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The DUmpster / Re: ICE beats the shit out a guy causing him to seizure
« Last post by SVPete on August 31, 2026, 09:40:24 AM »
Three days later, and haven't heard or read a thing about "ICE beats the shit out a guy causing him to seizure" anywhere in national media. And I've been on the lookout, although I'm certainly not going to watch MS-13NOW or CNN. Clearly this either didn't happen, or whatever happened was completely blown out of proportion by the deranged anti-ICE lefties.

Well as posted above, the guy resisted arrest, was NOT beaten shitless, was tased, but did NOT have a seizure. His trip to the hospital was standard practice when someone has been tased. Nothing for national MSM to hype into a faux outrage. Even the FB morons and trolls I regularly see howling for the ICE officers who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti to be prosecuted for murder and whining about a dude who lost an eye due to getting hit with a bean-bag round while he attacked ICE officers have not been howling about this non-event.

The DU OP source was Bluesky, which even MesS NOW talking heads probably regard as less than dubious.
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The DUmpster / How did everything get so *stupid*?
« Last post by CC27 on August 31, 2026, 07:00:34 AM »
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Ocelot II (132,958 posts)

How did everything get so *stupid*?

It isn't just that everything is bad, it's that it's industrial-strength, weapons-grade stupid on top of being spectacularly bad. We've never had this stupid kind of bad before. Bush I, for example, was a bad president. Iraq was a disaster. You could reasonably argue that invading Iraq was stupid on top of being bad, but Bush (Cheney and Rumsfeld, actually) had articulable, if wrong, reasons for doing it. It wasn't a random thing that they decided to do because they were getting bored and just felt like doing some war fighting, or maybe they wanted to distract from some other scandal. Their reasons were based on a destructive neocon theory of nation-building, a desire to control the middle east and extract its oil, eliminate an inconvenient leader, and find someone to blame for 9/11 that wasn't the Saudi allies. Bad reasons, but reasons. What have we got now? A senile, half-mad "leader" who starts a war that's not a war for no particular reason at all, except maybe the Epstein files and a fit of misplaced imperialism (Venezuela was a cake-walk, after all, right?), without stopping to think about geography. Six months later and there's no plausible exit strategy and it's looking more like Iraq and Vietnam combined, only dumber. So what does he do next? Start a completely stupid, pointless, destructive trade war with Canada, and for the frosting on the cow pie, performatively renaming a lake, also without thinking about geography, just to be a dick, and maybe because Carney told him to suck his balls. It's stupid and it gets stupider every single damn day. When does the stupid stop, or does it?

https://democraticunderground.com/100221475302

Look in the mirror stupid...
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The DUmpster / Re: ICE beats the shit out a guy causing him to seizure
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on August 31, 2026, 06:43:52 AM »
Three days later, and haven't heard or read a thing about "ICE beats the shit out a guy causing him to seizure" anywhere in national media. And I've been on the lookout, although I'm certainly not going to watch MS-13NOW or CNN. Clearly this either didn't happen, or whatever happened was completely blown out of proportion by the deranged anti-ICE lefties.
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The DUmpster / Re: What fresh hell do we have today?
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 30, 2026, 07:48:43 PM »
Now Axios is reporting that Ratcliffe wanted to arrange a meeting between Trump, Putin, and Zelensky, according to... you guessed it! Some guy, and some other guy.
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The DUmpster / Re: What fresh hell do we have today?
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on August 30, 2026, 05:56:33 PM »
kentuck (116,960 posts)

Where did you get this 13% number?

Here is the way I suspect the DUmmy Ken-Tuck would explain it even though it is completely incorrect and fudged to make his/her/its idiotic point.

President Trump received 49.8% of the popular vote in 2024. Approximately 65% of registered voters actually did vote. So that drops President Trump's "approval" to only 32.3%. His current approval rating is approximately 40%. So 40% of 32.3% is almost exactly 13%.

It is completely mathematically inaccurate and illogical, but it makes DUmmies sleep better at night I guess. If I tried to apply this same logic at work in the vast Excel spreadsheets we create and their related tables and assumptions, I'd be immediately laughed at and mocked, then quickly removed from the building and perhaps not even receive any severance or a last paycheck.
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The DUmpster / Re: What fresh hell do we have today?
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 30, 2026, 04:54:58 PM »
Where did you get this 13% number? Maybe you got it from a creditable source. I kind of doubt it as you never seem to back up your fantasies with any source. Until you can offer sources for your stories they remain just STUPID

They must have confused it with the German Chancellor's approval rating. :-)
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The DUmpster / Re: ICE beats the shit out a guy causing him to seizure
« Last post by RonE on August 30, 2026, 04:51:38 PM »
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All of these ICE goons need to be locked up and face a criminal court immediately and I have no qualms of shipping them off to The Hague for crimes against humanity.
So, in your wittle brain you've already tried, convicted, and sentencing the ICE agents. But why do I suspect you'd scream like a 2-year old if any illegals  sporting violent records were shipped off to the Hague?
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/30
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 30, 2026, 04:44:48 PM »
The WashPost, being typical Prog-Faithful are playing word games. "No criminal record" means tried and convicted. The phrase excludes those awaiting trial; it excludes those that Lib/Progs DAs declined to prosecute; it excludes those whose crimes were revealed by their arrest. Among the latter would be working: under the table; for an employer who does not check eligibility; stealing someone's identity to get necessary documents.

The latter case is particularly damaging, as it screws up some unsuspecting innocent's tax and Social Security status.

Another word game the left plays is saying "no human is illegal". Of course, when a person calls someone an "illegal immigrant", they are saying calling the person's presence in the US is illegal, not their existence as a human. It's the same obtuseness the left showed when they did the "I am not a virus" thing after Trump used the phrase "China virus".
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The DUmpster / Re: What fresh hell do we have today?
« Last post by RonE on August 30, 2026, 04:33:46 PM »
kentuck (116,960 posts)

What fresh hell do we have today?

Ten weeks to go until election day.
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The CIA Chief just returned from a "secret" trip to Moscow. He wanted to keep it secret because he was going to tell Putin not to mess with NATO? Wanna buy a bridge? I wonder what they really talked about?

Now please share with us how you know the details surrounding this trip?

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Democrats are surging in Texas, Iowa, and Arkansas, as well as other states. Trump is telling his supporters, all 13% of them, to pretend he is on the ballot.
Where did you get this 13% number? Maybe you got it from a creditable source. I kind of doubt it as you never seem to back up your fantasies with any source. Until you can offer sources for your stories they remain just STUPID

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In related story, Steve Bannon went to the Court to get his conviction for contempt of Congress expunged from the record. The Judge refused his request.
Just curious as I don't really know. But, who appointed this judge?

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Election security is still creating angst within the voting ranks. What will Trump do to cheat and try to steal the next election? Everybody knows he will try.

Everybody?  now this is where you display your stupidity. Any legal voter already has a pic ID. Golly, Kentuck, even black voters!!! You enjoy these manufactured categories you put people into so you can "help" them? Good luck with that. Please go and find these repressed people who need your help in order to legally vote. Have you ever noticed that every damn change in voting laws pushed by the democrats party make voter fraud easier to accomplish? EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM!!!! Kentuck, why would that be?,----unless----your dems want to keep cheating available if needed. Beyond STUPID

Meanwhile, Americans are waiting for bad news because nothing good will ever come from the insanity of this reg You must have already purchased your party-favors and smoked glasses so you could finally see a nuke go off from close range. That's one thing Trump has done. They have promised to nuke the US and Israel, Do you think it's just chit-chat. STUPID
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Politics / BESSENT DISDAINS WARREN’S SCIOLISM
« Last post by SVPete on August 30, 2026, 04:26:05 PM »
BESSENT DISDAINS WARREN’S SCIOLISM

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/08/bessent-disdains-warrens-sciolism.php

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Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a heavily footnoted nastygram that is accessible online here. Secretary Bessent responded in a letter that is accessible via X here. Secretary Bessent’s letter has been covered in the press — here in the New York Post, here at CNBC, and here at Bloomberg.

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I am in receipt of your August 13 letter, which unfortunately reveals that you know even less about foreign exchange markets than you do about banking. Terrifyingly, the opening paragraph is wrong about where the money came, what the transaction was, and whether there was even a borrower. What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of your media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot your remedial error.

Treasury exchanged existing Exchange Stabilization Fund foreign-currency assets for yen. No new congressional appropriation was involved, and no credit was extended to Japan. Japan owes Treasury nothing. There is therefore no risk that Japan will fail to repay a debt that does not exist.

You state that it is “not clear” how preventing disorder in Japan benefits the United States. As your letter notes, Japan is a major holder of U.S. Treasuries. It is also a critical trading partner and a treaty ally. Disorderly yen markets can trigger forced unwinds, which could destabilize global markets and ultimately raise borrowing costs for American families and businesses. For a fuller explanation, I recommend any entry-level course in international finance for you and your staff, or I can give you a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies.

Fauxcahontas light years from Bessent's league.
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