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I was waiting for someone to jump to one of the extremist. BTW, Jones is still banned under Musk. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of those mentioned in the Twitter files and he was shadow banned because he warned that the lockdowns would cause great harm on children and their education. I mean, that's right up there with Nazi's and Alex Jones though, so I guess I'm just proving myself wrong.

We now know what most people assumed was true, that Twitter shadow banned people and topics (ideas). Specific accounts were noted in the Twitter Files. Banning outright wasn't the previous regimes M.O.. They worried about the Streisand effect whereas Musk doesn't care and has outright shut them down. I simply contend both are bad.

This comment makes me feel like you've read and studied the left's talking points. Hunter Biden's penis certainly was tabloid fodder, but the reason why the left wants to keep the story tied to his dick is because they don't want anyone to question the emails. Anyway, why would you care about this story anyway? Didn't 50 intelligence officers state this was Russian disinformation? Again, it wasn't specific people that were banned by the previous Twitter regime, it was entire ideas. Rather you think one is worse than the other, I simply contend both are bad.

And note, I'm not defending Musk here. He is proving to be the "Trump of twitter" in my eyes. To explain further, when Trump won, despite not supporting him, I figured 'well, he's right they are all crooks, maybe we can see something positive out of this'. I initially hoped the same with Musk. Initially, just like with Trump, I thought some of the criticism was too much, but this latest thing...apparently regarding @elonjet, has gone to far. Mark Cuban had some legitimate complaints that called out Musk and fell in line with my thinking regarding this debacle. But my overall point is, certain thoughts, even if folks that didn't get banned over them, their tweets were essentially banned, without any public acknowledgement. I personally feel that is an issue, just as these full out bans of some of these journalists are issues as well.

Safe to assume with this response you've completely bought into the idea that Taibbi and Weiss are right wing fanatics and therefore you should ignore everything they say. Also safe to assume you think the lab leak theory is equivalent to a conspiracy theory?

Very true, which is why if you're extremely upset about it now, I hope you were extremely upset about it before, just as if you don't think it's a big deal now, you shouldn't have thought it was a big deal before.

Truth 😉 Extremely legitimate point.

Listened to one of the guys behind this site on the Bulwark podcast the other day. I found it interesting. https://www.historyperceptiongap.us/

Are you saying there is no information on Ukraine or are you referring to the two factor auth issue they had with Ukraine last week for a few hours?

I sent a few screen shots of some of the cards from his video to my wife and asked her to photoshop out the words so I could have them for free. She has yet to respond to me.

Did someone make this with Adobe 'Cellomophone player to make fun of Trump?

The press secretary using the Hatch act to state she can't give the Biden administrations thoughts on returning stolen money. That's priceless.

I wish my wife didn't get the vaccine, or I should say the booster. She's one of very few documented cases where she still has issues (about a year now). That said, she had many doctors state her issues weren't as rare as we thought, simply the odd thing with her was how long it has persisted. I still would have gotten it, along with my kids. I always understood it didn't mean I'd never get Covid, but i'd be better protected and likely have less severe symptoms and duration. Maybe I'm wrong at some level, but it just seems like common sense that by itself would decrease infections as a whole. I know there have been follow up studies, which honestly might be outdated for our current variants, that showed the same amount of virulence for people with Covid with or without the vaccine. But if i'm coughing/sneezing/wheezing less than I would have otherwise, I'm limiting it's ability to get airborne.

Dave Whelan was on Flashpoint (Sunday morning Detroit show) this morning. He was everything you'd hope an American that understands how difficult of a position it is for the detainee, as well as their family, that is held in a foreign country would act. One thing I took out of the interview, and I'm not sure if he said this based on his view that his brother did nothing wrong or if he had some inside knowledge (guessing probably not) was that he said he doesn't believe Greiner even had anything on her. Thought it was an interesting tidbit.

Probably should have said stereotyping. My point is, if you're sympathetic to a cause, you will be more open to listening and understanding what someone does that is on your 'team'. I'm not terribly sympathetic to democratic causes, so I think I did the same when I read this statement from you. Based on how my stereotypical view of most of you on this site, I read that as the only people that get offended are the idiots that think it's the military that gives us our freedoms. I can assure you, many people that are offended by those that sit, kneel, or refuse to come out for the National Anthem don't believe this. Personally I am offended by those that sit or refuse to come out, not kneel in part because even though I don't agree with Kaepernick, I appreciated the back story on why he began to kneel vs sit and I feel a lot of folks that follow Kaepernick understand that as well. So if they choose to sit or refuse to come out, to me that is a direct slap in the face of the military (as it was a military issue for Kaepernick which adjusted how he protested.) At the same time, it is their right to do it, so I try not to hold it against them which unfortunately so many others do.

I feel like you're projecting a bit. Odd, I see that here. I said years ago that at this point, outside of Candice Miller in a local role here in my district, i'm going to be a straight dem voter. I voted straight dem this last time around. I've exalted like most of you how horrible Trump is, but man, mention that Trump shouldn't be blamed for one thing, or say I don't agree with what a dem has done, obviously I love fascism.

I think it's all about how one views the national anthem and it's purpose. Following is my stereotype opinion. As a whole, when it comes to "America" GOP voters are more optimistic (Best country in the world, 'Murica!!! Whoo!!!) and Dem voters are more pessimistic of the country. Maybe not the best way to lay it out as I'm not saying that as a dig against the Dem's, they just look at more of the issues with the country whereas the GOP tends to look for the good. Truthfully it's a bit of both, we are a great country, but with many flaws too. In terms of Colin and Britney, it was perceived as a slap in the face to our military even if they tried to explain that it's a form of protest and not tied to that. I personally don't think they are on the same level, but I'd almost equate it to the nword use. Similar how most people just know not to ever say or write the N-word, you still occasionally see that story of some newly famous person that quoted a rap lyric when they were 15. It doesn't matter what the intent was, that kid will be labeled a racist. Ironically the right will complain about that and argue you should look at the intent. Unfortunately neither side ever gives the other the benefit of the doubt.

I was interested in Biden's 'illegitimate reasons' comment for Whelan. If a terrorist / international arms dealer that was wanted by Interpol isn't enough for Whelan (even if they truly think he was a spy) and a girl with a vape pen (i'm not mentioning by name not to slight her, but to point out how small time her discretion was) , I somewhat suspect that he's off the table in terms of negotiations.

Agreed that there are more questions than answers but IMO, it doesn't really matter if MAGA is a bottom up movement or years of top down engineering, in the end, money is the key to where this goes and that's why I think Trump and the GOP are done. (Doesn't mean he can't steamroll his way to the candidate again, it's just the GOP knows they will lose if he is nominated.) Both parties still rely on big donors first and foremost. Small donors have been focused on by both parties in recent years, but still, you need to keep the big donors happy. You don't have any sign of trouble in the Democratic camp related to either right now. On the GOP side, you have big donors that are clearly done, or at least publicly questioning the direction of the party. As you mentioned with one that could make a huge difference. Add in they have some small donor issues that the dems don't have to worry about, and it's a perfect storm. 1) Losing big donors in general will force the civil war that I think even democrats have hoped for within the GOP. 2) Losing Murdoch hurts from a big donor standpoint, but even worse, he owns media that is sympathetic to conservative ideas. The closest thing comparable to this on the left would be losing Soros and even than, while he supports some media outlets, he's not the owner of them. 3) Trump recognized the sizable chunk of small donation donors and started campaigns to ensure that money goes to him, not the GOP. So while not the biggest chunk, even that is getting attacked by Trump.

Losing changes everything. GOP top brass have faced the stark reality they are in trouble running Trumpie candidates in big elections. MAGA has become bigger than Trump, so yes, you're still going to have some Trumpie folks get into big elections and at the more local level you'll have more. The bigger change will come from within the party. Top brass allowed the crazy when they were winning, they are done now. They will find a way to ensure less Trumpie candidates get pushed. The democratic party is already working to help ensure Biden is protected from any primary run against him. Republicans will start to do the same.

I've re-read everything leading up to your 'track record' comment up until now and I have no idea what you're talking about in reference to me claiming to be a victim. You said it was ok for the left and media to destroy Trump IF he oversaw what happened to the unions in this railroad legislation because of his track record. I've simply pointed out that you all excuse Biden and he WAS the one to oversee it as it happened. I later joked that Fetterman has a 'track record' of defending unions and if we take his word at face value, once he gets a vote, we're going to be in a scary situation when and if he chooses to actually defend unions as our entire country could go into economic collapse.

My disgust comment, and quite a few of my comments over this issue were said with some jest involved. But while overall I understand the reasoning why both parties chose to avoid any corporation/employee strike, don't pretend that the democrats made some valiant attempt to give the workers anything. They punted the issue and made it look like a 'win' before the election, then they split the vote to ensure that the end result was the exact same thing you would have gotten with the GOP, with the only caveat being that they can claim they tried to help. I actually defended Fetterman as in my view, his tweet indicated he would have fought for the workers more. I was assured that Fetterman's comments said no such thing. It apparently was the same ole Dem's, all talk with no indication there would ever be any action. Maybe he will fit in the party.

The Railroads should be blamed, they are the ones that did this. There is only one solution, they give workers paid sick leave. Until then, it's the workers fight and as long as they want to fight, we should support them. If we let the railroads just have their will, where will it stop? Next time there is a corporation vs worker issue, the corporation will know they can just run over the worker and no one will help. You folks that choose appeasement disgust me.

Yes, after they split up the vote to allow them to vote the way they did, knowing it would fail if separated.