Reasons To Be Thankful
I should begin with a program note: this will be the last column for this week. See you back here next Monday! I am taking the vacation off because really, who wants to read about politics over Thanksgiving weekend anyway?
It's been a slow political week in the news (other than all the bad news on the legal front for Donald Trump), so instead of chasing stories today I thought I would just make a little list of things I am personally thankful for and leave it at that.
This isn't a definitive list, of course. I am also thankful for my friends and my loving family; from my wonderful wife to all the relatives I now zoom with on a regular basis (COVID sparked a lot of changes that have indeed improved life, all of which I am thankful for as well). And I am thankful for personal reasons as well, but those type of thanks are really reserved for pre-turkey-gobbling remarks around the dinner table and not for public consumption.
Instead, here are the ones I would like to share with all my readers. I hope that you and yours have a very thankful day yourselves and eat until you are stuffed. [And for our Canadian readers, please backdate this column to last month, so it is appropriate for the northern version of Thanksgiving!]
I am thankful this year for...
- ...the fact that I am able to write public columns critical of the government and have never had to worry I will suffer any sort of legal consequences for doing so. The First Amendment protects me, as a quasi-member of the only profession or business mentioned in the United States Constitution: the press. And I am thankful for this each and every day.
- ...President Joe Biden. He has his flaws (which of us do not?) and he certainly wasn't my first choice for the Democrats to nominate, but he has done an admirable job with the mess he inherited. His hands will be somewhat tied for the next two years and he will have to put up with fever-swamp investigations out of the MAGA House, but I fully expect him to continue functioning through this period. Biden has already achieved an admirable record of legislation and executive actions that will far outlast his own presidency.
- ...Barack Obama reappearing (however briefly) on the political stage, campaigning for Democrats just before the election. You forget how good he is at the whole "giving a rousing speech" thing until you see it again.
- ...Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, of whom it is being said could be the most powerful and effective speaker ever. She ran her chamber of Congress like clockwork, and we're all about to see the flip side of this -- how chaotic things can get with a very weak and ineffectual speaker. The contrast will be stark, that much seems guaranteed.
- ...John Fetterman, who showed how Democrats can run and win even though they're just average guys. Authenticity is a rare thing in politics, but he's got it, that much is crystal-clear. Or maybe "beer-mug-clear" would be more appropriate?
- ...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and all her fellow progressives, who successfully moved Biden from his usual centrist position to supporting an agenda which (had it been fully enacted) would have been the most progressive since at least Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" measures.
- ...all the states which denied the "election-deniers" (whom I prefer to call "Big Lie adherents") the high offices where they might have had the power to overturn the will of the people.
- ...the fact that there was no reported violence on Election Day this year, despite the very tangible fear of it occurring. Perhaps we are indeed better than that, and perhaps our democracy is healthier than we might have thought. America descending into regular political violence is a terrifying thought, so I'm glad it hasn't fully taken root here yet.
- ...elections workers everywhere. Their job in normal times is a pretty thankless one -- they are like unto the projectionists in movie theaters. When the film runs perfectly, nobody even knows they are there. When things screw up, they have to take the heat of everyone yelling at them. That's a mild comparison, because now elections workers have to regularly put up with death threats and threats against their families, which is just wrong and disgusting and should be condemned by all. So I am thankful for the job they do, each and every one of them.
- ...the voters across this land who absolutely refused to produce the vaunted "red wave" on Election Day. People vote for all kinds of reasons, and most of them are never even discussed (or only moronically so) in political pontificating by the inside-the-Beltway punditry. To whom I say: better luck next time, guys.
- ...young voters and women voters who turned out in droves and proved that abortion is a powerful "wedge issue" once again, but this time the wedge cuts the other way and the anti-abortion side now quakes in its boots at the prospect of ballot initiatives appearing even in very red states in the next few elections. As well they should, because when people have a say in things they almost always vote for expanding freedoms, not constricting them.
- ...the fact that the COVID pandemic has lessened to the point where it does not rule our daily lives again. Families are getting back together again, some for the first time in years.
- ...Dr. Fauci, who has also had to fight off outrageous slings and arrows of conspiratorial nonsense from his detractors, for no real reason. Which he has done with aplomb throughout the crisis.
- ...justice, where the wheels grid slow but hopefully grind effectively and completely.
- ...the fact that World War III hasn't broken out. Yet, at any rate.
(and finally, to close on:)
- ...the National Parks. Best government dollar ever spent, without question.
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!
-- Chris Weigant
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ChrisWeigant
I'm thankful that the failing orange internet troll will be a failing orange convict soon.
I'm thankful that the ignoramus Palin will not be in the congress.
I am taking the vacation off because really, who wants to read about politics over Thanksgiving weekend anyway?
Well, me. But I’m a politics junkie…and worse than that a Policy Wonk…a true outlier. Nothing to see here, Chris…just move along now…
The thing of it with Grandpaw Joe is that he has done a B+/A- job of practicing EFFECTIVE politics against #TwoBrainCells’s hapless/Facists GQP party.
I am going to VASTLY enjoy the next two years in my Murcia!
Elizabeth,
My ‘Murica undeniably just rejected Facism/the GQP in our midterms. They ALMOST couldn’t even win the House — but inflation! And Hunter’s laptop!
I’m working on a comparison of similar entities (Putin’s Russia along side #TwoBrainCell’s GQP) and ALL the inevitable great fortune that awaits both!/sarcasm off
For the record, twenty years ago I became a Clerk and served my local voting Precinct. I’d already defended OUR Constitutional Republic (in the Army out in the Mojave Desert/Ft. Irwin — NTC whopah Gangnamstyle!)
Ahem. After that I supervised my Precinct another 17 elections in a row. When I’m done with one or more spinal column surgeries (at the VA — they’ve been good to me) I shall start my next 18 elections in a row streak. Y’all don’t even make Countri-Cali’s minimum wage whence you step up, but ‘tever, eh?
I love my ‘Murica that is so CAF** that even MAGAts have their day!
**Cool As [fill in the blank]
I'm thankful for the hero who tackled the shooter at Club Q. I'm interested to see which way the GQP goes on this one. He was at a drag show in a gay bar. Will they allow him to be a hero or will they smear him as a "groomer"? I'm betting on door number two. The GQP is rapidly becoming Westboro Baptist Q. Have you noticed how much Margie Three Names looks like Fred Phelps? People are sayin . . .
Happy Thanksgiving Chris and friends!
Almost time for another fund-raising drive. I'm planning on taking care of the last one and this one very soon ... in one, ah, fowl swoop ... so to speak. :-)
...the fact that World War III hasn't broken out. Yet, at any rate…
Chris et al,
Lend your ears, for I have researched the [bleep] out of this very same topic, like…since the ‘70s. I am regularly wrong…but not about this Survival of Civilization [bleep,] K?
MAKE NO MISTAKE
20th/21st Russian Nuclear Doctrine is like EVERYBODY’S 20th/21st century Nuclear Doctrine: nobody wants to inadvertently destroy humanity/themselves. Can ya blame a nuclear power for feeling the WEIGHT of this peril?
I can’t, and I’m thankful to relate to Weigantia that Rooskie Nuclear Launch Protocol requires not just Putin but also TWO other Senior Defense Officials (Chief of Staff-ABSOLUTELY and Minister of Defense-LESS CERTAIN) to simultaneously turn the key and guarantee their own demise. All those billions, lost for good.
Every nuclear power knows and strives to NOT fry THEMSELVES. It would be something kinda OBVIOUS to the “two-center mass/two in the head” crowd seeking “just a word” with Vladimir Vladomirivich [aka #TwoBrainCells hero Putin/Trump’s Handler.]
Furthermore, Putin has been waving around his nuclear dick TO NO EFFECT for, like, since he took power in 2000. Nuclear blackmail only persuades the folks who automatically wet themselves. Thing of it is, the respective governments don’t.
I'm thankful for the hero who tackled the shooter at Club Q.
Interesting fact about the Club Q shooter..
He was "non-binary".. Which is like someone claiming to be a "wolf" or a "Cardassian"..
So, once again.. Mental Health issues is as the front of another mass shooting...
MC,
You are as sure of your No Nuclear prediction as you are of your PUTIN WILL NEVER INVADE UKRAINE prediction..
So..... :D
I’m thankful to relate to Weigantia that Rooskie Nuclear Launch Protocol requires not just Putin but also TWO other Senior Defense Officials (Chief of Staff-ABSOLUTELY and Minister of Defense-LESS CERTAIN) to simultaneously turn the key
Any facts to back up your claim??
ANY facts at all??
No?? Of course not.. :^/
1/20
And, speaking of mass shootings..
The WalMart shooting??
Ya really have to feel sorry for Democrats.. They got a mass shooting at a WalMart, which we all know that Democrats LOVE, politically...
And yet, this mass shooting doesn't fit the Democrat anti "assault rifle" agenda.. So they just can't use it!!
Poor Democrats.. They have such a tough time of it.. :^/
"We MUST politicize these {mass shooting} tragedies"
-Barack Hussein Odumbo
2/20
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/11/720/405/Colorado-Springs.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
So THAT is what a "non binary" Democrat looks like.
I've always wondered..
:eyeroll:
My best wishes to everyone for plenty of good food, good company, and whatever else makes your Thanksgiving one to be thankful for.
JFC,
Q. I'm interested to see which way the GQP goes on this one.
The scumbag shooter was a "non binary" Democrat who uses they/them/cardassian pronouns... Obviously a complete and utter head case. Like all Crowd Based Mass shooters.
And Democrats.... :D
I think it's EASY to predict which way the GOP will go on this one..
"Doi...."
-Vanillope Von Schweetz, WRECK IT RALPH
:eyeroll:
4/20
MC,
The thing of it with Grandpaw Joe is that he has done a B+/A- job of practicing EFFECTIVE politics against #TwoBrainCells’s hapless/Facists GQP party.
At least *I* have an HONORABLE DISCHARGE from *TWO* branches of the US Armed Forces.
Unlike you, who was thrown out of the military with a DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE for drug use.. In other words, you were KICKED out of the US Military because you were a THREAT to your fellow soldiers AND to your country you claim to love so much. :eyeroll:
No wonder you identify with Hunter Biden so much..
Like him, you were also thrown out of the military because ya both were nothing but scumbag druggies...
You want to bring back personal attacks, son?? I can do that... :^/
5/20
This Thanksgiving, Embrace the Politics Talk – Respectfully
This year, we’d like to suggest a different approach: Embrace the discussion and listen with respect. Not debate mind you, but good, honest, and empathetic discussion. Just take a look at the two of us, friends for nearly 30 years who have devoted much of that time to crossing the aisle to find out what is creating the political division we experience in this country.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/11/24/this_thanksgiving_embrace_the_politics_talk__respectfully_148511.html
Well.. THAT ship has sailed, eh? :^/
There is zero hope for respect from ANY of the Trump/America hater zealots... :^/
6/20
@m[16],
that's actually a great article, wish you'd give it a more open reading. especially in mixed-politics families, it's some damn good advice.
that's actually a great article, wish you'd give it a more open reading. especially in mixed-politics families, it's some damn good advice.
Yes it is.. That's why I posted it.. Because we are kinda a mixed politics family..
And I gave it a FULL open reading..
By pointing out that the likes of MC et al here completely ignore it..
We were doing so good here for the last couple weeks.
Ironically, MC was gone for a good portion of that time.. Go figger, eh? :D
But then he shows up, accepts my Happy Birthday wishes and then proceeds to attack me personally.. And ta think I actually thought about buying him a B-Day card and sending it to him.. :eyeroll:
So, yea.. The article is a good one..
Too bad very few here are willing to follow it.. :^/
7/20
Thanksgiving with the humble Squire Of Gothos
:D
8/20
...John Fetterman, who showed how Democrats can run and win even though they're just average guys. Authenticity is a rare thing in politics, but he's got it, that much is crystal-clear. Or maybe "beer-mug-clear" would be more appropriate?
Actually, Fetterman showed how Democrats will vote for ANYONE, even someone who is brain-damaged... :^/
...all the states which denied the "election-deniers" (whom I prefer to call "Big Lie adherents")
As opposed to Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton who are ALSO Big Lie adherents.. :^/
Funny how that fact is always forgotten, eh? :D
...the fact that there was no reported violence on Election Day this year, despite the very tangible fear of it occurring.
Just more Democrat fact-less fear-mongering..
Funny how Democrats completely IGNORE the 22+ years (collectively) of DEMOCRAT BLM and AntiFa political violence..
Why is that???
...the fact that the COVID pandemic has lessened to the point where it does not rule our daily lives again. Families are getting back together again, some for the first time in years.
And yet, Dementia Senile Biden is STILL using COVID as an excuse to push the Democrat Anti-America agenda..
Why is that???
...Dr. Fauci, who has also had to fight off outrageous slings and arrows of conspiratorial nonsense from his detractors, for no real reason. Which he has done with aplomb throughout the crisis.
You mean, the "conspiratorial nonsense" of the FACT that COVID was caused by a lab leak???
Is that the "conspiratorial nonsense" (which has been PROVEN to be factually accurate) you are referring to??
...the fact that World War III hasn't broken out. Yet, at any rate.
Leave it to Senile Dementia Biden, a Democrat, to be the one who is in charge when nukes start going off..
THAT is going to be Senile Dementia Biden's legacy to the world. They Democrat who lead this country into a nuclear war... :eyeroll:
1/20
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/11/918/516/cartoon.png?ve=1&tl=1
heh :D
Fetterman proved that Pennsylvanians of all parties will vote for someone with one foot in the grave before they'll vote for someone who is so obviously phony that he name-drops the Steelers game when they're on a bye week.
Yea, that's what I said..
Democrats vote for a brain-damaged mama's boy before someone who is highly trained, skilled and successful..
IN other words, Democrats would vote for a rutabaga if that is all Democrats had to vote for..
Party Uber Alles... Party before country..
THAT's my point.. Thank you for agreeing with me. :D
3/20
So, due to the shooting at Walmart by a scumbag shooter, Dementia Senile Biden wants to ban all semi-automatic firearms..
According to Senile Dementia Biden, it's "sick" that Americans want to own semi-automatic firearms..
SDB further claims that owning such firearms has "no social redeeming value"..
Which is strange because I am sure that the 500,000 to 2,000,000 Americans who used firearms to save their lives and saved the lives of innocents and loved ones think that THOSE firearms had "social redeeming value"...
What IS it about Democrats that so are so blatantly hysterical and fear-mongering??
Taking guns away from law abiding Americans because of mass shooter criminals is as moronic and un-American as taking cars away from law abiding Americans because of drunk drivers..
4/20
Reading is fundamental. I wrote "Pennsylvanians of all parties"
So... In your universe, Democrats are Democrats, Republicans are Democrats and independents are Democrats. Gosh, well no wonder they won.
But in all seriousness, that was Oz's race to lose and he completely blew it by trying too hard to seem authentic and failing spectacularly.
The PA race simply showed the level of hatred that Democrats and (obviously) some independents have for this country and Republicans..
That they would vote for a rutabaga just to avoid voting GOP shows the depth of the GOP/America hate...
As you yourself concede (Oz's race to lose) Oz was the better choice for the country..
The idea that because Oz name-dropped the Steelers means he would not be a good senator shows the warped thinking that went into voting for someone who has never had any responsibility for anything and is also brain-damaged..
Anyways, it's that time of the night again.. :D
Have a fun night.. See ya in the AM.. :D
5/20
So... "Trying hard" is now a sin??
We have learned that expecting people to work hard is an abhorrent sin...
Now, even TRYING hard is a sin..
What will Democrats come up with next!!??
:eyeroll:
6/20
Authenticity isn't something you get by trying - either you are or you ain't, and oz demonstrated conclusively that he was not.
I didn't by any stretch of the imagination suggest that oz was best for our country, nor that fetterman was not. Fetterman made it Oz's race to lose by trying to participate in a live debate while speech impaired by a stroke. Oz blew the opportunity by feeding the negative public image of him as a fake just days before the election. He's not the first candidate to move to a new state to run for office (Hillary Clinton comes to mind). He just made one too many unforced errors.
RFK was called a carpetbagger, too!
The thing about Fetterman is that he and his fellow Democrats lied to the American people about the state of his health when the truth about it was so obviously to the contrary.
JL,
I didn't by any stretch of the imagination suggest that oz was best for our country, nor that fetterman was not.
But the facts clearly show that this is the case.
Fetterman has brain damage. This is documented fact. He can't articulate and he can't understand complex ideas..
By ANY factual definition, that disqualifies him from serving..
Due to his disability, he couldn't serve in the US Military. Due to his disability he couldn't serve as a Police officer, or any other public official..
He is disabled.. Period. But, according to Democrats, that makes him PERFECT for being a US Senator..
Which says a lot more about Democrats than it does about Fetterman...
He just made one too many unforced errors.
NONE of which is any kind of relevance compared to Fetterman's mental disability...
Liz,
The thing about Fetterman is that he and his fellow Democrats lied to the American people about the state of his health when the truth about it was so obviously to the contrary.
An EXCELLENT point..
For ALL of Oz's failings, some real but mostly imagined, the FACTS, not to mention logical and rational thought, proved beyond ANY doubt that Oz was the better choice for US Senator..
The fact that Fetterman won simply proves the depth of hatred that Democrats and yes, some independents, have for the GOP and the country..
They hate the GOP and the country so deep that they would vote for a brain-damaged liar and mama's boy who never had a real job over a successful surgeon...
That right there says it all..
Ya'all seem to have a serious thing about politicians who lie...
But apparently, that serious thing is ONLY an issue for ya'all when GOP politicians lie...
I'm just sayin'... :^/
1/20
For ALL of Oz's failings, some real but mostly imagined, the FACTS, not to mention logical and rational thought, proved beyond ANY doubt that Oz was the better choice for US Senator..
I disagree. And, I base my disagreement solely on the policies that Oz would have supported as a US Senator from the Republican side. Of course, what do I know, he might be capable of voting against his party - I really don't know him well enough. But, I do know the Republican record on the economy and on a few other important issues and I doubt that he would be voting against any of those related Republican policies, so ...
In other words, I see Fetterman as just another Democratic vote in the Senate for far better policies than the Republicans would ever sponsor.
On the other hand, blatant lying shouldn't be rewarded, should it ... but, here we are and we are where we are and all of that...
On the other hand, blatant lying shouldn't be rewarded, should it ... but, here we are and we are where we are and all of that...
What she said...
Again, I have to comment on the irony (read-in hypocrisy) of Democrats complaining about GOP's alleged lies, but reward Democrats who BLATANTLY lie...
Hypocrisy. It's not a bug in Democrat programming. It's a feature.
2/20
Michale,
You only see what you want to see - you say 'alleged' GOP lies and blatant Democrat lies. Sigh.
You only see what you want to see - you say 'alleged' GOP lies and blatant Democrat lies. Sigh.
I say "alleged" because MANY of the "lies" that Democrats ascribe to the GOP aren't really lies at all..
But, as I am sure you will agree, Fetterman's blatant lies WERE lies and they should be called out as such..
As you have done..
So.. Kudos to you.. :D
3/20
He can't articulate and he can't understand complex ideas..
Where the f do you get off making this assessment? Trump doesn't understand complex ideas, yet you suck his ass non-stop! And Fetterman is able to "articulate", maybe not at the same speed and ease that he did prior to the stroke, but he is able to express himself. If you want to discount anyone who can't speak as clearly as you think they must, then you'd demand Stephen Hawking should have been ignored, seeing as he was far more disabled according to you?
And I gave it a FULL open reading..
Really? Because in the post that you share the link you end it with:
There is zero hope for respect from ANY of the Trump/America hater zealots... :^/
SO if you did give it a "full open reading", you are just choosing to ignore the message, is that it?!?
And where was MC "attacking" you personally that differs from how you attack anyone that disagrees with you? (See quote of your comment above!)
Russ,
Where the f do you get off making this assessment?
The FACTS.. Facts that even DEMOCRATS acknowledged..
Fetterman is brain-damaged.. He is intellectually impaired..
His debate performance proved that beyond ANY doubt.. At least to those who aren't bigoted and filled with hate...
Such as yourself.. :eyeroll:
Trump doesn't understand complex ideas,
First off, we're not talking about President Trump..
Secondly, this is factually and DEMONSTRABLY factually not accurate..
Democrats LOVED President Trump and worshipped and honored him.. When he had a -D after his name.
So your claim is DEMONSTRABLY complete and utter BS...
As to the rest of your drivel, it's obvious you have no grasp of reality, so I'll just leave it to stand on it's own (lack of) merit...
4/20
How is it that somebody is always tricking that failing, morbidly obese, mentally-disordered, orange reality TV guy into partying with deplorable Nazis?
It seems like maybe somebody as gullible as that shouldn't be president.
Fetterman is brain-damaged..
In the crudest sense of the word, sure. He had a stroke. You had cellulitis. Should we refer to you as "disease-ridden"? It would be a fact that YOU acknowledged.
He is intellectually impaired..
Nothing suggests that his intellect was impaired at all. His cognitive abilities weren't damaged in the stroke, his motor skills were...which is typical and with work will get better.
First off, we're not talking about President Trump..
Really? Let me go back and reread what I wrote...
Trump doesn't understand complex ideas, yet you suck his ass non-stop!
Yep, I thought that I was right... I was definitely talking about Trump.
Secondly, this is factually and DEMONSTRABLY factually not accurate..
So you are going to show me evidence that Trump does understand complex ideas??? That's what a reasonably intelligent person would do after making such a comment...
Democrats LOVED President Trump and worshipped and honored him.. When he had a -D after his name.
Yeah... swing and a miss, strike one!
First, I don't remember ever seeing Democrats ever waving giant flags that superimposed images of Trump's head onto Rambo's body... only MAGAGA cultists. You worship the world's ugliest transvestite... which is the only way to explain a man of his age wearing that much makeup in public. Seriously, mental patients wear their makeup the same way he does when they are going thru manic episodes! Trump didn't have a stroke... what's his excuse?
Second, I've always thought Trump was a pompous narcissistic idiot, at best, before he decided to run for President. But regardless of all of this...nothing you have said about Democrats' supposed feelings towards Trump proves that he understands complex ideas! NOTHING!
So your claim is DEMONSTRABLY complete and utter BS...
You demonstrated absolutely nothing! If anything, your lack of demonstrating anything to support your argument means that it is actually your claim that is DEMONSTRABLY complete and utter BS! It also shows that your ability to understand complex ideas is just as questionable as Trumps.
Funny thing about Trump having been a Democrat... he realized that Republicans are far more gullible and easier to grift than Democrats would be. Probably just looked at how many Republicans signed up for Trump University and realized how easy it would be to get the mouth breathers' vote! Trump calls ya'll gullible idiots... and you thank him for it! Sad.
Yep, I thought that I was right... I was definitely talking about Trump.
Yes, YOU are..
But the discussion was about Fetterman, NOT President Trump..
Let's try a thought experiment to see how intelligent you are..
Let's talk about Fetterman WITHOUT you bringing up President Trump.
Can ya do that?? Doubt it.. :D
Second, I've always thought Trump was a pompous narcissistic idiot, at best, before he decided to run for President.
Bullshit.. Prove it..
Point to me ANY post or comment you made ANYWHERE that proves you have the SAME opinion of President Trump pre- Jun 2015 that you have today.
You can't because you and I BOTH know you are full of shit..
I just proved you to be a liar..
Funny thing about Trump having been a Democrat... he realized that Republicans are far more gullible and easier to grift than Democrats would be.
And once again.. You spew complete and utter BS that you have absolutely NO FACTS to support..
Why do you ALWAYS do that?? :eyeroll:
Sad.
No. What's sad is that you constantly spew complete and utter BS that you have absolutely NO FACTS to support.
*I* made the statement that Fetterman has brain-damage and is mentally challenged and deficient.. *I* provided FACTS (Fetterman's debate performance) that PROVES my statement is factually valid.
YOU conceded that my facts were valid..
You see how that works, Russ.
Now YOU try it.. Make a statement that is factually valid and provide FACTS to show your claim is factually valid.
Can ya do that?? :eyeroll:
1/20
So, Alyssa Milano is whiney and bitchy that Elon Musk is such a bad person. She claims, without ANY facts (just like our own Russ here :D) that Musk is into white supremacy and all that crap..
So, she gets rid of her Tesla to spite Musk (like I am sure he really gives a shit) and then brags about buying a VW car..
The car company of Hitler and the Nazis!!
BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What IS it about Democrats that they are so utterly moronic!?? :D
2/20
A Perfect & Apt Description Of The Democrat Party
3/20
The awesome competence of Democrat governance... :^/
Portland store shuts down, posts blistering note on front door slamming rampant crime: 'city is in peril'
The store owner says business can't operate 'in our city’s current state'
A Portland, Oregon, clothing shop permanently shut down this month after facing a string of break-ins that has left the store financially gutted, according to a note posted to the front of the store.
"Our city is in peril," a printed note posted on Rains PDX store reads, according to KATU2. "Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business, in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins … we have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd."
The store’s owner Marcy Landolfo said that after 15 break-ins over the last year and a half, the business can’t survive the financial burdens the crimes have cost the shop.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/portland-store-shuts-down-posts-blistering-note-front-door-slamming-rampant-crime-city-peril
This is what happens when Democrats are in charge. With their Pro Criminal Cop Hate Defund Cops policies are enacted..
Portland is a shithole city and Democrats want to make the entire country a shithole country..
:eyeroll:
4/20
Chris,
...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and all her fellow progressives, who successfully moved Biden from his usual centrist position to supporting an agenda which (had it been fully enacted) would have been the most progressive since at least Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" measures.
This is a myth. Biden's progressive agenda was all Biden and not at all in response to the likes of AOC, not even by a long shot!
Anyone who has been following Biden as closely as I have for as long as I have knows that Biden is the authentic progressive. AOC isn't even in the same universe.
Oh, and good luck to Democrats if Biden isn't the nominee in 2024. And, that is all I will say about that.
Of course, when it comes to doing what you can to start a war in 2022, Biden takes the cake. :(
[48]
IMO, Joe has generally parked himself right near the center of wherever the Dems are at a given moment. From mass incarceration back in the day to Gay Marriage when it’s time came. I think Trump is the candidate Joe wants to face in 2024. Kind of like Hillary being the only candidate that Trump could have beaten in 2016.
Silly rabbit, Putin started the war, not Joe nor anyone else. Putin was ALWAYS going to invade regardless of Joe and the West because now is the last time that there are enough military age men in Russia with which to invade. If Putin were to, say, DIE I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia keeps fighting. Reconstituting the USSR is a matter of existential important importance to the Rooskies.
Putin was ALWAYS going to invade regardless of Joe and the West because now is the last time
-MC, November 2022
Putin will extract what he can from the newly unified West and thence stand down. It's not 2014 anymore and nowadays ivading Ukraine has too little upside versus too much downside.
-MC, Feburary 2022
BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
whew...whew... whew.... {catch my breath}
Putin was ALWAYS going to invade regardless of Joe and the West because now is the last time
-MC, November 2022
Putin will extract what he can from the newly unified West and thence stand down. It's not 2014 anymore and nowadays ivading Ukraine has too little upside versus too much downside.
-MC, Feburary 2022
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That's some funny shit right thar, I tell yoo waat!! :D
5/20
Caddy,
Silly rabbit, Putin started the war, not Joe nor anyone else.
Oh, please. That leaves out so much context as to be non-serious.
Caddy,
Reconstituting the USSR is a matter of existential important importance to the Rooskies.
And, how important, do you suppose, was the US desire to expand NATO right up to their doorstep - a few hundred miles from Moscow, in fact - not to mention the now spoken out loud concept of the US wet dream of regime change?
The US and its NATO allies with Z in tow turned a manageable regional security challenge into an all-out war with international impacts that are truly of the existential variety.
Liz,
And, how important, do you suppose, was the US desire to expand NATO right up to their doorstep - a few hundred miles from Moscow, in fact - not to mention the now spoken out loud concept of the US wet dream of regime change?
You know you and I are on the same page vis a vis the whole US/Ukraine debacle..
But we differ on expanding NATO...
NATO's entire history is one of benign influence, working for the betterment of all countries and the world in general..
There is no cause nor reason for ANYONE to fear an expanding NATO..
Only the dictators and tyrants and those unworthy of leadership would fear an expanding NATO..
Personally, I would like to see NATO drop their geographical requirements for membership and let any country in the world join NATO..
Personally, I would LOVE to see Israel and South Korea be members of NATO..
When we humans finally do create our one-world government and create the United Federation Of Planets, it's going to be NATO that morphs into StarFleet... :D
1/20
STAR TREK SG-1
:D
Michale,
You know you and I are on the same page vis a vis the whole US/Ukraine debacle..
No, we most decidedly not. :)
I was once on record as saying that Russia should join NATO. But, that was a long time ago and it was never in the cards.
That was then, this is now ...
Michale,
When we humans finally do create our one-world government and create the United Federation Of Planets, it's going to be NATO that morphs into StarFleet... :D
Nice dream.
@liz,
part of why i don't accept your version of the events in urkaine is that it rests on a simplistic interpretation of russian motives. based on the other moves putin has made for the past 20+ years, my opinion is that protecting russia's borders from NATO was never more than a pretext, and if that one hadn't been available he'd have found another. we certainly underestimated his ambition, but clearly not his goals or motivations. if anything, we erred on the side of too much caution - the only thing that might have prevented an invasion is a more thorough pre-arming of ukraine, not an earlier capitulation.
@m,
oz was a terrible candidate and would have made a worse senator. the citizens of PA wouldn't have chosen him over a tuna sandwich. fetterman would have won if he conducted the debate while in a coma.
JL
Joshua,
I'm afraid you really do misunderstand where I am coming from on the Russia-Ukraine file.
And, pre-arming Ukraine would have been a great idea. If your aim was to provoke a war, a lot sooner.
What is simplistic is the willful ignoring of history. Never a good idea.
And, furthermore, one might have expected that the American experience in Afghanistan alone would have been enough to begin to change the dynamics of US foreign policy, especially concerning the utilization of soft and hard power to achieve desired results but, quite obviously, it has not been nearly enough.
As a favourite American geopolitical analyst recently said, "they haven't learned a fucking thing!"
Indeed.
@liz,
i don't think i misunderstand. based on my own understanding of history in the region, most prominently the build-up to the second world war and the cold war, i just strongly disagree with your interpretation of events and motives of the players.
would have won if he conducted the debate while in a coma.
And, Dems would probably have lied about that, too! Heh.
Joshua,
I'm talking about a little more recent history - like the last four decades.
I have only voiced my opinion on the motives of Biden and NATO. Frankly, you have no idea what my thinking is on the motives of the other players.
Bottom line ... Biden turned a manageable regional security crisis into an all-out war with predictably negative consequences, all around.
I know my expectations of Biden have always been sky high, but this is ridiculous.
@liz,
in your opinion, what are vladimir putin's motives? if i don't know, enlighten me.
Biden took Ukraine's potential membership in NATO off the negotiating table before Russia invaded in February. Would that have prevented/postponed the invasion? Who the fuck knows!!! But, Biden damn sure guaranteed we'd never find out!!!
Joshua[70],
I have no idea.
by the way, i didn't say you had no idea of Putin's motives
@liz[66],
the public expects politicians to lie to a certain extent, especially about things that don't mean much. donald trump exploited this expectation to great effect. that's why most of his supporters don't care how much he lies; to them he's still being his genuine self. authenticity in a politician isn't about never lying, it's about being someone to whom the voters can relate
Well, lying about someone's health, like the Dems did, means a lot.
in a politician isn't about never lying, it's about being someone to whom the voters can relate
Of course!
Re my 75 ... what it mostly means is that Dems seem to think their voters are idiots.
I'm in a bit of a mood, Joshua ... watch out! :)
Hey, Michale! Here is one for you ...
the World Needs a New Planetary Politics
oz was a terrible candidate and would have made a worse senator. the citizens of PA wouldn't have chosen him over a tuna sandwich. fetterman would have won if he conducted the debate while in a com
Which simply proves the depths of America/GOP hate that Democrats have sunk to..
3/20
3/20
Liz,
Lefties have been screaming apocalyptic environmental catastrophes for over sixty years..
NONE of them have ever come to pass..
Yes, we do need a one world government..
But not to stave off the imagined environmental boogeymen that Lefties are ever so hysterical about...
We need a one world government to subjugate the Klingon Empire.. :D
The planet is in the midst of an environmental emergency,
No.. The planet is NOT in the midst of an environmental emergency...
Period.. End Trans...
Nothing that is happening now is unique in the history of the planet...
5/20
Nothing that is happening now is unique in the history of the planet...
You are 100 percent wrong about that.
Has the planet ever been hotter??
Yes it has..
Has the planet ever been colder??
Yes it has...
Humans are simply incapable of controlling the planet's climate, the planet's orbit or anything else about the planet..
This is fact..
And anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or has an agenda..
"Present company excepted, of course.."
-General Chang, STAR TREK VI, The Undiscovered Country
6/20
Has the planet ever had 8 billion humans living on it before?
Get serious, Michale!
In other words, you are comparing apples and orangutans, to borrow a phrase. Ahem.
So, yeah, the planet and its people are indeed in crisis of an existential sort.
So, yeah, the planet and its people are indeed in crisis of an existential sort.
And yet, **EVERY** prediction of catastrophe and END OF DAYS has been WRONG..
Why is that??
Is it because it's NOT about real and actual science, but rather about a political agenda??
"I'de call that a big YES.."
-Bill Murray, GHOSTBUSTERS
7/20
Serious people aren't talking about end of days, Michale.
We're talking about what we can do to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, nothing more or less.
Let me know when you're ready to join that adult discussion.
Serious people aren't talking about end of days, Michale.
And serious people aren't correcting the morons who ARE talking about End Of Days..
So, how serious can they be?? :^/
Let me know when you're ready to join that adult discussion
When the "adults" start joining the REAL science people in correcting and ridiculing the morons who ARE talking about the End Of Days BS...
8/20
Michale, try not to spend so much time on the end of days, okay? :)
Michale, try not to spend so much time on the end of days, okay? :)
Are you kidding!!???
I LIVE for Armageddon!!! :D
"You should be satisfied with that! And you would be if you didn't harbor this morbid desire to face the end of the world!!"
-Morgan Freeman, OUTBREAK
:D
Heh.
End of Days