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But…the genie is out of the bottle. One more thing bad orange man has done. No politician can act as if China is a benevolent competitor. Everyone knows they are the biggest competitor/adversary/enemy.
My Thoughts and prayers are with you Rocky.
The medical community has gotten much better at managing this bugger. Here is to hoping Rocky is getting antibody cocktails, blood plasma and Remdisivir sp? looking forward to more posts when you beat this.
[quote quote=4194]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[/quote]
haven’t we done most of the above under affirmative action?
To me a path to citizenship is different than giving it to them outright. As to how they vote, it won’t matter if we don’t fix the charade of a voting system we have now.
Right now there is nowhere else to go but the stock market. The party will go on for a year or so. Get in hold on and don’t panic sell when it goes down.
“ US elections are run by a bunch of amateurs “.
the world’s greatest power puts volunteers in charge of its elections. Think about how scary this is. We owe it to ourselves and to the rest of the world to professionalize the process. Otherwise our democracy is in great peril. We saw what people are capable of when they feel disenfranchised. Our fifty states, swing states first, need to fix this. And soon. Any attempt to dissuade a fix is cold an$ disingenuous and will lead to grave consequences. We are on the verge.
[quote quote=4133]Typical cunt move by LIBTARD neo fascists marching in lockstep with DEMTARD cunts like Pelosi and Schumer. 73M of us say F you, we aren’t going away.[/quote]
welcome back DOC.
Now I know how they felt for four years…
They will overeach again.
Murkowski and Romney will get primaried. Young Hawley has a praising career.if I was a right wing billionaire, I would create competition for all these social media clowns. The market is immense. TV, Cable, 40 word missives, etc…
[quote quote=4125]What could be more troubling would be someone who taps into that huge group of disenfranchised citizens, who’s much more polished, yet much more devious and cunning than Trump.[/quote]
my feelings exactly and not troubling. They need to be heard after being disenfranchised for decades.
[quote quote=4111]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.[/quote]
jusy when I am about to write him off and agree with the establishment, the idiots on the left evoke the 25 th amendment. With 14 days to go, they just can’t help themselves. Why make him relevant again. Let him expire on his own.
Correct as usual Legend. The people in charge can ignore yesterday’s protests at their own peril. Keep calling them deplorable, misogynist racists, Marginalize them, ignore their votes and sow the seed for more of that. Righteous indignation from the left and fake disappointment from the right is missing the sleeping giant that is the increasingly disenfranchised ( mostly white) middle class. Trump captured them with his straight talk and irreverence towards the woke orthodoxy. If a more articulate, more measured less crass politician with the same beliefs emerges, the establishment is in big trouble.
Until the economy blows up, which could happen tomorrow , next week, or in ten years, or twenty or thirty, expect easy money to be the policy of the day. Trump did it, the dems will se him and raise it, they will one up him on gifts and the country will blissfully spend itself to whatever… THERE IS A FREE LUNCH.
[quote quote=4007][quote quote=4005]He certainly hasn’t been too controversial…but there’s still time.[/quote] You mean besides pardoning every single Mueller defendant except the two that cooperated? Or pardoning four men from Blackwater who massacred 14 people and wounded 17 others? Or siding with Putin again in “Helsinki part II” where he contradicted Pompeo and the rest of our intelligence community regarding who was at fault for the worst security breach ever? Or his months long campaign to undermine the election and confidence in our democratic institutions? I’m curious what more he would have to do before you decided he was being controversial.[/quote]
Re Blackwater: until you have been in combat yourself and seen and done certain things you have no right to criticize those who have. That applies to you and to any pencil neck military types who sit on their desks all day. Spare me the holier than thou shit until you have been in a fox hole watching your buddies get killed by 13 year olds intent on beheading you post mortem.
