RippedPhreak on 12/9/2022 at 21:09

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Any money given to establishment Republicans is simply wasted, as they are so ineffectual. He might as well keep the money to back MAGA candidates and for his own 2024 run.

RippedPhreak on 13/9/2022 at 01:10

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I wish that were true, but in fact both parties (the Uniparty) have locked arms to keep Trump or any other outsider from breaking into their little money-laundering club.

Cutting taxes doesn't hurt the poor because, as I've explained, our leaders don't use the money to help the poor anyway. The majority is sent to Lockheed, Raytheon and other weapons contractors (hence the reason for the endless wars), who then funnel some back to the politicians as kickbacks.

I despise both parties so I can't understand why you lick the Democrats' boots so earnestly. Please tell me who are these Dem politicos who never lie to their constituents, who never steal from the public purse and never take bribes to slant the laws in favor of their big corporate donors.

Honestly interested in hearing the names of these amazing paragons.

Tocky on 13/9/2022 at 01:52

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After all the horrible things I said, RippedPhreak, which are indeed true, you wish they were true? Wow. Nothing you could have said would out you worse than your own words. And the amazing part is you don't have the wit to understand how badly you outed yourself. I'm astounded.

Republicans don't cut taxes on the poor and middle class. They ONLY cut them on the wealthy who pay half what they are supposed to anyway, half what the middle class pays, half what I pay. And yet the first thing Trump signed was a cut of their taxes and his own.

You don't despise both parties. You make it obvious what you support. Do you think we are fooled by your simple lie? No. Included in that very same sentence is the accusation of licking Democrats boots. I've voted for Republicans. Not lately. They have shown how little regard they have for decency in supporting the con man who called governors and asked them to "find" votes to make him win. They have shown how little regard they have for our institutions and the constitutional process after the backtrack from their horror of January sixth. The man tried to cause his supporters to intervene in the lawful turnover of power. You know it. We all know it. You aren't fooling anyone here. Go to his social media site if you want fools.

I never said Democrats never steal or any of your unsupported accusations. I'm sure some do. I want those caught unlike you and the rest of the Trump worshipping cult who want him to get away with all he has been documented as having done.

I'm not honestly interested in anything you say or any of your deflections. I've heard them before. They are untrue crap particularly when they are directed at me.

Tocky on 13/9/2022 at 03:19

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Nah. Nothing like that was even thought of except by the white supremacists encouraged by Trump before Trump. No bullshit evangelical end of the world crap was seriously entertained. That shit had been said by doomsayers for time immemorial. It was a joke even. "The end is near" by street corner lunatics. No. The civil war is a thing pushed by Stormfront survivalist idiots who want it. Don't fall for that crap. The future is as bright as it's ever been... as long as Trump is stopped. Egomaniacs can cause serious harm when they are worshipped by blind fools wanting the end of the world. We have a great future ahead if we can shake off the revelation idiots and look to it instead of some imaginary sin world purge crap that does nothing to advance us. Only science can lead us to a bright future.

I fervently believe Faulkner's speech on the acceptance of his nobel-

"Ladies and gentlemen,

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.

Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

I believe this with every ounce of my being. We will prevail against the ones who would see our end, the racists, the preachers of hate, the evangelicals longing for some heaven with a God they would not even understand. We will prevail. We will see the stars in some form and no charlatan like Trump will keep us from it with his pandering to our base hatreds and fears. We will prevail. His anti science demagoguery will not survive under the light of scrutiny. His catering to the lowest and most fearful cave men will not stand. WE will surpass. WE will survive and shake the dust of his hate and manipulation for his own ego from out boots and carry on to a future you cannot imagine. The one we were meant for. The one the religious want us to give up on because they haven't the gumption to do anything but kneel. If there is a God he doesn't want us to kneel and whine to his power. He wants us to rise and challenge the foundations of the universe. He wants us to spit in the eye of anything that would hold us down including him. That's the only God I could believe in.

Okay maybe I got a bit carried away but you get me. We aren't ending and fuck anyone who thinks we are. I decline to accept the end of man. I do it with every fiber of my being.

RippedPhreak on 13/9/2022 at 12:37

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So no names of good Democrats then.