Politics And Current Events

Postby **blackjack68** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:26 pm

I wish the camera would pan left and show there’s only 20-30 people there.

Postby **AuthorTony** » Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:46 pm

Very interesting article about the power struggle between the US and China in... El Savador.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/worl ... klash.html

Postby **Gaucho** » Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:47 am

*it actually says "because our climate is **** important".

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:54 pm

Postby **Gaucho** » Sun Sep 22, 2019 3:20 pm

Postby **AuthorTony** » Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:23 pm

Doomed, delusional, divided and corrupt: How the Democratic Party became a haunted house
Conflicted about ideology and identity and deeply compromised by history, the Democratic Party is built to lose
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/22/doomed ... ted-house/

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:19 am

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:20 am

Face to face with what looks an awful lot like the rise of American fascism

even though time is running out for American democracy

A pretty solid analysis of the problems facing the current Democratic Party, and then you have two alarmist, dumb lines like that.

Postby **grunthy** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:18 am

Face to face with what looks an awful lot like the rise of American fascism

even though time is running out for American democracy
A pretty solid analysis of the problems facing the current Democratic Party, and then you have two alarmist, dumb lines like that.

The democrats problem isn’t alarmists, I believe it is their lack of spine or knowing what the hell to do when they gain power. They fight and fight to get power, then once they get it...

Postby **eddy** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:59 am

Postby **grunthy** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:02 am

I’m against bailouts, but That’s pretty deceiving. That’s what it cost at the end of it after they were paid back some of the money.

Postby **CBear3** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:17 am

Are the farmers going to pay back that bailout money? No. No they're not.

Postby **MR25** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:21 am

At the same token, the only reason this bailout is even necessary is because of Trump's boneheaded trade policies completely backfiring.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:43 am

Haven't we been "bailing out" farmers since the Depression effectively...?

Postby **CBear3** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:46 am

To one degree or another? Yes, yes we have.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:03 am

Not sure what benefit there is in conflating price subsidies with this sort of government intervention.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:47 am

This is what white privilege looks like.

Postby **shmenguin** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:49 am

in that they won't be called "animals" in this thread or that none of them will be killed by excessive force from police?

Postby **grunthy** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:51 am

They are animals and should be arrested for shutting down major highways.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:57 am

in that they won't be called "animals" in this thread or that none of them will be killed by excessive force from police?

Postby **Ted** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:01 pm

This is what white privilege looks like.

The climate gently weeped while all of those vehicles idled.

Big oil thanks them for their service.

Postby **Willie Kool** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:03 pm

They are animals

So are you. So are we all...

and should be arrested for shutting down major highways.

Yes, that's kinda the idea behind civil disobedience. Not their fault that the police aren't...

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:03 pm

in that they won't be called "animals" in this thread or that none of them will be killed by excessive force from police?

In that they are free, based on their privilege, to not be at work on a Monday morning, blocking people who have to work, from getting to work.

Not to mention the massive amounts of fossil fuels and other climate changing activities they are contributing to by their actions.

But I know, "they care" so their imbecility can be excused.