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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/politics/yale-university-affirmative-action-lawsuit/index.html

Good news on the lawsuit.

[josh]

Even Newsmax has had enough on the election conspiracy nonsense!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/media/newsmax-mypillow-mike-lindell-voter-claims/index.html

[Kam]

Yep I posted that earlier.  It's as if these Republicans were never going to accept a Donald Trump loss under any circumstance.  Any reasonable republican would've conceded all along that their candidate stood a chance to lose.  But the ones in the "cult-of-Donald" could never have that view because Donald himself never (publicly) did.

[Hairy Lime]

Kid,  your pack mentality is with your millions of fellow True Believers.   How dense are you?   


I voted for Trump - who was not my candidate - and supported many of his policies.

Liar. You are the posting equivalent of a giant foam rubber index MAGA finger.

I am not part of any pack.

LOL.

[FlyingVProd]

Many things can be done to help the homeless in Southern California, including helping the foster children when they are young so that they go to college instead of becoming homeless, and other things can be done.

And Los Angeles just needs to copy Orange County. In Orange County we have everything taken care of. We have a new Wellness Center in Orange where anyone who needs help can go get help. We also have the Mental Health Association in Santa Ana. And anyone in Orange County who needs help can simply dial 2-1-1 on their cell phone and people will help them.

And Orange County has gotten creative when it comes to helping the homeless. In Anaheim the Electric company is owned by the people of the city, and we sell electricity to Disneyland, etc, and some of the money from the Public Utilities goes into a General Fund, and then the people of the city of Anaheim get to decide how to spend the money from our General Fund, and some of the money goes towards helping the homeless, etc.

Also of note, new drug treatment camps are needed, where people can get off of the streets and where they can learn the 12 Step Program, etc. We can have more drug treatment camps in Lake Hughes and in Acton. And as people graduate from the camps, they can go to work with Habitat for Humanity building retirement housing for the elderly, etc, and there is also Homeboy Industries where our local people can find jobs after they complete their 90 day treatment program at a drug treatment camp.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

Kid,  your pack mentality is with your millions of fellow True Believers.   How dense are you?   


I voted for Trump - who was not my candidate - and supported many of his policies.

Liar. You are the posting equivalent of a giant foam rubber index MAGA finger.

I am not part of any pack.

LOL.

Kid is part of the pack run by it’s fleas,

http://www.emptywheel.net/2021/02/02/the-mob-party/

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Tony, OC is still a hot mess.

[facilitatorn]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/3/2013740/-Rep-Boebert-could-have-circumnavigated-Earth-for-what-she-was-allegedly-paid-in-mileage

[barton]

Sorta wish she would circumnavigate the earth,  on a perpetual loop.   

BTW,  I just want to commend Lime,  as holder of the record for most adjectival nouns used in one phrase. 

BTW,  is there a county somewhere where you can dial a number and get free oranges -- say you have scurvy or something? 

[kidcarter8]

Kid,  your pack mentality is with your millions of fellow True Believers.   How dense are you?   


I voted for Trump - who was not my candidate - and supported many of his policies.

Liar. You are the posting equivalent of a giant foam rubber index MAGA finger.

Well...

take care then, Whisk.

[FlyingVProd]

In Orange County you can dial 2-1-1 for anything, they will help you if you need food, and I am sure fresh fruit would be included, including oranges, they will bring a box of food to your home.

Of note, many years ago, 15 years ago, I went to a formal dinner in the OC to discuss ways to help the homeless. My friend Tom was a speaker. I sat next to the Mayor of Laguna Beach at dinner, she was charming, and she was a good listener as I told her all of my ideas on ways to help the homeless. The OC cares, and we have good caring leaders.

Los Angeles can learn a lot from the OC.

Salute,

Tony V.

[LarryBnDC]

Dems seem to left the covered dishes home and are brining guns to the knife fight.

[kidcarter8]

Paul, mentioning female athletes in his family, said that he believes most people think it is "complete bizarre and unfair" to allow students to participate in girls’ sports based on their stated gender identity instead of biological sex.




https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-in-tense-exchange-presses-bidens-education-department-nominee-on-transgender-student-athletes


Now, how about this bit of logical thought?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-nfl-star-marcellus-wiley-separate-transgender-category-school-sports-biden-order#

[kidcarter8]

Even Newsmax has had enough on the election conspiracy nonsense!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/media/newsmax-mypillow-mike-lindell-voter-claims/index.html

Thanks for the link

"Mike, you're talking about machines. We at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds of allegations," he said, before reading from a statement: "While there were some clear evidence of some cases of voter fraud and election irregularities, the election results in every state were certified, and Newsmax accepts the results as legal and final. The courts have also supported that view."


You posted it.  So you agree?  Or just taking a  cheap shot at PillowGuy?

[facilitatorn]

Republicans, at least one of whom represented trump in the courthouse front of his coup, have been documented to have cast illegal votes in 2020 in several states.

Some republican states refuse to audit either their voting or counting processes leaving all the curious characters they send into government under a thick cloud of doubt. We don’t know how many votes were cast illegally for republicans in those states.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Like many observers, including an enormous number of the president's loudest detractors, I believe that Trump brought the conservative movement to an end. But what its destruction means is something very different from the prophecies of permanent Democratic supermajorities issuing forth from the former president's critics. Trump's greatest achievement, one that speaks far more than his actual record in office to his business acumen, was recognizing that in the 2012 presidential election, the old movement vein had been exhausted and that a much richer one was awaiting exploration.

What Trump recognized was that there are millions of Americans who do not oppose or even care about abortion or same-sex marriage, much less stem-cell research or any of the other causes that had animated traditional social conservatives. Instead he correctly intuited that the new culture war would be fought over very different (and more nebulous) issues: vague concerns about political correctness and "SJWs," opposition to the popularization of so-called critical race theory, sentimentality about the American flag and the military, the rights of male undergraduates to engage in fornication while intoxicated without fear of the Title IX mafia. Whatever their opinions might have been 20 years ago, in 2021 these are people who, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, accept pornography, homosexuality, drug use, legalized gambling, and whatever GamerGate was about. On economic questions their views are a curious and at times incoherent mixture of standard libertarian talking points and pseudo-populism, embracing lower taxes on the one hand and stimulus checks and stricter regulation of social media platforms on the other.

I have come to think of the people who answer to the above description as "Barstool conservatives," in reference to the popular sports website, especially its founder and CEO, Dave Portnoy. For many years the political significance of Barstool was implicit at best, reflected mainly in its conflicts with Deadspin and other members of the tacitly liberal sports journalism establishment.

But in the last year, as Portnoy emerged as one of America's most visible critics of the lockdown policies instituted by virtually every state governor, it became clear to me that more so than anyone else he embodied the world view of millions of Americans, who share his disdain for the language of liberal improvement, the hectoring, schoolmarmish attitude of Democratic politicians and their allies in the media, and, above all, the elevation of risk-aversion to the level of a first-order principle by our professional classes. This, I suspect, is why in the last 24 hours I have received several text messages asking me whether I thought he had any interest in running for president. (My guess is no, though I also believe that his prospects for electoral success would be decent.)

Regardless of Portnoy's own ambitions, I fully expect the future of the Republican Party to belong to Barstool conservatives, which is to say, to a growing but so far almost invisible coalition that could very well carry the White House. The Barstool conservative movement will not have institutions in any recognizable sense, certainly not think tanks or highbrow magazines, but it will be larger, more geographically disparate, younger, and probably more male. It will also, I suspect, be more racially diverse, much like the portion of the electorate that gave Trump 74 million votes in 2020.




https://theweek.com/articles/964006/rise-barstool-conservatives