How do you justify the grift?

[CNCAppsJames]

So everyone who does not meet YOUR political standard of excellence is stupid? I beg to differ. There is plenty of stupid to go around.

Beg all you want, the standard is abysmally low and you know it. The cheap seats in here can't even muster that.

[Newbeeee™]

"No matter how low we set our standards, we always, fail to achieve them"....

[TylerBeer]

Moved on from 'skin in the game' to 'cheap seats', what snappy catch phrase will talk radio tell you to use next?

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Nutboy finally figured out that there are fellow Trumptards in here with no actual skin in the game, so he had to regurgitate another clever euphemism.

[jstell]

Most people vote for what they feel is their own best interests. That's not a secret.

Most poor or less-than-wealthy republicans vote against their best interests.  They have simply been tricked into it for the last four decades by shysters and charlatans claiming to be more patriotic and more pious then the dems ("commies").

[jstell]

I think we have fairly equal disdain for the clowns that have been holding the highest office since ~2009 1963.

fixed

[jstell]

What the left media that voters rely on cannot do to save their life is seperate policy from rhetoric. That process takes the genuine capacity to think and reason. The left media that voters rely on is void of these skills. 

fixed the rest

[CNCAppsJames]

fixed the rest

Voters today generally speaking are lazy. They are some of the laziest and ignorant critters to ever roll out of bed in US history. It's pathetic. And the worst part is they low information vote election after election and the steaming piles of bovine excrement they send to the bowels of government on their behalf are barely more intelligent then they themselves are.... if we're lucky.

AI and Social Media are only exacerbating the situation. 

 

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Voters today generally speaking are lazy. They are some of the laziest and ignorant critters to ever roll out of bed in US history. It's pathetic. And the worst part is they low information vote election after election and the steaming piles of bovine excrement they send to the bowels of government on their behalf are barely more intelligent then they themselves are.... if we're lucky.

AI and Social Media are only exacerbating the situation.

Don't have a mirror, eh Nutboy?

[beej]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/us-economy-grows-by-4point3percent-in-third-quarter-much-more-than-expected-delayed-report-shows.html

The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-expected pace in the third quarter, boosted by strong consumer spending, a delayed report released Tuesday showed.

U.S. gross domestic product, a sum of all goods and services produced in the sprawling U.S. economy, expanded by 4.3% in the July-September period, the Commerce Department said in its initial reading of third-quarter growth. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect a gain of 3.2%.

Consumer spending expanded by 3.5% in the third quarter after rising 2.5% in the second quarter.

Increases in exports and government spending also boosted growth, while a smaller dip in private fixed investment helped as well.

The report originally had been scheduled for release on Oct. 30 but was delayed by the government shutdown. This release also replaces a second estimate that was set to drop on Nov. 26. The department's Bureau of Economic Analysis will release one final estimate later

[Smit]

It looks like nobody will be fired today! 

[neurosis]

Sounds about right?   Does anyone really fall for this shit?


https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/2005731461849305107

"WE'RE WALKING ON RAZOR-THIN ICE!" The email warned.

"Only a massive and immediate response will do," the email continued. "I need YOU to help me hit my end-of-year fundraising goal by midnight tomorrow or EVERYTHING we've worked so hard to accomplish could go BYE BYE."

"Trump's email attracted a wave of mockery on social media. X account Patriot Takes quipped that the president's "email scams keep getting weirder" while another X user commented that Trump was "the ultimate grifter."

"Damn. I don't want my 'tariff rebate check' going to an 'illegal,'" investment banker James Chanos sarcastically tweeted."

[CNCAppsJames]

"There's lies, damn lies, and statistics." Mark Twain.

Any statistic can be interpreted any number of ways to suit the interpreter. 

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Sounds about right?   Does anyone really fall for this shit?

You don't read your own forum?

[beej]

Sounds about right?   Does anyone really fall for this shit?


https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/2005731461849305107

"Trump's email attracted a wave of mockery on social media. X account Patriot Takes quipped that the president's "email scams keep getting weirder" while another X user commented that Trump was "the ultimate grifter."

"Damn. I don't want my 'tariff rebate check' going to an 'illegal,'" investment banker James Chanos sarcastically tweeted."

    Overall, we rate MeidasTouch Left Biased based on the negative portrayal of Donald Trump and Republicans and the promotion of Democratic candidates. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to a lack of transparency with funding and the publication of one-sided content that can be misleading.

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Bias Rating: LEFT (-7.7)
Factual Reporting: MIXED (5.0)
Country: USA
MBFC's Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY