gearhog
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Yes. That's what I am saying. Would you like to dispute it with something other than "Surely not!"? NOVEMBER 3rd, 2019:
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Not a very good analogy, brother. The chutes are manufactured and packed by a foreign third party contractor off base. Your own inspectors found flaws. CBS: CNN: The New York Times:
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What’s the greater threat to our freedoms and democracy: believing our election process isn’t flawed or believing that it is flawed?
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Looks like I posted the link to the page right after you. We’ll see what the results are. Why is the most straightforward explanation, in existence, of what’s currently happening coming from this guy?
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Not only is his sarcasm glaringly obvious, he ended his statement with "/s".
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Can you quote where I mentioned anything about crime and violence? You're fabricating a position, attributing it to me, and creating an argument against it just so you can feel like you won a debate. Retarded.
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No, I am saying in this particular instance, political bias is clearly evident in the authors' attempt to make the case that a vote means more if its near higher economic activity. "Democrats represent voters who overwhelmingly reside in the nation’s diverse economic centers, and thus tend to prioritize housing affordability, an improved social safety net, transportation infrastructure, and racial justice. Jobs in blue America also disproportionately rely on national R&D investment, technology leadership, and services exports." "By contrast, Republicans represent an economic base situated in the nation’s struggling small towns and rural areas. Prosperity there remains out of reach for many, and the party sees no reason to consider the priorities and needs of the nation’s metropolitan centers. That is not a scenario for economic consensus or achievement. Specifically, Trump’s anti-establishment appeal suggests that a sizable portion of the country continues to feel little connection to the nation’s core economic enterprises, and chose to channel that animosity into a candidate who promised not to build up all parts of the country, but rather to vilify groups who didn’t resemble his base." What locations have problems with housing affordability, homelessness, infrastructure, and racial justice? The same ones the authors are praising for voting blue. What bullshit.
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Counties do not account for economic activity, people and businesses do. The GDP contribution of a business headquartered in Cook Co, IL has little to do with the unassociated millions of voters who live there. It seems they're trying to make the case that because a big business happens to be located in the same geographic area, the opinions of those who live near it matter more. Check the Twitter feeds of the authors of the article. They're all politically biased.
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But you don't need to be hypocritical. You already have the correct answer, why would you also argue the case for a policy-maker with the incorrect answer? If white males are over-represented because the selection criteria was biased for race/gender, creating more biases based on race/gender that originally created the problem clearly doesn't make sense. The health of a military service is measured in performance, not identity. As the post above said, set a standard, create a selection process that removes the potential for decisions to be made with a conscious or subconscious bias with regard to race/gender, and I too believe minorities will fair far better, and do so more legitimately, that they do today or will after more diversity quotas.
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Shameful. Go watch the movie again.
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Say you have a room of 100 pilot candidates that exactly represents the demographics of the USA. They all have different resumes and the resumes don't specify race or gender. What would your selection process be if you needed to choose 20 of them to fly aircraft in combat?
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You didn't specify your gender. Why?
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I was thinking this morning Trump's like the Herc of politicians. Loud, lots of weird noises, not the most handsome on the ramp, requires lots of maintenance, probably smells bad... many people would say it's just generally offensive to most of the senses. But the capabilities! Anyone who bothers to look beyond the surface knows it does damn near anything you need it to do to protect the country. Prang it into the ground and it bounces back and keeps flying. Can take a bullet. Performs as well as anything else in the midst of chaos. It's why we keep it around. 😆
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Crenshaw!
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Screenshot your electoral predictions. https://www.270towin.com/maps/r9v80 Trump wins.
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Maj Gen Ed Thomas: Too many white guys are pilots. https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/86-of-air-force-pilots-are-white-men-heres-why-this-needs-to-change-155046366.html?guccounter=1&__twitter_impression=true
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You said a black man in THAT video would have been shot much earlier than THIS white guy. The system did not shoot the white guy, a cop did. To say that cop, whom you know nothing of, would have shot a black man sooner means means that cop decides when to pull the trigger based on race. If you doubt that cop is racist, why do you believe he would have pulled the trigger sooner? How can you possibly stand by this argument?
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Was it worth it?
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You just called the cop in that video a racist. There is no black man in the video. You don't know who that cop is. But because he is a cop, in your mind...he's a racist. What a horrible way to think.
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This morning, I waited 1.5 hours outside in the rain, in a line that stretched around the courthouse to vote early. No one in line was wearing political gear, but many were wearing red. Around the town square, people were in chairs under umbrellas holding Trump signs while the passing traffic honked, gave thumbs up, etc. I got inside, got my ballot from the clerk who said it had been like this for days. ( I know, I stopped by two other days last week and the line was too long). As I'm voting, the clerk explains to the 50-60 year old man immediately behind me that he could vote a straight ticket if he wanted. He said "What's that mean? I'm sorry, I've never voted before." That's just my little corner of the world, but I have never ever seen anything like it, and neither had anyone around me in line I was talking to. I do agree with your point about the economy. We're f'd six ways from Sunday. We're in a false recovery. Whoever is POTUS will have one of the biggest economic meltdowns ever on their watch.
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Ever played poker? If you're a politician and you're sitting on a trove of information detrimental to your opponents, it can be of tremendous value. Once it has been made public, it no longer has value. My point is: the laptop is real, and it does contain information. Everyone wants to know everything that's on it. I think Trump and his team know how much they need to allude to this information to get public interest, how much proof they need to provide to eek out a win, and how much they can use against their opponents for the next 4 years. Perhaps, it's a bluff, perhaps it's not. Don't expect to get any more proof than is necessary to lock up the election.
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I know, it's not top shelf. But where do you go when nothing is legit? I think we can ignore the details and the unsubstantiated inferences. But there is basic info. The laptop exists, and the people who have seen it said it contains the Hunter Biden porn/illegal activities as well as compromising financial/corruption information about Joe. If Chinese-dissident billionaire Guo and Bannon have the contents and release proof of the Hunter claims, it stands to reason that incriminating financial information also exists. If it exists, it is most certainly being used as leverage behind the scenes. Once its out there, it's no longer useful.
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There is something going on this week. The media is dialing back rhetoric a little, Biden and Harris aren't campaigning like they should be. This laptop is un-fucking-believable. Aside from all the Hunter Biden porn on the Gtv.org website, it is said there are tens of thousands of incriminating texts and emails implicating Joe. They are very slowly being released. The Dems are over a barrel. It is starting to seem like they know they have to lose this round. If they don't lose, the revelations will destroy the Presidency and the Party. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/forget_the_hunter_biden_sex_tapes_the_real_news_is_much_bigger_than_that.html
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It basically lays out all the events that unfolded just prior to and after the 2016 election. Honestly, I've never been able to put the Steele Dossier, "Russia Gate", General Flynn, Carter Page, Devin Nunes issues into a coherent story. It's a series of interviews from Trump admin and transition team, DOJ, DIA, CIA, and FBI whistleblowers. The video presents the entire chain of events and backstories in a way that gives you the nearly complete picture of what happened. Reading the description, I thought it might be a selectively edited and highly spun right-wing propaganda video. Of course, there is a bias, but it seems to be supported by fact after fact after fact. Everything makes sense. You may watch it and come to a different conclusion, but it'll definitely give you info you didn't have before and make you think little harder about what's going on. If you do find fault in it, I'd be interested to hear it in case I'm being naive.
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Watch The Plot Against the President on Amazon Prime. Holy crap our government is corrupt.
