Thought for the Day

[sukumvit boy]

So, today, a question for the Americans here-

Are you a Legacy American, or are you an Obedient Immigrant?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...emacy-1231248/

This boorish ass is a shining example of what the new low point in journalism has become.

[Stavros]

"Donald Trump’s former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday evoked a dystopian future when he called for “shock troops” to quickly “deconstruct” the state as soon as a Republican takes the Oval Office again."
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/steve-bann...005257088.html

-Why 'shock troops' rather than Storm Troopers or Black Shirts?

When are these people going to be arrested for sedition? And has Mikhail Fridman been given his US Citizenship yet? (His Alfa Bank part-funded Trump's 2016 campaign in violation of the law...and....)

[filghy2]

Sounds like Marx and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Not surprisingly, Bannon has been quoted in the past as being an admirer of Lenin's methods.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...e-steve-bannon

It's disconcerting that after more than 8 months there is so little sign of any moves to prosecute Trump or his acolytes. It's as if Biden and Merrick Garland believe that if they keep playing by the old gentlemanly rules everything will go back to normal.

[Stavros]

It's disconcerting that after more than 8 months there is so little sign of any moves to prosecute Trump or his acolytes. It's as if Biden and Merrick Garland believe that if they keep playing by the old gentlemanly rules everything will go back to normal.

Bannon is known to admire Mussolini and the slogan 'Drain the Swamp' which originated with the Italian fool. The danger in all this is that the Gentlemen you refer to, have no practical way of preventing the US from breaking apart, which, according to the University of Virginia survey, is what most Republicans -and some Democrats- want-

"The results show a country at ideological war with itself: More than half of the surveyed Trump voters - approximately 52% - said the "situation is such that I would favor [Blue/Red] states seceding from the union to form their own separate country." Approximately 41% of Biden-voting respondents answered similarly."
https://news.yahoo.com/majority-trum...XWSdUNKujCN9qa

The battles ended, but the Confederate War Against the US never did, they just changed tactics. Thus the Black men who were elected to the Georgia House in the era of Reconsruction, had been sent back to the 'plantation' by the end of the century. As Trump manipulates his childish rage at losing an election into a sectarian battle that theatens to take the US down with it to defeat, the prospect for the US as 'one and indivisible Republic' now looks more uncertain than at any time since 1861 -and too many people don't care for the once unthinkable to happen...

[Stavros]

"Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as a "day of protesting" and said the "real insurrection" happened on November 3, the day of the 2020 election."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-...mments-1636196

Is it possible for the American people in their millions to have participated in an insurrection -by votintg? If ever there was a Dictator expaining his claim to power, is this not it?

From a man, hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, who has referred to Americans as 'they're total scum, they are human scum'.

When is someone in authority going to put a stop to this?

[Stavros]

I know we have dafties in the UK, but when Americans go daft, they do it better than most others...

A Republican state legislative candidate in Virginia is being mocked on Twitter for suggesting an unscientific potential solution to rising sea levels.
“I’m curious, do you think the sea level would lower, if we just took all the boats out of the water? Just a thought, not a statement," said Scott Pio, as he shared an image of the Pacific Ocean swarming with thousands of icons seemingly representing boats. The tweet has since been deleted.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climat...-b1937355.html

The science, if you can handle it, is here-
https://what-if.xkcd.com/33/

Then this, today- Eminent Lawyer Lin Wood attaking Marjorie Taylor Greene-

[Stavros]

So the Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina is in trouble. I think his trouble is with reality, if we can agree that Homosexuals, and Transgendered people are real (oh, and American). Maybe he should swap his words so they read like this:

“There is no reason anybody, anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality or any of that filth,” Robinson said.

“There is no reason anybody, anywhere in America should be telling any child about Reality or any of that filth,” Robinson said.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/0...gn-lgbt-filth/

What did Trump say of the American people? 'They're total scum, they are human scum'.

[filghy2]

Colin Powell recently become perhaps the highest-profile death from Covid-19 (unless there is somebody else I've missed).

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this man was doubly-screwed by the party he once served.

First, he lost his good reputation because he was forced to make the case for an invasion that he did not believe in.

Second, he lost his life to a virus whose spread has been enabled by his former party's cynical extremism.

And to add insult to injury, the leader of that party has posthumously trashed him, just as he did earlier with John McCain. https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...the-end-516280

It's hard to believe that Powell was touted as a possible Republican presidential candidate in the late 1990s. I guess he realised that the party membership would not have been willing to embrace someone like him.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/1...rations-516364. Not surprised at all that the Democrat In Name Only Krysten Sinema is opposed to raising the corporate tax rate,which is one of the ways to pay for the reconciliation bill,because she doesn't want to piss off her corporate donors and republican friends. And her constituents are feeling betrayed and fundraising money to find a candidate to primary her. Krysten Sinema is an attention seeker and obstructionist who would rather protect millionaires,billionaires and corporations,instead of working for the people who get her elected into office. IMO i don't think she will win reelection in 2024.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/presi...tage/38017085#. I am looking forward to seeing how President Joe Biden answers the following questions about why he and his democratic colleagues haven't passed the Freedom To Vote and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Acts,and why they backing away from the promises that they ran on like expanding medicare,free community college,climate change and raising the corporate tax rate. And eliminating the filibuster.