American Politics

[PVMonger]

Interesting that your side are in favor of restricting and even punishing opposing political speech on social media, but you support the homosexual and transsexual grooming of small children, which is what DeSantis's law seeks to prevent.

Readers will draw their own conclusions as to your true motivations.

And yet I have seen no posts from you saying how Donnie the Dumbass was absolutely fucking wrong when he had his minions contact Twitter and demand that they remove a post that was critical of Donnie the Dumbass.

Can you even spell hypocrisy correctly?

[JustTK]

Great piece by Vijay Prashad on the CIA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq8xsfsHQnQ

For all those ignorant folks that argue socialism never succeeds due to inherent econimc weaknesses, look no further that this short video.

[Spidy]

I ask you to point out exactly where I've engaged in hate speech. And you reply with another condescending comment from Paulie the "Moderate."

Brother Tiny 12, I never said, you engaged in hate speech. I made the OBSERVATION (as others BMs have). Again, its simply an OBSERVATION, don't loose any sleep over it. Just bearing witness to the indoctrination. But hey...you do you!

I've posted that I'd love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley on the Republican presidential ticket in 2024. If that happens who would you vote for Spidy? That's a rhetorical question. You'd vote for the old white guy.

Yeah, whatever...kkkk! That is of course, assuming they can even make it pass the "big orange door stop", you know, the fat white guy with the orange skin.

Personally, I'm hoping for the heavyweight match up between, Trump vs. DeSantis (aka. "Agent Orange" vs "Meatball Ron"). Should be a doozy!

However, the better question you should be asking yourself is, if the "fat white guy with the orange skin", becomes the Repub's nominee for presidential ticket, would YOU STILL VOTE for HIM, again?

[Elvis 2008]

Thanks. No meltdown from Tooms though. He's just using this as a chance to recycle the same items we've already discussed ad nauseam.

Yeah, he posted this stupid shit about Trump being anti-vax (even though he developed the vaccine) and made him out to the be the leader of the anti-vax movement while in actuality Trump was encouraging to get people vaxxed and no one corrected him.

This was probably the greatest insult on TV I had ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Ksoizbl2s

"I feel bad for you. ".

"I do not think about you at all. ".

Everything Tooms does is Republican bad, Democrat good that it is a point of absurdity. It does not matter that Trump spear headed the development of the vaccine. There is nothing any Republican president has ever done that is good in the history of the country. If you point out that Trump developed the vaccine, he will find someone else to give credit for the vaccine. It is predictable.

So why would anyone correct Tooms or read him anymore? You already know what he is going to say.

[EihTooms]

Yes, his satire is getting stale. He risks losing his crown as the forum king of comedy unless he gets some new material.

If you and other wingers continue to repeat easily debunked idiocy like "the disadvantaged in America" have been harmed more by consistent Dem boom times, economic expansions and historic jobs creation while consistent Great Repub Depressions, Great Repub Recessions and Repub Massive Jobs Destruction has been better for them, how in the world can someone with at least a modicum of patriotism and love for America resist posting the same, utterly irrefutable and inarguable historical data and actual record of results revealing that idiocy for what it is? LOL.

Especially since it is so easy to do and, ya' know, might somewhere, sometime reduce enough Repub and pro Repub Bothsider or Neithersider influence from helping their beloved Repubs win an election somewhere and thereby improve conditions for America rather than shit on America.

[Chris P]

I ask you to point out exactly where I've engaged in hate speech. And you reply with another condescending comment from Paulie the "Moderate."

I've posted that I'd love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley on the Republican presidential ticket in 2024. If that happens who would you vote for Spidy? That's a rhetorical question. You'd vote for the old white guy.

LOL. True.

They can never point out exactly what you said that they claim was "hate speech", because if they did you could prove it to be true. So instead they just shriek a nebulous, vague term, amplified by the fake news and hollyweird, and hope that people don't notice or ask questions.

The good news is, more and more people are noticing and asking questions.

[Chris P]

Further to the recent discussion on illiteracy and education, a report has emerged that 23 schools in Baltimore city, an urban, heavily-democrat area, does not have a single student who has reached age-level math proficiency.

Not a single student.

We are not talking advanced math, but simply the accepted age-level proficiency. Out of many thousands of Baltimore city students, not a single one is proficient.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/baltim...ically-failing

What is particularly interesting is the table that I have attached, which shows that far from being underfunded, as is the standard fake leftist claim, Baltimore public schools have the third highest per-student spending of all school districts in the entire country!

(New York has by far the highest spending per student, which again begs the question why the NYC illiteracy rate is twice that of neighboring Vermont, but that's a different story).

Quote from the article: "And when you see other counties thriving, why is it that counties such as Montgomery County, Howard County, those counties are able to thrive, but why is Baltimore City systematically failing continuously year over year?" she questioned.

So, we know it is not a lack of funding that has prevented 23 urban democrat schools from having a single student proficient in math. Quite the opposite in fact. Any other ideas from the resident leftists?

[Chris P]

Thanks. No meltdown from Tooms though. He's just using this as a chance to recycle the same items we've already discussed ad nauseam.

Yes, his satire is getting stale. He risks losing his crown as the forum king of comedy unless he gets some new material.

[Chris P]

And in case it wasn't clear I never said you were. All I'm saying is that I kind of expected at least some of his musings to make you cringe.

Imagine a 2023 leftist accusing someone else of being cringe.

[Chris P]

The fact that you've no clue as to what is "free speech" and what is obviously "hate speech", tells me everything I need to know, about your brand politics and "free speech".

Perhaps try explaining "free speech" to 'Ron DeSanctimonious' as Agent Orange calls him. Or perhaps you prefer, Trump's 'Meatball Ron' nickname is better than 'Ron DeSanctimonious'.

BTW, does the 1933 Nazi book burning and the DeSanctimonious book bans, have anything in common? Oh wait, that would be free speech!

Interesting that your side are in favor of restricting and even punishing opposing political speech on social media, but you support the homosexual and transsexual grooming of small children, which is what DeSantis's law seeks to prevent.

Readers will draw their own conclusions as to your true motivations.

[Xpartan]

C. I'm not ultra right wing. I'm a Libertarian / Republican who believes in a social safety net. And I'm not an anti-Semite. In fact, I believe Jews of European origin are right up there with overseas Chinese as some of the most brilliant and industrious people on the planet.* Chris and I have not engaged on this issue. I'm sure if we do, it will be in a mutually respectful manner, assuming we disagree.

Finally, I'm not a bigot. I've been clear on this.

And in case it wasn't clear I never said you were. All I'm saying is that I kind of expected at least some of his musings to make you cringe.

[EihTooms]

Thanks. No meltdown from Tooms though. He's just using this as a chance to recycle the same items we've already discussed ad nauseam.

And that neither you nor anyone else has been able to refute even once.

So, repeated Great Repub Depressions, Great Repub Recessions, Repub Massive Jobs Destruction and NO meaningful legislation from Deadbeat, Know Nothing, Do Nothing Repubs to mitigate or reverse those typical Repub stewardship results whenever they could so easily do so are either benign or perhaps somehow beneficial to "the disadvantaged in America, their children and their children etc" while the Dem legislation I listed, and more, along with every notable Dem boom time and recovery from those repeated disastrous Repub stewardship results along with historic Dem jobs creation and NONE of the major economic downturns of the past century have not only been the real cause of problems for "the disadvantaged" but, worst of all, it unfairly and cruelly picked on the poor put upon American rich, is it?

Well, no wonder you and other wingers work so hard and "fight the good fight" to make sure we get many more of those major Repub economic disasters and massive jobs destruction and blessedly fewer of those national scourges of historic Dem jobs gains and legislation that actually works to improve life in America. Because the former is so "good" for the disadvantaged and the latter is so "bad" for them, right?

LOL. That is some sick shit, dude.

[Tiny 12]

A very fair, balanced and considered post as usual. No wonder the resident leftists are having meltdowns.

Thanks. No meltdown from Tooms though. He's just using this as a chance to recycle the same items we've already discussed ad nauseam.

[Tiny 12]

A Republican, advocating for the billionaires, now that just never gets old, as they continue to payoff their Repub crony politicians to do their bidding. (ie., Lower taxes and less regulations, so we can pollute more of our air, waters, land oceans and the environment and ultimately make more while doing so.)

I strongly disagree that and think the Repubs have been primarily responsible for handicapping, robbing and economically crippling the poor and disadvantaged in America. You see it everyday in Congress, when they block bill after bill, after bill meant to help, service and aid Americans, in vulnerable times. From our servicemen and women to our elders in need of medical care and drug price relief.

Take the case of former Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and former NFL player Brett Favre, team up to scam and steal welfare aid/funds, to enrich themselves and build a useless wealthy volleyball complex, to be used by the rich and affluent, in the poorest state in the country. Both cases are from the state of Mississippi.

QAnon\Repubs\Bothsidesists reverse "Robin Hood" at it's finest.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/brett...e-funds-report

Money for Welfare Instead Funded Concerts, Lobbyists, Football Games, Audit Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/u...-services.html

There are no doubt (especially in the deep southern states), see many more of these reverse "Robin Hood" schemes (perpetrated by Repubs) and "misappropriation of funds", meant go to the poor, ultimately get diverted or the poor see very little of what's owned.

This is a lot like your imaginary correlation between political parties and literacy. Please don't believe everything Democratic Party politicians and MSNBC pundits say. There are just as many examples of Democratic politicians robbing the poor. I could make a case from this that Democratic cities and states are more corrupt:

https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uplo...2.Complete.pdf

The top 15 judicial districts with the highest number of federal corruption convictions in 1976 to 2018 were centered in cities that went for Biden, as were 8 of the top 13 states. Does that mean that Democratic politicians are inherently more corrupt than Republicans? I don't necessarily think so. Most of the bastards are corrupt.

As to the first part of your post, I totally disagree. If Democrats would stop trying to create a European welfare state on steroids, and instead confine help to people who actually need it, maybe we'd see more progress.

[Tiny 12]

Maybe as far back as here:

Don't worry, it's just an observation, Tiny 12. It is what it is.

I ask you to point out exactly where I've engaged in hate speech. And you reply with another condescending comment from Paulie the "Moderate."

I've posted that I'd love to see Tim Scott and Nikki Haley on the Republican presidential ticket in 2024. If that happens who would you vote for Spidy? That's a rhetorical question. You'd vote for the old white guy.