I'd imagine our esteemed (deluded) academics will try and weasel out of admitting anything but the NEXT big lie the communsit party tells them to believe.

Can you imagine the weeping, screaming, angry, hate-filled angst in every faculty lounge and professor’s closet going on in academia today?

You can be a war hero and a vindictive and petulant asshole at the same time. One does not inoculate someone from the other.

McCain was what I said, including a cad who met a blond on a beach in Hawaii nearly 20 years younger than himself and who divorced his wife and left his 3 kids to get married to Cindy. He’s dishonorable in that context.

McCain became a small and petty man, when he could have lived a life larger than himself. He took the low road for his own ego and self-aggrandizement.

That being said, Trump doesn’t need to be getting into a scrap with a dead guy. It does him no good.

Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA)

Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Cortez is considering introducing legislation that will provide new benefits for many more Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act  (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills and ambition.

“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Sen. Kamala Harris.

“We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability (POI) to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”

In a Capitol Hill press conference, Nancy Pelosi pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. At the state
government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons with No Ability (63 percent).

Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles
but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.

Finally, the Americans With No Abilities Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the
non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”

“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY due to her inability to remember “righty tighty, lefty loosey”.

“This new law should be real good for people like me. I’ll finally have job security.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Said Sen. Dick Durbin: “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”

This message was approved by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Diane Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren & Nancy Pelosi........ all Americans With No Abilities whatsoever.
 
 

What "very fine people" do you think he could have been referring to on the White Nationalist side?

Yes, after considerable pushback he did condemn white nationalism unequivocally. What took him so long?

(For clarity: I don't know whether Trump is a white nationalist or not. It is very possible that he simply thinks that a significant fraction of his base are white nationalists, and his instinct is to avoid alienating any part of his base. But even that would be pretty damning IMO.)

Azure, I’ve always had a high opinion of your contributions, by this one is a huge disappointment, and doesn’t reflect your track record of thinking freely.

There were not just two sides in Charlottesville. There were people - southerners - who truly were against the destruction or removal of an historic statue for the appeasement of the mob.

A mob has no right to select an object of their ire and then destroy something that is not theirs, and that has meaning to many people. The Taliban did shit like this, not Americans. There were good Americans fighting for that every reason in Charlottesville. Those are good people.  Were there white nationalists there?  Certainly. Were everyone who didn’t want to see the statue destroyed white nationalists?  Absolutely fucking not.

Your timeline of considerable pushback is a crock of shit. I heard exactly what he said on the day it happened, and he said what a President should say. The fact that some people like you twisted his words or imparted meaning that wasn’t factually accurate is why he was forced to try and correct the record that was purposefully being re-written to appease the mob.

“...he simply thinks that a significant fraction of his base are white nationalists...”

I’m sorry, but you are part of the problem. And by the way, fuck off. I’m so tired of being demonized for supporting this president, and being lumped in with the worst groups people like you can think of.

When the left gets triggered because a MAGA hat is equated to a dog whistle of white nationalist, they can all fuck off.

The only reason fossil fuels still dominate here is we subsidize them heavily. Of course, one thing I never understood. They pump oil in most places and the oil belongs to the people. The proceeds go into the national treasury and lower everyone’s taxes. Here it goes into private hands, despite the fact that in truth it belongs to all. Never did get that.

I’m sure you’re just trolling, Ocasio-Steingar, because you can’t be so stupid about this.

Let me know how “the people” are doing in the most oil rich country on the globe.  Go ahead, I’m waiting. I visited that beautiful country in the 1990s. Venezuelans were doing well. Now, doctors are doing surgery by flashlight, and people are eating out of garbage trucks. Oh, and if you visit, don’t bring your cat, Fluffy, because “the people” are eating dogs and cats to survive.

I am curious how you lay claim to all of the oil pumping equipment I see in the fields of southern Illinois, Indiana, and even Ohio. Did you pay for the equipment to extract it?  Did you discover it?  If not, how can “the people” own it?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/05/07/how-venezuela-ruined-its-oil-industry/#21482e57399d

The fact is, the government extracts more in taxes than the profits of nearly anyone else in the production stream. Certainly more than the retailer who allows us to pump it into our vehicles.

But go ahead, let me know how we “subsidize” oil.

Honest question: why do folks here call the current Democratic Party "communist"?

Communism to me implies that most property, industry, agriculture, etc. are state-owned. The political system is single-party, and those who don't belong to the party are subject to persecution. Intellectuals are forced to conform to what is dictated by government, or otherwise driven into exile or "purged". Basically an iron-fisted totalitarian State. Such as the old USSR was and that we find today in places like China and North Korea.

I don't see even the current far left Dems pushing toward that at all. Someone said they want to turn the US into Norway. I think that's pretty accurate. It's European-style "democratic socialism". I agree that it would be a disaster for this country, but it isn't based on Marxism as far as I'm aware, and it's a long way from Soviet or Chinese style Communism. Scandinavian countries still have multiple political parties and capitalism thrives, albeit under a heavy regulatory burden.

Is all this just hyperbole, or am I missing something?

The promises they are pushing are the promises pushed by the communists when they commenced their revolution.

I hate using memes to make a point, but this one seems very on point.

I am a big believer in not just pointing out things, but also fixing them.

So, if the board is quiet, go grab whatever news story you are passionate about and explain why

Or else I will have to start another monkey race.

Gee, thanks Dad.

Do you try to kill threads or does it just come naturally?

Forth or Fourth?

English language are hard.