http://thenewstalkers.com/feed/group_discuss Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:45:30 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17459/tucker-carlson-called-donald-trump-a-demonic-force http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17459


]]> Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:31:30 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17458/some-of-my-friends-are-republicans-are-you-saying-theyre-all-fascists http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17458


]]> Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:02:48 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17454/a-lawsuit-reveals-how-fox-news-spreads-propaganda-and-election-fraud-lies http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17454 Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:49:43 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17453/ron-desantis-wants-to-make-colleges-more-conservative-the-new-york-times http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17453 Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:36:13 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17452/wonking-out-why-growth-can-be-green http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17452 Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:19:24 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17451/the-republican-party-is-fascist-is-a-terrible-thing-to-say-because-its-true http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17451 Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:41:17 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17442/the-right-dont-need-no-education http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17442 Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:16:22 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17434/here-kitty-kitty http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17434 Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:20:09 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17428/trains-that-derailed-in-ohio-werent-labeled-as-carrying-toxic-cargo http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17428 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:55:17 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17427/revealed-mississippi-bill-would-carve-out-separate-judicial-district-for-80-of-white-residents-in-majority-black-city http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17427 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:41:39 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17425/what-desantis-is-doing-to-florida-schools-explained http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17425 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:09:20 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17424/are-these-batteries-the-future-of-energy-storage http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17424 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:51:14 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17423/the-history-of-electric-vehicles-is-older-than-you-think-review-geek http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17423 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:45:49 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17419/us-still-has-the-worst-most-expensive-health-care-of-any-high-income-country http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17419 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:48:15 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17418/world-map-with-new-zealand-in-the-center http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17418 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:32:46 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17417/iranian-regime-opponent-releases-document-from-supreme-leader-khameneis-office-ordering-transfer-of-4-billion-to-his-son-mojta http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17417 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:19:13 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17416/cochise-county-elections-director-resigns-after-protecting-midterm-ballots-from-republican-officials http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17416 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:03:42 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17414/the-trouble-with-sunsets http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17414 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:41:41 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17405/the-gops-long-war-against-medicare-and-social-security http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17405 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:53:08 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17400/extraterrestrials-admit-responsibility-for-unidentified-objects-but-claim-they-were-only-monitoring-weather http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17400 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:11:33 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17398/food-fight-is-the-republican-party-fascist http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17398

The Republican Party is both racist and authoritarian. IMNAAHO, these facts are obvious to any lucid observer. So obvious that I cannot imagine anyone not seeing them... unless refusing to see them.
Giving "proof" in this "debate" is futile - it would be denied, derided, and whatever.


]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:33:27 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17392/whats-up-with-the-unidentified-objects-that-us-fighter-planes-keep-taking-down http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17392 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:19:55 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17390/marcus-garvey-and-the-history-of-black-history http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17390


What I find interesting here is how different Garvey's approaches were.



]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 15:35:38 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17389/is-the-republican-party-a-fascist-party http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17389 Sun, 12 Feb 2023 15:18:33 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17384/what-is-a-fascist http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17384 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 16:38:42 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17383/republicans-and-debt-blackmailers-without-a-cause http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17383 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 14:25:05 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17381/the-giant-pond-rat-that-built-america-youtube http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17381

I'm sorry, Buzz... but there's a LOT of good stuff on YouTube.
I'm subscribed to thirty or so channels of all kinds, from cars to politics to nature to... whatever. 



]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:33:15 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17380/kerguelen-living-on-one-of-the-worlds-most-isolated-islands http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17380


When I watch a video like this, I wonder if I've wasted my life...



]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:22:24 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17379/opinion-war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-democrats-are-radicals-the-new-york-times http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17379 Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:09:29 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17370/2024-mercedes-benz-esprinter-electric-van-will-be-built-and-sold-in-us http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17370

Delivery vans are a large, and largely negative, part of America's urban landscape. They are not great...
With relatively modest, known distances, delivery vans are ideal for electrification. Zevo and Rivian are pumping out a bunch...


]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:38:40 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17369/the-biggest-penguin-that-ever-existed-was-a-monster-bird-the-new-york-times http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17369

Every kid loves dinosaurs... and then almost any extinct critter.
I am pleased that in this, at least, I never grew up.




]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:50:47 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17368/democrats-just-won-a-majority-in-the-pennsylvania-house http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17368

REDMAP  (short for  Redistricting Majority Project ) is a project of the  Republican State Leadership Committee  of the United States to increase  Republican  control of  congressional  seats as well as state legislatures, largely through determination of electoral district boundaries. The project has made effective use of partisan  gerrymandering , by relying on previously unavailable  mapping software  such as  Maptitude  to improve the precision with which district lines are strategically drawn. The strategy was focused on swing  blue states  like  Pennsylvania ,  Ohio ,  Michigan ,  North Carolina , and  Wisconsin  where there was a  Democratic  majority but which they could swing towards Republican with appropriate redistricting. The project was launched in 2010 and estimated to have cost the Republican party around  US$30 million .


]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:39:44 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17366/mississippi-republicans-pass-bill-to-create-separate-unelected-court-in-majority-black-city http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17366


Racism? 


]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:26:55 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17356/regulation-and-why-more-productivity-isnt-always-better http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17356

Economics is fun. Yeah, that tells you a lot about me.
One of the most-fun things is a new way of interpreting data.
I already knew that GDP can be very misleading. Now here's productivity!


]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:16:39 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17341/the-global-thermostat-a-crazy-megaproject-that-just-might-work http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17341


There is HOPE!
Kinda...


]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:51:22 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17340/ohio-officials-to-release-toxic-chemicals-from-derailed-train-to-avert-explosion-ohio-the-guardian http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17340

So... basically... the public may get gassed...
... or get blown up.
This is called "Public Safety".


]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:18:18 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17339/europe-plots-to-replace-natural-gas-with-geothermal-energy http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17339

Putin thought the EU would cave to his threats about military action. The result is massive arms shipments to Ukraine.
Putin thought the EU would cave to high LNG prices. The result is that the EU is no longer buying Russian gas.
O-o-o-o-p-s....


]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:00:19 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17329/auto-industry-take-note-this-student-made-ev-cleans-the-air-while-driving http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17329


This is bleeding edge. Eindhoven is a perennial contender in Australia's long-distance race for solar cars, so they know what they're doing.


]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:11:44 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17328/evs-dont-work-in-cold-weather http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17328


Antarctica is getting too warm for its EV. 



]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:38:21 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17321/you-remember-brexit-the-brits-certainly-do http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17321

Back in the day, I posted the drama of Brexit, a monstrous hoax practiced on a fully complicit bunch of foolish Brits. The arguments for Brexit were full of nonsense. The arguments against Brexit were full on facts. So, of course, the Brits voted "FOR".
In all logic, by now the Brits should be realizing that they fucked up royally. Yup...


]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:34:47 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17317/warren-buffetts-14-year-bet-pays-off-as-berkshire-hathaway-cashes-in-on-byd http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17317

Warren Buffet has made his billions by investing in companies he believes will make money and pay him dividends. Of course, that simple strategy requires identifying profitable companies correctly.


]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:56:18 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17316/gas-cars-cheaper-than-evs-sure-you-just-need-new-math http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17316

Big Oil has s-o-o-o many shills! I assume that Anderson Economic Group is a paid shill, but many whom you'll find all across the Internet are acting in favor of Big Oil because they believe that that is the right thing to do.
Augean Stables...


]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:24:59 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17303/chinese-spy-balloon-flying-over-the-united-states-pentagon-says http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17303

U2?




]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:22:16 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17299/this-electric-caravan-is-every-adventurers-dream http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17299


A different kind of EV



]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:46:11 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17298/electric-cars-are-too-expensive-because-americans-insist-on-having-more-car-than-they-need-autoblog http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17298


This follows on very nicely, after yesterday's post .


]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:32:09 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17289/the-escalator-rises-again http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17289


I remember when this first was published. It was useful for ending debates, both genuine and artificial.



]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:27:09 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17288/cheapest-electric-cars-you-can-buy-in-2023-from-kia-chevy-toyota http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17288

Current politics kinda bores me. Same old - same old.
So I'll be posting other stuff that does interest me. Like electric vehicles.



]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:39:01 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17283/the-stunning-hypocrisy-of-special-counsel-john-durhams-inquiry-into-trump-russia-probe-vox http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/17283
I haven't posted for quite a while, but I've dropped in every once in a while to see if anything new was happening. I left because it seemed to me that in posting here, I was lending credence to the fascists who were also posting here.
I thought that the  Durham investigation wouldn't permit anyone's continuing to adore the Tea-Party-MAGA-deSantis religion. Maybe!
One particular member here is my primary indicator of "NT MAGAness", the member who adopted Mr Durham's image as his avatar. I've looked at that member's activity since the the Barr-Durham inquiries crashed and burned. It looks less rabid than it was.
So I'll see how things evolve.


]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:50:51 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13680/good-bye http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13680
I'm leaving NT. Permanently or just for a while... I do not know. 
There are a lot of Good People on NT. You know who you are. I wish you good sailing through what is sure to be turbulent weather for the foreseeable future.
This Group will remain up for a while, in case anyone wants to take it over. Then I will request its deletion.
God be with you.
]]> Sun, 01 Aug 2021 01:36:50 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13577/should-only-the-little-people-pay-taxes http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13577




]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:52:08 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13576/republicans-have-their-own-private-autocracy http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13576




]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:20:11 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13496/the-deadly-triumph-of-the-paranoid-style http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13496

Politicians' lies are not new.
The capacity to distribute them is.


]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:33:04 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13483/twitter-removed-a-lot-more-abusive-content-in-the-second-half-of-2020-than-ever-before http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13483

Completely free speech is a race to the deepest point in the septic tank. 
Twitter's exclusion of Donald Trump was important... but much, much too late.


]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2021 04:46:17 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13428/gettr-by-the-puy http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13428

We got into a spat over Moderation yesterday. Then this arrived today. Karma!
For the thousandth time... I have great esteem and affection for Perrie.
Which does not mean I must always agree with her.




]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:08:35 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13413/the-us-flag-at-the-front-of-your-church-is-blasphemous http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13413 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:32:56 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13412/only-the-incompetent-need-apply http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13412

We see this here on NT. Members who make no effort to verify the "facts" they put up.
They don't care whether they're true or not. They post the party line.
The result is a steady decline in the intelligence of posting on NT.


]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:03:10 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13285/the-prospects-of-a-post-democratic-world-us-canada-al-jazeera http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13285

I subscribe to al Jazeera as I once subscribed to the Wall Street Journal : to see what the bad guys are publishing. (Yes, I know... there's more than enough "bad guy publishing" right here on NT... but I'm looking for quality writing.)
It's interesting to see this presumption of the coming collapse of democracy in America... from an Iranian scholar.


]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:51:35 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13284/the-rogue-department-how-the-trump-doj-trashed-legal-and-political-norms http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13284

What's the fuss?
Reichsjustizminister Otto Georg Thierack did not doubt for whom he was working...
What's the difference?


]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2021 07:56:11 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13228/white-christianity-and-disney-princess-theology http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13228

How can thinking creatures refuse to think? What is going on in their heads?
I cannot stop trying to understand the fascists. Individually, they are not bad people
Collectively, they are evil .


]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:35:19 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13171/is-america-heading-to-a-place-where-it-can-no-longer-call-itself-a-democracy http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13171

America is falling. 
The Fascists are working - openly, blatantly - to prevent voting. 
The media proceeds as though nothing were happening...... 


]]> Sat, 05 Jun 2021 10:26:12 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13110/mitch-mcconnell-saw-the-insurrection-clearly-and-then-decided-he-liked-it-the-bulwark http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13110 Fri, 28 May 2021 17:28:50 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13109/american-democracy-isnt-dead-yet-but-its-getting-there-the-new-yorker http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13109

I fear for our democracy. The Fascists are attacking from all sides
Vote suppression. Gerrymandering. And now covering up sedition. America is falling. 


]]> Fri, 28 May 2021 16:12:41 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13094/why-democrats-must-pass-major-democratic-reforms http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13094

The fascists are determined to subvert the republic. 
Are others aware? 
Will the Thin Blue Line defend the republic... or destroy it? 


]]> Thu, 27 May 2021 12:18:33 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13077/the-banality-of-democratic-collapse http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13077 Mon, 24 May 2021 21:13:43 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13021/the-gops-telltale-signs-of-authoritarianism http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13021


Who ever said that fascism is easy??


]]> Mon, 17 May 2021 16:30:54 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13020/for-trump-hamas-and-bibi-it-is-always-jan-6 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/13020

Fascism is "authoritarianism & xenophobia". 
Hamas is fascist. Netanyahu is fascist.
A plague on both their houses.


]]> Mon, 17 May 2021 16:12:28 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12994/in-liz-cheney-vs-donald-trump-guess-who-won http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12994

I do not like Liz Cheney's policy choices. She has always voted the strict party line.
Tax-breaks for the rich, and all that crap.
But also... she voted for democracy ... and that is a good thing.


]]> Thu, 13 May 2021 12:03:43 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12992/liz-cheney-wants-to-save-democracy-from-trumps-next-coup http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12992

Trump is leading the Republican Party into fascism.
The Republican Party is happily following.
Germany's great capitalist corporations thrived under Hitler's rule.


]]> Thu, 13 May 2021 11:42:24 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12977/not-showing-their-true-colorsthe-poll-results http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12977

Fourteen members voted in the first two days... and no one has voted since. All fourteen said Biden is the legitimate President, with two adding that they wished he were not.
NO ONE said Trump is the legitimate President. The two who regretted Biden are the only two conservatives to give their opinions. NT's loudest conservative voices were silent - the members who seed every day, often multiple seeds - remained silent.
Their moral cowardice is stunning.


]]> Tue, 11 May 2021 11:52:26 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12958/show-your-true-colors http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12958

One-word answers, only! BIDEN or TRUMP .
Then you may add whatever verbiage you desire, but any reply that doesn't start with TRUMP or BIDEN will be deleted.
In five days, I will publish a collation of the results...


]]> Fri, 07 May 2021 11:15:32 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12945/trumps-big-lie-devoured-the-gop-and-now-eyes-our-democracy http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12945

Before our eyes, the Republican Party is becoming more and more openly fascist.
It openly attacks the right to vote. It openly discriminates on race and religion.
Worst of all... it openly is trying to impose a false history on the nation.
The Big Lie.


]]> Thu, 06 May 2021 17:09:36 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12937/the-learned-helplessness-of-republican-elites http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12937

There really are conservatives who are attached to democratic ideals.
There really are conservatives who are horrified by the rise of fascism in America.
Their silence condemns them.


]]> Wed, 05 May 2021 16:13:19 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12862/gop-delenda-est http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12862

The GOP, today, is fascist .  It is that simple.
If the Republican party ever again wins power, America will become a one-party, patriarchal, plutocratic dictatorship.
It is that simple.


]]> Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:28:41 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12836/opinion-republicans-arent-done-messing-with-elections-the-new-york-times http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12836

The Republican Fascist Party now openly sabotages free and honest elections.
If the Republican Fascist Party should ever win power again, it will never surrender it.
The Republican Fascist Party must never again win national elections in America.


]]> Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:14:01 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12829/beer-hall-putsch http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12829

The Beer Hall putschists probably never had a chance. But they were in military gear, and ready to rumble if things went the way they wanted.
On January Sixth, America's fascists assaulted the Capitol in a very similar putsch attempt, including the military gear.
The Beer Hall Putsch made the Nazis' intentions clear: overthrow democracy... install a dictatorship.
January Sixth made the Trumpists' intentions clear: overthrow democracy... install a dictatorship.


]]> Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:21:03 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12809/heeding-the-lessons-of-weimar http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12809

America today is Weimar Germany, in the 1930s.
Weimar had Hitler's failed and semi-ludicrous "beer-hall putsch". We had the failed coup attempt on January Sixth.
Germans did not take seriously Hitler's clear declarations that he would eliminate democracy. Americans have not taken seriously Trump's clear declarations that he would eliminate democracy.


]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:51:07 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12618/conservatism-is-no-longer-enough-the-american-mind http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12618 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:23:43 -0400 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12551/conservative-fanboys http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12551

Know your fascist-fellow-traveler neighbors!
They're the ones who give you a wink*wink while repeating that "dog-whistles don't exist".


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America's last President was a fascist:
 - undoubtedly authoritarian, and
 - undoubtedly xenophobe (racist).
Tens of millions of Americans - including quite a few here on Newstalkers - fervently support that fascist... to the point that in their eyes he can do no wrong.
Either all these people are themselves fascists - authoritarians and xenophobes - or they are dupes, and therefore fascist-fellow-travelers.
]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:57:25 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12378/the-paradox-of-pandemic-partisanship http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12378
It's not too hard to see why Democrats and independents like the plan. What I'm trying to understand is something that seems like a political paradox. Namely, how is it possible that so many Republicans approve of the plan?

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IMNAAHO, this thing would sell like hotcakes in the US, as a runabout second car, even if the necessary safety mods added several thousand to the price.
As for a hypothetical Latvian partner... nope.
]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:12:35 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12366/audit-of-maricopa-voting-equipment-comes-up-clean http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12366 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:41:12 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12365/its-time-to-embrace-the-singular-they http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12365

I don't like to be called a "grammar Nazi". 
Grudgingly, I'll accept "grammar ayatollah".
Truth be told, I've been using the singular "they" for a while, already, to avoid the gender mess.


]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:28:10 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12363/dont-go-down-the-rabbit-hole http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12363

How to "think" (to analyze, theorize, test, ...) is perhaps the most important topic on the table these days, precisely because we see so many millions of Americans who simply do not think. Including a bunch here on NT... 


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The Republican Party has long been a puppet for the ultra-rich, bleeding the federal treasury for their own benefit.
Now a not -historic storm has shown us that Texas Republicans are bleeding their citizens locally, as well.
Gosh what a surprise...


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Atlas Obscura is a webzine about out-of -the-way places to visit... or not...


]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:31:34 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12339/et-tu-ted-why-deregulation-failed http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12339
Deregulation
has
Consequences
]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:48:32 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12338/a-bristling-standoff-rattles-gun-friendly-vermont-the-new-york-times http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12338 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:26:31 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12336/people-with-extremist-views-less-able-to-do-complex-mental-tasks-research-suggests-psychology-the-guardian http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12336
Thoughtful conservatives have nowhere to go.
The Republican Party has not produced any ideas for social advancement in decades. The last one may have been the Heritage Foundation's proposal for health-care... which became RomneyCare in Massachusetts and then ObamaCare nationally. Since then... not much.
I don't count shoveling federal money to the already-rich to be a "social advancement"...
We see the same thing here on Newstalkers: For years; I have called on our "conservative" members to tell us their ideas. They never answer... because they have no ideas .
Since the advent of Donald Trump, those idea-less, self-styled conservatives have been freed of any constraints. They can, and do, lie about everything, all the time. 
We should not condemn them. We should pity them.
They have no ideas because they are intellectually handicapped. They never learned to think.
]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:46:57 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12330/native-americans-finally-have-a-cabinet-nominee-will-an-adopted-tlingit-take-her-down http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12330

Murkowski is a mystery to me. I really do not know what she will do. 
She has sometimes upheld her oath, and sometimes not. Would she dare betray the tribes that have been critical to her election?


]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:35:07 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12329/to-save-democracy-principled-conservatives-must-ally-with-democrats http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12329

Thoughtful conservatives have nowhere to go. The Republican Party has not produced any ideas for social advancement in decades. The last one may have been the Heritage Foundation's proposal for health-care... which became RomneyCare in Massachusetts and then ObamaCare nationally. Since then... not much.
I don't count shoveling federal money to the already-rich to be a "social advancement"...
We see the same thing here on Newstalkers: For years; I have called on our "conservative" members to tell us their ideas. They never answer... because they have no ideas .
Since the advent of Donald Trump, those idea-less, self-styled conservatives have been freed of any constraints. They can, and do, lie about everything, all the time. 
We should not condemn them. We should pity them. They have no ideas because they are intellectually handicapped. They never learned to think.
This line of reasoning will continue in my first Comment.


]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:35:36 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12308/the-virginia-gop-voted-on-its-future-the-losers-reject-the-results http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12308 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:47:24 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12307/texas-power-outage-why-wind-turbines-are-not-to-blame http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12307 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:27:06 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12306/what-tom-cottons-big-plan-to-beat-china-actually-says http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12306 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:04:49 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12305/meet-elizabeth-ann-the-first-cloned-black-footed-ferret-the-new-york-times http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12305 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:31:07 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12304/on-cancun-and-the-insurrection-the-bulwark http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12304 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:29:43 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12295/the-nations-cartoonists-on-the-week-in-politics http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12295 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:20:51 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12286/texas-land-of-wind-and-lies http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12286

The only failures I see in Texas are in its leadership. A power company knows how to winter-proof its equipment.
But that makes production more expensive. It hurts the bottom line. So no power company will do it unless there's an incentive - carrot or stick.
Texas had incentives, but then its leaders decided they weren't necessary. 


]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:37:44 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12285/the-livestock-living-at-the-end-of-the-world http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12285

What is our "natural state"?
We've modified our world beyond any possibility of return... if we wanted to.
And yet... it is our responsibility to destroy as little as possible.


]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:02:46 -0500 http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12283/when-is-now http://thenewstalkers.com/bob-nelson/group_discuss/12283

American politics is boring these days. Everyone doing as predicted.
I mean... who didn't KNOW that Ted Cruz would show himself to be a totally insensitive asshole? We all knew it!
So rather than waste my time on politics, Ive been binging YouTube.


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