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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]

Here is a test most of you bitches should have no trouble with:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/how-would-you-do-on-the-us-naturalization-test/0c5948b8-15be-46a7-a2eb-ba86b5760428_quiz.html

10/10.

(though I sorta guessed on the river question)

10/10 and the cat got one right when she walked across my IPad.

[LarryBnDC]

The fringe left is entertaining but not appropriate and to me dangerous.


I can agree with this

But how much danger is there really with no actual power?

What’s funny is those called the ‘fringe left’ these days would have been moderates in the 60s.

[REDSTATEWARD]

The fringe left is entertaining but not appropriate and to me dangerous.


I can agree with this

But how much danger is there really with no actual power?

What’s funny is those called the ‘fringe left’ these days would have been moderates in the 60s.

Moderates in the 60’s were calling for Medicare for all, a shutdown of private health insurance, “ free” college tuition, wealth taxes, a shutdown of energy from fossil fuels, and so on?

[luee]

It was all about the VN war and the draft in the late 60's. Immigration and health care were on the back burner.

[josh]

Back in the 60s and 70s we had a slogan: "America - love it or leave it!" It was wrong then. It's wrong now.

No it wasn't.
It's not wrong now.

I'd tell you to stick to something you know, but it seems you don't know anything, including how ignorant you are.

[josh]

Barack Obama called a cop stupid in July 2009 and lost white support for the rest of his presidency.

Because the facts did not back him up.

No, it had nothing to do with the facts.

But little you have to say does.

Interesting that the Global Moderator is so ignorant of easily verifiable facts.

Interesting that for facts that are ostensibly so easily verifiable, you neglect to provide any.

Are you ignorant of fifth grade research tools?

Are you ignorant of fourth grade argumentation principles? You made a claim, you provide the evidence to support the claim.

[josh]

My fellow Americans, why Viet Nam. The domino theory. LBJ Would not listen to anyone. Rioting everywhere, such a waste.

Worse than that, Luee - America lied to by its military officials, which led to needless deaths as well as some of the rioting, but not all of it.

But Luee? The riots were predicted in the early 60s as was the generation gap. Nobody listened to that, either.

[LarryBnDC]

The fringe left is entertaining but not appropriate and to me dangerous.


I can agree with this

But how much danger is there really with no actual power?

What’s funny is those called the ‘fringe left’ these days would have been moderates in the 60s.

Moderates in the 60’s were calling for Medicare for all, a shutdown of private health insurance, “ free” college tuition, wealth taxes, a shutdown of energy from fossil fuels, and so on?

Moderates called for Medicare and rightwing conservatives called it socialism that would destroy the fabric of the country. Some things never change, huh?

[LarryBnDC]

It was all about the VN war and the draft in the late 60's. Immigration and health care were on the back burner.

Medicare was one of biggest legislative battles in history and Republicans said it was Socialism.

[josh]

Bambi-ignorance, you can have an honorary trip to one of those countries.

One way, only. Make Australia Great Again!

[josh]

[josh]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/453442-poll-51-percent-support-immigration-raids?fbclid=IwAR2d_Y3JHfuvii4xS5MYhEQ_E4X2RqV5RElywiLg-p-E8bykuTwSCWlHd4k

~35% oppose them.

60+ percent think legal immigration strengthens the country.

[oilcan]

Again, Trump seems to focus only on his base. 

https://politics.theonion.com/white-supremacists-warn-idealistic-trump-some-compromis-1836532710

I love that 1969 Onion front page.   Spouse read it and laughed hysterically.   

[luee]

It started with the Gulf of Tonkin.

Two days later on August 4, Maddox and the destroyer Turner Joy both reported to be under attack again, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats; during this alleged engagement, Turner Joy fired approximately 220 3-inch & 5-inch shells at radar controlled surface targets.[6] Hanoi subsequently insisted that it had not launched a second attack. A later investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee revealed that Maddox had been on an electronic intelligence (DESOTO) mission. It also learned that the U.S. Naval Communication Center in the Philippine Islands, in reviewing the ships' messages, had questioned whether any second attack had actually occurred.[7] In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded that Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there may not have been any North Vietnamese Naval vessels present during the engagement of August 4. The report stated:

It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution

[REDSTATEWARD]

The fringe left is entertaining but not appropriate and to me dangerous.


I can agree with this

But how much danger is there really with no actual power?

What’s funny is those called the ‘fringe left’ these days would have been moderates in the 60s.

Moderates in the 60’s were calling for Medicare for all, a shutdown of private health insurance, “ free” college tuition, wealth taxes, a shutdown of energy from fossil fuels, and so on?

Moderates called for Medicare and rightwing conservatives called it socialism that would destroy the fabric of the country. Some things never change, huh?

And Medicare was passed easily with huge majorities in the House and Senate.
It was hardly a “ fringe “ issue.