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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Damn I took a nap earlier and missed the start, what's this about Warren and Sanders tag-teaming Delaney?
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Outside the debate, but relevant to Williamson is an article about
how one of her quotes was misattributed (to Nelson Mandela) and that the context of the quote gives a little insight on her anti-vaxxer ways.
Going back to the debate, what wins did Warren get so far (outside smoking Delaney)?
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 30th 2019 at 6:57:57 AM
Due to family drama I have missed the debates. Who's this John we're being dismissive of? ![]()
Although I'm seeing the clip of Pete Buttigieg saying that we have to stop caring about what the Republicans think because they'll call us crazy socialists no matter what, and I'm kind of glad that someone finally flat out said it.
Wow, that whole thing was alot...
There were a few good shutdowns, split between Sanders and Warren. The latter did not get to speak often, but she certainly made her answers count. She made great defenses of her policies and ideals, and took the other candidates to task for the half measures that were so frequently proposed. Sanders fell into his old flaws of reducing everything to economics, but did a great job of defending progressive policy. He also got in some rather brutal shutdowns. Even Buttgieg managed to get in some great lines about candidates playing into the Republican's hands.
Bullock, though, has immediately shot straight into my lowest tier. From the oozing condescension in his Establishing Character Moment on the healthcare question about how the system works for him so large change would be bad, to his outright advocacy of keeping and threatening (if not using) nuclear first strikes, to just how much he talked down to anyone and everyone, he's easily one of my least favorite candidates.
Williamson was uniquely frustrating, because she would mix in genuinely good points into the middle of her (hinted here) anti-vaxxor views and just general...whatever one would classify references to "Dark Psychic Forces" as. Some of her speeches there, I could see glimpses as to why people would support her. I am further convinced that she should never become President.
It'll be interesting to see tomorrow's debate. Harris, Booker, Castro, and Biden...the ball is now in their court.
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerClick here
if you want to watch the moment Warren ripped Delaney’s soul from his body.
Delaney: whines about change being bad/scary/unrealistic
Warren: “I don't understand why anyone would go through all the trouble of running for President just to talk about the things we can't do and shouldn't fight for.”
Evidently someone also edited Delaney's wikipedia page to reflect what happened!
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Edited by AzurePaladin on Jul 30th 2019 at 11:37:04 AM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerRonald Reagan's Long-Hidden Racist Conversation with Richard Nixon
:
The past month has brought presidential racism back into the headlines. This October 1971 exchange between current and future presidents is a reminder that other presidents have subscribed to the racist belief that Africans or African Americans are somehow inferior. The most novel aspect of President Donald Trump’s racist gibes isn’t that he said them, but that he said them in public.
The exchange was taped by Nixon, and then later became the responsibility of the Nixon Presidential Library, which I directed from 2007 to 2011. When the National Archives originally released the tape of this conversation, in 2000, the racist portion was apparently withheld to protect Reagan’s privacy. A court order stipulated that the tapes be reviewed chronologically; the chronological review was completed in 2013. Not until 2017 or 2018 did the National Archives begin a general rereview of the earliest Nixon tapes. Reagan’s death, in 2004, eliminated the privacy concerns. Last year, as a researcher, I requested that the conversations involving Ronald Reagan be rereviewed, and two weeks ago, the National Archives released complete versions of the October 1971 conversations involving Reagan online.
When the UN took its vote to seat a delegation from Beijing instead of from Taiwan in 1971, members of the Tanzanian delegation started dancing in the General Assembly. Reagan, a devoted defender of Taiwan, was incensed, and tried to reach Nixon the night of the vote. Reagan despised the United Nations, which he described as a "kangaroo court" filled with "bums," and he wanted the U.S. to withdraw from full participation immediately. Nixon was asleep when Reagan called, so they spoke the next morning.
Reagan's slur touched an already raw nerve. Earlier that day, Nixon had called his deputy national security adviser, Al Haig, to cancel any future meetings with any African leader who had not voted with the United States on Taiwan, even if they had already been scheduled. "Don’t even submit to me the problem that it’s difficult to turn it off since we have already accepted it," Nixon exclaimed. "Just turn it off, on the ground that I will be out of town."
Nixon's anger at the UN delegations from African nations for the loss was misplaced. His own State Department blamed factors other than African voting, including maneuvering by the British and French behind the scenes, for the loss. But Nixon would have none of it. The Africans were to blame.
Anyone else feel sick to their stomach that someone like Williamson has been on the same stage as the rest of the candidates? Twice? As if she's someone who should actually be taken seriously?
Anti-vaxxers just really really piss me off.
Edited by M84 on Aug 1st 2019 at 3:34:30 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised

O’Rourke has barely said anything this whole debate.
And Williamson mentions “dark psychic forces”.
Just why?
Edited by SatoshiBakura on Jul 30th 2019 at 9:38:38 AM