thrown out of office, and then makes a triumphant return. This is what happened with one of Trump’s political models, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. It happened with Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland, Robert Fico in Slovakia, and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. And what this pattern suggests is not just that the strongman comes back—he returns as a more radically authoritarian ruler. The second time he is infused with the swagger of impunity. The man they couldn’t kill is also the man they cannot inhibit.
“Disinhibition” is a word that has recently migrated from the lexicon of psychology into that of American politics. It refers to a condition in which people become increasingly unable to regulate the expression of their impulses and urges, and this year it very obviously applied to Trump’s increasingly surreal, vituperative, and lurid rhetoric. But it now must also apply to the institutions of American government: with allies on the Supreme Court and with control over the Senate and (most probably, at the time of writing) the House of Representatives, Trump will have no one to regulate his urges.
And perhaps it applies to American society too; this is a disinhibited electorate. It is no longer, on the whole, frightened of its own worst impulses. Up to now it has been possible to take some comfort in Trump’s failure to win the popular vote in either 2016 or 2020, and in the fact that not once during his time in the Oval Office did a majority of Americans approve of the job he was doing. (This was true of no previous president in the era of polling.) It could be said with some justice that he did not really embody America.
But now he does. The comprehensive nature of his victory suggests that alongside the very large core of voters who are thrilled by his misogyny, xenophobia, bullying, and mendacity, there are many more who are at the very least not repelled by his ever more extreme indulgence in those sadistic pleasures. They know what he’s like and don’t much mind.
This is hard for Democrats (and just plain democrats) to get their heads around. Both inside and outside the US, liberals and progressives have had a default assumption that, even if their government sometimes does terrible things, Americans themselves are essentially decent and benign. The Harris campaign, with its messages of joy and hope and its (bleakly fruitless) pursuit of an imagined reservoir of Republicans too well-mannered to vote for Trump, rested on the same supposition.
In retrospect, one of the most telling moments of the election campaign came on September 14 in Superior, Wisconsin. Toward the end of a barnstorming speech, Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, told his audience: “I’ll go to my grave not understanding why, but I know it’s a fact that this is going to be a margin-of-error race.” The second
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Come off it, lad.
You're talking about Trump right now. You've talked about Trump every single day for 8 years, and there has never been a single moment you haven't thought about him.
Enjoy your next 4 years.
Completely unrelated to the post you quoted or the fact that neither you or your article author have not been able to stop thinking about Trump for more than 5 seconds on any given day. You think about Trump more often than men think about sex in a day.
Also, whatever you posted about Trump after that is probably a lie and whatever you said about yourself after that is definitely a lie.
I don't know. I didn't bother reading any of it. Just like I've never bothered to read any of the Jehovah's witness pamphlets. Eventually they got the hint and stopped coming to my house after years of ignoring them. Jehovah's Witnesses in Texas must be twice as annoying as they are in Indiana.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You missed the point that showing self-control, behaving decently, following the law rather than impulses and shameful urges, paying your taxes, going to work, etc. is the guaranteed way to prosper in America. So many Americans do NOT prosper solely because of their poor behavior when no one is watching, not even God (in their opinion).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I already did come up with a plan that is guaranteed to work. From your viewpoint, it would be an experiment that started 62 years ago in my family in Texas. From my perspective, it is a proven fact. The most important people in my life, parents/sisters/my mother's sister/her children joined the same religion. You can read about it at https://www.jw.org/en/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why don't you come up with a plan for how we can be prosperous again? That would be a lot more forward-looking.
Second's plan is simple.
Join another cult!
Fuck your religion dude. Your family hates you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You are a Jehovah's Witness cultist.
Why did we get stuck with you?
Shouldn't you be out knocking door to door to harass people in your free time?
This wouldn't be because you're wheelchair bound and/or 500 lbs obese now, would it fatty?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:
Harris’s defeat showed that grace, good humor, intelligence, and energy—all of which she demonstrated amply—will not be enough.
Kamala Harris exhibited none of the above attributes.
If the media wants to be taken seriously from now on, I suggest they put telling the truth at the top of their New Years resolutions.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:This all started when Signym posted a challenge : "Why don't you come up with a plan for how we can be prosperous again? That would be a lot more forward-looking." I gave an answer that you can't understand. There is another answer for the way to prosperity requiring adding to your vocabulary. “Disinhibition” is a word that has recently migrated from the lexicon of psychology into that of American politics. It refers to a condition in which people become increasingly unable to regulate the expression of their impulses and urges. It applies to American society too; this is a disinhibited electorate. It is no longer, on the whole, frightened of its own worst impulses.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You missed the point that showing self-control, behaving decently, following the law rather than impulses and shameful urges, paying your taxes, going to work, etc. is the guaranteed way to prosper in America. So many Americans do NOT prosper solely because of their poor behavior when no one is watching, not even God (in their opinion).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I already did come up with a plan that is guaranteed to work. From your viewpoint, it would be an experiment that started 62 years ago in my family in Texas. From my perspective, it is a proven fact. The most important people in my life, parents/sisters/my mother's sister/her children joined the same religion. You can read about it at https://www.jw.org/en/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why don't you come up with a plan for how we can be prosperous again? That would be a lot more forward-looking.
Second's plan is simple.
Join another cult!
Fuck your religion dude. Your family hates you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You are a Jehovah's Witness cultist.
Why did we get stuck with you?
Shouldn't you be out knocking door to door to harass people in your free time?
This wouldn't be because you're wheelchair bound and/or 500 lbs obese now, would it fatty?
“Disinhibition” very obviously applied to Trump’s increasingly surreal, vituperative, and lurid rhetoric. Without sufficient inhibitions, people won't prosper. They won't behave well within their family, or at work, or when handling money. They won't control their eating, drinking, smoking, drugging, spending, etc. and the results are bad and get worse, but not instantaneous painful, which is why so many Americans can't make the mental connection between their “disinhibition” and their hardships and disappointing lives.
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:This all started when Signym posted a challenge
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You missed the point that showing self-control, behaving decently, following the law rather than impulses and shameful urges, paying your taxes, going to work, etc. is the guaranteed way to prosper in America. So many Americans do NOT prosper solely because of their poor behavior when no one is watching, not even God (in their opinion).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I already did come up with a plan that is guaranteed to work. From your viewpoint, it would be an experiment that started 62 years ago in my family in Texas. From my perspective, it is a proven fact. The most important people in my life, parents/sisters/my mother's sister/her children joined the same religion. You can read about it at https://www.jw.org/en/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why don't you come up with a plan for how we can be prosperous again? That would be a lot more forward-looking.
Second's plan is simple.
Join another cult!
Fuck your religion dude. Your family hates you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You are a Jehovah's Witness cultist.
Why did we get stuck with you?
Shouldn't you be out knocking door to door to harass people in your free time?
This wouldn't be because you're wheelchair bound and/or 500 lbs obese now, would it fatty?
No.
This started many, many, many years ago. I'm sure you were always like this long before you joined FFF.net or even watched the show. Because in the 8 years I've known you since I sobered up, you are the same Static Character you always were, so from the perspective of anybody here watching the years unfold, everyone should assume that you've always been this way and that you've never changed once, despite the fact that you're so obviously miserable 24/7/365.
You're the most judgemental person there ever was outside of Estus Pirkle.
It has been my experience that people who behave this way are the ones suffering from the most guilt and doing their damnedest to make sure nobody else knows what skeletons are really inside that closet of theirs.
Oh.... If I could be a fly on the wall and bear witness to all the evil shit you do every day when you know nobody is watching.
And yanno... I keep hearing recently the quote from Game of Thrones when Tywin Lannister says, "Any man who must say, 'I am the king,' is no true king, and how that applies to out-of-context soundbytes from Trump that MSNBC plays and frames in a false narrative.
Though the application of the quote in this context makes it a lie, the quote itself is the Truth. But that Truth doesn't just apply to Kings and to Prime Ministers and to Presidents.
That Truth can be applied to any one of us.
Any man who must remind everyone every single day of how Good and Righteous they are is neither Good nor Righteous.
We're tired of hearing that out of you, and nobody believes it anyway. You are a joke, and you need to retire this course of dialogue.
Stop behaving like a little boy.
You know about pretty much every one of my abundant character flaws, because I don't even make any attempts to obfuscate them. And I never have. I have put them out there for the world to see, and I have done so since I signed up to the site around 2006. And I have never gone back into my post history once to delete some of the terrible shit I was spouting when hitting rock bottom either. Every awful, no-good, rotten thing I ever posted is still cataloged here.
You're terrified about sharing anything real about yourself because you know that there would be people who would do EXACTLY as y
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This all started when Signym posted a challenge...
"This" what?
Your lying, hatred, propaganda, and endless self aggrandizement and virtue-signaling?
No, son. That started before you even started posting here.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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