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it's great what Texas is doing, sending unwanted immigrants to NYC. what you probably don't know is that NYC is currently working on a plan to send busloads of imprisoned violent felons to Texas. we get who they don't want and they get who we don't want. sauce for the goose, etc., it's a win win!
Your white privilege is showing, although you're not really sure what that is, or if it even exists. Anyway it's white people being discriminated against, amirite?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/realestate/housing-discrimination-maryland.html
Here, Trumpster, check this out:
https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf
Back in the U.S, back in the U.S., back in the USSR.
Ironically, as it turned out, in light of the seats held now by Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, the mediocre amongst us do have representation on the country's highest court.
Way back when, Nixon nominated Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Famously not too bright or accomplished, Senator Hruska defended the pick by stating:
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/right-be-mediocre-jonah-goldberg/
And so it was with Trump, who truly proved that, indeed, anyone can grow up to be President, something we were all taught as children but came to believe not really possible as we got older. For, as Dear Leader demonstrated, if a not too bright, racist, lying, failed businessman who was also a traitorous serial sexual assaulter, can make it, anyone one of the rest of us can. And for that, we are dubiously in his debt.
Why bother? Do you think you're going to change anyone's mind with facts?
wow, a message from the Stupidverse. executing a search warrant, one approved by a Trump appointed judge is hardly a raid.
you insult everyone who's family was murdered by the Nazis by comparing this to the Gestapo.
go fuck yourself.
How old are you? Do you have any of these other symptoms:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/symptoms-causes/syc-20370921
All you've described is depression, which is horrible, I don't mean to make light of it. I met a guy who played lineman in the NFL for 4 years, is in his forties, and claims to be already dealing with memory loss.
I didn't realize CTE can be diagnosed among the living. Is that a new development?
In a democratic republic, such as ours, for better or worse, we pretty much get the leaders we deserve. Sure, the Electoral College is a mess, but that's the same as it always was. Hillary lost, primarily, because she ignored a couple of states that could have given her the edge in the EC, by not campaigning seriously in them. Unbelievable as it appears, she seemed to not have fully grasped the process.
If the people elect a Trump, we can't all of a sudden cry foul, unless we also cried foul when Obama or Bill Clinton won. If most of the people in this country want an incompetent clown for President, that's who we'll get, who Trump is, just look at England and Johnson as well.
All that being said, it does not excuse the complete lack by accomplishments of Trump, other than creating dissension in the homeland in service to Vlad. It's ironic that the exact same people who are now out to defund the FBI were completely fine with Comey's interference in the 2016 election.
I'm afraid that one has to conclude that the people on the right are, overwhelmingly, self serving idiots, or as JS Mill, famously said, "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
Nah, not Kushner not Melania. They both owe way too much to Dear Leader and are still sucking at his teats. Don't know who, but I'd bet it's not them. Someone completely devoid of principles who has to cut a deal with the Feds? Like Meadows, maybe?
Be careful what you wish for. The judge who signed the warrant is a Trump appointee. Judges generally do not sign warrants unless there is compelling evidence. Just the fact that boxes of classified material were found in Dear Leader's Winter Palace is a crime in and of itself, it hardly matters what they were about.
The FBI must have had serious info on this stash to convince the judge. And, by the way, how did the Feds know where to look for the stuff in a 100 room palace?
Defund the FBI (except when they interfere with a Presidential election to the benefit of a Republican)! MAGA!
God's will, seriously? Now we see how Trumpism survives and thrives. Commitment to the unprovable and irrational, talk about alternative facts.
Exactly. Or like some clown reality show host claiming he's a "billionaire".
And yet, you won't or can't, respond to the question of what metrics you are using to define a recession.
And citing an alleged 500 mentions on CNBC doesn't really count.
Ok, ignore the facts, just keep repeating the same lie over and over again and maybe you can get a few people to believe it, truly a Trumpian tactic.
I think a case can be made that the brain dead have been a majority of the Republican primary electorate since, and including, the candidacy of Ronnie Raygun.
And what a nasty piece of work he was. Went from being a union president to busting unions, went from working with tons of gay people in Hollywood to being a homophobic shit heel - all for personal gain. And no one's explained satisfactorily how he ever managed to afford to buy a big ranch in some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
"it wasn't until September 1985, four years after the crisis began, that President Ronald Reagan first publicly mentioned AIDS."
https://www.history.com/news/aids-epidemic-ronald-reagan
https://lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/
The good thing, from my point of view, is that this case is just about one of the families and there are nine that have sued him.
Here's hoping he gets what he so richly deserves, he's earned it.
I'd be very surprised if sleaze ball Jones doesn't have a sizable fortune stashed in an untraceable offshore account.
He could be busted from the settlement and still enjoy his life from the Bahamas or some place that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.
That was before he was caught in outright perjury, though. And this judge has not appreciated his antics. So here's hoping that a long stint in jail will delay life in the Bahamas.
Ok, what's your definition of a recession, specifically, since you insist this is one?
There are metrics, number things, that go along with terms like recession, so what are yours?
For example, in October, 2009, the unemployment rate reached 10%, at which time there were over 3M home foreclosure filings and 25 bank failures, you know, stuff like that.
In July 2008, gas at the pump was recorded by AAA to be, on average $4.14 per gallon, which in today's dollars is $5.84
It's a little hard to tell if you're functionally illiterate or willfully a moron (I'll take both for $200, Alex). Check out global inflation rates:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/15/in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world-inflation-is-high-and-getting-higher/
Now let's hear how it's all Biden's fault.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/inflation-stats-usa-and-world/
It's not only that driving will be less expensive. Everything shipped by truck should cost less as gas prices decline, like food.
Except for climate change, I can't think of another time in the past when things were better than they are now.
The major problem in providing context for national or global events is our inability to distinguish news that's being reported from our 24/7 access to news. Who knows if some situation is no longer a rarity or if it's really a matter of the internet's ubiquity.
Apparently, America isn't becoming such a country it already is one.
In your fevered dreams, maybe. Biden won't be on the ballot this November, but you know what will be? Access to legal abortions. Look what happened last night in super conservative Kansas.
You think suburban women and young women, both groups being courted by both parties, will vote for the theocratic fascists who want to outlaw abortion, make traveling for abortion illegal, punish doctors, ban the day after pill, make rape victims carry those babies, and, eventually, maybe, ban contraception?
Or maybe veterans will forget the Republicans killing the bill for health benefits for burn pit victims? Why will Republicans even bother to vote when they know elections are rigged?
Biden won't win re-election, he won't run. Meanwhile gas prices are going down and while Trump was sucking up to the Saudis a few days ago at a golf tournament, Biden was assassinating someone Trump has never heard of.
Negro is Portugese / Spanish, from the Latin, Niger. And those two countries were known for how well they treated indigenous people.
I do too. I think he's exactly who we needed after the havoc wrought by Dear Leader.
Yes, I think it was a case of them (I'm not black) trying to own their own identity. Why should they agree to continue to be called by a term used my massa?
Even Negro, the most benign of the commonly used descriptors, is a word of European origin imposed on Black people by someone else.
Also, maybe, just guessing here, African American is a way to signify American roots rather than a more generic word like Black, which would equally apply to a Nigerian who just stepped off the boat.
Regardless, it seems to be a very minor thing to be concerned about in a world that continually seems to be falling apart.
Is she a DACA person? It's hard to tell from the article (I'm in a bit of a rush) if her parents arrived fully legally.
Regardless, this is who we want here, people who come to work and get educated and strive for upward mobility. They can have the opioid addicted, trailer living, Trumpist, whining, racists in return.
White Nationalism, indeed, MAGA!
I might have mentioned this previously, but I just found out a couple of years ago that 2 of my grandparents entered this country with fake passports. That is, passports belonging to someone else that they bought in Europe. So desperate was the need to flee places like Poland that my grandmother cut her hair, wore boys clothes and came in as a boy.
I liken that to what's going on now in places like Honduras, or El Salvador, where it's just impossibly unsafe to try to have a normal life. I hope we can welcome more of those guys, I don't care how they get in - if someone walks across Mexico to get here, I want them here, visa or no.
I spent a month in Vietnam traveling around the country about 5 years ago. I was very surprised to see not one single sign in French nor any indication that French was spoken anywhere.
It was the language of the colonialists, I imagine once they got rid of the French they tried to forget about the experience.
Which shows how important English is, globally, in the markets and, of course, flying. We found people to be really friendly there to us even though we were, apparently, obviously American. People, construction workers, kids, young adults would very often just say "hello" as we walked by or call out "Obama" and give a thumbs up (really), this during Trump's first year in office.
The only negative thing about Americans we saw was at the Museum of War Remembrance in Ho Chi Minh City. It was very anti-American War (as they see it), yet, still, old vets in their NVA uniforms, walking around on the grounds, asked to take photos with my wife (mostly) and me.
As an aside, I was surprised, to say the least, to find out that Ho Chi Minh had been a pastry chef for Escoffier in London before he returned home to found a country.
Forgive me, but I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
Yes, actually, there is little French spoken in Vietnam these days, but English is increasingly popular with those with financial ambitions.
I remember being in Paris a few decades ago, though, and a lot of taxi drivers were Vietnamese who had moved there as they were already fluent in French.
Ok, I agree that people all over the world want to come to America for freedom and economic opportunity and that's a good thing.
To me, you don't seem to understand racism in its historical context. I mean, Europeans, the White People, were not very nice to people in the countries they colonized - other than stealing their natural resources and committing the occasion genocide, no biggie, right? Why do they speak French in Mali and Haiti and Congo and Vietnam? Because everyone there loves baguettes? And, at home, were Black people in the KKK terrorizing and lynching White people?
I believe your assertion that "all white people get associated with Nazis" is disingenuous and completely removed from the actual, real world. If you can't understand why bigotry is associated with the white race you haven't been paying attention. You think some Black people rioting in Portland over police brutality or that affirmative action has an equivalence with keeping people on plantations for generations? Or Jim Crow and redlining?
At what point did African countries send armies to colonize countries in Asia and South America? When did India and Pakistan and Columbia do that? Your confusion on this is surreal. Why are the countries south of us called Latin America, was that like their native language?
There's some discussion now amongst historians, I think it's been previously touched on here, that the American Revolution was about maintaining slaver since it had already been abolished in Britain. And was the backbone of the colonial economy.
Capitalists (of the 1% variety) have often maintained that democracy is incompatible with their goals.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/is-capitalism-a-threat-to-democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/11/the-conflict-between-capitalism-and-democracy/654179/
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
- General Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket
Like I wrote, the Saudis (and other Islamic States) are a low bar against whom to be measured, so yes, we are doing better than them in opportunities for women, civil rights, etc.
How many other countries support alternate lifestyles, etc? You keep going back to the Middle East and I've already granted you that. Certainly gay people are doing fine in Sweden, Australia, and actually, Uruguay, too. And at least the Supreme Court equivalents there aren't making noises about nullifying gay marriage, which the Netherlands codified in 2000. Meanwhile, the Defense of Marriage Act was passed in the mid 1990's
How about health care, maternity mortality rates, childhood poverty, environmental degradation, military invasions, the whole shitload of things that were going on long before MAGA. And you ignored the treatment of Indians and Blacks completely - the Voting Rights Act wasn't passed until the 1960's, so where's the leadership of mankind up until then?
My mother and her sisters, who were all smart and educated, could only find work as nurses, teachers, and secretaries. Meanwhile, there was a women President of Sri Lanka in about 1960.
If you can't recognize the systemic problems in the USA, you can't recognize them. Is the John Birch Society a new thing, was Lindbergh rallying for America First (the Nazis) in the recent past? How about McCarthyism, Father Coughlin, the KKK?
Forget about where I live, how about answering the questions?
I just can't see that America has "always found a way to move mankind ahead", can't really tell if you're serious.
How did murdering and displacing Indians, hundreds of years of slavery, using nukes, invading Vietnam and Iraq, to name a few, move mankind ahead? We're better than the Saudis, no doubt, but that's a low bar.
Sure, we have fast food and rock and roll, which are beloved around the world, but I can't see how the best large screen video monitors are a saving humanity. Sorry if I'm misinterpreting, but what, then, did you mean?
Extremely fucking stupid.
Old story, sorry if I'm repeating:
I disliked Reagan intensely and was stunned when he was re-elected. At a bar one night , shortly thereafter, with a buddy who was also no fan of Ronnie's, I asked him for his take on how it happened.
His response was political commentary for the ages: "It's a country full of stupid fucking people"
Bet the jockey not the horse.
That's a fair point. There are loonies on both ends of the political spectrum but willfully ignoring reality helps no one's causes.
These are situations where the only media consumed is that which provides bias confirmation. Throw in an environment in which relatives, friends, and co-workers share the same point of view, and good luck trying to make rational inroads into that.
The so-called liberal media is continuously running stories to explain the other side, interviewing Trump supporters and other dead enders to better understand them. Until recently though, you'd rarely see an interview with a liberal on Fox. Remember when Obama was grilled by a very rude O'Reilly on his show for an hour? When did Dear Leader ever sit for an interview with Rachel Maddow?
He apparently enjoyed assaulting women but not so much being asked tough questions by them.
Most people in this country illegally have overstayed their visas. But, definitely, let's build a wall to keep them out. MAGA!
I'm not saying you should get a clue, because you seem very comfortable in your ignorance, so enjoy!
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us
So, in your mind, we should go along with comments like yours about the health care bill for veterans? That it was stopped in the House because of all of the leftist pork? You're entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
Well, hopefully, the strengthening dollar will knock some of those import prices down.
Also, tariffs on Canadian lumber, solar panels, etc, that former President really showed them, didn't he?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_tariffs