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Monday, June 28, 2021 6:27 AM

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From Inside U.S.A. (1947) by John Gunther:

“There is no valid reason why the American people cannot work out an evolution in which freedom and security are combined,” Gunther concludes. “In a curious way it is earlier, not later, than we think. The fact that a third of the nation is ill-housed and ill-fed is, in simple fact, not so much a dishonor as a challenge. What Americans have to do is enlarge the dimensions of the democratic process. This country is, I once heard it put, absolutely ‘lousy with greatness’ — with not only the greatest responsibilities but with the greatest opportunities ever known to man.”

The Committee for Kentucky, with a membership of 350,000, found, among many other things, that “42,000 Kentucky farms had no toilets or privies of any kind in 1940, and 97 percent of all farms have no toilets inside the house”; that “in one area a single doctor serves 11,500 people”; that “100,000 Kentuckians have syphilis”; that out of the 114,000 children who in 1932 had started first grade, not fewer than 100,000 had had to drop out by the end of high school; that “34 percent of all Kentucky farms are worth less than $300, only 25 percent have electricity and only 16 percent have telephones”; that the “average teacher’s salary is $1,014.”

The South came as a tremendous shock to Gunther. An “almost unbelievable figure is that 11 million Southerners have annual cash incomes of $250 or below. … The rural slums of the South are almost beyond doubt the most revolting in the nation.” As for the “dry” South, “never in Port Said, Shanghai or Marseilles have I seen the kind of drinking that goes on in Atlanta, Houston or Memphis every Saturday night — with officers in uniforms vomiting in hotel lobbies, 17-year-old girls screaming with hysteria in public elevators, men and women of the country club category being carried bodily off the dance floor by disinterested waiters.”

“There are do-nothing governors in the South today who are little more than nimble ferrets; some have as much spine as an Eskimo pie. Sprinkled through the South are soapy miscreants who want a war with Russia for the fun of it.” But “the South has a good many first-class liberals too. The notion that the area is a debauched hinterland occupied exclusively by reactionaries is as far from the truth as the notion that everything above the Mason and Dixon line is progressive.”

In a chapter called “Negro in the Woodpile,” Gunther acknowledges that “I had heard words like ‘discrimination’ and ‘prejudice’ all my life, but I had no concrete knowledge, no fingertip realization of what lies behind them. I knew that ‘segregation’ was a problem; I had no conception at all of the grim enormousness of the problem.”

“Atlanta is supposed to rank fairly high among Southern cities in its attitude toward Negroes, but it out-ghettoes anything I saw in a European ghetto, even in Warsaw. What I looked at was caste and untouchability — half the time I blinked remembering that this was not India.”

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210627052626/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/06/26/books/review/inside-usa-john-gunther.html

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Monday, June 28, 2021 6:52 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Second...

You're the Pirate King around these parts.

Any chance you can get me a PDF of the children's book Antiracist Baby?

Thanks bud.
I found the author's adult books:
https://libgen.unblockit.li/search.php?req=Ibram+X.+Kendi

The baby book version of the adult book is at:

Look Inside the book for free at
www.amazon.com/Antiracist-Baby-Picture-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0593110501/

You can buy it used for $1.51. Shipping is $3.99.

It rhymes:

"No one will see racism if we only stay silent.
If we don’t name racism,
it won’t stop being so violent."

Good enough poetry for a 4 year old.

The GOP’s Attacks on the “Woke” Military Recall Joe McCarthy’s Tactics
The Army has recently come under attack by congressional Republicans for committing the crime of being too “woke.” The prosecution’s exhibit A, waved at a House hearing last week, is a course taught at West Point—the Army’s military academy—called “The Politics of Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality.”

How strange it is that the slave owning Confederate leaders of the fight against the Union are more widely honored—with their names on federal forts, roads, barracks, gates, housing areas, etc.—than are those who fought for the country.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/military-woke-critical-rac
e-theory-milley.html

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Monday, June 28, 2021 9:39 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I would never actually read one of his books man. All I could find were his books made for grown up babies too.

Had something else in mind. It would be helpful to have a scanned version or a PDF for it.

Thanks anyway.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 6:57 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I would never actually read one of his books man. All I could find were his books made for grown up babies too.

Had something else in mind. It would be helpful to have a scanned version or a PDF for it.

Thanks anyway.
Your prejudice is showing. The GOP has exactly the same prejudice. Recently, a prominent right-wing media figure attacked Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declaring, “He’s not just a pig, he’s stupid.”

That was Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. What set Carlson off was testimony in which Milley told a congressional hearing that he considered it important “for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and widely read.”

The Milley hearing was part of the orchestrated furor over “critical race theory,” which has dominated right-wing media for the past few months, getting close to 2,000 mentions on Fox so far this year.

Those attacking critical race theory understand that it has something to do with assertions that America has a history of racism and of policies that explicitly or implicitly widened racial disparities.

And such assertions are unmistakably true. The 1938 underwriting manual for the Federal Housing Administration really did declare that “incompatible racial groups should not be permitted to live in the same communities.”

We can argue about the relevance of this history to current policy, but who would argue against acknowledging simple facts?

The modern right, that’s who. It’s only one of multiple subjects that become a litmus test for anyone hoping to succeed in Republican politics.

Thus, to be a Republican in good standing one must deny the reality of man-made climate change, or at least oppose any meaningful action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One must reject or at least express skepticism about the theory of evolution. And don’t even get me started on things like the efficacy of tax cuts.

What underlies this cross-disciplinary commitment? On each subject, refusing to acknowledge reality serves special interests. Climate denial caters to the fossil fuel industry; evolution denial caters to religious fundamentalists; tax-cut mysticism caters to billionaire donors.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210629023334/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/06/28/opinion/tucker-carlson-general-milley-republicans.html

https://i.imgur.com/cHamiag.jpeg

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 11:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I would never actually read one of his books man. All I could find were his books made for grown up babies too.

Had something else in mind. It would be helpful to have a scanned version or a PDF for it.

Thanks anyway.
Your prejudice is showing.


I don't read racist books written by racists.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 12:47 PM

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Remember When the US Presidency Was Gleefully Corrupt? This brings back memories:

In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, [Sonny] Perdue’s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in America....An examination of public records by The Washington Post has found that the agricultural company, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), sold the land at a small fraction of its estimated value just as it stood to benefit from a friendly secretary of agriculture.

Remember when Donald Trump was president and stories like this were almost weekly occurrences? And Republicans didn't care even slightly? Those were the days.

https://jabberwocking.com/remember-when-the-us-presidency-was-gleefull
y-corrupt/

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:38 AM

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We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries

Sort of like how the launch of Sputnik in 1957 led Americans to feel like their country was falling behind technologically, or how the results of international standardized tests in the 2000s led them to feel like their kids were falling behind educationally, the happiness rankings have subtly encouraged an anxiety fit for our era of self-optimization: that somewhere, other people are doing things that make them much happier than we are.

This disturbing thought has contributed to the rise of a genre of lifestyle content that aims to help unhappy Americans emulate the daily practices and philosophies of happier places, whether that means taking a dip in frigid water or making your living room super-cozy. Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings — that equitable, balanced societies make for happier residents. In the process, a research-heavy, policy-oriented document gets mistaken, through a terrible global game of telephone, for a trove of self-help advice.

The happiness rankings are a useful countervailing force in a world that tends to take GDP as a proxy for a country’s success. The lessons of the report are not shocking: People are more satisfied with their lives when they have a comfortable standard of living, a supportive social network, good health, the latitude to choose their course in life, and a government they trust. The highest echelon of happy countries also tends to have universal health care, ample paid vacation time, and affordable child care.

A central takeaway from nine years of happiness reports is that a wealthier country is not always a happier country. In the U.S., “we are living with such incredibly frayed social trust and bad vibes and addictions and so many other things, and still people say ‘Don't tax me,’ ‘Don’t tax the rich,’” Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University and an editor of the report, told me. “This is part of our politics that I think is all wrong, and that I think is what puts us well behind countries that are not quite as rich as the United States but in my view are much more balanced in their lives.”

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210629070921if_/https://www.theatlantic.
com/family/archive/2021/06/worlds-happiest-countries-denmark-finland-norway/619299/

https://i.imgur.com/boQTPQZ.jpeg

As a Dutchman, I get universal health care, excellent roads, good public transport, and easily accessible high quality education.
As an American, you get to dream that you too will be rich some day.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 8:52 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Remember When the US Presidency Was Gleefully Corrupt? This brings back memories:

In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, [Sonny] Perdue’s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in America....An examination of public records by The Washington Post has found that the agricultural company, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), sold the land at a small fraction of its estimated value just as it stood to benefit from a friendly secretary of agriculture.

Remember when Donald Trump was president and stories like this were almost weekly occurrences? And Republicans didn't care even slightly? Those were the days.

https://jabberwocking.com/remember-when-the-us-presidency-was-gleefull
y-corrupt/

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We don't hear about the corruption happening now because the corrupt media is in love with the current corruption.

Turns out that's not good for the bottom line though since only 29% of Americans now trust the media and their ratings have never been lower.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 8:53 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries

As a Dutchman, I get universal health care, excellent roads, good public transport, and easily accessible high quality education.
As an American, you get to dream that you too will be rich some day.


I don't want to hear you talking about my money with me again.



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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:53 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Remember When the US Presidency Was Gleefully Corrupt? This brings back memories:
https://jabberwocking.com/remember-when-the-us-presidency-was-gleefull
y-corrupt/
We don't hear about the corruption happening now because the corrupt media is in love with the current corruption.

Turns out that's not good for the bottom line though since only 29% of Americans now trust the media and their ratings have never been lower.
Fox News did not cover Trump administration corruption because it did not want to. Fox News wants to cover Biden administration corruption, but is not for a different reason.

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 6:44 AM

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Farewell to Donald Rumsfeld

Rumsfeld survived Watergate to serve in the next administration as President Gerald Ford’s chief of staff, with Dick Cheney as his deputy. Then, at age 43, he was named secretary of defense — for the first time. One of Rumsfeld’s most notable actions was his participation in the creation and promotion of “Team B,” a special CIA project to challenge the agency’s estimates of Soviet strength.

Filled with hard-right ideologues, Team B predictably came to conclusions that were wildly alarmist and largely fantasy: The Soviet economy was growing at a blistering pace, as were its weapons systems, and it was poised to strike the West at any moment. Rumsfeld himself later said, “One of the most significant events in my adult life has been the massive shift in power away from the United States to the Soviet Union.” The intellectual integrity of Team B and its ethos can be judged by the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed and disappeared in 1991.

Rumsfeld returned to the Defense Department with the election of President George W. Bush. With many of the Team B personnel back in power, it should have been expected that the case for war with Iraq would consist of similar delirious falsehoods — and it did. Rumsfeld himself lied in a particularly jarring way in a late 2002 interview:

“The only way Iraqi weapons of mass destruction will ever be found, in my view, effectively is if you find people who have been involved in it who are willing to come and talk to you about it, and tell you where they are. The last time the inspectors were in, that’s how it happened. Two sons-in-laws of Saddam Hussein defected, went into Jordan, and the word came out and they told where these inspectors could go look, they went and looked, and they found weapons of mass destruction.”

In reality, two sons-in-law of Saddam did in fact defect to Jordan in 1995. Soon afterward, Iraq turned over a hidden cache of documents about its 1980s WMD programs — but no actual weapons. And one of the Iraqis, Hussein Kamel, who’d run the programs for his father-in-law, specifically said to the United Nations, the CIA, and even on CNN that Iraq no longer had any WMDs. This, of course, turned out to be completely true. Thus the lesson of Rumsfeld’s tale was exactly the opposite of what he claimed: Iraq could successfully hide pieces of paper from inspectors, but that was it.

Later, in Rumsfeld’s memoir “Known and Unknown,” he would claim that the U.S. was effectively right about the WMD issue. John Nixon, a CIA analyst who interrogated Saddam after he was captured, has said he was motivated by the “gibberish” in books like Rumsfeld’s to write his own to set the record straight.

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/06/30/donald-rumsfeld-death-iraq-war/

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 7:10 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Too bad there's (probably) no hell.

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:26 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Remember When the US Presidency Was Gleefully Corrupt? This brings back memories:
https://jabberwocking.com/remember-when-the-us-presidency-was-gleefull
y-corrupt/
We don't hear about the corruption happening now because the corrupt media is in love with the current corruption.

Turns out that's not good for the bottom line though since only 29% of Americans now trust the media and their ratings have never been lower.
Fox News did not cover Trump administration corruption because it did not want to. Fox News wants to cover Biden administration corruption, but is not for a different reason.



What's your point? I don't care about Fox. I don't watch Fox.

In a country where 90% of the media lies the same lies about everything, there's always going to be somebody else lying different lies about everything.

None of them are trustworthy, and I've said that any time that it's come up before.

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:27 AM

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Too bad there's (probably) no hell.


Makes you hope though, dunnit'?

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Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Go NYC! In a time where trust in America's elections are at an all time low, you go right ahead and fuck up a major election that only has relevance to Democrats who are more likely to still have faith in the election system after mail-in fraud ballots were fraud.



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Thursday, July 1, 2021 1:55 PM

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Too bad there's (probably) no hell.
Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t thrown out of polite society so why would he be punished in the afterlife?

Rumsfeld's Iraq War was wildly popular in 2003 among Republicans and enjoyed majority support even among Democrats. In all, 72% of the country was in favor of the war. Rumsfeld's torturing of prisoners was popular, too. Fundamentally, both the Iraq War and the torture of prisoners was popular. Given that, it makes sense that Rumsfeld was popular and won't be tortured in the afterlife. (The assumption is that typical Americans don't deserve punishment in the afterlife for what they do and believe. That assumption might be incorrect and God will torture them in the same ways as Rumsfeld tortured prisoners.)

Statistics about Donald Rumsfeld from
https://jabberwocking.com/heres-why-donald-rumsfeld-wasnt-thrown-out-o
f-polite-society/



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Friday, July 2, 2021 6:36 AM

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Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

As bailouts have prevented full-scale market crashes—and thereby allowed market speculators to escape the full consequences of their excesses—financial institutions and market trading have, accordingly, grown exponentially under neoliberalism. For example, as of 1980, stock market trading in U.S. markets was double what corporations spent on productive investments, such as machines, buildings, land, and R&D. As of 2019 U.S. stock market trading had ballooned to 30 times the amount spent on productive investments. In other words, the ratio of stock market trading to productive investments has increased fifteen-fold in the neoliberal era.

Bailout operations have occurred with clockwork regularity throughout the neoliberal era, beginning with Reagan. In 1983, under Reagan, the U.S. government reached a then-peacetime high for federal deficit spending, 5.7 percent of GDP. At the time, the U.S. and global economy were still mired in the second phase of the double-dip recession that lasted from 1980 to 1982, while Reagan faced a re-election campaign for 1984. Of course, both as a political candidate and throughout his presidency, Reagan preached that big government was the problem, not the solution. Yet Reagan did not hesitate to flout his own rhetoric in overseeing a massive fiscal bailout when he needed it.

After the 1983 bailout, we then saw global stock market prices fall even more sharply than in 1929, on Black Monday in October 1987; the savings-and-loan crisis in 1989 and 90; the “emerging markets” collapse of 1997–1998; and the bursting of the dot-com Wall Street bubble in 2001. Each of these would have easily produced a 1930s-style meltdown without full-scale government bailout operations.

The 2001 intervention ended up being just a warmup to the 2008–09 rescue operation. Defenders of the global neoliberal order apparently seeing no contradiction between the persistent requirement to bail out neoliberalism from impending disasters and their bedrock belief that “trying to defy global market forces is in the end futile.”

A careful 2017 study by Better Markets estimated the overall level of financial market support between 2009 and 2012 at $12.2 trillion, about 20 percent of GDP per year. Moreover, this total figure does not include the full funding mobilized in 2009 to bail out General Motors, Chrysler, Goldman Sachs, and the insurance giant AIG—all of which were facing death spirals at that time. It is hard to envision the form in which U.S. capitalism might have survived at that time if, following true free market precepts as opposed to the actual practice of neoliberal champagne socialism, these and other iconic U.S. firms would have been permitted to collapse.

Together the CARES and COVID Relief Acts amounted to about 14 percent of U.S. GDP in 2020, an unprecedented expansion of federal government deficit spending in peacetime. Yet these massive stimulus measures were exceeded by nearly $4 trillion spent on Federal Reserve interventions—nearly 20 percent of U.S. GDP—to ensure Wall Street stayed afloat.

Financial crises and recessions serve a purpose in the operations of a free-market economy, even while they wreak havoc on the lives of hundreds of millions of innocents who never invest a dime on Wall Street. Without crises, a free-market economy has no way of discouraging investors’ natural proclivities toward greater risks in pursuit of higher profits.

In the wake of the Great Depression, the British economist John Maynard Keynes led the intellectual revolution that aimed to design a policy framework within capitalism that could supplant financial crises as the system’s built-in regulator. This was the context in which the post-World War II system of big-government capitalism was created. The package included two basic elements: regulations designed to limit speculation and channel financial resources into socially useful investments, such as affordable housing.

Even during the New Deal years and the initial post-World War II period, financial market titans around the world fought vehemently to eliminate, or at least defang, the regulations. By the 1970s almost all politicians—Democrats and Republicans alike—had become compliant. The regulations were initially weakened, then abolished.

The consequences were predictable.

Read about the consequences of abolishing financial regulations at
https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/robert-pollin-gerald-epstein
-neoliberalism%E2%80%99s-bailout-problem

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Friday, July 2, 2021 8:25 AM

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Too bad there's (probably) no hell.
Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t thrown out of polite society so why would he be punished in the afterlife?


Murdering babies is legal.

If there is a god, something tells me that he doesn't need money from rich donors when he makes his judgements.

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Friday, July 2, 2021 8:37 AM

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Insane diversity hire Chicago Mayor Blackface Beatlejuice comes out saying that 99% of her critics are racists and sexists.

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Too bad there's (probably) no hell.
Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t thrown out of polite society so why would he be punished in the afterlife?


Murdering babies is legal.

If there is a god, something tells me that he doesn't need money from rich donors when he makes his judgements.
You know what else is legal? If Satan did not give life to infectious diseases, that leaves God to have sent those diseases to kill billions of babies. Assuming God takes responsibility for what He does, since Satan didn't do it, God has some explaining to do about why He created diseases in His lab and released the diseases to murder babies.

On the other hand, if Satan gave life to childhood diseases, God must take responsibility for Satan's crime wave of infant murder. Perhaps God is squeamish about executing Satan and thus stopping future infant deaths? Since God's Word is Law, it must be perfectly legal and highly moral for God to not stop Satan's crime wave of infanticide. Why expect people to be more legal and moral than their God?

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Friday, July 2, 2021 10:17 PM

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Too bad there's (probably) no hell.
Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t thrown out of polite society so why would he be punished in the afterlife?


Murdering babies is legal.

If there is a god, something tells me that he doesn't need money from rich donors when he makes his judgements.
You know what else is legal? If Satan did not give life to infectious diseases, that leaves God to have sent those diseases to kill billions of babies. Assuming God takes responsibility for what He does, since Satan didn't do it, God has some explaining to do about why He created diseases in His lab and released the diseases to murder babies.

On the other hand, if Satan gave life to childhood diseases, God must take responsibility for Satan's crime wave of infant murder. Perhaps God is squeamish about executing Satan and thus stopping future infant deaths? Since God's Word is Law, it must be perfectly legal and highly moral for God to not stop Satan's crime wave of infanticide. Why expect people to be more legal and moral than their God?

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I'll take your word for it Looney Tunes.

I haven't brushed up on my Fable Law.

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I'll take your word for it Looney Tunes.

I haven't brushed up on my Fable Law.
What do you feel about H-bombs? Is America safer with more H-bombs? Or do H-bombs blowback, if you realize that the radioactive fallout from 100 American H-bombs dropped on Russia/China would kill millions of Americans, thousands of miles away, back in America?
www.google.com/search?q=radioactive+fallout+deaths

“The support of the nuclear triad is embedded in the minds of Congress,” warned Rep. John Garamendi, a moderate Democrat from California who chairs the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness. “Very, very few are willing to question, let alone vote to reduce, or to address, or to modify, or to even say, ‘Do we really need a nuclear triad?’ There are very few of us that would be willing to take up that argument. However, I believe we must.”

The Pentagon is hell-bent on securing funds to develop a brand new suite of nuclear weapons to replace its Cold War-era arsenal, with the federal government projecting expenditures of $190 billion through 2030 to modernize powerful missiles, warheads, bombers, and submarines originally conceived at the height of a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. The few Democrats who stand opposed to the nuclear spending frenzy have so far struggled to drum up support with their colleagues on Capitol Hill.

The Defense Department has already awarded Northrop Grumman the contract to build 600 new Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) ICBMs to replace its 450 1960s-era Minuteman III missiles, which make up one-third of the military’s nuclear triad. (Under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, only 400 ICBMs can be on alert at a given time. President Joe Biden has extended the agreement until 2026, when it will have to be extended again to apply to GBSD.) With costs estimated at more than $80 billion through 2030 and $260 billion over a 50-year life cycle, GBSD is one of the most expensive weapons in U.S. military history.

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/07/01/nuclear-weapons-pentagon-spending/

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Sunday, July 4, 2021 10:37 AM

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I'll take your word for it Looney Tunes.

I haven't brushed up on my Fable Law.
What do you feel about H-bombs? Is America safer with more H-bombs? Or do H-bombs blowback, if you realize that the radioactive fallout from 100 American H-bombs dropped on Russia/China would kill millions of Americans, thousands of miles away, back in America?


I'm fine with it. Because 100 Chinese/Russian H-Bombs dropped on America would kill millions of Chinese/Russians, thousands of miles away, back in China/Russia.

I'm not afraid of a nuclear threat from China/Russia. They are not suicidal.


We've got to stop pretending that Muslims aren't though. No Muslim nation should have access to any nuclear capabilities.

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I'll take your word for it Looney Tunes.

I haven't brushed up on my Fable Law.
What do you feel about H-bombs? Is America safer with more H-bombs? Or do H-bombs blowback, if you realize that the radioactive fallout from 100 American H-bombs dropped on Russia/China would kill millions of Americans, thousands of miles away, back in America?


I'm fine with it. Because 100 Chinese/Russian H-Bombs dropped on America would kill millions of Chinese/Russians, thousands of miles away, back in China/Russia.

I'm not afraid of a nuclear threat from China/Russia. They are not suicidal.


We've got to stop pretending that Muslims aren't though. No Muslim nation should have access to any nuclear capabilities.
I see that you are not understanding that American money spent on more and better H-bombs is money wasted because it's stupid to explode either brand-new design nukes or old-fashion design nukes on Earth. At least 340,000 Americans died from radioactive fallout between 1951 and 1973. Specifically, between 340,000 and 690,000 Americans died from radioactive fallout from 1951 to 1973.
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/new-estimate-deaths-from
-us-nuclear-tests

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Sunday, July 4, 2021 11:51 AM

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I'll take your word for it Looney Tunes.

I haven't brushed up on my Fable Law.
What do you feel about H-bombs? Is America safer with more H-bombs? Or do H-bombs blowback, if you realize that the radioactive fallout from 100 American H-bombs dropped on Russia/China would kill millions of Americans, thousands of miles away, back in America?


I'm fine with it. Because 100 Chinese/Russian H-Bombs dropped on America would kill millions of Chinese/Russians, thousands of miles away, back in China/Russia.

I'm not afraid of a nuclear threat from China/Russia. They are not suicidal.


We've got to stop pretending that Muslims aren't though. No Muslim nation should have access to any nuclear capabilities.
I see that you are not understanding that American money spent on more and better H-bombs is money wasted because it's stupid to explode either brand-new design nukes or old-fashion design nukes on Earth.


I see that you're shifting the goal posts of the conversation again like you always do.

This is why I don't regularly converse with retards.

Have a nice day.



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America has never had a particularly settled commitment to democratic, rational government. At a high point of national prosperity, long before manufacturing fell away or economic anxiety gripped the Middle West, a set of paranoid beliefs filled American minds and came perilously close to taking power. A sizable group of people believed things as fully fantastical as the Trumpite belief in voting machines rerouted by dead Venezuelan socialists. The intellectual forces behind Goldwater’s sudden rise thought that Presidents Eisenhower and J.F.K. were agents, wittingly or otherwise, of the Communist conspiracy, and that American democracy was in a death match with enemies within as much as without. (Goldwater was, political genealogists will note, a ferocious admirer and defender of Joe McCarthy, whose counsel in all things conspiratorial was Roy Cohn, Donald Trump’s mentor.)

Goldwater was a less personally malevolent figure than Trump, and, yes, he lost his 1964 Presidential bid. But, in sweeping the Deep South, he set a victorious neo-Confederate pattern for the next four decades of American politics, including the so-called Reagan revolution. Nor were his forces naively libertarian. At the time, Goldwater’s ghostwriter Brent Bozell spoke approvingly of Franco’s post-Fascist Spain as spiritually far superior to decadent America, much as the highbrow Trumpites talk of the Christian regimes of Putin and Orbán.

Trump embraced division and racial discord, railed against a “deep state” within his own government, praised autocrats and attacked allies, politicized the administration of justice, monetized the Presidency for himself and his children, and presided over a tumultuous, turnover-ridden Administration via impulsive tweets. He left office with the lowest average approval ratings in the history of the modern Presidency. Trump became the first incumbent seeking reelection to see his party lose the White House, Senate, and the House of Representatives since Herbert Hoover, in 1932. A liar on an unprecedented scale, Trump made more than thirty thousand false statements in the course of his Presidency, culminating in perhaps the biggest lie of all: that he won an election that he decisively lost.

Yet those who identify themselves as Republicans continue to embrace Trump and the conspiracy theories about his defeat that the departing President has spread to explain his loss. This, more than anything, might have been the most surprising thing about Trump’s tenure: his ability to turn one of America’s two political parties into a cult of personality organized around a repeatedly bankrupt New York real-estate developer. And so we are ending these four years having learned that there are millions of Americans who were willing to overthrow our constitutional system in order to keep him in power, who would follow Trump’s dark lies rather than acknowledge unwelcome truths.

As Trump became less constrained by successive waves of White House advisers, he was correspondingly more and more outrageous, untruthful, and unmoored from reality. His sense of grievance and victimization escalated; so, too, did his threats, name-calling, and public provocations. He fired the F.B.I. director, a Secretary of State, an Attorney General, a Defense Secretary, three White House chiefs of staff, and two—or three, depending on whose account you believe—national-security advisers. He pardoned war criminals and boasted of complete and total vindication in the Mueller investigation, even though it offered no such thing. He forced the longest government shutdown in history when Congress would not fund his border wall—all while continuing to claim that Mexico would pay for it.

Trump still won 47 percent of the vote and carried 25 states. The trench lines of identity-based grievance he spent five years digging and deepening — pitting rural voters against urban ones, working-class voters against voters with college degrees, white voters against everybody else — saved him from an overwhelming repudiation.

More at www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/what-we-get-wrong-about-americas
-crisis-of-democracy and www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/obituary-for-a-fa
iled-presidency

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Monday, July 5, 2021 9:31 AM

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Trump won the election. Democrats cheated. Mail-in fraud election was fraud.

That's alright. He'll win again in 2024.

In the meantime, even the Legacy Media has had to stop blowing Biden* every day. Now the real game begins.



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Trump won the election. Democrats cheated. Mail-in fraud election was fraud.

That's alright. He'll win again in 2024.
A Violent Assault Encouraged by Trump:

"These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long." -- Trump, 6:01 P.M., Jan. 6, 2021
www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-protesters-to-go-home-maintaining
-that-the-election-was-stolen-amid-violence-at-the-capitol

Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol



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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 6:56 AM

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QAnon Shaman’s lawyer says all Americans are to be blamed for 6 Jan violence
tenor.com


https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/qanon-shaman-lawyer-sa
ys-all-americans-had-a-role-in-u-s-capitol-riot

Lawyer for 'Q Shaman' asked a judge to release him from jail, insisting his spear wasn't a danger to anyone

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lawyer-q-shaman-asked-judge-214508998.html

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QAnon Shaman’s lawyer says all Americans are to be blamed for 6 Jan violence.
That sounds like what a politician would say. Now that Trump no longer has use for V.P. Mike Pence because Pence was disloyal and didn't certify Trump as President on Jan. 6th, Trump's running mate in 2024 could be either QAnon Shaman or the Shaman's lawyer.

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If you want to fix climate change, you need to fix this flaw in conventional economic thought

The flaw is reflected in benefit-cost analyses of cutting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The traditional thinking suggests a go-slow path for cutting CO2. The logic seems compelling: the cost of damage caused by climate change, after all, is incurred in the future, while the costs of climate action occur today. The Nobel Prize-winning verdict is that we should delay necessary investment in a low-carbon economy to avoid hurting the current high-carbon economy.

But this conventional logic calls for significantly more climate action now, because the costs are often overestimated while the potential (even if uncertain) benefits are underestimated.

Recent pronouncements by the International Monetary Fund and the International Energy Agency are nothing short of revolutionary. Both institutions have now concluded that ambitious climate action leads to higher growth and more jobs even in the near term.

The logic is straightforward: climate policies create many more jobs in clean-energy sectors than are lost in fossil-fuel sectors. The proposal for a $2 trillion infrastructure package in the United States could be expected to spur higher net economic activity and employment. https://bloom.bg/3sFzDS9

The standard economic models have been used to reject policies that would have helped turn the tide many years ago, back when the climate crisis still could have been addressed with marginal changes to the existing economic system. Now, we no longer have the luxury of being able to settle for incremental change.

The framework of neoclassical economics is still blocking progress. The discipline is long overdue for its own tipping point toward new modes of thinking commensurate with the climate challenge.

More at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-you-want-to-fix-climate-change-yo
u-need-to-fix-this-flaw-in-conventional-economic-thought-11625681698
or
https://web.archive.org/web/20210708015152/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/if-you-want-to-fix-climate-change-you-need-to-fix-this-flaw-in-conventional-economic-thought-11625681698

Republican Senator says climate change is bullshit. No economist will be changing that Senator’s votes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210707185505/https://www.marketwatch.com
/story/sen-ron-johnson-mouths-to-republican-luncheon-that-climate-change-is-bullsh-t-11625681957

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Thursday, July 8, 2021 8:16 AM

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QAnon Shaman’s lawyer says all Americans are to be blamed for 6 Jan violence.
That sounds like what a politician would say. Now that Trump no longer has use for V.P. Mike Pence because Pence was disloyal and didn't certify Trump as President on Jan. 6th, Trump's running mate in 2024 could be either QAnon Shaman or the Shaman's lawyer.


My vote is for Candice Owens.

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What are Republicans up to these days?

Refusing to investigate the deadly insurrection of January 6 because it might make Donald Trump look bad.

Refusing to increase funding for the IRS because that might force rich people to pay the taxes they actually owe.

Claiming without evidence that the NSA is spying on Tucker Carlson.

Whining that Facebook hates them, despite voluminous evidence to the contrary.

Declining to persuade their fellow conservatives to get vaccinated.

Passing laws that allow Republicans to replace election officials who are insufficiently loyal to the party.

Complaining endlessly about critical race theory, despite the fact that they still haven't produced much evidence about how racism is actually taught in American classrooms.

Pretending to negotiate over infrastructure funding.

Missing from this list is anything aimed at actually making the country any better off than it is now. It's all just political theater. I hope they're proud of themselves.

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Friday, July 9, 2021 8:38 AM

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Sure. Pretend that none of that is going on.

Don't complain when 2022 is a bloodbath for Democrats.

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



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What Republicans are up to these days?
Is that bad English, or what?

I stopped being a holdout for strictly grammatical English years after the NYTimes gave up on formal grammar. But one's English needs to at least make sense.

Of course, there's always the chance that it's not poor English that's at fault in that statement. It could be that the English is an accurate reflection of scrambled thinking, and so, it's actually a fractured mind at fault.

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Quote:
What Republicans are up to these days?
Is that bad English, or what?

I stopped being a holdout for strictly grammatical English years after the NYTimes gave up on formal grammar. But one's English needs to at least make sense.

Of course, there's always the chance that it's not poor English that's at fault in that statement. It could be that the English is an accurate reflection of scrambled thinking, and so, it's actually a fractured mind at fault.
Is this another of your "I fixed it for you" comments? Just asking because the original doesn't say what you say it says. While you are at, tell me about the Republicans' goals? The Democrats have an extensive list of goals, while Republican Party resolved to have no goals, which you can easily read because it is only one page: https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020

https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

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Friday, July 9, 2021 11:42 AM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



I quoted you directly, without altering anything.

And you went back and changed your original post because frankly, it made you look at least stupid, if not a bit insane. And then you lied about it, which makes you look even worse.

Whatever.

That's on you.





SLOPPY - why do you never start any threads of your own but instead spend 100% of your time shitting up everyone else's? Is it because you really have NOTHING you want to discuss and are only here to troll?

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I quoted you directly, without altering anything.

And you went back and changed your original post because frankly, it made you look at least stupid, if not a bit insane. And then you lied about it, which makes you look even worse.

Whatever.

That's on you.
Would you happen to be Catholic? Rev. James Altman has an inspiring YouTube video for you, whether Catholic or not:

"Their (Democratic) party platform is absolutely against everything the Catholic Church teaches."

"You repent for your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of Hell."

Rev. James Altman has claimed the moral high ground, 1kiki, as you have, over and over and over and . . . .



Whatever happened to the marvelous Priest who tells it like it is? His Bishop spoke to him:

“(The bishop) and his diocesan representatives have spent over a year, prayerfully and fraternally, working toward a resolution related to ongoing public and ecclesial concerns of the ministry of Fr. James Altman,” the statement said. “The obligation of a Bishop is to ensure that all who serve the faithful are able to do so while unifying and building the Body of Christ.”

More at https://madison.com/news/state-regional/wisconsin-bishop-takes-rare-st
ep-of-removing-defiant-priest/article_94698475-563f-5c5b-9ac7-ff1c5c2b5334.html

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Friday, July 9, 2021 10:50 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I quoted you directly, without altering anything.

And you went back and changed your original post because frankly, it made you look at least stupid, if not a bit insane. And then you lied about it, which makes you look even worse.

Whatever.

That's on you.


That's why if you really want to save anything Second posts you need to archive it. He likes going back and changing things all the time.

I'm assuming that since this is just more of him spewing his daily bullshit that you didn't feel the need to archive it though.



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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 9:22 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

That's why if you really want to save anything Second posts you need to archive it. He likes going back and changing things all the time.

I'm assuming that since this is just more of him spewing his daily bullshit that you didn't feel the need to archive it though.
I'm saving this. Trump is calling for RINO election officials to award the next election to Republicans, even when the Republican loses.
Quote:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-o
f-the-united-states-of-america-07.05.21

07/05/21

Seeing the record crowds of over 45,000 people in Ohio and Florida, waiting for days, standing in the pouring rain, they come from near and far. All they want is HOPE for their Great Country again. Their arms are outstretched, they cry over the Rigged Election—and the RINOs have no idea what this movement is all about. In fact, they are perhaps our biggest problem. We will never save our Country or be great again unless Republicans get TOUGH and get SMART!
With Trump, "get TOUGH and get SMART!" means cheat. He said the same about paying his taxes. Rather, not paying was SMART.

"President Trump paid no income taxes for 10 of the 15 years before he was elected president, and just $750 a year in 2016 and 2017"

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, said the Times' findings "reveal absolutely staggering theft by Trump before and while he has been in office," and that "Trump must release his tax returns as is longstanding practice and is required by law to Congress instead of grandstanding and attacking the media."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/518510-trump-paid-no-incom
e-taxes-for-10-of-past-15-years-report


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Saturday, July 10, 2021 9:36 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I'm saving this. Trump is calling for RINO election officials to award the next election to Republicans, even when the Republican loses.


You don't have to declare to anybody when you're spouting bullshit dude.

That is already assumed whenever you make a post.



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Saturday, July 10, 2021 9:38 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, said the Times' findings "reveal absolutely staggering theft by Trump before and while he has been in office," and that "Trump must release his tax returns as is longstanding practice and is required by law to Congress instead of grandstanding and attacking the media."


Nope. Not a law. That's another Democrat/Media lie.



P.S. The IRS already knows what is in his tax returns.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 10:24 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, said the Times' findings "reveal absolutely staggering theft by Trump before and while he has been in office," and that "Trump must release his tax returns as is longstanding practice and is required by law to Congress instead of grandstanding and attacking the media."


Nope. Not a law. That's another Democrat/Media lie.



P.S. The IRS already knows what is in his tax returns.
Like every Trumptard I know, you know far less about the law than you think you do.

The new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has pledged to conduct the kind of vigorous oversight of the executive branch that has been lacking for the past two years. As part of that oversight agenda, House leaders have said that they intend to invoke their authority under the law to obtain Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to review them. Trump’s Treasury Department is threatening to withhold the returns from Congress and take the issue to the courts, where his team reportedly hopes to bog down the request in a “quagmire of arcane legal arguments.”1 But the law could not be clearer: Congress’ tax committees have the authority to obtain Trump’s tax returns on request—and the U.S. Treasury Department has no basis for refusing. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin would be violating the law if he directs the IRS to stonewall Congress.
www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/04/01/468048/pres
ident-trump-cannot-hide-tax-returns-congress/

For the rest of his life Trump will talk about Democrats being Commies overthrowing America, same as Herbert Hoover ranted FOR 30 YEARS after losing to FDR, but he is dead history. Why hasn't the IRS given Trump's tax returns to Congress?

The Biden administration must decide how to handle House Democrats’ request for former President Trump’s tax returns. However, the Biden administration will not want to look like they’re too politicized in this. It’s a delicate situation for Biden because acknowledging Congress’s authority here weakens the power of the presidency.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/541317-biden-cautious-in-making-tru
mp-tax-returns-decision

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 10:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Fuck you Second. You don't know shit.

Trump, or any other presidential candidate, is under no obligation to ever release their taxes to the people so morons like you can look at them.

You're conflating issues again.

Go try that with somebody as stupid as you are. I'm sure Ted will love talking with you about it. He loves being wrong all the time.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 10:39 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fuck you Second. You don't know shit.

Trump, or any other presidential candidate, is under no obligation to ever release their taxes to the people so morons like you can look at them.

You're conflating issues again.

Go try that with somebody as stupid as you are. I'm sure Ted will love talking with you about it. He loves being wrong all the time.
I know Trumptards. They won't tell the truth or keep promises when they see some advantage to lie and cheat, especially when there is no enforcement. In that, Trump is no different than the average Texas Trumptard. Trumptards get really loud and upset when accused of lying and cheating. The only thing that will quiet and remind them to be slightly honest is being in a courtroom testifying under penalty of perjury. Even then the Trumptards try to mislead, but careful cross-examination by a hostile attorney will draw a little more truth from them.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 11:01 AM

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You don't know Trumptards because you don't know anything about yourself, Trumptard.

You work on you. Then when you feel like you're sufficiently fixed, you can start working on your broken party.



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Saturday, July 10, 2021 12:56 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You don't know Trumptards because you don't know anything about yourself, Trumptard.

You work on you. Then when you feel like you're sufficiently fixed, you can start working on your broken party.
You've claimed to not be a Republican. Ha-ha! You never claimed to be Christian, either, so I expect you will falsely claim this article is not about you, but it is:

The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It.

The movement is dangerous in decline. If they can’t own the country, they’re ready to defile it.

On Thursday, the Public Religion Research Institute (P.R.R.I.) released startling new polling data showing just how much ground the religious right has lost. P.R.R.I.’s 2020 Census of American Religion, based on a survey of nearly half a million people, shows a precipitous decline in the share of the population identifying as white evangelical, from 23 percent in 2006 to 14.5 percent last year.

In addition to shrinking as a share of the population, white evangelicals were also the oldest religious group in the United States, with a median age of 56. “It’s not just that they are dying off, but it is that they’re losing younger members,” Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the P.R.R.I. told me. As the group has become older and smaller, Jones said, “a real visceral sense of loss of cultural dominance” has set in.

White evangelicals once saw themselves “as the owners of mainstream American culture and morality and values,” said Jones. Now they are just another subculture.

From this fact derives much of our country’s cultural conflict. It helps explain not just the rise of Donald Trump, but also the growth of QAnon and even the escalating conflagration over critical race theory. “It’s hard to overstate the strength of this feeling, among white evangelicals in particular, of America being a white Christian country,” said Jones. “This sense of ownership of America just runs so deep in white evangelical circles.” The feeling that it’s slipping away has created an atmosphere of rage, resentment and paranoia.

QAnon is essentially a millenarian movement, with Trump taking the place of Jesus. Adherents dream of the coming of what they call the storm, when the enemies of the MAGA movement will be rounded up and executed, and Trump restored to his rightful place of leadership.

“It’s not unlike a belief in the second coming of Christ,” said Jones. “That at some point God will reorder society and set things right. I think that when a community feels itself in crisis, it does become more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other things that tell them that what they’re experiencing is not ultimately what’s going to happen.”

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210710100137/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 6:17 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
You've claimed to not be a Republican.


I'm not.

TL;DR on the rest of your post. None of your bullshit is ever worth the time reading.

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Sunday, July 11, 2021 8:10 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
You've claimed to not be a Republican.


I'm not.

TL;DR on the rest of your post. None of your bullshit is ever worth the time reading.
Then you won't learn a secret about one of the Republican Party's true motivations:

Texas is a world leader in clean energy, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to ruin that by Chris Tomlinson

Gov. Greg Abbott has made clear that he’s more interested in boosting fossil fuel burners’ profits than improving the electric grid or fighting climate change, and he’s rejecting new ways of generating clean, reliable and affordable energy.

Abbott is not letting lawmakers have a say in overhauling the wobbly Texas grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, known as ERCOT. Instead, he wants to dictate solutions that benefit coal and natural gas companies over clean energy.

Abbott ordered the PUC, which oversees ERCOT, to redesign the state’s wholesale electricity market to reward generators that can provide backup power. This is a break from the current, 20-year-old system that pays generators only for the energy they put on the grid, not their capacity to generate.

Critics of the system have correctly called on ERCOT to set up some version of a capacity market that pays generators to have readily available power in an emergency. But Abbott twists this good idea by calling for more “natural gas, coal and nuclear power,” not a more strategic approach.

Coal plants should have no part of Texas’ energy mix. They produce vast amounts of greenhouse gases, and they are more expensive to operate than other sources, including wind and solar.

Nuclear power does not release any emissions, but new plants are astronomically expensive and better nuclear technologies are not ready yet. The two existing nuclear plants in Texas already operate at almost full capacity; therefore, they do not require any additional incentives.

Natural gas plants, meanwhile, are great in emergencies, and ERCOT should encourage companies to have enough of them for the few hours every year when demand spikes. But Abbott should be ordering the PUC to incentivize renewable energy storage technologies, such as batteries and compressed air, instead.

Abbott’s more disturbing order is to pile additional fees and costs onto wind and solar generators. In a complete disregard for how the wholesale electricity market operates, he perversely wants to punish them because they cannot turn on the sun and wind at will.

The key to reducing wind and solar intermittency is to expand the geography where wind and solar energy are generated. If the PUC provided the right incentives, for example, wind companies could install turbines in the Gulf of Mexico, where the wind almost always blows.

Instead, Abbott intends on knee-capping renewables to give old, failing fossil fuel plants a few more years of profitability at the expense of Texas customers.

Lastly, Abbott ordered the PUC “to accelerate the development of transmission” lines to new natural gas and coal power plants, explicitly excluding wind and solar generation. He is using his power to appoint the PUC to pick and choose winners and losers.

Such huge policy decisions would typically fall within the purview of the Texas Legislature, which created ERCOT and the wholesale electricity market. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Abbott to put ERCOT market reforms on the special session’s agenda, but Abbott decided to rule by decree rather than allow the GOP-controlled Legislature to provide input.

Abbott’s policies are profoundly regressive compared with the innovation taking place on other major U.S. grids. Not to mention, Abbott could solve almost all of Texas’ electric reliability problems by simply connecting to the national grid rather than maintaining ERCOT as a separate island.

Another state that struggles with extreme heat, Nevada, is a national leader in high-voltage transmission lines that are adding more renewable energy, including geothermal, to the grid. Nevada’s leaders plan to rely on carbon-free energy for 50 percent of the state’s power by 2030.

“I know one thing that’s on a lot of people’s minds is what happened in Texas, and could what happened in Texas be repeated here in Nevada?” Doug Cannon, CEO of the utility NV Energy, told Nevada regulators in March. “We are in a very different position here in Nevada than what they were experiencing in Texas.”

Dozens of other states are also innovating. New York is adding offshore wind; the mid-Atlantic PJM grid is building solar facilities with batteries built in. Virginia is boosting clean energy standards.

Abbott is intent on abdicating Texas’ crown as the world leader in renewable energy. But don’t believe for a minute this is about reliability, he’s ignoring the best solutions. No, he’s running for re-election, and his letter is about raising campaign funds and rallying right-wingers to win.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210710091727/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Tomlinson-Abbott-abdicates-Texas-s-crown-as-16301928.php

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