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I think it’s fair to say that not all first responders are worthy of the title hero, and not all community organizers are commies.
The issue we have so, so wrong these days is the inability to think in shades of gray. I blame twitter, facebook, and the opening of very narrow minds to the masses. That means you guys.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=1055]I can’t believe political leaders implemented policies costing more than $6 trillion resolving the issues you highlight. There has to be a better approach for managing in an uncertain environment?[/quote]
There is, but we stopped letting people own their own risk a long time ago. The federal government as a backstop to every major risk to the elite class is expected of not codified.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Before Rocky leaves, I will just ask him to click the link below (response #1013) and let us all know if this was his “censored” post that was “removed.”
and, if so, I can only say: lighten up Francis.
You were referencing posts in a different thread and could have looked up your history on your own before complaining about censorship and removal. If you need to leave the board, then leave, but don’t take so many posts to explain why. I value your contributions but I think you are seeing censorship ghosts too often right now.
I have never met you but hear you are a lovable little guy in person. Now how about taking your fun sized self and having some fun mixing it up here. Huh?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I view this place like stone soup. Everybody brings a little bit of something. Some of it crazy, most of it smart. Some with invective and some with inquiry. We need perspectives from across the spectrum, and the backbone for them to talk to each other. Roscoe and TC bring the spice and the willingness to call people out. Doc does the same. Gr brings the professorship. Mick brings…well, mick. Bob, cc, etc etc etc.
opinions are and should be welcome. Comparisons to historical events should be too.
and, while I view holocaust jokes as being generally beyond the pale, I like a good female genitalia reference. They aren’t as common as they used to be. (The references, not the genitalia)
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)If you think you are seeing censorship on this site, you aren’t.
I have never removed a post. One poster has leveled that accusation both in private and in public and I have responded in private and in public that I am not censoring posts. If something was removed it was done either by the poster of by some nuance to the board software that I’m not aware of.
I do reserve the right to remove whiny personal victim hood posts and other posts if this cat fight gets out of hand or if one of you turns into foof.
Maybe my thought of attracting the few thoughtful CEB posters will in fact turn into just another lord of the flies website. I sure hope not.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Oh lord. I lol’d at tc’s post and the. Rocky happened. Not worth being so serious. Seriously.
as to “Rhett,” I just ask you: are there any associations with the antebellum south that are actually ok? Should we shitcan the cotton gin since it helped slavery hold on?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Missed the Holocaust topic. Agree that it isn’t a joking matter.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=991]lets call it a Zimbardo experiment. 6 square blocks is not a gunpowder plot…the scope is off.[/quote]
funny you bring up phil Z. The police issue is the phil Z experiment.
ok, so the scope is off, UK parliament much smaller. Fewer people died in the gunpowder plot, but both were about about a functional overthrow of government. Just another rebellion. ‘Course the gunpowder plotters were drawn and quartered, so there’s that.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Everybody wants their egregious errors to be considered “teachable moments.” Reminds of when Obama said that about the cops acting stupidly.
how about we call chop what it was: another gunpowder plot that failed.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)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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