They do that intentionally to create explosive sound bytes for Fox News and similar outlets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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They do that intentionally to create explosive sound bytes for Fox News and similar outlets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Completely Agree 1000%. That is exactly what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
To continue show loyalty to their twice impeached,four times indicted convicted felon and disgraced leader Donald Trump aka the whining bitch. Completely agree it is a pathetic clown show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Poor Hunter! Was he prosecuted because he lied when filling out a form, or because he is the President's son? Is he being condemned because at the time he had a drug problem? Should someone have intervened to stop him buying a gun before it happened?
As for the trial -this one is a vindication of the justice system, that other one proof the US is a 'banana republic', etc etc.
As for the Uvalde shooter....
CNN calls out Fox News’s very different reactions to Hunter Biden and Trump guilty verdicts (yahoo.com)
Documents show red flags about the Uvalde shooter went unreported (cbsaustin.com)
The one term,twice impeached,four times indicted convicted felon,domestic terrorist leader,fraudster and grifter in chief Donald Trump claims he can't be a racist because he has many black friends,we all know that's bullshit. Here is what Donald Trump said about African Americans over the last 35 years: Took out an ad in the New York Times calling for the death penalty of the Central Park Five,and when the CP 5 were cleared of charges,he didn't even apologized and still thought they were guilty,made false claims that former president Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States,calling african american athletes sons of bitches and referred to predominately african countries as shitholes. And other despicable and disgusting comments he has made about African Americans. And Donald Trump can claim all he wants he's not a racist,but he comments says he is a orange racist pile of shit. And also members of MAGA Party welcomed him with open arms and fully embraced him,when he returned to Capitol Hill yesterday to meet with them.
More arcane sophistry from the Supreme Court decision on Mifepristone-
"A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday swatted away the current challenge to mifepristone access without reaching the merits of the case. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the court’s conservative wing, wrote that the anti-abortion doctors and groups that sued over the drug didn’t have standing because they were not injured by its use"
But this is just as interesting, from the Circuit Judge-
"Earlier this month, Kacsmaryk blocked the Biden administration from enforcing in four states a federal rule that requires people who sell firearms online and at gun shows to conduct background checks on their potential customers."
Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling puts new focus on conservative Trump judge in Texas (yahoo.com)
America, mad about guns, and basically, mad. Will it ever change? Don't think so.
Trump's Permanent Revolution: always go backwards.
Abortion, IVF, Contraception, 'TransgenderISM'. Same-Sex Marriage, and now
Divorce...
"They’ve come after abortion. They’ve come after birth control. They’ve come after IVF. Now it looks suspiciously like far-right Republicans might have a new target: no-fault divorce. If a certain subsection of Republicans get their way, obtaining a divorce in the US might soon become a lot more difficult."
Far-right Republicans’ latest target? No-fault divorce | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
So the 'Ten Commandments' might have originated as 'God's' rules for the Jewish people, but now they are part of the Foundation of the United States, and therefore must be displayed in schools in Louisiana. Not sure which version they are using, presumably the one that is translated as 'You Shall Not Murder', rather than 'Thou Shalt Not Kill', a get out clause for all those State and Federal bodies that despatch Death Row inmates to Kingdom Come. The historical argument is rubbish, but I guess if this is what the Republicans in swampy Louisiana believe, facts are not going to get in the way of their tyrannical imposition of religion on the State's children.
Louisiana's public classrooms now have to display the Ten Commandments | AP News
"If you want to respect the rule of law, you've to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses" (see previous post).
I thought God was the lawgiver, Moses was merely showin' folks what God done writ on stone tablets. It also begs the question, if the Old Testament is to be the source of law in the USA, or Louisiana, does the rest of the Old Testament also become the source of law -on incest (permitted), on male masturbation (ejaculation forbidden), on adultery (stone 'em to death)-- ?
Something tells me the Guvnor ain't all there, mentally. Storms a coming. Focus on what matters.
So what happens if someone BREAKS a Commandment? And should this Foundation of the United States not also inform the American system of Law, and PUNISH people who BREAK the Commandments?
For example, if a man commits ADULTERY, should he go to prison? Should he be stoned to death?
What if he FRAUDENTLY acquires another man's property, for example, by FALSIFYING business records?
The man who trumpets the TTC! loudly may be careful what he wishes for. Though from what we have seen so far, there might always be an exception to the rules, like, for the man sent by GOD to cleanse the country?
So they are going to transform the US with the Ten Commandments and a major reversal of 1960s 'Liberalism', to put GOD and the TEN COMMANDMENTS back into everyday life. Thus
"Josh Hawley, a Republican senator for Missouri, warned of a “radical anti-faith agenda” gripping the country. He said: “Who’s dividing America is the radical left and that’s why I say to you we don’t need less Christian influence in our society, we don’t need less Christian witness in our society; we need more in every part of government, in every part of society.”
To approving roars from the audience, Hawley added: “We ought to take the Pride flag out of schools and put the Bible back in. You know what? We ought to take the trans flag down from all of our federal buildings and over every federal building in America write the words, ‘In God we trust’. In God we trust. Amen.”"
In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president | Donald Trump | The Guardian
But what does this mean in terms of the law? If there is to be a Nationwide ban on Abortion, on IVF, on Contraception -and for men as well as women- then what happens with regard to the Commandment not to Commit Adultery? Surely the logic of this 'Christian' politics demands that Adultery be illegal. Then comes the obvious question: the Punishment. So how about the Punishment of Adulterers in Plymouth Colony. Scarlet Letter anyone?
"Plymouth Colony never attempted to put anyone to death for adultery, although Mayflower passenger William Latham's wife Mary was hanged for adultery in the neighboring Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1644. In Plymouth Colony in 1639, Mrs. Mary Mendame of Duxbury was convicted of "uncleanness" with an Indian named Tinsin, and was sentenced to be whipped at a cart's-tail through the town streets and to wear an AD badge: which, if she was found without, would be branded onto her forehead. In 1641, an adulterous affair between singleman Thomas Bray and Mrs. Anne Linceford was discovered, and both parties were sentenced to public whipping at the post, and to wear the AD badge on their clothing. In 1658 the law was finally rewritten to formalize how it had been administered previously: it defined the punishment for adultery as two severe whippings, once right after conviction and once at a second time to be determined by the magistrates; and the individual would have to wear the letters AD "cut out in cloth and sowed on their uppermost garment on their arm or back." If at any time they were found without the mark within the jurisdiction of the Colony, they would be publicly whipped."
Crime — MayflowerHistory.com
DJT, watch and learn, for righteous fury is comin' your way.
What if the Panama Canal runs out of water, and ships can't get through? It helps transport 6% of global maritime trade worth $3.34 billion a year -but would even a temporary closure cause havoc on the markets and raise prices domestically, in the US and elsewhere?
Panama Canal agency warns water shortage "is not over" (yahoo.com)
If the Democratic Party thought the President Joe Biden wasn't up too the task of serving a second term?,than they should have started the process of looking for a replacement a year ago,someone who they think that can defeat Donald Trump in a general election. It is way too late for President Joe Biden to step aside and end his campaign for reelection,and go through the process of naming a new nominee. One bad performance in a 90 minute debate,doesn't erase all of the great work him and his administration has done over the last 3 1/2 years. The so-called political pundits and strategists needs to stop panicking and support their guy.
I wanted to say that I got it wrong with respect to Biden's mental state. I didn't post it here but I'll be honest. I've often heard him speak and thought he did not sound good, but then would see him bounce back with a relatively clear and good performance.
Maybe there's some willful blindness, but there is also the issue of exponential decline at a certain age. What that age is might vary, from person to person, but it frequently occurs between the ages of 80 and 90. Someone who is suffering cognitive decline might be just as sharp on some days, and then start to have more bad days. Then at a point, they are never able to muster the energy and focus to perform at their best. It is this last progression that surprises people. From good days and bad to mostly all not so great.
You weren't the only one. There were times when I thought that Biden looked and sounded fine. But there were other times I thought he would be lucky if he was going to make it to end of his first term in office.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
Where I really started to get concerned was when he traveled to Europe one time (I think it was when he went to meet with President Zelensky) and his wife went out of her way to talk about how Joe was fit enough to make the trip. Almost to point where she way saying she would like to see a younger person do the same thing.
I like Joe Biden as a person, regardless of politics. I could feel how distraught he was when his son, Beau, died of brain cancer. I like that he challenged hedge fund manager and grade A asshole (I repeat myself) Bill Ackman to a fight when he thought Ackman had insulted his son's memory. I can also see his pain and empathy for Hunter, whose adult life has been riddled with difficulties, most notably addiction problems.
I feel bad that he is not going to be running for a second time because I think he has an intrinsic likeability. But I acknowledge that he is not the most likely person to win, and seems to have more difficulty expressing himself clearly than someone running for office should.
In a different thread I think filghy may have mentioned cult like behavior and I have to say I was surprised to see it among my friends who are supporters of Biden. Initially I was not sure whether his bad performance would blow over or whether he had another gear. As I saw testimonials come in, particularly George Clooney's op-ed, I started to think that what I saw was something people close to him have seen and knew would be a continuing problem. The reason the Biden fans' behavior seemed cult-like is that as new people stepped forward to say he should stand down, their response was always the same. Either the person recommending he step down, a person with no history of corruption, has been corrupted and moved to the dark side. Or this person has been duped by a well orchestrated media campaign to sabotage Biden because Trump will sell more newspapers. Every single time it was, "I used to respect her", or " I'm done with him now" or "I always knew he was trash (but never said it)". And these were mostly people who had long records of public service, clean records with respect to ethics.
It was sad to see. They are not convinced even now.
Biden standing down actually helps them because we won't see the counterfactual. If Harris loses they'll say that Biden would have won if he wasn't undermined by the media and disloyal Democrats. If she does win they'll say it was due to Biden and he would have won anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
I don’t often go to Biergarten when I am here, but I was taken to one by a friend. An American I met there said the US is too sexist country to vote for Kamala Harris. I don’t know if this is true, and I would like to think Trump, as usual substituting reason for crude insults has demeaned himself in her favour with that three letter word, but the other insults - ‘DEI hire’ for example-keep coming, and will be added to as the weeks go on.
Yes, Harris has to do more to convince people she is the right one, but is the campaign now going to be about policy, or whether or not the US is ready for a female President?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-electionction
This is weird - a conference in which Americans are urged to 'vote Biblically', with multiple references to the Old Testament, which I honestly believe is sort of Jewish, then this, from the 'Evangelists'--
"After Wallnau spoke, Bill Federer, an evangelist who has written more than thirty books weighing in on US history from an anti-communist and rightwing perspective, offered a brief and often intensely inaccurate, intellectual history of the US and Europe. During his talk, Federer dropped references to the villains of his historiography – among them Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, the German philosopher Hegel and, “a little closer to home”, the political theorist of the New Left, Saul Alinsky. The crowd, apparently already versed in Federer’s intellectual universe, groaned and booed when Federer mentioned Alinsky.
Federer also railed on “globalists”, tapping into the longstanding antisemitic idea of a shadowy cabal led by wealthy Jewish people who dictate world events.
“Globalists,” Federer said, “are giving money to LGBTQ activists to get involved with politics.”"
‘We have to be voting biblically’: the Courage Tour rallies Christians to get Trump in office (yahoo.com)
Note: Saul Alinksy was a political organizer, not a political theorist. As for Hegel being a villain of history- I guess one wonders if Federer even knows who he is. Maybe its a form of word tennis?
The Telegraph offers this explanation for the ugly scenes in the UK following the murder of young girls in a dance class. The confrontations were sparked, in part if not whole, by the allegation the murderer was a Muslim, when in fact he is Christian, and also born here not an immigrant. The damage has been done. Behind this, according to the article, is a possibly autonomous Russian website which nevertheless seems to be part of Putin's 'information war' with the Democratic west. The aim is simple: create chaos or disorder to undermine public faith in politics, to use an open society against itself.
People believe what they want to believe, facts be damned. But in the end, with that tactic, we are all damned.
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain’s streets (yahoo.com)
One of the curious features of the confrontations between the police and various rioters, some of whom are local Muslims afraid the Nationalists and Racists are going to attack their mosques, others who target hotels being used by asylum seekers, is that we don't really know who is sending the messages such as "‘Nottingham rising, we’ll be here at 3pm on Saturday’" (see Guardian link).
Telegram appears to be the primary vehicle for the people who both create, and respond to posts that either allege crimes or identify dates and locations of demonstrations. In the case of the 17-year old who murdered girls in a dance class, the original post identifying him as a Muslim who arrived as an illegal immigrant on a boat across the English Channel has been deleted or lost, but was promoted by Andrew Tate which in turn was the source of the provocative post by Nigel Farage who claimed to be asking an honest question when asking if the Police knew more than they were telling the public.
This toxic environment can be debated in terms of algorithms and some of the people involved, like Farage and Tate -the latter has said 'Thank you' to Putin for ending Covid (!)- but as The Conversation article argues, it is harder to censor content that on most platforms has, or was banned before Musk and X decided that Hate Speech is Free Speech.
Why Telegram is the go-to app for those wanting to spread toxic information | Apps | The Guardian
Farage cites Andrew Tate as source of questions about alleged Southport attacker (yahoo.com)
Who is Andrew Tate? The self-proclaimed misogynist influencer - BBC News
Andrew Tate bizarrely claims Covid ‘went away after Ukraine invasion’ | News | Independent TV
Riots in the UK: online propagandists know how to work their audiences – this is what we are missing (theconversation.com)
An overview of Right Wing groups and individuals in the Uk
The EDL, actors and conspiracy theorists – a guide to the British far right | Far right | The Guardian
Farage blames Andrew Tate, Tate turns on Nigel Farage, a standard example of why the extreme right has never been able to hold together for more than a few years before egos clash and they go their separate ways, why UKIP more or less fell apart when Farage abandoned it, ditto the Brexit Party, and Reform UK will probably not last longer than this Parliament. Tate enjoys being provocative, I suspect it is his only reason to exist, and I doubt he cares much about the consequences, these people rarely do.
Andrew Tate slams Nigel Farage "for throwing me under the bus" and blaming riots on him
More on the sources of the fake news that sparked off the riots in the UK-
The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots - BBC News
Ann Coulter has fabulous hair, and an equally fabulous view of American history and the peoples who have lived there, and continue to do so, willingly or not.
Her latest invention followed Tucker Carlson with his 'Legacy Americans' with the view that Kamala Harris is not a 'Foundational Black' American. She goes on to argue that while 'Foundational Black' Americans were/are (?) entitled to Civil Rights laws, nobody else is, or something like that. So I guess if you are an immigrant from Nigeria or Kenya, you also can't be a 'Foundational Black'? Merely Black, and if you were never part of Slavery, then Civil Rights ain't for you?
I know she isn't the brightest pundit on the circuit, but it is almost fascinating to see Americans like her and Carlson in effect demeaning, indeed, disqualifying other Americans from the same rights they have because they don't meet some invented criteria, like Legacy, and Foundational.
Is Stupid American, or Ignorant American an invented concept, words too far?
Ann Coulter attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity as not ‘foundational Black’ | The Independent
(and note she tells Vivek Ramaswamy she won't vote for him because he is Indian...!)
Robert F Kennedy, the man whose voice gives gravel the texture of semen, has, he claims 'suspended' his campaign to be the next President of the USA -only he hasn't. This contradiction -he has withdrawn his name where he can from mostly Republican-leaning States, but remains on the ballot where he is too late to withdraw or the State leans Democrat- suggests Mr Kennedy has a slim grasp of facts. But given his denial that more than 200 years of immunology has been a major advance in public health, or is even part of some global conspiracy to do who knows what, society can at least sigh that this Grade A cretin was ever on any Ballot, anywhere. That such a man would then endorse a convicted criminal as President sums up the astonishing fact that crime, lies and contempt for the rule of law have become normalized.
RFK Jr ‘suspends’ presidential campaign and endorses Trump as he rails against ‘rigged’ system (yahoo.com)
One batshit crazy delusional old weirdo and shill endorseing another. Not surprising at all to see why Robert F. Kennedy is the black sheep of his family. And why his family distanced themselves from him and endorsed Joe Biden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
When Marriage Equalty (“gay marriage”) was being debated in the US, there were right wing voices saying “how will I explain this to my children? When my kids see two men kissing, how do I explain that?”
Well I would like to know, how will right wingers explain to their children that they voted for a sex offender to be president? How will they explain to their children that they voted for a convicted felon to be president? (I can guess: “Donald Trump dindu nuffin”)
So he has moved on from interviewing an indicted mass murderer, to so-called 'Historian' Darryl Cooper, who saidQuote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
"Cooper, after acknowledging this doesn’t mean he believes Hitler was WW2’s “protagonist”, went on to explain how the Nazis “launched a war they were completely unprepared to deal with”."
Tucker Carlson accused of airing ‘pro-Nazi propaganda’ on show – as Elon Musk promotes it as ‘worth watching’ | The Independent
It beggars belief that anyone could claim to be a historian and make say such verifiable rubbish, but then evidence is like the truth, not longer relevant to whatever agenda Cooper has. Carlson's agenda is to make Trump America's eternal leader, and so it appears that Elon Musk supports this neo-Nazi garbage too, though he might have deleted the post he made, as if that mattered.
Perhaps the worst aspect of this is that most Americans, and most of the media, just don't care. If people want to defend Hitler and denounce Churchill, that's free speech, innit?
How to stop a 14 year old with a gun- give more 14 year olds guns -?
As a person with African roots, I find the ironies and hypocrisies here to be absolutely hilarious! :D
-"Colored People" is offensive yet...
--"People of Color" is just fine...
--"NAACP" is just fine...
--"Black People" is just fine as well (even though none of us have Black skin)...
It may be a characteristic of Trump that, having escaped another assassination attempt, he begs for money. But what underlines this is the extent to which gun violence has become a normal part of American life. I don't know when it became normalized, I suspect a long time ago, but I don't think we need speculate that this aspect of American life is not going to go away, decline or more importantly, be addressed as a political issue that has or even needs a solution, when the obvious solution is to either Repeal the 2nd Amendment, or amend it to establish a clearer meaning, if anyone can think of one.
Does the 2nd Amendment give one American the right to purchase a firearm in order to kill another? I don't think so.
But it might also be a step forward if politicians and their supporters did not use the rhetoric of violence to campaign for what they think will be a better America. I don't know how the use of words like 'bloodbath', 'retribution' or 'Stalingrad every day' is supposed to calm nerves, but when Harris and Walz say Americans should focus on what unites rather than divides them, I do feel that dolphin has sunk beneath the waves, and is unlikely to re-surface soon. Elon Musk, speculating on why there has not -we assume- been an assassination attempt on Kamala Harris will be criticized by some, but the views he holds don't inspire confidence that the 'concept' of political assassination is totally unacceptable. Just as the attempt to normalize the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6 2021 deepens the anxieties some people have about the future of the USA. If it has one.
This is a longer read than most, and an important one too, I think, as far as Transgender politics and policy goes. If I have one criticism, it is that the cases referred to are all of young people who have benefited from early stage advice and therapy, while I know that there is an argument that such treatment ought not to take place before the individual is at least 16 or even 18. The cases here suggest early onset treatment is positive, but does not offer any reporting of cases where it was not just a failure, but damaging, possibly even fatally so. It may be that as far as is known, most cases of treatment are positive, but I doubt all of them are. This remains a sensitive and difficult issue to analyse in depth.
The article moves beyond young people to refer to LGBTQ+ in general.
That said, the position of Trump, his party and Project 2025 appears to be that every US citizen is equal before the law, but not if they are transgendered. At this most basic level, it shows how fragile democracy and the rule of law is in the US, and that by extension this is also true of other Liberal Democracies.
If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian
Goodbye World, Hello Nowhere
Have those who think human beings should become a 'Multi-Planetary' species given up trying to solve the problems we have here, on this humble Planet Earth that Carl Sagan once called 'a quiet place in the Universe'?
Elon Musk wants people to live on Mars, and so does a minor English geek, Brian Cox. Here he is, echoing the hopeless drivel of the X-Man
"There are limited resources on the Earth and damage is being done to the planet through “civilisation’s thirst and requirement for more resources”, says Prof Cox, making it imperative we look towards becoming a multi-planetary civilisation."
'Human race needs to expand beyond Earth,' says Prof Brian Cox - BBC News
Cox once made an expensive programme about what it would be like to live on Mars, when all he needed to do was spend a weekend in the Atacama Desert in Chile with just a backpack and bottle of water to decide which he prefers- the comforts of home or the misery of nowhere.
In just one week Israel has made a million people homeless in Lebanon, with more to come, to add to those made homeless in Gaza, the Ukraine -and even, for the time being, in Georgia, USA as a consequence of Hurricane Helene. In the US I expect practical solutions will over time re-house and re-build, while Elon Musk and Brian Cox look on in despair, and decide 'enough is enough', and because they cannot cope with, or can't be bothered with practical solutions to housing, food prices, and extreme weather events want to live on Mars, where the housing is a prison because you can't go outside and breathe the air; where the food is synthetic mush from cans and sachets unless they find a way to grow potatoes in a tent; and where extreme weather events happen every day, sometimes all day for months if not years on end.
When men with an interest in science and technology abandon practical solutions to the problems caused by Capitalism, one wonders what their intellect is made of. There is no need for scarcity in today's world, we have plenty, it is the age old factors of greed and profiteering that prevent the people who marshal our resources having their fair share of its products.
I can understand the fetish for space travel, but it is no solution to dealing with real issues here and now, and doing so to improve life over the long term. Mars is not a solution, living, in effect in Nowhere is despair where none is needed.
And why go to Mars if there ain't an opera house there?
The twice impeached four times indicted convicted felon Donald Trump said the following disgusting comment,at that so-called townhall he had on the propaganda channel: Any black or latino who votes for Kamala Harris should have their head examined. Anybody who supports and voted for an Orange Rambling Malignant Narcissistic Thinskinned Petulant Child like Donald Trump,who constantly talks shit about the United States of America,and cozying up to dictators like Vladimir Putin,Victor Orban,Kim Jung Un and Xi Xinjiang Ping. And made derogatory and dehumanizing comments about the Arab,Asian,Black,Haitian,Hispanic,Jewish,Muslim and LGBTQ Communities should really have their heads examined. And Donald Trump comments continue to show how unfit,unhinged,mentally unstable and unqualified he is to be president of the united states,and should be disqualified from holding public office.
Just as bad as Biden saying "If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black’"Quote:
Originally Posted by KnightHawk 2.0
As a Black man, to me, BOTH COMMENTS piss me the heck off......Who the fuck are they to judge my Blackness!
But it's okay for you to judge others' Blackness?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrFanti
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Originally Posted by MrFanti
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein who hasn't been heard from in eight years popped back up recently,and can't be taking serious as a third party candidate. And the only reason she decided to run again,is to play spoiler in this year's election. A vote for Jill Stein,is a vote for the Convicted Felon Donald Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYs40bctmPs
I'm for ANY voter that thinks outside of the brainwashing that makes them believe there are only two parties, Republican and Democrat.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnightHawk 2.0