Trump Using Photos From His Own Presidency To Argue Life Is Worse Under Biden

"Donald Trump started a new ad campaign on Facebook last week that insists the U.S. is doing worse under President Joe Biden. The Facebook ads even include photos trying to suggest the chaos we see in those images is a direct result of Biden’s policies. The only problem? The two most prominent photos in the ad are from Trump’s time at the White House."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/05/03/trump-using-photos-from-his-own-presidency-to-argue-life-is-worse-under-biden/?sh=33e1ac5d918d

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Fox News' war on conservatives continues.

lol so dumb...Doesn't even know how to rig an online poll properly. He split the vote 3 to 1... lol. So stupid.

He should have made it:

Rifles

Handguns

Shotguns

Mental Health/wokeness

Quote by noll

I'd say ongoing requirements to show that you're still fit to own/carry a gun would indeed seem like the right approach (if you believe regular people need to have guns, which I don't). This should involve professionals who take those exams/do the assessments, not just anybody IMO.

Have to vote out all the republicans for something like that even get proposed on a national level. Nothing individual states do matters because we have open borders between states. Has to be Nationally. Like in San Jose, I believe it is, gun owners now have to carry insurance, like you do for a car, but one county doing that doesn't make a difference.

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Access to firearms based on how many friends one has seems pretty discriminatory. Also, making one individual responsible for what another individual may do in the future seems like a judicial nightmare.

I can see why he thought that because for certain licenses you need letters of recommendation like that. Since republicans won't ever stop taking donations from the NRA the only thing you can do is make more hoops for people to jump through to try and weed out the unserious people. But it's flawed, like, if your friend has autism, would you write a letter for them? I mean I don't think I would but because someone has autism should they not have access to guns? I don't know, in my opinion? Probably not. Or like say a brother in law? Since statistically your brother in law is more likely to shoot your sister than defend her with a gun, shoot himself or get it stolen... like I wouldn't write one for him either I don't think. But most people won't think about those things, you'll still have no hesitation from Billy Bob writing a letter for Hoyt Clyde, well.. probably Billy Bob's nephew writing one on his fancy typing TV machine and Billy Bob signing it.. and at the end of the day stupid people will still have guns. Honestly it should be like having a drivers license, you should have to have schooling and training and pass a test and keep up your license over the years to own guns. BUT the NRA doesn't like that and the republicans will never go against the NRA because the NRA gives them money and the republicans have no shame or morals. All there is to it.

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True, but there are more than twice as many firearms per capita than there men, in the US. Men also have more rights than firearms, so all the more reason to tackle this issue by reducing firearms instead of men.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

That's why we give people guns.

CPAC HUNGARY... Time for the patriots to get courted into becoming propagandists and spies.

Quote by Dani

A part of it? No. Fully support it? Yes.

If you, like me, grieve the fate of the show Heroes, you’d support it too. It was a direct casualty of the strike.

I don't watch nerd shit like that.

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Everybody?

What? Are you part of the writer's strike? Like, what is this response?

The Next Front in the GOP’s War on Women: No-Fault Divorce

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-crowder-divorce-1234727777/

STEVEN CROWDER, THE right-wing podcaster, is getting a divorce. “No, this was not my choice,” Crowder told his online audience last week. “My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore — and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.” 

Crowder’s emphasis on “the state of Texas” makes it sound like the Lone Star State is an outlier, but all 50 states and the District of Columbia have no-fault divorce laws on the books — laws that allow either party to walk away from an unhappy marriage without having to prove abuse, infidelity, or other misconduct in court. 

It was a hard-fought journey to get there. It took more than four decades to end fault-based divorce in America: California was the first state to eliminate it, in 1969; New York didn’t come around until 2010. (And there are caveats: Mississippi and South Dakota still only allow no-fault divorce if both parties agree to dissolve the marriage, for example.) 

Researchers who tracked the emergence of no-fault divorce laws state by state over that period found that reform led to dramatic drops in the rates of female suicide and domestic violence, as well as decreases in spousal homicide of women. The decreases, one researcher explained, were “not just because abused women (and men) could more easily divorce their abusers, but also because potential abusers knew that they were more likely to be left.” 

Today, more than two-thirds of all heterosexual divorces in the U.S. are initiated by women.

Republicans across the country are now reconsidering no-fault divorce. There isn’t a huge mystery behind the campaign: Like the crusades against abortion and contraception, making it more difficult to leave an unhappy marriage is about control. Crowder’s home state could be the first to eliminate it, if the Texas GOP gets its way. Last year, the Republican Party of Texas added language to its platform calling for an end to no-fault divorce: “We urge the Legislature to rescind unilateral no-fault divorce laws, to support covenant marriage, and to pass legislation extending the period of time in which a divorce may occur to six months after the date of filing for divorce.” 

The Texas GOP retains an iron grip on both chambers of the state Legislature, and Republicans hold every single elected office statewide — from governor and lieutenant governor to the railroad commissioners and judges. Should they decide to prioritize ending no-fault divorce this legislative session, they would likely have the votes they need to turn their platform into law.

It’s not just Texas: A similar proposal is presently being workshopped by the Republican Party of Louisiana. The Nebraska GOP has affirmed its belief that no-fault divorce should only be accessible to couples without children. At the Republican National Convention in 2016 — the last time the party platform was overhauled — delegates considered adding language declaring, “Children are made to be loved by both natural parents united in marriage. Legal structures such as No Fault Divorce, which divides families and empowers the state, should be replaced by a Fault-based Divorce.” (It’s unclear whether the party’s twice-divorced nominee for president weighed in on the debate at that time.) 

Despite its deeply embarrassing premise — that the only way to retain a partner is to literally trap them in the relationship — right-wing blowhards like Crowder have been embracing arguments against no-fault divorce with increasing frequency.

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Why does Jesus look so erotic?

Everybody does when they're getting nailed.

They have him dressed up like Priest Vallon now lol

If Americas could buy dynamite at walmart then there would be more dynamite attacks. Refusing to acknowledge that is hilarious. Just makes you look stupid.

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The bullet from a gun that killed the Dutch politician demonstrates that more restrictive gun laws do not prevent gun homicides, even in countries like the Netherlands, which has had them for quite a while now.

This example is directly applicable to the issue of school shootings, as broached in the OP. That the School Guardian Act doesn’t conform to your preferred approach does not invalidate its potential.

What are the gun deaths per capita of the Netherlands compared to say Florida or Texas or any southern state?

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That's all it takes, and stricter gun laws won't get rid of all of them.

Yet, getting explosives is very difficult and you need specialized licenses and they have meticulous paper trails.

But by your logic, since someone can just make an explosive and use it in a terrorist attack anyway then there is no point in making explosives inaccessible to most people.

Trump says as president he will radically transform colleges & universities “dominated by marxist maniacs & lunatics” by replacing accreditation boards with his people, bringing civil rights cases for schools that use DEI, seizing/taxing their endowments.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1653496694732881920

What an asshole.

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There was once an assault weapons ban nationwide. That ban was allowed to expire. Most of these shootings are done by single individuals. It should be no surprise to anyone that these are the weapons of choice for these shooters. Ban them again, or at the very least, require the purchaser to have someone (not a family member) sign, under the penalty of perjury, that they know this person and that he/she can be trusted to have such a weapon. In addition, they will have to write on the form how long they have known this person. Make it so that the signee has to be there in person and provide an ID.

A friend would do this for a friend they trusted. Not so for someone they just became friends with, and certainly not for a stranger.

After the shootings at Virginia Tech, some of the students were asked about the classmate who did the shootings. No one seemed to know him. He was the quiet guy who never said a word to no one. If had to get someone to sign for him, I don't think he could have done it. He didn't seem to have anyone who knew him.

There was spike in mass murders once the assault weapons ban expired.

Your idea isn't bad but honestly it should be more like cars. There should be requiring training involved before getting a license. I would say a psych test too but that would be abused.

The thing is that the cat is out of the bag, it's too late now.

Republicans like to say, "criminals don't care about gun laws", but they refuse to acknowledge that every illegal gun was once legal. Most criminals can't just make a semi automatic long rifle in their garage. It's why gun related deaths are almost nonexistent in countries where most guns are illegal.

There's no getting around that fact no matter how much mental gymnastics they want to do.

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I hesitate to say add in a causal way. But if someone chooses to be inspired by it, then sure.

In the same way that GTA leads to carjacking, murdering, soliciting prostitutes, etc. Or in the same way shit like FarmVille leading to growing/harvesting crops.

I think whatever leads to mass shooting is insidious, so in that vein, could something like this exacerbate it? Sure. But being an actual contributing factor? I’m not convinced.

That's why I compared it to extreme porn which is real people on video, this is getting real close to real passing people doing crazy shit and porn that is made in a snuff style is banned almost worldwide. Why? Why would almost all countries ban snuff style porn? It's not like rap, or old school shooters, this looks real, desensitizing to people who don't have media literacy. Media literacy is lacking even in the most developed countries.

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Hard pass. A person would need to lay out 2 grand for the graphics hardware to run this game at the same resolution with reflections - all drawn by a real time ray-tracing GPU - while dishing out at least 90 to 144 FPS.

https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-Founders-Graphics-GDDR6X/dp/B0BJFRT43X

I've been listening to hard rock n roll, metal and rap since the late 70s and enjoying rocket jumping while shooting grenades into the demonic hordes of Doom and then Quake & then DOOM again, since the early 90s.

All of that violent playtime never has instigated me to go drop 2 grand on an AR15 and air out people I mildly to greatly dislike.

Tipper Gore was full of shit in 1986, too.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1268/tipper-gore

I get that and I agree for the most part but me and you are from a different generation, you.. the silent generation, me a millennial... Our brains are wired to draw a hard line between reality and fantasy. Kids today are sheltered, they don't even ride bikes down the street and around town like we did. Imagine what these graphics will be like by the time an 8 year old covid kid is 15. Teaching them exactly how to handle real guns that they can easily get. Doom doesn't look real, this does.

Would you, let's say, your 13 year old play this? Would you let your 13 year old play Doom? I would let them play Doom, not this though.

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What are you blathering on about now?

California lost 1 congressional seat - and that's due to a slow growth in population (determined by the 2020 census).

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2021-04-California-House-Seat-Census-Population-16133275.php

https://apnews.com/article/census-2020-government-and-politics-california-dd4a4f3ce3070231b0aecdc1cac3e97b

California's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Democrats, and its 52 representatives: 40 Democrats and 12 Republicans.

California has not had a statewide Republican officer since January 2011. Republicans were last elected to a statewide office in 2006, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was re-elected as governor and Steve Poizner was elected insurance commissioner.

Newsome's a governor of an extremely blue state, not in any immediate danger of being over run by GQP.

Not to mention that a lot of Californians, myself included, wouldn't mind losing another seat if it means a lot of the people who moved here from other states would leave. The ones leaving now never had what it takes to make it here and they really should go back to the midwest, south and the east coast.

The Europeans, North/South Americans, Asians and pretty much anyone on a visa, I would like you to stay though.

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It’ll be a great scape goat for the next round of mass shootings, that’s for sure.

If it's a high bodycount, and if its like a straight up planned Columbine style one, and the shooter was a big fan of the game? What would you think? Besides the scapegoat rhetoric? Do you think it would have added to the problem? Even just 1%?

This trailer has a lot of people talking...

Would you let your kids play this?

Does this breed the thrill to kill?

Is this kinda awesome?

Would it make a decent training tool in regards to playing out situations for cops or is reality too unpredictable and could this as a training tool backfire?

Do you play violent first person shooters?

Does this go too far?

Could it be like extreme porn that quenches a pervert's thirst or does it make them more thirsty eventually leading to them wanting to try it for real?

Are the eventual mods for this game going to be insanely racist and sexist and create little psychopaths?

Is it just like every other game, who cares?

Would a hyper realistic crayon eating game just like this encourage people to maybe have a tasty snack?

What say you?

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Too old vs too fascist vs conspiracy loony. #americanpolitics

Robert Kennedy Jr. is pro putting lead in crayons like the good ol' days.

Quote by Chryses

Yes, he is. And he displays none of the symptoms President Biden has.

You're always wrong about these predictions, this is no different. RKJ is a joke and will get no support other than conservative media talking like, "Biden is in trouble now! who boy I tell you what!"

Agitprop and silly games is what the conservatives have to offer and they will continue to alienate everyone who isn't a moron.

The 8 year old also having a long rifle would have prevented this. Smart.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/5-dead-texas-shooting-suspect-armed-ar-15/story?id=98957271

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The Think Tank is supposed to be for POSITIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE conversations. Why do you resort to casting insults and hatred at me and others who have our own truths to share?

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Please STOP responding to my original post?

lol what 🤣🤣🤣

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I don't care how you try to twist it, but I actually meant what I said to WMM.

My post doesn't even make sense because I was drunk.