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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives..." John Stuart Mill
Why does every state have to have slavery illegal?
If you don't want' an abortion, don't get one. Otherwise, keep out of my womb, please.
Can you imagine being a 13 year old girl who gets raped and is forced to carry the rapist's child? At long last, have you no decency?
So, you do think that individual states can legalize slavery within their borders?
Again, where do you draw the line on the states' rights issues?
Maybe you guys who live in the mooching states can start paying your fair share instead of taking tax money from the blue states.
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/
You hate the federal government yet suck at its teat, shameless hypocrites.
You clearly don't understand what's going on here, it goes way beyond abortion, it's about privacy issues which include birth control, same sex marriage etc. A law maker in Missouri is currently trying to make it a crime to travel out of state for an abortion:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/missouri-considers-law-to-make-illegal-to-aid-or-abet-out-of-state.
How do you defend this crap, where do you draw the line? Next, you going to claim that individual states have the right to legalize slavery?
Sorry, it's not up to individual states, this was settled in the 18th century.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause
A writer elsewhere remarked that if the Supreme Court can force you to not have an abortion, then they can force you to have one, ala China. Which makes sense, in that if they're going to take away your personal autonomy, you're not going to have any.
As for the leaker, an impartial Supreme Court reporter makes a different case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/03/alito-roe-leaked-draft-disaster-for-supreme-court/
I can hardly wait to read what Breitbart's take is on all this, I'm sure you'll be soon posting it.
I don't accept the narrative that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was some sort of debacle. It worked as well as it could have, there was no correct or better or cleaner way to do it. At least he got us out of a pointless conflict, in which many more people would have died if he hadn't. It's nit picking.
Watch Israel. They've been neutral in the Ukrainian war because Russia has troops in Syria. Two things have happened recently which, I think, will lead to their greater involvement and if Ukraine can access the Iron Dome system it will be a game changer.
All that being said, it's clear Russia's military has been vastly overrated, as has their digital conflict capabilities:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00753-9
Ukraine will win this war.
I think that if you're disappointed in Biden, your expectations are out of line. Of course, you want troops on the ground in Ukraine and he has enough common sense to not do that.
Otherwise, you can't blame him for inflation or the rise in hate crimes, for example. What did you think he was going to do to wipe off the shit stains left by Trump? There's no magic wand and he's plugging away, having some successes and some failures, as is par for the course. But, at least he's trying to make things better for the majority of Americans.
And that's why the right wing hates him. They are an anti-democracy group, at heart, and only want lower taxes and privatizing government services and the extinguishing of the line between church and state. They don't recognize the common good.
Not only Federalist Society members, or sponsored by it, but also hard core, old school, practicing Roman Catholics. Good piece in the NY Times today about it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/roe-v-wade-abortion-supreme-court.html
At first, you have to wonder if a ruling overturning Roe would take the wind out of the culture warriors' sails. But, no, there's so much more privacy to invade!
I mean talk about going against the tide of history:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/07/mexico-abortion-supreme-court/
https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2018/8/9/17484884/why-are-catholic-countries-debating-abortion
What we have here, right now, is one messed up country. And no, it's not because of Biden.
So sick of Ryan, Bolton, Barr and the rest of them who worked hard enabling Trump and now have written books to try to capitalize on their proximity to him, when he was in office. And who now, when it's too late to have any impact, explain in their writings what a stupid, unqualified, petty, man he is.
Yup, they saved it for their books and now to sell those books they're on some weird "literary" tours explaining what he's really like behind closed doors. They have no guts, whatsoever, too interested in keeping their little fiefdoms intact to alert the public in real time. A pox on the lot of them.
Agreed. We seem to have a situation where the silent majority has morphed into the loud minority. Take schools, for instance, numerous polls (previously posted) have shown that parents like their kids' teachers and what's being taught. But we have a group disrupting school board meetings, threatening board members, and trying to create a wedge issue against public schools.
We can, maybe, remember, during the various town hall meetings about the ACA, much the same scenario unfolded in many locations, a disruptive minority getting the attention. They were mostly so-called astroturf groups, claiming to be natural eruptions of peoples' real feelings, but were actually bankrolled by the big money crowd.
And then go back to the Brooks Brothers Riot in Florida, it worked there on behalf of W, so it's in the playbook. Make no mistake, the goal is to privatize education along with most other government services. Which has worked well exactly nowhere else, but like the zombie theory of trickle down economics, it remains a powerful force.
I feel sorry for you, really, your is a small life.
I wouldn't argue about any of your points. I feel like having open borders is a legitimate topic for a discussion. One that doesn't include demonizing immigrants and otherwise trying to scare people.
Greed is the problem, I was just listening to the radio and they were discussing the development of Russian style oligarchs here at home. Billionaires, like Musk, who not only don't pay federal taxes but also get extremely favorable rates on loans.
Look to the Kochs. Democracy is the enemy of the leisure class and that's why they support voter suppression, for one thing. A truly democratic country would vote for more money going to the greater good.
I agree, but it's two different issues, at least. You do know that most of the people living here "illegally" have overstayed their visas? So, it's in no way strictly a southern border problem.
We need people to work in the fields and the food processing plants and etc., traditionally lower wage situations. I'm all for unions, that's the way the middle class was formed in the 1950's and 60's.
That and free college education.
John Kenneth Galbraith cited income inequality as the likely primary reason for the Great Depression. I don't have time to cite a link but his famous book goes over the concept in detail. The stock market crash at the time, was just an add-on.
I remember being out in a bar with a friend shortly after Reagan had won re-election. I didn't understand it, I thought Reagan was obviously a charlatan (at best) and not a very bright one at that.
I asked my friend, a very educated guy, how he would explain it and he did so in words that will live forever in the annals of political discourse: "Brooklyn 13, it's a country full of stupid effing people".
And if you liked that, you're gonna love what's coming.
Thanks. Ask any poster, here, who's claiming our borders are now open, to name one way that's directly negatively impacted their life. Other than the shortage of agricultural and food processing low wage workers that's driving up food prices. A problem of their own making.
Dupes, rubes, suckers, whatever, give them a B List movie actor or reality tv star to vote for and they're happy. If government's the problem, what say we privatize government services to increase the revenues for the political donor class.
The thing that gets me is the apparently easy manipulation of the masses. Starting in the Civil War, when the wealthy Southerners somehow got the impoverished masses to be convinced that they should fight for the right of the wealthy to continue owning slaves. It's all about pitting the working / middle classes against each other to distract from the bigger picture.
And, to this day, the Kochs, DeVos family, the Bushes, the Trumps, the Mercers, the Broads, Bezos, the moneyed conservative elite has convinced the less moneyed to take up their causes, "What's the Matter with Kansas"?. It boggles the mind what fools these mortals be.
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/billionaires-and-stealth-politics
In return, we get the usual scapegoats, the blacks, the Jews, the immigrants, Asians, the coastal elites, welfare mooches, and, actually, women, all groups to resent and blame for our problems. Why tackle the enormous problems caused by income inequality, when we can just get the rubes to resent the poor? Paul Ryan is still pissed we haven't gutted the social safety net, those damn lazy people should just get third and fourth jobs:
https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/paul-ryan-griped-that-trump-didnt-pursue-cuts-to-medicare-and-other-safety-net-programs-since-they-were-too-unpopular/articleshow/91134183.cms
The Republicans have no platform, no actual agenda to change anything. They present no ideas about how to tackle any important civic issue, from crumbling infrastructure to voter suppression to climate change to income inequality to student debt. Nothing.
Medical expenses leading to bankruptcies? They're unaware..
https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-4154729
Low literacy rates? Nothing to see here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=6fe9b3ad4c90
The entirety of their construct is to create social wedge issues and to scare people about them and to try to convince people that, whatever it is, it's the Democrat's fault. Which is a reasonable plan to run elections but not so much on governing when they win. How can you run a government when your campaign has been based on being anti-government, anti-expertise, anti-education?
Is being anti-Critical Race Theory (without knowing what it actually is), womb control, prayer in schools, anti-LGBTQ legislation, repealing the ACA, pro all guns, really any way to move the country forward? Conservatives are doing what they've been doing since the Civil War. Fighting the rich man's wars, sacrificing their children and their lives so that the plantation owners can continue their lives of luxury.
The more things change the more they remain the same. There's still a sucker born every minute.
Not MAGA stuff but hallucinatory just the same. If Ivanka could get 14 Chinese copyrights right after her dad met with Xi https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/?sh=7727a51c1d60,
and if she and Jared could make over $600M during the one term, why bother us with triflings like Hunter Biden's laptop? These is another Hillary email thing, a gigantic nothingburger:
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/jared-and-ivanka-made-up-to-640-million-in-the-white-house/
Return to free speech? Is that a joke? Is free speech advising people to take horse tranquilizers for covid, or is that more like shouting fire in a crowded theater. The rest of the stuff is bullshit loud minority crowd nonsense. Parents love their kids teachers, in general:
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1094782769/parent-poll-school-culture-wars
A loud group of wedge issue politicians are pushing another nothingburger. What in the world are "woke" issues, anyway, just stuff you don't like?
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2022-02-02/education/poll-most-parents-have-high-praise-for-their-childrens-teachers/a77676-1
Bottom line is, what are you so afraid of, anyway?
Exactly! They want to control women's health issues concerning their own bodies! Effin' conservatives, amirite?
Whatever. Unpopular positions like what? Helping Ukraine, gains in employment and wages, re-established leadership of the Western democracies, what?
These days, the country has moved so far to the right that you'd call Eisenhower (under whom the highest income tax rate was 80%) a Progressive Leftist.
No, the defendants aren't running for Congress. But the absolute amoral decrepitude of the Republican Party will be put on public display.
While I have you, what's your group's proposal for fixing our infrastructure? Do you want to privatize the school system? Don't remain a dupe of the 1%, who couldn't care less about you lot.
Maybe a Fox poll, which would surely never be biased, but how about a broad range of polls:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/ohio/
Notice that the more highly rated polls, except for one, have Vance in no better than 2nd place.
Again, an aggregation of polls that includes Fox:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/oh/ohio_senate_republican_primary-7456.html
Cherry pick, much? So, yeah Vance will get elected just in time for Trump's re-instatement along with JFK Jr as his VP.
Yup and just wait a few weeks for the 1/6 hearings to begin on a tv near you. Does the term eating crow resonate with you?
Look to Ohio and see how Vance is doing with Trump's endorsement. Look to Georgia and see how Perdue is polling with Trump's endorsement. The days of your Trump phallic fantasies have ended.
And those who supported him will be seen as the traitors they are. MRGA! (Make Russia Great Again)
I guess so. Now let's see them kick in a little more and some other schools follow suit.
It's obviously a good start by Harvard. But with an endowment estimated at $53B, it might sound better than it actually is:
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-surges-11-3-billion-university-surplus#:~:text=Harvard%20Endowment%20Increases%20%2411.3%20Billion%20to%20%2453.2%20Billion%2C%20and%20University,%24283%2DMillion%20Surplus%20Despite%20Pandemic
it represents 1/5 of 1% of the endowment, change found in an ashtray to them. They will make way more than that this year with the endowment with the most conservative investment. They can get over 2% on longer term Treasury Bills, so this is absolutely painless to Harvard.
This, from today's France24:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220427-israel-launches-deadly-air-strikes-on-ammunition-depot-targets-in-syria
Interestingly, no mention of it at all in either today's NY Times or WaPo.
What makes it important, in my opinion, is that Israel has long hesitated to engage with Syria because Russian troops have been there for a while, in support of Assad:
https://www.reuters.com/world/no-evidence-russia-escalation-syria-amid-ukraine-assault-us-general-2022-03-18/
What this seems to indicate is a wider spread view that the Russian military is not all that. Also, that so many fighters from there, Russian and Syrians both, have been re-deployed to Ukraine, weakening their control elsewhere. Russia is unable to successfully fight on the one front, Ukraine, so their hegemony simultaneously in various other areas appears to be now in doubt.
I hear that many people think the moon is made of green cheese. The fact that there's no evidence of this, that there's significant evidence to the contrary does not matter. The point is simply that many people agree that it is, so we have to take it seriously.
Try listening to yourself, you'll see it's hard to come away not thinking that you, yourself, are a joke. So many do not agree about the election because of all of the Russian trolls trying to sow dissent, mostly on social media, like here.
You have to be a Vlad guy. Do you go along with Rand Paul's recent claim that Ukraine is actually, traditionally, part of the Soviet Union and that, NATO provoked the invasion?
Sen. @RandPaul says to Secretary Blinken: "The U.S., including the Biden Administration, insisted on beating the drums to admit Ukraine to NATO." Paul also says, "There is no justification for the invasion. I'm not saying that, but there are reasons for the invasion..." pic.twitter.com/0GfsFaP7h9
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 26, 2022
I'd love to see Trump run again, it will be the absolute destruction of the modern Republican party. Surely he will be challenged in various primaries and we can imagine the fun that will ensue when he claims that any he loses were rigged or stolen.
Right now in NY State, my Congressman, the Trump lackey Lee Zeldin, of NY CD1, is the presumptive Republican candidate for Governor. Since he voted to not certify Biden's win and was a party to the Texas filing to challenge the results in other states, I've been wondering if he'll concede when he loses.
I've emailed his office a few times to see if he's committed to accept the certified results of the election, but they are apparently too busy to respond.
"Curate" means, basically, to select. They were real (probably?) but the fair and balanced Breitbart only published those that fit their predetermined narrative.
To be fair, Breitbart isn't the only aggregator that works this way but that doesn't make it a less slanted presentation. You can hardly claim, as you did, that it somehow represents a cross section of the general population's feelings.
Maybe file it under, "fake news"?
The battle for the Presidency in this country is about who can attract the most independent voters, as the country is otherwise split between the two parties. Trump appeals to zero independent voters, regardless of how idolized he is by the faithful.
He lost to Hillary by 3M votes and Biden by 7M. Who thinks this is trending in the right direction for him and how can anyone conclude he'll do better next time? As more of the stuff about 1/6 comes out, the NY State investigation into his shady business practices continues, and as NATO strengthens, there's little room for any non-aligned voters to see anything worthwhile in him. The IRS might, however, finally be done with his audit so he could, theoretically, release his tax forms.
If Trump were still in office, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and, possibly Finland, would all be calling Vlad their president. NATO would be in shambles and Putin's army would be invading countries everywhere.
I was very pleased with Macron's victory, LePen is another telegenic fascist who was being bankrolled by Vlad.
They're actually showing a curated selection of tweets posted, as you well know.
Surely you must be joking. When you finally provide a link to something, it's to Breitbart? That's like linking to an article in Pravda about the war in Ukraine and expecting to be taken seriously.
If anyone outside your bubble gives a hoot about who owns Twitter I'd be surprised. Oh boy, Trump will be able to start spreading his stolen election lies and love of Putin to a bigger audience! Can't wait.
In the meantime, getting a life would be a nice hobby for you.
That's it, that's all you got? What it seems like is that you're unquestioningly taking talking points from some media personality and without any research of your own, posting them here as "facts".
It's the old strategy of repeating whatever on message boards and hoping it gets traction. It's sort of obvious, but regardless, read the room, it doesn't appear to be going over so well here.
The thing is, you could probably make your case if you gave it an effort. It's fine to agree to disagree but you're not making the case to be taken seriously.
You know, you're quick with the insults, not so quick with the facts. Let's start here: what part, exactly, does Biden play in the cost of oil and inflation?
And how does this / these compare to the tariffs that the former guy levied, Abbot's screw ups at the border, oil companies cutting production, OPEC being dicks and immigrants not available to work in the fields? Gonna blame the semiconductor supply chain problems on Biden, too? Facts please.
Exactly. The problem in this country is not people voting more than once, it's that people don't vote, period
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2020-presidential-election-voting-and-registration-tables-now-available.html#:~:text=As%20with%20past%20elections%2C%20a,18%20to%2024%20at%2051.4%25..
Which is pretty pathetic and I was also disheartened to see that less than 65% of voters in France turned out for today's election
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-afternoon-election-turnout-down-2-percentage-points-2017-interior-2022-04-24/
Yup, look at Dr Nassar. At least these things have started to come to light, although there's no way for the punishments to fit the crimes.
The Catholic church should have done away with "celibacy" and unmarried only, men only, priests, hundreds of years ago.
In fact, hundreds of years ago various Popes did father children
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes
If the fish truly rots from the head down, these are some effing messages being sent.
Not sure that molesting college men is pedophilia, strictly speaking, as some are no longer minors. It is inexcusable behavior, though, sexual assault, and Jordan enabled it by remaining quiet. He's a disgrace no matter how it's parsed.
Wait, running from a traffic stop does not warrant being shot in the back and executed. I mean the car has license plates and vin#s that can be used to trace the owners, so what the heck.
People might not be in line in Strarbucks, but one we know was executed in bed after a no knock warrant was exercised and one was shot in his own living room watching tv because a cop supposedly thought it was her own apartment. I'm pretty sure neither had guns drawn, nor did Erik Garner, choked to death for selling loose ciggies.
The stats are interesting, I'm not sure how to read them. In 2021, 1141 people were killed by police.
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
Ok, black people make up 13.4% of the US population
https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+black+population+in+us&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS708US709&oq=percentage+of+black+population+in+us&aqs=chrome..69i57.3955j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
And, in 2021, 139 black people were killed by police:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
So, we see that 12% of all police murders were of black people, which is slightly less than their overall percentage of the population. On the other hand, it's more than half the number of white people killed by police, which does seem an unusually large percentage.
Yes, true and good. But these are the most high profile cases, there are so many that go under the radar or get away with no accountability. Use a no-knock warrant and kill someone in bed? No problemo.
Here, check this out:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
So, clearly almost 2X the number of white people were killed than black were, last year. But look at this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+racial+breakdown+of+the+united+states+of+america&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS708US709&oq=racial+profile+of+amer&aqs=chrome.3.0i512j69i57j0i390l2.10006j1j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
About 13% of the population in America is black, but 76% is white. So black people are about 20% of white people but account for 50% of the same amount of killings? Does that not strike you as odd?