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Tanypteryx
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Message 406 of 440 (915980)
02-21-2024 11:57 AM
Reply to: Message 405 by Taq
02-21-2024 11:52 AM


Re: $355 million
I also wouldn't be surprised if Trump demands his lawyers to break the law on his behalf.
Yep, and he's already burned through the attorneys who will do that voluntarily.

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Message 407 of 440 (915982)
02-21-2024 1:06 PM
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02-21-2024 11:49 AM


Re: $355 million
$87k.
MSN

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?


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Tanypteryx
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Message 408 of 440 (915988)
02-21-2024 2:18 PM
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02-21-2024 1:06 PM


Re: $355 million
Oh, that's not so bad.

Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
Why should anyone debate someone who doesn't know the subject? -- AZPaul3

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Message 409 of 440 (916108)
02-24-2024 10:49 AM


I was wondering...
In a country with more guns than people, and with so many idiots on both sides of the political aisle, how is it possible that Donald Trump is still alive? Mind you, I am not advocating his assassination, I am simply wondering how long it will take for someone to have had enough of his dangerous rhetoric and do something drastic.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

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Message 410 of 440 (916111)
02-24-2024 11:45 AM
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02-24-2024 10:49 AM


Re: I was wondering...
... I am not advocating his assassination ...
We understand. It is not the American way of presidential politics to propose something like an opponent just pull a Jimmy Hoffa and become part of a bridge abutment somewhere. Radical un-American thoughts. Besides, the security guys are very good at their jobs.

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Message 411 of 440 (916112)
02-24-2024 12:59 PM
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02-24-2024 11:45 AM


Re: I was wondering...
AZPaul3 writes:
Besides, the security guys are very good at their jobs.
Yes.
Also, the American left has been without a violent fringe element for years. Kooks we got; bloodthirsty terrorists, not so much.
We have plenty of political violence in the U.S., almost entirely on the right.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
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Theodoric
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Message 412 of 440 (916116)
02-24-2024 2:04 PM
Reply to: Message 409 by Parasomnium
02-24-2024 10:49 AM


Re: I was wondering...
The crazy willing to shoot people support him.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?


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Message 413 of 440 (916121)
02-24-2024 4:10 PM
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02-24-2024 12:59 PM


Re: I was wondering...
What about that kid that tried to kill Reagan?

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Tanypteryx
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Message 414 of 440 (916123)
02-24-2024 4:18 PM
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02-24-2024 4:10 PM


Re: I was wondering...
What about him?

Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
Why should anyone debate someone who doesn't know the subject? -- AZPaul3

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AZPaul3
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Message 415 of 440 (916126)
02-24-2024 4:40 PM
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02-24-2024 4:10 PM


Re: I was wondering...
Was Hinckley a hardcore left-wing political terrorist? Are you really reaching that far for your rightist stance?

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Omnivorous
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Message 416 of 440 (916128)
02-24-2024 6:56 PM
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02-24-2024 4:10 PM


Re: I was wondering...
Phat writes:
What about that kid that tried to kill Reagan?
Yeah! Howzabout that crazy 20th century!
Good one! It burns.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
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Message 417 of 440 (916144)
02-25-2024 8:49 AM
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02-24-2024 6:56 PM


Re: I was wondering...
Just to fill in any holes in people's memories, John Hinckley Jr. attempted an assassination of president Ronald Reagan because he believed it would impress Jodie Foster with whom he was obsessed. He was under a psychiatrist's care while he stalked her at Yale and when he wrote to Foster on the eve of the assassination attempt:
quote:
Over the past seven months I've left you dozens of poems, letters and love messages in the faint hope that you could develop an interest in me. Although we talked on the phone a couple of times I never had the nerve to simply approach you and introduce myself. ... The reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I cannot wait any longer to impress you.
  —John Hinckley Jr.
Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was under institutional care for nearly four decades.
A request to the originators of subtopics like this: Threads about Trump already by the very necessity of recounting what Trump has said and done have a high nonsense level. There's no need for people to add their own nonsense or to wonder about things that can be so easily looked up
--Percy

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Theodoric
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Message 418 of 440 (916182)
02-26-2024 9:02 AM
Reply to: Message 408 by Tanypteryx
02-21-2024 2:18 PM


Re: $355 million
Evidently figures have been updated.
$114,000 per day.
Trump Faces Ticking Clock On Massive Civil Judgments - Joe.My.God.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?


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Message 419 of 440 (916198)
02-26-2024 12:37 PM
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02-24-2024 12:59 PM


Re: I was wondering...
Omnivorous writes:
Also, the American left has been without a violent fringe element for years.
One could argue that the violent BLM protests could be placed on the doorstep of US liberals. I don't think it is as simple as that, but I think it should still be something that US liberals acknowledge and strive to reduce.
As a counterpoint, the close election between Gore and Bush in 2000 had way more potential of being the product of a rigged election, but there weren't any Democrats participating in a violent protest at the US Capitol, or anywhere. Once the runway ran out for Gore he shook Bush's hand and supported the legitimacy of his election win (through clenched teeth). That was the end of it.

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Tanypteryx
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Message 420 of 440 (916199)
02-26-2024 12:53 PM
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02-26-2024 12:37 PM


Re: I was wondering...
Once the runway ran out for Gore he shook Bush's hand and supported the legitimacy of his election win (through clenched teeth). That was the end of it.
I have always wondered what Gore's inner thoughts were less than a year later on Sept. 11?

Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
Why should anyone debate someone who doesn't know the subject? -- AZPaul3

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