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yeah especially since i dont know any anabaptists that are allowed to vote. Maybe theres another weird splinter group in the states
US Presidential Election 2024 - Trump vs Harris - Vote Hard with a Vengence
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Halifax Tar
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That wasn't the question though.
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Strange. Apparently they had to pay for the entertainers. Oprah charged a million bucks. Pretty cheesy of a billionaire. It puts their endorsements in question when they're being paid enormous sums to stump for Harris.
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I'll add that there's likely millions of voters that recognized the lawfare for what it was. They probably don't feel he's a felon at all. Others just don't care. They were afraid and scared what life was going to be under the Dems and voted accordingly.How can a convicted felon become President of the United States? How could decent people vote for him?
How many U.S. adults have a criminal record?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants businesses in New York state to hire more applicants with a criminal record. They become loyal ewww.politifact.com
Just Facts: As Many Americans Have Criminal Records as College Diplomas
With as many criminal convictions as college degrees, it's more evident than ever why "ban the box" laws are important for the economy.www.brennancenter.org
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I may have said this before. In my time in the US I worked in the fishing industry. I worked on factory trawlers and in small fishing towns. I trained people in the processing plants how to use the lines I designed and installed. The people I trained were Mexicans, Brazilians and Guatemalans. I trained Japanese and Norwegians. And I trained Americans: black, white and brown. And I trained, and worked alongside, lots of folks with tattoos and patches, inked teardrops and cobwebs with pins. I worked alongside trades people that couldn't cross state lines because of felony convictions.
And I never felt unsafe in any of those plants. I also never observed any discrimination on any grounds whatsoever. I did observe criminality, usually related to gangs from points of origin of the foreign workers - exploited over telephone cards and the occasional knife fight between Guatemalans and Filipinos for example.
But by and large, my sense of those small town factories in both red and blue states, is that those folks on the lines felt they had an awful lot more in common with each other. I never saw a disturbance based on race, gender, or any kind of sexuality. Everyone was too busy counting their change and hoping that there was enough fish to keep the lines open for another week or two.
And Trump was really popular.
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When you have a society that results in as many felons, prison graduates, as you have college graduates, you shouldn't be surprised when the felons vote for one of their own.
And if one third of society has been convicted, how many have been prosecuted? Have been investigated? Have friends and families that have been investigated, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated?
Where is the stigma? The shame that is supposed to act as a deterrent?
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pretty sure Kevin has posted before that there is or was broad support. Doesnt really matter outside of elections though does it
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That doesn’t change the question though. The point of the article was media consumption and its effects on public opinion.
If I said “are border crossings up or down over the last few months” and people answer “well how about the last 4 years”, that’s not answering the question. It was a True / False question for that timeframe.
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A geopolitical adversary and very frightening boogeyman to keep the US arms industry (and their stock holders) healthy.
'Obvious Conflict of Interest': Report Reveals 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks
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That may have been the media question but was it relevant to the person being given their quadrennial chance to decide on the fate of their rulers?
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I mean maybe. Do you suggest that the US get rid of its defence capabilities including the nuclear triad to test the theory out?
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I'm suggesting high ranking US officials benefit monetarily the US role of world police.
And while Russia is a really shitty country, the only thing stopping them from going full Command and Conquer isn't a thin blue line in Ukraine.
Don't get me wrong, grinding Russia down there is great. Americans might be questioning what their taxes are getting them that's all.
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of course the same is true everywhere and always
the US military exists only to counter a threat from Russia?
5% of the defence and security budget. I think id be asking questions elsewhere
Is Russia a ‘boogeyman’ when they actually invade a neighbour in a naked war of aggression?
Or plant incendiary devices on western aircraft
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Edit: the million for Oprah was for the interview they asked her to do for Harris. All the entertainment was still paid for though. Perhaps that's how she raised over a billion dollars, but is currently 20 mill in the hole.
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The most chaotic of the Great Game players bled dry, good American jobs created or maintained in arms manufacturing, a potential trade partner and ally freed of a tyrant's attentions... there's so many angles to sell it, from the purely moral to total self-interest.
The questioning should be of the trickle approach, at this point: it's waste without purpose. The Russians are fixed, now, more or less: they're not at Day 4, and oh maybe this was a terrible idea, we'll turn around and head home with our forces intact. Time to blow up what's left of their army.
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Depending, among some, on whether you like who wins, and who loses
And where does this tax money get spent? In offshore factories making Bradley's?
@RangerRay appears to be correct ....
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As opposed to billionaires using their own properties to conduct government business on the taxpayer's dime? Discuss
The Secret Service spent nearly $2 million at Trump properties - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump's presidential grifting had a real cost to taxpayers: nearly $2 million to protect the Trumps at their own properties.
www.citizensforethics.org
The Government's Bar Tab at Mar-a-Lago | Trump, Inc. | WNYC Studios
Spending taxpayer money at Mar-a-Lago is a such a "headache," the State Department got a special credit card for visits to the president's private club.
Taxpayers have now paid for Trump to visit Mar-a-Lago 100 times - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump hit an important milestone as he returned to Florida over the Thanksgiving holiday: 100 visits to Mar-a-Lago in just 1,041 days as president.
www.citizensforethics.org
Jarnhamar
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Naw then they're an aggressor.
My bet is the US has invaded or been militarily involved with more countries than Russia though.
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Been a long time since the US invaded us though can
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say the same?
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