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  • #4952
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,898 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Overheal wrote: »
    Didn't you just get done saying that the wall was already built?

    Schrodinger's wall

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #4953
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Schrodinger's wall
    Does you side really need to twist my words around constantly? Do you fell proud of yourselves? I said the area where Harris visited, El Paso, the wall was built. Please point to me where I said the entire was was built. Or instead just continue with your Disingenuousness.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #4954
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,898 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Does you side really need to twist my words around constantly? Do you fell proud of yourselves? I said the area where Harris visited, El Paso, the wall was built. Please point to me where I said the entire was was built. Or instead just continue with your Disingenuousness.

    Did you copy and paste that last word?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #4955
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Did you copy and paste that last word?

    The odd capitalization suggests so.


  • #4956
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,898 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Overheal wrote: »
    The odd capitalization suggests so.

    That, and the poster's affinity to press Ctrl C and Crtl V...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



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  • #4957
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Does you side really need to twist my words around constantly? Do you fell proud of yourselves? I said the area where Harris visited, El Paso, the wall was built. Please point to me where I said the entire was was built. Or instead just continue with your Disingenuousness.

    If all that concerns you then please don't ask me to do your work because you're too lazy.

    Are you owed any higher standard of discussion than you Exude?


  • #4958
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Does you side really need to twist my words around constantly? Do you fell proud of yourselves? I said the area where Harris visited, El Paso, the wall was built. Please point to me where I said the entire was was built. Or instead just continue with your Disingenuousness.

    Do you even know who Schrodinger was? Or get the joke?


  • #4959
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    duploelabs wrote: »
    Do you even know who Schrodinger was? Or get the joke?

    Well, yes and no.


  • #4960
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    duploelabs wrote: »
    Do you even know who Schrodinger was? Or get the joke?
    Yes, do you get the bigger picture?

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #4961
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,767 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Yes, do you get the bigger picture?

    Yes, trump organisation is going down!

    Great news.


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  • #4962
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,570 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Yes, do you get the bigger picture?

    Weren't you one of the people demanding Harris visit the border?

    What relevance do you think visiting a singular location on a 1,933 mile border is essential or what is its relevance in terms of the bigger picture?


  • #4963
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Weren't you one of the people demanding Harris visit the border?

    What relevance do you think visiting a singular location on a 1,933 mile border is essential or what is its relevance in terms of the bigger picture?

    Yes, to see first hand the crisis going on at the border. She should have picked an area that was the result of Biden actions causing the crisis, not picking an area Trump had gotten fixed. And what has Harris done regarding the border crisis since she was put in charge of fixing, by the guy responsible for causing it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING should be your answer.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #4964
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Yes, to see first hand the crisis going on at the border.

    How would you see the crisis at the border by standing at the border? What do you think she would see?


  • #4965
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Yes, to see first hand the crisis going on at the border. She should have picked an area that was the result of Biden actions causing the crisis, not picking an area Trump had gotten fixed. And what has Harris done regarding the border crisis since she was put in charge of it by the guy responsible for causing it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING should be your answer.

    What crisis have you witnessed first hand at the border?


  • #4966
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hmm, Obtuse doesn't seem to be not concerned about accountability for CEOs of companies though... Or he's avoiding the topic entirely...


  • #4967
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    duploelabs wrote: »
    What crisis have you witnessed first hand at the border?

    When was I put in charge of fixing the crisis Biden created? Damn... nobody tells me nothin' :pac:

    Maybe Trump should recommend someone who could actually do something about Biden's crisis.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #4968
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Yes, to see first hand the crisis going on at the border. She should have picked an area that was the result of Biden actions causing the crisis, not picking an area Trump had gotten fixed. And what has Harris done regarding the border crisis since she was put in charge of fixing, by the guy responsible for causing it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING should be your answer.

    I've never been to the border. Have you?


  • #4969
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,570 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    notobtuse wrote: »
    When was I put in charge of fixing the crisis Biden created? Damn... nobody tells me nothin' :pac:

    Conservative have been bleating on about the border crisis for 40 years, but now it's Biden's fault?

    How does that work? You sound like the people blaming him for fuel prices, no concept of things going on outside of his control.

    And yet when a President definitively act to impact a situation negatively, as Trump, did with Covid, the same guys claim that he couldn't do anything about it. SMH.


  • #4970
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    notobtuse wrote: »
    When was I put in charge of fixing the crisis Biden created? Damn... nobody tells me nothin' :pac:

    Maybe Trump should recommend someone who could actually do something about Biden's crisis.

    I'll ask the question again shall I, because you didn't answer it above

    What crisis have you witnessed first hand at the border?


  • #4971
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Conservative have been bleating on about the border crisis for 40 years, but now it's Biden's fault?

    How does that work? You sound like the people blaming him for fuel prices, no concept of things going on outside of his control.

    And yet when a President definitively act to impact a situation negatively, as Trump, did with Covid, the same guys claim that he couldn't do anything about it. SMH.

    Because the amount of illegal immigrants coming though the border since Biden was elected is something like already twice that of the previous year.

    Trump tried (and Democrats fought him at every step), and continues to push to build the wall... BECAUSE IT WORKS TO MASSIVELY CUT DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57422618

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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  • #4972
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Because the amount of illegal immigrants coming though the border since Biden was elected is something like already twice that of the previous year.

    The previous year? You mean the year of the pandemic? How about you compare it to the year before the pandemic?


  • #4973
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Because the amount of illegal immigrants coming though the border since Biden was elected is something like already twice that of the previous year.

    Trump tried (and Democrats fought him at every step), and continues to push to build the wall... BECAUSE IT WORKS TO MASSIVELY CUT DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57422618

    To be clear, your claim is southern illegal migration is up by 100% over last year when there was a global pandemic?

    That could in itself be anywhere from going from 50 migrants to 100 as it would be from 500 thousand to a million. Perhaps you would be less alarmed by the rate of change if you observed the year over year trends. It would be more rational of you to at least frame it against the 2019 rate of border arrests, which the 2021 trends are still higher than, but this may also be because 2020 is the lowest year in recent memory for migrant arrests

    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

    Which in itself is reasonably explicable, migrants who would have made the crossing in 2020 were more likely to carry over in 2021. So, I don't see how the election outcome would have altered vastly the number of migrants who showed up, which appears to be your insinuation here today.


  • #4974
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,898 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I think we've all realised the username NOTOBTUSE is ironic

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #4975
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    The governor of Texas securing Trump a Safe Space? Well I never.

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/texas-gov-abbott-blocks-media-including-cnns-jim-acosta-from-trump-border-event/


  • #4976
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    everlast75 wrote: »
    I think we've all realised the username NOTOBTUSE is ironic

    My username comes from a shortened version of a name given to me by Stephen King's personal assistant, Marsha (who retired one year ago today). The actual name she gave me was "Not Completely Obtuse." :P

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #4977
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 17,547 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Biden put a stop to its construction. Gotta love the fact that Texas Governor Abbott said he will use the $15 Billion Covid Stimulus money (funds Democrats really had in mind to bail out fiscally irresponsible Blue states) to continue building the Texas border wall. Expect Biden's cronies in the DOJ to start lawsuits against Texas.

    He be far better off spending money on the decrepit Texas Power Infrastructure , so that his constituents don't die of the cold or the heat given that both have happened in Texas in the last 6 months.

    Or you know he could pi$$ money away on a useless vanity project that will have zero benefit to anyone for anything , but will make Donald love him.


  • #4978
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    notobtuse wrote: »
    My username comes from a shortened version of a name given to me by Stephen King's personal assistant, Marsha (who retired one year ago today). The actual name she gave me was "Not Completely Obtuse." :P

    I'm the Pope.


  • #4979
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Quin_Dub wrote: »
    He be far better off spending money on the decrepit Texas Power Infrastructure , so that his constituents don't die of the cold or the heat given that both have happened in Texas in the last 6 months.

    Or you know he could pi$$ money away on a useless vanity project that will have zero benefit to anyone for anything , but will make Donald love him.

    Oh bother. It doesn't pay to put all kinds of money into a once in a hundred years type of event. You do know Texas is putting a lot of money into wind power energy. I believe 20% of the states electricity comes from wind power now and it keeps increasing. It would be better to just come up with a simple agreement with other states to get power from them in such a rare situation. States surrounding Texas have it with other states, but Texas isn't in that agreement. And you know in such a rare event like they witnessed over winter will cause the windmills not to work also, don't you?

    I have a close friend who lives near Dallas. She did fine for that week, and Texans are resilient and look out for each other. She said the rest of the nation is making a much bigger deal out of it then Texans did. They are used to dealing with rolling blackouts because of the extreme heat and extreme cold. It is no big deal for them to go without electricity for extended periods of time.

    And you know a major part of this 'stimulus' is meant to keep Blue states from going bankrupt because of their irresponsible fiscal management and massive pensions and health care plans given to public retirees, most of which are also massively underfunded. That is why there are very little rules guiding how the money can be spent by the states.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #4980
    Cody montana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,767 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Oh bother. It doesn't pay to put all kinds of money into a once in a hundred years type of event. You do know Texas is putting a lot of money into wind power energy. I believe 20% of the states electricity comes from wind power now and it keeps increasing. It would be better to just come up with a simple agreement with other states to get power from them in such a rare situation. States surrounding Texas have it with other states, but Texas isn't in that agreement. And you know in such a rare event like they witnessed over winter will cause the windmills not to work also, don't you?

    I have a close friend who lives near Dallas. She did fine for that week, and Texans are resilient and look out for each other. She said the rest of the nation is making a much bigger deal out of it then Texans did. They are used to dealing with rolling blackouts because of the extreme heat and extreme cold. It is no big deal for them to go without electricity for extended periods of time.

    And you know a major part of this 'stimulus' is meant to keep Blue states from going bankrupt because of their irresponsible fiscal management and massive pensions and health care plans given to public retirees, most of which are also massively underfunded. That is why there are very little rules guiding how the money can be spent by the states.

    “At least 111 people died in Texas during winter storm, most from hypothermia“

    Damage
    ≥ $195 billion (2021 USD)
    (Costliest winter storm on record)


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  • #4981
    notobtuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Cody montana wrote: »
    “At least 111 people died in Texas during winter storm, most from hypothermia“

    Out of 4 million customers affected in Texas. 111 people would be about two or three weekends of shootings in Chicago.

    285 died from Hurricane Sandy that hit here. I don't recall the same outrage... oh, yeah, it affected states with democrat governors.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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