Call me cyclical but I think he may be operating under the “Dave Ramsey“ rule - keep people poor enough that they need to pad Dave Ramsey‘s bank account for financial advice.
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He may be a complete idiot but he has accidentally highlighted a genius marketing strategy as technically every time you buy a pair of shoes you are buying one and getting one free. Why do more shoe shops not lead with this?!
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Dave Ramsey has made an absolute fortune by giving people some basic common sense financial advice in Jesus’ name. His business model leans heavily on big seminars at churches, which for the past year the pandemic has eaten into pretty hard. No surprise that he’s one of the biggest COVID deniers around here. His company hosted a massive super spreader Christmas party at which masks were actively discouraged, he refuses to let people work from home, and several other things which have now gotten so numerous I can’t remember them all. Also, he (allegedly) fired a woman last year for getting pregnant out of wedlock, just like Jesus would have done.
Long story short, **** Dave Ramsey
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These cartoons are hilarious and very outspoken, as political satire should be lol
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My favorite one, just for Valentine's lol
It's amazing how these people weaponise religion and get away with it. When in fact, if there was a God and a Hell they would be among the first ones sent there for their behaviour. Awful, awful people
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AOC Is Right About Hawley and Cruz & America Is A Coup-able State
by Ian Welsh
Hawley and Cruz encouraged the January 6th riot.
That riot put AOC and other Congresspeople and staff’s life at risk. They were lucky to escape. We know that one rioter was texted that Congress had fled to the basement and that he was to turn on the gas and kill them.
It was a coup attempt. Because Trump is incompetent and tends to hire incompetents (with a few rare exceptions), the coup failed. The army wasn’t onside, only a few cops were willing to help, and so on. The best the coupsters could do is make sure that the outnumbered cops weren’t reinforced by more police or by the national guard.
Anyway, if AOC had been caught by the crowd, the best she could hope for was a beating. The crowd wanted to kill Pence, their own VP, as a traitor and AOC has been far more vilified than that. A beating would be the best case, death after some horrible abuse is the more likely case.
So AOC is right, and since she understands, correctly, that Hawley and Cruz and some others were part of making the riot/coup happen, she doesn’t want to work with them. After all, they did something that could easily have gotten her beaten, raped and/or dead.
It is also true that since there have been no consequences for those who aided, planned and abetted the coup attempt, just for the suckers they used, so there may be another one in the future. She is correct about that also.
What is not true is that this is particularly new: my judgment is that Bush Jr. could have pulled off a successful coup, he just chose not to. He would have had the military onside, and while he was personally suffering from some sort of brain damage, he had many subordinates who were, in their own narrow ways, competent. They knew how the bureaucracy and power works, and were brilliant at making it do what they wanted. The 2000 election was unquestionably stolen, and that was a coup without the theatrics.
America’s met the social conditions for coups for some time now.
In the present, however, it is also true that Cruz and Hawley; Hawley in particular, remain possible votes for things that AOC will want passed. Hawley pushed $2,000 checks hard.
Some of what Hawley wants done will help AOC’s constituents avoid poverty or death. This is a conundrum, and it is best answered by accepting their votes but not letting them take lead if at all possible. Hawley wants to be President, and AOC doesn’t want a man complicit in a riot/coup that could have killed her to have that sort of power. This is reasonable.
What happened January 6th was serious. It is not best answered the way that our political elites are answering it, with an increased security state which will not work when the threat is, as the horror movie line runs, “inside the house.”
But those who are mocking AOC for her fear and for her determination to not work with those who encouraged Jan 6th are missing the actual danger she was in. The protestors beat a cop to death, who they had nothing personally against. They’ve been indoctrinated to hate AOC.
And AOC is right that people who face no consequences for a coup, may well try again if they see no other way to get what they want.
But the problem is too far gone. The correct response is to expel those members and Senators involved, but since Congress operates on an entirely partisan basis, with no actual institutional or democratic loyalty, that is not possible.
This is part of why I say the US is in a pre-coup state: that the conditions are met. The responses required to remove the conditions are not possible.
In the meantime, there is a crisis, and it will be used, as all crises are, to do what those who actually have power wanted before anything happened: crack down on the internet, increase police state powers and so on.
And the abuse of the population, by both parties, will continue, until an elite faction does manage a coup, using the resentment that Democrats and Republicans have built and earned over the years as fuel, OR until America finds a way to be good to the majority of its population.
Back when there was all that media coverage of the unrest in the Caucasus region, one would have assumed this headline was talking about Georgia the country, not the state in the USA:
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Militia alliance in Georgia signals new phase for extremist paramilitaries
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Militia alliance in Georgia signals new phase for extremist paramilitaries
The leader of a private Georgia paramilitary group that provided security for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said he has formed alliances with other far-right groups to advocate for Georgia’s secession from the United States, following the arrests of participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the...
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The US democracy as of lately looks as feeble as some east European countriesBack when there was all that media coverage of the unrest in the Caucasus region, one would have assumed this headline was talking about Georgia the country, not the state in the USA:
Militia alliance in Georgia signals new phase for extremist paramilitaries
story here:
Militia alliance in Georgia signals new phase for extremist paramilitaries
The leader of a private Georgia paramilitary group that provided security for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said he has formed alliances with other far-right groups to advocate for Georgia’s secession from the United States, following the arrests of participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the...
OK. This may not exactly be on-topic but it's a wonderfully brutal and profane takedown of a right-wing media douchenozzle. Some may enjoy. Others may not. Apologies to the latter.
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Unlike all the croonies that Trump gave the medal of freedom, Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman deserves to get one from President Biden.
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Videos Turn Eugene Goodman Into a Reluctant Hero in the Capitol Attack
The Capitol Police officer, who served in the Sunni triangle during one of the most dangerous periods of the Iraq War, is credited with saving the lives of members of Congress on Jan. 6.
Cuomo should get far more criticism than he does for his mishandling (and now downright fraudulent) handling of Covid
Unlike all the croonies that Trump gave the medal of freedom, Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman deserves to get one from President Biden.
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Videos Turn Eugene Goodman Into a Reluctant Hero in the Capitol Attack
The Capitol Police officer, who served in the Sunni triangle during one of the most dangerous periods of the Iraq War, is credited with saving the lives of members of Congress on Jan. 6.
All respect in the world to him, but he needs to pull his mask up, then get a better fitting one
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Ha, I thought the same myself. I guess he is learning bad habits from the GOP in Congress.
Cruz is a monumental slimeball
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