The Hall of Fire

* The President and the team of bots / underlings that have access to his account too, I bet.

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Probably because it is New York, which holds an outsize piece of people's minds. Larger than life.

Or it is east coast bias

River summed it up right while I tried and failed. If Warren's policies isn't your jam it don't matter if she gal, you won't like. So the rumblings about sexism definitely do not apply to any conservatives - conservatives just don't like her policies, period. And it makes sense to me that conservat...

How can we take all her plans seriously when she puts forth these ambitious and costly plans and then pretends that it can all be paid for by only taxes on those above the middle class. It's ridiculous. It's bullshit. This is the opposite of competence. And this, more than any amount of sexism, is ...

Am irritated that all the choices left are too old to fly a commercial jet. Word. Hopefully in the near future we see better generational representation in positions of power. I respect experience and the wisdom it can bring but I also look at the world and say, it has changed dramatically over the...

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Dedicated to all the GOP senators who voted to acquit because they figured Trump would learn his lesson.

( And yes, I'm pretty sure none of them believed what they said. )

Haven't watched his announcement yet. The thing about Romney I think, is that his faith and his morals are real. Which is more than I can say for the hypocrites clustering under the banner of Christian faith yet voicing full-throated support for Trump's cruel side. And this is probably where he need...

I grew up in a non-democratic country with very effective government mouthpiece media so yes: propaganda is very, very effective and very, very harmful.

Would have been nicer if it was the other one. Well, props to him, he did what he said he would.

I believe it was Roger Ailes who stated that one of the goals of Fox News was to prevent another Nixon situation. In which way? Prevent it as in, be a mouthpiece to prevent future Republican presidents from being impeached, whatever it takes, lying included? Or prevent it as in, hold future preside...

It was a metaphor, just not a great one, the way I read it and the way she later explained it. She meant that she was praying for the plans that satan's agents were working on in the world to be stopped ( paraphrasing her words ). And that's fair enough. "Deliver us from evil" is a standar...

Seems about right. People who just want to tell others what to do tend to latch onto external sources of authority they perceive can grant them that bully power - the Constitution and the Bible are two obvious examples - and set to work twisting what they see as words of power to give authority to t...

Ah yes. Little dollop of religions extremism. Seems like for many conservatives that stuff's pretty bad when it comes out of the Middle East but is to be coddled, admired and nurtured when it comes from the white folk in America's Evangelical churches. Kind of how the Constitution is so super import...

Yov, I fully understand what you are saying. How can any sane person support him? And just when I think he could sink no lower in my estimation, I find something like THIS: https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/alleged-jeffrey-epstein-victim-says-she-was-introduced-to-trump-when-she-was-14-la...

Story time: One of my co-workers is an exceptionally intelligent youngster who is in deep with the management layer, and got their opportunity to work here, due to attending the same church as management - and is also a pretty new convert to religion. This is a person who can excel on their own but ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/us/car-crash-god-pennsylvania/index.html Makes me wonder what god this woman thought she was serving. The Christian God, which seems to be the one she had in mind from the context of the article, would be Absolutely Not Okay with this kind of behavior. That said I've ...

Y'know, people talk all the time about how squicky Trump is around women, but he's kinda gross around men too. Comments about their looks. This "My Kevin" thing. Comey's reported fear that he'd get a completely inappropriate hug. At some point, the public should address how Trump's sense ...

Yes. In the U.S. we call it 'free speech.' Bloomberg has said he is willing to spend $550 million (I'm not sure if that's just to get the nomination, or includes the general election). Yeah, so I also had Alatar 's reaction initially and so I had to have this conversation with an actual American ye...

V - Indeed. When Trump started demeaning and attacking military service members and families but his approval ratings amongst conservatives kept going up was I realized that the rot goes all the way through the apple. What I always thought was a whole lot of phony, holier-than-thou "respect&qu...