Friday Talking Points -- A Changing World Order
Some weeks, obviously, are more momentous than others. This past week may be looked back upon as being one of the most historic anyone alive has ever lived through. The world order shifted on its axis and nobody is quite sure what is coming next.
We should begin by saying that we're going to get to our outlook on what has already happened and what is likely to happen in the future in a much more "big picture" way down in the talking points. It's not a "rant" (as we are sometimes wont to write), it is instead a sober (and hopefully sobering) take on what might be looming on the horizon. This isn't a week for partisan political talking points, we felt.
But domestic American politics is a part of what is going on, so we are going to do a quick rundown of what's been happening here in the introduction, as usual. Although we are going to flip our usual order of presentation, by covering the inane and ridiculous first, and then we'll get to the political machinations on Russia and Ukraine.
The Canadian truckers' protest was finally fully evicted from the streets of Ottawa this week, to the great relief of the people who actually live there. Because Fox News had such fun lionizing the protestors, however, American copycat protest "convoys" have (kind of, sort of) begun here. So far, these efforts are rather small and pathetic, and they have been completely overshadowed in the news by world events, so it looks like this effort is doomed to fizzle in one way or another.
Washington D.C., however, is taking it seriously. Already 700 National Guard soldiers have been approved together with their support vehicles, to "direct traffic" within the District. This is all going to come to a head next Tuesday, which is the true target of the protest -- when President Joe Biden gives his first official State Of The Union speech to a joint session of Congress. Since the risk at any of these events is routinely off the charts (since all three branches of our government will be present in one single location), security will undoubtedly be critical. The truckers are all probably dreaming of surrounding the Capitol with their big rigs and blasting their horns while Biden gives his speech, but this is just not going to happen.
Donald Trump launched the social media platform he's been promising for a while now, and it immediately crashed and burned. Nobody could sign up, apparently. Seems like a rather large software bug, but it's about par for the course on any of Trump's startup ventures. Here's the story, in case you missed it:
Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.
His long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its grand debut because of technical glitches, a 13-hour outage and a 300,000-person waitlist.
Even Trump supporters made jokes about the early slog. Jenna Ellis, a former member of his legal team, posted to Instagram a photo showing Trump with his finger hovering over a laptop, "letting us on to Truth Social one at a time."
Ouch. That's from a former member of his legal team, not some Never-Trumper. Can't wait to see what the K-pop crowd does if it ever does get up and running!
There was one rather important political event this week that might have an impact on the midterms (but there will be plenty of time to dissect this in later weeks, so we're holding off for now). Senator Rick Scott, who chairs the partisan group in the Senate whose job it is to get more Republicans elected to the chamber, stepped into the policy void left open by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week with his own 11-point plan for Republican candidates to run on. And as he himself put it, his plan might just "strike fear in the hearts of some Republicans." Note that: Republicans, not Democrats. Scott said this because his plan is not just a whole bunch of GOP base red meat, but also some absolutely insane ideas -- like forcing Congress to reauthorize every single federal law every five years. And the lunatic cherry on top: raising income taxes on over half of America because they were so poor they "didn't have skin in the game." We did write about this aspect of it earlier this week (since it is so obviously the best attack line Democrats can use against it), or you can take a quick listen to the audio ad the Senate Democrats immediately released instead.
But as we said, we'll have plenty of time later on to take Scott's plan apart one extremist proposal at a time.
If an international crisis hadn't happened this week, the biggest political news would have broken today, as President Biden announced that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be nominated to the Supreme Court. This annoyed Lindsey Graham -- and probably Jim Clyburn too (no word, yet) -- because they had thrown their support behind a different candidate, a federal judge from South Carolina.
Jackson's biggest asset she will bring to the high court is that if confirmed she will be the first Supreme Court justice to have worked as a public defender since Thurgood Marshall (who famously argued Brown v. Board of Education before the court, before he was a member of it). Along with all her other life experiences, that will add to the diversity on the court in a very ideological way. If Biden is smart, he'll invite her to the State Of The Union and personally introduce her to America, when everyone's watching.
But to get back to the main issue of the week, President Biden was proven right all along as Russia's Vladimir Putin ignored all of the world's warnings and went right ahead and invaded Ukraine, just after the Beijing Olympics concluded (likely as a favor to China, whose support he will need in the very near future). Just like Biden had been warning, for the past few weeks. It was not a bluff. It was not Biden "overreacting." Which meant that the right-wing media echo chamber had to shift gears rather abruptly. Before the tanks started rolling, here's how Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo was talking about Biden's warnings:
"Was this a ruse?" [Bartiromo] asked her audience Wednesday last week. "Was this whole thing an effort to take everybody's attention away from what Hillary Clinton did and what we know to be a complete hoax over this Russia investigation?"
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld also said late last week that "there is something going on here that feels very, very manufactured."
Once the bombs started falling, however, they tried to quickly shift their story. They knew that somehow Biden had to be to blame for it happening, but they just couldn't figure out exactly how. The message was a bit muddled. Perhaps communications were down and they were left without their usual talking points from Moscow? Who knows, these days.
One Republican did know what to say, of course. But then that's no real surprise, since he has a rather long history with Ukraine and Russia. Donald Trump praised Putin as a "genius" and said he was "savvy," early on in the ramp-up to war. When asked in an interview with a rightwing journalist: "What went wrong here?" and what Biden had done that Trump would have done differently, Trump replied:
Well, what went wrong was a rigged election and what went wrong is a candidate that shouldn't be there and a man that has no concept of what he's doing. I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, "This is genius." Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine -- of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful.
So Putin is now saying, "It's independent," a large section of Ukraine. I said, "How smart is that?" And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's strongest peace force... We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. There were more army tanks than I've ever seen. They're going to keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here's a guy who's very savvy... I know him very well. Very, very well.
By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here's a guy that says, you know, "I'm going to declare a big portion of Ukraine independent" -- he used the word "independent" -- "and we're going to go out and we're going to go in and we're going to help keep peace." You gotta say that's pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn't have one for that. No, it's very sad. Very sad.
Later on in the week, he had to be told by a Fox News host that the Russians were the ones staging an amphibious landing in Odessa and not the American military, since Trump had no clue what was actually going on (as usual).
Republicans in general are all over the map when it comes to figuring out exactly what they stand for. Republicans were in such disarray that some of them even had words of praise for Biden's retaliatory sanctions. Some of them even (gasp!) denounced Trump's position. Trump's own former military advisors also denounced his pro-Putin stance. Some of them just didn't even want to talk about it. But the party as a whole has not coalesced around any position on the issue, which tends to just make Biden's moves look more decisive. In the midst of an article on how Republicans moved from Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" view of Russia to where they are now came this rather extraordinary quote:
"Don't look for consistency in Republican policy," said Craig Shirley, a Reagan biographer and longtime Republican political consultant. "The Republican Party right now is a little schizophrenic. Anti-communism and love of freedom used to be the glue that held the party together, but now the attitudes toward Russia have gotten all mixed up with domestic politics."
. . .
"Makes your head spin, doesn't it?" Shirley said. "The party is searching for meaning beyond just anti-Bidenism, and there's no one position."
Perhaps the most intelligent summation of the Republican disarray came in a reader comment to this article:
"Anti-communism and love of freedom used to be the glue that held the party together, but now the attitudes toward Russia have gotten all mixed up with domestic politics." translation: "We have no coherent policy agenda, ideology, or vision. We just want Biden (and by extension, the US) to fail."
Seems about right to us.
Congress was in the midst of one of its many weeklong vacations, so there was no immediate legislative action -- in fact, by the time they get back next week, several actions they could have taken earlier will now be off the table due to changing events.
Of course, zeroing in on domestic American politics gets away from the true extent of this tragedy. We'll get to the big picture momentarily, but we had to close on two gut-wrenching moments from the first days of the war, just to remind everyone how serious this all is.
The war already has its first heroes, on the Ukrainian side. Here is the heartbreaking story of courage:
A group of Ukrainian border guards were stationed on Snake Island, in the Black Sea south of Odessa, when a Russian warship ordered them to surrender under threat of attack.
Their response: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."
They held their ground. All 13 were killed.
And then last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a conference call with European Union leaders:
This might be the last time you see me alive.
Kind of puts our domestic political squabbles in perspective, doesn't it?
Volume 652 (2/25/22)
We are forgoing our awards this week, due to the seriousness and severity of the situation. We just felt it wasn't the proper time for such things. Which is also why, as promised, we do not have partisan Democratic talking points for you this week, either. There will be plenty of other weeks for that sort of thing (especially next week, since it will be State Of The Union week).
Instead, we'd like to veer away from the small-picture politics and instead take a wider look at the ways the world order did in fact change this week. Because the shifts can really only be accurately described as "tectonic."
A Changing World Order
In the Cold War, most of the world was on one side of the Iron Curtain or the other. The constant threat of a possible nuclear war was frightening (just ask anyone who lived during the period, they'll tell you), but it was at least fairly easy to understand: we were the good guys, the Soviet Union and all its communist vassal states were the bad guys, and if we ever directly fought each other the end of the world as we know it would be the inevitable result. Nuclear wars were simply not winnable -- everyone on the planet would lose. So while living with that constant threat wasn't a whole lot of fun, at least it was fairly simple to comprehend. Hollywood stopped churning out anti-Nazi movies and started churning out anti-Rooskie movies. Dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction also thrived. It was basically us-against-them, which is a pretty easy theme to expound upon.
Then the end of the Soviet Union came and communism essentially disappeared as a valid governmental theory (not completely, but even China became more of a totalitarian capitalist country, while authentic Soviet-style communism retreated to a few dark corners of the Earth -- notably North Korea, where it has morphed into an even stranger beast: a communist familial dynasty). So all the anti-communist cold warriors were left with nothing to do but deify Ronald Reagan for his supposed one-man victory over "the commies." Which they happily did.
Since then, America and the Western world have turned their attentions elsewhere -- to China, for the most part (although occasionally to North Korea or Iran, as well). And then after 9/11 the worldwide conflict wasn't communism-versus-capitalism, it was terrorism-versus-civilization. Our small-scale and proxy wars were fought against Islamist forces, not against puppets or allies of Russia (although occasionally the two were indeed the same, notably in Syria).
This week, all of that changed. The entire balance of power in the world and the focus of what should be feared the most have both been inexorably altered by Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine. This tragedy continues to unfold on the world's television screens.
From the start of it, President Joe Biden has made it clear that America would "stand with" Ukraine... without actually fighting with them. No American military men and women would be present in Ukraine no matter what happened. We would beef up our NATO allies (in Central and Eastern Europe) and send troops to bolster the easternmost defenses of the alliance, but none of them would be directly involved in whatever happened in Ukraine.
This was the only feasible course of action for Biden to take, obviously. Ukraine is not a member of NATO and we have no defense treaty with the country. We have no obligation to help them at all, in fact. We would do what we could, mostly by shipping them arms that would increase the government forces' lethality against Russian tanks, but that was about as far as we were willing to go, militarily.
Instead, our main weapon would be sanctions on Russia, its leaders, its banks, and its economy. Biden has been ratcheting these up as events have unfolded, but has (so far) withheld some of the strongest sanctions he could impose on the country. Sanctions can really only be effective if the entire West supports them and Europe will feel the economic pain a lot worse than we will, so the Europeans are reluctant to impose the stiffest penalties possible. Again: so far, at any rate -- we will see how the situation continues to develop.
That is the international picture, in a nutshell. At this point, nobody knows what endgame Putin sees for all this. He could be sincere when he says he doesn't want to occupy Ukraine (at least not for any extended period of time). It seems definite now that his initial goals are to depose the duly-elected Ukrainian government and destroy their military capability. After that is achieved, nobody has any clue about what Putin will do next. And since Putin is a total autocrat (and a megalomaniac to boot), while it is impossible to predict his actions it's a certainty that whatever he decides to do is exactly what Russia is going to do -- he won't have to face much political dissent at home. Putin may decide to settle for his original goal of just absorbing the two eastern Ukrainian regions into Russia (whether de facto or de jure) and install a pro-Russian Ukrainian government -- but then soon exit the country. He may try for a bigger division of Ukraine, taking the entire eastern half of it that has more citizens who are sympathetic to Russia while leaving the west of the country (where people are much more supportive of Western Europe) to its own devices. Or he may just try to occupy Ukraine until it is completely pacified (and has become an obedient satellite state, like Belarus to the north).
Nobody knows how long that would take, not even Putin. Will there be a guerrilla insurgency in occupied Ukraine that wages continual hit-and-run warfare against the occupying Russians? If so, how long will it last and how successful would it become? Would NATO allies supply such forces with arms? What would Russia do in retaliation? Is Putin going to be satisfied with just Ukraine, or does he have his eyes on the three Baltic states as well (which are all full NATO members)? Nobody knows the answers to any of those questions. All are distinct possibilities, at this point. So is World War III, if Putin does attack the Baltics -- since he's already dropping veiled hints about first nuclear strikes happening.
What strikes us is that whatever happens, this is going to be just the start of a long period of instability. There will be no quick solutions, militarily or otherwise. America and the West might just have to get used to Putin's newly-drawn Iron Curtain. We may wage more of an economic war against Putin and his cronies, but that may take a degree of sacrifice by Americans that they haven't been asked to do in a very long time. If this truly is the coming of Cold War II, then our domestic politics are going to have to adapt to the changing world order.
Whatever happens, we're no longer in a golden age of not having a superpower of a military adversary to fear anymore. From the fall of the Soviet Union until now, some people have been proclaiming the period to be the "end of history" -- with things so hunky-dory that the world simply would never see global conflicts ever again. That was obviously far too optimistic, in hindsight. One might even use the word "naive."
How will the American public view the situation next week, after President Biden gives his State Of The Union? Probably pretty positively, as Biden might just benefit from the "rally 'round the president" bump in support that usually happens. But if gas prices continue to creep up (or, even worse, spike sharply upwards), this might be very short-lived indeed. Although Biden might just have an ace up his sleeve, as (oddly enough, since it will depend on Russia's help) a new nuclear deal might be reached very soon with Iran which would not only limit their nuclear ambitions but also allow them to freely sell their oil on the world market again. That could change the equation to at least some degree or another.
With all the Monday-morning quarterbacking already directed against Biden, nobody yet has come up with some sort of magical solution to the problem -- what Biden "really should have done" or what he should be doing right now that will make the whole problem disappear and go away overnight. That's because -- quite obviously -- such a solution does not exist.
We've already written this week on the monumental change the Russian occupation of Ukraine will mean to NATO and the West. We were inspired to write because of a very clear-eyed article in the Washington Post that had a map which clearly showed the conundrum both Russia and NATO now find themselves in, in terms of how they think about their own security. It's a sobering look at where we might be months or even years down the road.
Biden, in his big speech next Tuesday, really needs to prepare America for what we all could face in this changing future. He should even remind everyone that this is precisely how Adolf Hitler got started -- with the annexation or forced surrender of Austria, the Sudetenland and then all of Czechoslovakia, all of which happened before the Nazi blitzkrieg was unleashed against Poland (and the rest of Europe).
Normally, drawing parallels with 1939 would be seen as overstating the case. Scare tactics, even. But not this time. This time the situation the world is facing right now is indeed just as serious. Vladimir Putin has already successfully absorbed parts of other former Soviet republics; Ukraine is just the biggest bite he's taken yet. So far, he has largely gotten away scot-free with these aggressions. Even the theft of the Crimea didn't cause too much of a world uproar.
This time is different. This time Putin really is changing the world order that existed from the dissolution of the Soviet Union up until now. This is the biggest military invasion Europe has seen since World War II. NATO might have to -- for the first time in its history -- collectively defend a member state's home territory against a nuclear-armed state. That's about as serious as it gets.
At this point, even a Cold War II would be better. But if this crisis does develop into such a long-term standoff, the West needs to be prepared. Mentally prepared. Because learning to live with a new phase of geopolitical threats is going to be a major shock for us all.
-- Chris Weigant
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant
Cross-posted at: Democratic Underground
I wonder what China, India and Pakistan will do. All is fine to wait it out on the sidelines while it's conventional warfare but if it gets to the threat of nukes being tossed around, they suddenly have skin in the game, the survival of their entire civilization. It looks like China is starting to blink. Their banks have restricted lending to Russia. We will see if India and Pakistan add some pressure...
CW
Republicans in general are all over the map when it comes to figuring out exactly what they stand for.
Poor GOP. Here, let me help them:
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Ah, the perils of foregoing an actual platform in favor of being a bunch of servile groupies complaisant to a cult of personality pathologically lying con artist who neither gives a shit about your Party nor your country.
The "Whatever Trump Says" Party discovers the pitfalls of pledging allegiance to a man whose loyalties lie elsewhere.
Boo effing hoo. :)
Because learning to live with a new phase of geopolitical threats is going to be a major shock for us all.
Or, we could just bask in the tranquility and beauty of the music.
what sort of music?
William Nye’s remark about Wagner’s music is of that sort: ‘They say that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.’
~mark twain
Some of the sort I will be playing Sunday night. :)
so... not this?
CW
This annoyed Lindsey Graham -- and probably Jim Clyburn too (no word, yet) -- because they had thrown their support behind a different candidate, a federal judge from South Carolina.
If he was upset about it, he sure didn't let it show:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/595882-clyburn-hails-bidens-pick-for-supreme-court-outstanding
For the record, the only thing Communism ever accomplished was to make everybody poor. That's why it has died a natural death.
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Do NOT buy into the hysteria!
Ain't gonna be no nukes flying about no matter that Putin has rattled his nuclear saber. Putin knows that it's not going there and so does the West, with the exception of our MSM.
So relax. Nuke up some Orville Reddenbacher (no pun intended, but ya gotta admit it's a good one) and kick back and enjoy these interesting times that we live in.
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(rimshot)
Hats off to that one!
Good comments here, pretty spew.*sigh*
...PRE spew.
nypoet22
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so... not this?
Did somebody say Wagner?
I am so here for this.
So, to recap: Better than it sounds. ;)
Do NOT buy into the hysteria!
But I have been training for the radiated wasteland my entire life (zombie apocalypse as well). Now where is that Vault-Tec sales man...
So, I started to simply glean over the Weigantian™ administration's commentary and this caught my eye..
We should begin by saying that we're going to get to our outlook on what has already happened and what is likely to happen in the future in a much more "big picture" way down in the talking points. It's not a "rant" (as we are sometimes wont to write), it is instead a sober (and hopefully sobering) take on what might be looming on the horizon. This isn't a week for partisan political talking points, we felt.
So, I thought to myself, I thought "Self?? This might be a different kind of commentary where there is no partisan bullshit and lame political attacks and talking points...."
So I figured I would also have to tone down my partisan rhetoric and such..
Then I skimmed down the rest of the commentary and saw, of course, that it was nothing but partisan bullshit, lame political attacks and talking points...
In short, another commentary like every other where nothing's changed...
On the plus side for ya'all, I have a full day ahead.. My new 11th GEN CPU is coming today so I'll be rebuilding my main gamer system.. I have to go pick up our new jacuzzi and manage getting that installed..
So, ya'all will have an abbreviated version of me today.. :D
Let's get on with it shall we?? :D
First up, my favorite chew toy, racist cad...
Grrrrr..... I hate it when I forget to close an attribute!!! :(
Reposted for clarity....
So, I started to simply glean over the Weigantian™ administration's commentary and this caught my eye..
We should begin by saying that we're going to get to our outlook on what has already happened and what is likely to happen in the future in a much more "big picture" way down in the talking points. It's not a "rant" (as we are sometimes wont to write), it is instead a sober (and hopefully sobering) take on what might be looming on the horizon. This isn't a week for partisan political talking points, we felt.
So, I thought to myself, I thought "Self?? This might be a different kind of commentary where there is no partisan bullshit and lame political attacks and talking points...."
So I figured I would also have to tone down my partisan rhetoric and such..
Then I skimmed down the rest of the commentary and saw, of course, that it was nothing but partisan bullshit, lame political attacks and talking points...
In short, another commentary like every other where nothing's changed...
On the plus side for ya'all, I have a full day ahead.. My new 11th GEN CPU is coming today so I'll be rebuilding my main gamer system.. I have to go pick up our new jacuzzi and manage getting that installed..
So, ya'all will have an abbreviated version of me today.. :D
Let's get on with it shall we?? :D
First up, my favorite chew toy, racist cad...
racist cad,
Ya'all might wonder why I call cad 'racist cad' now..
Here is cad's comment, completely unretouched and unredacted...
IT SEEMS that the old bargain that the rich have offered po' white trash is still working to this day,
You can boss the niggers,
And we'll boss the money!
And it therefore strikes me that at heart racism has an economic motivation -- it's a trick that distracts poor whites from the lousy deal they're getting.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/02/23/republicans-want-to-raise-taxes-on-half-of-america/#comment-185757
Now, it's been my experience that in CIVILIZED blogs, racist and homophobic comments (such as vick's earlier) are completely forbidden and users who make such comments are usually banned from such blogs..
On the other hand, in THIS blog under the current administration cyberstalking is permissible.. Extortion using the fruits of said cyberstalking is permissible.. Terroristic attacks on innocent parties and family members are permissible..
So, I guess it's not surprising that racist and homophobic comments are ALSO permissible..
What IS surprising is the condoning and agreement of such racist and homophobic comments by my fellow FOUNDERS of Weigantia™..
I mean, the rank and file peons of Weigantia™, the haters and the bigots and the racists.. THAT is not surprising that they would find acceptable racist and homophobic comments.. They are, after all, part and parcel to the group that is actually MAKING the comments..
But it IS surprising that JL and LIZ, my 2 fellow FOUNDERS would not condemn those comments in the strongest possible terms... Such condemnation SHOULD be automatic and not be subject to any political considerations.. It shouldn't matter if one is a Democrat or a Republican.. Racist and homophobic comments should be CONDEMNED.. Loudly and unequivocally..
It's a sad state of affairs that I even have to point out this fact-ism..
SILENCE GIVES ASSENT is a time honored tradition amongst Democrats.. The terrorist wing of the Democrat Party, BLM has made a buttload of money off of sales of SILENCE GIVES ASSENT related merchandise... Democrats believe that failure to condemn true and actual racism is condoning and agreeing with racism..
Democrats believe Silence in the face of racism IS racism. That's probably the only fact of Democrats' belief that I actually agree with..
So, to see such racism in the other two Weigantian™ FOUNDERS is deeply.. deeply disappointing..
It's like finding out your best friend is a racist... VERY disappointing...
But I'll survive... I survived a much worse trauma of my good friend CW dying... I'll survive this as well..
So, that is why 'cad' is now 'racist cad'... He will always be 'racist cad'... He knows he is a racist.. I know he is a racist.. And all of ya'all know that cad is a racist.. And ya'all have to live with the fact that ya'all condone and agree with cad's racism..
Sucks to be ya'all...
racist cad,
Good comments here, pretty spew.*sigh*
Once again, racist cad simply cannot actually ignore my comments..
Now he is actually anticipating my comments.. HOPING for my comments!!! :D
I have a large roomy area of his brain all to myself.. :D
@Bashi,
But I have been training for the radiated wasteland my entire life (zombie apocalypse as well). Now where is that Vault-Tec sales man...
Liar... You are on record as playing GTA.. So you have been training for being nothing but a cop-killing, drug-addled pimp who enjoys beating women...
In other words, the quintessential Democrat...
And I bet you are really good at being a cop-killing, drug-addled pimp who enjoys beating women..
Gods know you get enough practice living in that shithole of Portland OR...
So.. Biden finally made good on his racist pledge and nominated a SCOTUS justice from only 2% of the available pool.. Statistically speaking, it's a virtual impossibility that the nominee selected is the most qualified..
Of course, she is THE most qualified as an Affirmative Action hire.. A token..
Blatant racism.. And everyone here is perfectly on-board with such racism..
I wish I could say I was surprised.. But in light of recent events...??? No, not surprising... Not surprising at all...
"It’s going to take a hell of a lot of work to make up for all the damage President Trump's done internationally and nationally. His network of thugs and co-conspirators are going to continue to try to undermine our democracy in the meantime. Imagine what he can do in another year. Imagine what can happen to Ukraine."
-Joe Biden, Campaign 2019
Well, we can only imagine how good things would have been for Ukraine under President Trump..
We *KNOW* how BAD things are for Ukraine under Biden...
We knew how bad things were for Ukraine under Odumbo...
What IS it about Democrats that they are such weak and feckless and incompetent leaders that they cannot contain Putin, as President Trump did??
President Trump proved beyond ANY doubt.. That he was a better President and a better leader than Odumbo and Biden combined..
And now, from Democrat Party Water Carrier NPR...
A majority says Biden's first year was a failure, a new poll finds
Rising inflation, a continuing pandemic, a foreign policy misstep in Afghanistan and Democratic infighting all marred President Biden's first year, and now a majority of respondents to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll say his first year was a "failure."
In all, 56% said Biden's first year in office was a failure, versus just 39% who said it was a success.
What's more, 54% said he's not fulfilling his campaign promises, and 52% said he has done more to divide the country than unite it, despite uniting the country being a pillar of Biden's 2020 presidential run.
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082979837/a-majority-say-bidens-first-year-was-a-failure-a-new-poll-finds
The majority of Americans have stated for the record that Biden and the Democrats have failed..
There it is people.. In a poll-driven language that ya'all adhere to.. When it goes yer way... :D
BIDEN = FAILURE
DEMOCRATS = FAILURE
Pure and simple...
Spin it anyway ya'all want..
But Democrats and Biden have FAILED...
Why not that?
This Sunday night it will be all about playing music you love - so, come one and all! It's going to be a lot of fun.:)
The president is clinging to just a 39% overall approval rating, a 36% approval for his handling of the economy and 47% for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Just 30% of respondents said they think the U.S. is headed in the right direction, days before Biden is set to give his first formal State of the Union address.
All are the worst marks of his presidency in the survey.
"These are sort of rock-bottom numbers," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll. "It's about as low as you're going to see Biden.
.... SO FAR..
Biden has PLENTY of room to fall.. And now that Russia has proven AGAIN what a complete and utter failure Biden and the Democrats are as leaders, Biden's numbers will continue to plummet..
Not that anyone really needed any more proof after Biden got 13 brave American soldiers killed with his complete and utter incompetence...
Afghanistan PROVED what failures Biden and the Democrats are at leading..
Ukraine simply provides more and more evidence to prove that..
Once China moves on Taiwan??
Biden and the Democrats' trifecta of failure will be complete..
How ANYONE (with more than 2 brain cells to rub together) could support Democrats?? That simply boggles the mind...
This Sunday night it will be all about playing music you love - so, come one and all!
Do you think racist cad will be there???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....
It's still too early in the morning for ... you. :)
This Sunday night it will be all about playing music you love - so, come one and all! It's going to be a lot of fun.:)
What about homophobe vick?? Will she be there??
It's still too early in the morning for ... you. :)
And yet... Here I am..
In all my normal brilliance sunshine personality and NON-RACIST glory.... :D
So, I thought to myself, I thought "Self?? This might be a different kind of commentary where there is no partisan bullshit and lame political attacks and talking points...."
Piker walks into a casino and is shocked... SHOCKED!... to find gambling going on in there.
Troll reports he is here to troll.
Oh, shocker!
Elizabeth Miller
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Why not that?
Exactly!
Elizabeth Miller
24
This Sunday night it will be all about playing music you love - so, come one and all! It's going to be a lot of fun.
Thank you, EM. I'll be there.
You and I must make a pact;
We must bring salvation back
Where there is love, I'll be there.
I'll be there.
Mike
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Now, it's been my experience that in CIVILIZED blogs, racist and homophobic comments (such as vick's earlier) are completely forbidden and users who make such comments are usually banned from such blogs..
Three things:
(1) I am not homophobic. You can repeat this horseshit claim of yours until the cows come home, all you will be proving is that you're a terminally butt hurt limp-wristed lying sack of estrogen.
(2) Of those who are regular readers of this blog and who do not suffer from your obvious mental deficiencies of:
(a) "Can't Remember Shit" Syndrome, and
(b) "Head Jammed Up Trump's Ass" Affliction,
not a single one of them is fool enough to fall for the utter asinine nonsensical notion that the word you keep repeating offends you for even a scintilla of a second.
(3) This forum is archived and Permalinked.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/08/14/an-avenatti-run-would-help-democrats/#comment-124514
If there was ever a time when using that term would have gotten a poster banned, this forum would have been rid of your pathetic trolling bullshit a very long time ago.
Now I'm sorry (not sorry) if you've run into some posters whom you can't run off like you've done to so many others with your pathetic repetitive trolling drivel and spew that you've been running on others for decades.
In conclusion: Cry more. :)
@homophobic vick
(1) I am not homophobic.
Actually, the FACTS prove you are..
Calling someone a c*ck-h*lster is the same thing as calling someone a "fa**ot"..
By using it as derogatory name-calling, you are stating that you believe that being gay is wrong or bad or evil..
That proves that you are homophobic in the hate-crime context of the word.. Not in the actual phobic/fear meaning of the word..
Just like racist cad's use of the racist slur proves that he IS in fact, a racist..
These are the facts whether you choose to acknowledge them or not...
But my point wasn't that you are homophobic or that cad is a racist..
Ya'all are.. That's fact..
My point is how your homophobia and cad's racism is acceptable to the Weigantian™ FOUNDERS and the Weigantian™ administration..
We all recall how JL and Liz went absolutely (for them) hysterically batshit over my use of the c-word to describe you.... We recall how the current Weigantian™ administration ALSO went batshit hysterical crazy condemning my use of the c-word..
Now we have blatant racist comments and blatant homophobic comments and JL and Liz AND the Weigantian™ administration are completely silent..
Which simply proves beyond ANY doubt that their condemnation of my use of the c-word was SOLELY based on political bigotry and NOT on any real distaste for the word..
This fact was further re-enforced when a Democrat used the c-word to attack another Democrat and JL/Liz/Administration again was completely silent..
Not even warranting a DisHonorable Mention in the MDDOTW awards...
It's ALL about political and partisan bigotry...
Nothing more..
The FACTS prove this beyond ANY doubt...
So, yes... You are homophobic vick.. The FACTS prove this..
Yes.. cad is a racist.. The FACTS prove this..
And the rest of ya'all are hypocrites for not condemning the racist and homophobic slurs...
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
No crying.. Just facts... As usual...
Calling someone a c*ck-h*lster is the same thing as calling someone a "fa**ot"..
NO! Not even close!
By using it as derogatory name-calling, you are stating that you believe that being gay is wrong or bad or evil..
Pretty sure that is just you! No one else thinks like that.
That proves that you are homophobic in the hate-crime context of the word.. Not in the actual phobic/fear meaning of the word..
Nope, it proves that you go out of your way to accuse others of being homophobic.
Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson could face scrutiny for overturned decisions
Ketanji Brown Jackson had decisions reversed for 'judicial overreach,' law professor Jonathan Turley said
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-overturned-decisions
This is what happens when you pick a SCOTUS nominee from only 2% of the nomination pool..
You get shitty candidates who can't judge their way out of a paper bag... Token candidates... Affirmative Action hires...
It's a near statistical impossibility to get the best qualified candidate when you ignore 98% of the available pool...
@rush,
NO! Not even close!
Of course you would claim that.. You are as politically bigoted as homophobic vick is...
But the FACTS are clear..
Stephen Colbert’s Shocking Attack On Trump Concludes With A Homophobic Slur
decider.com/2017/05/02/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-cock-holster/
Stephen Colbert tried to insult Donald Trump. He made a homophobic comment instead.
The comedian used an insult that mocks gay men.
vox.com/identities/2017/5/2/15515066/stephen-colbert-trump-putin-homophobia-late-show
The facts are clear..
Vick is homophobic... In the hate-crime context...
This is established as fact...
Defend her all you want.. It just proves your a political bigot who supports Democrats over gay people..
Just like you support Democrats who hate cops...
Facts are clear...
@rush,
Put another way.. If I had called you a "c*ckh*lster" you and the rest of Weigantia™ would be screaming HOMOPHOBIC!!! all over Weigantia™..
You know it.. I know it..
So shut the frak up, ya cop-hating bigot...
Mike
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Calling someone a c*ck-h*lster is the same thing as calling someone a "fa**ot"..
Calling someone an apple is the same thing as calling them an orange. Ignorance like yours ought to be illegal.
By using it as derogatory name-calling, you are stating that you believe that being gay is wrong or bad or evil..
No, I am not, you pathetic ignorant poon.
That proves that you are homophobic in the hate-crime context of the word.. Not in the actual phobic/fear meaning of the word..
No, but you are definitely proving you are an idiot, in the retarded brain maturation sense of the word. Morons with obviously dysfunctional brain stems and an underdeveloped medulla oblongata should never attempt to explain to others about meanings of words that they are demonstrably too ignorant to comprehend.
Just like racist cad's use of the racist slur proves that he IS in fact, a racist..
I think you're in love with him. You haven't stopped talking about him for a long time now. All you do is obsess over him. Remember that time you wouldn't shut about his "wee wee"? Same thing you used to do to Russ all the time... obsess over his Russ's "wee wee" (your term, not mine).
But enough about your obsession with MtnCaddy; stay focused shit for brains, we were talking about me. :)
My point is how your homophobia and cad's racism is acceptable to the Weigantian™ FOUNDERS and the Weigantian™ administration..
You're still butt hurt? We understand.
We all recall how JL and Liz went absolutely (for them) hysterically batshit over my use of the c-word to describe you.... We recall how the current Weigantian™ administration ALSO went batshit hysterical crazy condemning my use of the c-word..
People like me. What can I say?
Now we have blatant racist comments and blatant homophobic comments and JL and Liz AND the Weigantian™ administration are completely silent..
Cry more, Mike. It's the surefire way to let everyone on the forum know who's the real p.... kitty around here.
ListenWhenYouHear
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I love you, Russ. :)
Mike
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Put another way.. If I had called you a "c*ckh*lster" you and the rest of Weigantia™ would be screaming HOMOPHOBIC!!! all over Weigantia™..
Leave Russ alone, you giant whining wussy.
Mike
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Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson could face scrutiny for overturned decisions
So... no scrutiny over attempted rape and beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOr808UXOgE
This is what happens when you pick a SCOTUS nominee from only 2% of the nomination pool..
If you had said something when Donald Trump chose a SCOTUS nominee from an even more exclusive list of 0.00000000000000000000000000001% of the nomination pool, people might have to take you seriously, but you didn't. So they don't.
Well, never again will I ever invite anyone here again - it's too embarrassing.
I sure hope they never looked in ... you know, to test the waters.
Kick,
It'll be a lot of fun lovin' Sunday night. And, you reminded me of something I've never played here before but will tomorrow night!
Give us a hint, EM.
Heh.
Kick,
You'll just have to tune in Sunday night ... and play what you love ... hope I can find what I'm talking about ...
[40]. Kick
I love you, too! I saw that you saw my message from a few days ago… peas and carrots! I am so thankful for your friendship… I admit that I really do have great taste when it comes to my friends!
Elizabeth Miller
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I'll be there. If you can't locate it, I wouldn't bet against me being able to. ;)
Put another way.. If I had called you a "c*ckh*lster" you and the rest of Weigantia™ would be screaming HOMOPHOBIC!!! all over Weigantia™..
You know it.. I know it..
Of course we would…because you have declared that, to you, this is a homophobic slur! If YOU used this term with me, it would, by your own admission, be meant as a homophobic slur. How else could I take such a comment from you?
And wouldn’t being called a cockholster be more offensive an insult to someone who isn’t a huge fan of a cockatoo (pronounced “cok or two”)? Of course it is! Sexually, I might enjoy being the holster for the right gun… you?? Doubtful. No, you have claimed that you are straight… and it is one of the few things that you have said on here that I feel confident is true.
So you being called Trump’s cockholster isn’t sexual in any way… its about you willingly humiliating yourself in order to please Dear Leader! You submitting and doing something you find disgusting to win favor with someone like Trump is a far worse burn than any slur could ever be!
I found it! Can't wait to play it!!!
Kick,
I'm not going to give any hints as I have no doubt that you would indeed find it :)
ListenWhenYouHear
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I love you, too!
:)
I saw that you saw my message from a few days ago…
I am never not here.
peas and carrots!
We are.
I am so thankful for your friendship…
Count on Me
I admit that I really do have great taste when it comes to my friends!
Me too!
We cannot help it, can we, Russ? We are like people magnets. We are smart, we are fun, and people adore us. Don't you ever forget that. :)
ListenWhenYouHear
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Of course we would…because you have declared that, to you, this is a homophobic slur! If YOU used this term with me, it would, by your own admission, be meant as a homophobic slur. How else could I take such a comment from you?
Exactly! And now that we know what that word means to him, he can't exactly use it without proving what a dick he is... not that we didn't already know, obviously.
And wouldn’t being called a cockholster be more offensive an insult to someone who isn’t a huge fan of a cockatoo (pronounced “cok or two”)? Of course it is!
Uh, Russ...
Sexually, I might enjoy being the holster for the right gun… you??
Uh, Russ...
Doubtful. No, you have claimed that you are straight… and it is one of the few things that you have said on here that I feel confident is true.
Uh, Russ... well, you see, it's like this. GT posted this link to these other links, and... well... they led all over the place... and... well:
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/02/23/republicans-want-to-raise-taxes-on-half-of-america/#comment-185812
So you being called Trump’s cockholster isn’t sexual in any way… its about you willingly humiliating yourself in order to please Dear Leader!
Exactly how I meant it! Russ nails it like a bag of hammers again. :)
DOES all this Wagner stuff hint of a Germany versus Canadia Classical Music Throwdown theme for this Sunday? Hmmm. Not my first choice, perhaps, but...intriguing!
Or maybe a Michael Jackson theme should I'll Be There is still stuck in my head
@rush,
Of course we would…
Thank you for conceding your bigotry and hypocrisy...
So you being called Trump’s cockholster isn’t sexual in any way… its about you willingly humiliating yourself in order to please Dear Leader!
So, what you are saying is being gay means you are willingly humiliating yourself...
So, it's all about self-hate with you, eh??
WOW... This is some pretty heavy revelations, rush...
Look... You can spin and equivocate all you want..
Homophobic vick threw around a gay slur.. This is fact.. You can sugar-coat it all you want, but the facts are the facts..
Racist cad threw around a racial slur.. This is fact.. A FACT you don't bother to dispute, I might add... You said nothing to condemn racist cad's racial slur..
So, according to YOUR OWN DEMOCRATS, that makes YOU a racist as well..
SILENCE GIVES ASSENT
The facts are clear..
And the fact that you are so hysterical and desperate about trying to show that homophobic vick is NOT homophobic but ignore racist cad's racial slur is very telling..
But, as I said.. The facts are clear..
Homophobic vick hates gay people.. This is established as fact..
Racist cad hates black people. This is established as fact..
And, in Democrat Party land, SILENCE GIVES ASSENT...
SILENCE IN THE FACE OF RACISM *IS* RACISM...
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president: poll
A majority of American voters say that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had former President Trump still been in office, according to a new survey released on Friday.
A new Harvard Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)-Harris Poll survey released Friday found that 62 percent of those polled believed Putin would not be moving against Ukraine if Trump had been president. When looking strictly at the answers of Democrats and Republicans, 85 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of Democrats answered this way.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/595919-62-percent-of-voters-say-putin-wouldnt-have-invaded-ukraine-if-trump
The vast majority of Americans understand reality..
Biden, like Odumbo before him, gives Putin carte blanche to do whatever Putin wants to do..
Biden/Odumbo simply can't keep Putin and Russia in check..
But President Trump did.. Under President Trump, Putin was SCARED to act.. SCARED to do anything that would invite US retaliation..
And I am not talking about wussy sanctions that don't do anything.. Hell, Biden is so afraid of Putin that Biden won't make ANY sanctions against Putin himself..
Why is Biden so afraid of Putin???
The simple fact is.. When it comes to Putin and Russia..
Democrats simply cannot lead..
The facts that prove this are overwhelming and conclusive...
A majority of Americans polled — 59 percent — also said they believed that the Russian president moved on Ukraine because Putin saw weakness in President Biden, while 41 percent said that it was not a factor in Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
Once again.. A majority of Americans understand the facts perfectly...
Biden is weak.. Democrats are weak... Biden and the Democrats are simply unfit to govern this great country..
What IS it about Democrats that they ALWAYS manuever themselves into LOSE-LOSE situations??
Pelosi’s Dilemma: Her State of the Union Optics Might Hurt Biden’s Message
Pelosi thus appears caught in a great dilemma – and it doesn’t stop with the pandemic. After all, if the left submits to reality on the science of masking, might they then also have to submit to reality on their false claims of “systemic racism” in American society? What about the line that unlimited spending has no consequences for the national economy? Before you know it, Pelosi might even have to admit that there are only two genders – as the science and most Americans already believe. Wouldn’t that be a sight. All that reality could very well lead to widespread disillusionment and despair on the left, triggering a great unraveling of the radical Democrats and their supporters in an election year.
In short, giving up the masks might inevitably lead to Pelosi giving up her gavel and the one thing Democrats love even more than fear – their power.
https://amac.us/pelosis-dilemma-her-state-of-the-union-optics-might-hurt-bidens-message/
Americans now know that the COVID pandemic was nothing but a POLITICAL pandemic.. OH sure, the actual pandemic numbers show that it was a regular pandemic slightly more serious than Odumbo's H1N1 pandemic..
But the HYSTERIA surrounding COVID.. The downright SCIENCE-LESS hysteria proves beyond ANY doubt that it was a POLITICAL Pandemic..
Lockdowns don't work.. The SCIENCE and the FACTS proved that..
Masks don't work.. The SCIENCE and the FACTS proved that...
So, now in 2 days time we're going to see how much Democrats have accepted the REAL science...
If Biden gets to the podium and brags about how he whipped COVID's ass but the sea of politicians before him are all masked???
What a message that is going to really send, eh??
But, if all of Congress is unmasked?? Then we know that Democrats finally concede the facts..
COVID was never really any big thing... It's all been political hype to wield political power..
Once again.. Democrats have put themselves into a LOSE-LOSE situation..
No matter WHAT Democrats do.... They lose....
Mask up??? Democrats lose.. Masks off?? Democrats lose... :D
I love it!!! :D
The most obvious potential display that things aren’t back to normal, however, will be if every attendee is wearing N95 or KN95 masks, as per the current guidance for the event.
On the one hand, keeping the mask mandate in place would make Joe Biden’s claims of “victory” over the virus appear almost farcical juxtaposed with the image of lawmakers in masks. While it might appease the small but vocal portion of the country who wants to mask forever, to most Americans a masked State of the Union would symbolize a Democratic establishment that is still firmly in the grasp of the COVID lockdown advocates. All of the groundwork the White House has been laying over the past several weeks would likely be for nothing when the country sees a President and a Congress who still appear to be terrified of COVID-19.
On the other hand, Pelosi lifting the mask mandate at the last minute could provide Biden another opportunity to claim that the country is “moving forward” from the virus. Without the sight of masks, the most potent symbol of the pandemic, Biden could project an air of normalcy by the mere image of a full House chamber for his speech.
The downfalls of this approach, however, are clear. Democrats remain divided on mask policies, and some appear to actually want to keep pandemic restrictions in place, despite what the CDC now says. It may now be the case that Democrats have so completely convinced their base (and in some cases themselves) to embrace every pandemic restriction as a matter of life or death that even their own supporters don’t want to give up the masks. They may see it as an admission that the anti-mask crowd, whom they have ceaselessly accused of being “anti-science” and “murderers” over the past two years, has actually been right all along.
Again, the options facing Democrats are HYSTERICAL!!! :D
Keep the guidelines in place (masks for everyone) and Biden looks like a moron when he is up on the lectern bragging about how COVID is "in the rear view mirror"...
Change the guidelines because of political optics and Democrats concede that COVID GUIDELINES have ALWAYS been about politics.. NEVER been about the actual science..
Further, by removing the masks, Democrats admit that the anti-mask crowd has been factually accurate all along.. :D
MASKS DO NOT WORK... The FACTS and the SCIENCE has proven this beyond ANY doubt..
So, once again.. Democrats have manuevered themselves into a LOSE-LOSE cluster-frak of a situation...
BBBBBWWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The FACTS are clear.. And THAT is why ya'all hate me.. :D
Because I bring the facts that ya'all don't want to hear.. :D
I am the Weigantian™ Freedom Fighter.. And FACTS are my weapons of choice.. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8
:D
Lifting the mask mandate would also likely add to the perception that Democrats have only shifted their tone on COVID-19 restrictions as their poll numbers have tanked. As many conservative commentators have put it when explaining Democrats’ sudden “pivot” on COVID-19, “the science didn’t change – the politics changed.”
Pelosi would also open herself up to accusations of hypocrisy by not requiring masks, as she has thus far staunchly refused to lift any COVID-19 restrictions at the Capitol. The building remains closed to visitors, and she just announced an extension of proxy voting – a supposed emergency measure just for the pandemic – to March 30. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an outspoken House Republican from Georgia, has reportedly racked up nearly $90,000 in fines for refusing to comply with Pelosi’s mask mandate on the House floor. Would Pelosi now dare lift that same mandate to help give Biden a good photo op on the biggest political stage of the year?
That's Democrats for ya...
Nothing they have EVER did about COVID was about the science..
It was ALL about the politics..
We only have to remember that Biden and Headboard Harris are the parents of vaccine hesitancy..
Under President Trump they encouraged everyone not to trust the vaccines..
But when Biden became president, Biden and Headboard Harris were ALL about the vaccine..
Proof positive that Democrats' approach to COVID was ALL about politics and political power and control..
And now Democrats are going to pay for that in November..
Under Biden, the US buys 8% of it's oil from Russia..
So, Biden and the Democrats funded Putin's attack on Ukraine..
WHY am I not surprised??
Caddy,
This Sunday night is going to be all about love ... hope you'll be there!
When did the turning point come for Russian President Vladimir Putin in making his decision to invade Ukraine?
It would be easy to say that the Fall of Kabul was the watershed. A country in which the USA had invested thousands of lives and trillions of dollars collapsed the instant U.S. forces were set to leave. The dotard in the White House, Joe Biden, personally made foolish decisions and then tried to blame it on his generals, while still preening that “the buck stops” with his office. The USA was left with a demoralized military attuned to counter-insurgency in backwaters, which is mostly irrelevant to deterring Russia, China, or Iran.
https://supermacro.substack.com/p/putin-thinks-we-are-a-bunch-of-karens?utm_source=url
Biden's debacle in Afghanistan set all this in motion..
And it's going to end with Chinese troops in Taiwan... :^/
Back in America, things were worse. As 2021 began, our top general, Mark Milley, shimmied into his uniform in the closing days of the Trump administration and colluded with the Chinese government against his own president. To please his new woke masters in the Biden administration, he professed to be searching for the origins of “white rage.” The army he leads put out an ad about a female soldier with two lesbian mothers, in which the soldier conflated her youthful political activism with “defending freedom.” This led to an unfavorable video juxtaposition on RT to a Russian army ad that actually celebrated masculinity and warfighting skill. Also in 2021, America’s Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, authorized the display of “Black Lives Matter” banners at our embassies around the world, touting a domestic leftwing terrorist group.
"White Rage" is nothing but a racist stereotype.. No different than "angry black man"...
One has to wonder if Milley ever wanted to understand the racist stereotype of the "angry black man", eh??
What IS it about you Democrats that you simply REFUSE to shake your racist roots..
Ya'all accept racism and racial slurs here in Weigantia™... Ya'all support Democrats who are still, undeniably, the Racist Party...
It's mind-boggling...
Aside from cultural self-destruction, the West was also setting itself up for economic despair, which Putin can also read. In each of 2020 and 2021, the USA borrowed more than $3 trillion, mostly by printing new dollars, and now has 130 percent debt to GDP, surpassing France and second only to Japan. Not a dime of this new spending, which has resulted in annual budgets above $6 trillion with annual deficits above $1.5 trillion for as far as the eye can see, went to a stronger military. Meanwhile, Russia’s debt to GDP is less than 20 percent and it has a balanced budget. Higher oil and gas prices from the prolonged Ukraine crisis benefit Russia, which produces 10 million barrels of oil per day and exports half of that. It may mean that the Russian invasion will pay for itself.
And the US will be part and parcel to the countries that are enriching Putin's coffers...
Now we know where the REAL Russia Collusion is.. It's the Democrats...
Since President Biden's inauguration, a $23 increase in oil price has translated to nearly $84 billion in extra cash for Russia, cash that is all profit, being marginal revenue over the cost of production. The new money has fueled President Putin's confidence and resolve in engaging in war games around Ukraine.
https://tippinsights.com/anti-fossil-madness-funds-putins-ukraine-aggression/
Good job, Biden... Good job, Democrats..
Ya'all have directly funded Putin's push for Ukraine...
Morons.... :^/
There's a correlation between high oil prices and bad Russian behavior. Russian aggression in the region last occurred on March 18, 2014, when President Putin reclaimed Crimea. WTI crude price closed that day at $99 per barrel, and President Obama was in office. For the next two years, prices steadily fell, forcing Russia into a recession. President Putin went into his cocoon to deal with domestic problems as the Russian economy teetered on the edge of collapse. In January 2016, WTI crude reached its lowest point in 13 years of $27 per barrel. Russia ceased to be a factor on the world stage until the Left revived Russia on a dubious 2016 election interference charge.
Common denominator???
A Democrat was in the White House.. Odumbo...
The facts clearly show that, in the here and now, Democrats simply CANNOT handle Putin...
:^/
Get it all out now, Michale ...
... and then chill with the music and bask in the love, later toight, you know ...in the meantime, try to be good. :)
Oh you can bet I'll be "chilling" with the music tonight..
You can bet on that.. :D
We'll see how much "love" Weigantians™ show for racists and homophobes..
Of course, if you want to get that discussion out of the way beforehand... ???
I can probably accommodate you...
You better not be planning to cause any trouble, Michale.
[32]
Just like racist cad's use of the racist slur proves that he IS in fact, a racist..
I think you're in love with him. You haven't stopped talking about him for a long time now. All you do is obsess over him. Remember that time you wouldn't shut about his "wee wee"? Same thing you used to do to Russ all the time... obsess over his Russ's "wee wee" (your term, not mine).
OMG, really? Troll has mancrush on MtnCaddy? *yikes*
(thinking)
When this Einstein doxed himself was there anything in there about stalking?
AT the end of December I stopped reading troll comments. The ridiculous amount of scrolling is worth it because the only way to get even with a troll is to completely ignore it. Troll is interested in one thing, and one thing only: getting us to pay attention and sucking up all the oxygen in Weigantia.
And I refuse to participate.
Y'all outta do the same because engaging with trolls is completely pointless.
@racist cad
Once again, you PROVE how much you DON't ignore my comments..
And I refuse to participate.
And yet, you participate EVERY TIME you post about me..
BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Y'all outta do the same because engaging with trolls is completely pointless.
And yet, you engage everytime you post about me.. :D
How hilarious is that...
Don't worry, racist cad.. I'll always be here to remind everyone what a racist you really are..
And you'll be doing the same old thing day in and day out... Engaging and participating with me every time you post.. :D
You better not be planning to cause any trouble, Michale.
I am going to continue posting the facts of the issues.. Yunno.. ON TOPIC discussions that you claim you want..
I'll also continue to ask you why you are silent in the face of racist cad's blatant racism, yet went hysterical (for you) with my use of the c-word previously.. Why you ignore homophobic vick's blatant homophobic comments and the gay slur attacks...
We can discuss it now or we can discuss in then..
Yer call...
I mean, it's not as if I am deep diving into your internet presence and looking for info on you that I can use to try and extort you into stop commenting..
That's homophobic vick's bailiwick..
I simply want to know why you are being silent in the face of racist cad's blatant racist comments..
According to YOUR Democrats, silence in the fact of racist comments *IS* racism...
So, either your Democrats are full of shit... Or... Well...
You can see why I would want to clarify this...
We'll see how much "love" Weigantians™ show for racists and homophobes..
i think you're not so clear on the definition. in fact, dictionaries in the past five years have had to clarify various bigotry-related definitions due to the rhetorical tactics of various bigots. it's a known tactic of the most virulent bigots to attempt to define opponents of racism as being racist themselves, gay rights activists as homophobes, and so forth.
as to yourself, kick, russ and caddy, i have lots of love for all of you. i personally don't believe that any of you are really racists or homophobes. however, you yourself have probably straddled that line more than anyone else here, with the exception of don who was yellow-carded for it.
JL
Correction:
[76] should have read [39] instead of [32]. Got it?
Ahem.*
*Use of Ahem was pre-approved by The Society Against the Gratuitous Use of Ahem.
~~No Ahems are harmed during research activities.
In fact, we so strongly advocate for Ahems (and Ahemery in general) that we do not allow Laboratory Ahems to get abortions.~~
i think you're not so clear on the definition.
For example....?????
however, you yourself have probably straddled that line more than anyone else here,
For example....?????
i think you're not so clear on the definition. in fact, dictionaries in the past five years have had to clarify various bigotry-related definitions due to the rhetorical tactics of various bigots.
Yep.. Redefining the accepted definitions to fit the Left Wing agenda.. But their changing the definitions does not change the definition..
Racist cad's statement was pure unadulterated racism.
This is fact..
NO ONE here (sans yours truly) has condemned racist cad's racist comment...
This is fact...
it's a known tactic of the most virulent bigots to attempt to define opponents of racism as being racist themselves, gay rights activists as homophobes, and so forth.
Yes.. Much like russ's claim that it was actually the GOP who were the DEFUND, DEMORALIZE, DEMONIZE THE POLICE Party... You yourself tried at one point to change the definition of "racist" along the lines of "racism is borne of power and since black people don't have any power, they can't be racist" or some such silly argument as that...
Democrats always try to paint their political enemies with the brush that paints Democrats..
Other facts as well prove that Democrats are still racist..
Biden's racist selection process for the SCOTUS nominee..
Democrat support of segregation and race based events are just a couple of the MANY facts that prove Democrats are still racist..
And then there is homophobic vick's ongoing attempts to use the fruits of her cyberstalking to extort me into stop posting facts about her..
"If you're going to continue to post bullshit about me, I will be happy to link to your fat-faced mugshot if you'd like."
-Homophobic vick
But we can discuss that at a later date...
@racist cad,
[76] should have read [39] instead of [32]. Got it?
Ahem.*
Hitting the crack a little early this morning, eh?? :^/
@caddy,
quit calling people trolls, it's racist.
~JL troll
@m,
quit calling caddy a racist, he just ain't.
JL
quit calling caddy a racist, he just ain't.
Facts say otherwise
IT SEEMS that the old bargain that the rich have offered po' white trash is still working to this day,
You can boss the ni**ers,
And we'll boss the money!
And it therefore strikes me that at heart racism has an economic motivation -- it's a trick that distracts poor whites from the lousy deal they're getting.
-Racist cad
Racist cad IS a racist.. This is fact..
Unless you want to claim that gratuitous use of the racist n-word does NOT mean that someone is racist..
Is that what you are saying???
quit calling people trolls, it's racist.
No it's not racist.. It's just simply factually not accurate..
Anyways, having a bulked up scrolling finger is a small price to pay in order to stick it to trolls in the only way that matters.
however, you yourself have probably straddled that line more than anyone else here,
If this were actually factual.. Then you should have pointed it out at the time so I could explain to you why you are wrong.. :D
I mean, I recall that one time with the c-word..
But there is nothing racist or homophobic about that.. It's just crude..
And, as has been established, your biggest objection was that someone who differs from you politically and ideologically was using the word..
You said nothing when a Democrat used that word as an attack on Senator Sinema...
So, obviously usage of the word itself is not big thang..
But that's about the only instance I can recall that is even close to what you are referring to..
And, I do NOT want to hear what this obsessing about my wee wee is all about, thank you very much.
To be candid, it wouldn't mix well with this visual I have of a sweaty 400-pound incel sitting in Mommy's double-wide.
Lets get real here.
Yes... Lets...
It was several weeks of Kick harassing and trolling while I did not respond in kind while no one including CW did or said anything.
I warned Kick that I would be responding in a way Kick would not like if the harassment and trolling continued.
Then Kick warned me and continued to harass and troll so I responded accurately using the c-word.
That sounds factually accurate...
Of course, the only reason CW would make that determination is because when CW did look back further he would have to punish Kick.
EXACTLY...
CW still owes me an apology for that.
WORD.....
Yet commenters here still keep bringing that up as if it were proof of me being a terrible person for many different reasons that have nothing to do with that incident- such as racism or homophobia.
It is only proof that CW was wrong and has no problem with people acting like the c-word, but is willing to use a commenter accurately using the c-word to describe someone acting like the c-word as an excuse to censor the commenter for fighting back against the harassment and trolling as the harassment and trolling continued while no one including CW said or did anything about it.
The common link here is political ideology...
If a person is not of the same political ideology as ALL Weigantians™ (save 2) then they are held to a different standard to those who ARE of the same political ideology...
For Weigantians™ who are of the same political ideology, no transgression is too great to warrant condemnation...
Racism.. Homophobia... Cyberstalking... Extortion...
ALL of it and so much more is either the most evil a person could do.... OR is perfectly acceptable and justified...
It's SOLELY dependent on who is doing it..
The facts that prove this are overwhelming and conclusive...
@don,
Since when is calling someone that was acting like a c-word the c-word racist or homophobic?
first off, it's not homophobic, it's misogynistic.
second, what misogynistic epithet someone is acting like is your opinion, which is not necessarily shared by anyone but yourself, and which nobody but members of the protected class have license to use. i.e. you're not a woman, so you get extra points against your language license for using the word against someone who is.
third, even if that had been an accurate assessment, which it wasn't, directing the epithet at an individual poster here was grossly inappropriate, and CW was well within his rights to yellow-card you for it after you responded to his warnings with not just a figurative but a literal "fuck you." one of many aspects of this you don't seem to get is that there's a massive difference between using a filthy word as a generic intensifier, using it to describe a public figure and using it as a name that you call someone directly. for example:
OK - "That's some great fucking pie!"
Iffy - "Jason Biggs fucked a pie"
NOT ok - "Fuck you, you pie-fucker"
end of lesson, though i admit to little hope that you'll avail yourself of it. even for you i've got a little love left, so don't waste it.
JL
@m[92],
incorrect. tim scott (R) can use the N-word all he wants, although i doubt he would. it's established practice that members of a protected class may use derogatory language about each other, in ways that non-members can't or shouldn't. i'm quite sure you know this already and are being intentionally obtuse, as opposed to don, who really is that clueless about how offensive he is.
JL
:)
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
(1) Searching the Internet is NOT cyberstalking.
(2) Posting a link to information you find there is also NOT cyberstalking.
_________________________
I'll be addressing your other posts as I get to them. If I answer something somebody already did; my apologies in advance.
I'm giving the special attention that each and every one of them deserves, and I got links and FACTS, FACTS, FACTS, FACTS, FACTS, FACTS, FACTS. :)
MtnCaddy
57
Or maybe a Michael Jackson theme should I'll Be There is still stuck in my head
JL posted some awesome links to The Wiz.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/21/friday-talking-points-just-not-a-good-bad-guy/#comment-177830
I too had forgotten what a masterpiece it was. :)
.
JL,
incorrect. tim scott (R) can use the N-word all he wants, although i doubt he would. it's established practice that members of a protected class may use derogatory language about each other, in ways that non-members can't or shouldn't.
That's another of those hypocritical Democrat definitions that has nothing to do with facts and reality..
To claim that black people can use the n-word but white people can't is blatant racism..
It's allowing/disallowing actions SOLEY based on race...
Can you imagine how Dr Martin Luther King would view your position??
He would be abhorred...
CW still owes me an apology for that.
WORD.....
Having said that, as I am wont to do, I will give credit where credit is due..
The current Administration of Weigantia™ must have received an overloaded amount of emails begging to ban me for constantly bring facts and reality to Weigantia™...
It is to their credit that they have resisted such calls and allowed the free-flow of facts and reality to continue...
That is to their credit and everyone in Weigantia™ should thank the Administration for their integrity...
@m,
Dr. King would not agree with your sophistry on racism in a bazillion years. of course he would prefer that nobody whatsoever use derogatory epithets, and would encourage black people never to refer to each other using the N-word. but he'd also recognize that there's a fundamental difference between someone using an epithet about a member of their own disadvantaged group and someone in a privileged group using it against someone in a group with lesser privilege. which, whether or not either of you ever admit it, is precisely what don was doing.
JL troll
Mike
58
Thank you for conceding your bigotry and hypocrisy...
He didn't. He told you what I meant by using that combination of words...
... and he (as usual) was dead on accurate in what I meant by that... and exactly what Stephen Colbert with a silent "T" meant by that when he described Trump to a "T" that time.
I shouldn't have to explain this, but words combined with other words can take on entirely different meanings. Words and word combinations in America have entirely different meanings in other countries too and vice versa. The first time a Brit told me he would "come round and knock me up." I'll never forget that one.
So, what you are saying is being gay means you are willingly humiliating yourself...
Your ignorance is showing.
So, it's all about self-hate with you, eh??
No, you're just infinitely ignorant. It's why I call you "poon." Got that one from Australia. Look it up, you might learn something.
Homophobic vick threw around a gay slur..
I am not homophobic. I'm not a Democrat either. Your willingness to repeat falsehoods ALL THE TIME is why no one ever need take you seriously... about anything. Stupid people repeating stupid things over and over is nothing more than proof of willful ignorance.
Racist cad threw around a racial slur..
MtnCaddy was posting a saying he'd heard many times -- one that I've heard many times myself -- that's why he posted it in bold... like you post your shit-ton of lifted and regurgitated quotes in bold. Now, if he had used it multiple times in conversation like you:
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/08/14/an-avenatti-run-would-help-democrats/#comment-124514
That would be more like racism. MtnCaddy also never called a group of congresswomen "black bitches" or made frequent use the phrase "Black Lies Matter" over and over and over. I will give everybody one guess who did that, Racist Michale.
This is fact.. A FACT you don't bother to dispute, I might add... You said nothing to condemn racist cad's racial slur..
Your "silence gives assent" argument is a load of horseshit. Silence means many things. In this case, the word was quoted and a poster made a comment followed by the words: Enough said. Those two words means let's not amplify this any more and give it any other attention. It was quoted and addressed. Addressing it any further and repeating it over and over and over makes it worse. Why give it more air? Enough said.
So, according to YOUR OWN DEMOCRATS, that makes YOU a racist as well..
Refusing to amplify an idea isn't racism. It was addressed and asked not to be amplified. Racist Mike hasn't shut up about it since.
SILENCE GIVES ASSENT
This will never be true no matter how many times you type it. Silence means lots of things. Sometimes it means: Enough said. Sometimes it means people are scrolling through your Trollshit Mountain without reading it. Silence means you're being ignored. Silence can be a ginormous middle finger.
The facts are clear..
You are a repetitive imbecile.
And the fact that you are so hysterical and desperate about trying to show that homophobic vick is NOT homophobic but ignore racist cad's racial slur is very telling..
I am not homophobic. Repeating lies does not magically make them facts. For instance, a lot more than "ZERO" soldiers died in Afghanistan during the final 18 months of Donald Trump's presidency no matter how many times an ignorant rube who claims military expertise posts it over and over. So not one soldier died in a theater of war the size of Afghanistan? *laughs* That is the extent of your military expertise, and I see no common sense either. I do see a lot of cult-like ignorance and Trumpian holster like utter nonsensical regurgitation.
But, as I said.. The facts are clear..
I rest my case on that "repetitive imbecile" charge.
Homophobic vick hates gay people.. This is established as fact..
Your grasp of facts is as laughable as your claim to military expertise. It's never too late to remove your head from Trump's fat ass.
I'm not going to address the remainder of your standard repetitive Captain Stupid routine.
Hate to go back on subject...But:
Here [Russian site via google translate] is an interesting analysis of an Ukrainian invasion from a retired Russian military commander written before the invasion. I wonder if Putin has surrounded himself with yes men that are afraid to speak truth...
JL,
but he'd also recognize that there's a fundamental difference between someone using an epithet about a member of their own disadvantaged group and someone in a privileged group using it against someone in a group with lesser privilege. which, whether or not either of you ever admit it, is precisely what don was doing.
So, you are saying that women are a group of lesser privilege??
And your facts to support that belief are... ???? What exactly???
Claiming that it's OK if women use the c-word, but not OK if men use the c-word is as sexist as anything else ya'all Democrats cry sexism over...
but he'd also recognize that there's a fundamental difference between someone using an epithet about a member of their own disadvantaged group and someone in a privileged group using it against someone in a group with lesser privilege.
Assumes facts not in evidence..
Further you your erroneous belief of what Dr King would BELIEVE is based SOLELY on your political bigotry..
I, on the other hand, base my FACTS on Dr Martin Luther King's actual words...
It's the same thing as JM and rush claiming that DEFUND THE POLICE doesn't really mean DEFUND THE POLICE.. Whereas the facts PROVE that DEFUND THE POLICE means DEFUND THE POLICE..
Ni**er is a racist slur.. PERIOD...
Cockh**ster is a homophobic slur.. PERIOD...
You can spin all you want.. But the facts are still the facts..
FURTHER...
Racist cad is NOT black... So even if what you claim is true.. If if Dr Martin Luther King actually believes what you WANT to believe he believes..
NONE of that justifies Racist cad's use of the racial slur..
NONE of it justifies the the fact that ya'all turn a blind eye to racist cad's use of the racist slur..
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
Racist cad is NOT black... So even if what you claim is true.. If if Dr Martin Luther King actually believes what you WANT to believe he believes..
Of course... Now Racist cad will claim he IS black just to cover his racism... :^/
MtnCaddy
76
OMG, really? Troll has mancrush on MtnCaddy? *yikes*
He sure does obsess over you a lot. Probably more than I know because I don't read ALL his Trollshit Mountain due to the dearth of intelligence I see in the ones I actually do read and spam, spam, spam, spam.
When this Einstein doxed himself was there anything in there about stalking?
It was more like Merry Christmas.
continued...
...continued
AT the end of December I stopped reading troll comments. The ridiculous amount of scrolling is worth it because the only way to get even with a troll is to completely ignore it. Troll is interested in one thing, and one thing only: getting us to pay attention and sucking up all the oxygen in Weigantia.
It follows a pattern, doesn't it? Spam the board with articles in bold. Add your repetitive so-called "expertise" to the original thoughts of other people and abuse another man's blog. Lather, rinse, repeat.
What's laughable is that he refers to this repetitive drivel as "my posts," when the vast majority of it is just spam that he regurgitates from other websites and adds the troll standard operational routine on the end. It's regurgitated spam and repetitive partisan propaganda.
And I refuse to participate.
And the troll takes it personally and issues promises to troll the comment board even more:
*
Y'all outta do the same because engaging with trolls is completely pointless.
But when you do post those facts that prove him wrong? He carries on with the bullshit and claims you have no facts. So, yes, it's obvious he's not exactly here to discuss political issues. The troll wants a safe space where he is allowed to make all the personal attacks he pleases, meanwhile insisting that no one reciprocates and issuing "two choices."
If I was that guy, I definitely wouldn't be issuing any "choices" like that lest somebody took me up on it, and then who exactly would I have to blame for that?
Just promise me you won't allow him to run you off. :)
Mike
79
I mean, it's not as if I am deep diving into your internet presence and looking for info on you that I can use to try and extort you into stop commenting..
You weren't asked to stop commenting. You were asked to stop lying about me or I would post the truth about you, and just how the hell would anybody know whether or not anything I posted was true or not? You are so gullible... not at all the super cop you've claimed to be.
You got led around by the nose, troll. Nothing more.
@homophobic vick,
I am not homophobic.
The FACTS prove otherwise..
"If you're going to continue to post bullshit about me, I will be happy to link to your fat-faced mugshot if you'd like."
-homophobic vick
Obviously I am NOT posting bullshit about you.. I am posting the FACTS..
nypoet22
80
i think you're not so clear on the definition. in fact, dictionaries in the past five years have had to clarify various bigotry-related definitions due to the rhetorical tactics of various bigots. it's a known tactic of the most virulent bigots to attempt to define opponents of racism as being racist themselves, gay rights activists as homophobes, and so forth.
JL nails it like a bag of hammers.
as to yourself, kick, russ and caddy, i have lots of love for all of you.
Awwwwwwww. Love you, too... almost as much as pie... and Russ, of course. :)
Don Harris
89
Your memory is as bad as your trolling. Nice attempt at revisionist history, though. This board is archived. :)
MtnCaddy
91
Heh.
Michale
92
That sounds factually accurate...
So you're saying your memory is as shitty as his? Must be a troll thing.
I reiterate: This board is archived.
The lying trolls with shitty memories are united on this. Oh, shocker! *laughs*
The common link here is political ideology...
The common links here are:
(1) trolls
(2) shitty recall
(3) revisionist history.
The facts that prove this are overwhelming and conclusive...
You obviously suffer from an affliction wherein you confuse an actual fact with a whole lot of lying on your part. You seem terminally unclear regarding what is and is not a actual fact. I can show you a plethora of facts that are actually overwhelming and conclusive, and have I mentioned this board is archived? :)
JL,
in fact, dictionaries in the past five years have had to clarify various bigotry-related definitions due to the rhetorical tactics of various bigots
It's like Democrat "science"... Democrat "science" is nothing but very poorly disguised Democrat activism..
For example, Democrat "science" says there is something like 39 genders..
Of course, REAL science knows that there are only 2 genders.. The other 37 are simply mutations of the original 2 genders, not distinct and valid genders themselves..
Democrats change the definitions of things to fit their anti-America agenda...
So, it's easy to discount ya'all's "definitions" because they are based SOLELY on political expedience and bigotry...
So, it's easy to discount ya'all's "definitions" because they are based SOLELY on political expedience and bigotry...
... And not on actual facts or reality or real science...
[56] Kick
Oh boy! I can never unsee that, can I?!?! Our very own Roger Stone…minus the flair for fashion! Gotta go find some Tums!
And please, if y'all don't share any particulars about obsessing about my wee wee I will be grateful.*smh* It doesn't mix well with this visual I have of a sweaty 400-pound incel sitting on a bed in Mommy's double-wide. With a swamp view.
So, you are saying that women are a group of lesser privilege??
And your facts to support that belief are... ???? What exactly???
you can't possibly be THAT ignorant; you're probably just being contrarian for its own sake. the gender pay gap is about as hard and proven a fact as exists in this universe - and that's without even getting into the treatment of women globally, sex slavery, date rape, stalking, obstetric care, inheritance rights, title IX, ad absurdum.
JL
the gender pay gap is about as hard and proven a fact as exists in this universe - and that's without even getting into the treatment of women globally, sex slavery, date rape, stalking, obstetric care, inheritance rights, title IX, ad absurdum.
None of which has been relevant for decades..
It's like "systemic racism".. It doesn't exist any more except in the feeble minds of activists who need a cause to feel like they have worth..
But hay... I am a fair guy...
Provide me any FACTS that prove your claims.. :D
And don't give me that bullshit excuse that it's difficult to PROVE systemic things.
Mark Fuhrman proved beyond ANY doubt it's easy to prove racism..
So it is with all the other things you claim exist..
Show me the facts..
nypoet22
94
first off, it's not homophobic, it's misogynistic.
Fact... and it wasn't the first time Don had been on a bender and trolling the author in all manner of derogatory terms. I am not surprised he remembers it differently, but judge for yourself.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/01/april-is-the-cruelest-month/#comment-156872
continued...
...continued
That was the same day CW issued the warning.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/01/april-is-the-cruelest-month/#comment-156925
end of lesson, though i admit to little hope that you'll avail yourself of it.
Exactly... because he's never availed himself of good advice before, even from the author of the blog. The archives don't have memory issues. :)
nypoet22
95
incorrect. tim scott (R) can use the N-word all he wants, although i doubt he would. it's established practice that members of a protected class may use derogatory language about each other, in ways that non-members can't or shouldn't.
Exactly. It's a "reclaimed" word. I made this point immediately before I stated the words: "Enough said." Yes, I stated them; I use voice recognition.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/02/23/republicans-want-to-raise-taxes-on-half-of-america/#comment-185766
It was an attempt to have an issue not become repeated ad nauseam and thereby amplifying it. Anyone claiming the issue wasn't addressed is full of horseshit. :)
All of this back and forth.. All of this equivocation and misdirection and smoke and mirrors simply ignores the basic facts..
vick is homophobic.. This has been proven by her own words..
cad is racist.. This has been proven by her own words..
Feel free to hem and haw til the cows come home about what the definition of 'is' is...
It still won't change the basic facts..
AND the fact that all Weigantians were silent in the face of racism.. Which, according to Democrats....
Silence in the face of racism IS racism...
Hay.... Don't kill the messenger... It was ya'all's Democrats who established that Silence Gives Consent.. Silence Gives Assent... Silence in the face of racism IS racism...
These are the facts..
@homophobic vick
Exactly. It's a "reclaimed" word.
Even if that were factually accurate.. It's not, it's just a talking point that Democrats claim to justify their continued racism.. Dr Martin Luther King's wisdom PROVES it's not factually accurate..
But even if it were factually accurate.... racist cad is not black...
So racist cad is guilty of not only racism, but also cultural appropriation...
A mortal sin according to Democrats..
So, no matter HOW ya'all want to TRY and spin things..
cad is a racist.. cad is guilty of cultural appropriation..
In short.. racist cad is a scumbag..
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
And, in other news..
Putin puts Russian nuclear forces on high alert as west steps up sanctions
Move comes as Moscow is targeted with new financial penalties and overshadows Ukraine’s agreement to talks
https://www.ft.com/content/4bf149f7-6f70-4d8b-bc69-13a6c1f56e33?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9
Leave it to Democrats to start a nuclear war....
What *IS* it about Democrats that they are so damn incompetent???
Don Harris
96
Women are a protected class.
You seem infinitely confused about simple issues. Is anyone surprised you misunderstood what JL made perfectly clear?
The c-word has more than one meaning.
You're borrowing one of my arguments; I am flattered. It doesn't work, though, because your meaning was clear. You had also tossed out a load of choice terms toward CW that day in one of your near daily trolling rants toward the author. You might want to review it since your memory is failing.
In the context I used it it was to describe the behavior of a person that is not a member of a protected class as that behavior is not protected behavior.
Incorrect.
I literally not figuratively said fuck you to CW?
In multiple ways, you have disparaged the author via trolling him. You get upset that your trolling goes unanswered. You need another example? Just ask.
Do you know the difference between literal and figurative?
He definitely does.
When you spend weeks poking and provoking someone that does not respond that finally says that as I am left to defend myself against your poking and provoking if you keep poking and provoking me I will punch you in the nose it is your fault if you get punched in the nose when you continue to poke and provoke.
Nice projection you've got there. Do you not see how it applies exactly to yourself? Your level of self-awareness is next to nonexistent if you can't grasp the concept that you've spent years and years trolling CW. If you don't like the responses (or lack thereof) that you're (not) getting from CW, that is not license to curse (troll harder) in his direction in order to get his attention. If you do that (which you've admitted on multiple occasions to doing), it shouldn't surprise you in the least if someone calls you on it, amiright?
To focus solely on the punch in the nose is ignoring the catalyst that led to the punch in the nose.
I agree; however, you are the catalyst.
The punch in the nose never would have happened if other commenters or CW had not allowed Kick to continue to poke and provoke without saying anything.
If I was a troll who posted a near daily rant toward the author who ignored me and then ramped up my trolling to get his attention because he wasn't responding, would I be obtuse enough to whine about somebody trolling me? No, I don't believe I would. Ah, the pitfalls of arguing hypotheticals.
The lesson I am supposed to learn from that?
Oh, this one is easy: Do unto others.
Otherwise, if you're going to troll the author nonstop for years and years and then ramp it up when you're ignored repeatedly, you're nothing more than a dumb troll who can dish it out but isn't very fond when he gets its right back. Boo hoo.
It's okay to let someone poke and provoke unchecked leaving the person being poked and provoked to defend themself and then punish the person when they defend themself while ignoring the catalyst...
You were the catalyst who was poking and provoking; you do it near daily.
... because you are offended by the word used as if it somehow cancels out the behavior of the protagonist in this incident.
Ignorant trolls. That's the problem around here. The trolls want a safe space where they are free to troll whomever they wish, including the author on a near-daily basis. If anyone responds, they whine and cry like they are the victims. Boo hoo. :)
So, when does this music thang start??
I have LOTS to share.. :D
Michale [105]
Cockh**ster is a homophobic slur.. PERIOD...
Put another way.. If I had called you a "c*ckh*lster" you and the rest of Weigantia™ would be screaming HOMOPHOBIC!!! all over Weigantia™..
YOU are clearly calling yourself HOMOPHOBIC! YOU are admitting to being a HOMOPHOBE.
Oh, before I forget…Michale, my friend, Lisa, wanted me to let you know that she admits that she was wrong to call you an INCEL. She had no idea that you were married with kids when she was reading your posts.
Yeah, you are clearly a FAILED-INCEL: you found someone desperate enough to agree to have sex with you, yet you still demonstrate the temperament of a involuntary celibate.
As for Lisa coming on here to defend her comment, she thought you should first take your own advice and prove that you don’t have the temperament of a Failed-Incel; then she’d come here to explain why you are wrong. She then laughed and said that based on your posting habits… you will NEVER do anything but provide her with more evidence proving she is correct!
@racist cad
Do NOT buy into the hysteria!
Ain't gonna be no nukes flying about no matter that Putin has rattled his nuclear saber. Putin knows that it's not going there and so does the West, with the exception of our MSM.
So relax. Nuke up some Orville Reddenbacher (no pun intended, but ya gotta admit it's a good one) and kick back and enjoy these interesting times that we live in.
Yea... This is the moron who said that Putin would never invade..
Racist cad.. Yer credibility is SHOT... Pure and simple...
@rush,
So your "friend" admitted that she was totally wrong, then your "friend" stated she would never come on here to defend her claims..
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So, obviously from all the facts..
Your "friend" never existed..
BBBBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, it was a long slog...
But with the help of friends and family.. :D
It's in place!!! :D
http://mfccfl.us/NewJacuzzi1.jpg
It's nice to have a family and friends to help out..
Feel sorry for Democrats who have nothing but hate and bigotry to sustain them.... :^/
Let's start this Weigantian™ Music Festival off right..
Courtesy Of The Democrat Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
Mike
100
That's another of those hypocritical Democrat definitions that has nothing to do with facts and reality..
It's not a "Democrat definition;" it's a fact of life. If you don't believe the word has been "reclaimed," keep using it like you already have on this forum, and you'll find out soon enough. Or better yet, listen to the radio if you don't believe it's been reclaimed and is being used.
To claim that black people can use the n-word but white people can't is blatant racism..
No, it isn't. The word is "reclaimed," and that is a fact whether you like or not. The way they've reclaimed it through their music and language doesn't constitute racism no matter what you believe. I don't use the word. You obviously do.
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/08/14/an-avenatti-run-would-help-democrats/#comment-124514
It's allowing/disallowing actions SOLEY based on race...
Nope. Your meaning of the word and theirs are two different things. Not rocket science.
Can you imagine how Dr Martin Luther King would view your position??
I would wager JL knows a whole lot more about Dr. King than your limited right-wing talking points and repetitive drivel and spew that echoes the disinformation you'll hear from most white supremacists that White Americans are the "real" victims of racism. Those right-wing nonsensical views alternate back and forth between a range of "there is no racism" to "white people are victims" of race discrimination, etc.
On this forum, you are the poster child for that claptrap. You can deny it all you wish. You might want to keep in mind that the board is archived.
He would be abhorred...
A guy who has spewed the crap you have on this forum now attempting to whitesplain Dr. King to others. Nice try, though. No one else referred to John Lewis as a racist. You did. So your lectures on racism are pretty pathetic considering the source. Work on it.
Mike
101
The current Administration of Weigantia™ must have received an overloaded amount of emails begging to ban me for constantly bring facts and reality to Weigantia™...
Now that's funny! *laughs*
Every Biden voter has brought this upon this country...
EVE OF DESTRUCTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I
Thank you, Democrat Party... :^/
nypoet22
102
This is 100% factual. Anyone that wishes to deny it may review the links I supplied. Not rocket science.
And, of course.. There are the classic.. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QfIrGUM2Q
Another classic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0eHzTKEMY
Why have Democrats lost their way??
Why are they the Party of racists and haters and bigots??
And this has always been a favorite of mine..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY
LOVE the cop at the beginning.. :D
OOOoooo Another classic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
:D
And in honor of the Canadian Truckers who were did in by Adolph Turdeau and his fascist gestapo tactics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA
Here's hoping we see that spirit of freedom resurrected here in the US..
Let's see Biden and the Democrats try that kind of gestapo fascist tactics here...
Honestly.. I don't know how ANY Canadian can show their face in public now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_1y5diNEo
A great man....
BashiBazouk
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Hate to go back on subject...
Please do.
I wonder if Putin has surrounded himself with yes men that are afraid to speak truth...
Yes, he has. We have a name for people like that, and it's "Putin's [rhymes with] sock bolsters."
It is the same dynamic in America that drives Trumpism and the spineless and gullible rubes and politicians that fall in line versus the simple application of common sense. If you're a Trump "sock bolster," you are required to check your common sense at the door in favor of the right-wing ridiculous drivel and spew that doesn't even make common sense. It's all part and parcel of being a member of the "Whatever Trump Says" Party.
If anyone else has a better way to explain why people who claim to have "military expertise" would keep repeating the ridiculous right-wing talking point that "ZERO" soldiers died in a theater of war the size of Afghanistan or any of the other ridiculous drivel and spew they fall for, please let me know. I don't mind watching them make fools out of themselves, of course. :)
This song holds special meaning for me..
As the only Weigantian™ who has actually worn the uniform of this great country's armed forces, not just one (USAF) but two different services (US Army), this really hits home....
Of course no one else here can understand such service to country..
Ya'all are Democrats after all.. :^/
And I can't call in sick on Mondays
When the weekends been too strong
I just work straight through the holidays
And sometimes all night long
You can bet that I stand ready
When the wolf growls at the door
Hey, I'm solid, hey I'm steady
Hey I'm true down to the core
And I will always do my duty
No matter what the price
I've counted up the cost
I know the sacrifice
Oh, and I don't want to die for you
But if dyin's asked of me
I'll bear that cross with honor
'Cause freedom don't come free
I'm an American soldier, an American
Beside my brothers and my sisters
I will proudly take a stand
When liberty's in jeopardy
I will always do what's right
I'm out here on the front lines
sleep in peace tonight
American soldier, I'm an American soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrMeBR8W-c
None of you will ever know the price and privilege of military service to this country...
And that's just sad...
@homophobic vick
Yes, he has. We have a name for people like that, and it's "Putin's [rhymes with] sock bolsters."
I see you have learned your lesson and you're trying to hide your homophobia in rhymes and codewords..
I accept your concession that you are, indeed, homophobic...
And, to my beautiful wife of 40 years..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT-FW_G8-A
I really feel bad for ya'all that ya'all are so alone and don't have such a special relationship that will last throughout eternity... It's no wonder ya'all are so filled with hate and bigotry...
Sucks to be ya'all... :D
And yea.. It sucks getting old.. But hay..
At least we can have fun with it eh?? :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQrapQ4d0Y
I ain't as good as I once was
I got a few years on me now..
But there was a time..
Back in my prime..
I could really lay it down..
And if ya need some love tonight
I might have just enough
I ain't as good as I once was...
But I am as good once
As I ever was..
:D
And that's why they call him the Imbecile... [youtube.com]
Mike
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The FACTS prove otherwise..
Let's see them.
*
Reminds me of the time I said if you kept posting lies about me that I would post the truth about you.
Who would know if the mugshot I would post a link in the public record would actually be you, and how would they know it?
Mugshots are public record kept by law enforcement agencies. I did not see a tattoo on your face that said anything about your sexual preference so I'm not exactly sure how posting a link to it would prove I'm homophobic.
Nice try, though. *shakes head*
And that's why they call him the Imbecile...
racist cad is not an imbecile...
He's a moron... And a racist..
And homophobic vick is not an imbecile.. She's a homophobe... And an idiot...
And another classic.. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc
And of course... More US Soldier music that NO ONE here can understand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WA10dETkF8
Remembering that the Democrat Party is the Party that kneels at the US Anthem...
Makes me sick....
Pure unadulterated American patriotism..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc
Something you Weigantians™ will never understand...
Justice will be served and the battle will rage
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way
Hey uncle sam put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly it's gonna be hell
When you hear mother freedom start ringin' her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue
Pure American patriotism..
Something the Democrat Party lost LONG ago...
Oooo And another American classic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KoXt9pZLGM
ListenWhenYouHear
118
Oh boy! I can never unsee that, can I?!?!
Nor can I. I'm not going to hold back and fail to note that the term "child endangerment" didn't immediately come to mind. I couldn't help but think about that time he posted about filing a police report on Devon in Washington State. People keep forgetting this board is archived.
Our very own Roger Stone…minus the flair for fashion!
Hard to tell if people have a flair for fashion from their mugshots.
Gotta go find some Tums!
Completely understandable. Say hello to Devon for me.
Love you, Russ. :)
Where Were You When The World Stop Turning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6rMcVNQbw
We know that Democrats were dancing in the streets.. :^/
Another American soldier song..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIG9C3n-SPc
Another song that no Weigantian™ will never understand..
MtnCaddy
119
And please, if y'all don't share any particulars about obsessing about my wee wee I will be grateful.*smh*
You have my promise that I will not do that, and if you don't search the archives, you're not likely to run across his prolific obsessing over *not saying it*. :)
And now a song from kin...
Have You Forgotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU
Democrats and the Democrat Party forgot long ago...
Thanks for starting things off early, Michale!
But, you may have forgotten that our little shindigs here Sunday nights are a Politics Free Zone.
That's kind of the whole point of the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party ... just hanging out together with good music and fun dance moves.
Of course, the songs may be as political as we wish.
I'll get things underway officially after my dinner. :)
They took all the footage off my TV
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
After 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right
Have you forgotten how it felt that day
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside
Going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten
I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fighting for
Why do Democrats hate this country so much???
Lyrics - good
Editorial commentary - not good
Thanks for starting things off early, Michale!
Yer quite welcome..
But, you may have forgotten that our little shindigs here Sunday nights are a Politics Free Zone.
Yea... And it's supposed to be a RACIST and HOMOPHOBIC FREE ZONE as well..
Yet that hasn't worked out to well, now has it..
just hanging out together
Hanging out with racists and homophobes is no bueno...
I'll get things underway officially after my dinner. :)
I got it covered.. :D
Another American soldier song that no Weigantian™ can understand..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWhRObVxrM
All Gave Some, Some Gave All
Some stood through for the red, white and blue
And some had to fall
And if you ever think of me
Think of all your liberties and recall
Some Gave All
How sad is it to be a Democrat, eh? :^/
And JUST because I quote it so much...
It's only fitting..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEiFhKOnS1Y
:D
nypoet22
120
Have I told you lately that I love you? Your wife is one of the luckiest women on Earth, and I would wager your children's wives (who may not have even been born yet) will likewise be because of you.
Most men of exceptionalism are aware they are rare; I would wager you're both. Sincerely. :)
BBBWWAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I am leading homophobic vick around by her nose!!!
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yes, Homophobic vick...
JL has something as special as me and my wife have..
They're newlyweds.... But they got it... THEY get it..
*YOU* don't!!! racist cad doesn't!!
All ya'all got is hate and bigotry!!!! :D Ya'all got NO ONE who cares if ya'all live or die... Ya'all are scum of the earth...
Pure and simple...
THANK YOU for proving EXACTLY what I was pointing out!!!
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Since homophobic vick has proved my point for me, I guess my work here for the night is done.. :D
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
Thanx homophobic vick... Yer a peach...
See ya'all bright and early tomorrow morning.. :D
I start back to work again tomorrow.. So, it's going to be a REAL exciting Monday... :D
Lyrics - good
Editorial commentary - not good
Both are equally good, Liz..
Yer just too Left Wing to see it...
Mike
Awwwww. Still posting lies about others, I see.
You can keep claiming your intellectual superiority on this blog and pretending like you're the "authority" on everything while stealing the valor from actual police officers (like the Feds who raided your illegal business) or you can stop making up shit about other people and overinflating your experience and pretending to be something you never were.
Your "military expertise" has been outed by your ignorance. I mean, the utter nonsensical asinine bullshit that "ZERO" soldiers died in Afghanistan during the last 18 months of Trump's presidency! I don't know a solider who would make that claim, but I do know a shit-ton of them that got a hell of a good laugh over it. You could have saved yourself a whole lot of time; it's been obvious for a very long time that you're a gullible rube who overstates his experience and pretends to be something he isn't and never was; some of your posts are side-splitting comedy for a guy who claims your "experiences."
That recent nugget of "military prowess" about deaths in Afghanistan is going to be the gift that keeps on giving for a long, long time. You might at least acknowledge how stupid it was to claim military expertise while posting that utter asinine bullshit. No, you won't. You'll go right on pretending you're an expert and not letting your invented fantasy get in the way of your "facts."
Congratulations, Mike. I award you the dumbest veteran I've ever had the pleasure to communicate with. You top them all.
In conclusion, I will close with the immortal words of GT:
*
It sucks to have your illegal operation raided by the Feds and shut down and the receipts used to go after your customers. Only a moron would keep the receipts, of course, as GT rightly points out. You're a real tough man when you're making up shit and stealing the valor of others who actually have "been there and done that." Otherwise, you're an abnormally large lying sack of horseshit.
You may now stop pretending to be an expert on anything except LYING!
Hehehehehehehe
Welcome, everyone, to the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party, where we leave our politics behind for a few wonderful hours and bask in our love for music and dance.
I'm so excited because the special theme for this evening is Make Love Not War!
SPECIAL NOTE:
There may be a little noise interference or, perhaps, some static that might percolate throughout the evening and I would just politely ask that it be gently ignored as there is nothing whatsoever that can be done about it and because the music is destined to rise above it all, anyways. :)
To start things off, here is a lovely tune I happened upon purely by chance while I was trying to find some specific info about one of my favourite actors, Glenn Ford. A tribute to Ford popped up at one point showing clips from some of his movies set to a song called Salvation.
Salvation - Tribute to Glenn Ford
And, here are the beautiful lyrics to Salvation.
Okay, so what follows are some of the sexiest songs to make love to ...
Khruangbin - White Gloves
I see what you did there.
That was the one you promised. You brought "salvation" back!
Nice. :)
:)
Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
John Legend - All of Me
Play the nice song... forego the cigarettes (those things will kill you).
I listen to all the songs... so I usually get behind, bear with me. :)
Me, too!
Lovers in Paris
Change The World - Eric Clapton
May I have this dance ...
Dance Me to the End of Love - Leonard Cohen
EM
186
Lovers in Paris
That is insanely good. Bookmarked. :)
Paris?
Andrea Bocelli - La Vie En Rose ft. Edith Piaf
I probably strayed from the theme, but... Paris.
Slow and Sexy Blues
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
EM
191
Is that supposed to keep me busy for (almost) two hours? ;)
This Is Me from the Greatest Showman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLFEvHWD_NE
Love this show!
The other big hit from The Greatest Showman
From Now On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PluaPvhkIMU
Kick
192
Only if you can last that long. :)
I Touch Myself
Hey, Russ - Happy to have you aboard!
Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
ListenWhenYouHear
194
Love this show!
Russ! Me too. Okay, my favorite song from that show?
Give you one guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO28Z5_Eyls
EM
196|197
Only if you can last that long. :)
Heh. I can.
I Touch Myself
Is that a confession? I'm teasing! :)
Love In An Elevator
Liz,
Thanks!
SAINT PHNX
Happy Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Q-eLPXx1Q
Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Y'all are inspiring my choices now. :)
Kick,
I thought it would be Rewrite the Stars. This is Me has become my anthem.
The choreography in this film was utterly AMAZING! As was the editing to capture it so crisply and seamlessly.
Hugh Jackman is one of favorites…and he played one of my heroes from growing up — P.T. Barnum! I did countless reports and essays on the man starting in 3rd grade and all the way through college! He was the ultimate salesman, marketing master, and as the movie says: the Greatest Showman! (Not perfect, mind you, but who amongst us is?)
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Hey Kick,
I like my new zero tolerance practice of religiously scrolling through the spew, so I guess I'll just have to always wonder what poon troll publically proclaiming his mancrush on me might have looked like. Oh, well.
And no worries, nobody runs me ought of nowhere, no how.
Miles Davis - Elevator to the Gallows
Let's Stay Together
ListenWhenYouHear
205
I thought it would be Rewrite the Stars.
You're right again, Russ.
This is Me has become my anthem.
Oh, that is my second favorite. I love that song... the entire movie. The choreography.
Come Alive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDd9dejw2HY
The choreography in this film was utterly AMAZING! As was the editing to capture it so crisply and seamlessly.
Yes.
Hugh Jackman is one of favorites…and he played one of my heroes from growing up — P.T. Barnum!
Me too! He's back on Broadway now in "The Music Man."
... did countless reports and essays on the man starting in 3rd grade and all the way through college!
Fascinating man, yes. He and Charles Sherwood Stratton were actually distantly related (half fifth cousin twice removed) and are actually buried in the same cemetery... of course, a.k.a. General Tom Thumb. I always wondered if they knew they were distant cousins when they were alive?
He was the ultimate salesman, marketing master, and as the movie says: the Greatest Showman! (Not perfect, mind you, but who amongst us is?)
Exactly. Tom Thumb was only four years old when Barnum put him to work, but they claimed he was 11 eleven because that was considered "adulthood" back then.
See there... we are peas and carrots! :)
Redbone
Sexual Healing
Sharing the Night Together
MtnCaddy
206
Hey!
Heh.
And no worries, nobody runs me ought of nowhere, no how.
Great! Good answer. He believes the blog "wouldn't EXIST without" him (his words, not mine):
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/07/29/rampant-gop-incompetence-on-full-display/#comment-166474
It's psychotic. Don't let him bother you, promise. :)
It's the Voodoo Lounge!
Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You
That was fun - G'nite, everyone!
EM
214
OMG. Are you under the influence at this point?
Still kidding. ;)
I am on a natural high. :)
Good Night
EM
217
I am on a natural high. :)
Me too... plus I got a "bartender" refilling my drink.
I've technically only had one. :)
Cheers!
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Not even. The worst it ever got, back when I was still reading both poon's and Fredo's trollery was getting moderately annoyed, y no más.
Well, the start of a another beautiful day... :D
I see that racist cad STILL can't ignore me.. :D
And I want to thank all of you for proving how full of shit many of ya'all were. :D
Several of ya'all have complained that my posting here prevents other people from being able to post here... There were claims that it's "impossible" to carry on conversations with my constant posting of facts and reality-based comments..
I, of course, denied this was the case. That my constant postings of the facts in NO WAY stops anyone else from posting facts...
Well... As we can see from all the posts above, that is simply NOT FACTUALLY ACCURATE...
So... Once again.. Ya'all have been proven wrong and I was dead on ballz accurate..
The *ONLY* thing stopping ya'all from posting the facts is that ya'all don't HAVE any facts.. Or, to be more accurate.. Ya'all don't have any RELEVANT facts...
So racist cad can continue to claim he ignores me.. With EVERY post..
Homophobic vick can continue to spew her long winded bullshit that no one actually reads...
But when it all comes down to it..
The ONLY one here posting facts in Weigantia is moi... :D
All the rest is simply political bigotry and hate and racist comments and homophobic comments..
Well, let's start the day, shall we.. :D
Biden in Delaware as Putin raises nuclear alert status
President Biden is at his private home in Delaware as the Russian invasion of Ukraine escalates
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-in-delaware-as-putin-raises-alert-status-of-nuclear-weapons
Bide runs home to his basement after Putin gives Biden a bloody nose.. :^/
How ANYONE with more than 2 brain cells to rub together could have voted for Biden is one of the great mysteries of the world.. :^/
President Biden remains at his private home in Delaware as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate.
Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the alert status for his nuclear forces to "special regime of combat duty" as Russia and Ukraine battle for the fourth day.
Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military's General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a "special regime of combat duty." The move signals tensions could boil over into a nuclear war.
The threat of nuclear war has caused Biden's brain to snap... He is now in the hospice wing of his Delaware home... :^/
So, now we have a brain dead President..
Well, on the PLUS side, it's not much of a change from the way Biden was BEFORE the Ukraine war started.. :^/
If Biden gets to the podium and brags about how he whipped COVID's ass but the sea of politicians before him are all masked???
What a message that is going to really send, eh??
But, if all of Congress is unmasked?? Then we know that Democrats finally concede the facts..
COVID was never really any big thing... It's all been political hype to wield political power..
Once again.. Democrats have put themselves into a LOSE-LOSE situation..
No matter WHAT Democrats do.... They lose....
Mask up??? Democrats lose.. Masks off?? Democrats lose... :D
I love it!!! :D
Capitol ditches mask requirement ahead of State of the Union
The mask requirement has been active for much of the past two years
https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-ditches-mask-requirement-state-union
Do I know how to call it or what!!!??? :D
So, once again, Democrats PROVE beyond ANY doubt that COVID was ALL about politics and had little to NOTHING to do with science..
Gods, it's rough being factually accurate all the time.. :D
NY Times journalist suggests media concern for Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrates racial 'biases'
'1619 Project' creator urges reporters covering Ukraine to 'really look internally'
New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones offered a surprising take Sunday on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and its media coverage.
The 1619 Project author commented on a local writer’s description of "incidents of insidious racism" in the media, claiming that concern is only for "Europeans with blond hair and blue eyes."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyt-journalist-media-russia-ukraine-racial-biases
What *IS* it about Democrats that they see racists everywhere??
Democrats remind me of that guy from THE MUMMY II.. One of the tomb robbers was so afraid of curses.. And his fellow tomb robber was mocking him..
"You always go on and on about curses.. 'Dis is cursed!!'... 'Dat is cursed!!'.. It's all about curses with you!!"
That's the way you Democrats are...
"This is racist!!! THAT is racist!!!" :^/
Well, I guess if Democrats were hammers... Everything would look like a nail..
Since Democrats are racist.. Everything looks like racism...
Speaking of racism...
Hay JL... Way back when (yesterday... :D) you falsely accused me of skirting the line with racist and homophobic comments in the past.. I asked you for facts to back up the accusation..
I don't believe you ever came across with any of those facts..
Did I miss them in all of homophobic vick's TL;DR spewage or racist cad's constant comments on how he is "ignoring" me??
Just wanted to make sure.. :D
It's interesting how the worm has turned, eh?
EXPLAINER: Does Putin’s alert change risk of nuclear war?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-joe-biden-europe-united-states-f58746ab66c61c6a9b474db2b402ba02
Ya'all were apeshit hysterical that President Trump would start a nuclear war.. Of course, as with EVERYTHING ya'all spewed, it was nothing but Trump/America hate and bigotry talking..
But NOW, it looks like Biden's incompetence and utter ineptitude at real military leadership might actually lead to a nuclear war...
Who could have POSSIBLY predicted this, eh?? Oh wait.. :D
What *IS* it about Democrats that they are completely and utterly incompetent on dealing with Putin???
Under President Trump, Putin knew he had to behave himself or he would get his ass kicked..
So Putin behaved himself..
But under Odumbo and Biden, both Democrats??
Putin bends the world over and has his way with the world..
Thanx Democrats :^/
Feds: Saying you’re ‘colorblind’ is racist
A newly revealed federal diversity program greatly expands earlier critical race training by creating a whole new minefield of “microaggressions” that some could believe are stereotypes and racism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/feds-saying-youre-colorblind-is-racist
Get that???
Democrats are NOW saying that the VERY basis of Dr Martin Luther King's wisdom is "racist"..
Dr King wanted to live in a colorblind society..
NOW Democrats are claiming that Dr King is a racist..
It's MIND BOGGLING...
It harkens back to what JL was saying above..
JL said that Dr King believed that racist slurs were appropriate if the racist slurs were used by those of that particular race..
And that is complete and utter bullshit.. There are simply NO FACTS to support such a claim..
Dr King would be abhorred by today's Democrats and their racism...
So, now Democrats want to paint Dr Martin Luther King as a racist..
How completely and utterly sad..
But it is what it is.. Proof positive that the Democrat Party is still the Racist Party..
In the training package used at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, offering a black student a basketball should be considered offensive.
What if the black student WANTED to play basketball??
Would it still be racially offensive??? :^/
This is the EXACT problem with Democrats...
They are so racist that they see racism in EVERYTHING... :^/
Not only are federal workers urged to consider what they say, but also how their comments are received. In one chart, a white male is shown saying he is “colorblind.” The black woman shown beside, however, takes as an insult that the white is denying her “racial/cultural being.”
https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7d5792a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1092x822+0+0/resize/1060x798!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6c%2Fbd%2F78851271468da42b00d9a4b7ed43%2Fscreen-shot-2022-02-25-at-11.53.25%20AM.png
One has to wonder..
If the woman pictured feels like she is being insulted, why is she smiling?? :^/
But ignoring that for the moment..
Democrats say that treating people equally regardless of race (being "colorblind") is somehow "racist"..
This is ya'all's Democrat Party people... Maybe someone here can explain this complete and utter lunacy from the Democrat Party??
Because surely no one with more than 2 brain cells to rub together could understand such idiocy....
They hypocrisy of the Democrat Party in all it's splendor..
From the ONLY OFFICIAL unbiased and objective Weigantian™ News Source...
‘Hey Hey,’ Joe Rogan, ‘My My,’ Neil Young
Rogan’s sin, as the world now knows, was hosting two medical doctors who dissent from the health establishment’s consensus on coronavirus vaccines and treatment. “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast,” David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash said in a written statement. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform.
COVID makes strange bedfellows, doesn’t it? Until last week, Neil Young was a known Luddite who had long been a font of dubious scientific theories of his own. For starters, he crusades against big-scale agriculture and genetically modified organisms, which is an especially curious quirk for a diabetic. Young has been kept alive for many years by insulin supplements, which are GMOs. Yet in his telling – and Young produced an entire album about it in 2015 – genetically modified crops are responsible for all kinds of “terrible diseases.” Moreover, he asserts that herbicides (he calls them “pesticides” for some reason) have caused a spike in childhood autism. These are fringe notions, with no accepted scientific basis, and first cousin to a related conspiracy theory, which is that childhood vaccines cause autism.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/02/24/hey_hey_joe_rogan_my_my_neil_young_147236.html#2
Proof Positive (as if anyone needs any more proof) that the response to COVID was nothing but politics...
Just more of your usual nonsense where you simply make statements that are not true which only proves that you are wrong and have no valid argument.
Exactly..
That's part of homophobic vick's charm.. She has no point..
"She has no point. She never has any point. It's part of her charm."
-Tom Cruise, A FEW GOOD MEN
And comment 97 reveals your true intentions.
It does indeed... Good call...
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/02/918/516/cartoon-022822.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
This epitomizes Democrats perfect...
Hypocritical.. Moronic.. Ignorant..
How ANYONE with more than 2 brain cells to rub together can support the Democrat Party??
One of the universe's greatest mysteries...
Finland, Sweden brush off Moscow’s warning on joining NATO
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland and Sweden have brushed off warnings from neighboring Russia that their possible joining of NATO would trigger “serious military-political consequences” from Moscow for the two countries.
A statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry Friday voiced concern about what it described as efforts by the United States and some of its allies to “drag” Finland and Sweden into NATO and warned that Moscow would be forced to take retaliatory measures if they join the alliance.
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said Saturday that “we’ve heard this before.”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-states-moscow-sweden-finland-38bc14feac1d35c4c86dcb710b44f60c
You should really read that Star Trek novel ISHMAEL, Liz...
It illustrates PERFECTLY how dangerous it is for your guy Putin to take actions that bring about the very thing he wishes to prevent...
The Dangerous Brilliance of Ibram X. Kendi's Child Indoctrination Plan
Your kids are being indoctrinated and you may not even know that you're actually the culprit.
Ibram X. Kendi is a far-left critical race theorist who has helped completely change the national conversation around race—for the worse.
Thanks to his work How to Be an Antiracist, white progressives have adopted a remarkably radical view: racism is to blame for virtually every obstacle confronting black Americans.
https://www.newsweek.com/dangerous-brilliance-ibram-x-kendis-child-indoctrination-plan-opinion-1683014
If every outlook, life-experience and view of the world you have is based on race or has a racial component, like Democrats??
You are a racist..
Poor grades? Institutionalized racism in the education system. Poor health outlooks? Well, the health care system is systemically racist. High prison populations? The criminal justice system and police were created to oppress. This way of looking at the world reduces every black person to a victim. It's a racist worldview that was trotted out by radical left-wing voices as a basic fact about being black in America.
This describes ya'all and Democrats perfectly...
Systemic racism is dead in this country.. It died the day we elected a black American as POTUS.. It was further proven dead when we elected a black American as VPOTUS 10 years later..
But ya'all, and Democrats insist on claiming that every bad thing that happens to a black person is because of racism..
And ya'all make that claim with absolutely NO FACTS to even SUPPORT the claim and a multitude of facts that PROVE the claim is BS...
When yer a hammer, everything looks like a nail..
When yer a racist, everything looks like racism...
While the progressive voters who have adopted this view are loud in voice, they're not yet large enough in numbers to sway the culture. Most Americans understand our racist past—and it is, in fact, the past.
While racism certainly still exists, we reject the notion that this country was founded on white supremacy that permeates our every institution. That Democrats have adopted that thinking seems likely to turn a red wave into a red tsunami in purple districts this fall. Society isn't willing to accept that extremist thinking. Americans by large are frankly sick of the idea that everything is racist.
Couldn't have said it better myself...
Systemic/institutionalized racism no longer exists in this country, sans 2 exceptions..
Affirmative Action
The Democrat Party
And the SCOTUS is going to scuttle Affirmative Action soon...
Once that happens, the ONLY example of systemic/institutionalized racism in this country will be the Democrat Party..
And comment 97 reveals your true intentions.
[97] Kick wrote:
:)
okay don, when you're right you're right.
JL troll
JL said that Dr King believed that racist slurs were appropriate if the racist slurs were used by those of that particular race..
that's absolutely NOT what i wrote. what i DID write was that he'd think the slurs were ALWAYS wrong, but significantly LESS wrong when used by members of the group. he would never encourage their use, but he'd recognize the difference, because so would any sane individual. and that's true no matter what group is being referred to. jews can make holocaust jokes, women can make abortion jokes, black people can use the n-word. it's never good, but HOW bad it is does depend on who's saying it.
JL
that's absolutely NOT what i wrote. what i DID write was that he'd think the slurs were ALWAYS wrong, but significantly LESS wrong when used by members of the group.
A distinction without a difference..
he would never encourage their use, but he'd recognize the difference, because so would any sane individual. and that's true no matter what group is being referred to.
There are absolutely NO FACTS to support that Dr King felt this way..
We DO know how Dr King felt about racism in general..
And gratuitous use of the n-word, such as racist cad's comment, is pure unadulterated racism...
Can we at least agree on that??
jews can make holocaust jokes, women can make abortion jokes, black people can use the n-word. it's never good, but HOW bad it is does depend on who's saying it.
I disagree.. Holocaust jokes are EQUALLY distasteful, no matter WHO makes them..
Racist slurs are EQUALLY distasteful no matter WHO makes them..
Homophobic slurs are EQUALLY distasteful no matter WHO makes them..
In other words, if it's wrong for one race to use a slur it's equally wrong for other races to use the same slur..
Say a gay guy really hates himself for being gay and really hates gay people for "making" him gay, so he goes on a killing spree and kills gay people..
Your reasoning is that his hate crime is LESS of a crime because he is gay...
A black man really hates himself for being black and is racist against other blacks and goes on a killing spree and kills black people..
Your reasoning is that his hate crime is LESS of a crime because he is black..
That reasoning is bupkis and is merely Democrat talking points trying to push their "all people are equal but some people are more equal than others" agenda.....
Racism is BAD... No matter WHO is racist or WHY they are racist, it's BAD... There are no "levels" of BAD when it comes to racism or anything like that..
THAT is what Dr King was all about..
Racism is BAD... PERIOD...
Don Harris
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And comment 97 reveals your true intentions.
So you've arbitrarily taken it upon yourself to assign a nefarious connotation to post 97, a simple smile? Rhetorical question.
If you're the type person that would do such a thing, and I'm not implying or inferring that you are, but say if you were the type person who was, wouldn't that constitute prima facie evidence that you're keenly aware the meanings of your own word choices, thereby rendering it a fool's errand to play ignorant or in a futile attempt to claim otherwise? Rhetorical question.
Sorry to burst your bubble, Donnie Boy, but that post at [97] was sitting in the comment box and somehow accidentally posted [how does that happen?] while I was reading other posts.
I hate when that happens, but that'll teach me to leave anything in the comment box while I'm scrolling through Trollshit Mountain, won't it?
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nypoet22
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okay don, when you're right you're right.
Don assigns a diabolical intimation to my simple smile that accidentally posted as I was slogging through the requisite moosepoop, and you fall it?
I wish I had perpetrated it, but alas, I cannot lay claim to having done that.
It was a nice bit of projection on his part, though, don't you think? :)
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This Time, Politics Should Actually Stop at Water’s Edge
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/02/28/this_time_politics_should_actually_stop_at_waters_edge_147261.html
It's funny how Democrats want to stop politics at the water's edge.
When it's their own political future that's going to get pounded into the dirt.. :D
Here’s the opening paragraphs from the article [245]:
“We must stop partisan politics at the water's edge,” insisted Sen. Arthur Vandenberg on the Senate floor in March of 1947. At the time, the Michigan Republican chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Harry Truman, a Democrat, was formulating a policy of containment to constrain Russian imperialism.
In the decades since, Vandenberg’s words have generally been ignored. Republicans and Democrats often clash during foreign policy crises, sometimes debating in good faith over principled disagreements, sometimes leveling cheap attacks in hopes of scoring political points.
But Vandenberg’s principle can and should guide the behavior of our politicians as they respond to Vladimir Putin’s brazen invasion of Ukraine. This is not wishful thinking. Several factors of this crisis incentivize bipartisanship.
Michale posted this after the link to the article:
It's funny how Democrats want to stop politics at the water's edge.
Proof again that you either do not bother to read the articles you post OR that you just aren’t smart enough to comprehend what you read. I’m guessing it’s C) “All of the above”.
Michale,
Say a gay guy really hates himself for being gay and really hates gay people for "making" him gay, so he goes on a killing spree and kills gay people..
Your reasoning is that his hate crime is LESS of a crime because he is gay...
Utter and COMPLETE BULLSHAT!!!! If anything, we believe it is MORE of a HATE crime because he is gay!!! No, we want the self-loathing bastards to pay MORE for their crimes as a warning to other closet cases who blame everyone else for their own issues. Heck, I’m all for charging the parents and the churches for screwing up these people. The level of self-loathing required to pull off a mass murder doesn’t just happen naturally — It is indoctrinated into the person!
YOUR belief that liberals think this way seems to be nothing but projection of you own White Privileged thinking. Look at all of the crimes that Trump has committed that you think aren’t crimes because he is White.
Projection ... yes, Russ, that is precisely what it is most of the time I think and it explains a lot.
"[Projection, projection] ... I'm not being fooled by projection!
"[Projection, projection]... you thought you could put one over me!"
Deception - PRiSM
Kick[244],
Joshua didn't fall for anything and you should know better!
:-)
Joshua [240],
Darn tootened!
Elizabeth Miller
250
Joshua didn't fall for anything and you should know better!
He appears to have fallen for it. Reeled in. ;)
I am teasing him, you know. :)
@rush,
It's funny how Democrats want to stop politics at the water's edge.
Proof again that you either do not bother to read the articles you post OR that you just aren’t smart enough to comprehend what you read. I’m guessing it’s C) “All of the above”.
Are you REALLY that dense???
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
It's a DEMOCRAT who wrote the article..
It was a DEMOCRAT who wants to stop politics at the water's edge....
Hence, my comment
It's funny how Democrats want to stop politics at the water's edge.
Gods, rush... Your single brain cell is REALLY lonely...
It's a DEMOCRAT who wrote the article..
It was a DEMOCRAT who wants to stop politics at the water's edge....
Hence, my comment
It's funny how Democrats want to stop politics at the water's edge.
Ohhhh.. I get it…. You ignored the actual message the article conveyed, but you find it hilarious that a Democrat wrote it for reasons that you still cannot articulate, you failed-INCEL bastard! (FIB).