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[krimster2]

I'm sorry, but today's Republican Party is NOT The Party of Lincoln, instead it became the party of "big business" at the end of 19th century
you could've pitched that argument about democrats way back then
but not today

Beel, are you one of them "Dominion Theologists"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology

Beel I likes 'ya
so if I become a low level commisar in the "post Collapse" North American Cmmunard
I'll make sure yur name is not on any of our 'lists'
in exchange, if instead we go "Dominion Theocracy" you keep my name offa yur lists....deal?

[2tallbill]

Beel I likes 'ya

The feeling is mutual.

Udachi!
Beel

[krimster2]

awww shucks...

meanwhile...
olly olly umptemfree
Israeli rockets hit Iranian territory

not a good time to go flyin

[Trenchcoat]

I kind of expected something a bit more full on for Israel's counter attack on Iran.

Looks like it might all just be a set up to get the Israel & Iran thing de-escalated without either side losing face.

[krimster2]

comedy, warfare....
success depends on timing

Israel scrubbed the first two missions, which WERE much more extensive
with a smaller one focused on an Iranian air base
I will hear the details later today...
but I already heard a weird story I can't confirm, that the Israeli attack was launched from WITHIN Iran
sounds like they flew F-35s into Iran, and from within Iran, they launched stealth glide bombs
Iran had no clue, until the explosions

Israel attacked the Isfahan Air Base, this facility is not far from several of Iran's el-cheapo Chinese nuclear reactors that are SOLELY used for physics research and not plutonium production
makes for a good warning, should Iran decide to escalate

Israel knows the thickness of the reactor containment sphere and whether or not a 'bunker buster" can penetrate the containment sphere before detonating on the reactor
remember when Israel took out Iraq's plutonium breeder reactor back in the day

Israel being a "good boy" will get the money from Biden...and in return they will delay actions that WILL effect oil prices until after November
it's a "quid pro quo" world, though inflation means it's 4.3 quids now

hostage smiles on Presidents, freedom scribbled on the subway wall
it's like night and day

Covid was just the first warnin to ya'll
that one day, Babylon gonna fall

by the end of the next decade, there will be a "new economic order" after the old one collapses
we will all dwell in it's 'heart of darkness'


I am a Catastrophe Theorist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory

and have created my own excel model of the "debt bomb"
tryin to predict when it all goes nonlinear, i.e. "The Collapse"

you haz yur hobbies, and I haz mine

[2tallbill]

I'm sorry, but today's Republican Party is NOT The Party of Lincoln, instead it became the party of "big business" at the end of 19th century

Upside down and backwards
Meanwhile back in the 21st century can you name a single non-oil sector in the S&P 500
that doesn't donate to the DNC or leftist causes. The Dems are in bed with big corporations
at the expense of small businesses. The left will drive them out of business if they don't.

How about a single company in the S&P 500?

Peace

Beel

[krimster2]

billionaires donate to both sides, it's called hedging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)

"The 1896 realignment cemented the Republicans as the party of big businesses while president Theodore Roosevelt added more small business support by his embrace of trust busting."

Today 'ole Teddy would be a democrat, why?
because he was in favor of a progressive income tax on the rich and powerful
indexed for inflation, 'ole Teddy didn't want to start taxin folks until only after about 60k of income...
he didn't wanna tax the labor of the 'workin man', only the plutocracy

his speech here
http://ips-dc.org/a_century_later_teddy_roosevelts_speech_on_corporate_power/

now republicans have flipped everything
1. tax the working man more than the 1%
2. support Russia, instead of opposing it

what happened to the republican party?
they fell victim to the "Iron Law of Oligarchy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

now Republican apologists like Anne Coulter will assert that today's Republican Party is the same 'Party of Lincoln" from 1860
but it's NOT, they're connin you

Today the Republican party is more or less MAGA with 'alternative facts" that are distributed through their media outlets owned by people like Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk and a galaxy of other disinformation sites
Remember 'Pravda'? now we have "Truth Social"
same deal...

a simple comparison of the two
Democrats
  New Deal/social security, etc
  '64 Civil Rights Act
  Affordable Care Act
  student loan forgiveness

Republicans
  Tax cuts for corporations and bilionaires

TODAY, you yourself  Beel, have medical insurance, NOT because of Republicans (not a single Republican voted for the ACA, aka "Obamacare")
you have it in spite of Republicans, cuz they were willin to let ya die without it, so that their patrons could keep more money for themselves

I'm not sure why you wanna lend political support to the party that's SO indifferent to you, that they don't care if you live or die

why is it you vote against your own interests, to maintain the staus quo of the billionaires?
are you a closet billionaire Beel?


btw, I was a republican up to Ronald Reagan...
as the cliche goes
I didn't leave the party, the party left me
I even campaigned for a Republican Senator in my youth

"Upside down"
a great music video filmed in the FSU

[2tallbill]

billionaires donate to both sides, it's called hedging

You said big corporations not Billionaires. Show me a dollar that Bill Gates, Bezos,
Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell or Warren
Buffet donated to the right, they didn't hedge. Most billionaires are Dem's only a
very few are Republican.

Most Big Corporations are woke and give to woke causes or suffer the rath of the left.

[krimster2]

"corporations are people, my friend", said Mitt Romney....

Beel, just to use the example of a SINGLE 1.6 billion USD right-wing donation
http://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/02/leonard-leo-federalist-society-00094761
and also let's not forget the "Mercer family" who gave us Trump in 2016
there's gazillions more, but I'm too lazy to search



Beel, ya wanna vote for Republicans... "well...go on"
but first, here's a little video fer ya

http://twitter.com/i/status/1781296940824584260

[2tallbill]

I didn't leave the party, the party left me

It goes the opposite way. Upside down and backwards again. Bill Mahr, Joe Rogan Tulsi
Gabbard all left the Democrats because of woke crap.


The Democrats Begging Their Party to Ditch the Activist Left
http://time.com/6332506/democrats-2024-activist-left-elections/

[2tallbill]

"corporations are people, my friend", said Mitt Romney....

Beel, ya wanna vote for Republicans... "well...go on"
but first, here's a little video fer ya

http://twitter.com/i/status/1781296940824584260

Mittens is not a credible source.

[krimster2]

"Mittens is not a credible source."

senator, ex govenor of Massachusetts  why is he not credible?   cuz he's anti-Trump? are all anti-trump Republicans lacking in 'credibility' ?
to me, he's a lot more credible then "he whose name must not be mentioned"

what Romney was referring to was 'this'

Citizens United v. FEC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Dissent

political donations are 'free speech'
all the animals are equal you see
but some are MUCH more equal than others, where have we heard that before?

money can't buy you love, but it can buy you all the politicians you want on both sides of the isle

here's a CPA 'certified Political Accountant" view
http://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors

rich people all donate to whatever party, for the same reason...
to influence the party, as a form of 'wealth protection'

money turns our congress from the 'house of commons' into the 'house of lords'
not too good for the 'commoners' now is it?

Bill, is this video below, why yur a republican?
http://twitter.com/i/status/1734633407081033784
cuz you want America to be a theocracy like Iran, but just with a different religion?


Beel, do you identify with the people in the photo below?
WTF are they doin some kinda experiment with static electricity or something?

No one EVER expects the Spanish Inquisition, until it's too late