patrick.net

I don't know why people use crossword puzzles as badges of genius. It is just another acquired skill based on practice and exposure. Maybe better than average literacy, but that's about it.

Pretty damn interesting.

None of the people that need to read the article will. The polarization only grows. Scary scary stuff.

This is so disgusting I may not be able to enjoy my glass of bat puree for lunch.

marcus says

So silly.

Everyone knows "only the left is violent."

Left assaults regular everyday people. Right stands up to big government. I’m sure you are a big boy and can figure out the difference.

A lot of nut jobs have peddled lies to Americans before, and even styled themselves as messianic.

Is that a reference to Obama, Hilary or Fauci?

These numbers, and the Democrat fraud and lock-down tyranny causing these numbers, are the reasons why Trump will be re-elected, whereas the 'rat party will be demolished.

Latimes "feel that sting, that's pride messing with ya!"

Trump trumps all things Liberal and it sucks to be them, deal with it!

www.youtube.com/embed/0pK5HmuCMBM

BTW, Steve Hassan participated in that crazy World Psych Committee or whatever it's called on that other thread, the one with that Yale PhD on board.

It wasn't the Covid that laid him to rest, it was the policy of the Low Fat high heel boys.

A vast majority of those who were happy Trump won were more relieved that there would not be a continuation of Obama's open border, pro-ChiCom, globalist, authoritarian and criminal IRS and FBI, etc policies.

It was not a feeling of a cult toward a cult leader as white liberals and African Americans worship Obama, but just a sense of relief that Trump won.

jazz_music says

This happened in France! Truth

What, a goofy protester in France. Merde! I am shocked, shocked, to find retarded Leftists in France.

I don’t know if Trump knows how to use mind control, but he sure has gotten in Steven Hassan’s head.

Ironically it will sell some copies because of Trump’s fame, not the author’s.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

ARM THESE PEOPLE!

GRANT THEM STATEHOOD!

SEND THE SEVENTH FLEET TO HONG KONG HARBOR!

Jazz is talking about cults?

Let me know when Conservatives are cranking out creepy children like this sing praises to dear leader.

www.youtube.com/embed/TW9b0xr06qA

Boycott China.

jazz_music says

“A loved one … sat down in front of Fox News, found some kind of deep, addictive comfort in the anger and paranoia, and became a different person.”

Sounds about right.

I'm happy to say that my republican friends, and I think family that voted for Trump and may again are not like this.

But there are definitely some around here that fit the pattern. It all started before Trump, but it's gone way too far at this point.

Sadly, I don't see how we get out of the vicious cycle, without an even worse level and kind of authoritarianism ( and yes even the dreaded taking your guns way). That's the aspect of causing increasing polarization that is completely lost on the right wingers.

TDS symptoms are still there I see. Lol!

OccasionalCortex says

How many bullshit Cult posts are you going to spam us with, jazz?

And what purpose do they serve, other than outright trolling?

Jazz have severe tds, they cannot be helped. They don’t realize how pathetic that looks actually.

Cult, it doesn't take much to vote for Trump after looking at the dem choice.

jazz_music says

Y'all got your heads in a death cult, not an elite group of fucking pundits at all but a whining flock of trolls rom mindcontrolsville.

but...but...but they kaint mind controlz us, if and in, they aint fly'in them airplanes with them chem trails of mind control clouds?

Trump put a stop to the mind control, that's why everyone is waking up and gittin Red Pilled all of a sudden. Has nothing to do with Trump.
Except for him stopping the chem trails.

jazz_music says

Fortwaynemobile says

Left assaults regular everyday people. Right stands up to big government. I’m sure you are a big boy and can figure out the difference.

Lies, lies, lies.

The right wants to be the only users of the power of government. The right serves the widening inequality that pleases the plutocracy, and American deaths HAVE ALWAYS RESULTED FROM IT TOO.

The right wing extremists are the great accusers who lie about everything so easily and in unison too.

The government is our only tool to bring the powerful to heel. THEY DON'T LIKE THAT BUT GREAT MEN BEFORE US MADE A GREAT AMERICA THE ENVY OF THE WORLD.

Right wing fools make America the laughing stock of the more civilized world.

See that is why left can’t meme. This is just terrible.

jazz_music says

Reality says

Is that a reference to Obama, Hilary or Fauci?

Binge Fox much?

Not at all. I haven't watched Fox for at least a decade, if not longer. Unlike your partisan bent, I have been independent for more than two decades.

The Democrats' fraudulent and treasonous antics are losing the votes from independents.

OccasionalCortex says

Hong Kong H1B co-worker of mine back in early 2017 says to me that he decided to move back to HK, "...because Trump is a dictator who will call me a Coolie on TV every chance he gets".

We don't need people like that in America anyhow.

Our disastrous CIO that was running the company into the ground. Hired a Jamaican Netsuit consultant, and threw him in my room.
Since the Netsuit and Verenia folks were taking so long to deliver promises they over sold. He nor I got a chance to ever do anything but sit in my office and talk about politics.
When he first came,he thought I was a nasty person for my political views and my alternate series of events in the news rotation than CNN, MSNBC and NPR was feeding him.
At frist we clashed and busted heads. But as time wore on, we started getting on. And would have civil political talks. After I made him aware he was conditioned to not talk about politics as an intellectual, but rather shout down any push back on the official narrative.

Once we got past that barrier, we became great friends, I still talk to him today.
I think the breakthrough came, when I put it to him. That if shit hits the fan in America where would he go? He told me, back to Jamaica.
I said lucky you, that's why Americans HAVE to be Patriots, we have no where else to go. If you left Jamaica for a better life, why would you want the Liberals in this county to make life more so miserable here that it's not even the country you came here for? If you're American, then you defend America not political narratives.
You can be an American, or you can be an immigrant, that aligns politically that gives you free shit at the detriment of the American here.
But you can't be both.

When we talk now, he's looking at the news much different than when I met him. He'll ask me what do I think about (that), and I'll give him my pov, and he would either agree or just was curios what I thought. He loves hearing my take on the current events.

Even if he would vote for the Michelle Obama / Bernie Sanders ticket in a minute.

At least he respects other people's opinion now, and doesn't shit on America by just blindly regurgitating CNN. That's about all anyone can ask for.

What these TDS posters are known for is their extreme PROJECTION of their own cultish fantasies and proclivities on people they deem as “the other.”
Basically, they wrap their own psychological problems up and accuse other people of owning them. It’s baffling to conservatives, not even insulting as it would be to someone who is battling those issues. We are all like, “what now? Are you serious? You can’t be serious. Oh shit! I think you actually are seriously accusing us of the EXACT mental health issues you’re clearly exhibiting! We just aren’t used to that level of self-deception. It’s rather breathtaking!
I don’t bother trying to convince these idiots of their folly. They’re immune to logic and common sense, probably a lost cause to the rational world. I expect the OP of having some Biden-style dementia acting here too. Although he hasn’t yet called me a dog-faced pony soldier so it might not be as advanced as the Dem nominee.

Where we go one, we go all.

Where we go one, we go all.

Where we go one, we go all!

Where we go one, we go all!!

Trump gives us what no other Democrat ever can. Memes!

Useful idiots working for tyranny tend not to live for long after their work and usefulness, and/or when their future value is lower than the cost of keeping their mouths shut. e.g. Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, etc..

Some right wingers were addicted to talk radio and Fox News, Briebart (or even Alex Jones) type nonsense long before Trump. He just took it to an entirely new level.

jazz_music says

56,000 dead of the 95,000 are the fault of Trump mishandling the pandemic.

Why don't you care?

You are in a cult.

Outsiders are devalued by projection. This is when group members attribute to outsiders personality traits that they themselves possess but wish to deny. Projection is a way of protecting the self from punishment and rejection. By applying negative personality traits to others, we are inferring we do not also suffer from them.

“Projection offers protection from the anxiety of being bad and the punishment of being abandoned. In addition, by making other people bad in our own mind, we can legitimise behaviour toward them that would otherwise be morally unacceptable, even to the point of sanctioning cruel and vicious actions.”

“The effect of projection is often a perception of the other person as being fundamentally different, a morally inferior species, undeserving of empathy.”

That explains why the phrase "the deplorables" was invented.

That explains why some people want to lock-down the society and condemn wide swath of people to house-arrest without due process, instead of respecting those "other people" for their rights intrinsic to being human beings.

OccasionalCortex says

Hong Kong H1B co-worker of mine back in early 2017 says to me that he decided to move back to HK, "...because Trump is a dictator who will call me a Coolie on TV every chance he gets".

That person is not very bright.

China is stupid to try to incorporate everyone in Hong Kong into their communist machine. That’s a recipe for a million dissidents migrating around their country and stirring up resistance against their totalitarian rule.

Tenpoundbass says

Trump gives us

1) Anti-globalization lies (what you want to hear), "he's going to bring manufacturing jobs back."

2) Immigrant bashing and not so subtle dog whistles to let you know he's with you (or at least he understands you).

3) Most of all, he satisfies the Trump cultist anger and hate and their desire to tear the country apart. While simultaneously deluding themselves that they are saving it.

We need to go in the other direction, finding common ground instead of this divide and concur bullshit that the right is being sold.

Is the Third Opium War about to get hot?

Paul Ryan is fighting for his life here, if the Democrats go down, the Rinos go down. They fully understand how slimy the Liberals can be more than anyone.
If the indictments start coming, they'll be fingered, and the Liberal Law Arsenal will pin it all on the RINOs.

Of course, ultimately we all know if it gets to close to everyone. They'll blame the dead guy, Shit Stain McCain.

He's dead! Just like Democrat voters.

Shaman says

That’s a recipe for a million dissidents migrating around their country and stirring up resistance against their totalitarian rule.

Lol. A million dissidents is nothing to them. They got more then that number of Uyghurs in re-education camps right now.

They have population control down to a science and you’re if you think other governments aren’t taking notes then I got a bridge to sell you.

But hey, China isn’t the problem right?

Trump is only focused on CHYNA to hide the fact he's been a Russian Asset since before the Berlin Wall came down.

Boo Hoo. They sound like the Boers wanting independence while the exploiting other ethnic groups.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

NO

FUCKING

ECONOMY

IN

THE

WORLD

CAN BE RATIONAL AS LONG AS ALL MANUFACTURING IS COOPTED BY A FUCKING SLAVE STATE CALLED THE FUCKING PRC!

@APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch You do realize you're basically agreeing with Trump on this, right?

It was a revelation for me when I met a young Chinese woman at a tech meetup in SF who was just off the "boat" (ie, 747) in the last few weeks, and had literally never heard of this moment.

I was chatting with her because she was trying to learn about SF tech culture, and from my point of view, she was reasonably hot, about 23.

I kept trying to explain the guy who stood in front of the tank, and I'm convinced she was not faking. This event has been so thoroughly suppressed in China that it was simply not available to her.

History has successfully been rewritten in China.