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CommissarMega posted:How would he respond though? Sure, he might get all depressed and poo poo, but if he goes into a full-on meltdown and starts believing his own alpha male bullshit, what then? What could he do? Send in the NG to force every single resident to comply? Kick the state out of the US? Alter Ego posted:those they loved. They were capable of this? Waiting for Trump to start his 50 state reichsparade Hell, Obama gets elected and doesn't even do anything and it was all "Obama=Hitler". Now we have an actual fascist in office and the only noise from the right is the slurping sounds from sucking on Donald's Donald SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Oh, you hadn't heard that one? From White House to publish weekly list of immigrants who are charged with crimes posted by freeper Gamecock 72 point font. quote:To: Gamecock Answer: NAZIS quote:To: Gamecock quote:To: Gamecock Yes, how's stopping a mechanism used by bigots to spread fear working out? quote:To: Gamecock quote:To: Gamecock Yes, it was routine for Nazi-supporting "journalists" to regularly publish lists of names of undesirables. quote:To: Gamecock quote:To: Gamecock quote:To: suijuris quote:To: Gamecock There are at least two more threads as well.
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From White House press secretary says border wall will be funded by 20% import tax on Mexican goods posted by freeper SeekAndFind They walked this one back about an hour later and said that this was just one example of one way they're thinking about funding the wall. This tariff would essentially be a 20% sales tax passed right on to the consumer. As a reminder, sales taxes are the most damaging type of tax for low income folks. I'm terrified to plug this into a search engine. quote:To: SeekAndFind Oh yeah there's also this quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind Why yes, it's a Washington Post article, how did you guess? quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: ichabod1 quote:To: plain talk These people must never be allowed to hold positions of power. quote:To: john316 There's another 50 posts but nothing's going to top that one, so I'm stopping here. One quick story before I leave. A few years ago, there was a small town in the southern US with an undocumented immigrant problem. Most of the undocumented immigrants worked at one specific processing plant. That processing plant was, by far, the town's single largest employer. They were acting unethically and were not participating in the e-verify system. And then one day, they started doing e-verify. The money that they were paying the undocumented immigrants dried up, and they all left. But nobody came in to replace them. The town suddenly found itself in a financial crisis. Shops all over the town saw their incomes drastically plummet. Tax funds dried up. Money stopped flowing. Unfortunately I don't clearly recall the rest of this story. It was published somewhere, but I neglected to bookmark it. The bottom line is that a whole bunch of places, whether we like it or not, are funded entirely by the result of undocumented workers. Americans don't want these jobs and won't take them, and we're about to, as a nation, scare off the only people that are willing to do the work. Even if we weren't facing an authoritarian nationalist administration, we'd still be so, so hosed.
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quote:Nope. Shipping out Housing Project Freeloaders to work the fields. Nothing more rightwing than a National Work Program eh? Now, this Freeper is dismissing the fact that most Housing Project Freeloaders (HPFs) already have low paying, highly demanding, extremely corporate friendly and employee unfriendly jobs that they are supplementing with "welfare" checks. This is a given because Freepers are ignorant. So we HAVE to start this program at the assumption that every HPF has 24 hours a day of free time. Also, being a Freeper, his plan hinges on the HPF not being paid hourly at the minimum wage because either A: welfare pays so much money that it's above and beyond the minimum wage for eight hours, or B: the program throws the whole idea of working a fair amount for a fair wage (something the Bible explicitly says to do BTdubs) out the window and the HPF will get their usual pittance for eight hours of work. And, of course, that the farmer will be nothing but honest and fair with this new slavery system because, well golly gee farmers are But, beyond all that: quote:Mr. Farmer will work with the government to get his products to the market and the labor costs (Negotiated between Farmer and Government at the Benefit to the Farmer) will be sent to the Government. I swear to Christ if you asked a Freeper whether they'd rather give someone 5 dollars for free, or start a twenty million dollar program to make sure that a single person did NOT get five dollars for free they'd ask "Which party does the president belong to?" to find out how to answer
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The world has really gone insane. People who've spent the last 8 years frothing at the mouth over taxes and socialism are celebrating something like 20% tax on Mexican and 40% tax on Chinese goods and calling for forced agricultural labor camps.
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Pocket Billiards posted:The world has really gone insane. People who've spent the last 8 years frothing at the mouth over taxes and socialism are celebrating something like 20% tax on Mexican and 40% tax on Chinese goods and calling for forced agricultural labor camps. It's not like we didn't know Freep would jump at full nationalism now if given the opportunity.
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Yeah freep it's a hell of a negotiation tactic, I know when I want someone to pay for something they don't want to exist I start by offering to buy it
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McGlockenshire posted:To: SeekAndFind The hell did this happen? The last time Mexico picked a fight was when we decided gently caress Mexico and went barging our way through and took what we wanted. And the time before that was Americans moving into Mexico and then wanting t break free of Mexican rule. Neither time did Mexico come looking for a fight However, when your precious bible belt southern states came lookin' for a fight some time after they got their asses handed to them quote:To: plain talk Purestrain freep here. "well Trump said X, and X directly effects us instead of the people it was supposed to. But that's ok because reasons!" He could announce tomorrow that he was gonna go to codetoad's house and kick him so hard in the rear end he'll never sit on it again and this douche would happily bend over and even draw a bullseye on it McGlockenshire posted:
Well, not the same story, but here we've got Vlasic's one and only plant, it's the town's largest employer and has kept the place floating for ever. The plant never had a staffing problem till about 10 years back when all the un-documented workers were fired. Since then the place has never run with a full staff and can never meet quotas, so they gave up Subway and McDonalds, lost Walmart's Great Value line, and have been struggling for some time to keep up with demand. The reason they're never fully staffed is because, frankly, your first few years are a living hell. Everyone gets hired on as a seasonal and you'll normally get stuck doing the shittiest jobs which means inside a food processing plant in 120 degree heat working your rear end off for 9 or 10 hours a day for slightly over minimum wage. The turnover rate is astounding. No one wants to keep working a job that becomes a hazard to your health for next to nothing in pay. Incidently when the unemployment fraud popped up while I was there only the older lifers that were natural born citizens were the ones scamming money off the state, some in excess of $20k SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Freepers: fertilized with human AIDS poop That's about as spot on as you can get.
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quote:EBTs? Nope. No more. Free food will be distributed at location X once a month. Consisting of Powdered Milk, Cheese, Spam, Penut Butter, Butter, powdered Eggs. Telling that this person thinks this is a list of sensible foods poor people should be eating, instead of the rubbish they currently buy.
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THOSE POORS ALWAYS BUYING STEAKS AND LOBSTER MY TAX DOLLARS
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Shugojin posted:THOSE POORS ALWAYS BUYING STEAKS AND LOBSTER MY TAX DOLLARS Why do you want cattle farms to suffer freep!
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:Telling that this person thinks this is a list of sensible foods poor people should be eating, instead of the rubbish they currently buy. You know the only reason he chose those were because he heard them mentioned in rations from old war movies.
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If you can afford to eat a vegetable, you're not really poor.
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From How Trump's Protectionism Would Destroy Auto Industry Jobs, Not Create Them posted by freeper TBP It's a Forbes article from a few days ago. tl;dr: protectionism will create a trade war, you goddamn idiot! What assumption, exactly? quote:To: TBP KILL THE MESSENGER! quote:To: TBP There's one in every thread. quote:To: TBP quote:To: TBP Ford can build a factory in six months? Citation needed. quote:To: TBP By gawd, if it was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it's good enough for me! quote:To: goldstategop quote:To: TBP I'm beginning to think that wide ranging business level concepts should be mandatory education. Like how supply chains work. quote:To: TBP The main problem with conservatives is that they always view what used to happen as better than what's happening now, and they yearn to return to that time. quote:To: TBP Interesting disconnect and assumption, that the only things this tarrif would apply to are goods that American companies manufacture overseas. That's not what the article discussed at all. quote:To: TBP And then this happens. quote:To: goldstategop WELCOME TO CAPITALISM, MOTHERFUCKER quote:To: TBP Oh, one more thing. They've decided that "globalist" and "cheap labor express" are no longer the right things to call the author of the article. No, instead they're calling him a Free Traitor. That is a goddamn terrifying term considering how much authoritarian nationalism we seem to be building up to. I don't like it one bit.
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From Trump’s Pox Americana-President has sounded an unprecedented retreat from its role as a world leader posted by freeper Forgiven_Sinner Yes, you read that right. Pox Americana. It's a really, really fiery article in Foreign Policy. the article posted:The most profound of these changes is that after almost a century of American leadership on the world stage, Trump has unabashedly sounded the retreat. Whether under the umbrella of his “America First” views, his willingness to let other powers take the lead, his distrust of international institutions, or pure ignorance, he has ushered in a shift from what was hailed as the Pax Americana to what may soon be seen as the Pox Americana, a blight befalling the world as a consequence of mean-spirited, ill-considered, short-sighted U.S. foreign policy. I love it when they get angry at things not acknowledging their personal echo-chamber driven "facts." quote:I gasped at the title, read the article, and had to post it for the grand irony of the author condemning Trump for his foreign policy decisions, while ignoring Obama's failures and retreat from global leadership. There's one in every thread. I mean this in a very literal sense. quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner I seriously can't believe that they believe this. quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner "dynamic" quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner They're now full into mocking the author's appearance. quote:Comment #20 Removed by Moderator quote:To: Cicero What the hell does projection have to do with anything in this post? quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner quote:To: Grampa Dave quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner Alger Hiss, the commie spy. quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner And there we are. quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner Every other post is mocking the author's looks, calling him a globalist (and probably also calling him a (((globalist))) ), dismissing Foreign Policy, or making GBS threads on Obama.
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From What’s So Strange About Trump’s White House Portrait? Experts Explain. posted by freeper goldstategop It's a piece on Vox, which you might want to click through to just to remind yourself of the contrast between Trump and Obama. the article posted:Trump’s posture and slight lean forward portray the president as an aggressive figure, says Tamzin Smith, a professional photographer who specializes in portraiture. The catchlights in the lower part of Trump’s eyes — those bright white dots just beneath his pupils — indicate he’s being lit from below. For a portrait like this, that’s a “bizarre” lighting choice, she said. For the record, all of the use of "alpha" and "beta" in modern culture is based off a misunderstanding of a poorly constructed piece on the behavior of wolves. The behavior was studied while the wolves were in captivity. Normal wolf packs are families, and the parents are in charge. The author himself called the thing bullshit. The entire thing is wrong, and the fact that there are people out there that build their lives and mindsets around being "alpha" is just loving tragic. quote:To: goldstategop quote:Comment #5 Removed by Moderator quote:Get use to it folks. Like W, this mob of homo commies will bitch and moan all 8 years. Just enjoy the laugh of the moonbeans. quote:To: GraceG quote:To: goldstategop quote:To: goldstategop what quote:To: goldstategop Replying to the one on Lindsey Graham quote:To: chris37 gently caress you quote:To: goldstategop gently caress you more quote:To: goldstategop quote:To: goldstategop What's more infuriating, the public masturbation or the failure to grasp basic photographic composition? quote:To: goldstategop Stiiillllll shittin' on Lindsey quote:To: chris37 Just a friendly reminder that THEY WANT THIS quote:To: goldstategop quote:Comment #40 Removed by Moderator this post broke me quote:To: goldstategop quote:To: goldstategop They will continue to poo poo on Lindsey until the orange holocaust quote:To: batterycommander; Lurkinanloomin; Andy'smom; Califreak; Sacajaweau really quote:To: goldstategop whose quote:To: GraceG quote:To: goldstategop still shittin' on Lindsey quote:To: chris37 Why yes that's because he's a bully that only knows how to make that one face quote:To: goldstategop Even savagesusie bashes Lindsey. quote:To: chris37 except he is bald quote:To: goldstategop ... someone replied to a savagesusie post! This is the first time I have ever seen that happen. quote:To: savagesusie They really really really really hate Lindsey Graham quote:To: chris37 Yes please do spend more time praying. Lots. Hours a day. quote:To: toddausauras quote:
And here I foolishly thought nothing else could make me more angry. quote:To: mewzilla Freepers can not comprehend someone being happy. quote:To: goldstategop quote:To: visualops
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Pretty incredible no one's gotten zotted with that much dick sucking going on.
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It's not gay if you think about Trump while doing it.
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^It's not gay as long as his shriveled ballsack doesn't touch your chin. I wonder if the Dutch are thinking of changing their national color? McGlockenshire posted:From How Trump's Protectionism Would Destroy Auto Industry Jobs, Not Create Them posted by freeper TBP I don't know why they don't get it. Listen you jackwads, if you make stuff harder to import from other countries, it's going to upset them because their production is being hindered from lack of sales, and they will do the same to us in return. This means without a foreign market to sell to we won't have demands to produce and no need for more jobs you so crave. This is why assholes like you freepers and your dickhead in chief are not supposed to decide international trade policies, because you fuckers don't look down the road, you stop at your front gate. quote:while ignoring Obama's failures and retreat from global leadership Like what? And I want an actual real example, not your echo chamber bullshit "facts" or your side step and make excuses horse poo poo quote:To: Forgiven_Sinner Ahahahahahhahahaha....jesus christ, they don't even know what they elected, just that he ran as the party winner. Trump hasnt listened to any advice since he got involved in politics and the reason he failed so much in the business world is because he ignored what the experts told him. Holy poo poo, just god damned amazing. Freep is definitely a cult of right wing popularism quote:Get use to it folks. Like W, this mob of homo commies will bitch and moan all 8 years. Just enjoy the laugh of the moonbeans. Just like you fuckers did all through the 90's, which is why you made this site, and all through Obama's term over made up poo poo as your crazy train went further off the rails of sanity to the point you're still bitching and moaning over made up poo poo even though you won. Listen, if Trump does something that generally improves poo poo...and I mean actually does something, not your "Saved jobs Ford/carrier" where he didn't do jack squat, I'll give him praise for it. But so far he's been a giant manbaby poo poo show of bad ideas and lies SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Yes that hard, determined, "willing to fight" look of a man who's never worked or actually fought for anything his entire life. I bet his hands are as smooth as his brain.
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Duke Igthorn posted:Yes that hard, determined, "willing to fight" look of a man who's never worked or actually fought for anything his entire life. I bet his hands are as smooth as his brain. I sort of envision his skin as feeling and smelling like naugahyde.
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These people are so, so, so, so loving stupid. Why yes, it's a great idea that the entire world thinks the US is being run by a madman with his finger on the button and the largest military force by orders of magnitude on the planet. To them, 'respect' means 'everyone else in terror for their lives', which is not remotely surprising or new, but still depressing.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3518217/postsquote:Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare quote:Let's see how much of THIS story is a lie. quote:Known Fake News source. quote:Any headline with the word “fret” in it referring to Republicans is FAKE NEWS. It’s actually demonic inspired false prophecy. The reality is what Trump has been saying continuously — Republicans are doing the other side a great favor because by next year this will blow up and they will be begging for something to be done. quote:Just because something comes from WAPO doesn’t mean it is FAKE news. quote:How about just dropping the mandate and let the insurance companies sell policies that people want? If there were something built in like a two-year waiting period for people to be eligible for benefits, most people would be scared into getting a policy for catastrophic situations. quote:It likely was a leaked recording by one of the moderates trying to derail this issue. Take your pick. Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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Any headline with the word “fret” in it referring to Republicans is FAKE NEWS. It’s actually demonic inspired false prophecy. The reality is what Trump has been saying continuously — Republicans are doing the other side a great favor because by next year this will blow up and they will be begging for something to be done. 12 posted on 1/27/2017, 11:16:23 AM by The Truth Will Make You Free Pardon?
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quote:How about just dropping the mandate and let the insurance companies sell policies that people want? If there were something built in like a two-year waiting period for people to be eligible for benefits, most people would be scared into getting a policy for catastrophic situations. how can you be okay with this "Alright yeah just pay me to do nothing for two years and after that I'll think about paying for life-saving operations" what the gently caress
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Shugojin posted:how can you be okay with this haha, gently caress neonates.
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Malloc Voidstar posted:PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party’s quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post. The recording reveals a GOP that appears to be filled with doubts about how to make good on a long-standing promise to get rid of Obamacare without explicit guidance from President Trump or his administration. Lol, not the slightest bit surprised. They ran on this poo poo because it got them votes and now it turns out they have to actually live up to it because they've been convincing people for years that AHA is a bad thing. Good job morons. quote:Let's see how much of THIS story is a lie. How is it complicated? All they have to do is remove it, which they can. the problem is there is nothing to replace it and Trump is too busy twitter poo poo posting to weigh in on any of it like he said he would. This "complicated" issue is your own damned fault for electing the orange tinted bozo and a bunch of chickenshit politicians into office SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Any headline with the word “fret” in it referring to Republicans is FAKE NEWS. It’s actually demonic inspired false prophecy. The reality is what Trump has been saying continuously — Republicans are doing the other side a great favor because by next year this will blow up and they will be begging for something to be done. The irony is his sig combined with that post of idiocy Shugojin posted:how can you be okay with this Remember when they were screaming the AHA was going to set up "death panels"? These idiots will vote for anything as long as it's Trump approved. SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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From a thread on EXTREME VETTING, I bring you a list of things freep likes about Trump so farquote:To: NYer
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So guys, how does it feel living in one of the periods of American history which will one day get an entire loving chapter in the history books?
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Gorilla Salad posted:So guys, how does it feel living in one of the periods of American history which will one day get an entire loving chapter in the history books? I'm not American, but I assure you that here in Southeast Asia at least the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" has never rung louder.
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Gorilla Salad posted:So guys, how does it feel living in one of the periods of American history which will one day get an entire loving chapter in the history books? It's been a week and I'm exhausted.
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We're gonna burn out eventually. Then it's to the camps for anyone posting in this thread.
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Gorilla Salad posted:So guys, how does it feel living in one of the periods of American history which will one day get an entire loving chapter in the history books? Get entire loving Ph.D's done on it, too. feels awful man
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Gorilla Salad posted:So guys, how does it feel living in one of the periods of American history which will one day get an entire loving chapter in the history books? That someday, god willing we avoid nuclear fire, I'll be able to gripe about younger generations not knowing what true sacrifice is and how they think everything's so hard for them...you know, when I'm not bitching about their music or keeping off my grass.....OH GOD, I'LL BE A FREEPER!
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SocketWrench posted:That someday, god willing we avoid nuclear fire, I'll be able to gripe about younger generations not knowing what true sacrifice is and how they think everything's so hard for them...you know, when I'm not bitching about their music or keeping off my grass.....OH GOD, I'LL BE A FREEPER! drat urban robots are rioting again. In my day we knew how to protest peacefully
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kartikeya posted:It's been a week and I'm exhausted. It really is exhausting. I feel like I have to be vigilant constantly for new EOs, but it's not like I can do anything about it. Incredibly anxiety-inducing. Also I am worried that I keep focusing on things that affect me and not enough about everything, which may be the plan the whole time. For instance, I am in the middle of cancer treatment, with a big surgery coming up next month. After that, with the repeal of the ACA, I am well and truly hosed, for the rest of my life. If the GOP gets what it wants (why wouldn't it, they have all the power), I will be pushed into a High Risk Pool, and if it's anything like past HRPs, my premium will be double what I pay now, so a monthly payment of close to $1,000, I'll have a deductible of around $10k, and a yearly and lifetime cap. Past yearly caps (this is for anyone with insurance pre-ACA, not just HRPs) could be as low as $75,000. My surgeries so far this year will easily be in the $300,000 range. So, effectively, it's not insurance at all. Lifetime caps were usually around $1 million. So, all that to say: I'm constantly running through scenarios by which I might live the rest of my life until I'm eligible for Medicare (more than 20+ years). But that's just my issue. Imagine I'm an employee of the EPA, or an immigrant or a refugee, etc. With everyone worried about their own "thing," he's getting away with dismantling our country. edit: By the way, that's my "best case scenario," with the assumption that the GOP actually does keep the ban on pre-existing condition insurance exclusions. I could just not be eligible for insurance at all. This is a list of conditions (and occupations and medications and activities) insurance companies used to exclude people for: Pre-existing Conditions and Medical Underwriting in the Individual Insurance Market Prior to the ACA Smeep fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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SocketWrench posted:That someday, god willing we avoid nuclear fire, I'll be able to gripe about younger generations not knowing what true sacrifice is and how they think everything's so hard for them...you know, when I'm not bitching about their music or keeping off my grass.....OH GOD, I'LL BE A FREEPER! loving lazy social justice kiddies, we had to fight for economic justice in the streets
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Smeep posted:It really is exhausting. I feel like I have to be vigilant constantly for new EOs, but it's not like I can do anything about it. Incredibly anxiety-inducing. Also I am worried that I keep focusing on things that affect me and not enough about everything, which may be the plan the whole time. For instance, I am in the middle of cancer treatment, with a big surgery coming up next month. After that, with the repeal of the ACA, I am well and truly hosed, for the rest of my life. If the GOP gets what it wants (why wouldn't it, they have all the power), I will be pushed into a High Risk Pool, and if it's anything like past HRPs, my premium will be double what I pay now, so a monthly payment of close to $1,000, I'll have a deductible of around $10k, and a yearly and lifetime cap. Past yearly caps (this is for anyone with insurance pre-ACA, not just HRPs) could be as low as $75,000. My surgeries so far this year will easily be in the $300,000 range. So, effectively, it's not insurance at all. Lifetime caps were usually around $1 million. Bookmarked!
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