You aren't saying something that you shouldn't. Because I recognize the antisemitism in the Pro-Palestine movement too.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
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You aren't saying something that you shouldn't. Because I recognize the antisemitism in the Pro-Palestine movement too.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
The woman who designed the dress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Thanks for the confirmation -MJ Rodriguez was also at the Gala, though she didn't make it to the galleries I saw, even though she has been nominated for an Emmy -so much for the 'Woke' waffle we keep hearing about?Quote:
Originally Posted by blackchubby38
https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/f...-gala-look.jpg
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...eading-actress
So now we know what the basis is for the Texas abortion ban- blame the women.
I assume Miller believes marriage can only be the union of a man and a woman- as defined by him-, and the children the consequence of sexual intercourse -so maybe he should persuade Greg Abbot f the Bible and his legislators, to make it illegal for a man to ejaculate outside of sexual intercourse, to 'level it up' with the women who say no, which as a strategy doesn't work with rapists and grubby uncles.
Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651, in which Reason replaces Faith as the foundation of the State of Government Hobbes argued was preferable to a State of Nature. Here we are, 370 years later, and it seems the propostion has been reversed.
"The legal architect of the Texas abortion ban has argued in a supreme court brief that overturning Roe v Wade, the landmark decision which guarantees a right to abortion in the US, could cause women to practice abstinence from sexual intercourseas a way to “control their reproductive lives”.
“Women can ‘control their reproductive lives’ without access to abortion; they can do so by refraining from sexual intercourse,” Mitchell wrote in the brief. “One can imagine a scenario in which a woman has chosen to engage in unprotected (or insufficiently protected) sexual intercourse on the assumption that an abortion will be available to her later. But when this court announces the overruling of Roe, that individual can simply change their behavior in response to the court’s decision if she no longer wants to take the risk of an unwanted pregnancy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...me-court-brief
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/
Reading about the emerging petrol crises in Britain reminds me of the one I lived through here in the US in 1973 (although caused by an actual 'gas' shortage in the US back then) .
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/w...-shortage.html
I'm so glad that I decided to "kiss my gas goodbye" when I traded in my Cadillac and became the proud owner of an all electric 2020 Nissan Leaf SL Plus . And here in California 95% of our electric is from renewable sources . Admittedly I've got a lot of making up to do after 20 years of driving my Cadillac Eldorado.
I read in a book that at the time someone saw a sticker on the back of a car in the 'Sayuth' which read 'Drive 90, Kill a Yankee'...must have been Texas.Quote:
Originally Posted by sukumvit boy
Democracy on the choppng block...in Texas (again! Why don't they just declare independence and make Trump their President for Life?)
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/plot-again...090047904.html
What is 'Sayuth' I Googled it and still don't understand ? Although the sentiment was certainly common in the South back then in the days before 'political correctness' .Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Yes, 'gerrymandering' just smacks of rigging and corruption. I've intermittently read of moves to ban it over the years but nothing ever seems to change!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
This boorish ass is a shining example of what the new low point in journalism has become.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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....)
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.
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-Quote:
Originally Posted by filghy2
"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...
"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?
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-
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Gf...6a98c03ba0b0ed
https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/234/746/...nd-sticker.png
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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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
LOL, you know more about American politics than most Americans ,including myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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
That's because he doesn't recognize the difference between "long-winded" and "knowledgeable."Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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 .Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Danger
They're such snobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Everyone knows the Romans beat the Nazis at the battle of Hadrians Wall in 1066! :hide-1:
Really? Does that sadden you? I doubt it. What saddens me is Stavros' non-stop cookie-cutter liberal rhetoric. I get over it by verbally smashing him in the mouth now and then. Doesn't matter, he's literally terrified to reply to me, like a little girl. Also, he claims he doesn't read my posts, so I should theoretically be able to say anything to him and it shouldn't bother him. Or you.Quote:
Originally Posted by sukumvit boy
I heard anti-vaxers who had to get the vaccine were trying all sorts of weird remedies to undo any dangerous (read imaginary) side effects from it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Danger
I read if you shower daily, brush your teeth morning and night, and wear deodorant you can avoid most of these severe side effects. Just a rec;
It will please you to learn that I continue to be immune to this virus, Bronco, no matter how far it mutates from its original path of destruction. I truly have the immune system of a god; but I am a benevolent deity so I am now a volunteer at my local hospital, emptying bedpans and generally cleaning up after the handful of Covid patients there for a few hours a week. That will end Dec. 5 when their vaccine mandate goes into effect, but for now, I am using my natural immunity in a positive way, brushing and flossing frequently if not twice daily, showering for effect, and investing $20-30 annually in some of the finest deodorants available on Amazon.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
I offer anyone who is interested to read them, threads and posts which are not about me but the issues I think are important and interesting, and there is no obligation on anyone to reply to them. I have never blocked anyone's posts and yes, I do read them all because I believe in free speech and open debate. It doesn't mean I am obliged to reply to posts, and other than this one, I stopped replying to your posts because there was no point when you rejected the truth about the massacre at Sandy Hook to posture on your own verifiable rubbish heap of lies. If you cannot accept the facts in such an appalling act of violence, what is the point of engaging you in debate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Danger
So yes, say whatever you like, but I would prefer it if you did not make it personal, as I am not the news -and neither are you.
PS, I am not a Liberal, but as an American I doubt you would understand the distinctions in political labels that we make in the UK.
You lost the Sandy Hook debate, Stavros, and you're a bad loser so YOU decided to make it personal. But that's okay, Stavros, I accept your apology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I feel we can start our relationship anew on firmer footing, now that you have seen the utter economic ruin being delivered by the current liberal administration. Thankfully, they got their infrastructure bill passed, so that pretty much means the social spending bill, which would have left this country reeling for decades to come as we struggled to meet the needs of the lazy portion of the population, is dead in the water.
We can move on now. Biden and his team of sucker-punchers have done most of the damage they can do, short of continuing to push citizens in an even more anti-government direction with their incessant Covid politics. The mid-terms are a Republican lock, and no one is going to hand Biden 4 more years in 2024 - he's the boy who cried wolf. It's over. So now, we don't have to be at each other's throats anymore, Stavros, the Democrats have taken less than a year to go full Barney Fife, and I feel certain you're ready to acknowledge that.
Frankly it's a better scenario than I could have imagined short of a Trump win. We get the infrastructure bill, which the Republicans would never have created, then three full years of watching an instantly lame duck Democratic administration flounder around aimlessly. It's going to be Carter-tier comedy gold.
Attachment 1352536
An American woman convicted of Manslaughter in the First Degree because she had a miscarriage -and the claim her drug abuse caused the death opens so many questions without a coherent answer, as these two links suggest, and not just in the US but also in Central America. If drugs are the cause of death, why not tobacco smoke inhaled from someone in the street? And to give a foetus the same rights as a citizen is an absurdity -shoud the foetus have legal counsel in a court case? As to the difference between a person and a human, well an experienced psychologist once confessed 'we don't know how to define a person'...
Depressing reading, but important-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59214544
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ushers-go-free
How does one defend oneself from potential harm in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on a night of protest?
A) Drive 20 miles into the city, armed with a battlefield weapon the law says you cannot own, and shoot as many unarmed people as you can,
or
B) Stay at home.
He never said he was trying to defend himself from harm, he said he was going to protect businesses, which, goddamn shame when a citizen has to take up arms and do what the police won't, but he did. Got off scot-free too and most of sane America is quite happy about that tonight. Does that bother you, Stavros? Even after seeing clearly on surprisingly high-quality video that he was being attacked by 3 people and was obviously defending himself from grave bodily harm? What's wrong with you, are you genuinely delusional or have you trapped yourself into this absurd line of reasoning with your constant echoing of far left media rhetoric?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
I saw the video. He was being attacked by three people. When he shot Rosenbaum, he was being chased by a guy who was looking to harm him. Then he got chased down the street by dozens of people. He shot Huber when Huber attacked him and he shot Grosskreutz who had a gun drawn and who then decided to charge at him after initially surrendering.
I DO think walking around with an AR-15 creates a danger for people, particularly in an already charged situation. I also don't buy that there is any call for him, a shmuck, to protect other peoples' businesses for which he would not have a privilege to use deadly force.
Now about the calibration of force. He was being attacked and I guess when you have a gun drawn the inference is that if you're overtaken your assailant will shoot you. I would not have been where he is doing what he was doing but I have to admit I am not sure he'd have gotten out of there alive without shooting those three. It doesn't please me to say it because I don't think he had any cause to patrol a protest with a weapon like that for reasons that had nothing to do with him.