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Mar 19, 2024 13:40:16   #
LindaK wrote:
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Having a potential candidate who puts America first is the way it’s supposed to be.

Well, that's the way the rhetoric goes anyway and that's why EVERY candidate since Nixon has made that claim.

LindaK wrote:

Funding our known enemies is Biden’s way of appeasing them. It’s not working and hasn’t for over three years now. Thus why some in his own party members are calling for Biden to ‘step aside’ .

'Hate to pop your bubble but Israel is not an enemy of the United States. In fact, Israel is entirely dependent on the U.S. to save them from the rest of the world and we DO have a commitment to Israel based on previous agreements.

This is why Biden is having a hard time with the uncommitted movement that you are referring to. They share my opinion that Israel is overstepping.

But I think most of us (on the left) know, this movement is mostly contained in the primaries as a symbolic gesture of protest and that in the general election, when it comes down to Biden or Trump they will back Biden because they KNOW that Trump would be even worse.

Biden is conflicted because he is committed to our agreements - as a president should be, but his sense of humanity and Christian morals recognizes the crime of slaughtering thousands of innocent Palestinians.

Trump is too simple-minded to even BE conflicted. This is why he appears "strong" to some people. He has proven himself to have no regard for previous commitments hence his record-breaking attacks on American promises to other nations and he has proven himself not to give a sh.t about people suffering hardships, to the point of suggesting that many immigrants are not even people.
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Mar 19, 2024 13:18:11   #
EmilyD wrote:
Right…we’ll just call it what it really is: The TDS Cult…

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LOL - OK

I tell ya what... When the MAGA movement finally curls up in defeat, maybe we'll come up with a department of name-calling and you and Donny can find purpose, just coming up with insulting names for things. That seems to consume about 50% of Donny's airtime anyway.
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Mar 19, 2024 13:12:47   #
martsiva wrote:
Are you really so dumb that you couldn't understand that he was talking about the auto industry when that was his main talking point in the first place??

LOL - see, this is why it's so easy to manipulate you people. I'm assuming you didn't see my post where I explained how it's common for right-wing rhetoric to jump to unrelated topics mid-stream. It's a way to make up for the lack of substance by filling in the space with unrelated tangents just to keep the fire of emotional outrage stoked.

martsiva wrote:

What - because he didn`t explicitly say 'auto industry' even though that was what he was talking about you don`t have the intelligence to understand that is what he was referring to??

Oh, we have the intelligence to see what he did. The question is whether it was intentional rhetoric such as Katie Britt's unrelated tangent about sex trafficking in Mexico in the middle of her attack on Biden's border policies or if his poor choice of words is a result of his 3rd grade level of communication or if it's simply his senile inability to focus.

But since you're obviously defending your Daddy - why don't you explain how NOT electing him is going to create a "bloodbath" in the automotive industry? I'd love to hear it.
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Mar 19, 2024 12:51:20   #
martsiva wrote:
Tell us all here how He loves your lies about following Him!!

Good one!

This is why I always put "Christians" in quotes when referring to the religious right. In my opinion most of the real Christians, such as Biden are on the left. This is where you find the concern for others that the Christian doctrine so often promotes and the right so often ignores.
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Mar 19, 2024 12:45:51   #
Justice101 wrote:
ALL of this gobble-d-gook is your opinion. I asked the other leftist TJ the question, but of the course the Narcissists
cult must protect each other.

The fact that you call it "gobble-d-gook" is a testament to your inability to understand it. Your urge to describe the left as "the Narcissists cult" betrays you're emotional reaction AND your abysmal grasp of the English language.
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Mar 19, 2024 12:33:33   #
eagleye13 wrote:
I Can't number all the Liberal sites that claimed Trump said what he didn't say.Newsmax played them back to back.
The Left is sooo dishonest; but then again they need to be.

LOL - so when you run out of arguments, you just borrow arguments from the left. That's funny. The left doesn't need to lie because they don't have anything to hide. It's the right that keeps pushing for policies that screw the American people and THAT is why the right needs to be dishonest.

This was becoming apparent as early as Nixon's campaign in 1968 when they were confronted with a new generation of educated Americans that weren't buying the BS anymore and it was suggested that Nixon appeal to the religious folks to get the numbers because for them, faith overrides logic. That was how the tradition of presidents carrying Bibles got started.

Since then, the contrast between left and right has mostly been a matter of liberal politicians exposing the truth to educated voters and conservative politicians obscuring the truth in energetic appeals to emotion.
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Mar 19, 2024 12:26:57   #
microphor wrote:
I don't know if you're stupid or what. you do realize that we have laws about a legal immigration in america that are not being followed by the biden administration? Or are the laws only important to you when they apply to your causes? One small example, is the Biden administration properly vetting every person who comes into this country?

How do you know he isn't? I don't know if you're stupid or what, but when smart people say someone is violating a law, they can actually point to the law itself AND to evidence that the law is being violated. All you're doing here is making a baseless statement that you're hoping is true.

Not only that, but it has nothing to do with what I was stating about the nature of these laws. You're trying to shift the focus to avoid the truth.
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Mar 19, 2024 11:31:24   #
TJKMO wrote:
Then you do not understand how the English language works.
She takes 2 TOTALLY UNRELATED stories and weaves them into the same narrative.

It is a dishonest use of the language.

There is also, the lack of substance in most right-wing arguments that leaves people grasping for relevance. There's a certain way to promote MAGA arguments that involves a complete abandonment of logic and a switch to emotional appeal instead. So the argument doesn't have to make rational sense. The objective here is to simply stoke the emotions, during a conversation about a particular topic.

So if the topic of discussion is immigration, you can introduce stories that have nothing to do with immigration but creates emotional outrage and as long as people are experiencing this outrage during a conversation about immigration, it works.

The story that Katie Britt shared occurred in Mexico and actually didn't have anything to do with immigration at all. But since her intended audience generally associates immigration with Mexicans all she had to do is bring it up to stoke that fire.

It's the same thing Trump did when he was talking about agreements with the Chinese regarding the automotive industry and he suddenly says there will be a bloodbath if he doesn't get elected, then went right back to talking about the automotive industry. Of course Trump wanders around when he talks anyway because he's not capable of focus but, the effect is the same.

After all, the power of the MAGA narrative isn't in it's construction but the inability of idiots to know any better.
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Mar 19, 2024 11:03:44   #
microphor wrote:
If the front door is closed and you go through a window, you are not a guest (immigrant), you are a criminal (illegal)!

straightUp wrote:

Only because you want them to be. The border crisis is manufactured by racists hiding their bigotry behind legal excuses.

microphor wrote:
You're just creating scenarios from a one-liner.Don't take much sense to do. Go play what if's with your barbie dolls

There's no "what-ifs" involved here. Some people are racist. Simple fact. Among those racists there has always been a push to keep immigrants out, especially when so many immigrants are brown. Simple fact. Given the obvious immorality of racism, there has been no way to simply make all brown people illegal, so the next best thing is to limit their numbers, either by quotas which we did until 1964, when it became morally indefensible, or through the intentional inefficiency of the immigration process, where the system can only process a small percentage of them, leaving the rest in a state of limbo where survival is questionable.

This inefficiency gives the racists the ability to hide their bigotry behind the fact that there *IS* a legal path while at the same time, having a legal excuse to make any brown person that wasn't lucky enough to pass through the inefficiency, illegal.

A racist will obviously deny this... probably by dismissing it as speculation and/or suggesting people shut up about it and play with barbie dolls instead.
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Mar 19, 2024 10:26:18   #
Justice101 wrote:
What was Trump convicted of that would send him "to prison for up to 4 years"?

Trump hasn't been criminally convicted of ANYTHING yet, genius... Criminal charges are up to 91 counts but they keep delaying the proceedings so he can get elected first, then claim executive immunity.

Of course, we aren't counting the numerous civil offenses, many of which he as much as admitted to by settling out of court.

In my opinion, Trump's most offensive aggressions against the American people AND people around the world, break no laws at all because laws are typically written in response to actions that people have already committed, thereby creating the need for a law against it. Trump's callous audacity has allowed him to take actions that no president or decent person in his right mind would ever do and no one ever thought we would need to prevent with an actual law.

This is why many of us have moral laws that extend beyond the limits of statutory law. For some of us there's a sense of decency that prevents us from doing things that would be perfectly legal, but indecent. For those with a weaker sense of decency, there is also the fear of God to help guide them.

So whether it's out of a concern for others, or simply the fear of going to Hell, people DO restrain themselves for moral reasons that have no corresponding law in the government.

I find it ironic that so many Bible-thumping people pushing God's morality are bending over backwards to excuse Trump from his immoral behavior simply because he didn't violate a specific statutory law.
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Mar 17, 2024 23:06:10   #
Justice101 wrote:
How does one "speak MAGA"?

Basically, just rant but slur the words and drool.

Justice101 wrote:

Is that a special language reserved for patriotic, law abiding and America Loving people only?

Yes, you couldn't describe fascism any better. Submissive, compliant, chauvinists.
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Mar 17, 2024 22:53:43   #
Justice101 wrote:
You totally disregarded the link that I posted. Not surprising.

I don't see all the posts on this site. It's quite possible I missed it.

Justice101 wrote:

People were there to see if Congress were going to hear the evidence of election fraud that Mike Pence had promised a few days before the Certification of Joe Biden.
So, Pence was lying to the people when he said that the evidence of election fraud would be heard.

Seems like a pattern... all these claims of election fraud turning out to be goose eggs.
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Mar 17, 2024 20:08:18   #
Justice101 wrote:
Trump was allowed to participate in the rally on January 6 to encourage "the Protesters to walk to the Capitol PEACEFULLY and make their voices heard". Everyone thought that the evidence of election fraud was going to be heard in Congress.

At Georgia rally, Pence says America will 'hear the evidence' of election fraud on Jan. 6

Jay Busbee· Senior writer
Updated January 4, 2021
https://news.yahoo.com/at-georgia-rally-pence-says-america-will-hear-the-evidence-of-election-fraud-on-jan-6-193148658.html

Excerpt

Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that the case for widespread election fraud would be made to the American people when Congress meets this week to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump.

“We’ve all got our doubts about the last election. I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities,” Pence said at an indoor congregation at Rock Springs Church in Milner, Ga., in support of Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in runoff elections there.

Pence, who by law will be tasked with declaring a winner of the Electoral College vote, seemed to leave open the possibility that Trump could still remain in power for a second term.

“Come this Wednesday,” he said, referring to the impending certification of election results, “we’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the evidence.”

{It turned out quite differently as we watch the videos that were released from January 6 and NOT AT ALL AN INSURRECTION!!}
Trump was allowed to participate in the rally on J... (show quote)

I never did call it an insurrection. As far as I am concerned, it was a moment of literal insanity. Most of the people that were there had no clue anything like that was going to happen. You had a handful of "experienced vets" and paramilitary hotheads getting all wrapped up in their self-glories and being complete idiots, then other people get all excited and before you know it you have hundreds of people loosing their cotton-pickin' minds.

They had no plans for a takeover.
They had plans to show up armed.
There's the... "Big Plan" for "taking over the government."

Trump was the biggest idiot of all of them all. He knew there was no actual plan to take over the government. I think he got a message from some paramilitary muffin-top about being ready and willing... (Yeah, that'll do it.)

I think Trump was just bathing the glow of loyalty as he watched Trump flags being carried to the siege. He probably got off on it. What he should have been doing is acting like a leader and taking control, instead of sitting by himself watching it on TV. What a moron.

So, no - I don't think those people were particularly dangerous or that the event was anything more organized than a riot. But the example really should be made... Those peckerheads stormed the Capitol... The one building in Washington dedicated to the voice of The People. Anyone in their right mind should have known better.
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Mar 17, 2024 18:27:34   #
RandyBrian wrote:
And once again a questionable opinion from a questionable source is latched onto by the left. We can now anticipate our leftist brethren on OPP to run with it, and in a week or two it will be repeated ad nausium as a proven indisputable fact, and used as the basis for many more left wing lies, "proving" that everything from COVID to cuts in oil production to inflation, to the high number of part time jobs is ALL the Republicans fault. Heck, they will even blame Republicans for Commander biting Secret Service agents 24 times .
And once again a questionable opinion from a quest... (show quote)


LOL - yer funny.

Look, if you just weren't so brainwashed into thinking public interest is evil, everything would make more sense to you and you wouldn't be left grasping at straws.

1. No one on the left is blaming anyone for COVID. Trump is the one who was blaming it on the Chinese.

2. There were no cuts to oil, either - as usual, that's another right-wing conspiracy theory. Oil production has actually been on a near-constant upward trajectory the whole time Biden has been in office. The misinformation is a spin off the news about about Biden putting a stop to allocating any more federal land to leases for commercial extraction. At the time, there was a push to build the new XL spur off the Keystone Pipeline and the plan was to lease federal land. So, when Biden executed the order, the company cancelled the project.

This was not a cut in oil production. This was a cancelled plan for future development that would not have added another drop of oil to the market for 10 years or so. But right-wing media does what right-wing media does. They get you all agitated.

3. Inflation has nothing to do with Biden or Trump, or any president for that matter. It's ridiculous that so many people don't see this. The government does not control the economy. How you people swear we are not a socialist country while at the same time insisting that our government controls inflation is just mind blowing.

Inflation is not a system it's a condition where markets are inflated with dollars, causing the value of each dollar to diminish. It's most frequently caused by free market influences. There is some levels of regulation from the Federal Reserve, but the Federal Reserve is not the government. The U.S. Government can ASK the Federal Reserve if they wouldn't mind taking action and they always do because what's good for the Federal Reserve is also good for the U.S. Government.

The current inflation, which is slowing down now, was caused by the free market reactions to the pandemic. This is why I don't give Biden as much credit for the recovery as he gives himself... I think he's done a great job but the real driving force behind the recovery was the free market itself and I'm saying the same thing about inflation.

4. The increase in part time jobs is a 30-year trend and it is also a result of market forces over which the government, by design, has little or no control.

So, what you got there Scooter, is a handful of dumbass theories.
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Mar 17, 2024 15:28:19   #
Nick Nicholson wrote:
Continue being the fool. Do you have any concept of what has happened in this nation over the last 55 years? Probably not. I suggest you read some history about how multiple nations have become communist. And not one has ever become communist as a result of social programs. Nope. They all became communist because of uncontrolled capitalism. Every single one. Just like what has been happening here snce about 1969.

Wow, that's actually a really good point.

It reminds me of how Castro initially wanted to model Cuba after the U.S. but because capitalists in the U.S. wanted to exploit Cuba, he wound up resisting and eventually turning to the Soviet Union. I actually remember what happened in Nicaragua when Ortega basically led a farmers revolt against the banana republic model, which was essentially the American version of colonialism where famers were not even allowed to grow food to sustain themselves... they were forced to use 100% of their resources to grow what US. corporations demanded, such as bananas and to sustain themselves they had to buy inflated imports from the U.S.

I would absolutely agree... almost every nation that went communist at some point after WW2 did so because U.S. imperialism and the extreme capitalism it institutes forced them into it.
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