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Typical gangster BS. They sent Harris down there to essentially stir up the populace and ensure Manchin falls in line. At this point the Dems are just throwing out money to buy votes, and Harris’s move is more of the same.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“All of those skilled workers who are in the coal industry and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with reclaiming abandoned land mines; what we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas wells; and, transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get done,”
Land mines? SMH.
“Transferring those skills.” Yes, they are having their skills returned to the market from their current jobs.
I’m not one to defend coal when it’s an uneconomic option, but coal mining has never been the great satan that you would think it is if you listened to the Dem rhetoric.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=4242]The Harris appearance in West Virginia confirms what has been obvious since the primaries, her shelf life is shorter than Joe’s. If Joe goes, so goes the democrats hold on power. And opposed to the farewell victory tour with a quick exit you offered, I think it’s as likely he’ll be Hoover part deux, and not entirely due to circumstances he’s created. Timing is everything.[/quote]
Can you say more about the Harris appearance in West Virginia? I’ve been off POTUS news lately.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I fear that Hayek is dead…just like this board.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Correct re: Gabbard.
also, one had to laugh this week at the re emergence of fauci. He had a great quote about how much freer he feels to say what he needs to say…
…and then proceeded to say nothing new whatsoever. His newfound freedom of speech was merely red meat for the dem base. Didn’t change a thing. Effing bureaucrat.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Oh it’s even better. Just wait until the Dems walk back all the tough talk about “doing something” on COVID.
Biden was caught in one of his few public comments this week saying there’s nothing we can do on the Covid trajectory. Wonder if politifact has labeled that a lie yet. You bet it would have been for trump.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Reminds me of a friend of mine who emigrated from Israel in the 1970s after fighting in one of the wars. He’s a very successful businessman in southern California now (kinda fits the profile of former IDF officer who came to the U.S. and kicked ass). He said that it was extremely confusing as an immigrant when he got here to ever think that anyone wouldn’t be a member of the party of “democracy.”
“It’s right there in the name…Democrat…Democracy.”
…took him a few years to figure it out, I think. And he’s extremely bright.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=4195]“ For some reason, values of education, thrift, hard work, and family stability WHICH EXISTED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN SPADES DURING THE EARLY 20th CENTURY” I love your sense of humor Archie…intended or not. (Can you work the kykes, the spics and the heebs into a post?) (This post speaks to my sense of humor? more than yours.)[/quote]
Holy crap. Unintended. And, I knew I was treading on thin SJW ice with the post in any event. To even speak of such things is to put one’s self at risk of being called a racist.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think that instead of reparations we should invest in massive government bureaucracies focused on helping those most impacted by slavery and its legacy by offering them different types of direct and indirect aid. The aid will have strings attached and will be hard to say no to, but hey, it will be aid. We should also set aside entire government spending programs for such folks, and then maybe mandate that they be hired disproportionately into government jobs because they have been hurt by the legacy of slavery. We can give them land, perhaps livestock.
After we do all that, we can eliminate discrimination based on standardized tests, or in lending based on the quality of neighborhoods. Let’s make all that illegal.
Once we have done all this, we can wonder whether the damage wrought by our solutions (it will result in a sub population that is On average less educated, far poorer, and far more likely to be caught for criminal activity than was the case before our “solutions” go into effect) is simply the legacy of slavery writ large, or the result of really bad policy.
Of course the answer will have to be that it is because of the legacy of slavery, because policy scrutiny requires accountability and anybody who ever advocated for slavery much less owned a slave is long dead and we can blame them with impunity.
All that said (and it has all been done), I’m not opposed to the notion of reparations, I just don’t know that it solves what advocates think it solves. Borrow all that money, hand it out to every black person in America regardless of whether they are the direct descendants of slaves still living in shacks in the low country of South Carolina or newly-minted immigrants from Nigeria, and you will not see the massive social problems go away. Markets don’t work that way. The cash will flow into the hands of those it’s flowing into now.
The most uncomfortable discussion about black inequality is the discussion that includes the question of why black Americans had more stable families and institutions under the rule of Jim Crow than under the “protection” of equal opportunity policy. Plumb those depths for some real discomfort. For some reason, values of education, thrift, hard work, and family stability WHICH EXISTED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN SPADES DURING THE EARLY 20th CENTURY—post slavery, have been, on average, deprioritized.
Good commentary on this in the wsj yesterday.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-left-hijacked-civil-rights-11610748711
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The founders would have called those pages “freedom of speech.” Right or wrong, they aren’t policy.
militarizing the Capitol? That’s policy in action.
Remember the stink about Trump’s military parade? Kinda funny now isn’t it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I had to dig to find the transcript, too, because I had heard he incited a riot. It’s subtle, and I get that a suggestion is all it takes, but I don’t think the words themselves amount to inciting a riot. It also made my eyes bleed to read the way the guy talks. ugh.
I actually think the LACK of coverage of what the president actually said is very telling. I never saw the speech. I never have actually seen coverage of him actually “inciting.” I have only seen commentary on it.
Now, that doesn’t absolve him of not immediately leading people toward peaceful assembly. Then again, mostly peaceful protests have been happening all hear.
I also note something strange. Despite the really awful violence in the Capitol which I wholeheartedly disavow, it’s amazing how little damage was done by a “riot.” I mean, a riot at your local Wendy’s burns the thing to the ground. A riot in the galleries at the Capitol doesn’t even touch a painting on the wall. What gives?
Is it possible that a bunch of people strolled into the Capitol as a protest, and that a few people got unruly and violent when challenged? That’s not a riot. That’s not an insurrection. It’s criminal trespass, for sure. It’s certainly not polite.
They didn’t even bring fireworks.
Until I know differently, though, it was a riot.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That’s an excellent point.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)screw steve kerr
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Man, I gotta tell you…Trump not only jumped the shark, he jumped the whole darned ocean.
Not a great man, but we knew that. now he will go down in history not as the iconoclast I had hoped, but as one who fomented insurrection during the transition of power.
Not good.
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