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POTUS 45.21 STAND for our great National Anthem
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Re: POTUS 45.21 STAND for our great National Anthem
Promise you will never leave me, Onion.
Promise you will never leave me, Onion.
leswp1
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kid in my SS class today talking about his AP Gov class. They are supposed to discuss. He says 2/3 of class are spouting Infowars/Breibart stuff as fact and the teacher makes no effort to encourage fact checking, critical thinking at all. Not the stuff that could be opinion but things that are misinformation/proven to be false. Yikes. No wonder we have a whole generation of people who can't discern fact from fiction.
kid in my SS class today talking about his AP Gov class. They are supposed to discuss. He says 2/3 of class are spouting Infowars/Breibart stuff as fact and the teacher makes no effort to encourage fact checking, critical thinking at all. Not the stuff that could be opinion but things that are misinformation/proven to be false. Yikes. No wonder we have a whole generation of people who can't discern fact from fiction.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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I'm sure if the teacher fact-checked the parents would have him fired for "bias."
The actual political correctness in this country has always been public institutions bending over backwards to accommodate the idiocy of the reactionary right.
I'm sure if the teacher fact-checked the parents would have him fired for "bias."
The actual political correctness in this country has always been public institutions bending over backwards to accommodate the idiocy of the reactionary right.
leswp1
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I have started to become numb. There is nothing I can do other than be vocal. It is like watching a train that is heading for the cliff but you are too far away to stop it. This isn't the country I grew up in and it certainly isn't the country I want to have my kid be an adult in. I don't want to be an adult in it. In the last weeks there have been so many things that are wrong headed and embarrassing it is overwhelming. There are no issues left where we still hold the moral high ground on. Healthcare, care of the needy, the children, the poor, the elderly, the LGBTQ community, people of color, people who are refugees, women, (I know I am missing something) all have taken a hit in the last weeks. Color me niave but I never, ever, thought that one man could do so much to destroy the country's moral fabric while others watched or applauded. Esp those who claim they have Christian values. Pretty sure Jesus would have a conniption fit over their belief they are righteous. Part of me is glad the people who will suffer the most from the dismantling of the social net are the folks who are the most ignorant and are applauding the loudest but that feels kind of dirty. Their states already are at the bottom of the barrel for most measures.
I have started to become numb. There is nothing I can do other than be vocal. It is like watching a train that is heading for the cliff but you are too far away to stop it. This isn't the country I grew up in and it certainly isn't the country I want to have my kid be an adult in. I don't want to be an adult in it. In the last weeks there have been so many things that are wrong headed and embarrassing it is overwhelming. There are no issues left where we still hold the moral high ground on. Healthcare, care of the needy, the children, the poor, the elderly, the LGBTQ community, people of color, people who are refugees, women, (I know I am missing something) all have taken a hit in the last weeks. Color me niave but I never, ever, thought that one man could do so much to destroy the country's moral fabric while others watched or applauded. Esp those who claim they have Christian values. Pretty sure Jesus would have a conniption fit over their belief they are righteous. Part of me is glad the people who will suffer the most from the dismantling of the social net are the folks who are the most ignorant and are applauding the loudest but that feels kind of dirty. Their states already are at the bottom of the barrel for most measures.
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A big part of the reason I stopped following any organized religion is because much of the time, the followers (or the religion itself) contradicts their own beliefs. It's sick.
A big part of the reason I stopped following any organized religion is because much of the time, the followers (or the religion itself) contradicts their own beliefs. It's sick.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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With most things, when you organize a human activity you severely derp it down (political parties, philosophy clubs, book readings, poetry societies). Organized religion is the most glaring example.
With most things, when you organize a human activity you severely derp it down (political parties, philosophy clubs, book readings, poetry societies). Organized religion is the most glaring example.
It’s not one man, though. Trump is the visible, festering boil that was given rise to by a long-term underlying infection. The good news is that we can now lance that boil and treat the wound... or we can watch it turn gangrenous and kill the patient/country. I say we impeach and cleanse. In the long run it’ll be good.
WeAreNDHockey
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Read today that nine of the ten states that will see the most people negatively affected by trump's most recent attack on ObamaCare are states that went solidly for trump last November.
My first choice would be that no American suffer from the fact we elected the most dangerously unqualified president in our history. But since he is the most dangerously unqualified president we've ever had, people are going to suffer. So if that's the case I am gleefully happy that many of them, and in some cases most of them, will be the people who most loudly supported him. Bring them to me and I will laugh at them and point out their stupidity to them. The only way they are deserving of my sympathy is if they honestly admit they were wrong. And even then I'm not so sure because their votes put us in this place and all of the signs were there that a vote for trump was a vote for chaos and suffering.
Read today that nine of the ten states that will see the most people negatively affected by trump's most recent attack on ObamaCare are states that went solidly for trump last November.
My first choice would be that no American suffer from the fact we elected the most dangerously unqualified president in our history. But since he is the most dangerously unqualified president we've ever had, people are going to suffer. So if that's the case I am gleefully happy that many of them, and in some cases most of them, will be the people who most loudly supported him. Bring them to me and I will laugh at them and point out their stupidity to them. The only way they are deserving of my sympathy is if they honestly admit they were wrong. And even then I'm not so sure because their votes put us in this place and all of the signs were there that a vote for trump was a vote for chaos and suffering.
WeAreNDHockey
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For anyone who wondered if the republican base is not well on its way to being "trump-ified" there's this: Almost half of Republicans want war with North Korea, a new poll says. Those who say trump does not represent the real republican party should be finding it harder and harder to continue with that narrative. Of course trump supporters and republicans don't deal in fact and evidence, they deal in bluster, posturing and scare tactics.
My guess is we'll be in a shooting war with North Korea by the time the Mueller investigations get wrapped up. By then trump will have upped the number of republicans who support a preemptive strike to a sizeable majority and will use that to justify it. Hopefully every republican in congress who is complicit in this maniac being the person with his trigger on the nuclear button dies a slow and agonizing death, and in the afterlife they fry in hell for all eternity.
For anyone who wondered if the republican base is not well on its way to being "trump-ified" there's this: Almost half of Republicans want war with North Korea, a new poll says. Those who say trump does not represent the real republican party should be finding it harder and harder to continue with that narrative. Of course trump supporters and republicans don't deal in fact and evidence, they deal in bluster, posturing and scare tactics.
My guess is we'll be in a shooting war with North Korea by the time the Mueller investigations get wrapped up. By then trump will have upped the number of republicans who support a preemptive strike to a sizeable majority and will use that to justify it. Hopefully every republican in congress who is complicit in this maniac being the person with his trigger on the nuclear button dies a slow and agonizing death, and in the afterlife they fry in hell for all eternity.
rufus
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Problem is, when Cletus looks at his insurance policy he's now had because of the ACA, and now sees that it's gonna cost him 50% more to keep it, he's not gonna blame Trumpy. It will be "that lousy Obamacare that everyone knew is failing". And you know why? Cause Trumpy told him so.
As to the fact that the only reason it failed was because Trumpy sabotaged it to make it fail, he won't have a friggin' clue.
Problem is, when Cletus looks at his insurance policy he's now had because of the ACA, and now sees that it's gonna cost him 50% more to keep it, he's not gonna blame Trumpy. It will be "that lousy Obamacare that everyone knew is failing". And you know why? Cause Trumpy told him so.
As to the fact that the only reason it failed was because Trumpy sabotaged it to make it fail, he won't have a friggin' clue.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
With the possible exception of refugees, we have never held the moral high ground on any of those issues.
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Thing is, if there's a shooting war on the Korean peninsula, there will be millions dead in the first couple of days. Once people see that, especially if we shoot first, some may change their minds. That will be a lot of people. Given our trade with South Korea, that will have a pretty bad effect on our economy. Lots of things will instantly be in short supply and prices will jump really fast due to the shortage. That can't have any positive effect, ever.
Thing is, if there's a shooting war on the Korean peninsula, there will be millions dead in the first couple of days. Once people see that, especially if we shoot first, some may change their minds. That will be a lot of people. Given our trade with South Korea, that will have a pretty bad effect on our economy. Lots of things will instantly be in short supply and prices will jump really fast due to the shortage. That can't have any positive effect, ever.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
I'll either be out of work or dead, so I got that going for me.
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Do you really think Trump supporters care about dead Koreans?
Do you really think Trump supporters care about dead Koreans?
There are 30,000 US service members in SK, and a ton in Japan. However, I fear their deaths would only cause the Trumpies to double down on blowing up everything.
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Maybe not, but they will care about not getting the new Samsung to google and facebook their hate.
Maybe not, but they will care about not getting the new Samsung to google and facebook their hate.
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Even if we pull the trigger first, I agree they would think that firing back and defending themselves is offensive and horrible.
Even if we pull the trigger first, I agree they would think that firing back and defending themselves is offensive and horrible.
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Deutsche Gopher Fan
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I'm sure they'll think they can buy American!!!! At Walmart.
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