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Posts Made By: James Lacey

September 16, 2026 10:14 AM Forum: Politics

Trump delivered a speech Wednesday night at the RNC's Midterm Convention in Dallas, pledging to issue $5,000 dividends if GOP candidates secure majorities in both the House and Senate.

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by James Brown

By the way, Rod, is Trump getting his ass handed to him by the Supreme Court becoming so commonplace that you don’t even post about it anymore?  😀😀😀

The funny thing about Trump's mail-in voting lies is that overall, he's hurt Republicans far more than he's helped by actually reducing Republican voter turnout. Since so many Republicans will not vote by mail now, they are much more likely not to vote at all and miss early voting or Election Day. In fact, Republican affiliated PACs and the RNC are spending lots of money that could be spent better elsewhere, trying to convince Republican voters that mail-in voting is legitimate, all while Trump continues to bash it, without any actual evidence that there is a problem. Trump just can't help himself or accept the fact that he lost the 2020 election to Biden, so he has to live in this alternate reality where he lost due to mail-in voting fraud by illegals, or some other nonsense like that. The irony that the Republican Party is trying to restore confidence in mail-in voting, all while the current party leader is trying to destroy its legitimacy, is hard to miss.

September 16, 2026 01:57 PM Forum: Politics

Trump delivered a speech Wednesday night at the RNC's Midterm Convention in Dallas, pledging to issue $5,000 dividends if GOP candidates secure majorities in both the House and Senate.

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Other than to laugh out loud at your attempt to weasel out of your words, the only suitable response would be to say that I've seen some extreme examples of spin in that first paragraph of yours, and then I've seen the Academy award winning example of it, in your reply above.

September 18, 2026 01:13 PM Forum: Politics

Trump delivered a speech Wednesday night at the RNC's Midterm Convention in Dallas, pledging to issue $5,000 dividends if GOP candidates secure majorities in both the House and Senate.

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by James Brown

Just checking in to see if there were any new posts.  Not surprisingly, Rich has gone dark.  Everyone should try to wrap their heads around something I noticed upon re-read.  Rich basically, regurgitates my positions, and then accuses me of dodging!  That is a special kind of weird. 

Rich reflexively counters anything anyone else says, even when he shares the same underlying opinion. I don't think he realizes he effectively agrees with you. He's probably arguing your exact point by accident. It's just that he's eager to be a contrarian and win internet debate-bro points. It all leads back to that legendary lack of self-awareness.

September 30, 2026 01:20 PM Forum: Politics

Who's The "Dirtbag"?!

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
"Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Tuesday accused former special counsel Jack Smith of committing perjury when he denied attending a specific Atlanta Hawks basketball game in 2024 — to Smith’s apparent confusion."

"The attempted trick play happened during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Smith’s now-scuttled investigations into President Donald Trump. But it soon emerged that Schmitt had the wrong team."


"Smith complained it had been taken down too quickly and he hadn’t gotten to look at it. “I think you’ve already perjured yourself,” Schmitt told him, adding later that he’d go down in history as “a total dirtbag.”

"The next questioner was Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who had checked the date of the game Smith referenced."

“We have confirmed that, in fact, you are right, Mr. Smith. Iowa, the Iowa Hawkeyes, played Maryland on February 3, 2024. The final score was 93 to 85. Iowa won, and Caitlin Clark scored over, scored 30 points,” and the game was in Maryland, she said."

"She also chided Schmitt for appearing to mix up the Hawks and the Hawkeyes."


"Despite the flub, Schmitt was praised for the exchange by some right wing commentators and outlets. Pro-Trump influencer Benny Johnson posted on X that Schmitt “CAUGHT Jack Smith perjuring himself” and “pulled out the receipts.” The post appeared to be taken down by the late afternoon."

"Schmitt later went on the Charlie Kirk Show, where one of the hosts praised him for the “great moment.” “Good for you on that,” host Andrew Kolvet said."


https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/gop-senator-perjury-claim-jack-smith-mixup/3948908/

The Trump-MAGA sycophants and bootlickers at it again...

I guess they are summoning Jack Smith one more time before the midterms to manufacture a gotcha moment, or a narrative they can use in the elections. Such a colossal waste of time and money.

Pretty funny they would try to paint Smith as a liar, considering that Trump is without a doubt the biggest liar we have ever seen in Washington, yet apparently Republicans like Schmitt have no issue with it. Anytime Trump makes up outlandish numbers, tells a story where an unnamed person calls him "sir," or claims something he did is the "greatest," it almost always means he's lying. Sure, all politicians lie sooner or later, but no one even comes close to Trump. No one else lies as much, or as shamelessly, as Trump.

September 30, 2026 02:23 PM Forum: Politics

Have you read this?

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by James Brown
Every bad idea conceived by the left in recent years conveniently collected in one place!   I would have thought it was a joke, but in about three months I personally am going to be represented by a Congresswoman who belongs to the party that wrote this platform.  Unbelievable.   Will anyone defend this?   My guess is no because y’all are rational adults.  

https://program.dsausa.org/

Individually, I agree with many of their policies. I suspect many Americans do too. Overall, though, their platform's branding and messaging won't be effective or relatable, and it's a target-rich environment for identity attacks and mischaracterizations. My favorite example is when Democrats originated the phrase "defund the police," or even better, "decriminalize border crossings." People attacked and mischaracterized these policies based on those phrases alone, without ever trying to understand them. They will do the same with this platform.

October 2, 2026 01:13 PM Forum: Politics

Have you read this?

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
The laughable thing about this entire thread is that apparently, not one of you liberal and leftist idiots on this forum ever heard of their platform.  

Those of us on the right have been talking about their goals for years now.  

One of the dumbest, most unaware members in your little group of clueless idiots is Jim Brown, the moron who started this thread.

Now, suddenly this clueless, uninformed idiot acts SHOCKED! "OMG, have any of you guys read this platform"??

LOL.

I toid that jackass somewhere around 3 years ago that the Democrat party was full of communists and totalitarians, and all that ignorant buffoon could do was mock my statements of fact.

But since Jim Brown and the rest of the most gullible and totally clueless people on planet Earth reside on this forum, it is somewhat amazing that every one of you dumbasses act surprised.  tongue

I guess since I read some of the responses like the Resident communist in California, he even seems to be taken aback.

RK:  Wow, I didn't realize that those on the left were THIS crazy, as he clutches his pearls, unaware like the rest of the dipshits here as to what is going on everywhere around him in the party he is beholden to, no matter what.

Oh that STAUNCH conservative James Lacey actually agrees with many parts of their platform.  Isn't that what your fearless leader, the newest leftist who claimed years back, that James Lacey wasn't close to being a radical leftist, he was a Stauch conservative?  

I remember telling this OP'er that James Lacey was a radical leftist and J Brown called me out.  "I've known James Lacey for years and He's a Staunch conservative", was his clueless response.  

I didn't bother to access the link, but let me guess what it indicates.  

They want to abolish the Supreme Court.  They want to abolish prisons.  They want to abolish the Senate.  They want to abolish the Presidency.  They want to take away all private property and seize all production of everything.  They want Universal healthcare for everyone with a foot on American soil, regardless of the cost.

I wonder if Jim Brown is on oxygen at this point, hyperventilating??  My guess is that his eyes are in a glaze like a deer in the headlights.  Probably, as he just can't believe that there are communists in the party he joined and loves.  

And Jim Brown who has been living in a cave for the last many years is shocked??  OMG he says as his jaw hits the floor. 

Oh and BTW, for all of you completely obtuse dipshits here, let me tell you that Islamists have decided that they want to instill Sharia Law. Hasan Piker, best friend of Abdul Al Sayed in Michigan stated that on a podcast yesterday.

He said they will hound the moron James Talafreak-o, the candidate that James Lacey is going to vote for.  Hasan Piker says he will get him to instill Sharia Law down the road.  

But not to worry because for the last many years, the fools on the left were so insanely unhinged and focused 100% on Donald Trump, concerned that he was going to destroy not only the country, but the world, they ignored everything going on around them.  

I have to thank J. Brown for finally coming out of his drunken stupor to actually read about the crazies in his party.

Thanks for the laughs today.  I'll check back in to this insane asylum in a few weeks for another good laugh.  

Until then, continue on you meatheads.  Have a great time!   tongue

There is a lot to unpack in your post, especially since, once again, you are misrepresenting what people said to make it easy to attack (straw man), and you are apparently clueless about the Democratic Socialists of America's (DSA) origins, history, and overall membership within the Democratic Party.

Briefly, I said I agree with some of their policies; I didn't say I agree with their platform. Specifically, I would be fine with a Green New Deal or Medicare for all. The DSA has been around for a while, but it didn't really start to gain traction in the Democratic Party until the emergence and election of Trump in 2016. Its relatively recent rise is largely because of a response to the extreme right-wing policies and actions of MAGA and Trump. Still, despite its recent membership growth, it remains a very small faction within the big-tent politics of the Democratic Party. The DSA has about 120,000 dues-paying members, a tiny fraction (about 0.26%) of the roughly 45.3 million registered Democrats nationwide. The DSA, as a faction inside the big-tent politics of the Democratic Party, is no different than the membership size of white supremacists inside the Republican Party. It's hard to know for certain, but I would not be surprised if there were more registered Republicans nationwide who are also white supremacists than there are DSA members inside the Democratic Party. Does that mean the Republican Party wants to create an exclusive white ethno-state within the United States? Hardly. Yet, that is the exact sort of ridiculous claim you are generalizing about the Democratic Party because of the existence of the tiny DSA faction.

BTW, I doubt JimB ever called me a "staunch conservative," since his judgment is always measured and trustworthy, and I've never been a "staunch conservative," since I've always been socially progressive. JimB knows this, as well as anyone here, and I guess he probably just meant that I was more right-leaning at one time than I am today. The truth is, most of us, except for a hardline zealot like yourself, are rarely left or right on all issues. Most of us have varying opinions based on the issue or policy under consideration.

October 2, 2026 03:07 PM Forum: Politics

Have you read this?

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by James Brown

By the way, the DSA‘s influence in the Democratic Party is currently vastly outsized compared to its dues paying membership. I am sure my Congresswoman Diana DeGette would agree. Her primary loss to an untested DSA candidate was one of the most shocking political events I’ve witnessed in a very long time. So I think your analogy, while correct on the numbers, breaks down in the effect. I don’t believe any openly white supremacists, members of the proud boys, the Ku Klux Klan, or the like have won primaries is giving them basically un-opposed paths into Congress in 2026.  J.  

p.s.  I get it that some on the extreme left would consider all white male Republican congressmen to be white supremacists, but that is a ridiculous dilution of the words “white supremacist”.   Word dilution for political gain is something that has bothered me for a long time. The most recent glaring example is those who insist Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip be characterized as “genocide“.  I have young relatives who insist that genocide in Gaza is a truth beyond debate, and that anyone who supports Israel at any level is therefore complicit in genocide. Discussion becomes impossible on those terms.

Unique regional and local demographic changes in Denver played a major role in Diana DeGette's loss. I don't think a DSA candidate could win anywhere without a similar advantage, or if the area were not already quite liberal.

October 4, 2026 03:54 PM Forum: Politics

Have you read this?

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by James Brown

James is socially progressive and fiscally conservative. Always has been, as anyone who can read, even you, certainly knows.  In my opinion, James has trended (very slightly) to the left as I have known him over the past 20+ years.

Life happens and as some of us mature and become wiser our values and insights sharpen.  Our political positions evolve.  Bottom line, James is perhaps slightly more liberal than he was 20 years ago, but not by much.   I too am more liberal on social issues than I was 20 years ago.   But not a ton.   I bet James agrees with me when I say that the parties have moved much farther to the extremes than we have.

Yes, indeed, the parties have moved farther than I have, for sure. I've moved left the most on social issues. Still, I think that would tend to happen to anyone who had the pleasure of raising a special-needs, on-the-spectrum, neurodivergent child and who had to be a full-time caregiver for a close family member with advanced Alzheimer's related dementia. Nothing opens your eyes to the plight of others like navigating disability services and care.

October 5, 2026 01:47 PM Forum: Politics

The Democrat Party has become the party of Hasan Piker and Abdul el Sayed, and is now the party that has become anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and Anti-American

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
And the leftists here along with Jim Brown the fake former Republican will vote for these despicable Democrats without thinking twice.  

This of course is just the fact of life today, in that the Democrat party supports Hamas.  

just the facts

Your thread title alone contains five lies, and your post likely has at least that many more, for a total of 10 or more. That's pretty impressive given how short your post is, although your thread title is pretty typically overly long. Let me just briefly say that your oppositional style, which includes outright lies about other people and what they think or would do, is quite frankly pathological. You just can't help yourself, and I sometimes wonder what underlying trauma or disorder you have that drives your inability to play nicely in polite society.

October 5, 2026 02:53 PM Forum: Politics

The Democrat Party has become the party of Hasan Piker and Abdul el Sayed, and is now the party that has become anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and Anti-American

Posted By James Lacey

Originally Posted by James Brown

I’ve certainly gotten under his skin!   What does that say about me?   I reckon it was my full-throated denunciation of the DSA platform that sent him “round the bend”. 🤔

How can anyone read your rebuke of the DSA platform and still conclude that you would vote for Hasan Piker or Abdul el Sayed? They either didn't read what you wrote, or read it and have zero reading comprehension, or have some pathological disorder where they have to attack you no matter what. Probably Rich is guilty of all three to different degrees depending on the situation.