Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread
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I swear sometimes you’re no better than a wind up toy that just spits out random conservative grievances. The trans debate isn’t relevant to the efficacy of vaccines or the government’s role in questioning, promoting, restricting or mandating them. You wouldn’t go to an oncologist for cancer treatment and lecture them on gender, would you?
57Brave
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Adam Kinzinger
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Quick point. We have had 4 baby boomer presidents. 5 if you count Biden, who is right on the edge. We’ve had ZERO Gen X. We went from almost no debt, to almost 40 trillion. That generation (mostly GOP baby boomers) has left us with a debt we can never repay.
The GOP boomers were so angry at “immigrants” and brainwashed by Fox they elected the worst president again (GOP primary and general) instead of relinquishing power to Gen X.
It’s time we pass the torch.
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Quick point. We have had 4 baby boomer presidents. 5 if you count Biden, who is right on the edge. We’ve had ZERO Gen X. We went from almost no debt, to almost 40 trillion. That generation (mostly GOP baby boomers) has left us with a debt we can never repay.
The GOP boomers were so angry at “immigrants” and brainwashed by Fox they elected the worst president again (GOP primary and general) instead of relinquishing power to Gen X.
It’s time we pass the torch.
acesfull86
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Bizarre tweet
Of the 5 presidents in this group, 3 were democrats, but somehow it’s the fault of “brainwashed” GOP boomers that we didn’t “pass the torch?” Even if we assume these dopey generational cutoffs actually mean anything and we need to have a Gen X president for some reason, the democrats ran a boomer on their ticket as well. So maybe instead of laying the blame on the republicans, Kinzinger should criticize democrats for not forcing out the mentally unfit Biden earlier and having an actual primary where they could’ve nominated someone of a younger generation?
He should’ve started with “dumb point” instead of “quick point” …
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57Brave
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I thought it more an indictment of my age demographic.
The fact he singled out GOP boomers is an historical reality.
A reminder Kinzinger was :
Adam Daniel Kinzinger
born February 27, 1978) is an American politician, political commentator, and former United States Air Force and Air National Guard officer. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. representative from Illinois from 2011 to 2023; representing Illinois's 11th congressional district and later Illinois's 16th congressional district.
Kinzinger was first elected to Congress in 2010 from the 11th district. His district was largely merged with the 16th after the 2010 census, and Kinzinger transferred to the 16th after defeating incumbent, Don Manzullo, in the Republican primary. After President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Kinzinger became known for his vocal opposition to Trump's claims of voter fraud and attempts to overturn the results.
Kinzinger did not seek reelection to Congress in 2022. After leaving office, he joined CNN as a senior political commentator.
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I celebrated Obama's 2008 election in part due to the fact the 2008 election was not yet another referendum on the war in Viet Nam. Which to today, 50 years later is still an issue as to who did and didnt serve
The fact he singled out GOP boomers is an historical reality.
A reminder Kinzinger was :
Adam Daniel Kinzinger
born February 27, 1978) is an American politician, political commentator, and former United States Air Force and Air National Guard officer. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. representative from Illinois from 2011 to 2023; representing Illinois's 11th congressional district and later Illinois's 16th congressional district.
Kinzinger was first elected to Congress in 2010 from the 11th district. His district was largely merged with the 16th after the 2010 census, and Kinzinger transferred to the 16th after defeating incumbent, Don Manzullo, in the Republican primary. After President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Kinzinger became known for his vocal opposition to Trump's claims of voter fraud and attempts to overturn the results.
Kinzinger did not seek reelection to Congress in 2022. After leaving office, he joined CNN as a senior political commentator.
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I celebrated Obama's 2008 election in part due to the fact the 2008 election was not yet another referendum on the war in Viet Nam. Which to today, 50 years later is still an issue as to who did and didnt serve
Tapate50
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Tapate50
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Crazy Ilhan Omar isn’t a felon ain’t it ? Accounting errors and all that
"If a convicted felon is not allowed to own a handgun how is he allowed to have the nuclear football?"
cajunrevenge
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"If a convicted felon is not allowed to own a handgun how is he allowed to have the nuclear football?"
Disallowing felons from being Presidident is not a good idea. Presidents should not be able to pardon themselves or co-conspirators to their crimes. And promising pardons to your own staff before they commit a crime should be an unpardonable offense. It's one thing to pardon your staff at the end of your Presidency. It's another to tell them dont worry about the law you can break it all you want and I will pardon you..... years before their term ends.
cajunrevenge
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Is killing wrong? Maybe it's just killing heads of states that bother you? What if I order someone to drop a bomb on your house. That's cool right?
cajunrevenge
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And if political violence isn't acceptable maybe dont pardon the people who broke into the Capitol chanting "hang Mike Pence". Democrats dont use gapdnthe incendiary language Trump does. How you people can blame the left for the actions of a random moron yet say Trump wasn't responsible for the J6 attack is beyond ridiculous. A Democrat knew time said the word "Peaceful", thus the entire left is absorbed of inciting any violence.
cajunrevenge
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I forgot. J6 was planned by the Democrats to stop Democrats from voting not to certify the election.
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I feel bad for you, dude
chop2chip
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There’s a significant portion of the left actively engaging in the conversation of morally justifying theft and murder. And not just in the fringe, but our nation’s paper of record NYT. This is the natural end state when you lionize murderers like Luigi, suggest Charlie Kirk had it coming, and wish a bullet was a few inches to the left.
www.theatlantic.com
Theft Is Now Progressive Chic
In some left-wing corners of the commentariat, moral rectitude is out. Flagrant disregard of the social contract is in.
www.theatlantic.com
chop2chip
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“It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society.” That lament heard this week from New York Times opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman could well be the Democratic Party’s epitaph.There’s a significant portion of the left actively engaging in the conversation of morally justifying theft and murder. And not just in the fringe, but our nation’s paper of record NYT. This is the natural end state when you lionize murderers like Luigi, suggest Charlie Kirk had it coming, and wish a bullet was a few inches to the left.
Theft Is Now Progressive Chic
In some left-wing corners of the commentariat, moral rectitude is out. Flagrant disregard of the social contract is in.
Spiegelman was interviewing two left-wing influencers about how everything from shoplifting to murder may be excusable today in light of the unfairness they see in society.
The podcast, a product of the nation’s newspaper of record, reveled in the moral relativism that has taken over the American left. It featured the ravings of the antisemitic Marxist streamer Hasan Piker, who calmly explained how the murder of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson was perfectly understandable. His rationalization came from Marxist revolutionary Friedrich Engels, who had called capitalism “social murder.” If capitalists are “social murderers,” then why not kill them? The logic is liberating and lethal for some on the left looking for a license for violence.
Mind you, this same newspaper had once condemned and effectively banned a U.S. senator for writing an op-ed advocating the use of the military to quell violent protests during the summer of George Floyd’s death. The Times even forced out its own opinion editor for having the temerity to publish such an opinion.
But glorifying murder? The suggestion of open hunting season on corporate executives did not appear to shock or repel Spiegelman. After all, we are living in “an unethical society.” She explained that many felt that the murder of Thompson, the father of two, meant that “finally, someone can actually do something about health care.”
Even liberal comedians are practicing a literal version of slapstick. Margaret Cho this week declared that “we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat.”
To be far, Spiegelman did concede that it might seem a bit “scary” for some to start murdering our way to social justice.
She also explained that shoplifting can be justifiable because people are “stealing from Whole Foods — not just for the thrill of it, but out of a feeling of anger and moral justification.”
New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino also contributed to the podcast, titled “The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?” She immediately threw in her own experience with “microlooting” and explained why it is arguably moral: “I have, under very specific circumstances. I will say, I think that stealing from a big-box store [isn’t] significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest.”
She detailed her own past thefts and added, “I didn’t feel bad about it at all, in part because the store was a corporation. And it certainly felt, in a utilitarian sense, I was like, this is not a big deal. Right, guys?”
Not in the confines of the New York Times, where apparently you are entitled to all goods that are fit to pilfer.