You Know it is a Democrat Convention When

[Doom]

Local businesses begin boarding up all over the city

Riot police are told to be on and are told they are told they are going to work mandatory overtime

Police are telling delegates to go by an alias

A giant fence is being put up around the arena to protect politicians from their constituents

Seems like everyone is expecting riots, looting and even violent assaults. Sorry, these are Democrats who will be doing this, the correct term when people on the left do this is "peaceful protests"

And to top it all off....

There is a bus in town offering free vasectomies and abortions

[Tired]

Absolutely.

[Kage_ar]

Do you have some evidence that it is "Democrats" who are expected to riot? This seems like an big, once again, jump to a conclusion.

[anawim]

Last time was 1968...in Chicago. Maybe they shouldn't have conventions there.

[peregrinator]

Do you have some evidence that it is "Democrats" who are expected to riot? This seems like an big, once again, jump to a conclusion.

It would definitely be a (welcome) surprise if Republicans were pro-Palestinian!

[Kage_ar]

Do you have some evidence that it is "Democrats" who are expected to riot? This seems like an big, once again, jump to a conclusion.

It would definitely be a (welcome) surprise if Republicans were pro-Palestinian!

Looks like the pro-Palestinian protesters have a "non-partisan" agenda and protested in Milwaukee as well as Chicago.

[Kage_ar]

Police are telling delegates to go by an alias

Where did you hear this?

Um, since my BFF is a delegate, I have first-hand confirmation that this is not true (she has talked to many, many other delegates this week, none of them were told to go by an alias either)

A giant fence is being put up around the arena to protect politicians from their constituents

Security barriers were also at the RNC. This is SOP in our modern world.


Doom, you are watching or reading somethings that are just off the wall crazy

[Doom]

You remember when Trump was shot, after the police and the Secret Service ignored dozens of people warning them about the guy on the roof with a shotgun, then the FBI and the Secret Service lied about what happened to Congress, and no investigation took place, we learned absolutely nothing about the shooter, then Big Tech began censoring search results about the event and we are being told it is "old news" and we need to forget about it.

Gee, why am I suspicious of authority?

[Kage_ar]

You remember when Trump was shot, after the police and the Secret Service ignored dozens of people warning them about the guy on the roof with a shotgun, then the FBI and the Secret Service lied about what happened to Congress, and no investigation took place, we learned absolutely nothing about the shooter, then Big Tech began censoring search results about the event and we are being told it is "old news" and we need to forget about it.

Gee, why am I suspicious of authority?

Again, maybe we live in different universes.

A Google of "Trump Shooter" turns up hundreds of articles, from as recently as an hour ago, from every news source out there including the classic big three broadcast networks. I read updates on the investigation pretty much daily. Granted, I read, I do not watch "news" nor get if off social medial

Who is telling you it is "old news" and to "forget about it"? Maybe remove these voices from your influencers?

[Doom]

Who is saying that?

The media, which was once independent but is now just a wing of the Democratic Party, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times etc. This is the current spin.

And yes it is absolutely true that Big Tech suppressed search results for it. They even admitted it but claimed it happened “accidentally” (funny how these accidents always affect only one side). Mark Zuckerberg even contacted Trump and apologized for doing it.

The director of the FBI (the law enforcement wing of the Democratic Party) testified to Congress that he doesn’t think Trump was even shot at all. Isn’t it insane that the leader of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world is a Blue Anon conspiracy theorist? This is the same guy who said that parents expressing concern at school board meetings the books used in their kid’s school are “domestic terorists” and that “Traditional Catholics” are “violent extremists”.


The FBI has a history of election interference, partisan political activism disguised as law enforcement and corruption going back to the 1920s. It isn’t surprising, given the history of the agency, to see the FBI putting its thumb on the scale to try to influence the election. That has been going on for a century. What is surprising is that we tolerate it.

[Doom]

Who is saying that?

The media, which was once independent but is now just a wing of the Democratic Party, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times etc. This is the current spin.

And yes it is absolutely true that Big Tech suppressed search results for it. They even admitted it but claimed it happened “accidentally” (funny how these accidents always affect only one side). Mark Zuckerberg even contacted Trump and apologized for doing it.

The director of the FBI (the law enforcement wing of the Democratic Party) testified to Congress that he doesn’t think Trump was even shot at all. Isn’t it insane that the leader of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world is a Blue Anon conspiracy theorist? This is the same guy who said that parents expressing concern at school board meetings the books used in their kid’s school are “domestic terorists” and that “Traditional Catholics” are “violent extremists”.


The FBI has a history of election interference, partisan political activism disguised as law enforcement and corruption going back to the 1920s. It isn’t surprising, given the history of the agency, to see the FBI putting its thumb on the scale to try to influence the election. That has been going on for a century. What is surprising is that we tolerate it.

[Doom]

By the way , I don’t think you understand what is meant by “suppressing search results” exactly what that entails. It doesn’t mean you can’t find anything about a subject, it means the search results are manipulated so that you can only find “approved” sources because certain sites are being flagged so that none of its content ever shows up. This is also called a “shadow ban”, many of my friends on Facebook complain that they can’t find my updates, certain things I have posted have been shadow banned, even I can’t find it.

[Doom]

This is similar to the label of “misinformation” (which isn’t actually an English word), when something is labeled “misinformation” it doesn’t mean it is wrong, they aren’t even using it to mean that. It means something more like “information you are not supposed to talk about because it doesn’t fit the official narrative.”

For example, the evidence was always strong that COVID leaked from a lab, but it was labeled “misinformation” because it didn’t fit the official story that it was natural and that it came from the Wuhan market. That became the story not because there was evidence to support it but because it was considered important to protect Fauci.

Until protecting Fauci ceased to be the priority and then it was suddenly no longer “misinformation” but the evidence never changed, only the political circumstances did.

[Kage_ar]

Less than 2 weeks following the shooting, the FBI director said in testimony that it may have been shrapnel instead of a bullet that hit the former President. Sure, someone with an agenda could twist that into "The director of the FBI (the law enforcement wing of the Democratic Party) testified to Congress that he doesn’t think Trump was even shot at all. ".

From researching your claims, they come from Fox news. The claim is not that Facebook shadow banned information about the shooting, it was that a photo was labled as false information.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-says-m ... on-attempt

Note that Mr Trump claims that Mr Zuckerberg called. In every article I read, this is the source, Mr Trump. With the former POTUS being known for stretching things, I give this a 50% chance of being the truth.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-te ... nipulation

This is the Fox story about information. Once again, it is a big stretch from claims that the autocomplete returned information about historical shootings of Presidents to "they shadowbanned everything about the investigation".

[peregrinator]

Note that Mr Trump claims that Mr Zuckerberg called. In every article I read, this is the source, Mr Trump. With the former POTUS being known for stretching things, I give this a 50% chance of being the truth.

Wouldn't Zuckerberg simply deny calling or make some sort of clarification were it not true? I'm all for examining statements by politicians (including Trump) critically, but there should be some reason for it. Do you examine statements by e.g. Tim Walz the same way? He seems to be getting a reputation for stretching the truth.

[Kage_ar]

Note that Mr Trump claims that Mr Zuckerberg called. In every article I read, this is the source, Mr Trump. With the former POTUS being known for stretching things, I give this a 50% chance of being the truth.

Wouldn't Zuckerberg simply deny calling or make some sort of clarification were it not true? I'm all for examining statements by politicians (including Trump) critically, but there should be some reason for it. Do you examine statements by e.g. Tim Walz the same way? He seems to be getting a reputation for stretching the truth.

I've not seen anyone here making claims without posting their sources about Mr Walz.

If they did, I would take the time to do the research. I love good debate, but, be able to cite your sources.

[peregrinator]

No, I mean this:

In every article I read, this is the source, Mr Trump. With the former POTUS being known for stretching things, I give this a 50% chance of being the truth.

Given that Walz seems to have a history of stretching things, I'm simply asking if you view statements from him the same way. Or if you view statements from Harris or Biden similarly.

[Kage_ar]

Today my plan is to research things that are circling on social media and attributed to Kamala Harris. I always want to find the sources on political matters.

[peregrinator]

Well, here's a good example, do you think it likely that Harris grew up celebrating Kwanzaa as she claimed in this 2022 post on Twitter/X?

https://mobile.x.com/VP/status/1607388376671391754

[Kage_ar]

Well, here's a good example, do you think it likely that Harris grew up celebrating Kwanzaa as she claimed in this 2022 post on Twitter/X?

https://mobile.x.com/VP/status/1607388376671391754

This would be difficult to find out without talking to her parents.

I do know that the celebration began in the late 60's. My best friend grew up in California in the late 60's early 70's (her mixed race parents had to move to California from Missouri to marry legally) and her dad was an academic/college professor. They were Christians, but, they did celebrate Kwanzaa.

My goddaughter's husband is Jamaican, he says that they grew up celebrating Kwanzaa.

I can't say it is out of the realm of possibilities that a family with a Jamaican dad in the academic field during those same years would have celebrated Kwanzaa.