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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Say, does the President pay taxes the same way as the average citizen?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Yes.
https://www.reference.com/government-politics/president-pay-taxes-93d342b49fe1e75d
This could be our October surprise.
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
It was in Obama's last time. And god does have a way of rescuing this country from our own monumental fuck ups from time to time. Not that were "gods chosen country", or anything like that. We are the retarded child that needs to be helped along from time to time.
So Trump is apparently holding some sort of pre-debate Town Hall thing right now. Honestly, I just saw it on CNN on my way out the door. Anyone know more about that?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Hurricane Matthew is a liberal conspiracy
Matt Drudge just made it a lot harder with a suggestion that the warnings are part of a left-wing conspiracy to convince Florida residents that climate change is real.
“The deplorables” — Trump supporters — “are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them … to make exaggerated point on climate,” Drudge tweeted.
Then the Drudge Report got in on the action, tweeting an article from the Miami Herald and adding the headline “STORM FIZZLE? MATTHEW LOOKS RAGGED!”
The actual article linked from the tweet mentions nothing about the storm weakening, instead saying that strong winds are expected to start in Florida within hours.
There’s absolutely no evidence for Drudge’s claim. The National Weather Service is a nonpartisan agency; more than that, in the past it has cautioned against blaming any single storm on climate change, although the warming trend is making extreme storms more likely in general. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who said Thursday that “this storm will kill you,” is a Republican with no incentive to play up the seriousness of the disaster in order to help the Clinton campaign.
Drudge’s conspiracy-mongering is a dangerous game. More than 1.5 million people live in the evacuation zone for Matthew. It’s already difficult to get people to take evacuation warnings seriously — so difficult that emergency managers have a slew of haunting tricks to drive home the danger of hurricanes, including asking people to write their Social Security numbers on their arms if they’re staying behind so that their bodies can be identified.
The implication of Drudge’s tweet is that resisting evacuation isn’t a bad, self-destructive move but a brave way for “deplorables” to stand up for the government. That’s not just stupid — it could very well be deadly.
And for your daily dose of Double Think, Trump supporters absolutely think that the election is rigged against him, and also believe that there's no way Trump won't win.
Pretty sure we're not supposed to be wishing death on anyone. But like I said, that gets easily annoyed when it's groups of people not typically liked in this thread.
Edit: Also, holding terrible views, in and of itself, doesn't mean that someone deserves to die. Defining people as "innocent" because they agree with you is a dangerous move.
edited 6th Oct '16 6:40:21 PM by LSBK

Well obviously the Trump administration will be more than happy to retroactively revoke your citizenship so that you can get out of our country and back to where you belong.
As a side note, I can feel my faith in humanity die a little more with every day of this election cycle.
edited 6th Oct '16 3:24:56 PM by Matues