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Posts posted by Francisco 2.0
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16 minutes ago, Message Board User said:
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A roar rose from the crowd of thousands of Trump supporters in Panama City Beach on Wednesday night, as President Trump noted yet again that Border Patrol agents can’t use weapons to deter migrants. “How do you stop these people?” he asked.
“Shoot them!” someone yelled from the crowd, according to reporters on the scene and attendees.
QuoteThe audience cheered. Supporters seated behind Trump and clad in white baseball caps bearing the letters “USA” laughed and applauded.
“That’s only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement,” Trump replied, smiling and shaking his head. “Only in the Panhandle.”
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President Donald Trump appeared to insinuate in a recent interview that his supporters -- the police, military and "Bikers for Trump," he claims -- could turn violent against Democrats.
Quote"You know, the left plays a tougher game, it's very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don't play it tougher. OK?" Trump said in an interview with Breitbart News published Wednesday. "I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump -- I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough -- until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."
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19 minutes ago, softlynow said:
Just wait til the primaries are over and Trump is trailing the Dem nominee by 7-9 pts in September. We’ll look back fondly to the time when each of these events made national news.
Wait until Election Day in November 2020. You want a horrifying scenario? The idea of someone opening fire on a polling location of browns and blacks.
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GOP leadership since November 2016:
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3 minutes ago, retread said:
Lindsey's on Twitter with the mental health and 'threat to themselves' angle.
Maybe it's just me, but members of the GOP probably need to sit this one out, unless they want to finally say something like "enough is enough".
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2 hours ago, Ravishing Rick said:
Heading out there on Friday with two former army rangers whose top priority is slaying ass. Staying at Cosmo
Their work is done.
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21 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
Thoughts and prayers.
Odds are extremely high he didn't compose those tweets. There are no misspelled words.
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Sure, it was a few posts ago, but this pic is all you need:
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Just now, atomheartbevo said:
You saw her campaign got yanked as well?
Nah, must have missed that. But the point stands.
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33 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
What dumbass leaves $1,500 in cash In the hotel room? Are their servants too lazy to carry it? Or do they trust the hotel more than their servants? Sad!
I'm thinking there was never $1500 to begin with, and this is a
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Must be a sad as fuck life to go to a Trump rally and have some of the beliefs and thoughts these people have.
(note: bolded is mine. I'm still shaking my head over the chemtrails exchange)
QuoteOpen throats, captive minds. Maybe 17,000 of each, deafening in different ways. Joy, fear, love, hate, fellowship. Unbridled, roaring nationalism. Shirts that said “JESUS IS MY SAVIOR, TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT,” though it was hard to tell the difference here at Rally No. 64 of his presidency, on Day 923 of his first term.
About 15 minutes into his speech Thursday evening, Donald Trump riffed on one of his favorite topics: American “inner cities” and how they are utter hellholes.
Quote“We can name one after the other, but I won’t do that,” Trump said. “Because I don’t want to be controversial.” He paused to let the crowd goad him into being controversial. “We want no controversy.” This was his first rally since his pillorying of Baltimore as “infested,” since his last audience chanted “send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the Somali American congresswoman.
QuoteWould he go there again? Would he go beyond? Would they? How racist was everyone feeling tonight?
When asked earlier in the day about indecent chants, outside the White House, Trump said: “I don’t know that you can stop people.”
Presently, onstage, the president pivoted to his left and looked into the crowd at the U.S. Bank Arena. His followers, reacting as one red-hatted organism, had detected an invasion: a few protesters who had unfurled a small banner that said “IMMIGRANTS BUILT AMERICA.” The organism’s immune system pulsed to life. People snatched at the banner, swarmed the protesters.
SpoilerTrump sidestepped the microphone and addressed the fans closest to him, just off the stage. “Democrat mayor?” he asked them, hand beside his mouth, perhaps to block his audio. “Democrat mayor. Democrat?” When the slight infection was treated, the capacity crowd chanted “U-S-A.”
“Cincinnati, do you have a Democrat mayor?” Trump said at the microphone. “Well, that’s what happens.”
Yes, that’s what happens if you vote Democrat, or if a Democrat is in charge, or if anyone is in charge but Donald Trump in 2021: chaos, lawlessness, the slavery of socialism, epidemics of disease and drugs, criminal immigrants pillaging schools and hospitals, the slaughter of newborn babies by abortion doctors, pesky investigations of presidential wrongdoing by people such as Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), congressman from Baltimore and chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Trump decided to go after Cummings again, without naming him, by comparing Baltimore’s homicide rate to entire Central American countries. His tone was that of a stand-up comic chiding the DMV for bad service.
“I believe it’s higher than — gimme a place that you think is pretty bad,” Trump said, breaking his teleprompter trance to start freestyling. “Gimme a place.” People shouted the names of American cities. People shouted locations they’d been conditioned to look down upon. “Pakistan,” shouted one man. “Afghanistan,” shouted another.
“I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan,” Trump said.
Oh, people had fun here! They were gleeful. They chanted “LOCK HER UP,” and turned to each other and smiled, moving and clapping as if they were at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. (“Free Bird” had played multiple times outside the arena to entertain the epic queue in the hot sun.) Pubescent boys wearing the Infowars logo, soccer moms in pink tops emblazoned with “Women for Trump,” a couple of rows of black supporters with T-shirts that said “TRUMP & Republicans ARE NOT RACIST,” a group of friends from Middletown (setting of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy”) who’d chartered a limousine to make a night of it — they were so happy to spend hours here, in this hot hockey venue across the river from Kentucky, as the leader of the free world gave a sermon of digressive demagoguery and tell-it-like-it-isms. The president wasn’t racist, his people believed; he was an equal-opportunity counterpuncher. Some said they weren’t even here for the counterpunching. They were here for the sheer camaraderie, the energy, the excitement. It was validating for people. It was inspiring.
The president talks a lot about what he’s doing for the country. What is he doing for his followers?
Rewind for a moment, to about two hours before Trump’s entrance. It was the fifth rally for Steve and Tina Callahan, real estate agents from Springfield, Ohio. They were waiting in the first row of the second tier of seating, in attire patterned with the American flag, because they wanted to feel unity, to be around people with “common sense,” to see their hero in the flesh.
“He is sacrificing his life to save America from a new world order,” Tina said.
What if he is not reelected?
“God is real, and He’s told many people that Trump is going to serve eight years,” said Tina, a born-again Christian. “And Pence is going to serve eight years. And Pence’s vice president is going to serve eight years.”
Jennifer Heinlein, a patient-services specialist, loves how her 401(k) has swelled. She pays “heavily” for her health insurance but wants to keep it, and she worries that a Democrat would take it away. She pointed to her compatriots moving through the concourse in Trump-branded merchandise. “When I see people wearing all this,” Heinlein said, “it makes me a believer.”
Down on the floor of the arena, in the standing VIP section, was a woman named Michelle Sellati, wearing a shirt adorned with the letter “Q.” She was part of a noticeable contingent of rallygoers wearing the symbols of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which at least one FBI field office has identified as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a Yahoo News story published earlier in the day. Besides being a portal to uncertain revelations of a dubious nature, QAnon also helps explain the president’s foibles to those who see him as the author of living scripture.
“I wait for him to misspell or mispronounce something, and then I wait for my Serial Brain to decode,” said Sellati, referring to a YouTube channel that she says analyzes the missing letters in the president’s tweets — and the garbled words in the president’s mouth — for clues to what’s going to happen in the future.
What’s an example of something that’s happened, after a clue?
“The chemtrails,” Sellati said.
The chemtrails.
“The chemtrails are gone. Since July 4. Look at the sky. It’s beautiful.”
But we were inside. The absurd ballad “Memory,” from the absurd musical “Cats,” was blaring over the speakers at headache decibels.
IF YOU TOUCH ME, YOU’LL UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPINESS IS.
“You had to suffer for a long time,” Trump said around Minute 38, “until I came along.” He was referring to the previous administration’s policy toward fossil fuels. His people nodded and applauded, as many miles away the Greenland ice sheet continued its historic melt: 197 billion tons of water, swept into the Atlantic Ocean over the past month, which scientists attribute to climate change’s growing impact on the Arctic.
But in this arena, among the believers, the future was rosy. Over an hour into his speech, the president declared that he would end the AIDS epidemic “shortly” and cure childhood cancer “very shortly.” There was moderate applause. The crowd was thinning; it had been a long day. But then, seconds later, he mentioned “the right to keep and bear arms.” Thunder. Rafter-shaking cheers. Standing. Screaming.
“Americans won the race to the moon,” Trump also said, “and we will now win the race to Mars.”
A new world. Sometimes it feels like we’re already there.
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4 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:
Trump isn’t bankrolling anything. He’s a broke deadbeat.
Hence the quotation marks around my bankrolling comment.
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1 hour ago, NowThis said:
if Trump loses, what happens to all the MAGA hats? to Africa?
Shit. Those will be PROUDLY worn in public for decades as a reminder to all that this country could have been restored to greatness, if only the fake media/deep state/antifa/socialistic Democrats/Soros/on and on would have just got the hell out of the way and let he and his family reign forever.
On a more serious note; I fully expect if Trump were to lose for him to "bankroll" an alternative party, for I believe the GOP will wake up after election day in 2020 and pretend the past 4 years didn't happen.
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29 minutes ago, DixonHur said:
Maybe
Mexicothe US Treasury paid for themMore likely.
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6 minutes ago, DixonHur said:
I'm not even sure why people like that care who the President is...Alex Jones and Steve Bannon could be co-Presidents and those fuckers still wouldn't be successful
"He talks just like us"
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1 minute ago, Continental Op said:
The hell you say? Those people were cast from the mold of William F. Buckley, Jr.
I know, right? I bet Tahoe would welcome them with open arms at the monthly party meeting. Maybe one of them could bring a bag of donuts.
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3 minutes ago, Chooky said:
This. This is the face of the modern Republican Party.
But in reality, these people are not Republicans. They were just looking for a voice to lash out, and Trump came to their rescue. Voting/supporting the GOP just goes along with their worship of the House of Trump. If he decided tomorrow that he would leave the GOP and form the Trump Party, and seek re-election as a Trumpocrat, these people would happily follow along.
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This bitch should have never been elected, but carpetbagged off of her old man's name. She's just the worst.
QuoteOn a momentous day for Tribal Nations, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), the House Republican Conference Chairwoman, stated that the successful litigation by tribes and environmentalists to return the grizzly bear in Greater Yellowstone to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “was not based on science or facts” but motivated by plaintiffs “intent on destroying our Western way of life.”
QuoteOne of the largest tribal-plaintiff alliances in recent memory prevailed in the landmark case, Crow Tribe et al v. Zinke last September, when US District Judge Dana Christensen ruled in favor of the tribes and environmental groups after finding that the Trump Administration’s US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) had failed to abide by the ESA and exceeded its authority in attempting to remove federal protections from the grizzly. Tuesday, USFWS officially returned federal protections to the grizzly.
QuoteRemoving protections from the bear, revered as sacred to a multitude of tribes, would have left the grizzly vulnerable to high-dollar trophy hunts and lifted leasing restrictions on some 34,375 square miles. Extractive industry, livestock and logging interests are among those desirous of capitalizing on the area, a region comprised of tribal treaty, reserved rights and ceded lands.
Spoiler“So, in striving to protect our culture, our religious and spiritual freedoms, our sovereignty and our treaty rights – all of which are encapsulated in the grizzly issue – we are ‘destroying’ Cheney’s idea of the ‘Western way of life’?” questioned Rodgers. “I would remind the Congresswoman that at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition an estimated 10,000 grizzly bears roamed from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. That was all Indian Country. Now there are fewer than 2,000 grizzly bears and our people live in Third World conditions on meager reservations in the poorest counties in the US. Does she really want to talk about ‘destroying’ a ‘way of life’?” asked Rodgers.
“Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that recent attempts by the Administration to remove protections for the grizzly, as well as blatant disregard for proper Tribal consultation, warrant our attention,” commented Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO), who chaired the hearing on HR 2532. Rodgers’ written response to a question by Rep. Neguse traces contemporary wildlife management practices employed by the USFWS and the states back to the Doctrine of Discovery. The account, which has been widely praised by organizations including Sierra Club and Earth Justice, is posted in the Congressional Record (https://docs.house.gov/meetings/II/II13/20190515/109483/HHRG-116-II13-20190515-QFR003.pdf).
“That response is vital for our people. I urge everybody to read it. We must be aware of where, why and how the status-quo came to be and understand that these actions consistently undermine tribal sovereignty and disenfranchise our people,” said Lynnette Grey Bull, Senior Vice President of Global Indigenous Council, who also testified at the hearing.
Grey Bull resides on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, among Cheney’s constituents. Both the Northern Arapaho Tribe and Eastern Shoshone Tribe passed official resolutions and issued numerous communications opposing the delisting and trophy hunting of the grizzly bear. The Northern Arapaho Business Council was compelled to issue a “Cease and Desist” letter to the Department of Interior “regarding consistent misrepresentations of the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s position on grizzly delisting.”
Cheney contends that, “the ruling that forced today’s action was both needless and harmful to the ecosystem, which is why I introduced legislation earlier this year to reinstate the original, science-based decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the grizzly and prevent future court action on the delisting, returning management of the grizzly back to the state where it belongs.”
Tribal Nations, including the Oglala Sioux Tribe which petitioned for a Congressional inquiry into the influence of multi-national fossil-fuel corporations on FWS’s grizzly delisting decision, previously exposed the role of extractive industry in the process. USFWS engaged multinational oil and gas services group, Amec Foster Wheeler, for the peer review of its grizzly delisting rule that tribes and environmental groups deconstructed in court. Amec Foster Wheeler appointed Halliburton executive Jonathan Lewis as CEO in the same timeframe as USFWS contracted the company.
“That puts ‘harmful to the ecosystem’ into its true context,” responded Rodgers. “The Cheney family’s connections to Halliburton hardly needs elaborating upon,” added Chief Stan Grier, President of the Blackfoot Confederacy Chiefs. Grier and Blackfeet Chairman, Tim Davis, are at the forefront of the effort to stop the grizzly being delisted and trophy hunted in the Glacier National Park region, the heartland of Blackfoot Confederacy territory.
Cheney’s attempt to legislatively “prevent future court action on the delisting” was previously challenged by a coalition of tribes in testimony to the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
“Any attempt . . . to legislatively nullify the Court’s ruling in Crow Tribe et al v. Zinke– to once again strip ESA protections from the grizzly bear – will, in addition to defying the Court, suborn the federal-Indian trust responsibility. Given that the Constitution states, ‘all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land,’ the rights of Indian tribes cannot be treated as ‘temporary and precarious,’ as would be the case if Crow Tribe et al v. Zinke was legislatively subverted,” submitted the RMTLC, the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association and the Blackfoot Confederacy.
“There’s more chance of her father receiving the Nobel Peace Prize than her Grizzly Bear State Management Act reaching the House floor,” said Rodgers of Cheney’s bill.
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2 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:
He never has to answer for his lies. If I were Donald, I'd tell the fucking rubes that not only did I end it, I reunited every separated child with their parents and fixed their home country so they can live in peace. There's more Donald portraits hanging over fireplace mantels in all those Mexican countries than there are in Merica.
Pretty much this. In addition, if I were Donald, I'd probably add the Mexican government reimbursed the US Treasury for any fees associated with reunification, the care/feeding/housing of the children while they were separated, and transportation back to Mexico aboard commercial aircraft.
I mean, the true believers will believe anything, so he might as well just stick in more than the tip.
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7 minutes ago, Red Five said:
I feel like if you said to him “hey I don’t think you’re one of the five best quarterbacks in the world Donald”, he’d be like “actually I think that I am one of the five best quarterbacks in the world. A lot of people don’t know that but a lot of people are saying that I am.”Well, hell, it's already been immortalized:
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Active shooter thread
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Videogames and mental illness. That's the excuses for Team R. Since yesterday, the word filtered out pretty fast to stick to script and blame videogames and mental illness.
Nevermind the President's rhetoric. It's videogames and mental illness.
Thoughts and prayers.