monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

"The Big Lie" is always easy to sell to the donut eaters.
I was listening to news on an AM station in Reading Pa, (WEEU AM). This is a fairly conservative station whose listenership sounds a lot like our gooeyjohn, Fuggle, etc. They seem to buy anything GOP either without comment or thy soundly try to validate the outrageous activities of th present regime.
So the Reading station featured a story about a guy who was caught in an actual voter fraud event. It was in Nebraska I believe, in which this gent voted twice in the 2017 GOP primary.He recd a suspended sentence , community service and a fine (and he had to say a Perfect Act of Contrition) . I think that seems about adequate without making it a huge moral outrage case and sentencing the guy to life plus ten..

So far, the news is fairly silent on the occurrence, frequency and statistical significance of voter fraud . I suppose that's because it involves MATH and it appears that the donut eaters seem ignorant of, or non supportive of STEM education. Or am I missing something???.

If you have trouble with the longer words in these articles, Im sure anyone here who has a greater than HS education can assist. Or are you just doing your bit for surpression of a free press?

What's even more pathetic (yeah, contrary to what you would think, that IS possible) is the obsequious toadies who gather round at his feet, waiting to have him tell them who should think for them, eh?

McG spoke to this one earlier, saying he didn't understand this (and good for him)
(NYT)

What is the problem? It really is just another instance of bigotry - the rejection of acceptance of another or others who are different as being equal. Such bigotry always seems to arise out of a psychological yearning for things to be simple, to be black and white. Diversity, from that vantage point, is a bad thing because it is, in some manner, confusing or upsetting.

Ya never look smart trying to make others look dumb

I'm having no trouble so far. But if I do have a question, I won't hesitate to ask.



I'm not suppressing any press.

What I was doing is commenting on what a horrible person Blatham is.

In a way I find it commendable that a person who is not so smart will let smarter people do all of his thinking for him. Considering all the goofy nonsense I've seen on the internet over the years I think the world could be vastly improved if more people deferred to those with greater intelligence.

But when Blatham makes outrageous personal attacks just so he can avoid having to think for himself, that is not very nice.

see my above comment to layman

I don't never "try" to make nobody look stoopid, eh, Farmer? It can't be done.

They gotta do that all by they lonesome.

No, you ain't. The case I'm familiar with last election was a GOP supporter (a woman) who was caught voting twice (voting GOP) because she said she wanted to counter the effects of fraudulent voting.

It is a Big Lie and it is entirely cynical. Just one of the reasons I despise modern conservatism in the US.

Blatham's outrageous personal attacks are worthy of much condemnation.

Watch out for that banana peel, buddy, quite a steep slope ahead...

Gun-toting flaggots are feverishly at work concocting scary dystopian scenarios where the estimated half-billion privately owned firearms in the USA are somehow "banned" while gangs of young jihadists and Mexicans rampage through suburbia, attacking nursing homes, pulling plugs and stealing drugs.

What's more likely is that some decrepit senior's opioid-addicted grand kid will bust into the house and steal the poor old semi-comatose sod's gun collection. Incompetent, functionally disabled, senescent individuals with lethal weapons represent a threat to themselves and people the around them. And I doubt they could fulfill their obligation to the militia. It's supposed to be "well regulated" not "well medicated".

Gotta give ya credit, Hi, that was a good, entertaining post.

Obama and Hillary just tried to craft executive orders that would ban guns from a large swath of law abiding citizens.

And this was an expansion of an earlier executive order that targeted war veterans specifically.

It is very clear that they would have kept expanding and adding more and more groups of law-abiding citizens to the list until they had banned nearly everyone.



By pointing out the actual executive orders that were on the verge of doing just that.



Maybe. Maybe not. As for the text of the law you refer to, I'd like to see a heavy debate on the merits of it before I come to a conclusion.

However, that is NOT what the Obama/Hillary executive orders were trying to do. They were not targeted at people who could barely function. They were targeted at all disabled people who do not handle their own finances.



That would not deprive them of their rights.

And while the militia-centered right is important (that's where we get the right to modern military weaponry), people also have a right to personal self defense that is unrelated to the militia.

Perhaps a slightly different point here but you've reminded me of something that I was thinking about yesterday after Finn jumped in with, apparently, his hair or underwear in flames. He spoke with some disagreement as to the progress of this thread and, as georgeob has done previously, referred to it (a note of derogation here) as Bernie's "blog".

That is actually not too far off what my intention was in starting the thread. I wanted a single place to monitor what Trump was getting up to but with latitude to do other stuff as well (like OK GO or good jokes, etc for variety and fun and promotion of artistry).

None of which I see as any kind of a problem. Anyone can toss in what they like so long as the standard rules (no racism, no death threats, no severe or continual insults of other posters, etc). Further, anyone on A2K can start their own thread where they can do anything similar to what I'm doing here.

Obviously, there are a number of chaps or chapettes who attend here regularly to toss up flak - derogations, personal insults, etc. or, now again, some argument on a point of history or ideological disagreement or as a challenge to a claim made or viewpoint voiced. But there's a serious proportion of this which seems to follow the agenda, "If there's a place where lefties are voicing stuff, then I'm going there to curtail or fight it or spit at it because it is leftie". In short, to troll. I have all those dudes on ignore so only see what they "contribute" when another quotes them so they aren't a bother to me.

What seems odd is that motivation. Why not, instead, do something like I'm doing but in a fashion and with content they prefer? I'd have no objection whatsoever and I wouldn't drop in on them to spit.

That's a good line.

for oralloy ; the meaning of "derogation" is like "belittling language"

Im just being my elfin self entering my comments on this lovely Sunday AM. I think Ill go over to my "Marine ARt" thread and demand that everyone do their own original paintings before submittal to the conversation.

Youve hit a nerve with the donut eaters and, it appears that this regime is so target rich when it comes to their "respect for alternative facts" , that they may be a bit embarrassed.

**** seems to be blowing outta the septic system so rapidly within the ranks of Der Herr Trump that your services (and personal wit in attendance) is soooo appreciated

Today is the election of the new German Federal President.
When the President of the Bundestag ('federal parliament's speaker', second in order of precedence) opened the convention, he rather harshly criticised Trump: standing ovation by all ... besides the dozen or extreme right-wing electors.

Well, thanks fella. I've always been very pleased to have you as a member of this community and consider myself better for having had the chance to bump into you. So your remarks land quite agreeably.

That's making me chuckle almost as much as last week's news that Sarah Palin might be appointed as ambassador to Canada.

Weigel and Tumulty have a VERY good piece up at the Post. Do read it when you get time. This is very close to how I think about these matters.

WP