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    She is a complete moron so how stupid are the people that voted her in.

    Maybe democracy is a fucked system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Maybe democracy is a fucked system.
    It's telling that this is only considered unthinkable by voters incapable of thinking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by helge View Post
    Not easy to put folks in boxes
    It is a grave undertaking

    A glimpe of Ghanaian morticians shows it is aPALLing but possible.

    I've worked with a lot of Africans they are amazing esp Angolans

    Oddly hypnotic vid


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    We must never forget teh whole US project was born out of violent white Englishmen

    They infected murdered and dipossessed the locals who had helped in adversity.
    They imported slaves to abuse as agricultural machinary and lower wages.
    They annexed endless other places from Puerto Rico to the Philippines.
    They brutally butchered each other in a civil war, then meddled in Europe The Great War, later Korea Nam , Grenada, Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua, Iraq, Syria and on and on via direct assault , assassination, proxies or now drones.

    In more recent times constant war oveseas follies, remote drone murders again and again and again
    On the home front an endless litany of crazed often incell white gunmen randomly committing mass murder
    Despite this no party will stand up to the gun toting thugs of the NRA and the "right" to own military grade weapons
    Those voters who do not oppose these endless imperial wars and slaughter at home are complicit.

    Only grizzly way out is the right to arm bears and teach these redneck thugs a lesson
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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    The US system of two parties has been a failure for decades. The vast majority of Americans have accepted that and those who are allowed to vote, are therefore reluctant to do so, because that would intimate their support of the failed system.
    When a party gains control at state level, instead of encouraging and allowing more people to vote, they undermine the rights of existing voters to support their chosen candidate.
    No separation of politics and religion, and lobbyists are not only encouraged, they are legal, until someone on the wrong side finds their envelopes stuffed with cash.

    Vacancies on the Supreme Court are filled by candidates favoured by sitting presidents, a sure fire way to get around political bias for gun control and pro/anti abortionists? Or perhaps not.

    The greatest recommendation against it, is the continuing aspiration of socialist persistence in the EU to create a similar system. FFS have they learned nothing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    The greatest recommendation against it, is the continuing aspiration of socialist persistence in the EU to create a similar system. FFS have they learned nothing?
    A few examples of these EU socialists who want to create a one-or two party state would be great, thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    A few examples of these EU socialists who want to create a one-or two party state would be great, thanks.
    Take your pick. Any failed politician from a member country? You can start with Ursula, parachuted in to save Germans from further defence embarrassment.

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    ^ Still not an answer . . . Ursula? A socialist? Her father was the CDU (right of centre) Premier of Niedersachsen. She has been a CDU member since 1990 and has served in Merkel's cabinet . . . right of centre . . . she was also most recently the Minister of Defence until she became head of the EU.

    How is she a 'failed' politician? How is she a socialist?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    The US system of two parties has been a failure for decades. The vast majority of Americans have accepted that and those who are allowed to vote, are therefore reluctant to do so, because that would intimate their support of the failed system.
    Be careful of your introduction. If its wrong the entire post is. Its wrong. The vast majority of Americans do no believe this as can be seen by the 249,000,000 voter turnout in the last election.

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    Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was booed by Republican activists Saturday after he suggested they should consider taking the coronavirus vaccine, making him the latest prominent Republican to face a backlash from the party’s grassroots over the vaccine.

    MORE Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was booed by Republican activists Saturday after he suggested they should consider taking the coronavirus vaccine, making him the latest prominent Republican to face a backlash from the party’s grassroots over the vaccine.

    MORE Republicans Shout Down Lindsey Graham for Pushing Vaccine
    Take them Jesus, take them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Be careful of your introduction. If its wrong the entire post is. Its wrong. The vast majority of Americans do no believe this as can be seen by the 249,000,000 voter turnout in the last election.
    But to be fair his post is in the right thread.

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    This is in the news lately and definitely belongs in the lunacy category . . .

    Donald Trump’s former White House strategist Steve Bannon says he will have 20,000 “shock troops” ready to act as he ranted that “we control this country”.
    Mr Bannon made the comments as he said he had rallied Republican supporters to “deconstruct” the state when the party wins the White House again.
    “If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Mr Bannon told NBC.
    You Make Your Own Luck

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    Republican lunacy is inextricably linked with White evangelical lunacy:

    Recent surveys by PRRI, an organization I lead, reveal disturbing realities among white evangelical Protestants today: 61% believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. And the idea of patriotism has taken a troubling turn: 68% believe Trump is a “true patriot,” and one in three believe that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” More than seven in ten deny that the history of slavery and discrimination in the U.S. has any bearing on economic inequalities between white and Black Americans today. White evangelicals are the religious group most likely to refuse COVID-19 vaccines and object to mask mandates. One in four are QAnon conspiracy believers.
    https://time.com/6102117/white-chris...medium=twitter

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    Oh God, make it stop.


    Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) questioned Duffy on the factors that contribute to sea-level rise, pointing out that land subsidence plays a role, as well as human activity.
    Brooks then said that erosion plays a significant role in sea-level rise, which is not an idea embraced by mainstream climate researchers. He said the California coastline and the White Cliffs of Dover tumble into the sea every year, and that contributes to sea-level rise. He also said that silt washing into the ocean from the world's major rivers, including the Mississippi, the Amazon and the Nile, is contributing to sea-level rise.
    "Every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise, because now you have less space in those oceans, because the bottom is moving up," Brooks said.

    AAAS

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    This freak wants to be California secretary of state and has the backing of leading Republicans.

    In her bid to be California’s Secretary of State, Republican candidate Rachel Hamm has the backing of some of the leading lights in the Trump movement. She has the endorsement of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon called her part of a “​​rising generation of superstars.”

    But Hamm’s new allies often fail to mention her role battling in what she imagines as a ceaseless war with Satanists and witches.

    Hamm has claimed that devil-worshippers sacrificed animals and performed other occult rituals in front of her house. But she isn’t without her defenses, saying that her prayers also inspired the murder of a witch in her neighborhood.

    QAnon Celeb Tries to Leave Q Behind to Run for Congress in Arizona

    Hamm laid out some of her beliefs about a real-life battle between devil-worshippers in an Oct. 7 event at Fresno City College hosted by Turning Point USA. Hamm claimed the neighborhood surrounding the community college was “known for having a lot of Satanic activity,” which she experienced herself when a devil-worshipper murdered a raven on her own lawn.

    “The day that I moved into that house, someone from the Satanic community came to my house with a black raven in his hand, and he twisted off the neck of the bird and let the blood spill out onto my property to claim my property and assert the power of Satan over my home,” Hamm said.

    Hamm’s travails with the supposed Satanists weren’t over, though. Later in her speech, Hamm claimed that the Satanists drove a metal stake into her property to claim it for the devil.

    “I learned a lot about how Satan works, about how the forces of evil work,” she said.

    Hamm’s bid for secretary of state—unlikely to succeed in the liberal state—reflects a grassroots GOP focus on elections office amid false allegations that Joe Biden stole the election. Hamm has claimed that Donald Trump, who lost California by nearly 30 points, would have won the state in 2020 if not for voter fraud. And endorsements from prominent Republicans like Flynn and Lindell, in spite of her extreme beliefs, mark a GOP willingness to court the party’s most bizarre fringes
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-ca...ticles&via=rss
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    ^ A clear Republican favourite then . . .

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    She has as much a chance of winning as someone does skateboarding to the moon.

    2020 Election California.

    Biden 11,210, 250 votes at 63.5%

    Trump 6,006,439 at 34.3%

    Crazy Satanic lady has no chance. Thank you for being California, California.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    She has as much a chance of winning as someone does skateboarding to the moon.

    2020 Election California.

    Biden 11,210, 250 votes at 63.5%

    Trump 6,006,439 at 34.3%

    Crazy Satanic lady has no chance. Thank you for being California, California.
    Except she's running as
    California’s Secretary of State
    You know 18/45 California representatives are Republican, right?

    That's why they say "unlikely to succeed in the liberal state" rather than "She's got no fucking chance".

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    Republicans lunacy.-ef5f3dc4-a0e5-4049-95f6-6060c2fcec66-jpeg
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    The remarkable thing is they can't see why they get compared to Nazis....


    Far-Right Group Wants to Ban Kids From Reading Books on Male Seahorses, Galileo, and MLK

    School books about Martin Luther King Jr. are too “divisive,” claims a conservative group at the center of a Tennessee book ban battle. A story about the astronomer Galileo Galilei is “anti-church.” A picture book about seahorses is too sexy.


    As the school year resumes, simmering fights over school books have returned to a boil. In some schools, like in Pennsylvania’s Central York School District this week, students have beaten back bans on books about racism. But elsewhere, like in Tennessee’s Williamson County School District, the battle is ongoing, bolstered by new state laws that ban the teaching of certain race-related topics. At the heart of that fight is a conservative group, led by a private-school parent, that has a sprawling list of complaints against common classroom books. Many of the books are about race, but other targets include dragons, sad little owls, and hurricanes.


    Registering its website in late 2020, the group “Moms For Liberty” is one of a series of conservative education groups to spring up in the wake of 2020’s racial justice protests. The group is currently involved in battles against in-school mask mandates, as well as a particularly heated fight over school books in Tennessee’s Williamson County.


    In June, the group’s leader, who does not have children in the district, authored a letter to the Tennessee Department of Education, complaining that the district’s curriculum violated a new state law against the teaching of some race-related subjects in public schools. (That law, one of multiple enacted over the past year on state and local levels, faced strong criticism, with opponents warning that it would impede teaching about racism in American history.) The MFL letter specifically took issue with curriculum items about Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, protests during the Civil Rights Movement, and school segregation.


    Nora Pelizzari, director of communications for the National Coalition Against Censorship, told The Daily Beast that, while attempts to censor specific school books are a regular feature of local politics, the NCAC has seen a recent uptick in efforts like the MFL’s.


    “We are seeing what appear to be coordinated efforts to challenge books, not purely based on the content of the individual book, but based on the fact that they teach history from a particular viewpoint,” Pelizzari said. “There’s a politicized approach to challenging books. We’re also seeing entire lists of books being challenged, as opposed to individual titles.”


    With school back in session, the Williamson County feud has been renewed, Reuters reported this week. And the scope of the proposed book ban is even broader and loonier than MFL’s June letter suggests.


    Accompanying that letter is an 11-page spreadsheet with complaints about books on the district’s curriculum, ranging from popular books on civil rights heroes to books about poisonous animals (“text speaks of horned lizard squirting blood out of its eyes”), Johnny Appleseed (“story is sad and dark”), and Greek and Roman mythology (“illustration of the goddess Venus naked coming out of the ocean...story of Tantalus and how he cooks up, serves, and eats his son.”) A book about hurricanes is no good (“1st grade is too young to hear about possible devastating effects of hurricanes”) and a book about owls is designated as a downer. (“It’s a sad book, but turns out ok. Not a book I would want to read for fun,” an adult wrote of the owl book in the spreadsheet.)


    Reached for comment, the Williamson County MFL chapter told the Daily Beast that the list represented a collection of complaints about books in the district. “There are 31 books that our parents have expressed concern about,” the group’s leader wrote in an email. “Some books should be removed entirely. Some books are objectionable only because of how they are presented via the accompanying teacher's manual. And yes, some books would be better suited to a higher grade level due to their age inappropriate content.”


    In addition to broadsides against books about King and Bridges, the list takes a dim view of multiple books about Native Americans. One, The Rough-Face Girl, is deemed inappropriate because it includes an illustration of the protagonist bathing “with her hair covering her chest.” The book First Nations of North America: Plains Indians is also a no-no, because it “paints white people in a negative light.”


    Multiple books that contain Spanish or French Creole words receive warnings from the group for potentially “confusing” children. An article about crackdowns on civil rights demonstrators, meanwhile, is deemed inappropriate for “negative view of Firemen and police.” A fictional book about the Civil War (given to fifth graders) is deemed inappropriate, in part due to depictions of “out of marriage families between white men and black women” and descriptions of “white people as ‘bad’ or ‘evil.’”


    At one juncture, the group implores the school district to include more charitable descriptions of the Catholic Church when teaching a book about astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was persecuted by said church for suggesting that Earth revolves around the sun.


    “Where is the HERO of the church?” the group’s spreadsheet asks, “to contrast with their mistakes? There are so many opportunities to teach children the truth of our history as a nation. The Church has a huge and lasting influence on American culture. Both good and bad should be represented. The Christian church is responsible for the genesis of Hospitals, Orphanages, Social Work, Charity, to name a few.”


    MFL’s Williamson County chapter also takes issue with a picture book about seahorses, in part because it depicted “mating seahorses with pictures of postions [sic] and discussion of the male carrying the eggs.”


    The Daily Beast reviewed the text in question via a children’s story time YouTube channel.


    Readers looking for a Kama Sutra of seahorse sex will be disappointed. Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish In The Sea contains nothing more risqué than watercolor illustrations of two seahorses holding tails or touching bellies (never—heavens—at the same time).


    The passage that “describes how they have sex” reads: “they twist their tails together and twirl gently around, changing color until they match. Sea horses are faithful to one mate and often pair up for life. Today Sea Horse’s mate is full of ripe eggs. The two of them dance until sunset and then she puts her eggs into his pouch. Barbour sea horses mate every few weeks during the breeding season. Only the male sea horse has a pouch. Only the female sea horse can grow eggs.”

    MFL recommends the book be reserved for older children, up to grade eight.

    Pelizzari noted that moral panics about school books seldom originate with the students who read them. In many cases, like Pennsylvania’s Central York, she said, students are on the frontlines of fighting back against book bans.


    “Students are not initiating these challenges,” she said of proposed book bans. “Students are frequently complaining when they are not allowed to read things they think they should be allowed to read. Students very often stand up for themselves, much like the students in York stood up for themselves. That is a prime illustration of just how savvy and sophisticated students are.


    “Students can handle a lot more than people often give them credit for.”



    https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-ri...luther-king-jr



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    A crowd of hundreds of Trump supporters gathered in Dealy Plaza because JFK Jr. was going to return and announce that he was running for office alongside Trump.

    No this is not a joke.

    The US is fucked.

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    Yup, Ant hit the nail on the head. Extra extra read all about it..

    QAnon supporters gather in downtown Dallas expecting JFK Jr. to reappear

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    She is a complete moron so how stupid are the people that voted her in.

    Maybe democracy is a fucked system.
    Maybe??
    What gave you the first clue?
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