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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

http://mobile.twitter.com/ADLMichigan/status/1323367085964185600

Trump’s contribution to our culture, earning him a cow punch and a potter’s grave.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Re:

Weren’t we supposed to watch who we told to fuck off?


Oh how we need a  “ Global Moderator” with some guts.

Volunteering for the job?

LOL
In a roomful of socialists?
My role is to point out the idiocy of the regulars.
I don’t need to use ad hominems  like you, just highlight the absurdity of their so-called “ facts”.

Your "role" is to provide comic relief.

LOL!
And it is fun.

[bankshot1]

Red apparently is accusing Elbians of being sociaslists. Not that htere's anything wrong with that but who here considers themselves a socialist?


I'm a capitalist with moderate liberate political leanings and believe in some socialist programs, like social security, Medicare and in regulation that promotes the safety and health and welfare of the general population. and for our environment. But I'm not a socialist, but rather a capitalist with a conscience.

But I'm glad a fascist like Red is not interested in modding here, he's a fucking asshole, a liar, and his responses are typically dismissive, because I sense he's not familiar with the topic.

Besides I'm too old to learn German.

[LarryBnDC]

Found another cousin of Larry. He lost his job, but like Larry a great student of history: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=uh3_news_vert_gs&p=how+not+to+reference+the+holocaust#id=2&vid=949bfbfdf208056325bb1f337b9d8f50&action=click

Of course, Josh won't ban Larry, though Larry is on record saying he did it deliberately and willfully.  Larry keeps his job at this media outlet.

What's the matter, Josh? If kid or red did that, willfully and deliberately misused the Holocaust to demonize a political opponent, you'd be thinking of banning them, if not having done so, already.

Maybe you don't have the stones to do what's right?

People have been suspended here for far less egregious commentary.

Bitch, please.

I almost feel as is I should pay rent for the space I’m occupying in your head.

Fuck off, bigot.

Weren’t we supposed to watch who we told to fuck off?

I’m so confused... heh

 

You are seriously confused, and by many things.


You must be a Christian.

Sure am.

My family used to live in an intentional Christian community.

One of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

"I also know that if today I refuse to hate Jews, or anybody else, it is because I know how it feels to be hated. I learned this from Christians, and I ceased to practice what the Christians practiced.

The crisis taking place in the world, and in the minds and hearts of black men everywhere, is not produced by the star of David, but by the old, rugged Roman cross on which Christendom's most celebrated Jew was murdered. And not by Jews."

--James Baldwin

Guess you better rethink your decision, Lawrence.

Heh

James Baldwin was raised in the church and was a youth minister.

He was also a gay black teen and nowhere will you find more gay people AND homophobia than the black church,

So, what're you doing about such abject bigotry within your community, Lawrence? Youre snti-Demetic, you claim to be a "Christian", yet seem perversely proud of the bigotry within the black church towards LBGTQ.Many of us it here fighting it in our neighborhoods. We can't do all the heavy lifting.

Or is that what you really want? To just keep in keeping on.

Perversely proud?

Just being real.

Banged my head on that wall since I was a kid. Why do you think I worship with Episcopalians?

[LarryBnDC]

My PA friends are planning to vote in-person.  She has a conceal-carry permit and will be carrying it because she thinks "anything can happen".  He will be there supporting her right to bear arms while trying not to get caught in the crossfire.

If it warms up,  that will support the right to bare arms.   

In case anyone has butterflies over the election,  here's a pleasant distraction....

Whale catches Train

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54780430

Sounds like the opening scene of ‘Final Destination: 25’

[LarryBnDC]

Kid, you never think there is a chance you are wrong about this shit.



No. I trust that enough Americans see the good work Trump has done that it at last be as close as I have it.

Greetings from Earth One

[LarryBnDC]

the good work Trump has done

Such as?

Scroll back

Or just fucking pay attention

I am OK with anyone that says COVID response has erased any good Trump accomplished - and even then some.  I can respect this.

Denying the pre-COVID good puts you in Idiotsville.

Thanks Obama.

[bambu.]

Red apparently is accusing Elbians of being sociaslists. Not that htere's anything wrong with that but who here considers themselves a socialist?


I'm a capitalist with moderate liberate political leanings and believe in some socialist programs, like social security, Medicare and in regulation that promotes the safety and health and welfare of the general population. and for our environment. But I'm not a socialist, but rather a capitalist with a conscience.

But I'm glad a fascist like Red is not interested in modding here, he's a fucking asshole, a liar, and his responses are typically dismissive, because I sense he's not familiar with the topic.

Besides I'm too old to learn German.

Ah yes, a social capitalist...exactly what Australians are....social capitalists.
Social programs...Medicare, welfare benefits paid to those who need them, social housing for those who need it, aged pension, etc.
Stock exchange.
Incentive encouraged.
A good life can still be had...with hard work rewarded.
Maybe not for too much longer, the way the world is going.
...the way China is screwing us.

[LarryBnDC]

For the first time in 48 years the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the Toledo (Ohio) Blade have endorsed a GOP presidential candidate (Trump).

He’s unpresidential.”

“He’s crude and unkind.”

“He’s just not a good man.”

These things, and much worse, are commonly said of President Donald Trump. His personality totally eclipses his record.

So we, seemingly, have him on the dunk tank, ready for a very cold bath.

Let’s play dump the lout.

But is this really what it’s about?

Isn’t the real question whether he has been taking the country, and the economy of this region, in the right direction these last four years?

Can we separate the man from the record?

We share the embarrassment of millions of Americans who are disturbed by the President’s unpresidential manners and character — his rudeness and put-downs and bragging and bending of the truth.

None of this can be justified. The President’s behavior has often diminished his presidency, and the presidency. Most Americans want a president who makes them proud.

We too prefer the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama (whom this newspaper enthusiastically supported in 2008 and 2012). None of them are on the ballot this year.

Let’s look at the Trump record:

Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-Covid, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years.

Unemployment for black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party.

Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again, and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope.

Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not articulate, but he recognized their pain.

No one ever asked the American people, or the people in “fly-over,” country if they wanted to send their jobs abroad. Until Mr. Trump. He has moved the debate, in both parties, from free trade, totally unfettered, to managed, or fair, trade. He has put America first, just as he said he would.

He also kept his promise to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court of the United States. His third appointment, Amy Coney Barrett, is the best of all — a jurist whose mind and character and scholarship ARE first-class. We hope she stands against both judicial and executive excess.

Finally, let’s talk about one of the most important concerns in this region — energy. Under Mr. Trump the United States achieved energy independence for the first time in the lifetimes of most of us.

Donald Trump is not Churchill, to be sure, but he gets things done.

He is not a unifier. He often acts like the president of his base, not the whole country. He has done nothing to lessen our divisions and has, in fact, often deepened them. The convictions and intellect of all Americans should be respected by all Americans, especially the President.

Has Mr. Trump handled the pandemic perfectly? No. But no one masters a pandemic. And the President was and is right that we must not cower before the disease, and we have to keep America open and working.

He has not listened well to people who could have helped him. He has not learned government, or shown interest in doing so.

But the Biden-Harris ticket offers us higher taxes and a nanny state that will bow to the bullies and the woke who would tear down history rather than learning from history and building up the country.

It offers an end to fracking and other Cuckoo California dreams that will cost the economy and the people who most need work right now. “Good paying green jobs,” are probably not jobs for Pittsburgh, or Cleveland, or Toledo, or Youngstown.

It offers softness on China, which Mr. Trump understands is our enemy.

Mr. Biden is too old for the job and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term. Mr. Trump is also too old but seemingly robust. But in Mike Pence, Mr. Trump has a vice president ready to take over, if need be. He is a safe pair of hands. Kamala Harris gives no evidence of being ready to be president.

We believe Mr. Trump, for all faults, is the better choice this year. We respect and understand those who feel otherwise. We wish that we could be more enthusiastic, and we hope the President can become more dignified and statesmanlike. Each American must make up his or her own mind and do what he or she thinks is best for the community and the republic. Vote your conscience. And, whatever happens, believe in the country.

[facilitatorn]

the good work Trump has done

Such as?

Scroll back

Or just fucking pay attention

I am OK with anyone that says COVID response has erased any good Trump accomplished - and even then some.  I can respect this.

Denying the pre-COVID good puts you in Idiotsville.

Thanks Obama.

He’s talking about the baby cages, 80 billion dollars for 5 miles of wall, 2 trillion in debt, foreclosed farms and factories, violence in the streets, churches, schools, and shopping centers, the essential hallmarks of the trump administration pre-Covid.

[LarryBnDC]

Mayor Pete and the Mooch are doing the Lord’s work on fox today. They even specifically refuted the ignorant drivel Red just posted. Crashing the Obama wave on a mountain of debt, graft, and mismanagement is trump’s record 2017-2019.

Just because things were better before trump utterly fucked up our Covid response, doesn’t mean trump wasn’t already causing pain, terrible damage and loss. It’s worse now, but it wasn’t good by any measure then.


Trump has it in the bag. No need for republicans to vote at all tomorrow.

A lot of the folks who voted for this guy have already been kicked in the face before Covid19

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida

[LarryBnDC]

Re:

Weren’t we supposed to watch who we told to fuck off?


Oh how we need a  “ Global Moderator” with some guts.

Volunteering for the job?

LOL
In a roomful of socialists?
My role is to point out the idiocy of the regulars.
I don’t need to use ad hominems  like you, just highlight the absurdity of their so-called “ facts”.

[LarryBnDC]

http://mobile.twitter.com/ADLMichigan/status/1323367085964185600

Trump’s contribution to our culture, earning him a cow punch and a potter’s grave.

Blood and soil?

[LarryBnDC]

the good work Trump has done

Such as?

Scroll back

Or just fucking pay attention

I am OK with anyone that says COVID response has erased any good Trump accomplished - and even then some.  I can respect this.

Denying the pre-COVID good puts you in Idiotsville.

Thanks Obama.

He’s talking about the baby cages, 80 billion dollars for 5 miles of wall, 2 trillion in debt, foreclosed farms and factories, violence in the streets, churches, schools, and shopping centers, the essential hallmarks of the trump administration pre-Covid.

What has been done in our name to people coming here is crim8nal.

[kiidcarter8]

Kid, you never think there is a chance you are wrong about this shit.



No. I trust that enough Americans see the good work Trump has done that it at lastleast be as close as I have it.

Greetings from Earth One

sorry - typo