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  1. Subscribermoonbus
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    27 Mar '24 11:32
    @kevcvs57 said
    Ha excellent synopsis of the Trump Presidential grift, usually the grift is bseed on the greed of the mark but this one is based on the seething hatred that a section of US society has for itself that they have projected onto everyone else who’s not them.
    It’s sad and scary to watch. It’s how death camps get built
    Trump sells well to people who have a visceral hatred of regulation and 'goobermint', and he knows it; that's why he plays up his 'I'm the victim' narrative. The paradox is that he also sells well to people, especially Evangelicals, who want more regulation, especially of people's bodies and beliefs. It is truly a pact with devils.
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    27 Mar '24 06:593 edits
    @shavixmir said
    How?
    How is something like this even possible?
    A company that’s bleeding money gets bought up by a a shell company called Digital World Acquisition Corp for waaaaay more than it’s worth?

    Why?
    Can someone explain the reasoning behind this?
    Trump has friends in rich places who don't want him to fail.

    It’s real simple, I’ll explain it to you. In a certain sense, Trump is quite right that he is being pursued by the justice system, and that if the justice system succeeds in hanging a charge on him and making it stick, then the justice department will carry on and pursue other people as well. The thing is, the class of people to whom he apparently appeals, and the class of people whom he is actually addressing, are two entirely different classes. The class of people to whom he apparently appeals consists of little guys, people just like AvJoe here. Whereas, the class of people he is actually addressing are his fellow plutocrats. If the justice department succeeds in compelling Donald Trump to play by the rules, to break up his cartels, and to pay a fair rate of tax on his billions, then they will indeed go after other plutocrats and force them also to break up cartels, to play by the rules, and to pay a fair rate of tax on their billions. However, there are not enough plutocrats to vote him into office. Therefore, he must twist this appeal to a class of people populous enough to give him a chance to get back into the White House. That’s why his narrative is so completely bizarre. It is so obvious he’s not fighting for the little guy, he’s fighting for himself and his fellow plutocrats. His fellow plutocrats realize that they’ll be next in line if he fails, and that’s why they have a vested interest in helping him to either avoid these court cases or somehow survive them, even if they despise the man’s personality.
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    26 Mar '24 19:46
    @Russ

    Ta.
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    26 Mar '24 12:27
    @the-grifter

    What is it you think I should be saying I'm sorry for?
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    26 Mar '24 12:20
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    Gosh. If he cashed in his chips, he could buy Greenland !
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    26 Mar '24 12:10
    @mchill said
    For most of us, memories of our day-to-day events and those of the recent past have a familiar, mundane quality to them, but memories of our early childhood take on a brightly colored, almost magical quality. My Aunt once told me that this is because children come so recently from God. I wonder if this is true-
    This is because, psychologically, when people remember a painful event, they remember what happened (burning your hand on a hot stove, for example) and that is was painful, but the memory itself is not the pain (except in rare cases of trauma). Whereas, when people remember a happy event, the memory itself can make one feel happy again.

    The reverse also sometimes happens, in nostalgia, where people believe the past to have been better than the present. It isn't so. Most of the past was much the same as most of the present, but our memories play tricks on us.
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    26 Mar '24 08:503 edits
    @Pianoman1

    Two Swiss men and one Swiss woman determine to settle the matter via direct democracy, whereby the men gather on the beach and vote by the raising of hands, but the woman will not be allowed to vote until the year 2072.

    Two Scottish men and one Scottish woman determine to settle the matter by holding a referendum, but first they have to hold a referendum to set a date for holding the referendum, but first they have to hold a referendum to determine the wording of the referendum, but the English won’t let them hold a referendum.

    Two California men and one California women discover a field of wild hemp on the island. Nine months later, a child is born and no one remembers whose it is or knows what gender it is. They name the child “TwerpThing Zappa.”
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    26 Mar '24 07:41
    And on the 9th day, God made ...


    YouTube
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    26 Mar '24 07:24
    @kingfischer72 said
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    OK. I will be in touch after I complete a few more games.
    No hurry. I’m part of the furniture here and not going away. Miller’s part of the foundation under the building, he’s not going away either.

    😀
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    25 Mar '24 21:36
    @athousandyoung said
    How can there be a "surface of the deep" over which hovered "the spirit of God" (Gen 1:2) before God separated the waters above from the waters below in Gen 1:6?
    I think it is evocative of a mystery, not descriptive of a process.
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    25 Mar '24 20:26
    @shavixmir said
    Or they are comprehending that short term gains (trump winning, if that happens & the popularity behind him) will have long term detremental effects for the US.

    trump can only be in power for 4 more years (max) and nobody else in the party has what it takes to continue down that same road with support. That mixing with devastated foreign affairs and the image of sucking ...[text shortened]... Netherlands. Wilders won quite clearly in the election, but to form a cabinet with him at the head….
    What makes you think that a re-elected (or re-injected) Trump would not serve as President for Life, like his great buddies Kim Jong Un, Putin, and Xi ? He is on record saying that the Constitution should be set aside so he can remain in power, once. There is no reason to doubt he wouldn't try that again. And again.
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    25 Mar '24 13:03
    @russ said
    Fixed, thanks.
    Well, almost. I have tested the View Games function from Ghost of a Duke's and The Gravedigger's profile pages on old and beta versions.

    In the old version, the search function auto-injects "Ghost of a Duke" into the search engine and returns correct results.

    In the beta version, the search function auto-injects "Ghost-of-a-Duke" and returns no results.

    Ditto for The Gravedigger: the space is auto-replaced by a hyphen and returns no result.
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    25 Mar '24 08:57
    @kevcvs57 said
    This will be their window of opportunity, imagine getting evicted from your home based on someone’s religious delusion guide.. Even Jared has started eyeing up a waterfront development project
    What’s happened in the Knesset is the down side of proportional representation
    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/21/opinions/jared-kushner-gaza-israel-palestine-property-bergen/index.html


    Yeah, Jared is looking to build massive hotels there, if he can convince Deutsche Bank to finance them ... where have we heard that before, I wonder.
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    24 Mar '24 21:54
    Figuratively speaking, in this case. Hurrah for AK:

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/24/politics/lisa-murkowski-done-with-trump/index.html



    PS Pence won’t support the orange buffoon either, and Pence oughta know. He was in the room with the other adults.
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