The Hall of Fire

It's the "for personal gain" thing that seems to confuse people. The Presidency is an office, the individual occupying it should act on behalf of the country's interests, not their own personal interests. I've seen this confusion all the way back when Melania Trump stayed in New York inste...

The transcript does seem to suggest that allegations are true. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-ukraine-call-transcript-read-the-document/ar-AAHPuLY?li=BBnb7Kz I guess now the partisan fighting can start over whether this is actually a crime or not. For every Republican saying it isn't...

If that proves to be true - and if someone can provide evidence that it happened....dear lord, that would be massive . Not enough to shake his poll numbers too much, I suspect, but enough that there will be some Republicans in Congress with enough integrity left to agree that they can't just overlo...

I remember back when Trump supporters started claiming the man is so smart that he was playing multi-dimensional chess while his opponents played ... shoot, I don't remember the whole thing and don't care to Google for it and get mad all over again ... let's say, they were playing tic tac toe. I tho...

I'd worry that Republicans in power won't let him get caught. In retrospect, Trump had his finger right on the pulse of the parts of the party that matter, politically, when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and walk away from it without consequence. ETA: of course, I can easily be proven...

yovargas wrote:The phrase late-stage capitalism has become particularly irritating of late.

You don't say.

It does serve as a signal of sorts, same as the other phrases do, allowing some background into the likely views of whoever is using them.

But still, irritating.

yov - yup, both make great propaganda labels. Label something "socialist" and you can get swaths of people to uncritically decide that thing is [characteristic], depending on their political leaning. Same goes for for labeling something "capitalist". Bonus points if you instead ...

Oh yeah, but, privatizing profit and socializing loss is a tried-and-true modus operandi for some American corporations. Stuff like spinning off a debt-laden business to slide out from under things like pension liability, stuff like tax payer bailouts during the Great Recession, stuff like strategic...

I don't know - the label makers would have to say. Near as I can tell, for the label makers it is only socialism if it helps an individual person. Aid for farmers and corporations - that's just capitalism. For some reason. Transferring individual wealth ( via tax money ) to corporations is a-OK, tra...

His behavior, if true, is appalling. Disgusting. In the current hyper-charged, hyper-partisan environment that kind of thing plays so very very well. And that is in danger of becoming a real problem. I hope that his behavior, if the evidence indeed supports the new claim, is treated with the same se...

Considering that Democrats would just take any victory as a mandate, moderates be damned, I'd be fine with a good independent candidate running. I am completely fed up with partisanship. I was merrily pulling an oar for the "support Democrats, that's better than Trump" boat until I had the...

He certainly doesn't hang around waffling with advisors or soliciting facts before making decisions. That is one way to be a man of action, right? I can see how that is refreshing - hey, he actually does stuff, he doesn't just talk about stuff! - to some people. . . . Here's the one thing that Trump...

What yov said. Gilette certainly used to be an aggressively manly-man corporation. They advertised a lot for motor sports, I think, where that kind of thing used to be quite common. But you know, people change and what people want change. Corporations, made of people, change with that - or they don'...

He does easily provide a lot of fodder for comedians and the like. Um, let's see. I think seems to show respect to law enforcement and military. It might be fake, though. Sent from my SM-G965U1 using Tapatalk Donald Trump's comments about John McCain, Adm. William WcRaven, his absence at a Veteran'...

To be honest, I haven't watched it yet, and I haven't read any of the reaction to it yet.

I will, but right now I feel like I cannot possibly read another sentence that would make me mad. And If I watch it and read all the reaction to it, I will read something that makes me mad for sure.

Democrats should not budge, though. This is Trump trying out dictatorship, and the GOP waiting quietly in the wings to see if it works. Blame? Taking the "blame" for what amounts to upholding democracy is not a bad thing, no matter what Trump would say. If the Democrats cave and he gets hi...

I can't emphasize how bizarre it is that the redacted document is readable if you copy and paste it. I can't even imagine how they did that, whether it was intentional or not. Was the document a PDF document? That’s a known “feature” of a PDF - it could store a separate text layer depending on the ...

Absolutely, yov . My question is indeed, where is the party of everyone else? I will apologize, I unfairly bristled at the implication ( just me reading to much into it I guess ) of "your vote for a Democrat didn't matter, centrist you, us Real Democrats really don't care that you and yours hel...

As an independent, fairly centrist voter who recently voted for some Democratic candidates, it's really not nice to hear my support and viewpoints dismissed by, in this case, a Democrat who is so tired of hearing about people like me. Of course, my viewpoints are just as happily dismissed by plenty ...

I seriously believe based on the various leaks that the man could have some sort of medical condition that leaves him legitimately unclear about what's real and what isn't. Affluenza , right? Seriously though, there's no medical condition in the case of Donald Trump. Just a pretty canny understandi...