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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Its a bit disingenuous to suggest that US tax rate is too low compared to other countries, after those countries have been lowering their taxes under the influence of the same bogus economic theories our conservatives are. Thats just a "race to the bottom" argument.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.The undemocratic suppression just means that Trump barely won in 2016 instead of definitely losing, so it's not irrelevant but it won't stop him from losing.
The suppression of Democratic demographics is just part of the fact that he'll always have a chance to win, it doesn't mean he can't lose.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI was already really anti-Biden but good god, his eulogy of Strom Thurmond is disgraceful.
In another floor speech the day after Thurmond’s death, Biden addressed the hulking part of the late senator’s legacy and said he did not believe his friend was a racist.
Uhmmmmmm.
Edited by wisewillow on Feb 17th 2019 at 11:46:34 AM
x4 Isn't that the guy who spent a literal day making a speech against the Civil Rights Act?7
Well, f*ck him and f*ck Biden, then!
Edited by HailMuffins on Feb 17th 2019 at 1:55:07 PM
I mostly remember him as an exceptionally old Republican senator.
I wonder how much of Biden's comment is simply Never Speak Ill of the Dead and/or simply not wanting to bad mouth someone he'd called a friend.
From the top of my head he was Southern Senator who supported segregation and spent a record time arguing against the Civil Rights movement in one sitting.
I wonder how much of Biden's comment is simply Never Speak Ill of the Dead and/or simply not wanting to bad mouth someone he'd called a friend.
Due to the dead does in no way justifies saying nice things about segregationists.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Feb 17th 2019 at 12:12:35 PM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
x6 The Longest Serving Republican Senator (originally Democrat), from the State of South Carolina, who passionately opposed Integration and Equality for Black and African Americans for "State's Rights" Reasons. He has the record for longest Filibuster (24 Hours and 18 Minutes), against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He switched from Democrat to Republican because Barry Goldwater's Campaign (IE, the Guy who everyone thought would Nuke Russia and Cause WWIII) was against the Civil Right's Act that was being pushed by Kennedy and Johnson. Also, he sired a daughter with a Black Woman and forced the mother to keep it secret (which just makes him worse considering everything he did support).
In short, Biden's praises of this guy are really bad. Thankfully, he hasn't announced his candidacy (yet), so we don't have to back him against Trump.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Feb 17th 2019 at 12:17:30 PM
Here’s an explainer on Strom Thurmond.
He was a segregationist Senator from South Carolina. He was the leader of the most racist Southern Dems, the “Dixiecrats” but he flipped from Democrat to Republican in the 1960s when the Dems became more aggressive on civil rights; I believe he even got to keep his Senate seniority.
Thurmond was also one of the longest serving US Senators, so I believe that Biden was thinking of that aspect especially given his wording.
Me, I am a mite more annoyed at his praise for a CURRENT Republican congresscritter with no particular positive qualities who was facing a tough reelection bid
. Or his way to campaign in the primary that would have surely led to another wave of "stitch-up" complaints and/or a late "Me too" scandal
. Never mind his behaviour towards women.
Edited by SeptimusHeap on Feb 17th 2019 at 6:25:12 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIncidental note, Thurmond did run for President in 1948 on a third party, with an explicitly segregationist and racist campaign. This being in response to Truman's (relatively tepid) steps towards Civil Rights, such as banning discrimination in the army.
Yeah.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Feb 17th 2019 at 12:28:24 PM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerAny possibility that Biden is getting senile or something? He's rather close to 80 years old.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Keep in mind he praised Strom Thurmond in 2003. This wasn't the product of senility, and frankly it's kind of ableist to suggest this is why Biden keeps saying and doing stupid shit. And again, I am really weary of people playing internet armchair psychiatrist.
Edited by M84 on Feb 18th 2019 at 1:37:03 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised

You know I really, really, really, really, really do not want to defend Trump here (really), but this is not a threat invented by him. The Kurds (who hold most of the arrested foreign fighters) have repeatedly told the Europeans that they could not assure the permanent detentions of these people, due to a lack of ressources and because they might be under attack from Turkey too.
Personally I'd say it is our responsibility to take care of them. We can't really demand of e.g. the North Africans to take back their criminal citizens, while we refuse to do the same. And as much as one might wish to see them charged in the country in which they comitted their crimes, it is very unlikely that they'd get a trial by Western standards (that is also in issue in Iraq?
Edited by Zarastro on Feb 17th 2019 at 3:32:47 PM