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_subgenius
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canpakes wrote:
subgenius wrote:... but once again we see you believing in something without any actual evidence...I guess you do have the Faith, brother.

But please, while you're busy doing another one of your brevity-starved cut/paste exercises withGoogle, enlighten us with the actual arguments/proof/evidence that Trump received special treatment and therefore broke the law.

I like that you seem to want a certain standard of evidence to exist before investing your belief in a given claim. If only you were able to be consistent enough in your approach to apply it to truly ridiculous things, such as your promotion of the so-called Clinton Kill List.

if you were capable of attending to detail, or at least to context, you would notice that moments like those are often in mirror to a poster's absurdity. As if to illustrate that if you choose to vehemently believe in something withoutevidence then I can equally be afforded the same choice....and the resulting condemnation is revealed, as your is here, as nothing more than a personal and arbitrary act of convenience.
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subgenius wrote:if you were capable of attending to detail, or at least to context, you would notice that moments like those are often in mirror to a poster's absurdity. As if to illustrate that if you choose to vehemently believe in something withoutevidence then I can equally be afforded the same choice....and the resulting condemnation is revealed, as your is here, as nothing more than a personal and arbitrary act of convenience.
Thanks for noticing!

Well, at least you are now honest enough to confirm what we often accuse you of, namely that you believe much of what you claim to believe without evidence. In other words, you have admitted (inadvertently or not) that what you accuse your opponents of is a classic case of projection.
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Gunnar wrote:
subgenius wrote:if you were capable of attending to detail, or at least to context, you would notice that moments like those are often in mirror to a poster's absurdity. As if to illustrate that if you choose to vehemently believe in something withoutevidence then I can equally be afforded the same choice....and the resulting condemnation is revealed, as your is here, as nothing more than a personal and arbitrary act of convenience.
Thanks for noticing!

Well, at least you are now honest enough to confirm what we often accuse you of, namely that you believe much of what you claim to believe without evidence. In other words, you have admitted (inadvertently or not) that what you accuse your opponents of is a classic case of projection.

Exactly. And he's proud of it. His worldview depends upon it.
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Trump is caught on audio bragging about how he lied to Trudeau about the trade deficit.

And he's on Twitter accusing Trudeau of lying.

Do you think his low information base will bother to listen to the audio and judge him accordingly?

Of course not.

People like subs live in their own world. Just listen to the audio and his crowd laughing as if he were winning something.

Imagine if Obama were caught on audio laughing about willfully lying to another world leader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0GUGe6owk
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Hawkeye wrote:Trump is caught on audio bragging about how he lied to Trudeau about the trade deficit.


Trump lies or makes things up he has not checked out all the time. Being honest is not something Trump cares about at all. I'm not sure how much he knows about trade deficits, but I suspect he may know little. He keeps taking the ignorant position that all trade deficits are bad, when in reality rich nations almost always have trade deficits with poorer nations. Makes sense when you realize rich nations tend to want more stuff then they can get from within a country, and rich countries with small populations and large land masses tend to have more natural resources then they need. What we need is fair trade and the US has not been a great champion of that.
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Holy CRap. Trump and his family are making huge BANK because of the election and it is just his second year.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show
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Hawkeye wrote:Holy CRap. Trump and his family are making huge BANK because of the election and it is just his second year.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show

Whatever. Obama used Dijon mustard once. Gawd! Hannity devoted a show to discussing such a horribly elitist, anti-American act. He’s gotta keep The Base’s priorities straight for them, right? : )
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Could you imagine the endless talking points had Chelsea Clinton made $82M in one year off her parents' political connections? It would've caused a right-wing meltdown never before witnessed. Our country is not in a good place right now.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Could you imagine the endless talking points had Chelsea Clinton made $82M in one year off her parents' political connections? It would've caused a right-wing meltdown never before witnessed. Our country is not in a good place right now.

Nothing happening in gov't right now would go unpunished if the hypocrites weren't in power. I now understand the weight of right-wing moral outrage. It's lighter than air. It's about as truthful and meaningful as anything Drumpf says.

Honestly, it's impossible to take any Drumpf supporter seriously. They're all the brunt of their own pathetic joke. I'd feel sorry for them if they weren't so idiotically and willfully ignorant.

Actually, that would be worse. I guess it's impossible to feel sorry for them. They made their bed (of nails). Any pain they receive, they deserve. It's the rest of us victimized by their stupidity and selfishness that I really feel sympathy for.
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I guess it's impossible to feel sorry for them. They made their bed (of nails). Any pain they receive, they deserve.


Yes it's probably impossible to feel sorry for people who have seen their lives improve since DJT announce his candidacy for President. It's like feeling sorry for the New England Patriots because they win all the time.

It's the rest of us victimized by their stupidity and selfishness that I really feel sympathy for.


If you find that other Americans don't share your vision of progress, you might consider going back to Honduras to help your own country progress in the direction you would like. Wouldn't that be the more selfless thing to do?
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