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    Thread: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability
Post: RE: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

(02-04-2021, 06:23 PM)David Horn Wrote: They tend to favor the oppressed over their oppressors, and reserve the right to define who, what and which.  Since they tend to be loosely affiliated, the ra...
mamabug General Political Discussion 348 89,012 02-04-2021, 09:50 PM
    Thread: Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders
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(02-04-2021, 06:08 PM)David Horn Wrote: If you're looking for a libertarian solution to the current crisis, keep looking. We're moving into a communitarian period, where 'all for one and one for all...
mamabug General Political Discussion 28 4,294 02-04-2021, 09:01 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(02-04-2021, 03:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: You weren't so concerned about what Trump was doing recently, like throwing kids in cages to die. 1. The Left's power is limited. They have the senate by...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 02-04-2021, 06:03 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(02-04-2021, 03:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I disagree with you a lot, but Bob Butler says we need some more red Republican views on the new facebook forum. Feel free to join. It is getting lots of ...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 02-04-2021, 04:18 PM
    Thread: City to ban natural gas hookups in new buildings by 2030: mayor
Post: RE: City to ban natural gas hookups in new buildin...

Irrelevant, by 2030 nobody will be living in Seattle anyway. The city council is on a crusade to become the next Detroit.
mamabug General Political Discussion 10 1,951 02-04-2021, 03:28 PM
    Thread: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability
Post: RE: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

(02-02-2021, 03:52 PM)David Horn Wrote: The real problem with radicals on the left: they aren't really organized.  Groups like BLM are real organizations, but they are political and not a threat.  A...
mamabug General Political Discussion 348 89,012 02-04-2021, 03:19 PM
    Thread: Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate flags
Post: RE: Cuomo signs bill banning sale of Confederate f...

On another thread, Eric asked why I was afraid of the Left when in power and I think this statement from the article illustrates it: [he signed it] even while admitting the new edict might clash with...
mamabug General Political Discussion 10 1,607 02-04-2021, 03:07 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(02-03-2021, 02:44 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Cassandra: I think you are projecting. You are afraid of what the Left in power might do, because it's what the Right-wing in power does. Who did what on ...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 02-04-2021, 02:57 PM
    Thread: Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders
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(02-02-2021, 03:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I agree with that last point. The problem now is that one Party (yours I assume) is pathologically dedicated to standing in the way of all necessary solut...
mamabug General Political Discussion 28 4,294 02-04-2021, 02:03 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(02-02-2021, 12:39 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: (02-01-2021, 11:48 AM)mamabug Wrote: (02-01-2021, 01:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump left plenty of warning signs. He has huge funds and he gets a...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 02-02-2021, 12:48 PM
    Thread: 2021: generational tipping point
Post: RE: 2021: generational tipping point

(02-01-2021, 12:33 PM)David Horn Wrote: Yeah, that's the fallacy of Federalism.  States are close to the people (cities even moreso), but it's the Federal government that has the bottomless checkboo...
mamabug The Future 70 33,472 02-02-2021, 12:25 PM
    Thread: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability
Post: RE: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

(02-01-2021, 02:04 PM)David Horn Wrote: I think she was looking at violence, and I can't see that from the left either. Really not sure how many times I have to repeat that I live in the heart of a...
mamabug General Political Discussion 348 89,012 02-01-2021, 06:59 PM
    Thread: Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders
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What defines and who is in the majority/minority shifts over time. I can be geographical, philosophical, identitarian, etc. one era and something else the next. Each side will cast the narrative of...
mamabug General Political Discussion 28 4,294 02-01-2021, 06:45 PM
    Thread: Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders
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(02-01-2021, 11:57 AM)David Horn Wrote: That truly may be "the point of our Constitution", but the document was written by upper class elites to serve their interests - especially the interest of sl...
mamabug General Political Discussion 28 4,294 02-01-2021, 12:26 PM
    Thread: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability
Post: RE: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

(02-01-2021, 11:41 AM)David Horn Wrote: To be honest, I'm not sure that's true. You live in the solid Blue Seattle area.  I live in solid Red country, where the Trump signs and flags are still up an...
mamabug General Political Discussion 348 89,012 02-01-2021, 12:19 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(02-01-2021, 01:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump left plenty of warning signs. He has huge funds and he gets attached to a porn star. He is taped talking about grabbing women by their "kitty cats...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 02-01-2021, 11:48 AM
    Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues

He won't be convicted because there is literally no upside for most GOP senators to vote that way. I realize this offends the Boomer/Millenial black v. white thinking that is 110% certain of the mora...
mamabug General Political Discussion 3,142 994,237 02-01-2021, 11:36 AM
    Thread: Mayor Birney issues Redmond curfew
Post: RE: Mayor Birney issues Redmond curfew

This was back in June. We were kind of in the the middle of BLM riots and the CHAZ/CHAD secessionist movement, a lot of cities around here imposed curfews. They didn't last very long.
mamabug General Political Discussion 2 1,160 02-01-2021, 11:21 AM
    Thread: 2021: generational tipping point
Post: RE: 2021: generational tipping point

(02-01-2021, 04:25 AM)nguyenivy Wrote: Will the shared experience of being in school & university during the pandemic forcing the switchover to online ed by a generational marker? It seems to ma...
mamabug The Future 70 33,472 02-01-2021, 11:17 AM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(01-31-2021, 04:37 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Some people who have different opinions from me are evil. It depends. White supremacists and Nazis are evil. Totalitarian and gangster, genocidal rulers l...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 01-31-2021, 08:23 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(01-31-2021, 05:58 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The idea that all people are equal under law for me is mixed in with the Bill of Rights at some level.  Your revulsion at those who reject those ideals is ...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 01-31-2021, 07:40 PM
    Thread: Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability
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(01-31-2021, 10:06 AM)David Horn Wrote: My benchmark for honoring freedom was stated by Robert Jackson, the last Supreme Court Justice to "read the law": "the Constitution is not a suicide pact".  T...
mamabug General Political Discussion 792 312,581 01-31-2021, 07:16 PM
    Thread: The Partisan Divide on Issues
Post: RE: The Partisan Divide on Issues

(01-31-2021, 03:01 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The impeachment of a President who is out of office has already been determined unconstitutional and reduced to nothing more than political theatre. No, it ...
mamabug General Political Discussion 3,142 994,237 01-31-2021, 06:54 PM
    Thread: Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders
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(01-31-2021, 12:05 PM)David Horn Wrote: (01-31-2021, 01:25 AM)mamabug Wrote: Good. I hate executive actions in general but they've just been getting worse for the last 20 years or so.  It's a conv...
mamabug General Political Discussion 28 4,294 01-31-2021, 06:41 PM
    Thread: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability
Post: RE: Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

(01-31-2021, 03:37 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The conservative information outlets and avenues of mass communication are pretty much shutdown by big tech at the moment. So, Biden has the benefit of  a mo...
mamabug General Political Discussion 348 89,012 01-31-2021, 06:28 PM