ADVERTISEMENT

The New Lounge

I’m not a fan of the USA Today, but here is a far more balanced take from a 4th grade reading level.
A few things of note:
1. Let’s get it out there first that I am not inherently opposed to President Trump’s action here.
2. On the face of it, situations where people are paid less than minimum wage should raise red flags. It warrants concern.
3. The article you posted has a single GOP Rep as its only cited source. That means we get nothing but his political take on it. It’s not necessarily invalid, but that’s not good journalism.
4. The article I shared also sucks, imo, but it points out that among the people opposing these workplaces are disability advocates and families of the disabled. Your article says simply “the left.” Mine points out that even among those affected there are differing opinions.
5. When it says “less than minimum wage, let’s be very clear: it’s less than half of minimum wage for some. $3.50, to be exact.
6. This is not an open and shut case of awesome or awful. Like I said in 2, it warrants concern, and I’ll add, monitoring. The $3.50 example I cited above was at a nonprofit, for example. That’s more understandable to me. If it were some place where stockholders and a CEO were raking in big bucks, that would feel much more exploitative.
7. This is also an example of the vetting I keep urging y’all to do with news media, and an example of how I’m not a hypocrite about it.

So really, my major issue with this is your use of such a crap source. Here endeth the lesson.
You eat corn-on-cob long
ways, don't you?
 
Last edited:
We were told that we had to pass a "bipartisan" bill that put a cap of 5,000 immigrants/day and gave Amnesty to people who illegally came into our country in order to control our border.

 
We were told that we had to pass a "bipartisan" bill that put a cap of 5,000 immigrants/day and gave Amnesty to people who illegally came into our country in order to control our border.

It’s nice to see a President actually doing things that he campaigned on. Trump is also the most transparent president that we’ve ever had. It’s been a nice change.
 
I've had the opportunity this week to see students try to handle money and basic financial transactions. They sure know how to use various apps to pay with their phones, but a whole bunch of them seem to think cash works the same way, where the cashier says, "That'll be $24.79" and they can hand over wadded up bills totaling $14 like that'll cover it. 🤣

Maybe this is yet another example of how out-of-touch liberal elites think counting is important while President Trump really knows what time it is and eliminates the penny. 🤷‍♂️
 
Yeah and my MIL who is 87 got $750 for her damages. Really, really pisses me off. The Biden crooks should rot

I've had the opportunity this week to see students try to handle money and basic financial transactions. They sure know how to use various apps to pay with their phones, but a whole bunch of them seem to think cash works the same way, where the cashier says, "That'll be $24.79" and they can hand over wadded up bills totaling $14 like that'll cover it. 🤣

Maybe this is yet another example of how out-of-touch liberal elites think counting is important while President Trump really knows what time it is and eliminates the penny. 🤷‍♂️
For your next experiment, ask them who the old white dudes are on the currency and why they’re important, and report back to us.
 
  • Like
Reactions: dukesince91
Yeah and my MIL who is 87 got $750 for her damages. Really, really pisses me off. The Biden crooks should rot in prison.
Datt and the corrupticrats assured us that this was just the beginning The rest of the checks must have gotten lost in the mail or perhaps were hijacked by a MAGA militia at the Post Office.
My condolences for what your MIL has been through.
 
  • Like
Reactions: dukesince91
Datt and the corrupticrats assured us that this was just the beginning The rest of the checks must have gotten lost in the mail or perhaps were hijacked by a MAGA militia at the Post Office.
My condolences for what your MIL has been through.
kdstone's agenda:
1. throw a shot at me
2. express condolences
:rolleyes:
 
kdstone's agenda:
1. throw a shot at me
2. express condolences
:rolleyes:
Datt’s agenda:
1. Make it personal so he doesn’t
have to address why FEMA so pathetically failed the citizens of WNC

You were on this very message board not long ago stating that more help was on the way. Testimony after testimony indicates that more help has not arrived. Although it’s a Leftist’s knee jerk reaction to defend bureaucracy at every turn, here you are. Diverting, insulting, pretending you’re on some moral high ground.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Another#1Dukie
It shouldn’t matter what party you’re aligned with, it should be about putting American citizens first always. The Democratic leadership did not do that. Let’s spend millions on putting them in hotels while US citizens are struggling to stay warm and have paid taxes their whole lives. Datt, can you justify this?
 
  • Like
Reactions: KDSTONE
Datt’s agenda:
1. Make it personal so he doesn’t
have to address why FEMA so pathetically failed the citizens of WNC

You were on this very message board not long ago stating that more help was on the way. Testimony after testimony indicates that more help has not arrived. Although it’s a Leftist’s knee jerk reaction to defend bureaucracy at every turn, here you are. Diverting, insulting, pretending you’re on some moral high ground.
Receipt on the bold?
I don't work for FEMA.
How personal did *I* really "make" it when you brought my name up first insinuating I have any responsibility for FEMA's response?
 
Last edited:
It shouldn’t matter what party you’re aligned with, it should be about putting American citizens first always. The Democratic leadership did not do that. Let’s spend millions on putting them in hotels while US citizens are struggling to stay warm and have paid taxes their whole lives. Datt, can you justify this?
I can't justify or verify your version of it, and why am I supposed to justify even a revised version of this? If y'all would diversify your news sources and vet your news sources like I'm always recommending, you'd already have reasonable explanations. Instead y'all want to read propaganda, then demand that I defend the reality as you dictate it.

And can that "shouldn't matter what party" crap. You couldn't even skip a sentence before blaming Democratic leadership, and as long as people are locked into limited, hyper-biased media based on political party, we're not even starting from the same basic reality.
 
For your next experiment, ask them who the old white dudes are on the currency and why they’re important, and report back to us.
Oh, having currency with old white dudes on it would be a hate crime in public schools. Students are required to exchange all money with old white dudes on it for tokens featuring Marsha P Johnson, Assata Shakur, and Kathy Griffin.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: KDSTONE
I can't justify or verify your version of it, and why am I supposed to justify even a revised version of this? If y'all would diversify your news sources and vet your news sources like I'm always recommending, you'd already have reasonable explanations. Instead y'all want to read propaganda, then demand that I defend the reality as you dictate it.

And can that "shouldn't matter what party" crap. You couldn't even skip a sentence before blaming Democratic leadership, and as long as people are locked into limited, hyper-biased media based on political party, we're not even starting from the same basic reality.
“Read propaganda”.
Your constant dismissal of inconvenient facts as propaganda has become irksome. 91 has provided a second hand account of one person’s account of the disaster efforts or lack thereof, which is entirely consistent with what we’ve heard from dozens possibly hundreds of citizens by now.
The fact that your preferred, “ thoroughly vetted” News sources moved on from this story as fast as possible should surprise no one.
Datt’s posts in a nutshell: It’s never his side’s fault. It’s our fault for falling for propaganda. This limited, echo chamber mindset is why the Dems are adrift at sea right now.
 
  • Like
Reactions: smashmouth5
Oh, having currency with old white dudes on it would be a hate crime in public schools. Students are required to exchange all money with old white dudes on it for tokens featuring Marsha P Johnson, Assata Shakur, and Kathy Griffin.
Being an amateur numismatist myself, I’ll have to get my hands on those. Kathy Griffin was funny on that Seinfeld episode when she became Jerry’s heckler/ nemesis.
No idea who the other two. Marsha Johnson? Is that Whoopi’s birth name before she changed it because she farts a lot and the Jews control Hollywood? Voila, meet Whoopi Goldberg
 
I've had the opportunity this week to see students try to handle money and basic financial transactions. They sure know how to use various apps to pay with their phones, but a whole bunch of them seem to think cash works the same way, where the cashier says, "That'll be $24.79" and they can hand over wadded up bills totaling $14 like that'll cover it. 🤣

Maybe this is yet another example of how out-of-touch liberal elites think counting is important while President Trump really knows what time it is and eliminates the penny. 🤷‍♂️
Sounds like their teachers are failing them.
 
“Read propaganda”.
Your constant dismissal of inconvenient facts as propaganda has become irksome. 91 has provided a second hand account of one person’s account of the disaster efforts or lack thereof, which is entirely consistent with what we’ve heard from dozens possibly hundreds of citizens by now.
The fact that your preferred, “ thoroughly vetted” News sources moved on from this story as fast as possible should surprise no one.
Datt’s posts in a nutshell: It’s never his side’s fault. It’s our fault for falling for propaganda. This limited, echo chamber mindset is why the Dems are adrift at sea right now.
We're just going in circles here. I don't dismiss inconvenient facts. I dismiss propaganda. I've expressed condolences for the second-hand account stated here. I do not doubt its accuracy, but single stories are anecdotal. It takes a lot more individual stories than a 3-minute news segment can cover to start approaching anything statistically significant.

I don't work for FEMA. I don't know what they should be responsible for.

Sure, "my side" has screwed up plenty and to the extent that "my side" equates to "Democratic Party," it is indeed adrift. I would ask you whether they've ever ever ever done anything right. Why would I make a habit of admitting to any mistakes when everything here is in bad faith?

It is indeed your fault for falling for propaganda, especially when you get called on it constantly and never change a thing. My being here in the first place is evidence that I step outside my echo chamber. What evidence do you have of that for yourself?
 
We're just going in circles here. I don't dismiss inconvenient facts. I dismiss propaganda. I've expressed condolences for the second-hand account stated here. I do not doubt its accuracy, but single stories are anecdotal. It takes a lot more individual stories than a 3-minute news segment can cover to start approaching anything statistically significant.

I don't work for FEMA. I don't know what they should be responsible for.

Sure, "my side" has screwed up plenty and to the extent that "my side" equates to "Democratic Party," it is indeed adrift. I would ask you whether they've ever ever ever done anything right. Why would I make a habit of admitting to any mistakes when everything here is in bad faith?

It is indeed your fault for falling for propaganda, especially when you get called on it constantly and never change a thing. My being here in the first place is evidence that I step outside my echo chamber. What evidence do you have of that for yourself?
You haven’t called me on anything. You claim that our sole influence is “ right wing propaganda”. Just a few days I provided evidence of UNRWA’s involvement on Oct 7. On UNRWA’s own website. So you keep singing the same tune, but you’re too oblivious to recognize that the song’s changed.
If Fox News covers a story you automatically claim it is right wing propaganda. Implying that it is not factually correct.
I recognize that, although the Legacy media spins heavily in favor of the Dems, that there are not always factual inaccuracies involved, therefore Not propaganda.
 
You haven’t called me on anything. You claim that our sole influence is “ right wing propaganda”. Just a few days I provided evidence of UNRWA’s involvement on Oct 7. On UNRWA’s own website. So you keep singing the same tune, but you’re too oblivious to recognize that the song’s changed.
If Fox News covers a story you automatically claim it is right wing propaganda. Implying that it is not factually correct.
I recognize that, although the Legacy media spins heavily in favor of the Dems, that there are not always factual inaccuracies involved, therefore Not propaganda.
I guess you don't have to acknowledge being called out in order for it to count.

You spun what the UN said. I've already called you on that, too.

I've acknowledged here that Fox News has a high standard for journalism, just like CNN and several other msm. Bias is a separate issue. Next time you acknowledge anything you don't like as accurate will be the first.
 
Being an amateur numismatist myself, I’ll have to get my hands on those. Kathy Griffin was funny on that Seinfeld episode when she became Jerry’s heckler/ nemesis.
No idea who the other two. Marsha Johnson? Is that Whoopi’s birth name before she changed it because she farts a lot and the Jews control Hollywood? Voila, meet Whoopi Goldberg
Their names are hyperlinked so you can go get triggered.
 
I guess you don't have to acknowledge being called out in order for it to count.

You spun what the UN said. I've already called you on that, too.

I've acknowledged here that Fox News has a high standard for journalism, just like CNN and several other msm. Bias is a separate issue. Next time you acknowledge anything you don't like as accurate will be the first.
I repeated verbatim what the UN said. You spun it to mean that they fired the employees to avoid even the slightest appearance of impropriety, “hint of scandal” as you inartfully put it, conveniently ignoring the fact that the fired employees were caught on video. The UN is widely seen as antisemitic, so they’re not gonna surrender the last vestiges of their dwindling credibility by admitting culpability. Also, there are likely legal reasons to submit a vague statement. You lost that argument, that the likelihood of UNRWA being involved on Oct 7 was not high, and that their involvement was strictly discussed on “right wing propaganda”. Your catch all dismissal of all things conflicting with your world view.
You should also research what your beloved “Palestinians” are being taught in UNRWA schools. Might help you understand the current conflict better.
 
I repeated verbatim what the UN said. You spun it to mean that they fired the employees to avoid even the slightest appearance of impropriety, “hint of scandal” as you inartfully put it, conveniently ignoring the fact that the fired employees were caught on video. The UN is widely seen as antisemitic, so they’re not gonna surrender the last vestiges of their dwindling credibility by admitting culpability. Also, there are likely legal reasons to submit a vague statement. You lost that argument, that the likelihood of UNRWA being involved on Oct 7 was not high, and that their involvement was strictly discussed on “right wing propaganda”. Your catch all dismissal of all things conflicting with your world view.
You should also research what your beloved “Palestinians” are being taught in UNRWA schools. Might help you understand the current conflict better.
Dude, I never put anything "inartfully." I'm artful 24/7. I'm the guns of the Navarone! Your best move here is to claim I'm an ivory tower academic with all my fancy degrees and big words, because I got artful on lock.

The impropriety I referred to was on the part of the entire UN. The fired workers were guilty, but they went rogue. You and the tweets you re-baaaaah here all the time were trying to claim the entire UN was corrupt... as a result of firing people... people who went rogue. A cover-up would make them complicit. Anything short of a public execution is suspect to you.

When you demonstrate understanding that Israel is imperfect and can be criticized without the critic automatically being antisemitic, maybe I'll listen to anything you say about what's antisemitic.

Oh, could you help me with a so-called source for researching what Palestinians are being taught in UNRWA schools? :rolleyes:
 
I can't justify or verify your version of it, and why am I supposed to justify even a revised version of this? If y'all would diversify your news sources and vet your news sources like I'm always recommending, you'd already have reasonable explanations. Instead y'all want to read propaganda, then demand that I defend the reality as you dictate it.
Justify our news sources? That's what most of us did years ago. If I had to guess, most conservatives here get a little from msm (Fox), but we also get a lot of ours through podcasts. None of us are saying our news is correct 100% of the time, but it's a lot closer to 100 than your sources. That's been pretty much proven.

We know because if you truly had an open mind, you would have abandoned the left years ago.
 
Last edited:
Dude, I never put anything "inartfully." I'm artful 24/7. I'm the guns of the Navarone! Your best move here is to claim I'm an ivory tower academic with all my fancy degrees and big words, because I got artful on lock.

The impropriety I referred to was on the part of the entire UN. The fired workers were guilty, but they went rogue. You and the tweets you re-baaaaah here all the time were trying to claim the entire UN was corrupt... as a result of firing people... people who went rogue. A cover-up would make them complicit. Anything short of a public execution is suspect to you.

When you demonstrate understanding that Israel is imperfect and can be criticized without the critic automatically being antisemitic, maybe I'll listen to anything you say about what's antisemitic.

Oh, could you help me with a so-called source for researching what Palestinians are being taught in UNRWA schools? :rolleyes:
When Israel, the lone Jewish state on the planet, is the only country in the Left’s mouth and is sanctioned for alleged human rights violations more than all other countries combined, this reeks of antisemitism.
Zionist has become a slur When, in fact, a Zionist simply believes that Israel has the right to exist and should be predominantly Jewish since the Jews were expelled or killed in virtually every Middle East nation and Europe. You’re probably unaware that there were tens of thousands of Jews expelled or killed from virtually every country in the Middle East in the years from the 1880s to WW2
 
  • Like
Reactions: GhostOf301
Dude, I never put anything "inartfully." I'm artful 24/7. I'm the guns of the Navarone! Your best move here is to claim I'm an ivory tower academic with all my fancy degrees and big words, because I got artful on lock.

The impropriety I referred to was on the part of the entire UN. The fired workers were guilty, but they went rogue. You and the tweets you re-baaaaah here all the time were trying to claim the entire UN was corrupt... as a result of firing people... people who went rogue. A cover-up would make them complicit. Anything short of a public execution is suspect to you.

When you demonstrate understanding that Israel is imperfect and can be criticized without the critic automatically being antisemitic, maybe I'll listen to anything you say about what's antisemitic.

Oh, could you help me with a so-called source for researching what Palestinians are being taught in UNRWA schools? :rolleyes:
www.govinfo.gov. Re: your last question
 
www.govinfo.gov. Re: your last question
Search Palestinian education. It’s a congressional record. Hope it’s not too right wing for you.
Like all Leftists, you underestimate how radicalized the population is that Israel is expected to miraculously co exist with. This is one reason other nations like Egypt and Jordan want nothing to do with them.
 
Dude, I never put anything "inartfully." I'm artful 24/7. I'm the guns of the Navarone! Your best move here is to claim I'm an ivory tower academic with all my fancy degrees and big words, because I got artful on lock.

The impropriety I referred to was on the part of the entire UN. The fired workers were guilty, but they went rogue. You and the tweets you re-baaaaah here all the time were trying to claim the entire UN was corrupt... as a result of firing people... people who went rogue. A cover-up would make them complicit. Anything short of a public execution is suspect to you.

When you demonstrate understanding that Israel is imperfect and can be criticized without the critic automatically being antisemitic, maybe I'll listen to anything you say about what's antisemitic.

Oh, could you help me with a so-called source for researching what Palestinians are being taught in UNRWA schools? :rolleyes:
I don’t recall stating the ENTIRE U.N. is corrupt, but when Iran and China are on the Human Rights Council, it does give one pause.
 
When Israel, the lone Jewish state on the planet, is the only country in the Left’s mouth and is sanctioned for alleged human rights violations more than all other countries combined, this reeks of antisemitism.
Zionist has become a slur When, in fact, a Zionist simply believes that Israel has the right to exist and should be predominantly Jewish since the Jews were expelled or killed in virtually every Middle East nation and Europe. You’re probably unaware that there were tens of thousands of Jews expelled or killed from virtually every country in the Middle East in the years from the 1880s to WW2
The Jews are constantly accused of being colonizers and occupiers of stolen land. The land of Judaism is Israel and was long before Islam was a religion. The Muslims were the colonizers and historically they were the ones guilty of ethnic cleansing. Today Jews can't pray out loud on their holy site, Christians can't visit the birthplace of Jesus and Arab Zionists are forced to denounce their Palestinian identity. That's why Israel gives Arab countrymen the option residency, not citizenship. And the UN uses that as an example of Israel denying Arab Israelis the same human rights as Israeli Jews. You're completely right about Zionists being used as a slur now more than simply a descriptive adjective. I don't know if it is due to lack of knowledge, willful ignorance or an intentional show of antisemitism. But it is definitely a thing.
 
  • Like
Reactions: KDSTONE
Dude, I never put anything "inartfully." I'm artful 24/7. I'm the guns of the Navarone! Your best move here is to claim I'm an ivory tower academic with all my fancy degrees and big words, because I got artful on lock.

The impropriety I referred to was on the part of the entire UN. The fired workers were guilty, but they went rogue. You and the tweets you re-baaaaah here all the time were trying to claim the entire UN was corrupt... as a result of firing people... people who went rogue. A cover-up would make them complicit. Anything short of a public execution is suspect to you.

When you demonstrate understanding that Israel is imperfect and can be criticized without the critic automatically being antisemitic, maybe I'll listen to anything you say about what's antisemitic.

Oh, could you help me with a so-called source for researching what Palestinians are being taught in UNRWA schools? :rolleyes:
Where is the CeaseFire Now crowd re: Hamas’ latest violations? Bomb fired from Gaza that killed an Arab child in Gaza yesterday
Why did the three hostages released last week look emaciated? If Israel has mistreated its prisoners where is the footage? If Gaza has been starving as AOC and the like claim, where is the legit footage
Not that ten year old pic of a cancer patient Pallywood claimed was a released prisoner
 
The ceasefire was a terrible decision by Israel. They made every Israeli a hostage target for Hamas. I get wanting their hostages back and every one that is released is a blessing. But there is a reason why you don't negotiate with terrorists. Hamas is releasing a few people who should have never been taken hostage. Israel is releasing thousands of terrorists who were rightfully imprisoned. Hopefully Israel tagged them somehow and can easily kill them once they get their hostages back or it is apparent that they won't.
 
  • Like
Reactions: KDSTONE
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest posts

ADVERTISEMENT