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Old 06-10-2024, 04:32 AM
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This made my morning.


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I'll see you and raise you one...


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Dont worry about Hunter.

worry about your local govt:

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Originally Posted by cordycord

Realistically, we could have an entire thread dedicated just to plagirizing memes from "End Wokeness" and it'd be the most popular thread on the forum.


Also, for *****' sake, people. Archive content. Hotlinks are not forever.



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Old 06-11-2024, 05:45 PM
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Not to rehash old news, but do any of you think anyone in the world actually knows what happened in the NY vs Trump trial? I have followed this case, read a ton, watch vids from both sides, and I'm still lost. Feeling a bit slow these days since you guys have already moved on to the crackhead gun trial and the standing pooping president. This all reads like a nightmare.
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Originally Posted by LeoNA
Feeling a bit slow these days since you guys have already moved on to the crackhead gun trial and the standing pooping president.
Moved on?

I'm still fixating on the Alex Jones situation, and Braineack can't get over the fact that the women are allowed to vote now.


But, in all seriousness:

Alex Jones was found guilty of defamation, and ordered to pay a total of appx $1.5 billion to the families of the Sandy Hook unpleasantness.

Now, we here at MiataTurbo routinely make baseless accusations about various things being false-flag operations, claim that well-documented events (9/11, Buffalo Tops shooting, etc) never actually took place, deny the plainly obvious fact that men can become pregnant and women can have penises, and so on.

And that's fine. Every one of us has a fundamental right to spew total bullshit, even if it hurts someone's feelings, and even if we're doing it deliberately to make a profit.

Which is why I find it so astonishing that the jury in Lafferty et al. vs. Jones ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and that such massive compensatory and punitive damages were awarded.


I prognosticate that we can look forward to that sort of thing happening more and more frequently in the future, and on a smaller and smaller scale.

"Congress shall make no law..." does not apply to the civil courts. And that's my genuine bet on how freedom of expression will eventually be reduced to a hazy memory in the US. Not by violence, not by executive order, and not by legislative fiat. But by the tort system, which relies upon the feelings and emotions of people unable to figure out how to escape from jury duty (or compelled to willingly participate in order to feed their desire to exert control over others) to render its decisions.



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Be prepared to geek out, and then think of how this will change our view of most everything.
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Originally Posted by LeoNA
Not to rehash old news, but do any of you think anyone in the world actually knows what happened in the NY vs Trump trial? I have followed this case, read a ton, watch vids from both sides, and I'm still lost. Feeling a bit slow these days since you guys have already moved on to the crackhead gun trial and the standing pooping president. This all reads like a nightmare.
Everyone's moved on? Isn't that what the internet is for? Bitch, moan, move on.

The sub-head of all these trials has been that there's a two-tier justice system. BLM riots vs. J6 riots is a good head-to-head example. The armed FBI team that took down the elderly Roger Stone in a morning raid dovetails nicely with millions of people from all over the world that are allowed over the border without a background check or medical exam, given a $5k debit card and sent on their way.

Is anyone here expecting Sleepy Joe to NOT commute the sentence of his wayward son? And does anyone expect him to be charged with foreign influence peddling? FARA? Treason?! The gun charges are a joke. Maybe that's the partial excuse for him to leave the race and allow slick Gavin Newsom to take over, because that walking gaff show won't be on the top of the ticket.

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Originally Posted by cordycord
Maybe that's the partial excuse for him to leave the race and allow slick Gavin Newsom to take over,
Gavin is simply too retarded. I think it will likely be Hillary. Didn't she beat Trump in the pop vote in 2016?
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Originally Posted by Slayer
Gavin is simply too retarded. I think it will likely be Hillary. Didn't she beat Trump in the pop vote in 2016?
DID SHE
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So, a bill has been put before Congress entitled The Dismantle DEI Act.

https://www.vance.senate.gov/wp-cont...-6.12.2024.pdf

Introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R, OH), and sponsored within the House of Representin' by Rep. Michael Cloud (R, TX), the bill is one of those rare pieces of legislation which, while a bit on the lengthy side, actually does the exact thing which its name suggests, and nothing more. If passed into law, it would eliminate all federal DEI programs and end DEI-related funding for agencies, contractors, organizations and educational institutions which receive federal funding.

Obviously, bills which are passed by the Congress are subject to veto by the executive, and while presidential vetoes can technically be overridden, this is rare in actual practice.

It's refreshing to see DEI (and ESG, and CRT) finally starting to be discussed in objective, unbiased terms and exposed for what they truly are. And OD (Organizational Development), which is the most recent invention aimed at hampering effective and unbiased business, education and governance, is already being exposed as well.

And yet this adds yet more fuel to the fire for the lefties to ensure that Trump absolutely cannot be elected again in November. I never thought I'd find myself actually hoping to see Trump in the oval office again, but my repulsion against Trump the person has been steadily weakening in the face of the ongoing erosion of liberty and prosperity.

What do people think here? Are Sen. Vance and Rep. Cloud likely to hang themselves independently but at the same time and on the same day? Or are the dems going to pull a last-minute switcharoo and move Harris to the #1 spot, where she will triumph after a last-minute avalanche of votes are discovered and counted in the wee morning hours of Wed Nov 6?
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
I never thought I'd find myself actually hoping to see Trump in the oval office again, but my repulsion against Trump the person has been steadily weakening
TDS isn't a permanent affliction, you kind of grow out of it as you mature as a human. <3
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Originally Posted by Stock
TDS isn't a permanent affliction, you kind of grow out of it as you mature as a human. <3
Heh.

I'd like to believe that my revulsion to Trump as a concept is based upon objective facts, such as his horrifyingly bad taste in food, women, and spray-tanning products.

That, to me, is vastly different from believing that The Donald is figuratively Hitler.

But, as is so elegantly expressed in the classic essay Nuke the Moon, you don't achieve national security by being a total pushover who appears frail and weak. You achieve it by convincing every other country that you are a lunatic, a bully, and are about one KFC bucket away from ordering a nuclear first-strike against both Israel AND Palestine. (Sorry, Jordan, nothing personal...)


Peace can only be achieved through excessive acts of seemingly mindless violence. Who do bullies pick on in the playground? The giant, crazy looking guy who looks ready to snap and kill the person nearest or some harmless looking weenie who appears to do anything to avoid conflict? People pick on the weenie because people like to start fights they think they can win. In the same way, people will continue to attack America and our interests when they get the idea that they can **** off America without us immediately eradicating them and everyone around them in the most painful way possible.

Now, if I were president, here’s what I would do. Next time some country does something we don’t take a pining too, such as supporting terrorism or speaking French, I’d pick the dumbest reason for an attack, e.g., “A ‘q’ should always be followed by a ‘u’. I don’t make the rules, Iraq, but I will enforce them.” The more irrational you look, the more scared the country will be that you will really hit them hard. I’d then give the country the old one-week notice until bombing starts. Then, after just twenty-four hours, I’d start bombing. When the stupid dictator calls to complain, I’d say, “I meant one week max. Oh, and by the way, ground troops – one week.”

I’m sure that would be enough to capitulate the average evildoer, but some extra measures could help intimidate others as well. Like, instead of just saturation bombing a city, super-saturation bomb it. After annihilating everything until nothing but ash is left, I’d nuke the ashes. It’s that extra bit of extremely disproportionate use of force that makes other countries start to wonder if America “has it all together” and really worrying who we’ll lash out against next.

Of course, Europe will start complaining, and Europe’s bad mouthing of America gives comfort to our enemies. I mean, those guys values are so messed up they think calling someone a “cowboy” is an insult. Best idea would be to assassinate the leader of the first European country we hear a peep out of. This will probably make us look evil, though, when we want the image of crazy and violent. So, when the Europeans ask why, I’d claim to never have heard of the person: “I didn’t even know France had a leader. Sure it wasn’t suicide? Yeah, committing suicide with a sniper rifle would be hard, but not impossible if you had a five-hundred yard length of string to work the trigger.” Assassination does seem a little extreme, but we’re talking about Europe. I mean, what are they going to do other than quickly capitulate under a mild threat of force. We’ll probably start seeing, “We all love America!” parades in bids to not be our next targets.

Now the world will be pretty convinced that America is frick’n nuts and just looking for a fight, but we need to really ingrain it into everyone’s conscious so that no one will ever even contemplate crossing us. This requires making good use of our nukes. I know, nukes can kill millions of people, but they sure aren’t doing anyone any good just sitting around. I mean, how many years has it been since we last dropped a bomb on someone? No one even thinks we’ll actually use one now.

Of course, using nukes shouldn’t be done haphazardly; all uses have to be well planned out because the explosions are so cool looking that we’ll want to give the press plenty of notice so they can get pictures of the mushroom cloud from all sorts of different angles. But what to nuke? Well, usually the idea is populated cities, but, by the beliefs of my morally superior religion, killing is wrong. So why can’t we be more creative than nuking people. My idea is to nuke the moon; just say we thought we saw moon people or something. There is no one actually there to kill (unless we time it poorly) and everyone in the world could see the results. And all the other countries would exclaim, “Holy @$#%! They are nuking the moon! America has gone insane! I better go eat at McDonald’s before they think I don’t like them.”

But why stop there. We’ve got like tons of national parks; we surely wouldn’t miss just one if we nuked it. Our excuse will be that we heard a drug dealer was hiding there. Then the foreign nations would be like, “Sacre bleu! These Americans are nuking themselves! Surely they will think nothing of bombing us! Let’s adapt their vapid culture as our own so they might consider us one of them.”

Now all other countries will be completely freaked out and never even dream of messing with us. They’ll say the name of America with hushed whispers and always praise us in public for fear of reprisal. We’d be like an Old Testament god to them; perhaps they would even start worshiping us – actually, we should make that a condition of favored trade status. Not only will we have ensured peace for ourselves, but we can also now easily end any conflict between other countries. We see two nations warring over some territory, all we’ll have to do is say, “Hey, break it up,” and they’ll be racing to concede to each other rather than get on the bad side of the crazy, homicidal Americans. And, if people are being oppressed by an evil government, all we’ll have to do is say, “Hey you! Stop being communist!” and the next day they’ll have elections, capitalism, and free-press to keep from having their country turned into a parking lot. It will be that easy to motivate our fellow man, because there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.

Now all that’s needed to keep peace is to come up with new and creative ways of looking insane and belligerent without actually harming anyone. Missile defense is probably a good step in that direction. Next time some country steps out of line, we launch a nuclear missile at them. Just seconds before it hits, we blow it up with our missile defense so that everyone there sees the huge explosion in the sky. Then the president would just call up their leader and say, “Hey, we lost sight of our SDI test. Did you see if it worked?”

By now, you’re probably saying, “Great idea. But how to do we pay for all these random acts of violence?” Just create an “Other Country Tax”, a tax for being a country other than the U.S. After implementing my plan, all the countries will be eager to pay the money, and probably add a nice tip to win favor.

So there you have it, a real peace plan that could actually work. Warmongering pacifists want us to act all nice such that countries think we’re rational and won’t kill everyone with a blind fury, thus making it possible they might actually attack us and draw us into a war. But, if America follows my idea and lashes out at the slightest provocation with unmeasured vengeance, there can be peace. So there’s the choice: either be a homicidal maniac thus ensuring peace and love in the world, or be some pacifist hippy while the streets flow with the blood of the innocent.

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You had me at "Peace can only be achieved through excessive acts of seemingly mindless violence."
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Heh.
Lots of words there, buddy. I'm just happy to see there's a way back to reality for lost souls, good for you.
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The problem with Government Exhibit 16 at this point is that the chain-of-custody on it is murkier than Publix sweet tea. So many different people have touched that machine, behind closed doors with no no accountability, that I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find that Sam Bankman-Fried's missing bitcoin wallet is on it by this point. Hell, a semi-competent Vegas stage magician could have already swapped it out for one containing nothing but My Little Pony fan-fiction and photoshopped nudes of Sandra Fluke in bed with Rush Limbaugh.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-new...rudy-giuliani/

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Hunter Biden drops laptop lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani
Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor’s ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop.
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It was in the news cycle long enough to convince the masses and make it a counter-argument for the "intellectuals", they no longer need to bother proving it in a court of law.
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It was in the news cycle long enough to convince the masses and make it a counter-argument for the "intellectuals", they no longer need to bother proving it in a court of law.
if it's being used as evidence in court, where chain of custody and legitimacy matters, it's tough to sue someone for manipulating data -- plus it's a computer it's easy to see when data has changed.

unlike boxes of classified materials that were opened, documents removed, documents added, and documents put back out of order...
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I find it amusing how we're all completely convinced that the government did NOT deliberately falsify evidence in order to manipulate the outcome of a criminal trial in this one specific instance, because we all liked the outcome.

The same government, mind you, which definitely DOES manipulate elections and assassinate its own citizens if they have dirt on the Clintons, or are Bad Orange Man.



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