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(02-28-2019 12:11 PM)david.garrett84 Wrote:  SBR wins the game again with his pithy yet brutal summation of the truth.
It goes without saying that AOC is a moron.
But big parts of this thread read like the White Star Line executives present on the Titanic, who tried to will the supposedly “unsinkable” ship into not sinking in the late evening of April 14 and early morning of April 15. Good luck, guys!
Some people here clearly still cannot believe AOC managed to get elected, let alone became the vanguard of a new Loony Left strain, however many years ago its gametes may have been created. Yet here she is.
Never-ending chortling in this thread about her lack of intelligence and purported notch count/sluttery belies the fact that a massive chunk of the US now blindly supports her and the US faces potential oblivion within 10-20 years.
We are going to see future Dem Congresses and Administrations cave in to this woman and others of her ilk, and all many here can contribute is yet another reminder of how stupid AOC is.
We get it (for the 1,000th time) - she’s dumb. But dumb people have regularly helped to ruin societies.

While taking her seriously, specifically, is rather difficult.
It's not difficult to ponder or comprehend the wider / grander implications.
We get it as well (for the 1,000th time). A notable "blue demographic shift" is a serious problem for America (& be extension the West).

So what is the plan?
Ignoring her won't work. She is a factor, manufactured or otherwise & she'll continue to be a factor.
After-all, Maxine Waters & Nancy Pelosi are still in Congress after how many years...?

As I don't live in America & not New York specifically. I cannot engage in 'Sabo' type street art.
I cannot hand out flyers on the streets of the Bronx pointing out AOC's hubris.
I'm not even in a position to advise the Republicans to run an 'independent' that is more centrist, to act as a viable candidate for the NY 14th district.

What I will do now. Is simply showcase her in her own bombastic words on other forums. Let her own hubris be her undoing.

Or perhaps it's simply a matter of some concerned Americans banding together & voting illegally next time, for the other NY 14th district candidate. Use their own tactics against them...
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(02-27-2019 11:18 PM)The Black Knight Wrote:  I still say she is the Sarah Palin of the left.

An exciting personality in an industry of very boring people. She will be yesterdays news soon enough. Attractive (for politics) but dumb as hell.

But she has conviction/passion and knows how to sell herself using what talent she does have. A lot of ignorant people will buy what you're selling if they think you're genuine and you sell it with a lot of passion; especially if the salesperson is a woman. She can sell stupid shit with authenticity because she honesty believes the stupid shit she is selling.

The thing is, you can't keep selling snake oil forever just on passion and conviction. All eyes are on her now and she is burning up whatever goodwill and credibility she has with a ton of people. Her voice will eventually be muted and/or like Jetset suggested, the democrat elites will run her out of town.

She sort of reminds of a passionate Latina I use to bang who had natural sales skills and made decent money from various hustles. She was very good at getting people into her frame since she always came off as having a super genuine exciting personality and was quite fuckable looking. But she was a basket case, had no foresight on how to play the long game, and had no idea on how to leverage her skill set into greater fortunes and success. Lack of impulse control and not enough raw intelligence led to ultimately floating through life from one hustle to another as she burned bridges repeatedly.

AOC is basically that chick.

People believe her bullshit because she believes her bullshit. But eventually, everyone figures out that you're just selling bullshit. That hustle combined with the demographic changes in her district (and a weak complacent old white male opponent) allowed her get some quick fame and glory. Her bullshit might fly in her district that is ultra liberal and majority-minority but she can't survive national scrutiny. It's just a matter time before she does or says something that is so beyond the pale, the libtard media won't be able to cover for her. It happened to Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos and it is very likely to happen to AOC given her behavior so far. Her inner dictator is already coming out and she hasn't even been in office for 3 months!

If she has even the slightest bit of intelligence or self-interest, she will bow out after her term and get an easy and lucrative political news job/TV show where she can be a well paid activist with no responsibility. Just like how Sarah Palin bowed out with her reality show when she pretty much became a giant joke within the GOP, AOC is likely gonna sell out big time when the real heat starts coming her way but while her star still has a bit shine left in it.

And stop comparing AOC to Trump; acting like they are very similar. That's like comparing Pokemon cartoons to hardcore pornos and saying they are like the same thing. It's just retarded.


Good post BK, but the hustle she's selling here is one that everybody else has been doing for decades, AGW. "Global Warming" has become "Climate Change", and now the next phase in this problem-reaction-solution propaganda framework is Climate Justice, with the implementation of artificial austerity and self-imposed energy poverty for the sake of brown people and the cult of Gaia, which has become the new religion for many, and for the majority of younger voters.

Her bullshit is just a policy reformatting riding on the AGW bulllshit that's being spread out 24.7 by the MSM, academia, most think tanks and governments, that's been elevated to an official modern western cultural dogma. That's what makes it so dangerously potent.

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Please view the following and note that AOC's skull is asymmetrical and that the part in her hair is very sloppily done. (My hot Korean haircutter babe says that this is just pure laziness and sloppiness.) Also, all of her questions and rebuttals (to the lying rat-fink asshole) appear to be scripted like a "choose your own adventure" reading. Watch how her eyes move.



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(02-28-2019 05:38 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  What I will do now. Is simply showcase her in her own bombastic words on other forums. Let her own hubris be her undoing.

Yea! That'll show her! tard
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(02-28-2019 09:21 PM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  Yea! That'll show her! tard

Democrats feverishly responding to Trump : "Misguided."

Republicans feverishly responding to AOC : "Misguided."

Folk feeling compelled to respond to my comments? Misguided, yay or nay?

Perhaps I'm just doing what she's doing, which is apparently what Trump is doing. [Image: Upside-smile.png]


Anyway, onto the prior comment itself. That was in reference to centrist & center left voters, not AOC herself.
However, if you have a better & actionable plan to counter the "blue demographic shift". I'd gladly hear it.
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(02-28-2019 05:38 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  While taking her seriously, specifically, is rather difficult.
It's not difficult to ponder or comprehend the wider / grander implications.
We get it as well (for the 1,000th time). A notable "blue demographic shift" is a serious problem for America (& be extension the West).

So what is the plan?
Ignoring her won't work. She is a factor, manufactured or otherwise & she'll continue to be a factor.
After-all, Maxine Waters & Nancy Pelosi are still in Congress after how many years...?

I’m certainly not advocating ignoring her.

As others have pointed out, AOC is merely symptomatic. I still contend that the sociopolitical/demographic outlook is awful, but this part at least requires multivariate analysis as to both cause and how to reverse it, if it can be reversed.

Effectively gloating again and again about how much more rational and smarter we are compared to one, two or five named democratic socialists/communists is pointless. There’s a reason why we have a separate SJWs memes thread to mock leftists for laughs.

Rating AOC (5/10 Would Barely Bang for me but only in her college days) again and again with either numbers or paragraphs is like a form of verbal hate-fucking. She’s the most obsessed about woman ever on this forum, even if the majority consensus is that she’s either a WNB or borderline bang.

No one here has praised the raised-rich Bronx girl’s intelligence. And I’d point out that whereas none of us are fans of AOC’s brainpower (or lack thereof), plenty of forum members here dispute the looming demographic catastrophe.

In the Tucker Carlson thread, Leonard D Neubache was basically told his foreboding opinion of America’s future prospects was meaningless because he was an Australian commenting about the US. That’s as unhelpful as a Kurd telling an American he can’t be against intervention in Syria because he’s never been to Damascus or Kurdistan.

The better approach is to argue, in detail, why AOC’s policies are so bad. People are already doing this in relation to the massive land use required to power even a fraction of the US with wind and solar energy. It would destroy the environment far more than anything coal or nuclear is doing right now.

I’m not calling for us to stop calling AOC dumb but this thread is political oneitis at its “finest”. There’s a difference between 40 pages of the forum’s best content and 40 pages where many of the comments remind me of the anti-leftist version of this South Park skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGl1CCprCeU
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(03-01-2019 03:51 AM)david.garrett84 Wrote:  
(02-28-2019 05:38 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  While taking her seriously, specifically, is rather difficult.
It's not difficult to ponder or comprehend the wider / grander implications.
We get it as well (for the 1,000th time). A notable "blue demographic shift" is a serious problem for America (& be extension the West).

So what is the plan?
Ignoring her won't work. She is a factor, manufactured or otherwise & she'll continue to be a factor.
After-all, Maxine Waters & Nancy Pelosi are still in Congress after how many years...?

I’m certainly not advocating ignoring her.

As others have pointed out, AOC is merely symptomatic. I still contend that the sociopolitical/demographic outlook is awful, but this part at least requires multivariate analysis as to both cause and how to reverse it, if it can be reversed.

Effectively gloating again and again about how much more rational and smarter we are compared to one, two or five named democratic socialists/communists is pointless. There’s a reason why we have a separate SJWs memes thread to mock leftists for laughs.

Rating AOC (5/10 Would Barely Bang for me but only in her college days) again and again with either numbers or paragraphs is like a form of verbal hate-fucking. She’s the most obsessed about woman ever on this forum, even if the majority consensus is that she’s either a WNB or borderline bang.

No one here has praised the raised-rich Bronx girl’s intelligence. And I’d point out that whereas none of us are fans of AOC’s brainpower (or lack thereof), plenty of forum members here dispute the looming demographic catastrophe.

In the Tucker Carlson thread, Leonard D Neubache was basically told his foreboding opinion of America’s future prospects was meaningless because he was an Australian commenting about the US. That’s as unhelpful as a Kurd telling an American he can’t be against intervention in Syria because he’s never been to Damascus or Kurdistan.

The better approach is to argue, in detail, why AOC’s policies are so bad. People are already doing this in relation to the massive land use required to power even a fraction of the US with wind and solar energy. It would destroy the environment far more than anything coal or nuclear is doing right now.

I’m not calling for us to stop calling AOC dumb but this thread is political oneitis at its “finest”. There’s a difference between 40 pages of the forum’s best content and 40 pages where many of the comments remind me of the anti-leftist version of this South Park skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGl1CCprCeU

Dealing with AOC is simple. Vote her out of office, or, if you can find a crime, have her impeached.

Same thing for that poisonous little mulslim whore, Rashida Tlaib. File a huge fucking lawsuit for her election irregularities, or, dump a bunch of money on one of her opponents in the next election.

Remember that in the 230+ years of it's existence, the house of representatives has had plenty of crackpots and freaks. That's the nature of that house. We just clean them out, the way you wipe your ass after a bout of diarrhea.

No military coup need in the US system, thank you very much. Elections work just fine.
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AOC is not going to get voted out of her riding, she's already too established. Tlaib and Omar on the other hand will get booted out by AIPAC if they don't toe the line.

Elections in the US don't "work just fine", the system has been bought out for decades now.

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(03-01-2019 02:18 PM)911 Wrote:  AOC is not going to get voted out of her riding, she's already too established. Tlaib and Omar on the other hand will get booted out by AIPAC if they don't toe the line.

Elections in the US don't "work just fine", the system has been bought out for decades now.

Well, yes and no. She's not going anywhere, that's for certain. She'll have that district for the next 50 years. But I do think that she can be made a lot less influential.

AOC is unique among democratic figures in that she gets a lot of her power the same way Trump did: conflict marketing. She deliberately baits the enemy into talking about her all the time, which in an age where attention is everything, gives her a ton of power. It's the same reason Trump deliberately puts typos in his tweets, to get the liberals to constantly "dunk" on him. That's how he edged out 16 other candidates in the Republican primary, by directing all the attention from his enemies to himself.

It's a great strategy and it's worked out tremendously well for her, but it leaves her vulnerable in a way that other democratic figures like say, Pelosi, are not. If the right can just SHUT UP about her for five minutes, she loses that power and goes back to being a junior representative from New York.

That's why I post in this thread so much. I can't do a damn thing about Trump, or Pelosi, or Mueller, but I can spread the idea that "If you don't want this chick to run things, stop talking about her all fucking day, and tell your friends to stop too." Maybe this idea can pick up traction somewhere, and maybe it can make a difference. I'm not hopeful, because most conservatives are very, very stupid people who think slinging insults and D-tier memes at a politician will somehow make her disappear.

But there's a chance, and it's worth a try.

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AOC and Rashida were engaging in a circle jerk on Twitter recently about tokenism used by Republicans. It's what Democrats have been doing to Republicans for years, putting them in a no-win scenario on race and diversity.

Democrats simply don't want Republicans to be diverse as much as knee-jerk reactionaries like Rod Dreher but they'll never admit that. That type of shit is the reason why the Republican Party is the way it is.

Here's something to all of the groups and activists for your groups who consistenly dehumanize Republican efforts to be diverse with your shit:

Saying "Token" and the no-win scenario only makes Republicans not invest in leadership or candidates. You'd complain even if there was no one of your kind in the GOP and ask for representation. Just admit you don't want the Republicans to be diverse because you'll be out of a job. You're the reason Republicans only invest in Christians and whites you stupid dipshits. You'll never be happy even if they did have diversity in Congress and the Senate. Hope you're fucking happy assholes. You're harming your own group by not having them engage in political diversity and continue to brush up resentment for shit that happened 50 years ago.
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Interdasting.
Perhaps the footage of AOC & her cohorts is from the / her Netflix documentary?
Where AOC admits to being found via a casting call...

Follow the link to get to the crux of the video :

https://youtu.be/wbtcgiH6MnQ?t=70
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(03-03-2019 06:24 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  Interdasting.
Perhaps the footage of AOC & her cohorts is from the / her Netflix documentary?
Where AOC admits to being found via a casting call...

Follow the link to get to the crux of the video :

https://youtu.be/wbtcgiH6MnQ?t=70

Ok I'm going to seem like a hypocrite by just talking about her looks...

But AOC is looking like the type of girl I want to be seen at brunch with at some trendy Brooklyn spot, after I creampie her and she just sits there letting it stew.

That Alexandra Rojas looks similarly "pump and brunch" -able.
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I remember a livestream Roosh did on the Warski show with Anikka O'neil and the sloth from Ice Age.





Most savage smackdown ever. At 2:30:40 Roosh is asked to give his final thoughts and he just rates the two chicks 3.5 WNB and 5.9 WNB. The hamsters went into hyperdrive.

That right there is a teachable moment.

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I wonder if AOC claimed all of her tips on her tax returns. Maybe they could look into how her lifestyle was vs what she claimed on her taxes to see if things line up.
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(03-03-2019 09:19 AM)Lockwood Wrote:  I wonder if AOC claimed all of her tips on her tax returns. Maybe they could look into how her lifestyle was vs what she claimed on her taxes to see if things line up.

Is the "they" you're referring to the IRS that Trump refuses to purge and take control of?

They allow the criminal Clinton cartel to do whatever they like. Why would they investigate AOC other than to force her to tow the party line?

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Oh boy...

As per the previous 'casting couch' video for AOC :
https://youtu.be/wbtcgiH6MnQ?t=70

It may well be a case that they chose her specifically, because she can garner so much attention from all types rather well.
Yet on the other hand. If AOC is the 'best' they could choose. I'm not sure I'd want to see the Useful Idiots / Useless Idiots they rejected...
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Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, is not a fan of AOC.
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Trump, on the Green New Deal :

Quote:...& I don't want to talk them out of it! I don't, it is a killer. I need to get off this subject... I just want to be the one who runs against it!
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It should be part of the dialog of the next election!

https://youtu.be/o8pIAOxEvYU?t=4550
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Trump saying he'd like to watch TV and wondering whether the wind was blowing at CPAC was a more effective attack on her and the Green New Deal than anything the usual suspects have done.

It was a visual and it was subtly dismissive rather than an overt insult or an attempt at preening. That's what you have to do.

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Quote:AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies
by Alana Goodman | March 04, 2019 03:34 PM

Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.

The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.

Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.

The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.

Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.

PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures like advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors.

The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements.

The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures."

Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency."

Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign.

He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who last November, aged 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies and advertising so that progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money.

"Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning."

In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised around $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings.

A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address.

Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan.

In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year called "Justice Democrats" transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017.

Brand New Congress LLC is not registered in any Secretary of State databases. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated.

Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds.

"None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something."

Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person.

"It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal."

Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee."

Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment.

Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said.

A spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said “it’s very clear what we do” but declined to elaborate.

Chakrabart founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer."
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I called her dangerous early on and I still see others aren't really seeing it. Your country has changed and is changing the longer time goes on and not in the way you'd like it.

You cannot change demographs as easily as flipping from 1 party to another so you need to first address that issue. Can anyone tell me how one group which outbreeds the other does not one day have a majority or a voting bloc that outweighs the other group who does not have the same numbers?

We have that same problem in the UK and Europe and those demographs aren't coming back to favour traditional European and British blood lines.

A simple test would be to ask yourself; What are the chances of this woman being purged from power due to illegal activity or favouring their own skin in the game with backhanders?

We have Trump in the WH and the Clinton Foundation is still alive and kicking and that is just 1 thing in a sea of them. Nothing about the UN pedo rings and trafficking going on? I would have thought the US would love to seize that by the neck but apparently not.

Unless she uses up her usefulness which is unlikely then she is here to stay. These types only go down when they piss off the rest of the group and not from some form of injustice.
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I'm so black pill now that I see AOC as Gods Messenger. In human history there have been many instances of mass death. The mayans, The plague in europe, WW2, Communism. etc. Hell even in the Bible there is the flood.

AOC was sent by god to remove 20-50 million of the population. Ironically it will mostly be the same type of people who vote for her and support her policies. As this point I really don't care and don't weep at all. Just be prepared for the results and be ready to survive millions of people dying and a total collapse even worse than the great depression.
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You’re right in ways you do not even remotely comprehend.
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(03-04-2019 06:16 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  I called her dangerous early on and I still see others aren't really seeing it. Your country has changed and is changing the longer time goes on and not in the way you'd like it.

Regarding Budoslavic's post right before yours: do you think anybody in Mexico (aside from some soon to be dead journalists) would give a damn if a politician used campaign financing to privately profit?

Apparently most people in America don't care, either.

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If there's going to be rampant corruption with zero consequences then I absolutely welcome it being as brazen as possible.

It gets more of the normie blood boiling.

Bravo, you murderous tyrant psychopaths. Show everyone who you truly are so they might start getting ready to put some skin in the game.

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