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@whitepaperkat its true

@marathon I forgot to mention, the "Shervin Pishevar" mentioned in the article, who was the investors in my company at the time, and a close friend (still is) was the investor on the Hyperloop project with Elon Musk and very close with Obama apparently (always showing up next to him in photoshoots anyway).

@whitepaperkat Welcome back, glad to have you. I have a twitter account and never really saw the appeal. Its really just a place to fawn over celebrities.

@SmilingTexan

No sorry but that excuse is nonsense.

1) Trump's family has been over my family home for dinner on a few occasions (as has Biden). I assure you both he and his family are just as mentally deficient as they appear, it is not a tactic to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

2) You can simply watch any of the examples of him speaking to a limited audience of higher intelligence where there would be no need to dumb down his language or ideas and even in those settings he appears just as mentally challenged.

The sad fact is, he is just as stupid as he looks. There is no genius hiding underneath where its all an act that plays in his favor. He is just a plain old dumb human being, like so many other people out there.

@srwennekes @sillystring

@whitepaperkat Looking good, and what byron said.

@srwennekes

while I dont think Trump was particularly smart or know anything about macroeconomics the plain fact is, he was successful in that regard and the data shows it.

The data also doesnt agree with the notion that he was riding the wave of the previous president. Unemployment improvements follow logarithmic scales naturally, not linear ones. This should be obvious, of course, if you have a population of a 1,000,000 with 100% unemployed then an improvement if 1%, that is getting 10,000 people emoployed is easy, your just employing the top 1% most skilled people in the whole country and the top 1% most eager to work. However if you have a country of 1,000,000 and only 10,000 are unemployed and they are the last 10K in the whole country then getting that same 1% improvement is significantly more difficult and represents a near impossible effort as now you are trying to get the 1% least skilled and least willing to work employed.

We can easily confirm this to be true... on a few points. Simply look at their track record (and make sure you do it on a log-scale or else its useless)...

1) Trumps improvement represented an acceleration over obamas, not a continuation.

2) Obama had mixed results to say the least, with the unemployment rate increasing by 2% during his term, and falling by a new of only 3% following that.

3) Obamas minimum unemployment rate achieved was also unimpressive historically 10 times over the past 70 years other administrations have been able to get unemployment rates lower than that of Obama, even Bush his predecessor managed to have a lower unemployment rate than Obama

4) Trumps minimum unemployment rate, however, was record setting. 1953 (67 years ago) was the last time any administration was able to get an unemployment rate as low as Trumps

Look Trump sucked, a lot, and yes his low IQ made him an idiot, but it serves no purpose to distort the truth or ignore the **very few** things he did. the unemployment rate he achieved was impressive and the data backs that up, and the excuse that it was somehow magically Obamas fault, even though it was achieved over 3 years **after** Obama just makes your arguments and personal bias appear unsound.

I will be the first to agree Trump was a horrific president, but I also wont make up imaginary ways in which he sucked more than he did just because I cant admit that a broken clock is right twice a day.

@sillystring @SmilingTexan

@lonely@mastodon.online While I do enjoy dutch cheese I find the variety a bit lackinging, and im not counting the tons of flavored cheeses they have. You basically just have farmers cheese aged 6 different ways and thats about as far as it goes (though for farmers cheese it is top notch). I find this surprising because Gouda is a type of cheese known for coming from Gouda around the world yet i almost never see Gouda (as a type of cheese, not just cheese from gouda) in the super markets. Apparently you have to actually go to Gouda and do the cheese market to get it.

America, due to our obsession with cheese and mostly from importing it from around the world and europe, tends to have a **much** larger selection of cheese.

@timorl

> Even if only a couple people were planning it and the rest was useful idiots this is still a coup attempt by the ones who were planning it.

Great so 5 people attempted a coup they never had a chance of accomplishing, unarmed, by simply trying to walk t the chamber, meanwhile everyone else was there to take selfies.. ok ill give you that, its a coup in the most absurd sense of the word. Still doesnt even come close to the levels of violence the liberals caused over 4 years.

> What can I say about the list other than it’s mostly irrelevant from a coup perspective?

While a coup was one point in the discussion I remind you that **no** the discussion is not about a coup, your initial interjection was as follows:

> Wait, you still believe Trump>Biden?

The discussion is why Trump is better than biden. Using a weak coup attempt by a very small number of people who tried to walk unarmed into a chamber and one got shot dead for their effort with no violent action or means, while a talking point in that discussion, is not the scope of the discussion.

> the far-but-not-complately-gone were insisting it was actually antifa in an attempt to distance themselves

While that was a shame it was no different than what the left had done repeatedly every time the violence from them was discussed. We had people burning down buildings all over the country and countless democrats kept making conspiracy theory nonsense posts about people mysteriously putting piles of bricks around town in some weird attempt to incite the violence. Its a failing of both sides to make outrageous conspiracy theory explanations to their own violence.

> One, I don’t remember Biden ever endorsing political violence, like the Texas tweet did.

What violence in texas? They misbehaved granted, the people who rode the bus out of town were in the wrong.. but violence implies someone physically hurt another person.. who did that in texas? Are you talking about something else.

Trump supported a non-violent stunt, and he was wrong for supporting it. Not sure where you factor in violence in that though.

> Also, 4 years? Do I remember incorrectly that the mass protests only started after the midterms?

You are incorrect, the first violence from the left started the very day Trump won the election with patches of violence lasting for over 3 days on the first go around.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protesters-pepper-sprayed-demonstrations-erupt-across-us/93633154/

@2ck @antigravman

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@timorl

Some random people on twitter had some chatter about stopping election certification. It was not organized however and not some group entering for that purpose. Just a bunch of random people who wound up twaddling in and one or two who actually had serious intent (and were stopped as they were unarmed anyway)

Not even remotely as scary as the laundry list of points you just completely ignored however such as :

1) They burned down multiple building
2) Burnt dozens of cars to the ground
3) Terrorized whole cities
4) in one case took over several city blocks

sorry but a few hundred people who walked into the capital and took selfies with a very small handful having delusions of grandeur for a few hours then its over doesnt come CLOSE to comparing to hundreds of people taking over dozens of city blocks, ending in murder, burning buildings to the ground, burning cars to the ground, terrorizing whole cities and doing it for 4 years on and off.

@2ck @antigravman

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@timorl

I rewatched the video before I had commented. No he doesn't differentiate the groups, he doesn't need to. Heis clearly referring to the whole crowd, and as I said that includes a small minority of people who were misbehaving. He told the whole group not to be violent, (which at that point had been limited to a broken window)... he told the whole group he loved them.

There was no coup, he called out the violent people for being violent, end of story..

Which is still a **hell** of a lot mroe than biden did when the democrats spent a 4 years of being violent in repeated cycles.

As for texas, not much to comment on, while it was unacceptable, and I dont like how they acted or trumps response, it did not entail violence which is the topic we are discussing. But if you want to simply mention it as a black mark against trump, or 10 or so of his supporters, then yes I'd agree. There are in fact **many** black marks against trump, and I wouldnt argue otherwise. The point is they just dont come anywhere close to Biden's black marks.

Remember my claim is not that Trump is good or that he has handled anything well. Only that he isn't as bad as Biden. Both of them suck.

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