America - The Official Thread

[Danoff]

Reciprocity.

You perceived a slight, and whether real or not you immediately returned it?

 

[TexRex]

You perceived a slight, and whether real or not you immediately returned it?

A slight and the absence of a courtesy are not the same thing.

 

[ryzno]

I see nothing has changed here...
On to the next thread.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Reciprocity.



It looks an awful lot like cherrypicking to me, and since you've accused others of engaging in the convention, I can only imagine you're willing to engage in it as well given that you've demonstrated a propensity to call others out on tactics that you yourself employ with those very same parties (kind of understandable) but others as well (not so understandable).

Does me harping on this come off as petty? No doubt...but the proverbial camel's back broke many straws ago.

Mount Everest was an understatement. I might have to search Amazon for an affordable microscope to be able to keep up with this increasing focus on irrelevant minutiae.

 

[TexRex]

Mount Everest was an understatement. I might have to search Amazon for an affordable microscope to be able to keep up with this increasing focus on irrelevant minutiae.

Way to quote a post and not address the contents. And here I was recently accused of not reading posts because of who submitted them.

 

[Danoff]

Mount Everest was an understatement. I might have to search Amazon for an affordable microscope to be able to keep up with this increasing focus on irrelevant minutiae.

That's not exactly going to help the conversation.

 

[TexRex]

It's probably time for me to take a break from a few threads.

 

[McLaren]

Old news, there are some waiting to get into Mexico legally, most have just crossed into Mexico illegally.

Better Video:

Will be interesting to see how Mexico continues to handle this.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I'm just offering it up for your viewing pleasure. I make no claims as to it's authenticity. It could mean anything, even a vast right wing conspiracy. I'm sure the truth will come out soon enough.

Given that it looks more like tickets than money it's probably part of the church relief effort that's ongoing. I imagine the medics who've been reaching the area to try to aid the growing humanitarian crisis are part of a conspiracy too?

All I know for sure is it's the best looking, most well fed and healthy looking asylum seekers I've ever seen.

They look like normal people to me. Maybe they are? Perhaps the benchmark for a breakdown in a country's economy falls short of having an entirely skeletal population?

 

[Biggles]

So some person in Central America yelled, "Enough is enough, I am walking to America! Who is with me!?!" And people started to follow, and before you know it there were thousands headed to America.

Yeah, that doesn't sound right.

Who organized this caravan? Who is paying to feed and provide water?

This is going to look really bad if they come up against the US military. But I am sure that was the leftists' plan, all along. After all, the optics of, enforcing existing law, and separating families, worked pretty well for them.

The sad part is that the leftists don't care how many people they use. I watch those videos and want to cry for those poor families.

The leftists lied to all those people.

Soros. It's obviously Soros. For decades he's been bank rolling the the corrupt Guatemalan government, the death squads, the leftist guerrillas, the drug lords, the gangs, ... all leading up to this moment, just before the 2018 US mid terms, when he unleashes a caravan of thousands to head north to the US border, disrupt the elections & further his evil agenda of a Jewish Hedge-Fund Communist New World Order!

Fiendishly clever!

 

[Johnnypenso]

That's not exactly going to help the conversation.

That's probably where we differ. I don't think of it as a conversation. I don't believe there is any genuine attempt to come to any understanding about any issues that are relevant to this thread.

 

[Sanji Himura]

@Biggles I know that you are blowing the political aspects of this WAY out of proportion, but I don't necessarily think that this has the fingerprints of Soros here. What I DO think, however, is that this was timed to motivate some form of leftist base, and it is simply backfiring. Even Bernie Sanders acknowledges that this mythical blue wave, something that is compounded by the caravan, is not really going to work come two weeks from now. Quoting the New York Times (the most left-leaning paper that I can come up with):

“I happen not to believe that there’s going to be this great blue wave,” he said earlier on Sunday at an event in Fort Dodge, in north central Iowa. “I happen to believe that on election night, which party controls the U.S. House will come down to a very few seats.”

That being said, however, I think that these people need to go SOMEWHERE, but not here. Think about it, if we do not have the money to build the border wall, then we do not have the money to support these people while they are sending wages back to their native country.

 

[PocketZeven]

Trump even lies when he doesn’t need to Lie. How can people support this narcissistic pathological liar.

The senate passed a bill to fight the opioid crisis. In a speech Trump said it was a great victory because the Bill had “very little democratic support”.

The bill was voted 98 to 1. That 1 being a republican.

 

[Sanji Himura]

Trump even lies when he doesn’t need to Lie. How can people support this narcissistic pathological liar.

The senate passed a bill to fight the opioid crisis. In a speech Trump said it was a great victory because the Bill had “very little democratic support”.

The bill was voted 98 to 1. That 1 being a republican.

I think that he means by the general population, which is pretty accurate given political agendas today.

 

[PocketZeven]

I think that he means by the general population, which is pretty accurate given political agendas today.

You are delusional dude. He said “very little democrat support” on video.

It was passed easily with all democrats voting for and 1 republican against. What do you mean by general population? I though trump is a straight shooter. If he meant general population why did he say “democrat”.

How can his following, who have given up mainstream media at Trumps suggestion, make informed voting decisions if the information from their primary source of information they receive is false most of the time.

I am not saying all other presidents speak the truth all the time, but no one is as uncapable to speak obvious truths as him in history.

 

[Danoff]

You are delusional dude. He said “very little democrat support” on video.

It was passed easily with all democrats voting for and 1 republican against. What do you mean by general population? I though trump is a straight shooter. If he meant general population why did he say “democrat”.

How can his following, who have given up mainstream media at Trumps suggestion, make informed voting decisions if the information from their primary source of information they receive is false most of the time.

I am not saying all other presidents speak the truth all the time, but no one is as uncapable to speak obvious truths as him in history.

It's a relatively recent phenomenon.

 

[PocketZeven]

It's a relatively recent phenomenon.

Doesn’t lies as obvious as these worry you as an American? Do you trust a leader that lies so much?

 

[Danoff]

Doesn’t lies as obvious as these worry you as an American?

Trump worries me in general.

 

[PocketZeven]

Trump worries me in general.

What should the USA do in your opinion? Continue this path or would you consider voting on an opponent? I just really hope he calls it quits in 2020 and let’s a sensible republican run for office.

 

[Danoff]

What should the USA do in your opinion? Continue this path or would you consider voting on an opponent? I just really hope he calls it quits in 2020 and let’s a sensible republican run for office.

If you're asking me whether I think we should keep Trump in office... I didn't vote for him in the first place, so I'd not be voting for him to stay. I think the best thing the US could do at this point is abolish the electoral college (which is partly responsible for him).

 

[TenEightyOne]

sensible republican

That could be an interesting debate in itself

 

[Johnnypenso]

What should the USA do in your opinion? Continue this path or would you consider voting on an opponent? I just really hope he calls it quits in 2020 and let’s a sensible republican run for office.

They tried that with McCain and Romney. Didnt work too well. Personality trumps reason far more often than it should.

 

[mustafur]

What should the USA do in your opinion? Continue this path or would you consider voting on an opponent? I just really hope he calls it quits in 2020 and let’s a sensible republican run for office.

I think your forgetting how democracy works, it doesn't really give two hoots what an individual thinks.

 

[McLaren]

What should the USA do in your opinion? Continue this path or would you consider voting on an opponent? I just really hope he calls it quits in 2020 and let’s a sensible republican run for office.

All these current names being touted have baggage & then you have celebrities that were once a joke, but now make you wonder; Kanye, Dwayne Johnson, Oprah, etc.

Personally, I like @Dotini's previous mention of Gabbard for the Democrats. I think she's a solid, safe choice. Otherwise, I'd probably lean towards another Independent.

 

[ryzno]

That could be an interesting debate in itself

Like all Dems are sensible.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Like all Dems are sensible.

I quite agree, and I'm sure the phrase "sensible democrats" would have gained a similar comment from somebody

 

[DDastardly00]

Let's recap, we've had Texas Oil tycoon, baseball team owner become Governor of Texas then POTUS, a Community Organizer who was an empty suit and very questionable abuses of power happened during his administration, very nixonian abuses of power. Now we have a Businessman, Real Estate magnate/ Reality TV star who makes America seem like a daily episode of Jerry Springer, the Twitterer in Chief, or twit in chief if you prefer. Gee, the way things are going.....

It will be Kanye West Vs Katy Perry 2024

A rapper Vs a popstar, hooray for us. And I'm sure we will long to have back the days of Bush/Obama/Trump. We might even dare to call them the 'good old days'.


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...use-donald-trump-kim-kardashian-a8518051.html

 

[Johnnypenso]

Let's recap, we've had Texas Oil tycoon, baseball team owner become Governor of Texas then POTUS, a Community Organizer who was an empty suit and very questionable abuses of power happened during his administration, very nixonian abuses of power. Now we have a Businessman, Real Estate magnate/ Reality TV star who makes America seem like a daily episode of Jerry Springer, the Twitterer in Chief, or twit in chief if you prefer. Gee, the way things are going.....

It will be Kanye West Vs Katy Perry 2024

A rapper Vs a popstar, hooray for us. And I'm sure we will long to have back the days of Bush/Obama/Trump. We might even dare to call them the 'good old days'.


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...use-donald-trump-kim-kardashian-a8518051.html

I could see The Rock getting the Democratic nomination and winning in 2020. He'd be the third actor and first steroid user (AFAIK) as President.

 

[DDastardly00]

I could see The Rock getting the Democratic nomination and winning in 2020.

Lol, a rapper Vs retired WWE wrestler/movie star, I mean why not? Maybe in 2028 it will be a youtube star Vs an underwear model.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Lol, a rapper Vs retired WWE wrestler/movie star, I mean why not? Maybe in 2028 it will be a youtube star Vs an underwear model.

Who says he'd retire from the movies? The Expendables 21 starring The President of the United States.