Thought for the Day

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Originally Posted by 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?

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Not surprised at all that the Demagouge And Malignant Narcissist and Domestic Terrorist Leader Donald Trump is whitewashing what really happened on Wednesday January 6th 2021. And his comments shows that he still bitter about losing the 2020 Presidential Election. The enablers in the US House of Representatives and US Senate aren't going to stand up to him and do what's right,because they are in lockstep with him and believe everything he says,and it will be up to the January 6 Select Committee and the democrats to hold him and his allies accountable for their dangerous and despicable actions.

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And to add insult to injury, the leader of that party has posthumously trashed him, just as he did earlier with John McCain.
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i don't think Trump is dead, so he can't have done anything posthumously, though he might actually be brain dead....the point being that Trump never fails to attack people who are demostrably better than himself, even when the evidence is clear and undeniable -one man from New York City puts on the Uniform, serves his country and achieves the highest rank; the other takes the Uniform off, spends a life in debt with a long list of failing marriages and businesses and illegal relations with foreign governments, and uses these clear examples of failure to tout himself as 'your favourite President' so cruelly denied his second term in the White House. But when will the people who humour so dangerous a man, drop him before he drops them all into a trap from which they cannot escape?

So far, who has been charged with Sedition for their role in the anti-American battle on January 6th? What is Garland waiting for?

Why have the American loonies become so fixated on Australia? Set aside the probability that most of these people could not find Australia on the map, what do they know about Scott Morrison's politics? Or anything else about Australia? Weird.

"Outspoken conservative political commentator Candace Owens has suggested the US military invade Australia in order to free its people “suffering under a totalitarian regime” while drawing comparisons to Hitler, Stalin and the Taliban."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...pressed-people

Maybe Australia should invade Montana to liberate its citizens from a State Government that seems determined to let disease run free-

"Montana, for instance, has seen some of the greatest restrictions, with limits on quarantine and isolation requirements, new control from elected officials over health boards, and a ban on requiring vaccinations in workplaces – even in health systems. The new laws make it harder to isolate or quarantine patients with the flu or measles, and they could contribute to the spread of many vaccine-preventable illnesses.
Montana is now experiencing one of the biggest surges of the pandemic, with the highest rate of new cases and the second-highest rates of hospitalizations and deaths at this time. Health systems across the state have enacted crisis of care standards."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...urbs-on-powers

The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is producing some astonishing permutations of reality, as if there were no empirical evidence that he murdered human beings -the point, resonating with the War on Nouns and Pronouns producing this bizarre decision in Court-

"The three men Kyle Rittenhouse shot during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin can be labeled rioters, looters or arsonists if the teenager's defense team has evidence to support the characterizations — but they shouldn't be called victims, the judge in his murder trial ruled this week."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...trial-n1282466

How about changing the language, thus:

"The three men Kyle Rittenhouse shot during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin can be labeled Americans— but they shouldn't be called victims, the judge in his murder trial ruled this week."

Maybe in these times, all Americans are victims, of stupidity. Or maybe if he runs and is re-elected, Trump will give Rittenhouse the Congressional Medal of Freedom, or a newly invented, 'Patriot Medal'.

'Something is rotten in the State of Wisconsin' if not Denmark.

Two parents disagreeing about the alleged impact of Critical Race Theory in Virginia schools -where it is not taught, though teachers may have had 'training' in it. Interviewed on Fox News by Martha MacCallum said

“Critical race theory sometimes is a little bit of a misnomer because what is happening is there’s sort of a reformed thinking and approach to history that teaches that the country was founded in racism,” the Fox News anchor said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/virgin...ticles&via=rss

Was the US founded in racism? Er, well it was part of the British Empire, but one wonders how many Americans know this. They might also like to look into Cecil Rhodes, whose devotion to the British Empire was not solely about money and trade-he once said-

I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

And, in one of his Wlls (he wrote six in all) he is candid about that former Colony of the British Empire and what he wants his endowed wealth to produce-

"To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity." (My emphasis in bold).
https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Rhodes-Confession.htm

Hmmm..America, Race, Empire....who needs CRT when the facts are as easy to read as well, three letters...C..R..T...

Further to the above post are the reactions to the defeat in the Virginia election for Governor, for while there were intriguing results elsewhere, eg in Boston, the divisions in US society do not just appear to be stark but irreconcilable. For all the waffle the critics have to say about CRT without knowing -or caring- what it is, if Race becomes the defining issue and Race in schools, the US is truly doomed, and another term of Trump will see the States go their separate ways. If Toni Morrison's Beloved is so unacceptable as reading material for schoolchildren, what purpose does education serve? These commentators in the link don't have a lot of positive things to say about Democrats, but this one is perhaps the death knell of the US-

"Democrats’ inability or unwillingness to address race will inevitably prevent them from accurately analyzing why McAuliffe lost, which in turn will lead to faulty strategies during the 2022 midterm elections. The shortsighted commentary has already begun, as some pundits are focusing more on the Democratic Congress’s failure to pass an infrastructure bill.

These explanations are reminiscent of the misguided analysis after the 2016 presidential election – analysis that focused on “white economic anxiety” rather than confronting evidence of white racial anxiety. If Democrats remain in denial about what they’re up against, and if they do not find a way to deal with the oncoming wave of CRT campaigning, they are guaranteed to lose their majorities in both chambers of Congress."
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ean-biden-2022

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Originally Posted by Stavros

Further to the above post are the reactions to the defeat in the Virginia election for Governor, for while there were intriguing results elsewhere, eg in Boston, the divisions in US society do not just appear to be stark but irreconcilable. For all the waffle the critics have to say about CRT without knowing -or caring- what it is, if Race becomes the defining issue and Race in schools, the US is truly doomed, and another term of Trump will see the States go their separate ways. If Toni Morrison's Beloved is so unacceptable as reading material for schoolchildren, what purpose does education serve? These commentators in the link don't have a lot of positive things to say about Democrats, but this one is perhaps the death knell of the US-

"Democrats’ inability or unwillingness to address race will inevitably prevent them from accurately analyzing why McAuliffe lost, which in turn will lead to faulty strategies during the 2022 midterm elections. The shortsighted commentary has already begun, as some pundits are focusing more on the Democratic Congress’s failure to pass an infrastructure bill.

These explanations are reminiscent of the misguided analysis after the 2016 presidential election – analysis that focused on “white economic anxiety” rather than confronting evidence of white racial anxiety. If Democrats remain in denial about what they’re up against, and if they do not find a way to deal with the oncoming wave of CRT campaigning, they are guaranteed to lose their majorities in both chambers of Congress."
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ean-biden-2022

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LOL, you know more about American politics than most Americans ,including myself.

You flatter me, Sukumvit Boy. This I find more depressing given that education cynics here complain students leave school knowing only the fate of Henry VIII and his six wives, and the Nazis...

"Just over half of Britons did not know that 6 million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust, and less than a quarter thought that 2 million or fewer were killed, a new survey has found.

The study also found that 67% of UK respondents wrongly believed that the government allowed all or some Jewish immigration, when in fact the British government shut the door to Jewish immigration at the outbreak of the war.
When respondents were asked about the Kindertransport, an initiative set up between 1938 and 1939 to rescue nearly 10,000 Jewish child refugees and bring them to Britain, 76% said they did not know what the historic effort was."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...d-in-holocaust

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Originally Posted by Stavros

You flatter me, Sukumvit Boy.

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That's because he doesn't recognize the difference between "long-winded" and "knowledgeable."

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Originally Posted by Nick Danger

That's because he doesn't recognize the difference between "long-winded" and "knowledgeable."

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I find it sad that some posters find it so difficult to be kind and generous instead of always just be looking for an argument .