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Lol. As a pathological liar yourself, I'm not sure your offered opinion counts for anything. Meanwhile, Oliver is a respected journalist and his HBO show has earned many millions of dollars for the network while collecting 28 Emmy awards and 2 Peabody awards, among the show's many other accolades. -- That's 28 more Emmys than and 2 more Peabody awards than the entire Fox "news" network. BTW. (That's right, Fox News has no awards for journalism, because they don't practice journalism.) But Fox does have have something that Oliver's little show doesn't: multiple defamation judgements stemming from their many high-profile lies. So, you should probably apply some prudence when throwing around the term "liar." I know your knee-jerk reaction to any respected media source is to blindly attack it, (because it's not Fox or some random YouTuber) but that's simply not how the rational people of the world think.

I would think most intelligent people should care, but certainly many millions of people. He's really an astute critic of society, politics and the media. The fact that he couches sharp commentary in comedy is a bonus, because it's usually a laugh or cry situation.

There is no new "news" in this news (t's based on the ProPublica investigation), but this is an elegant and compact package illustrating how the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards. The offer at the end is a beautiful example.

Well, shoot. Now you've bumped it for a third time this week. And you've been coming back to it for full month. Apparently you REALLY want to keep talking about it. Can't understand why. But whatever. I'll indulge, because my parents taught me to be kind to batshit crazy old people. Posted January 26 taxme, meet taxme. You two should get acquainted. What is it with you MAGA creeps? Like Trump you all lie about the dumbest, most pointless and most obvious things that everyone can plainly see

Wow, 3 more paragraphs about that thing you don't care about and another post bumping the conversation you claim to want to stop having.🤦‍♀️

Did you really just come back and bump a conversation 6 days later to tell me to let it go? Lol You're not a smart man, bless your heart.

I've been a victim of check washing. It sucks! Actually, I've accidentally left all sorts of things in my pockets on laundry day. Some come out clean and intact, while others are decidedly worse for wear.

It's not at all absurd. Quite an interesting and provocative experience being created. Two experiences, actually, both informative and valuable. It's quite like gender blind or race blind casting, or "splash" casting. It creates a unique experience. Or, imagine, for example, how differently Merchant of Venice plays and lands in Israel. I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that creating a unique experience one night of the run does meaningful harm to anyone, but it can be transformative for the people who show up--black and white. Beyond these artistic purpose, I think there's also a practical business purpose, as theater audiences skew dramatically old, white and wealthy. An event that attracts new audiences also has a purpose. Think "ladies night" at the local watering hole.

"Black-only" organizations-- or similar for any minority--are essentially support groups for people who are marginalized. How to deal with, function and thrive in a society that is fundamentally designed by and for white men. Someday, as the world is designed by and for a more inclusive society, those groups won't be necessary. Progress is slow. I'm a bit skeptical that systemic racism has been eradicated in Canada, which still has a heavy white majority, but I'm confident you're way ahead of us. You're not burdened with the long legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. You can't aggressively exclude any entire demographic from good neighborhoods, schools and jobs for a couple centuries and expect the effects to vanish in a couple of generations. We too have a simmering level of individual racism, but the effects are not nearly as harmful as the systemic racism. There's a school of "thought" that says Black Americans will be better off if we pretend systemic challenges don't exist, and try to convince them that what they experience isn't real--essentially gaslighting Black America. But that's not really how problems are solved. Problems must be acknowledged, discussed and proactively addressed.

No, to the degree to which it was racist, it would actually be an example of individual racism. The segregated state of schools would be an example of systemic racism.

Sure, a basic subsistence safety net isn't helping. Real help would be hungry children dying of exposure and malnutrition, like they do in countries without a safety net. Meanwhile, it's mighty white of you to allow the indigenous people to hunt and fish year round on the land that used to be theirs. What a sweetheart deal.🤦‍♀️

Beyond watching the Republicans trip all over each other to respond to this, it's a really rich topic. Essentially, this Alabama SCOTUS ruling is argumentum ad absurdum: taking an argument to the full logical extension to reveal that the logic is unsound. Usually this is done satirically, but the kicker here is that the Alabama SCOTUS is so farking bumfuzzled that they are making the absurd argument in earnest! (Yes, apparently you can be a ridiculous bible-thumping fundie and still sit on the Supreme Court in the "great" state of Alabama.) The have taken "life" begins at conception and the shoddy rhetoric calling embryos "unborn children" to the absurd extreme. Now extra-uterine "children" who have absolutely zero hope of developing into humans unassisted are children, people and citizens due equivalent to born, actual, people. That frozen embryos are literally children. Is it legal to put your child in the freezer for extended periods? What harm can come to them? Can they be imprisoned forever, or must they be released to freedom when they turn 18? Will they be eligible for state and federal benefits? Will they have to be wheeled into schools when they turn 5? Do the parents owe the IVF clinics child support? When the biological "parents" of these forever-frozen "children" die, do the kidsicles inherit the estate? There are a million new absurd questions that have to be answered in the absurd state of Alabama, because they've taken one step too far into whatever the hell the Christians are going to call their version of Sharia Law. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Not sure why it how you're pivoting to Trump here. Seems like a bit of a non-sequitur. But now that you mention it, a lot of Trump's base was built on the alt-right and white nationalist movement. The politics of racism still sell with with directed disaffected whites who can't hack it on a leveling playing field.

Yes, someone who is out to hurt the Black community and says something that could be construed as racist will not get the benefit of the doubt. Someone who has a record of allyship and support for the Black community who says something that could be construed as racist will get the benefit of the doubt. Welcome to life. This is how it works. And the word "jungle" is in everyone's vocabulary. 🙄

The judge said the verdict did not mean that Carroll “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed ... the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.” How terribly sad that you have to spend your energy excusing rape on technicalities.

Quick, MAGA Canadians, send this man all your money. He needs your help now more than ever! Do NOT make him pay his own super unfair penalties after being found liable for rape, defamation and bank fraud.

You're doing a bit of dishonest spin here. Biden has always been a gaffe machine, and the "jungle" comment is a good example. Absolutely horrible choice of words given the fraught history, but in full context, it wasn't meant as a slur. His full statement was something about not wanting his kids in a forced busing situation, the suddenness of which he thought would create an environment of explosive racial tension. -- It's an example of him making a massive gaffe, not of him being racist. And the "n-word" reference I'd call a lie. IIRC, he didn't use the N-word himself. Not like he dropped it in conversation. He was quoting, for the record, some local official and using that character's racism as an example of why someone was unfit for office. He's saying "Look at this example of awful blatant racism" while working against it. In a time when people didn't automatically censor that word. All that being said. Everybody's a little bit racist. Joe Biden is. Some of the legislation earlier in his career wasn't great for Black communities. But he was also a bit ahead of the curve for an ancient white man. Remember, you're talking about someone grew up in the time of open segregation. He was in college before the civil rights act! He was in the senate with Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond! -- So, the fact that despite an imperfect track record, he's generally viewed as an ally for Black Americans is pretty impressive. You know why Black America--and Barack Obama--don't hold a grudge against Joe and his comments like "clean, articulate" is because they understand it for what it is. Actions speak louder than words. And net-net, they see somebody who is working alongside them. It's why Obama and Biden became buddies. Contemporary coverage "I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a story-book, man," Biden said. Biden later called Obama and then spoke to reporters during a conference call saying Obama understood what he meant. "This is a guy who's come along in a way that's captured the imagination of the country in a way that no one else has. That was the point of everything I was saying," Biden said. But late Wednesday, Obama released a statement seizing on Biden's use of the word "articulate." "I didn't take Sen. Biden's comments personally, but obviously they were historically inaccurate," Obama said. "African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate." Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Wednesday night, "It was a gaffe. It was not an intentional racially pejorative statement. It could be interpreted that way, but that's not what he meant."

'Worst President in US history" is somewhat debatable based on the outcomes (thought he had some extremely bad outcomes) but the totality of the administration is an unqualified disaster. We became a laughingstock, and the world looked on in disgust waiting for four years to tick by, hoping intemperate Twitter spats didn't lead to military fisticuffs. And in honor of President's day, indeed, expert historians rank him dead last. Read: Historians rank Trump as worst president

There is, indeed. Right after MAGA nation buys the Trump Track Suit (TM) and Trump Kool-Aid (TM) kits they'll be done buying.

Yes, jackass, a wholesome interaction between grandfather and granddaughter. No matter how many times you capture that moment and try to spin it into something lascivious. We filter the world through our own perceptions. You think familial kissing is sexual because you find it sexy. You're clearly the kind of creep who thinks it's too "sexy" for children to sit on an adult's lap and will never play Santa Claus because you're afraid of what might happen below your belt line. Guess what. That's all a "you problem," not Joe Biden's problem or the millions of other American families who do the lip peck. For the rest of us, even if our families don't do it, it's not a sexual interaction. Get a grip, pervert, and stay away from schools.

Yeah, like any topic, not everyone is going to agree about everything. They speak, they debate, they vote. But we need a place in the world where the President of Kiribati (a nation no one has ever heard of) can take the floor and tell--and show--the powerful nations of the world what their actions are doing to his people. That's why, in answer to the OP, I think it's very important that the thought and administration in that institution be democratized.

Ooh. Naked racism from our associate here in Canada. Classy.

I think not. The top donor countries are the countries that already dominate global politics. Do we really want, say, the US and China jockeying for position in the UN as well? It would make it sort of and extension of soft imperialism. The UN is meant to be a more egalitarian operating model. Help for the helpless and voice for the voiceless. And part of the stretch toward that goal is to have the nations and peoples of the world actively involved in shaping the organization. Not just the rich and powerful nations, but all, united. The UN isn't nearly perfect, but the idea and the attempt are both incredibly important. In a shrinking world, we need a sense of community and a way to act for the collective good without any perception of selfish purpose. When relief workers or peacekeepers show up under the UN flag it means something very different than if the US or China were to roll into a country under our own flags.

I gave you the video time code. There is no "face sucking" there is no "making out." You are a liar and a pervert for sexualizing an innocent and wholesome interaction. There's nothing remotely sexual about it.

This is the first thing you've said in a long time that is believable. I completely accept that you don't understand, and are apparently completely incapable of reading your own words when they are quoted back to you. Like, literally, you can't even read them. Or are just trolling. Because they are right there, plain as day Here's a link to an adult literacy program that operates in Canada. Good luck.