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Post by nighttimer on Jan 22, 2018 10:02:00 GMT -5
Another problem with any short-term deal to reopen the government is continuing resolutions instead of a clean budget, is how it hurts military readiness. As broken as the system of governing is and the dearth of leadership, we're unlikely to see anything bold or innovative or brave in whatever Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell agree upon to fully fund federal agencies.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 23:34:02 GMT -5
They're all to blame. Congress' numero uno job is to manage the country's finances, to pass a budget and make sure government agencies are operating. And which party is in the majority in the House of Representatives? Republicans. And which party is in the majority in the Senate? Republicans. And which party is in control in the White House? Republicans. They're not all to blame. The Republicans are to blame. There has never been a government shutdown when one party controlled both houses of Congress and the Oval Office. Not until now. Not until the Republicans came to Washington to run things and have proven they can't be trusted to run a McDonald's in a strip mall. This is a Republican shutdown. This is their ugly puppy that followed them home. They OWN this. They wanted the power and they got the power. Whose damn fault is it they don't know what to do with it? This is what happens when a political party runs on a platform that government is evil, wasteful, destructive and incompetent. Then they get elected and prove it. In 2013, the Republicans refused to properly and fully fund the federal government based upon malicious spite. They hated the Affordable Care Act and figured by cutting off the cash to everything, they might be successful in their goal to kill off Obamacare. Five years later and the Democrats aren't trying to kill DACA. They're trying to get the Republicans to move off their dead asses and seriously come to the table to work out a deal for the Dreamers. What the GOP is putting on the table is insufficient from protecting DACA from Trump's petty, vindictive and mean-spirited spite and bigotry. Democrats have offered to give Trump his dumb wall in exchange for a DACA remedy, but the Republicans won't play ball How are Democrats "full of crap" when they are fighting to protect kids? All the Republicans are fighting for is Trump to begin deporting them in March. The Dems are trying to help people while the Repubs are trying to fuck them over.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 18:09:56 GMT -5
The above is a pretty arrogant post. But it's quite consistent with your prior posts here, and it's pretty consistent with the educated elite Democrats' arrogance that helped Hillary lose a year ago. It's also interesting that you think I'm hand wringing. I'm annoyed that Congress couldn't come to an agreement, and I'm more annoyed with the Democrats, because I think they are more to blame. But I'm not hand-wringing. As a matter of fact, I'm usually one of those here who counteracts the Trump end-of-the-world hysteria with a calmer perspective. I'm told I plant my flag on some narrow stuff and stay there. Yet I'm trying to look beyond Trump's personality flaws to what the administration is doing which is good for this country. I can see beyond his faults (and what POTUS has not had faults?) and remain confident that he and his administration are doing things I am in agreement with, that Hillary would have been doing the opposite of. Never Trumpers cannot see beyond their Trump hatred, and it clouds their objectivity about policy implementation that they would be ecstatic about if anyone other than Trump were in the WH. Talk about flag planting. Oh? Like what? A conservative and highly intelligent Supreme Court Justice? The obliteration of Isis in Syria? A booming stock market? Tax cuts and reform that are putting thousands of dollars into the average citizen's pocket? Cutting stupid and wasteful regulations from the EPA? Decreasing Presidential overreach? Increasing our border security? Strengthening and supporting our military? Zinging the biased U.N.? Pulling out of the Paris Climate agreement? Asking NATO to pay its fair share? Standing by our ally Israel? I am happy about everything I just listed, Trump's failings or not, and I am confident these all will fall on the right side of history. Enough. I'm over this. Your conservative and highly intelligent Supreme Court Justice occupies the seat which should have gone to a moderate and highly intelligent Supreme Court Justice who couldn't even a hearing from an obstructionist right-wing Republican minority. The obliteration of ISIS in Syria was set in motion by the Obama Administration and the Trump Administration was the beneficiary of it, though Trump being the greedy swine he is takes all the credit. The booming stock market boomed even better in the first year of Bush43 and Obama. Those tax cuts and reform that may put thousands of dollars into the average citizen's pocket will actually put billions of dollars into bank accounts of the average wealthy and the coffers of corporate interests.Besides Trump's EPA cutting "stupid and wasteful regulations," here's some other things Trump and his gang have done to the environment. Most of National Parks Advisory Board Resigns in Protest Report: Climate Change Web Sites 'Censored' Under Trump Trump Interior Department Declares That Accidental Bird Deaths Are Legal Trump Drops Climate Change From List of National Security Threats Trump Unveils Plan to Dramatically Downsize Two National Monuments Interior Department Proposes Largest-Ever Oil and Gas Lease Auction Trump EPA Poised to Scrap Clean Power Plan Mining Health Study Halted; Climate Advisory Panel Disbanded Trump Revokes Flood Standards Accounting For Sea-Level Rise Report: EPA Enforcement Lags Under Trump NOAA Cancels Rule To Protect Whales From Fishing Nets U.S. Pulls Out of Paris Climate Agreement EPA Dismisses Science Advisors EPA Scrubs Climate Change WebsiteTrump has decreased presidential overreach? With few legislative accomplishments from the Republican-controlled Congress beyond passing tax cuts for the rich and corporations Trump has eaten well on executive orders he once derided. You say Trump has increased border security? How's that when Border Patrol staffing is lower now than it was at any point in the Obama Administration?Oh yeah. REAL secure. The coward who had five deferments to avoid service and has not strengthened nor supported the military. This is how Trump supports our fallen soldiers. This is how Trump supports our generals: I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can do much better!General John Allen, who I never met but spoke against me last night, failed badly in his fight against ISIS. His record = BAD #NeverHillaryThis is how Trump treats our veterans. Then there's this:And of course, there was this... What you call "zinging" the biased United Nations is actually bashing the U.N. by a biased xenophobic isolationist. Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate agreement literally means standing all by itself. NOBODY has Trump's back here. 196 parties of the Paris Agreement Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra* Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan The Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Cook Islands* Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia European Union Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati* Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein* Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives* Mali Malta Marshall Islands* Mauritania Mauritius* Mexico Micronesia* Moldova Monaco* Mongolia Montenegro* Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru* Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue* North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau* Palestinian Authority* Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Samoa San Marino* Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia* Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea South Sudan* Spain Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis* St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
*Emissions data not available from the World Bank after 2000. 1 country not part of the agreement: “They (Germany) pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change.” United States
That's 196 nations for the Paris Climate accord and one against. But you say that's okay and a good thing. 196 nations are wrong and America Fuck Yeah is right? Okay. You be you. Obviously you are Always Trumpers and can't or won't see beyond your Trump love, and it clouds your objectivity about policy implementation that you would enraged about if anyone other than Trump were in the WH. That's not flag planting. That's magical thinking. You claim Trump deserves kudos for demanding NATO pay it's "fair share." Yeah, that's always guaranteed to send a shiver up the leg of the jingoistic Right, but here's the hell of it. It just ain't so.
Standing by our ally Israel means alienating the rest of America's allies in the Middle East, does this truly enhance this country's national security or weaken it?Mike Pence is avoiding the Trump Shutdown by hopping around the Middle East and he's already got a blistering earload from the Egyptians and Jordanians. Supporting Israel to appease right-wing evangelicals comes at a cost in how the U.S. engages Arab nations in the Middle East. I am well aware you won't attempt to rebut this lengthy deconstruction of your Always Trump love. I'm sure you prefer engaging in snarky slapdowns to actually defending Trump's indefensible presidency. I just wanted you to know how easy it is to expose the falsity of the Always Trump crowd. They reside in an airless bubble of confirmation bias where fake news and alternate facts sustain them in blissful ignorance sheltered from the unpleasant intrusion of the facts.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 13:39:56 GMT -5
Yep.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 12:30:55 GMT -5
Since I quoted you directly, yeah you really did say what you said. Yeah, I wrote it, but that's not what you read. Somehow you decided that I was a supporter of Woody Allen, even though I specifically labeled him an asshole. I didn't need any new revelations to realize that, contrary to those Hollywood Hypocrites who are just now belatedly refusing to work with him, after giving him a pass for years for his blatant child abuse. I wasn't slamming actors and actresses for refusing to work with a scumbag. I was slamming them for not having refused to work with him years ago, when this crap first surfaced. They stood behind him for years until this latest #metoo made it unpopular to do so. I thought that was pretty plain. Opty had no problem understanding my message, as his comments regarding Polanski show. Amadan got it too. So where was I not plain-spoken enough for you to get that message? I got your message. I disagree with it. What you don't get is I don't give a fuck what Opty understands or what Amadan gets. Since I quoted you directly, yeah you really did say what you said. He said Woody Allen is an asshole. He did not say Woody Allen wasn't an asshole before. He's saying the Hollywood stars now falling all over themselves to distance themselves from Woody Allen because of the current moment in time are hypocrites, because all the shit about Woody Allen has been known for years and it didn't stop them until they judged that the damage to their careers might outweigh the advantages of working with him. He was not mocking them for being anti-sexual harassment, he was mocking them for pretending to suddenly be anti-sexual harassment when it's politically advantageous after demonstrably not giving a shit before. You're reading what you want to read because you want to attack your enemies so badly you're getting sloppy. You give yourself far too much credit. You're not my enemy. I respect my enemies. All I see here are a bunch of aggrieved men bitching, pissing and moaning and nothing more than that. I read what I read and interpret it how I interpret it. This is not predicated upon how you or Opty or Don or anyone else says this is how I should "get it."
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 12:06:35 GMT -5
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Were voters given a choice to not destroy the inner cities with a bogus war on drugs? Were voters given a choice not to invade country after country and destroy our personal liberties at home with a nebulous war with no possible exit strategy? Was it Hillary or The Donald we were supposed to vote for to end those two crimes against humanity?
Being given the option of selecting one from column A or one from column B when both options are detrimental to one's well-being is hardly being in control of the situation. Being "free" to choose between Hillary and The Donald is the equivalent of being "free" to choose between lethal injection and the firing squad. Here's the dirty secret: Priests always blame the sinners. The guiltless person doesn't fall for the con. And the sinners are foolish enough to believe they are the cause of their own problems. I guess I should not find it surprising that politics is the only area where victim-blaming is still an acceptable mode of discourse. 545 people are responsible for the mess, but they unite in a common conExcuse me, but your superiority complex is showing. You might want to cover that thing up. You disagree with FDR? Try some Pogo: We get the government we deserve and "we" includes you. You think because you're a bird who sees the bars of the cage he was born and raised in, this makes you special? If government sucks what it is you've done to make it less sucky? What have YOU done about the destroyed inner cities? What are YOU doing to prevent invasions of foreign countries and the erosion of individual rights and freedoms? Pontificating on debate boards? Oooooo...impressive. You're not special. Your taxes pay for the dirty wars, the arms sales, the drug dealing, the rape of the environment, the persecution of the poor, the locking up of the Black and the Brown and all the other evil shit "gubbment" gets into. You're not unique and you're not above it all. You're down here in the muck and mire right along with the rest of us and the sun doesn't shine any brighter on your ass. Quoting yourself does not make you a rare breed or a rugged individualist. You're just another cog in the machine and when you are of no more use to the machine, they'll throw you out on the scrap heap and replace you with two just like you. Oh, and fuck P.J. O'Rourke. He was never one of the funniest guys at the National Lampoon. Just one of the most insufferably smug and whitest of White guys I've ever read. Whiteness exudes from every pore of O'Rourke like a Wonder Bread mayonnaise sandwich dipped in marshmallow sauce.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 1:37:24 GMT -5
I don't think I wrote what you read. Since I quoted you directly, yeah you really did say what you said.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 21, 2018 1:34:12 GMT -5
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." – P.J. O'Rourke "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt If the Democrats cast most of the votes that caused the shutdown, and the Republicans had reasonable offers for the Dems, and the Repubs couldn't reach 60 votes on their own, how again is the shutdown the Repubs fault? I will give Trump some blame here, but the Dems are being entirely unreasonable. What constitutes a reasonable offer for the Democrats? Going along with the Republicans holding CHIP hostage despite the fact they can't even use the cost of the program as an excuse against reauthorizing it?Republicans don't care if 9 million poor kids lose their health insurance because all CHIP is to them is a bargaining chip. The Repubs didn't have 60 votes to put Neil Gorsuch on the stolen Supreme Court seat, but they gamed the Senate rules to get him over the hump. Go ahead and try that shit again. You'll be on the sidelines waving pom-poms and cheering them on just as you did when the Republicans denied Merrick Garland even the courtesy of meeting with him. As long as the Republicans cynically and spitefully obstructed President Obama, I don't recall a single, mumbling mutter about how that screw job was entirely unreasonable. Lovely sarcasm from you as usual. But I will play along for a few minutes. So...negotiating usually means coming to some sort of middle ground, or at least something palatable for both sides. The Republicans have offered DREAM amnesty. All they want in return is some tightening of the borders including the wall, and moving towards merit-based immigration. But that wasn't good enough now that the Dems are all in a tizzy at Trump. So the Republicans then tried to put off the immigration issue - we have some time until March after all. They tried to fund the government and extend the Children's Health program (CHIP). Unless my memory serves me wrong, the Dems like CHIP. But I guess that's not good enough for the Dems now, either. Why don't you go and explain negotiating to Shutdown Schumer? He obviously forgot the definition. If Shutdown Schumer forgot the definition, he'd still have the advantage over President Pussygrabber who never knew it. But it is lovely how you ignore the facts you can't disprove. Why hasn't Mr. Art of the Deal wrapped this up and delivered on DACA, the Dreamers and his damn wall all at the same time? Too busy shagging porn skanks and now he's all tuckered out?
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 20, 2018 17:58:26 GMT -5
List of actors refusing to work with Woody Allen growsSrsly? AFAIK, no new revelations have surfaced. He was just as big an asshole before #metoo became a thing. This movement is plainly exposing Hollywood hypocrisy, and NOW they get brownie points for jumping on the bandwagon? I'm gonna hurl if I hear one more person who has known about this all along being praised for their courage in joining the lynch mob, now that the geometry makes it a career booster instead of a career killer. It has to take new revelations against Allen of being a creepy sexual predator to get your goat? Whatsamatta, Don? The old revelations aren't bad enough for you? Need a primer? It's just too precious when you haul out "lynch mob" out of debate mothballs to slam any progressive movement you disagree with. No. Wait. I take that back. It's not precious. It's as predictable as it is boring. Let's slam actors and actresses for refusing to work with a scumbag. What a bunch of pansy Hollywood elitists? As if only the regular Joes are allowed to turn their backs on pedophiles and rapists. The backlash against #MeToo is led by White men upset over White women being upset over not wishing to have a penis waved in their face is reactionary garbage. Poor, poor, pitiful men. Those mean old women don't wanna see your junk. WAAAAAH.Suck it up, grow a pair, and let your balls drop, snowflakes. Oh, and keep your shortcomings in your tighty whiteys. “I’m sorry you thought you got to choose what experiences we can share about the shitty ways we’ve been treated. And to men specifically, I’m sorry our request to respected makes office culture a little less fun and flirty… If you don’t want to tune into your partner’s feelings throughout sex, maybe you shouldn’t be fucking a person at all. Men: If you say you’re a feminist, then fuck like a feminist, and if you don’t want to to do that, take off your fuckin’ pin, because we are not your accessories.”~ Samantha Bee
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 20, 2018 17:13:39 GMT -5
I have my opinion, and it will be no surprise to anyone. Why can't Congress be more functional? I'm disgusted. One side effect of Trump is that the Dems hate him so much they will try to have the GOP fail at any cost. It seems to me that adults trying to act like adults could have reached a compromise here. It seems to me agreeing to a bad deal just to get a deal should be a deal-breaker. I'm glad the Dems grew a spine rather than roll over and play dead to appease the mouth-foaming Faux News mob. If Dems hate Trump its due in part because Trump hates Dems. It's really hard to make a deal with a fucking man-child who changes his mind depending on who talked to him last. Or don't you recall a few weeks ago when Trump had legislators in from both parties for his dog and pony show, he said he would " sign anything" on immigration. "I'm not going to say 'oh gee I want this or I want that' I will be signing it"Lie. The only time Trump doesn't lie is when he's asleep and even then he's lying on his back dreaming about being really being 6-3 and 239lbs when he's neither. You want Congress to be more functional? Functional how? By passing another short-term, stop-gap, do nothing "deal" that keeps the checks coming and the lights on for federal agencies and does NOTHING for DACA, holds the CHIP program hostage as a bargaining chip and maintains a broken status quo. You're disgusted? Oh, but you weren't disgusted by "shithole countries?" You weren't disgusted by "good people on both sides" including Nazis, Klansmen and other White supremacist trash? You weren't disgusted by "grab 'em by the pussy?" I submit your "disgust" is feigned and situational. You're disgusted when Democrats don't bend over and let Trump drive. You're dead silent when he shits all over the honor and principles and virtues of the presidency and the country. The Dems don't have to obstruct the Repubs. You've got plenty of Repubs who are willing to do that all by themselves including the four GOP Senators who voted against budget reconciliation including Rand Paul, Lindsay Graham and Mike Lee. Five Democrats voted for it including newly-elected Doug Jones. This is what happens when Republicans are given control of the House, the Senate and the presidency: They blame Democrats for their own failure to govern. Compound that with a twit who can't control his mouth or his libido a nd the result is a Trump-made mess. Ultimately, the only way a deal gets done is when the actual adults in the room kick the man-baby out of it, work out a deal, and allow Trump do what best: pound Big Macs the way he pounds porn skanks, wash it down with a dozen Diet Cokes, and Tweet his fat little fingers away bragging about the size of the button on his desk (the button that notifies the White House staff to send over more Big Macs, Diet Cokes and silicone grown porn skanks).
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 20, 2018 1:39:39 GMT -5
*shrug* I think I do understand how "journalism" works. I'd just prefer to see less of it and more actual journalism. No, you clearly don't understand how journalism works. You have an opinion of what constitutes "actual journalism" but as you didn't know reporters and writers rarely write their own headlines you demonstrate a lack of knowledge about a long-established tenet of real journalism, not just the journalism that lines up with that opinion. Just as I'm not a medical physician or a lawyer or a garage mechanic, I'm free to offer an opinion on how well they're doing their job, but it isn't the same thing as an informed opinion by a peer who knows how the sausage gets sliced over a best guess from a layman with a vague notion, but no certainty on how journalism actually works. Additionally, you've demonstrated a marked proclivity to bang on CNN for their lapses or misleading headlines slagging Trump far more frequently while giving a pass to Fox and any similar conservative news outlet for their misleading headlines cheering Trump, and to believe you know anything of what constitutes "actual journalism" you'd have to park your demonstrable political biases. If Trump were to walk across the frozen Potomac ( to get to the other side, losers. To bang a porn star on the other side. What else?) between Fox News breathlessly reporting, "Trumps Walks on Water Proving He Truly Is the Son of God" and CNN sneeringly dismissing it " We Now Have Proof: Trump Can't Swim!" only one would take fire from you and it would be the latter, not the former. "Actual journalism" is not limited only to the journalism you consider to be okay. It includes the stuff you claim is not. As you've offered no proof, a guess is all it is. Which part? The parts where only a few respondents actually are critical of Trump or the parts where any respondent is? Iowa, like New Hampshire, is one of the Whitest states in the United States and therefore among the least diverse and least reflective of how the American diaspora actually plays out. Because of their prominence in presidential politics is far greater than than their significance, what comes out of Iowa matters far more than what the general sentiment with Trump Year One is. Trooping off to the snows of January Iowa is supposed to be taking the temperature in the nation's Midwest. All it is is a snapshot of a time and a place. I don't put a lot of stock in what a few reporters overheard in an Iowa restaurant, but I put even less in a thread about anecdotal evidence I'd never bother wasting my time reading.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 19, 2018 12:37:56 GMT -5
New year, shockingly similar story to the one that was the basis of this thread (with the same flaws): In Iowa, doubt creeps in even among Trump supportersRead the story. There is exactly one Trump supporter in the piece that headline might be referencing, but even that's a stretch (as her doubt seems limited to Trump's position on NAFTA alone, an opinion that he made crystal clear during the campaign). Here's another story and maybe you should read it since you clearly do not understand how "journalism" works. If I were Brad Wilcox, I'd pick up the WaPo looking for my piece, see the title and the byline and say, "WTF?" But that's how journalism works. It's the same way how most film directors don't shoot the trailers for the films they make and end up pissed when it reveals details they didn't want shared. Now if you want to grouse the CNN article isn't entirely accurate, you've got a valid point there, but editors don't want 500 word headlines that are accurate. They want short, punchy, provocative headlines which catches eyeballs and gets the reader to read it NOW because when they say, "I'll read it later" news editors know "later" never comes. CNN put up a story, gave it a title that garnered clicks, you read it, brought it here, and I found it that way and read it too. That's a successful headline and CNN thanks you for your support.
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 17, 2018 21:05:38 GMT -5
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 14, 2018 22:47:00 GMT -5
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Post by nighttimer on Jan 13, 2018 11:07:01 GMT -5
I've kinda grown tired of hearing about Republicans being "shocked" or "disappointed" by :poop: Shit Trump Says :poop:
Tom Cotton is gutless turd. And so is David Perdue. So is Paul Ryan. So is Mitch McConnell. Republicans are good for two things. Being "shocked" and being "disappointed" by their president saying racist shit. Oh, and one more thing: doing absolutely NOTHING about it.
Well, fuck their shock and fuck their disappointment and fuck the Republican Party. Until they're ready to grow a pair and denounce this crazy man, they deserve to go down in flames every bit as much as he does and the sooner the better.
Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the politicians will issue pious proclamations to a man they would have despised had they been around when he was and now they minimize his marvelous militancy into a trite catchphrase. Pull the string on the Dr. King doll and he says, "I have a dream!"
Dr. King said other things too and they weren't reflective of a dream, but an ugly reality and that is the dark underbelly of America. That part nice people pretend no longer exists. The racist shithole that America was and will be again should Donald Trump have his way.
“Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. The reality of substantial investment to assist Negroes into the twentieth century, adjusting to Negro neighbors and genuine school integration, is still a nightmare for all too many white Americans…These are the deepest causes for contemporary abrasions between the races. Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook. He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.”
The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.”
— Where Do We Go From Here, 1967
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