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Jordan Peterson Proves that Conservatives Are Motivated by Feelings, Not Facts

iThink comments on Sep 27, 2019:

The historical record of collapse of economies, failures of gov't, death and privation of very large populations of people tell any sensible person all they need to know about Socialism. Socialism - such a wonderful form of governance that it has to be forced upon the citizens. Although these ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@iThink This post has nothing to do with socialism.

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

iThink comments on Sep 27, 2019:

emoluments? that's one I did not hear about

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

That's like when the Saudis overpay you to stay in your hotel whenever they're in Washington. Or when you provide special access to Mar a Lago patrons. Or when Pence moves heaven and earth to stay in your remote Irish resort. Basically what happens when your President doesn't divest or step down from their business.

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

You know there are people in jail because of what Trump did... Here's the list that Congress should impeach Trump on: 8 felony campaign finance violations including Giuliani's role with Ukraine. Soliciting foreign election interference from Ukraine. Potential quid pro quo with Ukraine aid. ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@Boardwine No, unlike you I can think and write for myself. If you haven't noticed, the Democratic leadership isn't so keen on a comprehensive impeachment.

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Let's get back to the real scandals like Whitewater, Monica, Benghazi, the IRS, and her emails!

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@RobBlair I remember 5-10 years ago some investigative journalism into a dark money group in North Dakota that was probably colluding with political campaigns and not exactly doing the public service it purported to, at least as its primary activity. Seems quaint now. This is our current reality: https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-political-dark-money-groups-501c4-tax-regulation

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Let's get back to the real scandals like Whitewater, Monica, Benghazi, the IRS, and her emails!

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@RobBlair How are they supposed to identify political groups without political keywords? I have no problem work the searches they did for left-wing names. None of these groups should be non-profit. But there were simply more of these orgs on the right (that may have changed a bit since the controversy).

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Let's get back to the real scandals like Whitewater, Monica, Benghazi, the IRS, and her emails!

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@EdNason Trump is a totally normal President.

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Let's get back to the real scandals like Whitewater, Monica, Benghazi, the IRS, and her emails!

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@EdNason That was at the discretion of the Trump administration--it was political. Congrats, you accomplished the thing you accused the IRS of doing.

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

You know there are people in jail because of what Trump did... Here's the list that Congress should impeach Trump on: 8 felony campaign finance violations including Giuliani's role with Ukraine. Soliciting foreign election interference from Ukraine. Potential quid pro quo with Ukraine aid. ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@EdNason You're a complete joke!

All of the fake scandals brought up by the Lefties.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Let's get back to the real scandals like Whitewater, Monica, Benghazi, the IRS, and her emails!

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 27, 2019:

@RobBlair The IRS scandal was a farce. They were just doing their job. Now anything can be a non-profit and there is no enforcement to stop collusion between campaigns and outside groups. Thanks, GOP.

After hearing that the "Whistleblower" did not even have direct evidence, but merely hearsay, I was ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 26, 2019:

You know Trump released a summary of the transcript of his phone call, right?

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE Besides the campaign finance law issue, he's asking a foreign government to interfere in our election with no factual basis. And yes, there's the appearance of a quid pro quo.

After hearing that the "Whistleblower" did not even have direct evidence, but merely hearsay, I was ...

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 26, 2019:

You know Trump released a summary of the transcript of his phone call, right?

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE Tell me, what role does Rudy Giuliani have in our government?

[cnn.com] OK then.

GaryWitt comments on Sep 26, 2019:

So 4chan (evidently the MSM’s go-to source for such matters) falsely reported the gesture 👌 supports the alt-right so that the media would over-react. And now, the ADL has done just that. As a result, anyone who makes this common gesture is now associated with skinheads and hatred. Cause, ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@CodeNameZebra That's why I say, context, folks. But also, if you view your neighbors as reasonable people, you shouldn't enslave them!

I think that William nailed it with this one that is perhaps more appropriate today.

govols comments on Sep 26, 2019:

What year was that said? I would guess it was in an era when radical progressive factions, radical communist factions, radical socialists factions, were all so out of favor they were mislabeling themselves as "liberals." The liberal tradition is to question established norms and the conservative...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

There shouldn't be conservatives in the US if the American Revolution meant anything. It's opened a back door to feudalism.

[cnn.com] OK then.

GaryWitt comments on Sep 26, 2019:

So 4chan (evidently the MSM’s go-to source for such matters) falsely reported the gesture 👌 supports the alt-right so that the media would over-react. And now, the ADL has done just that. As a result, anyone who makes this common gesture is now associated with skinheads and hatred. Cause, ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

It's like most of the trolls those people on 4chan do that ultimately catch on with the right. Forgive my skepticism when someone like Andrew Auernheimer says his use of the n-word and sending white supremacist flyers to network-connected printers at universities is a troll, but then he goes on to work for the Daily Stormer and owns up to being a Nazi. It's not ironic when it symbolizes your actual beliefs. Moreover, it really doesn't matter how it started--words and symbols can change meaning as more people use them.

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE Like I said, if a felony is enough for Clinton, why not 8 known felonies for Trump?

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE The Democratic leadership is incompetent and has bad corporate centrist politics.

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE Jesus, how many times do we need to hash this out. Under Obama, older children were detained when they came here alone until they could make arrangements with an adult in the US (which they generally already had planned out). Under Trump, they started unnecessarily detaining asylees, requiring their young children, who aren't as capable of navigating the legal system and don't know other adults in the US, to be detained. This caused a huge spike in children detainees, overtaxing the system. They knew full well that would be the consequence and did so anyway, intending it to be a deterrent (it wasn't).

[cnn.com] OK then.

GaryWitt comments on Sep 26, 2019:

So 4chan (evidently the MSM’s go-to source for such matters) falsely reported the gesture 👌 supports the alt-right so that the media would over-react. And now, the ADL has done just that. As a result, anyone who makes this common gesture is now associated with skinheads and hatred. Cause, ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

I'm sure it's just a natural hand movement or a troll when these folks pose for the camera with it.

[cnn.com] OK then.

WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Context, folks.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@Naomi I mean that was part of the inspiration for it. I'll give Trump the benefit of the doubt and say that he's not intentionally signalling anything. The alt right media figures who he lets into press conferences, on the other hand, are another story.

I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago.

FrankZeleniuk comments on Sep 25, 2019:

" Shokin had been forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to thoroughly investigate corruption and stifled efforts to expose embezzlement and misconduct by public officials. Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless Shokin was ousted. But that was ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@FrankZeleniuk **No human being is equal to another. They have different levels of responsibility, different abilities, interests and goals.** No argument there.

Trump: Americans will never fire.

camerakid61 comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Q: "Fire?"

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

He was having trouble reading from the teleprompter--and was clearly so sedated that he wasn't processing anything that he was saying.

So we know that proving that Trump was looking for reciprocity in his phone call to the Ukrainian ...

RobBlair comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Trump - "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot.of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping.you more than.they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@RobBlair Would it have been better if Biden had recused? Yes. I mean it would have been better if his son hadn't been on Burisma's board to begin with. But all appearances suggest that Biden was pushing US and international policy, which was to push Ukraine to investigate Burisma. Not the opposite, which is what Trump is pushing.

So we know that proving that Trump was looking for reciprocity in his phone call to the Ukrainian ...

RobBlair comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Trump - "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot.of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping.you more than.they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@RobBlair The funds were released by 2015, before Biden's visit. A UK court released the funds after Shokin refused to cooperate and assisted Zlochevsky's lawyers.

So we know that proving that Trump was looking for reciprocity in his phone call to the Ukrainian ...

RobBlair comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Trump - "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot.of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping.you more than.they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@RobBlair If Shokin planned to investigate Burisma, he had a funny way of showing it.

So we know that proving that Trump was looking for reciprocity in his phone call to the Ukrainian ...

RobBlair comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Trump - "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot.of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping.you more than.they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@RobBlair "But the British money-laundering investigation was stymied by Ukrainian prosecutors’ refusal to cooperate. The Ukrainian prosecutors would not turn over documents needed in the British investigation, and without that documentary evidence, a British court ordered Britain’s Serious Fraud Office to unfreeze the assets. In September 2015, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt gave a speech in which he attacked the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office for failing to cooperate with the British investigation. In his speech — which I quoted in my story — Pyatt mentioned Burisma’s owner by name."

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE Your only evidence for Clinton, not counting "sad whining" is perjury. If you think that's worthy of impeachment, why not Trump's obstruction and campaign finance felonies? The latter have basically been proved in court already and the former were strongly suggested by Mueller, but won't be proven unless impeachment proceeds.

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@JimbobNE While there may be statutes describing why an action by the President would be a crime if committed by any other citizen, there is no need to rely on legal statutes for the Senate to convict. The standard is "high crimes and misdemeanors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_crimes_and_misdemeanors And I think my use of "potential" was clear enough about where more investigation is needed--something the impeachment process would help with. Regarding immigration policy, there should have been hearings yesterday on Trump's reckless family separation policy. It certainly meets the aforementioned standard. You may not like it, but that's probably because it's a political process.

I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago.

FrankZeleniuk comments on Sep 25, 2019:

" Shokin had been forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to thoroughly investigate corruption and stifled efforts to expose embezzlement and misconduct by public officials. Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless Shokin was ousted. But that was ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@FrankZeleniuk I turned to socialism after the right's embrace of Trump revealed to me how their politics boils down to a desire to impose traditional hierarchies on people. I'd rather be a free man than be forced to subordinate and seek patronage from some would be king like Trump, Jerry Falwell, or Erik Prince. Their politics is being spread all over the world by oligarchs (a consequence of not taxing and regulating enough) and the liberal technocracy has been powerless to stop it. I worry that when they do strike back it will be in the form of more institutional authoritarianism rather than more democracy. Where you see the UN as an instrument of communists, I see it as an instrument of the same professional class that has been in power since the Enlightenment, which to be fair, I am a member. Yes, I think having a UN is better than not having one, but I think it needs to be reformed. While the feudalism the right seeks to return to does require big government, socialism does not. You can be anywhere on the spectrum from an anarchist to a communist. While like George Orwell I have some anarchist tendencies, today I choose the pragmatic option of social democracy. There are just too many advantages to the current state. Primarily, the US dollar. I think egalitarianism is a good thing to work toward. Certainly the merchant class that brought about capitalism and liberal democracy thought it was worthwhile to redistribute the power of the aristocracy. And I think it is desirable to work toward a world where the working class is just as empowered.

So we know that proving that Trump was looking for reciprocity in his phone call to the Ukrainian ...

RobBlair comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Trump - "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot.of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping.you more than.they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

Take it from the guy who wrote the story your article was based on. https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/i-wrote-about-the-bidens-and-ukraine-years-ago-then-the-right-wing-spin-machine-turned-the-story-upside-down Shokin was responsible for the probe, but he was holding it up. Biden was asking him to stop protecting the organization his son worked for. Trump's call is about paying Ukraine to make official statements that undermine a presidential contender. It's not even about a real investigation, not that one is warranted. "In May, when this issue began to surface, The Intercept’s Robert Mackey wrote an excellent piece debunking the lies in the new pro-Trump version of the Biden story. In the process, he provided greater detail than I had included in my 2015 story. He wrote that Shokin had been forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to thoroughly investigate corruption and stifled efforts to expose embezzlement and misconduct by public officials. Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless Shokin was ousted. But that was because Shokin had blocked serious anti-corruption investigations, not because he was investigating Burisma."

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@EdNason Reasons to impeach: 8 felony campaign finance violations including Giuliani's role with Ukraine. Soliciting foreign election interference from Ukraine. Potential quid pro quo with Ukraine aid. Emoluments. Obstruction of justice during the Mueller probe. Demagoguery. Immigration policy. Politicizing the Department of Justice. Abuse of pardon power. Electioneering by his campaign, donors, and Cambridge Analytica in 2016. Potential foreign collusion in 2016. Criminality of his 2016 campaign (e.g. Manafort, Flynn, and Cohen). Potential fraud, money laundering, threats of violence, bribery, and ties to organized crime during his business career. But Whitewater and Monica!

"The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 2, Section 2, that the President “shall...

JimbobNE comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Yep, Bill Clinton lied to Congress under oath and wasn't impeached. It is the Democratic double standard. Democrats are saintly, everyone else deserves to be ground to dust.

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

You know there was an impeachment trial for Clinton. We're nowhere near that point for Trump.

I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago.

FrankZeleniuk comments on Sep 25, 2019:

" Shokin had been forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to thoroughly investigate corruption and stifled efforts to expose embezzlement and misconduct by public officials. Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless Shokin was ousted. But that was ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@FrankZeleniuk I mean I get why the conspiracy theory is so popular. It is a useful rhetorical tool when you want to demonize your opposition, deflect from the people and history of your own political movement, and deflect from real problems like school segregation, bigotry, poverty, and fair wealth distribution. It's great if you want to marginalize people who aren't white evangelical Christians. And it's great if you want to create an aristocratic legacy.

I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago.

FrankZeleniuk comments on Sep 25, 2019:

" Shokin had been forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to thoroughly investigate corruption and stifled efforts to expose embezzlement and misconduct by public officials. Biden did threaten to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless Shokin was ousted. But that was ...

WilyRickWiles replies on Sep 26, 2019:

@FrankZeleniuk A conspiracy theory that sounds like it was made up by a fading feudal aristocrat, upset at the growing power of the middle class with the growth of capitalism and democracy. My grandparents were indoctrinated in the conspiracy theory as children. One was a member of a secret Catholic anti-communist cell and the other became a member of a new conservative Baptist congregation and the John Birch Society. Gossip and spying on your neighbor ruled the day. Anything that encouraged cultural freedom was bad. The funny thing is that the two grandparents would have ratted out each other as parts of the conspiracy to undermine traditional families because of their religious differences. The latter grandparent would constantly argue with his parents in law, who came from a long line of Universalists. My grandmother went into a deep depression, perhaps because of the traditional role imposed on her in contrast to several generations of women before her. They sent my mom to a conservative school where she couldn't play cards, dance, wear jeans, associate with males, or drink. Church attendence was required and spies watched you off campus. They lost their accreditation and she never was able to complete her degree. Her friend went to school to become a pastor's wife, which didn't pan out, and has lived an unfulfilled life to this day. As for me, nothing about your theory rings true about my experience in school. I did become a socialist in response to Donald Trump's election, though. I still get along great with my family, even the ones I disagree with. We are strong enough to respect our selves and each other as individuals and confront and learn from the discomfort of disagreement.

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WilyRickWiles comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Um...it is already Islamic. It's just not a nation, especially with India's recent incursion. If anything it is India planning to remake it as a Hindu colony.