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What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,276 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    "well established" is the biggest tell since "tears in his eyes"



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    It's not "sensationalising" .

    I genuinely want to understand how banning books, sacking or muzzling teachers in terms of what they can discuss in class and attacking Companies or individuals that disagree with your policies could possibly be viewed as "defending free speech" ??

    To be honest the current GOP version of freedom seems very much to be "You are free to do whatever you want as long as it is exactly consistent with our specific set of values"

    The GOP don't want "Freedom" , they want absolute compliance with their viewpoint.



  • Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Banning books? No.

    Taking inappropriate books out of school libraries, yes. The contents of those books I cannot post here to prove how explicit they are.



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,276 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs




  • Registered Users Posts: 82,405 ✭✭✭✭Overheal




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  • Registered Users Posts: 29,405 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Really you are going to say all of these books were explicit? Absolute nonsense, you know you can't even stand over hence you gave yourself a get out clause.

    • Including...
    • Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain, by Jacqueline Jules and Durga Yael Bernhard
    • The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad, by F.N. Monjo and Fred Brenner

    https://pen.org/banned-books-florida/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Ah would you stop...

    They banned the f**king Berenstain bears!!!!

    This book - This got banned

    Explicit my hole...

    Or this one..

    "The Gift of Ramadan" - I wonder what could possibly be "explicit" about that one...Hmmmmmm



  • Registered Users Posts: 29,405 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 82,405 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    And 14 Cows for America - a true story about 14 cows gifted to the United States by Kenya.

    Are kids not allowed to learn Kenya exists is that too CRT



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,413 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Did you make those criticisms on your previous account that compared Marcus Rashford to jimmy Savile?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Jesus lol. Says it’s not banning them then proceeds to give the definition of banning books as to what happened. Haha. And making it illegal to discuss gay people with 17 year olds, even that was a stretch too far for even you to come up with an excuse for. Free speech my hole.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Jesus Christ what absolute mentalists. Snowflakes galore. So much for free speech and cancel culture bla bla bla



  • Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    If you can go elsewhere to buy the books, which you can, then they are not banned. Poor attempt at a gotcha there I'm afraid. And ya, teachers should keep their personal lives to themselves. Its the parents choice to make, not ideological 20 year old + teachers who have no qualification to teach such topics. This is a very centrist viewpoint to have and not exclusive to florida.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    It's all about keeping their potential voters scared and ignorant so that they'll keep voting for them.

    Because if people actually read about the big bad scary world and got to understand that it's neither bad nor scary , they wouldn't fall for the GOPs "the boogeyman is coming to get you" nonsense anymore.

    It clearly shows that they don't have any faith that people will chose their viewpoints if given the opportunity to learn about alternatives.

    If the "God fearin' Christian" lifestyle was so great then why would anyone be afraid of letting people know about the alternatives , surely they'd still choose that MAGA life given the choice?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Banning them from schools is banning them, sorry that simple definition is a stretch too far for you . And who said the teachers should discuss their personal lives with their students? They’re banned from even discussing gay people exist whatsoever with 17 year olds. That’s ridiculous, no doubt you’ll cry about free speech all the time yet you’re all for censorship and making it illegal for gay people to be discussed with 17 year olds. Could it be that you’re a massive hypocrite?



  • Registered Users Posts: 82,405 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Can you guess the question Trump was asked, based on the inane answer he gives?




  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Yeah.. by that logic , abortion isn't banned in Alabama because you can drive to New York to get one...

    Teachers are not allowed to even acknowledge the existence of a homosexual person , they are not allowed to say Slavery was bad , they are not allowed to say that the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans was bad, among many other things.

    In the modern GOP worldview , America has always been awesome , everything has always been sunshine and lollipops and everyone is a gun loving, god fearing heterosexual and absolutely no one is allowed to even suggest that anything has ever been any different.

    They are terrified of trying to explain or justify actual history and just want to pretend it never happened. They want to ignore the existence of anyone and anything that doesn't fit their exact vision of how the world should be.

    The United States of Stepford is what they want.

    Pathetic cowards each and every one of them.



  • Registered Users Posts: 82,405 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Gotta 'maintain the investments' it's a tax write-off. 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Jesus this aged well lol. Absolute embarrassing scenes

    ”YouTube might remove the podcast like they did last time because the left are anti free speech and pro censorship”

    Anti free speech and pro censorship which you’re all for when DeSantis does it



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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,276 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Yet again, you're confusing causation with correlation. Lisa Simpson has a rock she wants to sell you to protect you from bear attacks



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,702 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Well Covid didnt help the accounts.

    Surprised to see that there are loads of tee times for tomorrow and Friday, thought it might be limited access for the visit.

    Its a fine course, I played it last year, 120 euro after 5pm isnt a bad price, I think I paid 60 when I was there.

    Might pop up and say hello to the big guy 😎



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Has owned Doonbeg for almost 10 years and has yet to make a single solitary cent in post tax profit.



  • Registered Users Posts: 82,405 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Ah yeah, help fund the grift.

    It's fine land, been out to that beach/village many a time but I'd discourage anyone to fund via fungibility, his unethical practices. It's actually not much different in scope to people's misgivings about the Saudi Arabian LIV golf tour. Especially when both entities are in bed together. How many future beheadings does your donation and tacit support provide for 120 euro?



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,702 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Its only 120 after 5pm, its 250 before 5pm tomorrow and 300 on Fri-Sun.

    Very steep prices, its obviously geared to getting the wealthy Americans over to play, not many Irish people will stump up that sort of dough.

    I thought the place would be very stuffy but the staff were actually very friendly and pretty laid back and no we didnt talk politics.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose




  • Registered Users Posts: 11,276 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    Indeed, here's a short list


    Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

    Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

    Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

    Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

    Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

    Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

    Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

    Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.

    Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

    Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

    Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

    Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

    Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

    Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

    Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

    Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.

    Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

    Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

    Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

    Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks* was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

    Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

    Republican preacher Stephen White*, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

    Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

    Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

    Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

    Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

    Republican politician Andrew Buhr* was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

    Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

    Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

    Republican County Councilman Keola Childs* pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

    Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

    Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

    Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

    Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter* pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

    Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

    Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

    Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

    Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall* was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

    Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

    Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

    Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

    Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young.

    Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography.

    Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in jail for the payments he made to cover up raping his wrestlers when he was a high school coach.

    Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity and giving alcohol to minors (results from the court pending).



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Trump v Farage interview now on GB News, for anyone interested.

    Should be interesting, given all the latest developments.




  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Why would anyone need to watch it??

    Trump has been saying exactly the same thing for years.

    "Stolen Election"

    "Russia Hoax"

    "Radical left destroying America"

    " I will fix all the things that I said I'd fix in 2016 and 2020 but never actually did , but I pinky promise I'll do it this time"

    Besides it'll be probably hard to hear Trump over the slurping sounds from Farage (it's those teeth you see..)



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    And those criticising Trump, often baselessly and brimming with hysteria, have been saying exactly the same thing for years.



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