Are they so far gone that they don't recognize their own language?

#5 | Posted by TFDNihilist

Yes.

Or maybe they just don't care about the hypocrisy.

Conservatives have never had ideals. It has always been that they will spout whatever argument they can find that provides cover for their racism and blatant self interest.

And now that those same arguments are inconvenient, they have completely abandoned them.

T... A... C... O...

Thats a poor partisan guess. Indicates knowing nothing about manufacturing, you're just hoping against all logic this can't be true.
This is why I say you've never worked in tech, you don't understand anything about business, or you're so partisan as to be ignored on anything outside of partisan opinions.
The reality is the price you are paying for a product isn't the cost to manufacture that particular item, but the cost with the predicted price to manufacture it today.
The reason for this with inflation or spikes the manufacture needs to "raise" capital to purchase this months raw material.
This is why gas jump next day on international events. Using your logic these events wouldn't affect prices, but everyone knows prices immediately jump so down the chain everyone can pay for todays raw material price changes.

#14 | Posted by oneironaut

You are the one who knows nothing about business.

Businesses charge what people are willing to pay. Regardless of their input costs.

When you have events that potentially disrupt the supply of a product people want to stock up to make sure they don't get caught without it later, so they are willing to pay more. So businesses charge more. That is how capitalism works.

If you were right, there would be no such thing as "price gouging". A hurricane coming through does not suddenly cause a generator to cost three times as much to manufacture. Or suddenly make gasoline multiple times more costly to produce. But "price gouging" is very real, and people complain about it regularly during disasters.

You are the perfect example of why manufacturing is declining under Trump. Because conservatives don't understand business, or the economy. Once the adults (Democrats) who actually understand economics get back in charge then manufacturing will probably start increasing again.

This is stupid. Anyone with two brain cells knows why manufacturing and employment numbers went up under Biden, and it had nothing to do with his policies.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds

The question is whether those people with two brain cells know why it is FALLING under Trump. Do YOU have two brain cell?

Libertarians are just Republicans now. Republicans actually took over their party. And intentionally destroyed it (last I heard they were probably going to go bankrupt). And Trump was the main speaker at their last convention.

It is actually pretty sad. I am not a Libertarian, but I am in favor of diversity of views in politics, want to have more parties so we have more viewpoints. And the Libertarian party had done a surprisingly good job at getting ballot access, challenging the two main parties. But all that effort is for naught now.

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people.

Federalist Papers IV

So cops should let themselves get killed or maimed by being run over because her intent "might" have been just to get away?
You don't see that as a problem?

#449 | Posted by Imshakinitboss

A cop should not be walking in front of a car while they are trying to detain someone. Should have gotten back in his car and blocked her with it if he were trying to stop her. And if he were trying to get her to move, also should not be getting in front of the car.

This guy was not a cop. Cops have training to keep themselves safe and de-escalate situations. This was just a thug. An untrained thug that you are defending.

Nice to see that you support a drug dealing dictator after saying Trump needs to go because he is a dictator. Your crap is so old and spewed out like a retarded child.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw

Trump pardoned a drug dealing dictator.

Like you, he doesn't give a crap about drug dealers, the Americans they harm, or dictators. All he cares about is oil, and "drug dealing dictator" is just a cover story for weak minded people like yourself to parrot back out when his blatant imperialism is challenged.

This is the difference between authority and not. You're proposition is protesters can arrest and detain people? Seems like mayhem.

#371 | Posted by oneironaut

Exactly. YOU are who originally made the comparison. Good job debunking your own metaphor.

Also, if she was a protester, following ICE and filming, I would assume she filmed this as well. THAT should be interesting to see.

Why? Why do protesters get to crowd the cars but officers putting people under arrest do not?

#349 | Posted by oneironaut

Do protesters get to shoot the driver of the car if they get nudged? Can you give me an example of where a protester did that and they did not get charged with murder?

If not, seems to me like this guy should be charged with murder.

Sounds to me using his body to block vehicles is his usual assignment.

#294 | Posted by BillJohnson

Is this what cops are supposed to do? Y'all claim that a vehicle is a "deadly weapon"... do cops usually put themselves in the "line of fire" of a deadly weapon when they are confronting someone?

#40 | Posted by john_savage1

So are you saying you would be opposed to the leader of a country calling up an election official after the election and telling them to "find him the votes" to win the election?

Or are you only opposed to election fraud in other countries?

And, to be clear, I am completely opposed to rigged elections by anyone. But I do not believe that it is the US's responsibility to police the other people's elections, especially not enforcing them / overthrowing them with force.

But since you seem to believe it IS the US's responsibility to enforce fair elections, why has Trump not captured Putin?

This will never see the light of day.

#3 | Posted by jpw

Hopefully it will come back on Jan 3, 2027.

Fine. Which drugs did he cut by 87%?

If he actually did that, then I will accept that he just misspoke.

But if he didn't do that either, it is just another sign of his dementia.

Inflation the lowest it's ever been.

#5 | Posted by boaz

Lowest it's EVER BEEN? It's not even below the FED target. Is that what Fox News told you to believe?

I get insulted when people tell me lies, primarily because I find it insulting that they think I am stupid enough to believe their lies.

I guess if you are actually there stupid, then you do not feel insulted.

Interesting. I see both sides of the argument but I don't see the current requirement changing.

#13 | Posted by eberly

I agree. I think quarterly reporting causes a lot of harm. But transparency is also important. It is a complex issue.

They're about to try the shutdown nonsense again. If it gets to the point of SNAP being in jeopardy, watch again who will cave the fastest when that time comes.

#8 | Posted by THEBULL

SNAP benefits do help Republicans more. Conservatives only care about helping the rich. Liberals care about all of their constituents, including the ones who vote for the other party. Conservatives don't even care about the suffering of the people who voted for them (exhibit A... have you gone to the store recently?).

But also, SNAP benefits were extended for the whole year when the government was reopened. In the government shutdown in January, Republicans will not be able to starve women, children, and other disadvantaged people to try to get what they want.

The BIG question is why are Republicans unable to get their act together and pass a bill to fund the government? Why are they still using Biden finding levels instead of passing their own? A continuing resolution is a stopgap measure. If it is used at all it is evidence that Congress is failing at their jobs.

And it has been used for the past two years. The REPUBLICAN Congress has been unable to pass a proper funding bill, has continued Biden era funding levels, for two years now.

You'd rather have people die than Trump have a win.

#4 | Posted by visitor_

Lol. Dems did not torpedo this deal. It was completely due to Republican incompetence. And we said from the beginning that he doesn't know what he is doing. That he oversimplifies very complex issues, says he can fix them and the gullible mouth breathers believe him. I wish he wasn't so stupid and incompetent. But the facts, like this one, do not lie. So we have to content ourselves with saying "I told you so", because we did.

I see, Cl*nton on the list, but not president. Innocent.
Tr*mp on the list when he wasn't the president. Guilty.

#25 | Posted by notmymonkey

I have no reason to believe Clinton is innocent. They are both probably guilty.

I agree with you that Clinton does not represent my values. I will never vote for him, and will support his removal from any and all public offices or positions of power.

Now your turn. Will you say the same about Trump? Or, like the rest of the pedophile supporting conservatives, does Trump still represent your values and you are committed to supporting him and keeping him in public office and positions of power?

Replacing an employee usually ends up costing between 50% and 100% of their salary. Do conservatives have no idea about the realities of business? Why did they waste all this money by firing all these people?

It'd be great if both sides could f off with the Gerrymandering.

#18 | Posted by kwrx25

California's gerrymandering was specifically in response to Texas's. Without Texas blatantly trying to gerrymander first, liberals in CA would not even be considering it.

Also, California gerrymandering will automatically revert back to its un-gerrymandered state at the next redistricting (after the next census). The only way they could keep it us with a brand new ballot initiative.

Liberals intentionally set it up to try to get rid of gerrymandering (while not unilaterally disarming).

Republicans in Texas are all in on gerrymandering and have shown every intention of gerrymandering as much as possible in the future.

Daylight's a burning.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac

Which is all the more important for a sundowner. ;)

Are you suggesting one is less illegal than the other?

#20 | Posted by sentinel

I would say that there are things that are "more" illegal than others. Carrying out the initial strike might or might not be illegal. An argument could be made that it was illegal, but a decent argument could be made that it wasn't. I would not be in favor of the people who carried out the first strike being tried for murder, even if a court came to the conclusion it was an illegal order.

The second strike was very definitively, was "more", illegal. The people who carried out that strike should be tried and jailed for murder, as well as anyone who ordered it. Anyone who would order it or carry it out is scum and should be removed from society in order to protect said society.

#6 | Posted by snoofy

And people often screw up at least once. Usually many times.