TheEncogitationer

Reg,

Tariffs are where Trump has always been wrong, but if DOGE had gone as wild against Tariffs as they had on USAID, there would be other interests, both agricultural and industrial, who would be caterwauling as much as all the interests caterwauling over cuts to USAID.

Government should stay out of either subsidy or protectionism for any…[Read more]

Reg,

In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe — not America — had brought upon the world. The United States, in his telling, had gone from evil mastermind to innocent bystander.

“Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler,” Mr. Lavrov said. “If we look at h…

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Unseen,

Is Trump a functional illiterate?

There is a mesage to be learned from this, but not what you may think. Government officials with that little self-awareness shouldn’t have control of health care or education.

Reg,

Well if I was a “real” farmer I might sweat a little. It is the immediate cut-off of all USAID that is the problem. There was no sliding scale to zero over a few years to allow contingency plans to be put in place. Given that USAID constituted about 0.7% of the total U.S. federal budget or 0.15% of GDP, I think the long term damage will not…

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Reg,

Trump’s tarriffs and the reaction of both domestic and foreign markets to them are definitely a problem. They don’t even make sense from Trump’s own brain salad/word salad pseudo-thinking (e.g. he’s wanting high tariffs of, if I recall, 25 percent on Canada and Mexico over allowing Fentanyl to cross the border, yet Trump only wants to tax…[Read more]

Jake,

It is so natural to lash out at the morons. lately i have been feeling that for the lefty’s. I just don’t know other than a coterie of thinkers who is not stupid. To me intelligence is critical thinking. Math, music, mechanical aptitudes are talents. Not same as general intelligence. Beliefs interfere with reason. Beliefs are the death of…

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Reg,

I misspoke too. The Neisei were second-generation Japanese-Americans. Which made their internment all the more nonsensical.

Reg,

Traditional liberalism (rooted in John Stuart Mill, FDR, and JFK) emphasized individual rights, free speech, economic fairness, and civil liberties. Today, parts of the Democratic Party have embraced “woke” politics, which prioritize group identity, intersectionality, and equity over classical liberal principles like universalism and mer…

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Reg,

There are, of course, other reasons to question “fine-tuning” for life.

For example, if another Element could take the place of Carbon as a hub for other Elements to bond and form self-sustaining, replicating bodies, then life may not have to be Carbon-based. If so, then Life, the Universe, ad Everything is not so “fine-tuned” as the…[Read more]

Robert,

Sunday school today is awash with stories of how Amerika is bucking traditional conservative values such as guarding trade, the NATO alliance, honoring veterans and promoting tariff-free trade. Yet the spineless “conservatives” have their thumbs in the asses as we align with the likes of Putin and Kim.

I never thought a president cou…

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Reg,

Uti Possidetis Juris and Israel.

Years ago in the Eighties, I saw a cartoon of the U.N. Building with cartoon balloons coming from it. The voices said something to the effect of:

“The Soviets have invaded Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq are at war, and Argentina has 20,000 children disappeared. What shall we do?”

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Unseen,

@ Enco

Disruptive protests are an effective political tool going back in American history at least as far as the “Boston Tea Party,” and in the case of the protest in question, has resulted in uncovering the Sheriff’s apparent disability scam.

Good that this was one result, but others still have right to speak without inter…[Read more]

Unseen,

There are a milion better media and means of expression than screeching over others at a meeting or for that matter blocking other’s freedom of movement on a thoroughfare or using a petrol-made, petrol-shipped superglue to fasten yourself to things while screaming “Stop Oil Now!”

And lest we forget, the woman at the meeting could have…[Read more]

Jake,

South Africa has been on a downward spiral from the frying pan of Apartheid to the fire of Neo-Apartheid ever since Nelson and Winnie Mandela took over.

I would venture to guess that not one of those Jews had a hand in the old system, nor did they make Johannesburg the rape and carjacking capitol of the world.

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Unseen,

There laws against interfering with official proceedings as there should be, but the event in question was not a government proceeding, it was an unofficial proceeding not called for by statute no different from the same event held in a public place with the legislator standing on a soap box. It was a public forum.

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Jake,

This was obviously more than a bunch of Schickelgruber Fan Club members gathering to say “I hate üntermenchen!“. They made armed threats, misused a rental truck, and littered in the course of their actions. There have also been violent acts from pro-Hamas protesters nationwide too:

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Robert,

It’s like Tom Servo said on MST3K referring to the villian Kobras in The Pumaman:

“One of these days, the world will learn to stop letting idiots like this almost take it over!”

To the folks at home just joining in, Jake and Robert are referring to this separate thread topic I posted:

atheistzone.com/groups/politics/forum/topic/when-hate-goes-beyond-mere-words-lincoln-heights-has-the-right-reply/

Unseen,

Not all jurisdictions allow for citizen’s arrest, which is why I said they should be bound by law enforcement strictures, especially if the private security agents are acting as agents of the Sheriff with search and seizure and arrest powers.

Then they should be private events, not public. I see events handle questions that way in, for…

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