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The irrational left

  

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By:  vic-eldred  •  one week ago  •  95 comments

The irrational left
“I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom, ” Harris, 59, told Wisconsin Public Radio.

Yesterday, the radical left's newest candidate Kamala Harris said she wanted to end the Senate filibuster in order to codify the unconstitutional "Roe v Wade" decision. If she were to succeed it would end more than a century of the US Senates 60 vote rule, which demanded a reasonable consensus in enacting certain legislation. Two Senate Democrats turned independents, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, criticized that position. Manchin said he won't endorse her.

Kamala's argument is that by codifying the high court’s wrongly decided 1973 decision, "every woman would be able make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”  It would, of course, allow a simple partisan majority to enact a federal law on abortion, rather than the people of each state voting for the kind of abortion laws, with or without restrictions, that they want. 

This marks another flip flop for Harris who once sent a letter to then Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell in 2017 begging McConnell to preserve the filibuster. Back then when we had a competent President, and a Republican Senate Kamala said: “We are united in our determination to preserve the ability of Members to engage in extended debate when bills are on the Senate floor.”

She has received a lot more help in the past few weeks & days. The Fed cut interest rates just before an election, Taylor Swift endorsed Harris in a cunningly timed move, a few Teamster locals were convinced to break with leader O'Brien and endorsed Harris and Volodymyr Zelensky came to visit in what appears to be an attempt to boost Harris. Imagine a foreign leader getting involved in an American election?

House Republicans are demanding an investigation into  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s  visit to the United States this week, raising questions about whether it was  intended to boost Vice President Kamala Harris  ahead of the November election. 


A group of nine House Republicans led by Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) is requesting information from the Justice and Defense departments to determine whether a  visit from Zelensky to Pennsylvania  earlier this week was “politically motivated” and paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars in violation of federal law.

The request specifically cites comments from Zelensky in which he suggested a Trump-Vance administration could lead to “global conflict,” prompting criticism from GOP lawmakers who called it a “stump speech” for Harris. 

“These actions have raised serious concerns among observers that the visit may have been politically motivated, potentially violating U.S. laws such as the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while on duty or using government resources for such activities,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. 

The letter also cites concerns that Zelensky was flown into Pennsylvania on a U.S. military aircraft and was provided Secret Service protection while visiting an ammunition plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, both of which would involve the use of taxpayer funds and must only be used for national security purposes.

If true, the lawmakers argue, those resources were used for purposes unrelated to national security but rather “to support a politically significant visit ahead of a major U.S. election.” In that case, Republicans say it would be a violation of federal law or ethical guidelines, thus prompting a “full accounting of those expenditures” to Congress. 

House Republicans demand investigation on whether Zelensky visit was ‘politically motivated’ to boost Harris - Washington Examiner

Something tells me this will be a very rewarding trip for Zelensky.


In the news:

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The Israeli military said it intercepted a Hezbollah missile fired at Tel Aviv. It is the first time Hezbollah has targeted Israel's economic center. The Israeli military is calling up two reserve brigades to the northern border for "operational activities." The U.N. Security Council is expected to meet tonight as global leaders fear a broader regional war. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the two sides to reach a diplomatic agreement in an interview on NBC's "TODAY" show this morning.

China said it had launched a ballistic missile with a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean, a projection of power in Asia.

Iran hacked into the Trump campaign not once but twice.

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Speaker Mike Johnson plans to bypass House Republican hard-liners by relying on Democratic votes to pass a spending bill today. He will avoid a shutdown and at the same time the point on democrats being against a federal law preventing illegal alien voting has been made.

A House committee recommended holding Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, in contempt of congress for refusing to testify about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A federal grand jury charged the gunman who lurked near Donald Trump’s golf course with attempting to assassinate a Presidential candidate. He faces life imprisonment. The case will be handled by the states most prestigious Judge: Judge Aileen Cannon. U.S. intelligence officials have now briefed Trump about specific threats from Iran to assassinate him. Iran fears another Trump Presidency.

United States District Court Judge Richard L. Young (A Clinton appointee) made an illogical ruling that the state’s ban on gender-affirming surgery likely violates the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  The ruling mandates that the IDOC arrange for a prisoner will be able to receive the surgery at taxpayer expense immediately.


 


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Vic Eldred
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1  author  Vic Eldred    one week ago

Good morning

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The Rabbit Hole on X: "Democrats dominate academia https://t.co/AzWSmun7eB" / X

AKA: America's problem.

Defunding universities would help.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
1.1  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    one week ago

And you believe a bar graph posted on that bastion of misinformation called 'X' because?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Hallux @1.1    one week ago
And you believe a bar graph

It is an indication of how far left our universities have become.

Case in point: Our presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, who told us she had a middle-class background, is actually the daughter of two tenured professors. 

Donald Harris, 85, is an emeritus professor at Stanford University whose research interests include economic history, macroeconomics, economics of technology, and development economics, according to his Stanford profile. He joined the faculty in 1972 and retired in 1998, according to a description of his professional career. Harris also served as an economic consultant to Jamaica’s government, according to the description. He was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met his future wife and Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan.

Shyamala Gopalan was a scientist whose work was described as sparking “many advances” in “the role of progesterone and its cellular receptor in breast biology and cancer,” activist organization Breast Cancer Action  published in 2009 .

Who are Kamala Harris' parents? Father was a Stanford professor, mom a scientist (yahoo.com)

According to Snopes: (the fact checker) Kamala Harris' father was a Marxist economist.

Fact Check: Kamala Harris' Father Was a 'Marxist Economist'? (msn.com)

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
1.1.2  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.1    one week ago
It is an indication of how far left our universities have become.

That's nice ... now who is responsible for producing the chart?

As to Kamilla's father was a marxist, so what, mine was a mechanic and an Anglican, none of his sons became either. Friedrich Trump ran brothels ... is he responsible for how Donald runs his life? Enough with the 'guilt' by association nonsense.

As to tenured professors, they are upper class? In the 1990s either would have been lucky to pull in 60,000$ a year.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Hallux @1.1.2    one week ago
now who is responsible for producing the chart?

The link is there.


As to Kamilla's father was a marxist, so what

He taught economics at Stanford University. That's what!

 
 
 
Nerm_L
Professor Expert
1.1.4  Nerm_L  replied to  Hallux @1.1    one week ago
And you believe a bar graph posted on that bastion of misinformation called 'X' because?

Langbert, Mitchell (June 2018).  "Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty" Academic Questions 32  (2): 186–197.  doi : 10.1007/s12129-018-9700-x  (inactive 2024-02-27).  S2CID   149559397 . Retrieved   June 13,   2018 .

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.1.5  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Nerm_L @1.1.4    one week ago

Very well done!

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
Professor Principal
1.1.6  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Hallux @1.1.2    one week ago
would have been lucky to pull in 60,000$ a year.

Equivalent to $148K in 1990

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
1.1.7  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.1.3    one week ago
He taught economics at Stanford University. That's what!

Oh my, my 'X taught' economics at Wake Forest, her 'Y' at Case Western and they didn't share a Marxist bone twixt them. It's time you realized that the 'modern' Marxist is just a scary dustbunny that publications such as The Standard SC toss at receptive paranoia.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.1.8  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @1.1.7    one week ago

I believe the former 'president' convicted felon rapist traitor called her a socialist marxist fascist.  

What's that?

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
1.1.9  Hallux  replied to  Tessylo @1.1.8    one week ago
What's that?

One of those emasculating multi-ethnic females that appears to scare the shyte out of supposedly grownup maga-macho men.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
1.1.10  Hallux  replied to  Nerm_L @1.1.4    one week ago

Neat, you toss up a link to 'think tank' funded top to bottom by members of the far right. Try harder.

 
 
 
Nerm_L
Professor Expert
1.1.11  Nerm_L  replied to  Hallux @1.1.10    one week ago
Neat, you toss up a link to 'think tank' funded top to bottom by members of the far right. Try harder.

Political science is yet another liberal art.  Even when it is conservative.

So, what we have is the far left complaining about the far right complaining about the far left. 

Yeah, I can see why Kamala Harris would be popular with the liberal arts crowd.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
1.1.12  Hallux  replied to  Nerm_L @1.1.11    one week ago
So, what we have is the far left complaining about the far right complaining about the far left. 

Sounds like you attended a confessional this morning.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.1.13  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @1.1.9    one week ago

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Nerm_L
Professor Expert
1.2  Nerm_L  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    one week ago
AKA: America's problem. Defunding universities would help.

They are called liberal arts for a reason.  Did you know that mathematics and economics are liberal arts?

The opposite of liberal arts would be technical and vocational disciplines.  Those in the liberal arts only think about working.  It's the vocational disciplines who must actually do the work.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.2.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Nerm_L @1.2    one week ago
Those in the liberal arts only think about working.  It's the vocational disciplines who must actually do the work.

I like it!

Very good Nerm.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Expert
1.3  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    one week ago
Defunding universities would help.

You do realize that we lead the world in science. That would be a really bad move.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.3.1  Tessylo  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.3    one week ago

It also doesn't make any sense.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.2  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @1.3    one week ago

We can lead the world in science without having the social sciences being taught from a Marxist perspective,

Take away funding and they'll get rid of the lefties.

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
1.3.3  evilone  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.2    one week ago
We can lead the world in science without having the social sciences being taught from a Marxist perspective,

We can also lead the world without labeling everything we disagree with as Marxist. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.4  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  evilone @1.3.3    one week ago

I only call it where it exists. It dominates the left.

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
1.3.5  evilone  replied to  Vic Eldred @1.3.4    one week ago
I only call it where it exists. It dominates the left.

Where one side finds Marxists the other finds Nazis. Good luck with your continued crusade to divide the country. I don't think it will lead where you want it to.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.3.6  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  evilone @1.3.5    one week ago

Can you name a Nazi professor teaching at an American university?

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
1.4  Kavika   replied to  Vic Eldred @1    one week ago

So the bar graph shows that Republicans aren't as smart as Democrats or they chose to be grifters instead of producing citizens?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.4.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Kavika @1.4    one week ago

It shows that what many academics like Thomas Sowell complained about decades ago is true.

The universities forced out teachers and Professors who weren't hard left.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
1.4.2  Kavika   replied to  Vic Eldred @1.4.1    one week ago

How did they force them out? If they are tenured that statement is BS.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1.4.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Kavika @1.4.2    one week ago
If they are tenured

If they were tenured, they were replaced after retirement by a leftist.

Are you denying that the left now controls most of our institutions?

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
2  JBB    one week ago

MAGA Anti-Intellectualism is so Germany 1939...

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JBB @2    one week ago

In a way, you stumbled onto something.

All was quiet on the Marxist front until 1923 when the cultural terrorist turned up for a “Marxist study week” in Frankfurt, Germany. There, Lukács met a young, wealthy Marxist named Felix Weil.

Until Lukács showed up, classical Marxist theory was based solely on the economic changes needed to overthrow class conflict. Weil was enthused by Lukács’ cultural angle on Marxism.

Weil’s interest led him to fund a new Marxist think tank—the Institute for Social Research. It would later come to be known as simply The Frankfurt School.

In 1930, the school changed course under new director Max  Horkheimer.  The team began mixing the ideas of Sigmund Freud with those of Marx, and cultural Marxism was born.

In classical Marxism, the workers of the world were oppressed by the ruling classes. The new theory was that everyone in society was psychologically oppressed by the institutions of Western culture. The school concluded that this new focus would need new vanguards to spur the change. The workers were not able to rise up on their own.

As fate would have it, the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933. It was a bad time and place to be a Jewish Marxist, as most of the school’s faculty was. So, the school moved to New York City, the bastion of Western culture at the time.

The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How The “Frankfurt School” Changed America | The Standard SC

That was the bad seed which began it all.

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
2.1.1  evilone  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1    one week ago
That was the bad seed which began it all.

Only for racist xenophobes like the Nazis in 1933 were.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.1.2  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  evilone @2.1.1    one week ago
Only for racist xenophobes like the Nazis in 1933 were.

That makes zero sense.

 
 
 
devangelical
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2.1.3  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.2    one week ago

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Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.1.4  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.2    one week ago

Ja.  Makes perfect sense.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.1.5  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @2.1.4    one week ago
  Makes perfect sense.

Good. Please explain it to us.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.1.6  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.5    one week ago

As soon as you supply a fact or the truth.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
2.1.7  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Tessylo @2.1.6    one week ago
As soon as you supply a fact or the truth.

I'll take that as YOU CAN'T.

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
2.1.8  JBB  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1    one week ago

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Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.1.9  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.7    one week ago

It needs no explanation.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.1.10  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.7    one week ago

So I was correct then.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.1.11  Tessylo  replied to  JBB @2.1.8    one week ago

Ja!

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.2  Tessylo  replied to  JBB @2    one week ago

Ja!  You know how the cons/the former 'president' convicted felon rapist conman traitor feel about the uneducated.  Loves them!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
3  Buzz of the Orient    one week ago

I'm laying bets that Judge Aileen Cannon will do the exact opposite she did for Trump, will rush this case through so fast it will be arrested for speeding. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
3.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3    one week ago

It may have been a tough case in DC, or NYC, or Fulton County Georgia.

I think she'll do well.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
3.1.1  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @3.1    one week ago
I think she'll do well.

I think she will go down in history as a Goneril. 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
3.1.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Hallux @3.1.1    one week ago

Aha!!!  A man who knows his Shakespeare.  But Cannon is so obviously loyal to Trump. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
3.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3.1.2    one week ago
But Cannon is so obviously loyal to Trump. 

No, I think justice is striking back. This out of New York:

NEW YORK — Some judges in a New York appeals court appeared receptive Thursday to possibly reversing or reducing a civil fraud judgment that stands to  cost Donald Trump nearly $500 million . One judge called the former president’s penalty “troubling” and wondered if the state’s policing of private business transactions amounted to “deterrence” or “mission creep.”

Appeals court seems open to altering Trump civil fraud penalty (nydailynews.com)

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4  author  Vic Eldred    one week ago

"A major strike is on the horizon for thousands of maritime workers, posing a threat to East Coast ports responsible for billions of dollars of goods. 

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), the largest union of maritime workers in North America, has vocalized plans to go on strike at all of its Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports Oct. 1 if a new contract agreement can’t be reached with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX). The union is arguing for better wages and continued protections against automation and new technology in its terminals.

“A sleeping giant is ready to roar on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, if a new Master Contract Agreement is not in place,” ILA President Harold J. Daggett said  in a statement Monday.   “My members have been preparing for over a year for that possibility of a strike.”

Major maritime strike could threaten ports across the East Coast (nbcnews.com)


What a great move by the Longshoreman's Union. They scheduled their strike, which could have a major impact on the economy for October 1st.

Question of the day: How much pressure will Joe Biden place on employers so that this strike ends quickly?


 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
4.1  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @4    one week ago
Question of the day:

Answer of the day:

None of your business.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Hallux @4.1    one week ago
None of your business.

It is our business. This is not the Soviet Union.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
5  Sean Treacy    one week ago

Harris and the dozens of democratic senators flip flopping on the filibuster depending on who the president is sums up their whole mentality. They are children who want immediate gratification and who think tomorrow never comes. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
6  author  Vic Eldred    one week ago

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seemingly approved a deal that would "fast-track"  left-wing billionaire George Soros’  acquisition of more than 200 Audacy radio stations across America, irking a Republican commissioner who "objected."

The  New York Post first reported  that the FCC last week "adopted an order to approve Soros’ purchase of more than 200 radio stations in 40 markets just weeks before the presidential election," potentially allowing the far-left kingmaker to reach more than 165 million Americans at a critical time.  

"The FCC decision came after a partisan vote with the commission’s three Democrats voting for the move while the two Republicans voted against it, sources added," Post reporter Lydia Moynihan wrote. 

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George Soros closer to controlling 200 radio stations despite objection from Trump-nominated FCC commissioner | Fox News

Why would the FCC allow it?

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
6.1  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    one week ago

I was starting to miss George, nice to see he maintains his boogieman status. Thanks Orbán!

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
6.2  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    one week ago

Sounds like they don't want to allow Soros his 1st Amendment rights.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
6.3  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    one week ago
Why would the FCC allow it?

Why should they deny it? Is there any evidence that this would break an existing law or that it would eliminate all rightwing voices in those markets?

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
7  Tessylo    one week ago

"Speaker Mike Johnson plans to bypass House Republican hard-liners by relying on Democratic votes to pass a spending bill today. He will avoid a shutdown and at the same time the point on democrats being against a federal law preventing illegal alien voting has been made."

No need to pass a law for something that doesn't happen.  He's proven nothing, as usual.  Do nothing republicons.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8  JohnRussell    one week ago

As I said in an article here yesterday, which all the conservatives but one were too chicken to come on, Trump is running a straight up racist campaign. 

If Haitians are here legally,  he has no right whatsofuckingever to disparage them.  NONE.  He does it because they are black. If you dont like the truth stick it where the sun dont shiine. 

The pot is ready to boil over in this election. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8    one week ago

There is an old Aesop's fable known as "The boy who cried wolf."

Have you ever heard of it?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    one week ago

The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to come to the United States, and it is including “additional vetting” of their U.S.-based financial sponsors following fraud concerns.

The Department of Homeland Security had  suspended the program  earlier this month to investigate the concerns but indicated that an internal review found no widespread fraud among sponsors.

“Together with our existing rigorous vetting of potential beneficiaries seeking to travel to the United States, these new procedures for supporters have strengthened the integrity of these processes and will help protect against exploitation of beneficiaries,” the agency said.

The program launched in January 2023 and is a major piece of the Biden administration’s immigration policies that  create or expand pathways for legal entry  while restricting asylum for those who cross the border illegally.

Biden restarts immigration program for 4 countries with more vetting for sponsors | AP News


Republicans have repeatedly criticized the program as an end-run around immigration laws.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    one week ago

The Haitians are here legally. Trump has no right to disparage them.  He is appealing to straight up racists, which makes him scum. He said the other day that he is going to visit Springfield Ohio but he doesnt know if anyone will ever see him again. Dog whistling to his moron crowd that the black Haitian cannibals might eat him. 

We are in the home stretch now and Trump's deranged mind is going to boil over.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.1.3  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    one week ago

Yes, when is the former 'president' convicted felon rapist traitor going to stop crying wolf?

When will the next attempt be I wonder since the traitor is really flailing more so than ever?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.4  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.2    one week ago

They are here legally because Joe Biden restarted a program that goes around immigration law. Springfield Ohio does have employers with a need for cheap labor. The effect of all those immigrants on the community is another matter. Your endless racism comments are disgraceful.

We are in the home stretch now

You bet and you are about to discover that most of America has had enough.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
8.1.5  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.2    one week ago
cannibals might eat him. 

Sounds like something Joe Biden actually said.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.6  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.4    one week ago
Your endless racism comments are disgraceful.

Most MAGA are stupid fucks.  When your presidential candidate says that if he goes to Springfield  you might never see him again , he is making a racial dogwhistle , implying the savage black Haitians might eat him. 

Everyone is not as dumb and gullible as MAGA morons. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.7  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.6    one week ago
Most MAGA are stupid fucks.

That is your opinion, John. I can just as easily say that most PROGRESSIVES are hate filled Marxists.  Where does it get us?


When your presidential candidate says that if he goes to Springfield  you might never see him again , he is making a racial dogwhistle

No John, it means that people are trying to kill him (the Iranians are among them.)


Everyone is not as dumb and gullible as MAGA morons. 

Everyone is not as hate filled as the INDOCTRINATED PROGRESSIVE MORONS.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.8  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.4    one week ago
They are here legally

You should have just stopped there. If Trump or you dont like that fact then try to change the law.  You dont relentlessly lie and rant and racialize people who are here legally, period.  Why are these people any different than refugees who came here after world war two such as eastern Europeans?  To MAGA and Trump there is one reason they are different - because they are not white. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
8.1.9  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    one week ago
There is an old Aesop's fable known as "The boy who cried wolf."Have you ever heard of it?

we see trump do it every day...

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.10  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.7    one week ago
No John, it means that people are trying to kill him (the Iranians are among them.)

I cant answer that ridiculous comment because of the moderation here. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.11  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.8    one week ago
You should have just stopped there.

No, John, you should have stopped. Biden found a way to make it legal and it was supposed to be based on those people being vetted. Where those Venezuelans vetted???


then try to change the law. 

The law required VETTING!


 Why are these people any different than refugees who came here after world war two such as eastern Europeans?  

Because democrats want everyone in.


To MAGA and Trump there is one reason they are different - because they are not white. 

THAT IS A LIE.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.12  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.11    one week ago

Your words are all empty. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.13  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.10    one week ago
I cant answer that ridiculous comment because of the moderation here.

That's too bad.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.1.14  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.6    one week ago

That is the fucking truth.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.15  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  devangelical @8.1.9    one week ago

The moral is this:

WHEN YOU CAN EVERYONE RACIST ALL THE TIME, THE WORD LOSES ITS MEANING.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.16  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.12    one week ago

I'm going to be right here slugging away at Kamala Harris right up until election day.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.17  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.15    one week ago
WHEN YOU CAN EVERYONE RACIST ALL THE TIME, THE WORD LOSES ITS MEANING.

WHEN YOU CAN EVERYONE RACIST ALL THE TIME, THE WORD LOSES ITS MEANING.

Vic, I can fucking demonstrate it.  If these legally allowed people in Springfield Ohio were from Germany or Norway you wouldnt be hearing a god damn word about them. Everyone knows that. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.18  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.17    one week ago
If these legally allowed people in Springfield Ohio were from Germany or Norway you wouldnt be hearing a god damn word about them. Everyone knows that. 

No, we don't know that. So, you haven't demonstrated it.

Perhaps if there was a great migration from the First world you might have a chance, but then again, I do remember when we had great migrations from Europe and history shows that the Germans, the Russian Jews, the Irish and the Italians all faced discrimination based on their coming in waves.

So, I guess you are wrong.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8.1.19  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.18    one week ago

If the legally allowed people migrating to Ohio were white, we wouldnt be hearing a damn thing about them.  David Duke could see that. 

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
8.1.20  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.7    one week ago
I can just as easily say that most PROGRESSIVES are hate filled Marxists.  Where does it get us?

You do that daily ... oh look, daily ends in a y ... @!@

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.1.21  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1    one week ago

Has the former 'president' ever heard of it?  He does it daily.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
8.1.22  Tessylo  replied to  Vic Eldred @8.1.4    one week ago

You bet and you are also about to discover that most of America has had enough

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
8.1.23  Kavika   replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.12    one week ago

Much like Trump's skull.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
8.1.24  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1.17    one week ago

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
9  author  Vic Eldred    one week ago

Brit Hume: "What has emerged recently is a new type of journalist who wants less, rather than more, information about the most important story of the moment."

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Nerm_L
Professor Expert
10  Nerm_L    one week ago

Kamala Harris doesn't seem to understand that the Senate filibuster may be the only thing protecting Democrat unity.  Congressional Democrats can vote for any stupid idea knowing that the filibuster protects them from themselves.  If Congressional Democrats have to put their own heads on the chopping block then party unity will dissipate.  What happened to Biden's 'Build Back Better' legislation?  Didn't that die in the Senate without the filibuster?  Didn't that episode highlight Democrat disunity in Congress?  

Doesn't Kamala Harris understand that, as President, she would be nominating justices for the courts?  That's Harris' campaign whine about Trump nominating the justices that overturned Roe.  Doesn't Kamala Harris understand that a President dictating how Congress conducts the country's business would be unconstitutional?  

And, besides, SCOTUS could still rule that the filibusterless legislation would be unconstitutional.  Then we'll be treated to Harris whining about stacking the court, again. 

Obama, Biden, and now Harris kinda prove that Senators won't make good Presidents.  Senators are not decision makers.  Senators only know how to kick cans down the road while dodging accountability.  Senators run for office on their power to legislate; President's run for office on their power to nominate.  Is Harris running for President or for a Senate seat?  And what does that portend for the future of the country?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
10.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Nerm_L @10    one week ago

Every time she speaks on her own it happens.  

It is a strange campaign, isn't it?

 
 
 
Nerm_L
Professor Expert
10.1.1  Nerm_L  replied to  Vic Eldred @10.1    one week ago
Every time she speaks on her own it happens. 

Keep in mind that Kamala Harris only served four years of a six year term as Senator.  And a little more than 3 years as Vice President.  That is the sum total of Kamala Harris' governing experience.  Harris spent her time in government service as an autocrat whose duties involved gaming the system.  Harris doesn't know how to negotiate, compromise, or govern; she only knows how to intimidate, cajole, dictate, and game the system.

It is a strange campaign, isn't it?

I thought 'weird' was supposed to be the party approved adjective.  So, 'strange' seems a little odd.  

(Kamala Harris approved this message.)

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
11  Tacos!    one week ago
Yesterday, the radical left's newest candidate Kamala Harris said she wanted to end the Senate filibuster

Eliminating the filibuster should be a conservative goal. Where is there a 60-vote requirement to pass something in the Constitution? It’s not there. This madness was developed in the 20th century, and it has been used for atrocious ends, like blocking civil rights legislation.

But too many of today’s conservatives want to use the filibuster to wield power over the majority. What power specifically? The power to control people they don’t like. The power to restrict - and even reverse - rights and liberties enjoyed by the people and supported by the majority. It’s anti-democratic. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
11.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  Tacos! @11    one week ago
liminating the filibuster should be a conservative goal

If Conservative meant the opposite of what it does, yes. 

The idea that any conservative would want to destroy the very purpose of the Senate and turn into a smaller version of the house is preposterous. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
11.1.1  devangelical  replied to  Sean Treacy @11.1    one week ago
If Conservative meant the opposite of what it does, yes. 

... like the last 44 years?

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
11.1.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  devangelical @11.1.1    one week ago

Conservative has always meant conservative.

Conservative: adjective - averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

Slavery and racial discrimination were "traditional values" in America for centuries. Conservatives have long fought to 'conserve' those values regardless of what political party they belonged to. They continue to fight to 'conserve' legal discrimination against lgbtq Americans as well as trying to 'conserve' the many ways they have injected their religion into our schools, courts and laws.

It's 'Republican' that began to mean the opposite about half a century ago. Lincoln Republicans were progressives who fought to free the slaves and fought to change the 'traditional values'. The new Republican party post the civil rights act passage is the complete opposite as they embraced conservative values and saw an opportunity to grow by catering to the disaffected Southern Democrat conservatives who were angered at their party for embracing the civil rights act and voting rights act.

"From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are." - Republican strategist Kevin Phillips in 1970 interview with the NY Times.

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
11.1.3  Tacos!  replied to  Sean Treacy @11.1    6 days ago

Conservatives have always claimed they hold the Constitution and the intent of its framers to be sacred. If something isn’t in the Constitution, we shouldn’t be practicing it. That’s what they claim.

Well, the filibuster is not in the Constitution. More specifically, there is a clear intent that each of house Congress - but in this case, specifically, the Senate - decide matters on a simple majority basis, with only something as significant as amendments being the exception. Even if we allow the Senate to establish its own rules for debate, the filibuster is routinely used without debate. And if anyone does physically filibuster by actually, speaking this rarely on the topic of the bill. Even worse, it only takes one Senator to gum up the works.

The filibuster we know is anti-democratic and goes against the express goals of the Founders and the words in the Constitution. How do I know what the Founders intended? Alexander Hamilton discussed this issue in Federalist Paper #22 :

The necessity of unanimity in public bodies, or of something approaching towards it, has been founded upon a supposition that it would contribute to security. But its real operation is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority. In those emergencies of a nation, in which the goodness or badness, the weakness or strength of its government, is of the greatest importance, there is commonly a necessity for action. The public business must, in some way or other, go forward. If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings. Hence, tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good. And yet, in such a system, it is even happy when such compromises can take place: for upon some occasions things will not admit of accommodation; and then the measures of government must be injuriously suspended, or fatally defeated. It is often, by the impracticability of obtaining the concurrence of the necessary number of votes, kept in a state of inaction. Its situation must always savor of weakness, sometimes border upon anarchy.
It is not difficult to discover, that a principle of this kind gives greater scope to foreign corruption, as well as to domestic faction, than that which permits the sense of the majority to decide; though the contrary of this has been presumed. The mistake has proceeded from not attending with due care to the mischiefs that may be occasioned by obstructing the progress of government at certain critical seasons. When the concurrence of a large number is required by the Constitution to the doing of any national act, we are apt to rest satisfied that all is safe, because nothing improper will be likely TO BE DONE, but we forget how much good may be prevented, and how much ill may be produced, by the power of hindering the doing what may be necessary, and of keeping affairs in the same unfavorable posture in which they may happen to stand at particular periods.
 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
11.1.4  Sean Treacy  replied to  Tacos! @11.1.3    6 days ago
onservatives have always claimed they hold the Constitution and the intent of its framers to be sacred.

Lol.. Start with understanding why the Senate even exists.  Read the Federalist Papers touching upon the Senate. The last thing they wanted was a smaller version of the  House. The framers were very concerned with the dangers of a majority ruled by popular passions, which they recognized as a danger in the House, envisioned the Senate as providing the  brake on the House and it's popular passions.  

Even if we allow the Senate to establish its own rules for debate

Why in the world would be not? That's literally in the Constitution. 

You get it now, right? The Constitution didn't address the filibuster because it specifically delegated that power to each House. 

 filibuster we know is anti-democratic and goes against the express goals of the Founders 

The founders set up the Senate with the principle of unlimited debate. Any restriction on that would "anti-conservative" of your own definition of what you think conservatives are.   It's been in practice since the very first session of the Senate when Senator William Maclay  wrote  “design of the Virginians . . . was to talk away the time, so that we could not get the bill passed."

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
11.1.5  Tacos!  replied to  Sean Treacy @11.1.4    6 days ago
Read the Federalist Papers touching upon the Senate.

FFS I just posted an excerpt from - and a link to - that very thing. If you’re not going to read the comments you reply to, please don’t bother replying at all.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
11.1.6  Sean Treacy  replied to  Tacos! @11.1.5    6 days ago
ust posted an excerpt from - and a link to - that very thing

FFS try one of the essays that actually deal with the Senate. 

Why are you even bothering with this?  The Constitution delegates to each House the power to set its own rules and  from the First session of Congress in 1789, the Senate was set up to allow unlimited debate.  It's simply an insult to logic and reason to claim that people who  in, your words, |hold the"Constitution and the intent of its framers to be sacred." would support completely destroying the filibuster. 

 

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
11.1.7  Tacos!  replied to  Sean Treacy @11.1.6    6 days ago
would support completely destroying the filibuster. 

In addition to not reading, you then come at me with this straw man. Kindly go piss up a flagpole.

 
 

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