I resent this statement. The republican party is the party of evil AND comically slapstick incompetence.
So, the Leader has a plan to provide for the homeless. Huge tent cities way out in the suburbs. Guess he figures their main problem is an inability to focus their attention. These camps will boost concentration.
Welcome back!
Hygiene is going to be a problem. Better install plenty of showers.
The homeless will be grateful. That keeps Bannon away.
Saw mention of a trend in the Republican Party started by Trump. With all his rude name calling during the election campaign, he’s freed conservatives to be ruder. They are “free to speak their mind”, which manifests not only in the White nationalism and violence, but in the realm of political discourse. Republican candidates are competing to say the meanest things about their opponents and anyone with different views. The internet is growing in trolling. The young generation of Republicans are more and more nasty.
And we see it in the boldness of their politics against trans, gay, women, immigrant, non-christians, etc.
It’s an entitlement of meanness.
Yes. This was my biggest worry when Trump was elected in 2016 — not nuclear war, or administrative incompetence, but rather the empowering of jerks all across the US to be rude and juvenile. “Coarsening of civil discourse” is an understatement. I was sad for my young child, now living in a culture where such awful debasement is acceptable (and, by many, emulated and applauded.)
In a lot of them it was the thin veneer of religion that caused them to be polite…at least on the surface. In Trump they found a priest/prophet that showed them that politeness wasn’t necessary- that honesty, even the ugliest of honesty, can be profitable.
I see what you did there…
And welcome back!!
Give 'em a break! They’re only 600ish months old!
Another example is those “I did that!” Biden stickers they put on gas pumps. It’s petty and juvenile, and it’s vandalism. Those gas pumps are private property. Free speech doesn’t apply. I call them the 50 year old juvenile delinquents, because I’m sure it’s people my age and older doing it.
Of course, they’re just decals and can be removed, so it’s very mild.
Yes, this was an easily predicted outcome of Trump’s behavior. He’s not the only cause, but he made it more acceptable behavior as official political rhetoric.
There are a lot of major social improvements in the last 30 years (roughly my adulthood), but there are a lot of ways our culture has degraded.
The internet has vastly improved communication and access to information, but the anonimity has fostered a culture of trolling. People get emboldened to be mean, rude, and hateful online, and that carries over into real world behavior. More and more people seem to think the proper response to anyone you disagree with is threats of violence and death.
Yes, I know there have always been people making threats. But visibility means publicity, and the behavior seems to be spreading.
Apologies for quoting a conservative here, but as Ross Douthat put it, “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.” As you say, Trump stripped that veneer right off, and what’s left ain’t pretty.
Physically. Mentally they’re still 60 months, if not 24.
Worse, it has facilitated the rampant spread of misinformation. There were cranks before the Internet, but they basically had to use newsletters. Now they can spread all kinds of unsupported crap to a worldwide audience that has become increasingly credulous.
Yes, but…
I’ve got children working retail. A couple of them have had to deal with getting stickers off of shopping carts, signs, etc. A lot of these things are cheap printed materials with good glue, meaning the paper will rip as you’re trying to pull it off, and the glue residue is a pain to get off. Yeah, minimal physical damage to the store, but now they’re paying employees to remove the stickers, so there is a cost associated for labor and materials. All so they can pwn the libs.
They can be nasty or near impossible to remove without damaging the surface under it. I work for the GOV, I know the guys in the Road and Bridge department. After the sign is defaced, it gets replaced.
They seem to have kind of given up on that though.
Since gas prices are falling, maybe we should leave the stickers on.
I saw a political cartoon on Facebook this week, the GOP elephant desperately trying to scrape one of these stickers off a gas pump.
Once again, Ann_H is a font of wisdom.