This was a fun and enlightening exercise. Thanks for putting it together (and putting up with the inevitable SDMB … differing opinions.)
But of course - I expected, and would have wanted, no less!
“Deafening… silence,” as you originally wrote, is obviously quite different from “[not] near enough.”
I think you’re going to have to come to terms with the fact that we disagree and find a way to forge ahead. I think Obama’ responses have been so anemic as to be deafening. They do not in anyway meet the needs of this time and I would argue that if the nation after Obama’s presidency became an authoritarian regime, then maybe he wasn’t that great of a president.
I can certainly accept that we disagree. I just dislike seeing goalposts being moved.
We should have gotten Gabe Ortiz to vote in our contest.
“You must sign in to view this post,” it says. A summary, please?
Oh, sorry! An immigration advocate on BlueSky saying:
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
I thought it was a funny pairing given the game here.
I’ll say - thanks!