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Post by quickplay on Aug 5, 2016 11:41:44 GMT -5
What truth? Your lazy, overdone insult of 'get offline and get involved'? Or the idea that people shouldn't be concerned about the CFR unless they've satisfied your preliminary requirements of political participation?
Edit - Nice stealth edit.
Please, feel free to explain what's crazy here, because your masturbatory condescension isn't actually a point.
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Post by quickplay on Aug 5, 2016 11:37:58 GMT -5
Not sure I'm getting your point here. People can't be involved in local politics AND have a problem with organizations that seek to implement policies that benefit the global elite? Most people watching those videos are not. If you hold those beliefs get off youtube and get involved. Got it, so you'll just double down on that nonsense.
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Post by quickplay on Aug 5, 2016 11:03:38 GMT -5
I would advise you to rethink that philosophy as this is not a boogey man, this is for real. TPP represents a gigantic step towards generational economic enslavement for you, me, our kids, grand children and the rest our family members and friends. Appreciate the feed back and your honest answer my friend. For other people who read this thread and post, if it does nothing else but persuades one person to question what is going on around them and to research issues themselves then I have done my job. Why is there 24 hour cable news coverage of what a Presidential candidate says and little to none on a binding free trade agreement that will regulate the internet, allow corporations to sue national, state or local governments for 'lost profits' in a international tribunal due to the governance passing of new, better wage laws for workers or environmental protections and regulations. Why are policies being pushed that does not benefit average Americans and shifts more empowerment towards multinationals regardless of how we vote? Why do Presidential candidates campaign against free trade and then once in office fight for free trade as if their lives depend on it? I do not believe the for-mentioned concerns are a coincidence nor a perfect storm. If enough people start to ask questions and demand answers then maybe just maybe enough people will start to protest against this agenda that is being pushed upon us so that we can get control back into our hands. It's a Boogeyman imo...Question for you Do you know who the State Senator/s or city council member/s in charge of your district are? Do you know their policies or what they are pushing for? If the answer is no I'd advise you to figure it out Not sure I'm getting your point here. People can't be involved in local politics AND have a problem with organizations that seek to implement policies that benefit the global elite?
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Post by quickplay on Aug 3, 2016 9:00:46 GMT -5
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Post by quickplay on Jul 31, 2016 15:38:18 GMT -5
Just yesterday I showed ID to use my credit card... Why would I need one to vote? Privilege vs. Right
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Post by quickplay on Jul 26, 2016 14:36:51 GMT -5
And now you've fallen into Mook's trap. Good job. Actually, it was the other way around. Those two companies had prepared their analysis to be released the same day that the hack was announced in the first place. Politicians / journalists have then taken the smoke and tried to figure out where the fire is. debka.com/article/25570/The-DNC-emails-were-not-hacked-by-Russian-GRU
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Post by quickplay on Jul 19, 2016 14:10:07 GMT -5
I was starting to get suspicious about Melania's speech when she kept talking about the reality of growing up a black woman in America.
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Post by quickplay on Jul 7, 2016 8:50:17 GMT -5
There is a video from a bystander which makes it look really really bad for the police officer. Two police officers have him on the ground and one of them takes out a gun and shoots him. We have to wait and see, but this looks like an execution just based on the video alone. Just wondering whey you chose to single out this one shooting rather than the over 300 murders in Chicago so far this year. Because this was done by police officers? I'm curious why your skepticism of government tends to fade in circumstances like this.
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Post by quickplay on Jul 5, 2016 11:46:59 GMT -5
The problem with the two party system is they have essentially become rival sports teams and voters are the fan bases. The sides will defend their team no matter what and no matter which mascot(candidate) their team chooses. If the republicans nominated boehiem I bet some posters here would bend over backwards to defend him. And so would those deeply entrenched democrats on this board. This is a good read: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/Could not disagree more. Populism is a reaction to the fundamental failure of the 'smoke-filled room' and 'professional experts,' not the cause of their failure. Insiders and technocrats have failed. Their restructuring of American society to be a conduit for efficient business operation has left tens of millions of people behind. Nothing "gets done" unless it is a handout to special interests - benefits to actual human beings are an acceptable byproduct. "Neurotic hatred of the political class is the country’s last universally acceptable form of bigotry." Was he able to write that in 2016 with a straight face? Our "political class" sold the American people up the river decades ago. You reap what you sow.
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Post by quickplay on Jun 30, 2016 11:13:18 GMT -5
Nice to see that AG Loretta Lynch spent a private half hour aboard Bill Clinton's plane. Two questions: is she really an honest broker on the Hillary investigation and was she wearing a blue dress? Talk about paying lip service to impartiality... Apparently she's unfamiliar with the phrase "appearance of impartiality." While I 100% agree that this is insanely inappropriate, appearance of impartiality has been dead in our government for a long time.
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Post by quickplay on Jun 3, 2016 14:08:07 GMT -5
I support Trump but won't vote for him.
But you're right, he's dancing around the issue because he's trying to save face.
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Post by quickplay on May 25, 2016 11:18:33 GMT -5
What is going on
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Post by quickplay on May 3, 2016 10:44:34 GMT -5
Ripe for? It arrived with "I won, you lost, get over it" and "I have a pen and I've got a phone". That's the thing about tyranny. Sometimes you like the guy at the top, and sometimes you don't, but once you've given your freedom away, it's not so hard to claw back. How dare you confuse tyranny with a wise, enlightened leader doing his best against opposition bent on his destruction? The fact that he has used the Constitution as Charmin for 7 1/2 years is the fault of the Republican opposition and simply a necessary evil for all the great things he needed to do. What's a bit scary is that at this point neither party acts as the opposition party as far as constitutional rights go. They'll fight aggressively over so many things, but a surveillance state and general ignoring of the constitution has become one of the few areas of bipartisanship.
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Post by quickplay on May 2, 2016 14:53:27 GMT -5
Hi Quickplay I'm tired of hearing of the tired cliché about everything is the fault of the "military/intelligence/corporate industrial complex." You know, the military is a fraction of the size it once was. I look around, I look at poor neighborhoods and I see young kids with cell phones, cars, and none of them are starving. The point is that you can go into any fast food restaurant and you can get a job tomorrow. However, they can't get any applicants. 40-50 years ago, students would come home from schools and deliver papers, work in restaurants, etc., but you just don't see that today. This might surprise you, but the majority of those who work in the corporate world, are very hard working, honest Americans. And where does this extra money come from that you are talking about?? I know. Take it from the Gates' the Zuckerbergs' etc. These are geniuses who make this country run and help make it wealthy. “The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” ― Socrates, around 2400 years ago.
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Post by quickplay on May 2, 2016 10:35:20 GMT -5
There's always the hope that this generation won't turn out to be as selfish, arrogant, and short-sighted as the one before it, but yes, that is yet to be seen. And there's always the hope that this generation will turn out to be as intelligent as the ones before it and realize that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Unless, of course, you're in the military/intelligence/corporate industrial complex. Strange how we have unlimited access to trillions of dollars for certain special interests but when you try to allocate some of that money to improve people's lives all of a sudden we're concerned about responsible accounting. We have plenty of money to improve our society without needing to jump into lazy fallacies, thanks.
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Post by quickplay on May 2, 2016 9:10:47 GMT -5
In my lifetime, younger people have always been less conservative than their parents and grandparents. Consistently what has happened is that, as they grew older, they have become more conservative. Remember, it was, to a large extent, the young people of their day that opposed the Vietnam War; and, who fostered the civil rights movement. Not exactly conservative views. But many of these same people today are those parents and grandparents. When these younger people get older and find out they have to purchase their own cars, homes, iphones, etc. and the government is taking more and more out of their paychecks to pay for all those "freebies" they advocated when younger, the oops moment will occur. Also, I hope they will be prepared for the crash of our financial system which is coming because of the huge debt we are accumulating. There's always the hope that this generation won't turn out to be as selfish, arrogant, and short-sighted as the one before it, but yes, that is yet to be seen.
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Post by quickplay on Apr 28, 2016 18:21:39 GMT -5
One person within 3 seconds of her 800 split, next person a full 5 seconds back. Great leg!!
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Post by quickplay on Apr 7, 2016 16:42:27 GMT -5
Black Lives Matter protesters are defending murderers and drug dealers. Tell the truth, they are defending the people who killed the lives they say matter. They haven't figured out a way to triangulate authentic protest movements yet...
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Post by quickplay on Mar 26, 2016 14:44:19 GMT -5
Can we please get back to the serious issues such as whether or not Ted Cruz wants to have sex with Donald Trump?
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Post by quickplay on Mar 17, 2016 11:23:04 GMT -5
Good to see he's nominating the same judge a centrist Republican might... And of course the Republicans will fight him anyway. Pretty much sums up 2009-2016. Funny how all of the canards about maintaining the ideological balance of the Court have ceased to exist. NB: I think the man is qualified and barring something as yet unknown should have a hearing and be confirmed. But Democrat hypocrisy on this one is as profound as Republican obstructionism. Who claims that we should be maintaining ideological balance on the court? I think the hypocrisy is pretending that judges are some objective technocrats instead of biased individuals, and that's certainly a lie both parties are guilty of.
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