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Huh. Wonder how many people had far worse illness because of the anti trump bias?
it’s gonna be real crazy when we actually do the after action report, realize that tens of thousands died due to use of ventilators, and then THAT becomes Trump’s fault, too.
The deception of the populace continues.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Can’t imagine how many Dems are rooting for Cain to die so they can make hay.
That’s what we’ve come to.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think anyone who plays politics with this story is the real deplorable. If they were trafficking in young teen girls they all deserve a quick end.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Election? The mayor ought to be run out of town on a rail today. She completely ignored her duty.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Summer of Luv indeed.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=906]Well, I said right after the ‘16 election that Trumps enduring legacy would be to move the country left. He is the best thing that has happened to the left since Castro. He’s the Jimmy Carter of the GOP.[/quote]
Lex, I think that’s a prescient take. The Carter comparison is a good one, just on a lot of different axes (he’s actually not that wrong on policy, but he’s mean…Carter was really nice but an awful president because of policy).
I’m thinking a dem sweep is a distinct possibility. I’d put Biden at 80% likely to win, the house at 95% likely to stay Dem, and the senate at 50/50. Only way that changes is if people wake up and realize that Democrat leaders letting mobs run free in society will eventually get to their doorstep.
The brutal reality is things are far worse in the country for all the things the left has done to oppose Trump, and not because of Trump from any policy perspective. Business was good. Trade was good. Taxation was modest. The deficit was an unspoken deal between the parties. The supreme court is functional, immigration has been somewhat checked but not stopped (pre-COVID at least), criminal justice reform passed, healthcare exchanges are still operating, foreign policy has been a string of decent singles if not home runs (ISIS, Afghanistan, NoKo, China, Latin America, even the EU).
And that’s really odd.
The opposition building opposition on demagoguery alone is a sad state of affairs (and not new). The reality is the left is out of ideas, and it only has sarcasm and hate to fall back on.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=875][quote quote=853]If trump did something, does it need to be public?[/quote] Trump has no problem publicly denouncing, rebuking, mocking, and criticizing our allies, fellow Republicans, Congressional leaders, Supreme Court members, a large number of former members of his own administration, Admirals, Generals, war heroes, medal winners, and pretty much anyone across the spectrum of good and bad, friend or foe. but this will all be forgotten, like everything else, as soon as Trump does his next idiotic thing — like retweeting a white power video.[/quote]
yeah. Not clear at all the reality of the russia news, but the white power tweet? Not a good look. Only trump could survive that one.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I haven’t had this issue on iPhone or chrome. Anybody else?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Haven’t seen that one but it’s not at all surprising. Reminds me of the studies in charitable giving that compare republicans to democrats. Republicans give substantially more of their income than Dems. I guess the Dems view paying their taxes as giving.
the only test for what people will really do is to give them the cover of anonymity. The internet proves every day how depraved people are when they can’t be identified.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=865]Legend sir, I’d be careful about saying things like your last sentence which delve into cultural issues as a reason why giving someone money is a poor idea. That reads a lot like something I don’t think you intended. I could be wrong. I’ll keep this brief…reparations are an interesting thing to talk about and that is about it.[/quote]
If you mean my last sentence reads as bringing a focus on elements of African American culture as root issues that we all should be talking about beyond economic disparities , I intended that. I wish we all would. Dan P Moynihan said it too. I think handing a check And washing our collective hands of the concern for the plight of African Americans would be a disaster.
If you mean my last sentence read as “they can’t handle money,” I didn’t intend that at all. I can see that you could have read that in the words.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Cc that’s an important question. What sins? The new orthodox view is your sin is getting the benefit of the doubt for being white. Whiteness, they will say, is both the biggest benefit and the biggest source of ignorance there is.
there are many, many questions to ask and answer when it relates to reparations. Alaska was not even part of the Union during slavery. Is it exempted? Same with Hawaii and other territories.
What about people who immigrated to the US since 1865? A LOT of the population isn’t traced to ancestors of a slave government in the US. The Irish have experienced prejudice at least on the spectrum of what the black man has faced. Ditto the Chinese. Do they need to pay reparations for slavery? If so, why? By what logic does a descendent of a coolie brought over from China to work the railroad need to pay the descendent of a slave who was freed by a fantastically costly war?
these are very hard questions. If it just comes down to money, any kind of reparations will be a disaster for African Americans, who face a culture issue that is probably as big as the economic issue that dollar reparations would purportedly cover.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It would be hard to be civil because looking at reparations means having to also look at existing programs and subsidies. It means looking not only at means but also at existing benefits.
the “what next” is the real burner. My belief is that reparations would only benefit this generation and maybe one more, so we would be right back where we are in 25 years or so.
the real question is whether reparations should actually be in the form of free education through college for successive generations or some equalizing investment in bringing black people into stem careers over time. For me, they would need to make it less of a windfall for one generation and more of an investment in many.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)If trump did something, does it need to be public?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This is exactly how the communists win: Turn the kids against their parents. The kids don’t know the damage they are doing in the name of perception, and the leftists just get more ammo for public show trials.
i don’t have an Instagram account. But I got to see a few of the posts before it demanded I log in. “Creepy vibe” was one of them.
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