Prelude to the Apocalypse

[Specineff]

The Grinch Robart steals some of Trump's Christma$$$:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... 0ab43dbff6

[Rob]

fucking Justice Democrats starts eating their own.

This was pretty funny.

“Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”

[Mortificator]

If only you'd realized that kind of thing was an embarrassment before recording yourself panting over a video game character's breasts.

[Domino]

I never thought I see the day that the Repubs became tax and spend and the Demodorks beside deficit hawks.

1981?

The slashes to outlays they always plan never materialize in full, Charles's wet dream always remaining so. Once you start talking about actually killing grandma, it... it's a precipice no party wants to jump off of.

Socialists (real ones, not the Hollande kind) care a lot about the deficit, for various reasons. (They're nerds / the deficit is always used as an axe to threaten aid to poor people / dumping debt on the backs of unborn children is a shitty thing to do / they'd like disingenuous turdmunchers to shut up about it / etc)

Spoiler

I wasn't alive in 1981.

[Mischief Maker]

Geez, Rob! You're meme-ing it up as much as Zen these days. Well in the spirit of The War on Christmas, let me add one to the pile:



Happy... Holidays!

[quash]

So you thought that Matthew Petersen would be the most on-the-nose personification of Team Trump's peerless leadership credentials that you'd encounter this week? No, I'm afraid that the world we currently live in isn't even THAT merciful to those of us who value minimal competence and/or integrity in the folks making decisions that profoundly affect people's lives.

Here you are linking a repost of Jeff Bezos' media stormtroopers and passing it off as fact yet again, after they just blatantly lied to you.

If it were anyone else, I'd let it slide, but you in particular have been keen on playing the source game, so I'm going to call you out. You linked a bullshit story from what's increasingly becoming a bullshit source and you don't do as much as acknowledge it. Lord only knows if I had done the same thing it would invite intense scrutiny from the usual suspects and I would be pressured into admitting my mistake.

As our resident arbiter of truth, it's not a good look for you to haphazardly post stuff like this and not even acknowledge when it's downright misinformation. It's quite pathetic, really. Still, I can't be angry, since you're a victim of social engineering; it'd just be nice if you could figure that out yourself.

[Mischief Maker]

Dude, if you don't want to get any Bezos on you, you can watch the embarrassing mess unfold yourself.

Seriously, watch it yourself, without the Breitbart spin doctors doing the thinking for you. It's only two minutes.

[BulletMagnet]

MM, a matter of days ago this assclown was "arguing" the merits of fucking voodoo economics with you - that whole matter certainly seemed to fade into the ether rather suddenly, didn't it? Well, I guarantee you that before long it, like this and every other piece of Newsmax trash that washes up here, will be dusted off and regurgitated again to gum up the works further whenever a convenient opportunity presents itself, as if none of the previous back-and-forth had even happened. You, like everyone else, are being trolled.

[BryanM]

I quite liked the part where I explained the precise magnitude Donald Trump compares to a Gates and was told I was "dodging" the issue. No one on Earth can explain that one.

And not that the comparison is even appropriate to begin with. Trump is a billionaire middle man puppet of the banks, and it is more appropriate to compare him to other billionaire middle man puppets. Such as: Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and George Bush.

It's depressing to praise Republican Conservative Barack Obama, but that millionaire (billionaire status TBA once all the bribes are received) middle man puppet of the banks.. His half-assed aversion to the military expansion of our empire, even that was considered too extreme for the elements in the Pentagon that want to bathe the entire world in blood.

[quash]

fucking voodoo economics

So, economics?

Funny thing about this particular smear is that it wasn't coined by an economist, businessman, or even a politician. It was coined by a fucking comedian. So you're allowing a comedian to dictate how you speak of economics every time you allude to supply side economics as being trickle down, which really does explain the gross misunderstanding of what supply side economics entails.

FWIW, I think these tax cuts came a bit too early in our boom/bust cycle, but ultimately it won't matter much. The Fed is crashing this economy with no survivors, it's just a matter of when.

[quash]

I quite liked the part where I explained the precise magnitude Donald Trump compares to a Gates and was told I was "dodging" the issue. No one on Earth can explain that one.

And not that the comparison is even appropriate to begin with. Trump is a billionaire middle man puppet of the banks, and it is more appropriate to compare him to other billionaire middle man puppets. Such as: Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and George Bush.

So you knew damn well what I was alluding to, but chose to be obtuse.

My point is that the Trumps and Mercers of the world are small potatoes compared to the real power brokers (many of whom, including the aforementioned Bezos, Gates, and Soros, are in your corner).

People have agendas, and the people who work in media are no different. No doubt, Breitbart is not a charity, nor is any other news source, but they're also not so impossibly stacked compared to the rest of the media. It comes off as particularly desperate when people try to make out an outlet with relatively modest backing like Breitbart as being equivalent or even comparable to the money oiled machine that is the old media. If anything, it's giving them more credit than they deserve, which is how they'll eventually end up becoming the monster you think they are: by living in your head rent free.

[GaijinPunch]

Funny thing about this particular smear is that it wasn't coined by an economist, businessman, or even a politician. It was coined by a fucking comedian. So you're allowing a comedian to dictate how you speak of economics every time you allude to supply side economics as being trickle down, which really does explain the gross misunderstanding of what supply side economics entails.

How? Who give a fuck about the etymological background of a word?

[quash]

Funny thing about this particular smear is that it wasn't coined by an economist, businessman, or even a politician. It was coined by a fucking comedian. So you're allowing a comedian to dictate how you speak of economics every time you allude to supply side economics as being trickle down, which really does explain the gross misunderstanding of what supply side economics entails.

How? Who give a fuck about the etymological background of a word?

Look, I get it. You spent too much time in the only country in the world where an apartment is a mansion. You tend to take shit at face value because it makes day to day life easier. Been there, am there.

But when it comes to higher level concepts, it's best to use the most precise language available such as to prevent fundamental misunderstandings. Using a term rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding as is the case with trickle down economics is about as bad as it gets, but it does do its job of effectively shutting down any possible discussion on the subject, so there's that.

[BulletMagnet]

...in otherwords, precisely the whiny, self-serving, unrelentingly namby-pamby semantic nitpicking that has the Trumpskis screaming "snowflake!" the second anybody except them does it. Because of course, if anything ever fails to turn out 100 percent the way they want it to, the only possible explanation is that someone else MUST be cheating. Have I mentioned lately how much I love these pissants?

[Rob]

the only possible explanation is that someone else MUST be cheating.

Right - conservatives are so stupid, as usual. https://youtu.be/-PFXBJGvE28?t=40s. Try things other than MSN for variety.

[brokenhalo]

Right - conservatives are so stupid, as usual.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pow ... 53bbfa435a

“After additional research was conducted, it was determined that this young man has lived and worked in Alabama for more than one year and is currently a registered voter in this state,” Secretary of State John H. Merrill, a Republican, said in a statement. “We applaud this young man’s energy, excitement, and enthusiasm for the electoral process and we are always encouraged when we observe Alabamians who are actively engaged in campaigns and elections in our state.”

[Rob]

Yep, one guy down. "We came here from different parts of the country". We.

[brokenhalo]

Yep, one guy down. "We came here from different parts of the country". We.

Might want to find some new meat for your argument before you try posting the same bullshit again.

Right - conservatives are so stupid, as usual.

We'll need a hotkey for this quote. It'll make a perfect reply to the majority of your posts.

[Rob]

Bud, you are by far one of the dumbest people in this thread. You're a guy who thinks "but whites commit crime too" is a good counterargument to illegal immigrant crime. You're a guy who honestly asked "why didn't the europeans have to assimilate within the native american culture?" The stuff you come up with is consistently stunningly stupid. The worst bit is that you think you're clever while being stunningly stupid.

[Rob]

And speaking of illegal immigrant crime, there was this from a week ago:

Departments of Justice and Homeland Security Release Data on Incarcerated Aliens—94 Percent of All Confirmed Aliens in DOJ Custody Are Unlawfully Present

...But legal citizens commit crime too!

The simple fact is that any offense committed by a criminal alien is ultimately preventable. One victim is too many.

[brokenhalo]

Bud, you are by far one of the dumbest people in this thread. You're a guy who thinks "but whites commit crime too" is a good counterargument to illegal immigrant crime. You're a guy who honestly asked "why didn't the europeans have to assimilate within the native american culture?" The stuff you come up with is consistently stunningly stupid. The worst bit is that you think you're clever while being stunningly stupid.

I'm so stupid that it took me 5 seconds to google "alabama voter fraud guy" to disprove your argument du jour. Instead of learning something, maybe being a decent human being and thanking me for enlightening you, you double down on your bullshit. Stay triggered, snowflake.

[Rob]

I'm so stupid that it took me 5 seconds to google "alabama voter fraud guy" to disprove your argument du jour.

No, you're so stupid that you can't tell the difference between the red flag-raising content of the quote (he was not talking solely about himself) and the guy speaking. But, again, you are a person who makes no distinction between crime committed by legal citizens and crime committed by non-citizens. You're lacking something. Please, for Christ's sake, no more from you.

[brokenhalo]

I'm so stupid that it took me 5 seconds to google "alabama voter fraud guy" to disprove your argument du jour.

No, you're so stupid that you can't tell the difference between the red flag-raising content of the quote (he was not talking solely about himself) and the guy speaking. But, again, you are a person who makes no distinction between crime committed by legal citizens and crime committed by non-citizens. You're lacking something. Please, for Christ's sake, no more from you.

Prove your argument then. Find the member of subset "we" who broke the law. YOU CAN'T. The case you put forth was proven false. The "we" he was referring to could have been: liberals, democrats, non-pedophiles, non-racists, intelligent folk, etc. You've decided to go full conspiratard and assume it means illegal voters. Prove your case, or kindly fuck off.

[Rob]

Please, for Christ's sake, no more from you.

Prove your case, or kindly fuck off.

Dummy, it doesn't prove anything and no one said it did - that would be what a thorough investigation would be for. It's one example of something that should make any observer suspicious.

[Mischief Maker]

Funny thing about this particular smear is that it wasn't coined by an economist, businessman, or even a politician. It was coined by a fucking comedian. So you're allowing a comedian to dictate how you speak of economics every time you allude to supply side economics as being trickle down, which really does explain the gross misunderstanding of what supply side economics entails.

Shame on you, Bulletmagnet, for using the politically incorrect V-E word. Look, you've gone and triggered quash! Now we won't be able to talk him out of his safe space for hours.

Don't worry, quash. I completely disavow that awful word that a comedian made up (wait, I thought it was a politician who coined the phrase: George Bush Sr. Is Ben Stein the "comedian" you're referring to? You might want to re-watch the scene). But nevermind all that! I spit upon this problematic phrase. Ptooey!

Let's return to discussing the actual merits of trickle down in terms of real-world business concepts, like we were before when, as Bulletmagnet noted, you suddenly went all quiet. I mean, were you intending to give me a liberal smug-gasm by clamming up when the details of your Breitbart-approved philosophy were examined under the harsh light of reality?

[Mortificator]

Sexual predation of minors is so common in the vicinity of Rob that he can't understand how it might cost someone votes.

[EmperorIng]

Dummy, it doesn't prove anything and no one said it did - that would be what a thorough investigation would be for. It's one example of something that should make any observer suspicious.

Very suspicious that black voter turnout was "inexplicably" (Moore's words) higher in Alabama in a few counties than had been the case the previous election. Ha ha ha, why would 7 more blacks out of every 100 vote? lol let's not die on a hill defending one of the shittiest candidates for federal office since Joel Ossoff.

[Rob]

one of the shittiest candidates for federal office since Joel Ossoff.

Makes no difference what kind of candidate he is - it was a close election and there are either irregularities worth looking into or there aren't.

[EmperorIng]

It wasn't legally close enough (by thousands of votes) and the majority of irregularities observed by state authorities were found to be non-issues. Unless you have a reasonable suspicion that literal tens of thousands - populations of whole cities - out-of-towners, illegals, and probably blacks from the Congo - were "bused in"... that isn't based off of a snippet from a notorious provider of skewed news.

I mean lol what is more believable, that a bunch of 20-somethings from out of state with nothing better to do decide to volunteer for a political campaign (what you see happen ALL OVER THE COUNTRY), or a teeming horde of 20-somethings descend upon a poor, rural state to falsify IDs, records, and whatnot, in a matter of mere weeks, and all vote five times each? One of those is in the realm of possibility, the other is in the realm of paranoid fantasy.

[GaijinPunch]

Look, I get it. You spent too much time in the only country in the world where an apartment is a mansion. You tend to take shit at face value because it makes day to day life easier. Been there, am there.

But when it comes to higher level concepts, it's best to use the most precise language available such as to prevent fundamental misunderstandings. Using a term rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding as is the case with trickle down economics is about as bad as it gets, but it does do its job of effectively shutting down any possible discussion on the subject, so there's that.

That's the beauty of language. Doesn't matter where it came from -- it matters how it's currently used. So no, you don't get it.