The LA Times said in a recent editorial...

[togor]

Nah, I'm good. And people have been making the connection between Trump and various types of authoritarianism for some time now. You probably haven't been keeping up.

Sure, Trump punts on the hard stuff a lot. Xi does a more energetic job of protecting the Chinese from Covid-19 (although in the peculiar Chinese way) than Trump does for Americans. But nobody said being a dictator was easy, and Federalism is such a tempting excuse.

And read my .sig.

[lyman]

Nah, I'm good. And people have been making the connection between Trump and various types of authoritarianism for some time now. You probably haven't been keeping up.

Sure, Trump punts on the hard stuff a lot. Xi does a more energetic job of protecting the Chinese from Covid-19 (although in the peculiar Chinese way) than Trump does for Americans. But nobody said being a dictator was easy, and Federalism is such a tempting excuse.

And read my .sig.

it was a friendly thought,,,, read between the lines,


and if you thing Xi did anything but try to protect is power, and the CCP,, you really need to take that break, ,

[togor]

it was a friendly thought,,,, read between the lines,


and if you thing Xi did anything but try to protect is power, and the CCP,, you really need to take that break, ,

Sure, power, but,

Xi felt the legitimacy of the CCP was at stake with their Covid response. No question, they're brutal. But I bet Xi can read a briefing sheet and doesn't watch 8 hours of cable TV every day. (4 in the morning, 4 at night).

I'll pick this country over any other, warts and all. None of the others would let me keep my firearms!

[lyman]

Sure, power, but,

Xi felt the legitimacy of the CCP was at stake with their Covid response. No question, they're brutal. But I bet Xi can read a briefing sheet and doesn't watch 8 hours of cable TV every day. (4 in the morning, 4 at night).

I'll pick this country over any other, warts and all. None of the others would let me keep my firearms!

yet you advocate to lose that right here,,,,,,,,,

[Vern Humphrey]

Antifa brings the U.S. the modern resurrection of Kristallnacht.

Exactly right -- bully boy tactics is the core of Nazism.

[Roadkingtrax]

Exactly right -- bully boy tactics is the core of Nazism.

Fascist Anti-fascists at it again. LOL

[S.A. Boggs]

Exactly right -- bully boy tactics is the core of Nazism.

"They" are so closely associated with this that what is happening is perfectly "normal" to them. It must be tough standing in the middle of the forest unable to see any difference.
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

"They" are so closely associated with this that what is happening is perfectly "normal" to them. It must be tough standing in the middle of the forest unable to see any difference.
Sam

I had a professor in graduate school who told how HE had a professor who taught from 3X5 cards. He would sit hunched over at his desk, reading his 3X5s, and mumbling. The students decided to teach him not to do that. Whenever he looked down at the cards, they'd start talking, shuffling their chairs, coughing and so on. When he looked up, they'd go silent and listen respectfully. It worked.

So they decided to see if they could get him to jump out the window. They'd make noise, but stop when he moved toward the window. The last few classes of the semester, he taught sitting on the window sill.

So I have to keep reminding myself -- I was given all this power over the clowns for good, not for evil.

[lyman]

some of yall need to block AHC from your cable channels,

[Roadkingtrax]

I had a professor in graduate school who told how HE had a professor who taught from 3X5 cards. He would sit hunched over at his desk, reading his 3X5s, and mumbling. The students decided to teach him not to do that. Whenever he looked down at the cards, they'd start talking, shuffling their chairs, coughing and so on. When he looked up, they'd go silent and listen respectfully. It worked.

So they decided to see if they could get him to jump out the window. They'd make noise, but stop when he moved toward the window. The last few classes of the semester, he taught sitting on the window sill.

So I have to keep reminding myself -- I was given all this power over the clowns for good, not for evil.

You went to Circus Clown graduate school?

[S.A. Boggs]

I had a professor in graduate school who told how HE had a professor who taught from 3X5 cards. He would sit hunched over at his desk, reading his 3X5s, and mumbling. The students decided to teach him not to do that. Whenever he looked down at the cards, they'd start talking, shuffling their chairs, coughing and so on. When he looked up, they'd go silent and listen respectfully. It worked.

So they decided to see if they could get him to jump out the window. They'd make noise, but stop when he moved toward the window. The last few classes of the semester, he taught sitting on the window sill.

So I have to keep reminding myself -- I was given all this power over the clowns for good, not for evil.

In grad school had a "perfessor" who taught on abnormal psychology and one thing that was constant. When society accepts abnormal as normal and does it on a constant basis that society is in decline. In our situation it is accelerating as more accept this societal norm. Not too long ago another society accepted mass murder of undesirables as "normal" and now our people pay to do this. When one speaks of this one is loudly condamned by the acceptors of this national form of suicide.

An observer has to ask "why?" and the answer is mass insanity. Letting a criminal element enforce their political will on society for the "need" of a few. Burning to make their political point to the detriment of all, is this rational? Criminals regardless of color are elevated to the status of race hero? A white arrests/shoots a black who is engaged in a criminal act and the office did not have racist ideation yet is condamned???

This is going to spiral out of control and many will die on both sides.
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

In grad school had a "perfessor" who taught on abnormal psychology and one thing that was constant. When society accepts abnormal as normal and does it on a constant basis that society is in decline. In our situation it is accelerating as more accept this societal norm. Not too long ago another society accepted mass murder of undesirables as "normal" and now our people pay to do this. When one speaks of this one is loudly condamned by the acceptors of this national form of suicide.

An observer has to ask "why?" and the answer is mass insanity. Letting a criminal element enforce their political will on society for the "need" of a few. Burning to make their political point to the detriment of all, is this rational? Criminals regardless of color are elevated to the status of race hero? A white arrests/shoots a black who is engaged in a criminal act and the office did not have racist ideation yet is condamned???

This is going to spiral out of control and many will die on both sides.
Sam

Way back in the stone age the Army had a course for CBR (Chemical, Biological and Radiological) Officers. As part of that course, they administered LSD to the students (under "controlled conditions" if there is such a think when talking about LSD.) I attended the course after they quit doing that, and one of the instructors talked about it. Some of the students got LSD and some got a placebo. The instructor said you couldn't tell the difference -- when some of them started acting crazy, they ALL started acting crazy.