Rants and Raves

[RiverRat99]

Anti Woke over the years has meant: anti Jew, anti Irish, anti Italian, anti Black, anti gay, anti Asian, anti trans, and most recently anti woke. It's whatever right wing media needs to rile up impressionable bigots at the moment to keep ratings up.

What we have here is a progressive liberal. You can distinguish them from totalitarianists as they always go straight to name calling. No logical argument, just use of vernacular to dehumanize others (originated with Lenin's tactics related to political correctness I. E. You may only think one way, our way). They are not open to any agenda, but their own.

[Surch2020]

In other words, when wokism is used in a conversation with a leftist supporter of totalitarianism it is used for gaslighting purposes. Been there done that. Their position will often times will be one of "it doesn't exist". The above statement is a great example!

Anti Woke over the years has meant: anti Jew, anti Irish, anti Italian, anti Black, anti gay, anti Asian, anti trans, and most recently anti woke. It's whatever right wing media needs to rile up impressionable bigots at the moment to keep ratings up.

[RiverRat99]

Woke or wokism is a perjorative term used by those who wish to erase history and its effects on current events and status quo. It is not used by those who it is directed at. It is often used by the subjects to dodge accountability or be dismissive during debates by invoking logical fallacies. Calling someone "woke" is typically used disarm the target by invoking the logical fallacies of the straw man argument, the bandwagon fallacy, the false dillemna, hasty generalizations, anecdotal evidence fallacy, the personal incredulity fallacy, and MOST COMMONLY THE AD-HOMINEM FALLACY.

In other words, when wokism is used in a conversation with a leftist supporter of totalitarianism it is used for gaslighting purposes. Been there done that. Their position will often times will be one of "it doesn't exist". The above statement is a great example!

[JoggingPants]

Hey gang. Wanted to started a thread to understand your take on.

What is Woke or wokism? How do you define it?

Woke or wokism is a perjorative term used by those who wish to erase history and its effects on current events and status quo. It is not used by those who it is directed at. It is often used by the subjects to dodge accountability or be dismissive during debates by invoking logical fallacies. Calling someone "woke" is typically used disarm the target by invoking the logical fallacies of the straw man argument, the bandwagon fallacy, the false dillemna, hasty generalizations, anecdotal evidence fallacy, the personal incredulity fallacy, and MOST COMMONLY THE AD-HOMINEM FALLACY.

[HobbyMan51]

Hey gang. Wanted to started a thread to understand your take on.

What is Woke or wokism? How do you define it?

Wokism is irrational equity politics practiced by those whose hatred of the society they live in transcends all other emotions. It is the revenge of the few against the many. It is the installation of power for the few against the many. They are not interested in equality or fairness for all but in severe punishment for those they disagree with, for those who they hate and that hatred knows no limit. Wokeism demands obedience to its insanity and if that obedience is not given then destruction is the punishment for those who dare defy them. Wokeism is the cancer of these times. It is everywhere, in our schools, in our churches, in our corporations, and in our political systems. It is a malicious, malevolent mindset, practiced by angry people with murderous motives. It must be defied and it must be defeated, otherwise the America that most of us with common sense know and love is gone, destroyed by those who despise her and us by extension.

[Peter Pan]

Hey gang. Wanted to started a thread to understand your take on.

What is Woke or wokism? How do you define it?

[Jrody1]

This site has been going down hill for the past few years. First it started off with some sensitive jock moderators on the site purging accounts and comments of legitimate concerns. If someone were to say xyz is fake and scamming. Or their experience was trash. Automatic delete or ban. At first the ban would reroute you to eros. Now it doesn't do that. Fast forward to today. Every person's account is now purged. You can't do a review without putting your email on that website now LOL. WTF? Hilarious. Hope a substitute of this website comes. No one is going to be putting up reviews on there. They will more than likely migrate here if they find the website. Which is probably good if their is an influx for this website. More revenue.

[HobbyMan51]

The #1 persons to blame for the Jan 6 incident is Donald J. Trump. He enticed his supporters to storm the capital in an attempt interfere with the process of confirming the election results and peaceful transition of power. The other person (s) equal of blame are former Senate Sargent at Arms, Michael C. Stenger, former House Sargent at Arms Paul D. Irving, and former Chief of US Capitol Police, Steve Sund.

I do agree the current dementia patient and high school girl cackler suck though.

While I don't disagree completely with your assessment here, there were some other factors at play which rarely if ever are mentioned in the mainstream media. The weekend before Jan. 6 Trump did offer National Guard protection to Pelosi and Mayor Bowser in anticipation of large crowds at the Capitol that day. The offer was rejected by both of them. Why? The Capitol police drew back their barricades protecting the Capitol Building, allowing the crowd to surge forward. Why? The Chief of the Capitol police, Steve Sund, took his marching orders from the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who had already rejected National Guard protection from Trump. Why would he have ordered his own police force to pull back their barricades against the interests of his own force and against the objective of protecting the Capitol building? Why did Pelosi's daughter just happen to be in the Capitol that day producing a so-called documentary on her mother? Coincidence? Why was Ray Epps, an FBI informant, in the crowd that day urging them on and showing them the way into the Capitol building and why has he never seen the inside of a jail cell when so many people, some innocent, some not so innocent, still sitting in those jail cells with still no trial dates set after two and a half years? Ray Epps wasn't the only FBI plant in the crowd that day either. They, like him, remain free.

I have heard Trump's last exhortations to the crowd before the chaos ensued. He urged them to remain peaceful as they went over to the Capitol building, in complete contrast to the mainstream media's claims that he encouraged them to riot and create mayhem at the Capitol and also in sharp contrast to the carefully Hollywood edited videos shown to the nation by the oh so pious fake shamsters of the Jan. 6 "committee". Now, as far as Trump is concerned, he is most certainly his own worst enemy. Always has been and always will be. He absolutely should not have instructed his vice-president to refute the formality of the Electoral College vote, among other things. That being said, there were many other mitigating circumstances surrounding that miserable day, circumstances that Liberal Democrats and the mainstream media have hidden ever since. How convenient for them, the media, and Pelosi, to turn that day into a rallying cry against anyone who dares to stand up against them and their totalitarian agendas.

I appreciate the assessment of The Fraud in Chief and his horror show of a vice-president though. To say that they suck is a massive understatement.

[JoggingPants]

Let's face it, corporations do not pay taxes they pass the cost to us, consumers. AOC is apoplectic that the Yacht tax was eliminated. A tax on yachts and private jets. What she and many fail to see is that it hurt the working men and women (those who built them) more than it hurt the super-rich. They also will never recognize that The top 1% those earning $540,009 or more accounted for 40% of the federal income taxes paid. So they are paying their fair share. As JMBacus insinuated, I planned to get the remodel going again on my house this year but cannot afford to because of the runaway inflation and severe drop in my portfolio.

Also, not a fan of the man, but his policies deserve some credit dealing with C19 as well. Let's not forget that he was the one who got student loan payments paused, meanwhile, the current clown administration promised to get loans forgiven, but actually, loan repayments that Trump suspended will restart next month LMAO.

[Sgt Lurker]

Let's face it, corporations do not pay taxes they pass the cost to us, consumers. AOC is apoplectic that the Yacht tax was eliminated. A tax on yachts and private jets. What she and many fail to see is that it hurt the working men and women (those who built them) more than it hurt the super-rich. They also will never recognize that The top 1% — those earning $540,009 or more — accounted for 40% of the federal income taxes paid. So they are paying their fair share. As JMBacus insinuated, I planned to get the remodel going again on my house this year but cannot afford to because of the runaway inflation and severe drop in my portfolio.

Trump lowered the corporate tax rate from a ridiculous 35% down to 21% in 2017. Of course the immediate effect was that it juiced corporate profits and created a favorable environment for the stock market. Eventually it would have sparked additional capital investment in the US but companies tend to look long term and the rate was raised by Biden back to 28%.

So back to the market. Well over half of Americans participate in some type of retirement savings plan. This could be a Roth, a 401 K, or a pension of some type. If corporations do well then these investment vehicles do well and create wealth for retirement.

Someone has to generate a profit to fund salaries and retirement accounts. That falls on large and small business. If corporate America fails then pension plans across the US also fail and more money will need to be printed to bail them out. Manufacturing and Corporations are the goose that laid the golden egg providing good paying jobs and valued added products and services. I think more people benefit than not when they do well. Printing money or tax and spend has proven not to work long term.

Not a Trumpeter but let's give him credit for that change in corporate tax rates.

[JMAbacus]

Trump lowered the corporate tax rate from a ridiculous 35% down to 21% in 2017. Of course the immediate effect was that it juiced corporate profits and created a favorable environment for the stock market. Eventually it would have sparked additional capital investment in the US but companies tend to look long term and the rate was raised by Biden back to 28%.

So back to the market. Well over half of Americans participate in some type of retirement savings plan. This could be a Roth, a 401 K, or a pension of some type. If corporations do well then these investment vehicles do well and create wealth for retirement.

Someone has to generate a profit to fund salaries and retirement accounts. That falls on large and small business. If corporate America fails then pension plans across the US also fail and more money will need to be printed to bail them out. Manufacturing and Corporations are the goose that laid the golden egg providing good paying jobs and valued added products and services. I think more people benefit than not when they do well. Printing money or tax and spend has proven not to work long term.

Not a Trumpeter but let's give him credit for that change in corporate tax rates.

[Loop285]

The #1 persons to blame for the Jan 6 incident is Donald J. Trump. He enticed his supporters to storm the capital in an attempt interfere with the process of confirming the election results and peaceful transition of power. The other person (s) equal of blame are former Senate Sargent at Arms, Michael C. Stenger, former House Sargent at Arms Paul D. Irving, and former Chief of US Capitol Police, Steve Sund.

I do agree the current dementia patient and high school girl cackler suck though.

While I am no fan of Donald J. Trump and his narcissistic ego, President Trump did a hell of a lot for this country and tried to get more done. The #1 person to blame for the Jan 6 incident is Nancy Pelosi who turned down additional guards Trump offered. His current commercials bashing DeSantis are disgusting because he knows it is not true. But what we currently have in the White House can't say a coherent sentence and his VP cackles like a schoolgirl.

[Sgt Lurker]

He lowered taxes across the board so of course, those who pay more get a larger tax cut, which stands to reason. He had the lowest unemployment among the minority, greatly improved how the VA treats veterans (unfortunately it is back in the toilet), had an annual growth in the GDP of 5% as opposed to Biden's super inflation where my portfolio is still down 25% from where it was and close to 40% from where it should be. Had the lowest illegals crossing the border in many years, all while being hounded and chased by the Demoncrats. Oh yeah, and the first two years the shmuck Paul Ryan fought him tooth and nail. Matter of fact the low-life Ryan pushed through a budget on the backs of military retirees which is something this veteran will never forgive him for doing.

As for Roe, even your royal highness Justice RBG said it was bad law and needed to be fixed or thrown out.

That said, I hope Desantis wins!

Besides lowering taxes on the wealthy (with a poison pill to raise taxes on middle incomes in 2020) and helping Roe v Wade get overturned, what did he do??

He didn't eliminate the national debt. He didn't even reduce the deficit (he spent more than Obama in half the time). He did get infrastructure done. He didn't get cheap healthcare done. He didn't find any really, really clean coal. Prescriptions didn't go down in price. He didn't solve the opioid crisis. He didn't get Mexico to pay for the wall. He didn't drain the swamp. He sure as hell didn't put America first.

So, what did he do??

Good goin' there, sport. Only took you a month to come up with the same old regurgitated, stale CNN talking points. I've been through this with hundreds of Trump haters like you on other blogs, wasting time explaining what the man did for this country in spite of the never ending opposition from his enemies in the Democrat party and the enemies from within his own party, not to mention having to constantly fight fake accusations from an equally fake dossier engineered and paid for by that witch from Hell, Hillary Clinton, as well as a manufactured and deliberately released virus on the entire world as a major distraction allowing the Democrats to try out their new totalitarian muscles with the help of an equally traitorous media. Bottom line, I ain't going through this again. If you really want to know then look it up.

But, gas below 2.00 a gallon, inflation between 1 and 2 percent, rising wages for Blacks and Hispanics, the oil and gas industries allowed to work freely without constant attack as they are now from the Fraud in Chief, no wars, Iran and Russia and China in check, an immigration policy that didn't allow millions of undocumented illegals into this country along with god knows what else, VA red tape slashed, the absence of woke insanities and equity political treason, just to name a few. Yeah Trump's a buffoon, he tweets too much, he calls people names, blah blah blah. So effing what? I am sick to damned death of constantly explaining to Trump haters like you who keep whining " What did he do, what did he do? Against all odds he did a hell of a lot for the good of this country and especially when contrasted to this unmitigated disaster of a so-called president whose administration is the first in American history to do its best to make the lives of the American people as miserable as possible. You want to tell us how wonderful Joe Biden has been for this country? Go right ahead. There will be damned few people on this thread who will agree with you. Oh, ever hear of Hunter's laptop? Ever hear of Burisma? And how about that spy balloon from China, Democrat?

One more thing: He didn't eliminate the national debt? Tell me just who the hell could eliminate the national debt. Biden has added several trillion dollars to the national debt in just two years with needless spending and printing money that this country doesn't have, a guaranteed inflation producer. I don't hear you carping about that, Democrat. It's just all Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump to people like you who would burn their own country down around themselves just to get Trump and that is exactly what is happening right now. Trump be damned, we've got a country in dire straits now that the rest of us with common sense are going to have to go into overdrive to save from its enemies from within, a calamity completely ignored by the haters like you who in their deranged frenzy to get Trump have lost sight of what is really going on in this country right now. Goddamn, man.

[HobbyMan51]

Besides lowering taxes on the wealthy (with a poison pill to raise taxes on middle incomes in 2020) and helping Roe v Wade get overturned, what did he do??

He didn't eliminate the national debt. He didn't even reduce the deficit (he spent more than Obama in half the time). He did get infrastructure done. He didn't get cheap healthcare done. He didn't find any really, really clean coal. Prescriptions didn't go down in price. He didn't solve the opioid crisis. He didn't get Mexico to pay for the wall. He didn't drain the swamp. He sure as hell didn't put America first.
So, what did he do??

Good goin' there, sport. Only took you a month to come up with the same old regurgitated, stale CNN talking points. I've been through this with hundreds of Trump haters like you on other blogs, wasting time explaining what the man did for this country in spite of the never ending opposition from his enemies in the Democrat party and the enemies from within his own party, not to mention having to constantly fight fake accusations from an equally fake dossier engineered and paid for by that witch from Hell, Hillary Clinton, as well as a manufactured and deliberately released virus on the entire world as a major distraction allowing the Democrats to try out their new totalitarian muscles with the help of an equally traitorous media. Bottom line, I ain't going through this again. If you really want to know then look it up.

But, gas below 2.00 a gallon, inflation between 1 and 2 percent, rising wages for Blacks and Hispanics, the oil and gas industries allowed to work freely without constant attack as they are now from the Fraud in Chief, no wars, Iran and Russia and China in check, an immigration policy that didn't allow millions of undocumented illegals into this country along with god knows what else, VA red tape slashed, the absence of woke insanities and equity political treason, just to name a few. Yeah Trump's a buffoon, he tweets too much, he calls people names, blah blah blah. So effing what? I am sick to damned death of constantly explaining to Trump haters like you who keep whining " What did he do, what did he do? Against all odds he did a hell of a lot for the good of this country and especially when contrasted to this unmitigated disaster of a so-called president whose administration is the first in American history to do its best to make the lives of the American people as miserable as possible. You want to tell us how wonderful Joe Biden has been for this country? Go right ahead. There will be damned few people on this thread who will agree with you. Oh, ever hear of Hunter's laptop? Ever hear of Burisma? And how about that spy balloon from China, Democrat?

One more thing: He didn't eliminate the national debt? Tell me just who the hell could eliminate the national debt. Biden has added several trillion dollars to the national debt in just two years with needless spending and printing money that this country doesn't have, a guaranteed inflation producer. I don't hear you carping about that, Democrat. It's just all Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump to people like you who would burn their own country down around themselves just to get Trump and that is exactly what is happening right now. Trump be damned, we've got a country in dire straits now that the rest of us with common sense are going to have to go into overdrive to save from its enemies from within, a calamity completely ignored by the haters like you who in their deranged frenzy to get Trump have lost sight of what is really going on in this country right now. Goddamn, man.

[LuvStJohn]

My personal opinion is that my chances of getting caught up in a massage parlor raid is slim to none. Even at a FS Kamp the chances are Is remote at best. As for Asian Apartments or agencies the risk I would even think it's lower. I've been in this hobby a long time and I won't start Being paranoid now. I would tell everybody to take common sense precautions and if you're just that scared maybe this game isn't for you.

Firstly, let me tell you that I totally agree with you. The chances are very slim of being there when a raid occurs. From personal experience with a well-known agency that disappeared when most agencies quit Atlanta several years ago, stuff can happen! Yes, I'm talking escorts not AMPs. My point is only that it's possible for lightning to strike. But who wants to stay inside just because 'lightning might strike?" Not me.

LE showed up when I was with a date in Roswell several years ago. We immediately clothed, and I sat down in the room behind a closed door. Eventually LE came in and asked me to come out. I was on the phone with the agency when it happened, as was the girl. The most important lesson I learned from the experience was to simply shut the fxxk up! Don't say anything, volunteer anything. We both walked away unscathed. So if lightning does strike while you're visiting your preferred place of worship, Shut The Fxxk Up!