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Hi Tanya, I'm with you. I would hope Biden would declare it 'done & dusted' before he leaves office. And, thanks for the update. Jerry Baumchen
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EV sales just hit a new high See if you can find the place on this graph where the anti-EV crowd said "That's it! EVs are dead! All manufacturers rethinking them!"
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Hi folks, OK, they picked this guy to support Trump; then they want to distance themselves as much as possible: Republicans, including Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), are trying to minimize the damage Tony Hinchcliffe's racist remarks roil Donald Trump campaign ahead of election Talk about two-faced. I can only hope that it buries Trump and his MAGA idiots. Jerry Baumchen
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Trump to liberals: "That wasn't my message AT ALL!" Trump to conservatives: "Yeah you heard me right."
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Hey, Jerry, We had a state (or two) recently ratify it, so we have enough. I have heard some argue that there was a time limit on ratification, so we would need to start over getting the states to agree to it. Technically this administration can just declare the win and it gets added to the Constitution (according to legal pundits I have heard on several chat shows/ podcasts). I also am not an expert by any stretch, but I listen to experts. Not sure why the current administration has not done so yet. Tanya
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Exactly right. It protects the government from infringing on your rights. Women recently lost some of that protection. The exact reason the first 10 amendments are literally called the Bill of Rights.
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I care not what Trump's message is. He is a criminal, a liar, a thief, a sexual predator and a narcissistic braggart. Each of which is disqualifying, IMO.
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Exactly right. It protects the government from infringing on your rights. Women recently lost some of that protection.
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Hi tk, Did you expect him to? Jerry Baumchen
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Hi tk, Re: The USA has never managed to pass the Equal Rights Amendment I am no Constitutional expert. The last that I read [ a few yrs ago ] is that that amendment is still out there waiting on [ I 'think' ] just two more states to ratify it. Re: I expect that if men could get pregnant, you would be able to get an abortion at a drive through 7-Eleven Bingo, you nailed it. Jerry Baumchen
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Headlines today, “GOP concerned that fallout from Madison Square Garden rally will just distract from Trump’s message” I am pretty sure that the racist tripe that was spouted at Madison Square Garden is in fact… Trump‘s message.
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10 years on, the book still holds up in the circle of people who believe that bullshit. Is that the only reference that you could find? The only single thing that you could find to back up your bullshit? https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fascism https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/fascism you didn’t look very hard either.
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Hi Rob, Re: They can never go home again because they might tell family and friends about the high standard of living in Ukraine. Just about anywhere in the world, other than NoKo, would be a high standard of living for them. Jerry Baumchen PS) There were many Soviets living is western Russia, Ukraine, etc, that joined the German army to fight against Stalin. Sadly, they were summarily executed when he re-conquered them.
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Good to see you on the liberal team. Kindly explain to your right wing colleague where he made his mistake, he might listen to you.
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Right, but Jonah is like you - a professional bullshit artist whose actual job it is to say anything that denigrates the left and promotes the right. It's pretty clear that TK meant a reference from some sort of actualy scholarly research. I'll grant you he screwed up by saying "or other" - which obviously allowed you to retort with 'hey this guy I found shouting at birds while fishing old boots out of the dumpster agrees with me so victory is mine!' but I'm sure you'll agree that is the proverbial sound and fury, signifying nothing. For bonus points, is the current Italian ruling party, in power today, that genuinely idolises Mussolini from the right or the left? Even if I didn't already know, I guarantee you I'd have guessed correctly, though apparently you wouldn't. Why is that?
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Please bear in mind I am passing on his views and these aren’t my own! I’m not going to defend them :) To start with he believes that Trump brings a fresh perspective to politics, by not being a career politician. While he accepts that Trump is vulgar and that his ‘presentation’ is less than ideal, he challenges the political structures. He agrees with the tough immigration stance and the ‘America first’ attitude of promoting internal business and discouraging business from manufacturing outside the US. The last point is that most politicians and wealthy businessmen break the rules and are corrupt to some extent. He believes that because Trump challenged the political establishment, he has been disproportionately pursued for crimes. He doesn’t say he is innocent, but rather the energy spent on Trump is more than others. Trump (especially of late), just blurts things out and has no impulse control. However, he also sees it as a form of ‘gaslighting’ to successfully implement policies. For example , suggesting 200% tariffs. He doesn’t believe Trump is stupid enough to believe or do that, but by setting the conversation there, he manages to implement say 5-10% tariffs with no resistance. This friend a very successful sales manager, in a trade Industry supplying building contractors , where it’s normal to take clients to strip clubs etc. Trump’s crassness is not seen as out of the ordinary but rather as a ‘typical bloke’
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You didn’t look very hard “One person who understands this is Jonah Goldberg, author of the 2007 book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Ten years on, the book still holds up. Goldberg argues, provocatively, that fascism shared roots in common with what we call modern liberalism or progressivism.”
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The Constitution does not lay down rights, it lays down limitations on government.
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Interesting. But to my ear what’s missing are thoughtfulness and rationality in their reasons.
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So you want their spouses, children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles to be strapped to the muzzle of an anti-aircraft cannon and blown to smithereens? Smeared with a nerve agent? I thought you were a kind person! One filled with empathy!
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Someone should drop leaflets over the battlefield where the NoKo soldiers are, informing them of the freedom they have to walk away to a new life without NoKo slavery.
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Trumpies gonna party like it's 1939!
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The sad thing is that those North Korean soldiers will be purely cannon-fodder. They can never go home again because they might tell family and friends about the high standard of living in Ukraine. Any stories that under-mine faith in the Supreme Leader of North Korea will be quickly crushed. Compare this with Soviet soldiers who conquered Berlin at the end of World War 2. Because they had seen the luxurious living standards of Berliners - compared with the average Russian peasant. From Stalin's perspective it was better for those soldiers to die in battle. Surviving soldiers got diverted to Siberia for a few years.
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I also have friends like that. They see the number of undocumented aliens as a far bigger problem than I do -- but most of them live in Texas, where it is a bigger problem. Of course, it's also a source of inexpensive labor, keeping housing costs low, right? But most of my right-wing friends value loyalty far, far, more than I do; loyalty to how you were brought up, loyalty to traditions that others you associate with value, loyalty to the idea of country. And it seems that the outward expression is what counts most; what's inside (other than "I'm spiritual, not religious). It's visible, and it helps to identify what people stand for. Because, above much, it seems that my more conservative friends are, in fact, more tribal, in the proto-human way that banding together allows for easier survival as a species. In a world as crowded as ours, you have to know who is, and, about as important, who isn't a part of your tribe. I'm a member of one tribe for that group, and actively invited to and welcomed at those events. But I don't participate in the political discussions other than one-on-one, because there's just no future in it. Most of them will die before changing, and since they're largely older than I am, that's happening. It'll happen to me, too, someday. Wendy P.