Examples of GOP Leadership

DIY-HP-LED

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Fear, insecurity, etc. Many people that are highly successful refer to it as a curse, because the same thing that drove them to high levels of success is the same thing that leaves them never truly feeling satisfied.
We live in a materialist society and advertising constantly reinforces the idea that things bring happiness, hence the happy smiling people in ads. Happiness is an end however, it has no ulterior motive and cannot be attained through material means, material well being can only set the stage for happiness, caring for others is it's wellspring. We evolved as social beings and nature designed us to live in and contribute to the well being of our families and communities and thus attain pleasure and happiness from it. There is a difference between pleasure and happiness, pleasure is ephemeral and needs an external source, happiness comes from with in and has to do with how we relate to ourselves and others. For normally socialized people to feel right within ourselves, we must do right by others who share our lives.

Much of pleasure comes from it's anticipation, it is the anticipation of the reward that made your ancient ancestor swim the river and climb the tree to obtain the brightly colored sweet fruit. Once eaten, the pleasure of the tenth fruit is much less than the first. Pleasure cannot last, or we would not survive, we need the next meal and the next sexual encounter, if pleasure lasted we would not be able to survive, thus it is ephemeral. Most alcoholics and addicts are addicted to the anticipation of pleasure, once the desired object is attained, they are invariably disappointed after the first few minutes.
 

mooray

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We live in a materialist society and advertising constantly reinforces the idea that things bring happiness, hence the happy smiling people in ads. Happiness is an end however, it has no ulterior motive and cannot be attained through material means, material well being can only set the stage for happiness, caring for others is it's wellspring. We evolved as social beings and nature designed us to live in and contribute to the well being of our families and communities and thus attain pleasure and happiness from it. There is a difference between pleasure and happiness, pleasure is ephemeral and needs an external source, happiness comes from with in and has to do with how we relate to ourselves and others. For normally socialized people to feel right within ourselves, we must do right by others who share our lives.

Much of pleasure comes from it's anticipation, it is the anticipation of the reward that made your ancient ancestor swim the river and climb the tree to obtain the brightly colored sweet fruit. Once eaten, the pleasure of the tenth fruit is much less than the first. Pleasure cannot last, or we would not survive, we need the next meal and the next sexual encounter, if pleasure lasted we would not be able to survive, thus it is ephemeral. Most alcoholics and addicts are addicted to the anticipation of pleasure, once the desired object is attained, they are invariably disappointed after the first few minutes.
Spot on. I like to convey something similar in chats with friends, except I get a kick out of the condensed and brutally honest version, which is that it all boils down to selfishness. People have a hard time grasping that good things can come from the right type of selfishness.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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This former republican hardass would have made a great special counsel for prosecuting Trump's crimes.
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Ex-White House ethics lawyer believes Flynn is guilty of sedition

Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter spoke to CNN's Ana Cabrera about former President Trump's one-time national security adviser Michael Flynn appearing to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States.
 

captainmorgan

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Nixon’s GOP strategist, in 1970: "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10-20% of the Negro vote...The more Negroes who register as Democrats...the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats & become Republicans. That’s where the votes are."
 

hanimmal

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Trump is spouting off how he will be re-enstated as POTUS in August.

Rep Sharice Davids (D-KS) just had the best response on MSNBC.


'I do MMA. Sometimes when you get knocked out and are still flopping around swinging. And that is Trump right now.' (not the exact quote, but close)

Nixon’s GOP strategist, in 1970: "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10-20% of the Negro vote...The more Negroes who register as Democrats...the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats & become Republicans. That’s where the votes are."
It really sucks how effective fighting dirty can be.
 

printer

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This former republican hardass would have made a great special counsel for prosecuting Trump's crimes.
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Ex-White House ethics lawyer believes Flynn is guilty of sedition

Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter spoke to CNN's Ana Cabrera about former President Trump's one-time national security adviser Michael Flynn appearing to endorse a Myanmar-style coup in the United States.
Freedom of speech. He was talking theoretically of course.
 

Unclebaldrick

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Fear, insecurity, etc. Many people that are highly successful refer to it as a curse, because the same thing that drove them to high levels of success is the same thing that leaves them never truly feeling satisfied.
Those people should start a little garden and quit fucking shit up.
 

mooray

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Those people should start a little garden and quit fucking shit up.
That's way too chill for some folks. What's funny though, is that I bet it's technically some type of mental illness, one of course they would never dream of correcting, yet I'm sure they hold contempt for others with other types of mental illnesses.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Those people should start a little garden and quit fucking shit up.
I'm afraid they are numb to the simple pleasures of life, when you seek to titillate, you must always raise the bar of stimulation. They must run ever faster on the hedonic treadmill to stay in place.
 

hanimmal

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That's way too chill for some folks. What's funny though, is that I bet it's technically some type of mental illness, one of course they would never dream of correcting, yet I'm sure they hold contempt for others with other types of mental illnesses.
My guess is some sort of PTSD from 9/11.
 

printer

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DOJ watchdog urged to investigate lawyers behind Barr memo redactions
n a Thursday letter, a government watchdog group asked the DOJ’s independent inspector general to investigate whether department attorneys committed perjury or other crimes through a potentially improper attempt to keep the memo’s contents concealed amid a public records request.

“If it turns out that they committed crimes in the process of doing so, they will have magnified the harm to the department’s already damaged reputation and compounded the effect of Barr’s lies to the American people,” read the letter from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to the DOJ inspector general.

The letter from POGO urged the DOJ’s watchdog to investigate the four lawyers involved in the public records case, which was brought under the Freedom of Information Act by another government transparency group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“If, as Judge Jackson appears to have found is the case, these four lawyers misled a federal court, they have done incalculable harm to the public’s trust in government. It would mean senior officials in the nation’s highest law enforcement agency concealed a matter of national concern relating directly to the integrity of the office of the president,” POGO wrote in its letter.

“These shocking findings cry out for those responsible to be fired and prosecuted, unless they can offer a defense presently unknown to the public.”

The letter was signed by both POGO’s executive director, Danielle Brian, and its senior ethics fellow, Walter Shaub, who served as the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics for the first six months of the Trump administration and later became an outspoken critic of the former president.

Witch Hunt!
 

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BREAKING: HUGE UPDATE From Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett – ONLY 14 PALLETS ARE REMAINING – Out of 44 Pallets! — And There’s More! (VIDEO)
THIS IS A HUGE UPDATE ON THE ARIZONA FORENSIC AUDIT!


On Wednesday, Jordan Conradson spoke to Arizona Forensic Audit Director Ken Bennet regarding the pace and procedures of counting ballots in the historic Arizona Audit.
Here’s what Bennett had to say — THIS IS AN EXPLOSIVE UPDATE—

Jordan Conradson: Do have an updated total?
Ken Bennett: The best way for me to estimate the total is to count that we’re now down 14 pallets that haven’t been touched. When the county delivered the ballots on April 22nd, there were 46 pallets. Two of those were just test ballots and some others spoiled ballots and things like that, so pallets with ballots on them or about 44 and we’re now down to 14 so I think we’re quickly coming up on about 2/3 completed.

Conradson:
How many boxes are on each pallet?

Bennett: Most pallets have 40 boxes on a pallet, some have 32, but most of them have 40 boxes and it varies but usually, a box has between 1200 and 1300 ballots in each box so a pallet usually has between 40 and 50,000 pallets or ballots on a pallet.

Conradson: So you’re getting through probably one a day, would you say?

Bennett: At least. I think we’re doing about one and a half pallets a day, and there’s only 14 left, so if we’re doing one and a half a day counting could be done in the middle of June.

Conradson: So maybe 10 days?

Bennett: Whenever, yeah.
The paper valuation goes a little bit slower and is a little more technical all of these boxes in this corral over here have been counted but are awaiting the paper evaluation. There is a lot of work still yet to do on the paper valuation but they’ve increased the paper valuation tables from what was originally 8 to now there’s 32. they’re not all full yet but I think earlier today I saw 22 of the 32 an operation so the paper evaluation catch up quickly also.

Conradson: Alright and paper valuation, there’s a forensic scan of all of the ballots?

Bennett: Yeah see him they’ll scan the back of the ballot and then they’ll flip it over and scan the front of the ballot, then they’ll pass it to another person who puts it under the microscopic cameras that are looking at the alignment marks and also looking at the Oval in the presidential race to make sure that the Oval was filled in by human handheld device, not by a Xerox machine or something like that.

Conradson:
And you guys are saving every single ballot image, assigning it a number and everything?

Bennett: Yes

Conradson:
What are you going to do with the images? Are they just extra evidence?

Bennett: They’re looking at those ballot images to verify that there’s folds in the ballots that should have folds in it. 1.9 million of the 2.1 million ballots were mailed to the voters and mail back right so and you can usually feel that they are folded but the 5K images being taken by the cameras will also show you where the folds are on the ballot.

This is a HUGE UPDATE! Only 14 pallets remain to be counted. By tomorrow morning, there will be 13 or fewer. The audit will continue counting tonight until 1 AM and resume at 8 AM.


We also know that they are photographing these ballots in 5K to ensure that mail-in ballots were in fact folded in an envelope. This is the most thorough forensic audit in history and it is the first of its kind. Mail-in voter fraud has been a serious voter fraud concern for YEARS. why have we not done this every election with the mail-in ballots? Why have Democrats always denied mail-in voter fraud was a thing?

 
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