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[pwnest injun]

The reality is Israel is not that wealthy. Their GDP is roughly equivalent to the state of Michigan. The merits of their aid is obviously up for debate in this thread, but that's why the US gives them so much money: they cannot fund their own military.

Ain't it something that all of these countries that can't afford their own protection can afford universal government funded healthcare?

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Ain't it something that all of these countries that can't afford their own protection can afford universal government funded healthcare?

Western Europe in a nutshell.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

The fact that a National Guard member was okay with this at all is very thunk-provoking.

I don't know why this is a shock when the desegregation of schools was enforced at gunpoint.

 

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Kamala has been taking out ads that are literally just links to news articles... with the headlines changed to make it sound like they're endorsing her. So you search for something and you get "Ad by Harris: CNN: Harris is amazing and all the cool kids are voting for her!" then "CNN: Harris stumbles as questions about Walz horse semen addiction remain" some distance under her ad.

Literally the same thing Joe Rogan is suing them over doing, only with release headlines.

The drunk wine aunt's plan appears to be to manufacture a narrative that all the cool kids are voting for her, so you should too. Literally the TikTok Candidate.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I'm not the biggest fan of him but c'mon he was definitely charismatic. That was his whole thing. Even racists could tolerate him because his speech did not resemble annoying "Afro speak" much.

I don’t worship black people so I don’t see “non-threatening black guy” as charismatic. He had an army of hype men, brainwashed cat ladies who thought him as the perfect man, and a media establishment that would censor his gaffes.

 

[DocAwe]

I remember '08.
Standing in line to vote.
Foolishly thinking we wouldn't elect a blax guy.
Ten minutes go by and I realized we were about to have a nog for president.
It was an eye opening moment and nothing has been the same since.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

6'7 was what I saw people saying back in 2020, he was 14 then. He's 18 now so I'd assume somewhere in the 6'8-6'10 range

Hope he doesn't have gigantism, he'll die in his 30s/40s iirc

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

This. I remember the 2004 election.

Sure, some liberals were sad about Bush winning reelection, but I noticed more excitement over Obama winning his senate seat more than anything. I saw the writing on the wall almost immediately about what Obama's political career was going to look like.

People forget that he served less than a single term in the senate before he became President ... Not to mention he voted "present" in the Senate more times than anyone can count. He made himself a blank slate for the average voter and paid huge lip service to them in 2007-2008 all the while the excitement over voting for the first black President overcame the majority of voters.

Honestly? If Americans had actually gotten 8 years of 2008 Campaign Mode Obama, then his Presidency actually wouldn't have been so bad. He ended up being the embodiment of The Patriot Act on steroids though.

A thought I had about Obama is that the reason why he had anyone who outed him as a closeted gay man killed is probably because of the political environment he came up in. If Obama ran as openly gay now, I doubt any of the NPCs would care. Obama has a history of being gay (see the video I posted a long time ago in this thread, the interview with Mia Marie Pope, one of his high school peers when he was in Hawaii), and that extends into him trying to make the military gay as President. I agree, there was all that hype over "first black President", but did anything change at the end of the day? Nope, it was just Establishment business as usual, and it was supposed to continue with Hillary.

 

[Quixotic Man]

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Kamala has been taking out ads that are literally just links to news articles... with the headlines changed to make it sound like they're endorsing her. So you search for something and you get "Ad by Harris: CNN: Harris is amazing and all the cool kids are voting for her!" then "CNN: Harris stumbles as questions about Walz horse semen addiction remain" some distance under her ad.

Literally the same thing Joe Rogan is suing them over doing, only with release headlines.

The drunk wine aunt's plan appears to be to manufacture a narrative that all the cool kids are voting for her, so you should too. Literally the TikTok Candidate.

I hate this. This is what deliberate misinformation actually is, taking a piece of actual information, in this case a new report, and twisting it to say something else.

Neither candidate should do this, and Google needs to step up and shoot down this kind of thing. But that would require them to actually give a fuck about their ads, beyond the revenue it generates.

 

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I hate this. This is what deliberate misinformation actually is, taking a piece of actual information, in this case a new report, and twisting it to say something else.

Neither candidate should do this, and Google needs to step up and shoot down this kind of thing. But that would require them to actually give a fuck about their ads, beyond the revenue it generates.

Beyond just that, they de facto support Harris. So of course they're not going to stop Harris from doing that. If it was legal to do so, they'd probably give her free advertisements. I'd wager their algorithm has been tweaked heavily to push her and suppress detractors (since the law hasn't caught up to that).

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

I remember '08.
Standing in line to vote.
Foolishly thinking we wouldn't elect a blax guy.
Ten minutes go by and I realized we were about to have a nog for president.
It was an eye opening moment and nothing has been the same since.

The day after the election, some blacks cut me off on Westheimer and naturally I honked my horn. Guy in the back holds the back of $20 bill (which shows the White House) up to the rear window, pointed at it and then flipped me off.

That was a long 8 years.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

A thought I had about Obama is that the reason why he had anyone who outed him as a closeted gay man killed is probably because of the political environment he came up in. If Obama ran as openly gay now, I doubt any of the NPCs would care. Obama has a history of being gay (see the video I posted a long time ago in this thread, the interview with Mia Marie Pope, one of his high school peers when he was in Hawaii), and that extends into him trying to make the military gay as President. I agree, there was all that hype over "first black President", but did anything change at the end of the day? Nope, it was just Establishment business as usual, and it was supposed to continue with Hillary.

Wait I thought the narrative is he was an illegal kenyan?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Wait I thought the narrative is he was an illegal kenyan?

his illegal gay mulsim birth certificate from kenya was kept in the pizza joint that dude shot up

 

[Sithis]

Wait I thought the narrative is he was an illegal kenyan?

It's still hilarious that Trump's real start in national stage politics began when he was one of the loudest people demanding Obama's birth certificate, and at the time the left pretended like that was the worst thing ever, and they never seem to bring it up now. It's one of those things you'd figure they would constantly try to hammer in as evidence of Trump being super duper bad but I haven't seen any of them mention it since 2016.

 

[Breadbassket]

The talks about Obama's citizenship seem so quaint compared to now considering the Democrats are running a candidate who doesn't even have American parents. Kamala Harris is the ultimate anchor baby.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

It's still hilarious that Trump's real start in national stage politics began when he was one of the loudest people demanding Obama's birth certificate, and at the time the left pretended like that was the worst thing ever, and they never seem to bring it up now. It's one of those things you'd figure they would constantly try to hammer in as evidence of Trump being super duper bad but I haven't seen any of them mention it since 2016.

The last time Trump did that, he never talked about the topic and instead campaigned, tricking journoscum into giving him airtime

 

[General Emílio Médici]

A thought I had about Obama is that the reason why he had anyone who outed him as a closeted gay man killed is probably because of the political environment he came up in. If Obama ran as openly gay now, I doubt any of the NPCs would care. Obama has a history of being gay (see the video I posted a long time ago in this thread, the interview with Mia Marie Pope, one of his high school peers when he was in Hawaii), and that extends into him trying to make the military gay as President. I agree, there was all that hype over "first black President", but did anything change at the end of the day? Nope, it was just Establishment business as usual, and it was supposed to continue with Hillary.

No the gay thing was buried and killed because if it came out Obama would go scorched earth and reveal McCain's shameful little past as a Vietcong VIP who did propaganda broadcasts and, of course, how he helped make sure hundreds of american PoWs would never come back home in the 1980s so Washington could save face about leaving them behind because the deal was to pay reparation to Vietnam for them (just like the French did to get their people back) but "America doesn't lose wars" and it was Nixon's peace.

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[World Famous Quasi Payer]

The reality is Israel is not that wealthy. Their GDP is roughly equivalent to the state of Michigan. The merits of their aid is obviously up for debate in this thread, but that's why the US gives them so much money: they cannot fund their own military.

I get we give them aid, but why do they need their own dedicated carrier group on top of the aid? Israel doesn't have FA-18s, they're carrier based aircraft off one of our supercarriers. Why does Israel need them? They don't. Nor the other aircraft deployed to help them, nor the ships around that supercarrier, nor what other assets we have in the region.

Walz's unit's Chaplin has come out swinging against him. I'm not sure how bad you have to fuck up for that to happen, but it sounds bad.

Its literally because he bailed on going to Iraq with his unit. Going to Iraq is tantamount to saying your going to combat. Or was for the time. Walz is basically the guy who says he has your back and than bails on you the moment its beneficial to do so. And than you got to add that Walz, being the scumbag he is, spent years campaigning on being a veteran, saying he carried a gun in wartime, and knowing 99% of people are going to assume he did all the shit people see the military do on TV. He's taking credit for the bravery of other men.

I bet that Chaplin had to have some serious talks with a few young men over there in Iraq. The kind of talks you don't want to have, but as a religious leader, or simply as an older man around young men, you have to have. Where was Walz at to help with those talks, to inspire confidence in those young men? Oh yeah, he was running for office.

What I'm trying to say is Walz is a fucking scumbag piece of shit.

I don't know why this is a shock when the desegregation of schools was enforced at gunpoint.

But you have to remember that only on the far right is desegregation still a grievance, 90% of Americans at the very least view what happened at little rock or other places as acceptable. The line between the two might be clear as day, but most people couldn't see it you shoved their head in it.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Lmao Democrats lost 300k registered voters since 2020 in Pennsylvania.......

Doods...Trump might win it by 4-5%...

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Wait I thought the narrative is he was an illegal kenyan?

That was some dumb shit the Clinton camp cooked up during the primaries that the Republicans later decided to grab and run with. Obama's team probably laughed with glee because as long as his opponents were latched on to that they wouldn't bother digging for anything else. Even now people are likely to disbelieve any stories or rumors about Obama being gay because of how overplayed the whole birth certificate debacle was.

Lmao Democrats lost 300k registered voters since 2020 in Pennsylvania.......

If it's because they died I've got some bad news for you.