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- chukkaphob6
- & if you get sick, die fast.BonSeff
- get a job? that's a new concept.omg
- ... oh wait, some folks suggest that some folks had no arms and legs.omg
- https://www.youtube.…omg
- "get a job", what does that have to do with being poor? A new concept would be caring about citizens and not hiding behind the selfish rhetoricformed
- "everyone must be lazy if they aren't rich". The regurgitated propaganda is stale and sounds extremely lazy, if not downright uneducated.formed
- if the problem is money, then the solution is work? how much money do you have? I'm poor, don't be selfish, give me some of your money.omg
- the problem isn't lazy as some may suggest. the problem is lack of jobs, which is the problem.omg
- omg and his disgusting lack of empathy on display as usual. replying 'get a job' is by far the absolute laziest thing happening here.kona
- i'm crying on the inside, trust me.omg
- Is this your new angle - the hard-nosed bootstraps Conservative? What's next - the repentant GOP'r? Or have you done that already. I forget.face_melter
- I merely questioned whether a job would help me with money issues. After thinking about it, I realize that a job would give me money.omg
- However from the point of view that I didn't know a job would give me money. Wouldn't it be better that you give me a job instead of mulling over your feelings?omg
- it seems there are two agendas: 1. Create a daycare 2. Create working jobs. I agree there needs to be a day care, but putting all your money there won't solveomg
- the bigger issue and problem which was lack of jobs. That's the reason why the daycare was needed in the first place.omg
- only a fucking retard thinks that poor people don't work hard, most at slave wages because big corporations like to fuck them in the ass, Trump loves it.monospaced
- but hey, let's keep 'em down, while Trump reduces minimum wages, eats away healthcare, buttrapes education standards, and ensures colleges are unattainablemonospaced
- only a fucking idiot thinks "get a job" makes sense to say in the face of actual issues that republicans not only refuse to address, but are making worse!monospaced
- I have a friend who stayed unemplyment because he told me, in his own words: "why work when I'm getting enough from the state to live off of?" There u have it!chukkaphob
- Unemployment is hardly a living wage, and it has strings attached. Your "friend" is a cute anecdote, but certainly an incomplete picture of the actual situationmonospaced
- no longer my friendchukkaphob
- and you're wrong - wellfare IS a living wage. FACT.chukkaphob
- are you talking about welfare, or unemployment wages? you gotta pick one if you're making a point ... and btw, welfare is dirt-shit poormonospaced
- as if using that anecdote was bad enough, most of it isn't true (not friend, not on unemployment, not "enough")monospaced
- As long as your rent is 1/4 of your previous wages, it should be enough to live off of if UE gives you half your wages.omg
- oh man, why am i responding to mono?! why do I do this to myself. LOL. I need to check who's writing first before responding. LMAOchukkaphob
- mono is talking total sense - would you like to live off welfare? could you live off welfare? why would anyone want to live off welfare. in any system there arefadein11
- those who play it but it isn't the norm and if you think it is then you are as stooopid as omg. "get a job" - we had/have politicians over here in the UK whofadein11
- talk like that - it was/is a disaster for the country.fadein11
- Yes, you can live off of walefare. That's why the program is still intact. Yes, the guy I'm talking about lived off it instead of looking for a job. Fact.chukkaphob
- Yes, the system allows for programs to be taken advantage of, even if not designed to keep people off jobs. Fact.chukkaphob
- As far as namecalling "stoopid" or whatever cool lingo you're throwing around -- it says more about you than about those you're addressing. ;-)chukkaphob
- hehe - you gave one example of a lazy friend who could work but chose not to and think thats a reason to question welfare in relation to QBN's resident retardfadein11
- omg telling people to get a job - yep that sounds pretty stoopid to me pal.fadein11
- Welfare isn't a check, it's a program designed for needy families, primarily in the form of food stamps and other supplements. Your friend likely wasn't on it.monospaced
- I'm sorry, but I actually do know about this stuff, and my name calling doesn't say anything about me except that perhaps I'm not as full of shit as you thinkmonospaced
- Most likely, your friend was on unemployment checks as a result of being out of work. Unless he had dependents, going on welfare wasn't in the cards for him.monospaced
- Another fact is that there aren't people on "welfare" that would consider themselves taken care of, let alone not shit-poor. That's not something you can argue.monospaced
- Either way, it's temporary. Both unemployment and welfare have strict guidelines for qualification, and none of it is permanent.monospaced
- Unemployment is technically a social welfare payment and benefit.omg
- and it's not a living wage, never has been and never will be, so it's not a way to avoid poverty, which is the entire fucking pointmonospaced
- no because a wage is something you get when you work. but you can as chucka's friend said, "live off of." I thought was the point.omg
- if the POINT is to be DIRT SHIT POOR, SURE, but it's only temporary, making it as poor an argument as possible, and nothing more than a pointless anecdotemonospaced
- right... t's not even CLOSE to a wage, that's why it's the godamn stupidest argument I've ever heard for someone saying welfare is an alternative to working!monospaced
- my point is that his friend wasn't living off it, and if he was, it was a shitty life, and would not last very longmonospaced
- lol. what makes you think it was a shitty life?omg
- Is mono still rambling? #VerbalDiarrhea repeating himself over and over and over again without saying mich. LMAOchukkaphob
- says the guy who made up a not friend to make a shitty point that was and is so easily refutedmonospaced
- chukkaphob1
- Teaching hate.robotron3k
- yupchukkaphob
- lol@robo
Most ironic statement of the day!kona - trump is a vile human and deserving of not only public hatred, but humiliation for every dumbfuck thing he both does and struggles to saymonospaced
- Jail survey: 7 in 10 felons register as Democratsomg
- oh eat a dick omg. Cruz's claim was based on research that found a majority of ex-felons in three states registered as Democrats.kona
- But that was a study of all ex-felons, not just violent criminals, as Cruz framed it.kona
- Also, a follow-up study of three additional states by the same authors found the majority of ex-felons in those states were neither Republican nor Democrat.kona
- Dumbass survey: 10 out of 10 omg posts are lies and fabrications of the truth.kona
- Who gives a fuck? Doesn't mean that dems are criminals. If that's what you're arguing then you are one dumb ass piece of shit omg.monospaced
- Reality survey. 9 of 10 trump supporters pretend to worship a book they don't read, and pray to a figment of their imaginations like idiots. And?monospaced
- As long as we're throwing out pointless, unsubstantiated, idiotic claims that have no bearing on the current topic, just to be a troll.monospaced
- I'm gonna have to loosen my tie on this one. Between kona's dumbass survey and mono's reality survey. I believe you guys just make up your statistics.omg
- The best way for Democrats to unite may be to throw them in prison where everyone gets free housing, food, and health coverage for legals and illegals.omg
- Life in Prison - Democrat Dream Come True.™omg
- Did you just suggest this country throw the party that opposes your views in jail? Thats how you see the world? You couldn't be a more perfect trump supportersofakingback
- I was trying to suggest that recent views was very similar to life provided in jail.omg
- And you'd be wrong. You're always wrong.monospaced
- Democrats would simply end up in jail on their own, whether they were opposing or not.omg
- Isn't the term "Trump supporter" seemingly outdated? Wouldn't you either be an American or anti-American at this point, since elections are over?omg
- Mono, is there a wrong or right? You being wrong most of the time should know.omg
- lol, that's top-shelf douche-bag trolling if I've ever seen it. You're a vile human being. Take your medication man.sofakingback
- This new omg angle is pretty lousy, to be honest. It was funnier when he babbled like a mong.face_melter
- There is certainly a wrong or right in this situation, and "recent views was similar to life provided in jail" is flat out wrong. That's why I'm right.monospaced
- Mocking trump, and publicly voicing distaste for his unique flavor of shit stain he calls leadership, is not "teaching hate," it's pointing out a problem.monospaced
- chukkaphob1
is this true?
- i think you are confusing it with socialismhotroddy
- Largely.Continuity
- What's CAPIT?Krassy
- What's ALISM?Krassy
- ^ LOLchukkaphob
- Steal from Poor, give to the richutopian
- the rich don't need to steal. they are already rich.hotroddy
- and they became rich by creating wealth. not by taking it from the poor.hotroddy
- LOL at the concept of ‘creating wealth’sr_rosa
- Yup, it just materliases out of thin air, didn't you know?Continuity
- "The rich don't need to steal." So it's all those poor folk who go to jail for tax evasion, investment schemes, insider trading. You utter, utter, fanny.face_melter
- Capitalism = rich guy loans fishing pole to fisherman, takes half the fish as payment.yuekit
- There's no I in teamwork. Innovation never sleepsomg
- Ramanisky23
- This should be fun!Continuity
- "I can't answer that question" this is going nowhere fast.robotron3k
- robo speaking too soon. Yates says WH Counsel asked 'why does it matter' if Flynn had misled VP Pence and others on contacts with Russiakona
- it's clear (obvious even) they both know something. should be fucking obvious to you as wellkona
- shifty as fuckfadein11
- WTF was Cruz trying to get at?BonSeff
- Clapper: "Unclassified is not leaking"
-laughterkona - Yates just eviscerated Ted Cruz on Constitutional Law.
*singing
where is robo, where is robo, head in the sand, head in the sandkona - Cruz is just happy because these hearings are the only time people talk to him.BonSeff
- lol Bonseff!kona
- Now she has to school Kennedy on the constitution? holy hell.BonSeff
- She's eating them like a fat orange cheeto eats "a beautiful chocolate cake."kona
- A smart woman in front of a bunch of old white guys that don't know shit. Her testimony will be recived with spiteful resentment.sofakingback
- Ya'll are right, white people talk a lot but say very little. I sat through most of this & nobody has said how the Russians influence the elections.robotron3k
- She needs to run for elected Office. Fantastic to hear a smart, coherent person who can string a logical sentence together.BusterBoy
- Yes she does BusterBoy, yes she does!kona
- she would be a great leader, unlike Trump, since she's more well-spoken, better educated, insanely more intelligent, experienced and insightful than himmonospaced
- chukkaphob1
- Putin controls the world... muhuhuhahaha!robotron3k
- Trump?utopian
- Looks like a toddler farting.BonSeff
- he looks bloated.dorf
- He got fat off a lifetime supply of free Trump Steaks
That was part of their deal.kona - "it's a good cut of meat. i think it's part of the asshole."dorf
- Assbeef SteaksRamanisky2
- He and Melania go to the same plastic surgeon.face_melter
- whatthefunk1
- I imagine sessions does that true detective weird stuff. Like rapes kids while wearing animal masks. He can't hide it, the evil just seeps out of this guy.sofakingback
- ^ lolRamanisky2
- this "red scare" may be over soon, looks like CA is ok with Communist now... http://www.sacbee.co…robotron3k
- seems like a good idea to repeal an ancient law made during your last great fear epidemic / excuse for war.fadein11
- colin_s-3
listen to chapo trap house
- R_Kercz0
I wonder if Obama recommended against hiring Flynn because he knew that trump would shackle himself with a liability over his reflexive spitefulness.
- colin_s1
It's hilarious to watch the neoliberals think that their ideas are any better than conservatism
Any capitalist at this point should be hung from the lamp posts
- http://distortedpers…zaq
- i'm so sick of these moderate viewpoints!sarahfailin
- neoliberals on this site? or are you referring to Macron?fadein11
- eh?Fax_Benson
- set0
They have everyone distracted with less important issues as usual. You wouldn't have to worry about health care so much if the corporations weren't poisoning the food and water.
If you don't know that you're consuming glyphosate every single day, for example, then you might want to start reading.
- thanks trumpmonospaced
- what the hell does a trump supporter care about glyphosate? they use mountain dew for milk in their cereal.kona
- it's what plants cravemonospaced
- Trump supporter? lol. I hope you're not stupid enough to think I'm a trump supporter. You're not that stupid, are you?set
- Or maybe I've misunderstood your post.set
- Yes, you misunderstood my post.kona
- He wasn't referring to you. He was saying Trump supporters are not only distracted, they also don't give a fuck about being poisoned because they're idiots.monospaced
- Seems like a rather irrelevant comment in that caseset
- Why are we taking about Trump? I'm talking about carcinogenic pesticides in all of our food...set
- I think when people read your "they," they assume the government, which currently is headed by Trump, distracting people from the real issues surrounding him.monospaced
- healthcare issues, which are the top of the headlines, also all surround trump and his cronies, so you can see why this is being interpreted as suchmonospaced
- Now, if you're not talking about Trump "care" and "they" isn't a bunch of dumbfucks distracting from their shitshow bill, what are you talking about? :)monospaced
- Trump, Obama, Bush, whoever - it's irrelevant to the point that the good and water is being poisoned and people are arguing over how to treat the poisoningset
- Rather than removing the poison.set
- Food*set
- @set - you do know disease and unwell people and healthcare were quite major issues before the introduction of this pesticide?fadein11
- .. And the pesticide used before that?set
- https://gmoanswers.c…set
- The fact that trump has shown to be easily swayed by corporate interests, I'd say that his name is relevant to this point.monospaced
- @set - if you think pesticides are the only factor in healthcare wow. I'd be more worried about the air you breathe every day working in London. Likely way morefadein11
- toxic.fadein11
- I know you don't think they are the only factor - but do you really think worrying about healthcare provision is a distraction from poisons in food?fadein11
- I'm saying people are up in arms over the symptom and not the cause. Not just pesticides.set
- There's really no need for anyone to be sick, ultimately. So much energy focused on fruitles bullshit rather than improving our worldset
- Yep - true.fadein11
- Bluejam0
The Fake News Liberals Don't Want to Talk About
https://www.vice.com/en_us/artic…worth a read and imo, the key words being ...
"it had to do with how the media framed this non-story"- Wow - I never once thought it was a witchhunt or attempt at stifling free speech. I just saw it as an OFCOM style investigation into viewer complaints. Missedfadein11
- all of this. My point lower down was that the people who complained were acting like worse snowflakes than the people they mock constantly.fadein11
- It happens constantly in UK, perhaps we are more used to it.fadein11
- Well, it's nominally an Ofcom/CRTC (Canada's equivalent) vulgarity complaint. It really is motivated by right-wing snowflakes who can't stand their Führer beingContinuity
- ... mocked. This FCC complaint is really the only way they could manage it, I doubt any court would even listen to the complaint..Continuity
- yupfadein11
- Bluejam0
Why this movie is the most important of the Trump era
http://www.theguardian.com/comme…
"Nine Lives may be a film about Kevin Spacey being turned into a cat. But it speaks directly to Donald Trump, telling him to change. It’s an attempt to alter the course of humanity"
- Guardian comments are a goldmine of insanity, idiocy, and third-rate trolling. Home to maybe the most miserable gang of cuntolas outside of NeoGAF.face_melter
- lol@face_melterBluejam
- Hahaomg
- Guardian is a jokeDillinger
- And yet, they're right, like it or not. Also, Trump is a joke.monospaced
- there's still some good journalism hidden away in the Guardian. And the sheer scale of its free online content is pretty amazing. But yeah, it's mostly a joke.Fax_Benson
- I consciously chose to watch this a couple of weeks back, alone and drunk. I'd wanted to see it since seeing Spacey's name alongside a CGI cat on a bus advertdetritus
- ..., since learning that Christopher "I will literally do anything for money" Walken was in it. I wasn't disappointed (genuinely, I wasn't).detritus
- They're not right - it's a piss take based on a current run of articles in the Guardian which try to shoehorn in Trump for the most tenuous of reasons.face_melter
- monoboy5
- Jaw dropping deceit and selfishness.monoboy
- As with the Tories in the UK, their patriotic working class supporters bear all the hall marks of somebody locked in toxic relationship.monoboy
- He beats you unconscious weekly. Yes, but I love him and he protects me.monoboy
- ...but he might kill you.monoboy
- https://pbs.twimg.co…fadein11
- hahaha @ fadein11Bluejam
- https://www.youtube.…monoboy
- kona6
Trump supporters couldn't care less about what Trump is actually doing as president. Trump supporters don't care if he repeatedly flat out lies to them, raises their taxes, cuts their health insurance benefits, cuts funding to their schools and libraries, cuts food programs, dirties their air and water, allows poisoning of their food, uses the presidency to make billions of dollars for himself and his family, passes laws to allow his billionaire friends to take even more money from middle and lower income families, destroys our environment or our entire planet. Trump supporters don't care about any of these things, and Trump knows it.
Trump was elected and continues to be supported because of one thing; he dislikes the same people his supporters do and he isn't afraid to say so. He elevates their anger, validates their fears, and bonds them together. He tapped into these fears and convinced white America that they're now the minority, they're under attack, they're going to be made to change, and their personal freedoms are being threatened.
This shared dislike, and often hatred, isn't limited to Muslims, Mexicans, refugees, foreigners in general, but also includes fellow Americans. Blacks, any low-income person that isn't white, the entire LGBT community, and, of course, Liberals and Democrats are all included to a varying degree. Basically anyone that looks or thinks differently from themselves.
His campaign rallies constantly focused on the threat to white America and, however veiled, his supporters heard the message loud and clear. And Trump successfully gathered millions together that previously had no champion - for the stupid - of their underlying fears and hatred.
This is exactly why Trump continues to do rallies and public events. He needs to. His followers need to hear the same message of fear, hatred, threats, and the salvation he will ensure. He is their Champion and this works perfectly for him.
Trump can take anything and everything he wants from his supporters, and they don't care, as long as he continues to get out there and tell them what they want to hear.Every time we hear about something Trump has done, is doing, or is planning to do that will obviously hurt the lives of his supporters, including their health, safety, education, earnings, and savings, every time he lies to them about the freedoms he is actually taking from them, all the lies about what he is going to do that he can't possibly accomplish, the lies about the safety he will so easily provide, we must remember that none of this matters to his supporters. Not at all.
- don't forget the media, the real enemy of the american people, which he loves to point fingers atmonospaced
- Not true. I spent my morning glazing grape marmalade over sliced brioche. Ensuring the froth in my cappuccino was extra foamy.omg
- ...afterwards i went to check in on Trump and saw proud Americans from every ethnicity working hard to make America great again.omg
- Plenty of evidence to support this thought. https://www.thenatio…monoboy
- That's true mono. I should have mentioned the 'fake' news media as well.kona
- @monoboy, I'm sure all the racist people that voted for Hillary can also balance out the racist people that voted for Trump.omg
- Not all GOP folk are racist. But all racists vote for the GOP.monoboy
- Face palm. How many times is this same rhetorical meme going to recycle here? lol.omg
- Might explain why so many (college educated) white women might for a known sex offender.monoboy
- *vote*monoboy
- Isn't a meme if it's true. Go make a sandwich fatty.severian
- Is it because it's true? You throbber.monoboy
- Stay triggered kona, we got 7 years and 7 months to go! MAGA.robotron3k
- so funny how all the triggered trumpsters all come to comment with their nonsense, butt-hurt, idiotic retortsmonospaced
- triggered lol - he made a v.rational and intelligent post - love how alt right 'tards just say triggered when they don't have an argument in return.fadein11
- @robo - you and omg are prob the most triggered peeps on here by the way :)fadein11
- This diatribe is precisely why the media is so despicable. Completely emotionally driven echo chamber non-sense.IRNlun6
- Playing chess with a pigeon...
http://davetrott.co.…monoboy - Except it's true, and the only emotionally driven nonsense is coming from people who are watching the shitshow unfold and can't explain why they voted for it.monospaced
- Thanks to the Trump supporters for illustrating my point so fully.
Gloss over the facts. Deny. Get angry. Name call. Then believe you've won.
Well done.kona - Generalizing millions of peoples motivations but you want to talk about facts, please.IRNlun6
- Who's generalizing?
https://youtu.be/eFQ…
https://youtu.be/Y4Z…
https://youtu.be/uVQ…kona - Hence me finding the media despicable for pushing this narrative. There are no discussions to be had when making such venomous accusations.IRNlun6
- But it's true.monospaced
- Hence my accusation of an eco chamber of non-sense. It's your fantasy, enjoy your rage.IRNlun6
- No, that's you raging in your echo chamber because your bullshit man-bitch president isn't a real leader and is so full of shit you can only resort to "fake!"monospaced
- See, it's actually not a fantasy that every intelligence agency ON THE PLANET indicates russian collusion, or that Trump isn't a success.monospaced
- You might not like this truth, this reality, but calling it "fantasy" or some sort of distortion is just ridiculous.monospaced
- Next thing you'll see the dumbfuck trumptards will make dumbshit excuses for why Trump fired Comey, as if that isn't the shadiest shit you've ever seen.monospaced
- how you're not raging about your false prophet not living up to a single fucking thing is beyond memonospaced
- Morning_star2
Fox Hunting. *stares*
(Just wait and see what really awful shit T-May will pledge whilst the populace are frothing at the mouth about poor little foxes)
- Imma going to sent up a hunt in Stoke Newington, see how that gets the urban chattering classes clamoring, apparently unironically, for blooddetritus
- distraction techniquefadein11
- ah sorry - what you said ha.fadein11
- Calling The Mighty Boosh's Crack Fox. Go show those cuntry fuckers a thing or two with his used syringe claws.Morning_star
- imbecile2
Four Reasons Why the Russia Story Isn’t Fake News
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/…
- kona5
Donald Trump’s fear of the Russia scandal becomes more obvious.
Ahead of yesterday’s Senate hearing on the Russia scandal, Donald Trump’s tweets suggested he was feeling anxious. In the morning, he tried to argue via Twitter that the mess surrounding Michael Flynn was the Obama administration’s fault, and soon after, the president suggested without evidence that Sally Yates may have illegally leaked classified information.
After the hearing, Trump’s anxiety was just as obvious, with a series of tweets trying to downplay the damaging revelations, change the subject, and dismiss the seriousness of the entire ongoing investigation. The president added that in his mind, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that there’s “no evidence” of “collusion” between Russia Team Trump.
Evidently, Trump really liked that tweet.
President Donald Trump changed the banner image on his Twitter account late Monday night, and then changed it again several hours later after people on the internet thoroughly mocked it.Trump made the top image on his Twitter page a photo of House Republicans celebrating passing the American Health Care Act, superimposed with a tweet the president had sent earlier that day about congressional testimony from former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the subject of collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.
- lol what a jokemonospaced
- Its crazy watching the leader of this country act this way. Unfortunately his supporters will hang on to everyone of those lies. So will liberals, they will trysofakingback
- true, but don't you dare generalize themmonospaced
- to prove him long all week long, until he says more lies and liberals fill the week with "nu uh" Such an embarrassmentsofakingback
- CygnusZero40
^ Lolz I love how that msnbc story was written by "Steve Benen"
- Steve Benen is a producer for the show.
It's funny though.kona
- Steve Benen is a producer for the show.
- Ramanisky25
- always fresh, ALWAYS funny, always spot onmonospaced
- indeed .. I concurRamanisky2
- ;)monospaced
