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"content": "After all of those years of attacking everyone right of \"extreme leftist\" as being an instigator of \"stochastic violence\" and a \"nazi\" what do we expect Dems to do? \n\nPerhaps the classic spin cycle of:\n\n1) it didn't happen\n2) OK maybe it happened but it was a minor thing\n3) OK maybe it wasn't minor, but that's actually a good thing\n4) it's a good thing and we need more of it\n\nI just hope the leftist city dwellers think about where their food comes from, and whether they know how to skin and gut squirrels and rats if the part of the country that grows all of their food decides to stop being kind.",
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"content": "You assume it was dems. Trump himself is about to be in prison for hte rest of his life for his crimes. Look inward. The man probably planned it to garner support as hes losing in the polls before the fucking election.",
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"content": "Wow! You are an idiot! Would you let the #1 sniper in the world graze your face with a bullet to make you more popular in the poles? Of all the idiots in all the idiot villages in all the idiot worlds, you my friend stand alone.",
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"content": "I’m a fan of his but this is him following the cockroaches into hole in the wall. ",
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"content": "Remember this mask off moment. They will cry out in pain as they bash your head in.",
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"content": "https://youtu.be/_8u-jpd1jlo?si=meYdWpd0VJfy46ti",
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"content": "Every time I give Destiny a chance I'm reminded what type of person he is.",
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"content": "Well as of today he’s made it very clear that he doesn’t want you listening to him. He hates you and he’s not memeing.",
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"content": "I personally think it’s time to tone it down and quit messing around at the fringes but it seems now that we are beyond that.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "If Trump pulls this off, the immigrant vote will never swing left ever again",
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"content": "I literally will not vote for Trump if he does this. This is the worst idea I've ever seen from Trump in my entire life. \n\nSee the UK? See Canada? See how it's loaded with Indians?\n\nSee how you can't get a job because they're loaded with low-skill Indians?\n\nYeah, that's the future of the US if he does this.",
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"content": "Understandable that you wouldn't like this, but you would prefer Biden's wide open border to this?",
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"content": "Of course not. What i want is every illegal alien on welfare out. If an illegal alien has a work permit and they are doing good work, we can parole them on a case by case basis. I will never support blanket amnesty.",
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"content": "The Irony is palpable. It is able to be palped",
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"content": "Please tell me you linked this article for them",
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"content": "Why would you recommend he have his account banned like that?",
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"content": "If all he posts is the article, and nothing more. They can’t argue with facts",
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"content": "MSNBC Host: Biden Surviving COVID Is Just As Bada** As Trump Surviving Assassination Attempt",
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"content": "Lol ok joy. Surviving a assassination attempt in a brave fashion is not the same thing as surviving some thing the vast majority of Americans had and recovered from with no major complications. The only reason it’s kinda concerning is BECAUSE Biden is so old and frail. if he was a younger man the reaction would rightfully be ‘so he’ll be back to normal by Monday?’\n\nShe’s really reaching, which shows how news hosts are no different than party reps and how bad things are going for biden.",
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"content": "Can’t believe she went into Harvard. Affirmative action at its finest",
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"content": "Honestly that makes me assume that she is being dishonest. Because the alternative is that she doesn’t know how comparisons work. She can’t be that dumb.\n\nSure, if biden has a medical scare (which just contracting Covid doesn’t imply), he would also be narrowly escaping death, just like Trump did. That doesn’t mean both are heroic or inspiring. That’s like saying me and Hitler are the exact same because we both like dogs or something. there is a near infinite number of ways to compare any two things, and the ways you choose to compare them is a good way to trick people",
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"content": "Candace Ownes and Gruypers are attacking Jordan Peterson and his daughter. Ownes just made a video about it all",
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"content": "Lol. Candace Owens is one step away from “I’m not saying the earth is flat I’m just saying I’ve never actually seen it from space”.",
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"content": "God I hope she says that.",
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"content": "I watch Flat Earth debunkers a lot because the flat earth guys are funny. One just mentioned Candace saying it was flat, but the debunk guy said \"Nah she didn't say that\".\n\nDebunk guy is McToon, thanks to YouTube's transcriptions, I found the clip: https://www.youtube.com/live/vHyZ2VqKrQk?si=XwpXccOSW_yUOFbo&t=4080",
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"content": "Well, she said she was not a round earther.\n\nVideo clip 👇\n\nhttps://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1808288897933496764?s=46&t=oou0wapwHwfG0WvG1YiTVg",
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"content": "Yes and no. Yes those words came out of her mouth. Unless she's saying she's somehow concave or hollow earth, she just meant she's not in favor of science telling her what to believe. You can know it's a globe WITHOUT science. Simple test.\n\nAt the equator, take a photo of star trails in three directions. One camera pointing straight up, another North, and another South. North and South will give you circles, straight up will give you straight lines. That's only possible on a globe. A planetarium would have to be spinning *JUST* over your head and giving everyone else ovals.",
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"content": "The earth is round.",
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"content": "Yes? Did you think I was saying it wasn't? Or are you saying \"round\" as opposed to \"globe\"? Sorry, hard to tell and I may just be too used to people saying something like \"round not a globe\" or \"not flat because mountains\" or \"it's not a globe, it's an oblate spheroid\". The latter is *technically* true, but still not a significant change as most people colloquially say \"globe\".",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Anytime you look anywhere on Reddit discussing Trump, or conservatives your likely to come across some asshole talking about “project 2025” and how republicans are gonna use it to turn the presidency into a dictatorship or something. \n\nTo me it just seems like some wildly overblown policy ideas that aren’t actually gonna be implemented \n\nEdited to fix some grammar and ambiguity ",
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"content": "It's just a guideline for Republicans to back candidates that believe in the same Republican party points. \n\nIt's like when Trump came out with his list of supreme Court nominees in 2016.\n\nThis is a list of conservative opinions and methods to implement them asap once a conservative gets elected president. It's a playbook for kicking Democrats and bureaucrats out and putting conservatives in.",
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"content": "Literally some handmaids tale shit. Pushing your beliefs into government on others is nazi level shit. 100% Fascism and will not be tolerated.",
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"content": "Yeah it would be scary if the White House were to tell you apples are actually oranges if they identify as such and then display a flag, hold a rally, and bake that perspective into several branches of the government. \n\nAnd then watch your side argue that apples are actually oranges so fervently that even a supreme judge of sorts can’t even define “apple” on account that she isn’t a biologist. That *would* be dangerous you’re correct.",
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"content": "Or you can play stupid(unless you're actually stupid, which you probably are because you think this way) that the government is imposing any sort of rules restricting you from being you when in reality your form of government wants to stop others from being themselves. Get the idea of controlling how people act out of your head if you want a future that doesn't represent criminality. You can be who YOU want to be, you don't get to control who OTHER PEOPLE want to be. Putting an image in front of someone doesn't change who or what someone is. Theres a fucking church or cross visible from 99.9% of this country. Now its up to you if you wanted to be indoctrinated to be someones fucking slave through fairytale believe. You do not get to regulate how other people act based on your fictitious belief from your fairytale book.",
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"content": "Biden tried to *force* everyone to get vaccinated with the COVID vaccine. Biden bypassed *all balances of power* and *unilaterally* (that means he made the decision hisself) forgave student loans without *any* vote. The Left wants to control your money by taxing everyone more. The Left wants to control speech by telling you which pronouns you can or cannot use to address somebody.\n\nThe Right wants to de-regulate virtually everything (that means impose *less* control on people). I suggest you go look at the tea party movement a few years ago and try to contrast what you think the extreme right is. Then we’ll find out who’s stupid.\n\nOh and speaking of slaves, do you think a fetus has more or less rights than a slave in the 1800s?",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Source: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty",
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"content": "I just don't get why all the smart people are left leaning, except for me and all my Facebook friends",
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"content": "Education and intelligence are most definitely not the same thing. At least not anymore. Especially since many schools have started ignoring test scores and grades altogether 🤦♀️",
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"content": "It’s more like indoctrinated now a day. Definitely not educated. I hold several degrees as I’m a physician and talking to these younger higher educated generations baffles me in regards to their stupidity and also their blind loyalty to a party who continues to lie cheat and steal from them.",
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"content": "Hey! The republican party is not that bad 😡😡",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s the republican party that’s politically grooming kids at high rates within the college educational system. For sure",
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"content": "Don't even joke about that, we don't do that as a whole",
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"content": "Political movements everywhere do this. Some more than others.",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro on Capitol Hill: ‘NewsGuard Has Penalized Us Openly for Being a Conservative Site’",
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"content": "Why is everyone trying to get on the victim wagon nowadays?",
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"content": "Ben is now part of the “oppressed”",
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"content": "Such a dumb response lol. Go home little man. Let the adults talk.",
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"content": "Harris Campaign Caught Manipulating X To Censor Criticism",
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"content": "Shocking. Democrats are cheating.",
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"content": "https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-31042/elon-musk-kamala-harris-facebook. \n\nCoping so hard you're living in a different reality, crazy.",
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"content": "Read the article? Heard of Hunter’s laptop?🙄🙄",
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"content": "Heard of civilians and private companies? lol 😂 it’s cheating!",
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"content": "Scary part is you probably even believe that.\nThe laptop story was suppressed. That’s been reported. Or did you miss that part. It weighed in the outcome of the last election enough that it was worth suppressing. Reality.",
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"content": "Suppressed by civilians and a private company? While Trump was in office? Sounds like a nothing burger that’s not illegal. What was on that laptop anyway?",
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"content": "Right! All those folks wanted to wreck their credibility. You guys like to play both sides of the fence with your version of facts.",
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"content": "Harris Campaign Caught Manipulating X To Censor Criticism",
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"content": "Shocking. Democrats are cheating.",
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"content": "https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-31042/elon-musk-kamala-harris-facebook. \n\nCoping so hard you're living in a different reality, crazy.",
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"content": "Read the article? Heard of Hunter’s laptop?🙄🙄",
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"content": "Heard of civilians and private companies? lol 😂 it’s cheating!",
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"content": "Evil libs destroying the country again! More buzz words! Radical left! Ah! \n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/30/elon-musk-court-america-pac",
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"content": "Wow that’s odd, In Philly of all places. Go after the guy that gave free speech a fresh home.😝😝",
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"content": "Yeah, like your other lord and savior, musk, censoring damaging information about JD Vance. Free speech, right? A billionaire who's wealth trippled under trump, is looking after you, an uneducated (obviously) lineman? Propaganda works, and it worked well on you. \n\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-musk-hypocrite-free-speech",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro on Capitol Hill: ‘NewsGuard Has Penalized Us Openly for Being a Conservative Site’",
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"content": "Why is everyone trying to get on the victim wagon nowadays?",
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"content": "Addressing unfair business practices and standing up for yourself is not making yourself a victim.",
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"content": "Isn't this just free market basics?",
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"content": "No? Adam smith literally goes into detail about monopolies and monopolistic practices in the Wealth of Nations.\n\nThis company is exercising monopolistic power over the advertising industry",
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"content": "Newsguard isn't a monopoly though and publishers/advertisers are completely free to not use it.",
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"content": "When they have basically 0 competitors, they wield monopolistic power.",
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"content": "There are plenty of companies that offer similar services and companies are completely free to not use their services. I work in digital advertising, it's a pretty free market.\n\n\nWhat would their monopolistic power be? If an company doesn't use them then how to they unfairly punish the company.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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"content": "All these people thinking “Trump planned this” are absolute lunatics. I think it’s more probable the deep state had something to do with this. They tried to impeach him, indite him, jail him, and now possibly kill him? It’s more believable than Donald Trump saying “Just shoot me in the ear, that will really get people voting for me”. All around a massive security failure on the leadership of Secret Service.",
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"content": "I never even heard those conspiracy theories yet. People are fucking crazy. \n\nThis is what happens when the media and the dems call the man Hitler incarnate for 8 years. It was grossly irresponsible",
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"content": ">This is what happens when the media and the dems call the man Hitler incarnate for 8 years.\n\nIt's too early to call, but this is my leading theory at the moment. Early news reports from the shooter's school mates, suggest he was a bit of a friendless loser, who probably read the media hatred for Trump and figured he'd become a hero to many if he was the man who killed Trump.\n\n[He'd also been embarrassed when he tried to join his school's rifle team, but was such a bad shot that he washed out on the first day.](https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/blew-his-head-off-witness-describes-moment-donald-trump-shooter-was-killed/news-story/39a9160b75cbe05db821991c0ace431c) This is not the skill set you'd rely on for a false flag. It's substantially more likely that the shooter thought he'd prove his prowess with this one feat, but failed (again).",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "I’m a fan of his but this is him following the cockroaches into hole in the wall. ",
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"content": "I honestly don't understand how anyone decent likes him. This is normal destiny saying normal destiny shit. His entire sub is wishing trump had died yesterday and that more trump supporters die. He's trash and always has been.",
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"content": "Yeah he tries to present himself as a reasonable centrist, but he’s just a standard leftist when in counts",
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"content": "he dislikes being considered centrist because hes not, hes on the left, hes just moderate compared to what is usually meant by the word leftist; tankies and socialists. He hates conservatives always has. Like you lot acting like this is some mask off moment, when he obviously would never have any sympathy for a Trump supporter dying in the way they've been encouraging for years lol",
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"content": "I never acted like this was a mask off moment, Settle down.\n\nI get your point about the difference between a centrist and a moderate leftist though. Yes, he called himself a liberal, I was saying that he frequently tries to highlight his minor disagreements with the Democrat establishment as a sign that he not a partisan and is reasonable. Or at least he did when he “debated“ jbp and Shapiro, which is really the only time I’ve seen more than a few minute clips of him",
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"content": "Generally his fights with the left are with the socialist types though, not establishment democratic positions. Hes pretty unapologetic of supporting for the most part mainstream democratic politics.",
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"content": "Harris Campaign Caught Manipulating X To Censor Criticism",
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"content": "Shocking. Democrats are cheating.",
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"content": "https://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/g-s1-31042/elon-musk-kamala-harris-facebook. \n\nCoping so hard you're living in a different reality, crazy.",
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"content": "Read the article? Heard of Hunter’s laptop?🙄🙄",
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"content": "Heard of civilians and private companies? lol 😂 it’s cheating!",
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"content": "Scary part is you probably even believe that.\nThe laptop story was suppressed. That’s been reported. Or did you miss that part. It weighed in the outcome of the last election enough that it was worth suppressing. Reality.",
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"content": "Suppressed by civilians and a private company? While Trump was in office? Sounds like a nothing burger that’s not illegal. What was on that laptop anyway?",
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"content": "All these people thinking “Trump planned this” are absolute lunatics. I think it’s more probable the deep state had something to do with this. They tried to impeach him, indite him, jail him, and now possibly kill him? It’s more believable than Donald Trump saying “Just shoot me in the ear, that will really get people voting for me”. All around a massive security failure on the leadership of Secret Service.",
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"content": "I never even heard those conspiracy theories yet. People are fucking crazy. \n\nThis is what happens when the media and the dems call the man Hitler incarnate for 8 years. It was grossly irresponsible",
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"content": "Also, Trump shouldn't have *leaned in* to that rhetoric by shitposting like he does. Both sides have some responsibility for the current temperature. The left has been ridiculously paranoid, and the right has just lapped up \"pwning the libs\" by shitposting at them nonstop. It's like a little kid poking a loonie dog with a stick. At some point that's not going to turn out too well, so just don't do it.\n\nI watched Bernie Sanders on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, and for the absolute first time in my life I agreed with him on something: \"politics should be boring.\" That's right. I don't know how we managed to turn it into this stupid reality TV thing it's become, but we should be talking about policy a **hell** of a lot more, and personalities a **hell** of a lot less.",
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"content": "Source: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty",
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"content": "Fuck trump",
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"content": "Trump said fook you too my dude. He also said keep buying the lefty lies and propaganda. You were ignorance well. \n\nDirectly from Trump and all 🤷🏻♂️😘",
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"content": "the most overused word was \"liar\"",
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"content": "No no no no, not by a long shot. It would be \"The idea that\". Biden said that ON EVERY RESPONSE.",
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"content": "Anytime you look anywhere on Reddit discussing Trump, or conservatives your likely to come across some asshole talking about “project 2025” and how republicans are gonna use it to turn the presidency into a dictatorship or something. \n\nTo me it just seems like some wildly overblown policy ideas that aren’t actually gonna be implemented \n\nEdited to fix some grammar and ambiguity ",
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"content": "It’s a Heritage Foundation plan that intends to lay the groundwork for the next administration. Heritage puts one out for every new conservative administration. \n\nMost of the people criticizing it have zero clue what’s actually in it and haven’t read the 950+ page document.",
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"content": "I will say a 950+ page document is sorta begging not to be read, and to be lied about",
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"content": "It’s an extremely detailed plan covering the cabinet agencies, executive agencies, and the judiciary. This requires careful analysis and thought.",
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"content": "That’s my point. Nobody but political nerds and people with way too much time on their hands have the time or interest to thoroughly read and understand a document that large. Especially when the news nowadays is 10-12 word statements on a headline plus an article that’s locked behind a paywall. \n\nI see the place for these sorts of things, but like I said a document like that is just begging to be lied about",
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"content": "It’s a book lol. Do you not read books? I’m in the middle of reading the project 2025 book and it will probably take me a week of reading at night",
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"content": "I read, but I read for enjoyment, and I don’t particularly enjoy reading about political policy",
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"content": "I’m the opposite- I only read political non fiction, Mythology, history religion- I can’t read fiction stories except comics lol",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro on Capitol Hill: ‘NewsGuard Has Penalized Us Openly for Being a Conservative Site’",
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"content": "Wahhhhhh! My website is failing in the free market. Let's have the government force advertisers to give me moneyyyyyyyy",
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"content": "Yup, but conservatives are so clueless they genuinely don't hear themselves even when they go full socialism.",
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"content": "IMO it's not political illiteracy but rather a great deal of hypocrisy. Ben's ideological positions are steadfast when he's applying them to a group he doesn't agree with, but as soon as the same policies he denounces are beneficial to *him*, he simply uses different language (ie., you will never hear \"socialism\" with a positive connotation come out of Ben's mouth) to turn back around and advocate for them.\n\nHe does the same on a smaller scale during arguments with people he disagrees with. Nobody really catches him on it, but he often contradicts his own positions in less noticeable ways to pull a \"gotcha\" on his opponent. It's fascinating really, because it works.",
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"content": "After all of those years of attacking everyone right of \"extreme leftist\" as being an instigator of \"stochastic violence\" and a \"nazi\" what do we expect Dems to do? \n\nPerhaps the classic spin cycle of:\n\n1) it didn't happen\n2) OK maybe it happened but it was a minor thing\n3) OK maybe it wasn't minor, but that's actually a good thing\n4) it's a good thing and we need more of it\n\nI just hope the leftist city dwellers think about where their food comes from, and whether they know how to skin and gut squirrels and rats if the part of the country that grows all of their food decides to stop being kind.",
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"content": "You assume it was dems. Trump himself is about to be in prison for hte rest of his life for his crimes. Look inward. The man probably planned it to garner support as hes losing in the polls before the fucking election.",
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"content": "Nope no prison. Nope not losing the polls. Teflon Don",
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"content": "Biden is a member of the walking dead and the Democratic Party has made the biggest mistake possibly in their history by propping him up. And Donald Trump is still a supreme narcissist but will win the election and will be fine in the short term but I don’t believe he actually cares about the Republican Party, which could spell trouble in the longer term",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Eric Swalwell during Congressional testimony on censorship when Swalwell mentions Project 2025",
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"content": "I've always wondered how often growing up swalwell got teased or beat up for his last name hahaha 😆 🤣",
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"content": "Wonder if he was friends with Anthony Weiner.",
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"content": "his ex wife is part of the Muslim brotherhood wanting to destroy America and now goes out with soros son. perfect sense.",
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"content": "If true, this is certainly an interesting update on the assassin. [https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-was-definitely-conservative-classmate-recalls](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-was-definitely-conservative-classmate-recalls)",
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"content": "Politically it’s definitely something the left and the Democratic Party want to be true to undercut the argument that their rhetoric inspired to the attack. \n\nHowever he did donate $15 to far-left organization ActBlue in 2021.",
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"content": "To me, what sticks out in this debate is how quickly Sam changes standards with how he looks at the actions of politicians. When it’s a Democrat, he treats what they say/do as mostly unimportant, unserious, etc. but when it’s Trump it’s super important, serious, etc. It’s what Ben pointed out multiple times; the actual policy and comparing actions vs words matters more. But even the rhetoric itself, Sam changes standards. When Hillary denies the results of the 2016 election, (and launders the Russiagate lies) that’s just water under the bridge. Trump denying the election results in 2020 and then leaving office, that’s the end of the world. It bothered me quite a bit how Sam’s standards seem to change so radically but for no solid reason.",
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"content": "Sam Harris actually said the Dems cheating in the 2020 election to beat Trump was absolutely ok.",
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"content": "When did he say that? I just listened to the whole debate and don’t remember him saying that.",
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"content": "It was when he went on Triggernometry.",
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"content": "Yeah, we already got to the bottom of this. Would be important context to add to the comment I responded to but details don’t really matter when it already confirms your bias. \n\nI’d also like to repeat that framing what Sam said on that podcast as him being ok with the Democrats cheating, is wildly dishonest and harmful to an actual discussion.",
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"content": "Except he said “It was a left wing conspiracy to deny Trump the presidency. Absolutely. And it was warranted.”\n\nKisin even gave him a chance to walk it back and all he did was double down. \n\nNot sure how stating those facts could be considered being wildly dishonest.",
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"content": "Real quick, a left wing conspiracy? That doesn’t make sense. I remember him alluding to the possibility of it being a conspiracy from the right wing based on the timing and the source. Or more accurately I remember him saying that it’s most likely suspicious given the timing and the fact that Rudy held on to the laptop as an October surprise. \n\n\nSam admitted that “warranted” was not the correct word meant to use there. He admitted he got lazy/sloppy in the words he was choosing. I believe him because the use of “warranted” goes against literally everything else he has said on that topic. It’s been a few years, but I’m pretty sure he was saying that it was “understandable” for any serious branch of media to slow the roll on that story given the timing, the source and the alleged material on the laptop. It’s understandable and you could defend the decision by an editor/whoever not to immediately rush out a story like that, regardless of who it was damaging to. It’s odd to think of it that way these days because everything is instant but good journalism would require time to get that story correct. It shouldn’t be immediately rushed out at the timing that is convenient for Trump and Republicans. It also shouldn’t be buried indefinitely because it’s potentially damaging to Biden/Democrats.",
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"content": "The left wing supports censorship, when they control it. The right does not. \n\nSam didn’t correct his “thinking” until he saw the backlash. He was given a chance to correct it by Kisin and he doubled down. He also ignores the fact that the FBI had the laptop and purposefully didn’t set the record straight about its existence. Instead, they let “51 former intelligence officials” outright lie about it. \n\nCensorship is dangerous. Sam ignores that simple fact, like virtually everyone on the left does. They see it as a tool, that when used by the virtuous, can be good. The mere use of the tool removes virtue.",
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"content": "Both sides support censorship when it’s beneficial to them. Stop being fucking stupid by suggesting it’s unique to the left. It was proved in court that Trump literally paid people to catch and kill negative stories that were going to be released. Literally paying off to censor the news. Twitter/X was just found to be censoring news stories about JD Vance in college. This isn’t some phenomenon that is unique to liberals, lmao. \n\nThere is a difference between censorship and a news organization potentially taking a beat to make sure they get a story right and report it correctly. I’ll repeat myself because I guess this is difficult for you and others to comprehend. The news media, whether in print, broadcast, or digital, is under no obligation to immediately break news on a story. We expect it now because of social media but given the stakes and consequences, it’s understandable for an editor to want to take a beat to make sure they report it accurately. That process could take a few days or weeks, that’s irrelevant and just because Rudy Giuliani dropped it on their lap at the 11th hour, doesn’t mean it needed to be reported by midnight.",
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"content": "The left wants censorship as a matter of policy. They want to control every ounce of information you consume. That’s monumentally different than a politicians engaging in catch and kill. \n\nThe FBI knew the laptop and the information reported by the New York Post was real. They had opened an investigation on it several months prior. They knew the “51 former intelligence officials” were lying. They did nothing. You would have been wise to watch Catherine Herridge’s recent video with FBI whistleblowers before making those false statements. \n\nMSM censored the true story and amplified the lies. And democrats supported it the whole way. Facts.",
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"content": "I’m aware the trump hate is intense as well as the Biden/obama/clinton hate but doing stupid shit like that just makes things worst for everyone",
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"content": "Correct. Political violence is the *worst* kind of escalation. Nobody wins.\n\nI blame the democrats for handwaving the BLM riots in 2020, the shooting of the congressional republican baseball game from a Sanders supporter and more recently these pro Hamas rallys.\n\nSure, they come out on TV and say that it's bad, but they don't DO *anything* about it.\n\nI think the GOP are fucking idiots, but they freeze out the whackiest of whacks in their party. Democrats give them prominent positions.",
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"content": "Maybe it’s just me, but it seems way more people are asking about it than ever before. I wonder if it’s a democrat strategy to draw attention to it. ",
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"content": "By authoritarian he just means \"the government doing stuff I don't like.\" In 2009, Obama hired a bunch of career staffers basically right out of college and staffed up a whole bunch of federal agencies. Those people have had 15 years to enact their party agenda. Part of project 2025 is firing those people, and hiring different people who will enact a conservative agenda instead of a leftist one. That's it. That's the whole game. \n\nWe're regulating the car industry. Do you want to hire people who have built cars? Or somebody who learned about the damaging impact of cars in college and is now hell bent on destroying the auto industry?",
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"content": "The correct decision",
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"content": "This is literally false? Lia Thomas disqualified, yes. Reilly Gaines is not even swimming in the Olympic trials.",
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"content": "But she qualifies as a woman to do so if she so wished!",
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"content": "When someone qualifies for the Olympics that means they're going to be competing. She did not qualify for the Olympics. You're straight up misusing the term.",
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"content": "Back to the rhetoric",
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"content": "The left doesn’t care about violence they’ve proved that over the last 20 years and solidified it over the last 8.",
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"content": "The left has been rioting for the last 20 years. And over the last 8 Donald Trump got shot, Rand Paul got stabbed, someone plotted assassinate Kavenaugh, Steve Scalise got shot, and all of the rhetoric encouraged this - Hillary Clinton said not to be civil, Maxine Waters said to confront all republicans in public places, Bernie Sanders said Republicans are responsible for medical death, Biden calls Trump authoritarian and a threat to democracy. Kamala Harris tried bailing out rioters during the BLM riots that caused an insane about of violence and destruction. \n\nThe left doesn’t give a fuck about any of this. The right has its own problems but don’t tell me the left doesn’t like violence. It’s been their number 1 source of making a point for two decades. Watch what happens if Trump wins - America will be back to burning flags, buildings, and beating people like they were to Trumpers during 2016-2020. That’s what the hell I’m talking about",
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"content": "I can't think of any good reason they would be so heavily biased towards Democrat. Especially economists... \n\nMaybe it's just where the survey was taken but that seems incredibly bizarre to me.",
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"content": "Maybe Trump's ludicrous 20% tariff on everything and the even more ludicrous claim that it won't be inflationary has turned a lot of economists off the Republican party, among many other of his brain farts.",
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"content": "Tariffs are expenses levied against foreign products. This is a strong armed way to balance the economy by shock. Essentially, this will mean that to export products to the US the foreign countries will be paying a minimum of 20% of that products value. While that will increase the cost of those products, it'll balance itself by Americans just... not buying them. Why pay at least 20% more for a product when you can get American made products significantly cheaper. It'll bring businesses back to America because the cost of production will be excessive, therefore creating more jobs, and reducing unemployment.\n\nIt would, at worst be temporarily inflationary. By stating this plan out loud and publicly enacting the plan any business owner who is utilizing cheap foreign labor to turn a profit should realize the consequences and come back. Otherwise their largest market, American consumers, will stop utilizing their products and their businesses will fail.\n\nIf you have a genuine economic argument against this, I'd be interested to hear it. This does seem like a really simple and effective plan imo.",
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"content": "Your response triggered me way too much. It utterly ignores over 200 years of economic thinking. Tariffs have been tried and routinely fail, which is why economists (especially conservative economists) don't like them.\n\nIf the USA imports products, it is because they come from a country that can more efficiently produce said product, is of higher quality, or is a mixture of both. The USA **DOES NOT** have a comparative advantage in everything, nor could it. Tariffs are an artificial way of creating a comparative advantage. So by applying a tariff on everything you're pricing out of the USA market, products that would otherwise be cheaper to obtain than the USA-made equivalent - the price difference between what the consumer would have otherwise paid on the imported goods pre-tariff from that of the more expensively produced US good represents inflation for that good. There is no getting around this well-established fact.\n\nIt is impossible for any country to have a comparative advantage over everything. Tariffs rob wealth from one consumer to pay a less efficient industry, and the net effect is fewer goods available for the economy overall.\n\nWhat are you going to do about food during the winter months? The US imports a lot of agricultural produce when it's unable to produce enough of its own because of the winter season. Will you still slug 20% on those imports when there is no choice but to import? LOL. Utter stupidity.\n\nYour employment argument sucks, too - increasing employment in otherwise inefficient industries represents a waste of resources. The only employment worth increasing is in industries where a nation has advantages and can compete globally. It returns to the fundamental economic problem - limited resources with unlimited needs.\n\n>It would, at worst be temporarily inflationary. By stating this plan out loud and publicly enacting the plan any business owner who is utilizing cheap foreign labor to turn a profit should realize the consequences and come back.\n\nSo it's only temporarily inflationary because you're swapping out cheap labour for more expensive labour, that makes zero sense. Labour costs are a huge driver for product costs, your quote above explains precisely why it is inflationary lol",
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"content": "This is a really bad globalist argument. The idea that because other countries are able to produce a product more efficiently means that we shouldn't be producing at all in our country is asinine. What is happening is companies that produce things that can be made in the US, like cars, clothing, and a myriad of other products, are going to foreign countries to pay laborers less, increasing their profits so they can send it back to the US with a massive surcharge. \n\nNo one is saying the US has a total comparative advantage, and there is no imposition on every product. The tariffs will be over many products but not everything, which if you don't read the policy and only read headlines, I wouldn't suppose you'd know.\n\nTaking competition and jobs that could easily be maintained in the US away for cheaper labor is not only unethical but does far more harm to the middle and lower classes who are losing job opportunities. Your supposition is that companies are doing this magnanimously or just because they can produce better products and charge less for them, but that's not reality, my friend.\n\nWhat we need in America is people working, especially if we are going to simultaneously combat mass illegal immigration. Your argument is muh resources and muh big businesses are actually good, but that ignores that we easily produce enough of many kinds of resources to maintain American demands for most products. We outsource production for a number of reasons, including maintaining trade relations, but we have a system being abused, and it's negatively affecting the people here. \n\nAlso funny how you want to insult my economic understanding when it's kind of my job. I'm sure you took a class in high school and maybe listened to a couple of pro-globalist people talk about the wonders of international trading, but don't miss the forest for the trees, bud.",
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"content": ">This is a really bad globalist argument. The idea that because other countries are able to produce a product more efficiently means that we shouldn't be producing at all in our country is asinine.\n\nI didn't say the USA shouldn't be producing anything that it does not have a comparative advantage in, some things it must do irrespective of national security, food security etc etc BUT I am explaining the fundamentals to specifically call you out on your bullshit statement that it is not inflationary. A blanket 20% tariff on everything **IS** going to be inflationary to say otherwise is a lie or ignorant. This was Trump's brain fart announcement - if it turns out to be not on everything that's because wiser people convinced him otherwise. \n\nWhy are you bringing 'mass illegal immigration' into this discussion? Stick to the topic - Tariffs and the effect on an economy. \n\nSaying something is 'kind of my job' is not an argument.",
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"content": "I didn't say it isn't inflationary at all, I said it would be, at worst, temporarily inflationary. I add doubt in that I don't think that most businesses would maintain to work in foreign countries because of the increased expenses and/or that Americans would continue to buy the products with the increased cost. Trump also didn't say he'd impose blanket tariffs on all products, he said he'd impose tariffs on manufacturing. You're roping in all other kinds of products which are not manufactured, like food.\n\nIllegal immigration greatly affects the job markets, he wants to reduce the number of illegal immigrants both coming into the country and that are already here, but as we've seen historically a great many of them have jobs. The jobs going to them are consequently not going to Americans, while we are facing a massive issue of unemployment. These issues are intrinsically linked because bringing businesses back in would increase the number of jobs for Americans, creating more opportunities that we don't have while they're out producing products in second and third world countries for cheap.\n\nI work as an economic analyst and am paid for my knowledge about the economy, markets, and other things. I also do some teaching on the side, mostly for fun. Your comments, which imply that I don't know what I'm talking about, are ad hominem and incorrect.",
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"content": ">I didn't say it isn't inflationary at all, I said it would be, at worst, temporarily inflationary.\n\nI am going to pull you up on this spurious remark.\n\nInflation is cumulative, so when it hits (even temporarily), it stays in the absence of deflation. Take a baseline year pre-tariffs of 0% p.a. Inflation, then a 'temporary' inflation hike of 10% p.a. For only year 2, followed by a return to 'ordinary' inflation levels of, say, 3%. The result from the baseline is not 3% but 13.3% because it's cumulative. That's a 13.3% total loss in purchasing power.\n\nAbsent the economic policy that created the spike (e.g., 20% tariffs) and just ordinary inflation of 3% in year 2, the cumulative inflation would only be 6.09% in year 3 (compared to the 13.3% in year 3 above). That's a big difference, and it was all caused by 'temporary inflation'.\n\nYou claim to be an economic analyst, but I don't buy it. If you are, you haven't grasped the fundamentals of inflation. This way, you should never argue from an alleged authority; your argument should stand independently without the need to flash your unprovable credentials.\n\nThis all started because of your dismay that so many economists are not supporting the Republican party. The answer is that a great majority of economists don't buy into Trump's (and, by extension, the Republican party's) protectionist economic views.",
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"content": "This is the weakest argument you've made so far. Inflation is persistent only assuming there isn't deflation, which there always is. When I say that, I don't mean that we don't have times where the annual inflation is constantly positive, but that there are market highs and lows. The idea that a temporary increase in inflation wouldn't be balanced by a return to internal production is 2D at best.\n\nThis is also coming alongside an inevitable recession. Anyone who has ever watched markets for even a short time can see the massive inflation over the last seven years is hitting a precipice, and these ideas of tariffs and all are going to angle the fall so we don't hit the floor so fast.\n\nBy far the worst part about this claim, though, is the implication that any Democrat has a single economic policy that isn't significantly worse and would not lead to a very real and very persistent hyperinflation. Kamal Harris' idea is to inject a ton of money into people's pockets while maintaining all of our current government spending on products like oil. Trump's plan is to redirect efforts into energy production internally, which will be a massive economic boon.\n\nAs far as bringing up my occupation goes, I only did so because you made the assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about, not for some credentialist reason. Your grasp of economics does not seem validated by any real study of trends or history, but a surface level understanding, which, credit where it's due, is far greater than most people's.",
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"content": "Reddit won't let youtube embeds link at specific timestamps so I'll highlight the biggest mistake from Ben I got which was at: [https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993](https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993)\n\nBen says that sufficiently blatantly illegal actions would overcome presumptive immunity, when that is not at all the test used for presumptive immunity here, the test is whether or not probing on this will impede the executive in any way in the future and makes it seem like he did not read the ruling.\n\nI think unfortunately that the most apparently screech-y panicky democrat reading of the ruling is essentially accurate and a president executing their political rival on the grounds of national defense would be granted immunity.\n\nThe fact that Roberts says in the ruling that you cannot use motive to determine whether something is an official act that should be immune is insane.\n\nThe fact that Roberts doesn't address the most dire claims of the dissent like this granting immunity for assassination is a massive dereliction of duty.\n\nThe fact that we don't have a standard for what makes an act official or even just an example of an unofficial act is insane.\n\nThe fact that supposed textualists are inventing an immunity with zero grounding in the constitution and one citation from the federalist papers is disgusting. I thought conservative justices were supposed to have principles, not just playing living text for the other team. I'll be the first to say Roe vs. Wade was absolute bullshit, this is an invention on the same scale. Nobody thought that presidents were immune to prosecution before this.\n\nAm I in fear for our democracy? There was a fucking attempted coup. That's just an accepted truth now, Trump's defense isn't contesting that part, they're just saying it's not illegal because he was the president and the president should be above the law. Why are you not in fear for your democracy?",
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"content": "The thing that's laughable is that if Democrats truly think Trump is a threat to democracy like they all love to parot like npcs and this ruling supposedly gives the president immunity to assassinate his political opponents, then why hasn't the order been given out to take out this supposed threat to democracy?\n\nThis is how you know it's bullshit. Democrats have tried to get rid of Trump for years whether via the Russia hoax, January 6th kangaroo hearings, and now throwing everything at the wall to get Trump out of the race, even branding him and his supporters as traitors to the country, yet here he still is.\n\nI just think this is yet another case of Democrats crying wolf when there is none. I'll believe it when I see it. Democrats have not earned the benefit of the doubt. They constantly fear monger everything to rile people up.",
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"content": ">then why hasn't the order been given out to take out this supposed threat to democracy? This is how you know it's bullshit. Democrats have tried to get rid of Trump for years whether via the Russia hoax, January 6th kangaroo hearings, and now throwing everything at the wall to get Trump out of the race, even branding him and his supporters as traitors to the country, yet here he still is.\n\nSo because they have not tried to assassinate Trump is evidence they don't think he's a threat? And his avoiding jailtime is also evidence it's bullshit? Wha?",
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"content": "\"But the DEMONcrats aren't saving the republic from us,\" is perfectly on point for the \"logic\" of conservatives in 2024.",
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"content": "Has he discussed this at all and whether he endorses it?",
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"content": "The only ones discussing project 25 are far leftists on reddit and twitter. It's nothing more than a paper released from a think tank that noone but the crazies are interested in and that's only as an attempted distraction from Bidens dementia.",
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"content": "I remember this same argument from the right when the lefties were saying the republicans were going to overturn Roe.",
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"content": "The difference being overturning roe has been central to the Republican platform for almost 50 years. If you think we were coy or quiet about overturning Roe you weren't paying attention.\n\nWith project 25 no one on the right is talking about because no one on the right really cares about it. The heritage foundation has little to no policy power in the Republican party other than imput on justice selections.",
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"content": "I cannot believe how clueless voters are.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean a bunch on the left think infanticide is a choice to be celebrated.",
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"content": "And a bunch on the right actually believe that crap.",
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"content": "Tell me, at what point a unique body with unique DNA and unique organs is and is not a choice?",
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"content": "If Trump pulls this off, the immigrant vote will never swing left ever again",
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"content": "I literally will not vote for Trump if he does this. This is the worst idea I've ever seen from Trump in my entire life. \n\nSee the UK? See Canada? See how it's loaded with Indians?\n\nSee how you can't get a job because they're loaded with low-skill Indians?\n\nYeah, that's the future of the US if he does this.",
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"content": "I love Indians in my community. It makes it safer. They don't commit any crimes and have great food.",
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"content": "I'm assuming you've never visited Toronto",
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"content": "Nope, most of the Indians in my town are rich tech bros.",
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"content": "Take a trip to Canada and you will be radicalized. Seriously. That's what did it for me.",
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"content": "Candace Ownes and Gruypers are attacking Jordan Peterson and his daughter. Ownes just made a video about it all",
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"content": "Lol. Candace Owens is one step away from “I’m not saying the earth is flat I’m just saying I’ve never actually seen it from space”.",
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"content": "She actually said that… she said she was neither a round earther or flat earther.",
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"content": "Oh good lord. Lol.",
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"content": "I found the video link. ‘I am not a round earther. I am not a flat earther. I am just an independent thinker who left the cult of science’\n\nhttps://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1808288897933496764?s=46&t=oou0wapwHwfG0WvG1YiTVg",
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"content": "Lol. Classic, that is too good.",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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"content": "If Biden really cared about unity, turning down the temperature, and about Trump… he’d issue a pardon and a strong statement against all of Trump’s indictments that he caused.",
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"content": "All of Trump's incitements? Care to elaborate?",
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"content": "Whoops. Indictments. Typo",
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"content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.",
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"content": "Spend spend spend spend, no cuts to social(ism) policies like Medicare and social security, spend spend spend. This is just a democratic platform with rational border/foreign policy/basic gender understanding",
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"content": "The issue comes down to what's popular. Only way for the government to stop spending is for something to break, as long as that doesn't happen they will all kick the can down the road.",
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"content": "Yeah well this is a policy position that leads to the democrats winning the long game - if the end point is right wing spending vs. left wing spending the left will win that race. In other words, if we’re going to have both sides blowing up the budget on things I might as well have my healthcare paid for.",
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"content": "These points also apply to any other American groups that are pro Israel such as Christian Zionists. The post focuses on Israel since 80%+ American Jews identify as Zionists. His other policies have also been beneficial to American Jews and many other groups although they did not focus specifically on them. Trump has been the most pro-Israel president of the 21st century and he had a 80%+ approval rating in Israel.\n\nHere are some things he did for Israel:\n1-acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan heights and said the settlements were not illegal (the second one is more subjectively good imo).\n\n2-cut funding to UNRWA a group that has been associated with the October 7th attacks and has a pay for slay program for Palestinians that provide the families of terrorists financial support. Biden immediately resumed funding to this highly corrupt organization. Even if you support humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, as I do, do you really think it’s fair that Palestinian refugees should be the only group in the world with their own agency ? Why should they be entitled to significantly more funding than Sudanese refugees? \n\n3-the Abraham accords were established under his administration through the assistance of Jared Kushner and the Trump administration. This is the most significant normalization agreement between Israel and other Arab nations in decades. It normalized relations with Morocco, Bahrain and UAE. It is the most significant step in the peace process in a long time and could have also included Saudi Arabia. \n\n4-Moved the embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\n\n5-stopped the Iran-nuclear deal which provided the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in exchange for their “promise” not to build nuclear weapons. He also imposed economic sanctions on them preventing them from funding terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and threatened nations that traded with them. \n\n6-proposed the trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. Although this plan has been criticized for being too pro Israel it is the first attempt in decades to renegotiate a two state solution. \n\n\nSo far Biden has;\n\n1-cut off certain weapons to prevent Israel from defending itself (temporarily or permanently)\n\n2–resumed the Iran-nuclear deal. \n\n3-aggressively fought against Russia who many believe are allied with Hamas. \n\n4-said some of the Palestinian protesters have “good points”. \n\n5-done nothing to negotiate normalization between Israel and other nations. He also failed to achieve a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel for normalization. \n\n6-repeatedly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and said he did not support them going into Rafah even though almost no civilians there have been killed. \n\n7-put pressure on Netanyahu, a democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation, to resign cause he believed he was the problem. \n\n8-Kamala so far has remained politically neutral when it comes to Israel and refused to attend netenyahu’s speech at Congress because she was busy at sorority. \n\nThere has been a major shift from the left to the right among American Jews. All of the most extreme anti Israel activists in Congress are democratic members of the squad. Now ask yourselves, who is better for American Jews? The person who says stupid things on x but has actually done concrete things for Israel or the democrats who continually flip-flop to cater to their radical base?\n\nAll of these policies are also objectively good for the US imo since they weaken Iran and increase global stability. ",
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"content": "As an American Jew, I don’t understand how fellow Jews can support the left.",
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"content": "Conservatives are just as antisemitic as the left, they just use more dogwhistles.",
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"content": "no they arent... lefties like to say that, but we know it's not true. but lefties love them dog whsitles",
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"content": "The most recent example I saw of conservatives engaging in anti-semitic dogwhistles was on the Critical Drinker subreddit when a bunch of people were reacting to the writer of an opinion piece that they disagreed with having a Jewish last name by mentioning her name before saying stuff like \"every time\" and the thing about checking the early life section of their wikipedia page - [\"Early Life\" Wikipedia Section | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/early-life-wikipedia-section#:~:text=The%20earliest%20discovered%204chan%20post%20in%20which)\n\nThings like this are obviously not as bad as the stuff people say about Jews in subreddits like Latestagecapitalism, but it's an example of something that occasionally comes up in right wing social media platforms and something that a bunch of right wing political speakers have engaged in before",
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"content": "how do you know those commenting on Latestagecapitalism subreddits aren't liberals who want the Israeli jews to all die?\n\nI've heard much more vile anti Semitic comments from leftists than any conservative...",
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"content": "People like you are so easily manipulated that its depressing for the human race. What a joke. Have you ever had a thought of your own that hasn't been out of an emotional response? Do you know how to think for yourself at all? Genuinely curious.",
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"content": "If any democrat of actual importance put the hit in Trump, he'd be fucking dead. Personally, I think it was just a crazy dude like the last time.",
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"content": "Nah, it's the meddling priest thing. I bet my lunch that it's a mentally ill lefty spurned to action by Trump now dominating the polls and being told he's going to implement project 2025 or some nonsense",
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"content": "And that's the turning point? A lone wolf? And that villianizes the entire democrat party and supporters somehow? The right ain't sparkly clean either.",
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"content": "Look, I think that's a fair point, as that was my argument for the past 8 years.\n\nIt started off with Trump being a Russian Agent and getting pissed on by prostitutes. Once that came out as pure fiction, but pushed like fact from people who knew the facts and lied (Peter Shiff) I started to think maybe there are some \"structural\" corruption issues within the Democrat party and the media.\n\nFast forward 8 years, past the Hunter laptop and the COVID rules and lies, past the pullout from Afghanistan, past the crazy high inflation, past the wasteland that has been entertainment media with leftist influence, past ALL this crazy shit t to yesterday. I would have made the same argument.\n\n>\"It's just some extreme fringe, that's not a mainstream opinion.\"\n\n >\"There are always whackos in every group.\"\n\n>\"That group is just ignorant, I'm sure once they see facts they'll change.\" \n\nI admit though, yes, I now see the Democrat establishment and party as villains, and I view your average leftist complicit, just as they see the average ring winger is complicit is all the racism, sexism, misogyny etc. \n\nI now feel the disdain towards the left that the left says they feel about the right. I don't like it, hopefully I'll feel differently tomorrow, but if someone talks politics at me, I'ma straight up ask them to condemn the BLM riots, the Hamas protests and these shootings, and if they don't, I'ma call them part of the problem to their face.",
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"content": "Great attitude. That'll get the country back on Trump.",
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"content": "Thanks.\n\nBetween Biden's lack of neurons and Trump just getting shot, I don't think Trump needs any help. This is gonna be the biggest GOP win since Reagan.",
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"content": "The Left Quietly Ignores Biden's Mental Decline, But Immediately Jumps All Over Trump The Moment They Think He Is Having Some Cognitive Issues",
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"content": "The actual left hates Biden nearly as much as the right hates him.",
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"content": "I guess it's important to remember (myself included) that there is the left, and then there's the reddit left. Reddit left is much worse.",
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"content": "What distinguishes the two in your mind?",
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"content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.",
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"content": "Funny how none of this ever came up before Biden shit his pants on the debate stage",
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"content": "Oh, about Project 2025? Yea, the memo is out, and the Dems are on the move. Currently, that's the playbook.",
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"content": "#1 is secure our border. Trump had 4 years to secure the border and build the wall he promised. Guess how much of that promised wall he actually builtV",
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"content": "I don’t know if this type of post is allowed but I wanted to share some of my thoughts. I am not an avid Trump supporter and I’m aware of the mistakes he’s made during his presidency and his many rude comments. However, I think we should judge him by his actual policies not his rhetoric or what the media says about him. \n\nIt’s a bit surprising to me that people actually still take anything he says seriously. His son-in-law is Jewish and he’s been one of the most pro Israel presidents. I’m more interested in what a politician does not what they say they will do.\n\nLet’s go over what he actually did for Jews and Israel: \n\n-The Abraham accords; an unprecedented peace agreement which John Kerry and many others thought was impossible. Led to Israel normalizing with relations with three Arabs/muslim majority nations (Bahrain, Morocco and the UAE). This type of agreement has not happened in decades. He was not personally responsible for this of course but Jared Kushner did play a role.\n\n-Moved the American embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem. This clearly shows support for the idea that Jerusalem is the capital. Every president before him said they would do this but none did.\n\n-Acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan heights. Most people would agree this area is necessary for Israel since it is close to the Syrian border. Withdrawing from this area or giving it to a brutal dictator like Assad would pose a major security risk for Israel.\n\n-Declared the Israeli settlements in the West Bank were not illegal. This is the most controversial one and I don’t agree with this decision but it still benefitted Israel and Jews.\n\n-Cut off funding to UNRWA due to the “pay for slay program” which involves compensating family’s if a member is killed in a terror a-track against Israel. This was long overdo and Biden immediately resumed funding to UNRWA. You don’t need UNRWA to provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian. They’re the only refugee group on earth with their own organization. The disproportionate resources they receive is unjust in my opinion.\n\n-proposed the Trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. This offer was definitely very favourable to Israel unlike previous offers but Palestinian leaders did not even respond to it. It was the first attempt in decades for a two state solution.\n\nIt’s also worth mentioning there were far fewer rocket attacks against Israel when Trump was president. I believe this is because other world leaders were intimidated by his brash diplomacy and aggressive attitude. Unlike Joe Biden, Trump placed major economic sanctions on Iran. Many argue that removing these sanctions provided Iran with money that could be funnelled to Hamas. Perhaps October 7th would still have happened under Trump, but in my opinion Hamas and Iran sensed weakness with Biden. There was more global stability under his administration. ",
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"content": "Couldn’t agree more\n\nA night and day comparison, Trump obviously being overtly pro-Israel, while Biden trying to play both sides in rhetoric\n\nIn reality, Biden’s funding of Iran, the world’s top sponsor of terrorism, puts him in a league of his own, being the most anti-Israel US President to date\n\nYet, the great majority of Jews won’t cross Party lines to vote for Trump\n\nBiden got almost 70% of the Jewish vote in 2020, and will likely receive close to that in 2024. Jewish voters are stuck on the left, even though the left has abandoned Jews a long time ago\n\nPeople hate change",
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"content": "i disagree I believe Jewish voters are finally going to wake up and see that Biden helped Iran target Israel by handing over the money and trying to reestablish the nuclear agreement with talk. Trump knee talking doesn't work. he killed their top guy and they're still pissed. that's all it took. a show of power. what has Biden done he says to them don't if jews don't wake up they are the kappo of the next 4 years and deserve the destruction they bring upon us fellow jews",
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"content": "Disagree wholeheartedly \n\nFor American Jews, existential threat to the state of Israel is 1 step removed as compared to their present desire to be accepted by their accomplished friends, family, and co-workers\n\nThe left, and majority Jews, have this long standing attachment to the ‘ideals’ and ‘status’ of the left\n\nThis attachment will continue to tilt their vote in the majority to whatever Democrat is running \n\nTakes years, sometimes generations to break long standing attachments, even after the current reality looks nothing like it once did",
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"content": "I don’t know about Hurricane Helen, I’m pretty sure it didn’t happen or it wasn’t nearly as bad as it’s being portrayed. I think this may be a possible ploy by the Dems to get more campaign money by spreading misinformation. ",
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"content": "Wtf are you talking about",
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"content": "Media is blowing Hurricane Helen way out proportion. Even showing fake clips from previous hurricanes in the place of footage of “Hurricane Helen”. The Harris campaign will get massive funds from this probably.",
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"content": "Can you link me some evidence? So far it's just your anecdote",
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"content": "Major Polling Firm Changes Its Own Results After Left-Wing Activists Complain",
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"content": "Login Wall",
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"content": "I just read it. It's really child's play compared to most of their shenanigans. Basically, Pew Research changed an article from saying most black people believe in conspiracy theories about being intentionally held back by certain institutions to removing the part about conspiracy and stating it as factual. Like I said, it's not a big deal.",
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"content": "The Left Quietly Ignores Biden's Mental Decline, But Immediately Jumps All Over Trump The Moment They Think He Is Having Some Cognitive Issues",
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"content": "Some do, maybe even most. I think they are both pretty awful, but I think trump is the lesser of two evils.",
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"content": "I do not agree with that, but you do you.",
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"content": "I don’t know if this type of post is allowed but I wanted to share some of my thoughts. I am not an avid Trump supporter and I’m aware of the mistakes he’s made during his presidency and his many rude comments. However, I think we should judge him by his actual policies not his rhetoric or what the media says about him. \n\nIt’s a bit surprising to me that people actually still take anything he says seriously. His son-in-law is Jewish and he’s been one of the most pro Israel presidents. I’m more interested in what a politician does not what they say they will do.\n\nLet’s go over what he actually did for Jews and Israel: \n\n-The Abraham accords; an unprecedented peace agreement which John Kerry and many others thought was impossible. Led to Israel normalizing with relations with three Arabs/muslim majority nations (Bahrain, Morocco and the UAE). This type of agreement has not happened in decades. He was not personally responsible for this of course but Jared Kushner did play a role.\n\n-Moved the American embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem. This clearly shows support for the idea that Jerusalem is the capital. Every president before him said they would do this but none did.\n\n-Acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan heights. Most people would agree this area is necessary for Israel since it is close to the Syrian border. Withdrawing from this area or giving it to a brutal dictator like Assad would pose a major security risk for Israel.\n\n-Declared the Israeli settlements in the West Bank were not illegal. This is the most controversial one and I don’t agree with this decision but it still benefitted Israel and Jews.\n\n-Cut off funding to UNRWA due to the “pay for slay program” which involves compensating family’s if a member is killed in a terror a-track against Israel. This was long overdo and Biden immediately resumed funding to UNRWA. You don’t need UNRWA to provide humanitarian aid to Palestinian. They’re the only refugee group on earth with their own organization. The disproportionate resources they receive is unjust in my opinion.\n\n-proposed the Trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. This offer was definitely very favourable to Israel unlike previous offers but Palestinian leaders did not even respond to it. It was the first attempt in decades for a two state solution.\n\nIt’s also worth mentioning there were far fewer rocket attacks against Israel when Trump was president. I believe this is because other world leaders were intimidated by his brash diplomacy and aggressive attitude. Unlike Joe Biden, Trump placed major economic sanctions on Iran. Many argue that removing these sanctions provided Iran with money that could be funnelled to Hamas. Perhaps October 7th would still have happened under Trump, but in my opinion Hamas and Iran sensed weakness with Biden. There was more global stability under his administration. ",
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"content": "With AIPAC - they’re both the same \n\nFuck AIPAC",
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"content": "You can't say something like that on a Ben Shapiro sub about Israel and Jews and expect anything but downvotes my man",
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"content": "Downvotes lol\n\nWho cares…. \n\nIt’s honestly one of the biggest downfalls with reddit. Echo chamber",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform",
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"content": "it’s all the lefty mods!",
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"content": "Yeah, and there’s no check or balance for it.",
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"content": "You could always go to X and have a circle jerk there",
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"content": "It’s rich to hear people in the insanely liberal Reddit echo chamber talk about circle jerks. Haha, always using their Left hands, too.",
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"content": "Why are you here then if it’s so terrible? You miss the liberals, don’t you? It’s kind of cute 💙",
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"content": "All the woke incel redditors are desperately scrambling to convince people they didn’t just see exactly what they just saw.\n\nCan’t hide the truth though, they tried to kill the President in broad daylight, and he survived.",
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"content": "It's how I know it was a lefty, right wingers miss less",
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"content": "If you look through the socialist rifle sub, and see some of the setups they post... it makes sense",
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"content": "These points also apply to any other American groups that are pro Israel such as Christian Zionists. The post focuses on Israel since 80%+ American Jews identify as Zionists. His other policies have also been beneficial to American Jews and many other groups although they did not focus specifically on them. Trump has been the most pro-Israel president of the 21st century and he had a 80%+ approval rating in Israel.\n\nHere are some things he did for Israel:\n1-acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan heights and said the settlements were not illegal (the second one is more subjectively good imo).\n\n2-cut funding to UNRWA a group that has been associated with the October 7th attacks and has a pay for slay program for Palestinians that provide the families of terrorists financial support. Biden immediately resumed funding to this highly corrupt organization. Even if you support humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, as I do, do you really think it’s fair that Palestinian refugees should be the only group in the world with their own agency ? Why should they be entitled to significantly more funding than Sudanese refugees? \n\n3-the Abraham accords were established under his administration through the assistance of Jared Kushner and the Trump administration. This is the most significant normalization agreement between Israel and other Arab nations in decades. It normalized relations with Morocco, Bahrain and UAE. It is the most significant step in the peace process in a long time and could have also included Saudi Arabia. \n\n4-Moved the embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\n\n5-stopped the Iran-nuclear deal which provided the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in exchange for their “promise” not to build nuclear weapons. He also imposed economic sanctions on them preventing them from funding terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and threatened nations that traded with them. \n\n6-proposed the trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. Although this plan has been criticized for being too pro Israel it is the first attempt in decades to renegotiate a two state solution. \n\n\nSo far Biden has;\n\n1-cut off certain weapons to prevent Israel from defending itself (temporarily or permanently)\n\n2–resumed the Iran-nuclear deal. \n\n3-aggressively fought against Russia who many believe are allied with Hamas. \n\n4-said some of the Palestinian protesters have “good points”. \n\n5-done nothing to negotiate normalization between Israel and other nations. He also failed to achieve a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel for normalization. \n\n6-repeatedly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and said he did not support them going into Rafah even though almost no civilians there have been killed. \n\n7-put pressure on Netanyahu, a democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation, to resign cause he believed he was the problem. \n\n8-Kamala so far has remained politically neutral when it comes to Israel and refused to attend netenyahu’s speech at Congress because she was busy at sorority. \n\nThere has been a major shift from the left to the right among American Jews. All of the most extreme anti Israel activists in Congress are democratic members of the squad. Now ask yourselves, who is better for American Jews? The person who says stupid things on x but has actually done concrete things for Israel or the democrats who continually flip-flop to cater to their radical base?\n\nAll of these policies are also objectively good for the US imo since they weaken Iran and increase global stability. ",
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"content": "As an American Jew, I don’t understand how fellow Jews can support the left.",
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"content": "Well, for one, Trump calls certain American people **“vermin”** just like Hitler did. ",
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"content": "Certain American people are vermin. People with a leftist mentality like to pick and choose and focus on nonsense.",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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"content": "He didn’t plan it, but in a large way he caused it. His rallies are carelessly arranged openly inviting crazed lunatics incited by his crazed rhetoric. \n\nIt’s ironic there has been zero actual sympathy (from MAGA) for the hundreds of people slaughtered by assault weapons every year. Instead there’s acceptance of the US being the most violent society in the ”free world”. Most of these shooters have been mentally ill men acting out after being incited by violent political online rhetoric. A 20-year old mentally ill loner kid shouldn’t have the access to pull something off like this. No one is really shocked because it’s so easy and common. Thoughts and prayers just don’t cut it. Not for yesterday, not for Uvalde, not for Sandy Hook, not for Las Vegas… … … \n\nThis 20-year old kid was not a leftist or a conservative, he was a disturbed mentally ill person. He donated $15 to a progressive group when he was 17 years old (in the infamous month of January 2021), then sometime later registered as a Republican. It’s all meaningless, he was a disturbed kid. \n\nWe’re so goddamn divided it’s depressing. I’m on the other political side because I have these “radical leftist” views about healthcare, education (including science),sensible gun control, the environment and our climate, economic vitality, and so on. I’d be happy to admit failures on immigration policy, and try to find better solutions, as long as we could agree that WE ALL benefit from immigrants (including undocumented ones) every single day. But instead I am viscerally hated for these “radical” positions. \n\nTrump has divided us so badly. We were divided before, but he has exposed it to a point of no compromise. We may never be the country we have the potential to be. It makes me very sad.",
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"content": "\"If she was a better listener her husband wouldn't beat her\" vibes",
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"content": "Comparing Trump to a domestic abuse victim is pathetic. \n\nDude has promoted for violence against political opponents for a long time as well.",
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"content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.",
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"content": "I like that the list of things that project 2025 plans to do was so damaging that they just released a list of random popular ideas and hoped that people would just forget about their actual plan that they’re working on.",
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"content": "Project 25 is from the Heritage Foundation. Not the RNC. That is an official release from President Trump and the RNC. I don't really care what you think about it. I highly doubt you have any idea what's actually in Project 25. Not what you've heard others say. What's actually in it. The manifest is 922 pages long. Let me know when you get done reading it... if you know how read.",
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"content": "Yes, I have read the entirety of Project 2025. It is long, but not as dense as a novel. \n\nIt’s interesting that the GOP is releasing a platform this year, since they haven’t adopted one in several election cycles. It’s only when people found their plans and publicized it that they released another plan that they can point to and pretend that the heritage foundation doesn’t write most legislation that comes out of the GOP.",
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"content": ">Yes, I have read the entirety of Project 2025. \n\nYou're full of 💩",
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"content": "> Reading a book\n\n*”Impossible”*",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "The Irony is palpable. It is able to be palped",
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"content": "Please tell me you linked this article for them",
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"content": "Why would you recommend he have his account banned like that?",
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"content": "If all he posts is the article, and nothing more. They can’t argue with facts",
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"content": "I think I did but I can’t remember, If i did i sure as hell didn’t get a response",
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"content": "All good. These people have short memories. Hell even I forgot about this story and I remember it vividly now from 2019",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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"content": "All these people thinking “Trump planned this” are absolute lunatics. I think it’s more probable the deep state had something to do with this. They tried to impeach him, indite him, jail him, and now possibly kill him? It’s more believable than Donald Trump saying “Just shoot me in the ear, that will really get people voting for me”. All around a massive security failure on the leadership of Secret Service.",
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"content": "I never even heard those conspiracy theories yet. People are fucking crazy. \n\nThis is what happens when the media and the dems call the man Hitler incarnate for 8 years. It was grossly irresponsible",
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"content": ">This is what happens when the media and the dems call the man Hitler incarnate for 8 years.\n\nIt's too early to call, but this is my leading theory at the moment. Early news reports from the shooter's school mates, suggest he was a bit of a friendless loser, who probably read the media hatred for Trump and figured he'd become a hero to many if he was the man who killed Trump.\n\n[He'd also been embarrassed when he tried to join his school's rifle team, but was such a bad shot that he washed out on the first day.](https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/blew-his-head-off-witness-describes-moment-donald-trump-shooter-was-killed/news-story/39a9160b75cbe05db821991c0ace431c) This is not the skill set you'd rely on for a false flag. It's substantially more likely that the shooter thought he'd prove his prowess with this one feat, but failed (again).",
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"content": "Definitely agree not false flag. \n\nInteresting point you made and probably very close to the truth that he was doing something for attention knowing he’d die. \n\nMy point was that the rhetoric was so bad that it led to violence. Why does he think he’d be a hero for killing Trump? You know?",
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"content": "That's the funny/ironic part. The same people screaming for peace/love, no more guns, the ones saying no person should have to die for past faults or mistakes are all the people cheering for this attempt at his life. Just makes me sick listening to these idiots........",
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"content": "These points also apply to any other American groups that are pro Israel such as Christian Zionists. The post focuses on Israel since 80%+ American Jews identify as Zionists. His other policies have also been beneficial to American Jews and many other groups although they did not focus specifically on them. Trump has been the most pro-Israel president of the 21st century and he had a 80%+ approval rating in Israel.\n\nHere are some things he did for Israel:\n1-acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan heights and said the settlements were not illegal (the second one is more subjectively good imo).\n\n2-cut funding to UNRWA a group that has been associated with the October 7th attacks and has a pay for slay program for Palestinians that provide the families of terrorists financial support. Biden immediately resumed funding to this highly corrupt organization. Even if you support humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, as I do, do you really think it’s fair that Palestinian refugees should be the only group in the world with their own agency ? Why should they be entitled to significantly more funding than Sudanese refugees? \n\n3-the Abraham accords were established under his administration through the assistance of Jared Kushner and the Trump administration. This is the most significant normalization agreement between Israel and other Arab nations in decades. It normalized relations with Morocco, Bahrain and UAE. It is the most significant step in the peace process in a long time and could have also included Saudi Arabia. \n\n4-Moved the embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\n\n5-stopped the Iran-nuclear deal which provided the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in exchange for their “promise” not to build nuclear weapons. He also imposed economic sanctions on them preventing them from funding terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and threatened nations that traded with them. \n\n6-proposed the trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. Although this plan has been criticized for being too pro Israel it is the first attempt in decades to renegotiate a two state solution. \n\n\nSo far Biden has;\n\n1-cut off certain weapons to prevent Israel from defending itself (temporarily or permanently)\n\n2–resumed the Iran-nuclear deal. \n\n3-aggressively fought against Russia who many believe are allied with Hamas. \n\n4-said some of the Palestinian protesters have “good points”. \n\n5-done nothing to negotiate normalization between Israel and other nations. He also failed to achieve a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel for normalization. \n\n6-repeatedly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and said he did not support them going into Rafah even though almost no civilians there have been killed. \n\n7-put pressure on Netanyahu, a democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation, to resign cause he believed he was the problem. \n\n8-Kamala so far has remained politically neutral when it comes to Israel and refused to attend netenyahu’s speech at Congress because she was busy at sorority. \n\nThere has been a major shift from the left to the right among American Jews. All of the most extreme anti Israel activists in Congress are democratic members of the squad. Now ask yourselves, who is better for American Jews? The person who says stupid things on x but has actually done concrete things for Israel or the democrats who continually flip-flop to cater to their radical base?\n\nAll of these policies are also objectively good for the US imo since they weaken Iran and increase global stability. ",
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"content": "Shouldn’t you be pointing to the things he would do for Americans and American Jews?\n\nIsn’t the assumption you’re making an antisemitic talking point about Jewish people having duel loyalties?",
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"content": "I’m curious, would you accuse me anti-Italian bigotry if I provided a list of reasons Trump has been good for Italy lol? You’re grasping at straws here.",
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"content": "If you said Americans should vote for Trump based entirely on his actions in Italy, yeah, I’d ask why you aren’t pointing to things specific to them rather than an appeal to historic ties. \n\nAnd yeah, if it lined up with a long standing trope which accuses Italians of having duel loyalty, I’d mention that too.",
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"content": "You’re seeing everything through a prism of antisocial imo. Pointing out that Trump has been good for Israel is not antisemitic. Israel is the only Jewish state in the world and half of the Jews live there. I think it’s fair to assume a president who is pro Israel is pro Jewish. I don’t know any specific policies that have benefitted Jews. If I had some I would add those as well. There has been a major shift among American Jews towards the right and it’s largely driven by Biden and the Democratic parties anti Israel policies and rhetoric. Acknowledging the fact that Israel may influence the way some Jews vote is not antisemitism, irs a reality. \n\nThis is not unique to Jews at all. As someone who is Italian I’m more likely to vote for a candidate who supports Italy, epically if Italy was at war with a hostile neighbour. I think that’s true of almost any group. That doesn’t mean I have dual loyalties. Jews are just as American as any other group and I never implied they weren’t.",
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"content": "“Pointing out that Trump has been good for Israel is not antisemitic.”\n\nI never claimed it was. That you said that suggests I’ve communicated poorly. I’ll try again. \nThe aspect of your post I’m pointing out is that you specifically said your post was aimed at Jews and why they should vote for Trump and only mentioned Israel. The antisemitic trope of duel loyalty is that Jews inherently care about Israel as much as they do about their country of residence.",
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"content": "The trope is that they care more about Israel than the US. I never suggested that at all. But if you think thy Trump’s Israel policy versus Biden’s will have no effect on the way Americans vote I think you’re misguided.",
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"content": "“The trope is that they care more about Israel than the US. I never suggested that at all.”\n\n… and you don’t see a post which only mentions Israel as consistent with that trope? \nOkay. As I said, you do you boo.",
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"content": "I’m a fan of his but this is him following the cockroaches into hole in the wall. ",
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"content": "I honestly don't understand how anyone decent likes him. This is normal destiny saying normal destiny shit. His entire sub is wishing trump had died yesterday and that more trump supporters die. He's trash and always has been.",
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"content": "I consider myself a decent person and find myself agreeing with destiny a lot. I find what he's been saying on Twitter to be cruel and unnecessary but for what it's worth his position he articulated on stream yesterday was this:\n\n\"Trump is an insurrectionist and I can prove it beyond doubt, therefore anyone supporting him deserves no sympathy, even if they are shot at a Rally. But I would never encourage or incite violence.\"\n\nYou don't have to agree with it but we should at least be attacking his actual position.",
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"content": "The Left Quietly Ignores Biden's Mental Decline, But Immediately Jumps All Over Trump The Moment They Think He Is Having Some Cognitive Issues",
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"content": "It's not that, I'm all for calling out someone if something exists worth getting called out for. It's the fact so many people on the left completely dismiss any claims that Biden is having obvious mental decline, but then they jump on Trump without question for the same thing.",
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"content": "I don't know where you get this info but us left people do have an issue with his mentality. Somehow the powers that be give us no other choice.",
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"content": "Reddit won't let youtube embeds link at specific timestamps so I'll highlight the biggest mistake from Ben I got which was at: [https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993](https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993)\n\nBen says that sufficiently blatantly illegal actions would overcome presumptive immunity, when that is not at all the test used for presumptive immunity here, the test is whether or not probing on this will impede the executive in any way in the future and makes it seem like he did not read the ruling.\n\nI think unfortunately that the most apparently screech-y panicky democrat reading of the ruling is essentially accurate and a president executing their political rival on the grounds of national defense would be granted immunity.\n\nThe fact that Roberts says in the ruling that you cannot use motive to determine whether something is an official act that should be immune is insane.\n\nThe fact that Roberts doesn't address the most dire claims of the dissent like this granting immunity for assassination is a massive dereliction of duty.\n\nThe fact that we don't have a standard for what makes an act official or even just an example of an unofficial act is insane.\n\nThe fact that supposed textualists are inventing an immunity with zero grounding in the constitution and one citation from the federalist papers is disgusting. I thought conservative justices were supposed to have principles, not just playing living text for the other team. I'll be the first to say Roe vs. Wade was absolute bullshit, this is an invention on the same scale. Nobody thought that presidents were immune to prosecution before this.\n\nAm I in fear for our democracy? There was a fucking attempted coup. That's just an accepted truth now, Trump's defense isn't contesting that part, they're just saying it's not illegal because he was the president and the president should be above the law. Why are you not in fear for your democracy?",
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"content": "The thing that's laughable is that if Democrats truly think Trump is a threat to democracy like they all love to parot like npcs and this ruling supposedly gives the president immunity to assassinate his political opponents, then why hasn't the order been given out to take out this supposed threat to democracy?\n\nThis is how you know it's bullshit. Democrats have tried to get rid of Trump for years whether via the Russia hoax, January 6th kangaroo hearings, and now throwing everything at the wall to get Trump out of the race, even branding him and his supporters as traitors to the country, yet here he still is.\n\nI just think this is yet another case of Democrats crying wolf when there is none. I'll believe it when I see it. Democrats have not earned the benefit of the doubt. They constantly fear monger everything to rile people up.",
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"content": "I used to think that \"Trump derangement syndrome\" was a thing, but post January 6th I think there were people who were accurately assessing the character and nature of Trump's presidency, and people who were optimistically sticking their heads in the sand.\n\nIt's accepted common knowledge that Trump attempted to coup the American government.\n\nAnd there's more than one reason to not assassinate your political rivals. You can respect the rule of law, you can not want to bring our political system to that place.\n\nFewer of those apply if you're the sort of person willing to overthrow an election.\n\nAnd let's be honest, Trump is more likely to get away with breaking the rules in the first place. If Biden tried to use his newfound immunity for anything first his party and the Republicans would disavow and trash him, then the Supreme Court would declare that immunity didn't apply because they just declared themselves the ultimate law in the land, and then he would be thrown in prison.\n\nTrump's assessment that he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and still be elected continues to the an understatement of the slavish loyalty that the Republican party has to him.",
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"content": "Candace Ownes and Gruypers are attacking Jordan Peterson and his daughter. Ownes just made a video about it all",
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"content": "Did the opening statement say he's lost a majority of his male audience? That might be the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Not a single female is listening to Jordan.",
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"content": "Agreeing…. Even though I’m a female who has frequently listened to JP",
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"content": "I was watching the live premiere on YouTube and I clicked out to respond to a message and when I came back the video said it was set to private? I was just curious if it was just me or if it like got taken down?! Really weird either way. ",
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"content": "To share thoughts on all matters related to the presidential debate from June 27th",
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"content": "the most overused word was \"liar\"",
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"content": "No no no no, not by a long shot. It would be \"The idea that\". Biden said that ON EVERY RESPONSE.",
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"content": "Ben,\n\nI'm getting too many advertising emails from DW. I've tried disabling but that hasn't worked. Also I don't think your two years for the price of one offer is very good. What if some lunatic attacks your HQ and decimates the company? Personally if I signed up for that offer and then something happened to you, I'm not that interested in the podcasts of the others. I hope you have many years ahead of you, but there are freak accidents, etc.",
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"content": "You think Ben cares? He'd spend 45 minutes explaining to you the importance of advertisement and running a business in 4 to 5 minute intervals, BUT FIRST, are you tired of propagandistic entertainment companies moralizing to you and your kids? Well, for a low monthly fee, you can let a propagandistic political company posing as entertainment moralize to you with a message specifically curated to ensure you either keep coming back for more intrusive and obnoxious ad reads for companies you don't give a shit about, or keep pumping in that sweet sweet subscription revenue.\n\nThe money must flow, and if you disagree and think there's something wrong about selling political opinions, you're just a whiny commie who hates America.",
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"content": "The content of their children's programming is superior in my opinion to many of the alternatives. And I'm fine with the advertising that's part of the podcasts. There's a lot of it sometimes, but it's their show and no one has to watch it if they don't want to. I watch it a little after the fact and skip over most of the ads.\n\nI'm trying to help DW be a better company.",
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"content": "My point is that you're not going to change jack shit when it comes to DW and their monetization practices. If Shapiro is just fine with spending 20% of his podcast shilling for companies and reading ads at the expense of keeping a coherent flow to reading the news or not coming across as a grifter, what makes you think he gives a shit that your email inbox gets cluttered with DW subscription advertisements until you finally relent and buy a subscription? The DW is a money-first organization. \n\nThe only thing that makes their children's programming \"superior\" is because it's a message you agree with. Their shows are just as bad as the competition, but the only difference is the messaging behind it. They're just as bad as their competition. They understand that they can release a lackluster product on the cheap, and people will buy it up because it's an ideology they agree with. Their razors are the exact same as Dollar Shave Club's, but people buy them because \"at least my money isn't going to woke people.\" Their chocolate is on par with Hershey's, but people buy it because,\"lol, it's a joke about transpeople.\" The only reason there isn't a DW branded beer after the Bud Lite debacle is because it actually costs money to get licensed to sell beer, and by the time that process would have finished, people's outrage at Bud would have subsided and they wouldn't have sold as much. Their business strategy is as shallow as it comes. Wait for conservatives to get pissed off about something, repackage, and sell the reason they're pissed off with the \"Conservative Seal of Approval\" sticker on it and make a profit.",
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"content": "Source: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty",
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"content": "Imagine screeching about eating the rich and down with the bourgeoisie when your political party is heavily over-represented in all fields of science, Education, Hollywood, Mainstream Media, and Television. While tons of billion/million dollar corporations also brandish your talking points and pander to your agendas.\n\nDemocrats paint themselves as rebels against some sort of machine while ignoring all the blatant signs that they are feeding “the machine”",
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"content": "mainstream democratic party is not talking about eating the rich\n\nimagine crying about media influence when one of the richest guys on the planet bought one of the biggest social media sites, making it private, just to then openly campaign for one presidential candidate",
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"content": "Anytime you look anywhere on Reddit discussing Trump, or conservatives your likely to come across some asshole talking about “project 2025” and how republicans are gonna use it to turn the presidency into a dictatorship or something. \n\nTo me it just seems like some wildly overblown policy ideas that aren’t actually gonna be implemented \n\nEdited to fix some grammar and ambiguity ",
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"content": "It's just a guideline for Republicans to back candidates that believe in the same Republican party points. \n\nIt's like when Trump came out with his list of supreme Court nominees in 2016.\n\nThis is a list of conservative opinions and methods to implement them asap once a conservative gets elected president. It's a playbook for kicking Democrats and bureaucrats out and putting conservatives in.",
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"content": "Literally some handmaids tale shit. Pushing your beliefs into government on others is nazi level shit. 100% Fascism and will not be tolerated.",
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"content": "Does anyone else in this Sub watch liberal streamers like Destiny? I find myself caught between the Ben Shapiro hour and Destiny streams a lot. Ben and Steven both have really well thought out political takes although Ben, due to his schedule, seems not to have the time to flush his thought process out on us and I would love to see more of that from him. Back when Ben made the media rounds more often. I think we saw more of a fleshed out ideology... I am a Daily Wire subscriber since its inception and will continue to be. They make great content for their size. But the daily political takes always leave me wanting more of the \"why\" behind the ideas.",
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"content": "I do watch Destiny, but less so now. He’s so good at debating that he can rationalize himself into an irrational position, and then out-debate any detractors. E.g. his blind support for Joe Biden’s record",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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"content": "All these people thinking “Trump planned this” are absolute lunatics. I think it’s more probable the deep state had something to do with this. They tried to impeach him, indite him, jail him, and now possibly kill him? It’s more believable than Donald Trump saying “Just shoot me in the ear, that will really get people voting for me”. All around a massive security failure on the leadership of Secret Service.",
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"content": "I never even heard those conspiracy theories yet. People are fucking crazy. \n\nThis is what happens when the media and the dems call the man Hitler incarnate for 8 years. It was grossly irresponsible",
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"content": "Also, Trump shouldn't have *leaned in* to that rhetoric by shitposting like he does. Both sides have some responsibility for the current temperature. The left has been ridiculously paranoid, and the right has just lapped up \"pwning the libs\" by shitposting at them nonstop. It's like a little kid poking a loonie dog with a stick. At some point that's not going to turn out too well, so just don't do it.\n\nI watched Bernie Sanders on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, and for the absolute first time in my life I agreed with him on something: \"politics should be boring.\" That's right. I don't know how we managed to turn it into this stupid reality TV thing it's become, but we should be talking about policy a **hell** of a lot more, and personalities a **hell** of a lot less.",
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"content": "You are right about politics becoming reality TV but let's be real here......... The left jumps on any chance to shitpost anything including blatant lies. I've seen way too many to count so this isn't just one side poking the other. Also putting partial blame on someone who just had an attempt on their life just sounds ridiculous. He said things that hurt some people's feelings so his life is up for grabs huh?",
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"content": "I don't think it's relevant that he was the target. We're talking about how we got here. I think, given the temperature, it was just dumb luck that it wasn't Biden that was targeted. In fact, early indications are that this kid was a deranged conservative.\n\nI don't share your perspective that the left shitposts as much as Trump and his. It would be stupid to say they don't do it at all, but let's be real for a second. Have you *ever* seen a major politician who spent as much time on Twitter saying stuff to goad people? That's shitposting. He doesn't believe half of what he posts, but he knows it will piss off someone on the left, and then he gets to tilt his head back, raise his eyebrows, and act like *they're* being unreasonable (for example, when he reposted that thing about \"the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat\" -- he doesn't believe that, but he knew it would get a rise out of people). He **loves** that shit. It's part of what drives the left to call him Hitler, because of course the Nazis were master manipulators and propagandists.",
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"content": "I'd honestly argue that the left has far more control of media and propaganda in this country than the right does. Day after day of anti-trump propaganda. This is then reposted over and over by any leftist. Doesn't matter if it's true or not but it's shit posts to get a rise out of anyone leaning right. Let's not forget that though it may not be on social media like Trump tends to do, Joe Biden also lies and shit talks Donald trump every chance or speech he can. You act like this Hitler type manipulation is solely coming from Donald trump. I'd ask you at least try and open your eyes to the blatant hypocrisy the left enjoys and pursues. I'm not one to just pass off any comments towards Donald trump or the right but I also cannot just sit here and agree with the complete and masterful hypocrisy and manipulation from the left. I too would once consider myself a left leaning democrat but seeing this intentional and unapologetic hypocrisy has me seeing the world (especially my home, the United States) in a new light",
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"content": "> I'd honestly argue that the left has far more control of media and propaganda in this country than the right does\n\nWe're not on the same page. That might have been true a decade ago, but the mainstream media is dead/dying. Everything is becoming siloed, led by social media and their algorithms.\n\n>Day after day of anti-trump propaganda\n\nRight, but again, we have to go back to where does it start? Like if there was nothing to work with, the left would have to fabricate *everything*. That's generally not what's happening. They're taking reality, and they're terribilizing it. Trump *does* say *very* stupid stuff, *a lot*, and a sizable amount of it is *intentional*. Like Ben, I don't believe Trump is stupid. I think he does this stuff intentionally.\n\n>Joe Biden also lies and shit talks Donald trump every chance or speech he can\n\nI don't see it as shit posting in that case. I think Biden *believes* what he's saying, which goes back to Trump's refusal to admit that he lost the election.\n\n>I'd ask you at least try and open your eyes to the blatant hypocrisy the left enjoys and pursues\n\nI *am* open to it, but I don't see it as often as I do from Trump and his people.",
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"content": "Like you said this may have been true a decade ago. Meaning in the last ten years, the propaganda and blatant lies from the left has killed mainstream media. This also started long before there was this kind of controversy about Trump (so who did actually start the shit posting/ commenting/ and propaganda videos.\nAlso, Trump making stupid posts isn't just automatically worse than Biden being on television shit talking/lying about Trump. It's the same thing aside from Joe Biden putting his actual face on the shit talking. This isn't a \"Trumps social media posts are far worse\" scenario. They are both public garbage. Oh and if Joe Biden actually believes the lies and shit talking he is doing, doesn't that just make him unfit as president because he can't separate facts from fiction? A little dementia problem maybe? The left really doesn't have to fabricate much, they just jump on that big hypocrisy horse and take anything possible out of context while screaming at the right about doing the same thing. \nLook, just because Joe Biden tries his best to be PC and not hurt people's feelings, it doesn't mean he is the best choice to lead our country. You can like Donald Trump or hate him but the fact of the matter is this man is much more respected and more intelligent when it comes to economic policies and a facts over feelings mentality. He holds much more weight globally than Biden does as well. Just because you choose not to \"see something\" doesn't mean it's not real.......",
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"content": "This is an unproductive conversation. We're not on the same page, and it's all vague. If we want to talk specifics, we could perhaps get somewhere, but suffice it to say I disagree with a *lot* of what you're saying above.",
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"content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.",
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"content": "Yes, I totally trust the GOP here, who opted to post this shortly after Project 2025 became well-known. Here’s the reality: it’s damage control. \n\n \nThe authors of Project 2025 are all connected to Trump or are former Trump admins. Heritage already heavily influenced Trump’s administration, especially his staffing, when he won in 2016. They themselves have said that the 2016 iteration of the Mandate for Leadership had about 2/3rds of it enacted by the Trump admin. Trump saying he has no idea who is behind it is a blatant lie. He knows nothing about it, yet he disagrees with it? He thinks some ideas are abysmal, yet he wishes them luck? Tell me you’re not that deluded.\n\n \nHeritage has more influence than you know. Besides, Agenda 47 isn’t much better and the Trump campaign had originally embraced the plan as “aligned with their goals” before Trump saw the project’s bad press. The GOP is lying, as they have many times. Trump is lying, as he has many times.",
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"content": "Man, the memo has truly been sent out, and the lefty's are on the move. Listen, pal, Trump said he's not on board with it. That is his platform. Whatever he did in 2016, please give me MUCH more of it. I loved it. Yes, I'm a gullible fool who believes him. \n\nBy the way, do you even know what's in Project 25? The manifest is 922 pages. Are you telling me that you've read all 922 pages? No, you have not.",
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"content": "To share thoughts on all matters related to the presidential debate from June 27th",
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"content": "Ben and other hosts shouldn't have been happy about Biden's foibles. It was a weak showing, but Ben and company should know better than to be happy when an adversary stumbles.",
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"content": "In what way? Wasn’t this the desired outcome? Biden spectacularly failing live in front of the entire country to increase Trump’s currently narrow lead?",
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"content": "When Obama defeated Romney, Obama invited Romney to the White House and proceeded to mock him. Obama was a low class, sore winner. I don't want to see that from Republicans.\n\nAlso I'm not supporting Trump unless the only two choices were Biden and Trump. I'm going to vote for someone that I think will actually do a good job. Better than Biden isn't good enough. I agreed with Ben in 2016 when he didn't vote for Trump or Hillary.",
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"content": "These points also apply to any other American groups that are pro Israel such as Christian Zionists. The post focuses on Israel since 80%+ American Jews identify as Zionists. His other policies have also been beneficial to American Jews and many other groups although they did not focus specifically on them. Trump has been the most pro-Israel president of the 21st century and he had a 80%+ approval rating in Israel.\n\nHere are some things he did for Israel:\n1-acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan heights and said the settlements were not illegal (the second one is more subjectively good imo).\n\n2-cut funding to UNRWA a group that has been associated with the October 7th attacks and has a pay for slay program for Palestinians that provide the families of terrorists financial support. Biden immediately resumed funding to this highly corrupt organization. Even if you support humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, as I do, do you really think it’s fair that Palestinian refugees should be the only group in the world with their own agency ? Why should they be entitled to significantly more funding than Sudanese refugees? \n\n3-the Abraham accords were established under his administration through the assistance of Jared Kushner and the Trump administration. This is the most significant normalization agreement between Israel and other Arab nations in decades. It normalized relations with Morocco, Bahrain and UAE. It is the most significant step in the peace process in a long time and could have also included Saudi Arabia. \n\n4-Moved the embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\n\n5-stopped the Iran-nuclear deal which provided the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in exchange for their “promise” not to build nuclear weapons. He also imposed economic sanctions on them preventing them from funding terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and threatened nations that traded with them. \n\n6-proposed the trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. Although this plan has been criticized for being too pro Israel it is the first attempt in decades to renegotiate a two state solution. \n\n\nSo far Biden has;\n\n1-cut off certain weapons to prevent Israel from defending itself (temporarily or permanently)\n\n2–resumed the Iran-nuclear deal. \n\n3-aggressively fought against Russia who many believe are allied with Hamas. \n\n4-said some of the Palestinian protesters have “good points”. \n\n5-done nothing to negotiate normalization between Israel and other nations. He also failed to achieve a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel for normalization. \n\n6-repeatedly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and said he did not support them going into Rafah even though almost no civilians there have been killed. \n\n7-put pressure on Netanyahu, a democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation, to resign cause he believed he was the problem. \n\n8-Kamala so far has remained politically neutral when it comes to Israel and refused to attend netenyahu’s speech at Congress because she was busy at sorority. \n\nThere has been a major shift from the left to the right among American Jews. All of the most extreme anti Israel activists in Congress are democratic members of the squad. Now ask yourselves, who is better for American Jews? The person who says stupid things on x but has actually done concrete things for Israel or the democrats who continually flip-flop to cater to their radical base?\n\nAll of these policies are also objectively good for the US imo since they weaken Iran and increase global stability. ",
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"content": "So being a pushover to a foreign country and giving them everything they want is \"America first\" now?\n\nI want a president who is tough on Israel, that's real \"America first\".\n\nWe need answers on the USS Liberty and their various other crimes.",
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"content": "Let me guess, you think Hamas is better than Israel",
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"content": "I generally find Hamas's ideology more reprehensible than Israel's but I can't recall Hamas committing an act of war against the United States as Israel did with the USS Liberty. Basically, while Hamas is worse overall Israel has wronged us much more as Americans, not just with the USS Liberty but with generally bribing our politicians, attacking our First Amendment, and leading us into the Iraq War. Therefore, as an American patriot who loves his country I am much more concerned with combatting Israel than I am with combatting Hamas.",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Eric Swalwell during Congressional testimony on censorship when Swalwell mentions Project 2025",
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"content": "I've always wondered how often growing up swalwell got teased or beat up for his last name hahaha 😆 🤣",
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"content": "his ex wife is part of the Muslim brotherhood wanting to destroy America and now goes out with soros son. perfect sense.",
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"content": "money makes the world go round as they say in cabaret. her Muslim brotherhood family must be so happy. what kind of ceremony if they actually get married will they have lol 😆",
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"content": "Reddit won't let youtube embeds link at specific timestamps so I'll highlight the biggest mistake from Ben I got which was at: [https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993](https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993)\n\nBen says that sufficiently blatantly illegal actions would overcome presumptive immunity, when that is not at all the test used for presumptive immunity here, the test is whether or not probing on this will impede the executive in any way in the future and makes it seem like he did not read the ruling.\n\nI think unfortunately that the most apparently screech-y panicky democrat reading of the ruling is essentially accurate and a president executing their political rival on the grounds of national defense would be granted immunity.\n\nThe fact that Roberts says in the ruling that you cannot use motive to determine whether something is an official act that should be immune is insane.\n\nThe fact that Roberts doesn't address the most dire claims of the dissent like this granting immunity for assassination is a massive dereliction of duty.\n\nThe fact that we don't have a standard for what makes an act official or even just an example of an unofficial act is insane.\n\nThe fact that supposed textualists are inventing an immunity with zero grounding in the constitution and one citation from the federalist papers is disgusting. I thought conservative justices were supposed to have principles, not just playing living text for the other team. I'll be the first to say Roe vs. Wade was absolute bullshit, this is an invention on the same scale. Nobody thought that presidents were immune to prosecution before this.\n\nAm I in fear for our democracy? There was a fucking attempted coup. That's just an accepted truth now, Trump's defense isn't contesting that part, they're just saying it's not illegal because he was the president and the president should be above the law. Why are you not in fear for your democracy?",
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"content": "Yeah I knew the clip was from Destiny before I looked at it\n\nShapiro clearly says in the episode (many times) that the presumptive immunity test is for whether it would impede the constitutional functions of further Presidents\n\nI mean yeah, his statement around seal team six and stuff was too vague, but watch the episode. You would agree with his take, not just Destiny’s",
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"content": "He misrepresents the presumptive immunity test horribly.\n\nWhen he first goes through the [Just Security flowchart](https://www.justsecurity.org/95636/supreme-court-presidential-immunity/) at the [start of the episode](https://youtu.be/OJYsGFV7eB4?t=595), he gives the example of Trump telling Pence to overturn the election as something where presumptive immunity would apply. Talking to the vice president is something the president could be expected to do, but it is not written explicitly in the constitution etc. and that means presumptive immunity applies.\n\nHere's the quote: \"the president very often has conversations with the vice president about a wide variety of topics that in and of itself is in fact official conduct **but he's pushing the vice president to do a thing that is plainly not inside the Constitutional structure** and not only that if you prosecute the president for that is that going to impede the functioning of the president on a go forward basis\"\n\nThe bolded part in my understanding is basically 100% added by Ben, and the part after that which he makes sound like an afterthought or an addendum \"if you prosecute is that going to impede the functioning of the president on a go forward basis,\" that's the actual test.\n\nIf the test included provisions for the protection of some sort of constitutional order it would be much more like the moderate ruling Ben Shapiro wishes it was, but he wrote that in. If the ruling was basically: \"The president has some immunity from prosecution unless it's *really really* bad,\" then that would be more reasonable, but that's not actually what's there.\n\nSimilarly, when he talks about [Seal Team 6](https://youtu.be/OJYsGFV7eB4?t=1172) he says \"the president ordering them to do something blatantly illegal like murder his political opponent prosecution of that crime would certainly overcome any presumptive immunity,\" but it being blatantly illegal does not factor into the presumptive test at all, and it definitely explicitly does not factor into whether or not something is an official act in the first place.\n\nAgain, Ben is rewriting this decision to seem like: \"You have presidential immunity, unless it's something really bad.\"\n\nAlso is it really obvious that the Seal Team 6 example is not immune under this ruling? I can't see how being the commander in chief and commanding the military does not fall under absolute immunity, given the example was commanding the DOJ illegally. And even if it does, the test is whether or not prosecuting this will impact pose any danger to the authority or powers of the executive branch. It's a pretty damn broad test.",
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"content": "You may be quite right my man, but now we’re speculating on a commentary of a dissent of a Supreme Court ruling\n\nI worry about the same things. It’s gonna be okay, I think so",
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"content": "Anytime you look anywhere on Reddit discussing Trump, or conservatives your likely to come across some asshole talking about “project 2025” and how republicans are gonna use it to turn the presidency into a dictatorship or something. \n\nTo me it just seems like some wildly overblown policy ideas that aren’t actually gonna be implemented \n\nEdited to fix some grammar and ambiguity ",
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"content": "It’s a Heritage Foundation plan that intends to lay the groundwork for the next administration. Heritage puts one out for every new conservative administration. \n\nMost of the people criticizing it have zero clue what’s actually in it and haven’t read the 950+ page document.",
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"content": "I will say a 950+ page document is sorta begging not to be read, and to be lied about",
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"content": "It’s an extremely detailed plan covering the cabinet agencies, executive agencies, and the judiciary. This requires careful analysis and thought.",
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"content": "That’s my point. Nobody but political nerds and people with way too much time on their hands have the time or interest to thoroughly read and understand a document that large. Especially when the news nowadays is 10-12 word statements on a headline plus an article that’s locked behind a paywall. \n\nI see the place for these sorts of things, but like I said a document like that is just begging to be lied about",
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"content": "I’m a fan of his but this is him following the cockroaches into hole in the wall. ",
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"content": "Maybe this will be a wake up call to normal right-of-center people who don't understand the level of hatred roiling on the left, and that has been there for at least a decade. \n\nAll of the \"cancel culture\" and censorship was just a precursor to what they want--which is for everyone who thinks different to not exist. \n\nComplacency and naiveté are deadly mistakes. \n\nThe world isn't your church members and suburbian neighbors... the barbarians are through the gates, and hopefully you guys aren't *still* in denial about the existential threat leftisms poses to the US and everyone center right. \n\nWtf do you guys think they wanted to happen when they doxxed Trump donors? The entire point is to feed the psychos actionable intel precisely with these types of violent ends in mind.\n\nDoes it need to be your upper right ear for you to wake up? Or is this finally enough?",
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"content": "What do we do, though? Fighting back means violence. The government isn't protecting us any longer. Most pople don't want the violence, I know I certainly don't.",
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"content": "It doesn't mean violence at all, but it means getting off our butts and being involved instead of waiting on others in the government to do something. \n\nElon Musk spent like $40 Billion to buy Twitter so the GOP could have a social media platform. \n\nWhat is the typical GOP voter doing to get involved and serve their country? Getting drunk and watching football? \n\nYou don't like how useless the FBI and CIA is? How'd they get to be so bad? Leftists getting off the couch and going to law school and becoming lawyers and judges and senators, and pushing their way into positions of power to turn everything to chaos.\n\nWho let it happen? \n\nHow did the US go from McCarthy rooting out filthy commies to decades later being on the verge of a leftist neo-commie authoritarian state?\n\nComplacency and laziness on the right.",
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"content": "Do you not realize government agencies cleaned up house during the pandemic by firing those that didn't get the shot? They have forced conservatives out through multiple means. Also, I don't have $40 billion.",
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"content": "Government agencies came up with the idea of forcing Pele to get the shot.\n\nFauci has been in power for decades... why weren't you in his place?",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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"content": "He didn’t plan it, but in a large way he caused it. His rallies are carelessly arranged openly inviting crazed lunatics incited by his crazed rhetoric. \n\nIt’s ironic there has been zero actual sympathy (from MAGA) for the hundreds of people slaughtered by assault weapons every year. Instead there’s acceptance of the US being the most violent society in the ”free world”. Most of these shooters have been mentally ill men acting out after being incited by violent political online rhetoric. A 20-year old mentally ill loner kid shouldn’t have the access to pull something off like this. No one is really shocked because it’s so easy and common. Thoughts and prayers just don’t cut it. Not for yesterday, not for Uvalde, not for Sandy Hook, not for Las Vegas… … … \n\nThis 20-year old kid was not a leftist or a conservative, he was a disturbed mentally ill person. He donated $15 to a progressive group when he was 17 years old (in the infamous month of January 2021), then sometime later registered as a Republican. It’s all meaningless, he was a disturbed kid. \n\nWe’re so goddamn divided it’s depressing. I’m on the other political side because I have these “radical leftist” views about healthcare, education (including science),sensible gun control, the environment and our climate, economic vitality, and so on. I’d be happy to admit failures on immigration policy, and try to find better solutions, as long as we could agree that WE ALL benefit from immigrants (including undocumented ones) every single day. But instead I am viscerally hated for these “radical” positions. \n\nTrump has divided us so badly. We were divided before, but he has exposed it to a point of no compromise. We may never be the country we have the potential to be. It makes me very sad.",
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"content": "\"If she was a better listener her husband wouldn't beat her\" vibes",
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"content": "My first thought was “victim blaming”\n\nOnly applies when it’s someone they support.\n\nI’d imagine this would have played out differently if the target was Joe.",
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"content": "Source: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty",
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"content": "I can't think of any good reason they would be so heavily biased towards Democrat. Especially economists... \n\nMaybe it's just where the survey was taken but that seems incredibly bizarre to me.",
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"content": "Democrats will talk theory all day but when it comes to practice the majority are pretty bad at it. So they go into teaching. They extol the virtues of communism but when it’s put into practice it has failed every single time.",
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"content": "Democrats are not, have never been, and probably never will be communists. You are a dishonest propagandist.",
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"content": "Candace Ownes and Gruypers are attacking Jordan Peterson and his daughter. Ownes just made a video about it all",
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"content": "Lol. Candace Owens is one step away from “I’m not saying the earth is flat I’m just saying I’ve never actually seen it from space”.",
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"content": "She actually said that… she said she was neither a round earther or flat earther.",
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"content": "Oh good lord. Lol.",
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"content": "I found the video link. ‘I am not a round earther. I am not a flat earther. I am just an independent thinker who left the cult of science’\n\nhttps://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1808288897933496764?s=46&t=oou0wapwHwfG0WvG1YiTVg",
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"content": "It is hilarious to watch people like Candice, who are “conservative”, abandon logic and accidentally stumble in to post modernist anti-science (and thus anti-enlightenment). If anyone here reads Leotard you’ll find this. It’s a central theme in Jordan Peterson’s rip on post modern nonsense: the idea that truth can’t be discovered through science. Probably why she doesn’t like him.",
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"content": "Anytime you look anywhere on Reddit discussing Trump, or conservatives your likely to come across some asshole talking about “project 2025” and how republicans are gonna use it to turn the presidency into a dictatorship or something. \n\nTo me it just seems like some wildly overblown policy ideas that aren’t actually gonna be implemented \n\nEdited to fix some grammar and ambiguity ",
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"content": "Here's an actual discussion of it by BBC since no one is actually linking helpful content\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do.amp",
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"content": "Thank you, that’s exactly the information I was looking for. Looks like it’s just another list of big ideas",
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"content": "Full discretion as a leftist, I think the main concerns are:\n1. The heritage foundation is a pretty large organization, and some of the proposals in there are a good representation of the rights move away from the center.\n2. Under the guise of small government, the idea to remove and replace a lot of existing civil servants with political actors is unsettling. A significant majority of these people are experts in bridges, ecology, urban planning, and more. They're not political actors, and the attempt to politicize these roles is not in the interest of people or communities.\n3. The idea of \"ending the war on oil\" is just against human interest. Considering we're looking at seeing oil shortages before the turn of the century (probably at the end of a lot of our lifetimes), not investing in identifying a more sustainable energy source now seems mostly like a way to pay out their sponsors than to actually help people.\n4. Attacks on woke propaganda in schools is either (A) just a witch hunt or (B) an attempt to overrule state level education systems.\n\nOverall, it's a confirmation that neither party is a party of small government, and every politician wants to expand the state because it is in all their interest to do so.",
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"content": "I like the part where WOKe ideology is out of schools, and anyone who think CHILDREN should learn about sex changes and cutting your private parts off are evil people .",
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"content": "Okay but what about children learning about how their gender affects them in the world?\n\nShould girls not learn about the fact that up until very recently, historically speaking, their gender prevented them from voting?\n\nMost of these bills do more to prevent very basic discussions on gender than to prevent the boogie man of gender transitions.",
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"content": "To me, what sticks out in this debate is how quickly Sam changes standards with how he looks at the actions of politicians. When it’s a Democrat, he treats what they say/do as mostly unimportant, unserious, etc. but when it’s Trump it’s super important, serious, etc. It’s what Ben pointed out multiple times; the actual policy and comparing actions vs words matters more. But even the rhetoric itself, Sam changes standards. When Hillary denies the results of the 2016 election, (and launders the Russiagate lies) that’s just water under the bridge. Trump denying the election results in 2020 and then leaving office, that’s the end of the world. It bothered me quite a bit how Sam’s standards seem to change so radically but for no solid reason.",
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"content": "Sam gave me second hand embarrassment every time his defense of all the shitty things Democrats have done or said were either BuT tRUuMp iS WOrSe or iTs (D)ifFReNT. What an intellectually dishonest man.",
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"content": "When it is a binary choice of A or B it is totally valid to pick the least bad candidate ",
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"content": "That would be fine if he could actually distinguish which one was actually worse than the other, but like many on th left he has TDS and as a result, doesn't care about open borders, high inflation, terrible and weak foreign policy that's plunging the world into a potential WW3 scenario, and the underlying threat Democrats pose to our institutions and constitutional rights. Blind to it all because Trump mean and bad.",
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"content": "Ah good ol’ TDS, or better know as the right’s favorite deflection tactic. I guess we will all see what happens in a week when one candidate wins. I have no concern that if Kamala loses she will concede and there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January. I don’t think you can say the same about your guy.",
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"content": "It's not my fault when leftist froth at the mouth upon hearing Trump's name or seeing him. It's really sad how many leftist brains have been melted over the past decade from Trump. Nobody on the right thinks about Joe Biden or Harris all day like Democrats do about Trump. We just think they're dumb and move on with our lives.\n\nI think it's really naive of you to think if Trump wins there will be no riots. Democrats have set the stage for it with their rhetoric of Trump being the next Hitler and there are just too many dumb people to fall for it. Personally I think people on both sides need to grow up and accept election results. Sometimes it just doesn't go your way and that's the reality.",
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"content": "Haha I wish we could all agree that Trump is dumb and move on. We had a chance to do that in 2020 but we know how that went down. \n\nHow convenient of you to conflate rioting with the peaceful transfer of power so you can make bullshit “both sides” argument. There might be riots if Trump wins, but that’s not what the peaceful transfer of power means so it’s an irrelevant point to make. Do you think democrats will organize an assault on the capital to disrupt the certification of the election? You don’t have to answer that.",
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"content": "How convenient of you to ignore violence as long as it doesn't interfere with the \"peaceful transfer of power.\" There was more death and destruction caused by the BLM riots than Jan 6th, yet the left won't talk about it and only screeches about Jan 6th when both events were bad.\n\nI hope I'm wrong, but I think Democrats are setting the stage for something worse than Jan 6th if a Trump victory happens. Guess we'll see how it plays out.",
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"content": "Rioting is wrong. We agree. I condemn the BLM riots. I’m not ignoring anything. Why are we talking about BLM riots that have absolutely nothing to do with elections? This is another bullshit “both sides” argument that simply doesn’t work. \n\nDo you not see how groups of citizens destroying private property in riots is categorically different than a sitting president inciting a violent mob to disrupt an election? Are those the same thing to you?",
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"content": "When you're trying to take the moral high ground over someone, it simply doesn't work when your side committed an objectively worse atrocity than the other. \n\nSure, symbolically Jan 6th is worse, but let's be real, the US was never in any real danger of getting taken over by red necks and only delayed the certification of the vote.\n\nThe peaceful transfer happened. Trump left and Biden was signed in as intended. Meanwhile more people actually died during the BLM riots and 2 billion worth in property damage happened, yet I'm supposed to take you and other leftists seriously when you screech over Jan 6th trying to act morally superior? You can't have this both ways.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "We all know one ",
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"content": "I had to go to state school (gasp) - I didn’t want 60,000 of loans when I graduated. This was 1988. I lived. Pay your own damn loans! And make better decisions!",
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"content": "Okay so hold that same standard to all other loans not just student loans.",
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"content": "I do!",
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"content": "So you advocate to make all loans as difficult to discharge through bankruptcy? Does that include for corporations and friends? Cause that would be a massive change to our current system.",
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"content": "Jesus Christ - I’m advocating for financial responsibility! You don’t have to go to your dream college. It’s a life lesson. If you do, pay the loans.",
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"content": "Is that a yes or a no?",
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"content": "Student loans. What don’t you understand?!?",
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"content": "So are you advocating for all loans to be as difficult to discharge yes or no? Not just student loans. It's a yes or no question. \n\nAnd until such time that those loans are made as hard to discharge, why should people with student loans be the exception? When you make all other loans as hard to discharge then you can complain.",
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"content": "All loans - Jesus h Christ",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Wait, Can Donald Trump Drone His Political Enemies Now?",
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"content": "Didn't Obama already order to kill a US citizen he deemed a threat to national security? So there's already precedence. If Biden deems Trump a national threat, and the Supreme Court ruled that Presidents have immunity over official orders, then what legal reason is there for Biden not to order the hit on Trump?",
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"content": "He droned the US citizen, in Yemen, and supposedly part of ISIS or something. His dad was as well. It's not quite the same thing.",
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"content": ">supposedly\n\nExactly - *supposedly*. That's the opposite of due process, the cornerstone of a liberal democracy.",
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"content": "Pray for trump! 🙏🏾🙏🏾",
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"content": "He was shot in the ear, ain’t nothing to pray about he’s just got a piercing for an earring now.",
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"content": "Plenty to pray about. Not just because they might try again. But because we are soo divided that this could have happened and innocent people died. Be part of the light. Not of this hate. Trump 2024 for America 🇺🇸",
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"content": "God isn’t real",
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"content": "That's exactly what Satan wants you to believe.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.",
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"content": "They don't care. Showing these delusionals reality only enforces their delusions.",
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"content": "I know. I'm just tired of hearing and seeing that bullcrap. Some people who are on the fence might actually believe it. I want to reinforce that it's a blatant lie and show the actual policy.",
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"content": "Maybe it’s just me, but it seems way more people are asking about it than ever before. I wonder if it’s a democrat strategy to draw attention to it. ",
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"content": "https://youtu.be/nJe_8N2vAwo?si=BzYhnCjVjKXzA3To\n\nWatch the first 5 minutes of this video. It literally calls for banning speech. \n\nAmong other things, it calls for the abolishment of the department of education, the criminalization of all porn, and handing over full power of all federal organizations to the executive. How is it not authoritarian?",
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"content": "I think we may have found the source of the lefts stupidity. They listen to coked up children.",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro on Capitol Hill: ‘NewsGuard Has Penalized Us Openly for Being a Conservative Site’",
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"content": "Wahhhhhh! My website is failing in the free market. Let's have the government force advertisers to give me moneyyyyyyyy",
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"content": "This joke was barely funny the first time you propositioned it. It hasn’t ever been since.\n\nYour response will be it’s not a joke, which is false, and you’re dead serious, which is pathetic and unwanted. \n\nFind a better use for your time, Sir/Ma’am. ",
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"content": "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Eric Swalwell during Congressional testimony on censorship when Swalwell mentions Project 2025",
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"content": "He absolutely fucking lambasted swalwell. Swalwells 5-minutes were clearly intended to discredit Ben (he even had a poster lol), but Ben hadokened him into the Stone Age before he could get shots off; and by the time he got to the poster he was already dead.\n\nThen the chair followed up after swalwell fucked up his closing zinger with “you forgot the first rule of holes; when you’re in one, stop digging” lol.\n\nThe dems never asked Ben a single question after this exchange for the rest of the session.",
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"content": "Maybe it’s just me, but it seems way more people are asking about it than ever before. I wonder if it’s a democrat strategy to draw attention to it. ",
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"content": "I agree. The policies outlined are laughable! I can’t imagine true Americans voting to institute a theocracy over our democracy!",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Anytime you look anywhere on Reddit discussing Trump, or conservatives your likely to come across some asshole talking about “project 2025” and how republicans are gonna use it to turn the presidency into a dictatorship or something. \n\nTo me it just seems like some wildly overblown policy ideas that aren’t actually gonna be implemented \n\nEdited to fix some grammar and ambiguity ",
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"content": "https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREuR6T2/",
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"content": "The Heritage Foundation has had significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and has historically been ranked among the most influential public policy organizations in the United States. It's hardly just some random conservative wishlist that will never get enacted.",
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"content": "I’m a fan of his but this is him following the cockroaches into hole in the wall. ",
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"content": "the pearl clutching is crazy. Long time listener of Shapiro and destiny, and I agree his disrespect for the dead is unacceptable, but so is so much of our rhetoric when it comes to BLM protestors (BLM sucks I lived in Minneapolis during that time believe me I hated it more than anyone), Pelosi’s husband, and not to mention our willingness to forgive Trump for January 6th. \nTrump has undoubtedly said edgier things and we’re voting for him, but now a liberal commentator says some insanely edgy stuff and we’re canceling him lol? \n\nI swear we conservatives are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.",
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"content": "Yeah he’s on the side of ok you guys want to make all these jokes we can play this game. He called Biden “milk toast” the other day though and it rubbed me wrong. Not because he’s not right but because that’s only recent. Go back to Vice President Biden and he was a straight demagogue. Biden told an entire crowd of black voter that Romney would and I quote “put ya’ll back in chains”. Romney is the epitome of a milk toast human. To act as though Biden is above the name calling and general “raising of the temperature”. I personally can’t wait for these next four years to be over so that someone under the age of 80 might have a shot at the executive.",
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"content": "I don’t like Biden, but that quote is wildly taken out of context all the time by the right.\n\nFull quote;\n\n“We got a real clear picture of what they all value,” Biden said. “Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, ‘unchain Wall Street.’ They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”",
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"content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.",
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"content": "How about linking to the actual document/website?\n\nLying about not wanting to cut medicare isn't gonna work by the way. Cats out of that bag.",
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"content": "Since their official, verified X account isn't good enough for you, [here ya go.](https://www.gop.com/press-release/icymi-rnc-platform-committee-adopts-2024-republican-party-platform/)\n\nIt doesn't matter what anyone says about Medicare. If left alone in its current state, it will destroy itself. It's not sustainable. Changes *will* be made, whether by choice or force.",
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"content": "Okay you do not want to link them I will. Here is the actual site and document for some reason you don't want to link to. \n\n>Changes will be made, whether by choice or force.\n\nCute way to admit to lying about not cutting medicare...wonder why they didn't phrase it the way you just did lol. \n\n\nhttps://www.project2025.org/\n\nhttps://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf",
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"content": "One, that's a lie, and you're a liar. You can keep posting that crap. No one is taking the bait. \n\nTwo, President Trump has already said publicly that it's not his policy or platform. I linked the official GOP website with their policy platform. \n\nI thought I was having an honest conversation with someone. Not a lair. I like your solution to Medicare. Being a dishonest smartass is really gonna help. 👍🏻",
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"content": "What is a lie? The links? Nope. The reason you are posting about it here is because conservatives are freaking out how many people are talking about it. Especially with all the fake \"woah where is all this 2025 talk coming out of now where?!\" posts. \n\n>Two, President Trump has already said publicly that it's not his policy or platform.\n\nWow Trump lying...so shocking. Where did he get his supreme court picks again?",
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"content": "Source: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_faculty",
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"content": "I can't think of any good reason they would be so heavily biased towards Democrat. Especially economists... \n\nMaybe it's just where the survey was taken but that seems incredibly bizarre to me.",
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"content": "Why? As an economic analyst, I genuinely would never consider voting for a Democrat, they generally have no concept of economics, and this is especially true with Kamala. Her only economic plan right now is continuing to hyperinflate the economy by stimulating people with more money. It's a horrendously stupid plan that shows she hasn't learned anything in her almost 4 years as VP and all the spending bills she broke. \n\nNot much of a surprise when you remember her father was a Marxist economist.",
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"content": "The Left Quietly Ignores Biden's Mental Decline, But Immediately Jumps All Over Trump The Moment They Think He Is Having Some Cognitive Issues",
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"content": "Some do, maybe even most. I think they are both pretty awful, but I think trump is the lesser of two evils.",
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"content": "Not sure how you can think Trump is awful but the lesser evil. You'd have to believe enough of his flaws but pretty much none of the worst ones. \n\nSeems a difficult hoop to jump through.",
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"content": "I don’t know about Hurricane Helen, I’m pretty sure it didn’t happen or it wasn’t nearly as bad as it’s being portrayed. I think this may be a possible ploy by the Dems to get more campaign money by spreading misinformation. ",
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"content": "It’s pretty hard to fake a hurricane. Especially one that affects millions of people across half a dozen states",
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"content": "Reddit won't let youtube embeds link at specific timestamps so I'll highlight the biggest mistake from Ben I got which was at: [https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993](https://youtu.be/J1yaePHlgsA?t=3993)\n\nBen says that sufficiently blatantly illegal actions would overcome presumptive immunity, when that is not at all the test used for presumptive immunity here, the test is whether or not probing on this will impede the executive in any way in the future and makes it seem like he did not read the ruling.\n\nI think unfortunately that the most apparently screech-y panicky democrat reading of the ruling is essentially accurate and a president executing their political rival on the grounds of national defense would be granted immunity.\n\nThe fact that Roberts says in the ruling that you cannot use motive to determine whether something is an official act that should be immune is insane.\n\nThe fact that Roberts doesn't address the most dire claims of the dissent like this granting immunity for assassination is a massive dereliction of duty.\n\nThe fact that we don't have a standard for what makes an act official or even just an example of an unofficial act is insane.\n\nThe fact that supposed textualists are inventing an immunity with zero grounding in the constitution and one citation from the federalist papers is disgusting. I thought conservative justices were supposed to have principles, not just playing living text for the other team. I'll be the first to say Roe vs. Wade was absolute bullshit, this is an invention on the same scale. Nobody thought that presidents were immune to prosecution before this.\n\nAm I in fear for our democracy? There was a fucking attempted coup. That's just an accepted truth now, Trump's defense isn't contesting that part, they're just saying it's not illegal because he was the president and the president should be above the law. Why are you not in fear for your democracy?",
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"content": "Listen.\n\nIf you havent figured it out by now I’ll tell you.\n\nWhen the Democrats and media screech about the potentials for abuse and corruption of a thing, in this case a SCOTUS opinion, its a dog whistle for all Democrats to find a way to use it in a way that is abusive and corrupt.\n\nDo we really need to go down memory lane starting in 2015? Or can you handle it from there?",
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"content": "SCOTUS opinions shouldn't be open to abuse or corruption in the first place. They shouldn't have the problems I listed above.\n\nYou can turn that into a \"democrats pounce\" narrative for yourself, but honestly you sound schizophrenic.",
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"content": "After all of those years of attacking everyone right of \"extreme leftist\" as being an instigator of \"stochastic violence\" and a \"nazi\" what do we expect Dems to do? \n\nPerhaps the classic spin cycle of:\n\n1) it didn't happen\n2) OK maybe it happened but it was a minor thing\n3) OK maybe it wasn't minor, but that's actually a good thing\n4) it's a good thing and we need more of it\n\nI just hope the leftist city dwellers think about where their food comes from, and whether they know how to skin and gut squirrels and rats if the part of the country that grows all of their food decides to stop being kind.",
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"content": "You assume it was dems. Trump himself is about to be in prison for hte rest of his life for his crimes. Look inward. The man probably planned it to garner support as hes losing in the polls before the fucking election.",
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"content": "Has he discussed this at all and whether he endorses it?",
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"content": "The only ones discussing project 25 are far leftists on reddit and twitter. It's nothing more than a paper released from a think tank that noone but the crazies are interested in and that's only as an attempted distraction from Bidens dementia.",
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"content": "I remember this same argument from the right when the lefties were saying the republicans were going to overturn Roe.",
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"content": "The difference being overturning roe has been central to the Republican platform for almost 50 years. If you think we were coy or quiet about overturning Roe you weren't paying attention.\n\nWith project 25 no one on the right is talking about because no one on the right really cares about it. The heritage foundation has little to no policy power in the Republican party other than imput on justice selections.",
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"content": "I cannot believe how clueless voters are.",
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"content": "This coming from the morons who, since Reagan, as claimed every Republican nominee is both Hitler and worse than the last. People have listened to this fear mongering bullshit for so long no one listens to you anymore. Go take your Valium while the adults handle things.",
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"content": "The correct decision",
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"content": "This is literally false? Lia Thomas disqualified, yes. Reilly Gaines is not even swimming in the Olympic trials.",
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"content": "But she qualifies as a woman to do so if she so wished!",
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"content": "That she didn't qualify. You just posted moronic click bait.",
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"content": "This is literally false? Lia Thomas disqualified, yes. Reilly Gaines is not even swimming in the Olympic trials.",
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"content": "But she qualifies as a woman to do so if she so wished!",
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"content": "“A woman can compete in women’s events in the Olympics” is not news buddy.",
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"content": "Unfortunately, it’s big news today.",
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"content": "No it isn’t. There was never a time where women were potentially not going to qualify for women’s events. Comment on the Lia Thomas thing all you want, that’s news, the other half is not",
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"content": "You can not qualify in terms of performance. That's why they have races intended to qualify participants for the actual competition, or in this case to actually be on the Olympic team. So does she qualify to try out? Sure. Did she qualify for the team? Idk, apparently not according to the comments",
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"content": "No she did not qualify to try out. The “try out” is the Olympic trials which has been going on all week. She is not participating in any of the events. You can appreciate her standing up for women’s rights but she is not an Olympic caliber swimmer which is why this post is silly.",
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"content": "Thankfully, he wasn't a centrist",
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"content": "Donated to democrats. Can’t be radicalized by democrats? Democrats are already continuing with the same inflammatory rhetoric that created this nut job. It’s like you people want violence and death in the streets.",
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"content": "All the woke incel redditors are desperately scrambling to convince people they didn’t just see exactly what they just saw.\n\nCan’t hide the truth though, they tried to kill the President in broad daylight, and he survived.",
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"content": "Why do you keep saying they? It was a lone shooter. Saying they is very telling. The deep state, right? Another conspiracy to throw on the pile of shit conspiracies destroying this country.",
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"content": "These points also apply to any other American groups that are pro Israel such as Christian Zionists. The post focuses on Israel since 80%+ American Jews identify as Zionists. His other policies have also been beneficial to American Jews and many other groups although they did not focus specifically on them. Trump has been the most pro-Israel president of the 21st century and he had a 80%+ approval rating in Israel.\n\nHere are some things he did for Israel:\n1-acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan heights and said the settlements were not illegal (the second one is more subjectively good imo).\n\n2-cut funding to UNRWA a group that has been associated with the October 7th attacks and has a pay for slay program for Palestinians that provide the families of terrorists financial support. Biden immediately resumed funding to this highly corrupt organization. Even if you support humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, as I do, do you really think it’s fair that Palestinian refugees should be the only group in the world with their own agency ? Why should they be entitled to significantly more funding than Sudanese refugees? \n\n3-the Abraham accords were established under his administration through the assistance of Jared Kushner and the Trump administration. This is the most significant normalization agreement between Israel and other Arab nations in decades. It normalized relations with Morocco, Bahrain and UAE. It is the most significant step in the peace process in a long time and could have also included Saudi Arabia. \n\n4-Moved the embassy from tel aviv to Jerusalem acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\n\n5-stopped the Iran-nuclear deal which provided the Iranian regime with billions of dollars in exchange for their “promise” not to build nuclear weapons. He also imposed economic sanctions on them preventing them from funding terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and threatened nations that traded with them. \n\n6-proposed the trump peace plan in 2020 for a two state solution. Although this plan has been criticized for being too pro Israel it is the first attempt in decades to renegotiate a two state solution. \n\n\nSo far Biden has;\n\n1-cut off certain weapons to prevent Israel from defending itself (temporarily or permanently)\n\n2–resumed the Iran-nuclear deal. \n\n3-aggressively fought against Russia who many believe are allied with Hamas. \n\n4-said some of the Palestinian protesters have “good points”. \n\n5-done nothing to negotiate normalization between Israel and other nations. He also failed to achieve a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel for normalization. \n\n6-repeatedly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and said he did not support them going into Rafah even though almost no civilians there have been killed. \n\n7-put pressure on Netanyahu, a democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation, to resign cause he believed he was the problem. \n\n8-Kamala so far has remained politically neutral when it comes to Israel and refused to attend netenyahu’s speech at Congress because she was busy at sorority. \n\nThere has been a major shift from the left to the right among American Jews. All of the most extreme anti Israel activists in Congress are democratic members of the squad. Now ask yourselves, who is better for American Jews? The person who says stupid things on x but has actually done concrete things for Israel or the democrats who continually flip-flop to cater to their radical base?\n\nAll of these policies are also objectively good for the US imo since they weaken Iran and increase global stability. ",
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"content": "Shouldn’t you be pointing to the things he would do for Americans and American Jews?\n\nIsn’t the assumption you’re making an antisemitic talking point about Jewish people having duel loyalties?",
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"content": "I’m curious, would you accuse me anti-Italian bigotry if I provided a list of reasons Trump has been good for Italy lol? You’re grasping at straws here.",
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"content": "Seriously what is the deal with people saying Biden and Harris are not pro Israel LOL? How the fuck do y’all not realize that they both staunchly support Israel and that there is currently a sect of lefties that refuse to vote for Democrats precisely because of it. For some reason this seems to have gotten the conservative community into a twist.. \n\nTim Walz recently refused to meet with pro Palestinian democrats organizers and EVERY time Biden speaks about the war he holds firm that he supports our Israeli allies. Kamala Harris hate her or not says the same shit. So which one is it? Are they anti Zionist commies or pro Israel politicians?",
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"content": "Kamala didn’t attend Netanyahu’s speech cause she was busy at a sorority. Biden said the pro Palestinian protesters had some good points and put pressure on Israel to get rid of Netanyahu and also threatened to disarm Israel.",
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"content": "Seems like you’re describing very, very light pushback. How do feel this has affected Israel’s safety or the prosecution of their war?",
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"content": "If Israel’s enemies perceive weakness or a lack of US unconditional support they are more likely to attack them harder and prolong the war. I didn’t say it was dramatic but it’s still different from previous administrations. The most anti Israel members of Congress are part of the squad and they are all democrats. Several prominent democrats boycotted Netenyahu’s speech.",
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"content": "He’s right, you’re being unbelievably extreme and fairly unreasonable here.. not trying to come at you but do you think it’s wholly unacceptable to mention and attempt to limit the disproportionate collateral damage while still staying on mission to eradicate Hamas? \n\nIf you have issue with this statement you’re simply extreme",
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