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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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For somebody who claims to be so media savvy, Trump seems slow to realize that his Tweets in which he basically tries to backtrack when something he says or did blow up in his face often just make him look worse.
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Restore checks and balances no matter your party affiliation. |
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“ A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ” ― David Hume |
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- "Ernest Hemingway once wrote that the world is a fine place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part." - Detective Sommerset - "Stupidity does not cancel out stupidity to yield genius. It breeds like a bucket-full of coked out hamsters." - The Oatmeal - "To the best of my knowledge the only thing philosophy has ever proven is that Descartes could think." - SMBC |
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"You must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what's true." - Ray Dalio, Principles |
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Another one bites the dust
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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"..... unless it's raining, and if it is, it's Kelly's fault".
This is like a grade school attempt at sucking up to everyone he offended with his petulant performance in Paris. All because the dumb goose thought it was going to be another of those big-assed military parades! "See? Mellie and I love the troops. We went all the way across town to visit some of them." |
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele It's not that liberals have become less tolerant. It's that conservatives have become more intolerable. |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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Opinion is divided on the subject. All the others say it is; I say it isn’t. |
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I've really enjoyed reading about his temper tantrums and his brooding since returning from Paris. His outbursts on Twitter betray some real, first-class suffering going on. Now, his wife has made him look whipped. His suffering is so beautiful. The reports that he's gaining weight and his health is deteriorating just make my heart sing.
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As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - Henry Louis Mencken - Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 |
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Unfortunately, that's what a lot of his followers love about him. He doesn't act scripted or polished, he says what he wants to, and people can take it or leave it.
There was that infamous speech he gave, where he told the audience straight up that he hated 'Drain the Swamp' and thought it was hoky, but because he could tell the audience loved it, he rolled with it anyway. The audience at that speech loved it, even as they were being told to their faces that Trump was only telling them what they wanted to hear. |
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" Isaac Asimov Not all cults are bad - I've joined a cult of niceness ![]() |
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that...I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” - President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017. "And it's, frankly, disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. And people should look into it." - President Donald J. Trump, October 11, 2017. |
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Why is it business-as-usual that the President gets to call the Election rigged, declaring massive voter fraud, and no one bats an eye?
How have we gotten to a stage when we offhandedly dismiss the claims of direct attacks on our Democracy because they come from a known conspiracy nut who just happens to be the Commander-in-Chief? How is it not a Constitutional Crisis when the rational thing to do is to disregard what the sitting president says? |
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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No. The VA has been a rolling dumpster fire for a good while now, the only thing any politicians has ever cared about in regards to veterans is their ability to be used as a talking point, and for all the "President Bonespurs" jokes it's not like military service has really been a big part of any President's background for a while now.
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- "Ernest Hemingway once wrote that the world is a fine place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part." - Detective Sommerset - "Stupidity does not cancel out stupidity to yield genius. It breeds like a bucket-full of coked out hamsters." - The Oatmeal - "To the best of my knowledge the only thing philosophy has ever proven is that Descartes could think." - SMBC |
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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In his defense it is possible rain would either dissolve Trump like the Wicked Witch of the West or make him multiply like Gremlins.
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- "Ernest Hemingway once wrote that the world is a fine place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part." - Detective Sommerset - "Stupidity does not cancel out stupidity to yield genius. It breeds like a bucket-full of coked out hamsters." - The Oatmeal - "To the best of my knowledge the only thing philosophy has ever proven is that Descartes could think." - SMBC |
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Judge orders White House to reinstate Acosta's press credentials
https://thehill.com/regulation/court...in-cnn-dispute I eagerly await the tweet dumpster fire! |
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so - William of Conches, c1150 |
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so - William of Conches, c1150 |
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Trump has just declared that "there are more people working in the United States right now, at this moment, than have ever worked before."
There are also more people in the US than ever before. But don't let that stop ya, Donnie. ETA: OMG...he's on again right now bragging about how he won the election easily, citing the electoral college votes and claiming what a wonderful campaign he ran vs. Clinton. He also claimed he wrote his written answers to Mueller's question, not his lawyers. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight, Donnie. Sure ya did. |
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I spent the better part of 15 years here trying to explain to various conspiracy theorists that the promotion of their ideas was a danger to the health of western democracies, because democracy ultimately relies on trust between the members of society. If enough people decide that "It's all rigged" or some such thing, then democracy will simply stop working, regardless of whether or not it actually is rigged. Lately I've been thinking we're at the point where we just have to let the idiots screw everything up, so that they can see how badly they've screwed things up. Warning them about it hasn't worked so far, and I can't see any reason why further warnings will work any better. I may be wrong about that, and the recent US election gives me some small spark of hope, but it flickers fitfully under the smothering weight of cynicism. "for"; "to"; it's an easy typo to make. |
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