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_Robert_ wrote:
Casting Palestinians as innocent victims, telling us that a trans woman with a dick really is the same as a biological woman, expecting that everyone should go to college to have value and cancelling and/or ostracizing people who said things not exactly “the correct way” are all prime examples of illiberal ideas.

The thousands of…[Read more]

Globalization was hard on people who didn’t get tech degrees or specialize in skills valued by international corporations. Education level has become the best predictor for how someone will vote. I have been worried for years that ultra-liberals can in fact be very unliberal and will drive the political center way to the right. I expressed that…[Read more]

@Jakelafort – ya made me think of a modern Sinclair Lewis.

I recently asked AI to “Compare Trump and Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip”. I thought the last paragraph of the answer was very funny.

Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel *It Can’t Happen Here* introduces Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, a populist politician who ascends to the U.S. presidency by exploiting…[Read more]

No argument that despicable is meaningless when as i keep hammering, nobody is home, humans are swept up by the current. Caught in Nazi Germany as a child indoctrinated into Hitler Youth? We know how you think and behave. Indoctrinated in a Hamas/UNWRA school and surrounded by others swept up in Islamic cult? We know how you think and behave.…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I see what ya did there with the left. You’re right. And yet I don’t mean to demonize lefties to the exclusion of right wingers or anyone else. We sort of have to posit free will even if we think it is absent. So to the extent I am reacting to the overt representations and behavior of far left i conclude it is despicable.

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Robert, ya made me think of a modern Sinclair Lewis. Main Street updated 100 yrs later and in the gloaming same folks are roaming. During day it is same way.

Pope, if i had thought about it i might have guessed in wake of election a feeling of revulsion would repel those viewers. But drug addicts are drawn to the high and hate the withdrawl…[Read more]

Start at 10,000 feet and zoom in on a row of houses 50 miles from any Midwest or Southern larger city. Pick any house and zoom in on the kitchen where a 56 year old, married white couple having coffee and toast. Fox news is on the den TV that has a painting of Jesus placed atop. Trump is talking about eliminating the Dept of Education. They are…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Trump being elected means CNN and MSNBC ratings will soar. One shit show after another and viewers outraged and wanting more.

Maybe when the dust settles. (4 minute video)

jakelafort wrote:
If you want underage girls become a Muslim. Left will defend you by shutting down any criticism of raping girls cuz ya know…islamophobia

@JakeLaFort, are there any good humans any more?

(I first wanted to say ‘are there any good humans “left”?’, but that would have opened a trap door beneath me.)

Now that Trump’s elected, has the prospect of civil war gone away? Hardly!

@ Jake

While of course military folk can vote and can have political views, their oath is to The Constitution and not the President, and if an order is clearly not allowed under that sacred document, we should be able to expect them to decline to carry it out. That said, a President can probably find some weak kneed, sympathetic, or corruptible…[Read more]

That is an interesting query.

Which political direction is more apt to carry out an illegal order? Are there circumstances such
as promoting the favored ideology in which the otherwise unbendable will be corrupted?

Lawyer says some Trump critics might want to take a long vacation (somewhere without an extradition treaty?) Some might want to consider becoming expats.

Trump is planning on taking a major page out of the dictator’s playbook by purging the military of potentially problematic (“woke”) leaders. You know, the ones who might decided to decline to carry out an illegal order.

In order to qualify for a position under Trump, you need to prove that you’re unqualified.

jakelafort wrote:
If you want underage girls become a Muslim. Left will defend you by shutting down any criticism of raping girls cuz ya know…islamophobia

Right. (rolling my eyes)

If you want underage girls become a Muslim. Left will defend you by shutting down any criticism of raping girls cuz ya know…islamophobia