Jet would like to see the 1972 Presidential map. Nixon won virtually the entire $#@!ing country! lol Was he trying to make a point?
Jet would like to see the 1972 Presidential map. Nixon won virtually the entire $#@!ing country! lol Was he trying to make a point?
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Daily Bread (05-18-2021),stjames1_53 (05-17-2021)
Daily Bread (05-18-2021),stjames1_53 (05-17-2021)
The parenthetical description, "the fake Irishman," is an obviously ad hominem assault.
As for the others, the ones you list are too numerous to take, person-by-person. But just let me say that I very much support Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.
Certainly he was a democratic socialist.
Whether he did only what was "necessary under the circumstances" is an entirely separate question.
Perhaps the motives were pure. (And then again, he did boast that he would "have those n*****s voting Democratic for 200 years, according to some sources.")
Regardless of the motives, however, the result was...well, not especially edifying.
Again, your laundry list of complaints is far too lengthy to address fully.
Let me just say that Fox News is far more fair and balanced (as it claims) than either CNN or MSNBC, which appear to be merely echo chambers, with the guests regularly parroting the views of their hosts.
And the proposed voting-rights law in Georgia is not only not "suppressive"; it is actually more congenial to voters' rights than the laws in New York, or Joe Biden's home state of Delaware.
Daily Bread (05-18-2021),stjames1_53 (05-17-2021)
pjohns (05-17-2021),stjames1_53 (05-17-2021)
Daily Bread (05-18-2021),pjohns (05-17-2021),stjames1_53 (05-17-2021)
I've explained the fake Irishman before; it's his lack of character and remembrance of the past. As for you supporting Cruz et al, that moves you a bit further to the right than I thought.
FDR as NOT a Democratic socialist; he never identified as one, and such labels will never tarnish the good works and leadership he provided for this country. Are you enjoying your social security checks? Should he have kept us out of WWII? Was it better that Americans starved during the depression?
I not going to look down on LBJ, he was a great Democrat and also did good works. That phrase that you attribute to him was never proven to come from him. The Great Society did it;s job by getting us down the road to trying to solve the problems of the poor in this country.
As for what it takes to be far right, it's not a laundry list thank you, it's the characteristics and behaviors of what I consider to be far right-wing; you asked me...
Fox News is not now, nor has it ever been fair and balanced and I don't have any views on CNN or MSNBC, I don't watch any of them, but if Fox News is going to be THAT way, then there's always push back.
I and the rest of thinking Americans don't support voter suppression laws. I see them as unconstitutional.
What does the term "fake Irishman" have to do with a "lack of character," anyway? And is this really why you detest him? (Be honest, now.)
So, you are really more interested in our refraining from saying anything that might "tarnish" his reputation, than you are in the truth. Note: Of course he did not "identify" as a democratic socialist. That would not have been good for him, politically.
I would not wish to refuse it; but I do not spend it, either. (I have it direct-deposited into my savings account.)
For this, I cannot blame him. (We were bombed by Japan in December of 1941; nothing short of the most blatant appeasement could have then "kept us out" of the conflict.
This really suggests a broader discussion, viz.: Is democratic socialism a superior political philosophy to traditional capitalism?
Oh, and one other matter: Should we judge a political philosophy more by its pragmatic effects than by its philosophical underpinnings?
These are serious questions. They should not merely be sidestepped--or, worse yet, snarkily dismissed.
Well, a liberal would certainly think so.
I did not exactly "attribute" it to him, as you claim. Rather, I said that "some sources" do this. (I am uncertain if this is true; but you are clearly revealing your partisanship, by breezily dismissing it.)
Again, a typical liberal's viewpoint.
If you are going strictly by its nighttime hosts--Tucker Carlson; Sean Hannity; and Laura Ingraham--you might have a point.
But its nighttime hosts do not even claim to be evenhanded journalists--or journalists at all, for that matter--rather, they are the hosts of opinion shows. The daytime hosts are much different.
In any case, their guests include people from all different portions of the political spectrum. And that is quite unlike CNN and MSNBC, which appear to be nothing but echo chambers.
Neither do I. But you are begging the question by assuming that all reasonable people should agree that the voting law proposed in Georgia--as well as that in other states (typically Southern states)--is about voter suppression.
Last edited by pjohns; 05-18-2021 at 03:48 PM.
Daily Bread (05-18-2021)