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    For those saying “this is what we voted for…”

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    3 hours ago, LeviF said:


    This is a motte/bailey point. Do I particularly care that a “trans” athlete is showing up and mogging females in women’s “sports?” No, not particularly. 
     

    Do I care that the deleterious ideology that inevitably led to such a result and so many much more important results has a stranglehold on the United States? Yes. 

    Seattle just today. Transtifa? I hadn't heard that before.

     

     

    For those saying “this is what we voted for…”

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    18 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

    One thing that confuses me about the current defense of Trumps tactics are those that state he’s doing exactly what he said he would. Curious as to the thoughts of those that are defending Trump by saying “this is what he promised,” “we knew what we were getting,” etc. How do you respond to this? Understanding many of these videos are often edited heavily this one is truly clips of the man himself and his “promises.” 
     

    Does this upset you? Do you just consider this another example of him just “being Donald the blowhard?” Do you think folks less knowledgeable and less economically stable than most here thought he would actually do the things he said in this video? Or they “knew” he would do the opposite and for some reason voted for him anyway?

     

    (standard disclaimer that I think Biden was top 3-4 worst presidents of all time). 
     

    Im truly not trolling. I would love to get some conversation going with folks I respect on the other side of the isle like @B-Man and @JDHillFan, (and others). 
     

    Let’s see if we can be civil. Was this just a case of a politician being a politician and making promises to get votes? My concern is that his promises and his actual actions are polar opposites. Do you think this “temporary pain” is truly going to help folks financial situations “eventually” and how long will that take? 
     

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHcAf9UOc6i/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

    For me, it's a choice between two parties, and their candidates. I find the Dems normally try to get Repubs to defend Trump. This is how, for the most part, I interpret you question. For me, it isn't so much about defending the Trump and the GOP as much as it is the GOP being a better choice than the Dem party. Overall, the GOP is the better choice for me.

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    The Babylon Bee, America's Newspaper

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    On 4/6/2025 at 10:37 PM, The Frankish Reich said:

    Ridiculous take then since say what you will about Pete, he's obviously very intelligent and very locked-in politically.

    You see, to work a joke needs to pick on some foible recognizable in a public figure. If it's that Pete is just a little too committed to family life while doing an important job, well, that's fine. But the use of "maternity" is a sure giveaway. That's what makes it clearly a hahah, he's gay joke.

    Fine explanation. You should be ashamed that you shared that one.

    I think it's more that he's lazy

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    Biden: prostate cancer diagnosis. Medical EXPERTS say he likely had diagnosis for entire term.

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    1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

    What is not true?  Specifically?  I quoted experts from Dana Farber, Stanford and Johns Hopkins?  And you know better because you have prostate issue?  Here's another nice tidbit.  Please support your contention and specify what I wrote that was incorrect.

    from arch Urology

    In this article we explain findings from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) concerning the operating characteristics of PSA for biopsy-detectable prostate cancer, with special emphasis on a subpopulation of men with PSA less than 4 ng/ml, what is often regarded as the "normal" level of PSA in healthy men. The PCPT enrolled 18,882 healthy men 55 years of age or older, with a PSA value less than 3 ng/mL and a normal digital rectal exam (DRE); 9,459 of these men were randomized to the placebo arm and 9,423 to the finasteride arm In this report we summarize the operating characteristics of PSA only for the placebo arm of the PCPT; operating characteristics of PSA on the finasteride arm are more complicated to assess since finasteride approximately halves the PSA value and will be reported only briefly. In our first analysis, we focused on a group of 2,950 men on the placebo arm who had had an end-of-study biopsy and a normal DRE and PSA < 4 ng/mL for all 7 years of the study. For prostate cancer, the standard PSA cut-off of 4 ng/mL has low sensitivity: with this cut-off only 20.5% of the prostate cancer cases test positive-nearly 80% of prostate cancer cases are missed. The specificity at this cut-off is high (93.6%) meaning only 6.2% of men who do not have prostate cancer falsely test positive. Lowering the PSA threshold for screening increases detection of aggressive cancer at an earlier stage, but has the unavoidable tradeoff of increased detection of the biologically irrelevant cancers.

     

    You have to believe that the health care regime for the President of the United States is the same as it is for the average American man. I don't

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    “Original Sin” book release - Biden’s decline cover up

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by Pokebball

    9 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

    It will certainly happen but is he any different now than he was during his previous presidency? If you believe the answer to that is yes, I would need some examples. Surely you have some specifics. The guy has always rambled on, saying whatever comes into his head. That doesn’t stop him from seemingly going strong at all hours of the day and night. 

    IMO mainstream media would be all over trump's issues (as they should be), unlike how they defended biden.

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    “Original Sin” book release - Biden’s decline cover up

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    9 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:

    Who is going to use it against Dems? Fox and Twitter? The people responsible for this being “fooled” by the Biden people will all rally together like it never happened. It’s why everything is being attributed to anonymous sources. There will be no names named.
     

    The good news is that it’s only willing dupes like Redhawk and Frankish that will follow along like good little boys. EVERYONE else can see what the deal is. 

    Who was fooled? Some dems and I'd say a lot of the legacy media purposefully and intentionally denied it and actively fought against the narrative. 

     

    I don't think that will be forgotten. 

    Trump​ ❤️ Tariffs

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    On 5/12/2025 at 12:34 PM, Doc said:

     

    So did China, for the same reason.  Expect a deal in the next 90 days.

    China, moreso

    On 5/12/2025 at 1:57 PM, The Frankish Reich said:

    No one knows. He most recently pulled a new number - 80 percent - out of his behind. 

    obviously negotiation

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    What Does "Due Process" Mean?

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    50 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

     

    Dont be an uneducated emotional idiot.  Read and educate yourself about your own countries constitution. 

    Its fascism to ignore the constitution regardless of why.  MAGA doesnt seem to get this.  What Biden did has nothing to do what needs to happen now. 

     

    https://clearwaterlawgrouptricities.com/5-rights-of-undocumented-immigrants/

    All I can say is, "Dont be an uneducated emotional idiot"

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    Pope Francis

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    3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    Well, maybe the Los Angeles Dodgers are a private company and not collectively the President of the United States?

    Seems like a difference to me.

    I appreciate your enthusiasm. It's unmatched

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    Pope Francis

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    17 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

    No. That's a straw man argument that Obama himself declared himself as some holy entity.  He didn't.  Nobody held a gun to Trump's head and said retweet this silly social media post.  I could see how deeply religious Catholics could view that as offensive. 

    Agree. I can also see how Dems are making every political stab possible over this. There is a lot of faux outrage over this as well.

     

     

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    NPR Reports

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    As a republican, I admittedly like and listen to both NPR and PBS. I also do firmly believe they present a liberal lean in most everything they do. But that's not the point.  I don't understand how anyone believes any media entity should be publicly funded, especially today in our increasingly political environment. 

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