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--- War On Good Wages aka Right To Work Legislation
--- War against AFFORDABLE Medical Insurance and Single Payer
--- War On Medicare
--- War On Medicaid
--- War on public education and Higher Education
--- War On Social Security Insurance
--- War on the economy through Supply Side Wreckanomics
--- War against women
--- War on the VA and Veterans Benefits
--- War on Voters Rights = VOTER SUPPRESSION
--- War on strict gun regulations
--- War On National Monuments/Parks
--- War on the press
--- War on the USA Postal Service
--- War On Environmental Cleanliness
--- War On USA Jobs through Free Trade Agreements and Leveraged Buyout Scams
--- War for Oil Control Worldwide
--- War on truth about global warming/climate change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/03/30/174616/koch-denial-machine/
 
--- War On Good Wages aka Right To Work Legislation
--- War against AFFORDABLE Medical Insurance and Single Payer
--- War On Medicare
--- War On Medicaid
--- War on public education and Higher Education
--- War On Social Security Insurance
--- War on the economy through Supply Side Wreckanomics
--- War against women
--- War on the VA and Veterans Benefits
--- War on Voters Rights = VOTER SUPPRESSION
--- War on strict gun regulations
--- War On National Monuments/Parks
--- War on the press
--- War on the USA Postal Service
--- War On Environmental Cleanliness
--- War On USA Jobs through Free Trade Agreements and Leveraged Buyout Scams
--- War for Oil Control Worldwide
--- War on truth about global warming/climate change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/03/30/174616/koch-denial-machine/
2000 Mules.

Oh...wait...the mainstream media wasn't going to tell about that anyway.
 
Don't forget the War On Drugs - a truly asinine, self defeating, destructive, expensive, and outdated War the day it went into effect.
 
Don't forget the War On Drugs - a truly asinine, self defeating, destructive, expensive, and outdated War the day it went into effect.
The government was routed so thoroughly in the war on drugs that pot is becoming legal, a major pharmaceutical company felt confidant enough to start a massive opioid epidemic, fentanyl is killing people left and right, coke is higher in quality and lower in cost than ever, and overdoses are so common in some areas that the cops carry Narcan.
 
Just about all the other Democrat policies the GOP wants to end.

You have to bear in mind that for the most part, the politicians in the GOP act against the vast majority of the bases' interests and the interests of comparably situated (financially) left-lean voters. That's where the culture war evil comes in. People who lean left generally won't be anti-gay, anti-trans, racist, anti-other. They'll generally be more willing to look up what CRT is, learn that it is generally a law school / other grad school thing, and roll their eyes.

The GOP has to keep stoking culture war crap on non-white vulnerable groups. Hell, just look at them preening about 4-12% of the black population voting for their candidate (depends on election) and insisting the rest of the black people are so weak-willed and deficient that they voted democrat because democrat policies trapped them just like slavery on a plantation trapped them. As long as they can grab enough of the vote by whispering things about guns, gays, other races, invasions, etc., they don't have to serve their base in any other way.

It helps that they demonized education. Spread proud ludditism and you don't have to worry that they'll start listening to someone with a ton of training and experience in a field. They'll trust some jackass podcaster over someone with an absolutely stellar career in epidimiology. They'll take ass pills for horses because Fox said it, and anyone who says otherwise must have just been "indoctrinated" by their Ph.D. Or something. The dumber, the trollier. The trollier, the better.
 
2000 Mules.

Oh...wait...the mainstream media wasn't going to tell about that anyway.
There's nothing mainstream about ridiculous conspiracy theories.
 
It helps that they demonized education. Spread proud ludditism and you don't have to worry that they'll start listening to someone with a ton of training and experience in a field. They'll trust some jackass podcaster over someone with an absolutely stellar career in epidimiology. They'll take ass pills for horses because Fox said it, and anyone who says otherwise must have just been "indoctrinated" by their Ph.D. Or something. The dumber, the trollier. The trollier, the better.
Yeah, what he said!
 
Oh, it's not conspiracy theory.
Then you must have actual proof you can share? Because there isn't any in "2000 Mules."
 
Then you must have actual proof you can share? Because there isn't any in "2000 Mules."
You don't know what 200 Mules is, do you?

Have you seen it? I don't think so.

So that means you are talking out your ass.

You are dismissed.
 
You don't know what 200 Mules is, do you?

Have you seen it? I don't think so.

So that means you are talking out your ass.

You are dismissed.
It's a movie about this conspiracy theory:
https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...-gaping-holes-in-the-claim-of-2k-ballot-mules

CLAIM: At least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in key swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts.
"Ballot harvesting” is a pejorative term for dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself. The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on, with some exceptions for family, household members and people with disabilities.
True the Vote has said it found some 2,000 ballot harvesters by purchasing $2 million worth of anonymized cellphone geolocation data — the “pings” that track a person’s location based on app activity — in various swing counties across five states. Then, by drawing a virtual boundary around a county’s ballot drop boxes and various unnamed nonprofits, it identified cellphones that repeatedly went near both ahead of the 2020 election.
If a cellphone went near a drop box more than 10 times and a nonprofit more than five times from Oct. 1 to Election Day, True the Vote assumed its owner was a “mule” — its name for someone engaged in an illegal ballot collection scheme in cahoots with a nonprofit.

CLAIM: In Philadelphia alone, True the Vote identified 1,155 “mules” who illegally collected and dropped off ballots for money.

THE FACTS: No, it didn’t. The group hasn’t offered any evidence of any sort of paid ballot harvesting scheme in Philadelphia. And True the Vote did not get surveillance footage of drop boxes in Philadelphia, so the group based this claim solely on cellphone location data, its researcher Gregg Phillips said in March in testimony to Pennsylvania state senators.

CLAIM: Some of the “mules” True the Vote identified in Georgia were also geolocated at violent antifa riots in Atlanta in the summer of 2020, showing they were violent far left actors.

THE FACTS: Setting aside the fact that the film doesn't prove these individuals were collecting ballots at all, it also can't prove their political affiliations.
The anonymized data True the Vote tracked doesn't explain why someone might have been present at a protest demanding justice for Black deaths at the hands of police officers. The individuals who were tracked there could have been violent rioters, but they also could have been peaceful protesters, police or firefighters responding to the protests, or business owners in the area.

CLAIM: Alleged ballot harvesters were captured on surveillance video wearing gloves because they didn’t want to leave their fingerprints on the ballots.

THE FACTS: This is pure speculation. It ignores far more likely reasons for glove-wearing in the fall and winter of 2020 — cold weather or COVID-19.
True the Vote's researcher claimed in the movie that voters in Georgia started wearing gloves to prevent their fingerprints from touching ballot envelopes after two women in Yuma, Arizona, were indicted on Dec. 23, 2020 for alleged ballot harvesting in that state’s primary election. But the Arizona indictment didn’t mention anything about fingerprints.

CLAIM: If it weren't for this ballot collection scheme, former President Donald Trump would have had enough votes to win the 2020 election.

THE FACTS: This alleged scheme has not been proven, nor do these researchers have any way of knowing whether any ballots that were collected contained votes for Trump or for Biden.
There's no evidence a massive ballot harvesting scheme dumped a large amount of votes for one candidate into drop boxes, and if there were, it would likely be caught quickly, according to Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Iowa.
“Once you get just a few people involved, people start to reveal the scheme because it unravels pretty quickly," he said.
Absentee ballots are also verified by signature and tracked closely, often with an option for voters themselves to see where their ballot is at any given time. That process safeguards against anyone who tries to illegally cast extra ballots, according to Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Project.
“It seems impossible in that system for a nefarious actor to dump lots of ballots that were never requested by voters and were never issued by election officials,” Burden said.
 
It's a movie about this conspiracy theory:
https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...-gaping-holes-in-the-claim-of-2k-ballot-mules

CLAIM: At least 2,000 “mules” were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in key swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts.
"Ballot harvesting” is a pejorative term for dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself. The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on, with some exceptions for family, household members and people with disabilities.
True the Vote has said it found some 2,000 ballot harvesters by purchasing $2 million worth of anonymized cellphone geolocation data — the “pings” that track a person’s location based on app activity — in various swing counties across five states. Then, by drawing a virtual boundary around a county’s ballot drop boxes and various unnamed nonprofits, it identified cellphones that repeatedly went near both ahead of the 2020 election.
If a cellphone went near a drop box more than 10 times and a nonprofit more than five times from Oct. 1 to Election Day, True the Vote assumed its owner was a “mule” — its name for someone engaged in an illegal ballot collection scheme in cahoots with a nonprofit.

CLAIM: In Philadelphia alone, True the Vote identified 1,155 “mules” who illegally collected and dropped off ballots for money.

THE FACTS: No, it didn’t. The group hasn’t offered any evidence of any sort of paid ballot harvesting scheme in Philadelphia. And True the Vote did not get surveillance footage of drop boxes in Philadelphia, so the group based this claim solely on cellphone location data, its researcher Gregg Phillips said in March in testimony to Pennsylvania state senators.

CLAIM: Some of the “mules” True the Vote identified in Georgia were also geolocated at violent antifa riots in Atlanta in the summer of 2020, showing they were violent far left actors.

THE FACTS: Setting aside the fact that the film doesn't prove these individuals were collecting ballots at all, it also can't prove their political affiliations.
The anonymized data True the Vote tracked doesn't explain why someone might have been present at a protest demanding justice for Black deaths at the hands of police officers. The individuals who were tracked there could have been violent rioters, but they also could have been peaceful protesters, police or firefighters responding to the protests, or business owners in the area.

CLAIM: Alleged ballot harvesters were captured on surveillance video wearing gloves because they didn’t want to leave their fingerprints on the ballots.

THE FACTS: This is pure speculation. It ignores far more likely reasons for glove-wearing in the fall and winter of 2020 — cold weather or COVID-19.
True the Vote's researcher claimed in the movie that voters in Georgia started wearing gloves to prevent their fingerprints from touching ballot envelopes after two women in Yuma, Arizona, were indicted on Dec. 23, 2020 for alleged ballot harvesting in that state’s primary election. But the Arizona indictment didn’t mention anything about fingerprints.

CLAIM: If it weren't for this ballot collection scheme, former President Donald Trump would have had enough votes to win the 2020 election.

THE FACTS: This alleged scheme has not been proven, nor do these researchers have any way of knowing whether any ballots that were collected contained votes for Trump or for Biden.
There's no evidence a massive ballot harvesting scheme dumped a large amount of votes for one candidate into drop boxes, and if there were, it would likely be caught quickly, according to Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Iowa.
“Once you get just a few people involved, people start to reveal the scheme because it unravels pretty quickly," he said.
Absentee ballots are also verified by signature and tracked closely, often with an option for voters themselves to see where their ballot is at any given time. That process safeguards against anyone who tries to illegally cast extra ballots, according to Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Project.
“It seems impossible in that system for a nefarious actor to dump lots of ballots that were never requested by voters and were never issued by election officials,” Burden said.
That article is dated May 3. The film hasn't even been shown yet.

Dismissed.
 
That article is dated May 3. The film hasn't even been shown yet.

Dismissed.
So you think there is some secret evidence that no one has seen yet in this film that Dinesh D'Souza has been sitting on that finally proves the 2020 election was stolen?

Are you in the market for a bridge by chance?
 
So you think there is some secret evidence that no one has seen yet in this film that Dinesh D'Souza has been sitting on that finally proves the 2020 election was stolen?
I think there is a lot of stuff that writer doesn't know about.

~snark dismissed~
And so are you...again.

You got nothing.
 
I think there is a lot of stuff that writer doesn't know about.
Apparently this is "stuff" that no one knows about, since multiple Republican controlled investigations in pretty much every state Trump lost have all concluded that there was less fraud in 2020 that there has been in any election prior. Which makes sense if you think about it, since it was the election most closely monitored for fraud in history.

But I'm sure that there is some secret nugget somewhere that will reveal the enormity of the conspiracy after all this time and vindicate the narrative you bought into which was clearly based on absolutely nothing other than this one little thing that you are unaware of, but trust that it exists since Donald Trump told you it did.
 
2000 Mules.

Oh...wait...the mainstream media wasn't going to tell about that anyway.

The “mainstream media” has no obligation to repeat a bunch of fantasies cooked up by Trump cultists still immensely triggered over their Dear Leader losing.
 
Just so we don't forget what is happening .......

--- War On Good Wages aka Right To Work Legislation
--- War against AFFORDABLE Medical Insurance and Single Payer
--- War On Medicare
--- War On Medicaid
--- War on public education and Higher Education
--- War On Social Security Insurance
--- War on the economy through Supply Side Wreckanomics
--- War against women
--- War on the VA and Veterans Benefits
--- War on Voters Rights = VOTER SUPPRESSION
--- War on strict gun regulations
--- War On National Monuments/Parks
--- War on the press
--- War on the USA Postal Service
--- War On Environmental Cleanliness
--- War On USA Jobs through Free Trade Agreements and Leveraged Buyout Scams
--- War for Oil Control Worldwide
--- War on truth about global warming/climate change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/03/30/174616/koch-denial-machine/
 
Simply because because anti American ALEC right wing political communities raise hell about COVID mandates thus mandates disappear does not in any way indicate COVID is of lesser concern. It only indicates anti american political communities are trying to cover up. These terrorists believe getting themselves re-elected is the most important objective in life........I cannot disagree enough.

COVID cases are still surfacing.

People are still dying.

I continue to read that mask wearing is being encouraged daily from medical sources. Right wing politicians
want the people to go shopping as opposed to being careful.

Encouragement is being observed by myself as I still see smart people still wearing masks in grocery stores
and other indoor venues.
 
The “mainstream media” has no obligation to repeat a bunch of fantasies cooked up by Trump cultists still immensely triggered over their Dear Leader losing.
They had no obligation to repeat a bunch of fantasies cooked up by democrat cultists still immensely triggered over Hillary's loss to the orange devil........but they did with the Trump Russian collusion attempted coup.

Think you probably posted a few times calling us conspiracy theorists back then as well. The "mainstream media" certainly did. So I will wait and see while looking at the evidence. The media will be ignored when they explain away proven facts.
 
Just so we don't forget what is happening .......

--- War On Good Wages aka Right To Work Legislation
--- War against AFFORDABLE Medical Insurance and Single Payer
--- War On Medicare
--- War On Medicaid
--- War on public education and Higher Education
--- War On Social Security Insurance
--- War on the economy through Supply Side Wreckanomics
--- War against women
--- War on the VA and Veterans Benefits
--- War on Voters Rights = VOTER SUPPRESSION
--- War on strict gun regulations
--- War On National Monuments/Parks
--- War on the press
--- War on the USA Postal Service
--- War On Environmental Cleanliness
--- War On USA Jobs through Free Trade Agreements and Leveraged Buyout Scams
--- War for Oil Control Worldwide
--- War on truth about global warming/climate change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/03/30/174616/koch-denial-machine/
Thank you for the laugh. War on voters rights/voter suppression???? because we want voter id laws lol. That adversely effects minority voters lol. Hey make them show id for welfare or any other free shit and they will find a way to get one lol. To much to ask to prevent voter fraud lol. You libs can force them to show vaccine id for everything but not regular id to vote. Pure comedy.

Ribs and stomach hurting please stop.
 
Simply because because anti American ALEC right wing political communities raise hell about COVID mandates thus mandates disappear does not in any way indicate COVID is of lesser concern. It only indicates anti american political communities are trying to cover up. These terrorists believe getting themselves re-elected is the most important objective in life........I cannot disagree enough.

COVID cases are still surfacing.

People are still dying.

I continue to read that mask wearing is being encouraged daily from medical sources. Right wing politicians
want the people to go shopping as opposed to being careful.

Encouragement is being observed by myself as I still see smart people still wearing masks in grocery stores
and other indoor venues.
Get vaccinated and live your life. Quit with the hysteria. 30 to 60 thousand people die each year from the flu.

Today we have vaccines and therapeutics or treatments. We have a much better idea how the virus kills. It's all over.

As for mask efficacy, the CDC says they don't stop enough virus to prevent infection. Even the best respirators, the n95, if properly sealed, allows 70 to 80 percent of virus to escape, with each breath. Even doctors admit a mask is not to keep the wearer safe! Why? Because they can't stop enough virus to prevent infection that's why. So the best masks, properly sealed, can't stop enough virus from escaping to prevent infecting a healty person. They can't prevent enough virus from coming in, hence why doctors say they aren't to protect the wearer, to prevent a healthy person from getting infected. So they offer virtually zero protection.

Now you know why the actual comparison examples between states or schools or whatever, simply show little or no benefit from masks.

Now combine the above information with shitty masks, not properly sealants, and improperly worn masks.

Those Doctors recommending them have an agenda or they simply want to give the feeling of doing something to their patients. Their recommendations don't change the facts.
 
Everything in Democrats policies are what needs addressing, like above, i'll repeat some of what I think are the most important one:

1. Better worker pay- the income inequality is out of control and leading to most of all issues facing
2. Universal Healthcare- every industrialized country has it and its disgusting how horrible out healthcare system is
3. Green energy and conservation. Running out of water in many places, stop polluting environment, need to become leader in green energy and get off expensive fossil fuels

Could be solved if legislation could be passed to stop the corruption of politicians
1. overturn Citizen's united
2. get outside money out of politics so the government works for the people
3. get rid of gerrymandering and have districts follow geographical lines and put together by bipartisan panel
4. make it easier to vote, not harder
 
The government was routed so thoroughly in the war on drugs that pot is becoming legal, a major pharmaceutical company felt confidant enough to start a massive opioid epidemic, fentanyl is killing people left and right, coke is higher in quality and lower in cost than ever, and overdoses are so common in some areas that the cops carry Narcan.
A lot of things have blown up so badly because of politicization; want to make people curious about something? Start making laws governing it, get people to take sides, then plaster it all over the news, newspapers, on the interweb, on bumper stickers, and push it in their faces. No wonder drug use is rampant, and everyone knows exactly where and how to get it, how much it costs, and how to keep from getting caught. They get a primer daily!
 
Everything in Democrats policies are what needs addressing, like above, i'll repeat some of what I think are the most important one:

1. Better worker pay- the income inequality is out of control and leading to most of all issues facing
2. Universal Healthcare- every industrialized country has it and its disgusting how horrible out healthcare system is
3. Green energy and conservation. Running out of water in many places, stop polluting environment, need to become leader in green energy and get off expensive fossil fuels

Could be solved if legislation could be passed to stop the corruption of politicians
1. overturn Citizen's united
2. get outside money out of politics so the government works for the people
3. get rid of gerrymandering and have districts follow geographical lines and put together by bipartisan panel
4. make it easier to vote, not harder
First group....#1 better pay is wonderful but should be left to the free market. Today wages are rising rapidly because employees are at a
premium. Artificial government mandated wages are bad for business and the economy. The lower income are affected more by these artificial wages as businesses raise prices or cut jobs and mechanize to make up the spread......#2 Universal healthcare universally raises premiums, wait times, and lowers quality of care. As evidenced by those counter parts around the world you mentioned.....#3fossil fuels are cheap compared to green energy.....right now. Perhaps down the road technology improves and fossil fuels can be eliminated. Also the batteries are filled with pollutants. Also while your gas bill will go down your electricity bill will rise. The higher demand from the electric company will be satisfied using fossil fuels. So you are still burning fossil fuels in order to drive.

Next row.....#1both sides are guilty. Perhaps figuring out how to jail politicians who accept that money we can finally end it......#2 see #1......#3agreed but again both sides do it when in power.....#4 it's easy to vote. Asking for ID is not making
it harder to vote just harder to cheat.

Funny how ID is produced so easily for free stuff like welfare or free healthcare. Too much trouble for the most important thing a citizen can do lol
 
First group....#1 better pay is wonderful but should be left to the free market. Today wages are rising rapidly because employees are at a
premium. Artificial government mandated wages are bad for business and the economy. The lower income are affected more by these artificial wages as businesses raise prices or cut jobs and mechanize to make up the spread......#2 Universal healthcare universally raises premiums, wait times, and lowers quality of care. As evidenced by those counter parts around the world you mentioned.....#3fossil fuels are cheap compared to green energy.....right now. Perhaps down the road technology improves and fossil fuels can be eliminated. Also the batteries are filled with pollutants. Also while your gas bill will go down your electricity bill will rise. The higher demand from the electric company will be satisfied using fossil fuels. So you are still burning fossil fuels in order to drive.

Next row.....#1both sides are guilty. Perhaps figuring out how to jail politicians who accept that money we can finally end it......#2 see #1......#3agreed but again both sides do it when in power.....#4 it's easy to vote. Asking for ID is not making
it harder to vote just harder to cheat.

Funny how ID is produced so easily for free stuff like welfare or free healthcare. Too much trouble for the most important thing a citizen can do lol
none of what you said is true..........
 
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