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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

[LarryBnDC]

Witch hunt!

Drink!

[LarryBnDC]

Dude stole a JET from SeaTac, did barrel rolls and loops befor going down, possibly with F-15 assist...



https://www.thenewstribune.com/latest-news/article216505205.html

[josh]

You'd think everyone in America would be cheering for Trump's travel and immigration bans...given what happened on 9/11 etc by terrorists.

But no.
Amazing!

No, we wouldn't.

We might have hoped that our population was clever enough to tell the difference between security theater and true security, but insufficient numbers of those who voted had a clue. You would have fit right in.

Don't you suppose, bambu, that the (ostensibly) pro-military party might have tried to come up with a proposal that would have been at least connected to 9/11? It's been SEVENTEEN YEARS, bambu! Seventeen years and this sham of an immigration screen is the best that the GOP could come up with?!

[josh]

Dude stole a JET from SeaTac, did barrel rolls and loops befor going down, possibly with F-15 assist...



https://www.thenewstribune.com/latest-news/article216505205.html

Thank the heavens for Trump's immigration policies! Otherwise, who knows what damage that fellow could have done!

[josh]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/silicon-valley-engineers-fear-they-created-a-monster

The gig economy brings with it its own special problems.

[josh]

Anti-intellectualism is alive and well in other places, not just in the US:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/it-s-unprecedented-staffers-drown-out-reporters-by-clapping-at-doug-ford-news-conference-1.4779157

Troll Josh’s Internet search turns up international liberal fascism!
Dog bites man.

A fake accusation pretends to present a criticism that has nothing to do with the article, which the poster  hasn't actually managed to understand.

So, Red throws the words "liberal" and "fascism" together, despite the absence of anything having to do with liberals or liberalism.

It is fascism, however. It's the same sort of strategy that Trump is using to minimize the ability of the press to do its job.

Hey, Red, you should get your "Better Russian than Democrat" shirt. It sounds like it fits you perfectly more and more as the days go by. And calling me a troll just accelerates the process.

[josh]

https://apnews.com/e87ad38befdc4a58b0778286404ee826

Another day, another way the Trump administration has tried to harm people.

The judge says that the EPA (under Trump administration guidance) broke the law by allowing poison to be used.

So surprising.

[facilitatorn]

"Witch hunt" and "liberal fascism" in consecutive posts, Red. Nice to see you using Donald Trump and Jonah F'ing Goldberg as intellectual lodestars.

no evidence to date suggests otherwise.

In the village that voted the earth is flat, the earth is flat, the earth is flat,
That’s how they voted, imagine that, voted to affirm that the earth is flat
Somehow they hadn’t gotten the news, spent all their time on bets and booze, now they’re on the evening news
For voting that the earth is flat.

[Driver125]

Hey, Red, you should get your "Better Russian than Democrat" shirt.

    Hey—just remember……Red made a point of saying that he did not personally support Trump during and after the election—you know, just in case the Orange Sphincter does take the final dive that everyone expects from him sooner or later, Red will be able to say “Who….me? No way….” Now Kid, on the other hand, is 100% with the Stupid Base—and proud of it!

[bodiddley]

My earliest political memory is a bumper sticker on a car in front of us.  It had a pic of Nixon and then on the right:
Don't Blame Me
I Didn't Vote for the SOB

Wish I could remember how my mother explained the term . . .

[facilitatorn]

Turns out the Russians were spearfishing county and state offices tasked with running elections in Florida, Georgia, and Iowa and were successful in their penetration prior to the election at the beginning of November. That’s 51 electoral votes (29, 16, 6) that don’t really go in depraved dotard’s column without a hell of a lot more investigation and explanation and may need to be reassigned to Mrs. Clinton, depending on exactly what was done within the systems and subsequently by the personnel of those offices.

In Florida at least, the Russians are still there launching renewed attacks and taking new advantage of what they have compromised.

[facilitatorn]

My earliest political memory is a bumper sticker on a car in front of us.  It had a pic of Nixon and then on the right:
Don't Blame Me
I Didn't Vote for the SOB

Wish I could remember how my mother explained the term . . .

Nice. Trump has far surpassed Nixon on the SOB scale and in so much less time.

Then again, he has been rehearsing for it his whole life, holding a comb under his nose, standing in front of a mirror, reciting speeches from his favorite little book.

[bambu-wisdom]

Dude stole a JET from SeaTac, did barrel rolls and loops befor going down, possibly with F-15 assist...

https://www.thenewstribune.com/latest-news/article216505205.html

Looks like the 'airline industry' has dozed off again, 17 years after 9/11.

[luee]

No immigration crisis in the US? Immigration laws now in place have kept America relatively safe from the human tidal wave now sweeping European shores.

---There Is No Immigration Crisis
While it may benefit Democrats politically to take a harder line on immigration, that doesn’t mean it’s better policy—and political commentators should stop saying otherwise.---

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/democrats-immigration-not-a-crisis/563855/

[barton]

The real news from the last couple days is that Luee and Kid are now quoting The Atlantic.   One has to wonder if they get past the opening paragraph, though...

  By historical standards, this isn’t a “mass movement.” It’s the opposite. And illegal immigration is unlikely to return to the levels of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s anytime soon for one simple, and under appreciated, reason: Mexican women are having fewer children. Since the early 2000s, the number of Mexicans being caught at the border has collapsed. Even a strengthening U.S. economy hasn’t lifted the numbers, because the young Mexican men who in past decades crossed the border today don’t exist in the same numbers. That’s because, since 1960, the Mexican birthrate has dropped from almost seven children per mother to just over two. Which means the pool of potential migrants is far smaller.
Migrants are still coming from violence-plagued Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The children Trump separated from their parents are overwhelmingly Central American. But Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador don’t have large populations. Combined, they contain about one-quarter as many people as Mexico. Frum and Sullivan both link America’s immigration crisis to Europe’s. But in scale, the problems are quite different. Europe is near large countries with high fertility rates. (The fertility rate is close to three in the Middle East and North Africa and near five in sub-Saharan Africa). The United States is not....