Friday Talking Points -- Biden Walks Back The War On Weed
We were reminded of an old political saying this week: "Only Nixon could go to China." Only a president who was long known as a staunch anti-communist warrior could open up American relations with communist China in the depths of the Cold War, without being painted as some sort of pinko/commie back home. This week's update might read: "Only Biden could pardon weed crimes." Joe Biden, before he became Barack Obama's vice president, had spent much of his life in the Senate being the biggest, baddest drug warrior around. He actually coined the term "drug czar" and worked with the Reagan administration to make the Office of National Drug Control Policy a reality. He's never been pro-legalization in any way, a fact that didn't exactly help him in the 2020 Democratic primaries. But there he was yesterday, taking the first steps away from the War On Weed that any U.S. President has ever taken.
Biden, of course, won't face any sort of political payback for his move. The American public is now overwhelmingly against marijuana still being illegal. Three-fourths of the states now allow it to be used medicinally. Currently adults can legally buy and smoke weed recreationally in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Next month, the citizens of five more states will vote on whether to fully legalize recreational use. The tipping point was reached a long time ago, but up until now the federal government has not made any move whatsoever to acknowledge this new reality.
President Joe Biden just took the first step towards restoring some sanity. From his remarks, announcing the new policy:
As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate rates.
This has always been true. Indeed, it was the whole point of the War On Weed to begin with -- to arrest, prosecute, and jail as many Black people and college students as possible, to undermine the political opposition to (coincidentally) Richard Nixon. So it's long past time for the federal government to admit it, change the laws, and move on.
Biden then announced the changes he was making: pardoning anyone convicted of mere possession of marijuana in federal court (which will include convictions in D.C.), urging state governors to follow suit and also issue blanket pardons, and launching a new effort to change the official federal classification of marijuana:
Federal law currently classifies marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the classification meant for the most dangerous substances. This is the same schedule as for heroin and LSD, and even higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine -- the drugs that are driving our overdose epidemic.
Again, this has always been true. It is insane that marijuana is treated as more dangerous than fentanyl. It makes no sense at all. But that's the way it has been, ever since Nixon launched his War On Drugs to begin with. Biden closed his remarks with another painfully obvious statement:
Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. It’s time that we right these wrongs.
It is long past time, in fact. Neither Bill Clinton (who tried to dodge the issue by saying he "didn't inhale" any pot he had happened to smoke as a student) nor Barack Obama (who flat-out admitted he was a total stoner for a while) ever made this move. To be fair, though, the monumental shift in public attitude towards marijuana prohibition didn't really get going until after Clinton, and was nowhere near as overwhelmingly one-sided even when Obama was in office. So it fell to Biden to start righting these wrongs. Only Biden could pardon weed crimes, in other words, at least politically-speaking.
This is all momentous not so much because of the steps themselves, but because of their direction. We would label them "significant baby steps." Significant because of the reverse in direction, but baby steps all the same.
Since 1992 (the government apparently doesn't have data previous to this date), only about 6,500 people were convicted for simple federal possession charges. None are currently in prison. So it'll have a rather limited effect. You had to get caught with weed on federal property (or where federal law was the controlling one) -- a national park, for instance, or an airport. Everywhere else, state law would have applied instead. After getting caught, the federal prosecutor had to decide whether your case was serious enough to actually bring charges. Many low-level cases were likely dropped at this point. As you can see, this is a very limited "blanket" pardon indeed.
Washington D.C. is all federal property, though (technically, it is a federal enclave and not part of any state). So what would be a state-level charge anywhere else is automatically a federal charge in D.C. There is no estimate yet for how many people will be covered by the pardon who just got caught with a joint somewhere in the District, but it is likely a lot higher than the other 6,500 people it will affect.
In other words, it is indeed a significant step -- just ask any of those 6,500-plus people; they'll tell you. And it is what was possible -- Biden has no power to pardon any state-level offenses. So he should be applauded for taking the step, no matter how limited an effect it will have.
At the state level, many states led by Democrats have already effectively pardoned weed cases. Others are considering doing so. Red states mostly haven't, because they are still trapped in the War On Weed insanity, which is why what is really needed is a change in federal law.
Biden announced he'll be moving forward on a very basic change -- considering the ridiculous classification of weed -- but this is going to take a while. The process for such a change involves multiple departments of the federal government and it may well take years. If Biden's lucky, he might get to oversee this change somewhere around the end of his first term, to put it another way.
This change could be pretty timid, too -- nowhere near what it should be. If the only thing they manage to do is to change weed from Schedule I to Schedule II (or maybe III), that's not going to do a whole lot. What is really needed is to deschedule marijuana -- take it completely off the list of "dangerous substances" and start treating it like alcohol and tobacco. But it's unclear if the option of descheduling is even going to be considered in the process.
Biden took some significant baby steps. But it is really up to Congress to change things. There have been various efforts to do so for years, but even the simplest changes (such as allowing marijuana businesses to use banks instead of being forced to do all transactions in cash, or allowing marijuana businesses to take the same tax write-offs for business expenses that every other business in the country is allowed to do) have so far not happened. Good bills have passed the House, but they always die in the Senate -- where it is not just Republicans but also some old drug warriors on the Democratic side of the aisle (we are looking at you, Dianne Feinstein) who continually block necessary changes.
The War On Weed won't be over until the federal government gives marijuana control to the correct place within the federal structure: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That's where it belongs, obviously. But the president can't effect this change with the stroke of a pen. So it is impossible to fault Biden for not doing so.
He did what he could. That is reason enough for celebration, at least for us. He took some baby steps, but these baby steps are in a direction that no president has ever trod towards. This week might go down in history as the beginning of the end of the federal War On Weed.
Joe Biden was also in the news this week for touring Florida and Puerto Rico to personally see the hurricane damage. Notable during his trips: he did not insultingly toss paper towel rolls at anyone. He did, however, get caught on a hot mic dropping an F-bomb, to the delight of late-night television hosts across the land.
Today saw some good economic news, as the unemployment rate went back down to a 50-year low of 3.5 percent. But next week's inflation number is probably going to make more of an impact, no matter what it turns out to be.
In international news, Ukraine continues to kick some Russian butt on the battlefield, reclaiming vast swaths of their country back. Everyone in America (except for some Putin-loving Republicans, of course -- more about that in a bit...) cheered their victory.
Donald Trump is determined to waste as much of his donor's money as he possibly can on lawyer's fees for no apparent reason, as he proved this week by filing a $450 million lawsuit against CNN -- basically, for "being mean to me." Sooner or later this will get laughed out of court, so we've all got that to look forward to.
Trump also appealed the decision against him in the stolen-documents case, asking the Supreme Court to intervene in his favor. If the court weren't packed with partisan zealots, we'd say that this would also get laughed out of court, but these days who knows?
Liz Cheney appeared on behalf of Democratic candidates in Arizona, while one big Republican donor switched to backing the Democrat in a House race he had previously been on the Republican side (he switched after an election-denier won the primary).
But the big news from the campaign trail this week was about Herschel Walker, the GOP candidate for Senate in Georgia. Walker, who has staked out the most extreme forced-birth position imaginable, seems to have paid for his girlfriend's abortion. And she's got the receipts. Walker called the woman a liar and said he had no idea who she was (she has not publicly revealed her name), but it later came out that Walker actually did father a child with her later on, so that's pretty tough to believe. Walker initially threatened to sue The Daily Beast (who broke the story), but then immediately backed down from this empty threat. Walker's own son publicly ripped him a new one on social media, calling his dad a complete liar in absolutely unequivocal terms.
Every other Republican, of course, stood with Walker, since he's their only chance to recapture one of the Georgia Senate seats they lost last time around. The moral relativism oozing from the party is palpable (remember when Republicans used to denounce Democrats for moral relativism?... ahh, memories...). Newt Gingrich was perhaps the best example of ridiculousness in the midst of it all, saying Walker was "the most important Senate candidate in the country" due to his "deep commitment to Christ." This is a man who has been violent towards his partners, mind you, but the truly laughable thing about Newtie (who is no stranger to marital infidelity himself, it bears noting) was that the Democrat in the race is a senior pastor at Martin Luther King Junior's old church. There is no better example than that of the Republican Party's newfound love of style over substance, really.
Almost lost in all this frenzy was a new report that showed Walker lying about "supervising" six hospitals -- which is truly bizarre, since what hospital would ever let a man with such a dim grasp on reality supervise them? It was no surprise that this, like pretty much everything else that comes out of Walker's mouth, turned out to be a lie.
James Carville had the best take on the whackadoodle nature of many current Republican candidates for office, but we're going to save that for the very end.
For once, we're going to keep it fairly brief here in the awards section.
Before we begin with this week, we have a retroactive award to hand out. Last week, we completely missed Representative Elissa Slotkin's amazing speech exposing abortion foes for what they really are, so we wanted to rectify the omission. She is well-deserving of at least an Honorable Mention.
This week, a Democratic House candidate in Louisiana made some political advertising history, deploying what has to be the first campaign ad ever where the candidate is seen giving birth. It is effective and the whole ad is impressively well-put-together, so Katie Darling certainly deserves her own Honorable Mention for her pioneering ad. As well as our congratulations on her new baby!
But this week's Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week is pretty obvious. President Joe Biden reversed the federal government's course on the War On Weed this week. As we've already said, the steps he took were both baby steps and quite significant. We know Biden will never be fully on board with complete legalization everywhere, but it is impressive he overcame a lifetime of being known as a tough drug warrior, and realized that the times have changed. The federal government is long overdue to start adjusting to this change, which is why Joe Biden's first steps towards that long-held goal were impressive enough, for now.
[Congratulate President Joe Biden on his official contact page, to let him know you appreciate his efforts.]
We are likewise going to try to be brief in our second award, mostly because there is so much still left unknown.
The news broke this week (it was leaked) that Joe Biden's son Hunter is in some very hot water:
Federal agents investigating President Biden's son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase, according to people familiar with the case. The next step is for the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, a Trump administration holdover, to decide on whether to file such charges, these people said.
The investigation into Hunter Biden began in 2018, and became a central focus for then-president Donald Trump during his unsuccessful 2020 reelection effort. Initially, the investigation centered around Hunter Biden's finances related to overseas business ties and consulting work. Over time, investigators with multiple agencies focused closely on whether he did not report all of his income, and whether he lied on gun purchase paperwork in 2018, according to the people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing case.
Agents determined months ago they had assembled a viable criminal case against the younger Biden. But it is ultimately up to prosecutors at the Justice Department, not agents, to decide whether to file charges in cases where prosecutors believe the evidence is strong enough to lead to a likely conviction at trial.
What was not said was the fact that, much like the Whitewater investigation, the investigators obviously didn't find what they initially set out to look for: "Hunter Biden's finances related to overseas business ties and consulting work." That would have been far more significant politically, since tax and gun charges are going to be almost impossible to pin on his dad. Filing bad tax info or gun purchase paperwork is a very personal thing -- it's usually not a sign of any great conspiracy. Again, this is far from what they were hoping to uncover.
And as the article points out, this is Trump's hand-picked investigator. Neither Biden nor Attorney General Merrick Garland has removed him from the case or otherwise interfered in the investigation -- both things that would definitely have happened if one of Donald Trump's kids were investigated while Trump was in office.
This is the way things are supposed to work, in other words. But for all the conspiracy theories the right has tried to float about Hunter Biden, this all looks like pretty small potatoes.
We're a firm believer in everyone receiving equal justice, of course. So we have no problem with the Department of Justice prosecuting the president's son if it appears he committed any crimes. But at the same time, we have to point out that these are not the crimes they were actually seeking.
Either way, though, Hunter Biden is easily our Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week, just for the headlines alone.
[Hunter Biden is a private citizen and it is our standing policy not to provide contact information for such persons, so you'll have to look up his contact info yourself it you'd like to let him know what you think of his actions.]
Volume 680 (10/7/22)
We're going to take a detour before we get to the actual talking points, to highlight a masterpiece of writing. And of satire and parody. What's surprising is where it appeared -- in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court. By The Onion.
It's been a long time since we read something so hilarious, which is not exactly the norm when reading legal briefs. And it didn't really fit anywhere else here, but it deserves a spotlight for sheer brilliance alone.
Here is how their brief starts:
The Onion is the world's leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.
Fact check: The Onion began in 1988. And there are fewer than 8 billion humans on the entire planet.
But they do have a very serious point to make, which they lay out in their "Introduction and Summary of Argument" section:
Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government? This was a surprise to America's Finest News Source and an uncomfortable learning experience for its editorial team. Indeed, "Ohio Police Officers Arrest, Prosecute Man Who Made Fun of Them on Facebook" might sound like a headline ripped from the front pages of The Onion -- albeit one that's considerably less amusing because its subjects are real. So, when The Onion learned about the Sixth Circuit's ruling in this case, it became justifiably concerned.
First, the obvious: The Onion's business model was threatened. This was only the latest occasion on which the absurdity of actual events managed to eclipse what The Onion's staff could make up. Much more of this, and the front page of The Onion would be indistinguishable from The New York Times.
Later on, they explain the concept of parody, with a few side burns towards the people they are writing this document for:
I. Parody Functions By Tricking People Into Thinking That It Is Real.
Tu stultus es. You are dumb. These three Latin words have been The Onion's motto and guiding light since it was founded in 1988 as America's Finest News Source, leading its writers toward the paper's singular purpose of pointing out that its readers are deeply gullible people. The Onion's motto is central to this brief for two important reasons. First, it's Latin. And The Onion knows that the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks: They quote Catullus in the original Latin in chambers. They sweetly whisper "stare decisis" into their spouses' ears. They mutter "cui bono" under their breath while picking up after their neighbors' dogs. So The Onion knew that, unless it pointed to a suitably Latin rallying cry, its brief would be operating far outside the Court's vernacular.
The entire brief is completely serious in the First Amendment protection they are arguing for, while simultaneously riotously funny (we would be willing to bet a lot that it's the first Supreme Court brief to ever use the term "Latin dorks," for instance). It's well worth reading in full, but we had to at least run a few excerpts here to give everyone a taste... and full disclosure, we became fascinated and enamored with the use of the editorial "we" first when reading the column ostensibly from the longtime publisher of The Onion (which, for those not familiar with them, were bizarrely hilarious in their own right). So anyone who rolls their eyes at us consistently (and pretentiously) using the editorial "we" in our Friday columns, you now know where the real blame lies.
But enough silliness... let's get on with the talking points, shall we?
Deschedule, don't reschedule
The real answer is getting Congress to fix the problem once and for all.
"I applaud Joe Biden's bold moves on ending the federal War On Weed. They are necessary steps which must be taken, and he is the first sitting president to reverse course on federal marijuana law, which I do appreciate and support. But the real answer is not just to study rescheduling marijuana on the list of dangerous controlled substances, but instead to remove it from the list altogether. That is what ultimately needs to happen, and everyone knows it. Put federal policy on marijuana in the same hands as the people who control alcohol and tobacco, where it belongs. Deschedule, don't reschedule."
The party of Putin
Whoops. It's tough when you actually come out and say what everyone suspects you of thinking, isn't it?
"The Conservative Political Action Committee hit a new low in their open embrace of dictators and strongmen this week, when they tweeted out:"
Vladimir Putin announces the annexation of 4 Ukrainian-occupied territories. Biden and the Dems continue to send Ukraine billions of taxpayer dollars. Meanwhile, we are under attack at our southern border. When will Democrats put #AmericaFirst and end the gift-giving to Ukraine?
"This is disgusting. They are not 'Ukrainian-occupied territories,' they are in fact Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian army after an illegal invasion. It is not 'gift-giving' to help an ally when they have been attacked without provocation, it is the right thing to do. Republicans just can't get over their Putin-love enough to see that, I guess. The Republican Party seems like it really wants to be the 'party of Putin,' these days."
Russian soldiers at our border?
Case in point....
"Kari Lake, the MAGA Republican running to become governor of Arizona, became just the latest Republican to use images of Russian soldiers in a political ad. She wasn't warning of Russian aggression, she was instead trying to pass them off as American National Guard forces who should be deployed on our southern border. As her Democratic opponent pointed out: 'If Kari Lake can't identify a uniformed member of the Arizona National Guard from a Russian soldier, she has no business leading our brave men and women as governor.' I could not agree more."
Racism and death threats need to be condemned by all
The media, sadly, is once again falling down on the job of holding other Republicans accountable for the increasingly unhinged and dangerous things Donald Trump says.
"Donald Trump last week on social media used the term 'death wish' against the Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell. He used a blatantly racist slur against McConnell's wife, who used to be a member of his own cabinet. That sound of chirping crickets is all we heard from all the other Republicans. Even McConnell couldn't bring himself to denounce threats of violence and racist slurs used against his own wife. Other Republicans similarly ducked assigning any blame or condemnation to Trump. This is political cowardice of the first order. It used to be automatic for any politician to denounce such vile and dangerous language, but in Trump's GOP, anything goes, these days."
Your own son is calling you a liar
If times were normal and Donald Trump had never happened, this would have ended his political career. As it is, so far no Republican has had the guts to denounce Herschel Walker's hypocrisy and disdain for the truth. Which is par for the GOP course, these days.
"Herschel Walker seems like a perfect clone of Donald Trump's personality, which is probably why Trump so enthusiastically backed him. It seems Walker has never met a subject he can't blatantly lie about, and when confronted with his lies he doubles down and lies yet again. You know it has gotten pretty bad when your own son calls you out very publicly for lying your face off. And the big lie Walker got caught in -- proof that he paid for a girlfriend's abortion who he later fathered a child with -- is a doozy, since Walker has staked out an absolutist position on abortion. According to him, there should be no exceptions at all, abortion should be illegal, period. Except, of course, for his own girlfriends. Then apparently it's OK. The hypocrisy is just stunning, folks."
Dr. Oz killed puppies
"I'm not sure exactly why everyone seems to be ignoring this bombshell story, but it came out this week that Mehmet 'Dr.' Oz was in charge of medical studies at Columbia University that killed puppies. Over 300 dogs were killed, and the university later paid a fine for violating the Animal Welfare Act for these studies. Dogs were not given painkillers, and were essentially tortured. In one experiment, a litter of puppies were killed in brutal fashion without sedation, and then were allegedly 'left in a garbage bag with living puppies who were their littermates.' This is absolutely inhumane, and this should be front-page headlines all across Pennsylvania, at the very least. Does the Keystone State really want to send a puppy-killer to the United States Senate?"
Stupid is as stupid does
Leave it to James Carville to get right to the crux of the problem.
"The Republican Party will never come out and admit it, but all the problems they are having with all their whackadoodle nominees for office can be traced to one simple cause: their own voters. Their own base nominated these Bozos. No wonder they're so afraid of speaking the truth these days, because their voters simply are not interested in such things. Democratic operative James Carville summed it up rather starkly, saying that the 'very low-quality candidates' Republicans wound up with was due to a simple fact. In Carville's own words:"
They have a lot of stupid people that vote in their primaries. They really do. I'm not really supposed to say that but it's obvious fact. And you know, when stupid people vote, you know who they nominate? Other stupid people.
-- Chris Weigant
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant
Cross-posted at: Democratic Underground
Caddy ... I haven't done it yet but, I will ... soon ... I'll let you know once I send it ... have to find the address again ...
Nice MIDOTW award for Biden!
DOJ has the goods on Hunter Biden, by the way, and it's more than enough to indict, I hear tell ...
Mystery solved! All this time I assumed it was (only) misogyny and ageism.
'...also some old drug warriors on the Democratic side of the aisle (we are looking at you, Dianne Feinstein)...'
LIZ!!!!!! Yer back!!!!
Had me worried for a bit there.. Welcome home.. :D
My my my..
All the bashing on Walker..
Ya'all Demcorats must be really REALLY scared, eh!! :D
I find that hilarious..
This says it PERFECTLY vis a vis ya'all's hysteria over Walker..
First they ignore you..then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win.
From all the FACTS (because as ya'all well know, I am ALL about the facts) it's apparent that ya'all are scared shitless that Walker is going to win.
As ya'all well should be..
Ignoring all the legal and scumbag baggage that Warlock is carrying...
For the vast majority of Georgians, Walker is a hometown hero.. A local boy that made good..
And Democrats just can't touch that.. :D
But, by all means.. Continue yer hysterical Walker attacks.. It amuses me.. :D
OK, now that we have addressed the on-topic stuff.. :D
ON WITH THE WEEKEND...
I've cleared my WHOLE calendar!! :D
One really has to wonder..
Justice Ketanji Jackson brings the heat in the court’s opening October term
OPINION: KBJ put the court’s conservative justices on notice that there is a new justice in town, and she is ready to debate the doctrine of originalism.
Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in April celebrating her confirmation as the first Black woman to reach the Supreme Court.
https://thegrio.com/2022/10/06/justice-ketanji-jackson-brings-the-heat-in-the-courts-opening-october-term/
Can Democrats *EVER* mention Judge Jackson Brown WITHOUT bringing their blatant racism to bear??
Does ANYONE think Democrats could accomplish that stupendous feat??
Yea.. Me neither..
Yunno who thinks and makes EVERYTHING about race and racism??
A racist..
Thanks, Michale ... been distracted. :(
Speaking of the next US Civil War...
Here is the uncomfortable fact Democrats need to face: whatever the outcome of the 2022 election, Democrats’ uncompetitiveness among white working class voters and among voters in exurban, small town and rural America puts them at a massive disadvantage given the structure of the American electoral system.
Yunno, that's SOOOO troo.. :D
Interesting tidbit I realized during my convalescence...
Here is how the next US Civil War will shape up..
THE GOOD GUYS... Republican Area
The Bad Guys... Demonrat Area
It's plainly obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together that the Good Guys will utterly DESTROY the Democrats...
For several reasons.. A big reason is that the Bad Guys are completely disarmed and afraid of guns.. :D
Now, of course, the Bad Guys might argue that, in the here and now, they have numerical superiority..
But numerical superiority that is unarmed means precisely dick..
"Lemme tell you something about those skills, kid.. As of now, they mean precisely dick.."
-Agent K, MEN IN BLACK
:D
But ya'all wanna know the BIGGEST reason why Democrats will be completely and utterly DESTROYED in the coming civil war??
Think "military bases"...
The Republicans will control 99% of the military bases in CONUS.. (That Continental United States for all you civilians out there.)
Oh sure.. The 'rats might have a couple military stations in their big cities.. Some National Guard armories and such.. But armories don't mean squat if ya don't have any trained people to use those arms.. All the 'rats have is tens of millions of people AFRAID of guns..
The Good Guys will control all the military bases and accompanying hardware. Fighters, Bombers, Tanks, Nukes...
So, it's completely obvious to ANYONE with more than 2 brain cells to rub together that the Good Guys (GOP) will prevail in the coming US Civil War..
"Yer fooling yourself if ya don't believe it..
Yer kidding yourself if ya don't believe it."
-STYX, Angry Young Man
Thanks, Michale ... been distracted. :(
Ahhhh... Sorry to hear things aren't good for you..
Well I am glad yer back.. I was truly becoming concerned...
Now that yer back, I wanted to get your opinion on a very fine idea that Jean Luc had..
Zelensky and NATO Plan to Transform Post-War Ukraine Into ‘a Big Israel’
"as the rest of the text of the article suggests, "the left" is NOT happy with the prospects of that future. i on the other hand couldn't possibly be happier."
-JL
Whatcha think?? Is this a viable plan for Ukraine?? :D
And, since we're at it.. What do you think of Elon Musk's plan for Ukraine..
Beyond the fact that it cedes the Crimea to the Russians, it sounds like a pretty good plan..
Again.. Welcome back..
I intend to make your stay here as pleasant as possible.. :D
Biden's war on American energy even makes Carter years look good by comparison
From misusing Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bullying domestic producers, Biden is harming US energy supply
If President Joe Biden was looking for a gift for former President Jimmy Carter’s 98th birthday, his mishandling of the OPEC situation sure fits the bill. For all the current administration’s shortcomings and failures, they have been remarkably effective at waging war on America’s energy producers. Everyone in America is paying the price – literally – and suddenly the Carter years are looking better in retrospect.
The Biden administration may have expressed anger at the announcement from OPEC – a rogue’s gallery of 15 oil-producing countries that includes Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela – that it was slashing oil production by 2 million barrels a day in November. But this was not an isolated incident. It was a long time in the making and exacerbated by Biden and his adherence to the green movement every step of the way.
As a candidate, Biden stated, "I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels." As president, he has made good on that promise, cancelling pipelines, leasing fewer acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling since World War II and showing nothing but disdain and outright hostility toward America’s domestic energy producers. Even before Hurricane Ian made landfall, Biden was wagging his finger at the private sector, issuing ominous warnings, "do not use this as an excuse to raise gasoline prices or gouge the American people."
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-war-american-energy-makes-carter-years-look-good-comparison
How bad a POTUS Dementia Biden is that he would make Jimmy Carter look good by comparison!! :D
Democrats Should Embrace Patriotism
No, America Is Not a Racist, Dystopian Hellhole
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/democrats-should-embrace-patriotism?r=8atam
Democrats embrace patriotism???
Yea.. When pigs fly... :eyeroll:
https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mc_opecplus_web.jpg
Hehehehehehehehehe
Now THAT is funny!! :D
What Kind Of Moron Blows Up Their Own Pipeline!??
OH... THAT Kind Of Moron
hehehehehe
"It's funny cuz it's true.."
-Homer Simpson
:D
Will Gas Prices Tank Electoral Prospects for Democrats?
In many swing states, polling shows voters are concerned about inflation and economic hardship over all other issues—and they blame the party in power.
As the midterms near, the White House is in a frenzy about OPEC’s decision to slash oil production by 2 million barrels a day. The decision will, if it leads to oil price spikes, further enrich the Saudis, and further empower Putin’s vicious regime. It will also increase upward pressures on inflation here in the United States, just at the time when the administration and its allies in Congress desperately need to convince voters that they have a strong grip on the country’s economic reins.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/gas-prices-democrats/
If only we had a President that could make America energy independent..
Oh wait.. We DID have such a President.. The best president since St Ronald Reagan..
The GOOD news is that we will have that great president back in 2025.. :D
Nationally, as of Wednesday of this week, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.83. In California, by contrast, it was $6.42. For a low-income worker, say a farmworker driving a pickup truck long distances in a remote rural area, that could easily translate to a $100-per-week surcharge over what they would be paying if they lived elsewhere.
Leave it to Democrats to play to THEIR weaknesses and the GOP's strengths.. :D
Dems under water on top two voter issues heading into midterms
With inflation and violent crime worrying Americans, polling indicates Americans trust Republicans on crime and the economy — and the GOP is taking advantage.
One month out from the midterm elections, voters have made clear that crime and the economy are the two most important issues to them, according to recent polling — and they trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle both top issues.
The economy, particularly inflation, has consistently ranked as the number one priority for voters. A new Monmouth University poll, for example, found that 82% of Americans ranked inflation as an extremely or very important issue.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/dems-under-water-top-two-voter-issues-heading-midterms
As I said above.. Who but Democrats would play to their own weaknesses and play to the Republicans strengths...
This bears repeating..
and they (voters) trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle both top issues
Democrats have PROVEN that they are the cult of economic failure...
And America is going to throw Democrats out of office.. :D
Crime, meanwhile, is another top issue for voters. In fact, it ranked second in the new Monmouth poll, with 72% of Americans say it's an extremely or very important issue.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found that 83% of voters believe crime is a top issue and that 62% believe crime is getting worse.
Other recent polling has showed similar results amid a surge in violent crime.
Violent crime in urban areas rose 29% from 2020 to 2021, according to the Justice Department's recently released 2021 National Crime Victimization Survey, the nation's largest crime survey.
And ANOTHER issue that Democrats created that plays to their own weaknesses and plays to the GOP's strengths..
And Democrats have only themselves to blame..
After all, they ARE the Party of Defund, Demonize, Demoralize The Police..
Which ever Dem created THAT bone head political move should be in the GOP'er HALL OF FAME, eh? :D
I mean, what did Democrats THINK would happen..
Did Democrats think throwing LEOs under the bus would cause the criminals to say, "WOW... There are no more cops.. I guess I don't have any reason to steal or murder, eh?"
Just one more example in a PLETHORA of examples of Democrats simply ignoring the consequences of their HATE COPS/ HATE AMERICA actions. An example of Democrats thinking only short term gain and ignoring long term pain...
Democrats simply don't DESERVE to govern..
A point that Americans will make clear in 30 days from today... :D
Democrats simply don't DESERVE to govern..
A point that Americans will make clear in 30 days from today... :D
I imagine that, much like (ironically enough) 9 Nov 2016, Weigantia® will be a VERY quiet place while Weigantians® lick their wounds.. :D
It's a forgone conclusion that MC will run and hide.. Vick as well..
I remember that, back in 2016...
Vick made up some bullshit story that her "boy friend" (not the one that runs on batteries) gave her a new car if she could refrain from posting here in Weigantia®..
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Leave it to Vick to make up such a complete and utter bullshit lie...
Yea.. Weigantia® is going to be a VERY quiet place come 9 Nov 2022.. :D
Interesting factoid..
The days/dates for the 2022 election line up perfectly..
ELECTION DAY 8 Nov 2016 and 8 Nov 2022..
That's a good omen.. :D
Will Abortion Be Enough to Save Democrats in November?
With Republicans strong on the economy, it’s not clear how much any other issue will matter.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/will-abortion-be-enough-to-save-democrats-in-november
Short answer??
Not even NO but HELL NO.. :D
Democrats and their baby killing barely register on Issues polls...
So, Demonrats.. Sorry (not sorry) to burst yer bubble..
Baby Killing is NOT going to save Demonrats come 8 Nov 2022.... :D
Speaking of Walker..
JL,
You are on record as saying that people shouldn't be condemned for gaming the system in the private lives but saying the exact polar opposite in their public lives..
To whit...
I pointed out how Democrats complain about policies and issues publicly, but privately game those same policies and issues in private to make a killing, $$$ wise..
You said that, as long as what Democrats are doing privately is legal, they shouldn't be condemned for saying one thing publicly and doing the exact polar opposite in private..
Isn't that EXACTLY what Democrats and many Weigantians®
are doing to Walker??
Pointing out the incongruity between Walker's private actions and his public statements??
Is this one of those "Well... THAT'S different" issues?? :D
I am reminded of a George C Scott movie from 1986...
CHOICES
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090835/
George C Scott was a retired judge who vehemently opposes Baby Killing..
Then his 19yr old un-married daughter gets pregnant and Scott is forced to re-examine his thoughts on Baby Killing.
I never actually watched the movie, but for some reason, the synopsis stuck with me all these years..
Referring back to comment #23...
Isn't it possible that someone could be very strongly opposed to Baby Killing, yet years and years ago, was forced to have/help with abortion because it was the best choice for him/her??
Further, isn't it possible that Walker has "evolved" on the issue of Baby Killing??
I mean, yer Democrats "evolve" on a plethora of issues..
Joe Biden was the biggest racist on the planet in his formative years. ALL Democrats were...
Then they "evolved" on the issue (so they claim) and ya'all accept that willingly, even eagerly..
Are you saying that Democrats can "evolve" on an issue, but that Republicans can't???
Is that it??
"Is that it, Dad?? Did the penguin make you do it??"
-Adam Sandler, BILLY MADISON
:D
Well, I guess John M. has ran away again and concedes the Baby Killing issue to me..
I hate winning by default.. :^(
But.. Winning is Winning.. :D
The New York Times can’t keep playing the conspiracy card
A stream of corrections is undermining the newspaper's credibility
The New York Times has, yet again, issued a humiliating correction. Earlier this week, the paper ran a story about a Michigan-based elections software company becoming “a conspiracy theory target” over supposed “election falsehoods”. One example was the claim that Konnech, the company in question, was improperly sharing voter data with China. Yet just 24 hours later, the CEO of Konnech was arrested after investigators found it had stored voter data…in China.
The follow-up story by Stuart Thompson, a technology reporter, prompted a correction to the original story, also by Thompson. “After this article was published, the chief executive of Konnech was arrested in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers,” the Times correction noted, with considerable, if understandable, understatement.
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-new-york-times-cant-keep-playing-the-conspiracy-card/
What IS it about Left Wing rags that they ALWAYS get caught spreading Democrat propaganda?? :eyeroll:
Among media insiders, New York Times corrections are a source of endless hilarity, almost a byword for journalistic haplessness. The Times recently dragged the Queen into its endless Comedy of Corrections when it claimed the cost to taxpayers for Her Majesty’s funeral would come with a “hefty price tag” amid rising inflation. Observers swiftly noted that, using the Times’s own (erroneous) calculation, that “burden” would be 20 pence per household. Correction ensued.
NY GRIMES... All the bullshit that's unfit to print.. :eyeroll:
The people are abandoning the Democrat Party by the tens of millions!! :D
Philly Democrat Endorses Oz, Calls for Dems to Put Public Safety Over Party Affiliation
In the midterm battleground of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Senate race has some Democrats crossing party lines to vote for GOP nominee Mehmet Oz over current Lt. Governor John Fetterman.
Enter Democrat Tom Knox, a former deputy mayor of Philadelphia and one-time candidate for governor of the Keystone State. Knox endorsed Oz on Friday, citing rising crime in his city and Democrats' failure to crack down on violent offenders.
"I am a lifelong Democrat," Knox explained in his endorsement of Oz over his Democrat opponent. "I have met with John Fetterman, and I personally like him," Knox continued. "But I am sad to say, as a resident of Philadelphia, that our city has become increasingly dangerous, and John Fetterman's policies on crime will make things much worse."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/10/07/democrat-endorses-oz-urges-his-party-to-put-safety-over-party-n2614118
And ta think that there are actually people out there who thinks Democrats are going to prevail.. :D
OK, now that we have addressed the on-topic stuff.. :D
ON WITH THE WEEKEND...
I've cleared my WHOLE calendar!! :D
"Don't worry about a thing, boy. This will soon be behind us and we'll be off on our grand adventure.
Because I have cleared my calendar for you! You and I are gonna TEAR SHIT UP!
-Pagan Min, FAR CRY 4
:D
Pagan Min..
The MOST AWESOMEST Far Cry villain of all time!! :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe1vnlv5JZQ
Michale [9]
Did your Russian handlers tell you to post that? I hear US civil war talk is all the rage with Russian bots these days, eh comrade?
Personally I'm not concerned with your gravy seals and meal team 6. We run those fruitcakes out of Portland all the time. All bark and no bite, well except when there is free pizza, then there is plenty of bite...
Did your Russian handlers tell you to post that? I hear US civil war talk is all the rage with Russian bots these days, eh comrade?
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That's our Bashi.. Still the Russia Collusion Delusion fool.. :D
We run those fruitcakes out of Portland all the time.
Big talk for a Democrat who is AFRAID of guns...
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But what can you expect from a depraved moron who takes PLEASURE in dragging innocent women and children into a Flame War..
Seek help Bashi.. Anyone who ENJOYS attacking innocent women and children needs to be locked away for the safety of society..
"I love Philadelphia, and I am saddened by what is happening to it. I am encouraging Democrats who share my concerns with Fetterman's long-standing policies to put party affiliation aside and support Dr. Oz for U.S. Senate," Knox explained. "Dr. Oz is smart, hard working, and a man of integrity who will work tirelessly to make our streets and city safe once again."
-Democrat Tom Knox
Fetterman is bad for Philly and BAD for the country..
This is well documented FACT...
But what can you expect from a depraved moron who takes PLEASURE in dragging innocent women and children into a Flame War..
Seek help Bashi.. Anyone who ENJOYS attacking innocent women and children needs to be locked away for the safety of society..
Of course, you could apologize for these sick and twisted actions of yours..
A sincere apology goes a LONG way with me.. It would make it easy for me to forgive and forget and never bring up the issue again..
But you and I both know you don't have the guts or the integrity to apologize.. Because it would require that you admit that what you did was wrong.
And NO Demonrat will EVER admit they were wrong..
And you ain't the only one here in Weigantia® to suffer from this Hate America affliction
Report: Trump Oil Policies Would Produce 2-3M More Barrels, Outpacing OPEC Cut
A new study indicates that President Joe Biden's energy policies have cost the U.S. nearly $100 billion in annual output, leaving millions more barrels that could have been produced.
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity — a group founded by economists Steve Forbes, Art Laffer, and Stephen Moore — discovered a trend while reviewing oil and gas production under the previous two administrations.
Between 2 and 3 million more barrels of oil would be produced each day if former President Donald Trump had a second term, with another 20 to 25 billion cubic feet of natural gas produced as well, according to the report.
In addition, continuing Trump's policies would make domestic oil production far outpace the current OPEC cut, with researchers claiming that not a single barrel of oil would need to be sold from the U.S. strategic reserves.
"After many humiliating months of President Biden begging Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries to please increase their oil production, OPEC countries have decided to do just the opposite: they are cutting back on supply by two million barrels a day to drive UP the price of oil," Moore stated.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/economy-opec-oil/2022/10/07/id/1090986/
Dementia Biden might actually help Demonrats WIN in November if he just saw the wisdom of President Trump's energy policies..
But all of Weigantia® knows that Dementia Biden is too stoopid and too senile to see the reality..
Like I said above..
NO Demonrat will EVER admit they were wrong..
Just how worried should you be about nuclear war? Biden says very.
The president and the Doomsday Clock.
https://www.vox.com/world/2022/10/7/23393019/how-worried-should-you-be-about-nuclear-war-biden-says-very
Demonrat fear-mongering at it's worst...
That's ALL Demonrats have... Fear-mongering..
Laxalt leads in NV Senate race against Dem Senator in new poll: 'Nevadans are fed up with Cortez Masto'
The GOP is leading in the Senate and gubernatorial races, as well as on the generic congressional ballot.
Former Attorney General Adam Laxalt claims that his newfound lead in the Nevada Senate race is due to voters being "fed up with Cortez Masto" amid soaring gas prices, the border crisis and rising crime.
A new CNN poll found that Laxalt, the Trump-backed nominee running in the state's Senate race, has a two-point edge over Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, 48% to 46%. Laxalt is also leading among likely independent voters, receiving 47% of the party's support over Masto, who is gripping onto her seat with 42% support.
Despite trailing among likely votes, Cortez Masto was the more favorable candidate than her GOP opponent, 45% to 39%.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/laxalt-leads-nv-senate-race-dem-senator-new-poll-nevadans-fed-cortez-masto
Looks like Nevada is going RED!!! :D
And everyone here knows why.. Because Democrats have showed their true racist colors against hispanic Americans..
And those Americans are flocking to the GOP by the millions.. :D
What are you talking about? I am not a registered democrat and have mentioned owning guns a few times on this blog. Are you slipping in to old age dementia?
Or is some sort of twisted revenge fantasy?
Of course, you could apologize for these sick and twisted actions of yours..
A sincere apology goes a LONG way with me.. It would make it easy for me to forgive and forget and never bring up the issue again..
Yup, twisted revenge fantasy. Sorry, I can read English and actually know what was said, I have nothing to apologize for.
And you ain't the only one here in Weigantia® to suffer from this Hate America affliction
Says the guy who supports politicians that can't climb up fast enough to stick their tongue up Putin's bootie hole. Sedition is not patriotic and crying civil war when you loose an election is the epitome of anti-American.
What are you talking about? I am not a registered democrat and have mentioned owning guns a few times on this blog.
Yea.. That's yer bullshit claims.. NONE of them fact..
Says the guy who supports politicians that can't climb up fast enough to stick their tongue up Putin's bootie hole. Sedition is not patriotic and crying civil war when you loose an election is the epitome of anti-American.
Once again.. Not a single fact to be found..
You have been taking lessons from Russ..
Where IS Russ anyways??
Did he run away and hide like MC??? :D
Sorry, I can read English and actually know what was said, I have nothing to apologize for.
The fact that you believe that proves beyond ANY doubt how utterly depraved and contemptible you really are..
Migrants? Send them to sanctuary cities
The sanctimonious behavior by liberals is pushing many voters rightward
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/4/editorial-migrants-send-them-to-sanctuary-cities/
Yup... Yup... Yup...
Those cities who Virtue Signal the loudest should be the ones who get the most illegals...
Look at Marthas Vinyard.. They preen and they preach about how enlightened and virtuous they are with regards to being a sanctuary for illegals..
Yet, when illegals show up at their doorstep the "enlightened" and "virtuous" residents of MV can't deport the illegals to a military base fast enough..
Proving once again beyond any doubt..
Hypocrisy. It's not a bug in Demonrat programming.. It's a feature.
Yawn.
You really have become one of those demented guys yelling at the street sign completely obsessed with your delusional version of reality. Well, we have them in the physical world, no reason they can't exist in the digital realm as well. Yell on demented guy, yell on...
I accept your concession Bashi.
EVERYONE of your posts was about me, Bashi..
Obviously you are one of those demented guys completely obsessed with me.. :D
EVERYONE of your posts was about me, Bashi..
Damn space bar!!
EVERY ONE of your posts was about me, Bashi..
EVERYONE of your posts was about me, Bashi..
Damn space bar!! Hate that when it happens..
EVERY ONE of your posts was about me, Bashi..
Conservative frustration with fact checkers grows after several dubious PolitiFact articles in one week
PolitiFact recently defended Dems' stolen election claims and Kamala Harris' push for hurricane relief 'equity'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservative-frustration-fact-checkers-grows-dubious-politifact-articles-one-week
This is exactly why I laugh at DumboCrats who always quote PolitiFact as if it actually MEANS anything..
Politifact is simply another Democrat Propaganda Outlet.. No different than NY GRIME or WaPoop...
Demented guys yelling at street signs do repeat themselves often...
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/10/918/516/Oct.-8-AM-cartoon.png?ve=1&tl=1
hehehehehehehe Now THAT's funny.. :D
Demented guys yelling at street signs do repeat themselves often...
You mean, like you just did..
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Gods, Bashi.. You used to be more of a challenge.. :D
@m,
What on earth are you talking about? If HW wants to raise taxes on himself but still pay as little as he legally can, there's no incongruence because his responsibilities to his family and the taxpayers, although at odds with each other, are both valid and based on the exact same moral foundation, namely fiscal responsibility to others.
Forced birth is an absolute moral question; if you support forcing other people's mistresses to give birth but not your own, that makes you a massive hypocrite.
JL,
I have a Movie Mission for you..
FALL
*THE* most intense movie I have *EVER* seen..
Please watch and report back.. :D
JL,
What on earth are you talking about?
You are being too literal..
The point is, you are on record as saying that if someone says or does something in private (like make money by gaming the system or by having/helping in Baby Killing) but then PUBLICLY opposes such actions, there is nothing wrong with that..
Forced birth is an absolute moral question; if you support forcing other people's mistresses to give birth but not your own, that makes you a massive hypocrite.
Ah... OK.. So the ONLY beef Dems have with Walker is the hypocrisy??
Well, if THAT is all...
The fact that Dems claim hypocrisy on the part of Walker without owning up to their OWN hypocrisy...
Isn't that the very definition of 'hypocrisy'?? :D
I have a Movie Mission for you..
FALL
*THE* most intense movie I have *EVER* seen..
Please watch and report back.. :D
FALL
It's got some awesome twists and turns...
It's heart-wrenchingly intense...
And considering I spent 30 years in public safety, THAT really says something!!!
Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still
Column: The president blunders from one self-inflicted crisis to the next
Yet the White House’s true worry is domestic. Here is how you can tell: Sullivan and Deese mentioned Ukraine only once in their 311-word missive. But they brought up the proverbial gas "pump" twice and U.S. "gas prices" three times. President Biden has been around long enough to understand the special relationship between fuel prices and presidential job approval. He’s incensed that OPEC+ may have helped the Republican opposition weeks before the midterm election.
https://freebeacon.com/columns/bidens-day-one-actions-haunt-him-still/
Ya gotta hand it to the Democrats.. They simply CANNOT catch a break, eh?? :D
There is a HUGE'LY close relationship between gas prices and Presidential Approval Ratings..
And the Saudi's just made sure that Dementia Biden's Approval Ratings are going to tank RIGHT before the mid-term elections..
Such a brutal smackdown by the Saudis couldn't come to a MORE deserving group, eh? :D
If only Dementia Biden had the wisdom and integrity to see that President Trump's energy policies were GOOD for the country and had ZERO additional detrimental effects to the planet...
But Dementia Biden is to senile to realize how badly he has frak'ed up everything from DAY 1...
Forced birth is an absolute moral question
So is killing a baby..
Which is the lesser of two evils??
Biden really ought to look in the mirror. The OPEC+ embarrassment was the latest reminder that he, not Putin nor Saudi Arabia, is the chief author of the Democratic Party’s current woes. On issue after issue, the instructions that Biden gave at the outset of his presidency have made America less prosperous, less independent, and less secure.
Energy and immigration tell the tale. Biden signed 17 executive orders on his first day in office, and two of them dealt with U.S. oil and gas production. One order pledged that America would rejoin the Paris climate accords and commit to the deal’s targeted reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. The other order blocked oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, forbade drilling in large parts of Utah, and canceled the Keystone XL pipeline between the United States and Canada. One week later, Biden stopped issuing new oil and gas leases on public lands.
yep... yep... yep...
Dementia Biden and the Dumbocrats are the cause of EVERY problem facing this country today..
Inflation..
Dementia Biden and the Dumbocrat's fault..
Rampant Violent Crime...
Dementia Biden and the Dumbocrat's fault..
Open Border allowing an invasion of MILLIONS of illegals...
Dementia Biden and the Dumbocrat's fault..
Drugs and terrorists crossing our open southern border...
Dementia Biden and the Dumbocrat's fault..
ALL of this country's woes can be traced back to huge incompetence and downright hatred of America on the part of Dementia Biden and the Dumbocrats.
"These are the facts of the case. And they are undisputed*"
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN
Biden knew what he was doing. The "clean energy transition," as Sullivan and Deese put it, is among the top priorities of the Democratic Party. The transition involves hiking the cost of carbon-based energy to the point where renewable alternatives become affordable by comparison. You decrease supply of oil and gas until prices rise enough for the average consumer to search online for a Tesla.
Retail gas prices rose steadily between Election Day 2020 and June 2022. Midway through his first year in office, Biden’s energy-dampening regulations contributed to and interacted with the general price inflation he mistakenly assumed to be "temporary." The president panicked. Rather than confront the green crusaders who fund his party, he opened the spigots of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and pleaded with OPEC+, especially with America’s Persian Gulf allies, to increase production. Gas prices fell between June and September. They settled where they were earlier this year and have ticked upward since.
Biden’s strategy of dependence has run aground. The SPR has been drained to its lowest level since 1984. OPEC+ has told Biden no. The nuclear deal with Iran is in limbo as the mullahs fend off the most significant challenge to their rule in years. And a Wall Street Journal report that the administration was looking into easing sanctions on Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela so that Chevron could increase output brought jeers from Republicans and a hurried denial from the White House.
The complete and utter INCOMPETENCE and downright America HATE of the Dementia Biden regime simply beggars belief...
Very soon, Biden will be confronted with the political fallout from choices he made in January 2021. The October 3 Monmouth poll found that 82 percent of Americans say inflation is extremely or very important. Biden’s approval on inflation is 30 percent. According to Monmouth, 67 percent of Americans say immigration is extremely or very important. Biden’s approval on immigration is 31 percent. "A major problem for Democrats," poll director Patrick Murray said in a release, "is their base messaging doesn’t hold as much appeal for independents as the GOP issue agenda does."
Dementia Biden and his incompetent Dumbocrat cohorts are toast on 8 Nov...
This is fact...
According to new reporting from the New York Times, Donald Trump told aides he wanted to make a deal with the National Archives to return the documents and files he whisked away to his Mar-a-Lago resort in exchange for "sensitive" documents he believes prove his 2016 campaign did not conspire with the Russians.
As the Time's Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt wrote, the former president pressed aides to lie about what he took and was hiding, thus also putting them -- and his attorneys -- in legal jeopardy.
The report states, "Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the F.B.I. investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims," before adding, "In exchange for those documents, Mr. Trump told advisers, he would return to the National Archives the boxes of material he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla."
The Times reports that the former president's aides "never pursued" his plan, and that the episode "...demonstrates how Mr. Trump spent a year and a half deflecting, delaying and sometimes leading aides to dissemble when it came to demands from the National Archives and ultimately the Justice Department to return the material he had taken, interviews and documents show."
The report adds, "Mr. Trump floated the idea of offering the deal to return the boxes in exchange for documents he believed would expose the Russia investigation as a 'hoax' cooked up by the F.B.I. Mr. Trump did not appear to know specifically what he thought the archives had — only that there were items he wanted."
The report comes on the heels of additional reporting that DOJ believes the former president has still not turned over all of the documents he took, which could lead to Espionage Act charges and a criminal obstruction indictment.
Bottom Line: Espionage was not the sole reason for Trump taking the top secret documents... he also planned to use them for extortion, as well!
Bottom Line: Espionage was not the sole reason for Trump taking the top secret documents... he also planned to use them for extortion, as well!
Bottom Line..
Russ is STILL full of kaa-kaa and, per the norm, NEVER has any facts to prove his claims.
The fact that Russ relies on the NY GRIME is proof positive that everything Russ spews is bullshit..
"Everything that guy just said there is BULLSHIT....Thank you..."
-Joe Pesci, MY COUSIN VINNY
I gotta ask..
Is anyone watching the new QUANTUM LEAP series.. It's frakin' AWESOME..
Most of ya'all are probably too young to remember the original QUANTUM LEAP..
The new one ties to the old one awesomely.. I love how they write in Dean Stockwell's character into the series..
For those old enough to remember the original, it will be awesome..
For those too young to remember Dr Sam Beckett... Ya'all will like it as well..
Welp.. It's that time again.. Dinner & TV with my beautiful wife... :D
See ya'all in the AM.. :D
@m,
mission accepted, though it might take me awhile. didn't know about quantum leap, but i'll give that a go as well if and when i find the time.
as to the distinction between forcing someone to pay higher taxes and forcing someone to give birth against their will, i'm going to have to say that makes a comparison somewhat moot.
~JL
Forced birth is an absolute moral question
So is killing a baby..
Which is the lesser of two evils??
That's easy. Killing babies is the lesser because it is something that only happens in your delusions! Forced birth is the greater evil.
That's easy. Killing babies is the lesser
I am not surprised that you would think that. Nor am I surprise that, for you, it's "easy" to kill a baby..
#sad
But it also proves another point..
You definitely are NOT all about science...
Because REAL science (as opposed to Democrat "science") says that the unborn child IS a baby..
mission accepted, though it might take me awhile. didn't know about quantum leap, but i'll give that a go as well if and when i find the time.
K..
as to the distinction between forcing someone to pay higher taxes and forcing someone to give birth against their will, i'm going to have to say that makes a comparison somewhat moot.
The comparison is not the point..
The point is the thought process is the same..
http://mfccfl.us/maher.jpg
The logic is impeccably sound and I challenge anyone to prove different..
The comparison is not the point..
The point is the thought process is the same..
"OK, let's brass some tacks here.."
-Metatron, SUPERNATURAL
OK let me just ask outright..
Do you still feel it is perfectly acceptable for a Democrat to push taxing the rich in public but also game the system so that they pay less taxes in private??
Along those same lines..
Do you feel that it is perfectly acceptable for a Republican to be against abortion in public but also advocate for an abortion due to his current social situation in private??
We agree that in BOTH situations it's perfect examples of hypocrisy..
But why is the hypocrisy acceptable to you in the case of the Democrat, but unacceptable to you in the case of the Republican?
That's easy. Killing babies is the lesser because it is something that only happens in your delusions! Forced birth is the greater evil.
Hay Russ...
Boston Children's Hospital says children can know they're transgender 'from the womb' in deleted video
The hospital created the first pediatric center in the country dedicated to gender-affirming surgeries
One of the nation's top children's hospitals has generated controversy over a video claiming that some children know their gender identity before they are born.
Boston Children's Hospital posted a video on their YouTube channel in August where a psychologist explains that "a good portion" of children she sees at the hospital's Gender MultiSpecialty Service (GeMS) clinic know their gender identity "from the womb," according to video captured first by The Daily Mail.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-childrens-hospital-children-know-transgender-womb-deleted-video
Why do you believe that it is NOT a baby for the purposes of KILLING him/her...
But it IS a baby for the purposes of furthering your ridiculous trans/grooming/corrupting/mutilating kids agenda??
OOoooppsss... Yer hypocrisy is showing..
I accept your concession...
This week, a Democratic House candidate in Louisiana made some political advertising history, deploying what has to be the first campaign ad ever where the candidate is seen giving birth. It is effective and the whole ad is impressively well-put-together, so Katie Darling certainly deserves her own Honorable Mention for her pioneering ad. As well as our congratulations on her new baby!
So, Democrats CONGRATULATE over a new baby..
Yet Democrats ADVOCATE that killing that baby 5 mins before birth is perfectly acceptable..
Democrat hypocrisy knows no bounds...
What did the campaign ad say??
"Look at my precious bundle of joy knowing that, if I chose to, I could have killed this precious bundle of joy 5 minutes ago."
THAT is what the Democrat Party stands for. The rights for women to kill their babies at ANY time right up to AND including the point when the head is crowning..
I am so happy to be a Democrat.."
:eyeroll:
"Forced birth is an absolute moral question"
-Jean Luc
"Forced birth is the greater evil."
-Russ
And yet, BOTH of you support restrictions on Baby Killing at some point in the pregnancy..
Ergo, "forced birth" becomes acceptable to you both at some point during a baby's gestation..
Would that be an accurate assessment of ya'all's position..
Why or why not??
ONE of ya'all is going to back-pedal furiously now.. :D
I am sure we all know which one it will be.. :D
WOW... 72 Comments!! :D
Weigantia® hasn't seen this volume of quality comments since...
Well since the last time I graced ya'all with my presence.. :D
WOW... 72 Comments!! :D
"I think we can do better.."
Robert Downey Jr, HEART AND SOUL
:D
Longtime Democrat 'embarrassed' by Oregon politics shakes up race for governor, runs as independent
Oregon gubernatorial hopeful Betsy Johnson says she's 'embarrassed' by state's leadership
PORTLAND, Ore. – Betsy Johnson is not running for Miss Congeniality. The longtime Democrat now running for governor of Oregon as an unaffiliated candidate is more likely to drop a swear word than a political platitude. When voters asked if she would repeal Oregon's drug decriminalization law, she responded, "Hell yes." On education, she declared, "Let's not worry about pronouns. Let's worry about mathematics."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/longtime-democrat-embarrased-oregon-politics-shakes-race-governor-runs-independent
As I said... People are leaving the Democrat Party by the millions..
"Let's not worry about pronouns. Let's worry about mathematics."
How sad is it that Democrat educators (present company excepted, of course) are more concerned about pronouns than they are about actually teaching kids something worth while that they can actually USE later in life..
Oregon can't succeed if Portland fails, and Portland is failing "by every metric," Johnson said at a recent roundtable event with residents of Portland's Lents neighborhood. The event was held in a small business in southeast Portland, with about a dozen people clustered around a conference table. Many of the attendees considered themselves lifelong Democrats who are now disillusioned by liberal policies.
"It's terrifying for my kids to walk to school," one man said during the discussion. He used to enjoy living in a city that "erred on the side of compassion" when it came to homelessness, but said he has now realized that enabling addicts is "absolutely not compassionate."
A large homeless camp at Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon. Laurelhurst Park is at the center of one of Portland's most affluent neighborhoods.
A large homeless camp at Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon. Laurelhurst Park is at the center of one of Portland's most affluent neighborhoods. (iStock)
Other attendees complained about vandalism, theft and threats from drug users or mentally unstable individuals. None of it was new to Johnson.
Portland Oregon..
A 3rd world American shithole...
Like Democrats always do everywhere they govern, they have destroyed Portland..
The First Thing Republicans Should Do When They Take Back Congress Is Impeach Merrick Garland
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/07/the-first-thing-republicans-should-do-when-they-take-back-congress-is-impeach-merrick-garland/
Abso-frakin'-tively!!!
SCOTUS wannabe Garland's job should be the first one on the chopping block...
Should Republicans take control of the U.S. House and Senate in November, their first order of business — before tax and spending cuts, abortion restrictions, gun legislation, or anything else in their predictably anodyne agenda — should be to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Under Garland, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been thoroughly politicized and weaponized, transformed into instruments of terror aimed at ordinary American citizens who have the temerity to oppose the Biden administration’s radical agenda.
The Dementia Biden regime is the biggest threat to our freedoms in this country since Democrats created the KKK and Jim Crow...
They simply HAVE to go..
Everything Garland has done as attorney general has been mendaciously political, from smearing parents who speak out at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists” to targeting peaceful anti-abortion activists while doing nothing about actual pro-abortion vigilantes attacking churches and crisis pregnancy centers. He has to be stopped, and a determined GOP-led Congress is the only thing that can stop him.
Exactly... Garland is the worst the most corrput AG that we've seen in our lifetimes...
If that sounds drastic or melodramatic, as it might to some indifferent or merely idiotic Republican lawmakers, consider the shocking news this week that Garland’s DOJ has once again used the FBI to target peaceful anti-abortion activists for exercising their First Amendment rights. On Tuesday night, armed FBI agents swarmed into the home of 73-year-old anti-abortion activist Chet Gallagher on the outrageous pretext that he had violated an obscure federal statute, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or “FACE Act.”
In fact, what Gallagher and 10 other activists had done was pray and sing in the hallway of a medical building that houses an abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, last March. The protest was entirely peaceful, as ample video footage — livestreamed on Facebook by the activists themselves — attests. A few of them were arrested without incident by local police on misdemeanor trespass charges and promptly released.
But in Garland’s DOJ, what they did was use “force and physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with employees of the clinic and a patient who was seeking reproductive health services.” So reads the indictment, a document so disconnected from reality that its mere existence beggars belief.
And yet it comes on the heels of an equally shocking FBI raid last month on the home of Mark Houck, a Catholic father of seven and anti-abortion activist who was arrested at gunpoint in front of his terrified wife and small children. His crime? He alleged violated — you guessed it — the FACE Act.
Garland is a bully.. And, like all bullies he cowers behind bullshit rhetoric and gets the FBI to do his dirty work..
Garland has GOT to go.. No ifs ands or buts about it..
These cases, though, are just the latest in a long train of egregiously selective enforcement of federal law by the Garland DOJ that’s clearly intended to intimidate otherwise law-abiding American citizens. The same U.S. attorney pursuing the bogus case against Houck, Anita Eve, has also handled some 40 Jan. 6 cases, in which similarly over-the-top arrest tactics were used. Indeed, Garland’s DOJ has thrown the book at hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants whose misdeeds in many cases amount to little more than unintentional trespassing.
Meanwhile, the FBI won’t say whether it has made even a single arrest in the dozens of attacks against churches, crisis pregnancy centers, and other pro-life organizations in the wake of the Dobbs leak in May. The FBI admitted to The Daily Signal this week (in a statement that is almost identical to one it issued the outlet in June) that it is investigating the attacks, and even that it considers some of them potential acts of domestic violent extremism or possible violations of the FACE Act.
Yet for all that, the FBI has failed to announce a single arrest in connection with some 83 attacks on Catholic Churches and 73 crisis pregnancy centers. Strange then that it would have time to track down Houck and the 73-year-old Gallagher (not to mention 87-year-old Eva Edl, a woman named in the Tennessee indictment).
And, of course Garland totally ignores the REAL crimes committed by hysterical violent Democrats pushing their Hate America agenda...
Garland is an embarrassment and doesn't deserve to wear the title of America's Top Cop...
MOVIE REVIEW
THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER
Excellent movie.. And a true story..
Highly recommend...
And in the OOOHH!! THAT'S GOTTA HURT department..
Biden below 50% approval on every top 10 issue
President Joe Biden, who promised a more competent and unifying administration, is failing to reach at least 50% approval on any of the nation’s top 10 issues.
Overall, Biden is underwater like his ratings-challenged predecessor. In the latest Ipsos survey, 40% approve of the job Biden is doing as president, while 53% disapprove.
But his failure really stands out in how the public views how he is doing on key issues, including the economy and crime.
The issue he still gets the best grade on is handling COVID-19, but that is now below 50%, at 47%.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/biden-below-50-approval-top-10-issues
Any Democrat who is not feeling Buyer's Remorse vis a vis the Dementia Biden regime is simply and willfully ignorant..
Are Americans better off now than they were 2 years ago??
HELL NOT....
OUCH!!! THAT'S GOTTA HURT!!
Immigration
only 33% of Americans approve of Dementia Biden's handling of the immigration debacle..
Economy
only 33% of Americans approve of Dementia Biden's handling of the economy..
Dementia Biden is crashing and burning.. And he is dragging this country down with him..
Odds are that nukes are going to fly on Dementia Biden's watch... THAT is how bad he is doing..
Hay Russ..
Here is your vaunted NY GRIME..
The New York Times has, yet again, issued a humiliating correction. Earlier this week, the paper ran a story about a Michigan-based elections software company becoming “a conspiracy theory target” over supposed “election falsehoods”. One example was the claim that Konnech, the company in question, was improperly sharing voter data with China. Yet just 24 hours later, the CEO of Konnech was arrested after investigators found it had stored voter data…in China.
The follow-up story by Stuart Thompson, a technology reporter, prompted a correction to the original story, also by Thompson. “After this article was published, the chief executive of Konnech was arrested in connection with an investigation into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers,” the Times correction noted, with considerable, if understandable, understatement.
And you have the unmitigated gall to actually QUOTE the NY GRIME as if it is a reliable source!!???
BBBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You only WANT to believe the NY GRIME..
There are absolutely ZERO FACTS to prove yer claims or the NY GRIME claims..
This is FACT....
There are absolutely ZERO FACTS to prove yer claims or the NY GRIME claims..
This is FACT....
ONE FACT TO RULE THEM ALL
President Trump is COMPLETELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY and 1000% ***INNOCENT*** of ALL of your bullshit accusations..
Sucks to be you... :D
RealClearPolitics Projects Herschel Walker Loses, but GOP Takes Two Seats – and the Senate Majority
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/realclearpolitics-projects-herschel-walker-loses-but-gop-takes-two-seats-and-the-senate-majority/
I can live with that.. :D
JL,
You probably missed it in all the deluge of quality comments so here's a repost...
If you feel your life or health might be at risk by wearing the proposed T-Shirt with the crowds you run with...
I would be open to presenting an alternative..
I would hate to see you get yer ass kicked by a hysterical and violent Democrat mob...
"Is there another kind??"
-Col Nathan R Jessup, A FEW GOOD MEN
I would feel really bad if that happened on my account .. Sincerely..
California high school football player to ditch pro-police flag after critics compare it to Confederate flag
Centurions head coach Jason Bornn decided to discontinue displaying the flag, following the controversy
A football player at a high school in California has been forced to stop carrying a pro-police flag as the team rallied onto the field, as critics said it made them feel "unwelcome and uncomfortable."
Some others compared the "thin blue flag" to a Confederate one, forcing school administrators at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita to tell the player to ditch the controversial symbol.
The decision comes after William S. Hart Union High School District Superintendent Mike Kuhlman sent out a letter explaining the flag's intention is to show support for law enforcement officers, KTLA reported.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/california-high-school-football-player-ditch-pro-police-flag-critics-compare-confederate-flag
The Democrat Party... The Hate Cops Party....
Some others compared the "thin blue flag" to a Confederate one, forcing school administrators at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita to tell the player to ditch the controversial symbol.
Go ahead, Russ.. Defend this!! :eyeroll:
stop carrying a pro-police flag as the team rallied onto the field, as critics said it made them feel "unwelcome and uncomfortable."
If you feel unwelcome and uncomfortable around cops, there is only one explanation..
Yer a scumbag violent criminal or you want to be a scumbag violent criminal or you know or are related to a scumbag violent criminal....
:eyeroll:
END OF WATCH
Deputy Sheriff Sidnee Carter
Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, Kansas
End of Watch: Friday, October 7, 2022
And remind the few...
When ill of us they speak..
That we are all that stands between..
The monsters and the weak...
END OF WATCH
Sergeant Meagan Burke
Oklahoma City Police Department, Oklahoma
End of Watch: Thursday, September 29, 2022
And remind the few...
When ill of us they speak..
That we are all that stands between..
The monsters and the weak...
Jennifer-Ruth Green takes aim at political opposition after Politico publishes records of her sexual assault
Green tells Fox News Digital that Politico ran the information about her assault after she pleaded with them not to do so
Jennifer-Ruth Green, the Republican candidate in the race to represent Indiana's 1st Congressional District, is livid after Politico published details about her sexual assault while in the military, without her permission, and blames her opponent for "illegally" obtaining the information. But now she's ready to speak out.
In a profile of Green's career and candidacy in the Indiana congressional race, Politico reporter Adam Wren used the documents, which the outlet claimed "were obtained by a public records request and provided to Politico by a person outside the Mrvan campaign" to report last week that "an Iraqi serviceman sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breast and exposing himself" when "she and a small group of officers visited the national training center."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jennifer-ruth-green-takes-aim-political-opposition-politico-publishes-records-sexual-assault
Democrats are such scumbags...
Opinion: Biden’s fist bump turned slap in the face
CNN
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So much for cozying up to the Saudis – President Joe Biden’s much-hyped fist bump with Mohammed bin Salman during a trip to the Middle East back in July has turned into something of a slap across the face from the crown prince.
This week’s OPEC+ announcement that it would be slashing oil production by 2 million barrels per day – engineered, by most accounts, by Saudi Arabia and Russia – is already provoking a cascade of toxic geopolitical shifts.
A host of issues all converge here at this epiphanal moment. There’s the European Union, which is suddenly having to work out how it might still implement its price cap on Russian crude.
There’s oil producer Venezuela, which with OPEC’s one stroke is looking to the US more like an attractive trading partner than a hemispheric pariah.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/opinions/biden-mbs-oil-opec-fist-bump-andelman
That's Dementia Biden....
Going down on his knees to ANY tin-plated dictator with delusions of god-hood...
Funny...
The Democrats today who are screaming the loudest about Walker..
Are the same Democrats that backed Clinton back in the day...
Hypocrisy. It's not a bug in Democrat programming. It's a feature.
The one discrepancy with the new Quantum Leap begs for clarification..
In the old series, Sam's consciousness leapt into the physical body of a person in the past..
Sam's physical body was still in the imaging chamber at the QL facility in 1999 and the consciousness of the person Sam leapt into is in Sam's body..
This is accepted QL canon..
In the new series, the fist episode made it clear (I don't recall the exact context) that Ben's physical body is NOT in the 2022 QL imaging chamber...
So, this begs 2 questions..
Where is Ben's physical body?
Where is the consciousness of the person that Ben leapt into??
These points really need to be explained in the new series..
Florida high school student body slams police officer during fight: 'Despicable'
The 15-year-old student at St. Cloud High School was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-high-school-student-body-slams-police-officer-during-fight-despicable
A direct result of the Democrat Party's HATE COPS policies..
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/10/918/516/cartoon-10.9.22.png?ve=1&tl=1
Word...
No matter WHICH way ya want to look at it..
The Army of the Woke
Why the Army Didn’t Meet Their Recruiting Goals
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2022/10/08/the_army_of_the_woke_857985.html
The Dementia Biden regime and Democrats in general are simply BAD for America...
"'Bad'?? Four years in this town and THAT'S the word you choose??"
-Nathan Stark, EUREKA
I don't think Twitter is really going to change that much from where it is now if Elon Musk actually buys it, the single biggest change might be an invitation for Trump to come back.
The problem with Twitter and the censorship regime which has really been embraced by all these tech companies, is we all know their so-called policies are completely fake.
...
They say they have a policy, and then some activist says they're being harmed because someone said something mean. And then after a professional cadre of 'journalists' jumps on the bandwagon, the tech companies say days later that they're 'updating' the policy and they are now banning whoever the activists and journalists want them to.
The cycle has basically been on repeat since Alex Jones was banned.
-SAAGAR ENJETI, Breaking Points
Libtard snowflakes are crying in their lattes about losing censorship rights.
Couldn't happen to a better group of America hating morons..
More facts that show how bad the Dementia Biden regime is bad for America...
The West is on the road to energy ruin
Green policies have crippled Europe. They will do the same to America
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-west-is-on-the-road-to-energy-ruin/
The only question is, how bad will Democrats hurt America before they can be removed from power???
And 100!!!! :D
My work here is done.. :D
DOMINATION!!!!!
-Mortal Kombat
:D
If I have another sleepless night, I might show up for the Music Fest..
No promises though.. :D
Is that a threat?
If not, what should be our theme?
For next Sunday, I mean ... too distracted at the moment.
By the way, I went to my first Eagles concert last month. It was pretty awesome.
It felt like Glenn was there.
Sorry I missed ya, Liz :(
So, Oz tortured ToTo... man, that is some vile crap!
It's so unforgivably cruel that even Michael Vick's response was "OH HELL NO!"
Republicans -- makes figuring out whether someone is a psychopath much simpler!
Michael, I was thinking of you during the hurricane. I ready a story of some old guy who died when he chose to go out in the storm and tried to open the drain to his swimming pool to stop it from overflowing and was swept away by the flood waters and drowned. It made me think of you.
Cellulitis sucks hard. I got it in my left eyelid when I lived on the reservation. I looked like Quasimodo minus the hump. For whatever reason, they required that I received the IV's at the hospital in Billings 2 hours away and not at the BIA hospital. So every other day I was driving 2 hours to the hospital. Two hours to get the IV. Two hours driving back home. I would have just blown them off had the doctor not mentioned something about "if it spreads to your brain you'll be dead in seconds"... Two very long weeks for me.
Are you having trouble sleeping, Michale ... I have a few suggestions ... :)
Oh, Michale ... don't tell me you lost your sense of humour again.
I was thinking about you during the hurricane, too ... I can't remember where exactly you are but I hope you and your family were spared ...
Let me get through this holiday weekend - it's Thanksgiving here, ya know - and then I'll get back on track ...
Cellulitis sucks hard. I got it in my left eyelid when I lived on the reservation. I looked like Quasimodo minus the hump. For whatever reason, they required that I received the IV's at the hospital in Billings 2 hours away and not at the BIA hospital. So every other day I was driving 2 hours to the hospital. Two hours to get the IV. Two hours driving back home. I would have just blown them off had the doctor not mentioned something about "if it spreads to your brain you'll be dead in seconds"... Two very long weeks for me.
Yea, it's not something ya wanna fool around with..
The Home IVs were a pain in the ass and have that tube sticking out of my arm was annoying as hell..
But when I considered the alternative...
The swelling and red splotches have only recently (last 3-4 days) gone away and I noticed two little puncture marks on my leg where all the problems were.. About a quarter inch apart..
I am thinking I was bit by a snake.. We have pygmy rattlers in abundance in our neck of the woods and it's possible I got bit and never even noticed it..
That's the only thing that really explains how it could develop so quickly.. Literally within 2-3 hours, my lower leg had ballooned out..
Russ, Liz,
Yep, we made it thru Ian just fine.. By the time it got into our neck of the woods it was barely a Cat 1.. We got a buttload of rain and some high winds. That's all..
We lost power Thu AM around 0600 and I thought 'CRAP!!' there goes our power for a week or two.. But it came back on by noon and we were good for the rest of the week...
With everything else that was going on we were quite fortunate with Ian...
Feel for the people in Southwest FL... :^(
Are you having trouble sleeping, Michale ...
I am.. I take some pills at night to help me sleep but since my hospital stay and return home, they haven't been working..
As you know, I turn in really early.. 1900-2000... I'll fall asleep for like 2 hrs and then I am up for the rest of the night, with a minor cat nap or two..
I also suffer from RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) and it's been flaring up big time since I got back from the hospital..
I have a few suggestions ... :)
Do tell.. :D
JL,
Perusing past comments, I missed this from you..
My apologies for not addressing it sooner..
the percentage of young children with gender identity issues is so minuscule to begin with, the likelihood that any educator will even encounter one, much less have the opportunity to counsel them toward one decision or another, is pretty damn low.
And yet, we know for a FACT that many MANY teachers in our school systems push ideological and sexual agendas on our innocent children..
Do you agree on this?
We have laws that criminalize pushing sexual agendas by educators on our children..
It makes sense to have laws that criminalizes pushing ideological agendas on our children, no??
The issue of educators pushing anti-America and anti-science ideological agendas on our children is well documented..
Florida simply has taken steps to make sure that doesn't happen here in Florida..
I fail to see how ANYONE who is logical and rational (as I know you to be) has a problem with this..
If, as you say, it never happens, then having a law CRIMINALIZING the practice is, at WORST, superfluous and un-necessary..
But if the law protects ONE SINGLE CHILD from being taken in by a teacher bent on pushing a gender-bending bullshit agenda..... Then the law is well worth it..
There is ALL upside to the law and ZERO downside to the law..
How can ANYONE be against it??
florida also has a law (it's real, look it up) that you can tie your alligator, goat or elephant to a parking meter, but you must pay the meter or incur a fine. sure, we wouldn't want people to just leave a chained alligator about indefinitely, but what is the actual likelihood that this law protects anyone from an unattended pet alligator?
And, in New York, it's against the law to do a puppet show in a window...
It's against the law to take a selfie with a tiger..
It is against the law to sell cat or dog hair.
It's against the law to flirt. $25 fine if yer caught doing it.
In California it's against the law to have a vehicle without a driver exceed 60 MPH..
EVERY state has weird laws..
None of them are relevant to this law that protects children from a PROVEN harmful Democrat ideological agenda..
As I said previously, I am more than willing to post testimonials from gender bent adults who regret what they did and wish there had been such a law to protect them when Democrat teachers were preying on them..
Gender bending is an IDEOLOGICAL agenda.. The Democrat Party has MADE it that way...
If Democrats had left Gender Dysphoria in the realm of medical and psychological fields then this child protection law would not be necessary..
But, as Democrats are wont to do with EVERYTHING (Baby Killing and 2nd Amendment and racism and climate and ad nauseum are but 4 of a PLETHORA of examples) Democrats had to push and push and make it an ideological issue....
Hence.. The necessity of the FL Parental Rights in Education law...
Biden's equity-obsessed education secretary dodging academic priorities amid 'catastrophic' reading scores
Biden's Department of Education is spending hundreds of millions on its 'equity' agenda
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bidens-equity-obsessed-education-secretary-dodging-academic-priorities-amid-catastrophic-reading-scores
What is more important for today's children.
Having the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic down??
Or learning woke crap such as 'equity' that really has no place in a fair and just society??
The year has progressed like a political roller coaster. Republicans boasted that a typical wave was building in the spring, and Democrats then claimed the momentum after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade galvanized progressive and independent voters. Now the pendulum seems to have swung back.
“I wish the election was a month ago,” conceded Navin Nayak, a Democratic strategist and the president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He was heartened, however, to see his party with a fighter’s chance, adding that Democrats had “no business being in this election.”
The challenge for Democrats is that they also have no margin for error. Clinging to a 50-50 Senate and a single-digit House majority, they are seeking to defy not only history but Mr. Biden’s unpopularity. “Even the slightest tremor is going to put the Democrats in the minority,” as Peter Hart, a longtime Democratic pollster, put it.
Dementia Biden's approval rating and the wide-spread discontent with Democrats pushing their woke Hate Cops Hate America agenda is going to sink Democrats come 8 Nov...
Com'on.. Let's get some wagers going!!! :D
"If ya'all elect Republicans, it will be cataclysmic!!! Everything will be destroyed!!! Dogs and cats living together!! Mass hysteria!!"
-Democrat Election Message
"Are you better off now than you were 2 years ago??"
-Republican Campaign Message
Honestly.. Who do ya'all think will win?? :eyeroll:
Liz,
Got a question for you..
Yer big on the privacy aspect of abortion.....
As an aside, in the spirit of fruitful and serious discussion, I will refrain from the provocative term I use for abortion..
.... I was curious what your thoughts are on the Herschel Walker abortion debacle vis a vis his personal privacy...
For extra credit.... Do you agree with JL that a person who publicly advocates taxing the rich but in private legally games the system to pay less in taxes is perfectly acceptable??
And should that also apply to a person who publicly criticizes and demonizes abortion but privately assists a significant other in pursuing abortion??
And for the group..
Don't ya'all think it's a bit hypocritical to key in Walker's bastard children while at the same time supporting the destruction of the nuclear family??
Speaking of the 2nd Amendment..
"As a Brit, I find the whole notion of ever having the need to have a gun in the first place absolutely abhorrent.."
"As an American, I haven't had to care what Brits think since 1776 when we forced all the Brits out with our guns."
Heh
"It's funny cuz it's true."
-Homer Simpson
Dem city council member says Blue Angels should be banned from flying over San Francisco
Dean Preston did not explain why he does not want the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron to fly over San Francisco
"The Blue Angels should not be allowed to fly over San Francisco," he wrote on Twitter. "That's it. That's the tweet."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dem-city-council-member-says-blue-angels-should-banned-flying-over-san-francisco
The tweet from a twit...
Why do Democrats hate this country so much?? :^/
Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Needs To Tell Ukraine To Stop Bombing The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Or Face Real Armageddon
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/10/09/jeffrey_sachs_biden_needs_to_tell_ukraine_to_stop_bombing_the_zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant_or_we_will_get_a_real_armageddon.html
"Please do not shoot at the thermo-nuclear weapons."
-John Travolta, BROKEN ARROW
:D
Buy, Elon, buy: Musk's renewed interest in Twitter could be a win for free speech
I have argued for a 'First Amendment approach' for social media. While companies aren't legally subject to the First Amendment, they can adopt for themselves the same limitations the government faces.
The news that Elon Musk wants to go forward with the purchase of Twitter has led to a virtual panic among media, political and academic figures worried that free speech could shortly break out on the social media platform. Former Politico magazine editor Garrett Graff summed up the collective vapors succinctly: “Be afraid, be actually afraid.”
I sincerely hope so.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/10/10/elon-musk-purchase-twitter-could-victory-free-speech/8197008001/
Democrats are deathly afraid of Free Speech...
If I could put to one thing that has changed here in Weigantia® Pre- and Post- PTDS, it would be the support of crushing any dissent or opinions or speech that Democrats don't agree with..
Hate speech... Unpopular speech... Disgusting speech..
That kind of speech is *EXACTLY* why the 1st Amendment was created..
Weigantia® used to understand that pre-PTDS...
But now... sheesh... :eyeroll:
Led by President Joe Biden, Democratic leaders and media figures have demanded corporate censorship and even state censorship to curtail opposing views on issues ranging from climate change to election integrity to public health to gender identity. The Washington Post’s Max Boot, for example, declared, “For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
Now these same figures are fearful of the supposed menace that Musk poses – the prospect that a major social media platform could actually restore free speech protections.
Democrats blatantly advocate for censorship of speech and opinions that they disagree with..
SOLELY on the basis that they disagree...
What a country the Democrat Party has created.. :eyeroll:
It would reverse the anti-free speech policies of Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who has pledged to regulate content as “reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation.”
Agrawal said the company would “focus less on thinking about free speech” because “speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.”
Get that??
Scumbag thinks it's his job to only accept speech that is acceptable to HIS beliefs..
And to decide WHO should and should not be heard..
CW is roiling in his grave that THIS would be what has become of Weigantia®....
"Gun manufacturers are the only industry in the country that have immunity from lawsuits."
-Dementia Biden
A completely and utterly blatant LIE... TOTAL bullshit..
If a drunk driver hits and kills people, you can't sure FORD or Chevrolet or whatever car he's driving..
You can't sue Jack Daniels because the scumbag got drunk on their product..
The 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act simply codified that basic protection that ALL industries enjoy into a law specifically for the firearm industry...
Of course, no one here calls out Dementia Biden for ANY of his lies..
Funny how that is, eh?? :^/
LA City Council President Nury Martinez faces calls to resign after racist remarks emerge in leaked audio
LA City Council President Nury Martinez allegedly disparaged Councilman Mike Bonin's Black son
https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-city-council-president-nury-martinez-faces-calls-resign-racist-remarks-emerge-leaked-audio
Scratch a Democrat.. You'll find a racist underneath..
"In a moment of intense frustration and anger, I let the situation get the best of me and I hold myself accountable for these comments. For that I am sorry. The context of this conversation was concern over the redistricting process and concern about the potential negative impact it might have on communities of color. My work speaks for itself. I’ve worked hard to lead this city through its most difficult time."
-Democrat Nury Martinez
No...
Your WORDS speak for themselves.. And for you...
Trump-backed Tshibaka projected to defeat 20-year incumbent Sen. Murkowski, election forecaster says
Murkowski has been under fire since voting in favor of the impeachment of former President Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backed-tshibaka-projected-defeat-20-year-incumbent-sen-murkowski-election-forecaster-says
Hooozzzzzaaaaa!!!
I am betting that President Trump is NOT tired of winning.. :D
We were reminded of an old political saying this week: "Only Nixon could go to China."
Actually, it's an old Vulcan proverb, but I won't quibble...
New Jersey teacher interviews 4th graders on 'they/them' pronouns on TikTok: 'Indoctrinating my students'
The New Jersey teacher also said that 'pronouns have everything to do with academic education'
One of the videos of Colon discussing pronouns with students was shared to the official KIPP Facebook page. The post said Colon worked for KIPP Whittier Middle School in Camden.
Colon wrote on one of her videos in March, "'Indoctrinating my students.'"
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-jersey-teacher-interviews-4th-graders-they-them-pronouns-tiktok-indoctrinating-students
Groomers are not even trying to HIDE the fact that they are indoctrinating children..
:eyeroll:
Democrat Senate Disaster Ahead
The recent Arizona Senate debate between Republican Blake Masters, Democrat Mark Kelly, and that Libertarian who was eerily focused on the age of consent laws being way too high, taught us two important things besides that you should never let a Libertarian babysit your tween. First, Mark Kelly is going to get crushed, and second, he’s short, and after Blake beats him in November, he should find something else to do with his life, like toiling for mithril in the mines of Moria or maybe bearing a ring to Mordor.
Blake is surging, and he’s not alone. Conservative candidates for the Senate, written off by the Establishment as a bunch of crazy Trumpy radicals, are looking like they are going to win all or most of the key races. How do we know? Well, don’t believe the polls (even the good ones) but do consider their direction, as well as the directions of gas prices (up) and the stock market (down). Oh, and there’s that whole nuclear war thing. Everybody loves their Ukrainian flags and emojis until hydrogen bombs start detonating over their hometown.
All the smart people told us that we need to write off Arizona because Blake is too, well, something to win. But even before the debate Tiny Mark, the guy who puts the “ass” in “astronaut,” was losing ground. Then he stood there on that debate stage – yes, he was standing up – as Blake loomed above him just pummeling him on the open border, on 87,000 new IRS agents, even on water rights. He labeled Miniature Mark as California’s third senator – ouch – and super-glued him to Biden.
If I had any sympathy for Democrats, I would have felt some after that brutal pummeling, but I don’t, so I laughed. Come November, it seems likely that Mark Kelly will need a new career – I hear Willy Wonka is hiring down at the chocolate factory.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/10/10/democrat-senate-disaster-ahead-n2614173
Hay Jean Luc... What size T-Shirt are ya gonna need??
Still need to know if you want an alternative choice on account of safety issues.. :D
I'll wait until the results are in to discuss the hypotheticals
And yet, we know for a FACT that many MANY teachers in our school systems push ideological and sexual agendas on our innocent children..
HELL NO! Wrong wing BS!
"The gays are coming for your children!"
"They are pushing their gay agendas on our children!"
I'm still waiting to hear what all is on our "agendas" because no one I know in the gay community has ever heard of it nor have any of us been contacted requesting our input on the matter!
We have laws that criminalize pushing sexual agendas by educators on our children..
First, no, we do not those kinds of laws. We have laws against teachers having sexual relations and communicating with minor for immoral purposes. But there are no "agenda" laws.
Next, "sexual agendas" is a made up term meant to scare simple minded folks into believing that someone is plotting against them. That homos are trying to get into straight children's pants in order to turn them gay. It is most likely the invention of males who had a same-sex sexual encounter and freaked out afterwards...mainly because they enjoyed it so much. That scares the crap out of them... that it was probably the best sexual experience that they ever had in their sad little lives. They are terrified of what that says about them and at what people would think of them if their dirty secret was ever found out. Because the truth is, gays cannot turn straight people gay. You may be gay, bi, straight, or you don't care for labels and just enjoy sex... but closet cases are the ones who go on and on attacking anything that isn't simply about procreation. They think they are fooling the world and keeping their secrets hidden from everyone. Problem is that when a person hides their sexuality for so long, they can pick out others who are trying to hide it. We know the signs and the subtlety that goes along with hiding your interests. "He cannot be gay! He is the last person I'd believe is queer. He's so masculine! He is such a man's man!" Yes he is a MAN'S MAN!
The issue of educators pushing anti-America and anti-science ideological agendas on our children is well documented..
You say things like this a lot, as if we should trust you that this is a common occurrence. And what's mind-boggling is that you say others are "anti-science" without a hint of irony. You claimed the Covid-19 virus was a hoax. You claimed it was not nearly as bad as the normal flu. You claimed that all precautionary measures were use less. You claimed that vaccines were more dangerous than the virus itself You claimed that the vaccine didn't work. And literally hundreds of thousands of you died because you are so "anti-science".
The only agenda that our community has is to be there for kids struggling with who they are... their sexual orientation or their sexual identity. Gay/Bi/Str8 clubs are meant to support kids and help us to understand that we are not all that different from one another. It's wrong-wingers that claim heterosexuality is what God intended for all of us.
Your agenda is to prevent any discussion that doesn't fit YOUR views on sex. You think that if your child cannot discuss their sexuality with anyone, it will work itself out in a good way. Kinda like Trump saying the only reason we had so many Covid cases was because we were testing too many people. Stop testing them, his logic was, and we will have fewer cases. Quit choosing ignorance! It clearly isn't "bliss" based on how angry all of you are.
And before someone goes bonkers when I said:
"The only agenda that our community has is to be there for kids struggling with who they are..."
it should have read:
"The only agenda that our community would have, if we had one, would be to be there for kids struggling with who they are..."
Hopefully you'll read this before your head explodes.
Russ,
HELL NO! Wrong wing BS!
You are saying that there has never been an instance where a teacher has pushed a sexual agenda on a student?
I'll let that state stand on it's own stupidity.. :D
Are you also saying that there has never been an instance where a teacher has pushed an ideological agenda on students??
Read comment #133 :^/
"The gays are coming for your children!"
"They are pushing their gay agendas on our children!"
Ignoring for the moment that those are factual statements..
Who is saying that??
I'm still waiting to hear what all is on our "agendas" because no one I know in the gay community has ever heard of it nor have any of us been contacted requesting our input on the matter!
My, don't you think a lot of yer community, eh?
It's not just the gay community trying to force Americans to accept ya'all's lifestyle...
It's the entire Democrat/Gender agenda...
Look at what you are defending, Russ.. You are defending the RIGHT for teachers to push a sexual gender-bending agenda on kids that are barely passed the toddler stage..
Who DOES that!!???
First, no, we do not those kinds of laws. We have laws against teachers having sexual relations and communicating with minor for immoral purposes. But there are no "agenda" laws.
The "agenda" of a pedophile is to groom children for the pedophile's sexual pleasure...
Yer trying to split hairs..
Your agenda is to prevent any discussion that doesn't fit YOUR views on sex
How am I trying to prevent any discussion..
There are over a 130 comments of mine whose SOLE PURPOSE is to stimulate and encourage discussion..
The problem is, YOU PEOPLE don't like the facts and refuse to discuss them...
As evidenced by the FACT that I am, almost quite literally, the ONLY one posting here..
"The only agenda that our community would have, if we had one, would be to be there for kids struggling with who they are..."
And the Democrat Party agenda is to force-feed those kids with the idea that the biological science based-gender they actually are MAY not be "who they are"...
Let the kids BE KIDS fer christ's sake!!
Your Democrats are saying that a baby can decide his or her gender IN THE WOMB regardless of what the actual gender is..
Ignoring for the moment how such a claim is diametrically opposed to YOUR Democrats claim that an unborn baby is not a real human being...
How is that not TOTALLY FRAK'ED in the head!!???
I'll wait until the results are in to discuss the hypotheticals
Er... If you wait until the results are in they are unlikely to be hypothetical.
It will be actual fact that the GOP won the Senate.. :D
But that's kewl.. I just like to be prepared.. :D
The 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act simply codified that basic protection that ALL industries enjoy into a law specifically for the firearm industry...
Was that ALL it did? If that were the case, then there would be no need for this law in the first place, seeing how everything in it was already shared rights by all corporations. Right? Jeez, are you completely unaware of how obvious your lies are or is it that you just don't care? Why would the gun industry fight for something that they already have? You don't sue the car manufacturer for the damages caused by a wreck unless there was something about the car that caused the wreck or made the damages worse than they should be. Ford was not responsible for Pinto's getting rear ended... they weren't driving either vehicle involved in the accidents. But they were responsible for where they put the gas lines that caused the vehicles to explode in accidents where the speed typically just caused minor exterior damage....it didn't blow the vehicle up like a giant fireball.
Gun manufacturers do not have to submit their products to any government agency for testing to make sure their products can be used safely as they are constructed. Faulty locks something that the company might or might not choose to fix. Making their product so that it cannot be turned from a semi-automatic into a fully automatic with just a minor adjustment cannot be addressed as a consumer product safety issue.
Boohoo. Do ya think that people might sue the gun makers for making weapons supposedly for hunting that are capable of killing a large number of people in seconds... because the guns are designed to be used for hunting people?
Right? Jeez, are you completely unaware of how obvious your lies are or is it that you just don't care?
This is EXACTLY why it's simply IMPOSSIBLE to have any kind of civilized or serious discussion with you or people like you..
I *HAVE* to be lying, right?? It's not that I am simply wrong or have a different viewpoint.. It HAS to be a "lie", right Russ? :eyeroll:
The fact is, it's not either.. I am not lying and I am not wrong..
The problem with pre 2005 PLCAA is that the anti-gun nuts were finding sympathetic judges and filing hundreds and thousands of nuisance lawsuits.. These nuisance lawsuits were always thrown out, as they are without merit, but the express purpose of the suits was purely to harass the manufacturers, costing them time, effort, money, and possibly bad press, in hopes of coercing them to shut down or bankrupt them.
How do we know this?? Because the anti-gun nuts STATED this was their agenda..
The 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act simply prohibited these nuisance lawsuits. Essentially, the law says that it is unlawful to sue an gun manufacturer if a third party uses the firearm in the commission of a crime. Which, I will remind you, the exact same legal standard as literally every other industry in existence. The PLCAA simply stated explicitly that this standard applied to gun manufacturers too.
Ford was not responsible for Pinto's getting rear ended... they weren't driving either vehicle involved in the accidents. But they were responsible for where they put the gas lines that caused the vehicles to explode in accidents where the speed typically just caused minor exterior damage....it didn't blow the vehicle up like a giant fireball.
And NOW you are comparing apples and eskimos...
Ford was liable because the Pinto was DEFECTIVE..
You are talking two different types of laws/liabilities.
QUIT FRAKING LYING, RUSS!!! :eyeroll:
Making their product so that it cannot be turned from a semi-automatic into a fully automatic with just a minor adjustment cannot be addressed as a consumer product safety issue.
Once again, you are lying, Russ :eyeroll:
A gun manufacturer would not be liable if a psycho modified their product to fire full auto.. Any more than Ford would be liable if a Pinto had a souped up modified gas tank and it blew up..
If a gun manufacturer does do something unlawful, it can be charged. If a gun is defective, that’s still a valid suit. Again, just like every other industry ever.
But anti-gun zealots such as yourself are either ignorant of the law (extremely common) or liars (also extremely common) and will incorrectly, often maliciously, assert that “you can’t sue gun manufacturers!” as if they have some special immunity unique to that industry. This claim is simply not true.
You spewing bullshit and lies Russ...
Jack Daniels is NOT liable if someone uses their product too much and goes out and mows down a dozen people in a Subaru SUV...
Subaru is not liable if someone uses their product to mow down a dozen people.
Armalite is not liable if someone uses their product to shot a dozen people..
These are FACTS, Russ... Not lies..
I guess you are just too stupid to know the difference.. :eyeroll:
I guess you are just too stupid to know the difference.. :eyeroll:
OK.. That was a bit over the top.. Apologies..
I am just really getting sick and tired of your people screaming LIES!!!! LIES!!!! LIES!!!! with absolutely NO CAUSE NOR REASON to do so... And it DOUBLEY pisses me off that you simply IGNORE all the lies and bullshit that YOUR side spews..
This Dementia Biden lie is a PERFECT example of that..
Pull yer head out yer ass, Russ..
Then maybe we can have a serious and fruitful discussion on this, or any subject...
Yer choice..
"None of them are relevant to this law that protects children from a PROVEN harmful Democrat ideological agenda.."
How does it protect children in ANY way that the other laws didn't already do? How does it actually protect them. The "don't say gay" law doesn't have any criminal penalties for those who violate the law. So how, are children protected? And from what?
You keep using the word "agenda" as if it means ANY actual thing that is really occurring. No one is grooming children to have sex with them by teaching them pronouns. NO ONE! If your kids are so f'd up that pronouns gets them to drop trou' and take a bow offering themselves up for sexual purposes... I'm guessing that isn't the teacher's fault. Grooming "children for the pedophile's sexual pleasure" is more your folks style. Seriously, do you all just sit around beating off telling each other the hardcore details of what you think the liberals want to do with your kids? Projection is something ya'll do way too often without realizing it.
Bring out the children who were harmed by their schools and that this law would have protected if only passed sooner! Show us the kids who became trans out of pressure they received from a teacher! I'd say produce one, but your crowd would force their kid to say they are trans for a year and then go back to being cis and claim the school made them be trans; hoping to sue the school system for big money!
I kinda picture folks like you having a PeeWee's Playhouse reaction when you hear the word of the day dog whistle being uttered by someone. All bells, sirens, and whistles going off at once with people running around screaming "INDOCTRINATE!!! AHHHHHHHAHHHHHAHHHHHAHHHHH!" like little children. Yes, she said she was going to indoctrinate her students. But what was it that she was indoctrinating her students with? Good manners? Proper uses of "they're, there, and their"? Healthy eating habits? Not to shit on the floor? See, there are lots of things that we can be indoctrinated on that are beneficial.
Again, you aren't protecting kids. You are only making it so they have no where to turn to help them navigate growing up. You think that teachers should have to tell you when their kids want to talk about their sexual orientation when the kid begs them not to tell you. You claim it's your right as a parent to be informed as to their children's struggles... but you fail to realize that the teacher isn't the one NOT coming to you for advice. If your child doesn't want to talk to you because they fear how you will react, maybe that is a bigger issue that should be addressed? "Don't tell me how to parent my kid!" Don't tell teachers how to teach your kids. That's what home schools are for. This law is only about punishing people who say things that you disagree with. Make money off your kid's not believing you are of help to them when they need you most. Hell, most parents I believe are grateful when another adult can help their kid out with something the kid doesn't feel like they can talk to them about. Not you guys! Such big First Amendment warriors you are!
Michael,
Which, I will remind you, the exact same legal standard as literally every other industry in existence. The PLCAA simply stated explicitly that this standard applied to gun manufacturers too.
If this offered no more protection to them than what every other industry in existence already enjoyed... then you wouldn't have a problem with it being revoked. The protections are already in place. This law does NOTHING that isn't already being done by other laws that protect all forms of businesses... that is YOUR CLAIM! So why the hell do you care so much about something that does nothing???
How does it protect children in ANY way that the other laws didn't already do? How does it actually protect them.
On ALL of the people who have turned "trans" surgically and then regretted the actions, all of them have a common theme..
They were "talked" into it by Democrat activists..
The FL law will protect future kids from not having to endure such ideological pressure..
Even THAT is simply a byproduct of what the law actually does.. And does quite well..
The MAIN thrust of the law is to prevent Democrat groomers from trying to hide their grooming from the parents of the child that they are trying to groom..
That ALONE makes the law worthwhile and above reproach..
And, since I am calling it a night, let me make one more FACT perfectly clear..
I *HAVE* to be lying, right?? It's not that I am simply wrong or have a different viewpoint.. It HAS to be a "lie", right Russ? :eyeroll:
With regards to yer hysterical anti-gun zealotry..
I was NOT lying and I was NOT wrong..
You are lying/wrong when you claim that product defect lawsuits are the same thing as what yer fellow anti-gun nuts tried to do...
Your fellow gun nuts used civil law to harass and intimidate gun manufacturers into capitulation..
Again, how do we know this??
Because the anti gun zealots STATED that was their aim..
THEIR ENTIRE AGENDA was to use nuisance suits to harass, bankrupt and intimidate gun manufacturers..
President Bush put an end to all that with the PLCAA..
So, Dementia Biden was LYING when he claimed that the PLCAA gave gun manufactures special privileges to avoid lawsuits..
*ALL* the PLCAA did was codify protections that ALL other industries in the US have...
That is IT...
So Dementia Biden was lying..
And if you agree with Dementia Biden, then you are lying too..
Ni Ni.. See ya'all in the AM.. :D
If this offered no more protection to them than what every other industry in existence already enjoyed... then you wouldn't have a problem with it being revoked. The protections are already in place.
But unless specifically stated, the anti-gun nuts will continue to file nuisance lawsuits to harass gun manufacturers..
ALL of the cases filed were thrown out but it cost the manufacturers LOTS of money to do so..
With the PLCAA in place, the anti gun zealots can't FILE their lawsuits any longer..
The PLCAA stays until the anti-gun zealots give up their agenda of ignoring the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution..
OK NOW it's dinner time.. :D
Michael,
Your never ending wailing about preventing teachers from "grooming" your children deserves complete honesty in my response... your kids aren't being groomed by anyone. So tell your kid to stop calling. No means NO!
It's like finding out the Scout Leader buggered every kid in the troupe but yours... and you are left wondering, "Well what's wrong with my kid?!?"
Or how whenever a guys finds out that another male is gay that they did not know about and they will say something like, "Well, all I know is that he best not try hitting on me." My response is to laugh and assure them that they have NOTHING to worry about and I sit back and watch how hurt they are once they take in what I just said to them. "You don't think I'm good looking?"
Your law does one thing only -- it allows parents to sue a school if a teacher says anything that they do not believe is age appropriate for their little bundle of sunshine's ears to hear. It's another way Republicans are destroying our education system in this country.
Next item:
I *HAVE* to be lying, right?? It's not that I am simply wrong or have a different viewpoint.. It HAS to be a "lie", right Russ? :eyeroll:
You are given every opportunity to correct what you said if you were mistaken. We are not talking about what we believe is true or false. Your OCD need to scream about FACTS gets you partial points because the statement made is either factual or it is not. But you only get partial points because what you claim is FACT is not true. So, YES, it would be a lie. And I accused you of either not realizing how obvious your lies are or you just don't care. It's a choice.
Then you go on to call me a liar multiple times in the post and after you finish that post, you post about how unfair it is to always be called out for lying. Welcome back, Michale... it's good to see nothing has changed with you.
Michale
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Vick made up some bullshit story that her "boy friend" (not the one that runs on batteries) gave her a new car if she could refrain from posting here in Weigantia®..
So you're an indigent fat old man with a shitty memory. Nothing new.
Leave it to Vick to make up such a complete and utter bullshit lie...
Leave it to the Trump cock holster to display both his reading comprehension problem and his obsession with me.