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wtf is wrong with the right?

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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #1995 on: January 28, 2022, 01:05:30 AM »
I think my position is fairly clear. For most of my life I have been a free market and free trade conservative. I began rethinking that after the tobacco hearings and subprime mortgage scandal. Then there was the revelation that big oil had known about anthropogenic climate change for decades, made plans based on it, concealed the data, and publicly preached climate denialism.

I now believe a mixed economy, with some central planning and some free market competition,  is best. The central planning should be done by public officials in the public interest, not by private monopolies in their own interest.
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #1996 on: January 28, 2022, 06:22:19 AM »
Itasca Costco...cheapest gas in town!
$2.49 a gallon with my grocery store card yesterday. The high grocery prices seem to put money on the card a bit faster.

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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #1997 on: January 28, 2022, 06:12:37 PM »
Fox is still reporting 'Buttigieg fakes riding a bike to work' as fact. Apparently, the right wing echo chamber just doubles down after their fake news is debunked. Truth no longer matters. It is all about smearing the opposition.

No, Pete Buttigieg didn’t fake a bike ride
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/06/facebook-posts/no-pete-buttigieg-didnt-fake-bike-ride/

Video Doesn’t Show Buttigieg Staging Bike Ride
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/04/video-doesnt-show-buttigieg-staging-bike-ride/
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #1998 on: February 02, 2022, 01:18:51 PM »
Senator Ted Cruz
@SenTedCruz
It is better to be over prepared than underprepared for winter weather.
Things to have on hand as the winter weather approaches:
✅ Extra warm clothes & blankets
✅ Portable lights and extra batteries
✅ First-aid kit
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6:51 PM · Feb 1, 2022
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-also very handy:  one pre-paid boarding pass to Cancun. 

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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #1999 on: February 03, 2022, 12:45:05 AM »
-also very handy:  one pre-paid boarding pass to Cancun.

Cruz is a pompous windbag, who loves to play gotcha games, but I don't really care about stuff like this.
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2000 on: February 03, 2022, 12:59:31 AM »
Stupid things I heard on Fox News:

I think it was Dan Bongino who said, paraphrasing, most people supported Obamacare, until they found out their medical costs were going up.

Vince Coglianese said Democrats make very grandiose promises. He said they think they can control nature; cure cancer and change the weather.
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2001 on: February 03, 2022, 06:55:35 AM »
Don't forget eliminating traffic fatalities.

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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2002 on: February 03, 2022, 04:01:11 PM »
Don't forget eliminating traffic fatalities.
Ban cars. Done. Vote for me

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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2003 on: February 03, 2022, 04:51:55 PM »
Ban cars. Done. Vote for me

The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to keep and operate automobiles.
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2004 on: February 03, 2022, 04:53:01 PM »
The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to keep and operate automobiles.

Hell, yeah!
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2005 on: February 03, 2022, 05:13:09 PM »
The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to keep and operate automobiles.

It's funny except you know that Ted Cruz would make the argument that since 35,000 Americans die in traffic fatalities that owning an automobile is classified as "bearing arms"

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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2006 on: February 03, 2022, 07:10:03 PM »
It's funny except you know that Ted Cruz would make the argument that since 35,000 Americans die in traffic fatalities that owning an automobile is classified as "bearing arms"

Outlaw cars and only outlaws will have cars.
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2007 on: February 03, 2022, 07:23:26 PM »
Outlaw cars and only outlaws will have cars.

Well done.
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2008 on: February 03, 2022, 07:31:02 PM »
"Here is a civilization that has boasted much. Neither Roman nor Arab, Greek nor Egyptian, Persian nor Mongol ever took himself and his own perfectness with such disconcerting seriousness as the modern white man. We whose shame, humiliation, and deep insult his aggrandizement so often involved were never deceived. We looked at him clearly, with world-old eyes, and saw simply a human thing, weak and pitiable and cruel, even as we are and were.

These super-men and world-mastering demi-gods listened, however, to no low tongues of ours, even when we pointed silently to their feet of clay. Perhaps we, as folk of simpler soul and more primitive type, have been most struck in the welter of recent years by the utter failure of white religion. We have curled our lips in something like contempt as we have witnessed glib apology and weary explanation. Nothing of the sort deceived us. A nation's religion is its life, and as such white Christianity is a miserable failure." -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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Re: wtf is wrong with the right?
« Reply #2009 on: February 03, 2022, 09:40:56 PM »
Ted Cruz ignores that explanatory clause:

"Well regulated transportation being necessary for the prosperity of a free state, ..."

It's clearly about public transportation. 
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