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#10701 User is offline   Cyphon 

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Posted 05 July 2020 - 07:58 AM

Kanye running for president just feels like a spoiler for Biden to me. He cant even get on the ballot in like 6 states...
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#10702 User is offline   Terez 

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Posted 05 July 2020 - 08:00 AM



what the fuck is happening

The President (2012) said:

Please proceed, Governor.

Chris Christie (2016) said:

There it is.

Elizabeth Warren (2020) said:

And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.
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#10703 User is offline   Aptorian 

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Posted 05 July 2020 - 08:13 AM

I was listening to a podcast called the Rabbit Hole from The New York Times last week, where they did an episode about QAnon. It seems like it's much more of a community thing for lonely republicans and middle age old people than necessarily just conspiracy nuts.
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Posted 05 July 2020 - 08:13 AM

it's definitely both

The President (2012) said:

Please proceed, Governor.

Chris Christie (2016) said:

There it is.

Elizabeth Warren (2020) said:

And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.
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#10705 User is offline   Primateus 

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Posted 05 July 2020 - 09:00 AM

View PostTerez, on 05 July 2020 - 08:00 AM, said:



what the fuck is happening


Seeing that makes me think of that t-shirt that redneck on youtube is wearing,

You people traded your country for a red hat






Screw you all, and have a nice day!

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#10706 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 05 July 2020 - 12:34 PM

View PostCyphon, on 05 July 2020 - 07:58 AM, said:

Kanye running for president just feels like a spoiler for Biden to me. He cant even get on the ballot in like 6 states...

That's definitely what it is. People would vote for him instead of Biden and that only helps trump.
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Posted 05 July 2020 - 06:21 PM

I wluld have thought Kanye would take votes from the Trump side, not the Biden side. It will divide the lunatic vote, not that of voters with brain cells.
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Posted 05 July 2020 - 06:27 PM

There was talk some time back that Trump would dump Pence and name another VP... the whole "you're fired!", on Trump brand / rebranding image thing he is obsessed with. In this matrix glitch of a bug in the algorithm simulation we are living in, I could see this happening and Trump replacing Pence with Kanye.
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Posted 06 July 2020 - 01:26 AM

View PostTerez, on 03 July 2020 - 06:45 AM, said:

View PostTiste Simeon, on 02 July 2020 - 07:22 PM, said:

I pray for Trump along the lines of Psalm 109:8

Go on...

Psalm 109 6-19 said:

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Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.
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May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
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May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
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May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
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May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
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May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
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May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
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May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
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He loved to pronounce a curse-- may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing-- may it be far from him.
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He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.
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May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.




David's stuff is always interesting.

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What the fuck is happening?


The further intellectual meltdown and swan dive into the abyss of large groups of some seriously lost people. Searching for something to hold onto, I think, and finding all the wrong things.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
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Posted 06 July 2020 - 02:20 AM

Kanye thing is a publicity stunt right?

I mean even the youth don’t take him seriously as president right?
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Posted 06 July 2020 - 02:47 AM

Intellectual Meltdown. Definitely a good way to describe trump voters.
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Posted 07 July 2020 - 08:03 PM

Oh boy, the roller coaster has left the platform ....

Tidbits from Mary Trump's (coppery pork boy's niece) book are coming out. It's going to get personal ..... and weird... in a bad way kind of "weird".
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Posted 07 July 2020 - 09:07 PM

Even if they are all lying, which I don’t believe

If your:
Niece
Sec def
Chief of staff
National security advisor
Secretory of state
Former lawyer

And a dozen I’m sure I’m forgetting all day your a nasty piece of work who is incompetent at your job how do people take you seriously? Even if they all have axes to grind a master politician would not leave so many people behind him who want to.
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Posted 08 July 2020 - 06:25 AM

View PostCause, on 07 July 2020 - 09:07 PM, said:

Even if they are all lying, which I don't believe

If your:
Niece
Sec def
Chief of staff
National security advisor
Secretory of state
Former lawyer

And a dozen I'm sure I'm forgetting all day your a nasty piece of work who is incompetent at your job how do people take you seriously? Even if they all have axes to grind a master politician would not leave so many people behind him who want to.


Easy! Clearly, Trump is winning so hard it's causing all the failures, and secretly radical leftist never-trumper losers, out of the woodworks and exposes their radical leftist never-trumper loser selves for all to see.

I mean, clearly that's what's happening. It couldn't possibly be any other explanation. Nothing wrong with The Orange One, nuh uh.
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Posted 09 July 2020 - 03:29 AM

https://www.forbes.c...n/#45929abe47aa

I’m guilty of reading this so I’m a hypocrite perhaps but honestly if Kanye is not joking the news has a duty to ignore this man. This is entertainment not news
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Posted 09 July 2020 - 06:32 AM

View PostCause, on 09 July 2020 - 03:29 AM, said:

https://www.forbes.c...n/#45929abe47aa

I’m guilty of reading this so I’m a hypocrite perhaps but honestly if Kanye is not joking the news has a duty to ignore this man. This is entertainment not news


I'd argue it isn't even entertainment, because it's pathetic rather than funny or riveting.
But then again, I have never been even the mildest fan of anything Kanye has ever done. I always considered him an extremely overrated narcissist tosser.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 09 July 2020 - 06:32 AM

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 06:49 AM

View PostTsundoku, on 09 July 2020 - 06:32 AM, said:

View PostCause, on 09 July 2020 - 03:29 AM, said:

https://www.forbes.c...n/#45929abe47aa

I’m guilty of reading this so I’m a hypocrite perhaps but honestly if Kanye is not joking the news has a duty to ignore this man. This is entertainment not news


I'd argue it isn't even entertainment, because it's pathetic rather than funny or riveting.
But then again, I have never been even the mildest fan of anything Kanye has ever done. I always considered him an extremely overrated narcissist tosser.

You would like to think that no one would take Kanye seriously, but the US already elected Trump, so I’d believe almost anything could happen now.
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Posted 09 July 2020 - 08:49 AM

View PostLady Bliss, on 09 July 2020 - 06:49 AM, said:

View PostTsundoku, on 09 July 2020 - 06:32 AM, said:

View PostCause, on 09 July 2020 - 03:29 AM, said:

https://www.forbes.c...n/#45929abe47aa

I’m guilty of reading this so I’m a hypocrite perhaps but honestly if Kanye is not joking the news has a duty to ignore this man. This is entertainment not news


I'd argue it isn't even entertainment, because it's pathetic rather than funny or riveting.
But then again, I have never been even the mildest fan of anything Kanye has ever done. I always considered him an extremely overrated narcissist tosser.

You would like to think that no one would take Kanye seriously, but the US already elected Trump, so I’d believe almost anything could happen now.


Sadly true, after setting the precedent of electing Trump it's like there are no limits now in a race to the bottom.
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Posted 09 July 2020 - 12:28 PM

View PostLady Bliss, on 09 July 2020 - 06:49 AM, said:

View PostTsundoku, on 09 July 2020 - 06:32 AM, said:

View PostCause, on 09 July 2020 - 03:29 AM, said:

https://www.forbes.c...n/#45929abe47aa

I’m guilty of reading this so I’m a hypocrite perhaps but honestly if Kanye is not joking the news has a duty to ignore this man. This is entertainment not news


I'd argue it isn't even entertainment, because it's pathetic rather than funny or riveting.
But then again, I have never been even the mildest fan of anything Kanye has ever done. I always considered him an extremely overrated narcissist tosser.

You would like to think that no one would take Kanye seriously, but the US already elected Trump, so I’d believe almost anything could happen now.


Just to be clear, he can't get on at least 30 state ballots. He has about 5 days to get 100k signatures and be a valid write in candidate in many of those states. Its a publicity stunt. Just like his 'church'.

This post has been edited by Obdigore: 09 July 2020 - 12:29 PM

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Posted 09 July 2020 - 12:42 PM

Not only is it a publicity stunt, but Kanye is a diagnosed bipolar sufferer who refuses (happily refuses) meds to regulate him...so this could and probably is 100% him in a manic state doing crazy shit.

At no point should anyone vote for someone who has a mental illness that they have refuse treatment for, he would be a worse nightmare than the dementia-addled senior currently occupying the WH.

He also says that vaccines are the "mark of the beast"...so you know...batshit doesn't even begin to cover it.
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