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[ibetweenk]

what in the heck are u boys arguing abou-- *spills blueberry tea all over left breast*

[AzzarTheGod]

m`hen en tooka zipa ah ny`diddit

ah g`he-otta zipe w 5 gee`se inent

[MagpieRockyl]

Who here wants more refugees? I'll show you why you're wrong.

[JurisDictum]

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Who here wants more refugees? I'll show you why you're wrong.

No one.

But our military industrial complex keeps producing more of them. Refugees are political from what I can see. We take them on so we don't look as bad blowing up their homeland or starving it with sanctions.

That kind of politics isn't working as well anymore. It's no longer just the elite that see it for the game that it is.

[JurisDictum]

Our 'Gaslight' Economy

Monday I described our gaslight financial system. Now we'll look at our gaslight economy. Correspondent Jason H. alerted me to the work of author Thomas Sheridan (Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath), who claims to have coined the term gaslighting.

As noted yesterday, gaslighting has often been used in the context of personal relationships to describe a manipulative person's attempts to undermine and control their romantic partner.

In a larger context, these manipulative techniques can also be applied to our perception of the entire economy:

1. Questioning, belittling, discounting and undermining our experience of economic "animal spirits" and general conditions.

2. Overwriting our memory of the economy of the past, again by undermining, questioning and belittling our memories.

3. Discrediting and marginalizing our definitions of economic well-being, in favor of the manipulator's definition of our well-being.

4. Using authority and "experts" to disqualify and discredit dissenting views.

5. Denigrate and deny our lived experience of economic conditions by repeating the institutionalized authority-approved narrative of "what actually happened."

6. Disorient, discredit and destroy dissent with a torrent of false statistics, false narratives, false accusations and false claims of our errors.

It seems obvious to me that we are being gaslighted to forget the widely distributed prosperity of the past and accept that the stagnation of the past 16 years is equivalently prosperous - in direct contradiction to the lived experience and memories of the bottom 80%.

Please compare the following four charts of unemployment, real hourly pay, inflation and full-time jobs with your economic experiences of the past two decades. The mainstream media and financial media are saturating us with claims that the economy is doing great: unemployment is a historically low 4.6%, real wages rose an astonishing 5% this year, millions of new jobs have been created, interest rates are at all-time lows, inflation is subdued and all in all, the U.S. economy is doing great - and if you disagree, well, you're a Russian propagandist because legitimate dissent is impossible.

[Wonkie]

trump is sued for doing a fraud. stole from soldiers charity. it won't matter.

GOP bless

[Raavak]

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[MagpieRockyl]

Do a fraud
Grab a broad
Trump rules
Losers, sad!

[ibetweenk]

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thats this dude w the quote. his name is "good latte"

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[Grimjaw]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's 1776 worldwide. Pay attention to the Brexit. Pay attention to this past election. You talking about super bowl? Fuck the super bowl! Our super bowl was November 8th when we elected Donald J Trump to become our new president! And that's what democracy's about!

Oh and hey, Chucky Schumer, oh Chucky Schumer, you want to talk about the constitution? You want to talk about the constitution? Mr Chucky Boy? huh, Mr Chucky Boy? The constitution was made by man! By man! You are a clown! The constitution protects the American people! The American people! That’s exactly who the constitution protects. Not people who come into this country that aren’t vetted the right way!

We're DONE with the democratic process! And let me tell you something democrats. You want to come back to the forefront? Here's an idea: ADOPT DONALD J TRUMPS AGENDA! THATS WHAT YOU DO! You're nothing but a bunch of cultists! A Cult! And this millions womans march, you’re in down-town, Washington DC, the day after our inauguration, and you plan to kill the womb? You're murderers! You're satanic murderers! No respect!

Donald Trump is bringing us together! You got that? Get used to it! All colors! Red, blue, white, yellow, it doesn’t matter! All of us is in this together! All of us! All lives matter! All lives matter! All lives matter! All lives matter! All lives matter! That hurts you democratic people, don’t it? You're full of crap!

And listen ladies and gentlemen, I’m about to tell you how you've been played. if you ever want to understand how the world is going, this is what you do ladies and gentlemen, you turn everything upside-down. Everything, you turn upside-down. Because what they've been teaching you is a pack of fucking lies! You've been brainwashed! You've been brainwashed! The global elites are running this country, and have been.

If we don’t have a border, we don’t have a country. We want a country! Not every fricken Muslim is adopting to our principals! We don't want sharia law! And that’s what you democratic people preach, that’s what you democratic people teach - DIVIDE AND CONQUER, that’s your motto - DIVIDE AND CONQUER. We're coming together as Americans! All under one flag! The United States flag! And democracy! And Donald J Trump! You got that, globalists? Globalist Soros? Globalist Clinton? Globalist Obozo I mean Obama?

I’m sick of this! He's not dividing us! This is propaganda! Edward Bernays - read the book! Read it!!! Edward Bernays - Propaganda 101! IM TIRED OF IT! I LOVE AMERICA! YOU GOT THAT? I LOVE AMERICA!!! And I appreciate opposite views! That’s what this countrys about!! Opposite views!!! You want to live under totalitarian where they tell you how to think!?!?!?!? This is not 1984!! IT’S 1776, WORLD WIDE! GET USED TO IT!! You Berkley anarchists! You are scum! Just like black lives matter. you got that? All lives matter!

And now I will apologize to my neighbors upstairs where I live. I drove them crazy with my big mouth, being opposed to mainstream media. You are liars! CNN! MSNBC with Rachel Madcow! GO TO HELL! You know what you're doing!! You're trying to take down America!!! With open borders! Everybody wants to come in here, and don’t want to assimilate with the west! We're done with that! I LOVE AMERICA! ITS AMERICA FIRST!

Another thing. He will not divide us. Yes, he is bringing us all together. And you see that cult? He will not divide us? That’s a cult. They've been brainwashed. They've been drinking the fluorinated Kool-Aid. And that’s what you get when you have a totalitarian elite splitting us. Dividing us. They are the dividers. You hear that? Thank God for Donald J Trump. And Mr Alex Jones thank you very much for giving us the truth. Steve Bannon, thank you very much Steve Bannon for being awake. Thank you Mr Donald J Trump for being there and coming to the rescue. You are a true American hero!