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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 1 point ago +1 / -0

Harsh criticism, damn.

So is Boehner wrong, lying, misinformed, guilty, compromised, hiding something, dead, cloned, replaced, CGI, edited, dubbed, out of context, misunderstood, jealous, driven mad from TDS, and blind to the actual truth, just like everyone else who criticizes Trump and shoots down his claims of a big conspiracy against him?

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 1 point ago +1 / -0

Vaccines have been required for travel for years, before all this -- there are islands/countries you can't enter without a yellow fever vaccine, or a MMR vaccine.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft -2 points ago +1 / -3

I'll be blunt -- it sounds like this site (and this cause) misled you through misinformation and fear, and ruined your life.

My spouse and I don’t really see eye to eye on really anything.

Surely you did before all this. What changed?

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 13 points ago +13 / -0

Exactly -- it was a big huge scandal, costing a TON of money, and now somebody's head has to roll.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 2 points ago +4 / -2

wokeness slowly gets put to sleep boycott by boycott

Won't happen; wokeness is more profitable and more popular than this site would like to believe. Corporations aren't shooting themselves in the foot by going woke -- they're responding to how the market winds are blowing.

The good news is: it's mostly virtue signaling and lip service and a lot of it will reset back to normal once the controversy blows over / finds its next target.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's rough to hear, fren, I hope you're okay,

But I mean this sincerely -- I fear for the day

When the lies you were sold become perfectly clear,

And the people who sold them and stirred up the fear

Are exposed as the grifters they always have been,

By exploiting their base and demanding a win

And accepting donations from voters galore --

Because MAGA is great, but the money means more.

What's coming? It isn't -- it's not based in fact.

The logic is specious, impossible, wack.

The evidence clashes and self-contradicts,

Not to mention the trolls misinforming for kicks.

Giuliani, Mike, Sidney, Wood, Ellis, and such?

Bought into the lie, or invested too much,

Or they wanted the spotlight and joined in the mob,

And sustaining the lie is just part of the job.

So the hope will live on, as one's pride says it must,

And I hope you get out -- before it goes bust.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 1 point ago +1 / -0

From a writing standpoint, I'd be careful with over-articulation, and a lot of "ten-dollar words":

High School history teacher, Taylor Mueller was an outlier in his perception. (This is an overwrought way of saying "Taylor Mueller thought differently").

Also:

Gaines cites reported physical activity of Anons during the storming of the Capital on January 7 2021.

It was January 6, and it's the Capitol. Capital is for letters, capitol is for buildings.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 1 point ago +2 / -1

I'll bite:

1st thing: No way Biden got the most votes ever, especially during a pandemic, and especially with Harris as his VP pick. If it was due to the fact that so many people hated Trump, then why did Trump get the 2nd most ever votes then?

Because Trump has a lot of voters, simple as that; nobody would ever deny the man has a huge base. But Biden had more -- enough people disapproved of Trump's leadership (especially with covid) and went to Biden instead.

As for "No way Biden got the most votes ever," I don't know what to tell ya -- Trump lost enough support, and Biden gained it.

2nd thing: Border crises isn't an oopsie. They are not stupid. It also goes against what they preached during the election against Trump. Also it's counter intuitive during a pandemic, which they vowed to beat. Obviously they knew more people = more cases. They aren't stupid. Must be a motive.

Not really sure what the claim is here, but sure, I'll admit there are at least two possibilities: 1) the border crisis is planned, but counterintuitive, but mysterious, but suspicious, or, 2) immigrants saw a new, Democratic (ie immigrant-friendly) administration in charge of the USA (as opposed to the hardline Trump administration of the last four years) and guess what? Here they come. Ta-da -- you've got a surge at the border.

Occam's razor. I choose 2.

3rd thing: Even if statistics actually did show that black people can't get an ID or pay utility bills, it STILL just simply isn't enough of a commonly known stereotype or obviously-racist thing that would warrant the reactions we are seeing. I wouldn't expect anyone to hear that and think "racist" on their own.

They are pushing that it's racist too hard when it's clearly at least somewhat of a stretch. Especially now with the coke and MLB shit. If they truly cared why not take the opportunity to close that gap and come up with ways to make it easier for black people to get an ID? They do not care.

Believe it or not, I actually kind of agree with this -- I think corporations love to pay lip service to social causes, while making a tiny actual contribution (or nothing at all). I think the change has to come from the people, from grassroots; when Coke goes woke, it's because that's the way the market is pointing.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 11 points ago +11 / -0

Surely the drop in revenue was due to Covid closing down all the games, right?

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft -1 points ago +2 / -3

There's another, lousier possibility that needs to be mentioned:

There is no plan, never was.

Imagine this sequence of events:

  • Q talks a big talk online, announcing evil cabals, introducing Trump as Messiah, and using buzzwords, spicy namedrops, and dramatic language (like "It's gonna be biblical," taken from Law Abiding Citizen) to flesh out the larp.

  • Coincidences spring up, left and right, nonstop, every day (thank you, vague Q language and random numbers) and we look for connections literally anywhere, doing Q's work for him. Anything can be part of the Q storyline, and if it isn't, forget about it; find something that is.

  • Trump sees a portion of his voters becoming Q believers and winks at us (because the Q larp strokes his ego). He can't say anything bad about it because he can't risk losing the adoration of anyone who praises him -- his absolute #1 fatal flaw.

  • As the election approaches, Trump realizes the polls are shaky (covid has hurt his leadership) and needs an out, so he uses the same one he used in 2016 (before he unexpectedly won): call the election rigged and fraudulent, rather than accept a loss.

  • The election comes and goes and Biden wins. The bulletproof claims of election fraud (championed by Trump, Wood, Powell, Lindell, etc) are the messy result of A) Trump's ego refusing to let him lose, B) bad faith ambulance chasers getting a quick paycheck by carrying Trump's flag (like Jenna Ellis), or C) specious armchair internet research on legal matters drawing wild conclusions (e.g. 1871 US corporation dissolved, foreign power occupying non-territory DC with gold fringe flags, etc)

  • We buy into it, because the voter fraud claims make sense, if the right information is cherry-picked from blogs ("do the research"). This explanation of how the world works makes total sense, why else would so many people be talking about it? The "sunk-cost fallacy" takes effect: we've devoted so much time and energy to Q, it can't possibly be false, right?

  • Powell, Wood, and Lindell? Drank the Kool-Aid, but doubled-down at every loss/misstep and simply could not abandon it. Still haven't. Their earth-shattering evidence of election fraud? See C above, then amplify it and blind yourself to alternatives; you can't give it up because you've dedicated your entire life to it. Your name is practically branded to it, so you continue grasping at straws and misleading the believers.

  • Trump leaves office begrudgingly after yelling about fraud, but unable to prove it -- he's not getting laughed out of court because the courts are corrupt, he's getting laughed out of court because there's nothing there.

  • Yet Trump and company insists it they have an airtight case, if only they had the right opportunity to present it. Trump can't say "I was lying about the election because I lost and wanted to win." That would end the $$$/donations and admit failure, so Q persists, carried on the back of his ego/greed.

  • The Biden presidency continues like any big clunky Dem presidency and Fox News says the world is ending, like they did with Obama (meanwhile CNN and MSNBC suck Biden's dick nonstop). But the R news continues to tip its hat to Q, because they know it's a big Trump-friendly audience base and they profit from stoking the flames.

The combined effect: it feels like the sky is falling, because people can make money by saying so, if they have the right lack of scruples.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 6 points ago +9 / -3

Good god your name is mesmerizing.

EDIT: sorry I was really high a few minutes ago.

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LeftLaneMustTurnLeft 10 points ago +11 / -1

Man, when I was a kid, I thought "slammed with cookies" would be a much cooler situation.