I think he's great at taking down anti-intellectual race baiting professional victim peddlers. He's no William F Buckley, but he is the antidote to liberal drivel, his trolling is just what the doctor prescribed.
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I understand. Not that I was even close to being alive yet, but I see the last few years being VERY reminiscent of what I know of the late 1960s to early 1970s. We survived then under what were worse circumstances (WUO was inarguably far worse than anything we have now, engaged in what seemed like endless wars in southeast Asia, massive protests throughout the country, Nixon with some Trump-like comments and supporting counter protesters, Kent State massacre, etc), and I fully believe we will now.
I think a key difference is the inability to escape/ turn it off for a lot of people. Sure you could turn off your technology at times but, even beyond actively visiting social media, most of us also need the internet for work or other responsibilities/ hobbies and its hard to avoid constant news. News which is actively designed to be as inflammatory as possible because thats the only way it remains competitive. Whether its the war on Christmas or a cat being misgendered too many are caught up in this persecution cycle and I fear its creating a mentality where too many interested in sticking it to someone they are told 24/7 has been wronging them. The ignorant want to fuck that person over more than they want to create a better future.
Also, there seems to be a shortage of people willing to sacrifice for the greater good and an abundance of opportunists.
Also, there seems to be a shortage of people willing to sacrifice for the greater good and an abundance of opportunists.
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Interesting that homeowners in NY and CA saw their taxes go up, I didn't know that.
In terms of debating, Trump tore Hillary apart. Biden is kinda in the same situation being associated to Washington for so many years, and I feel people were, and still are, sick and tired of the Washington establishment. .
But Biden is obviously more likeable than Hillary and doesn't have as much dirt on him. He also has a specific story to tell which can play to people's emotions. If I¨m not mistaken he lost his first wife and child to a car accident. He also lost another son to cancer, who was in the army and served in Iraq.
I also read an interesting article regarding the Trump demographic. His supporters are mainly older white men without education. They have a far larger death rate than the Democrat demographic, who are typically young people or middle-aged people with education. In other words a bigger portion of Trump's voters have passed away since the last election than the Democrat's, which can be a factor in a tight election.
In terms of debating, Trump tore Hillary apart. Biden is kinda in the same situation being associated to Washington for so many years, and I feel people were, and still are, sick and tired of the Washington establishment. .
But Biden is obviously more likeable than Hillary and doesn't have as much dirt on him. He also has a specific story to tell which can play to people's emotions. If I¨m not mistaken he lost his first wife and child to a car accident. He also lost another son to cancer, who was in the army and served in Iraq.
I also read an interesting article regarding the Trump demographic. His supporters are mainly older white men without education. They have a far larger death rate than the Democrat demographic, who are typically young people or middle-aged people with education. In other words a bigger portion of Trump's voters have passed away since the last election than the Democrat's, which can be a factor in a tight election.
Wow... Lion with a fairly reasoned point. What's happened? 
Parents can be the worst. My cop brother points this out regularly given his district and what parents post on the district's Facebook page. I still crack up over the parents who demanded that his police department needed a detailed Scary Clown Police Intervention Plan back a few years ago.
I feel for you having to hang out with fellow nutjob parents.
Interesting... didn't know. Thanks for the heads-up.
Well, you could also argue the elite Democratic argument is the same. The NY Times had a great opinion piece about this recently:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/education-prejudice.html
I'm actually pretty hard pressed on this one too to come up with something handled worse in my memory. And here's the thing... it's made even more glaring because many other so-called "sh*thole" countries have managed it better. So the excuses are thin.
That said, I knew from February that this was going to be an American sh*tstorm, so I can't say I am surprised. At the end of February I got to ask questions on a Zoom call of Dr. Syra Madad, a special pathogens expert of the NYC Health and Hospitals who was featured in Netflix’s docu-series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak that came out in January.
I mentioned that the American broken patchwork of U.S. health insurance, lack of public health investments, and American social inequities might pose unique challenges to fighting off the virus. She gave me a trite answer saying that the CDC needed to empower other clinics across America to do a lot more tests, which we all knew were woefully inadequate at the time relative to other first world countries.
Epidemics and pandemics do hold up a mirror to the societies they infect. And how AIDS ravaged South Africa whereas how Uganda handled it really well was heavy on my mind at the time.
But unlike COVID, we don't have a lot of good comparisons of successful wars on drugs. The US really is out of excuses.
Do we really need to elect a debater? That why I want to put someone in office is because they can pretend they are on a high school debate team?
Debating, like conventions, are an anachronism of American politics for an era gone by.
Parents can be the worst. My cop brother points this out regularly given his district and what parents post on the district's Facebook page. I still crack up over the parents who demanded that his police department needed a detailed Scary Clown Police Intervention Plan back a few years ago.
I feel for you having to hang out with fellow nutjob parents.
Interesting... didn't know. Thanks for the heads-up.
Republican: Working poor deserve to be poor, have shit education, have no health care, etc. Boo hoo.
Same republican: Why are there so many lazy fucks who don’t want to work?
Same republican: Why are there so many lazy fucks who don’t want to work?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/education-prejudice.html
I'm actually pretty hard pressed on this one too to come up with something handled worse in my memory. And here's the thing... it's made even more glaring because many other so-called "sh*thole" countries have managed it better. So the excuses are thin.
That said, I knew from February that this was going to be an American sh*tstorm, so I can't say I am surprised. At the end of February I got to ask questions on a Zoom call of Dr. Syra Madad, a special pathogens expert of the NYC Health and Hospitals who was featured in Netflix’s docu-series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak that came out in January.
I mentioned that the American broken patchwork of U.S. health insurance, lack of public health investments, and American social inequities might pose unique challenges to fighting off the virus. She gave me a trite answer saying that the CDC needed to empower other clinics across America to do a lot more tests, which we all knew were woefully inadequate at the time relative to other first world countries.
Epidemics and pandemics do hold up a mirror to the societies they infect. And how AIDS ravaged South Africa whereas how Uganda handled it really well was heavy on my mind at the time.
But unlike COVID, we don't have a lot of good comparisons of successful wars on drugs. The US really is out of excuses.
Do we really need to elect a debater? That why I want to put someone in office is because they can pretend they are on a high school debate team?
Debating, like conventions, are an anachronism of American politics for an era gone by.
Wow... Lion with a fairly reasoned point. What's happened?
Parents can be the worst. My cop brother points this out regularly given his district and what parents post on the district's Facebook page. I still crack up over the parents who demanded that his police department needed a detailed Scary Clown Police Intervention Plan back a few years ago.
I feel for you having to hang out with fellow nutjob parents.
Parents can be the worst. My cop brother points this out regularly given his district and what parents post on the district's Facebook page. I still crack up over the parents who demanded that his police department needed a detailed Scary Clown Police Intervention Plan back a few years ago.
I feel for you having to hang out with fellow nutjob parents.
I will say, we knew this moment was coming for months now but I'm lucky enough to have a job that allows me to work form home so I can be here helping the kids. I can't get mad at the parents, I feel sorry for those not as fortunate.
I'm partly acting out of an awareness that we are now in a hyper-protective parenting culture where letting your kid walk to school earns a CPS call and you thrown in jail. The drama parent quotient just seems extremely high now. And all that is before COVID.
But also many parents are suffering with having to additionally turn their homes into charter schools too. That is cramping their ability to find and do work.
I'm curious how political attitudes in the US might change around day care with all of this. As soon as wealthier white parents start experiencing what less privileged families had to put up with for decades, often you see attitudes and policy start to shift.
A lot of parents are screwed by this, no doubt.
But also many parents are suffering with having to additionally turn their homes into charter schools too. That is cramping their ability to find and do work.
I'm curious how political attitudes in the US might change around day care with all of this. As soon as wealthier white parents start experiencing what less privileged families had to put up with for decades, often you see attitudes and policy start to shift.
A lot of parents are screwed by this, no doubt.
They are changing, I think a lot of people are fed up with what they feel is government overreach.
Look at the Pelosi fallout for getting her hair done. It's another "do as I say, not as I do" moment for her Party. I say her Party because good luck trying to blame the salon owner and see how normal people view the excuse. I think the political shift you're pondering is going to push people to the right, but that's Hustini being an Optimist
Look at the Pelosi fallout for getting her hair done. It's another "do as I say, not as I do" moment for her Party. I say her Party because good luck trying to blame the salon owner and see how normal people view the excuse. I think the political shift you're pondering is going to push people to the right, but that's Hustini being an Optimist
Trump doing more criminal traitor shit.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ny-trump-tells-nc-residents-vote-twice-openly
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ny-trump-tells-nc-residents-vote-twice-openly
I was actually wondering more if child care would be legitimized more as a national need for a modern functional economy. You seem to suggest that people will want to place more of the burden of child care on individuals as a personal choice... if I read that right. That will certainly add more crying moms on your Zoom calls.
Pelosi's hair is a red herring, and it's being played up because the Trump campaign doesn't have much of a surface to stick anything on given its own failures. It's a bit of the "Look, there goes Elvis!" defense. Because if you're voting for Pelosi's hair or Trump's refusal to wear a mask at all, I think you're missing the point.
If anything, there's only one campaign tactic I see working for Trump right now -- and it isn't Pelosi's hair. People will whine and moan about Lightfoot preventing marches in her Logan Square neighborhood or Ted Wheeler having to move, but both are smoke and mirrors about an individual who really means nothing to most people's lives anyway.
But playing up the natural inherent fear-mongering sensationalism of media coverage over racial protest marches and fighting in the streets is a great law and order play amplified by the media's own transgressions. Make the white people believe that blacks and browns and criminals and gunmen are coming for their suburban houses, and then you've got something that could work. The best thing Trump can do now is incite and provoke reactions to catch the responses on camera and position it as, "See, it's either this or me."
I can be cynical, but I am also a realist about human fears and emotions. The worst thing for Trump at this point would be for Biden to visit places like Kenosha and get the locals to stand down.
Look at the Pelosi fallout for getting her hair done. It's another "do as I say, not as I do" moment for her Party. I say her Party because good luck trying to blame the salon owner and see how normal people view the excuse. I think the political shift you're pondering is going to push people to the right, but that's Hustini being an Optimist
If anything, there's only one campaign tactic I see working for Trump right now -- and it isn't Pelosi's hair. People will whine and moan about Lightfoot preventing marches in her Logan Square neighborhood or Ted Wheeler having to move, but both are smoke and mirrors about an individual who really means nothing to most people's lives anyway.
But playing up the natural inherent fear-mongering sensationalism of media coverage over racial protest marches and fighting in the streets is a great law and order play amplified by the media's own transgressions. Make the white people believe that blacks and browns and criminals and gunmen are coming for their suburban houses, and then you've got something that could work. The best thing Trump can do now is incite and provoke reactions to catch the responses on camera and position it as, "See, it's either this or me."
I can be cynical, but I am also a realist about human fears and emotions. The worst thing for Trump at this point would be for Biden to visit places like Kenosha and get the locals to stand down.
They are changing, I think a lot of people are fed up with what they feel is government overreach.
Look at the Pelosi fallout for getting her hair done. It's another "do as I say, not as I do" moment for her Party. I say her Party because good luck trying to blame the salon owner and see how normal people view the excuse. I think the political shift you're pondering is going to push people to the right, but that's Hustini being an Optimist
Look at the Pelosi fallout for getting her hair done. It's another "do as I say, not as I do" moment for her Party. I say her Party because good luck trying to blame the salon owner and see how normal people view the excuse. I think the political shift you're pondering is going to push people to the right, but that's Hustini being an Optimist
There is no guarantee your mail-in-vote will even be counted and there is no warm and fuzzy feeling once you drop it in the mail-box like you get when you vote digitally in person the machine literally tells you that your vote has been counted.
Socially distance in line like you do at the grocery, at the restaurants, at the "salon", at the "protests"...if people can do all that they can vote in person on a machine. Keep the polling places open a day longer if need be. Mail-in-voting is going to be a catastrophe. We see it on smaller scales in local elections, imagine nationally.
Nothing he said is "traitor shit", I think you know that. He is trying to prevent people from voting multiple times that's what one of the potential issues with mail-in-voting is.
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Even the Attorney General knows its an issue but of course....he's just a puppet for Trump or a Trump stooge*
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Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but logic dictates the more moving parts, the more that can go wrong. Too many opportunities in the system with mail-in-voting that can be used to defraud/scam so I guess we should wait and see what kind of protocols big gov wants in place to help eliminate those issues if locations opt for mail-in-voting. Part of me is telling me that if the Dems/Repubs lose they will prolong, ask for a thousand recounts, refuse (again) they lost, etc. It won't end. It will be the next 4 year cycles RUSSIA issue.
Socially distance in line like you do at the grocery, at the restaurants, at the "salon", at the "protests"...if people can do all that they can vote in person on a machine. Keep the polling places open a day longer if need be. Mail-in-voting is going to be a catastrophe. We see it on smaller scales in local elections, imagine nationally.
Nothing he said is "traitor shit", I think you know that. He is trying to prevent people from voting multiple times that's what one of the potential issues with mail-in-voting is.
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Even the Attorney General knows its an issue but of course....he's just a puppet for Trump or a Trump stooge*
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Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but logic dictates the more moving parts, the more that can go wrong. Too many opportunities in the system with mail-in-voting that can be used to defraud/scam so I guess we should wait and see what kind of protocols big gov wants in place to help eliminate those issues if locations opt for mail-in-voting. Part of me is telling me that if the Dems/Repubs lose they will prolong, ask for a thousand recounts, refuse (again) they lost, etc. It won't end. It will be the next 4 year cycles RUSSIA issue.
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