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You just agreed with me. The only people hearing dog whistles are not Trump supporters. And if you ignore stupid things Trump says, you won't hear the dog whistles too. And if nobody hears dog whistles, then what?

I'm not sure your background, but for the past 20 or more years I've worked in a Brooklyn Neighborhood that's chock full of former residents of a certain East Bloc country under the communist boot. You could learn a lot from their experiences and what they think about Communism. I've got a Romanian friend who described to me what it was like in the early '90's when the Communists fell out, very interesting stuff. It sure looks to me like Biden has had to embrace the far progressive left to build a coalition within the Democrat party. Those progressives are going to want a voice in a big way, and they seem (at least to me) to see a Biden Presidency as the first in many steps toward fulfilling their agenda. This is my opinion and I hope to be wrong. Funny to me how the only people who hear Trump "dog whistles" are Trump haters.

Trump is promoting riots? You have an example of this? There have been riots and unrest under just about every President. Have those Presidents promoted those? And you know that the unemployment rate is under 8% during an enforced shutdown of the economy, right? You think Trump wants to continue having high unemployment? You're not making sense. There are reasons to not vote for Trump, but what you cited are none of them.

Do you let your 4 year old kid have the lollipop in the store when he's throwing a fit? That's not a good reason to vote against Trump. There's lots of reasons, but that's not one. That's actually one (for me, at least) to vote FOR Trump.

Who's promising these things and why?

I've never read a page of that thread. You did and you voiced your dissent. At what point did you think that you were going to change DR's point of view? When you realized that you weren't going to change anything, then why did you keep on it? Why not just chalk him up to a lost cause? These are honest questions. There are a couple time when I tried engaging someone who posted inaccurate facts (I'm not talking about conspiracy theories). After a few tries, I eventually realized that even showing them how they were incorrect didn't change their conclusion. At that point I knew what I was dealing with and adjusted myself.

He repeatedly would post the exact thing 15-20 times in a thread, and most times it was off the topic of the thread and meant to derail. He couldn’t coherently respond to others. You say he “hit the mark too well” — but all he did was post as insult. There was never an attempt to discuss anything. I don’t believe there are “bots” on this board, but he is the closest thing to one. There are others who insult, etc. It isn’t odd that he was singled out. He doesn’t come here to melt snowflakes, he wants to melt the forum.

Dude, the proprietor if the site was dragged down into the crawl space of the basement of this place because he was told that a sewer pipe busted down there. He shined a flashlight on the problem and part of the repair job was to suspend your buddy. Obviously, you’re the only one who thinks BillStime was funny as hell.

When I first heard this, I was surprised. Then I thought back to the early ‘90s NYC and this would not have really gotten much notice. Just a day in the life back then.

Stick around. I’d say that to anyone who’s already threatened to leave (or left already).

Thanks, now can you help me set the clock on my video tape player?

Can we get an eyeroll emoji?

Nutty conspiracy theory.

Cripe sakes, I take a weekend road trip up to WNY to visit my 81y.o. mom for the first time since Covid hit, and PPP turns into a snowmelt. This thread is a diva-fest, holy Moses. The PPP sub-forum can be really excellent at times, but those times have unfortunately diminished to too few. It’s a shame. Buncha marshmallows. And with that said, I’ll continue to come around here and hope that the discourse improves. There’s too much baiting and too many people take the bait.

Don't need to go to war with them. Just need to wait them out. They've got a billion more citizens than us. These are people that need to be fed and employed with not enough of their own resources to accomplish it. They're not making any friends who matter. They're going to get squeezed by their own bad decisions soon enough.

Gase is Kotite-level.

Trump is in the hospital now? That was quick.

That sucks.

Not good when "deep state" and "#resist" cross over. There's a bad look and smell that comes off that combo. Like when whistleblowers and their "coup has begin" lawyers conspire with House Committee Chairmen.

Cool! Now do #resist

It is also easier for party bosses to keep the ball rolling with incumbents than to fluff up new blood. Incumbency is a big problem and has been for years. Another thing to look at is to get rid of plum committe chair appointments just because of seniority. Government should shrink down to a nub, though that’s a pipe dream. I am torn on, but leaning more toward more multi-party participation to decentralize power, too.

But Antifa is just an”idea”. An idea that a lot of people share and then they get together the express their “idea” by taking over parts of cities, burning property and nearly sacking a federal courthouse. When is an “idea” a “movement” with acts performed by a “group”?

I call Trump “Schwartzenegger’s nanny”.

In ‘16 he had to do that because he was an outsider. Last night he gave away the fact that he’s the incumbent President. He gave away talking up his achievements and dumping on Biden’s notion of how his administration will look. Trump did some of that, but not nearly enough.

He should speak to his plans. You disagree?