I also point out there is a Fundamental Difference between a whistleblower telling the Congress about crimes of his bosses, and a law enforcement officer illegally leaking information, ( and often Lies ) about an ongoing investigation to the press for partisan political purposes.
The first is a brave defender of the law and his oath to the Constitution. The second is a Gestapo wannabe.
Replacement Governor Kathy tells Republicans to get out of town. They aren't New Yorkers!
Her Disgraced Former Boss told everyone who disagreed with him on any policies to leave His State.
So, if Republicans aren't New Yorkers by Governor Decree, then they shouldn't have to pay New York State taxes.
( unfortunately that's not true. New York taxes are owed and demanded for out of staters who earn one penny in New York. Something learned by Rush Limbaugh and others who moved to Florida and kept a summer residence in the Empire. )
I suppose pandering to their base that they rile up with hatred and intolerance, is thought a winning strategy for Lefty pols, despite the potential loss of cross over votes by people they vilify, insult, order to leave THEIR STATE, and openly lie about.
They could be correct. Both NY & CA Governors have ordered their political Enemies to Leave.
But they could be wrong. The people fleeing both states ( and other states run into ruin by the Klan Party ) are not necessarily Rs or Conservatives, as Ordered. They are people who can afford to move to lower tax & oppression states.
I understand that they believe “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,". and the people who remain in the states hostile to the Party's Enemies will indeed be the poorer people who lack the resources to Leave.
I'm not onboard with either the racist assumptions that if you don't vote Democrat, "you Ain't Black", or that poor kids are assumed to be minorities. Both ideas, and the elderly corrupt criminal who apparently forgot he wasn't supposed to say out loud the real attitude of the Party of Jim Crow, are lingering hard wired racism, reinforced by the race divide strategy of the leftist/communists that have taken over his Party.
And no matter what I believe, they believe their propaganda.
Note. The full Biden* quote is. “You’ve got more questions? Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” Biden quipped, before smiling broadly.
My OPINION is the Republicans should not get very vocal about the Debt Decree until after it's been challenged in court by outside organizations.
Purely political reasons. Analogy... Joe* is passing out candy to the children, and trying to take away the candy will just cause temper tantrums. It's just not smart to jump on this yet. After it gets challenged as an act Joe* can't legally do, by outsiders, then the Republican politicians can make points, maybe, if they're smart, that helps them.
If a courts decides the current Emergency grants Joe* the power to do anything he wants, there's an entire range of responses that focus on the Dictatorship we are now under, and no need to alienate the targeted groups.
( Joe* is giving money to his base, mostly College "educated" women and moderately wealthy fools. The very rich don't take out these loans, and the very poor can't get them.
The people I personally know with crushing student loan debt are lower middle class who overextended their credit to send kids to college and actually need relief, that Joe's* policy will give some temporary help, but screw in the long term. They are mostly not Joe's* People )
If the courts decide the giveaway is not in the President's legal power to grant, and a vote in Congress on spending trillions of dollars is required, ( which is true ) then the Republicans should point out the obvious, that Joe's* just lying again to get votes.
Also, the timing of the decision is important. Republicans don't want to have this argument in Congress, in public, to reduce the impression that they are Fascist Monsters who want to Destroy Democracy! Which is the current Mantra.
It's not going to be a pretty argument, no matter When it happens, but it's best not to have it before the mid term election.
My OPINION is that Joe's* Bribe to Karens will get the D Party a few extra votes. From energizing the base. ( But few crossover votes ) But the impression that the Republicans want to take candy from babies would be worse for them by feeding the upcoming Hate Frenzy Strategy the Democrats are counting on.
But I'm not on the inside at the Obama/Soros/DNC strategy meetings. Or The Republican Establishment retreats. Or the Trumpista Cabal torch lit meetings at the secret guillotine shop.
So none of them listen to me.
And I don't know if Soros will sponsor another fall of city burning. ( seems unwise ) Or if the new Chinese shrew plague will change everything. ( lockdown and Party collected mail-out ballots ) Or Vladimir will nuke everything. ( or Mara-Lago )
Joe Biden told a group of mostly Asian and Hispanic voters in Iowa on Wednesday that “poor kids are just as bright" as white children.
The former vice president, known for verbal gaffes, made the remarks to the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines, Iowa, where he’s on a four-day campaign swing for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“We should challenge students in these schools and have advanced placement programs in these schools,” Biden said. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids.” He quickly added, “Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids, no I really mean it, but think how we think about it.”
“We think how we’re going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do given a shot."
Lets focus on that last paragraph as well:
“We think how we’re going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do given a shot."
So.
In the name of "equity", they aren't going to hold ANYONE to a higher standard. NOBODY is going to "succeed" in the land of opportunity.
EVERYONE will suck.
That, is the difference between equality of OPPORTUNITY, which is the American way (and you do your best to succeed and better yourself, and provide for your family), and the democrat view "equality of OUTCOME" where everybody, no matter how inept, stupid, or incapable...gets the same result - the same job, the same paycheck, the same free shit.
THIS, is the problem today.
I'm sorry...but if you want to pilot a 747? you better KNOW how to fly a plane!!! Don't hire pilots based on whether they're brown, white, black, purple, or rainbow colored...just hire people who KNOW HOW TO FLY THE PLANE.
Dumbing down schools has been Klan Party policy for decades. The Base Assumption is Klan, through & through. Inferior races, blah, blah, can't expect the Coloreds to succeed, blah blah, and leads directly to this year's Expecting that 2+2=4 is Racist!
Re: pilots...
It's why we can't have flying cars. Stupid people can't drive on roads safely. Add a dimension and you'd have Buicks crashing into houses, teens with loud exhaust buzzing residential areas, and Karens ramming your family in flight rage frenzy. Not to mention texting.
It's why 90+% of flying car hype is based on a non existent robot flying taxi system.
And the actual flying machines seldom resemble "flying cars". A LOT of that is physics. Ask me if you care.
Mostly it's there's a limited pool of people you'd trust to safely take your family somewhere while avoiding collision with traffic, buildings, and a planet. Insert Uber joke here.
And the arrogance of typecasting others in the theater in her head!
An ongoing movie in her appointed skull where she's the underdog/Rambo/hero who triumphs over evil!
And you're evil.
Apparently Republicans are against women's rights. According to her head canon script.
I'm going to assume she's laser focused on abortion, since her Party is dedicated to erasing all other rights by denying the existence of women.
Men who want to be women are allowed to take women's jobs, compete against women in sports, and take their funding and place in education. That isn't a women's rights issue to Emperess Kathy. Nope, just the baby killing thing.
men who want to be women can legally have an abortion, in NY, now. If they carry a baby in their womb. Which they can't. since they don't have one. So that "right" isn't anything but a lie to get votes from the mentally ill.
Well, Empress Kathy, you are misinformed. Republicans aren't a cult with no dissent allowed, although the National Review folk think so.
Not all oppose abortion, though many, maybe most, do not like killing babies.
I don't oppose abortion. But I have 2 questions no one seems to like or answer.
1. What is the limit on age of the baby, to be killed?
2. Who gets the Choice to kill the baby?
As to 1... Where's the line? Or is there no limit? When the baby has a heartbeat? While the baby is still inside the women's body? When the baby can survive being outside the woman's body? The Terrible Twos? Age 18?
As to 2... The husband? Boyfriend? Grandmother? Empress Kathy? The UN? Me? Or just the women with a baby in her womb?
I've got Opinions on what the answers should be, but I'm open to arguments and reason. I might change my mind and in any case it's not my choice.. I choose not to make that choice for others at This time, I don't want the job.
But until I get answers, I'm unable to properly judge if the Law in New York is rational or should be opposed or supported.
Because today, the LAW doesn't answer either question. A baby outside the womb, breathing and alive, may be killed, legally, in New York. But there's no limits written. And I don't know who is allowed to make the choice.
I do know they can't mean to allow ME to abort anyone I want at any age. I'm not stupid, or crazy in that way. Because someone who is crazy in that way may believe it's best to abort, say, all the Legislators who voted for something they didn't like.
And I'm damn sure they didn't mean that.
But, as with most things political, I could be wrong.
It's a pity. I intended to ride up to Toronto as I used to in the days it was a Parliamentary Republic of sorts, visit some tourist attractions and spend some hard earned money. Not going to happen this regime. Or maybe ever again.
Pity. Lovely country, great Citizens, and wonderful stuff to do. The Ontario Science Center was awesome! Great roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland. I even like poutine.
Watch this disaster in progress. Closely. When the government can close your bank account and steal your money because you disagree with a policy? That's Bad.
And a Chinese Communist Party Social Credit System is a very very Bad Thing.
“an eloquent farmer in his Tennessee district who convinced him that he’d previously violated the Constitution by voting to give away money that “was not yours to give.”
It's a pity. I intended to ride up to Toronto as I used to in the days it was a Parliamentary Republic of sorts, visit some tourist attractions and spend some hard earned money. Not going to happen this regime. Or maybe ever again.
Pity. Lovely country, great Citizens, and wonderful stuff to do. The Ontario Science Center was awesome! Great roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland. I even like poutine."
Just to put this into perspective, the USA made it a legal requirement to be vaccinated to enter the country, BEFORE Canada did the same thing, only difference is Canada actually instituted a program that works, rather than leaving it to CBP officers to do it or not just as they please.
The US has absolutely no problem with this arrangement as the vast majority of cross border travellers will be going both ways and therefore be checked at some point during their trip border services on both sides share information.
I cross both ways most weeks so I'm very familiar with the systems.
My problem isn't vaccination required to cross the border. I'm vaccinated for so many things I need a spreadsheet. ( including the Middle East package you want to live in Persia. That multi shot monster gave me multiple flu symptoms for 3 days. I'll avoid TMI. )
( The current Occupants in DC don't require vaccination on the Mexican border, if you're not legally crossing. That has multiple meanings, I'll leave you to speculate on. )
No, it's the regime. And the App. I have an allergy to Theocratic states.
Editorial on being mean to the recently deceased, mostly on one side of the political spectrum.
I'm sure there are R folk who will make nasty comments when a D politician passes, but it's obvious there is a different expectation of civility.
Re: The Late Queen Elizabeth.
Was she a tough and nasty lady? Sure. The head of a huge international family of troublesome jerks, where not keeping them in line leads to World Wars! See WW1 aka The War Of The Cousins. The European Aristocracy is a bunch of inbred monsters. They're not all bad apples, but it's a very rotten barrel.
I admired her style. See the true story of her driving the Saudi Prince. She knew how to change a tire and oil on a truck. I wonder if Joe* does.
But I'm not going to blame her for the Empire she inherited after it collapsed after WW2. As professor Uju Anya did. My family suffered from the genocide of a previous ruler, too. Wasn't her fault, she wasn't crowned until 1953.
Oh, I get multi-generation hate for long time enemies. The 1600s were a rough time for the Irish, a war that only ended, technically, in 1998. Some still insist it's not over. & the other branch of the family in Norway probably still has a few upset over the Civil War of 1130-1240.
Although as far as I know, there isn't hard feelings against the Skraelings, but I don't know how they still feel about the 11th century.
So when Jimmy Carter falls ill, I won't pray for him to be in agony. That's not sane. I won't forget he was the second worst President of my adult lifetime, and won't shy away from saying so. But I won't think about urinating on his grave. Unlike LBJ. ( I won't, it's guarded ) Carter cost me a job. LBJ cost me friend's lives.
Hey, I never claimed to be classy. But I agree that with the article that open hatred is far more common in the Left where hate is a common tool for manipulation.
Carter did poorly on economic matters, and facilitated the current Islamist terrorist wave with his actions handing Iran to a murderous terror theocracy. ( I don't think he intended the terrorism world he helped create, though. Blame the State Department )
LBJ inherited the Vietnam conflict, from Kennedy, but he made it a full blown war, micromanaged insane ROEs and got tens of millions killed. The Great Society is a major disaster, ongoing, wrecking family culture, responsibility, and enforcing institutionalized poverty. Plus he was a racist prick.
Obama started more "little" wars than anyone, afaik, encouraging coups, the "Arab Spring" mega disaster, millions and millions of people fleeing the Islamic terrorists he supported. His dead may exceed LBJ's before the decade is over. Plus, natch, racist prick. And as an Apostate converted to Marxism, arguably a treasonous monster responsible for the ongoing war in Ukraine since 2014. And the abandonment of Iraqis to his Iranian buddies. Ongoing.
Biden* has the Afghanistan Abandonment. The Border invasion, with millions covering for the prepositioning of foreign sleeper agents, the fentanyl crisis sent us by the CCP, which apparently owns him. ( at least by blackmail ) I don't blame him entirely for the current crime disaster. That's on Soros/Obama/New Liberal Order/Watermelon cult. Joe* sure hasn't helped. At all. Plus, of course, he's a racist prick.
So it's hard to pin down... Worst.
But we sure dodged a fusillade and probably a runaway first choice when Hillary lost. Thank the deities of your choice.
Feel free to nominate your own choice.
I'll point out Trump has been so nominated by several contenders for the title!
I don't object to you nominating Donald! But you must list his wars, and specific policies that qualify him. ( my own choice is his failure to purge the "Intelligence Community" but to be fair, that might take WMDs. )
Woke must destroy its critics. And who are they? The age-old individualist. The traditional outspoken. The familiar maverick. The unbeliever. The apostate. Anyone who believes woke is really a familiar and ancient evil with a mere 21st-century face, our version of the Inquisition but supposedly redirected to noble justice, cruel Jacobinism now masked in enlightened racial clothes, or toxic Bolshevism with an iPhone.
Just a little reminder that tictoc is a tool of the Communist China Dictatorship, with the purpose of propaganda and getting the most stupid view of existence displayed as normal.
They actively Want To Harm You.
Seriously, can you think of a better way to defeat a Nation than getting them to kill themselves in incredibly foolish ways as A Competition?
As an actual woman, I can generally be found in a state of constant rage and offense at the countless emotionally incontinent men who choose to LARP as women. How dare they grow their hair, get a set of falsies, and pretend they can even begin to understand what it’s like to live in a woman’s body? The mortification of female puberty, the discomfort sparked by a lascivious male gaze, the inconvenience of various biological processes, pregnancy scares, and joys — none of this can be assumed or replicated. How dare these men presume to understand — to be — female?
As an old fart, I'd love a magical potion to make me young again. Getting out of bed without the groaning would be great. Reversing the nerve damage that keeps me from being a record setting kite boarder or mountain climber would be awesome.
And I don't care what anyone thinks, a second pass through life as a woman would be a bonus, if only because I might finally understand all those times I was Wrong.
Plus a 20 year old female me would devirginize every nerd in the D&D club, before tackling, sometimes literally, the Engineering class at the local Institute of Technology. ( good to have competent friends )
Oh, I'd prefer to be a 20 year old male, as with better perspective on life, I'd avoid a lot of stupid and be even richer and without the real downsides of being a gal. Like not getting pregnant, or the monthly visit from internal remodeling. I've known women for whom that was a very unpleasant part of life.
Fantasy aside, no potion exists, so... Not going to be the World Champion swimmer/gymnast/weightlifter anyway.
A buddy repeatedly tells people that he is fine if they have delusions, but don't expect him to share them.
And it seems, from outside, that the "non-binary" ??? "Trans" ??? Movement is all about intolerance and the demand that we share their delusion.
As utterly Opposed to the LGB movement that demanded Tolerance for other's preferences.
Or at least stop assaulting people for being different.
I'm all on board for those last two.
Going further and Demanding Respect is another thing, I may respect you as a person or not at my whim, and there's that "earn it", aspect that grates some. Too fracking bad.
But I'll agree that minimum kindness and compassion is due all our fellow humans. Period.
You don't have to agree to get along.
Except those that demand agreement. Bite me.
That's the Fundamental problem.
In a just society people should all be given an equal chance to show they aren't jerks. Whether or not your baseline assumption is "everyone sucks" or "everyone is cool" ( both are wrong, ) Everyone should be judged on their character, not their involuntary externals. Or who they love.
Except the MAPs. That's my line of intolerance. You draw yours.
In Iran, the Enemy of the People is the Mortality Police, the Government, and the Revolutionary murder squads that enforce the terror regime's will on it's Subjects.
It's often pointed out by "right wing" pundits that the Police in America are not, generally, the Bad Guys. There are exceptions. Mostly in cities run by the Klan Party for a century, Panicdemic Response Tyranny put a lot of formerly OK cops in positions to act out their inner Gestapo Dreams, Some enjoyed it.
But in Iran, the Police use snipers to murder women to terrorize any who protest the government's abuses. Mass graves of murdered Subjects are near many towns.
Myself, if I was Iranian, or anyone in a land with Morality Police, I'd make it my goal to burn that cancer out. You can't reach the Mullahs and Elites in the Captol, they're well guarded. But the local thugs are right there, and terms like ambush, IEDs, and arson come to mind.
I also point out the French word Sabotage means throw a shoe in the works to wreck the machine. Wrecking the money machine for the Mullahs would be effective in Iran. The pipelines and ports used to export oil to China and the other supporters of the terrorist regime are a target worth contemplating. As is the infrastructure feeding the regime. Cutting down power poles feeding the government areas, telephone lines, radio towers... The intricate web of modern civilization is a huge distributed target that not even a police state can guard. That applies here, too.
The Iranian Intolerant Tyranny is hoping it can cut communication between their victims. Prevent any of the above resistance.
The Biden* response? Mostly following pro Tyranny scripts. Just as Barry did.
Negotiations with fundamentalist liars who have Never honored their word with an Infidel, is literally insane. Yet the Barry/Joe*/Leftists persist in trying to get a deal, just so they can claim success and moral superiority, with the only result, more murders, more war, and more support for terrorist slaughter. Never ever peace.
You'd think followers of Alinsky would understand dealing with fundamentalist liars. After all, they are fundamentally dishonest, and if they actually looked, Alinsky & Marx stole several aspects of Intolerant Tyranny from Islam.
I have to assume that destroying you by any means necessary is the priority. And like the Russians, they assume they can use Islamic terrorists and stab them in the back when their usefulness is over.
Idiots. That's been the SOP of the Islamist movement for centuries. They've been playing the Betrayal Game ten times longer.