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the biggest delusion might be the idea that you as an individual can affect society or history and yet

Yeah nobody in a pickup truck in Alabama is reading Adorno or contemplating free will. Yet most of them have some version of the same eight bumper stickers.

Ditto the Priuses of Berkeley.

This shit is tribal and it is tribally enforced.

Phew

Glad I forced this thread into being good and useful for a while again.

Tip of cap yall

lol mordy i'm an idiot. you're a conservative :)

Check yr drivelege

10-4 governor

Conservatism isn't an empty label for me, but the value of maintaining the moniker isn't worth doing violence to the underlying principles that give it meaning. My hope is that we'll preserve a republic that holds life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as its highest virtues. Frankly, I don't care what you call me as long as you're willing to help move our nation in that direction.

http://www.al.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/12/conservativism_must_stand_for.html

thank god we have eliminated the corporate jet tax, funded in part by repealing the child adoption deduction :)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ben-carson-praises-gop-tax-bill-historically-rich-cabinet-article-1.3711496

middle-income taxpayers are winners

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-republicans-win-on-taxes-is-a-loss-for-american-democracy

Basically, why is the clustering around so many issues so pronounced? Why is "I don't believe in anthropogenic climate change" necessarily yoked with "guns are a sacred right," or with "what's the matter with a little workplace flirting?," or "can't people take a joke anymore?," or "those athletes are disrespecting the troops with their refusal to stand for the national anthem."

All of those things have one in common which is The Way Things Used to Be When I Was a Kid, or maybe, "when my parents were growing up". As we age, it's typical to take note of how things are now versus how they were when we were learning about the world. In my personal experience, those who feel very negatively about how much things have changed swing to the rightconservative proportionate to how negatively they feel about it. Lately, I've noticed one or two acquaintances roughly my age who are those types of people, who feel that Trump and the alt-right are the undesirable change that has happened, which to me reinforces that the modern Republican party aren't actually conservatives at all and gives me a bit of hope for 2020.

The writing is on the wall. Just like Franken was done the day that photo came out. They're going to find out that this investigation has been based on the Steele dossier which was Russian disinformation paid for by Hillary and co. That was the basis for spying on the opposition's presidential campaign and all the unmasking BS...

It's all gonna come out, and some heads are gonna roll and the left will be even more unhappy than they were last November.

It will actually be quite glorious except for the violence that will come from the left.

Time to investigate high ranking Obama government officials who might have colluded to prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than Watergate!

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 21, 2017

by keeping the investigation into russian collusion secret during the 2016 presidential campaign, but making a big deal about hillary's emails, the FBI was longterm framing mr. trump under obama's and susan rice's and eric holder's and loretta lynch's orders :(

that Rand Paul tweet actually surprised me, I must have been doing such a good job tuning shit out that I've become a lightweight

Who is that first quote from, qualmsley?

advanced level conservative troll on another message board, a step ahead of the talking points

there's not an equality problem, there's a mobility problem

sub inequality for equality

the IRS and the FBI are more dangerous than former KGB officers

i'd trust former KGB agents before i'd trust a former MI6 agent

it's not that you don't deserve to go to harvard. it's that his dad donated $2.5 million

Here was an elemental divide: between Trump and career government employees. He could understand politicians, but he was finding it hard to get a handle on these bureaucrat types, their temperament and motives. He couldn't grasp what they wanted. Why would they, or anyone, be a permanent government employee? "They max out at what? 200 grand? Tops," he said, expressing something like wonder.

Here was a key Trump White House rationale: expertise, that liberal virtue, was overrated. After all, so often people who had worked hard to know what they knew made the wrong decisions. So maybe the gut was as good, or maybe better, at getting to the heart of the matter than the wonkish and data-driven inability to see the forest for the trees that often seemed to plague U.S. policy making. Maybe. Hopefully.

Of course, nobody really believed that, except the president himself.

Still, here was the basic faith, overriding his impetuousness and eccentricities and limited knowledge base: nobody became the president of the United States -- that camel-through-the-eye-of-the-needle accomplishment - without unique astuteness and cunning. Right? In the early days of the White House, this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he is doing, his intuition must be profound.

it shouldn't matter where the hillary emails came from, even if stolen by Russian hackers; the important thing was the information about hillary's tactics

however

we should ignore the steele dossier and anything the fbi discovered while looking into these leads because hillary paid for, well, not the dossier itself, but for continued oppo research by fusion

these updates are some of the lamest shit on an ilx wallowing in it

whoa! six guns blazing!!

1) GOP goes on fishing expedition with GPS Fusion and fails hard
2) GOP pretends Fusion has something shady going on
3) Fusion: release transcripts, we have nothing to hid.
4) GOP: we can't release transcripts because of reasons and such as
5) Feinstein: fuck it, here it is
6) Transcript shows how panicked and desperate the GOP is in trying to deflect from Trump's crimes

just post on the US politics thread man

nah

Trump got the big stuff right while his perma-critics were left to complain about his low approval ratings, his "risky" style, his strongman vibe, his Twitter habits, and maybe some kind of sketchy Russia connection -- that sort of thing.

Keep an eye out for the new-CEO move at your workplace, and sometimes in government. When you see it executed right, optimism is warranted. Even if the critics miss the show.

"The days behind us determine the days ahead."
"What does that even mean?"
"I have no idea. But it was said with certainty and conviction."

https://www.avclub.com/let-s-check-in-on-neo-nazi-troll-baked-alaska-who-is-h-1822089517

My views are the least racist of anyone because they are based a clear appreciation of the facts. How can telling the bald truth be racism?

Uh, what’s this thread about now?

av club really taking a new approach to the holiday

Pence is one of the most experienced and capable politicians our country has ever produced, but he still disappears in Trump's charisma field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaHf6kkXhRk

A+

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/january/brody-file-trump-gets-a-on-evangelical-report-card-in-his-first-year

1. Presidential Prayer in the Oval Office
2. Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem
3. Appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the US Supreme Court
4. President Trump Points Nation to Jesus at Christmas
5. Vice President Pence: A Pro-Life Evangelical in the White House
6. Trump Targets the Johnson Amendment
7. A Pro-Life President, Part 1: Mexico City Policy & the Hyde Amendment
8. A Pro-Life President, Part 2: Undoing Obama's Planned Parenthood Regulation
9. White House Cabinet Bible Study
10. Trump Admin Confronts Anti-Israel Bias at the UN
11. Bypassing the UN to Get Aid Directly to Christian Refugees
12. President Trump's Journey to Jesus

In an interview with CBN News in November, Vice President Pence spoke about his and President Trump's Christian faith.

"The president and I are believers," Pence told CBN News.

"I've been with this president in the Oval Office with religious leaders when people have asked to pause for a moment of prayer, and the president readily embraces that. I think he's always very humbled and grateful by the support of believers," Pence said.

And evangelicals from Trump's team of advisers say they've seen the change in his life.

"I can tell you Donald Trump is not the same man that you are hearing about from his past. He has had a radical change in his heart. He has had a heart change toward the things of God and the people of God, and he is surrounding himself with prayer warriors," says Mary Colbert, an evangelical leader who has attended meetings with the president.

President Trump even confirmed his Christian faith once again during his Christmas announcement when he referred to "OUR Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

This is pretty tendentious and cherrypicked but still fun.

https://thepulseofthenation.com/#getting-all-offended

yea that kind of bites both ways though, cuz I think NFL players should be allowed to take a knee but also believe James Damore absolutely should have been fired

"cinderella" is a fairy tale, man. atlas shrugged is THE TRUTH

“It’s kind of for some it’s hard to believe,” Hannity said. “Now that the evidence has been mounting and mounting and one smoking gun after another.”

“It has to be put in the context of the history of our great nation,” Gorka replied. “Remember, why was America created? It was created because of the usurpation of power, the capricious usurpation by a leader thousands of miles away.”

“That’s why America was created,” he continued. “It was about tea tax, and stationing troops on private property without permission. This is 100 times bigger. This is our government spying on political adversaries. This is federal law enforcement officials obstructing justice. You listed all of the things Clinton and her team did. But let’s not forget that the FBI destroyed the laptops that were part of the Clinton investigation. Who gave that order?”

what sanctions? since trump signed the reduction of the corporate income tax to 21%, plus an overall reduction in the highest bracket and the death tax, i salute congressional republicans for undermining investigation into candidate trump's "treasonous" (oh you self-righteous justice-obsessed liberals! where's the justice for fetuses? where's the justice for job creators shackled by taxation? where's the justice for the next generation of job creators whose parents are taxed at death?) "quid-pro-quo" with russia :)

Nunes and his colleagues [. . .] have long been sincerely alarmed at what they’ve learned about how the FBI operated in 2016.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455988/devin-nunes-memo-freakout-media-overblown

bingo! benghazi! the FISA decision to extend surveillance on carter page (busted for conspiring with russian spies the obama justice department convicted) is crooked hillary and the kenyan's fault!! blue lives matter!!!

“Now that a few of the misdeeds against the Trump Movement have been partially revealed, I look forward to updating my pending legal action in opposition to DOJ this weekend,” Carter Page said in an emailed statement.

The Committee has discovered serious violations of the public trust, and the American people have a right to know when officials in crucial institutions are abusing their authority for political purposes. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies exist to defend the American people, not to be exploited to target one group on behalf of another. It is my hope that the Committee’s actions will shine a light on this alarming series of events so we can make reforms that allow the American people to have full faith and confidence in their governing institutions.

“I am telling you, we’re looking at the FBI, we’re looking at the Department of Justice, we are not looking at all at the White House. Hillary Clinton paid for a warrant — that’s the easiest way we can put it. Hillary Clinton colluded with the Russians. But it appears the FBI at the senior-most levels colluded with the Russians, too. Whether it was witting or unwitting, it doesn’t matter. That’s a fact.

“It has everything to do with Mueller because it transitions from the counterintelligence investigation into a criminal investigation after Comey, of all things, confesses of all things to being a leaker. And Mueller — Mueller is the former FBI director. Those are his people. That is his environment. He’s not out there as some independent force.”

Basically, if Mueller had in his former life been the CEO of a company that made house paint, conservatives would be fervidly unknotting the nefarious conspiracies which underlie the house paint industry and the Dems who use their products.

"A footnote saying something may be political is a far cry from letting the American people know that the Democrats and the Hillary campaign paid for dirt that the FBI then used to get a warrant on an American citizen to spy on another campaign."

heritage foundation = commies

https://community.aarp.org/t5/Politics-Current-Events/bankrupting-the-country/m-p/1969739