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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 would never watch an asshole who calls himself destiny.",
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"content": "It’s just an old esports name from decades ago that stuck, not that big of a deal lol",
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"content": "The guy is a barely high school educated musician major drop out that played video games. Yes he’s an asshole but as far as I’ve been able to see he owns his shit as well or better than Ben does (and Ben is the best). Which is refreshing and he’s out there boxing super heavyweights and wiping the floor with some of them. Him calling himself Destiny as a pro gamer has nothing to do with whether or not he makes sense and can show you his thoughts clearly. We should all strive to want to be as honest and think for ourselves as political individuals and that will make these groups even more powerful. The Shawn Hannity/ Glenn Beck days are over and the conservatives in media need to see those models are going to hard to use in the future when the streamers are having the better more important conversations. I don’t agree with almost all of Steve’s takes but the dude is undoubtedly a smart guy and he’s earning the respect of any honest big player. There is other streamers that challenge him and I like that but Bonnel is entertaining and in my opinion the DW pundit hours are getting stale.",
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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": "Thats….to be nice, not the same at all.",
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"content": "That is entirely the same. How do you think so many of them got there? \n\nDo you think India is close to Canada or the UK? Is it possible they just walked over the border?\n\nOf course not. They got education permits and stayed. Look into it, dude. It'll be the death of us.",
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"content": "True! They ALL have some kind of Master’s in Engineering…. 1) is it worth it’s weight in salt? Debatable. 2) in places outside of the West, education will NOT inculcate values.\n\nIMO, this is muuuuuch more important to screen for, but I’m certain that myriad legal challenges would get in the way before we had any sort of half-decent process.",
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"content": "The only illegal immigrants Id personally parole are Masters degree holders and up. If they're not actively making America better, I don't want them here.",
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"content": "Right… I am arguing that an Indian/Communist Vietnamese/Hatian graduate degree holder (who was educated in their home country) does NOT compare to a French/Japanese/Canadian one. YMMV on some places in South America.",
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"content": "Ah, yes. you're right. My bad, i misunderstood the point",
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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": "this has to be satire...",
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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": "A vast majority of economists agree that tariffs are bad for the economy, so there is absolutely a reason for them to support Kamala and oppose Trump. I highly doubt you're an economic analyst since you didn't even take this basic fact into account.",
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"content": "Most economists also agree that having the government give money to people for no reason is a really bad strategy. Most economists agree that investing in one of the most fiscally beneficial resources in the world, energy, is a great idea. Most economists agree that doing tie breaking votes on over 40 proposals that have increased government spending to the point that we're wasting 1 trillion dollars every 90 days is a bad idea. Also funding foreign wars to the tune of hundreds of billions against your constituents will is widely considered a bad idea. Why do you all think Comrade Kamala is a even remotely reasonable choice for the economy?",
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"content": "This will be the attempted assassination thread",
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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": "Agree, not a good look for the left if they find a manifesto of his quoting Biden or MSM talking points. That said, some people are just crazy and there’s nothing more to it than that. (e.g. the guy that shot Reagan did it to impress Jodie Foster)",
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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": "ever stop to think WHY they are so heavily over-represented? This isn't some psy-op.",
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"content": "Because a lot of these fields are non-lucrative and leave people in massive amounts of debt and Dems keep promising to eliminate debt for people who made poor financial choices?\n\nAlso these are professors, not just people with degrees. Academia has such a leftist slant I can’t imagine wanting to go into it as a Republican, they’re driven out from the start and go into fields that pay better.",
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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": "You're probably right. I mean, you are a random internet person making a comment on Reddit. We all know that makes you 100 times more qualified than an actual Harvard educated lawyer who built an extremely successful business from the ground up. Thanks for saving the day, rando from Reddit. 👍🏻",
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"content": "I'm literally just saying what's in the dissent. The one written by Chief Justice Sotomayor. From the Supreme Court.\n\nThe dissent Ben insults without reading any of the arguments from.",
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"content": "Yes exactly, you're reading from 1 persons descent. That's what you're forming your opinion on. It fits your bias. The rest of the judges have a unified opinion but that doesn't fit with what you do desperately want to think because 4 more years of Trump are looming. The past 4 years have seen a shit ton of executive orders that have ignored the rulings of the supreme Court all together and you fear what someone might do coming up? Where were you when Biden ignored what the Court said about student loans? Did you speak up and say that it's illegal for him to do that? \nIf the ruling was all you think it is, why doesn't Biden take the first opportunity to do exactly what you fear would happen?\nThat will be the answer your fear.",
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"content": "It was a 6-3 decision, ACB's concurrence was not exactly the majority, and Roberts never bothers to say explicitly that Seal Team Sixing is out of the realm of possibility, even though you'd think that'd be relevant. It's not even clear that they disagree there.\n\nI'm not going to play whataboutism, it's the cancer of all political discourse. I'm not a Biden fanatic, I don't think that even exists as a type of person. I only prefer him to Trump on the grounds that he did not attempt a coup.\n\nI'll repeat: \"but the other side\" is the cancer of all political discourse. It's how we ended up picking between Trump and Biden in the first place.\n\nIt's literally the meme Ben posted where it's Democrats and Republicans are united in \"there's no way we lose to that guy.\"",
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"content": "That’s alright believe what you want, but you are arguing about “the other side”, scaring yourself for something that isn’t happening, about a future that only exists for you. You don’t seem worried about the present administration taking whatever liberties you thing have been granted. So where is your fear coming from? What coup you are referring to? I haven’t heard anything being called a coup in the U.S. because there hasn’t been one. That happens with military backing - definitely weapons so, you’d have to be more precise.",
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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": "No one seems to be responding to you saying that she didn't say that or that you are wrong, so I'm curious what the explanation is for your comment getting downvotes.",
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"content": "I posted the video link in another reply below. You can see it is undeniable that she said that.\n\nI think the reason for getting downvotes but no refuting is very simple but hideous. Some people just hate the Jews.",
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"content": "You are probably right, and I hate that.",
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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": "nobody relies on a head shot near miss for a red flag, maybe if he was targeted in a leg, but not this. this was done by someone who actually wanted to kill him.",
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"content": "Israel Eliminates Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar In Gaza: Reports",
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"content": "Israel's tenacity pays off. Sinwar got what he deserved. I hope this will help to free those who are still being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.",
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"content": "If the next guy they put in charge doesn't want to negotiate, Israel just needs to remove him the same way, and keep doing it until they get someone who doesn't want to die.",
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"content": "that's where denazification comes in",
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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 may have missed it but it looked like you both left off the worst part of tariffs--retaliation. If we tariff, they will tariff our goods. This becomes every country has a protectionist 20% tariff and trade just became way less efficient. Where there were comparative advantages of 2% to trade, now it has to be 22%. So effectively everything is more than 20% more expensive and the government gets the balance to waste. \n\nIf we could somehow fuck other countries by having one way tariffs, that would be good for us. But I've never seen that happen.",
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"content": "It's a non-issue. Given the existence of the petro-dollar establishing the US dollar as the standard world currency and the moves to make us a net producer of oil, it's unlikely that there would be severe retaliation by countries that are dependent on us.",
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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": "He said it on Bill Maher few years ago.",
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"content": "I find that hard to believe. Send me a link if you find it.",
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"content": "YouTube search.",
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"content": "Just did a few searches and I’m not seeing anything specific come up. Was it on Real Time or Maher’s podcast?",
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"content": "Real Time.",
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"content": "I’ve watched all of his appearances on Real Time and I cannot recall him ever saying that. Especially since it doesn’t track with anything else he has ever said. Again, I just searched for it and can’t find anything. You say it exists, provide evidence.",
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"content": "Ah, I was mistaken. It wasn’t Bill. It was an interview where he agreed burying the HB laptop story is totally fine if it kept Trump out of office. So he didn’t feel any different than a ton of other people.",
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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": "This is a textbook collage marxist talking point. You conservatives are beyond parody in your political illiterate and leftist politics.",
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"content": ">Collage\n\nlol. \n\nI don’t even know what you’re trying to say. It’s a Marxist talking point to remediate unfair business practices? Almost every conservative agrees there needs to be *some* regulation. Marxism wants the government boot on everything.\n\nYou’re the illiterate one.",
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"content": "Yes. There's no such thing as \"unfair business practices.\"\n\nLike all conservatives you are a politically illiterate leftist with the talking points of teenagers and college students.",
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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": "Me too. And it’s totally something she would say haha. Someone bait her on Twitter into saying it or something. We need a concerted effort to get her to say this line because it’s doable.",
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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 only see leftists talk about it, I have no idea what their newest conspiracy theory is.",
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"content": "https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\n\nit’s not a conspiracy if it’s outlined in 922 pages",
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"content": "It's a conspiracy by their own measure. Any time anybody mentions George Soros they go \"you're a conspiracy nut\" when *it's literally the same fucking thing.* Think tanks doing think tank shit. The Open Societies Foundation is way more influential and spends way more money than the Heritage Foundation anyway.",
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"content": "Trump assassination attempt megathread ",
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"content": "To those who say it's a false flag attack:\n\nTrump himself got shot and two people are dead. No way Trump or any secret organization would do something that risky.\n\nRight now isn't a time for conspiracy theories. Unless proof comes out that says otherwise, what happened was really an attack and I'm glad Trump is okay and that I'm sending my condolences out to the family of the victim who died.",
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"content": "I heard people saying “flag attack”, what does that even mean?",
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"content": "I meant to put false flag attack \n\nBasically it means that the person being attacked organised the attack itself. Some do it for reputation points.",
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"content": "That’s just sad that people think that way",
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"content": "I mean, there’s been a bunch of false flag attacks throughout history, it’s not like a crazy theory or something",
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"content": "What was that one guy’s name? jessie Smullet or something?",
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"content": "*Juicy Smooyay",
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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": "ever stop to think WHY they are so heavily over-represented? This isn't some psy-op.",
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"content": "I don’t know why, sure have some theories, but that’s irrelevant to my point. Democrats like to believe they are anti establishment when every available metric points towards the opposite. This is the core of why so many conservatives are annoyed by leftwingers, the hypocrisy is so blatant.",
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"content": "Liberals are not anti establishment 😂😂",
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"content": "Yes, liberalism is built on being anti establishment, and it’s not always a bad thing ie: Civil rights movements. And that is referring to actual liberals, not the commonly used misnomer for left-wingers.",
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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": "If you work in government you’re not an expert on anything.",
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"content": "Source?",
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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 see liberals talking about it. I still have no idea what it is.",
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"content": "Basically, in 2017 when Trump and Jared kushner walked into the White House, Jared turned to one of the White House staffers and said \"so how many of you guys are staying?\" The answer was \"well basically none.\" And because they didn't think they were going to win and they didn't have a whole lot of party machinery, they got caught with their pants down. They spent the next 2.5 years just trying to hire everybody that they needed. Remember Anthony scaramucci?\n\nThey also had to fire a ton of people like Comey and Vindman who were lifetime political actors determined to work tooth and nail against the administration. It was a mess and there were people coming into the administration and getting fired all the time. It was leaky as hell and just generally a mess. \n\nProject 2025 is literally just compiling a list of competent and moderately conservative people who they can hire on day one. People who don't openly hate Trump, and who will do their jobs right, instead of actively working against the president and leaking stories to the press. It's about hiring people in the EPA, the State department, the FDA, and all the other three letter agencies. There's more to it than that, like the stated goals of generally reducing the size and scope of government. But the main headline is just personnel.",
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"content": "Don’t sugarcoat it. It also calls for the complete abolishment of the department of education, limits on speech, and a myriad of other things wayyyy more radical than the terms you used.",
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"content": "The Department of Education, created by Jimmy Carter, has been an absolute failure and should be abolished. Leave it to the states. the way it is supposed to be.\nWhat are the limits to speech? Seems to me the Left has the market cornered on that one.\nName some of these radical positions. Something tells me when you say Radical, you mean normal.",
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"content": "Has it been a failure because of its nature or because we, as a country, invest so little into our teachers and education system as a whole. Maybe we devote some of our gargantuan defense spending to improving the education standards across the country.",
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"content": "We spend more per pupil than any other country in the world save two. Man, you really just go on posting L after L completely unburdened with facts, eh?",
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"content": "While I agree with massive and hungry, I'd go a step further and suggest taking a big ass knife to \"defense\" spending as well. We don't need all those bases over seas.",
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"content": "Do you understand why our economy is best in the world. It’s because we limit the success of any other resource rich nations. One war or coup at a time. That’s the whole point of having military bases every thousand miles worldwide",
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"content": "So that would mean we only have a good economy because we are being tyrannical around the world",
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