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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
People are weird
In other news I got into a argument about national parks with a person on twitter, wrote an epic rant defending their existence and how they actually have a positive economic impact.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mega_musical/status/856834213278076930
edited 25th Apr '17 5:25:10 AM by megaeliz
x 4 As much as that's deserved, de-trumpification will probably need to be reserved for a democratic supermajority in Congress, a clean sweep of SCOTUS, and probably German peacekeepers occupying the country.
edited 25th Apr '17 5:49:40 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesAnd possibly The Wave becoming required reading as early as say Middle School?
That and Nineteen Eighty-Four and It Can't Happen Here.
It's not a sure-fire thing though. Germany devotes a lot of effort to nipping this sort of thing in the bud via education, and they still have nutbars like the Af D.
edited 25th Apr '17 5:57:17 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe abysmal approval rating of congress compared to the merely bad approval ratings of Trump himself are somewhat worrying, in that such numbers suggest the American public wouldn't necessarily be opposed to further consolidation of executive power. If not under Trump, than under a future President with broader popularity.
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Hmm, on the one hand, 1984 seems to be already distributed, on the other hand that seems to be more due to sales spikes whenever the next FOTY Internet/privacy/free speech peeve comes around and there might be some misconceptions that imply not everyone reads the book.
I'd say that it should be require at the high school level, any earlier and you might terrify the students into paranoiacs
edited 25th Apr '17 5:59:18 AM by MorningStar1337
If this turns out to be a double-post, I apologize, I don't want to be
'd and have this repeated a few pages later.
From WTF:
Russiagate probe lacks the staff needed
and is making little progress
thanks to partisans.
Warning the article is WSJ
. It claims that Trumps wants to cut the corporate (I presume tax rate) rate to 15%.
edited 25th Apr '17 6:06:41 AM by MorningStar1337
I present to all of you this elegant piece of projection.
Hannity: Liberal 'fascism' trying to silence every conservative voice
Hannity said there have always been efforts during his time at Fox News to "smear and slander and besmirch" him. But those efforts have not been as "intense and completely insane" as they are now, he added.
"It has only gotten worse in the age of President Trump," Hannity said.
"Now, it’s no secret I have been in supporter of the president and of course his policies. And quite simply, these liberal fascists — they can’t stand conservative voices."
"If there’s any person or group or any organization, any media outlet that slanders, lies about me, besmirch as me and my character, I am going to be calling them out. At this point, enough is not."
His comments come after a conservative commentator said the Fox News host once invited her back to his hotel room after an event at a Detroit bookstore. The accusation came as allegations of sexual harassment continue to roil the network. Hannity on Monday vowed to sue the former guest of his program with "some of the finest and toughest lawyers in the country."
Hannity mentioned the accusations during his monologue. He said his breaking point happened this past weekend, when someone who has for more than a decade made "the most outrageous, unfair, untrue allegations against" him resurfaced by "making ridiculous and completely untrue claims."
"Now, in this fiercely divided and vindictive climate, I will no longer allow slander to go unchallenged, as I see this to be a coordinated effort afoot to silence those with conservative views," he said.
"I will fight every single lie about me about any and all legal means available to me as an American."
"Now, I’m not the only one that these liberal fascist routinely targeted. Like me, conservatives are monitored on radio and TV, every word they say — in contrary to the alt radical left stated position — they’re so open-minded, liberals," he said.
edited 25th Apr '17 6:09:46 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesYou know what this whole adoration of Trump on the right reminds me of? The Bible. Specifically, the stuff about King Saul.
For context, before Saul, Israel didn't really have a "proper" government. There was the priesthood, and every so often a leader would pop up who was referred to as a "Judge". The Judges were a pretty random grab bag of people, ranging from incredibly smart (Deborah) to abysmally stupid (Samson). But the people of Israel noticed that everyone they had contact with (which at the time included places like Egypt and the early Hittite Empire) had a king. So they demanded a king even though they were doing fine without one. So God basically said, "Fine, you want a king? You get a king." And they got a paranoiac who by all accounts kind of sucked at being king.
People really want to have a specific defined authority they can A) look at and B) blame everything wrong on. No one wants to confront the fact that they participate and perpetuate systemic problems, so if you have an authoritarian figure that you can put all the blame or praise on, you don't have to deal with the fact that you yourself are very flawed.
Hannity's an idiot. Yeah, people complained about him before, but there wasn't a concentrated effort to try and force Fox to fire him until the sexual assault allegations came out. Hey, Hannity, you don't want to be attacked? Maybe don't do one of the few things that makes a majority of people very angry? A series of people getting fired for the same thing is not a conspiracy if the people getting fired all did the same things.
Also, "alt radical left"? I'm pretty sure that "sexual assault is wrong" is neither alternative nor radical.
edited 25th Apr '17 6:16:41 AM by Zendervai
Mad Skillz, just one thing:
It's Democratic Party, not Democrat Party. "Democrat Party" is a shibboleth that outs you as a secret Republican.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=7384#184579
This post has an NY Times article link about the corporate tax rate cut too.
edited 25th Apr '17 6:20:59 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised@Captain Capase: Congress has, at least in recent history, has consistently been unpopular with the general public, however people tend to like their local congress-people so it ends up not mattering.
If support for local congress-people among locals starts collapsing, then I'd begin to worry.
True, but the Af D are just barely scraping by with 6% of the vote (you need 5% to get a Bundestag representative), so their level of influence is entirely dependent on coalitions, and the coalition-happy parties are all telling them to go piss up a rope.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.@Capsase, consolidating power in the executive has been a trend for a while now, just see the independent regulatory agencies. They make more laws than Congress does. Although, they're also legally required to have meaningful notice and comment periods and explain and justify their polices unlike Congress.
Not that it isn't worrying, but Congress clawing that support back is probably a pipe dream. It's role may end up being limited to review and authorization of executive lawmaking power as time goes on. Another irony of history as Madison and them considered the parliament to be the most prone to consolidating power and strongest branch by default...Congress still would be contingent upon 500+ people acing in concert for an extended period of time.
edited 25th Apr '17 6:55:07 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives

It's mind-boggling I know. Still, I have the feeling many of these people will be denying they support Trump in a year or so.
edited 25th Apr '17 5:20:54 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised