I humbly submit this article to fans of Trump for their consideration.

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  1. Marine1

    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well if the Democrats have their way, there could be that many Have you read their Green New Deal?
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well sir there is plenty of room all over the globe to plant trees. Of course it doesn't help when we sit back and watch the South American rain forest burn down. That forest also helps direct wind and rain currents. Ireland is almost treeless, they can plant tens of thousands themselves.
     
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    gringo Well-Known Member Donor

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    agreed

    the most powerful man in the world refers to his fellow Americans as "human scum" on twitter

    his audience is about a 100 million....

    and every tweet trump makes shows his ignorance..

    it is trumpers that are NOT informed
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We are well informed. We know what he does, pay little attention of what he says. What effects us more? Liberals are just the opposite. You get all wrapped up in what he says and haven't got a clue to all he does that effects all of our lives.
     
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    Being a Republican these days - doesn't have much to do with Republicanism .. nor does being Blue have much to do with Classical Liberalism ... so spare us the partisan rant - as if Blue Establishment is not made up mostly morally bankrupt sell outs - .. supporters of terrorism and the move towards a totalitarian police nanny state - an anathema to the founding principles.

    That said - Blue has particularly disturbed me lately for 2 reasons

    1) all of a sudden the anti war side - is now hard core neocon.. who knew.
    2) The "believe in Science" and what is best for the Environment - are now the anti Science pretenders w/r to the environment.

    2 was the straw that broke the camels back ... and as of now - I am rooting for Red - despite having way better arguments against Trump and the Red side than you do.

    Your up !
     
  6. Lee Atwater

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    Perhaps your Google machine is broken.

    https://www.nydailynews.com/coronav...0200522-kiyctd3r5bex5d5vztnhbcgwbq-story.html

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...s-is-using-coronavirus-to-implant-brain-chips

    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...p-implants-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN21I3EC

    However, I'd rather not get bogged down by focusing on this narrow point.
     
  7. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We both know you have no chance of credibly defending the second half of that statement. None.
     
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    Wildjoker5 Well-Known Member

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    No, they inflate the numbers to get the hospital paid more for treating another Covid patient, which NY times certified as "True".
     
  9. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So, getting back to the subject of the thread, we find Trump working hard.......without evidence.........to discredit mail-in ballots.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/twitter-fact-check-trump-voting-fraud-tweets-282844

    Working so hard in fact that Twitter had to step in and give the crown jewel on their universe a slap on the wrist for promoting the same kinds of unfounded conspiracy theories the author of the article in the OP spoke about.

    I welcome the thoughts of all learned supporters of the POTUS and his party in order to engage in the kind of courteous discussion I know we can have. I'm quite sure this will result in you providing factual refutation to the points made in the article. One I'm confident you will all read from beginning to end to gain an appreciation for the author's perspective.

    I look forward to an informed debate.

    I'm still waiting.
     
  10. Lee Atwater

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    What posting such drivel does indicate is that your claim to want a discussion is vacuous at best.
    None-the-less in the vein with which you began:
    Things one most believe to be a Democrat:
    That the rich stole their wealth from the poor who never had any wealth to steal to begin with.

    That no one should have to work for living. Never mind that the lesson of the Plymouth colony writ large for anyone that wants to read the actual documents is that if no one works everyone starves.

    That everyone other than them and others like them make too much money.

    That wealth and money are synonymous.

    That Trump's freezing of air travel from China was too little too late but that freezing everyone in place a month and a half after that makes perfect sense.
     
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  13. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Jensen said he thinks the overall number of COVID-19 cases have been undercounted based on limitations in the number of tests available.

    coronavirus relief legislation created a 20% premium, or add-on, for COVID-19 Medicare patients.

    There have been no public reports that hospitals are exaggerating COVID-19 numbers to receive higher Medicare payments.

    Jensen didn't explicitly make that claim. He simply suggested there is an "avenue" to do so now that "plausible" COVID-19, not just laboratory-confirmed, cases can be greenlighted for Medicare payment and eligible for the 20% add-on allowed under the relief act."

    Context bro, context.
     
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    All one need understand is There are words and there are Actions.
    Facts and facts be damned.
    There is no question as to what the Mainstream media has stated
    monthly,weekly,daily and hourly as to their facts and the need to
    damn them Republicans AND their leader { Trump }.
    It is legion,and now part of the Historic record.
    Where Conspiracy has become reality.Trump Was spied upon.
    Far from any conspiracy.
    Trump was Framed { Insurance policy } and General Flynn was
    set up in a Perjury Trap.
    The Left as in the Democrat Party are a pack of Liars and
    manipulating Tyrants.We { the American populace } can surely
    see that each day as how Blue State Governors are both Tyrants
    Hypocrites and as Unamerican as ever in this Land.
    The Democrats want We the People to suffer.The democrats
    believe in using snitches.It is as obvious as the sun setting in the west.
    It won't be long now before the Left's Uber Control Freaks make use
    of some new Narrative to make Being a Liar one who tells the truth.
    One who snitches on another { like your neighbor } someone worth
    an award.For civic pride.
    This is how Stalinsim was meant to operate.
    It has arrived in the Good Old U.S.Of A. just in the nick of time.
    Any earlier and it may have lost it's thunder.
    Any later and may not seem Kosher.
    Like Stalinists believe in Kosher ... anything.
    Maybe a Kosher day off from work.
    Maybe s'not.While picking up some marbles or
    playing tiddly winks.
    Real Americans are done foolin' around.We have seen the light
    and smelt the coffee.
     
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    "Being a Republican these days - doesn't have much to do with Republicanism .. nor does being Blue have much to do with Classical Liberalism ... so spare us the partisan rant - as if Blue Establishment is not made up mostly morally bankrupt sell outs - .. supporters of terrorism and the move towards a totalitarian police nanny state - an anathema to the founding principles."

    Of course I can defend the Statement - this is me Lee - not your average Joe - the one who hands it to you on a regular basis - when you need tuning up - this is what we both know.

    did the "Terrorism" charge rattle your cage ? Is that it Lee . is that what has your undies in a twist :) !?

    So If I asked the average citizen - do you think we should be arming Al Qaeda and their various Offspring - which includes ISIS - with tens of thousands of tons of sophisticated military equipment - including shoulder launched surface to air missiles - perfect for taking out a civilian airliner. What do you think the % Yes would be. My guess would be very low .. Less than 5%.

    When this question was asked of Congress - via a Bill - aptly named "The Stop Arming Terrorist Act" - introduced to the House by Tulsi Gabbard - had 13 Bipartisan Cosponsors ... out of 435. When Rand Paul introduced this Bill into the Senate .. there were a total of ZERO Co-sponsors.

    This was introduced around 2017 - in response to the Obama Admin leading a massive coalition of nations to arm, supply and support the extremist Islamist Jihadists in Syria - fighting against the Demon Assad - in a Holy War - to return Secular Syria (the horror) - to strict sharia Theocracy.

    Here is a snippet of testimony before Congress - w/r to the "Stop Arming Terrorist Act"
    https://gabbard.house.gov/news/StopArmingTerrorists

    And that is the sugar coated narrative.

    Questions and/or concerns ?
     
  16. Wildjoker5

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    So, you don't think people will do something that is fiscally incentivized? We have seen people have been listed as dying because of COVID when they didn't even have it or died because of a car wreck. We see colleges always raising tuition right after the government raises how much they are willing to back in college loans. We see doctors raise prices of services when Medicare and Medicaide payouts are raised. But you don't think Hospitals will mark people who don't have COVID with having COVID when they get paid more for treating people with COVID?
     
  17. Lee Atwater

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    Before I humiliate you I should ask if you actually know what happened to the bill?
     
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    You have no such capability - but yes .. the bill died - because a whole lot of Dem's did not want to stop arming terrorists.
     
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    1. I know of no Republican that believes the science of global warming is a result of a cabal of evil scientists.
    2. There is widespread voter fraud, but it is not carried out by election officials, and I know of no Republicans that say it is. It is abetted by some politicians, however.
    3. It is absolutely true that the “Deep State” (and a few others) did concoct a scheme to frame Trump for Russian collusion but chose not to use it before the 2016 election because they were 100% certain they would not have to use it.
    4. Shadowy forces are trying to drive migrant caravans across American borders to take over America or to destroy the republic and it constitution.
    5. The entire news media is not engaged in a conspiracy against the Republican Party, but a very large portion of the media is predominately the PR operation of the Democrat party as opposed to a news organization.
    6. It is the leftest Democrats and liberals that conservative Republicans do not like their wanting to take away guns as a pretext for stomping the boot of “liberal fascism” on conservative faces; shooting victims and their families do not bother us in the least.
    7. Tax cuts usually do pay for themselves.
    8. We think most people will work harder if the government doesn't pay them to not work. Safety nets to help the downtrodden are perfectly fine and good.
     
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    I am wondering why the left thinks the right is a bunch of conspiracy theory nut jobs when it’s places like The NY Times who put out stories about Trump not giving up the WH if he loses.
     
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    As I suspected, you don't know what the facts are. It took me about 10 minutes to learn the truth. Do some DD next time so as not to embarrass yourself.

    Incorporation into the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020[edit]
    On June 13, 2019, Gabbard secured inclusion of a provision into the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) "to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to provide weapons or any form of support to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jabhat Fateh al Sham, any individual or group associated with these organizations, or any entity the Secretary of Defense determines may trade or sell arms to terrorist organizations."[6] Gabbard commented: “Unfortunately, in their dogged pursuit of regime change war, leaders in Washington have used taxpayer dollars to fund programs that directly and indirectly support terrorist groups like al-Qaeda in places like Syria. This continues in Yemen where US-support for Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen has resulted in the Saudis delivering US-weapons to terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, as reported by CNN earlier this year. This is not only wrong, it’s illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to terrorist groups like these. The provision I passed today would make these same rules apply to the U.S. government.”[7]

    The bill passed in the Senate with overwhelming Dem support.

    Next time, don't bring your squirt gun to a knife fight.
     
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    Another series of jaw dropping claims?
     
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    Wow, that sounds ominous. Shadowy forces. Could you be more specific? Cuz it sounds like someone needs to get right on this.

    While you are working on that you might want to consider a less nefarious reason for the caravans. Like desperate people trying to escape abject poverty and fearing violence upon themselves and their children.

    Hmmmmmmmmmm. That would make Trump's actions against those people pretty heartless, cruel, one could even say bigoted. Ever consider that is why the "shadowy forces" narrative got started?

    Anyway, I'm eager to see the factual evidence I'm sure you are going to provide, from unimpeachable sources, to prove your assertion.
     
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    This is a constant issue on this forum, someone quoting a comment that was a reply to someone else about a different issue.

    For clarification, this is the comment I was replying to:

    So unless any of your links are to Political Forum posts (wait, they aren't) you totally missed the boat. I try to get honest debate and constantly get nonsense like this instead.
     
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