Wow......some really damaged people here. I know it's a place to blow off steam and that leads to posts that are overly harsh....but goddam......some of you really need some help. Maybe just self-help by taking a break from this place. Some of you need some counseling.

some of you simply need your worthless ass beaten.

"Personal attacks for no reason.

It's easy to be brave and offensive online."

Welcome to the Retort.

Where folks can be brave and offensive all day

Nazi
Pedo
Rapist

I agree Fortfisher is out of line with his comment but before you clutch your pearls......maybe have some perspective.

When I say we are infested with posters experiencing some serious issues or pretending to ... ..see this thread for examples.

If the headline said "ICE arrests 145,000 people WITH criminal history" would the conversation look different?

well....probably not.

-How about we start taxing the uber-wealthy

What do you have in mind?

A higher rate for the highest brackets? start it where and how much? It's already a marginal system.....but in reality it's not as marginal as it should be.

an estate tax? we got one...but it's easy to avoid

I think corky made a reference to FDR......he's not available to run, IIRC. Who do you think can do it?

Bernie Sanders? The Left won't let him on the ticket because the democratic party won't support him much less any republicans.

It's not that the idea is bad.....it's understanding how to get there.

-More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories, according to new data. ...

But that means 2/3 of the ones arrested actually had a criminal history?

Wow....I didn't think they were working that hard to arrest actual criminals. I would have thought the number would be more like 15-20% or so....not 67%

There are people here who believe there are exactly zero wealthy people who did it honestly.

Haven't seen Clownshack for a little while......hope he's okay. But he's one of them.

-A distinction sans any difference; doesn't make it right.

I don't disagree. I'm just saying it's just as wrong when a 2-bit carnival barker running for city council does it as when a billionaire who support candidate for Federal office do it.

It's an effective tactic and it's worked sans the billionaire.

-The wife buys the Boar's Head brand. Nothing wrong with a baloney sandwich once in a while.

my wife grew up on baloney.....so it's not allowed in our house. I think it's mostly a symbolic protest from childhood.

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why the intentional deflection? Everyone knows being born into poverty is the easiest way to be in poverty. Nobody is including kids in this discussion. Nobody is pointing to bad decisions made by children.

Do you just not want to accept that adults that end up in poverty made bad choices?

Is it just too hard to go down that road?

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You can be ignored or be confronted.

which is it? I would assume you prefer to be ignored based on your weak ass posts....but you can answer for yourself.

-Yup, plonked that turd as well

no you didn't.

-They blame immigrants instead

I agree....but ever see "Gangs of New York"?

Politicians been using immigrants as a wedge issue for a long time......

Hold on now.....let's not rag on baloney sandwiches. LOL

But...what's the problem with them? That they are baloney sandwiches...or that it's free to the inner city kid paid by someone else?

-Because having children is a for-profit scheme?!?

It's definitely not a scheme.

"But hey, Eb's gets to be the stable influence when everyone else is Slipping into Hysteria."

That's awfully kind of you but I'm not sure of the "influence" part.

Some people just love to watch themselves freak out.

"you bet on the wrong horse"

I didn't wager anything, gave no money to either candidate and I voted for Harris.

Pig ignorant. Yeah ... ..no ----

"which political candidate called a good portion of the country deplorables?"

The one that lost.

"Stefania Kapronczay, former head of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union"

I was curious if this person was on the same page as the rest of us.

Forgive me for asking for clarification.

It's interesting to watch people display they've completely lost all hope. They've thrown in the towel on sanity, decency, and curiosity.

They're convinced everything is rigged against them, they have no future, they count on failing, and all they have left is criticism, hatred, and disdain for fellow Americans.

Post after post proves it. Even a reasonable question deserves an attitude that's clearly driven by the characteristics I just mentioned.

I won't say I enjoy watching such a display. I have to fight it a little......

WTF what?

"the inability or refusal of enough of our electorate to learn from past mistakes."

Welcome to the USA

-Harris would have been status quo. Nothing for me beyond a continuation of what was already working pretty well.

I think you'd find a lot of folks on the left would strongly disagree with you.

I tend to agree with you that it was working pretty well but I've been attacking consistently over the past 20 years on this site for "whistling past the graveyard" and ignoring all the misery and mayhem occurring everywhere.

But I'm white, rich, etc...so I'm insulated to such pain and misery and can't relate. Oh, and a racist as well, I suppose.

but surely you noticed the notion that everything went to hell didn't start with Trump. It didn't end when we elected Biden, Obama, Clinton, etc. either.

Farmer's political views........old news

The kid's on the Drudge Retort and their knowledge of farmer's political views?.........very new news.

I know they'll pretend they've always known this but it's 100% obvious that's not true. They've never understood a damn thing about the farming community, the agriculture community in general, and how it impacts many many communities around the country, in red states, blue states, purple states, etc. How it impacts policy in every state house and in DC.

Farmers are big big babies much of the time. The truly honest ones know it but aren't going to tell the world they know it.

Yeah, it's a head scratcher why every trade association and lobbyist never advised any of them to reconsider voting for or supporting Trump.

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yet another zinger!!

Good catch.

-What do you think I wanted? Wealth? Riches? Your wife feeding me grapes?

Good question.....Any of those coming your way if Harris had won? Of course not.

which is why maybe you should stop crying about the score. You're always losing anyway.

Nobody can seem to wrap their arms around the fact that you and I and everyone else here is in the same boat.

Same boat. A boat with Trump as the captain. A captain that neither of us voted for. Driving us into an iceberg or some other peril.

Why are you crying at the scoreboard and the points the farmers scored for the other team all the ------- time?

-Those law firms that caved to Trump, paid him money/free legal services, because he threatened them for people they represented.

Oh yeah.....I was shocked at that as well.

My original question is that an example of what the author is talking about? If so, then I completely agree.