Liar.
Goddamn it! Nothing slips by you.
Personally, I thought you were trying to be funny again and recapture some long-past glory, but it reads more like Groucho in his later post-stroke days.
Bitch has it made, bitch is still a whiny needy bitch?
I invented the phrase “me too.” I just tossed it into a casual conversation one day, but boy howdy did it become a thing. When it started I was constantly fielding calls from the media for quotes but I thought, nah, it’s not about me. I mean, I basically started a movement that improved the lives of millions. Come to think of it, I’ve probably save actual lives, but I’m not looking for The Presidential Medal of Freedom or a Nobel Peach Prize. Gosh golly no.
Yes, because President is the only political office in the land, and politicians also never talk about people in positions of power who aren’t politicians, and even if neither of those things are true there is not a shit ton of evidence that Republicans, on average, are more likely to circle the waggons and cry “fake news!” and “Well she was probably asking for it, and we like him”, while screaming for the blood of anyone remotely connected to a scandal and the Democrats.
Thank you, great answer.
I have never had any original writing stolen (I’m in no danger of that), I imagine that would be something that would eat at me, seeing someone claim my work for theirs. If they also profited from that, yeah, I’d be pissed. I’m sorry that happened. Genuinely. I have seen* ideas* stolen, rather routinely, in academia. The consequences go much further than just the original idea. Once again, sorry.
That is a good reason for not giving us your best stuff. How about some second rate stuff then?
Your second point, healing the rift, is very much on my mind. I’m 56 years old and I’ve never seen political times like these. Families not talking, not seeing each other etc. because of things that have little direct effect on them. People interacting with each other based on their perceived political views. I don’t think America can thrive if this continues. So, I agree with you 100% there.
But ISTM, that you, who should be great at that, aren’t really trying. There is some stuff that is worth defending, there must be. Pick that. Trump is really indefensible. The unemployment rate is the only thing that I would say that he hasn’t made worse.
But you are so much better at that than me, so find those things. Convince us that things aren’t so bad, that we DO live in the best of times, that at heart, we DO agree on most things.
For instance, I am grateful that I live in America in the 21st century. My life is better than 99% of all the other people that have ever been born. That makes me want to make the world better. It makes me want to share in my luck. I was lucky to have been born when I was, to have had a great education, to have had the opportunities to be successful. Sure I could have screwed that up and lots do, but I had the opportunity to be successful, it wasn’t all me. I think America stands for that. I don’t think that current Republican policies are in line with that in any way at all. They seem to be more along the line of protecting the ones that need the least protection, of making the few very lucky, even luckier.
To me, this thread s about that. About denying that white male privilege is a thing. And you, who I know could defend whatever side you choose (because you are a great writer) aren’t really giving it your best stuff. You’ve given a fair answer for why you aren’t doing that and I appreciate it. Sorry for the hijack.
No matter how it came out it would have been described as a “smear” by supporters of his. But that’s not important – what’s important was how the majority party responded. And they responded by not expending serious effort to determine if the allegations were true. They did as little as they thought they could get away with (and they were right at least for the short term). Further, they expended no effort to see if Kavanaugh was telling the truth.
That’s not treating accusers with decency and respect. There was no urgency – only politics.
The Democrats have demonstrably changed. Those accusations against Senator Franken would have gone nowhere just a few short years ago. But they’ve actually responded with a bit of decency to the MeToo movement. The Republicans have done nothing, and have not stopped celebrating an admitted and multiply-accused abuser.
It’s not credible to me to say that the two parties are handling sexual assault and rape allegations in the same way in the present. If this is what you’re saying, I think you’re either delusional or dishonest.
At their core, conservatives are bullies. They need to feel superior to someone. Even if they can’t feel superior economically or academically, they can always fall back on their sense of virtue. Conservatives enjoy beating other people over the head with their sense of superiority right up until the time that they feel like they’ve been beaten at their own game. Then they cry like little babies.
You weren’t the first. I told you in that thread that it had already been done by a reporter on national television. Only he got a couple of ex-navy SEALs to do it rather than his wife, iirc.
Excuse me. We are talking politics here. I’ll be damned if you are going to come in here and disrupt my awesome narrative by contaminating it with your alternate facts.
Careful. The guy who did it was on Fox News. Don’t wnt your Conservative card pulled for calling them alternative facts.
Are you sure you are not talking about Jews? Maybe it’s blacks, or Catholics?
No wait. I got it. It’s the blacks who are the bullies. it’s the conservatives who wield their virtue as a club, the Jews who get beaten at their own game, and women who cry.
Catholics just molest kids.
You got to keep this shit straight.
On the Republican board I’m a left wing, nut job. Seriously.
You troll both ways? Sexy.
Al Franken would probably dispute that point.
St. Scylla of the Straight, the Peacemaker, spreading the warm balm of genial good nature, who holds closed the jaws of the lion. Patron of reason and mutual respect, the Chuck Norris of compromise and accommodation,
Now, Universe, I know I haven’t been a very good pantheist, but if I could just have this one galactic-level miracle…
Oh, I get it. You’re being…ironic.
Fuck face.
And of course, he makes sure to tell everyone how Republicans are the REAL victims here. :rolleyes:
Fuck Trump and his Cult of Victims.
Following the bombing, when asked whether he would tone down his rhetoric for a few days, Trump makes it clear that he thinks Republicans are the real victims: “Well, I think I’ve been toned down. I could really tone it up. Because as you know, the media has been incredibly unfair to me and to the Republican Party.”
When asked whether he would telephone the 2 highest profile targets of the attack -Obama and Clinton- Trump replied, “I think we’ll probably pass.” This is different than the behavior of all preceding Presidents.
Before he was elected, I thought Trump would do the ceremonial stuff better.