August 13, 2020

I'm SERIES!!111!!!

This could turn into the 'Thread That Never Dies'.

If we keep going.

August 3, 2020

How many DUers have read the 2020 Democratic Party Platform?

I ask this question because I got into a reasonable discussion on Facebook with someone who said: - 'I consider myself generally conservative (not the ultra right who has hijacked the party just like the far left has the democratic party) with a bit of a libertarian slant.'

We did continue, and amazingly didn't go the usual 'Way of The Facebook'. As part of this I went and looked at the Democratic Party 2016 platform. And it's certainly not radical or hijacked (Radical for me would be getting rid of FATCA, The Patriot Act, and insuring UBI, but that's just me).

Here's a link to the 2016 Democratic Party Platform which I encourage everyone to read.

So, my bad, for posting a poll before I had my coffee. I've changed the poll questions so, if anyone wants to change their votes, please do so. My thanks to Brooklynite, Still_One, and Lochloosa for pointing out the error.

Also, the guy, although a libertarian he had a great take on the whole Confederate statues stuff - 'I've always looked at those statues as the original participation trophies. "Whose that guy? He one of the guys responsible for losing a war? Hey, let's build a statue."... I have never understood that.'

July 31, 2020

Herman Cain and John Lewis at the Pearly Gates.

St Peter: please tell me why you're here and why I should let you into Heaven.

John Lewis: I contracted pancreatic Cancer 1 year ago and died on July 17th. In the previous 80 years, I was spit on, punched, kicked and beaten 'till my skull was fractured, my bones cracked and my body broken - fighting for equal rights for all of humanity.

St Peter: and you sir?

Herman Cain: um... I went to a Trump rally?



Too soon?

July 26, 2020

Very sad to hear this

She was very vibrant and there was a photo of her recently riding her bicycle in the suburbs of Paris.

She was also fond of Champagne at lunch.

July 15, 2020

Thank you for this post. And the underlying story.

Amazing.

Yesterday was the Fete Nationale here in France.

July 14, 2020

One more from Andrew Cotter - Olive and Mabel.

“We’ll get you into a protection program. Change your name to a Pug named Susie.”

July 13, 2020

Has Kanye gone silent? Was it just a ploy? Checked Ballotpedia and he's not showing up.

Pretty weak sauce after the noise he was making.

June 28, 2020

Jonathan Pie and 'Cancel Culture' in the Labour Party

I'm sure that someone is going to be upset.
But somehow......

June 17, 2020

More from the Lincoln Project on the compilation thread - New Videos - #TrumpIsNotWell & Tulsa

The Lincoln Project Compilation thread, and the new videos are #TrumpIsNotWell & Tulsa

Both are very hard hitting.



Tulsa

June 10, 2020

A new definition of MAGA - seen on a friends FB page.

Truth is often stranger than fiction (or I kid you not.). The son of my friend is a translator. Japanese to English. Novels, short stories, screenplays, etc. Last night in his work he came across a Japanese word he didn't know. 禍, pronounced “maga,” It's archaic Japanese, rarely used nowadays. Here's the definition:

禍, pronounced “maga,” n. (archaic) wickedness, evil, calamity, disaster and in the adjective form... the word
禍々しい、"magamagashii" it has three meanings:
1) ominous, ill-omened; 2) annoying 3) seeming to be true but not actually so.