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As a New Yorker who knew what Trump was, I was stunned by his victory in 2016.  Soon after, I thought it should be clear to everyone how unfit he was to be POTUS and asked here whether his supporters had buyer's remorse.  He didn't have the support of a majority of voters in the election and never had a favorability rating of 50%.  Non-Americans I imagine are puzzled how Republicans continue to win the presidency without gaining the most popular votes. Well, he did have a large majority of those who chose to answer the question.

I don't plan on continuing the debate, but I am curious as to Trump's current standing with readers of this forum.  Of course you can say anything allowed, but I would like a simple YES or NO answer to the following questions:

1.  Do you believe that Trump lost the Presidency because of massive fraud? 

2. Did you believe him when he repeatedly stated that he was weeks away from a plan to repeal the ACA and replace it with a better and cheaper medical plan?

3.  Did you believe that he would make his tax returns public after the government was finished auditing them.?

On 9/6/2020 at 9:41 PM, Robwin said:

What i have never understood is that why, when all apartments have good bedrooms and beds, do so many of the tenants sleep on the living room floor or the sofa? is it because they are all too tired to walk a few extra metres to the bedroom or that they are all just bloody bone idle?

As a freeloader I'm happy that there's activity outside of the bedroom.  I've speculated about that, too.  It would make some sense if that was the only room with a TV. Would a paid subscriber let us know whether they have TVs in the bedrooms.

On 5/6/2020 at 3:49 PM, Amy3 said:

... This is what is now almost completely dead in the genre of voyeurism across the board.  ...

As an old time actual voyeur I couldn't agree more with you.  Real voyeurism took patience and being satisfied with a tiny success rate. I'm amused when paying voyeurs complain about the exact angle of a camera.  I guess they're entitled to get what they're paying for, whatever that is.  It seems to me that it's simpler to use Google to specify exactly what you want to see and get it free.

Oddly, being a free viewer has some voyeuristic elements.  Finding something worth watching is just as rare as real life.

15 hours ago, catalonia said:

 

I do not understand what comes the insistence of inviting this pair of clowns with whom absolutely nothing happens.

Don't you have friends with whom "nothing happens?"  It's called life.

On 6/30/2018 at 10:07 AM, jabbath1987 said:

You just have to make a free account and you can turn it off

Thanks.  That worked.

The topic is International Travel.  Unless you are not American, the post so far have been about domestic travel.  After my wife and I traveled the world we finally got around to exploring the American west.  There's so much to see.  Just fly to some mid-size city, rent a car, and explore the region.  

For example, fly to Durango Colorado and, among other things, visit Mesa Verde and Littleton.  Use Flagstaff Arizona as a base and be overwhelmed by the Grand Canyon.

Our favorite foreign trips were Galapagos, Greek Islands and an African safari  --- ours was in Tanzania but there are many choices.  If you're a theater lover, London is expensive and second only to New York

Tahiti is way overrated.

As we got older, we started favoring European river cruises.  A favorite was the Rhine and Mosel. 

I've been gone for a while, and am surprised at the increase in apartments.

The preview panel  in the lower third of the image is helpful in finding active apartments.  However, it sometimes obstructs your view of the interesting activities occurring.   So, is there a way for free users to turn the preview banner off or on?

1 hour ago, ipiratemedia said:

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My brain has been washed, of the corruption that used to dominate it when I lived life the worlds' way. I no longer mentally undress every woman I see or try to add them to my list of conquests. I no longer watch porn movies. 

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More than feeling sad, I fear for your mental health.

Goodbye.

On 12/6/2017 at 10:15 PM, ipiratemedia said:

[ ...]As a four-year-old, as you stated, "Who created God?" I would like to know, how a four-year-old would reach that conclusion without any influence, to make you believe that God, does not exist? [ ...]

I was a latecomer to my atheist beliefs   --- I was ten.  The belief in one of the hundreds of creation myths is mostly an accident of what your parents believe.  It's hard to accept but you were brain-washed in the classical sense to accept the Judeo-Christian-Muslim myth formulated long ago by men who were ignorant of simple facts that we take for granted now.

40 minutes ago, Thestarider said:

 

The real problem is, Eagle you agree to be consensually raped by your own state legislature, because you have the right to vote them out and get some fiscally responsible legislators. I am tired of being raped to subsidize your state and the few other super high tax states. Why should the needs of the few states outweigh the needs of the many states ? Remember we are the 50 Untied States of America, and it's territories, not just the five big populous states !!! Taxation and Representation equally !!! I have figured my taxes on last years income and deductions and according to the new tax laws, I gain almost 3000.00 in tax savings from the new plans and could be even more if they allow you keep you state income tax deduction (which would in fact benefit you greatly in your high tax state).

I am really sorry you live in such a high tax state, but that does not represent the majority, and again only the a very small minority in reality. That is the real difference between us, you feel that the population centers should control congress, and it's decisions, and I believe that all fifty states, should be treated equal, and represented equal, just as our founding fathers wrote. Federal adjusted gross income of $83,000.00. I believe that would be the middle class.

Where do you get the idea that you are subsidizing our progressive states?  In fact, the ones I'm familiar with pay more in taxes than they receive in Federal benefits.  Maybe you're thinking of red states like Alabama.

Yes we pay more in local taxes because we demand better services and know we have to pay for it.  I guess that's why the blue states in question have more  educated voters and better health care among other benefits. 

You know why the population centers expect fair representation?  Because they are part of the majority and resent the unfair voting benefits that go to the small states.  I grew up in Brooklyn that has five times the population of Wyoming yet has no senators.  The Electoral College that gives power to the minority is a remnant of the compromises that the slave states negotiated to agree to the constitution.

The first rule of democracy is one man one vote.  We violate that rule in every national election and look what it got us this time.

7 hours ago, itsme said:

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Again, I'll point out the problem with averages.  If you are at least middle class whose major income is from wages and who lives in a high tax state, you will have a SHARP TAX INCREASE from day one..  Of course, that also means that you live in a blue state and deserve to be punished.  I do not give my consent to be raped.

21 hours ago, euromike69 said:

 

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Here's how the Senate plan could affect you:

2017 rates versus your rate under the Senate bill

The Senate bill maintains seven brackets, the same number as exist under current law, but it also lowers most of the rates and raises many of the income thresholds. For example, a married couple making $200,000 in 2017 would have paid $42,884.50 in taxes. Under the Senate bill, they would move from the 28 percent to the 24 percent tax bracket, and their tax bill would drop to $37,079 — before deductions are considered.

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As a CPA, I'm surprised at an important mistake in explaining this.  It compares "a married couple MAKING $200,000."  These charts show the tax on TAXABLE income which will varies considerably comparing current deductions versus either the Senate or House bills.

I live in a relatively high tax state --- Connecticut.  My property taxes are $16,000 plus I pay substantial state income taxes.  The TEMPORARY reduction in the tax rate will not offset the deductions that I lose.

It should surprise no one that losers like me happen to live in states with high local taxes and who  happen to typically vote Democratic. 

3 hours ago, zoifan said:

 

[...]My concern here is that Lane penis is too long and might reach and poke the baby's brain. Unless he is doing it with just the tip.  

 

 

Either you're kidding or you have little knowledge of female anatomy.  The fetus is in the uterus.  There is a cervix between the vagina and the uterus..  There is no way that a penis can reach the fetus.

Oneclickchicks has a better way of showing quotes in their forum.  There is a blue arrow to the right of the "posted by" name.  If you click on it, it takes you to the message quoted which may be pages earlier than the one you're on.  I imagine it would be difficult to implement unless it is part of the software package CC uses.

15 hours ago, HarleyFatboy said:

If I had to post one delicacy, it would be lightly grilled yellowfin tuna!!!  Sorry, I have no picture because I'm not smart enough :)

On 11/2/2017 at 10:31 PM, itsme said:

I haven't had liver in forever. I'll have to try it again one of these days. 

I was having casual lunch with some business associates at a New  Jersey diner --- locals will know what I mean.  I ordered the liver to the surprise of one of them.  I told him that I had been married for 30 years and it was the one dish  I knew my wife wouldn't make for dinner that night.

5 hours ago, aussiegary1965 said:

which book are you referring to??? and which primitive men who could write a book??

Leviticus written by con men with an agenda.

9 hours ago, Amy3 said:

When you read “Does God Exist” by Hans Kung, I’ll read yours. 

Amy, how can you support a belief system that rejects your life choices based on a book written thousands of years ago by primitive men?

Liver, bacon and onions

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2 hours ago, Maturin said:

You have warned me multiple times about trying to rationalise with this individual We know he won't read those books even though you've given him the best advice he's probably ever recevied.  I'm just waiting for one of them to say, "Hang on, I have read it and in my opinion Professor Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, is talking a load of horse shit."

I should follow my own advice.  I ignore most of these ignorant comments from people brain-washed from birth to not think for themselves.  Please remind me anytime I succumb and reply to the latest rantings.

2 hours ago, SPYING 1 said:

Amy i can't believe people are so naive & ignorant to think that we came from a one cell protozoan & evolved into monkeys ?? Why didn't all the monkeys become human ?? Why are we the only mammals to have a higher understanding of knowledge ?? why didn't the other animals that according to science also came from a one cell protozoan didn't develop like us !!!

We are ignorant?  Read a freaking book if you want to know the answer to your naive questions.

As I said before, I recommend books by Richard Dawkins. You should start with "The Blind Watchmaker" and "The God Delusion."  If you have questions after that, we'll try to help you.

13 hours ago, Amy3 said:

My last complaint is this. They need to turn cam1 down so you can actually see the whole couch. Who wants to see half a body laying there? It's always the best view of the couch. So, the viewer has to settle for cam2 which is too far away. It's a bad set up and Em and Logan don't understand where the cam views are located.

That's the free cam. They often use the free cam to tease us non-payers.

Why can't people accept the simple answer? A crazy person, by chance, has a job in a building directly over JFK's route .  The exact route wasn't known until the day before.  Pretty short time to concoct a conspiracy that has remained unproven for over 50 years.

I've been to Dealy Plaza.  The shooter's position gave him easy access to an open car that had just slowed to make an acute turn.  The "grassy Knoll" is a joke.  If you have doubts about some of the evidence, read a good book that explains it.  I recommend Case Closed by Posner.

10 hours ago, Thestarider said:

I give you your side and your belief, if you can scientifically explain one small thing to me, that I can't seem to understand, nor can the science community. What starts the heart beating in a fetus ? What makes that little organ pump it's very first beat ? a lot of speculation involved here, just no scientific facts, as no one seems to have been able to figure it out.

First of all, evolutionists have a pretty good idea --- read some books.

Second, even if you don't understand  it, why do you attribute it a mythical source created by primitive man who didn't  understand things we find pretty clear now.

Believe what you want but don't use it to affect my life or expect me to pay to support it.

2 hours ago, Thestarider said:

Food for thought

 

I urge you to read two books by Richard Dawkins   ---- "The God Delusion"  and "The Blind Watchmaker."  Yes, it's hard to imagine that everything we are is due to evolution but it's also hard to imagine the vastness of the universe and time since the first single cell life somehow came into being.