01-20-2021, 01:08 PM
(01-20-2021, 02:04 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-19-2021, 09:45 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(01-19-2021, 02:36 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-18-2021, 10:03 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The Regeneracy may be nigh. We are going to see the repudiation of much political craziness all at once. Difference that results from ethnicity, religion, gender, gender preference, class, and region will be tolerated. Sheer craziness will be mocked and disregarded, if not suppressed.
We can all be glad that the Regeneracy isn't America joining together under a Trump banner. We generally recognize how close we were to having a serious blow-up in the Capitol, especially if members of Congress had been killed.
The regeneracy may be America joining together under a Trump banner for a term to make things right again and break up a political monopoly of sorts and clean up the corruption (drain the swamp) associated with Washington DC . We had a serious blow up take place in the capitol and we are fortunate that only a few lives were lost and the damage to the capitol building was minor and the formal procedure to finalize the election result was able to proceed and the election result wasn't changed or altered as a result. The ball is now in the hands of the Democrats and the Democrats are the ones who have been acting pretty crazy, foolish, selfish and irresponsible lately.
"Under a Trump banner"? Should I get a dog (I may qualify for a therapy dog) I might use one of those -- as a dog blanket. The dog won't care about the politics, and I consider the use of such a banner an appropriate -- desecration. The ones that got into the Capitol building were a disgrace. No prior President -- not even the Barack Obama that you so hate -- welcomed anything like that in the Capitol.
The damage to the institutions of the federal legislative system is incalculable.
Democrats did not challenge any Republican electors or even try to persuade any to vote in protest of the events of January 6.
There is at least one federal capital offense (killing of a Capitol Police officer), and the insurrection has a high likelihood of doing even more killing as a super-spreader event. We have surpassed 403,000 deaths from Covid, which is more than the 2019 estimate of the population of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 47th-largest city in the USA. So more people will die as the result of the insurrection from COVID-19 than from any direct violence.
Do you know what would have been really deadly? The institution of a dictatorship. Imagine Donald Trump getting an extended and illegal term as President, and people like those calling the shorts (including sending people to torture chambers, execution sites, and concentration camps). Imagine people starving or dying of the cold because these people believe that no human suffering can be opposed so long as such supports the power, indulgence, and greed of rapacious and irresponsible elites. Imagine wars for profit as in invasions of Cuba, Venezuela, and perhaps Iran. Whoops! The latter one will go badly because the corrupt, despotic, intolerant mullahs will use Iranian nationalism against Americans bringing booze, bikinis, and Bibles to Iran just as Stalin was able to exploit Russian nationalism against the Nazis.
Donald Trump has no moral compass.
Biden has no moral compass.
We shall see. Do you even know what a moral compass is? Agreement with you is not a moral compass.
Quote:You are about as messed up as Bob at this point.
That's nice to know. Bob seems very rational to me.
Quote:We've had 403,000 people die of COVID and there will be thousands more dying of COVID while Biden/Harris are in office.
After we get the new infections down, we will have some lag between the infections and deaths. Deaths are a lagging indicator. Getting the number of new infections down now reduces to logistics of immunization. I want my pair and have sought them. The next batch available for me is at least a month away.
Quote:I can't wait to start calling your President a murderer and associating him with a dictatorship and the actions of racist blacks that won't touch and I can't wait to really start cracking down hard on low life piss ants and slugs like you who come across as clueless partisan hacks and demagogues too. You don't want a dog you that won't be able to afford to feed or take care of in a few years.
It is far easier to trust Joe Biden than it was to trust Donald Trump four years ago. I am 65 and I take care of myself. I could take care of the dog on less money that many people use on booze. If I have a therapy dog, then dog food and veterinary bills are covered. Sure, I have some medical dreads (somehow I have avoided diabetes, but then there is Parkinsonism that my mother had, circulatory failure, and the usual fears of cancer, uremia, strokes, and heart attacks... but I would know enough to give up the dog if I became too erratic to keep it.
It is far easier to take Joe Biden, a devout Christian, much more easily at his word than someone who grabs women by their "kitty-cats", has sleazy practices in business, uses Orwellian Newspeak, baits the handicapped, exudes ethnic and religious bigotry, and lied to get people to make a mockery of an election to nullify it. Al Gore, who gets much respect for taking the honorable course in recognizing a loss in which he had questions, contrasts to Donald Trump. Even if the difference in the election were the sleazy behavior of some urban machine pols ... Trump had people risking their lives, their freedom, severe injuries, prison terms, job losses, and economic ruin for interrupting a legal formality.
Will Joe Biden be a great President? I am not sure. Donald Trump has made a travesty of the Presidency... and thank God that the damage is too slight to undo the American political heritage.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.