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- Mon Mar 31, 2025 5:57 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Wow, just wow
- Replies: 135
- Views: 267083
Re: Wow, just wow
This is the only country on earth with more guns than people; "undoing" is about the one thing you can absolutely count on us for.
There probably won't be a "USA" on the other side, but no dictatorship will ever meaningfully last on this particular square of dirt.
And Biden Et al told us there ...
- Fri Feb 07, 2025 10:31 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: file suit to get court to suspend all tax filing until Musk access and possible damage is undone
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7239
file suit to get court to suspend all tax filing until Musk access and possible damage is undone
Just what it says.
It seems reasonable to fear Musk has opened up one or more federal data systems with citizens data making it no longer safe to use those systems.
It is likely he has no constitutional authority even if the President told him to do it.
So I'm thinking getting a judge to support ...
It seems reasonable to fear Musk has opened up one or more federal data systems with citizens data making it no longer safe to use those systems.
It is likely he has no constitutional authority even if the President told him to do it.
So I'm thinking getting a judge to support ...
- Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Are we next...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17705
Re: Are we next...
As a kid standing in the grocery store checkout line I would see the National Enquirer magazine and wonder ‘Who is the audience for this crap?’
I currently have the same thoughts when I see a bit of the discussion on The View.
But in this thread I see the answer is, they do exist, albeit in limited ...
I currently have the same thoughts when I see a bit of the discussion on The View.
But in this thread I see the answer is, they do exist, albeit in limited ...
- Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
She would have empowered the remnants of the ‘far-too-woke-for-anyone’s-good’ that are apparently already being sent to the back of the bus by direction of the smarter members of their own party.
I think I would sprain something if my eyes rolled even harder. What does this even mean? Chuck ...
- Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
It doesn't help that the Dems are either dumb as rocks or else don't give a rat's ass about the constituents they supposedly were elected by. :shock:
https://newrepublic.com/post/188693/15-democrats-give-trump-powers
While significantly lower than the 52 members who joined in last week’s vote ...
- Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
I understand inflation and interest rates aren’t really in a Presidents tool box but you would think they could have looked at polling and seen border and crime and economy should have been addressed every time she had a chance to talk. Instead she hid out in the locker room during the 2nd and ...
- Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
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None of that has anything to do with "They tried to lean on identity politics and fringe social issues."
From what I can tell her campaign (really Biden's campaign) attempted to be as widely acceptable as possible. From Liz ★■◆●ing Cheney to antifa. This translates to bland, inoffensive, at ...
None of that has anything to do with "They tried to lean on identity politics and fringe social issues."
From what I can tell her campaign (really Biden's campaign) attempted to be as widely acceptable as possible. From Liz ★■◆●ing Cheney to antifa. This translates to bland, inoffensive, at ...
- Thu Nov 21, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
I voted for Jill Stien.
So my vote was slightly less worthless than yours. You gave an invitation to the asshats in charge to comeback and screw you over again next time.
I told them I won’t volunteer to be a player in their game and seek to start a new set of rules for the next game instead ...
So my vote was slightly less worthless than yours. You gave an invitation to the asshats in charge to comeback and screw you over again next time.
I told them I won’t volunteer to be a player in their game and seek to start a new set of rules for the next game instead ...
- Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
They tried to lean on identity politics and fringe social issues that have insignificant importance to the 150 million or so voters in the country.
This is like the opposite of what happened.
I watched Harris and Trump a lot on every media source I could find and the subject matter was very ...
- Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
Democrats have frequently promised to do things and then actually done them. Most of the time they come up short is when they invariably try to work across the aisle with Republicans in the name of bipartisanship and end up passing some half-ass measure filled with conservative poison pills ...
- Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
truly both parties are guilty of the wealth and power being transitioned upwards.
When was the last time Republicans proposed to raise taxes on the rich, or to provide some meaningful benefit/support/service to the poor? Raise minimum wages? Or really anything to attempt to rein in instead ...
- Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
Statutory rape Spidey. Do you have a daughter?
The heads of the hydra aren't really the problem Will. It's the rich overlords who have their puppet-controlling hands up it's ass directing it's heads.
That was my point actually. As long as you pick one of two they can deal with they are happy ...
- Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
I'm guessing it'll be someone who doesn't mind male leaders who have have sex with underage girls, which is statutory rape in most jurisdictions, or have an illegal drug habit, or both.
That’s better…staying line behind the hydra. Following the assigned role. You will be allowed to continue ...
- Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
Best case is some ghoul who makes mendacious, bad faith arguments about liberty and responsibility in an effort to expand corruption and accelerate the distribution of wealth upwards. Worst case is some ghoul who makes mendacious, bad faith arguments about how our blood is being poisoned by dark ...
- Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
- Replies: 33
- Views: 26214
The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
Anyone know who the President pro tempore of the Senate will be after inauguration?
- Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: No More
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14168
Re: No More
I like that this initiative allows putting lobbyists to death but delicately redefines "cause" to deal with intransigent Supreme Court Justices.
I didn’t even suggest touching the court, as I alluded, the problem with the court is garbage in garbage out. Make the legislature actually read the ...
- Wed Jul 10, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: No More
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14168
Re: No More
Question. What about lifetime appointed government positions like the judges in SCOTUS? How do you flush those turds?
You can’t but isn’t there a mechanism to impeach them for cause? If you think it is wise to do so then maybe visit the definition of ‘cause’ but be careful you don’t completely ...
- Wed Jul 10, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: No More
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14168
Re: No More
...you don't consider them left enough.
Vander beat me to it, but Bernie Sanders is a progressive Democrat, not a "leftist". Media bias sites do things like put MSNBC on the far-left end of the spectrum, yet MSNBC doesn't advocate for things like nationalizing industries instead of using tax ...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 1:37 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Merry Christmas from Chevy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8265
Re: Merry Christmas from Chevy
Wow, that was quite an extensive advertisement. I can’t believe at the very end that the grandchild comes out as a pro-hamas-transgender-secretary of the local cross stitching club. Really weird commercial, you’d think something could just be about an old pickup truck and grandma and grandpa’s ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:35 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
So the way the democrats get elected is having republicans to scare up votes…flip that coin and the republicans scare their base into creating a need to keep them around too…and the status quo goes unbroken…again. And that’s the best we can do to improve the republic?!?
Please don’t offer any ...
Please don’t offer any ...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Stories
- Replies: 44
- Views: 58322
Re: Stories
Israel didn't seek out innocents for targets and has made efforts to minimize them.
If that's the case, they certainly aren't very competent at it.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-as-israeli-attacks-wipe-out-entire-families-in-gaza/
That depends ...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:01 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
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But yeah, his corruption is penny ante compared to Trump. Different leagues.
Bidens corruption is far from penny ante. It is a part of the cancer that destroys the system. It is also a cancer that spurs the members of his party and that parties protectors in media to create a perception that ...
But yeah, his corruption is penny ante compared to Trump. Different leagues.
Bidens corruption is far from penny ante. It is a part of the cancer that destroys the system. It is also a cancer that spurs the members of his party and that parties protectors in media to create a perception that ...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:41 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Stories
- Replies: 44
- Views: 58322
Re: Stories
You're seriously claiming that there are no laws or law enforcement whatsoever in Gaza, and the only way to punish criminals there is for another country to bomb them, wantonly slaughtering random civilians?
Why is it so hard for you to admit that Israel is guilty of war crimes? That doesn't mean ...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 7:48 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
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But I don't agree that a bland centrist politician who generally believes in this country's institutions and appears to want the best for everyone ...
Really? That's the way you see Biden? A benevolent ambassador of hope and generosity? A Jimmy Carter?!?
Try this: He believes he knows how to ...
But I don't agree that a bland centrist politician who generally believes in this country's institutions and appears to want the best for everyone ...
Really? That's the way you see Biden? A benevolent ambassador of hope and generosity? A Jimmy Carter?!?
Try this: He believes he knows how to ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 52052
Re: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
I wouldn't be surprised to discover he isn't even genuinely antisemetic. Just an opportunist needing to swell his platforms user base..get the numbers up to stop the bleeding.
I see no reason to try to come up with weird 4D chess master plans that require hanging out in the replies of Neo ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 12:59 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
Hey will...
let us know when biden starts mirroring hitler.
Hey Ferno, believe it or not, in my mind, that isn't the only thing one can do to disqualify themselves from being worthy of the job.
If all Trump did to change was to magically never have cozied up to the alt right he wouldn't be ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
I honestly believe the only significant difference between them, for practical assessment, is Trump is just as corrupt and self serving, etc but he is also clinically a sociopath.
Their 'politics' and 'morality' and 'professed principles' are just tools in their branding tool kit. Words on ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 52052
Re: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
I wouldn't be surprised to discover he isn't even genuinely antisemetic. Just an opportunist needing to swell his platforms user base..get the numbers up to stop the bleeding.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:11 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
I think it's wild that Biden is being compared to Trump.
I honestly believe the only significant difference between them, for practical assessment, is Trump is just as corrupt and self serving, etc but he is also clinically a sociopath.
Their 'politics' and 'morality' and 'professed principles ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:49 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Four Parties
- Replies: 73
- Views: 76662
Re: Four Parties
I think there are the delusional or dimwitted who think the goal is simply to win the election and that has to be done by picking either Trump or Biden. They don't have the intelligence or courage to face the grim prospects either of them winning would deliver. They react to the manipulation of ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 52052
Re: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
You're all mad at the rich toxic white guy because you are all mundane mediocre employee types. Hate talking is just another sign of jealousy. Let me know when you start a business and hire 10 or more people.
Well to be fair, Hitler created more jobs than Musk has. So there needs to be a better ...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: I had a dream…
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19398
Re: I had a dream…
The commission will be tough but it's better than perpetual murder or fading away in glowing ash.
What you propose is something that is somewhat along the lines of what I thought would be the best solution, which unfortunately would be a tremendous ask of Israel. Basically, Israel is guilty of ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: I had a dream…
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19398
Re: I had a dream…
I can't help but notice that Israel is not mentioned in your dream.
Or agency for Palestinians, you know, with the "UN type commission" installed by... who exactly?
The whole point is about agency *and* the opportunity. think fast track funding of a 'Marshall plan' autonomy and prosperity ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:15 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: I had a dream…
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19398
Re: I had a dream…
I can't help but notice that Israel is not mentioned in your dream.
Sorry my haste is the only reason. They need to step up , take in anyone they displace who would choose it, and pay, and piss off all simultaneously. They would have some input on the make up of the commission but no authority ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: I had a dream…
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19398
Re: I had a dream…
Sounds like a hell of a better plan than what's been going on over and over since WWII. Since Israel did the demo, they could help rebuild people's homes and businesses as a sign of goodwill, and perhaps make long term friends with these neighbors. But, someone needs to put their foot down and ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:14 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: I had a dream…
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19398
I had a dream…
That someone did the math and said ‘ hey! We could spend billions and kill millions and be ready to repeat the cycle in a decade or two….you know….like we have been.
Or we could spend billions and not kill millions and not have to repeat it!!
So instead of palestinians trying to launch underwater ...
Or we could spend billions and not kill millions and not have to repeat it!!
So instead of palestinians trying to launch underwater ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:33 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: I'm an expert on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict AMA
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19990
Re: I'm an expert on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict AMA
This semester I graduate with dual bachelor's degrees from the University of Montana in the fields of anthropology and history, I'm an expert on the Middle East primarily concerning fundamentalist Islamic terrorism and its impact on the Levant. I speak fluent Arabic, hold seven academic ...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Truth is the first casualty
- Replies: 156
- Views: 422203
Re: Truth is the first casualty
★■◆●, some of you guys are hilarious.
I point out that israel was literally caught posting propaganda, and you guys simply ignore it. ..
I must have missed something. You posted a copy of a post of an incident where someone deleted a post saying Israel hit the hospital.
Ok, what context? Did ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:31 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 105405
Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
So now Israel is Trump and the US is... Trump? Or Israel is the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and the US is Trump?
This is all so stupid. We can actually use the words to say exactly what we want to say instead of silly analogies.
I tried that in the first post. You basically told me I had to ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 105405
Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Iran gets it
"The crimes of the Zionist regime are carried out with the support of the United States and Washington must be held accountable,"
"The crimes of the Zionist regime are carried out with the support of the United States and Washington must be held accountable,"