eyeball Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 39 minutes ago, Legato said: Anyonewithtwoworkingsynapses Yeah, David Frum, speechwriter. He helped write GWB's Evil of Axis speech...you're either with us or with the terrorists. Definitely a lefty alright. /sarcoff Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
Legato Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 24 minutes ago, eyeball said: Definitely a lefty alright. /sarcoff Yes Quote
eyeball Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 2 minutes ago, Legato said: Yes The best indication the right wing is a direction and not a place is the litter of cancelled conservatives left along the side of the road. Even you will one day find right wingers giving up on you and casting you aside. Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
Legato Posted January 7 Report Posted January 7 2 minutes ago, eyeball said: The best indication the right wing is a direction and not a place is the litter of cancelled conservatives left along the side of the road. Even you will one day find right wingers giving up on you and casting you aside. We pick the few that have strayed and offer help You guy's need a weekly fleet of garbage trucks to pick up the cannon fodder. Quote
robosmith Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 7 hours ago, eyeball said: Projection much? “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” David Frum. Frum was wrong. The formerly conservative Party now known as Trumpublicans has ABANDONED BOTH. There is nothing conservative about running up never ending DEBT, just to serve the vanity of OLIGARCHS. Quote
myata Posted January 8 Author Report Posted January 8 11 hours ago, ironstone said: Did you express any concerns when the son of the current president was shaking down high level foreign officials for cash? If you have eyes and one working brain cell you would know what has just happened. It's a done deal and no smart or dumb talking can take it away. Done deal. We pay for stupid choices it's a law of nature. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
Nationalist Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 4 hours ago, myata said: If you have eyes and one working brain cell you would know what has just happened. It's a done deal and no smart or dumb talking can take it away. Done deal. We pay for stupid choices it's a law of nature. Indeed. The Democrats have made a lot of stupid choices... And now it's time to pay for them. Quote Its so lonely in m'saddle since m'horse died.
myata Posted January 8 Author Report Posted January 8 France warns Trump against threatening sovereign borders of EU (Guardian) Why would anyone have anything to do with a brainless dumbest !diot? Why would they eat and swallow anything coming out of his a$$? A timeless mystery is playing itself out, yet again. Right before our eyes. 1 Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
User Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 2 hours ago, myata said: France warns Trump against threatening sovereign borders of EU (Guardian) Why would anyone have anything to do with a brainless dumbest !diot? Why would they eat and swallow anything coming out of his a$$? A timeless mystery is playing itself out, yet again. Right before our eyes. I agree. These French politicians pushing this stupidity are id1ots. Quote
ironstone Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 10 hours ago, myata said: If you have eyes and one working brain cell you would know what has just happened. It's a done deal and no smart or dumb talking can take it away. Done deal. We pay for stupid choices it's a law of nature. So your answer would be....no. Quote "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." Thomas Sowell
myata Posted January 8 Author Report Posted January 8 Just now, ironstone said: So your answer would be It's a done deal. Precedent created. Any mob boss can try to do the same and more. Why wouldn't they? What's there to stop them? Pretending it doesn't exist, "forgetting" it won't change a thing, won't erase it from the reality. It's done go on singing and clapping. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
eyeball Posted January 8 Report Posted January 8 17 hours ago, robosmith said: Frum was wrong. The formerly conservative Party now known as Trumpublicans has ABANDONED BOTH. There is nothing conservative about running up never ending DEBT, just to serve the vanity of OLIGARCHS. Frum probably should have said right wingers, I think the difference is less subtle than imagined. The results of redistributing power to the wealthy are far worse than sharing wealth with the powerless. 1 Quote A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.
myata Posted January 11 Author Report Posted January 11 The elites especially wishful ones may hope that it'll all be covered and somehow swiped away comes the next election, as a bad dream or an awkward incident that's best to forget. No such luck. Just none, zero chance and here's why: the political system and social fabric of the society has degraded to the point where a significant or large part of the population is getting accustomed to voting based not on rational considerations of the reality but on the sentiment, which of the fairy tales sounds more cute and promises more of the fairy goodies. And see, that's already past the line of a modern functional democracy. This is the third world, as it is and has been for two or so centuries, and now you're welcome in it as a fully deserving, de facto member. There can be no easy quick fixes for this condition no matter how the vote rolls the next time or many more times. A third world democracy. Institutions, traditions, great words won't do a thing. There were many, many warning bells. But who was listening to the reality in two echo chambers? An astounding, grotesque failure of responsibility with no clear ways out and back. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
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