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Forum: USA Politics 20th February 2024, 02:04 PM
Replies: 348
Views: 6,575
Posted By Lurch
This is contributory to the eventual collapse of...

This is contributory to the eventual collapse of America into a kleptocratic, oligarchic, Christo-Fascist hell. The sizzle trumps the steak. (Pun not intended, but apropos.) Titillating scumbaggery...
Forum: USA Politics 8th February 2024, 08:12 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,304
Posted By Lurch
What EmptyG makes is not full spectrum white...

What EmptyG makes is not full spectrum white noise. Hers is contaminated with a shrill, grating, narrow-band, feedback resonance.
Forum: USA Politics 2nd January 2024, 12:26 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
Time to get cracking! In the short history of the...

Time to get cracking! In the short history of the US there have been a secession with bloody Civil War, J6, and now the Orange Pustule has a real chance to bring about the end of democracy. And how...
Forum: USA Politics 2nd January 2024, 12:14 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
The same sophomoric guff so-called 'First...

The same sophomoric guff so-called 'First Amendment auditors' spew at cops as the latter walk away after an interaction.
Forum: USA Politics 2nd January 2024, 05:37 AM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
All symptomatic of a national pusillanimity that...

All symptomatic of a national pusillanimity that belies the chest-thumping Amerrican's crowing about being the BMOC. Cucks all.

This trepidatious tip-toeing around precedent setting decisions will...
Forum: USA Politics 26th December 2023, 11:06 AM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
The Constitution is in some respects like the...

The Constitution is in some respects like the Bible. Open to creative interpretation. What amount of additional verbiage would have been required to ensure clarity of meaning? While there is elegance...
Forum: USA Politics 25th December 2023, 04:43 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
Where, then, is the qualifier in the text, or an...

Where, then, is the qualifier in the text, or an expiration date? Methinks the amendment is still quite valid, and requires an amendment to alter or rescind.
Forum: USA Politics 25th December 2023, 04:39 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
What good elected judges if the top dogs in that...

What good elected judges if the top dogs in that kennel, the 'supremos', if you will, are not elected, but instead appointed by partisan politicians to a lifetime sinecure. And without seeming ethics...
Forum: USA Politics 21st December 2023, 02:01 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
My thinking, too.

My thinking, too.
Forum: USA Politics 21st December 2023, 01:59 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
The popular vote does not hoist a POTUS into...

The popular vote does not hoist a POTUS into office; the electoral College does. It's the system adopted by the country,, and until enough States agree it's not gonna change anytime soon.

The...
Forum: USA Politics 21st December 2023, 01:43 AM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
The courts cannot save the country. Because...

The courts cannot save the country. Because another traitor will eventually fill the void.

Only one thing in a democracy can keep the ship of state on course.

The electorate.

If the voters...
Forum: USA Politics 6th December 2023, 05:59 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 4,223
Posted By Lurch
To me, the great danger is that a 'popular' 3rd...

To me, the great danger is that a 'popular' 3rd party candidate could cause the 'winner' to not get the necessary 270 EC votes. In such case, the voting goes to the House, and we know what that would...
Forum: USA Politics 6th December 2023, 05:28 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 4,223
Posted By Lurch
Well, it sure as heck seems to be regarded as...

Well, it sure as heck seems to be regarded as such for the spineless worms who privately grouse about the Drumpf asylum but publicly give every support. They are selling their souls to keep their...
Forum: USA Politics 6th December 2023, 05:20 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 4,223
Posted By Lurch
Methinks you're a tad optimistic. ;) I'm firmly...

Methinks you're a tad optimistic. ;) I'm firmly convinced that for the 30% of the populace who define deplorable, NOTHING will shake them out of the GOP tree. Their leader--including post...
Forum: USA Politics 20th November 2023, 02:57 AM
Replies: 1,567
Views: 39,891
Posted By Lurch
Anyone who would vote for Trump could be said to...

Anyone who would vote for Trump could be said to have had a hard knock on the head one or two times too many.

But a sincere 3rd Party voter must truly have been lobotomized. That is a whisper in a...
Forum: USA Politics 19th November 2023, 03:05 AM
Replies: 234
Views: 8,689
Posted By Lurch
When I say that the Right's decline into...

When I say that the Right's decline into regressivism and its charted course toward Christo-Fascism is worthy of hate, I mean it in this sense. To merely express disdain for a potential danger is to...
Forum: USA Politics 17th November 2023, 09:56 PM
Replies: 234
Views: 8,689
Posted By Lurch
If there is hate from the Left Toward the Right,...

If there is hate from the Left Toward the Right, it's not because of conservatism. The Right of today has gone Fascist Right. They are no longer conservative. They're regressive. And once their...
Forum: USA Politics 17th November 2023, 09:42 PM
Replies: 2,700
Views: 68,014
Posted By Lurch
This judicial decision reveals the pitfalls of...

This judicial decision reveals the pitfalls of imprecise language. I can see how the omission of the POTUS in the list of 'Offices' barred from occupancy by insurrectionists leads to exempting the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th November 2023, 12:34 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
It's obvious that in absolute numbers there will...

It's obvious that in absolute numbers there will be a tendency to find crime to concentrate where people concentrate.

But if you consider crime on a per capita basis, rural areas can beat the...
Forum: USA Politics 16th November 2023, 03:58 PM
Replies: 1,063
Views: 57,212
Posted By Lurch
It'd be nice if the Orange Sphincter turns out to...

It'd be nice if the Orange Sphincter turns out to be the catalyst to break America of its weird obsession with treating POTUS like a king. One would think the founding, rebellious act of throwing off...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th November 2023, 10:36 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
If only we could provide a genetic analysis to...

If only we could provide a genetic analysis to everyone. There would be a goodly number of 'whites' who would be going a shade or two paler upon reading their own result. :D
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th November 2023, 08:22 PM
Replies: 183
Views: 5,508
Posted By Lurch
The issue of mandatory reporting is at the...

The issue of mandatory reporting is at the opposite end of the matter of a system which demands mandatory silence.

Merely permitting clergy the option of operating under their own human conscience...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th November 2023, 12:07 PM
Replies: 183
Views: 5,508
Posted By Lurch
And if one's religious belief system involves,...

And if one's religious belief system involves, say, paedophilia?

How can it be possible to draw a firm line agreeable to all concerned parties as to what constitutes the threshold of protection...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th November 2023, 03:25 AM
Replies: 183
Views: 5,508
Posted By Lurch
Why is a human, a fallible human, needed as an...

Why is a human, a fallible human, needed as an intermediary for confession? If Gawd sees and knows all, the penitent should be able to communicate directly with Sky Daddy Himself. After all, prayer...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th November 2023, 09:55 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
No system that is NOT prepared to lock up people...

No system that is NOT prepared to lock up people on suspicion of a crime YET to be committed can be other than reactive; the crime must first be committed. That means crime will and must ever be a...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th November 2023, 03:06 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
The US already has among the highest...

The US already has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. What percentage of the population is to be locked away in order to get the crime stats to a happy level? What price to pay for...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th November 2023, 08:37 AM
Replies: 65
Views: 2,709
Posted By Lurch
Portugal, at least as of several years ago as...

Portugal, at least as of several years ago as represented in a documentary I watched back then, has adopted a very progressive policy and program that hugely reduced crime and death among the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th November 2023, 08:17 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Not welcome in ANY circumstances? They never get...

Not welcome in ANY circumstances? They never get called to handle, say, domestic violence incidents? Nothing?

That attitude is illustrative of the American regard for Government, authority, police...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 14th November 2023, 08:07 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Not intended to hijack... But there are tens of...

Not intended to hijack... But there are tens of millions who will eagerly vote in a Fascist government. With each passing day the mask is falling farther for America's Hitler-in-waiting. And he has a...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 11:17 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
These 2A yahoos who strut the sidewalk decked out...

These 2A yahoos who strut the sidewalk decked out in body armor, strapped with a sidearm and an AR slung over the shoulder, make the US appear as though it's a wild land of the lawless, more...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 09:22 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Just having instruments of death available, even...

Just having instruments of death available, even in only the hands of the law-abiding, is the beginning of the problem. As the gun advocates endlessly shriek, "criminals will always get guns!" It can...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 08:45 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Thankfully up here on this side of the border I...

Thankfully up here on this side of the border I don't have to "deal with it." But that won't stop me from decrying the insanity. The US gun thing is one of the most gob-smacking phenomena in all of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 04:13 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 2,709
Posted By Lurch
I did not say users choose to OD. I only stress...

I did not say users choose to OD. I only stress that they knowingly ingest a dangerous substance; it's a calculated risk. They choose to take that risk. No one is forcing them.

To put my...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 03:48 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Which is what all sensible people understand and...

Which is what all sensible people understand and advocate. A measured process over time.

But even the most gradually incremental measure is shouted down as evidence of the dangerous "slippery...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 03:43 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Among the democracies, it seems to me that more...

Among the democracies, it seems to me that more than anywhere else does the American citizen regard his government, the Federal particularly so, as something of an alien invading force. A body...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th November 2023, 03:33 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
How long to incarcerate, if murder is not the...

How long to incarcerate, if murder is not the crime? In a system where punishment is the model and hence recidivism is common?

If the penal system is mostly a revolving door, jailing affords a...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2023, 10:13 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 2,709
Posted By Lurch
Not ignored. Gunshot deaths impact on many other...

Not ignored. Gunshot deaths impact on many other people, such as friends and relatives.

No material differentiator here; not really a factor by which to compare and contrast. This point would be...
Forum: USA Politics 12th November 2023, 08:31 PM
Replies: 234
Views: 8,689
Posted By Lurch
Progress is bad, no matter which side promulgates...

Progress is bad, no matter which side promulgates it. Got it.

Whatever conservatism is or has traditionally defined, today's American 'Conservative' ain't it. Point of the topic.

I'll concede...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2023, 08:02 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
Insta-confirmation of dirtywick's post...

Insta-confirmation of dirtywick's post immediately preceding.

Anything that has worked in all the rest of the civilized world cannot possibly work here in the US and A. Why even try?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2023, 07:51 PM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
This kind of thinking lies at the root of the...

This kind of thinking lies at the root of the American gun problem.

If protecting one's family is the shiboleth, then even a criminal's family has an equal right to the same protection.

Or is...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th November 2023, 03:42 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,986
Posted By Lurch
What would it take to make America come to its...

What would it take to make America come to its senses?

A fairly rapid, ten-fold increase in gun deaths? Would it need to be sustained for, say, two years, so that it be eliminated as a momentary...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th November 2023, 10:38 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 2,709
Posted By Lurch
Underlying my previous missive is the fact that...

Underlying my previous missive is the fact that drug deaths are very largely by voluntary ingestion. There are comparatively few cases of people forcing these substances into others' bodies against...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th November 2023, 08:19 AM
Replies: 65
Views: 2,709
Posted By Lurch
The Right is very exercised about drugs, in...

The Right is very exercised about drugs, in particular fantanyl. Here's what I find to be revealing.

A dangerous product that people WANT to consume, knowing the risks, is deemed really bad and...
Forum: USA Politics 5th November 2023, 02:33 PM
Replies: 1,351
Views: 48,591
Posted By Lurch
I wonder if Changer of the Diaper, Waltine Nauta,...

I wonder if Changer of the Diaper, Waltine Nauta, has been elevated to this exalted station.
Forum: USA Politics 4th November 2023, 01:25 PM
Replies: 1,133
Views: 45,913
Posted By Lurch
If Trump were to say that donations pay to keep...

If Trump were to say that donations pay to keep delaying justice, would his cultists sell their children into slavery to raise the funds?
Forum: USA Politics 27th October 2023, 09:33 AM
Replies: 592
Views: 19,246
Posted By Lurch
If Tiny Johnson is correct about Sky Daddy...

If Tiny Johnson is correct about Sky Daddy raising him up in this moment of triumph for him, what does it say about Sky Daddy's inability to keep Orange Jesus in the WH? The cult didn't pray hard...
Forum: USA Politics 26th October 2023, 09:22 AM
Replies: 2,333
Views: 73,443
Posted By Lurch
How do you know the Universe is fundamentally...

How do you know the Universe is fundamentally unfair?

That some poor citizen shlub of an ex-con gets 5 years in prison for mistakenly voting when they're not allowed to. (The real sting in this...
Forum: USA Politics 24th October 2023, 07:43 AM
Replies: 2,020
Views: 99,176
Posted By Lurch
Trump would be nothing in a political sense...

Trump would be nothing in a political sense without the astounding number of suckers and deplorables who make him a somebody. And still they cling as though to the one foam life preserver amidst a...
Forum: USA Politics 22nd October 2023, 07:15 AM
Replies: 2,333
Views: 73,443
Posted By Lurch
Yeah, it sure is the case that not only the girls...

Yeah, it sure is the case that not only the girls like a bad boy.

But here it's not the loins driving this love. It's hate and fear. Some--perhaps most--manufactured by their betters. The bulk of...
Forum: USA Politics 20th October 2023, 04:19 AM
Replies: 2,020
Views: 99,176
Posted By Lurch
Speaking of motivated thinking... It would...

Speaking of motivated thinking...

It would be nice to know what the Trumpy cult has to say about what follows the four-year term if their orange Jesus substitute should get back to squatting in...
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